Deaths on 27 January
2000s
Andy Devine (English actor)
2022
English actor (1942–2022)
Cloris Leachman
2021
American actress (1926–2021)
Nunuk Nuraini
2021
Food scientist who invented Indomie brand mi goreng flavour instant noodles
Lina Ben Mhenni
2020
Tunisian political activist (1983–2020)
Countess Maya von Schönburg-Glauchau
2019
German socialite (1958–2019)
Ingvar Kamprad
2018
Swedish businessman (1926–2018)
Mort Walker
2018
American comic strip cartoonist (1923–2018)
Emmanuelle Riva
2017
French actress (1927–2017)
Arthur H. Rosenfeld
2017
American physicist
Carlos Loyzaga
2016
Filipino basketball player, coach and politician
Rocky Bridges
2015
American baseball player (1927–2015)
David Landau (journalist)
2015
British/Israeli journalist and newspaper editor
Joseph Rotman
2015
Canadian businessperson and philanthropist
Charles H. Townes
2015
American physicist (1915–2015)
Larry Winters
2015
American professional wrestler and trainer
Pete Seeger
2014
American musician and social activist (1919–2014)
Epimaco Velasco
2014
Filipino lawyer and politician (1935-2014)
Paul Zorner
2014
20th-century German fighter pilot
Ivan Bodiul
2013
Soviet Moldovan politician
Stanley Karnow
2013
American historian and journalist
Greg Cook
2012
American football player (1946–2012)
Ted Dicks
2012
English Composer
Jeannette Hamby
2012
American politician
Kevin White (politician)
2012
American politician (1929–2012)
Charlie Callas
2011
American actor, comedian and jazz drummer (1927–2011)
Zelda Rubinstein
2010
American actress and human rights activist
J. D. Salinger
2010
American author (1919–2010)
Howard Zinn
2010
American historian and socialist philosopher (1922–2010)
John Updike
2009
American writer (1932–2009)
Ramaswamy Venkataraman
2009
President of India from 1987 to 1992
Suharto
2008
President of Indonesia from 1967 to 1998
Gordon B. Hinckley
2008
American religious leader and author (1910–2008)
Louie Welch
2008
American politician (1918–2008)
Yang Chuan-kwang
2007
Taiwanese decathlete (1933–2007)
Gene McFadden
2006
American singer-songwriter (1949–2006)
Johannes Rau
2006
President of Germany from 1999 to 2004
Salvador Laurel
2004
Vice President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992
Jack Paar
2004
American writer and comedian (1918–2004)
Henryk Jabłoński
2003
Polish politician (1909–2003)
Friedrich Gulda
2000
Austrian pianist and composer (1930–2000)
1900s
Ralph Yarborough
1996
American politician (1903–1996)
Claude Akins
1994
American actor (1926–1994)
André the Giant
1993
French wrestler and actor (1946–1993)
Thomas Sopwith
1989
English aviation pioneer
Massa Makan Diabaté
1988
Malian historian, author, and playwright (1938–1988)
Norman McLaren
1987
Scottish Canadian animator (1914–1987)
Lilli Palmer
1986
German actress (1914–1986)
Louis de Funès
1983
French actor and comedian (1914–1983)
Trần Văn Hương
1982
Penultimate President of South Vietnam in 1975
Victoria Ocampo
1979
Argentine writer (1890–1979)
Bill Walsh (producer)
1975
American film producer, screenwriter, and comics author
Georgios Grivas
1974
Cypriot army officer and resistance fighter (1897-1974)
William Nolde
1973
United States Army officer (1929–1973)
Mahalia Jackson
1972
American gospel singer (1911–1972)
Jacobo Árbenz
1971
President of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954
Rocco D'Assunta
1970
Italian actor (1904–1970)
Marietta Blau
1970
Austrian nuclear physicist (1894–1970)
Roger B. Chaffee
1967
American astronaut and pilot (1935–1967)
Gus Grissom
1967
American astronaut (1926–1967)
Ed White (astronaut)
1967
American astronaut (1930–1967)
Alphonse Juin
1967
French Army officer (1888–1967)
Abraham Walkowitz
1965
American painter (1878–1965)
John Farrow
1963
Australian film director (1904–1963)
Bernard Friedberg
1961
Austrian Hebraist
Erich Kleiber
1956
Austrian conductor (1890–1956)
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
1951
Finnish military leader and statesman (1867–1951)
Kaarel Eenpalu
1942
Estonian politician (1888–1942)
Isaac Babel
1940
Russian writer and journalist (1894–1940)
Nishinoumi Kajirō II
1931
Japanese sumo wrestler
Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius
1927
Lithuanian Latin Catholic prelate
Nellie Bly
1922
American investigative journalist (1864–1922)
Maurice Buckley
1921
Australian soldier
Endre Ady
1919
Hungarian poet
Ernst Sars
1917
Norwegian professor, historian, author and editor (1835–1917)
Thomas Crapper
1910
British businessman, plumber (died 1910)
Giuseppe Verdi
1901
Italian opera composer (1813–1901)
1800s
Edward Middleton Barry
1880
English architect
Adam Sedgwick
1873
British geologist (1785–1873)
János Bolyai
1860
Hungarian mathematician (1802–1860)
Paavo Ruotsalainen
1852
Finnish lay preacher
John James Audubon
1851
French-American ornithologist (1785–1851)
Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
1816
Royal Navy officer and politician (1724–1816)
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1814
German philosopher (1762–1814)
John Perkins (Royal Navy officer)
1812
British Royal Navy officer (died 1812)
Before 1800
Antoine Philippe de La Trémoille
1794
French royalist
Philippe Macquer
1770
French historian and lawyer (1720–1770)
Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon
1740
French royal and politician (1692–1740)
Thomas Woolston
1733
17th/18th-century English theologian
Bartolomeo Cristofori
1731
Italian maker of musical instruments (1655 – 1731)
Robert Aske (merchant)
1689
Merchant & haberdasher (1619–1689)
Empress Xiaozhuangwen
1688
Qing Dynasty empress dowager (1613–1688)
Abraham Bloemaert
1651
Dutch painter (1566–1651)
Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses
1638
Spanish novelist (c. 1585–1638)
Hieronymus Praetorius
1629
German composer and organist (1560-1629)
Francis Drake
1596
English sailor and privateer (c. 1540 – 1596)
Gian Paolo Lomazzo
1592
Italian artist and writer (1538–1592)
Angela Merici
1540
Christian saint
Ludovico II of Saluzzo
1504
Marquess of Saluzzo (1438–1504)
Ashikaga Yoshimasa
1490
Military ruler of Japan from 1436 to 1490
Frederick the Simple
1377
King of Sicily from 1355 to 1377
Külüg Khan
1311
Emperor of Yuan Dynasty from 1307 to 1311
Adelaide of Hungary
1062
Duchess consort of Bohemia (c. 1040 – 1062)
Zhang Yanze
947
Chinese general (died 947)
Ruotger of Trier
931
Liu Can (Tang dynasty)
906
Chancellor during the reigns of Emperor Zhaozong of Tang and his son
Pope Sergius II
847
Head of the Catholic Church from 844 to 847
Pope Vitalian
672
Head of the Catholic Church from 657 to 672
Emperor Yuan of Liang
555
Emperor of the Liang dynasty from 552 to 555
Marcian
457
Eastern Roman emperor from 450 to 457 AD
AD 98
98
Calendar year