January 27 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on January 27, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♒︎ Aquarius
Jan 20 – Feb 18
Birth stone
Garnet
Birth flower
Carnation
How common
#328 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous January 27 birthdays
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc · French architect1814
Lewis Carroll · British author and scholar1832
Wilhelm II · As King of Prussia last German Emperor from 1888 to 19181859
Jerome Kern · American composer of musical theater and popular music1885
Donna Reed · American film and television actress1921
Édith Cresson · Prime Minister of France from 1991 to 19921934
Samuel C. C. Ting · Chinese-American physicist1936
Barry Barish · American physicist1936
James Cromwell · American actor1940
Mairead Maguire · Peace activist1944
Mikhail Baryshnikov · Latvian-American dancer, choreographer and actor1948
Susanne Blakeslee · American voice, stage and musical theatre actress1956
Mimi Rogers · American actress1956
Frank Miller · American writer, artist, film director1957
Samia Suluhu Hassan · President of Tanzania since 20211960
Bridget Fonda · American actress1964
Patton Oswalt · American actor and comedian1969
Ole Einar Bjørndalen · Norwegian biathlete and cross-country skier1974
Rosamund Pike · English actress1979
Marat Safin · Russian tennis player1980
On this day in history
1785The University of Georgia, the oldest state-chartered public university in the United States, was founded.
2003The first selections for the United States National Recording Registry were announced by the Library of Congress.
2017A naming ceremony for the chemical element tennessine takes place in the United States.
2019MBC Newsdesk reported on a nightclub assault in Seoul, South Korea, leading to the Burning Sun scandal, which involved several Korean idols and police officials.
1980Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.
1996Mahamane Ousmane, the first democratically elected president of Niger, was deposed by Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in a military coup d'état.
2010Porfirio Lobo Sosa became the new president of Honduras, ending a constitutional crisis that had begun in 2009 when Manuel Zelaya was forcibly removed from office.
2011Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution began as more than 16,000 protesters demonstrated in Sanaa to demand governmental changes.
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