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Jan 27 1556

Abbas I the Great shah of Persia (1587-1629)

Jan 27 1603

Harbottle Grimston English politician (d. 1685)

Jan 27 1662

Richard Bentley Oulton scholarcontroversialist

Jan 27 1701

Johann N von Hontheim German church historiansuffragan (bishop)

Jan 27 1715

Vaclav Kalous [Simon Scto Bartholomaeo] Czech composer born in Solnice (d. 1786)

Jan 27 1720

Samuel Foote British actor dramatist and theatre manager (Mirror) born in Truro Cornwall (d. 1777)

Jan 27 1775

Manuel del Popolo Vicente Rodriguez Garcia Spanish tenorcomposer

Jan 27 1805

Samuel Palmer painteretcher (Valley of Vision) born in London England

Jan 27 1805

Sophie of Bavaria archduchess of Austria (d. 1872)

Jan 27 1805

Maria Anna of Bavaria queen consort of Saxony (d. 1877)

Jan 27 1806

Juan Crisstomo Arriaga Spanish composer (d. 1826)

Jan 27 1808

David F Strauss German theologist (Jesus Life)

Jan 27 1814

Eugne Viollet-le-Duc French architect (d. 1879)

Jan 27 1822

Thomas Leiper Kane American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania (d. 1883)

Jan 27 1823

Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo French composer (Symphonie Espagnole)

Jan 27 1826

Richard Taylor Lt Gen (Confederate Army) (d. 1879)

Jan 27 1828

Samuel Allen Rice American Attorney General of Iowa and Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Cattaraugus New York (d. 1864)

Jan 27 1830

William Henry Fitzhugh Payne Brigadier General (Confederate Army)

Jan 27 1834

Robert Sanford Foster American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Vernon Indiana (d. 1903)

Jan 27 1836

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Austrian writer (masochism)

Jan 27 1848

Tg Heihachir Imperial Japanese Navy admiral and one of Japans greatest naval heroes born in Kajiya-Ch Kagoshima-Jka Satsuma Japan (d. 1934)

Jan 27 1850

Edward J. Smith English captain of the Titanic (d. 1912)

Jan 27 1851

Rafael Obligado Argentina writer (Santos Vega)

Jan 27 1858

Neel [Cornelia H] Doff DutchFrenchBelgian painters modelwriter

Jan 27 1868

Cato Engelen-Sewing Dutch soprano prima donna (Dutch Opera) born in Amsterdam (d. 1961)

Jan 27 1872

Learned Hand Chief judge (US Court of Appeals) born in Albany New York

Jan 27 1882

Giuseppe Prezzolini Italian writer (La Voce La Cultura Italiano)

Jan 27 1885

Jerome Kern American Broadway composer (Showboat Roberta) born in NYC New York

Jan 27 1887

Carl Blegen archaeologist (excavator at Troy Pylos) born in Minneapolis Minnesota

Jan 27 1889

Balthasar van der Pol physicist (Comparison of Van der Pol)

Jan 27 1893

Soong Ching-ling Chinese wife of Sun Yat-sen (d. 1981)

Jan 27 1894

Fritz Pollard early African American NFL star (1920-26)

Jan 27 1895

Joseph Rosenstock conductor (Nippon Phil Orch 1936-41) born in Krakw Poland

Jan 27 1142 Wrongful execution of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei

Jan 27 1538 States of Gelderland accepts Willem van Kleef as viceroy

Jan 27 1556 Willem of Orange becomes a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece

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