Famous Deaths on January 27

Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physics (1964)

British engineer (1930–2025)

Polish resistance fighter, prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp and later director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (1920-2012)

Croatian writer, historian and literary theorist, screenwriter, literary editor and politician, president of the Croatian Parliament (1930–2022)

Irish writer, musician and film maker (1930-2013)

Venezuelan scientist (1872–1928)

Norwegian historian and politician (1835-1917)

Historian (1871–1942)

Austrian opera singer (1872–1947)

Austrian-German poet (1900-1974)

Austrian pianist and composer (1930–2000)

Canadian writer (1834-1914)

Portuguese architect (1848–1942)

Lithuanian politician and historian

Albanian scholar and activist

Bulgarian writer (1920-1996)

French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter (1785–1851)

Spanish dramatist and pedagogue. Spanish diplomat, general director of public education, and counselor of state (1793-1861)

Danish painter

Jesuit, mathematician

Japanese Buddhist priest

Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period

Spanish Renaissance writer

Italian painter (1538-1592)