Famous Deaths on January 27

Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physics (1964)

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

Venezuelan scientist (1872–1928)

Austrian opera singer (1872–1947)

Norwegian historian and politician (1835-1917)

Historian (1871–1942)

Austrian-German poet (1900-1974)

Austrian pianist and composer (1930–2000)

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

Jesuit, mathematician

Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period

Japanese Buddhist priest

Spanish Renaissance writer

Italian painter (1538-1592)