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January 27

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108

Finnish Civil War

108 years ago

Born this day

1756

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Died aged 35

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1928th

Nerva

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Famous births26

AD 600 · 1426 yrs

Vitalian

Pope Vitalian (Latin: Vitalianus; died 27 January 672) was the bishop of Rome from 30 July 657 to his death in 672. His pontificate was marked by the dispute between the papacy and the imperial government in Constantinople over Monothelitism, which Rome condemned.

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ReligionDied aged 72

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1571 · 455 yrs

Abbas the Great

Abbas I (Persian: عباس یکم, romanized: Abbâs-e Yekom; 27 January 1571 – 19 January 1629), commonly known as Abbas the Great (Persian: عباس بزرگ, romanized: Abbâs-e Bozorg), was the fifth Safavid shah of Iran from 1588 to 1629.

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PoliticsDied aged 57

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1756 · 270 yrs

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a Classical composer and musician.

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MusicDied aged 35

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1775 · 251 yrs

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (German:; 27 January 1775 – 20 August 1854) was a German philosopher.

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PhilosophyDied aged 79

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1814 · 212 yrs

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (French:; 27 January 1814 – 17 September 1879) was a French architect and writer, famous for his restoration of the most prominent medieval landmarks in France.

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ArtDied aged 65

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1832 · 194 yrs

Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer, and Anglican deacon.

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LiteratureDied aged 65

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1835 · 191 yrs

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (Austrian German:; 27 January 1836 – 9 March 1895) was an Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name, invented by his contemporary, the Austrian psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing.

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LiteratureDied aged 60

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1859 · 167 yrs

Wilhelm II

Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor from 1888 until his abdication in 1918. His fall from power marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 400-year rule over Prussia.

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RoyaltyDied aged 82

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1893 · 133 yrs

Soong Ching-ling

Soong Ch'ing-ling (27 January 1893 – 29 May 1981; Christian name Rosamonde or Rosamond) was a Chinese politician and activist. She was the wife of Sun Yat-sen, therefore known by Madame Sun Yat-sen and the "Mother of Modern China".

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PoliticsWould be 133

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1903 · 123 yrs

John Carew Eccles

Sir John Carew Eccles (27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.

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ScienceWould be 123

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1921 · 105 yrs

Donna Reed

Donna Reed (born Donna Belle Mullenger; January 27, 1921 – January 14, 1986) was an American actress. Her career spanned more than 40 years and included appearances in over 40 films.

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TelevisionWould be 105

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1934 · 92 yrs

Édith Cresson

Édith Jeanne Thérèse Cresson (French:; née Campion; born 27 January 1934) is a French politician of the Socialist Party. She served as Prime Minister of France from 1991 to 1992, the first woman to do so and only woman until Élisabeth Borne's appointment in 2022.

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PoliticsAge 92

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Famous deaths26

AD 98 · 1928 yrs

Nerva

Nerva (born Marcus Cocceius Nerva; 8 November 30 – 27 January 98) was a Roman emperor from AD 96 to 98. Nerva became emperor when aged almost 66, after a lifetime of imperial service under Nero and the succeeding rulers of the Flavian dynasty.

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RoyaltyDied aged 67

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1556 · 470 yrs

Humayun

Nasir al-Din Muhammad (Persian: نصیرالدین محمد, 6 March 1508 – 27 January 1556), commonly known by his regnal name Humayun (Persian: همایون, Persian pronunciation:), was the second Mughal emperor, who ruled much of what is now eastern Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Northern India, and Pakistan from 1530 to 1540 and again…

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RoyaltyDied aged 47

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1731 · 295 yrs

Bartolomeo Cristofori

Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco (Italian pronunciation:; May 4, 1655 – January 27, 1731) was an Italian maker of musical instruments famous for inventing the piano.

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TechnologyDied aged 75

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1851 · 175 yrs

John James Audubon

John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin, April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American artist, entrepreneur, naturalist, explorer, and ornithologist. His combined interests in painting and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictorial record of all the bird species of North America.

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ScienceDied aged 65

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1860 · 166 yrs

János Bolyai

János Bolyai (Hungarian:; 15 December 1802 – 27 January 1860) or Johann Bolyai, was a Hungarian mathematician who developed absolute geometry—a geometry that includes both Euclidean geometry and hyperbolic geometry.

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ScienceDied aged 57

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1901 · 125 yrs

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi ( VAIR-dee; Italian:; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas.

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MusicDied aged 87

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1919 · 107 yrs

Endre Ady

Endre Ady (Hungarian: diósadi Ady András Endre, archaic English: Andrew Ady; 22 November 1877 – 27 January 1919) was a turn-of-the-century Hungarian poet and journalist.

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LiteratureWould be 148

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1922 · 104 yrs

Nellie Bly

Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran; May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and for an exposé in…

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MediaDied aged 57

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1922 · 104 yrs

Giovanni Verga

Giovanni Carmelo Verga di Fontanabianca (Italian:; 2 September 1840 – 27 January 1922) was an Italian realist (verista) writer. His novels I Malavoglia (1881) and Mastro-don Gesualdo (1889) are widely recognized as masterpieces.

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LiteratureDied aged 81

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1940 · 86 yrs

Isaak Babel

Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (13 July 1894 – 27 January 1940) was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories, and has been acclaimed as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry".

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LiteratureWould be 132

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1951 · 75 yrs

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (Finland Swedish:, 4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951) was a Finnish military commander and statesman.

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MilitaryDied aged 83

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1967 · 59 yrs

Gus Grissom

Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967) was an American astronaut, and one of the original Mercury Seven selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for Project Mercury, a program to train and launch astronauts into outer space.

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SpaceWould be 100

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Events5

1868 · 158 yrs

Boshin War

The Boshin War (戊辰戦争, Boshin Sensō), sometimes known as the Japanese Revolution or Japanese Civil War, was a civil war in Japan fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and a coalition seeking to seize political power in the name of the Imperial Court.

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War

1918 · 108 yrs

Finnish Civil War

The Finnish Civil War was fought in 1918 for the leadership and control of recently independent Finland (formerly part of Russia) between White Finland and the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic (Red Finland).

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War

1967 · 59 yrs

Apollo 1

Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was planned to be the first crewed mission of the Apollo program, the American undertaking to land the first man on the Moon. It was planned to be launched on February 21, 1967, as the first low Earth orbital test of the Apollo command and service module.

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Space

1967 · 59 yrs

Outer Space Treaty

The Outer Space Treaty, formally called the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, is a multilateral treaty that forms the basis of international space law.

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Space

2011 · 15 yrs

2011 Yemeni revolution

The Yemeni revolution, also known as the Yemeni intifada, was a series of major anti-government protests and armed uprisings that raged through Yemen from January 2011 to February 2012. It occurred concurrently with the Arab Spring that broke out throughout the Middle East and North Africa in 2011.

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