Historical Events on January 27.

1.   1880, 27th Jan: Thomas Alva Edison patented an electric lamp.

2.  1888, 27th Jan: National Geographic Society convened in Washington.

3.  1926, 27th Jan: John Logie beard made his first television appearance.

4.  1944, 27th Jan: World War II: 872 days of the siege of Leningrad by German troops was lifted.

5.  1967, 27th Jan: Gus Grisham, Edward White, and Roger Schaefer, astronauts, died in a fire during the Apollo 1 test flight at the Kennedy Space Center.

6.  1973, 27th Jan: An agreement reached in Paris ended the 31-year-old Vietnam War. A powerful nation like America had to retreat in front of Vietnam.

7.  1974, 27th Jan: President V. V. Giri dedicated the Nehru Memorial Museum at Tin Murti in New Delhi to the nation.

8.  1983, 27th Jan: The world’s largest underwater tunnel (53,900 km) opened in the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on January 27.

1.   1850: Edward John Smith, a British naval officer. He was the captain of the RMS Titanic and perished when the ship sank on its maiden voyage. 

2.  1859: Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor, and King of Prussia.

3.  1861: Tajuddin Baba, an Indian Sufi Master whose followers considered the last Mujaddid and Qutb. 

4.  1909: Savita Bhimrao Ambedkar, an Indian social activist, doctor, and the second wife of Babasaheb Ambedkar.

5.  1922: Ajit Khan, was an Indian actor active in Hindi films.

6.  1946: Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan, a Tamil folk singer and composer and a renowned exponent of Tamil folk art.

7.  1957: Frank Miller, an American comic book writer, penciler and inker, novelist, screenwriter, film director, and producer.

8.  1969: Bobby Deol, an Indian film actor who works in Hindi films.

9.  1969: Vikram Bhatt, an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on January 27.

1.   1556: Humayun, the second emperor of the Mughal Empire.

2.  1574: Raja Bharmal, a Rajput ruler of Amer.

3.  1947: Paul Percy Harris, a Chicago, Illinois, attorney. He founded the club that became the humanitarian organization Rotary International in 1905.

4.  1986: Pandit Nikhil Ranjan Banerjee, an Indian classical sitarist of the Maihar Gharana.

5.  1992: Bharat Bhushan, an Indian actor.

6.  2007: Kamleshwar, a prominent 20th-century Hindi writer, and scriptwriter for Hindi cinema and television.

7.  2009: R. Venkataraman, an Indian lawyer, Indian independence activist, and politician who served as a Union Minister and as the 8th President of India.