Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 27

Births

• 1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791) (pictured)
• 1832 - Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898)
• 1859 - Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany (d. 1941)
• 1921 - Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)

Deaths

• 1851 - John James Audubon, French-American naturalist, ornithologist, and painter (b. 1789)
• 1901 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)
• 1967 - Crew of Apollo 1:
  • Roger B. Chaffee (b. 1935)
  • Virgil "Gus" Grissom (b. 1926)
  • Ed White (b. 1930)
• 1972 - Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b. 1911)
• 2004 - Jack Paar, American television show host (b. 1918)