Notable Deaths on January 27

Pete Seeger

2014 — Pete Seeger

American singer-songwriter, guitarist and activist (born 1919)

January 27 has 110 recorded notable deaths across history, from 98 to 2022. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.

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Notable Deaths 110 source records 98 – 2022

Major events on January 27

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  1. 1996 In a military coup, Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane. Source
  2. 1973 The Paris Peace Accords officially ends the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty. Source
  3. 1967 Cold War: The Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting the usage of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes. Source
  4. 2010 The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras. Source

Did you know

Pete Seeger was a fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, and had a string of hit records in the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, especially their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950.

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crew of Apollo 1 was also the second American to fly in space twice, preceded only by Joe Walker with his sub-orbital X-15 flights.

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Mahalia Jackson was an American gospel singer, widely considered one of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century.

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In 1984, he was elected as the vice president of India and in 1987, he became the president of India and served from 1987 to 1992.

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Zelda Rubinstein also made guest appearances in the TV show Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996), as seer Christina, and was the voice of Skittles candies in their long-running "Taste the Rainbow" ad campaign.

More major people who died on January 27

Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.

1967 crew of Apollo 1
crew of Apollo 1
Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom 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…
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1972 Mahalia Jackson
Mahalia Jackson
American singer (born 1911)
Mahalia Jackson was an American gospel singer, widely considered one of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century.
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2009 R. Venkataraman
R. Venkataraman
Indian lawyer and politician, 8th President of India (born 1910)
Ramaswamy Venkataraman, also known as R. Venkataraman, was an Indian lawyer, independence activist and politician who served as a union minister and as the vice president of india and president of India.
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2010 Zelda Rubinstein
Zelda Rubinstein
American actress (born 1933)
Zelda May Rubinstein was an American actress and human rights activist, known as eccentric medium Tangina Barrons in the Poltergeist film series. Playing "Ginny", she was a regular on David E.
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457 Marcian
Marcian
Byzantine emperor (born 392)
Marcian was Roman emperor of the East from 450 to 457. Very little is known of his life before becoming emperor, other than that he was a domesticus who served under the commanders Ardabur and his son Aspar for fifteen…
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1996 Ralph Yarborough
Ralph Yarborough
American colonel, lawyer, and politician (born 1903)
Ralph Webster Yarborough was an American politician and lawyer who represented Texas in the United States Senate from 1957 to 1971. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a leader of the progressive wing of the party.
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1982 Trần Văn Hương
Trần Văn Hương
South Vietnamese politician, 3rd President of South Vietnam, 3rd Vice President of South Vietnam, and 3rd Prime Minister of South Vietnam (born 1902)
Trần Văn Hương was a South Vietnamese politician who was the penultimate president of South Vietnam for a week in April 1975 before its surrender to the communist forces of North Vietnam.
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2012 Kevin White
Kevin White
American politician, 51st Mayor of Boston (born 1929)
Kevin Hagan White was an American politician best known for serving as the mayor of Boston for four terms from 1968 to 1984. He was first elected to the office at the age of 38.
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1927 Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius
Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius
Lithuanian bishop (born 1871)
Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius was a Latin Church Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Vilnius from late 1918 until his resignation in 1925.
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555 Yuan Di
Yuan Di
emperor of the Liang Dynasty (born 508)
Emperor Yuan of Liang, personal name Xiao Yi (蕭繹), courtesy name Shicheng (世誠), childhood name Qifu (七符), was an emperor of the Chinese Liang dynasty.
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1970 Marietta Blau
Marietta Blau
Austrian physicist and academic (born 1894)
Marietta Blau was an Austrian physicist of the 20th century who pioneered developments of photographic nuclear emulsions to image and accurately measure high-energy nuclear particles and events, significantly advancing…
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1873 Adam Sedgwick
Adam Sedgwick
British geologist, Anglican priest and doctoral advisor to Charles Darwin (born 1785)
Adam Sedgwick was a British geologist and Anglican priest, one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Cambrian and Devonian period of the geological timescale.
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1973 William Nolde
William Nolde
American colonel (born 1929)
Colonel William Benedict Nolde was an officer in the United States Army. Born in Menominee, Michigan, Nolde was a professor of military science at Central Michigan University before joining the army.
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2011 Charlie Callas
Charlie Callas
American comedian and musician (born 1927)
Charlie Callas was an American actor and comedian. He was most commonly known for his work with Mel Brooks, Jerry Lewis, and Dean Martin, and his many stand-up appearances on television talk shows in the 1970s.
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1971 Jacobo Árbenz
Jacobo Árbenz
Guatemalan captain and politician, President of Guatemala (born 1913)
Juan Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as the 25th president of Guatemala.
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2004 Salvador Laurel
Salvador Laurel
Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th Vice President of the Philippines (born 1928)
Salvador Roman Hidalgo Laurel, also known as Doy Laurel, was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the Vice President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992 under President Corazon Aquino and briefly served as…
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1851 John James Audubon
John James Audubon
French-American ornithologist and painter (born 1789)
John James Audubon was a French-American artist, entrepreneur, naturalist, explorer, and ornithologist.
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1974 Georgios Grivas
Georgios Grivas
Cypriot general (born 1898)
Georgios Grivas, also known by his nickname Digenis, was a Greek Cypriot officer of the Hellenic Army and founder and leader of the Greek and Greek Cypriot paramilitary organisations Organization X (1942–1949), EOKA…
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2021 Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman
American actress and comedian (born 1926)
Cloris Leachman was an American actress and comedian whose career spanned nine decades.
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