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FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

100 famous birthdays born on this day

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

🇦🇹Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Composer

Alan Cumming

🇺🇸Alan Cumming

Scottish actor, producer, director, writer and presenter

Bridget Fonda

🇺🇸Bridget Fonda

American actress

James Cromwell

🇺🇸James Cromwell

American actor

John Roberts

🇺🇸John Roberts

Chief Justice of the United States since 2005

Aurélien Tchouaméni

🇫🇷Aurélien Tchouaméni

French footballer

Edward Smith (sea captain)

🇬🇧Edward Smith (sea captain)

British merchant navy officer

Jerry Buss

1933🐓Rooster

🇺🇸Jerry Buss

American businessman and investor

Frank Miller

1957🐓Rooster

🇺🇸Frank Miller

American writer, artist, and film director

Donna Reed

1921🐓Rooster

🇺🇸Donna Reed

American actress

John Witherspoon (actor)

🇺🇸John Witherspoon (actor)

American actor

Abbas the Great

Abbas the Great

Shah of Safavid Iran from 1587 to 1629

Janick Gers

1957🐓Rooster

🇬🇧Janick Gers

English guitarist

Fred Taylor (running back)

🇺🇸Fred Taylor (running back)

American football player

G. E. Smith

🇺🇸G. E. Smith

American songwriter

Gillian Gilbert

🇬🇧Gillian Gilbert

English musician

Daniel Vettori

🇳🇿Daniel Vettori

New Zealand cricketer

Hyman G. Rickover

🇺🇸Hyman G. Rickover

US Navy admiral

Howard McNear

🇺🇸Howard McNear

American actor

Chaminda Vaas

🇱🇰Chaminda Vaas

Sri Lankan cricketer

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GarnetBirthstone

♒AquariusSun Sign

🌸CarnationBirth Flower

📅 On This Day

Apollo program: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Apple announces the iPad.

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.

Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.

🕊️Remembering

André the Giant

André the Giant, French professional wrestler and actor (born 1946)

Gus Grissom

crew of Apollo 1

Cloris Leachman

Cloris Leachman, American actress and comedian (born 1926)

🌍Holidays & Observances

John Chrysostom

Christian feast day: John Chrysostom (translation of relics) (Anglican, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox)

Beatification

Christian feast day: Blessed Paul Joseph Nardini

Public holidays in Italy

Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances: Memorial Day (Italy)

GarnetBirthstone

♒AquariusSun Sign

🌸CarnationBirth Flower

📅 On This Day

Apollo program: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Apple announces the iPad.

🕊️Remembering

André the Giant

André the Giant, French professional wrestler and actor (born 1946)

Gus Grissom

crew of Apollo 1

Cloris Leachman

Cloris Leachman, American actress and comedian (born 1926)

🌍Holidays & Observances

John Chrysostom

Christian feast day: John Chrysostom (translation of relics) (Anglican, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox)

Beatification

Christian feast day: Blessed Paul Joseph Nardini

Public holidays in Italy

Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances: Memorial Day (Italy)

2021

Francis Drake

Francis Drake, English captain and explorer (born 1540)

Ed White (astronaut)

crew of Apollo 1

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finnish field marshal and politician, 6th President of Finland (born 1867)

Claude Akins

Claude Akins, American actor (born 1918)

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (born 1813)

Saint Sava

Christian feast day: Sava (Serbia)

Angela Merici

Christian feast day: Angela Merici

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Devota

Christian feast day: Devota (Monaco)

Holocaust Memorial Day (UK)

Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances: Holocaust Memorial Day (UK)

Days of Military Honour

Day of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad (Russia)

List of Holocaust memorial days

Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances: Other Holocaust Memorial Days observances

Enric d'Ossó i Cervelló

Christian feast day: Enrique de Ossó y Cercelló

January 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: January 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

2021

Francis Drake

Francis Drake, English captain and explorer (born 1540)

Saint Sava

Christian feast day: Sava (Serbia)