Editing January 27 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1629]] &ndash; [[Hieronymus Praetorius]], German organist and composer (b. 1560)
*[[1638]] &ndash; [[Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses]], Spanish author and poet (b. 1585)
*[[1651]] &ndash; [[Abraham Bloemaert]], Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1566)
*[[1688]] &ndash; [[Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang]] of China (b. 1613)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sr |first1=Arthur W. Hummel |title=Eminent Chinese of the Qing Period: 1644-1911/2 |date=1 January 2018 |publisher=Berkshire Publishing Group |isbn=978-1-61472-849-8 |page=705 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Ge9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA705 |language=en |access-date=19 March 2023 |archive-date=18 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230318191515/https://books.google.com/books?id=6Ge9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA705 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1689]] &ndash; [[Robert Aske (merchant)|Robert Aske]], English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1619)
*[[1731]] &ndash; [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]], Italian instrument maker, invented the [[piano]] (b. 1655)
*[[1733]] &ndash; [[Thomas Woolston]], English theologian and author (b. 1669)
*[[1740]] &ndash; [[Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon]] (b. 1692)
*[[1770]] &ndash; [[Philippe Macquer]], French historian (b. 1720)
*[[1794]] &ndash; [[Antoine Philippe de La Trémoille]], French general (b. 1765)
*[[1812]] &ndash; [[John Perkins (Royal Navy officer)|John Perkins]], Anglo-Jamaican captain
*[[1814]] &ndash; [[Johann Gottlieb Fichte]], German philosopher and academic (b. 1762)
*[[1816]] &ndash; [[Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood]], English admiral and politician (b. 1724)
*[[1851]] &ndash; [[John James Audubon]], French-American ornithologist and painter (b. 1789)
*[[1852]] &ndash; [[Paavo Ruotsalainen]], Finnish farmer and lay preacher (b. 1777)<ref>[https://www.aholansaari.fi/paavo-ruotsalainen/ Paavo Ruotsalainen – Aholansaari] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130171934/https://www.aholansaari.fi/paavo-ruotsalainen/ |date=2020-11-30 }} (in Finnish)</ref>
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[János Bolyai]], Romanian-Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1802)
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Adam Sedgwick]], British geologist, Anglican priest and doctoral advisor to [[Charles Darwin]] (b. 1785)<ref name="Elvin 2022">{{cite web | last=Elvin | first=Thea | title=This week in scientific history – the death of Sedgwick | website=Varsity Online | date=2022-12-15 | url=https://www.varsity.co.uk/science/16904 | access-date=2022-12-15 | archive-date=2022-12-15 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221215165116/https://www.varsity.co.uk/science/16904 | url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Edward Middleton Barry]], English architect and academic, co-designed the [[Halifax Town Hall]] and the [[Royal Opera House, Valletta|Royal Opera House]] (b. 1830)