Editing January 27 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1603]] &ndash; [[Sir Harbottle Grimston, 2nd Baronet]], English lawyer and politician, [[Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)|Speaker of the House of Commons]] (d. 1685)
*  1603   &ndash; [[Humphrey Mackworth (Parliamentarian)|Humphrey Mackworth]], English politician, lawyer and judge (d. 1654)
*[[1621]] &ndash; [[Thomas Willis]], English physician and anatomist (d. 1675)
*[[1662]] &ndash; [[Richard Bentley]], English scholar and theologian (d. 1742)
*[[1663]] &ndash; [[George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington]], Royal Navy admiral (d. 1733)
*[[1687]] &ndash; [[Johann Balthasar Neumann]], German engineer and architect, designed [[Würzburg Residence]] and [[Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers]] (d. 1753)
*[[1701]] &ndash; [[Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim]], German historian and theologian (d. 1790)
*[[1708]] &ndash; [[Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia]] (d. 1728)
*[[1741]] &ndash; [[Hester Thrale]], Welsh author (d. 1821)
*[[1756]] &ndash; [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]], Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1791)
*[[1775]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling]], German-Swiss philosopher and academic (d. 1854)
*[[1782]] &ndash; [[Titumir]], Bengali revolutionary (d. 1831)<ref name="titu">{{cite Banglapedia|author=Khan, Muazzam Hussain|article=Titu Mir}}</ref>
*[[1790]] &ndash; [[Juan Álvarez]], Mexican general and president (1855) (d. 1867)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://calderon.presidencia.gob.mx/mexico/gobernantes/mexico-1821-actualidad/juan-alvarez/|title=JUAN ÁLVAREZ|publisher=Presidencia de la Republica de Mexico|language=es|access-date=May 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528045037/http://calderon.presidencia.gob.mx/mexico/gobernantes/mexico-1821-actualidad/juan-alvarez/|archive-date=May 28, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1795]] &ndash; [[Eli Whitney Blake]], American engineer, invented the [[Mortise lock]] (d. 1886)
*[[1803]] &ndash; [[Eunice Hale Waite Cobb]], American writer, public speaker, and activist (d. 1880)<ref name="HoweGraves1904">{{cite book|last1=Howe|first1=Julia Ward|last2=Graves|first2=Mary Hannah|title=Representative Women of New England|url=https://archive.org/details/representativew00elligoog|edition=Public domain|year=1904|publisher=New England Historical Publishing Company|pages=[https://archive.org/details/representativew00elligoog/page/n183 136]–}}</ref>
*[[1805]] &ndash; [[Maria Anna of Bavaria (1805–1877)|Maria Anna of Bavaria]] (d. 1877)
*  1805   &ndash; [[Samuel Palmer]], English painter and etcher (d. 1881)
*[[1806]] &ndash; [[Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga]], Spanish composer and educator (d. 1826)
*[[1808]] &ndash; [[David Strauss]], German theologian and author (d. 1874)
*[[1814]] &ndash; [[Eugène Viollet-le-Duc]], French architect, designed the [[Lausanne Cathedral]] (d. 1879)
*[[1821]] &ndash; [[John Chivington]], American colonel and pastor (d. 1892)
*[[1823]] &ndash; [[Édouard Lalo]], French violinist and composer (d. 1892)
*[[1824]] &ndash; [[Urbain Johnson]], Canadian farmer and political figure (d. 1917)
*[[1826]] &ndash; [[Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin]], Russian journalist and author (d. 1889)
*  1826   &ndash; [[Richard Taylor (Confederate general)|Richard Taylor]], American general, historian, and politician (d. 1879)
*[[1832]] &ndash; [[Lewis Carroll]], English novelist, poet, and mathematician (d. 1898)<ref>{{cite book|last=McCulloch|first=Fiona|chapter=Lewis Carroll|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Vol. 3: Harr—Mirr|editor-last=Kastan|editor-first=David Scott|location=Oxford, U.K.|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2006|isbn=978-0-19-516921-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DlMUSz-hiuEC|page=386}}</ref>
*  1832   &ndash; [[Carl Friedrich Schmidt (1832)|Carl Friedrich Schmidt]], Estonian-Russian geologist and botanist (d. 1908)
*[[1836]] &ndash; [[Leopold von Sacher-Masoch]], Austrian journalist and author (d. 1895)
*[[1842]] &ndash; [[Arkhip Kuindzhi]], Ukrainian-Russian painter (d. 1910)
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Tōgō Heihachirō]], Japanese admiral (d. 1934)
*[[1850]] &ndash; [[John Collier (Pre-Raphaelite painter)|John Collier]], English painter and author (d. 1934)
*  1850   &ndash; [[Samuel Gompers]], English-American labor leader (d. 1924)<ref>{{cite book|last=Mandel|first=Bernard|title=Samuel Gompers: A Biography|location=New York|publisher=Penguin Group|date=1963|oclc=476364|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o-AEbCqvHCgC&q=samuel+gompers+%22January+27,+1850%22+spitalsfield|page=3|access-date=2023-01-28|archive-date=2023-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413134017/https://books.google.com/books?id=o-AEbCqvHCgC&q=samuel+gompers+%22January+27,+1850%22+spitalsfield|url-status=live}}</ref>
*  1850   &ndash; [[Edward Smith (sea captain)|Edward Smith]], English captain (d. 1912)
*[[1858]] &ndash; [[Neel Doff]], Dutch-Belgian author (d. 1942)
*[[1859]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor]] (d. 1941)
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[Will Marion Cook]], American violinist and composer (d. 1944)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Dorothy Scarborough]], American author (d. 1935)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Jerome Kern]], American composer and songwriter (d. 1945)
*  1885   &ndash; [[Seison Maeda]], Japanese painter (d. 1977)
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Radhabinod Pal]], Indian academic and jurist (d. 1967)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Balthasar van der Pol]], Dutch physicist and academic (d. 1959)
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Soong Ching-ling]], Chinese politician, [[List of Presidents of the People's Republic of China|Honorary President of the People's Republic of China]] (d. 1981)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Joseph Rosenstock]], Polish-American conductor and manager (d. 1985)
*  1895   &ndash; [[Harry Ruby]], American composer and screenwriter (d. 1974)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Hyman G. Rickover]], American admiral (d. 1986)