Events & Holidays In January - 27

Feast of St. Sava (Serbia)

National Activity Professionals Day (United States of America)

Sainte Dévote (Monaco)

Vietnam Day (Vietnam)

WWII Genocide Memorial Day (Germany United Kingdom)

1443  On this day in history birth of albert, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500)  

1546  On this day in history birth of joachim III Frederick, elector (Brandenburg)  

1556  Abbas I, "the Great," shah of Persia (1587-1629) was born on this day in history.  

1585  Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (d. 1634) was born on this day in history.  

1592  On this day in history birth of pierre de La Barre, composer  

1603  On this day in history birth of harbottle Grimston, English politician (d. 1685)  

1621  On this day in history birth of thomas Willis, English physician (d. 1675)  

1662  Richard Bentley, Oulton, scholar/controversialist was born on this day in history.  

0098  Marius Cocceius Nerva, emperor of Rome (96-98), dies at about 67 on this day in history.  

0661  On this day in history death of death of Ali, the final Sunni Rashidun and first Shia Imam.(b. 599 or 600)  

0672  Vitalianus, pope (657-72)/saint, dies on this day in history.  

0847  On this day in history sergius II, pope (844-47), dies  

1164  Abraham ibn Ezra, poet/philosopher, dies on this day in history.  

1490  On this day in history death of ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (b. 1435)  

1540  Angela Merici, Italian monk/monastery, dies on this day in history.  

1565  Robrecht de Berghes, prince-bishop of Liege (1557-64), dies on this day in history.