The 27th day of the year
Born on 27 January
Every 27 January birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aquarius, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- AquariusAir, fixed, ruled by Saturn.
- Birthstone
- GarnetThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Carnation, SnowdropUsually taken today to mean devotion and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Tuesday and Friday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
The first day of the Metal Horse
27 January 1990 is the other half of this site's standard example. The new year of 1990 fell on this date, so a baby born on it was the first of the Metal Horse, while one born two days earlier, on 25 January 1990, belongs to the Earth Snake. The new year also began on 27 January in 1941, the Metal Snake, 1952, the Water Dragon, and 1971, the Metal Pig.
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026 a 27 January birthday came on or after the new year in 22 and before it in 85. The margin varies widely: in 1985 the new year did not come until 20 February, so 27 January 1985 was still more than three weeks inside the Wood Rat of 1984.
After 1990 the engine does not put the new year on this date again until 2074. The sign needs no such table: 27 January was Aquarius all day in every one of those years, wherever the birth.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 27 January in any year.
Which Chinese animal, by year
From 1920 to 2026 the lunar new year, reckoned in Beijing, came after 27 January in 85 of the 107 years, and in those years a birthday on it belonged to the animal of the year before; in the other 22 the new year had already begun. It was the first day of the new year itself in 1941, 1952, 1971 and 1990.
Shaded: 27 January came before that year's new year. Hatched: the new year began on 27 January. How the new year is found →
Which weekday 27 January falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 27 January falls on every day of the week: Tuesday 16, Friday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Wednesday 15, Monday 15.
Showing 27 January in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 27 January is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,765 babies were born on 27 January in each year of the twenty, making it the 329th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
Office for National Statistics, How popular is your birthday? Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. What a ranking like this can and cannot say →
Born on 27 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 1756–1791 | Austrian composer of the Classical period |
| Lewis Carroll | 1832–1898 | British author and scholar |
| Wilhelm II | 1859–1941 | German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 to 1918 |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling | 1775–1854 | German philosopher |
| Abbas the Great | 1571–1629 | Shah of Safavid Iran (1587–1629) |
| Mairead Maguire | 1944– | peace activist |
| Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin | 1826–1889 | Russian writer, journalist, playwright and satirist |
| Marat Safin | 1980– | Russian tennis player |
| Samuel C. C. Ting | 1936– | Chinese-American physicist |
| Leopold von Sacher-Masoch | 1836–1895 | Austrian author |
| Mikhail Baryshnikov | 1948– | Latvian-American dancer, choreographer and actor |
| Eugène Viollet-le-Duc | 1814–1879 | French architect |
| Ole Einar Bjørndalen | 1974– | Norwegian biathlete and cross-country skier |
| Bridget Fonda | 1964– | American actress |
| Édith Cresson | 1934– | Prime Minister of France from 1991 to 1992 |
| Soong Ching-ling | 1893–1981 | former Vice President of the People's Republic of China and third wife of Sun Yat-sen |
| John Eccles | 1903–1997 | Australian neurophysiologist |
| John Roberts | 1955– | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2005 |
Died on 27 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Giuseppe Verdi | 1813–1901 | Italian opera composer |
| Suharto | 1921–2008 | President of Indonesia from 1967 to 1998 |
| J. D. Salinger | 1919–2010 | American author |
| Louis de Funès | 1914–1983 | French actor and comedian |
| John Updike | 1932–2009 | American novelist and poet |
| Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim | 1867–1951 | Finnish military leader and statesman |
| Pete Seeger | 1919–2014 | American folk singer |
| Charles H. Townes | 1915–2015 | 20th-century American physicist |
| John James Audubon | 1785–1851 | French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter |
| Johannes Rau | 1931–2006 | President of Germany from 1999 to 2004 |
| Pope Sergius II | 790–847 | pope |
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