27 January: today's birthdays

• Barry Barish - American physicist. In 2017, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with ​Kip Stephen Thorne and Rainer Weiss
• Raymond Boudon - French sociologist
• Lewis Carroll - Pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, English author, mathematician and photographer. He is the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Tasuku Honjo - Japanese immunologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018 along with James Patrick Allison
• Nick Mason - English drummer
• ​George Monbiot - British journalist, writer, environmental and political activist, born George Joshua Richard Monbiot 
• Kerlon Moura Souza - Brazilian soccer player
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Austrian composer, one of the greatest of all time
• Fabián Ariel Orellana Valenzuela - Argentine soccer player
• Mordecai Richler - Canadian author and screenwriter. His major work is the novel Barney's Version
• Narciso Rodriguez - American fashion designer of Cuban descent
• Zbigniew Rybczynski - Polish film director. He won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 1982 directing Tango
• Eugène Viollet-le-Duc - French architect
• Leopold von Sacher-Masoch - Austrian writer and journalist. He wrote Venus in Furs. The term masochism derives from his name
• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling - German philosopher
• Mark Zborowski - American Ukraine-born anthropologist and Soviet spy. He will become a researcher assistant at Harvard University in Massachusetts with the aid of anthropologist Margaret Mead