27 January

27 January (the Twenty-Seventh of January, January 27th, &c.) is the twenty-seventh day of the year under the Gregorian calendar, as first promulgated by Pope Gregory XIII, Bishop of Rome, in 1582 A.D., as well as the earlier Julian calendar, as first promulgated by Julius Caesar in 45 B.C. The date of 27 January is followed by either 338 days or 339 days during leap years, which are calculated differently in Gregorian and Julian calendars; in both calendars, regardless of its leap year status, the date that follows is 28 January and the date that precedes it is 26 January.

Note that for the purposes of the following indices, the Gregorian date trumps the Julian date, unless otherwise indicated.

Births

• J. V. Cerney (1914-1987), podiatrist, self-help writer
• Milton Nothdurft (1914-2000), Methodist minister, saucerian

Deaths

• Edwin John Dingle (1881-1972), First Church of Mystic Christianity and "New City of Mentalphysics"