| 11221 | January 27 | Death | 1965 – Abraham Walkowitz, American painter (b. 1878) |
| 11222 | January 27 | Death | 1967 – Roger B. Chaffee, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1935) |
| 11223 | January 27 | Death | 1967 – Gus Grissom, American pilot and astronaut (b. 1926) |
| 11224 | January 27 | Death | 1967 – Alphonse Juin, Algerian-French general (b. 1888) |
| 11225 | January 27 | Death | 1967 – Edward Higgins White, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930) |
| 11226 | January 27 | Death | 1970 – Rocco D'Assunta, Italian actor, comedian and playwright (b. 1904) |
| 11227 | January 27 | Death | 1971 – Jacobo Árbenz, Guatemalan captain and politician President of Guatemala (b. 1913) |
| 11228 | January 27 | Death | 1972 – Richard Courant, German-American mathematician and academic (b. 1888) |
| 11229 | January 27 | Death | 1972 – Mahalia Jackson, American singer and actress (b. 1911) |
| 11230 | January 27 | Death | 1974 – Georgios Grivas, Cypriot general (b. 1898) |
| 11231 | January 27 | Death | 1975 – Bill Walsh, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1913) |
| 11232 | January 27 | Death | 1979 – Qalandar Baba Auliya, Indian-Pakistani mystic, philosopher, and scholar (b. 1898) |
| 11233 | January 27 | Death | 1983 – Louis de Funès, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1914) |
| 11234 | January 27 | Death | 1986 – Lilli Palmer, German-American actress (b. 1914) |
| 11235 | January 27 | Death | 1987 – Norman McLaren, Scottish-Canadian animator and director (b. 1914) |
| 11236 | January 27 | Death | 1988 – Massa Makan Diabaté, Malian historian, author, and playwright (b. 1938) |
| 11237 | January 27 | Death | 1989 – Thomas Sopwith, English aviator (b. 1888) |
| 11238 | January 27 | Death | 1993 – André the Giant, French wrestler and actor (b. 1946) |
| 11239 | January 27 | Death | 1994 – Claude Akins, American actor (b. 1918) |
| 11240 | January 27 | Death | 1996 – Ralph Yarborough, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1903) |
| 11241 | January 27 | Death | 2000 – Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1930) |
| 11242 | January 27 | Death | 2003 – Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (b. 1915) |
| 11243 | January 27 | Death | 2003 – Henryk Jabłoński, Polish historian and politician, President of Poland (b. 1909) |
| 11244 | January 27 | Death | 2004 – Salvador Laurel, Filipino politician 10th Vice President of the Philippines (b. 1928) |
| 11245 | January 27 | Death | 2004 – Jack Paar, American talk show host and author (b. 1918) |
| 11246 | January 27 | Death | 2005 – Shah A M S Kibria, Bangladeshi economist and politician (b. 1931) |
| 11247 | January 27 | Death | 2006 – Gene McFadden, American singer-songwriter and producer (McFadden & Whitehead) (b. 1948) |
| 11248 | January 27 | Death | 2006 – Johannes Rau, German journalist and politician, 8th President of Germany (b. 1931) |
| 11249 | January 27 | Death | 2007 – Yang Chuan-kwang, Taiwanese decathlete, long jumper, and hurdler (b. 1933) |
| 11250 | January 27 | Death | 2008 – Suharto, Indonesian general and politician 2nd President of Indonesia (b. 1921) |