| 11251 | January 27 | Death | 2008 – Gordon B. Hinckley, American religious leader and author 15th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1910) |
| 11252 | January 27 | Death | 2009 – Mino Reitano, Italian singer and actor (b. 1944) |
| 11253 | January 27 | Death | 2009 – John Updike, American author, poet, and critic (b. 1932) |
| 11254 | January 27 | Death | 2009 – R. Venkataraman, Indian lawyer and politician 8th President of India (b. 1910) |
| 11255 | January 27 | Death | 2010 – Zelda Rubinstein, American actress (b. 1933) |
| 11256 | January 27 | Death | 2010 – J. D. Salinger, American soldier and author (b. 1919) |
| 11257 | January 27 | Death | 2010 – Ajmer Singh, Indian sprinter and academic (b. 1940) |
| 11258 | January 27 | Death | 2010 – Howard Zinn, American historian, author, and activist (b. 1922) |
| 11259 | January 27 | Death | 2011 – Charlie Callas, American actor and drummer (b. 1927) |
| 11260 | January 27 | Death | 2011 – Mārtiņš Freimanis, Latvian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1977) |
| 11261 | January 27 | Death | 2013 – Ivan Bodiul, Ukrainian-Russian politician (b. 1918) |
| 11262 | January 27 | Death | 2013 – Phạm Duy, Vietnamese singer-songwriter (b. 1921) |
| 11263 | January 27 | Death | 2013 – Stanley Karnow, American journalist and historian (b. 1925) |
| 11264 | January 27 | Death | 2014 – Ichirō Nagai, Japanese voice actor (b. 1931) |
| 11265 | January 27 | Death | 2014 – Pete Seeger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1919) |
| 11266 | January 27 | Death | 2015 – David Landau, English-Israeli journalist (b. 1947) |
| 11267 | January 27 | Death | 2015 – Charles Hard Townes, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) |
| 11268 | January 27 | Holiday and observance | Christian feast day:Angela MericiBlessed Paul Joseph NardiniDevota (Monaco)Enrique de Ossó y CercellóSava (Serbia)Phoebe, Dorcas and Lydia (Episcopal, Lutheran)January 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)John Chrysostom (translation of relics) (Lutheran, Easte |
| 11269 | January 27 | Holiday and observance | Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances:Holocaust Memorial Day (United Kingdom)International Holocaust Remembrance Day (International)Memorial Day (Italy) (Il Giorno della Memoria) (Italy) |
| 11270 | January 28 | Event | 814 – Charlemagne dies of pleurisy in Aachen as the first Holy Roman Emperor. He is succeeded by his son Louis the Pious as king of the Frankish Empire. |
| 11271 | January 28 | Event | 1077 – Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted. |
| 11272 | January 28 | Event | 1393 – King Charles VI of France is nearly killed when several dancers' costumes catch fire during a masquerade ball. |
| 11273 | January 28 | Event | 1521 – The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25. |
| 11274 | January 28 | Event | 1547 – Henry VIII dies. His nine-year-old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England. |
| 11275 | January 28 | Event | 1573 – Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland. |
| 11276 | January 28 | Event | 1624 – Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts. |
| 11277 | January 28 | Event | 1701 – The Chinese storm Dartsedo. |
| 11278 | January 28 | Event | 1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917. |
| 11279 | January 28 | Event | 1754 – Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann. |
| 11280 | January 28 | Event | 1760 – Pownal, Vermont, is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants. |