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Who died on 27 January?
Celebrities who died on 27 January
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Pete Seeger
American folk singer
J. D. Salinger
American writer
André the Giant
professional wrestler and actor
Edward Spears
British Army general
Howard Zinn
author and historian
Cloris Leachman
American actress
Susan D. Shaw
American environmental health scientist, explorer, conservationist, author
Mahalia Jackson
American gospel singer
John Farrow
1904–1963; Australian-born American film director
Monte Pearson
American baseball player
Emmanuelle Riva
French actress
Jamuna
Indian film actress
Goddess Bunny
American actress
Edward Higgins White
American astronaut
Louis de Funès
French actor and comedian
Wendel Meldrum
actress
Claude Akins
American actor
Ingvar Kamprad
Swedish business magnate
R. Venkataraman
seventh Vice-President of India and the 8th President of India
Bernard de Give
Belgian philosopher and theologian
Lilli Palmer
German actress
Jack Paar
Television host
Norman McLaren
Scottish-born Canadian experimental animator and film director
Gisella Sofio
Italian actress
Ann Carter
American child actress
Mike Holovak
American football player, coach, executive
Silvia Monelli
Italian actress
Addison Mort Walker
American comic strip cartoonist
Gianna Piaz
Italian actress
Georg Christoph Biller
German conductor
Carlos Loyzaga
Filipino basketball player
Georges Bidault
French politician
Lina Ben Mhenni
Tunisian Internet activist, blogger and journalist
Don Stansauk
American professional wrestler
Alberto Naranjo
Arranger, bandleader, composer, musician
Friedrich Gulda
Austrian pianist and composer
Antal Szerb
Hungarian writer
Oskar Homolka
Austrian actor
Kamleshwar
Indian writer
Erich Kleiber
Austrian conductor
Yvonne Young Clark
mechanical engineer
Frank John William Goldsmith
English author and survivor of the Titanic
Royal Galipeau
Canadian politician
Corky Lee
American photographer
Godfrey Hodgson
British journalist and historian
Ryszard Kotys
Polish actor
Robert McCormick Adams, Jr.
American anthropologist
Peter Magowan
American baseball executive