Top 10 January 27 Birthdays
Honorable Mention: January 27, 1931: Mordecai Richler. His writing has examined the question of what it means to be Jewish in a country that wasn't made for him; and what it means to live in Canada, Quebec and Montreal at at time when many people want to separate and form their own country. Somewhat Honorable Mention: January 27, 1832: Lewis Carroll. The author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and similar works has had his reputation tainted by presumptions about his private life. Apparently, his own family suppressed the evidence that he was interested in women after they grew up, in order to save him from the judgment of history. But they didn't consider how his interest in the women before they grew up might be judged by later audiences. What was considered "okay" in Victorian times is not necessarily considered "okay" today. Dishonorable Mention: January 27, 1859: Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. Let's not kid ourselves: If Archduke Franz Fe...