Today in history @ 27 Jan

Birth anniversaries of:

a. Dmitry I Mendeleyev (b. 1834), creator of the first Periodic Table which had elements being arranged basis their atomic weight and properties. This enabled him to predict the nature of many elements which were not even discovered then.

b. Famous music composer Wolfgang Mozart (b. 1756).

c. Lewis Carroll  (b. 1832); he was basically a mathematician, though famous for writing / creating Alice in Wonderland. He was also an ace photographer and is also credited to design the modern game Scrabble.

d. Our own Bobby Deol (b. 1967).

e. Actor Shreyas Talpade  (b. 1976).

Death anniversary of:

a. Geologist Adam Sedwick (d. 1873) who is credited for coining the terms Cambrian and Devonian ages.

b. Ex President R Venkatraman (d. 2009).

c. Sir Francis Drake (d. 1596) who is famous for completing the circumvention of the globe by water.

d. Famous writer J D Salinger (d. 2010).

e. Comedian Charlie Callas (d. 2011).

Other notables:

a. John Lewis Baird demonstrated the television for the first time in 1926.