Other Notable People Born on January 27th

    Modesty and time will permit me to mention only several. Let’s start with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart who was also born on January 27. No kidding. And the only reason I’m dragging him into this is because of what his music is able to accomplish with sheep. I mean his music is okay for other things also, but the sheep---well, let me start at the beginning. It seems that Australian Merino sheep who listen to opera (they really didn’t say if it was Mozart’s or not, but I mean, come on) seem to grow much finer wool than sheep who are left alone to be chased around by those creepy looking sheep dogs. So much finer in fact that the price is 367 times the normal market price. Now, unless the sheep learn the difference between an amplified CD recording of an opera and a live performance, this is a great deal for the sheep owners. Nobody is giving an opinion on why this happens. I know from personal experience that about the time I started going to the opera is when hair started growing out of my ears. That may have been a coincidence. 
    Another notable personage born on January 27 was Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert, who was later known as Kaiser Wilhelm, Emperor of Germany. His inept handling of the political situation in the early 1900s helped lead to World War I. 
   And let’s not forget Frank Nitti who was born on January 27, and served with distinction as one of Al Capone's top henchmen and later the front man for the Chicago Outfit, the organized crime syndicate headed by Capone. 
   And then there was Captain Edward J. Smith, born on January 27. He was captain of the Titanic---what more can we say. 
    A person could get the impression that this date is connected to people of genius-level abilities or of dubious character, or then again, maybe both.