December 27
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December 27 is the 361st day of the year (362nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are four days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1350 – John I of Aragon (d. 1396)
- 1390 - Anne de Mortimer, claimant to the English throne (d. 1411)
- 1459 – John I Albert, King of Poland (d. 1501)
- 1566 - Jan Jesenius, Slovakian physician, politician and philosopher (d. 1621)
- 1571 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (d. 1630)
- 1572 - Johannes Vodnianus Campanus, Czech humanist (d. 1622)
- 1654 – Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1705)
- 1717 – Pope Pius VI (d. 1799)
- 1773 – George Cayley, naturalist, physical scientist, engineer, politician (d. 1857)
- 1776 - Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (d. 1811)
- 1796 – Mirza Ghalib, poet of Urdu (d. 1869)
- 1822 – Louis Pasteur, French scientist (d. 1895)
- 1823 – Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1896)
- 1832 - Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and patron of art (d. 1897)
- 1851 – Percy Gilchrist, metallurgist (d. 1935)
- 1858 – Juan Luis Sanfuentes, President of Chile (d. 1930)
- 1860 – David Hendricks Bergey, bacteriologist (d. 1937)
- 1863 - Louis Lincoln Emmerson, 27th Governor of Illinois (d. 1941)
- 1879 – Sydney Greenstreet, British actor (d. 1954)
- 1881 – Antonio Granjo, Portuguese politician (d. 1921)
- 1888 – Thea von Harbou, German author and actress (d. 1954)
- 1896 – Carl Zuckmayer, German author (d. 1977)
- 1896 – Louis Bromfield, writer (d. 1956)
- 1900 – Hans Stuck, German automobile racer (d. 1978)
- 1901 – Marlene Dietrich, German actress and singer (d. 1992)
- 1906 – Oscar Levant, composer and actor (d. 1972)
- 1907 – Sebastian Haffner, German publicist (someone who tells people about things) (d. 1999)
- 1907 - Willem van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (d. 1978)
- 1909 – Henryk Jablonski, Polish politician (d. 2003)
- 1915 – William Masters, American sexologist (d. 2001)
- 1925 – Michel Piccoli, French actor
- 1926 - Jerome Courtland, American actor, director and producer
- 1927 – Agnes Nixon, soap opera producer, director, writer
- 1931 – Tommy Lapid, Israeli politician (d. 2008)
- 1931 - Scotty Moore, American rock musician
- 1938 - Stanislav Stanojevic, Serbian-born French movie director and actor
- 1939 – John Amos, American actor
- 1943 - Joan Manuel Serrat, Catalan singer-songwriter
- 1943 – Cokie Roberts, American journalist
- 1946 – Janet Street-Porter, British journalist and television presenter
- 1948 – Gérard Depardieu, French actor
- 1949 – Klaus Fischer, German footballer
- 1950 – Roberto Bettega, Italian footballer
- 1951 – Ernesto Zedillo, former President of Mexico
- 1952 – David Knopfler, British musician (Dire Straits)
- 1959 – Gerina Dunwich, occult author
- 1960 – Maryam d'Abo, British actress
- 1961 – Guido Westerwelle, German politician
- 1963 – Gaspar Noe, Argentine-born director
- 1964 - Theresa Randle, American actress
- 1965 – Salman Khan, Indian actor
- 1966 – Bill Goldberg, American professional wrestler, American football player
- 1966 - Eva LaRue, American actress
- 1969 – Sarah Vowell, American author and journalist
- 1971 – Duncan Ferguson, Scottish footballer
- 1971 - Sergei Bodrov, Jr., Russian movie actor and director
- 1971 – Chyna Doll, professional wrestler
- 1973 – Wilson Cruz, actor
- 1974 – Masi Oka, Japanese-American actor
- 1975 – Heather O'Rourke, American child actress (Poltergeist) (d. 1988)
- 1979 – David Dunn, English footballer
- 1979 – Carson Palmer, American football quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner
- 1981 – Emilie de Ravin, Australian actress
- 1981 – Javine, British singer
- 1981 - Patrick Sharp, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1983 - Anthony Boric, New Zealand rugby player
- 1983 - Cole Hamels, American baseball player
- 1984 – Gilles Simon, French tennis player
- 1986 - Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Jamaican athlete
- 1988 – Hayley Williams, American singer (Paramore)
- 1990 - Milos Raonic, Canadian tennis player
Deaths [change]
- 1076 - Prince Sviatoslav of Kiev (b. 1027)
- 1087 - Bertha of Savoy, German queen and Holy Roman Empress (b. 1051)
- 1381 - Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, English politician
- 1782 – Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish lawyer and philosopher (b. 1697)
- 1812 – Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of the Chabad Hasidic movement (b. 1745)
- 1836 – Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (someone who goes to new places) (b. 1793)
- 1896 – John Brown, manufacturer (b. 1861)
- 1900 – William George Armstrong, inventor, industrialist and engineer (b. 1810)
- 1914 – Charles Martin Hall, chemist, inventor (b. 1863)
- 1925 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (b. 1895)
- 1938 – Calvin Bridges, geneticist (b. 1889)
- 1950 – Max Beckmann, German painter (b. 1884)
- 1953 – Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (b. 1894)
- 1957 - Otto Nuschke, German politician (b. 1883)
- 1958 - Harry Warner, American studio executive (b. 1881)
- 1966 – Guillermo Stabile, Argentine footballer (b. 1905)
- 1968 – Victor Ernest Shelford, zoologist (b. 1877)
- 1972 – Lester Pearson, fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1897)
- 1978 – Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria (b. 1932)
- 1979 – Hafizullah Amin, President of Afghanistan (b. 1929)
- 1981 – Hoagy Carmichael, American composer, singer (b. 1899)
- 1982 - Jack Swigert, American astronaut (b. 1931)
- 1985 – Dian Fossey, American biologist (b. 1932)
- 1988 – Hal Ashby, movie director (b. 1929)
- 1994 – Fanny Cradock, British chef and cookery writer (b. 1909)
- 1997 – Billy Wright, Protestant paramilitary leader (b. 1960)
- 1997 – Brendan Gill, columnist, humorist (someone who makes people laugh) (b. 1953)
- 2002 – George Roy Hill, movie director (b. 1922)
- 2003 – Alan Bates, British actor (b. 1934)
- 2003 – Ivan Calderon, baseball player (b. 1962) (murdered)
- 2007 – Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician (b. 1953)
- 2007 – Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Polish movie director (b. 1922)
- 2007 – Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (b. 1920)
- 2008 – Alfred Pfaff, German footballer (b. 1926)
- 2010 – Ronald Lee Herrick, organ donor (b. 1931)
- 2011 – Helen Frankenthaler, American painter (b. 1928)
- 2011 - Michael Dummett, British philosopher (b. 1925)
Events [change]
- 537 – The Hagia Sophia is consecrated as a church in Byzantium.
- 1703 – Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.
- 1831 – Charles Darwin begins his trip on the boat the HMS Beagle, where he will think of the theory of evolution.
- 1836 – The worst ever avalanche in England happens at Lewes, Sussex, killing 8 people.
- 1845 – Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time (Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia).
- 1904 – James Barrie's play Peter Pan begins to be shown in London.
- 1904 – The Abbey Theatre opens.
- 1918 – Beginning of Great Poland Uprising. The Poles in Poland beign to fight against the Germans so that they can become free.
- 1932 – Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City.
- 1939 - Erzincan, Turkey, is struck by a major earthquake, killing 30,000 people.
- 1939 - Winter War: Finland holds off a Soviet Union attack in the Battle of Kelja.
- 1945 – The World Bank is created with the signing of an agreement by 28 nations.
- 1945 – Korea is divided (put into two pieces).
- 1947 – Howdy Doody, a children's television program, makes its debut (NBC).
- 1949 – Indonesian National Revolution: Queen Juliana of the Netherlands recognises Indonesia as an independent country.
- 1959 – In a referendum, voters in the Pacific islands of Wallis and Futuna decide that their islands should have the status of a French overseas territory.
- 1966 - The Cave of Swallows, the largest-known cave shaft, is discovered near San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
- 1968 – Long-time radio show The Breakfast Club ends on ABC radio.
- 1975 – A mining explosion in Jharkhand, India, causes a flood, in which 372 miners drown.
- 1978 – Spain becomes a democracy (a place where people vote) after 40 years of dictatorship (a place where people do not vote).
- 1979 – The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan and Babrak Karmal becomes the new President. The old one, Hafizullah Amin, was killed.
- 1985 – Palestinian fighters kill twenty people in the Rome and Vienna airports (places where airplanes take off and land).
- 1985 – American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda.
- 1996 – Taliban fighters take over the Bagram air base. They became safer and stronger in Kabul after they did that.
- 1997 – Protestant paramilitary (paramilitary is what you call an army that is not legal and part of the government) leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland.
- 2001 – The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade relations with the United States.
- 2002 – Two truck bombs in Grozny kill 72 and hurt 200 at the building where the government of Chechnya works.
- 2007 – Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, is killed in a terrorist attack in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
- 2008 – A three-week war begins in the Gaza Strip, as Israel launches Opeartion Cast Lead on suspected Hamas militants in Gaza, lasting three weeks.
Observances [change]
- Constitution Day (North Korea)
- Saint Stephen's Day (Eastern Orthodox Church), public holiday in Romania.
