March 27th, 1066

Born on March 27th, 1066

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 349,000 days old!

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... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on March 27th?

March 27th, 2015

Himeji Castle (pictured), the largest and most visited Japanese castle, re-opened after five years of restoration work.

March 27th, 2009

A failure of the dam holding Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Tangerang, Indonesia, caused floods that killed at least 100 people.

March 27th, 2020

North Macedonia became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

March 27th, 2002

Second Intifada: A suicide bomber killed around 30 Israeli civilians and injured about 140 others in Netanya, triggering Operation Defensive Shield, a large-scale counter-terrorist military incursion into the West Bank.

March 27th, 1999

During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, an Army of Yugoslavia unit shot down a U.S. Air Force F-117 stealth aircraft.

March 27th, 1998

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug sildenafil (chemical structure pictured), better known by the trade name Viagra, for use as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.

March 27th, 1981

The Solidarity movement in Poland staged a warning strike, the largest in the history of the Eastern Bloc, in which at least 12 million Poles walked off their jobs for four hours.

March 27th, 1980

Brothers Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt failed in their attempt to corner the world silver market, causing panic in commodity and futures exchanges.

March 27th, 1977

Two Boeing 747 airliners collided on a foggy runway at Los Rodeos Airport on the island of Tenerife, killing 583 people in the worst aircraft accident in aviation history

March 27th, 1976

The Washington Metro, the second-busiest rapid transit system in the U.S., opened to commuters.

March 27th, 1958

Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, assumed the office of premier.

March 27th, 1945

World War II: The United States Army Air Forces began Operation Starvation, laying naval mines in many of Japan's vital water routes and ports to disrupt enemy shipping.

March 27th, 1941

World War II: A group of Serbian-nationalist officers of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force carried out a coup d'état after Yugoslavia joined the Axis powers.

March 27th, 1915

Mary Mallon (pictured), the first person to be identified as an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever, was placed into quarantine in New York City, where she spent the rest of her life.

March 27th, 1899

Philippine–American War: American forces defeated troops commanded by Philippine president Emilio Aguinaldo at the Battle of Marilao River.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 27th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on March 27th?

61

Xuxa

Brazilian television presenter, actress, singer and former model and Wiggles member

*March 27th, 1963, Santa Rosa

38

Manuel Neuer

German association football player

*March 27th, 1986, Gelsenkirchen

77

Wilhelm Röntgen

German physicist (1845–1923)

*March 27th, 1845, Lennep †February 10th, 1923, Munich

69

Johannes Overbeck

German archaeologist and art historian (1826-1895)

*March 27th, 1826, Antwerp †November 8th, 1895, Leipzig

55

Mariah Carey

American singer and songwriter (born 1969)

*March 27th, 1969, Huntington

61

Quentin Tarantino

American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor

*March 27th, 1963, Knoxville

67

Stephen Dillane

British actor

*March 27th, 1957, Kensington

89

Julian Glover

English actor

*March 27th, 1935, Hampstead

72

Linda Martin

Northern Irish singer

*March 27th, 1952, Omagh

74

Esther Benbassa

French historian and politician

*March 27th, 1950, Istanbul

84

Gloria Swanson

American actress (1899–1983)

*March 27th, 1899, Chicago †April 4th, 1983, Weill Cornell Medical Center

35

Diego Rosa

Italian racing cyclist

*March 27th, 1989, Corneliano d'Alba

37

Polina Gagarina

Russian singer-songwriter

*March 27th, 1987, Moscow

92

James Callaghan

Former prime minister of the United Kingdom (1912–2005)

*March 27th, 1912, Copnor †March 26th, 2005, East Sussex

74

Eisaku Satō

Prime Minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972

*March 27th, 1901, Tabuse †June 3rd, 1975, The Jikei University Hospital

37

Buster Posey

American baseball player

*March 27th, 1987, Leesburg

53

David Coulthard

British racing driver

*March 27th, 1971, Twynholm

49

Fergie

American singer and actress

*March 27th, 1975, Whittier

36

Jessie J

English singer

*March 27th, 1988, Chadwell Heath

83

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

German architect

*March 27th, 1886, Aachen †August 17th, 1969, Chicago

71

Herman Ponsteen

Dutch racing cyclist

*March 27th, 1953, Hellendoorn

49

Nichole Galicia

American-Panamanian actress

*March 27th, 1975, Panama City

83

Otto Wallach

German chemist

*March 27th, 1847, Königsberg †February 26th, 1931, Göttingen

36

Atsuto Uchida

Japanese association football player

*March 27th, 1988, Kannami

74

Chick Vennera

Actor (1947-2021)

*March 27th, 1947, Herkimer †July 7th, 2021, Burbank

52

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink

Dutch association football player and manager

*March 27th, 1972, Paramaribo

69

Mariano Rajoy

Spanish politician, prime Minister of Spain between 2011 and 2018

*March 27th, 1955, Santiago de Compostela

36

Brenda Song

American actress and model (born 1988)

*March 27th, 1988, Carmichael

78

Heinrich Mann

German writer (1871–1950)

*March 27th, 1871, Lübeck †March 11th, 1950, Santa Monica

84

Austin Pendleton

American actor and director

*March 27th, 1940, Warren

70

Gerard Batten

British politician (born 1954)

*March 27th, 1954, London

53

Nathan Fillion

Canadian-American actor (born 1971)

*March 27th, 1971, Edmonton

62

Erich Ollenhauer

German politician (1901–1963)

*March 27th, 1901, Magdeburg †December 14th, 1963, Bonn

80

Mstislav Rostropovich

Russian cellist and conductor (1927-2007)

*March 27th, 1927, Baku †April 27th, 2007, Moscow

75

John Sulston

British biologist and Nobel laureate (1942–2018)

*March 27th, 1942, Fulmer †March 6th, 2018, Cambridge

79

Karl Pearson

English mathematician and biometrician (1857–1936)

*March 27th, 1857, London †April 27th, 1936, Coldharbour

66

Sarah Vaughan

American jazz and classical singer (1924–1990)

*March 27th, 1924, Newark †April 3rd, 1990, Hidden Hills

54

Elizabeth Mitchell

American actress

*March 27th, 1970, Los Angeles

74

David Edgar

American swimmer

*March 27th, 1950, Fort Lauderdale

57

Johannes Jung

German politician

*March 27th, 1967, Karlsruhe

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1066 is a normal year and no leap year.

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