March 27th, 1520

On this page

Born on March 27th, 1520 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on March 27th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on March 27th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (March 1520)

Born on March 27th, 1520

Weekday

Saturday

March 27th, 1520 was a Saturday.

Age

504

People born on March 27th, 1520 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 504 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♈

Aries (The Ram)

March 21st, 1520 - April 20th, 1520

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 184,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 887 days, exactly on September 30th, 2026, people who were born on March 27th, 1520 will be 185,000 days old!

184,113 Days

26,301 Weeks

6,048 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

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?

Xuxa

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

*March 27th, 1963, Santa Rosa

Manuel Neuer

German association football player

*March 27th, 1945, Gelsenkirchen

Johannes Overbeck

German archaeologist and art historian (1826-1895)

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

Wilhelm Röntgen

German physicist (1845–1923)

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

Mariah Carey

American singer and songwriter (born 1969)

*March 27th, 1969, Huntington

Quentin Tarantino

American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor

*March 27th, 1963, Knoxville

Stephen Dillane

British actor

*March 27th, 1957, Kensington

Julian Glover

English actor

*March 27th, 1935, Hampstead

Linda Martin

Northern Irish singer

*March 27th, 1952, Omagh

Gloria Swanson

American actress (1899–1983)

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

James Callaghan

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

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

Diego Rosa

Italian racing cyclist

*March 27th, 1989, Corneliano d'Alba

Polina Gagarina

Russian singer, songwriter, actress, and model

*March 27th, 1987, Moscow

Eisaku Satō

Prime Minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972

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

Buster Posey

American baseball player

*March 27th, 1987, Leesburg

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

German architect

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

David Coulthard

British racing driver

*March 27th, 1971, Twynholm

Fergie

American singer and actress

*March 27th, 1975, Whittier

Jessie J

English singer

*March 27th, 1988, Chadwell Heath

Otto Wallach

German chemist

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

Same year
Born in 1520

Sixtus V

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1585 to 1590

*December 13th, 1520, Grottammare †August 27th, 1590, Rome

Martha Leijonhufvud

Swedish noblewoman

*December 24th, 1520, Ekeberg †January 15th, 1584, Stegeholm

Alessandro Farnese

Italian cardinal and diplomat (1520–1589)

*October 7th, 1520, Valentano †March 2nd, 1589, Rome

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

English statesman and chief adviser to Queen Elizabeth I (1520-1598)

*September 13th, 1520, Bourne †August 4th, 1598, Westminster

Matthias Flacius

Croatian theologian (1520–1575)

*March 3rd, 1520, Labin †March 11th, 1575, Frankfurt

Sigismund II Augustus

King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania

*August 1st, 1520, Kraków †July 7th, 1572, Knyszyn

Francesco Piccolomini

Italian philosopher (1520-1604)

*January 25th, 1520, Siena †November 30th, 1603, Siena

Elisabeth von Pfalz-Simmern

German aristocrat

*February 13th, 1520, Simmern †February 18th, 1564, Fürstenau

Thoinot Arbeau

French dance manual author and priest (1520-1595)

*March 17th, 1520, Dijon †July 23rd, 1595, Langres

Barbara Radziwiłł

(1520-1551) queen-consort of Poland, Grand Duchess of Lithuania

*December 16th, 1520, Vilnius †May 8th, 1551, Kraków

Madeleine of Valois

Scottish royal consort

*August 10th, 1520, Saint-Germain-en-Laye †July 7th, 1537, Edinburgh

Heinrich Sudermann

German politician (1520-1591)

*August 31st, 1520, Cologne †September 7th, 1591, Lübeck

Hermann tom Ring

German renaissance painter (1521-1596)

*November 30th, 1520, Münster †October 18th, 1596, Münster

Moses Isserles

Polish rabbi

*February 22nd, 1520, Kraków †May 11th, 1572, Kraków

Jacques Gohory

French translator

*January 1st, 1520, Paris †January 1st, 1576, Paris

Bartholomäus Sastrow

German politician (1520–1603)

*August 21st, 1520, Greifswald †February 7th, 1603, Stralsund

Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine

Electress Palatine (1520-1580)

*November 10th, 1520, Copenhagen †May 31st, 1580, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz

Christoph Lersner

*January 1st, 1520, Marburg †January 1st, 1603, Friedberg

Lorenz Lindemann

*January 1st, 1520, Leipzig †January 1st, 1585, Großsedlitz

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on March 27th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on March 27th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XXVII.III.MDXX

27.3.1520

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

Yes: 1520 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

Calendar
March 1520

March 1520

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
10	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
11	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
12	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
13	22	23	24	25	26	27	28
14	29	30	31

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
10	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
11	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
12	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
13	22	23	24	25	26	27	28
14	29	30	31

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
10	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
11	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
12	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
13	22	23	24	25	26	27	28
14	29	30	31

March 27th, 1520

Born on March 27th, 1520

Weekday

Saturday

Age

Zodiac

♈

Aries (The Ram)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 184,000 days old!

184,113 Days

26,301 Weeks

6,048 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on March 27th?

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

Same year Born in 1520

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on March 27th

Alexander, a Pannonian soldier, martyred in 3rd century.

Amador of Portugal

Augusta of Treviso

Charles Henry Brent (Episcopal Church (USA))

Gelasius, Archbishop of Armagh

John of Egypt

Philetus

Romulus of Nîmes, a Benedictine abbot, martyred c. 730.

Zanitas and Lazarus of Persia

March 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Armed Forces Day (Myanmar)

Day of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania (Romania)

World Theatre Day (International)