December 27th, 1611

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Born on December 27th, 1611 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on December 27th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on December 27th
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Calendar (December 1611)

Born on December 27th, 1611

Weekday

Tuesday

December 27th, 1611 was a Tuesday.

Age

412

People born on December 27th, 1611 will turn 413 this year (2024), in exactly 177 days .

Zodiac

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Capricorn (The Sea-Goat)

December 22nd, 1611 - January 20th, 1612

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 150,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 331 days, exactly on May 30th, 2025, people who were born on December 27th, 1611 will be 151,000 days old!

150,669 Days

21,524 Weeks

4,950 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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What happened on December 27th?

December 27th, 2002

The human-cloning company Clonaid claimed to have performed the first reproductive cloning of a human, but provided no evidence for the claim.

December 27th, 1997

Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Billy Wright was assassinated in HM Prison Maze by members of the Irish National Liberation Army.

December 27th, 1985

The body of murdered American primatologist Dian Fossey was discovered inside her cabin in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.

December 27th, 1979

Soviet–Afghan War: Soviet troops stormed Tajbeg Palace outside Kabul and killed Afghan president Hafizullah Amin and his 100–150 elite guards.

December 27th, 1966

A group of three men made the first descent into the Cave of Swallows (pictured), the largest known cave shaft in the world, in Aquismón, Mexico.

December 27th, 1932

New York City's Radio City Music Hall opened with the world's largest auditorium at the time.

December 27th, 1929

Joseph Stalin announced the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class", beginning a period of political repression against prosperous peasants.

December 27th, 1922

The Imperial Japanese Navy commissioned Hōshō (pictured), the world's first purpose-built aircraft carrier.

December 27th, 1918

A public speech by the Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Poznań sparked the Greater Poland uprising against Germany.

December 27th, 1904

The stage play Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, by Scottish author J. M. Barrie, premiered in London.

December 27th, 1845

John L. O'Sullivan, in his newspaper the New York Morning News, argued that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country "by the right of our manifest destiny", popularizing the term's use.

December 27th, 1831

HMS Beagle departed Plymouth, England, on a voyage to South America that established Charles Darwin's standing as a naturalist.

December 27th, 1657

Citizens of New Netherland presented the Flushing Remonstrance to Peter Stuyvesant, the director general of the colonial province, requesting an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship.

December 27th, 1521

A period of unrest in Wittenberg following the arrival of three men of the Radical Reformation, known as the Zwickau prophets, was quelled after Martin Luther's release from custody.

December 27th, 0537

The reconstructed Hagia Sophia (pictured) in Constantinople was inaugurated; built as a church, it later became a mosque and a museum.

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

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

Johannes Kepler

German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)

*December 27th, 1571, Weil der Stadt †November 15th, 1630, Regensburg

Marlene Dietrich

German and American actress and singer

*December 27th, 1901, Rote Insel †May 6th, 1992, 8th arrondissement of Paris

Louis Pasteur

French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)

*December 27th, 1822, Dole †September 28th, 1895, Saint-Cloud

Michael Wiesinger

German association football player and manager

*December 27th, 1972, Burghausen

Tor Mikkel Wara

Norwegian politician

*December 27th, 1964, Karasjok Municipality

Gérard Depardieu

French actor (born 1948)

*December 27th, 1948, Châteauroux

Salman Khan

Indian actor and producer (born 1965)

*December 27th, 1965, Indore

Friedrich August Emil Heuer

*December 27th, 1857, Rammenau †March 29th, 1934, Dresden

Charles de Noyelle

Jesuit Superior General

*December 27th, 1615, City of Brussels †December 12th, 1686, Rome

Guido Westerwelle

German politician (FDP), Foreign Minister of Germany (1961-2016)

*December 27th, 1961, Bad Honnef †March 18th, 2016, Cologne

Adil Rami

Moroccan and French footballer

*December 27th, 1985, Bastia

Joachim Poß

German politician (SPD)

*December 27th, 1948, Westerholt

Charmian Carr

American actress (1942–2016)

*December 27th, 1942, Chicago †September 17th, 2016, Los Angeles

Timothée Hal Chalamet

French-American actor

*December 27th, 1995, Manhattan

Christopher Benjamin

British actor

*December 27th, 1934, Trowbridge

Marianne Elliott

British theatre director

*December 27th, 1966, London

Dorris Bowdon

American actress (1914-2005)

*December 27th, 1914, Tate County †August 9th, 2005, Los Angeles

David Aardsma

Baseball pitcher

*December 27th, 1981, Denver

Paul Costello

American rower

*December 27th, 1894, Philadelphia †April 17th, 1986, Philadelphia

Ullrich Dießner

East German rower

*December 27th, 1954, Meissen

Same year
Born in 1611

Johannes Hevelius

Astronomer

*January 28th, 1611, Gdańsk †January 28th, 1687, Gdańsk

Innocent XI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1676 to 1689

*May 19th, 1611, Como †August 12th, 1689, Rome

Evliya Çelebi

Turkish traveler and writer (1611–1682)

*March 25th, 1611, Istanbul †January 1st, 1682, Cairo

Johann Friedrich Gronovius

German-Dutch classical scholar, professor of Greek and history and librarian in Leiden (1611-1671), owner/creator of the album amicorum of Johannes Fredericus Gronovius

*September 8th, 1611, Hamburg †December 28th, 1671, Amsterdam