December 27th, 1789

On this page

Born on December 27th, 1789 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on December 27th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on December 27th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (December 1789)

Born on December 27th, 1789

Weekday

Sunday

December 27th, 1789 was a Sunday.

Age

234

People born on December 27th, 1789 will turn 235 this year (2024), in exactly 242 days .

Zodiac

♑

Capricorn (The Sea-Goat)

December 22nd, 1789 - January 20th, 1790

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 85,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 410 days, exactly on June 13th, 2025, people who were born on December 27th, 1789 will be 86,000 days old!

85,590 Days

12,227 Weeks

2,812 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

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?

Louis Pasteur

French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)

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

Marlene Dietrich

German and American actress and singer

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

Michael Wiesinger

German association football player and manager

*December 27th, 1972, Burghausen

Mirza Ghalib

Pakistani poet (1797-1869)

*December 27th, 1797, Kala Mahal †February 15th, 1869, Ghalib ki Haveli

Tor Mikkel Wara

Norwegian politician

*December 27th, 1964, Karasjok Municipality

Johannes Kepler

German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)

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

Gérard Depardieu

French actor (born 1948)

*December 27th, 1948, Châteauroux

Friedrich August Emil Heuer

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

Salman Khan

Indian actor and producer (born 1965)

*December 27th, 1965, Indore

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

Alexander Gordon Laing

Scottish explorer

*December 27th, 1793, Edinburgh †September 26th, 1826, Araouane

Christopher Benjamin

British actor

*December 27th, 1934, Trowbridge

Paul Costello

American rower

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

Timothée Hal Chalamet

French-American actor

*December 27th, 1995, Manhattan

Serafín Estébanez Calderón

Spanish author (1799-1867)

*December 27th, 1799, Málaga †February 15th, 1867, Madrid

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

Same year
Born in 1789

Georg Simon Ohm

German physicist and mathematician

*March 16th, 1789, Erlangen †July 6th, 1854, Munich

James Fenimore Cooper

American writer (1789-1851)

*September 15th, 1789, Burlington †September 14th, 1851, Cooperstown

Francisco Javier Mina

Spanish general and lawyer

*July 1st, 1789, Otao †November 11th, 1817, Pénjamo

Silvio Pellico

Italian writer and poet

*June 24th, 1789, Saluzzo †January 31st, 1854, Turin

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

French mathematician (1789–1857)

*August 21st, 1789, Paris †May 23rd, 1857, Sceaux

John Martin

Painter, engraver and illustrator (1789-1854)

*July 19th, 1789, Haydon Bridge †February 17th, 1854, Douglas

Johann Friedrich Overbeck

German painter, a member of the Nazarene movement (1789-1869)

*July 3rd, 1789, Lübeck †November 12th, 1869, Rome

Carl Adam Bader

German cathedral organist and operatic tenor

*January 10th, 1789, Bamberg †April 14th, 1870, Berlin

Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg

Member of the House of Arenberg

*April 10th, 1789, City of Brussels †April 4th, 1823, Bamberg

József Hild

Hungarian architect (1789-1867)

*December 8th, 1789, Pest †March 6th, 1867, Pest

William Carr Lane

American mayor (1789-1863)

*December 1st, 1789, Fayette County †January 6th, 1863, St. Louis

Leona Vicario

Mexican spy

*April 10th, 1789, Mexico City †August 21st, 1842, Mexico City

Heinrich Schwabe

German astronomer (1789-1875)

*October 25th, 1789, Dessau †April 11th, 1875, Dessau

Johannes Jacob Hegetschweiler

Swiss botanist (1789-1839)

*December 14th, 1789, Rifferswil †September 9th, 1839, Zürich

Jared Sparks

American historian, educator, and Unitarian minister

*May 10th, 1789, Willington †March 14th, 1866, Cambridge

William John Swainson

English naturalist and artist

*October 8th, 1789, London †December 6th, 1855, Hutt Valley

Manuel de Mier y Terán

Mexican General (1789-1832)

*February 18th, 1789, Mexico City †July 3rd, 1832, Padilla Municipality

Wilhelm Hey

German writer (1789-1854)

*March 26th, 1789, Leinatal †May 19th, 1854, Ichtershausen

Carlos Soublette

Venezuelan politician and statesman

*December 15th, 1789, Caracas †February 11th, 1870, Caracas

Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg

Duke of Saxe-Altenburg

*August 27th, 1789, Hildburghausen †November 25th, 1868, Altenburg

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on December 27th

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

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XXVII.XII.MDCCLXXXIX

27.12.1789

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

X = 10

IX = 9

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1789 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
December 1789

December 1789

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
49		1	2	3	4	5	6
50	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
51	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
52	21	22	23	24	25	26	27
53	28	29	30	31

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
49		1	2	3	4	5	6
50	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
51	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
52	21	22	23	24	25	26	27
53	28	29	30	31

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
49		1	2	3	4	5	6
50	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
51	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
52	21	22	23	24	25	26	27
53	28	29	30	31

December 27th, 1789

Born on December 27th, 1789

Weekday

Sunday

Age

Zodiac

♑

Capricorn (The Sea-Goat)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 85,000 days old!

85,590 Days

12,227 Weeks

2,812 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on December 27th?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

Same year Born in 1789

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on December 27th

Blessed Francesco Spoto

Blessed Sára Salkaházi

Fabiola

John the Apostle

Pope Maximus of Alexandria

Nicarete

Theodorus and Theophanes

December 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Constitution Day (North Korea)

Emergency Rescuer's Day (Russia)

St. Stephen's Day (Eastern Orthodox Church; a public holiday in Romania)

The third of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity)