December 27th, 1939

Born on December 27th, 1939

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What happened on December 27th, 1939?

December 27th, 1939

Winter War: Finland holds off a Soviet attack in the Battle of Kelja.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War

What else 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.

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

Born on December 27th, 1939

84

John Amos

American actor

*December 27th, 1939, Newark

74

Miguel Alcobendas

Spanish film director (1939-2014)

*December 27th, 1939, Madrid †September 3rd, 2014, Torremolinos

78

Klaus Herding

German art historian

*December 27th, 1939, Munich †August 26th, 2018, Frankfurt

84

Barbara Klemm

German photographer

*December 27th, 1939, Münster

84

Mel Nowell

American basketball player

*December 27th, 1939, Columbus

84

Andrew Parker Bowles

British Army officer; first husband of Queen Camilla

*December 27th, 1939, Surrey

76

Leyla Sayar

Turkish actress

*December 27th, 1939, Istanbul †July 22nd, 2016

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

90

Marlene Dietrich

German and American actress and singer

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

75

Gérard Depardieu

French actor (born 1948)

*December 27th, 1948, Châteauroux

85

Rolf Wolfshohl

German racing cyclist

*December 27th, 1938, Cologne

73

Charmian Carr

American actress (1942–2016)

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

59

Tor Mikkel Wara

Norwegian politician

*December 27th, 1964, Karasjok Municipality

51

Michael Wiesinger

German association football player and manager

*December 27th, 1972, Burghausen

89

Christopher Benjamin

British actor

*December 27th, 1934, Trowbridge

75

Joachim Poß

German politician (SPD)

*December 27th, 1948, Westerholt

58

Salman Khan

Indian actor and producer (born 1965)

*December 27th, 1965, Indore

84

José Pérez Francés

Spanish road bicycle racer (1936–2021)

*December 27th, 1936, Peñacastillo †September 30th, 2021, Barcelona

72

Louis Pasteur

French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)

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

54

Guido Westerwelle

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

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

89

Larisa Latynina

Ukrainian Soviet gymnast

*December 27th, 1934, Kherson

88

Tilman Pünder

German politician

*December 27th, 1932, Münster †December 18th, 2021

38

Adil Rami

Moroccan and French footballer

*December 27th, 1985, Bastia

69

Ullrich Dießner

East German rower

*December 27th, 1954, Meissen

66

Jean-Louis Bricout

French politician

*December 27th, 1957, Busigny

57

Marianne Elliott

British theatre director

*December 27th, 1966, London

62

Laurent Roussey

Footballer

*December 27th, 1961, Nîmes

81

Valentina Prudskova

Russian fencer (1938-2020)

*December 27th, 1938, Yershov †August 23rd, 2020, Saratov

Same year
Born in 1939

85

Hans Kloft

German historian of classical antiquity

*April 10th, 1939, Düsseldorf

64

João César Monteiro

Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic

*February 2nd, 1939, Figueira da Foz †February 3rd, 2003, Lisbon

77

Dudley Storey

New Zealand rower

*November 27th, 1939, Wairoa †March 6th, 2017, Auckland

84

Thilo Ulbert

German christian archaeologist

*June 20th, 1939, Augsburg

83

Tina Turner

American-born Swiss singer and songwriter (1939–2023)

*November 26th, 1939, Brownsville †May 24th, 2023, Küsnacht

83

Hans-Christian Ströbele

German lawyer and politician (1939–2022)

*June 7th, 1939, Halle (Saale) †August 29th, 2022, Moabit

78

Oscar Fulloné

Argentine association football player and manager (1939-2017)

*April 4th, 1939, La Plata †May 22nd, 2017, Casablanca

84

Helga Piur

German actress and voice actress

*May 24th, 1939, Berlin

84

Yves Meyer

French mathematician

*July 19th, 1939, Paris

84

Margaret Atwood

Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist,pépiniériste and inventor

*November 18th, 1939, Ottawa

56

Peter Aust

1939-1996 German actor

*March 17th, 1939, Bytom †January 26th, 1996, Bad Wildungen

70

Dixie Carter

American actress (1939–2010)

*May 25th, 1939, McLemoresville †April 10th, 2010, Houston

78

Irio De Paula

Brazilian composer

*May 10th, 1939, Rio de Janeiro †May 23rd, 2017, Rome

78

Peter Grünberg

German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1939-2018)

*May 18th, 1939, Plzeň †April 7th, 2018, Jülich

59

Dusty Springfield

British singer (1939–1999)

*April 16th, 1939, London †March 2nd, 1999, Henley-on-Thames

74

Karen Black

American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter (1939-2013)

*July 1st, 1939, Park Ridge †August 8th, 2013, Santa Monica

80

Karel Gott

Czech singer and actor

*July 14th, 1939, Plzeň †October 1st, 2019, Prague

84

Brenda Vaccaro

American actress

*November 18th, 1939, Brooklyn

80

Valerie Harper

American actress (1939-2019)

*August 22nd, 1939, Suffern †August 30th, 2019, Los Angeles

84

Jane Alexander

American actress (b. 1939)

*October 28th, 1939, Boston

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No: With 365 days 1939 is a normal year and no leap year.

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