December 27th, 1944

Born on December 27th, 1944

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 28,000 days old!

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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

Born on December 27th, 1944

79

Jean-Claude Lenoir

French politician

*December 27th, 1944, Mortagne-au-Perche

79

Hans-Jürgen Buchner

German singer songwriter

*December 27th, 1944, Bernau bei Berlin

76

Hans Rosendahl

Swedish swimmer

*December 27th, 1944, Katrineholm †November 23rd, 2021, Katrineholm

62

Vijay Arora

Indian actor (1944-2007)

*December 27th, 1944, Gandhidham †February 2nd, 2007, Mumbai

79

Mick Jones

English rock guitarist

*December 27th, 1944, Portsmouth

79

Magne Hegdal

Norwegian musician

*December 27th, 1944, Gjerdrum

79

Iván Égüez

Ecuadorian writer

*December 27th, 1944, Quito

71

Markus Werner

Swiss writer (1944-2016)

*December 27th, 1944, Eschlikon †July 3rd, 2016, Schaffhausen

71

Eliseo Subiela

Argentine film director and screen writer (1944-2016)

*December 27th, 1944, Buenos Aires †December 25th, 2016, San Isidro

74

Ivan Milat

Australian serial killer (1944–2019)

*December 27th, 1944, Guildford †October 27th, 2019, Long Bay Correctional Centre

71

Makhenkesi Stofile

South African politician (1944-2016)

*December 27th, 1944, Adelaide †August 15th, 2016, Alice

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Who's birthday is on December 27th?

75

Gérard Depardieu

French actor (born 1948)

*December 27th, 1948, Châteauroux

90

Marlene Dietrich

German and American actress and singer

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

73

Charmian Carr

American actress (1942–2016)

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

75

Joachim Poß

German politician (SPD)

*December 27th, 1948, Westerholt

59

Tor Mikkel Wara

Norwegian politician

*December 27th, 1964, Karasjok Municipality

51

Michael Wiesinger

German association football player and manager

*December 27th, 1972, Burghausen

58

Salman Khan

Indian actor and producer (born 1965)

*December 27th, 1965, Indore

54

Guido Westerwelle

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

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

72

Louis Pasteur

French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)

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

77

Bill Manhire

New Zealand poet

*December 27th, 1946, Invercargill

89

Christopher Benjamin

British actor

*December 27th, 1934, Trowbridge

85

Rolf Wolfshohl

German racing cyclist

*December 27th, 1938, Cologne

69

Ullrich Dießner

East German rower

*December 27th, 1954, Meissen

78

Mark Johnson

American producer (born 1945)

*December 27th, 1945, Maryland

38

Adil Rami

Moroccan and French footballer

*December 27th, 1985, Bastia

80

Stephan Sulke

Swiss liedermacher and musician

*December 27th, 1943, Shanghai

66

Jean-Louis Bricout

French politician

*December 27th, 1957, Busigny

84

José Pérez Francés

Spanish road bicycle racer (1936–2021)

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

71

Tovah Feldshuh

American actress

*December 27th, 1952, New York City

77

Clarence Barlow

British composer (1945–2023)

*December 27th, 1945, Kolkata †June 29th, 2023, Barcelona

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Born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

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Leap year

Yes: 1944 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).

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