December 27th, 1958

Born on December 27th, 1958

Age in days, weeks and months
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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, 1958

65

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi

Politician in Pakistan

*December 27th, 1958, Karachi

65

Florian Martens

German actor

*December 27th, 1958, East Berlin

65

Barbara Crampton

American actress

*December 27th, 1958, Levittown

65

Marc-Édouard Nabe

French writer (born 1958)

*December 27th, 1958, Marseille

65

Steve Jones

Professional golfer from the United States

*December 27th, 1958, Artesia

65

Steffen Mensching

German actor and author

*December 27th, 1958, Berlin

58

Chen Uen

Artist

*December 27th, 1958, Bade District †March 26th, 2017, Xindian District

56

Emory Andrew Tate II

American chess player (1958–2015)

*December 27th, 1958, Chicago †October 17th, 2015

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

59

Tor Mikkel Wara

Norwegian politician

*December 27th, 1964, Karasjok Municipality

54

Guido Westerwelle

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

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

90

Marlene Dietrich

German and American actress and singer

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

66

Jean-Louis Bricout

French politician

*December 27th, 1957, Busigny

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

75

Gérard Depardieu

French actor (born 1948)

*December 27th, 1948, Châteauroux

62

Laurent Roussey

Footballer

*December 27th, 1961, Nîmes

69

Ullrich Dießner

East German rower

*December 27th, 1954, Meissen

66

Conrad Robertson

New Zealand rower

*December 27th, 1957, Devonport

75

Joachim Poß

German politician (SPD)

*December 27th, 1948, Westerholt

61

Joe Mantello

American director and actor

*December 27th, 1962, Rockford

57

Marianne Elliott

British theatre director

*December 27th, 1966, London

72

Louis Pasteur

French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)

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

38

Adil Rami

Moroccan and French footballer

*December 27th, 1985, Bastia

73

Charmian Carr

American actress (1942–2016)

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

71

Tovah Feldshuh

American actress

*December 27th, 1952, New York City

66

Greg Mortenson

American mountaineer and humanitarian

*December 27th, 1957, Rochester

57

Bill Goldberg

American professional wrestler, kickboxer, actor, and football player (born 1966)

*December 27th, 1966, Tulsa

55

Kevin O'Sullivan

American college baseball coach

*December 27th, 1968, Goshen

Same year
Born in 1958

50

Michael Jackson

American singer, songwriter, and dancer (1958–2009)

*August 29th, 1958, Gary †June 25th, 2009, Los Angeles

66

Gary Numan

English musician (born 1958)

*March 8th, 1958, Hammersmith

65

Jane Wiedlin

American musician

*May 20th, 1958, Oconomowoc

65

Jon Cassar

Maltese-Canadian director and producer

*April 27th, 1958, Valletta

65

Jello Biafra

American singer

*June 17th, 1958, Boulder

65

Wayne Hussey

English musician, singer of The Mission

*May 26th, 1958, Bristol

65

Madonna

American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1958)

*August 16th, 1958, Bay City

65

Olaf Scholz

German politician (SPD) and 9th Federal Chancellor of Germany (since 2021)

*June 14th, 1958, Osnabrück

65

Ursula von der Leyen

President of the European Commission since 2019

*October 8th, 1958, Ixelles - Elsene

65

Glenn Gregory

English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist

*May 16th, 1958, Sheffield

66

Caryl Phillips

Kittian-British writer

*March 13th, 1958, Saint Kitts

64

Jens Arentzen

Danish actor

*March 2nd, 1958, Frederiksberg †November 22nd, 2022

66

Dietmar Bartsch

German politician

*March 31st, 1958, Stralsund

65

Jah Wobble

English bassist, recording artist, songwriter

*August 11th, 1958, Stepney

66

Alec Baldwin

American actor, comedian and producer (born 1958)

*April 3rd, 1958, Amityville

65

Alexander Held

German actor

*October 19th, 1958, Munich

66

Volker Pispers

German cabaret artist

*January 18th, 1958, Rheydt

66

Reinhard Wolters

German historian of classical history and numismatist

*March 14th, 1958, Duisburg

65

Achim Arbeiter

German archaeologist

*September 3rd, 1958, Dierdorf

65

Tim Butler

English songwriter and musician

*December 7th, 1958, Teddington

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No: With 365 days 1958 is a normal year and no leap year.

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