December 27th, 1960

Born on December 27th, 1960

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, 1960

63

Jeff Fortenberry

United States Representative from Nebraska from 2005 to 2022

*December 27th, 1960, Baton Rouge

63

Terry Price

Professional golfer

*December 27th, 1960, Rockhampton

63

Maryam d'Abo

British actress

*December 27th, 1960, London

63

Youth

English record producer and musician

*December 27th, 1960, Johannesburg

63

Gerald Eckert

German musician

*December 27th, 1960, Nuremberg

63

Donald Nally

American orchestra conductor, opera chorus master, and professor of conducting (b.1960)

*December 27th, 1960, Hilltown

63

Valdas Tutkus

Lithuanian diplomat

*December 27th, 1960, Vilnius

63

Harry Goaz

American actor

*December 27th, 1960, Texas

63

Fred Hammond

American musician and record producer

*December 27th, 1960, Detroit

63

Traci Wolfe

American actress

*December 27th, 1960, Plainfield

63

Israel Contreras

Venezuelan boxer

*December 27th, 1960, La Guaira

63

Mark Humphrey

Canadian actor

*December 27th, 1960, Vancouver

63

Victoria Paige Meyerink

American actor and producer

*December 27th, 1960, Santa Barbara

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

54

Guido Westerwelle

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

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

59

Tor Mikkel Wara

Norwegian politician

*December 27th, 1964, Karasjok Municipality

90

Marlene Dietrich

German and American actress and singer

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

58

Salman Khan

Indian actor and producer (born 1965)

*December 27th, 1965, Indore

62

Laurent Roussey

Footballer

*December 27th, 1961, Nîmes

51

Michael Wiesinger

German association football player and manager

*December 27th, 1972, Burghausen

75

Gérard Depardieu

French actor (born 1948)

*December 27th, 1948, Châteauroux

61

Joe Mantello

American director and actor

*December 27th, 1962, Rockford

66

Jean-Louis Bricout

French politician

*December 27th, 1957, Busigny

57

Marianne Elliott

British theatre director

*December 27th, 1966, London

75

Joachim Poß

German politician (SPD)

*December 27th, 1948, Westerholt

69

Ullrich Dießner

East German rower

*December 27th, 1954, Meissen

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

66

Conrad Robertson

New Zealand rower

*December 27th, 1957, Devonport

65

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi

Pakistani politician and businessman

*December 27th, 1958, Karachi

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

42

David Aardsma

Baseball pitcher

*December 27th, 1981, Denver

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Born in 1960

63

Vince Clarke

English synth-pop musician and songwriter

*July 3rd, 1960, South Woodford tube station

63

Sydney Youngblood

American/German singer

*December 2nd, 1960, San Antonio

63

Åse Michaelsen

Norwegian politician

*June 4th, 1960, Mandal Municipality

63

Sally Yates

American lawyer, 36th United States Deputy Attorney General

*August 20th, 1960, Atlanta

64

Naruhito

Emperor of Japan since 2019

*February 23rd, 1960, Hospital of the Imperial Household

64

Lene Kaaberbøl

Danish writer

*March 24th, 1960, Copenhagen

63

David Duchovny

American actor and writer

*August 7th, 1960, New York City

64

Pierre Littbarski

German association football player and manager

*April 16th, 1960, West Berlin

32

Jón Páll Sigmarsson

Icelandic strongman, powerlifter and bodybuilder

*April 28th, 1960, Hafnarfjörður †January 16th, 1993, Reykjavík

60

Diego Maradona

Argentine football player and manager (1960–2020)

*October 30th, 1960, Lanús †November 25th, 2020, Dique Luján

63

Christopher Barker

Swiss actor

*May 2nd, 1960, Rome

63

Friederike Seyfried

German archaeologist and egyptologist

*November 19th, 1960, Mosbach

63

John Leguizamo

American actor, comedian, producer, and writer (born 1960)

*July 22nd, 1960, Bogotá

63

Jane Lynch

American actress

*July 14th, 1960, Evergreen Park

63

Susanne Zimmer

Danish politician

*June 9th, 1960, Brønderslev

64

Ivanna Lie

Indonesian badminton player

*March 7th, 1960, Bandung City

63

Bobby Ertanto

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1960, Surabaya

64

Misbun Sidek

Badminton player

*February 17th, 1960, Banting

63

Colin Firth

English actor and producer

*September 10th, 1960, Grayshott

63

Denyse Julien

Badminton player

*July 22nd, 1960, Rouyn-Noranda

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Leap year

Yes: 1960 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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