December 27th, 1972

Born on December 27th, 1972

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, 1972

51

Michael Wiesinger

German association football player and manager

*December 27th, 1972, Burghausen

51

Christophe Adam

French pastry chef and television presenter

*December 27th, 1972, Landivisiau

51

Matt Slocum

American musician

*December 27th, 1972, Nashville

51

Guido Trenti

Road racing cyclist

*December 27th, 1972, Milan

51

Thomas Grandi

Canadian alpine skier

*December 27th, 1972, Bolzano

51

Kevin Ollie

American basketball player and coach

*December 27th, 1972, Dallas

51

Alessandro Mario

Italian actor

*December 27th, 1972, Agrigento

51

Sara Varone

Italian model

*December 27th, 1972, Rome

51

Colin Charvis

English rugby union player

*December 27th, 1972, Sutton Coldfield

51

Malin Schwerdtfeger

German screenwriter

*December 27th, 1972, Bremen

51

Thomas Wilson Brown

American actor

*December 27th, 1972, Lusk

29

Hocine Soltani

Former Algerian boxer

*December 27th, 1972, Thénia †February 28th, 2002, Marseille

51

Alex Skuby

American actor

*December 27th, 1972, Neptune City

51

Leonardo García

Mexican actor

*December 27th, 1972, Mexico City

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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

54

Guido Westerwelle

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

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

75

Gérard Depardieu

French actor (born 1948)

*December 27th, 1948, Châteauroux

38

Adil Rami

Moroccan and French footballer

*December 27th, 1985, Bastia

57

Marianne Elliott

British theatre director

*December 27th, 1966, London

50

Luka Grubor

British rower

*December 27th, 1973, Zagreb

72

Louis Pasteur

French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)

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

55

Kevin O'Sullivan

American college baseball coach

*December 27th, 1968, Goshen

49

Masi Oka

Japanese actor

*December 27th, 1974, Tokyo

42

David Aardsma

Baseball pitcher

*December 27th, 1981, Denver

43

Elizabeth Rodriguez

American actress

*December 27th, 1980, Manhattan

44

Roy Curvers

Dutch road cyclist

*December 27th, 1979, Haelen

62

Laurent Roussey

Footballer

*December 27th, 1961, Nîmes

75

Joachim Poß

German politician (SPD)

*December 27th, 1948, Westerholt

61

Joe Mantello

American director and actor

*December 27th, 1962, Rockford

52

Guthrie Govan

British musician

*December 27th, 1971, Chelmsford

44

Noelia Castaño

Argentine-Spanish actress

*December 27th, 1979, Buenos Aires

28

Timothée Chalamet

French-American actor

*December 27th, 1995, Hell's Kitchen

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51

Stephen Barclay

British politician

*May 3rd, 1972, Lytham St Annes

51

Maia Sandu

President of Moldova since 2020

*May 24th, 1972, Risipeni

47

Ari Behn

Norwegian author and artist (1972-2019)

*September 30th, 1972, Aarhus †December 25th, 2019, Lommedalen

52

Roland Møller

Danish actor

*March 20th, 1972, Odense

51

Bang Soo-hyun

South Korean badminton player

*September 13th, 1972, Seoul

52

Heryanto Arbi

Indonesian badminton player

*January 21st, 1972, Kota Kudus

51

Zinedine Zidane

French football manager and former player

*June 23rd, 1972, Marseille

51

Dwayne Johnson

American actor and professional wrestler

*May 2nd, 1972, Hayward

51

Joanne Goode

English badminton player

*November 17th, 1972, Harlow

51

Eminem

American rapper, record producer and actor (born 1972)

*October 17th, 1972, St. Joseph

52

Milaine Cloutier

Canadian badminton player

*February 16th, 1972, Granby

51

Chris Leslie

British politician (born 1972)

*June 28th, 1972, Keighley

51

Anniken Hauglie

Conservative Norwegian politician

*September 10th, 1972, Oslo

51

Gwyneth Paltrow

American actress, entrepreneur, writer and singer

*September 27th, 1972, Los Angeles

51

Steffen Wöller

German luger

*September 10th, 1972, Erfurt

51

Johann von Bülow

German actor

*September 26th, 1972, Munich

51

Jude Law

English actor

*December 29th, 1972, Lewisham

51

Josh Duhamel

American actor

*November 14th, 1972, Minot

52

Ong Ewe Hock

Badminton player

*March 14th, 1972, Penang

52

Marleve Mainaky

Badminton player

*March 26th, 1972, Ternate City

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Leap year

Yes: 1972 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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