December 27th, 1980

Born on December 27th, 1980

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 15,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 175 days, exactly on October 17th, 2024, people who were born on December 27th, 1980 will be 16,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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, 1980

43

Elizabeth Rodriguez

American actress

*December 27th, 1980, Manhattan

43

Claudio Castagnoli

Swiss professional wrestler

*December 27th, 1980, Lucerne

43

Meelis Kompus

Estonian civil servant and journalist

*December 27th, 1980, Tallinn

43

Dahntay Jones

American professional basketball player

*December 27th, 1980, Trenton

43

Bernard Berrian

American football player

*December 27th, 1980, Barcelona

43

Cas Haley

American musician

*December 27th, 1980, Paris

43

Nina Moghaddam

German television presenter

*December 27th, 1980, Madrid

43

Elizabeth De Razzo

Actress

*December 27th, 1980, Laredo

43

Candace Kita

American actress and model

*December 27th, 1980, Los Angeles

43

Sofía Caiche

Ecuadorian actor

*December 27th, 1980, Guayaquil

43

Leanne Wilson

English actress

*December 27th, 1980, Hitchin

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

51

Michael Wiesinger

German association football player and manager

*December 27th, 1972, Burghausen

42

David Aardsma

Baseball pitcher

*December 27th, 1981, Denver

90

Marlene Dietrich

German and American actress and singer

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

38

Adil Rami

Moroccan and French footballer

*December 27th, 1985, Bastia

44

Roy Curvers

Dutch road cyclist

*December 27th, 1979, Haelen

59

Tor Mikkel Wara

Norwegian politician

*December 27th, 1964, Karasjok Municipality

44

Noelia Castaño

Argentine-Spanish actress

*December 27th, 1979, Buenos Aires

42

Emilie de Ravin

Australian actress (born 1981)

*December 27th, 1981, Mount Eliza

58

Salman Khan

Indian actor and producer (born 1965)

*December 27th, 1965, Indore

75

Gérard Depardieu

French actor (born 1948)

*December 27th, 1948, Châteauroux

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

28

Timothée Hal Chalamet

French-American actor

*December 27th, 1995, Manhattan

57

Marianne Elliott

British theatre director

*December 27th, 1966, London

35

Hayley Williams

American singer, songwriter and pianist, member of the music group Paramore

*December 27th, 1988, Meridian

75

Joachim Poß

German politician (SPD)

*December 27th, 1948, Westerholt

44

David Dunn

English footballer (born 1979)

*December 27th, 1979, Great Harwood

37

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Jamaican track and field sprinter

*December 27th, 1986, Kingston

62

Laurent Roussey

Footballer

*December 27th, 1961, Nîmes

42

Moise Joseph

Haitian runner

*December 27th, 1981, Miami

Same year
Born in 1980

43

Kristen Bell

American actress (born 1980)

*July 18th, 1980, Huntington Woods

44

Cai Yun

Chinese badminton player

*January 19th, 1980, Suzhou

43

Jeph Jacques

Comic author and illustrator (1980-)

*June 17th, 1980, Rockville

44

Volker Bruch

German actor

*March 9th, 1980, Munich

44

Julia Hummer

German actress and singer

*April 24th, 1980, Hagen

44

Henriett Koósz

Paralympic tennis and badminton player

*February 14th, 1980, Kőszeg

43

Dag Inge Ulstein

Norwegian politician

*December 4th, 1980, Sula

43

Petra Schmidt-Schaller

German actress

*August 28th, 1980, Magdeburg

43

Mathias Boe

Danish badminton player

*July 11th, 1980, Frederikssund

43

Sudheer Babu

Indian film actor and former professional badminton player

*May 11th, 1980, Vijayawada

38

Vibeke Skofterud

Norwegian cross country skier

*April 20th, 1980, Askim Municipality †July 29th, 2018, Hove

43

Maya Diab

Lebanese singer, entertainer, actress and television personality

*November 12th, 1980, Beirut

43

Mustafa Ceceli

Turkish singer

*November 2nd, 1980, Ankara

43

Matias Varela

Swedish actor

*November 1st, 1980, Stockholm

43

Roman Weidenfeller

German association football player

*August 6th, 1980, Diez

44

Dani Kind

Canadian actress

*January 10th, 1980, Toronto

43

Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani

Emir of Qatar

*June 3rd, 1980, Doha

44

Lee Kyung-won

South Korean badminton player

*January 21st, 1980, Changwon

43

Wolke Hegenbarth

Actress

*May 6th, 1980, Meerbusch

44

Kennevic Asuncion

Badminton player

*March 21st, 1980, Barbaza

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Leap year

Yes: 1980 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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