December 27st All Events |
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December 27th, 2007 (December 27 2007) | Event | Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated by a suicide bomber. | |
December 27th, 2007 (December 27 2007) | Death | Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (assassinated) (born in 1953) | |
December 27th, 2007 (December 27 2007) | Death | Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Polish film director (born in 1922) | |
December 27th, 2007 (December 27 2007) | Death | Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (born in 1920) | |
December 27th, 2005 (December 27 2005) | Death | William Doody, Canadian politician (born in 1931) | |
December 27th, 2004 (December 27 2004) | Death | Hank Garland, American musician (born in 1930) | |
December 27th, 2003 (December 27 2003) | Death | Alan Bates, English actor (born in 1934) | |
December 27th, 2003 (December 27 2003) | Death | Ivan Calderon, Puerto Rican baseball player (born in 1962) | |
December 27th, 2002 (December 27 2002) | Event | Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya. | |
December 27th, 2002 (December 27 2002) | Death | George Roy Hill, American film director (born in 1922) | |
December 27th, 2001 (December 27 2001) | Event | The People s Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade relations with the United States. | |
December 27th, 1997 (December 27 1997) | Event | Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland. | |
December 27th, 1997 (December 27 1997) | Death | Brendan Gill, American columnist and humorist (born in 1914) | Eric Gill Quotes |
December 27th, 1997 (December 27 1997) | Death | Billy Wright, Irish Protestant paramilitary leader (born in 1960) | |
December 27th, 1996 (December 27 1996) | Event | Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul. | |
December 27th, 1995 (December 27 1995) | Death | Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist (born in 1909) | |
December 27th, 1994 (December 27 1994) | Death | Fanny Cradock, English food writer and broadcaster (born in 1909) | |
December 27th, 1994 (December 27 1994) | Death | J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (born in 1902) | |
December 27th, 1993 (December 27 1993) | Death | Andre Pilette, Belgian racing driver (born in 1918) | |
December 27th, 1992 (December 27 1992) | Death | Kay Boyle, American writer (born in 1902) | |
December 27th, 1990 (December 27 1990) | Birth | Luis Trujillo, Peruvian Football Player | |
December 27th, 1988 (December 27 1988) | Birth | Rick Porcello, American baseball player | |
December 27th, 1988 (December 27 1988) | Birth | Hayley Williams, Singer Of Paramore | |
December 27th, 1988 (December 27 1988) | Death | Hal Ashby, American film director (born in 1929) | |
December 27th, 1987 (December 27 1987) | Death | Geoffrey D Lloyd, Chairman of the guild of British Newspaper editors (born in 1933) | |
December 27th, 1986 (December 27 1986) | Birth | Tristan Mathews, Porn Star,Model | |
December 27th, 1985 (December 27 1985) | Event | Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside Rome and Vienna airports. | |
December 27th, 1985 (December 27 1985) | Birth | Paul Stastny, Canadian-American ice hockey player | |
December 27th, 1984 (December 27 1984) | Birth | Gilles Simon, French tennis player | |
December 27th, 1984 (December 27 1984) | Birth | Pleasure P,American R&B Singer. Former member of Pretty Ricky (band) | |
December 27th, 1983 (December 27 1983) | Birth | Cole Hamels, American baseball player | |
December 27th, 1982 (December 27 1982) | Birth | James Mead, American guitarist (Kutless) | |
December 27th, 1982 (December 27 1982) | Birth | Terji Skiben?s, Faroese guitarist, (Tyr) | |
December 27th, 1982 (December 27 1982) | Death | John Swigert, American astronaut (born in 1931) | |
December 27th, 1981 (December 27 1981) | Birth | Emilie de Ravin, Australian actress | |
December 27th, 1981 (December 27 1981) | Birth | Javine, British singer | |
December 27th, 1981 (December 27 1981) | Death | Hoagy Carmichael, American composer and singer (born in 1899) | Hoagy Carmichael Quotes |
December 27th, 1980 (December 27 1980) | Birth | Claudio Castagnoli, Swiss wrestler | |
December 27th, 1980 (December 27 1980) | Birth | Cas Haley, American singer and guitarist | |
December 27th, 1979 (December 27 1979) | Event | The Soviet Union seizes control of Afghanistan and Babrak Karmal replaces overthrown and executed President Hafizullah Amin. | |
December 27th, 1979 (December 27 1979) | Birth | David Dunn, English footballer | |
December 27th, 1979 (December 27 1979) | Birth | Carson Palmer, American football player | |
December 27th, 1979 (December 27 1979) | Death | Hafizullah Amin, second President of Afghanistan (born in 1929) | |
December 27th, 1978 (December 27 1978) | Event | Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship. | |
December 27th, 1978 (December 27 1978) | Death | Bob Luman, American country and rockabilly singer (born in 1937) | |
December 27th, 1978 (December 27 1978) | Death | Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria (born in 1932) | |
December 27th, 1977 (December 27 1977) | Birth | Jacqueline Pillon, Canadian actress | |
December 27th, 1976 (December 27 1976) | Birth | Fernando Pisani, Canadian/Italian ice hockey player | |
December 27th, 1976 (December 27 1976) | Birth | Aaron Stanford, American actor | |
December 27th, 1975 (December 27 1975) | Birth | Heather O Rourke, American actress (died in 1988) | |
December 27th, 1974 (December 27 1974) | Birth | Masi Oka, Japanese-American actor | |
December 27th, 1974 (December 27 1974) | Birth | Jay Pandolfo, American ice hockey player | |
December 27th, 1974 (December 27 1974) | Death | Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (born in 1898) | |
December 27th, 1973 (December 27 1973) | Birth | Kristoffer Zegers, Dutch composer | |
December 27th, 1973 (December 27 1973) | Birth | Wilson Cruz, Puerto Rican actor | |
December 27th, 1973 (December 27 1973) | Birth | Dee Ferris, British painter | |
December 27th, 1972 (December 27 1972) | Birth | Thomas Wilson Brown, American actor | |
December 27th, 1972 (December 27 1972) | Birth | Colin Charvis, Welsh rugby union player | |
December 27th, 1972 (December 27 1972) | Birth | Matt Slocum, American musician (Sixpence None the Richer) | |
December 27th, 1972 (December 27 1972) | Death | Lester B. Pearson, fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada, recipient of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize (born in 1897) | |
December 27th, 1971 (December 27 1971) | Birth | Duncan Ferguson, Scottish footballer | |
December 27th, 1971 (December 27 1971) | Birth | Bryan Smolinski, American ice hockey player | |
December 27th, 1970 (December 27 1970) | Birth | Brendon Cook, Australian racing driver | |
December 27th, 1970 (December 27 1970) | Birth | Lorenzo Neal, American football player | |
December 27th, 1969 (December 27 1969) | Birth | Jean-Christophe Boullion, French race car driver | |
December 27th, 1969 (December 27 1969) | Birth | Chyna, American professional wrestler | |
December 27th, 1969 (December 27 1969) | Birth | Sarah Vowell, American author and journalist | |
December 27th, 1968 (December 27 1968) | Event | Apollo Program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first manned mission to the Moon. | |
December 27th, 1966 (December 27 1966) | Birth | Wendy Coakley-Thompson, American writer | |
December 27th, 1966 (December 27 1966) | Birth | Eva LaRue, American actress | |
December 27th, 1966 (December 27 1966) | Birth | Bill Goldberg, American football player and professional wrestler | |
December 27th, 1966 (December 27 1966) | Birth | Fabian Nunez, American politician | |
December 27th, 1966 (December 27 1966) | Death | Guillermo Stabile, Argentine footballer (born in 1906) | |
December 27th, 1965 (December 27 1965) | Birth | Salman Khan, Indian actor | |
December 27th, 1965 (December 27 1965) | Birth | Chris Mainwaring, Australian rules footballer (died in 2007) | |
December 27th, 1965 (December 27 1965) | Death | Edgar Ende, German painter (born in 1901) | |
December 27th, 1964 (December 27 1964) | Birth | Ian Gomez, American actor | |
December 27th, 1964 (December 27 1964) | Birth | Theresa Randle, American actress | |
December 27th, 1963 (December 27 1963) | Birth | Gaspar Noe, Argentinian-born director | |
December 27th, 1962 (December 27 1962) | Birth | Barbara Crampton, American actress | |
December 27th, 1962 (December 27 1962) | Birth | Mark Few, American basketball coach | |
December 27th, 1962 (December 27 1962) | Birth | Bill Self, American basketball coach | |
December 27th, 1962 (December 27 1962) | Birth | Sherri Steinhauer, American golfer | |
December 27th, 1960 (December 27 1960) | Birth | Maryam d Abo, British actress | |
December 27th, 1960 (December 27 1960) | Birth | Victoria Paige Meyerink, American actress and producer | |
December 27th, 1960 (December 27 1960) | Birth | Donald Nally, American choral conductor | |
December 27th, 1959 (December 27 1959) | Birth | Gerina Dunwich, American author | |
December 27th, 1959 (December 27 1959) | Birth | Andre Tippett, American football player | |
December 27th, 1956 (December 27 1956) | Death | Lambert McKenna, Irish editor and lexicographer. (born in 1870) | |
December 27th, 1955 (December 27 1955) | Birth | Barbara Olson, American political commentator (died in 2001) | |
December 27th, 1955 (December 27 1955) | Birth | Brad Murphey, Australian racing driver | |
December 27th, 1955 (December 27 1955) | Death | Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (born in 1881) | |
December 27th, 1953 (December 27 1953) | Death | Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (born in 1894) | Julian Quotes |
December 27th, 1952 (December 27 1952) | Birth | Karla Bonoff, American singer and songwriter | Bono Quotes |
December 27th, 1952 (December 27 1952) | Birth | Tovah Feldshuh, American actress | |
December 27th, 1952 (December 27 1952) | Birth | Jay Hill, Canadian politician | |
December 27th, 1952 (December 27 1952) | Birth | David Knopfler, British musician (Dire Straits) | |
December 27th, 1952 (December 27 1952) | Death | Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian Roman Catholic priest (born in 1878) | |
December 27th, 1951 (December 27 1951) | Birth | Ernesto Zedillo, President of Mexico | |
December 27th, 1950 (December 27 1950) | Birth | Roberto Bettega, Italian footballer | |
December 27th, 1950 (December 27 1950) | Birth | Terry Bozzio, American drummer (Missing Persons) | |
December 27th, 1950 (December 27 1950) | Death | Max Beckmann, German painter (born in 1884) | |
December 27th, 1949 (December 27 1949) | Event | Indonesian National Revolution: The Netherlands officially recognizes Indonesian independence. | |
December 27th, 1948 (December 27 1948) | Birth | Gerard Depardieu, French actor | |
December 27th, 1947 (December 27 1947) | Birth | Bill Eadie, professional wrestler known as "Ax" of Demolition | |
December 27th, 1947 (December 27 1947) | Birth | Tracy Nelson, American blues singer | |
December 27th, 1947 (December 27 1947) | Birth | Mickey Redmond, National Hockey League player | |
December 27th, 1947 (December 27 1947) | Birth | Janet Perry, American soprano | |
December 27th, 1947 (December 27 1947) | Birth | Willy Polleunis, Belgian athlete | |
December 27th, 1946 (December 27 1946) | Birth | Lenny Kaye, American guitarist | |
December 27th, 1946 (December 27 1946) | Birth | Janet Street-Porter, British journalist, producer and presenter | |
December 27th, 1945 (December 27 1945) | Event | The World Bank was created with the signing of an agreement by 28 nations. | |
December 27th, 1944 (December 27 1944) | Birth | Barry Elliot British actor | |
December 27th, 1944 (December 27 1944) | Birth | Mick Jones, British musician (Foreigner) | |
December 27th, 1943 (December 27 1943) | Birth | Cokie Roberts, American journalist | |
December 27th, 1943 (December 27 1943) | Birth | Joan Manuel Serrat, Spanish musician | |
December 27th, 1943 (December 27 1943) | Birth | Peter Sinfield, British lyricist and producer | |
December 27th, 1942 (December 27 1942) | Event | The Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia is founded. | |
December 27th, 1942 (December 27 1942) | Birth | Byron Browne, baseball player | |
December 27th, 1942 (December 27 1942) | Birth | Charmian Carr, American actress | |
December 27th, 1941 (December 27 1941) | Birth | Michael Pinder, British musician (Moody Blues) | |
December 27th, 1941 (December 27 1941) | Birth | Nolan Richardson, American basketball coach | |
December 27th, 1939 (December 27 1939) | Event | Erzincan, Turkey was hit by an earthquake. | |
December 27th, 1939 (December 27 1939) | Birth | John Amos, American actor | |
December 27th, 1938 (December 27 1938) | Death | Calvin Bridges, American geneticist (born in 1889) | |
December 27th, 1938 (December 27 1938) | Death | Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet (born in 1891) | Osip Mandelstam Quotes |
December 27th, 1934 (December 27 1934) | Birth | Larissa Latynina, Russian gymnast | |
December 27th, 1931 (December 27 1931) | Birth | Scotty Moore, American guitarist | |
December 27th, 1930 (December 27 1930) | Birth | Wilfrid Sheed, English-born American writer | Wilfrid Sheed Quotes |
December 27th, 1927 (December 27 1927) | Birth | Antony Gardner, British politician | |
December 27th, 1927 (December 27 1927) | Birth | Agnes Nixon, American television producer, director, and writer | |
December 27th, 1926 (December 27 1926) | Birth | Jerome Courtland, American actor, director and producer | |
December 27th, 1925 (December 27 1925) | Birth | Michel Piccoli, French actor | |
December 27th, 1925 (December 27 1925) | Death | Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (born in 1895) | |
December 27th, 1923 (December 27 1923) | Event | Namba Daisuke, a Japanese student, tries to assassinate the Prince Regent Hirohito. | |
December 27th, 1923 (December 27 1923) | Death | Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and architect (born in 1832) | |
December 27th, 1920 (December 27 1920) | Birth | Bruce Hobbs, American jockey (died in 2005) | |
December 27th, 1918 (December 27 1918) | Event | The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins. | |
December 27th, 1918 (December 27 1918) | Birth | John Celardo, American comic strip artist | |
December 27th, 1917 (December 27 1917) | Birth | Onni Palaste, Finnish writer | |
December 27th, 1916 (December 27 1916) | Birth | Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot (died in 1953) | |
December 27th, 1915 (December 27 1915) | Birth | Mary Kornman, American actress (died in 1973) | |
December 27th, 1915 (December 27 1915) | Birth | William Masters, American gynecologist (died in 2001) | |
December 27th, 1915 (December 27 1915) | Birth | Gyula Zsengeller, Hungarian footballer (died in 1999) | |
December 27th, 1914 (December 27 1914) | Death | Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and inventor (born in 1863) | |
December 27th, 1910 (December 27 1910) | Birth | Charles Olson, American poet (died in 1970) | |
December 27th, 1907 (December 27 1907) | Birth | Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and writer (died in 1999) | |
December 27th, 1907 (December 27 1907) | Birth | Conrad L. Raiford, Goodwill Ambassador (died in 2002) | |
December 27th, 1907 (December 27 1907) | Birth | Willem van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (died in 1978) | |
December 27th, 1906 (December 27 1906) | Birth | Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, and actor (died in 1972) | |
December 27th, 1901 (December 27 1901) | Birth | Marlene Dietrich, German actress and singer (died in 1992) | |
December 27th, 1901 (December 27 1901) | Birth | Irene Handl, English actress (died in 1987) | |
December 27th, 1900 (December 27 1900) | Birth | Hans Stuck, German race car driver (died in 1978) | |
December 27th, 1900 (December 27 1900) | Death | William George Armstrong, English inventor, industrialist, and engineer (born in 1810) | |
December 27th, 1896 (December 27 1896) | Birth | Carl Zuckmayer, German author and dramatist (died in 1977) | |
December 27th, 1896 (December 27 1896) | Birth | Louis Bromfield, American writer (died in 1956) | |
December 27th, 1896 (December 27 1896) | Birth | Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist (died in 1952) | |
December 27th, 1896 (December 27 1896) | Death | John Brown, British manufacturer (born in 1816) | |
December 27th, 1892 (December 27 1892) | Birth | Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (died in 1917) | |
December 27th, 1888 (December 27 1888) | Birth | Thea von Harbou, German author and actress (died in 1954) | |
December 27th, 1883 (December 27 1883) | Birth | Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American financier, industrialist and philanthropist (died in 1979) | |
December 27th, 1879 (December 27 1879) | Birth | Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (died in 1954) | |
December 27th, 1864 (December 27 1864) | Birth | Rene Georges Hermann-Paul, French artist (died in 1940) | |
December 27th, 1858 (December 27 1858) | Death | Alexandre Pierre Francois Boely, French composer (born in 1785) | |
December 27th, 1845 (December 27 1845) | Event | Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia. | |
December 27th, 1836 (December 27 1836) | Event | The worst ever avalanche in England occurs at Lewes, Sussex, killing 8 people. | |
December 27th, 1836 (December 27 1836) | Death | Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (born in 1793) | |
December 27th, 1834 (December 27 1834) | Death | Charles Lamb, English essayist (born in 1775) | Charles Lamb Quotes |
December 27th, 1832 (December 27 1832) | Birth | Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and patron of art (died in 1897) | |
December 27th, 1831 (December 27 1831) | Event | Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate the theory of evolution. | Charles Darwin Quotes |
December 27th, 1823 (December 27 1823) | Birth | Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada (died in 1896) | |
December 27th, 1822 (December 27 1822) | Birth | Louis Pasteur, French scientist (died in 1895) | Louis Pasteur Quotes |
December 27th, 1814 (December 27 1814) | Event | Destruction of schooner Carolina, the last of Commodore Daniel Patterson s make-shift fleet that fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew Jackson s victory at the Battle of New Orleans. | Andrew Jackson Quotes |
December 27th, 1812 (December 27 1812) | Death | Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Lithuanian rabbi and founder of Chabad Hasidism (born in 1745) | |
December 27th, 1812 (December 27 1812) | Death | Joanna Southcott, an English self-described religious prophetess. | |
December 27th, 1803 (December 27 1803) | Birth | Francois-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier, French Canadian Patriote (died in 1839) | |
December 27th, 1800 (December 27 1800) | Death | Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (born in 1718) | |
December 27th, 1796 (December 27 1796) | Birth | Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (died in 1869) | |
December 27th, 1782 (December 27 1782) | Death | Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish philosopher (born in 1697) | Philo Quotes |
December 27th, 1776 (December 27 1776) | Birth | Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (died in 1811) | |
December 27th, 1773 (December 27 1773) | Birth | George Cayley, English scientist, inventor, and politician (died in 1857) | |
December 27th, 1771 (December 27 1771) | Death | Henri Pitot, French engineer (born in 1695) | |
December 27th, 1761 (December 27 1761) | Birth | Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian military commander (died in 1818) | |
December 27th, 1743 (December 27 1743) | Death | Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (born in 1659) | |
December 27th, 1737 (December 27 1737) | Death | William Bowyer, English printer (born in 1663) | |
December 27th, 1721 (December 27 1721) | Birth | Francois Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (died in 1790) | Philo Quotes |
December 27th, 1717 (December 27 1717) | Birth | Pope Pius VI (died in 1799) | |
December 27th, 1715 (December 27 1715) | Birth | Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (died in 1794) | |
December 27th, 1707 (December 27 1707) | Death | Jean Mabillon, French palaeograopher and diplomat (born in 1632) | |
December 27th, 1703 (December 27 1703) | Event | Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England. | |
December 27th, 1683 (December 27 1683) | Birth | Conyers Middleton, English minister (died in 1750) | |
December 27th, 1657 (December 27 1657) | Event | The Flushing Remonstrance is signed. | |
December 27th, 1654 (December 27 1654) | Birth | Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (died in 1705) | |
December 27th, 1603 (December 27 1603) | Death | Thomas Cartwright, English Puritan clergyman | |
December 27th, 1571 (December 27 1571) | Birth | Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (died in 1630) | |
December 27th, 1548 (December 27 1548) | Death | Francesco Spiera, Italian Protestant jurist (born in 1502) | |
December 27th, 1512 (December 27 1512) | Event | The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regards to native Indians in the New World. | |
December 27th, 1390 (December 27 1390) | Birth | Anne de Mortimer, claimant to the English throne (died in 1411) | |
December 27th, 1381 (December 27 1381) | Death | Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, English politician | |
December 27th, 1076 (December 27 1076) | Death | Prince Svyatoslav II of Kiev (born in 1027) | |
December 27th, 0537 (December 27 0537) | Event | The Hagia Sophia is completed. | |
December 27th, 0418 (December 27 0418) | Death | Zosimus, Greek pope | |