On this day: 27 December
Events, births and deaths on 27 December. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Gary Graffman
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Carrie Fisher
- Deaths · Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
100 years ago1926
- Births · Jerome Courtland
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1076 · Deaths · Sviatoslav II of Kiev
- 1087 · Deaths · Bertha of Savoy
Events · 21
- 537(Julian date)Hagia Sophia — mosque, museum, and former church in Istanbul, Turkey
- 1512(Julian date)Laws of Burgos — first codified set of laws governing Spaniards in the Americas
- 1703Methuen Treaty — 1703 Anglo-Portuguese treaty
- 1831Second voyage of HMS Beagle — exploration associated with the theory of evolution (1831-1836)
- 1918Greater Poland uprising — 1918-1919 military insurrection
- 1923Toranomon Incident — 1923 assassination attempt on Emperor Hirohito
- 1945International Monetary Fund — international financial institution
- 1949Indonesia — island country in Southeast Asia and Oceania
- 1960Income Doubling Plan — 1960 Japanese economic plan
- 1979Tajbeg Palace assault — 1979 Soviet assassination of Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin
- 1985Rome and Vienna airport attacks — 1985 terror attacks by Palestinian nationalists
- 1991Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 751 — aviation accident
- 20022002 Grozny truck bombing — 2002 incident in Grozny, Chechnya
- 2007assassination of Benazir Bhutto — attack on 27 December 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
- 20072007–08 Kenyan crisis — Inter-ethnic violence after the disputed 2007 presidential election
- 20072007 Kenyan general election — election
- 2008Gaza War (2008–2009) — December 2008–January 2009 armed conflict in the Gaza Strip
- 2009Ashura protests — protest
- 2019Bek Air Flight 2100 — Kazakhstani domestic passenger flight crash
- 2020Tuen Mun–Chek Lap Kok Link — Hong Kong road infrastructure project
- 2024Impeachment of Han Duck-soo — 2024 South Korean presidential impeachment
Births · 60
- 1350(Julian date)John I of Aragon — King of Aragon
- 1459John I Albert — King of Poland
- 1571(Julian date)Johannes Kepler — German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
- 1619Prince Rupert of the Rhine — English-German aristocrat, army officer, admiral, scientist, and colonial administrator (1619–1682)
- 1654Jacob Bernoulli — Swiss mathematician (1655-1705)
- 1773George Cayley — British aeronautics engineer (1773-1857)
- 1797Mirza Ghalib — Indian poet (1797-1869)
- 1822Louis Pasteur — French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
- 1823Mackenzie Bowell — 5th Prime Minister of Canada (1823-1917)
- 1879Sydney Greenstreet — British-American actor (1879-1954)
- 1888Thea von Harbou — German screenwriter (1888–1954)
- 1896
- 1896Louis Bromfield — American author and conservationist (1896-1956)
- 1898Inejirō Asanuma — Japanese politician (1898–1980)
- 1901Marlene Dietrich — German and American actress and singer (1901–1992)
- 1907Sebastian Haffner — German journalist and author (1907–1999)
- 1915Gyula Zsengellér — Hungarian footballer (1915-1999)
- 1924Jean Bartik — American ENIAC computer programmer (1924–2011)
- 1925Michel Piccoli — French actor (1925–2020)
- 1930Marshall Sahlins — American anthropologist (1930-2021)
- 1931Scotty Moore — American guitarist (1931–2016)
- 1934Larisa Latynina — Soviet-Russian artistic gymnast and ballet dancer (born 1934)
- 1939John Amos — American actor (1939–2024)
- 1943Joan Manuel Serrat — Spanish musician
- 1948Gérard Depardieu — French actor (born 1948)
Deaths · 60
- 683(Julian date)Emperor Gaozong of Tang — Emperor of the Tang Dynasty (628-683) (r. 649-683)
- 1076Sviatoslav II of Kiev — grand prince of Kiev (1027–1076)
- 1087(Julian date)Bertha of Savoy — Holy Roman Empress from 1084 to 1087
- 1543(Julian date)George of Brandenburg-Ansbach — Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1484-1543)
- 1663Christine of France — Duchess of Savoy (1606-1663)
- 1683Maria Francisca of Savoy — Queen of Portugal
- 1707Jean Mabillon — French Benedictine monk, medievist, paleographer, diplomatics and theologian (1632-1707)
- 1771Henri Pitot — French hydraulic engineer
- 1782Henry Home, Lord Kames — Scottish philosopher, judge and agricultural improver (1696–1782)
- 1800Hugh Blair — British philosopher
- 1834Charles Lamb — British essayist, poet, antiquarian (1775–1834)
- 1836Stephen F. Austin — American empresario, founder of Texas, namesake of Austin, Texas (1793-1836)
- 1873Edward Blyth — English zoologist and pharmacist (1810–1873)
- 1895Eivind Astrup — Norwegian explorer and writer (1871-1895)
- 1900William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong — English inventor, scientist, engineer, industrialist (1810-1900)
- 1914Charles Martin Hall — American chemist (1863-1914)
- 1923Gustave Eiffel — French chemical engineer and architect (1832–1923)
- 1936Mehmet Âkif Ersoy — Turkish poet and writer (1873–1936)
- 1938Osip Mandelstam — Russian poet and essayist (1891-1938)
- 1938Zona Gale — American author and playwright (1874-1938)
- 1950Max Beckmann — German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer (1884–1950)
- 1953Julian Tuwim — Polish poet (1894–1953)
- 1953Şükrü Saracoğlu — 5th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey (1887–1953)
- 1965Edgar Ende — German painter (1901-1965)
- 1972Lester B. Pearson — 14th Prime Minister of Canada, from 1963 to 1968 (1897–1972)
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