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December 27

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Gaza War (2008–2009)

17 years ago

Born this day

1822

Louis Pasteur

Died aged 72

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566th

John I Albert

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Famous births28

1459 · 566 yrs

John I Albert

John I Albert (Polish: Jan I Olbracht; 27 December 1459 – 17 June 1501) was King of Poland and (disputed) Supreme Duke of Lithuania from 1492 to his death, as well as Duke of Głogów from 1491 to 1498. He was the fourth Polish sovereign from the Jagiellonian dynasty and the son of Casimir IV and Elizabeth of Austria.

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RoyaltyDied aged 41

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1571 · 454 yrs

Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler (27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630) was a German polymath who was an astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and music theorist.

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ScienceDied aged 58

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1654 · 371 yrs

Jacob Bernoulli

Jacob Bernoulli (6 January 1655 – 16 August 1705) was a Swiss mathematician. He sided with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz during the Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy and was an early proponent of Leibnizian calculus, to which he made numerous contributions.

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ScienceDied aged 50

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1797 · 228 yrs

Mirza Ghalib

Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan (27 December 1797 – 15 February 1869), commonly known as Mirza Ghalib, was an Indian poet and letter writer of the Mughal Empire.

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LiteratureDied aged 71

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1822 · 203 yrs

Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur (French:; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was named after him.

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ScienceDied aged 72

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1901 · 124 yrs

Marlene Dietrich

Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (German:; 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned nearly seven decades. In 1920s Berlin, she performed on the stage and in silent films.

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1925 · 100 yrs

Michel Piccoli

Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli (27 December 1925 – 12 May 2020) was a French actor, producer and film director with a career spanning 70 years.

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1931 · 94 yrs

John Charles

William John Charles (27 December 1931 – 21 February 2004) was a Welsh footballer who played at centre-forward and centre-back. Best known for his time at Leeds United and Juventus, he was rated by many as the greatest all-round footballer ever to come from Great Britain and one of the greatest footballers ever.

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1934 · 91 yrs

Larisa Latynina

Larisa Semyonovna Latynina (Russian: Лариса Семёновна Латынина, née Diriy, Дирий; born 27 December 1934) is a Soviet former artistic gymnast. Between 1956 and 1964 she won 14 individual Olympic medals and four team medals for the Soviet Union.

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SportsAge 91

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1948 · 77 yrs

Gérard Depardieu

Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (UK:, US:, French:; born 27 December 1948) is a French actor. Considered an icon of French cinema in the same way as Jean Gabin and Alain Delon, he has appeared in over 200 films since 1967, mostly in leading roles.

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FilmAge 77

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1961 · 64 yrs

Guido Westerwelle

Guido Westerwelle (German:; 27 December 1961 – 18 March 2016) was a German politician who served as foreign minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vice-Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011, being the first openly gay person to hold any of these positions.

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1963 · 62 yrs

Gaspar Noé

Gaspar Julio Noé Murphy (born 27 December 1963), known professionally as Gaspar Noé, is an Argentine filmmaker and screenwriter, who lives and works primarily in France. He is one of the primary exponents of New French Extremity, associated with its graphic nature of unsimulated sex, drugs, epilepsy, and violence.

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FilmAge 62

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Famous deaths17

1585 · 440 yrs

Pierre de Ronsard

Pierre de Ronsard (French pronunciation:; 11 September 1524 – 27 December 1585) was a French poet. His works include Les Amours de Cassandre (1552), Les Hymnes (1555-1556), Les Discours (1562-1563), La Franciade (1572), and Sonnets pour Hélène (1578).

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LiteratureDied aged 61

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1805 · 220 yrs

Isabelle de Charrière

Isabelle de Charrière (French:; née Isabella Agneta Elisabeth van Tuyll van Serooskerken; 20 October 1740 – 27 December 1805), also known as Madame de Charrière and in the Netherlands as Belle van Zuylen (Dutch:), was a Dutch and Swiss writer of the Enlightenment who lived the latter half of her life in Colombier,…

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LiteratureDied aged 65

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1834 · 191 yrs

Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).

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LiteratureDied aged 59

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1859 · 166 yrs

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian, poet and Whig politician who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848.

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ScholarshipDied aged 59

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1877 · 148 yrs

Nikolay Nekrasov

Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov (Russian: Никола́й Алексе́евич Некра́сов, IPA:, 10 December 1821 – 8 January 1878) was a Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher, whose deeply compassionate poems about the Russian peasantry made him a hero of liberal and radical circles in the Russian intelligentsia of the…

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LiteratureDied aged 56

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1923 · 102 yrs

Gustave Eiffel

Alexandre Gustave Eiffel ( EYE-fəl; French:; né Bonickhausen dit Eiffel; 15 December 1832 – 27 December 1923) was a French civil engineer. A graduate of École Centrale des Arts et Métiers, he made his name with various bridges for the French railway network, most famously the Garabit Viaduct.

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TechnologyDied aged 91

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1938 · 87 yrs

Osip Mandelstam

Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (Russian: Осип Эмильевич Мандельштам, IPA:; 14 January 1891 – 27 December 1938) was a Russian and Soviet poet. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school.

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1950 · 75 yrs

Max Beckmann

Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 27, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement.

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1972 · 53 yrs

Lester B. Pearson

Lester Bowles Pearson (23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972) was a Canadian politician, diplomat, and scholar who served as the 14th prime minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968. He also served as leader of the Liberal Party from 1958 to 1968 and as leader of the Official Opposition from 1958 to 1963.

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1978 · 47 yrs

Houari Boumédiène

Houari Boumédiène (born Mohammed ben Brahim Boukharouba; 23 August 1932 – 27 December 1978) was an Algerian military officer, revolutionary, and politician who was the second head of state of independent Algeria from 1965 until his death in 1978.

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1979 · 46 yrs

Hafizullah Amin

Hafizullah Amin (Pashto: حفيظ الله امين;‎ 1 August 1929 – 27 December 1979) was an Afghan revolutionary and communist head of state, who served in that position for a little over three months, from September 1979 until his assassination.

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2007 · 18 yrs

Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani stateswoman who twice served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996. She was the first woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country.

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Events5

1918 · 107 yrs

Greater Poland uprising

The Greater Poland uprising of 1918–1919, or Wielkopolska uprising of 1918–1919 (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1918–1919 roku; German: Großpolnischer Aufstand) or Poznań War was a military insurrection of Poles in the Greater Poland region (German: Grand Duchy of Posen or Provinz Posen) against German rule.

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War

2007 · 18 yrs

Assassination of Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on 27 December 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan and then-leader of the opposition Pakistan People's Party, had been campaigning ahead of elections scheduled for January 2008.

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Tragedy

2008 · 17 yrs

Gaza War (2008–2009)

The Gaza War, also known as the First Gaza War, Operation Cast Lead, or the Gaza Massacre, and referred to as the Battle of al-Furqan by Hamas, was a three-week armed conflict between Gaza Strip Palestinian paramilitary groups and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) that began on 27 December 2008 and ended on 18 January…

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War

2019 · 6 yrs

COVID-19 pandemic in France

The COVID-19 pandemic in France has resulted in 39,061,500 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 168,207 deaths. The virus was confirmed to have reached France on 24 January 2020, when the first COVID-19 case in both Europe and France was identified in Bordeaux.

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Disaster

2019 · 6 yrs

Bek Air Flight 2100

Bek Air Flight 2100 was a domestic passenger flight from Almaty to Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, operated by a Fokker 100 that crashed on 27 December 2019 while taking off from Almaty International Airport. Of the 98 people on board (93 passengers and 5 crew), 13 died in the crash and 66 were injured.

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