Anniversaries 27 December
Birth
![Johannes Kepler photo]()
German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer
1571–1630
![Charles Hodge photo]()
American Presbyterian theologian
1797–1878
![Ghalib photo]()
Urdu-Persian poet
1797–1869
![Louis Pasteur photo]()
French chemist and microbiologist
1822–1895
![Auguste Vaillant photo]()
French anarchist
1861–1894
![Mina Loy photo]()
Futurist poet and actress
1882–1966
![Edward Andrade photo]()
English physicist
1887–1971
![Carl Zuckmayer photo]()
German writer and playwright
1896–1977
![Louis Bromfield photo]()
American author and conservationist
1896–1956
![Marlene Dietrich photo]()
German-American actress and singer
1901–1992
![Oscar Levant photo]()
American comedian, composer, pianist and actor
1906–1972
![Charles Olson photo]()
American writer
1910–1970
![Elizabeth Smart photo]()
Canadian poet and novelist
1913–1986
![Richard Freed photo]()
music critic, editor, and broadcaster
1928
![Shulamit Aloni photo]()
Israeli politician
1928–2014
![Wilfrid Sheed photo]()
English-American novelist and essayist
1930–2011
![Aidan Chambers photo]()
British children's writer
1934
![Noel Ignatiev photo]()
American historian
1940–2019
![Jean Zerbo photo]()
Malian Roman Catholic cardinal
1943
![Cokie Roberts photo]()
American journalist
1943–2019
![Joe Armstrong photo]()
British computer scientist
1950–2019
![Greg Mortenson photo]()
American mountaineer and humanitarian
1957
![Daniel Levitin photo]()
American psychologist
1957
![Jeff Fortenberry photo]()
U.S. Representative from Nebraska
1960
![Yazdan Yazdanpanah photo]()
French-Iranian infectiologist
1965
![Yazdan Yazdanpanah photo]()
French-Iranian infectiologist
1965
![Sarah Vowell photo]()
American author, journalist, essayist and social commentator
1969
![Joshua Casteel photo]()
US Army soldier, lecturer, and writer
1979–2012
![Gilles Simon photo]()
French tennis player
1984
![Hayley Williams photo]()
American singer-songwriter and musician
1988
![Timothée Chalamet photo]()
French-American Actor (1995)
1995
Death
![Hugh Blair photo]()
British philosopher
1718–1800
![Shneur Zalman of Liadi photo]()
Orthodox Rabbi, and the founder and first Rebbe of Chabad
1745–1812
![Charles Lamb photo]()
English essayist
1775–1834
![Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma photo]()
Maharajah of Travencore
1813–1846
![Daniel McCallum photo]()
Canadian engineer and early organizational theorist
1815–1878
![Thomas Rhys Davids photo]()
British scholar
1843–1922
![Alfred Perceval Graves photo]()
Anglo-Irish poet, songwriter, and school inspector
1846–1931
![Max Beckmann photo]()
German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer
1884–1950
![Osip Mandelstam photo]()
Russian poet and essayist
1891–1938
![Dumas Malone photo]()
American historian and writer
1892–1986
![Lester B. Pearson photo]()
14th Prime Minister of Canada
1897–1972
![Hoagy Carmichael photo]()
American composer, pianist, singer, actor and bandleader
1899–1981
![Brendan Gill photo]()
American journalist
1914–1997
![Walter Keane photo]()
American plagiarist
1915–2000
![Serge Raynaud de la Ferriere photo]()
French astrologer
1916–1962
![Ellsworth Kelly photo]()
American painter, sculptor, and printmaker
1923–2015
![Michael Dummett photo]()
British academic and philosopher
1925–2011
![Helen Frankenthaler photo]()
American artist
1928–2011
![Hafizullah Amin photo]()
politician, former Afghan head of state (1979)
1929–1979
![Norman Schwarzkopf photo]()
United States Army general
1934–2012
![Don Imus photo]()
Radio personality
1940–2019
![Tomaž Šalamun photo]()
Slovene poet, born in 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia
1941–2014
![Benazir Bhutto photo]()
11th Prime Minister of Pakistan
1953–2007
![Carrie Fisher photo]()
American actress, screenwriter and novelist
1956–2016
