Monday 27th of December 1571

Astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, philosopher and writer on music Johannes Kepler known his laws of planetary motion is born in Keplergasse 2, Weil der Stadt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Monday 27th of December 1717

250th Pope Pius VI is born as Giovanni Angelo Braschi in Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

Friday 27th of December 1822

Chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur is born in 43 Rue Pasteur, Dôle, Jura - Franche-Comte, France.

Saturday 27th of December 1845

Murderer and cannibal Adolph Louis Luetgert aka The Sausage King is born as Adolph Ludwig Lütgert in Gütersloh, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Sunday 27th of December 1846

Iowa is admitted as 29th of the United States of America in Des Moines, Iowa, United States.

Friday 27th of December 1901

Actress and singer Marlene Dietrich is born as Maria Magdalena Von Losch in Leberstrasse 65, Berlin, Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany.

Wednesday 27th of December 1916

43-year-old Anne Collomb is murdered by serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais in l'Ermitage, Allée des Tilleuls et la Roserale, Gambais, Île-de-France, France.

To Collomb, Landru was known as Mr Dupont.

Thursday 27th of December 1923

Engineer and architect Gustave Alexandre Bonickhausen dit Eiffel dies of natural causes at the age of 91 in Rue Rabelais, Paris, VIIIe, Île-de-France, France.

Monday 27th of December 1926

23-year-old Bonnie Pace is raped and strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

Monday 27th of December 1948

Actor Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is born in Châteauroux, Indre, France.

Wednesday 27th of December 1950

Painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann dies of a heart attack at the age of 66 in corner of 69th Street and Central Park West, New York City, New York, United States.

Tuesday 27th of December 1960

Multiple murderer Ricky Lee Green is born in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.

Friday 27th of December 1963

Mass murderer Dennis Wayne Bagwell is born in Denver, Colorado, United States.

Monday 27th of December 1965

Serial killer Jean-Thierry Mathurin is born in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, Guyane, France.

Saturday 27th of December 1975

372 die in Indian Iron and Steel Company coal mine explosion and flooding in Chasnala, Jharkhand, India.

When a roof of coal caved in, 7 million imperial gallons (32.000 m³) of water per minute flooded into the mine.

Tuesday 27th of December 1983

63-year-old Ioannes Paulus II visits his attempted assassin Mehmet Ali Agça in Rebibbia Prison, Via Raffaele Majetti 70, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Tuesday 27th of December 1983

14-year-old Sergey Markov is stabbed and sexually mutilated by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Persianovsky, Rostov Oblast, Russia.

Markov's body was found on 1 January 1984 in the area of ​​the Persianovka Railway Station on the Moscow-Rostov-on-Don line.

Saturday 27th of December 1986

28-year-old Steven Fefferman is stabbed and sexually mutilated by multiple murderer Ricky Green in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.

Wednesday 27th of December 2006

Noise music band Club Moral play their 124th concert as Bum Collar in Bavo&Sofie, Graaf Van Hoornestraat, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Thursday 27th of December 2007

Film director Jerzy Kawalerowicz dies of natural causes at the age of 85 in Warszawa, Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland.

Thursday 27th of December 2007

Benazir Bhutto is shot dead and a suicide bomb is detonated immediately following the shooting at the age of 54 in Liaqat National Bagh, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.

 Twenty three other people were killed by the bombing. Al-Qaeda commander Mustafa Abu al-Yazid claimed responsibility for the assassination.