December 27 Dateline

Birthdays

 

1571 - Johannes Kepler, German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. He is a key figure in the 17th-century scientific revolution, best known for his laws of planetary motion, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy. (Understanding Kepler's Three Laws and Orbits, uploaded by dcaulf. Accessed Dec 27, 2014)

1822 - Louis Pasteur, French bacteriologist, biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and prevention of diseases. His discoveries have saved many lives. (Brief biography of L. Pasteur, uploaded by Famous People Bio. Accessed Dec 27, 2018.)

1901 - Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich, German-American actress and singer. Throughout her long career, which spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s, she maintained popularity by continually reinventing herself. In 1920s Berlin, Dietrich acted on the stage and in silent films.

1906 - Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, and entertainer (Levant performing George Gershwin's Concerto in F, from the famous classic movie "An American in Paris" starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron. Uploaded by L.Q. Baltiysky. Accessed Dec 27, 2018.)

1911 -  Anna Russell (Claudia Russell-Brown), English–Canadian singer and comedian. She gave many concerts in which she sang and played comic musical sketches on the piano.  Among her best-known works are her concert performances and famous recordings of The Ring of the Nibelungs (An Analysis) – a humorous 22-minute synopsis of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen – and (on the same album) her parody How to Write Your Own Gilbert and Sullivan Opera. I'm sharing my favourite: Anna Russell's 1953 sketch of Wagner's Ring Cycle: The Ring of the Nibelungs (Der Ring des Nibeungen). Uploaded by dwslive. Accessed December 27, 2013.)

1942 - Charmian Carr ( (born Charmian Anne Farnon), American actress and singer, best known as Liesl, eldest Von Trapp daughter in film version of The Sound of Music. Carr worked with Van Johnson on a pilot for a television program, Take Her, She's Mine. She then appeared in Evening Primrose, a one-hour musical written by Stephen Sondheim, which aired on ABC Stage 67 in 1966. The following year, she married a dentist, Jay Brent, and left show business; they divorced in 1991. She owned an interior design firm, Charmian Carr Designs, in Encino, California, and wrote two books, Forever Liesl and Letters to Liesl. She reunited with many of her co-stars from The Sound of Music on The Oprah Winfrey Show in October 2010 to celebrate the film's 45th anniversary. In 2014, Carr recorded "Edelweiss" with the great-grandchildren of the von Trapps on the album Dream a Little Dream by the von Trapps and Pink Martini.

 
1948 - Gerard Depardieu, CQ (Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu), French actor. He has received acclaim for his performances in The Last Metro (1980), for which he won the César Award for Best Actor, in Police, for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, Jean de Florette, and Cyrano de Bergerac, winning the Cannes Film Festival for Best Actor, his second César Award for Best Actor, and his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He co-starred in Peter Weir's comedy Green Card, winning a Golden Globe Award and later acted in many big budget Hollywood movies. He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur and Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite. He was granted citizenship of Russia in January 2013 (officially adopted name in Russian: Жерар Депардьё, romanized: Zherar Depardyo), and became a cultural ambassador of Montenegro during the same month. 

 
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More birthdays and historical events, December 27 - On This Day

 

Historical Events

1831 - Naturalist Charles Darwin sets sail from Plymouth, England in HMS Beagle on his journey to the Galapagos Islands, bound for South America, which becomes a five-year voyage. His discoveries there will inform and influence his theory of evolution.

1904 - James M. Barrie's Peter Pan opens at the Duke of York's Theatre, London.

1934 - The government in Tehran declares that Persia will be renamed Iran. 

1945 - The World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) come into formal existence.

1949 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands signs a treaty ending Dutch colonial rule of Indonesia.

1985 - American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered at a gorilla research station in Rwanda.



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2. Britannica. www.britannica.com
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5. Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History, New 3rd Revised Ed. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
6. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org


 

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