Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 27

Births

• 1571 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (d. 1630)
• 1654 - Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1705)
• 1822 - Louis Pasteur, French scientist (d. 1895) (pictured)
• 1901 - Marlene Dietrich, German actress and singer (d. 1992)
• 1948 - Gérard Depardieu, French actor

Deaths

• 1743 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (b. 1659)
• 1836 - Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (b. 1793)
• 1923 - Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and architect (b. 1832)
• 1981 - Hoagy Carmichael, American composer and singer (b. 1899)