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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 27th of December 0537 | EVENT | The Hagia Sophia is completed. |
| 27th of December 1512 | EVENT | The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regards to native Indians in the New World. |
| 27th of December 1657 | EVENT | The Flushing Remonstrance is signed. |
| 27th of December 1703 | EVENT | Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England. |
| 27th of December 1814 | EVENT | Destruction of schooner Carolina, the last of Commodore Daniel Patterson's make-shift fleet that fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans. |
| 27th of December 1831 | EVENT | Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate the theory of evolution. |
| 27th of December 1836 | EVENT | The worst ever avalanche in England occurs at Lewes, Sussex, killing 8 people. |
| 27th of December 1845 | EVENT | Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia. |
| 27th of December 1918 | EVENT | The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins. |
| 27th of December 1922 | EVENT | Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho becomes the first purpose built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world. |
| 27th of December 1923 | EVENT | Namba Daisuke, a Japanese student, tries to assassinate the Prince Regent Hirohito. |
| 27th of December 1932 | EVENT | Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City. |
| 27th of December 1939 | EVENT | Erzincan, Turkey is hit by an earthquake, killing 30,000. |
| 27th of December 1942 | EVENT | The Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia is founded. |
| 27th of December 1945 | EVENT | The World Bank is created with the signing of an agreement by 28 nations. |
| 27th of December 1949 | EVENT | Indonesian National Revolution: The Netherlands officially recognizes Indonesian independence. End of the Dutch East Indies |
| 27th of December 1968 | EVENT | Apollo Program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital manned mission to the Moon. |
| 27th of December 1978 | EVENT | Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship. |
| 27th of December 1978 | EVENT | The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the South Pole recorded temperatures of 7.5 ?F (-13.6 ?C), making it the highest temperature to ever be recorded in the South Pole. |
| 27th of December 1979 | EVENT | The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. |
| 27th of December 1985 | EVENT | Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside Rome and Vienna airports. |
| 27th of December 1996 | EVENT | Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul. |
| 27th of December 1997 | EVENT | Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland. |
| 27th of December 2001 | EVENT | The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade relations with the United States. |
| 27th of December 2002 | EVENT | Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya. |
| 27th of December 2002 | EVENT | The company Clonaid announces that it has successfully cloned a human being, although it has never presented any verifiable evidence. |
| 27th of December 2004 | EVENT | Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth. It is the brightest extrasolar event known to have been witnessed on the planet. |
| 27th of December 2007 | EVENT | Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in a shooting incident. |
| 27th of December 2008 | EVENT | Israel launches 3-week operation on Gaza - Operation Cast Lead |
| 27th of December 1390 | BIRTHDAY | Anne de Mortimer, claimant to the English throne (d. 1411) |
| 27th of December 1571 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (d. 1630) |
| 27th of December 1654 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1705) |
| 27th of December 1683 | BIRTHDAY | Conyers Middleton, English minister (d. 1750) |
| 27th of December 1715 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (d. 1794) |
| 27th of December 1717 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Pius VI (d. 1799) |
| 27th of December 1721 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (d. 1790) |
| 27th of December 1761 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian military commander (d. 1818) |
| 27th of December 1773 | BIRTHDAY | George Cayley, English scientist, inventor, and politician (d. 1857) |
| 27th of December 1776 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (d. 1811) |
| 27th of December 1796 | BIRTHDAY | Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (d. 1869) |
| 27th of December 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Francois-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier, French Canadian Patriote (d. 1839) |
| 27th of December 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Pasteur, French scientist (d. 1895) |
| 27th of December 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1917) |
| 27th of December 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and patron of art (d. 1897) |
| 27th of December 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Georges Hermann-Paul, French artist (d. 1940) |
| 27th of December 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (d. 1954) |
| 27th of December 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American financier, industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1979) |
| 27th of December 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Thea von Harbou, German author and actress (d. 1954) |
| 27th of December 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (d. 1917) |
| 27th of December 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist (d. 1952) |
| 27th of December 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Zuckmayer, German author and dramatist (d. 1977) |
| 27th of December 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Bromfield, American writer (d. 1956) |
| 27th of December 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Stuck, German race car driver (d. 1978) |
| 27th of December 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Marlene Dietrich, German actress and singer (d. 1992) |
| 27th of December 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Irene Handl, English actress (d. 1987) |
| 27th of December 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, and actor (d. 1972) |
| 27th of December 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and writer (d. 1999) |
| 27th of December 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Willem van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (d. 1978) |
| 27th of December 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Conrad L. Raiford, Goodwill Ambassador (d. 2002) |
| 27th of December 1909 | BIRTHDAY | James Riddell, British champion skier and author (d. 2000) |
| 27th of December 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Olson, American poet (d. 1970) |
| 27th of December 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Russell, English-born Canadian singer and comedian (d. 2006) |
| 27th of December 1915 | BIRTHDAY | William Masters, American gynecologist (d. 2001) |
| 27th of December 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Kornman, American actress (d. 1973) |
| 27th of December 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Gyula Zsengeller, Hungarian footballer (d. 1999) |
| 27th of December 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot (d. 1953) |
| 27th of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Onni Palaste, Finnish writer (d. 2009) |
| 27th of December 1918 | BIRTHDAY | John Celardo, American comic strip artist |
| 27th of December 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Sweeney, American general (d. 2004) |
| 27th of December 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Hobbs, American jockey (d. 2005) |
| 27th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | James A. McClure, American politician (d. 2011) |
| 27th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Piccoli, French actor |
| 27th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Bambier, French politician (d. 1994) |
| 27th of December 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome Courtland, American actor, director and producer |
| 27th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Antony Gardner, British politician |
| 27th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Agnes Nixon, American television producer, director, and writer |
| 27th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Audrey Wagner, American baseball player [AAGPBL] (d. 1984) |
| 27th of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Wilfrid Sheed, English-born American writer |
| 27th of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Marshall Sahlins, American Anthropologist |
| 27th of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Scotty Moore, American guitarist |
| 27th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Larissa Latynina, Russian gymnast |
| 27th of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | John Amos, American actor |
| 27th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Pinder, British musician (Moody Blues) |
| 27th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Nolan Richardson, American basketball coach |
| 27th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Charmian Carr, American actress |
| 27th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Byron Browne, baseball player |
| 27th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Menino, American politician |
| 27th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Rothstein, American basketball coach |
| 27th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Manuel Serrat, Spanish musician |
| 27th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Sinfield, British lyricist and producer |
| 27th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Cokie Roberts, American journalist |
| 27th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Mick Jones, British musician (Foreigner) |
| 27th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Lenny Kaye, American guitarist |
| 27th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Janet Street-Porter, British journalist, producer and presenter |
| 27th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Tracy Nelson, American blues singer |
| 27th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Janet Perry, American soprano |
| 27th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Eadie, professional wrestler known as "Ax" of Demolition |
| 27th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Willy Polleunis, Belgian athlete |
| 27th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Mickey Redmond, Canadian hockey player |
| 27th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Depardieu, French actor |
| 27th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Bettega, Italian footballer |
| 27th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Stone, Canadian voice actor |
| 27th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Bozzio, American drummer (Missing Persons) |
| 27th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Morgan Chu, lawyer and intellectual property expert |
| 27th of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Ernesto Zedillo, President of Mexico |
| 27th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Karla Bonoff, American singer and songwriter |
| 27th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Hill, Canadian politician |
| 27th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Tovah Feldshuh, American actress |
| 27th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | David Knopfler, British musician (Dire Straits) |
| 27th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Murphey, Australian racing driver |
| 27th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Olson, American political commentator (d. 2001) |
| 27th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Gaskill, American musician (King's X) |
| 27th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Mortensen, American author |
| 27th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Crampton, American actress |
| 27th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Jones, American golfer |
| 27th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Norbert Schmitz, German footballer (d. 1998) |
| 27th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Gerina Dunwich, American author |
| 27th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Tippett, American football player |
| 27th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Maryam d'Abo, British actress |
| 27th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Victoria Paige Meyerink, American actress and producer |
| 27th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Nally, American choral conductor |
| 27th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Few, American basketball coach |
| 27th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Sherri Steinhauer, American golfer |
| 27th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Self, American basketball coach |
| 27th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Gaspar Noe, Argentinian-born director |
| 27th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Theresa Randle, American actress |
| 27th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Gomez, American actor |
| 27th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Mainwaring, Australian rules footballer (d. 2007) |
| 27th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Salman Khan, Indian actor |
| 27th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Goldberg, American football player and professional wrestler |
| 27th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Eva LaRue, American actress |
| 27th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Fabian Nunez, American politician |
| 27th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Wendy Coakley-Thompson, American writer |
| 27th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Christophe Boullion, French race car driver |
| 27th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Vowell, American author and journalist |
| 27th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Brendon Cook, Australian racing driver |
| 27th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Chyna, American professional wrestler |
| 27th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Lorenzo Neal, American football player |
| 27th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Hawes, Paranormal investigator |
| 27th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Duncan Ferguson, Scottish footballer |
| 27th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Smolinski, American ice hockey player |
| 27th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Wilson Brown, American actor |
| 27th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Charvis, Welsh rugby union player |
| 27th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Ollie, American basketball player |
| 27th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Slocum, American musician (Sixpence None the Richer) |
| 27th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Wilson Cruz, Puerto Rican actor |
| 27th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Dee Ferris, British painter |
| 27th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Kristoffer Zegers, Dutch composer |
| 27th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Deepak Kumar, Indian philosopher |
| 27th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Masi Oka, Japanese-American actor |
| 27th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Fumiko Orikasa, Japanese seiyu and singer |
| 27th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Pandolfo, American ice hockey player |
| 27th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Edgar Ponce, Mexican actor and dancer (d. 2005) |
| 27th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Heather O'Rourke, American actress (d. 1988) |
| 27th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Stanford, American actor |
| 27th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Pisani, Canadian/Italian ice hockey player |
| 27th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jacqueline Pillon, Canadian actress |
| 27th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolaos Georgeas, Greek footballer |
| 27th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Deuce McAllister, American football player |
| 27th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Carson Palmer, American football player |
| 27th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | David Dunn, English footballer |
| 27th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Claudio Castagnoli, Swiss wrestler |
| 27th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Berrian, American football player |
| 27th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Cas Haley, American singer and guitarist |
| 27th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Dahntay Jones, American basketball player |
| 27th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Javine, British singer |
| 27th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | David Aardsma, American baseball player |
| 27th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Emilie de Ravin, Australian actress |
| 27th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Sharp, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 27th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | James Mead, American guitarist (Kutless) |
| 27th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Terji Skibenaes, Faroese guitarist, (Tyr) |
| 27th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Boric, New Zealand All Black rugby player |
| 27th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Cole Hamels, American baseball player |
| 27th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Pleasure P, American R&B Singer (Pretty Ricky) |
| 27th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Gilles Simon, French tennis player |
| 27th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome d'Ambrosio, Belgian racing driver |
| 27th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Logan Bailly, Belgian football goalkeeper |
| 27th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Stastny, Canadian-American ice hockey player |
| 27th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Taecyeon, South Korean actor & singer (2PM) |
| 27th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Zavon Hines, English football player |
| 27th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Porcello, American baseball player |
| 27th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Hayley Williams, American singer (Paramore) |
| 27th of December 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Chloe Bridges, American actress |
| 27th of December 0418 | DEATH | Pope Zosimus |
| 27th of December 1076 | DEATH | Prince Svyatoslav II of Kiev (Born 1027) |
| 27th of December 1381 | DEATH | Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, English politician |
| 27th of December 1548 | DEATH | Francesco Spiera, Italian Protestant jurist (Born 1502) |
| 27th of December 1603 | DEATH | Thomas Cartwright, English Puritan clergyman |
| 27th of December 1704 | DEATH | Hans Albrecht von Barfus, Brandenburg and Prussian field marshal and prime minister (Born 1635) |
| 27th of December 1707 | DEATH | Jean Mabillon, French palaeograopher and diplomat (Born 1632) |
| 27th of December 1737 | DEATH | William Bowyer, English printer (Born 1663) |
| 27th of December 1743 | DEATH | Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (Born 1659) |
| 27th of December 1771 | DEATH | Henri Pitot, French engineer (Born 1695) |
| 27th of December 1782 | DEATH | Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish philosopher (Born 1697) |
| 27th of December 1800 | DEATH | Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (Born 1718) |
| 27th of December 1812 | DEATH | Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Lithuanian rabbi and founder of Chabad Hasidism (Born 1745) |
| 27th of December 1812 | DEATH | Joanna Southcott, an English self-described religious prophetess (Born 1750) |
| 27th of December 1834 | DEATH | Charles Lamb, English essayist (Born 1775) |
| 27th of December 1836 | DEATH | Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (Born 1793) |
| 27th of December 1858 | DEATH | Alexandre Pierre Francois Boely, French composer (Born 1785) |
| 27th of December 1896 | DEATH | John Brown, British manufacturer (Born 1816) |
| 27th of December 1900 | DEATH | William George Armstrong, English inventor, industrialist, and engineer (Born 1810) |
| 27th of December 1914 | DEATH | Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and inventor (Born 1863) |
| 27th of December 1923 | DEATH | Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and architect (Born 1832) |
| 27th of December 1925 | DEATH | Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (Born 1895) |
| 27th of December 1938 | DEATH | Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet (Born 1891) |
| 27th of December 1938 | DEATH | Calvin Bridges, American geneticist (Born 1889) |
| 27th of December 1950 | DEATH | Max Beckmann, German painter (Born 1884) |
| 27th of December 1952 | DEATH | Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian Roman Catholic priest (Born 1878) |
| 27th of December 1953 | DEATH | Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (Born 1894) |
| 27th of December 1955 | DEATH | Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English naval officer (Born 1881) |
| 27th of December 1956 | DEATH | Lambert McKenna, Irish editor and lexicographer. (Born 1870) |
| 27th of December 1965 | DEATH | Edgar Ende, German painter (Born 1901) |
| 27th of December 1966 | DEATH | Guillermo Stabile, Argentine footballer (Born 1905) |
| 27th of December 1972 | DEATH | Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, recipient of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1897) |
| 27th of December 1974 | DEATH | Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (Born 1898) |
| 27th of December 1978 | DEATH | Bob Luman, American country and rockabilly singer (Born 1937) |
| 27th of December 1978 | DEATH | Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria (Born 1932) |
| 27th of December 1978 | DEATH | Chris Bell American musician (Born 1951) |
| 27th of December 1979 | DEATH | Hafizullah Amin, second President of Afghanistan (Born 1929) |
| 27th of December 1981 | DEATH | Hoagy Carmichael, American composer and singer (Born 1899) |
| 27th of December 1982 | DEATH | John Swigert, American astronaut (Born 1931) |
| 27th of December 1987 | DEATH | Geoffrey D Lloyd, Chairman of the guild of British Newspaper editors (Born 1933) |
| 27th of December 1988 | DEATH | Hal Ashby, American film director (Born 1929) |
| 27th of December 1992 | DEATH | Kay Boyle, American writer (Born 1902) |
| 27th of December 1993 | DEATH | Andre Pilette, Belgian racing driver (Born 1918) |
| 27th of December 1994 | DEATH | Fanny Cradock, English food writer and broadcaster (Born 1909) |
| 27th of December 1994 | DEATH | J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (Born 1902) |
| 27th of December 1995 | DEATH | Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist (Born 1909) |
| 27th of December 1995 | DEATH | Genrikh Gasparyan, Armenian chess player and composer (Born 1910) |
| 27th of December 1997 | DEATH | Brendan Gill, American columnist and humorist (Born 1914) |
| 27th of December 1997 | DEATH | Billy Wright, Irish Protestant paramilitary leader (Born 1960) |
| 27th of December 2002 | DEATH | George Roy Hill, American film director (Born 1922) |
| 27th of December 2003 | DEATH | Ivan Calderon, Puerto Rican baseball player (Born 1962) |
| 27th of December 2003 | DEATH | Alan Bates, English actor (Born 1934) |
| 27th of December 2003 | DEATH | Vestal Goodman, American Gospel singer (Born 1929) |
| 27th of December 2004 | DEATH | Hank Garland, American musician (Born 1930) |
| 27th of December 2005 | DEATH | William Doody, Canadian politician (Born 1931) |
| 27th of December 2007 | DEATH | Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (assassinated) (Born 1953) |
| 27th of December 2007 | DEATH | Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Polish film director (Born 1922) |
| 27th of December 2007 | DEATH | Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (Born 1920) |
| 27th of December 2008 | DEATH | Delaney Bramlett, American musician (Born 1939) |