About the day » Sunday April 27, 1879Calender converter

• Adriaantje Spoelstra, Beetgum († 1880)
• Ebing, Zwartebroek
• Anna Maria de Zeeuw, Naaldwijk, Nederland († 1879)
• Anna Maria Geertruida Stienenbos, Noord Eschmarke (Lonneker) († 1928)
• Aagje Berghouwe, Zaandam
• Aldegonda Louisa Buurlage, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Jitske Koksma, Rottum
• Aafke Medema, Onderdendam, Bedum,, Groningen, Nederland († 1962)
• Albert Kuipers, Meppen, gem. Zweeloo, Nederland
• Albert Pardoe Hockey, Newport, Wales († 1969)

• Albert Bobbink, Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Ann Adamson (57), Madison, Indiana, United States
• Antonia Russon, Druten
• Adriana de Dreu (0), Kapelle
• Antonius Schreurs (75), Bergen op Zoom
• Abraham ten Hove (32), Hengelo
• Anje Post (0), Bedum
• Geertje Huisjes (0), Kerkenveld
• Antje Antonies BreeTveld (50), Rotterdam
• Albert Albart Bobbink (78), Zutphen

• 1866 » Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player († 1916)
• 1875 » Frederick Fane, Irish-born, English cricketer († 1960)
• 1880 » Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor († 1958)
• 1882 » Jessie Redmon Fauset, American author and poet († 1961)
• 1887 » Warren Wood, American golfer († 1926)
• 1888 » Florence La Badie, Canadian actress († 1917)
• 1891 » Sergei Prokofiev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor († 1953)
• 1893 » Allen Sothoron, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1939)
• 1893 » Draža Mihailović, Serbian general († 1946)
• 1894 » George Petty, American painter and illustrator († 1975)

• 1873 » William Macready, English actor and manager (b. 1793)
• 1882 » Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher (b. 1803)
• 1893 » John Ballance, Irish-born New Zealand journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1839)
• 1896 » Henry Parkes, English-Australian businessman and politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1815)
• 1915 » Alexander Scriabin, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1872)
• 1915 » John Labatt, Canadian businessman (b. 1838)
• 1932 » Hart Crane, American poet (b. 1899)
• 1936 » Karl Pearson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1857)
• 1937 » Antonio Gramsci, Italian sociologist, linguist, and politician (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Edmund Husserl, Czech mathematician and philosopher (b. 1859)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Hendrikus
15. Gerardus
16. Wilhelmus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Neeltje
13. Jacoba
14. Trijntje
15. Antje
16. Petronella

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• February 14 » The War of the Pacific breaks out when the Chilean Army occupies the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
• March 11 » Shō Tai formally abdicated his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom.
• April 23 » Fire burns down the second main building and dome of the University of Notre Dame, which prompts the construction of the third, and current, Main Building with its golden dome.
• May 14 » The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
• August 28 » Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
• September 18 » The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.

The temperature on April 27, 1879 was about 14.1 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%.