About the day » Friday January 21, 1927Calender converter

• Anna Nammens van der Brug, Edens, Hennaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 2015)
• Dina Wilhelmina Kiestra, 's-Gravenhage, Nederland († 1990)
• Donald Carl Jacobs, Hammonton, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States († 1999)
• Arnoldina Johanna Zoggel van, Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1992)
• Armand SMOLDERS, Antwerpen,, Antwerpen, België († 2005)
• Berend Dekker, Nunspeet, Gelderland, Nederland († 1927)
• Elisabeth Maria Ansems, Gilze en Rijen († 1927)
• Cornelia Josepha Vermeiren, Loenhout (B) († 1998)
• Cornelis Jan Groeneveld, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2009)
• Dina Wilhelmina Kiestra, Den Haag († 1990)

• Aaltje Hooiveld (79), Zuidlaarderveen
• Ale Veen (65), Weststellingwerf, Nederland
• Amalia Louisa Renaud (82), Nieuwer-Amstel, NH, Nederland
• Aaltje Hooiveld (79), Zuidlaarderveen, Tynaarlo, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriana Zanen (44), Ammerstol, 2865 XD, Nederland
• Abramina Maria de Graaff (78), Den Haag
• Adriana Doedé (53), Berlicum
• Adriana Doedé (Doede) (53), Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andreas Mergenthaler (86), Oftersheim, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Adriana Zanen (44)

• 1925 » Alex Forbes, Scottish footballer († 2014)
• 1925 » Charles Aidman, American actor († 1993)
• 1926 » Clive Donner, British director († 2010)
• 1926 » Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer († 1980)
• 1926 » Robert J. White, American neurosurgeon († 2010)
• 1926 » Roger Taillibert, French architect († 2019)
• 1926 » Steve Reeves, American bodybuilder († 2000)
• 1927 » Rudolf Kraus, German footballer († 2003)
• 1928 » Gene Sharp, American political scientist and academic, founded the Albert Einstein Institution († 2018)
• 1928 » Reynaldo Bignone, Argentinian general and politician, 41st President of Argentina († 2018)

• 1918 » Jan Drozdowski, Polish pianist and music teacher (b. 1857)
• 1919 » Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Ottoman general and politician, 277th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1839)
• 1919 » Gojong of Korea (b. 1852)
• 1924 » Vladimir Lenin, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1870)
• 1926 » Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1928 » George Washington Goethals, American general and engineer (b. 1858)
• 1931 » Felix Blumenfeld, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)
• 1932 » Lytton Strachey, English writer and critic (b. 1880)
• 1933 » George Moore, Irish author, poet, and critic (b. 1852)
• 1937 » Marie Prevost, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1898)

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

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

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
• February 23 » German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
• February 23 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
• March 24 » Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
• June 29 » The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
• July 16 » Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.
• August 27 » Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"

The temperature on January 21, 1927 was between -1.2 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.