About the day » Saturday January 22, 1927Calender converter

• Arthur Edward Kenneth Sherren, Kensington Chelsea, Brighton, Sussex, England († 2000)
• Alida Maria van Leeuwen, Leiden († 2007)
• Beatrice Joyce Webster, Wellington († 1985)
• Antonius Cornelis Roovers († 1997)
• Adrianus Alphons Roijmans, Oijen († 2010)
• Anno Vloo, Vlagtwedde († 2001)
• Catharina Maria Jacoba CLAES, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2014)
• Cornelia D. van Oevelen, Huybergen († 2004)
• Berend Hillenga, Woldendorp, Termunten († 2005)
• Schuurmans, Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland († 1927)

• Anne Leonhart (57), Wassenaar
• Aaltje Betjes (49), Assendelft NH NL
• Anna Voshart (81), Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Adrianus Gerardus van der Kruijssen (27)
• Alberta Albarta Snelder (73), Baak/Steenderen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Wilhelmina Janssen (6), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hoogendoorn (53), Vleuten, Nederland
• Aagje de Ring (86), Vleuten, Gem. Utrecht
• Allida Flora van Stuivenberg (87), Geldermalsen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alicia 'Alice' Swords (90), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• 1924 » Charles Lisanby, American production designer and art director († 2013)
• 1924 » Ján Chryzostom Korec, Slovak cardinal († 2015)
• 1924 » J. J. Johnson, American trombonist and composer († 2001)
• 1925 » Bobby Young, American baseball player († 1985)
• 1925 » Johnny Bucha, American baseball player († 1996)
• 1927 » Joe Perry, American footballer († 2011)
• 1927 » Lou Creekmur, American football player and sportscaster († 2009)
• 1928 » Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian, author, and academic († 2004)
• 1929 » Petr Eben, Czech composer, organist and choirmaster († 2007)
• 1930 » Mariví Bilbao, Spanish actress († 2013)

• 1921 » George Streeter, American captain and businessman (b. 1837)
• 1922 » Camille Jordan, French mathematician and academic (b. 1838)
• 1922 » Fredrik Bajer, Danish educator and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1922 » Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
• 1925 » Fanny Bullock Workman, American geographer and mountain climber (b. 1859)
• 1927 » James Ford Rhodes, American historian and author (b. 1848)
• 1929 » R. C. Lehmann, English journalist, author, and politician (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Stephen Mather, American businessman and conservationist, co-founded the Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company (b. 1867)
• 1931 » László Batthyány-Strattmann, Hungarian physician and ophthalmologist (b. 1870)
• 1945 » Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and playwright (b. 1869)

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.
• January 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
• March 29 » Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida.
• April 19 » Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
• August 16 » The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
• October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
• December 11 » Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.

The temperature on January 22, 1927 was between -2.0 °C and 1.7 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.