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• Zwaanenburg, Rotterdam († 1927)
• Adriana Petronella Franken, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1927)
• Agnes van Wieringen, Oak Harbor, Verenigde Staten († 1965)
• Cécile Wilhelmina Marie F. BERNARD, Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland († 1986)
• Adriaan van ZWEEDEN, Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
• Antonius Thielen, Sevenum,, Limburg, Nederland († 2008)
• Arthur Stanley Sherren, Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay) Ontario, Canada († 1979)
• Abraham Willem Marinus van Rij, Vlaardingen († 1928)
• Anna Maria Barelds († 2008)
• "Bruno" Henri Aymar de Gaillard de Lavaldène, château de Verna, Vernas, Isère, France († 2020)

• Anna Emilie Alwine van Bismarck (72), Kotelow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
• Anna Clemens (62), Hillegom
• Aloijsius Mattens (52), Hulst (NL)
• Anna Margaretha Arends (1)
• Adriana van der Sloot (67), Haarlem
• Aime DeSutter (32)
• Aaltje Poliste (74), Deventer
• Bernard Joseph Hedeman (53), Almelo
• Albert JACOBSEN (51)
• Anna Elisabeth Meekers (65), Hermée, België

• 1921 » Albert Scott Crossfield, American pilot and engineer († 2006)
• 1921 » Edmund Crispin, English writer and composer († 1978)
• 1925 » Wren Blair, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager († 2013)
• 1926 » Jan Morris, English-Welsh historian and author
• 1928 » George McFarland, American actor († 1993)
• 1928 » Wolfhart Pannenberg, Polish-German theologian and academic († 2014)
• 1929 » Moses Gunn, American actor († 1993)
• 1929 » Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman († 1996)
• 1930 » Dave Barrett, Canadian social worker and politician, 26th Premier of British Columbia († 2018)
• 1932 » Maury Wills, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster

• 1920 » Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1927 » Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1938 » Alexandru Averescu, Romanian field marshal and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1859)
• 1938 » André Lagache, French race car driver and engineer (b. 1885)
• 1943 » John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1855)
• 1947 » P. D. Ouspensky, Russian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1953 » John Marin, American painter (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Humphrey Barclay, English priest (b. 1882)
• 1955 » William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1881)
• 1962 » Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev, Russian mathematician and author (b. 1859)

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.
• May 8 » Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
• May 18 » After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
• June 13 » Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
• July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
• 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.
• September 7 » The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.

The temperature on October 2, 1927 was between 10.1 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.