About the day » Wednesday October 26, 1927Calender converter

• CORNELIS BROEKHUIS, Nijkerk († 1945)
• Bill Sherman Brown, Vinton County, Ohio († 1986)
• Folkerdina Lammegiena Heikens, Nieuw-Weerdinge, Emmen († 2023)
• Catharina Mathilda Van Loon, Beerse († 1978)
• Carmella Solimando, Emerson, Bergen, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 1983)
• Adelaide Eugenie Marie Meijers, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2009)
• Franciscus Bote Luberti, Amsterdam († 2000)
• Dorothy Joan (Poppy) WATTS, Latrobe, Tasmania, Australia († 2014)
• Edmond Gustaaf Luyck, Alken, België († 1983)
• Betty Alexandra Smith, Wellington, New Zealand († 2010)

• Angenies Ravenhorst (76), Baarn
• Angenies Ravenhorst (76), Baarn, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Arthur Henry Stephen Slaughter (68)
• Veldhuis (0), Zeist
• Anna Adriana Fioole (64), Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Willemina Viergever (89), Nunspeet, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Anna Smits (82), Zevenbergen
• Anna Joanna BOLLENS (75), Wilsele, 24126, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgique
• Alida Catharina Beele (77), rotterdam (zuid holland)
• (77), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1922 » Fred Wood, English actor († 2003)
• 1922 » Madelyn Dunham, American grandmother of Barack Obama († 2008)
• 1923 » Robert Hinde, English zoologist and academic († 2016)
• 1924 » Shaw Taylor, English actor and television host († 2015)
• 1925 » Jan Wolkers, Dutch sculptor, painter, and author († 2007)
• 1926 » Panos Gavalas, Greek singer († 1988)
• 1927 » Warne Marsh, American saxophonist (Supersax) († 1987)
• 1928 » Francisco Solano López, Argentinian illustrator († 2011)
• 1929 » Neal Matthews Jr., American country/gospel singer (The Jordanaires) († 2000)
• 1931 » Suhaila Noah, Spouse of the Prime Minister of Malaysia († 2014)

• 1919 » Akashi Motojiro, Japanese general (b. 1864)
• 1927 » Jūkichi Yagi, Japanese poet (b. 1898)
• 1929 » Swan Hennessy, Irish-American composer (b. 1866)
• 1930 » Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and horse breeder (b. 1872)
• 1930 » Waldemar Haffkine, Russian-Swiss physician and microbiologist (b. 1860)
• 1931 » Charles Comiskey, American baseball player and manager (b. 1859)
• 1932 » Margaret Brown, American philanthropist and activist (b. 1867)
• 1937 » Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, Polish general (b. 1867)
• 1941 » Arkady Gaidar, Russian journalist and author (b. 1904)
• 1943 » Aurel Stein, Hungarian-English archaeologist and academic (b. 1862)

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 9 » A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
• May 18 » The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
• June 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
• June 27 » Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference.
• October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
• December 19 » Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy.

The temperature on October 26, 1927 was between 12.8 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.