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• Adriana Johanna Verdel († 2016)
• Muis, Rotterdam († 1927)
• Kooistra, Tholen,JA, Canada († 1927)
• Antje Blokland, Hardinxveld († 2020)
• Ada Young, SLC, SL, Utah, Verenigde Staten († 1994)
• Clara Renée Meier, Gronau, 48599, Duitsland († 1984)
• Christel Ruijters († 2016)
• Christina Adriana Anthonia de Lang, Delft († 2006)
• Antonius Johannes Bastiaenen, 's Gravenhage († 1967)
• Antonius Hermanus Johannes Windmöller, Rha, Steenderen († 2013)

• Alphonsus Verdyck (63), Brecht
• Anna van den Heuvel (61), Wadenoijen
• Alphonsus Verdijck (63), Brecht, Antwerpen, België
• Arnoldus Jacobus van Strien (2), Breda
• Alphonsus Verdijck (63), Brecht
• Antje Baars (68), Westzaan, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Anthonie van den Haspel (66), Nieuw-Lekkerland
• Adriana Johanna van Keulen (21), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Anna Paulina Burgemeestre (44), Soerabaja
• Adrianus Snoeijs (65), Princenhage

• 1923 » Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and physicist († 1986)
• 1923 » Dina Merrill, American actress, game show panelist, socialite, heiress, and businesswoman († 2017)
• 1923 » Morton Estrin, American pianist and educator († 2017)
• 1923 » Shlomo Venezia, Greek-Italian author and Holocaust survivor († 2012)
• 1923 » Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, French mathematician and physicist
• 1924 » Joe Allbritton, American businessman and publisher, founded the Allbritton Communications Company († 2012)
• 1924 » Kim Song-ae, Korean politician († 2014)
• 1925 » Pete Dye, American golfer and architect († 2020)
• 1927 » Andy Stanfield, American sprinter († 1985)
• 1929 » Matt Murphy, American guitarist († 2018)

• 1910 » Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1872)
• 1924 » Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1925 » Félix Vallotton, Swiss/French painter (b. 1865)
• 1926 » Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet and author (b. 1875)
• 1929 » Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and businessman, founded Maybach (b. 1846)
• 1937 » Don Marquis, American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1878)
• 1941 » Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician and scholar (b. 1873)
• 1944 » Khasan Israilov, Chechen rebel (b. 1910)
• 1949 » Tyler Dennett, American historian and author (b. 1883)
• 1952 » Fletcher Henderson, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1897)

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 » 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 15 » The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
• April 14 » The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
• April 23 » Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.
• 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 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.

The temperature on December 29, 1927 was between -5.4 °C and -1.2 °C and averaged -3.9 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.