About the day » Thursday December 8, 1927Calender converter

• Elisabeth Dorethea STEVENS, Neerpelt,Provincie Limburg,Flanders,Belgie († 1928)
• Cornelis Anthonie Stuit, Arnhem († 2002)
• Elisabeth Gijsberta Pronk († 1982)
• Albertus Franciscus Maria Backx, Alphen en Riel († 2005)
• Cornelia Anthonia Maria Majoor, Laren († 2014)
• Eelke Areke van Rijswijk († 1996)
• Cornelis (bob) van Aalst, Amsterdam, Nederland († 2002)
• Berber Venema, Leeuwarden Friesland, Nederland († 2016)
• "Jean" Marie Joseph Victor Augustin Ghislain Colas des Francs de Parabère, Paris († 2017)
• Arie Slagboom, Sliedrecht († 1990)

• Adrianus Dekker (75), Gouda
• Berendina Luijrink (77)
• Adrianus Hendrikus Oerlemans (32), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aleida Janna Kobes (60), Deventer
• Anna Geertruide Hensbroek (46), Utrecht, Nederland
• Antje Zondervan (4), Sneek
• Anna M. Streng (71), Hazerswoude
• Arie Grootendorst (57)
• Arend Jan Profijt (4), De Krim
• Catharina Cornelia van LOON (68), Oudenbosch

• 1924 » Lionel Gilbert, Australian historian, author, and academic († 2015)
• 1925 » Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author and poet († 2000)
• 1925 » Jimmy Smith, American organist († 2005)
• 1925 » Nasir Kazmi, Pakistani Urdu poet († 1972)
• 1925 » Sammy Davis, Jr., American actor, singer, and dancer († 1990)
• 1927 » Niklas Luhmann, German thinker and social theorist († 1998)
• 1927 » Vladimir Shatalov, Kazakhstani general, pilot, and astronaut
• 1928 » Bill Hewitt, Canadian journalist and sportscaster († 1996)
• 1928 » Ulric Neisser, German-American psychologist, neuroscientist, and academic († 2012)
• 1930 » Julian Critchley, English journalist and politician († 2000)

• 1914 » Maximilian von Spee, Danish-German admiral (b. 1861)
• 1914 » Melchior Anderegg, Swiss mountain guide (b. 1828)
• 1917 » Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (b. 1836)
• 1918 » Josip Štadler, Croatian archbishop (b. 1843)
• 1919 » J. Alden Weir, American painter (b. 1852)
• 1929 » José Vicente Concha, Colombian politician and 8th President of Colombia (b. 1867)
• 1932 » Gertrude Jekyll, British horticulturist and writer (b. 1843)
• 1937 » Hans Molisch, Czech-Austrian botanist and academic (b. 1856)
• 1938 » Friedrich Glauser, Swiss author (b. 1896)
• 1940 » George Lloyd, English-Canadian bishop and theologian (b. 1861)

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.
• May 26 » The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
• June 13 » Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
• 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.
• August 19 » Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
• November 21 » Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.

The temperature on December 8, 1927 was between -0.6 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.