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• Adriana Wilhelmina Huntelerslag, Beek, Nederland († 2010)
• Bonna van der Velde, Westerhaar, Vriezenveen, Overijssel, Nederland († 2009)
• Oerlemans, Haarlem († 1927)
• Apolonia Biernat († 2015)
• Aad Gerardus Hubertus van Deursen, Maasbree († 2017)
• Albertus Maarten Jekel, Amersfoort
• Anna Margaretha Maria Warmerdam, Hillegom († 2012)
• Bertha Scheelen, Overpelt, Limburg, België († 2009)
• Antonius Marie van de Put, Budel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1999)
• * Engelbert Spronk, Hei-en Boeicop († 2019)

• Akke van der Werf (63), Gaasterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Afke Feikesd Oosting (81), Haskerhorne, haskerland.fr.nld
• Adriana van Oosten (79)
• Alexander Wilhelm Eduard Friso Zurhaar (61), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Akke van der Werf (63), Balk
• Aart Bos (0)
• Antonius Carolus Reichman (73), Borne
• Marie (74), Langenburg, SK, Canada
• Amy A Delaney (36), Washington, Washington Cnty, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Alida (alie) Broersen (0), Akersloot

• 1925 » Elaine Stritch, American actress and singer († 2014)
• 1926 » Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French academic and politician, 20th President of France
• 1927 » Doris Sams, American baseball player († 2012)
• 1927 » Stan Getz, American saxophonist († 1991)
• 1928 » Ciriaco De Mita, 47th Prime minister of Italy
• 1928 » Jay Handlan, American basketball player and engineer († 2013)
• 1928 » Tommy Harmer, English footballer, inside forward, youth team coach († 2007)
• 1929 » George Band, English engineer and mountaineer († 2011)
• 1929 » Sheila Matthews Allen, American actress and producer († 2013)
• 1929 » Věra Chytilová, Czech actress, director, and screenwriter († 2014)

• 1913 » Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer (b. 1845)
• 1918 » John L. Sullivan, American boxer (b. 1858)
• 1919 » Julius Kuperjanov, Estonian lieutenant (b. 1894)
• 1925 » Antti Aarne, Finnish historian and academic (b. 1867)
• 1925 » Jaap Eden, Dutch speed skater and cyclist (b. 1873)
• 1926 » Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general and politician (b. 1848)
• 1932 » Agha Petros, Assyrian general and politician (b. 1880)
• 1939 » Bernhard Gregory, Estonian-German chess player (b. 1879)
• 1942 » Ado Birk, Estonian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1883)
• 1942 » Daniil Kharms, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1905)

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.
• 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 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
• April 19 » Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
• April 30 » The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
• 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 February 2, 1927 was between -0.6 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 10.2 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.