About the day » Tuesday March 8, 1927Calender converter

• Akke Wiegers Hoekstra († 1989)
• Charles Henry Byrne, Uinta County, Wyoming, United States of America († 2007)
• Nicolaas, Rotterdam († 1927)
• Bernardina Aleida Schrader, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 2006)
• Catharina Johanna Petronella Timmermans, Maasbree († 1928)
• Cornelis Wouter Degenaars, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1995)
• Cornelia Jacoba van den Broek, Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2006)
• Albertus Maria de Ruijter, Geldrop († 2017)
• Annie Janssen, Koningslust († 2009)
• Arend Koning, Nieuw-Weerdinge, Emmen († 1978)

• Baukje van der Zwaag (57), Nieuwlande (Hoogeveen) Nederland
• Alberdina MASTENBROEK (25), Bussum (Noord-Holland)
• Carolus August Willem Clermont (72), Slenaken
• Adriaan Scholten (43), Wildervank, Gemeente Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Abraham Kanij (74), Delft
• Arend Jan Spijker (69), Nieuwleusen, Dalfsen,, Overijssel, Nederland
• Amelia ADAMS (71)
• Antje Schram (29), amsterdam, Nederland
• Anna Kooistra (75), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Catharina van Collenburgh, Best

• 1924 » Anthony Caro, English sculptor and illustrator († 2013)
• 1924 » Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2010)
• 1924 » Sean McClory, Irish-American actor and director († 2003)
• 1925 » Warren Bennis, American scholar, author, and academic († 2014)
• 1926 » Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter († 2001)
• 1927 » Ramon Revilla Sr., Filipino actor and politician († 2020)
• 1929 » Hebe Camargo, Brazilian actress and singer († 2012)
• 1930 » Bob Grim, American baseball player († 1996)
• 1930 » Douglas Hurd, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• 1931 » Neil Adcock, South African cricketer († 2013)

• 1917 » Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company (b. 1838)
• 1923 » Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1923 » Krišjānis Barons, Latvian linguist and author (b. 1835)
• 1930 » Edward Terry Sanford, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, United States Assistant Attorney General (b. 1865)
• 1930 » William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
• 1935 » Hachikō, Japanese dog (b. 1923)
• 1937 » Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1941 » Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1876)
• 1942 » José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player and theoretician (b. 1888)
• 1944 » Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete who helped thousands of Jewish children in the Holocaust (b. 1916)

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.
• March 24 » Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
• April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
• April 30 » The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
• August 27 » Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
• December 8 » The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.

The temperature on March 8, 1927 was between 4.1 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.