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• Dirk Robert Spoor, Mundubbera-Queensland († 1976)
• Achiel CERPENTIER, Stekene († 2003)
• Antonius Julianus Maria Loeffen, Cuijk, Gemeente Cuijk, North Brabant, Niederlande († 2009)
• Dirkje Klop, Haaften (Gld.) († 1992)
• Dorothy L Brissette, Bradley, Penobscot, Maine, United States of America († 1996)
• Benailde de Lima Pereira, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 2003)
• Christina Cornelia Hofkens, Gilze en Rijen († 2017)
• Dorothy L {Collins} Brissette, Bradley, Penobscot, Maine, United States of America († 1996)
• Alice JEURISSEN, Waltwilder (Limburg) (B) († 1942)
• Audrea Lou Brown, Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 2001)

• Adriana Maria van den Brekel (77), Tilburg
• Anna Clara Christina Ales (67)
• Adriana Susanna Kap (34), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adam Jasper Eimers (39), Utrecht (Utrecht)
• Aaltjen Brinkman (61), Deventer
• Andries Dijks (76), Exloo, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Agatha DOUMA (65), Harlingen(Friesland)
• Aaltjen Brinkman (61), Deventer
• Antonia Petronella Theodora Jansen (60), Arnhem
• Apolonia van der Colff (76), Breda

• 1924 » Anthony Farrar-Hockley, English general and historian († 2006)
• 1924 » Frédéric Back, German-Canadian animator, director, and screenwriter († 2013)
• 1926 » Henry N. Cobb, American architect and academic, co-founded Pei Cobb Freed & Partners († 2020)
• 1926 » Jürgen Moltmann, German theologian and academic
• 1926 » Shecky Greene, American actor
• 1927 » Ollie Mitchell, American trumpet player and bandleader († 2013)
• 1927 » Tilly Armstrong, English author († 2010)
• 1928 » Fred Ebb, American lyricist († 2004)
• 1929 » Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and actor († 1978)
• 1929 » Renzo De Felice, Italian historian and author († 1996)

• 1906 » Auguste Deter, German woman, first person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
• 1920 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1931 » Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Božena Benešová, Czech poet and novelist (b. 1873)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1941 » Marcel Prévost, French novelist and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1942 » Kostas Skarvelis, Greek guitarist and composer (b. 1880)
• 1947 » Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian target shooter (b. 1862)
• 1950 » Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish dancer and choreographer (b. 1890)

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.
• March 29 » Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida.
• May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
• August 7 » The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
• September 7 » The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
• November 13 » The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
• 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 April 8, 1927 was between 2.1 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.