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• Askerenina Adlova (Karin) Weynschenk († 1999)
• Bernice Wielenga, Orange City, Sioux, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1959)
• Adriana Jacoba HAVENAAR, Zegwaart († 2011)
• Anna Jantje de Vries († 2012)
• Emma Lee Stout, Brunswick County, North Carolina († 1997)
• Dirk Wolters, Opende († 2010)
• Bep Nerden, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• "Béatrix" Geneviève Emmanuelle Marie Ghislaine de Briey, Bruxelles († 2019)
• Donald J. Van Dyke († 1971)
• Elizabeth (Betsy) Bouwman († 1998)

• Anna Margaret Berends (1), Parkersburg, Butler County, Iowa
• Anna Maria Sophia van Aalst (78), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
• Alida Clémence MAGNERON (35), Sepvret, 79120, France
• Alida Betsi van Witsen (50), Rotterdam
• Allegonda Manders (71), Volkel, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Adriana Christina Trakranen (62), Hilversum
• Barend Mozes van der Meusen (95), Dordrecht
• Arnoldus Petrus Joseph Brekelmans (0), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abe Jelles Wieringa (77), Baarderadeel, Friesland Nederland
• Anna Maria Sophia Helena van Aalst (78), 's Gravenhage

• 1925 » Alec McCowen, English actor († 2017)
• 1925 » Carmen Montejo, Cuban-Mexican actress († 2013)
• 1926 » Miles Davis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader († 1991)
• 1927 » Jacques Bergerac, French actor and businessman († 2014)
• 1928 » Jack Kevorkian, American pathologist, author, and assisted suicide activist († 2011)
• 1929 » Catherine Sauvage, French singer and actress († 1998)
• 1929 » Ernie Carroll, Australian television personality and producer
• 1929 » Hans Freeman, Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer († 2008)
• 1929 » J. F. Ade Ajayi, Nigerian historian and academic († 2014)
• 1929 » John Jackson, English lawyer and businessman

• 1908 » Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader, founded the Ahmadiyya movement (b. 1835)
• 1914 » Jacob August Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer, and reformer (b. 1849)
• 1924 » Victor Herbert, Irish-American cellist, composer, and conductor, founded the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (b. 1859)
• 1926 » Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904)
• 1933 » Horatio Bottomley, English financier, journalist, and politician (b. 1860)
• 1933 » Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1897)
• 1939 » Charles Horace Mayo, American physician, co-founded Mayo Clinic (b. 1865)
• 1943 » Alice Tegnér, Swedish organist, composer, and educator (b. 1864)
• 1943 » Edsel Ford, American businessman (b. 1893)
• 1944 » Christian Wirth, German SS officer (b. 1885)

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 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
• April 27 » Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
• May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
• 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.
• September 7 » The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
• September 22 » Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.

The temperature on May 26, 1927 was between 4.5 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.