About the day » Sunday August 14, 1927Calender converter

• Cornelis Geldof, Hengelo († 2011)
• Dignus Willem Lievense, Kortgene († 1927)
• Auke Dijkstra, De Wilp († 2010)
• Bets Brienen, Vortum-Mullem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2008)
• Alida Groenewoud, Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2005)
• Aldina Alida Zwambag, Jutphaas, Utrecht, Nederland († 1999)
• Lavoor, Utrecht († 1927)
• Bernardus Mattheus LOMMERSE, Haarlem († 1927)
• Anna Schepers, Den-Oever, Emmen († 2001)
• Betty Darlene van de Brake, Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1965)

• Charlotte Mary MAITLAND-HERIOT (95)
• Arie Dijkshoorn (71), Amsterdam (Amsterdam), Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Lavoor (0), Utrecht
• Bonaventura NICOLAI (23), Halle-Booienhoven,Provincie Vlaams-Brabant,Flanders,Belgi
• Alida Lena Johanna de Mare (71), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Grünholz (60), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Clara, Johanna van Roosmalen (36), Someren
• Adriana Hollestelle (34), Utrecht
• Albert Grünholz (60), Loosduinen
• Antje Jacobs Stegenga (87), Noorbroek, Groningen, Nederland

• 1924 » Georges Prêtre, French conductor († 2017)
• 1924 » Holger Juul Hansen, Danish actor († 2013)
• 1924 » Sverre Fehn, Norwegian architect, designed the Hedmark Museum († 2009)
• 1925 » Russell Baker, American critic and essayist († 2019)
• 1926 » Buddy Greco, American singer and pianist († 2017)
• 1926 » René Goscinny, French author and illustrator († 1977)
• 1928 » Lina Wertmüller, Italian director and screenwriter
• 1929 » Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer († 1971)
• 1929 » Gene Scott, American pastor and broadcaster († 2005)
• 1929 » Kinnaird R. McKee, American admiral († 2013)

• 1905 » Simeon Solomon, English soldier and painter (b. 1840)
• 1909 » William Stanley, American engineer and philanthropist (b. 1829)
• 1926 » John H. Moffitt, American sergeant and politician, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1843)
• 1928 » Klabund, German author and poet (b. 1890)
• 1938 » Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer and accountant (b. 1876)
• 1941 » Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr and saint (b. 1894)
• 1941 » Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
• 1943 » Joe Kelley, American baseball player and manager (b. 1871)
• 1943 » Lore Berger, Swiss author and translator (b. 1921)
• 1951 » William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (b. 1863)

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.
• 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 12 » Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
• May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
• July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
• August 19 » Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
• October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.

The temperature on August 14, 1927 was between 14.6 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.