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• Charles Paul Stahlman († 1993)
• Pierre Joseph Léon VAN LOO, Watermaal-Bosvoorde, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, België († 2011)
• Nico de Jong, Puttershoek, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2015)
• Johannes Petrus Jozef (Jan) Waterreus, 's-Gravenhage, ZH, Nederland († 2015)
• Boy WISE, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia († 1944)
• Maria Jacoba Martina Bijen, Culemborg, Gelderland, Nederland († 1944)
• Ardelle Leona Marks († 2004)
• Petronella Maria Huijsen († 2000)
• Dionyssia Keirschieter, Klerken († 1944)
• John Stanley Rockwood, Niagara FallsNY († 2012)

• Albertus Ankersmit (73), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonia van der Steen (79), Utrecht
• Antoon Jacobs (48), Groesbeek
• Adrianna Johanna Van Gerwen (57), 's-Hertogenbosch (Noord Brabant)
• Adrianus Drop (64), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Anna Sitton (54), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Ankersmit (73), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Carolina Schmidhamer (85), Bandung (NOI)
• Aart van Nieuwenhuizen (4), Harderwijk
• Bendert (Ben) Johannes Scheen (80), Chicago, Illinois, Verenigde Staten

• 1942 » John Witherspoon, American actor and comedian († 2019)
• 1942 » Kate Wolf, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1986)
• 1942 » Maki Asakawa, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer († 2010)
• 1942 » Tasuku Honjo, Japanese immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine
• 1943 » Julia Cumberlege, Baroness Cumberlege, English businesswoman and politician
• 1944 » Mairead Maguire, Northern Irish activist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1944 » Nick Mason, English drummer, songwriter, and producer
• 1944 » Peter Akinola, Nigerian archbishop
• 1945 » Harold Cardinal, Canadian lawyer and politician († 2005)
• 1946 » Christopher Hum, English academic and diplomat, British Ambassador to China

• 1922 » Nellie Bly, American journalist and author (b. 1864)
• 1927 » Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius, Lithuanian bishop (b. 1871)
• 1931 » Nishinoumi Kajirō II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 25th Yokozuna (b. 1880)
• 1940 » Isaac Babel, Russian short story writer, journalist, and playwright (b. 1894)
• 1942 » Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1888)
• 1951 » Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finnish field marshal and politician, 6th President of Finland (b. 1867)
• 1956 » Erich Kleiber, Austrian conductor and director (b. 1890)
• 1961 » Bernard Friedberg, Austrian scholar and author (b. 1876)
• 1963 » John Farrow, Australian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1965 » Abraham Walkowitz, American painter (b. 1878)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Robert
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Wilhelmus
13. Gerardus
14. Adrianus
15. Antonius
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Cornelia
4. Anna
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Margaretha
13. Helena
14. Geertruida
15. Grietje
16. Aaltje

• 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
• January 17 » World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
• January 31 » World War II: During the Anzio campaign, the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
• August 23 » Freckleton Air Disaster: A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England, killing 61 people.
• September 18 » World War II:Battle of Arracourt begins
• October 6 » World War II: Units of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps enter Czechoslovakia during the Battle of the Dukla Pass.
• December 17 » World War II: Battle of the Bulge: Malmedy massacre: American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Joachim Peiper.

The temperature on January 27, 1944 was between 6.6 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.