About the day » Monday May 27, 1861Calender converter

• Alida Josina van Berkum, Steenbergen
• Aaltje Derks Bos, Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1939)
• Bakker, Oudkarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Adriana Hendrica Helena Kloos, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1918)
• Aloisius Hubertus Schijns, Vaals († 1889)
• Adriaan van Loon, Hedikhuizen
• Andries de Vries, Dantumadeel († 1882)
• n.n.Helsloot, Jaarsveld
• Anna Carolina Louisa SONNEVELD, Aarle-Rixtel († 1861)
• Anna Harms Kuper, Holthuserheide, Ostfriesland, Hannover († 1972)

• Alberta DE RUIJTER (0), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Corstiaan Korteweg (24), Klundert
• Bancras Beentjes (0), Heemskerk
• Cornelis BROUWERS (39), Roosendaal en Nispen (N.Br. Nl)
• Aaltje Geerts Prikken (57), Nieuwbuinen, Borger, Drente, Netherlands
• Carel Hendrik Uloth (48), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Hofman (72), Zutphen
• Catharina Elisabeth Swartenbrouckx (73), Gorsem, Provincie Limburg, België
• Carolus Franciscus Xaverius Coeckuyt, Ruiselede, WVL, B
• Adriana Kosters (69), Wijk bij Duurstede, Utrecht, NL

• 1852 » Billy Barnes, English cricketer († 1899)
• 1857 » Theodor Curtius, German chemist († 1928)
• 1860 » Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese politician, 7th President of Portugal († 1941)
• 1863 » Arthur Mold, English cricketer († 1921)
• 1867 » Arnold Bennett, English author and playwright († 1931)
• 1868 » Aleksa Šantić, Bosnian poet and author († 1924)
• 1871 » Georges Rouault, French painter and illustrator († 1958)
• 1875 » Frederick Cuming, English cricketer († 1942)
• 1876 » Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and author († 1945)
• 1876 » William Stanier, English engineer († 1965)

• 1797 » François-Noël Babeuf, French journalist (b. 1760)
• 1831 » Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer, and author (b. 1799)
• 1840 » Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)
• 1867 » Thomas Bulfinch American mythologist (b. 1796)
• 1896 » Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1918 » Ōzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (b. 1869)
• 1919 » Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian author and activist (b. 1848)
• 1933 » Achille Paroche, French target shooter (b. 1868)
• 1939 » Joseph Roth, Austrian-French journalist and author (b. 1894)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Dirk
12. Adrianus
13. Arie
14. Klaas
15. Hendrikus
16. Albert

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Trijntje
13. Neeltje
14. Antje
15. Elizabeth
16. Mary

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• January 1 » Liberal forces supporting Benito Juárez enter Mexico City.
• January 26 » American Civil War: The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union.
• April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War.
• September 6 » American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, giving the Union control of the Tennessee River's mouth.
• October 24 » The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.
• December 26 » American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James Murray Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and the United Kingdom.

The temperature on May 27, 1861 was about 13.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%.