About the day » Friday May 27, 1881Calender converter

• Aaltje van Kooten, Montfoort
• Adam Philip Wynold ALTA, Makkum († 1955)
• Alfred L Gerde, Renville, Renville, Minnesota, United States († 1965)
• Albert Blom, Broek op L'dijk († 1958)
• Adrianus Johannes VAN DER VOORN, Sassenheim, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus_Johannes Barnhoorn, Den Haag († 1883)
• Agnes Helene Münnich, 07937 Zeulenroda, Deutschland
• Alfred Marie Emile Manheims, Luik, prov. Luik (B)
• Aaltje Hendrika van Ommeren, Lienden († 1942)
• Albert Jansz Blom, Broek op Langedijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1958)

• Antonius Gerardus Nefkens (20), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Antje Vreeker (35), Oudorp, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Paul (0), Zevenhuizen, 2761, Nederland
• Aart Denekamp (76), Doornspijk
• Anthonij Doolaard (1), Strijen
• Anna Wilhelmina Rovers (0), Terheijden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• (0), Heemse
• Antje van Barneveld (0), Westbroek, Maartensdijk, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Aldegonda OPPERS (56), Best
• Anna Petronella Leijendeckers (74), Maastricht

• 1875 » Frederick Cuming, English cricketer († 1942)
• 1876 » Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and author († 1945)
• 1876 » William Stanier, English engineer († 1965)
• 1878 » Anna Cervin, Swedish artist († 1972)
• 1879 » Hans Lammers, German judge and politician († 1962)
• 1879 » Karl Bühler, German-American linguist and psychologist († 1963)
• 1883 » Jessie Arms Botke, American painter († 1971)
• 1884 » Max Brod, Czech journalist, author, and composer († 1968)
• 1887 » Frank Woolley, English cricketer († 1978)
• 1888 » Louis Durey, French composer († 1979)

• 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)
• 1941 » Ernst Lindemann, German captain (b. 1894)

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

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

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• May 12 » In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
• July 1 » The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
• July 2 » Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
• September 20 » U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.
• November 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.
• December 4 » The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.

The temperature on May 27, 1881 was about 15.7 °C. There was 11 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.