About the day » Sunday December 27, 1891Calender converter

• Alida Schutte-, Horsten, Nederland († 1977)
• Anna Maria van Ingen, Helvoirt, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1963)
• Aagje Johanna IJkelenstam, Vreeswijk, Utrecht, Nederland († 1962)
• Adele Marie DEVISSCHER, Oudenburg
• Adriana Maria Swaans, Udenhout, NB Netherlands († 1936)
• Alida cornelia Koorneef, dordrecht
• Antonia Hendrika Steiger, Kralingen
• Alida Johanna DONKER, Schiedam
• Anna Maria Elizabeth Borghans, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland († 1970)
• Adriana Maria Zwaans, Udenhout († 1936)

• Annie Mary Cunninghame (56), Ashfield, New South Wales
• Annetje van der Jagt (74), Westmaas, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• (75), Genemuiden, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alida Zwaan (0), Nigtevecht
• Anna Catharina van den Bos (84), Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Lems (15), Charlois (Rotterdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Elisabeth Johanna Ellerman (69), Gouda,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annigje Van Der JAGT (74), Westmaas
• Agnes Ferrol Röell (0), Lyndon,Osage County,Kans,United States
• Annigje den Hartog (1), Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1883 » Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist († 1979)
• 1888 » Thea von Harbou, German actress, director, and screenwriter († 1954)
• 1892 » Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian captain and pilot († 1917)
• 1896 » Carl Zuckmayer, German author and playwright († 1977)
• 1896 » Louis Bromfield, American author and theorist († 1956)
• 1896 » Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist († 1952)
• 1898 » Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician († 1960)
• 1900 » Hans Stuck, German race car driver († 1978)
• 1901 » Irene Handl, English actress († 1987)
• 1901 » Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress and singer († 1992)

• 1858 » Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French pianist and composer (b. 1785)
• 1896 » John Brown, English businessman and politician (b. 1816)
• 1900 » William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, English engineer and businessman, founded Armstrong Whitworth (b. 1810)
• 1914 » Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and engineer (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Achilles Alferaki, Russian-Greek composer and politician, Governor of Taganrog (b. 1846)
• 1923 » Gustave Eiffel, French architect and engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower (b. 1832)
• 1924 » Agda Meyerson, Swedish nurse and healthcare activist (b. 1866)
• 1936 » Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Turkish poet, academic, and politician (b. 1873)
• 1938 » Calvin Bridges, American geneticist and academic (b. 1889)
• 1938 » Osip Mandelstam, Polish-Russian poet and critic (b. 1891)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• March 10 » Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
• May 5 » The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
• July 26 » France annexes Tahiti.
• August 18 » Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
• August 24 » Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
• October 28 » The Mino–Owari earthquake is the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history.

The temperature on December 27, 1891 was about 4.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.