About the day » Thursday May 27, 1897Calender converter

• Alberta Janna Buijtenhuijs, Utrecht {UT} († 1957)
• Adriana Nieuwenhuizen, Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, NL († 1992)
• Aaltje Roelofs Blaauw, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus Vredenbregt, Schiedam († 1898)
• Achilles Clement Janssen, Renkum, Gelderland, Nederland († 1897)
• Adriana NIEUWENHUIZEN, Rijswijk in het Land van Heusden en Altena († 1992)
• Aaltje Blauw, Assen († 1975)
• Aaltje Roelofs Blauw, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1975)
• Krüssel, Dankern, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1897)
• Adriana Pieternella van der WEIJDEN, Dordrecht

• Antje Blaauboer (64), Bergen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Christopher Hetherington (71), Orange,NSW,Australia
• Charles Truslow Turtle (61), Hampshire, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
• Berend Olijslager (65), Barchem
• Aldegonda Dekkers (vh Mulders) (26), Blerick, Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands
• Anna Dimphena van Loon (67), Kalmthout, Antwerpen
• Adrianus Meerbergen (75), Herentals, België
• Antonetta van den Beemt (57), Zundert,Brabant (North),Netherlands
• Aaltjen Bouwmeester (32), Arnhem
• Berend de Boer (59), Groningen, Nederland

• 1891 » Claude Champagne, Canadian violinist, pianist, and composer († 1965)
• 1894 » Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist and screenwriter († 1961)
• 1894 » Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author († 1961)
• 1895 » Douglas Lloyd Campbell, Canadian educator and politician, 13th Premier of Manitoba († 1995)
• 1897 » Dink Templeton, American rugby player and coach († 1962)
• 1897 » John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1967)
• 1898 » David Crosthwait, American engineer, inventor and writer († 1976)
• 1899 » Johannes Türn, Estonian chess and draughts player († 1993)
• 1900 » Lotte Toberentz, German overseer of the Nazi Uckermark concentration camp († 1964)
• 1900 » Uładzimir Žyłka, Belarusian poet and translator († 1933)

• 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)
• 1941 » Günther Lütjens, German admiral (b. 1889)
• 1942 » Muhammed Hamdi Yazır, Turkish theologian, logician, and translator (b. 1878)

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

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

• 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 May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
• August 10 » German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
• September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
• September 10 » Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
• November 1 » The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
• December 9 » Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.

The temperature on May 27, 1897 was about 20.0 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 48%.