About the day » Saturday February 27, 1909Calender converter

• Adrianus Marinus BODEN, WOUW, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1992)
• Aaltje Bosveld, Rheden
• Hindrik Kielman, Oostwold
• Adriana van Berkel, Vught († 1991)
• Aartje van de Hoorn, Barneveld
• Alberdina Hermina Leferink, Hengevelde, Ambt Delden, Overijssel, Netherlands († 2001)
• Agatha Kaandorp, Heiloo, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1998)
• Albert Eppinga, beneden Knijpe († 1978)
• (Stillborn) LEVERMAN, Groningen Groningen Netherlands († 1909)
• Aartje van den Hoorn, Barneveld

• Anne Jans Pals (61), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Veraart (56), Ossendrecht, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltien Mulder (42), Vries
• Adriana Francina van Geest (17), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida van Vlijmen (0), Rotterdam
• Anne Pals (61), Emmen
• anna maria vossen (67), nederweert
• (Stillborn) LEVERMAN (0), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Adriana Meeusen (55), Baarle-Hertog (België)
• Alfons Aerts (3)

• 1905 » Franchot Tone, American actor, singer, and producer († 1968)
• 1907 » Mildred Bailey, American singer († 1951)
• 1907 » Momčilo Đujić, Serbian-American priest and commander († 1999)
• 1910 » Genrikh Kasparyan, Armenian chess player and composer († 1995)
• 1910 » Joan Bennett, American actress († 1990)
• 1910 » Kelly Johnson, American engineer, co-founded Skunk Works († 1990)
• 1910 » Peter De Vries, American journalist and author († 1993)
• 1911 » Oscar Heidenstam, English bodybuilder († 1991)
• 1912 » Kusumagraj, Indian author, poet, and playwright († 1999)
• 1912 » Lawrence Durrell, Indian-French author, poet, and playwright († 1990)

• 1887 » Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (b. 1833)
• 1892 » Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer and businessman, founded Louis Vuitton (b. 1821)
• 1902 » Harry "Breaker" Morant, English-Australian lieutenant (b. 1864)
• 1921 » Schofield Haigh, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1871)
• 1931 » Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (b. 1906)
• 1936 » Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1849)
• 1936 » Joshua W. Alexander, American judge and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1852)
• 1937 » Emily Malbone Morgan, American saint, foundress of the Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross (b. 1862)
• 1937 » Hosteen Klah, Navajo artist, medicine man, and weaver (b. 1867)
• 1943 » Kostis Palamas, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1859)

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

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

• 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
• January 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
• January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
• January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
• March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
• April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
• December 14 » New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.

The average temperature on February 27, 1909 was -2.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.