About the day » Sunday August 27, 1916Calender converter

• Abeltje van der Meulen, Wytfean († 2009)
• Anna Maria Sophia Kerkhoven († 1989)
• Alida Elisabeth Flach, Utrecht
• Alberdina Timmer, Baalder († 1935)
• van Alst, Bemmel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aleida Femma de Vries, Schoten (Haarlem NH) († 1980)
• Augusta Hubertina Sprangers, Baarle Nassau Nederland († 1987)
• Adriana Jannetje Sara Vielvoije, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1990)
• Albert Jans Toet, Meppel († 1917)
• Arie Molendijk, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1918)

• Arno Müller (25), Dresden/Drježdźany (Dresden/Drježdźany, Sachsen/Sakska)
• Adrianus de Bruijn (19), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alphonsus Hubertus Saive (30), Gulpen, Gulpen-Wittem
• Cornelis Adriaan MESLIER (76)
• Adrianus van der Beek (77), Heemstede, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Theodora Ambtman (63), Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Adrianus de Bruijn (19), Roosendaal en Nispen, Nederland
• Alexander Jerome Cheesbro (71), his home at 1439 Farrell Street, Eau Claire, Eau Claire County, WI
• Aria van den Berg (67), Hekelingen, Nederland
• Carolus Ludovicus Jonckheere (74), Eernegem

• 1912 » Gloria Guinness, Mexican journalist († 1980)
• 1915 » Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2011)
• 1916 » Gordon Bashford, English engineer, co-designed the Range Rover († 1991)
• 1916 » Martha Raye, American actress and comedian († 1994)
• 1916 » Tony Harris, South African cricketer and rugby player († 1993)
• 1917 » Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1986)
• 1918 » Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch economist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands († 2001)
• 1919 » Murray Grand, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 2007)
• 1919 » Pee Wee Butts, American baseball player and coach († 1972)
• 1920 » Baptiste Manzini, American football player († 2008)

• 1891 » Samuel C. Pomeroy, American businessman and politician (b. 1816)
• 1903 » Kusumoto Ine, first Japanese female doctor of Western medicine (b. 1827)
• 1909 » Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist and mycologist (b. 1842)
• 1922 » Reşat Çiğiltepe, Turkish colonel (b. 1879)
• 1929 » Herman Potočnik, Croatian-Austrian engineer (b. 1892)
• 1931 » Francis Marion Smith, American miner and businessman (b. 1846)
• 1931 » Frank Harris, Irish-American journalist and author (b. 1856)
• 1931 » Willem Hubert Nolens, Dutch priest and politician (b. 1860)
• 1935 » Childe Hassam, American painter and academic (b. 1859)
• 1944 » Georg von Boeselager, German soldier (b. 1915)

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

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

• 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
• June 10 » The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire was declared by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.
• June 30 » World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
• July 7 » The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
• October 7 » Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
• November 7 » Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.
• November 7 » Woodrow Wilson is reelected as President of the United States.

The temperature on August 27, 1916 was between 14.3 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 7.8 mm of rain. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.