About the day » Sunday February 27, 1921Calender converter

• Balster Jan Munnik († 2025)
• Anna Kuperus
• Anna (Annie) Kuiper († 1999)
• Ann Schoep, Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa († 2010)
• Arie Johannes Heijstek, Almkerk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2003)
• Aafje van der Ende, 's-Gravenzande, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2005)
• Antonius Johannes Snoep, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1987)
• Arie Johannes Heijstek, Almkerk en Emmikhoven († 2003)
• Adriana Johanna Geertruida Rijke, Uitgeest († 2015)
• van Aken, Megchelen, Gelderland, Nederland

• Aarnoud Drabbe (40), Hoek, Terneuzen, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Arend Oostens van Dijk (90), Genemuiden, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anne Ward (48), Carrickmore, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• Abraham Peereboom (58), Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonetta van den Heuvel (76), Uden
• Anna Cornelia KERSTENS (71), Roosendaal (N.Br. Nl)
• Anna Maria Ripzaad (0), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Auguste Alfred Cornil JANSSEN BENNYNCK (58), Bergues... Hauts de France
• Augustin Vandecan (76), Landen
• Adriaan van der Welle (71), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1915 » Denis Whitaker, Canadian general, football player, and businessman († 2001)
• 1917 » John Connally, American lieutenant and politician, 61st United States Secretary of Treasury († 1993)
• 1920 » Reg Simpson, English cricketer († 2013)
• 1921 » Theodore Van Kirk, American soldier, pilot, and navigator († 2014)
• 1922 » Hans Rookmaaker, Dutch historian, author, and scholar († 1977)
• 1923 » Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist, composer, and actor († 1990)
• 1925 » Kenneth Koch, American poet, playwright and professor († 2002)
• 1925 » Pia Sebastiani, Argentine pianist and composer († 2015)
• 1926 » David H. Hubel, Canadian-American neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)
• 1927 » Peter Whittle, English-New Zealand mathematician and theorist

• 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)

• 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
• January 16 » The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa.
• March 20 » The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
• March 24 » The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
• March 31 » The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
• July 29 » Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
• September 7 » In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.

The temperature on February 27, 1921 was between -3.2 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.