About the day » Friday January 21, 1927Calender converter

• Dirk Ponstein, Wageningen, Utrecht, Netherlands († 2001)
• Adrianus Gerardus Marie Zaat, Voorburg († 2005)
• Doodgeboren zoon van Dommelen, Drunen († 1927)
• Clasina Jacoba Hoogeveen, Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Alison Mary Hope († 1992)
• Dirk Sepers, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2002)
• Arie Segveld, Borculo († 1927)
• Aafien Vlot, Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• (l.l.) Post, Haarlem († 1927)
• Cornelis Burggraaf, Everdingen (UT NL) († 2003)

• Adriana Maria Scholtes (81), Haarlem
• Adriana Doedée (53), Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Doedé (53), Berlicum
• Adriana Doedé (Doede) (53), Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Doedée (53), Berlicum, NL
• Abraham Galjaard (82), leiden
• Aaltje Hooiveld (79), Zuidlaarderveen
• Alexander "Alex" Todd **** (24), Newmilns, Ayrshire, Scotland
• Aaltje Schoonhoven (67), Broek op L'dijk
• Abrahanna Willemina Klaassen (69), Harderwijk

• 1925 » Alex Forbes, Scottish footballer († 2014)
• 1925 » Charles Aidman, American actor († 1993)
• 1926 » Clive Donner, British director († 2010)
• 1926 » Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer († 1980)
• 1926 » Robert J. White, American neurosurgeon († 2010)
• 1926 » Roger Taillibert, French architect († 2019)
• 1926 » Steve Reeves, American bodybuilder († 2000)
• 1927 » Rudolf Kraus, German footballer († 2003)
• 1928 » Gene Sharp, American political scientist and academic, founded the Albert Einstein Institution († 2018)
• 1928 » Reynaldo Bignone, Argentinian general and politician, 41st President of Argentina († 2018)

• 1918 » Jan Drozdowski, Polish pianist and music teacher (b. 1857)
• 1919 » Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Ottoman general and politician, 277th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1839)
• 1919 » Gojong of Korea (b. 1852)
• 1924 » Vladimir Lenin, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1870)
• 1926 » Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1928 » George Washington Goethals, American general and engineer (b. 1858)
• 1931 » Felix Blumenfeld, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)
• 1932 » Lytton Strachey, English writer and critic (b. 1880)
• 1933 » George Moore, Irish author, poet, and critic (b. 1852)
• 1937 » Marie Prevost, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1898)

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

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

• 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
• January 7 » The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London.
• March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
• April 14 » The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
• June 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
• July 15 » Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
• July 24 » The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.

The temperature on January 21, 1927 was between -1.2 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.