About the day » Sunday February 27, 1927Calender converter

• Bertha Maria Catharina Vuyk († 2006)
• Alvin Dean Ballew, Greenville County, South Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 2001)
• Catharina M (Trijntje) de Boer, Volendam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2013)
• Cornelia Elisabeth Lawson, Semarang, India († 2005)
• Cornelis (Cees) de Graaf, Den Helder, Noord Holland, Nederland († 2015)
• Cornelis de Graaf, Den Helder († 2015)
• Blanca Degryse, Brugge († 1982)
• Carolus Ludovicus Fabri, Bornem, België († 2002)
• Beverley Jean DUFFY, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States of America († 2002)
• Cornelis Jansz Glas († 1933)

• Alida Adriana Johanna Jalink (79), Den Haag
• Anthonia van Swaaij (Zwaaij) (85), Utrecht
• Anthonia van Swaaij (85), Utrecht, Nederland
• Arie Klein (80), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Crombach (64), Kerkrade (L
• Anna Vermeulen (30), Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel-Nederland
• Adelheid Albertine Matthes (74), Amsterdam
• Adrianus Pieter van der Haas (46), 's-Gravenhage
• Adrianus van der Aa (53), Bavel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Franzina van Vive (59), Rotterdam

• 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
• 1928 » René Clemencic, Austrian composer, recorder player, harpsichordist, conductor and clavichord player
• 1929 » Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer († 2013)
• 1929 » Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster († 2008)
• 1929 » Patricia Ward Hales, British tennis player († 1985)
• 1930 » Jovan Krkobabić, Serbian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia († 2014)
• 1930 » Peter Stone, American screenwriter and producer († 2003)

• 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)
• 1956 » Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Speaker of the Lok Sabha (b. 1888)

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 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
• March 29 » Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida.
• April 19 » Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
• June 29 » The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
• September 18 » The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
• October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.

The temperature on February 27, 1927 was between 7.3 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 13.5 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.