About the day » Friday May 13, 1927Calender converter

• Bertus John Wichers († 2012)
• Antonia Alida Ruis, Den Haag († 1942)
• Clifford Lee Abbas, South Dakota († 1995)
• Clifford Dale Dobbrastine, Michigan († 1988)
• Berens, Nijmegen, Nederland († 2016)
• Bas van Wijk († 2009)
• Arie Fokker, Loenen aan de Vecht (Gem Stichtse Vecht), Utrecht, Nederland Nederland († 2009)
• Marinus Ravestein, Kockengen († 2000)
• Antonetta van Hees, Boekel († 1928)
• Adriana Johanna Goverde, Zevenbergen († 2017)

• Bernard Westerdijk (73), Baarn
• Aart de Jong (74), Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonius Johannes Jacobus Hollestelle (25), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berend Deddens (61), rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Adrianus Hoksbergen (64), Wageningen
• Antonius Vos (68)
• Arie van den Berg (64), Rotterdam
• * Cornelis den Besten (65), Haastrecht
• Antonius Hootsmans (73), Grave
• Alijda Jacoba Magdalena Rotgans (29), Rotterdam

• 1924 » Harry Schwarz, South African anti-apartheid leader, lawyer, and Ambassador († 2010)
• 1924 » Theodore Mann, American director and producer († 2012)
• 1927 » Archie Scott Brown, Scottish race car driver († 1958)
• 1927 » Fred Hellerman, American folk singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer († 2016)
• 1927 » Herbert Ross, American actor, director, and producer († 2001)
• 1928 » Édouard Molinaro, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2013)
• 1928 » Enrique Bolaños, Nicaraguan politician, President of Nicaragua
• 1929 » John Galvin, American general († 2015)
• 1930 » José Jiménez Lozano, Spanish journalist and author
• 1930 » Mike Gravel, American lieutenant and politician

• 1916 » Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (b. 1859)
• 1921 » Jean Aicard, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
• 1926 » Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American bishop (b. 1857)
• 1929 » Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (b. 1878)
• 1930 » Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1938 » Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1941 » Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (b. 1891)
• 1941 » Frederick Christian, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1945 » Tubby Hall, American drummer (b. 1895)
• 1946 » Zara DuPont, American suffragist (b. 1869)

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 15 » The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
• May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
• May 21 » Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
• July 10 » Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
• November 12 » Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.

The temperature on May 13, 1927 was between 0.1 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.