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• Bram Trompetter, Hoogeveen († 1945)
• Anthonius Gerardus Berk, Kamerik († 1991)
• Cornelis Johannes Stuyt, Beemster, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2011)
• Christina van den HEUVEL († 2011)
• Cornelis Haitze Zeldenrust, Koudum († 2006)
• Adrianus Gabriel Bouwens, Dinteloord († 1980)
• August Rudolf Lammers van Toorenburg, Modjokerto, Indonesia († 2004)
• Albertje Keizer, Midwolda, Groningen, Netherlands († 2019)
• Catharina Wilhelmina Meijers, Oudenbosch,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2023)
• Alice Van Knippenberg, Hasselt, België († 2014)

• Aloysius Leeflang (63)
• Aaaltje Deurholt (21), Hoogezand
• Albert Drenthen (57), Vroomshoop, Overijssel, Nederland
• Albert (Cz) Klein (24), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus van der Hulst (68), Oud Ade, ZUI, Nederland
• Baron Carl Gustaf Garibaldi Fabian Wrede af Elimä (66), Helsingfors, Uusimaa, Finland
• Baukje Jans van der Jagt (80), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Klein (24), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aloijsius Leeflang (63), Rotterdam
• Baukjen Jans van der Jagt (85), Loosduinen, gem. Naaldwijk, Zuid Holland, Nederland

• 1923 » Richard Avedon, American sailor and photographer († 2004)
• 1924 » Maria Koepcke, German-Peruvian ornithologist and zoologist († 1971)
• 1925 » Andrei Eshpai, Russian pianist and composer († 2015)
• 1925 » Carl Sanders, American soldier, pilot, and politician, 74th Governor of Georgia († 2014)
• 1925 » Mary F. Lyon, English geneticist and biologist († 2014)
• 1925 » Roy Stewart, Jamaican-English actor and stuntman († 2008)
• 1926 » Anthony Shaffer, English author, playwright, and screenwriter († 2001)
• 1926 » Clermont Pépin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator († 2006)
• 1926 » Peter Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter († 2016)
• 1930 » Jasper Johns, American painter and sculptor

• 1914 » Ida Freund, Austrian-born chemist and educator (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Hasan Tahsin, Turkish journalist (b. 1888)
• 1924 » Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1926 » Joseph James Fletcher, Australian biologist (b. 1850)
• 1928 » Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (b. 1845)
• 1935 » Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian-Russian painter and theoretician (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1864)
• 1945 » Charles Williams, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Kenneth J. Alford, English soldier, bandmaster, and composer (b. 1881)
• 1948 » Edward J. Flanagan, Irish-American priest, founded Boys Town (b. 1886)

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 1 » New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.
• January 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
• May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
• May 18 » The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
• May 20 » Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• 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.

The temperature on May 15, 1927 was between 7.6 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.