About the day » Saturday May 21, 1927Calender converter

• Alphonsus Theodorus Maria Spaninks, Hilvarenbeek († 1989)
• Damsten, Rotterdam († 1927)
• Bernardus Johannes Marinus Game, Weerselo († 1934)
• Cornelia Agatha Petronella Franken, Noordwijkerhout († 2007)
• Cornelis Johannes (Kees) Romijn, Den Haag ('s Gravenhage), Zuid-Holland, Nederland (Netherlands) († 1993)
• Cornelis Johannes Romijn, Den haag († 1993)
• Adrianus Auwerda, Zutphen († 1945)
• Athol Dennis LAPTHORNE († 2012)
• Aaltje Van Der Werf, Bedum, Groningen, Netherlands († 1998)
• Adriana Magdalena Hoogerbrugge, Elst († 2015)

• Bertus WETERING (77), Beerze (Ambt Ommen)
• Bertha Leona Stewart (40), Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Mol (60), Wervershoof,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje de Boer (74), Wonseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Christina Olivier (75), Salt Lake City-Utah (USA)
• Alberta Boeve (34), Apeldoorn
• Bastiaan Berge, van den (59), Rotterdam Zhl. NL
• Alida Piket (18), Leiden
• Aloysius Leonardus Crombeen (0), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Pieternella Pleijsier (30), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland Nederland

• 1924 » Peggy Cass, American actress, comedian, and game show panelist († 1999)
• 1926 » Robert Creeley, American novelist, essayist, and poet († 2005)
• 1927 » Kay Kendall, English actress and comedian († 1959)
• 1927 » Péter Zwack, Hungarian businessman and diplomat († 2012)
• 1928 » Alice Drummond, American actress († 2016)
• 1928 » Tom Donahue, American radio host and producer († 1975)
• 1929 » Larance Marable, American drummer († 2012)
• 1929 » Robert Welch, English silversmith and industrial designer († 2000)
• 1930 » Keith Davis, New Zealand rugby player († 2019)
• 1930 » Tommy Bryant, American bassist († 1982)

• 1915 » Leonid Gobyato, Russian general and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1919 » Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (b. 1853)
• 1920 » Venustiano Carranza, Mexican politician, 54th President of Mexico (b. 1859)
• 1925 » Hidesaburō Ueno, Japanese agriculturalist, guardian of Hachikō (b. 1871)
• 1926 » Ronald Firbank, English-Italian author (b. 1886)
• 1929 » Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847)
• 1932 » Marcel Boulenger, French fencer and author (b. 1873)
• 1935 » Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist and geneticist (b. 1848)
• 1935 » Jane Addams, American activist and author, co-founded Hull House, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1940 » Billy Minter, English footballer and manager (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.
• April 27 » Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
• April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
• August 16 » The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
• August 19 » Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
• September 5 » The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.

The temperature on May 21, 1927 was between 8.8 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.