About the day » Tuesday May 24, 1927Calender converter

• Egbert Bartels, Muntendam, Groningen, Nederland († 1951)
• Derk Buter, Wapenveld (Gem. Heerde) († 2006)
• Douwe Raven († 1988)
• Ponsioen, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1999)
• Engelbert Grevink, Eibergen († 1991)
• Anna Wagner, Amsterdam († 2014)
• Bernice May Clacher, Cape Town, South Africa († 1999)
• Antje Bergsma, Steenwijkerwold, Friesland, Netherlands († 1995)
• Cornelis Leonardus Josephus Schuermans, Tilburg († 1983)
• Dale Leslie King, Klamath Falls, Klamath County, Oregon, Verenigde Staten († 2013)

• ? Statema, Hennaarderadeel
• Antje Wouters Wagter (81), Rotterdam
• Benjamin Overby Woolley (75), Gainesville, Hall County, Georgia
• Berend Postema (79), Grant-Oceana County-Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Alouisius Giele (1), Boschkapelle 25
• Antje Voerman (64), Steenwijk, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriaan Boons (75), Dongen, NL
• Aleida Steffens (91), Almelo
• Aaltje van de Raa (61), Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Baukes Veldman (23), Oldeboorn, Utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland

• 1923 » Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress († 1986)
• 1924 » Philip Pearlstein, American soldier and painter
• 1925 » Carmine Infantino, American illustrator and educator († 2013)
• 1925 » Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director († 1994)
• 1926 » Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor and screenwriter
• 1928 » William Trevor, Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer († 2016)
• 1932 » Arnold Wesker, English playwright and producer († 2016)
• 1933 » Aharon Lichtenstein, French-Israeli rabbi and author († 2015)
• 1933 » Jane Byrne, American lawyer and politician, 50th Mayor of Chicago († 2014)
• 1933 » Réal Giguère, Canadian television host and actor

• 1908 » Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (b. 1821)
• 1915 » John Condon, Irish-English soldier (b. 1896)
• 1919 » Amado Nervo, Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (b. 1870)
• 1929 » Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)
• 1945 » Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1948 » Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum and Moscow Kazanskaya railway station (b. 1873)
• 1950 » Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (b. 1883)
• 1951 » Thomas N. Heffron, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1872)

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.
• 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.
• March 29 » Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida.
• April 12 » Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
• 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.
• November 13 » The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.

The temperature on May 24, 1927 was between 9.2 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.