About the day » Saturday July 23, 1927Calender converter

• Clayton Orvin Stoa, Moscow, Freeborn County, Minnesota († 2010)
• Donald Francis Kay, Paterson, Passaic Co., New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 2009)
• Anna Frances Peel Roy [sWks], Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky († 2014)
• "Elisabeth" Anne Marguerite Marie de Vitton de Peyruis, Keryado, Morbihan, France († 2009)
• Albert van Duinkerken, Barneveld († 1927)
• Dora Jansen, Vierlingsbeek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2002)
• Catharina Josephina Antonia Donders, Grote-Brogel, Limburg, België († 2007)
• Cornelis Henricus Petrus van den Brekel, Tilburg († 1989)
• Betty Jane TACK, Davenport,Scott County,Ia,United States († 1927)
• Annie Wilhelmina Antonia Maria Kuijer, Naarden, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2016)

• Barbara van Nood (59), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Visser (43), Zuilen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Ate Landstra (25), Veenendaal, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelis Rooduijn (40), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelis Pieter Kuiper (48), Texel
• Ayéma BOURGEOIS (67), Annoeullin,59112,Nord,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE
• Berendina Maria Burgers (56), Elst, Nederland
• Adriana Bastiana Koopmans (62), Rotterdam
• Albert DRENTHEN (0), Schoonebeek, Dalen
• Catharina Hubertina Moors (79), Echt

• 1925 » Alain Decaux, French historian and author († 2016)
• 1925 » Gloria DeHaven, American actress and singer († 2016)
• 1925 » Quett Masire, Botswana politician, the former Vice-President of Botswana († 2017)
• 1925 » Tajuddin Ahmad, Bangladeshi politician, 1st Prime Minister of Bangladesh († 1975)
• 1926 » Ludvík Vaculík, Czech journalist and author († 2015)
• 1927 » Gérard Brach, French director and screenwriter († 2006)
• 1928 » Hubert Selby, Jr., American author and screenwriter († 2004)
• 1928 » Leon Fleisher, American pianist and conductor († 2020)
• 1928 » Vera Rubin, American astronomer and academic († 2016)
• 1929 » Danny Barcelona, American drummer († 2007)

• 1916 » William Ramsay, Scottish-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1919 » Spyridon Lambros, Greek historian and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1851)
• 1920 » Conrad Kohrs, German-American rancher and politician (b. 1835)
• 1924 » Frank Frost Abbott, American author and scholar (b. 1850)
• 1926 » Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
• 1927 » Reginald Dyer, British brigadier general (b. 1864)
• 1930 » Glenn Curtiss, American pilot and engineer (b. 1878)
• 1932 » Tenby Davies, Welsh runner (b. 1884)
• 1936 » Anna Abrikosova, Russian linguist (b. 1882)
• 1941 » George Lyman Kittredge, American scholar and educator (b. 1860)

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• September 18 » The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
• September 22 » Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
• 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 July 23, 1927 was between 12.7 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.