About the day » Tuesday August 16, 1927Calender converter

• Anna Maria Gertruda Riedel, Spaubeek († 2000)
• Cornelia Yvonne Joanna Maas, Antwerpen, Belgium († 2008)
• Antonius Petrus Schaerlaeckens, Breda († 1975)
• Cecile Verschelden, Assenede, België († 2014)
• Dennis Jozef Everaert, Herdersem
• Bertha SPRONKMANS, Boorsheim,Provincie Limburg,Flanders,Belgie († 1999)
• Cornelia Johanna Yvonne Maas, Deurne, Antwerpen, België († 2008)
• Anne L Kooistra († 2013)
• Aloysius Thomas Eckes, Marsfield, Wood county, Wisconsin (USA) († 1987)
• Alberta Drost, Zevenhuizen, Nederland († 1990)

• Christina Helena Eijkhout (64), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Baby girl Cannon (0), Boyle, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Bernardus Frederik Duran (81), den Haag
• Ankje Aarnout (56), Ferwerd, Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Litsenburg, van Johanna Maria (40), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Albert Mooi (60), Weststellingwerf, Noordwolde
• Anna HUIZINGA (82), Bussum
• Christiaan Zee (87), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Lavell (48), Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Beatrice Mary WISE (57), Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

• 1925 » Mal Waldron, American pianist and composer († 2002)
• 1925 » Willie Jones, American baseball player († 1983)
• 1927 » Lois Nettleton, American actress († 2008)
• 1928 » Ann Blyth, American actress and singer
• 1928 » Ara Güler, Turkish photographer and journalist († 2018)
• 1928 » Eddie Kirkland, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2011)
• 1928 » Eydie Gormé, American singer († 2013)
• 1928 » Wyatt Tee Walker, American pastor, theologian, and activist († 2018)
• 1929 » Bill Evans, American pianist and composer († 1980)
• 1929 » Helmut Rahn, German footballer († 2003)

• 1911 » Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (b. 1830)
• 1914 » Carl Theodor Schulz, German-Norwegian gardener (b. 1835)
• 1916 » George Scott, English footballer (b. 1885)
• 1920 » Henry Daglish, Australian politician, 6th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1866)
• 1921 » Peter I of Serbia (b. 1844)
• 1938 » Andrej Hlinka, Slovak priest, journalist, and politician (b. 1864)
• 1938 » Robert Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1911)
• 1945 » Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (b. 1891)
• 1948 » Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895)
• 1949 » Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1900)

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.
• April 19 » Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
• June 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
• July 16 » Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.
• September 22 » Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
• December 8 » The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
• December 30 » The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.

The temperature on August 16, 1927 was between 11.0 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 13.6 mm of rain. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.