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• Arthur Edwin Parrott, Grenfell, Saskatchewan, Canada († 2009)
• Aaltje Johanna van der Kamp († 2003)
• Christianus Henricus Bax, Sint-Oedenrode, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1949)
• Gerald Francis "Gerry" Campbell, Chicago, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2008)
• Antonia Jacoba Plantenga, ,,, The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands († 2011)
• Anna de Jong, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Antonius Johannes van Opstal, Gilze en Rijen († 1927)
• Cornelia Adriana (Corrie) van Wijk, Veldhuizen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1987)
• Aaltje Johanna Kamp van der, Kampen († 2003)
• Christian Pierre René Marie de Liedekerke-Beaufort, Paris († 1992)

• Anna Gerritsd Alves (78), Leeuwarden, fr.nld
• Anna GORISSEN (66), Geleen,Gemeente Sittard-Geleen,Limburg,Nederland
• Adriaan Zwartbol (48), Dordrecht
• Adriana Johanna de Veer (58), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Jacomina Fortgens (76), Haarlem
• Aleida ten Duis (56), Stad Delden, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Gorissen (64), Geleen
• Adrianus Jacobus de Ronde (78), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aafke Teunis van der Duin (75), Lonneker / Enschede
• Anna Maria van der Kint (40), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1925 » Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer († 2000)
• 1925 » Ron Tauranac, Australian engineer and businessman
• 1925 » Rosemary Murphy, American actress († 2014)
• 1925 » Vanita Smythe, American singer and actress († 1994)
• 1926 » Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American author and academic († 2003)
• 1926 » Melba Liston, American trombonist and composer († 1999)
• 1926 » Michael Bond, English soldier and author, created Paddington Bear († 2017)
• 1927 » Brock Adams, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th United States Secretary of Transportation († 2004)
• 1927 » Liz Anderson, American singer-songwriter († 2011)
• 1927 » Sydney Brenner, South African biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2019)

• 1907 » Jakob Hurt, Estonian theologist and linguist (b. 1839)
• 1915 » Mary Slessor, Scottish-Nigerian missionary (b. 1848)
• 1916 » Victoriano Huerta, Mexican military officer and president, 1913–1914 (b. 1850)
• 1923 » Alexandre Ribot, French academic and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1842)
• 1924 » Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist and academic (b. 1834)
• 1929 » H. B. Higgins, Irish-Australian judge and politician, 3rd Attorney-General for Australia (b. 1851)
• 1929 » Wyatt Earp, American police officer (b. 1848)
• 1934 » Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist and chemist (b. 1860)
• 1941 » James Joyce, Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet (b. 1882)
• 1943 » Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1889)

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 22 » Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
• March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
• April 12 » Rocksprings, Texas was hit by an F5 tornado that destroyed 235 of the 247 buildings in the town and killed 72 townspeople and injured 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
• April 12 » Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
• May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
• September 5 » The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.

The temperature on January 13, 1927 was between 0.7 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.