About the day » Saturday January 15, 1927Calender converter

• Adriana Margaretha (Jeanette) Plat, Den Haag, 2500, Nederland († 2018)
• Antonius Martinus (Toon) WEREN, Oploo (NL/NB) Lived Deurne (NL/NB) († 2003)
• Arlith Siemens, Freeport, Stephenson, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2015)
• Christina Maria Terhürne, Haaksbergen († 2011)
• Berendina Wilhelmina Augustina Hermina Exterkate, Delden, 7491, Nederland († 1931)
• Antoinette Gerardine Maria Jordans, amsterdam († 1995)
• Cornelis Rijsdijk, Dordrecht († 1945)
• Antonia maria van Dingenen, Hapert († 1994)
• Agnes Maria Catharina Quaden, Heer,, Limburg, Nederland († 1992)
• Adrianus Eusebius Fredericus Feddema, wehe-den Hoorn, Nederland († 1927)

• Albertus Gerhardus BULTEN (78), Doetinchem, Nederland, Gelderland, Ambt, Langerak
• Adriana Maria de Koning (41), Gilze en Rijen
• Adriana van der Wiel (72), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Berents Pelster (74), zuidlaren
• Albertus Gerhardus Bulten (78), Doetinchem, Langerak
• Lucia Theodora Maria van Gils (54), Udenhout
• Adriana van der Wiel (72), Noordwijk
• Alida Johanna HOUTEN,VAN (64), Hilversum,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Prins (85), Zwartsluis
• Adriana van der Wiel (72), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1923 » Ivor Cutler, Scottish pianist, songwriter, and poet († 2006)
• 1924 » George Lowe, New Zealand-English mountaineer and explorer († 2013)
• 1925 » Ignacio López Tarso, Mexican actor
• 1925 » Ruth Slenczynska, American pianist and composer
• 1926 » Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss actress († 2005)
• 1927 » Phyllis Coates, American actress
• 1928 » W. R. Mitchell, English journalist and author († 2015)
• 1929 » Earl Hooker, American guitarist († 1970)
• 1929 » Martin Luther King, Jr., American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (assassinated in 1968)
• 1930 » Eddie Graham, American wrestler and promoter († 1985)

• 1909 » Arnold Janssen, German priest and missionary (b. 1837)
• 1916 » Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian playwright and translator (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Karl Liebknecht, German politician (b. 1871)
• 1919 » Rosa Luxemburg, German economist, theorist, and philosopher (b. 1871)
• 1926 » Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1883)
• 1929 » George Cope, American painter (b. 1855)
• 1936 » Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster, English cricketer and politician, 7th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1866)
• 1937 » Anton Holban, Romanian author, theoretician, and educator (b. 1902)
• 1945 » Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian-German mathematician and theorist (b. 1865)
• 1948 » Josephus Daniels, American publisher and diplomat, 41st United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1862)

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 9 » A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
• April 30 » The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
• June 27 » Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference.
• July 10 » Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
• November 21 » Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
• December 30 » The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.

The temperature on January 15, 1927 was between 2.9 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 8.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.