About the day » Tuesday January 18, 1927Calender converter

• Clara de Hond, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Antje Timmers, Vlaardingen († 1955)
• Bertha Philips, Arnhem,Gemeente Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1943)
• Alma Lee Ellsworth, Afton, Ottawa, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten († 2017)
• Adrianus Antonius Bierman, Noordwijk († 2010)
• Arend de Wilde, Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland († 2024)
• Andrea Gerritsd X Louwer, Rotterdam († 2015)
• Anna Cornelia elisabeth Matthijssen, Wouw, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 2005)
• Anna Jurianna Pos, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1996)
• Agnes Mae Sloothaak, Ottawa, Michigan, VS († 2011)

• Anna Catharina Glabbeek (77), Amsterdam
• Aalbertje van den Hazel (36), Barneveld
• Alberdine Hendrika Huls (89), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aart van den Ent (51), Koudekerk aan de Rijn
• Adrianus Martinus van Zwet (64), Wateringen
• Adolf Pietje Jensen (75), Paramaribo
• Adriaan Brok (27), Nieuwkuijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• * Antonia Kivits (56), Vlijmen
• Aaltje Veldkamp (Veltkamp) (67), Heerde, Nederland
• Age~Ates Vellinga (87), Wymbritseradiel

• 1923 » Gerrit Voorting, Dutch cyclist († 2015)
• 1923 » John Graham, General Officer Commanding (GOC) Wales († 2012)
• 1925 » Gilles Deleuze, French metaphysician and philosopher († 1995)
• 1925 » John V. Evans, American soldier and politician, 27th Governor of Idaho († 2014)
• 1925 » Sol Yurick, American soldier and author († 2013)
• 1926 » Randolph Bromery, American geologist and academic († 2013)
• 1927 » Sundaram Balachander, Indian actor, singer, and veena player († 1990)
• 1928 » Alexander Gomelsky, Soviet and Russian professional basketball coach († 2005)
• 1931 » Chun Doo-hwan, South Korean general and politician, 5th President of South Korea
• 1932 » Robert Anton Wilson, American psychologist, author, poet, and playwright († 2007)

• 1923 » Wallace Reid, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1891)
• 1936 » Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower (b. 1871)
• 1936 » Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1940 » Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Polish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary and humanitarian (b. 1867)
• 1952 » Curly Howard, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1954 » Sydney Greenstreet, English-American actor (b. 1879)
• 1955 » Saadat Hasan Manto, Pakistani author and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1956 » Konstantin Päts, Estonian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of Estonia (b. 1874)
• 1956 » Makbule Atadan, Turkish lawyer and politician (b. 1885)

• 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 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
• April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
• April 30 » The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
• 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.
• October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.

The temperature on January 18, 1927 was between -1.4 and 0.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.