About the day » Monday January 31, 1927Calender converter

• Antonius Maas, Hulsel († 1928)
• Dieuwke Tiedes Boersma († 1996)
• Abraham Kroon, Woubrugge, Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1988)
• Bake Meijeringh, Zeegse, Vries, Drenthe, Nederland († 2009)
• Cyrille Remi Verhoest, Geluveld († 2001)
• Cornelia Goverde, Klundert († 2003)
• Beatrice de Fretes, Semarang,JA,NOI († 2014)
• Anna van Os, Tilburg († 1928)
• Charles Joseph CRAM, Hartford, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten († 1999)
• Edward William Strome, Münster, Saskatchewan, Canada († 2018)

• Amelia Eliza Stracey (53), London, England
• Antonie de Man (74), Dreumel
• Adriaan de Visser (85), Klundert
• Anna Annema (51), Jelsum, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonie Ganzeman (86), Geldermalsen
• Annie Louisa Smith (77), Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Alina Poelma (94), (GR) Haren
• Alberta Willemina Visser (52), Apeldoorn
• Alijda Maria Habes (78), Dieren
• Antonie de Man (75), Dreumel, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1923 » Norman Mailer, American journalist and author († 2007)
• 1925 » Benjamin Hooks, American minister, lawyer, and activist († 2010)
• 1926 » Chuck Willis, American singer-songwriter († 1958)
• 1926 » Tom Alston, American baseball player († 1993)
• 1927 » Norm Prescott, American animator, producer, and composer, co-founded Filmation Studios († 2005)
• 1928 » Irma Wyman, American computer scientist and engineer († 2015)
• 1929 » Jean Simmons, English-American actress († 2010)
• 1929 » Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2011)
• 1930 » Al De Lory, American composer, conductor, and producer († 2012)
• 1930 » Joakim Bonnier, Swedish race car driver († 1972)

• 1900 » John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish nobleman (b. 1844)
• 1907 » Timothy Eaton, Canadian businessman, founded Eaton's (b. 1834)
• 1923 » Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic (b. 1869)
• 1933 » John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1942 » Henry Larkin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1944 » Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright (b. 1882)
• 1954 » Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Vivian Woodward, English captain and footballer (b. 1879)
• 1955 » John Mott, American activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1956 » A. A. Milne, English author, poet, and playwright, created Winnie-the-Pooh (b. 1882)

• 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 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 27 » Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
• June 29 » The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
• July 24 » The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
• November 13 » The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
• December 11 » Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.

The temperature on January 31, 1927 was between 2.1 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.