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• Cornelis Kloos, Noordwijk († 2004)
• Alfred Joseph Laumen († 2005)
• Arend Jan Wassink, ypelo († 2010)
• Cornelis Adrianus Leonardus van Loon, Tilburg († 1978)
• Abraham van Dalen, Zierikzee († 2014)
• Adele Deymann, Hönnepel († 2014)
• anna hendrika hanssen, helden-dorp († 2015)
• Adriana Hubertina Josepha Beekmans, St. Michielsgestel,No, Nederland († 1990)
• Doodgeboren dochter van Loon, Tilburg († 1927)
• Carol LaVonne Ripley, Pipestone, Pipestone County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 2008)

• Aalbert Wesselink (70), Arnhem
• Anthonia van WAARDE (77), Wolphaartsdijk, Zeeland, Nederland
• Antje Tiessen (60), Den Helder
• Antonetta BASTIANEN (75), Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana van der Wal (68), 's-Heeraartsberg en Bergambacht
• Arnoldina Maria Theresia van Gulick (1), Eindhoven, NL
• Antje Harmensdr Tiessen (62), Den Helder, Holland (North), Netherlands
• Alberdina Margiena Stoker (3), Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Antje Ox (Ocks) (88), den Helder, Nederland
• "Johannes" Jan Jan (76), Groesbeek, NL

• 1923 » Jean Nidetch, American businesswoman, co-founded Weight Watchers († 2015)
• 1924 » Leonidas Kyrkos, Greek politician († 2011)
• 1925 » Denis Lazure, Canadian psychiatrist and politician († 2008)
• 1928 » Al Held, American painter and academic († 2005)
• 1928 » Domna Samiou, Greek singer and musicologist († 2012)
• 1929 » Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic journalist and academic († 2007)
• 1929 » Nappy Brown, American R&B singer-songwriter († 2008)
• 1929 » Robert Coles, American psychologist, author, and academic
• 1930 » Denis Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player and photographer († 2013)
• 1930 » Milica Kacin Wohinz, Slovenian historian and author

• 1914 » Margaret E. Knight, American inventor (b. 1838)
• 1915 » Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)
• 1923 » Bunny Lucas, English cricketer (b. 1857)
• 1924 » Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
• 1926 » Edwin Abbott Abbott, English theologian and author (b. 1838)
• 1933 » John Lister, English philanthropist and politician (b. 1847)
• 1940 » Tom Mix, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1946 » Joseph Stilwell, American general (b. 1883)
• 1948 » Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885)
• 1954 » George Welch, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)

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.
• February 23 » German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
• April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
• April 19 » Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
• May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
• May 26 » The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
• October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.

The temperature on October 12, 1927 was between 8.8 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.