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• Berken, Barger-Compascuum, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1927)
• Anna Wilhelmina van Duijn, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Andries Westendorp, IJsselmuiden, Overijssel, Nederland († 1963)
• Bastiana Cornelia Landsmeer, Dordrecht († 2016)
• Catharina Maria Theodora Antonia Jacoba Kuijsters, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1982)
• 'n Levenloos geboren dochter van van der Kooij, Ter Aar (Korteraar) († 1927)
• Arie Kraaijestein († 1994)
• Albert Doornbos, Grand Rapids (Kent, Michigan, USA) († 1952)
• Charles Davis Garland, Harbour Grace, Avalon Peninsula Census Division, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada († 2015)
• Berendina te Velde († 2012)

• Aganetha Neudorf (31), Greet Deer District, Canada
• 'n Levenloos geboren dochter van van der Kooij (0), Ter Aar (Korteraar)
• Catrinus Bleeker (76), Wonseradeel
• Agnes Louisa van de Pavoordt (63), Gouda
• (l.l.) Steenvoort (0), Zwolle
• Anna LENDERINK (86), Hengelo (NL)
• Alemeda Wilson (89), Ogden, Weber, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Helena Hartmann (1), Barger-Compascuum, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Amy ELLIOT (42), Sioux City, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• André "Auguste" Roch Pichaud (74), Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

• 1925 » Jane Connell, American actress and singer († 2013)
• 1925 » Monica Sims, English radio host and producer († 2018)
• 1925 » Paul Fox, English broadcaster
• 1925 » Warren Christopher, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 63rd United States Secretary of State († 2011)
• 1926 » Boris Chetkov, Russian painter († 2010)
• 1926 » H. R. Haldeman, American businessman and diplomat, 4th White House Chief of Staff († 1993)
• 1926 » Henri Fertet, French Resistance fighter († 1943).
• 1926 » Takumi Shibano, Japanese author and translator († 2010)
• 1927 » Dominick Argento, American composer and educator († 2019)
• 1928 » Gilles Vigneault, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet

• 1917 » Arthur Rhys-Davids, English lieutenant and pilot (b. 1897)
• 1926 » Warren Wood, American golfer and soldier (b. 1887)
• 1927 » Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (b. 1888)
• 1929 » Théodore Tuffier, French surgeon (b. 1857)
• 1930 » Ellen Hayes, American mathematician and astronomer (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver (b. 1897)
• 1942 » Helmuth Hübener, German activist (b. 1925)
• 1944 » Judith Auer, German World War II resistance fighter (b. 1905)
• 1947 » William Fay, Irish actor and producer, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1872)
• 1949 » Marcel Cerdan, Algerian-French boxer (b. 1916)

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 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
• 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.
• August 27 » Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
• September 18 » The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
• December 8 » The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
• December 17 » Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.

The temperature on October 27, 1927 was between 13.3 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.