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• Antonius Johannes Jacobus Uitewaal († 2002)
• Andreas Theodorus (André) Geutjes, Driebergen, Netherlands († 1999)
• Arendje van Beelen, Katwijk († 2016)
• Arendje van Beelen, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2016)
• Antje Togtema, Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Netherlands († 2016)
• "Karl Ernst" Hieronymus Bruno Ulrich von Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg, Pottenbrunn, Autriche († 2000)
• Betty Josephine Flowers Flores Jones, Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida, Verenigde Staten († 2008)
• Apollonia Busse, Rotterdam († 2016)
• Carolus Norbertus Joannes van Kruisselbergen, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2011)
• Anna Antonia Maria WILLEMS, Gassel, Grave, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1935)

• Aalbert Pol (0), Ede
• 00 Adrianus Straver (82), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
• Antje Lubach (3), Hengelo
• Anna Dernison (85), Amsterdam
• Antje Pool (26), Drachten, Friesland, Nederland
• Catharina Put
• Bokke Rinses van Dijk (86), Dantumadeel
• Amélia Barbo (49), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Aaldert Kloezen (81), Westerbork
• Berend Belgraver (49), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1923 » Robert Kuok, Malaysian Chinese business magnate and investor
• 1923 » Yaşar Kemal, Turkish journalist and author († 2015)
• 1925 » Shana Alexander, American journalist and author († 2005)
• 1927 » Bill King, American sportscaster († 2005)
• 1928 » Barbara Werle, American actress and singer († 2013)
• 1929 » George Mattos, American pole vaulter († 2012)
• 1930 » Hafez al-Assad, Syrian general and politician, 20th President of Syria († 2000)
• 1930 » Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer and sportscaster († 2015)
• 1931 » Eileen Derbyshire, English actress
• 1931 » Nikolai Chernykh, Russian astronomer († 2004)

• 1892 » Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (b. 1809)
• 1912 » Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)
• 1923 » Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1853)
• 1942 » Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1951 » Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)
• 1959 » Bernard Berenson, American historian and author (b. 1865)
• 1962 » Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1880)

• 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 30 » The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
• May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
• May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
• May 27 » The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
• July 4 » First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
• July 10 » Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.

The temperature on October 6, 1927 was between 6.0 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.