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• Aafke Margaretha van der Broek, Slochteren, Groningen, The Netherlands († 2015)
• Charles H. Krauss III, St Louis, Missouri († 2001)
• Cornelis NIJENHUIS, Winterswijk († 1928)
• Billie Eugene Todd, Orchard, Mitchell, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1927)
• Bruno STEVERLYNCK, Buenos Aires (Argentina),, France († 1996)
• Anna Zweed, ,,, den Helder, North Holland, Netherlands († 1981)
• Carolus Antonius Janssens, Bornem († 1980)
• Adrienne Geerts, Antwerpen, België († 2016)
• Catharina Petronella Leusen († 2009)
• Bette Norine Schoonover, Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma, Washington, United States († 2011)

• Cornelia Suzanna Arends (48), Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van der Pas (70), Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Maria Mulder (50), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• * Godefridus Hesselberth (64), Tilburg
• Catharina Elisabeth van Aerssen (60), Bergen, Li.NL
• Cornelia Suzanne Arends (48), Zaandam
• Catharina Elisabeth Hagemann (53), Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Hulter (30), Hardenberg, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Anna Cornelia van Gestel (19), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Suzanna Arends (48), Zaandam

• 1926 » Charlie Walker, American country music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and DJ († 2008)
• 1926 » Myer Skoog, American basketball player († 2019)
• 1927 » John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover, English businessman and politician
• 1927 » Steve Ditko, American author and illustrator († 2018)
• 1928 » Gerry Alexander, Jamaican cricketer and veterinarian († 2011)
• 1928 » Paul Johnson, English journalist, historian, and author
• 1929 » Amar Bose, American engineer and businessman, founded the Bose Corporation († 2013)
• 1929 » Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, Pakistani judge and politician, 9th President of Pakistan
• 1929 » Richard E. Taylor, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2018)
• 1929 » Robert Gover, American journalist and author († 2015)

• 1898 » George Goyder, English-Australian surveyor (b. 1826)
• 1905 » Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (b. 1817)
• 1911 » Kyrle Bellew, English actor (b. 1850)
• 1930 » Viggo Jensen, Danish weightlifter, target shooter, and gymnast (b. 1874)
• 1935 » Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)
• 1944 » Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and engineer (b. 1889)
• 1945 » Hélène de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (b. 1868)
• 1949 » Jerome F. Donovan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1872)
• 1950 » George Bernard Shaw, Irish author, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1952 » Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Greek-Turkish general (b. 1862)

• 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.
• March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
• 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.
• September 5 » The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
• September 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
• November 12 » Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.

The temperature on November 2, 1927 was between 10.0 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.