About the day » Friday December 2, 1927Calender converter

• Ans Elskamp († 2015)
• Adeline Ruth Wyand, Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten († 2001)
• Aaltje Adriana Warning, Zuidland († 1994)
• Betty Jean Johnson Taylor, Sikeston, Scott, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 2018)
• van Holstein, Naaldwijk, Nederland († 1927)
• Cornelia Jacoba Martens, Helmond
• "Dora" Theodora Maria Derksen, Zevenaar († 2010)
• Celina Maria Josepha Delputte, Oostkerke, België († 2015)
• Delores Sophia van Dijkhorst, Hamlin, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten († 2020)
• Anna Frederick Heutinck, Netherlands († 2003)

• Adrianus Antonius van Bergen (6), Chaam
• Baukje Buurmans (87), Grijpskerk, Groningen, Nederland
• Areke van Weelden (77), (UT) Utrecht
• Berta Elisabeth van Mierlo (17), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Berend Jan Goorkate (62), Groningen
• Aloisius de Guchtenaere (86), Koewacht, Zeeland, Nederland
• Bernard Johan Herman Haitink (70), 's-Gravenhage
• Ambrose Edward Forsythe (43), Hughes County, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten
• Zwaantje Wachtmeester (0), De Krim
• Benne Klazes Holwerda (84), Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Nederland

• 1924 » Alexander Haig, American general and politician, 59th United States Secretary of State († 2010)
• 1924 » Else Marie Pade, Danish composer († 2016)
• 1924 » Jonathan Frid, Canadian actor († 2012)
• 1924 » Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2006)
• 1925 » Julie Harris, American actress († 2013)
• 1928 » Guy Bourdin, French photographer († 1991)
• 1929 » Dan Jenkins, American journalist and author († 2019)
• 1929 » Leon Litwack, American historian and author
• 1930 » David Piper, English race car driver
• 1930 » Gary Becker, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2014)

• 1918 » Edmond Rostand, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1924 » Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian linguist and philologist (b. 1879)
• 1927 » Paul Heinrich von Groth, German scientist who systematically classified minerals and founded the journal Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie (b. 1843)
• 1931 » Vincent d'Indy, French composer and educator (b. 1851)
• 1936 » John Ringling, American businessman, co-founded Ringling Brothers Circus (b. 1866)
• 1943 » Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian journalist and author (b. 1902)
• 1944 » Eiji Sawamura, Japanese baseball player and soldier (b. 1917)
• 1944 » Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Egyptian-Italian poet and composer (b. 1876)
• 1944 » Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist and educator (b. 1874)
• 1950 » Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist and composer (b. 1917)

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.
• 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).
• May 1 » The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
• May 20 » Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• May 27 » The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
• August 19 » Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
• 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?"

The temperature on December 2, 1927 was between 0.6 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.