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• Cornelis Adrianus van Gaalen, Wateringen († 1997)
• Dirkje Oosterom, Nieuwerkerk aan de IJssel († 1999)
• Elisabeth Meels, Geleen, Nederland († 2001)
• Bennie Hartjes († 1998)
• Aalbert Bouman († 2015)
• * Cornelia Maria (Corrie) Borst, Gouda († 2005)
• Adriaan Henricus Stephanus Fleerakkers, Duizel († 2007)
• Asser Witteboon, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Abraham Elzinga, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Netherlands († 1997)
• Alex James Lapere, Muskegon MI/USA († 1985)

• Adriana Heesterbeek (82), Waalre
• Adrianus Brobbel (39), Zwartewaal
• Antonia Johannes Forrer (65), Koog aan de Zaan, Zaanstad, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Aaron Groman Kramer (69)
• Adrianus de Niet (0), Rotterdam
• AALTJE ALBERTS DE JONG (88), Leeuwarden
• Adrianus Johannes van Leeuwen (0), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Westmaas (71), Alphen aan den Rijn
• Anna Maria Kroon (63), Nijkerk
• Anna Maria Kroon (63), Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1924 » Frank Broyles, American football player, coach, and sportscaster († 2017)
• 1926 » Earle Brown, American composer († 2002)
• 1927 » Alan King, American actor, producer, and screenwriter († 2004)
• 1927 » Denis Gifford, English journalist and historian († 2000)
• 1927 » Denis Quilley, English actor († 2003)
• 1927 » Stu Miller, American baseball player († 2015)
• 1929 » Kathleen Crowley, American actress († 2017)
• 1929 » Régine Zylberberg, Belgian-French singer and actress
• 1930 » Harry Gamble, American football player, coach, and manager († 2014)
• 1930 » Jean Ferrat, French singer-songwriter and poet († 2010)

• 1909 » Frederic Remington, American painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
• 1923 » Dietrich Eckart, German journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1868)
• 1925 » Jan Letzel, Czech architect, designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (b. 1880)
• 1929 » Albert Giraud, Belgian poet (b. 1860)
• 1931 » Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator, created the Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851)
• 1933 » Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1875)
• 1933 » Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer and educator (b. 1858)
• 1959 » Jack Tresadern, English footballer and manager (b. 1890)
• 1960 » Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese historian and philosopher (b. 1889)
• 1963 » Gorgeous George, American wrestler (b. 1915)

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.
• January 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
• 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 12 » Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
• April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
• June 29 » The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
• December 19 » Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy.

The temperature on December 26, 1927 was between -0.5 °C and 2.8 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 8.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.