About the day » Sunday February 20, 1927Calender converter

• Arie de Bruijn, Heusden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Leonardus Cletus IJpelaar, Loon op Zand († 1996)
• Bertha Lauterslager, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1976)
• Anna Margaretha Backs, Barger-Compascuum († 1927)
• Catrina Maria Hurkmans, Rotterdam († 2004)
• Agnes MrsHale Scarbrough, Alabama († 1985)
• Catharina Susanna (Bulte) Voppen, Nieuw Schoonebeek, Drenthe, Nederland († 2007)
• Cornelia Kunder de, Schore († 2012)
• Bloeme Polak, Amsterdam (NL) († 1943)
• Cornelius in 't Hout, Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 1927)

• * Hendricus Bernardus Baars (0), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL
• Aart Sneller (74), Oldebroek, Nederland
• Adrianus van DIJK, VAN (90), Amerongen,Utrecht,Netherlands
• Andrew Gatlin (33)
• Charlotta Eugenie Mendes da Costa (52)
• Alida Miltenburg, van (72), Houten, Nederland
• Bartelina Pieternella Cornelisse (67), Rotterdam
• Alida van MILTENBURG (72), Houten
• Bernarda Maria Knoef (52), Hengelo
• Adriana van der Koogh (37), Dordrecht

• 1926 » Bob Richards, American Olympic track and field athlete
• 1926 » Gillian Lynne, English ballerina, choreographer, and director († 2018)
• 1926 » María de la Purísima Salvat Romero, Spanish Roman Catholic nun; later canonized († 1998)
• 1926 » Matthew Bucksbaum, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded General Growth Properties († 2013)
• 1926 » Richard Matheson, American author and screenwriter († 2013)
• 1927 » Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban singer and musician († 2005)
• 1927 » Roy Cohn, American lawyer and political activist († 1986)
• 1927 » Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor, director, and diplomat
• 1928 » Jean Kennedy Smith, American diplomat, 25th United States Ambassador to Ireland
• 1928 » Roy Face, American baseball player and carpenter

• 1895 » Frederick Douglass, American author and activist (b. c. 1818)
• 1900 » Washakie, American tribal leader (b. 1798)
• 1907 » Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1910 » Boutros Ghali, Egyptian educator and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1846)
• 1916 » Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
• 1920 » Jacinta Marto, Portuguese saint (b. 1910)
• 1920 » Robert Peary, American admiral and explorer (b. 1856)
• 1933 » Takiji Kobayashi, Japanese writer (b. 1903)
• 1936 » Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
• 1957 » Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Turkish scholar and politician (b. 1878)

• 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 7 » The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London.
• January 11 » Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
• May 1 » The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
• May 27 » The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
• September 7 » The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
• 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 February 20, 1927 was between -2.7 °C and 0.4 °C and averaged -0.7 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.