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• Bernard Joseph Kathman, Covington, Kenton Co., Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 2005)
• Clarence Pluim, Waupun, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Cornelis Leonardus Cletus IJpelaar, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1996)
• Afra Gerarda van der Gulik, Wervershoof, Noord Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Arie de Bruijn, Heusden
• Abraham van Hilten, Rotterdam († 2017)
• Derkje Maria HOEKSEMA, Gorinchem († 2007)
• Annie van den Berg, Beuningen († 2004)
• Adrianus Engelinus Maria Vijverberg, Den Haag, Nederland († 1937)
• Agnes MrsHale Scarbrough, Alabama († 1985)

• Alida Miltenburg, van (72), Houten, Nederland
• Adrianus van Dijk (90), Amerongen, Nederland
• * Hendricus Bernardus Baars (0), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL
• Carlos Augusto Pereira Guimarães (65), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Alida van Miltenburg (72), Houten, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aartje Verduin (61)
• Barbara OUWERKERK (23), Rotterdam
• Cornelis Vahrmeijer (0), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• * Maria Sink (60), Schiedam
• Barbara Ouwerkerk (23), Rotterdam

• 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)

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 9 » A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
• 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.
• March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
• May 26 » The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
• July 24 » The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
• August 16 » The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.

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.