About the day » Tuesday March 8, 1927Calender converter

• Cornelia van Donk, Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1994)
• Anna Margaretha (Cornelis Gerardus Meinders) Blaauwgeers, de Loo, Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2003)
• Betje de Jong, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Bernadetta Barbara Clemencia Simone SEGERS, Dilbeek,1700,Brabant Flamand,Bruxelles Capitale,BELGIQUE († 2014)
• Catharina Johanna Petronella Timmermans, Maasbree († 1928)
• Christine Planken († 2009)
• Albertus Maria de Ruijter, Geldrop († 2017)
• Berendina Sinningh, Groningen († 1991)
• Albert van Eijk, Amsterdam († 2004)
• Cornelia Jacoba van den Broek, Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2006)

• Bieke van der BERG (65), Franeker, Netherlands
• Arie Peters (56), Leiden
• Bastiaan Schalk (68), Rotterdam
• Anna Kooistra (75), Sauwerd, gem. Adorp, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriaan Scholten (43), Wildervank,Gemeente Veendam,Groningen,Nederland
• Benne Piers Rintjema (31), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie van Veen (0), Nederhemert, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Margaret Robbins (78), California, Verenigde Staten
• Nicolaas (0), Rotterdam
• Abraham Kanij (74), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1924 » Anthony Caro, English sculptor and illustrator († 2013)
• 1924 » Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2010)
• 1924 » Sean McClory, Irish-American actor and director († 2003)
• 1925 » Warren Bennis, American scholar, author, and academic († 2014)
• 1926 » Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter († 2001)
• 1927 » Ramon Revilla Sr., Filipino actor and politician († 2020)
• 1929 » Hebe Camargo, Brazilian actress and singer († 2012)
• 1930 » Bob Grim, American baseball player († 1996)
• 1930 » Douglas Hurd, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• 1931 » Neil Adcock, South African cricketer († 2013)

• 1917 » Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company (b. 1838)
• 1923 » Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1923 » Krišjānis Barons, Latvian linguist and author (b. 1835)
• 1930 » Edward Terry Sanford, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, United States Assistant Attorney General (b. 1865)
• 1930 » William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
• 1935 » Hachikō, Japanese dog (b. 1923)
• 1937 » Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1941 » Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1876)
• 1942 » José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player and theoretician (b. 1888)
• 1944 » Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete who helped thousands of Jewish children in the Holocaust (b. 1916)

• 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 14 » The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
• July 10 » Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
• July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
• October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
• November 13 » The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
• December 8 » The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.

The temperature on March 8, 1927 was between 4.1 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.