About the day » Sunday April 17, 1927Calender converter

• Benjamin Tracy Pigg, Amelia, Virginia, United States († 1927)
• Alfred Workman, Fulton, Whiteside County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2015)
• Anna Versijpt, Lochristi († 2010)
• Annie Pieterdina Teerling, Usquert († 2014)
• Leijten, Oss (Noord-Brabant, NLD) († 1927)
• Alida de Boer, onbekend († 2011)
• Bertha VANHIE, Sint-Eloois-Winkel († 1954)
• Adrianus Ploeg, Breda († 1994)
• Alida de Boer († 2011)
• Adrianus Ploeg, Breda († 1994)

• ADRIANUS SONNEVELD (64), ROTTERDAM
• "Anna" Christiane Irene Renate von Arco-Zinneberg (83), Roma
• Baukje Piebes van der HEIDE (48), Feanwâlden (Veenwouden), Dantumadiel, Fryslân, Nederland
• Anthonia Turkesteen (58), Veenendaal, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonia Johanna van Beek (39), Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Amand Lagast (3), Heist-aan-Zee
• Anna Christiane Irene Renata von Arco-Zinneberg (83), Roma, Roma, Italy
• Bauke Schaafsma (69), Haskerland
• Anna Cornelia van Gastel (79), Steenbergen (NL)
• Albert Schonewille (86), Hardenberg

• 1924 » Kenneth Norman Jones, Australian public servant
• 1925 » René Moawad, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 13th President of Lebanon († 1989)
• 1926 » Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player and manager († 2004)
• 1926 » Joan Lorring, British actress († 2014)
• 1927 » Margot Honecker, East German politician and First Lady († 2016)
• 1928 » Cynthia Ozick, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist
• 1928 » Fabien Roy, Canadian accountant and politician
• 1928 » Heinz Putzl, Austrian fencer
• 1928 » Victor Lownes, American businessman († 2017)
• 1929 » James Last, German-American bassist, composer, and bandleader († 2015)

• 1921 » Manwel Dimech, Maltese journalist, author, and philosopher (b. 1860)
• 1923 » Laurence Ginnell, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1852)
• 1930 » Alexander Golovin, Russian painter and stage designer (b. 1863)
• 1933 » Kote Marjanishvili, Georgian director and playwright (b. 1872)
• 1936 » Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Dutch lawyer and politician, 28th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1873)
• 1942 » Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1944 » Dimitrios Psarros, Greek lieutenant, founded the National and Social Liberation (b. 1893)
• 1944 » J. T. Hearne, English cricketer and coach (b. 1867)
• 1946 » Juan Bautista Sacasa, Nicaraguan medical doctor, politician and 20th President of Nicaragua (b. 1874)
• 1948 » Suzuki Kantarō, Japanese admiral and politician, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1868)

• 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.
• January 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
• May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
• June 13 » Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
• June 27 » Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference.
• December 11 » Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.

The temperature on April 17, 1927 was between 1.4 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.