About the day » Tuesday May 24, 1927Calender converter

• Bernice May Clacher, Cape Town, South Africa († 1999)
• Anna Wagner, Amsterdam († 2014)
• Aaltje Schieving, Rolde († 1994)
• Francois de Beun, Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1986)
• Adelbertus Gerartus Maria Jong, Amsterdam († 1994)
• Douwe Raven († 1988)
• Cornelis Leonardus Josephus Schuermans, Tilburg, Nederland († 1983)
• Derk Buter, Wapenveld, Nederland († 2006)
• Antonius Franciscus Brummelhuis, Lemselo († 1971)
• Frans van 't Land, Arnhem, Gld, NL († 1977)

• Anna Roels Brouwer (66), Wolvega, Friesland, Nederland
• Alberta van der Molen (1), Gramsbergen
• Anna Elisabeth Roos Lindgreen (41), Amsterdam
• Aleida Steffens (91), Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antje Voerman (64), Steenwijk, Overijssel, Nederland
• Berend Postema (79), Grant-Oceana County-Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Alouisius Giele (1), Boschkapelle 25
• ANNA MARIA WILS (38), Antwerpen
• Aletta Dijk van (77), Waarder, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Boons (75), Dongen, NL

• 1923 » Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress († 1986)
• 1924 » Philip Pearlstein, American soldier and painter
• 1925 » Carmine Infantino, American illustrator and educator († 2013)
• 1925 » Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director († 1994)
• 1926 » Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor and screenwriter
• 1928 » William Trevor, Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer († 2016)
• 1932 » Arnold Wesker, English playwright and producer († 2016)
• 1933 » Aharon Lichtenstein, French-Israeli rabbi and author († 2015)
• 1933 » Jane Byrne, American lawyer and politician, 50th Mayor of Chicago († 2014)
• 1933 » Réal Giguère, Canadian television host and actor

• 1908 » Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (b. 1821)
• 1915 » John Condon, Irish-English soldier (b. 1896)
• 1919 » Amado Nervo, Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (b. 1870)
• 1929 » Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)
• 1945 » Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1948 » Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum and Moscow Kazanskaya railway station (b. 1873)
• 1950 » Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (b. 1883)
• 1951 » Thomas N. Heffron, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1872)

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.
• May 18 » The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
• July 4 » First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
• 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.
• August 19 » Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
• October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
• December 17 » Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.

The temperature on May 24, 1927 was between 9.2 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.