About the day » Wednesday May 4, 1927Calender converter

• Clara Hanna Mendelson, Sneek, Friesland, Nederland († 1943)
• Bonne Wiebes Bijker, Goënga, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 2015)
• Alida (alie) Tuip, Volendam († 2009)
• Anna van der Knaap, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2018)
• Abraham Boon, IJsselmonde († 1928)
• Adelheid Vromonde Krul, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2011)
• Adelheid Vromonde Krul († 2011)
• Achiel, Remi Mannaert, Denderbelle († 1970)
• Anntoinette Polinsky, Frackville, Pa
• Annie van der Blomvliet, Wilnis, Utrecht, Nederland († 2007)

• Antonetta van Falier (76), Vlijmen
• Aaltje Stuivenberg (52), Gorinchem
• Aartje v Dam (36), Putten
• Adriaantje Jumelet (64), Bruinisse
• Barbera van Wijgerden (39), Brakel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Margaretha Hendriks (54), Vlaardinger-Ambacht
• Adriaantje Jumelet (64), Bruinisse
• Blandine Wüstenhöfer (72), Niederrad, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany
• Alida Smit (74), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• "Arnould" Marie Pierre Henri Joseph de Ranst de Berchem de Saint-Brisson (59), Paris

• 1925 » Jenő Buzánszky, Hungarian footballer and coach († 2015)
• 1925 » Maurice R. Greenberg, American businessman and philanthropist
• 1926 » David Stoddart, Baron Stoddart of Swindon, English politician
• 1928 » Betsy Rawls, American golfer
• 1928 » Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian air marshal and politician, 4th President of Egypt († 2020)
• 1928 » Maynard Ferguson, Canadian trumpet player and bandleader († 2006)
• 1928 » Thomas Kinsella, Irish poet, translator, and publisher
• 1928 » Wolfgang von Trips, German race car driver († 1961)
• 1929 » Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-British actress and humanitarian († 1993)
• 1929 » Manuel Contreras, Chilean general († 2015)

• 1916 » Ned Daly, Irish rebel commander (Easter Rising) (b. 1891)
• 1916 » John Murray, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Victoria (b. 1851)
• 1916 » Joseph Plunkett, Irish rebel and writer (b. 1887)
• 1916 » Willie Pearse, Irish rebel (b. 1891)
• 1919 » Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak general and politician (b. 1880)
• 1922 » Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian politician (b. 1888)
• 1923 » Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1877)
• 1924 » E. Nesbit, English author and poet (b. 1858)
• 1938 » Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• 1938 » Kanō Jigorō, Japanese founder of judo (b. 1860)

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.
• April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
• April 12 » Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
• April 27 » Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
• May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
• 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.
• 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.

The temperature on May 4, 1927 was between 8.7 °C and 24.4 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.