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• Anne Wijmenga, Garyp, Nederland († 1988)
• Dawid Pieter Maas († 1995)
• Afine Catharina Maria Nienhuis, 't Zandt, Groningen, Nederland († 2018)
• Anne Gibb, Liverpool, Lancashire, England († 2015)
• August Van de Velde, Koningshooikt, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1997)
• Adrianus Martinus (Aad) Van Kins, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1979)
• Adriana Lems, Rotterdam († 1927)
• Christiaan van de Graaf, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Arend Oosterhuis, Arriën († 2017)
• "Hubert" François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Rabat, Maroc († 2015)

• Barbara Josephina Wintermans (0), Eersel
• Bertram van den Broek (56), Amsterdam
• Cornelis Tolenaars (0), Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana van Breugel (49)
• Alice Maud Olivia Montagu (65)
• Berend Jan Hulshof (84), Neede
• Anna Meerbeek (48), Borculo
• Albert Lindeman (0), Scheemda
• Alida van Vliet (87), Schoonhoven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arend Andries REINDERS (79), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1923 » Katherine Victor, American actress († 2004)
• 1925 » Anis Mansour, Egyptian journalist and author († 2011)
• 1925 » Brian Aldiss, English author and critic († 2017)
• 1925 » Pierre Grondin, Canadian surgeon and academic († 2006)
• 1927 » Rosalynn Carter, First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981
• 1928 » Marge Schott, American businesswoman († 2004)
• 1928 » Sonny Til, American R&B singer († 1981)
• 1929 » Hugues Aufray, French singer-songwriter
• 1930 » Liviu Librescu, Romanian-American engineer and academic († 2007)
• 1930 » Rafael Pineda Ponce, Honduran academic and politician († 2014)

• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
• 1919 » Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)
• 1940 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Julien Lahaut, Belgian soldier and politician (b. 1884)
• 1952 » Alberto Hurtado, Chilean priest, lawyer, and saint (b. 1901)
• 1964 » Hildegard Trabant, Berlin Wall victim (b. 1927)

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.
• March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
• May 8 » Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
• May 26 » The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
• July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
• September 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
• December 17 » Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.

The temperature on August 18, 1927 was between 9.4 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.