About the day » Thursday August 4, 1927Calender converter

• Clarence Wolters, Adrian (Nobles County) (Minnesota) († 1993)
• Charles Wishart Knight, Scotland († 2000)
• Cornelia Catharina (Cor Corry) Vermeij Vermeij, Oudewater († 1976)
• Alma Elisabeth Gabelmann († 2013)
• Annechiena MARISSEN, Borger Drenthe Netherlands († 1971)
• Alida Christina Hesterman, Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands († 1996)
• Cornelia van Eendenburg, Monster († 2021)
• Antonia Pennings, Den Dungen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1928)
• Anna Mary Tritle, Franklin County, Pennsylvania († 1998)
• Bella Roza Donck († 1963)

• Anna Sophia Frederica Wilhelmina de Koning (50), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Theodorus Sommers (66), Herwen
• Adriana Jansen (75), Oosterhout, Nederland
• Anno Klaasz Kuipers (4), Emmen
• Aaltje Keessen (65), Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Asser (Jacob) Hakkkert (63), Den Haag, Nederland
• Adriaan Cornelis van Gestel (80), Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Anna Sophia Frederica Wilhelmina de Koning (50), Maassluis
• Alice Newton Eddy **** (24), Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
• Arthur Edward Halloran (81), Townsville, Queensland, Australia

• 1922 » Mayme Agnew Clayton, American librarian (d.2006)
• 1926 » George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer († 2000)
• 1926 » Perry Moss, American football player and coach († 2014)
• 1928 » Christian Goethals, Belgian race car driver († 2003)
• 1928 » Gerard Damiano, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2008)
• 1928 » Nadežka Mosusova, Serbian composer
• 1929 » Kishore Kumar, Indian singer-songwriter and actor († 1987)
• 1929 » Vellore G. Ramabhadran, Mridangam artiste from Tamil Nadu, India († 2012)
• 1930 » Ali al-Sistani, Iranian-Iraqi cleric and scholar
• 1931 » Naren Tamhane, Indian cricketer († 2002)

• 1900 » Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and educator (b. 1860)
• 1914 » Jules Lemaître, French playwright and critic (b. 1853)
• 1919 » Dave Gregory, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1845)
• 1922 » Enver Pasha, Ottoman general and politician (b. 1881)
• 1932 » Alfred Henry Maurer, American painter (b. 1868)
• 1938 » Pearl White, American actress (b. 1889)
• 1940 » Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Ukrainian-American general, journalist, and activist (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Mihály Babits, Hungarian poet and author (b. 1883)
• 1942 » Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer and educator (b. 1860)
• 1944 » Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Polish soldier and poet (b. 1921)

• 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 » Rocksprings, Texas was hit by an F5 tornado that destroyed 235 of the 247 buildings in the town and killed 72 townspeople and injured 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
• May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
• May 21 » Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
• September 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
• October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.

The temperature on August 4, 1927 was between 11.5 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.