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• Berdina de Bruijn († 2008)
• Clarence W Smith, Uhnchsville, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1980)
• Arnolduske Breemer († 2014)
• Aan Weening, Harkema Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Netherlands († 2015)
• Cazimier Goossens, Itegem, 2222, België († 2020)
• Arend Dirks ten Klooster, Ambt Vollenhove († 2016)
• Clifford Wayne Eckermann, Lincoln Township, Scott County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 2015)
• Abraham Terdu, IJsselmonde († 2005)
• Bertus Mulder, Wilp († 1995)
• Catharina Cornelia van Kemenade, Eersel († 2015)

• ARIE POT (80), MARTENSDORF(DLD)
• Anna Mathilde Van den Broeck (42), Herentals, België
• "Julia" Karoline Emilie Auguste Luise Mathilde von Giech (73), Thüngen, Allemagne
• Catharina van der Linden (20), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Jacob Pieter Suermondt (82), Ubbergen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Catharina Leonarda Engwirda (6), Rotterdam
• Catharina Josephina Maria Claessen (1), Maasniel
• Carel Frederik Eendenburg (77), Voorburg
• Anna Wilhelmina Dorothea Buwalda (45), Soerabaja, Java, Nederlands Oost Indië
• Cornelis Hendriksz Jansen (70), Renkum

• 1926 » Eric Gross, Austrian-Australian pianist and composer († 2011)
• 1926 » John Knowles, American novelist († 2001)
• 1926 » Robert H. Schuller, American pastor and author († 2015)
• 1926 » Roger McKee, American baseball player († 2014)
• 1927 » Jack Kelly, American actor and politician († 1992)
• 1927 » Peter Falk, American actor († 2011)
• 1927 » Sadako Ogata, Japanese academic and diplomat, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• 1928 » Lady Gwen Thompson, English author and educator († 1986)
• 1928 » Patricia Wald, American judge († 2019)
• 1928 » Rex Trailer, American television host, actor, and singer († 2013)

• 1911 » Edward Whymper, English-French mountaineer, explorer, and author (b. 1840)
• 1914 » C. X. Larrabee, American businessman (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1888)
• 1925 » Leo Fall, Czech-Austrian composer (b. 1873)
• 1931 » Omar Mukhtar, Libyan theorist and educator (b. 1862)
• 1932 » Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle, British stage and screen actress (b. 1908)
• 1932 » Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1933 » George Gore, American baseball player and manager (b. 1857)
• 1936 » Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French physician and explorer (b. 1867)
• 1940 » Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, English-Scottish politician, 8th Governor of Queensland (b. 1860)

• 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 22 » Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
• May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
• May 27 » The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
• July 24 » The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
• August 27 » Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"

The temperature on September 16, 1927 was between 10.5 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.