About the day » Friday September 30, 1927Calender converter

• Arlan Grayson († 1981)
• Anna Catarina Kok, Sittard (NL) († 2016)
• Dorothy Imogene Purvis, Trezevant, Carroll, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten († 1991)
• Anna Ymes Gosliga († 2015)
• Cornelis Johannis Kersten, Dinteloord,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1993)
• Adriaan Bartholomeus Verhage, Vrouwenpolder, Zeeland, NL († 1931)
• Cornelis Willem Hänschen, Amsterdam († 2013)
• Elmer Weaver SUMMERS, Ririe, Jefferson County, Idaho, United States Of America († 1989)
• Engelbert Cornelis Derksen, Driel,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1985)
• Anna Maria van Dorp, Rotterdam Zuid-Holland Nederland († 2010)

• Catherine Scherer (66), Petite-Rosselle, Lotharingen, Frankrijk
• Arnoldus van Diesen (70), Deventer
• Adriana Cornelia van Leeuwarden (88), Rotterdam
• Abraham Vieijra (79), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Wilhelmina Henriëtte Lucas (66), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
• Anna van Heeswijk (51), Schijndel
• Annechien Nijdam (40), Assen
• Aartje van Wilgen (23), Heukelum
• Adelaïde Louise André de la Porte (66), Almelo
• Antonius Overmars (7), Terwolde,Gemeente Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1925 » Arkady Ostashev, Russian engineer and educator († 1998)
• 1926 » Heino Kruus, Estonian basketball player and coach († 2012)
• 1926 » Robin Roberts, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster († 2010)
• 1927 » W. S. Merwin, American poet and translator († 2019)
• 1928 » Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2016)
• 1928 » Ray Willsey, Canadian-American football player and coach († 2013)
• 1929 » Carol Fenner, American author and illustrator († 2002)
• 1929 » Dorothee Sölle, German theologian and author († 2003)
• 1929 » Leticia Ramos-Shahani, Filipino politician, diplomat and writer († 2017)
• 1929 » Vassilis Papazachos, Greek seismologist and academic

• 1891 » Georges Ernest Boulanger, French general and politician, French Minister of War (b. 1837)
• 1897 » Thérèse of Lisieux, French nun and saint (b. 1873)
• 1910 » Maurice Lévy, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1838)
• 1942 » Hans-Joachim Marseille, German captain and pilot (b. 1919)
• 1943 » Franz Oppenheimer, German-American sociologist and economist (b. 1864)
• 1946 » Takashi Sakai, Japanese general and politician, Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1887)
• 1955 » James Dean, American actor (b. 1931)
• 1959 » Henry Barwell, Australian politician, 28th Premier of South Australia (b. 1877)
• 1961 » Onésime Gagnon, Canadian scholar and politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1888)
• 1973 » Peter Pitseolak, Canadian photographer and author (b. 1902)

• 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 9 » A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
• January 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
• April 23 » Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.
• 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.
• September 7 » The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
• September 22 » Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.

The temperature on September 30, 1927 was between 6.8 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.