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• Anna Maria Sterke, Hoogeloon, Hapert en Casteren († 2010)
• Antje Dijkstra, Murmerwoude († 1935)
• Anna Margaretha Pot, Zaandijk, Nederland († 2020)
• Alfons Guillaume Michael Welters, Sittard († 2000)
• Betty J. de Weerdt, Fulton, Whiteside County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2017)
• Antonius Aloijsius Cornelia Wagemakers, Tilburg († 2004)
• Augusta Maria Theresia Peerden, Baarle-Nassau († 2006)
• Celine Marie POTIN, Nesle-en-Dôle (FRA) († 2015)
• Dina Wesselina Vreeman, Winterswijk, NL († 1929)
• Daniel van Twist, Zwijndrecht († 2011)

• Willem van Rijn (59), Leiden
• Aukes Laansma (69), Lollum
• Antoon du Crocq (29), Alkmaar
• Adriaantje Komttebed (40), Goedereede
• Antje Jantjes van der Heide (53), Zwaagwesteinde
• Antonia Cornelia Hendrica Verwaijen (55), 's-Gravenhage
• Anthonij Johannes (Jan) Pollemans (90), ,, Oude-Tonge, Nederland
• Auke Laansma (69), Lollum
• Arthur Eduard Joseph Baron van Voorst tot Voorst (69), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham Johannes Dekker (65), Rotterdam, Nederland

• 1927 » C. Rajadurai, Sri Lankan journalist and politician, 1st Mayor of Batticaloa
• 1927 » Guy Carawan, American singer and musicologist († 2015)
• 1927 » John Seigenthaler, American journalist and academic († 2014)
• 1927 » Pierre Granier-Deferre, French director and screenwriter († 2007)
• 1927 » Will Jordan, American comedian and actor († 2018)
• 1928 » Joseph Kittinger, American colonel and pilot
• 1929 » Harvey Fuqua, American singer-songwriter and producer († 2010)
• 1929 » Jack Higgins, English author and academic
• 1929 » Jean Baudrillard, French sociologist and philosopher († 2007)
• 1929 » Marc Wilkinson, French-Australian composer and conductor

• 1916 » Charles Fryatt, English captain (b. 1872)
• 1916 » William Jonas, English footballer († 1890)
• 1917 » Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)
• 1921 » Myrddin Fardd, Welsh writer and antiquarian scholar (b. 1836)
• 1924 » Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1866)
• 1931 » Auguste Forel, Swiss neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (b. 1848)
• 1938 » Tom Crean, Irish seaman and explorer (b. 1877)
• 1941 » Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand painter and educator (b. 1858)
• 1942 » Karl Pärsimägi, Estonian painter (b. 1902)
• 1946 » Gertrude Stein, American novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Petrus
8. Gerrit
9. Adrianus
10. Jacob
11. Gerardus
12. Jacobus
13. Wilhelmus
14. Antonius
15. Arie
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Margaretha
14. Grietje
15. Aaltje
16. Helena

• 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 7.6 million citizens.
• January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
• May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
• June 8 » Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
• June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
• October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
• November 15 » The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.

The temperature on July 27, 1928 was between 13.3 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.