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• Antonia Johanna Leijten, Helmond (Noord-Brabant, NLD) († 2010)
• Harm Greven († 2018)
• Henderikus Siersema, Haren († 2007)
• Geertje RUITEN, Urk, Flevoland, Nederland († 2020)
• Anna Annes Hooijenga, Garijp, Tietjerksteradeel,, Friesland, Nederland († 1946)
• Hendrika Johanna van de Nieuwegiessen, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1979)
• Annigje Hendrika (Annie) van Dijk, Zwolle, Nederland († 2019)
• Hendrika Reina Wolfard, Indonesia († 2021)
• Aleida Hendrika Dijkgraaf, Utrecht († 2003)
• Geertje Ruiten, Urk († 2020)

• Adriaan den Engelsman (66), Maassluis
• Abraham Adriaan de Graaff (57), Leiden
• Heidotting (0), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriaan Siereveld (67), Arnemuiden, Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Arie Kornelis Koppe (90), Voorburg
• Antonius Wilhelmus Petrus Aarts (51), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Wilhelmus Petrus Aarts (51), Tilburg
• Angele Vandendriessche (60), Rollegem-Kapelle, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Anna Louise Porck (46), Velsen
• Adriaan Siereveld (67), Arnemuiden

• 1937 » Vasyl Durdynets, Ukrainian politician and diplomat, 8th Prime Minister of Ukraine
• 1938 » Jean-Loup Dabadie, French journalist, songwriter, and screenwriter
• 1939 » Carol Lynn Pearson, American author, poet, and playwright
• 1939 » Kathy Whitworth, American golfer
• 1939 » Nicholas Haslam, English interior designer and author
• 1940 » Benoni Beheyt, Belgian cyclist
• 1940 » Josephine Barstow, English soprano and actress
• 1941 » Don Nix, American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer
• 1941 » Peter Bonetti, English footballer and coach († 2020)
• 1941 » Serge Ménard, Canadian lawyer and politician

• 1919 » Adelina Patti, Italian-French opera singer (b. 1843)
• 1921 » Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer and educator (b. 1854)
• 1934 » Ellen Willmott, English horticulturalist (b. 1858)
• 1935 » Alan Gray, English composer and organist (b. 1855)
• 1940 » Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1940 » Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (b. 1892)
• 1942 » Douglas Albert Munro, United States Coast Guard signalman, posthumously awarded Medal of Honor, (b. 1919)
• 1944 » Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (b. 1890)
• 1956 » Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American basketball player and golfer (b. 1911)
• 1956 » Gerald Finzi, English composer and educator (b. 1901)

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

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

• 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
• March 17 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins.
• June 17 » Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is executed in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison.
• September 9 » World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland.
• October 16 » World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.
• December 13 » World War II: Battle of the River Plate: Captain Hans Langsdorff of the German Deutschland-class cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers HMSExeter, HMSAjax and HMSAchilles.
• December 17 » World War II: Battle of the River Plate: The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.

The temperature on September 27, 1939 was between 2.2 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.