About the day » Wednesday October 27, 1954Calender converter

• Els de Vreede, Pijnacker, Nederland († 2011)
• David Wayne Huisman, Nebraska († 2016)
• Robin Belle Alwood, Wainwright, AB († 2022)
• Pieter Adriaan VAN DE(R) WERKE, Rotterdam († 1954)
• Lucien Passier, Tilburg († 1975)
• Maartje Jacoba Bezemer, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1955)
• Robert Lee GORSKI, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, VS († 1958)
• Christiane Fröderich, Eberau (Bayern) († 1981)
• Jacoba Maria Scheffers († 2004)
• August Mattheus Lodewijk Rümke, Amsterdam († 2015)

• Anna Margaretha Teiken (67), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Alexander Henricus van Hurck (61), Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Eugenie Beljaars (27), Terneuzen
• Adriana Maria van Dissel (61), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adiel Gustav Vermeersch (68), Tractor Accident, Thomas Rd, Unionville, MI
• Adiel Vermeersch (68)
• Cornelia Breure (73), Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alice CRISP (76), Rochester, Monroe County, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Abraham Abrahamse (53), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Christine Louise Borrink (89)

• 1952 » Atsuyoshi Furuta, Japanese footballer
• 1952 » Francis Fukuyama, American political scientist, economist, and author
• 1952 » Roberto Benigni, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1952 » Topi Sorsakoski, Finnish singer-songwriter († 2011)
• 1953 » Peter Firth, English actor
• 1953 » Robert Picardo, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1954 » Chris Tavaré, English cricketer and biologist
• 1954 » Jan Duursema, American illustrator
• 1954 » Mike Kelley, American artist and musician († 2012)
• 1955 » Debra Bowen, American lawyer and politician, 31st Secretary of State of California

• 1935 » Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver (b. 1897)
• 1942 » Helmuth Hübener, German activist (b. 1925)
• 1944 » Judith Auer, German World War II resistance fighter (b. 1905)
• 1947 » William Fay, Irish actor and producer, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1872)
• 1949 » Marcel Cerdan, Algerian-French boxer (b. 1916)
• 1953 » Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
• 1957 » James McGirr, Australian politician, 28th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1890)
• 1962 » Enrico Mattei, Italian businessman and politician (b. 1906)
• 1962 » Rudolf Anderson, American soldier and pilot (b. 1927)
• 1968 » Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic (b. 1878)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Elisabeth
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Marianne
12. Yvonne
13. Marie
14. Linda
15. Helena
16. Margaretha

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
• January 14 » The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
• March 13 » The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ begins with an artillery barrage by Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp; Viet Minh victory lead to the end of the First Indochina War and French withdrawal from Vietnam.
• June 9 » Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
• July 15 » First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
• December 2 » The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.
• December 4 » The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida.

The temperature on October 27, 1954 was between 4.7 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 18.0 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.