About the day » Wednesday October 27, 1954Calender converter

• Egbertje Kuipers, Groningen († 2016)
• Autumn Lee Maynard, Michigan (State) († 2015)
• Lucien Passier, Tilburg († 1975)
• Carl Lee Schuring († 2022)
• Peter Benoit AUKES, 's-Hertogenbosch(Noord Brabant) († 1960)
• Johannes van Vugt († 2001)
• August Mattheus Lodewijk Rümke, Amsterdam († 2015)
• Maartje Jacoba Bezemer, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1955)
• Pieter Adriaan VAN DE(R) WERKE, Rotterdam († 1954)
• Sharon Faye de Smit, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa († 1989)

• "Rudolf" Otto Hugo Cajetan Marie von Abensperg und Traun (82), Wien, Autriche
• Anna Margaretha Teiken (67), Emmen
• Andreas Antonius Beijers (81), Deurne
• Antje Schouten (72), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Karremans (86), Zevenbergen, Noord Brabant
• Abraham Abrahamse (53)
• Aaltje Ras (76), Urk, Gemeente Urk, Flevoland, Nederland
• Adiel Gustav Vermeersch (68), Tractor Accident, Thomas Rd, Unionville, MI
• Arie Dijk van (58), Schiedam
• Abraham Abrahamse (53), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland

• 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)

• 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.
• March 9 » McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
• March 19 » Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio, setting a record that remains unbroken.
• April 1 » United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
• April 26 » The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
• August 24 » The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party.
• December 2 » The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.

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.