About the day » Sunday January 27, 1974Calender converter

• Robert Peter Dawes, Brighton, East Sussex. England († 1974)
• Vicki Jo Niessink, Rock Rapids, Lyon County, Iowa († 2014)
• Maarten Anthonie Vollaard, Oud-Beijerland
• Melissa Ann Allen

• Anna Versluis (92), Lingewaal, Gelderland, The Netherlands
• Albertdena Tjebkes (80), Clarksville, Butler County, Iowa
• Argyle Crystal Langdale (70), Pomona, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten
• Arend Bieze (55), Den Helder
• Arend Bovenschen (90), Rhenen
• Antoon Cassa (60), Poortugaal, Nederland
• Adriana Engelina van der Veen (82), Groningen
• Antonius Stephanus van 't Schip (69), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Wankmüller (89)
• Bernardus Kramer (68), Schiedam

• 1972 » Bibi Gaytán, Mexican singer and actress
• 1973 » Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarusian footballer and manager († 2014)
• 1974 » Andrei Pavel, Romanian tennis player and coach
• 1974 » Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lankan cricketer and coach
• 1974 » Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Norwegian skier and biathlete
• 1976 » Ahn Jung-hwan, South Korean footballer
• 1976 » Clint Ford, American actor, voice actor and novelist
• 1976 » Danielle George MBE FIET, Professor of Radio frequency engineering at the University of Manchester
• 1976 » Fred Taylor, American football player
• 1976 » Michael K. Winder, American businessman and politician

• 1965 » Abraham Walkowitz, American painter (b. 1878)
• 1967 » Alphonse Juin, Algerian-French general (b. 1888)
• 1967 » crew of Apollo 1
• 1970 » Rocco D'Assunta, Italian actor, comedian and playwright (b. 1904)
• 1971 » Jacobo Árbenz, Guatemalan captain and politician, President of Guatemala (b. 1913)
• 1972 » Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b. 1911)
• 1973 » William Nolde, American colonel (b. 1929)
• 1974 » Georgios Grivas, Cypriot general (b. 1898)
• 1975 » Bill Walsh, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Louis de Funès, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1914)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Johannes
4. Peter
5. Jeroen
6. Michael
7. Patrick
8. Richard
9. David
10. Robert
11. Marcel
12. Marco
13. Pieter
14. Dennis
15. Johan
16. Edwin

1. Maria
2. Sandra
3. Monique
4. Patricia
5. Johanna
6. Cindy
7. Esther
8. Bianca
9. Wendy
10. Ingrid
11. Anna
12. Jolanda
13. Nicole
14. Linda
15. Miranda
16. Saskia

• 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
• February 4 » M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
• March 29 » NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.
• March 29 » Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, China.
• May 17 » Police in Los Angeles raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
• June 1 » The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
• August 30 » A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.

The temperature on January 27, 1974 was between 1.8 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.