About the day » Friday April 27, 2001Calender converter

• Donna Cornelia Baas, Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Robin Marijn de Moes, Purmerend († 2013)
• tom BOERE, spijkenisse († 2002)
• Niels Joshua van der Hop, Leunen, Limburg, Nederland

• Adriana Nicolasina Antonia van Beers (42), Udenhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Agnes Ida Maria van Eeden (43), Schipluiden
• * Antonie Bax (75), Veldhoven
• Bernardus Antonius van Zijl (75), Oss
• Alida Maria van Opzeeland (86)
• Anna Maria van der Pas (97), Berlicum
• Albert Poen (79)
• Alida Maria (Ali) van Opzeeland (86), Oldemarkt, gem. Steenwijkerland, OV, Nederland
• Anthonius Gerardus van der Linden (87), Haarlem
• ANDRIES VAN DEN BRINK (73), Barneveld

• 1989 » Lars Bender, German footballer
• 1989 » Sven Bender, German footballer
• 1990 » Trude Raad, Norwegian deaf track and field athlete
• 1991 » Eric Fukusaki, Peruvian singer
• 1991 » Isaac Cuenca, Spanish footballer
• 1991 » Lara Gut, Swiss skier
• 1992 » Keenan Allen, American football player
• 1994 » Corey Seager, American baseball player
• 1995 » Nick Kyrgios, Australian tennis player
• 1997 » Josh Onomah, English footballer

• 1998 » Anne Desclos, French journalist and author (b. 1907)
• 1998 » Browning Ross, American runner and soldier (b. 1924)
• 1998 » Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-American anthropologist and author (b. 1925)
• 1998 » John Bassett, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1915)
• 1999 » Al Hirt, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1922)
• 1999 » Cyril Washbrook, English cricketer (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Dale C. Thomson, Canadian historian, author, and academic (b. 1923)
• 2002 » George Alec Effinger, American author (b. 1947)
• 2002 » Ruth Handler, American inventor and businesswoman, created the Barbie doll (b. 1916)
• 2005 » Red Horner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1909)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
• January 13 » An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
• January 23 » Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
• June 5 » Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5billion in damages, making Allison the second costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
• September 17 » The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
• October 8 » U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
• December 22 » Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.

The temperature on April 27, 2001 was between 8.0 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.