About the day » Sunday April 27, 2008Calender converter

• Bernese Walker Wood (88), Lancaster, Dallas, Texas
• David Jan Smit (82), Goutum (Leeuwarden)
• Adriana Maria van der Valk (78)
• Albertha Geertruida Josephina (Bep) Könst (79), Nieuwkoop, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bruno Cottini (86), Milano
• Cub Driessen (62), Dreumel
• Anna Jean Jones (71), Arkansas, Verenigde Staten
• Delvar Shepherd (94)
• Abbetje Meinderts Ras (81), Urk
• Adriana Maria van der Valk (78), Kwintsheul

• 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

• 2005 » Red Horner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1909)
• 2006 » Julia Thorne, American author (b. 1944)
• 2007 » Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)
• 2009 » Feroz Khan (actor), Indian Actor, Film Director & Producer (b. 1939)
• 2009 » Frankie Manning, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1914)
• 2009 » Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean model and actress (b. 1983)
• 2011 » Marian Mercer, American actress and singer (b. 1935)
• 2012 » Bill Skowron, American baseball player (b. 1930)
• 2012 » Daniel E. Boatwright, American soldier and politician (b. 1930)
• 2013 » Aída Bortnik, Argentinian screenwriter (b. 1938)

• 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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
• February 5 » A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
• March 24 » Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
• April 30 » Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks.
• May 2 » Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
• June 27 » In a highly scrutinized election President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.
• November 10 » Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.

The temperature on April 27, 2008 was between 10.8 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (50%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.