About the day » Sunday July 27, 2008Calender converter

• Arie van Bruggen
• Frans De Deyne (78), Sijsele, WVL, B
• Berendina Hermina van Asselt (75), Brummen
• Aletta Cecilia Maria Peek (63)
• Frederick George Zeestraten (69), Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Dirkje Soetendaal (85)
• Anja Franzes Punter
• Alphonsus Josephus van Dun (89), Lille (F)
• Edna Gonçalves Torres (79)
• Arie Vernes (79), Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1990 » Cheyenne Kimball, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1990 » Kriti Sanon, Indian actress
• 1990 » Nick Hogan, American race car driver and actor
• 1990 » Paolo Hurtado, Peruvian footballer
• 1990 » Stephen Li-Chung Kuo, Taiwanese-American figure skater
• 1991 » Rena Matsui, Japanese actress and singer
• 1993 » Jordan Spieth, American golfer
• 1993 » Max Power, English footballer
• 1993 » Reagan Campbell-Gillard, Australian rugby league player
• 2001 » Shin Ki-joon, South Korean actor

• 2005 » Al Held, American painter and academic (b. 1928)
• 2005 » Marten Toonder, Dutch author and illustrator (b. 1912)
• 2006 » Maryann Mahaffey, American academic and politician (b. 1925)
• 2007 » James Oyebola, Nigerian-English boxer (b. 1961)
• 2008 » Horst Stein, German-born Swiss conductor (b. 1928)
• 2008 » Isaac Saba Raffoul, Mexican businessman (b. 1923)
• 2008 » Youssef Chahine, Egyptian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2010 » Jack Tatum, American football player (b. 1948)
• 2010 » Maury Chaykin, American-Canadian actor (b. 1949)
• 2012 » Norman Alden, American actor (b. 1924)

1. Thomas
2. Benjamin
3. Gijs
4. Ruben
5. Lucas
6. Pieter
7. Ashton
8. Daan
9. Jan
10. Sem
11. Lars
12. Noah
13. Thijs
14. Sam
15. Milan
16. Albert

1. Marieke
2. Emma
3. Julia
4. Femke
5. Anna
6. Sanne
7. Sophie
8. Lieke
9. Lotte
10. Jasmijn
11. Maria
12. Sanneke
13. Fleur
14. Eva
15. Milou
16. Nina

• 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.
• May 2 » Chaitén Volcano begins erupting in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people.
• May 15 » California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
• August 18 » President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf resigns under threat of impeachment.
• August 20 » Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid, Spain to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. Of the 172 people on board, 146 die immediately, and eight more later die of injuries sustained in the crash.
• September 26 » Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
• November 25 » Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in nine decades.

The temperature on July 27, 2008 was between 17.0 °C and 28.2 °C and averaged 22.7 °C. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.