About the day » Monday April 4, 1927Calender converter

• Abraham Westers, Veendam, Groningen, Netherlands († 1927)
• Ans Swart († 2015)
• Albert Tempel, Bandoeng
• Visser, Andijk († 1927)
• Cornelis Jacobus van der Hulst, Voorschoten († 2015)
• Catharina Maria Schaefers, Amsterdam,Amsterdam,Noord Holland,Nederland
• Cornelia Baremans, Zevenbergen († 2003)
• Arnold Beniest, Rotterdam († 2000)
• Arnold Beniest, Rotterdam († 2000)
• Albertus Hermannus van den Belt, Zwolle {OV} († 1954)

• Albert Buitenkamp (1), Heerde
• Berendina van Verseveld (43), 's-Gravenhage
• Bernardus Westhoff (71), Groningen, Netherlands
• Anna Geertruida ter Haar (57), Amsterdam
• Bernardine Vleugel (8), Hoogkarspel, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Van Heertum (69), Turnhout
• Visser (0), Andijk
• Aaltje Honing (73), Broek in Waterland
• Antonie van Manen (56), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alida Maria van Berkel (19), Amsterdam(NH)

• 1925 » Claude Wagner, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician († 1979)
• 1925 » Dettmar Cramer, German footballer and manager († 2015)
• 1925 » Frank Truitt, American basketball player and coach († 2014)
• 1926 » Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and activist († 2010)
• 1926 » Ronnie Masterson, Irish actress († 2014)
• 1927 » Joe Orlando, Italian-American author and illustrator († 1998)
• 1928 » Estelle Harris, American actress and comedian
• 1928 » Jimmy Logan, Scottish actor, director, and producer († 2001)
• 1928 » Maya Angelou, American memoirist and poet († 2014)
• 1928 » Monty Norman, English singer-songwriter and producer

• 1912 » Charles Brantley Aycock, American lawyer and politician, 50th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1859)
• 1912 » Isaac K. Funk, American minister, lexicographer, and publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls (b. 1839)
• 1919 » Francisco Marto, Portuguese saint (b. 1908)
• 1919 » William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (b. 1832)
• 1923 » John Venn, English mathematician and philosopher, created the Venn diagram (b. 1834)
• 1929 » Karl Benz, German engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz (b. 1844)
• 1931 » André Michelin, French businessman, co-founded the Michelin Tyre Company (b. 1853)
• 1932 » Wilhelm Ostwald, Latvian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1933 » Elizabeth Bacon Custer, American author and educator (b. 1842)
• 1941 » Emine Nazikedâ Kadınefendi, the first wife and chief consort of Sultan Mehmed VI (b. 1866)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
• January 11 » Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
• March 15 » The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
• April 12 » Rocksprings, Texas was hit by an F5 tornado that destroyed 235 of the 247 buildings in the town and killed 72 townspeople and injured 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
• October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
• October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
• December 8 » The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.

The temperature on April 4, 1927 was between 5.0 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.