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• Jantje Wilhelmina van Steenis († 2007)
• Anna Maria Nollen, Soerabaja († 2016)
• Johannes Cornelius Marie Hoppenbrouwers, Gilze en Rijen († 1943)
• Lewis Barton Terpstra, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa († 2019)
• Lowell John Wade, West Milton, OH († 1995)
• Annemie Vullings († 2004)
• Fietje Spang, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland († 2020)
• Eliza Bertha Vos, Rotterdam († 2005)
• Hiltje ter Haar († 2004)
• Catherina Antonia Maria van den Hoven, Waspik († 1997)

• David Albert Huxley (74)
• Christina Johanna Huiskamp (73), Deventer
• Cornelis de Regt (3)
• Cornelis van der Meer (76), Alkemade
• Bernardus Johannes Poppe (75), Zwolle, Ov, Nederland
• Antonetta Rubertus (87), Uithuizermeeden
• Coenradus Marcus Theodorus Joseph Bosman (71), Rotterdam, ZH Netherlands
• Christiaan Bisschops (32), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Cornelia Hage (82), Sint Annaland
• bernardus jacobus van gaelen (29), ludwigshafen,, duitsland

• 1940 » Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
• 1941 » Bill Baxley, American lawyer and politician, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama
• 1941 » James P. Hogan, English-Irish author († 2010)
• 1941 » Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish director and screenwriter († 1996)
• 1942 » Bruce Johnston, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1942 » Danny Schechter, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2015)
• 1942 » Frank Mills, Canadian pianist and composer
• 1943 » Ravi Batra, Indian-American economist and academic
• 1944 » Angela King, English environmentalist and author, co-founded Common Ground
• 1944 » Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist († 2019)

• 1934 » Francesco Buhagiar, Maltese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1876)
• 1935 » Eugene Augustin Lauste, French-American inventor (b. 1857)
• 1944 » Milan Hodža, Czech journalist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1878)
• 1946 » Wanda Gág, American author and illustrator (b. 1893)
• 1949 » Frank Smythe, English botanist and mountaineer (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Milada Horáková, Czech politician, victim of judicial murder (b. 1901)
• 1952 » Max Dehn, German-American mathematician and academic (b. 1878)
• 1957 » Hermann Buhl, Austrian soldier and mountaineer (b. 1924)
• 1960 » Lottie Dod, English tennis player, golfer, and archer (b. 1871)
• 1962 » Paul Viiding, Estonian author, poet, and critic (b. 1904)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Wilhelmus
10. Jacobus
11. Robert
12. Adrianus
13. Jacob
14. Gerardus
15. Johan
16. Antonius

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Cornelia
4. Anna
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Geertruida
14. Margaretha
15. Grietje
16. Annie

• 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
• January 19 » World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins.
• February 8 » World War II: Dutch Colonial Army General Destruction Unit (AVC, Algemene Vernielings Corps) burns Banjarmasin, South Borneo to avoid Japanese capture.
• May 19 » World War II: In the aftermath of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Task Force 16 heads to Pearl Harbor.
• June 7 » World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
• September 13 » World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Japanese with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
• October 2 » World War II: Ocean Liner RMSQueen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMSCuracoa, killing 337 crewmen aboard Curacoa.

The temperature on June 27, 1942 was between 7.7 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.