About the day » Sunday September 27, 1942Calender converter

• Johanna Hermina Mulderij, Apeldoorn († 2013)
• Carole Ann Bole, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England († 2016)
• Jan van Driel, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2003)
• Diane (born Penny Elaine) Aiken, Baltimore, Maryland, Verenigde Staten († 2020)
• Cornelis Petrus Christianus van der Salm, Voorhout († 2020)
• Harmina Arendje Roza, Ermelo, Nederland († 2003)
• Jacobus Cornelis Jozef Smakman, Lisse († 2024)
• Johannes Hubertus Coopmans († 2013)
• Agatha Cornelia Martina Hakker, Oegstgeest, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Elizabeth Fijgje Catharina Blok, Leiden († 2014)

• Bartel Wilton (0), Rotterdam
• Cornelia Hermine Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (71)
• Aleida Roelina Gratama (84), Assen
• Berend Jan Boterman (78), Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Abraham Mok (57), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berend Tempel (21), Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Germany
• Anton Jan Stoffers (1941), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelia Johanna Dalmaijer (75), Amersfoort
• Carola Flader (65), Düsseldorf, Kaiserswerth, Rheinland, Deutschland
• Arnoldus Leeflang (71), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1940 » Benoni Beheyt, Belgian cyclist
• 1940 » Josephine Barstow, English soprano and actress
• 1941 » Don Nix, American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer
• 1941 » Peter Bonetti, English footballer and coach († 2020)
• 1941 » Serge Ménard, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1942 » Alvin Stardust, English singer and actor († 2014)
• 1942 » Dith Pran, Cambodian photographer and journalist († 2008)
• 1943 » Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta
• 1943 » Randy Bachman, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1944 » Ian Garnett, English admiral

• 1934 » Ellen Willmott, English horticulturalist (b. 1858)
• 1935 » Alan Gray, English composer and organist (b. 1855)
• 1940 » Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1940 » Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (b. 1892)
• 1942 » Douglas Albert Munro, United States Coast Guard signalman, posthumously awarded Medal of Honor, (b. 1919)
• 1944 » Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (b. 1890)
• 1956 » Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American basketball player and golfer (b. 1911)
• 1956 » Gerald Finzi, English composer and educator (b. 1901)
• 1960 » Hilda Doolittle. American poet, novelist, and memoirist (b. 1886)
• 1960 » Sylvia Pankhurst, English activist (b. 1882)

• 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 11 » World War II: Japanese forces attack Tarakan in Borneo, Netherlands Indies (Battle of Tarakan)
• January 19 » World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins.
• January 20 » World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish question".
• February 15 » World War II: Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history.
• March 28 » World War II: A British combined force permanently disables the Louis Joubert Lock in Saint-Nazaire in order to keep the German battleship Tirpitz away from the mid-ocean convoy lanes.
• September 7 » World War II: Japanese marines are forced to withdraw during the Battle of Milne Bay.

The temperature on September 27, 1942 was between 5.4 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.