July 27, 1942

1942Édith Butler, Canadian singer-songwriter^[†]

Édith Butler is an Acadian-Canadian singer-songwriter and folklorist from New Brunswick’s Acadian Peninsula.

1942Bobbie Gentry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist^[†]

Bobbie Gentry is an American retired singer-songwriter. She was one of the first female artists in the United States to compose and produce her own material.

1942John Pleshette, American actor, director, and screenwriter^[†]

John Pleshette is an American actor and screenwriter, best known for his role as Richard Avery on the television drama Knots Landing, and for portraying Lee Harvey Oswald in the TV movie The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald. Pleshette also wrote several scripts for Knots Landing in the 1980s.

1942Dennis Ralston, American tennis player (died 2020)^[†]

Richard Dennis Ralston was an American professional tennis player whose active career spanned the 1960s and 1970s.

1942Karl Pärsimägi, Estonian painter (born 1902)^[†]

Karl Pärsimägi was an Estonian Fauvist painter. He was murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp after being arrested in Paris.

1942Hermann Brauneck, German physician and SA general (born 1894)^[†]

Hermann Max-Gustav Brauneck was a German naval officer, physician and member of the paramilitary Sturmabteilung who rose to the rank of SA-Obergruppenführer. He held several high-level medical staff positions in the Supreme SA Leadership (OSAF) and in the Nazi Party. He was involved in administering the Nazi racial policies and served as a judge on the Hereditary Health Court, deciding whether people considered to have genetic disorders should be forcibly sterilized. Serving as a military doctor in the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War, he was killed in a Russian airstrike on the eastern front.

1942World War II: Allied forces successfully halt the final Axis advance into Egypt.^[†]

World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.