A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

* 1942 – Barry Levinson, American producer and director

* 1942 – Carlos Reutemann, Argentine race car driver and politician

* 1942 – Jacob Zuma, African politician, President of South Africa

* 1942 – Daryl Dragon, American keyboardist ( Captain & Tennille )

* 1942 – Brian Peckford, Canadian politician, 3rd Premier of Newfoundland

* 1942 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.

* 1942 – George Jung, American convicted drug smuggler

* 1942 – Byard Lancaster, American saxophonist ( d. 2012 )

* 1942 – Indian leader Mohanda Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.

* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.

* 1942 – Tommie Agee, American baseball player ( d. 2001 )

* 1942 – Jack DeJohnette, American drummer, pianist, and composer ( Gateway and Trio Beyond )

* 1942 – David Steinberg, Canadian comedian, actor, director, and author

* 1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the " Development of Substitute Materials " project, better known as the Manhattan Project.

* 1872 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate ( d. 1942 )

* 1942 – Isabel Allende, Chilean author

* 2012 – Jamaa Fanaka, American director, producer, and screenwriter ( b. 1942 )

* 1942 – André Gagnon, Canadian pianist and composer

* 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage ) ( d. 1995 )

* 1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor

* 1942 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1872 )

* Adriaan van Toor ( born 1942 ), clown brother of Bas

* Bas van der Vlies ( born 1942 ), Dutch politician

Bastiaan Johan Christiaan " Bas Jan " Ader ( born April 19, 1942 Winschoten, The Netherlands-lost at sea in 1975 between Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Ireland ) was a conceptual artist, performance artist, photographer and filmmaker.

In June 1942, Heydrich was assassinated in Prague in an operation led by Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, members of Czechoslovakia's army-in-exile who had been trained by the British Special Operations Executive.

* 1906 – Jan Ankerman, Dutch field hockey player ( d. 1942 )

New university neighborhood called Mekelpark ( its name commemorating TH Delft professor and WW II resistance fighter, Jan Mekel, who was executed by the Nazis on May 2, 1942 in Sachsenhausen ) was opened on July 5, 2009.

Jim Corrigan is resurrected in More Fun # 75 ( Jan. 1942 ), after which the Spectre's ghostly form enters and emerges from him, though he also functions independently.

In the last quarter of 1942, thanks to the Polish emissary Jan Karski and his mission, and also by other means, the Governments of the United Kingdom and of the United States were well informed about what was going on in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

* Jan Maria Michał Kowalski ( 1935 – 1942 died in Dachau )

* Jan Kapras, Minister of Education from 1939 to 1942.

Otto Korfes ( 11 Jan 1942 as Oberst )

* Generalleutnant Vincenz Müller ( 26 Jan 1942 as Oberst i. G.

With her husband Jan Gies, and the other Opekta employees, Victor Kugler, Johannes Kleiman, and Bep Voskuijl, Miep Gies helped hide Otto and Edith Frank, their daughters Margot and Anne, Hermann and Auguste van Pels, their son Peter, and Fritz Pfeffer in several upstairs rooms in the company's office building on Amsterdam's Prinsengracht from 6 July 1942 to August 4, 1944 ..

The British intelligence service had information about the concentration camps, and in 1942 Jan Karski delivered a thorough eyewitness account to the government.

* Jan 1942-Mar 1942 Lieutenant-General Thomas Corbett

During the war, especially from 1942 on, the Polish Government in Exile provided the Allies with some of the earliest and most accurate accounts of the ongoing Holocaust of European Jews and, through its representatives, like the Foreign Minister Count Edward Raczynski and the courier of the Polish Underground movement, Jan Karski, called for action, without success, to stop it.

* 9th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade ( 14 Jan. 1942-4 June 1942 )

* Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, Czechoslovak British-trained agents sent to assassinate one of the most important Nazis, Reinhard Heydrich, in 1942 as part of Operation Anthropoid.

Jerzy Różycki, Jan Graliński and Piotr Smoleński had died in the January 1942 sinking, in the Mediterranean Sea, of a French passenger ship, the Lamoricière, in which they had been returning to southern France from a tour of duty in Algeria.

In the middle of 1942, Jan Karski, who had been serving as a courier between the Polish underground and the Polish government in exile, was smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto.

Professor Robert Jan van Pelt labels Leuchter's comment that the facilities have not changed at all since 1942 or 1941 as " nonsense ".

* Labor and the war New York, Workers library publishers, inc., Jan 1942 alternate link

Jan Stenerud ( born November 26, 1942 ) is a former professional football player for the American Football League's Kansas City Chiefs ( 1967 – 1969 ), and the NFL's Chiefs ( 1970 – 1979 ), Green Bay Packers ( 1980 – 1983 ), and Minnesota Vikings ( 1984 – 1985 ).

Whilst escorting a Malta convoy the ship was torpedoed 17 Jan 1942 off Sidi Barani and later scuttled.

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