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 )

Guinness consistently listed " Rock Around the Clock " as having the highest claim of any pop music recording, coming second in sales only to Bing Crosby's 1942 recording of " White Christmas ", which was also listed as having sold 25 million copies with a further estimated 100 million copies sold in other versions.

The Big Broadcast of 1936 starred Bing Crosby, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman, Jack Oakie, and Bill " Bojangles " Robinson and also featured other performances by Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers, who would appear with Miller again in two movies for Twentieth Century Fox in 1941 and 1942.

He played alongside Bing Crosby in Holiday Inn ( 1942 ) and later Blue Skies ( 1946 ) but, in spite of the enormous financial success of both, was reportedly dissatisfied with roles where he lost the girl to Crosby.

In 1942, American Decca released the first recording of " White Christmas " by Bing Crosby.

From 1937 to 1942, he was the percussionist for the John Scott Trotter Orchestra, which played on Bing Crosby's first recording of White Christmas.

Some of Lamour's other notable films include John Ford's The Hurricane ( 1937 ), Spawn of the North ( 1938 ; with George Raft, Henry Fonda, and John Barrymore ), Disputed Passage ( 1939 ), Johnny Apollo ( 1940 ; with Tyrone Power ), Aloma of the South Seas ( 1941 ), Beyond the Blue Horizon ( 1942 ), Dixie ( 1943 ; with Bing Crosby ),

The name Holiday Inn was given to the original hotel by his architect Eddie Bluestein as a joke, in reference to the musical film Holiday Inn ( 1942 ), starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire.

During the 1940s she appeared alongside some of the most popular male stars of the day, including Errol Flynn in Gentleman Jim ( 1942 ), Fredric March in The Adventures of Mark Twain ( 1944 ) and San Antonio ( 1945 ) ( in which she sang a special version of the popular ballad " Some Sunday Morning "), Humphrey Bogart in Conflict ( 1945 ) and The Two Mrs. Carrolls ( 1947 ), Cary Grant in a sanitized, fictionalized version of the life of Cole and Linda Porter in Night and Day ( 1946 ), and Bing Crosby in Here Comes the Groom ( 1951 ).

* Bing Crosby and John Scott Trotter's Orchestra ( recorded January 27, 1942, released by Decca Records as catalog number 4183A, with the flip side “ Miss You ”)

In April 1942, during World War II, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Johnny Weissmuller and an outstanding amateur from Los Angeles, Johnny Dawson, played an exhibition golf match at the club.

Astor compiled four feature-length comedies showcasing Shirley Temple ( in 1942 ), Danny Kaye ( in 1945 ), Bing Crosby ( in 1947 ), and Bob Hope and Milton Berle ( in 1949 ).

* 1942 – Graham Nash, English-American musician ( The Hollies and Crosby & Nash )

Although she had brief stints in 1939 with Bob Crosby and Glenn Miller ( who hired her in July of that year when his regular singer, Marion Hutton, was sick ), she spent most of her next few years with Venuti, until he dissolved his band in 1942.

Her sister, Liz Tilton, also seen in Soundies, sang with Ken Baker ( mid-1930s ), Buddy Rogers, Bob Crosby ( 1941 ), and Jan Garber ( 1942 ).

The discrepancy arose from the fact that on December 21, 1942 Buck Ram copyrighted a song titled " I'll Be Home for Christmas ( Tho ' Just in Memory )" although that version bore little or no resemblance, other than its title, to the Crosby recording.

Brian Wilson Kernighan (; born 1942 ) is a Canadian computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and contributed to the development of Unix.

Eric Ken Shinseki (; born November 28, 1942 ) is a retired United States Army four-star general who is currently serving as the 7th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

* Ken Charlton – player ( RB / FW ), 1992 ( Saskatchewan Roughriders 1941, 1948 – 54 ; Winnipeg RCAF Bombers 1942 ; Regina All-Services Roughriders 1943 ; Ottawa Rough Riders 1945 – 47 ).

This action was memorialised in the newsreel documentary Kokoda Front Line !, filmed by cameraman Damien Parer, which won Australia's first Academy Award for its director Ken G. Hall in 1942.

Their first child, Ken III, was born in December 1942, and their second child, Clara Lu, was born in April 1944.

* Ford, Ken ( 2011 ) Operation Archery-The Commandos and the Vaagso Raid 1942 ( Osprey Publishing ) ISBN 978-1-84908-372-0

The two would face of on September 29, 1942, in Seattle, with Hostak knocking Matthews down twice, but again being outboxed as he was against Ken Overlin, losing a majority decision.

Ken Spears ( born 1942 ) is a TV writer and animator who is known as the co-creator for the Scooby-Doo series, Josie and the Pussycats, and Jabberjaw with his good friend Joe Ruby.

Ken Patera ( born November 6, 1942 in Portland, Oregon ) is a former professional wrestler, Olympic weightlifter, and Strongman competitor.

Ken Larsen ( born March 20, 1942 ) was the Personal Choice Party candidate for governor of Utah in 2004, receiving 8, 399 votes for 0. 9 %.