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 )

* 1892 – Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter ( d. 1942 )

* July 12 – Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter ( d. 1942 )

* There are reports that Bruno Schulz worked on a novel called The Messiah, but no trace of this manuscript survived his death ( 1942 ).

In 1942, he entered the Vienna Music Academy, where he studied piano and musical theory under Bruno Seidlhofer and Joseph Marx.

* Bruno Hippler ( 1894 – 1942 ), officer

However, Bruno Loerzer and his command, Fliegerkorps II, did arrive in January 1942, with Kesselring as the Southern Commander in Chief, a post which had nominally been Benito Mussolini's responsibility.

* Bruno Bauch ( 1877 – 1942 )

Bruno Buchberger ( born October 22, 1942 in Innsbruck ) is Professor of Computer Mathematics at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria.

Bruno Bauch ( January 19, 1877, Groß-Nossen – February 27, 1942, Jena ) was a German Neo-Kantian philosopher.

* Bruno Schulz ( 1892 – 1942 ), novelist and painter

* 1942 – Wlodimir Ledochowski, Austrian-born Polish religious figure ( b. 1866 )

* 2008 – Stefan Meller, Polish politician ( b. 1942 )

1940-1941, most POWs, only 583 men survived, released in 1942 to join the Polish Armed Forces in the East.

* 1942 – Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister ( d. 2008 )

* 1878 – Janusz Korczak, Polish author and pediatrician ( d. 1942 )

On 12 September 1942,, carrying some 80 civilians, 268 British Army soldiers, about 1, 800 Italian prisoners of war, and 160 Polish soldiers ( on guard ), was struck and sunk by a torpedo from Kriegsmarine submarine off the coast of west Africa.

* 2005 – Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor ( b. 1942 )

* 1942 – Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Polish politician

Pius XII's refusal to censure the German invasion and annexation of Poland was regarded as a " betrayal " by many Polish Catholics and clergy, who saw his appointment of Hilarius Breitinger as apostolic administrator for the Wartheland in May 1942 as " implicit recognition " of the breakup of Poland ; the opinions of the Volksdeutsche, mostly German Catholic minorities living in occupied Poland, were more mixed.

* April 7 – Bronisław Malinowski, Polish anthropologist ( d. 1942 )

German losses to the Polish partisans averaged 850-1, 700 per month in early 1944 compared to about 250-320 per month in 1942.

The numbers of Tito's Yugoslav partisans were roughly similar to those of the Polish and Soviet partisans in the first years of the war ( 1941 – 1942 ), but grew rapidly in the latter years, outnumbering the Polish and Soviet partisans by 2: 1 or more ( estimates give Yugoslavian forces about 800, 000 in 1945, to Polish and Soviet forces of 400, 000 in 1944 ).

In 1942 he joined the Polish resistance and served in the Armia Krajowa.

A Polish pilot, Josef Gawkowski was killed on July 19, 1942 when his aircraft crashed near Mottram on a training flight from RAF Newton in Nottinghamshire.

In 1942, the Lager Norderney camp, containing Russian and Polish POWs, and the Lager Sylt camp, a concentration camp holding Jewish slave labourers, were placed under the control of the SS-Hauptsturmführer Maximilian List.

Jerzy Witold Różycki (; Vilshana, near Kiev, July 24, 1909 – January 9, 1942, Mediterranean Sea, near the Balearic Islands ) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma-machine ciphers.

* The Polish American Historical Association was founded in 1942, and publishes a newsletter and Polish American Studies, an interdisciplinary, refereed scholarly journal twice each year.

Around March 1942 in the General Government, a substitution policy developed for a short time in which Polish workers who were sent to the German Reich were gradually replaced with Jewish laborers.