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 – 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 )

* 1942 – Carlos Monzón, Argentine boxer ( d. 1995 )

* French — Debussy, Claude: Sonata for Cello and Piano ( 1915 ; Debussy had considered calling it " Pierrot angry at the moon "); Popy, Francis: Pierrot Sleeps ( n. d .; violin and piano ); Salzedo, Carlos ( worked mainly in U. S. A .): " Pierrot is Sad ", from Sketches for Harpist Beginners, two series ( 1942 ; harp ); Satie, Erik: " Pierrot's Dinner " ( 1909 ; piano ).

Despite receiving a favorable review from William Carlos Williams in 1942, the novel's highly experimental style, limited release, and anti-war stance would guarantee it a very limited audience.

Carlos Monzón ( August 7, 1942 – January 8, 1995 ) was an Argentinian professional boxer who held the Undisputed World Middleweight Championship for 7 years, during which he successfully defended the title 14 times.

In October 1942, the US Army and “ Dogs for Defense ” came to San Carlos.

The first enlisted men for the army post were temporarily housed in the San Carlos Fire Station ( located on Laurel Street between San Carlos Ave. and Holly St .) from December 15 to December 28, 1942.

* Vida de Luis Carlos Prestes ( The Life of Luis Carlos Prestes, 1942 ) also published as " The Knight of Hope ")

* Maj. Gen. Carlos Brewer ( September 1942 – August 1944 )

Carlos Hathcock ( May 20, 1942 – February 23, 1999 ) was a United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant sniper with a service record of 93 confirmed kills.

On or about January 20, 1942, the Japanese Army from Calapan occupied the town and appointed Carlos Aguilocho and M. Medina as occupation Mayors.

Former presidents: Cornelio Nable ( 1901 – 1902 ), Juan Aguilocho ( 1902 – 1903 ), Vicente Dominguez ( 1903 – 1904 ), Florencio Morente ( 1905 – 1906 ), Juan Morente ( 1907 – 1912 ), Jesus Dominuez ( 1913 – 1915 ), Jose Benitez ( 1915 – 1916 ), Elias Semilla ( 1916 – 1919 ), Carlos Aguilocho, Francisco Laurea ( 1925 – 1928 ), Anacleto Villamin ( 1928 – 1929 ), Conrado M. Morente ( 1929 – 1930, 1931 – 1934 ), Felipe Venturanza ( 1934 – 1938 ), ( 1938 – 1940 ), Dr. Abelardo Bunag ( 1941 – 1942 ), Carlos Aguilocho ( 1942 – 1943 ), Manuel Medina ( 1943 – 1945 ), Thomas B. Villamin ( 1946 – 1947 ). Dominador Madrid ( 1948 – 1951 ), Dr. Pio Baldos ( 1952 – 1955 ).

* Carlos Enrique Gavito ( 1942 – 2005 ), tango dancer

Jorge Amado, in his 1942 biographical book " Vida de Luis Carlos Prestes ", compared her with Ana Ribeiro da Silva, the Brazilian wife of Garibaldi-and remarked that " in the person of Olga, Europe repaid the debt to Latin America " ( i. e., in her case it was a European woman revolutionary who married a Latin American revolutionary leader ).

Carlos Chávez ’ s Toccata ( 1942 ) has also remained a standard work.

Ecuador's government, led by Doctor Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río, signed the Protocolo de Río de Janeiro on January 29, 1942, and Peruvian forces subsequently withdrew.

* Chorus for America: Six Philippine Poets ( 1942 ) by Carlos Bulosan ;

* 1900 – Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer ( d. 1942 )

* 1942 – Palito Ortega, Argentine singer and actor

* 1868 – Marcelo T. de Alvear, Argentine politician ( d. 1942 )

* April 2 – Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer ( d. 1942 )

* Jorge Altamira ( born José Saúl Wermus in 1942 ), Argentine activist and leader of the Workers ' Party

Dorfman was born in Buenos Aires on May 6, 1942, the son of Adolf Dorfman, who was born in Odessa, a prominent Argentine professor of economics and the author of Historia de la Industria Argentina, and Fanny Zelicovich Dorfman, whose roots were Romanian-Moldovan Jews.

The Bustos Domecq materials provided comic relief for cultivated Latin Americans, but also, famously, conveyed a subtle yet unambiguous pro-allied message in the 1942 edition of Parodi – which was not a surprise for people who knew the authors but was, nevertheless, a contrarian statement given the state of Argentine politics at the time.

* La Guerra Gaucha was a 1942 Argentine film set during the Gaucho war against Spanish royalists in Salta, northern Argentina, in 1817.

* Oscar Bonavena ( 1942 – 1976 ), Argentine boxer nicknamed ' Ringo '

Ramón S. Castillo Barrionuevo ( November 20, 1873 – October 12, 1944 ) was a conservative Argentine politician who served as President of Argentina from June 27, 1942 to June 4, 1943.

Máximo Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear Pacheco ( October 4, 1868 – March 23, 1942 ), better known as Marcelo T. de Alvear was an Argentine politician and President of Argentina from October 12, 1922 to October 12, 1928.

Humberto Vicente Castagna ( born June 11, 1942 ), better known as Cacho Castaña, is an Argentine singer and actor.

He graduated in 1942 and soon thereafter started a full-time career in research on Physiology, initially in collaboration with Bernardo Houssay, the great Argentine physiologist, who later was awarded with the 1947 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for his investigations on the interaction between the hypophysis and the pancreas in the control of glucose metabolism.

Ramón Bautista Ortega ( born March 8, 1942 ) Argentine singer and actor, better known as Palito Ortega.

* Moris ( singer ) ( born 1942 ), Argentine rocker

Roberto Lavagna ( born March 24, 1942 ) is an Argentine economist and politician, and was the former Minister of Economy and Production of Argentina from April 27, 2002, to November 28, 2005.

As early as 1942, Monsignor Luigi Maglione contacted Ambassador Llobet, inquiring as to the " willingness of the government of the Argentine Republic to apply its immigration law generously, in order to encourage at the opportune moment European Catholic immigrants to seek the necessary land and capital in our country ".

Fernando Sorrentino is an Argentine writer born in Buenos Aires on November 8, 1942.

José Antonio Muñoz or simply Muñoz ( born July 10, 1942 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine artist.

* Roberto Aguirre ( b. 1942 ), an Argentine football ( soccer ) player

In 1942 the 12-minute short film Upa en apuros was the first Argentine animated film produced in colour.