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 – 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 )

* Daryl Lindsay, 1942 – 55

With that difficult experience behind them, Daryl abandoned painting to become Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, a position he held between 1942 and 1955.

The duo consists of husband and wife " Captain " Daryl Dragon ( born August 27, 1942 ), and Cathryn Antoinette " Toni " Tennille ( born May 8, 1940 ).

* Daryl Dragon ( born 1942 ), American musician and member of Captain & Tennille

# Buddy in Dragon Swamp or, a Boy on a Strange Hunt, 1942,

On March 27, 1942, FBI agents arrested members of the Black Dragon Society in the San Joaquin Valley, California.

* 1942 – World War II: the Battle of Guadalcanal begins – United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.

* 1942 – Tobin Bell, American actor

* 1942 – Garrison Keillor, American writer and radio host

* 1942 – B. J. Thomas, American singer

* 1942 – Jim Lonborg, American baseball player

* 1881 – Edward Siegler, American gymnast ( d. 1942 )

* 1942 – Larry Hartsell, American martial arts instructor and author ( d. 2007 )

* 1942 – Barbara George, American singer-songwriter ( d. 2006 )

* 1942 – Fred Thompson, American politician and actor

* 1942 – World War II: the Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.

* 1942 – Nathan Deal, American politician, 82nd Governor of Georgia

* 1942 – Leon Russell, American pianist and guitarist

* 1942 – Sterling Morrison, American singer and guitarist ( The Velvet Underground ) ( d. 1995 )

* 1942 – James Glennon, American scientist

These drugs were later renamed antibiotics by Selman Waksman, an American microbiologist, in 1942.

* 1942 – Steve Blass, American baseball player

* 1942 – Robert Christgau, American journalist and critic