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 – 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 – David Bradley, British actor

* 1942 – David Lange, New Zealand politician ( d. 2005 )

Hans ' great-great grandson, David Jacob Eisenhower ( 1863 – 1942 ), was Dwight's father, and was a college-educated engineer, despite his own father Jacob's urging to stay on the family farm.

( 1942 ), The Way Ahead ( 1944 ) and Noël Coward and David Lean's celebrated naval film In Which We Serve in 1942, which won a special Academy Award.

David Astor was looking for a provocative contributor for The Observer and invited Orwell to write for him — the first article appearing in March 1942.

John David Ashcroft ( born May 9, 1942 ) is an American politician who served as the 79th U. S. Attorney General ( 2001-05 ), in the George W. Bush Administration.

* 1942 – David Friesen, American jazz bassist

* 1942 – David Ogden Stiers, American actor

His life and the sacrifices he made to keep going despite pain and impending death were the subject of the 1942 British film, The First of the Few produced and directed by Leslie Howard, with Howard in the starring role of R. J. Mitchell, and David Niven as ' Geoffrey Crisp ', based on the Supermarine test pilot Jeffrey Quill who flew the aerobatic sequences for the film in a Spitfire MkII.

David Neil Cutler, Sr. ( born March 13, 1942 ) is an American software engineer, designer and developer of several operating systems including RSX-11M, VMS and VAXELN at Digital Equipment Corporation and Windows NT at Microsoft.

Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.

* Samuel David Mendelssohn ( 1942 – 2006 ), German political scientist and author

Bachelor Mother was adapted as a radio play on several occasions, including five broadcasts of The Screen Guild Theater: the first starred Laraine Day, Henry Fonda and Charles Coburn ( February 1, 1942 ); the second starred Ann Sothern and Fred MacMurray ( November 23, 1942 ); the third starred Ginger Rogers, Francis X. Bushman and David Niven ( May 6, 1946 ); the fourth starred Lucille Ball, Joseph Cotten and Charles Coburn ( April 28, 1949 ); the fifth starred Ann Sothern and Robert Stack ( April 20, 1952 ).

A militant Jewish Zionist resistance organisation, the Jewish Army ( Armée Juive ), was founded in 1942 by Abraham Polonski, Lucien Lublin, David Knut, and their wives.

* David Eugene Thompson ( 1854 – 1942 ), American diplomat

* David Wiffen — Canadian singer / songwriter was born in Sydenham in 1942

From its earliest days, the King David Hotel hosted royalty: the dowager empress of Persia, queen mother Nazli of Egypt and King Abdullah I of Jordan stayed at the hotel, and three heads of state forced to flee their countries took up residence there: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, forced to abdicate in 1931, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, driven out by the Italians in 1936, and King George II of Greece who set up his government in exile at the hotel after the Nazi occupation of his country in 1942.

Former Second Judicial District Court Judge David T. Caldwell ( 1925 – 1993 ), based in Jonesboro, was born in Saline and graduated from Saline High School in 1942.

* David Minge ( 1942 –), Former 2nd District congressman ( 1993 – 2001 ) and current judge on the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

Harry Koch, grandfather of oil magnates, philanthropists and conservative political activists Charles Koch and David Koch, was an early settler in Quanah, arriving in 1891, and founder of the Quanah Tribune-Chief, which he ran until his death in 1942.

In 1942, Fairleigh Dickinson University was founded in Rutherford as a two-year college, anchored by the Iviswold Castle on Montross Avenue, which was built in the 1880s as a summer home by David B. Ivison.

Appointed machinist on May 13, 1942, David was assigned to the Submarine Repair Unit, San Diego on May 28, and served in that unit for five months.