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 )

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.

* 1942 – Dennis Ralston, American tennis player

* 2012 – Dennis E. Fitch, American pilot ( b. 1942 )

* 1942 – Dennis Conner, American sailor

Born in Minnesota, Mayor Dennis Trudeau enlisted in the Canadian Army in October 1942 because his family was living in Canada when the war started.

* Dennis Turner, Baron Bilston ( born 1942 ), British Member of Parliament

John Dennis " Denny " Hastert (; born January 2, 1942 ) is an American politician, lobbyist and member of the Republican Party who was the 59th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1999 to 2007.

He was unsuccessful in stopping the 1944 execution of Charlie Kerins who was convicted of killing Garda Detective Dennis O ' Brien in 1942.

* Dennis Humphrey's Radio Memories: The Adventures of Red Ryder ( March, 1942 )

Other wartime films with an AVG angle included The Sky's the Limit ( 1942, starring Fred Astaire ); God is My Co-pilot, ( 1943, with Dennis Morgan as Robert Lee Scott, Raymond Massey as Chennault, and John Ridgely as Tex Hill ); Hers to Hold ( 1943, with Joseph Cotten ); and China's Little Devils ( 1945 ).

Dennis Wayne Archer ( born January 1, 1942 ) is an American lawyer and politician from Michigan.

Dennis Andrew Canavan ( born 8 August 1942 ) is a Scottish politician, and was an Independent Member of the Scottish Parliament ( MSP ) for Falkirk West.

Dennis Turner, Baron Bilston ( born 26 August 1942 ) is a Labour and Co-operative politician in the United Kingdom and was a Member of Parliament from 1987 until 2005.

In 1942 – 43, she played Olga in Chekhov's Three Sisters, in a production which also featured Katharine Cornell, Ruth Gordon, Edmund Gwenn, Dennis King, and Alexander Knox.

* Dennis Canavan, the Scottish politician and Member of Parliament for Falkirk West was born in Cowdenbeath in 1942 and attended St Brides Primary School.

She starred with Humphrey Bogart in The Big Shot ( 1942 ) and with Dennis Morgan in both The Desert Song ( 1943 ) and Shine On, Harvest Moon ( 1944 ).

Togo Dennis West, Jr. ( born June 21, 1942 ) is an American attorney and public official who was the third person to occupy the post of Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

* Dennis Hastert ( born 1942 ), American politician and former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

* Rt Rev John Dennis, Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich from 1986 – 96 and father of Hugh Dennis ( 1942 – 49 )

Rodney Dennis " Rod " Chandler ( born July 13, 1942 in La Grande, Oregon ) was a U. S. Representative from Washington.

* Dennis Archer ( born 1942 ), American lawyer and politician

Dennis L. Meadows ( born June 7, 1942 ) is an American scientist and Emeritus Professor of Systems Management, and former director of the Institute for Policy and Social Science Research at the University of New Hampshire .< ref >

On the morning of 9 September 1942, Detective Sergeant Dennis O ' Brien was leaving his home in Ballyboden, Dublin.