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 )

General Zhang Fakui ( Chang Fa-kuei ), who based himself in Guangxi, established the Viet Nam Cach Menh Dong Minh Hoi meaning " Viet Nam Revolutionary League " in 1942, which was assisted by the VNQDD to serve the KMT's aims.

Karmen's documentary methods were both influential and controversial ; his renowned technical ability captured the emotion of war and the repetition of key shots and framings between film projects became a hallmark, but he would often blur the lines of Cinéma vérité by restaging key battles, including the lifting of the siege of Leningrad ( Ленинград в борьбе, 1942 ), the Viet Minh victory at the siege of Dien Bien Phu ( Вьетнам, 1955 ), and the 1956 landing in Cuba of militants led by Fidel Castro, re-enacted as a first person documentary.

Paul K. Benedict had joined the Berkeley team in 1938, and in 1942 he published his own classification, where he overtly excluded Vietnamese ( placing it in Mon – Khmer ), Miao – Yao, and Tai – Kadai (' Kadai ', placing it in Austro-Tai ).

(; born April 1942 ) is a Vietnamese endocrinologist and pro-democracy activist in Ho Chi Minh City.

Firstly, they were stationed at Saigon ’ s main military airbase at Tan Son Nhut before being relocated to the future North Vietnamese capital, where II / 6, better known as the famous and highly decorated " Normandie-Niemen " fighter regiment from their stint in the Soviet Union between 1942 and 1945, joined them.

* 1942 – Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian author and dissident

Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky (; born December 30, 1942 ) is a leading member of the dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s, writer, neurophysiologist, and political activist.

* Vladimiro Roca ( born 1942 ), Cuban dissident

* Hilda Molina ( born 1942 ), former chief neurosurgeon of Cuba and dissident

* 1942 – Howard Jacobson, English author and journalist

* 1942 – Robert Christgau, American journalist and critic

* 1942 – Charlayne Hunter-Gault, American journalist

In 1942, commenting on journalist E. H. Carr's pro-Soviet views, Orwell stated: " all the appeasers, e. g. Professor E. H. Carr, have switched their allegiance from Hitler to Stalin.

* 1942 – Roger Ebert, American journalist, critic, and screenwriter

* 1942 – Ita Buttrose, Australian journalist and businesswoman

* 1942 – Dave Marash, American journalist

* 1888 – Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia ( d. 1942 )

* 2008 – Peter Leonard, Australian journalist ( b. 1942 )

* 1942 – Dith Pran, Cambodian photographer and journalist ( d. 2008 )

* 1942 – Michel Drucker, French journalist

Smith also had a daughter, Catherine H. Smith of Los Angeles, by his March 1942 marriage to the former Benedicte " Bennie " Traberg ( September 25, 1921 — October 29, 2008 ), then a 20-year-old journalist originally from Denmark, whom Smith called the most impressive person he had ever known " far above presidents and generals ".

Roger Joseph Ebert (; born June 18, 1942 ) is an American journalist, film critic and screenwriter, who has been described by Forbes as " the most powerful pundit in America ".

Hrabal ’ s uncle was Bohuslav Kilián ( 1892 – 1942 ), a lawyer, journalist and publisher of the cultural magazines Salon and Měsíc ( the latter had a German version, Der Monat, that was distributed throughout Europe, but not in Nazi Germany ).

* Wendall Woodbury ( 1942 – 2010 ), American television journalist and news anchor

* Anneli Ute Gabanyi ( born 1942 ), Romanian-born German political scientist, literary critic, journalist, and philologist

Stefan Zweig (; November 28, 1881 – February 22, 1942 ) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer.

He is the son of journalist Mazhar Ali Khan and activist mother Tahira Mazhar Ali Khan ( daughter of Sir Sikandar Hyat Khan who led the Unionist Muslim League and was later Prime Minister of the Punjab from 1937 – 1942 ).

Between 1942 and 1945, Dos Passos worked as a journalist and war correspondent covering World War II.

Charles Horman ( May 15, 1942 – September 19, 1973 ) was an American journalist and was one of the victims of the 1973 Chilean coup d ' état led by General Augusto Pinochet, that deposed the socialist president, Salvador Allende, after bombing the Chilean presidential palace on September 11, 1973.

Helen Garner ( born 7 November 1942 ) is an Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist.

Michael Jackson ( 27 March 1942 – 30 August 2007 ) was an English writer and journalist.

Kitty Kelley ( born April 4, 1942 ) is an American journalist and author of several best-selling unauthorized biographies of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, the British Royal Family, the Bush family, and Oprah Winfrey.

In the last week of December 1942, led by journalist Dorothy Thompson, fifty leading German-Americans including Babe Ruth signed a " Christmas Declaration by men and women of German ancestry " condemning Nazism, which appeared in ten major American daily newspapers.