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 )

Jon Povey ( born 20 August 1942, London ) and Wally Waller ( born Alan Edward Waller, 9 April 1944, Barnehurst, Kent ), both former Fenmen from Bern Elliott and the Fenmen, joined and made the band a five-piece once again.

People involved in the arts and born in the town include the actress Kathleen Harrison in 1892 ; Alfred Wainwright, author of the Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, in 1907 ; broadcaster Russell Harty in 1934 ; the internationally renowned Contemporary artist Ross Eccles in 1937, many of his paintings feature Blackburn and Lancashire scenes and landmarks ; the writer Josephine Cox in 1941 who set many of her novels in Lancashire ; the actor Anthony Valentine in 1939 ; the actor Michael Billington, star of UFO in 1941 ; actor Ian McShane in 1942 ; rock musician Tony Ashton in 1946 ; actor Jon Walmsley in 1956 ; film maker Michael Winterbottom in 1961 ; actor Steve Pemberton in 1967 ; actress Wendi Peters in 1968 ; actor / comedian Lee Mack in 1968 ; television host Debbie Travis ; author Tony O ' Neill in 1978 ; television presenter and documentary director Michael Gibson in 1980 ; and singer and actress Diana Vickers in 1991.

Jon Llewellyn Kyl (; born April 25, 1942 ) is the junior United States Senator from Arizona and the Senate Minority Whip, the second-highest position in the Republican Senate leadership.

Her beauty soon made her the centerpiece of Universal's Technicolor costume adventures, notably the six in which she was teamed with Jon Hall — Arabian Nights ( 1942 ), White Savage ( 1943 ), Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves ( 1944 ), Cobra Woman ( 1944 ), Gypsy Wildcat ( 1944 ), and Sudan ( 1945 ).

Kenneth Jon Barwise ( June 29, 1942 – March 5, 2000 ) was an American mathematician, philosopher and logician who proposed some fundamental revisions to the way that logic is understood and used.

Jon Clifton Hinson ( March 16, 1942 – July 21, 1995 ) was a politician from the U. S. state of Mississippi.

* Jon Kyl ( born 1942 )-Republican senator from Arizona

He starred alongside Jon Hall and Maria Montez in three films for Universal Pictures: Arabian Nights ( 1942 ), White Savage ( 1943 ) and Cobra Woman ( 1944 ).

* Arabian Nights ( 1942 film ), a 1942 Technicolor film starring Jon Hall and Maria Montez

* 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