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 )

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

Larry Claxton Flynt, Jr. ( born November 1, 1942 ) is an American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications ( LFP ).

* Larry Kane ( born 1942 ), only American reporter whom The Beatles let travel with them on their 1964 North American tour.

* Larry Flynt ( born 1942 ), American magazine publisher ( commonly misspelled " Flint ")

Larry Willis ( born Lawrence Elliott Willis, December 20, 1942, New York City, United States ) is an American jazz pianist and composer.

Larry Lee Pressler ( born March 29, 1942 ) is a U. S. Republican politician.

The Collins Kids are an American rockabilly duo featuring Lawrencine " Lorrie " Collins ( born May 7, 1942 ) and her younger brother Lawrence " Larry " Collins ( born October 4, 1944 ).

He later portrayed Falke in Rosalinda ( 1942 ), Nova Kovich in The Merry Widow ( 1943 ), Lieutenant Bunin in Catherine Was Great ( 1944 ), Dorante and Comte De Chateau-Gaillard in The Would-Be Gentleman ( 1946 ), The Doctor in Happy as Larry ( 1950 ), and played a variety of roles in the musical revue Bless You All ( 1950 ).

Alan Rachins ( born October 3, 1942 ) is an American television actor, best known for his role as Douglas Brackman in L. A. Law, which earned him both Golden Globe and Emmy nominations, as well as for his portrayal of Dharma's hippie father, Larry, on the hit television series, Dharma & Greg.

Larry Winborg ( born 1942 ) is an illustrator.

Larry Butler ( March 26, 1942 – January 20, 2012 ) was a country music producer / songwriter.

Larry Kane ( born Lawrence Kanowitz in October 21, 1942 ) is an American journalist best known as the only American reporter whom The Beatles let travel with them on their 1964 and 1965 North American tours.

Alan L. Isaacman ( born July 12, 1942 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ) is an American lawyer primarily famous for serving as attorney for publisher Larry Flynt.

Larry Pickering ( born 1942 ) is an Australian political cartoonist, caricaturist and illustrator of books and calendars.

Larry Farmer ( born 20 Feb., 1942 ) is a professor of law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

* 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 – 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