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 )

* Leon Henderson, 1941 – 1942

After the capture of Vinzons on July 8, 1942, the guerrilla movement was carried on by Lieutenant Francisco Boayes and by the Tangcong Vaca Guerrilla Unit organized by Elias Madrid, Juan Miranda and Leon Aureus.

On March 8, 1942, three months after the Imperial Japanese Navy landed in Legazpi and Naga City, the famous Tangcong Vaca Guerrilla Unit ( TVGU ) was organized in San Nicolas, Canaman with Juan Miranda as the Commanding Officer, Leon Aureus as the Executive Officer and Elias Madrid as the Finance Officer.

Donna Leon (, born in 1942, in Montclair, New Jersey ) is the American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice and featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti.

* John Leon Williamson ( 1921 – 1942 ), U. S. sailor during World War II and Navy Cross recipient

He also appeared in An American Werewolf in London, The First Great Train Robbery, Jabberwocky, Alien 3, Leon the Pig Farmer and as General Douglas in a Bollywood hit 1942: A Love Story.

In December 1942, Roosevelt selected Brown to take over as administrator of the Office of Price Administration, replacing Leon Henderson, whose tenure as administrator was listed as one of the major reasons for Democratic losses in the 1942 elections.

" The Dover Boys at Pimento University " or " The Rivals of Roquefort Hall " ( better known as simply The Dover Boys ) is a 1942 Merrie Melodies cartoon produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions and directed by Chuck Jones.

Horton Hatches the Egg was adapted into a ten-minute animated short film by Leon Schlesinger Productions in 1942, released as part of Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies series.

* Leon Huff ( born 1942 ), afro-American songwriter and record producer with Kenneth Gamble as Gamble and Huff

* Henryk Leon Strasburger ( 1939 – 1942, Polish government in exile )

Kenneth Gamble ( born August 11, 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) and Leon A. Huff ( born April 8, 1942, Camden, New Jersey ) are an American songwriting and record production team who have written and produced over 170 gold and platinum records.

* George Andrew Dominique Jerome Peter Leon Radziwill, 1942 – 2001

Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid is a 1942 Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by Bob Clampett, produced by Leon Schlesinger, and released to theatres by Warner Bros. Pictures.

On March 8, 1942, three months after Japanese Imperial Forces landed in Legaspi and Naga City, the famous Tangcong Vaca Guerilla Unit ( TVGU ) was organized in Barangay San Nicolas, with Juan Miranda as the Commanding Officer, Leon Aureus as the Executive Officer and Elias Madrid as the Finance Officer.

In 1941, he started his professional career with Clarence Love, and then played with Snookum Russell in 1942.

Over the course of her career, Russell earned four Academy Award nominations for Best Actress: My Sister Eileen ( 1942 ); Sister Kenny ( 1946 ); Mourning Becomes Electra ( 1947 ); and the movie version of Auntie Mame ( 1958 ).

On May 18, 1946, Rosalind Russell and Janet Blair reprised their roles in a half-hour radio adaptation of the 1942 film for the CBS Radio anthology series Academy Award Theater.

In 1942 Robert Russell Bennett arranged a medley ( rather than a suite ) for orchestra which has often been heard in the concert hall, known as Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford ( November 8, 1869 – January 8, 1942 ), also known as " Judge " Rutherford, was the second president of the incorporated Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, and played a primary role in the organization and doctrinal development of Jehovah's Witnesses, which emerged from the Bible Student movement established by Charles Taze Russell.

David Russell Lange, ONZ, CH (; 4 August 1942 – 13 August 2005 ), served as the 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989.

# Oliver Henry Russell ( b. 1942 ), younger brother of James Rowland Russell

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.

Sir Geoffrey Winston Russell Palmer, KCMG, AC, SC ( born 21 April 1942 ), served as the 33rd Prime Minister of New Zealand from August 1989 until September 1990, leading the Fourth Labour Government.

* Christopher Russell Bailey, 5th Baron Glanusk ( born 1942 )

Eddie Foy Jr. appeared as his father in several films — Frontier Marshal ( 1939 ), Lillian Russell ( 1940 ), Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), and Wilson ( 1944 )— as well as a television version of The Seven Little Foys with Mickey Rooney ( 1964 ).

In 1942, when Russell was three, the Means family resettled in the San Francisco Bay Area, seeking to escape the poverty and problems of the reservation.

* 1942 Russell Loines Memorial Fund Poetry Award

The initial group of 4, 508 stepped ashore at 12: 15 hrs on 26 January 1942 at Dufferin Quay, Belfast commanded by Major-General Russell P. Hartle.

** MG Russell P. Hartle ( August 1941 – May 1942 )

* Major Russell Hartle, leading the 34th Division to Northern Ireland in 1942

* Commanders: Maj. Gen. Henry D. Russell ( 16 September 1940 – April 1942 ), Maj. Gen. William H. Simpson ( May – July 1942 ), Maj. Gen. Leland S. Hobbs ( 9 September 1942 – September 1945 ), Maj. Gen. Albert C. Cowper ( September 1945 to inactivation.

Russell Noftsker was born February 1942 and went through his education to high school in Carlsbad, New Mexico.

* Russell Story ( 1937 – 1942 )

* Division 11 ( Chemical Engineering ), R. P. Russell, Chief ( 1942 – 1943 ), E. P. Stevenson, Chief ( 1943 – 1945 ), H. M. Chadwell, Chief ( 1945 – 1946 )

* William Russell Robinson ( born 1942 ), Pennsylvania politician