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 )

However, in a Channel 4 documentary aired 3 June 2011, reporter Nick Cook showed an RAF pilot's report, obtained from RAF archives, reporting a UFO incident with a similar red ball of fire on a bombing mission over Germany, but dated 1942 and taken with fact that the term was already in use by radar operators in 1944, must raise some doubt as to the origin of the term

Nicholas John " Nick " Tate ( born 18 June 1942 ) is an Australian actor best known for his role as Eagle pilot Alan Carter in both seasons of the 1970s science fiction television series Space: 1999, as well as for playing the role of Gordon Hamilton's errant brother James in the 1980s soap opera Sons and Daughters.

Nick Auf der Maur ( April 10, 1942 – April 7, 1998 ) was a journalist, politician and " man about town " boulevardier in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

* The Glass Key ( 1942 ) — Nick Varna

* Nick Auf der Maur ( 1942 – 1998 ), journalist, politician

" I'll Keep the Lovelight Burning " is a popular song written in 1942 by Harry Tobias, Nick Kenny, and Harold Levey, popularized by Patti Page in 1949.

Tate was a poet-in-residence at Princeton University until 1942.

In 1942, Tate assisted novelist and friend Andrew Lytle in transforming The Sewanee Review, America's oldest literary quarterly, from a modest journal into one of the most prestigious in the nation.

* The Tate Gallery's Wartime Acquisitions ( 1942 )

* Division 3 ( Special Projectiles / Rocket Ordnance ), John T. Tate, Chief ( 1942 – 1943 ), Frederick L. Hovde, Chief ( 1943 – 1946 )

The surreal imagery of Tanning ’ s paintings from the 1940s and early 50s – in such paintings as Birthday ( 1942, Philadelphia Museum of Art ) and Eine kleine Nachtmusik ( 1943, Tate Modern, London )-and her close friendships with artists and writers of the Surrealist Movement have led many to regard Tanning as a Surrealist painter.

The Constitution stipulated that Australia was a constitutional monarchy, where the Head of State is the British ( or, since 1942, Australian ) monarch, who is represented at the federal level by a Governor-General, and at the state level by six Governors, one for each state.

Nevertheless, Essendon went on to win the 1942 Premiership with Western Australian Wally Buttsworth in irrepressible form at centre half back.

* 1942 – World War II: nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing 243 people.

* 1942 – Colin Bond, Australian racing driver

However, the post still ultimately represented the government of the United Kingdom until, after continually decreasing involvement by the British government, the passage in 1942 of the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 ( see Statute of Westminster ) and the Australia Act 1986, whereafter the governor became the direct, personal representative of the uniquely Australian sovereign.

* Judy Stone ( 1942 –): Australian pop singer, was born and raised in Granville.

* 2012 – Frank Walker, Australian politician and judge ( b. 1942 )

* 1942 – The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as the State Income Tax is abolished.

* 1942 – Carmen Duncan, Australian actress

* 1942 – World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.

* 1942 – Ita Buttrose, Australian journalist and businesswoman

* 1942 – Margaret Court, Australian tennis player

* 1942 – Billy Smith, Australian rugby player

* 1942 – Graeme Gahan, Australian rules footballer

* 1942 – Sallyanne Atkinson, Australian politician

* 1942 – Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.

Australian troops at Milne Bay, Papua. The Australian garrison was the first to inflict defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II at the Battle of Milne Bay of Aug – Sep 1942.

An Australian soldier, Private George " Dick " Whittington, is aided by Papuan orderly Raphael Oimbari, near Buna on 25 December 1942.

From July 1942, a few Australian reserve battalions, many of them very young and untrained, fought a stubborn rearguard action against a Japanese advance along the Kokoda Track, towards Port Moresby, over the rugged Owen Stanley Ranges.

In early September 1942 Japanese marines attacked a strategic Royal Australian Air Force base at Milne Bay, near the eastern tip of Papua.

Askin enlisted as a Private in the Second Australian Imperial Force on 30 March 1942.

* Richard Butler ( diplomat ) ( born 1942 ), Australian diplomat, arms inspector, and ex-Governor of Tasmania