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 – Pierre Lorrain, Canadian politician ( d. 2004 )

In December 1942, after a British blockade lasting one hundred and one days, Governor Pierre Nouailhetas surrendered French Somaliland.

Under Goebbels auspices the participating members ( e. g. Pierre Drieu La Rochelle and Robert Brasillach ) founded the " Europäische Schriftstellervereinigung " ( European Writers ' League ), officially in March 1942.

In November 1942, following Operation Torch, Ribbentrop met with Pierre Laval in Munich.

* 1942 – Pierre Morency, Canadian poet and playwright

* 1942 – Pierre Bourque, French-Canadian politician

In 1942 the French composer and theoretician Pierre Schaeffer, began his exploration of radiophony when he joined Jacques Copeau and his pupils in the foundation of the Studio d ' Essai de la Radiodiffusion Nationale.

In May 1942, his chief Sabatier was named prefect of Aquitaine by Pierre Laval, head of the Vichy government.

General Marie Pierre Koenig and his unit — the 1st Free French Brigade — fought well against the Afrika Korps at the Battle of Bir Hakeim in June 1942, although eventually obliged to withdraw.

In 1942, when Dior left the Army, Dior joined the fashion house of Lucien Lelong, where he and Pierre Balmain were the primary designers.

During the Battle of Gazala, the 1st Free French Division of Général de brigade Marie Pierre Kœnig defended the site from 26 May-11 June 1942 against attacking German and Italian forces directed by Generaloberst Erwin Rommel.

However, the AF members were split between supporting the counter-revolutionary regime and their nationalism: after 1942, and in particular in 1943, some members, such as Henri d ' Astier de la Vigerie, Pierre Guillain de Bénouville or Honoré d ' Estienne d ' Orves joined the Resistance or escaped to join the Free French Forces.

Pierre Brossolette ( 1st left ) and Passy ( 3rd ) awarded Compagnon In April 1942, Brossolette met De Gaulle in London as representative of the ZO Resistance and was hired to work on bringing political credibility to De Gaulle to back his recognition as the only Free French Forces leader by the Allies in his feud against Henri Giraud in Algiers.

* Tissier, Pierre, I worked with Laval, London: George Harrap & Co, 1942

* In 1942, a United States Liberty ship named the SS Pierre L ' Enfant was launched.

A network which was organised in the Paris area by Pierre de Vomécourt, but which had been destroyed by the spring of 1942 after being betrayed by Mathilde Carre.

Amine Pierre Gemayel (; born 22 January 1942 ) was President of Lebanon from 1982 to 1988 and is the leader of Kataeb Party.

Born in the Lebanese town of Bikfaya on 22 January 1942, Amine Gemayel () is the eldest son of Pierre Gemayel, founder of the Kataeb Party and his wife Genevieve.

Les Éditions de Minuit was founded by writer and illustrator Jean Bruller and writer Pierre de Lescure ( 1891-1963 ) in 1941 in Paris, during the German occupation of northern France ( by November 1942, German forces occupied all of France ).

He gradually moved to the right and served as Minister of Labour in the Vichy regime under Pierre Laval from 1942 to 1943.

The 4 September 1942 Law on the STO ( Service du travail obligatoire ), signed by Pierre Laval, the head of government in the Vichy régime, proposed to exchange one prisoner-of-war for three Frenchmen to go to work in Nazi Germany.

After recovering, he became a supporter of Pierre Laval, who supported more reactionary policies than Pétain and had become Prime Minister of the Vichy regime in 1942.

While at the Conservatoire, he also tried his hand at composition and in 1942 three of his settings of poems by Paul Valéry were given a performance by Pierre Bernac.

By 1942 there were believed to be 705 direct descendants of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours and there are now well over 2000 living members of the family.