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 )

* Prince Alexander of Belgium ( 1942 – 2009 )

* Prince George, Duke of Kent ( 1902 – 1942 )

Chris Sarandon ( born July 24, 1942 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, the vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night and Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series, and providing the speaking voice of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

* 1942 – Prince Michael of Kent

Prince William Forest Park ( then known as Chopawamsic Recreational Demonstration Area ) was the site of an OSS training camp that operated from 1942 to 1945.

* December 20 – Prince George, Duke of Kent ( d. 1942 )

* May 1 – Prince Arthur of the United Kingdom ( d. 1942 )

" When Margaret was twelve in 1942 her uncle and godfather, Prince George, was killed in an air crash.

********* HRH The Prince George, Duke of Kent ( 1902 – 1942 )

********** HRH Prince Michael of Kent ( 1942 -)

******* HRH The Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn ( 1850 – 1942 )

In August 1942, the King's brother, Prince George, Duke of Kent, was killed on active service.

In 1942, her youngest surviving son, Prince George, Duke of Kent, was killed in an air crash while on active service.

* Alexander, Prince of Belgium, born in Brussels on 18 July 1942.

Following The Invisible Man, Universal Studios tried to typecast him in horror films, but he broke free, starting with the gleefully evil role of Prince John in The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ), then with his Academy Award-nominated performance as the conflicted corrupt US senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), and followed with probably his most famous role, the flexible French police Captain Renault in Casablanca ( 1942 ).

Between March 1942 and the end of the war in May 1945 the King and his son, Crown Prince Olav, lived at Foliejon Park in Winkfield, near Windsor.

The couple had five children: Crown Prince Bảo Long ( 4 January 1936 – 28 July 2007 ), Princess Phuong Mai ( born 1 August 1937 ), Princess Phuong Lien ( born 3 November 1938 ), Princess Phuong Dung ( born 5 February 1942 ), and Prince Bảo Thắng ( born 9 December 1943 ).

Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld in 1942

* Antoine de Saint-Exupéry-author of The Little Prince, written at Delamater-Bevin Mansion in Asharoken in 1942

*** HRH Prince Michael of Kent ( b. 1942 )

* Alexandre Emmanuel Henry Albert Marie Leopold, ( 1942 – 2009 ), Prince of Belgium.

In 1957, the DuPont Show of the Month on CBS offered an adaptation of The Prince and the Pauper, with Johnny Washbrook ( born 1944 ), of My Friend Flicka playing the role of Tom Canty and Rex Thompson ( born 1942 ) as Prince Edward.