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 )

Ronald James Padavona ( July 10, 1942 – May 16, 2010 ), better known as Ronnie James Dio, was an American rock and heavy metal vocalist and songwriter.

He had recently been introduced to The Gamblers, an East Belfast group formed in 1962 by Ronnie Millings ( drums, born 1937 ), Billy Harrison ( guitar and lead vocals, born William Harrison on 14 October 1942 ), and Alan Henderson ( bass guitar, born 26 November 1944 ).

* Ronnie James Dio ( 1942 – 2010 ), American singer for Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio, and Heaven and Hell

Ronald Dale " Ronnie " Earle ( born February 23, 1942 ) was, until January 2009, the District Attorney for Travis County, Texas.

* Ronnie James Dio ( 1942 – 2010 ), American singer for the bands Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio, and Heaven & Hell

* 1942 – James Glennon, American scientist

At the end of May 1942, Eisenhower accompanied Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commanding general of the Army Air Forces, to London to assess the effectiveness of the theater commander in England, Maj. Gen. James E. Chaney.

Notable American films from the war years include the anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine ( 1943 ), scripted by Dashiell Hammett ; Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Hitchcock's direction of a script by Thornton Wilder ; the George M. Cohan biopic, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), starring James Cagney, and the immensely popular Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart.

* 1942 – James Loewen, American sociologist and historian

* 1942 – James J. Dillon, American wrestler and manager

* 1942 – James Soong, Taiwanese politician

* March 27 – James Cruze, American motion picture director ( d. 1942 )

They had seven children ( five sons and two daughters ): Eliza Arabella Garfield ( 1860 – 63 ); Harry Augustus Garfield ( 1863 – 1942 ); James Rudolph Garfield ( 1865 – 1950 ); Mary Garfield ( 1867 – 1947 ); Irvin M. Garfield ( 1870 – 1951 ); Abram Garfield ( 1872 – 1958 ); and Edward Garfield ( 1874 – 76 ).

* James Westfall Thompson, History of Livestock Raising in the United States, 1607-1860 ( Washington: U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1942 ).

* James Dixon Murray ( 1887 – 1965 ), British Labour Party MP 1942 – 1955

* James Murray ( VC ) ( 1859 – 1942 ), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross during the First Boer War

American Trotskyist leader James P. Cannon, in his 1942 book History of American Trotskyism, wrote that " Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International.

Yankee Doodle Dandy was adapted as a radio play on the October 19, 1942 broadcast of The Screen Guild Theater, starring James Cagney with Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable.

Random Harvest is a 1942 film based on the 1941 James Hilton novel of the same name, directed by Mervyn LeRoy.

With Postmaster General James A. Farley and WPA administrator Harry Hopkins cutting deals with state and local Democratic officials, Roosevelt used federal discretionary spending, especially the Works Progress Administration ( 1935 – 1942 ) as a national political machine.

( The show is excerpted in the biographic film Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), when James Cagney sings Give My Regards to Broadway and The Yankee Doodle Boy.

James Roger McGuinn ( born James Joseph McGuinn III on July 13, 1942 ) known professionally as Roger McGuinn and previously as Jim McGuinn, is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

He received his first star in December 1942, and became chief of staff of the Twelfth Air Force in North Africa under General James H. Doolittle.

James Cameron went on to serve as the Indiana State Director of Civil Liberties from 1942 – 1950 and founded three local chapters of the NAACP.

Although Inez was not incorporated as a city until 1942, the vicinity was first settled circa 1810 by James Ward and was named Arminta Ward's Bottom.

In his 1942 essay " Memoirs of a Drudge " humorist James Thurber recalls being sent to Red Bank by his newspaper's city editor on a tip that " Violets ( are ) growing in the snow over in Red Bank.

James Soong Chu-yu (; born March 16, 1942 ), is a politician in the Republic of China on Taiwan.

As of 1942, Delp met regularly with the clandestine group around Helmuth James Graf von Moltke to develop a model for a new social order after the Third Reich came to an end.