The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

* 1942 – Robert Christgau, American journalist and critic

* 1942 – Eugene Robert Glazer, American actor

* 1942 – Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel laureate

Chess historian Edward Winter has questioned this, stating that the earliest known sources that support this story are an article by Robert Lewis Taylor in the June 15, 1940, issue of The New Yorker and Marshall's autobiography My 50 Years of Chess ( 1942 ).

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.

Clemence Dane's series of radio plays, The Saviours ( 1942 ), used a historical Arthur to embody the spirit of heroic resistance against desperate odds, and Robert Sherriff's play The Long Sunset ( 1955 ) saw Arthur rallying Romano-British resistance against the Germanic invaders.

* 1880 – Robert Musil, Austrian novelist ( d. 1942 )

In 1942, Robert K. Merton identified a small set of " norms " which characterized what makes a real science.

This idea was anticipated in part, down to the microscale, by science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein in his 1942 story Waldo.

* Robert L. Morris ( 1942 – 2004 ), first holder of the Koestler Chair of Parapsychology at the University of Edinburgh

Extract ; The Forgotten People, Robert Menzies, 22 May 1942 ;

* Robert J. Stevens ( born 1941 or 1942 ), exonerated defendant associated with 2010 U. S. Supreme Court case United States v. Stevens

* 1861 – Robert Bosch, German engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH ( d. 1942 )

* November 6 – Robert Musil, Austrian novelist ( d. 1942 )

: 2009 Robert Conroy, 1942

* Robert Smith Walker ( born 1942 ), member of the Congress of the United States from Pennsylvania

The U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff created the South Pacific theater, with Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley taking command on June 19, 1942, to direct the offensive in the Solomons.

* Robert Hand ( born 1942 ), astrologer.

* Robert Mason ( born 1942 ), author of Chickenhawk.

* Robert Shapiro ( born 1942 ), childhood home.

Robert Lee " Bullet Bob " Hayes ( December 20, 1942 – September 18, 2002 ) was an Olympic sprinter turned American football wide receiver in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys.

He also starred with Deborah Kerr and Robert Newton in Hatter's Castle ( 1942 ).

Kings Row is a 1942 film starring Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, and Ronald Reagan that tells a story of young people growing up in a small American town at the turn of the twentieth century, beset by social pressure, dark secrets, and the challenges and tragedies one must face as a result of these hard facts.

* 1942 – Leon Russell, American pianist and guitarist

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.

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