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1942 (''' MCMXLII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar).
Events
January
February
March-April
May
- May - first test of an undersea oil pipeline in Operation Pluto
- , the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japan ese.
- comes to an end. This is the first time in the naval history where two enemy fleets fought without seeing each other's fleets.
- May 8 / May 9 - Second World War : On the night of 8/9 May 1942, gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebelled. Their mutiny was crushed and three of them were executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
- 1942 - - In the eastern Ukraine , the Soviet Army initiates a major offensive. During the battle the Soviets will capture the city of Kharkov from the German Army, only to be encircled and destroyed.
- , a bill creating the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) is signed into law.
- May 20 - First African-American seamen taken into US Navy
- - assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague
June
July
August-September
- begins - US Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with a landing on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands .
- , six German would-be saboteurs are executed (two others were cooperative and received life imprisonment instead).
- August 8 - Quit India resolution was passed by the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), which led to the start of a historical civil disobidience movement across India
- August 9 - India n leader, Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces.
- August 9 - FC Start, led by Nikolai Trusevich, play football against the German Luftwaffe team Flakelf in Nazi-occupied Kiev. Against all odds, they win 5-3. They are later arrested and tortured, and most are killed.
- August 13 - 14 night - In London instruments detect a massive burst of Cosmic Rays
- August 16 - Polish-Jewish teacher Janusz Korczak follows a group of Jew ish children into Treblinka death camp
- - Allied forces raid Dieppe, France .
- declared war on Germany and Italy .
- September 3 - Francisco Franco fires foreign minister Serrano Súñer
- September 3 - An attempt by the Germans to liquidate the Jewish Ghetto in Lakhva leads to an uprising.
- September 12 - RMS Laconia , carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks.
- September 24 - Andrée Borrel and Lise De Baissac became the first female SOE agents to be parachuted into occupied France .
October
November
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December
Undated
Ongoing events
Births
Unknown date
January
- January 1 - Martin Frost , American politician
- January 1 - Gennadi Sarafanov , cosmonaut
- January 2 - Hugh Shelton , American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- January 3 - John Thaw , English actor (d. 2002 )
- January 5 - Maurizio Pollini , Italian pianist
- January 5 - Charlie Rose , American talk show host
- January 7 - Vasily Alexeev , Soviet weightlifter
- January 8 - Stephen Hawking , British physicist
- January 8 - Junichiro Koizumi , Prime Minister Of Japan
- January 8 - Yvette Mimieux , American actress
- January 8 - George Passmore , English artist ( Gilbert And George )
- January 14 - Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal , Chief Justice Of India
- January 15 - Charo , American singer and actress
- January 17 - Muhammad Ali , American boxer
- January 17 - Cus D'Amato , boxing manager (d. 1985 )
- January 17 - Ulf Hoelscher , German violinist
- January 17 - Nancy Parsons , American actress (d. 2001 )
- January 19 - Michael Crawford , singer and actor
- January 25 - Carl Eller , American football player
- January 25 - Eusébio , Portuguese footballer
- January 31 - Derek Jarman , English director and writer (d. 1994 )
February
- February 1 - Terry Jones , Welsh actor and writer
- February 2 - Graham Nash , English musician
- February 5 - Roger Staubach , American football player
- February 9 - Carole King , American singer and composer
- February 12 - Ehud Barak , Prime Minister Of Israel
- February 13 - Peter Tork , American musician and actor
- February 14 - Andrew Robinson , American actor
- February 19 - Paul Krause , American football player
- February 20 - Phil Esposito , Canadian hockey player
- February 21 - Margarethe Von Trotta , German actress, film director, and writer
- February 24 - Joseph Lieberman , American politician
- February 27 - Robert H. Grubbs , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- February 28 - Brian Jones , English musician ( The Rolling Stones ) (d. 1969 )
March
- March 2 - John Irving , American author
- March 2 - Lou Reed , American singer and guitarist
- March 4 - Charles C. Krulak , U.S. Marine Corps commander
- March 5 - Felipe González Márquez , Spanish politician
- March 7 - Tammy Faye Bakker , American evangelist
- March 7 - Michael Eisner , American film studio executive
- March 9 - John Cale , Welsh composer and musician
- March 13 - Dave Cutler , American software engineer
- March 13 - Scatman John , American musician (d. 1999 )
- March 16 - James Soong , Taiwan politician
- March 17 - John Wayne Gacy , American serial killer (d. 1994 )
- March 23 - Walter Rodney , Guyanese historian and political figure
- March 25 - Aretha Franklin , American singer
- March 25 - Richard O'Brien , English-born actor and writer
- March 26 - Erica Jong , American author
- March 27 - John E. Sulston , British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- March 27 - Michael York , English actor
- March 28 - Neil Kinnock , British statesman
- March 28 - Mike Newell , British film director
- March 28 - Conrad Schumann , East German border guard (d. 1998 )
- March 28 - Jerry Sloan , American basketball coach
April
- April 2 - Hiroyuki Sakai , Japanese chef
- April 3 - Marsha Mason , American actress
- April 3 - Wayne Newton , American singer
- April 4 - Elizabeth Levy , American author
- April 5 - Peter Greenaway , Welsh filmmaker
- April 5 - Pascal Couchepin , Swiss Federal Councilor
- April 6 - Barry Levinson , American film producer and director
- April 14 - Valeriy Brumel , Russian athlete (d. 2003 )
- April 14 - Valentin Lebedev , cosmonaut
- April 26 - Bobby Rydell , American singer
- April 26 - Michael Kergin , Canadian diplomat
- April 27 - Jim Keltner , American drummer
May
- May 2 - Jacques Rogge , Belgian International Olympic Committee president
- May 5 - Tammy Wynette , American musician (d. 1998 )
- May 8 - Terry Neill , Northern Irish footballer and football manager
- May 9 - John Ashcroft , United States Attorney General
- May 12 - Ian Dury , British musician (d. 2000 )
- May 17 - Taj Mahal , American singer and guitarist
- May 18 - Albert Hammond , English-born musician and composer
- May 18 - Nobby Stiles , English footballer
- May 19 - Gary Kildall , American computer scientist (d. 1994 )
- May 22 - Theodore Kaczynski , American bomber
- May 22 - Calvin Simon , American musician ( P Funk )
- May 26 - Levon Helm , American musician ( The Band )
- May 28 - Stanley B. Prusiner , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
June
- June 3 - Curtis Mayfield , American musician (d. 1999 )
- June 10 - Preston Manning , Canadian politician
- June 12 - Bert Sakmann , German physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- June 17 - Mohamed ElBaradei , Egyptian International Atomic Energy Agency director, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- June 18 - Roger Ebert , American film critic
- June 18 - Paul McCartney , English musician and composer ( The Beatles )
- June 18 - Hans Vonk , Dutch conductor
- June 19 - Ralna English , American singer
- June 20 - Brian Wilson , American singer ( The Beach Boys )
- June 24 - Mick Fleetwood , English drummer ( Fleetwood Mac )
- June 24 - Bruce Johnston , American musician ( The Beach Boys )
- June 24 - Michele Lee , American singer, dancer and actress
July
- July 4 - Floyd Little , American football player
- July 4 - Prince Michael Of Kent
- July 7 - Carmen Duncan , Welsh-born actress
- July 10 - Pyotr Klimuk , cosmonaut
- July 10 - Ronnie James Dio , American singer
- July 13 - Harrison Ford , American actor and producer
- July 13 - Roger McGuinn , American musician
- July 15 - Mil Mascaras , Mexican professional wrestler
- July 17 - Tim Brooke-Taylor , English radio and television personality
- July 23 - Myra Hindley , English murderer
- July 24 - Chris Sarandon , American actor
- July 27 - Dennis Ralston , American tennis player
- July 29 - Tony Sirico , American actor
August
September
October
- October 10 - Peter Coyote , American actor
- October 11 - Amitabh Bachchan , Indian actor
- October 12 - Melvin Franklin , American musician (d. 1995 )
- October 13 - Jerry Jones , American football team owner
- October 19 - Andrew Vachss , American author and attorney
- October 20 - Earl Hindman , American actor (d. 2003 )
- October 20 - Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard , German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- October 21 - Elvin Bishop , American musician
- October 22 - Annette Funicello , American actress
- October 23 - Michael Crichton , American author
- October 26 - Bob Hoskins , British actor
November
- November 1 - Larry Flynt , American publisher
- November 1 - Ralph Klein , Premier of Alberta
- November 8 - Angel Cordero Jr. , Puerto Rican jockey
- November 8 - Fernando Sorrentino , Argentine writer
- November 10 - Robert F. Engle , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- November 10 - Hans-Rudolf Merz , Swiss Federal Councilor
- November 13 - John P. Hammond , American singer
- November 15 - Daniel Barenboim , Argentine-born pianist and conductor
- November 17 - Martin Scorsese , American film director
- November 20 - Joe Biden , U.S. Senator from Delaware
- November 27 - Henry Carr , American athlete
- November 27 - Jimi Hendrix , American musician (d. 1970 )
- November 28 - Paul Warfield , American football player
- November 29 - Michael Craze , British actor (d. 1998 )
- November 29 - Philippe Huttenlocher , Swiss baritone
December
Unknown date
Deaths
January-April
- January 6 - Henri De Baillet-Latour , Belgian International Olympic Committee president (b. 1876 )
- January 14 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob , Colombian poet and writer (b. 1883 )
- January 16 - Carole Lombard , American actress (b. 1908 )
- January 26 - Felix Hausdorff , German mathematician (suicide) (b. 1868 )
- February 14 - Mirosław Ferić , Polish pilot of the No. 303 Squadron in Northolt (b. 1915 )
- February 19 - Frank Abbandando , American gangster (executed) (b. 1910 )
- February 28 - Karel Doorman , Dutch admiral (sinking ship) (b. 1889 )
- March 1 - Cornelius Vanderbilt III , American military officer, inventor, and engineer (b. 1873 )
- March 8 - José Raúl Capablanca , Cuban chess player (b. 1888 )
- March 10 - William Henry Bragg , English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862 )
- March 21 - J.S Woodsworth , Canadian politician (b. 1874 )
- April 15 - Robert Musil , Austrian-born novelist (b. 1880 )
- April 17 - Jean Baptiste Perrin , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870 )
- April 18 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney , American sculptor and socialite (b. 1875 )
- April 24 - Dinanath Mangeshkar , Indian singer and composer (b. 1900 )
May-December
- May 3 - Thorvald Stauning , Prime Minister Of Denmark (b. 1873 )
- May 7 - Felix Weingartner , Yugoslavian conductor (b. 1863 )
- May 27 - Chen Duxiu , General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1879 )
- May 29 - John Barrymore , American actor (b. 1882 )
- June 4 - Reinhard Heydrich , chief of the Nazi Reich Main Security Office and Reich governor of Bohemia and Moravia (assassinated) (b. 1904 )
- June 7 - Alan Blumlein , English electronics engineer (b. 1903 )
- June 30 - William Henry Jackson , American photographer (b. 1843 )
- July 23 - Adam Czerniakow , Polish engineer and senator (suicide) (b. 1880 )
- July 26 - Roberto Arlt , Argentine writer (b. 1900 )
- July 28 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie , English Egyptologist (b. 1853 )
- August 3 - Richard Willstätter , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872 )
- August 6 - Jonathan Campbell , American film pioneer (b. 1875 )
- September 14 - Ezra Seymour Gosney , American philanthropist and eugenicist (b. 1855 )
- November 1 - Hugo Distler , German composer (b. 1908 )
- November 5 - George M. Cohan , American songwriter and entertainer (b. 1878 )
- November 19 - Bruno Schulz , Polish writer and painter (shot) (b. 1892 )
- November 21 - Leopold Graf Berchtold , Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (b. 1863 )
- December 22 - Franz Boas , German anthropologist (b. 1858 )
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