Year (''' MCMXLII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar .
:: ''(Below, many events of World War II have the " WWII " prefix.)''
- May - First test of an undersea oil pipeline in Operation Pluto .
- - United Kingdom forces invades French colony of Madagascar .
- , 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 - WWII : 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.
- - 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 .
- Declares War against Nazi Germany after the sinking of the Mexican tanker Faja De Oro by the German U-boat, U-160, off Key West .
- - attempted assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague .
- - Japanese midget submarines infiltrate Sydney Harbour in an attempt to attack Allied warships.
- begins - US Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with a landing on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands .
- August 8
- ---, six German would-be saboteurs are executed (two others were cooperative and received life imprisonment instead).
- --- Quit India resolution is passed by the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), which led to the start of a historical civil disobedience movement across India .
- August 9
- --- India n leader, Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces.
- ---''Start'', led by the goalkeeper Nikolai Trusevich, play football against the German Luftwaffe team Flakelf in Nazi-occupied Kiev. Against all odds, they win 5-3. Eight of them are later arrested and tortured, and at least four are killed.
- August 13 - 14 night - In London instruments detect a massive burst of Cosmic Rays .
- '', an American tanker, reaches Malta as part of the convoy of '' Operation Pedestal ''.
- August 16 - Polish-Jewish teacher Janusz Korczak follows a group of Jew ish children into Treblinka death camp.
- - Allied forces raid Dieppe, France . Fred Thompson Born.
- declared war on Germany and Italy .
- land at Milne Bay .
- August 30 - Luxembourg is formally annexed to the German Reich.
- August 31 - General Strike launched in Luxembourg to protest against forced conscription.
- November 2 - USAF forces, including B-24 Liberator 's fly toward Oran, Africa . The squad intercepts many Luftwaffe patrols off the coast of Oran . The US Force won the air battle.
- ends - German forces under Erwin Rommel are forced to retreat during the night.
- November 8 - WWII :
- --- Operation Torch - United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa .
- --- French Resistance Coup in Algiers , by which 400 French civil resistants neutralize the Vichyist XIXth Army Corps and the Vichyist generals (Juin, Darlan, etc.), so allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers, and ultimately the whole of French North Africa .
- hanged at Melbourne's Pentridge Prison for the "Brown-Out" Murders of three women in May.
- armistice, Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa .
- begins - A naval battle near Guadalcanal starts between Japan ese and American forces.
- sink the Japan ese battleship Hiei .
- suffered heavy losses, it was able to retain control of Guadalcanal .
- - Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counter-attacks at Stalingrad , turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
- November 21 - The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (the " Highway " was not usable by general vehicles until 1943 , however).
- - The situation for the German attackers of Stalingrad seems desperate during the Soviet counter-attack Operation Uranus and General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a Telegram saying that the German Sixth Army is surrounded.
- November 23 - German U-boat sinks ''SS Ben Lomond'' off the coast of Brazil. One crewman, Chinese second steward Poon Lim , is separated from the others and spends 130 days adrift until he is rescued April 3 1943 .
- November 26 - The movie '' Casablanca '' premièred at the Hollywood Theater in New York City .
- , the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
- November 28
- ---In Boston, Massachusetts , a fire in the Cocoanut Grove night club kills 491 people.
- ---The large-scale German "pacification" of Zamojszczyzna region of Poland begins.
- January 1
- --- Martin Frost , American politician
- --- 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
- --- Charlie Rose , American talk show host
- --- Jan Leeming , Former BBC newsreader
- January 7 - Vasily Alexeev , Soviet weightlifter
- January 8
- --- Stephen Hawking , British physicist
- --- Junichiro Koizumi , Prime Minister Of Japan
- --- Yvette Mimieux , American actress
- --- George Passmore , English artist ( Gilbert And George )
- January 11 - Clarence Clemons , American musician
- January 14 - Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal , Chief Justice Of India
- January 15 - Charo , American singer and actress
- January 17
- --- Muhammad Ali , American boxer
- --- Cus D'Amato , boxing manager (d. 1985 )
- --- Ulf Hoelscher , German violinist
- --- 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 )
- --- Daniela Bianchi , Italian actress
- February 1 - Terry Jones , Welsh actor and writer
- February 2 - Graham Nash , American (English-born) rock 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
- --- Michael Bloomberg , American Businessman , Philanthropist , and the founder of Bloomberg L.P. , Mayor of New York City
- --- Andrew Robinson , American actor
- February 15 - Sherry Jackson , American actress
- February 16 - Kim Jong-il , leader of the Democratic People's Republic Of Korea
- 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 2
- --- John Irving , American author
- --- Lou Reed , American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Velvet Underground )
- March 4
- --- Charles C. Krulak , U.S. Marine Corps commander
- --- Gloria Gaither , American gospel songwriter
- March 5 - Felipe González Márquez , Spanish politician
- March 7
- --- Tammy Faye Bakker , American evangelist, singer and television personality (d. 2007 )
- --- Michael Eisner , American film studio executive
- March 9 - John Cale , Welsh composer and musician ( Velvet Underground )
- 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
- --- 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
- --- Michael York , English actor
- --- Michael Jackson , English writer (d. 2007 )
- March 28
- --- Neil Kinnock , British statesman
- --- Mike Newell , British film director
- --- Conrad Schumann , East German border guard (d. 1998 )
- --- Jerry Sloan , American basketball coach
- March 29 - Scott Wilson , American actor
- April 1 - Annie Nightingale , British DJ (Radio 1)
- April 2
- --- Hiroyuki Sakai , Japanese chef
- --- Leon Russell , American singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist
- April 3
- --- Marsha Mason , American actress
- --- Wayne Newton , American singer
- April 4 - Elizabeth Levy , American author
- April 5
- --- Peter Greenaway , Welsh film-maker
- --- Pascal Couchepin , Swiss Federal Councilor
- April 6 - Barry Levinson , American film producer and director
- April 8 - Roger Chapman , British rock singer ( Family , Streetwalkers )
- April 14
- --- Valeriy Brumel , Russian athlete (d. 2003 )
- --- Valentin Lebedev , cosmonaut
- April 15
- --- Kenneth Lay , American businessman (d. 2006 )
- --- Julie Sommars , American actress
- April 17
- --- David Bradley , British actor
- --- Buster Williams , American jazz bassist
- April 24 - Barbra Streisand , American singer, theatre and film actress, composer
- April 26
- --- Bobby Rydell , American singer
- --- Michael Kergin , Canadian diplomat
- --- Claudine Auger , French actress
- April 27 - Jim Keltner , American drummer
- 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 10 - Youssouf Sambo Bâ , Burkinabé politician
- 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
- --- Nobby Stiles , English footballer
- May 19 - Gary Kildall , American computer scientist (d. 1994 )
- May 20 - David Proval , American actor
- May 22
- --- Theodore Kaczynski , American bomber
- --- Calvin Simon , American musician ( P Funk )
- May 23 - Gabriel Liiceanu , Romanian philosopher
- 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 2 - Eduard Malofeyev , Russian football coach and former international player
- June 3
- --- Curtis Mayfield , American musician (d. 1999 )
- --- Frank McRae , American actor
- June 10
- --- Gordon Burns , British journalist and TV presenter
- --- 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
- --- Roger Steffens , Reggae archivist, actor, author, Bob Marley biographer
- June 18
- --- Roger Ebert , American film critic and television personality
- --- Paul McCartney , English musician and composer ( The Beatles )
- --- Hans Vonk , Dutch conductor
- June 19
- --- Michael Broggie , Disney historian and author
- --- Ralna English , American singer
- June 20 - Brian Wilson , American singer ( The Beach Boys )
- June 24
- --- Mick Fleetwood , English drummer ( Fleetwood Mac )
- --- Michele Lee , American actress, singer and dancer
- June 27 - Bruce Johnston , American musician ( The Beach Boys )
- June 28 - David Miner , musician and record producer
- July 4
- --- Floyd Little , American football player
- --- Prince Michael Of Kent
- July 7 - Carmen Duncan , Welsh-born actress
- July 9 - Richard Roundtree , African-American actor
- July 10
- --- Pyotr Klimuk , cosmonaut
- --- Ronnie James Dio , American singer
- July 13
- --- Harrison Ford , American actor and producer
- --- Roger McGuinn , American musician ( The Byrds )
- July 15 - Mil Mascaras , Mexican professional wrestler
- July 18 - Adolf Ogi , member of the Swiss Federal Council
- July 23 - Myra Hindley , English murderer
- July 24 - Chris Sarandon , American actor
- July 27 - Dennis Ralston , American tennis player
- July 28 - Kaari Utrio , Finnish writer
- July 29 - Tony Sirico , American actor
- August 1 - Jerry Garcia , American musician (d. 1995 ), ( Grateful Dead )
- August 2 - Isabel Allende , Chilean writer
- August 4 - David Lange , Prime Minister Of New Zealand (d. 2005 )
- August 7 - Garrison Keillor , American writer and radio host
- August 17 - Roshan Seth , British Indian actor
- August 18 - Judith Keppel , First person to win £1,000,000 on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
- August 19 - Fred Dalton Thompson , U.S. Senator and actor
- August 20 - Isaac Hayes , American singer and actor
- August 26 - Dennis Turner (Lord Bilston), British politician
- August 28 - Sterling Morrison , American musician (d. 1995 )
- September 1 - John Lange , American scientist
- September 3 - John Shrapnel , English actor
- September 14 - Bernard MacLaverty , Irish writer
- September 17 - Desmond Lynam , British TV presenter
- September 19 - Freda Payne , American singer and actress
- September 22 - David Stern , American commissioner of the National Basketball Association
- September 28 - Marshall Bell , American actor
- September 29
- --- Madeline Kahn , American actress (d. 1999 )
- --- Ian McShane , English actor
- --- Jean-Luc Ponty , French jazz violinist
- September 30 - Frankie Lymon , American singer (d. 1968 )
- October 6
- --- Britt Ekland , Swedish actress
- --- Fred Travalena , American comedian and impressionist
- October 11 - Amitabh Bachchan , Indian actor
- October 12 - Melvin Franklin , American musician (d. 1995 )
- October 13 - Jerry Jones , American football team owner
- October 15
- --- Penny Marshall , American actress, producer and director
- --- Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami , American Hindu guru and pontiff of Kauai's Hindu monastery on Kauai, Hawaii, USA.
- October 19 - Andrew Vachss , American author and attorney
- October 20
- --- Earl Hindman , American actor (d. 2003 )
- --- 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
- --- Chelcie Ross , American actor
- October 31 - David Ogden Stiers , American voice-over artist
- November 1
- --- Larry Flynt , American publisher
- --- Ralph Klein , Premier of Alberta
- November 2 - Stefanie Powers , American actress
- November 8
- --- Angel Cordero Jr. , Puerto Rican jockey
- --- Fernando Sorrentino , Argentine writer
- November 10
- --- Robert F. Engle , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- --- 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 18
- --- Linda Evans , American actress
- --- Susan Sullivan , American actress
- November 20 - Joe Biden , U.S. Senator from Delaware
- November 22 - Francis K. Butagira , Ugandan ambassador
- November 24 - Billy Connolly , Scottish comedian
- November 26 - Khalil Kalfat , Egyptian intellectual and writer
- November 27
- --- Henry Carr , American athlete
- --- Jimi Hendrix , American musician (d. 1970 )
- --- Manolo Blahnik , Spanish shoe designer
- November 28 - Paul Warfield , American football player
- November 29 - Michael Craze , British actor (d. 1998 )
- November 29 - Philippe Huttenlocher , Swiss baritone
- December 4 - Gemma Jones , British actress
- December 6 - Peter Handke , Austrian novelist
- December 7 - Peter Tomarken , American game show host (d. 2006 )
- December 9 - Dick Butkus , American football player
- December 11 - Donna Mills , American actress
- December 17 - Paul Butterfield , American musician (d. 1987 )
- December 20 - Bob Hayes , American athlete
- December 21 - Carla Thomas , American singer
- December 23 - Jorma Kaukonen , American musician ( Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna )
- December 27 - Charmian Carr , American actress
- December 29 - Rajesh Khanna , Indian actor
- December 30
- --- Betty Aberlin , American actress
- --- Allan Gotthelf , American philosopher
- December 31 - Andy Summers , English guitarist
- ''date unknown''
- --- Roger Angleton , American murderer (d. 1998 )
- --- George Negus , Australian author, journalist, and television presenter.
- ''probable'' - Muammar Al-Gaddafi , leader of Libya
- 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 (air crash) (b. 1908 )
- --- Prince Arthur, Duke Of Connaught And Strathearn , second youngest son of Queen Victoria (b. 1850 )
- 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 22 - Stefan Zweig , Austrian writer (suicide with wife) (b. 1881 )
- 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 16 - Princess Alexandra Of Edinburgh And Saxe-Coburg-Gotha , granddaughter of Queen Victoria
- 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 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 25 - Prince George, Duke Of Kent , fourth eldest son of King George V
- September 14 - Ezra Seymour Gosney , American philanthropist and eugenicist (b. 1855 )
- October 23 - Ralph Rainger , American composer and Hollywood songwriter (b. 1901 )
- November 1 - Hugo Distler , German composer (b. 1908 )
- November 5 - George M. Cohan , American songwriter and entertainer (b. 1878 )
- November 12 - Laura Hope Crews , stage & film actress (aunt PittyPat), (b. 1879 )
- November 19 - Bruno Schulz , Polish writer and painter (shot) (b. 1892 )
- November 21 - Leopold Graf Berchtold , Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (b. 1863 )
- December 7 - Orland Steen Loomis , Governor-elect of Wisconsin (b. 1893 )
- December 22 - Franz Boas , German anthropologist (b. 1858 )
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