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Infantryman wearing a
Brodie helmet , kneeling in front of
M3 Half-track , holds an
M1 Garand rifle.
Fort Knox , June 1942.
President
Franklin D. Roosevelt , 1942
Events from the year 1942 in the United States .
Incumbents
Federal government
Events
January
February
February 2: An executive order directs
Japanese American internment
March
April
May
June
July
August
August 7:
Battle of Guadalcanal begins
August 7 –
WWII :
Battle of Guadalcanal begins – The
United States Marine Corps initiates the first American offensive of the war with a landing on
Guadalcanal in the
Solomon Islands .
August 8 –
WWII : In
Washington, D.C. , six
German would-be saboteurs are executed (two others are cooperative and receive life imprisonment instead).
August 13 –
Walt Disney 's fifth feature film,
Bambi , is released. Although the initial box office gross is lackluster (due to the loss of most of the European film market during
World War II ), it eventually becomes a financial success through various reissues over the next several decades. Due to continued financial losses, Disney spends the majority of the rest of the 1940s producing a string of
package films , with Bambi being the last singular project he will release until
Cinderella eight years later.
August 15 –
WWII : The American tanker
SS Ohio reaches Malta as part of the convoy of
Operation Pedestal .
August 16 – The U.S. Navy blimp
L-8 (Flight 101) comes ashore near San Francisco, eventually coming down in
Daly City (the crew is missing).
September
October
October 28: The
Alaska Highway is completed.
November
American Troops near Algiers during Operation Torch
December
Ongoing
Unknown
Births
January
Charlie Rose
Muhammad Ali
January 1
January 2
January 3 –
Donna Axum , American beauty pageant winner and model (d.
2018 )
January 4 –
Jim Downing , race car driver and inventor
January 5 –
Charlie Rose , American television anchor and talk show host
January 7
January 9
January 11
January 17 –
Muhammad Ali , born Cassius Clay, African-American boxer, activist, and philanthropist (d.
2016 )
January 18 –
Ruby Winters , American singer (d.
2016 )
January 20 –
Linda Moulton Howe , American journalist and producer
January 24
January 25 –
Carl Eller , American football player
January 27
January 30 –
Marty Balin , American singer, songwriter, and musician (d.
2018 )
February
Carole King
Peter Tork
February 2 –
Ed Bogas , American musician and composer
February 5 –
Roger Staubach , American football player
February 8
February 9 –
Carole King , American singer and composer
February 10
February 11
February 12 –
Larry L. Taylor , American Medal of Honor recipient (d.
2024 )
[7]
February 13
February 14 –
Michael Bloomberg , American businessman
February 15 –
Sherry Jackson , American actress
February 19 –
Paul Krause , American football player
February 20 –
Mitch McConnell , American politician,
United States Senator (R-
KY )
February 24 –
Joe Lieberman , American politician,
Senator for Connecticut (1989–2013) (d.
2024 )
[8]
February 25 –
Karen Grassle , American actress
February 27 –
Robert H. Grubbs , American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2021 )
March
Lou Reed
Aretha Franklin
Scott Wilson
March 2
March 5 –
Mike Resnick , American science fiction author (d.
2020 )
March 7
March 8 –
Dick Allen , American baseball player (d.
2020 )
March 10 –
Bob Berry , American football player (d.
2023 )
March 12 –
Jimmy Wynn , American baseball player (d.
2020 )
March 13
March 15 –
The Iron Sheik , Iranian-American wrestler (d.
2023 )
March 17 –
John Wayne Gacy , American
serial killer (d.
1994 )
March 20
March 21
March 22 –
Patricia A. Goldman , American women's rights activist (d.
2023 )
March 25 –
Aretha Franklin , African-American singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist (d.
2018 )
March 26
March 28
March 29
April
Leon Russell
Sandra Dee
Barbra Streisand
April 1
April 2 –
Leon Russell , singer-songwriter, keyboard player and guitarist (d.
2016 )
April 3
April 5 –
Peter Magowan , American businessman (d.
2019 )
April 6 –
Barry Levinson , American film producer and director
April 8 –
Douglas Trumbull , American film director (d.
2022 )
April 15 –
Kenneth Lay , American businessman (d.
2006 )
April 17 –
Buster Williams , American jazz bassist
April 18 –
Seymour Stein , American entrepreneur and music executive (d.
2023 )
April 21 –
Brendan Malone , American basketball coach (d.
2023 )
April 23 –
Sandra Dee , American actress (d.
2005 )
April 24
April 25 –
Jon Kyl , U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1995 to 2013
April 26 –
Bobby Rydell , American singer (d.
2022 )
April 27
May
Tammy Wynette
Taj Mahal
Ted Kaczynski
May 1
May 5 –
Tammy Wynette , American country singer (d.
1998 )
May 6 –
David Friesen , bassist
May 9
May 10
May 14 –
Byron Dorgan , American politician
May 15
May 17 –
Taj Mahal , African-American singer and guitarist
May 19 –
Gary Kildall , American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur (d.
1994 )
May 20 –
Carlos Hathcock , American Marine sniper (d.
1999 )
May 21 –
Robert C. Springer , American astronaut and test pilot
May 22
May 27
Priscilla McLean , American composer, performer, video artist, writer, and music reviewer
Lee Baca , American law enforcement official and convicted felon
May 28 –
Stanley B. Prusiner , American scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
May 29 –
Kevin Conway , American actor and director (d.
2020 )
May 31 –
Happy Hairston , American basketball player (d.
2001 )
June
Curtis Mayfield
Roger Ebert
Brian Wilson
July
Richard Roundtree
Harrison Ford
July 1 –
Andraé Crouch , American gospel singer (d.
2015 )
July 3
July 4
July 5 –
Louise Shaffer , American actress, script writer, and author
July 7 –
Thomas D. Pollard , American educator, cell biologist and biophysicist
July 8 –
Phil Gramm , American politician
July 9 –
Richard Roundtree , African-American actor (d.
2023 )
July 10
July 12 –
Steve Young , American country music singer-songwriter (d.
2016 )
July 13
July 16 –
John Purdin , American baseball player (d.
2010 )
July 18 –
Bobby Susser , American songwriter and producer (d.
2020 )
July 19 –
Frederick Kantor , American physicist (d.
2020 )
July 24 –
Chris Sarandon , American actor
July 27 –
Dennis Ralston , American tennis player (d.
2020 )
July 28
July 29 –
Tony Sirico , American actor (d.
2022 )
August
Jerry Garcia
Fred Thompson
August 1 –
Jerry Garcia , American musician (d.
1995 )
August 4
August 7
August 9
August 10 –
Speedy Duncan , American football player (d.
2021 )
[9]
August 11 –
Otis Taylor , American football player (d.
2023 )
[10]
August 13
August 16 –
Barbara George , American singer-songwriter (d.
2006 )
August 19 –
Fred Thompson , American politician and actor (d.
2015 )
August 20 –
Isaac Hayes , African-American singer and actor (d.
2008 )
August 23 –
Nancy Richey , American tennis player
August 24 –
Max Cleland , American politician (d.
2021 )
August 27 –
Daryl Dragon , American musician (d.
2019 )
August 29 –
Sterling Morrison , American musician (d.
1995 )
September
Al Jardine
Madeline Kahn
October
Judy Sheindlin
Michael Crichton
October 1 –
Jerry Martini , American musician
October 6
October 7
October 10 –
Janis Hansen , American singer and author (d.
2017 )
October 13
October 18 –
Eli Noyes , American animator (d.
2024 )
[12]
October 19 –
Andrew Vachss , American author and attorney
October 20 –
Earl Hindman , American actor (d.
2003 )
October 21
October 22
October 23 –
Michael Crichton , American author (d.
2008 )
October 24
October 25 –
Gloria Katz , American screenwriter and film producer (d.
2018 )
October 29
James Orange , African-American pastor and civil rights activist (d.
2008 )
Bob Ross , American painter, art instructor and television host (d.
1995 )
October 31 –
David Ogden Stiers , American actor and voice-over artist (d.
2018 )
November
Martin Scorsese
Joe Biden
Bob Einstein
December
Harry Chapin
Deaths
January 3 –
Charles Mann Hamilton , politician (b.
1874 )
January 4
January 6 –
John Bernard Flannagan , sculptor, suicide (b.
1895 )
January 16 –
Carole Lombard , film actress, air crash (b.
1908 )
January 18 –
James P. Parker , U.S. Navy commodore (b.
1855 )
January 18 –
Mason Patrick , Chief of United States Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces 1918 (b.
1863 )
February 9 –
Anna Elizabeth Klumpke , portrait and genre painter (b.
1856 )
February 12 –
Grant Wood , painter (b.
1892 )
February 18 –
Albert Payson Terhune , journalist and author (b.
1872 )
March 16 –
Rachel Field , author and poet (born
1894 )
[23]
March 26 –
Carolyn Wells , prolific novelist and poet (b.
1862 )
[24]
April 18 –
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney , founder of the
Whitney Museum of American Art (b.
1875 )
April 27 –
Arthur L. Bristol , U.S. Navy admiral (b.
1886 )
May 29 –
John Barrymore , actor (b.
1882 )
June 4 – killed in action at the
Battle of Midway
William Abercrombie , U.S. Navy officer and aviator (b.
1914 )
Edgar R. Bassett , U.S. Navy officer (b. 1914)
Robert Boyd Brazier , US Navy aviation radioman, killed in action at the
Battle of Midway (b.
1916 )
John Clarence Butler , US Navy officer, killed in action at the
Battle of Midway (b.
1921 )
Harold John Ellison , U.S. Navy officer (b.
1917 )
Eugene A. Greene , US Navy officer, killed in action at the
Battle of Midway (b.
1921 )
John William Haas , US Navy pilot, killed in action at the
Battle of Midway (b.
1907 )
Patrick H. Hart , US Navy officer, killed in action at the
Battle of Midway (b.
1915 )
Lofton R. Henderson , U.S. Marine Corps aviator and commanding officer of Marine Scout Bomber Squadron 241 (VMSB-241) (b.
1903 )
Ernest Lenard Hilbert , US Navy aviator, killed in action at the
Battle of Midway (b.
1920 )
Curtis W. Howard , US Navy officer, killed in action at the
Battle of Midway (b.
1917 )
Charles Kleinsmith , US Navy Chief Petty officer and sailor, killed in action at the
Battle of Midway (b.
1904 )
Eugene E. Lindsey , US Navy officer, killed in action at the
Battle of Midway (b.
1905 )
Lance Edward Massey , US Navy pilot, killed in action at the
Battle of Midway (b.
1909 )
Walter Harold Mosley , US Navy officer, killed in action at the
Battle of Midway (b.
1916 )
Carl A. Osberg , US Navy pilot, killed in action at the
Battle of Midway (b.
1920 )
Floyd B. Parks , US Marine Corps officer, killed in action at the
Battle of Midway (b.
1911 )
Oswald A. Powers , US Navy officer, killed in action at the
Battle of Midway (b.
1915 )
David John Roche , US Navy officer, killed in action at the
Battle of Midway (b.
1918 )
Richard Wayne Suesens , US Navy officer, killed in action at the
Battle of Midway (b.
1915 )
John C. Waldron , U.S. Navy aviator and commander of
Torpedo Squadron 8 (b.
1900 )
Frederick T. Weber , US Navy aviator, killed in action at the
Battle of Midway (b.
1916 )
Osborne B. Wiseman , US Navy aviator, killed in action at the
Battle of Midway (b.
1915 )
June 5
June 19 –
Frank Irons , Olympic field athlete (b.
1886 )
June 23 –
William Couper , sculptor (b.
1853 )
June 30 –
William Henry Jackson , explorer and photographer (b.
1843 )
July 30 –
Jimmy Blanton , African American jazz double bassist (b.
1918 )
August 3 –
James Cruze , actor and director (b.
1884 )
August 7
August 30 –
John Willard , playwright and actor (b.
1885 )
September 7 –
Cecilia Beaux , portrait painter (b.
1855 )
October 5 –
Dorothea Klumpke , astronomer (b.
1861 )
November 4 –
Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson , novelist and textbook and children's writer (b.
1863 )
November 30 –
Anthony M. Rud , writer (b.
1893 )
December 5 –
Richard Tucker , film actor (b.
1884 )
December 6 –
Amos Rusie , baseball player (b.
1871 )
December 7 –
Orland Steen Loomis , Governor of Wisconsin (b.
1893 )
December 8 –
Albert Kahn , architect (b.
1869 in Germany )
December 12
December 13 –
Robert Robinson Taylor , first accredited African American architect (b.
1868 )
December 21 –
Franz Boas , anthropologist (b.
1858 in Germany)
December 27 –
William G. Morgan , inventor of volleyball (b.
1870 )
See also
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