1942: Difference between revisions

===January===

{{Main|January 1942}}

* [[January 5]] &ndash; WWII: Two prisoners, British officer [[Airey Neave]] and Dutch officer [[Anthony Luteyn]], escape from [[Colditz Castle]] in [[Germany]]. After travelling for three days, they reach the Swiss border.<ref>{{cite book | last = Levine | first = Alan | title = Captivity, flight, and survival in World War II | publisher = Praeger | location = Westport, CT | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780275969554 | page=119}}</ref>

* [[January 7]] – WWII:

* [[February 8]]

** WWII: [[Fall of Singapore|Battle of Singapore]]: Japanese forces of the [[5th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)|5th Division]] and [[18th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)|18th Division]] (some 23,000 men) begin to cross the [[Straits of Johor|Johor Strait]] and attack the Australian [[22nd Brigade (Australia)|22nd Brigade]] (some 3,000 men) at [[Singapore in the Straits Settlements|Singapore]].

** WWII: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.

** [[António Óscar Carmona]] is elected president of Portugal.

* [[February 9]] &ndash; The [[ocean liner]] {{SS|Normandie}} catches fire while being converted into the troopship USS ''Lafayette'' (AP-53) for WWII at Pier 88 in New York City; she capsizes early the following morning.

* [[February 11]]–[[February 13|13]] – WWII: [[Operation Cerberus]]: A [[Kriegsmarine]] (German navy) squadron comprising the [[German battleship Scharnhorst|''Scharnhorst'']] and [[German battleship Gneisenau|''Gneisenau'']], heavy cruiser [[German cruiser Prinz Eugen|''Prinz Eugen'']] and their escort, dash from [[Brest, France|Brest]] through the [[English Channel]] to German ports; the British fail to sink any of them.

* [[January 11]]

** [[Clarence Clemons]], African-American saxophonist (d. [[2011]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Chase's Annual Events |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WA3vAAAAMAAJ |year=1994 |publisher=Contemporary Books |isbn=978-0-8092-3732-6 |page=63 |access-date=April 6, 2021 |archive-date=September 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230901100002/https://books.google.com/books?id=WA3vAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>

* [[January 12]]

** [[Ramiro de León Carpio]], 31st [[President of Guatemala]] (d. [[2002]])

** [[Sadou Hayatou]], 4th [[Prime Minister of Cameroon]] (d. [[2019]])

** [[Sherry Jackson]], American actress

* [[February 21]] – [[Margarethe von Trotta]], German actress, film director and writer

* [[February 22]] – [[Christine Keeler]], English model (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29213271 |title=Obituary: Christine Keeler |date=2017-12-05 |work=BBC News |access-date=2017-12-06 |df=dmy-all |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612043214/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29213271 |archive-date=12 June 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>

* [[June 12]] – [[Bert Sakmann]], German physiologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]

* [[June 13]] – [[Abdulsalami Abubakar]], [[President of Nigeria]]

* [[June 16]]

** [[Giacomo Agostini]], Italian motorcycle racer

* [[July 16]] – [[Margaret Court]], Australian tennis player

* [[July 17]]

** [[Zoot Money]], English vocalist, keyboardist and bandleader

* [[July 18]]

* [[July 24]] – [[Chris Sarandon]], American actor

* [[July 26]] – [[Hannelore Elsner]], German actress (d. [[2019]])

* [[July 29]] – [[Tony Sirico]], American actor (d. [[2022]])

 

** [[Hu Jintao]], [[General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party]], 6th [[President of the People's Republic of China]]<!-- "Hu" is surname -->

** [[Carla Thomas]], American singer

* [[December 27]]

** [[Muruga Booker]], American drummer, composer, inventor, artist and recording artist

** [[Robert William Chapman (engineer)|Robert William Chapman]], Australian engineer and mathematician (b. [[1866]])

** [[Joseph Emile Harley]], American army officer and politician (b. [[1880]])

 

===March===

** [[Michael Kitzelmann]], German army officer (b. [[1916]])

* [[June 14]] – [[Fyodor Braun]], Soviet-born German scholar (b. [[1862]])

**[[Jozef Gabčík]], Slovak soldier and resistance fighter, a member of the team part of [[Operation Anthropoid]] (b. [[1912]])

**[[Jan Kubiš]], Czech soldier and resistance fighter, a member of the team part of [[Operation Anthropoid]] (b. [[1913]])

**[[Adolf Opálka]], Czech soldier and resistance fighter, a member of the team part of [[Operation Anthropoid]] (b. [[1915]])

* [[June 19]]

** [[Ahmad II of Tunis]], Ruler of Tunisia (b. [[1862]])