1942

1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1942nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 942nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 42nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1940s decade.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1942 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1942
MCMXLII
Ab urbe condita2695
Armenian calendar1391
ԹՎ ՌՅՂԱ
Assyrian calendar6692
Baháʼí calendar98–99
Balinese saka calendar1863–1864
Bengali calendar1349
Berber calendar2892
British Regnal yearGeo. 6 – 7 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar2486
Burmese calendar1304
Byzantine calendar7450–7451
Chinese calendar辛巳年 (Metal Snake)
4639 or 4432
    — to —
壬午年 (Water Horse)
4640 or 4433
Coptic calendar1658–1659
Discordian calendar3108
Ethiopian calendar1934–1935
Hebrew calendar5702–5703
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1998–1999
 - Shaka Samvat1863–1864
 - Kali Yuga5042–5043
Holocene calendar11942
Igbo calendar942–943
Iranian calendar1320–1321
Islamic calendar1360–1361
Japanese calendarShōwa 17
(昭和17年)
Javanese calendar1872–1873
Juche calendar31
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4275
Minguo calendarROC 31
民國31年
Nanakshahi calendar474
Thai solar calendar2485
Tibetan calendar阴金蛇年
(female Iron-Snake)
2068 or 1687 or 915
    — to —
阳水马年
(male Water-Horse)
2069 or 1688 or 916

The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million. However, the Correlates of War estimates that the prior year, 1941, was the deadliest such year. Death toll estimates for both 1941 and 1942 range from 2.28 to 7.71 million each.

Events

Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.

1942 
Map of Europe at the height of German control in 1942, Britain remains the only country in Western Europe held by Allied forces

January

February

March

April

May

June

1942 
June 4: Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū under attack by US aircraft at the Battle of Midway

July

August

September

October

November

December

Date unknown

Births

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

1942 
Stephen Hawking
1942 
Junichiro Koizumi
1942 
Muhammad Ali
1942 
Michael Crawford
1942 
Eusébio
1942 
Tasuku Honjo

February

1942 
Terry Jones
1942 
Graham Nash
1942 
Carole King
1942 
Ehud Barak
1942 
Brian Jones

March

1942 
Michael Eisner
1942 
John Cale
1942 
Michael York

April

1942 
Leon Russell
1942 
Jeetendra
1942 
Jacob Zuma
1942 
David Bradley
1942 
Geoffrey Palmer
1942 
Barbra Streisand

May

1942 
Tammy Wynette
1942 
Ian Dury
1942 
Jusuf Kalla
1942 
Taj Mahal

June

1942 
Curtis Mayfield
1942 
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
1942 
Muammar Gaddafi
1942 
Thabo Mbeki
1942 
Sir Paul McCartney
1942 
Brian Wilson
1942 
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle

July

1942 
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri
1942 
Vicente Fox
1942 
Richard Roundtree
1942 
Harrison Ford
1942 
Roger McGuinn
1942 
Javier Solana
1942 
Chris Sarandon

August

1942 
Jerry Garcia
1942 
Isabel Allende
1942 
David Lange
1942 
Tobin Bell
1942 
Hissène Habré
1942 
Isaac Hayes
1942 
José Eduardo dos Santos

September

1942 
Al Jardine
1942 
Werner Herzog
1942 
Emmerson Mnangagwa
1942 
Wolfgang Schäuble
1942 
Ian McShane

October

1942 
Britt Ekland
1942 
Joy Behar
1942 
Amitabh Bachchan
1942 
Michael Crichton

November

1942 
Martin Scorsese
1942 
Joe Biden
1942 
Bob Einstein
1942 
Guion Bluford
1942 
Sir Billy Connolly
1942 
Jimi Hendrix

December

1942 
Muhammadu Buhari
1942 
Paul Butterfield
1942 
Hu Jintao
1942 
Michael Nesmith

Deaths

Deaths
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

1942 
Mel Sheppard
1942 
Henri de Baillet-Latour
1942 
Emil Szramek
1942 
Carole Lombard
1942 
Racho Petrov
1942 
Prince Ludwig Gaston of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

February

1942 
Ado Birk
1942 
Lauri Kristian Relander
1942 
Ugo Pasquale Mifsud
1942 
Epitácio Pessoa

March

1942 
Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta
1942 
Robert Bosch
1942 
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear

April

1942 
Lucy Maud Montgomery

May

1942 
Thorvald Stauning
1942 
José Abad Santos
1942 
John Barrymore

June

1942 
Reinhard Heydrich
1942 
Frank Irons
1942 
Pope John XIX of Alexandria

July

1942 
Refik Saydam
1942 
Saint Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus
1942 
Joaquín Sánchez de Toca
1942 
Roberto Maria Ortiz
1942 
Titus Brandsma
1942 
Louis Borno
1942 
Leopold Mandić

August

1942 
Richard Willstätter
1942 
Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
1942 
Prince George, Duke of Kent

September

1942 
Blessed Adam Bargielski
1942 
Blessed Bronisław Kostkowski

October

1942 
Blessed Maria Antonina Kratochwil

November

1942 
Prince Heinrich XXXIII Reuss of Köstritz
1942 
Hernando Siles Reyes
1942 
Mohammad Ali Foroughi

December

1942 
François Darlan

References

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