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1942 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1942 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
Events
Publications
Births
January - April
- 3 January - John Thaw, English actor (died 2002)
- 8 January
- 19 January - Michael Crawford, English singer and actor
- 31 January - Derek Jarman, English director and writer (died 1994)
- 1 February - Terry Jones, Welsh actor and writer
- 2 February - Graham Nash, English musician
- 28 February - Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (died 1969)
- 9 March - John Cale, Welsh composer and musician
- 25 March - Richard O'Brien, English actor and writer
- 27 March
- 28 March
- 5 April - Peter Greenaway, Welsh filmmaker
- 8 April - Roger Chapman, British singer (Family, Streetwalkers)
May - August
September - December
Deaths
- 16 January - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn- third eldest son of Queen Victoria (born 1850)
- 10 March - William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)
- 16 April - Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, granddaughter of Queen Victoria (born 1878)
- 7 June - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (born 1903)
- 22 July - Gilbert Cunningham Joyce, Bishop of Monmouth (born 1866)
- 28 July - William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (born 1853)
- 10 August - Bob Kelso, Scottish footballer (born 1865)
- 25 August - Prince George, Duke of Kent, fourth eldest son of King George V (born 1902)
- 4 December - Hugh Gordon Malcolm, Scottish VC recipient (born 1917)
- 22 December - Elias Henry Jones, Welsh educationist and author (year of birth unknown)
References
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