1942

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The year 1942 (MCMXLII) predates the launch of the Transformers brand by forty-two years.

For further information, see: Transformers timeline

Non-Fiction

Births

• ???? — Thomas Kästner

January

• January 9 — Reiner Schöne

March

• March 14 — Gilberto Baroli
• March 15 — Sílvio Navas
• March 27 — Michael York

April

• April 17 — Helga Sasse

May

• May 11 — Victor Caroli, Terry McGovern
• May 23 — Dieter Brian Gerlach
• May 26 — Blas García

June

• June 1 — Patrice Melennec
• June 22 — André Belizar

July

• July 13 — Tom Palmer, Pádua Moreira

August

• August 2 — Dave Hunt
• August 17 — Michael Tomack, László Ujréti

September

• September 2 — Hartmut Neugebauer
• September 19 — Victor Brandt

October

• October 27 — Mariusz Leszczyński
• October 29 — Claudio De Davide

November

• November 2 — Walter Cruz
• November 23 — Yoo Kang-jin
• November 27 — Robert O. Smith, Kaspar Eichel

December

• December 6 — Nancy McKenzie
• December 28 — Benoît Allemane