Famous People Who Died in 1942

Publish date: 2024-09-05

1942 Calendar

Deaths 1 - 200 of 213

Jan 22 Louis Santop, American Baseball HOF catcher (5 x NgL East All-Star; Hilldale Athletic Club), dies at 52
Jan 22 Reimond Tollenaere, leader Flemishch National Front, dies at 81
Jan 22 Walter Sickert, Danish-English painter (Free House!), dies at 81
Jan 22 Xiao Hong, Chinese writer (The Field of Life and Death). dies at 30
Jan 25 Eugène Samuel-Holeman, Belgian composer, dies at 78
Jan 26 Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (Hausdorff space), dies at 73
Jan 26 Gerard Philips, Dutch industrialist and manufacturer (Philips), dies at 83
Jan 27 Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1888)
Jan 28 Pablo Luna, Spanish composer (De España vengo), dies at 61
Jan 29 Bion J. Arnold, American electrical engineer and inventor (railroad electrification), dies at 80
Jan 29 Ladislao Zavertal, Czech-Italian conductor and composer, dies at 92
Jan 31 Henry Larkin, American baseball player (b. 1860)
Jan 31 Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (Spoiling the Game, S.A.-Mann Brand), dies when his plane is shot down during WWII at 24
Feb 2 Daniil Kharms [Yuvatchov], Russian surrealist and absurdist writer, poet, and playwright, dies of starvation during the siege of Leningrad at 36
Feb 6 Wobbe de Vries, Dutch linguist, and writer (Something About Word Formation), dies at 78

Feb 7 Dorando Pietri, Italian athlete (Olympic-famous DQ gold marathon 1908), dies from a heart attack at 56
Feb 7 Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator, dies at 65
Feb 8 Fritz Todt, German construction engineer, Reich Minister for Armaments and Munitions Reichs minister and Head of the Organization Todt, dies in a plane crash at 50
Feb 9 Lauri Kristian Relander, 2nd President of Finland (1925-31), dies at 58
Feb 12 Grant Wood, American painter (American Gothic), dies of cancer at 50
Feb 13 Epitácio Pessoa, 11th President of Brazil (Minas Gerais Republican: 1919-22), dies at 76
Feb 14 Adnan Bin Saidi, Officer of the Malay Regiment killed in the defense of Singapore (b. 1915)
Feb 15 Guido Adler, Bohemian-Austrian musicologist (Still in the Music), dies at 91
Feb 15 Stanislav Binički, Serbian composer, dies at 69
Feb 18 Albert Payson Terhune, American author (b. 1872)
Feb 19 Frank Abbandando, American gangster (Murder, Inc.), executed for murder at 31
Feb 20 Guido Gasperini, Italian composer, dies at 76
Feb 23 Stefan Zweig, Austrian poet, essayist and dramatist (Beware of Pity), dies at 60
Feb 24 Anton Drexler, German politician (founder of German Worker's Party (DAP), precursor to the Nazi Party), and mentor to Adolf Hitler, dies from complications of alcoholism at 57
Feb 25 Leo Ascher, Austrian-American operetta composer (Hoheit tanzt Walzer (Her Highness Dances the Waltz); Der Soldat der Marie (Marie's Soldier)), dies at 61

Feb 27 Karel Doorman, Dutch rear-admiral (Java Sea), KIA at 52
Feb 27 Martha McChesney Berry, American educator who founded Berry School for Children, dies at 75
Mar 1 George S. Rentz, U.S. Navy Chaplain (awarded the Navy Cross during WW II), dies at 59
Mar 2 Charlie Christian, American jazz and swing guitarist (Benny Goodman Sextet), dies of tuberculosis at 25 [1]
Mar 3 Amedeo, Italian Duke of Aosta, military officer and Viceroy and Governor-General of Italian East-Africa (1937-43), dies while a prisoner of war at 43
Mar 4 Yuliya Veysberg, Russian composer, dies at 62

Mar 10 William Henry Bragg, English physicist (Nobel Prize for Physics, 1915 - crystalline structure analysis by means of X-rays), dies at 79 [1]
Mar 12 Enric Morera i Viura, Spanish musician and composer, dies at 76
Mar 12 Robert Bosch, German engineer, inventor (automotive ignition device), and industrialist, dies at 80
Mar 15 Alexander von Zemlinsky, Austrian composer, conductor, and arranger (The Mermaid; Lyric Symphony), dies from a stroke at 70 [1]
Mar 19 Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist and ornithologist, dies at 86
Mar 20 Theodoro Valcarcel, Peruvian classical composer, dies at 41
Mar 20 Vasily Kalafati, Russian composer (Cygany), dies in the siege of Leningrad during World War II at 73
Mar 21 James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian politician and pastor, dies at 67
Mar 23 Jan Olieslagers, Belgian aviation and motorcycle pioneer (WWI flying ace, Antwerp Devil), dies of cancer at 58
Mar 23 Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, President of Argentina (1922-28), dies at 73
Mar 26 Jimmy Burke, American baseball third baseman Pittsburgh Pirates; coach World Series 1932 NY Yankees; and manager St. Louis Cardinals 1905, Browns 1918-20, dies at 67
Mar 28 Herman Adriaan van Karnebeek, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1918-27), dies at 67
Mar 28 Miguel Hernadez Gilabert, Spanish poet (Viento del Pueblo), dies at 31
Mar 30 Alfred Coville, French historian (Lesson premier Valois), dies at 81
Apr 3 Albert Siklós, Hungarian composer, dies at 63
Apr 3 Paul Gilson, Belgian composer, dies at 76
Apr 8 Alfred Mombert, German poet, dies at 70
Apr 8 Kostas Skarvelis, Greek songwriter (b. 1880)
Apr 12 Johannes E Akkeringa, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 80
Apr 13 Henk Sneevliet, Dutch Communist and resistance leader during WWII, executed by the Nazis at 58

Apr 15 American head of the National Recovery Administration & member of FDR's Brain Trust, dies of pneumonia at 60

Apr 15 Joshua Pim, Irish tennis player (Wimbledon 1893-94), dies at 72

Apr 15 Austrian writer (Mann ohne Eigenschaften), dies at 61

Apr 16 Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, dies at 63
Apr 17 Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist, (1926 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovery of sedimentation equilibrium), dies at 71
Apr 18 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American sculptor and art patron (founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art NYC), dies at 67
Apr 24 Leonid Kulik, Russian mineralogist who led the first research expedition to study the Tunguska meteor site, the largest impact event in recorded history, dies of typhus in a Nazi prison camp at 58

Apr 25 Paul Kornfeld, writer, dies at 52
Apr 30 Catherine Murphy Urner, American composer, dies at 51
Apr 30 J. C. Arthur, American botanist (studied parasitic fungi rusts), dies at 92
Apr 30 Jakob van Hoddis [Hans Davidsohn], German Jewish poet, transported to German concentration camp at 54 [actual date of death unknown]
May 3 Johan H. Westerveld, Dutch WW II resistance fighter and leader of Order Service (OD), executed at 61
May 3 Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (1924-26, 1929-42), dies at 68
May 5 Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920)
May 7 (Paul) Felix Weingartner, Austrian pianist, conductor (Vienna Philharmonic, 1907-27; first to record all nine of Beethoven's symphonies), and composer (Die Dorfschule), dies at 78
May 9 Graham McNamee, American sportscaster (originated play-by-play sports broadcasting; Baseball HOF Ford C. Frick Award; 1st Rose Bowl), dies at 53
May 10 Joe Weber, American vaudeville comedian, singer (Weber and Fields), and theatrical producer, dies at 74
May 13 Hyam Greenbaum, British violinist, composer and conductor of the 1st TV orchestra (BBC), dies of alcohol-related problems at 41
May 16 Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, anthropologist, dies
May 17 Alfred Hollins, British composer, dies at 76
May 19 Nicoline Magdalene Roll Anker, Norwegian author (Enken), dies at 69
May 20 Hector Guimard, French Art Nouveau architect and designer (entrances to Paris Metros),
May 25 Emanuel Feuermann, Ukrainian-born cellist (Chicago Symphony Orchestra), dies of complications during surgery at 39
May 27 Chen Duxiu, Chinese revolutionary socialist and author who co-founded the Chinese Communist Party with Li Dazhao and was the 1st General Secretary (1921-27), dies at 62
May 29 Akiko Yosano, Japanese poet (Tangled Hair), dies at 63

Jun 1 Ernest Pingoud, Finnish composer, dies at 53
Jun 1 Vladislav Vančura, Czech writer (Rozmarné léto), dies at 50
Jun 2 (Roland) "Bunny" Berigan, American session and big band jazz trumpeter (Paul Whiteman; Benny Goodman - "King Porter Stomp"; Tommy Dorsey - "Marie"), vocalist, and bandleader ("I Can't Get Started"), dies from cirrhosis of the liver at 33

Jun 4 German Nazi leader (head of Bohemia and Moravia and the Reich Main Security Office), dies a week after an assassination attempt at 38

Jun 7 Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer, dies at 38
Jun 10 Jean François van Royen, Dutch graphic designer, bibliophile, and Secretary-General of Dutch PTT (Post, Telephone & Telegraph), dies in Concentration Camp Amersfoort at 63
Jun 10 Ross Gregory, Australian cricket batsman (2 Tests, 2 x 50; Victoria), dies in action during WWII at 26
Jun 10 Stanley Lupino, English comic (Cheer Up; Over She Goes), dies at 48
Jun 12 Walter Leigh, British composer (The Frogs of Aristophanes), killed in action near Tobruk, Libya while serving in British Army, at 36
Jun 15 Vera Figner, writer, dies
Jun 17 Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician who was the 12th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec and 5th Chief Justice of Canada, dies at 88
Jun 18 Adolf Opalka, Czech resistance fighter, shot down
Jun 18 Arthur Pryor, American band composer and trombone player, dies at 71
Jun 18 Jan Kubiš, Czech paratrooper in WWII (killed Nazi head of Bohemia Reinhard Heydrich in Operation Anthropoid), dies in action at 28
Jun 18 John Kubris, Czech paratrooper in WWII (killed Nazi head of Bohemia Reinhard Heydrich in Operation Anthropoid), dies as the result of battle wounds at 28
Jun 25 Hans Lietzman, German theologist and church historian, dies at 67
Jun 30 Arnoldus Johannes Hubertus Aerts, Dutch bishop of New Guinea, executed at 62
Jul 3 Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general during WWI, dies at 86
Jul 8 Catherinus Elling, Norwegian organist, composer, educator, and ethnomusicologist, dies at 83
Jul 11 Simon de la Bella, Dutch president (NVV), dies in Dachau
Jul 14 Neel Doff, Dutch-born Belgian writer (Days of Hunger and Distress), writing in French, dies at 84
Jul 15 Denis "Sonny" Moloney, New Zealand cricket all-rounder (3 Tests, 1 x 50; Otago, Wellington, Canterbury), dies in WWII action at El Alamein at 31
Jul 20 Patric Cobb, British sea officer, dies in battle
Jul 23 Adam Czerniaków, Polish engineer and head of Warsaw Jewish Ghetto Council, dies by suicide at beginning of clearing of the Ghetto at 61
Jul 23 Andrew Ducat, English cricketer (England 1921) and footballer, dies whilst batting at Lords Cricket Ground at 56
Jul 23 Nikola Vaptsarov, Bulgarian poet, communist and revolutionary, executed by firing squad at 32
Jul 23 Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer who invented devices for radio broadcasting, dies at 72
Jul 26 Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer (The Seven Madmen), dies at 42
Jul 26 Titus Brandsma, Dutch Roman Catholic priest, philosopher (spoke out against Nazi ideology), and saint, murdered by Nazis at Dachau concentration camp at 61
Jul 28 Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (Merneptah Stele, measured the pyramids), dies at 89
Jul 31 Francis Younghusband, British journalist and explorer (1904 British expedition to Tibet), dies at 79
Aug 2 Friedrich Aereboe, German landlord and agricultural economist, dies at 77
Aug 3 Richard Willstätter, German chemist (Nobel 1915), dies at 69
Aug 4 Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer, dies at 81
Aug 7 Janusz Korczak [Henryk Goldszmit], Polish-Jewish educator and pedagogue (ran an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto), is gassed at Treblinka extermination camp along with the residents of his orphanage at 64
Aug 7 Richard Gott, British general (commandant of 8th Army), dies in battle at 43
Aug 9 Edith Stein, German philosopher and Discalced Carmelite nun (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross), dies at 50 [1]
Aug 11 Richard Heinrich Stein, German composer, and music theorist (La musica moderna), dies at 60
Aug 18 Erwin Schulhoff, Czech-Russian composer and pianist (Ogelala), dies of tuberculosis at 48 in a German concentration camp in Wülzburg, Bavaria
Aug 21 Kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WWII), dies during Battle of Tenaru at 49
Aug 22 Henry Eichheim, American violinist, composer, organologist, and ethnomusicologist dies at 72
Aug 22 Mikhail Fokine, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, dies at 62
Aug 25 George Edward Alexander Windsor, British nobleman (Duke of Kent), and RAF officer, dies in battle at 39
Aug 25 Panayot Pipkov, Bulgarian bandmaster, composer, pedagogue, and (with his son) Antarctic glacier namesake, dies at 70
Aug 25 W van Daalen, opposition leader on Celebes, beheaded
Aug 31 Georg Von Bismarck, German major general, (Africa Corps), dies in Battle of Alam el Halfa at 51
Sep 2 Tom Williams, Irish republican (b. 1924)
Sep 5 François de Labouchère, French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Libération. (b. 1917)
Sep 7 Cecilia Beaux, American portrait painter dies at 87
Sep 10 Nachman N "Neddy" Bamberg, actor, dies in Auschwitz at 63
Sep 14 E.S. Gosney, American eugenicist (b. 1855)
Sep 15 Jack Singer, American war reporter, dies aboard USS Wasp
Sep 19 Condé Nast, American publisher, founded Condé Nast company (Vanity Fair), dies at 69
Sep 22 Ralph Adams Cram, American gothic architect (Cathedral of St Joan NYC), dies at 78
Sep 27 Douglas Munro, American military mariner (only WWII US Coast Guard member awarded Medal of Honor), dies in battle near Guadalcanal Island at 22
Sep 28 Eva Thatcher, American actress, dies at 80
Oct 1 Ants Piip, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1884)
Oct 6 Erich Kuttner, German journalist and historian (Vorwarts), dies at 55
Oct 8 Sergei Chaplygin, Russian physicist and engineer, dies at 73
Oct 10 Richard von Schaukal, Moravian-Austria poet and writer (Schlemihle), dies at 68
Oct 11 Leonid Nikolayev, Russian-Soviet pianist and composer, dies at 64
Oct 16 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed
Oct 18 Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
Oct 20 May Robson, Australian born actress (Star is Born, Reckless), dies at 84
Oct 22 Gustave "Staff" de Clercq, Belgian politician, and Nazi sympathizer (Flemish Nationally Covenant), dies at 58
Oct 22 Sybren Tulip, Dutch National Socialist Party (NSB) member, and Superintendent of Police in Amsterdam (1941-42), dies of rheumatic fever at 53
Oct 23 Georg Stumme, German general, commandant of African corps, dies at 56
Oct 23 Ralph Rainger [Reichenthal], American song and film composer (Thanks for the Memory; Love In Bloom), dies in a plane crash at 41
Oct 24 Arthur Dolphin, cricketer (1 Test England 1921, 1 run, 1 catch), dies
Oct 25 Ted Arnold, English cricketer (England all-rounder in 10 Tests 1903-05), dies at 65
Oct 27 Helmuth Hübener, German anti-Nazi activist and pamphleteer, executed for treason at 17
Nov 1 Hugo Distler, German organist, choral conductor and composer, commits suicide at 34
Nov 3 Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Trousers, Snob), dies at 64
Nov 4 Marcel Barger, Dutch Jewish cabaret performer, killed at Auschwitz at 51

Nov 5 American father of musical comedy (Phantom President; Give My Regards to Broadway), dies of cancer at 64

Nov 9 Edna May Oliver [Nutter], American stage, silent and sound screen character actress (Little Women; Drums Along the Mohawk), dies on her 59th birthday
Nov 11 Anton Hendrik Blaauw, Dutch botanist (Perception of the Lichtes), dies at 60
Nov 11 Hector Abbas, Flemish actor and director (Rosa Lynd Company), dies at 58

Nov 12 American boxer (World light heavyweight champion 1905), dies at 64

Nov 13 Daniel J. Callaghan, US Admiral (Medal of Honor), dies during the Battle of Guadalcanal at 52
Nov 13 Douglas H Fox, US captain of destroyer Barton, dies in battle
Nov 13 Norman Scott, US admiral (at Guadalcanal), dies
Nov 16 Joseph Schmidt, Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (Der Liebesexpreß, A Star Fell from Heaven), dies from a heart attack at 38
Nov 17 Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (b. 1879)
Nov 19 Bruno Schulz, Polish writer (The Street of Crocodiles), shot and killed by German Nazi at 50
Nov 19 Édouard Combe, Swiss composer, dies at 76

Nov 27 Arthur Langton, South African cricket medium pace bowler (15 Tests, 40 wickets), dies in a military air crash at 30
Nov 30 Buck Jones [Charles F Gebhart], American Western actor (Just Pals, Forbidden Trails, War Horse), dies in a fire at 50
Dec 2 Karen Jønsson née (Pedersen), Danish jazz singer, pianist, songwriter, composer, and actress, dies of pneumonia at 33
Dec 3 Arthur Berson, German meteorologist (Balloon flights, Amazon), dies at 83
Dec 3 Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Swedish composer and music critic, dies at 75
Dec 6 Amos Rusie, American Baseball HOF pitcher (Triple Crown & NL wins leader 1894; 5 × NL strikeout leader; pitched no-hitter 1891; NY Giants), dies at 71

Dec 8 American architect known as the "architect of Detroit", dies at 73

Dec 11 Franz C. Schmelkes, Czech-born Chemist who discovered azochloramid (chlorazodin), a disinfectant, dies of a heart attack at 43
Dec 11 Jochen Klepper, German writer, journalist, and hymnist, commits suicide with his family as they faced Nazi persecution at 39
Dec 13 Eleanor Everest Freer, American composer, dies at 78
Dec 13 Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (b. 1866)
Dec 14 Edo Fimmen, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 61
Dec 20 Dan Ahearn, Irish-American athlete (men's triple jump WR 15.52m 1911-24), dies at 54

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