Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1942

István Horthy de Nagybánya fue el hijo mayor del Regente de Hungría, el almirante Miklós Horthy, un político y durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, piloto combatiente.

Alphonse Marie Vincent Léon Daudet fue un escritor, periodista y político monárquico francés, hijo del escritor Alphonse Daudet.

Juan Subercaseaux Errázuriz fue un sacerdote chileno, obispo de Linares y Arzobispo de La Serena.

Hermann Albert Kobold fue un astrónomo alemán.

Stanisław Saks was a Polish mathematician and university tutor, a member of the Lwów School of Mathematics, known primarily for his membership in the Scottish Café circle, an extensive monograph on the theory of integrals, his works on measure theory and the Vitali–Hahn–Saks theorem.

Daniel Judson Callaghan was a United States Navy officer who received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. In a career spanning just over 30 years, he served his country in two wars. He served on several ships during his first 20 years of service, including escort duties during World War I, and also filled some shore-based administrative roles. He later came to the attention of US President Franklin Roosevelt, who appointed Callaghan as his naval aide in 1938. A few years later, he returned to command duties during the early stages of World War II. Callaghan was killed by an enemy shell on the bridge of his flagship, USS San Francisco, during a surface action against a larger Japanese force off Savo Island. The battle ended in a strategic victory for the Allied side.

Friedrich Adler fue un académico, artista y diseñador alemán. Fue especialmente reconocido por sus logros en el diseño de trabajos de cerrajería en los estilos de Art nouveau y el Art decó; también fue el primer diseñador en usar baquelita.

Joan Casanovas i Maristany fue un político español. Ostentó, entre otros cargos, el de primer consejero y presidente del Consejo Ejecutivo de la Generalidad de Cataluña, entre julio y septiembre de 1936, además del de vicepresidente de la Generalidad y el de presidente del Parlamento de Cataluña.

Lev Nussimbaum, who wrote under the pen names Essad Bey and Kurban Said, was a writer and journalist, born in Kyiv to a Jewish family. He lived there and in Baku during his childhood before fleeing the Bolsheviks in 1920 at the age of 14. In 1922, while living in Germany, he obtained a certificate claiming that he had converted to Islam in the presence of the imam of the Turkish embassy in Berlin. He created a niche for himself in the competitive European literary world by writing about topics that Westerners, in general, knew little about - the Caucasus, the Russian Empire, the Bolshevik Revolution, newly discovered oil, and Islam. He wrote under the name of Essad Bey in German.

Martin Dülfer was a German architect and Professor; best known for designing theatres in the Historical and Art-Nouveau styles.