Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1942

Hedwig Pringsheim was a German actress.

Ahmad II ibn Ali o Ahmed Bey, fue bey de Túnez de la dinastía husaynita de Túnez, de 1929 a 1942. Era hijo de Ali III ibn al-Husayn.

Serguéi Alekséyevich Chaplyguin fue un experto soviético en aerodinámica.

Lieutenant-General William Henry Ewart Gott, & Bar, MC, nicknamed "Strafer", was a senior British Army officer who fought during both World War I and World War II, reaching the rank of lieutenant-general while serving with the British Eighth Army. In August 1942 he was appointed as successor to General Claude Auchinleck as commander of the Eighth Army. On the way to take up his command he was killed when his plane was shot down. His death led to the appointment of Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery in his place.

Erwin Schulhoff fue un compositor checoslovaco de origen judío.

John Weir Troy was an American Democratic politician who was the Governor of Alaska Territory from 1933 to 1939. He was born in Dungeness, Washington and died in Juneau, Alaska.

José Fernando Salvador María Francisco Leopoldo Antonio Alberto Juan Bautista Carlos Luis Roberto María Auxiliadora de Habsburgo-Lorena fue Gran Príncipe titular de Toscana y Archiduque de Austria. Para los realistas legitimistas fue José I de Toscana.

Alfred Tauber was a Hungarian-born Austrian mathematician, known for his contribution to mathematical analysis and to the theory of functions of a complex variable: he is the eponym of an important class of theorems with applications ranging from mathematical and harmonic analysis to number theory. He was murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.