Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1942

Marcel Rieder was a French painter.

Georges Berr in Paris, was a French actor and dramatist, a member and sociétaire of the Comédie-Française from 1886 to 1923.

Prabhabati Bose was an Indian social activist and politician. She was born in 1869 into a respected Kayastha Bharadwaja clan Dutta family of Hatkhola, in Calcutta North. Her parents were Ganganarayan Dutta and Kamala Kamini Dutta of Kashinath Dutta Road, Baranagore, India. She was her parents' eldest daughter.

Rolf Mützelburg was a German U-boat commander during World War II and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany. Mützelburg died on active service on 11 September 1942 following an accident at sea.

Brigadier General Cornelius "Neily" Vanderbilt III was an American military officer, inventor, engineer, and yachtsman. He was a member of the Vanderbilt family.

Maria Leitner was a Hungarian writer and journalist in the German language. She is remembered as a pioneer of "undercover reporting".

Joannes Matheus "Mathieu" Cordang fue un ciclista neerlandés que corrió durante la última década del siglo XIX y que fue profesional entre 1896 y 1900.