List of Famous people who died in 1942

1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945

Charles Adolphus Jacob

First Name Charles

Last Name Jacob

Born on April 16, 1869

Died on July 18, 1942 (aged 73)

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Charles Johnston

First Name Charles

Last Name Johnston

Died on January 1, 1942

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William Arthur Crofton-Atkins

First Name William

Last Name Crofton-Atkins

Born on May 12, 1876

Died on January 27, 1942 (aged 65)

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Florence Evangeline Cloete Northey

First Name Florence

Last Name Northey

Died on June 15, 1942

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Robert Charles Otter

First Name Robert

Last Name Otter

Born on May 2, 1921

Died on October 25, 1942 (aged 21)

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Paul Rigby Sinclair Brooke

First Name Paul

Last Name Brooke

Born on July 24, 1912

Died on April 6, 1942 (aged 29)

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Muriel Alice Poulter

First Name Muriel

Last Name Poulter

Born on August 24, 1869

Died on August 10, 1942 (aged 72)

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Mark Courtenay Bodley

First Name Mark

Last Name Bodley

Born on May 22, 1918

Died on December 17, 1942 (aged 24)

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Stefan Zweig

First Name Stefan

Last Name Zweig

Born on November 28, 1881

Died on February 23, 1942 (aged 60)

Born in Austria

Stefan Zweig was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and most popular writers in the world.

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Georg Alexander Pick

First Name Georg

Last Name Pick

Born on August 10, 1859

Died on July 26, 1942 (aged 82)

Born in Austria

Georg Alexander Pick was an Austrian-born mathematician. He was born in a Jewish family to Josefa Schleisinger and Adolf Josef Pick. He died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Today he is best known for Pick's theorem for determining the area of lattice polygons. He published it in an article in 1899; it was popularized when Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus included it in the 1969 edition of Mathematical Snapshots.

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