List of Famous people who died in 1942

Jacques-Émile Blanche was a French artist, largely self-taught, who became a successful portrait painter, working in London and Paris.

Stanisław Zaremba was a Polish mathematician and engineer. His research in partial differential equations, applied mathematics and classical analysis, particularly on harmonic functions, gained him a wide recognition. He was one of the mathematicians who contributed to the success of the Polish School of Mathematics through his teaching and organizational skills as well as through his research. Apart from his research works, Zaremba wrote many university textbooks and monographies.

Heinrich von Recklinghausen was a German physician and scientist from Würzburg.

Brenda Fowler was an American actress and writer.

Frank Edwin Churchill was an American film composer and songwriter. He wrote most of the music for films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Dumbo, Bambi, and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.

German Bestelmeyer was a German architect, university lecturer, and proponent of Nazi architecture. Most of his work was in South Germany.

Ernst Christian Andreas Martin Fabricius was a German historian, archaeologist and classical scholar. Between 1882 and 1888 he participated in excavations in Greece and Asia Minor and also pioneered German research on the Roman Empire border defenses known as the Limes Germanicus.

Gérard Hekking was a French cellist.

Zofia Zamenhof was a Polish pediatrician and the daughter of Klara (Silbernik) and L. L. Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto.