List of Famous people who died in 1942

Joseph Emile Harley was the 100th Governor of South Carolina from 1941 to 1942 and a member of the "Barnwell Ring."

Robert Danneberg was an Austrian-Jewish politician, a member of the Social Democratic Workers Party of Austria (SDAPÖ) and a prominent Austro-Marxist theoretician. Danneberg was one of the architects of Red Vienna and he was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942.

John Gottowt was an Austrian actor, stage director and film director for theatres and silent movies.

Alexander "Sascha" Schapiro, also known by the noms de guerre Alexander Tanarov, Sascha Piotr, and Sergei, was a Jewish Russian anarchist that fought in both the Russian Civil War and the Spanish Civil War. Born to a wealthy family, Schapiro renounced the privileges of his upbringing and became affiliated with anarchists in his teenage years. After the dawn of the Russian Revolution, Schapiro aligned himself with the Revolutionary Army of Ukraine, and he fought alongside Nestor Makhno and Maria Nikiforova until the defeat of the anarchists at the hands of the Red Army in the Russian Civil War.

Margarete Hilferding, born Hönigsberg was an Austrian physician and psychoanalyst.

Henry Hooper Blood was an American businessman and the seventh governor of Utah.

Jesse Fuller McDonald was an American public official civil engineer and surveyor, born in Ashtabula, Ohio.

Coleman Livingston Blease was a South Carolina politician of the Democratic Party who served as Governor of South Carolina from 1911 to 1915, and as a United States Senator from 1925 to 1931. Blease was the political heir of Benjamin Tillman. He led a political revolution in South Carolina by building a political base of white textile mill workers from the state's upountry region. He was notorious for playing on the prejudices of poor whites to gain their votes and was an unrepentant white supremacist. Ultimately, despite his political strength, Blease failed to pass any significant legislation while governor.

Jüri Jaakson VR III/1 was an Estonian businessman and politician.