List of Famous people who died in 1942

Sidney Bracey was an Australian-born American actor. After a stage career in Australia, on Broadway and in Britain, he performed in 321 films between 1909 and 1942.

William George Morgan was the inventor of volleyball, originally called "Mintonette", a name derived from the game of badminton which he later agreed to change to better reflect the nature of the sport. He was born in Lockport, New York, U.S.A.

Hale Rice Hamilton was an American actor, writer and producer.

André Liabel was a French actor, film director and screenwriter.

Kārlis Augusts Vilhelms Ulmanis was a Latvian politician. He was one of the most prominent Latvian politicians of pre-World War II Latvia during the interwar period of independence from November 1918 to June 1940. He served four times as Prime Minister, the last time as the head of an authoritarian regime.

Arthur Housman was an American actor in films during both the silent film era and the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Arthur L. Todd was an American cinematographer whose work included Hot Saturday (1932), I've Got Your Number (1934) and You're in the Army Now (1941).

René Gaston Georges Maspero was a French sinologist.

Auguste Alfred Lucien Lameere was a Belgian entomologist.

Karel Pařík was a Czech-born architect of Austro-Hungarian citizenship who spent most of his life in Sarajevo where he designed over seventy major buildings. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, he is also known as Karlo Paržik.