List of Famous people who died in 1942

Sir William Henry Bragg was an English physicist, chemist, mathematician, and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics: "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays". The mineral Braggite is named after him and his son. He was knighted in 1920.

Jaroslav Ježek was a Czechoslovakian composer, pianist and conductor, author of jazz, classical, incidental, and film music.

Erich Albrecht was a German international footballer.

Gerard Leonard Frederik Philips was a Dutch industrialist and co-founder, with his father Frederik Philips, of Philips as a family business in 1891. In 1912, Gerard and his younger brother Anton Philips converted the business to a corporation by founding NV Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken.

Ludwig Berwald was a German mathematician best known for his contributions to differential geometry, especially Finsler geometry. He taught in Munich and Prague for 32 years, publishing 54 papers, before being deported by the German secret police to the Łódź Ghetto, where he and his wife Hedwig died within a year.

Mykhailo Pylypovych Kravchuk, also Krawtchouk, was a Soviet Ukrainian mathematician and the author of around 180 articles on mathematics.

Ida Dehmel was a German lyric poet and muse, a feminist and a supporter of the arts.