List of Famous people who died in 1942

Sándor Hunyady (1890–1942) was a Hungarian novelist and dramatist.

Cora Berliner was an economist and social scientist and a victim of the Nazi regime. She was a pioneer of social work.

Rudolf Ernst Rothe was a German applied mathematician.

Albert Hotopp was a German political activist and writer.

Otto Ferdinand Georg Kern was a German classical philologist, archaeologist and epigraphist. He specialized in the field of ancient Greek religion, being known for his investigations of Greek mystery cults and Orphism, as well as the ancient city of Magnesia on the Maeander and later also the history of ancient studies. In 1907 he became professor at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, where he became rector in 1915/16.

Arnold Scholz was a German mathematician who proved Scholz's reciprocity law and introduced the Scholz conjecture.