List of Famous people who died in 1942

Max Silberberg was a major cultural figure in Breslau, a German Jewish entrepreneur, art collector and patron who was robbed and murdered by the Nazis. His art collection, among the finest of its era, has been the object of numerous restitution claims.

Anna Antoinette Weber-van Bosse was a Dutch phycologist, specializing in marine algae.

Alexei Alexeyevich Ukhtomsky was a Russian and Soviet physiologist. His main contribution to science was the theory of dominant.

Charles Roden Buxton was an English philanthropist and radical British Liberal Party politician who later joined the Labour Party. He survived an assassination attempt during a mission to the Balkans in 1914.

William Jonathan Humphrey was an American actor and film director.

Louis Charles Bernacchi was an Australian physicist and astronomer best known for his role in several Antarctic expeditions.

Virginia Lee Corbin was an American silent film actress. Corbin began her career as a child actress in 1916, when she was billed as Baby Virginia Corbin, and went on to become a youthful flapper in the 1920s. She was one of the many silent stars that would not make it in the sound era, and retired from acting in the early 1930s.