List of Famous people who died in 1942

Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev was a Russian/Soviet pianist, composer and pedagogue.

Condé Montrose Nast was an American publisher, entrepreneur and business magnate. He founded Condé Nast, a large and successful mass media company, and he published titles such as Vanity Fair, Vogue, and The New Yorker.

Édouard Estaunié was a French novelist. Estaunié trained as a scientist and engineer before turning to the novel in 1891. In 1904, he devised the word "telecommunication". He was elected to the Académie française in 1923. He was also a reviewer, critic, and homme de lettres as well as a novelist.

Bronisław Kasper Malinowski was an anthropologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research were a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology.

Andrew Graham Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin, was a Scottish politician and judge. He served as Secretary for Scotland between 1903 and 1905, as Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session between 1905 and 1913 and as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary between 1913 and 1932.