List of Famous people who died in 1942

Stacy Robert Woodard was a producer, cinematographer, and editor of nature films, who with his brother Horace Woodard edited Frank Buck's film Fang and Claw.

Thomas Wodehouse Legh, 2nd Baron Newton PC, DL was a British diplomat and Conservative politician who served as Paymaster-General during the First World War.

Karl Friedrich Otto Seubert was a prominent German chemist notable for his work on atomic weights of platinum elements. He was the son of the German botanist Moritz August Seubert and Maria Seubert.

Thomas Joseph "Tom" Mooney was an American political activist and labor leader, who was convicted with Warren K. Billings of the San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing of 1916. Believed by many to have been wrongly convicted of a crime he did not commit, Mooney served 22 years in prison before finally being pardoned in 1939.

Käthe Frida Rosa Loewenthal was a German Modernist landscape painter of Jewish ancestry.

Thomas White Lamb (1871–1942) was a Scottish-born, American architect. He is noted as one of the foremost designers of theaters and cinemas in the 20th century.

Bruno Bauch was a German neo-Kantian philosopher.