List of Famous people who died in 1942

Clinton Hart Merriam was an American zoologist, mammalogist, ornithologist, entomologist, ecologist, ethnographer, geographer, and naturalist.

Bjørn Bjørnson was a Norwegian stage actor and theatre director.

Alberto Franchetti was an Italian opera composer.

James Cruze was a silent film actor and film director.

Princess Tsehai Haile Selassie was the third daughter and fourth child of Emperor Haile Selassie and Empress Menen Asfaw of Ethiopia.

Westmoreland "Morley" Davis was an American lawyer, politician, and the 48th Governor of Virginia, serving from February 1, 1918 to February 1, 1922.

Robert Bamford was an English engineer, who with Lionel Walker Birch Martin, founded a company in January 1913 that became Aston Martin.

Leonid Alekseyevich Kulik was a Russian mineralogist who is noted for his research into meteorites.

Alfred Gudeman was an American-German classical scholar.