List of Famous people who died in 1942

1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945

Adolf Mayer

Adolf Eduard Mayer

First Name Adolf

Last Name Mayer

Died on December 25, 1942

Born in Germany, Lower Saxony

Adolf Eduard Mayer was a German agricultural chemist whose work on tobacco mosaic disease played an important role in the discovery of tobacco mosaic virus and viruses in general.

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Selwyn Fremantle

First Name Selwyn

Last Name Fremantle

Born on August 11, 1869

Died on March 16, 1942 (aged 72)

Sir Selwyn Howe Fremantle was a British administrator in India.

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Norman Scott

First Name Norman

Last Name Scott

Born on August 10, 1889

Died on November 13, 1942 (aged 53)

Born in United States of America, Indiana

Norman (Nicholas) Scott was a rear admiral in the United States Navy, and was one of only two U.S. Navy admirals killed in action during a surface battle in World War II. Scott posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Pacific Theater of World War II.

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André Bellessort

André Joseph Marie Pierre Bellessort

First Name André

Last Name Bellessort

Died on January 22, 1942

Born in France, Pays de la Loire

André Bellessort was a French writer.

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Gerhard Bigalk

First Name Gerhard

Last Name Bigalk

Born on November 26, 1908

Died on July 17, 1942 (aged 33)

Born in Germany, Berlin

Gerhard Bigalk was a captain with the Kriegsmarine during World War II and commander of U-751. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany.

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Francis John Tennant

First Name Francis

Last Name Tennant

Born on October 20, 1861

Died on September 4, 1942 (aged 80)

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Susan Fayth Harding-Newman

First Name Susan

Died on February 5, 1942

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William Kerr

First Name William

Last Name Kerr

Born on February 8, 1863

Died on August 22, 1942 (aged 79)

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Gwendoline Dormer

First Name Gwendoline

Born on October 13, 1867

Died on September 16, 1942 (aged 74)

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Robert Wentworth Doyne

First Name Robert

Last Name Doyne

Born on December 30, 1868

Died on September 25, 1942 (aged 73)

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