List of Famous people who died in 1942

Heinz Wengler was a German professional road bicycle racer. In 1937, he won one stage of the 1937 Tour de France, joint with Adolphe Braeckeveldt. Wengler was killed in action at the Eastfront in 1942.

Yevgeny Petrov was the pen name of Yevgeny Petrovich Katayev was a popular Soviet author in the 1920s and 1930s. He often worked in collaboration with Ilya Ilf. As Ilf and Petrov, they wrote The Twelve Chairs, released in 1928, and its sequel, The Little Golden Calf, released in 1931.

Emil Ernst was a German astronomer and discoverer of a minor planet.

Godfrey Acheson Thornhagh Foljambe was an English first-class cricketer.

Dmitry Nikolayevich Ushakov was a Russian philologist and lexicographer.

Hendricus Josephus Franciscus Marie (Henk) Sneevliet, known as Henk Sneevliet or by the pseudonym "Maring", was a Dutch Communist, who was active in both the Netherlands and the Dutch East-Indies. As a functionary of the Communist International, Sneevliet guided the formation of the Communist Party of China in 1921. In his native country, he was the founder, chairman and only Representative for the Revolutionary Socialist (Workers') Party, RSP/RSAP. He took part in the Communist resistance against the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II, for which he was executed by the Germans in April 1942.

Fred Fisher was a German-born American songwriter and Tin Pan Alley music publisher.

Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart, Orat. was a French prelate of the Catholic Church, who became a Cardinal in 1935. An historian and writer, he served as Rector of the Institut Catholique de Paris from 1907 until his death. He campaigned to rouse international support for France during the First World War, while in the Second World War he supported the Vichy regime and backed the Germans for leading the international struggle against bolshevism.