List of Famous people who died in 1942

Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson was a British diplomat who was the ambassador of the United Kingdom to Nazi Germany from 1937 to 1939.

Aurel Boleslav Stodola was a Slovak engineer, physicist, and inventor. He was a pioneer in the area of technical thermodynamics and its applications and published his book Die Dampfturbine in 1903. In addition to the thermodynamic issues involved in turbine design the book discussed aspects of fluid flow, vibration, stress analysis of plates, shells and rotating discs and stress concentrations at holes and fillets. Stodola was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Swiss Polytechnical Institute in Zurich. He maintained friendly contact with Albert Einstein. In 1892, Stodola founded the Laboratory for Energy Conversion.

Lord John Pakenham Joicey-Cecil was a British Conservative politician.

Paul Bigot was a French architect.

Oskari Mantere was a Finnish politician from the National Progressive Party who served as Prime Minister of Finland from December 1928 to August 1929. He led a minority government.

Jean Gilbert, born Max Winterfeld, was a German operetta composer and conductor.

Otto Ritter von Dandl was a Bavarian politician and lawyer who was the last Minister-President of the Kingdom of Bavaria.

Ivan Yakovych Horbachevsky also known as Jan Horbaczewski, Johann Horbaczewski or Ivan Horbaczewski, was an eminent Austrian chemist and politician of Ukrainian origin.

Lawrence Joseph Henderson was a physiologist, chemist, biologist, philosopher, and sociologist. He became one of the leading biochemists of the early 20th century. His work contributed to the Henderson–Hasselbalch equation, used to calculate pH as a measure of acidity.