List of Famous people who died in 1942

Ludwig Siebert was a Nazi politician and Bavarian prime minister from 1933 to 1942.

Albert Kahn was the foremost American industrial architect of his day. He is sometimes called the "architect of Detroit", designing such major industrial works as the Ford River Rouge Complex, the largest in the world when built; as well as skyscrapers and office buildings in the city, and mansions in the suburbs. He built a practice with hundreds of architects; in 1937 his firm designed 19 percent of all architect-designed factories in the U.S.

Walter Leigh was an English composer. Leigh is best known for his Concertino for harpsichord and string orchestra, written in 1934. Other famous works include the overture Agincourt and The Frogs of Aristophanes for chorus and orchestra. He wrote music for documentary films and there is an unfinished sketch for a symphony.

Vasily Pavlovich Kalafati was a Russian composer and pedagogue of Greek descent.

Tan Yuling, Noble Consort Mingxian, was a concubine of China's last emperor Puyi. She married Puyi when the latter was the nominal emperor of the puppet state of Manchukuo during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Her given name "Yuling" is sometimes transliterated into English as "Jade Years".

Robert Bosch was a German industrialist, engineer and inventor, founder of Robert Bosch GmbH.

Arthur Rosenheim was a German chemist. His main work was on heteropolymetalate, colloids and complex ion chemistry.