1942
- July 15 - Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino politician and resistance leader (bayoneted to death) (b. 1910)
- July 23 - Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer and senator (suicide) (b. 1880)
- July 26 - Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer (b. 1900)
- July 28 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (b. 1853)
- August 3 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
- August 25- Prince George, Duke of Kent, fourth eldest son of King George V
- September 14 - Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (b. 1855)
- September 29 - Gene Stack, first player from a major league roster to be drafted during WWII and also the first to die in service (b. 1920)
- October 23 - Ralph Rainger, American composer and Hollywood songwriter (b. 1901)
- November 1 - Hugo Distler, German composer (b. 1908)
- November 5 - George M. Cohan, American songwriter and entertainer (b. 1878)
- November 12 - Laura Hope Crews, stage & film actress (aunt PittyPat), (b. 1879)
- November 19 - Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (shot) (b. 1892)
- November 21 - Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (b. 1863)
- December 7 - Orland Steen Loomis, Governor-elect of Wisconsin (b. 1893)
- December 22 - Franz Boas, German anthropologist (b. 1858)
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Nobel prizes
- Physics - not awarded
- Chemistry - not awarded
- Medicine - not awarded
- Literature - not awarded
- Peace - not awarded
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Ship events
- List of ship launches in 1942
- List of ship commissionings in 1942
- List of ship decommissionings in 1942
- List of shipwrecks in 1942
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Notes
- ^ Rense, Jeff. The Battle of L.A.. Retrieved on 2008-01-01.
- ^ "Year by Year 1942" -- History Channel International
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