In the year 1942
499 Notable deaths
Arthur Housman
American actor (1889–1942).
Born October 10th, 1889 in New York City.
Died April 8th, 1942 at 52 years old in Los Angeles (pneumonia).
Sakutarō Hagiwara
Japanese writer (1886–1942).
Born November 1st, 1886 in Kitakuruwachō.
Died May 11th, 1942 at 55 years old in Daita (pneumonia).
Violet Hunt
British writer (1862-1942).
Born September 28th, 1862 in Durham.
Died January 16th, 1942 at 79 years old in Campden Hill.
Mordechai Gebirtig
Yiddish writer.
Born April 4th, 1877 in Kraków.
Died June 4th, 1942 at 65 years old in Kraków Ghetto. [ref]
Vladislav Vančura
Czech writer, film director, playwright and screenwriter.
Born June 23rd, 1891 in Háj ve Slezsku. [ref]
Died June 1st, 1942 at 50 years old in Kobylisy (ballistic trauma). [ref]
Rubén Ruiz Ibárruri
Spanish hero of the ussr (1920–1942).
Born January 9th, 1920 in Muskiz.
Died September 3rd, 1942 at 22 years old in Srednyaya Akhtuba.
Nada Dimić
Yugoslav partisan (1923-1942).
Born September 6th, 1923 in Divoselo.
Died March 17th, 1942 at 18 years old in Stara Gradiška concentration camp.
Jean Dunand
French artist.
Born May 20th, 1877 in Lancy. [ref]
Died June 7th, 1942 at 65 years old in Paris. [ref]
Heber Doust Curtis
American astronomer (1872-1942).
Born June 27th, 1872 in Muskegon.
Died January 9th, 1942 at 69 years old in Ann Arbor.
Georg Alexander Pick
Austrian mathematician, holocaust victim.
Born August 10th, 1859 in Vienna.
Died July 26th, 1942 at 82 years old in Theresienstadt concentration camp.
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In my end is my beginning. Mary, Queen of Scots