In the year 1942
521 Notable deaths
Ugo Pasquale Mifsud
Prime minister of malta (1889-1942).
Born September 12th, 1889 in Valletta.
Died February 11th, 1942 at 52 years old in Valletta (myocardial infarction).
Sergey Chaplygin
Russian mathematician.
Born April 5th, 1869 in Chaplygin.
Died October 8th, 1942 at 73 years old in Novosibirsk (stroke).
Racho Petrov
Bulgarian general (1861-1942).
Born March 3rd, 1861 in Shumen.
Died January 22nd, 1942 at 80 years old in Belovo.
Friedrich-Wilhelm von Chappuis
German general.
Born September 13th, 1886 in Szubin.
Died August 27th, 1942 at 55 years old in Magdeburg (gunshot wound).
Otto Herschmann
Swimmer, fencer, and lawyer (1877–1942).
Born January 4th, 1877 in Vienna.
Died June 14th, 1942 at 65 years old in Sobibór Extermination Camp (poison).
Ashton Dearholt
Actor (1894-1942).
Born April 4th, 1894 in Milwaukee.
Died April 27th, 1942 at 48 years old in Los Angeles.
Franz Blei
Playwright (1871–1942).
Born January 18th, 1871 in Vienna.
Died July 10th, 1942 at 71 years old in Westbury.
Ants Laikmaa
Estonian painter (1866-1942).
Born May 5th, 1866 in Vigala Rural Municipality.
Died November 19th, 1942 at 76 years old in Kadarpiku.
Käthe Leichter
Austrian writer.
Born August 20th, 1895 in Vienna.
Died March 17th, 1942 at 46 years old in Bernburg Euthanasia Centre.
Bento António Gonçalves
Portuguese politician (1902-1942).
Born March 2nd, 1902 in Montalegre.
Died September 11th, 1942 at 40 years old in Tarrafal camp.
Deaths 301 to 310 of 521
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. George Eliot