Birth Chart and Horoscope of 1942 deaths
- Alan Blumlein
- Alastair Monteath
- Albert Kusnets
- Alexander van Geen
- Alf Goonan
- Alf Hedge
- Alfred Keeling
- Allan Edwards (New Zealand cricketer)
- Allen Bert Christman
- Alphons Timmerman
- André Zirnheld
- Anna (feral child)
- Annemarie Schwarzenbach
- Art Donahue
- Arthur Dallidet
- Arthur Langton
- Artie Carnell
- Arvid Harnack
- Atsushi Nakajima
- August Sangret
- Benjamin A. Bottoms
- Bento António Gonçalves
- Bert Foster
- Boris Roolaid
- Boyd Wagner
- Bruno Dugoni
- Bunny Berigan
- Carl Zeidler
- Carmelo Borg Pisani
- Carmen Laroux
- Carole Lombard
- Charles Raymond Gurney
- Charlie Christian
- Claude Ashton
- Clifford Barker (cricketer)
- Clyde A. Thomason
- Daniel Ozmo
- David Price (South African cricketer)
- David Walker (cricketer)
- Dennis Higgins (footballer)
- Donald H. Spangler
- Douglas Albert Munro
- Duke of Kent George
- Eddie Leonski
- Edward H. Ahrens
- Edward Henry Allen
- Egbert van Kampen
- Elias Melkman
- Elmer J. Burr
- Elpida Karamandi
- Emin Duraku
- Eric Ravilious
- Ernest Mason
- Ernie Davies
- Ernst Schacht
- Eruera Love
- Erwin Stührk
- Frank Abbandando
- Frank Chivers
- Frank Churchill
- Frank Manders
- Frank Thorn
- Frank Watkins (pilot)
- Franz Conrad (weightlifter)
- Franz Schüßler
- François de Labouchère
- Fred Heintz
- Frederick T. Weber
- Fritz Zängl
- Félix Cadras
- Georg Hornstein
- George M. Campbell
- George Scott (footballer, born 1915)
- Giorgina Madìa
- Giuseppe Castelli
- Giuseppe Torriani
- Gordon Cummins
- Graham Parish
- Gyula Prassler
- H. A. Sinclair de Rochemont
- Hans Fuß
- Hans Marr (ski jumper)
- Hans-Joachim Marseille
- Harald Kaarmann
- Harl Pease
- Harold W. Bauer
- Harro Schulze-Boysen
- Harry Allwork
- Harry Hampson
- Heinz Wengler
- Helmut Woltersdorf
- Henry Gleditsch
- Henryka Łazowertówna
- Herbert Dill
- Herbert Selpin
- Hermann Gramlich
- Hubert Freakes
- Hugh Malcolm
- Hugo Mantel
- Ingals Fisher
- Irving Kahal
- Isidoro Diéguez Dueñas
- Jack Atkins
- Jack Dowsey
- Jack Owens (footballer)
- Jacques Solomon
- James Wynyard
- Jeanette Loff
- Jeffrey MacDougall
- Jesús Larrañaga
- Jim Cronin (soccer)
- Jimmy Blanton
- Joe Ratica
- Johans Oja
- John Askew
- John Frost (SAAF officer)
- John James Powers
- John T. Eversole
- John Tinsley Russell
- John Clarence Butler
- John David Wingfield
- Jorge Cuesta
- Joseph Schmidt
- Joseph Edward Baird
- Julien Depuychaffray
- Karl-Richard Idlane
- Keith Pettiford
- Ken Wood (rugby league)
- Kendall Carl Campbell
- Kenneth D. Bailey
- Kenneth E. Gruennert
- Konrad Miersch
- Lance Edward Massey
- Laurie Pickup
- Len Johnson (footballer)
- Leonard Roy Harmon
- Libertas Schulze-Boysen
- Lofton R. Henderson
- Marsilio Rossi
- Martin Karl
- Matthias Wörndle
- Maurice Fitzgerald (rugby league)
- Miguel Hernandez Gilabert
- Milton Ernest Ricketts
- Muhammed Akbar Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan
- Màrius Torres
- Natalya Kovshova
- Nikolai Abramashvili
- Norman Francis Vandivier
- Norman McMillan
- Olli Remes
- Patrick Stanley Vaughan Heenan
- Phillips Holmes
- Prince Gabriel of Thurn and Taxis
- Qemal Stafa
- Ralph Lancaster
- Randolph M. Holder
- Reg Anderson (footballer)
- Reg Cropper
- Reinhard Heydrich
- Reinhardt J. Keppler
- Richard E. Fleming
- Richard Rowell
- Richard Tindall
- Robert A. Owens
- Robert Stephenson (cricketer)
- Robert William Rankin
- Robert Allen Owens
- Rolf Kaldrack
- Rolf Wenkhaus
- Ron Lyon
- Ross Gregory
- Ross Moyle
- Rubén Ruiz Ibárruri
- Russell McConnell
- Said Hajji
- Salesius Lemmens
- Shirishkumar Mehta
- Sonny Moloney
- Syd Christensen
- Tadashi Kaneko
- Tateo Katō
- Teddy Sheean
- Thomas Frank Durrant
- Toni Jo Henry
- Toshio Ōta
- Victor Beamish
- Virginia Lee Corbin
- Vivian Chiodetti
- Walter Winika
- Werner Widmayer
- William G. Farrow
- William Garfield Thomas Jr.
- William Hank
- William John Dieter
- William Ryan (rugby league)
- William T. Owen
- Wolfgang Goedecke
- Zenneth A. Pond
- Zuo Quan