| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| John Barrymore |
Actor |
14-Feb-1882 |
29-May-1942 |
Romeo and Juliet |
| Bunny Berigan |
Jazz Musician |
2-Nov-1908 |
2-Jun-1942 |
Jazz trumpeter great |
| Alan Blumlein |
Inventor |
29-Jun-1903 |
7-Jun-1942 |
Stereophonic recording |
| Franz Boas |
Anthropologist |
9-Jul-1858 |
22-Dec-1942 |
Father of American Anthropology |
| William Bragg |
Physicist |
2-Jul-1862 |
12-Mar-1942 |
Analyzed crystal structures |
| Charlie Christian |
Guitarist |
29-Jul-1916 |
2-Mar-1942 |
The original guitar hero |
| George M. Cohan |
Composer |
3-Jul-1878 |
5-Nov-1942 |
Yankee Doodle Dandy |
| James Cruze |
Film Director |
27-Mar-1884 |
3-Aug-1942 |
If I Had a Million |
| Arvid Harnack |
Spy |
24-May-1901 |
22-Dec-1942 |
Executed for espionage |
| Miguel Hernández |
Poet |
30-Oct-1910 |
28-Mar-1942 |
El rayo que no cesa |
| Reinhard Heydrich |
Military |
7-Mar-1904 |
4-Jun-1942 |
Protector of Bohemia and Moravia |
| Buck Jones |
Actor |
4-Dec-1889 |
30-Nov-1942 |
Cowboy actor died at Cocoanut Grove |
| Carole Lombard |
Actor |
6-Oct-1908 |
16-Jan-1942 |
My Man Godfrey |
| Bronislaw Malinowski |
Anthropologist |
7-Apr-1884 |
16-May-1942 |
Founder of social anthropology |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery |
Novelist |
30-Nov-1874 |
24-Apr-1942 |
Anne of Green Gables |
| Robert Musil |
Novelist |
6-Nov-1880 |
15-Apr-1942 |
Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften |
| Condé Nast |
Business |
26-Mar-1873 |
19-Sep-1942 |
Founder of Condé Nast Publications |
| Edna May Oliver |
Actor |
9-Nov-1883 |
9-Nov-1942 |
Drums Along the Mohawk |
| Lucy Parsons |
Anarchist |
1853 |
7-Mar-1942 |
Anarchist labor organizer |
| Jean Perrin |
Physicist |
30-Sep-1870 |
17-Apr-1942 |
Verified atomic nature of matter |
| Alice Hegan Rice |
Novelist |
11-Jan-1870 |
10-Feb-1942 |
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch |
| Amos Rusie |
Baseball |
30-May-1871 |
6-Dec-1942 |
The Hoosier Thunderbolt |
| Wilbur Scoville |
Scientist |
1865 |
1942 |
Scoville heat units |
| Avraham Stern |
Military |
23-Dec-1907 |
12-Feb-1942 |
Founder of Lohamei Herut Israel |
| Fritz Todt |
Government |
4-Sep-1891 |
8-Feb-1942 |
Nazi engineer, finished the Autobahn |
| John W. Troy |
Politician |
31-Oct-1868 |
2-May-1942 |
Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1933-39 |
| Walther von Reichenau |
Military |
16-Aug-1884 |
17-Jan-1942 |
Nazi general, encouraged atrocities |
| Arthur Edward Waite |
Paranormal |
2-Oct-1857 |
19-May-1942 |
Created the Rider-Waite Tarot deck |
| Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney |
Business |
9-Jan-1875 |
18-Apr-1942 |
Whitney Museum of American Art |
| Richard Willstätter |
Chemist |
13-Aug-1872 |
3-Aug-1942 |
Invented chromatography |
| Grant Wood |
Painter |
13-Feb-1892 |
12-Feb-1942 |
American Gothic |
| Hubert Work |
Government |
3-Jul-1860 |
14-Dec-1942 |
US Interior Secretary, 1923-28 |
