page_title: 1942
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 1942 / Deaths / March
caption_attribution_description: English: Bain News Service,, publisher. Dr. M. T. de Alvear, Pres. Arg. Rep. [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915] 1 negative&#160;: glass&#160;; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Notes: Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Format: Glass negatives. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.15986 Call Number: LC-B2- 3051-5
context_page_description: 1942 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1942nd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 942nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 42nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1940s decade.
context_section_description: March 1
  George S. Rentz, United States Navy Chaplain and Navy Cross winner (b. 1882)
  Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American military officer, inventor, and engineer (b. 1873)
  March 2
  Gustave Anjou, Swedish genealogist (b. 1863)
  Sergei Solovyov, Soviet Orthodox priest and blessed (b. 1885)
  March 3 – Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, Italian nobleman and military officer, Viceroy of Italian East Africa (b. 1898)
  March 4 – Gheorghe Adamescu, Romanian historian and bibliographer (b. 1869)
  March 7 – Pierre Semard, French Communist leader (b. 1887)
  March 8 – José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (b. 1888)
  March 10 – Frederick Behre, American artist (b. 1863)
  March 11
  José Camprubí, Spanish publisher (b. 1879)
  Raoul Dandurand, Canadian politician (b. 1861)
  March 12
  Robert Bosch, German industrialist, engineer and inventor (b. 1861)
  William Henry Bragg, British physicist, chemist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
  Enric Morera i Viura, Andorran composer (b. 1865)
  March 14
  René Bull, British illustrator and photographer (b. 1872)
  Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde, German botanist (b. 1873)
  March 15 – Vasile Demetrius, Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian writer, poet and translator (b. 1878)
  March 17 – Nada Dimić, Yugoslav Communist leader (b. 1923)
  March 20 – Vasily Kalafati, Soviet composer (b. 1869)
  March 21 – J. S. Woodsworth, Canadian politician (b. 1874)
  Václav Morávek, Czech general and warrior (b. 1904)
  March 23
  Ludwig von Höhnel, Austrian naval officer and explorer (b. 1857)
  Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, 20th President of Argentina (b. 1868)
  March 26 – Gustav Hinrichs, German-born American conductor and composer (b. 1850)
  March 27
  Jannion Steele Elliott, British ornithologist and naturalist (b. 1871)
  John W. Wilcox, Jr., American admiral (lost overboard) (b. 1882)
  Julio González, Spanish sculptor and painter (b. 1876)
  March 28 – Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1910)
caption: Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear
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