page_title: 1942
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1942 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Eröffnung der IV. Winterolympiade. Der Führer, Baillet-Latour, Rudolf Hess
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: January 2 – Ivande Kaija, Soviet writer and feminist (b. 1876)
  January 3 – Charles Mann Hamilton, American politician (b. 1874)
  January 4
  Sydney Fairbrother, British actress (b. 1872)
  Mel Sheppard, American Olympic athlete (b. 1883)
  Otis Skinner, American actor (b. 1858)
  January 6
  Emma Calvé, French soprano (b. 1858)
  Henri de Baillet-Latour, 3rd President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1876)
  January 8 – Chaudhry Afzal Haq, Indian writer and humanitarian (b. 1891)
  January 9
  Heber Doust Curtis, American astronomer (b. 1872)
  Jan Graliński, Polish general (b. 1895)
  January 13
  Vladimir Ignatowski, Soviet physicist (b. 1875)
  Emil Szramek, Polish Roman Catholic priest, martyr and saint (b. 1887)
  Albert Jean Baptiste Marie Vayssière, French biologist and scientist (b. 1854)
  January 14 – Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (b. 1883)
  January 16
  Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, 2nd youngest son of Queen Victoria (b. 1850)
  Sir Jeremiah Colman, 1st Baronet, British industrialist (b. 1859)
  Carole Lombard, American actress (b. 1908)
  January 17 – Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (b. 1884)
  January 18 – James P. Parker, United States Navy commodore (b. 1855)
  January 21
  Christiaan Cornelissen, Dutch writer, economic and trade unionist (b. 1864)
  Isidoro Diéguez Dueñas, Spanish bricklayer (b. 1909)
  Jesús Larrañaga, Spanish communist leader (b. 1901)
  January 22
  Walter Sickert, British Impressionist painter (b. 1860)
  Racho Petrov, Bulgarian general and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
  January 23
  Prince Ludwig Gaston of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1870)
  Nazareno Strampelli, Italian agronomist and plant breeder (b. 1866)
  January 26 – Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (suicide) (b. 1868)
  January 27 – Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian journalist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1888)
  January 29 – Viktor Esbensen, Norwegian mariner (b. 1881)
caption: Henri de Baillet-Latour
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