This is a list of famous peoplemeeting established criteria for significance (see Wikipedia: Criteria for the significance of personalities ) who died in March 1942 .
The cause of death is indicated only in exceptional cases (homicide, suicide, traffic accident or accident). In other cases, it is not indicated .
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March 1
- Baic, Giuro (20) - Croatian anti-fascist student, People's hero of Yugoslavia . He died in battle with the Ustash.
- Zarubin, Nikolai Nikolaevich (48) - Soviet philologist. He died of starvation in the besieged Leningrad.
- Pax, Ferdinand Albin (83) - German botanist.
March 2
- Komissarov, Konstantin Vasilievich (43) - Soviet military leader, participant in the Great Patriotic War, commander of the 65th Rifle Corps, 183th Rifle Division. Killed in battle
- Christian, Charles Henry (25) - American swing and jazz guitarist.
- Solovyov, Sergey Mikhailovich (56) - Russian poet. Grandson and full namesake of the historian S. M. Solovyov . Repressed. He died in a hospital for the mentally ill in evacuation.
March 3
- Amadeus of Savoy (43) - 3rd Duke of Aosta, Viceroy and Governor-General of Italian East Africa (1937-1941). He died in English captivity.
- Bernheim, Ernst (92) - German historian, source and methodologist of history.
- Galkin, Alexei Semenovich (75) - military leader of Russia and Ukraine. He died in the Soviet exile.
- Golts, Boris Grigorievich (28) - Soviet Leningrad composer. He died in the besieged Leningrad.
- Domani, Robert (33) - Yugoslav military, participant in the Civil War in Spain and the People's Liberation War, People's Hero of Yugoslavia (posthumous). He died in battle.
- Steinberger, Adolf (26) - Yugoslav military leader of Jewish origin, participant in the Civil War in Spain and the People's Liberation War of Yugoslavia, People's Hero of Yugoslavia (posthumous). Executed by chetniks.
March 4
- Bogatkevich, Mechislav (38) - blessed of the Roman Catholic Church, priest, martyr. Shot by German occupiers.
- Volkov, Alexei Alekseevich (52) - Soviet state and party worker, and. about. 1st Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Belarus (1937-1938).
- Gollerbach, Erich Fedorovich (46) - Soviet art critic, art and literary critic, bibliographer and bibliophile.
- Machkovyak, Vladislav (31) - blessed Roman Catholic Church, priest, martyr. Shot by German occupiers
- Pyrtek, Stanislav (28) - Blessed Roman Catholic Church, priest, martyr. Shot by German occupiers.
March 5th
Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich
- Arzhakov, Stepan Maksimovich (42) - Soviet Yakut state, political and economic leader. Repressed, shot at the verdict of a military tribunal. Rehabilitated posthumously.
- Bardt, Traugot Yakovlevich (69) - Russian architect. Repressed. Died in exile. Rehabilitated posthumously.
- Vladushich, Branko (24) - Yugoslav Croatian partisan, participant in the People's Liberation War, People's Hero of Yugoslavia (posthumous). He died in battle with the Ustash.
- Dmitry Pavlovich (50) - Grand Duke, first son of Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich and Alexandra Georgievna , grandson of Alexander II , participant in the murder of Grigory Rasputin. Died of tuberculosis complicated by uremia in Switzerland.
- Kramarenko, Lev Yuryevich (54) - Russian and Soviet painter. Died in evacuation in Samarkand.
March 6th
- Kubanev, Vasily Mikhailovich (21) - Soviet poet. Died of pneumonia.
- Peluso, Edmondo (60) - Italian revolutionary communist, anti-fascist journalist. Shot by the verdict of a Soviet court. Rehabilitated posthumously.
March 7th
- Belavenets, Sergey Vsevolodovich (31) - Soviet chess player and chess theorist, USSR master of sports (1933). Three-time champion of Moscow (1932, 1937, 1938), participant in the Great Patriotic War. Killed in battle
- Plotkin, Mikhail Nikolaevich (29) - a participant in the Great Patriotic War, assistant squadron commander of the 1st mine torpedo aviation regiment of the 10th bomber aviation brigade of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet, Hero of the Soviet Union . Killed during an air raid.
March 8
Jose Raul Capablanca
- Gardeman, Grigory Ivanovich - a participant in the Great Patriotic War, political instructor of the 7th Infantry Company of the 71st Infantry Regiment (30th Infantry Division, 56th Army, Southern Front). Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumous). He died in battle.
- Davydov-Luchitsky, Vsevolod Vladimirovich - Soviet military leader, colonel, commander of the 199th Infantry Division. He died at the front.
- Capablanca, Jose Raul (53) - Cuban chess player, chess writer, diplomat, 3rd World Chess Champion (1921-1927), cerebral hemorrhage.
- Onilova, Nina Andreevna (20) - Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumous), machine gun crew commander of the 54th Rifle Regiment, 25th Chapaev Division, Primorsky Army, Crimean Front. Died of wounds received in battle.
- Semenov-Tyan-Shansky, Andrei Petrovich (75) - Russian, Soviet geographer, entomologist, coleopterologist and translator, son of Pyotr Petrovich Semenov-Tyan-Shansky . He died of pneumonia in the besieged Leningrad.
March 9th
- Kravchuk, Mikhail Filippovich (49) - Soviet Ukrainian mathematician, author of Kravchuk polynomials and Kravchuk matrices . Repressed. He died in the Soviet camp.
- Novikov, Alexander Evdokimovich (19) - Soviet military pilot, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumous). He died in battle.
March 10
- Goodwin, Amina (74) - English pianist.
- Odadzic, Lyubitsa (28) - Yugoslav partisan, People's hero of Yugoslavia (posthumous). Executed by German occupiers.
- Tikhomirov, Ilya Kuzmich (31) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
March 11
- Evgeny Lobanov - senior lieutenant of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Onchukov, Nikolai Evgenievich - Russian folklorist, ethnographer, journalist and publisher, full member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. Repressed. He died in the Soviet camp.
March 12th
William Bragg
- Bosch, Robert (80) - German industrialist, engineer and inventor; founder of Robert Bosch GmbH .
- Bragg, William Henry (79) - English physicist, Nobel laureate in physics in 1915, President of the Royal Society (1935-1940)
- Muker, Ivan (27) - Yugoslav worker, partisan of the People's Liberation War and People's Hero of Yugoslavia (posthumous). Suicide to avoid captivity.
- Jovanovic, Zhikitsa - Yugoslav military leader, participant in the Civil War in Spain and the People's Liberation War of Yugoslavia. The national hero of Yugoslavia (posthumous), the organizer of the partisan anti-fascist movement in Western Serbia. He died in battle.
- Lille, Paul (60) - Estonian military leader, lieutenant general. He died in a Soviet prison.
- Yudin, Mikhail Vladimirovich (29) - Soviet officer, participant in the Spanish Civil War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1937). Member of World War II. He died in battle.
March 13th
- Meskupas, Shmuelis-Itsikas Maushevich - Soviet Lithuanian party leader.
March 14th
- Savich, Nikanor Vasilievich (72) - Russian politician. Died in Paris.
- Fedde, Friedrich Karl Georg (68) - German botanist of Polish descent.
- Chistov, Alexey Ivanovich - member of the IV State Duma from the Moscow province. He died as a result of an accident.
March 15th
- McMurdo, Arthur Hagate (90) - English artist and architect.
- Plashkin, Boris Iosifovich (24) - senior lieutenant of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Khromov, Pyotr Filippovich - Soviet poet, participant in the Great Patriotic War. He died in battle.
- Tsemlinsky, Alexander von (70) - Austrian composer and conductor of Jewish origin. Died of pneumonia in New York.
March 16th
Jacob Perelman
- Vonog, Vladimir Donatovich - Soviet football player, referee. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1934). Judge of the All-Union Category (1938). He died in the besieged Leningrad.
- Hödrich, August von (82) - German cyclist, silver medalist of the 1896 Athens Summer Olympics in the road race.
- Perelman, Yakov Isidorovich (59) - Russian, Soviet scientist, popularizer of physics, mathematics and astronomy, one of the founders of the genre of popular science literature. He died of starvation in the besieged Leningrad.
March 17th
- Neidgardt, Dmitry Borisovich (80) - Russian statesman, mayor of Odessa (1903-1905), member of the State Council . Died in Paris.
- Tarasov, Nikolai Grigorievich (75) - Russian and Soviet local historian and teacher, a specialist in the field of teaching history. Doctor of Education (1940), professor.
March 18th
Stefan (Znamyrovsky)
- Blagojevich, Vera (21) - Serbian anti-fascist student, doctor of the People's Liberation Army, People's Hero of Yugoslavia (dimly). Executed by German occupiers.
- Danko, Natalia Yakovlevna - Soviet sculptor and ceramist. Died after evacuation from the besieged Leningrad.
- Stefan (Znamirovsky) - clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church, Bishop of Shadrinsky (1924-1927), Bishop of Kaluga and Borovsky (1927-1928), Bishop of Vyatka and Slobodskaya (1929-1930), Bishop of Ulyanovsk (1933), Archbishop of Vologda and 1934 - 1936). Repeatedly repressed. Shot by court verdict.
- Ster, Philip Wilson (81) - - An English artist, one of the leaders of the English impressionists.
- Fedor Shcherbatskaya (75) - Russian and Soviet orientalist.
March 19th
- Diaz, Jose (46) - Spanish trade unionist, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Spain (1932-1942), suicide.
- Merriem, Clinton Hart (86) - American zoologist and botanist.
- Olesnin, Nikolay Vasilievich (27) - participant of the Great Patriotic War, junior lieutenant, Hero of the Soviet Union .
- Pichugin, Evgeny Ivanovich (20) - participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union .
- Turhan, Narciz (62) - a blessed Roman Catholic church , a priest, a monk from the Order of the Franciscans, a martyr. He died in Dachau .
March 20
- Dzerzhinsky, Vladislav Edmundovich (61) - neurologist and psychiatrist, professor at the University of Ekaterinoslav, colonel of the medical service of the Polish Army, brother of Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky . Shot by German occupiers.
- Kalafati, Vasily Pavlovich (73) - Russian and Soviet composer and music teacher. He died in the besieged Leningrad.
- Shulpin, Leonid Mikhailovich (36) - Soviet scientist, ornithologist. Member of World War II. He died at the front.
March 21
- Damilovsky, Nikolay Aleksandrovich (61) - Ukrainian architect.
- Dimich, Nada (18) - Yugoslav partisan, participant in the People's Liberation struggle in Yugoslavia, People's hero of Yugoslavia . Shot by Ustashi.
- Kobylyanskaya, Olga Yulianovna (78) - Ukrainian writer. Member of the Union of Writers of the USSR. Died in a Nazi prison.
- Trezvinsky, Stepan Evtropievich (81) - opera singer (bass profundo). Hero of Labor (1924). Honored Artist of the Republic (1925).
- Štyrski, Jindřich (42) - Czech artist and surrealist photographer, writer, art critic, art theorist, representative of the East European and international avant-garde. He committed suicide.
March 22
- Volkov, Alexander Alexandrovich (56) - Russian and French film director and screenwriter. Died In Rome.
- Caming, Frederick (66) - British cricketer, champion of the 1900 Summer Olympics .
- Likhachev, Pyotr Timofeevich (36) - assistant platoon commander of the 32nd Infantry Regiment of the 19th Infantry Division of the 5th Army of the Western Front, senior sergeant. Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumous). He died in battle.
- Rushchinsky, Mikhail Osipovich (47) - Soviet football player and football coach.
March 23
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear
Anton Lutskevich
- Alvear, Marcelo Torcuato de (73) - President of Argentina (1922-1928).
- Boyarko, Alexey Pavlovich (38) - Soviet state and party leader, secretary of the Chernivtsi underground regional committee of the Communist Party (b) of Ukraine (1941), executed.
- Lutskevich, Anton Ivanovich (58) - Belarusian politician, public figure, historian, publicist and literary critic, one of the founders of the Belarusian national movement in the 20th century. Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus (1918-1920). Repressed.
- Marguerite, Victor (75) - French novelist, playwright, poet, publicist and historian
- Pumpur, Pyotr Ivanovich (41) - Soviet military leader, participant in the Spanish Civil War, commander of the Madrid Front fighter group, Hero of the Soviet Union , lieutenant general of aviation. Shot by the NKVD. Rehabilitated posthumously.
- Fedoseev, Mikhail Andreevich (29) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Shtaleker, Walter (41) - Doctor of Law, SS Brigadeführer , Police Major General, Einsatzgruppe A commander, Head of ZiPo and SD Reichskommissariat Ostland . Died of a wound received in a battle with partisans.
March 24th
- Chibiras, Kristupas (53) - Lithuanian Catholic priest, theologian, public figure. He died under the bombs of Soviet aircraft.
March 25
- Wake, Nicholas van (61) - Dutch Slavic philologist.
- Golubets, Ivan Karpovich (25) - senior border guard sailor, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1942, posthumous), died in the besieged Sevastopol.
- Dosifei (Protopopov) (55) - - clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church, archbishop of Saratov and Tsaritsyno .
- Carr, William (55) - American rower, champion of the 1900 Summer Olympics .
- Kirilkin, Ivan Tarasovich - the first director of the Kramatorsk Heavy Engineering Plant and Shipbuilding Plant No. 402 in the city of Molotovsk . Repressed, died in a Soviet camp.
- Korolkov, Dmitry Nikolaevich (83) - Russian and Soviet scientist-linguist, professor
- Terletsky, Alexander Stepanovich - commissar of the Balaklava partisan detachment in 1942. Executed by German occupiers.
March 26
- Lagansky, Yeremey Mironovich (54) - Soviet publicist, playwright, journalist. He died at the front of World War II.
- Martynov, Alexander Maksimovich (30) - Soviet officer, tank-ace, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union . He died in battle.
- Simonok, Vladimir Polikarpovich - participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union .
- Stamenkovich, Costa (48) - Yugoslav worker, partisan of the People's Liberation War of Yugoslavia, People's Hero of Yugoslavia (posthumous). He died in battle.
- Tёrokh, Ilya Ivanovich - composer, public figure and poet, who belonged to the Galician-Russian direction . Died in New York.
- Khodzhash, Samuil Moiseevich (60) - a lawyer, public figure in Yevpatoriya, who saved the Crimean Karaites from destruction by the Germans. Shot by German occupiers.
- Shikharev, Alexander Fedorovich (26) - participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union .
March 27
- Aksentievich, Vlada (26) - Yugoslav student, partisan of the People's Liberation War of Yugoslavia, People's Hero of Yugoslavia . Executed by German occupiers.
- Gonzalez, Julio (sculptor) (65) - Spanish sculptor and artist.
- Агagar, Stane (46) - Slovenian school teacher, participant in the People's Liberation War of Yugoslavia. The national hero of Yugoslavia . He died in battle with the German invaders.
- Wilcox, John Walter (60) - U.S. Navy officer, rear admiral, commanding officer of operational unit No. 39 (TF39). Drowned in the sea during a storm.
March 28
- Silnitsky, Mikhail Fedorovich (21) - Hero of the Soviet Union
- Hernandez, Miguel - Spanish poet and playwright, participant in the Civil War. Died of tuberculosis in a Franco prison.
March 29th
- Imai Nasyri (43) - Bashkir writer, journalist, public figure. Repressed, died in custody.
March 30
- Pavlov, Fedor Pavlovich (26) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Saprygin, Nikolai Evmenievich (64) - a participant in the revolutionary movement, a statesman and public figure of the USSR.
March 31
- Belyakov, Alexander Vasilievich - commander of the Red Army, lieutenant, one of the activists and ideologists of the underground anti-fascist organization operating in the occupied Rzhev from 1941 to 1942. Executed by German occupiers.
- Volobuev, Konstantin Maksimovich - brigade commander, leader of state security agencies.
- Ermakov, Ivan Dmitrievich (66) - Russian and Soviet psychiatrist, psychologist, artist and literary critic, one of the pioneers of psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia. Repressed. He died in a prison hospital.
- Kayev, Lev Alekseevich (29) - Soviet chess player and chess composer. He died at the front.
- Sittard, Alfred (63) - German organist and composer.
- Migunov, Vasily Vasilievich (23) - Soviet military pilot, senior lieutenant. Member of World War II, a pilot of the 29th fighter aviation regiment of the 31st mixed air division of the Air Force. Hero of the Soviet Union . He died in battle.
- Novozhenov, Vladimir Ivanovich - intelligence officer of the headquarters of the 31 Army, a Red Army soldier, one of the activists and ideologists of the underground anti-fascist organization operating in the occupied Rzhev from 1941 to 1942. Executed by German occupiers.
- Teleshev, Alexei Petrovich (26) - commander of the Red Army, Junior military technician, organizer and leader of the underground anti-fascist organization operating in the occupied Rzhev from 1941 to 1942. Executed by German occupiers.