Editing 1942 (section)

===August===
[[File:Richard Willstätter.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Richard Willstätter]]]]
[[File:Edith Stein (ca. 1938-1939).jpg|thumb|100px|Saint [[Edith Stein|Teresa Benedicta of the Cross]]]]
[[File:George 1st Kent.png|thumb|100px|[[Prince George, Duke of Kent]]]]
* [[August 3]]
** [[Franciszka Arnsztajnowa]], Polish poet and playwright (b. [[1865]])
** [[James Cruze]], American actor and director (b. [[1884]])
** [[Guglielmo Ferrero]], Italian historian, journalist and novelist (b. [[1871]])
** [[Gustav Indrebø]], Norwegian philologist (b. [[1889]])
** [[Richard Willstätter]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1872]])
* [[August 7]] 
** [[Louis J. Carpellotti]], American marine (b. [[1918]])
** [[Charles E. Ford]], American film director and producer (b. [[1899]])
** [[Janusz Korczak]], Polish educator, author and pediatrician (b. [[1878]])
* [[August 8]] &ndash; [[Leopold Janikowski]], Polish explorer and ethnographer (b. [[1855]])
* [[August 9]] &ndash; [[Edith Stein|Terea Benedicta of the Cross]], German philosopher, [[Roman Catholic]] nun, martyr and saint (assassinated) (b. [[1891]])
* [[August 10]] &ndash; [[Kazimierz Dembowski]], Polish [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] clergyman and martyr (b. [[1912]])
* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Sabina Spielrein]], Russian physician and psychoanalyst (b. [[1885]])
* [[August 12]] 
** [[Pasquale Amato]], Italian baritone (b. [[1878]])
** [[Mykola Burachek]], Soviet painter (b. [[1871]])
** [[Phillips Holmes]], American actor (b. [[1907]])
* [[August 13]] 
** [[Jorge Cuesta]], Mexican chemist, writer and editor (b. [[1903]])
** [[Elina González Acha de Correa Morales]], Argentinian educator, scientist and activist (b. [[1861]])
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Mahadev Desai]], Indian independence activist and writer (b. [[1892]])
* [[August 16]] &ndash; [[André Heuzé]], French director, screenwriter and playwright (b. [[1880]])
* [[August 18]] 
** [[Agathe Lasch]], German philologist (b. [[1879]])
** [[Henry DeWitt Hamilton]], American general (b. [[1863]])
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Rauchinger]], Polish-born Austrian painter (b. [[1858]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vierhaus |first1=Rudolf |title=Poethen - Schlüter |date=2011-05-03 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-094025-1 |page=206 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fGXU6_Wqg60C&pg=PA206 |language=de |access-date=October 17, 2021 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207093530/https://books.google.com/books?id=fGXU6_Wqg60C&pg=PA206#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Kiyonao Ichiki]], Japanese army officer (killed in action) (b. [[1892]])
* [[August 22]] &ndash; [[Michel Fokine]], Soviet choreographer and dancer (b. [[1880]])
* [[August 23]]
** [[Jorge Colaço]], Portuguese painter (b. [[1868]])
** [[Franciszek Dachtera]], Polish [[Roman Catholic]] priest, martyr and blessed (b. [[1910]])
* [[August 24]] 
** [[Doyle Clayton Barnes]], American naval aviator (b. [[1912]])
** [[Edward Kaźmierski]], Polish [[Roman Catholic]] priest, martyr and blessed (b. [[1919]])
* [[August 25]]
** [[Prince George, Duke of Kent]], 4th eldest son of [[George V]] (b. [[1902]])
** [[Józef Lewartowski]], Polish politician and revolutionary (b. [[1895]])
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Irena Bernášková]], Czechoslovakian journalist and resistance member (b. [[1904]])
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[Lev Nussimbaum]], Russian and Azerbaijani novelist (b. [[1905]])<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Lives of Two Writers - Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli and Lev Nussimbaum |journal=Azerbaijan International |volume=15 |issue=2–4 |year=2011 |page=39}}</ref>
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria]] (b. [[1872]])
* [[August 29]] 
** [[Charles Urban]], American film producer (b. [[1867]])
** [[Fabio Fiallo]], Dominican writer, poet and politician (b. [[1866]])
** [[Dominik Jędrzejewski]], Polish [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] priest, martyr and blessed (b. [[1886]])
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[Martin Kirschner]], German surgeon (b. [[1869]])