Editing 1942 (section)

===December===
[[File:Fran%C3%A7ois Darlan 1942 USA-MTO-NWA-p266.jpg|thumb|100px|[[François Darlan]]]]

* [[December 1]]
** [[Teddy Sheean]], Royal Australian Navy sailor, killed in action at the [[Battle of Timor]] (b. [[1923]])
** [[Leon Wachholz]], Polish scientist and medical examiner (b. [[1867]])
* [[December 3]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm Junk]], Czechoslovakian natural historian, bibliographer and entomologist (b. [[1866]])
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Richard Tucker (actor)|Richard Tucker]], American actor (b. [[1884]])
* [[December 6]]
** [[Karl Herxheimer]], German dermatologist (b. [[1861]])
** [[Amos Rusie]], American baseball player and [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r (b. [[1871]])
* [[December 7]] &ndash; [[Orland Steen Loomis]], Governor of Wisconsin (b. [[1893]])
* [[December 8]] 
** [[Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia]] (b. [[1883]])
** [[Albert Kahn (architect)|Albert Kahn]], American architect (b. [[1869]])
* [[December 9]] &ndash; [[Séraphine Louis]], French painter (b. [[1864]])
* [[December 12]] 
** [[Robert Danneberg]], Austrian politician (b. [[1882]])
** [[Helen Westley]], American actress (b. [[1875]])
* [[December 13]]
** [[Hakeem Fateh Mohammad Sehwani]], Indian scholar, poet, literary, journalist and politician (b. [[1882]])
** [[Wlodimir Ledóchowski]], Polish [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] priest and servant of God (b. [[1866]])
* [[December 17]] &ndash; [[Edith Pretty]], British landowner (b. [[1883]])
* [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Carl Gustav Fleischer]], Norwegian general (b. [[1883]])
* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[Franz Boas]], German anthropologist (b. [[1858]])
* [[December 22]]
** [[Robert Kosch]], Prussian general (b. [[1856]])
** [[Richard-Heinrich von Reuss]], German General, [[Killed in Action|KIA]] at Stalingrad (b, [[1896]]).
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Konstantin Balmont]], Soviet poet and translator (b. [[1867]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Richard D. Schupbach |title=Stanford Slavic Studies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4NkoAQAAIAAJ |year=1991 |publisher=Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University |page=406 |isbn=9780926953062 |access-date=April 6, 2021 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207093535/https://books.google.com/books?id=4NkoAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[François Darlan]], French admiral and politician, 81st [[Prime Minister of France]] (assassinated) (b. [[1881]])
* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[William G. Morgan]], American inventor of volleyball (b. [[1870]])
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[Nevile Henderson|Sir Neville Henderson]], British diplomat (b. [[1882]])