Sigfried Held

German association football player and manager.

Born August 7th, 1942 (age 83 years) in Bruntál.

Péter Medgyessy

Hungarian politician.

Born October 19th, 1942 (age 83 years) in Budapest.

Happy Hairston

Basketball player (1942-2001).

Born May 31st, 1942 in Winston-Salem.

Died May 1st, 2001 at 58 years old in Los Angeles (prostate cancer).

Susana Vieira

Brazilian actress.

Born August 23rd, 1942 (age 83 years) in São Paulo.

Luc Plamondon

French-canadian lyricist, music executive.

Born March 2nd, 1942 (age 84 years) in Saint-Raymond. ^[ref]

Patricia Elliott

American actress, singer.

Born July 21st, 1942 in Gunnison.

Died December 20th, 2015 at 73 years old in New York City (cancer).

Jonathan Barnes

British historian and philosopher (born 1942).

Born December 26th, 1942 (age 83 years) in Much Wenlock.

Sandra Morgan

Australian swimmer, olympic gold medalist, former world record-holder.

Born June 6th, 1942 (age 84 years) in Tamworth.

Alison Des Forges

American historian and human rights activist.

Born August 20th, 1942 in Schenectady.

Died February 12th, 2009 at 66 years old in Clarence Center. ^[ref]

Paco Peña

Spanish flamenco guitarist.

Born June 1st, 1942 (age 84 years) in Córdoba.

Carol Bellamy

American politician.

Born January 14th, 1942 (age 84 years) in Plainfield.

Meave Leakey

British paleoanthropologist.

Born July 28th, 1942 (age 83 years) in London.

Günter Wallraff

German writer and journalist.

Born October 1st, 1942 (age 83 years) in Burscheid.

Kenneth Johnson

American sci-fi writer and producer.

Born October 26th, 1942 (age 83 years) in Pine Bluff.

Ron Padgett

American writer and translator (born 1942).

Born June 17th, 1942 (age 84 years) in Tulsa.

Gentry Lee

American writer and engineer.

Born March 29th, 1942 (age 84 years) in New York City.

Gillian Rubinstein

British writer of fiction and plays.

Born August 29th, 1942 (age 83 years) in Potten End.

Kalle Lasn

Estonian-canadian film maker, author, magazine editor and activist (born 1942).

Born March 24th, 1942 (age 84 years) in Tallinn.

Shunpei Yamazaki

Japanese inventor.

Born July 8th, 1942 (age 84 years) in Japan.

Jean-Patrick Manchette

French writer (1942-1995).

Born December 19th, 1942 in Marseille.

Died June 3rd, 1995 at 52 years old in 12th arrondissement of Paris (pancreatic cancer).

Françoise Dürr

French tennis player.

Born December 25th, 1942 (age 83 years) in Algiers.

Vittorio Cecchi Gori

Italian film producer (born 1942).

Born April 27th, 1942 (age 84 years) in Florence.

Ban Hyo-jeong

South korean actress.

Born November 27th, 1942 (age 83 years) in Daegu. ^[ref]

Ludmila Savelyeva

Soviet and russian actress.

Born January 24th, 1942 (age 84 years) in Saint Petersburg.

Rob de Nijs

Dutch singer and actor, active since the 1960s (1942–2025).

Born December 26th, 1942 in Amsterdam.

Died March 16th, 2025 at 82 years old in Bennekom (Parkinson's disease). ^[ref]