List of Famous people who born in 1942

Rudolf Lucieer is a Dutch actor. He has appeared in 36 films and television shows since 1966. He starred in the 1967 film Paranoia, which was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1992 he won the Golden Calf for Best Actor for his role in the movie The Northerners.

Jacques, Baron Brotchi is a Belgian professor of neurosurgery and a politician from the MR. He was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2004. From December 2018 to July 2019, he was President of the Senate of Belgium.

Robert Clyde "Bob" Springer is a retired American astronaut and test pilot who flew as a Mission Specialist on two NASA Space Shuttle missions in 1989 and 1990. A decorated aviator in the United States Marine Corps, Springer also flew more than 500 combat sorties during the Vietnam War. He has logged over 237 hours in space and 4,500 hours flying time, including 3,500 hours in jet aircraft.

Alfred (Al) Sommer is a prominent American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research on vitamin A in the 1970s and 1980s revealed that dosing even mildly vitamin A deficient children with an inexpensive, large dose vitamin A capsule twice a year reduces child mortality by as much as 34 percent. The World Bank and the Copenhagen Consensus list vitamin A supplementation as one of the most cost-effective health interventions in the world.

Joaquin Maria López de Andújar y Cánovas del Castillo was the diocesan bishop of Getafe, Spain from December 19, 2004 to September 13, 2017.

Nurit Hirsh is an Israeli composer, arranger and conductor who has written over a thousand Hebrew songs. Two of her most famous and widely known songs are Ba-Shanah ha-Ba'ah, Oseh Shalom bi-Meromav. and A-Ba-Ni-Bi, the winning entry in the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest.