List of Famous people who born in 1942

Wolfgang Heinz is a German criminologist and writer on jurisprudence.

Mutia Canan Karatay, Turkish Medical Doctor, Heart and Internal Medicine Professor, former rector of İstanbul Bilim Üniversitesi and Internal Medicine and Cardiology Sciences Main Banch teacher, heart and internal medicine specialist.

Michael Edwin Briant is a retired English television director and author, best known for his work as a director for BBC television drama in the 1970s and 1980s.

José Anselmo dos Santos, known as Cabo Anselmo, was a Brazilian military officer who was the leader of the Sailors' Revolt, which started the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. Initially presenting himself in public as a military officer identified with Marxist ideas, he was in reality an undercover agent of the forces of repression of the military government, where he collected and provided the military with information that allowed them to capture guerrillas and leftist opponents, including his partner, Soledad Barrett Viedma, who, while pregnant, was brutally tortured and died in a military prison.