List of Famous people who born in 1942

Fred V. Murphy II A.S.C. is a New York-based cinematographer who has worked on over 50 movies, among them such films as Hoosiers, The Dead, Secret Window, Auto Focus and The Mothman Prophecies. In 2006 he shot the US boxoffice hit RV, starring Robin Williams, and in 2007 the indie thriller Anamorph with Willem Dafoe. He worked as a gaffer for commercials before becoming a cinematographer.

Anthony Burrows is an English pop singer and recording artist. He is known for number ones in the UK and a top three hit in the USA in the 1970s, Top 40 appearances with multiple groups, and extensive work in the recording studio as a session musician. Tony appeared as lead singer with 3 different groups on 3 different UK hit singles on the same episode of Top of the Pops in 1970.

Tom Lazarus is an American screenwriter, director and producer. He is best known for writing the 1999 horror film Stigmata, and is the author of the screenwriting manuals, Secrets of Film Writing and The Last Word: Definitive Answers to All Your Screenwriting Questions.

Boris Weisfeiler was a Soviet-born mathematician and professor at Penn State University who lived in the United States before disappearing in Chile in 1985. Declassified US documents suggest a Chilean army patrol seized Weisfeiler and took him to Colonia Dignidad, a secretive Germanic agricultural commune set up in Chile in the 1960s. The Chilean Pinochet military dictatorship alleged that he drowned. He is known for the Weisfeiler filtration, Weisfeiler–Leman algorithm, and Kac–Weisfeiler conjectures.