List of Famous people who born in 1942

Roberto João Pereira Freire is a Brazilian politician.

António Lobo Antunes, GCSE is a Portuguese novelist and medical doctor. He has been named as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Christopher Frederick Andrews is an English-German singer-songwriter whose musical career started in the late 1950s.

Katja Behrens is a German author and translator of Jewish descent.

Maki Hirahara , known as Maki Carrousel , is a Japanese transgender actress who is represented by the talent agency Office Carrousel.

Paulinho da Viola is a Brazilian sambista, singer-songwriter, guitar, cavaquinho and mandolin player, known for his sophisticated harmonies and soft, gentle singing voice.

Sergio Ramírez Mercado is a Nicaraguan writer and intellectual who served in the leftist Government Junta of National Reconstruction and as Vice President of the country 1985-1990 under the presidency of Daniel Ortega.

Wojciech Zygmunt Pszoniak was a Polish film and theatre actor.

Michel Tremblay, CQ is a French Canadian novelist and playwright.

Terumasa Hino is a Japanese jazz trumpeter. He is considered one of Japan's finest jazz musicians. His instruments include the trumpet, cornet, and flügelhorn.