List of Famous people who died at 42

Robert Gleason

Robert Charles Gleason, Jr.
First Name Robert
Last Name Gleason
Born on April 10, 1970
Died on January 16, 2013 (aged 42)

Robert Charles Gleason, Jr. was an American murderer sentenced to death and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for two separate murders of two of his cellmates. Gleason was an execution volunteer who vowed to continue killing in prison if he did not receive capital punishment.

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Alpaslan Dikmen

First Name Alpaslan
Last Name Dikmen
Born on December 20, 1965
Died on September 27, 2008 (aged 42)
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Oscar Anderle

First Name Oscar
Last Name Anderle
Born on November 30, 1945
Died on February 17, 1988 (aged 42)
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Kofuku Yanagiya

First Name Kofuku
Born on November 16, 1975
Died on January 12, 2018 (aged 42)
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Mikael Karlsson

First Name Mikael
Last Name Karlsson
Born on October 11, 1962
Died on September 4, 2005 (aged 42)
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Jian Zhou

First Name Jian
Last Name Zhou
Born on November 30, 1956
Died on February 28, 1999 (aged 42)
Net Worth $1.5B

Jian Zhou was a Chinese virologist and cancer researcher, who with fellow researcher Ian Frazer, invented Gardasil and Cervarix, the vaccines for stimulating human immunological resistance to the cervical cancer-inducing human papilloma virus.

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Mohamed El Sharqawy

First Name Mohamed
Last Name Sharqawy
Born on January 16, 1954
Died on May 6, 1996 (aged 42)
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Tetsuya Katō

First Name Tetsuya
Born on January 15, 1941
Died on October 24, 1983 (aged 42)
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Zehra Yıldız

First Name Zehra
Born on November 30, 1955
Died on December 9, 1997 (aged 42)
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Cengiz Elbeye

First Name Cengiz
Last Name Elbeye
Born on November 30, 1967
Died on February 11, 2010 (aged 42)
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