List of Famous people who died at 42

Natalya Lagoda was a Russian–Ukrainian singer, entertainer and model.

Yuri Konstantinovich Stepanov was a Russian film and theater actor, who worked at the Theater workshop of Pyotr Fomenko. He was a winner of several theatrical awards and appeared in productions of the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop, as well as a number of television series.

Since her death, the "Parveen Shakir Urdu Literature Festival" has been held every year in Islamabad in her memoriam.

The Boston Strangler is the name given to the murderer of 13 women in the Boston, Massachusetts, area during the early 1960s. The crimes were attributed to Albert DeSalvo based on his confession, details revealed in court during a separate case, and DNA evidence linking him to the final victim.

Pavel Borisovich Luspekayev was a Soviet actor who is best known for his role of Vereschagin in the classic Russian movie White Sun of the Desert. Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation.

Matthew Carragher was an English footballer who played 362 league games over twelve years in the Football League. He was a versatile defender, and was described as "a natural leader".

Jesús Antonio Castro González was a Spanish footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Dennis Emmanuel Brown CD was a Jamaican reggae singer. During his prolific career, which began in the late 1960s when he was aged eleven, he recorded more than 75 albums and was one of the major stars of lovers rock, a subgenre of reggae. Bob Marley cited Brown as his favourite singer, dubbing him "The Crown Prince of Reggae", and Brown would prove influential on future generations of reggae singers.

Bruno Pradal was a French actor.

On March 28, 1996, Donovan Corey Parks, an American corrections officer, was murdered by two gang members in Baldwin County, Georgia. His two killers: Robert Earl Butts Jr. and Marion Wilson Jr. were executed for the crime by the state of Georgia via lethal injection, in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Wilson was the 1,500th person to be executed in the United States since capital punishment was resumed in 1976.