Year 442 (CDXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dioscorus and Eudoxius (or, less frequently, year 1195 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 442 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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• Feng, Chinese empress and regent of the Northern Wei dynasty (d. 490)
• Isidore of Miletus, Byzantine architect and mathematician (d. 537)
• Placidia, Roman empress and daughter of Valentinian III (approximate date)
• Angelus Daemonicus, Roman general (d. ?)

• Veh Mihr Shapur, Sasanian military officer and Marzban of Armenia