ON THIS DAY
Born in 1942
1,893 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Howard Jacobson
writer, television presenter
- Egil Olsen
association football player, sports commentator
- Ama Ata Aidoo
academic, poet
- Adam Hochschild
journalist, university teacher
- Max Cleland
politician
- Billy Joe Royal
musician, film actor
- Randy Boone
singer-songwriter, singer
- Michael Townley
murderer, mercenary
- Murphy Dunne
voice actor, musician
- Roger Chapman
rock singer, songwriter
- Dick Wagner
lyricist, musician
- Mario Terán
military personnel
- Marlena Shaw
soul musician, singer
- Margaret Alva
politician, lawyer
- Flora Purim
singer, musician
- Prince Alexandre of Belgium
aristocrat
- Lanny Flaherty
actor, film actor
- Jean-Claude Trichet
economist, politician
- David Gergen
lawyer, journalist
- Péter Nádas
writer, playwright
- Preston Manning
management consultant, businessperson
- Joan Freeman
film actor, actor
- Robert Miano
actor, television actor
- Floyd Little
American football player, television presenter
- Christopher A. Sims
university teacher, professor
- Larry Taylor
bass guitarist, guitarist
- Michael Hui
actor, screenwriter
- Manuel Castells
writer, sociologist
- Bhagat Singh Koshiyari
politician
- Karen Uhlenbeck
mathematician, university teacher
- Izora Armstead
singer-songwriter, singer
- Robb Royer
musician, screenwriter
- Ralph Klein
consultant, radio personality
- Vladimír Mečiar
lawyer, politician
- Leoluca Bagarella
criminal
- John Seale
film director, cinematographer
- Hugh McCracken
record producer, guitarist
- Lorrie Collins
real estate agent, television actor
- Butch Otter
politician
- Sharon Olds
women's rights activist, writer
- Madhabi Mukherjee
film director, actor
- Stanley B. Prusiner
biochemist, physician
- Ann Packer
middle-distance runner
- John Greig
association football player, association football coach
- Jaipal Reddy
politician
- Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo
politician, president
- Madeline Bell
singer
- Kenneth Tigar
translator, film actor
- Seymour Stein
art collector, entrepreneur
- Joe Boyd
musicographer, film director
- Richard Street
singer
- Raynor Scheine
actor, film actor
- Michael Jackson
columnist, journalist
- Robert Quine
musician, guitarist
- Olivia Cole
actor, television actor
- Byron Dorgan
lobbyist, politician
- Richard Bowman Myers
air force officer
- Billy Swan
record producer, singer-songwriter
- Andy Irvine
singer, music arranger
- Piers Courage
motorcycle racer, Formula One driver
- Susan Silo
voice actor, actor
- Anna Eshoo
politician
- Molly Peters
film actor, actor
- Laurel Goodwin
actor, film actor
- Heidi Brühl
actor, dancer
- Angel Tompkins
film actor, television actor
- Sallehuddin of Kedah
sovereign
- Dave Draper
writer, actor
- Albert Ekka
military personnel
- Adi Godrej
businessperson
- Terry Neill
association football coach, association football player
- Terry McGovern
television actor, voice actor
- Ahmed Aboul Gheit
politician, diplomat
- Minoo Mumtaz
actor
- James Blood Ulmer
musician, recording artist
- Hannu Mikkola
engineer, rally driver
- Sigfried Held
association football player, association football coach
- Donna Corcoran
film actor, television actor
- Vincent C. Gray
politician, psychologist
- Lou Lamoriello
ice hockey coach, ice hockey player
- Tony Buzan
psychologist, writer
- Guy Edwards
Formula One driver
- Ambika Soni
politician
- Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat
politician
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
geneticist, university teacher
- Margarethe von Trotta
director, film director
- Art Linson
director, producer
- Dragomir Milošević
soldier, military officer
- Hugh Shelton
military personnel
- Mahendra Chaudhry
politician, trade unionist
- Peter Rowan
guitarist, musician
- Geoffrey Palmer
jurist, environmentalist
- Gus Dudgeon
record producer, composer
- Agathe Habyarimana
politician
- James J. Dillon
podcaster, professional wrestler
- Letta Mbulu
songwriter, jazz musician
- Lee Dorman
musician
- Ariel Dorfman
essayist, playwright
- Danny Ongais
Formula One driver, racing automobile driver
- Bobbi Gibb
sculptor, marathon runner
- Jayshree Gadkar
actor, film director
- Jeff Astle
association football player
- Curly Neal
basketball player
- Jamie Muir
percussionist, composer
- Walt Hazzard
basketball player, basketball coach
- Molefi Kete Asante
writer, philosopher
- Peter Habeler
explorer, mountaineer
- Anne Gorsuch Burford
lawyer, politician
- James Marcus
actor, film director
- Joe Brainard
painter, writer
- Zoot Money
pianist, musician
- Leo Dan
singer, composer
- Michel Mayor
researcher, university teacher
- Chris Andrews
singer-songwriter, record producer
- Byun Hee-bong
film actor, dub actor
- Dietrich Hollinderbäumer
actor, film actor
- Étienne Balibar
philosopher
- Barbara Randolph
actor, film actor
- Fraser Stoddart
chemist, university teacher
- Brendan Malone
basketball coach
- Alice Schwarzer
journalist, author
- Michel Drucker
writer, television producer
- Robert H. Grubbs
autobiographer, university teacher
- John Lehman
author, military officer
- Christine Darden
engineer, mathematician
- Milan Milutinović
politician, political commissar
- Ricardo Rodríguez de la Vega
Formula One driver, racing automobile driver
- Patrick Adiarte
television actor, actor
- Dennis Conner
sailor
- John McDowell
philosopher, university teacher
- Allen Danziger
actor, film actor
- Dorothy Counts
student
- Larry Pressler
university teacher, politician
- Reiner Schöne
actor, television actor
- Judith Herman
university teacher, psychiatrist
- Michael Cavanaugh
television actor, actor
- Dick Pound
lawyer, biographer
- Doug Mountjoy
snooker player, coal miner
- David Griffiths
university teacher, physicist
- Maria Kaczyńska
economist
- Dennis Lipscomb
actor, television actor
- Vini Poncia
singer, composer
- Chantal Goya
singer, pop singer
- Jean-Pierre Jabouille
Formula One driver, racing driver
- David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick
screenwriter, film screenwriter