Deirdre McCloskey

American economist & academic.

Born September 11th, 1942 (age 83 years) in Ann Arbor.

Art Evans

American actor (1942–2024).

Born March 27th, 1942 in Berkeley.

Died December 21st, 2024 at 82 years old in Los Angeles. ^[ref]

Billy Joe Royal

American singer (1942-2015).

Born April 3rd, 1942 in Valdosta.

Died October 6th, 2015 at 73 years old in Morehead City. ^[ref]

Mohamed ElBaradei

Egyptian law scholar and diplomat, 4th director general of the international atomic energy agency, and nobel peace prize recipient.

Born June 17th, 1942 (age 84 years) in Cairo.

Zhou Yongkang

Former politburo standing committee member of the chinese communist party.

Born December 3rd, 1942 (age 83 years) in Wuxi.

Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Saudi royal.

Born September 5th, 1942 (age 83 years) in Riyadh. ^[ref]

Judy Pace

American actress.

Born June 15th, 1942 in Los Angeles.

Died March 11th, 2026 at 83 years old in Marina del Rey. ^[ref]

Jacques Rogge

President of the international olympic committee from 2001 to 2013.

Born May 2nd, 1942 in Ghent.

Died August 29th, 2021 at 79 years old in Deinze.

Sandro Mazzola

Italian footballer.

Born November 8th, 1942 (age 83 years) in Turin.

Jusuf Kalla

10th and 12th vice president of indonesia, businessman.

Born May 15th, 1942 (age 84 years) in Watampone. ^[ref]

Maree Cheatham

American actress.

Born June 2nd, 1942 (age 84 years) in Oklahoma City.

Javier Solana

Spanish politician.

Born July 14th, 1942 (age 84 years) in Madrid.

Bob Taft

American politician in ohio (born 1942).

Born January 8th, 1942 (age 84 years) in Boston.

Harvey Atkin

Canadian actor (1942–2017).

Born December 18th, 1942 in Toronto.

Died July 17th, 2017 at 74 years old in Toronto (brain cancer).

David Lange

Prime minister of new zealand from 1984 to 1989.

Born August 4th, 1942 in Ōtāhuhu.

Died August 13th, 2005 at 63 years old in Middlemore (kidney failure, amyloidosis).

C. J. Cherryh

United states science fiction and fantasy author.

Born September 1st, 1942 (age 83 years) in St. Louis.

Seymour Stein

American music executive (1942–2023).

Born April 18th, 1942 in Brooklyn.

Died April 2nd, 2023 at 80 years old in Los Angeles. ^[ref]

Hayedeh

Iranian singer.

Born April 10th, 1942 in Tehran.

Died January 20th, 1990 at 47 years old in San Francisco (myocardial infarction).

Gita Mehta

Indian novelist and film director (1942–2023).

Born December 12th, 1942 in Delhi. ^[ref]

Died September 16th, 2023 at 80 years old in Delhi. ^[ref]

Preston Manning

Canadian politician.

Born June 10th, 1942 (age 84 years) in Edmonton.

Meredith Monk

American musician (born 1942).

Born November 20th, 1942 (age 83 years) in Queens.

Edward Luttwak

American writer and military strategist.

Born November 4th, 1942 (age 83 years) in Arad.

Al Matthews

American actor and singer (1942-2018).

Born November 21st, 1942 in Brooklyn.

Died September 22nd, 2018 at 75 years old in Orihuela. ^[ref]

Vladimir Bukovsky

Soviet dissident; prominent in the soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the soviet union.

Born December 30th, 1942 in Belebey.

Died October 27th, 2019 at 76 years old in Addenbrooke's Hospital (cardiac arrest). ^[ref]

Manuel Castells

Spanish sociologist.

Born February 9th, 1942 (age 84 years) in Hellín.