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In the year 1942

1,518 Notable birthdays

Leo Beenhakker

Dutch association football trainer (1942–2025).

Born August 2nd, 1942 in Rotterdam. [ref]

Died April 10th, 2025 at 82 years old in Rotterdam. [ref]

Carl Radle

American bassist (1942–1980).

Born June 18th, 1942 in Tulsa.

Died May 30th, 1980 at 37 years old in Claremore. [ref]

Zhou Yongkang

Former politburo standing committee member of the chinese communist party.

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

Sandro Mazzola

Italian footballer.

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

Maree Cheatham

American actress.

Born June 2nd, 1942 (age 83 years) in Oklahoma City.

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]

Javier Solana

Spanish politician.

Born July 14th, 1942 (age 83 years) in Madrid.

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]

Zalman King

American director, writer, producer, actor (1941-2012).

Born May 23rd, 1942 in Trenton.

Died February 3rd, 2012 at 69 years old in Santa Monica (cancer). [ref]

Harvey Atkin

Canadian actor (1942–2017).

Born December 18th, 1942 in Toronto.

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

Bob Taft

American politician in ohio (born 1942).

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

Art Evans

American actor (1942–2024).

Born March 27th, 1942 in Berkeley.

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

Manuel Castells

Spanish sociologist.

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

Edward Luttwak

American writer and military strategist.

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

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]

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]

Meredith Monk

American musician (born 1942).

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

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.

Vasily Alekseyev

Soviet weightlifter (1942-2011).

Born January 7th, 1942 in Pokrovo-Shishkino.

Died November 25th, 2011 at 69 years old in Munich. [ref]

Hayedeh

Iranian singer.

Born April 10th, 1942 in Tehran.

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

Olivia Cole

American actress (1942–2018).

Born November 26th, 1942 in Memphis.

Died January 19th, 2018 at 75 years old in San Miguel de Allende (myocardial infarction). [ref]

Butch Otter

American politician (born 1942).

Born May 3rd, 1942 (age 83 years) in Caldwell.

Jayshree Gadkar

Indian actress (1942-2008).

Born February 21st, 1942 in Karwar.

Died August 29th, 2008 at 66 years old [ref]

Silvia Federici

Italian american scholar, teacher, and feminist activist.

Born April 20th, 1942 (age 84 years) in Parma. [ref]

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