1942
Events
January
February
March
April-June
July
August-September
October
November
December
Undated
Ongoing events
Year in topic
Births
January
- January 1 - Martin
Frost, U.S. politician
- January 1 - Gennadi Sarafanov, cosmonaut
- January 3 - John Thaw, actor
(d. 2002)
- January 5 - Maurizio Pollini, pianist
- January 5 - Charlie Rose, talk show host
- January 7 - Paul Revere,
singer and musician
- January 8 - Stephen
Hawking, British theoretical physicist.
- January 8 - Yvette
Mimieux, actress
- January 8 - George Passmore, artist, half of Gilbert and George
- January 11 - Clarence Clemens, musician (E Street
Band)
- January 14 - Stig Engström, actor
- January 15 - Charo, singer,
actress
- January 17 - Muhammad
Ali, boxer
- January 17 - Ulf Hoelscher,
violinist
- January 19 - Michael Crawford, singer, actor
- January 25 - Carl Eller,
American football player
- January 25 - Eusébio, football
player
- January 31 - Derek
Jarman, director, writer (d. 1994)
February
- February 1 - Terry
Jones, actor, writer ("Monty Python's
Flying Circus")
- February 2 - Graham
Nash, musician
- February 5 - Roger
Staubach, Football Hall of Famer
- February 9 - Carole
King, singer, composer
- February 11 - Archie Andrews, (comic book character).
- February 11 - Leon Haywood,
vocalist/keyboardist.
- February 11 - Tony Colton, rock
producer.
- February 11 - Otis Clay,
gospel/R&B-singer.
- February 12 - Ehud
Barak, Prime Minister of Israel
- February 13 - Peter
Tork, musician/actor.
- February 15 - Kim
Jong-il, leader of North Korea
- February 19 - Paul
Krause, American football player
- February 20 - Phil
Esposito, ice hockey player
- February 21 - Margarethe von Trotta, actor, film director, writer
- February 24 - John Neumeier, choreographer
- February 24 - Joseph Lieberman, politician, candidate for
U.S. Vice President
- February 28 - Brian
Jones, musician ("The Rolling Stones") (d. 1969)
March
- March 1 - Gabriel Hudon, FLQ terrorist
- March 2 - John Irving,
author
- March 2 - Lou Reed, singer and guitarist
- March 4 - Charles C.
Krulak, 31st Commandant of the Marine
Corps
- March 5 - Felipe
González Márquez, politician
- March 7 - Tammy Faye
Bakker, evangelist
- March 7 - Michael Eisner, President of The Walt Disney Company
- March 13 - Dave Cutler,
software engineer
- March 16 - James Soong,
politician
- March 17 - John Wayne
Gacy, serial killer
- March 23 - Walter
Rodney, historian, political figure
- March 25 - Aretha
Franklin, singer
- March 25 - Richard O'Brien, actor, writer
- March 26 - Erica Jong,
author
- March 27 - Michael York,
actor
- March 29 - Stingray Davis, musician (P-Funk)
April
May
- May 2 - Jacques Rogge,
Belgian IOC president
- May 7 - Gerhard Polt, cabaretist
- May 9 - John Ashcroft,
United States Attorney General
- May 12 - Ian Dury, rock star (d.
2000)
- May 17 - Taj
Mahal, singer, guitarist
- May 18 - Albert Hammond,
musician, composer
- May 18 - Nobby Stiles, football player
- May 19 - Gary Kildall,
computer programmer (d. 1994)
- May 22 - Theodore
Kaczynski, neo-luddite terrorist
- May 22 - Calvin Simon, musician (P Funk)
- May 22 - Volker Canaris,
theatre director
- May 26 - Levon Helm of The Band
June
July
- July 4 - Floyd Little,
American football player
- July 4 - His Royal Highness Prince Michael of
Kent
- July 7 - Carmen Duncan,
soap opera actress (Another
World)
- July 10 - Pyotr Klimuk,
cosmonaut
- July 10 - Ronnie James Dio, singer
- July 13 - Harrison Ford,
Actor/producer
- July 15 - Mil Mascaras,
"The Man of a Thousand Masks"
- July 17 - Tim
Brooke-Taylor, radio and TV
comedian
- July 23 - Myra Hindley,
Moors murderess
- July 24 - Chris
Sarandon, actor
- July 29 - Tony Sirico,
actor
August
- August 1 - Jerry Garcia,
guitarist and singer
- August 2 - Isabel
Allende, Chilean writer
- August 7 - Garrison
Keillor, radio host
- August 19 - Fred
Thompson, U.S. Senator, attorney, actor (Cape Fear, Law & Order)
- August 20 - Isaac Hayes,
singer, actor
- August 26 - Dennis
Turner, Labour Party member of Parliament since 1987
September
October
November
December
Deaths
- January 6 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian IOC president
- January 16 - Carole
Lombard, actress
- January 26 - Felix
Hausdorff, German mathematician (b. 1868)
- February 19 - Frank Abbandando (executed), Mafia hitman
- February 28 - Karel
Doorman, Dutch admiral
- March 1 - Cornelius Vanderbilt III, military officer, inventor, engineer
- March 8 - José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player
- April 15 - Robert Musil,
Austrian novelist
- April 18 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor, socialite
- May 3 - Thorvald
Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark
- May 7 - Felix
Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (b. 1863)
- May 29 - John Barrymore,
actor (b. 1882)
- July 23 - Adam
Czerniakow, head of the Judenrat in the Warsaw Ghetto
- August 25 - His Royal Highness Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
- September 29 - Esther Adolphine, sister of Sigmund Freud, in Theresienstadt concentration camp
- November 5 - George
M. Cohan US songwriter & entertainer
- November 19 - Bruno
Schulz, Polish-Jewish writer and painter, shot
dead by a German officer in the Drohobycz ghetto (b. 1892)
- December 22 - Franz
Boas, German cultural anthropologist (b. 1858)
- Ernest Brastins,
organizer of Dievturiba
Heads of state in 1942
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