Who Was Alive in 1942
169 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1942
Nikola TeslaAge 86
George Bernard ShawAge 86
Max PlanckAge 84
David HilbertAge 80
Henry FordAge 79
Edvard MunchAge 79
H.G. WellsAge 76
Frank Lloyd WrightAge 75
Mahatma GandhiAge 73
Henri MatisseAge 73
Orville WrightAge 71
Bertrand RussellAge 70
Winston ChurchillAge 68
Carl JungAge 67
Albert SchweitzerAge 67
Thomas MannAge 67
Lise MeitnerAge 64
Joseph StalinAge 64
Albert EinsteinAge 63
Helen KellerAge 62
Pablo PicassoAge 61
Alexander FlemingAge 61
Igor StravinskyAge 60
Franklin D. RooseveltAge 60
Coco ChanelAge 59
Benito MussoliniAge 59
John Maynard KeynesAge 59
Eleanor RooseveltAge 58
Harry S. TrumanAge 58
Niels BohrAge 57
Diego RiveraAge 56
Erwin SchrödingerAge 55
Georgia O'KeeffeAge 55
Chiang Kai-shekAge 55
Le CorbusierAge 55
T. S. EliotAge 54
Charlie ChaplinAge 53
Jawaharlal NehruAge 53
Adolf HitlerAge 53
Ludwig WittgensteinAge 53
Ho Chi MinhAge 52
Agatha ChristieAge 52
Dwight D. EisenhowerAge 52
Charles de GaulleAge 52
Haile SelassieAge 50
J.R.R. TolkienAge 50
Mao ZedongAge 49
Aldous HuxleyAge 48
Nikita KhrushchevAge 48
Babe RuthAge 47
Buster KeatonAge 47
Golda MeirAge 44
C. S. LewisAge 44
Duke EllingtonAge 43
Ernest HemingwayAge 43
Jorge Luis BorgesAge 43
Alfred HitchcockAge 43
Humphrey BogartAge 43
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAge 42
Werner HeisenbergAge 41
Louis ArmstrongAge 41
Walt DisneyAge 41
Enrico FermiAge 41
HirohitoAge 41
Marlene DietrichAge 41
George OrwellAge 39
Bob HopeAge 39
Robert OppenheimerAge 38
Salvador DalíAge 38
Pablo NerudaAge 38
Jean-Paul SartreAge 37
Hannah ArendtAge 36
Frida KahloAge 35
Rachel CarsonAge 35
Simone de BeauvoirAge 34
Lyndon B. JohnsonAge 34
Kwame NkrumahAge 33
Dorothy HodgkinAge 32
Mother TeresaAge 32
Akira KurosawaAge 32
Jacques CousteauAge 32
Ronald ReaganAge 31
Naguib MahfouzAge 31
Alan TuringAge 30
Jackson PollockAge 30
Rosa ParksAge 29
Jesse OwensAge 29
Richard NixonAge 29
Albert CamusAge 29
Gerald FordAge 29
Hedy LamarrAge 28
Orson WellesAge 27
Frank SinatraAge 27
Billie HolidayAge 27
Ingrid BergmanAge 27
Roald DahlAge 26
John F. KennedyAge 25
Ella FitzgeraldAge 25
Indira GandhiAge 25
Ingmar BergmanAge 24
Nelson MandelaAge 24
Richard FeynmanAge 24
Eva PerónAge 23
Edmund HillaryAge 23
Jackie RobinsonAge 23
Rosalind FranklinAge 22
Pope John Paul IIAge 22
Toshiro MifuneAge 22
Stan LeeAge 20
Marlon BrandoAge 18
James BaldwinAge 18
Jimmy CarterAge 18
George H. W. BushAge 18
Patrice LumumbaAge 17
Margaret ThatcherAge 17
B.B. KingAge 17
Malcolm XAge 17
Marilyn MonroeAge 16
Fidel CastroAge 16
Elizabeth IIAge 16
Gabriel García MárquezAge 15
Pope Benedict XVIAge 15
James WatsonAge 14
Andy WarholAge 14
Stanley KubrickAge 14
Maya AngelouAge 14
Che GuevaraAge 14
Vera RubinAge 14
Noam ChomskyAge 14
Anne FrankAge 13
Martin Luther King Jr.Age 13
Audrey HepburnAge 13
Grace KellyAge 13
Chinua AchebeAge 12
Neil ArmstrongAge 12
Ray CharlesAge 12
Tu YouyouAge 12
James DeanAge 11
Desmond TutuAge 11
Toni MorrisonAge 11
Mikhail GorbachevAge 11
Johnny CashAge 10
Elizabeth TaylorAge 10
Sylvia PlathAge 10
Yoko OnoAge 9
Wole SoyinkaAge 8
Yuri GagarinAge 8
Carl SaganAge 8
Jane GoodallAge 8
Dalai LamaAge 7
Elvis PresleyAge 7
Woody AllenAge 7
Pope FrancisAge 6
Jack NicholsonAge 5
Saddam HusseinAge 5
Kofi AnnanAge 4
Francis Ford CoppolaAge 3
PeléAge 2
Bruce LeeAge 2
John LennonAge 2
Wangari MaathaiAge 2
Bob DylanAge 1
Muhammad AliAge 0
Aretha FranklinAge 0
Jimi HendrixAge 0
Stephen HawkingAge 0
Paul McCartneyAge 0
Muammar GaddafiAge 0
Joe BidenAge 0
Born in 1942
Joe Biden
46th President of the United States
Stephen Hawking
Black holes, A Brief History of Time
Muammar Gaddafi
Ruler of Libya 1969–2011
Muhammad Ali
The Greatest, heavyweight boxing champion
Paul McCartney
Beatles singer, songwriter and bassist
Jimi Hendrix
Greatest electric guitarist of all time
Aretha Franklin
Queen of Soul, Respect
Also Born in 1942
President of the United States from 2021 to 2025
English musician and songwriter (born 1942)
Indian actor (born 1942)
Leader of China from 2002 to 2012
American actor (born 1942)
American filmmaker (born 1942)
American singer and actress (born 1942)
President of South Africa from 1999 to 2008
President of South Africa from 2009 to 2018
Chilean-American writer (born 1942)
American film critic and author (1942–2013)
President of Nigeria (1983–1985; 2015–2023)
Also Died in 1942
Austrian writer (1881–1942)
British X-ray crystallographer (1862–1942)
Cuban chess player (1888–1942)
Austrian philosophical writer (1880–1942)
German high-ranking Nazi official (1904–1942)
German nun and philosopher (1891–1942)
German-born American anthropologist (1858–1942)
Canadian novelist (1874–1942)
German chemist (1872–1942)
American actress (1908–1942)
Polish Jewish writer and artist (1892-1942)
American actor (1882–1942)
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- 1942 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
- Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
- George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
- Max Planck — Wikipedia
- David Hilbert — Wikipedia
- Henry Ford — Wikipedia
- Edvard Munch — Wikipedia
- H. G. Wells — Wikipedia
- Frank Lloyd Wright — Wikipedia
- Mahatma Gandhi — Wikipedia
- Henri Matisse — Wikipedia
- Wright brothers — Wikipedia
- Bertrand Russell — Wikipedia
- Winston Churchill — Wikipedia
- Carl Jung — Wikipedia
- Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia
- Thomas Mann — Wikipedia
- Lise Meitner — Wikipedia
- Joseph Stalin — Wikipedia
- Albert Einstein — Wikipedia
- Helen Keller — Wikipedia
- Pablo Picasso — Wikipedia
- Alexander Fleming — Wikipedia
- Igor Stravinsky — Wikipedia
- Franklin D. Roosevelt — Wikipedia
- Coco Chanel — Wikipedia
- Benito Mussolini — Wikipedia
- John Maynard Keynes — Wikipedia
- Eleanor Roosevelt — Wikipedia
- Harry S. Truman — Wikipedia
- Niels Bohr — Wikipedia
- Diego Rivera — Wikipedia
- Erwin Schrödinger — Wikipedia
- Georgia O'Keeffe — Wikipedia
- Chiang Kai-shek — Wikipedia
- Le Corbusier — Wikipedia
- T. S. Eliot — Wikipedia
- Charlie Chaplin — Wikipedia
- Jawaharlal Nehru — Wikipedia
- Adolf Hitler — Wikipedia
- Ludwig Wittgenstein — Wikipedia
- Ho Chi Minh — Wikipedia
- Agatha Christie — Wikipedia
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — Wikipedia
- Charles de Gaulle — Wikipedia
- Haile Selassie — Wikipedia
- J. R. R. Tolkien — Wikipedia
- Mao Zedong — Wikipedia
- Aldous Huxley — Wikipedia
- Nikita Khrushchev — Wikipedia
- Babe Ruth — Wikipedia
- Buster Keaton — Wikipedia
- Golda Meir — Wikipedia
- C. S. Lewis — Wikipedia
- Duke Ellington — Wikipedia
- Ernest Hemingway — Wikipedia
- Jorge Luis Borges — Wikipedia
- Alfred Hitchcock — Wikipedia
- Humphrey Bogart — Wikipedia
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — Wikipedia
- Werner Heisenberg — Wikipedia
- Louis Armstrong — Wikipedia
- Walt Disney — Wikipedia
- Enrico Fermi — Wikipedia
- Hirohito — Wikipedia
- Marlene Dietrich — Wikipedia
- George Orwell — Wikipedia
- Bob Hope — Wikipedia
- J. Robert Oppenheimer — Wikipedia
- Salvador Dalí — Wikipedia
- Pablo Neruda — Wikipedia
- Jean-Paul Sartre — Wikipedia
- Hannah Arendt — Wikipedia
- Frida Kahlo — Wikipedia
- Rachel Carson — Wikipedia
- Simone de Beauvoir — Wikipedia
- Lyndon B. Johnson — Wikipedia
- Kwame Nkrumah — Wikipedia
- Dorothy Hodgkin — Wikipedia
- Mother Teresa — Wikipedia
- Akira Kurosawa — Wikipedia
- Jacques Cousteau — Wikipedia
- Ronald Reagan — Wikipedia
- Naguib Mahfouz — Wikipedia
- Alan Turing — Wikipedia
- Jackson Pollock — Wikipedia
- Rosa Parks — Wikipedia
- Jesse Owens — Wikipedia
- Richard Nixon — Wikipedia
- Albert Camus — Wikipedia
- Gerald Ford — Wikipedia
- Hedy Lamarr — Wikipedia
- Orson Welles — Wikipedia
- Frank Sinatra — Wikipedia
- Billie Holiday — Wikipedia
- Ingrid Bergman — Wikipedia
- Roald Dahl — Wikipedia
- John F. Kennedy — Wikipedia
- Ella Fitzgerald — Wikipedia
- Indira Gandhi — Wikipedia
- Ingmar Bergman — Wikipedia
- Nelson Mandela — Wikipedia
- Richard Feynman — Wikipedia
- Eva Perón — Wikipedia
- Edmund Hillary — Wikipedia
- Jackie Robinson — Wikipedia
- Rosalind Franklin — Wikipedia
- Pope John Paul II — Wikipedia
- Toshiro Mifune — Wikipedia
- Stan Lee — Wikipedia
- Marlon Brando — Wikipedia
- James Baldwin — Wikipedia
- Jimmy Carter — Wikipedia
- George H. W. Bush — Wikipedia
- Patrice Lumumba — Wikipedia
- Margaret Thatcher — Wikipedia
- B. B. King — Wikipedia
- Malcolm X — Wikipedia
- Marilyn Monroe — Wikipedia
- Fidel Castro — Wikipedia
- Elizabeth II — Wikipedia
- Gabriel García Márquez — Wikipedia
- Pope Benedict XVI — Wikipedia
- James Watson — Wikipedia
- Andy Warhol — Wikipedia
- Stanley Kubrick — Wikipedia
- Maya Angelou — Wikipedia
- Che Guevara — Wikipedia
- Vera Rubin — Wikipedia
- Noam Chomsky — Wikipedia
- Anne Frank — Wikipedia
- Martin Luther King Jr. — Wikipedia
- Audrey Hepburn — Wikipedia
- Grace Kelly — Wikipedia
- Chinua Achebe — Wikipedia
- Neil Armstrong — Wikipedia
- Ray Charles — Wikipedia
- Tu Youyou — Wikipedia
- James Dean — Wikipedia
- Desmond Tutu — Wikipedia
- Toni Morrison — Wikipedia
- Mikhail Gorbachev — Wikipedia
- Johnny Cash — Wikipedia
- Elizabeth Taylor — Wikipedia
- Sylvia Plath — Wikipedia
- Yoko Ono — Wikipedia
- Wole Soyinka — Wikipedia
- Yuri Gagarin — Wikipedia
- Carl Sagan — Wikipedia
- Jane Goodall — Wikipedia
- 14th Dalai Lama — Wikipedia
- Elvis Presley — Wikipedia
- Woody Allen — Wikipedia
- Pope Francis — Wikipedia
- Jack Nicholson — Wikipedia
- Saddam Hussein — Wikipedia
- Kofi Annan — Wikipedia
- Francis Ford Coppola — Wikipedia
- Pelé — Wikipedia
- Bruce Lee — Wikipedia
- John Lennon — Wikipedia
- Wangarĩ Maathai — Wikipedia
- Bob Dylan — Wikipedia
- Muhammad Ali — Wikipedia
- Aretha Franklin — Wikipedia
- Jimi Hendrix — Wikipedia
- Stephen Hawking — Wikipedia
- Paul McCartney — Wikipedia
- Muammar Gaddafi — Wikipedia
- Joe Biden — Wikipedia