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1942
1942 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January
February
March
April-June
The Japanese aircraft carrier, Hiryu under attack by US aircraft at the Battle of Midway
July
August-September
October
November
German troops at the Battle of Stalingrad
December
Undated
Ongoing events
Births
January
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January 1 - Martin Frost, U.S. politician
- January 1 - Gennadi Sarafanov, cosmonaut
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January 3 - John Thaw, actor (d. 2002)
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January 5 - Maurizio Pollini, pianist
- January 5 - Charlie Rose, talk show host
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January 7 - Paul Revere, singer and musician
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January 8 - Stephen Hawking, British theoretical physicist.
- January 8 - Yvette Mimieux, actress
- January 8 - George Passmore, artist, half of Gilbert and George
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January 11 - Clarence Clemens , musician (E Street Band)
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January 14 - Stig Engström , actor
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January 15 - Charo, singer, actress
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January 17 - Muhammad Ali, boxer
- January 17 - Ulf Hoelscher , violinist
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January 19 - Michael Crawford, singer, actor
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January 25 - Carl Eller, American football player
- January 25 - Eusébio, football player
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January 31 - Derek Jarman, director, writer (d. 1994)
February
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February 1 - Terry Jones, actor, writer ("Monty Python's Flying Circus")
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February 2 - Graham Nash, musician
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February 5 - Roger Staubach, Pro Football Hall of Famer
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February 9 - Carole King, singer, composer
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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.
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February 12 - Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel
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February 13 - Peter Tork, musician/actor.
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February 15 - Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea
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February 19 - Paul Krause, American football player
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February 20 - Phil Esposito, ice hockey player
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February 21 - Margarethe von Trotta, actor, film director, writer
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February 24 - John Neumeier , choreographer
- February 24 - Joseph Lieberman, politician, candidate for U.S. Vice President
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February 28 - Brian Jones, musician ("The Rolling Stones") (d. 1969)
March
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March 1 - Gabriel Hudon , FLQ terrorist
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March 2 - John Irving, author
- March 2 - Lou Reed, singer and guitarist
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March 4 - Charles C. Krulak, 31st Commandant of the Marine Corps
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March 5 - Felipe González Márquez, politician
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March 7 - Tammy Faye Bakker, evangelist
- March 7 - Michael Eisner, Former President of The Walt Disney Company
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March 13 - Dave Cutler, software engineer
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March 16 - James Soong, politician
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March 17 - John Wayne Gacy, serial killer
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March 20 - Michael Alan Greene, Physician, AME
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March 23 - Walter Rodney, historian, political figure
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March 25 - Aretha Franklin, singer
- March 25 - Richard O'Brien, actor, writer
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March 26 - Erica Jong, author
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March 27 - Michael York, actor
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March 29 - Stingray Davis , musician (P-Funk)
April
May
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May 2 - Jacques Rogge, Belgian IOC president
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May 7 - Gerhard Polt , cabaretist
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May 9 - John Ashcroft, United States Attorney General
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May 12 - Ian Dury, rock star (d. 2000)
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May 17 - Taj Mahal, singer, guitarist
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May 18 - Albert Hammond, musician, composer
- May 18 - Nobby Stiles, football player
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May 19 - Gary Kildall, computer programmer (d. 1994)
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May 22 - Theodore Kaczynski, neo-luddite terrorist
- May 22 - Calvin Simon, musician (P Funk)
- May 22 - Volker Canaris , theatre director
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May 26 - Levon Helm of The Band
June
July
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July 4 - Floyd Little, American football player
- July 4 - His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent
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July 7 - Carmen Duncan, soap opera actress (Another World)
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July 10 - Pyotr Klimuk, cosmonaut
- July 10 - Ronnie James Dio, singer
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July 13 - Harrison Ford, Actor/producer
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July 15 - Mil Mascaras, "The Man of a Thousand Masks"
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July 17 - Tim Brooke-Taylor, radio and TV comedian
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July 23 - Myra Hindley, Moors murderess
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July 24 - Chris Sarandon, actor
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July 29 - Tony Sirico, actor
August
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August 1 - Jerry Garcia, guitarist and singer
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August 2 - Isabel Allende, Chilean writer
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August 7 - Garrison Keillor, radio host
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August 19 - Fred Thompson, U.S. Senator, attorney, actor (Cape Fear, Law & Order)
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August 20 - Isaac Hayes, singer, actor
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August 26 - Dennis Turner, Labour Party member of Parliament since 1987
September
October
November
December
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December 4 - Gemma Jones, British actress (Bridget Jones's Diary, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Shanghai Knights)
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December 6 - Peter Handke, Austrian novelist
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December 7 - Peter Tomarken, game show host
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December 9 - Dick Butkus, Chicago Bears linebacker
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December 11 - Donna Mills, Actress
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December 17 - Paul Butterfield, blues musician
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December 20 - Bob Hayes, American athlete
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December 21 - Carla Thomas, soul singer
Deaths
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January 6 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian IOC president
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January 14 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (b. 1883)
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January 16 - Carole Lombard, actress
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January 26 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (b. 1868)
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February 19 - Frank Abbandando (executed), Mafia hitman
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February 28 - Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral
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March 1 - Cornelius Vanderbilt III, military officer, inventor, engineer
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March 8 - José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player
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April 15 - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist
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April 18 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor, socialite
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May 3 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark
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May 7 - Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (b. 1863)
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May 29 - John Barrymore, actor (b. 1882)
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July 23 - Adam Czerniakow, head of the Judenrat in the Warsaw Ghetto
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August 6 - Jonathan Campbell, Film pioneer (b. 1875)
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August 25 - His Royal Highness Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
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September 29 - Esther Adolphine, sister of Sigmund Freud, in Theresienstadt concentration camp
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November 5 - George M. Cohan US songwriter & entertainer
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November 19 - Bruno Schulz, Polish-Jewish writer and painter, shot dead by a German officer in the Drohobycz ghetto (b. 1892)
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December 22 - Franz Boas, German cultural anthropologist (b. 1858)
- Ernest Brastins , organizer of Dievturiba
Heads of state in 1942
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