People Born in the 1940s

Discover ancestors and historical figures in our database of 7,428 people with archival photographs and biographical details.

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7,428 people found

Toshikazu Sunada

b. 1948 mathematician, university teacher Tokyo

Toshinori Kondo

1948–2020 composer, film score composer, jazz musician, record producer, recording artist, trumpeter Imabari

Valmar

b. 1948 painter Gyumri

Vegard Holm

b. 1948 politician, writer

Velko Kanev

1948–2011 actor, film actor, stage actor Elhovo

Veysel Eroğlu

b. 1948 politician, university teacher Afyonkarahisar

Victor Hagea

b. 1948 painter Lupeni

Viktor Pogodin

1948–2005 painter, sculptor Omsk

Vladimir Dronov

b. 1948 hydronaut Biahomĺ

Vladimir Kuprin

1948–2013 dramaturge Samara

Vladimir Mochalov

b. 1948 painter Moscow

Vladimir Polikarpov

b. 1948 trumpeter Belgrade

Vladimir Tsirelson

b. 1948 scientist Kharkiv

Vladimir Zubkov

b. 1948 amateur wrestler Novosibirsk

Vladimír Pavlík

b. 1948 Považská Bystrica

Vlado Kambovski

b. 1948 jurist, politician, university teacher Bitola

Volker Schönwiese

b. 1948 psychologist, university teacher Graz

Walter Appel

b. 1948 writer Seligenstadt

Walter Lee Williams

b. 1948 anthropologist Durham

Walter Wargau

1948–1996 astronomer, university teacher Munich

Wayne Kramer

1948–2024 guitarist, record producer, singer, songwriter Detroit

Wendell Ladner

1948–1975 basketball player Necaise Crossing

Wilfried Trott

b. 1948 sport cyclist Wuppertal

Wilhelm Zimmermann

b. 1948 Catholic bishop, Catholic priest, theologian Gelsenkirchen

Willem Bierman

b. 1948 poet Apeldoorn

William Hootkins

1948–2005 actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, voice actor Dallas

William L. Ball

b. 1948 military officer, politician Belton

William M. Daley

b. 1948 banker, lawyer, pharmacist, pharmacologist, politician Chicago

Wilmo Francioni

b. 1948 sport cyclist Empoli

Wojciech Rybowski

1948–2020 basketball player, economist Gdańsk

Wolf-Dieter Wichmann

b. 1948 actor, physical education teacher Marktredwitz

Wolfgang Dietrich

b. 1948 entrepreneur Kernen im Remstal

Wolfgang Meyer

b. 1948 jurist, politician Springe

Wolfgang Wieland

1948–2023 lawyer, politician Berlin

Yaakov Amidror

b. 1948 military officer Tel-Aviv

Yehuda Shoenfeld

b. 1948 immunologist, internist, university teacher Slovakia

Yevgeniy Latiy

b. 1948 screenwriter Soviet Union

Yevgeniya Vetlova

b. 1948 actor, film actor Saint Petersburg

Yevgeny Vaganov

b. 1948 physicist Krasnoyarsk

Yves Courage

b. 1948 racing automobile driver, racing driver Le Mans

Yves Tenret

b. 1948 art historian, journalist, radio personality, writer Brussels metropolitan area

Zorica Jevremović

1948–2023 historian, human rights defender, literary historian, writer Ražanj

mikel dunham

b. 1948 historian, novelist, photographer, writer

Ádám Török

1948–2023 singer Budapest

Ḥusain Ḥabaš

b. 1948 translator, writer

Ahmed Halawa

1949–2022 actor, university teacher Cairo

Ali Eghbali Dogahe

1949–1980 aircraft pilot Rudbar

Amir Ziv-Av

b. 1949 engineer

Baselios Marthoma Mathews III

b. 1949 priest

Corneliu Stroe

1949–2017 composer, drummer, journalist Bucharest