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

Chris Andrews

b. 1942 composer, record producer, singer-songwriter, songwriter Romford

Chris D. Frith

b. 1942 neurologist, neuroscientist, professor, psychiatrist, teacher, university teacher England

Chris Doerk

b. 1942 singer Königsberg

Chris Masengi

1942–2007

Chris Westdal

b. 1942 diplomat Montreal

Christa Ritter

b. 1942 film director, journalist, screenwriter Berlin

Christer Heideberg

b. 1942 association football player

Christian Baechler

b. 1942 assistant professor, docent, historian, researcher, university teacher Thionville

Christian Bau

b. 1942 actor, film director Hamburg

Christian Borchert

1942–2000 photographer Dresden

Christian Giudicelli

1942–2022 adviser, literary critic, novelist, playwright, publisher Nîmes

Christian Hvidt

b. 1942 military personnel

Christian Leibundgut

1942–2023 geographer, hydrologist Langenthal

Christiane Goeminne

b. 1942 sport cyclist

Christiane Thalgott

b. 1942 architect, university teacher Wrocław

Christine Darden

b. 1942 mathematician, military flight engineer Monroe

Christine Haidegger

1942–2021 writer Dortmund

Christine Jackson

1942–2013 human rights defender

Christof Stählin

1942–2015 writer Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Christoph Gerber

b. 1942 physicist, university teacher Basel

Christoph von der Malsburg

b. 1942 information scientist, neurobiologist, neuroscientist, physicist, university teacher Kassel

Christopher A. Sims

b. 1942 economist, professor, statistician, university teacher Washington, D.C.

Christopher Herrick

b. 1942 harpsichordist, musician Bletchley

Christopher Llewellyn Smith

b. 1942 nuclear physicist, physicist

Clarindo Silva

b. 1942 Carnival producer, journalist, merchant, writer Conceição do Almeida

Claude Gauvard

b. 1942 historian, medievalist, university teacher Paris

Claude Haldi

1942–2017 engineer, racing automobile driver Lausanne

Claudio Besozzi

b. 1942 sociologist Zurich

Claudio Olinto de Carvalho

1942–2016 association football coach, association football player Santos

Claudiu Iordache

1942–2021 politician Bucharest

Claus Bantzer

b. 1942 choir director, composer, film score composer, music director Marburg

Claus Møller

b. 1942 Beamter, minister, politician, secretary of state Bornhöved

Claus Raidl

1942–2024 manager Kapfenberg

Claus-Artur Scheier

b. 1942 philosopher, university teacher Leipzig

Clive Brooke, Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe

b. 1942 politician, trade unionist

Cock van der Hulst

1942–2020 contractor, cyclo-cross cyclist, sport cyclist Zoeterwoude

Coen Zuidema

b. 1942 chess player Surakarta

Colin Low, Baron Low of Dalston

b. 1942 politician, university teacher Edinburgh

Colin Reynolds

1942–2018 freshwater ecologist, limnologist, researcher

Connie Hawkins

1942–2017 basketball player Brooklyn

Conrad Schumann

1942–1998 military personnel Zschochau

Cornelie Sonntag-Wolgast

b. 1942 politician Nuremberg

Corrie van Gorp

1942–2020 actor, singer Rotterdam

Costel Constantin

1942–2024 actor Galați

Craig Harrison

b. 1942 novelist, playwright, science fiction writer, writer Leeds

Czesław Błaszak

1942–2021 zoologist Swarzędz

Czesław Tumielewicz

b. 1942 graphic artist, painter, teacher Lida

Célestin Gaombalet

1942–2017 minister, politician Grimari

Dagmar Scherf

b. 1942 journalist, non-fiction writer, writer Gdańsk

Dan Dascălu

1942–2021 engineer Craiova