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

Shin Yung-kyoo

1942–1996 association football player North Korea

Shinji Nakamura

1942–2022 politician

Shirley Owens Hicks

b. 1942 official, politician

Shlomo Havlin

b. 1942 physicist, university teacher Jerusalem

Shlomo Ilya

b. 1942 businessperson, military officer Aleppo

Shlomo Maital

b. 1942 economist Milestone

Shlomo Zach

b. 1942 singer, theatrical producer Tiberias

Shmuel Dothan

1942–1998 historian Givatayim

Shmuel Einav

1942–2022 engineer Tel-Aviv

Sibylle Schindler

b. 1942 actor, film actor Frankfurt

Sidney Barthelemy

b. 1942 politician New Orleans

Sigurd Brieler

b. 1942 Kiel

Silvia Elena Suilo Valenzuela

1942–2018 nurse Heroica Nogales

Simeon I͡Anev

b. 1942 university teacher, writer Novi han

Simon Carrington

b. 1942 choir director, conductor, music educator, musicologist, singer, university teacher Wiltshire

Siyavuş Qarayev

1942–2015 chemist Samukh District

Soenarno

1942–2018 civil servant Purwodadi

Solveig Egman-Andersson

b. 1942 artistic gymnast Arvika

Son Seals

1942–2004 composer, guitarist, singer Osceola

Spanky McFarlane

b. 1942 actor, singer Peoria

Srba Pavlović

1942–2021 writer

Stan Gustafson

b. 1942 lawyer, politician Washington, D.C.

Stanislav Bauer

b. 1942 ice hockey player

Stanley B. Prusiner

b. 1942 biochemist, neurologist, physician, university teacher, virologist Des Moines

Stanley Davis Phillips

1942–2022

Stanley Rice

1942–2007

Stefan Gacek

1942–2019 military officer

Stefanos Yerasimos

1942–2005 geopolitical analyst Istanbul

Sten Nadolny

b. 1942 novelist, writer Zehdenick

Stephen D. Krasner

b. 1942 academic, political scientist, university teacher, writer New York City

Stephen G. Miller

1942–2021 archaeologist, professor Goshen

Steve Bales

b. 1942 engineer Ottumwa

Steve Sovern

b. 1942 politician

Steve Tell

b. 1942 enduro rider, sport cyclist

Steven E. Aschheim

b. 1942 historian Johannesburg

Stoyka Teodosieva

b. 1942 poet Targovishte

Stuart A. Aaronson

b. 1942 oncologist, university teacher Mount Clemens

Subodh Roy

b. 1942 politician

Suhayl Qāshā

1942–2022 Christian minister, canon, historian, polymath, writer Bakhdida

Suko Sudarso

b. 1942 businessperson Semarang

Sulaiman Abdul Manan

1942–2012 diplomat Pematangsiantar

Susan

1942–2004 singer

Susan L. Graham

b. 1942 computer scientist, engineer, university teacher Cleveland

Susan Pope

b. 1942 politician

Sven-Erik Magnusson

1942–2017 film actor, film score composer, guitarist, musician, saxophonist, singer Säffle

Svyatoslav Litvinenko

b. 1942 conductor Romodan

Szabolcs Cseh

1942–2014 actor, stunt performer Miercurea Ciuc

Sándor Héjja

1942–1996 actor Târgu Mureș

Sándor Thoroczkay

1942–2024 historian Copalnic-Mănăștur

Sándor Érdi

b. 1942 journalist Budapest