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

Abdelkrim Mohammed Derkaoui

b. 1945 cinematographer, film director, film producer, screenwriter Oujda

Abdelmajid Najar

b. 1945 politician Beni Khedache

Abdollah Eskandari

b. 1945 make-up artist Tehran

Abdul Jabbar

1945–2014 association football player

Abdullah Al-Nafisi

b. 1945 critic, politician, writer Kuwait

Abhaya Indrayan

b. 1945 biostatistician, university teacher Meerut

Abraham Celektar

b. 1945 actor, dub actor, stage actor Bulgaria

Abu Sayeed

b. 1945 academic, politician Pabna

Abul Irfan

b. 1945

Ad Kraamer

b. 1945 record producer, singer Middelburg

Adam Baruch

1945–2008 art critic, editor, exhibition curator, journalist, newspaper editor, writer Jerusalem

Adelmir Santana

b. 1945 politician Nova Iorque

Adolf Bauer

b. 1945 politician Würzburg

Adílson Ramos

b. 1945 composer Rio de Janeiro

Ahmad A. H. M. Aly

b. 1945 politician Khanaqin

Ahmed Bedir

b. 1945 actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, writer

Ahsan Basir Sheikh

b. 1945 Lahore

Aksa Mahmud

b. 1945 businessperson

Al Sheikh Mahmoud Shwayat

b. 1945 Islamic jurist, imam, theologian, university teacher, writer Kufranjah

Alain Jean-Marie

b. 1945 composer, jazz musician, music director Pointe-à-Pitre

Alain Paul Lebeaupin

1945–2021 Catholic priest, theologian 11th arrondissement of Paris

Alain Vanier

b. 1945 psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychologist, university teacher Boulogne-Billancourt

Alan Dennis Clark

b. 1945 physicist London

Alan Forrest

b. 1945

Alberto Batistoni

b. 1945 association football player San Giuliano Terme

Alberto Pinto Coelho Júnior

1945–2023 politician Rio Verde

Alceni Ângelo Guerra

b. 1945 politician Soledade

Aleksandar Vujić

1945–2017 composer, conductor, pianist Senta

Aleksandr Kazin

b. 1945 aesthetician, art historian, cultural studies scholar, scientist, university teacher Smolensk

Aleksandr Komarov

b. 1945 test pilot Saint Petersburg

Aleksandr Spasov

b. 1945 scientist Baku

Alessandro Bianchi

b. 1945 civil engineer, politician, university teacher, urban planner Rome

Alexander Arkadyevich Migdal

b. 1945 computer scientist, entrepreneur, physicist, theoretical physicist Moscow

Alexander von Vegesack

b. 1945 art historian, collector Jena

Alexandru Dincă

1945–2012 handball player Bucharest

Alexandru Nilca

b. 1945 fencer Târgu Mureș

Alexey Ekimov

b. 1945 physicist Saint Petersburg

Alexi Tasev

b. 1945 economist, politician Frolosh

Alfred Gilder

b. 1945 essayist, official Baghdad

Alfred Pingoud

1945–2015 biochemist, university teacher Schwaan

Alfred Voß

b. 1945 engineer, university teacher Schmallenberg

Ali Fallahian

b. 1945 politician Najafabad

Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari

1945–2007 chemical engineer Masjed Soleiman

Aliaxey Kuzmich

1945–2013 painter Machro

Alice Ader

b. 1945 pianist Paris

Alla Kuleshova

b. 1945 rower Moscow

Allan Tannenbaum

b. 1945 photographer Passaic

Allan Zavod

1945–2016 composer, pianist Melbourne

Almir Bezerra

b. 1945 composer, vocalist Recife

Amara Pongsapich

b. 1945