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

Jens H. Henriksen

b. 1945 physiologist, professor Copenhagen

Jens Thoft

b. 1945 politician Esbjerg

Jerry York

b. 1945 head coach, ice hockey player Watertown

Jerry Zeniuk

b. 1945 painter, teacher, university teacher Bardowick

Jerzy Kropiwnicki

b. 1945 dissident, economist, politician, trade unionist Częstochowa

Jesús María Zubiarraín Arguiñano

1945–1993 association football player San Sebastián

Jewell Jackson McCabe

b. 1945 businessperson Washington, D.C.

Jill Slattery

b. 1945 swimmer Sheffield

Jill Wine-Banks

b. 1945 lawyer, writer Chicago

Jim Chapman

b. 1945 lawyer, politician Washington, D.C.

Jim McCarty

b. 1945 guitarist, musician Detroit

Jim Moran

b. 1945 bureaucrat, investment banker, politician Buffalo

Jim Nash

b. 1945 baseball player Hawthorne

Jim Palmer

b. 1945 baseball player, model New York City

Jimmy "Orion" Ellis

1945–1998 musician, singer, songwriter Pascagoula

Jingles Pereira

1945–2023 association football player, businessperson Portugal

Jiří Jilík

b. 1945 film screenwriter, folklorist, journalist, opinion journalist, poet, prose writer, writer Prague

Jiří Krátký

b. 1945 politician

Jiří Kuthan

b. 1945 art historian, pedagogue, teacher Písek

Jiří Machalík

1945–2014 politician Olomouc

Jiří Rybář

b. 1945 drummer Brno

Jiří Svoboda

b. 1945 actor, director, film director, pedagogue, politician, screenwriter Kladno

Jiří Žáček

b. 1945 collector, poet, translator, writer Chomutov

Jo Kuehn

1945–2023 painter, visual artist Vienna

Joachim Dennhardt

b. 1945 author, editing staff, film director, presenter Wernigerode

Joachim Heinzle

b. 1945 germanist, historian, medievalist, philologist, university teacher Constance

Joachim Hörster

1945–2020 politician Lautzenbrücken

Joachim Kiefaber

b. 1945 politician Wittlich

Joan Boix Solà-Segalés

b. 1945 comics artist Badalona

Joe Raymond Peace

b. 1945 politician

Joel S. Migdal

b. 1945 political scientist, university teacher Roosevelt

Johanna Liebeneiner

b. 1945 film actor, stage actor Hamburg

Johanna Schoenfelder

1945–2011 painter Coburg

Johannes Hecht-Nielsen

b. 1945 local politician, veterinarian

Johannes Ludewig

b. 1945 politician Hamburg

Johannes Stüttgen

b. 1945 opinion journalist, visual artist, writer Jeseník

John A. Brennan, Jr.

b. 1945 lobbyist, politician

John Allen Paulos

b. 1945 mathematician, university teacher, writer Denver

John Betsch

b. 1945 jazz musician Jacksonville

John Bok

b. 1945 activist shareholder, poet, political activist, politician Pardubice

John Bunzl

1945–2022 political scientist, sociologist Greater London

John D. Haywood

b. 1945 political candidate Charleston

John Derbyshire

b. 1945 journalist, podcaster, writer Northampton

John Garamendi

b. 1945 businessperson, cattle rancher, politician Camp Blanding

John Garang

1945–2005 minister, partisan, politician Wangkulei

John Guckenheimer

b. 1945 mathematician, university teacher Baton Rouge

John Joseph Cavanaugh III

b. 1945 lawyer, politician Omaha

John Lowe

b. 1945 darts player Tupton

John M. Quinn

b. 1945 Catholic bishop, Catholic priest Detroit

John Mairai

1945–2023 journalist, orator, playwright, poet, stage actor, teacher, translator Papeete