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Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modern music and American folk styles. The open, slowly changing harmonies of many of his works are said to evoke the vast American landscape.
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Adam Czerniakow
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and served as head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler from 1934 to 1945.
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Adolf Ogi
Adolf Ogi (born 18 July 1942) is a Swiss politician from the village of Kandersteg in the Swiss Alps.
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Ahmet Fikri Tüzer
Ahmet Fikri Tüzer (1878, Şumnu, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire – August 16, 1942, Ankara) was the Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey for one day from 8 July 1942 to 9 July 1942 representing the Republican People's Party.
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Akiko Yosano
was the pen-name of a Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer, active in the late Meiji period as well as the Taishō and early Showa periods of Japan. Her real name was Yosano Shiyo. She is one of the most famous, and most controversial, post-classical woman poets of Japan.
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Alan Blumlein
Alan Dower Blumlein (29 June 1903 – 7 June 1942) was an English electronics engineer, notable for his many inventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereo, television and radar. He received 128 patents and was considered as one of the most significant engineers and inventors of his time.
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Albert Hammond
Albert Hammond OBE (born 18 May 1944) is a British-Gibraltarian singer, songwriter and music producer.
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Allan Gotthelf
Allan Gotthelf (born Brooklyn NY, 1942) is emeritus professor of philosophy at The College of New Jersey
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Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan (, , born Amitabh Harivansh Bachchan on 11 October 1942), is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Bollywood cinema, and has since become one of the most prominent figures in the history of Indian cinema.
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Andrew Vachss
Andrew Henry Vachss (born 1942) is an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths. He is also a founder and national advisory board member of PROTECT: The National Association to Protect Children.
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Andrée Borrel
Andrée Raymonde Borrel (November 18, 1919 – July 6, 1944) was a French heroine of World War II.
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Andy Summers
Andy Summers (born Andrew James Somers 31 December 1942) is an English guitarist and composer best known for his work in The Police and Eric Burdon & The Animals.
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Angel Cordero Jr.
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Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (; 12 June 1929 in Frankfurt am Main – early March 1945 in Bergen Belsen) is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.
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Annette Funicello
Annette Joanne Funicello (born October 22, 1942) is an American singer and actress. She was Walt Disney's most popular cast member of The Mickey Mouse Club, and went on to appear in a series of beach party films.
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Annie Nightingale
Anne "Annie" Nightingale MBE (born 1 April 1942) is an English radio broadcaster. She is most commonly known by the more informal name of Annie. She was the first female presenter on BBC Radio 1 and, since the death of John Peel in October 2004, is its longest-serving presenter.
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Ants Piip
Ants Piip VR III/1 (February 28, 1884, Tuhalaane, now in Karksi Parish, Viljandi County, Estonia – October 1, 1942) was an Estonian lawyer, diplomat and politician.
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Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as The Queen of Soul. Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B; and gospel music. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Franklin No. 1 on its list of The Greatest Singers of All Time.
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Arto Paasilinna
Arto Tapio Paasilinna (born 20 April 1942 in Kittilä) is a Finnish writer, being a former journalist turned comic novelist. One of the most successful novelists of Finland, he has won a broad readership outside of Finland in a way few other Finnish authors have before. Translated into 27 languages, over seven million copies of his books have been sold worldwide, and he has been claimed as "instrumental in generating the current level of interest in books from Finland".
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Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand ( ; born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, director, and songwriter. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, and a Peabody Award.
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Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson (born April 6, 1942) is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, and producer of film and television. His films include Bugsy, The Natural and Rain Man.
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Bernard MacLaverty
Bernard MacLaverty is an Irish writer. He was born in Belfast on 14 September 1942, and lived there until 1975 when he moved to Scotland with his wife, Madeline, and four children (Ciara, Claire, John, and Jude). He has been a Medical Laboratory Technician, a mature student, a teacher of English and, for two years in the mid 1980s, Writer-in-Residence at the University of Aberdeen.
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Betty Aberlin
Betty Aberlin (born December 30, 1942) is an American actress, poet, and writer.
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Billy Connolly
William "Billy" Connolly, Jr., CBE (born 24 November 1942) is a Scottish comedian, musician, presenter and actor. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname The Big Yin (The Big One). His first trade, in the early 1960s, was as a welder (specifically a boilermaker) in the Glasgow shipyards, but he gave it up towards the end of the decade to pursue being a folk singer in the Humblebums and subsequently as a soloist. In the early 1970s he made the transition from folk-singer with a comedic persona to fully-fledged comedian, a role in which he continues. He also became an actor, and has appeared in such films as Indecent Proposal (1993); Mrs. Brown (1997), for which he was nominated for a BAFTA; The Boondock Saints (1999); The Man Who Sued God (2001); The Last Samurai (2003); Timeline (2003); ''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events'' (2004); ' (2006); and ' (2008). Connolly reprised his role as Noah "Il Duce" MacManus in .
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Björn Haugan
Björn Haugan (September 5, 1942 - January 8, 2009) was a Swedish born, Norwegian operatic lyric tenor.
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Bob Hayes
Robert Lee "Bullet Bob" Hayes (December 20, 1942 – September 18, 2002) was an Olympic sprinter turned American football wide receiver in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys. An American track and field athlete, he was a two-sport stand-out in college in both track and football at Florida A&M; University. Hayes was enshrined in the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor in 2001 and was selected for induction in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in January 2009. He was officially inducted in Canton, Ohio on August 8, 2009. Hayes is the second Olympic gold medalist to be inducted to the Hall of Fame, after Jim Thorpe.
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Bob Marley
Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands The Wailers (1964–1974) and Bob Marley & The Wailers (1974–1981). Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited with helping spread both Jamaican music and the Rastafari movement to a worldwide audience.
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Bob Ross
Robert Norman Ross (October 29, 1942 – July 4, 1995) was an American painter, art instructor, and television host.
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Bobby Rydell
Bobby Rydell (born Robert Louis Ridarelli, April 26, 1942, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American teen idol from the early 1960s era of rock and roll. According to Allmusic music journalist, Kim Summers, Rydell, whose interest in show business began at the age of four, "is one of the most sought-after nightclub and concert acts in the U.S. His performance in Bye Bye Birdie and his recordings "Wild One" and "Volare" made him a famous performer in the 1960s. Rydell used his talents as an impersonator and drummer mostly in pursuing a musical rather than an acting career."
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Brian Wilson
Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942 in Inglewood, California) is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group.
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Britt Ekland
Britt-Marie Ekland (born 6 October 1942) is a Swedish actress long resident in the United Kingdom. She is best known for her roles as a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun, and in the British cult horror film The Wicker Man, as well as her marriage to actor Peter Sellers, and her high-profile social life.
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Bronisław Malinowski
Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (; 7 April 1884 – 16 May 1942) was a Polish anthropologist, widely considered one of the most important 20th-century anthropologists, and also influential in structural functionalist sociology. His pioneering ethnographic fieldwork made a major contribution to the study of Melanesia and of phenomena relating to reciprocity.
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Bruce Johnston
Bruce Arthur Johnston (born Benjamin Baldwin on June 27, 1942) is a member of The Beach Boys and a songwriter, remembered especially for composing "I Write the Songs". Johnston was not one of the original members of the band. He joined the band on April 9, 1965 after Glen Campbell (who was substituting on stage for the group's chief song writer Brian Wilson) decided to embark on a solo career. Johnston's first vocal recording with the Beach Boys was "California Girls."
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Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz (July 12, 1892 – November 19, 1942) was a Polish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher, who is widely regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. Schulz was born in Drohobycz, in the province of Galicia, to Jewish parents, and spent most of his life there. He was killed by a German Nazi officer.
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Buck Jones
Buck Jones (December 12, 1891 – November 30, 1942) was an American motion picture star of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, best known for his work starring in many popular western movies. In his early film appearances, he was billed as Charles Jones.
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Buster Williams
Charles Anthony Williams (born April 17, 1942 in Camden, New Jersey) is an American jazz bassist.
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C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is also known for his fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy.
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Calvin Simon
Calvin Eugene Simon (born May 22, 1942 in Beckley, West Virginia, United States) was a member of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.
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Carla Thomas
Carla Thomas (born December 21, 1942, Memphis, Tennessee) is an American singer, who is often referred to as the Queen of Memphis Soul. She is the daughter of the late Rufus Thomas.
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Carmen Duncan
Carmen Joan Duncan (born 7 July 1942 in Cooma, New South Wales) is an Australian actress.
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Carole King
Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two-dozen hits during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, King's album Tapestry topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks, in 1971, and remained on the charts for more than six years.
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Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard (October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American actress. She was particularly noted for her comedic roles in several classic films of the 1930s, most notably in the 1936 film My Man Godfrey. She is listed as one of the American Film Institute's greatest stars of all time and was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s, earning around US$500,000 per year (more than five times the salary of the US President). Lombard's career was cut short when she died at the age of 33 in the crash of TWA Flight 3.
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Charles C. Krulak
General Charles Chandler Krulak (born March 4, 1942) served as the 31st Commandant of the Marine Corps from July 1, 1995 to June 30, 1999. He is the son of Lt. Gen. Victor H. "Brute" Krulak, USMC, who served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. He is currently working as a non-executive director of English association football club Aston Villa.
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Charlie Rose
Charles Peete "Charlie" Rose, Jr. (born January 5, 1942) is an American television talk show host and journalist. Since 1991, he has hosted Charlie Rose, an interview show distributed nationally by PBS since 1993. He was concurrently a correspondent for 60 Minutes II from its inception in January 1999 until its cancellation in September 2005, and was later named a correspondent on 60 Minutes.
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Charmian Carr
Charmian Carr (born December 27, 1942) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Liesl, the eldest Von Trapp daughter in The Sound of Music where she starred with Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Nicholas Hammond, Heather Menzies, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner, and Kym Karath.
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Chen Duxiu
Chen Duxiu (; October 8, 1879 – May 27, 1942) played many different roles in Chinese history. He was a leading figure in the anti-imperial Xinhai Revolution and the May Fourth Movement for Science and Democracy. Along with Li Dazhao, Chen was a co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921. He was its first Chairman and first General Secretary. Chen was an educator, philosopher, and politician. His ancestral home was in Anqing (安慶), Anhui, where he established the influential vernacular Chinese periodical La Jeunesse.
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Chris Sarandon
Chris Sarandon (born July 24, 1942) is an American actor. He played Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, the vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night, Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the ''Child's Play series, and provided the speaking voice of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Leon in Dog Day Afternoon''.
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Clarence Clemons
Clarence Clemons (born January 11, 1942, Norfolk, Virginia), known by fans as The Big Man, is an American musician and actor. Since 1972 he has been a prominent member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, playing the saxophone. He has also released several solo albums and in 1985 had a hit single with "You're a Friend of Mine", a duet with Jackson Browne. As a guest musician he has also featured on Aretha Franklin's "Freeway of Love" and on Twisted Sister's "Be Chrool to Your Scuel" as well as performing in concert with The Grateful Dead and Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band. As an actor Clemons has featured in several films, including New York, New York and ''Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. He also made cameo appearances in several TV series, such as Diff'rent Strokes, Nash Bridges, The Simpsons and The Wire. Together with his television writer friend Don Reo he published his autobiography, Big Man: Real Life & Tall Tales'', in 2009.
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Claudine Auger
Claudine Auger is a French actress. Auger was born Claudine Oger (pronounced "Oh-Zhay," the same pronunciation as Auger), on 26 April 1942 in Paris, France. Her most famous role was as Bond girl Dominique "Domino" Derval in the James Bond film Thunderball (1965). She earned the title of Miss France Monde and was also the first runner-up in the 1958 Miss World contest.
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Conrad Schumann
Hans Conrad Schumann (March 28, 1942 – June 20, 1998, in Oberemmendorf near Kipfenberg) was one of the most famous defectors from East Germany.
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Country Joe McDonald
Country Joe McDonald (born Joseph Allen McDonald; January 1, 1942) was the lead singer of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Country Joe & the Fish.
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Daliah Lavi
Daliah Lavi (born Daliah Lewinbuk on October 12, 1942) is an Israeli actress, singer and model.
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Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim (born 15 November 1942) is an Argentine-born Israeli pianist and conductor. He is also known for his work with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a Sevilla-based orchestra of young Arab and Jewish musicians.
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Daniel J. Callaghan
Daniel Judson Callaghan (July 26, 1890 – November 13, 1942) was a United States Navy officer who received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. In a career spanning just over 30 years, he served his country in two wars. He served on several ships during his first 20 years of service, including escort duties during World War I, and also filled some shore-based administrative roles. He later came to the attention of US President Franklin Roosevelt, who appointed Callaghan as his Naval Aide in 1938. A few years later, he returned to command duties during the early stages of World War II. Callaghan was killed by an enemy shell while in command on the bridge of the , during a surface action against a larger Japanese force off Savo Island. The battle ended in a strategic victory for the Allied side.
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Daniela Bianchi
Daniela Bianchi (born 31 January 1942) is an Italian actress, whose best known part was Tatiana Romanova in the 1963 James Bond movie From Russia with Love.
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Daryl Dragon
Daryl Frank Dragon (born , Los Angeles, California) is a keyboardist, known as Captain in the successful 1970s pop musical duo Captain & Tennille, with his wife, Toni Tennille.
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Dave Cutler
David Neil Cutler, Sr. (born March 13, 1942) is an American software engineer, designer and developer of several operating systems including the RSX-11M, VMS and VAXELN systems of Digital Equipment Corporation and Windows NT of Microsoft.
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David Lange
Officeholder
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David Ogden Stiers
David Ogden Stiers (born October 31, 1942) is an American actor, vocal actor, and musician, noted for his role in the television sitcom M*A*S*H as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III and the science fiction drama The Dead Zone as Reverend Gene Purdy. A connoisseur of classical music, Stiers has been a guest conductor for over 50 orchestras in North America and maintained a position as associate conductor of the Newport Symphony Orchestra and the Ernest Bloch Music Festival.
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David Proval
David Aaron Proval (born May 20, 1942) is an American actor, known for his roles as Richie Aprile on the HBO television series The Sopranos and as "Tony DeVienazo" in the 1973 Martin Scorsese film Mean Streets opposite Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel.
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David Stern
David Joel Stern. To search the site, go to the following URL: https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/attorney/AttorneySearchThe New York State Unified Court System prohibits direct links to its site from external websites. (born September 22, 1942) is the commissioner of the National Basketball Association. He began his association with the NBA in 1966 as outside counsel, joined the NBA in 1978 as General Counsel, and became the league's Executive Vice President in 1980. He became Commissioner in 1984, succeeding Larry O'Brien.
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Dennis Hastert
John Dennis "Denny" Hastert (; born January 2, 1942) is an American politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 2007, representing , and served as Speaker of the House from 1999 to 2007.
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Dennis Ralston
Richard Dennis Ralston (born July 27, 1942 in Bakersfield, California) is an American former professional tennis player. He attended the University of Southern California (USC) and won NCAA championships under their legendary coach, George Toley. He was coached in his earlier years by the legendary tennis player, Pancho Gonzales.
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Derek Clayton
Derek Clayton (born 17 November 1942) is a former Australian long-distance runner, born in Cumbria, England and raised in Northern Ireland. He set a marathon world best in the Fukuoka Marathon, Japan on 3 December 1967 in 2:09:36.4, in what is considered a classic race, the first marathon race ever run in less than two hours and ten minutes.
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Derek Jarman
Derek Jarman (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) was an English film director, stage designer,diarist, artist, and author.
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Dick Butkus
Richard Marvin "Dick" Butkus (born December 9, 1942) is a former American football player, widely regarded as the greatest linebacker of his generation and of all time. Butkus starred as a football player for the University of Illinois and the Chicago Bears. He became a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1979. He played 9 seasons in the NFL for the Chicago Bears.
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Dick Stockton
Dick Stockton (born in 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American sportscaster. He is currently employed by Fox Sports and Turner Sports as a football, baseball, and basketball play-by-play announcer.
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Dinah Christie
Dinah Barbara Christie (born December 29, 1942 in London, England) is a Canadian comedic actor and singer.
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Donna Mills
Donna Mills (born December 11, 1940) is an American actress, most well known for her role as Abby Cunningham on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing.
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Douglas MacArthur
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 – April 5, 1964) was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines Campaign. Arthur MacArthur, Jr., and Douglas MacArthur were the first father and son to each be awarded the medal. He was one of only five men ever to rise to the rank of general of the army in the U.S. Army, and the only man ever to become a field marshal in the Philippine Army.
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E.S. Gosney
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Earl Bramblett
Earl Conrad Bramblett (March 20, 1942 - April 9, 2003) was a man from Virginia who was convicted for the 1994 murders of the Hodges family (father William, mother Teresa, 11 year old Winter and 4 year old Anah). He was sentenced to death for the murders and executed by the State of Virginia in the electric chair in 2003.
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Earl Hindman
Earl John Hindman (October 20, 1942 – December 29, 2003) was an American actor, best-known for his role as the kindly neighbor (whose lower face was always hidden from sight from the television viewer) Wilson W. Wilson Jr. on the television sitcom Home Improvement (1991–1999).
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Edna May Oliver
Edna May Oliver (November 9, 1883 – November 9, 1942) was an American film actress. During the 1930s, she was one of the American screen's best-known character actresses often playing tart-tongued spinsters.
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Eduard Malofeyev
Eduard Vassilievich Malofeyev () (born June 2, 1942 in Kolomna) is a football coach and former international player who last managed FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg.
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Edward Leonski
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Edward O'Hare
Lieutenant Commander '''Edward Henry "Butch" O'Hare''' (March 13, 1914 – November 26, 1943) was a naval aviator of the United States Navy who on February 20, 1942 became the U.S. Navy's first flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II. Butch O'Hare's final action took place on the night of November 26, 1943, while he was leading the U.S. Navy's first-ever nighttime fighter attack launched from an aircraft carrier. During this encounter with a group of Japanese torpedo bombers, O'Hare's F6F Hellcat was shot down; his aircraft was never found. In 1945, the U.S. Navy destroyer was named in his honor.
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Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, born 21 April 1926) is the reigning queen and head of state of 16 independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. In addition, as Head of the Commonwealth, she is the figurehead of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations and, as the British monarch, she is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
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Elvin Bishop
Elvin Bishop (born October 21, 1942) is an American blues and rock and roll musician and guitarist.
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Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi (29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian physicist particularly known for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics. He was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity.
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Erica Jong
Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26, 1942) is an American author and teacher.
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Erwin Rommel
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel () (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944), popularly known as the Desert Fox (Wüstenfuchs, ), was a famous German Field Marshal of World War II.
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Eusébio
For the Spanish football manager, see Eusebio Sacristán.
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Evelio Javier
Evelio Bellaflor Javier (October 14, 1942 - February 11, 1986) was a Filipino lawyer, civil servant, politician, and an oppositionist during the authoritarian regime of President Ferdinand Marcos. Due to these activities, he was assassinated by the regime on February 11, 1986.He is the brother of Governor Exequiel Javier who defeated his foe,Arturo Pacificador, and served from 1987 to 1998 and from 2001 to 2010.
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Felipe González
Felipe González Márquez (born 5 March 1942) is a Spanish socialist politician. He was the General Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from 1974 to 1997. To date, he remains the longest-serving Prime Minister of Spain, after having served four successive mandates from 1982 to 1996.
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Felix Hausdorff
Felix Hausdorff (November 8, 1868 – January 26, 1942) was a German mathematician who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, function theory, and functional analysis.
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Felix Weingartner
Paul Felix von Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg (2 June 1863 – 7 May 1942) was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist.
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Fernando Sorrentino
Fernando Sorrentino is an Argentine writer born in Buenos Aires on November 8, 1942. His works have been translated into English, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish, Bulgarian, Chinese, Vietnamese,Tamil and Kabyle.
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Floyd Little
Floyd Douglas Little (born July 4, 1942 in New Haven, Connecticut) is a Pro Football Hall of Fame running back, and was a three-time American football All-American running back at Syracuse University, following in the footsteps of many great running backs at Syracuse such as Jim Brown and Ernie Davis. In 1967 Floyd Little was the 6th selection of the first common AFL-NFL draft. He was the first ever first-round draft pick to sign with the American Football League's Denver Broncos where he was known simply as "The Franchise" for saving the team from certain relocation by forcing the expansion of Mile High Stadium and generating a string of sellouts that lasts today.
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Francis K. Butagira
Francis K. Butagira (born on 22 November 1942 in Bugamba, Mbarara District, Uganda) is a Ugandan diplomat. As of 2010, he was Uganda's ambassador to Germany.
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Frank Abbandando
Frank Abbandando (July 11, 1910 – February 19, 1942), nicknamed "The Dasher", was a New York contract killer who committed many murders as part of the infamous Murder, Inc. gang.
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Frank Churchill
Frank Churchill (October 20, 1901 – May 14, 1942) was a U.S. composer of popular music for films. He wrote most of the music for Disney's 1937 movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, including "Whistle While You Work" and "Some Day My Prince Will Come". The latter (without the Larry Morey lyrics) became a jazz standard covered by various jazz greats including Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck.
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Frank McRae
Frank McRae (born June 3, 1942) is an American actor and former professional football player.
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Franz Boas
Franz Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942) was a German American anthropologist a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology" and "the Father of Modern Anthropology." Like many such pioneers, he trained in other disciplines; he received his doctorate in physics, and did post-doctoral work in geography. He applied the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies; previously this discipline was based on the formulation of grand theories around anecdotal knowledge.
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Fred Travalena
Frederick Albert "Fred" Travalena III [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/arts/television/30travalena.html] (October 6, 1942 – June 28, 2009) was an American entertainer, specializing in comedy and impersonations.
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Freda Payne
Freda Charcelia Payne (born September 19, 1945) is an American singer and actress best known for her million selling, 1970 hit single, "Band of Gold". She has also performed in musicals and acted in movies over the years, and briefly was the host of her own TV talk show. Freda is the older sister of former Supremes member, Scherrie Payne.
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Friedrich Paulus
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus (23 September 1890 – 1 February 1957) was an officer in the German military from 1910 to 1943. He attained the rank of Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) during World War II, and is best known for having commanded the Sixth Army's assault on Stalingrad during Operation Blue in 1942. The battle ended in disaster for Nazi Germany when approximately 270,000 soldiers of the Wehrmacht, Axis allies, and Hilfswillige were encircled and defeated in a massive Soviet counterattack in November 1942, with casualties reaching as high as 740,000.
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Fritz Todt
Fritz Todt (4 September 1891, Pforzheim – 8 February 1942) was a German engineer and senior Nazi figure, the founder of Organisation Todt. He died in a plane crash during World War II.
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Gabriel Liiceanu
Gabriel Liiceanu (; b. May 23, 1942, Râmnicu-Vâlcea) is a Romanian philosopher.
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Garrison Keillor
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, and radio personality. He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion (also known as ''Garrison Keillor's Radio Show'' on United Kingdom's BBC 7, as well as on RTE in Ireland , Australia's ABC and Radio New Zealand National in New Zealand).
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Gary Kildall
Gary Arlen Kildall (May 19, 1942 – July 11, 1994) was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur who created the CP/M operating system and founded Digital Research, Inc. (DRI). Kildall was one of the first people to see microprocessors as fully capable computers rather than equipment controllers and to organize a company around this concept.
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Gemma Jones
Gemma Jones (born Jennifer Jones on 4 December 1942) is an English character actress on both stage and screen.
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Gene Stack
Eugene Stack (1916 - 26 June 1942) was a pitcher in minor league baseball who played for the Chicago White Sox organization. He became the first player from a major league roster to be drafted during World War II and also the first to die in service.
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Geneviève Bujold
Geneviève Bujold (born July 1, 1942) is a Canadian actress best known for her portrayal of Anne Boleyn in the 1969 film Anne of the Thousand Days, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for best actress.
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Gennadi Sarafanov
Gennadi Vasiliyevich Sarafanov (; (January 1, 1942 in Sinenkie – September 29, 2005) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 15 mission.
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George M. Cohan
George Michael Cohan (pronounced Coe-han; July 3, 1878 – November 5, 1942), known professionally as George M. Cohan, was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, and producer.
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George S. Rentz
George Snavely Rentz (July 25, 1882 – March 1, 1942) was a United States Navy chaplain who served during World War I and World War II. For selfless heroism following the loss of in the Battle of Sunda Strait, he was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross— the only Navy Chaplain to be so honored during World War II.
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George VI
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Georges Bégué
Georges Bégué or George P. Begue (22 November 1911–18 December 1993) was a French engineer and agent in the Special Operations Executive.
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Georgy Zhukov
Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (; – June 18, 1974) was a Russian career officer in the Red Army who, in the course of World War II, played a pivotal role in leading the Red Army through much of Eastern Europe to liberate the Soviet Union and other nations from the Axis Powers' occupation and conquer Germany's capital, Berlin. He is the most decorated general in the history of both Russia and the Soviet Union.
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Gilbert and George
Gilbert and George are two artists who work together as a collaborative duo. Gilbert Proesch (San Martin de Tor, Italy, 17 September 1943) and George Passmore (Plymouth, United Kingdom, 8 January 1942) have become famous for their distinctive, highly formal appearance and manner and their brightly coloured graphic-style photo-based artworks.
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Gloria Gaither
Gloria Gaither (b. ) is a songwriter for Gospel music, along with her husband, Bill Gaither. She also sang in the Bill Gaither Trio, one of the most influential groups in recent Christian music.
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Gordon Burns
Gordon Burns (born 10 June 1942, Belfast) is a British journalist and broadcaster who hosted Granada TV's popular game show The Krypton Factor for its original 18 year run (1977–1995). Since 1997, he has been the anchorman for the BBC regional news programme North West Tonight, which he currently co-hosts with Ranvir Singh.
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Graham Nash
Graham William Nash, OBE (born 2 February 1942) is a British singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and for his songwriting contributions with the British pop group The Hollies, and with the folk-rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Nash is a photography collector and a published photographer. Nash was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Crosby, Stills & Nash and as a member of The Hollies in 2010.
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Grant Wood
Grant DeVolson Wood (February 13, 1891 – February 12, 1942) was an American painter, born in Anamosa, Iowa. He is best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly the painting American Gothic, an iconic image of the 20th century.
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Hans-Rudolf Merz
Hans-Rudolf Merz (born 10 November 1942) is a Swiss politician of FDP.The Liberals and member of the Swiss Federal Council (since 2004). He is the head of the Federal Department of Finance (the Swiss finance minister) and President of the Swiss Confederation for 2009. On 6 August 2010 Merz announced his resignation for October 2010.
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Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American film actor and producer. Ford is best known for his performances as Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy and as the title character of the Indiana Jones film series. He is also known for his roles as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner, John Book in Witness and Jack Ryan in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger. His four-decade career also includes roles in several other Hollywood blockbusters, including Presumed Innocent, The Fugitive, Air Force One, and What Lies Beneath. At one point, four of the top five box-office hits of all time included one of his roles. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry.
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Helen Westley
Helen Westley (March 28, 1875 – December 12, 1942) was an American character actress.
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Henner Henkel
Henner Henkel (born in October 9, 1915, Berlin - died December 3, 1942 in Stalingrad) was a German tennis player.
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Hiroyuki Sakai
is a well-known Japanese chef who specializes in French cuisine. Sakai is most famous for being the second, and last, Iron Chef French on the Japanese television show Iron Chef, first appearing at the beginning of 1994 (after Yutaka Ishinabe retired) and continued his appearance in shows over nine seasons. Sakai has the second best winning percentage of the Iron Chefs, trailing only his Iron Chef French predecessor, Ishinabe. His stature as the top chef on the show was formalized when he was named the "King of Iron Chefs" after emerging victorious from the show's grand finale, a tournament involving all the active Iron Chefs. He went on to defeat the top chef in the world, Alain Passard, in the grand finale Long-Gang Chicken battle prior to the closure of the Iron Chef series. His record on Iron Chef is 70-15-1.
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Hugh Shelton
General [http://www.hughshelton.com Henry Hugh Shelton] (born January 2, 1942) is a retired American career military officer of the United States Army. He served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 2001.
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Ian Dury
Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000) was an English rock and roll singer, lyricist, bandleader and actor who initially rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk and New Wave era of rock music. He is best known as founder, frontman, and lead singer of the British band Ian Dury and the Blockheads, who were one of the groups of the New Wave era in the UK.
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Ichirō Ozawa
is a Japanese politician. Formerly a chief secretary of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), he later defected from the LDP. He was the president of Japan's main opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), from 2006 until May 2009, when he resigned over a fund scandal, and secretary general of the party from 2009 until 2010, when Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama announced that they were both stepping down from respective leadership positions. Ozawa is often dubbed as the "Shadow Shogun" due to his influence within DPJ.
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Ilkka Lipsanen
Ilkka Johannes Lipsanen (born September 24, 1942, Pori), also known as Danny or Johnny Hallyday of Finland ([http://www.danny.fi/kuvapankkipopup.phtml?id=1234 Danny, Johnny and Jyrki-boy]), is a Finnish singer and guitarist. He started his career with the band Islanders who released a couple of singles, among them Danny's first recording which was in English: East Virginia by Joan Baez in 1964. During his national service Danny switched to his native Finnish and recorded two hits, "Kauan" ("Downtown" by Petula Clark) and "Piilopaikka" ("You've Got Your Troubles"). After the army in 1966 Danny launched his own management company D-Tuotanto and started his hugely popular and spectacular "Danny-Shows" which toured around Finland every summer all the way to the late 1970s, with a different theme every year and an entourage of other well-known singers and entertainers. During the 1960s Danny recorded a number of hits, among them "Kesäkatu" (Loving Spoonful's "Summer In The City"), "Vähän ennen kyyneleitä" ("El angel de la guarda"), "Tuuliviiri", "Rebecca" and "Se eikö todista että muutuin" ("If I Promise"). In 1968 Danny appeared in Spede Pasanen's film comedy Noin seitsemän veljestä as a medieval troubadour and performed his song "Seitsemän kertaa seitsemän" which became another hit.
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Jacob Zuma
Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (born 12 April 1942) is the President of South Africa, elected by parliament following his party's victory in the 2009 general election.
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Jacques Rogge
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Jacques Rogge, Count Rogge (; born 2 May 1942) is a Belgian sports bureaucrat. He is the eighth and current president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
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James Cowan (author)
James Cowan (born 1942) is an Australian author. James Cowan is author of a number of internationally acclaimed books, including ''A Troubadour's Testament and Letters from A Wild State''. In 1998 he was awarded the prestigious Australian Literature Society's Gold Medal for his novel, ''A Mapmaker's Dream''. His work has been translated into seventeen languages.
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James Cruze
James Cruze (March 27, 1884 near Ogden, Utah – August 3, 1942, in Hollywood, California) was a silent film actor and film director. He was born as Jens Vera Cruz Bosen. The Vera Cruz middle name came from the battle of Vera Cruz. He was raised in the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but did not practice the religion after his teenage years. Very little is certain about his childhood and teen years because he told a different story at every interview he granted.
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James J. Dillon
James J. "J.J." Dillon (born James Morrison on June 26, 1942) is a former professional wrestler and manager.
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James Soong
Soong Chu-yu (; born March 16, 1942), also known as James Soong, is a politician in the Republic of China on Taiwan. He founded and chairs the People First Party, a smaller and more conservative party in the Kuomintang (KMT)-led Pan-Blue Coalition.
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James Tien (actor)
James Tien Chun () (born May 28, 1942) is a Hong Kong actor from Guangdong, China. He appeared in almost 70 films, primarily in Hong Kong action cinema, including roles in the films of martial arts stars including Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung. He often played villains or supporting roles. He retired from the Hong Kong film industry in 2000.
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Jan Leeming
Jan Leeming (born 5 January 1942) is a British TV presenter and newsreader.
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Janice Pennington
Janice Marie Pennington (born July 8, 1942 in Seattle, Washington) was one of the original "Barker's Beauties" models on The Price Is Right, serving as the show's longest-running model to date, from 1972 to 2000. She was also Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the May 1971 issue. She is the older sister of fellow model Ann Pennington. Pennington is also the co-founder of the Hollywood Film Festival.
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Janko Prunk
Janko Prunk () (born December 30, 1942) is a Slovenian historian of modern history.
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Janusz Korczak
Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (July 22, 1878 – August 1942) was a Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician, and child pedagogue, known as Pan Doktor (Mr Doctor) or Stary Doktor (Old Doctor).
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Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty (born September 29, 1942, Avranches, France) is a French virtuoso violinist and jazz composer.
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Jerry Garcia
Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead. Though he vehemently disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or "spokesman" of the group.
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Jerry Sloan
Gerald Eugene Sloan, better known as Jerry Sloan (born March 28, 1942) is an American Basketball Hall of Fame-inducted head coach with the Utah Jazz of the NBA. He is one of professional basketball's most successful coaches, with a career regular-season win–loss record of 1137–751 (as of the end of the 2008–09 NBA season), placing him fourth on the list of all-time most-winning NBA coaches. Sloan collected his 1,000th career win against the Dallas Mavericks on December 11, 2006, in a 101–79 victory, which made him only the fifth coach in NBA history to reach the milestone. Sloan is the only coach in NBA history to record 1,000 wins with the same club, having reached that mark on November 7, 2008 with a win over the Oklahoma City Thunder. He has also coached for one team longer than anyone in NBA history. The 2009–10 season was his 22nd season (and 21st full season) as coach of the Jazz. However, he has not won an NBA Coach of the Year award, to the surprise of many, nor coached any team to an NBA championship. Nevertheless, he remains one of the league's most respected coaches.
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Jews
:For the Jewish way of life, including religion, law, culture, and philosophy, see Judaism. "Jew" redirects here; for other uses, see Jew (disambiguation).
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Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix, November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is often considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in the history of rock music by other musicians and commentators in the industry, and one of the most important and influential musicians of his era across a range of genres. After initial success in Europe, he achieved fame in the United States following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, Hendrix headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival and the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival.
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Jimmy Doolittle
General James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle, USAF (December 14, 1896 – September 27, 1993) was an American aviation pioneer. Doolittle served as a brigadier general, major general and lieutenant general in the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War. He earned the Medal of Honor for his valor and leadership as commander of the Doolittle Raid while a lieutenant colonel.
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Joe Biden
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John Ashcroft
John David Ashcroft (born May 9, 1942) is a United States politician who was the 79th United States attorney general. He served during the first term of President George W. Bush from 2001 until 2005. Ashcroft was previously the 50th Governor of Missouri (1985–1993) and a US senator from Missouri (1995–2001).
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John Barrymore
John Sidney Blyth Barrymore (February 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942) was an American actor. He first gained fame as a stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III. His success continued with motion pictures in various genres in both the silent and sound eras. Barrymore's personal life has been the subject of much writing before and since his passing in 1942. Today John Barrymore is mostly known for his roles in movies like Grand Hotel (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Twentieth Century (1934), and Don Juan (1926), the first ever movie to use a Vitaphone soundtrack.
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John E. Sulston
Sir John Edward Sulston, FRS (born March 27, 1942) is a British biologist and the 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate. He is currently Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation ([http://www.isei.manchester.ac.uk/ iSEI]) at the University of Manchester.
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John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt, Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.
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John Rostill
John Rostill (16 June 1942 – 26 November 1973) was an English bassist and composer, recruited by The Shadows to replace Brian Locking.
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John Thaw
John Edward Thaw CBE (3 January 1942 – 21 February 2002) was an English actor, who appeared in a range of television, stage and cinema roles, his most popular being police and legal dramas such as Redcap, The Sweeney, Inspector Morse and Kavanagh QC.
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John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer active between 1972 and 1978. Until he was arrested, Gacy raped and murdered at least 33 young men and boys, mostly teenagers. Although some of his victims' bodies were found in the Des Plaines River, he buried 26 of them in the small crawl space underneath the basement of his home and three more elsewhere on his property. He became known as the "Killer Clown" due to his charitable services at fundraising events and at children's parties where he would dress up as "Pogo the Clown," a character he devised himself.
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Jon Kyl
:This page is about the current Arizona Senator; for his father, a U.S. Representative from Iowa, see John Kyl; for a U.S. Representative from Mississippi with a similar name, see John Kyle.
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Jose Abad Santos
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Joy Behar
Josephina Victoria "Joy" Behar ( Occhiuto; born October 7, 1942) is an American comedian, writer, actress, and a co-host of the talk show The View. Behar began hosting her own gossip news and commentary program in the fall of 2009, titled The Joy Behar Show on CNN's sister network, HLN.
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Judith Sheindlin
Judith Sheindlin (born October 21, 1942), better known as Judge Judy, is an American lawyer, judge, television personality and author. She passed the New York bar exam in 1965 and became a prosecutor in the family court system. In 1976, Mayor Ed Koch appointed her a judge, first in criminal court and later, in 1980, as Manhattan's supervising family court judge. She was featured on CBS's 60 Minutes in the 1990s as a result of her reputation as a tough judge.
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Julie Sommars
Julie Sommars (born April 15, 1942 in Fremont, Nebraska; tv.com reports year of birth to be 1940) is an American actress. She played assistant District Attorney Julie March on the TV series, Matlock from 1987 to 1994. The March role garnered her a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama.
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Junichiro Koizumi
is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006. He retired from politics when his term in parliament ended.
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Jure Francetić
Jure Francetić (1912–1942) was an World War II Ustaše Commissioner of Bosnia and Herzegovina,Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Second World War by Enver Redžić. Routledge, 2005 ISBN 0714656259, 9780714656250
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Kaari Utrio
Kaari Marjatta Utrio (born July 28, 1942, proper surname Utrio-Linnilä, is a Finnish writer. She has written tens of historical novels and many non-fiction books on historical topics. She is an educated historian, holding the degree of Master of Philosophy from the University of Finland, and has retured from the position of Professor in service of the Finnish State Commission of Fine Arts.
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Kang Kek Iew
Kang Kek Iew or Kaing Kek Iev, also romanized as Kaing Guek Eav ()， Chinese (江如要), nom de guerre Comrade Duch or Deuch (មិត្តឌុច); or Hang Pin, (born 17 November 1942) is a former leader in the Khmer Rouge communist movement, which ruled Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979. He is best known for heading the Khmer Rouge special branch and running the infamous Tuol Sleng (S-21) prison camp in Phnom Penh. The first Khmer Rouge leader to be tried by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for the crimes of the regime, he was convicted of crimes against humanity, murder, and torture for his role in the Cambodian Holocaust and sentenced to 35 years' imprisonment.
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Karel Doorman
Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman (April 23, 1889 - February 28, 1942) was a Dutch Schout-bij-nacht. The English name for his grade is Rear admiral, and so to the Allies under his command, and later in the English speaking world, he became known as "Admiral Doorman". Doorman was killed during the Battle of the Java Sea. In commemoration, the Royal Netherlands Navy named three ships after him: HNLMS Karel Doorman (1946), HNLMS Karel Doorman (1948) and HNLMS Karel Doorman (1991).
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Karl Dönitz
Karl Dönitz (; 16 September 1891 – 24 December 1980) was a World War II German Admiral and the fourth and last President of the German Reich.
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Katsuji Adachi
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Kenas Aroi
Kenas Aroi (1942? - January 1991) was a Nauruan political figure. He was President of the Republic of Nauru from 17 August to 12 December 1989.
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Kenneth Lay
Kenneth Lee "Ken" Lay (April 15, 1942 – July 5, 2006) was an American businessman, best known for his role in the widely reported corruption scandal that led to the downfall of Enron Corporation. Lay and Enron became synonymous with corporate abuse and accounting fraud when the scandal broke in 2001. Lay was the CEO and chairman of Enron from 1985 until his resignation on January 23, 2002, except for a few months in 2000 when he was chairman and Jeffrey Skilling was CEO.
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Khalil Kalfat
Khalil Kalfat () (born on November 26, 1942) is a Nubian Egyptian intellectual, leftist activist, literary critic, short story writer, political and economic thinker, linguist, lexicographer and translator. He was born in Nubia, Aswan in Egypt.
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Larry Flynt
Larry Claxton Flynt, Jr. (born November 1, 1942) is an American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP). In 2003, Arena magazine listed him as the number one on the "50 Powerful People in Porn" list.
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Laura Hope Crews
Laura Hope Crews (December 12, 1879 – November 12, 1942) was a leading actress of the American stage in the first decades of the 20th century who is best remembered today for her later work as a character actress in motion pictures of the 1930's. She was the daughter of a stage actress, Angelena Lockwood and a backstage carpenter, John Thomas Crews. She had three older siblings. Crews started acting at age four. Her first stage appearance was at Woodward's Garden. She stopped acting to finish school and then returned to acting in 1898. Her best-known film role was Aunt Pittypat in Gone with the Wind.
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Leo Cullum
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Leon Russell
Claude Russell Bridges (born April 2, 1942; Lawton, Oklahoma), known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and guitarist.
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Levon Helm
Mark Lavon Helm (born May 26, 1940), best known as Levon Helm, is an American rock multi-instrumentalist and actor who achieved fame as the drummer and frequently lead and backing vocalist for the R&B;/rock group The Band. Helm is known for his deeply soulful, country-accented voice, and creative drumming style highlighted on many of The Band's recordings, such as "The Weight", "Up on Cripple Creek", "Ophelia" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". His 2007 comeback album Dirt Farmer earned the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album in February 2008, and in November of that year, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him #91 in the list of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. In 2010, Electric Dirt, his 2009 follow-up to Dirt Farmer, won the first ever Grammy Award for Best Americana Album, an inaugural category in 2010.
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Linda Moulton Howe
Linda Moulton Howe, born January 20, 1942, is an American investigative journalist and documentary producer-writer-director-editor who is currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Lise de Baissac
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Lou Reed
Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed (born March 2, 1942) is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which spans several decades and crosses multiple genres. The Velvet Underground gained little mainstream attention during their career, but became one of the most influential bands of their era. As the Velvet Underground's main songwriter, Reed wrote about subjects of personal experience that rarely had been examined so openly in rock and roll, including a variety of sexual topics and drug culture. He is responsible for the popularization of ostrich tuning.
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery CBE (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), (called "Maud" by family and friends) and publicly known as L.M. Montgomery was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels that began with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Once published, Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success. The central character, Anne, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 500 short stories and poems. Because many of the novels were set on Prince Edward Island, in Canada, Canada and the Canadian province became literary landmarks.
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Madeline Kahn
Madeline Kahn (September 29, 1942 – December 3, 1999) was a Massachusetts-born actress, known primarily for her comedic roles. Director Mel Brooks — who directed her in four films — said of her: "She is one of the most talented people that ever lived... I mean, either in stand-up comedy, or acting, or whatever you want, you can't beat Madeline Kahn."
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Manolo Blahnik
Manolo Blahnik (), CBE, (born 28 November 1942 Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands), is a Spanish fashion designer and founder of the self-named, high-end shoe brand.
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Marcela Contreras
Dame (Carmen) Marcela Contreras Arriagada, DBE (b. 4 January 1942) is a Chilean-born British leading blood expert, immunologist and university educator.
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Marcia Wallace
Marcia Joan Wallace (born November 1, 1942; Creston, Iowa) is an American character actress, comedienne and game show panelist, primarily known for her roles in television situation comedies. A Delta Zeta alumna, she is perhaps best known for her roles as receptionist Carol Kester on the 1970s sitcom, The Bob Newhart Show, and as the voice of Edna Krabappel on the animated series The Simpsons, for which she won an Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in 1992.
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Margaret Court
Margaret Court, AO MBE, (born 16 July 1942, also known as Margaret Smith Court) is a retired former World No. 1 tennis player from Australia. In 1970, she became the first woman during the open era and the second woman in history to win all four Grand Slam tournament singles titles in the same calendar year. Court won a record 24 of those titles during her career. She also won 19 women's doubles and 19 mixed doubles titles, giving her a record 62 Major titles overall. She also holds the Open Era record for most Grand Slam singles titles as a mother. The International Tennis Hall of Fame states, "For sheer strength of performance and accomplishment there has never been a tennis player to match (her)."
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Marie Tempest
Dame Marie Tempest DBE (15 July 1864 – 15 October 1942) was an English singer and actress known as the "queen of her profession".
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Marlena Shaw
Marlena Shaw (born Marlina Burgess, September 22, 1942, New Rochelle, New York) is an American singer. Shaw began her singing career in the 1960s and is still singing today. Her strongest fan base was in the African American community. Her music has reached out and touched all forms of music, and is still seen today as samples in hip hop songs, and in commercials on TV.
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Marsha Mason
Marsha Mason (born April 3, 1942) is an American actress and television director.
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Marshall Bell
Archibald Marshall Bell (born September 28, 1942) is an American actor. He has appeared in many character roles in movies and television. His best-known movies are probably (1985), Stand by Me (1986), Twins (1988) and Total Recall (1990).
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Martin Frost
Jonas Martin Frost III (born January 1, 1942) is an American politician, who was the Democratic representative to the U.S. House of Representatives for Texas's 24th congressional district from 1979 to 2005. He was married to U.S. Army Major General (Retired) Kathryn Frost until her death in 2006.
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Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese (; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won awards from the Oscars, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese is president of The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation.
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Maurizio Pollini
Maurizio Pollini (born January 5, 1942) is an Italian classical pianist.
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Mel Sheppard
Melvin Whinfield "Peerless Mel" Sheppard (September 5, 1883 – January 4, 1942) was an American athlete, member of the Irish American Athletic Club and winner of four gold medals at the 1908 Summer Olympics and 1912 Summer Olympics.
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Melvin Franklin
David Melvin English (October 12, 1942 – February 23, 1995) better known by the stage name Melvin Franklin, was an American bass singer. Franklin is best known for his role as a member of Motown singing group The Temptations from 1961 to 1994.
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Michael Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is the current Mayor of New York City, and the 10th richest person in the United States, having net worth of US$18 billion in 2010. He is the founder and 88% owner of Bloomberg L.P., a financial news and information services media company.
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Michael Crichton
John Michael Crichton (rhymes with frighten; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008), best known as Michael Crichton, was an American author, producer, director, and screenwriter, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction, and thriller genres. His books have sold over 150 million copies worldwide, and many have been adapted into films. In 1994, Crichton became the only creative artist ever to have works simultaneously charting at #1 in television, film, and book sales (with ER, Jurassic Park, and Disclosure, respectively).
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Michael Hui
Michael Hui Koon-Man () is a Hong Kong film comedian, scriptwriter and director.
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Michael Kergin
Michael Kergin (born 26 April 1942) is a Canadian career diplomat, who has been a member of the foreign service in some capacity since 1967, when he joined the Department of External Affairs.
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Michael Nesmith
Robert Michael Nesmith (December 30, 1942) is an American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, novelist, businessman, and philanthropist, best known as a member of the musical group The Monkees and star of the TV series of the same name. Michael Nesmith is notable as a songwriter, including "Different Drum" sung by Linda Ronstadt with the Stone Poneys, as well as executive producer of the cult film Repo Man. In 1981 Nesmith won the first Grammy Award given for Video of the Year for his hour-long Elephant Parts.
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Michael York (actor)
Michael York, OBE (born Michael Hugh Johnson; 27 March 1942) is an English actor. He is more recently known among mainstream audiences for his role as Basil Exposition in the Austin Powers series of comedy films.
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Michel Forget
Michel Forget (born February 27, 1942 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Quebec actor.
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Michele Lee
Michele Lee (born June 24, 1942) is an American singer, dancer, actress, producer, director and frequent game show panelist of the 1970s. She is best-known for her role as Karen Cooper Fairgate MacKenzie on the 1980s prime-time soap opera, Knots Landing. She also co-starred with Dean Jones in the 1968 Disney film, The Love Bug.
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Mick Fleetwood
Michael John Kells "Mick" Fleetwood (born 24 June 1947) is a British musician and actor best known for his role as the drummer and namesake of the blues/rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac. His surname, combined with that of John McVie, was the inspiration for the name of the originally Peter Green-led Fleetwood Mac.
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Mil Máscaras
Aaron Rodríguez Arellano (born in San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico on July 15, 1942), best known as Mil Máscaras (A Thousand Masks), is a semi-retired Mexican professional wrestler and actor, who has starred in several films with fellow luchadores.
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Mitch McConnell
Addison Mitchell "Mitch" McConnell, Jr. (born February 20, 1942) is the senior United States Senator from Kentucky. He was chosen by his Republican colleagues as the Minority Leader in November 2006, making him the top-ranking Republican in the 110th Congress, which convened January 3, 2007. He is a conservative, receiving a perfect score from the American Conservative Union in 2006. McConnell won re-election in 2008 against Democratic challenger Bruce Lunsford.
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Mohandas Gandhi
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Muammar al-Gaddafi
Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi1 ( '; also known simply as Colonel Gaddafi'''; born 7 June 1942) has been the de facto leader of Libya since a coup in 1969.
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Muhammad Ali
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Myra Hindley
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Neil Kinnock
Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock (born 28 March 1942) is a British politician belonging to the Labour Party. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until 1995 and as Labour Leader and Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition from 1983 until 1992.
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Nick Tate
Nicholas John Tate (born June 18, 1942) is an Australian actor best known for his role as Eagle pilot Alan Carter in both seasons of the 1970s science fiction television series .
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Nobby Stiles
Norbert "Nobby" Peter Stiles MBE (born 18 May 1942 in Collyhurst, Manchester) is a retired English footballer.
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Orland Steen Loomis
Orland Steen Loomis (November 2, 1893 – December 7, 1942) was an American lawyer and governor-elect of Wisconsin. He was born in Mauston, Wisconsin and was a member of the Progressive Party.
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Otis Skinner
Otis Skinner (June 28, 1858, Cambridge, Massachusetts – January 4, 1942, New York City) was an American actor.
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Paul Krause
Paul James Krause (born February 19, 1942 in Flint, Michigan) is a former American football defensive back who played in the National Football League. He set the NFL record for interceptions with 81, which he picked off from 45 different quarterbacks, and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1998.
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Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles (1960–1970) and Wings (1971–1981), McCartney is the most successful songwriter in the history of popular music, according to Guinness World Records.
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Paul Warfield
Paul Dryden Warfield (born November 28, 1942 in Warren, Ohio) is a former professional American football wide receiver in the 1960s and 1970s known for his speed, fluid moves, grace, jumping ability and hands.
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Penny Marshall
Penny Marshall (born October 15, 1942) is an American actress, producer and director.
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Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales) is a British film director. He is currently professor of cinema studies at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
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Peter Handke
Peter Handke (born 6 December 1942, in Griffen, Austria) is an avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright.
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Peter Sarstedt
Peter Eardley Sarstedt (born 12 December 1943, Delhi, India) is an Anglo-Indian singer-songwriter.
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Peter Tomarken
Peter David Tomarken (December 7, 1942 March 13, 2006) was an American television personality primarily known as the host of Press Your Luck.
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Peter Tork
Peter Tork (b. February 13, 1942) is an American musician and actor, best known as a member of The Monkees. Although born in 1942, many news articles report him as born in 1944 as this was the date given on early Monkees press releases.
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Phil Esposito
Philip Anthony Esposito, OC (born February 20, 1942) is a former Italian-Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins and New York Rangers. He is an Honoured Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and is considered to be one of the best to have ever played in the National Hockey League. Phil is the older brother of fellow Hall of Famer Tony Esposito, a goaltender.
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Phillips Holmes
Phillips Holmes (July 22, 1907 - August 12, 1942) was an American film actor who appeared in 44 films between 1928 and 1938. His credits included Grumpy, An American Tragedy, Broken Lullaby, Dinner at Eight, and Great Expectations.
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Pierre Laval
:Not to be confused with Pierre N. Leval.
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Poon Lim
Poon Lim or Lim Poon BEM (March 8, 1918 – January 4, 1991) was a Chinese sailor who survived 133 days alone in the South Atlantic.
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Porfirio Barba-Jacob
Miguel Ángel Osorio Benítez (July 29, 1883 – January 14, 1942), better known by his pseudonym, Porfirio Barba-Jacob, was a Colombian poet and writer.
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Preston Manning
Ernest Preston Manning, CC (born June 10, 1942) is a Canadian politician. He was the only leader of the Reform Party of Canada, a Canadian federal political party that evolved into the Canadian Alliance. He sat in Parliament for this party until his retirement from federal politics in 2002, after which it in turn merged with the Progressive Conservative Party to form today's Conservative Party of Canada.
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Pyotr Klimuk
Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk (; ; born July 10, 1942 in Kamaroŭka, Brest Voblast, Byelorussian SSR, is a former Soviet cosmonaut and the first Belarusian to perform space travel. Klimuk made three flights into space.
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Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was the Queen regnant of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and the first Empress of India of the British Raj from 1 May 1876, until her death. At 63 years and 7 months, her reign as the Queen lasted longer than that of any other British monarch, and is the longest of any female monarch in history. Her reign is known as the Victorian era, and was a period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military progress within the United Kingdom.
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Ralna English
Ralna Eve English American born singer (born June 19, 1942)
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Ralph Klein
Ralph Phillip Klein, AOE (born November 1, 1942) served as the 12th Premier of Alberta. He served as leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservatives from 1992 until his retirement in 2006. His tenure as premier ended when the Alberta Progressive Conservatives' new leader, Ed Stelmach, assumed office December 14, 2006, exactly fourteen years after Klein first became Premier. He boasts the nickname of King Ralph, which is a reference both to his political longevity and his perceived autocratic style of leadership.
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Ralph Rainger
Ralph Rainger (October 7, 1901 – October 23, 1942) was an American composer of popular music principally for films.
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Refik Saydam
Dr. Refik Saydam (September 8, 1881, Istanbul - July 8, 1942, Istanbul) was the 4th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey from 25 January 1939 to 8 July 1942.
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Reinhard Heydrich
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German Nazi official. He was SS-Obergruppenführer (General) and General der Polizei, chief of the Reich Main Security Office (including the SD, Gestapo and Kripo) and Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor (Deputy Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia. In August 1940, he was appointed and served as President of Interpol (the international law enforcement agency). Heydrich chaired the 1942 Wannsee Conference, which discussed plans for the deportation and extermination of all Jews in German-occupied territory. He was attacked by British-trained Czech agents on 27 May 1942 sent to assassinate him in Prague (see Operation Anthropoid). He died approximately one week later due to his injuries.
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Richard O'Brien
Richard Timothy Smith (born 25 March 1942), better known under his stage name '''Richard O'Brien', is an English writer, actor, television presenter and theatre performer. He is perhaps best known for writing the cult musical The Rocky Horror Show and for his role in presenting the popular TV show The Crystal Maze. In addition to writing The Rocky Horror Show'' O'Brien also starred in its 1975 film adaptation as the character Riff Raff. The stage show has been in almost continuous production and the cinematic version is one of the best known and most ardently followed cult films of all time. He is also the voice of Lawrence Fletcher, the title characters' father in Phineas and Ferb.
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Richard Roundtree
Richard Roundtree (born July 9, 1942) is an American actor and former fashion model. He is best known for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in the 1971 film Shaft and in its two sequels, ''Shaft's Big Score (1972) and Shaft in Africa'' (1973).
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Richard Willstätter
Richard Martin Willstätter (13 August 1872 – 3 August 1942) was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Willstätter invented paper chromatography independently of Mikhail Tsvet.
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Robert F. Engle
Robert Fry Engle III (born November 10, 1942) is an American economist and the winner of the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, sharing the award with Clive Granger, "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)".
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Robert H. Grubbs
Robert Howard Grubbs (b. 27 February 1942 near Possum Trot, Kentucky) is an American chemist and Nobel laureate.
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Robert Kilroy-Silk
Robert Michael Kilroy-Silk (born 19 May 1942) is an English former politician, former independent Member of the European Parliament, and former television presenter, best known for his daytime talk show Kilroy. He has been a university lecturer and Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP). He stood successfully for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in the 2004 election to the European Parliament, before leaving them in 2005 to found a new party called "Veritas", from which he in turn resigned as leader later the same year. He was the first contestant to be voted out of the 2008 edition of ''I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!''.
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Robert Musil
'Robert Mathias Edler von Musil' (November 6, 1880 - April 15, 1942) was an Austrian writer. His unfinished long novel The Man Without Qualities () is generally considered to be one of the most important modernist novels.
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Roberto Arlt
Roberto Arlt (1900-1942) was an Argentine writer.
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Roger Chapman
Roger Chapman (born Roger Maxwell Chapman on 8 April 1942 in Leicester), also known as Roger "Chappo" Chapman and Chappo, is an English rock vocalist. He is best known as a member of the progressive band Family, which he joined along with Charlie Whitney, in 1967 and also the rock, R&B; band Streetwalkers formed in 1974. His idiosyncratic brand of showmanship when performing and vocal vibrato led him to become a cult figure on the British rock scene. Chapman is claimed to have said that he was trying to sing like both Little Richard and his idol Ray Charles. Since the early 1980s he has spent much of his time in Germany and has made occasional appearances there and elsewhere. He has an Artist of the Year award and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004.
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Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (; born June 18, 1942) is an American film critic and screenwriter. Forbes has described him as "the most powerful pundit in America".
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Roger Lee Hall
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Roger McGuinn
James Roger McGuinn (known professionally as Roger McGuinn, previously as Jim McGuinn, and born James Joseph McGuinn III on July 13, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for being the lead singer and lead guitarist on many of The Byrds' records. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with The Byrds.
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Roger Staubach
Roger Thomas Staubach (born February 5, 1942 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a businessman, Heisman Trophy winner and legendary Hall of Fame former quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys from 1969 until 1979. Staubach was key in developing the Cowboys to become one of the best team of the 1970s and led the team to nine of the Cowboys record-setting twenty consecutive winning seasons. Staubach led the Cowboys to their first Super Bowl victory and as a result he was named MVP in Super Bowl VI. Staubach was described by legendary coach Tom Landry as "possibly the best combination of a passer, an athlete and a leader to ever play in the NFL."
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Roger Steffens
Roger Steffens (born June 17, 1942) is a Brooklyn, New York born actor, author, lecturer, editor, reggae archivist, photographer, producer. Roger is perhaps best known for his reggae archives, in particular his archives of Bob Marley. Six rooms of his home in Los Angeles house his archives, which include the world's largest collection of Bob Marley material. Based on these archives Roger lectures internationally with a multi-media presentation called "The Life of Bob Marley". Roger's radio career began in New York in 1961, and was co-host of the award-winning Reggae Beat on KCRW in Los Angeles and was syndicated on 130 stations worldwide in the 1980s. Roger has two children, Kate and Devon.
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Ronald Baecker
Dr. Ron Baecker (born October 7, 1942) is a tenured Professor of Computer Science (cross-appointed to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and to the Faculty of Management) at the University of Toronto, and has held these positions since 1989.
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Ronnie James Dio
Ronald James Padavona (July 10, 1942 – May 16, 2010), better known as Ronnie James Dio, was an Italian-American heavy metal vocalist and songwriter. He performed with, amongst others, Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell, and his own band Dio. Other musical projects include the collective fundraiser Hear 'n Aid. He was widely hailed as one of the most powerful singers in heavy metal, renowned for his consistently powerful voice and for popularizing the "devil horns" hand gesture in metal culture. Prior to his death, he was collaborating on a project with former Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Vinny Appice, under the moniker Heaven & Hell, whose first studio album, The Devil You Know, was released on April 28, 2009. Dio died of stomach cancer on May 16, 2010. One of the last songs he recorded was titled "Metal Will Never Die".
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Roshan Seth
Roshan Seth is an English-Indian actor, who appears mainly in British and American films. He is most well-known for his critically acclaimed performances in the films Gandhi, Mississippi Masala, Not Without My Daughter, My Beautiful Laundrette, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Such a Long Journey.
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Rutanya Alda
:Not related to the Alda acting family, consisting of son Alan and father Robert.
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Sally Jessy Raphaël
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Scott Wilson (actor)
Scott Wilson (born March 29, 1942) is an American actor.
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Shere Hite
Shere Hite (born November 2, 1942) is an American-born German sex educator and feminist. Her sexological work has focused primarily on female sexuality. Hite builds upon biological studies of sex by Masters and Johnson and by Alfred Kinsey. She also references theoretical, political and psychological works associated with the feminist movement of the 1970s, such as Anne Koedt's The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm. She renounced her United States citizenship in 1995 to become German.
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Sherry Jackson
Sherry Jackson (born February 15, 1942, Wendell, Idaho)
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Souad Hosni
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Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig (November 28, 1881 – February 22, 1942) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most famous writers in the world.
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Stefanie Powers
Stefanie Powers (born Stefanie Zofya Paul; November 2, 1942) is an American actress best known for her role as Jennifer Hart in the 1980s television series Hart to Hart.
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Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942). is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific career spans over forty years. His books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and in 2009 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States.
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Sterling Morrison
Holmes Sterling Morrison, Jr. (August 28, 1942 – August 30, 1995) was one of the founding members of the rock group The Velvet Underground, usually playing electric guitar, occasionally bass guitar, and singing backing vocals.
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Susan Sullivan
Susan Michaela Sullivan (born November 18, 1942) is an American actress, known for several notable roles on various television programs. Sullivan played the role of Lenore Curtin Delaney on the daytime soap opera, Another World (1971–1976); Maggie Gioberti Channing on the popular 1980s soap opera, Falcon Crest (1981–1989); and Kitty Montgomery on the popular 1990s sitcom Dharma & Greg (1997–2002). She currently appears in Castle as the title character's mother.
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Taj Mahal (musician)
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (born May 17, 1942), who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an internationally recognized blues musician with two Grammy Awards to date who folds various forms of world music into his offerings. A self-taught singer-songwriter and film composer who plays the guitar, banjo and harmonica (among many other instruments), Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his almost 50 year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa and the South Pacific.
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Tammy Wynette
Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette (May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998), was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of country music's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists.
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Terry Jones
Terence Graham Parry Jones (born February 1, 1942) is a Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director, children's author, popular historian, political commentator and TV documentary host. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy team.
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Thabo Mbeki
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
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Theodore Kaczynski
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Thorvald Stauning
Thorvald August Marinus Stauning (26 October 1873, Copenhagen – 3 May 1942) was the first social democratic Prime Minister of Denmark. He served as Prime Minister from 1924 to 1926 and again from 1929 until his death in 1942.
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Tobin Bell
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Tobin Bell (born Joseph H. Tobin, Jr.; August 7, 1942) is an American film and television actor. He is best known as John Kramer, a.k.a. Jigsaw/Billy the Puppet in the Saw franchise.
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Tony Sirico
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Genaro Anthony "Tony" Sirico, Jr. (born July 29, 1942) is an American character actor who is most famous for his role as Paulie Gualtieri in the television series The Sopranos.
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Valentin Lebedev
Valentin Vitaljevich Lebedev (; born April 14, 1942 in Moscow) was a Soviet cosmonaut who made two flights into space. His stay aboard the Space Station Salyut 7 with Anatoly Berezovoy in 1982, which lasted 211 days, was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.
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Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox Quesada (; born July 2, 1942) is a Mexican politician who served as President of Mexico from 2000 to 2006 and currently serves as co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of Christian democratic political parties.
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Virginia Lee Corbin
Virginia Lee Corbin (December 5, 1910 - June 5, 1942) was an American silent film actress. Corbin began her career as a child actress in 1916, and went on to become a youthful flapper in the 1920s. Unfortunately she was one of the many silent stars that would not make it in the sound era, and was put to retirement in the early 1930s.
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Věra Čáslavská
Věra Čáslavská (; born May 3, 1942) is a Czech gymnast. Blonde, cheerful and possessing impressive stage presence, she was generally popular with the public and won a total of 22 international titles.
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Walt Disney
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.
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Walter Rodney
Walter Rodney (March 23, 1942 – June 13, 1980) was a prominent Guyanese historian and political activist, who was assassinated in Guyana in 1980.
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Wen Jiabao
Wen Jiabao (born 15 September 1942) is the sixth and current Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, serving as China's head of government and leading its cabinet. In his capacity as Premier, Wen is regarded as the leading figure behind China's economic policy. He also holds membership in the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, the country's de facto top power organ, where he is ranked third out of nine members.
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Wenceslao Vinzons
Wenceslao Quinito Vinzons (September 28, 1910 — July 15, 1942) was a Filipino politician and a leader of the armed resistance against the Japanese occupying forces during World War II. Among the first Filipinos to organize the guerrilla resistance after the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941, he was executed by the Japanese Army.
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Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog (; born Werner Herzog Stipetić, 5 September 1942) is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.
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William Henry Bragg
Sir William Henry Bragg OM, KBE, PRS (2 July 1862 – 10 March 1942) was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg - the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics. The mineral Braggite is named after him and his son.
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Wu Ma
Wu Ma (, real name: ; born: , in Tianjin, China) is a Chinese actor, director, producer and writer. Wu Ma made his screen debut in 1963, and with over 180 appearances to his name (plus 38 directorial credits within a twenty-five year period), Wu Ma is one of the most familiar faces in the history of Hong Kong Cinema. He is best known as the Taoist ghosthunter in A Chinese Ghost Story.
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Youssouf Sambo Bâ
Youssouf Sambo Bâ (born May 10, 1942 in Boborgou, Niger) is a Burkinabé politician and retired teacher. He is the President of the Party for Democracy and Socialism.
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Yury Yarov
Yury Fyodorovich Yarov (; born April 2, 1942) was a Russian politician. He was a deputy prime minister from 1992 until 1996 and the Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States from April 1999 until June 2004.
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Yvette Mimieux
Yvette Carmen Mimieux (born January 8, 1942) is a retired American movie and television actress.
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Zofia Kossak
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Şükrü Saracoğlu
Mehmet Şükrü Saracoğlu (; January 1, 1887, Ödemiş, İzmir – December 27, 1953, Istanbul) was a Turkish politician and the 6th Prime Minister of Republic of Turkey. He was also the chairman of Fenerbahçe S.K. for 16 years between 1934-1950, including his Prime Ministry duration as well.
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Aleutian Islands
The Aleutian Islands (possibly from Chukchi aliat, "island") are a chain of more than 300 small volcanic islands, forming part of the Aleutian Arc in the Northern Pacific Ocean, occupying an area of 6,821 sq mi (17,666 km²) and extending about westward from the Alaska Peninsula toward the Kamchatka Peninsula thus marking a line between the Bering Sea and the Pacific Gulf of Alaska. Crossing longitude 180°, they are the westernmost part of the United States (and by one definition the easternmost; see Extreme points of the United States). Nearly all the archipelago is part of Alaska and usually considered as being in the "Alaskan Bush", but at the extreme western end the small, geologically-related, and remote Commander Islands are in Russia. The islands, with their 57 volcanoes, are in the northern part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. The Alaska Marine Highway passes through the islands.
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Algiers
Algiers ( al-Jazā’ir, Algerian Arabic and Berber: Dzayer دزاير ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria and the Maghreb. According to the 1998 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570 and that of the urban agglomeration was 2,135,630. A recent UN estimate of the urban agglomeration (metropolitan area) puts the population at 3,354,000 as of 2007.
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam (; Dutch ) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, with an urban population of 1,364,422 and a metropolitan population of 2,158,372. The city is located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country. It comprises the northern part of the Randstad, the sixth-largest metropolitan area in Europe, with a population of approximately 6.7 million.
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Battle of Bir Hakeim
Bir Hakeim (sometimes written Bir Hacheim) is a remote oasis in the Libyan desert, and the former site of a Turkish fort. During the Battle of Gazala the First Free French Division of General Marie Pierre Koenig defended the site from 26 May to 11 June 1942 against attacking German and Italian forces directed by General Erwin Rommel. Resisting for 16 days, the Free French gave the retreating British Eighth Army enough time to reorganize, allowing them subsequently to halt the Axis advance at the First Battle of El Alamein.
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Battle of Singapore
The Battle of Singapore was fought in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II when the Empire of Japan invaded the Allied stronghold of Singapore. Singapore was the major British military base in South East Asia and nicknamed the "Gibraltar of the East". The fighting in Singapore lasted from 31 January 1942 to 15 February 1942.
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Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in southwestern Russia. It took place between 17 July 1942 and 2 February 1943. The battle's outcome was disastrous for Germany, making its victory in the East impossible. The battle marked the turning of the tide of war in favour of the Allies. Contemporaries described the Soviet victory at Stalingrad as salvation of European civilization.
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Bay of Biscay
The Bay of Biscay (Spanish: Golfo de Vizcaya and Mar Cantábrico; French: Golfe de Gascogne; Basque: Bizkaiko Golkoa; Gascon: Golf de Gasconha) or the Cantabrian Sea is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea. It lies along the western coast of France from Brest south to the Spanish border, and the northern coast of Spain west to Punta de Estaca de Bares, and is named for the Basque province of Biscay, in the Spanish Basque Country.
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Benghazi
Benghazi or Bengasi (Arabic , transliterated as Binġāzī; Turkish: Bingazi) is the second largest city in Libya and the main city (or capital) of the Cyrenaica region (or ex-Province). The wider metropolitan area (which includes the southern towns of Gimeenis and Suluq) is also a district of Libya. During the Kingdom era of Libya's history, Benghazi enjoyed a sort of joint-capital status (alongside Tripoli), possibly because the King used to reside in the nearby city of Al Bayda' and the Senussis (royal family) in general were associated with Cyrenaica rather than Tripolitania.
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Bełżec
Bełżec is a village in Tomaszów Lubelski County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Bełżec. It lies approximately south of Tomaszów Lubelski and south-east of the regional capital Lublin.
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Boston
Boston (pronounced ) is the capital and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. Boston city proper had a 2009 estimated population of 645,169, making it the twentieth largest in the country. Boston is also the anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.5 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the country. Greater Boston as a commuting region includes six Massachusetts counties, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Plymouth, and Worcester, all of Rhode Island and parts of New Hampshire; it is home to 7.5 million people, making it the fifth-largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States.
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Brazil
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Brazil (; , ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (, ), is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population. It is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas and the largest lusophone country in the world.
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Bristol
Bristol () is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone (LUZ) with an estimated 1,006,600 residents, it is England's sixth, and the United Kingdom's eighth most populous city, one of the group of English Core Cities and the most populous city in South West England.
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Brookings, Oregon
Brookings is a city in Curry County, Oregon, United States. It was named after John E. Brookings, president of the Brookings Lumber and Box Company, which founded the city in 1908. The population was 5,447 at the 2000 census. As of 2007, Brookings had a population of over 6,455 within the city limits. The total population of the Brookings area is over 13,000, which includes Harbor (a CDP), and others. There have been numerous proposals to annex the nearby unincorporated areas into Brookings; while most attempts failed over the years, one large area north of town owned by Borax has succeeded. This development has the potential to add approximately 1000 homes over the next 20 years, although developers expect many of them to be occupied only seasonally.
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California
California (pronounced ) is the most populous state in the United States and the third-largest by land area, after Alaska and Texas. California is also the most populous sub-national entity in North America. It's on the U.S. West Coast, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the states of Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, Baja California, Mexico, to the south. Its 5 largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Long Beach, with Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose each having at least 1 million residents. Like many populous states, California's capital, Sacramento is smaller than the state's largest city, Los Angeles. The state is home to the nation's 2nd- and 6th-largest census statistical areas and 8 of the nation's 50 most populous cities. California has a varied climate and geography and a multi-cultural population.
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Cocoanut Grove fire
The Cocoanut Grove was a nightclub in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. On November 28, 1942, the fashionable nightclub burned in what remains the deadliest nightclub fire in United States history, killing 492 people and injuring hundreds more. It is also the second-worst single-building fire in American history; only the Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago in 1903 killed more (602). The tragedy shocked the nation and briefly replaced World War II news headlines. The fire led to a reform of fire codes and safety standards across the country and prompted a seminal study of grief. The club's owner, Barney Welansky, who had boasted of his ties to the Mafia and to Boston Mayor Maurice J. Tobin, was eventually found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
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Colombo
Colombo (Sinhala: කොළඹ, pronounced ; ) is the largest city and former capital of Sri Lanka. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, the capital. Colombo is a busy and vibrant city with a mixture of modern life and colonial buildings and ruins and a city population of 647,100. The Colombo Metropolitan Region, defined by the districts of Colombo, Gampaha and Kalutara, has an estimated population of 5,648,000, and covers an area of 3,694.20 km².
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Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia (Czech and Slovak: Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992. From 1939 to 1945 the state did not have de facto existence, due to its forced division and partial incorporation into Nazi Germany, but the Czechoslovak government-in-exile nevertheless continued to exist during this period. In 1945 the eastern part of Carpathian Ruthenia was taken over by the Soviet Union. On 1 January 1993, Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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Darnah, Libya
The city of Darnah (Arabic: درنة) or Derna (population 50,000) is a port city in Eastern Libya. It was the seat of one of the wealthiest provinces in the Barbary States, and remains the capital of Darnah District, with a much smaller area.
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Donegal
Donegal, usually referred to as Donegal Town (; ) is a town in County Donegal, Ireland. Its name, which was historically written as Dunnagall or Dunagall, translates from Irish as "stronghold of the foreigners" (i.e. the Vikings).
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Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies, or Netherlands East Indies, (; ) was the Dutch colony that became modern Indonesia following World War II. It was formed from the nationalised colonies of the former Dutch East India Company that came under the administration of the Netherlands in 1800.
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English Channel
The English Channel (, the "sleeve") is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Great Britain from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest, to only in the Strait of Dover. It is the smallest of the shallow seas around the continental shelf of Europe, covering an area of some .
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French North Africa
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General Government
The General Government (, ) was a part of the territories of Poland under Nazi German rule during World War II that were a separate region of the Greater German Reich (Großdeutsches Reich). After Operation Barbarossa in August 1941, the former Polish voivodeships (districts) of Eastern Galicia (with a majority of Ukrainians) were added to the General Government by a decree issued by Adolf Hitler.
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Germany
Germany (), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (, ), is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The territory of Germany covers 357.021 km2 and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state of the European Union, and home to the third-largest number of international migrants worldwide.
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Gulf of St. Lawrence
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Hollywood
Hollywood is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California - situated west-northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonym of American cinema, and is often interchangeably used to refer to the greater Los Angeles area in general. The nicknames StarStruck Town and Tinseltown refer to Hollywood and its movie industry. Today, much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding areas such as the Westside neighborhood, but significant auxiliary industries, such as editing, effects, props, post-production, and lighting companies remain in Hollywood, as does the backlot of Paramount Pictures.
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Iran
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Iran ( ), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran is a country in Central Eurasia and Western Asia. The name Iran has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was also known to the western world as Persia. Both Persia and Iran are used interchangeably in cultural contexts; however, Iran is the name used officially in political contexts.
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Italy
Italy (; ), officially the Italian Republic (), is a country located in south-central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia — the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea — and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, whilst Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.4 million inhabitants, it is the sixth most populous country in Europe, and the twenty-third most populous in the world.
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Java Sea
The Java Sea () is a large (320,000 km²) shallow sea on the Sunda Shelf. It was formed as sea levels rose at the end of the last ice age. The Java Sea lies between the Indonesian islands of Borneo to the north, Java to the south; Sumatra to the west, and Sulawesi to the east. Karimata Strait to its northwest, links it to the South China Sea.
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Las Vegas, Nevada
:This article is about the city of Las Vegas, Nevada proper, not to be confused with the Las Vegas Strip or the Las Vegas metropolitan area. For other uses of "Las Vegas", see Las Vegas (disambiguation).
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Lublin
Lublin (, Liublin, Loblin) is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 (June 2009). Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river. Lublin is a candidate for the title of European Capital of Culture in 2016.
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Luxembourg
Luxembourg ( ), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (, , ), is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. Luxembourg has a population of over half a million people in an area of approximately 2,586 square kilometres (999 sq mi).
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Madagascar
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Madagascar, or Republic of Madagascar (older name Malagasy Republic, French: ), is an island nation in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa. The main island, also called Madagascar, is the fourth-largest island in the world.
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Malta
Malta , officially the Republic of Malta (), is a southern European country and consists of an archipelago situated centrally in the Mediterranean, 93 km south of Sicily and 288 km east of Tunisia, with the Strait of Gibraltar 1,826 km to the west and Alexandria 1,510 km to the east.
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Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts () is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. Most of its population of 6.6 million lives in the Boston metropolitan area. The eastern half of the state consists of urban, suburban, and rural areas, while Western Massachusetts is mostly rural. Massachusetts is the most populous of the six New England states and ranks third among U.S. states in GDP per capita.
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Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia (, ), is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990 following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek. Namibia is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), and the Commonwealth of Nations.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, is the common name for the country of Germany while governed by Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) from 1933 to 1945. Third Reich () denotes the Nazi state as a historical successor to the medieval Holy Roman Empire (962–1806) and to the modern German Empire (1871–1918). Nazi Germany had two official names, the Deutsches Reich (German Reich), from 1933 to 1943, when it became Großdeutsches Reich (Greater German Reich).
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Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland (, Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west. At the time of the 2001 UK Census, its population was 1,685,000, constituting about 30% of the island's total population and about 3% of the population of the United Kingdom.
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Operation Torch
Operation Torch (initially called Operation Gymnast) was the British-American invasion of French North Africa in World War II during the North African Campaign, started 8 November 1942.
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Operation Uranus
'Operation Uranus' () was the codename of the Soviet strategic operation in World War II which led to the encirclement of the German Sixth Army, the Third and Fourth Romanian armies, and portions of the German Fourth Panzer Army. The operation formed part of the ongoing Battle of Stalingrad, and was aimed at destroying German forces in and around Stalingrad. Planning for Operation Uranus had commenced as early as September 1942, and was developed simultaneously with plans to envelop and destroy German Army Group Center and German forces in the Caucasus. The Red Army took advantage of the German army's poor preparation for winter, and its forces in the southern Soviet Union were overstretched, using weaker Romanian, Hungarian, and Italian armies to guard their flanks; the offensives' starting points were established along the section of the front directly opposite Romanian forces. These Axis armies lacked heavy equipment to deal with Soviet armor.
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Oran, Algeria
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Philippines
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The Philippines ( ), officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (), is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam. The Sulu Sea to the southwest lies between the country and the island of Borneo, and to the south the Celebes Sea separates it from other islands of Indonesia. It is bounded on the east by the Philippine Sea. Its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire and its tropical climate make the Philippines prone to earthquakes and typhoons but have also endowed the country with natural resources and made it one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world. An archipelago comprising 7,107 islands, the Philippines is categorized broadly into three main geographical divisions: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Its capital city is Manila.
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Poon Lim
Poon Lim or Lim Poon BEM (March 8, 1918 – January 4, 1991) was a Chinese sailor who survived 133 days alone in the South Atlantic.
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Prague
Prague (; , see also ) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Nicknames for Prague have included: Praga mater urbium/Praha matka měst ("Prague – Mother of Cities") in Latin/Czech, Stověžatá Praha ("City of a Hundred Spires") in Czech and Zlaté město/Goldene Stadt ("Golden City") in Czech/German.
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Savannah, Georgia
Savannah is the largest city and county seat of Chatham County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. The city of Savannah was established in 1733 and was the colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and later the first state capital of Georgia. Today Savannah is an industrial center and an important Atlantic seaport.
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Sevastopol
Sevastopol (; ) (see pronunciation below) is a port city, located on the Black Sea coast of the Crimea peninsula. It has a population of 342,451 (2001). The city, formerly the home of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, is now home to a Ukrainian naval base and facilities leased by the Russian Navy and used as the headquarters of both the Ukrainian Naval Forces and Russia's Black Sea Fleet. In 1993, the city was the subject of a territorial dispute between the Russian Federation and Ukraine.
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Skeleton Coast
The Skeleton Coast () is the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean coast of Namibia and south of Angola from the Kunene River south to the Swakop River, although the name is sometimes used to describe the entire Namib Desert coast. The Bushmen of the Namibian interior called the region "The Land God Made in Anger", while Portuguese sailors once referred to it as "The Gates of the bad place".
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Sobibór
Sobibór is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Włodawa, within Włodawa County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies close to the river Bug, which forms the border with Belarus and Ukraine. Sobibór is approximately south-east of Włodawa and east of the regional capital Lublin. . To the south and west is the protected area called Sobibór Landscape Park.
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Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands ) is a sovereign state in Oceania, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands. It covers a land mass of 28,400 square kilometres (10,965 sq mi). The capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal. The nation of the Solomon Islands is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR, , abbreviated СССР, SSSR), informally known as the Soviet Union () or Soviet Russia, was a constitutionally socialist state that existed on the territory of most of the former Russian Empire in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.
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Sri Lanka
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The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (commonly known as Sri Lanka (, , or ); ; , ) is a country and a sovereign state off souther coast of the Indian subcontinent. A island nation in South Asia, it was till 1972 known as Ceylon (, , or ). Sri Lanka is surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait.
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Thailand
Thailand ( or ; Ratcha Anachak Thai, ), formerly Siam (, ), is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the southern extremity of Burma. Its maritime boundaries include Vietnam in the Gulf of Thailand to the southeast and Indonesia and India in the Andaman Sea to the southwest.
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Tobruk
Tobruk or Tubruq (; also transliterated as Tóbruch, Tobruch, Ţubruq, Tobruck and Tubruk) is a city, seaport, and peninsula on Libya's eastern Mediterranean coast, near the border with Egypt. It is the capital of Al Butnan District (formerly Tobruk District) and has a population of 300,000.
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Turkey
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Turkey (), known officially as the Republic of Turkey (), is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey is one of the six independent Turkic states. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhchivan) and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between Eastern Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia.
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Ukraine
Ukraine ( ; , transliterated: , ), with its area of 603,628 km2, is the second largest country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by the Russian Federation to the east and northeast, Belarus to the northwest, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the southwest, and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast respectively.
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United Kingdom
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Schwerer Gustav 800mm 1942
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- Duration: 3:36
- Published: 10 Apr 2009
- Uploaded: 26 Jun 2011
- Author: josepmarimon
1942 (NES)
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- Duration: 5:37
- Published: 14 Jul 2007
- Uploaded: 22 Jun 2011
- Author: GrandMasterLynx
Playing this game for the 1st time try and beat my score
Battlefield 1942 - Trailer
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- Duration: 2:22
- Published: 17 Jul 2009
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- Author: GamerSpawn
Name: Battlefield 1942 Release date: September 20, 2002 Platform(s): PC Publisher(s): Electronic Arts Developer(s): DICE
Classic Game Room HD - 1942: JOINT STRIKE for Xbox 360 Live
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- Duration: 10:31
- Published: 25 Jul 2008
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- Author: InecomCompany
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Classic Game Room was the FIRST classic video game review show on the Internet in 1999. Returning in 2008 with new episodes, Classic Game Room breaks out a review of 1942 JOINT STRIKE for the Xbox 360 Live Arcade released on Wednesday July 23, 2008. Do you remember 1942 from 1984? The original Capcom WW2 era vertical scrolling shooter is back with 1942 Joint Strike on the XBLA. This review covers the gameplay, the graphics and sound and shows of the game's use of 3D 3-dimentional backgrounds in a 2D shooting game. This is a SHMUP (shoot 'em up) much like Ikaruga or Radiant Silvergun, some of the best SHMUPS ever made. Pilot your WWII era fighter plane against wave after wave of enemy bombers, mine layers and other fighter planes. Shoot them down with an arsenal of cool weapons like the spread shot and laser beam. Collect power ups, play with a friend and have a great time. It's great to see companies like Capcom releasing games on the 360 and on the Sony Playstation Network for the PS3. I played 1943 on the NES Nintendo right before recording this review so I was down with the 194x if you know what I mean. A maniac shooter from a past that doesn't exist. You can get Gamer Points too. Hooray. I think this is also on the Playstation Network and not sure if they'll use it for Home or not. Not sure if it is on VC Virtual Console on Wii either. Classic Game Room was the original classic video game review show on the Internet in 1999-2000, now on DVD. The reviews on the HD <b>...</b>
Duke Ellington - C Jam Blues (1942)
A 1942 recording of C Jam Blues beformed by Duke Ellington and a collection of other Jazz giants in a famous recording called "Jam Session". Other artist included Barney Bigard, Sonny Greer, Ray Nance, Joe 'Tricky Sam' Nanton, Rex Stewart, and Ben Webster. Use this link to open my Jazz Giants library playlist. www.youtube.com EUdGs6FKg=
Battlefield 1942 trailer
The amazing pre E3 2002 trailer for the original Battlefield 1942.
Battlefield 1942 LoopZook
Dogfights are boring
(Original 1942) Bambi Trailer
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- Duration: 2:13
- Published: 30 Jun 2007
- Uploaded: 27 Jun 2011
- Author: freedogshampoo
1942
Good Game Mondays #16 - 1942 (NES)
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- Duration: 8:33
- Published: 05 May 2008
- Uploaded: 29 May 2011
- Author: megascorchertv
This is nineteen-forty-two for the NES, a classic port of the Arcade gem. It's probably one of my favorite games growing up and before you say I suck at it, keep in mind I have a 10 minute limit on the youtubes. The only thing wrong I can think of is it's audio, kind of annoying really. Besides that the game itself is awesome, classic top down shooting action!
1000 yards 1942 91/30 Russian Mosin-Nagant (P/U) sniper rifle
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Ive glass bedded the receiver, removed the upper hand guard, floated the barrel, and removed both front and rear iron sights. Additionally, Ive researched tons of various loads for this, and found that the 200 grain match (reloads in .308 diameter bullets) with 50.4 grains of IMR 4350 seem to be the best combination for my 91/30's1,000 yards 1942 91/30 Russian Mosin-Nagant (P/U) sniper rifle
Battlefield 1942 Theme (loading music)
This is the loading music from the 2002 PC game Battlefield 1942. The (official) picture used here depicts the French Expeditionary Corps as portrayed in Battlefield 1942: The Road to Rome, the game's first expansion pack.
Battlefield 1942 Theme Song
Tittle: Battlefield 1942 Artist: Dice (Digital Illusions) Download Mp3 From Filefront: www.filefront.com Only Music & Game Cover © Ea/Digital Illusions all rights reserved.
![Casablanca - Trailer [1942] [16th Oscar Best Picture]](http://web.archive.org./web/20110729040439im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/EJvlGh_FgcI/0.jpg "Casablanca - Trailer [1942] [16th Oscar Best Picture]")
Casablanca - Trailer [1942] [16th Oscar Best Picture]
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- Duration: 2:10
- Published: 24 Apr 2009
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- Author: MoviesHistory
During World War II, Europeans who were fleeing from the Germans, sought refuge in America. But to get there they would first have to go Casablanca and once they get there, they have to obtain exit visas which are not very easy to come by. Now the hottest spot in all of Casablanca is Rick's Cafe which is operated by Rick Blaine, an American expatriate, who for some reason can't return there, and he is also extremely cynical. Now it seems that two German couriers were killed and the documents they were carrying were taken. Now one of Rick's regulars, Ugarte entrusts to him some letters of transit, which he intends to sell but before he does he is arrested for killing the couriers. Captain Renault, the Chief of Police, who is neutral in his political views, informs Rick that Victor Laszlo, the European Resistance leader, is in Casablanca and will do anything to get an exit visa but Renault has been "told" by Major Strasser of the Gestapo, to keep Laszlo in Casablanca. Laszlo goes to Rick's to meet Ugarte, because he was the one Ugarte was going to sell the letters to. But since Ugarte was arrested he has to find another way. Accompanying him is Ilsa Lund, who knew Rick when he was in Paris, and when they meet some of Rick's old wounds reopen. It is obvious that Rick's stone heart was because of her leaving him. And when they learn that Rick has the letters, he refuses to give them to him, because "he doesn't stick his neck out for anyone". Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com [IMDB <b>...</b>
Furtwangler on 4.19.1942 Full edition
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- Duration: 4:41
- Published: 31 Aug 2006
- Uploaded: 03 Jul 2011
- Author: franciszhou
Furtwangler on 4.19.1942 Full edition,time last 4:40
Battlefield 1942 soundtrack
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- Duration: 4:11
- Published: 19 Dec 2008
- Uploaded: 04 Jul 2011
- Author: xxrordog95xx
Battlefield 1942 soundtrack
No music! Army vs. UFO (1942; Los Angeles). Captured on Film w/CBS Radio Report of Battle.
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1942 footage and radio report of "Battle of Los Angeles" synchronized to Byron Palmer's detailed account of the UFO incident witnessed by a million people on 26 February in sky over southern California. There were a minimum 1430 artillery rounds fired at the object. Palmer was an announcer for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) in those days of dominant nationwide radio mass media with television still the embryo. Note Mr. Palmer's reference to the unidentified flying object as a "craft." Note also Palmer's pronunciation of "Los Angeles" with hard "g" sound (as in "go"). His was typical way of pronouncing city's name at that time and earlier by native and non-native Angelenos alike. In fact, it is closer to original Spanish pronunciation which uses the hard "g." Cf. "Loce Ahng-hail-ais." Using the soft "g" (as in "gentry") in voicing "Los Angeles" is a modern conceit. After a stint in Army Air Force in the Pacific theatre during WW II, Byron Palmer became a star of Broadway stage, Hollywood film, and television. This historic record of the 1942 sighting, which triggered the era of official UFO secrecy by US government, speaks for itself. It is presented without distracting musical soundtrack. See links to additional photographs and news accounts below. Also see: www.youtube.com Photographic analysis seemingly explodes ad hoc explanations offered from 1942 to date. These include "slow-moving blimp", "Japanese aircraft", "weather balloon", "mass hallucination triggered <b>...</b>
Battlefield 1942 Intro Song
Battlefield 1942 intro song with a few clips I found. THIS IS THE FULL SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FULL!!!!!!!! ******************************************* You can DL the song here: battlefield2.filefront dot com/file/BattleField_1942_Theme_MP3;7705#Download Tnx for the adress, defiance
Weather-Beaten Melody, Fischerkoesen (1942)
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- Duration: 9:34
- Published: 09 May 2006
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- Author: baroughter
"Scherzo - Verwitterte Melodie" by animator Hans Fischerkoesen. Germany, 1942
Keiko Matsui - 1942, from Russia
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- Duration: 3:16
- Published: 01 Aug 2006
- Uploaded: 29 Jun 2011
- Author: takatakatang
A gorgeous composition and a moving performance, especially toward the end. Duet with Michael Ghegan.
The Ducktators (1942)
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- Duration: 7:48
- Published: 28 Jan 2011
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- Author: cccartoons
A barnyard analogy of World War II. Director: Norman McCabe Producer: Leon Schlesinger Translate this cartoon: universalsubtitles.org Playlist for Looney Tunes Cartoons: www.youtube.com
![[HD] 1942 Stage 1 to 4 Midway 1984 Capcom Mame Retro Arcade Games](http://web.archive.org./web/20110729040439im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/VYLQWluFq7w/0.jpg "[HD] 1942 Stage 1 to 4 Midway 1984 Capcom Mame Retro Arcade Games")
[HD] 1942 Stage 1 to 4 Midway 1984 Capcom Mame Retro Arcade Games
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Played to 1942 Stage 1 2 3 4 Midway 1984 Capcom. Series: 1. 1942 - 1984 www.youtube.com 2. 1943 - The Battle of Midway 1987 - not yet available. 3. 1943 Kai - Midway Kaisen 1988 - not yet available. 4. 1941 - Counter Attack 1990 - not yet available. 5. 19XX - The War Against Destiny 1996 - www.youtube.com 6. 1944 - The Loop Master 2000 - not yet available.
Battlefield 1942: The Road To Rome - Trailer
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Name: Battlefield 1942: The Road to Rome Release date: February 7, 2003 Platform(s): PC Publisher: Electronic Arts Developer: DICE
photo: Creative Commons / Baku13
A commander's cupola was added during the model 1942 production run to improve all-round vision.
photo: WN / betty
Aubade 1942, Pablo Picasso
photo: Creative Commons / Jan Arkesteijn
A-20C being serviced at Langley Field, Virginia, 1942.
photo: WN / Lance Olsen
Taierzhuang 1938 – the model for Stalingrad 1942
photo: WN / Periasamy
1940-1942 GENERAL ELECTRIC RADIO MODEL L-915W -
photo: Creative Commons / Fordmadoxfraud
Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California in October 1942.
photo: Creative Commons / PMG
USS Sawfish (SS-276)
photo: Creative Commons / dave_7
1942 Peugeot VLV
photo: Creative Commons / Gibmetal77 at en.wikipedia
Replica of the bomb that peirced the Mosta Dome, Malta in 1942 during World War II.
photo: Creative Commons / Mvuijlst
Riveting team working on the cockpit shell of a C-47 bomber at the plant of North American Aviation. OWI photo by Alfred T. Palmer, 1942.
photo: Creative Commons / FotothekBot
Ludwig Rellstab (chess player)
photo: Other Service / CLEM ALBERTS
War And Conflict, WAR & CONFLICT BOOKERA: WORLD WAR II/THE HOME FRONT/RELOCAT
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Pilots of 611 West Lancashire Squadron lend a hand pushing an early Spitfire Mark IXb, Biggin Hill, late 1942. (RAF Official)
photo: Creative Commons / Eric Crowley
King Neptune (May 16, 1942 – May 14, 1950) was a pig used by a United States Navy recruiter to raise $19 million in war bonds for the construction of the Iowa-class battleship Illinois between 1942 and 1946.
photo: US Coastguard
The Coast Guard Cutter EVERGREEN, launched in 1942, rests amid ice floes at New London, Ct. (223112) ( Evergreen at New London by Peter Eagleton (ID# 89539) )
![Los Angeles, California. Japanese Americans going to Manzanar gather around a baggage car at the old Santa Fe Station. (April 1942)[59]. Japanese Americans boarding a train bound for one of ten American concentration camps](http://web.archive.org./web/20110729040439im_/http://cdn.wn.com/pd/09/9f/327bfa7495369958c2fae7bf22f3_grande.jpg "Los Angeles, California. Japanese Americans going to Manzanar gather around a baggage car at the old Santa Fe Station. (April 1942)[59]. Japanese Americans boarding a train bound for one of ten American concentration camps")
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Los Angeles, California. Japanese Americans going to Manzanar gather around a baggage car at the old Santa Fe Station. (April 1942)[59]. Japanese Americans boarding a train bound for one of ten American concentration camps
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Full side view of adobe house with water in foreground, "Acoma Pueblo [National Historic Landmark, New Mexico].
photo: Other Service / CARL GASTON
War And Conflict, WAR & CONFLICT BOOKERA: WORLD WAR II/RECRUITMENT & TRAINING
photo: Creative Commons / Ansel Adams
Corner view showing mostly left wall, "Church, Acoma Pueblo [National Historic Landmark, New Mexico]."
photo: US Navy / U.S. Navy photo illustration
In commemoration of the Battle of Midway, fought June 4-7, 1942.
photo: US Navy / U.S. Navy photo illustration
In commemoration of the Battle of Midway, fought June 4-7, 1942.
photo: US Navy / U.S. Navy photo illustration
In commemoration of the Battle of Midway, fought June 4-7, 1942.
photo: US Navy / U.S. Navy photo illustration
In commemoration of the Battle of Midway, fought June 4-7, 1942.
photo: US Navy / U.S. Navy photo illustration
In commemoration of the Battle of Midway, fought June 4-7, 1942.
photo: US Navy / U.S. Navy photo illustration
In commemoration of the Battle of Midway, fought June 4-7, 1942.
photo: US Navy / U.S. Navy photo illustration
In commemoration of the Battle of Midway, fought June 4-7, 1942.
photo: US Navy / U.S. Navy photo illustration
In commemoration of the Battle of Midway, fought June 4-7, 1942.
photo: US Navy / U.S. Navy photo illustration
In commemoration of the Battle of Midway, fought June 4-7, 1942.
photo: US Navy / U.S. Navy photo illustration
In commemoration of the Battle of Midway, fought June 4-7, 1942.
photo: US Navy / U.S. Navy photo illustration
In commemoration of the Battle of Midway, fought June 4-7, 1942.
![Los Angeles, California. Japanese Americans going to Manzanar gather around a baggage car at the old Santa Fe Station. (April 1942)[59]. Japanese Americans boarding a train bound for one of ten American concentration camps](http://web.archive.org./web/20110729040439im_/http://cdn.wn.com/pd/09/9f/327bfa7495369958c2fae7bf22f3_thumb.jpg "Los Angeles, California. Japanese Americans going to Manzanar gather around a baggage car at the old Santa Fe Station. (April 1942)[59]. Japanese Americans boarding a train bound for one of ten American concentration camps")
photo: US Coastguard / PA2 Anastasia Burns.
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Myra Kraft, 1942-2011
23 Jul 2011
The Examiner
The late Edward M. Kennedy once eulogized his slain brother, Robert, in this manner: "My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw a wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw...
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The New York Times
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Remembering Clarence Clemons, 1942-2011
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The Guardian
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The Boston Globe
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1942
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Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
January 1 – WWII: The United States and Philippines troops fight the Battle of Bataan.
January 2 – WWII: Manila is captured by Japanese forces.
January 7 – WWII: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
January 10 – WWII: The last German air-raid on Liverpool destroys the home of William Patrick Hitler, Adolf Hitler's nephew. After his house is destroyed, William Hitler goes to the USA and joins the navy to fight against his uncle.
January 11 – WWII:
* Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.
* The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
January 13
* Sikorsky R-4 first flies, in the USA; it will become the first mass-produced helicopter.
* Heinkel test pilot Helmut Schenk becomes the first person to escape from a stricken aircraft with an ejection seat.
January 16 – Actress Carole Lombard and her mother are among those killed in a plane crash near Las Vegas, Nevada, while returning from a tour to promote the sale of war bonds.
January 19 – WWII: Japanese forces invade Burma. Establishment of United States VIII Bomber Command, later to become the Eighth Air Force in Savannah, Georgia.
January 20 – WWII: Nazis at the Wannsee conference in Berlin decide that the "final solution to the Jewish problem" is relocation, and later extermination.
January 21 – WWII: Erwin Rommel launches his new offensive in Cyrenaica.
January 23 – WWII: The Battle of Rabaul begins.
January 25 – WWII: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
January 26 – WWII: The first American forces arrive in Europe, landing in Northern Ireland.
January 31 – WWII: The last organized Allied forces leave Malaya, ending the 54-day campaign.
February 2 – WWII: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs an executive order directing the internment of Japanese Americans and the seizure of their property.
February 3 – WWII: Rommel suspends his offensive in Cyrenaica.
February 7 – Maritime Commission fleet operations transferred to War Shipping Administration (lasting until September 1, 1946).
February 8
* António Óscar Carmona is elected president of Portugal.
* WWII: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
* Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States.
February 9
* Post of Chief of the Air Force Staff created.
* The SS Normandie Ocean Liner catches fire while being converted into the troopship USS Lafayette for WWII.
February 10 – In the early hours of the morning the SS Normandie capsizes at pier 88 in New York City.
February 11 – Operation Cerberus A flotilla of Kriegsmarine ships dash from Brest through the English Channel to northern ports; the British fail to sink any one of thexm.
February 15 – WWII: Singapore surrenders to Japanese forces.
February 19 – WWII:
* Japanese warplanes attack Darwin, Australia.
* President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066 allowing the United States military to define areas as exclusionary zones. These zones affect the Japanese on the West Coast, and Germans and Italians primarily on the East Coast.
February 20 – Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first U.S. Navy WWII flying ace.
February 22 – WWII: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defense of the nation collapses.
February 23 – The Japanese submarine I-17 fires 17 high-explosive shells toward an oil refinery near Santa Barbara, California, causing little damage.
February 24 – The , carrying Jewish refugees from Axis-allied Romania to British-controlled Palestine, is torpedoed and sunk by the Soviet submarine Shch 213, killing 768 men, women and children, with only one survivor, a 19 year old man, making it the largest exclusively civilian naval disaster of the war.
February 24 – Propaganda: The Voice of America begins broadcasting.
February 25 – The Princess Elizabeth registers for war service.
February 25 – Battle of Los Angeles: Over 1,400 AA shells are fired at an unidentified, slow-moving object in the skies over Los Angeles. The appearance of the object triggers an immediate wartime blackout over most of Southern California, with thousands of air raid wardens being deployed throughout the city. In total there are 6 deaths. Despite the several hour barrage no planes are downed.
February 26
* The worst coal dust explosion to date, in Honkeiko, China, claims 1,549 lives.
* The 14th Academy Awards ceremony is held in Los Angeles; How Green Was My Valley wins Best Picture.
February 27 – WWII – Battle of the Java Sea: An allied (ABDA) task force under Dutch command, trying to stem a Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies, is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea.
March – Construction begins on the Badger Army Ammunition Plant (the largest in the United States during WWII).
March 9 – WWII: Executive order 9082 (February 28, 1942) reorganizes the United States Army into three major commands: Army Ground Forces, Army Air Forces, and Services of Supply, later redesignated Army Service Forces.
March 17 – Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Bełżec opens in occupied Poland about 1 km south of the local railroad station of Bełżec in the Lublin district of the General Government. Between March and December 1942, at least 434,508 people are killed there.
March 16 – WWII: New Zealand and Australia declared war on Thailand.
March 18 – War Relocation Authority (WRA)
March 28 – WWII: Operation Chariot - British Commandos raid St. Nazaire on the coast of Western France.
April – Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Sobibor opens in occupied Poland on the outskirts of the town of Sobibór. Between April 1942 and October 1943, at least 160,000 people are killed in the camp.
Spring – Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Treblinka II opens in occupied Poland near the village of Treblinka. Between July 1942 and October 1943, around 850,000 people were killed there, more than 800,000 of whom were Jews.
April 3 – WWII: Japanese forces begin an all-out assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
April 5 – WWII: the Japanese Navy attacks Colombo in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Royal Navy Cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.
April 9
* The Bataan Peninsula falls and the Bataan Death March began.
* WWII: The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka); the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy destroyer HMAS Vampire are sunk off the country's East Coast.
April 13 – The FCC's minimum programming time required of TV stations is cut from 15 hours to 4 hours a week during the war.
April 15 – WWII: King George VI awards the George Cross to Malta, saying, "To honour her brave people I award the George Cross to the Island Fortress of Malta, to bear witness to a heroism and a devotion that will long be famous in history (from January 1 to July 24, there is only one 24-hour period during which no bombs fall on this tiny island)."
April 18 – Tokyo, Japan is bombed by B-25 Mitchells commanded by then-Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle.
April 23 – William Temple (archbishop) enthroned Archbishop of Canterbury.
April 27 – WWII: A national plebiscite is held in Canada on the issue of conscription.
April 27 – The Jewish Star of David is required wearing for all Jews in the Netherlands and Belgium. Other Jews in Nazi countries had been wearing it for longer.
April 29 – WWII: An explosion at a chemical factory in Tessenderlo, Belgium leaves 200 dead and 1,000 injured.
May – The first undersea oil pipeline is tested in Operation Pluto.
May 5 – WWII – Operation Ironclad: United Kingdom forces invade the French colony of Madagascar.
May 6 – WWII: On Corregidor, the last American and Filipino forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
May 8 – WWII: The Battle of the Coral Sea (first battle in naval history where 2 enemy fleets fight without seeing each other's fleets) ends in an Allied victory.
May 8/May 9 – WWII: At night, gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel. Their mutiny is crushed and 3 of them executed (the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War).
May 12 – WWII – Second Battle of Kharkov: In the eastern Ukraine, the Soviet Army initiates a major offensive. During the battle the Soviets capture the city of Kharkov from the German Army, only to be encircled and destroyed.
May 14 – Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait is performed for the first time by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
May 15 – WWII: In the United States, a bill creating the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) is signed into law.
May 20 – The first African-American seamen are taken into the United States Navy.
May 21 – WWII: Mexico declares war against Nazi Germany after the sinking of the Mexican tanker Faja de Oro by the German U-boat, U-160, off Key West.
May 26 – WWII – Battle of Bir Hakeim: The Free French and British troops slow the German advance in North Africa.
May 27 – WWII – Operation Anthropoid: Czech paratroopers attempt to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich in Prague.
May 31 – June 1 – WWII – Attack on Sydney Harbour: Japanese submarines infiltrate Sydney Harbour in an attempt to attack Allied warships.
June 1 – WWII: Mexico declares war on Germany, Italy and Japan.
June 4 – WWII: Reinhard Heydrich succumbs to wounds sustained on May 27 from Czechoslovakian paratroopers acting in Operation Anthropoid.
June 4–June 7 – WWII – The Battle of Midway: The Japanese naval advance in the Pacific is halted.
June 7 – WWII: Japanese forces invade the Aleutian Islands (the first invasion of American soil in 128 years).
June 8 – WWII: Attack on Sydney Harbour: The Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle are shelled by Japanese submarines. The eastern suburbs of both cities are damaged and the east coast is blacked out.
June 9 – WWII: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
June 9 Flying Fortress Air Crash Near Auckland 12:30 a.m.
June 10 – WWII: The Gestapo massacres 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia in retaliation for the killing of a Heydrich.
June 12 – Holocaust: On her 13th birthday, Anne Frank makes the first entry in her new diary.
June 13 – The United States opens its Office of War Information, a propaganda center.
June 29 – The German Eleventh Army under Erich von Manstein takes Sevastopol, although fighting rages until July 9.
July 1–July 27 – WWII: the First Battle of El Alamein.
July 3 – Guadalcanal, occupied only by aborigines falls to the Japanese Naval construction force deployed to construct an air field on the island.
July 4 – WWII in the European Theater of Operations:
* Twenty-four ships are sunk by German bombers and submarines after Convoy PQ 17 to the Soviet Union is scattered in the Arctic Ocean to evade the German battleship Tirpitz.
US Eighth Air Force flies its first inauspicious mission in Europe using borrowed British planes. Three of six aircraft return.
July 6 – Holocaust: Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
July 8 – Turkish prime minister Refik Saydam died while working in office. For one day he is succeeded by Ahmet Fikri Tüzer
July 9 – Şükrü Saracoğlu forms the new government in Turkey. (13 th government)
July 13 – WWII: German U-Boats sink 3 more merchant ships in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
July 14 – WWII: Germany introduces the Ostvolk Medal for Soviet personnel in Wehrmacht
July 16
* Holocaust: By order of the Vichy France government headed by Pierre Laval, French police officers round-up 13,000–20,000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome.
* Georges Bégué and others escape from the Mauzac prison camp.
July 18 – WWII: The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 (using only its jets) for the first time.
July 19 – WWII – Battle of the Atlantic: German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions, in response to an effective American convoy system.
July 21 – The Japanese establish a beachhead on the north coast of New Guinea in the Buna-Gona area; a small Australian force begins a rearguard action on the Kokoda Track Campaign.
July 22 – Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
July 29 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR institutes the Order of Suvorov, the Order of Kutuzov, and reinstates the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
July 30 – Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES).
July 31 – The Oxford Committee of Famine Relief (OXFAM) is founded.
August 7 – WWII: Battle of Guadalcanal begins – The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps begin the first American offensive of the war with an amphibious landing on the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
August 8 – Walt Disney's animated film, Bambi premieres in United Kingdom.
August 9** Indian leader, Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces.
* Start, led by the goalkeeper Nikolai Trusevich, play football against the German Luftwaffe team Flakelf in Nazi-occupied Kiev. Against all odds, they win 5–3. Eight of them are later arrested and tortured, and at least four are killed.
August 13 ** WWII: In Washington, DC, six Germans would-be saboteurs are executed (Two others were cooperative and received sentences of life imprisonment instead. One was spared because of his quite young age: execution was considered to be too harsh for such a young man. The imprisoned ones were freed a few years after the end of the war.)
* Quit India resolution is passed by the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), which led to the start of a historical civil disobedience movement across India.
August 14 night – In London, instruments detect a massive burst of cosmic rays.
August 15 – WWII: The American tanker SS Ohio reaches Malta as part of the convoy of Operation Pedestal.
August 16
* Polish-Jewish teacher Janusz Korczak follows a group of Jewish children into the Treblinka death camp.
* The U.S. Navy blimp L-8 (Flight 101) comes ashore near San Francisco, eventually coming down in Daly City (the crew is missing).
August 17 – WWII: First raid by heavy bombers of U.S. Eighth Air Force against occupied France.
August 19 – WWII – Dieppe Raid: Allied forces raid Dieppe, France.
August 22 – WWII: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.
August 25 – WWII: Japanese marines land at Milne Bay.
August 30 – Luxembourg is formally annexed to the German Reich.
August 31 – A general strike is launched in Luxembourg to protest against forced conscription.
August 31–September 5 – WWII: Battle of Alam Halfa
September 3 – WWII: A German attempt to liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Lakhva leads to an uprising.
September 5 – WWII: Battle of Milne Bay: Japanese forces suffer their first defeat on land.
September 9 – WWII: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary devices at Mount Emily, near Brookings, Oregon, in the first of two "Lookout Air Raids", the first bombing of the continental United States.
September 10 – Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) begins operation.
September 12 – The RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs, is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks.
September 15 – Women's Flying Training Detachment (WFTD).
September 24 – Andrée Borrel and Lise de Baissac become the first female SOE agents to be parachuted into occupied France.
September 27 – WWII: Both commerce raiding hilfskreuzer Stier and Liberty ship Stephen Hopkins sink following a gun battle in the South Atlantic. Stier is the only commerce raider to be sunk by Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships.
October 2 – The British cruiser Curaçao collides with the liner Queen Mary off the coast of Donegal and sinks; 338 drown.
October 3 – The first A-4 rocket is successfully launched from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. The rocket flies 147 kilometres wide and reaches a height of 84.5 kilometres, becoming the first man-made object to reach space.
October 9 – The Statute of Westminster Adoption Act formalizes Australian autonomy.
October 11 – WWII – Battle of Cape Esperance: On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
October 14 – A German U-boat sinks the ferry SS Caribou, killing 137.
October 16 – A hurricane and flood in Bombay kill 40,000.
October 23 – Award-winning composer and Hollywood songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory") is among 12 people killed in the mid-air collision between an American Airlines DC-3 airliner and a U.S. Army bomber near Palm Springs, California.
October 23 – November 4 – WWII – Second Battle of El Alamein: British troops go on the offensive against the Axis forces.
October 26 – WWII – Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands: two Japanese aircraft carriers are heavily damaged and one U.S.N. carrier is sunk.
October 28 – The Alaska Highway is completed.
October 29 – Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
November 2 – A USAF squadron, including B-24 Liberators, intercepts many Luftwaffe patrols off the coast of Oran, Algeria.
November 3 – WWII – Second Battle of El Alamein: German forces under Erwin Rommel are forced to retreat during the night.
November 8 – WWII
* Operation Torch – United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa.
* French Resistance Coup in Algiers: 400 French civil resistants neutralize the Vichyist XIXth Army Corps and the Vichyist generals (Juin, Darlan, etc.), so allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers, and ultimately the whole of French North Africa.
November 9 – WWII: U.S serviceman Edward Leonski is hanged at Melbourne's Pentridge Prison for the "Brown-Out" murders of 3 women in May.
November 10 – WWII: In violation of a 1940 armistice, Germany invades Vichy France, following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
November 12 – WWII – Battle of Guadalcanal: A naval battle near Guadalcanal starts between Japanese and American forces.
November 13 – WWII:
* Battle of Guadalcanal: Aviators from the USS Enterprise sink the Japanese battleship Hiei.
* British forces capture Tobruk.
November 15 – WWII:
* The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ends: Although the United States Navy suffers heavy losses, it retains control of Guadalcanal.
* A BOAC scheduled passenger flight, a DC-3 with registration G-AGBB, (formerly KLM PH-ALI, Ibis), enroute between Lisbon and Bristol, is attacked over the Bay of Biscay by German fighters. Although damaged, it escapes and lands in England. Other attacks follow on the same aircraft and scheduled route: April 19 and June 1, 1943 (fatal).
* British forces capture Derna.
November 19 – WWII – Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counter-attacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
November 20 – WWII –British forces capture Benghazi.
November 21 – The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the "highway" is not usable by general vehicles until 1943).
November 22 – WWII – Battle of Stalingrad: The situation for the German attackers of Stalingrad seems desperate during the Soviet counter-attack Operation Uranus, and General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German Sixth Army is surrounded.
November 23 – A German U-boat sinks the S.S. Ben Lomond off the coast of Brazil. One crewman, Chinese second steward Poon Lim, is separated from the others and spends 130 days adrift until he is rescued on April 3, 1943.
November 25–November 26 – Operation Harling: A British SOE team, together with Greek Resistance fighters, blows up the Gorgopotamos viaduct in the first major sabotage act in occupied continental Europe.
November 26 – The movie Casablanca premières at the Hollywood Theater in New York City.
November 27 – WWII: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
November 28
* In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove night club kills 491 people.
* The large-scale German "pacification" of the Zamojszczyzna region of Poland begins.
November 29 – The Blue Star Line cargo liner runs aground on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia. Crew and passengers survive following a 26-day overland trek to Windhoek.
December 1 – Gasoline rationing begins in the United States.
December 2 – Manhattan Project: Below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (a coded message, "The Italian navigator has landed in the new world" is then sent to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt).
December 4
* Holocaust: In Warsaw, 2 women, Zofia Kossak and Wanda Filipowicz, risk their lives by setting up the Council for the Assistance of the Jews.
* WWII: USAAF bombers make their first raid on Italy.
December 7 – WWII: British commandos conduct Operation Frankton, a raid on shipping in Bordeaux harbour.
December 22
* USA – Aliquippa, PA – avalanche kills 26, including Vulcan Crucible Steel Co heir-apparent Samuel A. Stafford Sr., when two 100 ton boulders fall on a bus filled with wartime steel workers on their way home.
* An airplane carrying prominent ustashe general Jure Francetić crashes. Francetić dies as result of the injuries on December 27.
December 24 – French Admiral Darlan, the former Vichy leader who had switched over to the Allies following the Torch landings, is assassinated in Algiers.
December 27 – The Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia is founded.
The Grand Coulee Dam is finished in the Columbia River.
DDT is first used as a pesticide.
C. S. Lewis publishes The Screwtape Letters.
Lions become extinct in Iran.
January 1
* Martin Frost, American politician
* Gennadi Sarafanov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2005)
* Country Joe McDonald, American musician
January 2
* Dennis Hastert, American politician and former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
* Hugh Shelton, American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
January 3
* John Thaw, English actor (d. 2002)
* Laszlo Solyom, President of Hungary
January 4 – Dame Marcela Contreras, Chilean-British immunologist and educator
January 5
* Maurizio Pollini, Italian pianist
* Charlie Rose, American talk show host
* Jan Leeming, former BBC newsreader
January 7 – Vasiliy Alekseyev, Soviet weightlifter
January 8
* Stephen Hawking, British physicist
* Junichiro Koizumi, former Prime Minister of Japan
* Yvette Mimieux, American actress
January 8 – George Passmore, English performance artist (Gilbert and George)
January 11
* Clarence Clemons, American musician (d. 2011)
* Leo Cullum, American "New Yorker" cartoonist (d. 2010)
January 14 – Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal, Chief Justice of India
January 17
* Muhammad Ali, American boxer
* Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist
* Nancy Parsons, American actress (d. 2001)
January 19 – Michael Crawford, English singer and actor
January 20 – Linda Moulton Howe, American investigative journalist and documentary producer-writer-director-editor
January 25
* Carl Eller, American football player
* Eusébio, Portuguese footballer
January 26 – Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (d. 2001)
January 31
* Derek Jarman, English director and writer (d. 1994)
* Daniela Bianchi, Italian actress
February 1 – Terry Jones, Welsh actor and writer
February 2 – Graham Nash, American (English-born) rock musician (CSNY)
February 5 – Roger Staubach, American football player
February 9 – Carole King, American singer and composer
February 12 – Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel
February 13 – Peter Tork, American musician and actor
February 14
* Michael Bloomberg, American businessman, philanthropist, and the founder of Bloomberg L.P., Mayor of New York City
* Andrew Robinson, American actor
February 15 – Sherry Jackson, American actress
February 19 – Paul Krause, American football player
February 20
* Phil Esposito, Canadian hockey player
* Mitch McConnell, American politician
February 21 – Margarethe von Trotta, German actress, film director, and writer
February 24 – Joseph Lieberman, American politician
February 25
* Sally Jessy Raphaël, American talk show host
* Karen Grassle, American actress (Little House on the Prairie)
February 27
* Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* Michel Forget, Canadian actor
February 28 – Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (d. 1969)
March 2
* John Irving, American author
* Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
March 4
* Charles C. Krulak, U.S. Marine Corps commander
* Gloria Gaither, American gospel songwriter
March 5 – Felipe González Márquez, Spanish politician
March 7
* Tammy Faye Bakker, American evangelist, singer and television personality (d. 2007)
* Michael Eisner, American film studio executive
March 9 – John Cale, Welsh composer and musician (Velvet Underground)
March 12 – Jimmy Wynn, American baseball player
March 13
* Dave Cutler, American software engineer
* Scatman John, American musician (d. 1999)
* George Negus, Australian author, journalist, and television presenter
March 16 – James Soong, Taiwan politician
March 17 – John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (d. 1994)
March 20 – Earl Bramblett, American murderer (d. 2003)
March 23 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure
March 25
* Aretha Franklin, American singer
* Richard O'Brien, English-born actor and writer
March 26 – Erica Jong, American author
March 27
* John E. Sulston, British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* Michael York, English actor
* Michael Jackson, English writer (d. 2007)
March 28
* Neil Kinnock, British statesman
* Mike Newell, British film director
* Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (d. 1998)
* Jerry Sloan, American basketball coach
March 29 – Scott Wilson, American actor
March 30 – Ruben Kun, Nauruan politician and former President of Nauru
April 1 – Annie Nightingale, British DJ
April 2
* Hiroyuki Sakai, Japanese chef
* Leon Russell, American singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist
* Yury Yarov, Russian politician and a former deputy prime minister
April 3
* Marsha Mason, American actress
* Wayne Newton, American singer
April 5
* Peter Greenaway, Welsh filmmaker
* Pascal Couchepin, Swiss Federal Councilor
April 6 – Barry Levinson, American film producer and director
April 8 – Roger Chapman, British rock singer (Family)
April 9 – James Cowan, Australian novelist
April 10
* Nick Auf der Maur, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1998)
* Hayedeh, Iranian singer (d. 1990)
April 12 – Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa
April 14
* Valeriy Brumel, Russian athlete (d. 2003)
* Valentin Lebedev, Russian cosmonaut
April 15
* Kenneth Lay, American businessman (d. 2006)
* Julie Sommars, American actress
April 17
* Kenas Aroi, Nauruan politician
* Buster Williams, American jazz bassist
April 20 – Arto Paasilinna, Finnish author
April 23 – Sandra Dee, American actress (d. 2005)
April 24 – Barbra Streisand, American singer, theatre and film actress, composer
April 25
* Jon Kyl, American politician
* Katsuji Adachi, Japanese professional wrestler
April 26
* Bobby Rydell, American singer
* Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat
* Claudine Auger, French actress
April 27 – Jim Keltner, American drummer
May 2 – Jacques Rogge, Belgian International Olympic Committee president
May 3 – Věra Čáslavská, Czech gymnast
May 5 – Tammy Wynette, American country singer (d. 1998)
May 8 – Terry Neill, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
May 9 – John Ashcroft, United States Attorney General
May 10 – Youssouf Sambo Bâ, Burkinabé politician
May 12 – Ian Dury, British musician (d. 2000)
May 17 – Taj Mahal, American singer and guitarist
May 18
* Albert Hammond, English-born American musician and composer
* Nobby Stiles, English footballer
May 19
* Gary Kildall, American computer scientist (d. 1994)
* Robert Kilroy-Silk, British politician and television presenter
May 20 – David Proval, American actor
May 22
* Theodore Kaczynski (aka "The Unabomber"), American criminal
* Calvin Simon, American musician (P Funk)
* Rich Garcia, American Major League Baseball Umpire
May 23 – Gabriel Liiceanu, Romanian philosopher
May 24 – Ichirō Ozawa, Japanese politician
May 26 – Levon Helm, American musician (The Band)
May 28 – Stanley B. Prusiner, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
June 2 – Eduard Malofeyev, Russian football coach and former international player
June 3
* Curtis Mayfield, American musician (d. 1999)
* Frank McRae, American actor
June 5 – Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea and Chairperson of the African Union
June 8 – James Tien, Hong Kong-Taiwanese actor
June 10
* Gordon Burns, British journalist and TV presenter
* Preston Manning, Canadian politician
June 12 – Bert Sakmann, German physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
June 16 – John Rostill, English bassist, musician and composer (The Shadows) (d. 1973)
June 17
* Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian International Atomic Energy Agency director, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
* Roger Steffens, Reggae archivist, actor, author, Bob Marley biographer
June 18
* Roger Ebert, American film critic and television personality
* Paul McCartney, British musician and composer (The Beatles) (Wings)
* Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor
* Thabo Mbeki, South African politician
* Nick Tate, Australian actor
June 19 – Ralna English, American singer
June 20 – Brian Wilson, American singer, composer/producer, musical innovator (The Beach Boys)
June 24
* Mick Fleetwood, English drummer (Fleetwood Mac)
* Michele Lee, American actress, singer and dancer (Knots Landing)
June 26
* Gilberto Gil, Brazilian singer and Minister of Culture
* James J. Dillon, American professional wrestling manager
June 27 – Bruce Johnston, American musician (The Beach Boys)
June 28 – David Miner, American rock musician and record producer
July 1
* Geneviève Bujold, French-Canadian actress
* Andrae Crouch, American gospel singer
July 2 – Vicente Fox, President of Mexico
July 4
* Floyd Little, American football player
* Prince Michael of Kent
July 7 – Carmen Duncan, Australian actress
July 8 – Janice Pennington, American model
July 9 – Richard Roundtree, American actor
July 10
* Pyotr Klimuk, Russian cosmonaut
* Ronnie James Dio, American singer (d. 2010)
July 13
* Harrison Ford, American actor
* Roger McGuinn, American musician (The Byrds)
July 15 – Mil Máscaras, Mexican professional wrestler
July 16 – Margaret Court, Australian tennis player
July 18 – Adolf Ogi, member of the Swiss Federal Council
July 23 – Myra Hindley, English multiple murderer (d. 2002)
July 24 – Chris Sarandon, American actor
July 27 – Dennis Ralston, American tennis player
July 28 – Kaari Utrio, Finnish writer
July 29 – Tony Sirico, American actor
August 1 – Jerry Garcia, American musician (Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)
August 2 – Isabel Allende, Chilean writer
August 4 – David Lange, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2005)
August 7
* Garrison Keillor, American writer and radio host
* Tobin Bell, American film and television actor
August 17 – Roshan Seth, British Indian actor
August 18
* Wu Ma, Chinese film actor, director, producer and writer
* Judith Keppel, first person to win £1,000,000 on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
August 19 – Fred Dalton Thompson, American politician and actor
August 20 – Isaac Hayes, American singer and actor (d. 2008)
August 27 – "Captain" Daryl Dragon, American musician (The Captain and Tennille)
August 28
* Sterling Morrison, American musician (d. 1995)
* Jose Eduardo dos Santos, President of Angola
August 31 – Isao Aoki, Japanese golfer
September 3 – Michael Hui, Hong Kong film comedian
September 5 – Werner Herzog, German filmmaker
September 5 – Björn Haugan, Norwegian operatic lyric tenor (d. 2009)
September 14 – Bernard MacLaverty, Irish writer
September 15 – Wen Jiabao, Premier of the People's Republic of China
September 17 – Desmond Lynam, British TV presenter
September 18 – Gabriella Ferri, Italian singer
September 19 – Freda Payne, American singer and actress
September 22
* Marlena Shaw, American jazz singer
* David Stern, American commissioner of the National Basketball Association
September 24 – Ilkka "Danny" Lipsanen, Finnish singer
September 28 – Marshall Bell, American actor
September 29
* Madeline Kahn, American actress (d. 1999)
* Ian McShane, English actor
* Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist
September 30 – Frankie Lymon, American singer (d. 1968)
October 1 – Gunther Wallraff, German investigative journalist
October 4 – Christopher Stone, American actor (d. 1995)
October 6
* Britt Ekland, Swedish actress
* Fred Travalena, American comedian and impressionist (d. 2009)
October 7
* Ronald Baecker, American computer scientist
* Joy Behar, American comedienne and television personality
October 11 – Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor
October 12
* Daliah Lavi, Israelian actress and singer
* Melvin Franklin, American musician (The Temptations) (d. 1995)
October 13
* Rutanya Alda, Latvian-American actress
* Jerry Jones, American football team owner
October 14 – Evelio Javier, Filipino politician, lawyer, and civil servant (d. 1986)
October 15 – Penny Marshall, American actress and director
October 19 – Andrew Vachss, American author and attorney
October 20
* Earl Hindman, American actor (d. 2003)
* Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
October 21 –
* Elvin Bishop, American musician
* Judith Sheindlin, American lawyer, judge, television personality
October 22 – Annette Funicello, American actress
October 23 – Michael Crichton, American author (d. 2008)
October 26 – Bob Hoskins, British actor
October 29 – Bob Ross, American painter and television presenter (d. 1995)
October 31 – David Ogden Stiers, American actor and voice-over artist
November 1
* Larry Flynt, American publisher (Hustler)
* Ralph Klein, Canadian politician
* Marcia Wallace, American actress and comedienne
November 2
* Shere Hite, American-German sexologist
* Stefanie Powers, American actress
November 5 – Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
November 8
* Angel Cordero Jr., Puerto Rican jockey
* Fernando Sorrentino, Argentine writer
November 10
* Robert F. Engle, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
* Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss Federal Councilor
November 13 – Roger Lee Hall, American composer and music preservationist
November 15 – Daniel Barenboim, Argentine-born pianist and conductor
November 17
* Derek Clayton, Australian long-distance runner
* Kang Kek Iew, Cambodian politician and criminal
* Martin Scorsese, American film director
November 18
* Linda Evans, American actress
* Susan Sullivan, American actress
November 20 – Joe Biden, 47th Vice President of the United States
November 22 – Francis K. Butagira, Ugandan ambassador
November 24 – Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian
November 26 – Khalil Kalfat, Egyptian intellectual and writer
November 27
* Henry Carr, American athlete
* Jimi Hendrix, American musician (d. 1970)
* Manolo Blahnik, Spanish shoe designer
November 28 – Paul Warfield, American football player
November 29 – Philippe Huttenlocher, Swiss baritone
December 4 – Gemma Jones, British actress
December 6 – Peter Handke, Austrian novelist
December 7 – Peter Tomarken, American game-show host (Press Your Luck) (d. 2006)
December 9 – Dick Butkus, American football player
December 11 – Donna Mills, American actress and dancer
December 12 – Peter Sarstedt, British musician
December 17 – Paul Butterfield, American musician (d. 1987)
December 20 – Bob Hayes, American athlete
December 21
* Carla Thomas, American singer
* Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China
December 27 – Charmian Carr, American actress
December 29
* Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor
* Dinah Christie, British actress
December 30
* Michael Nesmith, American songwriter, singer and actor (The Monkees)
* Betty Aberlin, American actress
* Allan Gotthelf, American philosopher
* Janko Prunk, Slovenian historian
December 31 – Andy Summers, English guitarist
Dick Stockton, American sports announcer
Hissene Habre, President of Chad
probable – Muammar al-Gaddafi, leader of Libya
January 4
* Mel Sheppard, American athlete (b. 1883)
* Otis Skinner, stage & film actor (b. 1858)
January 6 – Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president (b. 1876)
January 14 – Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (b. 1883)
January 16
* Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, second youngest son of Queen Victoria (b. 1850)
* Carole Lombard, American actress (air crash) (b. 1908)
January 22 – Walter Sickert, English Impressionist painter (b. 1860)
January 26 – Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (suicide) (b. 1868)
February 8 – Fritz Todt, Nazi German engineer (b. 1891)
February 12 – Grant Wood, American painter (b. 1891)
February 14 – Mirosław Ferić, Polish pilot of the No. 303 Squadron in Northolt (b. 1915)
February 19 – Frank Abbandando, American gangster (executed) (b. 1910)
February 22 – Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (suicide with wife) (b. 1881)
February 28 – Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (sinking ship) (b. 1889)
March 1
* Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American military officer, inventor, and engineer (b. 1873)
* George S. Rentz, United States Navy Chaplain and Navy Cross winner (b. 1882)
March 8 – José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (b. 1888)
March 10 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
March 21 – J.S Woodsworth, Canadian politician (b. 1874)
April 15 – Robert Musil, Austrian-born novelist (b. 1880)
April 16 – Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, granddaughter of Queen Victoria
April 17 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
April 18 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American sculptor and socialite (b. 1875)
April 24
* Deenanath Mangeshkar, Indian singer and composer (b. 1900)
* Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian writer (b. 1874)
May 2 – Jose Abad Santos, Filipino chief justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1886)
May 3 – Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)
May 7 – Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (b. 1863)
May 10 – Joe Weber, American vaudevillian (b. 1867)
May 14 – Frank Churchill, American composer (b. 1901)
May 16 – Bronisław Malinowski, Polish anthropologist (b. 1884)
May 27 – Chen Duxiu, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1879)
May 29
* John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882)
* Akiko Yosano, Japanese author, poet (b. 1878)
June 4
* Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Nazi Reich Main Security Office and Reich governor of Bohemia and Moravia (assassinated) (b. 1904)
* John C. Waldron, United States Naval aviator and commander of Torpedo Squadron 8, killed at the Battle of Midway (b. 1900)
June 5 – Virginia Lee Corbin, American actress (b. 1910)
June 7 – Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)
June 26 – Gene Stack, first American major league baseball player to be drafted during WWII and also the first to die in service (b. 1920)
June 30 – William Henry Jackson, American photographer (b. 1843)
July 1 – Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish language writer (b. 1857)
July 8 – Refik Saydam, prime minister of Turkey in his office (b.1881)
July 15 – Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino politician and resistance leader (bayoneted to death) (b. 1910)
July 23 – Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer and senator (suicide) (b. 1880)
July 26 – Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer (b. 1900)
July 28 – William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (b. 1853)
July 30 – Jimmy Blanton, American bassist (b. 1918)
August 3
* James Cruze, American actor (b. 1884)
* Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
August 12 – Phillips Holmes, American actor (b. 1907)
August 22 – Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer (b. 1880)
August 25 – Prince George, Duke of Kent, fourth eldest son of King George V (b. 1902)
September 14 – Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (b. 1855)
October 1 – Ants Piip, Estonian lawyer, diplomat and politician (b. 1884)
October 15 – Marie Tempest, English stage & film actress (b. 1864)
October 20 – May Robson, Australian actress (b. 1858)
October 23 – Ralph Rainger, American composer and Hollywood songwriter (b. 1901)
November 1 – Hugo Distler, German composer (b. 1908)
November 5 – George M. Cohan, American songwriter and entertainer (Yankee Doodle Dandy) (b. 1878)
November 9 – Edna May Oliver, stage & film character actress (b. 1883)
November 12 – Laura Hope Crews, American stage & film actress (Aunt PittyPat) (b. 1879)
November 13 – Daniel J. Callaghan, United States Navy officer (b. 1890)
November 16 – Josef Schmidt, Polish tenor (b. 1904)
November 19 – Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (shot) (b. 1892)
November 21 – Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (b. 1863)
November 30 – Buck Jones, American actor (b. 1891)
December 3 – Henner Henkel, German tennis champion (b. 1915)
December 7 – Orland Steen Loomis, Governor-elect of Wisconsin (b. 1893)
December 12 – Helen Westley, stage and film character actress (b. 1875)
December 22 – Franz Boas, German anthropologist (b. 1858)
December 24 – Francois Darlan, French Naval officer (b. 1881)
Physics – not awarded
Chemistry – not awarded
Medicine – not awarded
Literature – not awarded
Peace – not awarded
1942 coin pictures
Events
Below, events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
February
February 1 – WWII: The Command staff of the Eighth Air Force reaches England
March
April
extermination camp Treblinka II opens in occupied Poland near the village of Treblinka]]
May
June
under attack by US aircraft at the Battle of Midway.]]
July
August
September
October
November
December
Date unknown
Births
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Date unknown
Deaths
January–June
July–December
Nobel Prizes
References
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