Historical Events That Occurred in the Year 1942
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- The Declaration by the United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations.
- World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces.
- The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
- Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to have a flight go around the world.
- World War II: Siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
- Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.
- The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
- President Franklin Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
- Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
- The United States begins Japanese American internment.
- World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
- World War II: Nazis at the Wannsee conference in Berlin decide the "final solution to the Jewish problem".
- Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
- World War II: The first American forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
- In Drakulici, Banja Luka, Croatian Nazis kill 2,300 Serbian civilians, among them 551 children.
- World War II: 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.
- World War II: The Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led militar
- World War II: nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing anywhere from 243 to 1100 people.
- World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps.
- Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
- World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defense collapses.
- The Voice of America begins broadcasting.
- Discovery of radio emissions from the Sun.
- World War II: the USS Langley, the first United States aircraft carrier, is sunk by Japanese warplanes.
- World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia killing more than 100 people.
- World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
- World War II: Japan captures Rangoon, Burma.
- World War II: General Douglas MacArthur abandons Corregidor.
- First V-2 rocket test launch
- In Zgierz, Poland, 100 Poles are taken from a labor camp and shot by the Germans.
- General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
- World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, Regia Marina defeats Royal Navy in the Second Battle of Sirte.
- World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands.
- World War II: In Poland, Auschwitz receives its first female prisoners.
- World War II: United Kingdom forces raid the U-boat base at St. Nazaire, France.
- World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.
- In World War II, Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
- World War II: Japanese forces begin an all-out assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. Bataan falls on April 9 and the Bataan Death March began.
- Second World War: Japanese Navy attacks Colombo in Ceylon
- World War II: Siege of Leningrad - Soviet Union forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.
- World War II: Battle of Bataan/Bataan Death March - United States forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula. Japanese Navy launches air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon
- George Cross awarded to "to the island fortress of Malta - its people and defenders" by King George VI.
- POW French General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein.
- World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Tokyo occurs.
- Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
- World War II: Baedeker Blitz German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
- The worst-ever mining accident in history kills 1,549 miners in an explosion at the Honkeiko Colliery, Manchuria.
- World War II: Battle of the Coral Sea The battle begins with the launch of attack aircraft from American and Japanese aircraft carriers.
- World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
- World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end. This is the first time in the naval history where two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
- World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebelled in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny was crushed and three of them were executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutin
- World War II: Belgrade becomes the first Axis-conquered city to murder or eliminate its Jewish Population, largely with the help of Serbian collaborators.
- William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.
- World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov In the eastern Ukraine, the Soviet Army initiates a major offensive. During the battle the Soviets will capture the city of Kharkov from the German Army, only to be encircled and destroyed.
- 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz.
- World War II: In the United States, a bill creating the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps
- Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
- World War II: Operation Anthropoid - assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague.
- World War II: In retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1800 people.
- World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
- World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
- World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Coventry, England.
- World War II: The Liberty Brigade, a Warsaw underground newspaper, published the news of the death camp killings for the very first time. It told the story of Emanuel Ringelblum, who escaped from Chelmno after being forced to bury the exterminated bodies.
- World War II: Reinhard Heydrich dies in Prague due to the assassination of Czechoslovak paratroopers
- World War II: Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island with much of the Imperial Japanese navy.
- World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.
- Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, as the Axis power continues to expand its defensive perimeter.
- World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
- World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice as reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
- World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
- Holocaust: Future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
- The United States opens its Office of War Information, a center for production of propaganda.
- Anne Frank begins to keep a diary.
- World War II: Tobruk falls to German forces.
- World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the U.S. mainland.
- First Battle of El Alamein
- Holocaust: Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
- World War II: German U-Boats sink three more merchant ships in Gulf of St. Lawrence.
- Holocaust: Rafle du Vel'd'Hiv: The Vichy France government orders French police officers to round up 13,000-20,000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome. In 1995, president Jacques Chirac officially recognizes the French police's responsibility.
- World War II: The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jets for the first time.
- World War II: The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jets for the first time.
- World War II: Red Army troops take bridgeheads over the Don River near Voronezh.
- World War II: The first unit of the Women's Army Corps begins training in Des Moines, Iowa.
- The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
- Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
- The Treblinka extermination camp is opened
- Hitler signed the Operation Edelweiss.
- World War II: USSR leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into Russia. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so will be immediately killed.
- Queen Wilhelmina is the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States congress.
- World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal begins - U.S. Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with a landing on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
- World War II: In Washington, DC, six German would-be saboteurs are executed.
- Quit India resolution was passed by the Bombay session of the AICC, which leads to the start of a civil disobedience movement across India
- World War II: In Washington, DC, six German would-be saboteurs are executed.
- Quit India resolution was passed by the Bombay session of the AICC, which leads to the start of a civil disobedience movement across India
- Indian leader, Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.
- Indian leader, Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.
- Walt Disney's fifth animated feature, Bambi, premieres.
- Walt Disney's fifth animated feature, Bambi, premieres.
- World War II: Operation Pedestal - The SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island defenses.
- World War II: Operation Pedestal - The SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island defenses.
- World War II: - The two-person crew of the U.S. naval blimp L-8 disappear without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean. The blimp drifts without her crew and crashlands in Daly City, California.
- World War II: - The two-person crew of the U.S. naval blimp L-8 disappear without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean. The blimp drifts without her crew and crashlands in Daly City, California.
- World War II: Operation Jubilee - The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an allied forces amphibious assault on Dieppe, France.
- World War II: Operation Jubilee - The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an allied forces amphibious assault on Dieppe, France.
- A Nazi flag was installed atop the Elbrus Mountain.
- A Nazi flag was installed atop the Elbrus Mountain.
- World War II: Brazil declares war on the Axis powers
- World War II: Brazil declares war on the Axis powers
- World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryujo is sunk and U.S. carrier Enterprise heavily damaged.
- World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
- World War II: Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
- World War II: Uprising of the Jewish ghetto in Lakhva occurs.
- World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon.
- The Allies carry out an amphibious landing at Majunga, north-west Madagascar, to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
- RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks.
- RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks.
- World War II: The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal.
- World War II: The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal.
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized.
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized.
- The B-29 Superfortress makes its debut.
- The B-29 Superfortress makes its debut.
- Glenn Miller and his Orchestra perform for the last time before Miller enters the US Army.
- Glenn Miller and his Orchestra perform for the last time before Miller enters the US Army.
- USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she was carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
- First successful launch of A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany: the first man-made object to reach space.
- the McCollum memo conspires to bring the U.S. to war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
- U.S. and British government announce establishment of United Nations.
- Maxwell Anderson's "Eve of St. Mark," premieres in New York City.
- Salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys Nazi battalion in Stalingrad.
- Statute of Westminster Adoption Act formalizes Australian autonomy.
- World War II: 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.
- The USS Duncan is sunk by Japanese naval gunfire at the Battle of Cape Esperance
- A German U-boat sinks the ferry SS Caribou, killing 137.
- Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field.
- World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein starts - At El Alamein in Egypt, British forces begin a major offensive against Axis forces.
- The Alaska Highway is completed.
- Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
- World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein ends - German forces under Erwin Rommel are forced to retreat during the night.
- World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein - Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
- World War II: Operation Torch - United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa.
- World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, by which 400 Civil French patriots neutralized Vichyst XIXth Army Corps during 15 hours, arrested vichyst generals
- World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
- World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal, will last for three days.
- World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal - U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal
- World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal ends.
- World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
- The completion of the Alaska Highway
- World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - General Friedrich von Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army is surrounded.
- The film Casablanca premieres at the Hollywood Theater in New York City.
- World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Biha in northwestern Bosnia.
- World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
- In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 491 people.
- Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
- Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Filipowicz set up {egota.
- A fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland kills 100 people.
- Holocaust: Porajmos - Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination should be deported to Auschwitz.
Deaths
- Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher
- Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer
- Carole Lombard, American actress
- Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal
- Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician
- Daniil Kharms, Russian playwright
- Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator
- Albert Payson Terhune, American author
- Frank Abbandando, American gangster
- Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral
- José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player
- William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet, death in prison
- Robert Musil, German novelist
- Jean Perrin, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- Karin Boye, Swedish author
- Lucy Maude Montgomery, Canadian author
- Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark
- Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor
- John Barrymore, American actor
- Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official
- Samuel Adams, American naval officer
- Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer
- Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician
- Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general
- Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer
- Roberto Arlt, Argentinian writer
- William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist
- Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- Jonathan Campbell, American film pioneer
- Edith Stein,
- Edith Stein,
- George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent
- Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist
- Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist
- Condé Nast, American publisher
- Condé Nast, American publisher
- Hugo Distler, German composer
- George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer, and composer
- Edna May Oliver, American actress
- Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter
- Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister
- Franz Boas, German anthropologist
- François Darlan, vice-premier of Vichy France
Births
- Martin Frost, American politician
- Country Joe McDonald, American musician
- Gennadi Sarafanov, cosmonaut
- Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the US House
- Hugh Shelton, American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- John Thaw, British actor
- Maurizio Pollini, Italian pianist
- Charlie Rose, American talk show host
- Vasily Alexeev, Russian weightlifter
- Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author
- Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister of Japan
- Yvette Mimieux, American actress
- K Callan, American actress
- Susannah York, British actress
- Clarence Clemons, American musician
- Richard Moll, American actor
- Charo, Spanish-born singer and actress
- Muhammad Ali, American boxer
- Cus D'Amato, boxing manager
- Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist
- Nancy Parsons, American actress
- Michael Crawford, British singer and actor
- Mac Davis, American musician
- Edwin Starr, American singer
- Carl Eller, American football player
- Eusébio, Portuguese footballer
- Claudine Longet, French singer and dancer
- Daniela Bianchi, Italian actress
- Derek Jarman, British director and writer
- Terry Jones, Welsh actor and writer
- Christine Keeler, British model
- Graham Nash, British musician
- Roger Staubach, American football player
- Sarah Brady, American gun-control activist
- Robert Klein, American comedian
- Terry Melcher, American musician and record producer
- Carole King, American singer and composer
- Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel
- Carol Lynley, American actress
- Peter Tork, American musician and actor
- Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City
- Andrew Robinson, actor
- Huey P. Newton, American politicial activist
- Paul Krause, American football player
- Phil Esposito, Canadian hockey player
- Margarethe von Trotta, German actor, film director, and writer
- Joseph Lieberman, American politician and vice presidential candidate
- Karen Grassle, American actress
- Carl Eller, former American football player
- Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- Charlayne Hunter-Gault, American journalist
- Frank Bonner, American actor and director
- Brian Jones, English musician
- Dino Zoff, Italian footballer
- Richard Bowman Myers, U.S. general and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- John Irving, American author
- Lou Reed, American singer and guitarist
- Charles C. Krulak, Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
- Felipe González Márquez, Prime Minister of Spain
- Ben Murphy, American actor
- Tammy Faye Bakker, American evangelist
- Michael Eisner, American film studio executive
- John Cale, Welsh musician,
- Mark Lindsay, American singer musician
- Ratko Mladi, Republika Srpska leader
- Dave Cutler, American software engineer
- Scatman John, American singer
- James Soong, Taiwanese politician
- Jerry Jeff Walker, American musician
- John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer
- Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure
- Aretha Franklin, American singer
- Richard O'Brien, English actor and writer
- Erica Jong, American author
- John E. Sulston, British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Michael York, English actor
- Conrad Schumann, East German border guard
- Jerry Sloan, American basketball coach
- Mike Newell, English film director
- Neil Kinnock, British statesman
- Michael Savage, talk radio host and commentator
- Samuel R. Delany, American author
- Annie Nightingale, British disc jockey
- Hiroyuki Sakai, Japanese chef
- Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor
- Marsha Mason, American actress
- Wayne Newton, American singer
- Billy Joe Royal, American singer
- Kitty Kelley, American writer
- Peter Greenaway, Welsh film director
- Barry Levinson, American film producer and director
- Roger Chapman, British rock singer
- Brandon De Wilde, American actor
- Valeriy Brumel, Russian athlete
- Valentin Lebedev, cosmonaut
- Francis X. DiLorenzo, American Catholic prelate
- Walt Hazzard, American basketball player
- Frank Williams Formula 1 constructor
- Sandra Dee, American actress
- Richard M. Daley, American politician
- Barbra Streisand, American singer, actress, and director
- Claudine Auger, French actress
- Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat
- Bobby Rydell, American singer
- Jim Keltner, American drummer
- Klaus Voormann, German illustrator and musician
- Galina Kulakova, Soviet cross country skier
- Jacques Rogge, Belgian International Olympics Committee president
- Vra áslavská, Czech gymnast
- Nickolas Ashford, American record producer, songwriter, musician
- Marc Alaimo, American actor
- Tammy Wynette, American musician
- Rin Kaiho, professional Go player.
- Terry Neill, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
- John Ashcroft, United States Attorney General
- Ian Dury, British musician
- Byron Dorgan, U.S. Senator
- Tony Pérez, Major League baseball player
- Valeriy Brumel, Soviet athlete
- Taj Mahal, American singer and guitarist
- Albert Hammond, British musician and composer
- Gary Kildall, American computer programmer
- Carlos Hathcock, Marine sniper
- Jill Jackson, member of pop duo Paul & Paula
- Theodore Kaczynski, American terrorist
- Calvin Simon, American musician
- Barbara Parkins, Canadian actress
- Stanley B. Prusiner, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Kevin Conway, American actor
- Pierre Bourque
- Curtis Mayfield, American songwriter and musician
- Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player
- Chuck Negron, American singer
- Preston Manning, Canadian politician
- Bert Sakmann, German physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- Giacomo Agostini, Italian motorcyclist
- Eddie Levert, American singer
- Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian International Atomic Energy Agency director, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- Roger Ebert, American film reviewer
- Sir Paul McCartney, English singer and songwriter
- Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor
- Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa
- Carl Radle, American bass guitarist
- Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane, lead singer of Spanky and Our Gang
- Brian Wilson, American bass player and singer
- Henry Taylor, American poet
- Togo D. West, Jr., American attorney and public official
- Mick Fleetwood, musician
- Michele Lee, American actress
- Gilberto Gil, singer, songwriter, and first Minister of Culture of Brazil
- Bruce Johnston, American Song Writer, Singer, member of The Beach Boys
- Karen Black, American actress
- Geneviève Bujold, Canadian actress
- Andraé Crouch, American singer, conductor, and actor
- Vicente Fox, President of Mexico
- Floyd Little, American football player
- Stefan Meller, former foreign minister of Poland
- Carmen Duncan, Australian actress
- Phil Gramm, American politician
- Richard Roundtree, American actor
- Edy Williams, American actress
- Ronnie James Dio, American musician
- Pyotr Klimuk, cosmonaut
- Billy Smith, Australian rugby player
- Harrison Ford, American actor
- Roger McGuinn, American musician
- Javier Solana, Spanish European Union foreign policy chief
- Mil Mascaras, Mexican professional wrestler
- Margaret Smith Court, Australian tennis player
- Tim Brooke-Taylor, English comedian
- Tim Brooke-Taylor, English comedian
- Pete Hamilton, American race car driver
- Myra Hindley, English murderer
- Chris Sarandon, American actor
- Vladimír Me
iar, Slovak president
- Dennis Ralston, American tennis player
- Tony Sirico, American actor
- Jerry Garcia, American guitarist, lyricist, and singer
- Isabel Allende, Chilean author
- David Lange, Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Garrison Keillor, American writer and radio host
- B.J. Thomas, American singer
- Fred Dalton Thompson, U.S. Senator from Tennessee and actor
- Fred Dalton Thompson, U.S. Senator from Tennessee and actor
- Isaac Hayes, American singer, songwriter, and actor
- Isaac Hayes, American singer, songwriter, and actor
- Kathy Lennon, American singer
- Kathy Lennon, American singer
- Vic Dana, American singer
- Dennis Turner, British politician
- B. J. Thomas, American singer
- Sterling Morrison, American guitarist
- C. J. Cherryh, American writer
- Al Jardine, American musician
- Werner Herzog, German film director
- Linda Gray, American actress
- Linda Gray, American actress
- Bernard MacLaverty, Northern Irish writer
- Bernard MacLaverty, Northern Irish writer
- Des Lynam, English television presenter
- Des Lynam, English television presenter
- Freda Payne, American singer and actress
- Freda Payne, American singer and actress
- David Stern, American basketball commissioner
- David Stern, American basketball commissioner
- Sila María Calderón, Governor of Puerto Rico
- Sila María Calderón, Governor of Puerto Rico
- Ilkka "Danny" Lipsanen, Finnish singer
- Gerry Marsden, English singer
- Ilkka "Danny" Lipsanen, Finnish singer
- Gerry Marsden, English singer
- Kent McCord, American actor
- Kent McCord, American actor
- Dith Pran, Cambodian-born photojournalist
- Alvin Stardust, English singer
- Dith Pran, Cambodian-born photojournalist
- Alvin Stardust, English singer
- Marshall Bell, American actor
- Marshall Bell, American actor
- Madeline Kahn, American actress
- Bill Nelson, U.S. Senator from Florida
- Ian McShane, British actor
- Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist
- Madeline Kahn, American actress
- Bill Nelson, U.S. Senator from Florida
- Ian McShane, British actor
- Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist
- Frank Gardner, Australian formula one driver
- Karl W. Richter, American aviator
- Britt Ekland, Swedish actress
- Peter Coyote, American actor
- Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor, singer, anchor and producer
- Jerry Jones, American football team owner
- Penny Marshall, American actress, comedienne, and director
- Andrew Vachss, American author and attorney
- Earl Hindman, American actor
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Elvin Bishop, American musician
- Judy Sheindlin, American judge and television host
- Annette Funicello, American actress
- Michael Crichton, American writer
- Helen Reddy, Australian singer
- Bob Hoskins, British actor
- Kees Verkerk, Dutch speed skater
- Larry Flynt, American magazine publisher
- Ralph Klein, Premier of Alberta
- Shere Hite, American author
- Stefanie Powers, American actress
- Johnny Rivers, American singer and composer
- Jean Shrimpton, British supermodel and actress
- Angel Cordero Jr., Puerto Rican jockey
- Tom Weiskopf, American golfer
- Robert F. Engle, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss Federal Councilor
- John Hammond, American musician
- Daniel Barenboim, Argentine-born pianist and conductor
- Martin Scorsese, American film director
- Linda Evans, American actress
- Calvin Klein, American clothing designer
- Sharon Olds, American poet
- Joseph Biden, U.S. Senator from Delaware
- Norman Greenbaum, American singer
- Billy Connolly, British comedian
- Marlin Fitzwater, White House Press Secretary
- Henry Carr, American athlete
- Jimi Hendrix, American singer, guitarist and songwriter
- Paul Warfield, American football player
- Philippe Huttenlocher, Swiss baritone
- John Crowley, American author
- Alice Schwarzer, German journalist
- Gemma Jones, British actress
- Roh Tae-woo, President of South Korea
- Peter Handke, Austrian writer
- Harry Chapin, American singer and songwriter
- Peter Tomarken, American game show host
- Dick Butkus, American football player
- Donna Mills, American actress
- Anna Eshoo, American politican
- Dave Clark, British drummer
- Paul Butterfield, American harmonica player
- Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China
- Reinhard Mey, German singer
- Carla Thomas, American singer
- Gray Davis, Governor of California, 1998-2003
- Rick Danko, Canadian musician
- Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian author and dissident
- Michael Nesmith, American singer and musician
- Fred Ward, American actor
- Andy Summers, British musician
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