A Friday
Born on January 9, 1942?
Here's the world on that day. Add a name and a birthplace for the full time capsule: the weather, the sky above your town and what things cost.
📅 Weekday
Friday
♑ Star sign
Capricorn
🐍 Chinese zodiac
Metal Snake
🌗 Moon
Last Quarter
🎂 Age today
84 years
Famous people born on January 9, 1942
Born the same week
Vasily Alekseyev
January 7 · Soviet-Russian weightlifter (1942–2011)

Stephen Hawking
January 8 · British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
Yvette Mimieux
January 8 · American actress (1942–2022)
Junichiro Koizumi
January 8 · Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
January 9, 1942 was a Friday. Someone born on January 9, 1942 is a Capricorn. Someone born on January 9, 1942 is 84 years old today and has lived about 30,981 days. People born in 1942 belong to the Silent Generation.
Also born on January 9
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Grigori Rasputin
1869 · Russian mystic

John B. Watson
1878 · American psychologist (

George Balanchine
1904 · American choreographer, dancer and ballet master

Simone de Beauvoir
1908 · French philosopher, social theorist and activist

Richard Nixon
1913 · president of the United States from to
Gift ideas for someone born in 1942
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 85
- “Born in 1942” gifts
- Wine from 1942
- Books about 1942
- A newspaper from 1942
- Coin set from 1942
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Questions about January 9, 1942
- What day of the week was January 9, 1942?
- January 9, 1942 was a Friday.
- What star sign is someone born on January 9, 1942?
- Someone born on January 9, 1942 is a Capricorn.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 9, 1942?
- In the Chinese zodiac, January 9, 1942 falls in the year of the Metal Snake.
- How old is someone born on January 9, 1942?
- Someone born on January 9, 1942 is 84 years old today and has lived about 30,981 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1942?
- People born in 1942 belong to the Silent Generation.
- What is the birthstone for January?
- The birthstone for January is garnet.
- What was the moon phase on January 9, 1942?
- On January 9, 1942 the moon was a Last Quarter.
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