A Saturday
Born on January 10, 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
Saturday
♑ Star sign
Capricorn
🐍 Chinese zodiac
Metal Snake
🌗 Moon
Last Quarter
🎂 Age today
84 years
Famous people born on January 10, 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 10, 1942 was a Saturday. Someone born on January 10, 1942 is a Capricorn. Someone born on January 10, 1942 is 84 years old today and has lived about 30,980 days. People born in 1942 belong to the Silent Generation.
Also born on January 10
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Sergei Eisenstein
1898 · Soviet filmmaker

Donald Knuth
1938 · American computer scientist and mathematician (born )
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 10, 1942
- What day of the week was January 10, 1942?
- January 10, 1942 was a Saturday.
- What star sign is someone born on January 10, 1942?
- Someone born on January 10, 1942 is a Capricorn.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 10, 1942?
- In the Chinese zodiac, January 10, 1942 falls in the year of the Metal Snake.
- How old is someone born on January 10, 1942?
- Someone born on January 10, 1942 is 84 years old today and has lived about 30,980 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 10, 1942?
- On January 10, 1942 the moon was a Last Quarter.
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