A Friday
Born on July 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
Friday
♋ Star sign
Cancer
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Water Horse
🌘 Moon
Waning Crescent
🎂 Age today
84 years
Famous people born on July 10, 1942
Aarón Padilla Gutiérrez
Mexican footballer (1942-2020)
Orri Vigfússon
Icelandic environmentalist (1942–2017)
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
July 10, 1942 was a Friday. Someone born on July 10, 1942 is a Cancer. Someone born on July 10, 1942 is 84 years old today and has lived about 30,799 days. People born in 1942 belong to the Silent Generation.
Also born on July 10
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

John Calvin
1509 · French Protestant reformer

William Blackstone
1723 · English jurist, judge, and politician

Camille Pissarro
1830 · Danish-French painter

James McNeill Whistler
1834 · American painter

Nikola Tesla
1856 · Serbian-American engineer and inventor

Marcel Proust
1871 · French novelist, critic and essayist

Mahathir Mohamad
1925 · Prime Minister of Malaysia
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 July 10, 1942
- What day of the week was July 10, 1942?
- July 10, 1942 was a Friday.
- What star sign is someone born on July 10, 1942?
- Someone born on July 10, 1942 is a Cancer.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for July 10, 1942?
- In the Chinese zodiac, July 10, 1942 falls in the year of the Water Horse.
- How old is someone born on July 10, 1942?
- Someone born on July 10, 1942 is 84 years old today and has lived about 30,799 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1942?
- People born in 1942 belong to the Silent Generation.
- What is the birthstone for July?
- The birthstone for July is ruby.
- What was the moon phase on July 10, 1942?
- On July 10, 1942 the moon was a Waning Crescent.
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