A Thursday
Born on September 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
Thursday
♍ Star sign
Virgo
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Water Horse
🌑 Moon
New Moon
🎂 Age today
84 years
Famous people born on September 10, 1942
No famous birthdays are recorded for this exact day.
Born the same week
Želimir Žilnik
September 8 · Serbian film director (born 1942)
Eusebio Leal
September 11 · Cuban historian (1942-2020)
Muljadi
September 11 · badminton player (1942-2010)
Béla Károlyi
September 13 · Romanian-American gymnastics coach (1942–2024)
Daniel Frank Walls
September 13 · New Zealand physicist (1942–1999)
Kwesi Botchwey
September 13 · Ghanaian academic, lawyer and politician
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
September 10, 1942 was a Thursday. Someone born on September 10, 1942 is a Virgo. Someone born on September 10, 1942 is 84 years old today and has lived about 30,737 days. People born in 1942 belong to the Silent Generation.
Also born on September 10
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Henry Purcell
1659 · English composer

Charles Sanders Peirce
1839 · American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist

Stephen Jay Gould
1941 · American biologist and historian of science
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 September 10, 1942
- What day of the week was September 10, 1942?
- September 10, 1942 was a Thursday.
- What star sign is someone born on September 10, 1942?
- Someone born on September 10, 1942 is a Virgo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for September 10, 1942?
- In the Chinese zodiac, September 10, 1942 falls in the year of the Water Horse.
- How old is someone born on September 10, 1942?
- Someone born on September 10, 1942 is 84 years old today and has lived about 30,737 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1942?
- People born in 1942 belong to the Silent Generation.
- What is the birthstone for September?
- The birthstone for September is sapphire.
- What was the moon phase on September 10, 1942?
- On September 10, 1942 the moon was a New Moon.
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