A Sunday
Born on September 13, 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
Sunday
♍ Star sign
Virgo
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Water Horse
🌒 Moon
Waxing Crescent
🎂 Age today
84 years
Famous people born on September 13, 1942
Béla Károlyi
Romanian-American gymnastics coach (1942–2024)
Daniel Frank Walls
New Zealand physicist (1942–1999)
Kwesi Botchwey
Ghanaian academic, lawyer and politician
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
September 13, 1942 was a Sunday. Someone born on September 13, 1942 is a Virgo. Someone born on September 13, 1942 is 84 years old today and has lived about 30,734 days. People born in 1942 belong to the Silent Generation.
Also born on September 13
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Cesare Borgia
1475 · Duke of Romagna and former Catholic cardinal

Daniel Defoe
1660 · English trader, writer, and journalist

Clara Schumann
1819 · German musician and composer

John J. Pershing
1860 · United States Army general in World War I

Arnold Schoenberg
1874 · Austrian-Jewish American composer

Roald Dahl
1916 · British writer and poet
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 13, 1942
- What day of the week was September 13, 1942?
- September 13, 1942 was a Sunday.
- What star sign is someone born on September 13, 1942?
- Someone born on September 13, 1942 is a Virgo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for September 13, 1942?
- In the Chinese zodiac, September 13, 1942 falls in the year of the Water Horse.
- How old is someone born on September 13, 1942?
- Someone born on September 13, 1942 is 84 years old today and has lived about 30,734 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 13, 1942?
- On September 13, 1942 the moon was a Waxing Crescent.
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