A Friday
Born on September 18, 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
Virgo
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Water Horse
🌓 Moon
First Quarter
🎂 Age today
84 years
Famous people born on September 18, 1942
Born the same week
Wen Jiabao
September 15 · 6th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2013 (born 1942)
Emmerson Mnangagwa
September 15 · President of the Republic of Zimbabwe
Petar Kirov
September 17 · Olympic wrestler
Yevhen Stankovych
September 19 · Soviet and Ukrainian composer
Rose Francine Rogombe
September 20 · Gabonese politician (1942-2015)
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
September 18, 1942 was a Friday. Someone born on September 18, 1942 is a Virgo. Someone born on September 18, 1942 is 84 years old today and has lived about 30,729 days. People born in 1942 belong to the Silent Generation.
Also born on September 18
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Samuel Johnson
1709 · English writer and lexicographer

Adrien-Marie Legendre
1752 · French mathematician

Léon Foucault
1819 · French physicist

Greta Garbo
1905 · Swedish-American actress
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 18, 1942
- What day of the week was September 18, 1942?
- September 18, 1942 was a Friday.
- What star sign is someone born on September 18, 1942?
- Someone born on September 18, 1942 is a Virgo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for September 18, 1942?
- In the Chinese zodiac, September 18, 1942 falls in the year of the Water Horse.
- How old is someone born on September 18, 1942?
- Someone born on September 18, 1942 is 84 years old today and has lived about 30,729 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 18, 1942?
- On September 18, 1942 the moon was a First Quarter.
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