A Wednesday
Born on September 23, 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
Wednesday
♎ Star sign
Libra
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Water Horse
🌕 Moon
Full Moon
🎂 Age today
84 years
Famous people born on September 23, 1942
Born the same week
Rose Francine Rogombe
September 20 · Gabonese politician (1942-2015)
Rubén Salazar Gómez
September 22 · Colobmbian Roman Catholic priest, cardina, archbishop emeritus of Bogotá
Hanna Damasio
September 24 · Portuguese neuroscientist (1942-)
Thaddée Ntihinyurwa
September 25 · Catholic archbishop
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
September 26 · Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory (1942-2004)
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
September 23, 1942 was a Wednesday. Someone born on September 23, 1942 is a Libra. Someone born on September 23, 1942 is 84 years old today and has lived about 30,724 days. People born in 1942 belong to the Silent Generation.
Also born on September 23
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Walter Lippmann
1889 · American journalist and political commentator

John Coltrane
1926 · American jazz saxophonist

Ray Charles
1930 · American singer, pianist and songwriter

Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
1940 · Iranian singer and musician

Julio Iglesias
1943 · Spanish singer and lawyer (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 September 23, 1942
- What day of the week was September 23, 1942?
- September 23, 1942 was a Wednesday.
- What star sign is someone born on September 23, 1942?
- Someone born on September 23, 1942 is a Libra.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for September 23, 1942?
- In the Chinese zodiac, September 23, 1942 falls in the year of the Water Horse.
- How old is someone born on September 23, 1942?
- Someone born on September 23, 1942 is 84 years old today and has lived about 30,724 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 23, 1942?
- On September 23, 1942 the moon was a Full Moon.
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