A Monday
Born on December 28, 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
Monday
♑ Star sign
Capricorn
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Water Horse
🌗 Moon
Last Quarter
🎂 Age today
83 years
Famous people born on December 28, 1942
Born the same week
Vinicio Cerezo
December 26 · Guatemalan President
Reza Naji
December 26 · Iranian actor
Rajesh Khanna
December 29 · Indian actor and film producer (1942–2012)
Vladimir Bukovsky
December 30 · Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
December 28, 1942 was a Monday. Someone born on December 28, 1942 is a Capricorn. Someone born on December 28, 1942 is 83 years old today and has lived about 30,628 days. People born in 1942 belong to the Silent Generation.
Also born on December 28
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Woodrow Wilson
1856 · 28th President of the United States

F. W. Murnau
1888 · German film director

John von Neumann
1903 · Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist

Stan Lee
1922 · American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer

Linus Torvalds
1969 · Finnish software engineer (born )
Gift ideas for someone born in 1942
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 84
- “Born in 1942” gifts
- Wine from 1942
- Books about 1942
- A newspaper from 1942
- Coin set from 1942
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Questions about December 28, 1942
- What day of the week was December 28, 1942?
- December 28, 1942 was a Monday.
- What star sign is someone born on December 28, 1942?
- Someone born on December 28, 1942 is a Capricorn.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for December 28, 1942?
- In the Chinese zodiac, December 28, 1942 falls in the year of the Water Horse.
- How old is someone born on December 28, 1942?
- Someone born on December 28, 1942 is 83 years old today and has lived about 30,628 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1942?
- People born in 1942 belong to the Silent Generation.
- What is the birthstone for December?
- The birthstone for December is turquoise.
- What was the moon phase on December 28, 1942?
- On December 28, 1942 the moon was a Last Quarter.
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