1940s births

Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his overthrow by Libyan rebel forces in 2011 during the First Libyan Civil War. He came to power through a bloodless military coup, first becoming Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977, Secretary General of the General People's Congress from 1977 to 1979, and then the Brotherly Leader of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1979 to 2011. Initially ideologically committed to Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, Gaddafi later ruled according to his own Third International Theory.

Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011

Iraqi politician and military commander (1941–2010)

Nicaraguan-American model and actress

Moroccan royal

President of Guinea-Bissau (1940-2000)

American television, stage and film actress

former Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs

Cameroonian lawyer

Folk singer from Pakistan

American actress and director

Professor of computer science

Jamaican reggae musician (1949–2013)

American audio engineer

Head of Kuwait's puppet government during Iraqi invasion

American soprano

Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh is the widow of Ali Khamenei, the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989 and the second supreme leader of Iran from 1989 until his assassination in 2026.

Mauritian politician

American sleeplessness world record holder

actress, author

Swiss socialite (1940–2024)

Spanish lawyer and priest

Indian politician and police chief

Tunisian actor

Pakistani lawyer and activist

Indian actress

Australian actor

Sierra Leonean women's rights activist

Chilean billionaire

American actress active in television and voice acting

Taiwanese songwriter (1943–2024)

Ugandan rebel (1946–2007)

Indian singer

American singer

American poker player

Nigerian media personality

Indian politician; Mayor of Kochi

Nepalese actor (1943/44-2016)

American actress

The Doodler is an unidentified serial killer believed responsible for between six and sixteen murders and three assaults of men in San Francisco, California, United States, between January 1974 and September 1975. The nickname was given due to the perpetrator's habit of sketching his victims prior to stabbing them to death. The perpetrator met his victims at gay nightclubs, bars and restaurants.

English photographer

Indian obstetrician and gynaecologist

American mathematician

Colombian sociologist

Iranian writer (1940–2015)

Japanese actor (1947–1976)

United States Army photographer at My Lai

Sahrawi nationalist leader, executed by the Spanish Legion in 1970.

Somali teacher and activist, recipient of Nansen Refugee Award (2012)

Indian classical dancer

Bengali actress

Canadian serial murderer and rapist

German entrepreneur

American record producer

Indian politician

American film editor (1943–2023)

Uruguayan doctor murdered by the civic-military dictatorship (1973-1975)

Ghanaian Islamic scholar and lecturer (1940–2022)

Haitian politician

French politician and journalist