1942 births

Giancarlo Giammetti is an Italian businessman, known for his professional and personal association with Valentino Garavani. He is the founder with Valentino Garavani of the Valentino fashion house. He is the Honorary President of Valentino. In 2006, he was inducted in the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American politician who was the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009 and also served as the 47th vice president under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017.

Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and activist. A global cultural icon, widely known by the nickname "the Greatest", he is often regarded as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time. He held the Ring magazine heavyweight title from 1964 to 1970, was the undisputed champion from 1974 to 1978, and was the WBA and Ring heavyweight champion from 1978 to 1979. In 1999, he was named Sportsman of the Century by Sports Illustrated and the Sports Personality of the Century by the BBC.

American guitarist (1942–1970)

Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian actor who works in Hindi cinema. Widely considered one of the greatest, most accomplished and commercially successful actors in the history of Indian cinema, he has starred in over 200 films. Bachchan has been called as the Shahenshah of Bollywood, Sadi ke Mahanayak, Bollywood's Star of the Millennium, or simply Big B. His dominance in the Indian film industry during the 1970s–80s led the French director François Truffaut to describe it as a "one-man industry". He is a recipient of several accolades including seven National Film Awards and seventeen Filmfare Awards & one South Filmfare award.

former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party

Harrison Ford is an American actor. Regarded as a cinematic cultural icon, Ford's accolades include nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, an Emmy Award, five Golden Globe Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He is the recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award, Cecil B. DeMille Award, Honorary César, Honorary Palme d'Or and SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award.

Aretha Louise Franklin was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Regarded as the "Queen of Soul", she was twice named by Rolling Stone magazine as the greatest singer of all time.

Martin Charles Scorsese is an American filmmaker. One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, he is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential directors in the history of cinema. He has received many accolades, including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. He has been honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute in 1998, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".

President of South Africa from 1999 to 2008

Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand is an American singer, actress, songwriter, and filmmaker. Over a career spanning more than six decades, Streisand's success in the entertainment industry has included Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards.

Chilean writer

American film critic and author (1942–2013)

former President of Nigeria from 1983 to 1985 and 2015 to 2025 (born 1942–2025)

Austrian writer, playwright and film director (born 1942)

British actor (born 1942)

Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006

Egyptian law scholar and diplomat, 4th Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient

President of North Yemen (1978–1990) and Yemen (1990–2012)

6th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2004 to 2013

President of Angola from 1979 to 2017

American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)

Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer (born 1942)

English actor (1942–2014)

American businessman and politician; 108th Mayor of New York City

American rock musician (1942–2013)

Equatoguinean politician, President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979

President of Ivory Coast (2010–present)

German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director (born 1942)

Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign.

American heavy metal singer (1942–2010)

American politician and lawyer (born 1942)

62th President of Mexico

German biologist (1995 Nobel Prize)

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

American philosopher (1942–2024)

Italian association football player and manager

10th Prime Minister of Israel

Scottish actor and comedian

American actor (1942–2018)

American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer

President of the International Olympic Committee from 2001 to 2013

Prime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996

American novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

Nobel prize winning American chemist (1942-2021)

Australian tennis player

American neurologist and biochemist

Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer (1942–2020)

American singer-songwriter and musician (born 1942)

Calvin Richard Klein is an American fashion designer. In 1968, he launched the company that later became Calvin Klein. In addition to clothing, he has also given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewellery.

American novelist and screenwriter

American musician and actor (1942-2008)

Japanese professor of immunology and genomic medicine (1942–)

British multi-instrumentalist, founder of The Rolling Stones (1942–1969)

British biologist and Nobel laureate (1942–2018)

Israeli Argentine-born pianist and conductor (born 1942)

Italian association football player (1942–2006)

Spanish politician

American screenwriter, film director, actor, and producer

Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic