Han Pil-hwa (82)
January 21st, 1942

North Korean speed skater – Han Pil-hwa was born in Nampho (City and seaport in South Pyongan Province, North Korea) on January 21st, 1942 and is 82 years old today.

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83

Plácido Domingo

Spanish tenor and conductor

*January 21st, 1941, Madrid

31

Wincent Weiss

German pop singer

*January 21st, 1993, Bad Oldesloe

37

Andrew Ellis

Badminton player

*January 21st, 1987, Leeds

52

Heryanto Arbi

Indonesian badminton player

*January 21st, 1972, Kota Kudus

44

Lee Kyung-won

South Korean badminton player

*January 21st, 1980, Changwon

25

Em Beihold

Irani-American singer-songwriter and TikToker

*January 21st, 1999, Glendale

65

Paul Allen

American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018)

*January 21st, 1953, Seattle †October 15th, 2018, Seattle

90

Audrey Dalton

Actress

*January 21st, 1934, Dublin

68

Heinz Kähler

German classical archaeologist

*January 21st, 1905, Tetenbüll †January 9th, 1974, Cologne

79

Martin Shaw

British actor

*January 21st, 1945, Birmingham

86

Paul Scofield

English actor (1922–2008)

*January 21st, 1922, West Sussex †March 19th, 2008, Sussex

88

Radley Metzger

American film director, screenwriter, film producer, film editor and film distributor

*January 21st, 1929, The Bronx †March 31st, 2017, New York City

52

Cat Power

American singer-songwriter

*January 21st, 1972, Atlanta

62

Isabelle Nanty

French actress, film director, theatre director and screenwriter

*January 21st, 1962, Verdun

80

Hasso Plattner

German billionaire businessman and philanthropist

*January 21st, 1944, Berlin

70

Thomas de Maizière

German politician

*January 21st, 1954, Bonn

67

Rainer Laupichler

German actor

*January 21st, 1957, Daun

68

Adeline Hazan

French politician

*January 21st, 1956, Paris

72

Richie Havens

American singer-songwriter

*January 21st, 1941, Brooklyn †April 22nd, 2013, Jersey City

83

Ann Wedgeworth

American actress (1934-2017)

*January 21st, 1934, Abilene †November 16th, 2017, New York City

83

Harald Kahl

German politician

*January 21st, 1941, Herne

81

Kenzo Yokoyama

Japanese association football player and manager

*January 21st, 1943, Urawa

68

Geena Davis

American actress

*January 21st, 1956, Wareham

59

María Luisa Ramos Urzagaste

Bolivian diplomat

*January 21st, 1965, Palmar Chico

36

Angel Mena Pedroza

Ecuadorian Footballer

*January 21st, 1988, Guayaquil

63

Piotr Ugrumov

Soviet, Latvian and Russian cyclist

*January 21st, 1961, Riga

80

Uto Ughi

Italian violinist and conductor

*January 21st, 1944, Busto Arsizio

81

Stephen Most

Screenwriter

*January 21st, 1943, San Diego

75

Trương Tấn Sang

Former president of Vietnam

*January 21st, 1949, Đức Hòa

30

Amin Affane

Swedish footballer

*January 21st, 1994, Gothenburg

Also born in 1942

81

Joe Biden

President of the United States since 2021

*November 20th, 1942, Scranton

77

Terry Jones

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

*February 1st, 1942, Colwyn Bay †January 21st, 2020, North London

81

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer

German-Swedish actor

*August 16th, 1942, Essen

76

Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)

*January 8th, 1942, Oxford †March 14th, 2018, Cambridge

81

Katherine Justice

American actress

*October 28th, 1942, Sacramento

81

Wolfgang Schäuble

German politician and statesman (1942–2023)

*September 18th, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau †December 26th, 2023, Offenburg

81

Richard Stoltzman

American musician

*July 12th, 1942, Omaha

81

Amitabh Bachchan

Indian film actor (born 1942)

*October 11th, 1942, Prayagraj

82

John Cale

Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer

*March 9th, 1942, Garnant

81

Paul McCartney

English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942)

*June 18th, 1942, Liverpool

74

Daliah Lavi

Israeli actress, singer and model (1942-2017)

*October 12th, 1942, Shavei Tzion †May 3rd, 2017, Asheville

74

Muhammad Ali

American boxer, philanthropist, and activist (1942–2016)

*January 17th, 1942, Louisville †June 3rd, 2016, Scottsdale

82

Per A. Anonsen

Norwegian actor, film editor, screenwriter and film producer

*January 8th, 1942, Oslo

81

Søren Steen

Danish actor

*August 22nd, 1942, Denmark

69

Muammar Gaddafi

Libyan dictator, politician and political theorist (1942–2011)

*June 7th, 1942, Qasr Abu Hadi †October 20th, 2011, Sirte

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

76

Aretha Franklin

American singer, songwriter, and pianist (1942–2018)

*March 25th, 1942, Memphis †August 16th, 2018, Detroit

82

Jun'ichirō Koizumi

Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006

*January 8th, 1942, Yokosuka

81

Raman Ghosh

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1942, Bareilly

81

Hu Jintao

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012

*December 21st, 1942, Jiangyan District

27

Jimi Hendrix

American guitarist (1942–1970)

*November 27th, 1942, Seattle †September 18th, 1970, Kensington

75

Pierre Seron

Belgian comics artist (1942-2017)

*February 9th, 1942, Chênée †May 24th, 2017, Saint-Bénézet

81

Thomas Danneberg

German actor (1942–2023)

*June 2nd, 1942, Berlin †September 30th, 2023, Berlin

74

Sven-Erik Magnusson

Swedish singer and musician

*October 13th, 1942, Säffle †March 22nd, 2017, Karlstad

71

Bob Hoskins

British actor (1942–2014)

*October 26th, 1942, Bury St Edmunds †April 29th, 2014, Bury St Edmunds

82

Michael Bloomberg

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

*February 14th, 1942, Boston

82

Mike Pender

British musician

*March 3rd, 1942, Kirkdale

70

Roger Ebert

American film critic and author (1942–2013)

*June 18th, 1942, Urbana †April 4th, 2013, Chicago

75

David Ogden Stiers

American actor (1942–2018)

*October 31st, 1942, Peoria †March 3rd, 2018, Newport

81

Fraser Stoddart

Scottish chemist and Nobel Laureate in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines

*May 24th, 1942, Edinburgh

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