Koji Watanabe (82)
January 19th, 1942

Japanese tennis player – Koji Watanabe was born in Ashiya (City in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan) on January 19th, 1942 and is 82 years old today.

Other personalities born on January 19

27

Janis Joplin

American singer

*January 19th, 1943, Port Arthur †October 4th, 1970, Hollywood

44

Cai Yun

Chinese badminton player

*January 19th, 1980, Suzhou

60

Marit Törnqvist

Swedish writer, illustrator and translator

*January 19th, 1964, Uppsala Cathedral Assembly

69

Uwe Reinders

German association football player and manager

*January 19th, 1955, Essen

67

Peter Aude

Danish actor

*January 19th, 1957, Copenhagen

78

Dolly Parton

American singer, songwriter and actress

*January 19th, 1946, Pittman Center

89

Lothar Dräger

German comics writer

*January 19th, 1927, Grambow †July 9th, 2016, Potsdam

33

Julian von Schleinitz

German luger

*January 19th, 1991, Berchtesgaden

30

Matthias Ginter

German association football player

*January 19th, 1994, Freiburg im Breisgau

101

Harry Huskey

American computer design pioneer (1916-2017)

*January 19th, 1916, Whittier †April 9th, 2017, Santa Cruz

88

Anthony Dexter

American actor

*January 19th, 1913, Talmage †March 27th, 2001, Greeley

40

Glenn Warfe

Badminton player

*January 19th, 1984, Werribee

44

Juma Muwowo

Badminton player

*January 19th, 1980, Kitwe

78

Julian Barnes

English writer

*January 19th, 1946, Leicester

55

Camilla Overbye Roos

Danish actress

*January 19th, 1969, Copenhagen

86

Horace Parlan

(1931-2017) American-Danish jazz pianist

*January 19th, 1931, Pittsburgh †February 23rd, 2017, Korsør

28

Tang Pingyang

Chinese badminton player

*January 19th, 1996, Nantong

32

Logan Lerman

American actor

*January 19th, 1992, Beverly Hills

83

Putter Smith

American jazz bassist, recording artist, music teacher, author, actor

*January 19th, 1941, California

74

David Tredinnick

British politician (born 1950)

*January 19th, 1950, Worthing

55

Edwidge Danticat

Novelist, short story writer, memoirist

*January 19th, 1969, Port-au-Prince

31

Nicolai Næss

Norwegian football player

*January 19th, 1993, Oslo

34

Ana Usabiaga

Spanish cyclist

*January 19th, 1990, Ordizia

26

Lisa Teige

Norwegian actress and dancer

*January 19th, 1998, Bergen

40

Edgar Allan Poe

American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)

*January 19th, 1809, Boston †October 7th, 1849, Baltimore

79

Jürgen Haase

East German long distance track runner

*January 19th, 1945, Friedersdorf (Rückersdorf)

100

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

5th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1920-2020)

*January 19th, 1920, Lima †March 4th, 2020, Lima

83

Stan Persky

Canadian journalist

*January 19th, 1941, Chicago

43

Audrey Lamy

French actress

*January 19th, 1981, Alès

33

Erin Sanders

American actress

*January 19th, 1991, Santa Monica

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

Koji Watanabe