page_title: 1942
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 1942 / Births / December
caption_attribution_description: English: Paul Butterfield at Woodstock Reunion, Parr Meadows, Ridge, NY
context_page_description: 1942 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1942nd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 942nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 42nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1940s decade.
context_section_description: December 2 – Francisque Ravony, 7th Prime Minister of Madagascar (d. 2003)
  December 3 – Alice Schwarzer, German feminist, founder and publisher of the German feminist journal EMMA
  December 4
  Al Hunt, American columnist
  Gemma Jones, British actress
  December 6
  Chelsea Brown, American actress (d. 2017)
  Peter Handke, Austrian novelist
  December 7
  Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
  Reginald Lewis, American businessman (d. 1993)
  Peter Tomarken, American game-show host (d. 2006)
  December 9
  Dick Butkus, American football player
  Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (d. 1997)
  December 15 – Kathleen Blanco, American politician, 54th Governor of Louisiana (d. 2019)
  December 17
  Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian army general and 15th President of Nigeria
  Paul Butterfield, American musician (d. 1987)
  December 19
  Milan Milutinovic, President of Serbia
  Gene Okerlund, American wrestling announcer (d. 2019)
  December 20 – Bob Hayes, African-American athlete (d. 2002)
  December 21
  Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, 6th President of the People's Republic of China
  Carla Thomas, American singer
  December 27
  Muruga Booker, American drummer, composer, inventor, artist, and recording artist
  Charmian Carr, American actress (d. 2016)
  Thomas Menino, 53rd Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2014)
  December 29 – Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor (d. 2012)
  December 30
  Betty Aberlin, American actress
  Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian-born British human rights activist and political dissident (d. 2019)
  Anne Charleston, Australian actress
  Allan Gotthelf, American philosopher (d. 2013)
  Michael Nesmith, American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, businessman and philanthropist
  Janko Prunk, Slovenian historian
  December 31 – Taufiq Kiemas, 5th First Gentleman of Indonesia (d. 2013)
caption: Paul Butterfield
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