page_title: 1942 in the United States
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 1942 in the United States / Births / August
caption_attribution_description: Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead, May 10 1980, Hart Civic Center, New Haven, CT. Wolf by Doug Irwin (Sonoma, CA)
context_page_description: Events from the year 1942 in the United States.
context_section_description: August 1 – Jerry Garcia, American musician (d. 1995)
  August 4 – Cleon Jones, American baseball player
  August 7
  Jane Fortune, American author, journalist, and philanthropist (d. 2018)
  Tobin Bell, American film and television actor
  Garrison Keillor, American writer and radio host
  August 9 – Tommie Agee, American baseball player (d. 2001)
  August 13 – Arthur K. Cebrowski, American admiral (d. 2005)
  August 16 – Barbara George, American singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
  August 19 – Fred Thompson, American politician and actor (d. 2015)
  August 20 – Isaac Hayes, African-American singer and actor (d. 2008)
  August 23 – Nancy Richey, American tennis player
  August 24 – Max Cleland, American politician
  August 27 – Daryl Dragon, American musician (d. 2019)
  August 29 – Sterling Morrison, American musician (d. 1995)
caption: Jerry Garcia
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