March 21, 1942

1942Françoise Dorléac, French actress (died 1967)^[†]

Françoise Paulette Louise Dorléac was a French actress. She was the elder sister of Catherine Deneuve, with whom she starred in the musical comedy film, The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967). Her other films include Philippe de Broca's That Man from Rio, François Truffaut's The Soft Skin, Val Guest's Where the Spies Are (1965), and Roman Polanski's Cul-de-sac (1966).

1942Amina Claudine Myers, American singer-songwriter and pianist^[†]

Amina Claudine Myers is an American jazz pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and arranger.

1942Kostas Politis, Greek basketball player and coach (died 2018)^[†]

Konstantinos "Kostas" Politis was a Greek professional basketball player and coach.

1942Patcha Ramachandra Rao, Indian metallurgist, educator and administrator (died 2010)^[†]

Patcha Ramachandra Rao was a metallurgist and administrator. He has the unique distinction of being the only vice-chancellor (2002–05) of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) who was also a student (1963–68) and faculty (1964–92) at that institution. From 1992 to 2002, Rao was the director of the National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur. After his tenure as vice-chancellor of B.H.U., in 2005, he took the reins of the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) as its first vice-chancellor. He was to serve DIAT until his superannuation in 2007. From 2007 till the end, Rao was a Raja Ramanna Fellow at the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.