1940s
1940
January 27 - James Cromwell is born.
February 4 - George A. Romero is born.
March 10 - Chuck Norris is born.
June 1 - René Auberjonois is born.
July 13 - Patrick Stewart is born.
August 3 - Martin Sheen is born.
August 20 - Gisaburo Sugii is born.
October 9 - John Lennon is born.
November 9 - Becky Krotke is born.
November 30 - Mike Melvill is born.
December 1 - Richard Pryor is born.
1941
January 8 - Graham Chapman is born.
January 30 - Dick Cheney is born.
February 16 - Kim Jong-il is born.
September 10 - Gunpei Yokoi is born.
November 23 - Shinichiro Kurimoto is born.
December 9 - Beau Bridges is born.
1942
January 8 - Stephen Hawking is born.
May 22 - Ted Kaczynski is born.
June 18 - Paul McCartney is born.
July 13 - Harrison Ford is born.
August 4 - Don S. Davis is born.
October 23 - Michael Crichton is born.
November 20 - Joe Biden is born.
1943
February 5 - Nolan Bushnell is born.
March 31 - Christopher Walken is born.
June 13 - Malcolm McDowell is born.
August 20 - Sylvester McCoy is born.
October 5 - Steve Miller is born.
October 8 - Chevy Chase is born.
December 11 - John Kerry is born.
December 23 - Harry Shearer is born.
1944
April 4 - Craig T. Nelson is born.
May 10 - Jim Abrahams is born.
May 14 - George Lucas is born.
May 28 - Rudy Giuliani is born.
July 13 - Ernő Rubik is born.
August 11 - Ian McDiarmid is born.
November 21 - Harold Ramis is born.
November 25 - Ben Stein is born.
December 23 - Wesley Clark is born.
1945
March 1 - Dirk Benedict is born.
March 20 - Rick Berman is born.
April 12 - Franklin D. Roosevelt dies.
April 30 - Adolf Hitler dies.
May 24 - Priscilla Presley is born.
June 13 - Whitley Strieber is born.
July 16 - First successful nuclear weapon test.
August 6 - Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
August 9 - Atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki.
August 14 - Steve Martin is born.
October 19 - John Lithgow is born.
October 30 - Henry Winkler is born.
December 17 - Ernie Hudson is born.
1946
February 14 - Gregory Hines is born.
April 12 - Ed O'Neill is born.
May 19 - André the Giant is born.
July 6 - George W. Bush is born.
July 6 - Sylvester Stallone is born.
August 13 - H. G. Wells dies.
August 19 - Bill Clinton is born.
September 5 - Freddie Mercury is born.
October 8 - Dennis Kucinich is born.
October 27 - Ivan Reitman is born.
December 18 - Steven Spielberg is born.
1947
January 8 - David Bowie is born.
February 4 - Dan Quayle is born.
February 24 - Edward James Olmos is born.
April 12 - David Letterman is born.
June 24 - Kenneth Arnold sees nine flying saucers, kicking off the modern age of UFOs.
June 29 - Richard Lewis is born.
July 2 - UFO crashes near Roswell, New Mexico.
July 3 - Dave Barry is born.
July 22 - Albert Brooks is born.
July 30 - Arnold Schwarzenegger is born.
September 21 - Stephen King is born.
October 16 - David Zucker is born.
October 17 - Michael McKean is born.
November 24 - Dwight Schultz is born.
1948
January 16 - John Carpenter is born.
January 30 - Orville Wright dies.
February 1 - Rick James is born.
March 20 - John de Lancie is born.
March 22 - Wolf Blitzer is born.
August 30 - Lewis Black is born.
September 24 - Phil Hartman is born.
October 2 - Avery Brooks is born.
November 17 - Howard Dean is born.
November 27 - James Avery is born.
December 21 - Samuel L. Jackson is born.
1949
January 17 - Andy Kaufman is born.
January 24 - John Belushi is born.
February 2 - Brent Spiner is born.
March 2 - Gates McFadden is born.
March 16 - Erik Estrada is born.
May 20 - Dave Thomas - Canadian is born.
May 27 - Robert Ripley dies.
June 15 - Jim Varney is born.
July 24 - Michael Richards is born.
July 26 - Roger Taylor is born.
September 10 - Bill O'Reilly is born.
November 5 - Armin Shimerman is born.
December 17 - Paul Rodgers is born.