February 7
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February 7 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 327 days remaining after February 7 until the end of the year (328 in leap years).
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[change] Births
- 1102 – Princess Matilda, Princess of England and wife of Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1169)
- 1478 – Sir Thomas More, English statesman, humanist, and author (d. 1535)
- 1693 – Empress Anna of Russia (d. 1740)
- 1812 – Charles Dickens, English novelist (d. 1870)
- 1817 – Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist (d. 1895)
- 1867 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (d. 1957)
- 1870 – Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (d. 1937)
- 1877 – G.H. Hardy, British mathematician (d. 1947)
- 1883 – Eubie Blake, American musician and composer (d. 1983)
- 1885 – Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951)
- 1895 – Anita Stewart, American film actress (d. 1961)
- 1898 – Dock Boggs, American musician (d. 1971)
- 1905 – Paul Nizan, French author (d. 1940)
- 1905 – Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist (d. 1983)
- 1906 – Henry Pu-yi, Emperor of China (d. 1967)
- 1908 – Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (d. 1983)
- 1909 – Helder Camara, Brazilian archbishop (d. 1999)
- 1914 – Ramón Mercader, Spanish assassin of Leon Trotsky (d. 1978)
- 1915 – Eddie Bracken, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1920 – An Wang, Chinese-born computer pioneer (d. 1990)
- 1922 – Hattie Jacques, English actress (d. 1980)
- 1926 – Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009)
- 1927 – Juliette Greco, French singer and actor
- 1927 – Vladimir Kuts, Russian runner
- 1932 – Gay Talese, American author
- 1932 – Al Worden, American astronaut
- 1934 – Earl King, American musician (d. 2003)
- 1934 – Eddie Fenech Adami, former President of Malta
- 1943 – Gareth Hunt, English actor
- 1945 – Gerald Davies, Welsh rugby player
- 1946 – Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (d. 2011)
- 1949 – Paulo César Carpegiani, Brazilian footballer and coach
- 1950 – Mauro Bellugi, Italian footballer
- 1953 – Dan Quisenberry, baseball player (d. 1998)
- 1954 – Dieter Bohlen German composer and media personality
- 1955 – Mario Coutinho Brazilian physician
- 1955 – Miguel Ferrer, American actor
- 1955 – Rolf Benirschke, American football player
- 1958 – Giuseppe Baresi, Italian footballer
- 1959 – Mick McCarthy, English football manager
- 1960 – James Spader, American actor
- 1962 – Garth Brooks, American singer
- 1962 – Eddie Izzard, British actor and comedian
- 1964 – Ray Mears, British television presenter and outdoor survival expert
- 1965 – Jason Gedrick, American actor
- 1966 – Kristin Otto, German swimmer
- 1967 – Chris Rock, American comedian and actor
- 1968 – Peter Bondra, Ukrainian-born hockey player
- 1968 – Sully Erna, American singer (Godsmack)
- 1974 – Steve Nash, Canadian basketball player
- 1975 – Wes Borland, American guitarist (Limp Bizkit)
- 1975 – Rafik Saifi, Algerian footballer
- 1977 – Tsuneyasu Miyamoto, Japanese footballer
- 1978 – Ashton Kutcher, American actor
- 1978 – Daniel Van Buyten, Belgian footballer
- 1979 – Tawakel Karman, Yemeni activist, co-winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize
- 1985 – Tina Majorino, American actress
- 1993 – David Dorfman, American actor
[change] Deaths
- 1779 – William Boyce, English composer (b. 1711)
- 1799 – Qianlong, Emperor of China (b. 1711)
- 1837 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)
- 1839 – Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (b. 1799)
- 1878 – Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)
- 1937 – Elihu Root, American politician (b. 1845)
- 1959 – D.F. Malan, South African politician, father of Apartheid (b. 1874)
- 1964 – Sophoklis Venizelos, Greek Prime Minister (b. 1894)
- 1979 – Josef Mengele, Nazi doctor (b. 1911)
- 1987 – Claudio Villa, Italian singer (b. 1926)
- 1999 – King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
- 2000 – Big Pun, American rapper (b. 1971)
- 2001 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviatrix (b. 1906)
- 2010 – Franco Ballerini, Italian road racing cyclist (b. 1964)
- 2010 – Andre Kolingba, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1936)
[change] Events
- 457 – Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1301 – Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first Prince of Wales.
- 1900 – The British Labour Party is formed.
- 1971 – Women gain the right to vote in Switzerland.
- 1974 – Grenada becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1979 – For the first time since its discovery, the dwarf planet Pluto orbits the Sun closer than Neptune.
- 1984 – US astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart perform the first untethered spacewalk.
- 1990 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly of power.
- 1991 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide becomes President of Haiti.
- 1992 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed to officially form the European Union.
- 1998 – The 1998 Winter Olympics open in Nagano, Japan.
- 2009 – Bushfires in the Australian state of Victoria kill 173 people.
[change] Observances
- Independence Day in Grenada
