7th January
January 7 is the 7th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining (359 in leap years).
The day is 人日 (Jinjitsu), 七草の節句 in Japan.
Events
Births
- 1539 - Sebastián de Covarrubias Horozco, Spanish Lexicographer
- 1612 - Paul de La Pierre, composer
- 1768 - Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples, (d. 1844)
- 1800 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States, from 1850-1853, (d. 1874)
- 1831 - Heinrich von Stephan, organizer of the German postal union and founder of the Universal postal union, (d. 1897)
- 1834 - Johann Philipp Reis, physicist and inventor, (d. 1874)
- 1844 - Bernadette Soubirous, French saint, (d. 1879)
- 1871 - Felix Édouard Justin Émile Borel, mathematician, politician, statesmen, member of the French Resistance during World War II, (d. 1956)
- 1873 - Adolph Zukor, producer, (d. 1976)
- 1890 - Henny Porten, actress, (d. 1960)
- 1891 - Zora Neale Hurston, author, (d. 1960)
- 1898 - Rudolf Fernau, actor, (d. 1985)
- 1899 - Francis Poulenc, composer, (d. 1963)
- 1901? - Zora Neale Hurston, writer, (d. 1960)
- 1910 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas, segregationist, (d. 1994)
- 1911 - Butterfly McQueen, actress, (d. 1995)
- 1912 - Charles Addams, cartoonist, (d. 1988)
- 1912 - Günther Wand, conductor
- 1915 - Erwin Wickert, narrator
- 1916 - Paul Keres, chess player, (d. 1975)
- 1922 - Jean-Pierre Rampal, musician
- 1923 - Pinkas Braun, actor and film director
- 1925 - Gerald Durrell naturalist, zookeeper, author and television presenter, (d. 1995)
- 1928 - William Peter Blatty, screenwriter
- 1935 - Valeri Kubasov, cosmonaut
- 1942 - Paul Revere, singer and musician
- 1948 - Kenny Loggins, singer
- 1956 - David Caruso, actor
- 1957 - Katie Couric, television host
- 1957 - Julian Solis, world champion boxer
- 1957 - Nicholson Baker, novelist
- 1964 - Nicolas Cage, actor
Deaths
- 312 - Lucianus of Antioch, theologist/saint
- 1325 - King Dinis of Portugal, (b. 1261)
- 1536 - Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England, (b. 1485)
- 1864 - Caleb Blood Smith, U.S. Secretary of the Interior
- 1872 - James Fisk, entrepreneur, (b. 1834)
- 1893 - Jožef Stefan, Slovene physicist, mathematician and poet, (b. 1835)
- 1972 - John Berryman, poet, (b. 1914)
- 1988 - Trevor Howard, actor, (b. 1913)
- 1989 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, (b. 1901)
- 1990 - Bronko Nagurski, American football star, (b. 1908)
- 1998 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize (b.1906
Holidays and observances
See Also:
January 6 - January 8 - December 7 - February 7 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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