On This Day — January 7
4432 noted people were born and 2208 died on January 7 in our archive, including Monique Frize, Agnes Wold and Alexander Serafimovich.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on January 7
Monique Frize
b. 1942
Agnes Wold
b. 1955
Alexander Serafimovich
1863 – 1949
Charles R. Doering
1956 – 2021
Clement Bowman
1930 – 2021
Denis Ranque
b. 1952
Dionne Brand
b. 1953
Dorothy Lavinia Brown
1919 – 2004
Edoardo Volterra
1904 – 1984
Eilhard Mitscherlich
1794 – 1863
Erwin Wickert
1915 – 2008
Frederick D. Gregory
b. 1941
George Abraham Grierson
1851 – 1941
George Kingsley Zipf
1902 – 1950
Henry Enfield Roscoe
1833 – 1915
Hisashi Kuno
1910 – 1969
James Burrill Angell
1829 – 1916
John H. Lawrence
1904 – 1991
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley
1826 – 1902
Lyudmila Kononova
1976 – 2023
Marie Georges Humbert
1859 – 1921
Mohammad Javad Zarif
b. 1960
Nick Clegg
b. 1967
Samvel Kocharyants
1909 – 1993
Saâdeddine Zmerli
1930 – 2021
Stephen R. Bourne
b. 1944
Svetlana Zhurova
b. 1972
Väinö Auer
1895 – 1981
Walter Noll
1925 – 2017
Will Wyatt
b. 1942
William Shainline Middleton
1890 – 1975
William Turner
1832 – 1916
Álvaro Santos Pereira
b. 1972
Émile Borel
1871 – 1956
Abel Posse
1934 – 2023
Alan Doss
b. 1945
Alessandro Natta
1918 – 2001
Alexander William Bickerton
1842 – 1929
Alexander von Güldenstubbe
1801 – 1884
Alfio Piva
b. 1940
Alfredo Romero
b. 1969
Amedeo Maiuri
1886 – 1963
Amfilohije Radović
1938 – 2020
Amnon Aharony
b. 1943
Anatoly Bifov
b. 1963
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
1883 – 1963
Anna-Maja Henriksson
b. 1964
Anshu Jain
1963 – 2022
Antanas Venclova
1906 – 1971
Anthony Watts
b. 1950
Barry Eichengreen
b. 1952
Bernhardus Albinus
1653 – 1721
Carlo Ratti
b. 1971
Carlos Westendorp
1937 – 2026
Catherine Kyobutungi
b. 1972
Catherine Mavrikakis
b. 1961
Christian Lindner
b. 1979
Cornelius Eady
b. 1954
Edmond de Pressensé
1824 – 1891
Eduard Magnus
1799 – 1872
Einar W. Juva
1892 – 1966
Elena Ceaușescu
1919 – 1989
Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt
1901 – 1986
Emrullah İşler
b. 1960
Eric Friedlander
b. 1944
Erin Gray
b. 1950
Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani
b. 1962
Feng Guozhang
1859 – 1921
Florentina Mosora
1940 – 1996
Floyd I. Clarke
b. 1942
Francette Lazard
1937 – 2023
Francisco Dornelles
1935 – 2023
G. Robert Blakey
1936 – 2026
Gabrielius Landsbergis
b. 1982
George C. Thorpe
1875 – 1936
George N. Hatsopoulos
1927 – 2018
George Zames
1934 – 1997
Gerald Durrell
1925 – 1995
Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart
1870 – 1943
Gordon Holmes MacMillan
1897 – 1986
Gregory XIII
1502 – 1585
Gundars Āboliņš
b. 1960
Hans-Josef Fell
b. 1952
Hele Kõrve
b. 1980
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne
1816 – 1866
Hidde Ploegh
b. 1953
Hiroshi Senju
b. 1958
Howard Adelman
1938 – 2023
Ignacio Walker
b. 1956
Ivan Yakubovsky
1912 – 1976
Jacob Katzenstein
1864 – 1921
Janusz Pasierb
1929 – 1993
Javier Fernández Fernández
b. 1948
Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Charras
1810 – 1865
Jean-Pierre Rampal
1922 – 2000
Jean-Xavier Bureau de Pusy
1750 – 1806
Jessica Burgner-Kahrs
b. 1981
Jiří Bičák
1942 – 2024
Joe Palca
b. 1953
John Augustine Collins
1899 – 1989
John E. Walker
b. 1941
John F. Williams
1887 – 1953
John Pundari
b. 1967
John Thune
b. 1961
Jonathan Jackson
b. 1966
Joop van der Reijden
1927 – 2006
Joseph Terry
1828 – 1898
Jozef Migaš
b. 1954
Juan Pablo Letelier
b. 1961
Julian de Ajuriaguerra
1911 – 1993
Kalle Klandorf
b. 1956
Karl-Heinz Petzinka
b. 1956
Karol Kirst
1885 – 1953
Katie Couric
b. 1957
Kevin Donnelly
b. 1952
Kotaro Suzumura
1944 – 2020
Kurt Mendelssohn
1906 – 1980
Lahav Shani
b. 1989
Leopoldo Nachbin
1922 – 1993
Lewis Hamilton
b. 1985
Ludwig III of Bavaria
1845 – 1921
Lyman Duff
1865 – 1955
Mack Mattingly
b. 1931
Marie Desplechin
b. 1959
Max Gallo
1932 – 2017
Mieczysław Sołtys
1863 – 1929
Mubariz Gurbanli
b. 1954
Mykola Skorodynskyi
1757 – 1805
Natalia Belchenko
b. 1973
Nicholson Baker
b. 1957
Noam Sheriff
1935 – 2018
Obaid Siddiqi
1932 – 2013
Oleg Itskhoki
b. 1983
Oleksandr Bondar
b. 1955
Olga Dontsova
b. 1959
Ottomar Meykow
1823 – 1894
Paul Uhlenhuth
1870 – 1957
Percy W. Nelles
1892 – 1951
Peter Schowtka
1945 – 2022
Philippe Henriot
1889 – 1944
Raila A Odinga
1945 – 2025
Rand Paul
b. 1963
Rayford Logan
1897 – 1982
Robert d'Ursel, 7th Duke of Ursel
1873 – 1955
Ronald Akers
1939 – 2024
Ruth G. Waddy
1909 – 2003
Salambek Khadzhiev
1941 – 2018
Sandford Fleming
1827 – 1915
Santiago Copello
1880 – 1967
Sen Arevshatyan
1928 – 2014
Senad Hadžifejzović
b. 1962
Shantha Sinha
b. 1950
Shigetada Nakanishi
b. 1942
Shobha Ram Kumawat
1914 – 1984
Shōta Gotō
b. 1983
Siddhi Savetsila
1919 – 2015
Sophie Cluzel
b. 1961
Stoyan Mihaylovski
1856 – 1927
Stuart Hampson
b. 1947
Talgat Musabayev
1951 – 2025
Tassos Papadopoulos
1934 – 2008
Teresio Olivelli
1916 – 1945
Theodor Aufrecht
1822 – 1907
Theodosius
1927 – 2016
Thomas Horder, 1st Baron Horder
1871 – 1955
Tu'i Pelehake
1922 – 1999
Vadim Borisovsky
1900 – 1972
Valeri Kubasov
1935 – 2014
Vasili Blokhin
1895 – 1955
Vasyl Bertash
b. 1961
Vivi Laurent-Täckholm
1898 – 1978
Vladimir Miklyukov
1944 – 2013
Václav Vydra
b. 1956
William Peel, 1st Earl Peel
1867 – 1937
Wolfgang Franz
b. 1944
Ya-Qin Zhang
b. 1966
Yeh Kuang-shih
b. 1957
Yevgeny Tyazhelnikov
1928 – 2020
Yoo Seong-min
b. 1958
Yosyf Semashko
1799 – 1868
Yrsa Stenius
1945 – 2018
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr
b. 1968
Zoltán Balog
b. 1958
Abdullah al-Thani
b. 1954
Adolph C. Miller
1866 – 1953
Adolph Zukor
1873 – 1976
Adrian Melott
b. 1947
Adriana Calderón
b. 2003
Adriana Lestido
b. 1955
Agnieszka Duczmal
b. 1946
Alain de Rothschild
1910 – 1982
Alan M. Olson
1939 – 2023
Alan Powell
1936 – 2020
Albrecht Haushofer
1903 – 1945
Aleksandr Bibikov
1765 – 1822
Alexander Dugin
b. 1962
Alexandr Fedotenkov
b. 1959
Ali Soilih
1937 – 1978
Ali-Akbar Mousavi Khoeini
b. 1969
Allen B. Morse
1837 – 1921
… and 4,232 more
Died on January 7
Alfred Ewing
1855 – 1935
Alfred Kastler
1902 – 1984
Arthur Keith
1866 – 1955
Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke
1819 – 1892
Frank Adams
1930 – 1989
Herbert Wilf
1931 – 2012
Josef Stefan
1835 – 1893
Antonio Castro Leal
1896 – 1981
Charles Coulson
1910 – 1974
Emma P. Carr
1880 – 1972
Ferdinand Brunot
1860 – 1938
George Washington Crile
1864 – 1943
Georges Teissier
1900 – 1972
Hans-Lukas Teuber
1916 – 1977
J. F. Rees
1883 – 1967
Jiřina Jirásková
1931 – 2013
Kondrat Krapiva
1896 – 1991
Madhav Gadgil
1942 – 2026
Margarete Seeler
1909 – 1996
Mário Soares
1924 – 2017
Peter Sutherland
1946 – 2018
Stanisław Kutrzeba
1876 – 1946
Vladimir Prelog
1906 – 1998
Yuri Manin
1937 – 2023
Adamo Didur
1874 – 1946
Alberte Pullman
1920 – 2011
Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao
1886 – 1950
Anatoly Kvashnin
1946 – 2022
Anton von Schönfeld
1827 – 1898
Antoni Subirà Claus
1940 – 2018
Arch A. Moore
1923 – 2015
Augustin Dubail
1851 – 1934
Bernard Maris
1946 – 2015
Burr W. Jones
1846 – 1935
Cabu
1938 – 2015
Charb
1967 – 2015
Charles D. Coryell
1912 – 1971
Charles Helou
1913 – 2001
Chen-Hsing Yen
1912 – 2005
Colin McPhee
1900 – 1964
Curt von Stedingk
1746 – 1837
Dorian Shainin
1914 – 2000
Edmund Barton
1849 – 1920
Edmund Jacobson
1888 – 1983
Edward Channing
1856 – 1931
Edward Kasner
1878 – 1955
Edward Knox
1819 – 1901
Edwin Erickson
1938 – 2019
Eugène Deloncle
1890 – 1944
Eustace Jotham
1883 – 1915
Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim
1928 – 2020
Fedor Fedorovich Kokoshkin
1871 – 1918
Frank Nicholls
1699 – 1778
François Perigot
1926 – 2022
François du Four
1871 – 1945
Gordon Kidd Teal
1907 – 2003
Harvey Shapiro
1924 – 2013
Heinrich Harrer
1912 – 2006
Henri-Auguste-Georges de La Rochejaquelein
1805 – 1867
Hirohito
1901 – 1989
Houston I. Flournoy
1929 – 2008
Howard Sanderford
1935 – 2026
Hubert Ripka
1895 – 1958
Ion Th. Simionescu
1873 – 1944
Ivan Vsevolodovich Meshcherskiy
1859 – 1935
Jacob Christian Schäffer
1718 – 1790
James Leonard Brierley Smith
1897 – 1968
Jan Blommaert
1961 – 2021
Jean-Marie Le Pen
1928 – 2025
Jim Anderton
1938 – 2018
John Cowley
1905 – 1993
John Hookham Frere
1769 – 1846
John Joubert
1927 – 2019
John Mendelsohn
1936 – 2019
Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole
1871 – 1922
Joseph Dubuc
1840 – 1914
Joseph L. Melnick
1914 – 2001
Jože Plečnik
1872 – 1957
Judith S. Kaye
1938 – 2016
Julian Goldsmid
1838 – 1896
Julio Scherer García
1926 – 2015
Julius Wellhausen
1844 – 1918
Józef Andrzej Załuski
1702 – 1774
Karen Ramey Burns
1948 – 2012
Kaspar Rostrup
1845 – 1911
Kep Enderby
1926 – 2015
Krzysztof Kolberger
1950 – 2011
Kustavi Grotenfelt
1861 – 1928
Kálmán Lambrecht
1889 – 1936
Lani Guinier
1950 – 2022
Lech Trzeciakowski
1931 – 2017
Lev Zaykov
1923 – 2002
Lord Richard Cavendish
1871 – 1946
Lou Henry Hoover
1874 – 1944
Louis Leschi
1893 – 1954
Magnus Magnusson
1929 – 2007
Maria de Maeztu Whitney
1881 – 1948
Miriam O'Brien Underhill
1898 – 1976
Mirosława Marcheluk
1939 – 2025
Moshe Arens
1925 – 2019
Muhammad Shafi
1869 – 1932
Nikola Tesla
1856 – 1943
Nils Claëson
1848 – 1910
Paul Stapfer
1840 – 1917
Petru Groza
1884 – 1958
Philippe Séguin
1943 – 2010
Ramón Díaz
1926 – 2017
René Etiemble
1909 – 2002
Robert J. Lamphere
1918 – 2002
Roger Dean
1913 – 1998
Rudolf Rahn
1900 – 1975
Russell Banks
1940 – 2023
Samuel Miller
1769 – 1850
Seydou Madani Sy
1933 – 2026
Siri Kannangara
1944 – 2024
Sophia Jex-Blake
1840 – 1912
Stéphane Blet
1969 – 2022
Thomas Keefer
1821 – 1915
Thomas Lawrence
1769 – 1830
Thomas Turton
1780 – 1864
Uma Chowdhry
1947 – 2024
Valerio Zanone
1936 – 2016
Venko Markovski
1915 – 1988
Vincenzo Cerundolo
1959 – 2020
Vladimir Kokkinaki
1904 – 1985
Wilhelm Hertz
1835 – 1902
William D. Pawley
1896 – 1977
William Joseph McDonald
1904 – 1989
William R. Arnold
1881 – 1965
William Rann Kennedy
1846 – 1915
Zvi Yavetz
1925 – 2013
A. C. Woolner
1878 – 1936
Abel Davis
1874 – 1937
Abraham Pruijs van der Hoeven
1829 – 1907
Ada Louise Huxtable
1921 – 2013
Ahmad Bamba
1940 – 2022
Albert Brassey
1844 – 1918
Alexander Stirling Calder
1870 – 1945
Alfred Heinrich Ilg
1854 – 1916
Ali Aliyev
1937 – 1995
Alice Woods
1849 – 1941
Alma Sundquist
1872 – 1940
Amadeus VIII of Savoy
1383 – 1451
Andrei Ivanovich Shingarev
1869 – 1918
Andrew Kirkpatrick
1756 – 1831
André Courrèges
1923 – 2016
André Maginot
1877 – 1932
André Rivet
1573 – 1651
Andrés Baquero
1853 – 1916
Anna Mae Hays
1920 – 2018
Antoine Coypel
1661 – 1722
Anton Hanak
1875 – 1934
Archibald Atkinson
1792 – 1872
Arnoldus Hille
1829 – 1919
Art Stoefen
1914 – 1995
Arthur Moore
1876 – 1963
Arthur Murray Preston
1913 – 1968
Arthur Nordlie
1883 – 1965
Arthur S. Collins Jr.
1915 – 1984
Arthur Stanley Pease
1881 – 1964
Ashraf Pahlavi
1919 – 2016
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
1811 – 1890
Auguste Hippolyte Marinoni
1823 – 1904
Avner W. Less
1916 – 1987
Ayla Erduran
1934 – 2025
Barbara Myerhoff
1935 – 1985
Benjamin F. DuBois
1915 – 2013
Benno Erdmann
1851 – 1921
Bienvenido Santos
1911 – 1996
Bill Foster
1930 – 2016
Bo Siegbahn
1915 – 2008
Bob Hughes
1932 – 2022
Bodil Koch
1903 – 1972
Boris Lavrenyov
1891 – 1959
Brian Sicknick
1978 – 2021
Bronko Nagurski
1908 – 1990
Bruria Kaufman
1918 – 2010
Caleb Blood Smith
1808 – 1864
Carl Boberg
1859 – 1940
Carl Gustaf Tessin
1695 – 1770
Carl Schuricht
1880 – 1967
Carlota Joaquina of Spain
1775 – 1830
Carmencita Reyes
1931 – 2019
Carolyn Brown
1927 – 2025
Charles Devens
1820 – 1891
Charles Edmund Nugent
1759 – 1844
Charles Harris Burnett
1876 – 1947
Charles J. Finger
1869 – 1941
Charles W. Turner
1846 – 1907
Charles de Brimeu
1524 – 1572
Cristian Moisescu
1946 – 2016
David Johnson
1782 – 1855
Deogracias Savellano
1959 – 2025
Derek Gardner
1931 – 2011
Dmitry Averkiyev
1836 – 1905
Domenico Graziani
1944 – 2026
Dov Joseph
1899 – 1980
Edward H. Watson
1874 – 1942
Edward Julius Elsaesser
1904 – 1983
Edwin A. Doss
1914 – 1996
… and 2,008 more