On This Day — February 7
4223 noted people were born and 2098 died on February 7 in our archive, including G.H. Hardy, Marian Ewurama Addy and Max Newman.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on February 7
G.H. Hardy
1877 – 1947
Marian Ewurama Addy
1942 – 2014
Max Newman
1897 – 1984
Ulf von Euler
1905 – 1983
Adolphe Perraud
1828 – 1906
Alexey Podberezkin
b. 1953
Allen West
b. 1961
Antonio Catricalà
1952 – 2021
Christine Abizaid
b. 1979
Dominic Asquith
b. 1957
Eleftherios N. Economou
b. 1940
Eric Temple Bell
1883 – 1960
F. Trubee Davison
1896 – 1974
Francine Berman
b. 1951
Frederick Ogilvie
1893 – 1949
Giovanni Battista Rizza
1924 – 2018
Jan Anthonie Bruijn
b. 1958
Jas Gawronski
b. 1936
Javier Perez-Capdevila
b. 1963
Joakim Frederik Schouw
1789 – 1852
Karl Kořistka
1825 – 1906
Karl Möbius
1825 – 1908
Kiyoshi Shiga
1871 – 1957
Konstantin Feoktistov
1926 – 2009
Leslie Lamport
b. 1941
Lin Lanying
1918 – 2003
Marin Soljačić
b. 1974
Milton S. Plesset
1908 – 1991
Paul E. Gray
1932 – 2017
Peter Blau
1918 – 2002
Ray Mears
b. 1964
Romuald Jałbrzykowski
1876 – 1955
Ronald E. Mickens
b. 1943
Sartaj Aziz
1929 – 2024
Tadashi Yanai
b. 1949
Thibault Damour
b. 1951
Tony Tan Keng Yam
b. 1940
Toshihide Maskawa
1940 – 2021
Viktor Skomorokha
b. 1941
William Huggins
1824 – 1910
Xia Nai
1910 – 1985
Achille Liénart
1884 – 1973
Aleksander Pociej
b. 1965
Alexander Dimitry
1805 – 1883
Alexander Jungbluth
b. 1987
Alfred Adler
1870 – 1937
Alfred Worden
1932 – 2020
Alison Marjorie Ashby
1901 – 1987
Allan Wagner
b. 1942
Amédée-François Lamy
1858 – 1900
An Wang
1920 – 1990
Anders Fryxell
1795 – 1881
Antoine-Athanase Royer-Collard
1768 – 1825
Anton Schlembach
1932 – 2020
Antoni Wit
b. 1944
Archibald Denny
1860 – 1936
Arkady Melua
b. 1950
Arnold Nordmeyer
1901 – 1989
Arthur Upham Pope
1881 – 1969
Ashton Kutcher
b. 1978
Augustin Marie Morvan
1819 – 1897
Bernard Maybeck
1862 – 1957
Bonner Fellers
1896 – 1973
Bruno Streckenbach
1902 – 1977
Carl Rasch
1861 – 1938
Carlos Ferrero
1941 – 2025
Charles Alexander Harvin
1950 – 2005
Christine Grady
b. 1952
Christoph Möllers
b. 1969
Claudia Crawford
b. 1966
Dan Kaminsky
1979 – 2021
Darlene Clark Hine
b. 1947
Dick Dolman
1935 – 2019
Dieter Bohlen
b. 1954
Dušan Vukotić
1927 – 1998
Eddie Fenech Adami
b. 1934
Edward Granville Browne
1862 – 1926
Eli Ives
1779 – 1861
Ella Polyakova
b. 1941
Eric Foner
b. 1943
Eric Higgs
b. 1958
Ernesto Pascal
1865 – 1940
Ernst Kuhn
1846 – 1920
Estanislao Esteban Karlic
1926 – 2025
Florent Guillain
1844 – 1915
Floyd Haskell
1916 – 1998
Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford
1766 – 1827
Frédéric Bourguet
1889 – 1978
Gay Talese
b. 1932
Georg Christian Freund
1821 – 1900
Grigory Romanov
1923 – 2008
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
b. 1963
Heikki H. Herlin
1901 – 1989
Henry Maier
1918 – 1994
Huang Ta-chou
b. 1936
Ian Jack
1945 – 2022
Imre Csiszár
b. 1938
Jacques Duchesneau
b. 1949
Jean Aubert
1894 – 1984
Johannes Musaeus
1613 – 1681
John Brown Francis Herreshoff
1850 – 1932
John Deere
1804 – 1886
John Hickenlooper
b. 1952
John P. McConnell
1908 – 1986
Josef Ackermann
b. 1948
José Jiménez Aranda
1837 – 1903
José da Costa Carvalho
1796 – 1860
Kaarina Suonio
b. 1941
Kajsa Hallberg Adu
b. 1981
Karl Gröger
1918 – 1943
Kaspars Gerhards
b. 1969
Kevin Crossley-Holland
b. 1941
Kōsaku Yosida
1909 – 1990
Leo Kiacheli
1884 – 1963
Leo Spitzer
1887 – 1960
Lillias Hamilton
1858 – 1925
Loren Carpenter
1947 – 2025
Louis Agassiz Fuertes
1874 – 1927
Louis-Rodolphe Roy
1858 – 1925
Ludvig Wimmer
1839 – 1920
Luis Cresencio Sandoval
b. 1960
Maksim Saburov
1900 – 1977
Marc de Fleurian
b. 1989
Marco Edson Gonçalves Dias
b. 1950
Mark P. McCahill
b. 1956
Matt Ridley
b. 1958
Michael Braungart
b. 1958
Murtaza Rajimov
1934 – 2023
Namandjé N. Bumpus
b. 1981
Nicolaas Pierson
1839 – 1909
Nicolae Ciucă
b. 1967
Nicolai Wammen
b. 1971
Nicoletta Vallorani
b. 1959
Nikolay Brusentsov
1925 – 2014
Noemí Zaritzky
b. 1951
Norma Salinas
b. 1967
P. S. Sivaswami Iyer
1864 – 1946
Patrick Allen
b. 1951
Paul Nizan
1905 – 1940
Paul Pastur
1866 – 1938
Peter Struve
1870 – 1944
Petr Fradkov
b. 1978
Piet Bukman
1934 – 2022
Preng Doçi
1846 – 1917
Puyi
1906 – 1967
Quincy Porter
1897 – 1966
Raimund Hagelberg
1927 – 2012
Raoul Magrin-Vernerey
1892 – 1964
René de Possel
1905 – 1974
Ricardo Oreja
1890 – 1974
Richard Prebble
b. 1948
Romolo Valli
1925 – 1980
Ruth Sager
1918 – 1997
Samson Shatashvili
b. 1960
Sergey Trakhimenok
b. 1950
Sergo Kobuladze
1909 – 1978
Severin Løvenskiold
1777 – 1856
Silvio Zavala
1909 – 2014
Simon Upton
b. 1958
Tan Tianwei
b. 1964
Tatsunosuke Takasaki
1885 – 1964
Tatyana Chernigovskaya
b. 1947
Teoctist Arăpașu
1915 – 2007
Theo Francken
b. 1978
Theobald Stein
1829 – 1901
Tom Hicks
1946 – 2025
Tomisaku Kawasaki
1925 – 2020
Ton van Trier
1926 – 1983
Vladimir Bogachev
1881 – 1965
Walter Armstrong
1850 – 1918
Wendelin Weingartner
b. 1937
William Tite
1798 – 1873
Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
1857 – 1952
Witi Ihimaera
b. 1944
Yeon Cheon Oh
b. 1951
Yun Hee-suk
b. 1970
Yuri Alexandrov
b. 1950
Yuri Slezkine
b. 1956
Zinaida Greceanîi
b. 1956
Ágoston Trefort
1817 – 1888
Óscar Maúrtua
b. 1947
Şahin İsmayilov
b. 1986
A. A. Rahim
1920 – 1995
Abel Beach
1829 – 1899
Adolf Weil
1848 – 1916
Adrian Hanauer
b. 1966
Alan M. Steinman
b. 1945
Albert J. Stunkard
1922 – 2014
Aleksander Augustynowicz
1865 – 1944
Alexander McIver
1822 – 1902
Alexandre Ribot
1842 – 1923
Alexandre Schwartsman
b. 1963
Alexei Fedchenko
1844 – 1873
Alfred Chester Beatty
1875 – 1968
Alfred Eliab Buck
1832 – 1902
Alfred Lyttelton
1857 – 1913
Alfred Woodley Croft
1841 – 1925
Alice Lok Cahana
1929 – 2017
Amedeo Guillet
1909 – 2010
Amy B. Lyman
1872 – 1959
… and 4,023 more
Died on February 7
David White
1862 – 1935
Igor Kurchatov
1903 – 1960
Adriaan van Wijngaarden
1916 – 1987
Arthur Morin
1795 – 1880
Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry
1805 – 1872
Carl Engler
1842 – 1925
Chu Coching
1890 – 1974
Daniel Defert
1937 – 2023
Felix von Luschan
1854 – 1924
Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo
1787 – 1862
Galileo Ferraris
1847 – 1897
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen
1831 – 1907
Gerhard Gran
1856 – 1925
Guy Severin
1926 – 2008
Hans Rademacher
1892 – 1969
Ida Halpern
1910 – 1987
J. Hillis Miller
1928 – 2021
Johan Adrianus Gerard van der Steur
1865 – 1945
John C. Whitehead
1922 – 2015
Lucas Mallada
1841 – 1921
Mammad Alakbarov
1899 – 1959
Newton Ennis Morton
1929 – 2018
Oscar Schlömilch
1823 – 1901
Robert Ezra Park
1864 – 1944
Ryōko Akamatsu
1929 – 2024
Stanislas Adotevi
1934 – 2024
Tzvetan Todorov
1939 – 2017
Uno Lindelöf
1868 – 1944
William Preston Lane
1892 – 1967
Émile Vaudremer
1829 – 1914
Adolphe Sax
1814 – 1894
Alan MacDiarmid
1927 – 2007
Alan Perlis
1922 – 1990
Alan Stewart, 10th Earl of Galloway
1835 – 1901
Alexander Kolchak
1874 – 1920
Alfred Grosser
1925 – 2024
Andrew Bertie
1929 – 2008
Anil Kumar Gain
1919 – 1978
Aron Naumovich Trainin
1883 – 1957
Arthur Keith
1864 – 1944
Arthur Reginald Hoskins
1871 – 1942
Arthur Rosenberg
1889 – 1943
Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge
1873 – 1952
Ayrat Xäyrullin
1970 – 2020
Beresford Parlett
1932 – 2026
Blas Pérez González
1898 – 1978
Borys Deich
1938 – 2022
Carl Joseph Schröter
1855 – 1939
Catherine G. Wolf
1947 – 2018
Charles Langelier
1850 – 1920
Charles Wachsmuth
1829 – 1896
Darwin Zahedy Saleh
1960 – 2025
David J. Farber
1934 – 2026
Dickson Despommier
1940 – 2025
Douglas Maclean
1852 – 1929
Douglas Volk
1856 – 1935
Dudley G. Wooten
1860 – 1929
Edouard De Bièfve
1808 – 1882
Elihu Root
1845 – 1937
Erik Zürcher
1928 – 2008
Esioff-Léon Patenaude
1875 – 1963
Felix Maria von Exner-Ewarten
1876 – 1930
Frank Polk
1871 – 1943
Fredrik Cygnaeus
1807 – 1881
Félix de Mérode
1791 – 1857
Gabriel P. Weisberg
1942 – 2026
George Clarke, 1st Baron Sydenham of Combe
1848 – 1933
Grigori Ivanovitch Villamov
1773 – 1842
Gwen Cherry
1923 – 1979
Hans Rosling
1948 – 2017
Hermann Bleuler
1837 – 1912
Hermann Esser
1900 – 1981
Hussein I of Jordan
1935 – 1999
Iacob Lahovary
1846 – 1907
Ivan Pyryev
1901 – 1968
Ivy Kellerman Reed
1877 – 1968
Jacques Ferran
1920 – 2019
James Sinclair
1908 – 1984
James Thomas Patterson
1908 – 1989
Jan Maklakiewicz
1899 – 1954
Jan Olszewski
1930 – 2019
Janaki Ammal
1897 – 1984
Jeane Freeman
1953 – 2026
Jerzy Bartmiński
1939 – 2022
John David Dingell Jr.
1926 – 2019
John F. McCarthy Jr.
1925 – 1986
John Perry Barlow
1947 – 2018
Juichi Tsushima
1888 – 1967
Józef Szujski
1835 – 1883
József Tóth
1940 – 2013
Jörg Schönbohm
1937 – 2019
Ken Kennedy
1945 – 2007
Leontii Voitovych
1951 – 2023
Lewis C. Beebe
1891 – 1951
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
1769 – 1834
Luis Giannattasio
1894 – 1965
Mabel Murphy Smythe-Haith
1918 – 2000
Massimo Pallottino
1909 – 1995
Max Wilhelm Carl Weber
1852 – 1937
Maxine Horner
1933 – 2021
Mihailo Marković
1923 – 2010
Millie Peacock
1870 – 1948
Petar Draganov
1857 – 1928
Poul Heegaard
1871 – 1948
Prosper Menière
1799 – 1862
Raphaël Blanchard
1857 – 1919
Remigio Sabbadini
1850 – 1934
Richard Williams
1890 – 1980
Robert Lepper
1906 – 1991
Robert del Picchia
1942 – 2026
Roger Tomlinson
1933 – 2014
Roger Willemsen
1955 – 2016
Roman Wreden
1867 – 1934
Süleyman Vəzirov
1910 – 1973
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon
1790 – 1866
Thomas Todd
1765 – 1826
Wilder Dwight Bancroft
1867 – 1953
Wilfred Stokes
1860 – 1927
William Campbell Steere
1907 – 1989
William Tenn
1920 – 2010
Émile Cheysson
1836 – 1910
Šárka B. Hrbková
1878 – 1948
A. K. Jonscher
1922 – 2005
Ajmal Khattak
1925 – 2010
Albert Apponyi
1846 – 1933
Albert Finney
1936 – 2019
Alfred Charles Post
1806 – 1886
Allan Edwall
1924 – 1997
Andrea Carlo Agostino Del Santo
1830 – 1905
Andrew Keller
1925 – 1999
André Cardinal Destouches
1672 – 1749
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
1906 – 2001
Antoine-François Peyre
1739 – 1823
Anton Aloys Wolf
1782 – 1859
Antonín Přidal
1935 – 2017
Archibald Lybrand
1840 – 1910
Arthur Carr
1893 – 1962
Arthur Farrell
1877 – 1909
Arthur Norreys Worthington
1862 – 1912
Atli Dam
1932 – 2005
Augustine Francis Schinner
1863 – 1937
Augusto Leguía
1863 – 1932
Axel Ryding
1831 – 1897
Benjamin W. Harris
1823 – 1907
Benny Indra Ardhianto
1992 – 2026
Betty Pettersson
1838 – 1885
Billy Casper
1931 – 2015
Bob Braham
1920 – 1974
Brian Naylor
1931 – 2009
Béla Orczy
1822 – 1917
Charles Frederic Belcher
1876 – 1970
Charles Redding Pitt
1944 – 2016
Charles Seeger
1886 – 1979
Charles de Chavannes
1853 – 1940
Cheikh Anta Diop
1923 – 1986
Christopher Slade
1927 – 2022
Chrysanthus Notaras
1655 – 1731
Cort Aslakssøn
1564 – 1624
Czesław Wołłejko
1916 – 1987
Dafydd Elis-Thomas
1946 – 2025
Daniel François Malan
1874 – 1959
Daniil Shafran
1923 – 1997
Dean Smith
1931 – 2015
Diderich Hegermann
1763 – 1835
Dmitry Morduhai-Boltovskoi
1876 – 1952
Donald H. Clausen
1923 – 2015
Dorothy McFadden Hoover
1918 – 2000
Doug Henning
1947 – 2000
Douglas Trumbull
1942 – 2022
Eduard Blösch
1807 – 1866
Edwin S. Underhill
1861 – 1929
Edwin Yates Webb
1872 – 1955
Elijah Ward
1816 – 1882
Emil Ritterling
1861 – 1928
Ennio Quirino Visconti
1751 – 1818
Erik Røring Møinichen
1797 – 1875
Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
1826 – 1908
Eugene D. O'Sullivan
1883 – 1968
Eva Sopher
1923 – 2018
Farish Carter Tate
1856 – 1922
Francis G. Pease
1881 – 1938
Francisco Antonino Vidal
1825 – 1889
Francisco Canals Vidal
1922 – 2009
Frank Robinson
1935 – 2019
Franklin E. Brooks
1860 – 1916
Franz Hermann Reinhold von Frank
1827 – 1894
François Bouchot
1800 – 1842
Geoffry Hurry
1868 – 1951
George K. Sisler
1937 – 1967
George Pelham
1766 – 1827
Gisela Niemeyer
1923 – 2012
Guillermo de Osma y Scull
1853 – 1922
Gustaf Hägg
1867 – 1925
Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden
1778 – 1837
Gustaw Lewita
1855 – 1889
Hans Ulrich Klose
1935 – 2022
Harvey Samuel Firestone
1868 – 1938
Henri-Émile Bazin
1829 – 1917
Henry Hamilton
1794 – 1880
Henry Thomas Bowlby
1864 – 1940
… and 1,898 more