On This Day — April 7
4145 noted people were born and 2047 died on April 7 in our archive, including Graeme Davies, Ainara Osoro and Allen Dulles.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on April 7
Graeme Davies
1937 – 2022
Ainara Osoro
b. 1987
Allen Dulles
1893 – 1969
Bronisław Malinowski
1884 – 1942
Carl von Fersen
1716 – 1786
Charles H. Bennett
b. 1943
Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz y Menduiña
1893 – 1984
Daniel Ellsberg
1931 – 2023
David Frost
1939 – 2013
Dimitrij Rupel
b. 1946
Douglas Kell
b. 1953
Ecaterina Andronescu
b. 1948
Erik Ivar Fredholm
1866 – 1927
Ernest Munier-Chalmas
1843 – 1903
Feza Gürsey
1921 – 1992
Franco Ferrarotti
1926 – 2024
Gerhard Schröder
b. 1944
Hamilton Fish Armstrong
1893 – 1973
Hans Vliegenthart
1936 – 2026
Hugh Iltis
1925 – 2016
Jackie Chan
b. 1954
James Allsop
b. 1953
Jan Miller
b. 1942
Jean Bourguignon
1876 – 1953
Jean-Louis Borloo
b. 1951
José María Maravall Herrero
b. 1942
Jules Houël
1823 – 1886
Louis Fieser
1899 – 1977
Marianna Maksimovskaya
b. 1970
Marju Lauristin
b. 1940
Mark Brzezinski
b. 1965
Martin A. Nowak
b. 1965
Mati Raidma
b. 1965
Peter Hilton
1923 – 2010
Rick Levin
b. 1947
Robert Metcalfe
b. 1946
Rui Machete
b. 1940
Tim Cochran
1955 – 2014
Tord Magnuson
b. 1941
Valentina Matviyenko
b. 1949
William Thorburn
1861 – 1923
Zygmunt Zimowski
1949 – 2016
Alan J. Pakula
1928 – 1998
Albert O. Hirschman
1915 – 2012
Alberto Diaspro
b. 1959
Alexander Tselikov
1904 – 1984
Alexandr Kots
1880 – 1964
Alfrēds Andersons
1879 – 1937
Alick Downer
1910 – 1981
Alphonse Bernier
1861 – 1944
Anatoly Alexandrov
b. 1951
Andriy Raykovych
b. 1956
André Paul
b. 1933
Andy Harries
b. 1954
Angelo de Gubernatis
1840 – 1913
Annemarie Schimmel
1922 – 2003
António Pires de Lima
b. 1962
Ara Sargsyan
1902 – 1969
Archibald Macallum
1858 – 1934
Arne Runeberg
1912 – 1979
Arthur Hezlet
1914 – 2007
Artur Pollok
b. 1972
Augustine Markevich
b. 1952
Bamidele A Ojo
b. 1960
Bart LeBon
b. 1952
Berit Svendsen
b. 1963
Boris K. Schischkin
1886 – 1963
C. S. Wright
1887 – 1975
Candace Cameron Bure
b. 1976
Cees Dekker
b. 1959
Charles Vanik
1913 – 2007
Chen Mingren
1903 – 1974
Christian Bernreiter
b. 1964
Christian Herbst
1818 – 1911
Christian Prouteau
b. 1944
Christina Liu
b. 1955
Christopher M. Bishop
b. 1959
Clement XII
1652 – 1740
Cornelius A. Smith
b. 1937
Daniel Simberloff
b. 1942
David D. Clark
b. 1944
David Grandison Fairchild
1869 – 1954
Davis Rich Dewey
1858 – 1942
Derek Keppel
1863 – 1944
Dolors Aleu i Riera
1857 – 1913
Donald Barthelme
1931 – 1989
Draginja Vuksanović
b. 1978
Duberildo Jaque
1921 – 2022
Ella Eaton Kellogg
1853 – 1920
Ellsworth Price Bertholf
1866 – 1921
Emil Fagure
1873 – 1948
Ernest Septimus Reynolds
1861 – 1926
Ernest Wälief
b. 1950
Ernő Osvát
1877 – 1929
Ethan Allen Andrews
1787 – 1858
Eugen Slutsky
1880 – 1948
Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld
1863 – 1931
Francis Ford Coppola
b. 1939
Francis Xavier
1506 – 1552
Gabriela Mistral
1889 – 1957
Geoffrey de Freitas
1913 – 1982
György Klapka
1820 – 1892
Hans-Joachim Heusinger
1925 – 2019
Heinz Billing
1914 – 2017
Henry E. Sigerist
1891 – 1957
Herman Bernhard Lundborg
1868 – 1943
Hermogenes Concepcion Jr.
1920 – 2018
Herménégilde Chiasson
b. 1946
Hossein Nasr
b. 1933
Hu Xijin
b. 1960
Hugh Blair
1718 – 1800
Hung Hsiu-chu
b. 1948
Ilan Stavans
b. 1961
Ilarion Svi︠e︡nt︠s︡it︠s︡ʹkyĭ
1876 – 1956
Ivar Tengbom
1878 – 1968
Iven Mackay
1882 – 1966
Jacques Loeb
1859 – 1924
James Emerson Tennent
1804 – 1869
James Garner
1928 – 2014
Jean-Pierre Arrignon
1943 – 2021
Jerry Brown
b. 1938
John Alexander Fuller Maitland
1856 – 1936
John Call Cook
1918 – 2012
John Edwards
b. 1958
John Langton
1808 – 1894
John Mount Batten
1843 – 1916
Jon van Rood
1926 – 2017
Joseph Aquilina
1911 – 1997
Julio Scherer García
1926 – 2015
Kaitlan Collins
b. 1992
Kang Kyung-hwa
b. 1955
Kei Satō
b. 1979
Kirsopp Lake
1872 – 1946
Kunlé Adeyemi
b. 1976
Kurt von Schleicher
1882 – 1934
Leonard Cockayne
1855 – 1934
Leonid Keldysh
1931 – 2016
Leopold, Count von Thun und Hohenstein
1811 – 1888
Lindo Ferguson
1858 – 1948
Lisa McClain
b. 1966
Lygia Pape
1927 – 2004
Léon Krier
1946 – 2025
Makoto Kobayashi
b. 1944
Maria Strømme
b. 1970
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
1890 – 1998
Mark Rudinshtein
1946 – 2021
Martha May Eliot
1891 – 1978
Martijn van Helvert
b. 1978
Martin Hertz
1818 – 1895
Matthias Tschöp
b. 1967
Michael Musmanno
1897 – 1968
Michael Suen
1944 – 2024
Mitch Daniels
b. 1949
Montague Shearman
1857 – 1930
Nick Herbert
b. 1963
Nick McKeown
b. 1963
Oleg Malyshkin
b. 1951
Omeljan Pritsak
1919 – 2006
Paterson Ewen
1925 – 2002
Paul Wilwertz
1905 – 1979
Pia Viitanen
b. 1967
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
1853 – 1884
Rajpal Singh Sirohi
b. 1943
Randall Davidson
1848 – 1930
Ranolfo Vieira Júnior
b. 1966
Robert Casadesus
1899 – 1972
Robert S. Wistrich
1945 – 2015
Rosemary Joyce
b. 1956
Shehu Abdul Rahman
b. 1968
Stanislav Kochiev
b. 1954
Steven D. Tanksley
b. 1954
Steven Joyce
b. 1963
Stéphane Troussel
b. 1970
Sun Jianai
1827 – 1909
Tadeusz Szelachowski
1932 – 2020
Thomas Banchoff
b. 1938
Timothy Peake
b. 1972
Umetarō Suzuki
1874 – 1943
Vernon Alden
1923 – 2020
Victoria Ocampo
1890 – 1979
Walter F. Dodd
1880 – 1960
Wilhelm Launhardt
1832 – 1918
William Monroe Trotter
1872 – 1934
William Ogilvie
1846 – 1912
Wolfgang Mattheuer
1927 – 2004
Yamamoto Tatsuo
1856 – 1947
Yuriy Chmyr
b. 1972
Zoltán Felvinczi Takács
1880 – 1964
Òscar Andreu
b. 1975
A. James Manchin
1927 – 2003
Adina Kamien
b. 1971
Adriano Duarte Rodrigues
b. 1942
Ahn Yang-ok
b. 1957
Alaina Coates
b. 1995
Alba Rueda
b. 1976
Alberto Jaramillo
1927 – 2023
Albrecht Schröter
b. 1955
Aleksandr Remezkov
b. 1962
Aleksey Karyakin
b. 1980
Alex Kouri
b. 1964
… and 3,945 more
Died on April 7
A. V. Dicey
1835 – 1922
John Hymers
1803 – 1887
Peter Grünberg
1939 – 2018
August Zaleski
1883 – 1972
Auguste Audollent
1864 – 1943
Bernhard von Kugler
1837 – 1898
Bettina Linn
1905 – 1962
Henry Ford
1863 – 1947
Hozumi Nobushige
1855 – 1926
John Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort
1751 – 1828
Leonid Kantorovich
1912 – 1986
Petrus Camper
1722 – 1789
Reteos Berberian
1848 – 1907
Thomas Bayes
1702 – 1761
Thomas Mensah
1932 – 2020
William Homan Thorpe
1902 – 1986
Yves Mourousi
1942 – 1998
Zdzisław Pawlak
1926 – 2006
Abbott Lawrence Rotch
1861 – 1912
Alina Kabata-Pendias
1929 – 2019
Amedeo Maiuri
1886 – 1963
Amir-Abbas Hoveyda
1919 – 1979
Amos Nourse
1794 – 1877
Averil Cameron
1940 – 2026
Barbara Czarniawska
1948 – 2024
Ben Ferencz
1920 – 2023
Benjamin Kendall Emerson
1843 – 1932
Cho Yang-ho
1949 – 2019
Christopher Morahan
1929 – 2017
Cora DuBois
1903 – 1991
Cyrus Adler
1863 – 1940
Demyan Korotchenko
1894 – 1969
Eudoxe Marcille
1814 – 1890
Frank E. Denholm
1923 – 2016
Frank Little
1925 – 2008
François de Grossouvre
1918 – 1994
Frederik Wilhelm Bugge
1838 – 1896
Gerald C. Thomas
1894 – 1984
Golo Mann
1909 – 1994
Hector Hanoteau
1823 – 1890
Henry Graff
1921 – 2020
Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave
1755 – 1831
Herb Stempel
1926 – 2020
Hideo Kodama
1876 – 1947
Howard Vincent
1849 – 1908
Hugh FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton
1919 – 2011
Itō Chūta
1867 – 1954
Ivan Yefimovich Petrov
1896 – 1958
James B. Rhoads
1928 – 2015
Jan Sokołowski
1899 – 1982
Jean Germain
1947 – 2015
Johann Albrecht Korff
1697 – 1766
Joseph-Xavier Perrault
1836 – 1905
Karl Peterson
1828 – 1881
Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
1804 – 1885
Kenneth Murray
1930 – 2013
Konstantinos Kallias
1901 – 2004
Leonard Gillman
1917 – 2009
Ludwik Dorn
1954 – 2022
Luis Díez del Corral
1911 – 1998
Martin P. Nilsson
1874 – 1967
Mercè Durfort i Coll
1943 – 2022
Michael Denny
1896 – 1972
Michael F. Neidorff
1942 – 2022
Mike Wallace
1918 – 2012
Nicole Maestracci
1951 – 2022
Pavel Andreyevich Shuvalov
1830 – 1908
Pieter Rijke
1812 – 1899
Ronald Evans
1933 – 1990
Rómulo Gallegos
1884 – 1969
Seiichi Itō
1890 – 1945
Sheina Marshall
1896 – 1977
Sir Anthony Bowlby
1855 – 1929
Sir Henry Wilmot, 5th Baronet
1831 – 1901
Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet
1604 – 1661
Stanley Jaki
1924 – 2009
Steve H. Murdock
1948 – 2023
Stig Lindberg
1916 – 1982
Svyatoslav Gabuda
1936 – 2015
Takuo Godō
1877 – 1956
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
1825 – 1868
Tiberius Hemsterhuis
1685 – 1766
Tikhon of Moscow
1865 – 1925
Ulric-Joseph Tessier
1817 – 1892
Valentin Turchin
1931 – 2010
Vasili Razumovsky
1857 – 1935
Víctor Mirecki Larramat
1847 – 1921
W. Arundel Orchard
1867 – 1961
William Finn
1952 – 2025
William Monroe Trotter
1872 – 1934
Wolfgang Mattheuer
1927 – 2004
Abdou Moumouni Dioffo
1929 – 1991
Abel Niepce de Saint-Victor
1805 – 1870
Abraham L. Brick
1860 – 1908
Adriaan van den Spiegel
1578 – 1625
Albert Gutterson
1887 – 1965
Albert Smith
1867 – 1942
Alberto Salomón Osorio
1877 – 1959
Alejandro Hales
1923 – 2001
Aleksandr Kovalyov
1942 – 2024
Alexander Bogdanov
1873 – 1928
Alireza Afzalipour
1909 – 1993
Anne Beatts
1947 – 2021
Antoine Alexis Perier de Salvert
1691 – 1757
Antoine Joseph Léger
1880 – 1950
Antoine Simon Durrieu
1775 – 1862
Antoni Radziwiłł
1775 – 1833
Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria
1860 – 1933
Arthur Beauchesne
1876 – 1959
Arthur L. Willard
1870 – 1935
Arthur von Hübl
1853 – 1932
Barry Nelson
1917 – 2007
Beatrice Straight
1914 – 2001
Bengt Fredrik Fries
1799 – 1839
Bertrand Nogaro
1880 – 1950
Betty Blythe
1893 – 1972
Blackjack Mulligan
1942 – 2016
Blažena Holišová
1930 – 2011
Carl Dahl
1812 – 1865
Carl Schmitt
1888 – 1985
Cecil Patteson Nickalls
1877 – 1925
Charles Hope, 3rd Marquess of Linlithgow
1912 – 1987
Charles Isham
1819 – 1903
Charles R. Scriver
1930 – 2023
Charles Smith Olden
1799 – 1876
Charles VIII of France
1470 – 1498
Charles W. Sawyer
1887 – 1979
Charles W. Shea
1921 – 1994
Cheng Nan-jung
1947 – 1989
Christian Bonnet
1921 – 2020
Christopher Codrington
1668 – 1710
Constance Quéniaux
1832 – 1908
Cornelio Saavedra Rodríguez
1821 – 1891
Cornelius Richard Anton van Bommel
1790 – 1852
Count Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont
1777 – 1857
Daniel Gould Fowle
1831 – 1891
David H. Bagley
1920 – 1992
Dositej Obradović
1742 – 1811
Edith Baumann
1909 – 1973
Edward Belfort
1965 – 2025
Einar Hareide
1899 – 1983
Eliot Elisofon
1911 – 1973
Elisabeth Kopp
1936 – 2023
Elizabeth Sudmeier
1912 – 1989
Emil Wolfgang Menzel, Jr.
1929 – 2012
Erast Khiatsintov
1859 – 1910
Evans Anfom
1919 – 2021
Frank Church
1924 – 1984
Frans Widerberg
1934 – 2017
Fred G. Aandahl
1897 – 1966
Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler
1852 – 1935
Friedrich Ludwig von Rönne
1798 – 1865
G. N. Ramachandran
1922 – 2001
Gabriel Gruber
1740 – 1805
Garsevan Chavchavadze
1757 – 1811
Georg Dragendorff
1836 – 1898
George Gunning
1763 – 1823
George Henry Palmer
1841 – 1901
George M. S. Schulz
1871 – 1930
George Robertson Turner
1855 – 1941
George Washington Whistler
1800 – 1849
Georgy Shonin
1935 – 1997
Gessner Harrison
1807 – 1862
Giani Stuparich
1891 – 1961
Giovanni Amendola
1882 – 1926
Giuseppe Saverio Poli
1746 – 1825
Glenn O'Brien
1947 – 2017
Guido Nonveiller
1913 – 2002
György Szomjas
1940 – 2021
Habib Ahmad
1959 – 2021
Harry Adaskin
1901 – 1994
Heinz Lehmann
1911 – 1999
Heinz Prüfer
1896 – 1934
Heman Allen
1779 – 1852
Henri Zuber
1844 – 1909
Henrik Anker Bjerregaard
1792 – 1842
Henry Percy Adams
1865 – 1930
Henry W. Seymour
1834 – 1906
Herman Chan-En Liu
1886 – 1938
Horace Martineau
1874 – 1916
Hugo Ballesteros Reyes
1931 – 2019
Ihor Mityukov
1952 – 2026
Inglis M. Uppercu
1877 – 1944
Isabel Andreu de Aguilar
1887 – 1948
Ivan Diviš
1924 – 1999
J. Calvin Brown
1893 – 1973
Jack Weaver
1928 – 2009
Jacob Michael Kunkel
1822 – 1870
Jacques Charles
1746 – 1823
James Alexander Green
1926 – 2014
James B. Linder
1925 – 2009
James Blacklock Henderson
1871 – 1950
James Brown
1766 – 1835
James Chapin
1889 – 1964
James L. Kemper
1823 – 1895
James W. Valentine
1926 – 2023
Jan Derk Huibers
1829 – 1918
Jan Ritzema Bos
1850 – 1928
Jean-Laurent Cochet
1935 – 2020
Jesse Clason
1860 – 1918
… and 1,847 more