On This Day — August 7
3870 noted people were born and 1828 died on August 7 in our archive, including Lucy May Cranwell, Ralph Bunche and Aleh Trusaŭ.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on August 7
Lucy May Cranwell
1907 – 2000
Ralph Bunche
1904 – 1971
Aleh Trusaŭ
b. 1954
Amo Houghton
1926 – 2020
Brit Marling
b. 1982
Celso Lafer
b. 1941
Christiana Figueres
b. 1956
Claudine K. Brown
1949 – 2016
Elinor Ostrom
1933 – 2012
F. Bradford Morse
1921 – 1994
Frederick Gehring
1925 – 2012
Gerald Weissmann
1930 – 2019
Günter Krings
b. 1969
Hans-Lukas Teuber
1916 – 1977
Ivan Melnikov
b. 1950
James P. Allison
b. 1948
Jan Kieniewicz
1938 – 2024
Jean Dorst
1924 – 2001
Jean-Paul Demoule
b. 1947
Jimmy Wales
b. 1966
Johan Nicolai Madvig
1804 – 1886
Johann Nepomuk Sepp
1816 – 1909
John C. Mather
b. 1946
John F. Hartwig
b. 1964
Justo Pérez de Urbel
1895 – 1979
Kent Rominger
b. 1956
Ladislaus Bortkiewicz
1868 – 1931
Launcelot Fleming
1906 – 1990
Liran Carmel
b. 1971
Louis Leakey
1903 – 1972
Léon Brillouin
1889 – 1969
Nakamura Junkuro
1853 – 1947
Nils Torvalds
b. 1945
Octavian Morariu
b. 1961
Rajmohan Gandhi
b. 1935
Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 2nd Baron Acton
1870 – 1924
Abanindranath Tagore
1871 – 1951
Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil
b. 1943
Abigail Spanberger
b. 1979
Ada Deer
1935 – 2023
Adam Maĺdzis
1932 – 2022
Adolf Ivar Arwidsson
1791 – 1858
Adolph Bowler
1889 – 1962
Akihiko Tanaka
b. 1954
Alan Keyes
b. 1950
Alan Page
b. 1945
Alberto Romulo
b. 1933
Alberto Salazar
b. 1958
Aleksandr Nemits
1879 – 1967
Alexander Golovanov
1904 – 1975
Alexander Poskrebyshev
1891 – 1965
Alison Brown
b. 1962
Amangeldy Muraliyev
b. 1947
Andrew Ainslie Common
1841 – 1903
Andrew Large
b. 1942
Andrzej Kajetan Wróblewski
b. 1933
André Jolles
1874 – 1946
Anne Fadiman
b. 1953
Archibald Standish Hartrick
1864 – 1950
Arthur Fell
1850 – 1934
Auguste Michel-Lévy
1844 – 1911
Bernard Brodie
1907 – 1989
Carl Ritter
1779 – 1859
Carlo Gaetano Gaisruck
1769 – 1846
Carlos Martínez Sotomayor
1929 – 2006
Cathy Park Hong
b. 1976
Dan Halutz
b. 1948
David Stuart
b. 1965
Deeyah Khan
b. 1977
Edmund Burke Fairfield
1821 – 1904
Edmund Costello
1873 – 1949
Eduard Brockhaus
1829 – 1914
Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe
1908 – 1984
Elias Loomis
1811 – 1889
Emanuel Gil-Av
1916 – 1996
Emerik Blum
1911 – 1984
Emil Nolde
1867 – 1956
François Darlan
1881 – 1942
Frederic Farrar
1831 – 1903
Georg Stiernhielm
1598 – 1672
Gesine Lötzsch
b. 1961
Giorgetto Giugiaro
b. 1938
Giuliano Gozi
1894 – 1955
Granville Bantock
1868 – 1946
Gregory Petsko
b. 1948
Griffith Evans
1835 – 1935
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
1870 – 1950
Helen Caldicott
b. 1938
Hendrik Streeck
b. 1977
Henri Mitterand
1928 – 2021
Henric Benzelius
1689 – 1758
Hermann Paul
1846 – 1921
Ion Emanuel Florescu
1819 – 1893
Iosif Rangheț
1904 – 1952
István Bibó
1911 – 1979
J. Soedradjad Djiwandono
b. 1938
James Bowdoin
1726 – 1790
Jarosław Urbaniak
b. 1966
Jean-Luc Dehaene
1940 – 2014
Joaquim Miranda Sarmento
b. 1978
John A. Hull
1874 – 1944
Jose M. Hernandez
b. 1962
Justin von Linde
1797 – 1870
K. Srinivasan
1887 – 1959
Kakan Hermansson
b. 1981
Karel Husa
1921 – 2016
Larry Sabato
b. 1952
Layda Elena Sansores
b. 1945
Lesley Nicol
b. 1953
Licinio de la Fuente
1923 – 2015
Lionel Heald
1897 – 1981
Lo Chung Mau
b. 1961
Louis Alan Hazeltine
1886 – 1964
Lydia Villa-Komaroff
b. 1947
M. S. Swaminathan
1925 – 2023
Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
b. 1987
Malika Sorel
b. 1962
Maria Caspar-Filser
1878 – 1968
Martin Winter
b. 1965
Martín Espada
b. 1957
Maureen O'Connor
b. 1951
Maurice Henry Dorman
1912 – 1993
Michael Bojesen
b. 1960
Michael Roes
b. 1960
Michel Roquebert
1928 – 2020
Miguel Sáenz
b. 1932
Miroslava Breach Velducea
1962 – 2017
Monika Triest
b. 1941
Mosibudi Mangena
b. 1947
Natalya Kosikhina
b. 1972
Nick Ross
b. 1947
Nikos Xanthoulis
b. 1962
Niyazi
1912 – 1984
Peter Gizzi
b. 1959
Peter Lam
b. 1957
Phillip Mann
1942 – 2022
Pompeo Marchesi
1783 – 1858
Ray Chambers
b. 1942
Robert J. Ferrier
1932 – 2013
Robert More-Molyneux
1838 – 1904
Robert Mueller
1944 – 2026
Roger Yates
b. 1957
Ryōtarō Shiba
1923 – 1996
Sally Thomas
b. 1939
Sarah MacIntosh
b. 1969
Seema Malhotra
b. 1972
Signe Baumane
b. 1964
Silas House
b. 1971
Stefan Heße
b. 1966
Sulev Mäeltsemees
b. 1947
Sévère Rivard
1834 – 1888
Taro Takemi
1904 – 1983
Teijirō Toyoda
1885 – 1961
Udo Schiefner
1959 – 2025
Valery Gazzaev
b. 1954
Veljo Tormis
1930 – 2017
Viktor Medvedchuk
b. 1954
Viorel Hrebenciuc
b. 1953
Walid Jumblatt
b. 1949
Wolseley Haig
1865 – 1938
Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín
b. 1938
Aaron Motsoaledi
b. 1958
Abdullah bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
b. 1986
Adolfo Carranza
1857 – 1914
Adolfo Mexiac
1927 – 2019
Ahmed Ould Daddah
b. 1942
Ajahn Brahm
b. 1951
Alain Corneau
1943 – 2010
Albert Schreiner
1892 – 1979
Albert Twesme
1879 – 1949
Alberto Demicheli
1896 – 1980
Alberto Machado
b. 1978
Aldo Zargani
1933 – 2020
Aleksander Miszalski
b. 1980
Aleksandr Kuzyukov
b. 1987
Aleksandra Kurzak
b. 1977
Alex Stepheson
b. 1987
Alex Timbers
b. 1978
Alexander Zhurbin
b. 1945
Alexandre Aja
b. 1978
Alexandru Bassarab
1907 – 1941
Alexei Popogrebski
b. 1972
Alexis Glick
b. 1972
Alexis Yetna
b. 1997
Alfred Noble
1844 – 1914
Algar Howard
1880 – 1970
Algis Arlauskas
b. 1957
Alla Potapova
1933 – 2021
Anatoly Vlasov
1908 – 1975
Andreas Clemmensen
1852 – 1928
Andrew Fahie
b. 1970
Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff
1872 – 1957
Angela Schijf
b. 1979
Ann Harding
1902 – 1981
Anna Haining Bates
1846 – 1888
Anne Cobbe
1920 – 1971
Anne Snelgrove
b. 1957
Antônio de Macedo Costa
1830 – 1891
Asko Sarkola
b. 1945
August Ahlqvist
1826 – 1889
… and 3,670 more
Died on August 7
Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead
1900 – 1977
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
1779 – 1848
Karl Lashley
1890 – 1958
Alexander Belskiy
1921 – 1977
Anthony Modderman
1838 – 1885
Archibald MacMechan
1862 – 1933
Cajetan von Textor
1782 – 1860
David Fleay
1907 – 1993
Dmitri Lyudvigovich Tomashevich
1899 – 1974
Frances Oldham Kelsey
1914 – 2015
Harri Holkeri
1937 – 2011
Jacob Bigeleisen
1919 – 2010
James Hall
1811 – 1898
Mark Hatfield
1922 – 2011
Matsushige Ono
1936 – 2026
Murtuz Alasgarov
1928 – 2012
Nobusuke Kishi
1896 – 1987
Ramon Bayés
1930 – 2025
Richard Foerster
1843 – 1922
Robert Graham
1786 – 1845
Ronald Paulson
1930 – 2024
Rosario Castellanos
1925 – 1974
Virginia Apgar
1909 – 1974
Alexandra Chalmers Watson
1872 – 1936
Alfred Fleckeisen
1820 – 1899
Alicja Dorabialska
1897 – 1975
Alister McMullin
1900 – 1984
Andrew David Holt
1904 – 1987
André Bloch
1873 – 1960
Anna Livia Julian Brawn
1955 – 2007
Anne Wexler
1930 – 2009
Anton Lehmden
1929 – 2018
Antonio Starabba di Rudinì
1839 – 1908
Archibald Reiss
1875 – 1929
Arthur Powell Davis
1861 – 1933
Beriah Botfield
1807 – 1863
Bernard Bailyn
1922 – 2020
Bernard Vonnegut, Sr.
1855 – 1908
Bill Graham
1939 – 2022
Bill Laney
1913 – 1998
Brian O'Brien
1934 – 2020
Camille Chamoun
1900 – 1987
Cristina Deutekom
1931 – 2014
Daniel Cobb Harvey
1886 – 1966
David Popper
1843 – 1913
Dino Staffa
1906 – 1977
Dionysis Simopoulos
1943 – 2022
Dušan Zbavitel
1925 – 2012
Enrique Gaviola
1900 – 1989
Ernst Pfuhl
1876 – 1940
Francisco Fernández Ordóñez
1930 – 1992
Frank Buchman
1878 – 1961
Fred M. Taylor
1855 – 1932
Gebhard Müller
1900 – 1990
Georg Ebers
1837 – 1898
Giorgi Kvinitadze
1874 – 1970
Gábor Szegő
1895 – 1985
Hung Liu
1948 – 2021
James Burrough
1691 – 1764
Jean Spiropoulos
1896 – 1972
Jean-Louis Cohen
1949 – 2023
Jim Lovell
1928 – 2025
John Nelder
1924 – 2010
Jon McBride
1943 – 2024
Jonathan Trumbull Jr.
1740 – 1809
Joseph Gottfried Mikan
1743 – 1814
Kary Mullis
1944 – 2019
Leonard Wood
1860 – 1927
Louis Palander
1842 – 1920
Maksim Tank
1912 – 1995
Mario Tronti
1931 – 2023
Mariusz Dmochowski
1930 – 1992
Napoléon Belcourt
1860 – 1932
Nidhi Eoseewong
1940 – 2023
Nils von Rosenstein
1752 – 1824
Peder Madsen
1843 – 1911
Peter Jennings
1938 – 2005
Pierre Vilar
1906 – 2003
Poul Christian Holst
1776 – 1863
Ricardo Boizard
1903 – 1983
Rostislav Rybakov
1938 – 2019
Rudolf von Bennigsen
1824 – 1902
Ryōkichi Yatabe
1851 – 1899
Stephen F. Williams
1936 – 2020
William James Erasmus Wilson
1809 – 1884
Yoshimichi Hara
1867 – 1944
Ada Fighiera-Sikorska
1929 – 1996
Adin Steinsaltz
1937 – 2020
Adolf Krazer
1858 – 1926
Alejandro Armendáriz
1923 – 2005
Aleksander Zawadzki
1899 – 1964
Alexander Khakhanov
1864 – 1912
Alexander Melville Bell
1819 – 1905
Alexander von Dörnberg
1901 – 1983
Alexandru Baltagă
1861 – 1941
Alfredo Catalani
1854 – 1893
Alonzo Kimball
1808 – 1900
Altus Lacy Quaintance
1870 – 1958
Andreas Sigismund Marggraf
1709 – 1782
André César Vermare
1869 – 1949
Andrés Amado Reygondaud
1886 – 1946
Angus Tait
1919 – 2007
Anna Johansson-Visborg
1876 – 1953
Anna Tumarkin
1875 – 1951
Anthony Pawson
1952 – 2013
Armas Launis
1884 – 1959
Armistead Mason Dobie
1881 – 1962
Arsenio Linares y Pombo
1848 – 1914
Avery Kier
1905 – 1987
Basofi Sudirman
1940 – 2017
Benjamin C. Hilliard
1868 – 1951
Benjamin Halevy
1910 – 1996
Berkeley Moreton, 4th Earl of Ducie
1834 – 1924
Bernard Levin
1928 – 2004
Biyi Bandele
1967 – 2022
Bruno Cremer
1929 – 2010
C. Bascom Slemp
1870 – 1943
Carlo Felice Bianchi Anderloni
1916 – 2003
Carola von Braun
1942 – 2026
Catherine Elizabeth Brown
1933 – 2004
Chaim Kaufman
1934 – 1995
Charles Chapman
1799 – 1869
Charles Galibert
1826 – 1858
Charles Linn
1814 – 1882
Charles Piétri
1932 – 1991
Charles S. Cary
1827 – 1906
Charles V. Hogan
1897 – 1971
Chris Birch
1950 – 2019
Christoforos
1872 – 1958
Clare Magee
1899 – 1969
Colin Bibby
1948 – 2004
Constantine Stanislavsky
1863 – 1938
Cornelis Wind
1867 – 1911
David G. McCullough
1933 – 2022
David Tab Rasmussen
1958 – 2014
Denis-Pierre-Jean Papillon de la Ferté
1727 – 1794
Dionysius Godefridus van der Keessel
1738 – 1816
Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne
1901 – 2002
Don Baylor
1949 – 2017
Douglas Applegate
1928 – 2021
Edmund Leach
1836 – 1923
Edmund Platt
1865 – 1939
Edward Bruner
1924 – 2020
Edwin Corning
1883 – 1934
Emil Devrient
1803 – 1872
Fernand Pelez
1848 – 1913
Florence Barrett
1867 – 1945
Francis Blackburne
1705 – 1787
Francis Blake Delaval
1727 – 1771
Francis Earl Johnston
1871 – 1917
François Chaslin
1948 – 2025
Fred Benjamin Gernerd
1879 – 1948
Frederick Hervey, 3rd Marquess of Bristol
1834 – 1907
Gennadi Touretski
1949 – 2020
George Gray
1840 – 1925
George Ritchie
1864 – 1944
George Simpson
1856 – 1906
George Stephen West
1876 – 1919
Georges Houot
1913 – 1977
Georges Matheron
1930 – 2000
Gillian Bibby
1945 – 2023
Gustavo Bueno
1924 – 2016
Gérard Toulouse
1939 – 2023
Hans Ragnemalm
1940 – 2016
Harold G. Mosier
1889 – 1971
Harry Garner
1892 – 1977
Harvey D. Williams
1930 – 2020
Harvey Whitefield Scott
1838 – 1910
Heinz Hardt
1936 – 2025
Helen Margaret Gilkey
1886 – 1972
Helene Overlach
1894 – 1983
Hendrik Brouwer
1581 – 1643
Henri Lebasque
1865 – 1937
Henry T. Hazard
1844 – 1921
Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten
1860 – 1934
Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran
1802 – 1897
Hugh Carey
1919 – 2011
Hugo von Bosch
1782 – 1865
Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón
1727 – 1785
Ira Aldridge
1807 – 1867
Jack Gregory
1895 – 1973
Jack Günthard
1920 – 2016
Jack James
1920 – 2001
Jacob Baart de la Faille
1886 – 1959
Jacob Earl Fickel
1883 – 1956
Jacob Maris
1837 – 1899
Jakob Baechtold
1848 – 1897
James D. Phelan
1861 – 1930
James Lanman
1767 – 1841
James S. Negley
1826 – 1901
James Strong
1822 – 1894
James William Beekman Jr.
1847 – 1908
Jan Stańczyk
1886 – 1953
Jan Viktor Mládek
1911 – 1989
Jeanne Boitel
1904 – 1987
Jerzy Józef Szembek
1851 – 1905
Johann Daniel Schöpflin
1694 – 1771
Johann Gottfried Gruber
1774 – 1851
John Ciaccia
1933 – 2018
John Reeves
1752 – 1829
… and 1,628 more