| 200 famous people born january 7 | | | | 1903 - Alan Napier, Birmingham England, actor |
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| footprint! | | | | 1903 - Albrecht Haushofer, writer |
| 1355 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, | | | | 1903 - Shalva Azmayparashvili, composer |
| son of Edward III of England (d. 1397) | | | | 1903 - Vladimir Alexandrovich Vlasov, composer |
| 1528 - Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra/mother of | | | | 1905 - Francis Taylor, builder |
| French King Henry IV | | | | 1907 - Nicanor Zabaleta, San Sebastian, Spain, harpist |
| 1539 - Sebastian de Covarrubias Horozco, Spanish | | | | 1908 - Red Allen, American musician (d. 1967) |
| lexicographer | | | | 1910 - Alain JG de Rothschild, France, banker/baron |
| 1611 - James Harrington, England, political author | | | | 1910 - Jack Lovelock, NZ/US surgeon/runner |
| (Commonwealth of Oceans) | | | | (Olympic-gold-1936) |
| 1612 - Paul de La Pierre, composer | | | | 1910 - Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet (d. 1984) |
| 1634 - Adam Krieger, German composer | | | | 1910 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994) |
| 1647 - Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. | | | | 1911 - Merv Waite, cricketer (S Australian all-rounder) |
| 1677) | | | | 1912 - Charles Addams, cartoonist (New Yorker, |
| 1652 - Pavao Vitezovic, Croatia, writer/historian | | | | Addams Family) |
| 1653 - Bernhard Albinus, Germany, court-physician | | | | 1912 - Günter Wand, German conductor, composer |
| (Frederick of Prussia) | | | | (d. 2002) |
| 1685 - Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East | | | | 1913 - Francis De Wolff, England, actor (From Russia |
| India Company | | | | With Love) |
| 1685 - Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (d. 1761) | | | | 1913 - Shirley Ross, Omaha NE, actress (Cafe Society, |
| 1706 - Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. | | | | Prison Farm) |
| 1751) | | | | 1913 - Johnny Mize, American baseball player (d. 1993) |
| 1710 - Josef Antonin Sehling, composer | | | | 1915 - Herman Musaph, Dutch psychiatrist/sexologist |
| 1718 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War | | | | founder (NVSH) |
| general (d. 1790) | | | | 1916 - Gerrit Schulte, [Le Fou Pedalant], Dutch 6 day |
| 1768 - Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (d. 1844) | | | | bicyclist |
| 1786 - John Catron, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court | | | | 1916 - Paul Keres, USSR, chess grandmaster (1950) |
| (d. 1865) | | | | 1917 - Ulysses Sipmson Kay, composer |
| 1796 - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (d. 1817) | | | | 1918 - Alessadro Natta, Italian political leader |
| 1799 - Daniel Tyler, Brig General (Union volunteers), died | | | | (Communist Party) |
| in 1882 | | | | 1918 - Colin Snedden, cricketer (Test NZ v England |
| 1800 - Millard Fillmore, Locke NY, (Whig) 13th president | | | | 1947, 0-46, did not bat) |
| (1850-53) | | | | 1920 - Albert Meltzer, anarchist |
| 1808 - Jacob Ammen, Brig General (Union volunteers), | | | | 1920 - Aubrey Brabazon, jockey/trainer |
| died in 1894 | | | | 1920 - Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, |
| 1816 - Stephen Miller, Brig General (Union volunteers), | | | | engineer/Industrialist |
| died in 1881 | | | | 1921 - John Lanigan, tenor |
| 1821 - Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell, Brig General (Confed | | | | 1922 - Jean-Pierre [Louis] Rampal, Marseilles France, |
| Army), died in 1891 | | | | flautist |
| 1822 - Lucius C M Bakker, Frisian physician/author | | | | 1922 - Vincent Gardenia, Naples Italy, actor (All in the |
| (Goethe) | | | | Family, LA Law) |
| 1822 - Theodor Aufrecht, German indologist (Rigveda's | | | | 1923 - Charles Russell Woolen, composer |
| Hymns) | | | | 1923 - Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic (d. 2003) |
| 1824 - James Morrison Hawes, Brig General | | | | 1924 - Roloff Beny, Alberta, painter/photographer (A |
| (Confederate Army), died in 1889 | | | | Time of Gods) |
| 1827 - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer; | | | | 1924 - Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (d. 1966) |
| introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915) | | | | 1925 - Gerald Malcolm Durrell, Britain, zoologist/writer |
| 1830 - (Samuel) Emerson Opdycke, Bvt Major General | | | | (Mockery Bird) |
| (Union volunteers) | | | | 1928 - Rajindranath, cricketer (4 stumpings in his only |
| 1830 - Albert Bierstadt, Germany, painter (US | | | | Test for India) |
| landscapes) | | | | 1928 - William Peter Blatty, NYC, author/director (The |
| 1832 - James Munro, Premier of Victoria (d. 1908) | | | | Exorcist) |
| 1834 - Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and | | | | 1929 - Douglas Kiker, NBC newsman (1970 Peabody |
| inventor (d. 1874) | | | | Award) |
| 1842 - Johan Lindegren, composer | | | | 1929 - Kenneth Henry, US, 500m speed skater |
| 1844 - Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, [St Bernadette of | | | | (Olympic-gold-1952) |
| Lourdes], saint/visionary | | | | 1929 - Terry Moore, [Helen Luella Koford], LA Cal, |
| 1845 - Louis III, last king of Bavaria (1913-18) | | | | actress (Little Sheba) |
| 1845 - Paul Deusen, German philosopher | | | | 1931 - Mack Mattingly, (Sen-R-GA, 1981-86) |
| (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft) | | | | 1932 - Joe Berinson, Australian politician |
| 1853 - Nikolai Arkas, composer | | | | 1933 - Elliot Kastner, NYC, producer (Bobo, Big Sleep, |
| 1858 - Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of | | | | Ffolkes) |
| Hebrew as a spoken language (d. 1922) | | | | 1934 - Charles Lamont Jenkins, NYC, 400m runner |
| 1860 - Emanuil Mandlov, composer | | | | (Olympic-gold-1956) |
| 1868 - Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski, Polish/German | | | | 1934 - Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (d. 2002) |
| orientalist | | | | 1935 - Noam Sheriff, composer |
| 1870 - Lord Gordon Hewart, British judge (d. 1943) | | | | 1935 - Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov, cosmonaut (Soyuz |
| 1871 - Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician | | | | 6, 19, 36/35) |
| (d. 1956) | | | | 1935 - Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (d. |
| 1873 - Adolph Zukor, Hungary, movie producer/director | | | | 2006) |
| executive (Paramount) | | | | 1935 - Tommy Johnson, American tubist (d. 2006) |
| 1875 - Thomas Hicks, English/US marathon runner: | | | | 1936 - Eldee Young, US bassist (Young Holt |
| (Olympic-gold-1904) | | | | Unlimited-Hang on Sloopy) |
| 1875 - Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945) | | | | 1936 - Ben Cropp, Australian shark hunter and |
| 1876 - William Yeates Hurlstone, composer | | | | photographer |
| 1877 - Johannes F Buziau, Dutch cabaret performer (1 | | | | 1938 - Jasperina de Jong, Dutch cabaret performer |
| great dog) | | | | (Jan Rao en z'n Maat) |
| 1879 - St Bernadette (Marie-Bernarde Soubirous), | | | | 1938 - Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997) |
| 1844(?), religious visionary | | | | 1939 - David Buchan, ethno-musicologist |
| 1883 - Andrew Browne, Irish/British admiral (WW II) | | | | 1939 - Tom Kierman, British(?) rugby player |
| 1890 - Henny Porten, Magdeburg Germany, silent | | | | 1939 - Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark |
| screen star (Deception) | | | | 1940 - William Elgin Swinton, child psychiatrist |
| 1890 - Maurice E McLoughlin, tennis champ (US | | | | 1941 - Ann Susan Hills, freelance journalist |
| Open-1912) | | | | 1941 - Frederick Drew Gregory, Wash DC, Col USAF |
| 1891 - Zora Neale Hurston, American writer (d. 1960) | | | | astro (STS 51-B, 33, 44) |
| 1892 - Rudolf Moser, composer | | | | 1941 - Robert Hicks, rocker (Paul Butterfield Blues |
| 1894 - Jose Rozo Contreras, composer | | | | Band) |
| 1895 - Marie-Dominique Chenu, French Roman Catholic | | | | 1941 - Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (d. |
| theologist | | | | 2004) |
| 1895 - Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960) | | | | 1941 - John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize |
| 1895 - Sir Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and | | | | laureate |
| co-founder of QANTAS (d. 1974) | | | | 1942 - Paul Revere, rock keyoardist (Good Thing) |
| 1896 - Arnold Ridley, Bath England, actor/dramatist | | | | 1942 - Vasili Alexeyev, USSR, weightlifer |
| (The Ghost Train) | | | | (Olympic-gold-72, 76) |
| 1898 - Art Baker, NYC, TV host (You Asked For It) | | | | 1942 - Vasily Alexeev, Russian weightlifter |
| 1898 - Geronimo Baqueiro Foster, composer | | | | 1943 - Jim Lefebvre, Hawthorne Calif, baseball |
| 1898 - Al Bowlly, British jazz singer (d. 1941) | | | | manager (Seattle Mariners) |
| 1899 - Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, Paris, composer | | | | 1943 - Leona Williams, singer/songwriter (Ladies Get |
| pianist (Les Biches) | | | | the Blues) |
| 1899 - Kenneth Thomson, Pitts, actor (Broadway | | | | 1943 - Nicholas Warner, test Pilot |
| Melody, Little Giant) | | | | 1943 - Sadako Sasaki, Japanese child victim of the |
| 1900 - John Brownlee, Australian tenor (d. 1969) | | | | Hiroshima atomic bomb (d. |