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January 7 Birthdays in History - January 7 Deaths - January 7 Events
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January 7, 1996 Abbey Speakman, England, born 19 days after her twin sister January 7, 1987 Angel Carter, American Model January 7, 1983 Natalie Gulbis, American Athlete January 7, 1979 Shawn Ashmore, Canadian Actor January 7, 1978 Shiri Appleby, American Actress January 7, 1978 Rio Ferdinand, English Athlete January 7, 1977 Dustin Diamond, born in San Jose, California, actor, Screech-Saved By Bell January 7, 1976 Rachel McAdams, Canadian Actress January 7, 1975 Robert Norman Waddell, Cambridge NZ, Single scull rower 1996 Olympics January 7, 1974 Jennifer LeRoy, Craig CO, playmate, Feb, 1993 January 7, 1974 Nicole Appleton, Canadian Musician January 7, 1973 Bobby Engram, wide receiver for the Chicago Bears January 7, 1973 Brian Milne, fullback for the Cincinnati Bengals January 7, 1973 Ricky Wood, Van Nuys California, diver 1996 Olympics January 7, 1973 Robert Dunn, Glenn Cove, New York, team handball left wing 1996 Olympics January 7, 1972 Aaron John Mcintosh, Auckland NZ, sailboard yachter 1996 Olympics January 7, 1972 Chuck Levy, kick returner/running back for the San Francisco 49ers January 7, 1972 Donald Brashear, Bedford, NHL left wing, Montreal Canadiens January 7, 1972 Hermann Maier, Austrian Athlete January 7, 1971 Bobby Hamilton, NFL/WLAF defensive end, Amsterdam Admirals, New York Jets January 7, 1971 Masato Itai, WLAF wide receiver for the Amsterdam Admirals January 7, 1971 Todd Yeaman, NFL defensive tackle for the New York Giants January 7, 1970 Darryl Williams, NFL safety, Seattle Seahawks, Cin Bengals January 7, 1970 Frank "Cliff" Mannon, Amarillo, Texas, team handball 1996 Olympics January 7, 1970 Paul McCallum, CFL/WLAF kicker/punter, Claymores, Sask Roughriders January 7, 1970 Todd Day, NBA guard and forward for the Boston Celtics January 7, 1970 Morgan Spurlock, American Director January 7, 1969 Chris Hatcher, U.S. baseball outfielder for the Houston Astros January 7, 1969 Doug E Doug, actor, Cosby January 7, 1969 Erric Pegram, NFL running back, Pit Steelers, New York Giants, San Diego Chargers January 7, 1969 Todd Kinchen, NFL wide receiver, St. Louis Rams, Atlanta Falcons January 7, 1968 Michael Rosati, hockey goaltender, Team Italy 1998 January 7, 1968 Nathaniel Bolton, WLAF running back for the Frankfurt Galaxy January 7, 1968 Thom Yorke, English Musician January 7, 1967 Guy Hebert, Troy, NHL goalie, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Team USA 98 January 7, 1967 Scott Galbraith, NFL tight end, Washington Redskins, Dallas Cowboys January 7, 1966 Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, model/wife of John Kennedy Jr January 7, 1966 Jennifer Luff, Australian rower 1996 Olympics January 7, 1966 Randy Burridge, Fort Erie, NHL left wing for the Buffalo Sabres January 7, 1966 Sherman Alexie, American Writer January 7, 1965 Mark Rushmere, cricketer, South Africa opening bat in comeback Test 1992 January 7, 1964 Francisco Maciel, Mexico, tennis star January 7, 1964 Nicolas Cage, actor, Moonstruck, Racing with the Moon January 7, 1964 Dan Savage, American Writer January 7, 1963 Craig Shipley, Australian/US baseball infielder for the San Diego Padres January 7, 1963 Sam Graves, American Politician January 7, 1962 Hallie Todd, actress, Check is in the Mail January 7, 1962 Jeff Montgomery, Wellston, Ohio, pitcher for the Kansas City Royals January 7, 1961 John Thune, American Politician January 7, 1960 David Marciano, Newark, New Jersey, actor, Det Ray Vecchio-Due South January 7, 1960 Tierre Turner, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor, Waverly Wonders, Cop and the Kid January 7, 1960 Charlie Bell, Australian Businessman January 7, 1960 Loretta Sanchez, American Politician January 7, 1960 Matthew Shipp, American Musician January 7, 1959 Kathy Valentine, rocker, Go-Go's-We Got the Beat January 7, 1959 Simon Cowell, British Entertainer January 7, 1958 Donna Rice, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, model/Gary Hart's lover January 7, 1958 Peter R Mokaba, president, South African Youth Congress January 7, 1957 Katie Couric, born in Arlington, Virginia, TV news host, Today January 7, 1957 Kristen Meadows, actress, Santa Barbara January 7, 1957 Nicholson Baker, American Novelist January 7, 1956 Robin Walton, Boise ID, LPGA golfer, 1995 GHP Heartland Classic-15th January 7, 1956 Rosalyn Bryant, born in Chicago, Illinois, 4x400m runner 1976 Olympics silver January 7, 1956 Trudie Styler, England, wife of Sting/sponsor, Rainforest Concert January 7, 1956 David Caruso, American Actor January 7, 1955 Sandra Bernhard, born in Arizona, Follow That Bird, King of Comedy January 7, 1955 Yo-Yo Ma, American Musician January 7, 1954 Alan Butcher, cricketer, one Test England vs. India, scored 14 and 20 January 7, 1953 Agha Zahid, cricketer, open batting for Pak vs. WI 1975, scored 14 and 1 January 7, 1953 Earl Wilber Force "Wire" Lindo, rocker, Bob Marley and the Wailers January 7, 1952 Giuliano Ferrara January 7, 1951 Talgat Amangeldyyevich Musabayev, Russian mjr/cosmonaut, TM-19, TM-27 January 7, 1951 John Mellencamp, American Musician January 7, 1950 Erin Gray, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, actress, Silver Spoons, Buck Rogers January 7, 1949 John Christopher Parry, rocker, Cure January 7, 1949 Marshall Chapman, Spartanburg, South Carolina, country singer January 7, 1948 Kaz Lux, Poland/Netherland, singer January 7, 1948 Kenny Loggins, born in Everett, Washington, singer, & Messina-This is it, Footloose January 7, 1947 David Porcelijn, Dutch composer and conductor January 7, 1946 Andy Brown, rock drummer, Fortunes Birmingham January 7, 1946 Jann S Wenner, publisher, Rolling Stone January 7, 1946 Catharine MacKinnon, American Activist January 7, 1945 Tony Conigliaro, Massachusetts, baseball outfielder for the Boston Red Sox January 7, 1944 Ad [GB] Nijhuis, Dutch MP, VVD January 7, 1944 Mike McGear, Liverpool, singer, Paul McCartney's brother January 7, 1944 George Nethercutt, American Politician January 7, 1943 Jim Lefebvre, Hawthorne California, baseball manager for the Seattle Mariners January 7, 1943 Leona Williams, singer and songwriter, Ladies Get the Blues January 7, 1943 Nicholas Warner, test Pilot January 7, 1943 Silvia Cartwright, New Zealander Statesman January 7, 1943 Stephen Greenblatt, American Critic January 7, 1942 Paul Revere, rock keyoardist, Good Thing January 7, 1942 Vasili Alexeyev, U.S.S.R., weightlifer, Olympics gold 72, 76 January 7, 1942 Paul Weyrich, American Critic January 7, 1942 Helen Garner, Australian Novelist January 7, 1941 Ann Susan Hills, freelance journalist January 7, 1941 Frederick Drew Gregory, Washington D.C., Col USAF/astro, STS 51-B, 33, 44 January 7, 1941 Robert Hicks, rocker, Paul Butterfield Blues Band January 7, 1941 Angelo Scola, Italian Clergyman January 7, 1941 John E. Walker, English Scientist January 7, 1940 William Elgin Swinton, child psychiatrist January 7, 1940 Bruce Vento, American Politician January 7, 1939 David Buchan, ethno-musicologist January 7, 1939 Tom Kierman, British rugby player January 7, 1938 Jasperina de Jong, Dutch cabaret performer, Jan Rao en z'n Maat January 7, 1938 Ann Jones, English Athlete January 7, 1936 Eldee Young, U.S. bassist, Young Holt Unlimited-Hang on Sloopy January 7, 1935 Noam Sheriff, composer January 7, 1935 Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov, cosmonaut, Soyuz 6, 19, 36/35 January 7, 1935 Thomas Keneally, Australian Novelist January 7, 1934 Charles Lamont Jenkins, New York City, 400m runner 1956 Olympics gold January 7, 1934 Amiri Baraka, American Writer January 7, 1933 Elliot Kastner, New York City, producer, Bobo, Big Sleep, Ffolkes January 7, 1931 Mack Mattingly, Sen-R-GA, 1981-86 January 7, 1931 Cotton Fitzsimmons, American Coach January 7, 1929 Douglas Kiker, NBC newsman, 1970 Peabody Award January 7, 1929 Kenneth Henry, U.S., 500m speed skater 1952 Olympics gold January 7, 1929 Terry Moore, [Helen Luella Koford], LA Cal, actress, Little Sheba January 7, 1928 Rajindranath, cricketer, 4 stumpings in his only Test for India January 7, 1928 William Peter Blatty, New York City, author/director, The Exorcist January 7, 1925 Gerald Malcolm Durrell, Britain, zoologist/writer, Mockery Bird January 7, 1924 Roloff Beny, Alberta, painter/photographer, A Time of Gods January 7, 1923 Charles Russell Woolen, composer January 7, 1922 Jean-Pierre [Louis] Rampal, Marseilles France, flautist January 7, 1922 Vincent Gardenia, Naples Italy, actor, All in the Family, LA Law January 7, 1921 John Lanigan, tenor January 7, 1920 Albert Meltzer, anarchist January 7, 1920 Aubrey Brabazon, jockey/trainer January 7, 1920 Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, engineer/Industrialist January 7, 1918 Alessadro Natta, Italian political leader, Communist Party January 7, 1918 Colin Snedden, cricketer, Test NZ vs. England 1947, 0-46, did not bat January 7, 1917 Ulysses Sipmson Kay, composer January 7, 1917 Helen Suzman, South African Politician January 7, 1916 Gerrit Schulte, [Le Fou Pedalant], Dutch 6 day bicyclist January 7, 1916 Paul Keres, U.S.S.R., chess grandmaster, 1950 January 7, 1915 Herman Musaph, Dutch psychiatrist/sexologist/founder, NVSH January 7, 1915 Philip Morrison, American Scientist January 7, 1915 Charles Templeton, Canadian Cartoonist January 7, 1913 Francis De Wolff, England, actor, From Russia With Love January 7, 1913 Shirley Ross, born in Omaha, Nebraska, actress, Cafe Society, Prison Farm January 7, 1912 Charles Addams, cartoonist, New Yorker, Addams Family January 7, 1911 Merv Waite, cricketer, S Australian all-rounder January 7, 1910 Alain JG de Rothschild, France, banker/baron January 7, 1910 Jack Lovelock, NZ/U.S. surgeon/runner 1936 Olympics gold January 7, 1910 Edmund Leach, British Scientist January 7, 1907 Nicanor Zabaleta, San Sebastian, Spain, harpist January 7, 1905 Francis Taylor, builder January 7, 1903 Alan Napier, Birmingham England, actor, Alfred-Batman January 7, 1903 Albrecht Haushofer, writer January 7, 1903 Shalva Azmayparashvili, composer January 7, 1903 Vladimir Alexandrovich Vlasov, composer January 7, 1900 Herbert Butterfield, British Historian January 7, 1899 Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, Paris, composer/pianist, Les Biches January 7, 1899 Kenneth Thomson, Pitts, actor, Broadway Melody, Little Giant January 7, 1898 Art Baker, New York City, TV host, You Asked For It January 7, 1898 Geronimo Baqueiro Foster, composer January 7, 1896 Arnold Ridley, Bath England, actor/dramatist, The Ghost Train January 7, 1895 Marie-Dominique Chenu, French Roman Catholic theologist January 7, 1894 Jose Rozo Contreras, composer January 7, 1892 Rudolf Moser, composer January 7, 1891 Zora Neale Hurston, American Dramatist January 7, 1890 Henny Porten, Magdeburg Germany, silent screen star, Deception January 7, 1890 Maurice E McLoughlin, tennis champ, U.S. Open-1912 January 7, 1888 Henry A. Wallace, American Vice President January 7, 1886 Aaron Nimzovich, Latvian Celebrity January 7, 1885 Frank H Knight, American Economist January 7, 1883 Andrew Browne, Irish/British Admiral, WW II January 7, 1879 St. Bernadette, Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, 1844, religious visionary January 7, 1877 Johannes F Buziau, Dutch cabaret performer, 1 great dog January 7, 1876 William Yeates Hurlstone, composer January 7, 1875 Thomas Hicks, English/U.S. marathon runner:, Olympics gold 1904 January 7, 1873 Adolph Zukor, Hungary, movie producer/director/executive, Paramount January 7, 1873 Charles Pierre Peguy, Orleans Fr, Catholic writer, God Speaks January 7, 1873 Charles Peguy, French Philosopher January 7, 1868 Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski, Polish/German orientalist January 7, 1863 Richard W. Sears, American Businessman January 7, 1860 Emanuil Mandlov, composer January 7, 1855 Eliezer Ben-Jehuda, [Perelmann], Latvia, writer, 1st hebrew newspaper January 7, 1854 Christiaan Rudolf de Wet, South African Politician January 7, 1853 Nikolai Arkas, composer January 7, 1845 Louis III, last king of Bavaria, 1913-18 January 7, 1845 Paul Deusen, German philosopher, Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft January 7, 1844 Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, [St. Bernadette of Lourdes], saint/visionary January 7, 1842 Johan Lindegren, composer January 7, 1839 Ouida, English Novelist January 7, 1830 , Samuel, Emerson Opdycke, Bvt Major General Union volunteers January 7, 1830 Albert Bierstadt, Germany, painter, US landscapes January 7, 1824 James Morrison Hawes, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1889 January 7, 1822 Lucius C M Bakker, Frisian physician/author, Goethe January 7, 1822 Theodor Aufrecht, German indologist, Rigveda's Hymns January 7, 1821 Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell, Brig General, Confed Army, died in 1891 January 7, 1816 Stephen Miller, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1881 January 7, 1810 Henry Alford, English Clergyman January 7, 1808 Jacob Ammen, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1894 January 7, 1800 Millard Fillmore, Locke, New York, Whig, 13th president, 1850-53 January 7, 1799 Daniel Tyler, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1882 January 7, 1745 Henry Rutgers, American Soldier January 7, 1727 William Samuel Johnson, American Politician January 7, 1710 Josef Antonin Sehling, composer January 7, 1685 Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company January 7, 1653 Bernhard Albinus, Germany, court-physician, Frederick of Prussia January 7, 1652 Pavao Vitezovic, Croatia, writer/historian January 7, 1634 Adam Krieger, German composer January 7, 1612 Paul de La Pierre, composer January 7, 1611 James Harrington, England, political author, Commonwealth of Oceans January 7, 1576 John Marston, English Poet January 7, 1539 Sebastian de Covarrubias Horozco, Spanish lexicographer January 7, 1528 Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra/mother of French King Henry IV |