January 7 - Births

Births

1355 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III of England (d. 1397)
1502 – Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585)
1528 – Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (d. 1572)
1634 – Adam Krieger, German composer (d. 1666)
1647 – Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
1685 – Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (d. 1761)
1706 – Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
1713 – Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Italian opera director, impresario and owner of a private opera company (d. 1785)
1718 – Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)
1746 – George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1823)
1768 – Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (d. 1844)
1786 – John Catron, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1865)
1796 – Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (d. 1817)
1800 – Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)
1827 – Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
1831 – Heinrich von Stephan, German labor organizer (d. 1897)
1832 – James Munro, Premier of Victoria (d. 1908)
1834 – Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)
1837 – Thomas Henry Ismay, founder of the White Star Line shipping company (d. 1899)
1844 – Bernadette Soubirous, French saint (d. 1879)
1845 – King Ludwig III of Bavaria (d. 1921)
1858 – Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language (d. 1922)
1860 – Emanuil Manolov, Bulgarian composer (d. 1902)
1870 – Lord Gordon Hewart, British judge (d. 1943)
1871 – Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)
1873 – Charles Péguy, French poet and essayist (d. 1914)
1873 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian producer (d. 1976)
1875 – Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)
1875 – Thomas Hicks, American runner (d. 1963)
1876 – William Hurlstone, English composer (d. 1906)
1879 – John Bissinger, American gymnast (d. 1941)
1880 – Jerome Steever, American water polo player (d. 1957)
1885 – Edwin Swatek, American backstroke swimmer and water polo player (d. 1966)
1887 – Oskar Luts, Estonian writer and playwright (d. 1953)
1888 – Vera de Bosset, Russian artist, wife of Igor Stravinsky (d. 1982)
1891 – Zora Neale Hurston, African-American writer (d. 1960)
1895 – Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and co-founder of Qantas (d. 1974)
1895 – Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960)
1896 – Arnold Ridley, British playwright and actor (d. 1984)
1899 – Al Bowlly, British jazz singer (d. 1941)
1899 – Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963)
1900 – John Brownlee, Australian tenor (d. 1969)
1900 – Robert Le Vigan, French actor (d. 1972)
1903 – Alan Napier, English actor (d. 1988)
1906 – Bobbi Trout, American aviator (d. 2003)
1907 – Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist (d. 1993)
1908 – Red Allen, American musician (d. 1967)
1910 – Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
1911 – Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995)
1912 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
1912 – Günter Wand, German conductor, composer (d. 2002)
1913 – Johnny Mize, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1916 – Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975)
1917 – Ulysses Kay, American composer (d. 1995)
1921 – Chester Kallman, American writer (d. 1975)
1922 – Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager
1922 – Vincent Gardenia, Italian-born actor (d. 1992)
1922 – Eric Jupp, British-born Australian composer, arranger, conductor (d. 2003)
1922 – Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist (d. 2000)
1923 – Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic (d. 2003)
1924 – Geoffrey Bayldon, British actor
1924 – Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (d. 1966)
1925 – Gerald Durrell, British naturalist (d. 1995)
1926 – Kim Jong-pil, South Korean politician
1928 – William Peter Blatty, American screenwriter
1929 – Terry Moore, American actress
1932 – Joe Berinson, Australian politician
1933 – Elliott Kastner, American film producer (d. 2010)
1934 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (d. 2002)
1934 – Charles Jenkins, American sprinter
1934 – Tassos Papadopoulos, President of Cyprus (d. 2008)
1935 – Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (d. 2006)
1935 – Tommy Johnson, American tubist (d. 2006)
1935 – Valeri Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut
1935 – Ducky Schofield, American baseball player
1936 – G. Robert Blakey, American attorney
1936 – Ben Cropp, Australian shark hunter and photographer
1938 – Lou Graham, American golfer
1938 – Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997)
1939 – Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark
1941 – Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
1941 – Frederick D. Gregory, NASA astronaut
1941 – Manfred Schellscheidt, German American soccer coach
1941 – John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 – Vasily Alexeev, Russian weightlifter
1942 – Jim Lefebvre, American baseball player and manager
1942 – Danny Williams, South African singer (d. 2005)
1943 – Richard Armstrong, British conductor
1943 – Sadako Sasaki, Japanese child victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb (d. 1955)
1944 – Arne Scheie, Norwegian sports commentator
1944 – Tony Whitlam, Australian judge
1945 – Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (d. 1990)
1945 – Gilles Marotte, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
1945 – Dick Marty, Swiss politician
1945 – Raila Odinga, Prime Minister of Kenya
1946 – Michael Roizen, American anesthesiologist, internist and author
1946 – Jann Wenner, American publisher
1947 – Shobha De, Indian writer
1948 – Kenny Loggins, American singer (Loggins and Messina)
1948 – Ichirou Mizuki, Japanese voice actor
1949 – Marshall Chapman, American singer-songwriter
1949 – Anne Schedeen, American actress
1949 – Steven Williams, American actor
1950 – Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter
1950 – Erin Gray, American actress
1950 – Ross Grimsley, American baseball player
1950 – Malcolm Macdonald, English footballer
1951 – Helen Worth, British actress
1952 – Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor
1953 – Morris Titanic, Canadian ice hockey player
1954 – Jodi Long, American actress
1954 – José María Vitier, Cuban composer and pianist
1956 – David Caruso, American actor
1956 – Mike Liut, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 – Uwe Ochsenknecht, German actor and singer
1956 – Kostas Petropoulos, Greek basketball player and coach
1957 – Nicholson Baker, American novelist
1957 – Katie Couric, American television host
1957 – Reena Roy, Indian actress
1957 – Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer
1958 – Linda Kozlowski, American actress
1958 – Donna Rice, American sex scandal figure
1959 – Jon Larsen, Norwegian musician and composer
1959 – Kathy Valentine, American musician (The Go-Go's)
1960 – David Marciano, American actor
1960 – Loretta Sanchez, American politician, U.S. Representative from California
1961 – Supriya Pathak, Indian actress
1961 – Andrew Thomson, Australian politician
1961 – John Thune, American politician, junior senator of South Dakota
1962 – Aleksandr Dugin, Russian politician
1962 – Hallie Todd, American actress
1963 – Clint Mansell, English musician and composer (Pop Will Eat Itself)
1963 – Rand Paul, American politician, Junior Senator from Kentucky
1964 – Nicolas Cage, American actor
1966 – Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American publicist (d. 1999)
1966 – Corrie Sanders, South African boxer (d. 2012)
1966 – Ehab Tawfik, Egyptian singer
1967 – Nick Clegg, British Liberal Democrat Leader
1967 – Guy Hebert, American ice hockey player
1967 – Mark Lamarr, British comedian and broadcaster
1969 – David Yost, American actor
1970 – Todd Day, American basketball player
1970 – Doug E. Doug, American actor
1970 – Joao Ricardo, Angolan footballer
1971 – C.W. Anderson, American professional wrestler
1971 – Tina Anderson, American comic book writer
1971 – Jeremy Renner, American actor
1972 – Donald Brashear, American ice hockey player
1973 – Baiba Broka, Latvian actress
1973 – Jonna Tervomaa, Finnish singer
1974 – Alenka Bikar, Slovenian athlete
1974 – John Rich, American musician (Big & Rich)
1975 – Tift Merritt, American singer songwriter (The Two Dollar Pistols with Tift Merritt)
1975 – Hossein Derakhshan, Iranian dissident blogger
1976 – Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball player
1976 – Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
1977 – Michelle Behennah, British model
1977 – Marco Storari, Italian footballer
1977 – Dustin Diamond, American actor
1977 – John Gidding, American architect and TV host
1978 – Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian shooting victim (d. 2005)
1978 – Kevin Mench, American baseball player
1978 – Emilio Palma, first person born on the Antarctic continent
1979 – Bipasha Basu, Indian model and actress
1979 – Ricardo Maurício, Brazilian racing driver
1979 – Mariangel Ruiz, Venezuelan actress and model
1980 – Campbell Johnstone, New Zealand rugby player
1980 – Zöe Salmon, Irish television presenter
1981 – Jinxx, American guitarist (Black Veil Brides, The Dreaming, and Amen)
1981 – Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 – Marquis Daniels, American basketball player
1982 – Francisco Rodriguez, Venezuelan baseball player
1982 – Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer
1982 – Ianina Zanazzi, Argentine racing driver
1983 – Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player
1983 – Natalie Gulbis, American golfer
1983 – Robert Ri'chard, American actor
1983 – Liesbeth Mouha, Belgian beach volleyball player
1984 – Diego Balbinot, Italian footballer
1984 – Jon Lester, American baseball player
1984 – Antonino Saviano, Italian footballer
1985 – Lewis Hamilton, English F1 racing driver
1985 – Wayne Routledge, English footballer
1986 – Grant Leadbitter, English footballer
1987 – Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
1987 – Stefan Babović, Serbian footballer
1987 – Jimmy Smith, English footballer
1988 – Haley Bennett, American singer and actress
1988 – Scott Pendlebury, Australian rules footballer
1988 – Robert Sheehan, Irish actor
1989 – Emiliano Insúa, Argentine footballer
1990 – Liam Aiken, American actor
1990 – Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater
1990 – Camryn Grimes, American actress
1990 – Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper
1991 – Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer
1991 – Max Morrow, Canadian actor
1997 – Ayumi Ishida, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)