October 7 - Births

Births

• 1471 – King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway (d. 1533)
• 1573 – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1645)
• 1576 – John Marston, English writer (d. 1634)
• 1589 – Maria Magdalena of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1631)
• 1713 – Granville Elliott, British military officer (d. 1759)
• 1728 – Caesar Rodney, American lawyer (d. 1784)
• 1744 – Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (d. 1819)
• 1746 – William Billings, American composer (d. 1800)
• 1748 – King Charles XIII of Sweden (d. 1818)
• 1769 – Solomon Sibley, American politician and former Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan Territory (d. 1846)
• 1786 – Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1871)
• 1835 – Felix Draeseke, German composer (d. 1913)
• 1836 – Henri Elzéar Taschereau, Canadian jurist and Chief justice of Canada (d. 1911)
• 1841 – King Nicholas I of Montenegro (d. 1921)
• 1849 – James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (d. 1916)
• 1866 – Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942)
• 1870 – Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1873)
• 1879 – Joe Hill, American Labor Activist and Poet (d. 1915)
• 1881 – Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
• 1884 – Major Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (d. 1927)
• 1885 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
• 1885 – Claud Ashton Jones, United States Navy rear admiral and Medal of Honor winner (d. 1948)
• 1888 – Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)
• 1892 – Dwain Esper, director (d. 1982)
• 1894 – Del Lord, American director (d. 1970)
• 1895 – Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (d. 1980)
• 1897 – Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader (d. 1975)
• 1898 – Joe Giard, American baseball player (d. 1956)
• 1900 – Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi official (d. 1945)
• 1905 – Andy Devine, American actor (d. 1977)
• 1907 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician (d. 2001)
• 1909 – Anni Blomqvist, Finnish novelist (d. 1990)
• 1909 – Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72^nd Mayor of Albany, New York (d. 1983)
• 1910 – Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (d. 1986)
• 1911 – Vaughn Monroe, American singer (d. 1973)
• 1911 – Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist (d. 1995)
• 1912 – Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (d. 2002)
• 1913 – Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and writer (d. 1987)
• 1914 – Alfred Drake, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1914 – Sarah Churchill, British actress (d. 1982)
• 1917 – June Allyson, American actress (d. 2006)
• 1919 – Sir Zelman Cowen, Australian politician
• 1919 – Georges Duby, French historian (d. 1996)
• 1920 – Jack Rowley, English footballer (d. 1998)
• 1921 – Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Grady Hatton, American baseball player
• 1922 – William Zinsser, American writer
• 1923 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Québécois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002)
• 1923 – Irma Grese, Supervisor at Nazi concentration camps (d. 1945)
• 1926 – Diana Lynn, American actress (d. 1971)
• 1927 – R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (d. 1989)
• 1927 – Al Martino, American singer and actor (d. 2009)
• 1928 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
• 1929 – Robert Westall, British author (d. 1993)
• 1929 – Graeme Ferguson, Canadian filmmaker and executive
• 1931 – Cotton Fitzsimmons, American basketball coach (d. 2004)
• 1931 – Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and Nobel Laureate
• 1934 – Amiri Baraka, American writer
• 1934 – Ulrike Meinhof, German journalist and political activist (d. 1976)
• 1935 – Thomas Keneally, Australian author
• 1936 – Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
• 1937 – Maria Szyszkowska, Polish politician
• 1939 – John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
• 1939 – Clive James, Australian television presenter and writer
• 1939 – Harold Kroto, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1939 – Bill Snyder, American football coach
• 1940 – Bruce Vento, American politician and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota (d. 2000)
• 1943 – Joy Behar, American television personality
• 1943 – José Cardenal, Cuban baseball player
• 1943 – Oliver North, American former military officer
• 1944 – Judee Sill, American musician (d. 1979)
• 1944 – Donald Tsang, current Chief executive of Hong Kong
• 1945 – Kevin Godley, British musician (10cc)
• 1946 – Bernard Lavilliers, French singer
• 1946 – Pengiran Anak Saleha, Queen of Brunei
• 1947 – Chris Bambridge, former Australian football referee
• 1948 – Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist
• 1949 – Dave Hope, American musician (Kansas)
• 1950 – Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian politician
• 1951 – John Mellencamp, American singer
• 1951 – David J. Halberstam, American radio executive
• 1952 – Mary Badham, American actress
• 1952 – Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister and former President of the Russian Federation
• 1952 – Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002)
• 1952 – Graham Yallop, Australian cricketer
• 1953 – Tico Torres, musician (Bon Jovi)
• 1954 – Kenneth Atchley, American composer
• 1955 – Yo-Yo Ma, French-born American cellist
• 1955 – Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist
• 1956 – Brian Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1957 – Michael W. Smith, American singer
• 1957 – Jayne Torvill, British figure skater
• 1958 – Judy Landers, American actress
• 1959 – Dylan Baker, American character actor
• 1959 – Simon Cowell, English recording executive
• 1959 – Lourdes Flores, Peruvian politician
• 1959 – Jean-Marc Fournier, French-Canadian politician
• 1960 – Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer
• 1960 – Viktor Lazlo, Belgian singer
• 1961 – Matthew Roloff, American reality star
• 1961 – Brian Mannix, Australian singer and actor
• 1962 – Dave Bronconnier, Canadian politician
• 1964 – Sam Brown, English singer-songwriter
• 1964 – Dan Savage, American sex-columnist and author
• 1964 – Paul Stewart, English footballer
• 1965 – Genji Hashimoto, Japanese racing driver
• 1966 – Sherman Alexie, Native American author and comedian
• 1966 – Marco Beltrami, Italian-American film composer
• 1967 – Toni Braxton, American singer
• 1967 – Luke Haines, English musician (The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder)
• 1967 – Takahiro Izutani, Japanese Composer
• 1968 – Thom Yorke, English singer (Radiohead)
• 1969 – Bobbie Brown, American actress, model
• 1969 – Malia Hosaka, Hawaiian professional wrestler
• 1969 – Maria Whittaker, English model
• 1969 – Benny Chan Ho Man, Hong Kong actor and singer
• 1970 – Nicole Ari Parker, American actress
• 1971 – Daniel Boucher, Québécois musician
• 1972 – Ben Younger, American screenwriter and film director
• 1973 – Dida, Brazilian footballer
• 1973 – Sami Hyypiä, Finnish footballer
• 1973 – Priest Holmes, American Football Running Back
• 1974 – Allison Munn, American actress
• 1974 – Charlotte Nilsson, Swedish singer
• 1974 – Alexander Polinsky, American actor
• 1975 – Terry Gerin, American professional wrestler
• 1975 – Damian Kulash, American musician (OK Go)
• 1975 – Tim Minchin, Australian comedian and musician
• 1976 – Taylor Hicks, American musician
• 1976 – Santiago Solari, Argentinian footballer
• 1976 – Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer
• 1976 – Charles Woodson, American football player
• 1976 – Marc Coma, Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1977 – Brandon Quinn, American actor
• 1977 – Meighan Desmond, New Zealand actress
• 1978 – Alesha Dixon, British pop singer (Mis-Teeq)
• 1978 – Jake Humphrey, English television presenter
• 1978 – Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer
• 1979 – Simona Amânar, Romanian gymnast
• 1979 – Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor
• 1979 – Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor
• 1979 – Tang Wei, Chinese actress
• 1980 – Edison Chen, Canadian actor
• 1980 – Tim Cresswell, Hong Kong footballer
• 1981 – Doni Schroader, American avant garde composer,pop musician
• 1982 – Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer
• 1982 – Jermain Defoe, English footballer
• 1982 – Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
• 1982 – Li Yundi, Chinese classical pianist
• 1983 – Flying Lotus, American electronic music producer
• 1983 – Scottie Upshall, Canadian Hockey Player
• 1984 – Toma Ikuta, Japanese singer and actor
• 1984 – Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer
• 1985 – Evan Longoria, American baseball player
• 1986 – Lee Nguyen, American soccer player
• 1986 – Chase Daniel, American football player
• 1986 – Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer
• 1986 – Bree Olson, American pornographic actress
• 1987 – Jeremy Brockie, New Zealand footballer
• 1987 – Sam Querrey, American tennis player
• 1988 – Stacy DuPree, American musician (Eisley)
• 1990 – Ayla Kell, American actress
• 2001 – Princess Senate Seeiso, daughter of King Letsie III of Lesotho