April 7 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on April 7, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♈︎ Aries
Mar 21 – Apr 19
Birth stone
Diamond
Birth flower
Daisy
How common
#323 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous April 7 birthdays
Jens Peter Jacobsen · Danish novelist, poet, scientist1847
Bronisław Malinowski · Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based1884
Gabriela Mistral · Chilean poet, diplomat and educator1889
Billie Holiday · American jazz singer1915
Ravi Shankar · Indian sitar player1920
James Garner · American film and television actor1928
Alan J. Pakula · American film director, writer and producer1928
Francis Ford Coppola · American filmmaker1939
Gerhard Schröder · Chancellor of West Germany1944
Makoto Kobayashi · Japanese theoretical physicist1944
Robert Metcalfe · American electrical engineer1946
Valentina Matviyenko · Russian politician1949
Jackie Chan · Hong Kong actor and martial artist1954
Akira Nishino · Japanese association football player and manager1955
Russell Crowe · New Zealand actor1964
MacKenzie Scott · American philanthropist and novelist1970
Franck Ribéry · French footballer1983
Humza Yousaf · 6th First Minister of Scotland1985
Martín Cáceres · Uruguayan footballer1987
Anne-Marie · British singer1991
On this day in history
1862American Civil War: Union forces defeated Confederate troops at the Battle of Shiloh, at the time the bloodiest battle in U.S. history, in Hardin County, Tennessee.
2001NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey (artist's conception pictured), the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth, launched from Cape Canaveral.
2021COVID-19 pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States.
2022Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed for the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming the first black female justice.
1971Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.
1972Communist forces overran the South Vietnamese town of Lộc Ninh.
1979Uganda–Tanzania War: Tanzanian forces defeated Ugandan troops and their Libyan allies at the Battle of Entebbe, opening the way for an advance on the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
2003Iraq War: U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime falls two days later.
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