January 7 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on January 7, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♑︎ Capricorn
Dec 22 – Jan 19
Birth stone
Garnet
Birth flower
Carnation
How common
#233 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous January 7 birthdays
Millard Fillmore · President of the United States from 1850 to 18531800
Albert Bierstadt · American painter1830
Bernadette Soubirous · French saint1844
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda · Russian hebrew linguist1858
Philip Jaisohn · Korean-American independence activist and journalist1864
Charles Péguy · French poet, essayist, and editor1873
Zora Neale Hurston · African American folklorist1891
Francis Poulenc · French composer and pianist1899
Ichirou Mizuki · Japanese singer, voice actor1948
David Caruso · American actor1956
Aleksandr Dugin · Russian political activist and philosopher1962
Nicolas Cage · American actor1964
Irrfan Khan · Indian actor1967
Andy Burnham · British politician1970
Jeremy Renner · American actor1971
Lauren Cohan · American-British actress1982
Lewis Hamilton · British racing driver1985
Haley Bennett · American actress and singer1988
Eden Hazard · Belgian footballer1991
Jan Oblak · Slovenian association football player1993
On this day in history
1782The Bank of North America opened in Philadelphia as the de facto first central bank of the United States.
1955Marian Anderson became the first African-American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
1999The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
2020After 253 days without an operational government, a second round of investiture votes produced Spain's first coalition government since the Second Republic.
1979The People's Army of Vietnam captured Phnom Penh, marking the end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
1980U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
1989In one of the most famous upsets in FA Cup history, Sutton United, a team in the fifth tier of English league football, defeated top-tier Coventry City.
1993The Fourth Republic of Ghana was inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings, the country's former military ruler, as president.
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