July 7 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on July 7, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♋︎ Cancer
Jun 21 – Jul 22
Birth stone
Ruby
Birth flower
Larkspur
How common
#17 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous July 7 birthdays
Camillo Golgi · Italian physician, pathologist, scientist, and Nobel laureate1843
Gustav Mahler · Austrian late-Romantic composer1860
Yanka Kupala · Belarusian writer1882
Lion Feuchtwanger · German writer1884
George Cukor · American film director and producer1899
Vittorio De Sica · Italian film director1901
Robert A. Heinlein · American author and aeronautical engineer1907
Gian Carlo Menotti · Italian-American composer and librettist1911
Tadao Kobayashi · Japanese association football player1930
Ringo Starr · British musician, drummer for the Beatles1940
Toto Cutugno · Italian recording artist1943
Moncef Marzouki · Tunisian politician1945
Gyanendra of Nepal · Nepalese politician, former king of Nepal1947
Shelley Duvall · American actress1949
Danny Jacobs · American actor1968
Bérénice Bejo · Argentine-born French actress1976
Michelle Kwan · American figure skater and diplomat1980
MS Dhoni · Indian cricket player1981
Alberto Aquilani · Italian association football player1984
Oleksiy Honcharuk · 17th Prime Minister of Ukraine1984
On this day in history
1777American Revolutionary War: British forces caught up with American troops withdrawing from Ticonderoga, capturing more than 200 men at the Battle of Hubbardton.
1798Outraged by the XYZ Affair, the United States rescinded its treaties with France, resulting in the undeclared Quasi-War, fought entirely at sea.
1898US president William McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
1907Inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris, American impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged the first of his Ziegfeld Follies.
1991Yugoslav Wars: The signing of the Brioni Agreement ended the Ten-Day War between SFR Yugoslavia and Slovenia.
1992The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.
2003NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
2019The United States defeated the Netherlands 2–0 at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup final in Lyon, France.
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