October 7 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on October 7, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♎︎ Libra
Sep 23 – Oct 22
Birth stone
Opal
Birth flower
Marigold
How common
#186 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous October 7 birthdays
Niels Bohr · Danish physicist1885
Henry A. Wallace · American politician1888
June Allyson · American actress1917
R. D. Laing · Unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist1927
Desmond Tutu · South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner1931
Amiri Baraka · African-American writer1934
Ulrike Meinhof · German left-wing militant, journalist and author1934
Harry Kroto · British chemist1939
Jakaya Kikwete · President of Tanzania from 2005 to 20151950
Vladimir Putin · President of the Russian Federation1952
Yo-Yo Ma · American cellist1955
María Corina Machado · Venezuelan politician, activist and Nobel laureate1967
Thom Yorke · English musician and singer for Radiohead1968
Dida · Brazilian association football player1973
Charlotte Perrelli · Swedish singer1974
Gilberto Silva · Brazilian footballer1976
Jermain Defoe · English association football player1982
Sam Querrey · American tennis player1987
Diego Costa · Brazilian association football player1988
Trent Alexander-Arnold · English association football player1998
On this day in history
1780American Revolutionary War: Patriots and Loyalist militias engaged each other at the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina.
1916Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
20082008 TC3 exploded above the Nubian Desert in Sudan, in the first time that an asteroid impact had been predicted prior to atmospheric entry.
2023Palestinian nationalist groups launched armed incursions into the Gaza envelope, starting the Gaza war.
1963President Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
1988Near Point Barrow in Alaska, an Iñupiat hunter discovered three gray whales trapped in pack ice, which resulted in an international effort to free them.
1991Croatian War of Independence: The Yugoslav People's Army conducted an air strike on Banski Dvori, the official residence of the president of Croatia in Zagreb.
2001The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground, starting the longest war in American history.
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