Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 7
Births
edit- 1800 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)
- 1891 - Zora Neale Hurston, American author (d. 1960) (pictured)
- 1939 - Maury Povich, American TV host
- 1939 - Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark
- 1957 - Katie Couric, American television host
- 1964 - Nicolas Cage, American actor
Deaths
edit- 1536 - Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1485)
- 1619 - Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (bc. 1547)
- 1920 - Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
- 1943 - Nikola Tesla, Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer (b. 1856)
- 1989 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (b. 1901)