Anniversaries 7 January

Birth

Millard Fillmore6

American politician, 13th President of the United States (i… 1800–1874

David Whitmer8

Book of Mormon witness 1805–1888

John M. Sandidge2

American politician 1817–1890

Julius Erasmus Hilgard3

United States engineer 1825–1890

Thomas De Witt Talmage7

American Presbyterian preacher, clergyman and reformer duri… 1832–1902

A.W. Bickerton2

British scientist 1842–1929

Bernadette Soubirous1

French saint 1844–1879

Paul Deussen1

German Orientalist and Sanskrit scholar 1845–1919

Louise Imogen Guiney3

American writer 1861–1920

Charles Péguy13

French poet, essayist, and editor 1873–1914

Zora Neale Hurston74

American folklorist, novelist, short story writer 1891–1960

Arnold Ridley5

Playwright, actor 1896–1984

Charles Addams4

Cartoonist 1912–1988

Elena Ceaușescu3

Romanian politician 1916–1989

Albert Meltzer1

British anarchist 1920–1996

Gerald Durrell38

naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and televisi… 1925–1995

Claude Kirk1

American politician 1926–2011

William Peter Blatty6

American writer and filmmaker 1928–2017

Terry Moore1

actress 1929

Ricardo Ezzati1

archbishop and cardinal 1942

Shulamith Firestone20

Feminist 1945–2012

Barry Eichengreen10

Economist 1952

Kenneth Marende1

Kenyan politician 1956

Nicholson Baker4

Novelist, essayist, non-fiction writer 1957

Yeh Kuang-shih2

Chinese diplomat 1957

Katie Couric5

American journalist 1957

Simon Faddoul1

Maronite Catholic bishop 1958

Yasmin Ahmad6

Malaysian film director 1958–2009

Marcel Utembi Tapa2

Congolese catholic archbishop 1959

Mohammad Javad Zarif6

Iranian politician 1960

John Thune2

United States Senator from South Dakota 1961

Aleksandr Dugin1

Russian political scientist 1962

Rand Paul49

American politician, ophthalmologist, and United States Se… 1963

Nicolas Cage7

American actor 1964

José Manuel Imbamba1

Angolan Roman Catholic archbishop and university teacher 1965

Mark Lamarr1

British DJ 1967

Nick Clegg9

British politician 1967

Aloe Blacc6

American soul singer, rapper and musician 1979

Hayley Jensen38

Australian singer 1983

Lewis Hamilton3

British racing driver 1985

Death

Catherine of Aragon6

first wife of Henry VIII of England (1485–1536) 1485–1536

Nicholas Hilliard2

British artist 1547–1619

François Fénelon43

Catholic bishop 1651–1715

Paulinus of St. Bartholomew1

Austrian Carmelite missionary and Orientalist 1748–1806

John Hookham Frere2

British politician 1769–1846

Hannah Cohoon1

American artist 1781–1864

Joseph Brotherton1

British politician 1783–1857

George Lemuel Woods1

American politician 1832–1890

Nikola Tesla125

Serbian American inventor 1856–1943

Arthur Keith2

anatomy, anthropology, geologist 1866–1955

Bouck White21

American author and novelist 1874–1951

René Guénon28

French metaphysician 1886–1951

William Feather31

Publisher, Author 1889–1981

Hirohito9

Emperor of Japan from 1926 until 1989 1901–1989

Walter Thomas Monnington1

British artist 1902–1976

David H. C. Read1

British chaplain 1910–2001

Heinrich Harrer2

Austrian writer, photographer, geographer and mountain clim… 1912–2006

Sándor Végh1

Hungarian violinist 1912–1997

John Berryman8

American poet 1914–1972

Richard Hamming90

American mathematician and information theorist 1915–1998

David Goodis1

Novelist, screenwriter 1917–1967

Juan Rulfo2

Mexican writer 1917–1986

Ashraf Pahlavi7

Iranian royal 1919–2016

Nat Hentoff2

American music critic 1925–2017

Murray N. Rothbard43

American economist of the Austrian School, libertarian poli… 1926–1995

José Guilherme Merquior2

Brazilian academic, writer and diplomat 1941–1991

David R. Ellis1

American film director and actor 1952–2013

Neil Peart50

Canadian-American drummer , lyricist, and author 1952–2020

Charb2

French caricaturist and journalist 1967–2015

Elizabeth Wurtzel51

American author and journalist 1967–2020