Anniversaries 7 April

Birth

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby3

English poet and notable Tory politician of the late Stuart… 1648–1721

Hugh Blair16

British philosopher 1718–1800

Charles Burney4

English music historian 1726–1814

William Wordsworth306

English Romantic poet 1770–1850

Charles Fourier4

French utopian socialist and philosopher 1772–1837

William Ellery Channing71

United States Unitarian clergyman 1780–1842

Gustav Landauer4

German anarchist 1870–1919

Epifanio de los Santos44

Filipino politician 1871–1928

John McGraw1

American baseball player, manager 1873–1934

Daisy Ashford15

English writer 1881–1972

Gino Severini28

Italian painter 1883–1966

Bronisław Malinowski1

Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and… 1884–1942

Gabriela Mistral2

Chilean poet-diplomat, writer, educator and feminist. 1889–1957

David Low (cartoonist)6

British cartoonist 1891–1963

A. A. Thomson2

cricketer and author 1894–1968

Jim Ede3

art collector 1895–1990

Walter Winchell4

American gossip journalist 1897–1972

Violette Leduc1

French writer 1907–1972

Lê Duẩn1

former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam 1907–1986

Harry Hay11

American gay rights activist 1912–2002

Henry Kuttner31

American author 1915–1958

Billie Holiday26

American jazz singer and songwriter 1915–1959

Albert O. Hirschman6

German-American economist; member of the French Resistance 1915–2012

Ravi Shankar5

Indian musician and sitar player 1920–2012

Roy Amara

American researcher, scientist 1925–2007

Edward S. Herman55

American journalist 1925–2017

Hugh Iltis3

Czech-American botanist and environmentalist 1925–2016

James Garner3

American film and television actor 1928–2014

Andrew Sachs1

British actor 1930–2016

Donald Barthelme67

American writer, editor, and professor 1931–1989

Daniel Ellsberg6

American economist and whistleblower 1931

Seyyed Hossein Nasr4

Iranian philosopher 1933

Shantananda Saraswati7

Hindu spiritual teacher 1934–2005

Jerry Brown8

American politician/lawyer and current governor of Californ… 1938

Iris Johansen4

Novelist 1938

David Frost4

English journalist, comedian, writer, media personality and… 1939–2013

Paul Arden16

writer 1940–2008

Gerhard Schröder5

German politician (SPD) 1944

David Clark1

American computer scientist 1944

Makoto Kobayashi (physicist)3

Japanese physicist 1944

Robert S. Wistrich1

historian 1945–2015

Hung Hsiu-chu10

Taiwanese politician 1948

Mitch Daniels2

Governor of Indiana 1949

Guido Mantega1

Brazilian economist 1949

Santa Barraza3

1951

Jackie Chan2

Hong Kong actor and martial artist 1954

Bill Whittle38

author, director, screenwriter, editor 1959

Hu Xijin1

Chinese journalist 1960

Jon Cruddas6

British politician 1962

Russell Crowe22

New Zealand-born Australian actor, film producer and musici… 1964

Death

Jesus20

Jewish preacher and religious leader, central figure of Chr… -7–30 BC

El Greco9

Greek painter, sculptor and architect 1541–1614

William Davenant3

English poet and playwright 1606–1668

William Mason (poet)1

poet 1724–1797

Toussaint Louverture6

Leader of the Haitian Revolution 1743–1803

William Godwin36

English journalist, political philosopher and novelist 1756–1836

William Lisle Bowles3

English priest, poet and critic 1762–1850

P.T. Barnum17

American showman and businessman 1810–1891

Youssef Bey Karam6

Lebanese rebel 1823–1889

Thomas D'Arcy McGee11

Canadian politician 1825–1868

A. V. Dicey3

British jurist and constitutional theorist 1835–1922

Henry Ford80

American industrialist 1863–1947

Alexander Bogdanov12

Physician, philosopher, writer 1873–1928

George S. Clason8

British businessman and writer 1874–1957

Theda Bara3

Silent film actress 1885–1955

Carl Schmitt36

German jurist, political theorist and professor of law 1888–1985

Maxwell Maltz9

Plastic surgeon, self-help author 1889–1975

Elizabeth Bibesco21

writer, actress; Romanian princess 1897–1945

Jim Thompson5

American writer 1906–1977

Robert Aaron Gordon12

American economist 1908–1978

Golo Mann3

German historian 1909–1994

Leonid Kantorovich8

Russian mathematician 1912–1986

Miss Read1

English novelist 1913–2012

John Agar2

American actor 1921–2002

Lilly Pulitzer1

American fashion designer 1931–2013

Johnny Hart1

American cartoonist 1931–2007

Jim Clark1

British racecar driver 1936–1968

John Prine14

American country singer/songwriter 1946–2020

Yvonne Vera2

Zimbabwean writer 1964–2005

Melissa Nathan1

British writer 1968–2006

Peaches Geldof2

British journalist, television presenter and model 1989–2014