Born on April 7
April 7 birthdays & history
If you were born on April 7, you share a birthday with Jackie Chan, William Wordsworth and Gabriela Mistral. April 7 babies are Aries, with diamond as their birthstone and the daisy as their birth flower. April 7 is the 98th day of the year in leap years (97th in other years).
Famous people born on April 7
- 1954Jackie Chan, Hong Kong martial artist, actor, stuntman, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1770William Wordsworth, English poet
- 1889Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1964Russell Crowe, New Zealand-Australian actor
- 1944Gerhard Schröder, German lawyer and politician, 7th Chancellor of Germany
- 1939Francis Ford Coppola, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1920Ravi Shankar, Indian-American sitar player and composer
- 1915Billie Holiday, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1983Franck Ribéry, French footballer
- 1652Pope Clement XII, Head of the Catholic Church from 1730 to 1740
What happened on April 7
- 1805German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premieres his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
- 1824The Mechanics' Institution is established in Manchester, England at the Bridgewater Arms hotel, as part of a national movement for the education of working men. The institute is the precursor to three Universities in the city: the University of Manchester, UMIST and the Metropolitan University of Manchester (MMU).
- 1831Pedro II became emperor of the Empire of Brazil.
- 1940Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
- 1943The National Football League makes helmets mandatory.
- 1948The United Nations established the World Health Organization to act as a coordinating authority on international public health.
- 1949The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, based on Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener, opened on Broadway.
- 1964IBM announces the System/360.
- 1965Representatives of the National Congress of American Indians testify before members of the US Senate in Washington, D.C., against the termination of the Colville tribe.
- 1969The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
- 2003Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide demands reparations of $21 billion from France for the Haitian independence debt.
- 2005First release of Git distributed version control system.
Also observed on April 7
- Flag Day (Slovenia)
- Women's Day (Mozambique)
- World Health Day (International observance)
Questions, answered
What star sign is April 7?
People born on April 7 are Aries. Their birthstone is diamond and their birth flower is the daisy.
Which famous people were born on April 7?
Jackie Chan (1954), William Wordsworth (1770), Gabriela Mistral (1889), Russell Crowe (1964), Gerhard Schröder (1944), Francis Ford Coppola (1939) were all born on April 7.
What happened on April 7 in history?
Among other things: in 1969, The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1; in 2003, Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide demands reparations of $21 billion from France for the Haitian independence debt; in 2005, First release of Git distributed version control system.
Can I get a newspaper front page from April 7?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any April 7 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “April 7”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.