Born on March 7
March 7 birthdays & history
If you were born on March 7, you share a birthday with Alessandro Manzoni, Maurice Ravel and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. March 7 babies are Pisces, with aquamarine as their birthstone and the daffodil as their birth flower. March 7 is the 67th day of the year in leap years (66th in other years).
Famous people born on March 7
- 1785Alessandro Manzoni, Italian author and poet
- 1875Maurice Ravel, French pianist, composer, and conductor
- 1850Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Austrian-Czech politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia
- 1970Rachel Weisz, English actress
- 1872Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter
- 1792John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer
- 1956Bryan Cranston, American actor, director, and producer
- 1908Anna Magnani, Italian actress
- 1994Jordan Pickford, English footballer
- 1765Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, invented photography
What happened on March 7
- 321Emperor Constantine I decreed that Sunday, the day honoring the sun god Sol Invictus, would be the Roman day of rest.
- 1138Konrad III von Hohenstaufen is elected king of Germany at Coblenz in the presence of the papal legate Theodwin.
- 1871José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco, began a four-year premiership as Prime Minister of the Empire of Brazil, the longest in the state's history.
- 1876Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
- 1900The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first ship to send a wireless telegraph message to an onshore receiver.
- 1921The short-lived socialist Labin Republic is proclaimed.
- 1931The Parliament House of Finland is officially inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.
- 1971Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.
- 1985The charity single "We Are the World" by the supergroup USA for Africa was released, and went on to sell more than 20 million copies.
- 1989Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.
- 2007Reform of the House of Lords: The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
- 2009The Kepler space telescope (depicted), designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, was launched.
Also observed on March 7
- Maritime Day in Slovenia
Questions, answered
What star sign is March 7?
People born on March 7 are Pisces. Their birthstone is aquamarine and their birth flower is the daffodil.
Which famous people were born on March 7?
Alessandro Manzoni (1785), Maurice Ravel (1875), Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850), Rachel Weisz (1970), Piet Mondrian (1872), John Herschel (1792) were all born on March 7.
What happened on March 7 in history?
Among other things: in 1989, Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses; in 2007, Reform of the House of Lords: The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected; in 2009, The Kepler space telescope (depicted), designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, was launched.
Can I get a newspaper front page from March 7?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any March 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, “March 7”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.