On this day: 7 January
Events, births and deaths on 7 January. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Jean-Marie Le Pen
- Events · January 2025 Southern California wildfires
- Events · 2025 Tibet earthquake
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
- Deaths · Kitty Kallen
- Deaths · John Johnson
100 years ago1926
- Births · Kim Jong-pil
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 19
- 1327(Julian date)Parliament of 1327 — The English Parliament of 1327, which sat between 7 January 1327 and 9 March 1327, was instrumental in the transfer of power from Edward II to Edward III
- 1708Siege of Yelabuga — 1708 siege
- 1922Anglo-Irish Treaty Dáil vote — 1922 vote
- 19281928 Thames flood — flood of the River Thames
- 1932Stimson doctrine — policy that the United States of America will not recognize countries created by aggression
- 1935Franco-Italian Agreement — 1935 treaty between France and Italy
- 1948Mantell UFO incident — 1948 UFO incident
- 1954Georgetown-IBM experiment — 1954 demonstration of machine translation
- 1972Iberia Airlines Flight 602 — aviation accident
- 1989death of Hirohito — death of the emperor of Japan in 1989
- 1993Kravica attack — surprise attack against the Bosnian Serb village of Kravica by the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Orthodox Christmas Day, 7 January 1993
- 1994United Express Flight 6291 — aviation accident
- 20122012 Carterton hot air balloon crash — Disaster in New Zealand in January 2012
- 2015Charlie Hebdo shooting — 2015 terrorist attack in Paris, France
- 20152015 Sana'a bombing — car bomb blast near police academy in Sanaa, Yemen
- 20202020 Puerto Rico earthquake — Earthquake that happened in Puerto Rico
- 2025January 2025 Southern California wildfires — natural disaster in the United States
- 20252025 Tibet earthquake — earthquake in Xizang, China and Nepal
- 2026killing of Renée Good — 2026 shooting of an American citizen by ICE in Minnesota
Births · 60
- 1502(Julian date)Gregory XIII — pope of the Catholic Church from 1572 to 1585 (1502–1585)
- 1768Joseph Bonaparte — brother of Napoleon Bonaparte; King of Naples (1806–08) and Spain (1808–13)
- 1800Millard Fillmore — president of the United States from 1850 to 1853
- 1827Sandford Fleming — Scottish-born Canadian engineer and inventor (1827-1915)
- 1830Albert Bierstadt — American painter (1830–1902)
- 1834Johann Philipp Reis — German scientist and inventor (1834–1874)
- 1844Bernadette Soubirous — French saint (1844–1879)
- 1845Ludwig III of Bavaria — King of Bavaria (1845-1921)
- 1858Eliezer Ben-Yehuda — Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
- 1871Émile Borel — French mathematician and politician (1871-1956)
- 1873Charles Péguy — French poet, essayist, and editor (1873–1914)
- 1873Adolph Zukor — Hungarian-American film producer (1873–1976)
- 1891Zora Neale Hurston — African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891–1960)
- 1899Francis Poulenc — French composer and pianist (1899–1963)
- 1912Charles Addams — American cartoonist (1912–1988)
- 1919(Julian date)Elena Ceaușescu — Romanian politician (1919–1989)
- 1922Jean-Pierre Rampal — French flutist
- 1925Gerald Durrell — British naturalist and writer (1925–1995)
- 1928William Peter Blatty — American writer and filmmaker (1928-2017)
- 1934Tassos Papadopoulos — 5th President of the Republic of Cyprus (2003-2008)
- 1935Valeri Kubasov — Soviet Cosmonaut (1935-2014)
- 1941John E. Walker — British biochemist (1941-)
- 1942Vasily Alekseyev — Soviet-Russian weightlifter (1942–2011)
- 1943Sadako Sasaki — Japanese origami artist
- 1945Raila A Odinga — Prime Minister of Kenya from 2008 to 2013
Deaths · 60
- 672(Julian date)Tenji — Emperor of Japan (626-672)
- 881(Julian date)Seiwa — Emperor of Japan
- 1131(Julian date)Canute Lavard — Duke of Schleswig and Danish prince
- 1285(Julian date)Charles I of Naples — King of Sicily (1226-1285)
- 1325Denis I of Portugal — King of Portugal
- 1355(Julian date)Inês de Castro — disputed wife of Peter I of Portugal
- 1451(Julian date)Amadeus VIII of Savoy — antipope 1439 to 1449, count of Savoy
- 1524
- 1536(Julian date)Catherine of Aragon — first wife of Henry VIII of England (1485–1536)
- 1619Nicholas Hilliard — British artist (1547-1619)
- 1655Innocent X — pope from 1644 to 1655
- 1715François Fénelon — French archbishop, theologian and writer (1651–1715)
- 1758Allan Ramsay — Scottish poet (1686-1758)
- 1770Carl Gustaf Tessin — Swedish count, politician and art collector (1695-1770)
- 1830Thomas Lawrence — English portrait painter (1769–1830)
- 1858Mustafa Reşid Paşa — Ottoman diplomat (1800-1858)
- 1892Tevfik Paşa — Khedive of Egypt and Sudan from 1879 to 1892
- 1893Josef Stefan — Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician and poet (1835-1893)
- 1912Sophia Jex-Blake — British physician and suffragist (1840–1912)
- 1920Edmund Barton — Australian politician, first Prime Minister of Australia and founding justice of the High Court of Australia (1849-1920)
- 1927Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos — Greek politician (1851-1927)
- 1932André Maginot — French minister of war (1922 - '24; 1929 - '32)
- 1943Nikola Tesla — Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856-1943)
- 1951René Guénon — French metaphysician (1886-1951)
- 1955Edward Kasner — American mathematician (1878–1955)
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