On this day: 7 February
Events, births and deaths on 7 February. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Tony Roberts
- Deaths · Dafydd Elis-Thomas
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Konstantin Feoktistov
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1102 · Births · Empress Matilda
- 1045 · Deaths · Go-Suzaku
- 999 · Deaths · Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia
Events · 12
- 1807Battle of Eylau — 1807 battle during the War of the Fourth Coalition
- 1842Battle of Debre Tabor — 1842 battle
- 1904Great Baltimore Fire — 1904 fire in Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- 1951
- 19811981 Pushkin Tu-104 crash — aviation accident
- 1991Downing Street mortar attack — 1991 British Prime Minister and Cabinet assassination attempt
- 1992Maastricht Treaty — Founding treaty of the European Union, signed in 1992 and effective from 1993
- 19981998 Winter Olympics — 18th edition of Winter Olympics, in Nagano, Japan
- 2009Black Saturday bushfires — bushfires that occurred in February 2009 in Victoria, Australia
- 20142014 Winter Olympics — 22nd edition of Winter Olympics, in Sochi, Russia
- 20212021 Uttarakhand glacial outburst flood — Glacial outburst flood that occurred in Uttarakhand in 2021
- 20242024 Balochistan bombings — Bombings in Pakistan
Births · 60
- 574(Julian date)Prince Shōtoku — semi-legendary Japanese prince (574–622)
- 1102Empress Matilda — Holy Roman Empress (1114–1125); claimant to the English throne
- 1478(Julian date)Thomas More — English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
- 1741Henry Fuseli — Swiss born British painter, draughtsman and writer on art (1741–1825)
- 1812Charles Dickens — English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
- 1824William Huggins — British astronomer (1824–1910)
- 1867Laura Ingalls Wilder — American children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
- 1870Alfred Adler — Austrian psychotherapist (1870–1937)
- 1873Thomas Andrews — British businessman and shipbuilder (1873–1912)
- 1877G.H. Hardy — British mathematician (1877–1947)
- 1885Sinclair Lewis — American writer and playwright (1885–1951)
- 1885Hugo Sperrle — German field marshal (1885–1953)
- 1889Harry Nyquist — Swedish-American physicist and electrical engineer (1889–1976)
- 1905Ulf von Euler — Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist (1905–1983)
- 1905Paul Nizan — French philosopher, politician, writer (1905-1940)
- 1906Puyi — Last Emperor of Qing dynasty and Manchukuo (1906–1967)
- 1908Buster Crabbe — American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, actor (1908-1983)
- 1909Hélder Câmara — Brazilian Catholic priest, archbishop of Olinda and Recife (1909–1999)
- 1919Desmond Doss — American solder, pacifist, and combat medic; recipient of the Purple Heart medal, recipient of the Medal of Honor (1919–2007) Un gran hombre en la vida militar.
- 1926Konstantin Feoktistov — Soviet cosmonaut
- 1927Juliette Gréco — French singer and actress (1927–2020)
- 1932Alfred Worden — American astronaut (1932–2020)
- 1934Eddie Fenech Adami — Maltese politician
- 1940Toshihide Maskawa — Japanese theoretical physicist (1940–2021)
- 1940Tony Tan Keng Yam — 7th President of Singapore
Deaths · 60
- 318Emperor Min of Jin — Emperor of the Jin Dynasty from 313 to 318
- 999(Julian date)Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia — Duke of Bohemia from 972 to 999
- 1045(Julian date)Go-Suzaku — Emperor of Japan
- 1127(Julian date)Ava — first known German poet
- 1259(Julian date)Thomas II, Regent of Savoy — Lord of Piedmont, regent of the County of Savoy and Count of Flanders-Hainaut ''jure uxoris''
- 1317(Julian date)Robert — Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis
- 1520(Julian date)Alfonsina Orsini — Regent of the Republic of Firenze (1472-1520)
- 1560(Julian date)Baccio Bandinelli — Italian sculptor and painter (1488-1560)
- 1626Wilhelm V, Duke of Bavaria — Monarch of Bavaria
- 1736Stephen Gray — British chemist, physicist, astronomer
- 1779William Boyce — English composer and organist (1711-1779)
- 1799Qianlong Emperor — emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1711–1799)
- 1801Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki — German painter and printmaker (1726-1801)
- 1823Ann Radcliffe — English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel (1764–1823)
- 1837Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden — King of Sweden between 1792-1809 (1778–1837)
- 1862Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo — Spanish dramatist and politician (1787-1862)
- 1864Vuk Karadžić — Serbian philologist and linguist
- 1871Henry E. Steinway — German-American piano maker (1797-1871)
- 1873Sheridan Le Fanu — Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels (1814–1873)
- 1878Pius IX — Pope of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878
- 1885Iwasaki Yatarō — Japanese industrialist; founder of Mitsubishi (1835–1885)
- 1897Galileo Ferraris — Italian engineer and physicist (1847-1897)
- 1898Adolfo Farsari — Italian-born photographer based in Yokohama, Japan (1841-1898)
- 1920Alexander Kolchak — Russian admiral and military leader of the White movement (1874-1920)
- 1937Elihu Root — American politician (1845-1937)
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