Births on 7 January
2000s
Blue Ivy Carter
2012
American singer (born 2012)
Chloe Chua
2007
Singaporean violinist (born 2007)
Ryan Dunn (basketball)
2003
American basketball player (born 2003)
Marcus Scribner
2000
American actor (born 2000)
1900s
Ozzie Albies
1997
Curaçaoan baseball player (born 1997)
Lamar Jackson
1997
American football player (born 1997)
Alex Nedeljkovic
1996
American ice hockey player (born 1996)
Jordan Bell
1995
American basketball player (born 1995)
Yulia Putintseva
1995
Russian-born Kazakhstani tennis player (born 1995)
Jarnell Stokes
1994
American basketball player (born 1994)
Lee Sun-bin
1994
South Korean actress (born 1994)
MacKenzie Weegar
1994
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1994)
Erik Gudbranson
1992
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1992)
Tohu Harris
1992
New Zealand rugby league footballer
Tucker Barnhart
1991
American baseball player (born 1991)
Eden Hazard
1991
Belgian footballer (born 1991)
Caster Semenya
1991
South African middle-distance runner (born 1991)
Michael Walters
1991
Australian rules footballer (born 1991)
Liam Aiken
1990
American actor (born 1990)
Gentleman Jack Gallagher
1990
English professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
Gregor Schlierenzauer
1990
Austrian ski jumper (born 1990)
Haley Bennett
1988
American actress (born 1988)
Scott Pendlebury
1988
Australian rules footballer (born 1988)
Davide Astori
1987
Italian footballer (1987–2018)
Stefan Babović
1987
Serbian footballer (born 1987)
Lyndsy Fonseca
1987
American actress (born 1987)
Lewis Hamilton
1985
British racing driver (born 1985)
Wayne Routledge
1985
English footballer (born 1985)
Jon Lester
1984
American baseball player (born 1984)
Brett Dalton
1983
American actor (born 1983)
Edwin Encarnación
1983
Dominican baseball player (born 1983)
Cappie Pondexter
1983
American basketball player (born 1983)
Lauren Cohan
1982
British-American actress (born 1982)
Francisco Rodríguez (Venezuelan pitcher)
1982
Venezuelan baseball player (born 1982)
Hannah Stockbauer
1982
German swimmer (born 1982)
Alex Auld
1981
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1981)
Marquis Daniels
1981
American basketball player (born 1981)
Travis Friend
1981
Zimbabwean cricketer
Reece Simmonds
1980
Australian rugby league footballer
Reggie Austin (actor)
1979
American actor (born 1979)
Aloe Blacc
1979
American singer (born 1979)
Dean Cosker
1978
English cricketer (born 1978)
Israel Keyes
1978
American serial killer (1978–2012)
Dustin Diamond
1977
American actor and comedian (1977–2021)
Sofi Oksanen
1977
Finnish writer and playwright (born 1977)
Brent Sopel
1977
Canadian ice hockey player
Vic Darchinyan
1976
Armenian boxer (born 1976)
Éric Gagné
1976
Canadian baseball player (born 1976)
Alfonso Soriano
1976
Dominican baseball player (born 1976)
Alenka Bikar
1974
Slovenian sprinter (born 1974)
Donald Brashear
1972
American-born Canadian ice hockey player (born 1972)
Kevin Rahm
1971
American actor (born 1971)
Jeremy Renner
1971
American actor (born 1971)
Andy Burnham
1970
British politician (born 1970)
Marco Simone
1969
Italian footballer and manager (born 1969)
Nick Clegg
1967
Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015
Ricky Stuart
1967
Australian rugby league player and coach
Five for Fighting
1965
American singer-songwriter
Alessandro Lambruschini
1965
Italian long-distance runner
Nicolas Cage
1964
American actor (born 1964)
Rand Paul
1963
American politician (born 1963)
Aleksandr Dugin
1962
Russian political philosopher (born 1962)
Ron Rivera
1962
American football player, coach, and executive (born 1962)
John Thune
1961
American politician (born 1961)
Loretta Sanchez
1960
American politician (born 1960)
Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon
1959
British politician and life peer (born 1959)
Kathy Valentine
1959
American guitarist and bassist (born 1959)
Nicholson Baker
1957
Contemporary American novelist and writer (born 1957)
Katie Couric
1957
American journalist (born 1957)
David Caruso
1956
American actor and producer (born 1956)
Mamata Shankar
1955
Indian actress and dancer (born 1955)
Alan Butcher
1954
English cricketer (born 1954)
Robert Longo
1953
New York-based artist, filmmaker, and musician
Sammo Hung
1952
Hong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1952)
Juan Gabriel
1950
Mexican singer and songwriter (1950–2016)
Kenny Loggins
1948
American musician (born 1948)
Tony Elliott (publisher)
1947
British magazine publisher (1947–2020)
Michele Elliott
1946
Jann Wenner
1946
American magazine founder (born 1946)
Tony Conigliaro
1945
American baseball player (1945–1990)
Raila Odinga
1945
Prime Minister of Kenya from 2008 to 2013
Peter Schowtka
1945
German politician (1945–2022)
Mike McCartney
1944
British musician and photographer (born 1944)
Kotaro Suzumura
1944
Japanese economist (1944–2020)
Sadako Sasaki
1943
Japanese hibakusha, student, and origami artist (1943–1955)
Vasily Alekseyev
1942
Soviet weightlifter (1942–2011)
Iona Brown
1941
British violinist and conductor (1941–2004)
John Steiner
1941
English actor (1941–2022)
John E. Walker
1941
British chemist (born 1941)
Bob Boland
1938
Australian rugby league footballer and coach
Lou Graham
1938
American professional golfer
Rory Storm
1938
English musician (1938–1972)
Hunter Davies
1936
British author, journalist and broadcaster (born 1936)
Kenny Davern
1935
American jazz clarinetist
Valery Kubasov
1935
Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (1935–2014)
Li Shengjiao
1935
Chinese diplomat, jurist, and scholar (1935–2017)
Jean Corbeil
1934
Canadian politician
Tassos Papadopoulos
1934
President of Cyprus from 2003 to 2008
Elliott Kastner
1933
American film producer (1930–2010)
Mirja Hietamies
1931
Finnish cross-country skier
Robert Juniper
1929
Australian artist (1929–2012)
Terry Moore (actress)
1929
American actress (born 1929)
William Peter Blatty
1928
American writer and filmmaker (1928–2017)
Kim Jong-pil
1926
Prime Minister of South Korea (1971–1975, 1998–2000)
Gerald Durrell
1925
British naturalist and writer (1925–1995)
Geoffrey Bayldon
1924
English actor (1924–2017)
Hugh Kenner
1923
Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor
Vaklush Tolev
1923
Alvin Dark
1922
American baseball player and manager (1922–2014)
Jean-Pierre Rampal
1922
French flautist (1922–2000)
Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid
1921
Colombian politician
Chester Kallman
1921
American poet and librettist (1921–1975)
Vincent Gardenia
1920
American actor (1920–1992)
W. L. Jeyasingham
1916
Babe Pratt
1916
Canadian ice hockey player (1916–1988)
Francis de Wolff
1913
English actor (1913–1984)
Johnny Mize
1913
American baseball player (1913–1993)
Charles Addams
1912
American cartoonist (1912–1988)
Orval Faubus
1910
Governor of Arkansas 1955–1967 (1910–1994)
Red Allen
1908
American jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1908–1967)
Joseph Whitty
1904
Irish Republican hunger striker (d. 1923)
Alan Napier
1903
English actor (1903–1988)
Hooley Smith
1903
Canadian ice hockey player (1903-1963)
John Brownlee (baritone)
1900
Australian opera singer (1900–1969)
1800s
Francis Poulenc
1899
French composer and pianist (1899–1963)
F. Orlin Tremaine
1899
Al Bowlly
1898
South African–British vocalist (1899–1941)
Hudson Fysh
1895
Australian aviator and businessman (1895–1974)
Zora Neale Hurston
1891
American author, anthropologist, filmmaker (1891–1960)
Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
1890
American writer, creator of DC Comics
Vera de Bosset
1889
Artist and wife of Igor Stravinsky (1889–1982)
William Clarence Matthews
1877
American baseball player and lawyer
William Hurlstone
1876
English composer (1876–1906)
Gustav Flatow
1875
German gymnast (1875–1945)
Charles Péguy
1873
French poet, essayist, and editor (1873–1914)
Adolph Zukor
1873
Hungarian-American film producer (1873–1976)
Émile Borel
1871
French mathematician (1871–1956)
Anna Murray Vail
1863
American botanist
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
1858
Russian-Jewish linguist and journalist (1858–1922)
Evald Relander
1856
Finnish teacher and bank manager (1856–1926)
Quianu Robinson
1852
American politician (1852–1919)
Bernadette Soubirous
1844
French Roman Catholic saint (1844–1879)
Thomas Henry Ismay
1837
Founder of the White Star Line
Johann Philipp Reis
1834
German scientist and inventor
James Munro (Australian politician)
1832
Australian politician (1832–1908)
Heinrich von Stephan
1831
German postmaster (1831–1897)
Albert Bierstadt
1830
German-American landscape painter (1830–1902)
Sandford Fleming
1827
Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor (1827–1915)
E. Louisa Mather
1815
19th-century American writer
Robert Nicoll
1814
Millard Fillmore
1800
President of the United States from 1850 to 1853
Before 1800
Mariano Paredes
1797
President of Mexico from 1845 to 1846
Joseph Bonaparte
1768
King of Naples (1806–08) and Spain (1808–13)
George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith
1746
Royal Navy Admiral and politician (1746–1823)
Israel Putnam
1718
American military officer and landowner (1718–1790)
Giovanni Battista Locatelli (opera director)
1713
Johann Heinrich Zedler
1706
Bookseller and publisher
Jonas Alströmer
1685
Swedish agriculture and industry pioneer (1685–1761)
William Louis, Duke of Württemberg
1647
Duke of Württemberg from 1674 to 1677
Adam Krieger
1634
German composer
Pope Gregory XIII
1502
Head of the Catholic Church from 1572 to 1585
Henry II, Count of Nassau-Siegen
1414
German count (1414–1451)
Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester
1355
English prince and nobleman (1355–1397)
Li Bian
889
Emperor of Southern Tang from 937 to 943