Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/October 7
Births
[edit]- 1885 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
- 1931 - Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and Nobel Laureate (d. 2021) (pictured)
- 1951 - John Mellencamp, American singer
- 1952 - Vladimir Putin, 2nd President of Russia
- 1955 - Yo-Yo Ma, French-born American cellist
- 1959 - Simon Cowell, English recording executive
- 1966 - Toni Braxton, American singer
Deaths
[edit]- 1577 - George Gascoigne, English poet
- 1792 - George Mason, American patriot (b. 1725)
- 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (b. 1809)
- 1894 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, American writer (b. 1809)
- 1903 - Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)