January 7th All Events |
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| January 7th, 2008 (January 07 2008) | Death | Alwyn Schlebusch, South African vice state president (born in 1917) | |
| January 7th, 2007 (January 07 2007) | Death | Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic-born television presenter (born in 1929) | |
| January 7th, 2007 (January 07 2007) | Death | Bobby Hamilton, NASCAR team owner (born in 1957) | |
| January 7th, 2006 (January 07 2006) | Death | Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (born in 1912) | |
| January 7th, 2005 (January 07 2005) | Death | Pierre Daninos, French novelist (born in 1913) | |
| January 7th, 2005 (January 07 2005) | Death | Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (born in 1932) | |
| January 7th, 2004 (January 07 2004) | Death | Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (born in 1926) | |
| January 7th, 2002 (January 07 2002) | Death | Avery Schreiber, American actor (born in 1935) | |
| January 7th, 2002 (January 07 2002) | Death | Jon Lee, Welsh musician (Feeder) (born in 1968) | |
| January 7th, 2000 (January 07 2000) | Death | Gary Albright, American professional wrestler (born in 1963) | |
| January 7th, 1999 (January 07 1999) | Event | The impeachment of President Bill Clinton begins. | Bill Clinton Quotes |
| January 7th, 1998 (January 07 1998) | Death | Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1906) | |
| January 7th, 1998 (January 07 1998) | Death | Owen Bradley, American record producer (born in 1915) | |
| January 7th, 1996 (January 07 1996) | Death | Taro Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (born in 1911) | |
| January 7th, 1996 (January 07 1996) | Death | Karoly Grosz, Hungarian politician (born in 1930) | |
| January 7th, 1995 (January 07 1995) | Death | Murray Rothbard, American economist (born in 1926) | Murray Rothbard Quotes |
| January 7th, 1993 (January 07 1993) | Event | The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President. | |
| January 7th, 1992 (January 07 1992) | Death | Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (The Muppets) (born in 1951) | |
| January 7th, 1991 (January 07 1991) | Event | Beginning of the operation Desert Storm, during the Gulf War. | |
| January 7th, 1991 (January 07 1991) | Birth | Max Morrow, Canadian actor | |
| January 7th, 1990 (January 07 1990) | Event | The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns. | |
| January 7th, 1990 (January 07 1990) | Birth | Liam Aiken, American actor | |
| January 7th, 1990 (January 07 1990) | Birth | Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater | |
| January 7th, 1990 (January 07 1990) | Birth | Camryn Grimes, American actress | |
| January 7th, 1990 (January 07 1990) | Birth | Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian skijumper | |
| January 7th, 1990 (January 07 1990) | Death | Horace Stoneham, American baseball executive (born in 1903) | Horace Quotes |
| January 7th, 1990 (January 07 1990) | Death | Bronko Nagurski, American football player (born in 1908) | |
| January 7th, 1989 (January 07 1989) | Birth | Emiliano Insua, Argentine footballer | |
| January 7th, 1989 (January 07 1989) | Death | Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (born in 1901) | |
| January 7th, 1988 (January 07 1988) | Birth | Haley Bennett, American Singer and Actress | |
| January 7th, 1988 (January 07 1988) | Birth | Scott Pendlebury, Australian rules footballer | |
| January 7th, 1988 (January 07 1988) | Death | Trevor Howard, English actor (born in 1913) | |
| January 7th, 1988 (January 07 1988) | Death | Michel Auclair, French actor (born in 1922) | |
| January 7th, 1986 (January 07 1986) | Birth | Grant Leadbitter, English footballer | |
| January 7th, 1986 (January 07 1986) | Death | Philip D. Eastman, American children s book writer and illustrator (born in 1909) | |
| January 7th, 1986 (January 07 1986) | Death | Juan Rulfo, Mexican novelist (born in 1917) | |
| January 7th, 1985 (January 07 1985) | Birth | Lewis Hamilton, English F1 racing driver | |
| January 7th, 1985 (January 07 1985) | Death | Mary Hardy, Australian radio and television presenter (born in 1931) | |
| January 7th, 1984 (January 07 1984) | Event | Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). | |
| January 7th, 1984 (January 07 1984) | Birth | Jon Lester, American baseball player | |
| January 7th, 1984 (January 07 1984) | Death | Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1902) | Alfred Nobel Quotes |
| January 7th, 1983 (January 07 1983) | Birth | Natalie Gulbis, American golfer | |
| January 7th, 1982 (January 07 1982) | Birth | Francisco Rodriguez, Venezuelan baseball player | |
| January 7th, 1982 (January 07 1982) | Birth | Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer | |
| January 7th, 1982 (January 07 1982) | Birth | Ianina Zanazzi, Argentine racing driver | |
| January 7th, 1981 (January 07 1981) | Birth | Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| January 7th, 1981 (January 07 1981) | Birth | Marquis Daniels, American basketball player | |
| January 7th, 1981 (January 07 1981) | Death | Alvar Lidell, UK radio broadcaster (born in 1908) | |
| January 7th, 1981 (January 07 1981) | Death | Eric Robinson, Australian politician (born in 1926) | |
| January 7th, 1980 (January 07 1980) | Event | President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation. | Jimmy Carter Quotes |
| January 7th, 1980 (January 07 1980) | Death | Larry Williams, American singer and songwriter (born in 1935) | |
| January 7th, 1979 (January 07 1979) | Event | Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. | |
| January 7th, 1979 (January 07 1979) | Birth | Bipasha Basu, Indian model | |
| January 7th, 1979 (January 07 1979) | Birth | Mariangel Ruiz, Venezuelan actress and model | |
| January 7th, 1979 (January 07 1979) | Birth | Ryan Tedder, American singer | |
| January 7th, 1978 (January 07 1978) | Birth | Kevin Mench, American baseball player | |
| January 7th, 1977 (January 07 1977) | Birth | Michelle Behennah, British model | |
| January 7th, 1977 (January 07 1977) | Birth | Dustin Diamond, American actor | |
| January 7th, 1977 (January 07 1977) | Birth | John Gidding, American architect and TV host (Designed to Sell) | |
| January 7th, 1976 (January 07 1976) | Birth | Eric Gagne, Canadian baseball player | |
| January 7th, 1976 (January 07 1976) | Birth | Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player | |
| January 7th, 1974 (January 07 1974) | Birth | John Rich, American musician (Big & Rich) | |
| January 7th, 1973 (January 07 1973) | Event | Mark Essex fatally shoots 10 people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson s Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana before being shot to death by police officers. | |
| January 7th, 1973 (January 07 1973) | Birth | Jonna Tervomaa, Finnish singer | |
| January 7th, 1972 (January 07 1972) | Event | Iberia Airlines Caravelle 6-R crashes into Mont San Jose on approach to Ibiza Airport killing all 104 on board. | |
| January 7th, 1972 (January 07 1972) | Birth | Donald Brashear, American ice hockey player | |
| January 7th, 1972 (January 07 1972) | Death | John Berryman, American poet (born in 1914) | |
| January 7th, 1972 (January 07 1972) | Death | Eftichia Papagianopoulos, Greek lyricist | |
| January 7th, 1971 (January 07 1971) | Birth | C.W. Anderson, American professional wrestler | |
| January 7th, 1971 (January 07 1971) | Birth | Tina Anderson, American comic book writer | |
| January 7th, 1971 (January 07 1971) | Birth | Jeremy Renner, American actor | |
| January 7th, 1970 (January 07 1970) | Birth | Doug E. Doug, American actor | |
| January 7th, 1970 (January 07 1970) | Birth | Joao Ricardo, Angolan footballer | |
| January 7th, 1969 (January 07 1969) | Birth | David Yost, American actor | |
| January 7th, 1968 (January 07 1968) | Death | Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (born in 1897) | James Smith Quotes |
| January 7th, 1967 (January 07 1967) | Birth | Guy Hebert, American ice hockey player | |
| January 7th, 1967 (January 07 1967) | Birth | Mark Lamarr, British comedian and broadcaster | |
| January 7th, 1967 (January 07 1967) | Birth | Nick Clegg, British Liberal Democrat | |
| January 7th, 1967 (January 07 1967) | Death | Carl Schuricht, German conductor (born in 1880) | |
| January 7th, 1967 (January 07 1967) | Death | David Goodis, American writer (born in 1917) | |
| January 7th, 1966 (January 07 1966) | Birth | Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American publicist (died in 1999) | |
| January 7th, 1964 (January 07 1964) | Birth | Nicolas Cage, American actor | |
| January 7th, 1964 (January 07 1964) | Death | Cyril Davies, American musician (born in 1932) | |
| January 7th, 1963 (January 07 1963) | Birth | Clint Mansell, English musician and composer | |
| January 7th, 1963 (January 07 1963) | Death | Arthur Moore, Premier of Queensland (born in 1876) | |
| January 7th, 1962 (January 07 1962) | Birth | Aleksandr Dugin, Russian politician | |
| January 7th, 1961 (January 07 1961) | Birth | Andrew Thomson, Australian politician | |
| January 7th, 1961 (January 07 1961) | Birth | Supriya Pathak, Indian actress | |
| January 7th, 1961 (January 07 1961) | Birth | John Thune, American politician | |
| January 7th, 1960 (January 07 1960) | Birth | David Marciano, American actor | |
| January 7th, 1960 (January 07 1960) | Birth | Loretta Sanchez, American politician | |
| January 7th, 1960 (January 07 1960) | Death | Dorothea Douglass Chambers (aka Katharine Lambert Chambers), UK tennis player (born in 1878) | |
| January 7th, 1959 (January 07 1959) | Event | The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro. | Fidel Castro Quotes |
| January 7th, 1959 (January 07 1959) | Birth | Kathy Valentine, American musician (The Go-Gos) | |
| January 7th, 1958 (January 07 1958) | Birth | Linda Kozlowski, American actress | |
| January 7th, 1958 (January 07 1958) | Birth | Donna Rice, American sex scandal figure | |
| January 7th, 1957 (January 07 1957) | Birth | Nicholson Baker, American novelist | |
| January 7th, 1957 (January 07 1957) | Birth | Katie Couric, American television host | |
| January 7th, 1957 (January 07 1957) | Birth | Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer | Julian Quotes |
| January 7th, 1957 (January 07 1957) | Birth | Reena Roy, Indian actress | |
| January 7th, 1956 (January 07 1956) | Birth | David Caruso, American actor | |
| January 7th, 1956 (January 07 1956) | Birth | Mike Liut, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| January 7th, 1954 (January 07 1954) | Event | Georgetown-IBM experiment, the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM. | |
| January 7th, 1953 (January 07 1953) | Event | President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb. | |
| January 7th, 1953 (January 07 1953) | Death | Osa Johnson, American explorer (born in 1894) | |
| January 7th, 1952 (January 07 1952) | Birth | Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor | |
| January 7th, 1951 (January 07 1951) | Birth | Helen Worth, British actress | |
| January 7th, 1951 (January 07 1951) | Death | Rene Guenon, French-Egyptian author (born in 1886) | |
| January 7th, 1950 (January 07 1950) | Event | A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, kills 41 people. | |
| January 7th, 1950 (January 07 1950) | Birth | Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer and songwriter | |
| January 7th, 1950 (January 07 1950) | Birth | Erin Gray, American actress | |
| January 7th, 1950 (January 07 1950) | Birth | Ross Grimsley, American baseball player | |
| January 7th, 1950 (January 07 1950) | Birth | Johnny Lever, Indian actor | |
| January 7th, 1949 (January 07 1949) | Birth | Marshall Chapman, American singer/songwriter | |
| January 7th, 1949 (January 07 1949) | Birth | Anne Schedeen, American actress | |
| January 7th, 1949 (January 07 1949) | Birth | Steven Williams, American actor | |
| January 7th, 1948 (January 07 1948) | Birth | Kenny Loggins, American singer | |
| January 7th, 1947 (January 07 1947) | Birth | Shobha De, Indian writer | |
| January 7th, 1946 (January 07 1946) | Birth | Jann Wenner, American publisher | |
| January 7th, 1946 (January 07 1946) | Death | Adamo Didur, Polish tenor (born in 1874) | |
| January 7th, 1945 (January 07 1945) | Event | World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge. | |
| January 7th, 1945 (January 07 1945) | Birth | Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (died in 1990) | |
| January 7th, 1945 (January 07 1945) | Birth | Gilles Marotte, French Canadian ice hockey player (died in 2005) | |
| January 7th, 1945 (January 07 1945) | Birth | Dick Marty, Swiss politician | |
| January 7th, 1944 (January 07 1944) | Birth | Arne Scheie, Norwegian sports commentator | |
| January 7th, 1944 (January 07 1944) | Birth | Tony Whitlam, Australian judge | |
| January 7th, 1944 (January 07 1944) | Death | Lou Hoover, U.S. First Lady (born in 1874) | |
| January 7th, 1944 (January 07 1944) | Death | Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (born in 1888) | |
| January 7th, 1943 (January 07 1943) | Birth | Sadako Sasaki, Japanese child victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb (died in 1955) | Saki Quotes |
| January 7th, 1943 (January 07 1943) | Birth | Sir Richard Armstrong, British conductor | |
| January 7th, 1943 (January 07 1943) | Death | Nikola Tesla, Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer (born in 1856) | Nikola Tesla Quotes |
| January 7th, 1942 (January 07 1942) | Event | World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins. | |
| January 7th, 1942 (January 07 1942) | Birth | Danny Williams, South African singer (died in 2005) | |
| January 7th, 1942 (January 07 1942) | Birth | Vasily Alexeev, Russian weightlifter | |
| January 7th, 1942 (January 07 1942) | Birth | Jim Lefebvre, American baseball player and manager | |
| January 7th, 1941 (January 07 1941) | Birth | Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (died in 2004) | |
| January 7th, 1941 (January 07 1941) | Birth | Manfred Schellscheidt, German American soccer coach | |
| January 7th, 1941 (January 07 1941) | Birth | John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate | |
| January 7th, 1939 (January 07 1939) | Birth | Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark | |
| January 7th, 1938 (January 07 1938) | Birth | Rory Storm, British singer (died in 1972) | |
| January 7th, 1938 (January 07 1938) | Birth | Roland Topor, French illustrator (died in 1997) | |
| January 7th, 1938 (January 07 1938) | Birth | Lou Graham, American golfer | |
| January 7th, 1937 (January 07 1937) | Birth | Paul Revere, American musician | |
| January 7th, 1936 (January 07 1936) | Birth | Ben Cropp, Australian shark hunter and photographer | |
| January 7th, 1936 (January 07 1936) | Birth | G. Robert Blakey, American attorney | |
| January 7th, 1936 (January 07 1936) | Death | Guy d Hardelot, French composer, best known for Because (born in 1858) | |
| January 7th, 1935 (January 07 1935) | Event | Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement. | Benito Mussolini Quotes |
| January 7th, 1935 (January 07 1935) | Birth | Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (died in 2006) | |
| January 7th, 1935 (January 07 1935) | Birth | Tommy Johnson, American tubist (died in 2006) | |
| January 7th, 1935 (January 07 1935) | Birth | Valeri Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut | |
| January 7th, 1934 (January 07 1934) | Birth | Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (died in 2002) | |
| January 7th, 1934 (January 07 1934) | Birth | Charlie Jenkins, American runner | |
| January 7th, 1933 (January 07 1933) | Birth | Elliott Kastner, U.S. film producer | |
| January 7th, 1932 (January 07 1932) | Birth | Joe Berinson, Australian politician | |
| January 7th, 1932 (January 07 1932) | Death | Andre Maginot, French eponym of the Maginot Line (born in 1877) | |
| January 7th, 1931 (January 07 1931) | Event | Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand s west coast. | |
| January 7th, 1929 (January 07 1929) | Birth | Terry Moore, American actress | |
| January 7th, 1928 (January 07 1928) | Birth | William Peter Blatty, American screenwriter | |
| January 7th, 1927 (January 07 1927) | Event | First transatlantic telephone callNew York City to London. | |
| January 7th, 1925 (January 07 1925) | Birth | Gerald Durrell, British naturalist (died in 1995) | Gerald Durrell Quotes |
| January 7th, 1924 (January 07 1924) | Birth | Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (died in 1966) | |
| January 7th, 1923 (January 07 1923) | Birth | Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic (died in 2003) | |
| January 7th, 1922 (January 07 1922) | Event | Dail Eireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote. | |
| January 7th, 1922 (January 07 1922) | Birth | Vincent Gardenia, Italian-born actor (died in 1992) | |
| January 7th, 1922 (January 07 1922) | Birth | Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist (died in 2000) | |
| January 7th, 1922 (January 07 1922) | Birth | Eric Jupp, British-born Australian composer, arranger, conductor (died in 2003) | |
| January 7th, 1922 (January 07 1922) | Birth | Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager | |
| January 7th, 1920 (January 07 1920) | Death | Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (born in 1849) | |
| January 7th, 1919 (January 07 1919) | Death | Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist and philanthropist (born in 1843) | |
| January 7th, 1917 (January 07 1917) | Birth | Ulysses Kay, American composer (died in 1995) | |
| January 7th, 1916 (January 07 1916) | Birth | Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (died in 1975) | |
| January 7th, 1913 (January 07 1913) | Birth | Johnny Mize, American baseball player (died in 1993) | |
| January 7th, 1913 (January 07 1913) | Death | Jack Boyle, American baseball player (born in 1866) | |
| January 7th, 1912 (January 07 1912) | Birth | Charles Addams, American cartoonist (died in 1988) | |
| January 7th, 1912 (January 07 1912) | Birth | Gunter Wand, German conductor, composer (died in 2002) | |
| January 7th, 1911 (January 07 1911) | Birth | Butterfly McQueen, American actress (died in 1995) | |
| January 7th, 1910 (January 07 1910) | Birth | Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet (died in 1984) | |
| January 7th, 1910 (January 07 1910) | Birth | Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (died in 1994) | |
| January 7th, 1908 (January 07 1908) | Birth | Red Allen, American musician (died in 1967) | |
| January 7th, 1907 (January 07 1907) | Birth | Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist (died in 1993) | |
| January 7th, 1904 (January 07 1904) | Event | The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS". | |
| January 7th, 1903 (January 07 1903) | Birth | Warren Hull, American actor (died in 1974) | |
| January 7th, 1903 (January 07 1903) | Birth | Alan Napier, English actor (died in 1988) | |
| January 7th, 1900 (January 07 1900) | Birth | John Brownlee, Australian tenor (died in 1969) | |
| January 7th, 1899 (January 07 1899) | Birth | Francis Poulenc, French composer (died in 1963) | |
| January 7th, 1898 (January 07 1898) | Birth | Al Bowlly, British jazz singer (died in 1941) | |
| January 7th, 1896 (January 07 1896) | Birth | Arnold Ridley, British playwright and actor (died in 1984) | |
| January 7th, 1895 (January 07 1895) | Birth | Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (died in 1960) | |
| January 7th, 1895 (January 07 1895) | Birth | Sir Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and co-founder of QANTAS (died in 1974) | |
| January 7th, 1894 (January 07 1894) | Event | W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film. | |
| January 7th, 1893 (January 07 1893) | Death | Jozef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (born in 1835) | |
| January 7th, 1892 (January 07 1892) | Death | Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (born in 1852) | |
| January 7th, 1891 (January 07 1891) | Birth | Zora Neale Hurston, American writer (died in 1960) | Zora Neale Hurston Quotes |
| January 7th, 1878 (January 07 1878) | Death | Francois-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (born in 1794) | |
| January 7th, 1876 (January 07 1876) | Birth | William Hurlstone, English composer (died in 1906) | |
| January 7th, 1876 (January 07 1876) | Death | Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (born in 1807) | |
| January 7th, 1875 (January 07 1875) | Birth | Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (died in 1945) | |
| January 7th, 1875 (January 07 1875) | Birth | Thomas Hicks, American runner (died in 1963) | |
| January 7th, 1873 (January 07 1873) | Birth | Charles Peguy, French poet and essayist (died in 1914) | Charles Peguy Quotes |
| January 7th, 1873 (January 07 1873) | Birth | Adolph Zukor, Hungarian producer (died in 1976) | |
| January 7th, 1872 (January 07 1872) | Death | James Fisk, American entrepreneur (born in 1834) | |
| January 7th, 1871 (January 07 1871) | Birth | Emile Borel, French mathematician and politician (died in 1956) | |
| January 7th, 1870 (January 07 1870) | Birth | Lord Gordon Hewart, British judge (died in 1943) | |
| January 7th, 1864 (January 07 1864) | Death | Caleb Blood Smith, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (born in 1808) | |
| January 7th, 1860 (January 07 1860) | Birth | Emanuil Manolov, Bulgarian composer (died in 1902) | |
| January 7th, 1858 (January 07 1858) | Birth | Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language (died in 1922) | |
| January 7th, 1845 (January 07 1845) | Birth | King Ludwig III of Bavaria (died in 1921) | |
| January 7th, 1844 (January 07 1844) | Birth | Bernadette Soubirous, French saint (died in 1879) | |
| January 7th, 1835 (January 07 1835) | Event | The HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago. | |
| January 7th, 1834 (January 07 1834) | Birth | Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (died in 1874) | |
| January 7th, 1832 (January 07 1832) | Birth | James Munro, Premier of Victoria (died in 1908) | |
| January 7th, 1831 (January 07 1831) | Birth | Heinrich von Stephan, German labor organizer (died in 1897) | |
| January 7th, 1830 (January 07 1830) | Birth | Albert Bierstadt, German-American painter (died in 1902) | |
| January 7th, 1830 (January 07 1830) | Death | Thomas Lawrence, English painter (born in 1769) | |
| January 7th, 1827 (January 07 1827) | Birth | Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time (died in 1915) | |
| January 7th, 1800 (January 07 1800) | Birth | Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (died in 1874) | Millard Fillmore Quotes |
| January 7th, 1797 (January 07 1797) | Event | The modern Italian flag is first used. | |
| January 7th, 1796 (January 07 1796) | Birth | Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (died in 1817) | |
| January 7th, 1786 (January 07 1786) | Birth | John Catron, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (died in 1865) | |
| January 7th, 1786 (January 07 1786) | Death | Jean-Etienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (born in 1715) | |
| January 7th, 1785 (January 07 1785) | Event | Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon. | |
| January 7th, 1783 (January 07 1783) | Death | William Tans ur, English hymnist (born in 1700) | |
| January 7th, 1782 (January 07 1782) | Event | The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens. | |
| January 7th, 1770 (January 07 1770) | Death | Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (born in 1695) | |
| January 7th, 1768 (January 07 1768) | Birth | Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (died in 1844) | |
| January 7th, 1767 (January 07 1767) | Death | Thomas Clap, 1st president of Yale University (born in 1703) | |
| January 7th, 1758 (January 07 1758) | Death | Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (born in 1686) | |
| January 7th, 1718 (January 07 1718) | Birth | Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (died in 1790) | |
| January 7th, 1715 (January 07 1715) | Death | Francois Fenelon, French-Catholic theologian and writer (born in 1651) | |
| January 7th, 1706 (January 07 1706) | Birth | Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (died in 1751) | |
| January 7th, 1700 (January 07 1700) | Death | Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquarian (born in 1618) | |
| January 7th, 1694 (January 07 1694) | Death | Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (bc. 1618) | |
| January 7th, 1685 (January 07 1685) | Birth | Jonas Alstromer, Swedish industrialist (died in 1761) | |
| January 7th, 1658 (January 07 1658) | Death | Theophilus Eaton, American colonist (born in 1590) | |
| January 7th, 1655 (January 07 1655) | Death | Pope Innocent X (born in 1574) | |
| January 7th, 1647 (January 07 1647) | Birth | Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Wurttemberg (died in 1677) | |
| January 7th, 1625 (January 07 1625) | Death | Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (bc. 1560) | |
| January 7th, 1619 (January 07 1619) | Death | Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (bc. 1547) | |
| January 7th, 1610 (January 07 1610) | Event | Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons. | Galileo Galilei Quotes |
| January 7th, 1608 (January 07 1608) | Event | Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia. | |
| January 7th, 1598 (January 07 1598) | Event | Boris Godunov becomes Tsar of Russia. | |
| January 7th, 1566 (January 07 1566) | Death | Louis de Blois, Flemish mystic (born in 1506) | |
| January 7th, 1558 (January 07 1558) | Event | France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England. | |
| January 7th, 1536 (January 07 1536) | Death | Catherine of Aragon, consort of Henry VIII of England (born in 1485) | Henry VIII of England Quotes |
| January 7th, 1528 (January 07 1528) | Birth | Jeanne d Albret, Queen of Navarre (died in 1572) | |
| January 7th, 1502 (January 07 1502) | Birth | Pope Gregory XIII (died in 1585) | |
| January 7th, 1451 (January 07 1451) | Death | Count Amadeus VIII of Savoy (born in 1383) | |
| January 7th, 1400 (January 07 1400) | Death | Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (born in 1374) | |
| January 7th, 1355 (January 07 1355) | Birth | Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III of England (died in 1397) | Edward Thomas Quotes |
| January 7th, 1325 (January 07 1325) | Event | Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. | |
| January 7th, 1325 (January 07 1325) | Death | King Dinis of Portugal (born in 1261) | |
| January 7th, 1285 (January 07 1285) | Death | King Charles I of Naples (born in 1226) | |
