Posted on March 4, 2010.
79 famous people born on January 7 (actors) 200 famous people born on January 7
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1355 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III of England (ae 1397)
1528 - Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra / mother of French King Henri IV
1539 - Sebastian de Covarrubias Horozco, Spanish lexicographer
1611 - James Harrington, England, political author (Community Oceans)
1612 - Paul La Pierre, composer
1634 - Adam Krieger, German composer
1647 - Ludwig Wilhelm, Duke of WaĽrttemberg (ae 1677)
1652 - Vitezovic Pavao, Croatia, writer and historian
1653 - Bernhard Albinus, Germany, the court physician (Frederick of Prussia)
1685 - Gerard George Clifford, director of the Dutch East India Company
1685 - Jonas Alstra¶mer, Swedish industrialist (ae 1761)
1706 - Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (ae 1751)
1710 - Josef Antonin Sehling, composer
1718 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)
1768 - Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (ae 1844)
1786 - John Catron, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (ae 1865)
1796 - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (ae 1817)
1799 - Daniel Tyler, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1882
1800 - Millard Fillmore, Locke NY, (Whig) 13th president (1850-53)
1808 - Jacob Ammen, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1816 - Stephen Miller, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1881
1821 - Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell, Brig General (Federal Army), died in 1891
1822 - Lucius CM Bakker, Frisian physician / author (Goethe)
1822 - Theodor Aufrecht, German Orientalist (Hymns of Rigveda)
1824 - James Morrison Hawes, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
1827 - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer, introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
1830 - (Samuel) Emerson Opdycke, BVT Major General (Union volunteers)
1830 - Albert Bierstadt, Germany, painter (landscapes of the United States)
1832 - James Munro, Premier of Victoria (ae 1908)
1834 - Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (ae 1874)
1842 - Johan Lindegren, composer
1844 - Marie-Bernard Soubirous, [St Bernadette of Lourdes], / Saint visionary
1845 - Louis III, last king of Bavaria (1913-18)
1845 - Paul Deusen, German philosopher (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft)
1853 - Nicolas Arkas, composer
1858 - Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, a key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language (ae 1922)
1860 - Emanuil Mandlova, composer
1868 - Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski, Polish / German orientalist
1870 - Lord Gordon Hewart, British judge (ae 1943)
1871 - a‰mile Borel, French mathematician and politician (ae 1956)
1873 - Adolph Zukor, Hungary, Film Producer / Executive Director (Paramount)
1875 - Thomas Hicks, English / American marathoner (Olympic gold-1904)
1875 - Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (ae 1945)
1876 - William Yeates Hurlstone, compos.
