On This Day
Wednesday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
February 7 1968
Born on This Day
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Adolf Jandorf🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Jewish entrepreneur, founder of KaDeWe (1870–1932) · 1870–1932
Days lived
22,618
Anita Tsoy🇷🇺
Russian singer · b. 1971
Antonio Salazar🇲🇽
deceasedfootball player · 1989–2022
Days lived
12,143
Ashton Kutcher
Investor & Actor · b. 1978
Björn Michel🇩🇪
German field hockey player · b. 1975
Chen Xiaomin🇨🇳
weightlifter · b. 1977
Chris Rock🇺🇸
actor · b. 1965
Days alive
1,095
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Clementina de Jesus🇧🇷
deceasedsinger · 1901–1987
Days lived
31,573
Daniel Van Buyten🇧🇪
Belgian association football player (born 1978) · b. 1978
David S. Baxter
deceasedMormon leader · 1955–2025
Days lived
25,782
Dieter Bohlen
songwriter · b. 1954
Days alive
5,113
Dieter Engels🇩🇪
German politician · b. 1950
Days alive
6,574
Eberhard Trautner🇩🇪
football player · b. 1967
Days alive
365
Eddie Bracken🇺🇸
deceasedsinger · 1915–2002
Days lived
32,057
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Eddie Kelly🇬🇧
Scottish footballer (born 1951) · b. 1951
Days alive
6,209
Francine Berman🇺🇸
American computer scientist · b. 1951
Days alive
6,209
Garth Brooks🇺🇸
American country music singer and songwriter · b. 1962
Days alive
2,191
Harald Reisenberger🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian politician (1967-2009) · 1967–2009
Days lived
15,653
Harry Haslam🇬🇧
deceasedfield hockey player (1883-1955) · 1883–1955
Days lived
26,297
Hermann Billing🇩🇪
deceasedGerman architect (1867–1946) · 1867–1946
Days lived
28,877
Hiroki Sanada🇯🇵
film director · b. 1984
Ingo Freyer🇩🇪
basketball player · b. 1971
Jim King🇺🇸
American basketball player-coach · b. 1941
Days alive
9,861
Kasimir Graff🇵🇱
deceasedPolish-German-Austrian astronomer · 1878–1950
Days lived
26,305
Klaus J. Behrendt🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1960
Days alive
2,922
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Lev Vasilyev🇷🇺
deceasedSoviet industrial manager and statesman (1925-2023) · 1925–2023
Days lived
35,989
Mariusz Pudzianowski🇵🇱
Polish strongman · b. 1977
Martin Sinner🇩🇪
German tennis player · b. 1968
Days alive
0
Matthias Heidemann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman footballer (1912-1970) · 1907–1970
Days lived
23,307
Matthias Hinze🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1969–2007
Days lived
13,944
Max Bense🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1910–1990
Days lived
29,301
Michael Braungart🇩🇪
entrepreneur · b. 1958
Days alive
3,652
Michael Grimm🇺🇸
American politician (born 1970) · b. 1970
Monika Brodka🇵🇱
singer · b. 1987
Nicolò Barella
association football player · b. 1997
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Oliver Zipse
Actor · b. 1964
Days alive
1,461
Omar Marmoush
association football player · b. 1999
Pete Postlethwaite
deceasedActor · 1946–2011
Days lived
23,705
Peter Paul Morandell🇮🇹
deceasedAustrian painter (1901-1976) · 1901–1976
Days lived
27,386
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Ramuald Ziamkievič🇵🇱
deceasedjournalist · 1881–1943
Days lived
22,607
Rémi Gaillard🇫🇷
French humorist and animal rights activist · b. 1975
Ricardo Alberto Frione🇺🇾
deceasedfootball player · 1911–1986
Days lived
27,426
Richard Steiff🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1877–1939
Days lived
22,695
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Scott Feldman🇺🇸
film director · b. 1983
Sidonie Grünwald-Zerkowitz
deceasedAustrian author (1852–1907) · 1852–1907
Days lived
20,213
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Sinclair Lewis🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer and playwright (1885–1951) · 1885–1951
Days lived
24,077
Sven Simon🇩🇪
deceasedGerman journalist (1941–1980) · 1941–1980
Days lived
14,209
Szaniszló Kühn🇭🇺
deceased(1895–1970) · 1895–1970
Days lived
27,464
Trey Hardee🇺🇸
American track and field athlete · b. 1984
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Ulrich Pinner🇩🇪
West German tennis player · b. 1954
Days alive
5,113
Urszula🇵🇱
Polish female singer of rock / pop · b. 1960
Days alive
2,922
Vasco Rossi🇮🇹
singer · b. 1952
Days alive
5,844
Vladimir Kuts
deceasedSoviet Ukrainian athletics competitor (1927–1975) · 1927–1975
Days lived
17,722
Walter Janssen🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1887–1976
Days lived
32,469
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Wes Borland🇺🇸
singer · b. 1975
Willy Bogner🇩🇪
deceasedGerman skier and entrepreneur (1909–1977) · 1909–1977
Days lived
25,007
Xavier Martínez🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican artist (1869-1943) · 1869–1943
Days lived
27,002
Died on This Day
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Abe Attell🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican boxer · 1883–1970
Days lived
31,761
Almut Eggert🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1937–2023
Days lived
31,291
Antonio Pacenza🇦🇷
deceasedboxer (1928–1999) · 1928–1999
Days lived
25,893
Baron Omar Rolf von Ehrenfels🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian anthropologist (1901–1980) · 1901–1980
Days lived
28,774
Brian Williams🇬🇧
deceasedWelsh rugby union player, born 1960 · 1962–2007
Days lived
16,284
Carl Andreas Koefoed
deceasedRussian anthropologist (1855–1948) · 1855–1948
Days lived
33,704
Frank Robinson🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1935–2019
Days lived
30,476
Günter Maschke🇩🇪
deceasedGerman journalist and writer · 1943–2022
Days lived
28,878
Harry Haslam🇬🇧
deceasedfield hockey player (1883-1955) · 1883–1955
Days lived
26,297
Josef Mengele
deceasedNazi SS doctor and Military Officer at Auschwitz (1911–1979) · 1911–1979
Days lived
24,800
Joseph D. Sneed🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican philosopher (1938-2020) · 1938–2020
Days lived
29,722
Karl Otto Meyer🇩🇪
deceasedGerman-Danish journalist and politician (1928-2016) · 1928–2016
Days lived
32,104
Kenshin Sumitaku🇯🇵
deceasedJapanese poet · 1961–1987
Days lived
9,454
Margarita Lozano🇪🇸
deceasedSpanish actress (1931-2022) · 1931–2022
Days lived
33,231
Max Bing🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor and radio director (1885–1945) · 1885–1945
Days lived
21,878
Nance O'Neil🇺🇸
deceasedActor · 1874–1965
Days lived
32,994
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Nathaniel M. Haskell🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican politician in Maine (1912–1983) · 1912–1983
Days lived
25,700
Paul Mattick🇩🇪
deceasedGerman-American Marxist political writer and social revolutionary (1904-1981) · 1904–1981
Days lived
28,090
Pete Henry🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football player (1897–1952) · 1897–1952
Days lived
19,821
Poul Heegaard🇳🇴
deceasedDanish mathematician (1871-1948) · 1871–1948
Days lived
27,855
Radek Pilař🇨🇿
deceasedCzech illustrator and painter (1931-1993) · 1931–1993
Days lived
22,573
Tamara Desni🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1910–2008
Days lived
35,537
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William Francis Hillebrand🇺🇸
deceasedchemist · 1853–1925
Days lived
25,989
William Greggan🇬🇧
deceasedathlete · 1882–1976
Days lived
34,031
Zizinho🇧🇷
deceasedfootball player · 1921–2002
Days lived
29,366
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
42,039
Gertrude W. Hoffmann🇩🇪
deceasedcharacter actress (1871-1968) · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,335
Camille Huysmans🇧🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,338
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Rudolph Dirks🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1877–1968
Days lived
33,290
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
Arthur Mallwitz🇩🇪
deceasedathlete · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
Helen Keller🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,710
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Sergeant Reckless🇺🇸
deceasedMongolian mare · 1948–1968
Days lived
7,438
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,883
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,580
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,153
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,595
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,561
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,195
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,639
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,291
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,090
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,604
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,622
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,291
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,643
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,186
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,096
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,073
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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