On This Day
Sunday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
April 7 1968
Born on This Day
Aday Mara🇪🇸
Basketball player · b. 2005
Alan J. Pakula🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican film director, writer and producer (1928–1998) · 1928–1998
Days lived
25,793
Albert Sing🇩🇪
deceasedGerman footballer (1917–2008) · 1917–2008
Days lived
33,384
Alex Christensen🇩🇪
producer/DJ/songwriter · b. 1967
Days alive
366
Alexander Mronz🇩🇪
German tennis player · b. 1965
Days alive
1,096
Alexis Love🇺🇸
actor · b. 1988
Amund Maarud🇳🇴
singer · b. 1981
Andrew Sachs🇬🇧
deceasedBritish actor (1930–2016) · 1930–2016
Days lived
31,642
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Billie Holiday🇺🇸
deceasedsinger-songwriter · 1915–1959
Days lived
16,172
Brett Whiteley🇦🇺
deceasedartist · 1939–1992
Days lived
19,428
Candace Cameron Bure
actor · b. 1976
Caroline af Ugglas🇸🇪
singer · b. 1972
César Doy🇵🇪
Peruvian footballer · b. 1982
Choi Siwon🇰🇷
South Korean singer, actor and model · b. 1986
Cora Stephan🇩🇪
German writer · b. 1951
Days alive
6,210
Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie🇺🇸
American football player, defensive back · b. 1986
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Francis Ford Coppola🇺🇸
Film director · b. 1939
Days alive
10,593
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Franck Ribéry🇫🇷
football player · b. 1983
Friedrich Kayssler🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1874–1945
Days lived
25,955
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Gerhard Schröder🇩🇪
politician · b. 1944
Days alive
8,766
Gino Severini🇮🇹
deceasedartist · 1883–1966
Days lived
30,275
Gustav Landauer🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1870–1919
Days lived
17,921
Hans-Ulrich Krüger🇩🇪
German judge and politician · b. 1952
Days alive
5,844
Jackie Chan🇭🇰
Actor, Martial Artist, Director · b. 1954
Days alive
5,114
Jan Rosenthal🇩🇪
German footballer · b. 1986
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Jan Willem Wegstapel
deceasedDutch politician (1924–2020) · 1924–2020
Days lived
35,252
Johannes Schaaf🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1933–2019
Days lived
31,619
Karin Dreijer🇸🇪
Swedish musician · b. 1975
Klaus Havenstein🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1922–1998) · 1922–1998
Days lived
27,740
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Kristina Bach🇩🇪
German singer · b. 1962
Days alive
2,192
Kurt von Schleicher🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1882–1934
Days lived
19,076
Leonhard Haskel🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1872-1923) · 1872–1923
Days lived
18,893
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Lori Chavez-DeRemer🇺🇸
Politician · b. 1968
Days alive
0
Louis Plack Hammett🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican chemist (1894–1987) · 1894–1987
Days lived
33,910
MacKenzie Scott
novelist · b. 1970
Marc Trauner🇩🇪
rapper · b. 1969
Margarete Schön🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress (1895-1985) · 1895–1985
Days lived
33,135
Maria Fein🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1892–1965
Days lived
26,813
Martial Caillebotte🇫🇷
deceasedFrench photographer, composer and philatelist (1853–1910) · 1853–1910
Days lived
20,737
Michèle Marian🇩🇪
actor · b. 1963
Days alive
1,827
Otto Prutscher🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian architect and jewelry designer (1880–1949) · 1880–1949
Days lived
25,150
Patricia Brocker🇩🇪
German footballer · b. 1966
Days alive
731
Paul Kaznelson🇵🇱
deceasedCzech physician and university teacher (1892-1959) · 1892–1959
Days lived
24,374
Pete La Roca🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican drummer (1938–2012) · 1938–2012
Days lived
27,255
Philip Gröning🇩🇪
German film director · b. 1959
Days alive
3,288
Ravi Shankar🌍
deceasedComposer · 1920–2012
Days lived
33,851
Ricardo González Tezanos🇪🇸
basketball player · b. 1975
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Robert Metcalfe🇺🇸
American electrical engineer · b. 1946
Days alive
8,036
Rudolf Küster🇩🇪
deceasedGerman weightlifter (1955–2012) · 1955–2012
Days lived
21,033
Russell Crowe🇳🇿
Actor · b. 1964
Days alive
1,461
Sándor A. Tóth🇭🇺
deceasedHungarian artist (1904–1980) · 1904–1980
Days lived
27,937
Shingo Ono🇯🇵
film director · b. 1975
Tatiana Yacovleff🇫🇷
deceasedFrench fashion designer · 1906–1991
Days lived
31,067
Thorsten Leibenath🇩🇪
basketball player · b. 1975
Tivadar Soros🇭🇺
deceasedwriter · 1893–1968
Days lived
27,348
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Tomoki Iwata
association football player · b. 1997
Vinny Rottino🇺🇸
American baseball player · b. 1980
Wayne Rogers🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor (1933–2015) · 1933–2015
Days lived
30,218
Werner Schroeter🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1945–2010
Days lived
23,746
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Wilhelm Koenen🇩🇪
deceasedEast German politician (1886-1963) · 1886–1963
Days lived
28,318
Wolfgang Mattheuer🇩🇪
deceasedGerman painter (1927–2004) · 1927–2004
Days lived
28,125
Yann-Fañch Kemener🇫🇷
deceasedsinger · 1957–2019
Days lived
22,623
Zviad Endeladze
athlete · b. 1966
Days alive
731
Died on This Day
André Cluysenaar🇧🇪
deceasedBelgian painter (1872-1939) · 1872–1939
Days lived
24,416
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Bruno Apitz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer (1900-1979) · 1900–1979
Days lived
28,833
Carl Mengewein
deceasedmusician · 1852–1908
Days lived
20,298
Enid Mumford🇬🇧
deceasedscientist · 1924–2006
Days lived
29,982
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Golo Mann🇨🇭
deceasedYouTube personality · 1909–1994
Days lived
31,057
Hal Willner🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican record producer (1957–2020) · 1956–2020
Days lived
23,377
Helen Barbara Kruger
deceasedAmerican business woman (1913–2006) · 1913–2006
Days lived
33,855
Henry Ford🇺🇸
deceasedentrepreneur · 1863–1947
Days lived
30,566
Jaroslav Durych
deceasedCzech poet, playwright, essayist, doctor, religion writer, publicist, translator, bookwriter, writer and historic literature writer (1886–1962) · 1886–1962
Days lived
27,519
Joe Viera🇩🇪
deceasedGerman saxophonist and music educator (1932–2024) · 1932–2024
Days lived
33,453
José Capellán🇩🇴
deceasedfilm director · 1981–2015
Days lived
12,502
Krsto Hegedušić🇭🇺
deceasedCroatian naive painter (1901-1975) · 1901–1975
Days lived
26,795
Lilly Pulitzer🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican fashion designer (1931–2013) · 1931–2013
Days lived
29,734
Maria Ney🇩🇪
deceasedGerman cabaret artist (1890-1959) · 1890–1959
Days lived
25,080
Martin Rikli🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss film director (1898-1969) · 1898–1969
Days lived
26,010
Mircea Lucescu🇷🇴
deceasedAssociation football player · 1945–2026
Days lived
29,472
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Norman Taurog🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican film director (1899–1981) · 1899–1981
Days lived
29,993
Rudolf Schmidt🇩🇪
deceasedGerman general · 1886–1957
Days lived
25,897
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Suzanne Valadon🇫🇷
deceasedartist · 1865–1938
Days lived
26,493
Valerie von Martens🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1894–1986
Days lived
33,391
Vanessa Bell🇬🇧
deceasedartist · 1879–1961
Days lived
29,897
Walter Huston🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian actor and singer (1883–1950) · 1883–1950
Days lived
24,473
Wolfgang Mattheuer🇩🇪
deceasedGerman painter (1927–2004) · 1927–2004
Days lived
28,125
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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
42,099
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
Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra🇵🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1880–1976
Days lived
34,807
Vladimir Zelenin
deceasedscientist · 1881–1968
Days lived
32,067
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
49,770
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
47,943
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,640
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,213
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,655
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,621
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,255
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,699
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,351
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,150
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,664
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,682
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,351
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,703
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,246
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,156
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,133
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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