On This Day
Sunday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
October 7 1990
Born on This Day
Alesha Dixon🇬🇧
singer · b. 1978
Days alive
4,383
Alex Groza🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican basketball player (1926-1995) · 1926–1995
Days lived
24,943
Anton Polenec🇸🇮
deceasedwriter · 1910–2000
Days lived
32,896
Carlos Víctor Aramayo🇫🇷
deceasedentrepreneur · 1889–1981
Days lived
33,426
Charlotte Perrelli🇸🇪
Swedish singer · b. 1974
Days alive
5,844
Donald Tsang
Notable Trials · b. 1944
Days alive
16,801
Edison Chen🇨🇦
Hong Kong singer, actor, and fashion designer · b. 1980
Days alive
3,652
Erich Büttner🇩🇪
deceasedGerman artist (1889-1936) · 1889–1936
Days lived
17,136
Evan Longoria🇺🇸
film director · b. 1985
Days alive
1,826
Fereydoun Farrokhzad🇮🇷
deceasedsinger · 1936–1992
Days lived
20,389
Flying Lotus🇺🇸
American record producer from California · b. 1983
Days alive
2,557
Friedrich Salomon Krauss🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian-Jewish sexologist · 1859–1938
Days lived
28,724
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Georg Danzer🇦🇹
deceasedsinger · 1946–2007
Days lived
22,172
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Hans Tropsch🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1889–1935
Days lived
16,801
Harry Kroto🇬🇧
deceasedscientist · 1939–2016
Days lived
27,965
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Heinrich Eduard Jacob🇺🇸
deceasedGerman writer (1889–1967) · 1889–1967
Days lived
28,506
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Henriette Avram🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican computer programmer and system analyst (1919–2006) · 1919–2006
Days lived
31,609
Herbert Stass🇩🇪
deceasedGerman film actor (1919–1999) · 1919–1999
Days lived
29,255
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete
politician · b. 1950
Days alive
14,610
Jo Jones🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican jazz drummer (1911–1985) · 1911–1985
Days lived
26,995
Józef Hebda🇵🇱
deceasedPolish tennis player, champion of Poland and Soviet Union (1906–1975) · 1906–1975
Days lived
25,188
Kanika Mann🇮🇳
Actor · b. 1993
Lay (Zhang Yixing)🇨🇳
K-pop Idol (EXO) · b. 1991
Luminița Anghel🇷🇴
Romanian singer · b. 1968
Days alive
8,035
Matthieu Chalmé🇫🇷
football player · b. 1980
Days alive
3,652
Max Otte🇺🇸
entrepreneur · b. 1964
Days alive
9,496
Niels Bohr🇩🇰
deceasedfootball player · 1885–1962
Days lived
28,165
Omar Benson Miller
Actor · b. 1978
Days alive
4,383
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Pavel Řehák🇨🇿
Czech association football player and manager · b. 1963
Days alive
9,862
Raimund Harmstorf🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1939-1998) · 1939–1998
Days lived
21,393
Ralf Edström🇸🇪
Swedish footballer · b. 1952
Days alive
13,879
Ralph Johnson🇺🇸
computer scientist · b. 1955
Days alive
12,784
Remco van Wijk🇳🇱
Dutch field hockey player and coach · b. 1972
Days alive
6,574
Robby Ginepri🇺🇸
American tennis player · b. 1982
Days alive
2,922
Roy Zimmerman🇺🇸
singer-songwriter · b. 1957
Days alive
12,053
Sigi Zimmerschied🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1953
Days alive
13,514
Simon Cowell🇬🇧
English television personality, businessman, producer, record executive · b. 1959
Days alive
11,323
Steve Bainbridge🇬🇧
English rugby union footballer · b. 1956
Days alive
12,418
Taylor Hicks🇺🇸
American musician · b. 1976
Days alive
5,113
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Theodor Scheimpflug🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian photographer (1865-1911) · 1865–1911
Days lived
16,754
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Thom Yorke🇬🇧
singer-songwriter · b. 1968
Days alive
8,035
Tim Minchin🇦🇺
actor · b. 1975
Days alive
5,479
Toni Braxton🇺🇸
singer-songwriter · b. 1967
Days alive
8,401
Trent Alexander-Arnold
association football player · b. 1998
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Ulrike Meinhof
deceasedNotable Trials · 1934–1976
Days lived
15,190
Valentin Lustig🇷🇴
Swiss artist · b. 1955
Days alive
12,784
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Valentin Verga🇦🇷
Dutch field hockey player · b. 1989
Days alive
365
Vladimir Padrta🇨🇿
deceasedbasketball player, Czechoslovakia (1952–2009) · 1952–2009
Days lived
20,797
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Vladimir Putin
judoka · b. 1952
Days alive
13,879
Walther Grunwald🇩🇪
German architect and photographer · b. 1938
Days alive
18,993
Werner Lindemann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer (1926–1993) · 1926–1993
Days lived
24,227
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Zdeněk Janík🇨🇿
deceasedCzech poet (1923–2022) · 1923–2022
Days lived
35,973
Died on This Day
Alfred Arndt🇩🇪
deceasedGerman architect (1898–1976) · 1898–1976
Days lived
28,439
Augusto Daolio🇮🇹
deceasedItalian singer (1947-1992) · 1947–1992
Days lived
16,668
Bernhard Goetzke🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1884-1964) · 1884–1964
Days lived
29,343
C. R. W. Nevinson🇬🇧
deceasedartist · 1889–1946
Days lived
20,873
Christy Mathewson🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1880–1925
Days lived
16,491
David A. Huffman🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican computer scientist (1925–1999) · 1925–1999
Days lived
27,087
Eija Krogerus🇫🇮
deceasedFinnish bowler (1932–2018) · 1932–2018
Days lived
31,521
Gérard de Vaucouleurs🇺🇸
deceasedFrench astronomer (1918-1995) · 1918–1995
Days lived
28,289
Gustaf Gründgens🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor, director, intendant (1899-1963) · 1899–1963
Days lived
23,299
Heinz Woester🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss actor (1901-1970) · 1901–1970
Days lived
25,324
Helmut Lent
deceasedmilitary person · 1918–1944
Days lived
9,613
Hugo Dollheiser🇩🇪
deceasedGerman field hockey player (1927–2017) · 1927–2017
Days lived
32,892
Irving Penn🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican photographer and photojournalist (1917–2009) · 1917–2009
Days lived
33,716
John Gurdon🇬🇧
deceasedBritish developmental biologist (1933–2025) · 1933–2025
Days lived
33,608
Jurelang Zedkaia
deceasedMarshallese politician (1950-2015) · 1950–2015
Days lived
23,827
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Leopold Bauer🇦🇹
deceasedSilesian-Austrian architect (1872-1938) · 1872–1938
Days lived
24,141
Manfred Rommel🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1928–2013
Days lived
30,968
Mario Molina🇺🇸
deceasedMexican chemical engineer (1943–2020) · 1943–2020
Days lived
28,327
Paul Sérusier🇫🇷
deceasedFrench painter (1864–1927) · 1864–1927
Days lived
22,976
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Renate Müller🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress (1906–1937) · 1906–1937
Days lived
11,487
Ruby Hirose🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican biochemist and bacteriologist · 1904–1960
Days lived
20,492
Wolfgang Kieling🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1924–1985) · 1924–1985
Days lived
22,485
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
50,317
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Horst von der Goltz
German spy and actor · b. 1884
Days alive
38,995
José Miguel Barandiarán🇪🇸
deceasedBasque anthropologist, etnologist and archaeologist (1889–1991) · 1889–1991
Days lived
37,244
Frank J. Skinner🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1891
Days alive
36,343
Walter Schenk🇩🇪
deceasedGerman military personnel · 1891–2000
Days lived
39,634
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Hal Roach🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican filmmaker (1892–1992) · 1892–1992
Days lived
36,817
Lajos Perley
athlete · b. 1892
Days alive
36,006
Lang Jingshan
deceasedartist · 1892–1995
Days lived
37,506
Zośka Vieras🇱🇹
deceasedBelarusian writer and poet (1892-1991) · 1892–1991
Days lived
36,166
Lillian Gish🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actress (1893–1993) · 1893–1993
Days lived
36,295
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Martha Graham🇺🇸
deceasedBallet dancer · 1894–1991
Days lived
35,388
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia🇮🇹
deceasedItalian film director (1894–1998) · 1894–1998
Days lived
37,799
Hermann Florstedt
deceasedmilitary person · 1895–2000
Days lived
38,302
Adolf Pokorny🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian-born dermatologist and doctor; defendant in the Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg (1895-?) · 1895–2000
Days lived
38,144
Silas Simmons🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball player (1895–2006) · 1895–2006
Days lived
40,557
Heinrich Eberbach🇩🇪
deceasedGerman general (1895–1992) · 1895–1992
Days lived
35,295
Sylvia de Arruda Botelho Bittencourt🇧🇷
deceasedBrazilian journalist · 1896–1995
Days lived
36,188
Friedrich Hund🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1896–1997
Days lived
36,945
Lilia Skala🇺🇸
deceasedAustrian-American actress (1896-1994) · 1896–1994
Days lived
35,813
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian architect (1897–2000) · 1897–2000
Days lived
37,614
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
57,988
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Koko🇺🇸
deceasedWestern lowland gorilla · 1971–2018
Days lived
17,152
Alex🇺🇸
deceasedAfrican grey parrot · 1976–2007
Days lived
11,433
Keiko🇮🇸
deceasedOrca · 1977–2003
Days lived
9,841
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
56,161
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
55,858
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
55,431
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
45,873
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
44,839
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
44,473
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
41,917
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
40,569
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
661,368
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
140,882
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
64,900
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
45,569
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
23,921
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
21,464
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
19,374
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
17,351
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
Wuthering Heights
Drama film · b. 1939
Days since release
18,811
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12 Angry Men🇺🇸
Drama/Crime Film · b. 1957
Days since release
12,233
The Godfather🇺🇸
Crime/Drama Film · b. 1972
Days since release
6,771
Jaws🇺🇸
Thriller/Adventure Film · b. 1975
Days since release
5,588
Star Wars: A New Hope🇺🇸
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film · b. 1977
Days since release
4,883
Mad Max
Film · b. 1979
Days since release
4,196
Alien🇺🇸
Sci-Fi/Horror Film · b. 1979
Days since release
4,153
The Shining
Film · b. 1980
Days since release
3,932