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February 7

8 births · 3 deaths · 2 events

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2014 Winter Olympics

12 years ago

Born this day

1812

Charles Dickens

Would be 214

Oldest record

548th

Thomas More

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Famous births8

1478 · 548 yrs

Thomas More

Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as a martyr and saint, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian and Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord Chancellor from October 1529 to May 1532.

LawWould be 548

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1812 · 214 yrs

Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.

LiteratureWould be 214

Photo: Jeremiah Gurney · Public domain

1870 · 156 yrs

Alfred Adler

Alfred Adler ( AD-lər; Austrian German:; February 7, 1870 – May 28, 1937) was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology.

Notable PeopleWould be 156

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1877 · 149 yrs

G.H. Hardy

Godfrey Harold Hardy (7 February 1877 – 1 December 1947) was an English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. In biology, he is known for the Hardy–Weinberg principle, a basic principle of population genetics.

ScienceWould be 149

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1885 · 141 yrs

Sinclair Lewis

Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.

LiteratureWould be 141

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1906 · 120 yrs

Puyi

Puyi (Chinese: 溥儀; pinyin: Pǔ Yí; Wade–Giles: P'u-i; 7 February 1906 – 17 October 1967) was the last emperor of China, having reigned as the Xuantong Emperor of the Qing dynasty (1908–1912, with a brief restoration in 1917) and later as the Kangde Emperor of Manchukuo, a Japanese puppet state during World War II.

RoyaltyWould be 120

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1978 · 48 yrs

Ashton Kutcher

Christopher Ashton Kutcher ( KUUTCH-ər; born February 7, 1978) is an American actor, film producer and investor. His accolades include a People's Choice Award and fifteen Teen Choice Awards, in addition to a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award.

FilmAge 48

Photo: Photographer: Jennifer Jacquemart · CC BY 4.0

1979 · 47 yrs

Tawakkol Karman

Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Khalid Karman (Arabic: توكل عبد السلام خالد كرمان, romanized: Tawakkul 'Abd us-Salām Khālid Karmān; Turkish: Tevekkül Karman; born 7 February 1979) is a Yemeni journalist, politician, and human rights activist.

MediaAge 47

Photo: Jindřich Nosek (NoJin) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Famous deaths3

1878 · 148 yrs

Pius IX

Pope Pius IX (Italian: Pio IX; born Giovanni Maria Battista Pietro Pellegrino Isidoro Mastai-Ferretti; 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878) was head of the Catholic Church from 16 June 1846 until his death in February 1878.

ReligionWould be 234

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1979 · 47 yrs

Josef Mengele

Josef Mengele (German:; 16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979), often dubbed the "Angel of Death" (German: Todesengel), was a German military officer and physician during World War II at the Soviet front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust.

MilitaryWould be 115

Photo: Unknown, i.e. either Bernhard Walther or Ernst Hofmann or Karl-Friedrich Höcker · Public domain

1999 · 27 yrs

Hussein I of Jordan

Hussein bin Talal (Arabic: الحسين بن طلال; 14 November 1935 – 7 February 1999) was King of Jordan from 1952 until his death in 1999. A member of the Hashemite dynasty, he is regarded as a 40th-generation descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

RoyaltyWould be 90

Photo: Helene C. Stikkel - First uploader was Wikifreund at de.wikipedia · Public domain

Events2

1998 · 28 yrs

1998 Winter Olympics

The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVIII Olympic Winter Games (Japanese: 第18回オリンピック冬季競技大会, Hepburn: Dai Jūhachi-kai Orinpikku Tōkikyōgi Taikai) and commonly known as Nagano 1998 (Japanese: 長野1998), were a winter multi-sport event held from 7 to 22 February 1998, mainly in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, with…

Sports

2014 · 12 yrs

2014 Winter Olympics

The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games (Russian: XXII Олимпийские зимние игры, romanised: XXII Olimpiyskiye zimniye igry) and commonly known as Sochi 2014 (Сочи 2014), were an international winter multi-sport event that was held from 7 to 23 February 2014 in Sochi, Russia.

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