April 7
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Art and culture
Births
- 1770 - William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850)
- 1772 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher (d. 1837)
- 1803 - Flora Tristan, French feminist and socialist philosopher (d. 1844)
- 1883 - Gino Severini, Italian painter (d. 1966)
- 1908 - Percy Faith, Canadian composer and musician (d. 1976)
- 1911 - Hervé Bazin, French writer (d. 1996)
- 1915 - Billie Holiday, American singer (d. 1959)
- 1920 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player
- 1922 - Mongo Santamaria, Cuban musician (d. 2003)
- 1927 - Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (d. 2003)
- 1931 - Donald Barthelme, American author
- 1934 - Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (d. 2007)
- 1938 - Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpeter
- 1939 - Francis Ford Coppola, American film director
- 1945 - Werner Schroeter, German film director
- 1947 - Florian Schneider, German musician (Kraftwerk)
- 1948 - Carol Douglas, American singer
- 1951 - Janis Ian, American singer and songwriter
- 1954 - Jackie Chan, Hong Kong actor
Deaths
- 1614 - El Greco, Greek-born artist (b. 1541)
- 1836 - William Godwin, English political writer (b. 1756)
- 1891 - P. T. Barnum, American circus impresario (b. 1810)
- 1955 - Theda Bara, American film actress (b. 1885)
Notes
- 1933 - Zéro de conduite premiers in France. It was subsequently banned in France until 1946.
- 1903 - Victor Brauner (1903 - March 12 1966) was a Romanian Jewish painter, the brother of Harry Brauner (a known folklorist who was a political prisoner in Communist Romania, and who later married Lena Constante).
- 1907 - Violette Leduc, French author (La Bâtarde and Thérèse and Isabelle) (b. 1972)
- 1924 - Daniel Emilfork (April 7 1924 San Felipe, Chile – October 17 2006 Paris, France) was a French stage and film actor of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.
- 1771 - Madeleine Laure (April 7 1771 - January 18 1844) was only daughter of Marquis de Sade and Renée-Pélagie de Montreuil.
- 1884 - Bronisław Malinowski (April 7, 1884 – May 16, 1942) was a Polish anthropologist known for his ethnographic fieldwork, his studies on Melanesia, reciprocity and as author of The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia.
- 1977 - Jim Thompson (September 27, 1906, Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory - April 7, 1977, Los Angeles, California) was an American writer of novels, short stories and screenplays, largely in the hardboiled style of crime fiction.
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