April 7th All Events |
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| April 7th, 2007 (April 07 2007) | Death | Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (born in 1931) | John Hart Quotes |
| April 7th, 2007 (April 07 2007) | Death | Barry Nelson, American actor (born in 1917) | |
| April 7th, 2007 (April 07 2007) | Death | Diego Corrales, American boxer (born in 1977) | |
| April 7th, 2005 (April 07 2005) | Death | Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer (born in 1922) | |
| April 7th, 2005 (April 07 2005) | Death | Bob Kennedy, American baseball player and manager (born in 1920) | |
| April 7th, 2005 (April 07 2005) | Death | Cliff Allison, British racing driver (born in 1932) | |
| April 7th, 2004 (April 07 2004) | Death | Victor Argo, American actor (born in 1934) | |
| April 7th, 2003 (April 07 2003) | Event | U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein s regime falls two days later. | Saddam Hussein Quotes |
| April 7th, 2003 (April 07 2003) | Death | Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (born in 1903) | |
| April 7th, 2003 (April 07 2003) | Death | David Greene, British television director (born in 1921) | |
| April 7th, 2002 (April 07 2002) | Death | John Agar, American actor (born in 1921) | |
| April 7th, 2001 (April 07 2001) | Event | Mars Odyssey is launched. | |
| April 7th, 2001 (April 07 2001) | Death | David Graf, American actor (born in 1950) | |
| April 7th, 2001 (April 07 2001) | Death | Beatrice Straight, American actress (born in 1914) | |
| April 7th, 1999 (April 07 1999) | Event | The World Trade Organisation rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas. | |
| April 7th, 1998 (April 07 1998) | Death | Broery Marantika, Indonesian singer | |
| April 7th, 1997 (April 07 1997) | Death | Luis Aloma, Cuban baseball player (born in 1923) | |
| April 7th, 1997 (April 07 1997) | Death | Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (born in 1935) | |
| April 7th, 1997 (April 07 1997) | Death | Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese film producer (Godzilla) (born in 1910) | |
| April 7th, 1994 (April 07 1994) | Event | Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda. | |
| April 7th, 1994 (April 07 1994) | Death | Albert Gu?mundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (born in 1923) | |
| April 7th, 1994 (April 07 1994) | Death | Golo Mann, German historian (born in 1909) | |
| April 7th, 1994 (April 07 1994) | Death | Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (born in 1953) | |
| April 7th, 1992 (April 07 1992) | Event | Republika Srpska announces its independence. | |
| April 7th, 1992 (April 07 1992) | Death | Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (born in 1903) | |
| April 7th, 1990 (April 07 1990) | Event | Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction was reversed on appeal). | |
| April 7th, 1990 (April 07 1990) | Death | Ronald Evans, American astronaut (born in 1933) | Evans Quotes |
| April 7th, 1989 (April 07 1989) | Event | Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors. | |
| April 7th, 1987 (April 07 1987) | Birth | Alexa Demara, American model and actress | |
| April 7th, 1986 (April 07 1986) | Birth | Brooke Brodack, American internet celebrity | |
| April 7th, 1985 (April 07 1985) | Event | Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe. | |
| April 7th, 1984 (April 07 1984) | Death | Frank Church, U.S. Senator from Idaho (born in 1924) | |
| April 7th, 1983 (April 07 1983) | Event | During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk. | |
| April 7th, 1982 (April 07 1982) | Birth | Sonjay Dutt, Indian American professional wrestler | |
| April 7th, 1982 (April 07 1982) | Death | Brenda Benet, American actress (born in 1945) | |
| April 7th, 1982 (April 07 1982) | Death | Harald Ertl, Austrian racing driver (born in 1948) | |
| April 7th, 1981 (April 07 1981) | Birth | Suzann Pettersen, Norwegian golfer | |
| April 7th, 1981 (April 07 1981) | Death | Kit Lambert, British record producer and manager (The Who) (born in 1935) | |
| April 7th, 1981 (April 07 1981) | Death | Norman Taurog, American film director (born in 1899) | |
| April 7th, 1979 (April 07 1979) | Birth | Adrian Beltre, Dominican baseball player | |
| April 7th, 1978 (April 07 1978) | Event | Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by U.S. President Jimmy Carter. | Jimmy Carter Quotes |
| April 7th, 1978 (April 07 1978) | Birth | Vladimir Voltchkov, Belarusian tennis player | |
| April 7th, 1977 (April 07 1977) | Event | German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light. | |
| April 7th, 1977 (April 07 1977) | Birth | Silvana Arias, Peruvian actress | |
| April 7th, 1976 (April 07 1976) | Event | Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party. | |
| April 7th, 1976 (April 07 1976) | Birth | Kevin Alejandro, American actor | |
| April 7th, 1975 (April 07 1975) | Birth | Ronde Barber, American football player | |
| April 7th, 1975 (April 07 1975) | Birth | Tiki Barber, American football player | |
| April 7th, 1975 (April 07 1975) | Birth | Ronnie Belliard, American baseball player | |
| April 7th, 1973 (April 07 1973) | Birth | Carole Montillet, French skier | |
| April 7th, 1973 (April 07 1973) | Birth | Eve Salvail, Canadian model | |
| April 7th, 1973 (April 07 1973) | Birth | Brett Tomko, American baseball player | |
| April 7th, 1971 (April 07 1971) | Event | U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam. | |
| April 7th, 1971 (April 07 1971) | Birth | Guillaume Depardieu, French actor | |
| April 7th, 1971 (April 07 1971) | Birth | Victor Kraatz, Canadian figure skater | |
| April 7th, 1971 (April 07 1971) | Birth | Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, American actress | |
| April 7th, 1970 (April 07 1970) | Birth | Leif Ove Andsnes, Norwegian pianist | |
| April 7th, 1969 (April 07 1969) | Event | The Internet s symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1. | |
| April 7th, 1969 (April 07 1969) | Birth | Ricky Watters, American football player | |
| April 7th, 1968 (April 07 1968) | Event | Jim Clark, two-time F1 World Champion and winner of the Indianapolis 500, dies in a racing accident during a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim, Germany. | |
| April 7th, 1968 (April 07 1968) | Birth | Duncan Armstrong, Australian swimmer | |
| April 7th, 1968 (April 07 1968) | Death | Jim Clark, OBE, Scottish race car driver and two-time F1 world champion (born in 1936) | |
| April 7th, 1967 (April 07 1967) | Birth | Artemis Gounaki, composer, writer and music producer | |
| April 7th, 1966 (April 07 1966) | Birth | Gary Wilkinson, English snooker player | |
| April 7th, 1965 (April 07 1965) | Birth | Bill Bellamy, American actor and comedian | |
| April 7th, 1965 (April 07 1965) | Birth | Alison Lapper, British artist | |
| April 7th, 1964 (April 07 1964) | Event | IBM announces the System/360. | |
| April 7th, 1964 (April 07 1964) | Birth | Russell Crowe, New Zealand actor | |
| April 7th, 1964 (April 07 1964) | Birth | Steve Graves, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| April 7th, 1963 (April 07 1963) | Event | Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a Socialist republic and Josip Broz Tito is named President for life. | Josip Broz Tito Quotes |
| April 7th, 1963 (April 07 1963) | Birth | Jaime de Marichalar, duke of Lugo, Spanish royalty | |
| April 7th, 1962 (April 07 1962) | Birth | Andrew "Andy" Hampsten, American cyclist | |
| April 7th, 1962 (April 07 1962) | Birth | Hugh O Connor, American actor (died in 1995) | |
| April 7th, 1962 (April 07 1962) | Birth | Alain Robert, French rock and urban climber | |
| April 7th, 1961 (April 07 1961) | Birth | Pascal Olmeta, French footballer | |
| April 7th, 1957 (April 07 1957) | Birth | Kim Kap-su, South Korean actor | |
| April 7th, 1956 (April 07 1956) | Event | Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco. | |
| April 7th, 1956 (April 07 1956) | Birth | Annika Billstrom, Swedish politician | |
| April 7th, 1956 (April 07 1956) | Birth | Christopher Darden, American O.J. Simpson prosecutor | |
| April 7th, 1955 (April 07 1955) | Birth | Werner Stocker, German actor (died in 1993) | |
| April 7th, 1955 (April 07 1955) | Death | Theda Bara, American film actress (born in 1885) | |
| April 7th, 1954 (April 07 1954) | Event | U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference. | Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes |
| April 7th, 1954 (April 07 1954) | Birth | Jackie Chan, Chinese actor, action choreographer, film director, producer, martial artist, comedian, screenwriter, singer and stunt performer. | Martial Quotes |
| April 7th, 1954 (April 07 1954) | Birth | Tony Dorsett, American football player | |
| April 7th, 1951 (April 07 1951) | Birth | Janis Ian, American singer and songwriter | |
| April 7th, 1950 (April 07 1950) | Death | Walter Huston, Canadian-born actor (born in 1884) | |
| April 7th, 1949 (April 07 1949) | Birth | John Oates, American musician (Hall & Oates) | |
| April 7th, 1948 (April 07 1948) | Event | The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations. | |
| April 7th, 1948 (April 07 1948) | Event | A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead. | |
| April 7th, 1948 (April 07 1948) | Birth | Carol Douglas, American singer | |
| April 7th, 1947 (April 07 1947) | Birth | Patricia Bennett, American singer (The Chiffons) | |
| April 7th, 1947 (April 07 1947) | Birth | Florian Schneider, German musician (Kraftwerk) | |
| April 7th, 1947 (April 07 1947) | Birth | Eliseo Soriano, Philippine evangelist | |
| April 7th, 1947 (April 07 1947) | Death | Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer and industrialist (born in 1863) | Henry Ford Quotes |
| April 7th, 1946 (April 07 1946) | Event | Syria s independence from France is officially recognised. | |
| April 7th, 1946 (April 07 1946) | Birth | Colette Besson, French runner (died in 2005) | |
| April 7th, 1945 (April 07 1945) | Event | World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go. | |
| April 7th, 1945 (April 07 1945) | Event | World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces. | |
| April 7th, 1945 (April 07 1945) | Birth | Martin Lewis, British newsreader | |
| April 7th, 1945 (April 07 1945) | Birth | Megas, Icelandic singer, songwriter and writer | |
| April 7th, 1945 (April 07 1945) | Birth | Joel Robuchon, French chef | |
| April 7th, 1945 (April 07 1945) | Birth | Werner Schroeter, German film director | |
| April 7th, 1944 (April 07 1944) | Birth | Julia Phillips, American film producer and writer (died in 2002) | |
| April 7th, 1944 (April 07 1944) | Birth | Gerhard Schroder, Chancellor of Germany | Gerhard Schroder Quotes |
| April 7th, 1944 (April 07 1944) | Birth | Bill Stoneman, American baseball player and manager | |
| April 7th, 1943 (April 07 1943) | Event | Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka. There they are shot dead and buried in ditches. | |
| April 7th, 1943 (April 07 1943) | Death | Jovan Ducic, Serbian poet | |
| April 7th, 1943 (April 07 1943) | Death | Alexandre Millerand, President of France (born in 1859) | Alex Miller Quotes |
| April 7th, 1942 (April 07 1942) | Birth | Jeetendra, Indian actor | |
| April 7th, 1941 (April 07 1941) | Birth | Gorden Kaye, British actor | |
| April 7th, 1940 (April 07 1940) | Event | Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp. | Booker T. Washington Quotes |
| April 7th, 1939 (April 07 1939) | Event | World War II: Italy invades Albania. | |
| April 7th, 1939 (April 07 1939) | Birth | Francis Ford Coppola, American film director | |
| April 7th, 1939 (April 07 1939) | Birth | Sir David Frost, English broadcaster and TV host | |
| April 7th, 1939 (April 07 1939) | Death | Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia (born in 1879) | |
| April 7th, 1938 (April 07 1938) | Birth | Jerry Brown, American politician | |
| April 7th, 1938 (April 07 1938) | Birth | Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (died in 2005) | |
| April 7th, 1938 (April 07 1938) | Birth | Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpeter | |
| April 7th, 1936 (April 07 1936) | Birth | Jean-Pierre Changeux, French neuroscientist | |
| April 7th, 1935 (April 07 1935) | Birth | Bobby Bare, American musician | |
| April 7th, 1935 (April 07 1935) | Birth | Hodding Carter III, American journalist and politician | |
| April 7th, 1934 (April 07 1934) | Birth | Swami Shantananda, Hindu Saint, Philosopher, Disciple of Swami Sivananda, Founder of Temple of Fine Arts | Swami Sivananda Quotes |
| April 7th, 1934 (April 07 1934) | Birth | Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (died in 2007) | |
| April 7th, 1933 (April 07 1933) | Event | Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment. | |
| April 7th, 1933 (April 07 1933) | Birth | Wayne Rogers, American actor | |
| April 7th, 1931 (April 07 1931) | Birth | Donald Barthelme, American author | |
| April 7th, 1930 (April 07 1930) | Birth | Andrew Sachs, English actor | |
| April 7th, 1929 (April 07 1929) | Birth | Bob Denard, French mercenary (died in 2007) | |
| April 7th, 1928 (April 07 1928) | Birth | James Garner, American actor | |
| April 7th, 1928 (April 07 1928) | Birth | Alan J. Pakula, American film producer and director (died in 1998) | |
| April 7th, 1928 (April 07 1928) | Birth | James White, Northern Irish science fiction writer (died in 1999) | |
| April 7th, 1928 (April 07 1928) | Death | Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (born in 1873) | Philo Quotes |
| April 7th, 1927 (April 07 1927) | Event | First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, DC to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover). | Herbert Hoover Quotes |
| April 7th, 1927 (April 07 1927) | Birth | Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (died in 2003) | |
| April 7th, 1924 (April 07 1924) | Birth | Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer | |
| April 7th, 1922 (April 07 1922) | Event | Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming. | |
| April 7th, 1922 (April 07 1922) | Birth | Mongo Santamaria, Cuban musician (died in 2003) | |
| April 7th, 1920 (April 07 1920) | Birth | Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player | Ravi Shankar Quotes |
| April 7th, 1920 (April 07 1920) | Death | Karl Binding, German jurist (born in 1841) | |
| April 7th, 1919 (April 07 1919) | Birth | Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer | |
| April 7th, 1919 (April 07 1919) | Birth | Roger Lemelin, Quebec novelist and television writer (died in 1992) | |
| April 7th, 1918 (April 07 1918) | Birth | Bobby Doerr, American baseball player | |
| April 7th, 1917 (April 07 1917) | Birth | R.G. Armstrong, American actor | |
| April 7th, 1916 (April 07 1916) | Birth | Anthony Caruso, American actor (died in 2003) | |
| April 7th, 1915 (April 07 1915) | Birth | Stanley Adams, American actor (died in 1977) | |
| April 7th, 1915 (April 07 1915) | Birth | Billie Holiday, American singer (died in 1959) | |
| April 7th, 1915 (April 07 1915) | Birth | Henry Kuttner, American writer (died in 1958) | |
| April 7th, 1914 (April 07 1914) | Birth | Ralph Flanagan, American big band leader (died in 1995) | |
| April 7th, 1913 (April 07 1913) | Birth | Charles Vanik, American politician (died in 2007) | |
| April 7th, 1911 (April 07 1911) | Birth | Herve Bazin, French writer (died in 1996) | |
| April 7th, 1909 (April 07 1909) | Birth | Robert Charroux, French writer (died in 1978) | |
| April 7th, 1908 (April 07 1908) | Event | H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman | |
| April 7th, 1908 (April 07 1908) | Birth | Percy Faith, Canadian composer and musician (died in 1976) | |
| April 7th, 1906 (April 07 1906) | Event | Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples. | |
| April 7th, 1906 (April 07 1906) | Event | The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco. | |
| April 7th, 1905 (April 07 1905) | Birth | Queenie Leonard, American actress (died in 2002) | |
| April 7th, 1899 (April 07 1899) | Birth | Robert Casadesus, French pianist (died in 1972) | |
| April 7th, 1897 (April 07 1897) | Birth | Walter Winchell, American broadcaster and journalist (died in 1972) | Walter Winchell Quotes |
| April 7th, 1893 (April 07 1893) | Birth | Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (died in 1969) | |
| April 7th, 1891 (April 07 1891) | Birth | Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor (died in 1958) | |
| April 7th, 1891 (April 07 1891) | Death | P. T. Barnum, American circus impresario (born in 1810) | |
| April 7th, 1890 (April 07 1890) | Event | Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal. | |
| April 7th, 1890 (April 07 1890) | Birth | Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (died in 1998) | |
| April 7th, 1889 (April 07 1889) | Birth | Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel laureate (died in 1957) | |
| April 7th, 1886 (April 07 1886) | Birth | Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (died in 1971) | |
| April 7th, 1885 (April 07 1885) | Death | Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (born in 1804) | |
| April 7th, 1883 (April 07 1883) | Birth | Gino Severini, Italian painter (died in 1966) | |
| April 7th, 1873 (April 07 1873) | Birth | John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (died in 1934) | |
| April 7th, 1871 (April 07 1871) | Death | Alexander Lloyd, Mayor of Chicago (born in 1805) | |
| April 7th, 1870 (April 07 1870) | Birth | Gustav Landauer, German anarchist and revolutionary (died in 1919) | |
| April 7th, 1868 (April 07 1868) | Event | Thomas D Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician. | |
| April 7th, 1868 (April 07 1868) | Death | D Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and Father of Confederation (born in 1825) | |
| April 7th, 1867 (April 07 1867) | Birth | Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (died in 1953) | |
| April 7th, 1862 (April 07 1862) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh endsthe Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee. | Ulysses S. Grant Quotes |
| April 7th, 1860 (April 07 1860) | Birth | Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (died in 1951) | |
| April 7th, 1859 (April 07 1859) | Birth | Walter Camp, sports authority known as the "Father of American Football" (died in 1925) | |
| April 7th, 1858 (April 07 1858) | Death | Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher, editor, and composer (born in 1781) | |
| April 7th, 1850 (April 07 1850) | Death | William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic (born in 1762) | William Lisle Bowles Quotes |
| April 7th, 1848 (April 07 1848) | Birth | Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (died in 1930) | |
| April 7th, 1836 (April 07 1836) | Death | William Godwin, English political writer (born in 1756) | William Godwin Quotes |
| April 7th, 1833 (April 07 1833) | Death | Antoni Radziwill, Polish politician (born in 1775) | |
| April 7th, 1829 (April 07 1829) | Event | Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe. | Joseph Smith Quotes |
| April 7th, 1827 (April 07 1827) | Event | John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match. He had invented it the previous year. | |
| April 7th, 1823 (April 07 1823) | Death | Jacques Charles, French chemist (born in 1746) | |
| April 7th, 1811 (April 07 1811) | Death | Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (born in 1757) | |
| April 7th, 1805 (April 07 1805) | Event | Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River. | |
| April 7th, 1805 (April 07 1805) | Event | First public performance of Beethoven s Third Symphony (Eroica). | |
| April 7th, 1804 (April 07 1804) | Death | Toussaint Louverture, Haitian Revolutionary (born in 1743) | |
| April 7th, 1803 (April 07 1803) | Birth | Flora Tristan, French feminist and socialist philosopher (died in 1844) | Philo Quotes |
| April 7th, 1803 (April 07 1803) | Birth | James Curtiss, Mayor of Chicago (died in 1859) | |
| April 7th, 1801 (April 07 1801) | Death | Noel Francois de Wailly, French lexicographer (born in 1724) | |
| April 7th, 1798 (April 07 1798) | Event | The Mississippi Territory is organized from territory ceded by Georgia and South Carolina and is later twice expanded to include disputed territory claimed by both the U.S. and Spain. | |
| April 7th, 1795 (April 07 1795) | Event | France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length. | |
| April 7th, 1789 (April 07 1789) | Death | Abd-ul-Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (born in 1725) | |
| April 7th, 1789 (April 07 1789) | Death | Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (born in 1722) | |
| April 7th, 1788 (April 07 1788) | Event | American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country. | |
| April 7th, 1782 (April 07 1782) | Death | Taksin, King of Thailand (born in 1734) | |
| April 7th, 1776 (April 07 1776) | Event | Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward. | |
| April 7th, 1772 (April 07 1772) | Birth | Charles Fourier, French philosopher (died in 1837) | Philo Quotes |
| April 7th, 1770 (April 07 1770) | Birth | William Wordsworth, English poet (died in 1850) | William Wordsworth Quotes |
| April 7th, 1767 (April 07 1767) | Death | Franz Sparry, composer (born in 1715) | |
| April 7th, 1766 (April 07 1766) | Death | Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic (born in 1685) | Philo Quotes |
| April 7th, 1761 (April 07 1761) | Death | Thomas Bayes, English mathematician (born in 1702) | |
| April 7th, 1747 (April 07 1747) | Death | Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (born in 1676) | |
| April 7th, 1739 (April 07 1739) | Death | Dick Turpin, English highwayman (hanged) (born in 1706) | |
| April 7th, 1727 (April 07 1727) | Birth | Michel Adanson, French botanist (died in 1806) | |
| April 7th, 1719 (April 07 1719) | Death | Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French saint (born in 1651) | |
| April 7th, 1718 (April 07 1718) | Birth | Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (died in 1800) | |
| April 7th, 1668 (April 07 1668) | Death | William Davenant, English poet (born in 1606) | |
| April 7th, 1663 (April 07 1663) | Death | Francis Cooke, Mayflower pilgrim (born in c. 1583) | |
| April 7th, 1661 (April 07 1661) | Death | Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English soldier and politician (born in 1604) | |
| April 7th, 1658 (April 07 1658) | Death | Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic (born in 1595) | |
| April 7th, 1652 (April 07 1652) | Birth | Pope Clement XII (died in 1740) | |
| April 7th, 1651 (April 07 1651) | Death | Lennart Torstenson, Swedish soldier and engineer (born in 1603) | |
| April 7th, 1648 (April 07 1648) | Birth | John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (died in 1721) | |
| April 7th, 1644 (April 07 1644) | Birth | Francois de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (died in 1730) | |
| April 7th, 1638 (April 07 1638) | Death | Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (born in 1576) | |
| April 7th, 1614 (April 07 1614) | Death | El Greco, Greek-born artist (born in 1541) | |
| April 7th, 1613 (April 07 1613) | Birth | Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (died in 1675) | |
| April 7th, 1541 (April 07 1541) | Event | Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies. | |
| April 7th, 1539 (April 07 1539) | Birth | Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter (died in 1584) | |
| April 7th, 1521 (April 07 1521) | Event | Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu. | |
| April 7th, 1506 (April 07 1506) | Birth | Saint Francis Xavier, Spanish founder of the Society of Jesus (died in 1552) | |
| April 7th, 1498 (April 07 1498) | Death | King Charles VIII of France (born in 1470) | |
| April 7th, 1348 (April 07 1348) | Event | Charles University is founded in Prague. | |
| April 7th, 1307 (April 07 1307) | Death | Joan of Acre, daughter of Edward I of England (born in 1271) | |
| April 7th, 0529 (April 07 0529) | Event | First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I. | |
