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On my birthday, April 7:

0: Jesus crucified (scholar's estimates) or not (some scholars disagree)
1906: Italian volcano 'Versuvius' erupts
1933: Prohibition was repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of XXI amendment.
1938: LSD is first synthesized.
1949: The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific premieres in New York City.
1969: The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.



I share a birthday with:

* 1506 - Saint Francis Xavier, Spanish founder of the Society of Jesus (d. 1552)
* 1539 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and drawer, (d. 1584)
* 1613 - Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (d. 1675)
* 1644 - François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (d. 1730)
* 1648 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (d. 1721)
* 1652 - Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)
* 1718 - Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (d. 1800)
* 1727 - Michel Adanson, French botanist (d. 1806)
* 1763 - Domenico Dragonetti, Italian composer
* 1770 - William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850)
* 1772 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher (d. 1837)
* 1803 - Flora Tristan, French feminist and socialist philosopher (d. 1844)
* 1803 - James Curtiss, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1859)
* 1848 - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1930)
* 1859 - Walter Camp, sports authority known as the "Father of American Football" (d. 1925)
* 1860 - Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (d. 1951)
* 1867 - Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (d. 1953)
* 1870 - Gustav Landauer, German anarchist and revolutionary (d. 1919)
* 1873 - John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (d. 1934)
* 1883 - Gino Severini, Italian painter (d. 1966)
* 1886 - Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (d. 1971)
* 1889 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1957)
* 1890 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (d. 1998)
* 1891 - Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor (d. 1958)
* 1893 - Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969)
* 1897 - Walter Winchell, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1972)
* 1899 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972)
* 1908 - Percy Faith, Canadian composer and musician (d. 1976)
* 1909 - Robert Charroux, French writer (d. 1978)
* 1911 - Hervé Bazin, French writer (d. 1996)
* 1915 - Stanley Adams, American actor (d. 1977)
* 1915 - Billie Holiday, American singer (d. 1959)
* 1915 - Henry Kuttner, American writer (d. 1958)
* 1916 - Anthony Caruso, American actor (d. 2003)
* 1917 - R.G. Armstrong, American actor
* 1918 - Bobby Doerr, American baseball player
* 1919 - Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer
* 1919 - Roger Lemelin, Quebec novelist and television writer (d. 1992)
* 1920 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player
* 1922 - Mongo Santamaria, Cuban musician (d. 2003)
* 1924 - Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer
* 1927 - Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (d. 2003)
* 1928 - James Garner, American actor
* 1928 - Alan J. Pakula, American film producer and director (d. 1998)
* 1928 - James White, Northern Irish science fiction writer (d. 1999)
* 1929 - Bob Denard, French soldier
* 1930 - Andrew Sachs, English actor
* 1931 - Donald Barthelme, American author
* 1933 - Wayne Rogers, American actor
* 1934 - Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (d. 2007)
* 1935 - Bobby Bare, American musician
* 1935 - Hodding Carter III, American journalist and politician
* 1936 - Jean-Pierre Changeux, French neuroscientist
* 1938 - Jerry Brown, American politician
* 1938 - Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 2005)
* 1938 - Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpeter
* 1939 - Francis Ford Coppola, American film director
* 1939 - Sir David Frost, English broadcaster and TV host
* 1941 - Gorden Kaye, British actor
* 1944 - Julia Phillips, American film producer and writer (d. 2002)
* 1944 - Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany
* 1944 - Bill Stoneman, American baseball player and manager
* 1945 - Martin Lewis, British newsreader
* 1945 - Megas, Icelandic singer, songwriter and writer
* 1945 - Joël Robuchon, French chef
* 1945 - Werner Schroeter, German film director
* 1946 - Colette Besson, French runner (d. 2005)
* 1947 - Patricia Bennett, American singer (The Chiffons)
* 1947 - Eliseo Soriano, Philippine evangelist
* 1948 - Carol Douglas, American singer
* 1949 - John Oates, American musician (Hall & Oates)
* 1951 - Janis Ian, American singer and songwriter
* 1954 - Jackie Chan, Hong Kong actor
* 1954 - Tony Dorsett, American football player
* 1955 - Werner Stocker, German actor (d. 1993)
* 1956 - Annika Billström, Swedish politician
* 1956 - Christopher Darden, American O.J. Simpson prosecutor
* 1957 - Kim Kap-su, South Korean actor
* 1961 - Pascal Olmeta, French footballer
* 1962 - Andrew "Andy" Hampsten, American cyclist
* 1962 - Hugh O'Connor, American actor (d. 1995)
* 1962 - Alain Robert, French rock and urban climber
* 1963 - Jaime de Marichalar, duke of Lugo, Spanish royalty
* 1964 - Russell Crowe, New Zealand actor
* 1965 - Bill Bellamy, American actor and comedian
* 1965 - Alison Lapper, British artist
* 1966 - Gary Wilkinson, English snooker player
* 1967 - Artemis Gounaki, composer, writer and music producer
* 1969 - Ricky Watters, American football player
* 1970 - Leif Ove Andsnes, Norwegian pianist
* 1971 - Guillaume Depardieu, French actor
* 1971 - Victor Kraatz, Canadian figure skater
* 1971 - Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, American actress
* 1971 - Rob Steele, American author
* 1973 - Carole Montillet, French skier
* 1973 - Ève Salvail, Canadian model
* 1975 - Ronde Barber, American football player
* 1975 - Tiki Barber, American football player
* 1975 - Ronnie Belliard, American baseball player
* 1976 - Kevin Alejandro, American actor
* 1977 - Silvana Arias, Peruvian actress
* 1977 - Guido van der Werve, Dutch Visual Artist
* 1978 - Vladimir Voltchkov, Belarusian tennis player
* 1979 - Tony Malone, British designer and activist
* 1979 - Adrián Beltré, Dominican baseball player
* 1982 - Sonjay Dutt, Indian American professional wrestler
* 1992 - Ghufran Ali, Famous Musician also known as DJ Gbutt
* 2007 - Princess Haalah bint Hashim, of Jordan