Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 7

Births

 * 521 – Columba, Irish missionary, monk, and saint (d. 597)
 * 1302 – Azzone Visconti, Founder of the state of Milan (d. 1339)
 * 1724 – Louise of Great Britain, Queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1751)
 * 1860 – Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947)
 * 1863 – Richard Warren Sears, co-founder of Sears (d. 1914)
 * 1905 – Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-American astronomer (d. 1973)

Deaths

 * 43 BC – Cicero, Roman orator and prose stylist (b. 106 BC)
 * 1775 – Charles Saunders, English admiral (b. 1715)
 * 1879 – Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic independence leader (b. 1811)
 * 1894 – Ferdinand de Lesseps, diplomat and co-developer of the Suez Canal (b. 1805)
 * 1993 – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
 * 1998 – Martin Rodbell, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)