Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 7

Births

 * 1478 - Sir Thomas More, English statesman, humanist, and author (d. 1535) (pictured)
 * 1804 - John Deere, American manufacturer (Deere & Company) (d. 1886)
 * 1812 - Charles Dickens, English novelist (d. 1870)
 * 1842 - Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (d. 1923)
 * 1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (d. 1957)
 * 1870 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (d. 1937)
 * 1885 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1951)
 * 1962 - Garth Brooks, American singer
 * 1962  - Eddie Izzard, British actor and comedian

Deaths

 * 1823 - Ann Radcliffe, English novelist (b. 1764)
 * 1937 - Elihu Root, American statesman and diplomat, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)
 * 1938 - Harvey Firestone, American manufacturer (b. 1868)
 * 1999 - King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
 * 2001 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (b. 1906)