Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/October 7

Births

 * 1885 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
 * 1931 - Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and Nobel Laureate (d. 2021) (pictured)
 * 1951 - John Mellencamp, American singer
 * 1952 - Vladimir Putin, 2nd President of Russia
 * 1955 - Yo-Yo Ma, French-born American cellist
 * 1959 - Simon Cowell, English recording executive
 * 1966 - Toni Braxton, American singer

Deaths

 * 1577 - George Gascoigne, English poet
 * 1792 - George Mason, American patriot (b. 1725)
 * 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (b. 1809)
 * 1894 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, American writer (b. 1809)
 * 1903 - Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)