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January 7

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Charlie Hebdo shooting

11 years ago

Born this day

1800

Millard Fillmore

Died aged 74

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Oldest record

1135th

Abd-ar-Rahman III

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Famous births32

AD 891 · 1135 yrs

Abd-ar-Rahman III

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥakam ibn Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Marwānī al-Umawī al-Qurashī (Arabic: عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن عبد الله بن محمد بن عبد الرحمن بن الحكم بن هشام بن عبد الرحمن المرواني، الأموي، القرشي; 890–961), or simply ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III, was the…

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PoliticsDied aged 70

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1502 · 524 yrs

Gregory XIII

Pope Gregory XIII (Latin: Gregorius XIII, Italian: Gregorio XIII, born Ugo Boncompagni; 7 January 1502 – 10 April 1585) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 13 May 1572 to his death in April 1585.

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ReligionDied aged 83

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1768 · 258 yrs

Joseph Bonaparte

Joseph Bonaparte (born Giuseppe di Buonaparte, Italian:; Corsican: Ghjuseppe Bonaparte; Spanish: José Bonaparte; 7 January 1768 – 28 July 1844), regnal name José I, was a French statesman, lawyer, diplomat and older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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RoyaltyDied aged 76

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1800 · 226 yrs

Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853. He was the last president to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House, and the last to be neither a Democrat nor a Republican.

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PoliticsDied aged 74

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1844 · 182 yrs

Bernadette Soubirous

Bernadette Soubirous, SCN (French:; Occitan: Bernadeta Sobirós; 7 January 1844 – 16 April 1879), also known as Bernadette of Lourdes (religious name Marie-Bernarde), was a miller's daughter from Lourdes (Lorda in Occitan), in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in France, and is best known for experiencing apparitions…

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ReligionDied aged 35

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1858 · 168 yrs

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda (born Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman; 7 January 1858 – 16 December 1922) was a Jewish linguist, lexicographer, and journalist who immigrated to Jerusalem in 1881, when the Ottoman Empire ruled it.

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ScholarshipDied aged 64

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1864 · 162 yrs

Soh Jaipil

Seo Jae-pil (Korean: 서재필; Hanja: 徐載弼; January 7, 1864 – January 5, 1951), better known by his English name Philip Jaisohn, was a Korean American politician, physician, and Korean independence activist. He was the first Korean to become a naturalized citizen of the United States.

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ActivismDied aged 86

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1871 · 155 yrs

Émile Borel

Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel (French:; 7 January 1871 – 3 February 1956) was a French mathematician and politician. As a mathematician, he was known for his founding work in the areas of measure theory and probability.

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ScienceDied aged 85

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1873 · 153 yrs

Charles Péguy

Charles Pierre Péguy (French:; 7 January 1873 – 5 September 1914) was a French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism; by 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a believing (but generally non-practicing) Catholic.

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LiteratureDied aged 41

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1891 · 135 yrs

Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou.

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LiteratureWould be 135

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1899 · 127 yrs

Francis Poulenc

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (French:; 7 January 1899 – 30 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music.

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MusicWould be 127

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1916 · 110 yrs

Elena Ceaușescu

Elena Ceaușescu (born Lenuța Petrescu; 20 January 1919 – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian politician and doctor of chemistry who was the wife of Nicolae Ceaușescu, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania. She was also the Deputy Prime Minister of Romania.

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Famous deaths23

1285 · 741 yrs

Charles I of Naples

Charles I (Italian: Carlo; early 1226/1227 – 7 January 1285), commonly called Charles of Anjou or Charles d'Anjou, was King of Sicily from 1266 to 1285. He was a member of the Capetian dynasty and the founder of the House of Anjou-Sicily.

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RoyaltyDied aged 58

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1325 · 701 yrs

Denis I of Portugal

Denis (Latin: Dionysius Alphonsus, Portuguese: Dinis Afonso; 9 October 1261 – 7 January 1325), called the Farmer King (Rei Lavrador) and the Poet King (Rei Poeta), was King of Portugal from 1279 until his death in 1325.

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RoyaltyDied aged 63

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1451 · 575 yrs

Amadeus VIII of Savoy

Amadeus VIII (4 September 1383 – 7 January 1451), nicknamed the Peaceful, was Count of Savoy from 1391 to 1416 and Duke of Savoy from 1416 to 1440. He was the first to hold the ducal title, granted by Emperor Sigismund.

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ReligionDied aged 67

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1536 · 490 yrs

Catherine of Aragon

Catherine of Aragon (also spelled Katherine; Spanish: Catalina de Aragón; 16 December 1485 – 7 January 1536) was Queen of England as the first wife of Henry VIII from their marriage on 11 June 1509 until its annulment on 23 May 1533.

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RoyaltyDied aged 50

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1598 · 428 yrs

Feodor I of Russia

Feodor I Ioannovich (Russian: Феодор I Иoаннович) or Fyodor I Ivanovich (Russian: Фёдор I Иванович; 31 May 1557 – 17 January 1598), nicknamed the Blessed (Блаженный), was Tsar of all Russia from 1584 until his death in 1598.

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PoliticsDied aged 41

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1655 · 371 yrs

Innocent X

Pope Innocent X (7 May 1574 – 7 January 1655; born Giovanni Battista Pamphili), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 15 September 1644 to his death, in January 1655.

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ReligionDied aged 80

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1715 · 311 yrs

François Fénelon

François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, P.S.S. (French:), more commonly known as François Fénelon (6 August 1651 – 7 January 1715), was a French Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. Today, he is remembered mostly as the author of The Adventures of Telemachus, first published in 1699.

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ReligionDied aged 63

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1882 · 144 yrs

Ignacy Łukasiewicz

Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz (Polish pronunciation:; 8 March 1822 – 7 January 1882) was a Polish pharmacist, engineer, businessman, inventor, and philanthropist. He was one of the most prominent philanthropists in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, crown land of Austria-Hungary.

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PoliticsDied aged 59

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1893 · 133 yrs

Josef Stefan

Josef Stefan (Slovene: Jožef Štefan; 24 March 1835 – 7 January 1893) was a Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet of the Austrian Empire.

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ScienceDied aged 57

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1920 · 106 yrs

Edmund Barton

Sir Edmund "Toby" Barton (18 January 1849 – 7 January 1920) was the first prime minister of Australia, serving from 1901 to 1903. He held office as the leader of the Protectionist Party, before resigning in 1903 to become a founding justice of the High Court of Australia, on which he served until his death in 1920.

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PoliticsDied aged 70

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1943 · 83 yrs

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

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TechnologyDied aged 86

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1944 · 82 yrs

Lou Henry Hoover

Lou Henry Hoover (née Henry; March 29, 1874 – January 7, 1944) was an American philanthropist, geologist, and the first lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933 as the wife of President Herbert Hoover.

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PoliticsDied aged 69

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Events5

1942 · 84 yrs

Demyansk Pocket

The Demyansk Pocket (German: Kessel von Demjansk; Russian: Демя́нский котёл) was the name given to the pocket of German troops encircled by the Red Army around Demyansk, south of Leningrad, on World War II's Eastern Front. The pocket existed mainly from 8 February to 21 April 1942.

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War

2015 · 11 yrs

Charlie Hebdo shooting

On 7 January 2015, at about 11:30 a.m. in Paris, France, the employees of the French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo were targeted in a terrorist shooting attack by two French-born Algerian Muslim brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi.

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Tragedy

2025 · 1 yrs

January 2025 Southern California wildfires

From January 7 to 31, 2025, 14 destructive wildfires affected the Los Angeles metropolitan area and San Diego County in California, United States.

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Disaster

2025 · 1 yrs

2025 Tibet earthquake

On 7 January 2025 at 09:05 CST (UTC+8), an earthquake measuring Mw 7.1 struck Tingri County, located in the Shigatse prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region of Southwestern China. Between 126 and 400 people were killed and 338 were injured in the region.

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Disaster

2026 · 0 yrs

Killing of Renée Good

On January 7, 2026, Renée Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old American woman, was fatally shot by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during Operation Metro Surge.

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