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Notable Birthdays for April 7

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Those born on this date include:

- Missionary St. Francis Xavier in 1506
- Pope Clement XII in 1652
- English poet William Wordsworth in 1770
- Father of American Football Walter Camp in 1859
- industrialist W.K. Kellogg in 1860
- CIA Director Allen Dulles in 1893
- environmentalist/suffragette Marjory Stoneman Douglas in 1890
- gossip columnist Walter Winchell in 1897
- singer Billie Holiday in 1915
- sitar player Ravi Shankar in 1920
- actor James Garner in 1928
- former Defense Department analyst Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, in 1931 (age 90)
- former California Gov. Jerry Brown Jr. in 1938 (age 83)
- film director Francis Ford Coppola in 1939 (age 82)
- British TV personality David Frost in 1939
- former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in 1944 (age 77)
- musician John Oates in 1948 (age 73)
- singer/songwriter Janis Ian in 1951 (age 70)
- actor/martial arts expert Jackie Chan in 1954 (age 67)
- football Hall of Fame member Tony Dorsett in 1954 (age 67)
- actor Russell Crowe in 1964 (age 57)
- philanthropist MacKenzie Scott in 1970 (age 51)
- British astronaut Timothy Peake in 1972 (age 49)
- pop singer Anne-Marie, born Anne-Marie Rose Nicholson, in 1991 (age 30).

 


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