Famous birthdays
Famous people born on October 7
Short answer
Well-known people born on October 7 include Vladimir Putin (1952), Niels Bohr (1885), Desmond Tutu (1931) and María Corina Machado (1967). Our list below has 87 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 7 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1619 (Wang Fuzhi) and the most recent is 2003 (Edison Chen). The most common fields on this date: football, singer, politician.
Who was born on October 7?
- Vladimir Putin 1952 President of the Russian Federation
- Niels Bohr 1885 Danish physicist
- Desmond Tutu 1931 South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
- María Corina Machado 1967 Venezuelan politician, activist and Nobel laureate
- Diego Costa 1988 Brazilian association football player
- Henry A. Wallace 1888 American politician; Vice President of the United States from 1941 to 1945
- Thom Yorke 1968 English musician and singer for Radiohead
- Trent Alexander-Arnold 1998 English association football player
- Harry Kroto 1939 British chemist
- Yo-Yo Ma 1955 American cellist
- Charlotte Perrelli 1974 Swedish singer
- Jermain Defoe 1982 English association football player
- Charles XIII of Sweden 1748 King of Sweden and King of Norway
- Dida 1973 Brazilian association football player
- Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete 1950 President of Tanzania from 2005 to 2015
- Gilberto Silva 1976 Brazilian footballer
- Simon Cowell 1959 English television personality, businessman, producer, record executive
- Sami Hyypiä 1973 Finnish footballer and manager
- June Allyson 1917 American actress
- Hideto Suzuki 1974 Japanese association football player and manager
- Ryuzo Morioka 1975 Japanese association football player and manager
- Yoshihiro Natsuka 1969 Japanese association football player and manager
- Ryuzo Hiraki 1931 Japanese association football player and manager
- Thomas Keneally 1935 Australian novelist
- Alesha Dixon 1978 British singer, rapper and dancer
- Paulino Alcántara 1896 Spanish footballer
- Sebastián Coates 1990 Uruguayan association football player
- Tang Wei 1979 Chinese actress
- Fernando Belaúnde 1912 President of Peru from 1963 to 1968 and from 1980 to 1985
- Lewis Capaldi 1996 Scottish singer-songwriter
- Ludmilla Tourischeva 1952 Soviet-Ukrainian artistic gymnast
- James E. Webb 1906 Administrator of NASA in 1961–1968
- Bernardo Arévalo de León 1958 President of Guatemala since 2024
- Wilhelm Müller 1794 German poet
- Sam Querrey 1987 American tennis player
- Amiri Baraka 1934 African-American writer
- Holland Roden 1986 American actress
- Kira Kosarin 1997 American actress and singer-songwriter
- Enki Bilal 1951 French comic book creator, comics artist and film director
- Paul Hausser 1880 German Waffen SS general
- Santiago Solari 1976 Argentine footballer and manager
- Shawn Ashmore 1979 Canadian actor
- Karen L. Nyberg 1969 American astronaut
- Catharine MacKinnon 1946 American feminist and legal activist
- Joe Hill 1879 Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of…
- Walt Whitman Rostow 1916 American economist, political theorist and government official
- Georges Duby 1919 French historian
- Marilyn Waring 1952 New Zealand politician and academic
- Souvanna Phouma 1901 Prime Minister of Laos
- Elijah Muhammad 1897 American religious leader
- Diane Ackerman 1948 Author, poet, and naturalist
- Donald Tsang 1944 Hong Kong politician
- Sohrab Sepehri 1928 Iranian poet and painter
- Rade Krunić 1993 Bosnian association football player
- Ferdi Kadıoğlu 1999 Turkish association football player
- Madjid Bougherra 1982 Algerian-French football manager
- Dylan Baker 1959 American actor
- Simon Poulsen 1984 Danish association football player
- Marco Beltrami 1966 American composer
- Raymond Goethals 1921 Belgian football player and manager
- Yundi 1982 Chinese pianist
- Guglielmo Vicario 1996 Italian association football player
- Tico Torres 1953 American drummer
- Robert Z. Leonard 1889 American film director
- Ann Haydon-Jones 1938 English tennis player
- Grigol Mgaloblishvili 1973 Georgian politician and diplomat; Prime Minister of Georgia
- Fabio Basile 1994 Italian judoka
- Ralf Edström 1952 Swedish footballer
- John Edward Hopcroft 1939 American computer scientist
- Robby Ginepri 1982 American tennis player
- Aaron Ashmore 1979 Canadian actor
- Lay 1991 Chinese singer
- Jacques Cazotte 1719 French writer
- Edison Chen 2003 Hong Kong singer, actor, and fashion designer
- Natsuo Kirino 1951 Japanese writer
- Ismael Urzaiz 1971 Spanish association football player
- Omar Benson Miller 1978 American actor
- Al Martino 1927 American actor and singer
- Nicole Ari Parker 1970 American actress
- Sherman Alexie 1966 American author and filmmaker
- Oliver North 1943 American political commentator
- Tim Minchin 1975 British-Australian comedian, actor and musician
- Steven Erikson 1959 Canadian fantasy author
- Claudio Gugerotti 1955 Italian cardinal and archbishop
- Ali Kafi 1928 Algerian politician
- Wang Fuzhi 1619 Chinese essayist, historian and philosopher
- Gunnar Nielsen 1986 Faroese footballer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 7 share the 7th of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.