Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 7

Births

• 1770 - William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850) (pictured)
• 1889 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1957)
• 1915 - Billie Holiday, American jazz singer and songwriter (d. 1959)
• 1928 - James Garner, American actor (d. 2014)
• 1939 - Francis Ford Coppola, American film director
• 1944 - Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany
• 1954 - Jackie Chan, Hong Kong actor
• 1964 - Russell Crowe, New Zealand actor

Deaths

• 1614 - El Greco, Greek-born artist (b. 1541)
• 1836 - William Godwin, English political writer (b. 1756)
• 1891 - P. T. Barnum, American circus impresario (b. 1810)
• 1947 - Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer and industrialist (b. 1863)