Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 7

1478 - Sir Thomas More, English statesman, humanist, and author (d. 1535) (pictured)
1804 - John Deere, American manufacturer (Deere & Company) (d. 1886)
1812 - Charles Dickens, English novelist (d. 1870)
1842 - Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (d. 1923)
1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (d. 1957)
1870 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (d. 1937)
1885 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1951)
1962 - Garth Brooks, American singer
1962 - Eddie Izzard, British actor and comedian

1823 - Ann Radcliffe, English novelist (b. 1764)
1937 - Elihu Root, American statesman and diplomat, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)
1938 - Harvey Firestone, American manufacturer (b. 1868)
1999 - King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
2001 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (b. 1906)