Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 7

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[edit] Births

• 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

[edit] Deaths

• 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)