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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 7th of January 1325 | EVENT | Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. |
| 7th of January 1558 | EVENT | France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England. |
| 7th of January 1598 | EVENT | Boris Godunov becomes Tsar of Russia. |
| 7th of January 1608 | EVENT | Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia. |
| 7th of January 1610 | EVENT | Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able distinguish the last two until the following day. |
| 7th of January 1782 | EVENT | The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens. |
| 7th of January 1785 | EVENT | Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon. |
| 7th of January 1797 | EVENT | The modern Italian flag is first used. |
| 7th of January 1835 | EVENT | HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago. |
| 7th of January 1894 | EVENT | W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film. |
| 7th of January 1904 | EVENT | The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS". |
| 7th of January 1919 | EVENT | Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail. |
| 7th of January 1920 | EVENT | The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen. |
| 7th of January 1922 | EVENT | Dail Eireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote. |
| 7th of January 1927 | EVENT | The first transatlantic telephone service is established : from New York City to London. |
| 7th of January 1931 | EVENT | Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast. |
| 7th of January 1935 | EVENT | Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco : Italian Agreement. |
| 7th of January 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins. |
| 7th of January 1945 | EVENT | World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge. |
| 7th of January 1948 | EVENT | Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO. |
| 7th of January 1950 | EVENT | A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, kills 41 people. |
| 7th of January 1952 | EVENT | President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb. |
| 7th of January 1954 | EVENT | Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM. |
| 7th of January 1959 | EVENT | The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro. |
| 7th of January 1960 | EVENT | The Polaris missile is test launched. |
| 7th of January 1968 | EVENT | Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral. |
| 7th of January 1972 | EVENT | Iberia Airlines Caravelle 6-R crashes into Mont San Jose on approach to Ibiza Airport killing all 104 on board. |
| 7th of January 1973 | EVENT | Mark Essex fatally shoots 10 people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana before being shot to death by police officers. |
| 7th of January 1979 | EVENT | Third Indochina War : Cambodian-Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. |
| 7th of January 1980 | EVENT | President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation. |
| 7th of January 1984 | EVENT | Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). |
| 7th of January 1985 | EVENT | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union. |
| 7th of January 1990 | EVENT | The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns. |
| 7th of January 1991 | EVENT | Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoutes in Haiti under Francois Duvalier, attempts a coup d'etat, which ends in his arrest. |
| 7th of January 1993 | EVENT | The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President. |
| 7th of January 1999 | EVENT | The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins. |
| 7th of January 1355 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III of England (d. 1397) |
| 7th of January 1502 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585) |
| 7th of January 1528 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (d. 1572) |
| 7th of January 1647 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Wurttemberg (d. 1677) |
| 7th of January 1685 | BIRTHDAY | Jonas Alstromer, Swedish industrialist (d. 1761) |
| 7th of January 1706 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751) |
| 7th of January 1718 | BIRTHDAY | Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790) |
| 7th of January 1746 | BIRTHDAY | George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1823) |
| 7th of January 1768 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (d. 1844) |
| 7th of January 1786 | BIRTHDAY | John Catron, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1865) |
| 7th of January 1796 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (d. 1817) |
| 7th of January 1800 | BIRTHDAY | Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874) |
| 7th of January 1827 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915) |
| 7th of January 1831 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich von Stephan, German labor organizer (d. 1897) |
| 7th of January 1832 | BIRTHDAY | James Munro, Premier of Victoria (d. 1908) |
| 7th of January 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874) |
| 7th of January 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Henry Ismay, founder of the White Star Line shipping company (d. 1899) |
| 7th of January 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Bernadette Soubirous, French saint (d. 1879) |
| 7th of January 1845 | BIRTHDAY | King Ludwig III of Bavaria (d. 1921) |
| 7th of January 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language (d. 1922) |
| 7th of January 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Emanuil Manolov, Bulgarian composer (d. 1902) |
| 7th of January 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Lord Gordon Hewart, British judge (d. 1943) |
| 7th of January 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Emile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956) |
| 7th of January 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Peguy, French poet and essayist (d. 1914) |
| 7th of January 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Adolph Zukor, Hungarian producer (d. 1976) |
| 7th of January 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945) |
| 7th of January 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Hicks, American runner (d. 1963) |
| 7th of January 1876 | BIRTHDAY | William Hurlstone, English composer (d. 1906) |
| 7th of January 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Vera de Bosset, Russian artist, wife of Igor Stravinsky (d. 1982) |
| 7th of January 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Zora Neale Hurston, African-American writer (d. 1960) |
| 7th of January 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960) |
| 7th of January 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and co-founder of QANTAS (d. 1974) |
| 7th of January 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Arnold Ridley, British playwright and actor (d. 1984) |
| 7th of January 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Al Bowlly, British jazz singer (d. 1941) |
| 7th of January 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963) |
| 7th of January 1900 | BIRTHDAY | John Brownlee, Australian tenor (d. 1969) |
| 7th of January 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Napier, English actor (d. 1988) |
| 7th of January 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Bobbi Trout, American aviator (d. 2003) |
| 7th of January 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist (d. 1993) |
| 7th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Red Allen, American musician (d. 1967) |
| 7th of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994) |
| 7th of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995) |
| 7th of January 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988) |
| 7th of January 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Gunter Wand, German conductor, composer (d. 2002) |
| 7th of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Mize, American baseball player (d. 1993) |
| 7th of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975) |
| 7th of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Ulysses Kay, American composer (d. 1995) |
| 7th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Chester Kallman, American writer (d. 1975) |
| 7th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist (d. 2000) |
| 7th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Gardenia, Italian-born actor (d. 1992) |
| 7th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Jupp, British-born Australian composer, arranger, conductor (d. 2003) |
| 7th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager |
| 7th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic (d. 2003) |
| 7th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Geoffrey Bayldon, British actor |
| 7th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (d. 1966) |
| 7th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Durrell, British naturalist (d. 1995) |
| 7th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Jong-pil, South Korean politician |
| 7th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | William Peter Blatty, American screenwriter |
| 7th of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Moore, American actress |
| 7th of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Berinson, Australian politician |
| 7th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Elliott Kastner, U.S. film producer |
| 7th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Tassos Papadopoulos, President of Cyprus (d. 2008) |
| 7th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Jenkins, American sprinter |
| 7th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (d. 2002) |
| 7th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (d. 2006) |
| 7th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Valeri Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut |
| 7th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Johnson, American tubist (d. 2006) |
| 7th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | G. Robert Blakey, American attorney |
| 7th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Cropp, Australian shark hunter and photographer |
| 7th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997) |
| 7th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Graham, American golfer |
| 7th of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark |
| 7th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Manfred Schellscheidt, German American soccer coach |
| 7th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 7th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (d. 2004) |
| 7th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick D. Gregory, NASA astronaut |
| 7th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Williams, South African singer (d. 2005) |
| 7th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Vasily Alexeev, Russian weightlifter |
| 7th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Lefebvre, American baseball player and manager |
| 7th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Sadako Sasaki, Japanese child victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb (d. 1955) |
| 7th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Richard Armstrong, British conductor |
| 7th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Arne Scheie, Norwegian sports commentator |
| 7th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Whitlam, Australian judge |
| 7th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (d. 1990) |
| 7th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Gilles Marotte, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005) |
| 7th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Marty, Swiss politician |
| 7th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Raila Odinga, Prime Minister of Kenya |
| 7th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jann Wenner, American publisher |
| 7th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Shobha De, Indian writer |
| 7th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Loggins, American singer |
| 7th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Marshall Chapman, American singer/songwriter |
| 7th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Williams, American actor |
| 7th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Schedeen, American actress |
| 7th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer and songwriter |
| 7th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Ross Grimsley, American baseball player |
| 7th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Erin Gray, American actress |
| 7th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Macdonald, English footballer |
| 7th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Worth, British actress |
| 7th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor |
| 7th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Morris Titanic, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 7th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Maria Vitier, Cuban music composer and pianist. |
| 7th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | David Caruso, American actor |
| 7th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Liut, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 7th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Uwe Ochsenknecht, German actor and singer |
| 7th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Katie Couric, American television host |
| 7th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer |
| 7th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Reena Roy, Indian actress |
| 7th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholson Baker, American novelist |
| 7th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Kozlowski, American actress |
| 7th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Donna Rice, American sex scandal figure |
| 7th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Larsen, Norwegian musician and composer |
| 7th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Kathy Valentine, American musician (The Go-Go's) |
| 7th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | David Marciano, American actor |
| 7th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Loretta Sanchez, American politician, U.S. Representative from California |
| 7th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | John Thune, American politician, junior senator of South Dakota |
| 7th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Thomson, Australian politician |
| 7th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Supriya Pathak, Indian actress |
| 7th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksandr Dugin, Russian politician |
| 7th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Hallie Todd, American actress |
| 7th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Clint Mansell, English musician and composer |
| 7th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Rand Paul, American politician, Junior Senator from Kentucky |
| 7th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Cage, American actor |
| 7th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American publicist (d. 1999) |
| 7th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Ehab Tawfik, Egyptian singer |
| 7th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Lamarr, British comedian and broadcaster |
| 7th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Hebert, American ice hockey player |
| 7th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Clegg, British Liberal Democrat Leader |
| 7th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | David Yost, American actor |
| 7th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Day, American basketball player |
| 7th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Doug E. Doug, American actor |
| 7th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Joao Ricardo, Angolan footballer |
| 7th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | C.W. Anderson, American professional wrestler |
| 7th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tina Anderson, American comic book writer |
| 7th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Renner, American actor |
| 7th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Brashear, American ice hockey player |
| 7th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Baiba Broka, Latvian actress |
| 7th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jonna Tervomaa, Finnish singer |
| 7th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Alenka Bikar, Slovenian athlete |
| 7th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | John Rich, American musician (Big & Rich) |
| 7th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Gagne, Canadian baseball player |
| 7th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player |
| 7th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Behennah, British model |
| 7th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | John Gidding, American architect and TV host |
| 7th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Dustin Diamond, American actor |
| 7th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Emilio Palma, first person born on the Antarctic continent |
| 7th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian shooting victim (d. 2005) |
| 7th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Mench, American baseball player |
| 7th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Mauricio, Brazilian racing driver |
| 7th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mariangel Ruiz, Venezuelan actress and model |
| 7th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Bipasha Basu, Indian model & actress |
| 7th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Campbell Johnstone, New Zealand All Black rugby player |
| 7th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Zoe Salmon, Northern Irish television presenter |
| 7th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Roshini, Indian faux pas celebrity |
| 7th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 7th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Marquis Daniels, American basketball player |
| 7th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Rodriguez, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 7th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer |
| 7th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ianina Zanazzi, Argentine racing driver |
| 7th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Natalie Gulbis, American golfer |
| 7th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Ri'chard, American actor |
| 7th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin Encarnacion, Dominican baseball player (raised in Puerto Rico) |
| 7th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Liesbeth Mouha, Belgian beach volleyball player |
| 7th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Diego Balbinot, Italian footballer |
| 7th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Antonino Saviano, Italian footballer |
| 7th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Lester, American baseball player |
| 7th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Lewis Hamilton, English F1 racing driver |
| 7th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Routledge, English footballer |
| 7th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Grant Leadbitter, English footballer |
| 7th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress |
| 7th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Pendlebury, Australian footballer |
| 7th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Haley Bennett, American singer and actress |
| 7th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Sheehan, Irish actor |
| 7th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Emiliano Insua, Argentine footballer |
| 7th of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Liam Aiken, American actor |
| 7th of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper |
| 7th of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater |
| 7th of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Camryn Grimes, American actress |
| 7th of January 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Max Morrow, Canadian actor |
| 7th of January 1285 | DEATH | King Charles I of Naples (Born 1226) |
| 7th of January 1325 | DEATH | King Dinis of Portugal (Born 1261) |
| 7th of January 1400 | DEATH | Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (Born 1374) |
| 7th of January 1451 | DEATH | Count Amadeus VIII of Svoy (Born 1383) |
| 7th of January 1536 | DEATH | Catherine of Aragon, consort of Henry VIII of England (Born 1485) |
| 7th of January 1566 | DEATH | Louis de Blois, Flemish mystic (Born 1506) |
| 7th of January 1619 | DEATH | Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (Born c.1547) |
| 7th of January 1625 | DEATH | Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (Born c.1560) |
| 7th of January 1655 | DEATH | Pope Innocent X (Born 1574) |
| 7th of January 1658 | DEATH | Theophilus Eaton, American colonist (Born 1590) |
| 7th of January 1694 | DEATH | Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (Born c.1618) |
| 7th of January 1700 | DEATH | Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquarian (Born 1618) |
| 7th of January 1715 | DEATH | Francois Fenelon, French-Catholic theologian and writer (Born 1651) |
| 7th of January 1758 | DEATH | Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (Born 1686) |
| 7th of January 1767 | DEATH | Thomas Clap, 1st president of Yale University (Born 1703) |
| 7th of January 1770 | DEATH | Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (Born 1695) |
| 7th of January 1783 | DEATH | William Tans'ur, English hymnist (Born 1700) |
| 7th of January 1786 | DEATH | Jean-Etienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (Born 1715) |
| 7th of January 1812 | DEATH | Joseph Dennie, American writer (Born 1768) |
| 7th of January 1830 | DEATH | Thomas Lawrence, English painter (Born 1769) |
| 7th of January 1864 | DEATH | Caleb Blood Smith, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (Born 1808) |
| 7th of January 1876 | DEATH | Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (Born 1807) |
| 7th of January 1878 | DEATH | Francois-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (Born 1794) |
| 7th of January 1892 | DEATH | Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (Born 1852) |
| 7th of January 1893 | DEATH | Jozef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (Born 1835) |
| 7th of January 1913 | DEATH | Jack Boyle, American baseball player (Born 1866) |
| 7th of January 1919 | DEATH | Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist and philanthropist (Born 1843) |
| 7th of January 1920 | DEATH | Sir Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (Born 1849) |
| 7th of January 1932 | DEATH | Andre Maginot, French eponym of the Maginot Line (Born 1877) |
| 7th of January 1936 | DEATH | Guy d'Hardelot, French composer, best known for Because (Born 1858) |
| 7th of January 1943 | DEATH | Nikola Tesla, Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer (Born 1856) |
| 7th of January 1944 | DEATH | Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (Born 1888) |
| 7th of January 1944 | DEATH | Lou Hoover, U.S. First Lady (Born 1874) |
| 7th of January 1946 | DEATH | Adamo Didur, Polish tenor (Born 1874) |
| 7th of January 1951 | DEATH | Rene Guenon, French-Egyptian author (Born 1886) |
| 7th of January 1953 | DEATH | Osa Johnson, American explorer (Born 1894) |
| 7th of January 1960 | DEATH | Dorothea Douglass Chambers (aka Katharine Lambert Chambers), UK tennis player (Born 1878) |
| 7th of January 1963 | DEATH | Arthur Moore, Premier of Queensland (Born 1876) |
| 7th of January 1964 | DEATH | Cyril Davies, English musician (Born 1932) |
| 7th of January 1966 | DEATH | Allan Chapman, Scottish politician (Born 1897) |
| 7th of January 1967 | DEATH | Carl Schuricht, German conductor (Born 1880) |
| 7th of January 1967 | DEATH | David Goodis, American writer (Born 1917) |
| 7th of January 1968 | DEATH | Prof. James Smith, South African ichthyologist (Born 1897) |
| 7th of January 1968 | DEATH | Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (Born 1930) |
| 7th of January 1972 | DEATH | Eftichia Papagianopoulos, Greek lyricist (Born 1893) |
| 7th of January 1972 | DEATH | John Berryman, American poet (Born 1914) |
| 7th of January 1980 | DEATH | Larry Williams, American singer and songwriter (Born 1935) |
| 7th of January 1981 | DEATH | Eric Robinson, Australian politician (Born 1926) |
| 7th of January 1981 | DEATH | Alvar Lidell, UK radio broadcaster (Born 1908) |
| 7th of January 1984 | DEATH | Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1902) |
| 7th of January 1985 | DEATH | Mary Hardy, Australian radio and television presenter (Born 1931) |
| 7th of January 1986 | DEATH | Philip D. Eastman, American children's book writer and illustrator (Born 1909) |
| 7th of January 1986 | DEATH | Juan Rulfo, Mexican novelist (Born 1917) |
| 7th of January 1988 | DEATH | Michel Auclair, French actor (Born 1922) |
| 7th of January 1988 | DEATH | Trevor Howard, English actor (Born 1913) |
| 7th of January 1989 | DEATH | Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (Born 1901) |
| 7th of January 1990 | DEATH | Bronko Nagurski, American football player (Born 1908) |
| 7th of January 1990 | DEATH | Horace Stoneham, American baseball executive (Born 1903) |
| 7th of January 1992 | DEATH | Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (The Muppets) (Born 1951) |
| 7th of January 1995 | DEATH | Murray Rothbard, American economist (Born 1926) |
| 7th of January 1996 | DEATH | Taro Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (Born 1911) |
| 7th of January 1996 | DEATH | Karoly Grosz, Hungarian politician (Born 1930) |
| 7th of January 1998 | DEATH | Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1906) |
| 7th of January 1998 | DEATH | Owen Bradley, American record producer (Born 1915) |
| 7th of January 2000 | DEATH | Gary Albright, American professional wrestler (Born 1963) |
| 7th of January 2001 | DEATH | James Carr, American Rhythm & Blues and soul musicians (Born 1942) |
| 7th of January 2002 | DEATH | Avery Schreiber, American actor (Born 1935) |
| 7th of January 2002 | DEATH | Jon Lee, Welsh musician (Feeder) (Born 1968) |
| 7th of January 2004 | DEATH | Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (Born 1926) |
| 7th of January 2005 | DEATH | Pierre Daninos, French novelist (Born 1913) |
| 7th of January 2005 | DEATH | Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (Born 1932) |
| 7th of January 2006 | DEATH | Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (Born 1912) |
| 7th of January 2007 | DEATH | Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic-born television presenter (Born 1929) |
| 7th of January 2007 | DEATH | Bobby Hamilton, NASCAR team owner (Born 1957) |
| 7th of January 2008 | DEATH | Alwyn Schlebusch, South African vice state president (Born 1917) |
| 7th of January 2009 | DEATH | Maria Dimitriadi, Greek singer (Born 1950) |
| 7th of January 2010 | DEATH | Willie Mitchell, American soul singer (Born 1928) |
| 7th of January 2010 | DEATH | John A. Thorburn, American war hero (Born 1946) |
| 7th of January 2011 | DEATH | Derek Gardner, British Formula 1 car designer (Born 1931) |