July 7 is the birthday of 36 notable people we've found so far, including authors, musicians, historical figures and politicians, and 3 of them are billionaires.
$10.7Breported estimate as of June 2025 · Bloomberg
Laurent Dassault is a French billionaire businessman, and the co-managing director of Dassault Group, a French corporate group founded by his grandfather, Marcel Dassault. Dassault Group, notably, has business interests in the aerospace and software industries.
Yitzhak Tshuva is an Israeli billionaire businessman. He is the founder of El-Ad Group, a real estate development and holding company, which owned the New York Plaza Hotel. He also owns the Israeli conglomerate Delek Group.
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Share of the 36 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors25% (9 people)
Musicians22% (8 people)
Politicians22% (8 people)
Creators19% (7 people)
Entrepreneurs17% (6 people)
Actors14% (5 people)
Athletes14% (5 people)
Countries
14 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States9 (9 people)
Germany4 (4 people)
Italy4 (4 people)
Japan4 (4 people)
France3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Austrian Empire2 (2 people)
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Sir Richard Starkey, known as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame as the drummer for the Beatles.
Shelley Alexis Duvall was an American actress and producer known for her distinctive screen presence, portrayals of eccentric characters, and later productions in children's programming.
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Camillo Golgi was an Italian biologist and pathologist who was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his works on the central nervous system. He studied medicine at the University of Pavia between 1860 and 1868 under the tutelage of Cesare Lombroso.
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Michelle Wingshan Kwan is an American former competitive figure skater and diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Belize from 2022 to 2025. In figure skating Kwan is a two-time Olympic medalist, a five-time world champion and a nine-time U.S. champion.
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Gustav Mahler was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century.
Lawrence Francis O'Brien Jr. was an American politician and commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1975 to 1984. He was one of the United States Democratic Party's leading electoral strategists for more than two decades.
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Nina Hoss is a German stage, film, and television actress. She is known for her collaborations with director Christian Petzold in films such as Barbara (2012) and Phoenix (2014).
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George Dewey Cukor was an American film director and producer. He concentrated primarily on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO when David O.
Akiva Goldsman is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. His filmography as a screenwriter includes The Client; Batman Forever and its sequel Batman & Robin; I, Robot; I Am Legend; Cinderella Man, and numerous rewrites that are both credited and uncredited.
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Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Japanese: 栗林 忠道; 7 July 1891 – c. 26 March 1945) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, diplomat, and commanding officer of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff.
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Alberto Aquilani is an Italian football manager and former player who is the manager of Serie A club Sassuolo. Mainly a central midfielder, he usually operated as a deep-lying playmaker but was also capable of playing as an attacking midfielder.
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Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno was an Italian pop singer-songwriter, musician, and television presenter. He was best known for his worldwide hit song, "L'Italiano", released on his 1983 album of the same title.
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Pope Paul IV, born Gian Pietro Carafa, was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 23 May 1555 to his death, in August 1559. While serving as papal nuncio in Spain, he developed an anti-Spanish outlook that later coloured his papacy.
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Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italian composer, librettist, director, and playwright who is primarily known for his output of 25 operas. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship and never officially became an American citizen.
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Lion Feuchtwanger was a German Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht.
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Jürgen Grabowski was a German footballer. He played for Eintracht Frankfurt. He won gold medals playing for the West Germany national football team that won the European championship in 1972 and the FIFA World Cup in 1974.
Miroslav Krleža was a Croatian writer, widely considered to be the greatest of the 20th century. He wrote notable works in several literary genres, including poetry, theater, short story collections, novels, and an intimate diary.
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Sir Ian Wilmut was an English embryologist and the chair of the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He was the leader of the research group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly.
Wolfgang Clement was a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was the 7th Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 27 May 1998 to 22 October 2002 and Federal Minister of Economics and Labour from 2002 to 2005.
Raymond Democrito Cañete Mendoza is a Filipino lawyer, politician, labor leader, and maritime voluntary arbitrator who has served as the representative of the Trade Union Congress Party for seven intermittent terms since 2009.
This page lists 36 people born on July 7, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 3 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of March 2026. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on July 7. Read the full methodology.
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