October 7 is the birthday of 49 notable people we've found so far, including athletes, musicians, entrepreneurs and politicians, and 3 of them are billionaires.
Kim Beomseok, known professionally in the West as Bom Kim, is an American businessman of South Korean origin, who is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Coupang Inc.
Share of the 49 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Athletes29% (14 people)
Musicians20% (10 people)
Entrepreneurs18% (9 people)
Politicians18% (9 people)
Authors16% (8 people)
Artists12% (6 people)
Scientists12% (6 people)
Countries
24 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States10 (10 people)
United Kingdom9 (9 people)
Japan4 (4 people)
Spain3 (3 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Sweden2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on October 7 doing at your age?
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
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~16Trent Alexander-ArnoldJoined England national under-17 association football team (2014)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012.
Пресс-служба Президента РФ, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
María Corina Machado Parisca is a Venezuelan politician, engineer, activist, and prominent leader of the opposition to the administrations of Hugo Chávez, Nicolás Maduro, and Delcy Rodríguez.
Kevin Payravi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. He was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research.
The American Institute of Physics credits the photo [1] to AB Lagrelius & Westphal, which is the Swedish company use, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Harold Walter Kroto was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. He was the recipient of many other honors and awards.
Selçuk Bayraktar is a Turkish pilot, engineer and businessman. He is the chairman of the board and the chief technology officer of the Turkish technology company Baykar.
Press Service of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Vivek Yeshwant Ranadivé is an American business executive, engineer, author, speaker and philanthropist Ranadivé is the founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of TIBCO Software, a business intelligence software company, and of Teknekron Software Systems.
Lewis Marc Capaldi is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician. In March 2019, his single "Someone You Loved" (2018) topped the UK Singles Chart where it remained for seven weeks and in November 2019, it reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
Trent John Alexander-Arnold, sometimes known mononymously as Trent, is an English professional footballer who plays as a right-back or midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid and the England national team.
Thomas Edward Yorke is an English musician who is the singer and main songwriter of the rock band Radiohead. He plays guitar, bass, keyboards and other instruments, and is noted for his wide vocal range.
Toni Michele Braxton is an American singer, songwriter, actress and television personality. Braxton has won seven Grammy Awards, nine Billboard Music Awards, seven American Music Awards, and numerous other accolades.
The Heart Truth, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Yo-Yo Ma is an American cellist. Born to Chinese parents in Paris, he was regarded as a child prodigy, and began to study the cello with his father at age four.
Henry Agard Wallace was the 33rd vice president of the United States, serving from 1941 to 1945, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He served as the 11th U.S. secretary of agriculture and the 10th U.S. secretary of commerce.
Photo copyrighted by D.N. Townsend; no renewal in the U.S. Copyright Office, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gilberto Aparecido da Silva is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, most notably for Brazilian side Atlético Mineiro and for English Premier League club Arsenal, as well as for the Brazil national team.
Nélson de Jesus Silva, better known simply as Dida, is a Brazilian former football goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach. He started his senior club career in Brazil in the early 1990s with Vitória before moving to Cruzeiro and Corinthians.
Ulrike Marie Meinhof was a German left-wing militant, journalist, author and founding member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in West Germany, commonly referred to in the press as the "Baader-Meinhof gang". She is the reputed author of The Urban Guerilla Concept (1971).
César Bernardo Arévalo de León is a Guatemalan diplomat, sociologist, writer, and politician who has served as the 52nd president of Guatemala since 2024.
Gobierno de Guatemala, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Paulino Alcántara Riestrá was a Spanish and Filipino professional footballer and manager who played as a forward. Born in the Philippines, he played for Catalonia, Philippines and Spain national teams.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš was the last monarch of Montenegro from 1860 to 1918, reigning as prince from 1860 to 1910 and as the country's first and only king from 1910 to 1918. His grandsons were kings Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Umberto II of Italy, among others.
Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Samuel Austin Querrey is an American former pickleball player and former tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 11 achieved on February 26, 2018, and won ten ATP singles titles.
Giovanni Antonio Canal, commonly known as Canaletto, was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
Antonio Visentini, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Michael Keneally is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor. He is best known for his historical fiction novel Schindler's Ark, the story of Oskar Schindler's rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, which won the Booker Prize in 1982.
Anna Jenny Charlotte Perrelli, known until 2003 by her maiden name, is a Swedish singer and television host. Under her maiden name, she won the Melodifestivalen 1999 and subsequently the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 with the song "Take Me to Your Heaven".
The Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pope Nicholas IV was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 22 February 1288 to his death, on 4 April 1292. He was the first Franciscan to be elected pope.
Mazarine Master, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Fernando Sergio Marcelo Marcos Belaúnde Terry was a Peruvian politician who twice served as President of Peru. Deposed by a military coup in 1968, he was re-elected in 1980 after twelve years of military rule.
Escuela de Ingenieros, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gabriel Yared is a Lebanese-French composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema. He also served as the composer of the 1999 Warner Bros. Pictures fanfare, which originally debuted a year earlier during a montage to celebrate the studio's 75th anniversary.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Müller was a German lyric poet, best known as the author of Die schöne Müllerin (1821) and Winterreise (1823). These would later be the source of inspiration for two song cycles composed by Franz Schubert.
Johann Friedrich Schröter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
William Thomas Blanford was an English geologist and naturalist. He is best remembered as the editor of a major series on The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma.
produced by Woodbury Company (maybe this one [1]?), published by Allan Octavian Hume (1829 - 1912), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 49 people born on October 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 2025. 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 October 7. Read the full methodology.
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