144 notable people in our database were born on March 7, including Bryan Cranston, Maurice Ravel and Piet Mondrian.
Famous people born on March 7
Bryan Cranston
Born March 7, 1956
American actor best known for playing Walter White in Breaking Bad and the dad, Hal, in Malcolm in the Middle.
Bryan Cranston is an American actor from Southern California. In the late 1990s he picked up recurring parts on Seinfeld and The King of Queens, and he later won wide notice as Hal, the frazzled father on the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle. His career reached a new level with Breaking Bad (2008–2013), in which he played Walter White, a chemistry teacher who turns to making drugs. The role brought him four Emmy Awards for lead actor in a drama. On Broadway he has won two Tony Awards, for playing Lyndon B. Johnson in All the Way and for Network. He also earned an Oscar nomination for the film Trumbo.
Sources: Biography.com / Britannica
Maurice Ravel
Born March 7, 1875
French composer of Boléro and Daphnis et Chloé, admired for his polished craftsmanship and colorful orchestral writing.
Maurice Ravel was a French composer born in the Basque town of Ciboure, though his family moved to Paris when he was a baby. He started music lessons at age seven and later studied at the Paris Conservatory with Gabriel Fauré. Often linked with musical Impressionism, Ravel was praised for careful craftsmanship and elegant form. His best-known pieces include Pavane for a Dead Princess, the ballet Daphnis et Chloé, La Valse, the opera The Child and the Enchantments, and Boléro, written in 1928. He served in World War I, and in 1928 he made a four-month tour of the United States, where he met George Gershwin.
Sources: Britannica / Kennedy CenterPhoto: Unknown author The image holder, the Bibliothèque nationale de Fra / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons
Piet Mondrian
Born March 7, 1872
Dutch painter who helped found De Stijl and created famous abstract grids of black lines and primary colors.
Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter and a leading pioneer of abstract art. Born Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan in Amersfoort, he first trained to teach at his father's urging before turning fully to painting. His early work drew on Post-Impressionism, and time in Paris brought him into contact with Cubism. In 1917 he helped launch De Stijl, a Dutch magazine and movement, and he developed a style he called Neoplasticism, built only from straight lines, right angles, the primary colors, and black, white, and gray. After living in London, he moved to New York in 1940, where the city's energy and jazz inspired works such as Broadway Boogie-Woogie.
Sources: BritannicaPhoto: Unknown author / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons
More famous birthdays on March 7
- Bret Easton EllisBorn 1964
Everyone else born on March 7 (140)
Names and birth years only, in order of birth. Profiles are being added.
Before 180110
- Publius Septimius Geta189
- Guillaume du Vair1556
- Rob Roy MacGregor1671
- Filippo Juvarra1678
- Clement XIII1693
- Ewald Christian von Kleist1715
- Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil1730
- Nicéphore Niépce1765
- Alessandro Manzoni1785
- John Herschel1792
1801–190017
- Increase A. Lapham1811
- Henry Draper1837
- Ludwig Mond1839
- William Rockhill Nelson1841
- Marriott Henry Brosius1843
- Luther Burbank1849
- Champ Clark1850
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk1850
- Julius Wagner-Jauregg1857
- Cecilie Thoresen Krog1858
- John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey1885
- Milton Avery1885
- G. I. Taylor1886
- Virginia Pearson1886
- Wilson Dallam Wallis1886
- William L. Laurence1888
- Dorothy de Rothschild1895
1901–195041
- Heinz Rühmann1902
- Maud Lewis1903
- Ivar Ballangrud1904
- Kurt Weitzmann1904
- Reinhard Heydrich1904
- Anna Magnani1908
- Jacques Chaban-Delmas1915
- Betty Holberton1917
- Janet Collins1917
- Andy Phillip1922
- Olga Ladyzhenskaya1922
- Peter Murphy1922
- Richard Vernon1925
- James Broderick1927
- Dan Jacobson1929
- Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon1930
- Robert Trotter1930
- Ed Bouchee1933
- Jackie Blanchflower1933
- Gray Morrow1934
- Nari Contractor1934
- Willard Scott1934
- Georges Perec1936
- David Baltimore1938
- Janet Guthrie1938
- Daniel J. Travanti1940
- Michael Eisner1942
- Tammy Faye Messner1942
- Billy MacMillan1943
- Chris White1943
- Ranulph Fiennes1944
- Townes Van Zandt1944
- Arthur Lee1945
- Bob Herbert1945
- John Heard1946
- Matthew Fisher1946
- Peter Wolf1946
- Helen Eadie1947
- Billy Joe DuPree1950
- Franco Harris1950
- J. R. Richard1950
1951 onward72
- Ernie Isley1952
- Lynn Swann1952
- Viv Richards1952
- William Boyd1952
- Eva Brunne1954
- Andrea Levy1956
- Mark Richards1957
- Robert Harris1957
- Merv Neagle1958
- Rick Bass1958
- Rik Mayall1958
- Donna Murphy1959
- Nick Searcy1959
- Tom Lehman1959
- Ivan Lendl1960
- Jim Spivey1960
- Joe Carter1960
- Mary Beth Evans1961
- Taylor Dayne1962
- E. L. James1963
- Mike Eagles1963
- Wanda Sykes1964
- Jesper Parnevik1965
- Jeff Feagles1966
- Terry Carkner1966
- Ruthie Henshall1967
- Zheng Haixia1967
- Jeff Kent1968
- Brian Jamieson1969
- Rachel Weisz1970
- Matthew Vaughn1971
- Peter Sarsgaard1971
- Tal Banin1971
- Craig Polla-Mounter1972
- Jason Bright1973
- Jay Duplass1973
- Sébastien Izambard1973
- Facundo Sava1974
- Jenna Fischer1974
- Tobias Menzies1974
- Audrey Marie Anderson1975
- T. J. Thyne1975
- Paul Cattermole1977
- Ronan O'Gara1977
- Rodrigo Braña1979
- Eric Godard1980
- Laura Prepon1980
- Manucho1983
- Brandon T. Jackson1984
- Jacob Lillyman1984
- Mathieu Flamini1984
- Steve Burtt Jr.1984
- Cameron Prosser1985
- Ryan Ciminelli1986
- Niclas Bergfors1987
- Jeff Withey1990
- Ian Clark1991
- Bel Powley1992
- Chase Kalisz1994
- Jake Layman1994
- Jordan Pickford1994
- Aboubakar Kamara1995
- Haley Lu Richardson1995
- Jerome Binnom-Williams1995
- Liam Donnelly1996
- Pablo López1996
- Dylan Strome1997
- Taher Mohamed1997
- Amanda Gorman1998
- Rasmus Sandin2000
- Sebastian Schwaighofer2000
- Kiyan Anthony2007
On this day: March 7 in history
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- 161Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius.Europe
- 681The Third Council of Constantinople deposes patriarch Macarius I of Antioch.Middle East
- 1138Konrad III von Hohenstaufen is elected king of Germany at Coblenz in the presence of the papal legate Theodwin.Europe
- 1277The University of Paris issues the last in a series of condemnations of various philosophical and theological theses.Europe
- 1573A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman–Venetian War and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.Middle EastEurope
- 1799Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.EuropeMiddle East
- 1814Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.Europe
- 1826Shrigley abduction: 15-year old Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future figure in the establishment of colonies in South Australia and New Zealand.Oceania
- 1850Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.North America
- 1876Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".North America
- 1902Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, defeat the British at the Battle of Tweebosch.AfricaEurope
- 1921The short-lived socialist Labin Republic is proclaimed.Europe
- 1931The Parliament House of Finland is officially inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.Europe
- 1941World War II: Günther Prien and the crew of German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappear without a trace.Europe
- 1945World War II: The American 9th Armored Division unexpectedly captures an intact bridge over the Rhine.North America
- 1951Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 307 crashes in Lynnhurst, Minneapolis, killing 15 people.North America
- 1951Iranian prime minister Ali Razmara is assassinated by Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of the Islamic fundamentalist Fada'iyan-e Islam, outside a mosque in Tehran.Middle East
- 1951Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.Asia
- 1965Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.North America
- 1965Aeroflot Flight 542 crashes in the Yermakovsky District, killing all 31 aboard.Europe
- 1971Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.Asia
- 1986Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.North America
- 1989Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.Middle EastEurope
- 2006The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.Asia
- 2007Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashes at Adisutjipto International Airport in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing 21 people.Asia
- 2007Reform of the House of Lords: The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.Europe
- 2009Massereene Barracks shooting: The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and injures two other soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles.Europe
- 2021At least 108 die and 615 are injured in the 2021 Bata explosions in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.Africa
- 2024Sweden officially joins NATO, becoming its 32nd member.Europe
- 2024Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie Rust, the first time someone has been found guilty for causing a death on a movie set.North America
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