January 7: Today's Notable Birthdays

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?

Is January 7th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on January 7th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

January 7th was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are:

January 7th Birthdays: Famous Artists

American cartoonist Charles Addams (The Addams Family and The New Yorker) was born on January 7, 1912.

Albert Bierstadt, German-American painter (Discovery of the Hudson River, Indian Encampment, The Last of the Buffalo, The Rocky Mountains, The Settlement of California and Shoshone Village), was born on January 7, 1830.

French pianist and classical music composer Francis Poulenc (Les Biches, Concert Champetre, Dialogues des Carmelites, Litanies a la Vierge Noire, Les Mamelles de Tiresias and Mouvements Perpetuels) was born on January 7, 1899.

January 7th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Vasili Alexeyev, Russian weightlifter and Olympic gold medalist (1972 and 1976), was born on January 7, 1942.

Canadian professional hockey player Randy (Stump) Burridge (Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres, Los Angeles Kings andWashington Capitals) was born on January 7, 1966.

Anthony Richard (Tony) Conigliaro, American professional baseball player (Boston Red Sox and California Angels), was born on January 7, 1945.

American professional baseball player Alvin Ralph (The Swamp Fox) Dark (Boston Braves, Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Braves, New York Giants, Philadelphia Phillies and St. Louis Cardinals) was born on January 7, 1922.

Simon (Bobby) Engram, III, American professional football player (Chicago Bears and Seattle Seahawks), was born on January 7, 1973.

Eric Serge Gagne, Canadian professional baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Milwaukee Brewers and Texas Rangers) was born on January 7, 1976

American professional hockey player Guy Andre Hebert (Anaheim Mighty Ducks, New York Rangers and St. Louis Blues) was born on January 7, 1967.

Kenneth Henry, American speed skater and Olympic gold medalist (1952), was born on January 7, 1929.