What happened on January 7 ?

1400 - Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (executed) (b. 1374)

1536 - Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1485)

1566 - Louis de Blois, Flemish mystic (b. 1506)

1619 - Nicholas Hilliard, English painter

1625 - Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer

1658 - Theophilus Eaton, Connecticut colonist (b. 1590)

1694 - Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English royalist general

1700 - Raphael Fabretti, Italian antiquarian (b. 1618)

1758 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686)

1767 - Thomas Clap, 1st president of Yale University (b. 1703)

1770 - Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695)

1783 - William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)

1786 - Jean-ÿtienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715)

1830 - Thomas Lawrence, English painter (b. 1769)

1864 - Caleb Blood Smith, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)

1872 - James Fisk, American entrepreneur (b. 1834)

1878 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)

1892 - Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (b. 1852)

1893 - Jo?ef Stefan, Slovenian physicist, mathematician, and poet (b. 1835)

1919 - Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist and philantropist (b. 1843)

1920 - Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)

1943 - Nikola Tesla, Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer (b. 1856)

1951 - René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886)

1964 - Cyril Davies, American musician (b. 1932)

1972 - John Berryman, American poet (b. 1914)

1984 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902))

1986 - Juan Rulfo, Mexican novelist (b. 1917)

1988 - Trevor Howard, English actor (b. 1913)

1989 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (b. 1901)

1990 - Bronko Nagurski, American football player(b. 1908)

1995 - Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)

1996 - Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician (b. 1930)

1998 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.1906)

2002 - Jon Lee, Welsh drummer (Feeder) (suicide) (b. 1968)

2002 - Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935)

2005 - Pierre Daninos, French novelist (b. 1913)

2005 - Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932)

2006 - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer and explorer (b. 1912)