What happened on March 7 ?

189 - Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (d. 211)

1481 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)

1556 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (d. 1621)

1671 - Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)

1678 - Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (d. 1736)

1687 - Jean Lebeuf, French historian (d. 1760)

1693 - Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)

1715 - Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (d. 1759)

1715 - Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (d. 1755)

1730 - Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (d. 1807)

1765 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (d. 1833)

1788 - Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)

1792 - John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)

1837 - Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)

1841 - William Rockhill Nelson, founder of Kansas City Star and patron of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (d. 1915)

1850 - Tomá? Masaryk, first President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937)

1857 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1940)

1872 - Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (d. 1944)

1875 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)

1878 - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (d. 1927)

1887 - Heino Eller, Estonian composer (d. 1970)

1902 - Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994)

1904 - Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)

1904 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (d. 1942)

1908 - Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)

1926 - Alan Sues, American comedian and actor

1930 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon

1933 - Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998)

1934 - Willard Scott, American television broadcaster

1938 - David Baltimore, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1938 - Janet Guthrie, American race car driver

1940 - Rudi Dutschke, German student leader (d. 1979)

1940 - Daniel J. Travanti, American actor

1942 - Tammy Faye Bakker, American evangelist

1942 - Michael Eisner, American film studio executive

1944 - Stanley Schmidt, American editor

1944 - Townes Van Zandt, American musician and songwriter (1997)

1945 - John Heard, American actor

1945 - Arthur Lee, American musician (Love)

1946 - Peter Wolf, American musician (J Geils Band)

1947 - Richard Lawson, American actor

1947 - Walter Röhrl, German race car driver

1949 - Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician

1950 - Iris Chacon, Puerto Rican singer and dancer

1950 - Franco Harris, American football player

1952 - Ernie Isley, American guitarist (The Isley Brothers)

1952 - Lynn Swann, American football player

1952 - Viv Richards, West Indies cricketer

1955 - Tommy Kramer, American football player

1956 - Bryan Cranston, American actor

1958 - Alan Hale, American astronomer

1958 - Rik Mayall British actor

1960 - Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player

1963 - Bill Brochtrup, American actor

1963 - Denyce Graves, American singer

1964 - Bret Easton Ellis, American writer

1964 - Wanda Sykes, American actress and comedian

1965 - Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer

1968 - Jeff Kent, American baseball player

1971 - Rachel Weisz, British actress

1971 - Peter Sarsgaard, American actor

1973 - Ray Parlour, English footballer

1974 - Jenna Fischer, American actress

1977 - Mitja Zastrow, German-born swimmer

1980 - Laura Prepon, American actress

1980 - Anthony Ocana, Dominican composer & guitarist

1984 - Mathieu Flamini, French football (soccer) player

1990 - Abigail and Brittany Hensel, conjoined twins of the dicephalic type