Also on This Day in History August 7
Discover what happened on August 7 with HISTORY's summaries of major events, anniversaries,
famous births and notable deaths.
Births on This Day, August 7
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1779
Carl Ritter
German geographer and co-founder of modern science of geography
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1886
Louis Hazeltine
American engineer and physicist, the inventor of the Neutrodyne circuit
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1844
Auguste Michel-Levy
French geologist and petrologist
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1783
John Heathcoat
English inventor of lace-making machinery
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1925
M. S. Swaminathan
Indian agricultural scientist, leader of the green revolution in India
Deaths on This Day, August 7
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1974
Virginia Apgar
American physician, anesthesiologist and medical researcher who developed the Apgar Score System
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1912
François-Alphonse Forel
Swiss physician, scientist, and founder of limnology, the study of lakes
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1834
Joseph Marie Jacquard
French weaver and merchant who invented the programmable loom (Jacquard loom)
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1941
Rabindranath Tagore
Indian philosopher, poet, writer (Nobel Prize for Literature 1913)
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2007
Angus Tait
New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman