People born on October 7

Vladimir Putin

President of Russia (1999–2008, 2012–present)

Niels Bohr

Danish physicist (1885–1962)

Heinrich Himmler

German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS and main architect of the Holocaust (1900–1945)

Desmond Tutu

South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner (1931–2021)

Diego Costa

Spanish-Brazilian association football player

Canaletto

Italian painter of landscapes (1697-1768)

Nicholas IV

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1288 to 1292

Henry A. Wallace

Vice president of the United States from 1941 to 1945

Thom Yorke

English musician and singer for Radiohead

Yo-Yo Ma

American cellist (born 1955)

Harry Kroto

British chemist (1939-2016)

Charlotte Perrelli

Swedish singer

Ulrike Meinhof

German left-wing journalist and militant (1934–1976)

Stephen Báthory

King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1576–1586)

R. D. Laing

Unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist