Birthdays in History on December 7

1598 Giovanni Bernini, Italian baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy), born in Naples, Italy (d. 1680)

1670 John Aislabie, English director of the South Sea Company (d. 1742)
1731 Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron, French interpreter
1751 Jurrian F de Frederici, governor-General (Suriname)
1754 Jack Jouett, American patriot
1764 Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (d. 1841)
1784 Allan Cunningham, British poet (d. 1842)
1803 Maria Josepha of Saxony, queen consort of Spain (d. 1829)
1808 Hugh McCulloch, US Treasury Secretary (1884-85, 85-69), born in Kennebunk, Maine (d. 1895)
1810 Theodor Schwann, German co-originator of cell theory
1810 Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (d. 1894)
1823 Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (Tensor of Kronecker)
1830 Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician/minister of Education
1839 Redvers H Buller, English general/large landowner: Natal
1842 Otto Ammon, German anthropologist/sociologist (schedelmetingen)
1847 Solomon Schechter, US Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader
1860 Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947)
1862 Paul Adam, French writer (La Bataille d'Uhde)
1863 Svetolik Rankovic, Serbian writer (Forest King)
1863 Felix Calonder, Scuol, Swiss politician (Free Democratic Party)

1872 Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens)
1873 Willa Cather, American author (My Antonia)
1878 Akiko Yosano, Japan, poet (Tangled Hair)
1888 Hamilton Fish, US congress leader/isolationist
1888 Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish (male) writer (House of Children)
1888 Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun, 1st President of American Newspaper Guild
1892 Stuart Davis, American modernist painter, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1964)
1901 A F [Tony] Pugsley, British rear-admiral (Walcheren attack (1944))
1903 Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (d. 1987)
1904 Clarence Nash, American voice actor (Donald Duck), born in Watonga, Oklahoma (d. 1985)
1905 Gerard Kuiper, Dutch/US astronomer (moons of Uranus, Neptune)
1908 Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist
1909 Jacob Kainen, artist/curator
1909 Arch Oboler, American director, screen and radio writer, and producer (Lights Out, Bwana Devil), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1987)
1915 Brackett Hamilton Leigh, [Douglass], American sci-fi author (Ginger Star)
1916 Jean Carignan, French Canadian fiddler (d. 1988)
1920 Tatamkulu Afrika, South African poet and writer (d. 2002)
1921 Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Indian Hindu spiritual leader (BAPS), born in Chansad, Gujarat (d. 2016)

1924 Mário Soares, 17th President of Portugal (1986-96) and Prime Minister (1976-78 and 1983-85), born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. 2017)

1928 Noam Chomsky, American linguist (founded transformational grammar), philospher and political activist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1932 Paul Caponigro, American photographer
1936 Martha Layne Collins, Baghdad Ky, (Gov-D-Ky)
1937 Thad Cochran, (Sen-R-Miss)
1940 Kumar Shahani, writer/director (Kasbam Tarang, Maya Darpan)
1943 Göran Lennmarker, Swedish politician
1943 Bernard C. Parks, Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department
1943 James Tate, American poet (Pulitzer Prize 1992), born in Kansas City Missouri (d. 2015)
1944 Jamiel Chagra, American drug trafficker
1947 Mino Reitano, Italian entertainer
1952 Susan Collins, American politician, junior senator from Maine
1953 Bertin Osborne, Italian entertainer
1954 Gianfranco Jannuzzo, Italian entertainer
1954 Mark Hofmann, American forger, bomber and convicted murderer, born in Salt Lake City, Utah
1955 John Watkins, Australian politician
1957 Tom Winsor, British lawyer and economic regulator
1962 Grecia Colmenares, Italian entertainer
1967 Vaclav Chalupa, Czechoslovakia, rower (Henley Royal Regatta 1989)
1971 Vladimir Akopian, Armenian chess player
1972 Hermann Maier, Austrian skier
1974 Kang Full, South Korean webcomic artist
1975 Nikola Wapzarow, writer
1978 Chad Dukes, Radio Personality
2003 Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands