April 7th, 1949

Born on April 7th, 1949

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 27,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 587 days, exactly on December 4th, 2025, people who were born on April 7th, 1949 will be 28,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on April 7th, 1949?

April 7th, 1949

The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, based on Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener, opened on Broadway.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodgers_and_Hammerstein

What else happened on April 7th?

April 7th, 2017

A hijacker deliberately drove a truck into crowds along Drottninggatan in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people.

April 7th, 1995

First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops began a massacre of hundreds of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.

April 7th, 1994

Rwandan Civil War: The Rwandan genocide began a few hours after the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana, with hundreds of thousands killed in the following 100 days.

April 7th, 1979

Uganda–Tanzania War: Tanzanian forces defeated Ugandan troops and their Libyan allies at the Battle of Entebbe, opening the way for an advance on the Ugandan capital, Kampala.

April 7th, 1972

Communist forces overran the South Vietnamese town of Lộc Ninh.

April 7th, 1964

Reverend Bruce W. Klunder was killed by a bulldozer while he was protesting the construction of a segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.

April 7th, 1948

The United Nations established the World Health Organization to act as a coordinating authority on international public health.

April 7th, 1945

World War II: U.S. forces sank the Japanese battleship Yamato during Operation Ten-Go in the East China Sea.

April 7th, 1926

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini survived an assassination attempt by Irishwoman Violet Gibson.

April 7th, 1896

An Arctic expedition led by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen (pictured) reached 86°13.6′N, almost three degrees beyond the previous Farthest North latitude.

April 7th, 1862

American Civil War: Union forces defeated Confederate troops at the Battle of Shiloh, the bloodiest battle in U.S. history at the time, in Hardin County, Tennessee.

April 7th, 1655

After a conclave lasting eighty days, the College of Cardinals elected Fabio Chigi as Pope Alexander VII (pictured).

April 7th, 2001

NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey (artist's conception pictured), the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth, launched from Cape Canaveral.

April 7th, 1824

The Mechanics' Institution is established in Manchester, England at the Bridgewater Arms hotel, as part of a national movement for the education of working men. The institute is the precursor to three Universities in the city: the University of Manchester, UMIST and the Metropolitan University of Manchester (MMU).

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on April 7th

Born on April 7th, 1949

75

Valentina Matviyenko

Russian politician

*April 7th, 1949, Shepetivka

75

Josiane Aubert

Swiss politician

*April 7th, 1949, Le Chenit

75

Patricia Paay

Dutch singer

*April 7th, 1949, Rotterdam

67

Zygmunt Zimowski

Polish bishop (1949-2016)

*April 7th, 1949, Kupienin †July 13th, 2016, Dąbrowa Tarnowska

75

Mitch Daniels

Governor of Indiana

*April 7th, 1949, Monongahela

75

Cecilia Maresca

Argentinian actor

*April 7th, 1949, Buenos Aires

75

Evelyn Haas

German jurist

*April 7th, 1949, Hanover

75

Meta Antenen

Swiss athletics competitor

*April 7th, 1949, Orpund

75

John Oates

American musician and member of Hall & Oates

*April 7th, 1949, New York City

Same Day
Who's birthday is on April 7th?

77

Ulf Brunnberg

Actor

*April 7th, 1947, Bromma parish

70

Jackie Chan

Hong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)

*April 7th, 1954, Victoria Peak

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

61

Daniel Toscan du Plantier

French film producer

*April 7th, 1941, Chambéry †February 11th, 2003, Berlin

51

Bob Berg

American jazz saxophonist (1951–2002)

*April 7th, 1951, Brooklyn †December 5th, 2002, Amagansett

72

Clarke Peters

American actor, singer, writer and director

*April 7th, 1952, New York City

60

Russell Crowe

New Zealand actor

*April 7th, 1964, Wellington

73

Janis Ian

American singer-songwriter

*April 7th, 1951, The Bronx

85

Francis Ford Coppola

American filmmaker

*April 7th, 1939, Detroit

68

Siegfried Schneider

German politician (1956–)

*April 7th, 1956, Hitzhofen

24

Jimena Riadigos

Argentinian Beach handball player

*April 7th, 2000, Mar del Plata

62

Stan Winston

American special make-up effects artist

*April 7th, 1946, Arlington County †June 15th, 2008, Malibu

53

Veit Rosenberger

German historian of classical antiquity

*April 7th, 1963, Meckesheim †September 1st, 2016, Meckesheim

62

Robert Wells

Swedish pianist, composer and singer

*April 7th, 1962, Stockholm

80

Makoto Kobayashi

Japanese theoretical physicist (1944-)

*April 7th, 1944, Nagoya

41

Franck Ribéry

French association football player

*April 7th, 1983, Boulogne-sur-Mer

48

Kevin Alejandro

American actor and film director

*April 7th, 1976, San Antonio

67

Gabriela Mistral

Chilean poet, diplomat and educator

*April 7th, 1889, Vicuña †January 10th, 1957, Hempstead

73

Florian Schneider

German musician (1947–2020)

*April 7th, 1947, Kattenhorn †April 30th, 2020, Düsseldorf

74

Cyriak Schwaighofer

Austrian politician

*April 7th, 1950, Werfen

Same year
Born in 1949

75

Joachim Witt

German rock musician

*February 22nd, 1949, Hamburg

74

Rudy Hartono

Indonesian badminton player

*August 18th, 1949, Surabaya

75

Åse Kleveland

Swedish-Norwegian singer and politician

*March 18th, 1949, Stockholm

70

Jahn Teigen

Norwegian singer, musician, and comedian (1949–2020)

*September 27th, 1949, Tønsberg Municipality †February 24th, 2020, Ystad

74

David Rubenstein

American businessman

*August 11th, 1949, Baltimore

74

Sherman Howard

American actor

*June 11th, 1949, Chicago

74

Egon Flaig

German university teacher, Historian of classical antiquity and writer

*May 16th, 1949, Oberstenfeld

74

Meryl Streep

American actress (born 1949)

*June 22nd, 1949, Summit

74

Odaline de la Martinez

American conductor and composer

*October 31st, 1949, Matanzas

74

Gertrúd Ladányi

Badminton player

*May 3rd, 1949, Esztergom

66

Papa Wemba

Congolese singer and musician

*June 14th, 1949, Lubefu †April 24th, 2016, Abidjan

67

Denis Johnson

American writer (novel, drama, poetry, essay) (1949-2017)

*July 1st, 1949, Munich †May 24th, 2017, Sea Ranch

40

Stiv Bators

American punk rock vocalist and guitarist

*October 22nd, 1949, Youngstown †June 3rd, 1990, 1st arrondissement of Paris

74

Sverre Årnes

Norwegian writer

*May 14th, 1949, Surnadal Municipality

74

Gloria Gaynor

American singer

*September 7th, 1949, Newark

75

Jessica Lange

American actress

*April 20th, 1949, Cloquet

67

Carlos Slepoy

Argentinian lawyer (1949-2017)

*October 2nd, 1949, Buenos Aires †April 17th, 2017, Madrid

68

Stanley Greene

American photographer (1949-2017)

*February 14th, 1949, Brooklyn †May 19th, 2017, Paris

74

Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister of Israel (1996–1999, 2009–2021, 2022–present)

*October 21st, 1949, Tel Aviv

74

Bruce Springsteen

American rock singer (born 1949)

*September 23rd, 1949, Long Branch

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on April 7th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast days, Genocide Memorial Day) which are celebrated on April 7th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Born on April 7th, 1949
Future birthdays

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1949 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
April 1949