07 April: today's birthdays

• Claire Bretécher - French cartoonist noted for the introduction of female characters and feminist themes in her works.
• José Martín Cáceres - Uruguayan soccer player
• Francis Ford Coppola - American film director and screenwriter. He won two Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay, an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, one for Best Picture, one for Best Director, and an Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award 
• Russell Crowe - New Zealand-born Australian actor. He won an Oscar for Best Actor in 2000
• Soledad Fandiño - Argentine model
• Billie Holiday - American jazz singer and songwriter
  
• Bronisław Malinowski - Polish-born American anthropologist
• Gabriela Mistral - Chilean poet, educator and diplomat, born Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945
• Ruth Núñez - Spanish actress
• Franck Ribéry - French footballer 
• Ratko Rudić - Croatian water polo coach and former player
• Daniela Santanchè - Italian politician and entrepreneur
• Gerhard Schröder - German politician
• Donald Woods Winnicott - English pediatrician and psychoanalyst
• William Wordsworth - English poet. He wrote Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems with his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge