07 February: today's birthdays

• Héctor Babenco - Argentine film director, screenwriter and actor
• Peter Blau - Austrian-born American sociologist, born Peter Michael Blau.
• Charles Dickens - English novelist. He wrote The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol
• Miguel Ferrer - American actor of Puerto Rican descent, born Miguel José Ferrer. He was the cousin of George Clooney
• Johann Heinrich Füssli - Swiss painter and scholar
• ​John Hickenlooper - American politician and businessman, member of the Democratic Party
• Laura Ingalls Wilder - American author. She wrote the children's novel Little House on the Prairie 
• Thomas Killigrew - English dramatist and theatre manager
• Ashton Kutcher - American actor. He was married to American actress Demi Moore
• Sinclair Lewis - American novelist and playwright, born Harry Sinclair Lewis. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930. He wrote Arrowsmith and It Can't Happen Here
• Patrick McGrath - English author. He wrote Spider, Martha Peake, and Asylum
• Kristin Otto - Former German swimmer
• Pu Yi - Chinese emperor
• Vasco Rossi - Italian singer songwriter, one of the best selling artist in Italy
• Enrique Serna - Mexican writer
• James Spader - American actor
  
• Daniel Van Buyten - Belgian soccer player
• ​Elia Viviani - Italian road and track racing cyclist