Daily Calendar - April 7
4/7/2026
The 98th day of the year, 268 days left until the New Year.
Church Calendar
Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Born:
1699 — Bakari, son of Vakhtang VI, de facto king of Kartli in 1716-1719, founder of the Gruzinsky family. Died in 1750.
1613 — Gerard Dow, Dutch painter.
1727 — Michel Adanson, French botanist, famous explorer of tropical Africa.
1770 — William Wordsworth, English poet, founder of the romantic movement in English poetry. Died in 1850.
1772 — Charles Fourier, socialist-utopian, died in 1837.
1847 — Jens Peter Jacobsen, Danish writer, died in 1885.
1867 — Alexander Samoilov, Russian physiologist, one of the founders of modern electrophysiology, Lenin Prize laureate, died in 1930.
1885 — Iliko Kurkhuli, itinerant musician. Died in 1954.
1889 — Gabriela Mastrali, Chilean poet and diplomat. Died in 1957.
1893 — Allen Dulles, first director of the US Central Intelligence Agency.
1908 — Marika Baratashvili, poet.
1915 — Bill Holiday, American jazz singer.
1954 — Jackie Chan, American film actor.
1964 — Russell Crowe, American film actor.
Died:
1614 — El Greco, Greek-born Spanish painter, born 1514.
1783 — Ignaz Holzbauer, Austrian composer, born 1711.
1850 — William Bowles, English poet, born 1762.
1875 — Georg Herweg, German poet, born 1817.
1947 — Henry Ford, industrialist, founder of the automobile industry, born 1863.
1968 — Jim Clark, two-time world champion in motor racing, was born in 1936.
Events:
1348 — Charles University is founded in Prague, one of the oldest universities in Europe.
1827 — The first match is sold in England by its inventor, John Walker.
1906 — The great eruption of the Italian volcano Vesuvius.
1943 — A plane from England crashes into the Mediterranean Sea, killing all thirteen passengers, including the exiled Polish Prime Minister Sikorski.
1953 — Dag Hammarskjöld is elected Secretary-General of the United Nations.
1963 — The new constitution of Yugoslavia grants Josip Tito the presidency for life.
1989 — The Soviet nuclear submarine Komsomolets sank off the coast of Norway.
Memorable days:
World Health Day.
Mozambique – Women's Day
Armenia – Motherhood and Beauty Day
Rwanda – National Day of Mourning