| 39961 | April 7 | Birth | 1648 – John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English poet and politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 1721) |
| 39962 | April 7 | Birth | 1652 – Pope Clement XII (d. 1740) |
| 39963 | April 7 | Birth | 1713 – Nicola Sala, Italian composer and theorist (d. 1801) |
| 39964 | April 7 | Birth | 1718 – Hugh Blair, Scottish minister and author (d. 1800) |
| 39965 | April 7 | Birth | 1727 – Michel Adanson, French botanist, entomologist, and mycologist (d. 1806) |
| 39966 | April 7 | Birth | 1763 – Domenico Dragonetti, Italian bassist and composer (d. 1846) |
| 39967 | April 7 | Birth | 1770 – William Wordsworth, English mystic and poet (d. 1850) |
| 39968 | April 7 | Birth | 1772 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher and author (d. 1837) |
| 39969 | April 7 | Birth | 1780 – William Ellery Channing, American preacher and theologian (d. 1842) |
| 39970 | April 7 | Birth | 1803 – James Curtiss, American journalist and politician, 11th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1859) |
| 39971 | April 7 | Birth | 1803 – Flora Tristan, French author and activist (d. 1844) |
| 39972 | April 7 | Birth | 1811 – Hasan Tahsini, Albanian astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1881) |
| 39973 | April 7 | Birth | 1848 – Randall Davidson, Scottish archbishop (d. 1930) |
| 39974 | April 7 | Birth | 1853 – Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, (d. 1884) |
| 39975 | April 7 | Birth | 1859 – Walter Camp, American football player and coach (d. 1925) |
| 39976 | April 7 | Birth | 1860 – Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (d. 1951) |
| 39977 | April 7 | Birth | 1867 – Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist and academic (d. 1953) |
| 39978 | April 7 | Birth | 1870 – Gustav Landauer, German theorist and activist (d. 1919) |
| 39979 | April 7 | Birth | 1871 – Epifanio de los Santos, Filipino jurist, historian, and scholar (d. 1927) |
| 39980 | April 7 | Birth | 1873 – John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (d. 1934) |
| 39981 | April 7 | Birth | 1874 – Frederick Carl Frieseke, German-American painter (d. 1939) |
| 39982 | April 7 | Birth | 1876 – Fay Moulton, American sprinter, football player, coach, and lawyer (d. 1945) |
| 39983 | April 7 | Birth | 1882 – Kurt von Schleicher, German general and politician, 23rd Chancellor of Germany (d. 1934) |
| 39984 | April 7 | Birth | 1883 – Gino Severini, Italian-French painter and author (d. 1966) |
| 39985 | April 7 | Birth | 1884 – Clement Smoot, American golfer (d. 1963) |
| 39986 | April 7 | Birth | 1886 – Ed Lafitte, American baseball player and soldier (d. 1971) |
| 39987 | April 7 | Birth | 1889 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957) |
| 39988 | April 7 | Birth | 1890 – Paul Berth, Danish footballer (d. 1969) |
| 39989 | April 7 | Birth | 1890 – Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American journalist and activist (d. 1998) |
| 39990 | April 7 | Birth | 1891 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman, founded the Lego Group (d. 1958) |