5 notable people were born on February 7.
February 7 marks the birth of several notable figures from various disciplines. Born on this day are Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler in 1870, China's last emperor Puyi in 1906, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Toshihide Maskawa in 1940, and Singapore's seventh President Tony Tan Keng Yam in 1940. Each has made meaningful contributions to their area of expertise.
The last Emperor of China, who abdicated the Qing dynasty throne in 1912 at age six and later served as puppet ruler of the Japanese-controlled state of Manchukuo. After World War II, he was imprisoned and later worked as a gardener and museum archivist in Beijing.
Singapore's seventh President from 2011 to 2017, who previously served as Deputy Prime Minister and coordinating minister for security and defence. He held a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Adelaide.
Japanese theoretical physicist who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the origin of broken symmetry predicting the existence of quarks. The Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix bears his name.
Taliban spokesperson who served as the group's primary media representative during their insurgency and now holds a government communications role.
Austrian physician who founded individual psychology and introduced the concept of the inferiority complex, breaking away from Freud's psychoanalytic circle in 1911.