Born on April 7

Reformer of the Carmelite Order, mystic, Doctor of the Church

French journalist and feminist activist (1803–1844), Flora Tristan championed the emancipation of women and the condition of the working class in the 19th century. She was a pioneer of feminism and socialism, placing the question of women at the heart of political and social debate.

Gabriela Mistral, born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, was a Chilean poet and diplomat. The first Latin American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945, she devoted her work to themes of maternal love, childhood, and Latin American identity.

African-American jazz singer

Indian sitarist and composer

Freddie Hubbard (1938-2008) was an American jazz trumpeter, one of the major figures of hard bop. Blessed with a brilliant technique and a dazzling sound, he left his mark on the 1960s and 1970s before broadening his style toward jazz fusion.

Francis Ford Coppola is an American director, screenwriter, and producer born in 1939, a major figure of New Hollywood. He is world-renowned for the Godfather trilogy and for Apocalypse Now, both of which have become cinema classics.