J. L. B. Smith, South African chemist and academic (born 1897)

James Leonard Brierley Smith was a South African ichthyologist, organic chemist, and university professor. He was the first to identify a taxidermied fish as a coelacanth, at the time thought to be long extinct.

January 7 is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 358 days remain until the end of the year.