May 7th, 1355

Born on May 7th, 1355

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 244,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 596 days, exactly on February 18th, 2026, people who were born on May 7th, 1355 will be 245,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on May 7th?

May 7th, 1954

A convoy of circus wagons carrying lions, horses, ponies and an ass lost control and overturned into some shop fronts in Dungannon, Northern Ireland.

May 7th, 2010

A draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome was published, demonstrating that today's humans have Neanderthal ancestors.

May 7th, 2009

Police in Napier, New Zealand, began a 40-hour siege of the home of a former New Zealand Army member who had shot at officers during the routine execution of a search warrant.

May 7th, 1999

Kosovo War: NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the United States bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

May 7th, 1960

Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union was holding American pilot Francis Gary Powers, whose spy plane had been shot down six days earlier.

May 7th, 1946

Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded the telecommunications corporation Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, later renamed Sony.

May 7th, 1937

Employees at Fleischer Studios in New York City went on strike in the animation industry's first major labor strike.

May 7th, 1931

New York City police engaged in a two-hour-long shootout with Francis Crowley, witnessed by 15,000 bystanders, before he finally surrendered.

May 7th, 1895

Alexander Stepanovich Popov presented his lightning detector, one of the first radio receivers in the world, to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society.

May 7th, 1798

War of the First Coalition: A British garrison repelled a French attack on the Îles Saint-Marcouf off the Normandy coast, inflicting heavy losses.

May 7th, 1794

French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre (pictured) established the Cult of the Supreme Being as the new state religion of the French First Republic.

May 7th, 1763

Pontiac, a Native American chief of the Odawa tribe, led an attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British, marking the start of Pontiac's War.

May 7th, 1697

The 13th-century castle of Tre Kronor in Stockholm burned down; plans for the current royal palace were presented within the year.

May 7th, 1487

Granada War: Forces of Aragon and Castile began a siege of Málaga, a Muslim city in the south of the Iberian Peninsula.

May 7th, 1964

Pacific Airlines Flight 773 is hijacked by Francisco Gonzales and crashes in Contra Costa County, California, killing 44.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on May 7th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on May 7th?

48

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

36

Ma Jin

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

80

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

*May 7th, 1861, Kolkata †August 7th, 1941, Kolkata

63

Johannes Brahms

German composer (1833–1897)

*May 7th, 1833, Hamburg †April 3rd, 1897, Vienna

96

Kathleen McKane Godfree

English badminton and tennis player (1896-1992)

*May 7th, 1896, Bayswater †June 19th, 1992, London

78

Oskar von Miller

German engineer

*May 7th, 1855, Munich †April 9th, 1934, Munich

50

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

40

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

25

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

27

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

62

Anne Baxter

American actress (1923–1985)

*May 7th, 1923, Michigan City †December 12th, 1985, New York City

54

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

22

Cheng Xing

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 2002, Jiujiang, Guangdong

38

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

87

Josip Broz

Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman (1892.−1980.)

*May 7th, 1892, Kumrovec †May 4th, 1980, Ljubljana

57

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

37

Jérémy Ménez

French association football player

*May 7th, 1987, Longjumeau

53

Thomas Piketty

French economist

*May 7th, 1971, Clichy

70

Joanna Haigh

British physicist

*May 7th, 1954, London

34

Sydney Leroux

Canadian-born American soccer player

*May 7th, 1990, Surrey

Same year
Born in 1355

36

Zhu Biao

Ming Dynasty prince

*October 10th, 1355, Anhui †May 17th, 1392

26

Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster

English countess (1355-1382)

*August 16th, 1355, Eltham Palace †January 5th, 1382, Cork

42

Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester

Thirteenth and youngest child of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault

*January 7th, 1355, Woodstock Palace †September 8th, 1397, Calais

54

Martin of Aragon

King of Aragon

*November 30th, 1355, Perpignan †May 31st, 1410, Barcelona

32

Henry Ferrers, 4th Baron Ferrers of Groby

English nobleman

*November 30th, 1355, Tilty Abbey †November 30th, 1387

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1355 is a normal year and no leap year.

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