May 7th, 1484

Born on May 7th, 1484

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 197,000 days old!

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... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on May 7th?

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.

May 7th, 1960

Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.

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

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

47

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

35

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

49

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

39

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

24

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

62

Anne Baxter

American actress (1923–1985)

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

26

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

53

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

21

Cheng Xing

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 2002, Jiujiang, Guangdong

87

Josip Broz

Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman (1892.−1980.)

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

37

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

56

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

36

Jérémy Ménez

French association football player

*May 7th, 1987, Longjumeau

52

Thomas Piketty

French economist

*May 7th, 1971, Clichy

69

Joanna Haigh

British physicist

*May 7th, 1954, London

58

Władysław Reymont

Polish novelist (1867-1925)

*May 7th, 1867, Kobiele Wielkie †December 5th, 1925, Warsaw

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63

Hernán Cortés

Spanish conquistador

*November 30th, 1484, Medellin †December 2nd, 1547, Castilleja de la Cuesta

47

Huldrych Zwingli

Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder (1484-1531)

*January 1st, 1484, Wildhaus †October 11th, 1531, Kappel am Albis

55

Thomas Cromwell

English statesman (1485–1540)

*November 30th, 1484, Putney †July 28th, 1540, Tower Hill

61

George Spalatin

German humanist

*January 26th, 1484, Spalt †January 26th, 1545, Altenburg

62

Antonio da Sangallo the Younger

Italian architect

*April 12th, 1484, Florence †August 3rd, 1546, Terni

66

Paul Speratus

German Lutheran

*December 13th, 1484, Ellwangen †August 12th, 1551, Kwidzyn

51

Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg

Elector of Brandenburg

*February 21st, 1484, Old Cölln †July 11th, 1535, Stendal

65

Veronica Gambara

Italian poet and stateswoman

*November 30th, 1484, Pralboino †June 13th, 1550, Correggio

68

Wolf Huber

German painter and architect. (c.1485-1553)

*November 30th, 1484, Feldkirch †January 1st, 1553, Passau

59

George of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

*March 4th, 1484, Ansbach †December 27th, 1543, Ansbach

52

Heinrich Ehinger

(1484-1537)

*February 5th, 1484, Constance †January 1st, 1537, Constance

66

Joachim Vadian

Humanist from St Gall

*November 29th, 1484, St. Gallen †April 6th, 1551, St. Gallen

66

Johann Spangenberg

German theologian

*March 29th, 1484, Hardegsen †June 13th, 1550, Lutherstadt Eisleben

70

Gottfried Werner von Zimmern

German writer

*January 13th, 1484, Messkirch †April 2nd, 1554, Messkirch

55

Bernardo Clesio

Catholic cardinal

*March 11th, 1484, Cles †July 30th, 1539, Brixen

76

Bartholomew V. Welser

German banker

*June 25th, 1484, Memmingen †March 28th, 1561, Amberg

74

Julius Caesar Scaliger

Italian scholar, physician and philosopher (1484-1558)

*April 23rd, 1484, Riva del Garda †October 21st, 1558, Agen

68

Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, Marquis of Villafranca

Spanish viceroy (1484-1553)

*July 13th, 1484, Alba de Tormes †February 21st, 1553, Florence

51

Christoph Kress

(1484-1535)

*January 1st, 1484, Nuremberg †December 15th, 1535

42

Luisa de Medrano

Spanish scholar

*August 9th, 1484, Atienza †January 1st, 1527

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Leap year

Yes: 1484 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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