May 7th, 1513

Born on May 7th, 1513

Age in days, weeks and months
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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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79

Jacques Amyot

French writer

*October 30th, 1513, Melun †February 6th, 1593, Auxerre

76

Francisco de Salinas

Spanish musician

*March 1st, 1513, Burgos †January 13th, 1590, Salamanca

63

Thomas Smith

16th-century English scholar and diplomat

*December 23rd, 1513, Saffron Walden †August 12th, 1577

21

Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg

Queen consort of Sweden

*September 24th, 1513, Ratzeburg †September 23rd, 1535, Stockholm

57

John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Küstrin

Margrave of Brandenburg-Küstrin (1513-1571)

*August 3rd, 1513, Tangermünde †January 13th, 1571, Kostrzyn nad Odrą

71

Wolfgang Meurer

Meurer, Wolfgang; b. 13 May 1513 in Altenberg; d. 6 Feb. 1585 in Leipzig; doctor, professor of medicine, philosopher

*May 13th, 1513, Altenberg †February 5th, 1585, Leipzig

76

Adrian Albinus

German jurist

*October 21st, 1513, Lubań †July 4th, 1590, Kostrzyn nad Odrą

57

Daniele Barbaro

Italian translator of, and commentator on, Vitruvius, cardinal (1513-1570)

*February 8th, 1513, Venice †April 13th, 1570, Venice

70

Detmar Kenckel

German politician (1513-1584)

*October 9th, 1513, Verden †February 19th, 1584, Bremen

59

Hedwig Jagiellon, Electress of Brandenburg

Electress Of Brandenburg (1513-1573)

*March 15th, 1513, Poznań †February 7th, 1573, Neuruppin

60

Domenico Ferrabosco

Italian composer (1513-1574)

*February 14th, 1513, Bologna †January 31st, 1574, Bologna

87

Niels Hemmingsen

Danish theologian

*January 1st, 1513, Lolland †January 1st, 1600, Roskilde

69

Louis, Duke of Montpensier

Second Duke of Montpensier

*June 10th, 1513, Moulins †September 23rd, 1582, Champigny-sur-Veude

58

William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton

British noble

*August 14th, 1513, London †October 28th, 1571, Warwick

52

Stanisław Orzechowski

Polish writer

*November 11th, 1513, Przemyśl †November 30th, 1565, Gmina Żurawica

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Leap year

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