May 7th, 1549

Born on May 7th, 1549

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 173,000 days old!

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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

53

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

26

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

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

Same year
Born in 1549

78

Francesco Maria del Monte

Cardinal and patron of music and art in Rome

*July 5th, 1549, Venice †August 27th, 1627, Rome

53

Catherine of Brandenburg-Küstrin

Daughter of Margrave John of Küstrin

*August 10th, 1549, Kostrzyn nad Odrą †September 30th, 1602, Old Cölln

72

Sir Henry Savile

English bible translator (1549-1622)

*November 30th, 1549, Yorkshire †February 19th, 1622, Eton

60

Kryštof z Lobkovic

Czech poet, hofmeister and valet

*April 28th, 1549, Horšovský Týn †May 25th, 1609, Prague

59

Ferdinando I de' Medici

Grand Duke of Tuscany (1549-1609)

*July 30th, 1549, Florence †February 3rd, 1609, Florence

72

Francesco Soriano

Italian composer of the Renaissance, born 1548 or 1549, died 29 July 1621

*January 1st, 1549, Soriano nel Cimino †July 19th, 1621, Rome

30

Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain

Queen consort of Spain (1549-1580)

*November 1st, 1549, Palace of the Counts of Benavente, Cigales †October 26th, 1580, Badajoz

60

Anna Elisabeth of Palatinate-Simmern

(1549-1609)

*July 23rd, 1549, Simmern †September 20th, 1609, La Petite-Pierre

61

Francis Solanus

Spanish missionary and saint

*March 10th, 1549, Montilla †July 14th, 1610, Lima

32

Duchess Sabine of Württemberg

Princess of Württemberg by birth, and by marriage, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel (1549-1581)

*July 2nd, 1549, Montbéliard †August 17th, 1581, Rotenburg an der Fulda

48

Princess Elizabeth of Sweden

Swedish princess; daughter of Gustav I of Sweden and Margaret Leijonhufvud (1549-1597)

*April 4th, 1549, Kungsör †November 12th, 1597, Stockholm

67

Kaspar Ulenberg

German theologian

*December 24th, 1549, Lippstadt †February 16th, 1617, Cologne

74

Philippe de Mornay

French theologian (1549-1623)

*November 5th, 1549, Buhy †November 11th, 1623, La Forêt-sur-Sèvre

65

Jakob Ebert

German theologian

*January 26th, 1549, Szprotawa †February 5th, 1614, Frankfurt (Oder)

54

Barnim X, Duke of Pomerania

Duke of Pomerania-Stettin

*February 15th, 1549, Wolgast †September 1st, 1603, Szczecin

50

João de Lucena

Portuguese writer (1549-1600)

*December 27th, 1549, Trancoso †October 2nd, 1600, Lisbon

61

Johann Pappus

German theologian

*January 16th, 1549, Lindau †July 13th, 1610, Strasbourg

66

Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł

Grand Marshal of Lithuanian (1549-1616)

*August 2nd, 1549, Ćmielów †February 28th, 1616, Niasviž

82

Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino

Italian noble

*February 20th, 1549, Pesaro †April 28th, 1631, Urbania

42

Francesco Bassano the Younger

Italian painter (1549-1592)

*January 7th, 1549, Bassano del Grappa †January 1st, 1592, Venice

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1549 is a normal year and no leap year.

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