May 7th, 1564

Born on May 7th, 1564

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

62

Anne Baxter

American actress (1923–1985)

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

24

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

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 1564

52

William Shakespeare

English playwright and poet (1564–1616)

*March 31st, 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon †April 23rd, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon

77

Galileo Galilei

Italian polymath

*February 15th, 1564, Pisa †January 8th, 1642, Arcetri

55

William Adams

English navigator who travelled to Japan

*September 24th, 1564, Gillingham †May 16th, 1620, Hirado

29

Christopher Marlowe

English dramatist, poet and translator (1564–1593)

*February 6th, 1564, Canterbury †May 30th, 1593, Deptford

46

Ernest II

Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

*December 31st, 1564, Celle †March 2nd, 1611, Celle

64

Johannes Buxtorf

German Calvinist theologian

*December 25th, 1564, Kamen †September 13th, 1629, Basel

72

Antonius Matthaeus

German jurist (1564-1637)

*December 27th, 1564, Frankenberg †May 28th, 1637, Groningen

68

Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland

English aristocrat (1564-1632)

*April 27th, 1564, Tynemouth †November 5th, 1632, Petworth

73

Vincenzo Giustiniani

Italian banker and art collector (1564-1637)

*September 13th, 1564, Chios †December 27th, 1637, Rome

62

Pierre Coton

French Jesuit priest (1564-1626)

*January 1st, 1564, Néronde †March 19th, 1626, Paris

54

Johann Domann

German judge and author (1564-1618)

*May 2nd, 1564, Osnabrück †September 20th, 1618, The Hague

39

Johann Adam von Bicken

Archbishop-Elector

*May 27th, 1564, Netphen †January 11th, 1604, Aschaffenburg

72

Karel ze Žerotína

Czech nobleman (1564-1636)

*September 15th, 1564, Brandýs nad Orlicí †October 9th, 1636, Přerov

78

William Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg

German Prince

*March 15th, 1564, Harburg †March 30th, 1642, Harburg

45

Joseph Heintz the Elder

Swiss painter (1564-1609)

*June 11th, 1564, Basel †October 15th, 1609, Prague

53

David Fabricius

German astronomer

*March 9th, 1564, Esens †May 7th, 1617, Osteel

69

John Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg

Duke of Saxe-Coburg

*June 12th, 1564, Gotha †July 16th, 1633, Coburg

67

Federico Borromeo

Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (1564-1631)

*August 18th, 1564, Milan †September 21st, 1631, Milan

71

Reynier Pauw

Dutch politician (1564-1636)

*July 29th, 1564, Amsterdam †February 19th, 1636, Amsterdam

47

Hans Leo Hassler

German composer and organist (1564-1612)

*November 5th, 1564, Nuremberg †June 8th, 1612, Frankfurt

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Leap year

Yes: 1564 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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