May 7th, 1605

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Born on May 7th, 1605 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on May 7th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on May 7th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (May 1605)

Born on May 7th, 1605

Weekday

Saturday

May 7th, 1605 was a Saturday.

Age

418

People born on May 7th, 1605 will turn 419 this year (2024), in exactly 8 days .

Zodiac

♉

Taurus (The Bull)

April 21st, 1605 - May 21st, 1605

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 153,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 971 days, exactly on December 26th, 2026, people who were born on May 7th, 1605 will be 154,000 days old!

153,029 Days

21,861 Weeks

5,027 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

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?

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

Ma Jin

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

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

Johannes Brahms

German composer (1833–1897)

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

Kathleen McKane Godfree

English badminton and tennis player (1896-1992)

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

Oskar von Miller

German engineer

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

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

Anne Baxter

American actress (1923–1985)

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

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

Cheng Xing

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 2002, Jiujiang, Guangdong

Josip Broz

Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman (1892.−1980.)

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

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

Jérémy Ménez

French association football player

*May 7th, 1987, Longjumeau

Thomas Piketty

French economist

*May 7th, 1971, Clichy

Joanna Haigh

British physicist

*May 7th, 1954, London

Władysław Reymont

Polish novelist (1867-1925)

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

Same year
Born in 1605

Philip IV of Spain

King of Spain and Portugal (1605-1665)

*April 8th, 1605, Valladolid Royal Palace †September 17th, 1665, Cuarto bajo del Rey

Thomas Browne

English polymath and author (1605–1682)

*October 19th, 1605, London †October 19th, 1682, Norwich

Tianqi Emperor

Emperor of the Ming Dynasty

*December 23rd, 1605, Beijing †September 30th, 1627, Beijing

George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

*March 17th, 1605, Darmstadt †June 11th, 1661, Darmstadt

Frans Banning Cocq

Dutch politician, lord of Purmerend and Ilpendam, owner/creator of the album amicorum of Frans Banninck Cocq

*February 23rd, 1605, Amsterdam †January 1st, 1655, Amsterdam

Philip Maurice, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg

German noble

*August 25th, 1605, Hanau †August 3rd, 1638, Hanau

Johann Lorenz Bausch

*September 30th, 1605, Schweinfurt †November 17th, 1665, Schweinfurt

Tristram Coffin

American investor

*March 11th, 1605, Brixton †October 2nd, 1681, Nantucket

Semyon Dezhnyov

Russian explorer

*March 7th, 1605, Veliky Ustyug †January 1st, 1673, Moscow

William Dugard

English printer

*January 9th, 1605, Bromsgrove †December 3rd, 1662, London

Barthold Moller (vom Baum)

Legal academic, mayor of Hamburg

*November 19th, 1605, Hamburg †April 7th, 1667, Hamburg

Cesare Fracanzano

Italian painter (1605-1651)

*October 16th, 1605, Bisceglie †January 1st, 1651, Barletta

Valentin Heider

German councillor

*March 25th, 1605, Lindau †November 28th, 1664, Lindau

Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore

English peer (1605-1675)

*August 8th, 1605, Kent †November 30th, 1675, Middlesex

Bernard of Corleone

Sicilian Franciscan

*February 6th, 1605, Corleone †January 12th, 1667, Palermo

Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier

French princess

*October 15th, 1605, Château de Gaillon †June 4th, 1627, Paris

Federico Ubaldo della Rovere, Duke of Urbino

Italian noble

*May 16th, 1605, Pesaro †June 28th, 1623, Urbino

Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy

French writer and composer

*October 16th, 1605, Paris †October 29th, 1677, Paris

Orazio Benevoli

Italian composer (1605-1672)

*April 19th, 1605, Rome †June 17th, 1672, Rome

William Dugdale

English officer of arms

*September 12th, 1605, Shustoke †February 10th, 1686, Shustoke

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on May 7th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on May 7th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

VII.V.MDCV

7.5.1605

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1605 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
May 1605

May 1605

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17							1
18	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
19	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
20	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
21	23	24	25	26	27	28	29
22	30	31

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
17							1
18	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
19	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
20	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
21	23	24	25	26	27	28	29
22	30	31

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
17							1
18	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
19	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
20	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
21	23	24	25	26	27	28	29
22	30	31

May 7th, 1605

Born on May 7th, 1605

Weekday

Saturday

Age

Zodiac

♉

Taurus (The Bull)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 153,000 days old!

153,029 Days

21,861 Weeks

5,027 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on May 7th?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

Same year Born in 1605

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on May 7th

Agathius of Byzantium

Agostino Roscelli

Pope Benedict II

Flavia Domitilla

Gisela of Hungary

Harriet Starr Cannon (Episcopal Church (USA))

John of Beverley

Rose Venerini

Stanislaus (Roman Martyrology)

May 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Defender of the Fatherland Day (Kazakhstan)

Dien Bien Phu Victory Day (Vietnam)

Radio Day, commemorating the work of Alexander Popov (Russia, Bulgaria)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

7.5.1605

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 153,000 days old!

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

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

Same year
Born in 1605

Calendar
May 1605

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
17							1
18	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
19	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
20	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
21	23	24	25	26	27	28	29
22	30	31