May 7th, 1666

Born on May 7th, 1666

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

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Born in 1666

72

Magnus Berg

Painter and sculptor (1666-1739)

*November 28th, 1666, Gudbrandsdalen †March 31st, 1739, Copenhagen

29

Ivan V of Russia

Tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1696

*August 27th, 1666, Moscow †January 29th, 1696, Moscow

80

Jean-Féry Rebel

French Baroque composer and violinist

*April 18th, 1666, Paris †January 2nd, 1747, Paris

60

Sophia Dorothea of Celle

Wife of George I of Great Britain (1666-1726)

*September 15th, 1666, Celle Castle †November 13th, 1726, Ahlden House

66

Victor Amadeus II of Savoy

Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia (1675-1732)

*May 14th, 1666, Turin †October 31st, 1732, Moncalieri

41

Guru Gobind Singh

Tenth Sikh Guru (1666–1708)

*December 22nd, 1666, Patna †October 7th, 1708, Nanded

63

Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl

Swedish artist (1666-1729)

*September 4th, 1666, Stockholm †October 22nd, 1729, Parish of St Gertrud of Germany

57

Benedetto Luti

Italian painter (1666–1724)

*November 17th, 1666, Florence †June 17th, 1724, Rome

69

Carl Gustaf Armfeldt

Swedish general during the Great Northern War

*November 9th, 1666, Swedish Ingria †October 24th, 1736, Pernå

58

Gurdon Saltonstall

Governor of Connecticut (1666-1724)

*March 27th, 1666, Haverhill †September 20th, 1724, New London

70

George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney

Scottish nobleman and field marshal

*February 9th, 1666, Hamilton Palace †January 29th, 1737, London

76

Sigmund Friedrich Khevenhüller

(1666-1742)

*September 17th, 1666, Klagenfurt †December 8th, 1742, Vienna

72

Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri

Italian luthier

*November 25th, 1666, Cremona †January 1st, 1739, Cremona

68

George Granville

1st Baron Lansdowne

*March 9th, 1666, London †January 29th, 1735, Hanover Square

66

Conrad Mel

German theologian (1666-1733)

*August 14th, 1666, Gudensberg †May 3rd, 1733, Bad Hersfeld

78

Jean-Jacques Bouhier de Lantenay

French bishop (1666-1744)

*March 14th, 1666, Dijon †October 15th, 1744, Dijon

62

Attilio Ariosti

Italian composer

*November 5th, 1666, Bologna †January 1st, 1729, London

27

Odoardo Farnese, Hereditary Prince of Parma

Prince of Parma

*August 12th, 1666, Colorno †September 6th, 1693, Parma

72

George Bähr

German architect

*March 15th, 1666, Fürstenwalde †March 16th, 1738, Dresden

71

Johann Daniel Preissler

German painter (1666-1737)

*January 17th, 1666, Nuremberg †October 13th, 1737, Nuremberg

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