May 7th, 1715

Born on May 7th, 1715

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

62

Anne Baxter

American actress (1923–1985)

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

39

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

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

87

Josip Broz

Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman (1892.−1980.)

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

21

Cheng Xing

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 2002, Jiujiang, Guangdong

37

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

45

Olympe de Gouges

French playwright and political activist

*May 7th, 1748, Montauban †November 3rd, 1793, Paris

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

Same year
Born in 1715

44

Ewald Christian von Kleist

German poet and noble

*March 7th, 1715, Cybulino, Koszalin County †August 24th, 1759, Frankfurt (Oder)

42

Robert-François Damiens

French domestic servant and attempted assassin

*January 9th, 1715, La Thieuloye †March 28th, 1757, Paris

14

Peter II of Russia

Emperor of Russia (1715-1730)

*October 12th, 1715, Saint Petersburg †January 19th, 1730, Moscow

72

William Watson

English physician and scientist (1715–1787)

*April 3rd, 1715, London †May 10th, 1787, London

56

Claude Adrien Helvétius

French philosopher; (1715-1771)

*January 26th, 1715, rue Sainte-Anne †December 26th, 1771, Paris

65

Christian Gottlob Frege

German merchant (1715-1781)

*November 21st, 1715, Lampertswalde †May 20th, 1781, Leipzig

83

Pierre Charles Le Monnier

French astronomer

*November 20th, 1715, Paris †March 30th, 1799, Les Hérils

73

Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval

French general (1715–1789)

*September 15th, 1715, Amiens †May 9th, 1789, Paris

64

Gennaro Manna

Italian composer (1715-1779)

*December 12th, 1715, Naples †December 28th, 1779, Naples

62

Johann Friedrich Frisch

German author and theologian (1715-1778)

*December 6th, 1715, Brand-Erbisdorf †November 4th, 1778, Leipzig

46

Dorothea Erxleben

Physician (1715-1762)

*November 13th, 1715, Quedlinburg †June 13th, 1762, Quedlinburg

67

James Nares

English composer

*April 19th, 1715, Stanwell †February 10th, 1783, London

75

Charles-Nicolas Cochin

French artist (1715-1790)

*February 22nd, 1715, Paris †April 29th, 1790, Paris

78

Philippe de Noailles

Marshal of France

*November 27th, 1715, Paris †June 27th, 1794, Paris

71

Antonio Casali

Italian cardinal (1715-1787)

*May 25th, 1715, Rome †January 14th, 1787, Rome

77

Johann Philipp Bethmann

German merchant and banker

*November 30th, 1715, Frankfurt †November 27th, 1793, Frankfurt

62

Georg Christoph Wagenseil

Austrian composer

*January 29th, 1715, Vienna †March 1st, 1777, Vienna

70

Jean-Étienne Guettard

French scientist (1715-1786)

*September 19th, 1715, Étampes †January 7th, 1786, Paris

89

Jacob Bryant

British writer

*January 1st, 1715, Plymouth †January 1st, 1804

31

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

French writer, a moralist (1715-1747)

*August 6th, 1715, Aix-en-Provence †May 28th, 1747, Paris

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1715 is a normal year and no leap year.

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