May 7th, 1887

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Born on May 7th, 1887 – 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 1887)

Born on May 7th, 1887

Weekday

Saturday

May 7th, 1887 was a Saturday.

Age

136

People born on May 7th, 1887 will turn 137 this year (2024), in exactly 14 days .

Zodiac

♉

Taurus (The Bull)

April 21st, 1887 - May 21st, 1887

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 50,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 975 days, exactly on December 24th, 2026, people who were born on May 7th, 1887 will be 51,000 days old!

50,025 Days

7,146 Weeks

1,643 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

Born on May 7th, 1887

Jacob Walcher

German politician (1887-1970)

*May 7th, 1887, Wain †March 27th, 1970, East Berlin

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

Kathleen McKane Godfree

English badminton and tennis player (1896-1992)

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

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

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

Josip Broz

Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman (1892.−1980.)

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

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

Ma Jin

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

Oskar von Miller

German engineer

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

Johannes Brahms

German composer (1833–1897)

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

Anne Baxter

American actress (1923–1985)

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

Gary Cooper

American actor (1901–1961)

*May 7th, 1901, Helena †May 13th, 1961, Beverly Hills

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

Władysław Reymont

Polish novelist (1867-1925)

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

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

Archibald MacLeish

American poet and Librarian of Congress (1892-1982)

*May 7th, 1892, Glencoe †April 20th, 1982, Boston

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

Cheng Xing

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 2002, Jiujiang, Guangdong

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

Joanna Haigh

British physicist

*May 7th, 1954, London

Same year
Born in 1887

Le Corbusier

Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886-1965)

*October 6th, 1887, La Chaux-de-Fonds †August 27th, 1965, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin

Pierre Taittinger

French politician

*October 4th, 1887, 18th arrondissement of Paris †January 22nd, 1965, Paris

Saint-John Perse

French poet and diplomat

*May 31st, 1887, Pointe-à-Pitre †September 20th, 1975, Hyères

Erwin Schrödinger

Austrian physicist (1887–1961)

*August 12th, 1887, Vienna †January 4th, 1961, Vienna

Marc Chagall

Belarusian-born French artist (1887–1985)

*July 14th, 1887, Vitebsk †March 28th, 1985, Saint-Paul-de-Vence

Arthur Rubinstein

Polish-American classical pianist (1887-1982)

*January 28th, 1887, Łódź †December 20th, 1982, Geneva

John Reed

American journalist, poet, and communist activist

*October 22nd, 1887, Portland †October 17th, 1920, Moscow

Hermann Hammerschmidt

*August 21st, 1887, Cottbus †November 30th, 1944

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George Abbott

American writer and director (1887-1995)

*June 25th, 1887, Chautauqua County †January 31st, 1995, Miami Beach

Lynn Fontanne

British actress (1887–1983)

*December 6th, 1887, London †July 30th, 1983, Waukesha County

Josef Lada

Czech illustrator, painter, caricaturist, scenographer and writer (1887-1957)

*December 17th, 1887, Hrusice †December 14th, 1957, Prague

Joseph Lamb

American composer of ragtime music

*December 6th, 1887, Montclair †September 3rd, 1960, Brooklyn

Carmen Lyra

Costa Rican politician and writer

*January 15th, 1887, San José †May 14th, 1949, Mexico City

Lajos Áprily

Hungarian poet/translator/recipient:1954 Attila József Prize

*November 14th, 1887, Brașov †August 6th, 1967, Budapest

Chiang Kai-shek

Chinese politician and military leader (1887–1975)

*October 31st, 1887, Xikou †April 5th, 1975, Taipei

Huntley Gordon

Canadian actor (1887-1956)

*October 8th, 1887, Montreal †December 7th, 1956, Van Nuys

Carlos Dávila

Chilean diplomat, journalist and politician (1887-1955)

*September 15th, 1887, Los Ángeles †October 19th, 1955, Washington, D.C.

Boris Karloff

English actor (1887–1969)

*November 23rd, 1887, Dulwich †February 2nd, 1969, Midhurst

Georgia O'Keeffe

American modernist artist (1887–1986)

*November 15th, 1887, Sun Prairie †March 6th, 1986, Santa Fe

Vidkun Quisling

Norwegian politician and Nazi collaborator (1887–1945)

*July 18th, 1887, Fyresdal †October 24th, 1945, Akershus Fortress

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.MDCCCLXXXVII

7.5.1887

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1887 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
May 1887

May 1887

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May 7th, 1887

Born on May 7th, 1887

Weekday

Saturday

Age

Zodiac

♉

Taurus (The Bull)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 50,000 days old!

50,025 Days

7,146 Weeks

1,643 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

Born on May 7th, 1887

German politician (1887-1970)

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

Same year Born in 1887

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

7.5.1887

Legend

Leap year

Calendar May 1887

May 1887

Date of birth

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Age in days, weeks and months
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Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on May 7th

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Same year
Born in 1887

Calendar
May 1887

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