May 7th, 1942

Born on May 7th, 1942

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on May 7th, 1942?

May 7th, 1942

World War II: During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō; the battle marks the first time in naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Coral_Sea

What else 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.

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

Born on May 7th, 1942

81

Maximilian Reimann

Swiss politician

*May 7th, 1942, Laufenburg

81

Gerhard Polt

German actor and filmmaker

*May 7th, 1942, Munich

81

Stan Gustafson

American lawyer and politician

*May 7th, 1942, Washington, D.C.

81

Andy Montañez

Puerto Rican musician

*May 7th, 1942, San Juan

81

Francisco Javier Errázuriz Talavera

Chilean politician

*May 7th, 1942, Santiago †March 4th, 2024, Santiago

81

Maria Chaput

Canadian politician

*May 7th, 1942, Ste. Anne

81

Christer Ulfbåge

Swedish sports journalist

*May 7th, 1942, Falköping

81

Jean-Paul Alduy

French politician

*May 7th, 1942, 6th arrondissement of Lyon

81

Jochen Striebeck

German actor

*May 7th, 1942, Piła

71

Pietro Farina

Italian Roman Catholic bishop (1942-2013)

*May 7th, 1942, Maddaloni †September 24th, 2013, Pozzilli

81

Alan Ashton

American businessman

*May 7th, 1942, Salt Lake City

81

John Flavin

American baseball player

*May 7th, 1942, Albany

81

Maurice Vaïsse

French historian

*May 7th, 1942, Algiers

81

Elliot Koffman

Computer scientist

*May 7th, 1942, Boston

81

David Demaine

Footballer (born 1942)

*May 7th, 1942, Cleveleys

81

Bob Weiss

American basketball player and coach

*May 7th, 1942, Easton

72

David John Galloway

New Zealand botanist and lichenologist (1942-2014)

*May 7th, 1942, Invercargill †December 6th, 2014, Dunedin

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

62

Anne Baxter

American actress (1923–1985)

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

96

Kathleen McKane Godfree

English badminton and tennis player (1896-1992)

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

79

Sabina Higgins

Irish actress, wife of 9th Irish President

*May 7th, 1944, Ballindine

49

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

69

Joanna Haigh

British physicist

*May 7th, 1954, London

53

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

39

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

56

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

78

Ruud Lubbers

Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994

*May 7th, 1939, Rotterdam †February 14th, 2018, Rotterdam

66

Véronique Jannot

French actress and singer

*May 7th, 1957, Annecy

24

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

26

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

63

Johannes Brahms

German composer (1833–1897)

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

37

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

80

Harvey Andrews

English singer, songwriter, and poet

*May 7th, 1943, Stechford

21

Cheng Xing

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 2002, Jiujiang, Guangdong

52

Thomas Piketty

French economist

*May 7th, 1971, Clichy

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Born in 1942

81

Joe Biden

President of the United States since 2021

*November 20th, 1942, Scranton

77

Terry Jones

Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer (1942–2020)

*February 1st, 1942, Colwyn Bay †January 21st, 2020, North London

81

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer

German-Swedish actor

*August 16th, 1942, Essen

76

Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)

*January 8th, 1942, Oxford †March 14th, 2018, Cambridge

81

Katherine Justice

American actress

*October 28th, 1942, Sacramento

81

Wolfgang Schäuble

German politician and statesman (1942–2023)

*September 18th, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau †December 26th, 2023, Offenburg

81

Richard Stoltzman

American musician

*July 12th, 1942, Omaha

81

Amitabh Bachchan

Indian film actor (born 1942)

*October 11th, 1942, Prayagraj

82

John Cale

Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer

*March 9th, 1942, Garnant

81

Paul McCartney

English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942)

*June 18th, 1942, Liverpool

74

Daliah Lavi

Israeli actress, singer and model (1942-2017)

*October 12th, 1942, Shavei Tzion †May 3rd, 2017, Asheville

74

Muhammad Ali

American boxer, philanthropist, and activist (1942–2016)

*January 17th, 1942, Louisville †June 3rd, 2016, Scottsdale

82

Per A. Anonsen

Norwegian actor, film editor, screenwriter and film producer

*January 8th, 1942, Oslo

81

Søren Steen

Danish actor

*August 22nd, 1942, Denmark

69

Muammar Gaddafi

Libyan dictator, politician and political theorist (1942–2011)

*June 7th, 1942, Qasr Abu Hadi †October 20th, 2011, Sirte

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

76

Aretha Franklin

American singer, songwriter, and pianist (1942–2018)

*March 25th, 1942, Memphis †August 16th, 2018, Detroit

82

Jun'ichirō Koizumi

Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006

*January 8th, 1942, Yokosuka

81

Raman Ghosh

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1942, Bareilly

81

Hu Jintao

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012

*December 21st, 1942, Jiangyan District

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No: With 365 days 1942 is a normal year and no leap year.

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