May 7th, 1946

Born on May 7th, 1946

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on May 7th, 1946?

May 7th, 1946

Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony

May 7th, 1946

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

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Ibuka

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, 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, 1946

77

Michael Rosen

British children's author and poet

*May 7th, 1946, Harrow

77

Thelma Houston

American singer

*May 7th, 1946, Leland

77

Carmen Thomas

German television presenter, journalist and radio host

*May 7th, 1946, Düsseldorf

77

Bill Danoff

American singer-songwriter

*May 7th, 1946, Springfield

77

Vladimir Bortko

Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and producer

*May 7th, 1946, Moscow

77

Marek Lieberberg

Music promoter

*May 7th, 1946, Frankfurt

77

Brian Turner

English television chef

*May 7th, 1946, Halifax

77

Bill Kreutzmann

American drummer (born 1946)

*May 7th, 1946, Palo Alto

77

Peter Russell

British author, physicist, and meditation teacher

*May 7th, 1946, United Kingdom

77

Raymond Lesniak

American politician

*May 7th, 1946, Elizabeth

68

Marvin Hubbard

Player of American football (1946-2015)

*May 7th, 1946, Salamanca †May 4th, 2015, Walnut Creek

74

Alfredo Hoyos Mazuera

Colombian businessman

*May 7th, 1946, Pereira †December 14th, 2020

77

Rutt Hinrikus

Estonian literary scholar

*May 7th, 1946, Tallinn †October 29th, 2023

77

Marián Čalfa

Czech lawyer

*May 7th, 1946, Trebišov

77

Jim Corrigall

Player of American and Canadian football

*May 7th, 1946, Barrie

77

Sergio Cortopassi

Italian politician

*May 7th, 1946, San Miniato

77

Bob LePage

Canadian ice hockey player

*May 7th, 1946, Montreal

77

Norman McKenzie

New Zealand cricketer

*May 7th, 1946, Kurow

77

Alan Grieco

Cyclist

*May 7th, 1946, New Jersey

77

Philip Charles MacKenzie

American actor and director

*May 7th, 1946, Brooklyn

77

Barry Wakelin

Australian politician

*May 7th, 1946, Kimba †December 19th, 2023

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

69

Joanna Haigh

British physicist

*May 7th, 1954, London

80

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

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

49

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

96

Kathleen McKane Godfree

English badminton and tennis player (1896-1992)

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

53

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

62

Anne Baxter

American actress (1923–1985)

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

79

Sabina Higgins

Irish actress, wife of 9th Irish President

*May 7th, 1944, Ballindine

76

Emmanuel Krivine

French conductor

*May 7th, 1947, Grenoble

39

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

56

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

66

Véronique Jannot

French actress and singer

*May 7th, 1957, Annecy

71

Jacqueline Barton

American chemist

*May 7th, 1952, New York City

24

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

75

Lluís Llach

Catalan singer, composer and songwriter

*May 7th, 1948, Girona

26

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

67

Jan Peter Balkenende

Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 2002 to 2010

*May 7th, 1956, Biezelinge

37

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

52

Thomas Piketty

French economist

*May 7th, 1971, Clichy

Same year
Born in 1946

77

Donald Trump

President of the United States from 2017 to 2021

*June 14th, 1946, Jamaica Hospital Medical Center

77

George W. Bush

President of the United States from 2001 to 2009

*July 6th, 1946, New Haven

77

Bill Clinton

President of the United States from 1993 to 2001

*August 19th, 1946, Hope

77

Jean-Claude Arnault

Swedish photographer

*August 15th, 1946, Marseille

78

Kabir Bedi

Indian actor (1946-)

*January 16th, 1946, Lahore

77

Svein Ludvigsen

Norwegian politician

*July 18th, 1946, Hillesøy Municipality

77

Steven Spielberg

American filmmaker (born 1946)

*December 18th, 1946, Cincinnati

78

Charlotte Rampling

British actress

*February 5th, 1946, Sturmer

76

Suzanne Somers

American actress, author, singer, businesswoman in alternative medicine (1946–2023)

*October 16th, 1946, San Bruno †October 15th, 2023, Palm Springs

77

Berti Vogts

German footballer and manager

*December 30th, 1946, Büttgen

71

Jiří Bělohlávek

Czech conductor (1946-2017)

*February 24th, 1946, Prague †May 31st, 2017, Prague

62

Lux Interior

American punk rock musician and a founding member of the band The Cramps

*October 21st, 1946, Akron †February 4th, 2009, Glendale

64

Michael Hansen

German cabaret artist (1946-2011)

*October 21st, 1946, Aalborg †March 15th, 2011, Berlin

69

Alan Rickman

British actor and director (1946–2016)

*February 21st, 1946, Hammersmith †January 14th, 2016, London

77

Rolf Konow

Danish photographer and actor

*July 22nd, 1946, Copenhagen

78

David Lynch

American filmmaker, visual artist, and musician

*January 20th, 1946, Missoula

78

Liza Minnelli

American actress and singer

*March 12th, 1946, Los Angeles

78

Tan Aik Huang

Badminton player

*February 14th, 1946, Singapore

77

Sylvester Stallone

American actor and film director

*July 6th, 1946, Hell's Kitchen

77

Gerard 't Hooft

Dutch theoretical physicist

*July 5th, 1946, Den Helder

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No: With 365 days 1946 is a normal year and no leap year.

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