May 7th, 1949

Born on May 7th, 1949

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

Born on May 7th, 1949

74

Marie-George Buffet

French politician

*May 7th, 1949, Sceaux

74

Florian Gerster

German politician

*May 7th, 1949, Worms

74

Pierre Sané

Secretary general of Amnesty International

*May 7th, 1949, Dakar

74

Benny Alba

American artist

*May 7th, 1949, Columbus

74

Kathleen Zellner

American lawyer

*May 7th, 1949, Midland

74

Su. Thirunavukkarasar

Indian politician

*May 7th, 1949, Pudukkottai

74

Jim Braude

American journalist

*May 7th, 1949, Philadelphia

65

Marilyn Burns

American actress (1949–2014)

*May 7th, 1949, Erie †August 5th, 2014, Houston

74

Bernhard von Mutius

German author

*May 7th, 1949, Heidelberg

74

Deborah Butterfield

American sculptor

*May 7th, 1949, San Diego

74

Lia Roberts

Romanian diplomat

*May 7th, 1949, Bucharest

47

Kathy Ahern

American professional golfer

*May 7th, 1949, Pittsburgh †July 6th, 1996, Fountain Hills

31

Jaime Suárez Quemain

Salvadoran poet (1949-1980)

*May 7th, 1949, San Salvador †July 12th, 1980

74

Patrick John Hurley

Actor

*May 7th, 1949, Salt Lake City

74

Walt Hunter

American journalist

*May 7th, 1949, Philadelphia

74

Robert A. McKee

American politician from Maryland

*May 7th, 1949, Hagerstown

74

Ted Tucker

Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1949)

*May 7th, 1949, Fort William

74

Jun Kwang-Woo

South Korean businessman

*May 7th, 1949, Seoul

74

Ginny Coppola

American politician

*May 7th, 1949, Boston

74

Del Hall

Canadian ice hockey player

*May 7th, 1949, Peterborough

74

Penny Yule

British athlete

*May 7th, 1949, Chichester

74

Marilyn Cole

British model

*May 7th, 1949, Portsmouth

74

Faouzi Sebabti

Tunisian handball player

*May 7th, 1949, Tunis

74

Antonio Cuevas

Spanish politician

*May 7th, 1949, Puente Genil

74

Kerry Mackay

Cricketer

*May 7th, 1949, Brighton-Le-Sands

74

Santiago Guerrero Gutiérrez

Mexican politician

*May 7th, 1949, Copala, Guerrero

74

Nicholas Bennett

British politician (born 1949)

*May 7th, 1949, Hampstead

74

Haruko Tachiiri

Japanese mangaka

*May 7th, 1949, Meguro-ku

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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

49

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

53

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

80

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

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

71

Jacqueline Barton

American chemist

*May 7th, 1952, New York City

75

Lluís Llach

Catalan singer, composer and songwriter

*May 7th, 1948, Girona

66

Véronique Jannot

French actress and singer

*May 7th, 1957, Annecy

96

Kathleen McKane Godfree

English badminton and tennis player (1896-1992)

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

62

Anne Baxter

American actress (1923–1985)

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

56

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

39

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

67

Jan Peter Balkenende

Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 2002 to 2010

*May 7th, 1956, Biezelinge

24

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

26

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

52

Thomas Piketty

French economist

*May 7th, 1971, Clichy

37

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

21

Cheng Xing

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 2002, Jiujiang, Guangdong

63

Johannes Brahms

German composer (1833–1897)

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

Same year
Born in 1949

75

Joachim Witt

German rock musician

*February 22nd, 1949, Hamburg

74

Rudy Hartono

Indonesian badminton player

*August 18th, 1949, Surabaya

75

Åse Kleveland

Swedish-Norwegian singer and politician

*March 18th, 1949, Stockholm

70

Jahn Teigen

Norwegian singer, musician, and comedian (1949–2020)

*September 27th, 1949, Tønsberg Municipality †February 24th, 2020, Ystad

74

David Rubenstein

American businessman

*August 11th, 1949, Baltimore

74

Sherman Howard

American actor

*June 11th, 1949, Chicago

74

Egon Flaig

German university teacher, Historian of classical antiquity and writer

*May 16th, 1949, Oberstenfeld

74

Meryl Streep

American actress (born 1949)

*June 22nd, 1949, Summit

74

Odaline de la Martinez

American conductor and composer

*October 31st, 1949, Matanzas

74

Gertrúd Ladányi

Badminton player

*May 3rd, 1949, Esztergom

66

Papa Wemba

Congolese singer and musician

*June 14th, 1949, Lubefu †April 24th, 2016, Abidjan

67

Denis Johnson

American writer (novel, drama, poetry, essay) (1949-2017)

*July 1st, 1949, Munich †May 24th, 2017, Sea Ranch

40

Stiv Bators

American punk rock vocalist and guitarist

*October 22nd, 1949, Youngstown †June 3rd, 1990, 1st arrondissement of Paris

74

Sverre Årnes

Norwegian writer

*May 14th, 1949, Surnadal Municipality

74

Gloria Gaynor

American singer

*September 7th, 1949, Newark

75

Jessica Lange

American actress

*April 20th, 1949, Cloquet

67

Carlos Slepoy

Argentinian lawyer (1949-2017)

*October 2nd, 1949, Buenos Aires †April 17th, 2017, Madrid

68

Stanley Greene

American photographer (1949-2017)

*February 14th, 1949, Brooklyn †May 19th, 2017, Paris

74

Bruce Springsteen

American rock singer (born 1949)

*September 23rd, 1949, Long Branch

74

Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister of Israel (1996–1999, 2009–2021, 2022–present)

*October 21st, 1949, Tel Aviv

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Born on May 7th, 1949
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No: With 365 days 1949 is a normal year and no leap year.

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