May 7th, 1951

Born on May 7th, 1951

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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, 1951

72

Bernie Marsden

British guitarist (1951–2023)

*May 7th, 1951, Buckingham †August 24th, 2023

72

Bernat Soria

Spanish physician and politician

*May 7th, 1951, Carlet

72

Thom Hartmann

American political commentator (born 1951)

*May 7th, 1951, Grand Rapids

72

Janina Fialkowska

Canadian pianist

*May 7th, 1951, Montreal

72

Ann Patricia Bowling

British and Irish sociologist

*May 7th, 1951, Surrey

72

Eugene Louis Dodaro

Comptroller General of the United States

*May 7th, 1951, Monongahela

72

Céleste Lett

French politician

*May 7th, 1951, Sarreguemines

72

Meshulam Nahari

Israeli politician

*May 7th, 1951, Jerusalem

72

Geoffrey Bodenhausen

French chemist

*May 7th, 1951, The Hague

72

Jonas Guimarães

Brazilian politician

*May 7th, 1951, Lavínia

72

John Fleck

American actor

*May 7th, 1951, Cleveland

60

Robert Hegyes

American actor (1951-2012)

*May 7th, 1951, Perth Amboy †January 26th, 2012

72

Patrick Chaboud

Belgian humorist

*May 7th, 1951, 3rd arrondissement of Lyon

72

Ilir Përnaska

Footballer

*May 7th, 1951, Tirana

72

Gary Westfahl

American academic

*May 7th, 1951, Washington, D.C.

72

Don Phillips

American politician

*May 7th, 1951, St. Louis

72

Carlos Alomar

Puerto Rican guitarist

*May 7th, 1951, Ponce

72

Marc Bouët

(born 1951)

*May 7th, 1951, Nantes

72

Devendrappa

Politician from Karnataka, India

*May 7th, 1951, Arsikere

72

Ilya Klebanov

Russian politician

*May 7th, 1951, Saint Petersburg

72

Michel Esteban

French businessman and record producer

*May 7th, 1951, Paris

72

Nadine Prévost

French hurdler

*May 7th, 1951, Sézanne

72

Carolyne Roehm

American author and fashion designer

*May 7th, 1951, Missouri

72

Alan Cocks

English footballer (born 1951)

*May 7th, 1951, Burscough

72

Scott Baird

American male curler and coach

*May 7th, 1951, Bemidji

72

Robert F. Vasa

Catholic bishop

*May 7th, 1951, Lincoln

72

Dave Adamson

English footballer (born 1951)

*May 7th, 1951, Chester-le-Street

72

Micky Droy

Professional footballer (born 1951)

*May 7th, 1951, London

72

Leonidha Çuri

Albanian footballer

*May 7th, 1951, Vlorë

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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

71

Jacqueline Barton

American chemist

*May 7th, 1952, New York City

66

Véronique Jannot

French actress and singer

*May 7th, 1957, Annecy

53

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

49

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

80

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

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

67

Jan Peter Balkenende

Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 2002 to 2010

*May 7th, 1956, Biezelinge

56

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

96

Kathleen McKane Godfree

English badminton and tennis player (1896-1992)

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

39

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

62

Anne Baxter

American actress (1923–1985)

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

24

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

52

Thomas Piketty

French economist

*May 7th, 1971, Clichy

26

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

37

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

62

Sue Black

Forensic anthropologist; anatomist

*May 7th, 1961, Inverness

21

Cheng Xing

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 2002, Jiujiang, Guangdong

36

Jérémy Ménez

French association football player

*May 7th, 1987, Longjumeau

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Born in 1951

72

John McDonnell

British Labour politician (born 1951)

*September 8th, 1951, Liverpool

72

Jesse Ventura

American professional wrestler and 38th governor of Minnesota (born 1951)

*July 15th, 1951, Minneapolis

72

Ellen Foley

American singer and actress

*June 5th, 1951, St. Louis

72

Agathe Fontain

Greenlandic politician

*June 9th, 1951, Sisimiut

63

Robin Williams

American actor and comedian (1951–2014)

*July 21st, 1951, Chicago †August 11th, 2014, Tiburon

65

Gilbert Baker

American artist and gay rights activist

*June 2nd, 1951, Chanute †March 31st, 2017, New York City

73

Daniel Miller

British music producer and founder of Mute Records

*February 14th, 1951, London

65

Kaci Kullmann Five

Norwegian politician (1951-2017)

*April 13th, 1951, Oslo †February 19th, 2017, Oslo

72

Imelda Wiguna

Badminton player

*October 12th, 1951, Slawi

73

Horst Hrubesch

German association football player and manager

*April 17th, 1951, Hamm

71

Joachim Streich

German association football player and manager

*April 13th, 1951, Wismar †April 16th, 2022, Leipzig

72

Volker Bouffier

German politician (CDU), Minister President of Hesse

*December 18th, 1951, Giessen

73

Cajus Julius Caesar

German politician

*January 22nd, 1951, Rinteln

70

Hans-Jürgen Dörner

East German football player and long-term coach of national junior football teams (1951–2022)

*January 25th, 1951, Görlitz †January 19th, 2022, Dresden

72

Sven-Åke Nilsson

Road racing cyclist

*September 13th, 1951, Malmö

73

Raphaële Billetdoux

French novelist

*January 1st, 1951, Paris

72

Andrea Tidona

Italian actor

*November 30th, 1951, Modica

72

Geoffrey Rush

Australian actor (born 1951)

*July 6th, 1951, Toowoomba

72

Juan Manuel Santos

Former president of Colombia

*August 10th, 1951, Bogotá

65

Věra Špinarová

Czech singer

*December 22nd, 1951, Pohořelice †March 26th, 2017, Prague

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No: With 365 days 1951 is a normal year and no leap year.

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