May 7th, 1955

Born on May 7th, 1955

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, 1955

68

Gabriele Zimmer

German politician

*May 7th, 1955, East Berlin

68

Fernando Villalona

Dominican Republic merengue singer

*May 7th, 1955, Monte Cristi Province

68

Ole Christensen

Danish politician, MEP

*May 7th, 1955, Pandrup

68

Nguyen Nhat Anh

Vietnamese writer

*May 7th, 1955, Quảng Nam

68

Frieda Brepoels

Flemish politician

*May 7th, 1955, Bilzen

68

Peter Reckell

American actor

*May 7th, 1955, Elkhart

68

Axel Zwingenberger

German musician

*May 7th, 1955, Hamburg

68

Sylvain Augier

French journalist

*May 7th, 1955, Toulouse

68

Clément Gignac

Canadian politician

*May 7th, 1955, Saint-Gilbert

68

Pavla Topolánková

Czech educator, entrepreneur and politician

*May 7th, 1955, Bohumín

68

David Haney

American musician

*May 7th, 1955, Fresno

68

Pramod Moutho

Actor

*May 7th, 1955, Amritsar

68

Karen Price

Cricketer

*May 7th, 1955, Sydney

68

Bob Ferris

American baseball player

*May 7th, 1955, Arlington County

68

Park Sung-hwa

South Korean footballer

*May 7th, 1955, Ulsan

68

Aleksandr Muzychenko

Sailor

*May 7th, 1955, Omsk

68

Steve Diggle

English rock guitarist

*May 7th, 1955, Manchester

68

Ívar DeCarsta Webster

Icelandic basketball player (1955-)

*May 7th, 1955, Philadelphia

68

Ben Poquette

American basketball player

*May 7th, 1955, Ann Arbor

68

Mark Tovey

South African footballer

*May 7th, 1955, Pretoria

68

Micky French

English footballer (born 1955)

*May 7th, 1955, Eastbourne

68

Stefan Lundin

Swedish footballer and manager

*May 7th, 1955, Korskrogen

68

Maya Georgieva

Bulgarian volleyball player (1955–2023)

*May 7th, 1955, Sofia †September 21st, 2023

66

Shaleen Surtie-Richards

South African actress (1955-2021)

*May 7th, 1955, Upington †June 7th, 2021

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

47

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

69

Joanna Haigh

British physicist

*May 7th, 1954, London

35

Ma Jin

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

67

Jan Peter Balkenende

Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 2002 to 2010

*May 7th, 1956, Biezelinge

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

67

Nicholas Hytner

English film and theatre director

*May 7th, 1956, Didsbury

56

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

71

Jacqueline Barton

American chemist

*May 7th, 1952, New York City

80

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

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

39

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

96

Kathleen McKane Godfree

English badminton and tennis player (1896-1992)

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

62

Sue Black

Forensic anthropologist; anatomist

*May 7th, 1961, Inverness

67

Anne Dudley

English composer and pop musician

*May 7th, 1956, Chatham

64

Steve Hansen

New Zealand rugby union footballer and coach

*May 7th, 1959, Invercargill

52

Thomas Piketty

French economist

*May 7th, 1971, Clichy

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

26

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

Same year
Born in 1955

63

Pete Shelley

British singer-songwriter (1955–2018)

*April 17th, 1955, Leigh †December 6th, 2018, Tallinn

68

Bill Gates

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)

*October 28th, 1955, Seattle

68

Guillermo Lasso

47 president of Ecuador

*November 16th, 1955, Guayaquil

68

Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web (born 1955)

*June 8th, 1955, London

69

Lasse Lindtner

Norwegian actor

*March 7th, 1955, Bergen

56

Steve Jobs

American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)

*February 24th, 1955, San Francisco †October 5th, 2011, Palo Alto

68

Steve Jones

English guitarist

*September 3rd, 1955, Shepherd's Bush

69

Nicolas Sarkozy

President of France from 2007 to 2012

*January 28th, 1955, Paris

61

Bill Paxton

American actor and filmmaker (1955–2017)

*May 17th, 1955, Fort Worth †February 25th, 2017, Los Angeles

68

Caroline Loeb

French actress and singer

*October 5th, 1955, Neuilly-sur-Seine

68

Saw Swee Leong

Badminton player

*July 16th, 1955, Penang

69

Uwe Reinders

German association football player and manager

*January 19th, 1955, Essen

61

Jimmy LaFave

American musician

*July 12th, 1955, Wills Point †May 21st, 2017, Austin

69

Steve Mann

British chemist

*April 1st, 1955, Leeds

69

Jair Bolsonaro

President of Brazil from 2019 to 2022

*March 21st, 1955, Glicério

68

Adolf Sauerland

German politician

*June 4th, 1955, Duisburg

43

Gerhard Gundermann

German musician

*February 21st, 1955, Weimar †June 21st, 1998, Spreetal

69

Martin Jehne

German historian of classical antiquity

*January 27th, 1955, Hamburg

68

Isabelle Adjani

French actress

*June 27th, 1955, 17th arrondissement of Paris

68

Whoopi Goldberg

American actress, comedian, author and television personality

*November 13th, 1955, New York City

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No: With 365 days 1955 is a normal year and no leap year.

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