May 7th, 1958

Born on May 7th, 1958

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 24,000 days old!

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... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on May 7th?

May 7th, 1954

A convoy of circus wagons carrying lions, horses, ponies and an ass lost control and overturned into some shop fronts in Dungannon, Northern Ireland.

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, 1958

66

Sara van de Geer

Dutch statistician

*May 7th, 1958, Leiden

66

Marty Willson-Piper

English Guitarist, Singer and Songwriter

*May 7th, 1958, Stockport

66

Michael Formanek

American jazz bassist

*May 7th, 1958, San Francisco

66

Kazuyoshi Akaba

Japanese politician

*May 7th, 1958, Shinjuku

66

Christine Lieberknecht

German politician

*May 7th, 1958, Weimar

66

Uli M Schueppel

Film director

*May 7th, 1958, Odenwald

66

Marian Mihail

Romanian footballer

*May 7th, 1958, Brașov

66

Oscar Leeser

American politician

*May 7th, 1958, Chihuahua City

66

Lady Zu

Brazilian singer

*May 7th, 1958, São Paulo

66

Mikhail Biryukov

Soviet and Russian football player

*May 7th, 1958, Orekhovo-Zuyevo

66

Josef Schlickenrieder

German ice hockey player

*May 7th, 1958, Bad Tölz

66

Hélène Lipietz

French politician

*May 7th, 1958, Paris

66

Victor Rusu

Moldovan politician

*May 7th, 1958, Nisporeni

66

Rod Pacheco

Former Assemblyman and District Attorney

*May 7th, 1958, Los Angeles

66

Tadeusz Dolny

Polish association football player

*May 7th, 1958, Sobótka

66

Petre Popa

Moldovan writer and activist

*May 7th, 1958, Tătărăuca Veche

66

Gili Landau

Football manager

*May 7th, 1958, Bat Yam

66

Dirk Schuebel

German diplomat

*May 7th, 1958, German Democratic Republic

66

Claudia Sersun

Moldovan musician

*May 7th, 1958, Slobozia-Dușca

66

Jon Bogdanove

American comic book artist and writer

*May 7th, 1958, Albany

64

Louis Orr

American basketball player-coach

*May 7th, 1958, Cincinnati †December 15th, 2022

66

Vladimir Yesheyev

Soviet archer

*May 7th, 1958, Ononsky District

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

48

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

67

Véronique Jannot

French actress and singer

*May 7th, 1957, Annecy

36

Ma Jin

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

65

Steve Hansen

New Zealand rugby union footballer and coach

*May 7th, 1959, Invercargill

70

Joanna Haigh

British physicist

*May 7th, 1954, London

68

Jan Peter Balkenende

Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 2002 to 2010

*May 7th, 1956, Biezelinge

54

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

50

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

57

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

63

Sue Black

Forensic anthropologist; anatomist

*May 7th, 1961, Inverness

40

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

80

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

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

53

Thomas Piketty

French economist

*May 7th, 1971, Clichy

96

Kathleen McKane Godfree

English badminton and tennis player (1896-1992)

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

63

Hans-Peter Bartels

German politician

*May 7th, 1961, Düsseldorf

68

Nicholas Hytner

English film and theatre director

*May 7th, 1956, Didsbury

38

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

25

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

27

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

62

Anne Baxter

American actress (1923–1985)

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

Same year
Born in 1958

50

Michael Jackson

American singer, songwriter, and dancer (1958–2009)

*August 29th, 1958, Gary †June 25th, 2009, Los Angeles

66

Gary Numan

English musician (born 1958)

*March 8th, 1958, Hammersmith

66

Jane Wiedlin

American musician

*May 20th, 1958, Oconomowoc

66

Jon Cassar

Maltese-Canadian director and producer

*April 27th, 1958, Valletta

66

Jello Biafra

American singer

*June 17th, 1958, Boulder

66

Wayne Hussey

English musician, singer of The Mission

*May 26th, 1958, Bristol

65

Madonna

American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1958)

*August 16th, 1958, Bay City

66

Olaf Scholz

German politician (SPD) and 9th Federal Chancellor of Germany (since 2021)

*June 14th, 1958, Osnabrück

65

Ursula von der Leyen

President of the European Commission since 2019

*October 8th, 1958, Ixelles - Elsene

66

Glenn Gregory

English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist

*May 16th, 1958, Sheffield

66

Caryl Phillips

Kittian-British writer

*March 13th, 1958, Saint Kitts

64

Jens Arentzen

Danish actor

*March 2nd, 1958, Frederiksberg †November 22nd, 2022

66

Dietmar Bartsch

German politician

*March 31st, 1958, Stralsund

65

Jah Wobble

English bassist, recording artist, songwriter

*August 11th, 1958, Stepney

60

Chicho Sibilio

Spanish basketball coach

*October 3rd, 1958, San Cristóbal †August 10th, 2019, San Gregorio de Nigua

66

Alec Baldwin

American actor, comedian and producer (born 1958)

*April 3rd, 1958, Amityville

65

Alexander Held

German actor

*October 19th, 1958, Munich

66

Volker Pispers

German cabaret artist

*January 18th, 1958, Rheydt

66

Reinhard Wolters

German historian of classical history and numismatist

*March 14th, 1958, Duisburg

65

Achim Arbeiter

German archaeologist

*September 3rd, 1958, Dierdorf

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No: With 365 days 1958 is a normal year and no leap year.

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