May 7th, 1962

Born on May 7th, 1962

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 22,000 days old!

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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, 1962

60

Robbie Knievel

American stunt performer (1962–2023)

*May 7th, 1962, Butte †January 13th, 2023

61

Dominik Moll

French film director

*May 7th, 1962, Bühl

61

Monica Wehby

American physician and politician

*May 7th, 1962, Nashville

61

Patrick Read Johnson

American film director

*May 7th, 1962, Illinois

61

Georg Zeitblom

German musician, composer and record producer

*May 7th, 1962, Rosenheim

61

Tony Campbell

American basketball player-coach

*May 7th, 1962, Teaneck

61

Piero Liatti

Italian racecar driver

*May 7th, 1962, Biella

61

Ari Telch

Mexican actor

*May 7th, 1962, Mexico City

61

Nicholas A. Christakis

American physician and sociologist

*May 7th, 1962, United States of America

61

Chen Hsiu-hui

Politician

*May 7th, 1962, Taitung County

61

Stu Burnie

Canadian ice hockey player

*May 7th, 1962, Orillia

61

Stephen Quartermain

Australian rules footballer

*May 7th, 1962, Melbourne

61

Rudi Weinhofer

Austrian association footballer (born 1962)

*May 7th, 1962, Austria

61

Paul Kimmage

Irish racing cyclist and cycling journalist

*May 7th, 1962, Dublin

61

Darryl Webster

Cyclist

*May 7th, 1962, Leicester

61

Brian Kilcline

English footballer (born 1962)

*May 7th, 1962, Nottingham

61

Brian Haynes

Trinidadian footballer (born 1962)

*May 7th, 1962, Couva

61

Stasys Baranauskas

Lithuanian footballer

*May 7th, 1962, Kaunas

61

Eddie Lee Wilkins

American basketball player

*May 7th, 1962, Cartersville

61

Heikki Leime

Finnish ice hockey player

*May 7th, 1962, Turku

61

Gordana Perkučin

Table tennis player

*May 7th, 1962, Novi Kneževac

61

Jean-François Laffillé

French racing cyclist

*May 7th, 1962, Eu

61

Kjerstin Askholt

Norwegian politician

*May 7th, 1962, Oslo

61

Arturo Ramírez Bucio

Mexican politician

*May 7th, 1962, Mexico City

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47

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

35

Ma Jin

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

62

Sue Black

Forensic anthropologist; anatomist

*May 7th, 1961, Inverness

56

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

53

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

62

Hans-Peter Bartels

German politician

*May 7th, 1961, Düsseldorf

49

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

66

Véronique Jannot

French actress and singer

*May 7th, 1957, Annecy

59

Ib Frederiksen

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1964, Skive

39

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

69

Joanna Haigh

British physicist

*May 7th, 1954, London

52

Thomas Piketty

French economist

*May 7th, 1971, Clichy

54

Marie Bäumer

German actress

*May 7th, 1969, Düsseldorf

64

Steve Hansen

New Zealand rugby union footballer and coach

*May 7th, 1959, Invercargill

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

37

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

96

Kathleen McKane Godfree

English badminton and tennis player (1896-1992)

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

24

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

26

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

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Born in 1962

62

Markus Merk

German football referee

*March 15th, 1962, Kaiserslautern

62

Sarah Wollaston

British Liberal Democrat politician

*February 17th, 1962, Woking

61

Hannes Holm

Swedish film director

*November 26th, 1962, Lidingö

61

Chairul Tanjung

Indonesian businessman and bureaucrat

*June 16th, 1962, Jakarta

62

Michele Greene

American actress

*February 3rd, 1962, Las Vegas

61

Marina Kaljurand

Estonian diplomat, politician and badminton player

*September 6th, 1962, Tallinn

62

Jim Carrey

Canadian comedian and actor

*January 17th, 1962, Newmarket

61

Marit Arnstad

Norwegian lawyer and politician

*May 4th, 1962, Skatval

62

Olga Tokarczuk

Polish writer and activist

*January 29th, 1962, Sulechów

61

Tom Cruise

American actor and producer (born 1962)

*July 3rd, 1962, Syracuse

53

Turid Birkeland

Norwegian politician and arts executive (1962–2015)

*November 5th, 1962, Haugesund Municipality †December 24th, 2015, Oslo

61

Demi Moore

American actress

*November 11th, 1962, Roswell

61

Razif Sidek

Malaysian badminton player

*May 29th, 1962, Banting

61

Ginger Lynn

American pornographic actress

*December 14th, 1962, Rockford

61

Herry Iman Pierngadi

Badminton coach from Indonesia

*August 21st, 1962, Pangkal Pinang City

61

Michelle Yeoh

Malaysian actress (born 1962)

*August 6th, 1962, Ipoh

61

Ong Beng Teong

Malaysian badminton player

*May 29th, 1962, Kuala Lumpur

62

Eddie Izzard

British comedian and actor (born 1962)

*February 7th, 1962, Aden

61

Baz Luhrmann

Australian writer, director, and producer

*September 17th, 1962, Sydney

61

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

German politician, former federal minister of defence

*August 9th, 1962, Völklingen

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No: With 365 days 1962 is a normal year and no leap year.

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