May 7th, 1971

Born on May 7th, 1971

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 19,000 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, 1971

53

Thomas Piketty

French economist

*May 7th, 1971, Clichy

53

Emmanuel Magnien

French cyclist

*May 7th, 1971, Sedan

53

Reidar Horghagen

Norwegian musician

*May 7th, 1971, Bergen

53

Ivan Sergei

American actor

*May 7th, 1971, Hawthorne

53

Marco Casagrande

Finnish architect

*May 7th, 1971, Turku

53

Aaron McCormack

Former Northern Ireland politician and corporate CEO

*May 7th, 1971, Omagh

53

Vitaly Lunkin

Russian poker player

*May 7th, 1971, Moscow

53

Billy Moore

Australian rugby league footballer

*May 7th, 1971, Tenterfield

53

Pamela Rendi-Wagner

Austrian physician and politician (born 1971)

*May 7th, 1971, Vienna

53

Harald Christian Strand Nilsen

Alpine skier

*May 7th, 1971, Gjøvik Municipality

53

Dave Karpa

Canadian ice hockey defenceman

*May 7th, 1971, Regina

53

Justine Mattera

American actress and showgirl

*May 7th, 1971, New York City

53

Miwako Date

21st century Japanese business woman

*May 7th, 1971, Tokyo

53

Steve Brimacombe

Australian sprinter

*May 7th, 1971, Melbourne

53

Chang Sho-wen

Taiwanese politician

*May 7th, 1971, Yunlin County

53

Rondell Jones

American football player

*May 7th, 1971, Sunderland

53

César Fernando Silvera Fontela

Uruguayan footballer

*May 7th, 1971, Montevideo

53

Carolina Lozado

Olympic pistol shooter

*May 7th, 1971, Montevideo

53

Frédéric Viseux

French association football player

*May 7th, 1971, Paris

53

Jay Monahan

PGA Tour commissioner

*May 7th, 1971, Belmont

53

Arnaud Duncker

French association football player

*May 7th, 1971, Valenciennes

53

Chandrakant Kavlekar

Indian politician

*May 7th, 1971, Betul, Goa

53

Ronny Nilsen

Norwegian javelin thrower

*May 7th, 1971, Bergen

53

Jubzhang Jubzhang

Bhutanese archer

*May 7th, 1971, Bhutan

53

Stefano Torrisi

Italian footballer

*May 7th, 1971, Bagnacavallo

53

Marjo-Riikka Makela

Finnish actress

*May 7th, 1971, Lappeenranta

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48

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

54

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

36

Ma Jin

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

50

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

57

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

55

Marie Bäumer

German actress

*May 7th, 1969, Düsseldorf

52

Asghar Farhadi

Iranian screenwriter and film director

*May 7th, 1972, Isfahan Province

40

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

42

Dave Steele

American racing driver

*May 7th, 1974, Tampa †March 25th, 2017, Freedom Factory

38

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

27

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

25

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

37

Jérémy Ménez

French association football player

*May 7th, 1987, Longjumeau

80

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

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

49

Michael Kretschmer

German politician

*May 7th, 1975, Görlitz

22

Cheng Xing

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 2002, Jiujiang, Guangdong

96

Kathleen McKane Godfree

English badminton and tennis player (1896-1992)

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

70

Joanna Haigh

British physicist

*May 7th, 1954, London

67

Véronique Jannot

French actress and singer

*May 7th, 1957, Annecy

63

Sue Black

Forensic anthropologist; anatomist

*May 7th, 1961, Inverness

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Born in 1971

52

Kali Rocha

American actress

*December 5th, 1971, Memphis

52

Christina Cox

Canadian actress

*July 31st, 1971, Toronto

52

Billy Bush

American radio and television host (born 1971)

*October 13th, 1971, Los Angeles

53

Helge Sten

Norwegian musician

*January 26th, 1971, Røros Municipality

52

Stephan Groth

Danish-Norwegian singer

*August 10th, 1971, Odense

52

Anna Netrebko

Russian-born Austrian operatic soprano

*September 18th, 1971, Krasnodar

52

Elon Musk

Businessman (born 1971)

*June 28th, 1971, Pretoria

53

Susi Susanti

Indonesian badminton player

*February 11th, 1971, Tasikmalaya City

52

Chen Ying

Chinese badminton player

*December 1st, 1971, Xijiang, Guizhou

52

John 5

American guitarist

*July 31st, 1971, Grosse Pointe

53

Ricky Subagja

Badminton player

*January 27th, 1971, Bandung

52

Zarinah Abdullah

Badminton player

*July 12th, 1971, Singapore

52

Mario Abdo Benítez

50st President of Paraguay

*November 10th, 1971, Asunción

52

David Gauke

British politician and solicitor (born 1971)

*October 8th, 1971, Ipswich

52

Raoul Bova

Italian actor

*August 14th, 1971, Rome

53

Marco Bülow

German politician

*June 14th, 1971, Dortmund

52

Martin Gerster

German politician

*August 30th, 1971, Biberach an der Riss

52

Justin Trudeau

Prime Minister of Canada since 2015

*December 25th, 1971, Ottawa

53

Tarek Al-Wazir

German politician

*January 3rd, 1971, Offenbach am Main

52

Valentina Polkhanova

Russian racing cyclist

*August 15th, 1971, Saransk

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1971 is a normal year and no leap year.

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