May 7th, 1975

Born on May 7th, 1975

Age in days, weeks and months
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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 most living 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, 1940

A three-day debate began in the House of Commons that resulted in British prime minister Neville Chamberlain being replaced by Winston Churchill (pictured).

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 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.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on May 7th

Born on May 7th, 1975

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Michael Kretschmer

German politician

*May 7th, 1975, Görlitz

51

Martina Topley-Bird

English vocalist and musician

*May 7th, 1975, Bristol

51

Árni Gautur Arason

Icelandic footballer

*May 7th, 1975, Reykjavík

51

Seán Kyne

Irish politician

*May 7th, 1975, Moycullen

51

Gunhild Carling

Swedish jazz musician

*May 7th, 1975, Annedals parish

51

Salim Dada

Composer

*May 7th, 1975, Laghouat

51

Egidijus Balčiūnas

Lithuanian canoeist

*May 7th, 1975, Marijampolė

51

Roxana Maracineanu

French swimmer and politician

*May 7th, 1975, Bucharest

51

Roberto Prosseda

Italian musician

*May 7th, 1975, Latina

51

Andreas Lund

Norwegian footballer

*May 7th, 1975, Kristiansand Municipality

51

Zhenis Kassymbek

Kazakh politician

*May 7th, 1975, Shu, Kazakhstan

Same year
Born in 1975

51

Zhang Ning

Chinese female badminton player

*May 19th, 1975, Jinzhou

50

Ane Dahl Torp

Norwegian actress

*August 1st, 1975, Bærum Municipality

50

Anders Anundsen

Norwegian politician

*November 17th, 1975, Stavern

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André Poggenburg

German politician and entrepreneur

*March 12th, 1975, Weißenfels

51

Konrad Bansa

German handball player and coach

*July 24th, 1975, Neuwied

51

Lorin Morgan-Richards

American author, illustrator, and songwriter

*February 16th, 1975, Beebetown

51

Marit Bergman

Swedish singer-songwriter

*May 21st, 1975, Rättvik parish

50

Maria Thayer

American actress

*October 30th, 1975, Portland

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Marion Cotillard

French actress

*September 30th, 1975, Paris

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Thomas Bareiß

German politician

*February 15th, 1975, Ebingen

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Angelina Jolie

American actress, humanitarian and filmmaker (born 1975)

*June 4th, 1975, Los Angeles

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Bradley Cooper

American actor

*January 5th, 1975, Philadelphia

51

David Beckham

English association football player

*May 2nd, 1975, Leytonstone

51

Tobey Maguire

American actor and film producer (born 1975)

*June 27th, 1975, Santa Monica

51

50 Cent

American rapper (born 1975)

*July 6th, 1975, Queens

51

Tino Chrupalla

German politician (born 1975)

*April 14th, 1975, Weißwasser

50

Milla Jovovich

Russian-American actress and model

*December 17th, 1975, Kyiv

51

Liz Truss

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 2022

*July 26th, 1975, Oxford

50

Kate Winslet

English actress (born 1976)

*October 5th, 1975, Reading

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Natalie Imbruglia

Australian-British singer and actress

*February 4th, 1975, Sydney

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1975 is a normal year and no leap year.

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