May 7th, 1977

Born on May 7th, 1977

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, 1977

46

Grégory Paisley

Footballer

*May 7th, 1977, Paris

46

Bam Aquino

Filipino television personality

*May 7th, 1977, Manila

46

Jayro Bustamante

Guatemalan film director

*May 7th, 1977, Guatemala City

46

Laurent Frayssinous

French rugby league footballer and coach

*May 7th, 1977, Villeneuve-sur-Lot

46

Lisa Kelly

Irish singer

*May 7th, 1977, Dublin

46

László Éger

Hungarian association football player

*May 7th, 1977, Paks

46

Vladimir Ivić

Serbian association football player

*May 7th, 1977, Zrenjanin

46

Marko Milič

Slovenian basketball player

*May 7th, 1977, Kranj

46

Roman Týce

Czech soccer player and soccer representant

*May 7th, 1977, Roudnice nad Labem

46

Elton Flatley

Australian rugby union player

*May 7th, 1977, Tamworth

46

Noam Weinstein

American singer and songwriter

*May 7th, 1977, Cambridge

46

Jeff Bilyk

American soccer player-coach

*May 7th, 1977, Bayport

46

Be Makara

Cambodian football manager

*May 7th, 1977, Phnom Penh

46

Łukasz Sosin

Polish footballer

*May 7th, 1977, Kraków

46

Brad Isbister

Canadian ice hockey player

*May 7th, 1977, Edmonton

46

Taymon Domzalski

American basketball player

*May 7th, 1977, Lovington

46

J. Craig Gordon

American politician

*May 7th, 1977, Savannah

46

Patrícia Dejesus

Brazilian model

*May 7th, 1977, São Paulo

38

Cláudio Clarindo

Brazilian cyclist

*May 7th, 1977, Santos †January 25th, 2016, Santos

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

47

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

35

Ma Jin

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

49

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

39

Meiliana Jauhari

Indonesian badminton player

*May 7th, 1984, Jakarta

53

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

37

Mark Furze

Australian actor

*May 7th, 1986, Orange

52

Thomas Piketty

French economist

*May 7th, 1971, Clichy

48

Michael Kretschmer

German politician

*May 7th, 1975, Görlitz

42

Dave Steele

American racing driver

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

56

Balbina Bäbler

Swiss classical archaeologist

*May 7th, 1967, Glarus

26

Rika Rositawati

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1997, Sumedang

24

Rutaparna Panda

Indian badminton player

*May 7th, 1999, Cuttack

45

Shawn Marion

American basketball player

*May 7th, 1978, Waukegan

21

Cheng Xing

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 2002, Jiujiang, Guangdong

43

Jeremy Staunton

Irish rugby union player

*May 7th, 1980, Limerick

54

Marie Bäumer

German actress

*May 7th, 1969, Düsseldorf

80

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

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

39

James Loney

American baseball player

*May 7th, 1984, Houston

42

Gijs Vermeulen

Dutch rower

*May 7th, 1981, Amsterdam

96

Kathleen McKane Godfree

English badminton and tennis player (1896-1992)

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

Same year
Born in 1977

46

Zhang Jun

Chinese badminton player

*November 26th, 1977, Suzhou

46

Florian Stetter

German actor

*August 2nd, 1977, Munich

46

Carsten Linnemann

German economist, politician

*August 10th, 1977, Paderborn

46

Anne Marie Waters

UK far-right politician (1977-)

*August 24th, 1977, Dublin

46

Emmanuel Macron

President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 2017

*December 21st, 1977, Amiens

46

Vanessa Trump

American model and actress

*December 18th, 1977, New York City

46

Gong Zhichao

Badminton player

*December 15th, 1977, Anhua County

46

Paul Kalkbrenner

German electronic musician

*June 11th, 1977, Leipzig

46

Ji Xinpeng

Chinese badminton player

*December 30th, 1977, Shashi District

47

Wong Choong Hann

Badminton player

*February 17th, 1977, Kuala Lumpur

46

Gail Emms

Badminton player

*July 23rd, 1977, Hitchin

46

Pernille Harder

Badminton player

*September 3rd, 1977, Odder Municipality

46

Melanie Lynskey

New Zealand actress

*May 16th, 1977, New Plymouth

46

José Antonio Crespo

Spanish badminton player

*June 24th, 1977, Arroyo de la Miel

46

Dave McCullen

Musician, music producer

*December 28th, 1977, Bonheiden

47

Shakira

Colombian singer, songwriter and actress

*February 2nd, 1977, Barranquilla

47

Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil

Danish politician

*January 17th, 1977, Zealand

47

Claudia Hiersche

German actress

*February 22nd, 1977, Frankfurt (Oder)

47

Sverre Rotevatn

Norwegian Nordic combined skier

*January 17th, 1977, Lillehammer Municipality

46

Anthony Clark

English badminton player

*November 1st, 1977, Derby

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1977 is a normal year and no leap year.

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