May 7 is the 127th day of the year (128th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 238 days remain until the end of the year.

Events [ edit ]

Pre-1600 [ edit ]

• 351 – The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch . ^[1]
• 558 – In Constantinople , the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction. ^[2] Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.
• 1274 – In France, the Second Council of Lyon opens; it ratified a decree to regulate the election of the Pope . ^[3]
• 1487 – The Siege of Malaga commences during the Spanish Reconquista . ^[4]
• 1544 – The Burning of Edinburgh by an English army is the first action of the Rough Wooing . ^[5]

1601?1900 [ edit ]

• 1625 – State funeral of James VI and I (1566-1625) is held at Westminster Abbey . ^[6]
• 1664 – Inaugural celebrations begin at Louis XIV of France 's new Palace of Versailles . ^[7]
• 1685 – Battle of Vrtijeljka between rebels and Ottoman forces.
• 1697 – Stockholm 's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire. It is replaced in the 18th century by the current Royal Palace . ^[8]
• 1718 – The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville . ^[9]
• 1763 – Pontiac's War begins with Pontiac 's attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British.
• 1765 – HMS Victory is launched at Chatham Dockyard , Kent. She is not commissioned until 1778. ^[10]
• 1794 – French Revolution : Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic .
• 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars : A French force attempting to dislodge a small British garrison on the Iles Saint-Marcouf is repulsed with heavy losses . ^[11]
• 1824 – World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony in Vienna , Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision. ^[12]
• 1832 – Greece's independence is recognized by the Treaty of London .
• 1840 – The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
• 1846 – The Cambridge Chronicle , America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts .
• 1864 – American Civil War : The Army of the Potomac , under General Ulysses S. Grant , breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
• 1864 – The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide is launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.
• 1895 – In Saint Petersburg , Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector?a primitive radio receiver . In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day .

1901?present [ edit ]

• 1915 – World War I : German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania , killing 1,199 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire .
• 1915 – The Republic of China accedes to 13 of the 21 Demands , extending the Empire of Japan 's control over Manchuria and the Chinese economy. ^[13]
• 1920 – Kyiv offensive : Polish troops led by Jozef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-?migły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kyiv only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
• 1920 – Treaty of Moscow : Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
• 1930 – The 7.1 M _w   Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX ( Violent ). Up to three-thousand people were killed.
• 1931 – The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City .
• 1937 – Spanish Civil War : The German Condor Legion , equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco 's forces.
• 1940 – World War II : The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.
• 1942 – World War II: During the Battle of the Coral Sea , United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Sh?h? ; the battle marks the first time in naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
• 1945 – World War II: Last German U-boat attack of the war, two freighters are sunk off the Firth of Forth , Scotland .
• 1945 – World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims , France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day.
• 1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony ) is founded. ^[14]
• 1948 – The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress .
• 1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit , the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer .
• 1954 – Indochina War : The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the battle began on March 13).
• 1960 – Cold War : U-2 Crisis of 1960 : Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers .
• 1964 – Pacific Airlines Flight 773 is hijacked by Francisco Gonzales and crashes in Contra Costa County, California , killing 44. ^[15]
• 1986 – Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits .
• 1991 – A fire and explosion occurs at a fireworks factory at Sungai Buloh , Malaysia, killing 26. ^[16]
• 1992 – Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.
• 1992 – Space Shuttle program : The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49 .
• 1992 – Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia , Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada.
• 1994 – Edvard Munch 's painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February. ^[17]
• 1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history. ^[18]
• 1999 – Pope John Paul II travels to Romania , becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
• 1999 – Kosovo War : Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia .
• 1999 – In Guinea-Bissau , President Joao Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup .
• 2000 – Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
• 2002 – An EgyptAir Boeing 737-500 crashes on approach to Tunis?Carthage International Airport , killing 14 people. ^[19]
• 2002 – A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea , killing 112 people.
• 2004 – American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by Islamic militants . The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet. ^[20]

Births [ edit ]

Pre-1600 [ edit ]

• Before 160 – Julia Maesa , Roman noblewoman (d. 224) ^[21]
• 1488 – John III of the Palatinate , archbishop of Regensburg (d. 1538)
• 1530 – Louis, Prince of Conde (d. 1569) ^[22]
• 1553 – Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (d. 1618)

1601?1900 [ edit ]

• 1605 – Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (d. 1681)
• 1643 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt , American politician, 10th Mayor of New York City (d. 1700)
• 1700 – Gerard van Swieten , Dutch-Austrian physician (d. 1772)
• 1701 – Carl Heinrich Graun , German tenor and composer (d. 1759) ^[23]
• 1711 – David Hume , Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (d. 1776) ^[24]
• 1724 – Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser , French-Austrian field marshal (d. 1797)
• 1740 – Nikolai Arkharov , Russian police officer and general (d. 1814)
• 1748 – Olympe de Gouges , French playwright and philosopher (d. 1793) ^[25]
• 1751 – Stephen Badlam , American artisan and military officer (d. 1815) ^[26]
• 1763 – Jozef Poniatowski , Polish general (d. 1813)
• 1767 – Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1820)
• 1774 – William Bainbridge , American commodore (d. 1833)
• 1787 – Jacques Viger , Canadian archaeologist and politician, 1st mayor of Montreal (d. 1858)
• 1812 – Robert Browning , English poet and playwright (d. 1889) ^[27]
• 1833 – Johannes Brahms , German pianist and composer (d. 1897) ^[28]
• 1836 – Joseph Gurney Cannon , American lawyer and politician, 40th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1926)
• 1837 – Karl Mauch , German geographer and explorer (d. 1875)
• 1840 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , Russian composer and educator (d. 1893)
• 1845 – Mary Eliza Mahoney , American nurse and activist (d. 1926)
• 1847 – Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery , English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1929)
• 1857 – William A. MacCorkle , American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1930)
• 1860 – Tom Norman , English businessman (d. 1930)
• 1861 – Rabindranath Tagore , Indian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941) ^[29]
• 1867 – Władysław Reymont , Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925)
• 1875 – Bill Hoyt , American pole vaulter (d. 1951)
• 1880 – Pandurang Vaman Kane , Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee (d. 1972)
• 1881 – George E. Wiley , American cyclist (d. 1954)
• 1882 – Willem Elsschot , Belgian author and poet (d. 1960)
• 1885 – George "Gabby" Hayes , American actor (d. 1969)
• 1889 – Viktor Puskar , Estonian colonel (d. 1943)
• 1891 – Harry McShane , Scottish engineer and activist (d. 1988)
• 1892 – Archibald MacLeish , American poet, playwright, and lawyer (d. 1982)
• 1892 – Josip Broz Tito , Yugoslav field marshal and politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia (d. 1980)
• 1893 – Frank J. Selke , Canadian ice hockey coach and manager (d. 1985)
• 1896 – Kathleen McKane Godfree , English tennis and badminton player (d. 1992)
• 1899 – Alfred Gerrard , English sculptor and academic (d. 1998)

1901?present [ edit ]

• 1901 – Gary Cooper , American actor (d. 1961) ^[30]
• 1903 – Jimmy Ball , Canadian sprinter (d. 1988)
• 1903 – Nikolay Zabolotsky , Russian-Soviet poet and translator (d. 1958) ^[31]
• 1905 – Philip Baxter , Welsh-Australian chemical engineer (d. 1989) ^[32]
• 1906 – Eric Krenz , American discus thrower and shot putter (d. 1931)
• 1909 – Edwin H. Land , American scientist and inventor, co-founded the Polaroid Corporation (d. 1991)
• 1909 – Dorothy Sunrise Lorentino , Native American teacher (d. 2005) ^[33]
• 1911 – Ishir? Honda , Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1993)
• 1911 – Rıfat Ilgaz , Turkish author, poet, and educator (d. 1993)
• 1912 – Pannalal Patel , Indian author (d. 1989)
• 1913 – John Spencer Hardy , American general (d. 2012)
• 1913 – Simon Ramo , American physicist and engineer (d. 2016)
• 1914 – Arthur Snelling , English civil servant and diplomat. British Ambassador to South Africa (d. 1996)
• 1916 – Huw Wheldon , Welsh-English broadcaster (d. 1986)
• 1916 – W. B. Young , Scottish rugby player and physician (d. 2013)
• 1917 – Domenico Bartolucci , Italian cardinal and composer (d. 2013)
• 1917 – Lenox Hewitt , Australian public servant (d. 2020)
• 1917 – David Tomlinson , English actor (d. 2000)
• 1919 – Eva Peron , Argentinian actress, 25th First Lady of Argentina (d. 1952)
• 1920 – Rendra Karno , Indonesian actor (d. 1985)
• 1921 – Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs , English historian and academic (d. 2016) ^[34]
• 1921 – Gaston Rebuffat , French mountaineer and author (d. 1985)
• 1922 – Darren McGavin , American actor and director (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Joe O'Donnell , American photographer and journalist (d. 2007)
• 1923 – Anne Baxter , American actress (d. 1985)
• 1923 – Jim Lowe , American singer-songwriter, disc jockey, and radio host (d. 2016)
• 1923 – Bulent Ulusu , Turkish admiral and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2015)
• 1924 – Albert Band , French-American director and producer (d. 2002)
• 1925 – Lauri Vaska , Estonian-American chemist and academic (d. 2015)
• 1927 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , German-American author and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Dick Williams , American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2011)
• 1930 – Totie Fields , American comedian and author (d. 1978)
• 1930 – Babe Parilli , American football player and coach (d. 2017)
• 1930 – John Smith, Baron Kirkhill , English politician (d. 2023)
• 1931 – Teresa Brewer , American singer (d. 2007)
• 1931 – Gene Wolfe , American author (d. 2019)
• 1932 – Jordi Bonet , Spanish-Canadian painter and sculptor (d. 1979)
• 1932 – Alan Cuthbert , English pharmacologist and academic (d. 2016)
• 1932 – Pete Domenici , American lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of Albuquerque (d. 2017)
• 1932 – Derek Taylor , English journalist and author (d. 1997)
• 1933 – Johnny Unitas , American football player and sportscaster (d. 2002)
• 1935 – Avraham Heffner , Israeli actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
• 1935 – Michael Hopkins , English architect (d. 2023)
• 1936 – Robin Hanbury-Tenison , English explorer and author
• 1936 – Tony O'Reilly , Irish rugby player and businessman
• 1936 – Jimmy Ruffin , American soul singer (d. 2014)
• 1937 – Eddie Clayton , English footballer ^[35]
• 1937 – Claude Raymond , Canadian baseball player and coach
• 1939 – Sidney Altman , Canadian-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022)
• 1939 – Ruggero Deodato , Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2022)
• 1939 – Ruud Lubbers , Dutch economist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2018)
• 1939 – Johnny Maestro , American pop/doo-wop singer (d. 2010)
• 1939 – Clive Soley, Baron Soley , English politician
• 1940 – Angela Carter , English novelist and short story writer (d. 1992)
• 1940 – Dave Chambers , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1941 – Lawrence Collins, Baron Collins of Mapesbury , English lawyer and judge
• 1943 – Terry Allen , American singer and painter
• 1943 – Harvey Andrews , English singer-songwriter and poet
• 1943 – John Bannon , Australian academic and politician, 39th Premier of South Australia (d. 2015)
• 1943 – Peter Carey , Australian novelist and short story writer
• 1945 – Christy Moore , Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1945 – Robin Strasser , American actress
• 1946 – Thelma Houston , American R&B/disco singer and actress
• 1946 – Marv Hubbard , American football player (d. 2015)
• 1946 – Bill Kreutzmann , American drummer
• 1946 – Michael Rosen , English author and poet
• 1946 – Brian Turner , English chef and television host
• 1949 – Kathy Ahern , American golfer (d. 1996)
• 1949 – Deborah Butterfield , American sculptor ^[36]
• 1950 – John Dowling Coates , Australian lawyer, sports administrator and businessman
• 1950 – Randall "Tex" Cobb , American boxer and actor
• 1950 – Tim Russert , American television journalist and lawyer (d. 2008)
• 1953 – Pat McInally , American football player and coach
• 1953 – Ian McKay , English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1982)
• 1954 – Philippe Geluck , Belgian cartoonist
• 1954 – Joanna Haigh , English meteorologist and physicist
• 1954 – Amy Heckerling , American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1955 – Clement Gignac , Canadian politician
• 1955 – Axel Zwingenberger , German pianist and songwriter
• 1956 – Jan Peter Balkenende , Dutch jurist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
• 1956 – Anne Dudley , English pianist and composer
• 1956 – Nicholas Hytner , English director and producer ^[37]
• 1956 – Jean Lapierre , Canadian talk show host and politician (d. 2016)
• 1956 – Calum MacDonald , Scottish journalist and politician
• 1957 – Kristina M. Johnson , American business executive, engineer, academic, and government official
• 1958 – Mikhail Biryukov , Russian footballer and manager
• 1958 – Mark G. Kuzyk , American physicist and academic
• 1958 – Anne Marie Rafferty , English nurse and academic
• 1959 – Michael E. Knight , American actor
• 1959 – Tony Sealy , English footballer and manager ^[38]
• 1959 – Heiki Valk , Estonian archeologist and academic
• 1960 – Adam Bernstein , American director and screenwriter
• 1960 – Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham , Iraqi-English surgeon and academic
• 1960 – Almudena Grandes , Spanish author
• 1961 – Hans-Peter Bartels , German politician
• 1961 – Sue Black , Scottish anthropologist and academic
• 1961 – Ivar Must , Estonian composer and producer
• 1962 – Tony Campbell , American basketball player and coach
• 1962 – Judith Donath , American computer scientist and academic
• 1964 – Ronnie Harmon , American football player
• 1964 – Denis Mandarino , Brazilian guitarist, composer, and painter
• 1964 – Leslie O'Neal , American football player
• 1965 – Reuben Davis , American football player
• 1965 – Owen Hart , Canadian wrestler (d. 1999)
• 1965 – Norman Whiteside , Northern Irish footballer and manager
• 1965 – Huang Zhihong , Chinese shot putter
• 1967 – Martin Bryant , Australian mass murderer
• 1967 – Adam Price , Danish chef and screenwriter
• 1967 – Joe Rice , American colonel and politician
• 1968 – Traci Lords , American actress and singer
• 1968 – Lisa Raitt , Canadian lawyer and politician, 30th Canadian Minister of Transport
• 1969 – Eagle-Eye Cherry , Swedish singer-songwriter ^[39]
• 1969 – Jun Falkenstein , American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Katerina Maleeva , Bulgarian tennis player
• 1971 – Reidar Horghagen , Norwegian drummer
• 1971 – Dave Karpa , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1971 – Billy Moore , Australian rugby league player ^[40]
• 1971 – Thomas Piketty , French economist ^[41]
• 1972 – Peter Dubovsky , Czech-Slovak footballer (d. 2000)
• 1972 – Frank Trigg , American mixed martial artist and wrestler
• 1973 – Kristian Lundin , Swedish songwriter and producer
• 1973 – Paolo Savoldelli , Italian cyclist
• 1974 – Breckin Meyer , American actor, writer, and producer ^[42]
• 1974 – Ian Pearce , English footballer and assistant manager ^[43]
• 1975 – Ashley Cowan , English cricketer
• 1976 – Calvin Booth , American basketball player ^[44]
• 1976 – Berke Hatipo?lu , Turkish guitarist and songwriter
• 1976 – Stacey Jones , New Zealand rugby league player ^[45]
• 1976 – Andrea Lo Cicero , Italian rugby player ^[46]
• 1976 – Michael P. Murphy , American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2005)
• 1976 – Ayelet Shaked , former Israeli Minister of Justice
• 1977 – Elton Flatley , Australian rugby player
• 1978 – Stian Arnesen , Norwegian guitarist, drummer, and songwriter
• 1978 – James Carter , American hurdler ^[47]
• 1978 – Shawn Marion , American basketball player
• 1979 – Katie Douglas , American basketball player
• 1983 – Phionah Atuhebwe , Ugandan vaccinologist and immunization expert ^[48]
• 1984 – Kevin Owens , Canadian wrestler
• 1984 – Alex Smith , American football player ^[49]
• 1985 – J Balvin , Colombian singer-songwriter and producer ^[50]
• 1985 – Jarrad Hickey , Australian rugby league player
• 1985 – Drew Neitzel , American basketball player
• 1986 – Matt Helders , English drummer
• 1987 – Aidy Bryant , American actress and comedian ^[51]
• 1987 – Asami Konno , Japanese singer
• 1987 – Michael Maidens , English footballer (d. 2007)
• 1987 – Mark Reynolds , Scottish footballer ^[52]
• 1987 – David Schlemko , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1988 – Eino Puri , Estonian footballer ^[53]
• 1988 – Sander Puri , Estonian footballer ^[54]
• 1989 – Earl Thomas , American football player ^[55]
• 1992 – Alexander Ludwig , Canadian actor and musician ^[56]
• 1993 – Will Ospreay , English wrestler ^[57]
• 1993 – Ajla Tomljanovic , Australian tennis player ^[58]
• 1995 – Seko Fofana , French born Ivorian international footballer ^[59]
• 1997 – Daria Kasatkina , Russian tennis player ^{[60] [61]}
• 1998 – Maryna Piddubna , Ukrainian Paralympic swimmer ^[62]
• 1998 – Jesse Puljujarvi , Finnish ice hockey player ^[63]
• 1998 – MrBeast , American YouTuber ^[64]
• 1999 – Cody Gakpo , Dutch footballer ^[65]
• 2004 – Ashlyn Krueger , American tennis player ^[66]

Deaths [ edit ]

Pre-1600 [ edit ]

• 721 – John of Beverley , bishop of York ^[67]
• 833 – Ibn Hisham , Egyptian Muslim historian
• 973 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 912)
• 1014 – Bagrat III , 1st King of Georgia (b. 960)
• 1092 – Remigius de Fecamp , English monk and bishop
• 1166 – William I of Sicily
• 1202 – Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey
• 1205 – Ladislaus III of Hungary (b. 1201)
• 1234 – Otto I, Duke of Merania (b. c. 1180)
• 1243 – Hugh d'Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel
• 1427 – Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr , English priest (b. 1352)
• 1494 – Eskender , Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1471)
• 1523 – Franz von Sickingen , German knight (b. 1481)
• 1539 – Ottaviano Petrucci , Italian printer (b. 1466)

1601?1900 [ edit ]

• 1617 – David Fabricius , German astronomer and theologian (b. 1564) ^[68]
• 1667 – Johann Jakob Froberger , German organist and composer (b. 1616)
• 1682 – Feodor III of Russia (b. 1661)
• 1685 – Bajo Pivljanin (b. 1630)
• 1718 – Mary of Modena (b. 1658)
• 1793 – Pietro Nardini , Italian violinist and composer (b. 1722)
• 1800 – Niccolo Piccinni , Italian composer (b. 1728)
• 1805 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne , Irish-English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1737) ^[69]
• 1815 – Jabez Bowen , American colonel and politician, 45th Deputy Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1739)
• 1825 – Antonio Salieri , Italian composer and conductor (b. 1750)
• 1840 – Caspar David Friedrich , German painter and educator (b. 1774)
• 1868 – Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux , Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778)
• 1872 – Alexander Loyd , American carpenter and politician, 4th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1876 – William Buell Sprague , American clergyman, historian, and author (b. 1795)
• 1887 – C. F. W. Walther , German-American religious leader and theologian (b. 1811)
• 1896 – H. H. Holmes , American serial killer (b. 1861)

1901?present [ edit ]

• 1902 – Agostino Roscelli , Italian priest and saint (b. 1818)
• 1917 – Albert Ball , English fighter pilot (b. 1896) ^[70]
• 1922 – Max Wagenknecht , German pianist and composer (b. 1857)
• 1924 – Alluri Sitarama Raju , Indian activist (b. 1897/1898)
• 1925 – William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme , English businessman and politician (b. 1851)
• 1937 – Ernst A. Lehmann , German captain and author (b. 1886)
• 1938 – Octavian Goga , Romanian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1881)
• 1940 – George Lansbury , English journalist and politician (b. 1859)
• 1941 – James George Frazer , Scottish-English anthropologist and academic (b. 1854)
• 1942 – Felix Weingartner , Croatian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)
• 1943 – Fethi Okyar , Turkish colonel and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1880)
• 1946 – Herbert Macaulay , Nigerian journalist and politician (b. 1864)
• 1951 – Warner Baxter , American actor (b. 1889)
• 1967 – Margaret Larkin , American writer and poet (b. 1899)
• 1958 – Mihkel Ludig , Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1880)
• 1976 – Alison Uttley , English children's book writer (b. 1884)
• 1978 – Mort Weisinger , American journalist and author (b. 1915)
• 1986 – Haldun Taner , Turkish playwright and author (b. 1915)
• 1987 – Colin Blakely , Northern Irish actor (b. 1930)
• 1987 – Paul Popham , American soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis (b. 1941)
• 1990 – Sam Tambimuttu , Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
• 1994 – Clement Greenberg , American art critic (b. 1909)
• 1995 – Ray McKinley , American drummer, singer, and bandleader ( Glenn Miller Orchestra ) (b. 1910)
• 1998 – Allan McLeod Cormack , South African-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
• 1998 – Eddie Rabbitt , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)
• 2000 – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. , American captain, actor, and producer (b. 1909)
• 2001 – Jacques de Bourbon-Busset , French author and politician (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Waldemar Milewicz , Polish journalist (b. 1956)
• 2005 – Tristan Egolf , American author and activist (b. 1971)
• 2005 – Peter Rodino , American captain and politician (b. 1909)
• 2005 – Otilino Tenorio , Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1980)
• 2006 – Richard Carleton , Australian journalist (b. 1943)
• 2006 – Joan C. Edwards , American singer and philanthropist (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Isabella Blow , English magazine editor (b. 1958)
• 2007 – Diego Corrales , American boxer (b. 1977)
• 2007 – Octavian Paler , Romanian journalist and politician (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Yahweh ben Yahweh , American cult leader, founded the Nation of Yahweh (b. 1935)
• 2009 – David Mellor , English designer (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Danny Ozark , American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Seve Ballesteros , Spanish golfer (b. 1957)
• 2011 – Willard Boyle , Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Big George , English songwriter, producer, and radio host (b. 1957)
• 2011 – Victor Nosach , Soviet historian (b. 1929) ^[71]
• 2012 – Sammy Barr , Scottish trade union leader (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Ferenc Bartha , Hungarian economist and politician (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Dennis E. Fitch , American captain and pilot (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Ferruccio Mazzola , Italian footballer and manager (b. 1948)
• 2013 – George Sauer, Jr. , American football player (b. 1943)
• 2014 – Neville McNamara , Australian air marshal (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Colin Pillinger , English astronomer, chemist, and academic (b. 1943)
• 2014 – Dick Welteroth , American baseball player (b. 1927)
• 2015 – Frank DiPascali , American businessman (b. 1956)
• 2015 – John Dixon , Australian-American author and illustrator (b. 1929)
• 2023 – Aase Foss Abrahamsen , Norwegian writer (b. 1930) ^[72]

Holidays and observances [ edit ]

• Christian feast day :
  • Agathius of Byzantium
  • Agostino Roscelli
  • Pope Benedict II ^[73]
  • Flavia Domitilla
  • Gisela of Hungary
  • Harriet Starr Cannon ( Episcopal Church (USA) )
  • John of Beverley ^[67]
  • Rose Venerini
  • Stanislaus ( Roman Martyrology )
  • May 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Defender of the Fatherland Day (Kazakhstan)
• Dien Bien Phu Victory Day ( Vietnam )
• Radio Day , commemorating the work of Alexander Popov (Russia, Bulgaria ) ^[74]

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to May 7 .

• BBC: On This Day
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