May 7 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on May 7, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♉︎ Taurus
Apr 20 – May 20
Birth stone
Emerald
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
How common
#255 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous May 7 birthdays
Robert Browning · English poet and playwright1812
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Russian composer1840
Gustave Le Bon · French psychologist1841
Władysław Reymont · Polish novelist1867
Josip Broz Tito · Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman1892
Gary Cooper · American actor1901
Eva Perón · Argentine actress and politician1919
Anne Baxter · American actress1923
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala · German-born British-American author1927
Sidney Altman · Canadian American molecular biologist1939
Ruud Lubbers · Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1982 to 19941939
Jan Peter Balkenende · Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 2002 to 20101956
Traci Lords · American pornographic actress1968
Thomas Piketty · French economist1971
Asghar Farhadi · Iranian screenwriter and film director1972
Takayuki Morimoto · Japanese association football player1988
Youri Tielemans · Belgian footballer1997
MrBeast · American YouTuber, media personality and businessman1998
Dani Olmo · Spanish footballer1998
Cody Gakpo · Dutch association football player1999
On this day in history
1937Employees at Fleischer Studios in New York City went on strike in the animation industry's first major labor strike.
1960Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
1999In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
2010A draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome was published, demonstrating that most living humans have Neanderthal ancestors.
1940A three-day debate began in the House of Commons that resulted in British prime minister Neville Chamberlain being replaced by Winston Churchill.
1946Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded the telecommunications corporation Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, later renamed Sony.
1948The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
1954A convoy of circus wagons carrying lions, horses, ponies and an ass lost control and overturned into some shop fronts in Dungannon, Northern Ireland.
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