On this day: 7 May
Events, births and deaths on 7 May. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Events · 2025 India–Pakistan conflict
- Deaths · Cleopa Msuya
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1919 · Births · Eva Perón
- 1923 · Births · Anne Baxter
- 1927 · Births · Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 973 · Deaths · Otto I the Great
- 1014 · Deaths · Bagrat III of Georgia
- 1104 · Events · Battle of Harran
Events · 20
- 1104Battle of Harran — battle in 1104
- 1190(Julian date)Battle of Philomelion — 1190 battle of the Third Crusade
- 1274(Julian date)Second Council of Lyon — fourteenth ecumenical council of the Catholic Church
- 1487(Julian date)Siege of Málaga — 1487 siege during the Granada War
- 1544(Julian date)Burning of Edinburgh — English amphibious attack and sack of Edinburgh as part of the Rough Wooing
- 1794Cult of the Supreme Being — state religion during the French Revolution
- 1798Battle of the Îles Saint-Marcouf — 1798 battle of the French revolutionary wars
- 1840Great Natchez Tornado — 1840 windstorm in Natchez, Mississippi, USA
- 1915sinking of the RMS Lusitania — 1915 World War I maritime disaster
- 1920Treaty of Moscow — 1920 treaty between Russia and Georgia
- 1940Norway Debate — 1940 debate within the British House of Commons
- 1946Sony Group — Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation
- 1948Hague Congress — congress in 1948
- 1964Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 — aviation accident caused by hijacking
- 1999United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade — May 1999 bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
- 2002China Northern Airlines Flight 6136 — aviation accident
- 2002EgyptAir Flight 843 — aviation accident
- 2004Killing of Nick Berg — American repairman taken hostage and killed in Iraq (1978–2004)
- 20232023 Tanur boat disaster — boat accident tragedy in Kerala
- 20252025 India–Pakistan conflict — military actions between India and Pakistan in May 2025
Births · 60
- 1530(Julian date)Louis, Prince of Condé — French general, Huguenot leader and founder of the House of Bourbon-Condé (1530-1569)
- 1553Albert Frederick of Prussia — Duke of Prussia (lived 1553-1618)
- 1605(Julian date)Patriarch Nikon of Moscow — 8th Patriarch of Moscow (1652–1666)
- 1711David Hume — Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
- 1748Olympe de Gouges — French playwright and political activist (1748–1793)
- 1754Joseph Joubert — French moralist and essayist
- 1763Józef Poniatowski — nephew of King of Poland Stanislaus II; Marshal of France (1763-1813)
- 1767Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia — eldest child of Frederick William II of Prussia and Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt
- 1812Robert Browning — English poet and playwright (1812–1889)
- 1833Johannes Brahms — German composer (1833–1897)
- 1840Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Russian composer (1840–1893)
- 1847Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery — British Liberal politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1847–1929)
- 1861Rabindranath Tagore — Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
- 1867Władysław Reymont — Polish novelist (1867-1925)
- 1875William Hoyt — American pole vaulter (1875–1954)
- 1882Willem Elsschot — Flemish writer (1882–1960)
- 1892Josip Broz Tito — Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman (1892−1980)
- 1892Archibald MacLeish — American poet and Librarian of Congress (1892-1982)
- 1896Kathleen McKane Godfree — English badminton and tennis player (1896-1992)
- 1901Gary Cooper — American actor (1901–1961)
- 1909Edwin H. Land — American scientist and inventor (1909–1991)
- 1911Ishirō Honda — Japanese filmmaker (1911–1993)
- 1919Eva Perón — Argentine actress and politician (1919–1952)
- 1923Anne Baxter — American actress (1923–1985)
- 1927Ruth Prawer Jhabvala — German-born British-American author (1927-2013)
Deaths · 60
- 721(Julian date)John of Beverley — 8th‑century Anglo‑Saxon bishop of Hexham and York, early medieval English saint
- 973(Julian date)Otto I the Great — Holy Roman Emperor from 962 to 973
- 1014(Julian date)Bagrat III of Georgia — King of Georgia
- 1166William I of Sicily — 12th-century king of Sicily
- 1202(Julian date)Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey — English Earl
- 1205(Julian date)Ladislaus III of Hungary — King of Hungary (1199–1205)
- 1234(Julian date)Otto I — Duke of Merania
- 1523(Julian date)Franz von Sickingen — knight of the Holy Roman Empire (1481−1523)
- 1539(Julian date)Ottaviano Petrucci — Italian printer
- 1617David Fabricius — German astronomer
- 1667(Julian date)Johann Jakob Froberger — German composer and keyboardist
- 1682Feodor III of Russia — Tsar of Russia (1676–1682)
- 1718Mary of Modena — Queen consort of England (1685-1688)
- 1793Pietro Nardini — Italian composer and violinist
- 1800Niccolò Piccinni — Italian composer
- 1805William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne — British Prime Minister (1737-1805)
- 1825Antonio Salieri — Italian composer and teacher (1750–1825)
- 1840Caspar David Friedrich — German Romantic landscape painter (1774–1840)
- 1868Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux — English barrister, politician, and Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (1778-1868)
- 1880Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias — Brazilian hero and politician (1803-1880)
- 1886François Pollen — Dutch naturalist (1842–1886)
- 1887C. F. W. Walther — Founding President of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, Lutheran Theologian, Publisher
- 1896H. H. Holmes — American con artist and serial killer (1861–1896)
- 1902Agostino Roscelli — Italian priest (1818–1902)
- 1917Albert Ball — British aviator killed in WWI
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