May 7

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

Events

• 351 – The Jewish revolt against Gallus breaks out. After his arrival at Antioch, the Jews begin a rebellion in Palestine.
• 558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.
• 1274 – In France, the Second Council of Lyon opens to regulate the election of the Pope.
• 1429 – Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orléans, pulling an arrow from her own shoulder and returning, wounded, to lead the final charge. The victory marks a turning point in the Hundred Years' War.
• 1487 – The Siege of Málaga commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
• 1664 – Louis XIV of France inaugurates the Palace of Versailles.
• 1697 – Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire. It is replaced by the current Royal Palace in the eighteenth century.
• 1718 – The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
• 1763 – Pontiac's War begins with Pontiac's attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1832 – The independence of Greece is recognized by the Treaty of London. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.
• 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
• 1847 – The American Medical Association is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 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 was 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.
• 1915 – World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire
• 1915 – Japanese 21 Demands Ultimatum to China (Commemorated as National Day of Humiliation)
• 1920 – Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev 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.
• 1920 – The Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, opens the first exhibition by the Group of Seven.
• 1937 – Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
• 1940 – 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 – During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Japanese Imperial Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
• 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 with around 20 employees.
• 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 W.A. Dummer.
• 1954 – Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Vietnamese 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 Air Lines Flight 773, a Fairchild F-27 airliner, crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
• 1974 – West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.
• 1986 – Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.
• 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 – 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 iconic painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
• 1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
• 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: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
• 1999 – In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
• 2000 – Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
• 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.
• 2007 – Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
• 2009 – Over 100 New Zealand Police officers begin a 40-hour siege of a lone gunman in Napier, New Zealand.
• 2013 – 27 people are killed and more than 30 injured, when a tanker truck crashes and explodes outside Mexico City.

Births

• 1328 – Louis II, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1365)
• 1530 – Louis, Prince of Condé, French general (d. 1569)
• 1605 – Patriarch Nikon, Russian patriarch (d. 1681)
• 1643 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician, 10th Mayor of New York City (d. 1700)
• 1700 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-American physician (d. 1772)
• 1704 – Carl Heinrich Graun, German tenor and composer (d. 1759)
• 1711 – David Hume, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (d. 1776)
• 1724 – Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian general (d. 1797)
• 1740 – Nikolai Arkharov, Russian police officer (d. 1814)
• 1748 – Olympe de Gouges, French playwright (d. 1793)
• 1763 – Józef 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 (d. 1889)
• 1826 – Varina Davis, American wife of Jefferson Davis (d. 1906)
• 1833 – Johannes Brahms, German pianist and composer (d. 1897)
• 1836 – Joseph Gurney Cannon, American politician, 40th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1926)
• 1837 – Karl Mauch, German explorer (d. 1875)
• 1840 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1893)
• 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)
• 1867 – Władysław Reymont, Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925)
• 1881 – George E. Wiley, American cyclist (d. 1954)
• 1882 – Willem Elsschot, Flemish poet (d. 1960)
• 1885 – George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor (d. 1969)
• 1889 – Viktor Puskar, Estonian military commander (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 marshal and politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia (d. 1980)
• 1893 – Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey coach and manager (d. 1985)
• 1899 – Alfred Gerrard, English sculptor (d. 1998)
• 1901 – Gary Cooper, American actor and singer (d. 1961)
• 1904 – Kurt Weitzmann, German-American historian (d. 1993)
• 1909 – Edwin H. Land, American scientist and inventor, co-founded the Polaroid Corporation (d. 1991)
• 1911 – Ishirō Honda, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1993)
• 1912 – Pannalal Patel, Indian author (d. 1989)
• 1913 – John Spencer Hardy, American general (d. 2012)
• 1913 – Simon Ramo, American physicist
• 1914 – Arthur Snelling, English civil servant and diplomat (d. 1996)
• 1916 – Huw Wheldon, Welsh-English broadcaster (d. 1986)
• 1916 – W. B. Young, Scottish rugby player (d. 2013)
• 1917 – Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal (d. 2013)
• 1917 – David Tomlinson, English actor and singer (d. 2000)
• 1919 – La Esterella, Flemish singer (d. 2011)
• 1919 – Eva Perón, Argentinian actress, 25th First Lady of Argentina (d. 1952)
• 1921 – Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer (d. 1985)
• 1922 – Lew Anderson, American actor and singer (d. 2006)
• 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)
• 1924 – Albert Band, French-American director and producer (d. 2002)
• 1925 – Lauri Vaska, Estonian-American chemist
• 1926 – Val Bisoglio, American actor
• 1927 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-American author and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Jim Lowe, American singer-songwriter
• 1928 – John Ingle, American actor (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Babe Parilli, American football player and coach
• 1929 – Dick Williams, American baseball player, manager, and coach (d. 2011)
• 1930 – Totie Fields, American comedian and author (d. 1978)
• 1931 – Teresa Brewer, American singer (d. 2007)
• 1931 – Gene Wolfe, American author
• 1932 – Jordi Bonet, Spanish-Canadian painter and sculptor (d. 1979)
• 1932 – Pete Domenici, American politician
• 1933 – Nexhmije Pagarusha, Kosovar singer and actress
• 1933 – Johnny Unitas, American football player and sportscaster (d. 2002)
• 1936 – Bobby Joe Green, American football player and coach (d. 1993)
• 1937 – Claude Raymond, Canadian baseball player and coach
• 1939 – Sidney Altman, Canadian-American biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1939 – Ruggero Deodato, Italian director, actor, and screenwriter
• 1939 – Ruud Lubbers, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
• 1939 – Johnny Maestro, American singer-songwriter (The Crests and Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge) (d. 2010)
• 1939 – Jimmy Ruffin, American singer
• 1940 – Angela Carter, English author and journalist (d. 1992)
• 1940 – Dave Chambers, Canadian ice hockey coach
• 1940 – Jim Connors, American radio host (d. 1987)
• 1940 – Vasilis N. Triantafillidis, Greek comedian and actor
• 1943 – Terry Allen, American singer and painter
• 1943 – Harvey Andrews, English singer-songwriter and poet
• 1943 – Peter Carey, Australian author
• 1944 – Eva Norvind, Norwegian-Mexican actress, director, and producer (d. 2006)
• 1944 – Richard O'Sullivan, English actor
• 1945 – Christy Moore, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Planxty and Moving Hearts)
• 1945 – Robin Strasser, American actress
• 1946 – Thelma Houston, American singer-songwriter and actress (Sisters of Glory)
• 1946 – Marvin Hubbard, American football player
• 1946 – Bill Kreutzmann, American drummer (Grateful Dead, The Other Ones, The Dead, 7 Walkers, Rhythm Devils, and BK3)
• 1946 – Jerry Nolan, American drummer (The New York Dolls, The Heartbreakers, and The Pleasure Seekers/Cradle) (d. 1992)
• 1946 – Brian Turner, English chef
• 1946 – Michael Rosen, English author and poet
• 1948 – Susan Atkins, American murderer (d. 2009)
• 1949 – Kathy Ahern, American golfer (d. 1996)
• 1949 – Marilyn Cole, English model
• 1950 – Randall "Tex" Cobb, American boxer and actor
• 1950 – Tim Russert, American journalist (d. 2008)
• 1951 – Robert Hegyes, American actor and director (d. 2012)
• 1951 – Bernie Marsden, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Whitesnake, Paice Ashton Lord, Babe Ruth, and The Snakes)
• 1952 – Stanley Dickens, Swedish race car driver
• 1953 – Müslüm Gürses, Turkish singer and actor (d. 2013)
• 1953 – Pat McInally, American football player and coach
• 1953 – Ian McKay, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1982)
• 1953 – Frank Michael, Italian-Belgian singer
• 1954 – Philippe Geluck, Belgian cartoonist
• 1954 – Amy Heckerling, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1955 – Clément Gignac, Canadian politician
• 1955 – Ben Poquette, American basketball player
• 1955 – Peter Reckell, American actor
• 1955 – Axel Zwingenberger, German pianist and songwriter
• 1956 – Jan Peter Balkenende, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
• 1956 – Anne Dudley, English pianist and composer (Art of Noise)
• 1956 – Nicholas Hytner, English director and producer
• 1956 – Jean Lapierre, Canadian politician and talk show host
• 1957 – Ned Bellamy, American actor
• 1957 – Ray Fernandez, American wrestler (d. 2004)
• 1958 – Mikhail Biryukov, Russian football player and coach
• 1958 – Mark G. Kuzyk, American physicist
• 1959 – Michael E. Knight, American actor
• 1959 – Heiki Valk, Estonian archeologist
• 1959 – Barbara Yung, Hong Kong actress (d. 1985)
• 1960 – Adam Bernstein, American director and screenwriter
• 1960 – Almudena Grandes, Spanish author
• 1961 – Hans-Peter Bartels, German politician
• 1961 – Phil Campbell, Welsh guitarist and songwriter (Motörhead and Persian Risk)
• 1961 – Ivar Must, Estonian composer
• 1962 – Tony Campbell, American basketball player and coach
• 1962 – Dominik Moll, German-French director and screenwriter
• 1963 – Johnny Lee Middleton, American bass player and songwriter (Savatage and Trans-Siberian Orchestra)
• 1964 – Doug Benson, American comedian and actor
• 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-American wrestler (d. 1999)
• 1965 – Norman Whiteside, Irish footballer and manager
• 1967 – Martin Bryant, Australian spree killer
• 1967 – Adam Price, Danish chef and screenwriter
• 1967 – Joe Rice, American colonel and politician
• 1968 – Traci Lords, American actress, singer, director, and producer
• 1968 – Lisa Raitt, Canadian politician
• 1969 – Eagle-Eye Cherry, Swedish singer-songwriter
• 1969 – Jun Falkenstein, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Katerina Maleeva, Bulgarian tennis player
• 1969 – Rick Porras, American director and producer
• 1970 – Kim Su-ro, South Korean actor
• 1971 – Reidar Horghagen, Norwegian drummer (Immortal, Hypocrisy, and Grimfist)
• 1971 – Dave Karpa, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1971 – Ivan Sergei, American actor
• 1972 – Peter Dubovský, 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 and screenwriter
• 1974 – Ian Pearce, English footballer and manager
• 1975 – Zee, American rapper
• 1975 – Nicole Sheridan, American porn actress
• 1975 – Martina Topley-Bird, English singer-songwriter
• 1975 – Jason Tunks, Canadian discus thrower
• 1976 – Calvin Booth, American basketball player
• 1976 – Andrea Lo Cicero, Italian rugby player
• 1976 – Michael P. Murphy, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient
• 1977 – Lisa Kelly, Irish singer (Celtic Woman)
• 1978 – Stian Arnesen, Norwegian guitarist, drummer, and songwriter (The Kovenant, Dimmu Borgir, and Carpe Tenebrum)
• 1978 – Brian Clevinger, American author
• 1978 – Shawn Marion, American basketball player
• 1978 – Stephanie Pohl, German volleyball player
• 1979 – Katie Douglas, American basketball player
• 1979 – Nikki Hayes, Irish radio host
• 1980 – Johan Kenkhuis, Dutch swimmer
• 1980 – Kate Lawler, English model and radio host
• 1981 – Tim Connolly, American ice hockey player
• 1982 – Ákos Buzsáky, Hungarian footballer
• 1983 – DJ Row, American-Greek DJ
• 1984 – May7ven, Nigerian-English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1984 – James Loney, American baseball player
• 1984 – Alex Smith, American football player
• 1984 – Drew Stanton, American football player
• 1985 – Drew Neitzel, American basketball player
• 1985 – Dan Sweetman, Australian television host
• 1986 – Mark Furze, Australian actor and singer
• 1986 – Matt Helders, English drummer (Arctic Monkeys and Mongrel)
• 1987 – Asami Konno, Japanese singer (Morning Musume Ongaku Gatas, Tanpopo, and Country Musume)
• 1987 – Michael Maidens, English footballer (d. 2007)
• 1987 – Jérémy Ménez, French footballer
• 1987 – Serge Gakpé, Togolese footballer
• 1987 – Anissa Kate, French pornographic actress and director
• 1988 – Natalie Mejia, American singer and dancer (Girlicious)
• 1988 – Eino Puri, Estonian footballer
• 1988 – Sander Puri, Estonian footballer
• 1989 – Master Shortie, English rapper and producer
• 1990 – Yoon Bit-Garam, South Korean footballer
• 1992 – Alexander Ludwig, Canadian actor
• 1999 – Masaki Sato, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
• 2000 – Maxwell Perry Cotton, American actor

Deaths

• 685 – Marwan I, Umayyah caliph (b. 623)
• 973 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 912)
• 1092 – Remigius de Fécamp, English monk and bishop
• 1427 – Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English priest (b. 1352)
• 1523 – Franz von Sickingen, German knight (b. 1481)
• 1539 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (b. 1466)
• 1617 – David Fabricius, German astronomer and theologian (b. 1564)
• 1667 – Johann Jakob Froberger, German organist and composer (b. 1616)
• 1682 – Feodor III of Russia (b. 1661)
• 1718 – Mary of Modena (b. 1658)
• 1793 – Pietro Nardini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1722)
• 1800 – Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer (b. 1728)
• 1805 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Irish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1737)
• 1825 – Antonio Salieri, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1750)
• 1840 – Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (b. 1774)
• 1868 – Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Scottish politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778)
• 1872 – Alexander Loyd, American politician, 4th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1876 – William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (b. 1795)
• 1887 – C. F. W. Walther, German-American theologian (b. 1811)
• 1896 – H. H. Holmes, American serial killer (b. 1860)
• 1902 – Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest and founder of the Institute of Sisters of the Immaculata (b. 1818)
• 1922 – Max Wagenknecht, German composer (b. 1857)
• 1924 – Alluri Sita Rama Raju, Indian activist (b. 1897)
• 1925 – William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, English businessman and politician (b. 1851)
• 1937 – Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain (b. 1886)
• 1940 – George Lansbury, English politician (b. 1859)
• 1941 – James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (b. 1854)
• 1942 – Felix Weingartner, Croatian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)
• 1946 – Herbert Macaulay, Nigerian journalist and politician (b. 1864)
• 1951 – Warner Baxter, American actor and singer (b. 1889)
• 1958 – Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian composer, organist and choir conductor (b. 1880)
• 1978 – Mort Weisinger, American journalist and author (b. 1915)
• 1986 – Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (b. 1949)
• 1987 – Colin Blakely, Irish-English actor (b. 1930)
• 1989 – Guy Williams, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1990 – Sam Tambimuttu, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
• 1993 – Mary Philbin, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1995 – Ray McKinley, American drummer, singer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1910)
• 1998 – Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist, 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)
• 2002 – Kevyn Aucoin, American makeup artist and photographer (b. 1962)
• 2002 – Robert Kanigher, American author (b. 1915)
• 2002 – Seattle Slew, American race horse (b. 1974)
• 2004 – Waldemar Milewicz, Polish journalist (b. 1956)
• 2005 – Tristan Egolf, American author and activist (b. 1971)
• 2005 – Peter W. Rodino, American politician (b. 1909)
• 2005 – Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1980)
• 2006 – Richard Carleton, Australian journalist (b. 1943)
• 2006 – Joan C. Edwards, American singer (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Machiko Soga, Japanese actress (b. 1943)
• 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)
• 2009 – Mickey Carroll, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2011 – Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (b. 1957)
• 2011 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Big George, English songwriter, producer, and radio host (b. 1957)
• 2011 – Allyson Hennessy, Trinidadian journalist (b. 1948)
• 2012 – Ferenc Bartha, Hungarian economist (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Jules Bocandé, Senegalese footballer and manager (b. 1958)
• 2012 – Dennis E. Fitch, American pilot (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Romanthony, American singer and producer (b. 1967)
• 2013 – Al Fritz, American businessman (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Ray Harryhausen, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Joseba Larrinaga, Spanish runner (b. 1968)
• 2013 – P. G. Lim, English-Malaysian lawyer and diplomat (b. 1918)
• 2013 – Ferruccio Mazzola, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1948)
• 2013 – Teri Moïse, American singer (b. 1970)
• 2013 – Peter Rauhofer, Austrian DJ and producer (b. 1965)
• 2013 – Mairuth Sarsfield, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1925)
• 2013 – George Sauer, Jr., American football player (b. 1943)
• 2013 – Wiktor Tołkin, Polish sculptor (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Jan Villerius, Dutch footballer and coach (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Aubrey Woods, English actor and singer (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Acacius of Byzantium
  • Agostino Roscelli
  • Flavia Domitilla
  • John of Beverley
  • 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)

External links

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