May 7

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 558 &ndash; In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders the dome rebuilt.
* 973 &ndash; Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor takes sole charge of the Holy Roman Empire after the death of his father and co–Emperor Otto I.
* 1274 &ndash; In France, the Second Council of Lyons opens to regulate the election of the Pope.
* 1429 &ndash; Joan of Arc leads a French attack on English bridgeheads on the south side of the Loire River.
* 1487 &ndash; Siege of Malaga during the Spanish Reconquista.
* 1664 &ndash; The Palace of Versailles is inaugurated by Louis XIV of France.
* 1697 &ndash; Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed in a huge fire (in the 18th century, it is replaced with the current Royal Palace).
* 1718 &ndash; City of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste le Moyne de Bienville.
* 1763 &ndash; Indian Wars: Pontiac's Rebellion begins – Chief Pontiac begins the "Conspiracy of Pontiac" by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit.
* 1824 &ndash; Ludwig van Beethoven, completely deaf, conducts the debut of his Ninth Symphony in Vienna.
* 1832 &ndash; Greece was recognised independent by the Treaty of London. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.
* 1840 &ndash; The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi, killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
* 1847 &ndash; In Philadelphia, the American Medical Association (AMA) is founded.
* 1864 &ndash; 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 &ndash; The world's oldest–surviving clipper ship, *City of Adelaide*, is launched by William Pile in Sunderland, Northeast England.
* 1895 &ndash; In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates an invention which became the prototype of radio. In the former Soviet Union this day was celebrated as Day of Radio.
* 1896 &ndash; H. H. Holmes is hanged in Philadelphia.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1915 &ndash; World War I: a German U-boat sinks the RMS *Lusitania*, killing 1,198 people.
* 1920 &ndash; Polish-Bolshevik War: Polish–Ukrainian troops captured Kyiv during the Kiev Offensive.
* 1937 &ndash; Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion arrive in Spain with Heinkel He 51 biplanes to assist Franco's forces.
* 1940 &ndash; The Norway Debate begins in the British House of Commons. It eventually results in Winston Churchill replacing Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 
* 1945 &ndash; World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document will take effect the next day.
* 1946 &ndash; Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with about 20 employees.
* 1947 &ndash; *Kraft Television Theater* debuts, running for the next 11 years.
* 1948 &ndash; The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
* 1952 &ndash; The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
* 1954 &ndash; Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13).
* 1960 &ndash; Cold War: U-2 Crisis – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
* 1964 &ndash; Pacific Air Lines flight 773, a Fairchild F–27 airliner crashes near San Ramon, California, killing 44. The pilot and co–pilot  had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
* 1974 &ndash; Willy Brandt resigns as Chancellor of Germany.
* 1986 &ndash; Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb to the top of the Seven Summits.
* 1992 &ndash; 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 rise.
* 1992 &ndash; Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its maiden voyage.
* 1992 &ndash; 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 &ndash; *The Scream* by Edvard Munch is recovered after it was stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in Oslo, in February.
* 1995 &ndash; Jacques Chirac is elected President of France.
* 1998 &ndash; Apple Computer unveils the iMac.
* 1998 &ndash; Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
* 1999 &ndash; Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope that had visited a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
* 1999 &ndash; A jury finds *The Jenny Jones Show* and Warner Bros liable in the shooting death of Scott Amedure, after the show purposely deceived Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a secret same–sex crush episode. Schmitz later killed Amedure and the jury awarded Amedure's family US$25 million.
* 1999 &ndash; Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese embassy workers are killed and 20 wounded when a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) aircraft mistakenly bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
* 1999 &ndash; In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
* 2000 &ndash; Vladimir Putin becomes President of Russia.

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Wanted train robber Ronnie Biggs returns to the UK after spending over 30 years on the run in Brazil.
* 2002 &ndash; A China Southern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea killing 112 people.
* 2007 &ndash; The tomb of King Herod the Great, who is mentioned in the Bible, is discovered.
* 2008 &ndash; Dmitry Medvedev becomes President of Russia, with Vladimir Putin as Prime Minister.
* 2010 &ndash; Scientists working on the Neanderthal Genome Project announce that modern humans and Neanderthals could have interbred.
* 2012 &ndash; Vladimir Putin becomes President of Russia for a second time, swapping places with Dmitry Medvedev, who becomes Prime Minister.
* 2012 &ndash; Victor Ponta is elected Prime Minister of Romania.
* 2013 &ndash; 27 people are killed and over 30 are injured when a tanker truck explodes outside Mexico City.
* 2014 &ndash; Prime Minister of Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra is removed from office for abuse of power.
* 2015 &ndash; The United Kingdom general election, 2015 is held. The Conservative Party of incumbent Prime Minister David Cameron wins a surprise overall majority, with the Labour Party losing seats across England, Scotland and Wales. The Scottish National Party wins all but three seats in Scotland.
* 2016 &ndash; Sadiq Khan of the Labour Party becomes Mayor of London, after defeating Conservative Zac Goldsmith in the election. He is the first Muslim Mayor of a major Western city.
* 2017 &ndash; Emmanuel Macron is elected President of France, defeating Marine Le Pen in the run–off.

## Births 
### Up to 1800 
* 1328 &ndash; Louis II, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1365)
* 1530 &ndash; Louis, Prince de Condé, French general (d. 1569)
* 1605 &ndash; Patriarch Nikon of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. 1681)
* 1643 &ndash; Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (d. 1700)
* 1704 &ndash; Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer and tenor (d. 1759)
* 1711 &ndash; David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1776)
* 1724 &ndash; Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Austrian general (d. 1797)
* 1740 &ndash; Nikolai Arkharov, Russian general (d. 1814)
* 1748 &ndash; Olympe de Gouges, French playwright and feminist revolutionary (d. 1793)
* 1763 &ndash; Jozef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish prince (d. 1813)
* 1767 &ndash; Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1820)
* 1787 &ndash; Jacques Viger, 1st Mayor of Chicago (d. 1858)

### 1801 &ndash; 1900 
* 1812 &ndash; Robert Browning, English poet (d. 1889)
* 1819 &ndash; Otto Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer (d. 1905)
* 1826 &ndash; Varina Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States of America (d. 1906)
* 1833 &ndash; Johannes Brahms, German composer (d. 1897)
* 1836 &ndash; Joseph Gurney Cannon, American politician (d. 1926)
* 1837 &ndash; Karl Mauch, German geographer and explorer (d. 1875)
* 1840 &ndash; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1893)
* 1841 &ndash; Gustave Le Bon, French psychologist (d. 1931)
* 1847 &ndash; Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, British Prime Minister (d. 1929)
* 1857 &ndash; William A. MacCorkle, 9th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1930)
* 1861 &ndash; Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet and writer of the Bengali language (d. 1941)
* 1867 &ndash; Wladyslaw Reymont, Polish writer (d. 1925)
* 1875 &ndash; William Hoyt, American athlete (d. 1954)
* 1882 &ndash; Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer (d. 1960)
* 1891 &ndash; Harry McShane, Scottish engineer and activist (d. 1988)
* 1892 &ndash; Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (d. 1980)
* 1892 &ndash; Archibald MacLeish, American poet and politician (d. 1982)
* 1893 &ndash; Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (d. 1985)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1901 &ndash; Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961)
* 1901 &ndash; Marcel Poot, Belgian composer (d. 1988)
* 1905 &ndash; Bumble Bee Slim, American musician (d. 1968)
* 1908 &ndash; Max Grundig, German businessman (d. 1989)
* 1909 &ndash; Edwin H. Land, American inventor (d. 1991)
* 1911 &ndash; Ishiro Honda, Japanese movie director (d. 1993)
* 1913 &ndash; Simon Ramo, American physicist (d. 2016)
* 1914 &ndash; Arthur Snelling, English diplomat (d. 1996)
* 1917 &ndash; Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal (d. 2013)
* 1919 &ndash; Joe Mitty, British philanthropist (d. 2007)
* 1919 &ndash; Eva Perón, First Lady of Argentina (d. 1952)
* 1921 &ndash; Gaston Rebuffat, French mountaineer (d. 1985)
* 1923 &ndash; Anne Baxter, American writer and actress (d. 1985)
* 1923 &ndash; Bülend Ulusu, 18th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2015)
* 1924 &ndash; Albert Band, French–American director and producer (d. 2002)
* 1924 &ndash; Marjorie Boulton, British author and poet (d. 2017)
* 1925 &ndash; Lauri Vaska, Estonian–American chemist and academic (d. 2015)
* 1926 &ndash; Val Bisoglio, American actor
* 1927 &ndash; Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German screenwriter (d. 2013)
* 1928 &ndash; John Ingle, American actor (d. 2012)
* 1931 &ndash; Teresa Brewer, American singer (d. 2007)
* 1932 &ndash; Jordi Bonet, Canadian–Catalan painter, muralist and sculptor (d. 1979)
* 1932 &ndash; Pete Domenici, American politician (d. 2017)
* 1933 &ndash; Nexhmije Pagarusha, Kosovar singer and actress
* 1935 &ndash; Avraham Heffner, Israeli television and movie director, producer and writer (d. 2014)
* 1936 &ndash; Tony O'Reilly, Irish billionaire
* 1936 &ndash; Jimmy Ruffin, American singer (d. 2014)
* 1939 &ndash; Sidney Altman, Canadian molecular biologist
* 1939 &ndash; Ruud Lubbers, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2018)
* 1939 &ndash; Ruggero Deodato, Italian director, actor and screenwriter
* 1939 &ndash; Volker Braun, German writer
* 1940 &ndash; Angela Carter, English novelist and journalist (d. 1992)
* 1943 &ndash; Peter Carey, Australian writer
* 1944 &ndash; Richard O'Sullivan, English actor
* 1945 &ndash; Christy Moore, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1945 &ndash; Robin Strasser, American actress
* 1946 &ndash; Thelma Houston, American singer-songwriter and actress
* 1946 &ndash; Michael Rosen, English poet and writer
* 1946 &ndash; Bill Kreutzmann, American drummer (The Grateful Dead)
* 1947 &ndash; Gary Herbert, American politician
* 1947 &ndash; Antonio de la Cruz, Spanish footballer
* 1947 &ndash; Numa Sadoul, French writer
* 1948 &ndash; Susan Atkins, American murderer (d. 2009)
* 1950 &ndash; Tim Russert, American broadcast journalist (d. 2008)
* 1950 &ndash; Mark Warawa, Canadian politician (d. 2019)

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Robert Hegyes, American actor (d. 2012)
* 1956 &ndash; Jan Peter Balkenende, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
* 1956 &ndash; Nicholas Hytner, English director and producer
* 1958 &ndash; Christine Lieberknecht, German politician
* 1961 &ndash; Hans-Peter Bartels, German politician
* 1961 &ndash; Sue Black, Scottish forensic anthropologist
* 1962 &ndash; Tony Campbell, American basketball player and coach
* 1962 &ndash; Dominik Moll, German–French director and screenwriter
* 1965 &ndash; Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (died 1999)
* 1965 &ndash; Andrew Little, New Zealand politician
* 1965 &ndash; Norman Whiteside, Northern Irish footballer
* 1966 &ndash; Andrea Tafi, Italian cyclist
* 1967 &ndash; Martin Bryant, Australian criminal
* 1968 &ndash; Traci Lords, American actress & singer
* 1968 &ndash; Lisa Raitt, Canadian politician
* 1969 &ndash; Rick Porras, American movie producer
* 1969 &ndash; Eagle-Eye Cherry, Swedish singer-songwriter
* 1969 &ndash; Katerina Maleeva, Bulgarian tennis player
* 1972 &ndash; Jennifer Yuh Nelson, South Korean–American animator
* 1973 &ndash; Paolo Savoldelli, Italian cyclist
* 1975 &ndash; Arni Gautur Arason, Icelandic footballer

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Calvin Booth, American basketball player
* 1977 &ndash; Lisa Kelly, Irish singer
* 1978 &ndash; Stian Arnesen, Norwegian musician and songwriter
* 1978 &ndash; Shawn Marion, American basketball player
* 1979 &ndash; Katie Douglas, American basketball player
* 1981 &ndash; Maria Radner, German opera singer (d. 2015)
* 1983 &ndash; Julio dos Santos, Paraguayan footballer
* 1983 &ndash; Garry O'Connor, Scottish footballer
* 1983 &ndash; Makano, Panamanian singer and composer
* 1986 &ndash; Matt Helders, English musician
* 1987 &ndash; Stefan Read, Canadian ski jumper
* 1988 &ndash; Nathan Burns, Australian footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Natalie Mejia, American dancer and singer
* 1988 &ndash; Takayuki Morimoto, Japanese footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Eino Puri, Estonian footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Sander Puri, Estonian footballer
* 1989 &ndash; Master Shortie, English singer-songwriter, rapper and producer
* 1989 &ndash; Raina, South Korean singer, dancer, model and rapper
* 1990 &ndash; Yoon Bit-Garam, South Korean footballer
* 1992 &ndash; Alexander Ludwig, Canadian actor
* 1992 &ndash; Tyler Johnson, American basketball player
* 1999 &ndash; Masaki Sato, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
* 2000 &ndash; Maxwell Perry Cotton, American actor
* 2004 &ndash; Minji, South Korean singer

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 685 &ndash; Mawan I, Umayyah Caliph (b. 623)
* 973 &ndash; Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 912)
* 1266 &ndash; Farid-ud-din Ganj Shakar, Islamic saint in South Asia (b. 1179)
* 1539 &ndash; Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism (born 1469)
* 1539 &ndash; Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (born 1466)
* 1615 &ndash; Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (born 1567)
* 1617 &ndash; David Fabricius, German astronomer (born 1564)
* 1682 &ndash; Tsar Feodor III of Russia (born 1661)
* 1718 &ndash; Mary of Modena, wife of James II of England (born 1658)
* 1793 &ndash; Pietro Nardini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1722)
* 1805 &ndash; William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1737)
* 1825 &ndash; Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (born 1750)
* 1840 &ndash; Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (born 1774)
* 1868 &ndash; Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, English statesman (born 1778)
* 1872 &ndash; Alexander Loyd, 4th Mayor of Chicago (born 1805)
* 1873 &ndash; Salmon P. Chase, American politician (born 1808)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1902 &ndash; Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest (born 1818)
* 1922 &ndash; Max Wagenknecht, German composer (born 1857)
* 1924 &ndash; Alluri Sita Rama Raju, Indian activist (born 1897)
* 1940 &ndash; George Lansbury, English politician (born 1859)
* 1941 &ndash; James George Frazer, Scottish ethnologist and classical philologist (born 1854)
* 1942 &ndash; Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (born 1863)
* 1943 &ndash; Fethi Okyar, Turkish diplomat and politician (born 1880)
* 1951 &ndash; Warner Baxter, American actor (born 1889)
* 1958 &ndash; Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian organist, composer and conductor (born 1880)
* 1985 &ndash; Dawn Addams, British actress (born 1930)
* 1986 &ndash; Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (born 1949)
* 1986 &ndash; Haldun Taner, Turkish playwright and short story writer (born 1915) 
* 1987 &ndash; Colin Blakely, English actor (born 1930)
* 1989 &ndash; Guy Williams, American actor (born 1924)
* 1991 &ndash; István Zsolt, Hungarian football referee (born 1921)
* 1995 &ndash; Ray McKinley, American jazz musician (born 1910)
* 1998 &ndash; Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist (born 1924)
* 2000 &ndash; Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (born 1909)

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Jacques de Borbon Busset, French novelist, essayist and politician (born 1912)
* 2005 &ndash; Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorean footballer (born 1980)
* 2010 &ndash; Wally Hickel, American politician, 2nd Governor of Alaska (born 1919)
* 2011 &ndash; Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (born 1957)
* 2011 &ndash; Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist (born 1924)
* 2011 &ndash; Gunter Sachs, German businessman, art patron and playboy (born 1932)
* 2013 &ndash; Ray Harryhausen, American animator, director and producer (born 1920)
* 2013 &ndash; Aubrey Woods, English actor and singer (born 1928)
* 2013 &ndash; Ferruccio Mazzola, Italian footballer and manager (born 1948)
* 2014 &ndash; Colin Pillinger, British planetary scientist (born 1943)
* 2014 &ndash; Nazim Al-Haqqani, Turkish–Cypriot spiritual leader (born 1922)
* 2014 &ndash; Neville McNamara, Royal Australian Air Force commander (born 1923)
* 2014 &ndash; Manuel Jiménez de Parga, Spanish politician (born 1929)
* 2015 &ndash; John Dixon, Australian cartoonist (born 1929)
* 2015 &ndash; Maurice Flanagan, British businessman (born 1928)
* 2015 &ndash; Frank DiPascali, American financier and fraudster (born 1956)
* 2016 &ndash; Bernardo Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer (born 1989)
* 2016 &ndash; John Stabb, American punk music singer (born 1961)
* 2017 &ndash; Gran Apache, Mexican professional wrestler (born 1959)
* 2017 &ndash; Elon Lages Lima, Brazilian mathematician (born 1929)
* 2017 &ndash; Beppo Mauhart, Austrian football executive and journalist (born 1933)
* 2017 &ndash; Gholamreza Pahlavi, Iranian prince and writer (born 1923)
* 2017 &ndash; Lee Weissenborn, American politician (born 1929)
* 2017 &ndash; Wu Wenjun, Chinese mathematician (born 1919)
* 2018 &ndash; Maurane, Belgian singer and actress (born 1960)
* 2018 &ndash; Miki Muster, Slovenian artist (born 1925)
* 2018 &ndash; Jesús Kumate Rodríguez, Mexican physician and politician (born 1924)
* 2018 &ndash; Crosbie E. Saint, American military officer (born 1936)
* 2019 &ndash; Vicente Emano, Filipino politician (born 1943)
* 2019 &ndash; Georg Katzer, German composer (born 1935)
* 2019 &ndash; Te Wharehuia Milroy, New Zealand Maori language academic (born 1937)
* 2019 &ndash; Adam Svoboda, Czech ice hockey player (born 1978)
* 2019 &ndash; Jean Vanier, Canadian philosopher and theologian (born 1928)
* 2019 &ndash; Joel Virador, Filipino politician (born 1967)

## Observances 
* Radio Day (Russia, Bulgaria)
* Defender of the Fatherland Day (Kazakhstan)
* Dien Bien Phu Victory Day (Vietnam)