On This Day — May 7
4134 noted people were born and 1972 died on May 7 in our archive, including Carl Neumann, Gérard Laumon and Adolf von Harnack.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on May 7
Carl Neumann
1832 – 1925
Gérard Laumon
1952 – 2025
Adolf von Harnack
1851 – 1930
Alan Garber
b. 1955
Anatoly Lukyanov
1930 – 2019
Angela Carter
1940 – 1992
Anne Marie Rafferty
b. 1958
Ara Darzi
b. 1960
Archibald MacLeish
1892 – 1982
Bernat Soria
b. 1951
Brian Tierney
1922 – 2019
Chrisoula Zacharopoulou
b. 1976
Dale W. Jorgenson
1933 – 2022
Daniel Rondeau
b. 1948
Domenico Bartolucci
1917 – 2013
Gustave Le Bon
1841 – 1931
Huw Wheldon
1916 – 1986
Ichiki Kitokurō
1867 – 1944
Isaak Pomeranchuk
1913 – 1966
István Hiller
b. 1964
Jan Peter Balkenende
b. 1956
Joanna Haigh
b. 1954
John Bannon
1943 – 2015
John Coates
b. 1950
John R. Ross
1938 – 2025
Josef Klafter
b. 1945
Josef von Löschner
1809 – 1888
José Antonio Abreu
1939 – 2018
L.T. Handoko
b. 1968
Lawrence Collins, Baron Collins of Mapesbury
b. 1941
Lenox Hewitt
1917 – 2020
Leo Sternbach
1908 – 2005
Nicholas A. Christakis
b. 1962
Olga Kovitidi
b. 1962
Oskar Perron
1880 – 1975
Oskar von Miller
1855 – 1934
Philippe Contamine
1932 – 2022
Ruud Lubbers
1939 – 2018
Sidney Altman
1939 – 2022
Simon Ramo
1913 – 2016
Stanisław Stefanek
1936 – 2020
Sue Black
b. 1961
Tatsukichi Minobe
1873 – 1948
Thomas Piketty
b. 1971
Vincenzo Arangio-Ruiz
1884 – 1964
William Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester
1795 – 1865
Yevgeny Kozlovsky
1929 – 2022
Yevgeny Yasin
1934 – 2023
Albert Leopold Mills
1854 – 1916
Alberto Aguilera
1842 – 1913
Alcira Argumedo
1940 – 2021
Alexey Stakhov
1939 – 2021
Ana Lucia Araujo
b. 1971
Anand Pillay
b. 1951
Andrew Barth Feldman
b. 2002
Anies Baswedan
b. 1969
Anurag Sharma
b. 1955
Arabella Scott
1886 – 1980
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
1847 – 1929
Ariane Chemin
b. 1962
Arthur Havelock
1844 – 1908
Arthur Hope, 2nd Baron Rankeillour
1897 – 1958
Arthur Purves Phayre
1812 – 1885
Avraham Heffner
1935 – 2014
Božidar Debenjak
b. 1935
Brūno Kalniņš
1899 – 1990
Candice Miller
b. 1954
Charles Marsack
1892 – 1987
Charlie Hall
1930 – 2014
Chelva Kanaganayakam
1952 – 2014
Dan Slobin
b. 1939
Darigha Nazarbaeva
b. 1963
David Choquehuanca
b. 1961
David John Galloway
1942 – 2014
Deborah Wiles
b. 1953
Diana Raab
b. 1954
Dominique Lefebvre
b. 1956
Donald Miller Davis
b. 1945
Dušan Zbavitel
1925 – 2012
Edgar Humann
1838 – 1914
Edwin H. Land
1909 – 1991
Elaine Shemilt
b. 1954
Elsa Fornero
b. 1948
Florian Gerster
b. 1949
Francesc Granell i Trias
1944 – 2022
Franz Wickhoff
1853 – 1909
Frédéric-Georges Herr
1855 – 1932
Gabriele Zimmer
b. 1955
Gail Laughlin
1868 – 1952
Gary Herbert
b. 1947
Geoffrey Bodenhausen
b. 1951
George A. Drew
1894 – 1973
Gerard van Swieten
1700 – 1772
Gianni Bisiach
1927 – 2022
Giuseppe Veronese
1854 – 1917
Guy Pessiot
1949 – 2025
Hans-Peter Bartels
b. 1961
Heiki Valk
b. 1959
Helmuth Brückner
1896 – 1951
Hervé Maurey
b. 1961
Howard Van Doren Shaw
1869 – 1926
Hugh Kindersley, 2nd Baron Kindersley
1899 – 1976
Ilya Klebanov
b. 1951
Ivan Šubašić
1892 – 1955
Jaakko Itälä
1933 – 2017
Jacques Hermant
1855 – 1930
Jacques Viger
1787 – 1858
James P. Riseley
1898 – 1992
James Runcie
b. 1959
Jaqueline Barton
b. 1952
Jaroslav Hlava
1855 – 1924
Jean-Paul Alduy
b. 1942
Johan Richard Danielson-Kalmari
1853 – 1933
Johannes de Groot
1914 – 1972
John C. Martin
1951 – 2021
Joseph Gurney Cannon
1836 – 1926
Josip Broz Tito
1892 – 1980
Jun Kwang-Woo
b. 1949
Juris Upatnieks
1936 – 2026
Kiyoshi Hasegawa
1883 – 1970
Kristina M. Johnson
b. 1957
Krystyna Tomaszyk
1932 – 2020
Leonid Shafirov
b. 1973
Lester Thurow
1938 – 2016
Lisa Raitt
b. 1968
Lluís Llach
b. 1948
Mark Levine
b. 1966
Michael Friendly
b. 1945
Michael Kretschmer
b. 1975
Michael Rosen
b. 1946
Michał Pius Römer
1880 – 1945
N. S. Hardikar
1889 – 1975
Neil Macfarlane
b. 1936
Nevil Macready
1862 – 1946
Otohiko Ichiki
1872 – 1954
Otto Wilhelm von Struve
1819 – 1905
Owe Wiktorin
b. 1940
Ozodbek Nazarbekov
b. 1974
Pamela Rendi-Wagner
b. 1971
Pandurang Vaman Kane
1880 – 1972
Pete Domenici
1932 – 2017
Philip Baxter
1905 – 1989
Pierre Sané
b. 1949
Richard Hull
1907 – 1989
Richard Johnston
1917 – 1997
Robert Caldwell
1814 – 1891
Roxana Maracineanu
b. 1975
Sabina Aliyeva
b. 1980
Santidev Ghosh
1910 – 1999
Sara van de Geer
b. 1958
Sir Andrew Buchanan, 1st Baronet
1807 – 1882
Sir Weldon Dalrymple-Champneys, 2nd Baronet
1892 – 1980
Sylvain Augier
1955 – 2024
Tadamitsu Kishimoto
b. 1939
Tamara E. Jernigan
b. 1959
Ted Deutch
b. 1966
Teun A. van Dijk
b. 1943
Theodor Schneider
1911 – 1988
Theresa M. Marteau
b. 1953
Tony Auth
1942 – 2014
Tony O'Reilly
1936 – 2024
Tsvetlin Yovchev
b. 1964
Uladzimier Pyartsow
b. 1974
Utz Claassen
b. 1963
Vasyl Sviato
1948 – 2025
Vilhelm Lundström
1869 – 1940
Vincent Fang
b. 1943
Vladimir Bortko
b. 1946
Vladimir Lisin
b. 1956
Volker Braun
b. 1939
Vyacheslav Makarov
b. 1955
William Albertson
1910 – 1972
William Izarra
1947 – 2021
William Searle Holdsworth
1871 – 1944
Wu Liangyong
b. 1922
Yuri Gurevich
b. 1940
Yurii Zahorodnii
b. 1959
Yvon Delbos
1885 – 1956
Zabihollah Safa
1911 – 1999
Zhengis Qasymbek
b. 1975
Özlem Sara Çekiç
b. 1976
Alan Ashton
b. 1942
Aleksandr Bezak
1800 – 1869
Alessandro Cardelli
b. 1991
Alette Engelhart
1896 – 1984
Alex Smith
b. 1984
Alex Wesby
b. 1980
Alexander Yakubovsky
b. 1985
Alexander Zemlianichenko
b. 1950
Alexey Maresyev
1916 – 2001
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
1865 – 1948
Alfred Moquin-Tandon
1804 – 1863
Amile Jefferson
b. 1993
Amy Heckerling
b. 1954
Anatolii Kurtiev
b. 1975
Andreas Plückthun
b. 1956
Andrei Snezhnevsky
1904 – 1987
Andrew Little
b. 1965
André Lavrillier
1885 – 1958
Anne Baxter
1923 – 1985
… and 3,934 more
Died on May 7
Colin Pillinger
1943 – 2014
Elon Lages Lima
1929 – 2017
Allan McLeod Cormack
1924 – 1998
Arcadio Larraona Saralegui
1887 – 1973
Carl von Fersen
1716 – 1786
Dmitry Tolstoy
1823 – 1889
Edwin Griswold Nourse
1883 – 1974
Emil Friedrich Kautzsch
1841 – 1910
Fernando Álvarez de Miranda y Torres
1924 – 2016
Jacob Palis
1940 – 2025
James George Frazer
1854 – 1941
Jean Vanier
1928 – 2019
Joseph Greenberg
1915 – 2001
José Luis Villar Palasí
1922 – 2012
Júlio Augusto Henriques
1838 – 1928
Lothar Kolditz
1929 – 2025
Manuel Jiménez de Parga
1929 – 2014
Musa Umarov
1953 – 2022
Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov
1879 – 1940
Peter W. Rodino
1909 – 2005
Philip Kelland
1808 – 1879
Robert Abercrombie Lovett
1895 – 1986
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood
1880 – 1959
Willard Boyle
1924 – 2011
Wu Wenjun
1919 – 2017
Alexander August Wilhelm von Pape
1813 – 1895
Allen Wikgren
1906 – 1998
Angelo Rinaldi
1940 – 2025
Antonio Salieri
1750 – 1825
Antonio Taramelli
1868 – 1939
Armitage Robinson
1858 – 1933
Arnold van Gennep
1873 – 1957
Baidyanath Misra
1920 – 2019
Boris Sket
1936 – 2023
C. F. W. Walther
1811 – 1887
Carl Friedrich Geiser
1843 – 1934
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond
1870 – 1935
Crisanto Luque Sánchez
1889 – 1959
David Mellor
1930 – 2009
Don W. Fawcett
1917 – 2009
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
1909 – 2000
Du Yuming
1904 – 1981
Elis Håstad
1900 – 1959
Enoch Herbert Crowder
1859 – 1932
Ervin Baktay
1890 – 1963
Felix Weingartner
1863 – 1942
Francis Joseph Meehan
1924 – 2022
Franz Gerhard Wegeler
1765 – 1848
Fulton Burley
1922 – 2007
Gaston Defferre
1910 – 1986
Georg Katzer
1935 – 2019
George Gawler
1795 – 1869
Gholam Reza Pahlavi
1923 – 2017
Grace Bumbry
1937 – 2023
Guillaume Abel Blouet
1795 – 1853
Hans Bender
1907 – 1991
Heinz Reinefarth
1903 – 1979
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
1778 – 1868
Henry Noble MacCracken
1880 – 1970
Herbert Newby McCoy
1870 – 1945
Hermann Künneth
1892 – 1975
Howard Van Doren Shaw
1869 – 1926
Isidore-Noël Belleau
1848 – 1936
Jaime Aparicio
1929 – 2026
James Armand de Rothschild
1878 – 1957
Jan Klein
1936 – 2023
Jeremy D. Safran
1952 – 2018
Jesús Kumate Rodríguez
1924 – 2018
Joan Rigol i Roig
1943 – 2024
Joe Abbott
1891 – 1965
Johann Smidt
1773 – 1857
John Henry Patterson
1844 – 1922
Josef Hoffmann
1870 – 1956
Joseph E. Atkinson
1865 – 1948
Kozo Igarashi
1926 – 2013
Kwaku Ohene-Frempong
1946 – 2022
Laurens Perseus Hickok
1798 – 1888
Leo Harmaja
1880 – 1949
Louis Jules Behier
1813 – 1876
Ludovic Halévy
1834 – 1908
Lurleen Wallace
1926 – 1968
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias
1803 – 1880
Margaret Cole
1893 – 1980
Margaret Loutit
1929 – 2020
Marguerite Legot
1913 – 1977
Maria Grzegorzewska
1888 – 1967
Marie Torhorst
1888 – 1989
Merrell Vories Hitotsuyanagi
1880 – 1964
Mykoła Fedoruk
1954 – 2025
Nikolai Essen
1860 – 1915
Octavian Paler
1926 – 2007
Pahor Labib
1905 – 1994
Paul Doumer
1857 – 1932
Philadelpho Azevedo
1894 – 1951
Ray Harryhausen
1920 – 2013
Salmon P. Chase
1808 – 1873
Samuel Seabury
1873 – 1958
Silvio Pellerano
1858 – 1927
Soňa Červená
1925 – 2023
Vasiliy Ulrikh
1889 – 1951
Victor Ferdinand Schmidt
1865 – 1932
Victor Nosach
1929 – 2011
Vladimir Dybo
1931 – 2023
Walter von Keudell
1884 – 1973
Willi Brundert
1912 – 1970
William Frierson Cooper
1820 – 1909
William John Knight
1929 – 2004
William Ledyard Rodgers
1860 – 1944
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
1737 – 1805
Władysław Smoleński
1851 – 1926
Xavier Montsalvatge
1912 – 2002
Yamamoto Kenkichi
1907 – 1988
Yegor Ligachev
1920 – 2021
Aage Storstein
1900 – 1983
Aase Foss Abrahamsen
1930 – 2023
Abdullo Rakhimbayev
1896 – 1938
Abu Bakar I of Pahang
1904 – 1974
Aharon Yariv
1920 – 1994
Albert Ball
1896 – 1917
Albert Baur
1835 – 1906
Albert E. Schwab
1920 – 1945
Albert Parry
1901 – 1992
Alexander Spendiaryan
1871 – 1928
Alexis A. Julien
1840 – 1919
Ali Fethi Okyar
1880 – 1943
Amadou Soumahoro
1953 – 2022
André Jubelin
1906 – 1986
Angus McKay
1852 – 1916
Ann Bishop
1899 – 1990
Anne Bauchens
1882 – 1967
Anton Mussert
1894 – 1946
Aoua Kéita
1912 – 1980
Arthur Christopher Watson
1927 – 2001
Auguste Pavie
1847 – 1925
Axel Boëthius
1889 – 1969
Axel W. Persson
1888 – 1951
Badura Afganli
1912 – 2002
Bartolomeo Carlo Romilli
1795 – 1859
Bernard Blair
1801 – 1880
Bernard Burrows
1910 – 2002
Boris Kondrashin
1923 – 1994
Boris Kushner
1941 – 2019
Camilo Carrillo
1830 – 1901
Carlos Brito
1933 – 2026
Carlos Mota Pinto
1936 – 1985
Caspar David Friedrich
1774 – 1840
Chaim Bar-Lev
1924 – 1994
Charles Green
1864 – 1944
Charles Noble
1867 – 1962
Charles Pierre Corvisart
1857 – 1939
Christian Gottlieb Ludwig
1709 – 1773
Claude Durand
1938 – 2015
Claude Griscelli
1936 – 2026
Clement Alexander Finley Flagler
1867 – 1922
Cleopa Msuya
1931 – 2025
Clifford Clogg
1949 – 1995
Crosbie E. Saint
1936 – 2018
Cruz Reynoso
1931 – 2021
Daisy Lúcidi
1929 – 2020
David Bryce
1803 – 1876
Dimitar Blagoev
1856 – 1924
Dimitar Grekov
1847 – 1901
Don McNeill
1907 – 1996
Dudley Clarke
1899 – 1974
Dwight Marcy
1840 – 1887
Edmund Scambler
1520 – 1594
Edvard Ehlers
1863 – 1937
Edward Frederick Robert Bage
1888 – 1915
Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis
1818 – 1891
Egon Hostovský
1908 – 1973
Elisa Maria Damião
1946 – 2022
Eusébio de Queirós
1812 – 1868
Fletcher Watson
1912 – 1997
Francisco de São Luís Saraiva
1766 – 1845
Frank Cluskey
1930 – 1989
Frank Melton
1949 – 2009
Fricis Roziņš
1870 – 1919
George Edwin King
1839 – 1901
George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers
1721 – 1803
George Topîrceanu
1886 – 1937
Gernot Zippe
1917 – 2008
Giovanni Cervetti
1933 – 2026
Gunter Sachs
1932 – 2011
Gyula Háy
1900 – 1975
Günter Jena
1933 – 2026
Harold E. Rosen
1906 – 1989
Heinai Orita
1847 – 1905
Heinrich Lüders
1869 – 1943
Henri Mineur
1899 – 1954
Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale
1822 – 1897
Henri van de Waal
1910 – 1972
Henry Benton Sayler
1893 – 1970
Herbert Macaulay
1864 – 1946
Herbert Naylor-Leyland
1864 – 1899
Howard Paul Savage
1884 – 1944
Howard Smith
1919 – 1996
Hugh Thomas
1931 – 2017
Ivan Mesyatsev
1885 – 1940
Jabez Bowen
1739 – 1815
Jacques Taminiaux
1928 – 2019
… and 1,772 more