Births on 7 May
2000s
Ashlyn Krueger
2004
American tennis player (born 2004)
Minji (singer)
2004
South Korean singer (born 2004)
Jake Bongiovi
2002
American model (born 2002)
Andrew Barth Feldman
2002
American actor and singer (born 2002)
1900s
Tommy Fury
1999
British professional boxer and reality television personality (born 1999)
Cody Gakpo
1999
Dutch footballer (born 1999)
MrBeast
1998
American YouTuber (born 1998)
Dani Olmo
1998
Spanish footballer (born 1998)
Jesse Puljujärvi
1998
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1998)
Daria Kasatkina
1997
Australian tennis player (born 1997)
Youri Tielemans
1997
Belgian footballer (born 1997)
Cameron Young
1997
American professional golfer (born 1997)
Faker (gamer)
1996
South Korean professional esports player (born 1996)
Seko Fofana
1995
Footballer (born 1995)
Will Ospreay
1993
English professional wrestler (born 1993)
Ajla Tomljanović
1993
Croatian-born Australian tennis player (born 1993)
Alexander Ludwig
1992
Canadian actor (born 1992)
Sydney Leroux
1990
American soccer player (born 1990)
Earl Thomas
1989
American football player (born 1989)
Aidy Bryant
1987
American actress and comedian (born 1987)
Mark Reynolds (footballer, born 1987)
1987
Scottish footballer (born 1987)
Matt Helders
1986
English musician (born 1986)
J Balvin
1985
Colombian singer (born 1985)
James Loney
1984
American baseball player (born 1984)
Kevin Owens
1984
Canadian professional wrestler (born 1984)
Alex Smith
1984
American football player (born 1984)
Katie Douglas (basketball)
1979
American basketball player (born 1979)
Dette Escudero
1978
Filipino politician (born 1978)
Shawn Marion
1978
American basketball player (born 1978)
Calvin Booth
1976
American basketball player (born 1976)
Stacey Jones
1976
NZ international rugby league footballer and coach
Michael P. Murphy
1976
United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1976–2005)
Ayelet Shaked
1976
Israeli politician, activist, and engineer (born 1976)
Martina Topley-Bird
1975
English musician (born 1975)
Breckin Meyer
1974
American actor (born 1974)
Frank Trigg
1972
American sport wrestler, mixed martial artist (born 1972)
Thomas Piketty
1971
French economist (born 1971)
Eagle-Eye Cherry
1969
Swedish musician
Traci Lords
1968
American actress (born 1968)
Lisa Raitt
1968
Former Canadian politician
Roberto d'Amico (politician)
1967
Belgian politician (born 1967)
Martin Bryant
1967
Australian mass murderer (born 1967)
Joe Rice
1967
American politician (born 1967)
Owen Hart
1965
Canadian-American professional wrestler (1965–1999)
Norman Whiteside
1965
Northern Irish footballer (born 1965)
Sue Black, Baroness Black of Strome
1961
Scottish forensic anthropologist (born 1961)
Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham
1960
Armenian-British surgeon (born 1960)
Almudena Grandes
1960
Spanish writer (1960–2021)
Anne Marie Rafferty
1958
British nurse (born 1958)
William Ridenour
1958
American politician (born 1958)
Jan Peter Balkenende
1956
Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 2002 to 2010
Anne Dudley
1956
English composer and keyboardist
Nicholas Hytner
1956
English theatre and film director
Jean Lapierre
1956
Canadian politician (1956–2016)
Amy Heckerling
1954
American filmmaker (born 1954)
John Coates (sports administrator)
1950
Australian sports administrator (born 1950)
Tim Russert
1950
American lawyer and TV journalist (1950–2008)
Thelma Houston
1946
American singer (born 1943)
Marv Hubbard
1946
American football player (1946–2015)
Bill Kreutzmann
1946
American drummer (born 1946)
Michael Rosen
1946
British children's author and poet (born 1946)
Christy Moore
1945
Irish folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist (born 1945)
Robin Strasser
1945
American actress (born 1945)
Terry Allen (country singer)
1943
American singer-songwriter
John Bannon
1943
Australian politician and academic (1943–2015)
Peter Carey (novelist)
1943
Australian novelist
Angela Carter
1940
English novelist (1940–1992)
Sidney Altman
1939
Canadian-American molecular biologist (1939–2022)
Ruggero Deodato
1939
Italian film director and screenwriter (1939–2022)
Ruud Lubbers
1939
Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994
Johnny Maestro
1939
American doo-wop and pop singer (1939–2010)
Tony O'Reilly
1936
Irish businessman and rugby union player (1936–2024)
Michael Hopkins (architect)
1935
English architect (1935–2023)
Johnny Unitas
1933
American football player (1933–2002)
Pete Domenici
1932
American politician (1932–2017)
Derek Taylor
1932
English journalist, writer, publicist and record producer
Teresa Brewer
1931
American singer (1931–2007)
Gene Wolfe
1931
American SF and fantasy writer (1931–2019)
Babe Parilli
1930
American gridiron football player (1930–2017)
Dick Williams
1929
American baseball player and manager (1929–2011)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1927
British-American writer (1927–2013)
Anne Baxter
1923
American actress (1923–1985)
Darren McGavin
1922
American actor (1922–2006)
Rendra Karno
1920
Indonesian actor
Eva Perón
1919
Argentine actress and politician (1919–1952)
Domenico Bartolucci
1917
Roman Catholic cardinal (1917–2013)
Lenox Hewitt
1917
Australian public servant (1917–2020)
David Tomlinson
1917
English actor (1917–2000)
Simon Ramo
1913
American engineer, businessman, and author
Ishirō Honda
1911
Japanese filmmaker (1911–1993)
Edwin H. Land
1909
American scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur (1909–1991)
Dorothy Sunrise Lorentino
1909
Native American teacher (1909-2005)
Philip Baxter
1905
British chemical engineer (1905–1989)
Nikolay Zabolotsky
1903
Soviet and Russian poet and translator
Gary Cooper
1901
American actor (1901–1961)
1800s
Alfred Horace Gerrard
1899
English sculptor (1899–1998)
Kathleen McKane Godfree
1896
British badminton and tennis player
Frank J. Selke
1893
Canadian ice hockey executive (1893–1985)
Archibald MacLeish
1892
American poet and 9th Librarian of Congress (1892–1982)
Josip Broz Tito
1892
Leader of Yugoslavia from 1943 to 1980
Harry McShane
1891
Scottish socialist
Viktor Puskar
1889
Estonian military commander
George "Gabby" Hayes
1885
American actor (1885–1969)
Willem Elsschot
1882
Flemish writer
George E. Wiley
1881
American cyclist
Pandurang Vaman Kane
1880
Indian indologist and scholar (1880–1972)
William Hoyt (athlete)
1875
American pole vaulter (1875–1954)
Władysław Reymont
1867
Polish novelist (1867–1925)
Rabindranath Tagore
1861
Indian polymath (1861–1941)
Tom Norman
1860
19th and 20th-century English businessman and showman (1860 – 1930)
William A. MacCorkle
1857
American politician (1857–1930)
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
1847
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1894 to 1895
Mary Eliza Mahoney
1845
African American nurse
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1840
Russian composer (1840–1893)
Karl Mauch
1837
German explorer (1837–1875)
Joseph Gurney Cannon
1836
American politician (1836–1926)
Johannes Brahms
1833
German composer and pianist (1833–1897)
Robert Browning
1812
English poet and playwright (1812–1889)
Before 1800
Jacques Viger (mayor)
1787
First mayor of Montreal, Québec, Canada
William Bainbridge
1774
United States Navy officer (1774–1833)
Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia
1767
Duchess of York and Albany
Józef Poniatowski
1763
Polish military officer (1763–1813)
Stephen Badlam
1751
American artisan and military officer (1751–1815)
Olympe de Gouges
1748
French playwright and activist (1746–1793)
Nikolai Arkharov
1740
Russian police chief (1740–1814)
Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser
1724
Austrian marshall
David Hume
1711
Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist (1711–1776)
Carl Heinrich Graun
1701
German composer and tenor (1704–1759)
Gerard van Swieten
1700
Dutch physician (1700–1772)
Stephanus Van Cortlandt
1643
American politician
Patriarch Nikon of Moscow
1605
Seventh Patriarch of Moscow (1605–1681)
Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia
1553
Duke of Prussia from 1568 to 1618
Louis I, Prince of Condé
1530
1st Prince of Condé (1530–1569)
John III of the Palatinate
1488
48th Archbishop of Regensburg