Deaths on 7 May
2000s
Steve Albini
2024
American musician and audio engineer (1962–2024)
Aase Foss Abrahamsen
2023
Norwegian children's writer (1930–2023)
Frank DiPascali
2015
American fraudster (1956–2015)
John Dixon (cartoonist)
2015
Australian comic book artist and writer
Neville McNamara
2014
Royal Australian Air Force and Australian Defence Force chief
Colin Pillinger
2014
English planetary scientist
Dick Welteroth
2014
American baseball player (1927–2014)
Ferruccio Mazzola
2013
Italian footballer (1945–2013)
George Sauer Jr.
2013
American football player (1943–2013)
Sammy Barr
2012
Scottish trade unionist (1931–2012)
Ferenc Bartha
2012
Hungarian economist
United Airlines Flight 232
2012
1989 aviation accident in Iowa
Seve Ballesteros
2011
Spanish professional golfer (1957–2011)
Willard Boyle
2011
Canadian applied physicist (1924–2011)
Big George
2011
British musician and composer (1957–2011)
Victor Nosach
2011
Soviet historian (1929-2011)
Adele Mara
2010
American actress (1923–2010)
Wally Hickel
2010
American politician (1919–2010)
David Mellor (designer)
2009
English designer and manufacturer (1930–2009)
Danny Ozark
2009
American baseball coach and manager (1923–2009)
Isabella Blow
2007
English magazine editor (1958–2007)
Diego Corrales
2007
American boxer
Octavian Paler
2007
Romanian writer and politician (1926–2007)
Yahweh ben Yahweh
2007
Nation of Yahweh Founder (1935–2007)
Richard Carleton
2006
Australian journalist (1943–2006)
Joan C. Edwards
2006
American musician
Tristan Egolf
2005
American author and activist (1971–2005)
Peter W. Rodino
2005
American politician (1909–2005)
Otilino Tenorio
2005
Ecuadorian footballer (1980-2005)
Waldemar Milewicz
2004
Polish journalist and war correspondent
Jacques de Bourbon-Busset
2001
French novelist, essayist and politician
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
2000
American actor, film producer, and U.S. Navy officer (1909–2000)
1900s
Allan MacLeod Cormack
1998
South African and American physicist
Eddie Rabbitt
1998
American country singer (1941–1998)
Ray McKinley
1995
American jazz musician (1910–1995)
Clement Greenberg
1994
American essayist and visual art critic (1909–1994)
Sam Tambimuttu
1990
Sri Lankan Tamil politician
Colin Blakely
1987
Northern Irish actor (1930–1987)
Paul Popham
1987
American gay rights activist (1941–1987)
Haldun Taner
1986
Turkish playwright and story writer
Mort Weisinger
1978
American comic book writer (1915–1978)
Alison Uttley
1976
English children's writer (1884–1976)
Margaret Larkin
1967
American musician (1899–1967)
Mihkel Lüdig
1958
Estonian composer and organist
Warner Baxter
1951
American actor (1889–1951)
Herbert Macaulay
1946
Nigerian politician (1864–1946)
Fethi Okyar
1943
2nd Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey from 1924 to 1925
Felix Weingartner
1942
Austrian conductor, composer, and pianist (1863–1942)
James George Frazer
1941
Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist (1854–1941)
George Lansbury
1940
British politician and reformer (1859–1940)
Octavian Goga
1938
Romanian politician and poet (1881–1938)
Ernst A. Lehmann
1937
German Zeppelin captain
William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme
1925
English industrialist, philanthropist and politician (1851–1925)
Alluri Sitarama Raju
1924
Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary
Max Wagenknecht
1922
German composer (1857–1922)
Eva Schiroky
1919
Albert Ball
1917
Recipient of the Victoria Cross, British WWI flying ace
Agostino Roscelli
1902
Italian priest
1800s
H. H. Holmes
1896
American con artist and serial killer (1861–1896)
C. F. W. Walther
1887
Lutheran theologian and founder of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod
William Buell Sprague
1876
Alexander Loyd
1872
American politician
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
1868
British Lord High Chancellor (1778–1868)
Caspar David Friedrich
1840
German Romantic landscape painter (1774–1840)
Antonio Salieri
1825
Italian composer and teacher (1750–1825)
Jabez Bowen
1815
American judge (1739–1815)
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
1805
Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1782 to 1783
Niccolò Piccinni
1800
Italian composer (1728-1800)
Before 1800
Pietro Nardini
1793
Italian composer (1722–1793)
Mary of Modena
1718
Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1685 to 1688
Bajo Pivljanin
1685
Serbian military leader
Feodor III of Russia
1682
Tsar of Russia from 1676 to 1682
Johann Jakob Froberger
1667
German Baroque composer, keyboard virtuoso and organist
David Fabricius
1617
German pastor and astronomer
Ottaviano Petrucci
1539
Italian printer
Franz von Sickingen
1523
Knight of the Holy Roman Empire (1481–1523)
Eskender
1494
Emperor of Ethiopia from 1478 to 1494
Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr
1427
English nobleman
Hugh d'Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel
1243
Otto I, Duke of Merania
1234
Ladislaus III of Hungary
1205
King of Hungary and Croatia from 1204 to 1205
Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey
1202
English nobleman (c. 1130–1202)
William I of Sicily
1166
King of Sicily from 1154 to 1166
Remigius de Fécamp
1092
11th-century Bishop of Lincoln
Bagrat III of Georgia
1014
King of Georgia from 1008 to 1014
Otto the Great
973
Holy Roman Emperor from 962 to 973
Ibn Hisham
833
Muslim scholar and historian (died 833)
John of Beverley
721
Bishop of York from 705 to 718, Christian saint