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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 7th of May 0351 | EVENT | The Jewish revolt against Gallus breaks out. After his arrival at Antioch, the Jews begin an rebellion in Palestine. |
| 7th of May 0558 | EVENT | In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt. |
| 7th of May 1274 | EVENT | In France, the Second Council of Lyons opens to regulate the election of the Pope. |
| 7th of May 1348 | EVENT | Charles University in Prague (Universitas Carolina/Univerzita Karlova) is established as the first university in Central Europe. |
| 7th of May 1429 | EVENT | Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orleans, 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. |
| 7th of May 1664 | EVENT | Louis XIV of France inaugurates the Palace of Versailles. |
| 7th of May 1697 | EVENT | 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. |
| 7th of May 1718 | EVENT | The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville. |
| 7th of May 1763 | EVENT | Indian Wars: Pontiac's Rebellion begins : Chief Pontiac begins the "Conspiracy of Pontiac" by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit. |
| 7th of May 1794 | EVENT | French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic. |
| 7th of May 1824 | EVENT | World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision. |
| 7th of May 1832 | EVENT | The independence of Greece is recognized by the Treaty of London. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King. |
| 7th of May 1836 | EVENT | The settlement of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico is elevated to the royal status of villa by the government of Spain. |
| 7th of May 1840 | EVENT | The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history. |
| 7th of May 1846 | EVENT | The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| 7th of May 1847 | EVENT | The American Medical Association is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| 7th of May 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards. |
| 7th of May 1895 | EVENT | 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. |
| 7th of May 1915 | EVENT | World War I: German submarine SM 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. |
| 7th of May 1920 | EVENT | Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Jozef Pi?sudski and Edward Rydz-Smig?y and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later. |
| 7th of May 1920 | EVENT | The Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, opens the first exhibition by the Group of Seven. |
| 7th of May 1920 | EVENT | Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later. |
| 7th of May 1937 | EVENT | Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces. |
| 7th of May 1940 | EVENT | 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. |
| 7th of May 1942 | EVENT | During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Japanese Imperial Navy light aircraft carrier Shoho. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships. |
| 7th of May 1945 | EVENT | 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. |
| 7th of May 1946 | EVENT | Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees. |
| 7th of May 1948 | EVENT | The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress. |
| 7th of May 1952 | EVENT | The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer. |
| 7th of May 1954 | EVENT | Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13). |
| 7th of May 1960 | EVENT | Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960 : Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers. |
| 7th of May 1964 | EVENT | 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. |
| 7th of May 1974 | EVENT | West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns. |
| 7th of May 1986 | EVENT | Canadian Patrick Morrow became the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits. |
| 7th of May 1992 | EVENT | The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission (STS-49). |
| 7th of May 1992 | EVENT | 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. |
| 7th of May 1992 | EVENT | 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. |
| 7th of May 1998 | EVENT | Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history. |
| 7th of May 1999 | EVENT | In Guinea-Bissau, President Joao Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup. |
| 7th of May 1999 | EVENT | 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. |
| 7th of May 1999 | EVENT | Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054. |
| 7th of May 2000 | EVENT | Vladimir Putin is inaugurated president of Russia |
| 7th of May 2002 | EVENT | A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people. |
| 7th of May 2004 | EVENT | American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by Islamic militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet. |
| 7th of May 2007 | EVENT | Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem. |
| 7th of May 2008 | EVENT | Dmitry Medvedev is sworn in as Russia's president. |
| 7th of May 2009 | EVENT | Over 100 New Zealand Police officers begin a 40-hour siege of a lone gunman in Napier, New Zealand. |
| 7th of May 1328 | BIRTHDAY | Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1365) |
| 7th of May 1397 | BIRTHDAY | Sejong the Great, was the fourth king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea (d. 1450) |
| 7th of May 1530 | BIRTHDAY | Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Conde, French Huguenot general (d. 1569) |
| 7th of May 1605 | BIRTHDAY | Patriarch Nikon, 7th patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. 1681) |
| 7th of May 1643 | BIRTHDAY | Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (d. 1700) |
| 7th of May 1700 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (d. 1772) |
| 7th of May 1711 | BIRTHDAY | David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1776) |
| 7th of May 1724 | BIRTHDAY | Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Austrian general (d. 1797) |
| 7th of May 1740 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolai Arkharov, Russian general (d. 1814) |
| 7th of May 1748 | BIRTHDAY | Olympe de Gouges, French playwright and feminist revolutionary (d. 1793) |
| 7th of May 1763 | BIRTHDAY | Jozef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish prince (d. 1813) |
| 7th of May 1767 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia, Duchess of York and Albany (d. 1820) |
| 7th of May 1774 | BIRTHDAY | William Bainbridge, American Commodore (d. 1833) |
| 7th of May 1787 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Viger, French Canadian politician, first mayor of Montreal (d. 1858) |
| 7th of May 1812 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Browning, English poet (d. 1889) |
| 7th of May 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Varina Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States of America (d. 1906) |
| 7th of May 1833 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Brahms, German composer (d. 1897) |
| 7th of May 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Gurney Cannon, American politician (d. 1926) |
| 7th of May 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1893) |
| 7th of May 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Archibald Primrose, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1929) |
| 7th of May 1857 | BIRTHDAY | William A. MacCorkle, American politician (d. 1930) |
| 7th of May 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Norman, English freak showman (d. 1930) |
| 7th of May 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Rabindranath Tagore, Indian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1941) |
| 7th of May 1867 | BIRTHDAY | W?adys?aw Reymont, Polish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1925) |
| 7th of May 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer (d. 1960) |
| 7th of May 1885 | BIRTHDAY | George 'Gabby' Hayes, American actor (d. 1969) |
| 7th of May 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Harry McShane, Scottish socialist (d. 1988) |
| 7th of May 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Archibald MacLeish, American Librarian of Congress (d. 1982) |
| 7th of May 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (d. 1980) |
| 7th of May 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (d. 1985) |
| 7th of May 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961) |
| 7th of May 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin H. Land, American inventor (d. 1991) |
| 7th of May 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Ishiro Honda, Japanese film director (d. 1993) |
| 7th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Pannalal Patel, Gujarati author (d. 1989) |
| 7th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Arthur Snelling, British Ambassador (d. 1996) |
| 7th of May 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Huw Wheldon, British broadcaster (d. 1986) |
| 7th of May 1917 | BIRTHDAY | David Tomlinson, English film actor (d. 2000) |
| 7th of May 1919 | BIRTHDAY | La Esterella, Flemish singer (d. 2011) |
| 7th of May 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Peron, Argentine first lady (d. 1952) |
| 7th of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Gaston Rebuffat, French mountaineer (d. 1985) |
| 7th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (d. 2006) |
| 7th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Darren McGavin, American actor (d. 2006) |
| 7th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer and photojournalist (d. 2007) |
| 7th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Baxter, American actress (d. 1985) |
| 7th of May 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Band, American film director (d. 2002) |
| 7th of May 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Val Bisoglio, Italian-American actor |
| 7th of May 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German screenwriter |
| 7th of May 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Lowe, American singer |
| 7th of May 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Babe Parilli, American football player |
| 7th of May 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Williams, American baseball player, manager and coach |
| 7th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Totie Fields, American comedienne (d. 1978) |
| 7th of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Wolfe, American science fiction author |
| 7th of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Teresa Brewer, American pop and jazz singer (d. 2007) |
| 7th of May 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Domenici, American politician |
| 7th of May 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Unitas, American football player (d. 2002) |
| 7th of May 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Nexhmije Pagarusha, Albanian singer |
| 7th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Isobel Warren, Canadian author |
| 7th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Joe Green, American football player (d. 1993) |
| 7th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Raymond, Quebec baseball player |
| 7th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Sidney Altman, Canadian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate |
| 7th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ruud Lubbers, Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands |
| 7th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Maestro, American pop singer (d. 2010) |
| 7th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Ruffin, American singer |
| 7th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ruggero Deodato, Italian film director, actor and screen writer |
| 7th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Carter, English novelist and journalist (d. 1992) |
| 7th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Connors, American radio personality (d. 1987) |
| 7th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Vasilis N. Triantafillidis, Greek comedian and actor |
| 7th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine P. Saxton, British-born American public relations executive |
| 7th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Allen, American country music singer |
| 7th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Carey, Australian author |
| 7th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Harvey Andrews, English singer and songwriter |
| 7th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Richard O'Sullivan, British actor |
| 7th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Norvind, Mexican actress (d. 2006) |
| 7th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Christy Moore, Irish folk artist |
| 7th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Strasser, American TV soap opera actress |
| 7th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Thelma Houston, American singer |
| 7th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Kreutzmann, American drummer (Grateful Dead) |
| 7th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Turner, English chef |
| 7th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Rosen, English children's poet |
| 7th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Marv Hubbard, American football player |
| 7th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Atkins, American murderer (d. 2009) |
| 7th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Marilyn Cole, English model |
| 7th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Russert, American television host (d. 2008) |
| 7th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Randall 'Tex' Cobb, American boxer and actor |
| 7th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Hegyes, American actor |
| 7th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Bernie Marsden, English musician |
| 7th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Pat McInally, American football player |
| 7th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Ian McKay, British soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1982) |
| 7th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe Geluck, Belgian cartoonist |
| 7th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Heckerling, American director |
| 7th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Poquette, American basketball player |
| 7th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Reckell, American actor |
| 7th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Reed, American theologian |
| 7th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Dudley, British composer |
| 7th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of the Netherlands |
| 7th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Lapierre, Canadian politician and television host |
| 7th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Fernandez, American wrestler (d. 2004) |
| 7th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Ned Bellamy, American actor |
| 7th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Mark G. Kuzyk, American physicist |
| 7th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Michael E. Knight, American actor |
| 7th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Yung Mei-ling, Hong Kong actress (d. 1985) |
| 7th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Bernstein, American music video/television director |
| 7th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Almudena Grandes, Spanish novelist |
| 7th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Campbell, British musician (Motorhead) |
| 7th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Hans-Peter Bartels, German politician |
| 7th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Campbell, American basketball player |
| 7th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Lee Middleton, American musician (Savatage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra) |
| 7th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Benson, American comedian |
| 7th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie O'Neal, American football player |
| 7th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Harmon, American football player |
| 7th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1999) |
| 7th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Whiteside, Northern Irish footballer |
| 7th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Reuben Davis, American football player |
| 7th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Rice, American politician |
| 7th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Bryant, Australian mass murderer |
| 7th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Traci Lords, American actress |
| 7th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Eagle-Eye Cherry, Swedish musician |
| 7th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Porras, American film producer |
| 7th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jun Falkenstein, American film director |
| 7th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Su-ro, South Korean actor |
| 7th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Horgh, Norwegian drummer (Immortal, Hypocrisy) |
| 7th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Dubovsky, Slovak footballer (d. 2000) |
| 7th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Trigg, American mixed martial artist |
| 7th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Kristian Lundin, Swedish songwriter |
| 7th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Paolo Savoldelli, Italian cyclist |
| 7th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Breckin Meyer, American actor |
| 7th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Pearce, English footballer |
| 7th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Tunks, Canadian discus thrower |
| 7th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Zee, American hip hop artist |
| 7th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Lo Cicero, Italian rugby player |
| 7th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Calvin Booth, American basketball player |
| 7th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Kelly, Irish singer |
| 7th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Stian Arnesen, Norwegian musician |
| 7th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Clevinger, American author |
| 7th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Marion, American basketball player |
| 7th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Stephanie Pohl, German beach volleyball player |
| 7th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Katie Douglas, American basketball player |
| 7th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Kenkhuis, Dutch swimmer |
| 7th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Lawler, English reality television personality |
| 7th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Akos Buzsaky, Hungarian footballer |
| 7th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Smith, American football player |
| 7th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | May7ven, Nigerian-born British singer-songwriter and dancer |
| 7th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Drew Stanton, American football player |
| 7th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | James Loney, American baseball player |
| 7th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Drew Neitzel, American basketball player |
| 7th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Sweetman, Australian television host |
| 7th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Furze, Australian actor |
| 7th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Helders, English drummer (Arctic Monkeys) |
| 7th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Maidens, English footballer (d. 2007) |
| 7th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Serge Gakpe, Togolese footballer |
| 7th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Natalie Mejia, American dancer and singer (Girlicious) |
| 7th of May 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Master Shortie, British hip-hop and R&B singer-songwriter and rapper |
| 7th of May 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Ludwig, Canadian actor |
| 7th of May 2000 | BIRTHDAY | Maxwell Perry Cotton, American actor |
| 7th of May 0973 | DEATH | Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 912) |
| 7th of May 1092 | DEATH | Remigius de Fecamp, first bishop of Lincoln (Born unknown) |
| 7th of May 1427 | DEATH | Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman |
| 7th of May 1523 | DEATH | Franz von Sickingen, German soldier (Born 1481) |
| 7th of May 1539 | DEATH | Guru Nanak Dev, founder of Sikhism (Born 1469) |
| 7th of May 1539 | DEATH | Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (Born 1466) |
| 7th of May 1615 | DEATH | Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (Born 1567) |
| 7th of May 1617 | DEATH | David Fabricius, German astronomer (Born 1564) |
| 7th of May 1667 | DEATH | Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (Born 1616) |
| 7th of May 1682 | DEATH | Tsar Feodor III of Russia (Born 1661) |
| 7th of May 1718 | DEATH | Mary of Modena, wife of James II of England (Born 1658) |
| 7th of May 1793 | DEATH | Pietro Nardini, Italian composer (Born 1722) |
| 7th of May 1800 | DEATH | Niccolo Piccinni, Italian composer (Born 1728) |
| 7th of May 1805 | DEATH | William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1737) |
| 7th of May 1825 | DEATH | Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (Born 1750) |
| 7th of May 1840 | DEATH | Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (Born 1774) |
| 7th of May 1868 | DEATH | Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (Born 1778) |
| 7th of May 1876 | DEATH | William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (Born 1795) |
| 7th of May 1887 | DEATH | C. F. W. Walther, American Lutheran theologian (Born 1811) |
| 7th of May 1896 | DEATH | H. H. Holmes (Herman Webster Mudgett) , American serial killer (Born 1860) |
| 7th of May 1922 | DEATH | Max Wagenknecht, German composer (Born 1857) |
| 7th of May 1925 | DEATH | William Hesketh Lever, First Viscount Leverhulme (Born 1851) |
| 7th of May 1940 | DEATH | George Lansbury, British Labour Party leader (Born 1859) |
| 7th of May 1941 | DEATH | Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (Born 1854) |
| 7th of May 1942 | DEATH | Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (Born 1863) |
| 7th of May 1951 | DEATH | Warner Baxter, American actor (Born 1889) |
| 7th of May 1986 | DEATH | Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (Born 1949) |
| 7th of May 1987 | DEATH | Colin Blakely, British actor (Born 1930) |
| 7th of May 1989 | DEATH | Guy Williams, American actor (Born 1924) |
| 7th of May 1995 | DEATH | Ray McKinley, American jazz drummer, singer and bandleader (Born 1910) |
| 7th of May 1998 | DEATH | Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1924) |
| 7th of May 1998 | DEATH | Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (Born 1941) |
| 7th of May 2000 | DEATH | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (Born 1909) |
| 7th of May 2002 | DEATH | Kevyn Aucoin, American makeup artist and photographer (Born 1962) |
| 7th of May 2002 | DEATH | Seattle Slew, American racehorse (Born 1974) |
| 7th of May 2004 | DEATH | Waldemar Milewicz, Polish reporter (Born 1956) |
| 7th of May 2005 | DEATH | Peter W. Rodino, American politician (Born 1909) |
| 7th of May 2005 | DEATH | Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (Born 1980) |
| 7th of May 2005 | DEATH | Tristan Egolf, American writer (Born 1971) |
| 7th of May 2006 | DEATH | Richard Carleton, Australian news reporter (Born 1943) |
| 7th of May 2006 | DEATH | Joan C. Edwards, American philanthropist (Born 1918) |
| 7th of May 2006 | DEATH | Machiko Soga, Japanese actress (Born 1943) |
| 7th of May 2007 | DEATH | Diego Corrales, American boxer (Born 1977) |
| 7th of May 2007 | DEATH | Yahweh ben Yahweh, American cult leader (Born 1935) |
| 7th of May 2007 | DEATH | Octavian Paler, Romanian writer and journalist (Born 1926) |
| 7th of May 2009 | DEATH | David Mellor, English cutlery designer (Born 1930) |
| 7th of May 2011 | DEATH | George Webley, British broadcaster, composer, bandleader and musician (Born 1957) |
| 7th of May 2011 | DEATH | Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (Born 1957) |
| 7th of May 2011 | DEATH | Allyson Hennessy, Trindadian television presenter |