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You share your birthday with 29 famous people in our archive.
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b. 2002Bang Ye-dam
South Korean singer-producer and former member of the boy band Treasure
Did you know? He trained at YG Entertainment for about seven years before his debut.
b. 1999Cody Gakpo
Dutch forward who plays for Liverpool and the national team
Did you know? He became the first Dutch player to score in all three of his country's group matches at a World Cup.
b. 1998MrBeast
American YouTuber known for his elaborate challenges and large-scale charitable giveaways
Did you know? He has organised large environmental campaigns, including a project that successfully removed millions of pounds of plastic from the world's oceans.
b. 1998Dani Olmo
Spanish professional footballer who plays for Barcelona and Spain
Did you know? He moved to Croatia as a teenager to join Dinamo Zagreb's youth academy before returning to Spain as a senior international.
b. 1997Youri Tielemans
Belgian midfielder who scored the winner in the 2021 FA Cup Final
Did you know? He became the youngest Belgian to ever play in the UEFA Champions League when he made his debut for Anderlecht aged sixteen.
b. 1996Faker
South Korean League of Legends star for T1, widely seen as the greatest player in the game's history
Did you know? Fans and pundits often compare his standing in esports to Michael Jordan's in basketball.
b. 1988Takayuki Morimoto
Japanese striker who played in Italy's top league
Did you know? During his time in Italy, his playing style and potential earned him the nickname of the Japanese Ronaldo.
b. 1987Jérémy Ménez
French forward who played for top clubs including Paris Saint-Germain
Did you know? He was part of a talented generation of French players born in 1987 that included stars like Karim Benzema and Hatem Ben Arfa.
b. 1985J Balvin
Medellín-born singer often called the Prince of Reggaeton, whose hit Mi Gente helped take Latin music mainstream worldwide
Did you know? His album Colores named each song after a colour.
b. 1972Asghar Farhadi
Iranian filmmaker who won two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
Did you know? He is one of the few directors in history to have won two Oscars in the international film category.
b. 1971Thomas Piketty
Economist and author of the bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Did you know? He was admitted to one of France's most prestigious universities at eighteen and completed his PhD when he was just twenty-two.
b. 1956Jan Peter Balkenende
Prime Minister of the Netherlands for four consecutive cabinets
Did you know? During his time in office, he was frequently noted for his striking physical resemblance to the fictional character Harry Potter.
1940–1992Angela Carter
English novelist and short-story writer best known for The Bloody Chamber, her darkly feminist retellings of classic fairy tales
Did you know? She lived in Japan for several years in the early 1970s, an experience that influenced her writing and perspective on gender roles.
1939–2022Sidney Altman
Biologist who won a Nobel Prize for discovering RNA's catalytic properties
Did you know? His discovery that RNA could act like an enzyme challenged the long-held scientific belief that only proteins performed such functions.
1939–2018Ruud Lubbers
Longest-serving Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Did you know? After his political career in the Netherlands, he served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for several years.
1923–1985Anne Baxter
Oscar-winning actress known for The Razor's Edge
Did you know? She was the granddaughter of the famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
1919–1952Eva Perón
Argentine actress who became First Lady as the wife of Juan Perón, champion of the poor and women's suffrage, known as Evita
Did you know? Despite having no official government post, she was posthumously given the title of Spiritual Leader of the Nation.
1901–1961Gary Cooper
Academy Award-winning American actor known for westerns and dramas
Did you know? He initially wanted to be a political cartoonist and only began acting as an extra to make some quick money.
1892–1980Josip Broz Tito
Partisan leader who freed Yugoslavia from Nazi occupation and ruled it for 35 years, defying Stalin
Did you know? During the Second World War, he led one of the most effective anti-Nazi resistance movements in occupied Europe.
1867–1925Władysław Reymont
Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist of the early twentieth century
Did you know? To support himself before his literary success, he worked various jobs including as an actor in a travelling theatre troupe.
1847–1929Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Did you know? He famously declared his three goals in life were to marry an heiress, win the Derby, and become Prime Minister.
1841–1931Gustave Le Bon
French polymath and pioneer in the field of crowd psychology
Did you know? His most famous work, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, reportedly influenced both Theodore Roosevelt and Benito Mussolini.
1840–1893Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian Romantic composer of the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker and the 1812 Overture
Did you know? Although he trained as a civil servant at a school of jurisprudence, he abandoned his legal career to study music at age twenty-two.
1833–1897Johannes Brahms
German Romantic composer of four symphonies, A German Requiem, the Hungarian Dances and the famous Lullaby
Did you know? He was such a rigorous perfectionist that he destroyed many of his early works and sketches, leaving only his most polished compositions.
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🇸🇪Caspar David FriedrichGerman Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often…View profile Photo (modified): Caspar David Friedrich · Public domain1840Died
Otto I the GreatEast Frankish king from 936 and Holy Roman Emperor from 962 until his death in 973View profile Photo (modified): Artwork: Creators of the Chronicle of Bishop Otto of Freising ; Photo: AndreasPraefcke · Public domainAD 973Died
Antonio SalieriItalian composer and teacher of the classical periodView profile Photo (modified): Joseph Willibrord Mähler · Public domain1825Died
🇨🇦Willard BoyleCanadian applied physicist who shared one half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with George E. Smith for their…View profile Photo (modified): Prolineserver ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.02011Died
🇬🇧James George FrazerScottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and…View profile Photo (modified): Contemporary photograph · Public domain1941Died
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May 7: birthdays, history and star sign
29 famous people were born on May 7, including Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms and Josip Broz Tito. Anyone born on May 7 is a Taurus, an earth sign ruled by Venus. Notable events on May 7 include Eurovision Song Contest 2024 (2024) and 2025 conclave.
Famous people born on May 7
- 1999Cody Gakpo · Dutch professional footballer who plays as a left winger or centre forward for Premier League club Liverpool and the…
- 1998MrBeast · American YouTuber, media personality, businessman, philanthropist, and actor
- 1998Dani Olmo · Spanish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or left winger for La Liga club Barcelona and the…
- 1997Youri Tielemans · Belgian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Manchester United and captains the…
- 1988Takayuki Morimoto · Japanese former professional footballer who plays as a second striker
- 1972Asghar Farhadi · Iranian film director and screenwriter
- 1971Thomas Piketty · French economist who is a professor of economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, associate…
- 1956Jan Peter Balkenende · Jan Pieter Balkenende Jr
- 1939Sidney Altman · Canadian-American molecular biologist, who was the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology…
- 1923Anne Baxter · American actress, star of Hollywood films, Broadway productions, and television series
- 1919Eva Perón · Argentine politician, activist, and actress who served as First Lady of Argentina from June 1946 until her death in…
- 1901Gary Cooper · American actor known for his strong, silent type of screen persona and understated acting style
- 1892Josip Broz Tito · Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman who led Yugoslavia as prime minister from 1943 to 1963 and as president…
- 1867Władysław Reymont · Polish novelist and the laureate of the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature
- 1841Gustave Le Bon · Leading French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and…
- 1840Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Russian composer of the Romantic period
- 1833Johannes Brahms · German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period
- 1812Robert Browning · English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets
- 1754Joseph Joubert · French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées, which were published posthumously
- 1748Olympe de Gouges · French playwright and political activist
On May 7 in history
- 2024Eurovision Song Contest 2024 · The Eurovision Song Contest 2024 was the 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It consisted of two semi-finals on 7 and 9 May and a final on 11 May…
- 20252025 conclave · A conclave was held on 7 and 8 May 2025 to elect a new pope to succeed Francis, who had died on 21 April 2025. Of the 135 eligible cardinal electors, all but…
- 20152015 United Kingdom general election · A general election was held in the United Kingdom on 7 May 2015 to elect 650 members of Parliament to the House of Commons. The Conservative Party, led by…
- 1274Second Council of Lyon · The Second Council of Lyon was the fourteenth ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church, convoked on 31 March 1272 and convened in Lyon, Kingdom of…
- 20252025 India–Pakistan conflict · A brief armed conflict between India and Pakistan began on 7 May 2025, after India launched missile strikes on Pakistan, in a military campaign codenamed…
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Taurus · Earth · ruled by Venus · Reliable, Patient, Sensual, Stubborn
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1856–1939Sigmund Freud
Austrian neurologist who founded psychoanalysis and introduced ideas such as the unconscious, repression and the interpretation of dreams
Did you know? He was a lifelong smoker who continued the habit despite undergoing dozens of surgeries for jaw cancer.
1861–1941Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, composer and painter who wrote Gitanjali and became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
Did you know? He is the only person to have composed the national anthems for two different countries, India and Bangladesh.
1884–1972Harry S. Truman
33rd US President who ordered the atomic bombings of Japan, launched the Marshall Plan and helped found NATO
Did you know? The middle initial in his name does not stand for a specific name but honours both of his grandfathers.
b. 1953Tony Blair
Labour leader who won three general elections and served as British Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007, including during the Iraq War
Did you know? During his student years at Oxford, he was the lead singer of a rock band called Ugly Rumours.
1758–1794Maximilien Robespierre
French revolutionary lawyer who led the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror and was guillotined in 1794
Did you know? Despite his later association with the guillotine, he was an outspoken opponent of the death penalty early in his career.
b. 1961George Clooney
American actor and director who rose to fame in ER, starred in Ocean's Eleven and won an Oscar for Syriana
Did you know? Before his acting career took off, he tried out for the Cincinnati Reds baseball team but failed to earn a contract.
1915–1985Orson Welles
American director and actor who made Citizen Kane at 25 and caused a panic with his War of the Worlds radio broadcast
Did you know? His 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds was so realistic that it reportedly caused widespread panic among listeners.
1899–1992Friedrich Hayek
Austrian-British economist of The Road to Serfdom who championed free markets and won the Nobel Prize in economics
Did you know? He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First World War and survived a serious bout of Spanish flu.
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- Who was born on May 7?
- Famous people born on May 7 include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), Johannes Brahms (1833), Josip Broz Tito (1892), Eva Perón (1919) and Władysław Reymont (1867). In total, 29 famous people in our archive were born on May 7.
- Which celebrities share a May 7 birthday?
- Famous people alive today with a May 7 birthday include Jan Peter Balkenende, MrBeast, Asghar Farhadi and Cody Gakpo.
- What star sign is someone born on May 7?
- People born on May 7 are Taurus, an earth sign ruled by Venus. Taurus runs from April 20 to May 20.
- What happened on May 7 in history?
- Notable events on May 7 include Eurovision Song Contest 2024 (2024), 2025 conclave (2025) and 2015 United Kingdom general election (2015).
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- May 7 in historyYour birthday has a story. See every famous birth, historic event and notable death recorded on May 7, the day the world welcomed you.Date page
- Your most famous birthday match: Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyOf the 29 famous people who share your birthday, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is the best known. Read their story and see what you have in common.Person
- Taurus zodiac signAs a Taurus you're known for being reliable, patient and sensual, just like Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Meet others who share your star sign.Zodiac
- Famous birthdays in MaySee the best-known people born on every day of May, from the 1st to the last day of the month.Month
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