52471 | May.07 | Birth | 1643 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician, 10th Mayor of New York City (d. 1700) |
52472 | May.07 | Birth | 1700 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-American physician (d. 1772) |
52473 | May.07 | Birth | 1704 – Carl Heinrich Graun, German tenor and composer (d. 1759) |
52474 | May.07 | Birth | 1711 – David Hume, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (d. 1776) |
52475 | May.07 | Birth | 1724 – Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal (d. 1797) |
52476 | May.07 | Birth | 1740 – Nikolai Arkharov, Russian police officer and general (d. 1814) |
52477 | May.07 | Birth | 1748 – Olympe de Gouges, French playwright and philosopher (d. 1793) |
52478 | May.07 | Birth | 1763 – Józef Poniatowski, Polish general (d. 1813) |
52479 | May.07 | Birth | 1767 – Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1820) |
52480 | May.07 | Birth | 1774 – William Bainbridge, American commodore (d. 1833) |
52481 | May.07 | Birth | 1787 – Jacques Viger, Canadian archaeologist and politician, 1st mayor of Montreal (d. 1858) |
52482 | May.07 | Birth | 1812 – Robert Browning, English poet and playwright (d. 1889) |
52483 | May.07 | Birth | 1826 – Varina Davis, American wife of Jefferson Davis (d. 1906) |
52484 | May.07 | Birth | 1833 – Johannes Brahms, German pianist and composer (d. 1897) |
52485 | May.07 | Birth | 1836 – Joseph Gurney Cannon, American lawyer and politician, 40th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1926) |
52486 | May.07 | Birth | 1837 – Karl Mauch, German geographer and explorer (d. 1875) |
52487 | May.07 | Birth | 1840 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer and educator (d. 1893) |
52488 | May.07 | Birth | 1847 – Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1929) |
52489 | May.07 | Birth | 1857 – William A. MacCorkle, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1930) |
52490 | May.07 | Birth | 1860 – Tom Norman, English businessman (d. 1930) |
52491 | May.07 | Birth | 1861 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941) |
52492 | May.07 | Birth | 1867 – Władysław Reymont, Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925) |
52493 | May.07 | Birth | 1875 – Bill Hoyt, American pole vaulter (d. 1951) |
52494 | May.07 | Birth | 1880 – Pandurang Vaman Kane, Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee (d. 1972) |
52495 | May.07 | Birth | 1881 – George E. Wiley, American cyclist (d. 1954) |
52496 | May.07 | Birth | 1882 – Willem Elsschot, Belgian author and poet (d. 1960) |
52497 | May.07 | Birth | 1885 – George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor and singer (d. 1969) |
52498 | May.07 | Birth | 1889 – Viktor Puskar, Estonian colonel (d. 1943) |
52499 | May.07 | Birth | 1891 – Harry McShane, Scottish engineer and activist (d. 1988) |
52500 | May.07 | Birth | 1892 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet, playwright, and lawyer (d. 1982) |