Anniversaries 7 May

Birth

Plato80

Classical Greek philosopher -427–-347 BC

Joseph Joubert253

French moralist and essayist 1754–1824

Robert Browning179

English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era 1812–1889

Johannes Brahms6

German composer and pianist 1833–1897

Joseph Gurney Cannon8

American politician 1836–1926

Gustave Le Bon1

French psychologist 1841–1931

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery20

British politician 1847–1929

Rabindranath Tagore178

Bengali polymath 1861–1941

Margaret Barber4

English Christian writer 1869–1901

Ilmari Kianto1

Finnish writer 1874–1970

Pandurang Vaman Kane1

Indian Indologist and Sanskrit scholar 1880–1972

Archibald Macleish12

American poet and Librarian of Congress 1892–1982

Josip Broz Tito17

Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman 1892–1980

Edwin H. Land44

American scientist and inventor 1909–1991

Taubie Kushlick4

South African actor and director 1910–1991

Ishirō Honda6

Japanese film director 1911–1993

Anne Baxter3

American actress 1923–1985

Marjorie Boulton2

British writer 1924–2017

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala1

German-born British-American author 1927–2013

Gene Wolfe102

American science fiction and fantasy writer 1931–2019

Jenny Joseph3

Poet 1932–2018

Michael Allen Fox4

1940

Angela Carter43

English novelist 1940–1992

Orest Subtelny1

Canadian-Ukrainian historian 1941–2016

Peter Carey4

Australian novelist 1943

Michael Rosen14

British children's writer 1946

Thom Hartmann1

American journalist 1951

Deborah Wiles1

American children's writer 1953

Joanna Haigh2

British physicist 1954

Anne Dudley1

English composer and pop musician 1956

Elliot Perlman3

Australian writer 1964

Rachel Ann Nunes1

Author 1966

Traci Lords3

American mainstream and pornographic actress, producer, fil… 1968

Thomas Piketty24

French economist 1971

Christoffer Boe3

Danish filmmaker 1974

Marjo-Riikka Makela2

Finnish actress 1977

Yōsuke Kubozuka2

Japanese actor 1979

Matt Gaetz2

American politician and member of the United States House o… 1982

Death

Mumon Gensen1

1323–1390

Antonio Salieri1

Italian classical composer and conductor 1750–1825

Caspar David Friedrich31

Swedish painter 1774–1840

Генри Питер Брум1

1778–1868

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux16

English barrister, politician, and Lord Chancellor of Great… 1778–1868

James Nasmyth9

Scottish mechanical engineer and inventor 1808–1890

Salmon P. Chase7

Chief Justice of the United States 1808–1873

William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme6

English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician 1851–1925

James Frazer50

Scottish social anthropologist 1854–1941

Elbert Hubbard141

American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el … 1856–1915

Alice Moore Hubbard9

American activist 1861–1915

Josef Hoffmann1

Austrian architect and product designer 1870–1956

Stanisław Jerzy Lec28

Polish writer 1909–1966

Clement Greenberg17

American writer and artist 1909–1994

Douglas John Foskett24

1918–2004

Albert Meltzer1

British anarchist 1920–1996

Ray Harryhausen16

American animator 1920–2013

Willard Boyle1

Canadian physicist and inventor 1924–2011

Allan McLeod Cormack1

American physicist 1924–1998

Jean Vanier36

Canadian humanitarian 1928–2019

Rigby Graham2

British author and illustrator 1931–2015

Shiv Kumar Batalvi1

Indian poet 1936–1973

Kevyn Aucoin2

American make-up artist and photographer 1962–2002