Famous people born on 7 May

• Rabindranath TagoreBengali poet, philosopher and polymath · 1861–1941
  80 yrs
• Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyRussian composer · 1840–1893
  53 yrs
• Johannes BrahmsGerman composer · 1833–1897
  63 yrs
• David HumeScottish philosopher, economist, and historian · 1711–1776
  65 yrs
• Josip Broz TitoYugoslav revolutionary and statesman · 1892–1980
  87 yrs
• Eva PerónArgentine actress and politician · 1919–1952
  33 yrs
• Władysław ReymontPolish novelist · 1867–1925
  58 yrs
• Robert BrowningEnglish poet and playwright · 1812–1889
  77 yrs
• Gary CooperAmerican actor · 1901–1961
  60 yrs
• Gustave Le BonFrench psychologist · 1841–1931
  90 yrs
• Olympe de GougesFrench playwright and political activist · 1748–1793
  45 yrs
• Edward IV of EnglandKing of England from 1461 to 1470 and 1471 to 1483 · 1442–1483
  40 yrs
• Anne BaxterAmerican actress · 1923–1985
  62 yrs
• Sidney Altman ↗Canadian American molecular biologist · 1939–2022
  82 yrs
• Joseph Joubert ↗French moralist and essayist · 1754–1824
  69 yrs
• Ruud Lubbers ↗Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994 · 1939–2018
  78 yrs
• Angela Carter ↗English novelist · 1940–1992
  51 yrs
• Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery ↗British Liberal politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom · 1847–1929
  82 yrs
• Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ↗German-born British-American author · 1927–2013
  85 yrs
• Józef Poniatowski ↗Nephew of King of Poland Stanislaus II; Marshal of France · 1763–1813
  50 yrs
• Francis Beaufort ↗Irish hydrographer and naval officer · 1774–1857
  83 yrs
• Adolf von Harnack ↗Baltic German theologian and prominent church historian · 1851–1930
  79 yrs
• Pavel Aleksandrov ↗Russian mathematician · 1896–1982
  86 yrs
• Archibald MacLeish ↗American poet and Librarian of Congress · 1892–1982
  89 yrs
• Marjorie Boulton ↗British writer · 1924–2017
  93 yrs
• Stanisław Przybyszewski ↗Polish writer, playwright and journalist · 1868–1927
  59 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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