What happened on May 7 ?

973 - Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 912)

1427 - Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman

1523 - Franz von Sickingen, German soldier (b. 1481)

1539 - Guru Nanak Dev, Pakistani founder of Sikhism (b. 1469)

1539 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (b. 1466)

1615 - Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)

1617 - David Fabricius, German astronomer (b. 1564)

1667 - Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (b. 1616)

1682 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (b. 1661)

1718 - Mary of Modena, wife of James II of England (b. 1658)

1793 - Pietro Nardini, Italian composer (b. 1722)

1800 - Niccola Piccinni, Italian composer (b. 1728)

1825 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (b. 1750)

1840 - Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (b. 1774)

1868 - Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778)

1896 - H. H. Holmes, American serial killer (b. 1861)

1925 - William Hesketh Lever, First Viscount Leverhulme (b. 1851)

1941 - Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (b. 1854)

1942 - Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (b. 1863)

1951 - Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889)

1998 - Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1924)

1998 - Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (b. 1941)

2000 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (b. 1909)

2004 - Waldemar Milewicz, Polish reporter (b. 1956)

2005 - Tristan Egolf, American writer (b. 1971)

2005 - Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian football (soccer) player (b.1980)

2006 - Richard Carleton, Australian news reporter (b.1943)

2006 - Lillian Gertrud Asplund, Titanic survivor (b. 1907)

2006 - Joan C. Edwards, American philanthropist (b.1918)

2006 - Machiko Soga, Japanese actress (b. 1943)