Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 7

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[edit] Births

• 1812 - Robert Browning, English poet (d. 1889)
• 1833 - Johannes Brahms, German composer (d. 1897)
• 1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1893) (pictured)
• 1901 - Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961)
• 1909 - Edwin H. Land, American inventor (d. 1991)
• 1919 - Eva Peron, Argentine first lady (d. 1952)

[edit] Deaths

• 973 - Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 912)
• 1617 - David Fabricius, German astronomer (b. 1564)
• 1667 - Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (b. 1616)
• 1825 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (b. 1750)
• 1998 - Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1924)
• 1998 - Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (b. 1941)