7-May-1774 :: Sir Francis BEAUFORT :: British Admiral and inventor of the wind force scale bearing his name - Born on this day.
7-May-1840 :: Peter Ilich TCHAIKOVSKY :: Russian master composer of classical ballet - Born on this day.
7-May-1861 :: Rabindranath TAGORE :: The great Bangali poet, short story writer, song composer, essayist, playwright and painter; the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize (he was awarded Nobel Prize in 1913 for literature); he was the first one to call Gandhiji the Mahatma . Born on this day.
7-May-1880 :: PANDURANG V. Kane :: A great Indian Indologist, who was awarded Bharat Ratna for his contribution to Indology - Born on this day.
7-May-1888 :: George EASTMAN :: On this day, he introduced the first Kodak camera with the tag line You press the button, we do the rest.
7-May-1892 :: JOSIP BROZ TITO :: Ex-President of Yugoslavia and one of the founding fathers of the non-aligned movement along with Jawahar Lal Nehru, Prime Minister of India and Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt - Born on this day.
7-May-1909 :: Edwin HERBERT LAND :: American inventor of the Polaroid Land Camera and one step process for developing and printing photographs - Born on this day.
7-May-1927 :: Ruth Prawer JHABVALA :: German born American novelist; A Booker prize-winning (for her novel 'Heat and Dust') novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. Born on this day.