About the day » Tuesday May 7, 1867Calender converter

• - levenloos - Zegers, Putten, Gelderland, Nederland († 1867)
• Anna Maria Elisabeth BIJNENS, Zonhoven Belgie († 1954)
• - Levenloos - Zegers, Putten, Gelderland, Nederland († 1867)
• Adriana LOBBEZOO, Krabbendijke, Zeeland, Nederland († 1867)
• Adrianus Arie van der Hulst, Koudekerk aan den Rijn,Gemeente Rijnwoude, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1953)
• Anna Evekink, Zutphen († 1951)
• Antonia Koppelman, Haaksbergen († 1930)
• Antje Groen, Avenhorn, Koggenland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana LOBBEZOO, Krabbendijke, Zeeland, Nederland († 1867)
• Steenhoff († 1867)

• Cornelis Waterdrinker (73), Avenhorn
• adrianus heuvel van den (21), oss
• Zegers (0), Putten
• Abraham Ghijsels* (44), Nieuwvliet (Zld.)
• Aaltje Visser, Den Burg (Texel, NH)
• Anna van der Heijden (44), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Swolfs (56), Weelde, België
• 00 Hillegien of Hilligje Koopman (38), Dwingeloo, Drente, NL
• Aleida Post (42), Arnhem
• Adrianus van den Heuvel (21), Oss

• 1847 » Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1929)
• 1857 » William A. MacCorkle, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of West Virginia († 1930)
• 1860 » Tom Norman, English businessman († 1930)
• 1861 » Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1941)
• 1867 » Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1925)
• 1875 » Bill Hoyt, American pole vaulter († 1951)
• 1880 » Pandurang Vaman Kane, Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee († 1972)
• 1881 » George E. Wiley, American cyclist († 1954)
• 1882 » Willem Elsschot, Belgian author and poet († 1960)
• 1885 » George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor († 1969)

• 1815 » Jabez Bowen, American colonel and politician, 45th Deputy Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1739)
• 1825 » Antonio Salieri, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1750)
• 1840 » Caspar David Friedrich, German painter and educator (b. 1774)
• 1868 » Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778)
• 1872 » Alexander Loyd, American carpenter and politician, 4th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1876 » William Buell Sprague, American clergyman, historian, and author (b. 1795)
• 1887 » C. F. W. Walther, German-American religious leader and theologian (b. 1811)
• 1896 » H. H. Holmes, American serial killer (b. 1861)
• 1902 » Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest and saint (b. 1818)
• 1917 » Albert Ball, English fighter pilot (b. 1896)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• January 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
• March 30 » Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
• May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
• July 1 » The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
• November 9 » Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
• December 13 » A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.

The temperature on May 7, 1867 was about 27.8 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 35%.