May 7
- 1813 – The Asamblea del Año XIII makes the first law about mining.
- 1919 – Borns the actress and ploitician Eva Perón; wife of the president Juan Domingo Perón, she was oe of the key figures of peronism.
- 1928 – Death of the poet and activist for the blinds' rights, Vicenta Castro Cambón, founder of the Argentine Library for Blinds.
- 1995 – Death of the film directoresMaría Luisa Bemberg, who directed the award-winning Camila