September 7

September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 115 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 70 – A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.
• 1191 – Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf – Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
• 1228 – Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II landed in Acre, Palestine and started the Sixth Crusade, which resulted in a peaceful restitution of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
• 1571 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots.
• 1631 – Battle of Breitenfield (30 Years' War)Swedish troops commanded by Gustavus Adolphus win a decisive victory over Catholic Forces.
• 1652 – Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan.
• 1695 – Henry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable pirate raids in history with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai. In response, Emperor Aurangzeb threatens to end to all English trading in India.
• 1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
• 1778 – American Revolutionary War: France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France's involvement in the war.
• 1812 – French invasion of Russia : The Battle of Borodino, the bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, was fought near Moscow and resulted in a French victory.
• 1818 – Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
• 1822 – Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga Brook in São Paulo.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
• 1876 – In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are driven off by armed citizens.
• 1893 – The Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, to become one of the oldest Italian football clubs, is established by British expats.
• 1895 – The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895–96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.
• 1901 – The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
• 1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
• 1907 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
• 1909 – Eugene Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
• 1911 – French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
• 1916 – US federal employees win the right to Workers' compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
• 1920 – Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en route to Finland where they would serve with the Suomen Ilmavoimat, killing both crews.
• 1921 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
• 1921 – The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland.
• 1922 – In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation.
• 1927 – The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
• 1929 – Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives are lost.
• 1932 – The Battle of Boquerón, the first major battle of the Chaco War, commences.
• 1936 – The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
• 1940 – Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.
• 1942 – First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.
• 1942 – Australian and US forces inflict a significant defeat upon the Japanese at the Battle of Milne Bay.
• 1943 – A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 people.
• 1943 – World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban River bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
• 1945 – Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
• 1953 – Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• 1963 – The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
• 1965 – China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border.
• 1965 – Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula.
• 1970 – Fighting between Arab guerrillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.
• 1970 – Bill Shoemaker sets record for most lifetime wins as a jockey (passing Johnny Longden).
• 1977 – The Torrijos-Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The United States agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
• 1977 – The 300 metre tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed.
• 1978 – While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.
• 1979 – The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, better known as ESPN, makes its debut.
• 1979 – The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for USD $1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
• 1986 – Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.
• 1986 – Gen. Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.
• 1988 – Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the Mir space station.
• 1999 – A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless.
• 2004 – Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane hits Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings.
• 2005 – Egypt holds its first-ever multi-party presidential election.
• 2008 – The US Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
• 2010 – A Chinese fishing trawler collided with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats in disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands. The collisions occurred around 10am, after the Japanese Coast Guard ordered the trawler to leave the area. After the collisions, Japanese sailors boarded the Chinese vessel and arrested the captain, Zhan Qixiong.
• 2011 – A plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team.
• 2012 – A series of earthquakes in Yunnan, China, kills 89 people and injures 800 others.
• 2012 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and ordered the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over support for Syria, nuclear plans and alleged rights abuses.

Births

• 1438 – Louis II, Landgrave of Lower Hesse (d. 1471)
• 1524 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (d. 1583)
• 1533 – Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603)
• 1683 – Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1754)
• 1694 – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Danish politician (d. 1763)
• 1705 – Matthäus Günther, German painter (d. 1788)
• 1707 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist, biologist, and author (d. 1788)
• 1726 – François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player and composer (d. 1795)
• 1740 – Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor (d. 1814)
• 1777 – Heinrich Stölzel, German horn player and composer (d. 1844)
• 1801 – Sarel Cilliers, Voortrekker leader and preacher (d.1871)
• 1810 – Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Prussian economist (d. 1858)
• 1815 – John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (d. 1866)
• 1817 – Louise of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1898)
• 1818 – Thomas Talbot, American politician, 31st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1886)
• 1819 – Thomas A. Hendricks, American politician, 21st Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)
• 1829 – Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (d. 1896)
• 1831 – Alexandre Falguière, French sculptor and painter (d. 1900)
• 1836 – Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1908)
• 1836 – August Toepler, German physicist (d. 1912)
• 1842 – Johannes Zukertort, German chess player (d. 1888)
• 1848 – Emma Cooke, American archer (d. 1929)
• 1851 – Edward Asahel Birge, American academic (d. 1950)
• 1855 – William Friese-Greene, English photographer (d. 1921)
• 1860 – Grandma Moses, American painter (d. 1961)
• 1862 – Edgar Speyer, American-English financier and philanthropist (d. 1932)
• 1866 – Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist (d. 1947)
• 1867 – Albert Bassermann, German actor (d. 1952)
• 1867 – J. P. Morgan, Jr., American banker and philanthropist (d. 1943)
• 1869 – Ben Viljoen, South African general (d. 1917)
• 1870 – Thomas Curtis, American hurdler (d. 1944)
• 1870 – Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian pilot, adventurer, and author (d. 1938)
• 1876 – Francesco Buhagiar, 2nd Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1934)
• 1876 – C. J. Dennis, Australian poet (d. 1938)
• 1877 – Mike O'Neill, Irish baseball player (d. 1959)
• 1885 – Elinor Wylie, American poet and novelist (d. 1928)
• 1887 – Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (d. 1964)
• 1892 – Eric Harrison, Australian politician (d. 1974)
• 1892 – Oscar O'Brien, Canadian priest, pianist, and composer (d. 1958)
• 1893 – Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha, English politician (d. 1957)
• 1894 – Vic Richardson, Australian cricketer (d. 1969)
• 1894 – George Waggner, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1984)
• 1898 – Mamie Rearden, American super-centenarian (d. 2013)
• 1900 – Taylor Caldwell, English-American author (d. 1985)
• 1900 – Giuseppe Zangara, Italian assassin of Anton Cermak and attempted assassin of Franklin D. Roosevelt (d. 1933)
• 1903 – Margaret Landon, American author and missionary (d. 1993)
• 1904 – C.B. Colby, American author (d. 1977)
• 1908 – Paul Brown, American football coach and executive (d. 1991)
• 1908 – Michael DeBakey, American surgeon (d. 2008)
• 1908 – Max Kaminsky, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1994)
• 1909 – Elia Kazan, Greek-American actor, director, producer, and writer (d. 2003)
• 1911 – Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian politician (d. 1998)
• 1912 – David Packard, American engineer and businessman, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield, English soldier and royal courtier (d. 1999)
• 1913 – Anthony Quayle, English actor and director (d. 1989)
• 1914 – Graeme Bell, Australian pianist and composer (d. 2012)
• 1914 – James Van Allen, American scientist (d. 2006)
• 1915 – Pedro Reginaldo Lira, Argentinian bishop (d. 2012)
• 1917 – Leonard Cheshire, English pilot and humanitarian (d. 1992)
• 1917 – John Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1917 – Jacob Lawrence, American painter (d. 2000)
• 1917 – Ewen Solon, New Zealand actor (d. 1985)
• 1919 – Alberic Schotte, Belgian cyclist (d. 2004)
• 1920 – Al Caiola, American guitarist and composer
• 1920 – Harri Webb, Welsh Poet (d. 1994)
• 1921 – Arthur Ferrante, American pianist (Ferrante & Teicher) (d. 2009)
• 1922 – Lucien Jarraud, Canadian radio host (d. 2007)
• 1923 – Nancy Keesing, Australian author and poet (d. 1993)
• 1923 – Peter Lawford, English-American actor (d. 1984)
• 1924 – Bridie Gallagher, Irish singer (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Daniel Inouye, American captain and politician, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Leonard Rosenman, American composer (d. 2008)
• 1925 – Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer (d. 1985)
• 1925 – Allan Blakeney, Canadian politician, 10th Premier of Saskatchewan (d. 2011)
• 1925 – Bhanumathi Ramakrishna, Indian actress, singer, and director (d. 2005)
• 1926 – Ronnie Gilbert, American folksinger
• 1926 – Erich Juskowiak, German footballer (d. 1983)
• 1926 – Don Messick, American voice actor (d. 1997)
• 1927 – Eric Hill, English author and illustrator
• 1927 – Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, Canadian jurist
• 1928 – Kathleen Gorham, Australian ballerina (d. 1983)
• 1930 – Baudouin of Belgium (d. 1993)
• 1930 – Sonny Rollins, American saxophonist and composer
• 1930 – Maureen Toal, Irish actress (d. 2012)
• 1931 – Charles Camilleri, Maltese composer (d. 2009)
• 1931 – Josep Lluís Núñez, Spanish businessman
• 1931 – Bruce Reynolds, English criminal (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Malcolm Bradbury, English author and academic (d. 2000)
• 1932 – John Paul Getty, Jr., American-English philanthropist and book collector (d. 2003)
• 1934 – Mary Bauermeister, German painter
• 1934 – Meir Brandsdorfer, Belgian-Israeli rabbi (d. 2009)
• 1934 – Waldo de los Ríos, Argentinian composer and conductor (d. 1977)
• 1934 – Sunil Gangopadhyay, Indian author and poet (d. 2012)
• 1934 – Dan Ingram, American radio host
• 1934 – Omar Karami, Lebanese politician, 58th Prime Minister of Lebanon
• 1934 – Little Milton, American singer and guitarist (d. 2005)
• 1935 – Abdou Diouf, Senegalese politician, 2nd President of Senegal
• 1935 – Ronnie Dove, American singer
• 1935 – Denis Vaugeois, Canadian author, historian, and politician
• 1936 – Buddy Holly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Crickets) (d. 1959)
• 1936 – Apostolos Kaklamanis, Greek politician
• 1937 – Cüneyt Arkın, Turkish actor
• 1937 – John Phillip Law, American actor (d. 2008)
• 1937 – Oleg Lobov, Russian politician
• 1937 – Olly Wilson, American composer, pianist, and bassist
• 1939 – Latimore, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1940 – Dario Argento, Italian director
• 1940 – Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian politician, 4th President of Indonesia (d. 2009)
• 1942 – Alan Oakes, English footballer
• 1943 – Beverley McLachlin, Canadian jurist, 17th Chief Justice of Canada
• 1943 – Lena Valaitis, Lithuanian-German singer
• 1944 – Forrest Blue, American football player (d. 2011)
• 1944 – Bertel Haarder, Danish politician
• 1944 – Earl Manigault, American basketball player (d. 1998)
• 1944 – Houshang Moradi Kermani, Iranian writer
• 1945 – Jacques Lemaire, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1946 – Willie Crawford, American baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1946 – Joe Klein, American journalist and novelist
• 1946 – Suzyn Waldman, American sportscaster
• 1948 – Susan Blakely, American actress
• 1949 – Gloria Gaynor, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1949 – Barry Siegel, American journalist
• 1950 – Johann Friedrich Hohenberger, German-Australian engineer and con-artist (d. 1991)
• 1950 – Julie Kavner, American actress
• 1950 – Peggy Noonan, American author
• 1951 – Mammootty, Indian actor, producer, and lawyer
• 1951 – Morris Albert, Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1951 – Chrissie Hynde, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Pretenders and The Moors Murderers)
• 1951 – Mark Isham, American trumpet player and composer
• 1952 – Ricardo Tormo, Spanish motorcycle racer (d. 1998)
• 1953 – Michael Byron, American composer
• 1953 – Marc Hunter, New Zealand singer-songwriter (Dragon and The Party Boys) (d. 1998)
• 1953 – Benmont Tench, American keyboard player (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Mudcrutch)
• 1954 – Corbin Bernsen, American actor
• 1954 – Doug Bradley, English actor
• 1954 – Michael Emerson, American actor
• 1955 – Mira Furlan, Croatian actress
• 1955 – Efim Zelmanov, Russian mathematician
• 1956 – Michael Feinstein, American singer, pianist, and archivist
• 1956 – Byron Stevenson, Welsh footballer (d. 2007)
• 1956 – Diane Warren, American songwriter
• 1957 – Jermaine Stewart, American singer-songwriter and dancer (Shalamar) (d. 1997)
• 1960 – Brad Houser, American musician (Edie Brickell & New Bohemians and Critters Buggin)
• 1960 – Phillip Rhee, Korean-American actor, martial artist, and director
• 1960 – Andrew Voss, Australian sportscaster
• 1961 – LeRoi Moore, American saxophonist and songwriter (Dave Matthews Band) (d. 2008)
• 1961 – Jean-Yves Thibaudet, French pianist
• 1963 – Eazy-E, American rapper and producer (N.W.A.) (d. 1995)
• 1963 – Brent Liles, American bass player (Social Distortion and Agent Orange) (d. 2007)
• 1964 – Andy Hug, Swiss martial artist and kick-boxer (d. 2000)
• 1965 – Angela Gheorghiu, Romanian soprano
• 1965 – Darko Pančev, Macedonian footballer
• 1965 – Uta Pippig, German runner
• 1965 – Andreas Thom, German footballer
• 1966 – Chris Acland, English drummer (Lush) (d. 1996)
• 1966 – Vladimir Andreyev, Russian race walker
• 1966 – Chris Barfoot, English screenwriter and producer
• 1966 – Lutz Heilmann, German politician
• 1966 – Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, German speed skater
• 1967 – Toby Jones, English actor
• 1968 – Marcel Desailly, French footballer
• 1969 – Darren Bragg, American baseball player
• 1969 – Angie Everhart, American model and actress
• 1969 – Diane Farr, American actress
• 1969 – Rudy Galindo, American skater figure
• 1970 – Gino Odjick, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1970 – Tom Everett Scott, American actor
• 1971 – Shane Mosley, American boxer
• 1971 – Briana Scurry, American soccer player
• 1972 – Slug, American rapper (Atmosphere, Deep Puddle Dynamics, and Felt)
• 1972 – Jason Isringhausen, American baseball player
• 1973 – Shannon Elizabeth, American actress
• 1973 – Alex Kurtzman, American film and television writer, producer and director
• 1974 – Mario Frick, Swiss-Liechtensteiner footballer
• 1974 – Antonio McDyess, American basketball player
• 1974 – Hiroki Takahashi, Japanese voice actor
• 1975 – Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2007)
• 1975 – Harold Wallace, Costa Rican footballer
• 1976 – Oliver Hudson, American actor
• 1977 – Nora Greenwald, American wrestler
• 1977 – Jon Macken, English-Irish footballer
• 1978 – Matt Cooke, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Erwin Koen, Dutch footballer
• 1978 – Devon Sawa, Canadian actor
• 1979 – Pavol Hochschorner, Slovak canoer
• 1979 – Paul Mara, American ice hockey player
• 1979 – Owen Pallett, Canadian singer, composer, and musician (The Mountain Goats and Enter the Haggis)
• 1979 – Brian Stokes, American baseball player
• 1980 – Emre Belözoğlu, Turkish footballer
• 1980 – Sara Carrigan, Australian cyclist
• 1980 – Gabriel Milito, Argentine footballer
• 1980 – Javad Nekounam, Iranian footballer
• 1980 – Mark Prior, American baseball player
• 1981 – Paul McCoy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (12 Stones)
• 1981 – Gökhan Zan, Turkish footballer
• 1982 – Andre Dirrell, American boxer
• 1982 – Ryoko Shiraishi, Japanese voice actress
• 1983 – Philip Deignan, Irish cyclist
• 1983 – Annette Dytrt, German skater figure
• 1983 – Pops Mensah-Bonsu, English basketball player
• 1983 – Mehmet Topuz, Turkish footballer
• 1983 – Piri Weepu, New Zealand rugby player
• 1984 – Ben Hollingsworth, Canadian actor
• 1984 – Kate Lang Johnson, American actress and model
• 1984 – Farveez Maharoof, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1984 – Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player
• 1985 – Rafinha, Brazilian footballer
• 1985 – Alyssa Diaz, American actress
• 1985 – Adam Eckersley, English footballer
• 1986 – Colin Delaney, American wrestler
• 1987 – Tommy Elphick, English footballer
• 1987 – Danny North, English footballer
• 1987 – Evan Rachel Wood, American actress
• 1987 – Aleksandra Wozniak, Canadian tennis player
• 1988 – Alex Harvey, Canadian skier
• 1988 – Paul Iacono, American actor
• 1988 – Kevin Love, American basketball player
• 1989 – Hugh Mitchell, English actor
• 1990 – Tanja Kolbe, German ice dancer
• 1991 – Montana Fishburne, American porn actress
• 1991 – Amar Garibović, Serbian skier (d. 2010)
• 1991 – Jennifer Veal, English actress
• 1992 – Kristina Vaculik, Canadian gymnast
• 1992 – Suzuka Morita, Japanese gravure model and actress
• 1993 – Taylor Gray, American actor
• 1997 – Michelle Creber, Canadian voice actress and singer

Deaths

• 251 – Sima Yi, Chinese general and politician (b. 179)
• 355 – Claudius Silvanus, Roman general
• 1151 – Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (b. 1113)
• 1312 – Ferdinand IV of Castile (b. 1285)
• 1464 – Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1412)
• 1496 – Ferdinand II of Naples (b. 1469)
• 1559 – Robert Estienne, French printer (b. 1503)
• 1632 – Susenyos of Ethiopia (b. 1572)
• 1644 – Guido Bentivoglio, Italian cardinal, statesman, and historian (b. 1579)
• 1655 – François Tristan l'Hermite, French author and playwright (b. 1601)
• 1657 – Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish field marshal (b. 1606)
• 1719 – John Harris, English writer, priest, and scientist (b. 1666)
• 1729 – William Burnet, Dutch-American civil servant and administrator (b. 1688)
• 1741 – Blas de Lezo, Spanish admiral (b. 1689)
• 1799 – Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (b. 1717)
• 1809 – Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, Thai king (b. 1737)
• 1833 – Hannah More, English poet, playwright, and philanthropist (b. 1745)
• 1840 – Jacques MacDonald, French marshal (b. 1765)
• 1871 – Kimenzan Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 13th Yokozuna (b. 1826)
• 1881 – Sidney Lanier, American poet and academic (b. 1842)
• 1891 – Lorenzo Sawyer, American lawyer and judge (b. 1820)
• 1892 – John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet (b. 1807)
• 1893 – Hamilton Fish, American politician, 26th United States Secretary of State (b. 1808)
• 1910 – William Holman Hunt, English painter (b. 1827)
• 1920 – Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of Quebec (b. 1855)
• 1921 – Alfred William Rich, English author and painter (b. 1856)
• 1923 – Nikolai von Glehn, Baltic German landowner and activist (b. 1841)
• 1929 – Frederic Weatherly, English lawyer, author, and songwriter (b. 1848)
• 1933 – Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, English politician (b. 1862)
• 1939 – Kyōka Izumi, Japanese novelist (b. 1873)
• 1949 – José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (b. 1883)
• 1951 – Maria Montez, Dominican actress (b. 1912)
• 1954 – Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1885)
• 1956 – C. B. Fry, English cricketer, politician, academic, and writer (b. 1872)
• 1959 – Maurice Duplessis, Canadian politician, 16th Premier of Quebec (b. 1890)
• 1962 – Karen Blixen, Danish author (b. 1885)
• 1962 – Graham Walker, English motorcycle racer and journalist (b. 1897)
• 1962 – Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist (b. 1892)
• 1965 – Catherine Dale Owen, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1969 – Everett Dirksen, American politician (b. 1896)
• 1971 – Spring Byington, American actress (b. 1886)
• 1971 – Ludwig Suthaus, German tenor (b. 1906)
• 1978 – Cecil Aronowitz, South African-English viola player (b. 1916)
• 1978 – Keith Moon, English drummer, songwriter, producer, and actor (The Who and Plastic Ono Band) (b. 1946)
• 1978 – Charles Williams, English composer and conductor (b. 1893)
• 1982 – Ken Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1931)
• 1984 – Joe Cronin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1906)
• 1984 – Josyf Slipyj, Ukrainian cardinal (b. 1892)
• 1984 – Don Tallon, Australian cricketer (b. 1916)
• 1985 – José Zabala-Santos, Filipino cartoonist (b. 1911)
• 1986 – Les Bury, Australian politician (b. 1913)
• 1989 – Mikhail Goldstein, Soviet violinist and composer (b. 1917)
• 1990 – Earle E. Partridge, American pilot and general (b. 1900)
• 1990 – A. J. P. Taylor, English historian and journalist (b. 1906)
• 1991 – Edwin McMillan, American physicist (b. 1907)
• 1994 – James Clavell, Australian-American author (b. 1924)
• 1994 – Eric Crozier, English director (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Dennis Morgan, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Godfrey Quigley, Irish actor (b. 1923)
• 1994 – Terence Young, Chinese-English director and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1995 – Russell Johnson, American cartoonist (b. 1893)
• 1997 – Elisabeth Brooks, Canadian actress (b. 1951)
• 1997 – Mobutu Sese Seko, Congolese politician, President of Zaire (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist and author (b. 1949)
• 2000 – Bruce Gyngell, Australian television executive (b. 1929)
• 2001 – Igor Buketoff, American conductor (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Spede Pasanen, Finnish comedian, director, and producer (b. 1930)
• 2001 – Billie Lou Watt, American actress (b. 1924)
• 2002 – Katrin Cartlidge, English actress (b. 1961)
• 2002 – Cyrinda Foxe, American actress and model (b. 1952)
• 2002 – Erma Franklin, American singer (b. 1938)
• 2002 – Uziel Gal, German-Israeli gun designer, designed the Uzi (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Great Antonio, Croatian-Canadian strongman (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Warren Zevon, American singer-songwriter and musician (Hindu Love Gods and lyme and cybelle) (b. 1947)
• 2004 – Bob Boyd, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1933)
• 2005 – Hope Garber, Canadian actress and singer (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Robert Earl Jones, American actor (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Hiroshi Takase, Japanese cinematographer (b. 1955)
• 2008 – Ilarion Ciobanu, Romanian actor (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Dino Dvornik, Croatian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (b. 1964)
• 2008 – Peter Glossop, English opera singer (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Don Haskins, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
• 2008 – Nagi Noda, Japanese director (b. 1973)
• 2010 – Amar Garibović, Serbian skier (b. 1991)
• 2010 – Barbara Holland, American author (b. 1933)
• 2010 – John Kluge, German-American businessman (b. 1914)
• 2010 – Glenn Shadix, American actor (b. 1952)
• 2011 – Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster
  • Pavol Demitra, Slovakian ice hockey player (b. 1974)
  • Alexander Karpovtsev, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1970)
  • Igor Korolev, Russian-Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1970)
  • Stefan Liv, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1980)
  • Jan Marek, Czech ice hockey player (b. 1979)
  • Brad McCrimmon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1959)
  • Karel Rachůnek, Czech ice hockey player (b. 1979)
  • Kārlis Skrastiņš, Latvian ice hockey player (b. 1974)
  • Ruslan Salei, Belarussian ice hockey player (b. 1974)
  • Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey player (b. 1980)
• 2012 – Richard Bucher, Swiss ice hockey player (b. 1955)
• 2012 – Leszek Drogosz, Polish boxer and actor (b. 1933)
• 2012 – César Fernández Ardavín, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Francisco Fernández Fernández, Spanish super-centenarian (b. 1901)
• 2012 – Abdul Ghafoor, Pakistani footballer (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Louise LaPlanche, American actress (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Aleksandr Maksimenkov, Russian footballer and coach (b. 1952)
• 2012 – Maestro Reverendo, Spanish composer (b. 1955)
• 2012 – Nicole Russell, Duchess of Bedford (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Daniel Weinreb, American computer scientist and programmer (b. 1959)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Anastasius the Fuller
  • Clodoald
  • Gratus of Aosta
  • Regina
  • September 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Independence day, celebrates the independence of Brazil from Portugal in 1822
• National Threatened Species Day (Australia)
• Pakistani Air Force Day since 1971. (Pakistan)
• Victory Day (Mozambique)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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