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September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 115 days remain 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.
• 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 put an 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).
• 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Borodino – Napoleon wins a Pyrrhic victory over the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.
• 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 – 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 – Legion of Mary 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.
• 1936 – The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
• 1940 – World War II: The Blitz – Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.
• 1940 – Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.
• 1942 – Holocaust: 8,700 Jews of Kolomyia (western Ukraine) sent by German Gestapo to death camp in Belzec.
• 1942 – First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.
• 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.
• 1996 – American Hip-Hop star Tupac Shakur is fatally shot four times on the Las Vegas strip after leaving the Tyson-Seldon boxing match.
• 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 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.

Births

• 786 – Emperor Saga Japan (d. 842)
• 1438 – Louis II, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1471)
• 1524 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (d. 1583)
• 1533 – Queen Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603)
• 1674 – Ernest Augustus, Duke of York and Albany (d. 1728)
• 1683 – Mary Anne of Austria (d. 1754)
• 1694 – Johan Ludvig, Danish policitian (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 musician 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 – Queen Louise of Hesse-Kassel of Denmark (d. 1898)
• 1818 – Thomas Talbot, 31st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1886)
• 1819 – Thomas A. Hendricks, 21st Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)
• 1829 – Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German organic chemist (d. 1896)
• 1831 – Alexandre Falguière, French sculptor and painter (d. 1900)
• 1836 – Henry Campbell-Bannerman, UK Prime Minister (d. 1908)
• 1836 – August Toepler, German physicist (d. 1912)
• 1842 – Johannes Zukertort, German chess master (d. 1888)
• 1851 – Edward Ashael Birge, American pioneer in limnology (d. 1950)
• 1855 – William Friese-Greene, British photographer (d. 1921)
• 1860 – Grandma Moses, American painter (d. 1961)
• 1862 – Sir Edgar Speyer, American-born British financier and philanthropist (d. 1932)
• 1866 – Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist (d. 1947)
• 1867 – Albert Bassermann, German actor (d. 1952)
• 1869 – Ben Viljoen, South African Boer general and circus act (d. 1917)
• 1870 – Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian writer and adventurer (d. 1938)
• 1870 – Thomas Curtis, American athlete (d. 1944)
• 1876 – C.J. Dennis, Australian poet and writer (d. 1938)
• 1877 – Mike O'Neill, Irish baseball player (d. 1959)
• 1885 – Elinor Wylie, American poet and novelist (d. 1928)
• 1887 – Edith Sitwell, British poet and critic (d. 1964)
• 1892 – Eric Harrison, Australian politician (d. 1974)
• 1892 – Oscar O'Brien, Canadian folklorist and Roman Catholic priest (d. 1958)
• 1893 – Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha, British politician (d. 1957)
• 1894 – Vic Richardson, Australian cricketer (d. 1969)
• 1894 – George Waggner, American producer (d. 1984)
• 1900 – Taylor Caldwell, British-American novelist (d. 1985)
• 1900 – Giuseppe Zangara, Italian would-be assassin of Franklin D. Roosevelt (d. 1933)
• 1903 – Margaret Landon, American writer (d. 1993)
• 1908 – Paul Brown, American football coach and executive (d. 1991)
• 1908 – Michael DeBakey, American cardiac surgeon (d. 2008)
• 1908 – Max Kaminsky (musician), jazz trumpeter and band leader (d. 1994)
• 1909 – Elia Kazan, Greek-born American film and theater director (d. 2003)
• 1911 – Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Communist figure (d. 1998)
• 1912 – David Packard, American electrical engineer and businessman (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield, British soldier, royal courtier (d. 1999)
• 1913 – Anthony Quayle, British actor and director (d. 1989)
• 1914 – Graeme Bell, Australian jazz pianist and composer
• 1914 – James Van Allen, American space scientist (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Leonard Cheshire VC, decorated British air ace 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
• 1920 – Harri Webb, Welsh Poet (d. 1994)
• 1921 – Josep Lluís Núñez, Spanish President of FC Barcelona (1978 – 2000)
• 1921 – Arthur Ferrante, American pianist (d. 2009)
• 1922 – Lucien Jarraud, Canadian radio host (d. 2007)
• 1923 – Nancy Keesing, Australian writer (d. 1993)
• 1923 – Peter Lawford, British-born American actor (d. 1984)
• 1924 – Bridie Gallagher, Irish singer
• 1924 – Daniel Inouye, Medal of Honor recipient, American politician, senior senator of Hawaii
• 1924 – Leonard Rosenman, American film and television composer (d. 2008)
• 1925 – Laura Ashley, British designer (d. 1985)
• 1925 – Allan Blakeney, Canadian politician
• 1926 – Erich Juskowiak, German footballer (d. 1983)
• 1926 – Don Messick, American voice actor (d. 1997)
• 1927 – Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, French Canadian jurist
• 1927 – Eric Hill, British children's author
• 1928 – Kathleen Gorham, Australian ballerina (d. 1983)
• 1930 – King Baudouin I of Belgium (d. 1993)
• 1930 – Sonny Rollins, American jazz saxophonist
• 1931 – Charles Camilleri, Maltese composer (d. 2009)
• 1932 – Malcolm Bradbury, British writer and academic (d. 2000)
• 1932 – John Paul Getty, Jr., American-British philanthropist, book collecter (d. 2003)
• 1934 – Mary Bauermeister, German artist
• 1934 – Meir Brandsdorfer, Belgian-born Israeli religious figure (d. 2009)
• 1934 – Little Milton, American musician (d. 2005)
• 1934 – Omar Karami, Lebanese statesman
• 1934 – Waldo de los Ríos, Argentinian composer, arranger (d. 1977)
• 1935 – Ronnie Dove, American singer
• 1935 – Denis Vaugeois, Canadian author, historian and politician
• 1936 – Buddy Holly, American singer (The Crickets) (d. 1959)
• 1936 – Apostolos Kaklamanis, Greek politician
• 1937 – Cüneyt Arkın, Turkish film actor
• 1937 – John Phillip Law, American actor (d. 2008)
• 1937 – Oleg Lobov, Prime Minister of Russia
• 1937 – Olly Wilson, American composer, pianist, double bassist, and musicologist
• 1939 – Latimore (musician), American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist
• 1940 – Dario Argento, Italian film director
• 1940 – Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian politician (d. 2009)
• 1942 – Alan Oakes, British Footballer
• 1943 – Lena Valaitis, Lithuanian-born German singer
• 1943 – Beverley McLachlin, Canadian jurist
• 1944 – Forrest Blue, American football player (d. 2011)
• 1944 – Bertel Haarder, Danish politician
• 1944 – Earl "The Goat" Manigault, American basketball player (d. 1998)
• 1945 – Jacques Lemaire, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1946 – Willie Crawford, American baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1946 – Joe Klein, American journalist, novelist
• 1948 – Susan Blakely, American actress
• 1949 – Gloria Gaynor, American disco singer
• 1949 – Barry Siegel, American journalist
• 1950 – Johann Friedrich Hohenberger, German-Australian engineer and conman (d. 1991)
• 1950 – Julie Kavner, American actress
• 1951 – Morris Albert, Brazilian singer
• 1951 – Chrissie Hynde, American guitarist and singer (The Pretenders)
• 1951 – Mark Isham, American composer
• 1952 – Ricardo Tormo, Spanish motocyclist (d. 1998)
• 1953 – Michael Byron (composer), American composer and editor of contemporary music anthologies
• 1953 – Marc Hunter, New Zealand rock singer (d. 1998)
• 1953 – Benmont Tench, American keyboardist
• 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, musical revivalist
• 1956 – Byron Stevenson, British footballer (d. 2007)
• 1956 – Diane Warren, American song writer
• 1957 – Jermaine Stewart, American pop singer (Shalamar) (d. 1997)
• 1960 – Brad Houser, American bass guitar, baritone saxophone and bass clarinet player
• 1960 – Phillip Rhee, Korean-American actor and director
• 1960 – Andrew Voss, Australian television personality
• 1961 – LeRoi Moore, American musician (Dave Matthews Band) (d. 2008)
• 1961 – Jean-Yves Thibaudet, French pianist
• 1963 – Eazy-E, American rapper (N.W.A.) (d. 1995)
• 1963 – Brent Liles, American musician (Social Distortion) (d. 2007)
• 1964 – Andy Hug, Swiss martial artist and kickboxer (d. 2000)
• 1965 – Angela Gheorghiu, Romanian opera singer
• 1965 – Darko Pančev, Macedonian footballer
• 1965 – Uta Pippig, German athlete
• 1965 – Andreas Thom, German footballer
• 1966 – Chris Acland, English drummer (Lush) (d. 1996)
• 1966 – Vladimir Andreyev, Russian race walker
• 1966 – Chris Barfoot, English film writer and producer
• 1966 – Lutz Heilmann, German politician
• 1966 – Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, German speed skater
• 1967 – Toby Jones, British actor
• 1968 – Marcel Desailly, French footballer
• 1969 – Darren Bragg, American baseball player
• 1969 – Angie Everhart, American model and actress
• 1969 – Diane Farr, American actress (Numb3rs)
• 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 – Jason Isringhausen, American baseball player
• 1972 – Slug, American rapper (Atmosphere)
• 1973 – Shannon Elizabeth, American actress
• 1974 – Mario Frick, Liechtensteiner footballer
• 1974 – Antonio McDyess, American basketball player
• 1974 – Hiroki Takahashi, Japanese voice actor
• 1975 – Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle road racer (d. 2007)
• 1975 – Harold Wallace, Costa Rican footballer
• 1976 – Oliver Hudson, American actor
• 1977 – Nora Greenwald, American professional wrestler
• 1977 – Jon Macken, British Footballer
• 1978 – Matt Cooke, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Erwin Koen, Dutch footballer
• 1978 – Devon Sawa, Canadian actor
• 1979 – Pavol Hochschorner, Slovak slalom canoer
• 1979 – Paul Mara, American ice hockey player
• 1979 – Owen Pallett, Canadian musician (Final Fantasy)
• 1979 – Brian Stokes, American baseball player
• 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 musician (12 Stones)
• 1981 – Gökhan Zan, Turkish footballer
• 1982 – Andre Dirrell, American boxer
• 1982 – Ryoko Shiraishi, Japanese seiyu
• 1983 – Philip Deignan, Irish cyclist
• 1983 – Annette Dytrt, German skater figure
• 1983 – Pops Mensah-Bonsu, British basketball player
• 1983 – Mehmet Topuz, Turkisher footballer
• 1983 – Piri Weepu, New Zealand rugby player
• 1984 – Farveez Maharoof, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1984 – Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player
• 1985 – Adam Eckersley, English footballer
• 1985 – Rafinha, Brazilian footballer
• 1986 – Colin Delaney, American professional wrestler
• 1987 – Danny North, English Footballer
• 1987 – Evan Rachel Wood, American actress
• 1987 – Aleksandra Wozniak, Canadian tennis player
• 1988 – Kevin Love, American basketball player
• 1990 – Alex Harvey, Canadian cross country skier
• 1990 – Tanja Kolbe, German ice dancer
• 1991 – Montana Fishburne, American pornographic actress
• 1991 – Amar Garibović, Serbian cross country skier (d. 2010)
• 1993 – Taylor Gray, American actor

Deaths

• 251 – Sima Yi, Chinese strategist, general, and politician
• 355 – Claudius Silvanus, Roman usurper
• 1151 – Geoffrey of Anjou (b. 1113)
• 1312 – King Ferdinand IV of Castile (b. 1285)
• 1464 – Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1412)
• 1496 – King Ferdinand II of Naples (b. 1469)
• 1552 – Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh Guru (b. 1504)
• 1559 – Robert Estienne, French printer (b. 1503)
• 1632 – Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia (b. 1572)
• 1644 – Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman (b. 1579)
• 1654 – Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, Bohemian rabbi (b. 1579)
• 1655 – François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (b. 1601)
• 1657 – Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish count, field marshal and privy councilor (b. 1606)
• 1708 – Emperor Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)
• 1719 – John Harris, English writer
• 1729 – William Burnet, British-born American statesman (b. 1688)
• 1799 – Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (b. 1717)
• 1809 – Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (b. 1737)
• 1833 – Hannah More, English religious writer and philanthropist (b. 1745)
• 1840 – Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (b. 1765)
• 1871 – Kimenzan Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 13th Yokozuna (b. c. 1826)
• 1881 – Sidney Lanier, American writer (b. 1842)
• 1891 – Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (b. 1820)
• 1892 – John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet (b. 1807)
• 1893 – Hamilton Fish, US Secretary of State (b. 1808)
• 1910 – William Holman Hunt, British painter (b. 1827)
• 1920 – Simon-Napoléon Parent, politician, premier of the province of Quebec (b. 1855)
• 1921 – Alfred William Rich, watercolor painter (b. 1856)
• 1929 – Frederic Weatherly, English song lyricist (Danny Boy, The Holy City) (b. 1848)
• 1933 – Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, British statesman (b. 1862)
• 1939 – Kyōka Izumi, Japanese novelist (b. 1873)
• 1943 – J. P. Morgan, Jr., American financier (b. 1867)
• 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, diplomat, academic, teacher, writer, editor and publisher (b. 1872)
• 1959 – Maurice Duplessis, Québec Prime Minister (b. 1890)
• 1962 – Karen Blixen, Danish author (b. 1885)
• 1962 – Graham Walker, British motorcycle racer (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 opera Heldentenor (b. 1906)
• 1978 – Cecil Aronowitz, British violist (b. 1916)
• 1978 – Keith Moon, English drummer (The Who) (b. 1946)
• 1978 – Charles Williams, British composer (b. 1893)
• 1982 – Ken Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1931)
• 1984 – Joe Cronin, American baseball manager and executive (b. 1906)
• 1984 – Josyf Slipyj, Ukrainian Catholic cardinal (b. 1892)
• 1984 – Don Tallon, Australian cricketer (b. 1916)
• 1986 – Les Bury, Australian politician (b. 1913)
• 1989 – Mikhail Goldstein, Soviet violinist, composer (b. 1917)
• 1990 – Earle E. Partridge, United States Air Force general (b. 1900)
• 1990 – A. J. P. Taylor, English historian, (b. 1906)
• 1991 – Edwin McMillan, American physicist (b. 1907)
• 1994 – James Clavell, Australian-born American author (b. 1924)
• 1994 – Eric Crozier, English opera librettist, theatre director (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Dennis Morgan, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Godfrey Quigley, British actor (b. 1923)
• 1994 – Terence Young, British film director (b. 1915)
• 1997 – Elisabeth Brooks, Canadian actress (b. 1951)
• 1997 – Mobutu Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist (b. 1949)
• 2000 – Bruce Gyngell, Australian television executive (b. 1929)
• 2001 – Igor Buketoff, American conductor (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (b. 1930)
• 2001 – Billie Lou Watt, American actress (b. 1924)
• 2002 – Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (b. 1961)
• 2002 – Cyrinda Foxe, American model (b. 1952)
• 2002 – Erma Franklin, American singer (b. 1938)
• 2002 – Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer (b. 1923)
• 2003 – The Great Antonio, Canadian eccentric (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Warren Zevon, American musician (b. 1947)
• 2004 – Bob Boyd, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (b. 1933)
• 2005 – Hope Garber, Canadian actress (b. c. 1924)
• 2006 – Hiroshi Takase, Japanese cinematographer (b. c. 1955)
• 2008 – Ilarion Ciobanu, Romanian actor (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Dino Dvornik, Croatian singer (b. 1964)
• 2008 – Peter Glossop, English operatic baritone (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Don Haskins, American College Basketball coach (b. 1930)
• 2008 – Nagi Noda, Japanese pop artist and director (b. 1973)
• 2010 – Amar Garibović, Serbian cross country skier (b. 1991)
• 2010 – Barbara Holland, American writer (b. 1933)
• 2010 – John Kluge, American businessman (b. 1914)
• 2010 – Glenn Shadix, American Actor (b. 1952)
• 2011 – Victims of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
  • Pavol Demitra, Slovokian 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, Belorussian ice hockey player (b. 1974)
  • Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey player (b. 1980)

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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