Anniversaries 7 September

Birth

Elizabeth I of England29

Queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 … 1533–1603

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon5

French natural historian 1707–1788

Samuel Wilberforce4

Bishop in the Church of England 1805–1873

Howell Cobb2

American politician 1815–1868

August Kekulé4

German organic chemist 1829–1896

Henry Campbell-Bannerman19

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1836–1908

Grandma Moses7

American artist 1860–1961

Abraham Isaac Kook13

first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandatory Palest… 1865–1935

Carl L. Becker25

American historian 1873–1945

Charles E. Sorensen10

American businessman 1881–1968

Elinor Wylie9

American poet 1885–1928

Edith Sitwell50

British poet 1887–1964

Лесли Хор-Белиша1

1893–1957

Taylor Caldwell31

Novelist 1900–1985

Margaret Landon5

writer, missionary 1903–1993

C. B. Colby2

American writer 1904–1977

Elia Kazan2

Greek-American film and theatre director, film and theatric… 1909–2003

Todor Zhivkov3

communist head of state of the People's Republic of Bulgaria 1911–1998

David Packard6

American electrical engineer, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard… 1912–1996

James Van Allen6

American nuclear physicist 1914–2006

Richard E. Cole3

career officer in the United States Air Force and participa… 1915–2019

Linus Nirmal Gomes1

Roman Catholic Bishop 1921–2021

Daniel Inouye1

American politician from Hawaii, Medal of Honor recipient a… 1924–2012

Robert Jastrow3

American astronomer 1925–2008

Ed Warren1

American paranormal investigator, demonologist, exorcist, g… 1926–2006

Al McGuire1

American basketball player and coach 1928–2001

Baudouin of Belgium1

King of Belgians 1930–1993

Malcolm Bradbury25

English author and academic 1932–2000

Ela Bhatt23

founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (… 1933

Buddy Holly12

American singer-songwriter 1936–1959

Peter Freund3

American physicist 1936–2018

Nick Herbert23

American physicist 1936

Abdurrahman Wahid1

4th President of Indonesia, Islamic cleric 1940–2009

Francisco Varela17

Chilean biologist 1946–2001

Joe Klein2

American journalist 1946

Peggy Noonan16

American author and journalist 1950

Julie Kavner1

actress 1950

Chrissie Hynde3

Rock singer-songwriter and founder of Pretenders 1951

Jonathan Mitchell10

American writer and activist 1955

Michelle Paver5

English children's fiction writer 1960

Jennifer Egan34

Novelist, short story writer 1962

Jusuf Prazina6

Bosnian mobster 1962–1993

Eazy-E5

American rapper and producer 1963–1995

Marcel Desailly1

French footballer 1968

Kyle Bass5

businessperson 1969

David Levithan447

American author and editor 1972

Alex Kurtzman2

American television producer 1973

Alyssa Diaz1

American film and television actress 1985

Death

Suleiman2

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire 1494–1566

John Armstrong7

British poet 1709–1779

Hannah More9

English religious writer and philanthropist 1745–1833

John Greenleaf Whittier47

American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slave… 1807–1892

Thomas March Clark2

American bishop 1812–1903

Sidney Lanier15

American musician, poet 1842–1881

Fred Weatherly7

English lawyer, author, lyricist and broadcaster 1848–1929

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon20

British Liberal statesman 1862–1933

John Sloan8

American painter 1871–1951

Yitzchak Gruenbaum2

Israeli politician 1879–1970

Elton Mayo18

Australian academic 1880–1949

Faisal I of Iraq1

King of Syria 1883–1933

Karen Blixen67

Danish writer 1885–1962

George Pólya35

Hungarian mathematician 1887–1985

Maurice Duplessis2

former Premier of Quebec 1890–1959

I. A. Richards3

English literary critic and rhetorician 1893–1979

Liam O'Flaherty4

Irish writer 1896–1984

Everett Dirksen5

United States Army officer 1896–1969

A.J.P. Taylor15

Historian 1906–1990

John B. Calhoun1

American ethologist and behavioral researcher 1917–1995

Albert Caraco14

French-Uruguayan philosopher 1919–1971

James Clavell55

American novelist 1921–1994

Mobutu Sésé Seko25

President of Zaïre 1930–1997

Christy Brown1

Irish artist 1932–1981

Max Boisot17

British academic and educator 1943–2011

Warren Zevon35

American singer-songwriter 1947–2003