Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 7
Births
[edit]- 1533 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (pictured) (d. 1603)
- 1726 - François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player (d. 1795)
- 1909 - Elia Kazan, Hungarian-born film director (d. 2003)
- 1911 - Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Communist dictator from 1956 to 1989 (d. 1998)
- 1913 - Sir Anthony Quayle, English actor (d. 1989)
- 1914 - James Van Allen, American physicist (d. 2006)
- 1917 - Jacob Lawrence, American painter (d. 2000)
- 1932 - Paul Getty, American-born philanthropist (d. 2003)
- 1936 - Buddy Holly, American singer (d. 1959)
- 1972 - Jason Isringhausen, American baseball player
Deaths
[edit]- 1892 - John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet (b. 1807)
- 1969 - Everett Dirksen, American politician (b. 1896)
- 1978 - Keith Moon, English drummer (The Who) (b. 1946)
- 1997 - Mobutu Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire (b. 1930)