Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 7

Births

 * 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

 * 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)