September 7
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Art and culture
Births
- 1887 - Edith Sitwell, British poet and critic (d. 1964)
- 1909 - Elia Kazan, Greek-born American film and theater director (d. 2003)
- 1940 - Dario Argento, Italian film director
Deaths
- 1655 - François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (b. 1601)
- 1657 - Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish count, field marshal and privy councilor (b. 1606)
- 1719 - John Harris, English writer
- 1729 - William Burnet, British-born American statesman (b. 1688)
- 1777 - Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia
- 1799 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (b. 1717)
- 1809 - Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (b. 1737)
- 1840 - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (b. 1765)
- 1881 - Sidney Lanier, American writer (b. 1842)
- 1892 - John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet (b. 1807)
- 1920 - Simon-Napoléon Parent, politician, premier of the province of Quebec (b. 1855)
- 1921 - Alfred William Rich, watercolor painter (b. 1856)
- 1939 - Kyoka 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, Mutt and Jeff (b. 1885)
- 1955 - Ham Fisher, American cartoonist, Joe Palooka (b. 1900)
- 1959 - Maurice Duplessis, Québec Prime Minister (b. 1890)
- 1962 - Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese historical novelist (b. 1892)
- 1962 - Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian singer (b. 1895)
- 1962 - Isak Dinesen, Danish author (b. 1885)
- 1971 - Spring Byington, American actress (b. 1886)
- 1978 - Keith Moon, drummer in the English rock band The Who (b. 1946)
- 1982 - Ken Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1931)
- 1984 - Joe Cronin, American baseball player, manager and executive (b. 1906)
- 1986 - Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (b. 1914)
- 1991 - Edwin McMillan, American physicist (b. 1907)
- 1994 - James Clavell, Australian-born American author (b. 1924)
- 1994 - Godfrey Quigley, British actor (b. 1923)
- 1994 - Terence Young, British film director (b. 1915)
- 1994 - Dennis Morgan, American actor (b. 1908)
- 1996 - Joseph F. Biroc, American cinematographer (b. 1903)
- 1997 - Mobutu Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire (b. 1930)
- 1999 - Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist (b. 1949)
- 2001 - Billie Lou Watt, American actress (b. 1924)
- 2001 - Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (b. 1930)
- 2002 - Erma Franklin, American singer (b. 1938)
- 2002 - Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (b. 1961)
- 2003 - The Great Antonio, Canadian eccentric (b. 1925)
- 2003 - Warren Zevon, American musician (b. 1947)
- 2004 - Bob Boyd, American baseball player (b. 1925)
- 2005 - Hope Garber, Canadian actress (b. circa 1924)
- 2005 - Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (b. 1933)
- 2006 - Robert Earl Jones, American actor, father of James Earl Jones (b. 1910)
Notes
- The First International Exhibition of Erotic Art
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
- François Tristan l'Hermite
- Eugen Helmlé
- Malcolm Bradbury
- Elia Kazan
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