Famous people born on 7 September

• Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonFrench natural historian · 1707–1788
  80 yrs
• Elia KazanAmerican director and actor · 1909–2003
  94 yrs
• Khalifa bin Zayed Al NahyanPresident of the United Arab Emirates from 2004 to 2022 · 1948–2022
  73 yrs
• Abdurrahman Wahid4th President of the Republic of Indonesia · 1940–2009
  69 yrs
• Aleksandr KuprinRussian writer · 1870–1938
  67 yrs
• Buddy HollyAmerican rock and roll singer · 1936–1959
  22 yrs
• August KekuléGerman organic chemist · 1829–1896
  66 yrs
• Todor ZhivkovFormer General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party · 1911–1998
  86 yrs
• Baudouin I of BelgiumFifth king of the Belgians · 1930–1993
  62 yrs
• John Cornforth ↗Australian-British chemist · 1917–2013
  96 yrs
• Eazy-E ↗American rapper · 1964–1995
  30 yrs
• Henry Campbell-Bannerman ↗British Prime Minister from 1905 to 1908 · 1836–1908
  71 yrs
• François-André Danican Philidor ↗French composer and chess player · 1726–1795
  68 yrs
• Stanislav Petrov ↗Soviet Air Defence Forces officer · 1939–2017
  77 yrs
• Thomas A. Hendricks ↗American politician · 1819–1885
  66 yrs
• James A. Van Allen ↗American astrophysicist · 1914–2006
  91 yrs
• Mira Furlan ↗Croatian actress and singer · 1955–2021
  65 yrs
• Edith Sitwell ↗British poet · 1887–1964
  77 yrs
• Ela Bhatt ↗Founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA) · 1933–2022
  89 yrs
• Neerja Bhanot ↗Indian flight attendant of Pan Am Flight 73 · 1963–1986
  22 yrs
• Peter of Castile ↗King of Castile and León from 1350 to 1369 · 1334–1369
  34 yrs
• Daniel Inouye ↗United States Senator from Hawaii · 1924–2012
  88 yrs
• Johannes Zukertort ↗German chess master · 1842–1888
  45 yrs
• Vlad II Dracul ↗Historical ruler of Wallachia · 1395–1447
  52 yrs
• Louise of Hesse-Kassel ↗Queen consort of Denmark from 1863 to 1898 · 1817–1898
  81 yrs
• David Packard ↗American electrical engineer, businessman, and philanthropist · 1912–1996
  83 yrs
• Grandma Moses ↗American painter · 1860–1961
  101 yrs
• Tristan Bernard ↗French playwright · 1866–1947
  81 yrs
• Goran Hadžić ↗Croatian Serb politician · 1958–2016
  57 yrs
• John William Polidori ↗English writer and physician · 1795–1821
  25 yrs
• Maria Anna of Austria ↗Portuguese queen · 1683–1754
  70 yrs
• Peter Lawford ↗British actor · 1923–1984
  61 yrs
• Taichang Emperor ↗15th Emperor of the Ming dynasty · 1582–1620
  38 yrs
• Emilio Castelar ↗19th-century Spanish politician · 1832–1899
  66 yrs
• Gala Dalí ↗Russian and Spanish model and artist; wife of, first, Paul Éluard, then Salvador Dalí · 1894–1982
  87 yrs

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