What happened on September 7 ?

1395 - Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (d. 1450)

1524 - Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (d. 1583)

1533 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603)

1615 - Colonel John Birch, English soldier (d. 1691)

1707 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (d. 1788)

1717 - Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (d. 1791)

1726 - François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player (d. 1795)

1816 - Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician (d. 1880)

1829 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (d. 1896)

1860 - Grandma Moses, American painter (d. 1961)

1866 - Tristan Bernard, French writer (d. 1947)

1867 - J. P. Morgan, American financier (d. 1943)

1870 - Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian writer (d. 1938)

1870 - Jimmy Tompkins, Canadian Catholic priest (d. 1953)

1885 - Elinor Wylie, American writer (d. 1928)

1887 - Edith Sitwell, English poet (d. 1964)

1889 - Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer (d. 1953)

1895 - Brian Horrocks, British general (d. 1985)

1900 - Taylor Caldwell, American author (d. 1985)

1908 - Dr. Michael DeBakey, American heart surgeon

1909 - Elia Kazan, Hungarian-born film director (d. 2003)

1911 - Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Communist dictator from 1956 to 1989 (d. 1998)

1912 - David Packard, American electrical engineer and businessman (d. 1996)

1913 - Sir Anthony Quayle, English actor (d. 1989)

1913 - Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist (d. 1992)

1917 - John Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1917 - Jacob Lawrence, American painter (d. 2000)

1923 - Peter Lawford, English actor (d. 1984)

1923 - Madeleine Dring, English composer and actress (d. 1977)

1930 - Sonny Rollins, American jazz saxophonist

1930 - King Baudouin I of Belgium (d. 1993)

1932 - Paul Getty, American-born philanthropist (d. 2003)

1936 - Buddy Holly, American singer (d. 1959)

1937 - John Phillip Law, American actor

1938 - Susan Stamberg, American radio journalist

1939 - Donnie Allison, American race car driver

1944 - Robert Laxton, English politician

1944 - Bora Milutinovic, Serbian football coach

1944 - Sam Sloan, American chess journalist

1945 - Jacques Lemaire, Canadian hockey player

1946 - Willie Crawford, baseball player (d. 2004)

1946 - Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist (d. 2001)

1947 - Graham Young, British serial killer (d. 1990)

1949 - Lee McGeorge Durrell, American author, television presenter, and zookeeper

1949 - Gloria Gaynor, American singer

1951 - Morris Albert, Brazilian singer

1951 - Chrissie Hynde, American guitarist and singer

1951 - Julie Kavner, American voice actress

1952 - Susan Blakely, American actress

1953 - Benmont Tench, American keyboardist

1954 - Corbin Bernsen, American actor

1955 - Mira Furlan, Croatian actress

1958 - Danny Chan, Hong Kong singer, actor, and songwriter (d. 1993)

1962 - Thomas L. Beard, American musician, composer

1963 - Eazy-E, American rapper (d. 1995)

1966 - Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, German speed skater

1968 - Marcel Desailly, French footballer

1972 - Jason Isringhausen, American baseball player

1976 - Stevie Case, American video game celebrity

1976 - Shannon Elizabeth, American actress

1977 - Nora Greenwald, American professional wrestler

1980 - Mark Prior, Baseball player

1980 - Emre, Turkish footballer

1982 - Lorne Berfield, American actor

1984 - Farveez Maharoof, Sri Lankan cricketer

1984 - Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player

1987 - Evan Rachel Wood, American actress