What happened on September 7 ?

355 - Claudius Silvanus, Roman usurper

1151 - Geoffrey of Anjou (b. 1113)

1312 - King Ferdinand IV of Castile (b. 1285)

1496 - King Ferdinand II of Naples (b. 1469)

1548 - Catherine Parr, sixth and final wife of Henry VIII of England

1552 - Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh Guru (b. 1504)

1559 - Robert Estienne, French printer (b. 1503)

1632 - Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia

1644 - Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman and historian (b. 1579)

1654 - Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, Bohemian rabbi and liturgical poet (b. 1579)

1655 - François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (b. 1601)

1657 - Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish field marshal and statesman (b. 1606)

1719 - John Harris, English writer

1729 - William Burnet, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (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 - ÿtienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (b. 1765)

1857 - William Lewis Herndon, Captain of the steamer SS Central America.

1881 - Sidney Lanier, American writer (b. 1842)

1892 - John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet (b. 1807)

1951 - Maria Montez, Dominican actress (b. 1912)

1954 - Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (Mutt & Jeff)

1959 - Maurice Duplessis, Québec Prime Minister (b. 1890)

1962 - Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (b. 1895)

1962 - Isak Dinesen, Danish author (b. 1885)

1969 - Everett Dirksen, U. S. Senator from Illinois (b. 1896)

1971 - Spring Byington, American actress (b. 1886)

1976 - Daniel F. Galouye, American author (b. 1920)

1978 - Keith Moon, English drummer (The Who) (b. 1946)

1982 - Ken Boyer, baseball player (b. 1931)

1985 - Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1917)

1991 - Edwin Mattison McMillan, American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1907)

1994 - James Clavell, Australian-born American author (b. 1924)

1997 - Mobutu Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire (b. 1930)

1999 - Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist and author, (b. 1949)

2001 - Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (b. 1930)

2002 - Erma Franklin, American singer (b. 1938)

2003 - The Great Antonio, Canadian strongman and eccentric (b. 1925)

2003 - Warren Zevon, American musician and songwriter (b. 1947)

2004 - Bob Boyd, baseball player (b. 1925)

2005 - Hope Garber, Canadian actress, hostess, entertainer and singer; also mother of actor Victor Garber (b. circa 1924)

2005 - Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (b. 1933)