7 September Deaths

September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 115 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).

Deaths

251 – Sima Yi, Chinese general and politician (b. 179)
355 – Claudius Silvanus, Roman general
859 – Emperor Xuānzong of Tang, Chinese emperor (b. 810)
934 – Meng Zhixiang, Chinese general (b. 874)
1134 – Alfonso the Battler, Spanish emperor (b. 1073)
1151 – Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (b. 1113)
1202 – William of the White Hands, French cardinal (b. 1135)
1251 – Viola, Duchess of Opole
1312 – Ferdinand IV of Castile (b. 1285)
1354 – Andrea Dandolo, doge of Venice (b. 1306)
1362 – Joan of the Tower (b. 1321)
1464 – Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1412)
1496 – Ferdinand II of Naples (b. 1469)
1559 – Robert Estienne, English-French printer and scholar (b. 1503)
1566 – Nikola Šubić Zrinski, Croatian general (b. 1506)
1573 – Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal (b. 1535)
1601 – John Shakespeare, father of William Shakespeare (b. 1529)
1619 – Melchior Grodziecki, Polish priest and saint (b. 1582)
1619 – Marko Krizin, Croatian priest, missionary, and saint (b. 1589)
1622 – Denis Godefroy, French lawyer and jurist (b. 1549)
1644 – Guido Bentivoglio, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1579)
1655 – François Tristan l'Hermite, French author and playwright (b. 1601)
1657 – Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish field marshal (b. 1606)
1685 – William Carpenter, English-American settler, co-founded Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (b. 1605)
1729 – William Burnet, Dutch-American civil servant and politician, 21st Governor of the Province of New York (b. 1688)
1741 – Blas de Lezo, Spanish admiral (b. 1689)
1798 – Peter Frederik Suhm, Danish-Norwegian historian and author (b. 1728)
1799 – Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, French botanist and physicist (b. 1717)
1809 – Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, Thai king (b. 1737)
1833 – Hannah More, English poet, playwright, and philanthropist (b. 1745)
1840 – Jacques MacDonald, French general (b. 1765)
1871 – Kimenzan Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 13th Yokozuna (b. 1826)
1871 – Mehmed Emin Aali Pasha, Ottoman politician, 217th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1815)
1881 – Sidney Lanier, American poet and academic (b. 1842)
1891 – Lorenzo Sawyer, American lawyer and judge (b. 1820)
1892 – John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and activist (b. 1807)
1893 – Hamilton Fish, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of State (b. 1808)
1907 – Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Romanian philologist, journalist, and playwright (b. 1838)
1910 – William Holman Hunt, English painter and soldier (b. 1827)
1920 – Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Quebec (b. 1855)
1921 – Alfred William Rich, English author and painter (b. 1856)
1929 – Frederic Weatherly, English lawyer, author, and songwriter (b. 1848)
1933 – Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, English ornithologist and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (b. 1862)
1939 – Kyōka Izumi, Japanese author, poet, and playwright (b. 1873)
1940 – José Félix Estigarribia, Paraguayan soldier and politician, President of Paraguay (b. 1888)
1941 – Mario García Menocal, Cuban lawyer and politician, President of Cuba (b. 1866)
1942 – Cecilia Beaux, American painter and academic (b. 1855)
1949 – José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter and illustrator (b. 1883)
1951 – Maria Montez, Dominican-French actress (b. 1912)
1951 – John French Sloan, American painter and etcher (b. 1871)
1954 – Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1885)
1956 – C. B. Fry, English cricketer, academic, and politician (b. 1872)
1959 – Maurice Duplessis, Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Premier of Quebec (b. 1890)
1960 – Wilhelm Pieck, German carpenter and politician, President of East Germany (b. 1873)
1961 – Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, Dutch lawyer, jurist, and politician, 34th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1885)
1962 – Karen Blixen, Danish memoirist and short story writer (b. 1885)
1962 – Graham Walker, English motorcycle racer and journalist (b. 1897)
1964 – Walter A. Brown, American businessman (b. 1905)
1969 – Everett Dirksen, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1896)
1970 – Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Polish-Israeli journalist and politician, 1st Internal Affairs Minister of Israel (b. 1879)
1971 – Spring Byington, American actress (b. 1886)
1971 – Ludwig Suthaus, German tenor (b. 1906)
1972 – Dimitris Poulianos, Greek painter and illustrator (b. 1899)
1973 – Holling C. Holling, American author and illustrator (b. 1900)
1973 – Lev Vladimirsky, Kazakhstani-Russian admiral (b. 1903)
1974 – S. M. Rasamanickam, Ceylon politician (b. 1913)
1978 – Cecil Aronowitz, South African-English viola player (b. 1916)
1978 – Keith Moon, English drummer (The Who) (b. 1946)
1978 – Charles Williams, English composer and conductor (b. 1893)
1979 – I. A. Richards English literary critic and rhetorician (b. 1893)
1981 – Christy Brown, Irish author, poet, and painter (b. 1932)
1982 – Ken Boyer, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1931)
1984 – Joe Cronin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1906)
1984 – Josyf Slipyj, Ukrainian cardinal (b. 1892)
1984 – Don Tallon, Australian cricketer (b. 1916)
1985 – Jacoba van Velde, Dutch author (b. 1903)
1985 – José Zabala-Santos, Filipino cartoonist (b. 1911)
1986 – Les Bury, English-Australian public servant and politician, 26th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1913)
1988 – Sedad Hakkı Eldem, Turkish architect (b. 1908)
1989 – Mikhail Goldstein, Ukrainian violinist and composer (b. 1917)
1990 – Earle E. Partridge, American general and pilot (b. 1900)
1990 – A. J. P. Taylor, English historian and journalist (b. 1906)
1991 – Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
1994 – Eric Crozier, English director and playwright (b. 1914)
1994 – Dennis Morgan, American actor (b. 1908)
1994 – Terence Young, Chinese-English director and screenwriter (b. 1915)
1995 – Russell Johnson, American cartoonist (b. 1893)
1996 – Bibi Besch, Austrian-American actress (b. 1942)
1997 – Mobutu Sese Seko, Congolese soldier and politician, President of Zaire (b. 1930)
2000 – Bruce Gyngell, Australian-English broadcaster (b. 1929)
2001 – Igor Buketoff, American conductor and educator (b. 1915)
2001 – Billie Lou Watt, American actress and voice artist (b. 1924)
2002 – Uziel Gal, German-Israeli colonel and gun designer, designed the Uzi (b. 1923)
2003 – Warren Zevon, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
2004 – Bob Boyd, American baseball player (b. 1925)
2006 – Hiroshi Takase, Japanese cinematographer (b. 1955)
2008 – Kune Biezeveld, Dutch minister and theologian (b. 1948)
2008 – Ilarion Ciobanu, Romanian rugby player and actor (b. 1931)
2008 – Don Haskins, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
2008 – Gregory Mcdonald, American author (b. 1937)
2008 – Nagi Noda, Japanese director and producer (b. 1973)
2010 – Amar Garibović, Serbian skier (b. 1991)
2010 – William H. Goetzmann, American historian and author (b. 1930)
2010 – Barbara Holland, American author (b. 1933)
2010 – John Kluge, German-American businessman (b. 1914)
2011 – Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster
Pavol Demitra, Slovakian ice hockey player (b. 1974)
Alexander Karpovtsev, Russian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1970)
Igor Korolev, Russian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1970)
Stefan Liv, Polish-Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1980)
Jan Marek, Czech ice hockey player (b. 1979)
Brad McCrimmon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1959)
Karel Rachůnek, Czech ice hockey player (b. 1979)
Kārlis Skrastiņš, Latvian ice hockey player (b. 1974)
Ruslan Salei, Belarusian ice hockey player (b. 1974)
Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey player (b. 1980)
2012 – César Fernández Ardavín, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1923)
2012 – Aleksandr Maksimenkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1952)
2012 – Daniel Weinreb, American computer scientist and programmer (b. 1959)
2013 – Albert Allen Bartlett, American physicist and academic (b. 1923)
2013 – Romesh Bhandari, Pakistani-Indian politician and diplomat, 13th Foreign Secretary of India (b. 1928)
2013 – Frank Blevins, English-Australian politician, 7th Deputy Premier of South Australia (b. 1939)
2013 – Pete Hoffman, American cartoonist (b. 1919)
2013 – Ilja Hurník, Czech playwright and composer (b. 1922)
2013 – Fred Katz, American cellist and composer (b. 1919)
2014 – Jack Cristil, American sportscaster and radio host (b. 1925)
2014 – Raul M. Gonzalez, Filipino lawyer and politician, 42nd Filipino Secretary of Justice (b. 1930)
2014 – Yoshiko Ōtaka, Chinese-Japanese actress, singer, and politician (b. 1920)
2014 – Harold Shipp, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1926)
2015 – Dickie Moore, American actor (b. 1925)
2015 – Candida Royalle, American porn actress, director, and producer (b. 1950)
2015 – Guillermo Rubalcaba, Cuban pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1927)
2015 – Voula Zouboulaki, Greek actress (b. 1924)

Source: wikipedia