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September 7

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Battle of Borodino

214 years ago

Born this day

1533

Elizabeth I of England

Died aged 69

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AD 15 · 2011 yrs

Vitellius

Aulus Vitellius (Latin:; 24 September 15 – 20 December 69) was Roman emperor, ruling for eight months from 19 April to 20 December AD 69. Vitellius became emperor following the quick succession of the previous emperors Galba and Otho, in a year of civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.

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RoyaltyDied aged 54

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1533 · 493 yrs

Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudor.

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RoyaltyDied aged 69

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1707 · 319 yrs

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French:; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist. He held the position of intendant (director) at the Jardin du Roi.

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ScholarshipDied aged 80

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1726 · 300 yrs

François-André Danican Philidor

François-André Danican Philidor (7 September 1726 – 31 August 1795), born François-André Danican and often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer and chess master. He contributed to the early development of the opéra comique.

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SportsDied aged 68

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1819 · 207 yrs

Thomas A. Hendricks

Thomas Andrews Hendricks (September 7, 1819 – November 25, 1885) was an American politician and lawyer from Indiana who served as the 16th governor of Indiana from 1873 to 1877 and the 21st vice president of the United States from March 1885 until his death in November of that year.

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PoliticsDied aged 66

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1829 · 197 yrs

August Kekulé

Friedrich August Kekulé, later Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz ( KAY-kə-lay; German:; 7 September 1829 – 13 July 1896), was a German organic chemist. From the 1850s until his death, Kekulé was one of the most prominent chemists in Europe, especially in the field of theoretical chemistry.

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ScienceDied aged 66

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1836 · 190 yrs

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (né Campbell; 7 September 1836 – 22 April 1908) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and Leader of the Liberal Party from 1899 to 1908. He also was Secretary of State for War twice, in the cabinets of Gladstone and Rosebery.

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PoliticsDied aged 71

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1909 · 117 yrs

Elia Kazan

Elias Kazantzoglou (Greek: Ηλίας Καζαντζόγλου, IPA:; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003), known as Elia Kazan ( EE-lee-ə kə-ZAN), was a Greek-American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and…

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1911 · 115 yrs

Todor Zhivkov

Todor Hristov Zhivkov (Bulgarian: Тодор Христов Живков; 7 September 1911 – 5 August 1998) was a Bulgarian communist politician who served as the de facto leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB) from 1956 until 1989 as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party.

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1914 · 112 yrs

James A. Van Allen

James Alfred Van Allen (September 7, 1914 – August 9, 2006) was an American space physicist at the University of Iowa who was instrumental in establishing the field of magnetospheric research in space.

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1917 · 109 yrs

John Cornforth

Sir John Warcup Cornforth Jr., (7 September 1917 – 8 December 2013) was an Australian–British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions, becoming the only Nobel laureate born in New South Wales.

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1930 · 96 yrs

Baudouin I of Belgium

Baudouin (US:; 7 September 1930 – 31 July 1993) was King of the Belgians from 17 July 1951 until his death in 1993. He was the last Belgian king to be sovereign of the Congo, before it became independent in 1960 and became the Democratic Republic of the Congo (known from 1971 to 1997 as Zaire).

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1151 · 875 yrs

Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou

Geoffrey V (24 August 1113 – 7 September 1151), called the Fair (French: le Bel) or Plantagenet, was the count of Anjou and Maine by inheritance from 1129, and also duke of Normandy by his marriage claim and conquest, from 1144.

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RoyaltyDied aged 38

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1783 · 243 yrs

Leonhard Euler

Leonhard Euler ( OY-lər; 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, music theorist and engineer.

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ScienceDied aged 76

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1910 · 116 yrs

William Holman Hunt

William Holman Hunt (2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910) was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour, and elaborate symbolism.

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ArtDied aged 83

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1933 · 93 yrs

Faisal I of Iraq

Faisal I bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi (Arabic: فيصل بن حسين بن علي الهاشمي, romanized: Fayṣal bin Ḥusayn bin ʻAlī al-Hāshimī; 20 May 1885 – 8 September 1933) was a Hejazi statesman who served as the King of Iraq from 23 August 1921 until his death in 1933.

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1960 · 66 yrs

Wilhelm Pieck

Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck (German pronunciation:; 3 January 1876 – 7 September 1960) was a German communist politician who served as the co-chairman of the Socialist Unity Party from 1946 to 1950 and as the only president of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1949 until his death in 1960.

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1962 · 64 yrs

Karen Blixen

Baroness Karen Christentze von Blixen-Finecke (born Dinesen; 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries; Tania Blixen, used in German-speaking countries; Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.

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LiteratureWould be 141

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1991 · 35 yrs

Edwin McMillan

Edwin Mattison McMillan (September 18, 1907 – September 7, 1991) was an American physicist credited with being the first to produce a transuranium element, neptunium. For this, he shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg.

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1997 · 29 yrs

Mobutu Sese Seko

Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu wa za Banga ( mə-BOO-too SESS-ay SEK-oh; born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu; 14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997), often shortened to Mobutu Sese Seko or Mobutu and also known by his initials MSS, was a Congolese politician and military officer who was the first and only president of Zaire from…

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2004 · 22 yrs

Munir Said Thalib

Munir Said Thalib (8 December 1965 – 7 September 2004) was an Indonesian human rights activist.

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2018 · 8 yrs

Mac Miller

Malcolm James McCormick (January 19, 1992 – September 7, 2018), known by the stage name Mac Miller, was an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He began his career in Pittsburgh's local hip-hop scene in 2007, at the age of 15.

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2022 · 4 yrs100 Club

Marsha Hunt

Marsha Hunt (born Marcia Virginia Hunt; October 17, 1917 – September 7, 2022) was an American actress with a career spanning nearly 80 years. She was blacklisted by Hollywood film studio executives in the 1950s during McCarthyism.

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2022 · 4 yrs

Valeri Polyakov

Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov (Russian: Валерий Владимирович Поляков, IPA:; born Valeri Ivanovich Korshunov; 27 April 1942 – 7 September 2022) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut.

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Events5

1812 · 214 yrs

Battle of Borodino

The Battle of Borodino or the Battle of the Moskva took place on the outskirts of Moscow near the village of Borodino on 7 September 1812, during Napoleon's invasion of Russia. The Grande Armée fought against the Imperial Russian Army.

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War

1940 · 86 yrs

The Blitz

The Blitz (English: 'lightning') was a bombing campaign by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy against the United Kingdom during the Second World War. It lasted for eight months, from 7 September 1940 to 16 May 1941.

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War

2011 · 15 yrs

2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster

On 7 September 2011, YAK-Service Flight 9633, a Yakovlev Yak-42 carrying players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed during take-off near Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia. All but one of the 45 people on board were killed.

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Disaster

2014 · 12 yrs

UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying

The UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying tournament was a football competition that was played from September 2014 to November 2015 to determine the 23 UEFA member men's national teams joining the automatically qualified host team France in the UEFA Euro 2016 final tournament.

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Sports

2016 · 10 yrs

2016 Summer Paralympics

The 2016 Summer Paralympics (Portuguese: Jogos Paralímpicos de Verão de 2016), the 15th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016.

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