On this day: September 7

Events on September 7

• 1191 Third Crusade: Crusaders under Richard I of England defeated Ayyubid troops under Saladin at the Battle of Arsuf in present-day Israel. Wikipedia
• 1191 Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf: Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf. Wikipedia
• 1571 Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots. Wikipedia
• 1620 The town of Kokkola (Swedish: Karleby) is founded by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. Wikipedia
• 1625 The Treaty of Southampton makes an alliance between England and the Dutch Republic against Spain. Wikipedia
• 1652 Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan. Wikipedia
• 1714 The treaty of Baden between the kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire is ratified. Wikipedia
• 1822 Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga Brook in São Paulo. Wikipedia
• 1863 American Civil War: Union troops under Quincy A. Gillmore capture Fort Wagner in Morris Island after a seven-week siege. Wikipedia
• 1864 American Civil War: Atlanta is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman. Wikipedia
• 1901 The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol. Wikipedia
• 1903 The Ottoman Empire launches a counter-offensive against the Strandzha Commune, which dissolves. Wikipedia
• 1907 Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City. Wikipedia
• 1911 French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum. Wikipedia
• 1916 World War I: The Supreme War Command was established to oversee the armed forces of all the Central Powers. Wikipedia
• 1929 Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. One hundred thirty-six lives are lost. Wikipedia
• 1940 Second World War: The Luftwaffe changed their strategy in the Battle of Britain and began bombing London and other cities and towns. Wikipedia
• 1940 World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights. Wikipedia
• 1953 Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Wikipedia
• 1965 Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlite, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula. Wikipedia
• 1977 The Torrijos–Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The United States agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century. Wikipedia
• 1986 Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet survives an assassination attempt by the FPMR; five of Pinochet's bodyguards are killed. Wikipedia
• 2012 Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over nuclear plans and purported human rights abuses. Wikipedia
• 2017 The 8.2 Mw 2017 Chiapas earthquake strikes southern Mexico, killing at least 60 people. Wikipedia
• 2019 Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and 66 others are released in a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia. Wikipedia
• 2021 Bitcoin becomes legal tender in El Salvador. Wikipedia

Born on September 7

• 1533 Elizabeth I of England (died 1603) Wikipedia
• 1707 Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French mathematician, cosmologist, and author (died 1788) Wikipedia
• 1819 Thomas A. Hendricks, American lawyer and politician, 21st Vice President of the United States (died 1885) Wikipedia
• 1829 August Kekulé, German chemist and academic (died 1896) Wikipedia
• 1836 Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Scottish merchant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1908) Wikipedia
• 1870 Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian pilot, explorer, and author (died 1938) Wikipedia
• 1874 Samuel Rocke, Australian politician who served as an independent member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia (died 1963) Wikipedia
• 1879 Francisco José of Bragança, exiled member of the Miguelist branch of the House of Bragança and officer in the Austro-Hungarian army (died 1919) Wikipedia
• 1909 Elia Kazan, Greek-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2003) Wikipedia
• 1911 Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian police officer and politician, Head of State of Bulgaria (died 1998) Wikipedia
• 1912 David Packard, American engineer and businessman, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (died 1996) Wikipedia
• 1917 John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013) Wikipedia
• 1924 Daniel Inouye, American captain and politician, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2012) Wikipedia
• 1930 Yuan Longping, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an expert in hybrid rice (died 2021) Wikipedia
• 1930 Baudouin of Belgium (died 1993) Wikipedia
• 1936 Buddy Holly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1959) Wikipedia
• 1940 Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian journalist and politician, 4th President of Indonesia (died 2009) Wikipedia
• 1943 Gloria Gaynor, American singer-songwriter Wikipedia
• 1950 Julie Kavner, American actress Wikipedia
• 1964 Eazy-E, American rapper and producer (died 1995) Wikipedia
• 1968 Marcel Desailly, Ghanaian-French footballer Wikipedia
• 1987 Evan Rachel Wood, American actress and singer Wikipedia

Died on September 7

• 1151 Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (born 1113) Wikipedia
• 1601 John Shakespeare, father of William Shakespeare (born 1529) Wikipedia
• 1685 William Carpenter, English-American settler, co-founded Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (born 1605) Wikipedia
• 1809 Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, Thai king (born 1737) Wikipedia
• 1893 Hamilton Fish, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of State (born 1808) Wikipedia
• 1910 William Holman Hunt, English painter (born 1827) Wikipedia
• 1949 José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter and illustrator (born 1883) Wikipedia
• 1960 Wilhelm Pieck, German carpenter and politician, President of East Germany (born 1873) Wikipedia
• 1962 Karen Blixen, Danish memoirist and short story writer (born 1885) Wikipedia
• 1978 Keith Moon, English drummer (The Who) (born 1946) Wikipedia
• 1990 A. J. P. Taylor, English historian and journalist (born 1906) Wikipedia
• 1991 Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1907) Wikipedia
• 1997 Mobutu Sese Seko, Congolese soldier and politician, President of Zaire (born 1930) Wikipedia
• 2002 Uziel Gal, German-Israeli colonel and gun designer, designed the Uzi (born 1923) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

• Air Force Day (Pakistan) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Anastasius the Fuller Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Clodoald Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Blessed Giovanni Battista Mazzucconi Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Gratus of Aosta Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Stephen Pongracz Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Blessed Maria Angela Picco Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Marko Krizin Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Regina Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Blessed Thomas Tsugi Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: September 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
• Constitution Day (Fiji) Wikipedia
• Independence Day (Brazil), celebrates the independence of Brazil from Portugal in 1822. Wikipedia
• Military Intelligence Day (Ukraine) Wikipedia
• National Threatened Species Day (Australia) Wikipedia
• Victory Day (Mozambique) Wikipedia

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “September 7” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-09 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. We picked the 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths with the widest coverage across Wikipedia's language editions (counted from Wikidata) and sorted them by year; the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures.