On This Day
Friday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
September 7 1990
Born on This Day
Álvaro Peña-Rojas🇩🇪
deceasedChilean singer songwriter · 1943–2026
Days lived
30,074
Avni Engüllü🇲🇰
deceasedTurkish journalist · 1947–2024
Days lived
27,922
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Bora Milutinović🇲🇽
Serbian footballer and manager · b. 1944
Days alive
16,801
Brandon Whitaker🇺🇸
Canadian football player · b. 1985
Days alive
1,826
Bruce Armstrong🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1965
Days alive
9,131
Buddy Holly🇺🇸
deceasedsinger · 1936–1959
Days lived
8,184
Carla Rebecchi🇦🇷
Argentine field hockey player · b. 1984
Days alive
2,191
Carlos Romero🇺🇾
deceasedfootball player · 1927–1999
Days lived
26,257
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Chrissie Hynde🇺🇸
Guitarist · b. 1951
Days alive
14,245
Dario Argento🇮🇹
Italian film director and screenwriter (born 1940) · b. 1940
Days alive
18,262
Donald Curry🇺🇸
American boxer · b. 1961
Days alive
10,592
Eazy-E🇺🇸
deceasedentrepreneur · 1964–1995
Days lived
11,157
Ed Daily🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball player (1862–1891) · 1862–1891
Days lived
10,636
Elia Kazan🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican director and actor (1909–2003) · 1909–2003
Days lived
34,354
Enzio von Pfeil🇩🇪
German economist · b. 1953
Days alive
13,514
Erik Williams🇺🇸
American football offensive tackle · b. 1968
Days alive
8,035
Evan Rachel Wood🇺🇸
Actor · b. 1987
Days alive
1,096
Friedemann Kupsa🇦🇹
musician · b. 1943
Days alive
17,167
Gabriel Milito🇦🇷
Argentine association football player · b. 1980
Days alive
3,652
Georgi Sarmov🇧🇬
Bulgarian footballer · b. 1985
Days alive
1,826
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Gracie Abrams
singer · b. 1999
Heinz Radzikowski🇩🇪
deceasedWest German field hockey player (1925-2017) · 1925–2017
Days lived
33,461
Izabella Yurieva🇷🇺
deceasedSoviet singer (1899-2000) · 1899–2000
Days lived
36,659
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James Euringer🇺🇸
singer · b. 1969
Days alive
7,670
Johannes Andenæs🇳🇴
deceasedpolitician · 1912–2003
Days lived
33,171
Jonathan Majors
Former Actor · b. 1989
Days alive
365
Jörg Pilawa🇩🇪
German television presenter · b. 1965
Days alive
9,131
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József Várszegi🇭🇺
deceasedathlete · 1910–1977
Days lived
24,385
Laura Ashley🇬🇧
deceasedWelsh designer of textiles, clothing, and home furnishings (1925-1985) · 1925–1985
Days lived
21,925
Lena Valaitis🇩🇪
singer · b. 1943
Days alive
17,167
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Maren Lundby🇳🇴
Norwegian ski jumper · b. 1994
Mario Pilar🇫🇷
French actor · b. 1927
Days alive
23,011
Max Winkler🇩🇪
deceasedGerman nazi politician (1875-1961) · 1875–1961
Days lived
31,446
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Michelle Creber
singer · b. 1999
Nanne Dahlman🇫🇮
Finnish female tennis player · b. 1970
Days alive
7,305
Nigar Jamal🇬🇧
singer · b. 1980
Days alive
3,652
Owen Pallett🇨🇦
Canadian musician · b. 1979
Days alive
4,018
Park Jae-hong🇰🇷
film director · b. 1973
Days alive
6,209
Patrick Jenkin🇬🇧
deceasedBritish Conservative politician (1926-2016) · 1926–2016
Days lived
32,977
Ray Lewington🇬🇧
football player · b. 1956
Days alive
12,418
Robert Webb🇬🇧
British comedian, actor, screenwriter and author (1972-) · b. 1972
Days alive
6,574
Shannon Elizabeth🇺🇸
Actor · b. 1973
Days alive
6,209
Sonny Rollins🇺🇸
deceasedComposer · 1930–2026
Days lived
34,959
Stanislav Petrov🇷🇺
deceasedmilitary person · 1939–2017
Days lived
28,379
Steve Matthew🇺🇸
baseball player (1953-) · b. 1953
Days alive
13,514
Susan Stahnke🇩🇪
German actress · b. 1967
Days alive
8,401
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Todor Zhivkov
deceasedformer General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party · 1911–1998
Days lived
31,744
Walter Rudi Wand🇩🇪
deceasedGerman judge (1928-1985) · 1928–1985
Days lived
20,749
Died on This Day
Arnold Keyserling🇩🇪
deceasedGerman theologian (1922–2005) · 1922–2005
Days lived
30,526
Arthur Benda🇦🇹
deceasedGerman photographer (1885–1969) · 1885–1969
Days lived
30,848
Bobby Todd🇩🇪
deceasedactor (1904-1980) · 1904–1980
Days lived
27,836
Edmund Rumpler🇦🇹
deceasedentrepreneur · 1872–1940
Days lived
25,083
Erich Büttner🇩🇪
deceasedGerman artist (1889-1936) · 1889–1936
Days lived
17,136
Ericus Gerhardus van de Stadt
deceasedDutch yacht designer (1910-1999) · 1910–1999
Days lived
32,722
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Fritz Heitmann🇩🇪
deceasedmusician · 1891–1953
Days lived
22,766
Gordon Gollob🇦🇹
deceasedGerman officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1912–1987) · 1912–1987
Days lived
27,476
Jan Baas
deceasedDutch baseball player (1915–2001) · 1915–2001
Days lived
31,645
Jan Marek🇨🇿
deceasedathlete · 1979–2011
Days lived
11,573
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József Marek🇭🇺
deceasedscientist · 1868–1952
Days lived
30,853
Konrad Wagner🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor and voice actor (1902–1974) · 1902–1974
Days lived
26,254
Leonid Lipinsky🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1921–1982
Days lived
22,216
Louis King🇺🇸
deceasedactor · 1898–1962
Days lived
23,446
Max Adalbert🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1874–1933
Days lived
21,446
Omar Dokka🇷🇺
deceasedChechen warlord (1964-2013) · 1964–2013
Days lived
18,044
Sergio Endrigo🇮🇹
deceasedsinger-songwriter · 1933–2005
Days lived
26,382
Siegfried Lauterwasser🇩🇪
deceasedGerman photographer (1913–2000) · 1913–2000
Days lived
31,921
Uziel Gal🇩🇪
deceasedIsraeli firearm designer (1923-2002) · 1923–2002
Days lived
28,756
Wolfgang Frank🇩🇪
deceasedGerman football player and manager (1951–2013) · 1951–2013
Days lived
22,844
Yoshiko Yamaguchi🇯🇵
deceasedJapanese singer and actress (1920-2014) · 1920–2014
Days lived
34,541
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
50,287
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Horst von der Goltz
German spy and actor · b. 1884
Days alive
38,965
José Miguel Barandiarán🇪🇸
deceasedBasque anthropologist, etnologist and archaeologist (1889–1991) · 1889–1991
Days lived
37,244
Frank J. Skinner🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1891
Days alive
36,313
Walter Schenk🇩🇪
deceasedGerman military personnel · 1891–2000
Days lived
39,634
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Hal Roach🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican filmmaker (1892–1992) · 1892–1992
Days lived
36,817
Lajos Perley
athlete · b. 1892
Days alive
35,976
Lang Jingshan
deceasedartist · 1892–1995
Days lived
37,506
Zośka Vieras🇱🇹
deceasedBelarusian writer and poet (1892-1991) · 1892–1991
Days lived
36,166
Lillian Gish🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actress (1893–1993) · 1893–1993
Days lived
36,295
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Martha Graham🇺🇸
deceasedBallet dancer · 1894–1991
Days lived
35,388
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia🇮🇹
deceasedItalian film director (1894–1998) · 1894–1998
Days lived
37,799
Hermann Florstedt
deceasedmilitary person · 1895–2000
Days lived
38,302
Adolf Pokorny🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian-born dermatologist and doctor; defendant in the Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg (1895-?) · 1895–2000
Days lived
38,144
Silas Simmons🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball player (1895–2006) · 1895–2006
Days lived
40,557
Heinrich Eberbach🇩🇪
deceasedGerman general (1895–1992) · 1895–1992
Days lived
35,295
Sylvia de Arruda Botelho Bittencourt🇧🇷
deceasedBrazilian journalist · 1896–1995
Days lived
36,188
Friedrich Hund🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1896–1997
Days lived
36,945
Lilia Skala🇺🇸
deceasedAustrian-American actress (1896-1994) · 1896–1994
Days lived
35,813
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian architect (1897–2000) · 1897–2000
Days lived
37,614
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
57,958
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Koko🇺🇸
deceasedWestern lowland gorilla · 1971–2018
Days lived
17,152
Alex🇺🇸
deceasedAfrican grey parrot · 1976–2007
Days lived
11,433
Keiko🇮🇸
deceasedOrca · 1977–2003
Days lived
9,841
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
56,131
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
55,828
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
55,401
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
45,843
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
44,809
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
44,443
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
41,887
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
40,539
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
661,338
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
140,852
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
64,870
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
45,539
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
23,891
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
21,434
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
19,344
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
17,321
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
Wuthering Heights
Drama film · b. 1939
Days since release
18,781
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12 Angry Men🇺🇸
Drama/Crime Film · b. 1957
Days since release
12,203
The Godfather🇺🇸
Crime/Drama Film · b. 1972
Days since release
6,741
Jaws🇺🇸
Thriller/Adventure Film · b. 1975
Days since release
5,558
Star Wars: A New Hope🇺🇸
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film · b. 1977
Days since release
4,853
Mad Max
Film · b. 1979
Days since release
4,166
Alien🇺🇸
Sci-Fi/Horror Film · b. 1979
Days since release
4,123
The Shining
Film · b. 1980
Days since release
3,902