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Famous people born on September 7
Short answer
Well-known people born on September 7 include Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707), Elia Kazan (1909), Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan (1948) and Aleksandr Kuprin (1870). Our list below has 103 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives September 7 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1641 (Tokugawa Ietsuna) and the most recent is 2005 (Assane Diao). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.
Who was born on September 7?
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 French natural historian
- Elia Kazan 1909 American director and actor
- Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan 1948 President of the United Arab Emirates from 2004 to 2022
- Aleksandr Kuprin 1870 Russian writer
- Buddy Holly 1936 American rock and roll singer
- August Kekulé 1829 German organic chemist
- Todor Zhivkov 1911 Former General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party
- Baudouin I of Belgium 1930 Fifth king of the Belgians
- Julie Kavner 1950 American actress
- Marcel Desailly 1968 French footballer
- Evan Rachel Wood 1987 American actress
- John Cornforth 1917 Australian-British chemist
- Eazy-E 1964 American rapper
- Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1836 British Prime Minister from 1905 to 1908
- Stanislav Petrov 1939 Officer of the Soviet Air Defence Forces, noted for not executing a nuclear strike…
- Thomas A. Hendricks 1819 American politician
- Emre Belözoğlu 1980 Turkish association football player and coach
- James A. Van Allen 1914 American astrophysicist
- Gracie Abrams 1999 American singer-songwriter
- Dario Argento 1940 Italian film director and screenwriter
- Drew Weissman 1959 American physician-scientist
- Mira Furlan 1955 Croatian actress and singer
- Vera Zvonareva 1984 Russian tennis player
- Abdou Diouf 1935 Senegalese President
- Sonny Rollins 1930 American jazz saxophonist and composer
- Rafinha 1985 Brazilian footballer
- Gabriel Milito 1980 Argentine association football player
- Miranda 1984 Brazilian footballer
- Toshihiko Okimune 1959 Japanese association football player
- Edith Sitwell 1887 British poet
- Ela Bhatt 1933 Founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA)
- Neerja Bhanot 1963 Indian flight attendant of Pan Am Flight 73
- Shannon Elizabeth 1973 American actress
- Kevin Love 1988 American basketball player
- Vladimir Kara-Murza 1981 Russian politician and journalist
- Michael Emerson 1954 American actor
- Michelle Creber 1999 Canadian actress
- Johannes Zukertort 1842 German chess master
- Daniel Inouye 1924 United States Senator from Hawaii
- Nigar Jamal 1980 Azerbaijani singer
- Toby Jones 1966 British actor
- Louise of Hesse-Kassel 1817 Queen consort of Denmark from 1863 to 1898
- David Packard 1912 American electrical engineer, businessman, and philanthropist
- Grandma Moses 1860 American painter
- Tristan Bernard 1866 French playwright
- Angela Gheorghiu 1965 Romanian opera singer
- Jennifer Egan 1962 American novelist, short story writer
- Chrissie Hynde 1951 American rock musician, founder of The Pretenders
- Ariarne Titmus 2000 Australian swimmer
- Peter Lawford 1923 British actor
- Goran Hadžić 1958 Croatian Serb politician
- John William Polidori 1795 English writer and physician
- Radhika Apte 1985 Indian actress
- Maria Anna of Austria 1683 Portuguese queen
- Ersin Tatar 1960 President of Northern Cyprus from 2020 to 2025
- Bora Milutinović 1944 Serbian footballer and manager
- Alyona Lanskaya 1985 Belarusian singer
- Darko Pančev 1965 Macedonian footballer
- Efim Zelmanov 1955 Russian-american mathematician
- Emilio Castelar 1832 19th-century Spanish politician
- Omar Karami 1934 Lebanese politician
- Gala Dalí 1894 Russian and Spanish model and artist; wife of, first, Paul Éluard, then Salvador Dalí
- Igor Sechin 1960 Russian businessman and government official
- Alex Kurtzman 1973 American television producer
- Martin Hinteregger 1992 Austrian football player
- Anthony Quayle 1913 British actor
- Abraham Isaac Kook 1865 Chief rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine
- Hermann Heinrich Gossen 1810 Prussian economist
- Oleksiy Danilov 1962 Ukrainian politician
- Jonathan Majors 1989 American actor
- Michael Ellis DeBakey 1908 American cardiac surgeon
- Devon Sawa 1978 Canadian actor
- Tomáš Skuhravý 1965 Czech footballer
- Roberto Alvarado 1998 Mexican association football player
- Diane Warren 1956 American songwriter
- Lída Baarová 1914 Czech actress
- Stéphane Henchoz 1974 Swiss footballer and manager
- Corbin Bernsen 1954 American actor and director
- Alyssa Diaz 1985 American film and television actress
- Kiyoshi Itō 1915 Japanese mathematician who pioneered stochastic calculus
- Mario Frick 1974 Liechtensteiner association football player
- Gökhan Zan 1981 Turkish association football player
- Susan Blakely 1948 American actress
- Armand David 1826 French Catholic priest, zoologist, and botanist
- Robert Snodgrass 1987 Scottish association football player
- Tom Everett Scott 1970 American actor
- Antonio McDyess 1974 American basketball player
- Aleksandra Wozniak 1987 Canadian tennis player
- Francisco Varela 1946 Chilean biologist
- Suguru Ito 1975 Japanese association football player
- Alexey Lutsenko 1992 Kazakh cyclist
- Oliver Hudson 1976 American actor
- Sam Kendricks 1992 American athletics competitor
- Dean-Charles Chapman 1997 English actor
- Alex Greenwood 1993 English association football player
- Giuseppe Gioachino Belli 1791 Italian poet
- Kento Yamazaki 1994 Japanese actor and model
- Assane Diao 2005 Senegalese footballer
- Tokugawa Ietsuna 1641 Tokugawa shogun
- Abdülkerim Bardakçı 1994 Turkish association football player
- Denis Istomin 1986 Uzbek tennis player
- María Fernanda Espinosa 1964 Ecuadorian politician and poet
- Andy Hug 1964 Swiss karateka and kickboxer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on September 7 share the 7th of September as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.