7 September

Elizabeth I
7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603
Monarch of England, queen from 1558 to 1603.

Matthäus Günther
7 September 1705 – 30 September 1788
German artist who worked on 40 churches in the Bavaria and Tyrol areas.

Georges-Louis Leclerc
7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788
French naturalist and encyclopedia author.

François-André Danican Philidor
7 September 1726 – 31 August 1795
French chess champion who wrote a renowned chess manual ‘Analyse du jeu des Échecs’.

Heinrich Stölzel
7 September 1777 – 16 February 1844
German musician who invented valves for brass music instruments.

Edward Birge
7 September 1851 – 9 June 1950
American zoologist who established the study of inland waterways (Limnology).

William Friese-Greene
7 September 1855 – 5 May 1921
English photographer who conceived the idea of intermittent movement of film by sprocket holes to create the illusion of movement – the basis of the movies. His idea was refined by the Lumiere brothers and Edison, resulting in the beginnings of the film industry.

Dame Edith Sitwell
7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964
English poet.

Michael DeBakey
7 September 1908 – 11 July 2008
American pioneer of heart surgery.

David Packard
7 September 1912 – 26 March 1996
One of the founders of the Hewlet Packard computer company.

Sir Anthony Quayle
7 September 1913 – 20 October 1989
English stage actor and director, who became a director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre.

Buddy Holly
7 September 1936 – 3 February 1959
American ‘rock and roll’ singer, killed in a plane crash.

Today’s National Day
7 September – Brazil

Today’s Quote
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
… Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)

Today’s No. 1 Hit
1990 – Blaze of Glory by Jon Bon Jovi

Today’s events
7 September 1907 – The maiden voyage of the Lusitania (Liverpool to New York).
7 September 1923 – Formation of Interpol in Vienna (originally the International Criminal Police).
7 September 1927 – Philo Farnsworth, an American engineer displays the first electronic television camera and receiver.
7 September 1998 – Sergey Brin and Larry Page start Google.