Events

Pre-1600

• 585 BC Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.

• 509 BC The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.

• 533 Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum, near Carthage, North Africa.

• 1229 Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.

• 1437 Battle of Tangier: a Portuguese expeditionary force initiates a failed attempt to seize the Moroccan citadel of Tangier.

1601–1900

• 1609 Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him the Hudson River.

• 1645 Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Scottish Royalists are defeated by Covenanters at the Battle of Philiphaugh.

• 1743 Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.

• 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.

• 1782 American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.

• 1788 The Congress of the Confederation sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.

• 1791 King Louis XVI accepts the new French constitution.

• 1807 Beethoven's Mass in C major, Op. 86, is premiered, commissioned by Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy, and displeasing him.

• 1808 Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.

• 1812 War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.

• 1814 In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", which is later set to music and becomes the United States' national anthem.

• 1843 The Greek Army rebels (OS date: September 3) against the autocratic rule of king Otto of Greece, demanding the granting of a constitution.

• 1847 Mexican–American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican–American War.

• 1848 Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives an iron rod in diameter being driven through his brain; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate discussion of the nature of the brain and its functions.

• 1862 American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.

• 1880 The Basuto Gun War breaks out after the Basuto launch a rebellion against the Cape Colony.

• 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War: The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought.

• 1898 Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.

• 1899 Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m 17,058ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.

• 1900 Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.

1901–present

• 1906 The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.

• 1922 The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.

• 1923 Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.

• 1933 Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.

• 1942 World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeat attacks by the Japanese with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.

• 1944 World War II: Start of the Battle of Meligalas between the Greek Resistance forces of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) and the collaborationist security battalions.

• 1948 Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union.

• 1948 Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.

• 1953 Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

• 1956 The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.

• 1956 The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.

• 1962 An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.

• 1964 South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh.

• 1964 Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West Berliners on Sunday, in Waldbühne.

• 1968 Cold War: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.

• 1971 State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt, which claimed 43 lives.

• 1971 Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.

• 1979 South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).

• 1982 Spantax Flight 995 crashes at Málaga Airport during a rejected takeoff, killing 50 of the 394 people on board.

• 1985 Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.

• 1986 A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes Kalamata, Greece with a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing at least 20 and causing heavy damage in the city.

• 1987 Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.

• 1988 Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).

• 1989 Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.

• 1993 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.

• 1997 A German Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 and a United States Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter collide in mid-air near Namibia, killing 33.

• 2001 Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.

• 2007 The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.

• 2007 The McLaren F1 team are found guilty of possessing confidential information from the Ferrari team, fined $100 million, and excluded from the constructors' championship standings.

• 2008 Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.

• 2013 Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured.

Births

Pre-1600

• AD 64 Julia Flavia, Roman daughter of Titus (died AD 91)

• 678 Kʼinich Ahkal Moʼ Nahb III, Mayan ruler (died 730)

• 1087 John II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (died 1143)

• 1373 Minkhaung I, King of Ava (died 1431)

• 1475 Cesare Borgia, Italian cardinal (died 1507)

• 1502 John Leland, English poet and historian (died 1552)

• 1521 William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English academic and politician, Lord High Treasurer (died 1598)

• 1594 Francesco Manelli, Italian theorbo player and composer (died 1667)

1601–1900

• 1604 Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English commander and politician (died 1698)

• 1755 Oliver Evans, American inventor, engineer and businessman (died 1819)

• 1802 Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and author (died 1880)

• 1813 John Sedgwick, American general and educator (died 1864)

• 1818 Lucy Goode Brooks, Former American slave and a founder of Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans (died 1900)

• 1819 Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (died 1896)

• 1830 Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (died 1916)

• 1842 John H. Bankhead, American soldier and politician (died 1920)

• 1851 Walter Reed, American physician and biologist (died 1902)

• 1857 Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel and activist (died 1937)

• 1857 Milton S. Hershey, American businessman, founded The Hershey Company (died 1945)

• 1860 John J. Pershing, American general and lawyer (died 1948)

• 1865 William Birdwood, Indian-English field marshal (died 1951)

• 1872 Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese politician and diplomat, 44th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1951)

• 1873 Constantin Carathéodory, German mathematician and author (died 1950)

• 1874 Henry F. Ashurst, American lawyer and politician (died 1962)

• 1874 Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer and painter (died 1951)

• 1876 Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (died 1941)

• 1877 Wilhelm Filchner, German-Swiss explorer (died 1957)

• 1877 Stanley Lord, English captain (died 1962)

• 1879 Annie Kenney, leading British suffragette (died 1953)

• 1880 Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer, co-founded Famous Players–Lasky (died 1958)

• 1882 Ramón Grau, Cuban physician and politician, 6th President of Cuba (died 1969)

• 1883 LeRoy Samse, American pole vaulter (died 1956)

• 1883 Petros Voulgaris, Greek admiral and politician, 136th Prime Minister of Greece (died 1957)

• 1885 Wilhelm Blaschke, Austrian-German mathematician and academic (died 1962)

• 1886 Amelie Beese, German pilot and sculptor (died 1925)

• 1886 Robert Robinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)

• 1887 Leopold Ružička, Croatian-Swiss biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1976)

• 1890 Antony Noghès, French-Monegasque businessman, founded the Monaco Grand Prix (died 1978)

• 1891 Max Pruss, German captain and pilot (died 1960)

• 1893 Larry Shields, American clarinet player (died 1953)

• 1894 J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (died 1984)

• 1894 Julian Tuwim, Polish poet, playwright, and director (died 1953)

• 1895 Morris Kirksey, American rugby player and sprinter (died 1981)

• 1898 Roger Désormière, French conductor and composer (died 1963)

• 1898 C. Sittampalam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (died 1964)

• 1899 Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Romanian politician (died 1938)

1901–present

• 1903 Claudette Colbert, American actress (died 1996)

• 1904 Alberta Williams King, American civil rights organizer, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr. (died 1974)

• 1904 Gladys George, American actress (died 1954)

• 1908 Chu Berry, American saxophonist (died 1941)

• 1908 Karolos Koun, Greek director and playwright (died 1987)

• 1908 Sicco Mansholt, Dutch farmer and politician, 4th President of the European Commission (died 1995)

• 1908 Mae Questel, American actress and vocal artist (died 1998)

• 1909 Ray Bowden, English footballer (died 1998)

• 1909 Frits Thors, Dutch journalist and radio host (died 2014)

• 1911 Bill Monroe, American singer-songwriter and mandolin player (died 1996)

• 1912 Maurice K. Goddard, American colonel and politician (died 1995)

• 1912 Reta Shaw, American actress (died 1982)

• 1913 Kai Setälä, Finnish physician and professor (died 2005)

• 1914 Leonard Feather, English-American pianist, composer, producer, and journalist (died 1994)

• 1916 Roald Dahl, British novelist, poet, and screenwriter (died 1990)

• 1917 Carol Kendall, American historian and author (died 2012)

• 1917 Robert Ward, American soldier, composer, and educator (died 2013)

• 1918 Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter and conductor (died 2015)

• 1918 Dick Haymes, Argentinian actor and singer (died 1980)

• 1919 Mary Midgley, English philosopher and author (died 2018)

• 1919 George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld, Austrian-English journalist, publisher, and philanthropist (died 2016)

• 1920 Else Holmelund Minarik, Danish-American journalist and author (died 2012)

• 1922 Charles Brown, American singer and pianist (died 1999)

• 1922 Caroline Duby Glassman, American lawyer and jurist (died 2013)

• 1923 Édouard Boubat, French photographer and journalist (died 1999)

• 1924 Harold Blair, Australian tenor and educator (died 1976)

• 1924 Scott Brady, American actor (died 1985)

• 1924 Maurice Jarre, French composer and conductor (died 2009)

• 1925 Mel Tormé, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 1999)

• 1926 Andrew Brimmer, American economist and academic (died 2012)

• 1926 Emile Francis, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 2022)

• 1926 J. Frank Raley Jr., American soldier and politician (died 2012)

• 1927 Laura Cardoso, Brazilian actress

• 1928 Robert Indiana, American painter and sculptor (died 2018)

• 1928 Tzannis Tzannetakis, Greek soldier and politician, 175th Prime Minister of Greece (died 2010)

• 1930 Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron, English publisher and philanthropist (died 2015)

• 1931 Barbara Bain, American actress

• 1931 Robert Bédard, Canadian tennis player and sportscaster

• 1931 Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, Australian sprinter and politician, 33rd Governor of South Australia

• 1931 Rein Maran, Estonian cinematographer

• 1932 Fernando González Pacheco, Spanish-Colombian journalist and actor (died 2014)

• 1932 Radoslav Brzobohatý, Czech actor (died 2012)

• 1932 Bengt Hallberg, Swedish pianist and composer (died 2013)

• 1933 Eileen Fulton, American actress (died 2025)

• 1933 Donald Mackay, Australian businessman and activist (died 1977)

• 1933 Lewie Steinberg, American bass player (died 2016)

• 1934 Tony Pickard, English tennis player and coach

• 1936 Stefano Delle Chiaie, Italian activist, founded National Vanguard (died 2019)

• 1937 Don Bluth, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Sullivan Bluth Studios and Fox Animation Studios

• 1938 John Smith, Scottish lawyer and politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 1994)

• 1939 Arleen Auger, American soprano and educator (died 1993)

• 1939 Richard Kiel, American actor and voice artist (died 2014)

• 1939 Guntis Ulmanis, Latvian economist and politician, 5th President of Latvia

• 1939 Joel-Peter Witkin, American photographer

• 1940 Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, President of Costa Rica, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1940 Brian Brain, English cricketer (died 2023)

• 1940 Kerry Stokes, Australian businessman

• 1941 Tadao Ando, Japanese architect and academic, designed Piccadilly Gardens

• 1941 David Clayton-Thomas, English-Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2026)

• 1941 Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Turkish judge and politician, 10th President of the Republic of Turkey

• 1942 Michel Côté, Canadian businessman and politician

• 1943 Mildred D. Taylor, American author

• 1944 Carol Barnes, English journalist (died 2008)

• 1944 Jacqueline Bisset, English actress and producer

• 1944 Peter Cetera, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer

• 1944 Midget Farrelly, Australian surfer (died 2016)

• 1945 Noël Godin, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1945 Andres Küng, Swedish journalist and politician (died 2002)

• 1946 Frank Marshall, American director and producer

• 1946 Henri Kuprashvili, Georgian swimmer

• 1948 Nell Carter, American actress and singer (died 2003)

• 1948 Dimitri Nanopoulos, Greek physicist and academic

• 1948 Sitiveni Rabuka, Fijian general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Fiji

• 1949 Jim Cleamons, American basketball player and coach

• 1949 John W. Henry, American businessman

• 1950 Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Polish lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Poland

• 1950 Christine Estabrook, American actress

• 1950 Pat Holland, English footballer and manager

• 1950 Jeff Lowe, American mountaineer (died 2018)

• 1951 Anne Devlin, Irish author, playwright, and screenwriter

• 1951 Salva Kiir Mayardit, South Sudanese politician, 1st President of South Sudan

• 1951 Jean Smart, American actress

• 1952 Réjean Giroux, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1952 Randy Jones, American pop and disco singer

• 1952 Don Was, American bass player and producer

• 1954 Steve Kilbey, English-Australian singer-songwriter and bass player

• 1954 Isiah Whitlock Jr., American actor (died 2025)

• 1955 Colin Moynihan, 4th Baron Moynihan, English rower and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics

• 1955 Joe Morris, American guitarist and composer

• 1956 Alain Ducasse, French-Monégasque chef

• 1956 Anne Geddes, Australian-New Zealand photographer and fashion designer

• 1956 Martin Hurson, Irish Republican, died on hunger strike (died 1981)

• 1956 Joni Sledge, American singer and songwriter (died 2017)

• 1957 Vinny Appice, American rock drummer

• 1957 Judy Blumberg, American ice dancer and sportscaster

• 1957 Mal Donaghy, Northern Irish footballer and manager

• 1957 Brad Hooker, English-American philosopher and academic

• 1957 Eleanor King, English lawyer and judge

• 1957 John G. Trueschler, American lawyer and politician

• 1957 Mark Wiebe, American golfer

• 1957 Keith Black, American neurosurgeon and academic

• 1957 Bongbong Marcos, 17th President of the Philippines

• 1958 Bobby Davro, English comedian and actor

• 1958 Paweł Przytocki, Polish conductor and academic

• 1958 Kōji Tamaki, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor

• 1959 Tatyana Mitkova, Russian journalist

• 1960 Kevin Carter, South African photojournalist (died 1994)

• 1960 Bob Eggleton, American artist

• 1961 Dave Mustaine, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1961 KK Null, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1961 Peter Roskam, American lawyer and politician

• 1962 Neal Lancaster, American golfer

• 1962 Tõnu Õnnepalu, Estonian author

• 1963 Yuri Alexandrov, Russian boxer (died 2013)

• 1963 Antony Galione, English pharmacologist

• 1963 Theodoros Roussopoulos, Greek journalist and politician

• 1963 Robin Smith, South African-English cricketer

• 1964 Tavis Smiley, American talk show host, journalist, and author

• 1965 Annie Duke, American poker player and author

• 1965 Jeff Ross, American comedian, director, and author

• 1965 Zak Starkey, English drummer

• 1966 Maria Furtwängler, German physician and actress

• 1966 Brendan Hall, Australian rugby league player

• 1966 Igor Kravchuk, Russian ice hockey player

• 1966 Louis Mandylor, Australian actor

• 1967 Michael Johnson, American former sprinter and journalist

• 1967 Tim "Ripper" Owens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1967 Stephen Perkins, American drummer and songwriter

• 1968 Brad Johnson, American football player

• 1968 Bernie Williams, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and guitarist

• 1969 Daniel Fonseca, Uruguayan footballer

• 1969 Dominic Fumusa, American actor

• 1969 Tyler Perry, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1969 Shane Warne, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (died 2022)

• 1970 Lee Abramson, American bass player and composer (died 2016)

• 1970 Martín Herrera, Argentinian footballer

• 1970 Louise Lombard, English actress

• 1971 Ben Alexander, Australian rugby league player (died 1992)

• 1971 Goran Ivanišević, Croatian tennis player and coach

• 1971 Stella McCartney, English fashion designer

• 1971 Manabu Namiki, Japanese pianist and composer

• 1973 Christine Arron, French runner

• 1973 Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer and manager

• 1973 Carlo Nash, English footballer and photographer

• 1974 Travis Knight, American basketball player

• 1974 Éric Lapointe, Canadian football player

• 1974 Craig Rivet, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1975 Akihiro Asai, Japanese race car driver

• 1975 Joe Don Rooney, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1975 Idan Tal, Israeli footballer

• 1976 Ro Khanna, American politician

• 1976 Craig McMillan, New Zealand cricketer, coach, and sportscaster

• 1976 Elvis Mihailenko, Latvian boxer, trainer, and sportscaster

• 1976 José Théodore, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

• 1976 Puma Swede, Swedish pornographic actress

• 1977 Fiona Apple, American singer-songwriter, producer, and pianist

• 1977 Ivan De Battista, Maltese actor, singer, director, and producer

• 1977 Daisuke Tsuda, Japanese singer-songwriter and drummer

• 1978 Swizz Beatz, American rapper and producer

• 1978 Peter Sunde, Swedish businessman

• 1978 Masato Shibata, Japanese wrestler

• 1979 Geike Arnaert, Belgian singer

• 1979 Tony Henry, English footballer

• 1980 Andreas Biermann, German footballer (died 2014)

• 1980 Han Chae-young, South Korean actress

• 1980 Daisuke Matsuzaka, Japanese baseball player

• 1980 Evangelos Nastos, Greek footballer

• 1980 Viren Rasquinha, Indian field hockey player

• 1980 Ben Savage, American actor

• 1981 Koldo Fernández, Spanish cyclist

• 1981 Angelina Love, Canadian-American wrestler

• 1982 Lloyd Dyer, English footballer

• 1982 Nenê, Brazilian basketball player

• 1982 Rickie Weeks, American baseball player

• 1982 Colin Marston, American guitarist, bassist, and producer/engineer

• 1982 Miha Zupan, Slovenian basketball player

• 1983 James Bourne, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1983 Molly Crabapple, American illustrator and journalist

• 1983 Ryan Del Monte, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1983 Eduard Ratnikov, Estonian footballer

• 1984 Nabil Abou-Harb, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1984 Baron Corbin, American wrestler

• 1985 David Jordan, English singer-songwriter

• 1985 Tom Learoyd-Lahrs, Australian rugby league player

• 1986 Steve Colpaert, Belgian footballer

• 1986 Derek Hardman, American football player

• 1986 Kamui Kobayashi, Japanese race car driver

• 1986 Sean Williams, American basketball player

• 1987 Edenilson Bergonsi, Brazilian footballer

• 1987 Jonathan de Guzmán, Canadian-Dutch footballer

• 1987 Luke Fitzgerald, Irish rugby player

• 1987 Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgarian tennis player

• 1988 Luis Rentería, Panamanian footballer (died 2014)

• 1988 Keith Treacy, Irish footballer

• 1989 Elysée Irié Bi Séhi, Ivorian footballer

• 1989 Kenny Edwards, New Zealand rugby league player

• 1989 Jon Mannah, Australian rugby league player (died 2013)

• 1989 Thomas Müller, German footballer

• 1989 William Owusu, Ghanaian footballer

• 1990 Craig Cunningham, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1990 Aoi Nakabeppu, Japanese model and actress

• 1990 Luciano Narsingh, Dutch footballer

• 1991 Ksenia Afanasyeva, Russian gymnast

• 1992 Darren Waller, American football player

• 1993 Niall Horan, Irish singer

• 1993 Alice Merton, Irish-Canadian singer and songwriter

• 1994 Leonor Andrade, Portuguese singer

• 1994 Anna Karolína Schmiedlová, Slovak tennis player

• 1994 Cameron Munster, Australian rugby league player

• 1994 Sepp Kuss, American professional cyclist

• 1995 Joca, Portuguese footballer

• 1995 Jerry Tollbring, Swedish handball player

• 1996 Adrian Kempe, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1996 Lili Reinhart, American actress

• 1998 – Satoshi, Moldovan rapper and singer-songwriter

• 1999 Yeonjun, South Korean singer, songwriter and dancer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 81 Titus, Roman emperor (born AD 39)

• 413 Marcellinus of Carthage, martyr and saint

• 531 Kavad I, Sasanian King of Kings of Iran (born 473)

• 864 Pietro Tradonico, doge of Venice

• 908 Cormac mac Cuilennáin, king of Munster (Ireland)

• 1171 Al-Adid, last Fatimid caliph (born 1151)

• 1313 Notburga, Austrian saint (born 1265)

• 1409 Isabella of Valois, French princess, Queen Consort of England and Duchess of Orleans (born 1389)

• 1488 Charles II, Duke of Bourbon (born 1434)

• 1506 Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter and engraver (born 1431)

• 1557 John Cheke, English scholar and politician, Secretary of State for England (born 1514)

• 1592 Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher and author (born 1533)

• 1598 Philip II of Spain, King of Spain, Portugal, England and Ireland (born 1526)

1601–1900

• 1612 Karin Månsdotter, Queen of Sweden (born 1550)

• 1632 Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (born 1586)

• 1759 James Wolfe, English general (born 1727)

• 1766 Benjamin Heath, English scholar and author (born 1704)

• 1800 Claude Martin, French-English general and explorer (born 1735)

• 1806 Charles James Fox, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (born 1749)

• 1808 Saverio Bettinelli, Italian poet, playwright, and critic (born 1718)

• 1813 Hezqeyas, Ethiopian emperor

• 1847 Nicolas Oudinot, French general (born 1767)

• 1871 İbrahim Şinasi, Turkish journalist, author, and translator (born 1826)

• 1872 Ludwig Feuerbach, German anthropologist and philosopher (born 1804)

• 1881 Ambrose Burnside, American general and politician, 30th Governor of Rhode Island (born 1824)

• 1885 Friedrich Kiel, German composer and educator (born 1821)

• 1894 Emmanuel Chabrier, French pianist and composer (born 1841)

1901–present

• 1905 René Goblet, French lawyer and politician, 52nd Prime Minister of France (born 1828)

• 1910 Rajanikanta Sen, Bangladeshi poet and composer (born 1865)

• 1912 Joseph Furphy, Australian author and poet (born 1843)

• 1912 Nogi Maresuke, Japanese general (born 1849)

• 1913 Aurel Vlaicu, Romanian pilot and engineer (born 1882)

• 1915 Andrew L. Harris, American general and politician, 44th Governor of Ohio (born 1835)

• 1918 Frederic Crowninshield, American artist and author (born 1845)

• 1928 Italo Svevo, Italian author and playwright (born 1861)

• 1929 Jatindra Nath Das, Indian activist (born 1904)

• 1931 Lili Elbe, Danish model and painter (born 1882)

• 1937 David Robertson, Scottish rugby player and golfer (born 1869)

• 1941 Elias Disney, Canadian-American farmer and businessman (born 1859)

• 1944 W. Heath Robinson, English cartoonist (born 1872)

• 1946 Amon Göth, Austrian captain and Nazi war criminal (born 1908)

• 1946 Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (born 1875)

• 1946 William Watt, Australian lawyer and politician, 24th Premier of Victoria (born 1871)

• 1949 August Krogh, Danish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)

• 1953 Mary Brewster Hazelton, American painter (born 1868)

• 1960 Leó Weiner, Hungarian composer and educator (born 1885)

• 1967 Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Yemeni-Saudi Arabian businessman, founded Saudi Binladin Group (born 1903)

• 1967 Robert George, English air marshal and politician, 24th Governor of South Australia (born 1896)

• 1967 Leonard Lord, English businessman (born 1896)

• 1971 Lin Biao, Chinese general and politician, 2nd Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (born 1907)

• 1973 Betty Field, American actress (born 1913)

• 1973 Sajjad Zaheer, Indian poet and philosopher (born 1905)

• 1975 Mudicondan Venkatarama Iyer, Indian singer and musicologist (born 1897)

• 1976 Armand Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1905)

• 1976 Albert Tessier, Canadian priest, historian, and director (born 1895)

• 1977 Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (born 1882)

• 1981 William Loeb III, American publisher (born 1905)

• 1982 Reed Crandall, American illustrator (born 1917)

• 1985 Dane Rudhyar, French-American astrologer, composer, and author (born 1895)

• 1987 Mervyn LeRoy, American actor, director, and producer (born 1900)

• 1991 Robert Irving, English soldier and conductor (born 1913)

• 1991 Metin Oktay, Turkish footballer and manager (born 1936)

• 1991 Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-American production manager and producer (born 1901)

• 1993 Carl Voss, American ice hockey player and referee (born 1907)

• 1996 Tupac Shakur, American rapper, producer, and actor (born 1971)

• 1997 Georges Guétary, Egyptian-French actor, singer, and dancer (born 1915)

• 1997 Georgios Mitsibonas, Greek footballer (born 1962)

• 1998 Necdet Calp, Turkish civil servant and politician (born 1922)

• 1998 Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1926)

• 1998 Frank Renouf, New Zealand businessman (born 1918)

• 1998 George Wallace, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 45th Governor of Alabama (born 1919)

• 1999 Benjamin Bloom, American psychologist and academic (born 1913)

• 2000 Betty Jeffrey, Australian nurse and author (born 1908)

• 2001 Johnny Craig, American sailor and illustrator (born 1926)

• 2001 Jaroslav Drobný, Czech-English ice hockey player and tennis player (born 1921)

• 2001 Dorothy McGuire, American actress (born 1916)

• 2002 George Stanley, Canadian soldier, historian, and author, designed the Flag of Canada (born 1907)

• 2003 Frank O'Bannon, American publisher, lawyer, and politician, 47th Governor of Indiana (born 1930)

• 2004 Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-invented the birth-control pill (born 1925)

• 2004 Charlie Brandt, American serial killer (born 1957)

• 2005 Toni Fritsch, Austrian footballer (born 1945)

• 2005 Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian lawyer and politician, 25th President of Colombia (born 1916)

• 2006 Ann Richards, American educator and politician, 45th Governor of Texas (born 1933)

• 2007 Whakahuihui Vercoe, New Zealand archbishop (born 1928)

• 2009 Paul Burke, American actor (born 1926)

• 2011 Walter Bonatti, Italian mountaineer and journalist (born 1930)

• 2012 William Duckworth, American composer and author (born 1943)

• 2012 Peter Lougheed, Canadian football player, lawyer, and politician, 10th Premier of Alberta (born 1928)

• 2012 Edgar Metcalfe, English-Australian actor and director (born 1933)

• 2012 Ranganath Misra, Indian lawyer and jurist, 21st Chief Justice of India (born 1926)

• 2012 Lehri, (Actual name:Safirullah Siddiqui), Pakistani comedian and an actor in the Urdu film industry of Pakistan (born 1929)

• 2013 Olusegun Agagu, Nigerian politician, 15th Governor of Ondo State (born 1948)

• 2013 Robert J. Behnke, American biologist and academic (born 1929)

• 2013 Rick Casares, American football player (born 1931)

• 2013 Luiz Gushiken, Brazilian trade union leader and politician (born 1950)

• 2014 Benjamin Adekunle, Nigerian general (born 1936)

• 2014 Helen Filarski, American baseball player (born 1924)

• 2014 Milan Galić, Serbian footballer (born 1938)

• 2014 Frank Torre, American baseball player and manager (born 1931)

• 2015 Vivinho, Brazilian footballer (born 1961)

• 2015 Erma Bergmann, American baseball player (born 1924)

• 2015 Brian Close, English cricketer and coach (born 1931)

• 2015 Moses Malone, American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1955)

• 2016 Jonathan Riley-Smith, British historian (born 1938)

• 2017 Pete Domenici, American politician, senator of New Mexico (born 1932)

• 2019 Eddie Money, American musician (born 1949)

• 2022 Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic (born 1930)

• 2024 Wolfgang Gerhardt, German politician (born 1943)

• 2024 Pravin Gordhan, South African politician (born 1949)

• 2024 Lex Marinos, Australian actor (born 1949)

• 2024 Mary McFadden, American fashion designer (born 1938)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Feast of the Cross (Assyrian Church of the East)

• Aimé (Amatus)

• Amé (Amatus) of Remiremont

• Eulogius of Alexandria

• John Chrysostom

• Marcellinus of Carthage

• Maurilius (Maurille) of Angers

• Nectarius of Autun

• Venerius the Hermit

• Wulfthryth (Wilfrida) of Wilton

• September 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Day of the Programmer, during a non-leap year. (Russia)

• Día de los Niños Héroes (Mexico)

• Engineer's Day (Mauritius)

• Roald Dahl Day (Africa, United Kingdom, Latin America)

References

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