Events

Pre-1600

• 506 The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.

• 1089 The first synod of pope Urban II starts in Melfi, with seventy bishops and twelve abbots in attendance. The synod issues several decrees about church law and deals with the relation with the Greek part of the Church.

• 1419 John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.

• 1509 An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Constantinople.

• 1515 Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal.

• 1547 The Battle of Pinkie, the last full-scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.

• 1561 Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima: Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.

• 1570 Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.

• 1573 German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew are beheaded in Hamburg.

1601–1900

• 1607 Edward Maria Wingfield is ousted as first president of the governing council of the Colony of Virginia; he is replaced by John Ratcliffe.

• 1608 John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.

• 1622 Fifty-five Christians are executed in Nagasaki during the Great Genna Martyrdom.

• 1640 Reapers' War: Junta de Braços (Assembly of Estates) of the Principality of Catalonia summoned. It assumes the sovereignty and enacts a series of revolutionary measures which will lead to the Catalan Republic.

• 1724 Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78, a chorale cantata based on a passion hymn by Johann Rist.

• 1776 American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.

• 1798 At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.

• 1813 The United States defeats a British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

• 1846 Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.

• 1858 George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.

• 1897 Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.

• 1898 Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.

1901–present

• 1918 Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.

• 1919 The Republic of German-Austria signs the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ceding significant territories to Italy, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia.

• 1932 The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally owned IND, is opened.

• 1936 The first world individual Speedway World Championship was held at London's Wembley Stadium.

• 1937 Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.

• 1939 World War II: The submarine is mistakenly sunk by the submarine near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss of a submarine in the war.

• 1939 World War II: The Canadian declaration of war on Germany receives royal assent.

• 1942 World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.

• 1943 World War II: In the course of Operation Achse, German troops begin their occupation of Rome.

• 1960 At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.

• 1961 In the Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 15 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari, the deadliest accident in F1 history.

• 1961 – A President Airlines Douglas DC-6 crashes just after takeoff from Shannon Airport, Ireland. All 83 passengers and crew are killed.

• 1967 The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.

• 1974 Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.

• 1976 A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.

• 1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.

• 2000 Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.

• 2001 Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.

• 2001 During his appearance on the British TV game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, contestant Charles Ingram reaches the £1 million top prize, but it was later revealed that he had cheated to the top prize by listening to coughs from his wife and another contestant.

• 2002 Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, becomes a full member of the United Nations.

• 2007 Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.

• 2008 The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

• 2017 Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida as a Category 4, after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean. Irma resulted in 134 deaths and $77.2billion (2017 USD) in damage.

• 2024 – Polaris Dawn, the first private crewed spaceflight to involve a spacewalk, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

• 2025 – American right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk is assassinated while onstage at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

Births

Pre-1600

• 877 Eutychius, patriarch of Alexandria (died 940)

• 904 Guo Wei, posthumously known as Emperor Taizu of Later Zhou

• 1423 Eleanor, Princess of Asturias (died 1425)

• 1487 Pope Julius III (died 1555)

• 1497 Wolfgang Musculus, German theologian (died 1563)

• 1547 George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (died 1596)

• 1550 Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish general (died 1615)

• 1561 Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Paraguayan-Argentinian soldier and politician (died 1634)

• 1588 Nicholas Lanier, English singer-songwriter and lute player (died 1666)

1601–1900

• 1624 Thomas Sydenham, English physician and author (died 1689)

• 1638 Maria Theresa of Spain (died 1683)

• 1655 Caspar Bartholin the Younger, Danish anatomist (died 1738)

• 1659 Henry Purcell, English organist and composer (died 1695)

• 1714 Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (died 1774)

• 1753 John Soane, English architect and academic, designed the Royal Academy and Freemasons' Hall (died 1837)

• 1758 Hannah Webster Foster, American author (died 1840)

• 1786 Nicolás Bravo, Mexican soldier and politician, 11th President of Mexico (died 1854)

• 1786 William Mason, American surgeon and politician (died 1860)

• 1787 John J. Crittenden, American statesman and politician (died 1863)

• 1787 Justina Jeffreys, Jamaican-born British gentlewoman (died 1869)

• 1788 Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and author (died 1868)

• 1793 Harriet Arbuthnot, English diarist (died 1834)

• 1801 Marie Laveau, American voodoo practitioner (died 1881)

• 1821 William Jervois, English captain, engineer, and politician, 10th Governor of South Australia (died 1897)

• 1836 Joseph Wheeler, American general and politician (died 1906)

• 1839 Isaac K. Funk, American minister and publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls (died 1912)

• 1839 Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician, statistician, and philosopher (died 1914)

• 1844 Abel Hoadley, English-Australian candy maker, created the Violet Crumble (died 1918)

• 1852 Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founded the East Asiatic Company (died 1937)

• 1852 Alice Brown Davis, American tribal chief (died 1935)

• 1860 Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (died 1938)

• 1864 Carl Correns, German botanist and geneticist (died 1933)

• 1866 Jeppe Aakjær, Danish author and poet (died 1930)

• 1871 Charles Collett, English engineer (died 1952)

• 1872 Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer (died 1933)

• 1874 Mamie Dillard, African American educator, clubwoman and suffragist (died 1954)

• 1875 George Hewitt Myers, American forester and philanthropist (died 1957)

• 1876 Hugh D. McIntosh, Australian businessman (died 1942)

• 1880 Georgia Douglas Johnson, American poet and playwright (died 1966)

• 1880 Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Native American activist (died 1947)

• 1884 Herbert Johanson, Estonian architect (died 1964)

• 1885 Johannes de Jong, Dutch cardinal (died 1955)

• 1885 Carl Clinton Van Doren, American critic and biographer (died 1950)

• 1886 H.D., American poet, novelist, and memoirist (died 1961)

• 1887 Giovanni Gronchi, Italian soldier and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (died 1978)

• 1887 Kenneth Mason, English soldier and geographer (died 1976)

• 1887 Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (died 1961)

• 1888 Israel Abramofsky, Russian-American painter (died 1976)

• 1889 Ivar Böhling, Finnish wrestler (died 1929)

• 1890 Bob Heffron, New Zealand-Australian miner and politician, 30th Premier of New South Wales (died 1978)

• 1890 Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian-French fashion designer (died 1973)

• 1890 Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian author, poet, and playwright (died 1945)

• 1890 Mortimer Wheeler, British archaeologist and officer (died 1976)

• 1892 Arthur Compton, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1962)

• 1894 Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet screenwriter/producer/director of Ukrainian origin (died 1956)

• 1895 Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian poet and author (died 1976)

• 1896 Adele Astaire, American actress and dancer (died 1981)

• 1896 Robert Taschereau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 11th Chief Justice of Canada (died 1970)

• 1896 Ye Ting, Chinese general (died 1946)

• 1897 Georges Bataille, French philosopher, novelist, and poet (died 1962)

• 1897 Hilde Hildebrand, German actress and singer (died 1976)

• 1898 Bessie Love, American actress (died 1986)

• 1898 Waldo Semon, American chemist and engineer (died 1999)

1901–present

• 1903 Cyril Connolly, English author and critic (died 1974)

• 1904 Honey Craven, American horse rider and manager (died 2003)

• 1904 Max Shachtman, American theorist and politician (died 1972)

• 1906 Karl Wien, German geographer, academic, and mountaineer (died 1937)

• 1907 Alva R. Fitch, American general (died 1989)

• 1907 Dorothy Hill, Australian geologist and palaeontologist (died 1997)

• 1908 Angus Bethune, Australian soldier and politician, 33rd Premier of Tasmania (died 2004)

• 1908 Raymond Scott, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (died 1994)

• 1908 Waldo Rudolph Wedel, American archaeologist and author (died 1996)

• 1912 Basappa Danappa Jatti, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Vice President of India (died 2002)

• 1913 Lincoln Gordon, American academic and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Brazil (died 2009)

• 1914 Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Anglo-Irish captain and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (died 1990)

• 1914 Robert Wise, American director and producer (died 2005)

• 1915 Edmond O'Brien, American actor (died 1985)

• 1917 Miguel Serrano, Chilean poet and diplomat (died 2009)

• 1919 Lex van Delden, Dutch composer (died 1988)

• 1920 Fabio Taglioni, Italian engineer (died 2001)

• 1921 Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player and coach (died 2000)

• 1921 John W. Morris, American general (died 2013)

• 1923 Glen P. Robinson, American businessman, founded Scientific Atlanta (died 2013)

• 1924 Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player and coach (died 1988)

• 1924 Boyd K. Packer, American educator and religious leader, 26th President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (died 2015)

• 1925 Roy Brown, American singer-songwriter (died 1981)

• 1925 Dick Lucas, English minister and cleric

• 1925 Boris Tchaikovsky, Russian pianist and composer (died 1996)

• 1926 Beryl Cook, English painter and illustrator (died 2008)

• 1927 Johnny Keating, Scottish trombonist, composer, and producer (died 2015)

• 1928 Roch Bolduc, Canadian civil servant and politician

• 1928 Walter Ralston Martin, American minister and author, founded the Christian Research Institute (died 1989)

• 1928 Jean Vanier, Canadian philosopher and humanitarian, founded L'Arche (died 2019)

• 1929 Michel Bélanger, Canadian businessman and banker (died 1997)

• 1929 John Golding, English historian, scholar, and curator (died 2012)

• 1929 Arnold Palmer, American golfer and businessman (died 2016)

• 1930 Aino Kukk, Estonian chess player and engineer (died 2006)

• 1931 Isabel Colegate, English author and agent (died 2023)

• 1931 Philip Baker Hall, American actor (died 2022)

• 1932 Bo Goldman, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer (died 2023)

• 1933 Yevgeny Khrunov, Russian colonel and cosmonaut (died 2000)

• 1933 Karl Lagerfeld, German-French fashion designer and photographer (died 2019)

• 1934 Charles Kuralt, American journalist (died 1997)

• 1934 Roger Maris, American baseball player and coach (died 1985)

• 1934 Jim Oberstar, American educator and politician (died 2014)

• 1934 Larry Sitsky, Australian pianist, composer, and educator

• 1934 Mr. Wrestling II, American wrestler (died 2020)

• 1935 Mary Oliver, American poet (died 2019)

• 1936 Peter Lovesey, British writer (died 2025)

• 1937 Jared Diamond, American biologist, geographer, and author

• 1937 Tommy Overstreet, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2015)

• 1938 David Hamilton, English radio and television host

• 1940 Roy Ayers, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, vibraphonist, and producer (died 2025)

• 1940 Buck Buchanan, American football player (died 1992)

• 1940 Bob Chance, American baseball player (died 2013)

• 1941 Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist, biologist, and author (died 2002)

• 1941 Christopher Hogwood, English harpsichord player and conductor, founded the Academy of Ancient Music (died 2014)

• 1941 Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese video game designer, invented Game Boy (died 1997)

• 1942 Danny Hutton, Irish-American singer

• 1944 Thomas Allen, English actor, singer, and academic

• 1945 José Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1945 Gerard Henderson, Australian journalist and author

• 1945 Mike Mullane, American colonel and astronaut

• 1946 Michèle Alliot-Marie, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs

• 1946 Jim Hines, American sprinter and football player (died 2023)

• 1946 Don Powell, English rock drummer

• 1946 Patrick Norman, Canadian singer-songwriter

• 1947 Larry Nelson, American golfer

• 1947 David Pountney, English director and manager

• 1948 Zhang Chengzhi, Chinese historian and author

• 1948 Brian Donohoe, Scottish politician

• 1948 Judy Geeson, English actress

• 1948 Bob Lanier, American basketball player and coach (died 2022)

• 1948 Margaret Trudeau, Canadian actress and talk show host, 12th Spouse of the Prime Minister of Canada

• 1948 Charlie Waters, American football player, coach, and radio host

• 1949 Barriemore Barlow, English rock drummer and songwriter

• 1949 Babette Cole, English author and illustrator (died 2017)

• 1949 Don Muraco, American wrestler

• 1949 Bill O'Reilly, American journalist and author

• 1950 Rosie Flores, American singer and guitarist

• 1950 Tom Lund, Norwegian football player

• 1950 Joe Perry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1951 Sarah Coakley, English philosopher, theologian, and academic

• 1951 Steve Keirn, American wrestler

• 1951 Bill Rogers, American golfer

• 1952 Medea Benjamin, American activist, founder of Code Pink

• 1952 Vic Toews, Paraguayan-Canadian lawyer and politician, 48th Canadian Minister of Justice

• 1953 Pat Cadigan, American science fiction author

• 1953 Amy Irving, American actress

• 1953 John Thurso, Scottish businessman and politician

• 1954 Jackie Ashley, English journalist

• 1954 Lorely Burt, English politician

• 1954 Clark Johnson, American-Canadian actor

• 1954 Don Wilson, American kickboxer and actor

• 1955 Pat Mastelotto, American rock drummer

• 1956 Johnnie Fingers, Irish keyboard player and songwriter

• 1957 Kate Burton, British-American actress

• 1957 Carol Decker, English singer-songwriter

• 1958 Chris Columbus, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1958 Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer-songwriter and producer

• 1959 Michael Earl, American actor, singer, and puppeteer (died 2015)

• 1960 Alison Bechdel, American author and illustrator

• 1960 Margaret Ferrier, Scottish politician

• 1960 Colin Firth, English actor and producer

• 1960 Tim Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1960 David Lowery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1963 Randy Johnson, American baseball player

• 1963 Bill Stevenson, American drummer, songwriter, and producer

• 1964 Jack Ma, Chinese businessman, co-founder of Alibaba Group

• 1964 John E. Sununu, American engineer and politician

• 1966 Yuki Saito, Japanese singer and actress

• 1966 Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player and manager

• 1968 Andreas Herzog, Austrian footballer and manager

• 1968 Big Daddy Kane, American rapper, producer, and actor

• 1968 Guy Ritchie, English director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1969 Craig Innes, New Zealand rugby player

• 1969 Johnathon Schaech, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1970 Ménélik, Cameroonian-French rapper

• 1970 Dean Gorré, Surinamese footballer and manager

• 1970 Paula Kelley, American singer-songwriter

• 1970 Neera Tanden, American lawyer and policy analyst

• 1971 Joe Bravo, American jockey

• 1972 James Duval, American actor and producer

• 1972 Bente Skari, Norwegian skier

• 1973 Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer

• 1973 Mark Huizinga, Dutch martial artist

• 1973 Tim Stimpson, English rugby player

• 1974 Mohammad Akram, Pakistani cricketer and coach

• 1974 Mirko Filipović, Croatian mixed martial artist, boxer, and politician

• 1974 Ryan Phillippe, American actor and producer

• 1974 Ben Wallace, American basketball player

• 1975 Dan O'Toole, Canadian sportscaster

• 1975 Melanie Pullen, American photographer

• 1976 Marty Holah, New Zealand rugby player

• 1976 Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player

• 1976 Vasilios Lakis, Greek footballer

• 1976 Matt Morgan, American wrestler

• 1976 Reinder Nummerdor, Dutch volleyball player

• 1977 Mike DiBiase, American wrestler

• 1977 Caleb Ralph, New Zealand rugby player

• 1978 Julia Goldsworthy, English politician

• 1978 Alex Horne, British comedian

• 1978 Ramūnas Šiškauskas, Lithuanian basketball player

• 1979 Jacob Young, American actor

• 1980 Roger Mason Jr., American basketball player

• 1980 Trevor Murdoch, American wrestler

• 1980 Mikey Way, American bass player and songwriter

• 1980 Tetsuya Yamagami, Japanese assassin of Shinzo Abe

• 1981 Marco Chiudinelli, Swiss tennis player

• 1981 Germán Denis, Argentinian footballer

• 1981 Bonnie Maxon, American wrestler

• 1982 Misty Copeland, American ballerina and author

• 1982 Javi Varas, Spanish footballer

• 1983 Shawn James, Guyanese-American basketball player

• 1983 Jérémy Toulalan, French footballer

• 1983 Joey Votto, Canadian baseball player

• 1984 Sander Post, Estonian footballer

• 1984 Harry Treadaway, English actor

• 1984 Luke Treadaway, English actor

• 1984 Drake Younger, American wrestler

• 1985 Aleksandrs Čekulajevs, Latvian footballer

• 1985 James Graham, English rugby league player

• 1985 Neil Walker, American baseball player

• 1986 Angel McCoughtry, American basketball player

• 1986 Ashley Monroe, American singer-songwriter

• 1986 Eoin Morgan, Irish- English cricketer

• 1987 Paul Goldschmidt, American baseball player

• 1987 Alex Saxon, American actor

• 1988 Bobby Sharp, Canadian wrestler

• 1988 Jordan Staal, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1988 Jared Lee Loughner, American mass murderer

• 1989 Manish Pandey, Indian cricketer

• 1989 Matt Ritchie, English footballer

• 1990 Corban Knight, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1991 Sam Morsy, Egyptian footballer

• 1992 Ricky Ledo, American basketball player

• 1992 Ayub Masika, Kenyan footballer

• 1993 Sam Kerr, Australian footballer

• 1995 Jack Grealish, English footballer

• 1995 Matt Rife, American comedian and actor

• 1997 Brooke Henderson, Canadian golfer

• 1997 Troy Terry, American ice hockey player

• 1998 Anna Blinkova, Russian tennis player

• 1998 Sheck Wes, American rapper

• 1999 Laura Taylor, Australian swimmer

• 1999 jschlatt, American YouTuber and singer

• 2001 Armando Broja, Albanian-born English footballer

• 2001 Nick Cross, American football player

• 2004 Gabriel Bateman, American actor

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 210 BC Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of China (born 259 BC)

• 602 Dugu Qieluo, empress of the Chinese Sui dynasty (born 544)

• 689 Guo Zhengyi, official of the Chinese Tang dynasty

• 710 Li Chongfu, imperial prince of the Chinese Tang dynasty (born c. 680)

• 918 Baldwin II, Frankish margrave (born c. 865)

• 952 Gao Xingzhou, Chinese general (born 885)

• 954 Louis IV, king of West Francia (born 920)

• 1167 Matilda of England, Holy Roman Empress (born 1102)

• 1197 Henry II, Count of Champagne (born 1166)

• 1217 William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon, English politician

• 1281 John II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal (born 1237)

• 1306 Nicholas of Tolentino, Italian mystic and saint (born 1245)

• 1308 Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (born 1285)

• 1364 Robert of Taranto, King of Albania

• 1382 Louis I of Hungary (born 1326)

• 1384 Joanna of Dreux, Countess of Penthievre and Duchess of Brittany (born 1319)

• 1419 John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (born 1371)

• 1479 Jacopo Piccolomini-Ammannati, Italian cardinal and humanist (born 1422)

• 1482 Federico da Montefeltro, Italian warlord (born 1422)

• 1504 Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (born 1480)

• 1519 John Colet, English theologian and scholar (born 1467)

• 1549 Anthony Denny, English politician (born 1501)

• 1591 Richard Grenville, English admiral and politician (born 1542)

1601–1900

• 1604 William Morgan, Welsh bishop and translator (born 1545)

• 1607 Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian organist and composer (born 1545)

• 1669 Henrietta Maria of France, Queen Consort of England, Scotland and Ireland (born 1609)

• 1676 Gerrard Winstanley, English activist (born 1609)

• 1748 Ignacia del Espíritu Santo, Filipino nun, founded the Religious of the Virgin Mary (born 1663)

• 1749 Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (born 1706)

• 1759 Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian missionary and explorer (born 1703)

• 1797 Mary Wollstonecraft, English philosopher, historian, and novelist (born 1759)

• 1842 William Hobson, Irish-New Zealand soldier and politician, 1st Governor of New Zealand (born 1792)

• 1842 Letitia Christian Tyler, American wife of John Tyler, 11th First Lady of the United States (born 1790)

• 1851 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American minister and educator (born 1787)

• 1867 Simon Sechter, Austrian organist, composer, and conductor (born 1788)

• 1889 Charles III, Prince of Monaco (born 1818)

• 1891 David Humphreys Storer, American physician and naturalist (born 1804)

• 1898 Empress Elisabeth of Austria (born 1837)

1901–present

• 1905 Pete Browning, American baseball player (born 1861)

• 1915 Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Canadian physician and politician, 3rd Premier of Quebec (born 1822)

• 1915 Bagha Jatin, Indian philosopher and author (born 1879)

• 1919 J. F. Archibald, Australian journalist and publisher, founded the Archibald Prize (born 1856)

• 1922 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and activist (born 1840)

• 1923 Sukumar Ray, Indian poet and playwright (born 1887)

• 1931 Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1869)

• 1931 Salvatore Maranzano, Italian-American gangster (born 1886)

• 1933 Giuseppe Campari, Italian race car driver (born 1892)

• 1933 Baconin Borzacchini, Italian race car driver (born 1898)

• 1933 Stanisław Czaykowski, Polish race car driver (born 1899)

• 1934 George Henschel, German-English pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1850)

• 1935 Huey Long, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (born 1893)

• 1937 Sergei Tretyakov, Russian author and playwright (born 1892)

• 1938 Charles Cruft, English businessman, founded Crufts (born 1852)

• 1939 Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig, German general (born 1888)

• 1940 Issy Smith, British-Australian soldier and Jewish recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1890)

• 1948 Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (born 1861)

• 1952 Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese engineer and architect, designed the Beirut City Hall (born 1866)

• 1954 Peter Anders, German tenor and actor (born 1908)

• 1961 Leo Carrillo, American actor and singer (born 1880)

• 1961 Wolfgang von Trips, German race car driver (born 1928)

• 1965 Father Divine, American spiritual leader (born 1880)

• 1966 Emil Julius Gumbel, German mathematician and statistician (born 1891)

• 1968 Erna Mohr, German zoologist (born 1894)

• 1971 Pier Angeli, Italian-American actress and singer (born 1932)

• 1973 Cornelia Meigs, American author and playwright (born 1884)

• 1975 Hans Swarowsky, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and educator (born 1899)

• 1975 George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)

• 1976 Dalton Trumbo, American screenwriter and novelist (born 1905)

• 1979 Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician, 1st President of Angola (born 1922)

• 1983 Felix Bloch, Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)

• 1983 Norah Lofts, English author (born 1904)

• 1983 Jon Brower Minnoch, American heaviest man (born 1941)

• 1983 B. J. Vorster, South African lawyer and politician, 4th State President of South Africa (born 1915)

• 1985 Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1893)

• 1985 Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (born 1922)

• 1987 Boris Rõtov, Estonian chess player (born 1937)

• 1988 Virginia Satir, American psychotherapist and author (born 1916)

• 1991 Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (born 1908)

• 1994 Charles Drake, American actor (born 1917)

• 1996 Joanne Dru, American actress (born 1922)

• 1996 Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (born 1896)

• 2000 Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Indian-Pakistani journalist and author (born 1921)

• 2004 Brock Adams, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th United States Secretary of Transportation (born 1927)

• 2005 Hermann Bondi, Austrian mathematician and cosmologist (born 1919)

• 2005 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American singer and guitarist (born 1924)

• 2006 Patty Berg, American golfer (born 1918)

• 2006 Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, Tongan king (born 1918)

• 2007 Anita Roddick, English businesswoman, founded The Body Shop (born 1942)

• 2007 Joe Sherlock, Irish politician (born 1930)

• 2007 Ted Stepien, American businessman (born 1925)

• 2007 Jane Wyman, American actress (born 1917)

• 2008 Gérald Beaudoin, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1929)

• 2008 Vernon Handley, English conductor (born 1930)

• 2011 Cliff Robertson, American actor (born 1923)

• 2012 Raquel Correa, Chilean journalist (born 1934)

• 2012 Robert Gammage, American captain, lawyer, and politician (born 1938)

• 2012 Lance LeGault, American actor and stuntman (born 1935)

• 2012 Stanley Long, English director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter (born 1933)

• 2012 John Moffatt, English actor and playwright (born 1922)

• 2013 John Hambrick, American journalist and actor (born 1940)

• 2013 Ibrahim Makhous, Syrian politician, Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1925)

• 2013 Josef Němec, Czech boxer (born 1933)

• 2013 Clay Shaw, American accountant and politician (born 1939)

• 2013 Jack Vance, Canadian general (born 1933)

• 2014 Emilio Botín, Spanish banker and businessman (born 1934)

• 2014 Richard Kiel, American actor (born 1939)

• 2014 Edward Nelson, American mathematician and academic (born 1932)

• 2014 George Spencer, American baseball player (born 1926)

• 2014 Paul K. Sybrowsky, American religious leader and academic (born 1944)

• 2015 Norman Farberow, American psychologist and academic (born 1918)

• 2015 Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer (born 1928)

• 2015 Antoine Lahad, Lebanese general (born 1927)

• 2020 Diana Rigg, British actress (born 1938)

• 2023 Ian Wilmut, British embryologist (born 1944)

• 2024 Frankie Beverly, American soul/funk singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (born 1946)

• 2024 Jim Sasser, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to China (born 1936)

Holidays and observances

• Amerindian Heritage Day (Guyana)

• Children's Day (Honduras)

Christian feast day:

• Alexander Crummell (Episcopal Church)

• Aubert

• Blessed Thomas Tsugi, Charles Spinola, and Martyrs of Nagasaki

• Edmund James Peck (Anglican Church of Canada)

• Nicholas of Tolentino

• Theodard of Maastricht

• September 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Gibraltar National Day

• Saint George's Caye Day (Belize)

• Teachers' Day (China)

• World Suicide Prevention Day

References

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