Events

Pre-1600

• 490 BC Battle of Marathon: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece.

• 372 Sixteen Kingdoms: Sima Yao, age 10, succeeds his father Emperor Jianwen as Emperor Xiaowu of the Eastern Jin dynasty.

• 1213 Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.

• 1229 Battle of Portopí: The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Mallorca, with the purpose of conquering the island.

• 1297 The Treaty of Alcañices, mediated by the pope, between the king Denis of Portugal and king Ferdinand IV of Castile defines the border between the two countries and establishes an alliance of friendship.

• 1309 The First siege of Gibraltar takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada resulting in a Castilian victory.

1601–1900

• 1609 Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.

• 1634 A gunpowder factory explodes in Valletta, Malta, killing 22 people and damaging several buildings.

• 1683 Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna: Several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.

• 1814 Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.

• 1847 Mexican–American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.

• 1848 A new constitution marks the establishment of Switzerland as a federal state.

• 1857 The sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the California gold rush.

• 1885 Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional association football.

• 1890 Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.

• 1897 Tirah campaign: In the Battle of Saragarhi, ten thousand Pashtun tribesmen suffer several hundred casualties while attacking 21 Sikh soldiers in British service.

1901–present

• 1906 The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.

• 1910 Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter).

• 1915 French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.

• 1923 Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom.

• 1933 Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.

• 1938 Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

• 1940 Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.

• 1940 The Hercules Powder plant disaster in the United States kills 51 people and injures over 200.

• 1942 World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.

• 1942 World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army troops.

• 1943 World War II: Benito Mussolini is rescued from house arrest by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.

• 1944 World War II: The liberation of Yugoslavia from Axis occupation continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among the liberated cities.

• 1953 U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.

• 1958 Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.

• 1959 The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the Moon.

• 1959 Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color, is launched in the United States.

• 1961 The African and Malagasy Union is founded.

• 1961 Air France Flight 2005 crashes near Rabat–Salé Airport, in Rabat, Morocco, killing 77 people.

• 1962 US President John F. Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.

• 1966 Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions).

• 1969 Philippine Air Lines Flight 158 crashes in Antipolo, near Manila International Airport in the Philippines, killing 45 people.

• 1970 Dawson's Field hijackings: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Zarqa, Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.

• 1974 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.

• 1977 South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody.

• 1980 The 43rd government of Turkey is overthrown in a coup d'état led by General Kenan Evren.

• 1980 Florida Commuter Airlines Flight 65 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off West End, Bahamas, killing 34 people.

• 1983 A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7million by Los Macheteros.

• 1983 The USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007.

• 1984 Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 276, previously set by Herb Score with 246 in 1954. Gooden's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.

• 1988 Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula two days later, causing an estimated $5billion in damage.

• 1990 The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.

• 1990 The Red Cross organizations of mainland China and Taiwan sign Kinmen Agreement on repatriation of illegal immigrants and criminal suspects after two days of talks in Kinmen, Fujian Province in response to the two tragedies in repatriation in the previous two months. It is the first agreement reached by private organizations across the Taiwan Strait.

• 1991 NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-48 to deploy the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite.

• 1992 NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.

• 1992 Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well.

• 1993 NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51.

• 1994 Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing. There were no other casualties.

• 2001 Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.

• 2003 The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

• 2003 Iraq War: In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.

• 2003 Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan.

• 2005 Israeli–Palestinian conflict: the Israeli disengagement from Gaza is completed, leaving some 2,530 homes demolished.

• 2007 Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of plunder.

• 2007 Two earthquakes measuring 8.4 and 7.9 on the Richter Scale hits the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing 25 people and injuring 161.

• 2008 The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.

• 2012 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 crashes on approach to Palana Airport, killing 10 and injuring four.

• 2013 NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space.

• 2014 Synagogue Church building collapse saw the deaths of 115 people and several injured, in the Church run by Nigeria's, T. B. Joshua.

• 2021 Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51 crashes short of the runway at Kazachinskoye Airport, killing four.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1415 John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (died 1461)

• 1494 Francis I of France (died 1547)

• 1590 María de Zayas, Spanish writer (died 1661)

1601–1900

• 1605 William Dugdale, English genealogist and historian (died 1686)

• 1690 Peter Dens, Flemish theologian and academic (died 1775)

• 1736 Hsinbyushin, Burmese king (died 1776)

• 1739 Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, Methodist preacher and philanthropist (died 1815)

• 1740 Johann Heinrich Jung, German author and academic (died 1817)

• 1768 Benjamin Carr, English-American singer-songwriter, educator, and publisher (died 1831)

• 1797 Samuel Joseph May, American activist (died 1871)

• 1812 Edward Shepherd Creasy, English historian and jurist (died 1878)

• 1812 Richard March Hoe, American engineer and businessman, invented the Rotary printing press (died 1886)

• 1816 Aurora von Qvanten, Swedish writer and artist (died 1907)

• 1818 Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor, invented the Gatling gun (died 1903)

• 1818 Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator (died 1882)

• 1828 William Morgan, English-Australian politician, 14th Premier of South Australia (died 1883)

• 1829 Anselm Feuerbach, German painter (died 1880)

• 1829 Charles Dudley Warner, American essayist and novelist (died 1900)

• 1830 William Sprague, American businessman and politician, 27th Governor of Rhode Island (died 1915)

• 1837 Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (died 1892)

• 1852 H. H. Asquith, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1928)

• 1855 Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Quebec (died 1920)

• 1856 Johann Heinrich Beck, American composer and conductor (died 1924)

• 1857 Manuel Espinosa Batista, Colombian pharmacist and politician (died 1919)

• 1862 Carl Eytel, German-American painter and illustrator (died 1925)

• 1866 Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, English cricketer and politician, 13th Governor General of Canada (died 1941)

• 1869 Paweł Owerłło, Polish actor (died 1957)

• 1875 Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor and director (died 1926)

• 1880 H. L. Mencken, American journalist and critic (died 1956)

• 1882 Ion Agârbiceanu, Romanian journalist, politician, and archbishop (died 1963)

• 1884 Martin Klein, Estonian wrestler and coach (died 1947)

• 1885 Heinrich Hoffmann, German photographer and art dealer (died 1957)

• 1888 Maurice Chevalier, French actor, singer, and dancer (died 1972)

• 1889 Ugo Pasquale Mifsud, Maltese politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Malta (died 1942)

• 1891 Pedro Albizu Campos, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician (died 1965)

• 1891 Jean-François Martial, Belgian actor (died 1977)

• 1891 Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher (died 1968)

• 1892 Alfred A. Knopf Sr., American publisher, founded Alfred A. Knopf Inc. (died 1984)

• 1894 Kyuichi Tokuda, Japanese lawyer and politician (died 1953)

• 1894 Dorothy Maud Wrinch, Argentinian-English mathematician, biochemist and philosopher (died 1976)

• 1895 Freymóður Jóhannsson, Icelandic painter and composer (died 1973)

• 1897 Irène Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1956)

• 1897 Walter B. Gibson, American magician and author (died 1985)

• 1898 Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (died 1963)

• 1898 Alma Moodie, Australian violinist and educator (died 1943)

• 1898 Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter and photographer (died 1969)

• 1900 Martha Atwell, American radio director (died 1949)

• 1900 Haskell Curry, American mathematician, logician, and academic (died 1982)

1901–present

• 1901 Shmuel Horowitz, Israeli agronomist and academic (died 1999)

• 1902 Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian physician and politician, 21st President of Brazil (died 1976)

• 1902 Marya Zaturenska, Ukrainian-American poet and author (died 1982)

• 1905 Linda Agostini, English-Australian murder victim (died 1934)

• 1908 Werner Flume, German jurist (died 2009)

• 1909 Donald MacDonald, Canadian trade union leader and politician (died 1986)

• 1913 Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper (died 1980)

• 1914 Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh-English soldier and actor (died 1999)

• 1921 Frank McGee, American journalist (died 1974)

• 1921 Stanisław Lem, Polish philosopher and author (died 2006)

• 1921 Turgut Cansever, Turkish architect, city planner, and thinker (died 2009)

• 1922 Antonio Cafiero, Argentinian accountant and politician, Governor of Buenos Aires Province (died 2014)

• 1922 Jackson Mac Low, American poet, playwright, and composer (died 2004)

• 1922 Mark Rosenzweig, American psychologist and academic (died 2009)

• 1924 Amílcar Cabral, Guinea-Bissauan political leader (died 1973)

• 1925 Stan Lopata, American baseball player (died 2013)

• 1925 Dickie Moore, American actor (died 2015)

• 1927 Mathé Altéry, French soprano and actress

• 1928 Robert Irwin, American painter and gardener (died 2023)

• 1928 Muriel Siebert, American businesswoman and philanthropist (died 2013)

• 1928 Ernie Vandeweghe, Canadian-American basketball player and physician (died 2014)

• 1928 Joseph John Gerry, American Roman Catholic prelate (died 2023)

• 1929 Harvey Schmidt, American composer and illustrator (died 2018)

• 1930 Larry Austin, American composer and educator (died 2018)

• 1931 Ian Holm, English actor (died 2020)

• 1931 George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013)

• 1932 Atli Dam, Faroese engineer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 2005)

• 1934 Glenn Davis, American hurdler, sprinter, and football player (died 2009)

• 1934 Jaegwon Kim, South Korean-American philosopher and academic (died 2019)

• 1934 Nellie Wong, Chinese American poet and activist

• 1935 Richard Hunt, American sculptor (died 2023)

• 1937 George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer

• 1937 Wes Hall, Barbadian cricketer and politician

• 1938 Judy Clay, American soul and gospel singer (died 2001)

• 1938 Claude Ruel, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2015)

• 1938 Tatiana Troyanos, American operatic soprano (died 1993)

• 1939 Henry Waxman, American lawyer and politician

• 1940 Linda Gray, American model and actress

• 1942 Michel Drucker, French journalist

• 1942 Tomás Marco, Spanish composer

• 1942 Maria Muldaur, American folk and blues singer

• 1942 François Tavenas, Canadian engineer and academic (died 2004)

• 1943 Ralph Neely, American football player (died 2022)

• 1943 Michael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan-Canadian author and poet

• 1944 Lonnie Mayne, American wrestler (died 1978)

• 1944 Vladimir Spivakov, Russian violinist and conductor

• 1944 Barry White, American singer-songwriter (died 2003)

• 1945 Russell "Jungle Jim" Liberman, American drag racer (died 1977)

• 1945 Milo Manara, Italian author and illustrator

• 1945 John Mauceri, American conductor and producer

• 1946 Tony Bellamy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2009)

• 1946 Neil Lyndon, British journalist and writer

• 1947 David Grant, English engineer and academic

• 1947 Gerald Howarth, English soldier, pilot, and politician, Minister for International Security Strategy

• 1947 Christopher Neame, English actor

• 1948 Steve Turre, American trombonist and educator

• 1948 Max Walker, Australian footballer, cricketer, sportscaster, and architect (died 2016)

• 1949 Charles Burlingame, American captain and pilot (died 2001)

• 1949 Irina Rodnina, Russian figure skater and politician

• 1950 Marguerite Blais, Canadian journalist and politician

• 1950 Gustav Brunner, Austrian engineer

• 1950 Bruce Mahler, American actor and screenwriter

• 1950 Mike Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1951 Bertie Ahern, Irish accountant and politician, 11th Taoiseach of Ireland

• 1951 Norm Dubé, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1951 Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby player and actor (died 2007)

• 1951 Joe Pantoliano, American actor and producer

• 1951 Ali-Ollie Woodson, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 2010)

• 1952 Gerry Beckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1952 Neil Peart, Canadian drummer, songwriter, and producer (died 2020)

• 1953 Nan Goldin, American photographer

• 1954 Robert Gober, American sculptor

• 1954 Scott Hamilton, American saxophonist

• 1954 Peeter Volkonski, Estonian singer-songwriter and actor

• 1955 Peter Scolari, American actor (died 2021)

• 1955 Brian Smith, English footballer (died 2013)

• 1956 Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor (died 2003)

• 1956 David Goodhart, English journalist and author

• 1956 BA Robertson, Scottish songwriter

• 1956 Walter Woon, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 7th Attorney-General of Singapore

• 1957 Paul M. Sharp, British academic and educator

• 1957 Jan Egeland, Norwegian politician, diplomat and humanitarian

• 1957 Rachel Ward, English-Australian actress

• 1957 Hans Zimmer, German composer and producer

• 1958 Wilfred Benítez, American boxer

• 1958 Gregg Edelman, American actor and singer

• 1959 Scott Brown, American colonel and politician

• 1959 Deron Cherry, American football player and sportscaster

• 1959 Sigmar Gabriel, German educator and politician, 17th Vice-Chancellor of Germany

• 1960 Road Warrior Animal, American wrestler (died 2020)

• 1960 Evan Jenkins, American academic and politician

• 1960 Stefanos Korkolis, Greek pianist and composer

• 1961 Mylène Farmer, Canadian-French singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

• 1962 Sunay Akın, Turkish poet, journalist, and philanthropist

• 1962 Amy Yasbeck, American actress

• 1964 Greg Gutfeld, American television journalist and author

• 1964 Dieter Hecking, German footballer and manager

• 1965 Einstein Kristiansen, Norwegian animator and producer

• 1965 Vernon Maxwell, American basketball player

• 1965 Midnight, Jamaican wrestler

• 1966 Darren E. Burrows, American actor

• 1966 Ben Folds, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1966 Vezio Sacratini, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1967 Louis C.K., American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1967 Pat Listach, American baseball player, coach, and manager

• 1968 Larry LaLonde, American guitarist and songwriter

• 1968 Nicholas Russell, 6th Earl Russell, English politician (died 2014)

• 1968 Richard Snell, South African cricketer and physiotherapist

• 1968 Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian, actor, and writer

• 1969 Max Boot, Russian-American historian and author

• 1969 Ángel Cabrera, Argentinian golfer

• 1969 James Frey, American author and screenwriter

• 1969 Shigeki Maruyama, Japanese golfer

• 1970 Will Chase, American actor, director, and singer

• 1970 Nathan Larson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1971 Younes El Aynaoui, Moroccan tennis player

• 1971 Shocker, Mexican wrestler

• 1972 Gideon Emery, English-American actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1972 Paul Green, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 2022)

• 1972 Sidney Souza, Brazilian footballer

• 1973 Kara David, Filipino journalist and documentarian

• 1973 Martina Ertl-Renz, German skier

• 1973 Martin Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1973 Paul Walker, American actor (died 2013)

• 1974 Caroline Aigle, French soldier and pilot (died 2007)

• 1974 Jennifer Nettles, American singer-songwriter

• 1974 Guy Smith, English race car driver

• 1974 Kenichi Suzumura, Japanese voice actor and singer-songwriter

• 1974 Nuno Valente, Portuguese footballer and coach

• 1975 Luis Castillo, Dominican baseball player

• 1975 Bill Kirby, Australian swimmer and coach

• 1976 Lauren Stamile, American actress

• 1976 Maciej Żurawski, Polish footballer

• 1977 Nathan Bracken, Australian cricketer

• 1977 Grant Denyer, Australian racing driver and journalist

• 1977 Jeff Irwin, American singer-songwriter and producer

• 1977 David Thompson, English footballer

• 1978 Elisabetta Canalis, Italian model and actress

• 1978 Benjamin McKenzie, American actor

• 1978 Ruben Studdard, American R&B, pop, and gospel singer

• 1980 Sean Burroughs, American baseball player (died 2024)

• 1980 Fernando César de Souza, Brazilian footballer

• 1980 Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player

• 1980 Kevin Sinfield, English rugby player

• 1980 Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey player (died 2011)

• 1981 Jennifer Hudson, American singer and actress

• 1981 Staciana Stitts, American swimmer

• 1982 Zoran Planinić, Croatian basketball player

• 1982 Sal Rinauro, American wrestler

• 1983 Tom Geißler, German footballer

• 1983 Daniel Muir, American football player

• 1983 Sergio Parisse, Argentinian-Italian rugby player

• 1983 Clayton Richard, American baseball player

• 1983 Carly Smithson, Irish singer-songwriter

• 1983 Niels Tas, Belgian politician

• 1984 Nashat Akram, Iraqi footballer

• 1984 Chelsea Carey, Canadian curler

• 1984 Petra Marklund, Swedish singer

• 1986 Alfie Allen, English actor

• 1986 Joanne Jackson, English swimmer

• 1986 Yuto Nagatomo, Japanese footballer

• 1986 Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter

• 1986 Emmy Rossum, American singer and actress

• 1988 Amanda Jenssen, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1988 Guðmundur Ari Sigurjónsson, Icelandic politician

• 1989 Freddie Freeman, American-Canadian baseball player

• 1989 Andrew Luck, American football player

• 1991 Mike Towell, Scottish professional boxer (died 2016)

• 1991 Scott Wootton, English footballer

• 1992 Alexia Fast, Canadian actress

• 1992 Sviatlana Pirazhenka, Belarusian tennis player

• 1993 Kelsea Ballerini, American country pop singer

• 1994 Druski, American comedian and actor

• 1994 RM, South Korean rapper, songwriter and record producer

• 1994 Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis player

• 1994 Mohammed Asif, Indian sailor and researcher

• 1995 Steven Gardiner, Bahamian sprinter

• 1996 Colin Ford, American actor

• 1997 Sydney Sweeney, American actress

• 1997 Almida de Val, Swedish curler

• 1999 Jerome Ford, American football player

• 2001 Ziaire Williams, American basketball player

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 640 Sak Kʼukʼ, Mayan queen

• 973 Nefingus, bishop of Angers

• 1185 Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (born 1118)

• 1213 Peter II of Aragon (born 1174)

• 1362 Pope Innocent VI (born 1295)

• 1368 Blanche of Lancaster (born 1345/1347)

• 1439 Sidi El Houari, Algerian imam (born 1350)

• 1500 Albert III, Duke of Saxony (born 1443)

• 1544 Clément Marot, French poet (born 1496)

1601–1900

• 1612 Vasili IV of Russia (born 1552)

• 1642 Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (born 1620)

• 1660 Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist, and politician (born 1577)

• 1665 Jean Bolland, Belgian priest and hagiographer (born 1596)

• 1672 Tanneguy Le Fèvre, French scholar and author (born 1615)

• 1674 Nicolaes Tulp, Dutch anatomist and politician (born 1593)

• 1683 Afonso VI of Portugal (born 1643)

• 1712 Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter and illustrator (born 1637)

• 1764 Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer and theorist (born 1683)

• 1779 Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (born 1711)

• 1810 Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician (born 1740)

• 1814 Robert Ross, Irish general (born 1766)

• 1819 Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (born 1742)

• 1836 Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German playwright (born 1801)

• 1869 Peter Mark Roget, English physician, theologian, and lexicographer (born 1779)

• 1870 Eleanora Atherton, English philanthropist (born 1782)

• 1870 Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American journalist, explorer, and author (born 1836)

• 1874 François Guizot, French historian and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France (born 1787)

1901–present

• 1903 Duncan Gillies, Scottish-Australian businessman and politician, 14th Premier of Victoria (born 1834)

• 1907 Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian poet, journalist, and lawyer (born 1837)

• 1912 Pierre-Hector Coullié, French cardinal (born 1829)

• 1918 George Reid, Australian accountant and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1845)

• 1919 Leonid Andreyev, Russian author and playwright (born 1871)

• 1923 Jules Violle, French physicist and academic (born 1841)

• 1927 Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (born 1847)

• 1942 Valentine Baker, Welsh co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company (born 1888)

• 1945 Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese field marshal and politician, 44th Japanese Minister of War (born 1880)

• 1949 Erik Adolf von Willebrand, Finnish physician (born 1870)

• 1953 James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, English politician, Governor of Northern Ireland (born 1869)

• 1953 Hugo Schmeisser, German engineer (born 1884)

• 1953 Lewis Stone, American actor (born 1879)

• 1956 Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of War (born 1882)

• 1961 Carl Hermann, German physicist and academic (born 1898)

• 1962 Spot Poles, American baseball player and soldier (born 1887)

• 1962 Rangeya Raghav, Indian author and playwright (born 1923)

• 1965 Raja Aziz Bhatti, Pakistani Major who received the Nishan-e-Haider in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.

• 1967 Vladimir Bartol, Italian-Slovene author and playwright (born 1903)

• 1968 Tommy Armour, Scottish-American golfer and journalist (born 1894)

• 1971 Walter Egan, American golfer (born 1881)

• 1972 William Boyd, American actor and producer (born 1895)

• 1977 Steve Biko, South African activist (born 1946)

• 1977 Robert Lowell, American poet (born 1917)

• 1978 William Hudson, New Zealand-Australian engineer (born 1896)

• 1981 Eugenio Montale, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896)

• 1982 Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer and conductor (born 1891)

• 1986 Jacques Henri Lartigue, French painter and photographer (born 1894)

• 1986 Charlotte Wolff, German-English psychotherapist and physician (born 1897)

• 1987 John Qualen, Canadian-American actor (born 1899)

• 1990 Athene Seyler, English actress (born 1889)

• 1991 Bruce Matthews, Canadian general and businessman (born 1909)

• 1992 Ruth Nelson, American actress (born 1905)

• 1992 Anthony Perkins, American actor, singer, and director (born 1932)

• 1993 Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor and director (born 1917)

• 1994 Tom Ewell, American actor (born 1909)

• 1994 Boris Yegorov, Russian physician and astronaut (born 1937)

• 1995 Jeremy Brett, English actor (born 1933)

• 1995 Yasutomo Nagai, Japanese motorcycle racer (born 1965)

• 1996 Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian general and politician, 29th President of Brazil (born 1907)

• 1997 Judith Merril, American-Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist (born 1923)

• 2000 Stanley Turrentine, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1934)

• 2003 Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1932)

• 2003 Arthur Johnson, canoeist (born 1921)

• 2005 Serge Lang, French-American mathematician, author and academic (born 1927)

• 2007 Bobby Byrd, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1934)

• 2008 Bob Quinn, Australian footballer and coach (born 1915)

• 2008 David Foster Wallace, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (born 1962)

• 2009 Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914)

• 2009 Jack Kramer, American tennis player and sportscaster (born 1921)

• 2009 Willy Ronis, French photographer and author (born 1910)

• 2010 Claude Chabrol, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1930)

• 2010 Giulio Zignoli, Italian footballer (born 1946)

• 2011 Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (born 1985)

• 2012 Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Russian poet and author (born 1946)

• 2012 Jon Finlayson, Australian actor and screenwriter (born 1938)

• 2012 Tom Sims, American skateboarder and snowboarder, founded Sims Snowboards (born 1950)

• 2013 Ray Dolby, American engineer and businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories (born 1933)

• 2013 Warren Giese, American football player, coach, and politician (born 1924)

• 2013 Erich Loest, German author and screenwriter (born 1926)

• 2013 Candace Pert, American neuroscientist and pharmacologist (born 1946)

• 2014 Atef Ebeid, Egyptian academic and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Egypt (born 1932)

• 2014 John Gustafson, English singer-songwriter and bass player (born 1942)

• 2014 Ian Paisley, Northern Irish evangelical pastor (Free Presbyterian Church) and politician, 2nd First Minister of Northern Ireland (born 1926)

• 2014 Joe Sample, American pianist and composer (born 1939)

• 2015 Claudia Card, American philosopher and academic (born 1940)

• 2017 Allan MacEachen, Canadian economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (born 1921)

• 2017 Edith Windsor, American LGBT rights activist and technology manager at IBM (born 1929)

• 2018 Shen Chun-shan, Taiwanese academic (born 1932)

• 2019 ʻAkilisi Pōhiva, Tongan politician and activist, Prime Minister of Tonga (born 1941)

• 2024 Sitaram Yechury, Indian politician and leader of CPI(M) (born 1952)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Ailbe (Elvis, Eilfyw) of Emly

• Ebontius

• Guy of Anderlecht

• The Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary

• John Henry Hobart (Episcopal Church (USA))

• Laisrén mac Nad Froích

• Sacerdos of Lyon

• September 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Commemoration of the mass hanging of the Saint Patrick's Battalion (Mexico)

• Day of Conception (Russia)

• Defenders Day (Maryland, United States)

• Enkutatash falls on this day if it is a leap year. Celebrated on the first day of Mäskäräm. (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rastafari)

• Nayrouz (Coptic Orthodox Church) (leap years only, September 11 on normal years)

• National Day (Cape Verde)

• National Day of Encouragement (United States)

• Saragarhi Day (Sikhism)

• United Nations Day for South–South Cooperation (International)

References

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