Events

Pre-1600

• 394 On the first day of the battle of Frigidus, the Western Roman troops of Arbogast manage to defend their positions against the Eastern Roman troops of emperor Theodosius I.

• 917 Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu.

• 1234 The Decretals of Gregory IX, a new canonical collection assembled by Raymond of Peñafort, are promulgated.

• 1367 Swa Saw Ke becomes king of Ava

• 1590 An army led by Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris.

1601–1900

• 1661 Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV's Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers.

• 1697 War of the Grand Alliance : A French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville defeated an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson's Bay.

• 1698 In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.

• 1725 Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.

• 1774 First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.

• 1781 Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.

• 1791 Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.

• 1793 French Revolution: The French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.

• 1798 Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.

• 1812 War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.

• 1816 Louis XVIII of France has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").

• 1836 Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

• 1839 The United Kingdom declares war on the Qing dynasty of China.

• 1862 American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac River at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.

• 1877 American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.

• 1882 The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.

• 1887 A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter kills 186, making it the UK's deadliest ever building fire.

1901–present

• 1905 Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.

• 1914 World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.

• 1915 The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.

• 1932 The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.

• 1937 Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.

• 1938 Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.

• 1941 Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.

• 1942 World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.

• 1943 World War II: In the Pacific Theater, the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport, near Lae during the Salamaua–Lae campaign.

• 1944 Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.

• 1945 Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.

• 1945 Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American who broadcast under the name Orphan Annie during World War II, is arrested in Yokohama by U.S. military authorities amid widespread speculation of her being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose.

• 1948 In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister; as such, he is the French negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.

• 1954 KLM Flight 633 crashes into the River Shannon in Shannon, County Clare, Ireland, killing 28.

• 1957 Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.

• 1960 Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of Senegal.

• 1960 Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.

• 1968 – End of the Congress of Carrara, one of the major 20th century anarchist congresses.

• 1969 Mỹ Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.

• 1970 Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province.

• 1972 Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine are murdered the following day.

• 1975 Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.

• 1977 Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft.

• 1978 Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.

• 1980 The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.

• 1981 The first women arrive at what becomes Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in the UK.

• 1984 STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.

• 1984 Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.

• 1986 Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.

• 1990 Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.

• 1991 The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.

• 1996 Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3billion in damage and killed 27 people.

• 2005 Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes after takeoff from Polonia International Airport in Medan, Indonesia, killing 149.

• 2006 The Waziristan Accord is signed between the Government of Pakistan and local Taliban militants in North Waziristan, obliging the Taliban to expel foreign jihadists and the government to compensate the tribes for loss of life and property and launch reconstruction projects.

• 2012 An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds four others.

• 2021 The President of Guinea, Alpha Condé is captured by armed forces during a coup d'état.

• 2022 Liz Truss is declared the winner of the UK Conservative Party leadership election, beating Rishi Sunak.

• 2022 At least 93 people die and 25 are missing after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Sichuan, China.

Births

Pre-1600

• 989 Fan Zhongyan, Chinese chancellor (died 1052)

• 1187 Louis VIII, king of France (died 1226)

• 1201 Alix of Thouars, duchess of Brittany (died 1221)

• 1269 Agnes of Bohemia, Duchess of Austria (died 1296)

• 1319 Peter IV, king of Aragon (died 1387)

• 1451 Isabel Neville, daughter of Richard Neville (died 1476)

• 1500 Maria of Jever, ruler of the Lordship of Jever (died 1575)

• 1533 Jacopo Zabarella, Italian philosopher and logician (died 1589)

• 1540 Magnus of Holstein, prince of Denmark (died 1583)

• 1567 Date Masamune, Japanese daimyō (died 1636)

• 1568 Tommaso Campanella, Italian poet, philosopher, and theologian (died 1639)

1601–1900

• 1638 Louis XIV, king of France (died 1715)

• 1641 Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, English diplomat (died 1702)

• 1642 Maria of Orange-Nassau, Dutch princess (died 1688)

• 1651 William Dampier, English explorer (died 1715)

• 1666 Gottfried Arnold, German historian and theologian (died 1714)

• 1667 Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (died 1733)

• 1694 František Václav Míča, Czech conductor and composer (died 1744)

• 1695 Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician and diplomat (died 1770)

• 1722 Frederick Christian, Prince-Elector of Saxony (died 1763)

• 1725 Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician and theorist (died 1799)

• 1735 Johann Christian Bach, German-English viol player and composer (died 1782)

• 1750 Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet and author (died 1774)

• 1769 John Shortland, English commander (died 1810)

• 1771 Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen (died 1847)

• 1772 Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Iranian king (died 1834)

• 1774 Caspar David Friedrich, German painter and etcher (died 1840)

• 1775 Juan Martín Díez, Spanish general (died 1825)

• 1781 Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer and publisher (died 1858)

• 1787 François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (died 1850)

• 1791 Giacomo Meyerbeer, German pianist and composer (died 1864)

• 1792 Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (died 1857)

• 1806 Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general and politician, French Minister of War (died 1865)

• 1817 Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian poet, author, and playwright (died 1875)

• 1818 Edmund Kennedy, Australian explorer and surveyor (died 1848)

• 1826 John Wisden, English cricketer and businessman (died 1884)

• 1827 Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and songwriter (died 1849)

• 1829 Lester Allan Pelton, American inventor (died 1908)

• 1831 Victorien Sardou, French author and playwright (died 1908)

• 1833 George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (died 1917)

• 1836 Justiniano Borgoño, Peruvian soldier and politician, 57th President of Peru (died 1921)

• 1847 Jesse James, American outlaw (died 1882)

• 1850 Eugen Goldstein, German physicist (died 1930)

• 1856 Thomas E. Watson, American lawyer, publisher, and politician (died 1922)

• 1867 Amy Beach, American pianist and composer (died 1944)

• 1871 Friedrich Akel, Estonian physician and politician, Head of State of Estonia (d 1941)

• 1872 V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, Indian lawyer and politician (died 1936)

• 1872 Horace Rice, Australian tennis player (died 1950)

• 1873 Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American general and engineer (died 1942)

• 1874 Nap Lajoie, American baseball player and manager (died 1959)

• 1876 Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (died 1956)

• 1880 José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr (died 1936)

• 1881 Otto Bauer, Austrian philosopher and politician, Foreign Minister of Austria (died 1938)

• 1881 Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, English field marshal (died 1964)

• 1883 Otto Erich Deutsch, Austrian musicologist and scholar (died 1967)

• 1888 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India (died 1975)

• 1892 Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist and educator (died 1973)

• 1897 Morris Carnovsky, American actor (died 1992)

• 1897 Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst, founded ACNielsen (died 1980)

• 1899 Humphrey Cobb, American author and screenwriter (died 1944)

• 1899 Helen Creighton, Canadian author and educator (died 1989)

• 1899 – Max Bishop, American baseball player (died 1962)

1901–present

• 1901 Florence Eldridge, American actress (died 1988)

• 1901 Mario Scelba, Italian politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Italy (died 1991)

• 1902 Jean Dalrymple, American playwright, producer, manager, and publicist (died 1998)

• 1902 Darryl F. Zanuck, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1979)

• 1904 Vera Bradford, Australian pianist and educator (died 2004)

• 1905 Maurice Challe, French general (died 1979)

• 1905 Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-English journalist and author (died 1983)

• 1905 Justiniano Montano, Filipino lawyer and politician (died 2005)

• 1906 Ralston Crawford, American painter, lithographer, and photographer (died 1978)

• 1906 Sunnyland Slim, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1995)

• 1908 Josué de Castro, Brazilian physician, geographer, and activist (died 1973)

• 1908 Joaquín Nin-Culmell, German-American pianist and composer (died 2004)

• 1908 Cecilia Seghizzi, Italian composer and painter (died 2019)

• 1908 Renzo Rivolta, Italian engineer (died 1966)

• 1909 Hans Carste, German pianist and conductor (died 1971)

• 1909 Bernard Delfont, Russian-English talent manager (died 1994)

• 1909 Archie Jackson, Scottish-Australian cricketer (died 1933)

• 1910 Leila Mackinlay, English author (died 1996)

• 1910 Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer (died 1981)

• 1912 John Cage, American composer and theorist (died 1992)

• 1912 Kristina Söderbaum, Swedish-German actress and photographer (died 2001)

• 1912 Frank Thomas, American voice actor, animator, and screenwriter (died 2004)

• 1914 Stuart Freeborn, English make up artist (died 2013)

• 1914 Gail Kubik, American violinist, composer, and educator (died 1984)

• 1914 Nicanor Parra, Chilean physicist, mathematician, and poet (died 2018)

• 1916 Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian, actor, and screenwriter (died 2002)

• 1916 Frank Yerby, American novelist (died 1991)

• 1917 Pedro E. Guerrero, American photographer (died 2012)

• 1917 Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racer and trainer (died 2008)

• 1918 Luis Alcoriza, Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1992)

• 1918 Bob Katter, Sr., Australian captain and politician (died 1990)

• 1918 Fred McCarthy, American cartoonist and monk (died 2009)

• 1919 Elisabeth Volkenrath, German SS officer and executed war criminal (died 1945)

• 1920 Peter Racine Fricker, English-American composer and educator (died 1990)

• 1920 Fons Rademakers, Dutch-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2007)

• 1921 Murray Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2013)

• 1921 Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (died 2007)

• 1922 Denys Wilkinson, English physicist and academic (died 2016)

• 1923 David Hamer, Australian captain and politician (died 2002)

• 1923 Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer (died 2004)

• 1924 Paul Dietzel, American football player and coach (died 2013)

• 1924 Frank Armitage, Australian-American artist (died 2016)

• 1925 Justin Kaplan, American author (died 2014)

• 1926 Carmen Petra Basacopol, Romanian composer, pianist and musicologist (died 2023)

• 1927 Paul Volcker, American economist and academic (died 2019)

• 1928 Joyce Hatto, English pianist and educator (died 2006)

• 1928 Albert Mangelsdorff, German trombonist and educator (died 2005)

• 1929 Bob Newhart, American comedian and actor (died 2024)

• 1929 Andriyan Nikolayev, Russian general, pilot, and cosmonaut (died 2004)

• 1932 Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer

• 1932 Robert H. Dennard, American electrical engineer and inventor (died 2024)

• 1933 Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Chilean cardinal

• 1934 Paul Josef Cordes, German cardinal (died 2024)

• 1934 Dennis Letts, American actor and educator (died 2008)

• 1934 Kevin McNamara, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (died 2017)

• 1935 Werner Erhard, American author and philanthropist, founded Werner Erhard and Associates and The Hunger Project

• 1935 Helen Gifford, Australian composer and educator

• 1935 Lucille Soong, Chinese-American actress

• 1936 Robert Burns, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 2014)

• 1936 John Danforth, American politician and diplomat, 24th United States Ambassador to the United Nations

• 1936 Jonathan Kozol, American sociologist, author, and educator

• 1936 Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player and coach (died 2026)

• 1936 Knuts Skujenieks, Latvian poet, journalist, and translator (died 2022)

• 1937 Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Argentine footballer and manager (died 2018)

• 1937 Dick Clement, English director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1938 John Ferguson, Sr., Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 2007)

• 1938 Doreen Massey, Baroness Massey of Darwen, English politician (died 2024)

• 1939 Claudette Colvin, American nurse and activist (died 2026)

• 1939 William Devane, American actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1939 George Lazenby, Australian actor, the second to play James Bond

• 1939 John Stewart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2008)

• 1939 George Tremlett, English journalist, author, and politician (died 2021)

• 1940 Valerie Howarth, Baroness Howarth of Breckland, English politician

• 1940 Raquel Welch, American actress and singer (died 2023)

• 1941 Dave Dryden, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2022)

• 1942 Werner Herzog, German actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1942 Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (died 1995)

• 1943 Dulce Saguisag, Filipino social worker and politician, 10th Filipino Secretary of Social Welfare and Development (died 2007)

• 1944 Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, author, and playwright (died 1996)

• 1944 Gareth Evans, Australian lawyer and politician, 33rd Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs

• 1945 Eva Bergman, Swedish director and screenwriter

• 1945 Al Stewart, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1946 Kyongae Chang, South Korean astrophysicist and academic

• 1946 Dennis Dugan, American actor and director

• 1946 Dean Ford, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2018)

• 1946 Freddie Mercury, British singer and songwriter (died 1991)

• 1946 Loudon Wainwright III, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

• 1947 Mel Collins, Manx saxophonist and flute player

• 1947 Chip Davis, American pianist, songwriter, and producer

• 1947 Buddy Miles, American singer-songwriter and drummer (died 2008)

• 1947 Bruce Yardley, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (died 2019)

• 1948 Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian lawyer, politician, and diplomat, Foreign Minister of Austria

• 1949 Clem Clempson, English guitarist and songwriter

• 1950 Rosie Cooper, English businesswoman and politician

• 1950 Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist, created Cathy

• 1951 Paul Breitner, German footballer

• 1951 Michael Keaton, American actor and producer

• 1951 Jamie Oldaker, American drummer and percussionist (died 2020)

• 1952 David Glen Eisley, American rock singer-songwriter and actor

• 1953 Victor Davis Hanson, American historian and journalist

• 1953 Murray Mexted, New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster

• 1953 Eiki Nestor, Estonian engineer and politician, Estonian Minister of Social Affairs

• 1953 Paul Piché, Canadian singer-songwriter

• 1954 Richard Austin, Jamaican footballer and cricketer (died 2015)

• 1954 Frederick Kempe, American journalist and author

• 1955 – Stan Jonathan, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1956 Low Thia Khiang, Singaporean businessman and politician

• 1956 Roine Stolt, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1956 Debbie Turner, American actress

• 1957 Rudi Gores, German footballer and manager

• 1957 Peter Winnen, Dutch cyclist

• 1958 Lars Danielsson, Swedish bassist, composer, and producer

• 1958 – Don Maloney, Canadian ice hockey player and executive

• 1959 Frank Schirrmacher, German journalist and publisher (died 2014)

• 1960 Willie Gault, American football player, athlete, and actor

• 1960 Don Kulick, Swedish anthropologist and academic

• 1960 – Candy Maldonado, Puerto Rican baseball player

• 1961 Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian pianist and composer

• 1962 Tracy Edwards, English sailor and coach

• 1962 John McGrath, Welsh businessman

• 1963 Juan Alderete, American bass player and songwriter

• 1963 Kristian Alfonso, American actress and model

• 1963 Jeff Brantley, American baseball player and sportscaster

• 1963 Terry Ellis, American R&B singer–songwriter and actress

• 1963 Taki Inoue, Japanese race car driver and manager

• 1964 Frank Farina, Australian footballer and manager

• 1964 Sergei Loznitsa, Belarusian-Ukrainian director and screenwriter

• 1964 Ken Norman, American basketball player

• 1964 Thomas Mikal Ford, American actor (died 2016)

• 1965 David Brabham, Australian race car driver

• 1965 Hoshitango Imachi, Japanese wrestler

• 1965 Nick Talbot, English geneticist and academic

• 1966 Achero Mañas, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1966 Milinko Pantić, Serbian footballer and manager

• 1967 Matthias Sammer, German footballer and manager

• 1967 Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player

• 1968 Serhiy Kovalets, Ukrainian footballer and manager

• 1968 Dennis Scott, American basketball player and sportscaster

• 1968 Robin van der Laan, Dutch footballer and coach

• 1968 Brad Wilk, American singer-songwriter and drummer

• 1969 Leonardo Araújo, Brazilian footballer and manager

• 1969 Mariko Kouda, Japanese voice actress, singer, and radio host

• 1969 Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer and coach

• 1969 Dweezil Zappa, American actor and musician

• 1970 Liam Lynch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, puppeteer, and director

• 1970 Mohammad Rafique, Bangladeshi cricketer

• 1970 Gilbert Remulla, Filipino journalist and politician

• 1970 Johnny Vegas, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1971 Adam Hollioake, Australian cricketer and mixed martial artist

• 1972 Guy Whittall, Zimbabwean cricketer

• 1973 Paddy Considine, English actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1973 Rose McGowan, American actress

• 1974 Lauren Jeska, British fell runner convicted of the attempted murder of Ralph Knibbs

• 1974 Ken-Marti Vaher, Estonian politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior

• 1975 George Boateng, Dutch footballer and manager

• 1975 Randy Choate, American baseball player

• 1975 Rod Barajas, American baseball player and coach

• 1976 Tatiana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast

• 1976 Carice van Houten, Dutch actress and singer

• 1977 Joseba Etxeberria, Spanish footballer

• 1977 Nazr Mohammed, American basketball player

• 1978 Chris Hipkins, New Zealand politician, 41st Prime Minister of New Zealand

• 1978 Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby player

• 1978 Sylvester Joseph, Antiguan cricketer

• 1978 Zhang Zhong, Chinese chess player

• 1979 John Carew, Norwegian footballer

• 1979 Julien Lizeroux, French skier

• 1979 Salvatore Mastronunzio, Italian footballer

• 1980 Franco Costanzo, Argentine footballer

• 1981 Daniel Moreno, Spanish cyclist

• 1981 Kai Rüütel, Estonian opera singer

• 1983 Eugen Bopp, Ukrainian-German footballer

• 1983 Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer

• 1983 Chris Young, American baseball player

• 1984 Alison Bell, Scottish field hockey player

• 1984 Chris Anker Sørensen, Danish cyclist (died 2021)

• 1984 – Annabelle Wallis, English actress

• 1985 Justin Dentmon, American basketball player

• 1985 Ryan Guy, American soccer player

• 1986 Pragyan Ojha, Indian cricketer

• 1988 Denni Avdić, Swedish footballer

• 1988 Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorian footballer

• 1988 Emmy Raver-Lampman, American actress and singer

• 1989 Elena Delle Donne, American basketball player

• 1989 Kat Graham, American actress and singer

• 1989 Craig Smith, American ice hockey player

• 1989 José Ángel Valdés, Spanish footballer

• 1989 Ben Youngs, English rugby player

• 1990 Lance Stephenson, American basketball player

• 1990 Yuna Kim, South Korean figure skater

• 1990 Franco Zuculini, Argentine footballer

• 1991 Skandar Keynes, English actor and political adviser

• 1993 Pablo Reyes, Dominican baseball player

• 1993 T. J. Warren, American basketball player

• 1994 Kings Elliot, Swiss-English singer

• 1994 Sarah Carli, Australian track and field athlete

• 1994 Bonnie Anderson, Australian singer, songwriter and actress

• 1994 Dayton Wetherby, US-born Panamanian footballer

• 1994 Nediam Vargas, Venezuelan sprinter

• 1994 Gregorio Paltrinieri, Italian swimmer

• 1995 Lucas Wallmark, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1996 Jarren Duran, American baseball player

• 1996 Sigrid, Norwegian singer

• 1996 Richairo Zivkovic, Dutch footballer

• 1997 Steven Kwan, American baseball player

• 1997 Kyōko Saitō, Japanese idol

• 1998 Caroline Dolehide, American tennis player

• 1998 Mac Jones, American football player

• 1998 Davion Mitchell, American basketball player

• 1999 Filip Chytil, Czech ice hockey player

• 2001 Bukayo Saka, English footballer

• 2001 Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow, Australian rugby league player

• 2007 – Matthew Schaefer, Canadian ice hockey player

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 590 Authari, Lombard king (born 540)

• 714 Shang, emperor of the Tang Dynasty

• 1165 Nijō, emperor of Japan (born 1143)

• 1235 Henry I, duke of Brabant (born 1165)

• 1311 Amadeus Aba, Hungarian oligarch

• 1336 Charles d'Évreux, count of Étampes (born 1305)

• 1526 Alonso de Salazar, Spanish explorer

• 1548 Catherine Parr, Queen Consort of England and sixth wife of Henry VIII (born c. 1512)

• 1562 Katharina Zell, German Protestant reformer (born 1497)

• 1569 Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London (born c. 1500)

1601–1900

• 1607 Pomponne de Bellièvre, French politician, Chancellor of France (born 1529)

• 1629 Domenico Allegri, Italian singer-songwriter (born 1585)

• 1734 Nicolas Bernier, French composer (born 1664)

• 1786 Jonas Hanway, English merchant and philanthropist (born 1712)

• 1803 Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (born 1741)

• 1803 François Devienne, French flute player and composer (born 1759)

• 1836 Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian actor and playwright (born 1790)

• 1838 Charles Percier, French architect and interior decorator (born 1764)

• 1857 Auguste Comte, French sociologist and philosopher (born 1798)

• 1876 Manuel Blanco Encalada, Chilean admiral and politician, 1st President of Chile (born 1790)

• 1877 Crazy Horse, American tribal leader (born 1849)

• 1894 George Stoneman, Jr., United States Army cavalry officer (born 1822)

• 1898 Sarah Emma Edmonds, Canadian-American nurse, soldier, and spy (born 1841)

1901–present

• 1901 Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist and academic (born 1853)

• 1902 Rudolf Virchow, German anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist (born 1821)

• 1906 Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (born 1844)

• 1909 Louis Bouveault, French chemist (born 1864)

• 1912 Arthur MacArthur, Jr., American LTG (Army), Medal of Honor recipient (born 1845)

• 1917 Marian Smoluchowski, Austrian-Polish physicist and mountaineer (born 1872)

• 1920 Robert Harron, American actor (born 1893)

• 1922 Georgette Agutte, French painter (born 1867)

• 1926 Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician (born 1890)

• 1930 Robert Means Thompson, American soldier, businessman, and philanthropist (born 1849)

• 1931 John Thomson, Scottish footballer (born 1909)

• 1932 Francisco Acebal, Spanish journalist, author, and playwright (born 1866)

• 1932 Paul Bern, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1889)

• 1934 Sidney Myer, Russian-Australian businessman, founded Myer Stores (born 1878)

• 1936 Gustave Kahn, French poet and critic (born 1859)

• 1939 Kathleen O'Melia, Canadian religious sister (born 1869)

• 1942 François de Labouchère, French soldier and pilot (born 1917)

• 1945 Clem Hill, Australian cricketer and footballer (born 1877)

• 1948 Richard C. Tolman, American physicist and chemist (born 1881)

• 1953 Richard Walther Darré, Argentine-German agronomist and politician, convicted war criminal (born 1895)

• 1954 Eugen Schiffer, German lawyer and politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (born 1860)

• 1955 Haydn Bunton Sr., Australian footballer and coach (born 1911)

• 1961 Lewis Akeley, American academic (born 1861)

• 1965 Thomas Johnston, Scottish journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland (born 1882)

• 1966 Dezső Lauber, Hungarian golfer, tennis player, and architect (born 1879)

• 1970 Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (born 1942)

• 1972 Alan Kippax, Australian cricketer and businessman (born 1897)

• 1973 Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach (born 1889)

• 1975 Alice Catherine Evans, American microbiologist (born 1881)

• 1977 Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet and activist (born 1897)

• 1979 Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal (born 1884)

• 1980 Don Banks, Australian composer and educator (born 1923)

• 1982 Douglas Bader, English captain and pilot (born 1910)

• 1983 Meng Qingshu, Chinese politician (born 1911)

• 1984 Adam Malik, Indonesian politician and diplomat, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia (born 1917)

• 1984 Jane Roberts, American psychic and author (born 1929)

• 1985 Johannes Hint, Estonian engineer (born 1914)

• 1986 Neerja Bhanot, Indian flight purser, known for her heroic actions on Pan Am Flight 73, during which she was killed (born 1963)

• 1988 Gert Fröbe, German actor and singer (born 1913)

• 1989 Philip Baxter, Welsh-Australian chemical engineer (born 1905)

• 1990 Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, English academic and diplomat (born 1907)

• 1990 Jerry Iger, American cartoonist and publisher, co-founded Eisner & Iger (born 1903)

• 1990 Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian politician (born 1896)

• 1991 Sharad Joshi, Indian author and poet (born 1931)

• 1992 Fritz Leiber, American author and poet (born 1910)

• 1993 Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (born 1914)

• 1994 Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and scholar (born 1921)

• 1994 John Newman, Australian politician (born 1946)

• 1995 Benyamin Sueb, Indonesian comedian, actor, and singer (born 1939)

• 1995 Salil Chowdhury, Indian music composer (born 1922)

• 1996 Basil Salvadore D'Souza, Indian bishop (born 1926)

• 1997 Leon Edel, American author and critic (born 1907)

• 1997 Eddie Little Sky, American actor (born 1926)

• 1997 Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor and director (born 1912)

• 1997 Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian nun, missionary, and saint, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)

• 1998 Ferdinand Biondi, Canadian radio host (born 1909)

• 1998 Willem Drees, Jr., Dutch economist and politician, Dutch Minister of Transport (born 1922)

• 1998 Verner Panton, Danish interior designer (born 1926)

• 1998 Leo Penn, American actor and director (born 1921)

• 1999 Alan Clark, English historian and politician, Minister for Defence Procurement (born 1928)

• 1999 Allen Funt, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1914)

• 1999 Bryce Mackasey, Canadian businessman and politician, Postmaster General of Canada (born 1921)

• 2000 Roy Fredericks, Guyanese cricketer and politician (born 1942)

• 2001 Justin Wilson, American chef and author (born 1914)

• 2001 Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian economist and academic (born 1912)

• 2002 David Todd Wilkinson, American cosmologist and astronomer (born 1935)

• 2003 Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-American singer and actress (born 1927)

• 2005 Roberto Viaux, Chilean general (born 1917)

• 2007 Jennifer Dunn, American engineer and politician (born 1941)

• 2007 Paul Gillmor, American lawyer and politician (born 1939)

• 2007 Thomas Hansen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1976)

• 2007 D. James Kennedy, American pastor and author (born 1930)

• 2007 Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek director and screenwriter (born 1939)

• 2009 Gani Fawehinmi, Nigerian lawyer and activist (born 1938)

• 2010 Hedley Beare, Australian author and academic (born 1932)

• 2010 Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian-Dutch poet and painter (born 1922)

• 2012 Ian Dick, Australian cricketer and field hockey player (born 1926)

• 2012 Victoria Fyodorova, Russian-American actress and author (born 1946)

• 2012 John Oaksey, English jockey and journalist (born 1929)

• 2013 Edwin Bideau, American lawyer and politician (born 1950)

• 2013 Geoffrey Goodman, English pilot, journalist, and author (born 1922)

• 2013 Isamu Jordan, American journalist and academic (born 1975)

• 2014 Bruce Morton, American journalist (born 1930)

• 2014 Mara Neusel, German mathematician, author, and academic (born 1964)

• 2015 Goh Eng Wah, Malaysian-Singaporean businessman, founded Eng Wah Global (born 1923)

• 2015 Aadesh Shrivastava, Indian singer-songwriter (born 1964)

• 2015 Chester Stranczek, American baseball player and businessman (born 1929)

• 2016 Hugh O'Brian, American actor (born 1925)

• 2016 Phyllis Schlafly, American lawyer, writer, and political activist (born 1924)

• 2017 Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate (born 1920)

• 2018 Bhagwatikumar Sharma, Indian Gujarati writer and journalist (born 1934)

• 2018 Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress (born 1926)

• 2019 Francisco Toledo, Mexican painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (born 1940)

• 2021 Sarah Harding, English singer, member of Girls Aloud (born 1981)

• 2024 Rebecca Cheptegei, Ugandan athlete (born 1991)

• 2024 Herbie Flowers, English musician (born 1938)

• 2024 Radha Charan Gupta, Indian historian of mathematics (born 1935)

• 2024 Sérgio Mendes, Brazilian pianist and composer (born 1941)

• 2024 Rich Homie Quan, American rapper (born 1990)

• 2024 Laurent Tirard, French film director and screenwriter (born 1967)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Bertin

• Charbel (martyr)

• Genebald

• Gregorio Aglipay (Episcopal Church)

• Mother Teresa

• Ursicinus of Ravenna

• Zechariah and Elisabeth (Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Church)

• September 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Earliest date on which Jeûne genevois can fall, while September 11 is the latest; celebrated on Thursday after the first Sunday of September. (Canton of Geneva)

• International Day of Charity

• Teacher's Day (India)

• The flag-flying day for Denmark's deployed personnel (Denmark)

• First day of school in Vietnam

References

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