Events

Pre-1600

• 394 Battle of the Frigidus: Roman emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankishish magister militum Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later.

• 1492 Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.

• 1522 The Victoria returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition and the first known ship to circumnavigate the world.

1601–1900

• 1620 The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)

• 1622 The Spanish treasure galleon Atocha sinks during a hurricane off Key West in the Straits of Florida, taking of gold and silver and 260 of its 265 passengers and crew to the bottom.

• 1628 Puritans settle Salem, which became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.

• 1634 Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen, the Catholic Imperial army defeats Swedish and German Protestant forces.

• 1781 American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a British victory.

• 1803 British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.

• 1859 Imam Shamil surrenders to the Russians, bringing the Caucasian Imamate to an end.

• 1861 American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, giving the Union control of the Tennessee River's mouth.

• 1863 American Civil War: Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.

• 1870 Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.

• 1885 Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, thus accomplishing Bulgarian unification.

1901–present

• 1901 Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US president William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

• 1914 World War I: The First Battle of the Marne, which would halt the Imperial German Army's advance into France, begins.

• 1915 World War I: The first tank prototype, developed by William Foster & Co. for the British army, was completed and given its first test drive.

• 1930 Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.

• 1936 Spanish Civil War: The Interprovincial Council of Asturias and León is established.

• 1939 World War II: The British Royal Air Force suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War at the Battle of Barking Creek as a result of friendly fire.

• 1939 World War II: Union of South Africa declares war on Germany.

• 1940 King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael. General Ion Antonescu becomes the Conducător of Romania.

• 1943 The Monterrey Institute of Technology is founded in Monterrey, Mexico as one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America.

• 1943 Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.

• 1944 World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by Allied forces.

• 1944 World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.

• 1946 United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.

• 1952 A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.

• 1955 Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.

• 1962 The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.

• 1962 Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the second century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.

• 1965 India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which results in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate followed by the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.

• 1966 Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting.

• 1968 Swaziland becomes independent.

• 1970 Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field, Jordan.

• 1971 Paninternational Flight 112 crashes on the Bundesautobahn 7 highway near Hamburg Airport, in Hamburg, Germany, killing 22.

• 1972 Munich massacre: Nine Israeli athletes die (along with a German policeman) at the hands of the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group after being taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games. Two other Israeli athletes were slain in the initial attack the previous day.

• 1976 Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.

• 1983 The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that its operatives did not know that it was a civilian aircraft when it reportedly violated Soviet airspace.

• 1985 Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 crashes near Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing all 31 people on board.

• 1986 In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six congregants inside the Neve Shalom Synagogue during Shabbat services.

• 1988 End of the last stage of the Anfal campaign of Ba'athist Iraq against its Kurdish population, which resulted in major destructions and major civilian losses.

• 1991 The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

• 1991 The Russian parliament approves the name change of Leningrad back to Saint Petersburg. The change is effective October 1.

• 1992 A group of hunters at the Stampede trail near Healy, Alaska came across a male corpse in abandoned bus, later identified as Christopher McCandless.

• 1995 Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.

• 1997 The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people line the streets and 2 billion watch around the world on television.

• 1997 Royal Brunei Airlines Flight 839 crashes in the Lambir Hills National Park while on approach to Miri Airport in Malaysia, killing 10.

• 2003 Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.

• 2007 Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.

• 2009 The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.

• 2012 Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.

• 2013 Forty-one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.

• 2013 The first Minotaur V rocket is launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, carrying NASA's LADEE spacecraft.

• 2018 Supreme Court of India decriminalised all consensual sex among adults in private, making homosexuality legal on the Indian lands.

• 2018 Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro survives a stabbing at a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais.

• 2022 Boris Johnson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and is replaced by Liz Truss. Their meetings with Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle were the Queen's final official duties before her death two days later.

• 2022 Russo-Ukrainian war: Ukraine begins its Kharkiv counteroffensive, surprising Russian forces and retaking over 3,000 square kilometers of land, recapturing the entire Kharkiv Oblast west of the Oskil River, within the next week.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1475 Artus Gouffier, Lord of Boissy, French nobleman and politician (died 1519)

• 1475 Sebastiano Serlio, Italian Mannerist architect (died 1554)

1601–1900

• 1610 Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena, Italian noble (died 1658)

• 1620 Isabella Leonarda, Italian composer and educator (died 1704)

• 1631 Charles Porter, English-born judge (died 1696)

• 1633 Sebastian Knüpfer, German cantor and composer (died 1676)

• 1656 Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and politician (died 1723)

• 1666 Ivan V of Russia, Russian tsar (died 1696)

• 1711 Henry Muhlenberg, German-American pastor and missionary (died 1787)

• 1729 Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher and theologian (died 1786)

• 1732 Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist and academic (died 1796)

• 1757 Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French general (died 1834)

• 1766 John Dalton, English chemist, meteorologist, and physicist (died 1844)

• 1781 Vincent Novello, English composer and publisher (died 1861)

• 1795 Frances Wright, Scottish-American author and activist (died 1852)

• 1800 Catharine Beecher, American educator and activist (died 1878)

• 1802 Alcide d'Orbigny, French zoologist, palaeontologist, and geologist (died 1857)

• 1808 Emir Abdelkader, Algerian religious and military leader (died 1883)

• 1814 George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Premier of East Canada (died 1873)

• 1817 Alexander Tilloch Galt, English-Canadian businessman and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Finance (died 1893)

• 1819 William Rosecrans, American general, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Mexico (died 1898)

• 1838 Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (died 1906)

• 1852 Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (died 1918)

• 1855 Ferdinand Hummel, German pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1928)

• 1857 Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (died 1933)

• 1859 Macpherson Robertson, Australian businessman and philanthropist, founded MacRobertson's (died 1945)

• 1860 Jane Addams, American sociologist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935)

• 1860 May Jordan McConnel, Australian trade unionist and suffragist (died 1929)

• 1861 William Lane, English-Australian journalist, founded New Australia (died 1917)

• 1863 Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (died 1935)

• 1868 Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (died 1947)

• 1869 Walford Davies, English organist and composer (died 1941)

• 1869 Felix Salten, Austrian-Swiss author and critic (died 1945)

• 1876 John Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935)

• 1879 Max Schreck, German actor (died 1936)

• 1879 Joseph Wirth, German educator and politician, Chancellor of Germany (died 1956)

• 1885 Otto Kruger, American actor (died 1974)

• 1888 Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., American businessman and diplomat, 44th United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (died 1969)

• 1889 Louis Silvers, American composer (died 1954)

• 1890 Clara Kimball Young, American actress and producer (died 1960)

• 1892 Edward Victor Appleton, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)

• 1893 Claire Lee Chennault, American general and pilot (died 1958)

• 1899 Billy Rose, American composer and manager (died 1966)

• 1900 W. A. C. Bennett, Canadian businessman and politician, 25th Premier of British Columbia (died 1979)

• 1900 Julien Green, French-American author (died 1998)

• 1900 Nguyễn An Ninh, Vietnamese political journalist (died 1943)

1901–present

• 1906 Luis Federico Leloir, French-Argentine physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987)

• 1908 Anthony Wagner, English genealogist and academic (died 1995)

• 1908 Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor, designed the Crazy Horse Memorial (died 1982)

• 1909 Michael Gordon, American actor and director (died 1993)

• 1910 Walter Giesler, American soccer player, referee, and coach (died 1976)

• 1911 Harry Danning, American baseball player and coach (died 2004)

• 1911 Charles Deutsch, French aerodynamics engineer and automobile maker, co-founder of the brand "DB (died 1980)

• 1912 Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet, Scottish nobleman (died 1991)

• 1912 Wayne Barlow, American organist, composer, and director (died 1996)

• 1913 Julie Gibson, American actress and singer (died 2019)

• 1913 Leônidas, Brazilian footballer (died 2004)

• 1915 Ed Oliver, American golfer (died 1961)

• 1915 Franz Josef Strauss, German lieutenant and politician, Minister President of Bavaria (died 1988)

• 1917 John Berry, American-French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1999)

• 1917 George Mann, English cricketer (died 2001)

• 1917 Philipp von Boeselager, German soldier and economist (died 2008)

• 1919 Wilson Greatbatch, American engineer and philanthropist (died 2011)

• 1920 Elvira Pagã, Brazilian actress, singer, and author (died 2003)

• 1921 Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (died 2004)

• 1921 Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor, co-created the bar code (died 2012)

• 1922 Adriano Moreira, Portuguese politician, Minister of the Overseas Provinces, President of the CDS – People's Party (died 2022)

• 1923 Peter II of Yugoslavia (died 1970)

• 1924 John Melcher, American veterinarian and politician (died 2018)

• 1925 Andrea Camilleri, Italian author, screenwriter, and director (died 2019)

• 1925 Jimmy Reed, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1976)

• 1926 Prince Claus of the Netherlands (died 2002)

• 1926 Jack English Hightower, American lawyer and politician (died 2013)

• 1926 Arthur Oldham, English composer and conductor (died 2003)

• 1926 Maurice Prather, American photographer and director (died 2001)

• 1928 Fumihiko Maki, Japanese architect and academic, designed the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium and Makuhari Messe (died 2024)

• 1928 Robert M. Pirsig, American novelist and philosopher (died 2017)

• 1928 Yevgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer (died 2002)

• 1928 Sid Watkins, English neurosurgeon and academic (died 2012)

• 1929 Yash Johar, Indian film producer, founded Dharma Productions (died 2005)

• 1929 Ljubov Rebane, Estonian physicist and mathematician (died 1991)

• 1930 Charles Foley, American game designer, co-created Twister (died 2013)

• 1930 Helmut Piirimäe, Estonian historian and academic (died 2017)

• 1931 Bud Shrake, American journalist, author, and screenwriter (died 2009)

• 1932 Colin McColl, English intelligence officer

• 1932 Gilles Tremblay, Canadian composer and educator (died 2017)

• 1935 Isabelle Collin Dufresne, French actress and author (died 2014)

• 1935 Jock Wallace Jr., Scottish footballer and coach (died 1996)

• 1937 Sergio Aragonés, Spanish-Mexican author and illustrator

• 1937 Janusz Kurczab, Polish fencer and mountaineer (died 2015)

• 1937 Jo Anne Worley, American actress, comedian, and singer

• 1938 Joan Tower, American pianist, composer, and conductor

• 1939 Brigid Berlin, American actress, painter, and photographer (died 2020)

• 1939 David Allan Coe, American outlaw country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2026)

• 1939 Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2026)

• 1940 John M. Hayes, American scientist (died 2017)

• 1940 Elizabeth Murray, American painter and illustrator (died 2007)

• 1940 Jackie Trent, English-Spanish singer-songwriter and actress (died 2015)

• 1941 Roger Law, English illustrator

• 1941 Monica Mason, South African ballerina and director

• 1942 Dave Bargeron, American trombonist and tuba player (died 2025)

• 1942 Richard Hutton, English cricketer

• 1942 Mel McDaniel, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2011)

• 1943 Gordon Birtwistle, English engineer and politician

• 1943 Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1943 Roger Waters, English singer-songwriter and bass player

• 1944 Donna Haraway, American author, academic, and activist

• 1944 Swoosie Kurtz, American actress

• 1946 Ron Boone, American basketball player and commentator

• 1946 Roger Knight, English cricketer and educator

• 1946 Shirley M. Malcom, American scientist, academic and educator

• 1947 Jane Curtin, American actress and comedian

• 1947 Bruce Rioch, English footballer and manager

• 1947 Jacob Rubinovitz, Polish-Israeli engineer and academic (died 2018)

• 1947 Sylvester, American singer-songwriter (died 1988)

• 1948 Claydes Charles Smith, American guitarist (died 2006)

• 1949 Iris Robinson, Northern Irish politician

• 1951 Melih Kibar, Turkish composer (died 2005)

• 1952 Simon Burns, English politician, Minister of State for Transport

• 1952 Vladimir Kazachyonok, Russian footballer, coach, and manager (died 2017)

• 1952 Buddy Miller, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1954 Carly Fiorina, American businesswoman and activist

• 1954 Demetris Kizas, Cypriot footballer

• 1954 Patrick O'Hearn, American bassist and composer

• 1954 John Sauven, English economist and environmentalist

• 1955 Raymond Benson, American author and playwright

• 1956 Bill Ritter, American lawyer and politician, 41st Governor of Colorado

• 1956 Steven Yearley, English sociologist and academic

• 1957 Ali Divandari, Iranian painter, sculptor, and journalist

• 1957 Michaëlle Jean, Haitian-Canadian journalist and politician, 27th Governor General of Canada

• 1957 José Sócrates, Portuguese engineer and politician, 119th Prime Minister of Portugal

• 1958 Buster Bloodvessel, English singer-songwriter

• 1958 Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1958 Nigel Westlake, Australian composer and conductor

• 1958 Michael Winslow, American actor

• 1958 The Barbarian, Tongan wrestler

• 1959 Bill Root, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1961 Simon Reeve, Australian journalist and game show host

• 1961 Wendi Richter, American wrestler

• 1961 Scott Travis, American rock drummer

• 1961 Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian musician and songwriter

• 1962 Chris Christie, American lawyer and politician, 55th Governor of New Jersey

• 1962 Marina Kaljurand, Estonian badminton player and diplomat, Estonia Ambassador to Russia

• 1962 Elizabeth Vargas, American journalist

• 1962 Kevin Willis, American basketball player and fashion designer

• 1963 Mark Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1963 Pat Nevin, Scottish footballer and sportscaster

• 1963 Betsy Russell, American actress

• 1963 Alice Sebold, American author

• 1963 Bryan Simonaire, American engineer and politician

• 1963 Geert Wilders, Dutch lawyer and politician

• 1964 Rosie Perez, American actress, dancer, and director

• 1965 Terry Bickers, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1965 Darren Clark, Australian sprinter

• 1965 Tony Fleet, Australian darts player

• 1965 Christopher Nolan, Irish author and poet (died 2009)

• 1965 Van Tiffin, American football player

• 1967 William DuVall, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1967 Macy Gray, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

• 1967 Kalli Kalde, Estonian painter and illustrator

• 1967 Milan Lukić, Bosnian Serb convicted of war crimes by the ICTY

• 1967 Igor Štimac, Croatian footballer and manager

• 1968 Saeed Anwar, Pakistani cricketer

• 1968 Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish author

• 1968 Paul Rea, American journalist

• 1969 Tony DiTerlizzi, American author and illustrator

• 1969 Ben Finegold, American chess player and educator

• 1969 Michellie Jones, Australian-American triathlete

• 1969 CeCe Peniston, American singer-songwriter, actress, and former beauty pageant winner

• 1970 Cheyne Coates, Australian singer-songwriter and producer

• 1970 Igor Korolev, Russian-Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2011)

• 1970 Emily Maitlis, Canadian-English journalist

• 1970 Rhett Miller, American alternative country singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1970 DJ Spooky, American electronic and experimental hip hop musician

• 1971 Devang Gandhi, Indian cricketer

• 1971 Asko Künnap, Estonian poet and illustrator

• 1971 Dolores O'Riordan, Irish singer-songwriter (died 2018)

• 1972 Dylan Bruno, American actor and model

• 1972 Idris Elba, English actor

• 1972 Justina Machado, American actress

• 1972 Saulius Mikalajūnas, Lithuanian footballer

• 1972 Anika Noni Rose, American actress and singer

• 1973 Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer

• 1973 Greg Rusedski, Canadian-English tennis player and sportscaster

• 1973 Alessandro Troncon, Italian rugby player and coach

• 1974 Tim Henman, English tennis player and sportscaster

• 1974 Nina Persson, Swedish singer-songwriter and musician

• 1974 Justin Whalin, American actor

• 1975 Derrek Lee, American baseball player and coach

• 1975 Ryoko Tani, Japanese judoka and politician

• 1976 Rodrigo Amarante, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1976 Naomie Harris, English actress

• 1976 Jon Ander López, Spanish footballer (died 2013)

• 1976 Tom Pappas, American decathlete and coach

• 1978 Cisco Adler, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1978 Foxy Brown, American rapper

• 1978 Alex Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player

• 1978 Mathew Horne, English actor and screenwriter

• 1978 Homare Sawa, Japanese footballer

• 1979 Mike Arnaoutis, Greek boxer

• 1979 Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer

• 1979 Carlos Adrián Morales, Mexican footballer

• 1979 Low Ki, American wrestler

• 1980 Jillian Hall, American wrestler and singer

• 1980 Kerry Katona, English singer and actress

• 1980 Samuel Peter, Nigerian boxer

• 1980 Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer

• 1981 Yuki Abe, Japanese footballer

• 1981 Yumiko Cheng, Hong Kong singer and actress

• 1981 Andrew Richardson, Jamaican cricketer

• 1981 Mark Teahen, American baseball player

• 1982 Temeka Johnson, American basketball player

• 1983 Jerry Blevins, American baseball player

• 1983 Pippa Middleton, English socialite and author

• 1983 Braun Strowman, American wrestler and strongman

• 1984 Helena Ekholm, Swedish skier

• 1984 William Porterfield, Northern Irish cricketer

• 1985 Lauren Lapkus, American actress and comedian

• 1985 Mitch Moreland, American baseball player

• 1985 Małgorzata Rejmer, Polish novelist

• 1987 Emir Preldžić, Turkish basketball player

• 1988 Max George, English singer-songwriter and actor

• 1988 Denis Tonucci, Italian footballer

• 1989 Kim So-eun, South Korean actress

• 1990 John Wall, American basketball player

• 1991 Brian Dumoulin, American ice hockey player

• 1991 Joe Harris, American basketball player

• 1992 Ryan Shazier, American football player

• 1992 Young Tonumaipea, Samoan rugby league player

• 1993 Famous Dex, American rapper

• 1993 Alex Poythress, American basketball player

• 1993 Mattia Valoti, Italian footballer

• 1994 Maddie Phillips, Canadian actress

• 1994 Emilly Micaela Marcondes, Brazilian professional futsal player

• 1994 Elif Doğan, Turkish actress

• 1995 Mark Andrews, American football player

• 1995 Mustafizur Rahman, Bangladeshi cricketer

• 1996 Andrés Tello, Colombian footballer

• 1996 Lil Xan, American rapper

• 1997 Mallory Comerford, American swimmer

• 1997 Tsukushi, Japanese wrestler

• 1998 Michele Perniola, Italian singer

• 2000 David Kushner, American singer-songwriter

• 2001 Freya Allan, English actress

• 2001 Terrence Clarke, American basketball player (died 2021)

• 2002 Asher Angel, American actor

• 2002 Leylah Fernandez, Canadian tennis player

• 2005 Elzhana Taniyeva, Kazakh rhythmic gymnast

• 2006 Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japanese prince

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 394 Eugenius, Roman usurper

• 926 Taizu of Liao, Khitan ruler (born 872)

• 952 Suzaku, emperor of Japan (born 923)

• 957 Liudolf, duke of Swabia (born 930)

• 972 John XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (born 930)

• 1178 Ioveta, Latin princess

• 1276 Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Italian cardinal (born 1210)

• 1431 Demetrios Laskaris Leontares, Byzantine admiral and diplomat

• 1511 Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shōgun (born 1481)

• 1553 Juan de Homedes y Coscon, 47th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (born c.1477)

• 1566 Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman sultan (born 1494)

1601–1900

• 1625 Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian and scholar (born 1579)

• 1635 Adriaan Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (born 1571)

• 1649 Robert Dudley, English geographer and explorer (born 1574)

• 1683 Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French economist and politician, French Controller-General of Finances (born 1619)

• 1708 Sir John Morden, 1st Baronet, English merchant and philanthropist, founded Morden College (born 1623)

• 1783 Carlo Bertinazzi, Italian actor and author (born 1710)

• 1808 Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian and author (born 1723)

• 1836 Gaspar Flores de Abrego, three-term mayor of San Antonio, in Spanish Texas (born 1781)

• 1868 Pierre Adolphe Rost, American lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1797)

• 1885 Narcís Monturiol, Spanish engineer, designed the Ictineo I and Ictineo II (born 1819)

• 1891 Charles Jamrach, German-English businessman (born 1815)

1901–present

• 1902 Frederick Abel, English chemist and engineer (born 1827)

• 1907 Sully Prudhomme, French poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1839)

• 1919 Lord Charles Beresford, English admiral and politician (born 1846)

• 1927 William Libbey, American target shooter and geographer (born 1855)

• 1938 John Stuart Hindmarsh, English race car driver and pilot (born 1907)

• 1939 Arthur Rackham, English illustrator (born 1867)

• 1940 Thomas Harte (Irish republican) (born 1915)

• 1940 Patrick McGrath (Irish republican) (born 1894)

• 1944 James Cannon Jr., American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (born 1864)

• 1945 John S. McCain Sr., American admiral (born 1884)

• 1949 Song Qiyun, Chinese communist activist (born 1904)

• 1949 Song Zhenzhong, Chinese child internee (born 1941)

• 1949 Xu Linxia, Chinese communist activist (born 1904/1905)

• 1949 Yang Hucheng, Chinese general (born 1893)

• 1950 Olaf Stapledon, English philosopher and author (born 1886)

• 1951 James W. Gerard, American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Germany (born 1867)

• 1952 Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, singer, and dancer (born 1898)

• 1956 Witold Hurewicz, Polish mathematician (born 1904)

• 1956 Lee Jung-seob, North Korean painter (born 1916)

• 1959 Edmund Gwenn, English actor (born 1877)

• 1959 Kay Kendall, English actress and comedian (born 1927)

• 1962 Hanns Eisler, German-Austrian composer (born 1898)

• 1962 Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (born 1892)

• 1966 Margaret Sanger, American nurse, educator, and activist (born 1879)

• 1966 Hendrik Verwoerd, Dutch-South African journalist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of South Africa (born 1901)

• 1969 Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (born 1892)

1972 Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre

• Luttif Afif, Palestinian terrorist (born 1945)

• David Berger, American-Israeli weightlifter (born 1944)

• Ze'ev Friedman, Polish-Israeli weightlifter (born 1944)

• Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestling judge (born 1931)

• Eliezer Halfin, Russian-Israeli wrestler (born 1948)

• Amitzur Shapira, Russian-Israeli runner and coach (born 1932)

• Kehat Shorr, Romanian shooting coach (born 1919)

• Mark Slavin, Israeli wrestler (born 1954)

• Andre Spitzer, Romanian-Israeli fencer and coach (born 1945)

• Yakov Springer, Polish-Israeli wrestler and coach (born 1921)

• 1974 Olga Baclanova, Russian-Swiss actress and ballerina (born 1896)

• 1974 Otto Kruger, American actor (born 1885)

• 1978 Max Decugis, French tennis player (born 1882)

• 1978 Tom Wilson, American record producer (born 1931)

• 1978 Adolf Dassler, German cobbler and entrepreneur, founded Adidas (born 1900)

• 1979 Ronald Binge, English organist and composer (born 1910)

• 1982 Azra Erhat, Turkish archaeologist, author, and academic (born 1915)

• 1984 Ernest Tubb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1914)

• 1985 Franco Ferrara, Italian conductor and composer (born 1911)

• 1986 Blanche Sweet, American actress (born 1896)

• 1988 Leroy Brown, American wrestler (born 1950)

• 1990 Tom Fogerty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)

• 1990 Len Hutton, English cricketer and soldier (born 1916)

• 1992 Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer (born 1912)

• 1994 Nicky Hopkins, English pianist (born 1944)

• 1994 Max Kaminsky, American trumpet player and bandleader (born 1908)

• 1997 P. H. Newby, English author and broadcaster (born 1918)

• 1998 Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1910)

• 1998 Ric Segreto, American-Filipino singer-songwriter, actor, and journalist (born 1952)

• 1998 Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Swedish actor (born 1928)

• 2005 Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (born 1929)

• 2000 Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (born 1918)

• 2005 Eugenia Charles, Dominican lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Dominica (born 1919)

• 2007 Madeleine L'Engle, American author and poet (born 1918)

• 2007 Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (born 1935)

• 2008 Anita Page, American actress (born 1910)

• 2009 Catherine Gaskin, Irish-Australian author (born 1929)

• 2010 Boris Chetkov, Russian painter (born 1926)

• 2010 Clive Donner, English director and editor (born 1926)

• 2011 Michael S. Hart, American author, founded Project Gutenberg (born 1947)

• 2012 Elisabeth Böhm, German architect (born 1921)

• 2012 Lawrie Dring, Scottish scout leader, founded World Federation of Independent Scouts (born 1931)

• 2012 Oscar Rossi, Argentine footballer and manager (born 1930)

• 2013 Ann C. Crispin, American author (born 1950)

• 2013 Khin Maung Kyi, Burmese economist and scholar (born 1926)

• 2013 Santiago Rosario, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach (born 1939)

• 2014 Odd Bondevik, Norwegian bishop and theologian (born 1941)

• 2014 Seth Martin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1933)

• 2014 Kira Zvorykina, Belarusian chess player and educator (born 1919)

• 2015 Ralph Milne, Scottish footballer (born 1961)

• 2015 Martin Milner, American actor (born 1931)

• 2017 Peter Luck, Australian journalist and television host (born 1944)

• 2017 Kate Millett, American feminist author and activist (born 1934)

• 2018 Richard DeVos, American billionaire businessman (born 1926)

• 2018 Liz Fraser, English actress (born 1930)

• 2018 Burt Reynolds, American actor, director and producer (born 1936)

• 2019 Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe (born 1924)

• 2020 Lou Brock, American baseball player (born 1939)

• 2021 Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (born 1933)

• 2021 Michael K. Williams, American actor (born 1966)

• 2024 – Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, Turkish-American activist (born 1998)

• 2024 Rebecca Horn, German visual artist (born 1944)

• 2024 Will Jennings, American songwriter (born 1944)

• 2024 Cathy Merrick, Canadian First Nations leader (born 1961/1962)

• 2024 Ron Yeats, Scottish footballer (born 1937)

• 2025 Rick Davies, English musician (born 1944)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast days:

• Begga

• Chagnoald

• Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria

• Gondulphus of Metz

• Blessed Jan Franciszek Czartoryski

• Magnus of Füssen

• Onesiphorus

• Zechariah (Hebrew prophet) (Catholic church)

• September 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• The earliest date on which the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance is performed

• Armed Forces Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)

• Defence Day or Army Day (Pakistan)

• Flag Day (Bonaire)

• Independence Day (Swaziland), celebrates the independence of Eswatini from the United Kingdom in 1968

• Unification Day (Bulgaria)

References

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