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August 26

Events

1071 – Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert.
1278 – Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in (then) Moravia.
1303 – Ala ud din Khilji captures Chittorgarh.
1346 – Hundred Years' War: the military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crécy.
1466 – A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de' Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered.
1498 – Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà.
1748 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1768 – The HM Bark Endeavour expedition under Captain James Cook sets sail from England.
1778 – The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
1789 – Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen approved by National Assembly at Palace of Versailles.
1858 – First news dispatch by telegraph.
1862 – American Civil War: the Second Battle of Bull Run begins.
1883 – The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
1914 – World War I: the British Expeditionary Force briefly checks the German advance at Le Cateau.
1914 – World War I: the German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days.
1920 – The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
1939 – The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn, New York.
1940 – Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor.
1942 – Holocaust in Chortkiv, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of their houses, divides them into groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 to Belzec death camp. 500 of the sick and children murdered on the spot.
1944 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
1957 – The USSR announces the successful test of an ICBM – a "super long distance intercontinental multistage ballistic rocket ... a few days ago," according to the Soviet news agency, ITAR-TASS.
1968 – The Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago, Illinois.
1970 – The then new feminist movement, led by Betty Friedan, leads a nation-wide Women's Strike for Equality.
1971 – The United States Congress declares August 26th as an annual Women's Equality Day.
1977 – The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec
1978 – Papal conclave, 1978 (August): Pope John Paul I is elected to the Papacy.
1978 – Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 31 spacecraft.
1980 – John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada.
1987 – President Ronald Reagan proclaims September 11, 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day.
1988 – Mehran Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
1996 – Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
1997 – Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
1999 – Michael Johnson breaks the 400 metres world record with a time of 43.18 seconds.
2003 – The Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
2008 – Russia unilaterally recognizes the independence of the former Georgian breakaway republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Births

1469 – Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)
1540 – King Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583)
1676 – Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1745)
1694 – Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (d. 1755)
1728 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (d. 1777)
1736 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (d. 1790)
1740 – Joseph Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1810)
1743 – Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794)
1775 – William Joseph Behr, German writer (d. 1851)
1789 – Abbas Mirza, Prince of Persia (d. 1833)
1792 – Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan political figure (d. 1857)
1819 – Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom (d. 1861)
1826 – Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (d. 1875)
1845 – Mary Ann Nichols, English victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
1850 – Charles Richet, French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
1854 – Arnold Fothergill, England cricketer (d. 1932)
1862 – Herbert Booth, American son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926)
1864 – Anna Ulyanova, older sister of Vladimir Lenin (d. 1935)
1865 – Arthur James Arnot, Scottish inventor (d. 1946)
1873 – Lee DeForest, American inventor (d. 1961)
1874 – Zona Gale, American novelist (d. 1938)
1875 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist, Governor General of Canada (d. 1940)
1880 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and art critic (d. 1918)
1882 – James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1964)
1885 – Jules Romains, French author (d. 1972)
1890 – Tommy Andrews, Australian cricketer (d. 1970)
1894 – Sparky Adams, Baseball player (d. 1989)
1896 – Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1990)
1897 – Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (d. 1990)
1898 – Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979)
1899 – Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (d. 1991)
1900 – Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980)
1901 – Hans Kammler, German engineer and SS officer (disappeared in 1945)
1901 – Maxwell Taylor, American general (d. 1987)
1901 – Chen Yi, Chinese communist military commander and politician (d. 1972)
1904 – Christopher Isherwood, English-born writer (d. 1986)
1906 – Albert Sabin, American polio researcher (d. 1993)
1908 – W. B. Henning, Prussian-born Iranist (d. 1967)
1908 – Aubrey Schenck, film producer (d. 1999)
1908 – Bill Hunt, Australian cricketer (d. 1983)
1909 – Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981)
1909 – Gene Moore, baseball player (d. 1978)
1909 – Eric Davies, South African cricketer (d. 1976)
1910 – Mother Teresa, Nobel Peace Prize winning Christian missionary (d. 1997)
1914 – Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (d. 1984)
1920 – Brant Parker, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
1921 – Benjamin Bradlee, American journalist
1922 – Irving R. Levine, American journalist (d. 2009)
1923 – Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist
1924 – Alex Kellner, baseball player (d. 1996)
1925 – Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (d. 2005)
1925 – Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and writer (d. 1999)
1925 – Sangharakshita, Buddhist Philosopher, Founder of the Western Buddhist Order
1927 – B. V. Doshi, Indian architect
1928 – Peter Appleyard, Canadian jazz vibraphonist
1928 – Naïm Kattan, Canadian novelist and essayist
1930 – Joe Solomon, West Indian cricketer
1932 – Luis Salvadores, Chilean basketball player.
1934 – Tom Heinsohn, American basketball player and commentator
1935 – Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate
1936 – Yvette Vickers, American actress
1938 – Jet Black, English Drummer, one of the founder members of The Stranglers
1940 – Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (d. 2008)
1941 – Barbet Schroeder, Swiss film director
1941 – Akiko Wakabayashi, Japanese actress
1941 – Chris Curtis, English singer and drummer (The Searchers) (d. 2005)
1942 – Vic Dana, American singer
1942 – Dennis Turner, British politician
1944 – Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester,British prince
1944 – Stephen Greif, English actor
1944 – Maureen Tucker, American musician (The Velvet Underground)
1945 – Jo Freeman, American feminist scholar
1945 – Tom Ridge, first United States Secretary of Homeland Security
1946 – Valerie Simpson, American singer
1946 – Mark Snow, American composer
1946 – Zhou Ji, Education Minister of the People's Republic of China
1946 – Chantal Renaud, Quebec singer and actress
1947 – Emiliano Díez, Cuban actor
1950 – Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (d. 2006)
1952 – Bryon Baltimore, Canadian ice hockey player
1952 – Michael Jeter, American actor (d. 2003)
1952 – Will Shortz, American crossword editor
1953 – Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer
1954 – Efren Reyes, Filipino pool player
1956 – Mark Mangino, American football coach
1957 – Dr. Alban, Nigerian-Swedish singer
1957 – Rick Hansen, Canadian paraplegic athlete
1958 – Jan Nevens, Belgian cyclist
1959 – Stan Van Gundy, American basketball coach
1960 – Branford Marsalis, American saxophonist and bandleader
1960 – Nancy Martinez, Canadian-born singer
1960 – Wanda De Jesus, American actress
1961 – Daniel Lévi, French singer-songwriter, composer and pianist
1961 – Jeff Parrett, American baseball player
1962 – Bob Mionske, American cyclist and attorney
1963 – David Byas, England cricketer
1965 – Chris Burke, American actor
1965 – Bobby Duncum, Jr., wrestler (d. 2000)
1965 – Jon Hensley, American actor
1966 – Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player
1966 – Shirley Manson, Scottish singer
1966 – Avner Ben-Gal, Israeli artist and painter
1968 – Byron Lawson, Canadian actor
1970 – Olimpiada Ivanova, Russian athlete
1970 – Brett Schultz, South African cricketer
1971 – Thalía, Mexican singer
1974 – Eric D. Snider, American humor columnist / movie reviewer
1975 – Morgan Ensberg, American baseball player
1976 – Amaia Montero, Spanish singer (La Oreja de Van Gogh)
1976 – Zemfira, Russian singer
1977 – Saeko Chiba, Japanese seiyū
1977 – Morris Peterson, American basketball player
1977 – Liam Botham, Hampshire cricketer and rugby league player
1978 – Raja Kashif, Pakistani singer
1979 – Jamal Lewis, American football player
1979 – Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer
1979 – Rubén Pazos, Spanish footballer
1979 – Yağmur Sarıgül, Turkish Musician (maNga)
1980 – Macaulay Culkin, American actor
1980 – Brendan Harris, American baseball player
1980 – Chris Pine, American actor
1981 – Jesse Martin, Australian yachtsman
1981 – Petey Williams, Canadian professional wrestler
1981 – Demetria McKinney, American actress
1981 – Tino Best, West Indian cricketer
1982 – David Long, New Zealand musician
1982 – Noah Welch, American ice hockey player
1983 – Félix Porteiro, Spanish racing driver
1986 – Cassie, American singer
1988 – Danielle Savre, American actress
1988 – Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este
1988 – Elvis Andrus Major League Baseball player
1992 – Yang Yilin, Chinese gymnast
1993 – Keke Palmer, American actress

Deaths

1278 – King Otakar II of Bohemia
1346 – Killed in the Battle of Crécy:
Charles II of Alençon (b. 1297)
Louis I of Flanders (b. 1304)
John I, Count of Luxemburg (b. 1296)
Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320)
1349 – Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury
1551 – Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516)
1572 – Petrus Ramus, French philosopher (b. 1515)
1595 – Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (b. 1531)
1666 – Frans Hals, Dutch painter (b. c. 1580)
1714 – Edward Fowler, English Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1632)
1723 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (b. 1632)
1785 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716)
1850 – Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1773)
1865 – Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (b. 1791)
1908 – Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (b. 1837)
1910 – William James, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1842)
1930 – Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (b. 1883)
1944 – Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (b. 1909)
1945 – Franz Werfel, Austrian writer (b. 1890)
1946 – Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)
1956 – Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (b. 1881)
1958 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (b. 1872)
1968 – Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1899)
1974 – Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (b. 1902)
1976 – Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (b. 1888)
1978 – Charles Boyer, French actor (b. 1899)
1978 – José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (b. 1916)
1979 – Mika Waltari, Finnish author (b. 1908)
1980 – Rosa Albach-Retty, German actress (b. 1874)
1980 – Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
1981 – Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)
1981 – Lee Elhardt Hays, American folksinger (b. 1914)
1986 – Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)
1987 – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1987 – John Goddard, West Indian cricketer (b. 1919)
1988 – Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (b. 1957)
1989 – Irving Stone, American author (b. 1903)
1990 – Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer (b. 1913)
1992 – Arthur Leigh Allen, American suspected murderer (b. 1933)
1992 – Bob de Moor, Belgian comics artist (b. 1925)
1998 – Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2000 – Akbar Adibi, Iranian scientist (b. 1939)
2001 – Louis Muhlstock, Canadian painter (b. 1904)
2003 – Jim Wacker, American football coach (b. 1937)
2004 – Laura Branigan, American singer (b. 1957)
2005 – Denis D'Amour, Canadian guitarist (Voivod) (b. 1960)
2005 – Robert Denning, American interior designer (b. 1927)
2005 – Ed White, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1949)
2006 – Rainer Barzel, German politician (b. 1924)
2006 – Clyde Walcott, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (b. 1926)
2007 – Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician (b. 1928)
2007 – Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (b. 1935)

Holidays and observances

Namibia – Heroes' Day
Philippines – National Heroes' Day.
Adrian of Nicomedia
Saint Alexander of Bergamo
Saint David Lewis
Saint Ninian
Simplicius, Constantius and Victorinus
Saint Zephyrinus
Transverberation of Saint Teresa of Ávila
United States – Women's Equality Day

 

[historylover]

August 27

Events

479 BC – Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army in the Battle of Plataea.
410 – The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
663 – Remnants of the Korean Baekje Kingdom and their Yamato Japanese allies engage the combined naval forces of the Tang Chinese and Silla Koreans on the Geum River in Korea.
1172 – Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned as junior king and queen of England.
1232 – The Formulary of Adjudications is promulgated by Regent Hōjō Yasutoki. (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 1232)
1689 – The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing empire.
1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
1789 – The French National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, proclaiming that "men are born and remain free and equal in rights".
1793 – French counter-revolution: the port of Toulon revolts and admits the British fleet, which lands troops and seizes the port leading to Siege of Toulon.
1798 – Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connaught.
1813 – French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Argentina-Brazil War.
1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.
1861 – Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.


Krakatoa explosions and tsunamis 1883
1883 – Krakatoa, an Indonesian volcano, enters the final stage of its eruption.
1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
1916 – Romania declares war against Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.
1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali (leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire) as King Faisal I of Iraq.
1922 – The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Greeks.
1928 – The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by the first fifteen nations to do so. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
1943 – Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
1952 – West Germany and Israel conclude reparation negotiations in Luxembourg; West Germany agrees to pay 3 billion Deutsch Marks.
1957 – The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force.
1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
1969 – Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory to stage a mortar attack on regional Egyptian Army headquarters in the Nile Valley of Upper Egypt.
1971 – An attempted coup fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.
1975 – The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
1979 – An IRA bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and 3 others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Another bomb near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland kills 18 British soldiers.
1982 – Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altikat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada's capital. Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide claim responsibility, saying they are avenging the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
1985 – The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
1991 – The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1991 – Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
1993 – The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
2000 – 540-metre (1,772 ft)-tall Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.
2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.

Births

1407 – Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (d. 1425)
1471 – George, Duke of Saxony (d. 1539)
1487 – Anna of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark (d. 1514)
1637 – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (d. 1715)
1665 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (d. 1751)
1669 – Anne Marie of Orléans, queen of Italy (d. 1728)
1698 – Baal Shem Tov, Founder of the Chasiddic movement (d. 1760)
1677 – Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1748)
1724 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (d. 1781)
1730 – Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher (d. 1788)
1770 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831)
1803 – Edward Beecher, American theologian (d. 1895)
1809 – Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United States of America (d. 1891)
1858 – Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (d. 1932)
1865 – James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (d. 1935)
1865 – Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1951)
1868 – Hong Beom-do, Korean independence activist (d. 1943)
1870 – Amado Nervo, Mexican poet (d. 1919)
1871 – Theodore Dreiser, American author (d. 1945)
1874 – Carl Bosch, German chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
1875 – Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (d. 1967)
1877 – Charles Rolls, British co-founder of Rolls-Royce (d. 1910)
1877 – Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1963)
1884 – Vincent Auriol, French President (d. 1966)
1886 – Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (d. 1979)
1886 – Eric Coates, English composer (d. 1957)
1890 – Man Ray, American photographer and artist (d. 1976)
1896 – Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (d. 1984)
1898 – Gaspard Fauteux, French Canadian parliamentarian (d. 1963)
1899 – C. S. Forester, British author (d. 1966)
1899 – Byron Foulger, American actor (d. 1970)
1904 – Norah Lofts, British author (d. 1983)
1904 – John Hay Whitney, American financier (d. 1982)
1906 – Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
1908 – Don Bradman, Australian cricketer (d. 2001)
1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)
1908 – Kurt Wegner, German artist (d. 1985)
1909 – Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1966)
1909 – Lester Young, American musician (d. 1959)
1911 – Kay Walsh, British actress (d. 2005)
1912 – Gloria Guinness, Mexican socialite and writer(d. 1980)
1913 – Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, Russian-born wife of Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (d. 2006)
1915 – Norman F. Ramsey, American physicist Nobel Prize laureate
1916 – Martha Raye, American actress (d. 1994)
1916 – Tony Harris, South African cricketer (d. 1993)
1917 – Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1918 – Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch Prime Minister (d. 2001)
1919 – Murray Grand, American songwriter and cabaret singer (d. 2007)
1921 – Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1996)
1921 – Leo Penn, American film director (d. 1998)
1924 – David Rowbotham, Australian poet
1925 – Darry Cowl, French actor (d. 2006)
1925 – Nat Lofthouse, English footballer
1926 – Pat Coombs, English actress (d. 2002)
1926 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2002)
1927 – Jimmy C. Newman, American singer
1928 – Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician
1929 – Ira Levin, American author (d. 2007)
1931 – Sri Chinmoy, Indian guru (d. 2007)
1931 – Joe Cunningham, American baseball player
1932 – Antonia Fraser, British author
1935 – Ernie Broglio, American baseball player
1935 – Frank Yablans, American film producer
1936 – Joel Kovel, American politician
1937 – Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (d. 2007)
1937 – Tommy Sands, American actor and singer
1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American author
1940 – Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (d. 1994)
1941 – Harrison Page, American actor
1942 – Daryl Dragon, American keyboardist (Captain & Tennille)
1942 – Brian Peckford, Canadian politician
1943 – Tuesday Weld, American actress
1945 – G. W. Bailey, American actor
1946 – Tony Howard, West Indian cricketer
1947 – Barbara Bach, American actress
1947 – Harry Reems, American actor
1947 – John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer
1947 – Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
1948 – Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek musician (d. 1990)
1948 – Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler
1949 – Jeff Cook, vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, fiddle, banjo and mandolin for Alabama
1950 – Charles Fleischer, American actor
1951 – Buddy Bell, American baseball player-manager
1951 – Mack Brown, American University of Texas Head Football Coach
1952 – Paul Reubens (aka Pee-wee Herman), American actor
1953 – Alex Lifeson, Canadian guitarist (Rush)
1953 – Peter Stormare, Swedish-born actor
1954 – John Lloyd, British tennis player
1954 – Derek Warwick, British race car driver
1955 – Laura Fygi, Dutch singer
1955 – Robert Richardson, American cinematographer
1955 – Diana Scarwid, American actress
1957 – Bernhard Langer, German golfer and two-time Masters champion
1958 – Normand Brathwaite, Canadian comedian and television and radio host
1958 – Sergei Krikalev, Russian cosmonaut
1958 – Tom Lanoye, Belgian author
1959 – Gerhard Berger, Austrian race car driver and F1 team co-owner (Scuderia Toro Rosso)
1959 – Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian artist
1959 – Downtown Julie Brown, Welsh TV personality and MTV VJ
1961 – Yolanda Adams, American gospel singer
1961 – Tom Ford, American fashion designer
1962 – Adam Oates, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 – Frankie Thorn, American actress
1965 – Wayne James, Zimbabwean cricketer
1966 – Juhan Parts, Prime Minister of Estonia
1967 – Ogie Alcasid, Filipino singer and actor
1969 – Reece Shearsmith, British actor and comedian
1969 – Mark Ealham, England cricketer
1969 – Cesar Millan, dog trainer
1969 – Chandra Wilson, American actress
1969 – Alan Doyle, MDA President
1970 – Peter Ebdon, English snooker player
1970 – Tony Kanal, English musician (No Doubt)
1970 – Jeff Kenna, Irish footballer
1970 – Jim Thome, American baseball player
1970 – Andy Bichel, Australian cricketer
1970 – Mark Ilott, England cricketer
1971 – Julian Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer
1971 – Ernest Faber, Dutch footballer and soccer coach
1972 – Jimmy Pop, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang)
1972 – Jaap-Derk Buma, Dutch hockey player
1972 – Denise Lewis, English heptathlete
1972 – The Great Khali, Indian professional wrestler
1973 – Carlene Begnaud, American professional wrestler
1973 – Danny Coyne, Welsh footballer
1973 – Dietmar Hamann, German footballer
1973 – Johan Norberg, Swedish author
1973 – Burak Kut, Turkish pop singer
1974 – José Vidro, Puerto Rican baseball player
1974 – Mohammad Yousuf, Pakistani cricketer
1974 – Michael Mason, New Zealand cricketer
1975 – Jonny Moseley, American skier
1975 – Björn Gelotte, Swedish singer-songwriter
1975 – Mark Rudan, Australian footballer
1976 – Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress
1976 – Carlos Moyà, Spanish tennis player
1976 – Milano Collection Akihito Terui, Japanese professional wrestler
1976 – Mark Webber, Australian race car driver
1977 – Deco, Portuguese footballer
1977 – Mase, American rapper
1979 – Giovanni Capitello, American filmmaker and actor
1979 – Tian Liang, Chinese diver
1979 – Sarah Neufeld, Canadian musician (Arcade Fire)
1979 – Rusty Smith, American shorttracker
1980 – Neha Dhupia, Indian model and actress
1983 – Wilson Chen, Taiwanese actor
1984 – David Bentley, English footballer
1984 – Sulley Muntari, Ghanaian footballer
1985 – Alexandra Nechita, Romanian/American artist
1986 – Mario, American R&B singer
1987 – Darren McFadden, American football player
1988 – Alexa Vega, American actress
1993 – Sarah Hecken, German figure skater

Deaths

542 – Saint Caesarius of Arles
827 – Pope Eugene II
1312 – Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1262)
1394 – Chokei, Emperor of Japan (b. 1343)
1450 – Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395)
1521 – Josquin Des Prez, Flemish composer
1545 – Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)
1572 – Claude Goudimel, French composer
1577 – Titian, Italian artist
1590 – Pope Sixtus V (b. 1521)
1635 – Félix Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562)
1664 – Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (b. 1598)
1748 – James Thomson, Scottish poet (b. 1700)
1773 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)
1857 – Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American literary critic and editor (b. 1815)
1865 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian author (b. 1796)
1871 – William Whiting Boardman, American politician (b. 1794)
1875 – William Chapman Ralston, American banker (b. 1826)
1909 – Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (b. 1842)
1929 – Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist (b. 1892)
1931 – Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (b. 1856)
1931 – Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846)
1944 – Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman (b. 1915)
1948 – Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)
1958 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
1963 – Garrett Morgan, American inventor (b. 1877)
1963 – W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights activist and scholar (b. 1868)
1963 – Allama Mashriqi, Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1888)
1964 – Gracie Allen, American actress and comedienne (b. 1895)
1965 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)
1967 – Brian Epstein, English manager of The Beatles (b. 1934)
1968 – Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (b. 1906)
1969 – Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (b. 1884)
1969 – Erika Mann, German writer and daughter of Thomas Mann (b. 1905)
1971 – Bennett Cerf, American publisher and television personality (b. 1898)
1971 – Margaret Bourke-White, American photo-journalist (b. 1906)
1975 – Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1892)
1976 – Mukesh, Indian playback singer (b. 1923)
1979 – Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, British admiral and statesman (assassinated) (b. 1900)
1980 – Douglas Kenney, American humorist (b. 1947)
1981 – Valeri Kharlamov, Soviet ice hockey player (b. 1948)
1984 – Bernard Youens, English actor (b. 1914)
1987 – Scott La Rock, American DJ (Boogie Down Productions) (b. 1962)
1988 – William Sargant, British psychiatrist (b. 1907)
1988 – Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (b. 1928)
1990 – Stevie Ray Vaughan, American guitarist (b. 1954)
1996 – Greg Morris, American actor (b. 1933)
1999 – Hélder Câmara, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1909)
2001 – Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (assassinated) (b. 1938)
2001 – Michael Dertouzos, Greek internet pioneer, Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (b. 1936)
2002 – Dr. Edwin Louis Cole, "Father of the Modern Day Men's Movement," Founder of the Christian Men's Network (CMN) (b. 1922)
2003 – Pierre Poujade, French politician (b. 1920)
2004 – Willie Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1946)
2005 – Seán Purcell, Gaelic footballer (b. 1929)
2006 – Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director (b. 1922)
2006 – María Capovilla, oldest living person from 2004–2006 (b. 1889)
2006 – Jesse Pintado, Mexican-born guitarist (Napalm Death) (b. 1969)
2007 – Emma Penella, Spanish actress (b. 1930)
2008 – Mark Priestley, Australian actor (b. 1970)
2009 – Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer and poet (b. 1913)

Holidays and observances

Roman Festivals – Volturnalia held in honor of Volturnus.
RC Saints –
Saint Joseph Calasanctius (Pre-1970 Roman Catholic calendar)
Saint Monica of Hippo
Saint Caesarius of Arles
Saints Rufus and Carpophorus
Saint Margaret the Barefooted.
Moldova – Independence Day (from the USSR, 1991).
Texas – Lyndon Baines Johnson Day

 

[historylover]

August 28

Events

475 – The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.
489 – Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
1189 – Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan
1349 – 6,000 Jews are killed in Mainz, accused of being the cause of the plague.
1511 – The Portuguese conquer Malacca.
1521 – The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
1542 – Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-1557) – Battle of Wofla: the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed.
1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
1619 – Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1640 – Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
1789 – William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn.
1810 – Battle of Grand Port – the French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.
1830 – The Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the United States.
1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
1849 – After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria.
1859 – A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far away as Japan.
1862 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas.
1867 – The United States takes possession of the, at this point unoccupied, Midway Atoll.
1879 – Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
1898 – Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".
1913 – Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
1914 – World War I: the Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
1914 – World War I: German troops conquer Namur.
1916 – World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
1916 – World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
1917 – Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
1924 – The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
1931 – France and Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1943 – World War II: in Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
1944 – World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
1961 – Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.
1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech.
1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins.
1968 – Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.
1979 – An IRA bomb explodes on the Grand Place in Brussels.
1981 – The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men. These will soon be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder, which will be called AIDS.
1986 – United States Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union.
1988 – Ramstein airshow disaster: three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. 75 are killed and 346 seriously injured.
1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
1990 – The Plainfield Tornado: an F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.
1991 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 – Collapse of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
1996 – Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales divorce.
1998 – Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
2003 – An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London's underground rail network to a halt.

Births

1025 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (d. 1068)
1582 – Taichang Emperor, of the Ming dynasty of China (d. 1620)
1592 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1628)
1612 – Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (d. 1653)
1667 – Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1721)
1691 – Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1750)
1714 – Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1774)
1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (d. 1832)
1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, American-born Catholic saint (d. 1821)
1789 – Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (d. 1860)
1801 – Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (d. 1877)
1814 – Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
1827 – Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1894)
1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (birthdate according to O.S.) (d. 1910)
1840 – Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish merchant (d. 1900)
1853 – Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer and inventor (d. 1939)
1859 – Vittorio Sella, Italian photographer (d. 1943)
1867 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (d. 1948)
1878 – George Whipple, American doctor and Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1885 – Vance Palmer, Australian author (d. 1959)
1894 – Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (d. 1981)
1898 – Charlie Grimm, American baseball player (d. 1983)
1899 – Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978)
1903 – Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist (d. 1990)
1904 – Secondo Campini, Italian jet engine pioneer (d. 1980)
1905 – Cyril Walters, England cricketer (d. 1992)
1906 – John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
1908 – Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist (d. 1996)
1910 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-born economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
1911 – Joseph Luns, Dutch politician (d. 2002)
1913 – Robertson Davies, Canadian writer (d. 1995)
1913 – Richard Tucker, American tenor (d. 1975)
1913 – Terence Reese, British bridge player (d. 1996)
1913 – Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer
1913 – Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (d. 1993)
1915 – Max Robertson, British sports commentator
1915 – Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (d. 2008)
1916 – Jack Vance, American author
1916 – Hélène Baillargeon, Quebec singer and folklorist (d. 1997)
1917 – Jack Kirby, American comic book artist (d. 1994)
1919 – Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer Nobel Laureate (d. 2004)
1920 – Frits Bernard, pedophile activist (d. 2006)
1921 – Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright (d. 2007)
1921 – Nancy Kulp, American actress (d. 1991)
1924 – Janet Frame, New Zealand author (d. 2004)
1924 – Peggy Ryan, American actress (d. 2004)
1924 – Tony MacGibbon, New Zealand cricketer
1925 – Donald O'Connor, American singer, dancer, and actor (d. 2003)
1925 – Billy Grammer, American country music singer and guitarist
1928 – F. William Free, American advertising executive (d. 2003)
1929 – István Kertész, Hungarian conductor (d. 1973)
1929 – Ken Gampu, South African actor (d. 2003)
1930 – Windsor Davies, British actor
1930 – Ben Gazzara, American actor
1931 – John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone
1931 – Tito Capobianco, Argentinian stage impresario and director
1932 – Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player
1935 – Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (d. 1998)
1936 – Don Denkinger, American baseball umpire
1938 – Paul Martin, Canadian politician
1938 – Maurizio Costanzo, Italian television journalist
1940 – Ken Jenkins, American actor
1940 – Roger Pingeon, French cylist
1940 – Nik Turner, English musician (Hawkwind)
1941 – Sybille de Selys Longchamps, Belgian aristocrat
1941 – Paul Plishka, American opera singer
1942 – Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (d. 1995)
1943 – David Soul, American actor
1943 – Lou Piniella, American baseball manager
1943 – Surayud Chulanont, Thai 24th Prime Minister (former)
1944 – Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer
1945 – Robert Greenwald, American film director/producer
1945 – Bob Segarini, American musician
1944 – Melvin Dummar, American claimant to the Howard Hughes estate
1947 – Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress
1947 – Shoto Tanemura, Japanese martial artist
1948 – Danny Seraphine, American musician (Chicago)
1948 – Murray Parker, New Zealand cricketer
1948 – Heather Reisman, Canadian businesswoman
1949 – Hugh Cornwell, British musician (The Stranglers)
1949 – Svetislav Pešić, Serbian basketball player and coach
1951 – Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese composer
1951 – Wayne Osmond, American singer (The Osmonds)
1952 – Rita Dove, American poet
1952 – Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
1952 – Guy Nadon, Canadian actor
1952 – Jacques Chagnon, Canadian politician
1954 – George Church, American geneticist
1956 – Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor
1957 – Daniel Stern, American actor
1957 – Rick Rossovich, American actor
1958 – Scott Hamilton, American figure skater
1960 – Emma Samms, English actress
1961 – Kim Appleby, English singer
1961 – Cliff Benson, American football player
1962 – Paul Allen, English footballer
1962 – David Fincher, American music video and film director
1963 – Jennifer Coolidge, American actress
1963 – Regina Jacobs, American athlete
1965 – Amanda Tapping, Canadian actress
1965 – Shania Twain, Canadian singer
1965 – Myke Hawke, American Survivalist
1966 – Priya Dutt, Indian social worker and politician
1967 – Frederick Kesner, Philippine-born Australian poet
1968 – Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
1969 – Jason Priestley, Canadian-born actor
1969 – Jack Black, American actor
1969 – Mary McCartney, English photographer
1969 – Pierre Turgeon, French Canadian ice hockey player
1970 – Sherrié Austin, Australian actress/singer
1970 – Rick Recht, Jewish singer
1971 – Todd Eldredge, American figure skater
1971 – Janet Evans, American swimmer
1971 – Raul Marquez, Mexican-born American boxer
1971 – Shane Andrews, American baseball player
1972 – Jay Witasick, American baseball player
1972 – Ravindu Shah, Kenyan cricketer
1973 – Matthew John Armstrong, American actor
1973 – DJ Assault, American musician
1974 – Johan Andersson, Swedish game programmer
1974 – Carsten Jancker, German footballer
1974 – Takahito Eguchi, Japanese composer
1975 – Jamie Cureton, English footballer
1975 – Gareth Farrelly, Irish footballer
1975 – Vera Jordanova, Finnish actress and model
1976 – Federico Magallanes, Uruguayan footballer
1978 – Jess Margera, American drummer (CKY)
1979 – Robert Hoyzer, German football referee
1979 – Shaila Durcal, Spanish singer
1979 – Kristen Hughes, Australian netballer
1979 – Markus Pröll, German footballer
1979 – Ruth Riley, American basketball player
1981 – Martin Erat, Czech hockey player
1981 – Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer
1981 – Vaggelis Moras, Greek footballer
1981 – Agata Wróbel, Polish weightlifter
1981 – Raphael Matos, Brazilian racing driver
1982 – Anderson Silva de França, Brazilian footballer
1982 – LeAnn Rimes, American singer
1982 – Kevin McNaughton, Scottish footballer
1982 – Thiago Motta, Brazilian footballer
1983 – Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
1983 – Alfonso Herrera, Mexican actor and singer (RBD)
1986 – Gilad Shalit, Israeli soldier
1990 – Bojan Krkić, Spanish footballer
1999 – Prince Nikolai of Denmark

Deaths

388 – Magnus Maximus, Roman usurper
430 – Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (b. 354)
1341 – King Leo V of Armenia (b. 1309)
1481 – King Afonso V of Portugal (b. 1432)
1645 – Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583)
1654 – Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)
1678 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602)
1757 – David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)
1784 – Junípero Serra, Spanish missionary (b. 1713)
1785 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)
1793 – Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (executed) (b. 1740)
1805 – Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722)
1818 – Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, founder of Chicago
1820 – Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (b. 1754)
1839 – William Smith, English geologist (b. 1769)
1900 – Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (b. 1838)
1903 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)
1933 – Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)
1943 – King Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)
1947 – Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)
1955 – Emmett Till, American civil rights movement icon (b. 1941)
1959 – Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (b. 1890)
1965 – Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)
1975 – Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
1976 – Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)
1978 – Robert Shaw, English actor and writer (b. 1927)
1981 – Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900)
1982 – Geoff Chubb, South African cricketer (b. 1911)
1985 – Ruth Gordon, American actress (b. 1896)
1987 – John Huston, American movie director (b. 1906)
1988 – Jean Marchand, French Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1918)
1990 – Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1913)
1993 – William Stafford, American poet (b. 1914)
1995 – Earl Bascom, American rodeo pioneer (b. 1906)
2003 – Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (failed) (b. 1956)
2005 – Jacques Dufilho, French actor (b. 1914)
2005 – Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910)
2005 – George Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1911)
2006 – Benoît Sauvageau, French Canadian politician (b. 1963)
2006 – Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
2007 – Arthur Jones, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines (b. 1926)
2007 – Hilly Kristal, American musician (b. 1932)
2007 – Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (b. 1925)
2007 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)
2007 – Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935)
2007 – Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1929)
2007 – Nikola Nobilo, New Zealand winemaker (b. 1913)
2008 – Phil Hill, American race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances

In Eastern Orthodox Churches using the Julian calendar: Feast day of the Assumption of Mary, the mother of Jesus, public holiday in the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Georgia
Many Christian churches: feast day of Saint Augustine of Hippo.

 

[historylover]

August 30

Events

1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders— Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang—are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
1574 – Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1791 – HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day.
1799 – Capture of the entire Dutch fleet by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
1800 – Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia
1813 – Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1813 – Creek War: Creek Red Sticks carried out the Fort Mims Massacre.
1835 – Melbourne, Australia is founded.
1836 – The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright.
1862 – American Civil War: Union forces are defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run.
1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
1897 – The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
1896 – Eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor General Ramon Blanco. This included the provinces of Batangas, Rizal, Cavite, Nueva Ecija as well as the nearby areas.
1909 – Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1914 – Battle of Tannenberg.
1918 – Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
1922 – Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence").
1941 – World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
1945 – Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
1956 – Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1963 – Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1974 – A Belgrade-Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
1974 – Powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. 8 killed, 378 injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.

Births

1334 – Pedro of Castile (d. 1369)
1377 – Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)
1705 – David Hartley, English philosopher (d. 1757)
1720 – Samuel Whitbread, English brewer (d. 1796)
1748 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
1768 – Joseph Dennie, American writer (d. 1812)
1797 – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (d. 1851)
1808 – Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (d. 1892)
1813 – Princess Mathilde of Bavaria d. 1862
1818 – Alexander H. Rice, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
1821 – Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian warrior; Garibaldi's wife (War of Tatters) (d. 1849)
1839 – Gulstan Ropert, French Catholic prelate (d. 1903)
1842 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1849)
1848 – Andrew Onderdonk, Canadian railway contractor (d. 1905)
1850 – Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino writer, journalist and revolutionary (d. 1896)
1852 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch physical and organic chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1911)
1856 – Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (d. 1927)
1860 – Isaac Levitan, Russian artist (d. 1900)
1870 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (d. 1891)
1871 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-born Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1937)
1884 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
1890 – Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, British fighter ace (d. 1918)
1893 – Huey Long, American politician (d. 1935)
1896 – Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (d. 1983)
1898 – Shirley Booth, American actress (d. 1992)
1901 – Roy Wilkins, American civil rights leader (d. 1981)
1901 – John Gunther, American writer (d. 1970)
1906 – Joan Blondell, American actress (d. 1979)
1908 – Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991)
1912 – Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
1912 – Nancy Wake AC GM, New Zealand-born World War II secret agent
1913 – Richard Stone, British economist Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1991)
1915 – Robert Strassburg, American composer (d. 2003)
1917 – Denis Healey, British politician, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
1918 – Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1918 – Billy Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1919 – Kitty Wells, American singer
1922 – Lionel Murphy, Australian politician (d. 1986)
1922 – Regina Resnik, American mezzo-soprano
1923 – Barbara Mary Ansell, UK founder of paediatric rheumatology (d. 2001)
1923 – Charmian Clift, Australian writer and essayist (d. 1969)
1923 – Vic Seixas, American tennis player
1924 – Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (d. 2004)
1925 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French writer and illustrator
1928 – Lloyd Casner, American racecar driver and owner (d. 1965)
1930 – Warren Buffett, American entrepreneur
1930 – Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball coach
1930 – Noel Harford, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1981)
1931 – Jack Swigert, American astronaut (d. 1982)
1933 – Don Getty, Canadian politician
1934 – Baloo Gupte, Indian cricketer (d. 2005)
1935 – John Phillips, American singer/songwriter (The Mamas & the Papas) (d. 2001)
1937 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer and founder of eponymous race team (d. 1970)
1939 – John Peel, English radio disc jockey (d. 2004)
1939 – Elizabeth Ashley, American actress
1941 – Ben Jones, American actor and politician
1942 – Pervez Sajjad, Pakistani cricketer
1943 – Robert Crumb, American cartoonist
1943 – Jean-Claude Killy, French skier
1944 – Molly Ivins, American political humorist (d. 2007)
1944 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1946 – Peggy Lipton, American actress
1946 – Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
1947 – Allan Rock, Canadian politician and diplomat
1948 – Lewis Black, American comedian
1948 – Fred Hampton, Black Panther leader, murdered in 1969 Chicago Police raid
1948 – Donnacha O'Dea, Irish poker player and swimmer
1949 – Peter Maffay, German musician
1949 – Ted Ammon, American financier (d. 2001)
1949 – Christopher Collins, American actor and comedian (d. 1994)
1949 – Don Boudria, Canadian politician
1951 – Timothy Bottoms, American actor
1951 – Dana, Irish singer and politician
1953 – Robin Harris, American comedian (d. 1990)
1953 – Horace Panter, British musician (The Specials and General Public)
1953 – Robert Parish, American basketball player
1953 – Ron George, American politician
1954 – David Paymer, American actor
1954 – Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
1958 – Martin Jackson, British drummer (Swing out Sister)
1958 – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (d. 2006)
1959 – Mark 'Jacko' Jackson, Australian rules footballer and actor
1960 – Chalino Sanchez, Mexican musician (d. 1992)
1960 – Gary Gordon, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1993)
1960 – Guy A. Lepage, Quebec humorist, television host and producer
1962 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian KGB officer (d. 2006)
1963 – Michael Chiklis, American actor
1963 – Paul Oakenfold, British disc jockey
1964 – Gavin Fisher, British engineer
1966 – Michael Michele, American actress
1967 – Justin Vaughan, New Zealand cricketer
1968 – Vladimir Malakhov, Russian ice hockey player
1969 – Dimitris Sgouros, Greek pianist
1970 – Michael Wong Guang Liang, Chinese Malaysian singer
1971 – Lars Frederiksen, American guitarist (Rancid and UK Subs)
1972 – Cameron Diaz, American actress
1972 – Pavel Nedvěd, Czech footballer
1973 – Lisa Ling, American journalist
1974 – Javier Otxoa, Spanish cyclist
1974 – Aaron Barrett, Lead singer/guitarist of Reel Big Fish
1975 – Radhi Jaidi, Tunisian footballer
1976 – Lillo Brancato Jr., American actor
1976 – Mike Koplove, American baseball player
1976 – Sarah-Jane Potts, English actress
1977 – Shaun Alexander, American football player
1977 – Marlon Byrd, American baseball player
1977 – Elden Henson, American actor
1977 – Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
1977 – Jens Ludwig, German guitarist
1978 – Swizz Beatz, American record producer and rapper
1978 – Cliff Lee, American baseball player
1979 – Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentine tennis player
1979 – Leon Lopez, British actor
1979 – Niki Chow, Hong Kong actress and singer
1979 – Scott Richmond, Canadian baseball player
1979 – Tavia Yeung, Hong Kong actress
1981 – Germán Legarreta, American Actor
1982 – Andy Roddick, American tennis player
1982 – Will Davison, Australian racing driver
1983 – Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer and actor
1983 – Jonne Aaron, Vocalist of the Finnish Band Negative
1983 – Gustavo Eberto, Argentine footballer (d. 2007)
1984 – Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer
1985 – Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer
1985 – Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
1985 – Steven Smith, Scottish footballer
1985 – Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
1986 – Ryan Ross, American musician (Panic! at the Disco)
1988 – Michael Cavanaugh, Professional Gamer
1988 – Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player
1988 – Laura Põldvere, Estonian singer
1991 – Liam Cooper, Scottish footballer (Hull City)

Deaths

526 – Theodoric the Great (b. 454)
1158 – King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134)
1428 – Emperor Shōkō (b. 1401)
1483 – King Louis XI of France (b. 1423)
1580 – Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528)
1619 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
1723 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch tradesman and scientist (b. 1632)
1751 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661)
1856 – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (b. 1811)
1879 – John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (b. 1831)
1886 – Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (b. 1836)
1896 – Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)
1906 – Hans Auer, Swiss architect (b. 1847)
1907 – Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
1928 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
1935 – Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)
1938 – Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877)
1940 – J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
1941 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
1943 – Father Eustaquio van Lieshout, Dutch Catholic priest (b. 1890)
1946 – Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian fascist (executed) (b. 1907)
1946 – Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)
1949 – Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1961 – Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)
1963 – Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy (b. 1911)
1968 – William Talman, American actor (b. 1915)
1970 – Del Moore, American comedian (b. 1916)
1971 – Nathan Leopold, American murderer (b. 1904)
1981 – Vera-Ellen, American actress (b. 1921)
1981 – Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian statesman (b. 1933)
1985 – Taylor Caldwell, English-born author (b. 1900)
1989 – Seymour Krim, American journalist, essayist, and literary critic (b. 1922)
1991 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
1993 – Richard Jordan, American actor, (b. 1938)
1994 – Lindsay Anderson, English film director (b. 1923)
1995 – Fischer Black, American economist (b. 1938)
1995 – Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (b. 1942)
1996 – Christine Pascal, French actress and director (b. 1953)
1999 – Raymond Poïvet, French comics artist (b. 1910)
2000 – David Haskell, American Actor (b. 1948)
2001 – Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor (b. 1907)
2002 – J. Lee Thompson, English film director (b. 1914)
2003 – Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)
2003 – Donald Davidson, American philosopher (b. 1917)
2004 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
2004 – Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b. 1949)
2006 – Glenn Ford, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1916)
2006 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2006 – Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords (b. 1926)
2007 – Michael Jackson, British beer and whiskey author/expert. (b. 1942)
2007 – Charles Vanik, American politician (b. 1918)
2008 – Killer Kowalski, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1926)

Holidays and observances

Peru – Saint Rose of Lima's Day.
Turkey – Victory Day (to commemorate the Battle of Dumlupinar in 1922).
International Day of the Disappeared
Feast day of Felix and Adauctus

 

[historylover]

August 31

Events

1056 – Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill, dying suddenly a few days later, without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty.
1142 – With the aid of Hiawatha and Deganawidah, The Great Peacemaker, the Iroquois tribes establish the Confederation of the Haudenosaunee.
1422 – Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of 9 months.
1803 – Lewis and Clark start their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 11 o clock in the morning.
1864 – During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
1876 – Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
1886 – An earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina.
1888 – Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's known victims.
1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1907 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.
1914 – Ecuador becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1915 – Brazil becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1920 – Polish-Bolshevik War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
1920 – First radio news program broadcast by station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
1939 – Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day, starting World War II in Europe.
1943 – The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
1945 – The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.
1948 – Actor Robert Mitchum is arrested in a Hollywood drug raid. He would later be found guilty of criminal conspiracy to possess marijuana and sentenced to 60 days in prison.
1949 – The retreat of the Greek Democratic Army in Albania after its defeat in mountain Grammos marks the end of the Greek Civil War.
1957 – The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1962 – Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
1965 – The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft makes its first flight.
1978 – William and Emily Harris, founders of the Symbionese Liberation Army, plead guilty to the 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst.
1980 – Zimbabwe establishes diplomatic relations with Algeria.
1986 – Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
1986 – The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.
1991 – Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo .
1993 – HMS Mercury closes after 52 years in commission.
1994 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
1998 – North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyongsong, its first satellite.
1999 – The first of a series of bombings in Moscow, killing one person and wounding 40 others.
1999 – A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including 2 on the ground.
2005 – A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
2006 – Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.

Births

12 – Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor (d. 41)
161 – Commodus, Roman Emperor (d. 192)
1569 – Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1627)
1602 – Amalia von Solms, countess of Solms-Braunfels (d. 1675)
1652 – Ferdinand Charles, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (d. 1708)
1663 – Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (d. 1705)
1721 – George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (d. 1775)
1741 – Husein Gradaščević, Bosniak general (d. 1834)
1741 – Jean Paul Egide Martini, French composer (d. 1816)
1821 – Hermann von Helmholtz, German scientist (d. 1894)
1822 – Galusha A. Grow, American politician (d. 1907)
1834 – Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (d. 1886)
1843 – Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1919)
1870 – Maria Montessori, Italian educator (d. 1952)
1871 – James E. Ferguson, Governor of Texas (d. 1944)
1878 – Frank Jarvis, American athlete (d. 1933)
1879 – Alma Mahler, Austrian socialite, wife of composer Gustav Mahler (d. 1964)
1880 – Wilhelmina I of the Netherlands (d. 1962)
1885 – DuBose Heyward, American playwright (d. 1940)
1893 – Lily Laskine, French harpist (d. 1988)
1894 – Albert Facey, Australian writer (d. 1982)
1896 – Félix-Antoine Savard, Canadian priest and novelist (d. 1982)
1897 – Fredric March, American actor (d. 1975)
1900 – Gino Lucetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1943)
1903 – Arthur Godfrey, American television host (d. 1983)
1903 – Vladimir Jankélévitch, French philosopher (d. 1985)
1905 – Sanford Meisner, American actor and teacher (d. 1997)
1907 – Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician (d. 2007)
1907 – Ramon Magsaysay, 7th President of the Philippines (d. 1957)
1907 – William Shawn, American editor (d. 1992)
1907 – Altiero Spinelli, Italian advocate of European federalism (d. 1986)
1908 – William Saroyan, American novelist (d. 1981)
1911 – Edward Brongersma, Dutch politician, writer and political activist. (d. 1998)
1913 – Sir Bernard Lovell, English radio astronomer
1913 – Helen Levitt, American photographer (d. 2009)
1914 – Richard Basehart, American actor (d. 1984)
1916 – Daniel Schorr, American journalist
1916 – Danny Litwhiler, American baseball player and coach
1916 – John S. Wold, American politician
1918 – Alan Jay Lerner, American lyricist (d. 1986)
1919 – Amrita Preetam, Indian poet and author (d. 2005)
1921 – Raymond Williams, Welsh academic (d. 1988)
1924 – Buddy Hackett, American actor and comedian (d. 2003)
1928 – James Coburn, American actor (d. 2002)
1931 – Jean Béliveau, Canadian ice hockey player
1931 – Noble Willingham, American actor (d. 2004)
1934 – Nikos Xanthopoulos, Greek actor
1935 – Eldridge Cleaver, American political activist (d. 1998)
1935 – Frank Robinson, American baseball player and manager
1937 – Warren Berlinger, American actor
1937 – Bobby Parker, American musician
1938 – Martin Bell, British journalist
1938 – Murray Gleeson, Chief Justice of Australia
1939 – Jerry Allison, American drummer (The Crickets)
1940 – Jack Thompson, Australian actor
1941 – William DeWitt, Jr., American businessman
1943 – Leonid Ivashov, Russian general
1944 – Roger Dean, English artist
1944 – Clive Lloyd, Guyanese West Indies cricketer
1944 – Jos LeDuc, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1945 – Van Morrison, Northern Irish musician
1945 – Itzhak Perlman, Israeli violinist
1946 – Jerome Corsi, American writer
1947 – Mona Marshall, American voice actress
1947 – Luca di Montezemolo, Italian businessman
1947 – Yumiko Ōshima, Japanese manga artist
1947 – Somchai Wongsawat, Thai 26th Prime Minister
1948 – Harald Ertl, Austrian racing driver (d. 1982)
1948 – Lowell Ganz, American screenwriter
1948 – Holger Osieck, German footballer and coach
1948 – Rudolf Schenker, German guitarist (Scorpions)
1949 – Richard Gere, American actor
1949 – H. David Politzer, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1952 – Herbert Reul, German politician
1953 – Miguel Ángel Guerra, Argentine racing driver
1953 – György Károly, Hungarian author
1953 – Pavel Vinogradov, Russian cosmonaut
1954 – Julie Brown, American actress, singer-songwriter and screenwriter
1955 – Edwin Moses, American athlete
1955 – Gary Webb, American journalist (d. 2004)
1956 – Maria Balazova, Slovak painter
1956 – Masashi Tashiro, Japanese television performer
1957 – Colm O'Rourke, Irish footballer and commentator
1957 – Gina Schock, American drummer (The Go-Go's)
1957 – Glenn Tilbrook, English singer and guitarist (Squeeze)
1958 – Serge Blanco, French rugby union footballer
1959 – Ralph Krueger, Canadian ice hockey coach
1960 – Vali Ionescu, Romanian long jumper
1960 – Chris Whitley, American musician (d. 2005)
1962 – Dee Bradley Baker, American voice actor
1963 – Reb Beach, American guitarist (Winger, Whitesnake)
1963 – Todd Carty, Irish actor
1963 – Sonny Silooy, Dutch footballer
1964 – Raymond P. Hammond, American poet and editor
1965 – Daniel Bernhardt, Swiss actor
1965 – Céline Bonnier, French Canadian actress
1965 – Willie Watson, New Zealand cricketer
1966 – Jan Einar Thorsen, Norwegian Alpine skier
1967 – Jonathan Cake, British actor
1967 – Anita Moen, Norwegian Cross-country skier
1968 – Valdon Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician and Australian football player
1968 – Hideo Nomo, Japanese baseball player
1969 – Nathalie Bouvier, French alpine skier
1969 – Andrew Cunanan, American spree killer (d. 1997)
1969 – Jonathan LaPaglia, Australian actor
1969 – Javagal Srinath, Indian cricketer
1970 – Deborah Gibson, American singer
1970 – Nikola Gruevski, Macedonian Prime Minister
1970 – Queen Rania of Jordan
1970 – Arie van Lent, Dutch-German footballer
1970 – Amy Stein, American photographer
1970 – Zack Ward, Canadian actor
1971 – Pádraig Harrington, Irish golfer
1972 – Chris Tucker, American actor
1973 – Scott Niedermayer, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Andriy Medvedev, Ukrainian tennis player
1975 – Craig Cumming, New Zealand cricketer
1975 – John Grahame, American ice hockey player
1975 – Daniel Harding, British conductor
1975 – Gabe Kapler, American baseball player and manager
1975 – Sara Ramírez, American actress
1975 – Yuvan Shankar Raja, Indian film music composer
1975 – Takahiro Suwa, Japanese professional wrestler
1976 – Vincent Delerm, French singer-songwriter, pianist and composer
1976 – Roque Júnior, Brazilian footballer
1976 – Radek Martínek, Czech ice hockey player
1977 – Jeff Hardy, American wrestler
1977 – Ian Harte, Irish footballer
1977 – Craig Nicholls, Australian musician (The Vines)
1978 – Philippe Christanval, French footballer
1978 – Phina Oruche, British actress
1979 – Clay Hensley, American baseball player
1979 – Mickie James, American professional wrestler
1979 – Mark Johnston, Canadian swimmer
1979 – Simon Neil, Scottish musician (Biffy Clyro)
1979 – Yuvan Shankar Raja, Indian film music composer
1979 – Ramón Santiago, Dominican baseball player
1980 – Joe Budden, American rapper
1981 – Dwayne Peel, Welsh rugby union footballer
1981 – Steve Saviano, American ice hockey player
1982 – Ian Crocker, American swimmer
1982 – Lien Huyghebaert, Belgian athlete
1982 – Josh Kroeger, American baseball player
1982 – Alexei Mikhnov, Ukrainian-born ice hockey player
1982 – José Reina, Spanish footballer
1982 – Michele Rugolo, Italian racing driver
1983 – Larry Fitzgerald, American football player
1984 – Matti Breschel, Danish road bicycle racer
1984 – Ted Ligety, American alpine skier
1984 – Charl Schwartzel, South African golfer
1985 – Andrew Foster, Australian rules footballer
1986 – Feng Tianwei, Singaporean table tennis player
1987 – Petros Kravaritis, Greek footballer

Deaths

651 – Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Irish bishop and missionary
683 – Pacal II ruler of the Maya polity of Palenque (b. 603)
1234 – Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (b. 1212)
1372 – Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (b. 1301)
1422 – King Henry V of England (b. 1387)
1645 – Francesco Bracciolini, Italian poet (b. 1566)
1654 – Ole Worm, Danish physician (b. 1588)
1688 – John Bunyan, English writer (b. 1628)
1730 – Gottfried Finger, Czech composer
1741 – Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (b. 1681)
1772 – William Borlase, English naturalist (b. 1695)
1795 – François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player (b. 1726)
1799 – Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (b. 1720)
1814 – Arthur Phillip, British admiral, first Governor of New South Wales (b. 1738)
1867 – Charles Baudelaire, French poet (b. 1821)
1869 – Mary Ward, Irish scientist, first automobile accident victim (b. 1827)
1888 – Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, widely believed to be the first victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1845)
1920 – Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist (b. 1832)
1920 – Jens Oliver Lisberg, Faroese law student, designer of the Flag of the Faroe Islands(b. 1896)
1924 – Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionaries (b. 1881)
1940 – Georges Gauthier, French Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop of Montreal (b. 1871)
1941 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (b. 1892)
1948 – Billy Laughlin, American actor (b. 1932)
1952 – Henri Bourassa, French Canadian political leader (b. 1868)
1963 – Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882)
1967 – Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (b. 1891)
1969 – Rocky Marciano, American boxer (b. 1923)
1973 – John Ford, American film director (b. 1894)
1974 – William Pershing Benedict, American pilot (b. 1928)
1974 – Norman Kirk, New Zealand prime minister (b. 1923)
1978 – John Wrathall, President of Rhodesia (b. 1913)
1979 – Sally Rand, American dancer and actress (b. 1904)
1979 – Tiger Smith, England cricketer (b. 1886)
1985 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1899)
1986 – Henry Moore, English sculptor (b. 1898)
1986 – Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland (b. 1900)
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1961)
1997 – Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian film producer (b. 1955)
2000 – Patricia Owens, Canadian actress (b. 1925)
2000 – Lucille Fletcher, American screenwriter of film, radio, and television (b. 1912)
2002 – Lionel Hampton, American vibraphone player (b. 1908)
2002 – George Porter, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920)
2004 – Carl Wayne, English singer (b. 1943)
2005 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1908)
2005 – Michael Sheard, British actor (b. 1940)
2006 – Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (b. 1983)
2006 – Tom Delaney, British racing driver (b. 1911)
2006 – Derrick Wayne Frazier, American convicted murderer (b. 1977)
2007 – Gay Brewer, American golfer (b. 1932)
2007 – Karloff Lagarde, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1928)
2008 – Ike Pappas, American news correspondent (b. 1933)
2008 – Victor Yates, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1939)

Holidays and observances

Roman Catholic Saints – Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Saint Abundius, Saint Raymond Nonnatus
Poland, Europe – Day of Solidarity and Freedom, on the anniversary of August Agreement from 1980
Moldova: Day of Our Language (Limba Noastra)
Malaysia – Hari Merdeka, a National Day (independence within the Commonwealth, 1957)
Kyrgyzstan – Independence Day (from USSR, 1991)
Trinidad and Tobago – Independence Day (from United Kingdom, 1962)

 

[historylover]

September 1

Events

462 – Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
1355 – Tvrtko I writes in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from old town Visoki.
1532 – Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marchioness of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.
1644 – Battle of Tippermuir: Montrose defeats Elcho's Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause.
1715 – King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.
1752 – The Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia.
1763 – Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow
1772 – Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
1804 – Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, is discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
1807 – Former US Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason.
1836 – Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
1859 – A solar superstorm affects electrical telegraph service.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly – Confederate forces attack retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia.
1864 – American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
1873 – Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
1875 – A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.
1894 – Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota, kills more than 400 people.
1897 – The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
1902 – A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
1905 – Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
1906 – The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
1909 – Baguio, Philippines is incorporated as a city by the Philippine Assembly.
1911 – The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
1914 – St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd.
1914 – The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
1923 – The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
1928 – Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
1934 – SMJK Sam Tet is founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany invades Poland, beginning the war in Europe.
1939 – George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
1939 – The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross is also instituted on this date.
1939 – Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
1951 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
1961 – The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate
1962 – Channel Television launches to 54,000 households in the Channel Islands.
1964 – Indian Oil Corporation forms after the merger of Indian Oil Refineries and Indian Oil Company.
1969 – A revolution in Libya brings Muammar al-Gaddafi to power, which is later transferred to the People's Committees.
1970 – Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerrillas, who attacked his motorcade.
1972 – In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky and becomes the world chess champion.
1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
1979 – The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
1980 – Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
1980 – Major General Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea, following the resignation of Choi Kyu-hah.
1981 – A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.
1982 – Canada adopts a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as part of its Constitution.
1982 – The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
1983 – Cold War: Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
1985 – A joint American–French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
1990 – The Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist is founded, following a split from the Communist Labour Party of Turkey.
1991 – Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union
1992 – The Constitution of Slovakia is ratified
2004 – Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.
2006 – Luxembourg became the first country to complete the move to all digital television broadcasting.

Births

1286 – Elisabeth Richeza of Poland, Queen of Poland (d. 1335)
1453 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general (d. 1515)
1566 – Edward Alleyn, English actor (d. 1626)
1588 – Henry II, Prince of Condé, French nobleman (d. 1646)
1651 – Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)
1653 – Johann Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1706)
1711 – William IV, Prince of Orange (d. 1759)
1795 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (d. 1872)
1818 – José María Castro Madriz, first President of Costa Rica and founder of the republic (d. 1892)
1848 – Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (d. 1931)
1854 – Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (d. 1921)
1855 – Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (d. 1909)
1856 – Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (d. 1953)
1866 – James J. Corbett, American heavyweight boxer (d. 1933)
1868 – Henri Bourassa, French Canadian politician and publisher (d. 1952)
1871 – J. Reuben Clark, Jr., American Undersecretary of State (d. 1961)
1875 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American writer (d. 1950)
1876 – Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (d. 1961)
1877 – Francis William Aston, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
1878 – Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1942)
1883 – Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1934)
1884 – Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and filmdirector (d. 1947)
1886 – Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (d. 1957)
1887 – Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961)
1888 – Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician (d. 1958)
1889 – Richard Arlen, American actor (d. 1976)
1892 – Leverett Saltonstall, 55th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1979)
1895 – Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Indian musician (d. 1974)
1896 – A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian theologian (d. 1977)
1897 – Andy Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 1963)
1899 – Andrei Platonov, Russian writer (d. 1951)
1904 – Johnny Mack Brown, American actor (d. 1974)
1905 – Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000)
1906 – Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2002)
1906 – Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
1906 – Eleanor Burford Hibertt (Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr...), English writer (d. 1993)
1907 – Walter Reuther, American labor union leader (d. 1970)
1908 – Amir Elahi, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1980)
1909 – E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (d. 1957)
1913 – Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1979)
1913 – Christian Nyby, American director and film editor (d. 1993)
1916 – Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player
1919 – Ossie Dawson, South African cricketer (d. 2008)
1920 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor (d. 2000)
1921 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (d. 1995)
1921 – Madhav Mantri, Indian cricketer
1922 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (d. 2007)
1922 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (d. 2000)
1923 – Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)
1923 – Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman (d. 2006)
1925 – Art Pepper, American musician (d. 1982)
1926 – Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh
1926 – Gene Colan, American comic book artist
1927 – Wyatt Cooper, American author and screenwriter (d. 1978)
1928 – Clifford Lincoln, Canadian politician
1928 – George Maharis, American actor
1929 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
1931 – Boxcar Willie, American country musician (d. 1999)
1932 – Derog Gioura, Nauruan politician
1932 – Sunny von Buelow, American socialite (d. 2008)
1933 – Ann W. Richards, American politician (d. 2006)
1933 – Conway Twitty, American singer (d. 1993)
1935 – Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor
1937 – Al Geiberger, American golfer
1937 – Ron O'Neal, American actor, film director and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1939 – Lily Tomlin, American actress and comedian
1941 – Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby league footballer
1942 – C. J. Cherryh, American writer
1943 – Don Stroud, American actor
1944 – Leonard Slatkin, American conductor
1945 – Mustafa Balel, Turkish writer
1946 – Greg Errico, American drummer (Sly & the Family Stone)
1946 – Barry Gibb, English singer (Bee Gees)
1946 – Roh Moo-Hyun, President of South Korea (d. 2009)
1947 – Al Green, American politician
1948 – Józef Życiński, Polish archbishop and philosopher
1949 – P.A. Sangma, Indian politician
1950 – Phillip Fulmer, American football coach
1950 – Dr. Phil McGraw, American talk show host
1951 – Nicu Ceauşescu, Romanian politician (d. 1996)
1951 – David Bairstow, England cricketer (d. 1998)
1952 – Phil Hendrie, American radio personality
1953 – Beau Billingslea, American voice actor
1953 – Ted Petty, American professional wrestler (d. 2002)
1954 – Dave Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 – Billy Blanks, American martial artist
1955 – Bruce Foxton, English bassist (The Jam)
1956 – Philece Sampler, American voice artist
1956 – Bernie Wagenblast, American broadcaster and editor
1957 – Gloria Estefan, Cuban/American singer
1957 – Duško Ivanović, Montenegrin basketball coach
1958 – Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (d. 2002)
1959 – Kenny Mayne, American sports journalist
1960 – Joseph Williams, American singer and film score composer
1961 – Bam Bam Bigelow, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1962 – Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer
1962 – Tony Cascarino, Irish footballer
1963 – Stephen Kernahan, Australian rules footballer
1963 – Carola Smit, Dutch singer
1964 – Brian Bellows, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 – Cécilia Rhode, Swedish model
1964 – Ray D'Arcy, Irish DJ and TV presenter
1966 – Tim Hardaway, American basketball player
1967 – David Whissell, Quebec politician
1968 – Mohammed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001)
1969 – Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer
1970 – Hwang Jung-min, South Korean actor
1970 – Padma Lakshmi, Indian actress
1970 – Mitsou, Quebec singer, television and radio host, actress
1970 – Vanna, Croatian singer
1971 – Ricardo Antonio Chavira, American actor
1971 – Joe Enochs, American soccer player
1971 – Yoshitaka Hirota, Japanese composer
1971 – Lââm, French singer
1971 – Jimmy Snuka, Jr., American professional wrestler
1971 – Hakan Şükür, Turkish footballer
1972 – Doug Williams, British professional wrestler
1973 – Ram Kapoor, Indian actor
1973 – J. D. Fortune, Canadian singer (INXS)
1973 – Zach Thomas, American football player
1974 – Jason Taylor, American football player
1974 – Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist
1975 – Scott Speedman, English-born actor
1975 – Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian actress and singer
1975 – Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Puerto Rican guitarist
1975 – Cuttino Mobley, American basketball player
1976 – Marcos Ambrose, Australian racing driver
1976 – Erik Morales, Mexican boxer
1976 – Jada Fire, American porn actress
1976 – Polly Shannon, Canadian actress
1976 – Sebastián Rozental, Chilean footballer
1976 – Clare Connor, England Woman cricketer
1977 – Aaron Schobel, American football player
1977 – Raffaele Giammaria, Italian racing driver
1977 – Shoshana Bean, American stage actress
1977 – Aamir Ali, Indian television actor
1977 – David Albelda, Spanish footballer
1978 – Max Vieri, Australian soccer player
1978 – Lucie Blackman, English murder victim (d. 2000)
1979 – James O'Connor, Irish footballer
1980 – Chris Riggott, English footballer
1980 – Sammy Adjei, Ghanaian footballer
1981 – Clinton Portis, American football player
1981 – Adam Quick, Australian basketball player
1981 – Matthew McGuire, Australian Rower
1982 – Ryan Gomes, American basketball player
1982 – Paul Dumbrell, Australian racing driver
1982 – Jeffrey Buttle, Canadian figure skater
1983 – José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer
1983 – Jeff Woywitka, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Joseph Trohman, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1984 – Nick Noble, American footballer
1984 – Rod Pelley, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – Camile Velasco, Filipino-American singer
1985 – Larsen Jensen, American swimmer
1986 – Gaël Monfils, French tennis player
1986 – Anthony Allen, English rugby union player
1987 – Dann Hume, New Zealand musician (Evermore)
1988 – Gabriel Ferrari, American footballer
1988 – Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer
1989 – Juliana Lohmann, Brazilian actress
1993 – Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
1994 – Bianca Ryan, American singer

Deaths

1067 – Baldwin V of Flanders
1159 – Pope Adrian IV (b. 1100)
1256 – Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)
1414 – William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369)
1557 – Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491)
1581 – Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)
1600 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician (b. 1525)
1615 – Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer (b. 1529)
1648 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (b. 1588)
1685 – Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer (b. 1625)
1687 – Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
1715 – François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
1715 – King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
1818 – Robert Calder, British naval officer (b. 1745)
1838 – William Clark, American explorer, part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (b. 1770)
1943 – Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. 1880)
1947 – Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international Scouting movement (b. 1861)
1953 – Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (b. 1866)
1957 – Dennis Brain, English musician (b. 1921)
1967 – Siegfried Sassoon, English poet (b. 1886)
1967 – Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (b. 1906)
1969 – Drew Pearson, American newspaper columnist (b. 1897)
1970 – François Mauriac, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
1977 – Ethel Waters, American singer (b. 1896)
1981 – Albert Speer, Nazi official (b. 1905)
1981 – Ann Harding, American actress (b. 1901)
1982 – Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b. 1900)
1982 – Wladyslaw Gomulka, Polish communist leader (b. 1905)
1983 – Henry M. Jackson, American politician (b. 1912)
1983 – Larry McDonald, American congressman (b. 1935)
1985 – Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)
1985 – Jay Youngblood, American wrestler (b. 1955)
1986 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923)
1988 – Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
1989 – A. Bartlett Giamatti, American baseball commissioner (b. 1938)
1989 – Tadeusz Sendzimir, American inventor (b. 1894)
1994 – Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
1998 – Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (b. 1930)
1998 – Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921)
1999 – W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist (b. 1951)
2001 – Brian Moore British sports commentator (b. 1932)
2003 – Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915)
2004 – Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)
2005 – R. L. Burnside, American musician (b. 1926)
2005 – Thanos Leivaditis, Greek actor (b. 1934)
2006 – Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)
2006 – Bob O'Connor, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b. 1944)
2006 – Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
2006 – Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934)
2007 – Roy McKenzie, New Zealand philanthropist (b. 1922)
2008 – Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940)
2008 – Jerry Reed, American musician and actor (b. 1937)

Holidays and observances

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the new liturgical year begins on September 1. Also see September 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church, the new Liturgical Year (Indiction) also begins.
Church of England – Saint Giles.
Russia – Knowledge Day.
Singapore – Teachers' Day.
Slovakia – Constitution Day.
Uzbekistan – Independence Day (from USSR, 1991).
Libya – Revolution Day (1969)
First day of Spring in Australia and New Zealand.
Saint Giles

 

[historylover]

September 2

Events

44 BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
44 BC – The first of Cicero’s Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the next several months.
31 BC – Final War of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium – off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
1649 – The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral.
1752 – Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
1789 – The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
1792 – During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
1807 – The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
1833 – Oberlin College is founded by John Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.
1856 – Tianjing Incident in Nanjing, China.
1859 – A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
1864 – American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city.
1867 – Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since her death in 1914, she is called by the posthumous name Empress Shōken.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan – Prussian forces take French Emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
1885 – Rock Springs massacre: In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
1898 – Battle of Omdurman – British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
1901 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
1925 – The U.S. Zeppelin the USS Shenandoah crashes, killing 14.
1935 – Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: a large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
1939 – World War II: Following the invasion of Poland, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.
1945 – World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the official surrender of Japan is accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
1945 – Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1946 – Interim Government of India is formed with Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President.
1958 – United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.
1960 – The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.
1963 – CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
1967 – The Principality of Sealand is established, ruled by Prince Paddy Roy Bates.
1969 – The first automated teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Centre, New York.
1970 – NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
1990 – Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
1991 – The United States recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
1996 – A peace agreement is signed between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front in Malacañang Palace.
1998 – Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
1998 – The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.

Births

1661 – Georg Böhm, German organist (d. 1733)
1675 – William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
1753 – Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy, queen of France (d. 1810)
1778 – Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland (d. 1846)
1805 – Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (d. 1851)
1810 – William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (d. 1897)
1830 – William P. Frye, American politician (d. 1911)
1838 – Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen of Hawaii (d. 1917)
1847 – Roger Wolcott, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1900)
1850 – Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (d. 1915)
1850 – Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (d. 1919)
1852 – Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (d. 1935)
1853 – Wilhelm Ostwald, Baltic German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1932)
1854 – Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (d. 1910)
1857 – Thomas Groube, Australian cricketer (d. 1927)
1862 – Franjo Krežma, Croatian violinist (d. 1881)
1866 – Charles Vintcent, South African cricketer (d. 1943)
1877 – Frederick Soddy, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1956)
1878 – Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (d. 1946)
1879 – An Jung-geun, Korean assassin of Ito Hirobumi (d. 1910)
1883 – Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, "The Red Archduchess" (d. 1963)
1884 – Dr. Frank C. Laubach, Christian missionary (d. 1970)
1894 – Joseph Roth, Austrian novelist (d. 1939)
1901 – Andreas Embirikos, Greek surrealist poet (d. 1975)
1901 – Adolph Rupp, American college basketball coach (d. 1977)
1911 – Romare Bearden, African American painter (d. 1988)
1912 – Ernest Bromley, Australian cricketer (d. 1967)
1913 – Bill Shankly, English Football Manager (d. 1981)
1914 – Tom Glazer, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
1915 – Meinhardt Raabe, actor, notable as Munchkin Coroner on The Wizard of Oz
1915 – Benjamin Aaron, American labor law expert (d. 2007)
1917 – Cleveland Amory, American author (d. 1998)
1917 – Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist (d. 1995)
1923 – Rene Thom, French mathematician (d. 2002)
1924 – Daniel arap Moi, President of Kenya
1925 – Hugo Montenegro, American composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
1928 – Horace Silver, American jazz pianist and composer
1929 – Hal Ashby, American film director (d. 1988)
1931 – Clifford Jordan, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1993)
1933 – Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor
1934 – Grady Nutt, American humorist
1935 – D. Wayne Lukas, American horse trainer
1936 – Andrew Grove, American computer chip manufacturer
1937 – Peter Ueberroth, American sport executive
1937 – Derek Fowlds, British actor
1937 – Len Carlson, Canadian voice actor (d. 2006)
1938 – Mary Jo Catlett, American actress
1938 – Clarence Felder, American actor
1938 – Giuliano Gemma, Italian actor
1939 – Sam Gooden, American singer (The Impressions)
1940 – Jimmy Clanton, American singer
1941 – David Bale, South African-born activist (d. 2003)
1941 – Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby league footballer
1943 – Rosalind Ashford, American singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
1943 – Glen Sather, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
1943 – Joe Simon, American singer
1946 – Billy Preston, American musician (d. 2006)
1946 – Dan White, American assassin (d. 1985)
1946 – Luis Avalos, Cuban actor
1946 – Walt Simonson, American comic book artist & writer
1947 – Richard Coughlan, English drummer and percussionist (Caravan)
1948 – Terry Bradshaw, American football player
1948 – Christa McAuliffe, American schoolteacher and astronaut (d. 1986)
1948 – Nate Archibald, American basketball player
1950 – Rosanna DeSoto, American actress
1950 – Michael Rother, German musician (Neu!, Kraftwerk, Harmonia, Cluster)
1950 – Yuen Wah, Chinese actor and stuntman
1951 – Jim DeMint, American politician
1951 – Mark Harmon, American actor
1951 – Michael Gray, American actor
1951 – Jon Feltheimer, American film executive
1952 – Jimmy Connors, American tennis player
1953 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan commander and a war hero (d. 2001)
1953 – John Zorn, American musician
1956 – Mario Tremblay, Canadian hockey player and coach
1956 – Angelo Fusco, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
1957 – Tony Alva, American skateboarder
1958 – Olivier Grouillard, French racing driver
1959 – Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil
1960 – Kristin Halvorsen, Norwegian politician
1960 – Rex Hudler, baseball player
1960 – Eric Dickerson, American football player
1960 – John S. Hall, American poet and spoken-word artist
1960 – Hideo Yoshizawa, General Manager at Namco Bandai
1961 – Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer
1962 – Prachya Pinkaew, Thai film director
1962 – Eugenio Derbez, Mexican comedian and actor
1962 – Jon Berkeley, author and illustrator
1963 – Sam Mitchell, former basketball player and coach
1964 – Keanu Reeves, Canadian actor
1965 – Lennox Lewis, British-born boxer
1965 – Partho Sen-Gupta, Indian filmmaker
1966 – Salma Hayek, Mexican actress
1966 – Dino Cazares, American musician
1966 – Olivier Panis, French race car driver
1966 – Tuc Watkins, American actor
1967 – Andreas Möller, German footballer
1968 – Cynthia Watros, American actress
1968 – Kristen Cloke, American actress
1969 – Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, American singer
1969 – Chris Kuzneski, American bestselling author
1969 – Stéphane Matteau, French Canadian ice hockey player
1969 – Stephen Peall, Zimbabwean cricketer
1971 – Kjetil André Aamodt, Norwegian skier
1971 – Pawan Kalyan, Indian actor
1971 – César Sánchez, Spanish footballer
1971 – Tommy Maddox, American football player
1971 – Tom Steels, Belgian cyclist
1972 – Matthew Dunn, Australian swimmer
1972 – Robert Coles, professional golfer
1973 – Katt Williams, American comedian,actor,and rapper
1973 – Jason Blake, American hockey player
1973 – Indika de Saram, Sri Lankan cricketer
1974 – Steven Johnson, Australian racing driver
1974 – Daniel Southworth, American actor and stunt performer
1975 – MC Chris, American rapper
1976 – Phil Lipscomb, American musician (Taproot)
1976 – Erin Hershey, American actress
1976 – Aziz Zakari, Ghanaian athlete specializing in the 100 metres
1977 – Ramiro Muñoz, Colombian musician
1977 – Frédéric Kanouté, Malian footballer
1979 – Tomer Ben Yosef, Israeli footballer
1979 – Alex Chu, Canadian-born Korean singer
1979 – Ron Ng, Hong Kong actor
1979 – Brian Westbrook, American football player
1980 – Dany Sabourin, French Canadian Goaltender in the National Hockey League
1980 – Hiroki Yoshimoto, Japanese racing driver
1981 – Chris Tremlett, English cricketer
1981 – Bracha van Doesburgh, Dutch actress
1981 – Fariborz Kamkari, Iranian film director/producer
1982 – Joey Barton, English footballer
1982 – Mandy Cho, Hong Kong actress
1982 – Jason Hammel, American baseball player
1983 – Mark Foster, English rugby player
1983 – Aimee Osbourne, English singer, actress and columnist
1984 – Danson Tang, Taiwanese actor, model, and singer
1984 – Jack Peñate, English singer
1984 – Udita Goswami, Indian model and actress
1986 – Kyle Hines, American basketball player
1987 – Scott Moir, Canadian ice dancer
1987 – Spencer Smith, American musician (Panic! at the Disco)
1988 – Ishant Sharma, Indian Cricketer
1989 – Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer
1989 – Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian playback singer (d. 2008)
1990 – Marcus Ericsson, Swedish racing driver

Deaths

490 BC – Pheidippides, Greek hero
421 – Constantius III, Roman Emperor
1031 – Saint Emeric of Hungary
1274 – Prince Munetaka, Japanese shogun (b. 1242)
1397 – Francesco Landini, Italian composer
1540 – Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1501)
1680 – Per Brahe, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1602)
1688 – Robert Viner, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1631)
1690 – Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1615)
1764 – Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1700)
1765 – Henry Bouquet, Swiss-born British army officer (b. 1719)
1768 – Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (b. 1703)
1790 – Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian (b. 1701)
1813 – Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1763)
1820 – Jiaqing, Emperor of China (b. 1760)
1832 – Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian astronomer (b. 1754)
1834 – Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (b. 1757)
1865 – William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (b. 1805)
1872 – Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (b. 1783)
1877 – Constantine Kanaris, Greek admiral, freedom fighter and politician (b. 1793)
1896 – Nat Thomson, Australian cricketer (b. 1839)
1898 – Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
1910 – Henri Rousseau, French painter (b. 1844)
1921 – Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
1921 – Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil pioneer (b. 1855)
1934 – Alcide Nunez, American musician (b. 1884)
1934 – Russ Columbo, American singer, violinist and actor (b. 1908)
1934 – James Allan, New Zealand rugby union player, All Black (b. 1860)
1937 – Pierre de Coubertin, French founder of the modern Olympic Games (b. 1863)
1941 – Lloyd Seay, American stock car driver (b. 1919)
1942 – Tom Williams, Irish republican (b. 1924)
1944 – Bella Rosenfeld, subject of many of Marc Chagall paintings (b. 1895)
1948 – Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)
1953 – Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, U.S. general (b. 1883)
1962 – William Wilkerson, Founder of the Hollywood Reporter, The Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas and nightclubs such as Ciro's (b. 1890)
1964 – Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
1964 – Francisco Craveiro Lopes, 13th President of Portugal (b. 1894)
1964 – Alvin York, American soldier (b. 1887)
1965 – Johannes Bobrowski, German writer (b. 1917)
1969 – Ho Chi Minh, President of Vietnam (b. 1890)
1973 – Carl Dudley, American film director (b. 1910)
1973 – J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (b. 1892)
1976 – Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish writer (b. 1934)
1978 – Fred G. Meyer, Founder Fred Meyer Inc. (b. 1886)
1979 – Otto P. Weyland, American military figure (b. 1903)
1984 – Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (b. 1908)
1985 – Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (b. 1920)
1985 – Jay Youngblood, American professional wrestler
1991 – Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)
1992 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1994 – Roy Castle, British entertainer (b. 1932)
1996 – Paddy Clift, Leicestershire cricketer (b. 1953)
1997 – Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (b. 1902)
1997 – Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1905)
1998 – Jackie Blanchflower, Irish footballer (b. 1933)
1998 – Allen Drury, American author (b. 1918)
2000 – Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (b. 1905)
2000 – Curt Siodmak, German-born author (b. 1907)
2001 – Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (b. 1922)
2001 – Troy Donahue, American actor (b. 1936)
2002 – Dick Reynolds, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1915)
2004 – Joan Oró, Catalan scientist (b. 1923)
2004 – Eleni Zafeiriou, Greek actress (b. 1916)
2005 – Bob Denver, American actor (b. 1935)
2006 – Bob Mathias, American athlete and congressman (b. 1930)
2006 – Willi Ninja, dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)
2007 – Max McNab, National Hockey League executive (b. 1924)
2007 – Franz-Benno Delonge, German game designer (b. 1957)
2007 – Rajae Belmlih, Moroccan singer (b. 1962)
2008 – Bill Meléndez, American character animator (b. 1916)

Holidays and observances

Also see September 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
RC Saints – Saint Nonnosus, Agricola of Avignon, Saint Castor of Apt, Antoninus of Pamiers.
Mauritius – Ganesh Chaturthi.
Transnistria – Independence day, note Transnistria is not an internationally recognized independent state.
Sedan Day (Sedantag) – traditional national German holiday (see Sedan, France) that commemorates Prussia's victory over France in 1870, making the German Empire a reality.
Vietnam – National Day (independence from Japan and France, 1945).
Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions
Acoma Pueblo – Feast Day of San Esteban del Rey

 

[historylover]

September 3

Events

36 BC – In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.
590 – Gregory I became pope.
863 – Major Byzantine victory at the Battle of Lalakaon against an Arab raid.
1189 – Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard "the Lionheart") is crowned at Westminster.
1260 – The Mamluks defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire.
1650 – Third English Civil War: Battle of Dunbar (1650)
1651 – Third English Civil War: Battle of Worcester – Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war.
1666 – The Royal Exchange burnt down in the Great Fire of London
1777 – Cooch's Bridge – Skirmish of American Revolutionary war in New Castle County, Delaware where the Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time.
1783 – American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1798 – Weeklong battle of St. George's Caye begun between Spanish and British off the coast of Belize.
1802 – William Wordsworth composed the sonnet "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802".
1803 – English scientist John Dalton started using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
1812 – 24 settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre.
1838 – Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a Free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from slavery.
1855 – Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.
1861 – American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz begins, which will result in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.
1874 – The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of "Villa de Juárez".
1878 – Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
1914 – William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
1933 – Yevgeniy Abalakov reaches the highest point of the Soviet Union – Communism Peak (7495 m).
1935 – Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph
1939 – World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allies.
1941 – Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.
1942 – World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Lakhva Ghetto.
1944 – Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving three days later.
1950 – "Nino" Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers' champion after winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix.
1951 – The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network.
1954 – The People's Liberation Army begin shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy.
1954 – The German U-Boat U-505 began its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
1967 – Dagen H in Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight
1971 – Qatar becomes an independent state
1976 – Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
1994 – Sino-Soviet Split: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
1995 – eBay founded.
1997 – A Vietnam Airlines Tupolev TU-134 crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
1999 – 87-automobile pile-up on Highway 401 freeway just east of Windsor, Ontario, Canada after an unusually thick fog from Lake St. Clair.
2004 – Beslan school hostage crisis: Day 3: The Beslan hostage crisis ends with the deaths of over 300 people, over half of which are children.

Births

1034 – Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan (d. 1073)
1499 – Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henri II of France (d. 1566)
1568 – Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (d. 1634)
1675 – Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (d. 1751)
1693 – Charles Radclyffe, British politician (d. 1746)
1695 – Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (d. 1764)
1710 – Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (d. 1784)
1724 – Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (d. 1808)
1781 – Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Josephine de Beauharnais (d. 1824)
1810 – Paul Kane, Canadian painter (d. 1871)
1820 – George Hearst, American businessman and father of William Randolph Hearst (d. 1891)
1841 – Tom Emmett, England cricketer (d. 1904)
1849 – Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (d. 1909)
1851 – Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, Queen of Greece (d. 1926)
1856 – Louis Sullivan, American architect (d. 1924)
1856 – Robert Stewart, South African cricketer (d. 1913)
1869 – Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930)
1875 – Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (d. 1951)
1882 – Johnny Douglas, England cricketer and boxer (d. 1930)
1887 – Frank Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
1897 – Sally Benson, American writer (d. 1972)
1899 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985)
1900 – Maurice Dobb, British economist (d. 1976)
1900 – Urho Kekkonen, Finnish politician (d. 1986)
1900 – Percy Chapman, England cricketer (d. 1961)
1901 – Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor (d. 1959)
1905 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
1905 – John Mills, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1972)
1907 – Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist (d. 1977)
1908 – Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (d. 1988)
1910 – Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality (d. 2007)
1910 – Maurice Papon, French Nazi collaborator (d. 2007)
1911 – Bernard Mammes, American cyclist (d. 2000)
1913 – Alan Ladd, American actor (d. 1964)
1914 – Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (d. 1994)
1916 – Eddie Stanky, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1918 – Helen Wagner, American actress
1921 – Marguerite Higgins, American reporter and war correspondent, Pulitzer prize winner (d. 1966)
1921 – Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (d. 1971)
1923 – Mort Walker, American cartoonist (Beetle Bailey)
1925 – Bengt Lindström, Swedish artist (d. 2008)
1925 – Shoista Mullodzhanova, Shashmakom singer
1925 – Hank Thompson, American singer (d. 2007)
1926 – Alison Lurie, American novelist
1926 – Irene Papas, Greek actress
1928 – Gaston Thorn, President of the European Commission (d. 2007)
1929 – Carlo Clerici, Swiss cyclist (d. 2007)
1930 – Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author (d. 2002)
1931 – Albert DeSalvo, The Boston Strangler (d. 1973)
1931 – Dick Motta, American basketball coach
1932 – Eileen Brennan, American actress
1933 – Tompall Glaser, American singer
1933 – Basil Butcher, West Indian cricketer
1934 – Freddie King, American musician (d. 1976)
1938 – Caryl Churchill, English playwright
1938 – Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 – Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist
1940 – Pauline Collins, English actress
1941 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (d. 1990)
1942 – Al Jardine, American musician (The Beach Boys)
1942 – John Shrapnel, English actor
1943 – Valerie Perrine, American actress
1943 – Frank Lister, English footballer
1947 – Eric Bell, Irish guitarist (Thin Lizzy)
1947 – Kjell Magne Bondevik, Norwegian politician
1948 – Levy Mwanawasa – Zambian Politician (d. 2008)
1949 – Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (d. 2004)
1949 – José Pekerman, Argentine football manager
1950 – Doug Pinnick, American bassist and singer (King's X)
1951 – Denys Hobson, former South African cricketer
1953 – Jean-Pierre Jeunet, French film director
1955 – Steve Jones, English musician (Sex Pistols)
1956 – Pat McGeown, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
1957 – Garth Ancier, American television executive
1957 – Earl Cureton, American basketball player
1959 – Merritt Butrick, American actor (d. 1989)
1962 – Costas Mandylor, Australian-born actor
1963 – Amber Lynn, American porn star
1963 – Mubarak Ghanim, UAE footballer
1964 – Adam Curry, Internet entrepreneur
1964 – Spike Feresten, American television writer
1964 – Junaid Jamshed, Pakistani singer
1964 – Holt McCallany, American actor
1964 – Nigel Rhodes, English actor and musician
1965 – Charlie Sheen, American actor
1966 – Vladimir Ryzhkov, Russian politician
1969 – John Fugelsang, American actor
1969 – Marianna Komlos, Canadian bodybuilder, fitness model, professional wrestler, and valet (d. 2004)
1970 – Jeremy Glick, American United Airlines Flight 93 passenger (d. 2001)
1970 – Gareth Southgate, English footballer
1971 – Chabeli Iglesias, Spanish journalist
1971 – Trevor St. John, American actor
1972 – Natalia Estrada, Spanish model and actress
1972 – Martin Straka, Czech ice hockey player
1973 – Norihiko Hibino, Japanese composer
1973 – Jennifer Paige, American singer/songwriter
1973 – Damon Stoudamire, American basketball player
1974 – Clare Kramer, American actress
1974 – Rahul Sanghvi, Indian cricketer
1975 – Cristobal Huet, French hockey player
1976 – Ashley Jones, American actress
1976 – Jevon Kearse, American football player
1976 – Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor
1977 – Rui Marques, Angolan footballer
1977 – Olof Mellberg, Swedish footballer
1977 – Nate Robertson, American baseball player
1978 – John Curtis, English footballer
1978 – Paul Moor, English ten-pin bowler
1978 – Michal Rozsival, Czech ice hockey player
1978 – Nick Wechsler, American actor
1978 – Valfar, Norwegian heavy metal vocalist/musician (Windir) (d. 2004)
1979 – Tomo Miličević, Croatian-born American musician (30 Seconds to Mars)
1979 – Tiffany Chapman, English actress
1980 – The B.G., American rapper
1980 – Daniel Ruben Bilos, Argentinian footballer
1980 – Cone McCaslin, Canadian bassist (Sum 41)
1980 – Jennie Finch, American softball player
1981 – Fearne Cotton, British television presenter
1982 – Andrew McMahon, American singer and songwriter
1982 – Kaori Natori, Japanese singer and model
1983 – Augusto Farfus, Brazilian racing driver
1983 – Nicky Hunt, English footballer
1983 – Marcus McCauley, American football player
1983 – Valdas Vasylius, Lithuanian basketball player
1984 – Garrett Hedlund, American actor
1985 – Scott Carson, English footballer
1985 – Kelvin Wilson, English footballer
1986 – Shaun White, American snowboarder
1987 – Chris Fountain, English actor
1993 – Rina Koike, Japanese junior idol

Deaths

1402 – Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan (b. 1351)
1420 – Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, regent of Scotland
1592 – Robert Greene, English writer (b. 1558)
1634 – Edward Coke, English jurist and Member of Parliament (b. 1552)
1653 – Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (b. 1588)
1658 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England (b. 1599)
1662 – William Lenthall, English politician (b. 1591)
1720 – Henri de Massue, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1648)
1722 – Ivan Skoropadsky, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1646)
1729 – Jean Hardouin, French scholar (b. 1646)
1766 – Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (b. 1686)
1808 – John Montgomery, American Continental Congressman (b. 1722)
1857 – John McLoughlin, Canadian trapper (b. 1784)
1860 – Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (b. 1804)
1866 – Konstantin Flavitsky, Russian painter (b. 1830)
1883 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian author (b. 1818)
1886 – William W. Snow, American politician (b. 1812)
1893 – James Harrison, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1816)
1903 – Joseph Skipsey, British poet (b. 1832)
1914 – Albéric Magnard, French composer (b. 1865)
1936 – Nikita Balieff, Armenian vaudevillian and impresario
1948 – Edvard Beneš, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884)
1961 – Robert E. Gross, American businessman (b. 1897)
1962 – E. E. Cummings, American poet (b. 1894)
1963 – Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (b. 1907)
1964 – Stewart Holbrook, American author (b. 1893)
1967 – James Dunn, American actor (b. 1905)
1967 – Francis Ouimet, American golfer and businessman(b.1893)
1968 – Isabel Withers, American actress (b. 1896)
1969 – John Lester, American cricketer (b. 1871)
1970 – Vince Lombardi, American football coach (b. 1913)
1970 – "Blind Owl" Wilson, American musician (Canned Heat) (b. 1943)
1974 – Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901)
1980 – Dirch Passer, Danish actor (b. 1926)
1980 – Duncan Renaldo, American actor (b. 1904)
1981 – Alec Waugh, English writer (b. 1898)
1983 – Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (b. 1926)
1985 – Johnny Marks, American singer (b. 1909)
1987 – Morton Feldman, American composer (b. 1926)
1991 – Frank Capra, American film director (b. 1897)
1994 – James T. Aubrey, American television executive (b. 1918)
1994 – Billy Wright, English former footballer (b. 1924)
1994 – Major Lance, American singer (b. 1939)
1996 – Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Australian artist (b. 1910)
2000 – Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
2001 – Pauline Kael, American film critic (b. 1919)
2001 – Thuy Trang, Vietnamese-American actress (b. 1973)
2002 – W. Clement Stone, American entrepreneur (b. 1902)
2003 – Paul Jennings Hill, American anti-abortion murderer (b. 1954)
2005 – R. S. R. Fitter, British ornithologist and botanist (b. 1913)
2005 – William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)
2007 – Jane Tomlinson, British charity fund raiser (b. 1964)
2007 – Steve Ryan, American actor (b. 1947)
2007 – Syd Jackson, Māori activist and trade unionist (b. 1939)
2007 – Carter Albrecht, Musician (b. 1973)
2008 – Donald Blakeslee, American aviator, led 4th Fighter Group during World War II. (b. 1917)
2009 – Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Indian politician (b. 1949)

Holidays and observances

Australia – Flag Day.
Canadian Merchant Navy Day.
RC Saints – Pope Gregory I, Saint Marinus, Remaclus.
Qatar – Independence Day (from Great Britain, 1971).
San Marino – Foundation (301) by Saint Marinus.
Republic of China (Taiwan) – Armed Forces Day.
Tunisia – Memorial Day.

 

[historylover]

September 5

Events

1590 – Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
1661 – Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers.
1666 – Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died.
1698 – In an effort to move his people away from archaic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards.
1725 – Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
1774 – First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1781 – Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War.
1793 – French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
1798 – Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
1800 – Malta is conquered by Great Britain.
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 has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
1839 – The First Opium War begins in China.
1840 – Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan.
1862 – American Civil War: the Potomac River is crossed at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
1864 – Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.
1877 – 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 – Fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England killed 186
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
1906 – The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
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.
1918 – Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia
1927 – The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
1932 – The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and friend.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.
1938 – Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre.
1939 – World War II: The United States declares its neutrality in the war.
1942 – World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War.
1943 – World War II: The 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab, near Lae in 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 suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
1948 – In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
1957 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
1960 – The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
1961 – The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.
1969 – My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. 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 Thua Thien province.
1972 – Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack and take hostage 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the attack and 9 die the following day.
1975 – Sacramento, California:Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
1977 – Hanns Martin Schleyer, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.
1977 – Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
1978 – Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
1980 – The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.224 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
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 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
1990 – Eastern University massacre, massacre of 158 Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan army at the Eastern University in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
2000 – The Haverstraw-Ossining Ferry makes its maiden voyage.
2005 – Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily-populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground.
2007 – Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.

Births

1187 – Louis VIII of France (d. 1226)
1567 – Date Masamune, Renowned Samurai and Daimyo in Japan (d. 1636)
1568 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet (d. 1639)
1621 – Juan Andrés Coloma, Spanish noble (d. 1694)
1638 – Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
1667 – Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (d. 1733)
1695 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (d. 1770)
1722 – Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (d. 1763)
1725 – Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (d. 1799)
1735 – Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d. 1782)
1750 – Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (d. 1774)
1771 – Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general (d. 1847)
1774 – Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (d. 1840)
1775 – Juan Martín Díez, el Empecinado (the undaunted), Spanish guerrillero (d. 1825)
1787 – François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
1791 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (d. 1864)
1792 – Pierre-Armand Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857)
1806 – Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (d. 1865)
1807 – Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
1809 – Manuel Montt Torres, President of Chile (d. 1880)
1826 – John Wisden, England cricketer (d. 1884)
1827 – Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer (d. 1849)
1836 – Justiniano Borgoño, President of Peru (d. 1921)
1847 – Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
1850 – Jack Daniel, Creator of Jack Daniel's (d. 1911)
1857 – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist and inventor (d. 1935)
1867 – Amy Beach, American composer and pianist (d. 1944)
1874 – Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1876 – Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (d. 1956)
1876 – Abdelaziz Thâalbi, Tunisian politician. (d. 1944)
1881 – Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democratic politician (d. 1938)
1888 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, second President of India (d. 1975)
1892 – Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (d. 1973)
1901 – Mario Scelba, Italian politician and former Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1991)
1902 – Darryl F. Zanuck, American film producer and executive (d. 1979)
1905 – Arthur Koestler, Hungarian writer (d. 1983)
1905 – Maurice Challe, French general (d. 1979), one of the leaders of the Algiers putsch in 1961.
1905 – Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (d. 2005)
1908 – Gloria Holden, British actress (d. 1991)
1909 – Archie Jackson, Australian cricketer (d. 1933)
1910 – Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer (d. 1981)
1910 – Leila Mackinlay, née Leila Antionette Sterling (aka Brenda Grey), British romance writer.
1912 – John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
1912 – Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
1912 – Frank Thomas, American animator (d. 2004)
1914 – Nicanor Parra, Chilian poet and mathematician
1916 – Frank Yerby American novelist (d. 1991)
1916 – Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster) (d. 2002)
1917 – Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racing driver and trainer (d. 2008)
1918 – Luis Alcoriza, Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor (d. 1992)
1921 – Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (d. 2007)
1923 – Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
1924 – Paul Dietzel, American college football coach
1927 – Paul Volcker, former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank
1929 – Bob Newhart, American actor and comedian
1929 – Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2004)
1933 – Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Chilian catholic archbishop
1934 – Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer
1935 – Johnny Briggs MBE, English actor
1935 – Paul Josef Cardinal Cordes, President of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum
1936 – Jonathan Kozol, American writer, sociologist
1936 – Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player
1936 – John Danforth, American politician
1937 – Antonio Valentin Angelillo, Argentinian footballer
1937 – Colin Wesley, South African cricketer
1937 – William Devane, American actor
1939 – Claudette Colvin, American civil rights movement leader (Montgomery Bus Boycott)
1939 – John Stewart, American musician (The Kingston Trio) (d. 2008)
1939 – George Lazenby, Australian actor
1939 – Clay Regazzoni, Swiss racing driver (d. 2006)
1940 – Raquel Welch, American actress
1942 – Werner Herzog, German film director
1942 – Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (d. 1995)
1942 – Denise Fabre French television presenter.
1943 – Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary. (d. 2007)
1944 – Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, author and playwright (d. 1996)
1945 – Al Stewart, Scottish singer and songwriter
1946 – Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer and songwriter (Queen) (d. 1991)
1946 – Dennis Dugan, American actor and film director
1946 – Loudon Wainwright III, American singer and composer
1946 – Begum Khaleda Zia, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh
1947 – Buddy Miles, American musician (d. 2008)
1947 – Bruce Yardley, Australian cricketer
1948 – Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician
1950 – Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist
1950 – Paul William Roberts, Canadian writer
1951 – Paul Breitner, German footballer
1951 – Patti McGuire, American model and television producer
1951 – Michael Keaton, American actor
1954 – Frederick Kempe, American author, journalist, and executive
1954 – Richard Austin, West Indian cricketer
1956 – Roine Stolt, Swedish guitarist (The Flower Kings)
1957 – Peter Winnen, Dutch bicycle road athlete
1961 – Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian pianist
1962 – Peter Wingfield, Welsh actor
1963 – Juan Alderete, American bassist (Racer X)
1963 – Jeff Brantley, American baseball player
1963 – Jonathan Phillips, English actor
1963 – Taki Inoue, Japanese racing driver
1963 – Kristian Alfonso, American actress
1964 – Frank Farina, Australian footballer
1964 – Ken Norman, American basketball player
1964 – Amanda Ooms, Swedish actress
1965 – Chris Morris, English satirist
1965 – David Brabham, Australian racing driver
1965 – Chris Gore, American filmmaker
1965 – César Rincón, colombian matador
1966 – Achero Mañas, Spanish actor and film director
1966 – Milinko Pantić, retired Serbian footballer
1967 – India Hicks, English model
1967 – Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player
1968 – Dennis Scott, American basketball player
1968 – Brad Wilk, American musician (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
1969 – Leonardo Nascimento de Araujo, Brazilian footballer
1969 – Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer
1969 – Dweezil Zappa, American musician
1970 – Steve Burton, American actor
1970 – Kim Hye-su, South Korean actress and model
1970 – Liam Lynch, American musician (Sifl and Olly)
1970 – Mohammad Rafique, Bangladeshi cricketer
1971 – Adam Hollioake, England cricketer
1972 – Shane Sewell, Canadian professional wrestler
1972 – Guy Whittall, Zimbabwean cricketer
1973 – Rose McGowan, Italian-born actress
1973 – Alexandra Kerry, daughter of American Senator John Kerry
1973 – Paddy Considine, English actor
1974 – Rawl Lewis, West Indian cricketer
1975 – Rod Barajas, American baseball player
1975 – George Boateng, Dutch footballer
1975 – Matt Geyer, Australian rugby league footballer
1975 – Jamie Spaniolo, American horrorcore rapper
1976 – Tatyana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast
1976 – Carice van Houten, Dutch actress
1976 – Richard Marsland, Australian comedian/writer and radio personality
1977 – Rosevelt Colvin, American football player
1977 – Joseba Etxeberria, Spanish football winger
1977 – Minoru Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler
1977 – Alexey Harkov, Russian bassist (Kipelov, Sergey Mavrin)
1977 – Nazr Mohammed, American Basketball player
1978 – Laura Bertram, Canadian actress
1978 – Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1978 – Zhang Zhong, Chinese chess player
1978 – Sylvester Joseph, West Indian cricketer
1979 – John Carew, Norwegian footballer
1979 – Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
1979 – George O'Callaghan, Irish footballer
1980 – Franco Costanzo, Argentinian football goalkeeper
1981 – Drew Carter, American football player
1981 – Filippo Volandri, Italian tennis player
1982 – Alexandre Geijo, Spanish/Swiss footballer
1982 – Sondre Lerche, Norwegian musician
1983 – Eugen Bopp, Ukrainian-German footballer
1983 – Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer
1983 – Xavier Susai, Australian comedian
1983 – Antony Sweeney, Hartlepool United Footballer
1984 – Trey Hill, Grammy-nominated musician
1985 – Ryan Guy, American soccer player
1986 – Pragyan Ojha, Indian cricketer
1987 – Pierre Casiraghi, son of Princess Caroline of Monaco
1988 – Nuri Sahin, Turkish footballer
1990 – Kim Yu-Na, Korean figure skater
1991 – Skandar Keynes, English actor
1993 – Gage Golightly, American actress

Deaths

1165 – Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143)
1201 – Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
1235 – Henry I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1165)
1548 – Catherine Parr, Sixth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. c.1512)
1607 – Pomponne de Bellièvre, chancellor of France (b. 1529)
1629 – Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. c.1585)
1734 – Nicolas Bernier, French musician and composer (b. 1664)
1786 – Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712)
1803 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (b. 1741)
1803 – François Devienne, French composer (b. 1759)
1808 – John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
1836 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
1838 – Charles Percier, French architect (b. 1764)
1857 – Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
1867 – Santiago Derqui, Argentinian politician (b. 1809)
1876 – Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790)
1877 – Crazy Horse, Lakota (Sioux) chief (b. 1849)
1898 – Sarah Edmonds, Canadian nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
1901 – Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
1902 – Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician (b. 1821)
1906 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
1912 – Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845)
1914 – Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
1917 – Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872)
1920 – Robert Harron, American actor (b. 1893)
1922 – Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
1926 – Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician, founding member of the "DAP", which would become the Nazi Party (b. 1890)
1930 – Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
1931 – John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909)
1932 – Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
1936 – Federico Borrell García, Spanish anarchist soldier during the Spanish Civil War (b. 1912)
1936 – Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
1942 – François de Labouchère, French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Libération. (b. 1917)
1945 – Clem Hill, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
1948 – Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
1953 – Richard Walther Darré, Nazi politician, one of the leading ‘blood and soil’ ideologists (b. 1895)
1954 – Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860)
1965 – Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
1966 – Dezső Lauber, Hungarian athlete (b. 1879)
1970 – Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver and one-time F1 (posthumous) world champion (b. 1942)
1973 – Jack Fournier, American baseball player (b. 1889)
1975 – Georg Ots, Estonian singer (b. 1920)
1977 – Marcel Thiry, Belgian writer and wallon militant (b. 1897)
1979 – Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (b. 1884)
1982 – Douglas Bader, RAF fighter pilot in World War II (b. 1910)
1983 – Antonio Mairena, flamenco singer (b. 1909)
1988 – Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
1990 – Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896)
1992 – Fritz Leiber, American author (b. 1910)
1993 – Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (b.1914)
1997 – Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (b. 1912)
1997 – Mother Teresa, Albanian-born missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)
1998 – Leo Penn, American film director (b. 1921)
1998 – Verner Panton, Danish designer (b. 1926)
1998 – Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor (b. 1946)
1999 – Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (b. 1914)
1999 – Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
2001 – Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian UN statistician (b. 1912)
2001 – Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef and humorist (b. 1914)
2002 – David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer, author of the first study of the Cosmic microwave background radiation (b. 1935)
2003 – Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-born singer (b. 1927)
2005 – Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General and the primary planner in two failed coup d'état attempt in Chile (b. 1917)
2007 – Jennifer Dunn, American politician (b. 1941)
2007 – Paul Gillmor, American politician (b. 1939)
2007 – D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (b. 1930)
2007 – Thomas Hansen, Norwegian musician (b. 1976)
2008 – Evan Tanner American mixed martial artist (b. 1971)

Holidays and observances

Roman festivals – Jupiter Stator to commemorate that Jupiter helped Romulus to stop the Sabine invasion under Titus Tatius.
RC Saints – The feast day of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta; Saint Genebald.
India – The birthdate of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan is celebrated as Teacher's Day in India.
Zechariah and Elisabeth, parents of John the Baptist
Bertin, abbot of Saint-Omer.
Abdas of Susa

 

[historylover]

September 5

Events

1590 – Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
1661 – Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers.
1666 – Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died.
1698 – In an effort to move his people away from archaic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards.
1725 – Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
1774 – First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1781 – Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War.
1793 – French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
1798 – Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
1800 – Malta is conquered by Great Britain.
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 has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
1839 – The First Opium War begins in China.
1840 – Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan.
1862 – American Civil War: the Potomac River is crossed at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
1864 – Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.
1877 – 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 – Fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England killed 186
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
1906 – The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
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.
1918 – Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia
1927 – The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
1932 – The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and friend.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.
1938 – Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre.
1939 – World War II: The United States declares its neutrality in the war.
1942 – World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War.
1943 – World War II: The 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab, near Lae in 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 suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
1948 – In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
1957 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
1960 – The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
1961 – The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.
1969 – My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. 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 Thua Thien province.
1972 – Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack and take hostage 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the attack and 9 die the following day.
1975 – Sacramento, California:Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
1977 – Hanns Martin Schleyer, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.
1977 – Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
1978 – Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
1980 – The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.224 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
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 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
1990 – Eastern University massacre, massacre of 158 Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan army at the Eastern University in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
2000 – The Haverstraw-Ossining Ferry makes its maiden voyage.
2005 – Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily-populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground.
2007 – Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.

Births

1187 – Louis VIII of France (d. 1226)
1567 – Date Masamune, Renowned Samurai and Daimyo in Japan (d. 1636)
1568 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet (d. 1639)
1621 – Juan Andrés Coloma, Spanish noble (d. 1694)
1638 – Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
1667 – Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (d. 1733)
1695 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (d. 1770)
1722 – Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (d. 1763)
1725 – Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (d. 1799)
1735 – Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d. 1782)
1750 – Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (d. 1774)
1771 – Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general (d. 1847)
1774 – Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (d. 1840)
1775 – Juan Martín Díez, el Empecinado (the undaunted), Spanish guerrillero (d. 1825)
1787 – François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
1791 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (d. 1864)
1792 – Pierre-Armand Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857)
1806 – Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (d. 1865)
1807 – Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
1809 – Manuel Montt Torres, President of Chile (d. 1880)
1826 – John Wisden, England cricketer (d. 1884)
1827 – Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer (d. 1849)
1836 – Justiniano Borgoño, President of Peru (d. 1921)
1847 – Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
1850 – Jack Daniel, Creator of Jack Daniel's (d. 1911)
1857 – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist and inventor (d. 1935)
1867 – Amy Beach, American composer and pianist (d. 1944)
1874 – Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1876 – Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (d. 1956)
1876 – Abdelaziz Thâalbi, Tunisian politician. (d. 1944)
1881 – Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democratic politician (d. 1938)
1888 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, second President of India (d. 1975)
1892 – Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (d. 1973)
1901 – Mario Scelba, Italian politician and former Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1991)
1902 – Darryl F. Zanuck, American film producer and executive (d. 1979)
1905 – Arthur Koestler, Hungarian writer (d. 1983)
1905 – Maurice Challe, French general (d. 1979), one of the leaders of the Algiers putsch in 1961.
1905 – Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (d. 2005)
1908 – Gloria Holden, British actress (d. 1991)
1909 – Archie Jackson, Australian cricketer (d. 1933)
1910 – Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer (d. 1981)
1910 – Leila Mackinlay, née Leila Antionette Sterling (aka Brenda Grey), British romance writer.
1912 – John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
1912 – Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
1912 – Frank Thomas, American animator (d. 2004)
1914 – Nicanor Parra, Chilian poet and mathematician
1916 – Frank Yerby American novelist (d. 1991)
1916 – Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster) (d. 2002)
1917 – Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racing driver and trainer (d. 2008)
1918 – Luis Alcoriza, Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor (d. 1992)
1921 – Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (d. 2007)
1923 – Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
1924 – Paul Dietzel, American college football coach
1927 – Paul Volcker, former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank
1929 – Bob Newhart, American actor and comedian
1929 – Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2004)
1933 – Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Chilian catholic archbishop
1934 – Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer
1935 – Johnny Briggs MBE, English actor
1935 – Paul Josef Cardinal Cordes, President of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum
1936 – Jonathan Kozol, American writer, sociologist
1936 – Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player
1936 – John Danforth, American politician
1937 – Antonio Valentin Angelillo, Argentinian footballer
1937 – Colin Wesley, South African cricketer
1937 – William Devane, American actor
1939 – Claudette Colvin, American civil rights movement leader (Montgomery Bus Boycott)
1939 – John Stewart, American musician (The Kingston Trio) (d. 2008)
1939 – George Lazenby, Australian actor
1939 – Clay Regazzoni, Swiss racing driver (d. 2006)
1940 – Raquel Welch, American actress
1942 – Werner Herzog, German film director
1942 – Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (d. 1995)
1942 – Denise Fabre French television presenter.
1943 – Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary. (d. 2007)
1944 – Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, author and playwright (d. 1996)
1945 – Al Stewart, Scottish singer and songwriter
1946 – Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer and songwriter (Queen) (d. 1991)
1946 – Dennis Dugan, American actor and film director
1946 – Loudon Wainwright III, American singer and composer
1946 – Begum Khaleda Zia, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh
1947 – Buddy Miles, American musician (d. 2008)
1947 – Bruce Yardley, Australian cricketer
1948 – Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician
1950 – Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist
1950 – Paul William Roberts, Canadian writer
1951 – Paul Breitner, German footballer
1951 – Patti McGuire, American model and television producer
1951 – Michael Keaton, American actor
1954 – Frederick Kempe, American author, journalist, and executive
1954 – Richard Austin, West Indian cricketer
1956 – Roine Stolt, Swedish guitarist (The Flower Kings)
1957 – Peter Winnen, Dutch bicycle road athlete
1961 – Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian pianist
1962 – Peter Wingfield, Welsh actor
1963 – Juan Alderete, American bassist (Racer X)
1963 – Jeff Brantley, American baseball player
1963 – Jonathan Phillips, English actor
1963 – Taki Inoue, Japanese racing driver
1963 – Kristian Alfonso, American actress
1964 – Frank Farina, Australian footballer
1964 – Ken Norman, American basketball player
1964 – Amanda Ooms, Swedish actress
1965 – Chris Morris, English satirist
1965 – David Brabham, Australian racing driver
1965 – Chris Gore, American filmmaker
1965 – César Rincón, colombian matador
1966 – Achero Mañas, Spanish actor and film director
1966 – Milinko Pantić, retired Serbian footballer
1967 – India Hicks, English model
1967 – Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player
1968 – Dennis Scott, American basketball player
1968 – Brad Wilk, American musician (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
1969 – Leonardo Nascimento de Araujo, Brazilian footballer
1969 – Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer
1969 – Dweezil Zappa, American musician
1970 – Steve Burton, American actor
1970 – Kim Hye-su, South Korean actress and model
1970 – Liam Lynch, American musician (Sifl and Olly)
1970 – Mohammad Rafique, Bangladeshi cricketer
1971 – Adam Hollioake, England cricketer
1972 – Shane Sewell, Canadian professional wrestler
1972 – Guy Whittall, Zimbabwean cricketer
1973 – Rose McGowan, Italian-born actress
1973 – Alexandra Kerry, daughter of American Senator John Kerry
1973 – Paddy Considine, English actor
1974 – Rawl Lewis, West Indian cricketer
1975 – Rod Barajas, American baseball player
1975 – George Boateng, Dutch footballer
1975 – Matt Geyer, Australian rugby league footballer
1975 – Jamie Spaniolo, American horrorcore rapper
1976 – Tatyana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast
1976 – Carice van Houten, Dutch actress
1976 – Richard Marsland, Australian comedian/writer and radio personality
1977 – Rosevelt Colvin, American football player
1977 – Joseba Etxeberria, Spanish football winger
1977 – Minoru Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler
1977 – Alexey Harkov, Russian bassist (Kipelov, Sergey Mavrin)
1977 – Nazr Mohammed, American Basketball player
1978 – Laura Bertram, Canadian actress
1978 – Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1978 – Zhang Zhong, Chinese chess player
1978 – Sylvester Joseph, West Indian cricketer
1979 – John Carew, Norwegian footballer
1979 – Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
1979 – George O'Callaghan, Irish footballer
1980 – Franco Costanzo, Argentinian football goalkeeper
1981 – Drew Carter, American football player
1981 – Filippo Volandri, Italian tennis player
1982 – Alexandre Geijo, Spanish/Swiss footballer
1982 – Sondre Lerche, Norwegian musician
1983 – Eugen Bopp, Ukrainian-German footballer
1983 – Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer
1983 – Xavier Susai, Australian comedian
1983 – Antony Sweeney, Hartlepool United Footballer
1984 – Trey Hill, Grammy-nominated musician
1985 – Ryan Guy, American soccer player
1986 – Pragyan Ojha, Indian cricketer
1987 – Pierre Casiraghi, son of Princess Caroline of Monaco
1988 – Nuri Sahin, Turkish footballer
1990 – Kim Yu-Na, Korean figure skater
1991 – Skandar Keynes, English actor
1993 – Gage Golightly, American actress

Deaths

1165 – Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143)
1201 – Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
1235 – Henry I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1165)
1548 – Catherine Parr, Sixth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. c.1512)
1607 – Pomponne de Bellièvre, chancellor of France (b. 1529)
1629 – Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. c.1585)
1734 – Nicolas Bernier, French musician and composer (b. 1664)
1786 – Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712)
1803 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (b. 1741)
1803 – François Devienne, French composer (b. 1759)
1808 – John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
1836 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
1838 – Charles Percier, French architect (b. 1764)
1857 – Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
1867 – Santiago Derqui, Argentinian politician (b. 1809)
1876 – Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790)
1877 – Crazy Horse, Lakota (Sioux) chief (b. 1849)
1898 – Sarah Edmonds, Canadian nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
1901 – Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
1902 – Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician (b. 1821)
1906 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
1912 – Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845)
1914 – Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
1917 – Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872)
1920 – Robert Harron, American actor (b. 1893)
1922 – Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
1926 – Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician, founding member of the "DAP", which would become the Nazi Party (b. 1890)
1930 – Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
1931 – John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909)
1932 – Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
1936 – Federico Borrell García, Spanish anarchist soldier during the Spanish Civil War (b. 1912)
1936 – Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
1942 – François de Labouchère, French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Libération. (b. 1917)
1945 – Clem Hill, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
1948 – Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
1953 – Richard Walther Darré, Nazi politician, one of the leading ‘blood and soil’ ideologists (b. 1895)
1954 – Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860)
1965 – Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
1966 – Dezső Lauber, Hungarian athlete (b. 1879)
1970 – Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver and one-time F1 (posthumous) world champion (b. 1942)
1973 – Jack Fournier, American baseball player (b. 1889)
1975 – Georg Ots, Estonian singer (b. 1920)
1977 – Marcel Thiry, Belgian writer and wallon militant (b. 1897)
1979 – Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (b. 1884)
1982 – Douglas Bader, RAF fighter pilot in World War II (b. 1910)
1983 – Antonio Mairena, flamenco singer (b. 1909)
1988 – Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
1990 – Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896)
1992 – Fritz Leiber, American author (b. 1910)
1993 – Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (b.1914)
1997 – Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (b. 1912)
1997 – Mother Teresa, Albanian-born missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)
1998 – Leo Penn, American film director (b. 1921)
1998 – Verner Panton, Danish designer (b. 1926)
1998 – Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor (b. 1946)
1999 – Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (b. 1914)
1999 – Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
2001 – Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian UN statistician (b. 1912)
2001 – Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef and humorist (b. 1914)
2002 – David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer, author of the first study of the Cosmic microwave background radiation (b. 1935)
2003 – Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-born singer (b. 1927)
2005 – Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General and the primary planner in two failed coup d'état attempt in Chile (b. 1917)
2007 – Jennifer Dunn, American politician (b. 1941)
2007 – Paul Gillmor, American politician (b. 1939)
2007 – D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (b. 1930)
2007 – Thomas Hansen, Norwegian musician (b. 1976)
2008 – Evan Tanner American mixed martial artist (b. 1971)

Holidays and observances

Roman festivals – Jupiter Stator to commemorate that Jupiter helped Romulus to stop the Sabine invasion under Titus Tatius.
RC Saints – The feast day of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta; Saint Genebald.
India – The birthdate of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan is celebrated as Teacher's Day in India.
Zechariah and Elisabeth, parents of John the Baptist
Bertin, abbot of Saint-Omer.
Abdas of Susa

 

[historylover]

September 6

Events

3114 BC – According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started.
394 – Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast.
1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic for the first time.
1522 – The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
1620 – The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
1628 – Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1634 – Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen the Catholic Imperial army defeats Protestant armies of SwedenGermany.
1669 – The siege of Candia ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans.
1776 – Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing more than 6000.
1781 – The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.
1847 – Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
1861 – American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control of the mouth of the Tennessee River.
1863 – American Civil War: Confederates 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. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.
1888 – Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season – a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
1901 – Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
1930 – Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
1939 – World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.
1939 – World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
1940 – King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.
1943 – The Monterrey Institute of Technology, one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America, is founded in Monterrey, Mexico.
1944 – World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces.
1948 – Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
1949 – Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
1949 – A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey, with a souvenir Luger to become the first U.S. single-episode mass murderer.
1952 – Canada's first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal.
1955 – Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul's Greek and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.
1963 – The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
1963 – The 100,000th Major League baseball game is played.
1965 – War of 1965: India retaliates following Pakistan's failed Operation Grand Slam which resulted in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that is ended following the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
1966 – In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death 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 PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
1972 – Munich Massacre: 9 Israel athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group died (as did a German policeman) at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt. 2 other Israeli athletes are slain in the initial attack the previous day.
1976 – Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.
1983 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
1985 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
1986 – In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services.
1991 – The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1991 – The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
1992 – Hunters discover the emaciated body of Christopher Johnson McCandless at his camp 20 miles west of the town of Healy, Alaska.
1995 – Cal Ripken Jr of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years.
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales is laid to rest in front of a television audience of more than 2.5 billion.

Births

1535 – Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (d. 1612)
1620 – Isabella Leonarda, Italian composer (d. 1704)
1656 – Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1723)
1666 – Tsar Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696)
1711 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (d. 1787)
1732 – Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (d. 1796)
1729 – Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher (d. 1786)
1757 – Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier and statesman (d. 1834)
1766 – John Dalton, British chemist and physicist (d. 1844)
1781 – Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher and composer (d. 1858)
1795 – Frances Wright, English writer and lecturer (d. 1852)
1800 – Catharine Beecher, American educator (d. 1878)
1802 – Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (d. 1857)
1808 – Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (d. 1883)
1814 – George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian politician (d. 1873)
1815 – St. John Richardson Liddell, American Civil War Confederate General (d. 1870)
1817 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician (d. 1893)
1829 – Marie Zakrzewska, Polish physician (d. 1902)
1838 – Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (d. 1906)
1857 – Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (d. 1933)
1860 – Jane Addams, American social worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1935)
1868 – Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1947)
1869 – Felix Salten, Austrian author (d. 1945)
1876 – John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
1877 – Buddy Bolden, American musician (d. 1930)
1879 – Joseph Wirth, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1956)
1879 – Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
1888 – Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American banker and diplomat (d. 1969)
1890 – Clara Kimball Young, American actress (d. 1960)
1892 – Sir Edward Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
1893 – Claire Chennault, American pilot (d. 1958)
1899 – Billy Rose, American composer (d. 1966)
1900 – W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979)
1900 – Julien Green, French-born American novelist (d. 1998)
1904 – Max Rosenbloom, American boxer (d. 1976)
1906 – Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
1909 – Michael Gordon, American actor and director (d. 1993)
1910 – Walter Giesler, American soccer coach, (d. 1976)
1911 – Harry Danning, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1915 – Franz Josef Strauß, German Politician (d. 1988)
1917 – Philipp von Boeselager, German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler (d. 2008)
1917 – George Mann, England cricketer (d. 2001)
1919 – Wilson Greatbatch, American Inventor
1921 – Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (d. 2004)
1923 – King Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
1925 – Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (d. 1976)
1926 – Maurice Prather, American motion picture and still photographer (d. 2001)
1926 – Claus von Amsberg, Prince Consort of the Netherlands (d. 2002)
1928 – Robert M. Pirsig, American author
1928 – Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer (d. 2002)
1929 – Yash Johar, Indian film producer (d. 2005)
1937 – Sergio Aragonés, Spanish-born illustrator
1937 – Brigid Berlin, American actor
1937 – Jo Anne Worley, American actress
1939 – Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1939 – Dan Cragg, American soldier and author
1939 – David Allan Coe, American country singer
1942 – Richard Anthony Hutton, England cricketer
1942 – Carol Wayne, American actress (d. 1985)
1943 – Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1943 – Roger Waters, British musician (Pink Floyd)
1944 – Swoosie Kurtz, American actress
1945 – Larry Lucchino, American baseball executive
1947 – Jane Curtin, American actress
1947 – Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer and coach
1947 – Sylvester James, American singer
1948 – Claydes Charles Smith, American musician (Kool & the Gang) (d. 2006)
1954 – Ève Luquet, French stamp designer
1954 – Carly Fiorina, Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard
1956 – Bill Ritter, American politician
1957 – Michaëlle Jean, 27th Governor-General of Canada
1957 – José Sócrates, Prime Minister of Portugal
1957 – Tim Whitnall, English actor and narrator
1958 – Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian
1958 – Michael Winslow, American actor and comedian
1958 – Buster Bloodvessel, British singer
1958 – Nigel Westlake, Australian musician and composer
1961 – Scott Travis, American musician (Judas Priest)
1961 – Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian musician (a-ha)
1961 – Simon Reeve, Australian journalist
1962 – Kevin Willis, American basketball player
1962 – Elizabeth Vargas, American journalist
1963 – Alice Sebold, American novelist
1963 – Geert Wilders, Dutch politician
1963 – Bryan Simonaire, American politician
1963 – Pat Nevin, Scottish footballer
1964 – Rosie Perez, American actress
1965 – John Polson, Australian actor and film director
1968 – Saeed Anwar, Pakistani cricketer
1968 – Paul Rea, American television journalist
1968 – Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish writer
1969 – Ben Finegold, American chess player
1969 – CeCe Peniston, American dance music singer
1969 – Michellie Jones, Australian triathlete
1969 – Michael Davis, American softball player (Solvents, et al.)
1970 – Paul Miller, American composer and author
1971 – Devang Gandhi, Indian Cricketer
1971 – Dolores O'Riordan, Irish musician (The Cranberries)
1972 – China Miéville, English writer
1972 – Justina Machado, Puerto Rican actress
1972 – Anika Noni Rose, American actress and singer
1972 – Idris Elba, English/American actor
1972 – Dylan Bruno, American actor (Numb3rs)
1972 – Eugene Hütz, Ukrainian singer and composer (Gogol Bordello)
1973 – Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer
1973 – Greg Rusedski, Canadian-born tennis player
1974 – Tim Henman, English tennis player
1974 – Sarah Danielle Madison, American actress
1974 – Nina Persson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1974 – Sarah Strange, Canadian actress
1974 – Justin Whalin, American actor
1975 – Derrek Lee, American baseball player
1976 – N.O.R.E., American rapper
1976 – Hyun Young, South Korean actress and pop singer
1976 – Naomie Harris, American actress
1976 – Rodrigo Amarante, Brazilian musician (Little Joy, Los Hermanos)
1977 – Kiyoshi Hikawa, Japanese enka singer
1978 – Cisco Adler, American singer
1978 – Alex Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player
1978 – Mathew Horne, English Actor
1978 – Tony Thaxton, drummer (Motion City Soundtrack)
1979 – Foxy Brown, American rapper
1979 – Brandon Silvestry, American professional wrestler
1979 – Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer
1979 – Carlos Adrián Morales, Mexican footballer
1980 – Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
1980 – Yuji Hamano, Japanese archer
1980 – Jillian Hall, American professional wrestler
1980 – Samuel Peter, Nigerian heavyweight boxer
1981 – Yumiko Cheng, Hong Kong singer
1981 – Mark Teahen, American baseball player
1985 – Webbie, American rapper
1985 – Ali Ashfaq, Maldivian footballer
1985 – Alberto Valerio, Brazilian racing driver
1986 – Raven Riley, American porn star
1987 – Ramiele Malubay, American singer
1989 – Nikos Boutzikos, Greek footballer
1989 – Kim So Eun, Korean actresz
1992 – Fabiola Rodas, Guatemalan-American artist
2000 – Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (d. 2000)
2006 – Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japan Imperial Family member

Deaths

957 – Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (b. 930)
972 – Pope John XIII
1276 – Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (b. ca. 1215)
1511 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)
1536 – William Tyndale, Protestant bible translator (b. c.1494)
1625 – Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b. 1579)
1635 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571)
1649 – Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (b. 1574)
1683 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister finance (b. 1619)
1708 – Sir John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623)
1748 – Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669)
1782 – Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
1783 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710)
1808 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)
1868 – Pierre Adolphe Rost, Louisiana judge, Confederate commissioner (b. 1797)
1902 – Frederick Augustus Abel, English chemist (b. 1827)
1907 – Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)
1938 – John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (b. 1907)
1939 – Arthur Rackman, English book illustrator (b. 1867)
1945 – John McCain, Sr., American admiral (b.1884)
1950 – Olaf Stapledon, British writer and philosopher (b. 1886)
1951 – James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (b. 1867)
1952 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)
1962 – Hanns Eisler, German-born composer (b. 1898)
1962 – Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
1966 – Margaret Sanger, American birth control activist (b. 1879)
1966 – Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1901)
1969 – Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (b. 1892)
1974 – Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (b. 1896)
1978 – Tom Wilson, American record producer (b. 1931)
1981 – Christy Brown, Irish author (b. 1932)
1984 – Ernest Tubb, American singer (b. 1914)
1985 – Johnny Desmond, American singer (b. 1919)
1986 – Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1895)
1987 – Quinn Martin, American television producer (b. 1922)
1988 – Leroy Brown, professional wrestler (b. 1950)
1990 – Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)
1990 – Tom Fogerty, American singer (b. 1941)
1991 – Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
1994 – Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. 1944)
1997 – P. H. Newby, British author and BBC radio director (b. 1918)
1998 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910)
1999 – René Lecavalier, French Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)
1999 – Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician and former President (b. 1938)
2000 – Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (b. 2000)
2001 – Carl Crack, German musician (Atari Teenage Riot) (b. 1971)
2003 – Harry Goz, American actor (b. 1932)
2003 – Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber (b. 1969)
2005 – Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet (b. 1929)
2007 – Madeleine L'Engle, American author (b. 1918)
2007 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
2007 – Alex, African Grey parrot "student" of Dr. Irene Pepperberg (b. 1976)
2008 – Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racing driver and trainer (b. 1917)
2008 – Anita Page, silent film vixen, last living attendee of the 1st Annual Academy Awards, (b. 1910)

Holidays and observances

RC Saints – Saint Begga of Cumbria; Saint Gondulphus
Also see September 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Bulgaria – Unification Day.
Canada – Stillbirth Remembrance Day in New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, and Nova Scotia (as of 2006).
Pakistan – Defence Day (Pak-Army Day) Since 1965
Swaziland – Independence Day (from the United Kingdom, 1968).
United States – Stillbirth Remembrance Day in 39 states, in remembrance of Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart

 

[historylover]

September 7

Events

70 – A Roman army under General Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.
1191 – Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf – Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
1776 – World's first submarine attack: the American submersible craft Turtle attempts to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship HMS Eagle in New York Harbor.
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Borodino – Napoleon defeats the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.
1818 – Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
1821 – The Republic of Gran Colombia (a federation covering much of present day Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador) is established, with Simón Bolívar as the founding President and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.
1822 – Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga creek in São Paulo.
1860 – Steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 400 lives.
1864 – American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
1876 – In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are surrounded by an angry mob and are nearly killed.
1893 – The Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, to become the first Italian football club, is established by British expats.
1895 – The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895-96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.
1901 – The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
1907 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1909 – Eugene Lefebvre (1878–1909), while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes at Juvisy France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
1911 – French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
1921 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
1922 – In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation.
1927 – The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
1929 – Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives are lost.
1936 – The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
1940 – World War II: The Blitz – Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.
1940 – Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.
1942 – Holocaust: 8,700 Jews of Kolomyia (western Ukraine) sent by German Gestapo to death camp in Belzec.
1942 – First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.
1943 – A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 people.
1943 – World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban River bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
1945 – Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
1953 – Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1963 – The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
1965 – China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border.
1965 – Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula.
1970 – An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.
1970 – Fighting between Arab guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.
1970 – Bill Shoemaker sets record for most lifetime wins as a jockey (passing Johnny Longden).
1977 – The Torrijos-Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The United States agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
1978 – While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from in a specially-designed umbrella.
1979 – The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) makes its debut.
1979 – The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for USD $1 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
1986 – Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.
1986 – Gen. Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.
1988 – Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the Mir space station.
1997 – The first test flight of the F-22 Raptor takes place.
1999 – A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless.
2004 – Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane hit Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings.
2005 – First presidential election is held in Egypt.
2008 – The US Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Births

786 – Emperor Saga, 52nd Emperor of Japan (d. 842)
1438 – Louis II, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1471)
1524 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (d. 1583)
1533 – Queen Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603)
1674 – Ernest Augustus (d. 1728)
1683 – Mary Anne of Austria, Archduchess of Austria and Queen consort of Portugal (d. 1754)
1694 – Johan Ludvig, Danish policitian (d. 1763)
1705 – Matthäus Günther, German painter (d. 1788)
1707 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist, biologist and author (d. 1788)
1726 – François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player and composer (d. 1795)
1740 – Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor (d. 1814)
1777 – Heinrich Stölzel, German musician and composer (d. 1844)
1810 – Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Prussian economist (d. 1858)
1815 – John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (d. 1866)
1817 – Louise of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark (d. 1898)
1818 – Thomas Talbot, 31st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1886)
1819 – Thomas A. Hendricks, 21st Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)
1829 – Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German organic chemist (d. 1896)
1831 – Alexandre Falguière, French sculptor and painter (d. 1900)
1836 – August Toepler, German physicist (d. 1912)
1842 – Johannes Zukertort, German chess master (d. 1888)
1851 – Edward Ashael Birge, American pioneer in limnology (d. 1950)
1855 – William Friese-Greene, British photographer (d. 1921)
1860 – Grandma Moses, American painter (d. 1961)
1862 – Sir Edgar Speyer, American-born British financier and philanthropist (d. 1932)
1866 – Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist (d. 1947)
1867 – Albert Bassermann, German actor (d. 1952)
1869 – Ben Viljoen, South African Boer general and circus act (d. 1917)
1870 – Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian writer, pilot, explorer and adventurer (d. 1938)
1870 – Thomas Curtis, American athlete (d. 1944)
1876 – C.J. Dennis, Australian poet and writer (d. 1938)
1877 – Mike O'Neill, Irish baseball player (d. 1959)
1885 – Elinor Wylie, American poet and novelist (d. 1928)
1887 – Edith Sitwell, British poet and critic (d. 1964)
1908 – Paul Brown, American football coach and executive (d. 1991)
1908 – Michael DeBakey, American cardiac surgeon (d. 2008)
1909 – Elia Kazan, Greek-born American film and theater director (d. 2003)
1911 – Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Communist leader during the Cold War (d. 1998)
1912 – David Packard, American electrical engineer and businessman (d. 1996)
1913 – Anthony Quayle, British actor and director (d. 1989)
1914 – Graeme Bell, Australian pianist and composer
1914 – James Van Allen, American space scientist (d. 2006)
1917 – John Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1917 – Jacob Lawrence, American painter (d. 2000)
1919 – Alberic Schotte, Belgian cyclist (d. 2004)
1920 – Al Caiola, American guitarist
1921 – Josep Lluís Núñez, Spanish President of FC Barcelona (1978 – 2000)
1922 – Lucien Jarraud, Canadian radio host (d. 2007)
1923 – Peter Lawford, British-born American actor (d. 1984)
1924 – Daniel Inouye, American senator (Hawaii) and Medal of Honor recipient
1925 – Allan Blakeney, Canadian politician
1926 – Erich Juskowiak, German footballer (d. 1983)
1926 – Don Messick, American voice actor (d. 1997)
1927 – Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, French Canadian judge
1927 – Eric Hill, British children's Author
1930 – Sonny Rollins, American jazz saxophonist
1930 – Baudouin I, King of the Belgians (d. 1993)
1934 – Little Milton, American musician (d. 2005)
1934 – Omar Karami, Prime Minister of Lebanon
1934 – Mary Bauermeister, German artist
1936 – Buddy Holly, American singer (The Crickets) (d. 1959)
1936 – Apostolos Kaklamanis, Greek politician
1937 – John Phillip Law, American actor (d. 2008)
1937 – Cüneyt Arkın, Turkish film actor
1937 – Oleg Lobov, Prime Minister of Russia
1940 – Dario Argento, Italian film director
1942 – Alan Oakes, British Footballer
1943 – Lena Valaitis, Lithuanian-German Schlager singer
1943 – Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada
1944 – Bertel Haarder, Danish politician
1944 – Earl "the Goat" Manigault, American basketball player (d. 1998)
1945 – Jacques Lemaire, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1946 – Willie Crawford, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1949 – Gloria Gaynor, American singer
1949 – Barry Siegel, American journalist
1950 – Julie Kavner, American actress
1951 – Morris Albert, Brazilian singer
1951 – Chrissie Hynde, American guitarist and singer (The Pretenders)
1951 – Mark Isham, American composer
1952 – Susan Blakely, American actress
1952 – Ricardo Tormo, Spanish motocyclist (d. 1998)
1953 – Benmont Tench, American keyboardist
1954 – Corbin Bernsen, American actor
1954 – Michael Emerson, American actor
1955 – Efim Zelmanov, Russian mathematician
1955 – Mira Furlan, Croatian actress
1956 – Byron Stevenson, British footballer (d. 2007)
1956 – Diane Warren, American song writer
1957 – Jermaine Stewart, American pop singer (Shalamar and Culture Club) (d. 1997)
1960 – Andrew Voss, Australian television personality
1961 – LeRoi Moore, American Saxophonist (Dave Matthews Band) (d. 2008)
1961 – Jean-Yves Thibaudet, French Pianist
1962 – Jennifer Egan, American novelist
1963 – Eazy-E, American rapper (N.W.A.) (d. 1995)
1965 – Andreas Thom, German footballer
1965 – Uta Pippig, German athlete
1965 – Darko Pančev, Macedonian footballer
1965 – Angela Gheorghiu, Romanian opera singer
1967 – Toby Jones, British actor
1969 – Darren Bragg, American baseball player
1969 – Angie Everhart, American model and actress
1969 – Diane Farr, American actress (Numb3rs)
1969 – Rudy Galindo, American skater figure
1970 – Tom Everett Scott, American actor
1970 – Jason Giambi, American baseball player
1971 – Briana Scurry, American soccer player
1972 – Jason Isringhausen, American baseball player
1972 – Slug, American rapper (Atmosphere)
1973 – Shannon Elizabeth, American actress
1974 – Mario Frick, Liechtensteiner footballer
1975 – Harold Wallace, Costa Rican footballer
1975 – Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle road racer (d. 2007)
1976 – Oliver Hudson, American actor
1977 – Nora Greenwald, American professional wrestler
1977 – Gianluca Grava, Italian footballer
1977 – Jon Macken, British Footballer
1978 – Matt Cooke, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 – Devon Sawa, Canadian actor
1978 – Erwin Koen, Dutch footballer
1979 – Pavol Hochschorner and Peter Hochschorner – Slovak slalom canoers
1979 – Brian Stokes, American baseball player
1979 – Owen Pallett, Canadian musician (Final Fantasy)
1980 – Mark Prior, American baseball player
1980 – Gabriel Milito, Argentine footballer
1980 – Javad Nekounam, Iranian footballer
1980 – Sara Carrigan, Australian cyclist
1981 – Paul McCoy, American musician (lead singer of 12 Stones)
1981 – Gökhan Zan, Turkish footballer
1982 – Andre Dirrell, American boxer
1983 – Pops Mensah-Bonsu, British basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks
1983 – Annette Dytrt, German skater figure
1983 – Philip Deignan, Irish cyclist
1983 – Mehmet Topuz, Turkisher footballer
1984 – Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player
1984 – Farveez Maharoof, Sri Lankan cricketer
1984 – Matt Roy, American Music Legend
1985 – Rafinha, Brazilian footballer
1985 – Adam Eckersley, English footballer
1986 – Colin Delaney, American professional wrestler
1987 – Evan Rachel Wood, American actress
1987 – Aleksandra Wozniak, Canadian tennis player
1988 – Kevin Love, American basketball player
1990 – Tanja Kolbe, German ice dancer

Deaths

355 – Claudius Silvanus, Roman usurper
1151 – Geoffrey of Anjou (b. 1113)
1312 – King Ferdinand IV of Castile (b. 1285)
1496 – King Ferdinand II of Naples (b. 1469)
1552 – Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh Guru (b. 1504)
1559 – Robert Estienne, French printer (b. 1503)
1632 – Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia
1644 – Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman (b. 1579)
1654 – Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, Bohemian rabbi (b. 1579)
1655 – François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (b. 1601)
1657 – Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish count, field marshal and privy councilor (b. 1606)
1719 – John Harris, English writer
1729 – William Burnet, British-born American statesman (b. 1688)
1708 – Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia
1799 – Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (b. 1717)
1809 – Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (b. 1737)
1840 – Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (b. 1765)
1881 – Sidney Lanier, American writer (b. 1842)
1891 – Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (b. 1820)
1892 – John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet (b. 1807)
1920 – Simon-Napoléon Parent, politician, premier of the province of Quebec (b. 1855)
1921 – Alfred William Rich, watercolor painter (b. 1856)
1939 – Kyōka Izumi, Japanese novelist (b. 1873)
1943 – J. P. Morgan, Jr., American financier (b. 1867)
1949 – José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (b. 1883)
1951 – Maria Montez, Dominican actress (b. 1912)
1954 – Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1885)
1955 – Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
1959 – Maurice Duplessis, Québec Prime Minister (b. 1890)
1962 – Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist (b. 1892)
1962 – Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian singer (b. 1895)
1962 – Karen Blixen, Danish author (b. 1885)
1962 – Graham Walker, British motorcycle racer (b. 1897)
1965 – Catherine Dale Owen, American actress (b. 1900)
1971 – Spring Byington, American actress (b. 1886)
1978 – Keith Moon, English drummer (The Who) (b. 1946)
1982 – Ken Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1931)
1984 – Joe Cronin, American baseball manager and executive (b. 1906)
1990 – Earle E. Partridge, United States Air Force general (b. 1900)
1991 – Edwin McMillan, American physicist (b. 1907)
1994 – James Clavell, Australian-born American author (b. 1924)
1994 – Dennis Morgan, American actor (b. 1908)
1994 – Godfrey Quigley, British actor (b. 1923)
1994 – Terence Young, British film director (b. 1915)
1997 – Mobutu Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire (b. 1930)
1999 – Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist (b. 1949)
2001 – Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (b. 1930)
2001 – Billie Lou Watt, American actress (b. 1924)
2002 – Cyrinda Foxe, American model (b. 1952)
2002 – Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (b. 1961)
2002 – Erma Franklin, American singer (b. 1938)
2002 – Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer (b. 1923)
2003 – The Great Antonio, Canadian eccentric (b. 1925)
2003 – Warren Zevon, American musician (b. 1947)
2004 – Bob Boyd, American baseball player (b. 1925)
2005 – Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (b. 1933)
2005 – Hope Garber, Canadian actress (b. c. 1924)
2008 – Dino Dvornik, Croatian singer (b. 1964)
2008 – Don Haskins, American College Basketball coach (b. 1930)
2008 – Nagi Noda, Japanese pop artist and director (b. 1973)
2008 – Ilarion Ciobanu, Romanian actor (b. 1931)

Holidays and observances

RC Saints – Saint Regina; Saint Evurtius (Heortius), St. Cloud (Clodoald), Saint Gratus of Aosta, Saint Anastasius the Fuller
Also see September 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Brazil – Independence day (from Portugal, 1822).
Aydın Turkey – Independence day 1922
Pakistan – Defence Day (Pak-Air-Force Day) Since 1971
Mozambique – Victory Day

 

[historylover]

September 8

Events

70 – Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem.
1264 – The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland.
1331 – Stefan Dušan declares himself king of Serbia
1380 – Battle of Kulikovo – Russian forces defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance.
1449 – Battle of Tumu Fortress – Mongolians capture the Chinese emperor.
1504 – Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence.
1514 – Battle of Orsha – in one of the biggest battles of the century, Lithuanians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
1565 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés settles St. Augustine, Florida.
1565 – The Knights of Malta lift the Turkish siege of Malta that began on May 18.
1727 – A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
1755 – French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.
1756 – French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition.
1761 – Marriage of George III of the United Kingdom to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.
1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Bassano – French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano del Grappa.
1810 – The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.
1831 – William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass – on the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
1888 – In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
1888 – In England the first six Football League matches are played.
1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
1900 – Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
1914 – World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
1921 – 16-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
1923 – Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost.
1926 – Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
1934 – Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people.
1935 – US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish", is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building.
1941 – World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad.
1943 – World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in Frascati is bombed by USAAF.
1943 – World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy.
1944 – World War II: London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time.
1944 – World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany.
1945 – Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
1951 – Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
1954 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
1959 – The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established.
1960 – In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
1962 – Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a Constitution.
1962 – Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 Evening Star.
1966 – The Severn Bridge is officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
1966 – The first Star Trek series premieres on NBC.
1967 – The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways.
1968 – The Beatles perform their last live TV performance on the David Frost show. They perform their new hit "Hey Jude".
1970 – Hijacking (and subsequent destruction) of three airliners to Jordan by Palestinians; the events to follow would later become known as Black September
1971 – In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
1974 – Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
1975 – Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is later given a general discharge.
1991 – The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
1994 – A USAir Boeing 737 crashes in Hopewell Township, Pennsylvania, near the city of Aliquippa.
1998 – Mark McGwire hits his 62nd home run of the season (off Steve Trachsel of the Chicago Cubs), breaking Roger Maris' long standing record of 61.
1999 – United States Attorney General Janet Reno names former Senator John Danforth to head an independent investigation of the 1993 fire at the Branch Davidian church near Waco, Texas in response to revelations in the film Waco: The Rules of Engagement that contradicted the official government stories.
2004 – NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
2005 – Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.

Births

801 – Ansgar, German Christian archbishop (d. 865)
828 – Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (d. 868)
1157 – King Richard I of England (d. 1199)
1207 – King Sancho II of Portugal (d. 1248)
1271 – Charles Martel d'Anjou, son of Charles II of Naples (d. 1295)
1380 – Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (d. 1444)
1474 – Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (d. 1533)
1515 – Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (d. 1585)
1588 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (d. 1648)
1611 – Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (d. 1671)
1621 – Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (d. 1686)
1633 – Ferdinand IV of Germany (d. 1654)
1672 – Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (d. 1703)
1742 – Ozias Humphrey, English artist (d. 1810)
1749 – Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (d. 1793)
1749 – Marie-Louise, princesse de Lamballe, Italian-born French aristocrat (d. 1792)
1778 – Clemens Brentano, German poet (d. 1842)
1783 – Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (d. 1872)
1804 – Eduard Mörike, German poet (d. 1875)
1814 – Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (d. 1874)
1824 – Jaime Nunó, Spanish composer (d. 1908)
1828 – Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, American Civil War soldier (d. 1914)
1828 – Clarence Cook, American writer and art critic (d. 1900)
1830 – Frédéric Mistral, French poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)
1841 – Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (d. 1904)
1841 – Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of James A. Garfield (d. 1882)
1852 – Emperor Gwangmu of Korea (d. 1919)
1857 – Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936)
1873 – Alfred Jarry, French playwright (d. 1907)
1873 – David O. McKay, ninth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1970)
1881 – Harry Hillman, American athlete (d. 1945)
1884 – Théodore Pilette, Belgian racing driver (d. 1921)
1886 – Siegfried Sassoon, English poet (d. 1967)
1887 – Prince George of Yugoslavia (d. 1972)
1889 – Robert Alphonso Taft, American politician (d. 1953)
1895 – Sara García, Mexican actress (d. 1980)
1896 – Howard Dietz, American lyricist and librettist (d. 1983)
1897 – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer and composer (d. 1933)
1901 – Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, South African politician (d. 1966)
1910 – Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (d. 1994)
1914 – Sir Denys Lasdun, English architect (d. 2001)
1915 – Frank Cady, American actor
1915 – Frank Pullen, English businessman and racehorse owner (d. 1992)
1918 – Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1919 – Gianni Brera, Italian journalist and writer (d. 1992)
1921 – Harry Secombe, Welsh entertainer (d. 2001)
1922 – Sid Caesar, American comedian
1922 – Lyndon LaRouche, American politician
1924 – Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (d. 2005)
1924 – Marie-Claire Kirkland, Quebec politician
1924 – Grace Metalious, American novelist (d. 1964)
1925 – Peter Sellers, English actor (d. 1980)
1927 – Harlan Howard, American country music songwriter (d. 2002)
1929 – Christoph von Dohnanyi, German conductor
1929 – Roger Byrne, English footballer (d. 1958)
1930 – Nguyen Cao Ky, South Vietnamese politician
1930 – Mario Adorf, Swiss-born German actor
1931 – John Garrett, British politician (d. 2007)
1932 – Patsy Cline, American singer (d. 1963)
1933 – Asha Bhosle, Indian singer
1933 – Paul M. Fleiss, American pediatrician; father of Heidi Fleiss
1933 – Michael Frayn, British playwright
1933 – Eric Salzman, American composer
1934 – Rodrigue Biron, Canadian politician
1934 – Peter Maxwell Davies, British composer
1937 – Barbara Frum, Canadian news anchor (d. 1992)
1937 – Virna Lisi, Italian actress
1937 – Sam Nunn, American politician
1938 – Kenichi Horie, Japanese adventurer
1939 – Carsten Keller, German field hockey player
1939 – Guitar Shorty, American musician
1940 – Quentin L. Cook, LDS apostle
1941 – Bernie Sanders, American politician
1942 – Brian Cole, American musician (The Association) (d. 1972)
1943 – Adelaide C. Eckardt, American politician
1944 – Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer
1945 – Ron Pigpen McKernan, American musician (Grateful Dead) (d. 1973)
1945 – Rogie Vachon, Canadian ice hockey player
1946 – L.C. Greenwood, American football player
1947 – Ann Beattie, American writer
1947 – Valery Afanassiev, Russian pianist
1947 – Benjamin Orr, American bassist and singer (The Cars) (d. 2000)
1947 – Halldor Asgrimsson, former Prime Minister of Iceland
1948 – Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist (d. 1971)
1948 – Great Kabuki, Japanese professional wrestler
1950 – Zachary Richard, American singer and songwriter
1950 – Mike Simpson, American politician
1951 – Nikos Karvelas, Greek composer
1953 – Stu Ungar, American Legendary Gambler, 3 Time World Series Of Poker Main Event Winner (d. 1998)
1954 – Anne Diamond, English television presenter
1954 – Mark Foley, American politician
1954 – Michael Shermer, American science writer
1955 – Terry Tempest Williams, American author and environmentalist
1956 – Frank Tovey, British musician (d. 2002)
1956 – Maurice Cheeks, American basketball player and coach
1957 – Heather Thomas, American actress
1958 – Michael Lardie, American musician
1958 – Mitsuru Miyamoto, Japanese voice actor
1959 – Daler Nazarov, Tajik composer and actor
1960 – Aimee Mann, American musician
1960 – Stefano Casiraghi, Italian businessman; husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco (d. 1990)
1960 – David Steele, English musician
1960 – Aguri Suzuki, Japanese racing driver
1961 – Paul Zanetti, Australian political cartoonist
1962 – Sergio Casal, Spanish tennis player
1962 – Christopher Klim, American novelist
1962 – Thomas Kretschmann, German actor
1963 – Li Ning, Chinese gymnast
1963 – Brad Silberling, American television and film director
1963 – Hitoshi Matsumoto, Japanese comedian
1964 – Michael Johns, American business executive
1964 – Scott Levy, American professional wrestler
1964 – Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian musician (d. 2000)
1965 – Darlene Zschech, Australian Christian Singer
1966 – Carola, Swedish singer
1966 – Peter Furler, Australian musician (Newsboys)
1967 – Kimberly Peirce, American film director
1969 – Gary Speed, Welsh footballer
1969 – Oswaldo Ibarra, Ecuadorian footballer
1969 – Lars Bohinen, Norwegian footballer
1970 – Neko Case, American musician
1970 – Latrell Sprewell, American basketball player
1970 – Yuji Nishizawa, Japanese hijacker
1970 – Andy Ward, Irish rugby player
1971 – Brooke Burke, American model
1971 – Daniel Petrov, Bulgarian boxer
1971 – David Arquette, American actor
1971 – Martin Freeman, English actor
1971 – Pierre Sévigny, French-Canadian ice hockey player
1971 – Dustin O'Halloran, American pianist and composer
1971 – Vico C (Luis Armando Lozada Cruz), American (Puerto Rican) musician
1972 – Markus Babbel, German footballer
1972 – Os du Randt, South African rugby player
1972 – Giovanni Frezza, Italian actor
1972 – Lisa Kennedy, American television personality
1972 – Tomokazu Seki, Japanese voice actor
1972 – Phil Laak, Irish-born American professional poker player
1973 – Khamis Al-Owairan, Saudi Arabian footballer
1974 – Braulio Luna, Mexican footballer
1974 – Tanaz Eshaghian, Iranian-born American documentarian
1975 – Richard Hughes, English musician (Keane)
1975 – Elena Likhovtseva, Russian tennis player
1975 – Larenz Tate, American actor
1975 – Lee Eul-Yong, South Korean footballer
1975 – Chris Latham, Australian rugby player
1976 – Sjeng Schalken, Dutch tennis player
1976 – Gerald Drummond and Jervis Drummond, Costa Rican footballers
1976 – Brendan Kelly, American musician (The Lawrence Arms)
1976 – Sarah Kucserka, American screenwriter
1977 – Jay McKee, Canadian hockey player
1978 – Gerard Autet, Spanish footballer
1978 – Gil Meche, American baseball player
1978 – Angela Rawlings, Canadian-American author and performer
1979 – Pink, American singer
1980 – Teruyuki Moniwa, Japanese footballer
1980 – Slim Thug, American rapper
1981 – Morten Gamst Pedersen, Norwegian footballer
1981 – Jonathan Taylor Thomas, American actor
1983 – Wali Lundy, American football player
1983 – Diego Benaglio, Swiss footballer
1983 – Will Blalock, American basketball player
1983 – Chris Judd, Australian football player
1983 – Lewis Roberts-Thompson, Australian footballer
1984 – Vitaly Petrov, Russian racing driver
1984 – Peter Whittingham, English footballer
1984 – Bobby Parnell, Pitcher for the New York Mets
1985 – Yendi Phillips, Jamaican beauty pageant contestant
1986 – João Moutinho, Portuguese footballer
1986 – Matt Grothe, American football player
1987 – Wiz Khalifa, American hip-hop artist
1988 – Caitlin Hill, Australian internet personality
1988 – Arrelious Benn, American football player
1988 – Chantal Jones, American fashion model
1990 – Matt Barkley, American football player
1996 – Krystal Reyes, Filipina actress
1997 – Kimberlea Berg, English actress

Deaths

701 – Pope Sergius I
780 – Leo IV, Byzantine Emperor (b. 750)
1397 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (b. 1355)
1425 – King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
1539 – John Stokesley, English churchman
1560 – Amy Robsart, English noblewoman (b. 1534)
1601 – John Shakespeare, father of William Shakespeare (b. 1530)
1603 – George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician (b. 1547)
1613 – Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (b. 1566)
1637 – Robert Fludd, English mystic (b. 1574)
1644 – Francis Quarles, English poet (b. 1592)
1644 – John Coke, English politician (b. 1563)
1645 – Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (b. 1580)
1656 – Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (b. 1574)
1675 – Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, countess of Solms-Braunfels (b. 1602)
1682 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (b. 1606)
1721 – Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1686)
1739 – Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (b. 1668)
1755 – Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (b. 1715)
1761 – Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (b. 1698)
1780 – Enoch Poor, American Continental Army general (b. 1736)
1784 – Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
1811 – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741)
1831 – John Aitken, Scottish-born music publisher (b. 1745)
1853 – Frédéric Ozanam, founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (b. 1813)
1882 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b. 1809)
1888 – Annie Chapman, widely believed to be the second victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1841)
1894 – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (b. 1821)
1933 – King Faysal I of Iraq (b. 1883)
1943 – Julius Fucik, Czech journalist (executed) (b. 1903)
1944 – Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (b.1881)
1948 – Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer (b. 1876)
1949 – Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)
1965 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (b. 1922)
1965 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
1969 – Bud Collyer, American television game show host (b. 1908)
1969 – Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (b. 1868)
1970 – Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave oven, (b. 1894)
1977 – Zero Mostel, American actor (b. 1915)
1979 – Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
1980 – Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
1981 – Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist (b. 1901)
1981 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
1983 – Antonin Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904)
1985 – John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1887)
1991 – Alex North, American composer (b. 1910)
1999 – Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (b. 1916)
2002 – Laurie Williams, West Indian cricketer (b. 1968)
2003 – Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actress (b. 1986)
2003 – Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (b. 1902)
2004 – Frank Thomas, American animator (b. 1913)
2005 – Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer and footballer (b. 1932)
2006 – Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915)
2006 – Peter Brock, Australian racecar driver (b. 1945)
2006 – Frank Middlemass, actor (b. 1919)
2006 – Erk Russell, American football coach (b. 1923)
2007 – Ramón Cardemil, Chilean huaso (b. 1917)
2008 – Evan Tanner, UFC Champion (b. 1971)
2008 – Ahn Jae-hwan, South Korean actor (b. 1972)
2009 – Mike Bongiorno, Italian television host (b. 1924)

Holidays and observances

1551 – The foundation day in Vitória, Brazil
Andorra – National day: Mare de Deu de Meritxell.
Bahá'í Faith – Feast of 'Izzat (Might) – First day of the tenth month of the Bahá'í calendar.
Macedonia – Independence day (from Yugoslavia, 1991).
Malta – Feast of Our Lady of Victories (il-Vittorja); anniversary of the 1565 victory of the Knights of Malta over the Ottoman Empire; anniversary of the 1943 surrender of Italy to the Allied forces, marking the end of World War II hostilities on Malta.
Fiestas de Santa Fe in New Mexico, USA.
International Literacy Day
Rhodri Day in Jersey, Channel Islands
Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia
Birth of Mary (mother of Jesus)
Feastday of Our Lady of Charity
Pope Sergius I
National Day in North Korea

 

[historylover]

September 9

Events

9 – Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
1000 – Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
1379 – Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
1493 – Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
1513 – James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
1543 – Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
1739 – Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain's mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
1776 – The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.
1791 – Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
1801 – Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces.
1839 – John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
1850 – California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
1850 – The Compromise of 1850 strips Texas of a third of its claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
1863 – American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1886 – The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
1914 – World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
1922 – Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks.
1923 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
1924 – Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
1926 – The U.S. National Broadcasting Company is formed.
1942 – World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon.
1943 – World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
1944 – World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
1945 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.
1947 – First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
1948 – Republic Day of Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
1956 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
1965 – The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
1965 – Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.
1966 – The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1969 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana.
1970 – A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
1971 – The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
1990 – 1990 Batticaloa massacre, massacre of 184 minority Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan Army in the eastern Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.
1991 – Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
1993 – The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
2001 – Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan.
2001 – Pärnu methanol tragedy occurs in Pärnu County, Estonia.
2004 – 2004 Australian embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.

Births

214 – Aurelian, Roman Emperor (d. 275)
384 – Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (d. 423)
1349 – Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
1427 – Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 1464)
1466 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
1558 – Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d. 1602)
1585 – Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)
1629 – Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1691)
1700 – Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1780)
1711 – Thomas Hutchinson, American politician (d. 1780)
1721 – Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish naval architect and vice admiral (d. 1808)
1731 – Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican writer (d. 1787)
1737 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
1754 – William Bligh, British naval officer (d. 1817)
1755 – Benjamin Bourne, American politician (d. 1808)
1777 – James Carr, U.S. Congressman (d. 1818)
1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)
1834 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (d. 1903)
1853 – Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (d. 1926)
1855 – Anthony Francis Lucas, Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921)
1868 – Mary Hunter Austin, American writer (d. 1934)
1873 – Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)
1877 – Frank Chance, American baseball player (d. 1924)
1878 – Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914)
1878 – Sergio Osmeña, 4th President of the Philippines (d. 1961)
1887 – Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)
1882 – Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
1890 – Harland Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (d. 1980)
1892 – Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (d. 1961)
1894 – Arthur Freed, American songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)
1894 – Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (d. 1976)
1898 – Frankie Frisch, American baseball player (d. 1973)
1899 – Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (d. 1984)
1899 – Neil Hamilton, American actor (d. 1984)
1899 – Bruno E. Jacob, Founder of the National Forensic League (d. 1979)
1900 – James Hilton, English novelist (d. 1954)
1903 – Phyllis Whitney, American writer (d. 2008)
1904 – Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
1905 – Hussain Sha, Indian philosopher (d. 1981)
1908 – Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (d. 1950)
1911 – John Gorton, Australian politician (d. 2002)
1911 – Paul Goodman, American poet and writer (d. 1972)
1917 – Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (d. 1942)
1918 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 9th President of the Italian Republic
1919 – Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, American bookmaker and sports commentator (d. 1996)
1919 – Gottfried Dienst, Swiss football referee (d. 1998)
1920 – Aldo Parisot, American cellist and teacher
1920 – Robert Wood Johnson III, American philanthropist (d. 1970)
1920 – Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (d. 1993)
1922 – Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1922 – Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and writer
1922 – Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (d. 2000)
1923 – Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008)
1924 – Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)
1924 – Russell M. Nelson, LDS apostle and cardiac surgery pioneer
1924 – Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
1925 – Cliff Robertson, American actor
1926 – Yusuf al-Qaradawi, prominent Egypt Muslim cleric
1927 – Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (d. 2004)
1929 – Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004)
1930 – Frank Lucas, Drug Lord
1932 – Sylvia Miles, American actress
1935 – Chaim Topol, Israeli actor
1935 – Gopal Baratham, Singaporean author
1939 – Bruce Gray, Puerto Rican actor
1939 – Ron McDole, American football player
1939 – Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican boxer
1941 – Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
1941 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist
1942 – Inez Foxx, American R&B singer
1942 – Danny Kalb, American musician, (Blues Project)
1943 – Art LaFleur, American actor
1945 – Dee Dee Sharp, American R&B singer
1946 – Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (d. 2004)
1946 – Doug Ingle, American musician (Iron Butterfly)
1946 – Hayato Tani, Japanese actor
1947 – David Rosenboom, American composer
1948 – Pamela Des Barres, American groupie and author
1949 – Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician
1949 – Garry Maddox, American baseball player
1949 – Daniel Pipes, American writer and political commentator
1949 – Joe Theismann, American football player and commentator
1951 – Alexander Downer, Australian politician
1951 – Robert Desiderio, American actor
1951 – Tom Wopat, American actor and singer
1952 – Angela Cartwright, American actress
1952 – Manuel Göttsching, German musician (Ash Ra Tempel)
1952 – David A. Stewart, English musician (Eurythmics)
1954 – Jeffrey Combs, American actor
1955 – John Kricfalusi, Canadian animator
1957 – Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist
1957 – Gabriele Tredozi, Italian engineer
1959 – Eric Serra, French composer
1960 – Hugh Grant, English actor
1960 – Mario Batali, American chef and restaurateur
1960 – Bob Stoops, American football coach
1963 – Roberto Donadoni, Italian football player and manager
1965 – Dan Majerle, American basketball player
1965 – Constance Marie, American actress
1966 – Georg Hackl, German luger
1966 – Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian
1967 – Akshay Kumar, Indian actor
1967 – Anna Malle, American porn star (d. 2006)
1967 – B. J. Armstrong, American basketball player
1967 – Chris Caffery, American guitarist and singer
1968 – Francois Botha, South African boxer
1968 – Jon Drummond, American former sprinter
1968 – Julia Sawalha, English actress
1968 – Clive Mendonca, English footballer
1969 – Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress
1970 – Natalia Streignard, Venezuelan actress
1971 – Henry Thomas, American actor and musician
1972 – Mike Hampton, American baseball player
1972 – Natasha Kaplinsky, British newsreader
1972 – Félix Rodríguez, Dominican baseball player
1972 – Goran Visnjic, Croatian actor
1973 – Kazuhisa Ishii, Japanese baseball player
1974 – Vikram Batra, Indian soldier (d. 1999)
1974 – Ana Carolina, Brazilian singer, composer and musician
1974 – Shane Crawford, Australian rules footballer
1974 – Marcos Curiel, American guitarist (P.O.D.), Songwriter, Producer.
1974 – Mathias Färm, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
1975 – Michael Bublé, Canadian/Italian singer and actor
1976 – Chace Ambrose, American actor and writer
1976 – Juan A. Baptista, Venezuelan actor
1976 – Emma de Caunes, French film actress
1976 – Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer
1976 – Kristoffer Rygg, Norwegian musician (Ulver, Borknagar)
1977 – Chae Jung An, South Korean actress and singer
1977 – Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003)
1977 – Kyle Snyder, American baseball player
1978 – Kurt Ainsworth, American baseball player
1978 – Shane Battier, American basketball player
1978 – Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player
1979 – Wayne Carlisle, Northern Irish footballer
1979 – Nikki DeLoach, American actress and singer
1980 – Todd Coffey, American baseball player
1980 – Michelle Williams, American actress
1981 – Julie Gonzalo, Argentinian actress
1982 – Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer and songwriter
1982 – Graham Onions, English cricketer
1983 – Kyle Davies, American baseball player
1983 – Kristine Hermosa, Filipina actress
1983 – Sam Hollenbach, American football player
1983 – Edwin Jackson, American baseball player
1983 – Kim Jung-hwa, South Korean actress and model
1983 – Cleveland Taylor, English footballer
1984 – Farrah Gray, American author
1984 – Brad Guzan, American footballer
1984 – James Hildreth, English cricketer
1985 – Luka Modrić, Croatian footballer
1985 – Dani Pedrosa, Spanish motorcycle racer
1985 – J. R. Smith, American basketball player
1986 – Michael Bowden, American baseball player
1986 – Chamu Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer
1986 – Luc Mbah a Moute, Cameroonian basketball player
1987 – Joshua Herdman, English actor
1987 – Alexandre Song, Cameroonian footballer
2000 – Victoria Federica de Marichalar y de Borbón, granddaughter of king Juan Carlos I of Spain

Deaths

1000 – Olaf I of Norway
1087 – King William I of England
1398 – King James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
1487 – Chenghua, Emperor of China (b. 1447)
1488 – Francis II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1433)
1513 – King James IV of Scotland (b. 1473)
1569 – Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter
1596 – Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen (b. 1523)
1612 – Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)
1676 – Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer (b. 1612)
1680 – Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
1755 – Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694)
1806 – William Paterson, American jurist and statesman (b. 1745)
1815 – John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738)
1841 – A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (b. 1778)
1891 – Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813)
1898 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
1901 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
1907 – Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
1909 – Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)
1910 – Elizabeth Blackwell, first female American Doctor (b.1821)
1915 – Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
1941 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1869)
1960 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
1969 – Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
1976 – Mao Zedong, Chinese communist leader (b. 1893)
1978 – Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
1978 – Jack Warner, Canadian-born American film executive (b. 1892)
1980 – John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)
1981 – Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst (b. 1901)
1985 – Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
1990 – Doc Cramer, American baseball player (b. 1905)
1990 – Samuel Doe, Liberian politician (b. 1951)
1990 – Alexander Men, Russian priest (b. 1930)
1996 – Bill Monroe, American bluegrass singer and composer (b. 1911)
1997 – Richie Ashburn, American baseball player (b. 1927)
1997 – Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907)
1998 – Bill Cratty, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1951)
1999 – Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946)
1999 – Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
1999 – Chan Parker, American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods (b. 1925)
2000 – Julian Critchley, British politician (b. 1930)
2001 – Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military leader (b. 1953)
2003 – Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936)
2003 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1908)
2004 – Roland Sherwood "Ernie" Ball, American businessman (b. 1930)
2005 – John Wayne Glover, English serial killer (b. 1932)
2006 – Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (b. 1927)
2006 – Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (b. 1955)
2006 – Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979)
2006 – William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)
2007 – Hughie Thomasson, American musician (b. 1952)
2008 – Warith Deen Muhammad, American religious leader (b. 1933)

Holidays and observances

California Admission Day (to commemorate the state's admission to the USA).
Saint Ciarán of Clonmacnoise
Eastern Orthodoxy – Synaxis of the Theopatores Joachim and Anna.
Japan – Chrysanthemum Day (Kiku no Sekku).
North Korea – Republic Day (1948).
Slovakia – Day of commemoration on Holocaust.
Tajikistan – Independence Day (from USSR, 1991).
Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, festivity of Our Lady of Arantzazu

 

[historylover]

September 13

Events

509 BC – The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
122 – The building of Hadrian's Wall begins.
533 – General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa.
1440 – Gilles de Rais is finally taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
1503 – Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
1504 – Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.
1609 – Henry Hudson reached the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
1743 – Great Britain, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms (1743).
1759 – Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British defeat French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
1788 – The United States' Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the country's first presidential election, and New York City becomes the temporary capital of the U.S..
1791 – King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
1808 – Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.
1812 – War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
1814 – The British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland. Turning point in the War of 1812.
1814 – Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner
1847 – Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.
1848 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage incredibly survives a 3-foot-plus iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.
1850 – First ascent of Piz Bernina, the highest summit of the eastern Alps.
1862 – American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
1882 – The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
1898 – Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
1899 – Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199m – 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
1900 – Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.
1906 – First fixed-wing aircraft flight in Europe.
1914 – World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
1914 – World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
1922 – The temperature (in the shade) at Al 'Aziziyah, Libya reaches a world record 57.8°C (136.04°F).
1922 – The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
1923 – Military coup in Spain – Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
1935 – Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the Great Gorge and International Railway.
1940 – World War II: German bombs damage Buckingham Palace.
1942 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
1943 – Chiang Kai-shek elected president of the Republic of China.
1943 – The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe.
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
1953 – Nikita Khrushchev appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1956 – The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
1956 – IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
1968 – Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
1971 – State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to end a prison revolt. 42 people die in the assault. On the same day in People's Republic of China, Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao fled the country via a plane after the failure of alleged coup against the supreme leader, the plane crushed in Mongolia killing all aboard.
1979 – South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
1987 – Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and leading some to die from radiation poisoning.
1988 – Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere (based on barometric pressure).
1989 – Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
1993 – Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian agreement initiated by Norway.
1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
1994 – Ulysses probe passes the Sun's south pole.
1999 – Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are killed.
2001 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
2006 – At Dawson College (Montreal), Kimveer Gill kills one student and wounds 19 others before committing suicide.
2008 – Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston and surrounding areas.

Births

64 – Julia Flavia, daughter of Roman Emperor Titus; lover of Domitian.
678 – K'inich Ahkal Mo' Naab' III, Ruler of Palenque (d. 730)
786 – Al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph (d. 833)
1087 – John II Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1143)
1475 – Cesare Borgia, Italian aristocrat (d. 1507)
1502 – John Leland, English antiquarian (d. 1552)
1520 – William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (d. 1598)
1604 – William Brereton, English soldier and politician (d. 1661)
1676 – Élisabeth Charlotte of Orléans, Duchess of Lorraine (d. 1741)
1694 – Yeongjo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1776)
1739 – Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (d. 1791)
1766 – Samuel Wilson, possible namesake of Uncle Sam (d. 1854)
1775 – Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (d. 1868)
1802 – Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and writer (d. 1880)
1813 – John Sedgwick, American Civil War general (d. 1864)
1819 – Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (d. 1896)
1830 – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (d. 1916)
1842 – John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (d. 1920)
1851 – Walter Reed, American physician and biologist (d. 1902)
1857 – Michał Drzymała, Polish peasant rebel (d. 1937)
1857 – Milton S. Hershey, American confectioner (d. 1945)
1860 – John J. Pershing, American general (d. 1948)
1863 – Arthur Henderson, British politician and union leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1935)
1873 – Constantin Carathéodory, Greek mathematician (d. 1950)
1874 – Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician (d. 1962)
1874 – Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-born composer (d. 1951)
1876 – Sherwood Anderson, American writer (d. 1941)
1877 – Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (d. 1957)
1877 – Stanley Lord, captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster (d. 1962)
1882 – Ramón Grau, Cuban president (d. 1969)
1885 – Wilhelm Blaschke, Austrian geometer (d. 1962)
1886 – Sir Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975)
1886 – Amelie Beese, German aviator and sculptor. (d. 1925)
1887 – Lavoslav Ruzicka, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1893 – Larry Shields, American musician (d. 1953)
1894 – J.B. Priestley, English playwright and novelist (d. 1984)
1894 – Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (d. 1953)
1895 – Morris Kirksey, American rugby player (d. 1981)
1899 – Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, leader of the Iron Guard (d. 1938)
1903 – Claudette Colbert, American actress (d. 1996)
1908 – Karolos Koun, Greek theater director (d. 1987)
1909 – Ray Bowden, English footballer (d. 1998)
1911 – Bill Monroe, American singer (d. 1996)
1916 – Roald Dahl, British writer (d. 1990)
1916 – Dick Haymes, Argentine vocalist (d. 1980)
1917 – Robert Ward, American composer
1919 – Mary Midgley, American philosopher
1922 – Charles Brown, American singer and pianist (d. 1999)
1923 – Edouard Boubat, French photographer (d. 1999)
1924 – Scott Brady, American film actor (d. 1985)
1924 – Harold Blair, Australian tenor, Aboriginal activist (d. 1976)
1924 – Maurice Jarre, French composer (d. 2009)
1925 – Mel Tormé, American singer (d. 1999)
1926 – Emile Francis, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
1929 – Nicolai Ghiaurov, Bulgarian opera singer (d. 2004)
1930 – Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron, British printing millionaire
1931 – Barbara Bain, American actress
1933 – Eileen Fulton, American actress
1936 – Stefano Delle Chiaie, Italian neo-Nazi
1937 – Don Bluth, American animator
1938 – Judith Martin, American etiquette writer
1938 – John Smith, Labour Party Leader 1992 – 1994 (d. 1994)
1939 – Richard Kiel, American actor
1940 – Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1941 – Tadao Ando, Japanese architect
1941 – Ahmet Necdet Sezer, 10th President of Turkey
1941 – David Clayton-Thomas, Canadian singer (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1944 – Jacqueline Bisset, British actress
1944 – Peter Cetera, American musician (Chicago)
1945 – Noël Godin, Belgian humorist
1945 – Andres Küng, Swedish-Estonian politician, journalist (d. 2002)
1946 – Frank Marshall, American film producer
1948 – Nell Carter, American actress (d. 2003)
1948 – Dimitri Nanopoulos, Greek physicist
1949 – Fred "Sonic" Smith, American guitarrist (MC5) (d. 1994)
1950 – Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Polish politician
1951 – Jean Smart, American actress
1952 – Randy Jones, American musician (The Village People)
1952 – Raymond O'Connor, American actor
1952 – Don Was, American singer
1955 – Joe Morris, American musician
1957 – John G. Trueschler, American politician
1957 – Vinny Appice, American musician (Black Sabbath, Dio, Heaven and Hell)
1957 – Judy Blumberg, American ice dancer
1960 – Greg Baldwin, American voiceover actor (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1961 – Dave Mustaine, American musician (ex-Metallica, Megadeth)
1961 – Barton Hawkins, American biophysical chemist
1961 – KK Null, Japanese musician
1961 – Peter Roskam, Republican Congressman from Illinois
1962 – Tõnu Õnnepalu, Estonian poet and author
1963 – Theodoros Roussopoulos, Greek politician
1964 – Tavis Smiley, American talk show host, journalist and author
1965 – Zak Starkey, British musician
1965 – Annie Duke, American poker player
1965 – Jeffrey Ross, American Comedian
1966 – Maria Furtwängler, German physician
1966 – Louis Mandylor, Australian actor
1967 – Michael Johnson, American athlete
1967 – Tim "Ripper" Owens, American singer (Iced Earth, ex-Judas Priest)
1968 – Brad Johnson, American football player
1968 – Emma Sjöberg, Swedish model
1968 – Bernie Williams, Puerto Rican baseball player
1969 – Ilka Knickenberg, German actress
1969 – Shane Warne, Australian cricketer
1970 – Martín Herrera, former Argentine footballer
1970 – Louise Lombard, British actress
1970 – Yuki Matsuoka, Japanese voice actress
1970 – Jason Scott Sadofsky, American programmer
1971 – Goran Ivanišević, Croatian tennis player
1971 – Manabu Namiki, Japanese composer
1971 – Stella McCartney, English fashion designer
1973 – Christine Arron, French runner
1973 – Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer
1973 – Kelly Chen, Chinese singer
1973 – Marcelinho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
1973 – Mahima Chaudhry, Indian actress
1974 – Craig Rivet, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Keith Murray, American rapper
1974 – Éric Lapointe, Canadian football player
1974 – Travis Knight, American basketball player
1975 – Joe Don Rooney, American musician (Rascal Flatts)
1975 – Akihiro Asai, Japanese racing driver
1976 – Giorgos Koltzos, Greek footballer
1976 – Craig McMillan, New Zealand cricketer
1976 – José Théodore, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Fiona Apple, American singer
1977 – Ivan De Battista, Maltese actor and singer
1977 – Daisuke Tsuda, Japanese singer (Maximum the Hormone)
1978 – Megan Henning, American actress
1978 – Darren Kenton, English footballer
1978 – Peter Sunde, Scandinavian Entrepreneur
1979 – Geike Arnaert, Belgian singer (Hooverphonic)
1979 – Ivan Miljković, Serbian volleyball player
1980 – Han Chae Young, South Korean actress and model
1980 – Daisuke Matsuzaka, Japanese baseball player
1980 – Evangelos Nastos, Greek footballer
1980 – Viren Rasquinha, Indian field hockey player
1980 – Ben Savage, American actor
1980 – Michelle Nolan, American musician (Straylight Run)
1980 – Teppei Teranishi, American guitarist (Thrice)
1981 – Koldo Fernández, Spanish cyclist
1981 – Angel Williams, Canadian wrestler
1981 – Antonio Lopez Spanish footballer
1982 – Rickie Weeks, American baseball player
1982 – Miha Zupan, Slovenian basketball player
1983 – James Bourne, English musician
1984 – Nabil Abou-Harb, Arab-American filmmaker
1985 – Keyunta Dawson, American football player
1985 – Emi Suzuki, Japanese model
1986 – Kamui Kobayashi, Japanese racing driver
1986 – Sean Williams, American basketball player
1987 – Luke Fitzgerald, Irish rugby union footballer
1988 – Keith Treacy, Irish footballer

Deaths

81 – Titus, Roman emperor (b. 39)
1438 – Duarte, King of Portugal (b. 1391)
1506 – Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter
1557 – John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (b. 1514)
1592 – Michel de Montaigne, French writer (b. 1533)
1598 – Philip II, King of Spain (b. 1526)
1624 – Ketevan of Kakheti, Christian martyr, Queen of Kakheti in Georgia (b. 1565)
1632 – Leopold V, regent of the Tirol (b. 1586)
1759 – James Wolfe, British general (b. 1727)
1766 – Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (b. 1704)
1800 – Claude Martin, French then British General (b. 1735)
1806 – Charles James Fox, English politician (b. 1749)
1808 – Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (b. 1718)
1813 – Hezqeyas of Ethiopia, deposed Emperor of Ethiopia
1847 – Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (b. 1767)
1872 – Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach, German philosopher (b. 1804)
1881 – Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general and politician (b. 1824)
1885 – Friedrich Kiel, Austrian composer (b. 1821)
1894 – Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (b. 1841)
1904 – Raden Ayu Kartini, Indonesian national heroine (b. 1879)
1905 – René Goblet, French politician (b. 1828)
1912 – Maresuke Nogi, Japanese general (b. 1849)
1915 – Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)
1928 – Italo Svevo, Italian author (b. 1861)
1941 – Elias Disney, Canadian father of Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney (b. 1859)
1946 – Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter (b. 1875)
1946 – Amon Göth, commandant of Nazi concentration camp (b. 1908)
1949 – August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
1965 – Jean B. Fletcher, American architect (b. 1915)
1973 – Betty Field, American actress (b. 1913)
1976 – Albert Tessier, French Canadian priest, historian and film maker (b. 1895)
1976 – Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905)
1977 – Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (b. 1882)
1987 – Mervyn LeRoy, American film director (b. 1900)
1991 – Metin Oktay, Turkish football player (b. 1936)
1991 – Joe Pasternak, American film director (b. 1901)
1996 – Tupac Shakur, aka 2Pac, American rapper and actor (b. 1971)
1998 – Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
1998 – George Wallace, American politician (b. 1919)
1999 – Benjamin Bloom, American educational theorist (b. 1913)
2001 – Dorothy McGuire, American actress (b. 1916)
2003 – Frank O'Bannon, Governor of Indiana (b. 1930)
2004 – Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (b. 1925)
2005 – Toni Fritsch, Austrian football and American football player (b. 1945)
2005 – Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (b. 1916)
2006 – Ann Richards, 46th Governor of Texas (b. 1933)
2007 – Whakahuihui Vercoe, New Zealand clergyman (b. 1928)
2007 – Clare Oliver, Australian Cancer Activist (b. 1981)

Holidays and observances

Roman festivals – epulum Iovis ("banquet of Jupiter"), on the Ides, during the Ludi Romani.
RC Saints – St John Chrysostom.

 

[historylover]

September 14

Events

81 – Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.
786 – Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi.
1180 – Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
1607 – Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
1682 – Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
1752 – The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: French grenadiers enter Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.
1829 – The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.
1847 – Mexican-American War: Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
1901 – President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
1917 – Russia is officially proclaimed a republic.
1923 – Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain.
1944 – World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
1948 – Groundbreaking for the United Nations headquarters in New York City.
1958 – The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
1960 – The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
1975 – The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
1982 – President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
1984 – Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a hot air balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
1987 – The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, belting 10 of them.
1994 – The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
1995 – Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan
1998 – Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
1999 – Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
2001 – Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.
2003 – In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.

Births

1169 – Alexios II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1183)
1388 – Claudius Clavus, Danish geographer
1486 – Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German alchemist (d. 1535)
1543 – Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (d. 1615)
1547 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (d. 1619)
1580 – Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645)
1656 – Thomas Baker, British antiquarian (d. 1746)
1713 – Johann Kies, German mathematician (d. 1781)
1721 – Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (d. 1807)
1737 – Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1806)
1760 – Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (d. 1842)
1769 – Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (d. 1859)
1771 – Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and statesman (d. 1829)
1804 – John Gould, British ornithologist (d. 1881)
1804 – Louis Desiré Maigret, French Catholic prelate (d. 1882)
1837 – Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (d. 1903)
1849 – Ivan Pavlov, Russian scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)
1850 – Anton Mahnič, Slovenian Roman Catholic bishop, author and theologian (d. 1920)
1860 – Hamlin Garland, American writer (d. 1940)
1864 – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1958)
1867 – Charles Dana Gibson, American artist (d. 1944)
1869 – Kid Nichols, American baseball player (d. 1953)
1879 – Margaret Sanger, American birth control advocate (d. 1966)
1880 – Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer (d. 1961)
1880 – Archie Hahn, American athlete (d. 1955)
1886 – Jan Masaryk, Czech foreign minister and diplomat (d. 1948)
1889 – María Capovilla, previous oldest living person (d. 2006)
1891 – Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (d. 1983)
1898 – Ernest Nash, German-born archaeologist (d. 1974)
1899 – Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (d. 1986)
1902 – Giorgos Papasideris Greek musician (d. 1977)
1909 – Peter Scott, British naturalist and explorer (d. 1989)
1910 – Jack Hawkins, British actor (d. 1973)
1910 – Yiannis Latsis, Greek shipping tycoon (d. 2003)
1913 – Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (d. 1971)
1913 – Annalisa Ericson, Swedish actress
1914 – Lída Baarová, Czech actress (d. 2000)
1914 – Clayton Moore, American actor (d. 1999)
1914 – Kay Medford, American actress (d. 1980)
1914 – Robert McCloskey, American author (d. 2003)
1916 – John Heyer, Australian documentary filmmaker (d. 2001)
1918 – Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (d. 1967)
1920 – Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer (d. 2009)
1920 – Lawrence Klein, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1920 – Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (d. 1998)
1921 – Dario Vittori, Argentinian actor (d. 2001)
1922 – Michel Auclair, French actor (d. 1988)
1924 – Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and author (d. 1994)
1926 – Michel Butor, French novelist
1927 – Martin Caidin, American aviation writer (d. 1997)
1929 – Larry Collins, American writer (d. 2005)
1929 – Maurice Vachon, French Canadian professional wrestler
1930 – Allan Bloom, American academic (d. 1992)
1932 – Harry Sinden, American National Hockey League executive
1932 – John Tembo, Malawian politician
1933 – Harve Presnell, American actor
1934 – Sarah Kofman, French philosopher
1934 – Kate Millett, American feminist writer
1935 – Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (d. 2008)
1936 – Walter Koenig, American actor
1936 – Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1936 – Harry Danielsen, Norwegian politician
1937 – Renzo Piano, Italian architect
1938 – Nicol Williamson, Scottish-born actor
1939 – DeWitt Weaver, Professional golfer
1940 – Larry Brown, American basketball coach
1941 – Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan musician
1942 – Bernard MacLaverty, Northern Irish writer
1944 – Joey Heatherton, American actress and singer
1945 – Martin Tyler, British sports broadcaster
1946 – Jim Angle, American television reporter
1947 – Jon "Bowzer" Bauman, American singer (Sha Na Na)
1947 – Sam Neill, New Zealand actor
1948 – Marc Reisner, American writer (d. 2000)
1949 – Tommy Seebach, Danish musician (d. 2003)
1949 – Eikichi Yazawa, Japanese singer
1949 – Steve Gaines, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
1949 – Ed King, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1950 – Paul Kossoff, British guitarist (Free) (d. 1976)
1950 – Masami Kuwashima, Japanese race car driver
1950 – Michael Nifong, American attorney
1953 – Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (d. 1998)
1953 – Judy Playfair, Australian swimmer
1956 – Kostas Karamanlis, Greek prime-minister
1956 – Ray Wilkins, English former footballer
1956 – Lefteris Zagoritis, Greek politician
1957 – Tim Wallach, American baseball player
1957 – Kepler Wessels, former Australian and South African cricketer
1958 – Beth Nielsen Chapman, American singer-songwriter
1959 – Morten Harket, Norwegian singer (a-ha)
1960 – Melissa Leo, American actress
1960 – Callum Keith Rennie, Canadian actor
1961 – Freeman Mbowe, Tanzanian politician and businessman
1961 – Wendy Thomas, namesake of the eponymous restaurant (Wendy's)
1963 – Robin Singh, Indian cricketer
1964 – Faith Ford, American actress
1965 – Michelle Stafford, American actress
1965 – Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia
1966 – Mike Cooley, American guitarist
1967 – Dan Cortese, American actor
1967 – Ashlyn Gere, American pornographic actress
1969 – Konstantinos Koukodimos, Greek long jumper and politician
1969 – Tyler Perry, American actor
1970 – Ben Garant, American actor
1970 – Craig Montoya, American musician (Everclear)
1970 – Francesco Casagrande, Italian cyclist
1971 – Jeff Loomis, American guitarist (Nevermore)
1971 – Andre Matos, Brazilian musician
1971 – Kimberly Williams, American actress
1972 – David Bell, American baseball player
1973 – Terrell Fletcher, American football
1973 – Tony Bui, Vietnamese film director
1973 – Nas, American rapper
1973 – Linvoy Primus, English footballer
1973 – Mike Ward, Canadian comedian
1974 – Chad Bradford, American baseball player
1974 – Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete
1976 – Jeremy Dunham, video game journalist
1976 – Agustín Calleri, Argentine tennis player
1978 – Carmen Kass, Estonian model
1978 – Danielle Peck, country music singer
1978 – Ben Cohen, English rugby union footballer
1978 – Park Teddy, leader of the Korean Hip Hop group 1TYM
1979 – Jesse Marunde, American Strongman/Athlete (d. 2007)
1980 – Ayọ, German singer
1981 – Ashley Roberts, American singer, dancer & actress (Pussycat Dolls)
1981 – Miyavi, Japanese Musician
1982 – Hiroki Narimiya, Japanese actor
1983 – Amy Winehouse, English singer
1983 – Frostee Rucker, National Football League defensive end
1984 – Adam Lamberg, American actor
1984 – Melissa McGhee, American singer
1984 – Farhan Saeed, Pakistani singer
1985 – Paolo Gregoletto, American bassist (Trivium)
1985 – Aya Ueto, Japanese actress and singer
1985 – Delmon Young, American baseball player
1986 – Ai Takahashi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1986 – Tinchy Stryder, English Grime Artist
1986 – A.J. Trauth, American actor
1986 – Alan Sheehan, Irish footballer
1987 – Michael Crabtree, American football player
1988 – Kirsten Haglund, American beauty pageant contestant
1989 – Jesse James, American actor

Deaths

258 – Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage
585 – Emperor Bidatsu of Japan (b. 538)
775 – Constantine V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 718)
786 – Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph
891 – Pope Stephen V
1146 – Zengi, ruler of Syria (b. 1087)
1164 – Emperor Sutoku of Japan (b. 1119)
1214 – Albert Avogadro, Italian patriarch of Jerusalem (b. 1149)
1321 – Dante Alighieri, Italian author (b. 1265)
1404 – Albert IV of Austria (b. 1377)
1435 – John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (b. 1389)
1523 – Pope Adrian VI (b. 1459)
1538 – Henry III of Nassau-Breda, German nobleman (b. 1483)
1605 – Jan Tarnowski, Archbishop of Krakow (b. 1550)
1638 – John Harvard, American clergyman (b. 1607)
1646 – Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (b. 1591)
1712 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-born astronomer (b. 1625)
1743 – Nicolas Lancret, French painter (b. 1690)
1749 – Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (b. 1675)
1759 – Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (b. 1712)
1807 – George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (b. 1724)
1836 – Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States (b. 1756)
1851 – James Fenimore Cooper, American author (b. 1789)
1852 – Augustus Pugin, English architect (b. 1812)
1852 – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1879 – Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist (b. 1808)
1898 – William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (b. 1857)
1901 – William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (b. 1843)
1905 – Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Franco-Italian explorer (b. 1852)
1910 – Huo Yuan Jia, Chinese martial artist
1916 – José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
1927 – Isadora Duncan, American dancer (b. 1877)
1936 – Irving Thalberg, American film producer (b. 1899)
1937 – Tomáš Masaryk, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1850)
1942 – E.S. Gosney, American eugenicist (b. 1855)
1951 – Fritz Busch, German conductor (b. 1890)
1959 – Wayne Morris, American actor (b. 1914)
1960 – M. Karagatsis, Greek author (b. 1908)
1965 – J.W. Hearne, English cricketer (b. 1891)
1966 – Gertrude Berg, American actress (b. 1899)
1974 – Warren Hull, American actor (b. 1903)
1975 – Walter Herbert, German conductor and impresario (b. 1902)
1981 – Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (b. 1899)
1982 – Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese politician (b. 1947)
1982 – John Gardner, American novelist (b. 1933)
1982 – Grace Kelly, American actress, Princess of Monaco (b. 1929)
1982 – Christian Ferras, French violinist (b. 1933)
1984 – Janet Gaynor, American actress (b. 1906)
1989 – Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban musician (b. 1916)
1991 – Julie Bovasso, American actor and writer (b. 1930)
1991 – Russell Lynes, American art historian and magazine editor (b. 1910)
1992 – Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (b. 1903)
1995 – Maurice K. Goddard, American state government official (b. 1912)
1996 – Juliet Prowse, British actress and dancer (b. 1937)
1999 – Charles Crichton, English film director (b. 1910)
2000 – Beah Richards, American actress (b. 1920)
2000 – Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and activist (b. 1906)
2001 – Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (b. 1931)
2003 – Yetunde Price, half-sister of Venus and Serena Williams (b. 1972)
2003 – John Serry, Sr., American musician, (b. 1915)
2003 – Garrett Hardin, American ecologist (b. 1915)
2005 – William Berenberg, American physician (b. 1915)
2005 – Robert Wise, American filmmaker (b. 1914)
2005 – Vladimir Volkoff, French writer (b. 1932)
2006 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926)
2006 – Esme Melville, Australian actress (b. 1918)
2008 – Ştefan Iordache, Romanian actor (b. 1941)

Holidays and observances

In ancient Greece, the first day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, during which the sacred objects were brought from Eleusis to Athens.
Roman Catholic Church
Triumph of the Cross (compare May 3, Finding of the Holy Cross)
Crescentius of Rome
Maternus of Cologne
Notburga
John Gabriel Taurin Dufresse
Eastern Orthodox Church
Exaltation of the Cross, which commemorates the discovery of the original Christian cross in 326 by Helena, mother of Constantine, as well as the recovery from the Persians by Heraclius in 628.
Aelia Flaccilla
Formerly, in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday following 14 September were observed as one of the four sets of Ember days. In the Irish calendar they were known as Quarter tense.

 

[historylover]

September 15

Events

668 – Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
921 – At Tetin Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law.
1556 – Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
1584 – San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
1616 – The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
1762 – Seven Years War: Battle of Signal Hill.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
1789 – The United States Department of State is established (formerly known as the "Department of Foreign Affairs").
1812 – The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.
1812 – War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
1820 – Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
1821 – Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica jointly declare independence from Spain.
1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens.
1831 – The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands.
1851 – Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
1873 – Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
1883 – The Bombay Natural History Society is founded in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.
1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
1916 – World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
1928 – Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler to take 300 wickets in an English cricket season.
1931 – In Scotland, the two-day Invergordon Mutiny against Royal Navy pay cuts begins.
1935 – The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
1935 – Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika.
1940 – World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft.
1942 – World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
1945 – A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond.
1947 – RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.
1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1,077.
1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h).
1950 – Korean War: United States forces land at Incheon
1952 – United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia.
1958 – A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 58.
1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.
1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1963 – The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States
1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
1972 – An Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport.
1974 – Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
1975 – The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
1981 – Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations.
1983 – Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
1987 – United States Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sign a treaty to establish centers to reduce the risk of nuclear war.
1990 – France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf
1993 – Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II disbands Parliament
1998 – With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business.
2004 – National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.

Births

1254 – Marco Polo, Italian explorer (d. 1324)
1533 – Catherine of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1572)
1580 – Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (d. 1659)
1613 – François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (d. 1680)
1649 – Titus Oates, English minister and plotter (d. 1705)
1666 – Princess Sophia Dorothea of Celle (d. 1726)
1715 – Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (d. 1789)
1760 – Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general of the Napoleonic Wars (d. 1824)
1789 – James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist (d. 1851)
1828 – Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886)
1830 – Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (d. 1915)
1852 – Edward Bouchet, American physicist (d. 1918)
1857 – William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (d. 1930)
1858 – Jenő Hubay, Hungarian violinist (d. 1937)
1860 – Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya, Indian engineer (d. 1962)
1863 – Horatio Parker, American composer (d. 1919)
1864 – Prince Sigismund of Prussia (d. 1866)
1867 – Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1920)
1876 – Bruno Walter, German conductor (d. 1962)
1876 – Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian novelist (d. 1938)
1877 – Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and zionist (d. 1938)
1879 – Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)
1881 – Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile engineer and designer (d. 1947)
1883 – Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (d. 1950)
1887 – Carlos Dávila, former President of Chile (d. 1955)
1888 – Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (d. 1925)
1889 – Robert Benchley, American author (d. 1945)
1890 – Agatha Christie, English writer (d. 1976)
1890 – Frank Martin, Swiss composer (d. 1974)
1892 – Silpa Bhirasri, Italian sculptor (d. 1962)
1894 – Jean Renoir, French film director (d. 1979)
1894 – Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (d. 1977)
1895 – Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (d. 1977)
1895 – Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (d. 1974)
1898 – J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (d. 1936)
1901 – Sir Donald Bailey, British engineer (d. 1985)
1903 – Roy Acuff, American country musician (d. 1992)
1904 – King Umberto II of Italy (d. 1983)
1906 – Jacques Becker, French screenwriter and director (d. 1960)
1907 – Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and writer (d. 1968)
1907 – Fay Wray, Canadian-born American actress (d. 2004)
1908 – Penny Singleton, American actress (d. 2003)
1909 – C.N.Annadurai, Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 1969)
1910 – Betty Neels, English novelist (d. 2001)
1911 – Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-born American golf entrepreneur (d. 2000)
1913 – John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General and Watergate figure (d. 1988)
1913 – Johannes Steinhoff, German fighter pilot & NATO commander (d. 1994)
1914 – Creighton Abrams, American Army general (d. 1974)
1914 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
1914 – Orhan Kemal, Turkish writer (d. 1970)
1915 – Albert Whitlock, English motion picture matte artist (d. 1999)
1915 – Ismail Yasin, Egyptian comedian and actor (d. 1972)
1915 – José Nicomedes Grossi, Brazilian bishop (d. 2009)
1916 – Margaret Lockwood, English actress (d. 1990)
1916 – Frederick C. Weyand, Former U.S. Army General
1918 – Nipsey Russell, American comedian (d. 2005)
1919 – Fausto Coppi, Italian racing cyclist (d. 1960)
1919 – Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
1921 – Norma MacMillan, Canadian actress (d. 2001)
1922 – Jackie Cooper, American actor and director
1922 – Bob Anderson (fencer), English sword-master
1923 – Anton Heiller, Austrian organist (d. 1979)
1924 – Bobby Short, American musician (d. 2005)
1925 – Helle Virkner, Danish actress (d. 2009)
1925 – Stanley Chapman, British architect, designer, translator and writer (d. 2009)
1926 – Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
1926 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (d. 2006)
1927 – David Stove, Australian philosopher, (d. 1994)
1928 – Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1975)
1929 – Eva Burrows, the 13th General of The Salvation Army
1929 – Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1933 – Henry Darrow, American actor
1933 – Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor
1934 – Fred Nile, Australian politician
1937 – Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist, Nobel laureate
1937 – Fernando de la Rúa, 51st President of Argentina
1938 – Gaylord Perry, baseball player
1940 – Merlin Olsen, American football player and actor
1940 – Norman Spinrad, American science fiction author
1941 – Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer
1941 – Signe Toly Anderson, American singer
1941 – Mirosław Hermaszewski, Polish cosmonaut
1941 – Yuri Norstein, Russian animator
1941 – Viktor Zubkov, Russian government official
1942 – Lee Dorman, American Bassist
1944 – Sotirios Hatzigakis, Greek politician
1945 – Hans-Gert Pöttering, German politician, President of the European Parliament.
1945 – Carmen Maura, Spanish actress
1945 – Jessye Norman, American opera singer
1945 – Ron Shelton, American film director
1946 – Ola Brunkert, Swedish session drummer for ABBA (d. 2008)
1946 – Tommy Lee Jones, American actor
1946 – Oliver Stone, American film director
1946 – Howard Waldrop, American science fiction author
1946 – Mike Procter, South African cricketer, coach and match referee
1947 – Theodore Long, American professional wrestling manager
1949 – Joe Barton, American politician
1951 – Pete Carroll, American football coach
1951 – Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer
1954 – Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (d. 2007)
1955 – Željka Antunović, Croatian politician
1955 – Renzo Rosso, Italian clothing designer
1955 – Bruce Reitherman, American voice actor
1956 – Jaki Graham, English singer
1956 – Maggie Reilly, Scottish folk singer
1958 – Dr. Know, American guitarist (Bad Brains)
1958 – Joel Quenneville, Canadian ice hockey player
1958 – Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress (d. 2005)
1960 – Kevin Allen, Welsh actor
1960 – Ed Solomon, American screenwriter
1961 – Terry Lamb, Australian rugby league footballer
1961 – Dan Marino, American football player
1962 – Dina Lohan, American actress and reality television star, mother of Lindsay Lohan
1962 – Scott McNeil, Australian voice actor
1964 – Róbert Fico, Slovak Prime minister
1964 – Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, American musician,The Misfits
1968 – Danny Nucci, American actor
1969 – Jim Curtiss, American writer
1969 – David Ryon, American Politcian
1969 – Jeffrey Schwarz, American film director/producer
1971 – Nathan Astle, New Zealand cricketer
1971 – Josh Charles, American actor
1971 – Ben Wallers, English musician and songwriter (Country Teasers)
1972 – Jimmy Carr, English comedian
1972 – Kit Chan, Singaporean singer
1972 – Letizia, Princess of Asturias, Spanish royalty
1973 – Julie Cox, English actress
1976 – Paul Thomson, Scottish drummer (Franz Ferdinand)
1976 – Matt Thornton, American baseball player
1977 – Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter
1977 – Sophie Dahl, English model
1977 – Tom Hardy, English actor
1977 – Leander Jordan, American football player
1977 – Marisa Ramirez, American actress
1977 – Jason Terry, American basketball player
1978 – Eiður Guðjohnsen, Icelandic footballer
1979 – Dave Annable, American actor
1979 – Amy Davidson, American actress
1979 – Patrick Marleau, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Carlos Ruiz, Guatemalan footballer
1980 – David Diehl, American football player
1980 – Mike Dunleavy, Jr., American basketball player
1980 – Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese pop singer
1983 – Luke Hochevar, American baseball player
1984 – Prince Harry of Wales, UK royalty
1987 – Aly Cissokho, French footballer
1988 – Chelsea Staub, American actress
1989 – Steliana Nistor, Romanian gymnast
1989 – Kris Chetan Ramlu, New Zealand musician

Deaths

668 – Constans II, Byzantine emperor (b. 630)
866 – Robert the Strong, Margrave of Neustria (b. 820)
1231 – Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1173)
1352 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)
1500 – John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1420)
1596 – Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist
1613 – Thomas Overbury, English writer (b. 1581)
1643 – Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (b. 1566)
1649 – John Floyd, English Jesuit preacher (b. 1572)
1700 – André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (b. 1613)
1701 – Edmé Boursault, French writer (b. 1638)
1707 – George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (b. 1663)
1712 – Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, English politician
1750 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1690)
1794 – Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725)
1803 – Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1719)
1830 – William Huskisson, first rail fatality (b. 1770)
1835 – Sarah Knox Taylor, wife of Jefferson Davis (b. 1814)
1842 – Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (b. 1771)
1842 – José Francisco Morazán Quezada, President of The Federal Republic of Central America (b. 1792)
1859 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806)
1864 – John Hanning Speke, British explorer (b. 1827)
1883 – Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (b. 1801)
1885 – Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant (hit by a train) (b. 1861)
1893 – Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (b. 1807)
1921 – Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1886)
1926 – Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
1930 – Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)
1945 – André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (b. 1876)
1945 – Anton Webern, Austrian composer (b. 1883)
1965 – Steve Brown, American musician (b. 1890)
1972 – Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887)
1973 – Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1882)
1973 – Victor Jara, Chilean musician (b. 1941)
1978 – Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (b. 1898)
1978 – Robert Cliche, French Canadian politician and judge (b. 1921)
1980 – Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (b. 1929)
1981 – Harold Bennett, English actor (b. 1899)
1981 – Rafael Mendez, Mexican trumpet virtuoso (b. 1906)
1983 – Prince Far I, reggae toaster and producer
1985 – Cootie Williams, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1910)
1987 – Steven Tuomi, murder victim of Jeffery Dahmer (b. 1963)
1989 – Robert Penn Warren, American writer (b. 1905)
1991 – John Hoyt, American actor (b. 1904)
1993 – Ethan Allen, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1995 – Harry Calder, South African cricketer (b. 1901)
2000 – Vincent Canby, American movie critic (b. 1924)
2003 – Jack Brymer, English clarinetist (b. 1915)
2003 – Josef Hirsal, Czech novelist (b. 1920)
2004 – Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (b. 1948)
2004 – Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (b. 1931)
2005 – Sidney Luft, American film director (b. 1915)
2006 – Raymond Baxter, British television presenter (b. 1922)
2006 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1929)
2006 – Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (b. 1987)
2007 – Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (b. 1968)
2007 – Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (b. 1928)
2007 – Brett Somers, Canadian-born American actress and Match Game panelist (b. 1924)
2007 – Sir Jeremy Moore, the commander of the British land forces during the Falklands War (b. 1928)
2008 – Richard Wright, keyboardist and founding member of Pink Floyd (b. 1943)
2009 – Nicu Constantin, Romanian actor (b. 1939)

Holidays and observances

International Day of Democracy.
In ancient Greece, the second day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the priests of Demeter declared the public start of the rites.
Catholic Calendar of Saints – Feast day of Our Lady of Sorrows, Catherine of Genoa, Joseph Abibos, Saint Nicomedes, Roland de Medici
Also see September 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
The United Kingdom – the British commemorate the Battle of Britain on the day of the last massive Luftwaffe attack in 1940.
Japan – Respect for the Aged Day before 2003; beginning in 2003, Respect for the Aged Day is held on the third Monday of September.
Thailand – Silpa Bhirasri Day.
In India Engineer's Day celebrated on birthday of Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya.
Slovenia – Restoration of Primorska to the Motherland Day
Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica – Independence Day

 

[historylover]

September 16

Events

1400 – Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
1795 – The first occupation by United Kingdom of Cape Colony, South Africa with the Battle of Hout Bay, after successive victories at the Battle of Muizenberg and Wynberg, after William III requested protection against revolutionary France's occupation of the Netherlands.
1810 – With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.
1812 – Russians set fire to Moscow shortly after midnight – the city burns down completely days later.
1863 – Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
1893 – Settlers race in Oklahoma for prime land in the Cherokee Strip.
1901 – Alturas, California, is incorporated as the only city in Modoc County.
1908 – General Motors is founded.
1919 – The American Legion is incorporated.
1920 – The Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J.P.Morgan building in New York City – 38 are killed and 400 injured.
1931 – Hanging of Omar Mukhtar.
1941 – World War II: concerned that Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia was to align his petroleum-rich country with Germany during World War II, the United Kingdom and the USSR invade Iran in late August and force him to resign in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
1945 – World War II: Surrender of the Japanese forces in Hong Kong. The ceremony was presided by British Admiral Cecil Harcourt.
1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hit Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River area, at least 1,930 killed.
1955 – Juan Perón is deposed in Argentina.
1963 – Malaysia is formed from Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak.
1966 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera, Antony and Cleopatra.
1970 – King Hussein of Jordan declares military rule following the hijacking of four civilian airliners by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). This results in the formation of the Black September Palestinian paramilitary unit.
1975 – Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia.
1975 – The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
1976 – Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir.
1978 – An earthquake measuring 7.5-7.9 on the Richter scale hits the city of Tabas, Iran killing about 25,000 people.
1982 – Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon.
1987 – The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
1991 – The trial of deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega begins in the United States.
1992 – Black Wednesday: the Pound Sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the Deutschmark.
2005 – Camorra boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples.
2007 – One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.

Births

16 – Drusilla, daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (d. 38)
1098 – Hildegard of Bingen, German magistra and the first composer whose biography is known (d. 1179)
1386 – King Henry V of England, (d. 1422)
1507 – Jiajing, Emperor of China (d. 1567)
1557 – Jacques Mauduit, French composer (d. 1627)
1651 – Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (d. 1716)
1666 – Antoine Parent, French mathematician (d. 1716)
1678 – Henry St John, English statesman and philosopher (d. 1751)
1722 – Gabriel Christie, British general (d. 1799)
1725 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815)
1745 – Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (d. 1813)
1782 – Daoguang, Emperor of China (d. 1850)
1823 – Francis Parkman, American historian (d. 1893)
1827 – Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (d. 1908)
1844 – Claude-Paul Taffanel, French flautist, conductor and instructor regarded as the founder of the French Flute School (d. 1908)
1853 – Albrecht Kossel, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1927)
1858 – Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)
1859 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese politician (d. 1916)
1875 – James C. Penney, American department store founder (d. 1971)
1881 – Clive Bell, English art critic (d. 1964)
1883 – T. E. Hulme, English writer (d. 1917)
1886 – Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor and painter (d. 1966)
1887 – Nadia Boulanger, French composer and teacher (d. 1979)
1888 – F. E. Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
1891 – Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German spy (d. 1972)
1891 – Karl Dönitz, German naval leader (d. 1980)
1893 – Alexander Korda, Hungarian film director (d. 1956)
1893 – Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
1896 – Margaret Fitzgerald, Canadian supercentenarian
1898 – H.A. Rey, American children's author, creator of "Curious George" (d. 1977)
1905 – Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (d. 1980)
1906 – Jack Churchill, English soldier (d. 1996)
1910 – Karl Kling, German race car driver (d. 2003)
1910 – Erich Kempka, Adolf Hitler's chauffeur (d. 1975)
1914 – Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (d. 1999)
1916 – Robert Bradshaw, Saint Kitts and Nevis politician (d. 1978)
1916 – M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (d. 2004)
1916 – Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (d. 1999)
1919 – Laurence J. Peter, Canadian born educator and writer (d. 1990)
1921 – Jon Hendricks, American jazz singer
1922 – Janis Paige, American actress
1922 – Marcel Mouloudji, French actor and singer (d. 1994)
1922 – Guy Hamilton, English film director
1923 – Lee Kuan Yew, Minister Mentor of Singapore
1924 – Lauren Bacall, American actress
1925 – Charlie Byrd, American musician (d. 1999)
1925 – B. B. King, American musician
1925 – Charles Haughey, Prime Minister of Ireland (d. 2006)
1926 – Tommy Bond, American actor (d. 2005)
1927 – Peter Falk, American actor
1927 – Jack Kelly, American actor (d. 1992)
1928 – Lady Gwen Thompson, British occultist (d. 1986)
1930 – Anne Francis, American actress
1934 – George Chakiris, American actor
1934 – Ronnie Drew, Ex-Singer of The Dubliners and Solo Artist (d. 2008)
1935 – Carl Andre, American artist
1935 – Bob Kiley, American public transit specialist
1935 – Jules Bass, American author, producer, director and composer
1937 – Alexander Medved, Russian wrestler
1939 – Breyten Breytenbach, South African writer and painter
1941 – Richard Perle, American political advisor
1942 – Bernie Calvert, British musician (The Hollies)
1943 – James Alan McPherson, American writer
1944 – Winston Grennan, Jamaican American drummer
1946 – Cathee Dahmen, American fashion model
1946 – Mike Reynolds, Australian politician
1946 – Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer
1947 – Russ Abbot, British comedian
1947 – Enrique Krauze, Mexican historian and writer
1948 – Ron Blair, American bassist
1948 – Kenney Jones, English musician (The Small Faces; Faces; The Who)
1949 – Ed Begley, Jr., American actor
1950 – Loyd Grossman, American television presenter
1952 – Mickey Rourke, American actor
1953 – Alan Barton, English musician (Black Lace, Smokie) (d. 1995)
1953 – Nancy Huston, Canadian-born novelist and essayist
1953 – Eric Vail, Canadian ice hockey player
1954 – Earl Klugh, American jazz guitarist
1954 – Colin Newman, English musician (Wire)
1954 – Frank Reed, American singer (The Chi-Lites)
1955 – Ron Brewer, American basketball player
1955 – Janet Ellis, British television presenter
1955 – Yolandita Monge, Puerto Rican singer
1955 – Robin Yount, American baseball player
1956 – David Copperfield, American magician
1957 – David McCreery, Irish footballer
1958 – Orel Hershiser, American baseball player
1958 – Neville Southall, Welsh footballer
1958 – Jennifer Tilly, American actress
1959 – Tim Raines, American baseball player
1959 – Dave Richardson, former South African cricketer
1960 – Danny John-Jules, British actor
1960 – Kurt Busiek, American comic book writer
1960 – Yianna Katsoulos, French singer
1961 – Bilinda Butcher, British singer (My Bloody Valentine)
1963 – Richard Marx, American singer
1964 – Molly Shannon, American actress
1964 – Mary Coustas, Austalian entertainer
1964 – Rossy de Palma, Spanish actress
1964 – Dave Sabo, American musician (Skid Row (American band))
1965 – Katy Kurtzman, American actress
1966 – Kevin Young, American athlete
1967 – Hiroya Oku, Japanese Manga-ka
1968 – Marc Anthony, American singer
1968 – Walt Becker, American director and writer
1969 – Justine Frischmann, English musician (Elastica)
1970 – Mark Schultz, American musician
1971 – Amy Poehler, American comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1972 – Mark Bruener, American football player
1972 – Sprent Dabwido, Nauruan politician
1972 – James Westman, Canadian Operatic Baritone
1973 – Alexander Vinokourov, Kazakh cyclist
1973 – Justin Haythe, American writer
1973 – George Corrie, English footballer
1974 – Tom Dolan, American swimmer
1975 – Shannon Noll, Australian singer and songwriter
1976 – Tina Barrett, British singer (S Club)
1976 – Greg Buckner, American basketball player
1976 – Heather Hopper, American actress
1977 – Greg Ball, American politician
1978 – Dan Dickau, American basketball player
1978 – Matthew Rogers, American singer
1979 – Bobby Korecky, American baseball player
1979 – Fanny, French singer
1980 – Patrik Stefan, Czech hockey player
1981 – Fan Bingbing, Chinese actress
1981 – Alexis Bledel, American actress (Gilmore Girls)
1982 – Leon Knight, English footballer
1982 – Michael McCall, Irish chemist
1983 – Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer
1983 – Brandon Moss, American baseball player
1984 – Sabrina Bryan, American actress and singer (The Cheetah Girls)
1984 – Katie Melua, Georgian/British singer
1985 – Madeline Zima, American actress
1986 – Gordon Beckham, American baseball player
1986 – Kyla Pratt, American actress
1987 – Daren Kagasoff, American actor
1987 – Louis Clément Ngwat-Mahop, Cameroonian football player
1987 – Travis Wall, American dancer and dance instructor
1988 – Teddy Geiger, American singer
1988 – Sarah Steele, American actress
1989 – Dustin Tokarski, Canadian ice hockey goalie
1992 – Nick Jonas, American singer/songwriter (Jonas Brothers)
2005 – Princess Jalilah bint Ali, of Jordan

Deaths

96 – Domitian, Roman Emperor (b. 51)
307 – Flavius Valerius Severus, deposed Roman Emperor (murder)
827 – Pope Valentine
1087 – Pope Victor III (b. 1026)
1100 – Bernold of Constance, German chronicler (b. 1054)
1345 – John IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1295)
1380 – King Charles V of France (b. 1338)
1394 – Avignon Pope Clement VII (b. 1342)
1406 – Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. 1336)
1498 – Tomás de Torquemada, first grand inquisitor of Spain (b. 1420)
1589 – Michael Baius, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
1672 – Anne Bradstreet, American colonial poet (b. 1612)
1701 – James II of England and VII of Scotland (b. 1633)
1736 – Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist (b. 1686)
1775 – Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English privy councillor (b. 1684)
1782 – Farinelli, Italian castrato singer (b. 1705)
1803 – Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (b. 1754)
1824 – King Louis XVIII of France (b. 1755)
1829 – Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and statesman (b. 1771)
1843 – Ezekiel Hart, Canadian entrepreneur and politician, and the first Jew to be elected to public office in the British Empire (b. 1770)
1864 – John Hanning Speke, English explorer (b. 1827)
1865 – Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (b. 1792)
1898 – Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (b. 1827)
1911 – Edward Whymper, English mountain climber (b. 1840)
1925 – Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (b. 1888)
1932 – Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
1933 – George Gore, baseball player (b. 1857)
1944 – Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
1945 – John McCormack, Irish tenor (b. 1884)
1950 – Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (b. 1881)
1957 – Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (b. 1864)
1965 – Ahn Eak-tai, Korean musician, composer, and conductor (b. 1906)
1975 – Irene Hayes, Ziegfeld girl and businesswoman (b. 1896)
1977 – Marc Bolan, English musician (b. 1947)
1977 – Maria Callas, Greek-American soprano (b. 1923)
1980 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)
1987 – Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (b. 1922)
1992 – Millicent Fenwick, American politician and writer (b. 1910)
1993 – Rok Petrovič, Slovenian skier (b. 1966)
1996 – McGeorge Bundy, U.S. National Security Advisor (b. 1919)
1996 – Gene Nelson, American actor (b. 1920)
2000 – Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)
2001 – Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (b. 1918)
2002 – James Gregory, American actor (b. 1911)
2003 – Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
2003 – Sheb Wooley, singer and actor (b. 1921)
2004 – Michael Donaghy Poet, (b. 1954)
2005 – Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (b. 1920)
2006 – Rob Levin, creator of Freenode (b. 1955)
2006 – Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
2007 – Robert Jordan, author of the Wheel of Time series (b. 1948)
2008 – Norman Whitfield, associated with the Temptations (b. 1940)

Holidays and observances

In ancient Greece, the third day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the initiates walked to the sea at Phaleron and purified themselves in the water.
RC Saints – Saint Cyprian, Pope Cornelius, Saint Ludmila, Curcodomus
Also see September 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Mexico – Independence Day (from Spain; proclaimed 1810, recognised 1821, instituted 1825; See Fiestas Patrias (Mexico)).
Malaysia – Hari Malaysia (formation of Malaysia, 1963).
Papua New Guinea – Independence Day (from Australia, 1975).
International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer

 

[historylover]

September 17

Events

1176 – The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.
1462 – The Battle of Świecino (also known as the Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War.
1577 – The Peace of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.
1630 – The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
1631 – Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War.
1683 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules": the first known description of protozoa.
1776 – The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
1778 – The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware Indians).
1787 – The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1809 – Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
1814 – Francis Scott Key finishes his poem The Star-Spangled Banner.
1859 – Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Emperor Norton I" of the United States.
1862 – American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history.
1862 – American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.
1894 – The Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
1900 – Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes killing Selfridge. He becomes the first aeroplane fatality.
1914 – Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1916 – World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
1919 – Massacre of Turkic peoples in the village of Hakmehmet, in Igdir Province, Turkey, by Armenians.
1920 – The National Football League is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.
1924 – The Border Defence Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
1928 – The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
1939 – World War II: The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.
1939 – World War II: A German U-boat U 29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.
1939 – Taisto Mäki becomes the first man to run the 10,000 metres in under 30 minutes, in a time of 29:52.6
1941 – World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued
1943 – World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Nazis.
1944 – World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.
1947 – James V. Forrestal is sworn in as the first Secretary of Defense of United States.
1948 – The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel.
1949 – The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.
1956 – Television is first broadcast in Australia.
1970 – Fighting breaks out along the Syria-Jordanian border between Jordanian troops and the fedayeen.
1976 – The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
1978 – The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
1980 – After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
1980 – Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.
1983 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
1991 – North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
1992 – An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany.
1993 – Last Russian troops leave Poland.
2001 – The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 Attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
2003 – Ohio re-ratifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
2004 – Tamil is declared the first classical language in India.
2007 – AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York, New York.

Births

879 – King Charles III of France (d. 929)
1192 – Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
1271 – Wenceslas II of Bohemia and Poland (d. 1305)
1550 – Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
1630 – Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1694)
1639 – Hans Herr, Mennonite bishop (d. 1725)
1657 – Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (d. 1704)
1677 – Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (d. 1761)
1687 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772)
1688 – Maria Luisa of Savoy, first queen of Philip V of Spain (d. 1714)
1730 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (d. 1794)
1739 – John Rutledge, 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1800)
1743 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician (d. 1794)
1771 – Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816)
1773 – Jonathan Alder, American settler (d. 1849)
1785 – David Walker, American abolitionist (d. 1830)
1820 – Émile Augier, French dramatist (d. 1889)
1826 – Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866)
1854 – David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d. 1929)
1857 – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1935)
1868 – James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (d. 1956)
1869 – Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 1938)
1879 – Rube Foster, American baseball player, manager and executive (d. 1930)
1879 – Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Indian Social Reformer (d. 1973)
1881 – Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (d. 1955)
1883 – William Carlos Williams, American writer (d. 1963)
1884 – Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (d. 1920)
1890 – Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (d. 1972)
1897 – Earl Webb, baseball player (d. 1965)
1900 – John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985)
1900 – Hughie Critz, baseball player (d. 1980)
1901 – Francis Chichester, English adventurer (d. 1972)
1903 – Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984)
1903 – Frank O'Connor, Irish-American short-story writer (d. 1966)
1906 – Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist
1907 – Warren Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
1912 – Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress and comedian
1916 – Mary Stewart, English novelist
1918 – Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (d. 1997)
1922 – Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d. 1979)
1923 – Hank Williams, American musician (d. 1953)
1926 – Bill Black, American musician (d. 1965)
1926 – Curtis Harrington, American film director (d. 2007)
1927 – George Blanda, American football player
1928 – Roddy McDowall, English actor (d. 1998)
1929 – Sir Stirling Moss, English race car driver
1929 – Pat Crowley, American actress
1930 – Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut
1930 – Jim Rohn, American business philosopher
1930 – Thomas Stafford, American astronaut
1930 – Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist
1930 – David Huddleston, American actor
1931 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
1933 – Chuck Grassley, American politician
1933 – Dorothy Loudon, American actress (d. 2003)
1933 – Claude Provost, National Hockey League player (d. 1984)
1934 – Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969)
1935 – Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)
1937 – Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
1938 – Bobby Wine, American Major League Baseball player
1939 – Shelby Flint, American singer
1939 – David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1940 – Jan Eliasson, Swedish diplomat
1940 – Sotiris Moustakas, Greek actor (d. 2007)
1941 – Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman (d. 2005)
1942 – Des Lynam, English television presenter
1942 – Robert Graysmith, Zodiac killer researcher
1944 – Reinhold Messner, Italian mountain climber
1945 – David Emerson, Canadian politician
1945 – Phil Jackson, American basketball player and NBA head coach
1945 – Bruce Spence, New Zealand actor
1946 – Billy Bonds, English footballer
1947 – Tessa Jowell, British politician
1948 – Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (d. 2000)
1948 – John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
1950 – Narendra Modi, Indian politician
1950 – Chris Heister, Swedish politician
1950 – Fee Waybill, American musician (The Tubes)
1951 – Cassandra Peterson, American actress
1953 – Altaf Hussain, Pakistani politician and founder of MQM
1954 – Joël-François Durand, French composer
1955 – Koralia Karanti, Greek actress
1955 – Charles Martinet, American actor
1956 – Thad Bosley. American major league baseball player
1956 – Rita Rudner, American comedian
1956 – Brian Andreas, American writer, sculptor, painter and publisher
1957 – Richard Reinhardt (AKA Richie Ramone), Drummer of The Ramones from 1983-1987
1959 – Charles Lawson, Northern Irish actor
1960 – Damon Hill, English race car driver and one-time F1 world champion
1960 – Kevin Clash, American actor and puppeteer
1960 – John Franco, American baseball player
1961 – Ty Tabor, American guitarist and singer (King's X)
1961 – Jim Cornette, American professional wrestling manager
1962 – Baz Luhrmann, Australian film director
1962 – Dustin Nguyen, Vietnamese American actor
1963 – Masahiro Chono, Japanese professional wrestler
1963 – Michael Adler, American businessman
1963 – Steven Dye, English musician (Scarlet Party), (The Alan Parsons Project)
1963 – Wendy Northcutt, Author of the Darwin Awards
1963 – Amy Roloff, American reality star
1963 – Rami Saari, Israeli poet and translator
1963 – James Urbaniak, American actor
1965 – Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer
1965 – Guy Picciotto, American musician (Rites of Spring, Fugazi)
1965 – Bryan Singer, American director
1966 – Doug E. Fresh, American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer
1967 – Malik Yoba, American actor
1968 – Anastacia, American singer
1968 – Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece
1969 – Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
1969 – Keith Flint, Member of the British band The Prodigy
1969 – Matthew Settle, American actor
1970 – Mark Brunell, American football player
1971 – Adriana Sklenaříková, Slovak supermodel
1971 – Mike Catt, English rugby player
1971 – Ian Whyte (actor), Welsh actor and basketball player
1972 – Brian Henry, American poet
1972 – Bobby Lee, American comedian
1973 – Ada Choi, Hong Kong actress
1973 – Demis Nikolaidis, Greek footballer
1974 – Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
1974 – Mirah, American musician
1974 – Tormod Granheim, Norwegian adventurer
1975 – Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
1975 – Austin St. John, American actor
1975 – Constantine Maroulis, American singer
1976 – Daniella Rush, Czech pornographic actress
1977 – Simone Perrotta, Italian football player
1978 – Shawn Horcoff, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Akin Ayodele, American football player
1979 – Chuck Comeau, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1979 – Steffen Algreen, Danish footballer
1980 – Danny Haren, American baseball player
1981 – Casey Janssen, American baseball player
1981 – Bakari Koné, Ivorian footballer
1981 – Francis Manioru, Solomon Islander sprinter
1982 – Hope Larson, American illustrator and cartoonist
1982 – Garth Murray, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 – Jennifer Peña, American singer
1984 – Mary Descenza, American swimmer
1984 – Eugenia Volodina, Russian model
1985 – Tomáš Berdych, Czech tennis player
1985 – Brendan Clarke, Irish footballer
1985 – Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player
1985 – Mason Raymond, Canadian hockey player
1986 – Landry Mulemo, Belgian footballer
1986 – Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter
1987 – Paul Huntington, English footballer

Deaths

1179 – Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and composer (b. 1098)
1322 – Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249)
1422 – Constantine II of Bulgaria
1563 – Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier
1574 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida (b. 1519)
1575 – Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)
1621 – Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (b. 1542)
1630 – Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567)
1665 – Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605)
1676 – Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (b. 1626)
1679 – John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (b. 1629)
1727 – Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman (b. 1647)
1762 – Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist (b. 1687)
1771 – Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (b. 1721)
1803 – Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer (b. 1766)
1808 – Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)
1836 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748)
1863 – Alfred de Vigny, French author (b. 1797)
1873 – Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (b. 1781)
1879 – Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1814)
1894 – Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b. 1849)
1899 – Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (b. 1842)
1907 – Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist (b. 1846)
1908 – Thomas Selfridge, First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army (b. 1882)
1933 – Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (b. 1877)
1936 – Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)
1938 – Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (b. 1901)
1946 – Frank Burke, American baseball player (b. 1880)
1948 – Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist (b. 1887)
1951 – Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)
1966 – Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930)
1972 – Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (b. 1899)
1973 – Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (b. 1909)
1980 – Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
1982 – Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (b. 1937)
1984 – Richard Basehart, American actor (b. 1914)
1985 – Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (b. 1925)
1987 – Harry Locke, British character actor (b. 1913)
1991 – Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
1993 – Christian Nyby, American film and television director (b. 1913)
1994 – Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher (b. 1902)
1995 – Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)
1996 – Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
1997 – Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)
1998 – Ted Binion, Las Vegas casino heir (b. 1943)
1998 – Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (b. 1907)
1999 – Frankie Vaughan, British singer (b. 1928)
2000 – Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (b. 1976)
2000 – Paula Yates, English TV personality (b. 1960)
2001 – Lou Dog, Sublime mascot.
2003 – Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
2005 – Alfred Reed, American composer (b. 1921)
2006 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924)

Holidays and observances

The fourth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries in ancient Greek mythology, when the initiates sacrificed a pig.
RC Saints – Feasts of Saint Lambert (martyr), Hildegard of Bingen, Albert Avogadro, Alan, Robert Bellarmine.
Also see September 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Angola – National Heroes' Day.
Netherlands – Operation Market Garden is still remembered with parachuting and dedications on this day.
United States – Constitution Day (observed on the previous Friday if it falls Saturday, the following Monday if on a Sunday), Citizenship Day, Von Steuben Day.
Christian martyrs Socrates and Stephen

 

[historylover]

September 19

Events

335 – Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.
1356 – In the Battle of Poitiers, the English defeat the French.
1676 – Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
1692 – Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.
1777 – First Battle of Saratoga/Battle of Freeman's Farm/Battle of Bemis Heights.
1778 – The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
1796 – George Washington's farewell address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Iuka – Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris begins, which will result on January 28, 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.
1870 – Having invaded the Papal States a week earlier, the Italian Army lays siege to Rome, entering the city the next day, after which the Pope described himself as a Prisoner in the Vatican.
1881 – President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.
1893 – Women's suffrage: in New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
1900 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid commit their first robbery together.
1934 – Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr..
1940 – Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.
1942 – Holocaust in Brody, western Ukraine: About 2,500 Brody Jews are deported by the German Gestapo to the extermination camp in Belzec.
1944 – Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
1945 – Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London.
1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
1947 – The United States Air Force (USAF) is formed as a separate branch of the armed forces of the United States.[1]
1952 – The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
1957 – First American underground nuclear bomb test.
1959 – Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland.
1961 – Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
1963 – Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. is founded at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.
1970 – The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, United Kingdom.
1972 – A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
1973 – King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture.
1976 – Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.
1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
1985 – A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
1985 – Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
1988 – Greg Louganis suffers a head injury while qualifying for the Seoul Olympics. He goes on to win two Gold medals.
1989 – A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171.
1991 – Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.
1995 – The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
1997 – Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.
2006 – The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.

Births

86 – Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (d. 161)
866 – Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (d. 912)
1377 – Albert IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1404)
1551 – King Henry III of France (d. 1589)
1749 – Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (d. 1822)
1754 – John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key (d. 1821)
1759 – William Kirby, English entomologist (d. 1850)
1778 – Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1868)
1796 – Hartley Coleridge, English poet (d. 1849)
1799 – René Caillé, French explorer (d. 1838)
1802 – Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer and Regent-President (d. 1894)
1803 – Maria Anna of Savoy, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1884)
1811 – Orson Pratt, American religious leader (d. 1881)
1828 – Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1880)
1882 – Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (d. 1965)
1887 – Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (d. 1972)
1887 – Lynne Overman, American actor (d. 1943)
1888 – J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (d. 1971)
1889 – Sadie Delany, American physician and author (d. 1999)
1898 – Giuseppe Saragat, president of the Italian Republic (d. 1988)
1901 – Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-born film producer (d. 1991)
1905 – Leon Jaworski, American Watergate scandal special prosecutor (d. 1982)
1907 – Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr., American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1998)
1908 – Tatsuo Shimabuku, founder of Isshinryu Karate (d. 1975)
1908 – Robert Lecourt, French politician and president of the European Court of Justice (d. 2004)
1908 – Mika Waltari, Finnish novelist (d. 1979)
1909 – Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile pioneer (d. 1998)
1910 – Margaret Lindsay, American actress (d. 1981)
1911 – Sir William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
1912 – Kurt Sanderling, German conductor
1913 – Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970)
1915 – Germán Valdés, Mexican actor, singer and comedian (d. 1973)
1920 – Roger Angell, American sports writer
1921 – Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator & writer (d. 1997)
1922 – Damon Knight, American writer (d. 2002)
1922 – Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (d. 2000)
1926 – Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1926 – James Lipton, American actor, writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio
1926 – Duke Snider, baseball player
1927 – Rosemary Harris, English actress
1927 – William Hickey, American actor (d. 1997)
1928 – Adam West, American actor
1930 – Antonio Margheriti, Italian filmmaker (d. 2002)
1931 – Brook Benton, American singer (d. 1988)
1931 – Jean-Claude Carrière, French screenwriter and actor
1933 – David McCallum, Scottish actor
1934 – Brian Epstein, English musical group manager (The Beatles) (d. 1967)
1935 – Benjamin Hacker, American naval aviator (d. 2003)
1935 – Nick Massi, American singer (The Four Seasons) (d. 2000)
1936 – Al Oerter, American athlete (d. 2007)
1937 – Abner Haynes, American football player
1940 – Anna Karen, South African-born British actress
1940 – Bill Medley, American singer and songwriter (The Righteous Brothers)
1940 – Ed Westfall, Canadian ice hockey player
1940 – Paul Williams, American composer
1941 – Umberto Bossi, Italian politician
1941 – Mama Cass Elliot, American musician (d. 1974)
1942 – Freda Payne, American singer and actress
1943 – Joe Morgan, baseball player
1944 – Anders Björck, Swedish politician
1944 – Jean Succar Kuri, Lebanese-born Mexican businessman
1945 – Randolph Mantooth, American actor
1946 – Brian Henton, English racing driver
1947 – Lol Creme, English musician (10cc, Godley & Creme)
1947 – Brian Hill, American basketball head coach
1948 – Jeremy Irons, English actor
1948 – Mihai Timofti, director, actor, & musician from Moldova-Chisinau
1949 – Sally Potter, English film director and screenwriter
1949 – Ernie Sabella, American actor
1949 – Barry Scheck, American lawyer, co-founder Innocence Project
1949 – Twiggy, English model
1950 – Joan Lunden, American journalist and television host
1951 – Daniel Lanois, Canadian record producer
1952 – Bernard de Dryver, Belgian racing driver
1952 – Gunnar Hökmark, Swedish politician
1952 – Nile Rodgers, American musician and composer
1955 – Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (d. 2006)
1955 – Rex Smith, American singer and actor
1956 – Juan Manuel Fangio II, Argentine racing driver
1956 – Charlie Reliford, baseball umpire
1958 – Kevin Hooks, American actor and director
1958 – Azumah Nelson, Ghanaian boxer
1958 – Lita Ford, American singer
1958 – Lucky Ali, Indian singer, Composer and Actor
1960 – Loïc Bigois, French engineer
1962 – Cheri Oteri, American actress and comedian
1962 – Ken Rosenthal, American sportswriter
1963 – Jarvis Cocker, English musician (Pulp)
1963 – David Seaman, English footballer
1964 – Patrick Marber, British playwright
1964 – Bob Papa, American sportscaster
1964 – Kim Richards, American child actress
1964 – Trisha Yearwood, American singer
1965 – Alexandra Vandernoot, Belgian actress
1965 – Sabine Paturel, French singer
1965 – Helen Duval, Dutch adult movie actress
1966 – Soledad O'Brien, American journalist
1966 – Eric Robert Rudolph, American criminal
1966 – Yoshihiro Takayama, Japanese professional wrestler
1967 – Jim Abbott, baseball player
1967 – Stéphane Crête, Quebec actor
1967 – Alexander Karelin, Russian wrestler
1969 – Alkinoos Ioannidis, Greek-Cypriot singer and composer
1969 – Tapio Wilska, Finnish singer
1970 – Dan Bylsma, National Hockey League player
1970 – Gilbert Dionne, National Hockey League player
1970 – Takanori Nishikawa, Japanese pop/rock singer
1970 – Victor Williams, American actor
1971 – Sanaa Lathan, American actress
1972 – Matt Cockbain, Australian rugby player
1973 – Nick Colgan, Irish footballer
1973 – Cristiano da Matta, Brazilian racing car driver
1973 – Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Australian actor
1974 – Jimmy Fallon, American actor and comedian
1974 – Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model
1976 – Raja Bell, American basketball player
1976 – Alison Sweeney, American actress
1976 – Jim Ward, American musician (At the Drive-In, Sparta)
1976 – Jessica York, television personality
1976 – Jan Hlaváč, Czech ice hockey player
1977 – Akash Chopra, Indian cricketer
1977 – Ryan Dusick, American Musician
1978 – Michelle Alves, Brazilian supermodel
1978 – Nick Johnson, baseball player
1978 – Nigel Mitchell, broadcaster
1978 – Jorge López Montaña, Spanish footballer
1979 – Dannielle Brent, British actress
1979 – Joel Houston, Australian musician and songwriter
1979 – Noémie Lenoir, French supermodel and actress
1980 – Dimitri Yachvili, French rugby player
1981 – Damiano Cunego, Italian cyclist
1981 – Rick DiPietro, American ice hockey player
1982 – Eleni Daniilidou, Greek tennis player
1982 – Jordan Parise, American ice hockey player
1982 – Columbus Short, American actor and choreographer
1982 – Nicole Voss, American model
1983 – Joey Devine, American baseball player
1983 – Charlie Haeger, American baseball player
1983 – Matt Wiman, American mixed martial artist
1984 – Eamon, American pop singer
1984 – Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor
1985 – Alun-Wyn Jones, Welsh rugby player
1986 – Gerald Ciolek, German cyclist
1986 – Ken Gushi, Japanese racing driver
1986 – Mandy Musgrave, American actress
1986 – Peter Vack, American voice actor
1986 – Ryan Succop, American football player
1987 – Danielle Panabaker, American actress
1987 – Kenny Britt, American football player
1990 – Saki Fukuda, Japanese actress
1991 – Demelza Reveley, Australian model
1994 – Alex Etel, British actor

Deaths

690 – Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 602)
1339 – Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (b. 1288)
1356 – Killed at the Battle of Poitiers:
Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1311)
Walter VI of Brienne, Constable of France (b. 1304)
1668 – William Waller, English soldier
1692 – Giles Corey, American farmer killed in the Salem Witch Trials
1693 – Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (b. 1641)
1710 – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644)
1812 – Mayer Amschel Rothschild, (b. 1744)
1843 – Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (b. 1792)
1868 – William Sprague, American minister and politician from (b. 1809)
1881 – James Garfield, 20th President of the United States (b. 1831)
1893 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician, a father of Canadian Confederation (b. 1817)
1905 – Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist (b. 1845)
1906 – Maria Georgina Grey, British writer and founder of the Girls' Day School Trust (b. 1816)
1924 – Alick Bannerman, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
1927 – Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
1935 – Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1857)
1936 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (b. 1860)
1938 – Pauline Frederick, American actress (b. 1883)
1942 – Condé Nast, American publisher (b. 1873)
1944 – Guy Gibson, British aviator, awarded Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
1949 – Will Cuppy, American humorist (b. 1884)
1949 – George Shiels, Irish dramatist (b. 1886)
1949 – Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer (b. 1901)
1955 – John D. Dingell, Sr., U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. 1894)
1967 – Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian painter (b. 1884)
1967 – Monica Proietti, Canadian criminal (b. 1940)
1968 – Chester Carlson, American inventor (b. 1906)
1968 – Red Foley, American singer (b. 1910)
1969 – Rex Ingram, American actor (b. 1895)
1972 – Robert Casadesus, French pianist (b. 1899)
1973 – Gram Parsons, American musician (b. 1946)
1978 – Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and historian (b. 1884)
1985 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b. 1923)
1987 – Einar Gerhardsen, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)
1989 – Willie Steele, American Olympic gold medalist (b. 1923)
1990 – Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1910)
1995 – Orville Redenbacher, American botanist and businessman (b. 1907)
1997 – Rich Mullins, American singer (b. 1955)
2000 – Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (b. 1917)
2001 – Rhys Jones, Welsh-Australia archeologist (b. 1941)
2002 – Robert Guéï, ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1941)
2002 – Duncan Hallas, prominent member of the Trotskyist movement in Great Britain. (b. 1925)
2003 – Slim Dusty, Australian singer (b. 1927)
2004 – Eddie Adams, American photographer (b. 1933)
2004 – Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian-born American civil servant (b. 1919)
2004 – Skeeter Davis, American singer (b. 1931)
2004 – Ellis Marsalis, Sr., American businessman, musician, and activist (b. 1908)
2006 – Elizabeth Allen, American actress (b. 1929)
2006 – Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b. 1950)
2006 – Chuck Rio, American singer and saxophonist (The Champs) (b. 1929)
2006 – Hugh Kawharu, New Zealander Ngāti Whātua Māori chief (b. 1927)
2006 – Martha Holmes, American photographer (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances

International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
In ancient Greece, the sixth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the procession to Eleusis began at Kerameikos in Athens.
RC Saints – Saint Januarius.
See also September 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Church of England – Theodore of Tarsus.
Chile – Armed Forces Day.
Saint Kitts and Nevis – Independence Day (from Great Britain, 1983).
Goeric of Metz – French bishop and saint