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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020 September
September 6 is the 249th day of the
year (250th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 116 days remain until the end
of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events
·
– Battle of the Frigidus: Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats
and kills Eugenius the
usurper. His Frankish magister militum Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days
later. ·
1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in
the Canary
Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean
for the first time. ·
1522 –
The Victoria returns
to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, the only
surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition and the first known
ship to circumnavigate the
world. ·
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 became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony. ·
1634 – Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen, the Catholic Imperial army
defeats Swedish and German Protestant forces. ·
1642 –
England's Parliament bans public stage-plays. ·
1781 –
The Battle of Groton Heights takes place,
resulting in a British victory. ·
1803 –
British scientist John Dalton begins
using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements. ·
1861 – American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly
capture Paducah, Kentucky, giving the Union control of
the Tennessee
River's mouth. ·
1863 –
American Civil War: Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina. ·
1870 – Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes
the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807. ·
1885 – Eastern Rumelia declares
its union with Bulgaria,
thus accomplishing Bulgarian unification. ·
1901 – Leon Czolgosz, an
unemployed anarchist, 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. ·
1936 – Spanish Civil War: The Interprovincial Council of Asturias and León is
established.[1] ·
1939 – World War II:
Britain suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War at
the Battle of Barking Creek as a result of
friendly fire. ·
1939 – World War II: South Africa declares war on
Germany. ·
1940 –
King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded
by his son Michael. General Ion Antonescu becomes
the Conducător of Romania. ·
1943 –
The Monterrey Institute of Technology is founded
in Monterrey, Mexico as
one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin
America. ·
1943 – Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia,
killing 79 people and injuring 117 others. ·
1944 –
World War II: The city of Ypres,
Belgium is liberated by Allied forces. ·
1944 – World War II: Soviet forces capture the
city of Tartu, Estonia. ·
1946 – United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy
of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany. ·
1952 –
A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England,
killing 29 spectators and the two on board. ·
1955 – Istanbul's Greek,
Jewish, and Armenian minorities
are the target of a
government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots. ·
1962 –
The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill. ·
1962 – Archaeologist Peter Marsden
discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the second
century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in
London. ·
1965 –
India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which results in
the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a
stalemate followed by the signing of the Tashkent Declaration. ·
1966 – Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd,
the architect of apartheid,
is stabbed to death in Cape Town,
South Africa during a parliamentary meeting. ·
1968 – Swaziland becomes
independent. ·
1970 –
Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked
by Palestinian terrorist members
of the PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field, Jordan. ·
1972 – Munich massacre:
Nine Israeli athletes
die (along with a German policeman) at the hands of the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group after being
taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games. Two other Israeli athletes
were slain in the initial attack the previous day. ·
1976 – Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands
a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in
Japan and requests political
asylum in the United States; his request is granted. ·
1983 –
The Soviet Union admits
to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that its
operatives did not know that it was a civilian aircraft when it reportedly
violated Soviet airspace. ·
1986 –
In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's
organization kill 22 and wound six congregants 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 Russian parliament approves the
name change of Leningrad back to Saint Petersburg.
The change is effective October 1, 1991. ·
1995 – Cal Ripken, Jr. of
the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st
consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years. ·
1997 –
The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes
place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 21⁄2 billion watched around the world on
television. ·
2003 – Mahmoud Abbas resigns
from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.[2] ·
2007 – Israel executes
the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor
in Syria. ·
2009 –
The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks
off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with
971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued. ·
2012 –
Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off
the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near
the Greek Aegean islands. ·
2013 –
Forty one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt
pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.[3][4] ·
2018 – Supreme Court of India decriminalised all
consensual sex among adults in private, making homosexuality legal on the Indian lands.[5][6] Births
·
1475 – Artus Gouffier, Lord of Boissy, French nobleman and
politician (d. 1519) ·
1475 – Sebastiano Serlio, Italian Mannerist architect (d.
1554) ·
1517 – Francisco de Holanda, Portuguese artist (d. 1585) ·
1535 – Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian and author
(d. 1612) ·
1610 – Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena, Italian noble
(d. 1658) ·
1620 – Isabella Leonarda, Italian composer and educator
(d. 1704) ·
1631 – Charles Porter, English-born judge (d.
1696) ·
1633 – Sebastian Knüpfer, German cantor and composer (d.
1676) ·
1656 – Guillaume Dubois,
French cardinal and politician (d. 1723) ·
1666 – Ivan V of Russia,
Russian tsar (d. 1696)[7] ·
1711 – Henry Muhlenberg,
German-American pastor and missionary (d. 1787) ·
1729 – Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher and
theologian (d. 1786) ·
1732 – Johan Wilcke,
Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1796) ·
1757 – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette,
French general (d. 1834) ·
1766 – John Dalton, English
chemist, meteorologist, and physicist (d. 1844) ·
1781 – Vincent Novello,
English composer and publisher (d. 1861) ·
1795 – Frances Wright,
Scottish-American author and activist (d. 1852) ·
1800 – Catharine Beecher, American educator and activist
(d. 1878) ·
1802 – Alcide d'Orbigny, French zoologist,
palaeontologist, and geologist (d. 1857) ·
1814 – George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 9th Premier of East Canada (d.
1873) ·
1815 – St. John Richardson Liddell, American general (d.
1870) ·
1817 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, English-Canadian
businessman and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Finance (d. 1893) ·
1819 – William Rosecrans, American general, politician,
and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Mexico (d. 1898) ·
1838 – Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (d. 1906) ·
1852 – Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander,
lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (d.
1918) ·
1855 – Ferdinand Hummel,
German pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1928) ·
1857 – Zelia Nuttall,
American archeologist and historian (d. 1933) ·
1859 – Macpherson Robertson, Australian businessman and
philanthropist, founded MacRobertson's (d.
1945) ·
1860 – Jane Addams,
American sociologist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935) ·
1860 – May Jordan McConnel, Australian trade unionist and
suffragist (d. 1929)[8] ·
1861 – William Lane,
English-Australian journalist, founded New Australia (d.
1917) ·
1863 – Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (d.
1935) ·
1868 – Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss judge and
politician, President of the Swiss National
Council (d. 1947) ·
1869 – Walford Davies,
English organist and composer (d. 1941) ·
1869 – Felix Salten,
Austrian-Swiss author and critic (d. 1945) ·
1876 – John Macleod, Scottish physician and
physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935) ·
1879 – Max Schreck, German
actor (d. 1936) ·
1879 – Joseph Wirth, German
educator and politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1956) ·
1885 – Otto Kruger,
American actor (d. 1974)[9] ·
1888 – Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., American businessman and
diplomat, 44th United States Ambassador to the
United Kingdom (d. 1969) ·
1889 – Louis Silvers,
American composer (d. 1954) ·
1890 – Clara Kimball Young, American actress and producer
(d. 1960) ·
1892 – Edward Victor Appleton, English-Scottish physicist
and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965) ·
1893 – Claire Lee Chennault, American general and pilot
(d. 1958) ·
1899 – Billy Rose, American
composer and manager (d. 1966) ·
1900 – W. A. C. Bennett,
Canadian businessman and politician, 25th Premier of British Columbia (d. 1979) ·
1900 – Julien Green,
French-American author (d. 1998) ·
1906 – Luis Federico Leloir, French-Argentinian physician
and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987) ·
1908 – Anthony Wagner,
English genealogist and academic (d. 1995) ·
1908 – Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor, designed
the Crazy Horse Memorial (d. 1982) ·
1909 – Michael Gordon, American actor and director (d.
1993) ·
1910 – Walter Giesler,
American soccer player, referee, and coach (d. 1976) ·
1911 – Harry Danning,
American baseball player and coach (d. 2004) ·
1911 – Charles Deutsch,
French aerodynamics engineer and
automobile maker, co-founder of the brand "DB (d. 1980) ·
1912 – Wayne Barlow,
American organist, composer, and director (d. 1996) ·
1913 – Julie Gibson,
American actress and singer (d. 2019) ·
1913 – Leônidas, Brazilian
footballer (d. 2004) ·
1915 – Ed Oliver, American golfer (d. 1961) ·
1915 – Franz Josef Strauss, German lieutenant and
politician, Minister President of Bavaria (d. 1988) ·
1917 – John Berry, American-French actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter (d. 1999) ·
1917 – George Mann, English cricketer (d. 2001) ·
1917 – Philipp von Boeselager, German soldier and
economist (d. 2008) ·
1919 – Wilson Greatbatch, American engineer and
philanthropist (d. 2011) ·
1920 – Elvira Pagã,
Brazilian actress, singer, and author (d. 2003) ·
1921 – Carmen Laforet,
Spanish author (d. 2004) ·
1921 – Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor,
co-created the bar code (d.
2012) ·
1923 – Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970) ·
1924 – John Melcher,
American veterinarian and politician (d. 2018) ·
1925 – Andrea Camilleri,
Italian author, screenwriter, and director (d. 2019) ·
1925 – Jimmy Reed, American
singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976) ·
1926 – Prince Claus of the Netherlands (d. 2002) ·
1926 – Jack English Hightower, American lawyer and
politician (d. 2013) ·
1926 – Arthur Oldham,
English composer and conductor (d. 2003) ·
1926 – Maurice Prather,
American photographer and director (d. 2001) ·
1928 – Fumihiko Maki,
Japanese architect and academic, designed the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium and Makuhari Messe ·
1928 – Robert M. Pirsig,
American novelist and philosopher (d. 2017) ·
1928 – Yevgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer
(d. 2002) ·
1928 – Sid Watkins, English
neurosurgeon and academic (d. 2012) ·
1929 – Yash Johar, Indian
film producer, founded Dharma Productions (d. 2005) ·
1929 – Ljubov Rebane,
Estonian physicist and mathematician (d. 1991) ·
1930 – Charles Foley, American game designer,
co-created Twister (d.
2013) ·
1930 – Helmut
Piirimäe, Estonian historian and academic (d. 2017) ·
1931 – Bud Shrake, American
journalist, author, and screenwriter (d. 2009) ·
1932 – Colin McColl,
English intelligence officer ·
1932 – Gilles Tremblay, Canadian composer and educator (d.
2017) ·
1935 – Isabelle Collin Dufresne, French actress and author
(d. 2014)[10] ·
1935 – Jock Wallace, Jr., Scottish footballer and coach
(d. 1996) ·
1937 – Sergio
Aragonés, Spanish-Mexican author and illustrator ·
1937 – Janusz Kurczab,
Polish fencer and mountaineer (d. 2015) ·
1937 – Jo Anne Worley,
American actress, comedian, and singer ·
1938 – Joan Tower, American
pianist, composer, and conductor ·
1939 – Brigid Berlin,
American actress, painter, and photographer (d. 2020) ·
1939 – David Allan Coe,
American outlaw country music singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1939 – Susumu Tonegawa,
Japanese biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1940 – John M. Hayes, American scientist (d. 2017) ·
1940 – Elizabeth Murray, American painter and illustrator
(d. 2007) ·
1940 – Jackie Trent,
English-Spanish singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2015) ·
1941 – Roger Law, English
illustrator ·
1941 – Monica Mason, South
African ballerina and director ·
1942 – Dave Bargeron,
American trombonist and tuba player ·
1942 – Richard Hutton, English cricketer ·
1942 – Mel McDaniel,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011) ·
1943 – Gordon Birtwistle, English engineer and politician ·
1943 – Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and
biologist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1943 – Roger Waters,
English singer-songwriter and bass player ·
1944 – Donna Haraway,
American author, academic, and activist ·
1944 – Swoosie Kurtz,
American actress ·
1946 – Roger Knight,
English cricketer and educator ·
1946 – Shirley M. Malcom, American scientist, academic and
educator ·
1947 – Jane Curtin,
American actress and comedian ·
1947 – Bruce Rioch, English
footballer and manager ·
1947 – Jacob Rubinovitz,
Polish-Israeli engineer and academic ·
1947 – Sylvester, American singer-songwriter (d. 1988) ·
1948 – Claydes Charles Smith, American guitarist (d. 2006) ·
1949 – Iris Robinson,
Northern Irish politician ·
1951 – Melih Kibar, Turkish
composer (d. 2005) ·
1952 – Simon Burns, English
politician, Minister of State for Transport ·
1952 – Vladimir Kazachyonok, Russian footballer, coach,
and manager (d. 2017) ·
1952 – Buddy Miller,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1954 – Carly Fiorina,
American businesswoman and activist ·
1954 – Demetris Kizas,
Cypriot footballer ·
1954 – Patrick O'Hearn,
American bassist and composer ·
1954 – John Sauven, English
economist and environmentalist ·
1955 – Raymond Benson,
American author and playwright ·
1956 – Bill Ritter,
American lawyer and politician, 41st Governor of Colorado ·
1956 – Steven Yearley,
English sociologist and academic ·
1957 – Ali Divandari,
Iranian painter, sculptor, and journalist ·
1957 – Michaëlle
Jean, Haitian-Canadian journalist and politician, 27th Governor-General of Canada ·
1957 – José Sócrates,
Portuguese engineer and politician, 119th Prime Minister of Portugal ·
1958 – Buster Bloodvessel, English singer-songwriter ·
1958 – Jeff Foxworthy,
American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter ·
1958 – Nigel Westlake,
Australian composer and conductor ·
1958 – Michael Winslow,
American actor ·
1958 – The Barbarian, Tongan wrestler ·
1959 – Bill Root, Canadian
ice hockey player ·
1961 – Simon Reeve, Australian journalist and game show
host ·
1961 – Wendi Richter,
American wrestler ·
1961 – Scott Travis,
American rock drummer ·
1961 – Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian musician and
songwriter ·
1962 – Chris Christie,
American lawyer and politician, 55th Governor of New Jersey ·
1962 – Marina Kaljurand,
Estonian badminton player and diplomat, Estonia Ambassador to Russia ·
1962 – Elizabeth Vargas,
American journalist ·
1962 – Kevin Willis, American
basketball player and fashion designer ·
1963 – Mark Chesnutt,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1963 – Pat Nevin, Scottish
footballer and sportscaster ·
1963 – Alice Sebold,
American author ·
1963 – Bryan Simonaire,
American engineer and politician ·
1963 – Geert Wilders, Dutch
lawyer and politician ·
1964 – Rosie Perez,
American actress, dancer, and director ·
1965 – Terry Bickers,
English singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1965 – Darren Clark,
Australian sprinter ·
1965 – Christopher Nolan, Irish author and poet (d. 2009) ·
1965 – Van Tiffin, American
football player ·
1967 – William DuVall, American
singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1967 – Macy Gray, American
singer-songwriter, producer, and actress ·
1967 – Kalli Kalde,
Estonian painter and illustrator ·
1967 – Milan Lukić,
Bosnian Serb convicted of war crimes by the ICTY ·
1967 – Igor Štimac,
Croatian footballer and manager ·
1968 – Saeed Anwar,
Pakistani cricketer ·
1968 – Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish author ·
1968 – Paul Rea, American
journalist ·
1969 – Tony DiTerlizzi,
American author and illustrator ·
1969 – Ben Finegold,
American chess player and educator ·
1969 – Michellie Jones,
Australian-American triathlete ·
1969 – CeCe Peniston,
American singer-songwriter, actress, and former beauty pageant winner ·
1970 – Cheyne Coates,
Australian singer-songwriter and producer ·
1970 – Emily Maitlis,
Canadian-English journalist ·
1970 – Rhett Miller,
American alternative country singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1971 – Devang Gandhi,
Indian cricketer ·
1971 – Asko Künnap,
Estonian poet and illustrator ·
1971 – Dolores O'Riordan, Irish singer-songwriter (d. 2018)[11] ·
1972 – Idris Elba, English
actor ·
1972 – Saulius Mikalajūnas, Lithuanian footballer ·
1972 – Anika Noni Rose,
American actress and singer ·
1973 – Carlo Cudicini,
Italian footballer ·
1973 – Greg Rusedski,
Canadian-English tennis player and sportscaster ·
1973 – Alessandro Troncon, Italian rugby player and coach ·
1974 – Tim Henman, English
tennis player and sportscaster ·
1974 – Nina Persson,
Swedish singer-songwriter and musician ·
1975 – Derrek Lee, American
baseball player and coach ·
1975 – Ryoko Tani, Japanese
judoka and politician ·
1976 – Rodrigo Amarante,
Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1976 – Jon Ander
López, Spanish footballer (d. 2013) ·
1976 – Tom Pappas, American
decathlete and coach ·
1978 – Cisco Adler,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1978 – Alex Escobar,
Venezuelan baseball player ·
1978 – Mathew Horne,
English actor and screenwriter ·
1978 – Homare Sawa,
Japanese footballer ·
1979 – Mike Arnaoutis,
Greek boxer ·
1979 – Foxy Brown, American rapper ·
1979 – Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer ·
1979 – Carlos Adrián Morales, Mexican footballer ·
1979 – Low Ki, American
wrestler ·
1980 – Jillian Hall,
American wrestler and singer ·
1980 – Kerry Katona,
English singer and actress ·
1980 – Samuel Peter,
Nigerian boxer ·
1980 – Joseph Yobo, Nigerian
footballer ·
1981 – Yuki Abe, Japanese
footballer ·
1981 – Yumiko Cheng, Hong
Kong singer and actress ·
1981 – Andrew Richardson, Jamaican cricketer ·
1981 – Mark Teahen,
American baseball player ·
1983 – Braun Strowman,
American wrestler and strongman ·
1984 – Helena Ekholm,
Swedish skier ·
1984 – William Porterfield, Northern Irish cricketer ·
1985 – Mitch Moreland,
American baseball player ·
1986 – Matt Keating,
Australian rugby league player ·
1987 – Ramiele Malubay,
Saudi Arabian-American singer ·
1987 – Emir Preldžić, Turkish basketball player ·
1988 – Ray Fujita,
French-Japanese actor and singer ·
1988 – Max George, English singer-songwriter and actor ·
1988 – Denis Tonucci,
Italian footballer ·
1989 – Nikos Boutzikos,
Greek footballer ·
1989 – Kim So-eun, South
Korean actress ·
1990 – Matt McAndrew,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1990 – John Wall, American basketball player ·
1992 – Young Tonumaipea,
Samoan rugby league player ·
1993 – Mattia Valoti,
Italian footballer ·
1995 – Mustafizur Rahman, Bangladeshi cricketer ·
1996 – Andrés Tello,
Colombian footballer ·
1997 – Mallory Comerford, American swimmer[12] ·
1997 – Jai Field,
Australian rugby league player ·
1997 – Tsukushi, Japanese wrestler ·
1998 – Michele Perniola,
Italian singer ·
1999 – Patrick Brasca,
Canadian-Taiwanese singer-songwriter Deaths
·
394 – Eugenius, Roman
usurper ·
926 – Taizu of Liao,
Khitan ruler (b. 872) ·
952 – Suzaku, emperor
of Japan (b. 923) ·
957 – Liudolf, duke of Swabia (b. 930) ·
972 – John XIII, pope of
the Catholic
Church (b. 930) ·
1276 – Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Italian cardinal (b.
1210) ·
1431 – Demetrios Laskaris Leontares, Byzantine admiral and
diplomat ·
1511 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1481) ·
1553 – Juan de Homedes y Coscon, 47th Grandmaster of
the Knights Hospitaller (b. c.1477) ·
1566 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman sultan (b. 1494) ·
1625 – Thomas Dempster,
Scottish historian and scholar (b. 1579) ·
1635 – Metius, Dutch
mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571) ·
1649 – Robert Dudley, English geographer and explorer (b.
1574) ·
1683 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French economist and
politician, French Controller-General of Finances (b.
1619) ·
1708 – Sir John Morden, 1st Baronet, English merchant and
philanthropist, founded Morden College (b.
1623) ·
1748 – Edmund Gibson,
English bishop and scholar (b. 1669) ·
1783 – Carlo Bertinazzi,
Italian actor and author (b. 1710) ·
1808 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian and author
(b. 1723) ·
1836 – Gaspar Flores de Abrego, three terms mayor of San
Antonio, in Spanish Texas (b. 1781)[13] ·
1868 – Pierre Adolphe Rost, American lawyer, judge, and
politician (b. 1797) ·
1885 – Narcís Monturiol, Spanish engineer, designed
the Ictineo I and Ictineo II (b.
1819) ·
1891 – Charles Jamrach,
German-English businessman (b. 1815) ·
1902 – Frederick Abel,
English chemist and engineer (b. 1827) ·
1907 – Sully Prudhomme,
French poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839) ·
1919 – Lord Charles Beresford, English admiral and
politician (b. 1846) ·
1927 – William Libbey,
American target shooter and geographer (b. 1855) ·
1938 – John Stuart Hindmarsh, English race car driver and
pilot (b. 1907) ·
1939 – Arthur Rackham,
English illustrator (b. 1867) ·
1944 – James Cannon Jr.,
American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South ·
1945 – John S. McCain Sr., American admiral (b. 1884) ·
1949 – Walter Widdop,
English tenor and actor (b. 1892) ·
1950 – Olaf Stapledon,
English philosopher and author (b. 1886) ·
1951 – James W. Gerard,
American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Germany (b. 1867) ·
1952 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, singer, and
dancer (b. 1898) ·
1956 – Witold Hurewicz,
Polish mathematician (b. 1904) ·
1956 – Lee Jung-seob, North
Korean painter (b. 1916) ·
1959 – Edmund Gwenn,
English actor (b. 1877) ·
1959 – Kay Kendall, English
actress and comedian (b. 1927) ·
1962 – Hanns Eisler,
German-Austrian composer (b. 1898) ·
1962 – Seiichiro Kashio,
Japanese tennis player (b. 1892) ·
1966 – Margaret Sanger,
American nurse, educator, and activist (b. 1879) ·
1966 – Hendrik Verwoerd,
Dutch-South African journalist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1901) ·
1969 – Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (b. 1892) ·
1972 –
Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre o Luttif Afif,
Palestinian terrorist (b. 1945) o David Mark Berger, American-Israeli weightlifter
(b. 1944) o Ze'ev Friedman,
Polish-Israeli weightlifter (b. 1944) o Yossef Gutfreund,
Israeli wrestling judge (b. 1931) o Eliezer Halfin,
Russian-Israeli wrestler (b. 1948) o Amitzur Shapira,
Russian-Israeli runner and coach (b. 1932) o Kehat Shorr,
Romanian shooting coach (b. 1919) o Mark Slavin, Israeli
wrestler (b. 1954) o Andre Spitzer,
Romanian-Israeli fencer and coach (b. 1945) o Yakov Springer,
Polish-Israeli wrestler and coach (b. 1921) ·
1974 – Olga Baclanova,
Russian-Swiss actress and ballerina (b. 1896) ·
1974 – Otto Kruger,
American actor (b. 1885)[9] ·
1978 – Max Decugis, French
tennis player (b. 1882) ·
1978 – Tom Wilson, American record producer (b. 1931) ·
1979 – Ronald Binge,
English organist and composer (b. 1910) ·
1982 – Azra Erhat, Turkish
archaeologist, author, and academic (b. 1915) ·
1984 – Ernest Tubb,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914) ·
1985 – Franco Ferrara,
Italian conductor and composer (b. 1911) ·
1986 – Blanche Sweet,
American actress (b. 1896) ·
1987 – Quinn Martin,
American screenwriter and producer (b. 1922) ·
1988 – Leroy Brown, American wrestler (b. 1950) ·
1988 – Bill Northam,
Australian sailor and businessman (b. 1905) ·
1990 – Tom Fogerty,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941) ·
1990 – Len Hutton, English
cricketer and soldier (b. 1916) ·
1991 – Bob Goldham,
Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (b. 1922) ·
1992 – Henry Ephron,
American playwright, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1912) ·
1994 – James Clavell,
Australian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924) ·
1994 – Nicky Hopkins,
English pianist (b. 1944) ·
1994 – Max Kaminsky, American trumpet player and
bandleader (b. 1908) ·
1997 – P. H. Newby, English
author and broadcaster (b. 1918) ·
1998 – Akira Kurosawa,
Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1910) ·
1998 – Ric Segreto,
American-Filipino singer-songwriter, actor, and journalist (b. 1952) ·
1998 – Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Swedish actor (b. 1928) ·
1999 – Lagumot Harris,
Nauruan politician, 3rd President of Nauru (b. 1938) ·
1999 – René
Lecavalier, Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918) ·
2005 – Hasan Abidi,
Pakistani journalist and poet (b. 1929) ·
2000 – Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian Military (b. 1918) ·
2005 – Eugenia Charles,
Dominican lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1919) ·
2007 – Madeleine L'Engle, American author and poet (b.
1918) ·
2007 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935) ·
2008 – Anita Page, American
actress (b. 1910) ·
2009 – Catherine Gaskin,
Irish-Australian author (b. 1929) ·
2010 – Boris Chetkov,
Russian painter (b. 1926) ·
2010 – Clive Donner,
English director and editor (b. 1926) ·
2011 – Michael S. Hart,
American author, founded Project Gutenberg (b. 1947) ·
2012 – Elisabeth
Böhm, German architect (b. 1921) ·
2012 – Lawrie Dring,
Scottish scout leader, founded World Federation of Independent Scouts (b.
1931) ·
2012 – Jerome Kilty,
American actor and playwright (b. 1922) ·
2012 – Art Modell, American
businessman (b. 1925) ·
2012 – Oscar Rossi,
Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1930) ·
2012 – Terry Nutkins,
English naturalist, television presenter and author (b. 1946) ·
2013 – Ann C. Crispin,
American author (b. 1950) ·
2013 – Khin Maung Kyi,
Burmese economist and scholar (b. 1926) ·
2013 – Santiago Rosario,
Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach (b. 1939) ·
2014 – Odd Bondevik,
Norwegian bishop and theologian (b. 1941) ·
2014 – Cirilo Flores,
American bishop (b. 1948) ·
2014 – Seth Martin,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1933) ·
2014 – Kira Zvorykina,
Belarusian chess player and educator (b. 1919) ·
2015 – Ralph Milne,
Scottish footballer (b. 1961) ·
2015 – Martin Milner,
American actor (b. 1931) ·
2015 – Barney Schultz,
American baseball player and coach (b. 1926) ·
2015 – Calvin J. Spann,
American general and pilot (b. 1924) ·
2017 – Peter Luck,
Australian journalist and television host (b. 1944) ·
2017 – Kate Millett,
American feminist author and activist (b. 1934)[14] ·
2018 – Richard DeVos,
American billionaire businessman (b. 1926)[15] ·
2018 – Liz Fraser, English
actress (b. 1930) ·
2018 – Will Jordan,
American comedian and actor (b. 1927) ·
2018 – Burt Reynolds, American
actor, director and producer[16] (b.
1936) ·
2019 – Robert Mugabe,
Zimbabwean politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe (b. 1924) Holidays and observances
·
Christian feast days: o Begga o Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria o Zechariah (Hebrew prophet) (Catholic church) o September 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
The earliest date on which the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance is performed ·
Armed Forces Day (São Tomé and Príncipe) ·
Defence Day or Army Day (Pakistan) ·
Independence Day (Swaziland), celebrates the
independence of Swaziland from
the United Kingdom in 1968 |
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