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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020 September
September 9 is the 252nd day of the
year (253rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 113 days remain until the end
of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events
·
– Arminius' alliance
of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. ·
– Constantine II, Constantius II,
and Constans succeed
their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is
divided between the three Augusti. ·
– A Byzantine army of
15,000 men under Belisarius lands
at Caput Vada (modern Tunisia) and marches
to Carthage. ·
1000 – Battle of Svolder, Viking Age. ·
1087 –
William Rufus becomes King of England, taking the title William II, (reigned until 1100). ·
1141 – Yelü Dashi,
the Liao dynasty general
who founded the Qara Khitai,
defeats the Seljuq and Kara-Khanid forces at the Battle of Qatwan. ·
1320 –
In the Battle of Saint George, the Byzantines under Andronikos Asen ambush
and defeat the forces of the Principality of Achaea, securing possession
of Arcadia. ·
1488 – Anne becomes
sovereign Duchess of Brittany, becoming a central figure in
the struggle for influence that leads to the union of Brittany and France. ·
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, 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. ·
1561 –
The ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy of Poissy opens in an effort to
reconcile French Catholics and Protestants. ·
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 union of
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. ·
1845 –
Possible start of the Great Potato Famine.[1][2] ·
1850 – California is
admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state. ·
1850 – The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed
territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal
control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million
of Texas's
pre-annexation debt. ·
1855 – Crimean War:
The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian
forces abandon the city. ·
1863 – American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee. ·
1892 – Amalthea, third
closest and fifth found moon of Jupiter is
discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard. ·
1914 – World War I: The
creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade,
the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army. ·
1922 –
The Greco-Turkish War effectively ends with
Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna. ·
1923 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey,
founds the Republican People's Party. ·
1924 – Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii. ·
1936 –
The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate NRP Afonso de Albuquerque and
destroyer Dão mutinied against the Salazar dictatorship's support of General Franco's
coup and declared their solidarity with the Spanish Republic. ·
1939 – World War II:
The Battle of Hel begins,
the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland. ·
1939 – Burmese national hero U Ottama dies
in prison after a hunger strike to
protest Britain's colonial government. ·
1940 – George Stibitz pioneers
the first remote operation of a computer. ·
1940 – Treznea Massacre in Transylvania. ·
1942 –
World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs 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: The Empire of Japan formally
surrenders to China. ·
1947 –
First case of a computer bug being
found: A moth lodges in
a relay of
a Harvard Mark
II computer at Harvard University. ·
1948 – Kim Il-sung declares
the establishment of
the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). ·
1954 –
The 6.7 Mw Chlef earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a
maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). At
least 1,243 people were killed and 5,000 were injured. ·
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, leaving
76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in
damages, becoming the first hurricane to cause over $1 billion in
unadjusted damage. ·
1966 –
The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is
signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. ·
1969 –
In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force,
making French equal to English throughout the Federal government. ·
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, eventually
resulting in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison. ·
1972 –
In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research
Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth
and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in
the world. ·
1990 – Batticaloa massacre: Massacre of 184 Tamil civilians by
the Sri Lankan Army in Batticaloa District. ·
1991 – Tajikistan declares
independence from the Soviet Union. ·
1993 – Israeli–Palestinian peace process: The Palestine Liberation Organization officially
recognizes Israel as a
legitimate state. ·
2001 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by
two al-Qaeda assassins
who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview. ·
2002 –
The Rafiganj train wreck happened in Bihar, India. ·
2009 –
The Dubai Metro,
the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated. ·
2012 –
The Indian space agency puts into orbit its heaviest foreign satellite yet, in a streak of
21 consecutive successful PSLV launches. ·
2012 – A wave of attacks kill more than 100 people and
injure 350 others across Iraq. ·
2015 – Elizabeth II became
the longest reigning monarch of the
United Kingdom. ·
2016 –
The government of North Korea conducts
its fifth and reportedly biggest nuclear test. World leaders condemn the
act, with South Korea calling
it "maniacal recklessness". Births
·
214 – Aurelian, Roman
emperor (d. 275) ·
384 – Honorius, Roman emperor (d. 423) ·
1349 – Albert III, Duke of Austria (d. 1395) ·
1427 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier
and politician (d. 1464) ·
1466 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shōgun (d. 1523) ·
1558 – Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur (d. 1602) ·
1585 – Cardinal Richelieu, French cardinal and politician
(d. 1642) ·
1629 – Cornelis Tromp,
Dutch general (d. 1691) ·
1700 – Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d.
1780) ·
1711 – Thomas Hutchinson, English historian and politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (d.
1780) ·
1721 – Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish admiral and
shipbuilder (d. 1808) ·
1731 – Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican priest,
historian, and scholar (d. 1787) ·
1737 – Luigi Galvani,
Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798) ·
1754 – William Bligh,
English admiral and politician, 4th Governor of New South Wales (d. 1817) ·
1755 – Benjamin Bourne,
American judge and politician (d. 1808) ·
1777 – James Carr, American soldier and politician (d.
1818) ·
1778 – Clemens Brentano,
German poet and author (d. 1842) ·
1789 – Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, Polish rabbi (d. 1866) ·
1807 – Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish-English archbishop
and philologist (d. 1886) ·
1823 – Joseph Leidy,
American paleontologist and academic (d. 1891) ·
1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian
author and playwright (d. 1910) ·
1834 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English author (d. 1903) ·
1853 – Fred Spofforth,
Australian-English cricketer and merchant (d. 1926) ·
1855 – Houston Stewart Chamberlain, English-German
philosopher and author (d. 1927) ·
1863 – Herbert Henry Ball, English-Canadian journalist and
politician (d. 1943) ·
1868 – Mary Hunter Austin, American author, poet, and
critic (d. 1934) ·
1873 – Max Reinhardt,
Austrian-born American theater and film director (d. 1943) ·
1876 – Frank Chance,
American baseball player and manager (d. 1924) ·
1877 – James Agate, English
journalist, author, and critic (d. 1947) ·
1878 – Adelaide Crapsey,
American poet and critic (d. 1914) ·
1878 – Arthur Fox, English-American fencer (d. 1958) ·
1878 – Sergio Osmeña,
Filipino lawyer and politician, 4th President of the Philippines (d. 1961) ·
1885 – Miriam Licette,
English soprano and educator (d. 1969) ·
1887 – Alf Landon, American
lieutenant, banker, and politician, 26th Governor of Kansas (d. 1987) ·
1882 – Clem McCarthy,
American sportscaster (d. 1962) ·
1890 – Colonel Sanders,
American businessman, founded KFC (d.
1980) ·
1894 – Arthur Freed,
American composer and producer (d. 1973) ·
1894 – Humphrey Mitchell, Canadian trade union leader and
politician, 14th Canadian Minister of Labour (d. 1950) ·
1894 – Bert Oldfield,
Australian cricketer and soldier (d. 1976) ·
1898 – Frankie Frisch,
American baseball player and manager (d. 1973) ·
1899 – Neil Hamilton, American stage, film and television actor
(d. 1984)[3] ·
1899 – Waite Hoyt, American
baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1984) ·
1899 – Bruno E. Jacob,
American academic, founded the National Forensic League (d. 1979) ·
1900 – James Hilton, English-American author and
screenwriter (d. 1954) ·
1903 – Lev Shankovsky,
Ukrainian military historian (d. 1995) ·
1903 – Edward Upward,
English author (d. 2009) ·
1903 – Phyllis A. Whitney, American author (d. 2008) ·
1904 – Feroze Khan, Indian-Pakistani field hockey player
and coach (d. 2005) ·
1904 – Arthur Laing,
Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Canadian Minister of Veterans Affairs (d.
1975) ·
1905 – Joseph E. Levine,
American film producer, founded Embassy Pictures (d.
1987) ·
1905 – Brahmarishi Hussain Sha, Indian philosopher and
poet (d. 1981) ·
1906 – Ali Hadi Bara,
Iranian-Turkish sculptor and educator (d. 1971) ·
1907 – Leon Edel, American
author and critic (d. 1997) ·
1908 – Cesare Pavese,
Italian poet and author (d. 1950) ·
1908 – Shigekazu Shimazaki, Japanese admiral (d. 1945) ·
1911 – Paul Goodman,
American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1972) ·
1911 – John Gorton,
Australian lieutenant and politician, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002) ·
1914 – John Passmore,
Australian philosopher and academic (d. 2004) ·
1918 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Italian lawyer and
politician, 9th President of Italy (d. 2012) ·
1919 – Gottfried Dienst,
Swiss footballer and referee (d. 1998) ·
1919 – Jimmy Snyder, American sportscaster (d. 1996) ·
1920 – Neil Chotem,
Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2008) ·
1920 – Feng Kang, Chinese
mathematician and physicist (d. 1993) ·
1920 – Robert Wood Johnson III, American businessman and
philanthropist (d. 1970) ·
1922 – Bernard Bailyn,
American historian, author, and academic (d. 2020) ·
1922 – Hoyt Curtin,
American composer and producer (d. 2000) ·
1922 – Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-American physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017) ·
1922 – Manolis Glezos,
Greek journalist and politician (d. 2020) ·
1922 – Warwick Estevam Kerr, Brazilian geneticist,
entomologist, and engineer (d. 2018) ·
1923 – Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American physician and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008) ·
1923 – Cliff Robertson,
American actor (d. 2011) ·
1924 – Jane Greer, American
actress (d. 2001) ·
1924 – Russell M. Nelson, American captain, surgeon, and
religious leader ·
1924 – Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003) ·
1926 – Louise Abeita, Isleta Pueblo (Native
American) writer, poet, and educator (d. 2014) ·
1926 – Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Egyptian theologian and author ·
1927 – Elvin Jones,
American drummer and bandleader (d. 2004) ·
1927 – Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Russian sociologist and
economist (d. 2013) ·
1928 – Moses Anderson,
American Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2013) ·
1928 – Sol LeWitt, American
painter and sculptor (d. 2007) ·
1929 – Claude Nougaro,
French singer-songwriter (d. 2004) ·
1930 – Francis Carroll,
Australian archbishop ·
1931 – Robin Hyman, English
author and publisher (d. 2017) ·
1931 – Zoltán Latinovits, Hungarian actor and author (d.
1976) ·
1931 – Ida Mae Martinez,
American wrestler (d. 2010) ·
1931 – Shirley Summerskill, English physician and
politician ·
1931 – Margaret Tyzack,
English actress (d. 2011) ·
1932 – Carm Lino Spiteri, Maltese architect and politician
(d. 2008)[4] ·
1934 – Nicholas Liverpool, Dominican lawyer and
politician, 6th President of Dominica (d. 2015) ·
1934 – Sonia Sanchez,
American poet, playwright, and activist[5] ·
1935 – Gopal Baratham,
Singaporean neurosurgeon and author (d. 2002) ·
1935 – Nadim Sawalha,
Jordanian-born English actor ·
1935 – Chaim Topol, Israeli
actor, singer, and producer ·
1936 – William Bradshaw, Baron Bradshaw, English academic
and politician ·
1938 – John Davis, English anthropologist and academic ·
1938 – Jay Ward, American baseball player, coach, and
manager (d. 2012) ·
1939 – Ron McDole, American
football player ·
1940 – Hugh Morgan, Australian businessman ·
1940 – Joe Negroni,
American doo-wop singer (d. 1978) ·
1941 – Syed Abid Ali,
Indian cricketer ·
1941 – Otis Redding,
American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1967) ·
1941 – Dennis Ritchie,
American computer scientist, created the C programming language (d. 2011) ·
1942 – Inez Foxx, American singer ·
1942 – Danny Kalb, American
singer and guitarist ·
1943 – Frank Clark, English footballer, manager and
chairman ·
1945 – Ton van Heugten,
Dutch motocross racer (d. 2008) ·
1945 – Dee Dee Sharp,
American singer ·
1945 – Doug Ingle, American
singer-songwriter and keyboard player ·
1946 – Jim Keays,
Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter (d. 2014) ·
1946 – Bruce Palmer,
Canadian folk-rock bass player (d. 2004) ·
1947 – David Rosenboom,
American composer and educator ·
1947 – Freddy Weller,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1947 – T. M. Wright,
American author, poet, and illustrator (d. 2015) ·
1949 – John Curry, English
figure skater (d. 1994) ·
1949 – Daniel Pipes,
American historian and author ·
1949 – Joe Theismann,
American football player and sportscaster ·
1949 – Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian general and
politician, 6th President of Indonesia ·
1950 – Gogi Alauddin,
Pakistani squash player
and coach ·
1950 – John McFee, American
singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1951 – Alexander Downer,
Australian economist and politician, 34th Minister of Foreign Affairs for Australia ·
1951 – Tom Wopat, American
actor and singer ·
1952 – Angela Cartwright, English-born American actress,
author, and singer[6] ·
1952 – Per Jørgensen,
Norwegian singer and trumpet player ·
1952 – David A. Stewart,
English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1953 – Janet Fielding,
Australian actress[7] ·
1955 – John Kricfalusi,
Canadian voice actor, animator, director, and screenwriter ·
1957 – Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist and educator ·
1959 – Tom Foley, American baseball player and coach ·
1959 – Éric Serra, French
composer and producer ·
1960 – Hugh Grant, English
actor and producer ·
1960 – Bob Hartley,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach ·
1960 – Bob Stoops, American
football player and coach ·
1960 – Kimberly Willis Holt, American author ·
1963 – Chris Coons,
American lawyer and politician ·
1963 – Roberto Donadoni,
Italian footballer and manager ·
1963 – Neil Fairbrother,
English cricketer ·
1964 – Aleksandar Hemon,
Bosnian-American author and critic ·
1964 – Skip Kendall,
American golfer ·
1965 – Dan Majerle,
American basketball player and coach ·
1965 – Marcel Peeper, Dutch
footballer ·
1966 – Georg Hackl, German
luger and coach ·
1966 – Kevin Hatcher,
American ice hockey player ·
1966 – Adam Sandler,
American actor, screenwriter, and producer ·
1966 – Brian Smith, Australian-Irish rugby player and
coach ·
1967 – B. J. Armstrong,
American basketball player and sportscaster ·
1967 – Chris Caffery,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1967 – Mark Shrader,
American wrestler ·
1967 – Akshay Kumar, Indian
actor and producer ·
1968 – Jon Drummond,
American sprinter and coach ·
1968 – Clive Mendonca,
English footballer ·
1968 – Julia Sawalha,
English actress ·
1969 – Rachel Hunter, New
Zealand model and actress ·
1969 – Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian politician ·
1970 – Natalia Streignard, Spanish-Venezuelan actress ·
1971 – Eric Stonestreet,
American actor ·
1971 – Henry Thomas,
American actor and guitarist ·
1972 – Mike Hampton,
American baseball player and coach ·
1972 – Natasha Kaplinsky, English journalist ·
1972 – Jakko Jan Leeuwangh, Dutch speed skater ·
1972 – Miriam Oremans,
Dutch tennis player ·
1972 – Xavi Pascual, Spanish professional basketball coach ·
1972 – Félix Rodríguez, Dominican baseball player ·
1972 – Goran Višnjić, Croatian-American actor ·
1973 – Kazuhisa Ishii,
Japanese baseball player ·
1974 – Vikram Batra, Indian
captain (d. 1999) ·
1974 – Shane Crawford,
Australian footballer and television host ·
1974 – Marcos Curiel,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1974 – Jun Kasai, Japanese
wrestler ·
1974 – Gok Wan, English
fashion stylist, author, and television host ·
1975 – Michael Bublé,
Canadian singer-songwriter and actor ·
1975 – Anton Oliver, New
Zealand rugby player ·
1976 – Emma de Caunes,
French actress ·
1976 – El Intocable,
Mexican wrestler ·
1976 – Hanno Möttölä,
Finnish basketball player ·
1976 – Joey Newman,
American composer and conductor ·
1976 – Aki Riihilahti,
Finnish footballer and coach ·
1976 – Kristoffer Rygg,
Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer ·
1977 – Kyle Snyder,
American baseball player and coach ·
1977 – Fatih Tekke, Turkish
footballer and manager ·
1978 – Kurt Ainsworth,
American baseball player and businessman, co-founded Marucci Sports ·
1978 – Shane Battier,
American basketball player and sportscaster ·
1979 – Wayne Carlisle,
Northern Irish footballer and coach ·
1979 – Nikki DeLoach,
American actress and singer ·
1980 – Todd Coffey, American
baseball player ·
1980 – Václav Drobný,
Czech footballer (d. 2012) ·
1980 – David Fa'alogo, New
Zealand rugby league player ·
1980 – Michelle Williams, American actress ·
1981 – Julie Gonzalo,
Argentine-American actress ·
1982 – John Kuhn, American
football player ·
1982 – Graham Onions,
English cricketer ·
1982 – Ai Otsuka, Japanese
singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress ·
1982 – Eugênio Rômulo Togni, Brazilian footballer ·
1983 – Vitolo, Spanish footballer ·
1983 – Kyle Davies, American baseball player ·
1983 – Edwin Jackson, American baseball player ·
1983 – Cleveland Taylor,
English footballer ·
1984 – Jaouad Akaddar,
Moroccan footballer (d. 2012) ·
1984 – Brad Guzan, American
soccer player ·
1984 – James Hildreth,
English cricketer ·
1984 – Michalis Sifakis,
Greek footballer ·
1985 – Martin Johnson, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1985 – Luka Modrić,
Croatian footballer ·
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 ·
1986 – Keith Yandle,
American hockey player ·
1987 – Markus Jürgenson, Estonian footballer ·
1987 – Alexis Palisson,
French rugby player ·
1987 – Andrea Petkovic,
German tennis player ·
1987 – Afrojack,
Dutch-Surinamese DJ, record producer, and remixer[8] ·
1988 – Danilo D'Ambrosio, Italian footballer ·
1988 – Will Middlebrooks, American baseball player ·
1989 – Alfonzo Dennard,
American football player ·
1989 – Casey Hayward,
American football player ·
1990 – Shaun Johnson, New
Zealand rugby league player ·
1990 – Haley Reinhart,
American singer-songwriter and actress ·
1990 – Andrew Smith, American basketball player (d. 2016) ·
1990 – Jordan Tabor,
English footballer (d. 2014) ·
1991 – Lauren Daigle,
American contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter[9][10] ·
1991 – Hunter Hayes,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1991 – Oscar, Brazilian footballer ·
1991 – Danilo Pereira, Bissauan-Portuguese footballer ·
1992 – Shannon Boyd,
Australian rugby league player ·
1992 – Damian McGinty,
Northern Irish actor and singer ·
1992 – Kristiāns Pelšs, Latvian ice hockey player (d.
2013) ·
1993 – Cameron Cullen,
Australian rugby league player ·
1993 – Crazy Mary Dobson, American wrestler ·
1993 – Ryōhei Katō,
Japanese gymnast ·
1993 – Sharon van Rouwendaal, Dutch swimmer ·
1994 – Clinton Gutherson, Australian rugby league player ·
1997 – Billy Bainbridge,
Australian rugby league player Deaths
·
906 – Adalbert von Babenberg, Frankish nobleman ·
1000 – Olaf I, king of
Norway ·
1031 – Gang Gam-chan,
Korean general (b. 948) ·
1087 – William the Conqueror, English king (b. 1028) ·
1191 – Conrad II, duke of Bohemia ·
1271 – Yaroslav of Tver,
Russian Grand Prince (b. 1230) ·
1282 – Ingrid of Skänninge, Swedish abbes and saint ·
1285 – Kunigunda of Halych, queen regent of Bohemia (b.
1245) ·
1398 – James I, king of Cyprus (b. 1334) ·
1435 – Robert Harling, English knight ·
1438 – Edward, king of Portugal (b. 1391) ·
1487 – Chenghua, emperor of
China (b. 1447) ·
1488 – Francis II, duke of Brittany (b. 1433) ·
1513 – James IV, king of Scotland (b. 1473) ·
1513 – George Douglas, Scottish nobleman (b. 1469) ·
1513 – William Douglas of Glenbervie, Scottish nobleman
(b. 1473) ·
1513 – William Graham, 1st Earl of Montrose, Scottish
politician (b. 1464) ·
1513 – George Hepburn, Scottish bishop ·
1513 – Adam Hepburn, 2nd Earl of Bothwell, Scottish
politician, Lord High Admiral of Scotland ·
1513 – Adam Hepburn of Craggis, Scottish nobleman ·
1513 – David Kennedy, 1st Earl of Cassilis, Scottish
soldier (b. 1478) ·
1513 – Alexander Lauder of Blyth, Scottish politician ·
1513 – Alexander Stewart, Scottish archbishop
(b. 1493) ·
1513 – Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox, Scottish
politician (b. 1488) ·
1569 – Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Dutch painter (b. 1525) ·
1583 – Humphrey Gilbert,
English explorer and politician (b. 1539) ·
1596 – Anna Jagiellon,
Polish queen (b. 1523) ·
1603 – George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English
politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (b. 1547) ·
1611 – Eleanor de' Medici, Italian nobleman (b. 1567) ·
1612 – Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese daimyō (b. 1570) ·
1676 – Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, French
soldier, founded Montreal (b.
1612) ·
1680 – Henry Marten, English lawyer and politician (b.
1602) ·
1755 – Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian and
author (b. 1694) ·
1806 – William Paterson, Irish-American judge and politician,
2nd Governor of New Jersey (b. 1745) ·
1815 – John Singleton Copley, American-English colonial
and painter (b. 1738) ·
1834 – James Weddell,
Belgian-English sailor and navigator (b. 1787) ·
1841 – Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Swiss botanist,
mycologist, and academic (b. 1778) ·
1891 – Jules Grévy, French
politician, 4th President of the French Republic (b. 1813) ·
1893 – Friedrich Traugott Kützing, German pharmacist,
botanist and phycologist (b. 1807) ·
1898 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet and critic (b. 1842) ·
1901 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and
illustrator (b. 1864) ·
1907 – Ernest Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840) ·
1909 – E. H. Harriman,
American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1848) ·
1910 – Lloyd Wheaton Bowers, American lawyer and
politician, United States Solicitor General (b. 1859) ·
1915 – Albert Spalding,
American baseball player, manager, and businessman, co-founded Spalding (b. 1850) ·
1934 – Roger Fry, English
painter and critic (b. 1866) ·
1941 – Hans Spemann, German
embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869) ·
1943 – Carlo Bergamini, Italian admiral (b. 1888) ·
1943 – Charles McLean Andrews, American historian, author,
and academic (b. 1863) ·
1945 – Max Ehrmann,
American poet and lawyer (b. 1872) ·
1950 – Victor Hémery,
French racing driver (b. 1876) ·
1955 – Carl Friedberg,
German pianist and educator (b. 1872) ·
1958 – Charlie Macartney, Australian cricketer and soldier
(b. 1886) ·
1959 – Ramón Fonst, Cuban
fencer (b. 1883)[11] ·
1960 – Jussi
Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911) ·
1969 – Willy Mairesse,
Belgian racing driver (b. 1928) ·
1975 – Johannes Brenner,
Estonian footballer (b. 1906) ·
1975 – John McGiver,
American actor (b. 1913) ·
1976 – Mao Zedong, Chinese
philosopher, academic, and politician, 1st Chairman of the Communist Party of China (b.
1893) ·
1978 – Hugh MacDiarmid,
Scottish linguist, poet, and author (b. 1892) ·
1978 – Jack L. Warner,
Canadian-American production manager and producer, co-founded Warner Bros. (b.
1892) ·
1979 – Norrie Paramor,
English composer, conductor, and producer (b. 1914) ·
1980 – John Howard Griffin, American journalist and author
(b. 1920) ·
1981 – Robert Askin,
Australian sergeant and politician, 32nd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1907) ·
1981 – Jacques Lacan,
French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist (b. 1901) ·
1985 – Neil Davis, Australian photographer and journalist
(b. 1934) ·
1985 – Paul Flory, American
chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) ·
1985 – Antonino Votto,
Italian conductor (b. 1896) ·
1986 – Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian pianist and educator
(b. 1893) ·
1990 – Nicola Abbagnano,
Italian philosopher and academic (b. 1901) ·
1990 – Samuel Doe, Liberian
field marshal and politician, 21st President of Liberia (b. 1951) ·
1990 – Alexander Men,
Russian priest and scholar (b. 1930) ·
1993 – Larry Noble, English comedian and actor (b. 1914) ·
1993 – Helen O'Connell,
American singer (b. 1920) ·
1994 – Patrick O'Neal, American actor (b. 1927) ·
1996 – Bill Monroe,
American singer-songwriter (b. 1911) ·
1997 – Richie Ashburn,
American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1927) ·
1997 – John Hackett, Australian-English general and author
(b. 1910) ·
1997 – Burgess Meredith,
American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907) ·
1998 – Lucio Battisti,
Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943) ·
1998 – Bill Cratty,
American dancer and choreographer (b. 1951) ·
1999 – Arie de Vroet, Dutch
footballer and manager (b. 1918) ·
1999 – Catfish Hunter,
American baseball player (b. 1946) ·
1999 – Ruth Roman, American
actress (b. 1922) ·
2000 – Julian Critchley,
English lawyer and politician (b. 1930) ·
2001 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan commander and
politician, Afghan Minister of Defense (b. 1953) ·
2003 – Edward Teller,
Hungarian-American physicist and academic (b. 1908) ·
2003 – Don Willesee,
Australian telegraphist and politician, 29th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (b.
1916) ·
2004 – Ernie Ball, American
guitarist and businessman (b. 1930) ·
2004 – Caitlin Clarke,
American actress (b. 1952) ·
2006 – Gérard Brach, French
director and screenwriter (b. 1927) ·
2006 – Richard Burmer,
American composer and engineer (b. 1955) ·
2006 – Matt Gadsby, English
footballer (b. 1979) ·
2006 – William Bernard Ziff Jr., American businessman,
founded Ziff Davis (b.
1930) ·
2012 – Verghese Kurien,
Indian engineer and businessman, founded Amul (b. 1921) ·
2012 – John McCarthy,
Australian footballer (b. 1989) ·
2012 – Mike Scarry,
American football player and coach (b. 1920) ·
2012 – Ron Tindall, English
footballer and manager (b. 1935) ·
2013 – Sunila Abeysekera, Sri Lankan scholar and activist
(b. 1952) ·
2013 – Alberto Bevilacqua, Italian director and
screenwriter (b. 1934) ·
2013 – Saul Landau,
American journalist, director, and author (b. 1936) ·
2014 – Montserrat Abelló i Soler, Spanish poet and
translator (b. 1918) ·
2014 – Firoza Begum, Bangladeshi singer (b. 1930) ·
2015 – Annemarie Bostroem, German poet, playwright, and
songwriter (b. 1922) ·
2015 – Einar H. Ingman Jr., American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient
(b. 1929) ·
2015 – K. Kunaratnam, Sri
Lankan physicist and academic (b. 1934) Holidays and observances
·
Christian feast day: o Charles Lowder (Church of England) o Constance, Nun, and her
Companions (Episcopal Church) o Our
Lady of Arantzazu (Oñati) o Synaxis
of Ss. Joachim and Anna, an Afterfeast. (Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches) o September 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Armored Forces Day (Ukraine) ·
California Admission Day (California, United
States) ·
Chrysanthemum Day or Kiku no Sekku (Japan) ·
Day of the Victims of Holocaust
and of Racial Violence (Slovakia) ·
Emergency Services Day (United Kingdom) ·
Independence Day or Republic Day, celebrates the
proclamation of Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North
Korea) in 1948. ·
Independence Day (Tajikistan), celebrates the
independence of Tajikistan from USSR in 1991. ·
Martyrs' Day (Afghanistan) (date may fall on
September 8, follows a non-Gregorian calendar, see List of observances set by the
Solar Hijri calendar) ·
Remembrance for Herman the Cheruscan (The Troth) |
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