September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 121 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
462 – Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle .
717 – Siege of Constantinople : The Muslim armada with 1,800 ships, is defeated by the Byzantine navy through the use of Greek fire .
1270 – King Stephen V of Hungary writes his walk to the antiquum castellum near Miholjanec , where the Sword of Attila was recently discovered.
1355 – King Tvrtko I of Bosnia writes In castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from the Old town of Visoki .
1449 – Tumu Crisis : Mongols capture the Emperor of China .
1529 – The Spanish fort of Sancti Spiritu , the first one built in modern Argentina , is destroyed by natives.
1532 – Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé , King Henry VIII of England .
1604 – Adi Granth , now known as Guru Granth Sahib , the holy scripture of Sikhs , was first installed at Harmandir Sahib .
1644 – Battle of Tippermuir : James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose defeats the Earl of Wemyss '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.
1763 – Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy 's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow
1772 – The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California .
1774 – Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm .
1804 – Juno , one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt , is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding .
1831 – The high honor of Order of St. Gregory the Great is established by Pope Gregory XVI of the Vatican State to recognize high support for the Vatican or for the Pope, by a man or a woman, and not necessarily a Roman Catholic .
1836 – Narcissa Whitman , one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains , arrives at Walla Walla, Washington .
1862 – American Civil War : Battle of Chantilly : Confederate Army troops defeat a group of retreating Union Army troops in Chantilly, Virginia .
1864 – American Civil War: The Confederate Army General John Bell Hood orders the evacuation of Atlanta , ending a four-month siege by General William Tecumseh Sherman .
1870 – Franco-Prussian War : The 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 .
1878 – Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
1880 – The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar , ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War
1894 – Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire , a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota .
1897 – The Tremont Street Subway in Boston 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.
1910 – In Brazil , Sport Club Corinthians Paulista , the first Fifa World Club Championship, is founded.
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 .
1920 – The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent .
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 and Slovakia invade Poland , beginning the European phase of World War II.
1939 – General 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).
1939 – Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people .
1951 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty .
1951 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 95 relating to Arab-Israeli conflict is adopted.
1952 – The Old Man and the Sea , the Pulitzer Prize -winning novel by Ernest Hemingway , is first published.
1958 – Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars .
1961 – The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate .
1961 – The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade .
1967 – The Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association is banned in Cambodia .
1969 – A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power.
1969 – Trần Thiện Khiêm becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu .
1970 – Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerrillas, who attack his motorcade.
1972 – In Reykjavík , Iceland , American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion .
1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h).
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 kilometres (13,000 mi).
1980 – Terry Fox 's Marathon of Hope ends near 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 – The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
1983 – Cold War : Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald .
1985 – A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic .
1991 – Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union .
1997 – The death of Diana, Princess of Wales , is announced by Buckingham Palace .
2004 – The Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in Beslan in North Ossetia , Russia.
Births
1145 – Ibn Jubayr , Spanish geographer and poet (d. 1217)
1286 – Elizabeth Richeza of Poland (d. 1335)
1453 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba , Spanish general (d. 1515)
1566 – Edward Alleyn , English actor, founded Dulwich College (d. 1626)
1588 – Henri, Prince of Condé (d. 1646)
1651 – Natalya Naryshkina , Russian wife of Alexis of Russia (d. 1694)
1653 – Johann Pachelbel , German organist, composer, and educator (d. 1706)
1689 – Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer , Bohemian architect, designed Ss. Cyril and Methodius Cathedral (d. 1751)
1711 – William IV, Prince of Orange (d. 1759)
1726 – Johann Becker , German organist, composer, and educator (d. 1803)
1795 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. , American publisher, founded the New York Herald (d. 1872)
1799 – Ferenc Gyulay , Hungarian-Austrian commander and politician (d. 1868)
1818 – José María Castro Madriz , Costa Rican lawyer and politician, 1st President of Costa Rica (d. 1892)
1848 – Auguste Forel , Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist, and psychiatrist (d. 1931)
1850 – Jim O'Rourke , American baseball player and manager (d. 1919)
1851 – John Clum , American journalist and agent (d. 1932)
1854 – Engelbert Humperdinck , German playwright and composer (d. 1921)
1855 – Innokenty Annensky , Russian poet and critic (d. 1909)
1856 – Sergei Winogradsky , Ukrainian-Russian microbiologist and ecologist (d. 1953)
1864 – Akashi Motojiro , Japanese general (d. 1919)
1866 – James J. Corbett , American boxer and actor (d. 1933)
1867 – John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton , English sailor and politician (d. 1947)
1868 – Henri Bourassa , Canadian publisher and politician (d. 1952)
1871 – J. Reuben Clark , American lawyer, civil servant, and religious leader (d. 1961)
1875 – Edgar Rice Burroughs , American soldier and author (d. 1950)
1876 – Harriet Shaw Weaver , English journalist and activist (d. 1961)
1877 – Francis William Aston , English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945)
1877 – Rex Beach , American author, playwright, and water polo player (d. 1949)
1878 – Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1942)
1878 – J. F. C. Fuller , English general and historian (d. 1966)
1878 – Tullio Serafin , Italian conductor and director (d. 1968)
1883 – Didier Pitre , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1934)
1884 – Sigurd Wallén , Swedish actor and director (d. 1947)
1886 – Othmar Schoeck , Swiss composer and conductor (d. 1957)
1886 – Shigeyasu Suzuki , Japanese general (d. 1957)
1887 – Blaise Cendrars , Swiss author and poet (d. 1961)
1888 – Andrija Štampar , Croatian physician and scholar (d. 1958)
1890 – Marika Papagika , Greek-American singer (d. 1943)
1892 – Georg Baumann , Russian-Estonian wrestler (d. 1915)
1892 – Leverett Saltonstall , American lieutenant and politician, 55th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1979)
1893 – Yasuo Kuniyoshi , Japanese-American painter and photographer (d. 1953)
1895 – Chembai , Indian singer (d. 1974)
1895 – Engelbert Zaschka , German engineer and designer, invented the Human-powered aircraft (d. 1955)
1896 – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada , Indian religious leader, founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (d. 1977)
1897 – Andy Kennedy , Irish footballer (d. 1963)
1898 – Violet Carson , English actress and singer (d. 1983)
1899 – Richard Arlen , American actor and singer (d. 1976)
1902 – Kazimierz Dąbrowski , Polish psychiatrist and psychologist (d. 1980)
1904 – George Biswell , English footballer (d. 1981)
1904 – Johnny Mack Brown , American football player and actor (d. 1974)
1905 – Elvera Sanchez , American dancer (d. 2000)
1906 – Joaquín Balaguer , Dominican lawyer and politician, 49th President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2002)
1906 – Franz Biebl , German composer and educator (d. 2001)
1906 – Eleanor Hibbert , English author (d. 1993)
1906 – Arthur Rowe , English footballer and manager (d. 1993)
1907 – Gil Puyat , Filipino businessman and politician (d. 1981)
1907 – Walter Reuther , American union leader, founded United Auto Workers (d. 1970)
1907 – Miriam Seegar , American actress (d. 2011)
1908 – Amir Elahi , Pakistani cricketer (d. 1980)
1908 – Lou Kenton , English soldier and potter (d. 2012)
1909 – E. Herbert Norman , Canadian historian and diplomat (d. 1957)
1913 – Ludwig Merwart , Austrian painter and illustrator (d. 1979)
1913 – Christian Nyby , American director and producer (d. 1993)
1916 – Dorothy Cheney , American tennis player (d. 2014)
1919 – Ossie Dawson , South African cricketer (d. 2008)
1919 – Hilda Hänchen , German physicist and academic (d. 2013)
1920 – Liz Carpenter , American journalist, author, and activist (d. 2010)
1920 – Eduardo J. Corso , Uruguayan lawyer and journalist (d. 2012)
1920 – Richard Farnsworth , American actor and stuntman (d. 2000)
1921 – Willem Frederik Hermans , Dutch author, poet, and playwright (d. 1995)
1921 – Madhav Mantri , Indian cricketer (d. 2014)
1922 – Yvonne De Carlo , Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 2007)
1922 – Vittorio Gassman , Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2000)
1923 – Rocky Marciano , American boxer and actor (d. 1969)
1923 – Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet , Canadian businessman and art collector (d. 2006)
1924 – Hal Douglas , American voice actor (d. 2014)
1925 – Arvonne Fraser , American activist
1925 – Art Pepper , American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (d. 1982)
1926 – Abdur Rahman Biswas , Bangladeshi banker and politician, 10th President of Bangladesh
1926 – Gene Colan , American illustrator (d. 2011)
1926 – Russell Jones , Australian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2012)
1927 – Soshana Afroyim , Austrian painter (d. 2015)
1927 – Wyatt Cooper , American author and screenwriter (d. 1978)
1927 – Robert Isaacson , American art dealer and scholar (d. 1998)
1928 – Emrys James , Welsh actor (d. 1989)
1928 – Clifford Lincoln , Mauritian-Canadian businessman and politician
1928 – George Maharis , American actor and singer
1929 – Kostas Paskalis , Greek actor and singer (d. 2007)
1929 – Mava Lee Thomas , American baseball player (d. 2013)
1930 – Turgut Özakman , Turkish lawyer and civil servant (d. 2013)
1930 – Dick Raaymakers , Dutch composer and theorist (d. 2013)
1930 – Charles Correa , Indian architect (d. 2015)
1931 – Abdul Haq Ansari , Indian theologian and scholar (d. 2012)
1931 – Sammy Arena , American singer (d. 2012)
1931 – Beano Cook , American journalist and sportscaster (d. 2012)
1931 – Cecil Parkinson , English accountant and politician, Secretary of State for Transport
1931 – Boxcar Willie , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)
1932 – Derog Gioura , Nauruan politician, 23rd President of Nauru (d. 2008)
1932 – Sunny von Bülow , American socialite (d. 2008)
1933 – Marshall Lytle , American bass player and songwriter (Bill Haley & His Comets and The Jodimars ) (d. 2013)
1933 – Ann Richards , American educator and politician, 45th Governor of Texas (d. 2006)
1933 – T. Thirunavukarasu , Sri Lankan politician (d. 1982)
1933 – Conway Twitty , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993)
1935 – Nicholas Garland , English cartoonist
1935 – Seiji Ozawa , Japanese conductor and director
1937 – Al Geiberger , American golfer
1937 – Allen Jones , English sculptor and painter
1937 – Ron O'Neal , American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1937 – Allen Weinstein , American historian and academic (d. 2015)
1938 – Alan Dershowitz , American lawyer and author
1938 – Per Kirkeby , Danish painter, sculptor, and poet
1939 – Lily Tomlin , American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1940 – Yaşar Büyükanıt , Turkish general
1940 – Stanislav Stepashkin , Russian boxer (d. 2013)
1941 – Graeme Langlands , Australian rugby player and coach
1942 – C. J. Cherryh , American author and educator
1943 – Don Stroud , American actor and surfer
1944 – Archie Bell , American singer-songwriter (Archie Bell & the Drells )
1944 – Leonard Slatkin , American conductor and composer
1944 – Harvey Thomas Strosberg , Canadian lawyer and academic
1945 – Mustafa Balel , Turkish author and translator
1945 – Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi , Yemeni general and politician, 2nd President of Yemen
1945 – Scott Spencer , American author and academic
1946 – Greg Errico , American drummer and producer (Sly and the Family Stone and Weather Report )
1946 – Barry Gibb , Manx-English singer-songwriter and producer (Bee Gees and The Rattlesnakes )
1946 – Roh Moo-hyun , South Korean soldier and politician, 9th President of South Korea (d. 2009)
1947 – Al Green , American lawyer and politician
1948 – James Rebhorn , American actor (d. 2014)
1948 – Alastair Redfern , English bishop
1948 – Józef Życiński , Polish archbishop and philosopher (d. 2011)
1949 – Leslie Feinberg , American activist and author (d. 2014)
1949 – Garry Maddox , American baseball player and sportscaster
1949 – Alasdair McDonnell , Irish physician and politician
1949 – P. A. Sangma , Indian lawyer and politician, 11th Speaker of the Lok Sabha
1950 – Mikhail Fradkov , Russian politician, 36th Prime Minister of Russia
1950 – Phillip Fulmer , American football player and coach
1950 – Phil McGraw , American psychologist, author, and talk show host
1951 – David Bairstow , English cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1998)
1951 – Nicu Ceaușescu , Romanian politician (d. 1996)
1952 – Phil Hendrie , American radio host and actor
1952 – Manuel Piñero , Spanish golfer
1952 – Jakub Polák , Czech activist (d. 2012)
1953 – Beau Billingslea , American actor
1953 – Don Blackman , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 2013)
1953 – Rachid Bouchareb , French director and producer
1953 – Rocco Rock , American wrestler and boxer (d. 2002)
1953 – Joseph Williams , American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Toto )
1954 – Richard Burden , English politician
1954 – Dave Lumley , Canadian ice hockey player
1955 – Billy Blanks , American martial artist and actor
1955 – Bruce Foxton , English singer-songwriter and bass player (The Jam , Stiff Little Fingers , and Casbah Club )
1956 – Vinnie Johnson , American basketball player and sportscaster
1956 – Philece Sampler , American actress
1956 – Bernie Wagenblast , American publisher, founded the Transportation Communications Newsletter
1957 – Gloria Estefan , Cuban-American singer-songwriter and actress
1957 – Duško Ivanović , Montenegrin basketball player and coach
1958 – Armi Aavikko , Finnish model and singer, Miss Finland 1977 (d. 2002)
1959 – Kenny Mayne , American football player and journalist
1959 – Joe Jusko , American illustrator and painter
1960 – Ralf Außem , German footballer and manager
1960 – Karl Mecklenburg , American football player
1960 – Michael Saward , Australian theorist and academic
1961 – Bam Bam Bigelow , American wrestler and actor (d. 2007)
1961 – Pete DeCoursey , American journalist (d. 2014)
1961 – Jeremy Farrar , British academic and educator; director of the Wellcome Trust
1961 – Christopher Ferguson , American captain, pilot, and astronaut
1961 – Boney James , American saxophonist, composer, and producer
1962 – Tony Cascarino , English footballer
1962 – Ruud Gullit , Dutch footballer and manager
1962 – Michelle Meyrink , Canadian actress
1963 – Stephen Kernahan , Australian footballer
1963 – Carola Smit , Dutch singer (BZN )
1964 – Brian Bellows , Canadian ice hockey player
1964 – Ray D'Arcy , Irish radio and television host
1964 – Holly Golightly , American author and illustrator
1964 – Nabeel Rajab , Bahraini activist
1964 – Charlie Robison , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1964 – Cécilia Rodhe , Swedish-American model and sculptor, Miss Sweden 1978
1965 – Craig McLachlan , Australian actor and singer
1965 – Tibor Simon , Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 2002)
1966 – Tim Hardaway , American basketball player and coach
1966 – Ken Levine , American video game designer, co-founded Irrational Games
1967 – David Whissell , Canadian engineer and politician
1968 – Mohamed Atta , Egyptian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 11 (d. 2001)
1969 – Henning Berg , Norwegian footballer and manager
1970 – Mitsou , Canadian singer and actress
1970 – Vanna , Croatian singer (Electro Team )
1970 – David Fairleigh , Australian rugby player, coach, and sportscaster
1970 – Hwang Jung-min , South Korean actor and singer
1970 – Padma Lakshmi , Indian-American actress and author
1971 – Deuce , Fijian-American wrestler
1971 – Lââm , French singer
1971 – Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi , Saudi Arabian footballer (d. 2013)
1971 – Ricardo Antonio Chavira , American actor
1971 – Joe Enochs , American soccer player and manager
1971 – Yoshitaka Hirota , Japanese bass player and composer
1971 – Hakan Şükür , Turkish footballer and politician
1971 – Dave Wittenberg , South African-American voice actor and screenwriter
1972 – Doug Williams , English-American wrestler and trainer
1973 – J.D. Fortune , Canadian singer-songwriter (INXS )
1973 – Ram Kapoor , Indian actor
1973 – Rieko Miura , Japanese singer and actress (Coco )
1973 – Zach Thomas , American football player
1974 – Burn Gorman , American-English actor
1974 – Jason Taylor , American football player and sportscaster
1974 – Jhonen Vasquez , American author, illustrator, voice actor, and director
1974 – Yutaka Yamamoto , Japanese director and producer, founded Ordet Animation Studio
1975 – R. Kan Albay , Flemish actor and director
1975 – Natalie Bassingthwaighte , Australian singer-songwriter and actress (Rogue Traders )
1975 – Nomy Lamm , American singer-songwriter and activist
1975 – Cuttino Mobley , American basketball player
1975 – Omar Rodríguez-López , Puerto Rican-American guitarist, songwriter, producer, and actor (The Mars Volta , At the Drive-In , Bosnian Rainbows , and De Facto )
1975 – Scott Speedman , English-Canadian actor
1976 – Babydaddy , American singer-songwriter and producer (Scissor Sisters )
1976 – Marcos Ambrose , Australian race car driver
1976 – Clare Connor , English cricketer
1976 – Jada Fire , American porn actress
1976 – Érik Morales , Mexican boxer
1976 – Sebastián Rozental , Chilean footballer
1976 – Polly Shannon , Canadian actress and screenwriter
1977 – David Albelda , Spanish footballer
1977 – Shoshana Bean , American actress and singer
1977 – Raffaele Giammaria , Italian race car driver
1977 – Arsalan Iftikhar , American lawyer and author
1977 – Aaron Schobel , American football player
1978 – Adam Yahiye Gadahn , American terrorist (d. 2015)
1978 – Max Vieri , Australian-Italian footballer
1979 – Neg Dupree , English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1979 – James O'Connor , Irish footballer and manager
1980 – Sammy Adjei , Ghanaian footballer
1980 – Lara Pulver , English actress
1980 – Chris Riggott , English footballer
1980 – Sean Stewart , American singer-songwriter and model
1981 – Michael Adamthwaite , Canadian actor
1981 – Clinton Portis , American football player
1981 – Adam Quick , Australian basketball player
1982 – Jeffrey Buttle , Canadian figure skater
1982 – Paul Dumbrell , Australian race car driver
1982 – Ryan Gomes , American basketball player
1983 – Iñaki Lejarreta , Spanish cyclist (d. 2012)
1983 – José Antonio Reyes , Spanish footballer
1983 – Jeff Woywitka , Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Yūta Hiraoka , Japanese actor
1984 – László Köteles , Hungarian footballer
1984 – Nick Noble , American football player
1984 – Rod Pelley , Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Joe Trohman , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Fall Out Boy , The Damned Things , and Arma Angelus )
1985 – Jon Avila , English-Filipino actor
1985 – Larsen Jensen , American swimmer
1985 – Camile Velasco , Filipino-American singer
1986 – Anthony Allen , English rugby player
1986 – Gaël Monfils , French tennis player
1986 – Stella Mwangi , Kenyan-Norwegian singer-songwriter
1986 – Shahar Tzuberi , Israeli windsurfer
1987 – Dann Hume , New Zealand singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer (Evermore )
1987 – Leonel Suárez , Cuban decathlete
1987 – Mats Zuccarello , Norwegian ice hockey player
1988 – Simona de Silvestro , Swiss race car driver
1988 – Gabriel Ferrari , American soccer player
1988 – Vaneza Pitynski , American actress and singer
1988 – Mushfiqur Rahim , Bangladeshi cricketer
1989 – Astrid Besser , Italian tennis player
1989 – Bill Kaulitz , German singer-songwriter and voice actor (Tokio Hotel )
1989 – Tom Kaulitz , German guitarist (Tokio Hotel )
1989 – Juliana Lohmann , Brazilian actress
1989 – Jefferson Montero , Ecuadorian footballer
1989 – Daniel Sturridge , English footballer
1990 – Aisling Loftus , English actress
1990 – Stanislav Tecl , Czech footballer
1991 – Rhys Bennett , English footballer
1992 – Cristiano Biraghi , Italian footballer
1992 – Kirani James , Grenadian sprinter
1993 – Alexander Conti , Canadian actor
1993 – Louise delos Reyes , Filipino actress
1993 – Ilona Mitrecey , French singer
1993 – Silje Norendal , Norwegian snowboarder
1994 – Bianca Ryan , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1994 – Anna Smolina , Russian tennis player
1995 – Nathan MacKinnon , Canadian ice hockey player
1996 – Zendaya , American actress, singer, and dancer
Deaths
1067 – Baldwin V, Count of Flanders (b. 1012)
1159 – Pope Adrian IV (b. 1100)
1256 – Kujō Yoritsune , Japanese shogun (b. 1218)
1414 – William de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros , English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1369)
1557 – Jacques Cartier , French navigator and explorer (b. 1491)
1581 – Guru Ram Das , Pakistani 4th of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism (b. 1534)
1600 – Tadeáš Hájek , Czech physician and astronomer (b. 1525)
1615 – Étienne Pasquier , French lawyer and jurist (b. 1529)
1648 – Marin Mersenne , French mathematician, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1588)
1678 – Jan Brueghel the Younger , Flemish painter (b. 1601)
1685 – Leoline Jenkins , Welsh lawyer, jurist, and politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (b. 1625)
1687 – Henry More , English priest and philosopher (b. 1614)
1715 – François Girardon , French sculptor (b. 1628)
1715 – Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
1818 – Robert Calder , Scottish admiral (b. 1745)
1838 – William Clark , American soldier, explorer, and politician, 4th Governor of Missouri Territory (b. 1770)
1839 – Izidor Guzmics , Hungarian theologian and educator (b. 1786)
1868 – Ferenc Gyulay , Hungarian-Austrian commander and politician (b. 1799)
1914 – Martha , the last passenger pigeon (b. 1885)
1922 – Samu Pecz , Hungarian architect and academic (b. 1854)
1930 – Peeter Põld , Estonian scientist and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1878)
1943 – Charles Atangana , Cameroonian ruler (b. 1880)
1947 – Frederick Russell Burnham , American soldier and adventurer (b. 1861)
1953 – Bernard O'Dowd , Australian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1866)
1957 – Dennis Brain , English horn player (b. 1921)
1967 – Ilse Koch , German wife of Karl-Otto Koch (b. 1906)
1967 – Siegfried Sassoon , English captain and poet (b. 1886)
1969 – Drew Pearson , American journalist and author (b. 1897)
1970 – François Mauriac , French novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
1971 – Alan Brown , English soldier (b. 1909)
1977 – Ethel Waters , American singer and actress (b. 1896)
1980 – Xavier Thaninayagam , Sri Lankan scholar and academic (b. 1913)
1981 – Ann Harding , American actress and singer (b. 1901)
1981 – Albert Speer , German architect and author (b. 1905)
1982 – Haskell Curry , American mathematician and academic (b. 1900)
1982 – Władysław Gomułka , Polish activist and politician (b. 1905)
1983 – Henry M. Jackson , American lawyer and politician (b. 1912)
1983 – Larry McDonald , American physician and politician (b. 1935)
1985 – Stefan Bellof , German race car driver (b. 1957)
1986 – Murray Hamilton , American actor (b. 1923)
1988 – Luis Walter Alvarez , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
1989 – A. Bartlett Giamatti , American businessman and academic (b. 1938)
1989 – Kazimierz Deyna , Polish footballer (b. 1947)
1989 – Tadeusz Sendzimir , Polish-American engineer (b. 1894)
1990 – Seub Nakhasathien , Thai environmentalist (b. 1949)
1990 – Edwin O. Reischauer , American scholar and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Japan (b. 1910)
1991 – Otl Aicher , German graphic designer and typographer (b. 1922)
1997 – Zoltán Czibor , Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
1998 – Józef Krupiński , Polish poet and author (b. 1930)
1998 – Cary Middlecoff , American golfer and sportscaster (b. 1921)
1998 – Osman F. Seden , Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
1999 – W. Richard Stevens , Zambian computer scientist and author (b. 1951)
2001 – Sil Austin , American saxophonist (b. 1929)
2001 – Brian Moore English sportscaster (b. 1932)
2003 – Rand Brooks , American actor and producer (b. 1918)
2003 – Terry Frost , English painter and academic (b. 1915)
2004 – Ahmed Kuftaro , Syrian religious leader, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)
2004 – Alastair Morton , South African businessman (b. 1938)
2005 – R. L. Burnside , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1926)
2005 – Thanos Leivaditis , Greek actor and screenwriter (b. 1934)
2006 – Nellie Connally , American wife of John Connally (b. 1919)
2006 – György Faludy , Hungarian author and poet (b. 1910)
2006 – Warren Mitofsky , American journalist (b. 1934)
2006 – Bob O'Connor , American businessman and politician, 57th Mayor of Pittsburgh (b. 1944)
2006 – Kyffin Williams , Welsh painter and educator (b. 1918)
2007 – Roy McKenzie , New Zealand horse racer and philanthropist (b. 1922)
2008 – Thomas J. Bata , Czech-Canadian businessman (b. 1914)
2008 – Don LaFontaine , American voice actor (b. 1940)
2008 – Jerry Reed , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1937)
2008 – Oded Schramm , Israeli-American mathematician and academic (b. 1961)
2009 – Jang Jin-young , South Korean actress (b. 1974)
2010 – Wakanohana Kanji I , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna (b. 1928)
2012 – Sean Bergin , South African saxophonist, flute player, and composer (b. 1948)
2012 – Hal David , American songwriter and composer (b. 1921)
2012 – Smarck Michel , Haitian businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1937)
2012 – William Petzäll , Swedish politician (b. 1988)
2012 – Arnaldo Putzu , Italian illustrator (b. 1927)
2013 – Zvonko Bušić , Croatian terrorist, hijacker of TWA Flight 355 (b. 1946)
2013 – Ignacio Eizaguirre , Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1920)
2013 – Tommy Morrison , American boxer and actor (b. 1969)
2013 – Gordon Steege , Australian soldier (b. 1917)
2013 – Margaret Mary Vojtko , American linguist and academic (b. 1930)
2013 – Ken Wallis , English commander and pilot (b. 1916)
2014 – Ahmed Abdi Godane , Somali militant leader (b. 1977)
2014 – Mark Gil , Filipino actor (b. 1961)
2014 – Gottfried John , German actor (b. 1942)
2014 – Rogers McKee , American baseball player (b. 1926)
2014 – Maya Rao , Indian dancer and choreographer (b. 1928)
2014 – Joseph Shivers , American chemist and academic, developed spandex (b. 1920)
2014 – Elena Varzi , Italian actress (b. 1926)
2015 – Gurgen Dalibaltayan , Armenian general (b. 1926)
2015 – Dean Jones , American actor and singer (b. 1931)
2015 – Richard G. Hewlett , American historian and author (b. 1923)
2015 – Ben Kuroki , American sergeant and pilot (b. 1917)
2015 – Antonio Nirta , Italian mob boss (b. 1919)
2015 – Will Provine , American biologist, historian, and academic (b. 1942)
Holidays and observances
Anniversary of the Start of the Armed Struggle (Eritrea )
Beginning of Amerindian Heritage Month (Guyana)
Christian feast day :
Constitution Day (Slovakia)
Disaster Prevention Day (Japan)
Earliest day on which Father's Day can fall, while September 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday in September. (Australia, Fiji , New Zealand, Papua New Guinea )
Earliest day on which Labor Day can fall, while September 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday in September. (United States, Canada, Palau )
Earliest day on which Teacher's Day can fall, while September 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Friday in September. (Singapore)
First day of school in many countries in Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Flag Day (Honduras )
Independence Day , celebrates the independence of Uzbekistan from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Journalist Day (Taiwan )
Knowledge Day (Russia and Ukraine)
Random Acts of Kindness Day (International)
Wattle Day (Australia)
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Months and days of the year
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
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