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Pre-1600

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917 __NOTOC__ Year 917 ( CMXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * August 20 – Battle of Achelous: A Byzantine expeditionary fo ...
– Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the
Southern Han Southern Han (; 917–971), officially Han (), originally Yue (), was one of the ten kingdoms that existed during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. It was located on China's southern coast, controlling modern Guangdong and Guangxi. The ...
state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu. * 1367 – Swa Saw Ke becomes king of Ava * 1590 –
Alexander Farnese Alessandro Farnese may refer to: * Pope Paul III (1468–1549), Roman Catholic Bishop of Rome *Alessandro Farnese (cardinal) (1520–1589), Paul's grandson, Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal-nephew * Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (1545–1592), ...
's army forces
Henry IV of France Henry IV (french: Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarc ...
to lift the siege of Paris.


1601–1900

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1622 Events January–May * January 7 – The Holy Roman Empire and Transylvania sign the Peace of Nikolsburg. * February 8 – King James I of England dissolves the English Parliament. * March 12 – Ignatius of Loyola, F ...
– A hurricane overruns a Spanish fleet bound from Havana to Cadiz and sinks the galleon Atocha. Only five men are rescued, but 260 passengers and 200 million pesos are buried with the Atocha under 50 feet of water. *
1661 Events January–March * January 6 – The Fifth Monarchists, led by Thomas Venner, unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London; George Monck's regiment defeats them. * January 29 – The Rokeby baronets, a British ...
– Fall of
Nicolas Fouquet Nicolas Fouquet, marquis de Belle-Île, vicomte de Melun et Vaux (27 January 1615 – 23 March 1680) was the Superintendent of Finances in France from 1653 until 1661 under King Louis XIV. He had a glittering career, and acquired enormous wealth ...
:
Louis XIV , house = Bourbon , father = Louis XIII , mother = Anne of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France , death_date = , death_place = Palace of Vers ...
's
Superintendent of Finances The Superintendent of Finances (french: Surintendant des finances) was the name of the minister in charge of finances in France from 1561 to 1661. The position was abolished in 1661 with the downfall of Nicolas Fouquet, and a new position was cr ...
is arrested in
Nantes Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...
by
D'Artagnan Charles de Batz de Castelmore (), also known as d'Artagnan and later Count d'Artagnan ( 1611 – 25 June 1673), was a French Musketeer who served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard. He died at the siege of Maastricht in the Fra ...
, captain of the king's
musketeer A musketeer (french: mousquetaire) was a type of soldier equipped with a musket. Musketeers were an important part of early modern warfare particularly in Europe as they normally comprised the majority of their infantry. The musketeer was a pre ...
s. * 1666 –
Great Fire of London The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through central London from Sunday 2 September to Thursday 6 September 1666, gutting the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall, while also extending past the ...
ends: Ten thousand buildings, including
Old St Paul's Cathedral Old St Paul's Cathedral was the cathedral of the City of London that, until the Great Fire of London, Great Fire of 1666, stood on the site of the present St Paul's Cathedral. Built from 1087 to 1314 and dedicated to Paul of Tarsus, Saint Paul, ...
, are destroyed, but only six people are known to have died. * 1697 –
War of the Grand Alliance The Nine Years' War (1688–1697), often called the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg, was a conflict between France and a European coalition which mainly included the Holy Roman Empire (led by the Habsburg monarch ...
: A French warship commanded by Captain
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (16 July 1661 – 9 July 1706) or Sieur d'Iberville was a French soldier, explorer, colonial administrator, and trader. He is noted for founding the colony of Louisiana in New France. He was born in Montreal to French ...
defeated an English squadron at the
Battle of Hudson's Bay The Battle of Hudson's Bay, also known as the Battle of York Factory, was a naval battle fought during the War of the Grand Alliance (known in England's North American colonies as "King William's War"). The battle took place on 5 September 169 ...
. * 1698 – In an effort to Westernize his nobility,
Tsar Tsar ( or ), also spelled ''czar'', ''tzar'', or ''csar'', is a title used by East Slavs, East and South Slavs, South Slavic monarchs. The term is derived from the Latin word ''Caesar (title), caesar'', which was intended to mean "emperor" i ...
Peter I of Russia Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...
imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry. * 1725 – Wedding of
Louis XV Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (french: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reache ...
and
Maria Leszczyńska Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial * 170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 * Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, ...
. * 1774 –
First First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one (#1). First or 1st may also refer to: *World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement Arts and media Music * 1$T, American rapper, singer-songwriter, DJ, and rec ...
Continental Congress The Continental Congress was a series of legislative bodies, with some executive function, for thirteen of Britain's colonies in North America, and the newly declared United States just before, during, and after the American Revolutionary War. ...
assembles in
Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...
. * 1781 –
Battle of the Chesapeake The Battle of the Chesapeake, also known as the Battle of the Virginia Capes or simply the Battle of the Capes, was a crucial naval battle in the American Revolutionary War that took place near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay on 5 September 17 ...
in the
American Revolutionary War The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of t ...
: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown. * 1791 –
Olympe de Gouges Olympe de Gouges (; born Marie Gouze; 7 May 17483 November 1793) was a French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism reached a large audience in various countries. She began her career as a playwright ...
writes the
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (french: Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne), also known as the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, was written on 14 September 1791 by French activist, femin ...
. * 1793 –
French Revolution The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are considere ...
: The
French National Convention The National Convention (french: link=no, Convention nationale) was the parliament of the Kingdom of France for one day and the French First Republic for the rest of its existence during the French Revolution, following the two-year National ...
initiates the
Reign of Terror The Reign of Terror (french: link=no, la Terreur) was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, ...
. * 1798 –
Conscription Conscription (also called the draft in the United States) is the state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service, mainly a military service. Conscription dates back to antiquity and it continues in some countries to the present day un ...
is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law. *
1812 Events January–March * January 1 – The ''Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch'' (the Austrian civil code) enters into force in the Austrian Empire. * January 19 – Peninsular War: The French-held fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo Siege of ...
–
War of 1812 The War of 1812 (18 June 1812 – 17 February 1815) was fought by the United States of America and its indigenous allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in British North America, with limited participation by Spain in Florida. It bega ...
: The
Siege of Fort Wayne The Siege of Fort Wayne took place from 5th-12th September 1812, during the War of 1812. The stand-off occurred in the modern city of Fort Wayne, Indiana, between the United States garrison at Fort Wayne and a combined force of Potawatomi a ...
begins when Chief
Winamac Winamac was the name of a number of Potawatomi leaders and warriors beginning in the late 17th century. The name derives from a man named Wilamet, a Native American from an eastern tribe who in 1681 was appointed to serve as a liaison between Ne ...
's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses. *
1816 This year was known as the ''Year Without a Summer'', because of low temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly the result of the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption in Indonesia in 1815, causing severe global cooling, catastrophic in s ...
–
Louis XVIII Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier; 17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824), known as the Desired (), was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days in 1815. He spent twenty-three years in ...
has to dissolve the
Chambre introuvable The (French for "Unobtainable Chamber") was the first Chamber of Deputies elected after the Second Bourbon Restoration in 1815. It was dominated by Ultra-royalists who completely refused to accept the results of the French Revolution. The nam ...
("Unobtainable Chamber"). *
1836 Events January–March * January 1 – Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Prince Ferdinand Augustus Francis Anthony of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. * January 5 – Davy Crockett arrives in Texas. * January 12 ** , with Charles Darwin on board, r ...
–
Sam Houston Samuel Houston (, ; March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was an American general and statesman who played an important role in the Texas Revolution. He served as the first and third president of the Republic of Texas and was one of the first two i ...
is elected as the first president of the
Republic of Texas The Republic of Texas ( es, República de Tejas) was a sovereign state in North America that existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846, that bordered Mexico, the Republic of the Rio Grande in 1840 (another breakaway republic from Mex ...
. * 1839 – The United Kingdom declares
war War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular o ...
on the
Qing dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...
of China. *
1862 Events January–March * January 1 – The United Kingdom annexes Lagos Island, in modern-day Nigeria. * January 6 – French intervention in Mexico: French, Spanish and British forces arrive in Veracruz, Mexico. * January ...
–
American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states th ...
: The
Army of Northern Virginia The Army of Northern Virginia was the primary military force of the Confederate States of America in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. It was also the primary command structure of the Department of Northern Virginia. It was most oft ...
crosses the
Potomac River The Potomac River () drains the Mid-Atlantic United States, flowing from the Potomac Highlands into Chesapeake Bay. It is long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map. Retrieved Augus ...
at
White's Ford White's Ford was an important ford over the Potomac River during the American Civil War. It was used in many major actions, including the crossing into Maryland of the Confederate army prior to the Maryland Campaign and Confederate Major Genera ...
in the Maryland Campaign. * 1877 –
American Indian Wars The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, were fought by European governments and colonists in North America, and later by the United States and Canadian governments and American and Canadian settle ...
:
Oglala Sioux The Oglala (pronounced , meaning "to scatter one's own" in Lakota language) are one of the seven subtribes of the Lakota people who, along with the Dakota, make up the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (Seven Council Fires). A majority of the Oglala live o ...
chief
Crazy Horse Crazy Horse ( lkt, Tȟašúŋke Witkó, italic=no, , ; 1840 – September 5, 1877) was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century. He took up arms against the United States federal government to fight against encroachment by wh ...
is
bayonet A bayonet (from French ) is a knife, dagger, sword, or spike-shaped weapon designed to fit on the end of the muzzle of a rifle, musket or similar firearm, allowing it to be used as a spear-like weapon.Brayley, Martin, ''Bayonets: An Illustr ...
ed by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at
Fort Robinson Fort Robinson is a former U.S. Army fort and now a major feature of Fort Robinson State Park, a public recreation and historic preservation area located west of Crawford on U.S. Route 20 in the Pine Ridge region of northwest Nebraska. The for ...
in
Nebraska Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the southwe ...
. * 1882 – The first United States
Labor Day Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the first Monday in September to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements of the United St ...
parade is held in New York City. * 1887 – A fire at the
Theatre Royal, Exeter The Theatre Royal, Exeter was the name of several Theater (structure), theatres situated in the city centre of Exeter, Devon, England in the United Kingdom. Early theatres and fires The name "Theatre Royal" was first applied in Exeter by the ...
, kills 186.


1901–present

* 1905 –
Russo-Japanese War The Russo-Japanese War ( ja, 日露戦争, Nichiro sensō, Japanese-Russian War; russian: Ру́сско-япóнская войнá, Rússko-yapónskaya voyná) was fought between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1 ...
: In
New Hampshire New Hampshire is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t ...
, United States, the
Treaty of Portsmouth A treaty is a formal, legally binding written agreement between actors in international law. It is usually made by and between sovereign states, but can include international organizations, individuals, business entities, and other legal pers ...
, mediated by U.S. President
Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Jr. ( ; October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or by his initials, T. R., was an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26t ...
, ends the war. *
1914 This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It als ...
–
World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
:
First Battle of the Marne The First Battle of the Marne was a battle of the First World War fought from 5 to 12 September 1914. It was fought in a collection of skirmishes around the Marne River Valley. It resulted in an Entente victory against the German armies in the ...
begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital. *
1915 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 ...
– The pacifist
Zimmerwald Conference The Zimmerwald Conference was held in Zimmerwald, Switzerland, from September 5 to 8, 1915. It was the first of three international socialist conferences convened by anti-militarist socialist parties from countries that were originally neutral d ...
begins. * 1932 – The
French Upper Volta Upper Volta (french: Haute-Volta) was a colony of French West Africa established in 1919 in the territory occupied by present-day Burkina Faso. It was formed from territories that had been part of the colonies of Upper Senegal and Niger and th ...
is broken apart between
Ivory Coast Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is ...
,
French Sudan French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with France ...
, and
Niger ) , official_languages = , languages_type = National languages1937 –
Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, lin ...
:
Llanes Llanes (the ''Concejo de Llanes'', ''Conceyu de Llanes'' in Asturian language) is a municipality of the province of Asturias, in northern Spain. Stretching for about 30 km along the coast at the extreme east of the province, Llanes is bound ...
falls to the
Nationalists Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: The ...
following a one-day siege. *
1938 Events January * January 1 ** The Constitution of Estonia#Third Constitution (de facto 1938–1940, de jure 1938–1992), new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the a ...
–
Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist
National Socialist Movement of Chile Movimiento Nacional Socialista de Chile was a political movement in Chile, during the Presidential Republic Era, which initially supported the ideas of Adolf Hitler, although it later moved towards a more local form of fascism. They were common ...
are executed after surrendering during a failed coup. *
1941 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Eu ...
– Whole territory of
Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
is occupied by Nazi Germany. *
1942 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Declaration by United Nations is signed by China, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 22 other nations, in wh ...
–
World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the
Pacific War The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War, was the theater of World War II that was fought in Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania. It was geographically the largest theater of the war, including the vast ...
. *
1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – ...
– World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies
Lae Nadzab Airport Lae Nadzab Airport is a regional airport located at Nadzab outside Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea along the Highlands Highway. It is served by both private and regional aircraft with domestic flights. The airport replaced the Lae Air ...
, near
Lae Lae () is the capital of Morobe Province and is the second-largest city in Papua New Guinea. It is located near the delta of the Markham River and at the start of the Highlands Highway, which is the main land transport corridor between the Highl ...
in the
Salamaua–Lae campaign The Salamaua–Lae campaign was a series of actions in the New Guinea campaign of World War II. Australian and United States forces sought to capture two major Japanese bases, one in the town of Lae, and another one at Salamaua. The campai ...
. *
1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...
– Belgium, Netherlands and
Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...
constitute
Benelux The Benelux Union ( nl, Benelux Unie; french: Union Benelux; lb, Benelux-Unioun), also known as simply Benelux, is a politico-economic union and formal international intergovernmental cooperation of three neighboring states in western Europe: B ...
. *
1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. Januar ...
–
Cold War The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because the ...
:
Igor Gouzenko Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko (russian: Игорь Сергеевич Гузенко ; January 26, 1919 – June 25, 1982) was a cipher clerk for the Soviet embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, and a lieutenant of the GRU (Main Intelligence Direc ...
, a
Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War. * 1945 –
Iva Toguri D'Aquino Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino ( ja, 戸栗郁子 アイバ; July 4, 1916 – September 26, 2006) was a Japanese-American disc jockey and radio personality who participated in English-language radio broadcasts transmitted by Radio Tokyo to Allied t ...
, a
Japanese American are Americans of Japanese ancestry. Japanese Americans were among the three largest Asian American ethnic communities during the 20th century; but, according to the 2000 census, they have declined in number to constitute the sixth largest Asi ...
suspected of being wartime radio propagandist
Tokyo Rose Tokyo Rose (alternative spelling Tokio Rose) was a name given by Allied troops in the South Pacific during World War II to all female English-speaking radio broadcasters of Japanese propaganda. The programs were broadcast in the South Pacific ...
, is arrested in
Yokohama is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of To ...
. * 1948 – In France,
Robert Schuman Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman (; 29 June 18864 September 1963) was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian Democrat (Popular Republican Movement) political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a ref ...
becomes President of the Council while being
Foreign minister A foreign affairs minister or minister of foreign affairs (less commonly minister for foreign affairs) is generally a cabinet minister in charge of a state's foreign policy and relations. The formal title of the top official varies between cou ...
; as such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II. *
1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...
–
KLM Flight 633 KLM Flight 633 was a passenger flight from Amsterdam to New York City. On 5 September 1954, immediately after takeoff from Shannon Airport, the Super Constellation Triton ditched on a mudbank in the River Shannon. 28 people were killed in the acc ...
crashes into the
River Shannon The River Shannon ( ga, Abhainn na Sionainne, ', '), at in length, is the longest river in the British Isles. It drains the Shannon River Basin, which has an area of , – approximately one fifth of the area of the island of Ireland. The Shan ...
in
Shannon, County Clare Shannon () or Shannon Town (), named after the river near which it stands, is a town in County Clare, Ireland. It was given town status on 1 January 1982. The town is located just off the N19 road, a spur of the N18/M18 road between Limeric ...
,
Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
, killing 28. *
1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...
–
Cuban Revolution The Cuban Revolution ( es, Revolución Cubana) was carried out after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état which placed Fulgencio Batista as head of state and the failed mass strike in opposition that followed. After failing to contest Batista in cou ...
:
Fulgencio Batista Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (; ; born Rubén Zaldívar, January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as the elected president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and as its U.S.-backed military dictator ...
bombs the revolt in
Cienfuegos Cienfuegos (), capital of Cienfuegos Province, is a city on the southern coast of Cuba. It is located about from Havana and has a population of 150,000. Since the late 1960s, Cienfuegos has become one of Cuba's main industrial centers, especial ...
. * 1960 – Poet
Léopold Sédar Senghor Léopold Sédar Senghor (; ; 9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who was the first president of Senegal (1960–80). Ideologically an African socialist, he was the major theoretician o ...
is the first elected President of Senegal. * 1960 –
Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali (; born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and activist. Nicknamed "The Greatest", he is regarded as one of the most significant sports figures of the 20th century, a ...
(then known as Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome. * 1969 –
Mỹ Lai Massacre The Mỹ Lai massacre (; vi, Thảm sát Mỹ Lai ) was the mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by United States troops in Sơn Tịnh District, South Vietnam, on 16 March 1968 during the Vietnam War. Between 347 and 504 unarme ...
: U.S. Army
Lieutenant A lieutenant ( , ; abbreviated Lt., Lt, LT, Lieut and similar) is a commissioned officer rank in the armed forces of many nations. The meaning of lieutenant differs in different militaries (see comparative military ranks), but it is often sub ...
William Calley William Laws Calley Jr. (born June 8, 1943) is a former American army officer and war criminal convicted by court-martial for the premeditated killings of 200 to 400 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the Mỹ Lai massacre on March 16, 1968, d ...
is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109
Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...
ese civilians in
My Lai My or MY may refer to: Arts and entertainment * My (radio station), a Malaysian radio station * Little My, a fictional character in the Moomins universe * ''My'' (album), by Edyta Górniak * ''My'' (EP), by Cho Mi-yeon Business * Mar ...
. *
1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...
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Vietnam War The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vie ...
:
Operation Jefferson Glenn Operation Jefferson Glenn ran from 5 September 1970 to 8 October 1971 and was the last major operation in which U.S. ground forces participated during the Vietnam War and the final major offensive in which the 101st Airborne Division fought. This ...
begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the
South Vietnam South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Việt Nam Cộng hòa), was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of th ...
ese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province. * 1970 –
Jochen Rindt Jochen is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Jochen Asche, East German luger, competed during the 1960s *Jochen Böhler (born 1969), German historian, specializing in the history of World War II *Jochen Babock (born 1953), East G ...
becomes the only driver to posthumously win the
Formula One Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The World Drivers' Championship, ...
World Drivers' Championship (in ), after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix. *
1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
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Munich massacre The Munich massacre was a terrorist attack carried out during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, by eight members of the Palestinian people, Palestinian militant organization Black September Organization, Black September, who i ...
: A
Palestinian terrorist Palestinian political violence refers to acts of violence perpetrated for political ends in relation to the State of Palestine or in connection with Palestinian nationalism. Common political objectives include self-determination in and soverei ...
group called " Black September" attacks and takes hostage 11
Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
i athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine are murdered the following day. *
1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
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Lynette Fromme Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme (born October 22, 1948) is an American criminal who was a member of the Manson family, a cult led by Charles Manson. Though not involved in the Tate–LaBianca murders for which the Manson family is best known, sh ...
attempts to assassinate U.S. President
Gerald Ford Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. ( ; born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. He was the only president never to have been elected ...
. * 1977 –
Voyager Program The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two robotic interstellar probes, ''Voyager 1'' and ''Voyager 2''. They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable alignment of Jupiter and Saturn, to Flyby (spacef ...
:
NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
launches the ''
Voyager 1 ''Voyager 1'' is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere. Launched 16 days after its twin ''Voyager 2'', ''Voya ...
'' spacecraft. *
1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...
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Camp David Accords The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the country retrea ...
:
Menachem Begin Menachem Begin ( ''Menaḥem Begin'' (); pl, Menachem Begin (Polish documents, 1931–1937); ''Menakhem Volfovich Begin''; 16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) was an Israeli politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. B ...
and
Anwar Sadat Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat, (25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 ...
begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland. * 1980 – The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at stretching from
Göschenen Göschenen (German, it, Casinotta, rm, Caschanuttais) a village and municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland. It sits at the northern end of the Gotthard tunnel. The Göschenen riots (1875) saw Urner troops opening fire on Italian miner ...
to Airolo. *
1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...
– The first women arrive at what becomes
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was a series of protest camps established to protest against nuclear weapons being placed at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire, England. The camp began on 5 September 1981 after a Welsh group, Women for Life on ...
in the UK. *
1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
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STS-41-D STS-41-D (formerly STS-14) was the 12th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the first mission of Space Shuttle ''Discovery''. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 30, 1984, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base, ...
: The Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' lands after its maiden voyage. * 1984 –
Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
becomes the last Australian state to abolish
capital punishment Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...
. *
1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ...
– Pan Am Flight 73 from
Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...
,
India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
with 358 people on board is
hijacked Hijacking may refer to: Common usage Computing and technology * Bluejacking, the unsolicited transmission of data via Bluetooth * Brandjacking, the unauthorized use of a company's brand * Browser hijacking * Clickjacking (including ''like ...
at
Karachi International Airport Jinnah International Airport ( ur, جناح بین الاقوامی ہوائی اڈا) , formerly Drigh Road Airport or Karachi Civil Airport, is Pakistan's busiest international and domestic airport, and handled 7,267,582 passengers in 2017 ...
. *
1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...
– Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians. *
1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...
– The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples,
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 The Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 is an International Labour Organization Convention, also known as ILO Convention 169, or C169. It is the major binding international convention concerning indigenous peoples and tribal peopl ...
, comes into force. * 1996 –
Hurricane Fran Hurricane Fran caused extensive damage in the United States in early September 1996. The sixth named storm, fifth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 1996 Atlantic hurricane season, Fran developed from a tropical wave near Cape Verde on ...
makes landfall near Cape Fear,
North Carolina North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and So ...
as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people. *
2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...
– An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in
Afyon Afyonkarahisar (, tr, afyon "poppy, opium", ''kara'' "black", ''hisar'' "fortress") is a city in western Turkey, the capital of Afyon Province. Afyon is in the mountainous countryside inland from the Aegean coast, south-west of Ankara along t ...
, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds four others. *
2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ...
– The President of Guinea,
Alpha Condé Alpha Condé (N'Ko: ; born 4 March 1938) is a Guinean politician who served as the fourth president of Guinea from 2010 to 2021. Condé spent decades in opposition to a succession of regimes in Guinea, unsuccessfully running against President La ...
is captured by armed forces during a
coup d'état A coup d'état (; French for 'stroke of state'), also known as a coup or overthrow, is a seizure and removal of a government and its powers. Typically, it is an illegal seizure of power by a political faction, politician, cult, rebel group, m ...
. *
2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; 2022 Sri Lankan protests, Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretari ...
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Liz Truss Mary Elizabeth Truss (born 26 July 1975) is a British politician who briefly served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from September to October 2022. On her fiftieth day in office, she stepped down ...
is declared the winner of the UK Conservative Party leadership election, beating
Rishi Sunak Rishi Sunak (; born 12 May 1980) is a British politician who has served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Leader of the Conservative Party since October 2022. He previously held two Cabinet of ...
*2022 – At least 93 people die and 25 are missing after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes
Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...
, China.


Births


Pre-1600

* 989 –
Fan Zhongyan Fan Zhongyan (5 September 989 – 19 June 1052) from Wu County of Suzhou ( Jiangsu Province, China), courtesy name Xiwen (), ratified as the Duke of Wenzheng () posthumously, and conferred as Duke of Chu () posthumously, was a Chinese poet, p ...
, Chinese chancellor (d. 1052) * 1187 –
Louis VIII Louis VIII (5 September 1187 – 8 November 1226), nicknamed The Lion (french: Le Lion), was King of France from 1223 to 1226. As prince, he invaded England on 21 May 1216 and was excommunicated by a papal legate on 29 May 1216. On 2 June 1216 ...
, king of France (d. 1226) *
1201 Year 1201 ( MCCI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * July 31 – John Komnenos the Fat, a Byzantine aristocrat, attempts to usurp ...
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Alix of Thouars Alix of Thouars (1200 – 21 October 1221) (in Breton Alis) ruled as Duchess of Brittany from 1203 until her death. She was also Countess of Richmond in the peerage of England. Life Alix was born in 1200. She was the daughter of Const ...
, duchess of Brittany (d. 1221) * 1319 – Peter IV, king of Aragon (d. 1387) * 1451 –
Isabel Neville Lady Isabel Neville (5 September 1451 – 22 December 1476) was the elder daughter and co-heiress of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (the ''Kingmaker'' of the Wars of the Roses), and Anne de Beauchamp, suo jure 16th Countess of Warwick ...
, daughter of Richard Neville (d. 1476) *
1500 Year 1500 (Roman numerals, MD) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. The year 1500 was not a leap year in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar. The year was seen as being especially important by many Christians in Europe, ...
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Maria of Jever Maria of Jever, known in Jeverland as ''Fräulein Maria'', (5 September 1500 – 20 February 1575) was the last ruler of the Lordship of Jever from the Wiemken family. She ruled from 1517 to her death. Early life Maria was the third child of t ...
, ruler of the Lordship of Jever (d. 1575) *
1533 __NOTOC__ Year 1533 ( MDXXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January 25 – King Henry VIII of England formally but secretly marries ...
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Jacopo Zabarella Giacomo (or Jacopo) Zabarella (5 September 1533 – 15 October 1589) was an Italian Aristotelian philosopher and logician. Life Zabarella was born into a noble Paduan family. He received a humanist education and entered the University of Padua ...
, Italian philosopher and logician (d. 1589) * 1540 –
Magnus of Holstein Magnus of Denmark or Magnus of Holstein ( – ) was a Prince of Denmark, Duke of Holstein, and a member of the House of Oldenburg. As a vassal of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, he was the titular King of Livonia from 1570 to 1578. Early life Duke Magnu ...
, prince of Denmark (d. 1583) * 1567 – Date Masamune, Japanese daimyō (d. 1636) *
1568 Year 1568 ( MDLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January 6– 13 – In the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom, the delegates of Unio Tr ...
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Tommaso Campanella Tommaso Campanella (; 5 September 1568 – 21 May 1639), baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet. He was prosecuted by the Roman Inquisition for heresy in 1594 and w ...
, Italian poet, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1639)


1601–1900

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1638 Events January–March * January 4 – **A naval battle takes place in the Indian Ocean off of the coast of Goa at South India as a Netherlands fleet commanded by Admiral Adam Westerwolt decimates the Portuguese fleet. **A fleet of 80 ...
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Louis XIV , house = Bourbon , father = Louis XIII , mother = Anne of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France , death_date = , death_place = Palace of Vers ...
, king of France (d. 1715) * 1641 –
Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, (5 September 164128 September 1702) was an English nobleman and politician of the Spencer family. An able and gifted statesman, his caustic temper and belief in absolute monarchy nevertheless made him nu ...
, English diplomat (d. 1702) * 1642 – Maria of Orange-Nassau, Dutch princess (d. 1688) * 1651 –
William Dampier William Dampier (baptised 5 September 1651; died March 1715) was an English explorer, pirate, privateer, navigator, and naturalist who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnav ...
, English explorer (d. 1715) * 1666 –
Gottfried Arnold Gottfried Arnold (5 September 1666 – 30 May 1714) was a German Lutheran theologian and historian. Biography Arnold was born at Annaberg in Saxony, Germany, where his father was schoolmaster. In 1682, he went to the Gymnasium at Gera and ...
, German historian and theologian (d. 1714) * 1667 –
Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri (; 5 September 1667 – 25 October 1733) was an Italian Jesuit priest, scholastic philosopher, and mathematician. Saccheri was born in Sanremo. He entered the Jesuit order in 1685 and was ordained as a priest in 1694 ...
, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1733) * 1694 – František Václav Míča, Czech conductor and composer (d. 1744) * 1695 –
Carl Gustaf Tessin Count Carl Gustaf Tessin (5 September 1695 – 7 January 1770) was a Swedish Count and politician and son of architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger and Hedvig Eleonora Stenbock. He was one of the most brilliant personages of his day, and the mo ...
, Swedish politician and diplomat (d. 1770) * 1722 – Frederick Christian, Prince-Elector of Saxony (d. 1763) * 1725 –
Jean-Étienne Montucla Jean-Étienne Montucla (5 September 1725 – 18 December 1799) was a French mathematician and historian. Montucla was born at Lyon, France. In 1754 he published an anonymous treatise on quadrature, ''Histoire des recherches sur la quadrature d ...
, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1799) * 1735 –
Johann Christian Bach Johann Christian Bach (September 5, 1735 – January 1, 1782) was a German composer of the Classical period (music), Classical era, the eighteenth child of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the youngest of his eleven sons. After living in Italy for ...
, German-English
viol The viol (), viola da gamba (), or informally gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted, and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitc ...
player and composer (d. 1782) *
1750 Various sources, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, use the year 1750 as a baseline year for the end of the pre-industrial era. Events January–March * January 13 – The Treaty of Madrid between Spain ...
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Robert Fergusson Robert Fergusson (5 September 1750 – 16 October 1774) was a Scottish poet. After formal education at the University of St Andrews, Fergusson led a bohemian life in Edinburgh, the city of his birth, then at the height of intellectual and c ...
, Scottish poet and author (d. 1774) * 1769 –
John Shortland John Shortland (5 September 1769 – 21 January 1810) was an officer of the Royal Navy, the eldest son of John Shortland.1771 –
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen Archduke Charles Louis John Joseph Laurentius of Austria, Duke of Teschen (german: link=no, Erzherzog Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz von Österreich, Herzog von Teschen; 5 September 177130 April 1847) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third s ...
(d. 1847) * 1772 –
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar Fath-Ali Shah Qajar ( fa, فتحعلى‌شاه قاجار, Fatḥ-ʻAli Šâh Qâjâr; May 1769 – 24 October 1834) was the second Shah (king) of Qajar Iran. He reigned from 17 June 1797 until his death on 24 October 1834. His reign saw the irr ...
, Iranian king (d. 1834) * 1774 –
Caspar David Friedrich Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscape ...
, German painter and etcher (d. 1840) *
1775 Events Summary The American Revolutionary War began this year, with the first military engagement being the April 19 Battles of Lexington and Concord on the day after Paul Revere's now-legendary ride. The Second Continental Congress t ...
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Juan Martín Díez Juan Martín Díez, nicknamed El Empecinado ( es, the Undaunted), (5 September 1775 – 20 August 1825) was a Spanish military leader and guerrilla fighter, who fought in the Peninsular War. On October 8, 1808, the privilege of using the name ...
, Spanish general (d. 1825) * 1781 –
Anton Diabelli Anton (or Antonio) Diabelli (5 September 17818 April 1858) was an Austrian music publisher, editor and composer. Best known in his time as a publisher, he is most familiar today as the composer of the waltz on which Ludwig van Beethoven wrote ...
, Austrian composer and publisher (d. 1858) * 1787 –
François Sulpice Beudant François Sulpice Beudant (5 September 1787 – 10 December 1850), was a French mineralogist and geologist. The mineral beudantite was named after him. Life He was born in Paris. He was educated at the Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Normale, an ...
, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850) * 1791 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German pianist and composer (d. 1864) * 1792 –
Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy (5 September 1792 – 20 March 1857) was a French geologist and mineralogist. Life He was born at Sevran, in the ''département'' of Seine-et-Oise. After leaving the Imperial Lyceum in 1811, he studied until 1 ...
, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857) * 1806 –
Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière Christophe may refer to: People * Christophe (given name), list of people with this name * Christophe (singer) (1945–2020), French singer * Cristophe (hairstylist) (born 1958), Belgian hairstylist * Georges Colomb (1856–1945), French comic ...
, French general and politician, French Minister of War (d. 1865) * 1817 –
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (russian: Граф Алексе́й Константи́нович Толсто́й; – ), often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy, was a Russian poet, novelist, and playwright. He is considered to be the most ...
, Russian poet, author, and playwright (d. 1875) * 1818 –
Edmund Kennedy Edmund Besley Court Kennedy J. P. (5 September 1818 – December 1848) was an explorer in Australia in the mid nineteenth century. He was the Assistant-Surveyor of New South Wales, working with Sir Thomas Mitchell. Kennedy explored the interio ...
, Australian explorer and surveyor (d. 1848) * 1826 –
John Wisden John Wisden (5 September 1826 – 5 April 1884) was an English cricketer who played 187 first-class cricket matches for three English county cricket teams, Kent, Middlesex and Sussex. His father, William, was a builder. He attended Brighton's ...
, English cricketer and businessman (d. 1884) *
1827 Events January–March * January 5 – The first regatta in Australia is held, taking place on Tasmania (called at the time ''Van Diemen's Land''), on the River Derwent at Hobart. * January 15 – Furman University, founded in 1826, b ...
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Goffredo Mameli Goffredo Mameli (; 5 September 1827 – 6 July 1849) was an Italian patriot, poet, writer and a notable figure in the Risorgimento. He is also the author of the lyrics of "Il Canto degli Italiani", the national anthem of Italy. Biography The so ...
, Italian poet and songwriter (d. 1849) * 1829 –
Lester Allan Pelton Lester Allan Pelton (September 5, 1829 – March 14, 1908) was an American inventor who contributed significantly to the development of hydroelectricity and hydropower in the American Old West as well as world-wide. In the late 1870s, he invented ...
, American inventor (d. 1908) * 1831 –
Victorien Sardou Victorien Sardou ( , ; 5 September 18318 November 1908) was a French dramatist. He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugène Scribe, of the well-made play. He also wrote several plays that were made into popular 19th-centur ...
, French author and playwright (d. 1908) *
1833 Events January–March * January 3 – Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (1833), Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. * February 6 – His Royal Highness Prince Otto ...
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George Huntington Hartford George Huntington Hartford (September 5, 1833 – August 29, 1917) headed the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) from 1878 to 1917. During this period, A&P created the concept of the chain grocery store and expanded into the country's ...
, American businessman (d. 1917) *
1836 Events January–March * January 1 – Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Prince Ferdinand Augustus Francis Anthony of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. * January 5 – Davy Crockett arrives in Texas. * January 12 ** , with Charles Darwin on board, r ...
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Justiniano Borgoño Justiniano Borgoño Castañeda (September 5, 1836 – January 27, 1921) was a Peruvian soldier and politician who briefly served as Interim Caretaker of Peru, officially as the President of the Government Junta, during 1894. Borgoño was bor ...
, Peruvian soldier and politician, 57th
President of Peru The president of Peru ( es, link=no, presidente del Perú), officially called the president of the Republic of Peru ( es, link=no, presidente de la República del Perú), is the head of state and head of government of Peru. The president is th ...
(d. 1921) * 1847 –
Jesse James Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla and leader of the James–Younger Gang. Raised in the " Little Dixie" area of Western Missouri, James and his family maintained stro ...
, American outlaw (d. 1882) * 1850 –
Eugen Goldstein Eugen Goldstein (; 5 September 1850 – 25 December 1930) was a German physicist. He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, the discoverer of anode rays or canal rays, later identified as positive ions in the gas phase including the h ...
, German physicist (d. 1930) * 1856 –
Thomas E. Watson Thomas Edward Watson (September 5, 1856 – September 26, 1922) was an American politician, attorney, newspaper editor and writer from Georgia. In the 1890s Watson championed poor farmers as a leader of the Populist Party, articulating an a ...
, American lawyer, publisher, and politician (d. 1922) * 1867 –
Amy Beach Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867December 27, 1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Her "Gaelic" Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in ...
, American pianist and composer (d. 1944) * 1871 –
Friedrich Akel Friedrich Karl Akel ( in Kaubi Manor, Kaubi Parish (now in Pornuse village, Mulgi Parish) – 3 July 1941 in Tallinn) was an Estonian diplomat and politician, a member of the International Olympic Committee, and Head of State of Estonia ...
, Estonian physician and politician,
Head of State of Estonia The Head of State of Estonia or State Elder ( et, riigivanem) was the official title of the Estonian head of state from 1920 to 1937. He combined some of the functions held by a president and prime minister in most other democracies. According t ...
(d 1941) *
1872 Events January–March * January 12 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years. * February 2 – The government of the United Kingdom buys a number of forts on ...
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V. O. Chidambaram Pillai ''V.'' is the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published in 1963. It describes the exploits of a discharged U.S. Navy sailor named Benny Profane, his reconnection in New York with a group of pseudo-bohemian artists and hangers-on known as the Who ...
, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1936) *
1872 Events January–March * January 12 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years. * February 2 – The government of the United Kingdom buys a number of forts on ...
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Horace Rice Horace Rice (5 September 1872 – 18 January 1950) was an Australian tennis player. The left-handed Rice, who played in knickerbockers and long black socks, won the Men's Singles title at the 1907 Australasian Championships, beating Harry ...
, Australian tennis player (d. 1950) * 1873 –
Cornelius Vanderbilt III Brigadier General Cornelius "Neily" Vanderbilt III (September 5, 1873 – March 1, 1942) was an American military officer, inventor, engineer, and yachtsman. He was a member of the Vanderbilt family. Early life Born in New York City to Cornelius ...
, American general and engineer (d. 1942) * 1874 –
Nap Lajoie Napoléon "Nap" Lajoie (; September 5, 1874 – February 7, 1959), also known as Larry Lajoie and nicknamed "The Frenchman", was an American professional baseball second baseman and player-manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for t ...
, American baseball player and manager (d. 1959) *
1876 Events January–March * January 1 ** The Reichsbank opens in Berlin. ** The Bass Brewery Red Triangle becomes the world's first registered trademark symbol. * February 2 – The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs i ...
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Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb Wilhelm Josef Franz Ritter von Leeb (5 September 1876 – 29 April 1956) was a German field marshal and war criminal in World War II. Leeb was a highly decorated officer in World War I and was awarded the Military Order of Max Joseph which gr ...
, German field marshal (d. 1956) * 1880 –
José María of Manila José María of Manila ( es, José María de Manila : 5 September 1880 – 17 August 1936) was a Filipino-born Spanish Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. He was martyred in the early phase of the Spanish Civil War ...
, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr (d. 1936) * 1881 –
Otto Bauer Otto Bauer (5 September 1881 – 4 July 1938) was one of the founders and leading thinkers of the left-socialist Austromarxists who sought a middle ground between social democracy and revolutionary socialism. He was a member of the Austrian Parl ...
, Austrian philosopher and politician,
Foreign Minister of Austria This article lists the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Austria, from 30 October 1918 up to today. During the time of the ''Anschluss'' to Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945, Austria had no government in its own right. The current Austrian Foreign Mini ...
(d. 1938) * 1881 –
Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, (5 September 1881 – 31 December 1964), also known as Jumbo Wilson, was a senior British Army officer of the 20th century. He saw active service in the Second Boer War and then during the ...
, English field marshal (d. 1964) *
1883 Events January–March * January 4 – ''Life'' magazine is founded in Los Angeles, California, United States. * January 10 – A fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, kills 73 people. * Ja ...
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Otto Erich Deutsch Otto Erich Deutsch (5 September 1883 – 23 November 1967) was an Austrian musicologist. He is known for compiling the first comprehensive catalogue of Franz Schubert's compositions, first published in 1951 in English, with a revised edition pub ...
, Austrian musicologist and scholar (d. 1967) * 1888 –
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (; 5 September 1888 – 17 April 1975), natively Radhakrishnayya, was an Indian philosopher and statesman. He served as the 2nd President of India from 1962 to 1967. He also 1st Vice President of India from 1952 ...
, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd
President of India The president of India ( IAST: ) is the head of state of the Republic of India. The president is the nominal head of the executive, the first citizen of the country, as well as the commander-in-chief of the Indian Armed Forces. Droupadi Murmu ...
(d. 1975) *
1892 Events January–March * January 1 – Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States. * February 1 - The historic Enterprise Bar and Grill was established in Rico, Colorado. * February 27 – Rudolf Diesel applies for ...
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Joseph Szigeti Joseph Szigeti ( hu">Szigeti József, ; 5 September 189219 February 1973) was a Hungarian violinist. Born into a musical family, he spent his early childhood in a small town in Transylvania. He quickly proved himself to be a child prodigy on ...
, Hungarian violinist and educator (d. 1973) * 1897 –
Morris Carnovsky Morris Carnovsky (September 5, 1897 – September 1, 1992) was an American stage and film actor. He was one of the founders of the Group Theatre (1931-1940) in New York City and had a thriving acting career both on Broadway and in films un ...
, American actor (d. 1992) * 1897 – Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst, founded ACNielsen (d. 1980) *1899 – Humphrey Cobb, American author and screenwriter (d. 1944) * 1899 – Helen Creighton, Canadian author and educator (d. 1989)


1901–present

*1901 – Florence Eldridge, American actress (d. 1988) * 1901 – Mario Scelba, Italian politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1991) *1902 – Jean Dalrymple, American playwright, producer, manager, and publicist (d. 1998) * 1902 – Darryl F. Zanuck, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1979) *1904 – Vera Bradford, Australian pianist and educator (d. 2004) * 1905 – Maurice Challe, French general (d. 1979) * 1905 – Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-English journalist and author (d. 1983) * 1905 – Justiniano Montano, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 2005) *1906 – Ralston Crawford, American painter, lithographer, and photographer (d. 1978) * 1906 – Sunnyland Slim, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1995) *1908 – Josué de Castro, Brazilian physician, geographer, and activist (d. 1973) * 1908 – Joaquín Nin-Culmell, German-American pianist and composer (d. 2004) * 1908 – Cecilia Seghizzi, Italian composer and painter (d. 2019) *1909 – Hans Carste, German pianist and conductor (d. 1971) * 1909 – Bernard Delfont, Russian-English talent manager (d. 1994) * 1909 – Archie Jackson, Scottish-Australian cricketer (d. 1933) *1910 – Leila Mackinlay, English author (d. 1996) * 1910 – Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer (d. 1981) *1912 – John Cage, American composer and theorist (d. 1992) * 1912 – Kristina Söderbaum, Swedish-German actress and photographer (d. 2001) * 1912 – Frank Thomas (animator), Frank Thomas, American voice actor, animator, and screenwriter (d. 2004) *
1914 This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It als ...
– Stuart Freeborn, English make up artist (d. 2013) * 1914 – Gail Kubik, American violinist, composer, and educator (d. 1984) * 1914 – Nicanor Parra, Chilean physicist, mathematician, and poet (d. 2018) *1916 – Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2002) * 1916 – Frank Yerby, American novelist (d. 1991) *1917 – Pedro E. Guerrero, American photographer (d. 2012) * 1917 – Sören Nordin, Swedish Harness racing, harness racer and trainer (d. 2008) *1918 – Luis Alcoriza, Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1992) * 1918 – Bob Katter, Sr., Australian captain and politician (d. 1990) * 1918 – Fred McCarthy (cartoonist), Fred McCarthy, American cartoonist and monk (d. 2009) *1919 – Elisabeth Volkenrath, German SS officer (d. 1945) *1920 – Peter Racine Fricker, English-American composer and educator (d. 1990) * 1920 – Fons Rademakers, Dutch-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2007) *1921 – Murray Henderson (ice hockey), Murray Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2013) * 1921 – Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the Motion Picture Association of America film rating system, MPAA film rating system (d. 2007) *1922 – Denys Wilkinson, English physicist and academic (d. 2016) *1923 – David Hamer, Australian captain and politician (d. 2002) * 1923 – Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer (d. 2004) *1924 – Paul Dietzel, American football player and coach (d. 2013) * 1924 – Frank Armitage, Australian-American artist (d. 2016) *1925 – Justin Kaplan, American author (d. 2014) *1927 – Paul Volcker, American economist and academic (d. 2019) *1928 – Joyce Hatto, English pianist and educator (d. 2006) * 1928 – Albert Mangelsdorff, German trombonist and educator (d. 2005) *1929 – Bob Newhart, American comedian and actor * 1929 – Andriyan Nikolayev, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2004) * 1932 – Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer * 1932 – Robert H. Dennard, American electrical engineer and inventor *1933 – Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Chilean cardinal *1934 – Paul Josef Cordes, German cardinal * 1934 – Dennis Letts, American actor and educator (d. 2008) * 1934 – Kevin McNamara (politician), Kevin McNamara, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (d. 2017) *1935 – Werner Erhard, American author and philanthropist, founded Werner Erhard and Associates and The Hunger Project * 1935 – Helen Gifford, Australian composer and educator *1936 – Robert Burns (Quebec politician), Robert Burns, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2014) * 1936 – John Danforth, American politician and diplomat, 24th United States Ambassador to the United Nations * 1936 – Jonathan Kozol, American sociologist, author, and educator * 1936 – Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player and coach * 1936 – Knuts Skujenieks, Latvian poet, journalist, and translator * 1937 – Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 2018) * 1937 – Dick Clement, English director, producer, and screenwriter *
1938 Events January * January 1 ** The Constitution of Estonia#Third Constitution (de facto 1938–1940, de jure 1938–1992), new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the a ...
– John Ferguson, Sr., Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2007) * 1938 – Doreen Massey, Baroness Massey of Darwen, English politician *1939 – Claudette Colvin, American nurse and activist * 1939 – William Devane, American actor, director, and screenwriter * 1939 – George Lazenby, Australian actor * 1939 – John Stewart (musician), John Stewart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008) * 1939 – George Tremlett, English journalist, author, and politician *1940 – Valerie Howarth, Baroness Howarth of Breckland, English politician * 1940 – Raquel Welch, American actress and singer *
1941 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Eu ...
– Dave Dryden, Canadian ice hockey player and coach *
1942 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Declaration by United Nations is signed by China, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 22 other nations, in wh ...
– Werner Herzog, German actor, director, producer, and screenwriter * 1942 – Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (d. 1995) *
1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – ...
– Dulce Saguisag, Filipino social worker and politician, 10th Secretary of Social Welfare and Development (Philippines), Filipino Secretary of Social Welfare and Development (d. 2007) *
1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...
– Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, author, and playwright (d. 1996) * 1944 – Gareth Evans (politician), Gareth Evans, Australian lawyer and politician, 33rd Minister for Foreign Affairs (Australia), Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs *
1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. Januar ...
– Eva Bergman, Swedish director and screenwriter * 1945 – Al Stewart, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist *1946 – Kyongae Chang, South Korean astrophysicist and academic * 1946 – Dennis Dugan, American actor and director * 1946 – Dean Ford, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Marmalade (band), Marmalade) (d. 2018) * 1946 – Freddie Mercury, Zanzibari-English singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1991) * 1946 – Loudon Wainwright III, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor *1947 – Mel Collins, Manx saxophonist and flute player * 1947 – Chip Davis, American pianist, songwriter, and producer * 1947 – Buddy Miles, American singer-songwriter and drummer (d. 2008) * 1947 – Bruce Yardley, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2019) * 1948 – Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian lawyer, politician, and diplomat,
Foreign Minister of Austria This article lists the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Austria, from 30 October 1918 up to today. During the time of the ''Anschluss'' to Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945, Austria had no government in its own right. The current Austrian Foreign Mini ...
*1949 – Clem Clempson, English guitarist and songwriter *1950 – Rosie Cooper, English businesswoman and politician * 1950 – Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist, created ''Cathy'' *1951 – Paul Breitner, German footballer * 1951 – Michael Keaton, American actor and producer * 1951 – Jamie Oldaker, American drummer and percussionist (d. 2020) *1952 – David Glen Eisley, American rock singer-songwriter and actor *1953 – Victor Davis Hanson, American historian and journalist * 1953 – Murray Mexted, New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster * 1953 – Eiki Nestor, Estonian engineer and politician, Minister of Social Affairs (Estonia), Estonian Minister of Social Affairs * 1953 – Paul Piché, Canadian singer-songwriter *
1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...
– Richard Austin (cricketer), Richard Austin, Jamaican footballer and cricketer (d. 2015) * 1954 – Frederick Kempe, American journalist and author *1956 – Low Thia Khiang, Singaporean businessman and politician * 1956 – Roine Stolt, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer *
1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...
– Rudi Gores, German footballer and manager * 1957 – Peter Winnen, Dutch cyclist *1958 – Lars Danielsson, Swedish bassist, composer, and producer *1959 – Frank Schirrmacher, German journalist and publisher (d. 2014) * 1960 – Don Kulick, Swedish anthropologist and academic *1961 – Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian pianist and composer *1962 – Tracy Edwards, English sailor and coach * 1962 – John McGrath (artistic director), John McGrath, Welsh businessman *1963 – Juan Alderete, American bass player and songwriter * 1963 – Jeff Brantley, American baseball player and sportscaster * 1963 – Terry Ellis, American R&B singer–songwriter and actress * 1963 – Taki Inoue, Japanese race car driver and manager *1964 – Frank Farina, Australian footballer and manager * 1964 – Sergei Loznitsa, Belarusian-Ukrainian director and screenwriter * 1964 – Ken Norman, American basketball player * 1964 – Thomas Mikal Ford, American actor (d. 2016) *1965 – David Brabham, Australian race car driver * 1965 – Hoshitango Imachi, Japanese wrestler * 1965 – Nick Talbot, English geneticist and academic *1966 – Achero Mañas, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter * 1966 – Milinko Pantić, Serbian footballer and manager *1967 – Matthias Sammer, German footballer and manager * 1967 – Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player *1968 – Serhiy Kovalets, Ukrainian footballer and manager * 1968 – Dennis Scott (basketball), Dennis Scott, American basketball player and sportscaster * 1968 – Robin van der Laan, Dutch footballer and coach * 1968 – Brad Wilk, American singer-songwriter and drummer * 1969 – Leonardo Araújo, Brazilian footballer and manager * 1969 – Mariko Kouda, Japanese voice actress, singer, and radio host * 1969 – Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer and coach * 1969 – Dweezil Zappa, American actor and musician *
1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...
– Liam Lynch (musician), Liam Lynch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, puppeteer, and director * 1970 – Mohammad Rafique (cricketer), Mohammad Rafique, Bangladeshi cricketer * 1970 – Gilbert Remulla, Filipino journalist and politician * 1970 – Johnny Vegas, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter *1971 – Adam Hollioake, Australian cricketer and mixed martial artist *
1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
– Shane Sewell, Canadian-American wrestler and referee * 1972 – Guy Whittall, Zimbabwean cricketer *1973 – Paddy Considine, English actor, director, and screenwriter * 1973 – Rose McGowan, American actress *1974 – Lauren Jeska, British transgender fell runner convicted of the attempted murder of Ralph Knibbs * 1974 – Rawl Lewis, Grenadian cricketer * 1974 – Ken-Marti Vaher, Estonian politician, Minister of the Interior (Estonia), Estonian Minister of the Interior *
1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
– Rod Barajas, American baseball player and manager * 1975 – George Boateng, Dutch footballer and manager * 1975 – Randy Choate, American baseball player * 1975 – Matt Geyer, Australian rugby league player and coach *1976 – Tatiana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast * 1977 – Rosevelt Colvin, American football player and sportscaster * 1977 – Joseba Etxeberria, Spanish footballer * 1977 – Minoru Fujita, Japanese wrestler * 1977 – Nazr Mohammed, American basketball player *
1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...
– Laura Bertram, Canadian actress * 1978 – Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby player * 1978 – Sylvester Joseph, Antiguan cricketer * 1978 – Zhang Zhong, Chinese chess player *1979 – John Carew, Norwegian footballer * 1979 – Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster * 1979 – Julien Lizeroux, French skier * 1979 – Salvatore Mastronunzio, Italian footballer * 1979 – George O'Callaghan, Irish footballer * 1980 – Franco Costanzo, Argentinian footballer * 1980 – Kevin Simm, British singer *
1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...
– Daniel Moreno, Spanish cyclist * 1981 – Kai Rüütel, Estonian opera singer * 1981 – Filippo Volandri, Italian tennis player *1982 – Alexandre Geijo, Spanish-Swiss footballer *1983 – Eugen Bopp, Ukrainian-German footballer * 1983 – Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer * 1983 – Lincoln Riley, American football coach * 1983 – Antony Sweeney, English footballer *
1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
– Alison Bell (field hockey), Alison Bell, Scottish field hockey player * 1984 – Chris Anker Sørensen, Danish cyclist (d. 2021) *1985 – Justin Dentmon, American basketball player * 1985 – Ryan Guy, American soccer player *
1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ...
– Colt McCoy, American football player * 1986 – Pragyan Ojha, Indian cricketer *1988 – Denni Avdić, Swedish footballer * 1988 – Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorian footballer *1989 – Elena Delle Donne, American basketball player * 1989 – José Ángel Valdés, Spanish footballer * 1989 – Ben Youngs, English rugby player *
1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...
– Antonio Esposito (footballer born 1990), Antonio Esposito, Italian footballer * 1990 – Francesca Segarelli, Dominican tennis player * 1990 – Lance Stephenson, American basketball player * 1990 – Yuna Kim, South Korean figure skater * 1990 – Franco Zuculini, Argentinian footballer *
1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...
– Zeki Yavru, Turkish footballer *1994 – Gregorio Paltrinieri, Italian swimmer *1995 – Szabina Szlavikovics, Hungarian tennis player * 1996 – Richairo Zivkovic, Dutch footballer * 1996 – Sigrid (singer), Sigrid, Norwegian singer *1997 – Kyōko Saitō, Japanese idol *1998 – Caroline Dolehide, American tennis player *2001 – Bukayo Saka, English footballer


Deaths


Pre-1600

* 590 – Authari, Lombard king (b. 540) * 714 – Emperor Shang of Tang, Shang, emperor of the Tang Dynasty *1165 – Emperor Nijō, Nijō, emperor of Japan (b. 1143) *1235 – Henry I, Duke of Brabant, Henry I, duke of Brabant (b. 1165) *1311 – Amadeus Aba, Hungarian oligarch *1336 – Charles d'Évreux, count of Étampes (b. 1305) *1526 – Alonso de Salazar, Spanish explorer *1548 – Catherine Parr, Sixth and last Queen of Henry VIII of England (b. c. 1512) *1562 – Katharina Zell, German Protestant reformer (b. 1497) *1569 – Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London (b. c. 1500)


1601–1900

*1607 – Pomponne de Bellièvre, French politician, Chancellor of France (b. 1529) *1629 – Domenico Allegri, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1585) *1734 – Nicolas Bernier, French composer (b. 1664) *1786 – Jonas Hanway, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1712) *1803 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (b. 1741) *1803 – François Devienne, French flute player and composer (b. 1759) *
1836 Events January–March * January 1 – Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Prince Ferdinand Augustus Francis Anthony of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. * January 5 – Davy Crockett arrives in Texas. * January 12 ** , with Charles Darwin on board, r ...
– Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian actor and playwright (b. 1790) *1838 – Charles Percier, French architect and interior decorator (b. 1764) *1857 – Auguste Comte, French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1798) *
1876 Events January–March * January 1 ** The Reichsbank opens in Berlin. ** The Bass Brewery Red Triangle becomes the world's first registered trademark symbol. * February 2 – The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs i ...
– Manuel Blanco Encalada, Chilean admiral and politician, 1st President of Chile (b. 1790) * 1877 –
Crazy Horse Crazy Horse ( lkt, Tȟašúŋke Witkó, italic=no, , ; 1840 – September 5, 1877) was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century. He took up arms against the United States federal government to fight against encroachment by wh ...
, American tribal leader (b. 1849) *1894 – George Stoneman, Jr., United States Army cavalry officer (b. 1822) *1898 – Sarah Emma Edmonds, Canadian-American nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)


1901–present

*1901 – Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist and academic (b. 1853) *1902 – Rudolf Virchow, German anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist (b. 1821) *1906 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (b. 1844) *1909 – Louis Bouveault, French chemist (b. 1864) *1912 – Arthur MacArthur, Jr., United States, American Lieutenant general (United States), LTG (Army), Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1845) *1917 – Marian Smoluchowski, Austrian-Polish physicist and mountaineer (b. 1872) *1920 – Robert Harron, American actor (b. 1893) *1922 – Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867) *1926 – Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician (b. 1890) *1930 – Robert Means Thompson, American soldier, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1849) *1931 – John Thomson (footballer, born 1909), John Thomson, Scottish footballer (b. 1909) * 1932 – Francisco Acebal, Spanish journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1866) * 1932 – Paul Bern, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889) *1934 – Sidney Myer, Russian-Australian businessman, founded Myer, Myer Stores (b. 1878) *1936 – Gustave Kahn, French poet and critic (b. 1859) *
1942 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Declaration by United Nations is signed by China, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 22 other nations, in wh ...
– François de Labouchère, French soldier and pilot (b. 1917) *
1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. Januar ...
– Clem Hill, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1877) * 1948 – Richard C. Tolman, American physicist and chemist (b. 1881) *1953 – Richard Walther Darré, Argentinian-German agronomist and politician (b. 1895) *
1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...
– Eugen Schiffer, German lawyer and politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (b. 1860) *1955 – Haydn Bunton, Sr., Australian footballer and coach (b. 1911) *1965 – Tom Johnston (Scottish politician), Thomas Johnston, Scottish journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland (b. 1882) *1966 – Dezső Lauber, Hungarian golfer, tennis player, and architect (b. 1879) *
1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...
–
Jochen Rindt Jochen is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Jochen Asche, East German luger, competed during the 1960s *Jochen Böhler (born 1969), German historian, specializing in the history of World War II *Jochen Babock (born 1953), East G ...
, German-Austrian race car driver (b. 1942) *
1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
– Alan Kippax, Australian cricketer and businessman (b. 1897) *1973 – Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach (b. 1889) *
1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
– Alice Catherine Evans, American microbiologist (b. 1881) * 1977 – Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet and activist (b. 1897) *1979 – Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal (b. 1884) * 1980 – Don Banks, Australian composer and educator (b. 1923) *1982 – Douglas Bader, English captain and pilot (b. 1910) *
1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
– Adam Malik, Indonesian politician and diplomat, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1917) * 1984 – Jane Roberts, American psychic and author (b. 1929) *1985 – Johannes Hint, Estonian engineer (b. 1914) *
1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ...
– Neerja Bhanot, Indian model and youngest recipient of country's highest peacetime military award Ashoka Chakra (military decoration), Ashok Chakra (b. 1963) *1988 – Gert Fröbe, German actor and singer (b. 1913) *1989 – Philip Baxter, Welsh-Australian chemical engineer (b. 1905) *
1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...
– Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, English academic and diplomat (b. 1907) * 1990 – Jerry Iger, American cartoonist and publisher, co-founded Eisner & Iger (b. 1903) * 1990 – Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian politician (b. 1896) *
1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...
– Sharad Joshi, Indian author and poet (b. 1931) *1992 – Fritz Leiber, American author and poet (b. 1910) *1993 – Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (b. 1914) *1994 – Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and scholar (b. 1921) * 1994 – John Newman (Australian politician), John Newman, Australian politician (b. 1946) *1995 – Benyamin Sueb, Indonesian comedian, actor, and singer (b. 1939) * 1995 – Salil Chowdhury, Indian music composer, who mainly composed for Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam film and other films. (b. 1922) * 1996 – Basil Salvadore D'Souza, Indian bishop (b. 1926) *1997 – Leon Edel, American author and critic (b. 1907) * 1997 – Eddie Little Sky, American actor (b. 1926) * 1997 – Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor and director (b. 1912) * 1997 – Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian nun, missionary, and saint, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) *1998 – Ferdinand Biondi, Canadian radio host (b. 1909) * 1998 – Willem Drees, Jr., Dutch economist and politician, Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (Netherlands), Dutch Minister of Transport (b. 1922) * 1998 – Verner Panton, Danish interior designer (b. 1926) * 1998 – Leo Penn, American actor and director (b. 1921) *1999 – Alan Clark, English historian and politician, Minister for Defence Procurement (b. 1928) * 1999 – Allen Funt, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1914) * 1999 – Bryce Mackasey, Canadian businessman and politician, Postmaster General of Canada (b. 1921) *2000 – Roy Fredericks, Guyanese cricketer and politician (b. 1942) *2001 – Justin Wilson (chef), Justin Wilson, American chef and author (b. 1914) * 2001 – Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian economist and academic (b. 1912) *2002 – David Todd Wilkinson, American cosmologist and astronomer (b. 1935) *2003 – Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-American singer and actress (b. 1927) *2005 – Roberto Viaux, Chilean general (b. 1917) *2007 – Jennifer Dunn (politician), Jennifer Dunn, American engineer and politician (b. 1941) * 2007 – Paul Gillmor, American lawyer and politician (b. 1939) * 2007 – Thomas Hansen (musician), Thomas Hansen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1976) * 2007 – D. James Kennedy, American pastor and author (b. 1930) * 2007 – Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1939) *2009 – Gani Fawehinmi, Nigerian lawyer and activist (b. 1938) *2010 – Hedley Beare, Australian author and academic (b. 1932) * 2010 – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian-Dutch poet and painter (b. 1922) *
2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...
– Ediz Bahtiyaroğlu, Turkish-Bosnian footballer (b. 1986) * 2012 – Ian Dick, Australian cricketer and field hockey player (b. 1926) * 2012 – Victoria Fyodorova, Russian-American actress and author (b. 1946) * 2012 – John Oaksey, English jockey and journalist (b. 1929) *2013 – Edwin Bideau, American lawyer and politician (b. 1950) * 2013 – Geoffrey Goodman, English pilot, journalist, and author (b. 1922) * 2013 – Isamu Jordan, American journalist and academic (b. 1975) *2014 – Bruce Morton, American journalist (b. 1930) * 2014 – Mara Neusel, German mathematician, author, and academic (b. 1964) *2015 – Goh Eng Wah, Malaysian-Singaporean businessman, founded Eng Wah Global (b. 1923) * 2015 – Aadesh Shrivastava, Indian singer-songwriter (b. 1964) * 2015 – Chester Stranczek, American baseball player and businessman (b. 1929) *2016 – Hugh O'Brian, American actor (b. 1925) * 2016 – Phyllis Schlafly, American lawyer, writer, and political activist (b. 1924) *2018 – Bhagwatikumar Sharma, Indian Gujarati writer and journalist (b. 1934) * 2018 – Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress (b. 1926) *2019 – Francisco Toledo, Mexican painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (b. 1940) *
2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ...
– Sarah Harding, English singer, member of Girls Aloud (b. 1981)


Holidays and observances

*Christian Calendar of saints, feast day: **Bertin **Charbel (martyr) **Genebald **Gregorio Aglipay (Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church), Episcopal Church) **Mother Teresa **Ursicinus (Bishop of Ravenna), Ursicinus of Ravenna **Zechariah (priest), Zechariah and Elizabeth (biblical figure), Elisabeth (Anglican Church, Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Church) **September 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) *Earliest date on which Jeûne genevois can fall, while September 11 is the latest; celebrated on Thursday after the first Sunday of September. (Canton of Geneva) *International Day of Charity *Teacher's Day (
India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
) *Flag day, The flag-flying day for Denmark's deployed personnel (Denmark) *First day of school in
Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...


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