September 9

Events

Pre-1600

* 337 – Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti.
*1000 – Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
* 1141 – Yelü Dashi, the Liao dynasty general who founded the Qara Khitai, defeats the Seljuq and Kara-Khanid forces at the Battle of Qatwan.
* 1320 – In the Battle of Saint George, the Byzantines under Andronikos Asen ambush and defeat the forces of the Principality of Achaea, securing possession of Arcadia.
* 1488 – Anne becomes sovereign Duchess of Brittany, becoming a central figure in the struggle for influence that leads to the union of Brittany and France.
*1493 – Battle of Krbava Field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
* 1493 – Christopher Columbus, with 17 ships and 1,200 men, sails on second voyage from Cadiz.
*1499 – The citizens of Lisbon celebrate the triumphal return of the explorer Vasco de Gama, completing his two-year journey around the Cape of Good Hope to India.
*1513 – James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
* 1543 – Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned " Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
* 1561 – The ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy of Poissy opens in an effort to reconcile French Catholics and Protestants.
* 1588 – Thomas Cavendish in his ship ''Desire enters Plymouth and completes the first deliberately planned voyage of circumnavigation.

1601–1900

* 1739 – Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain's mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
*1776 – The Continental Congress officially names its union of states the United States.
*1791 – Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
* 1801 – Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces.
*1839 – John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
* 1845 – Possible start of the Great Famine of Ireland.
*1850 – The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
*1850 – California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
*1855 – Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city.
*1863 – American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
*1892 – Amalthea, third closest and fifth found moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.

1901–present

*1914 – World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
*1922 – The Greco-Turkish War effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
* 1923 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
*1924 – Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
*1936 – The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate and destroyer '' Dão'' mutinied against the Salazar dictatorship's support of General Franco's coup and declared their solidarity with the Spanish Republic.
*1939 – World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland.
* 1939 – Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain's colonial government.
* 1940 – George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
* 1940 – Treznea Massacre in Transylvania.
*1942 – World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.
*1943 – World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
*1944 – World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
*1945 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Empire of Japan formally surrenders to China.
*1947 – First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
*1948 – Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
*1954 – The 6.7 Chlef earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (''Extreme''). At least 1,243 people were killed and 5,000 were injured.
*1956 – Elvis Presley appears on ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' for the first time.
*1965 – The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
* 1965 – Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to cause over $1 billion in unadjusted damage.
*1966 – The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
*1969 – In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making French equal to English throughout the Federal government.
* 1969 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 863 collides in mid-air with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee over Moral Township, Shelby County, Indiana, killing all 83 people on board both aircraft.
* 1970 – A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
*1971 – The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, eventually resulting in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
* 1972 – In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.
*1990 – Batticaloa massacre: Massacre of 184 Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Army in Batticaloa District.
*1991 – Tajikistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
*1993 – Israeli–Palestinian peace process: The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
*1994 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' is launched on STS-64.
*2001 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
*2009 – The Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
*2012 – The Indian space agency puts into orbit its heaviest foreign satellite yet, in a streak of 21 consecutive successful PSLV launches.
* 2012 – A wave of attacks kills more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq.
*2015 – Elizabeth II becomes the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
*2016 – The government of North Korea conducts its fifth and reportedly biggest nuclear test. World leaders condemn the act, with South Korea calling it "maniacal recklessness".

Births

Pre-1600

* 214/ 15 – Aurelian, Roman emperor (d. 275)
* 384 – Honorius, Roman emperor (d. 423)
*1349 – Albert III, Duke of Austria (d. 1395)
*1427 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d. 1464)
*1466 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shōgun (d. 1523)
* 1558 – Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur (d. 1602)
* 1585 – Cardinal Richelieu, French cardinal and politician (d. 1642)

1601–1900

* 1629 – Cornelis Tromp, Dutch general (d. 1691)
* 1700 – Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1780)
*1711 – Thomas Hutchinson, English historian and politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1780)
* 1721 – Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish admiral and shipbuilder (d. 1808)
*1731 – Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican priest, historian, and scholar (d. 1787)
* 1737 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
*1754 – William Bligh, English admiral and politician, 4th Governor of New South Wales (d. 1817)
* 1755 – Benjamin Bourne, American judge and politician (d. 1808)
*1777 – James Carr, American soldier and politician (d. 1818)
* 1778 – Clemens Brentano, German poet and author (d. 1842)
*1789 – Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, Polish rabbi (d. 1866)
*1807 – Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish-English archbishop and philologist (d. 1886)
*1823 – Joseph Leidy, American paleontologist and academic (d. 1891)
*1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright (d. 1910)
* 1834 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English author (d. 1903)
*1853 – Fred Spofforth, Australian-English cricketer and merchant (d. 1926)
*1855 – Houston Stewart Chamberlain, English-German philosopher and author (d. 1927)
*1863 – Herbert Henry Ball, English-Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1943)
* 1868 – Mary Hunter Austin, American author, poet, and critic (d. 1934)
* 1873 – Max Reinhardt, Austrian-born American theater and film director (d. 1943)
*1876 – Frank Chance, American baseball player and manager (d. 1924)
*1877 – James Agate, English journalist, author, and critic (d. 1947)
*1878 – Adelaide Crapsey, American poet and critic (d. 1914)
* 1878 – Arthur Fox, English-American fencer (d. 1958)
* 1878 – Sergio Osmeña, Filipino lawyer and politician, 4th President of the Philippines (d. 1961)
*1885 – Miriam Licette, English soprano and educator (d. 1969)
* 1887 – Alf Landon, American lieutenant, banker, and politician, 26th Governor of Kansas (d. 1987)
*1882 – Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
*1890 – Colonel Sanders, American businessman, founded KFC (d. 1980)
*1894 – Arthur Freed, American composer and producer (d. 1973)
* 1894 – Humphrey Mitchell, Canadian trade union leader and politician, 14th Canadian Minister of Labour (d. 1950)
* 1894 – Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer and soldier (d. 1976)
*1898 – Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (d. 1973)
* 1899 – Neil Hamilton, American stage, film and television actor (d. 1984)
* 1899 – Waite Hoyt, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1984)
* 1899 – Bruno E. Jacob, American academic, founded the National Forensic League (d. 1979)
*1900 – James Hilton, English-American author and screenwriter (d. 1954)

1901–present

*1903 – Lev Shankovsky, Ukrainian military historian (d. 1995)
* 1903 – Edward Upward, English author (d. 2009)
* 1903 – Phyllis A. Whitney, American author (d. 2008)
*1904 – Feroze Khan, Indian-Pakistani field hockey player and coach (d. 2005)
* 1904 – Arthur Laing, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Canadian Minister of Veterans Affairs (d. 1975)
*1905 – Joseph E. Levine, American film producer, founded Embassy Pictures (d. 1987)
* 1905 – Brahmarishi Hussain Sha, Indian philosopher and poet (d. 1981)
* 1906 – Ali Hadi Bara, Iranian-Turkish sculptor and educator (d. 1971)
*1907 – Leon Edel, American author and critic (d. 1997)
* 1908 – Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and author (d. 1950)
* 1908 – Shigekazu Shimazaki, Japanese admiral (d. 1945)
*1911 – Paul Goodman, American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1972)
* 1911 – John Gorton, Australian lieutenant and politician, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002)
*1914 – John Passmore, Australian philosopher and academic (d. 2004)
*1918 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Italian lawyer and politician, 9th President of Italy (d. 2012)
*1919 – Gottfried Dienst, Swiss footballer and referee (d. 1998)
* 1919 – Jimmy Snyder, American sportscaster (d. 1996)
*1920 – Neil Chotem, Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2008)
* 1920 – Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and physicist (d. 1993)
* 1920 – Robert Wood Johnson III, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
*1922 – Hoyt Curtin, American composer and producer (d. 2000)
* 1922 – Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
* 1922 – Manolis Glezos, Greek journalist and politician (d. 2020)
* 1922 – Warwick Estevam Kerr, Brazilian geneticist, entomologist, and engineer (d. 2018)
* 1923 – Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
* 1923 – Cliff Robertson, American actor (d. 2011)
*1924 – Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)
* 1924 – Sylvia Miles, American actress (d. 2019)
* 1924 – Russell M. Nelson, American captain, surgeon, and religious leader
* 1924 – Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
* 1926 – Louise Abeita, Isleta Pueblo (Native American) writer, poet, and educator (d. 2014)
* 1926 – Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Egyptian theologian and author (d. 2022)
*1927 – Elvin Jones, American drummer and bandleader (d. 2004)
* 1927 – Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Russian sociologist and economist (d. 2013)
*1928 – Moses Anderson, American Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2013)
* 1928 – Sol LeWitt, American painter and sculptor (d. 2007)
*1929 – Claude Nougaro, French singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
*1930 – Francis Carroll, Australian archbishop
*1931 – Robin Hyman, English author and publisher (d. 2017)
* 1931 – Zoltán Latinovits, Hungarian actor and author (d. 1976)
* 1931 – Ida Mae Martinez, American wrestler (d. 2010)
* 1931 – Shirley Summerskill, English physician and politician
* 1931 – Margaret Tyzack, English actress (d. 2011)
*1932 – Carm Lino Spiteri, Maltese architect and politician (d. 2008)
*1934 – Nicholas Liverpool, Dominican lawyer and politician, 6th President of Dominica (d. 2015)
* 1934 – Sonia Sanchez, American poet, playwright, and activist
*1935 – Gopal Baratham, Singaporean neurosurgeon and author (d. 2002)
* 1935 – Nadim Sawalha, Jordanian-born English actor
* 1935 – Chaim Topol, Israeli actor, singer, and producer
*1936 – William Bradshaw, Baron Bradshaw, English academic and politician
*1938 – John Davis, English anthropologist and academic
* 1938 – Jay Ward, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2012)
*1939 – Ron McDole, American football player
* 1940 – Hugh Morgan, Australian businessman
* 1940 – Joe Negroni, American doo-wop singer (d. 1978)
*1941 – Syed Abid Ali, Indian cricketer
* 1941 – Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1967)
* 1941 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, created the C programming language (d. 2011)
*1942 – Inez Foxx, American singer
* 1942 – Danny Kalb, American singer and guitarist
*1943 – Frank Clark, English footballer, manager and chairman
*1945 – Ton van Heugten, Dutch motocross racer (d. 2008)
* 1945 – Dee Dee Sharp, American singer
* 1945 – Doug Ingle, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
*1946 – Jim Keays, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
* 1946 – Bruce Palmer, Canadian folk-rock bass player (d. 2004)
*1947 – David Rosenboom, American composer and educator
* 1947 – Freddy Weller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1947 – T. M. Wright, American author, poet, and illustrator (d. 2015)
*1949 – John Curry, English figure skater (d. 1994)
* 1949 – Daniel Pipes, American historian and author
* 1949 – Joe Theismann, American football player and sportscaster
* 1949 – Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian general and politician, 6th President of Indonesia
*1950 – Gogi Alauddin, Pakistani squash player and coach
* 1950 – John McFee, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
*1951 – Alexander Downer, Australian economist and politician, 34th Minister of Foreign Affairs for Australia
* 1951 – Tom Wopat, American actor and singer
*1952 – Angela Cartwright, English-born American actress, author, and singer
* 1952 – Per Jørgensen, Norwegian singer and trumpet player (in Norwegian)
* 1952 – Dave Stewart, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
*1953 – Janet Fielding, Australian actress
*1955 – John Kricfalusi, Canadian voice actor, animator, director, and screenwriter
*1957 – Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist and educator
*1959 – Tom Foley, American baseball player and coach
* 1959 – Éric Serra, French composer and producer
*1960 – Hugh Grant, English actor and producer
* 1960 – Bob Hartley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
* 1960 – Johnson Righeira, Italian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor
* 1960 – Bob Stoops, American football player and coach
* 1960 – Kimberly Willis Holt – Chris Coons, American lawyer and politician
* 1963 – Roberto Donadoni, Italian footballer and manager
* 1963 – Neil Fairbrother, English cricketer
* 1964 – Aleksandar Hemon, Bosnian-American author and critic
* 1964 – Skip Kendall, American golfer
*1965 – Dan Majerle, American basketball player and coach
* 1965 – Marcel Peeper, Dutch footballer
*1966 – Georg Hackl, German luger and coach
* 1966 – Kevin Hatcher, American ice hockey player
* 1966 – Adam Sandler, American actor, screenwriter, and producer
* 1966 – Brian Smith, Australian-Irish rugby player and coach
*1967 – B. J. Armstrong, American basketball player and sportscaster
* 1967 – Chris Caffery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1967 – Mark Shrader, American wrestlerPro Wrestling Illustrated. "Statistics for Professional Wrestlers." ''PWI 2001 Wrestling Almanac and Book of Facts''. Vol. IV. No. 1. Fort Washington, Pennsylvania: London Publishing Co., 2001. (pg. 50)
* 1967 – Akshay Kumar, Canadian actor and producer
*1968 – Jon Drummond, American sprinter and coach
* 1968 – Clive Mendonca, English footballer
* 1968 – Julia Sawalha, English actress
*1969 – Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress
* 1969 – Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian politician
* 1970 – Natalia Streignard, Spanish-Venezuelan actress
*1971 – Eric Stonestreet, American actor
* 1971 – Henry Thomas, American actor and guitarist
* 1972 – Mike Hampton, American baseball player and coach
* 1972 – Natasha Kaplinsky, English journalist
* 1972 – Jakko Jan Leeuwangh, Dutch speed skater
* 1972 – Miriam Oremans, Dutch tennis player
* 1972 – Xavi Pascual, Spanish professional basketball coach
* 1972 – Félix Rodríguez, Dominican baseball player
* 1972 – Goran Višnjić, Croatian-American actor
*1973 – Kazuhisa Ishii, Japanese baseball player
*1974 – Vikram Batra, Indian captain (d. 1999)
* 1974 – Shane Crawford, Australian footballer and television host
* 1974 – Marcos Curiel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
* 1974 – Jun Kasai, Japanese wrestler
* 1974 – Gok Wan, English fashion stylist, author, and television host
*1975 – Michael Bublé, Canadian singer-songwriter and actor
* 1975 – Anton Oliver, New Zealand rugby player
*1976 – Emma de Caunes, French actress
* 1976 – El Intocable, Mexican wrestler
* 1976 – Hanno Möttölä, Finnish basketball player
* 1976 – Joey Newman, American composer and conductor
* 1976 – Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer and coach
* 1976 – Kristoffer Rygg, Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer
*1977 – Kyle Snyder, American baseball player and coach
* 1977 – Fatih Tekke, Turkish footballer and manager
*1978 – Kurt Ainsworth, American baseball player and businessman, co-founded Marucci Sports
* 1978 – Shane Battier, American basketball player and sportscaster
*1979 – Wayne Carlisle, Northern Irish footballer and coach
* 1979 – Nikki DeLoach, American actress and singer
*1980 – Todd Coffey, American baseball player
* 1980 – Václav Drobný, Czech footballer (d. 2012)
* 1980 – David Fa'alogo, New Zealand rugby league player
* 1980 – Michelle Williams, American actress
* 1981 – Julie Gonzalo, Argentine-American actress
*1982 – John Kuhn, American football player
* 1982 – Graham Onions, English cricketer
* 1982 – Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
* 1982 – Eugênio Rômulo Togni, Brazilian footballer
*1983 – Vitolo, Spanish footballer
* 1983 – Kyle Davies, American baseball player
* 1983 – Edwin Jackson, American baseball player
* 1983 – Cleveland Taylor, English footballer
*1984 – Jaouad Akaddar, Moroccan footballer (d. 2012)
* 1984 – Brad Guzan, American soccer player
* 1984 – James Hildreth, English cricketer
* 1984 – Michalis Sifakis, Greek footballer
*1985 – Lior Eliyahu, Israeli basketball player
* 1985 – Martin Johnson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
* 1985 – Luka Modrić, Croatian footballer
* 1985 – J. R. Smith, American basketball player
*1986 – Michael Bowden, American baseball player
* 1986 – Chamu Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer
* 1986 – Luc Mbah a Moute, Cameroonian basketball player
* 1986 – Keith Yandle, American hockey player
*1987 – Markus Jürgenson, Estonian footballer
* 1987 – Alexis Palisson, French rugby player
* 1987 – Andrea Petkovic, German tennis player
* 1987 – Afrojack, Dutch-Surinamese DJ, record producer, and remixer
*1988 – Danilo D'Ambrosio, Italian footballer
* 1988 – Will Middlebrooks, American baseball player
*1989 – Alfonzo Dennard, American football player
* 1989 – Casey Hayward, American football player
*1990 – Shaun Johnson, New Zealand rugby league player
* 1990 – Haley Reinhart, American singer-songwriter and actress
* 1990 – Andrew Smith, American basketball player (d. 2016)
* 1990 – Jordan Tabor, English footballer (d. 2014)
*1991 – Lauren Daigle, American contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter
* 1991 – Hunter Hayes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1991 – Oscar, Brazilian footballer
* 1991 – Danilo Pereira, Bissauan-Portuguese footballer
*1992 – Shannon Boyd, Australian rugby league player
* 1992 – Damian McGinty, Northern Irish actor and singer
* 1992 – Kristiāns Pelšs, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2013)
*1993 – Cameron Cullen, Australian rugby league player
* 1993 – Crazy Mary Dobson, American wrestler
* 1993 – Ryōhei Katō, Japanese gymnast
* 1993 – Sharon van Rouwendaal, Dutch swimmer
*1994 – Clinton Gutherson, Australian rugby league player
*1997 – Billy Bainbridge, Australian rugby league player

Deaths

Pre-1600

* 906 – Adalbert von Babenberg, Frankish nobleman
*1000 – Olaf I, king of Norway
* 1031 – Gang Gam-chan, Korean general (b. 948)
*1087 – William the Conqueror, English king (b. c.1028)
*1191 – Conrad II, duke of Bohemia
* 1271 – Yaroslav of Tver, Russian Grand Prince (b. 1230)
*1282 – Ingrid of Skänninge, Swedish abbess and saint
* 1285 – Kunigunda of Halych, queen regent of Bohemia (b. 1245)
* 1398 – James I, king of Cyprus (b. 1334)
*1435 – Robert Harling, English knight
* 1438 – Edward, king of Portugal (b. 1391)
*1487 – Chenghua, emperor of China (b. 1447)
* 1488 – Francis II, duke of Brittany (b. 1433)
*1513 – James IV, king of Scotland (b. 1473)
* 1513 – George Douglas, Scottish nobleman (b. 1469)
* 1513 – William Douglas of Glenbervie, Scottish nobleman (b. 1473)
* 1513 – William Graham, 1st Earl of Montrose, Scottish politician (b. 1464)
* 1513 – George Hepburn, Scottish bishop
* 1513 – Adam Hepburn, 2nd Earl of Bothwell, Scottish politician, Lord High Admiral of Scotland
* 1513 – Adam Hepburn of Craggis, Scottish nobleman
* 1513 – David Kennedy, 1st Earl of Cassilis, Scottish soldier (b. 1478)
* 1513 – Alexander Lauder of Blyth, Scottish politician
* 1513 – Alexander Stewart, Scottish archbishop (b. 1493)
* 1513 – Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox, Scottish politician (b. 1488)
*1569 – Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Dutch painter (b. 1525)
*1583 – Humphrey Gilbert, English explorer and politician (b. 1539)
*1596 – Anna Jagiellon, Polish queen (b. 1523)

1601–1900

* 1603 – George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (b. 1547)
* 1611 – Eleanor de' Medici, Italian noblewoman (b. 1567)
*1612 – Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese daimyō (b. 1570)
* 1676 – Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, French soldier, founded Montreal (b. 1612)
* 1680 – Henry Marten, English lawyer and politician (b. 1602)
* 1703 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, French-English soldier, author, and critic (b. 1610)
* 1755 – Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian and author (b. 1694)
*1806 – William Paterson (judge), William Paterson, Irish-American judge and politician, 2nd Governor of New Jersey (b. 1745)
*1815 – John Singleton Copley, American-English colonial and painter (b. 1738)
* 1834 – James Weddell, Belgian-English sailor and navigator (b. 1787)
*1841 – Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Swiss botanist, mycologist, and academic (b. 1778)
*1891 – Jules Grévy, French politician, 4th President of the French Republic (b. 1813)
*1893 – Friedrich Traugott Kützing, German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist (b. 1807)
*1898 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet and critic (b. 1842)

1901–present

*1901 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator (b. 1864)
*1907 – Ernest Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
*1909 – E. H. Harriman, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1848)
*1910 – Lloyd Wheaton Bowers, American lawyer and politician, United States Solicitor General (b. 1859)
*1915 – Albert Spalding, American baseball player, manager, and businessman, co-founded Spalding (sports equipment), Spalding (b. 1850)
*1934 – Roger Fry, English painter and critic (b. 1866)
*1941 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
*1942 – Adele Kurzweil, Austrian Holocaust victim (b. 1925)
*1943 – Carlo Bergamini (admiral), Carlo Bergamini, Italian admiral (b. 1888)
* 1943 – Charles McLean Andrews, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1863)
*1945 – Max Ehrmann, American poet and lawyer (b. 1872)
*1950 – Victor Hémery, French racing driver (b. 1876)
*1955 – Carl Friedberg, German pianist and educator (b. 1872)
*1958 – Charlie Macartney, Australian cricketer and soldier (b. 1886)
*1959 – Ramón Fonst, Cuban fencer (b. 1883)
*1960 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
*1963 – Edwin Linkomies, Finnish academic, professor and the Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1894)
*1969 – Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
*1975 – Johannes Brenner, Estonian footballer (b. 1906)
* 1975 – John McGiver, American actor (b. 1913)
*1976 – Mao Zedong, Chinese philosopher, academic, and politician, 1st Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1893)
*1978 – Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish linguist, poet, and author (b. 1892)
* 1978 – Jack L. Warner, Canadian-American production manager and producer, co-founded Warner Bros. (b. 1892)
*1979 – Norrie Paramor, English composer, conductor, and producer (b. 1914)
*1980 – John Howard Griffin, American journalist and author (b. 1920)
* 1981 – Robert Askin, Australian sergeant and politician, 32nd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1907)
* 1981 – Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist (b. 1901)
*1985 – Neil Davis (cameraman), Neil Davis, Australian photographer and journalist (b. 1934)
* 1985 – Paul Flory, American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
* 1985 – Antonino Votto, Italian conductor (b. 1896)
*1986 – Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian pianist and educator (b. 1893)
*1990 – Nicola Abbagnano, Italian philosopher and academic (b. 1901)
* 1990 – Samuel Doe, Liberian field marshal and politician, 21st President of Liberia (b. 1951)
* 1990 – Alexander Men, Russian priest and scholar (b. 1930)
*1993 – Larry Noble (actor), Larry Noble, English comedian and actor (b. 1914)
* 1993 – Helen O'Connell, American singer (b. 1920)
*1994 – Patrick O'Neal (actor), Patrick O'Neal, American actor (b. 1927)
*1996 – Bill Monroe, American singer-songwriter (b. 1911)
*1997 – Richie Ashburn, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1927)
* 1997 – John Hackett (British Army officer), John Hackett, Australian-English general and author (b. 1910)
* 1997 – Burgess Meredith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
*1998 – Lucio Battisti, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943)
* 1998 – Bill Cratty, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1951)
*1999 – Arie de Vroet, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1918)
* 1999 – Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946)
* 1999 – Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
*2000 – Julian Critchley, English lawyer and politician (b. 1930)
*2001 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan commander and politician, Ministry of Defense (Afghanistan), Afghan Minister of Defense (b. 1953)
*2003 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist and academic (b. 1908)
* 2003 – Don Willesee, Australian telegraphist and politician, 29th Minister for Foreign Affairs (Australia), Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1916)
*2004 – Ernie Ball, American guitarist and businessman (b. 1930)
* 2004 – Caitlin Clarke, American actress (b. 1952)
*2006 – Gérard Brach, French director and screenwriter (b. 1927)
* 2006 – Richard Burmer, American composer and engineer (b. 1955)
* 2006 – Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979)
* 2006 – William Bernard Ziff Jr., American businessman, founded Ziff Davis (b. 1930)
*2012 – Verghese Kurien, Indian engineer and businessman, founded Amul (b. 1921)
* 2012 – John McCarthy (Australian rules footballer, born 1989), John McCarthy, Australian footballer (b. 1989)
* 2012 – Mike Scarry, American football player and coach (b. 1920)
* 2012 – Ron Tindall, English footballer and manager (b. 1935)
*2013 – Sunila Abeysekera, Sri Lankan scholar and activist (b. 1952)
* 2013 – Alberto Bevilacqua, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1934)
* 2013 – Saul Landau, American journalist, director, and author (b. 1936)
*2014 – Montserrat Abelló i Soler, Spanish poet and translator (b. 1918)
* 2014 – Firoza Begum (singer), Firoza Begum, Bangladeshi singer (b. 1930)
* 2014 – Graham Joyce, English author and educator (b. 1954)
*2015 – Annemarie Bostroem, German poet, playwright, and songwriter (b. 1922)
* 2015 – Einar H. Ingman Jr., American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1929)
* 2015 – K. Kunaratnam, Sri Lankan physicist and academic (b. 1934)

Holidays and observances

*Christian calendar of saints, feast day:
**Charles Lowder (Calendar of saints (Church of England), Church of England)
**Ciarán of Clonmacnoise
**St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral (Memphis, Tennessee)#Constance and her companions, Constance, Nun, and her Companions (Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church), Episcopal Church)
**Our Lady of Sanctuary of Arantzazu, Arantzazu (Oñati)
**Peter Claver
**Synaxis of Ss. Joachim and Saint Anne, Anna, an Afterfeast. (Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches)
**September 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*Armored Forces Day (Ukraine)
*California Admission Day (California, United States)
*Children's Day (Costa Rica)
*Chrysanthemum Day or ''Kiku no Sekku'' (Japan)
*Day of the Victims of Holocaust and of Racial Violence (Slovakia)
*Emergency Services Day (United Kingdom)
*Independence Day (North Korea), Independence Day or Republic Day, celebrates the proclamation of Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) in 1948.
*Independence Day (Tajikistan), celebrates the independence of Tajikistan from USSR in 1991.
*Martyrs' Day (Afghanistan) (date may fall on September 8, follows a non-Gregorian calendar, see List of observances set by the Solar Hijri calendar)
*Remembrance for Herman the Cheruscan (The Troth)

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