September 5

September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 117 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 1590 – Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
• 1661 – Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers.
• 1666 – Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 6 people are known to have died.
• 1697 – War of the Grand Alliance : A French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville defeated an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson's Bay.
• 1698 – In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
• 1725 – Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
• 1774 – First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1781 – Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War : the British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.
• 1793 – French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
• 1798 – Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
• 1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.
• 1816 – Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
• 1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
• 1839 – United Kingdom declared First Opium War on the Qing Dynasty of China.
• 1840 – Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan.
• 1862 – American Civil War: the Potomac River is crossed at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
• 1862 – James Glaisher, pioneering meteorologist and Henry Tracey Coxwell break world record for altitude whilst collecting data in their balloon.
• 1864 – Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.
• 1877 – American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
• 1882 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
• 1887 – Fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England killed 186
• 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
• 1906 – The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
• 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
• 1915 – The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
• 1918 – Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia
• 1921 – Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: one of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.
• 1927 – The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
• 1932 – The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
• 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.
• 1938 – Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre.
• 1941 – Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
• 1942 – World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.
• 1943 – World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab, near Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign.
• 1944 – Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
• 1945 – Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
• 1945 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
• 1948 – In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
• 1957 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
• 1960 – The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
• 1960 – The boxer Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
• 1961 – The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.
• 1969 – My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
• 1970 – Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên-Huế Province.
• 1972 – Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack and take hostage 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the attack and 9 die the following day.
• 1975 – Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
• 1977 – Hanns Martin Schleyer, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.
• 1977 – Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
• 1978 – Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
• 1980 – The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.224 km) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.
• 1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
• 1984 – Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
• 1986 – Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
• 1991 – The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came into force.
• 2005 – Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily populated residential area of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground.

Births

• 973 – Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī, Khwarezmi-Persian scholar and polymath (d. 1048)
• 1187 – Louis VIII of France (d. 1226)
• 1201 – Alix, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1221)
• 1319 – Peter IV of Aragon (d. 1387)
• 1567 – Date Masamune, Japanese samurai and daimyo (d. 1636)
• 1568 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet (d. 1639)
• 1638 – Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
• 1667 – Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (d. 1733)
• 1694 – František Václav Míča, Czech conductor and composer (d. 1744)
• 1695 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (d. 1770)
• 1722 – Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (d. 1763)
• 1725 – Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (d. 1799)
• 1735 – Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d. 1782)
• 1750 – Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (d. 1774)
• 1769 – John Shortland, English navy officer (d. 1810)
• 1771 – Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Austrian field marshal (d. 1847)
• 1772 – Fat′h-Ali Shah Qajar, Iranian king (d. 1834)
• 1774 – Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (d. 1840)
• 1775 – Juan Martín Díez, Spanish captain (d. 1825)
• 1781 – Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer and publisher (d. 1858)
• 1787 – François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
• 1791 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (d. 1864)
• 1792 – Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857)
• 1806 – Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (d. 1865)
• 1807 – Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish archbishop and philologist (d. 1886)
• 1809 – Manuel Montt, Chilean politician and scholar, 6th President of Chile (d. 1880)
• 1817 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian poet, author, and playwright (d. 1875)
• 1818 – Edmund Kennedy, Australian explorer (d. 1848)
• 1826 – John Wisden, English cricketer (d. 1884)
• 1827 – Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and songwriter (d. 1849)
• 1831 – Victorien Sardou, French playwright (d. 1908)
• 1833 – George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (d. 1917)
• 1836 – Justiniano Borgoño, Peruvian soldier and politician, President of Peru (d. 1921)
• 1846 – Jack Daniel, American businessman, founded Jack Daniel's (d. 1911)
• 1847 – Jesse James, American criminal and murderer (d. 1882)
• 1856 – Thomas E. Watson, American lawyer, publisher, and politician (d. 1922)
• 1862 – Denis St. George Daly, Irish polo player (d. 1942)
• 1867 – Amy Beach, American composer and pianist (d. 1944)
• 1871 – Friedrich Akel, Estonian diplomat and politician (d 1941)
• 1872 – V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1936)
• 1873 – Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American military officer and engineer (d. 1942)
• 1874 – Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (d. 1959)
• 1876 – Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (d. 1956)
• 1876 – Abdelaziz Thâalbi, Tunisian politician (d. 1944)
• 1881 – Otto Bauer, Austrian politician (d. 1938)
• 1881 – Henry Maitland Wilson, British field marshal (d. 1964)
• 1883 – Otto Erich Deutsch, Austrian publisher and scholar (d. 1967)
• 1888 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India (d. 1975)
• 1892 – Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (d. 1973)
• 1897 – Morris Carnovsky, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1897 – Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst, founded ACNielsen (d. 1980)
• 1897 – Ella Schuler, American super-centenarian (d. 2011)
• 1899 – Humphrey Cobb, American screenwriter and novelist (d. 1944)
• 1899 – Helen Creighton, Canadian author (d. 1989)
• 1901 – Florence Eldridge, American actress (d. 1988)
• 1901 – Mario Scelba, Italian politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1991)
• 1902 – Darryl F. Zanuck, American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1979)
• 1904 – Vera Bradford, Australian pianist (d. 2004)
• 1905 – Maurice Challe, French general (d. 1979)
• 1905 – Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-English author and journalist (d. 1983)
• 1905 – Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (d. 2005)
• 1907 – Sunnyland Slim, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1995)
• 1908 – Josué de Castro, Brazilian physician, geographer, and activist (d. 1973)
• 1908 – Gloria Holden, English actress (d. 1991)
• 1908 – Joaquín Nin-Culmell, Cuban-Spanish pianist and composer (d. 2004)
• 1909 – Hans Carste, German pianist and conductor (d. 1971)
• 1909 – Bernard Delfont, Russian-English talent manager (d. 1994)
• 1909 – Archie Jackson, Australian cricketer (d. 1933)
• 1910 – Leila Mackinlay, English author (d. 1996)
• 1910 – Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer (d. 1981)
• 1912 – John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
• 1912 – Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
• 1912 – Frank Thomas, American animator (d. 2004)
• 1914 – Stuart Freeborn, English make up artist (d. 2013)
• 1914 – Gail Kubik, American composer (d. 1984)
• 1914 – Nicanor Parra, Chilean mathematician and poet
• 1916 – Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (d. 2002)
• 1916 – Frank Yerby American novelist (d. 1991)
• 1917 – Pedro E. Guerrero, American photographer (d. 2012)
• 1917 – Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racer and trainer (d. 2008)
• 1918 – Luis Alcoriza, Mexican actor, screenwriter, and director (d. 1992)
• 1918 – Bob Katter, Sr., Australian politician (d. 1990)
• 1918 – Jean-Marie Poitras, Canadian politician (d. 2009)
• 1918 – Buddy Williams, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1986)
• 1919 – Elisabeth Volkenrath, German SS officer (d. 1945)
• 1920 – Peter Racine Fricker, English-American composer (d. 1990)
• 1921 – Murray Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Jack Valenti, American film executive, created the MPAA film rating system (d. 2007)
• 1923 – David Hamer, Australian politician (d. 2002)
• 1923 – Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
• 1924 – Paul Dietzel, American football player and coach
• 1927 – Paul Volcker, American economist
• 1928 – Joyce Hatto, English pianist (d. 2006)
• 1928 – Damayanti Joshi, Indian dancer (d. 2004)
• 1928 – Albert Mangelsdorff, German trombonist (d. 2005)
• 1929 – Bob Newhart, American actor and comedian
• 1929 – Andriyan Nikolayev, Soviet astronaut (d. 2004)
• 1933 – Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Chilien archbishop
• 1934 – Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer
• 1934 – Dennis Letts, American actor (d. 2008)
• 1935 – Johnny Briggs, English actor
• 1935 – Paul Josef Cordes, German cardinal
• 1935 – Werner Erhard, American author founded Werner Erhard and Associates
• 1935 – Helen Gifford, Australian composer
• 1936 – Robert Burns, Canadian politician
• 1936 – John Danforth, American politician
• 1936 – Jonathan Kozol, American sociologist
• 1936 – Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player
• 1937 – Antonio Valentin Angelillo, Argentinian footballer
• 1937 – William Devane, American actor
• 1937 – Colin Wesley, South African cricketer
• 1938 – John Ferguson, Sr., Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
• 1939 – Claudette Colvin, American nurse and activist
• 1939 – George Lazenby, Australian actor
• 1939 – Clay Regazzoni, Swiss race car driver (d. 2006)
• 1939 – John Stewart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Kingston Trio) (d. 2008)
• 1940 – Raquel Welch, American actress
• 1941 – Dave Dryden, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1942 – Denise Fabre, French television host
• 1942 – Werner Herzog, German director
• 1942 – Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (d. 1995)
• 1943 – Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician (d. 2007)
• 1944 – Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, author, and playwright (d. 1996)
• 1944 – Gareth Evans, Australian lawyer and politician
• 1945 – Al Stewart, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1946 – Dennis Dugan, American actor and director
• 1946 – Freddie Mercury, Tanzanian-English singer-songwriter and producer (Queen and Ibex) (d. 1991)
• 1946 – Loudon Wainwright III, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1947 – Buddy Miles, American singer-songwriter and drummer (The Electric Flag and The California Raisins) (d. 2008)
• 1947 – Kiyoshi Takayama, Japanese mobster
• 1947 – Bruce Yardley, Australian cricketer
• 1947 – Chip Davis, Founder and leader of the music group Mannheim Steamroller
• 1948 – Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician
• 1949 – Clem Clempson, English guitarist and composer (Humble Pie and Colosseum)
• 1950 – Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist
• 1950 – Paul William Roberts, Canadian author
• 1951 – Paul Breitner, German footballer
• 1951 – Michael Keaton, American actor
• 1951 – Patti McGuire, American model and producer
• 1953 – Victor Davis Hanson, American historian
• 1954 – Richard Austin, Jamaican cricketer
• 1954 – Frederick Kempe, American author and journalist
• 1956 – Roine Stolt, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Flower Kings, Kaipa, Transatlantic, and The Tangent)
• 1957 – Rudi Gores, German footballer
• 1957 – Peter Winnen, Dutch cyclist
• 1960 – Candy Maldonado, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1961 – Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian pianist and composer
• 1962 – Peter Wingfield, Welsh actor
• 1963 – Juan Alderete, American bass player and songwriter (Racer X, The Mars Volta, Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group, The Scream, and Big Sir)
• 1963 – Kristian Alfonso, American actress
• 1963 – Jeff Brantley, American baseball player
• 1963 – Taki Inoue, Japanese race car driver
• 1963 – Jonathan Phillips, English actor
• 1964 – Frank Farina, Australian footballer
• 1964 – Ken Norman, American basketball player
• 1964 – Amanda Ooms, Swedish actress
• 1964 – Kevin Saunderson, American DJ and producer (Inner City)
• 1965 – David Brabham, Australian race car driver
• 1965 – Chris Gore, American critic and writer
• 1965 – Chris Morris, English comedian and actor
• 1965 – César Rincón, Colombian bullfighter
• 1966 – Terry Ellis, American singer (En Vogue)
• 1966 – Achero Mañas, Spanish actor and director
• 1966 – Milinko Pantić, Serbian footballer
• 1967 – India Hicks, English model
• 1967 – Matthias Sammer, German footballer
• 1967 – Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player
• 1968 – Serhiy Kovalets, Ukrainian footballer and coach
• 1968 – Dennis Scott, American basketball player
• 1968 – Brad Wilk, American singer-songwriter and drummer (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine, and Greta)
• 1969 – Leonardo Nascimento de Araujo, Brazilian footballer
• 1969 – Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer
• 1969 – Dweezil Zappa, American singer, guitarist, and actor (Zappa Plays Zappa)
• 1970 – Kim Hye-soo, South Korean actress
• 1970 – Liam Lynch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, puppeteer, and director
• 1970 – Mohammad Rafique, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1971 – Adam Hollioake, England cricketer
• 1972 – Hans Riemer, American activist
• 1972 – Shane Sewell, Canadian wrestler
• 1972 – Guy Whittall, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1973 – Paddy Considine, English actor
• 1973 – Alexandra Kerry, American director and producer
• 1973 – Rose McGowan, Italian-American actress and singer
• 1974 – Rawl Lewis, Grenadian cricketer
• 1974 – Ken-Marti Vaher, Estonian politician
• 1975 – Rod Barajas, American baseball player
• 1975 – George Boateng, Dutch footballer
• 1975 – Randy Choate, American baseball player
• 1975 – Matt Geyer, Australian rugby player
• 1975 – Jamie Spaniolo, American rapper (Twiztid, Dark Lotus, Psychopathic Rydas, and House of Krazees)
• 1976 – Tatyana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast
• 1976 – Richard Marsland, Australian comedian, writer, and radio host
• 1976 – Carice van Houten, Dutch actress
• 1977 – Rosevelt Colvin, American football player
• 1977 – Joseba Etxeberria, Spanish footballer
• 1977 – Minoru Fujita, Japanese wrestler
• 1977 – Nazr Mohammed, American basketball player
• 1978 – Laura Bertram, Canadian actress
• 1978 – Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby player
• 1978 – Sylvester Joseph, Caribbean cricketer
• 1978 – Yu Nan, Chinese actress
• 1978 – Zhang Zhong, Chinese chess player
• 1979 – John Carew, Norwegian footballer
• 1979 – Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
• 1979 – Stewart Holden, English scrabble player
• 1979 – Salvatore Mastronunzio, Italian footballer
• 1979 – George O'Callaghan, Irish footballer
• 1980 – Franco Costanzo, Argentinian footballer
• 1981 – Nina Eichinger, German actress
• 1981 – Daniel Moreno, Spanish cyclist
• 1981 – Ann Marie Rios, American porn actress
• 1981 – Filippo Volandri, Italian tennis player
• 1982 – Alexandre Geijo, Spanish-Swiss footballer
• 1982 – Sondre Lerche, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1983 – Eugen Bopp, Ukrainian-German footballer
• 1983 – Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer
• 1983 – Antony Sweeney, English footballer
• 1984 – Chris Anker Sørensen, Danish cyclist
• 1985 – Ryan Guy, American soccer player
• 1986 – Colt McCoy, American football player
• 1986 – Pragyan Ojha, Indian cricketer
• 1987 – Pierre Casiraghi, Monegasque son of Caroline, Princess of Hanover
• 1987 – Melissa Haro, American model
• 1987 – Silvestre Rasuk, American actor
• 1988 – Denni Avdić, Swedish footballer
• 1988 – Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1988 – Nuri Şahin, Turkish footballer
• 1989 – Katerina Graham, Swiss-American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1989 – José Ángel Valdés, Spanish footballer
• 1989 – Ben Youngs, English rugby player
• 1990 – Alicia Banit, Australian actress
• 1990 – Antonio Esposito, Italian footballer
• 1990 – Angy Fernández, Spanish singer and actress
• 1990 – Lance Stephenson, American basketball player
• 1990 – Kim Yu-Na, South Korean figure skater
• 1990 – Franco Zuculini, Italian footballer
• 1991 – Skandar Keynes, English actor
• 1993 – Gage Golightly, American actress
• 1995 – Tehilla Blad, Swedish actress
• 1995 – Caroline Sunshine, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1996 – Jaishon Fisher, American actor
• 1998 – Helena Barlow, English actress

Deaths

• 590 – Authari, king of the Lombards
• 1165 – Emperor Nijō of Japan (b. 1143)
• 1201 – Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
• 1235 – Henry I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1165)
• 1548 – Catherine Parr, English 6th wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1512)
• 1607 – Pomponne de Bellièvre, French politician, Chancellor of France (b. 1529)
• 1629 – Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. 1585)
• 1734 – Nicolas Bernier, French composer (b. 1664)
• 1786 – Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712)
• 1803 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (b. 1741)
• 1803 – François Devienne, French composer (b. 1759)
• 1808 – John Home, Scottish poet and playwright (b. 1722)
• 1836 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
• 1837 – James Ruse, Australian farmer and criminal (b. 1759)
• 1838 – Charles Percier, French architect (b. 1764)
• 1857 – Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
• 1876 – Manuel Blanco Encalada, Chilean navy officer and politician, 1st President of Chile (b. 1790)
• 1877 – Crazy Horse, Native American war leader (b. 1849)
• 1898 – Sarah Edmonds, Canadian nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
• 1901 – Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
• 1902 – Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician (b. 1821)
• 1906 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
• 1912 – Arthur MacArthur, Jr., American army general (b. 1845)
• 1914 – Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist, and editor (b. 1873)
• 1917 – Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (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 navy officer (b. 1849)
• 1931 – John Thomson, Scottish footballer (b. 1909)
• 1932 – Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright, and journalist (b. 1866)
• 1932 – Paul Bern, German-American director (b. 1889)
• 1934 – Sidney Myer, Russian-Australian businessman, founded Myer Stores (b. 1878)
• 1936 – Federico Borrell García, Spanish soldier (b. 1912)
• 1936 – Gustave Kahn, French poet and critic (b. 1859)
• 1942 – François de Labouchère, French pilot (b. 1917)
• 1945 – Clem Hill, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1948 – Richard C. Tolman, American physicist (b. 1881)
• 1953 – Richard Walther Darré, Argentinian-German nazi politician (b. 1895)
• 1954 – Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860)
• 1955 – Haydn Bunton, Sr., Australian footballer (b. 1911)
• 1965 – Thomas Johnston, Scottish politician (b. 1882)
• 1966 – Dezső Lauber, Hungarian architect (b. 1879)
• 1970 – Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (b. 1942)
• 1972 – Alan Kippax, Australian cricketer (b. 1897)
• 1972 – Yossef Romano, Israeli weightlifter (b. 1940)
• 1972 – Moshe Weinberg, Israeli wrestling coach (b. 1939)
• 1973 – Jack Fournier, American baseball player (b. 1889)
• 1975 – Georg Ots, Estonian singer (b. 1920)
• 1977 – Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet (b. 1897)
• 1979 – Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal (b. 1884)
• 1980 – Don Banks, Australian composer (b. 1923)
• 1982 – Douglas Bader, English pilot (b. 1910)
• 1983 – Antonio Mairena, Spanish singer (b. 1909)
• 1984 – Adam Malik, Indonesian politician and diplomat (b. 1917)
• 1984 – Jane Roberts, American psychic medium and author (b. 1929)
• 1988 – Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
• 1989 – Philip Baxter, Australian engineer and academic (b. 1905)
• 1990 – Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, English diplomat (b. 1907)
• 1990 – Jerry Iger, American cartoonist (b. 1903)
• 1990 – Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary leader (b. 1896)
• 1991 – Sharad Joshi, Indian author and poet (b. 1931)
• 1992 – Fritz Leiber, American author (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician (b. 1921)
• 1994 – John Newman, Australian politician (b. 1946)
• 1995 – Benyamin Sueb, Indonesian comedian, actor, and singer (b. 1939)
• 1996 – Basil Salvadore D’Souza, Indian bishop (b. 1926)
• 1997 – Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (b. 1912)
• 1997 – Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian missionary, and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1998 – Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor (b. 1946)
• 1998 – Ferdinand Biondi, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1909)
• 1998 – Verner Panton, Danish designer (b. 1926)
• 1998 – Leo Penn, American director (b. 1921)
• 1999 – Alan Clark, English politician and author (b. 1928)
• 1999 – Allen Funt, American director, writer, and producer (b. 1914)
• 1999 – Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
• 2000 – Roy Fredericks, Guyanese cricketer (b. 1942)
• 2000 – Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (b. 1918)
• 2001 – Justin Wilson, American chef (b. 1914)
• 2001 – Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian economist (b. 1912)
• 2002 – David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer (b. 1935)
• 2003 – Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-American singer and actress (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Roberto Viaux, Chilean army general (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Jennifer Dunn, American politician (b. 1941)
• 2007 – Paul Gillmor, American politician (b. 1939)
• 2007 – Thomas Hansen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1976)
• 2007 – D. James Kennedy, American pastor, evangelist, and broadcaster (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek director and writer (b. 1939)
• 2008 – Evan Tanner American mixed martial artist (b. 1971)
• 2010 – Hedley Beare, Australian educator and academic (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian poet and painter (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1990)
• 2012 – Ediz Bahtiyaroğlu, Turkish-Bosnian footballer (b. 1986)
• 2012 – Eric Deeral, Australian politician (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Christian Marin, French actor (b. 1929)
• 2012 – John Oaksey, English sportscaster and journalist (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Joe South, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Bertin
  • Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
  • Genebald
  • Zechariah and Elisabeth (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)
• Jupiter Stator, commemorates that Jupiter helped Romulus to stop the Sabine invasion under Titus Tatius. (Roman Empire)
• Teachers' Day (India)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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