September 6

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September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 116 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 3114 BC – According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started. (Non-standard interpretation)
• 394 – Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast.
• 1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic for the first time.
• 1522 – The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
• 1620 – The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
• 1628 – Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• 1634 – Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen the Catholic Imperial army defeats Protestant armies of Sweden and Germany.
• 1781 – The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.
• 1847 – Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control of the mouth of the Tennessee River.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
• 1870 – Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
• 1885 – Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.
• 1888 – Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season – a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
• 1901 – Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
• 1930 – Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
• 1937 – Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
• 1939 – World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.
• 1939 – World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
• 1940 – King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.
• 1943 – The Monterrey Institute of Technology, one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America, is founded in Monterrey, Mexico.
• 1943 – The Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.
• 1944 – World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces.
• 1944 – World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
• 1946 – United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.
• 1947 – Jacob Rubinovitz an israeli industrial engineer is born.
• 1948 – Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
• 1949 – Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
• 1952 – Canada's first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal.
• 1952 – A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
• 1955 – Istanbul's Greek and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.
• 1962 – Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the 2nd century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.
• 1963 – The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
• 1965 – War of 1965: India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which resulted in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate and follows the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
• 1966 – In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
• 1968 – Swaziland becomes independent.
• 1970 – Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
• 1972 – Munich Massacre: 9 Israel athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group died (as did a German policeman) at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt. 2 other Israeli athletes are slain in the initial attack the previous day.
• 1976 – Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.
• 1983 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
• 1985 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
• 1986 – In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services.
• 1947 – Jacob Rubinovitz an israeli roboticist is born.
• 1991 – The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
• 1991 – The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
• 1992 – Hunters discover the emaciated body of Christopher Johnson McCandless at his camp 20 miles (32 km) west of the town of Healy, Alaska.
• 1995 – Cal Ripken Jr of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years.
• 1997 – Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Over a million people lined the streets and 2.5 billion watched around the world on television.
• 2008 – Turkish President Abdullah Gül attends an association football match in Armenia after an invitation by Armenian President Serzh Sarkisyan; he is the first Turkish head of state to visit the country.
• 2009 – The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.

Births

• 1535 – Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (d. 1612)
• 1620 – Isabella Leonarda, Italian composer (d. 1704)
• 1633 – Sebastian Knüpfer, German composer (d. 1676)
• 1656 – Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1723)
• 1666 – Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696)
• 1711 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-American missionary and pastor (d. 1787)
• 1732 – Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (d. 1796)
• 1729 – Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher (d. 1786)
• 1757 – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, French military officer (d. 1834)
• 1766 – John Dalton, English chemist and physicist (d. 1844)
• 1795 – Frances Wright, English writer and activist (d. 1852)
• 1800 – Catharine Beecher, American educator (d. 1878)
• 1802 – Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (d. 1857)
• 1808 – Abdelkader El Djezairi, Algerian scholar, politician, and military leader (d. 1883)
• 1814 – George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian politician (d. 1873)
• 1815 – St. John Richardson Liddell, American general (d. 1870)
• 1817 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician (d. 1893)
• 1819 – William Rosecrans, American general and diplomat (d. 1898)
• 1829 – Marie Zakrzewska, Polish physician (d. 1902)
• 1838 – Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (d. 1906)
• 1852 – Schalk Willem Burger, South African politician and military leader, 6th President of the South African Republic (d. 1918)
• 1855 – Ferdinand Hummel, German pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1928)
• 1857 – Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (d. 1933)
• 1859 – Macpherson Robertson, Australian businessman and philanthropist, founded MacRobertson's (d. 1945)
• 1860 – Jane Addams, American social worker, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
• 1861 – William Lane, Australian journalist, founder of New Australia (d. 1917)
• 1868 – Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss politician (d. 1947)
• 1869 – Walford Davies, English composer (d. 1941)
• 1869 – Felix Salten, Austrian author (d. 1945)
• 1876 – John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
• 1877 – Buddy Bolden, American cornet player (d. 1930)
• 1879 – Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
• 1879 – Joseph Wirth, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1956)
• 1888 – Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American businessman and diplomat (d. 1969)
• 1890 – Clara Kimball Young, American actress (d. 1960)
• 1891 – John Charles Thomas, American opera singer (d. 1960)
• 1892 – Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
• 1893 – Claire Chennault, American pilot (d. 1958)
• 1899 – Billy Rose, American composer (d. 1966)
• 1900 – W. A. C. Bennett, Canadian politician, 25th Premier of British Columbia (d. 1979)
• 1900 – Julien Green, French-American novelist (d. 1998)
• 1906 – Luis Federico Leloir, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
• 1908 – Anthony Wagner, English officer of arms (d. 1995)
• 1908 – Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor, designed the Crazy Horse Memorial (d. 1982)
• 1909 – Michael Gordon, American actor and director (d. 1993)
• 1910 – Walter Giesler, American soccer player and coach (d. 1976)
• 1911 – Harry Danning, American baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Wayne Barlow, American composer, organist, and director (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Julie Gibson, American actress and singer
• 1915 – Franz Josef Strauss, German politician (d. 1988)
• 1917 – John Berry, American director (d. 1999)
• 1917 – George Mann, English cricketer (d. 2001)
• 1917 – Philipp von Boeselager, German Wehrmacht officer, member of the July 20 plot (d. 2008)
• 1918 – Hugh Gillis, American politician (d. 2013)
• 1919 – Wilson Greatbatch, American engineer and inventor (d. 2011)
• 1919 – Louise LaPlanche, American actress (d. 2012)
• 1921 – Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (d. 2004)
• 1921 – Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor, co-created the bar code (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
• 1924 – John Melcher, American politician
• 1925 – Jimmy Reed, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976)
• 1926 – Prince Claus of the Netherlands (d. 2002)
• 1926 – Arthur Oldham, English composer and conductor (d. 2003)
• 1926 – Maurice Prather, American photographer and director (d. 2001)
• 1928 – Robert M. Pirsig, American philosopher and author
• 1928 – Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer (d. 2002)
• 1928 – Sid Watkins, English neurosurgeon (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Yash Johar, Indian film producer, founded Dharma Productions (d. 2005)
• 1930 – Akiji Kobayashi, Japanese actor (d. 1996)
• 1932 – Gilles Tremblay, Canadian composer
• 1932 – Hiroyuki Iwaki, Japanese conductor (d. 2006)
• 1932 – Bernie Winters, English comedian (d. 1991)
• 1937 – Sergio Aragonés, Spanish illustrator and writer
• 1937 – Janusz Kurczab, Polish mountaineer
• 1937 – Jo Anne Worley, American actress
• 1938 – Joan Tower, American composer, pianist, and conductor
• 1939 – Brigid Berlin, American actress
• 1939 – Errol Black, Canadian academic and politician (d. 2012)
• 1939 – David Allan Coe, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1939 – Dan Cragg, American soldier and author
• 1939 – Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1940 – Elizabeth Murray, American painter (d. 2007)
• 1940 – Jackie Trent, English singer-songwriter, and actress
• 1942 – Dave Bargeron, American trombonist and tuba player (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
• 1942 – Richard Anthony Hutton, English cricketer
• 1942 – Mel McDaniel, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)
• 1942 – Carol Wayne, American actress (d. 1985)
• 1943 – Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 – Roger Waters, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and composer (Pink Floyd and The Bleeding Heart Band)
• 1944 – Donna Haraway, American educator, activist, and author
• 1944 – Swoosie Kurtz, American actress
• 1945 – Larry Lucchino, American businessman
• 1945 – Go Nagai, Japanese illustrator and author
• 1947 – Sylvester, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 1988)
• 1947 – Jane Curtin, American actress
• 1947 – Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer and coach
• 1948 – Claydes Charles Smith, American guitarist (Kool & the Gang) (d. 2006)
• 1952 – Buddy Miller, American singer-songwriter
• 1953 – Anne Lockhart, American actress
• 1954 – Carly Fiorina, American businesswoman and politician
• 1954 – Demetris Kizas, Greek-Cypriot footballer
• 1954 – Ève Luquet, French designer and engraver
• 1954 – Patrick O'Hearn, American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer (Missing Persons)
• 1955 – Raymond Benson, American author
• 1956 – Bill Ritter, American politician, 41st Governor of Colorado
• 1957 – Ali Divandari, Iranian painter, sculptor, and journalist
• 1957 – Michaëlle Jean, Canadian politician, 27th Governor-General of Canada
• 1957 – José Sócrates, Portuguese politician, 119th Prime Minister of Portugal
• 1957 – Tim Whitnall, English actor and screenwriter
• 1958 – Buster Bloodvessel, English singer-songwriter (Bad Manners)
• 1958 – Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor, and author
• 1958 – Arsinée Khanjian, Armenian-Canadian actress
• 1958 – Nigel Westlake, Australian composer and conductor
• 1958 – Michael Winslow, American actor and comedian
• 1959 – Bill Root, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961 – Simon Reeve, Australian journalist
• 1961 – Scott Travis, American drummer (Judas Priest, Racer X, The Scream, Fight, and Animetal USA)
• 1961 – Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (a-ha and Savoy)
• 1962 – Chris Christie, American politician, 55th Governor of New Jersey
• 1962 – Jennifer Egan, American novelist
• 1962 – Elizabeth Vargas, American journalist
• 1962 – Kevin Willis, American basketball player
• 1963 – Mark Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1963 – Skye Gyngell, Australian chef
• 1963 – Pat Nevin, Scottish footballer
• 1963 – Alice Sebold, American novelist
• 1963 – Bryan Simonaire, American politician
• 1963 – Geert Wilders, Dutch politician
• 1964 – Rosie Perez, American actress
• 1965 – Terry Bickers, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The House of Love and Levitation)
• 1965 – Darren Clark, Australian sprinter
• 1965 – Christopher Nolan, Irish author (d. 2009)
• 1965 – John Polson, Australian actor and director
• 1965 – Van Tiffin, American football player
• 1967 – William DuVall, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Alice In Chains, Comes with the Fall, Madfly, Neon Christ, and No Walls)
• 1967 – Macy Gray, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1968 – Saeed Anwar, Pakistani cricketer
• 1968 – Paddy Boom, Singaporean-American drummer and songwriter (Scissor Sisters)
• 1968 – Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish author
• 1968 – Paul Rea, American journalist
• 1969 – Tony DiTerlizzi, American author
• 1969 – Ben Finegold, American chess player
• 1969 – Michellie Jones, Australian triathlete
• 1969 – CeCe Peniston, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1970 – Cheyne Coates, Australian singer-songwriter and producer (Madison Avenue)
• 1971 – Devang Gandhi, Indian cricketer
• 1971 – Dolores O'Riordan, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Cranberries)
• 1972 – Dylan Bruno, American actor and model
• 1972 – Idris Elba, English-American actor
• 1972 – Eugene Hütz, Ukrainian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Gogol Bordello)
• 1972 – Justina Machado, Puerto Rican-American actress
• 1972 – China Miéville, English author
• 1972 – Anika Noni Rose, American actress and singer
• 1973 – Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer
• 1973 – Greg Rusedski, Canadian-English tennis player
• 1973 – Alessandro Troncon, Italian rugby player
• 1974 – Tim Henman, English tennis player
• 1974 – Sarah Danielle Madison, American actress
• 1974 – Nina Persson, Swedish singer-songwriter (The Cardigans and A Camp)
• 1974 – Sarah Strange, Canadian actress
• 1974 – Justin Whalin, American actor
• 1975 – Derrek Lee, American baseball player
• 1976 – N.O.R.E., American rapper (Capone-N-Noreaga)
• 1976 – Rodrigo Amarante, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Little Joy and Los Hermanos)
• 1976 – Naomie Harris, English actress
• 1976 – Jon Ander López, Spanish footballer (d. 2013)
• 1976 – Tom Pappas, American decathlete
• 1976 – Hyun Young, South Korean actress and singer
• 1977 – Kiyoshi Hikawa, Japanese singer
• 1978 – Cisco Adler, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Whitestarr)
• 1978 – Marlen Angelidou, Greek singer-songwriter and actress
• 1978 – Simon Barjie, Italian-Gambian footballer
• 1978 – Natalia Cigliuti, American actress
• 1978 – Alex Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1978 – Mathew Horne, English actor
• 1978 – Homare Sawa, Japanese footballer
• 1978 – Tony Thaxton, American drummer (Motion City Soundtrack)
• 1979 – Mike Arnaoutis, Greek boxer
• 1979 – Foxy Brown, American rapper (The Firm)
• 1979 – Low Ki, American wrestler
• 1979 – Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer
• 1979 – Carlos Adrián Morales, Mexican footballer
• 1980 – Jillian Hall, American wrestler
• 1980 – Yuji Hamano, Japanese archer
• 1980 – Kerry Katona, English singer, actress, and author (Atomic Kitten)
• 1980 – Samuel Peter, Nigerian boxer
• 1980 – Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
• 1981 – Yuki Abe, Japanese footballer
• 1981 – Yumiko Cheng, Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1981 – Mark Teahen, American baseball player
• 1983 – Dimitri Champion, French cyclist
• 1983 – Pippa Middleton, English party planner, sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
• 1984 – Helena Ekholm, Swedish skier
• 1984 – Orsi Kocsis, Hungarian model
• 1985 – Webbie, American rapper
• 1985 – Ali Ashfaq, Maldivian footballer
• 1985 – Alberto Valerio, Brazilian race car driver
• 1986 – Raven Riley, American porn actress
• 1987 – Ramiele Malubay, American singer
• 1988 – Denis Tonucci, Italian footballer
• 1989 – Nikos Boutzikos, Greek footballer
• 1989 – Kim So-eun, South Korean actress
• 1990 – John Wall, American basketball player
• 1991 – Ashli Amari Adams, American actress
• 1991 – Lauren Froderman, American dancer
• 1992 – Fabiola Rodas, Guatemalan singer
• 1993 – Mattia Valoti, Italian footballer
• 1994 – Theo Trebs, German actor
• 1998 – Jay Ruckley, Welsh actor
• 2006 – Prince Hisahito of Akishino

Deaths

• 394 – Eugenius, Roman usurper
• 957 – Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (b. 930)
• 972 – Pope John XIII
• 1276 – Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Italian cardinal (b. 1215)
• 1431 – Demetrios Laskaris Leontares, Byzantine soldier and statesman
• 1511 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)
• 1625 – Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b. 1579)
• 1635 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571)
• 1649 – Robert Dudley, English explorer and geographer (b. 1574)
• 1683 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French politician (b. 1619)
• 1708 – Sir John Morden, 1st Baronet, English merchant and philanthropist, founded Morden College (b. 1623)
• 1724 – Jonathan Singletary Dunham, American settler (b. 1640)
• 1748 – Edmund Gibson, English jurist and scholar (b. 1669)
• 1782 – Martha Jefferson, American wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
• 1783 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and author (b. 1710)
• 1808 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)
• 1833 – Antoine le Blanc, French-American murderer (b. 1800)
• 1868 – Pierre Adolphe Rost, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1797)
• 1885 – Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol, Catalan engineer, designed the Ictineo I and Ictineo II (b. 1819)
• 1902 – Frederick Abel, English chemist (b. 1827)
• 1907 – Sully Prudhomme, French poet and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)
• 1919 – Lord Charles Beresford, English admiral and politician (b. 1846)
• 1927 – Charles Woodruff, American archer (b. 1846)
• 1938 – John Stuart Hindmarsh, English race car driver and aviator (b. 1907)
• 1939 – Arthur Rackham, English illustrator (b. 1867)
• 1945 – John S. McCain, Sr., American admiral (b. 1884)
• 1949 – Walter Widdop, English tenor (b. 1892)
• 1950 – Olaf Stapledon, English philosopher and author (b. 1886)
• 1951 – James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (b. 1867)
• 1952 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)
• 1956 – Lee Jung Seob, Korean painter (b. 1916)
• 1959 – Edmund Gwenn, English-American actor (b. 1877)
• 1959 – Kay Kendall, English actress (b. 1926)
• 1962 – Hanns Eisler, German-Austrian composer (b. 1898)
• 1962 – Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
• 1963 – Wladimir Aïtoff, French rugby player (b. 1879)
• 1966 – Margaret Sanger, American nurse, educator, and activist (b. 1879)
• 1966 – Hendrik Verwoerd, Dutch-South African politician, 7th Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1901)
• 1969 – Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (b. 1892)
• 1972 – Victims of the Munich Massacre
  • Luttif Afif, Palestinian terrorist (b. 1945)
  • David Mark Berger, American-Israeli weightlifter (b. 1944)
  • Ze'ev Friedman, Polish-Israeli weightlifter (b. 1944)
  • Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestling judge (b. 1931)
  • Eliezer Halfin, Russian-Israeli wrestler (b. 1948)
  • Amitzur Shapira, Russian-Israeli runner and coach (b. 1932)
  • Kehat Shorr, Romanian shooting coach (b. 1919)
  • Mark Slavin, Israeli wrestler (b. 1954)
  • Andre Spitzer, Romanian-Israeli fencer and coach (b. 1945)
  • Yakov Springer, Polish-Israeli wrestler and weightlifting coach (b. 1921)
• 1974 – Olga Baclanova, Russian actress (b. 1896)
• 1978 – Max Decugis, French tennis player (b. 1882)
• 1978 – Tom Wilson, American record producer (b. 1931)
• 1979 – Ronald Binge, English composer (b. 1910)
• 1981 – Christy Brown, Irish author (b. 1932)
• 1984 – Ernest Tubb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)
• 1985 – Johnny Desmond, American singer (b. 1919)
• 1985 – Franco Ferrara, Italian conductor (b. 1911)
• 1986 – Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1895)
• 1987 – Quinn Martin, American television producer (b. 1922)
• 1988 – Roland Daniels, American wrestler (b. 1950)
• 1988 – Bill Northam, Australian businessman and sailor (b. 1905)
• 1990 – Tom Fogerty, American singer (b. 1941)
• 1990 – Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)
• 1991 – Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
• 1992 – Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1912)
• 1994 – Nicky Hopkins, English pianist (The Jeff Beck Group, The Kinks, Jerry Garcia Band, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Sweet Thursday, (b. 1944)
• 1994 – Max Kaminsky, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1908)
• 1996 – Ester Soré, Chilean musician (b. 1915)
• 1997 – P. H. Newby, English author (b. 1918)
• 1998 – Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Swedish actor (b. 1928)
• 1998 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director (b. 1910)
• 1998 – Ric Segreto, American singer-songwriter, actor, and journalist (b. 1952)
• 1999 – Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician, 3rd President of Nauru (b. 1938)
• 1999 – René Lecavalier, Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)
• 2001 – Carl Crack, German rapper and DJ (Atari Teenage Riot) (b. 1971)
• 2002 – Ilya Livykou, Greek actress (b. 1919)
• 2003 – Harry Goz, American actor (b. 1932)
• 2003 – Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountaineer (b. 1969)
• 2005 – Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (b. 1929)
• 2005 – Eugenia Charles, Dominican politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Madeleine L'Engle, American author (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
• 2007 – Percy Rodriguez, Canadian actor (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racer and trainer (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Anita Page, American actress (b. 1910)
• 2009 – Catherine Gaskin, Irish-Australian novelist (b. 1929)
• 2010 – Clive Donner, English director (b. 1926)
• 2011 – Michael S. Hart, Gutenberg Project founder (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Lawrie Dring, English scout leader, founded World Federation of Independent Scouts (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Jake Eberts, Canadian film producer (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Art Modell, American businessman (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Bertil Norström, Swedish actor (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Terry Nutkins, English television host and author (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Herbert O. Sparrow, Canadian politician (b. 1930)

Holidays and observances

• Armed Forces Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
• Christian Feast Days:
  • Begga
  • Chagnoald
  • Gondulphus of Metz
  • September 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Defence Day or Army Day (Pakistan)
• Flag Day (Bonaire)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Swaziland from the United Kingdom in 1968
• Stillbirth Remembrance Day (several U.S. states and Canadian provinces)
• Unification Day (Bulgaria)
• The earliest date on which the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance is performed

External links

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

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