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September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 114 days remaining until the end of the year.
70 – Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem .
617 – Battle of Huoyi : Li Yuan defeats a Sui Dynasty army, opening the path to his capture of the imperial capital Chang'an and the eventual establishment of the Tang Dynasty .
1100 – Election of Antipope Theodoric .
1253 – Pope Innocent IV canonised Stanisław of Szczepanów , killed by king Bolesław II .
1264 – The Statute of Kalisz , guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Boleslaus the Pious , Duke of Greater Poland .
1271 – John XXI chosen as Pope.
1331 – Stephen Uroš IV Dušan declares himself king of Serbia
1380 – Battle of Kulikovo : Russian forces defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols , stopping their advance.
1504 – Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria in Florence .
1514 – Battle of Orsha : In one of the biggest battles of the century, Lithuanians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
1551 – The foundation day in Vitória , Brazil
1565 – St. Augustine, Florida was founded by Spanish admiral and Florida's first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés .
1565 – The Knights of Malta lift the Ottoman siege of Malta that began on May 18 .
1612 – The foundation day in São Luís, Maranhão , Brazil .
1655 – Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge , making it the first time the city is captured by a foreign army.
1727 – A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire , England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
1755 – French and Indian War : Battle of Lake George .
1756 – French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition .
1761 – Marriage of King George III of the United Kingdom to Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz .
1775 – The unsuccessful Rising of the Priests in Malta .
1781 – American Revolutionary War : The Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina , the war's last significant battle in the Southern theater , ends in a narrow British tactical victory.
1793 – French Revolutionary Wars : Battle of Hondschoote .
1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Bassano : French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano del Grappa .
1810 – The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor 's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America , the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon .
1831 – William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland .
1831 – November Uprising : Battle of Warsaw ends, effectively ending the Insurrection.
1860 – The steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan , with the loss of around 300 lives.
1862 – Millennium of Russia monument unveiled in Novgorod .
1863 – American Civil War : Second Battle of Sabine Pass : On the Texas -Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River , a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas .
1883 – The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
1888 – In Spain , the first travel of Isaac Peral's submarine , was the first practical submarine ever made.
1888 – In London , the body of Jack the Ripper 's second murder victim, Annie Chapman , is found.
1888 – In England the first six Football League matches are played.
1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
1900 – Galveston Hurricane of 1900 : A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
1914 – World War I : Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
1921 – Margaret Gorman , a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America .
1923 – Honda Point disaster : Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
1925 – Rif War : Spanish forces including troops from the Foreign Legion under Colonel Francisco Franco landing at Al Hoceima (Northern Morocco ).
1926 – Germany is admitted to the League of Nations .
1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
1933 – Ghazi bin Faisal became King of Iraq.
1934 – Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people.
1935 – US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long , nicknamed "Kingfish", is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.
1941 – World War II : Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union 's second-largest city, Leningrad .
1943 – World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in Frascati is bombed by USAAF .
1943 – World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy .
1944 – World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
1944 – World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany.
1945 – Cold War : United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
1946 – A 95.6% vote in favor of abolishing the monarchy in Bulgaria .
1951 – Treaty of San Francisco : In San Francisco , California , 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War .
1952 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang .
1954 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
1955 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 108 is adopted.
1959 – The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established.
1960 – In Huntsville, Alabama , US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
1962 – Newly independent Algeria , by referendum , adopts a constitution .
1962 – Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 Evening Star .
1965 – Pakistan Navy raids Indian coasts without any resistance in Operation Dwarka , Pakistan celebrates Victory Day annually.
1966 – The Severn Bridge is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II .
1966 – The first Star Trek series premieres on NBC .
1967 – The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways.
1971 – In Washington, D.C. , the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein 's Mass .
1974 – Watergate Scandal : US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
1975 – Gays in the military : US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich , a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War , appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is given a general discharge, which was later upgraded to honorable.
1978 – Black Friday , a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran , provoked 88 deaths, it marks the beginning of the end of the monarchy in Iran
1988 – Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires .
1989 – Partnair Flight 394 drove into the North Sea , killing 55 people. The investigation showed that the tail of the plane vibrated loose in flight due to sub-standard connecting bolts that had been fraudulently sold as aircraft-grade.
1991 – The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
1994 – USAir Flight 427 , on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport , suddenly crashes in clear weather killing all 132 aboard; resulting in the most extensive aviation investigation in world history and altering manufacturing practices in the industry.
2004 – NASA 's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
2005 – Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base ; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
2012 – Jimmy Carter passes Herbert Hoover for longest retirement after leaving office . Hoover was retired for 11,553 days, and had held the record for over 54 years.
2013 – Eleven people are killed in a train collision in Iași County , Romania.
685 – Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (d. 762)
801 – Ansgar , German archbishop and saint (d. 865)
828 – Ali al-Hadi , Saudi Arabian 10th of the Twelve Imams (d. 868)
1157 – Richard I of England (d. 1199)
1209 – Sancho II of Portugal (d. 1248)
1271 – Charles Martel of Anjou (d. 1295)
1380 – Bernardino of Siena , Italian priest, missionary, and saint (d. 1444)
1413 – Catherine of Bologna , Italian nun and saint (d. 1463)
1442 – John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford , English commander and politician, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (d. 1513)
1474 – Ludovico Ariosto , Italian playwright and poet (d. 1533)
1515 – Alfonso Salmeron , Spanish priest and scholar (d. 1585)
1588 – Marin Mersenne , French mathematician, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1648)
1611 – Johann Friedrich Gronovius , German scholar and critic (d. 1671)
1621 – Louis, Grand Condé , French general (d. 1686)
1633 – Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (d. 1654)
1672 – Nicolas de Grigny , French organist and composer (d. 1703)
1698 – François Francoeur , French violinist and composer (d. 1787)
1742 – Ozias Humphry , English painter and academic (d. 1810)
1749 – Yolande de Polastron , French educator (d. 1793)
1749 – Princess Marie Louise of Savoy (d. 1792)
1750 – Tanikaze Kajinosuke , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 4th Yokozuna (d. 1795)
1752 – Carl Stenborg , Swedish opera singer, actor, and director (d. 1813)
1767 – August Wilhelm Schlegel , German poet and critic (d. 1845)
1774 – Anne Catherine Emmerich , German nun and mystic (d. 1824)
1779 – Mustafa IV , Ottoman sultan (d. 1808)
1783 – N. F. S. Grundtvig , Danish pastor, philosopher, and author (d. 1872)
1804 – Eduard Mörike , German pastor, poet, and academic (d. 1875)
1814 – Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg , French archaeologist, ethnographer, and historian (d. 1874)
1815 – Giuseppina Strepponi , Italian soprano and educator (d. 1897)
1822 – Karl von Ditmar , German geologist and explorer (d. 1892)
1824 – Jaime Nunó , Spanish-American composer, conductor, and director (d. 1908)
1828 – Joshua Chamberlain , American general and politician, 32nd Governor of Maine (d. 1914)
1828 – Clarence Cook , American author and critic (d. 1900)
1830 – Frédéric Mistral , French poet and lexicographer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)
1831 – Wilhelm Raabe , German author and painter (d. 1910)
1841 – Antonín Dvořák , Czech composer and academic (d. 1904)
1841 – Charles J. Guiteau , American preacher and lawyer (d. 1882)
1846 – Paul Chater , Indian-Hong Kong businessman and politician (d. 1926)
1851 – John Jenkins , American-Australian businessman and politician, 22nd Premier of South Australia (d. 1923)
1852 – Gojong of Korea (d. 1919)
1857 – Georg Michaelis , German academic and politician, 6th Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936)
1863 – Mary of the Divine Heart , German nun and saint (d. 1899)
1867 – Alexander Parvus , Belarusian-German theoretician and activist (d. 1924)
1868 – Seth Weeks , American mandolin player, composer, and bandleader (d. 1953)
1871 – Samuel McLaughlin , Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded the McLaughlin Car Company (d. 1972)
1873 – Alfred Jarry , French author and playwright (d. 1907)
1873 – David O. McKay , American religious leader, 9th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1970)
1881 – Harry Hillman , American runner and hurdler (d. 1945)
1881 – Refik Saydam , Turkish physician and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 1942)
1884 – Théodore Pilette , Belgian race car driver (d. 1921)
1886 – Siegfried Sassoon , English captain, journalist, and poet (d. 1967)
1886 – Ninon Vallin , French soprano and actress (d. 1961)
1889 – Robert A. Taft , American lawyer and politician (d. 1953)
1894 – John Samuel Bourque , Canadian soldier and politician (d. 1974)
1894 – Willem Pijper , Dutch composer and critic (d. 1947)
1895 – Sara García , Mexican actress (d. 1980)
1896 – Howard Dietz , American publicist and songwriter (d. 1983)
1897 – Jimmie Rodgers , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1933)
1900 – Tilly Devine , English-Australian criminal (d. 1970)
1900 – Claude Pepper , American lawyer and politician (d. 1989)
1901 – Hendrik Verwoerd , Dutch-South African journalist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1966)
1903 – Jane Arbor , English author (d. 1994)
1904 – Tzavalas Karousos , Greek-French actor (d. 1969)
1905 – Ivy Bean , English centenarian (d. 2010)
1905 – Henry Wilcoxon , Dominican-American actor and producer (d. 1984)
1906 – Andrei Kirilenko , Russian engineer and politician (d. 1990)
1907 – William Wentworth , Australian economist and politician, 11th Australian Minister for Human Services (d. 2003)
1909 – Józef Noji , Polish runner (d. 1943)
1910 – Jean-Louis Barrault , French actor and director (d. 1994)
1914 – Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople (d. 1991)
1914 – Denys Lasdun , English architect, designed the Royal National Theatre (d. 2001)
1915 – Frank Cady , American actor and singer (d. 2012)
1915 – Frank Pullen , English businessman (d. 1992)
1917 – Jan Sedivka , Czech-Australian violinist and educator (d. 2009)
1918 – Derek Barton , English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1919 – Gianni Brera , Italian journalist and author (d. 1992)
1919 – Maria Lassnig , Austrian painter and academic (d. 2014)
1921 – Mosie Lister , American singer-songwriter and minister (The Statesmen Quartet ) (d. 2015)
1921 – Harry Secombe , Welsh-English actor and singer (d. 2001)
1922 – Sid Caesar , American actor and singer (d. 2014)
1922 – Lyndon LaRouche , American politician and activist, founded the LaRouche movement
1922 – Royston Tickner , English actor (d. 1997)
1923 – Rasul Gamzatov , Russian poet (d. 2003)
1924 – Wendell H. Ford , American lieutenant and politician, 53rd Governor of Kentucky (d. 2015)
1924 – Marie-Claire Kirkland , American-Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician
1924 – Grace Metalious , American author (d. 1964)
1924 – Mimi Parent , Canadian-Swiss painter (d. 2005)
1925 – Jacqueline Ceballos , American activist, founded the Veteran Feminists of America
1925 – Peter Sellers , English actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1980)
1926 – Bhupen Hazarika , Indian singer-songwriter, poet, and director (d. 2011)
1927 – Harlan Howard , American songwriter (d. 2002)
1927 – Robert L. Rock , American soldier and politician, 42nd Lieutenant Governor of Indiana (d. 2013)
1929 – Christoph von Dohnányi , German conductor
1930 – Mario Adorf , Swiss-German actor, singer, and screenwriter
1930 – Nguyen Cao Ky , Vietnamese general and politician, 16th Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam (d. 2011)
1930 – Robert W. Firestone , American psychologist and author
1931 – John Garrett , English soldier and politician (d. 2007)
1932 – Patsy Cline , American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1963)
1933 – Asha Bhosle , Indian singer and actress
1933 – Paul M. Fleiss , American pediatrician and author (d. 2014)
1933 – Michael Frayn , English author and playwright
1933 – Jeffrey Koo Sr. , Taiwanese banker and businessman (d. 2012)
1933 – Eric Salzman , American composer, producer, and critic
1933 – Maigonis Valdmanis , Latvian basketball player and coach (d. 1999)
1934 – Rodrigue Biron , Canadian politician
1934 – Peter Maxwell Davies , English composer and conductor
1934 – Bernard Donoughue, Baron Donoughue , English academic and politician
1936 – Roy Newman , English admiral
1937 – Barbara Frum , American-Canadian journalist (d. 1992)
1937 – Archie Goodwin , American author and illustrator (d. 1998)
1938 – Adrian Cronauer , American sergeant and radio host
1938 – Kenichi Horie , Japanese sailor
1938 – Sam Nunn , American lawyer and politician
1939 – Carsten Keller , German field hockey player and coach
1939 – Guitar Shorty , American singer and guitarist
1940 – Quentin L. Cook , American religious leader
1940 – Jerzy Robert Nowak , Polish historian and journalist
1940 – Jack Prelutsky , American author and poet
1941 – Bernie Sanders , American carpenter and politician
1942 – Brian Cole , American bass player (The Association ) (d. 1972)
1942 – Judith Hann , English journalist and author
1943 – Adelaide C. Eckardt , American academic and politician
1944 – Peter Bellamy , English singer-songwriter (The Young Tradition ) (d. 1991)
1944 – Margaret Hodge , Egyptian-English economist and politician
1944 – Terry Jenner , Australian cricketer and coach (d. 2011)
1945 – Vinko Puljić , Croatian cardinal
1945 – Ron "Pigpen" McKernan , American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Grateful Dead ) (d. 1973)
1945 – Rogie Vachon , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1945 – Kelly Groucutt , English singer and bass player (Electric Light Orchestra and ELO Part II ) (d. 2009)
1946 – Ronnie Burns , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Cotton Keays & Morris )
1946 – L. C. Greenwood , American football player (d. 2013)
1947 – Valery Afanassiev , Russian pianist and conductor
1947 – Halldór Ásgrímsson , Icelandic accountant and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 2015)
1947 – Ann Beattie , American author and academic
1947 – Benjamin Orr , American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Cars ) (d. 2000)
1947 – Marianne Wiggins , American author
1948 – Jean-Pierre Monseré , Belgian cyclist (d. 1971)
1948 – Great Kabuki , Japanese wrestler
1949 – Edward Hinds , English physicist and academic
1950 – Ian Davidson , Scottish lawyer and politician
1950 – Zachary Richard , American singer-songwriter and poet
1950 – Mike Simpson , American dentist and politician
1951 – Tim Gullikson American tennis player and coach (d. 1996)
1951 – Nikos Karvelas , Greek singer-songwriter and producer
1951 – John McDonnell , English politician
1951 – Dezső Ránki , Hungarian pianist
1952 – David R. Ellis , American actor, stuntman, and director (d. 2013)
1952 – Geoff Miller , English cricketer
1953 – Pascal Greggory , French actor
1953 – Stein-Erik Olsen , Norwegian guitarist
1954 – Mark Lindsay Chapman , English actor, singer, and producer
1954 – Anne Diamond , English journalist
1954 – Mark Foley , American lawyer and politician
1954 – Edgar Mortiz , Filipino actor and director
1954 – Jon Scieszka , American author and educator
1954 – Michael Shermer , American historian, author, and academic, founded The Skeptics Society
1955 – David O'Halloran , Australian footballer (d. 2013)
1955 – Julian Richings , English-Canadian actor
1955 – Terry Tempest Williams , American environmentalist and author
1956 – Mick Brown , American drummer (Dokken , Tooth and Nail , and T & N )
1956 – David Carr , American journalist and author (d. 2015)
1956 – Maurice Cheeks , American basketball player and coach
1956 – Fad Gadget , English singer (d. 2002)
1956 – Stefan Johansson , Swedish race car driver
1957 – Walt Easley , American football player (d. 2013)
1957 – Heather Thomas , American actress and author
1958 – Michael Lardie , American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (Great White and Night Ranger )
1958 – Mitsuru Miyamoto , Japanese voice actor
1959 – Carmen Campagne , Canadian singer
1959 – Daler Nazarov , Tajik singer-songwriter and actor
1960 – Stefano Casiraghi , Italian-Monacan businessman (d. 1990)
1960 – Misako Konno , Japanese actress and essayist
1960 – Aimee Mann , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress ('Til Tuesday )
1960 – David Steele , English bass player and songwriter (The Beat and Fine Young Cannibals )
1960 – Aguri Suzuki , Japanese race car driver
1962 – Linda Bennett , English-Icelandic fashion designer, founded L.K.Bennett
1962 – Sergio Casal , Spanish tennis player
1962 – Christopher Klim , American physicist and author
1962 – Thomas Kretschmann , German-American actor
1962 – Jay Ziskrout , American drummer and producer (Bad Religion )
1963 – Alexandros Alexiou , Greek footballer
1963 – Hitoshi Matsumoto , Japanese comedian and actor
1963 – Brad Silberling , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1963 – Daniel Wolpert , scientist
1964 – Raven , American wrestler and actor
1964 – Michael Johns , American businessman and journalist
1964 – Joachim Nielsen , Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Jokke & Valentinerne ) (d. 2000)
1964 – Victor Ubogu , Nigerian-English rugby player
1965 – Darlene Zschech , Australian singer-songwriter and pastor
1966 – Peter Furler , Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Newsboys and Peter Furler Band )
1966 – Carola Häggkvist , Swedish singer-songwriter
1967 – Eerik-Niiles Kross , Estonian politician and diplomat
1967 – James Packer , Australian businessman
1967 – Kimberly Peirce , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1968 – Wolfram Klein , German footballer
1968 – Ray Wilson , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Genesis and Stiltskin )
1969 – Lars Bohinen , Norwegian footballer and manager
1969 – Petter Hegre , Norwegian photographer
1969 – Oswaldo Ibarra , Ecuadorian footballer
1969 – Chris Powell , English footballer and manager
1969 – Gary Speed , Welsh footballer and manager (d. 2011)
1970 – Lodi , American wrestler
1970 – Neko Case , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The New Pornographers , The Corn Sisters , and Maow )
1970 – Paul DiPietro , Canadian-Swiss ice hockey player
1970 – Nidal Malik Hasan , American soldier and psychiatrist
1970 – Latrell Sprewell , American basketball player
1970 – Andy Ward , Irish rugby player and coach
1971 – David Arquette , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1971 – Brooke Burke , American model and actress
1971 – Martin Freeman , English actor
1971 – Khalid Gonçalves , American actor, singer, and bass player
1971 – Lachlan Murdoch , English-Australian businessman
1971 – Dustin O'Halloran , American pianist and composer
1971 – Daniel Petrov , Bulgarian boxer
1971 – Pierre Sévigny , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1972 – Markus Babbel , German footballer and manager
1972 – Os du Randt , South African rugby player and coach
1972 – Giovanni Frezza , Italian actor
1972 – Lisa Kennedy Montgomery , American radio and television host
1972 – Phil Laak , Irish-American poker player
1972 – Tomokazu Seki , Japanese voice actor and singer
1973 – Khamis Al-Dosari , Saudi Arabian footballer
1973 – Gabrial McNair , American saxophonist, keyboard player, and composer (Oslo )
1973 – Troy Sanders , American singer-songwriter and bass player (Mastodon and Killer Be Killed )
1974 – Marios Agathokleous , Cypriot footballer
1974 – Tanaz Eshaghian , Iranian-American director and producer
1974 – Braulio Luna , Mexican footballer
1975 – Lee Eul-Yong , South Korean footballer and manager
1975 – Richard Hughes , English drummer (Keane )
1975 – Chris Latham , Australian rugby player
1975 – Elena Likhovtseva , Russian tennis player
1975 – Larenz Tate , American actor, director, and producer
1976 – Gerald Drummond , Costa Rican footballer
1976 – Jervis Drummond , Costa Rican footballer
1976 – Brendan Kelly , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Lawrence Arms , The Broadways , and The Falcon )
1976 – Sarah Kucserka , American screenwriter and producer
1976 – Sjeng Schalken , Dutch-Monacan tennis player
1977 – Nate Corddry , American actor
1977 – Jay McKee , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1978 – Gerard Autet , Spanish footballer and manager
1978 – Emanuele Ferraro , Italian footballer
1978 – Gil Meche , American baseball player
1978 – Angela Rawlings , Canadian-American author and poet
1979 – Pink , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (You+Me )
1979 – Kirsten Price , English-American singer-songwriter
1980 – Teruyuki Moniwa , Japanese footballer
1980 – Mbulaeni Mulaudzi , South African runner (d. 2014)
1980 – Slim Thug , American rapper and actor (Boss Hogg Outlawz )
1981 – Kate Abdo , English journalist
1981 – Selim Benachour , Tunisian footballer
1981 – Māris Ļaksa , Latvian basketball player
1981 – Morten Gamst Pedersen , Norwegian footballer
1981 – Jonathan Taylor Thomas , American actor
1982 – Chumlee , American television personality
1982 – Travis Daniels , American football player
1983 – Kate Beaton , Canadian cartoonist
1983 – Diego Benaglio , Swiss footballer
1983 – Will Blalock , American basketball player
1983 – Chris Judd , Australian footballer
1983 – Wali Lundy , American football player
1983 – Lewis Roberts-Thomson , Australian footballer
1984 – Bobby Parnell , American baseball player
1984 – Vitaly Petrov , Russian race car driver
1984 – Jürgen Säumel , Austrian footballer
1984 – Tiago Treichel , Brazilian footballer
1984 – Peter Whittingham , English footballer
1985 – Renz Fernandez , Filipino actor
1985 – Tomasz Jodłowiec , Polish footballer
1985 – Yendi Phillips , Jamaican model, Miss Jamaica World 2007
1986 – Matt Grothe , American football player
1986 – Dan Hunt , Australian rugby player
1986 – João Moutinho , Portuguese footballer
1986 – Kirill Nababkin , Russian footballer
1987 – Alexandre Bilodeau , Canadian skier
1987 – Danielle Frenkel , Israeli high jumper
1987 – Wiz Khalifa , American rapper and actor
1987 – Asaya Kimijima , Japanese model and actor
1987 – Marcel Nguyen , German gymnast
1988 – Arrelious Benn , American football player
1988 – Caitlin Hill , Australian blogger
1988 – Chantal Jones , American model and actress
1989 – Avicii , Swedish DJ and producer
1989 – Gylfi Sigurðsson , Icelandic footballer
1990 – Matt Barkley , American football player
1990 – Tokelo Rantie , South African footballer
1990 – Ella Rae Peck , American actress
1990 – Musa Nizam , Turkish footballer
1991 – Ignacio González , Mexican footballer
1992 – Nino Niederreiter , Swiss ice hockey player
1992 – Kilian Pruschke , German footballer
1994 – Marco Benassi , Italian footballer
1995 – Ellie Black , Canadian gymnast
1995 – James Gandhi , English actor
1996 – Krystal Reyes , Filipino actress
1997 – Kimberlea Berg , English actress
394 – Arbogast , Frankish general
701 – Pope Sergius I (b. 650)
780 – Leo IV the Khazar , Byzantine emperor (b. 750)
1100 – Antipope Clement III (b. 1029)
1397 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester , English politician, Lord High Constable of England (b. 1355)
1425 – Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
1539 – John Stokesley , English bishop (b. 1475)
1560 – Amy Robsart , English wife of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (b. 1532)
1613 – Carlo Gesualdo , Italian lute player and composer (b. 1566)
1637 – Robert Fludd , English physician, mathematician, and cosmologist (b. 1574)
1644 – John Coke , English civil servant and politician (b. 1563)
1644 – Francis Quarles , English poet and author (b. 1592)
1645 – Francisco de Quevedo , Spanish poet and politician (b. 1580)
1656 – Joseph Hall , English bishop (b. 1574)
1675 – Amalia of Solms-Braunfels (b. 1602)
1682 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz , Spanish mathematician and philosopher (b. 1606)
1721 – Michael Brokoff , Czech sculptor (b. 1686)
1755 – Ephraim Williams , American soldier and philanthropist (b. 1715)
1761 – Bernard Forest de Bélidor , French mathematician and engineer (b. 1698)
1780 – Enoch Poor , American general (b. 1736)
1784 – Ann Lee , English-American religious leader (b. 1736)
1806 – Patrick Cotter O'Brien , Irish giant (b. 1760)
1811 – Peter Simon Pallas , German zoologist and botanist (b. 1741)
1831 – John Aitken , Scottish-American publisher (b. 1745)
1853 – Frédéric Ozanam , French scholar, co-founded the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (b. 1813)
1882 – Joseph Liouville , French mathematician and academic (b. 1809)
1888 – Annie Chapman , English victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1841)
1916 – Friedrich Baumfelder , German pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1836)
1894 – Hermann von Helmholtz , German physician and physicist (b. 1821)
1909 – Vere St. Leger Goold , Irish tennis player (b. 1853)
1933 – Faisal I of Iraq (b. 1883)
1935 – Carl Weiss , American physician (b. 1906)
1942 – Rıza Nur , Turkish surgeon and politician (b. 1879)
1943 – Julius Fučík , Czech journalist (b. 1903)
1944 – Jan van Gilse , Dutch composer and conductor (b. 1881)
1948 – Thomas Mofolo , Lesotho author (b. 1876)
1949 – Richard Strauss , German composer and manager (b. 1864)
1954 – André Derain , French painter and sculptor (b. 1880)
1963 – Maurice Wilks , English engineer and businessman (d. 1904)
1965 – Dorothy Dandridge , American actress and singer (b. 1922)
1965 – Hermann Staudinger , German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
1969 – Bud Collyer , American actor and game show host (b. 1908)
1969 – Alexandra David-Néel , Belgian-French explorer and activist (b. 1868)
1970 – Percy Spencer , American engineer, invented the microwave oven (b. 1894)
1974 – Wolfgang Windgassen , French-German tenor and actor (b. 1914)
1977 – Zero Mostel , American actor and singer (b. 1915)
1980 – Willard Libby , American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
1981 – Nisargadatta Maharaj , Indian guru, philosopher, and educator (b. 1897)
1981 – Roy Wilkins , American journalist and activist (b. 1901)
1981 – Hideki Yukawa , Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
1983 – Antonin Magne , French cyclist (b. 1904)
1985 – John Franklin Enders , American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
1990 – Denys Watkins-Pitchford English author and illustrator (b. 1905)
1991 – Brad Davis , American actor (b. 1949)
1991 – Alex North , American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
1995 – Erich Kunz , Austrian actor and singer (b. 1909)
1997 – Derek Taylor , English journalist and author (b. 1932)
1999 – Moondog , American-German singer-songwriter, drummer, and poet (b. 1916)
1999 – Michalis Kounelis , Greek violinist (b. 1928)
2001 – Bill Ricker , Canadian entomologist and author (b. 1908)
2002 – Rulon Jeffs , American religious leader (b. 1909)
2002 – Laurie Williams , Jamaican cricketer (b. 1968)
2003 – Jaclyn Linetsky , Canadian voice actress (b. 1986)
2003 – Leni Riefenstahl , German actress, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1902)
2004 – Frank Thomas , American animator, voice actor, and screenwriter (b. 1913)
2005 – Noel Cantwell , Irish cricketer, footballer, and manager (b. 1932)
2005 – Donald Horne , Australian journalist, author, and critic (b. 1921)
2006 – Hilda Bernstein , English-South African author and activist (b. 1915)
2006 – Peter Brock , Australian race car driver (b. 1945)
2006 – Frank Middlemass , English actor (b. 1919)
2006 – Erk Russell , American football player and coach (b. 1926)
2007 – Ramón Cardemil , Chilean horse rider (b. 1917)
2007 – Vincent Serventy , Australian ornithologist, conservationist, and author (b. 1916)
2008 – Ralph Plaisted , American explorer (b. 1927)
2008 – Evan Tanner , American mixed martial artist (b. 1971)
2009 – Ray Barrett , Australian actor (b. 1927)
2009 – Aage Bohr , Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
2009 – Mike Bongiorno , American-Italian television host (b. 1924)
2010 – Murali , Indian actor (b. 1964)
2012 – Adnan Farhan Abd Al Latif , Yemeni criminal (b. 1975)
2012 – Leigh Hamilton , New Zealand-American actress (b. 1949)
2012 – Ronald Hamowy , Canadian historian and academic (b. 1937)
2012 – Bill Moggridge , English-American designer, author, and educator, co-founded IDEO (b. 1943)
2012 – Thomas Szasz , Hungarian-American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1920)
2013 – Louise Currie , American actress (b. 1913)
2013 – Goose Gonsoulin , American football player (b. 1938)
2013 – Don Reichert , Canadian painter and photographer (b. 1932)
2013 – Jean Véronis , French linguist, computer scientist, and blogger (b. 1955)
2013 – Cal Worthington , American car dealer (b. 1920)
2014 – Marvin Barnes , American basketball player (b. 1952)
2014 – S. Truett Cathy , American businessman, founded Chick-fil-A (b. 1921)
2014 – Bobby Fong , American academic (b. 1950)
2014 – Sean O'Haire , American wrestler, mixed martial artist, and kick-boxer (b. 1971)
2014 – Magda Olivero , Italian soprano (b. 1910)
2014 – Gerald Wilson , American trumpet player and composer (b. 1918)
2014 – George Zuverink , American baseball player (b. 1924)
2015 – Joaquín Andújar , Dominican baseball player (b. 1952)
2015 – Erlinda Cortes , Filipino actress (b. 1924)
2015 – Andrew Kohut , American political scientist and academic (b. 1942)
2015 – Tyler Sash , American football player (b. 1988)
2015 – Joost Zwagerman , Dutch author and poet (b. 1963)
Holidays and observances [ edit ]
Christian Feast Day :
Earliest day on which Auditor's Day can fall, while September 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Sunday in September. (Church of Scientology )
Earliest day on which Day of the Workers in the Oil, Gas, Power, and Geological Industry can fall, while September 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Saturday in September. (Turkmenistan )
Earliest day on which Grandparents Day can fall, while September 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Sunday in September. (Canada , Estonia )
Earliest day on which Mid-Autumn Festival can fall, while October 8 is the latest; celebrated on the 15th day in the 8th month of Chinese calendar . (China , Chinese diaspora )
Earliest day on which Turkmen Bakhshi Day can fall, while September 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Sunday in September. (Turkmenistan )
Day of the Battle of Borodino (Russia )
Feast of 'Izzat (Might) – First day of the tenth month of the Bahá'í calendar . (Bahá'í Faith )
Independence Day , celebrates the independence of Macedonia from Yugoslavia in 1991.
International Literacy Day (International )
Martyrs' Day (Afghanistan) (date may fall on September 9, follows a non-Gregorian calendar)
National day , also the feast of Our Lady of Meritxell . (Andorra )
Victory Day (Pakistan )
Victory Day , also the feast of Our Lady of Victories or il-Vittorja (Malta )
World Physical Therapy Day
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