September 2nd
Holidays and Festivals
VJ Day * (see below)
National Day (Vietnam) * (see below)
Sedan Day (Germany) * (see below)
Independence day (Transnistria) * (see below)
Ganesh Chaturthi (Mauritius)
National Beheading Day
Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions
Feast Day of San Esteban del Rey - Acoma Pueblo
Feast of Saint Nonnosus (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Agricola of Avignon (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Saint Castor of Apt (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Antoninus of Pamiers (Roman Catholic)
* VJ Day - Surrender ceremony aboard the USS Missouri formally ends WWII
* National Day (Vietnam) independence from Japan and France in 1945.
* Sedan Day AKA Sedantag (germany) – traditional national German holiday that commemorates Prussia's victory over France in 1870, making the German Empire a reality.
* Independence day (Transnistria), However Transnistria is not an internationally recognized independent state.
Fête de la Citron Translation: Lemon Day (French Republican) The 16th day of the Month of Fructidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Here's to a sweetheart, a bottle, and a friend.
The first beautiful, the second full, the last ever faithful."
- Traditional
Drink of The Day
B-52 (Bailey’s Heavy)
1/3 shot kahlua
2/3 shot Bailey's Irish Cream
Drizzle of Grand Marnier
Layer Baileys over kahlua and then drizzle Grand Marnier on top.
Wine of The Day
Auburn Road (2008) Reserve
Style - Merlot
Outer Coastal Plain
$25
Beer of The Day
Maudite
Brewer - Unibroue
Style - Belgian Strong Dark Ale
ABV - 8%
Joke of The Day
Two men, sentenced to die in the electric chair on the same day, were led
down to the room in which they would meet their maker. The priest had
given them last rites, the formal speech had been given by the warden, and
a final prayer had been said among the participants. The Warden, turning
to the first man, solemnly asked, "Son, do you have a last request?"
To which the man replied, "Yes sir, I do. I love dance music. Could you
please play The Macarena for me one last time?"
"Certainly," replied the warden. He turned to the other man and asked,
"Well, what about you, son? What is your final request?"
"Please," said the condemned man, "kill me first."
Quote of The Day
"Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house."
- Dave Barry
September Observances
AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Month
All American Breakfast Month
Apple Month
Atrial Fibrillation Month
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Month
Baby Safety Month
Backpack Safety America Month
Be Kind to Editors and Writers Month
Better Breakfast Month
Bourbon Heritage Month
Bumbershoot Festival (Seattle, Washington, USA)
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Childrens' Good Manners Month
Chili Peppers and Figs Month
Classical Music Month
College Savings Month
Craniofacial Acceptance Month
Eat Chicken Month
Fall Hat Month
Go Wild During California Wild Rice Month
Great American Low-Cholesterol, Low-fat Pizza Bake Month
Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month
Happy Cat Month
Healthy Aging Month
Healthy Aging Month
Hunger Action Month
International Guide Dogs Month
International People Skills Month
International Self-Awareness Month
International Square Dancing Month
International Strategic Thinking Month
Library Card Sign-Up Month
Little League Month
Menopause Awareness Month
Million Minute Family Challenge (September-December)
Mold Awareness Month
National 5-A-Day Month
National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month
National Biscuit Month
National Blueberry Popsicle Month
National Campus Safety Month
National Chicken Month
National Child Awareness Month
National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
National Cholesterol Education Month
National Civics Awareness Month
National Coupon Month
National Courtesy Month
National DNA, Geonomics & Stem Cell Education Month
National Food Safety Education Month
National Fruit and Veggies Month (Also June)
National Head Lice Prevention Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15)
National Home Furnishings Month
National Honey Month
National Infant Mortality Awareness Month
National Mushroom Month
National Organic Harvest Month
National Osteopathic Medicine Month
National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month (ovarian.org)
National Pediculosis (Head Lice) Prevention Month
National Piano Month
National Potato Month
National Preparedness Month
National Prime Beef Month
National Prosper Where You Are Planted Month
National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
National Recovery Month
National Rice Month
National Sickle Cell Month
National Skin Care Awareness Month
National Wilderness Month
One-on-One Month
Passion Fruit and Peach Month
Peas and Radish Month
Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month
Pleasure Your Mate Month
Reunion Planning Month
Save The Koala Month
Sea Cadet Month
Self Improvement Month
Shameless Promotion Month
Southern Gospel Music Month
Sports and Home Eye Health and Safety Month
Subliminal Communications Month
United Planet Month
Update Your Resume Month
Virtual AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Days
Whole Grains Month
Women's Friendship Month
World Animal Remembrance Month
World Leukemia, Lymphoma And Myeloma Awareness Month
Observances this Week
National Childhood Injury Prevention Week, First Week of September
International Enthusiasm Week, First Week of September
National Nutrition Week (UNICEF-India), First Week of September
National Waffle Week, First Week of September
Self-University Week, First Week of September
Suicide Prevention Week, First Week of September
Septemberfest, First Week of September
National Arbor Week, (South Africa) First Week of September * CLICK HERE
National Payroll Week First Work Week of September
Historical Events on September 2nd
(31 BC) Battle of Actium of the Final War of the Roman Republic, off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
(44 BC) Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
(44 BC) The first of Cicero's Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the next several months.
911 Viking-monarch Oleg of Kiev-Russia signs treaty with Byzantines
1192 Sultan Saladin & king Richard the lion hearted sign cease fire
1519 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico
1537 King Christian III publishes "Ordinance on the Danish Church"
1644 Battle at Lostwithiel: Robert Devereux' infantry surrenders
1649 The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
1666 The Great Fire of London breaks out at 2am in Pudding Lane and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral, 80% of London is destroyed.
1686 Habsburgse armies occupy Buda on Turks
1732 Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome
1743 England/Austria/Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms
1752 Last Julian calender day in Britain, British colonies in America (no Sept 3-Sept 13th). Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
1789 The United States Department of the Treasury is founded by Congress.
1792 During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
1792 Paris masses remove nobles, clergymen out of jails & slaughter them
1796 Jews of the Netherlands are emancipated
1806 A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switz, kills 500
1807 The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
1833 Oberlin College is founded by John Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.
1839 Salon of Varietes opens in Amsterdam
1856 Tianjing's struggle Incident in Nanjing, China.
1859 A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
1859 Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii
1862 President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the American Civil War.
1864 Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city in the American Civil War, Union General William T Sherman captures and burns Atlanta.
1867 1st Girl School opens in Haarlem Neth
1867 Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijo. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since her death in 1914, she is called by the posthumous name Empress Shoken.
1870 Battle of Sedan of the Franco-Prussian War, Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner, Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies.
1885 Rock Springs massacre: In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
1894 Amsterdam Municipal theater opens
1894 Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota, about 600 die
1897 "McCall-magazine 1st published
1898 Battle of Omdurman, British under Lord Kitchener and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
1898 Machine gun 1st used in battle
1900 Telegraph use between Germany & US begins
1901 Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
1902 "A Trip To The Moon," the 1st science fiction film released
1908 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Lang in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1909 English King Edward VII signs South Africa Bill
1911 Joao Chagas forms Portuguese government
1913 Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas
1914 General von Hausen & countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux
1917 Deutsche Vaterlands Party forms (by admiral Tirpitz)
1919 Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago
1919 Italy agress to general voting right, proportional representation
1919 National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series
1920 W Somerset Maugham's "East of Suez," premieres in London
1922 President Ebert declares "Deutschland uber alas" as German national anthem
1924 44th US Mens Tennis, William Tilden beats William Johnston (61 97 62)
1924 Rudolf Friml's "Rose Marie" opens to rave reviews in NYC
1925 The U.S. Zeppelin the USS Shenandoah crashes, killing 14.
1926 Italy signs treaty with Yemen
1927 Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers
1929 Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros
1929 WOR (NYC) ends affiliation with CBS radio network
1930 First non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
1935 A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423
1935 Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, a large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
1936 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight
1937 US Housing Authority created by National Housing Act
1939 Following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II.
1940 23rd PGA Championship, Byron Nelson at Hershey CC Hershey Pa
1940 Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated
1941 Academy copyrights Oscar statuette
1942 German troops enter Stalingrad
1944 Belgium's Emissie bank closes
1944 During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane
1944 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz
1944 US leaders meet in Belgium
1945 59th US Womens Tennis, Sarah P Cooke beats Pauline Betz (36 86 64)
1945 V-J Day, World War II. Combat ends in the Pacific Theater during formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. The Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted(WW II ends)
1945 Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh) declares its independence from France (National Day), forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1946 Interim Government of India is formed with Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President.
1946 Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager
1946 Nehru forms government in India
1949 Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking China)
1951 Australia, NZ & US sign ANZUS-pact
1952 Dr Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery
1954 Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20
1954 WTVD TV channel 11 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 KCRA TV channel 3 in Sacramento, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India)
1956 Orioles trailing Red Sox 8-0 come back to win 11-10 in 9 innings
1956 Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service
1957 First edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die
1957 Milwaukee Braves' Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game
1957 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1958 Henry Verwoerd appointed PM of South Africa
1958 KAYS TV channel 7 in Hays, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 Minnisota announces $9 million bond issue to improve Metropolitan Stadium
1958 National Defense Education Act was signed
1958 United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.
1959 US President Eisenhower arrives in Paris
1960 Tamara & Irina Press (USSR) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold
1960 The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.
1960 William Walton's 2nd Symphony, premieres
1962 Stan Musial's 3,516th hit moves over Tris Speaker into 2nd place
1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 Alabama Gov George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS
1963 CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Idaho Centennia Golf Tournament
1964 Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia
1964 Norman Manley scores 2-consecutive holes-in-one at Del Valley, Cal
1965 Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th HR (off Curt Simmons)
1965 Treblinka trial in Dusseldorf ends
1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf
1967 KUHI (now KSNF) TV channel 16 in Joplin, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1967 The Principality of Sealand is established, ruled by Prince Paddy Roy Bates.
1968 Jerry Lewis' 3rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1969 NY Yankee Joe Pepitone is reinstated
1969 Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage Yankees at $65,000 a season
1969 The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
1970 First tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (US Open) (9 pt sudden death)
1970 NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
1971 Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer
1971 Chris Evert & Jimmy Connors win their 1st US Open tennis matches
1971 NY's Electric Circus Club goes out of business
1972 Chicago White Sox Milt Pappas no-hits SD Padres, 1-0
1972 Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 sec)
1972 Rod Stewart's 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well)
1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers
1973 Netherlands wins hockey world's championship
1973 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
1974 Jerry Lewis' 9th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1974 Prest Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act
1978 George Harrison marries Olivia
1978 Gloria Fajardo (21) marries Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami Sound Machine)
1978 Graham Salmon set worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man
1978 John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston
1978 Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years
1979 "I Remember Mama" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 108 perfs
1979 79th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Mark O'Meara
1980 John Arlott calls his last game, England v Australia at Lord's
1981 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1982 Rolling Stone Keith Richard's house burns down
1983 Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM
1984 "Zorba" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 362 performances
1985 Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1985 Jerry Lewis' 20th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $33,100,000
1986 Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi
1987 Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan
1987 Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit HRs in a game twice in 1 season
1987 Philips introduces CD-video
1987 West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia
1988 Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley
1989 Reverand Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst
1990 "Grapes of Wrath" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 188 performances
1990 Steve Allen, installed as a new abbot of Hartford St Zen Center, SF
1990 Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
1991 Jerry Lewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,071,657
1991 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1991 The United States officially recognizes the independence of the Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
1992 An earthquake and floodings in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people
1992 US dollar valued at 156.50 guilder (record)
1993 10th MTV Awards, Pearl Jam, En Vogue wins
1993 Central African Republic ex-emperor Bokassa freed
1993 Day of Peace in South Africa
1994 Miguel Indurain bicycles world record time (53,040 km)
1995 Actor Charlie Sheen (30th birthday) marries Donna Peele (25)
1995 Frank Bruno beats Oliver McCall in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1995 Southern California begins using new area code 562
1996 A peace agreement is signed between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front in Malacañang Palace.
1996 Jerry Lewis' 31st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $49,200,000
1996 Michelle McGann wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
1996 Soyuz TM-24, lands
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Montreal Canada on CHOM 97.7 FM
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toronto Canada on CILQ 107.1 FM
1998 Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
1998 The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
2012 15 people are killed by a car bomb attack at a refugee camp in Sbeineh, Palestine
2012 A decades-long ban on veiled female news presenters is lifted from State television in Egypt
2015 Earth's trees number just over 3 trillion according to study in "Nature" by Thomas Crowther of Yale University
2015 US President Barak Obama becomes the first president to visit the Arctic Circle at Kotzebue, Alaska
Born on September 2nd
1243 Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (d. 1295)
1548 Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (d. 1616)
1661 Georg Böhm, German composer, organist (d. 1733)
1675 William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
1716 Johann Trier, composer
1731 Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Olint und Sophronia)
1750 Pehr Frigel, composer
1753 Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy, queen of France (d. 1810)
1763 Caroline von Schelling, [Michaelis], German author
1778 Leopold FJJJ van Sassen Ysselt, Dutch politician
1778 Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland (d. 1846)
1798 Thomas Holliday Hicks, (Union Gov) (d. 1865)
1805 Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (d. 1851)
1810 William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (d. 1897)
1814 Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist, historian
1830 William P. Frye, American politician (d. 1911)
1837 James Harrison Wilson, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1925)
1838 Liliuokalani (Lydia Paki), Last Queen of Hawaii (1891-93) (d. 1917)
1839 Henry George, land reformer/writer (Progress & Poverty)
1847 Roger Wolcott, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1900)
1850 Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (d. 1915)
1850 Eugene Field, author/journalist (Little Boy Blue)
1850 Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (d. 1919)
1852 Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (d. 1935)
1853 Wilhelm Ostwald, Baltic German chemist (Nobel laureate 1909) (d. 1932)
1854 Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (d. 1910)
1856 Yang Hsiu-ch'ing, commander in chief of Taiping Rebellion
1857 Thomas Groube, Australian cricketer (d. 1927)
1862 Franjo Krežma, Croatian violinist (d. 1881)
1866 Charles Vintcent, South African cricketer (d. 1943)
1866 Hiram Johnson, (Gov-Progressive-Cal)
1870 Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (d. 1947)
1870 Marie Ault (Mary Cragg), Wigan England
1877 Frederick Soddy, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1956)
1878 Ion Dragoumis, Greek diplomat, writer and revolutionary (d. 1920)
1878 Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr (d. 1946)
1879 An Jung-geun, Korean assassin of Ito Hirobumi (d. 1910)
1883 Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, "The Red Archduchess" (d. 1963)
1884 Dr. Frank C. Laubach, Christian missionary, taught reading through phonetics (d. 1970)
1892 Felix Wolfes, composer
1894 Joseph Roth, Austrian journalist, writer (Hotel Savoy) (d. 1939)
1901 Adolph Rupp, American college basketball coach (d. 1977)
1901 Andreas Embirikos, Greek surrealist poet (d. 1975)
1904 Vera Vague (Barbara Jo Allen), American actress (Follow the Leader, Ice Capades Revue, Rosie the Riveter)
1910 Bruce Boyce, singer, teacher
1911 Eileen Way, actress (Les Miserables, Rainbow, Vikings, Assassin)
1911 Rene Amengual, composer
1911 Romare Bearden, African American painter (d. 1988)
1912 Ernest Bromley, Australian cricketer (d. 1967)
1912 Johan Daisne (Herman Thiery), Belgian writer (magic realism)
1913 Bill Shankly, English Football Manager (d. 1981)
1913 Israel Gelfand, Russian mathematician (d. 2009)
1914 Booker T Laury, blues pianist, vocalist
1914 Tom Glazer, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
1915 Benjamin Aaron, American labor law expert (d. 2007)
1915 Dai-Keong Lee, composer
1915 Hans Joachim Koellreutter, composer
1915 Meinhardt Raabe, actor, notable as Munchkin Coroner on The Wizard of Oz
1916 Dorothy May Bundy-Cheney, winner of more than 141 US tennis titles
1916 Penny Santon, Greenwich Village NY, actress (Roll Out, Matt Houston)
1917 Cleveland Amory, American author, conservationist, TV reviewer (TV Guide) (d. 1998)
1917 Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist (developed bossa nova) (d. 1995)
1918 Allen Drury, author (Advise & Consent-1960 Pulitzer Prize)
1918 Laurindo Almeida, composer, guitarist
1918 Martha Mitchell, wife of Attorney General John Mitchell
1919 Gideon William Waldrop, composer
1919 Marge Champion, LA California, dancer (Marge & Gower Champion Show)
1923 Rene Thom, French mathematician (d. 2002)
1924 Daniel arap Moi, President of Kenya
1925 Hugo Montenegro, American composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
1925 Ronnie Stevens, London England, actor (Rodney-Dick & Duchess)
1927 Francis Matthews, British actor (On the Bowery, Paul Temple)
1927 Leonard Katzman, TV producer
1927 Trudi Jochum-Beiser, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1952)
1927 Tzvi Avni, composer
1928 Horace Silver, American jazz pianist and composer
1928 Miloslav Istvan, composer
1928 Peter Mansfield, writer
1929 Hal Ashby, American film director (d. 1988)
1930 Andrey Pavlovich Petrov, composer
1931 Alan K Simpson, minority whip (Sen-R-WY, 1979)
1931 Clifford Jordan, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1993)
1931 Pierre Huyskens, Dutch radio host
1933 Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor, (d. 2012)
1934 Grady Nutt, American humorist
1934 Michael Sahl, composer
1935 D. Wayne Lukas, American horse trainer
1935 Jim Moody, (Rep-D-WI, 1983)
1936 Andrew Grove, American computer chip manufacturer
1936 David Leonard Blake, composer
1936 Joan Kennedy, 1st wife of Mass Senator, Ted
1937 Derek Fowlds, British actor
1937 Len Carlson, Canadian voice actor (d. 2006)
1937 Peter Ueberroth, American sport executive, organized LA Olympics (1984), baseball commissioner
1938 Clarence Felder, American actor
1938 Giuliano Gemma, Italian actor
1938 Glyn Worsnip, broadcaster
1938 Mary Jo Catlett, American actress
1939 Bobby Purify, rocker
1939 Robert Lee Dickey, US singer (I'm your puppet)
1939 Sam Gooden, American singer (The Impressions)
1940 Beverly Sanders, Hollywood California, actress (Lotsa Luck, CPO Sharkey)
1940 Jimmy Clanton, American singer (Just a Dream)
1940 Mike Pyne, jazz Pianist
1941 David Bale, South African–born activist (d. 2003)
1941 Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby league footballer
1941 John Thompson, Jr., American college basketball coach
1941 Tommy Aycock, Edinburg TX, PGA golfer (1994 Las Vegas Senior-5th)
1943 Glen Sather, Canadian ice hockey player and executive, NHL coach (Edmonton Oiler)
1943 Joe Simon, American singer (Power of Love)
1943 Rosalind Ashford, American singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
1944 Claude Nicollier, Vevey Switzerland, astronaut (STS 61-K, 46, 61, 75)
1946 Billy Preston, American musician, singer and pianist, 5th Beatle (David Brenner Show) (d. 2006)
1946 Dan White, American assassin (d. 1985)
1946 Luis Avalos, Cuban actor (Condo, E/R, I Had 3 Wives
1946 Marty Grebb, Chicago, rocker (Buckinghams)
1946 Walt Simonson, American comic book artist & writer
1947 Richard Coughlan, English drummer and percussionist (Caravan)
1948 Nate Archibald, American basketball player
1948 Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe, American schoolteacher and astronaut (STS 25) (d. 1986)
1948 Terry Bradshaw, American football player, NFL QB (Pittsburgh Steelers)/announcer (CBS, FOX)
1949 Albert West(laken), Dutch singer (Dumb Willie)
1950 Michael Rother, German musician (Neu!, Kraftwerk, Harmonia, Cluster)
1950 Rosanna DeSoto, American actress
1950 Yuen Wah, Chinese actor and stuntman
1951 Jim DeMint, American politician
1951 Jon Feltheimer, American film executive
1951 Mark Harmon, American actor (Dr Caldwell-St Elsewhere)
1951 Michael Gray, American actor (Ronnie-Brian Keith Show)
1951 Mike Kaminsky, rocker
1952 Earl Pomeroy, (Rep-D-North Dakota)
1952 Jimmy Connors, American tennis player (US Open-78, 82, 83 Wimbledon-74, 82)
1953 Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan commander and a war hero (d. 2001)
1953 Gerhard P J Thiele, Brenz Germany, astronaut
1953 John Zorn, American musician
1955 Linda Purl, Greenwich Ct, actress (Gloria-Happy Days, Matlock)
1956 Angelo Fusco, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
1956 Mario Tremblay, Canadian hockey player and coach
1957 Steve Porcaro, American rock keyboards, vocalist (Toto-Roseanna, Africa)
1957 Tony Alva, American skateboarder
1958 Marlene Janssen, Rock Island Ill, playmate (Nov, 1982)
1958 Olivier Grouillard, French racing driver
1959 Esther Oosterbeek, Dutch singer (Dolly Dots)
1959 Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil
1960 Eric Dickerson, American football player, NFL halfback (LA Rams, Colts/2,105 yds in 1984)
1960 Hideo Yoshizawa, General Manager at Namco Bandai
1960 John S. Hall, American poet and spoken-word artist
1960 Kristin Halvorsen, Norwegian politician
1960 Rex Hudler, American baseball player, outfielder (NY Yankees, California Angels)
1961 Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer
1961 Jeff Russell, Cincinnatti OH, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1962 Eugenio Derbez, Mexican comedian and actor
1962 Jon Berkeley, author and illustrator
1962 Prachya Pinkaew, Thai film director
1963 Sam Mitchell, basketball player, NBA forward (Minn Timberwolves) and coach
1964 Keanu Reeves, Canadian actor (Speed, The Matrix)
1965 Doug Linton, Santa Ana CA, pitcher (KC Royals)
1965 Lennox Lewis, British heavyweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1988, WBC boxing champ)
1965 Partho Sen-Gupta, Indian filmmaker
1966 Dino Cazares, American musician
1966 Olivier Panis, French race car driver
1966 Salma Hayek, Mexican actress (Desparado)
1966 Tuc Watkins, American actor
1967 Andreas Möller, German footballer
1968 Cynthia Watros, American actress
1968 Kristen Cloke, American actress
1968 Ricardo de Jongh, soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
1969 Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, American singer
1969 Chris Kuzneski, American bestselling author
1969 Mark Brettschneider, Cincinnati Oh, actor (Jason-One Life to Live)
1969 Russell Freeman, NFL tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1969 Shani Waugh, Bunbury Aust, LPGA golfer (Aust sub-jr champ-1986, 87)
1969 Stephen Peall, Zimbabwean cricketer
1969 Stéphane Matteau, French Canadian ice hockey player
1971 César Sánchez, Spanish footballer
1971 Kjetil André Aamodt, Norwegian skier
1971 Pawan Kalyan, Indian actor
1971 Rich Aurilia, American baseball player, infielder (SF Giants)
1971 Shauna Sand, San Diego California, actress (Renegade)
1971 Tom Steels, Belgian cyclist
1971 Tommy Maddox, American football player, NFL quarterback (NY Giants)
1972 James Willis, NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 Katarina Studenikova, Bratislava Slovak Rep, tennis star
1972 Matthew Dunn, Australian swimmer
1972 Robert Coles, professional golfer
1973 Indika de Saram, Sri Lankan cricketer
1973 Jason Blake, American hockey player
1973 Katt Williams, American comedian,actor,and rapper
1973 Matthew Dunn, Leeton NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1974 Daniel Southworth, American actor and stunt performer
1974 Jason Lawson, NBA center (Orlando Magic)
1974 Karina Wieland, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1974 Steven Johnson, Australian racing driver
1975 MC Chris, American rapper
1976 Aziz Zakari, Ghanaian athlete specializing in the 100 metres
1976 Erin Hershey, American actress
1976 Phil Lipscomb, American musician (Taproot)
1977 Frédéric Kanouté, Malian footballer
1977 Ramiro Muñoz, Colombian musician
1979 Alex Chu, Canadian-born Korean singer
1979 Brian Westbrook, American football player
1979 Ron Ng, Hong Kong actor
1979 Tomer Ben Yosef, Israeli footballer
1980 Ashley Witmer, Miss Pennsylvania Teen USA (1997)
1980 Dany Sabourin, French Canadian Goaltender in the National Hockey League
1980 Hiroki Yoshimoto, Japanese racing driver
1981 Bracha van Doesburgh, Dutch actress
1981 Chris Tremlett, English cricketer
1981 Fariborz Kamkari, Iranian film director, producer
1981 Katie Teft, Grand Rapids Mich, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1982 Jason Hammel, American baseball player
1982 Joey Barton, English footballer
1982 Mandy Cho, Hong Kong actress
1983 Aimee Osbourne, English singer, actress and columnist
1983 Mark Foster, English rugby player
1984 Danson Tang, Taiwanese actor, model, and singer
1984 Jack Peñate, English-Spanish singer
1984 Udita Goswami, Indian model and actress
1986 Kyle Hines, American basketball player
1987 Scott Moir, Canadian ice dancer
1987 Spencer Smith, American musician (Panic at the Disco)
1988 Ishant Sharma, Indian Cricketer
1989 Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer
1989 Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian Playback Singer (d. 2008)
1990 Marcus Ericsson, Swedish Racing Driver
Died on September 2nd
(490 BC) Pheidippides, Greek hero
421 Constantius III, Roman Emperor
421 Flavius Constantine III, emperor of Westromeinse
1031 Saint Emeric of Hungary
1274 Prince Munetaka, Japanese shogun (b. 1242)
1384 Louis I, duke of Anjou/king of Naples (Battle of Poitiers)
1397 Francesco Landini, Italian composer
1418 Jan III Chalon, prince of Orange/gov of Burgundy
1540 Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1501)
1547 Hernan Cortes, Spanish general defeated Aztec Indians
1566 Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter
1606 Carel van Mander, Flemish painter/art historian
1645 lady Alice Lisle, English widow of John Lisle, beheaded
1680 Per Brahe, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1602)
1688 Robert Viner, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1631)
1690 Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1615)
1698 Justus Vingboons, Architect
1715 Constantin Christian Dedekind, composer
1764 Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1700)
1765 Henry Bouquet, Swiss-born British army officer (b. 1719)
1768 Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (b. 1703)
1779 Onno Zwier van Hairs, Fries poet (Agon)
1790 Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German Bishop, historian, and theologian (b. 1701)
1813 Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1763)
1820 Jiaqing, Emperor of China (b. 1760)
1832 Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian astronomer (b. 1754)
1834 Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (b. 1757)
1862 Thornton F Brodhead, US lawyer/politician/brig-general
1865 William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (b. 1805)
1870 Charles Victor Arthur Saint-Leon, composer
1872 Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (b. 1783)
1877 Constantine Kanaris, Greek admiral, freedom fighter and politician (b. 1793)
1891 Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger, composer
1896 Nat Thomson, Australian cricketer (b. 1839)
1898 Hubert Howard, British journalist (Times), dies through friendly fire
1898 Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
1905 Walter Cecil Macfarren, composer
1906 Guiseppe Giacosa, Ital screenwriter (libretti opera Puccini)
1910 Henri "le Douanier" Rousseau, French ambassador, painter (b. 1844)
1915 August Stramm, writer
1921 Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil pioneer (b. 1855)
1921 Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
1934 Alcide Nunez, American musician (b. 1884)
1934 James Allan, New Zealand rugby union player, All Black (b. 1860)
1934 Ruggiero de Rudolpho "Russ" Columbo, American singer, violinist and actor (b. 1908)
1937 Esther de Farmer-of Rich, actress (Kniertje-On hope of blessing)
1937 Pierre de Coubertin, French founder of the modern Olympic Games (b. 1863)
1941 Lloyd Seay, American stock car driver (b. 1919)
1942 Tom Williams, Irish republican (b. 1924)
1944 Bella Rosenfeld, subject of many of Marc Chagall paintings (b. 1895)
1944 George W Norris, US senator (lame duck-amendement)
1948 Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)
1953 Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, U.S. general (b. 1883)
1955 Rudolf Kattnigg, composer
1957 William A Craigie, Scottish lexicographer
1961 Greet Koeman, Dutch singer
1962 William Wilkerson, Founder of the Hollywood Reporter, The Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas and nightclubs such as Ciro's (b. 1890)
1964 Alvin York, American soldier (b. 1887)
1964 Francisco H Craveiro Lopes, 13th President of Portugal (1951-1958 (b. 1894)
1964 Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
1964 Morris Ankrum, actor (Kronos, Earth vs Flying Saucers)
1965 Johannes Bobrowski, German writer (b. 1917)
1968 Ernest Claes, Belgium, author (The White)
1969 Harry Williams Millard, producer
1969 Ho Chi Minh, President of Vietnam (b. 1890)
1970 Allan Walker, actor/writer (Red Buttons Show)
1970 Cornelis L "Kees" van Baaren, Dutch composer (Hollow Men)
1973 Carl Dudley, American film director (b. 1910)
1973 J(ohn) R. R. Tolkien, British story writer (Hobbit) (b. 1892)
1976 Stanislaw Grochowiak, Polish writer (b. 1934)
1978 Fred G. Meyer, Founder Fred Meyer Inc. (b. 1886)
1979 Felix Aylmer, actor (Quartet, Hamlet, Dreaming Lips)
1979 Otto P. Weyland, American military figure (b. 1903)
1980 William Douglas Denny, composer
1982 Jay Novello, actor (Harum Scarum, Rebel Breed)
1982 Tom Bakker, actor (Golden Voyage of Sinbad)
1984 Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (b. 1908)
1985 Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (b. 1920)
1985 Jay Youngblood, American professional wrestler
1989 A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commisioner
1991 Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician (Nobel Peace Prize 1982) (b. 1911)
1991 Concetto Lo Bello, Italian intl soccer judge
1992 Barbara McClintock, American geneticist (Nobel laureate 1983) (b. 1902)
1992 Piotr Jaroszewicz, premier of Poland (1970-80)
1993 Eric Berry, English/US actor (Pippin, 49th Parallel)
1993 John-Eoin Higgins, N Ire supreme court justice (1984-93)
1994 Detlef Macha, German DR cyclist (5x world champ)
1994 Harry Vincent Kemp, poet
1994 Mildred Mcafee Horton, US 1st head mistress of WAVES
1994 Richard M Major, US anti-terror specialist (CIA Red Book)
1994 Roy Castle, British entertainer (b. 1932)
1995 Vaclav Neummann, conductor
1996 Cyril Reuben, violinist
1996 Emily Kngwarreye, artist
1996 Kenneth M Stewart, euro MP for Merseyside West
1996 Otto Luening, composer
1996 Paddy Clift, Leicestershire cricketer (b. 1953)
1997 Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (NY Met Opera) (b. 1902)
1997 Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (Man's Search for Meaning) (b. 1905)
1998 Allen Drury, American author (b. 1918)
1998 Jackie Blanchflower, Irish footballer (b. 1933)
2000 Curt Siodmak, German-born author (b. 1907)
2000 Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (b. 1905)
2001 Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (b. 1922)
2001 Troy Donahue, American actor (b. 1936)
2002 Dick Reynolds, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1915)
2004 Eleni Zafeiriou, Greek actress (b. 1916)
2004 Joan Oró, Catalan scientist (b. 1923)
2005 Bob Denver, American actor (b. 1935)
2006 Bob Mathias, American athlete and congressman (b. 1930)
2006 Willi Ninja, dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)
2007 Franz-Benno Delonge, German game designer (b. 1957)
2007 Max McNab, National Hockey League executive (b. 1924)
2007 Rajae Belmlih, Moroccan singer (b. 1962)
2008 Bill Meléndez, American character animator (b. 1916)
2009 Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India (b. 1949)
2011 Felipe Camiroaga, Chilean character animator, Chile (b. 1966)
2011 Roberto Bruce, Chilean journalist (b. 1979)
2013 Frederik Pohl, American science fiction author
2013 Paul Scoon, Grenadian politician
2015 Alan Kurdi, 3 year old Syrian refugee drowns off the coast of Turkey, his death and photograph prompt international reaction
2015 Donny Conn, American musician (The Playmates)