September 6th
Holidays and Festivals
Independence Day (Swaziland) * (see below)
Unification Day (Bulgaria)
Stillbirth Remembrance Day (USA , Canada) * (see below)
Fight Procrastination Day * (see below)
Defence Day (Pakistan) * (see below)
Read a Book Day
Salami Day
Feast of Saint Begga of Cumbria (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Saint Gondulphus (Roman Catholic)
* Independence Day (Swaziland) celebrating independence from the United Kingdom in 1968
* Stillbirth Remembrance Day (USA) celebrated in 39 states in remembrance of Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart. Stillbirth Remembrance Day is also celebrated in New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, and Nova Scotia (Canada) as of 2006.
* Fight Procrastination Day is celebrated in two ways 1. In a serious manner in which people use the day to finish up lingering chores OR 2.As a joke and is actually observed one or two days after the designated September 6th.
* Defence Day AKA Pak-Army Day (Pakistan) celebrated Since 1965
Fête de la Hotte Translation: Harvesting basket Day (French Republican) The 20th day of the Month of Fructidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Here’s to health and prosperity,
To you and all your posterity,
And them that doesn’t drink with sincerity,
That they may be damned for all eternity!"
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Bock & Tan
Vodka
Benedictine
Pineapple
Lemon juice
Anchor Bock
Muddle Pineapple and combine ingredients (except the Beer). Shake and fine-strain into a rocks-filled Pilsner Glass and top with Beer. Garnish with a Lemon Wheel.
Wine of The Day
Ferrari-Carano Trésor
Sonoma County
$65
Beer of The Day
Prima Pils
Brewer - Victory Brewing Company - Downingtown, Pennsylvania, USA
Style - German Pilsener
ABV - 5.3%
Joke of The Day
Two senior couples are walking along, wives in front, husbands in
back. Herb says to Sam, "Gee, we went to a new restaurant last night
and had the best meal ever. Good prices too."
Sam says, "Well, we like to eat out too. What was the name of the
restaurant?"
Herb says, "You'll going to have to help me out here a little. What's
the name of that pretty flower, smells sweet, grows on a thorny bush?"
Sam says, "How about rose?"
"Yes, yes, that's it!" cries Herb, then calls ahead to his wife.
"Rose. Hey, Rose. What was the name of the restaurant we ate at last
night?"
Quote of The Day
"The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house."
- Jeff Foxworthy (September 6th, 1958), an American comedian.
Whiskey Of The Day
$10
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
Historical Events on September 6th
(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 North-Italy, 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.
1543 French & Turkish fleet occupies Nice
1620 First stones layed in Western Tower
1620 The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
1622 Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die
1628 Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1634 Battle at Nordlingen of the Thirty Years' War ends, the Catholic Imperial army defeats Protestant armies of Sweden and Germany.n
1669 The siege of Candia ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans.
1672 Willem III's troops reconquer Naarden on France
1675 Swedish admiral Stenbock sails out with fleet of 66 ships
1683 Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance
1688 Austrian armies occupy Belgrade
1690 King Willem III escapes back to England
1715 Pro-James III-uprising in Scotland
1716 1st US lighthouse built (Boston)
1732 VOC fires Neth-Dutch east indies governor-general Diederik Dare
1776 First (failed) submarine attack (David Bushnell's "Turtle" attacks British sailboat "Eagle" in Bay of NY)
1776 Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing more than 6000.
1776 Hurricane hits Martinique, 100 French & Dutch ships sinks; 600 die
1781 The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.
1791 Mozarts opera "La Clemenza di Tito," premieres in Prague
1819 Thomas Blanchard patents lathe
1837 Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men)
1839 Cherokee Nation forms
1839 Great fire in NY
1847 Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
1848 National Black Convention meets (Cleveland)
1853 Women's Right's Convention met (NYC)
1861 Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control of the mouth of the Tennessee River in the American Civil War.
1862 Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland
1863 After 59 day siege, Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner SC (1700 casualties) in the American Civil War.
1863 Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina in the American Civil War..
1866 Frederick Douglass is the first US black delegate to a national convention
1869 First westbound train arrives in SF
1869 Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale Pennsylvania
1870 Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
1870 Ship sinks in Gulf of Biskaje; 483 die
1873 Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street
1876 Race riot in Charleston SC
1876 Southern Pacific line from LA to SF completed
1880 Commencement of 1st Test Cricket in England, v Australia at The Oval, W G Grace scores 152
1883 Cub's Burns (extra bases), Williamson & Pfeiffer get 3 hits in 1 inn
1885 Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.
1886 Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO) award
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).
1889 King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns
1898 Lord Kitchener destroys Mahdi's tomb in Omdurman
1899 Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk
1899 US min of Foreign affairs John Hay publishes his "Open Through Note"
1900 British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa
1901 Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, he dies 8th days later.
1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Creeping Man" (BG)
1904 Soccer team Rheden forms
1905 Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms
1905 Chicago White Sox Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0
1905 General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident)
1909 Word received, Adm Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier
1910 Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughrider football club formed
1912 NY Giant Jeff Tesreau no-hits Phila, 3-0
1913 1st aircraft to loop the loop (Adolphe Pégoud-France)
1913 19th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers
1913 Hamilton Alerts apply for ORFU reinstatement, taking the name Hamilton Rowing Club
1914 Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris
1917 French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft
1920 40th US Mens Tennis, Wm Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 16 75 57 63)
1920 Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight
1922 42nd US Mens Tennis, Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston 46 36 62 63 64)
1923 Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 25 year jubilee
1924 Assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails
1924 Charles Paddock captures 100 & 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track & field championships
1927 Buddy DeSylva & Lew Brown's musical "Good News" premieres in NYC
1927 Red Sox beat NY Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings at Fenway Park
1928 USSR signs Briand-Kellogg-pact
1930 Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8
1930 Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
1937 The start of the Battle of El Mazuco of the Spanish Civil War.
1938 Wilhelmina celebrates 40th anniversary jubilee as Dutch queen
1939 First German air attack on Great-Britain in WW II
1939 South Africa declares war on nazi-Germany, World War II
1939 The Battle of Barking Creek of World War II.
1940 Generalissimo Gamelin arrested in France
1940 King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Crown prince Michael as king of Romania.
1941 55th US Womens Tennis, Sarah H Cooke beats Pauline Betz Addie (75 62)
1941 61st US Mens Tennis, Robert L Riggs beats F Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63)
1941 All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star
1941 Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto
1942 56th US Womens Tennis, Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (46 61 64)
1942 Czech marathon runner Oskar Hêks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau
1943 "Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79
1943 63rd US Mens Tennis, J R Hunt Seaman beats Jack Kramer (63 68 108 60)
1943 Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in AL (16y 8 ms) of the A's
1943 The Monterrey Institute of Technology, one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America, is founded in Monterrey, Mexico.
1944 Gen Von Zangens 15th army escape from Zealand
1944 World War II, The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces.
1945 A's catcher George George punches ump Joe Rue gets suspended
1946 All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev 44, Miami 0)
1946 Terence Rattigan's "Winslow Boy," premieres in London
1948 "Mr Strauss Goes to Boston" opens at Century Theater NYC for 12 perfs
1948 37th Davis Cup, USA beats Australia in New York (5-0)
1948 Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
1949 A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey, with a souvenir Luger to become the first U.S. single-episode mass murderer.
1949 Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
1949 Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes
1952 Canada's first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal.
1953 Adenauers CDU wins elections in German FR
1953 Roy Campanella sets record for HRs by a catcher at 38
1954 68th US Womens Tennis, Doris Hart beats A Louise Brough (68 61 86)
1954 74th US Mens Tennis, E V Seixas Jr beats Rex Hartwig (36 62 64 64)
1954 US plane shot down above Siberia
1954 WINS NYC begins playing rock n roll with Alan Freed Show
1954 Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters
1955 "Catch a Star" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances
1955 Istanbul's Greek and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom (Istanbul Pogrom).
1955 J van Tilburg appointed governor of Suriname
1957 Elvis records "White Xmas," "Silent Night" & "Here Comes Santa Claus"
1958 Mary Ann Mobley (Miss), 21, crowned 31st Miss America 1959
1958 US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1959 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Historian Lee Allen says Indians-Senators game is 100,000th in history
1963 Jerry Lee Lewis quits Sun Records
1963 Major league baseballs 100,000th game
1963 The 100,000th Major League baseball game is played.
1963 The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
1965 India invades West Pakistan
1965 KLNE TV channel 3 in Lexington, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 India retaliates following Pakistan's failed Operation Grand Slam which resulted in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that is ended following 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.
1966 Race riot in Atlanta Georgia
1968 Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1969 "Cabaret" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 1166 performances
1970 NY Met Tommy Agee hits for the cycle
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.
1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 Jerry Lewis' 6th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises
1972 John & Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon
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. Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre
1973 NY Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt & Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed
1975 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey
1975 89th US Womens Tennis, Chris E L Mills beats E G Cawley (57 64 62)
1975 Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova asks for US political asylum in New York City during the US Open
1975 Heavy earthquake at Lice Turkey; 3,000 killed
1975 Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976
1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaido in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.
1976 Jerry Lewis' 11th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, Dean Martin appears
1977 Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977
1978 Begin & Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace
1978 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1979 "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 578 performances
1980 94th US Womens Tennis, Chris E L Mills beats H Mandlikova (57 61 61)
1980 Chantal Langlace sets women's record for fastest 100K run (7h27m22s)
1980 College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for
1980 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1980 Macalaster U of St Paul, Minn beating Mount Senario 17-14
1980 Susan Powell (Okla), 21, crowned 53rd Miss America 1981
1981 "They're Playing Our Song" closes at Imperial NYC after 1082 perfs
1981 Bob Lemon named NY Yankee manager for 2nd time
1982 Dutch Internal minister Mr M Red assigns BVD to spy on communists
1982 Jerry Lewis' 17th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $28,400,000
1982 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1982 Paul McCartney releases "Tug of War"
1982 Pittsburgh Pirates retire Willie Stargell's #
1982 Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland
1983 The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007 on 9/2, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
1984 Lanford Wilson's "Balm in Gilead," premieres in NYC
1984 Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow
1985 Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
1986 300 invitees pay $5,000 to hear Barbra Striesand's benefit concert
1986 In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services.
1986 Jozef Pribilinec speed walking world record time (15,447k)
1986 Michael Spinks TKOs Steffen Tangstad in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1986 USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying
1987 Benjamin & Patrick Binder separated at John Hopkins Hospital
1987 Douglas Wakiihuri wins marathon (2:11:48)
1987 Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal
1988 Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
1988 Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Canal
1988 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1989 6th MTV Awards, Living Colour wins
1989 Amateur Athletic Fed strips Ben Johnson of all track records
1989 Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution
1990 7th MTV Awards, Sinead O'Connor wins
1991 33rd Walker Cup, US, 14-10
1991 Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname
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 west of the town of Healy, Alaska.
1992 Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m (3:28.86)
1993 Helen Dobson wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
1993 Jerry Lewis' 28th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $46,014,922
1994 11th MTV Awards, Aerosmith, Lisa Marie & Michael Jackson win
1994 Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during filming of "Cyborg"
1994 Franziska van Almsick swims female record 200m freestyle (1:56.78)
1994 Tom Dolan swims world record 400m medley (4:12.30)
1995 Cal Ripken Jr of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking Lou Gehrig's record that stood for 56 years.
1995 Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of Bob Packwood
1996 Balt Orioles' Eddie Murray's 500th career HR
1997 Diana, Princess of Wales is laid to rest in front of a television audience of more than 2.5 billion.
1997 Women's championship at US Tennis Open
1998 Men's championship at US Tennis Open
2012 29th MTV Video Music Awards: Rihanna f/ Calvin Harris, Nicki Minaj & Chris Brown win
2012 61 illegal immigrants die after a fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Turkey
2012 Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for President
2013 20 people are killed by Islamist militants in villages in northeast Nigeria
2015 German police confirm more than 13,000 refugees have arrived in Southern Germany in last 2 days fleeing conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan
Born on September 6th
1535 Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (d. 1612)
1577 Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor/architect (Aanbidding of the Point)
1620 Isabella Leonarda, Italian composer (d. 1704)
1627 Pierre Verdier, composer
1633 Sebastian Knupfer, composer
1644 Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer
1648 Johann Schelle, composer
1656 Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1723)
1666 Tsar Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696)
1697 Willem Gideon Deutz, Amsterdam regent/banker/merchant
1702 Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer
1711 Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (d. 1787)
1729 Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher (Haksalah) (d. 1786)
1732 Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (d. 1796)
1757 Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot, French revolutionary (d. 1834)
1762 Theodorus F van Capellen, vice-admiral
1766 John Dalton, English chemist and physicist, developed atomic theory of matter (d. 1844)
1781 Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher and composer (d. 1858)
1788 F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari)
1795 Frances Wright, English writer and lecturer (d. 1852)
1797 Wililam "Extra Billy" Smith, Confederacy (Confederate Army)
1800 Catharine Beecher, American educator (d. 1878)
1802 Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (d. 1857)
1805 Horatio Greenough, US, neo-classical sculptor/writer (Form & Function)
1808 Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (d. 1883)
1811 James Melville Gilliss, founder (Naval Observatory in Washington)
1811 Johanna D Courtmans-Berchmans, Flemish author (Rozeken Pot)
1814 George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian politician (d. 1873)
1814 George Cartier, (C) Canadian co-PM (1858-62)
1815 John Richardson Liddell, American Civil War Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1870)
1815 Karol Katski, composer
1816 Francis Stebbins Bartow, Col (Confederate Army) (d. 1861)
1817 Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician, founding father (d. 1893)
1819 Carl Ferdinand Pohl, composer
1819 Nicolae Filimon, Romania, writer/critic (Ciocoii Vechi Si Noi)
1819 William Starke Rosecrans, Mjr General (Union volunteers)
1827 John Morrison Oliver, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 Marie Zakrzewska, Polish physician (d. 1902)
1838 Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (d. 1906)
1850 Louis F H "Louis" Apol, painter/etcher/literary
1852 Schalk Willem Burger, South African Politician, Military Leader and State President (d. 1918)
1855 Ferdinand B Hummel, composer
1857 Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (d. 1933)
1860 Jane Addams, American social worker, feminist (Nobel Peace Prize 1931) (d. 1935)
1863 Rodolfo Lenz, German/Chilian linguist (El Papiamento)
1868 Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1947)
1869 Felix Salten (Siegmund Salzmann), Austria author and journalist (Bambi) (d. 1945)
1869 Walford Davies, composer
1876 John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist (Nobel Prize laureate 1923) (d. 1935)
1876 Willem A Bonger, Dutch sociologist/criminologist (Race & Crime)
1877 Buddy Bolden, American musician (d. 1930)
1877 Petar Stojanovic, composer
1879 Joseph Wirth, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1956)
1879 Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
1879 Neal Rev Dodd, Iowa, actor (You Belong to Me)
1880 Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch night club performer (French governess)
1881 Charlie Dell, NYC, actor (Pickle in the Middle)
1881 Leo Carrillo, LA California, actor (Pancho-Cisco Kid)
1882 John Powell, composer
1884 Emerson Whithorne, composer
1885 Franz T Csokor, Austrian author (Writings on the Wall)
1885 Otto Kruger, Toledo Ohio, actor (Lux Video Theater, High Noon)
1888 Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American banker and diplomat, father of JFK, RFK & Teddy (d. 1969)
1890 Clara Kimball Young, American actress (Return of Chandu) (d. 1960)
1890 Manfred Gurlitt, composer
1892 Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Appleton-layer), Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
1893 Claire Chennault, American pilot (d. 1958)
1893 Irving Bacon, St Joseph MO, actor (Branded Men, Fort Ti)
1896 Frutuoso de Lima Viana, composer
1896 Mario Praz, Italian literary (La carne, la morte, e il diavolo)
1896 Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov, composer
1899 Billy Rose, American composer, theatrical producer (Diamond Horse Show) (d. 1966)
1900 Julien Green, French-born American novelist (Frere Francois) (d. 1998)
1900 W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979)
1901 John Erik Jonsson, businessman/Mayor of Dallas
1902 Morgan Beatty, Little Rock Ark, news anchor (Du Mont Evening News)
1904 Karlo Arvi Kivimaa, Finnish writer (Groenende Cross)
1904 Lyubomir Pipkov, composer
1904 Maxie Rosenbloom, American light heavyweight boxing champ (1930-34) (d. 1976)
1906 Alexander Bodon, Hungarian/Dutch architect (RAI building)
1906 John Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher
1906 Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
1906 Raymond Keane, Denver CO, actor (Midnight Sun, Love Eagle)
1907 Elizabeth Morna MacTaggart Ferrars, crime writer
1907 John A Kelly, US marathon runner (Berlin 1936, Boston 1935..1991)
1908 Anthony Wagner, genealogist
1908 Paul Lavalle, Beacon NY, bandleader (Cities Service Band of America)
1909 John Ridgely, Chicago IL, actor (Northern Pursuit, Air Force)
1909 Michael Gordon, American actor and director (d. 1993)
1910 Frank Fidler, artist
1910 Walter Giesler, American soccer coach, (d. 1976)
1911 Bentley Bridgewater, British Museum secretary
1911 Harry Danning, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1912 Stephen Murray, Partney England, actor (Alice in Wonderland)
1912 Vincent DiMaggio, baseball player (Giants, Phils, Reds, Braves)
1912 Wayne Barlow, composer
1915 Franz Josef Strauss, German-nazi Minister of defense (1956-62) (d. 1988)
1916 Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, English landowner
1917 George Mann, England cricketer, captain English cricket team (d. 2001)
1917 Philipp von Boeselager, German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler (d. 2008)
1919 Wilson Greatbatch, American Inventor
1921 Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (d. 2004)
1921 Robert Millar, journalist
1923 Peter II Karadjordjevic, King of Yugoslavia (1934-45) (d. 1970)
1923 William Kraft, Chicago, Ill, composer/percussionist
1924 John Melcher, (Sen-D-MO)
1925 Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (Soulin', Big Boss Man) (d. 1976)
1926 Arthur William Oldham, composer
1926 Claus van Amsberg, German born Prince Consort of the Netherlands (d. 2002)
1926 Maurice Prather, American motion picture and still photographer (d. 2001)
1927 Keith Humble, composer
1928 Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer (Siberian Fantasy) (d. 2002)
1928 Robert M. Pirsig, American author
1928 Rudolph Plukfelder, USSR, light heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1964)
1929 Tsang-houe' Hsu, composer
1929 Yash Johar, Indian film producer (d. 2005)
1930 Andre Beullens, Flemish painter
1931 Sander M Levin, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1983)
1932 Earl of Cawdor, British large landowner
1932 Gilles Tremblay, composer
1934 Jody McCrea, LA California, actor (Ben Matheson-Wichita Town)
1935 Bob Bouber (Boris Blom), Dutch singer (ZZ & Masks)/actor
1935 Jock Wallace, soccer star/manager
1937 Brigid Berlin, American actor
1937 Irina Bayanovna Solovyova, Russian cosmonaut
1937 Jo Anne Worley, American actress, comedien (Laugh-in)
1937 John Bernard, Dutch TV weatherman
1937 Sergio Aragonés, Spanish-born illustrator
1938 Alan Charles Downes, cameraman
1938 Joan Tower, New Rochelle NY, composer (Breakfast Rhythms)
1939 Dan Cragg, American soldier and author
1939 David Allan Coe, American country singer (Tennessee Whiskey, If That aint country.. Ill kiss your ass)
1939 Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1940 Jackie Trent, singer
1941 Monica Mason, England, ballerina
1941 Willibrord Frequin, Dutch TV reporter
1942 Carol Wayne, American actress (d. 1985)
1942 Dave Bargeron, NYC, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1942 Harry Jack Max, rocker
1942 Les Burns, local councillor
1942 Mel McDaniel, Checotah Oklahoma, singer (Baby's got her Blue Jeans On)
1942 Richard Anthony Hutton, England cricketer
1943 (George) Roger Waters, English bassist and vocalist (Pink Floyd)
1943 Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1944 Gordon DeMarco, writer/activist
1944 Linda Kaye Henning, Cal, actress (Betty Joe-Petticoat Junction)
1944 M N Aubrey Mokoape, S Afr's VP (Azanian People Org)
1944 Swoosie Kurtz, American actress (Slap Shot, Garp, Sisters)
1945 Larry Lucchino, American baseball executive
1946 Bryan D O'Connor, Orange Cal, Col USMC/astronaut (STS 61B, STS 40)
1946 Buizen Beernd (Bennie Jolink), singer, guitarist, pianist (Normal)
1947 Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer and coach
1947 Jane Curtin, American actress (SNL, Allie Lowell-Kate & Allie)
1947 Sylvester James, American singer (Do Ya Wanna Funk)
1948 Charles "Claydes" Smith, American musician, guitarist (Kool & The Gang) (d. 2006)
1949 Jimmy Litherland, rocker (Mitarbeit)
1949 Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, S Afr Kwazulu politician
1950 Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Dutch MP (CDA)
1951 Barry Troyna, teacher/educational sociologist
1953 Anne Lockhart, American actress
1953 Katherine Cannon, Hartford Ct, actress (Father Murphy, Survivors)
1953 Mohammed Kedir, Ethiopia, 10k runner (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1954 Banner Thomas, rocker (Molly Hatchet)
1954 Carly Fiorina, Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard
1954 Jon Erikson, US, 1st to triple cross English Channel (1981)
1954 Patrick O'Hearn, rock bassist (Missing Persons)
1954 Ève Luquet, French stamp designer
1955 Anne Henning, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1972)
1955 Carl Erwin Walz, Cleve Ohio, Mjr USAF/Astronaut (STS 51, 65, 79)
1955 Raymond Benson, American author
1956 Bill Ritter, American politician
1956 Pam Allen, Billings MT, LPGA golfer (1988 Planters Pat Bradley-12th)
1957 "Curley" Joe Smyth, Westbrook Me, country singer (Betty's Bein' Bad)
1957 Gwyn Evans, Welsh rugby player
1957 José Sócrates, Prime Minister of Portugal
1957 Michaëlle Jean, 27th Governor-General of Canada
1957 Paul Lewis Harrhy, actor/opera singer (Intelligence Park)
1957 Tim Whitnall, English actor and narrator
1958 Arsinée Khanjian, Armenian-Canadian actress
1958 Buster Bloodvessel, British singer
1958 Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian (The Jeff Foxworthy Show, Blue Comedy Tour)
1958 Michael Winslow, American actor and comedian (Police Academy)
1958 Nigel Westlake, Australian musician and composer
1961 Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian musician, vocalist (A-ha)
1961 Peggy MacIntaggart, Midland Ontario, playmate (January, 1990)
1961 Scott Travis, American musician (Judas Priest)
1961 Simon Reeve, Australian journalist
1962 Elizabeth Vargas, American journalist
1962 Kevin Willis, American basketball player, NBA center (Houston Rockets)
1963 Alice Sebold, American novelist
1963 Bryan Simonaire, American politician
1963 Geert Wilders, Dutch politician
1963 Jozsef Kiprich, soccer player (Feyenoord)
1963 Mark Chesnutt, Beaumont Tx, country singer (Too Cold at Home)
1963 Pat Nevin, Scottish footballer
1964 Rosie Perez, American actress (Do the Right Thing, White Men Can't Jump)
1965 Johan Garrels, soccer player (Alphense Boys, RKC)
1965 John Polson, Australian actor and film director
1966 Joan Guetschow, Akron Ohio, biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1967 Amy Lynn Baxter, model (Penthouse Pet 1990)
1967 William DuVall, American singer (Alice In Chains)
1968 Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish writer
1968 Gene Patrick, Phila, actor (Gemini: Twin Stars)
1968 Pat Meares, Salina KS, infielder (Minnesota Twins)
1968 Paul Rea, American television journalist
1968 Saeed Anwar, Pakistani cricketer
1968 Tommy Snider, American actor
1969 Aaron Pierce, NFL halfback (NY Giants)
1969 Ben Finegold, American chess player
1969 CeCe Peniston, American dance music singer (Finally)
1969 Douglas Pirini, Auckland NZ, decathlete (Olympics-96)
1969 Helen Labdan, Bracknell England, model (page 3)
1969 Michael Davis, American softball player (Solvents, et al)
1969 Michellie Jones, Australian triathlete
1970 Igor Korolev, Moscow Russia, NHLer (Team Russia, Winnipeg)
1970 Paul Miller, American composer and author
1970 Shane Heal, Box Hill Melbourne VIC Austral, basketball guard (Oly-96)
1970 Torrance Small, NFL wide receiver (NO Saints)
1971 Anthony Goldwire, NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
1971 Devang Gandhi, Indian Cricketer
1971 Dolores O'Riordan, Irish musician (The Cranberries)
1971 Holli Rene Hyche, Indianapolis Indiana, runner
1971 Kathy Wolfgramm, rocker (Jets)
1971 Pavel Patera, Kladno CZE, hockey forward (Team Czech Rep, Oly-gild-98)
1971 Sandra Natasha Abreu, Miss Universe-Dominican Republic (1996)
1972 Anika Noni Rose, American actress and singer
1972 China Miéville, English writer
1972 Dylan Bruno, American actor (Numb3rs)
1972 Eric Zeier, NFL quarterback (Cleveland Browns)
1972 Eugene Hütz, Ukrainian singer and composer (Gogol Bordello)
1972 Frank Rocca, CFL corner (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 Idris Elba, English/American actor
1972 Justina Machado, Puerto Rican actress
1973 Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer
1973 Greg Rusedski, Canadian tennis player (1995 Seoul)
1974 Justin Whalin, American actor (Jimmy-Lois & Clark, Charles in Charge)
1974 Nina Persson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1974 Sarah Danielle Madison, American actress
1974 Sarah Strange, Canadian actress
1974 Tim Henman, English tennis player
1975 Derrek Lee, American baseball player
1976 Danny Blankers, soccer player (PSV/Willem II)
1976 Hyun Young, South Korean actress and pop singer
1976 Michael Nakamura, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1976 N.O.R.E., American rapper
1976 Naomie Harris, American actress
1976 Rodrigo Amarante, Brazilian musician (Little Joy, Los Hermanos)
1977 Kiyoshi Hikawa, Japanese enka singer
1978 Alex Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player
1978 Cisco Adler, American singer
1978 Marlen Angelidou, Greek singer
1978 Mathew Horne, English Actor
1978 Natalia Cigliuti, NY, actress (Lindsay-Saved By Bell: New Class)
1978 Tony Thaxton, drummer (Motion City Soundtrack)
1979 Brandon Silvestry, American professional wrestler
1979 Carlos Adrián Morales, Mexican footballer
1979 Foxy Brown, American rapper
1979 Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer
1979 Mike Arnaoutis, Greek boxer
1980 Jillian Hall, American professional wrestler
1980 Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
1980 Samuel Peter, Nigerian heavyweight boxer
1980 Yuji Hamano, Japanese archer
1981 Mark Teahen, American baseball player
1981 Yumiko Cheng, Hong Kong singer
1984 Helena Jonsson, Swedish biathlete
1985 Alberto Valerio, Brazilian racing driver
1985 Ali Ashfaq, Maldivian footballer
1985 Webbie, American rapper
1986 Raven Riley, American porn star
1987 Ramiele Malubay, American singer
1989 Kim So Eun, Korean actress
1989 Nikos Boutzikos, Greek footballer
1992 Fabiola Rodas, Guatemalan-American artist
2000 Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (d. 2000)
2006 Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japan Imperial Family member
Died on September 6th
394 Eugenius, linguistic, anti emperor of Rome (392-94), dies in battle
957 Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (b. 930)
972 John XIII Crescentii, Pope (965-72)
1276 Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (b. ca. 1215)
1511 Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)
1536 William Tyndale, Protestant bible translator (b. c. 1494)
1625 Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b. 1579)
1635 Adrian A Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer, fort architect (b. 1571)
1649 Famiano Strada, Ital jesuit (bello belgico decades duae)
1649 Robert Dudley, Earl of Warwick, English explorer, geographer, and writer (Arcano del Mare) (b. 1574)
1683 Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister finance (b. 1619)
1701 James II ([Stuart), King of England (1685-88)
1708 Sir John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623)
1748 Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669)
1782 Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
1783 Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710)
1808 Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)
1811 Julien-Amable Mathieu, composer
1819 Georg Druschetzky, composer
1831 Johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank, composer
1863 Lucius March Walker, Confederate brig-general (in duel)
1868 Pierre Adolphe Rost, Louisiana judge, Confederate commissioner (b. 1797)
1902 Frederick Augustus Abel, English chemist and inventor (cordiet) (b. 1827)
1902 Philip James Bailey, English poet (Universal hymn)
1903 Charles Ammi Cutter, US bibliographer
1907 Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)
1919 Worm Pander, sculptor
1937 Henry Kimball Hadley, composer
1938 John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (b. 1907)
1939 Arthur Rackham, English artist and illustrator (Grimm's Fairy Tales) (b. 1867)
1941 Hugo Loudon, president-director (Royal Oil)
1944 Robert Lejour, Belgian lawyer/resistance fighter, murdered
1945 John S McCain, Sr., American admiral, (WW II-Pacific Ocean) (b. 1884)
1947 Paul Guthnick, German astronomer
1948 Gerrit H Kersten, vicar/founder (Calvinist Party)
1950 Arthur Hill, cricketer (3 Tests)
1950 Olaf Stapledon, British writer and philosopher (b. 1886)
1951 James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (b. 1867)
1952 Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)
1952 Jose Forns y Cuadras, composer
1956 Felix Borowski, composer
1959 Edmund Gwenn, actor (Them, Java Head, Miracle on 34th St)
1959 Kay Kendall, British actress (Genevieve)
1960 Jimmy Savo, comedian (Through the Crystal Ball
1962 Hanns Eisler, German-born composer (N Vietnam, E German Natl Anthem) (b. 1898)
1962 Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
1963 Margarita Sierra, actress (Surfside 6)
1965 Konstantin Mostras, composer
1966 Hendrik F Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa (1958-66) (b. 1901)
1966 Luigi Perrachio, composer
1966 Margaret Sanger, American birth control activist (b. 1879)
1968 Karl Ranki, composer
1969 Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (b. 1892)
1970 Gerard Smithson, cricketer (Eng batsman against W Indies 1948)
1973 William H Harris, composer
1974 Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (Freaks, Docks of NY) (b. 1896)
1974 Otto Kruger, actor (Lux Video Theater)
1975 Rien van Nunen, Dutch actor (Spuit Elf)
1977 Guido Pannain, composer
1977 Paul Burkhard, composer
1978 Jan Berger, Dutch politician
1978 Tom Wilson, American record producer (b. 1931)
1979 Ronald Binge, composer
1981 Christy Brown, Irish author (b. 1932)
1981 Joseph Yasser, composer
1981 Maria Palmer, actress (Days of Glory, Web)
1984 E J Andre, actor (Eugene Bullock-Dallas)
1984 Ernest Tubb, American singer (Grand Ole Opry) (b. 1914)
1985 Jane Frazee, singer/actress (Alice-Beulah)
1985 Johnny Desmond, American singer (Your Hit Parade) (b. 1919)
1985 Leon Orthel, composer
1986 Blanche Sweet, American actress (DW Griffith movies) (b. 1895)
1987 Quinn Martin, American television producer (b. 1922)
1988 Leroy Brown, professional wrestler (b. 1950)
1990 Leonard Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)
1990 T Issan Dorsey, founder (Hartford St Zen Center SF)
1990 Tom Fogerty, American singer (Creedence Clearwater) (b. 1941)
1991 Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
1993 Josephine Rich Corday, vaudevillian
1994 Duccio Tessari, Italian director
1994 James Clavell, author/director (King Rat, Shogun)
1994 Max Kaminsky, trumpeter
1994 Nicky Hopkins, British musician, pianist (Rolling Stones) (b. 1944)
1994 Wolf Donner, Austrian movie historian/festival director
1995 Buster Mathis, heavyweight boxer
1995 Joanne Gail Abbott, exec (MTV)
1996 Esther Soré, Chilean musician (b. 1915)
1996 William James Moyce, armaments scientist
1997 P. H. Newby, British author and BBC radio director (b. 1918)
1997 Philippe Rossillon, administrator
1998 Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910)
1999 Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician and former President (b. 1938)
1999 René Lecavalier, French Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)
2000 Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (b. 2000)
2001 Carl Crack, German musician (Atari Teenage Riot) (b. 1971)
2003 Harry Goz, American actor (b. 1932)
2003 Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber (b. 1969)
2005 Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet (b. 1929)
2007 Alex, African Grey parrot "student" of Dr. Irene Pepperberg (b. 1976)
2007 Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
2007 Madeleine L'Engle, American author (b. 1918)
2008 Anita Page, silent film vixen, last living attendee of the 1st Annual Academy Awards, (b. 1910)
2008 Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racing driver and trainer (b. 1917)
2012 Art Modell (Arthur), American businessman
2012 Jake Eberts, Canadian film producer
2015 Martin Milner, American actor (Route 66, Adam 12)