September 1: On This Day

Events, births, deaths, holidays and observances for September 1.

Events 46

396 BC – The Temple of Juno Regina (Aventine) is dedicated in Rome by Marcus Furius Camillus.
1057 – Byzantine general Isaak Komnenos is crowned Byzantine Emperor by patriarch Cerularius at the Hagia Sophia.
1145 – The main altar of Lund Cathedral, at the time the seat of the archiepiscopal see of all the Nordic countries, is consecrated.
1173 – The widow Stamira sacrifices herself in order to raise the siege of Ancona by the forces of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa.
1181 – Election of pope Lucius III following the death of pope Alexander III in the previous month.
1271 – Election of pope Gregory X following the death of Clement IV three years prior.
1355 – King Tvrtko I of Bosnia writes In castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from the Old town of Visoki.
1449 – Tumu Crisis: The Mongols capture the Emperor of China.
1529 – The Spanish fort of Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in modern Argentina, is destroyed by indigenous people.
1532 – Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.
1604 – Adi Granth, now known as Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhs, is first installed at Harmandir Sahib.
1610 – Claudio Monteverdi's musical work Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers for the Blessed Virgin) is first published, printed in Venice and dedicated to Pope Paul V.
1644 – Battle of Tippermuir: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose defeats the Earl of Wemyss's Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause.
1645 – English Civil War: Scottish Covenanter forces abandon their month-long Siege of Hereford, a Cavalier stronghold, on news of Royalist victories in Scotland.
1715 – At the age of five, Louis XV becomes king of France in succession to his great-grandfather, King Louis XIV.
1763 – Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow.
1772 – The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
1774 – Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
1804 – 3 Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
1831 – The Order of St. Gregory the Great is established by Pope Gregory XVI of the Vatican State to recognize high support for the Vatican or for the Pope, by a man or a woman, and not necessarily a Roman Catholic.
1836 – Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
1838 – Saint Andrew's Scots School, the oldest school of British origin in South America, is established.
1859 – Carrington Event started - the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history.
1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson inflict heavy casualties in the Battle of Chantilly during the Union withdrawal from the Northern Virginia campaign.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jonesborough, alongside the overall Atlanta campaign, culminates in a Union victory for General William T. Sherman as Confederate General John Bell Hood orders the evacuation of Atlanta.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
1873 – Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
1878 – Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
1880 – The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
1894 – Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
1897 – The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
1923 – The Great Kantō Earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
1939 – World War II: Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.
1939 – J. Robert Oppenheimer and his student Hartland Snyder publish the Oppenheimer–Snyder model, proving for the first time in contemporary physics how black holes could develop.
1944 – World War II: Launch of Operation Ratweek, complicating German retreat.
1961 – TWA Flight 529 crashes shortly after takeoff from Midway Airport in Chicago, killing all 78 people on board. At the time, it was the deadliest single plane disaster in U.S. history.
1967 – Six-Day War: The Khartoum Resolution is issued at the Arab Summit, and eight countries adopt the "three 'no's against Israel".
1969 – A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power.
1973 – A 76-hour multinational rescue effort in the Celtic Sea results in the rescue of Roger Mallinson and Roger Chapman.
1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of one hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h).
1981 – Central African President David Dacko is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General André Kolingba.
1982 – The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
1983 – Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the commercial aircraft strayed into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
1985 – The wreck of the Titanic is discovered by an American-French expedition led by Robert Ballard and Jean-Louis Michel.
2004 – The Beslan school siege begins when armed terrorists take schoolchildren and school staff hostage in North Ossetia, Russia; by the end of the siege, three days later, more than 385 people are dead (including hostages, other civilians, security personnel and terrorists).
2008 – Iraq War: The United States Armed Forces transfers control of Anbar Province to the Iraqi Armed Forces.

Births 228

948 – Jing Zong, emperor of the Liao Dynasty (died 982)
1145 – Ibn Jubayr, Arab geographer and poet (died 1217)
1288 – Elizabeth Richeza of Poland (died 1335)
1341 – Frederick III the Simple, King of Sicily (died 1377)
1453 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general (died 1515)
1477 – Bartolomeo Fanfulla, Italian mercenary (died 1525)
1561 – Gervase Helwys, English murderer (died 1615)
1566 – Edward Alleyn, English actor and major figure of the Elizabethan theatre; founder of Dulwich College and Alleyn's School (died 1626)
1577 – Scipione Borghese, Italian cardinal and art collector (died 1633)
1579 – John Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince-Bishop, Roman Catholic archbishop (died 1634)
1588 – Henri, Prince of Condé (died 1646)
1592 – Maria Angela Astorch, Spanish mystic and saint (died 1665)
1606 – Nicholas Slanning, English politician (died 1643)
1608 – Giacomo Torelli, Italian stage designer, engineer, and architect (died 1678)
1647 – Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark, daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark (died 1717)
1653 – Johann Pachelbel, German organist, composer, and educator (died 1706)
1689 – Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, Bohemian architect, designed Ss. Cyril and Methodius Cathedral (died 1751)
1711 – William IV, Prince of Orange (died 1751)
1726 – Johann Becker, German organist, composer, and educator (died 1803)
1795 – James Gordon Bennett Sr., American publisher, founded the New York Herald (died 1872)
1799 – Ferenc Gyulay, Hungarian-Austrian commander and politician (died 1868)
1811 – James Montgomrey, Leader and important benefactor of his home town of Brentford, England (died 1883)
1818 – José María Castro Madriz, Costa Rican lawyer and politician, 1st President of Costa Rica (died 1892)
1848 – Auguste Forel, Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist, and psychiatrist (died 1931)
1849 – Emil Zuckerkandl, Hungarian anatomist (died 1910)
1850 – Jim O'Rourke, American baseball player and manager (died 1919)
1851 – John Clum, American journalist and agent (died 1932)
1853 – Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (died 1926)
1854 – Engelbert Humperdinck, German playwright and composer (died 1921)
1855 – Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet and critic (died 1909)
1856 – Sergei Winogradsky, Ukrainian-Russian microbiologist and ecologist (died 1953)
1864 – Akashi Motojiro, Japanese general (died 1919)
1866 – James J. Corbett, American boxer (died 1933)
1867 – John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton, English sailor and politician (died 1947)
1868 – Henri Bourassa, Canadian publisher and politician (died 1952)
1869 – Frank Elbridge Webb, American engineer and presidential candidate (died 1949)
1871 – J. Reuben Clark, American lawyer, civil servant, and religious leader (died 1961)
1873 – João Ferreira Sardo the founder of Gafanha da Nazaré (died 1925)
1875 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (died 1950)
1876 – Harriet Shaw Weaver, English journalist and activist (died 1961)
1877 – Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1945)
1877 – Rex Beach, American author, playwright, and water polo player (died 1949)
1878 – Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1942)
1878 – J. F. C. Fuller, English general and historian (died 1966)
1878 – Tullio Serafin, Italian conductor and director (died 1968)
1883 – Didier Pitre, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1934)
1884 – Hilda Rix Nicholas, Australian artist (died 1961)
1884 – Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and director (died 1947)
1886 – Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (died 1957)
1886 – Shigeyasu Suzuki, Japanese general (died 1957)
1887 – Blaise Cendrars, Swiss author and poet (died 1961)
1888 – Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician (died 1958)
1892 – Leverett Saltonstall, American lieutenant and politician, 55th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1979)
1893 – Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japanese-American painter and photographer (died 1953)
1895 – Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer and designer, invented the Human-powered aircraft (died 1955)
1896 – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religious leader, founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (died 1977)
1897 – Andy Kennedy, Irish footballer (died 1963)
1898 – Violet Carson, English actress and singer (died 1983)
1899 – Richard Arlen, American actor (died 1976)
1902 – Kazimierz Dąbrowski, Polish psychiatrist and psychologist (died 1980)
1904 – Johnny Mack Brown, American football player and actor (died 1974)
1905 – Father Chrysanthus, Dutch arachnologist (died 1972)
1906 – Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican lawyer and politician, 49th President of the Dominican Republic (died 2002)
1906 – Eleanor Alice Burford (Jean Plaidy), English author (died 1993)
1907 – Walter Reuther, American labor union leader and president of the United Auto Workers (died 1970)
1908 – Amir Elahi, Pakistani cricketer (died 1980)
1908 – Lou Kenton, English social activist (died 2012)
1909 – E. Herbert Norman, Canadian historian and diplomat (died 1957)
1913 – Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and illustrator (died 1979)
1914 – John H. Adams, American jockey (died 1995)
1916 – Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player (died 2014)
1919 – Ossie Dawson, South African cricketer (died 2008)
1919 – Hilda Hänchen, German physicist and academic (died 2013)
1920 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor and stuntman (died 2000)
1921 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch author, poet and playwright (died 1995)
1922 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress and singer (died 2007)
1922 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (died 2000)
1923 – Rocky Marciano, American boxer (died 1969)
1923 – Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (died 2006)
1925 – Art Pepper, American saxophonist, clarinet player and composer (died 1982)
1926 – Abdur Rahman Biswas, Bangladeshi banker and politician, 10th President of Bangladesh (died 2017)
1926 – Gene Colan, American illustrator (died 2011)
1927 – Soshana Afroyim, Austrian painter (died 2015)
1928 – George Maharis, American actor, singer, and artist (died 2023)
1929 – Mava Lee Thomas, American baseball player (died 2013)
1929 – Maurice Vachon, Canadian wrestler (died 2013)
1930 – Turgut Özakman, Turkish lawyer and civil servant (died 2013)
1930 – Charles Correa, Indian architect (died 2015)
1931 – Abdul Haq Ansari, Indian theologian and scholar (died 2012)
1931 – Cecil Parkinson, English accountant and politician, Secretary of State for Transport (died 2016)
1931 – Boxcar Willie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1999)
1932 – Derog Gioura, Nauruan politician, 23rd President of Nauru (died 2008)
1933 – Ann Richards, American educator and politician, 45th Governor of Texas (died 2006)
1933 – Conway Twitty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1993)
1935 – Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor and director (died 2024)
1935 – Guy Rodgers, American basketball player (died 2001)
1936 – Valery Legasov, Soviet inorganic chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (died 1988)
1937 – Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (died 2025)
1938 – Jodie Allen, American journalist, author, and editor (died 2026)
1938 – Alan Dershowitz, American lawyer and author
1938 – Per Kirkeby, Danish painter, sculptor and poet (died 2018)
1939 – Rico Carty, Dominican baseball player (died 2024)
1939 – Lily Tomlin, American actress, comedian, screenwriter and producer
1940 – Yaşar Büyükanıt, Turkish general (died 2019)
1940 – Annie Ernaux, French author, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 – C. J. Cherryh, American author and educator
1943 – Don Stroud, American actor
1944 – Archie Bell, American soul singer-songwriter and musician
1944 – Leonard Slatkin, American conductor and composer
1945 – Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Yemeni general and politician, 2nd President of Yemen (died 2026)
1946 – Barry Gibb, Manx-English singer-songwriter and producer
1946 – Shalom Hanoch, Israeli rock singer, lyricist and composer
1946 – Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean soldier and politician, 9th President of South Korea (died 2009)
1947 – Al Green, American lawyer and politician
1947 – P. A. Sangma, Indian lawyer and politician, 11th Speaker of the Lok Sabha (died 2016)
1948 – Greg Errico, American drummer and producer
1948 – Józef Życiński, Polish archbishop and philosopher (died 2011)
1950 – Mikhail Fradkov, Russian politician, 36th Prime Minister of Russia
1950 – Phil McGraw, American psychologist, author and talk show host
1951 – Timothy Zahn, American Hugo Award-winning sci-fi and fantasy author
1952 – Michael Massee, American actor (died 2016)
1952 – Juan Cruz Martínez, Mexican politician (died 2026)
1955 – Bruce Foxton, English singer-songwriter and bass player
1956 – Vinnie Johnson, American basketball player and sportscaster
1956 – Bernie Wagenblast, transportation journalist, founder of Transportation Communications Newsletter
1957 – Alexandra Aikhenvald, Australian linguist
1957 – Gloria Estefan, Cuban-American singer-songwriter and actress
1957 – Duško Ivanović, Montenegrin basketball player and coach
1960 – Eric Adams, American police officer, and politician (Mayor of New York)
1960 – Ralf Außem, German footballer and manager
1961 – Jeremy Farrar, British academic and educator; director of the Wellcome Trust
1961 – Christopher Ferguson, American captain, pilot and astronaut
1961 – Boney James, American saxophonist, composer and producer
1962 – Tony Cascarino, English-Irish footballer
1962 – Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer and manager
1963 – Stephen Kernahan, Australian footballer
1963 – Grant-Lee Phillips, American musician and actor
1964 – Brian Bellows, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 – Charlie Robison, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2023)
1965 – Craig McLachlan, Australian actor and singer
1965 – Tibor Simon, Hungarian footballer and manager (died 2002)
1966 – Tim Hardaway, American basketball player and coach
1967 – Steve Pemberton, English actor, screenwriter and director
1968 – Mohamed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (died 2001)
1969 – Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer and manager
1970 – David Fairleigh, Australian rugby league player and coach
1970 – Hwang Jung-min, South Korean actor
1970 – Padma Lakshmi, Indian-American actress and author
1971 – Ricardo Antonio Chavira, American actor
1971 – Yoshitaka Hirota, Japanese bass player and composer
1971 – Maury Sterling, American actor
1971 – Hakan Şükür, Turkish footballer and politician
1971 – Rachel Zoe, American fashion designer
1973 – J.D. Fortune, Canadian singer-songwriter
1973 – Simon Shaw, English rugby player
1973 – Ram Kapoor, Indian actor
1974 – Burn Gorman, American-born English actor and musician
1974 – Jason Taylor, American football player and sportscaster
1974 – Yutaka Yamamoto, Japanese director and producer, founder of Ordet Animation Studio
1974 – Jhonen Vasquez, American writer, director, cartoonist and comic illustrator
1975 – Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian singer-songwriter
1975 – Ammon Bundy, American anti-government militant
1975 – Cuttino Mobley, American basketball player
1975 – Scott Speedman, English-Canadian actor
1976 – Babydaddy, American singer-songwriter and producer
1976 – Marcos Ambrose, Australian racing driver
1976 – Clare Connor, English cricketer
1976 – Érik Morales, Mexican boxer
1976 – Sebastián Rozental, Chilean footballer
1977 – David Albelda, Spanish footballer
1977 – Raffaele Giammaria, Italian racing driver
1977 – Arsalan Iftikhar, American lawyer and author
1977 – Aaron Schobel, American football player
1978 – Max Vieri, Australian-Italian footballer
1980 – Sammy Adjei, Ghanaian footballer
1980 – Chris Riggott, English footballer
1981 – Boyd Holbrook, American actor
1981 – Clinton Portis, American football player
1981 – Adam Quick, Australian basketball player
1982 – Jeffrey Buttle, Canadian figure skater
1982 – Paul Dumbrell, Australian racing driver
1982 – Ryan Gomes, American basketball player
1982 – Zoe Lister-Jones, American actress and director
1983 – Cameron Borgas, Australian cricketer
1983 – Iñaki Lejarreta, Spanish cyclist (died 2012)
1983 – José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer (died 2019)
1983 – Jeff Woywitka, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Ludwig Göransson, Swedish film composer
1984 – László Köteles, Hungarian footballer
1984 – Rod Pelley, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Joe Trohman, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1985 – Larsen Jensen, American swimmer
1986 – Anthony Allen, English rugby player
1986 – Gaël Monfils, French tennis player
1986 – Stella Mwangi, Kenyan-Norwegian singer-songwriter
1987 – Leonel Suárez, Cuban decathlete
1987 – Mats Zuccarello, Norwegian ice hockey player
1988 – Simona de Silvestro, Swiss racing driver
1988 – Miles Plumlee, American basketball player
1988 – Chanel West Coast, American rapper-songwriter and model
1989 – Astrid Besser, Italian tennis player
1989 – Bill Kaulitz, German singer and songwriter
1989 – Jefferson Montero, Ecuadorian footballer
1989 – Gustav Nyquist, Swedish ice hockey player
1989 – Daniel Sturridge, English footballer
1990 – Aisling Loftus, English actress
1990 – Stanislav Tecl, Czech footballer
1991 – Rhys Bennett, English footballer
1992 – Cristiano Biraghi, Italian footballer
1992 – Kirani James, Grenadian sprinter
1992 – Tomáš Nosek, Czech ice hockey player
1992 – Woo Hye-lim, South Korean singer-songwriter
1993 – Mario Lemina, Gabonese footballer
1994 – Anna Smolina, Russian tennis player
1994 – Carlos Sainz Jr., Spanish racing driver
1995 – Nathan MacKinnon, Canadian ice hockey player
1996 – Zendaya, American actress and singer
1997 – Jeon Jungkook, South Korean singer, songwriter and record producer
1997 – Joan Mir, Spanish motorcycle racer
1998 – Josh Battle, Australian rules footballer
1998 – Josh Okogie, Nigerian-American basketball player
1998 – Salah Mohsen, Egyptian footballer
1999 – Cam Reddish, American basketball player
2000 – Mikhail Iakovlev, Israeli Olympic cyclist
2000 – Pratika Rawal, Indian cricketer
2002 – Diane Parry, French tennis player
2002 – Illia Zabarnyi, Ukrainian footballer
2003 – An Yu-jin, South Korean singer and actress

Deaths 99

870 – Muhammad al-Bukhari, Persian scholar (born 810)
873 – Thachulf, duke of Thuringia
1081 – Bishop Eusebius of Angers
1159 – Pope Adrian IV (born 1100)
1198 – Dulce, Queen of Portugal (born 1160)
1215 – Otto, bishop of Utrecht
1256 – Kujō Yoritsune, Japanese shōgun (born 1218)
1327 – Foulques de Villaret, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
1339 – Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria (born 1305)
1375 – Philip of Valois, Duke of Orléans (born 1336)
1414 – William de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (born 1369)
1480 – Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg (born 1413)
1557 – Jacques Cartier, French navigator and explorer (born 1491)
1581 – Guru Ram Das, Sikh 4th of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism (born 1534)
1599 – Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (born 1565)
1615 – Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and jurist (born 1529)
1646 – Francis Windebank, English statesman (born 1582)
1648 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician, theologian, and philosopher (born 1588)
1678 – Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (born 1601)
1685 – Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer, jurist, and politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (born 1625)
1687 – Henry More, English priest and philosopher (born 1614)
1706 – Cornelis de Man, Dutch painter (born 1621)
1715 – François Girardon, French sculptor (born 1628)
1715 – Louis XIV of France (born 1638)
1838 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician, 4th Governor of Missouri Territory (born 1770)
1839 – Izidor Guzmics, Hungarian theologian and educator (born 1786)
1868 – Ferenc Gyulay, Hungarian-Austrian commander and politician (born 1799)
1914 – Martha, last known passenger pigeon (hatched 1885)
1922 – Samu Pecz, Hungarian architect and academic (born 1854)
1924 – Noe Khomeriki, Georgian Social Democrat politician (born 1883)
1930 – Peeter Põld, Estonian scientist and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Education (born 1878)
1943 – Charles Atangana, Cameroonian ruler (born 1880)
1947 – Frederick Russell Burnham, American soldier and adventurer (born 1861)
1951 – Nellie McClung, Canadian author and suffragist (born 1873)
1967 – Siegfried Sassoon, English soldier and writer (born 1886)
1969 – Drew Pearson, American journalist and author (born 1897)
1970 – François Mauriac, French novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1885)
1971 – Alan Brown, English soldier (born 1909)
1974 – Gerd Neggo, Estonian dancer, dance teacher, and choreographer (born 1891)
1977 – Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (born 1896)
1981 – Ann Harding, American actress (born 1901)
1981 – Albert Speer, German architect and author (born 1905)
1982 – Haskell Curry, American mathematician and academic (born 1900)
1982 – Władysław Gomułka, Polish activist and politician (born 1905)
1982 – Isabel Cristina Mrad Campos, Brazilian student; honored by the Catholicism (born 1962)
1983 – Henry M. Jackson, American lawyer and politician (born 1912)
1983 – Larry McDonald, American physician and politician (born 1935)
1984 – Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset, Duchess of Parma (born 1898)
1985 – Stefan Bellof, German racing driver (born 1957)
1986 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (born 1923)
1988 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
1989 – A. Bartlett Giamatti, American businessman and academic (born 1938)
1989 – Kazimierz Deyna, Polish footballer (born 1947)
1989 – Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer (born 1894)
1990 – Edwin O. Reischauer, American scholar and diplomat (born 1910)
1991 – Otl Aicher, German graphic designer and typographer (born 1922)
1997 – Zoltán Czibor, Hungarian footballer (born 1929)
1998 – Józef Krupiński, Polish poet and author (born 1930)
1998 – Cary Middlecoff, American golfer and sportscaster (born 1921)
1998 – Osman F. Seden, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1924)
1999 – W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist and author (born 1951)
2003 – Rand Brooks, American actor and producer (born 1918)
2003 – Terry Frost, English painter and academic (born 1915)
2004 – Ahmed Kuftaro, Syrian religious leader, Grand Mufti of Syria (born 1915)
2004 – Alastair Morton, South African businessman (born 1938)
2005 – R. L. Burnside, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1926)
2006 – György Faludy, Hungarian author and poet (born 1910)
2006 – Warren Mitofsky, American journalist (born 1934)
2006 – Bob O'Connor, American businessman and politician, 57th Mayor of Pittsburgh (born 1944)
2006 – Kyffin Williams, Welsh painter and educator (born 1918)
2007 – Roy McKenzie, New Zealand horse racer and philanthropist (born 1922)
2008 – Thomas J. Bata, Czech-Canadian businessman (born 1914)
2008 – Jerry Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1937)
2010 – Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna (born 1928)
2012 – Sean Bergin, South African saxophonist, flute player, and composer (born 1948)
2012 – Hal David, American songwriter and composer (born 1921)
2012 – Smarck Michel, Haitian businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Haiti (born 1937)
2012 – William Petzäll, Swedish politician (born 1988)
2012 – Arnaldo Putzu, Italian illustrator (born 1927)
2013 – Ignacio Eizaguirre, Spanish footballer and manager (born 1920)
2013 – Tommy Morrison, American boxer and actor (born 1969)
2013 – Gordon Steege, Australian soldier (born 1917)
2013 – Margaret Mary Vojtko, American linguist and academic (born 1930)
2013 – Ken Wallis, English commander and pilot (born 1916)
2014 – Ahmed Abdi Godane, Somali militant leader (born 1977)
2014 – Roger McKee, American baseball player (born 1926)
2014 – Joseph Shivers, American chemist and academic, developed spandex (born 1920)
2015 – Gurgen Dalibaltayan, Armenian general (born 1926)
2015 – Dean Jones, American actor and singer (born 1931)
2015 – Richard G. Hewlett, American historian and author (born 1923)
2015 – Ben Kuroki, American sergeant and pilot (born 1917)
2018 – Randy Weston, American jazz pianist and composer (born 1926)
2020 – Erick Morillo, American disc jockey and music producer (born 1971)
2022 – Barbara Ehrenreich, American writer and journalist (born 1941)
2022 – Yang Yongsong, Chinese major general (born 1919)
2023 – Jimmy Buffett, American singer-songwriter, musician, author and businessman (born 1946)
2024 – Linda Deutsch, American journalist (born 1943)
2025 – Joe Bugner, Hungarian-British boxer and actor (born 1950)
2026 – Carla Jeffery, American actor and singer (born 1993)

Holidays and observances 18

Feast of Creation (Christianity)
Christian feast day: Constantius (Costanzo) of Aquino David Pendleton Oakerhater (Anglican Communion) Giles Blessed Giuliana of Collalto Isabel Cristina Loup (Lupus) of Sens Nivard (Nivo) Sixtus of Reims Terentian (Terrence) Verena Vibiana The beginning of the new liturgical year (Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Church) and Creationtide September 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Constantius (Costanzo) of Aquino
David Pendleton Oakerhater (Anglican Communion)
Giles
Blessed Giuliana of Collalto
Isabel Cristina
Loup (Lupus) of Sens
Nivard (Nivo)
Sixtus of Reims
Terentian (Terrence)
Verena
Vibiana
The beginning of the new liturgical year (Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Church) and Creationtide
September 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Knowledge Day (Former Soviet Union)
Anniversary of Al Fateh Revolution (Gaddafists in Libya)
Wattle Day (Australia)