September 6: On This Day

Events, births, deaths, holidays and observances for September 6.

Events 59

394 – Battle of the Frigidus: Roman emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish magister militum Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later.
1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
1522 – The Victoria returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition and the first known ship to circumnavigate the world.
1620 – The Pilgrim Fathers sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
1622 – The Spanish treasure galleon Atocha sinks during a hurricane off Key West in the Straits of Florida, taking 40 short tons (36 t) of gold and silver and 260 of its 265 passengers and crew to the bottom.
1628 – Puritans settle Salem, which became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1634 – Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen, the Catholic Imperial army defeats Swedish and German Protestant forces.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a British victory.
1803 – British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
1859 – Imam Shamil surrenders to the Russians, bringing the Caucasian Imamate to an end.
1861 – American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, giving the Union control of the Tennessee River's mouth.
1863 – American Civil War: Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
1870 – Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
1885 – Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, thus accomplishing Bulgarian unification.
1901 – Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US president William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
1914 – World War I: The First Battle of the Marne, which would halt the Imperial German Army's advance into France, begins.
1915 – World War I: The first tank prototype, developed by William Foster & Co. for the British army, is completed and given its first test drive.
1930 – Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
1936 – Spanish Civil War: The Interprovincial Council of Asturias and León is established.
1939 – World War II: The British Royal Air Force suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War at the Battle of Barking Creek as a result of friendly fire.
1939 – World War II: Union of South Africa declares war on Germany.
1940 – King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael. General Ion Antonescu becomes the Conducător of Romania.
1943 – The Monterrey Institute of Technology is founded in Monterrey, Mexico as one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America.
1943 – Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.
1944 – World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by Allied forces.
1944 – World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
1946 – United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.
1952 – A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
1955 – Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
1962 – The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
1962 – Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the second century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.
1965 – India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which results in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate followed by the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
1966 – Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting.
1968 – Swaziland becomes independent.
1970 – Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field, Jordan.
1971 – Paninternational Flight 112 crashes on the Bundesautobahn 7 highway near Hamburg Airport, in Hamburg, Germany, killing 22.
1972 – Munich massacre: Nine Israeli athletes die (along with a German policeman) at the hands of the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group after being taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games. Two other Israeli athletes were slain in the initial attack the previous day.
1976 – Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.
1983 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that its operatives did not know that it was a civilian aircraft when it reportedly violated Soviet airspace.
1985 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 crashes near Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing all 31 people on board.
1986 – In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six congregants inside the Neve Shalom Synagogue during Shabbat services.
1988 – End of the last stage of the Anfal campaign of Ba'athist Iraq against its Kurdish population, which resulted in major destructions and major civilian losses.
1991 – The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
1991 – The Russian parliament approves the name change of Leningrad back to Saint Petersburg. The change is effective October 1.
1992 – A group of hunters at the Stampede trail near Healy, Alaska come across a male corpse in abandoned bus, later identified as Christopher McCandless.
1995 – Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.
1997 – The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people line the streets and 2.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}1⁄2 billion watch around the world on television.
1997 – Royal Brunei Airlines Flight 839 crashes in the Lambir Hills National Park while on approach to Miri Airport in Malaysia, killing 10.
2003 – Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.
2007 – Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.
2009 – The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.
2012 – Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.
2013 – Forty-one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.
2013 – The first Minotaur V rocket is launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, carrying NASA's LADEE spacecraft.
2018 – Supreme Court of India decriminalises all consensual sex among adults in private, making homosexuality legal on the Indian lands.
2018 – Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro survives a stabbing at a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais.
2022 – Boris Johnson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and is replaced by Liz Truss. Their meetings with Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle were the Queen's final official duties before her death two days later.
2022 – Russo-Ukrainian war: Ukraine begins its Kharkiv counteroffensive, surprising Russian forces and retaking over 3,000 square kilometers of land, recapturing the entire Kharkiv Oblast west of the Oskil River, within the next week.
2026 – 21 Air Flight 7598, a Boeing 767 freighter operating on behalf of Amazon Air, overruns the runway upon landing at Miami International Airport, striking multiple ground vehicles, killing at least five people, and injuring five others.

Births 249

1475 – Artus Gouffier, Lord of Boissy, French nobleman and politician (died 1519)
1475 – Sebastiano Serlio, Italian Mannerist architect (died 1554)
1610 – Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena, Italian noble (died 1658)
1620 – Isabella Leonarda, Italian composer and educator (died 1704)
1631 – Charles Porter, English-born judge (died 1696)
1633 – Sebastian Knüpfer, German cantor and composer (died 1676)
1656 – Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and politician (died 1723)
1666 – Ivan V of Russia, Russian tsar (died 1696)
1711 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-American pastor and missionary (died 1787)
1729 – Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher and theologian (died 1786)
1732 – Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist and academic (died 1796)
1757 – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French general (died 1834)
1766 – John Dalton, English chemist, meteorologist, and physicist (died 1844)
1781 – Vincent Novello, English composer and publisher (died 1861)
1795 – Frances Wright, Scottish-American author and activist (died 1852)
1800 – Catharine Beecher, American educator and activist (died 1878)
1802 – Alcide d'Orbigny, French zoologist, palaeontologist, and geologist (died 1857)
1808 – Emir Abdelkader, Algerian religious and military leader (died 1883)
1814 – George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Premier of East Canada (died 1873)
1817 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, English-Canadian businessman and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Finance (died 1893)
1819 – William Rosecrans, American general, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Mexico (died 1898)
1838 – Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (died 1906)
1852 – Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (died 1918)
1855 – Ferdinand Hummel, German pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1928)
1857 – Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (died 1933)
1859 – Macpherson Robertson, Australian businessman and philanthropist, founded MacRobertson's (died 1945)
1860 – Jane Addams, American sociologist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935)
1860 – May Jordan McConnel, Australian trade unionist and suffragist (died 1929)
1861 – William Lane, English-Australian journalist, founded New Australia (died 1917)
1863 – Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (died 1935)
1868 – Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (died 1947)
1869 – Walford Davies, English organist and composer (died 1941)
1869 – Felix Salten, Austrian-Swiss author and critic (died 1945)
1876 – John Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935)
1879 – Max Schreck, German actor (died 1936)
1879 – Joseph Wirth, German educator and politician, Chancellor of Germany (died 1956)
1885 – Otto Kruger, American actor (died 1974)
1888 – Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., American businessman and diplomat, 44th United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (died 1969)
1889 – Louis Silvers, American composer (died 1954)
1890 – Clara Kimball Young, American actress and producer (died 1960)
1892 – Edward Victor Appleton, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)
1893 – Claire Lee Chennault, American general and pilot (died 1958)
1899 – Billy Rose, American composer and manager (died 1966)
1900 – W. A. C. Bennett, Canadian businessman and politician, 25th Premier of British Columbia (died 1979)
1900 – Julien Green, French-American author (died 1998)
1900 – Nguyễn An Ninh, Vietnamese political journalist (died 1943)
1906 – Luis Federico Leloir, French-Argentine physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987)
1908 – Anthony Wagner, English genealogist and academic (died 1995)
1908 – Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor, designed the Crazy Horse Memorial (died 1982)
1909 – Michael Gordon, American actor and director (died 1993)
1910 – Walter Giesler, American soccer player, referee, and coach (died 1976)
1911 – Harry Danning, American baseball player and coach (died 2004)
1911 – Charles Deutsch, French aerodynamics engineer and automobile maker, co-founder of the brand "DB (died 1980)
1912 – Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet, Scottish nobleman (died 1991)
1912 – Wayne Barlow, American organist, composer, and director (died 1996)
1913 – Julie Gibson, American actress and singer (died 2019)
1913 – Leônidas, Brazilian footballer (died 2004)
1915 – Ed Oliver, American golfer (died 1961)
1915 – Franz Josef Strauss, German lieutenant and politician, Minister President of Bavaria (died 1988)
1917 – John Berry, American-French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1999)
1917 – George Mann, English cricketer (died 2001)
1917 – Philipp von Boeselager, German soldier and economist (died 2008)
1919 – Wilson Greatbatch, American engineer and philanthropist (died 2011)
1920 – Elvira Pagã, Brazilian actress, singer, and author (died 2003)
1921 – Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (died 2004)
1921 – Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor, co-created the bar code (died 2012)
1922 – Adriano Moreira, Portuguese politician, Minister of the Overseas Provinces, President of the CDS – People's Party (died 2022)
1923 – Peter II of Yugoslavia (died 1970)
1924 – John Melcher, American veterinarian and politician (died 2018)
1925 – Andrea Camilleri, Italian author, screenwriter, and director (died 2019)
1925 – Jimmy Reed, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1976)
1926 – Prince Claus of the Netherlands (died 2002)
1926 – Jack English Hightower, American lawyer and politician (died 2013)
1926 – Arthur Oldham, English composer and conductor (died 2003)
1926 – Maurice Prather, American photographer and director (died 2001)
1928 – Fumihiko Maki, Japanese architect and academic, designed the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium and Makuhari Messe (died 2024)
1928 – Robert M. Pirsig, American novelist and philosopher (died 2017)
1928 – Yevgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer (died 2002)
1928 – Sid Watkins, English neurosurgeon and academic (died 2012)
1929 – Yash Johar, Indian film producer, founded Dharma Productions (died 2005)
1929 – Ljubov Rebane, Estonian physicist and mathematician (died 1991)
1930 – Charles Foley, American game designer, co-created Twister (died 2013)
1930 – Helmut Piirimäe, Estonian historian and academic (died 2017)
1931 – Bud Shrake, American journalist, author, and screenwriter (died 2009)
1932 – Colin McColl, English intelligence officer
1932 – Gilles Tremblay, Canadian composer and educator (died 2017)
1935 – Isabelle Collin Dufresne, French actress and author (died 2014)
1935 – Jock Wallace Jr., Scottish footballer and coach (died 1996)
1937 – Sergio Aragonés, Spanish-Mexican author and illustrator
1937 – Janusz Kurczab, Polish fencer and mountaineer (died 2015)
1937 – Jo Anne Worley, American actress, comedian, and singer
1938 – Joan Tower, American pianist, composer, and conductor
1939 – Brigid Berlin, American actress, painter, and photographer (died 2020)
1939 – David Allan Coe, American outlaw country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2026)
1939 – Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2026)
1940 – John M. Hayes, American scientist (died 2017)
1940 – Elizabeth Murray, American painter and illustrator (died 2007)
1940 – Jackie Trent, English-Spanish singer-songwriter and actress (died 2015)
1941 – Roger Law, English illustrator
1941 – Monica Mason, South African ballerina and director
1942 – Dave Bargeron, American trombonist and tuba player (died 2025)
1942 – Richard Hutton, English cricketer
1942 – Mel McDaniel, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2011)
1943 – Gordon Birtwistle, English engineer and politician
1943 – Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 – Roger Waters, English singer-songwriter and bass player
1944 – Donna Haraway, American author, academic, and activist
1944 – Swoosie Kurtz, American actress
1946 – Ron Boone, American basketball player and commentator
1946 – Roger Knight, English cricketer and educator
1946 – Shirley M. Malcom, American scientist, academic and educator
1947 – Jane Curtin, American actress and comedian
1947 – Bruce Rioch, English footballer and manager
1947 – Jacob Rubinovitz, Polish-Israeli engineer and academic (died 2018)
1947 – Sylvester, American singer-songwriter (died 1988)
1948 – Claydes Charles Smith, American guitarist (died 2006)
1949 – Iris Robinson, Northern Irish politician
1951 – Melih Kibar, Turkish composer (died 2005)
1952 – Simon Burns, English politician, Minister of State for Transport
1952 – Vladimir Kazachyonok, Russian footballer, coach, and manager (died 2017)
1952 – Buddy Miller, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1954 – Carly Fiorina, American businesswoman and activist
1954 – Demetris Kizas, Cypriot footballer
1954 – Patrick O'Hearn, American bassist and composer
1954 – John Sauven, English economist and environmentalist
1955 – Raymond Benson, American author and playwright
1956 – Bill Ritter, American lawyer and politician, 41st Governor of Colorado
1956 – Steven Yearley, English sociologist and academic
1957 – Ali Divandari, Iranian painter, sculptor, and journalist
1957 – Michaëlle Jean, Haitian-Canadian journalist and politician, 27th Governor General of Canada
1957 – José Sócrates, Portuguese engineer and politician, 119th Prime Minister of Portugal
1958 – Buster Bloodvessel, English singer-songwriter
1958 – Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
1958 – Nigel Westlake, Australian composer and conductor
1958 – Michael Winslow, American actor
1958 – The Barbarian, Tongan wrestler
1959 – Bill Root, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 – Simon Reeve, Australian journalist and game show host
1961 – Wendi Richter, American wrestler
1961 – Scott Travis, American rock drummer
1961 – Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian musician and songwriter
1962 – Chris Christie, American lawyer and politician, 55th Governor of New Jersey
1962 – Marina Kaljurand, Estonian badminton player and diplomat, Estonia Ambassador to Russia
1962 – Elizabeth Vargas, American journalist
1962 – Kevin Willis, American basketball player and fashion designer
1963 – Mark Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963 – Pat Nevin, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
1963 – Betsy Russell, American actress
1963 – Alice Sebold, American author
1963 – Bryan Simonaire, American engineer and politician
1963 – Geert Wilders, Dutch lawyer and politician
1964 – Rosie Perez, American actress, dancer, and director
1965 – Terry Bickers, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965 – Darren Clark, Australian sprinter
1965 – Tony Fleet, Australian darts player
1965 – Christopher Nolan, Irish author and poet (died 2009)
1965 – Van Tiffin, American football player
1967 – William DuVall, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1967 – Macy Gray, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1967 – Kalli Kalde, Estonian painter and illustrator
1967 – Milan Lukić, Bosnian Serb convicted of war crimes by the ICTY
1967 – Igor Štimac, Croatian footballer and manager
1968 – Saeed Anwar, Pakistani cricketer
1968 – Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish author
1968 – Paul Rea, American journalist
1969 – Tony DiTerlizzi, American author and illustrator
1969 – Ben Finegold, American chess player and educator
1969 – Michellie Jones, Australian-American triathlete
1969 – CeCe Peniston, American singer-songwriter, actress, and former beauty pageant winner
1970 – Cheyne Coates, Australian singer-songwriter and producer
1970 – Igor Korolev, Russian-Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2011)
1970 – Emily Maitlis, Canadian-English journalist
1970 – Rhett Miller, American alternative country singer-songwriter and guitarist
1970 – DJ Spooky, American electronic and experimental hip hop musician
1971 – Devang Gandhi, Indian cricketer
1971 – Asko Künnap, Estonian poet and illustrator
1971 – Dolores O'Riordan, Irish singer-songwriter (died 2018)
1972 – Dylan Bruno, American actor and model
1972 – Idris Elba, English actor
1972 – Justina Machado, American actress
1972 – Saulius Mikalajūnas, Lithuanian footballer
1972 – Anika Noni Rose, American actress and singer
1973 – Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer
1973 – Greg Rusedski, Canadian-English tennis player and sportscaster
1973 – Alessandro Troncon, Italian rugby player and coach
1974 – Tim Henman, English tennis player and sportscaster
1974 – Nina Persson, Swedish singer-songwriter and musician
1974 – Justin Whalin, American actor
1975 – Derrek Lee, American baseball player and coach
1975 – Ryoko Tani, Japanese judoka and politician
1976 – Rodrigo Amarante, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976 – Naomie Harris, English actress
1976 – Jon Ander López, Spanish footballer (died 2013)
1976 – Tom Pappas, American decathlete and coach
1978 – Cisco Adler, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1978 – Foxy Brown, American rapper
1978 – Alex Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player
1978 – Mathew Horne, English actor and screenwriter
1978 – Homare Sawa, Japanese footballer
1979 – Mike Arnaoutis, Greek boxer
1979 – Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer
1979 – Carlos Adrián Morales, Mexican footballer
1979 – Low Ki, American wrestler
1980 – Jillian Hall, American wrestler and singer
1980 – Kerry Katona, English singer and actress
1980 – Samuel Peter, Nigerian boxer
1980 – Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
1981 – Yuki Abe, Japanese footballer
1981 – Yumiko Cheng, Hong Kong singer and actress
1981 – Andrew Richardson, Jamaican cricketer
1981 – Mark Teahen, American baseball player
1982 – Temeka Johnson, American basketball player
1983 – Jerry Blevins, American baseball player
1983 – Pippa Middleton, English socialite and author
1983 – Braun Strowman, American wrestler and strongman
1984 – Helena Ekholm, Swedish skier
1984 – William Porterfield, Northern Irish cricketer
1985 – Lauren Lapkus, American actress and comedian
1985 – Mitch Moreland, American baseball player
1985 – Małgorzata Rejmer, Polish novelist
1987 – Emir Preldžić, Turkish basketball player
1988 – Max George, English singer-songwriter and actor
1988 – Denis Tonucci, Italian footballer
1989 – Kim So-eun, South Korean actress
1990 – John Wall, American basketball player
1991 – Brian Dumoulin, American ice hockey player
1991 – Joe Harris, American basketball player
1992 – Ryan Shazier, American football player
1992 – Young Tonumaipea, Samoan rugby league player
1993 – Famous Dex, American rapper
1993 – Alex Poythress, American basketball player
1993 – Mattia Valoti, Italian footballer
1994 – Maddie Phillips, Canadian actress
1994 – Emilly Micaela Marcondes, Brazilian professional futsal player
1994 – Elif Doğan, Turkish actress
1995 – Mark Andrews, American football player
1995 – Mustafizur Rahman, Bangladeshi cricketer
1996 – Andrés Tello, Colombian footballer
1996 – Lil Xan, American rapper
1997 – Mallory Comerford, American swimmer
1997 – Tsukushi, Japanese wrestler
1998 – Michele Perniola, Italian singer
2000 – David Kushner, American singer-songwriter
2001 – Freya Allan, English actress
2001 – Terrence Clarke, American basketball player (died 2021)
2002 – Asher Angel, American actor
2002 – Leylah Fernandez, Canadian tennis player
2005 – Elzhana Taniyeva, Kazakh rhythmic gymnast
2006 – Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japanese prince

Deaths 108

394 – Eugenius, Roman usurper
926 – Taizu of Liao, Khitan ruler (born 872)
952 – Suzaku, emperor of Japan (born 923)
957 – Liudolf, duke of Swabia (born 930)
972 – John XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (born 930)
1178 – Ioveta, Latin princess
1276 – Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Italian cardinal (born 1210)
1431 – Demetrios Laskaris Leontares, Byzantine admiral and diplomat
1511 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shōgun (born 1481)
1553 – Juan de Homedes y Coscon, 47th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (born c.1477)
1566 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman sultan (born 1494)
1625 – Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian and scholar (born 1579)
1635 – Adriaan Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (born 1571)
1649 – Robert Dudley, English geographer and explorer (born 1574)
1683 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French economist and politician, French Controller-General of Finances (born 1619)
1708 – Sir John Morden, 1st Baronet, English merchant and philanthropist, founded Morden College (born 1623)
1783 – Carlo Bertinazzi, Italian actor and author (born 1710)
1808 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian and author (born 1723)
1836 – Gaspar Flores de Abrego, three-term mayor of San Antonio, in Spanish Texas (born 1781)
1868 – Pierre Adolphe Rost, American lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1797)
1885 – Narcís Monturiol, Spanish engineer, designed the Ictineo I and Ictineo II (born 1819)
1891 – Charles Jamrach, German-English businessman (born 1815)
1902 – Frederick Abel, English chemist and engineer (born 1827)
1907 – Sully Prudhomme, French poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1839)
1919 – Lord Charles Beresford, English admiral and politician (born 1846)
1927 – William Libbey, American target shooter and geographer (born 1855)
1938 – John Stuart Hindmarsh, English race car driver and pilot (born 1907)
1939 – Arthur Rackham, English illustrator (born 1867)
1940 – Thomas Harte, executed Irish Republican (born 1915)
1940 – Patrick McGrath, executed Irish Republican (born 1894)
1944 – James Cannon Jr., American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (born 1864)
1945 – John S. McCain Sr., American admiral (born 1884)
1949 – Song Qiyun, Chinese communist activist (born 1904)
1949 – Song Zhenzhong, Chinese child internee (born 1941)
1949 – Xu Linxia, Chinese communist activist (born 1904/1905)
1949 – Yang Hucheng, Chinese general (born 1893)
1950 – Olaf Stapledon, English philosopher and author (born 1886)
1951 – James W. Gerard, American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Germany (born 1867)
1952 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, singer, and dancer (born 1898)
1956 – Witold Hurewicz, Polish mathematician (born 1904)
1956 – Lee Jung-seob, North Korean painter (born 1916)
1959 – Edmund Gwenn, English actor (born 1877)
1959 – Kay Kendall, English actress and comedian (born 1927)
1962 – Hanns Eisler, German-Austrian composer (born 1898)
1962 – Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (born 1892)
1966 – Margaret Sanger, American nurse, educator, and activist (born 1879)
1966 – Hendrik Verwoerd, Dutch-South African journalist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of South Africa (born 1901)
1969 – Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (born 1892)
1972 – Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre Luttif Afif, Palestinian terrorist (born 1945) David Berger, American-Israeli weightlifter (born 1944) Ze'ev Friedman, Polish-Israeli weightlifter (born 1944) Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestling judge (born 1931) Eliezer Halfin, Russian-Israeli wrestler (born 1948) Amitzur Shapira, Russian-Israeli runner and coach (born 1932) Kehat Shorr, Romanian shooting coach (born 1919) Mark Slavin, Israeli wrestler (born 1954) Andre Spitzer, Romanian-Israeli fencer and coach (born 1945) Yakov Springer, Polish-Israeli wrestler and coach (born 1921)
Luttif Afif, Palestinian terrorist (born 1945)
David Berger, American-Israeli weightlifter (born 1944)
Ze'ev Friedman, Polish-Israeli weightlifter (born 1944)
Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestling judge (born 1931)
Eliezer Halfin, Russian-Israeli wrestler (born 1948)
Amitzur Shapira, Russian-Israeli runner and coach (born 1932)
Kehat Shorr, Romanian shooting coach (born 1919)
Mark Slavin, Israeli wrestler (born 1954)
Andre Spitzer, Romanian-Israeli fencer and coach (born 1945)
Yakov Springer, Polish-Israeli wrestler and coach (born 1921)
1974 – Olga Baclanova, Russian-Swiss actress and ballerina (born 1896)
1974 – Otto Kruger, American actor (born 1885)
1978 – Max Decugis, French tennis player (born 1882)
1978 – Tom Wilson, American record producer (born 1931)
1978 – Adolf Dassler, German cobbler and entrepreneur, founded Adidas (born 1900)
1979 – Ronald Binge, English organist and composer (born 1910)
1982 – Azra Erhat, Turkish archaeologist, author, and academic (born 1915)
1984 – Ernest Tubb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1914)
1985 – Franco Ferrara, Italian conductor and composer (born 1911)
1986 – Blanche Sweet, American actress (born 1896)
1990 – Tom Fogerty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)
1990 – Len Hutton, English cricketer (born 1916)
1994 – Nicky Hopkins, English pianist (born 1944)
1997 – P. H. Newby, English author and broadcaster (born 1918)
1998 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1910)
1998 – Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Swedish actor (born 1928)
2005 – Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (born 1929)
2000 – Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (born 1918)
2005 – Eugenia Charles, Dominican lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Dominica (born 1919)
2007 – Madeleine L'Engle, American author and poet (born 1918)
2007 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (born 1935)
2008 – Anita Page, American actress (born 1910)
2009 – Catherine Gaskin, Irish-Australian author (born 1929)
2010 – Boris Chetkov, Russian painter (born 1926)
2010 – Clive Donner, English director and editor (born 1926)
2011 – Michael S. Hart, American author, founded Project Gutenberg (born 1947)
2012 – Elisabeth Böhm, German architect (born 1921)
2012 – Lawrie Dring, Scottish scout leader, founded World Federation of Independent Scouts (born 1931)
2012 – Oscar Rossi, Argentine footballer and manager (born 1930)
2013 – Ann C. Crispin, American author (born 1950)
2014 – Odd Bondevik, Norwegian bishop and theologian (born 1941)
2014 – Seth Martin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1933)
2014 – Kira Zvorykina, Belarusian chess player and educator (born 1919)
2015 – Martin Milner, American actor (born 1931)
2017 – Peter Luck, Australian journalist and television host (born 1944)
2017 – Kate Millett, American feminist author and activist (born 1934)
2018 – Richard DeVos, American billionaire businessman (born 1926)
2018 – Liz Fraser, English actress (born 1930)
2018 – Burt Reynolds, American actor, director and producer (born 1936)
2019 – Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe (born 1924)
2020 – Lou Brock, American baseball player (born 1939)
2021 – Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (born 1933)
2021 – Michael K. Williams, American actor (born 1966)
2024 – Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, Turkish-American activist (born 1998)
2024 – Rebecca Horn, German visual artist (born 1944)
2024 – Will Jennings, American songwriter (born 1944)
2024 – Cathy Merrick, Canadian First Nations leader (born 1961/1962)
2024 – Ron Yeats, Scottish footballer (born 1937)
2025 – Rick Davies, English musician (born 1944)

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Christian feast days: Begga Chagnoald Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria Gondulphus of Metz Blessed Jan Franciszek Czartoryski Magnus of Füssen Onesiphorus Zechariah (Hebrew prophet) (Catholic church) September 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Begga
Chagnoald
Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria
Gondulphus of Metz
Blessed Jan Franciszek Czartoryski
Magnus of Füssen
Onesiphorus
Zechariah (Hebrew prophet) (Catholic church)
September 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
The earliest date on which the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance is performed
Armed Forces Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
Defence Day or Army Day (Pakistan)
Flag Day (Bonaire)
Independence Day (Swaziland), celebrates the independence of Eswatini from the United Kingdom in 1968
Unification Day (Bulgaria)