September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 117 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).
917 – Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu.
1590 – Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris .
1661 – Fall of Nicolas Fouquet : Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan , captain of the king's musketeers .
1666 – Great Fire of London ends: Ten thousand buildings including St Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only six people are known to have died.
1697 – War of the Grand Alliance : A French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville defeated an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson's Bay .
1698 – In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
1725 – Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska .
1774 – First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia .
1781 – Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War : The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown .
1793 – French Revolution : The French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror .
1798 – Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law .
1812 – War of 1812 : The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac 's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.
1816 – Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas .
1839 – The United Kingdom declares war on the Qing dynasty of China.
1840 – Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi 's Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan.
1862 – American Civil War : The Potomac River is crossed at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign .
1862 – James Glaisher , pioneering meteorologist and Henry Tracey Coxwell break world record for altitude whilst collecting data in their balloon.
1864 – François Achille Bazaine becomes Marshal of France .
1877 – American Indian Wars : Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska .
1882 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
1882 – Tottenham Hotspur , a Premier League football club from North London, is founded (as Hotspur F.C.).
1887 – A fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter , England kills 186.
1905 – Russo-Japanese War : In New Hampshire , United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth , mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt , ends the war.
1906 – The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin) .
1914 – World War I : First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
1915 – The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
1918 – The original publication of the Cheka decree, "On Red Terror ".
1921 – Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe : One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.
1927 – The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles , produced by Walt Disney , is released by Universal Pictures .
1932 – The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast , French Sudan , and Niger .
1937 – Spanish Civil War : Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.
1938 – Chile : A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre .
1941 – Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
1942 – World War II : Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay , the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War .
1943 – World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport , near Lae in the Salamaua–Lae campaign .
1944 – Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux .
1945 – Cold War : Igor Gouzenko , a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
1945 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino , a Japanese American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose , is arrested in Yokohama .
1948 – In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister , As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
1957 – Cuban Revolution : Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos .
1957 – On the Road , a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac , is published.
1960 – The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal .
1960 – Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
1969 – My Lai Massacre : U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai .
1970 – Vietnam War : Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province .
1970 – Jochen Rindt becomes the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship (in 1970 ), after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix.
1972 – Munich massacre : A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September " attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games . Two die in the attack and nine die the following day.
1975 – Sacramento, California : Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford .
1977 – Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped in Cologne , West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.
1977 – Voyager program : Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
1978 – Camp David Accords : Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David , Maryland .
1980 – The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo .
1984 – STS-41-D : The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
1984 – Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment .
1986 – Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport .
1990 – Sri Lankan Civil War : Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.
1991 – The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 , comes into force.
1996 – Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear , North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people.
2012 – A firecracker factory explodes near Sivakasi , Tamil Nadu , killing 40 and injuring 50 others.
2012 – An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon , western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds four others.
699 – Abu Hanifa , Iraqi scholar (d. 767)
1187 – Louis VIII of France (d. 1226)
1201 – Alix, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1221)
1319 – Peter IV of Aragon (d. 1387)
1540 – Magnus, Duke of Holstein (d. 1583)
1567 – Date Masamune , Japanese daimyo (d. 1636)
1568 – Tommaso Campanella , Italian poet, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1639)
1638 – Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
1666 – Gottfried Arnold , German historian and theologian (d. 1714)
1667 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri , Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1733)
1694 – František Václav Míča , Czech conductor and composer (d. 1744)
1695 – Carl Gustaf Tessin , Swedish politician and diplomat (d. 1770)
1722 – Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (d. 1763)
1725 – Jean-Étienne Montucla , French mathematician and theorist (d. 1799)
1735 – Johann Christian Bach , German-English viol player and composer (d. 1782)
1750 – Robert Fergusson , Scottish poet and author (d. 1774)
1769 – John Shortland , English commander (d. 1810)
1771 – Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen (d. 1847)
1772 – Fath-Ali Shah Qajar , Iranian king (d. 1834)
1774 – Caspar David Friedrich , German painter and etcher (d. 1840)
1775 – Juan Martín Díez , Spanish general (d. 1825)
1781 – Anton Diabelli , Austrian composer and publisher (d. 1858)
1787 – François Sulpice Beudant , French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
1791 – Giacomo Meyerbeer , German pianist and composer (d. 1864)
1792 – Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy , French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857)
1806 – Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière , French general and politician, French Minister of War (d. 1865)
1817 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy , Russian poet, author, and playwright (d. 1875)
1818 – Edmund Kennedy , Australian explorer and surveyor (d. 1848)
1826 – John Wisden , English cricketer and businessman (d. 1884)
1827 – Goffredo Mameli , Italian poet and songwriter (d. 1849)
1831 – Victorien Sardou , French author and playwright (d. 1908)
1833 – George Huntington Hartford , American businessman (d. 1917)
1836 – Justiniano Borgoño , Peruvian soldier and politician, 57th President of Peru (d. 1921)
1847 – Jesse James , American criminal (d. 1882)
1850 – Jack Daniel , American businessman, founded Jack Daniel's (d. 1911)
1856 – Thomas E. Watson , American lawyer, publisher, and politician (d. 1922)
1867 – Amy Beach , American pianist and composer (d. 1944)
1871 – Friedrich Akel , Estonian physician and politician, Head of State of Estonia (d 1941)
1872 – V. O. Chidambaram Pillai , Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1936)
1873 – Cornelius Vanderbilt III , American general and engineer (d. 1942)
1874 – Nap Lajoie , American baseball player and manager (d. 1959)
1876 – Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb , German field marshal (d. 1956)
1876 – Abdelaziz Thâalbi , Tunisian politician (d. 1944)
1880 – José María of Manila , Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr (d. 1936)
1881 – Otto Bauer , Austrian philosopher and politician, Foreign Minister of Austria (d. 1938)
1881 – Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson , English field marshal (d. 1964)
1883 – Otto Erich Deutsch , Austrian musicologist and scholar (d. 1967)
1888 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan , Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India (d. 1975)
1892 – Joseph Szigeti , Hungarian violinist and educator (d. 1973)
1897 – Morris Carnovsky , American actor (d. 1992)
1897 – Arthur Nielsen , American market analyst, founded ACNielsen (d. 1980)
1899 – Humphrey Cobb , American author and screenwriter (d. 1944)
1899 – Helen Creighton , Canadian author and educator (d. 1989)
1901 – Florence Eldridge , American actress (d. 1988)
1901 – Mario Scelba , Italian politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1991)
1902 – Jean Dalrymple , American playwright, producer, manager, and publicist (d. 1998)
1902 – Darryl F. Zanuck , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1979)
1903 – Gloria Holden , English-American actress (d. 1991)
1904 – Vera Bradford , Australian pianist and educator (d. 2004)
1905 – Maurice Challe , French general (d. 1979)
1905 – Arthur Koestler , Hungarian-English journalist and author (d. 1983)
1905 – Justiniano Montano , Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 2005)
1906 – Ralston Crawford , American painter, lithographer, and photographer (d. 1978)
1907 – Sunnyland Slim , American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1995)
1907 – Layne Britton , American makeup artist and actor (d. 1993)
1908 – Josué de Castro , Brazilian physician, geographer, and activist (d. 1973)
1908 – Joaquín Nin-Culmell , German-American pianist and composer (d. 2004)
1909 – Hans Carste , German pianist and conductor (d. 1971)
1909 – Bernard Delfont , Russian-English talent manager (d. 1994)
1909 – Archie Jackson , Scottish-Australian cricketer (d. 1933)
1910 – Leila Mackinlay , English author (d. 1996)
1910 – Phiroze Palia , Indian cricketer (d. 1981)
1912 – John Cage , American composer and theorist (d. 1992)
1912 – Kristina Söderbaum , Swedish-German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
1912 – Frank Thomas , American voice actor, animator, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1913 – Conny Stuart , Dutch actress and singer (d. 2010)
1914 – Stuart Freeborn , English make up artist (d. 2013)
1914 – Gail Kubik , American violinist, composer, and educator (d. 1984)
1914 – Nicanor Parra , Chilean physicist, mathematician, and poet
1916 – Frank Shuster , Canadian comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
1916 – Frank Yerby , American novelist (d. 1991)
1917 – Pedro E. Guerrero , American photographer (d. 2012)
1917 – Sören Nordin , Swedish harness racer and trainer (d. 2008)
1918 – Luis Alcoriza , Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1992)
1918 – Bob Katter, Sr. , Australian captain and politician (d. 1990)
1918 – Buddy Williams , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1986)
1919 – Elisabeth Volkenrath , German SS officer (d. 1945)
1920 – Peter Racine Fricker , English-American composer and educator (d. 1990)
1920 – Fons Rademakers , Dutch-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1921 – Murray Henderson , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2013)
1921 – Jack Valenti , American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (d. 2007)
1921 – Nazife Güran , Turkish composer (d. 1993)
1922 – Denys Wilkinson , English physicist and academic
1923 – David Hamer , Australian captain and politician (d. 2002)
1923 – Ken Meuleman , Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
1924 – Paul Dietzel , American football player and coach (d. 2013)
1925 – Justin Kaplan , American author (d. 2014)
1927 – Paul Volcker , American economist and academic
1928 – Joyce Hatto , English pianist and educator (d. 2006)
1928 – Damayanti Joshi , Indian dancer and choreographer (d. 2004)
1928 – Albert Mangelsdorff , German trombonist and educator (United Jazz + Rock Ensemble ) (d. 2005)
1929 – Bob Newhart , American comedian, actor and screenwriter
1929 – Andriyan Nikolayev , Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2004)
1933 – Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa , Chilean cardinal
1934 – Paul Josef Cordes , German cardinal
1934 – Carol Lawrence , American actress and singer
1934 – Dennis Letts , American actor and educator (d. 2008)
1934 – Kevin McNamara , English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
1935 – Johnny Briggs , English actor
1935 – Werner Erhard , American author and philanthropist, founded Werner Erhard and Associates and The Hunger Project
1935 – Helen Gifford , Australian composer and educator
1936 – Robert Burns , Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
1936 – John Danforth , American politician and diplomat, 24th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
1936 – Jonathan Kozol , American sociologist, author, and educator
1936 – Bill Mazeroski , American baseball player and coach
1936 – Knuts Skujenieks , Latvian poet, journalist, and translator
1937 – Antonio Valentín Angelillo , Argentinian footballer and manager
1937 – Dick Clement , English director, producer, and screenwriter
1937 – William Devane , American actor, director, and screenwriter
1938 – John Ferguson, Sr. , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2007)
1938 – Doreen Massey, Baroness Massey of Darwen , English politician
1939 – Claudette Colvin , American nurse and activist
1939 – George Lazenby , Australian actor
1939 – Clay Regazzoni , Swiss race car driver and sportscaster (d. 2006)
1939 – John Stewart , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Kingston Trio ) (d. 2008)
1939 – George Tremlett , English journalist, author, and politician
1940 – Valerie Howarth, Baroness Howarth of Breckland , English politician
1940 – Raquel Welch , American actress and singer
1941 – Dave Dryden , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1942 – Denise Fabre , French television host
1942 – Werner Herzog , German actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1942 – Eduardo Mata , Mexican conductor and composer (d. 1995)
1943 – Dulce Saguisag , Filipino social worker and politician, 10th Filipino Secretary of Social Welfare and Development (d. 2007)
1944 – Dario Bellezza , Italian poet, author, and playwright (d. 1996)
1944 – Gareth Evans , Australian lawyer and politician, 33rd Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1945 – Eva Bergman , Swedish director and screenwriter
1945 – Al Stewart , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1946 – Kyongae Chang , South Korean astrophysicist and academic
1946 – Dennis Dugan , American actor and director
1946 – Margaret Howell , English fashion designer
1946 – Freddie Mercury , Tanzanian-English singer-songwriter and producer (Queen and Ibex ) (d. 1991)
1946 – Loudon Wainwright III , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1947 – Mel Collins , Manx saxophonist and flute player (Kokomo )
1947 – Chip Davis , American pianist, songwriter, and producer (Mannheim Steamroller )
1947 – Buddy Miles , American singer-songwriter and drummer (The Electric Flag and The California Raisins ) (d. 2008)
1947 – Bruce Yardley , Australian cricketer and sportscaster
1948 – Benita Ferrero-Waldner , Austrian lawyer, politician, and diplomat, Foreign Minister of Austria
1949 – Clem Clempson , English guitarist and songwriter (Humble Pie , Colosseum , and Bakerloo )
1950 – Rosie Cooper , English businesswoman and politician
1950 – Cathy Guisewite , American cartoonist, created Cathy
1951 – Paul Breitner , German footballer
1951 – Michael Keaton , American actor and producer
1952 – Masao Kusakari , Japanese actor and model
1953 – Victor Davis Hanson , American historian and journalist
1953 – Herman Koch , Dutch author and actor
1953 – Eiki Nestor , Estonian engineer and politician, Estonian Minister of Social Affairs
1953 – Paul Piché , Canadian singer-songwriter
1954 – Richard Austin , Jamaican footballer and cricketer (d. 2015)
1954 – Frederick Kempe , American journalist and author
1956 – Roine Stolt , Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Flower Kings , Kaipa , Transatlantic , and The Tangent )
1957 – Rudi Gores , German footballer and manager
1957 – Peter Winnen , Dutch cyclist
1958 – Lars Danielsson , Swedish bassist, composer, and producer
1959 – Frank Schirrmacher , German journalist and publisher (d. 2014)
1960 – Don Kulick , Swedish anthropologist and academic
1960 – Candy Maldonado , Puerto Rican-American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster
1960 – Kihachirō Uemura , Japanese actor and voice artist
1960 – Dayo Wong , Hong Kong comedian and actor
1961 – Marc-André Hamelin , Canadian pianist and composer
1962 – Tracy Edwards , English sailor and coach
1962 – John McGrath , Welsh businessman
1963 – Juan Alderete , American bass player and songwriter (Racer X , The Mars Volta , Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group , The Scream , and Big Sir )
1963 – Kristian Alfonso , American figure skater and actress
1963 – Jeff Brantley , American baseball player and sportscaster
1963 – Taki Inoue , Japanese race car driver and manager
1964 – Frank Farina , Australian footballer and manager
1964 – Sergei Loznitsa , Belarusian-Ukrainian director and screenwriter
1964 – Ken Norman , American basketball player
1964 – Amanda Ooms , Swedish actress
1964 – Kevin Saunderson , American DJ and producer (Inner City )
1964 – Emmanuel Yarborough , American sumo wrestler, mixed martial artist, and actor (d. 2015)
1965 – David Brabham , Australian race car driver
1965 – Chris Gore , American actor, producer, screenwriter, and critic, co-founded Film Threat
1965 – Tōru Nakamura , Japanese actor
1965 – César Rincón , Colombian bullfighter
1965 – Nick Talbot , English geneticist and academic
1966 – Achero Mañas , Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter
1966 – Milinko Pantić , Serbian footballer and manager
1967 – Arnel Pineda , Filipino singer-songwriter (Journey )
1967 – India Hicks , English model
1967 – Matthias Sammer , German footballer and manager
1967 – Jane Sixsmith , English field hockey player
1968 – Serhiy Kovalets , Ukrainian footballer and manager
1968 – Dennis Scott , American basketball player and sportscaster
1968 – Robin van der Laan , Dutch footballer and coach
1968 – Brad Wilk , American singer-songwriter and drummer (Audioslave , Rage Against the Machine , and Greta )
1969 – Leonardo Araújo , Brazilian footballer and manager
1969 – Mariko Kouda , Japanese voice actress, singer, and radio host
1969 – Amy Perez , Filipino actress and television host
1969 – Mark Ramprakash , English cricketer and coach
1969 – Dweezil Zappa , American singer, guitarist, and actor (Zappa Plays Zappa )
1970 – Kim Hye-soo , South Korean actress
1970 – Liam Lynch , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, puppeteer, and director
1970 – Mohammad Rafique , Bangladeshi cricketer
1970 – Gilbert Remulla , Filipino journalist and politician
1970 – Johnny Vegas , English actor, director,producer, and screenwriter
1971 – Adam Hollioake , Australian cricketer and mixed martial artist
1972 – Shane Sewell , Canadian-American wrestler and referee
1972 – Guy Whittall , Zimbabwean cricketer
1973 – Paddy Considine , English actor, director, and screenwriter
1973 – Rose McGowan , American actress
1974 – Rawl Lewis , Grenadian cricketer
1974 – Ken-Marti Vaher , Estonian politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior
1975 – Rod Barajas , American baseball player and manager
1975 – George Boateng , Dutch footballer and manager
1975 – Randy Choate , American baseball player
1975 – Matt Geyer , Australian rugby player and coach
1976 – Tatiana Gutsu , Ukrainian gymnast
1976 – Richard Marsland , Australian actor, screenwriter, and radio host (d. 2008)
1976 – Carice van Houten , Dutch actress and singer
1977 – Rosevelt Colvin , American football player and sportscaster
1977 – Joseba Etxeberria , Spanish footballer
1977 – Minoru Fujita , Japanese wrestler
1977 – Nazr Mohammed , American basketball player
1978 – Laura Bertram , Canadian actress
1978 – Chris Jack , New Zealand rugby player
1978 – Sylvester Joseph , Caribbean cricketer
1978 – Yu Nan , Chinese actress
1978 – Holly Randall , American erotic photographer
1978 – Zhang Zhong , Chinese chess player
1979 – John Carew , Norwegian footballer
1979 – Stacey Dales , Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
1979 – Salvatore Mastronunzio , Italian footballer
1979 – George O'Callaghan , Irish footballer
1980 – Franco Costanzo , Argentinian footballer
1981 – Nina Eichinger , German actress
1981 – Daniel Moreno , Spanish cyclist
1981 – Kai Rüütel , Estonian opera singer
1981 – Filippo Volandri , Italian tennis player
1982 – Alexandre Geijo , Spanish-Swiss footballer
1982 – Sondre Lerche , Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1983 – Eugen Bopp , Ukrainian-German footballer
1983 – Pablo Granoche , Uruguayan footballer
1983 – Priscilla Meirelles , Brazilian model and actress, Miss Earth 2004
1983 – Antony Sweeney , English footballer
1984 – Yulia Peresild , Russian actress
1984 – Chris Anker Sørensen , Danish cyclist
1985 – Ryan Guy , American soccer player
1986 – Colt McCoy , American football player
1986 – Pragyan Ojha , Indian cricketer
1988 – Denni Avdić , Swedish footballer
1988 – Felipe Caicedo , Ecuadorian footballer
1988 – Nuri Şahin , Turkish footballer
1989 – Elena Delle Donne , American basketball player
1989 – José Ángel Valdés , Spanish footballer
1989 – Ben Youngs , English rugby player
1990 – Antonio Esposito , Italian footballer
1990 – Angy Fernández , Spanish singer and actress
1990 – Ami Kikuchi , Japanese model and radio host
1990 – Francesca Segarelli , Dominican tennis player
1990 – Lance Stephenson , American basketball player
1990 – Kim Yuna , South Korean figure skater
1990 – Franco Zuculini , Argentinian footballer
1991 – Zeki Yavru , Turkish footballer
1995 – Tehilla Blad , Swedish actress and dancer
1995 – Caroline Sunshine , American actress, singer, and dancer
1995 – Szabina Szlavikovics , Hungarian tennis player
1996 – Richairo Živković , Dutch footballer
590 – Authari , Lombard king (b. 540)
1165 – Emperor Nijō of Japan (b. 1143)
1201 – Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
1235 – Henry I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1165)
1548 – Catherine Parr , English wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1512)
1607 – Pomponne de Bellièvre , French politician, Chancellor of France (b. 1529)
1629 – Domenico Allegri , Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1585)
1734 – Nicolas Bernier , French composer (b. 1664)
1786 – Jonas Hanway , English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1712)
1803 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos , French general and author (b. 1741)
1803 – François Devienne , French flute player and composer (b. 1759)
1836 – Ferdinand Raimund , Austrian actor and playwright (b. 1790)
1837 – James Ruse , English-Australian farmer and criminal (b. 1759)
1838 – Charles Percier , French architect and interior decorator (b. 1764)
1857 – Auguste Comte , French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1798)
1876 – Manuel Blanco Encalada , Chilean admiral and politician, 1st President of Chile (b. 1790)
1877 – Crazy Horse , American tribal leader (b. 1849)
1898 – Sarah Emma Edmonds , Canadian-American nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
1901 – Ignacij Klemenčič , Slovenian physicist and academic (b. 1853)
1902 – Rudolf Virchow , German anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist (b. 1821)
1906 – Ludwig Boltzmann , Austrian physicist and philosopher (b. 1844)
1912 – Arthur MacArthur, Jr. , American general (b. 1845)
1917 – Marian Smoluchowski , Austrian-Polish physicist and mountaineer (b. 1872)
1920 – Robert Harron , American actor (b. 1893)
1922 – Georgette Agutte , French painter (b. 1867)
1926 – Karl Harrer , German journalist and politician (b. 1890)
1930 – Robert Means Thompson , American soldier, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1849)
1931 – John Thomson , Scottish footballer (b. 1909)
1932 – Francisco Acebal , Spanish journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1866)
1932 – Paul Bern , German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)
1934 – Sidney Myer , Russian-Australian businessman, founded Myer Stores (b. 1878)
1936 – Federico Borrell García , Spanish soldier (b. 1912)
1936 – Gustave Kahn , French poet and critic (b. 1859)
1942 – François de Labouchère , French soldier and pilot (b. 1917)
1945 – Clem Hill , Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1877)
1948 – Richard C. Tolman , American physicist and chemist (b. 1881)
1953 – Richard Walther Darré , Argentinian-German agronomist and politician (b. 1895)
1954 – Eugen Schiffer , German lawyer and politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (b. 1860)
1955 – Haydn Bunton, Sr. , Australian footballer and coach (b. 1911)
1960 – Aku Korhonen , Finnish actor (b. 1892)
1965 – Thomas Johnston , Scottish journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland (b. 1882)
1966 – Dezső Lauber , Hungarian golfer, tennis player, and architect (b. 1879)
1970 – Jochen Rindt , German-Austrian race car driver (b. 1942)
1972 – Alan Kippax , Australian cricketer and businessman (b. 1897)
1972 – Moshe Weinberg , Israeli wrestling coach (b. 1939)
1973 – Jack Fournier , American baseball player and coach (b. 1889)
1975 – Georg Ots , Estonian actor and singer (b. 1920)
1977 – George Barnes , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (The Three Suns ) (b. 1921)
1977 – Marcel Thiry , Belgian poet and activist (b. 1897)
1979 – Alberto di Jorio , Italian cardinal (b. 1884)
1980 – Don Banks , Australian composer and educator (b. 1923)
1982 – Douglas Bader , English captain and pilot (b. 1910)
1984 – Adam Malik , Indonesian politician and diplomat, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1917)
1984 – Jane Roberts , American psychic and author (b. 1929)
1985 – Johannes Hint , Estonian engineer (b. 1914)
1988 – Gert Fröbe , German actor and singer (b. 1913)
1989 – Philip Baxter , Welsh-English engineer and academic (b. 1905)
1990 – Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon , English academic and diplomat (b. 1907)
1990 – Jerry Iger , American cartoonist and publisher, co-founded Eisner & Iger (b. 1903)
1990 – Ivan Mihailov , Bulgarian politician (b. 1896)
1991 – Sharad Joshi , Indian author and poet (b. 1931)
1992 – Fritz Leiber , American author and poet (b. 1910)
1993 – Claude Renoir , French cinematographer (b. 1914)
1994 – Shimshon Amitsur , Israeli mathematician and scholar (b. 1921)
1994 – John Newman , Australian politician (b. 1946)
1995 – Benyamin Sueb , Indonesian comedian, actor, and singer (b. 1939)
1996 – Basil Salvadore D'Souza , Indian bishop (b. 1926)
1997 – Leon Edel , American author and critic (b. 1907)
1997 – Georg Solti , Hungarian conductor and director (b. 1912)
1997 – Mother Teresa , Albanian-Indian nun, missionary, and saint, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
1998 – Ferdinand Biondi , Canadian radio host (b. 1909)
1998 – Willem Drees, Jr. , Dutch economist and politician, Dutch Minister of Transport (b. 1922)
1998 – Verner Panton , Danish interior designer (b. 1926)
1998 – Leo Penn , American actor and director (b. 1921)
1999 – Alan Clark , English historian and politician, Minister for Defence Procurement (b. 1928)
1999 – Allen Funt , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
1999 – Bryce Mackasey , Canadian businessman and politician, Postmaster General of Canada (b. 1921)
2000 – Roy Fredericks , Guyanese cricketer and politician (b. 1942)
2000 – Abdul Haris Nasution , Indonesian general and politician, 12th Indonesian Minister of Defense (b. 1918)
2001 – Justin Wilson , American chef and author (b. 1914)
2001 – Vladimir Žerjavić , Croatian economist and academic (b. 1912)
2002 – David Todd Wilkinson , American cosmologist and astronomer (b. 1935)
2003 – Gisele MacKenzie , Canadian-American singer and actress (b. 1927)
2005 – Roberto Viaux , Chilean general (b. 1917)
2007 – Jennifer Dunn , American engineer and politician (b. 1941)
2007 – Paul Gillmor , American lawyer and politician (b. 1939)
2007 – Thomas Hansen , Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1976)
2007 – D. James Kennedy , American pastor and author (b. 1930)
2007 – Nikos Nikolaidis , Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1939)
2009 – Gani Fawehinmi , Nigerian lawyer and activist (b. 1938)
2010 – Hedley Beare , Australian author and academic (b. 1932)
2010 – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo , Belgian-Dutch poet and painter (b. 1922)
2010 – Shoya Tomizawa , Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1990)
2012 – Ediz Bahtiyaroğlu , Turkish-Bosnian footballer (b. 1986)
2012 – Ian Dick , Australian cricketer and field hockey player (b. 1926)
2012 – Victoria Fyodorova , Russian-American actress and author (b. 1946)
2012 – John Oaksey , English jockey and journalist (b. 1929)
2012 – Joe South , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
2013 – Edwin Bideau , American lawyer and politician (b. 1950)
2013 – Robert Farrar Capon , American priest and author (b. 1925)
2013 – Geoffrey Goodman , English pilot, journalist, and author (b. 1922)
2013 – Isamu Jordan , American journalist and academic (b. 1975)
2013 – Rochus Misch , German sergeant (b. 1917)
2014 – Simone Battle , American actress, singer, and dancer (G.R.L ) (b. 1989)
2014 – Sanford Kadish , American scholar and theorist (b. 1921)
2014 – Bruce Morton , American journalist (b. 1930)
2014 – Mara Neusel , German mathematician, author, and academic (b. 1964)
2015 – Goh Eng Wah , Malaysian-Singaporean businessman, founded Eng Wah Global (b. 1923)
2015 – Frederick "Dennis" Greene , American singer and actor (Sha Na Na ) (b. 1949)
2015 – Aadesh Shrivastava , Indian singer-songwriter (b. 1964)
2015 – Chester Stranczek , American baseball player and businessman (b. 1929)
2015 – Setsuko Hara , Japanese actress (b. 1920)
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