Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1764  Henriette Herz, German writer (d. 1847)
 1771  Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Austrian general (d. 1847)
 1772  Fat 'h-Ali Shah Qajar, Persian King (d. 1834)
 1774  Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (d. 1840)
 1775  Juan Martínez Díez, Spanish captain (d. 1825)
 1781  Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher, editor and composer (d. 1858)
 1786  Sergey Uvarov, Russian politician and literary scholar (d. 1855)
 1791  Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (d. 1864)
1801  1900 
 1806  Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general and statesman (d. 1865)
 1807  Richard Chenevix Trench, clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
 1809  Manuel Montt, 6th President of Chile (d. 1880)
 1817  Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1875)
 1818  Edmund Kennedy, Australian explorer (d. 1848)
 1826  John Wisden, English cricketer (d. 1884)
 1827  Goffredo Mameli, Italian patriot, poet and writer (d. 1849)
 1829  Lester Allan Pelton, American inventor (d. 1908)
 1836  Justiniano Borgono, President of Peru (d. 1921)
 1846  Jack Daniel, American businessman (d. 1911)
 1847  Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
 1867  Amy Beach, American composer and pianist (d. 1944)
 1869  Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria (d. 1945)
 1871  Friedrich Akel, Estonian politician (d. 1941)
 1873  Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American military officer and engineer (d. 1942)
 1874  Nap Lajoie, baseball player (d. 1959)
 1881  Otto Bauer, Austrian politician (d. 1938)
1883  Mel Sheppard, AMerican athlete (d. 1942)
 1888  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, second President of India (d. 1975)
 1892  Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (d. 1973)
 1897  Ella Schuler, American supercentenarian (d. 2011)
1901  1950 
 1901  Florence Eldridge, American actress (d. 1988)
 1901  Mario Scelba, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1991)
 1902  Darryl F. Zanuck, movie producer and executive (d. 1979)
 1905  Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (d. 1983)
 1906  Sunnyland Slim, American blues singer and pianist (d. 1995)
 1910  Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer (d. 1981)
 1912  John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
 1912  Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
 1913  Frank Thomas, American animator (d. 2004)
 1914  Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (d. 2018)
 1914  Stuart Freeborn, British make-up artist (d. 2013)
 1915  Horst Sindermann, German politician (d. 1990)
 1916  Frank Yerby, novelist (d. 1991)
 1918  Luis Alcoriza, Mexican actor, screenwriter and director (d. 1992)
 1918  Buddy Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1986)
 1920  Fons Rademakers, Dutch-Swiss actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2007)
 1921  Farida of Egypt, Queen Consort of Egypt (d. 1988)
1921  Jack Valenti, American political advisor and movie executive (d. 2007)
 1927  Paul Volcker, American economist
 1928  Albert Mangelsdorff, German trombonist (d. 2005)
 1929  Bob Newhart, American actor and comedian
 1929  Andriyan Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2004)
 1930  Ken Naganuma, Japanese footballer (d. 2008)
 1932  Simon Achidi Achu, former Prime Minister of Cameroon
 1934  Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer
 1934  Kevin McNamara, English politician
 1934  Paul Josef Cordes, German cardinal
 1935  Dieter Hallervorden, German comedian, actor and singer
 1935  Doreen Massey, Baroness Massey of Darwen, English politician
 1936  Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player
 1936  John Danforth, American politician and diplomat
 1937  Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Argentine footballer
 1939  George Lazenby, Australian actor
 1939  William Devane, actor
 1939  Clay Regazzoni, Swiss racing driver (d. 2006)
 1939  Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist
1940  Raquel Welch, American actress
 1942  Werner Herzog, German movie director
 1944  Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, author and playwright
 1944  Gareth Evans, Australian lawyer and politician
 1945  Gérard d'Aboville, French politician and navigator
 1945  Eva Bergman, Swedish movie, theatre and television director
 1945  Al Stewart, British musician
 1945  Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician 
 1946  Freddie Mercury, British singer (Queen) (d. 1991)
 1946  Loudon Wainwright III, American singer and composer
 1946  Buddy Miles, American musician
 1948  Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician
 1949  Pat McQuaid, Irish cyclist and official
 1950  Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist
 1950  Rosie Cooper, English politician
1951  1975 
 1951  Paul Breitner, German footballer
 1951  Michael Keaton, American actor
 1956  Roine Stolt, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
 1958  Lars Danielsson, Swedish jazz bassist and cellist
 1959  Frank Schirrmacher, German journalist (d. 2014)
 1960  Abdullah Abdullah, Afghan politician
 1960  Candy Maldonado, Puerto Rican baseball player, manager and sportscaster
 1962  Brian A. Joyce, American politician (d. 2018)
 1962  Peter Wingfield, British actor
 1963  Juan Alderete, American bass player and songwriter
 1963  Kristian Alfonso, American actress, figure skater and model
 1964  Frank Farina, Australian footballer
 1964  Ken Norman, American basketball player
 1964  Sergei Loznitsa, Belarussian-Ukrainian director and screenwriter
 1965  David Brabham, Australian racing driver
 1965  Murdo Fraser, Scottish politician
 1965  Osamu Maeda, Japanese footballer
 1965  Chris Morris, British writer
 1965  César Rincon, Colombian bullfighter
 1967  Matthias Sammer, German footballer
1967  Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player
 1969  Dweezil Zappa, American musician and son of Frank Zappa
 1969  Leonardo Araújo, Brazilian footballer
 1969  Sebastian Edathy, German politician
 1969  Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer
 1970  Liam Lynch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and director
 1971  Adam Hollioake, English cricketer
 1973  Paddy Considine, English actor, director and producer
 1973  Rose McGowan, American actress
 1974  Ivo Ulich, Czech footballer
 1975  George Boateng, Dutch footballer
From 1976 
 1976  Tatyana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast
 1976  Carice van Houten, Dutch actress
 1976  Richard Marsland, Australian writer, actor and comedian (d. 2008)
 1977  Teresa Marinova, Bulgarian athlete
 1978  Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby player
 1978  Laura Bertram, Canadian actress
 1978  Zhang Zhong, Chinese chess player
 1979  John Carew, Norwegian footballer
 1979  Juan Fuenmayor, Venezuelan footballer
 1980  Marianna Madia, Italian politician
 1980  Stefán Logi Magnússon, Icelandic footballer
 1981  Nina Eichinger, German actress
 1981  Bruno Neves, Portuguese cyclist (d. 2008)
 1983  Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer
 1983  Priscilla Meirelles, Brazilian model
 1987  Pierre Casiraghi, Monegasque royalty
 1988  Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorean footballer
 1988  Nuri Sahin, Turkish footballer
 1989  Ben Youngs, English rugby player
 1989  José Angel Valdés, Spanish footballer
 1989  Katerina Graham, American actress
 1990  Kim Yu-Na, South Korean figure skater
1990  Giovanni Pernice, Italian professional dancer
 1990  Franco Zuculini, Italian footballer
 1991  Skandar Keynes, English actor
 1991  Stuart Donaldson, Scottish politician
 1993  Gage Golightly, American actress
 1995  Tehilla Blad, Swedish actress
 1995  Caroline Sunshine, American actress
 1996  Sigrid, Norwegian singer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 590  Authari, King of Lombardy (b. 540)
 1165  Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143)
 1201  Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
 1235  Henry I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1165)
 1548  Catherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. c. 1512)
 1629  Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. 1585)
 1803  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and writer (b. 1741)
 1836  Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
 1838  Charles Percier, French architect (b. 1764)
 1855  Thomas Mitchell, Scottish explorer of Australia (b. 1792)
 1857  Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
 1876  Manuel Blanco Encalada, first President of Chile (b. 1790)
 1877  Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux chief (b. 1849)
 1898  Sarah Edmonds, Canadian nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
1901  2000 
 1901  Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovene physicist (b. 1853)
 1902  Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, pathologist, biologist, and politician (b. 1821)
 1906  Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian phsyicist (b. 1844)
 1912  Arthur MacArthur, Jr., American soldier (b. 1845)
 1917  Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872)
 1926  Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician (b. 1890)
 1930  Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
 1931  John Thomson, Scottish footballer (b. 1909)
 1932  Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
 1936  Fernando Borrell García, Spanish Republican soldier, photographed in moment of his death (b. 1912)
 1946  John I. Cox, American politician, 33rd Governor of Tennessee (b. 1855)
 1954  Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860)
 1960  Earl Long, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1895)
 1965  Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
 1966  Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman (b. 1879)
1970  Jochen Rindt, Austrian racing driver, posthumous Formula 1 champion (b. 1942)
 1972  Yossef Romano, Israeli weightlifter (b. 1940)
 1972  Moshe Weinberg, Israeli wrestling coach (b. 1939)
 1973  Jack Fourier, American baseball player (b. 1899)
 1979  Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal (b. 1884)
 1982  Douglas Bader, British fighter pilot (b. 1910)
 1984  Adam Malik, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1917)
 1988  Gert Fröbe, actor (b. 1913)
 1990  Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary and leader of the IMRO (b. 1896)
 1993  Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (b. 1914)
 1997  Georg Solti, conductor (b. 1912)
 1997  Mother Teresa, Albanian nun and development worker (b. 1910)
 1998  Leo Penn, American director (b. 1921)
 1999  Alan Clark, English politician and historian (b. 1928)
From 2001 
 2001  Vladimir Zerjavic, Croat UN statistician (b. 1912)
 2003  Gisele MacKenzie, singer (b. 1927)
 2010  Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1990)
 2010  Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian-born artist (b. 1922)
 2011  Salvatore Licitra, Italian tenor (b. 1968)
 2011  Vann Nath, Cambodian painter (b. 1946)
 2013  Rochus Misch, German SS officer (b. 1917)
 2014  Ron Mulock, Australian politician (b. 1930)
 2014  Eoin Young, New Zealand journalist (b. 1939)
 2014  Simone Battle, American actress, singer and dancer (b. 1989)
 2014  Bruce Morton, American news correspondent (b. 1930)
 2014  Karel Cerny, Czech art director and producer (b. 1922)
 2015  Aadesh Shrivastava, Indian composer and singer (b. 1966)
 2015  Alan Steel, Italian bodybuilder and actor (b. 1935)
 2015  Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress (b. 1920)
 2016  Hugh O'Brian, American actor (b. 1925)
 2016  Phyllis Schlafly, American political commentator (b. 1924)
2017  Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American physicist (b. 1920)
 2017  Gauri Lankesh, Indian journalist and political activist (b. 1962)
 2017  Tom Wright, American baseball player (b. 1923)
 2017  Holger Czukay, German musician (b. 1938)
 2017  Christie Davies, British sociologist (b. 1941)
 2017  Hansford Rowe, American actor (b. 1924)
 2018  Rachael Bland, British journalist (b. 1978)
 2018  François Flohic, French admiral (b. 1920)
 2018  Mike Hogewood, American sportscaster (b. 1954)
 2018  Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress (b. 1926)
 2018  Bhagwatikumar Sharma, Indian writer and journalist (b. 1934)
 2019  Ji Guobiao, Chinese engineer (b. 1932)
 2019  Kiran Nagarkar, Indian novelist (b. 1942)
 2019  Francisco Toledo, Mexican artist (b. 1940)
Observances 
 Teachers' Day (India)
 Architects' Day (Guatemala)
 International Day of Charity

September 05
Up to 1900 
 3761 BC  The first day of the Hebrew Calendar.
 394  Battle of Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish general Arbogast.
 1492  Christopher Columbus leaves La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his last land-stop on the way of his voyage that takes him to the Caribbean.
 1522  The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to San Lucar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world, with captain Juan Sebastian de Elcano.
 1620  The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America.
 1628  Puritans settle Salem which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
 1634  Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nordlingen, the Catholic imperial army defeats the Protestant armies of Sweden and Germany.
 1689  Imperial China and Russia agree on their border, which runs along the Amur River.
1776  A tropical storm strikes the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, killing 6,000 people.
 1781  The Battle of Groton Heights takes place with the result of a British minor victory.
 1803  British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
 1839  Polynesian atoll Ahe in the Tuamoto Archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean, is discovered and mapped by US naval officer Charles Wilkes.
 1847  Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
 1861  American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control the mouth of the Tennessee River.
 1863  American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Islands in South Carolina.
 1870  Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming, votes in the morning, becoming the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
1870  The ship HMS Captain sinks in a storm off Cape Finisterre, Galicia, Spain, killing almost 500 people.
 1885  Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria.
 1888  Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season – a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J. T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
 1891  The first Paris-Brest-Paris cycling race is held, finishing on September 9.
 1898  Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands is allowed to reign in her own right, having turned 18 the previous week, after Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont acted as regent for her over the previous eight years.
1901  2000 
 1901  American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies on September 14 from his injuries.
 1915  The first prototype tank is tested for the British Army for the first time.
 1929  Finnish steamship Kuru sinks, killing 150, many of them school children.
 1930  Democratically elected President of Argentina Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
 1937  Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
 1939  World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
 1940  King Carol II of Romania abdicates the throne. His son, Michael of Romania, succeeds him.
 1941  Holocaust: The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word Jew inscribed, is extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas.
 1943  The Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico is founded.
1943  The Pennsylvania railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
 1944  World War II: 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 US will follow a policy of Economic Reconstruction in post-war Germany.
 1948  Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands. This comes after the abdication from the throne of Queen Wilhelmina.
 1949  Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
 1952  Canada's first TV station, CBFT-TV opens in Montreal.
 1952  A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Air Show in Hampshire, England, UK, killing 29 people.
 1965  War of 1965: India attacks Pakistan and announces that its forces will capture Lahore in an hour.
1966  In Cape Town, the South African architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
 1968  Swaziland becomes independent.
 1970  Jimi Hendrix performs what turns out to be his last concert, on the German Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn, on the last day of the Love and Peace Festival.
 1970  Four passenger jets are simultaneously hijacked. Two are taken to Dawson's Field.
 1972  Munich Massacre: Israeli athletes and coaches are killed when police assault Black September members in a failed hostage rescue in Munich, West Germany.
 1975  An earthquake in Lice, Turkey kills 2,400 people.
 1976  Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaido in Japan and requests political asylum from the United States.
 1983  The Soviet Union admits shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
1985  Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
 1986  In Istanbul, two Arab terrorists from Abu Nidal's terror organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services.
 1991  The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
 1991  The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
 1995  With the jury absent, Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman invokes his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in the murder trial of O. J. Simpson.
 1995  Cal Ripken Jr. breaks Lou Gehrig's record of playing 2131 consecutive baseball games.
 1997  The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales at Westminster Abbey draws large crowds.
 1997  Uranus' moons of Caliban and Sycorax are discovered.
From 2001 
 2001  United States v. Microsoft: The United States Justice Department announces that it was no longer seeking to break up software maker Microsoft and will instead seek a lesser antitrust penalty.
 2003  EU foreign ministers categorise Hamas as a terrorist organisation.
 2006  The Germany national football team scores its biggest-ever away win, defeating the San Marino national football team 13-0.
 2008  The 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing begin, running until September 17.
 2009  The ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 people on board. All but 10 are rescued.
 2012  61 people die and 48 are injured after a fishing boat capsizes off Izmir Province, Western Turkey, near Greece's Aegean Islands.
 2017  Hurricane Irma sweeps across the Lesser Antilles in the Eastern Caribbean; Almost every building on the island of Barbuda is destroyed.
 2018  Homosexuality is legalised in India, following a decision by the Supreme Court of India.
2018  Brazilian Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is stabbed while campaigning; he survives the attack and is later elected President.
 2022  Liz Truss is appointed the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II.
Up to 1850 
 1475  Sebastiano Serlio, Italian architect (d. 1554)
 1620  Isabella Leonarda, composer (d. 1704)
 1656  Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1723)
 1666  Tsar Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696)
 1711  Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the US Lutheran Church (d. 1787)
 1729  Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher (d. 1786)
 1732  Johan Wicke, Swedish physicist (d. 1796)
 1757  Gilbert de Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier and politician (d. 1834)
 1761  Marie-Gabrielle Capet, French painter (d. 1818)
 1766  John Dalton, British chemist and physicist (d. 1844)
 1781  Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher and composer (d. 1858)
 1795  Frances Wright, writer, activist, and lecturer (d. 1852)
 1800  Catharine Beecher, American educator (d. 1878)
 1802  Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (d. 1857)
 1808  Abdelkader El Djezairi, Algerian political figure (d. 1883)
 1809  Bruno Bauer, German philosopher (d. 1882)
1815  St. John Richardson Liddell, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
 1817  Mihai Kogalniceanu, Romanian politician (d. 1891)
 1819  William Rosecrans, American general and diplomat (d. 1898)
 1825  Giovanni Fattori, Italian painter (d. 1908)
 1829  Marie Zakrzewska, physician (d. 1902)
 1838  Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (d. 1906)
1851  1900 
 1852  Schalk Willem Burger, South African politician, military leader and State President (d. 1918)
 1855  Ferdinand Hummel, German harpist, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1928)
 1857  Zelia Nuttall, archeologist and historian (d. 1933)
 1859  Boris Yakovlovic Bukreev, Russian mathematician (d. 1962)
 1860  Jane Addams, American social activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner (d. 1935)
 1861  William Lane, English-Australian journalist (d. 1917)
 1868  Margaret Dreier Robins, American labor leader and reformer (d. 1947)
 1869  Felix Salten, Austrian writer (d. 1945)
 1869  Walford Davies, English organist and composer (d. 1941)
 1876  John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish physiologist, won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1935)
 1877  Buddy Bolden, American jazz musician (d. 1930)
 1879  Joseph Wirth, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1956)
 1879  Johan Nygaardsvold, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1952)
 1879  Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
1883  Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett, British jurist and politician (d. 1962)
 1885  Otto Kruger, American actor (d. 1974)
 1888  Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician, businessman, diplomat and family patriarch (d. 1969)
 1890  Claire Chennault, soldier (d. 1958)
 1892  Sir Edward Appleton, English physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1965)
 1893  John W. Bricker, 54th Governor of Ohio (d. 1986)
 1899  Billy Rose, composer (d. 1966)
 1900  W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979)
 1900  Julien Green, French-American writer (d. 1998)
1901  1950 
 1902  Sylvanus Olympio, 1st President of Togo (d. 1963)
 1904  Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom, boxer (d. 1976)
 1905  Otto Liiv, Estonian historian and archivist (d. 1942)
 1905  Walther Müller, German physicist (d. 1979)
 1906  Luis Federico Leloir, Argentine biochemist (d. 1987)
 1908  Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor (d. 1982)
 1911  Harry Danning, American Major League Baseball player (d. 2004)
 1912  Michele Andreolo, Uruguayan-Italian footballer (d. 1981)
 1913  Leonidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer (d. 2004)
 1915  Franz Josef Strauss, German politician and Minister-President of Bavaria (d. 1988)
 1917  Philipp von Boeselager, German military officer and Resistance activist (d. 2008)
 1919  Wilson Greatbatch, American inventor (d. 2011)
 1921  Carmen Laforet, Spanish writer (d. 2004)
 1921  David Petel, Iraqi-Israeli politician (d. 2019)
 1921  Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor (d. 2012)
 1923  King Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
1924  John Melcher, American politician (d. 2018)
 1925  Andrea Camilleri, Italian author, screenwriter and director (d. 2019)
 1925  Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (d. 1976)
 1926  Claus van Amsberg, Prince Consort of the Netherlands (d. 2002)
 1927  Fouad el-Mohandes, Egyptian actor and comedian (d. 2006)
 1928  Robert M. Pirsig, American writer (d. 2017)
 1928  Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer (d. 2002)
 1928  Fumihiko Maki, Japanese architect
 1928  Sid Watkins, British neurosurgeon (d. 2012)
 1929  Yash Johar, Indian movie producer (d. 2005)
 1929  Lyubov Rebane, Estonian physicist and mathematician (d. 1991)
 1930  Charles Foley, American co-inventor of the game Twister (d. 2013)
 1930  Salvatore de Giorgi, Italian archbishop
 1934  Paul Naschy, Spanish actor, screenwriter and movie director (d. 2009)
 1935  Isabelle Collin Dufresne, French-American artist and author (d. 2014)
 1936  Anne Cuneo, Swiss writer and director (d. 2015)
1937  Janusz Kurczab, Polish mountaineer and fencer (d. 2015)
 1937  Jo Anne Worley, actress
 1937  Sergio Aragonés, Spanish illustrator
 1937  Brigid Berlin, American actor and artist
 1938  Dennis Oppenheim, American artist (d. 2011)
 1939  Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist
 1939  David Allan Coe, American songwriter, singer and guitarist
 1942  Dave Bargeron, American trombonist and tuba player
 1943  Harris Hines, American judge (d. 2018)
 1943  Richard J. Roberts, British biochemist and molecular biologist
 1943  Roger Waters, British musician (Pink Floyd)
 1944  Swoosie Kurtz, American actress
 1944  Donna Haraway, American writer and activist
 1947  Jane Curtin, American actress
 1947  Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer and coach
 1948  Karlos Arguiñano, Spanish chef
1951  1975 
 1952  Buddy Miller, American singer-songwriter
 1952  Simon Burns, English politician
 1954  Carly Fiorina, American business executive and Presidential candidate
 1955  Carl E. Walz, American astronaut
 1956  Bill Ritter, former Governor of Colorado
 1957  Michaëlle Jean, former Governor General of Canada
 1957  José Sócrates, former Prime Minister of Portugal
 1958  Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor, and writer
 1958  Arsinée Khanjian, Armenian-Canadian actress
 1959  Ronnie Cowan, Scottish politician
 1961  Scott Travis, American musician (Judas Priest)
 1961  Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian musician (a-ha)
 1962  Chris Christie, Governor of New Jersey
 1962  Marina Kaljurand, Estonian badminton player and diplomat
 1963  Pat Nevin, Scottish footballer
 1963  Geert Wilders, Dutch politician
 1964  Rosie Perez, American actress
 1965  Takumi Horiike, Japanese footballer
 1966  Emil Boc, Romanian politician
 1966  Jill Ellis, English-American soccer coach
1967  William DuVall, American singer (Alice in Chains)
 1967  Macy Gray, American singer
 1968  Paddy Boom, American drummer and songwriter (Scissor Sisters)
 1968  Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish writer
 1969  Norio Omura, Japanese footballer
 1969  Ce Ce Peniston, American singer
 1970  Paul Miller, (DJ Spooky) American composer, artist, writer
 1970  Igor Korolev, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
 1970  Emily Maitlis, English journalist
 1971  Dolores O'Riordan, Irish musician (The Cranberries) (d. 2018)
 1971  Leila K, Swedish rapper
 1972  China Miéville, writer
 1972  Dylan Bruno, American actor
 1972  Idris Elba, British actor
 1973  Alessandro Troncon, Italian rugby player
 1973  Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer
 1973  Greg Rusedski, Canadian-British tennis player
 1974  Tim Henman, British tennis player
 1974  Justin Whalin, actor
 1974  Nina Persson, Swedish singer (The Cardigans)
 1975  Gala, Italian singer
From 1976 
 1976  Robin Atkin Downes, English actor and voice actor
 1976  Tom Pappas, American athlete
 1976  Naomie Harris, British actress
 1978  Homare Sawa, Japanese footballer
 1978  Foxy Brown, American rapper
 1978  Mathew Horne, English actor and screenwriter
 1979  Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer
 1980  Kerry Katona, British singer and television personality
 1980  Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
 1981  Yuki Abe, Japanese footballer
 1981  Santiago Salcedo, Paraguayan footballer
 1983  Pippa Middleton, sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
 1984  Luc Abalo, French handball player
 1984  Andarz Kirm, Slovenian footballer
 1984  Thomas Dekker, Dutch cyclist
 1985  Tadas Kijanskas, Lithuanian footballer
 1985  Koki Mizuno, Japanese footballer
 1985  Webbie, American rapper
 1988  Max George, British singer (The Wanted)
 1989  Kim So-eun, South Korean singer
 1989  Audrey Deroin, French handball player
 1990  John Wall, American basketball player
 1994  Theo Trebs, German actor
Up to 1900 
 394  Eugenius, Roman Emperor
 926  Emperor Taizu of Liao of China (b. 872)
 957  Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (b. 930)
 972  Pope John XIII
 1276  Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Italian cardinal (b. 1210)
 1511  Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1481)
 1566  Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1494)
 1635  Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571)
 1649  Robert Dudley, English explorer and geographer (b. 1574)
 1683  Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (b. 1619)
 1708  Sir John Morden, philanthropist (b. 1623)
 1724  Jonathan Singletary Dunham, American settler, ancestor of Barack Obama (b. 1640)
 1782  Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
 1783  Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710)
 1808  Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)
 1868  Pierre Adolphe Rost, American lawyer, judge and politician (b. 1797)
 1871  Josef Naus, Austrian surveyor and climber (b. 1791)
1901  2000 
 1902  Frederick Augustus Abel, British chemist (b. 1827)
 1907  Sully Prudhomme, French writer (b. 1839)
 1938  John Stuart Hindmarsh, English racing driver and aviator (b. 1907)
 1939  Arthur Rackham, English illustrator (b. 1867)
 1945  John McCain, Sr., American admiral (b. 1884)
 1950  Olaf Stapledon, English philosopher and author (b. 1886)
 1951  Joan Vollmer, wife of William S. Burroughs (b. 1867)
 1952  Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)
 1956  Alex Raymond, American comic artist (b. 1909)
 1956  Michael Ventris, English architect (b. 1922)
 1962  Seiichi Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
 1962  Hanns Eisler, German composer (b. 1898)
 1966  Hendrik Verwoerd, South African prime minister (b. 1901)
 1966  Margaret Sanger, birth control activist (b. 1879)
 1969  Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (b. 1892)
 1972  People killed in the Munich Massacre:
Ze'ev Friedman, Polish-born Israeli weightlifter (b. 1944)
David Mark Berger, American-born Israeli weightlifter (b. 1944)
Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestling judge (b. 1931)
Eliezer Halfin, Israeli wrestler (b. 1948)
Amitzur Shapira, Israeli short-distance runner and coach (b. 1932)
Kehat Shorr, Israeli shooting coach (b. 1919)
Mark Slavin, Israeli wrestler (b. 1954)
Andre Spitzer, Romanian-born Israeli wrestler (b. 1954)
Yakov Springer, Polish-born Israeli wrestler and weightlifting coach (b. 1921)
Lutif Afif, Palestinian terrorist
 1974  Olga Baclanova, Russian actress (b. 1896)
 1974  Otto Kruger, American actor (b. 1885)
 1981  Christy Brown, Irish writer (b. 1932)
 1984  Ernest Tubb, country music singer (b. 1914)
 1985  Franco Ferrera, Italian conductor (b. 1911)
 1985  Johnny Desmond, American singer (b. 1919)
 1986  Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1895)
 1990  Tom Fogerty, American singer (b. 1941)
 1991  Pee Wee Gaskins, American serial killer (executed by electrocution; b. 1933)
 1990  Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)
1992  Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter and producer (b. 1912)
 1994  Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. February 24, 1944)
 1998  Akira Kurosawa, Japanese movie director (b. 1910)
 1999  Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician (b. 1938)
From 2001 
 2005  Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1919)
 2007  Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
 2007  Madeleine L'Engle, American writer (b. 1918)
 2008  Anita Page, American actress (b. 1910)
 2012  Art Modell, American businessman and NFL team owner (b. 1925)
 2012  Terry Nutkins, English television host and author (b. 1946)
 2014  Cirilo Flores, American bishop (b. 1948)
 2014  Kira Zvorykina, Belarussian chess player (b. 1919)
 2014  Odd Bondevik, Norwegian theologian (b. 1941)
 2014  Stefan Gierasch, American actor (b. 1926)
 2015  Ralph Milne, Scottish footballer (b. 1961)
 2015  Martin Milner, American actor (b. 1931)
 2015  Calvin J. Spann, American pilot (b. 1924)
 2016  Lilian Uchtenhagen, Swiss economist and politician (b. 1928)
 2017  Carlo Caffarra, Italian cardinal (b. 1938)
 2017  Nicolae Lupescu, Romanian footballer (b. 1940)
 2017  Jim McDaniels, American basketball player (b. 1948)
 2017  Kate Millett, American feminist writer and human rights activist (b. 1934)
2017  Mike Neville, British television broadcaster (b. 1936)
 2017  Noel Picard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
 2017  Solomon Efimovich Shulman, Belarussian writer (b. 1936)
 2017  Lotfi A. Zadeh, Azerbaijani-American mathematician (b. 1921)
 2018  Richard DeVos, American businessman (b. 1926)
 2018  Liz Fraser, English actress (b. 1930)
 2018  Wilson Moreira, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
 2018  Burt Reynolds, American actor (b. 1936)
 2018  Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor (b. 1934)
 2018  Salawat Gallyamov, Russian linguist (b. 1959)
 2018  Gilbert Lazard, French linguist (b. 1920)
 2019  Chris Duncan, American baseball player (b. 1981)
 2019  Robert Mugabe, 1st Prime Minister and 2nd President of Zimbabwe (b. 1924)
 2019  Abdul Qadir, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1955)
 2019  Wally Westlake, American baseball player (b. 1920)
 2019  Chester Williams, South African rugby union player (b. 1970)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Swaziland)
 Unification Day (Bulgaria)
 Defence Day (Pakistan)

September 06
Up to 1900 
 70 - Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem.
 1380 - Battle of Kulikovo: Russian forces defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance.
 1504 – Michelangelo's David statue is unveiled in Florence.
 1514 - Battle of Orsha: In one of the biggest battles of the century, Lithuanians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
 1565 - The Knights of Malta end the Turkish Siege of Malta that began on May 18.
 1665 - Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under Charles X Gustav of Sweden.
 1727 - A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England, kills 78 people, most of them children.
 1761 – King George III of the United Kingdom marries Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
 1796 - French Revolutionary Wars: The French defeat Austrian forces in Bassano, Venetia, present-day Italy.
 1831 – William IV of the United Kingdom is crowned king.
 1860 - The steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, killing around 300 people.
1863 – American Civil War: At the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, the Confederates prevent an attempt from the Union army to enter Texas.
 1883 - The Northern Pacific Railway is completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana, United States.
 1888 - Jack the Ripper killings: The body of Annie Chapman is found.
 1888 - in England, the first six Football League matches are played.
 1892 – The American Pledge of Allegiance is recited for the first time.
 1900 – In Galveston, Texas, a hurricane kills around 8,000 people.
1901  2000 
 1914 - World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
 1923 - Honda Point disaster: Nine United States Navy destroyers run aground on the California coast. Seven are lost and 23 sailors are killed.
 1926 – Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
 1928 - Uruguay is given the right to host the 1930 FIFA World Cup.
 1934 - Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people.
 1935 - United States Senator Huey Long from Louisiana is fatally shot the state's capitol building.
 1941 - World War II: The Siege of Leningrad begins.
 1943 – World War II: US General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the allied armistice with Italy.
 1944 - London is hot by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
 1945 - United States troops arrive to partition South Korea after the Soviet occupation of the northern part.
 1962 – Algeria adopts its constitution.
 1966 – The First episode of Star Trek airs.
1966 - The Severn Bridge in southwestern England is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
 1974 – Gerald Ford pardons former US President Richard Nixon.
 1986 - The Oprah Winfrey Show is broadcast for the first time on US television.
 1988 - Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in its history due to ongoing fires.
 1989 - Partnair Flight 394 crashes in the North Sea, killing 55 people.
 1991 – The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
 1994 - USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes, killing all 132 on board.
From 2001 
 2004 - NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands in Utah when its parachute fails to open.
 2005 - Two EMERCOM II-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas - the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
 2013 - Eleven people die in a train crash in Iasi County, Romania.
 2018 - US Open: Naomi Osaka becomes the first Japanese tennis player to win a Grand Slam title, in a match dominated by her opponent Serena Williams' disputes with the umpire.
 2019 - US Open: Rafael Nadal defeats Daniil Medvedev in five sets to win his 19th Grand Slam singles title, putting him just one behind Roger Federer's total of 20.
 2022 - Queen Elizabeth II dies at the age of 96 and her son, Charles III becomes the King of the United Kingdom and Head of the Commonwealth.
 2023 - 2023 Marrakesh-Safi earthquake occurs in Morocco.

Births
Up to 1900 
 801  Ansgar, German Christian archbishop (d. 865)
 1157  King Richard I of England (d. 1199)
 1207  King Sancho II of Portugal (d. 1248)
 1380  Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (d. 1444)
 1413  Catherine of Bologna, Italian nun, writer, mystic, teacher, artist and saint (d. 1463)
 1474  Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (d. 1533)
 1588  Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (d. 1648)
 1611  Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German philologist (d. 1671)
 1621  Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Conde, French general (d. 1686)
 1624  Murad Baksh, son of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal (d. 1661)
 1633  Ferdinand IV of Germany (d. 1654)
 1749  Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (d. 1793)
 1749  Marie-Louise, princesse de Lamballe, French aristocrat (d. 1792)
 1750  Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1795)
 1752  Carl Stenborg, Swedish opera singer (d. 1813)
 1767  August von Schlegel, German poet (d. 1845)
1778  Clemens Brentano, German poet (d. 1842)
 1779  Mustafa IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1808)
 1783  Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (d. 1872)
 1814  Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French archaeologist, ethnographer and historian (d. 1874)
 1815  Giuseppina Strepponi, Italian operatic soprano (d. 1897)
 1819  Fontes Pereira de Melo, Portuguese statesman (d. 1887)
 1822  Karl von Ditmar, German geologist and explorer (d. 1892)
 1828  Joshua Chamberlain, American general, politician and 32nd Governor of Maine (d. 1914)
 1830  Frédéric Mistral, French poet (d. 1914)
 1831  Wilhelm Raabe, German writer (d. 1910)
 1841  Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (d. 1904)
 1841  Charles J. Guiteau, assassin of US President James A. Garfield (d. 1882)
 1851  John Jenkins, American-born Premier of South Australia (d. 1923)
 1852  Emperor Gwangmu of Korea (d. 1919)
 1857  Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936)
 1872  George Dern, Governor of Utah (d. 1936)
1873  David O. McKay, American Mormon leader (d. 1970)
 1881  Harry Hillman, American athlete (d. 1945)
 1881  Refik Saydam, 5th Prime Minister and Turkey (d. 1942)
 1886  Siegfried Sassoon, British poet (d. 1967)
 1886  Ninon Vallin, French soprano (d. 1961)
 1887  Jacob L. Devers, American general (d. 1979)
 1887  George, Crown Prince of Serbia (d. 1972)
 1889  Robert Alphonso Taft, American politician (d. 1953)
 1897  Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1933)
 1900  Claude Pepper, American politician (d. 1989)
1901  1950 
 1901  Hendrik Verwoerd, South African politician (d. 1966)
 1906  Andrei Kirilenko, Soviet politician (d. 1990)
 1910  Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (d. 1994)
 1914  Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople (d. 1991)
 1918  Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist (d. 1998)
 1919  Gianni Brera, Italian journalist and author (d. 1992)
 1919  Maria Lassnig, Austrian painter (d. 2014)
 1921  Harry Secombe, Welsh tenor and actor (d. 2001)
 1922  Sid Caesar, American comedian and actor (d. 2014)
 1922  Lyndon LaRouche, American politician (d. 2019)
 1923  Joy Laville, British-Mexican artist (d. 2018)
 1924  Fred Jarvis, British trade unionist
 1924  Wendell H. Ford, American politician, 53rd Governor of Kentucky (d. 2015)
 1925  Peter Sellers, British actor (d. 1980)
 1929  Christoph von Dohnanyi, German conductor
 1930  Mario Adorf, Swiss-German actor
 1930  Nguyen Cao Ky, South Vietnamese air force chief and Prime Minister (d. 2011)
1930  Robert W. Firestone, American psychologist and author
 1932  Patsy Cline, American singer (d. 1963)
 1933  Paul M. Fleiss, American pediatrician (d. 2014)
 1934  Alan Dundes, American folklorist (d. 2005)
 1937  Joe Carolan, Irish footballer (d. 2018)
 1938  Wibke Bruhns, German journalist and writer (d. 2019)
 1939  Carsten Keller, German field hockey player
 1941  Ito Giani, Italian sprinter (d. 2018)
 1941  Bernie Sanders, American politician
 1944  Margaret Hodge, English politician
 1944  Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer and coach
 1945  Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American musician (Grateful Dead) (d. 1973)
 1945  Rogie Vachon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
 1946  Aziz Sancar, Turkish-American biochemist and molecular biologist, Nobel laureate
 1947  Halldor Asgrimsson, Icelandic politician, former Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 2015)
 1947  Valery Afanassiev, Russian politician
 1948  Great Kabuki, Japanese wrestler
 1950  Ian Davidson, Scottish politician
1951  1975 
 1951  John McDonnell, English politician
 1952  David R. Ellis, American director, actor and stuntman (d. 2013)
 1954  Anne Diamond, English journalist
 1955  Julian Richings, English-Canadian actor
 1956  David Carr, American journalist and writer (d. 2015)
 1957  Walt Easley, American football player (d. 2013)
 1957  Ricardo Montaner, Argentine-Venezuelan singer
 1958  Mitsuru Miyamoto, Japanese voice actor
 1959  Judy Murray, Scottish tennis coach
 1960  Aimee Mann, American musician
 1960  Stefano Casiraghi, Italian businessman, married into Monegasque royalty (d. 1990)
 1963  Danny Frawley, Australian footballer (d. 2019)
 1963  Brad Silberling, American television and movie director
 1966  Carola, Swedish singer
 1967  Eerik-Niiles Kross, Estonian politician and diplomat
 1968  Louise Minchin, English journalist
 1969  Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and coach (d. 2011)
 1970  Latren Sprewell, American basketball player
 1970  Nidal Malik Hassan, American soldier and murderer
1971  David Arquette, American actor
 1971  Martin Freeman, English actor
 1972  Markus Babbel, German footballer
 1973  Khamis Al-Owairan, Saudi footballer
 1975  Richard Hughes, English musician (Keane)
 1975  Chris Latham, Australian rugby player
 1975  Lee Eul-Yong, South Korean footballer and manager
 1975  Elena Likhovtseva, Russian tennis player
From 1976 
 1976  Sjeng Schalken, Dutch tennis player
 1976  Gerald Drummond, Costa Rican footballer
 1976  Jervis Drummond, Costa Rican footballer
 1979  Pink, American singer
 1980  Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, South African runner (d. 2014)
 1980  Kristian Kjelling, Norwegian handball player
 1981  Morten Gamst Pedersen, Norwegian footballer
 1983  Diego Benaglio, Swiss footballer
 1984  Peter Whittingham, English footballer
 1984  Vitaly Petrov, Russian racing driver
 1986  Joao Moutinho, Portuguese footballer
 1987  Wiz Khalifa, American rapper
 1987  Alexandre Bilodeau, Canadian freestyle skier
 1987  Marcel Nguyen, German gymnast
 1987  Dom Parsons, English skeleton racer
 1988  Chantal Jones, American model and actress
 1989  Avicii, Swedish DJ and producer (d. 2018)
 1989  Gylfi Sigurdsson, Icelandic footballer
 1990  Matt Barkley, American football player
 1991  Ignacio González Espinoza, Mexican footballer
 1991  Joe Sugg, English YouTuber, author and vlogger
 1994  Bruno Fernandes, Portuguese footballer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 394  Arbogast, Frankish general
 701  Pope Sergius I
 780  Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine Emperor (b. 750)
 1100  Antipope Clement III (b. 1029)
 1134  Alfonso I of Aragon and Navarre (b. 1073)
 1397  Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, English politician (b. 1355)
 1425  King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
 1613  Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (b. 1566)
 1637  Robert Fludd, English physician, mathematician and cosmologist (b. 1574)
 1644  John Coke, English politician (b. 1563)
 1645  Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish poet and politician (b. 1580)
 1682  Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (b. 1606)
 1780  Enoch Poor, American general (b. 1736)
 1784  Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
 1811  Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist (b. 1741)
 1882  Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b. 1809)
 1888  Annie Chapman, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1841)
 1894  Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (b. 1821)
1901  2000 
 1916  Friedrich Baumfelder, German pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1836)
 1933  King Faisal I of Iraq (b. 1883)
 1944  Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)
 1963  Maurice Wilks, English automotive engineer (b. 1904)
 1965  Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
 1965  Hermann Staudinger, German chemist (b. 1881)
 1969  Bud Collyer, American actor and game show host (b. 1908)
 1970  Percy Spencer, inventor (b. 1894)
 1978  Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (b. 1901)
 1979  Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
 1980  Willard Libby, American chemist (b. 1908)
 1981  Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist (b. 1901)
 1981  Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist (b. 1907)
 1981  Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian guru, philosopher and educator (b. 1897)
 1983  Antoine Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904)
 1985  John Franklin Enders, American scientist
 1989  Sgt. Barry Sadler, American soldier, writer and songwriter (b. 1940)
From 2001 
 2003  Leni Riefenstahl, German movie maker (b. 1902)
 2003  Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actress (b. 1986)
 2004  Delfín Benítez Cáceres, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1910)
 2006  Thomas Lee Judge, 18th Governor of Montana (b. 1934)
 2009  Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (b. 1922)
 2010  Israel Tal, Israeli military (b. 1924)
 2011  Vo Chi Cong, former President of Vietnam (b. 1912)
 2012  Bill Moggridge, English-American designer, author and educator (b. 1943)
 2012  Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1920)
 2013  Louise Currie, American actress (b. 1913)
 2014  George Zuverink, American baseball player (b. 1924)
 2014  Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1918)
 2014  Magda Olivero, Italian operatic soprano (b. 1910)
 2014  Bobby Fong, American academic (b. 1950)
 2014  Sean O'Haire, American professional wrestler, mixed martial artist and kickboxer (b. 1971)
 2015  Andrew Kohut, American political scientist (b. 1942)
2015  Joost Zwagerman, Dutch author (b. 1963)
 2015  Ebby Halliday, American businesswoman (b. 1911)
 2016  Prince Buster, Jamaican musician (b. 1938)
 2017  Pierre Bergé, French businessman and activist (b. 1930)
 2017  Isabelle Daniels, American sprinter (b. 1937)
 2017  Catherine Hardy Lavender, American sprinter (b. 1930)
 2017  Blake Heron, American actor (b. 1982)
 2017  Jerry Pournelle, American science fiction author (b. 1933)
 2017  Karl Ravens, German politician (b. 1927)
 2017  Don Williams, American country music singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
 2018  Jonas Algirdas Antanaitis, Lithuanian politician (b. 1921)
 2018  Gennadi Gagulia, Abkhazian politician, Prime Minister of Abkhazia (b. 1948)
 2018  Chelsi Smith, American singer and beauty pageant winner (b. 1973)
 2019  Chris Dobson, British chemist (b. 1949)
 2019  Ram Jethmalani, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1923)
 2019  Yisrael Kessar, Yemeni-born Israeli politician (b. 1931)
 2019  Lito Legaspi, Filipino actor (b. 1941)
2019  Christopher James, 5th Baron Northbourne, British aristocrat (b. 1926)
 2019  Joseph P. Kolter, American politician (b. 1926)
 2019  Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
 2019  Olav Skjevesland, Norwegian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1942)
 2019  Carlos Squeo, Argentine footballer (b. 1948)
 2022  Queen Elizabeth II, British monarch and head of the Commonwealth (b. 1926)
 2023  Whitey Von Nieda, American basketball player (b. 1922)
Observances 
 National Holiday (Andorra and Republic of Macedonia)
 International Literacy Day (UNESCO)
 Victory Day (Pakistan)
 Nativity of the Virgin (Christianity)

References 

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