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September 6 in history

200 sourced entries recorded on September 6, from 49 BCE to 2024 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 49 BCEMassilia surrenders to Caesar, as he is coming back from Spain.source
  • 394Battle of the Frigidus: Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the usurper Eugenius. The forces of Theodosius are bolstered by numerous auxiliaries, including 20,000 Visigoth federates under Alaric. The Frankish general Arbogast (magister militum) escapes into the Alps and commits suicide.source
  • 628Ardashir III, age 7, succeeds his father Kavadh II as the twenty-fourth king of the Sasanian Empire on the latter's death from plague.source
  • 695King Wihtred of Kent, who maintains Kentish independence against the growing expansion of Mercia, issues one of the earliest known law codes of Britain.source
  • 1319As a reward for his victory at the Battle of Mianeh, General Chupan of the Ilkhanate is allowed to marry Sati Beg, the sister of the Ilkhanate Sultan Abu Sa'id.source
  • 1441The Dutch–Hanseatic War concludes with the Treaty of Copenhagen.source
  • 1476Matthias Corvinus, as King of Bohemia, orders the Transylvanian Saxons in his employment to assist Stephen V Báthory in the invasion of the principality of Wallachia.source
  • 1492Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.source
  • 1522A group of 18 men, commanded by Captain Juan Sebastián Elcano, and including Antonio Pigafetta, Maestre Anes and Juan de Zubileta become the first people to have traveled around the world. Arriving on the ship Victoria, they had set off as part of 270 sailors on five ships on the Magellan expedition almost three years earlier. They return to the Spanish port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda, from where they had departed on September 20, 1519.source
  • 1566an English expedition under Colonel Edward Randolph sets out from Bristol for Lough Foyle.source
  • 1578After 16 days travel, the fleet of Francis Drake completes its traverse of the Strait of Magellan between the tip of South America and Tierra del Fuego. Upon entering the Pacific Ocean, the fleet encounters violent storms. The supply ship Marigold, with over 100 men under the command of John Thomas, is lost with all hands off of Cape Horn. The rest of the fleet continues its voyage around the world.source
  • 1581A mercenary army of Sweden, under Pontus De la Gardie, captures Narva from Russia.source
  • 1594In France, Morlaix, a walled city in Brittany controlled by the Spanish Army and the Ligue catholique, is besieged by the French Royal Army led by Marshal Jean VI d'Aumont. The French Army is supplemented by 2,000 troops commanded by John Norreys.source
  • 1601Pope Clement VIII issues a decree forbidding the publication of any litany, except that of the saints as found in the liturgical books and the Litany of Loreto.source
  • 1610(August 27 O.S.); The Seven Boyars, the group of seven Russian nobles seeking stability in the troubled nation, vote to have King Wladyslaw IV of Poland as Tsar Vladislav of Russia, and invite the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to take over the city.source
  • 1622Spanish treasure fleet sinks off Marquesas Keys in the straits of Florida. Atocha, Margarita, and Rosario are the most heavily laden treasure ships found in the 20th century.source
  • 1628Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.source
  • 1634The Battle of Nördlingen ends after two days with a decisive victory for the Imperial Army and Habsburg Spain over the Army of Sweden and Protestant German troops.source
  • 1638Posti Group is founded.source
  • 1638The Finnish mail service, predecessor of Posti Group, is established.source
  • 1643Battle of Mongiovino: The forces of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, led by Mattias de' Medici, defeated the Papal forces commanded by Taddeo Barberini.source
  • 1652First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Elba, a Dutch naval victory.source
  • 1666Cestui que Vie Act passed by Parliament to provide for disposal of the property of missing persons.source
  • 1666The Cestui Que Vie Act 1666 is passed by the Parliament of England, to provide for the disposal of the property of missing persons.source
  • 1667The "Dreadful Hurricane of 1667" ravages southeast Virginia, bringing 12 days of rain, blowing down plantation homes and stripping fields of crops.source
  • 1669Francesco Morosini, capitano generale of the Venetian forces in the siege of Candia, surrenders to the Ottomans.source
  • 1671The Court of King Charles II of England dispatches a letter to the "King of Formosa" (Zheng Jing, ruler of the Kingdom of Tungning) confirming that English ships will be welcome to trade at the "City of Tywan", referring to Taipei on the island of Taiwan.source
  • 1671The Royal Court dispatches a letter to the "King of Formosa" (Zheng Jing, ruler of the Kingdom of Tungning) confirming that English ships will be welcome to trade at the "City of Tywan" (Taipei on the island of Taiwan).source
  • 1678Titus Oates begins to present allegations of the "Popish Plot", a supposed Roman Catholic conspiracy to assassinate king Charles II of England. Oates applies the term Tory to those who disbelieve his allegations.source
  • 1678Titus Oates first presents sworn allegations of the "Popish Plot", a supposed Catholic conspiracy to assassinate King Charles II. On 28 September before the Privy Council he makes allegations against numerous Jesuits and Catholic nobles. Oates applies the term Tory to those who disbelieve his allegations.source
  • 1688Great Turkish War: The Habsburg army captures Belgrade.source
  • 1689September 3–12 – Messengers from over 100 Baptist churches assemble in the City of London to discuss and endorse the 1677 document that will become known as the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith.source
  • 1700Edmond Halley returns to England after a voyage of almost one year on HMS Paramour, from which he has observed the Antarctic Convergence, and publishes his findings on terrestrial magnetism in General Chart of the Variation of the Compass.source
  • 17036 September Frederick VI is secretly married to Elisabeth Helene von Vieregg and thereby becomes guilty of bigamy.source
  • 1704The Storming of Lembergsource
  • 1709September 4–8 – nearly 800 poor Protestant refugee families of German Palatines arrive in Dublin to be settled in Ireland.source
  • 1715The first major Jacobite rising in Scotland against the rule of King George I of Great Britain breaks out. The Earl of Mar raises the standard of James Edward Stuart, and marches on Edinburgh. James, the son of the deposed King James VII, arrives from France.source
  • 1715first of the major Jacobite risings in Scotland against the rule of King George I of Great Britain: The Earl of Mar raises the standard of James Edward Stuart at Braemar and marches on Edinburgh.source
  • 1715First of the major Jacobite risings in Scotland against the rule of King George I: The Earl of Mar raises the standard of James Edward Stuart and marches on Edinburgh.source
  • 1722Wälättä Giyorgis, a 16-year-old who nursed Ethiopia's Emperor Bakaffa back to health after he fell ill, marries the Emperor and begins her rise to power as the Empress Mentewab. Upon Bakaffa's death in 1730, Mentewab becomes the regent for her son by Bakaffa, Iyasu II.source
  • 1726An explosion kills all but seven of the 700 passengers and crew on the Portuguese Navy galleon HMFMS Santa Rosa as its cargo of gunpowder blows up. Historians speculate that of the 693 people on the ship, those who weren't killed by the explosion drowned or were killed by sharks as the ship went down off of the coast of Recife.source
  • 1755The Russian Academy of Sciences awards its prize for "the best explanation of the true causes of electricity including their theory" to Switzerland's Johann Euler for his paper Disquisitio de causa physica electricitatis.source
  • 1757The life of Najib ad-Dawlah is spared by Raghunathrao upon the intercession of General Malhar Rao Holkar. Najib and his family are permitted to leave the Fort along with most of their property, and the Emperor Alamgir II is restored to the Mughal throne as a nominal ruler.source
  • 1760September 6 to September 7 – A council of war, at Montreal, favors capitulation.source
  • 1765Jean-Jacques Rousseau's house in Switzerland is stoned by a mob.source
  • 1769September 6–9 – David Garrick holds a Shakespeare Jubilee festival at Stratford-upon-Avon in England.source
  • 1775August 29 – September 12 – The Independence Hurricane from South Carolina to Nova Scotia kills 4,170, mostly fishermen and sailors.source
  • 1776A hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing more than 6,000 people.source
  • 1781American Revolution – Battle of Groton Heights: A British force under Benedict Arnold attacks a fort in Groton, Connecticut, achieving a strategic victory.source
  • 1791Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera seria, La clemenza di Tito, premières at the Estates Theatre in Prague with Mozart conducting to mark the coronation of Leopold II as King of Bohemia.source
  • 1792September 2–7 – French Revolution: September Massacres – Rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops and more than 200 priests, together with at least 1,000 other criminals.source
  • 1803John Dalton, British scientist, begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.source
  • 1803John Dalton FRS composes his five main points of atomic theory, the first to do so.source
  • 1811Sir John Cradock is appointed Governor of the Cape, tasked with implementing a more aggressive policy on the colony's eastern frontier.source
  • 1813Napoleonic Wars – Battle of Dennewitz: The armies of Napoleon I are again defeated by Prussia and Russia.source
  • 1813Battle of Dennewitz: The armies of Napoleon are defeated by Prussia and Russia.source
  • 1816King Louis XVIII dissolves the Chambre introuvable, the legislature that had been elected after the Second Bourbon Restoration re-established the old monarchy.source
  • 1816King Louis XVIII dissolves the Chambre introuvable, the legislature that had been elected after the Second Restoration re-established the old monarchy.source
  • 1827October – Ordnance Survey staff survey a Lough Foyle baseline for their survey of Ireland.source
  • 1830Otmoor riots: mass demonstration against enclosure of Otmoor in Oxfordshire.source
  • 1854August 31–September 8 – An epidemic of cholera in London kills over 10,000. Dr John Snow traces the source of one outbreak (that killed 500) to a single water pump, validating his theory that cholera is water-borne, and forming the starting point for epidemiology.source
  • 1859Esaias Reynier Snijman becomes the acting State President of the Orange Free State.source
  • 1861Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control of the mouth of the Tennessee River.source
  • 1864September 5–6 – Bombardment of Shimonoseki: An American, British, Dutch and French alliance engages the powerful feudal Japanese warlord or daimyō Lord Mōri Takachika, of the Chōshū clan, based in Shimonoseki, Japan.source
  • 1864September 1 – September 9: Charlottetown Conference, noted as the first step towards Confederationsource
  • 1870Louisa Swain of Laramie, Wyoming, becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally since 1807.source
  • 1879first publication of a story by Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley" in Chambers's Journal.source
  • 1885Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, completing the unification of Bulgaria.source
  • 1888Australian cricketer 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).source
  • 1890Dublin association football club Bohemian F.C. is founded in the Gate Lodge, Phoenix Park.source
  • 1892Dundee Whaling Expedition begins.source
  • 1901Assassination of William McKinley: American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots U.S. President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies 8 days later.source
  • 1905Last sighting of the clipper ship Loch Vennachar which sinks off Kangaroo Island, killing 32 people. Only one body was found.source
  • 1914A seaplane launched by the seaplane-carrier Wakamiya. unsuccessfully attacked the Austro-Hungarian cruiser Kaiserin Elisabeth and the German gunboat Jaguar with bombssource
  • 1915The prototype military tank is first tested by the British Army.source
  • 1916The first true self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, is founded in Memphis, Tennessee, by Clarence Saunders, opening 5 days later.source
  • 1919The U.S. Army expedition across North America, which started July 7, ends in San Francisco.source
  • 1919The First Transcontinental Motor Convoy: The U.S. Army expedition across America, which started July 7, ends in San Francisco.source
  • 1923The Fukuda Village Incident occurs as a part of the larger Kantō Massacre. Nine Japanese people, including a pregnant woman and children, are killed based on false beliefs that they are ethnic Koreans.source
  • 19291929 Jask Imperial Airways de Havilland Hercules crash.source
  • 19301930 Argentine coup d'état: José Félix Uriburu carries out a military coup, overthrowing Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina.source
  • 19301930 Argentine coup d'état: José Félix Uriburu leads troops into Buenos Aires and carries out a military coup, ousting incumbent president Hipólito Yrigoyen.source
  • 1934September 5–10 – The 6th Nuremberg Rally is staged by the German Nazi Party.source
  • 1940King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.source
  • 1941The 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.source
  • 1942At 9:43 p.m. there was an Earthquake of 7.3 degrees on Richter magnitude scale and whose epicenter was located in the vicinity of Caldera, Atacama Region . It left a balance of 5 dead, 16 injured and 705 homeless; It also caused a medium intensity Tsunami between Lima, Peru and Puerto Saavedra in the Araucania Region.source
  • 1948Juliana is formally inaugurated to succeed her mother as queen regnant of the Netherlands.source
  • 1949Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to Germany.source
  • 1949Howard Unruh, a World War II veteran, kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Parabellum P.08 pistol, to become America's first single-episode mass murderer.source
  • 1950General Mohammad Ayub Khan, becomes the first Pakistani as Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army.source
  • 1952The CBC in Montreal, Quebec, goes on air launching television in Canada.source
  • 1952Incendios del 6 de septiembre de 1952 en Bogotásource
  • 1954The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) treaty is signed in Manila, Philippines.source
  • 1955Istanbul pogrom: Istanbul's Greek minority is the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.source
  • 1960Martin and Mitchell defection: William Hamilton Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell, two American cryptologists, announce their defection to the Soviet Union at a press conference in Moscow.source
  • 1961Hurricane Debbie passed through Cape Verdesource
  • 1963The Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.source
  • 1965Border disputes over Kashmir erupt into full-scale war as Indian forces attack near Lahore.source
  • 1966South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death in Parliament by Dimitri Tsafendas.source
  • 1967Myrina is launched from the Musgrave Yard slipway at Harland and Wolff in Belfast, the first supertanker and (at around 192000 DWT) largest ship built in the United Kingdom up to this date.source
  • 1968Swaziland (later known as Eswatini) becomes independent of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1970September 3–6 – Israeli forces fight Palestinian guerillas in southern Lebanon.source
  • 1970Dawson's Field hijackings: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacks four passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zurich and flies them to a desert airstrip in Jordan.source
  • 1970Dawson's Field hijackings: simultaneous attempts to hijack four airliners by Palestinian militants belonging to the PFLP. Two planes landed in Dawson's Field, a remote desert airstrip in Jordan. A hijacking attempt on an El Al flight was thwarted and an American hijacked plane is diverted to Cairo and blown up after the passengers evacuated.source
  • 1971September 5–18: Hurricane Edith.source
  • 1972David Mark Berger (born 1944), U.S.-born Israeli weightlifter.source
  • 1973Bangladesh joins Non-Aligned Movement(NAM).source
  • 1975An earthquake of magnitude Ms kills at least 2,085 in Diyarbakır and Lice, Turkey.source
  • 19751975 Lice earthquakesource
  • 1976Cold War: Soviet Air Force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan, and requests political asylum in the United States.source
  • 1976Frank Sinatra brings Jerry Lewis's former partner Dean Martin onstage, unannounced, at the 1976 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon in Las Vegas, reuniting the comedy team for the first (and only) time in over 20 years.source
  • 1981September 4–12. Major Soviet military exercise Zapad’81 (West’81) takes place in Belarus and the Baltic States.source
  • 1981September 5–10. First round of National Congress of Solidarity Delegates takes place in Gdańsk, at Hala Olivia. Solidarity has 9,5 million members. Of all its regions, most numerous is Upper Silesia - Zagłębie Dąbrowskie (Region Śląsko-Dąbrowski) - 1,4 mln members, Mazovia - 911,000 members, and Lower Silesia - 900,000 members. During the Congress, The Message to Working People of Eastern Europe is issued, as well as a Letter to Polonia of the Whole World.source
  • 1983The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.source
  • 1985Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, killing all 31 on board.source
  • 1986In Istanbul, two Abu Nidal terrorists kill 22 and wound 6 inside the Neve Shalom Synagogue during Shabbat services.source
  • 1986The Big Mac Index is introduced in The Economist newspaper as a semi-humorous international measure of purchasing power parity.source
  • 19891989 South African general election, the last held under the apartheid system, returns the National Party to power with a much-reduced majority.source
  • 1989In the 1989 Dutch general election, the Christian Democratic Appeal, led by Ruud Lubbers wins 54 seats, and is ultimately able to form a government on November 7 after entering into coalition with the Labour Party.source
  • 1990In Myanmar, the State Law and Order Restoration Council orders the arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi and five other political dissidents.source
  • 1990September 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Ivory Coast.source
  • 1995September 4–15 – The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.source
  • 1997September 5–6 – Beni-Messous massacresource
  • 1997The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, takes place at Westminster Abbey, London, UK, watched by over two billion people worldwide.source
  • 2000The last wholly Swedish-owned arms manufacturer, Bofors, is sold to American arms manufacturer United Defense.source
  • 2000September 6–8 – World leaders attend the Millennium Summit at U.N. Headquarters.source
  • 2002Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo agree to normalise their relations after four years of the Second Congo War.source
  • 2004Fijian golfer Vijay Singh unseats Tiger Woods as the top PGA Tour player.source
  • 2007Israeli Air Force airplanes attack a suspected nuclear reactor in Syria in an airstrike.source
  • 2014Egypt charges former president Mohammed Morsi and nine others for leaking sensitive government information to Qatar.source
  • 2017Hurricane Irma, at peak intensity, would make the first of many powerful landfalls along the Caribbean islands and the United States. Damages would total $77.2 billion (2017 USD), and 134 would be killed by the storm.source
  • 2018The Supreme Court of India decriminalises homosexuality.; Brazilian congressman Jair Bolsonaro is stabbed in the stomach at Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, during a rally while running for the presidency.source
  • 2019Chandrayaan-2, India's second lunar probe, is successfully placed in lunar orbit, but the lander Vikram crashes into the surface of the Moon.source
  • 2020Typhoon Haishen makes landfall on Japan and then South Korea as a strong category 2-equivalent typhoon. It later makes landfall on North Korea where widespread flooding occurs.source
  • 2022Liz Truss is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after winning the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election.source
  • 2023Tajikistan announces that it killed three Jamaat Ansarullah Islamist militants on 29–30 August after they crossed the border from Afghanistan to carry out terrorist attacks in Tajikistan.source
  • 2024August 28 – September 8 – The 2024 Summer Paralympics are held in Paris, France.source

Births

  • 1475Sebastiano Serlio, Italian Mannerist architect (died 1554)source
  • 1517Francisco de Holanda, Portuguese artist (died 1585)source
  • 1535Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (died 1612)source
  • 1574Luis Sotelo, Spanish Franciscan friar who died as a martyr in Japan (died 1624)source
  • 1620Isabella Leonarda, Italian composer (died 1704)source
  • 1631Charles Porter, English-born judge (died 1696)source
  • 1633Sebastian Knüpfer, German composer (died 1676)source
  • 1634Thomas Tryon, British hat maker (died 1703)source
  • 1656Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (died 1723)source
  • 1666Tsar Ivan V of Russia (died 1696)source
  • 1698Jean Thurel, French soldier (died 1807)source
  • 1711Henry Muhlenberg, Lutheran clergyman and missionary (died 1787)source
  • 1728Christian Braunmann Tullin, businessman and poet (died 1765).source
  • 1729Moses Mendelssohn, German-Jewish philosopher (died 1786)source
  • 1735John Joseph Merlin, born Jean-Joseph Merlin, Liège-born clock- and musical-instrument-maker and inventor (died 1803)source
  • 1757Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier, statesman (died 1834)source
  • 1766John Dalton, English chemist and physicist (died 1844)source
  • 1817Mihail Kogălniceanu, 3rd Prime Minister of Romania (died 1891)source
  • 1860Jane Addams, American social worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1935)source
  • 1888Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., American politician (died 1969)source
  • 1963Geert Wilders, Dutch politician and critic of Islamsource
  • 1971Dolores O'Riordan, Irish singer (The Cranberries) (died 2018)source

Deaths

  • 265Sima Zhao, Chinese general and politician (born 211)source
  • 394Eugenius, Roman usurpersource
  • 628Kavadh II, king of the Persian Empiresource
  • 926Emperor Taizu dies after a 10-year reign. He is succeeded by his second son Tai Zong (Yaogu) as ruler of the Chinese Liao Dynasty. Taizu's eldest son Yelü Bei (designated heir apparent) becomes ruler of the Dongdan Kingdom (former Balhae), a puppet state of the Khitan Empire.source
  • 926Abaoji (Taizu), emperor of the Khitan Empiresource
  • 952Suzaku, emperor of Japan (born 923)source
  • 957Liudolf, duke of Swabiasource
  • 957Liudolf, the eldest son of King Otto I, dies of a violent fever near Pombia (it is rumored from a latent poison administered somehow by Berengar II's agents). The German armies return home, leaving Berengar of Ivrea in control of Italy. Liudolf is succeeded by his 3-year-old son Otto, who will be adopted and raised by his grandfather Otto, as the later duke of Swabia and Bavaria.source
  • 972John XIII dies at Rome after a 6-year reign. He is succeeded by Benedict VI as the 134th pope of the Catholic Church.source
  • 972John XIII, pope of the Catholic Churchsource
  • 1032King Rudolph III dies without any heirs. He bequeaths his entire dominions to Emperor Conrad II (the Elder), dispatching to him the Holy Lance and ring of St. Maurice, symbols of Burgundian investiture.source
  • 1032Rudolph III, king of Burgundysource
  • 1092Conrad I, duke of Bohemiasource
  • 1170Qutb al-Din Mawdud, Zangid ruler of Mosulsource
  • 1234Milo of Nanteuil, bishop of Beauvaissource
  • 1276Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Italian cardinalsource
  • 1302John St. John, English knight and seneschalsource
  • 1431Demetrios Laskaris Leontares, Byzantine soldier and statesmansource
  • 1459Katharina of Nassau-Beilstein, German regentsource
  • 1475Adolph II of Nassau, Archbishop of Mainz (born c. 1423)source
  • 1506Sir Richard Guildford, courtier (born 1450)source
  • 1511Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (born 1481)source
  • 1529George Blaurock, Swiss founder of the Anabaptist Church (born 1491)source
  • 1566Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan since 1520 (born 1494)source
  • 1581Guillaume Postel, linguist (b.1510)source
  • 1625Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (born 1579)source
  • 1649Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (born 1574)source
  • 1683Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (born 1619)source
  • 1727George Hooper, Bishop of St Asaph Bishop of Bath and Wells (born 1640)source
  • 1748Edmund Gibson, English jurist (born 1669)source
  • 1782Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (born 1748)source
  • 1783Anna Williams, friend of Dr Johnson, 77?source
  • 1807September 2–7 – Battle of Copenhagen: The British Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets, to prevent the Dano-Norwegian navy from surrendering to Napoleon; 30% of the city is destroyed, and 2,000 citizens are killed.source
  • 1833At least 6,000 people are killed when an 8.0 magnitude earthquake shakes the Chinese province of Yunnan destroying buildings, homes and temples.source
  • 1956Lee Jung-seob, Korean paintersource
  • 1965Sarfaraz Ahmed Rafiqui, military aviator of Pakistan (born 1935)source
  • 1966Margaret Sanger, American birth control advocate (born 1879)source
  • 1972September 5–6 – Munich massacre: Eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich are murdered after eight members of the Arab terrorist group Black September invade the Olympic Village; five guerillas and one policeman are also killed in a failed hostage rescue.source
  • 1998Akira Kurosawa, 88, Japanese film director and screenwriter (Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Throne of Blood), stroke.source
  • 2000Abdul Haris Nasution, 81, Indonesian general and politician, cerebrovascular disease.source
  • 2019Robert Mugabe, 95, Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician, President (1987–2017) and Prime Minister (1980–1987), cancer.source