History of Today 05 September: Important Events, Births and Deaths

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Important Events on 05 September in History

05 Sep 2022: Liz Truss is declared the winner of the UK Conservative Party leadership election, beating Rishi Sunak. Read more
05 Sep 2022: At least 93 people die and 25 are missing after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Sichuan, China. Read more
05 Sep 2021: The President of Guinea, Alpha Condé is captured by armed forces during a coup d'état. Read more
05 Sep 2012: An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds four others. Read more
05 Sep 2006: The Waziristan Accord is signed between the Government of Pakistan and local Taliban militants in North Waziristan, obliging the Taliban to expel foreign jihadists and the government to compensate the tribes for loss of life and property and launch reconstruction projects. Read more
05 Sep 2005: Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes after takeoff from Polonia International Airport in Medan, Indonesia, killing 149. Read more
05 Sep 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. Read more
05 Sep 1991: The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force. Read more
05 Sep 1990: Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians. Read more
05 Sep 1986: Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport. Read more
05 Sep 1984: STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage. Read more
05 Sep 1984: Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment. Read more
05 Sep 1981: The first women arrive at what becomes Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in the UK. Read more
05 Sep 1980: The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 16.9 kilometres (10.5 mi) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo. Read more
05 Sep 1978: Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland. Read more
05 Sep 1977: Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft. Read more
05 Sep 1975: Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford. Read more
05 Sep 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 are murdered the following day. Read more
05 Sep 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. Read more
05 Sep 1969: Mỹ 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. Read more
05 Sep 1968: End of the Congress of Carrara, one of the major 20th century anarchist congresses. Read more
05 Sep 1960: Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of Senegal. Read more
05 Sep 1960: Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome. Read more
05 Sep 1957: Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos. Read more
05 Sep 1954: KLM Flight 633 crashes into the River Shannon in Shannon, County Clare, Ireland, killing 28. Read more
05 Sep 1948: In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister; as such, he is the French negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II. Read more
05 Sep 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. Read more
05 Sep 1945: Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American who broadcast under the name Orphan Annie during World War II, is arrested in Yokohama by U.S. military authorities amid widespread speculation of her being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose. Read more
05 Sep 1944: Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux. Read more
05 Sep 1943: World War II: In the Pacific Theater, the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport, near Lae during the Salamaua–Lae campaign. Read more
05 Sep 1942: World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War. Read more
05 Sep 1941: Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany. Read more
05 Sep 1938: Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup. Read more
05 Sep 1937: Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege. Read more
05 Sep 1932: The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger. Read more
05 Sep 1915: The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins. Read more
05 Sep 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. Read more
05 Sep 1905: Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war. Read more
05 Sep 1887: A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter kills 186, making it the UK's deadliest ever building fire. Read more
05 Sep 1882: The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City. Read more
05 Sep 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. Read more
05 Sep 1862: American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac River at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign. Read more
05 Sep 1839: The United Kingdom declares war on the Qing dynasty of China. Read more
05 Sep 1836: Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas. Read more
05 Sep 1816: Louis XVIII of France has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber"). Read more
05 Sep 1812: War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses. Read more

Famous Births on 05 September

05 Sep 2007: Matthew Schaefer, Canadian ice hockey player Matthew Schaefer is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected first overall by the Islanders in the 2025 NHL entry draft, and won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHL's best rookie in 2025–26. Read more
05 Sep 2001: Bukayo Saka, English footballer Bukayo Ayoyinka Temidayo Moses Saka is an English professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Premier League club Arsenal and the England national team. Read more
05 Sep 2001: Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow, Australian rugby league player Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow, nicknamed "Hammer", is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a fullback for the Dolphins in the National Rugby League (NRL) and as a centre for Queensland in the State of Origin. Read more
05 Sep 1999: Filip Chytil, Czech ice hockey player Filip Chytil is a Czech professional ice hockey player who is a centre for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the New York Rangers in the first round, 21st overall, in the 2017 NHL entry draft. Internationally, Chytil played for the Czech Republic national team in several tournaments. Read more
05 Sep 1998: Caroline Dolehide, American tennis player Caroline Dolehide is an American professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 41 on 2 October 2023, and a doubles ranking of No. 9 on 26 August 2024. Dolehide has won three WTA Tour and one WTA 125 doubles titles, and also 17 titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, eight in singles and nine in doubles. Read more
05 Sep 1998: Mac Jones, American football player Michael McCorkle "Mac" Jones is an American professional football quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, setting the NCAA season records for passer rating and completion percentage in 2020 en route to winning the 2021 College Football Playoff National Championship. Jones also received Johnny Unitas Golden Arm, Davey O'Brien, and Manning awards. He was selected by the New England Patriots in the first round of the 2021 NFL draft. Read more
05 Sep 1998: Davion Mitchell, American basketball player Davion De'Monte Earl Mitchell, nicknamed Off-Night, is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Auburn Tigers and the Baylor Bears. He was taken ninth overall in the 2021 NBA draft by the Sacramento Kings. Read more
05 Sep 1997: Steven Kwan, American baseball player Steven Robert Kwan is an American professional baseball left fielder for the Cleveland Guardians of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2022. Read more
05 Sep 1997: Kyōko Saitō, Japanese idol Kyōko Saitō is a Japanese actress, television presenter, singer, and model, represented by Toho. She co-hosts the talk show Kyoccorohee on TV Asahi and made her international acting debut as the star of Love on Trial (2025), screened at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Read more
05 Sep 1996: Jarren Duran, American baseball player Jarren William Duran is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2021. Listed at 6 feet 0 inches (1.83 m) and 205 pounds (93 kg), he bats left-handed and throws right-handed. Duran was named the MVP of the 2024 MLB All-Star Game. Born in the United States, he represents Mexico at the international level. Read more
05 Sep 1996: Sigrid, Norwegian singer Sigrid Solbakk Raabe, known mononymously as Sigrid, is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. She has released three studio albums, Sucker Punch (2019), How to Let Go (2022), and There's Always More That I Could Say (2025). Both her debut and sophomore album reached the top of the charts in Norway as well as reaching the top 5 in the United Kingdom. She has also released three EPs. Read more
05 Sep 1996: Richairo Zivkovic, Dutch footballer Richairo Juliano Živković is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Thai League 1 club Bangkok United. Born in the Netherlands, he represents the Curaçao national team. Read more
05 Sep 1995: Lucas Wallmark, Swedish ice hockey player Lucas Wallmark is a Swedish professional ice hockey center who is currently playing for HC Fribourg-Gottéron of the National League (NL). He was selected by the Carolina Hurricanes in the fourth round, 97th overall, at the 2014 NHL entry draft. Read more
05 Sep 1994: Kings Elliot, Swiss-English singer Anja Gmür, known professionally as Kings Elliot, is a Swiss-English singer-songwriter based in London. She signed a record deal with Universal Music Group in 2021 and released three EPs. She won Best Breaking Act at the 2025 Swiss Music Awards. Her debut album Born Blue is set to be released in September 2025. Read more
05 Sep 1994: Sarah Carli, Australian track and field athlete Sarah Carli is an Australian track and field athlete who specializes in the 400 metres hurdles. Representing Australia at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, she reached the semi-finals in women's 400 metres hurdles. Read more
05 Sep 1994: Bonnie Anderson, Australian singer, songwriter and actress Bonnie Anderson is an Australian singer, songwriter and actress. She was the first winner of reality TV show Australia's Got Talent in 2007 at age 12. She released her debut single "Raise the Bar" in 2013. From 2018 until 2021, Anderson played Bea Nilsson in the Australian soap opera Neighbours. In September 2020, she won the second season of The Masked Singer Australia. Read more
05 Sep 1994: Dayton Wetherby, US-born Panamanian footballer Dayton Brenna Wetherby McArthur is a US-born Panamanian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. She has been a member of the Panama women's national team. Read more
05 Sep 1994: Nediam Vargas, Venezuelan sprinter Nediam Nori Vargas Arteaga is a Venezuelan sprinter. She competed in the 100 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without advancing from the first round. Read more
05 Sep 1994: Gregorio Paltrinieri, Italian swimmer Gregorio Paltrinieri is an Italian competitive swimmer. He is a former world record holder in the short course 1500-meter freestyle. He holds the European record in the long course 800-meter and 1500-meter freestyle events with times of 7:39.27 and 14:32.80, respectively. In the 1500-meter freestyle, he is a 2016 Olympic, three-time world long course, two-time world short course, three-time European long course, and three-time European short course champion. In the 800-meter freestyle, he is a 2019 world long course, 2022 world short course, three-time European long course, and 2021 European short course champion. In the 10 kilometre open water swim, he is a 2022 world and 2020 European champion. In the 5 kilometre open water swim, he is a two-time European champion. Read more
05 Sep 1993: Pablo Reyes, Dominican baseball player Pablo Israel Reyes is a Dominican professional baseball infielder and outfielder in the Los Angeles Angels organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Milwaukee Brewers, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, and New York Mets. He made his MLB debut in 2018. Read more
05 Sep 1993: T. J. Warren, American basketball player Anthony "T. J." Warren Jr. is an American professional basketball player for Paris Basketball of the LNB Élite and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball as a small forward for the NC State Wolfpack in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). In the 2013–14 season, he earned consensus second-team All-American honors and was named the ACC Player of the Year after leading the conference in scoring with 24.9 points per game. Read more
05 Sep 1991: Skandar Keynes, English actor and political adviser Alexander Amin Caspar Keynes is an English political adviser and former actor. Best known for starring as Edmund Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia film series, he appeared in all three instalments: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Read more
05 Sep 1990: Lance Stephenson, American basketball player Lance Stephenson Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. He attended Lincoln High School in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, where he was named Mr. New York Basketball after his senior year and appeared in the 2009 McDonald's All-American Game. He later played college basketball for the Cincinnati Bearcats and was selected in the second round of the 2010 NBA draft by the Indiana Pacers. He is widely known for his wily and unique playstyle, which includes flashy passing, quick drives to the rim, and humorous celebrations. Read more
05 Sep 1990: Yuna Kim, South Korean figure skater Yuna Kim, also credited in eastern name order as Kim Yuna or Kim Yeon-a, is a retired South Korean figure skater. Known for her well-rounded skills, achievements, popularity, and impact on the sport, she is one of the most highly recognized athletes in South Korea and regarded as one of the greatest figure skaters in history, being commonly referred to as "Queen Yuna". Kim started skating at five years old and competed in women's singles from 2001 to 2014. She is the 2010 Olympic champion, the 2014 Olympic silver medalist, a two-time World champion the 2009 Four Continents champion, a three-time Grand Prix Final champion, the 2006 World Junior champion, the 2005 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, and a six-time South Korean national champion. Read more
05 Sep 1990: Franco Zuculini, Argentine footballer Franco Zuculini is an Argentine footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder. Read more
05 Sep 1989: Elena Delle Donne, American basketball player Elena Delle Donne is an American former professional basketball player. Delle Donne played college basketball for the Delaware Blue Hens from 2009 to 2013. She was drafted by the Chicago Sky with the second overall pick of the 2013 WNBA draft, and led the Sky to the 2014 WNBA Finals, where they were defeated by the Phoenix Mercury. Delle Donne was traded to the Washington Mystics in 2017 and led them to their first WNBA championship in 2019. She was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2026. Read more
05 Sep 1989: Kat Graham, American actress and singer Katerina Alexandre Hartford Graham is a Swiss-born American actress, singer, and dancer. She played Bonnie Bennett on the CW supernatural drama series The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017). Her film credits include The Parent Trap (1998), 17 Again (2009), The Roommate (2011), Honey 2 (2011), Addicted (2014), and All Eyez on Me (2017). Graham has released two EPs and four studio albums. Read more
05 Sep 1989: Craig Smith, American ice hockey player Craig Smith is an American former professional ice hockey forward who played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Nashville Predators in the fourth round, 98th overall, of the 2009 NHL entry draft, and also played for the Boston Bruins, Washington Capitals, Dallas Stars, Chicago Blackhawks, and Detroit Red Wings. Read more
05 Sep 1989: José Ángel Valdés, Spanish footballer José Ángel Valdés Díaz, known as José Ángel or Cote, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a left-back. Read more
05 Sep 1989: Ben Youngs, English rugby player Benjamin Ryder Youngs is an English former professional rugby union player who played as a scrum-half for Premiership Rugby club Leicester Tigers, and is the all time appearance record holder with 127 caps for the men’s England national team. Read more
05 Sep 1988: Denni Avdić, Swedish footballer Denni Robin Avdić is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a centre-forward for Vasalunds IF. Read more
05 Sep 1988: Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorian footballer Felipe Salvador Caicedo Corozo is an Ecuadorian professional footballer who plays as a striker. Read more
05 Sep 1988: Emmy Raver-Lampman, American actress and singer Emmy Raver-Lampman is an American actress and singer. She began her career working in musical theater, and has performed in various Broadway and national touring productions such as Hair, Jekyll & Hyde, Wicked, and Hamilton. She played Allison Hargreeves in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy. Read more
05 Sep 1986: Pragyan Ojha, Indian cricketer Pragyan Ojha is an Indian former cricketer, who represented India in all forms of cricket. He played as an attacking left-arm orthodox bowler and left-handed tail-ender batsman for Hyderabad. In his 24 Tests, he only managed to score 89 runs. In fact, he is among the few cricketers who have taken more wickets than the runs they have scored in Test cricket. He was a part of the Indian squad which won the 2010 Asia Cup. He became the historic 800th Test wicket of Muttiah Muralitharan. He is the current selector of senior men's national selection committee. Read more
05 Sep 1985: Justin Dentmon, American basketball player Justin Lorenzo Dentmon is an American former professional basketball player He played college basketball for Washington. In 2010, he was the top scorer in the Israel Basketball Premier League. Read more
05 Sep 1985: Ryan Guy, American soccer player Ryan Michael Guy is a football coach and former professional football player. He was capped 33 times and scored four goals for the Guam national team. Read more
05 Sep 1984: Alison Bell, Scottish field hockey player Alison Bell is a Scottish female field hockey player who plays for the Scotland women's national field hockey team. She has represented Scotland in few international competitions including the 2005 Women's Hockey Junior World Cup, 2013 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship, 2010 Commonwealth Games, and 2014 Commonwealth Games. Read more
05 Sep 1984: Chris Anker Sørensen, Danish cyclist (died 2021) Chris Anker Sørensen was a Danish road bicycle racer who rode professionally between 2005 and 2018 for the Team Designa Køkken, Tinkoff–Saxo, Fortuneo–Vital Concept, and Riwal Platform teams. Sørensen then worked as a directeur sportif for his final professional team, Riwal Readynez. Read more
05 Sep 1984: Annabelle Wallis, English actress Annabelle Frances Wallis is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Jane Seymour in the period drama series The Tudors (2009–2010) and Grace Burgess in the period drama series Peaky Blinders (2013–2019). Her film credits include X-Men: First Class (2011), Annabelle (2014), The Mummy (2017), Tag (2018), Malignant (2021), Silent Night (2021), and Mercy (2026). Read more
05 Sep 1983: Eugen Bopp, Ukrainian-German footballer Eugen Bopp is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in Ukraine, he represented the Germany national under-19 team. Read more
05 Sep 1983: Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer Pablo Mariano Granoche Louro is a Uruguayan football coach and former player, in the role of striker, currently in charge as assistant coach of FC Clivense in the Eccellenza amateur league. During his playing career, he was nicknamed El Diablo. Read more
05 Sep 1983: Chris Young, American baseball player Christopher Brandon Young is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Oakland Athletics, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, and Los Angeles Angels. Read more
05 Sep 1981: Daniel Moreno, Spanish cyclist Daniel Moreno Fernández is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2018 for the Relax–GAM, Omega Pharma–Lotto, Team Katusha, Movistar Team and EF Education First–Drapac p/b Cannondale teams. He specialised in mountain and high-mountain races along with Grand Tours like the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España, winning three stages of the latter in 2011 and 2013. Read more
05 Sep 1981: Kai Rüütel, Estonian opera singer Kai Rüütel is a mezzo-soprano opera singer from Estonia. Read more
05 Sep 1980: Franco Costanzo, Argentine footballer Franco Costanzo Geymonat is an Argentine former football goalkeeper who last played for Chilean club Universidad Católica of the Primera División. Read more
05 Sep 1979: John Carew, Norwegian footballer John Alieu Carew is a Norwegian actor and former professional footballer who played as a striker. He was capped 91 times and scored 24 goals for the Norway national team. At club level, he played professionally for football clubs in Norway, Spain, Italy, Turkey, France and England. Read more
05 Sep 1979: Julien Lizeroux, French skier Julien Lizeroux is a retired French World Cup alpine ski racer. He competed mainly in slalom, but also in giant slalom and combined. Read more
05 Sep 1979: Salvatore Mastronunzio, Italian footballer Salvatore Mastronunzio is an Italian former footballer who played as a forward. Read more
05 Sep 1978: Chris Hipkins, New Zealand politician, 41st Prime Minister of New Zealand Christopher John Hipkins is a New Zealand politician who has served as leader of the New Zealand Labour Party since January 2023 and leader of the Opposition since November 2023. He was the 41st prime minister of New Zealand from January to November 2023, previously serving as the minister for the public service and minister for education from 2017 to 2023, and the minister for health and the COVID-19 response from 2020 to 2022. He has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Remutaka since the 2008 general election. Read more
05 Sep 1978: Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby player Christopher Raymond Jack is a former New Zealand rugby union player who played as a lock. He played for Canterbury and the Tasman Mako in the National Provincial Championship and its successor, the Air New Zealand Cup; the Crusaders in Super Rugby; Saracens in the Guinness Premiership; and internationally for the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks. Read more
05 Sep 1978: Sylvester Joseph, Antiguan cricketer Sylvester Cleofoster Joseph is a West Indian cricketer who has played in five Test matches and 13 One Day Internationals from 2000 to 2005. He captained the West Indies in one of those ODI games due to the more experienced players being unavailable courtesy of contract disputes. In West Indian domestic cricket he plays for the Leeward Islands. Joseph was a member of the West Indies team that won the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy. Read more
05 Sep 1978: Zhang Zhong, Chinese chess player Zhang Zhong is a Chinese chess grandmaster, a twice Chinese champion and the 2005 Asian champion. In 1998, he became China's 9th Grandmaster. Read more
05 Sep 1977: Joseba Etxeberria, Spanish footballer Joseba Andoni Etxeberria Lizardi is a Spanish former professional footballer who played mostly as a winger, currently a manager. Read more
05 Sep 1977: Nazr Mohammed, American basketball player Nazr Tahiru Mohammed is an American former professional basketball player who had a journeyman career in the National Basketball Association (NBA), playing for eight different teams over 18 seasons. He is the current general manager of the Oklahoma City Blue and a pro scout for the Oklahoma City Thunder. He played college basketball for Kentucky. Read more
05 Sep 1976: Tatiana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast Tatiana Gutsu, rarely Tetiana Hutsu, is a Ukrainian former artistic gymnast from the Soviet Union and the winner of the all-around title in the 1992 Summer Olympics. She was renowned for performing some of the most difficult routines in the sport. She was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2022. Read more
05 Sep 1976: Carice van Houten, Dutch actress and singer Carice Anouk van Houten is a Dutch actress. Her first leading role in the television film Suzy Q (1999) won her the Golden Calf for Best Acting in a Television Drama; two years later, she won the Golden Calf for Best Actress for Miss Minoes (2001). Read more
05 Sep 1975: George Boateng, Dutch footballer and manager George Antwi Boateng is a football manager and former player who is head coach of Belgian club Mons. Read more
05 Sep 1975: Randy Choate, American baseball player Randol Doyle Choate is an American former professional baseball pitcher. The New York Yankees selected him in the 1997 Major League Baseball (MLB) draft from Florida State University. Choate made his MLB debut for the Yankees in 2000, and also pitched for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Tampa Bay Rays, Florida/Miami Marlins, Los Angeles Dodgers, and St. Louis Cardinals. He won the 2000 World Series with the Yankees over the New York Mets. Read more
05 Sep 1975: Rod Barajas, American baseball player and coach Rodrigo Richard Barajas is an American former professional baseball catcher and current quality control coach for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Barajas served as the interim manager for the San Diego Padres after Andy Green's firing on September 21, 2019. As a player in MLB, he played for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Texas Rangers, Philadelphia Phillies, Toronto Blue Jays, New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Pittsburgh Pirates. With the Diamondbacks, he won the 2001 World Series over the then reigning, three-time world champion New York Yankees. Barajas also played for the Mexico national baseball team. Read more
05 Sep 1974: Lauren Jeska, British fell runner convicted of the attempted murder of Ralph Knibbs Lauren Jeska is a British former fell runner from Lancaster. Jeska, was convicted of the attempted murder of Ralph Knibbs, HR manager for UK Athletics. Read more
05 Sep 1974: Ken-Marti Vaher, Estonian politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior Ken-Marti Vaher is a leading member of the Estonian Pro Patria and Res Publica Union party. Read more
05 Sep 1973: Paddy Considine, English actor, director, and screenwriter Patrick George Considine is an English actor, director, screenwriter and musician. He is known for playing antiheroes in independent films. He has received two British Academy Film Awards, three Evening Standard British Film Awards, British Independent Film Awards, and a Silver Lion for Best Short Film at the 2007 Venice Film Festival. Read more
05 Sep 1973: Rose McGowan, American actress Rósa Arianna McGowan is an American actress and activist. After her film debut in a brief role in the comedy Encino Man (1992), she achieved recognition for her performance in the dark comedy The Doom Generation (1995), receiving an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Read more
05 Sep 1972: Guy Whittall, Zimbabwean cricketer Guy James Whittall is a former Zimbabwean international cricketer who played 46 Test matches and 147 One Day Internationals (ODIs) and captained Zimbabwe in four ODIs. He played as an all-rounder and was known as an aggressive middle-order batsman and an effective medium pace bowler.
Whittall escaped from a leopard attack on 25 April 2024 with injuries. Read more
05 Sep 1971: Adam Hollioake, Australian cricketer and mixed martial artist Adam John Hollioake is a former cricketer who represented England and is now a cricket coach. He has also competed as a professional boxer and had one fight as a mixed martial artist. Hollioake is currently head coach at Kent County Cricket Club. Read more
05 Sep 1970: Liam Lynch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, puppeteer, and director William Patrick Niederst, better known as Liam Lynch, is an American filmmaker, singer, musician, songwriter, and puppeteer. Read more
05 Sep 1970: Mohammad Rafique, Bangladeshi cricketer Mohammed Rafique is a Bangladeshi cricket coach and former cricketer. He was the first Bangladeshi bowler to take 100 wickets in both formats, Test matches and ODI matches. Read more
05 Sep 1970: Gilbert Remulla, Filipino journalist and politician Gilbert Cesar Catibayan Remulla is a Filipino journalist and politician who currently serves as member of PAGCOR's board of directors since 2022. He served as the representative of the 2nd district of Cavite from 2001 to 2007. Read more
05 Sep 1970: Johnny Vegas, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Michael Joseph Pennington, known professionally as Johnny Vegas, is an English actor, comedian and writer. He is known for his thick Lancashire accent, husky voice, angry comedic rants and use of surreal humour. Read more
05 Sep 1969: Leonardo Araújo, Brazilian footballer and manager Leonardo Nascimento de Araújo, known as Leonardo Araújo or simply Leonardo, is a Brazilian football executive and former player and manager. In July 2026, he joined the Italian Football Federation as an adviser to technical director Paolo Maldini. Read more
05 Sep 1969: Mariko Kouda, Japanese voice actress, singer, and radio host Mariko Kouda is a Japanese actress, voice actress, J-pop singer and radio personality. She graduated from Kasukabe Kyōei High School and went on to major in Communications at Tamagawa University in Machida City, Tokyo, graduating in 1990. Kouda has had at least one song appear on the program Minna no Uta. Read more
05 Sep 1969: Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer and coach Mark Ravindra Ramprakash is an English former cricketer and cricket coach. Read more
05 Sep 1969: Dweezil Zappa, American actor and musician Dweezil Zappa is an American rock guitarist and occasional actor. He is the son of musical composer and performer Frank Zappa. Exposed to the music industry from an early age, Zappa developed a strong affinity for playing the guitar and producing music. Able to learn directly from guitarists such as Steve Vai and Eddie Van Halen, Zappa released his first single at the age of 12. Read more
05 Sep 1968: Serhiy Kovalets, Ukrainian footballer and manager Serhiy Ivanovych Kovalets is a Ukrainian former footballer who recently is a manager of Metalurh Zaporizhzhia. Read more
05 Sep 1968: Dennis Scott, American basketball player and sportscaster Dennis Eugene Scott Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. A 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) small forward from Georgia Tech, and the 1990 ACC Men's Basketball Player of the Year, Scott was selected by the Orlando Magic with the fourth pick of the 1990 NBA draft after being the leading scorer on a Yellow Jackets team that made the Final Four, and comprising one portion of Georgia Tech's "Lethal Weapon 3" attack featuring Scott, Kenny Anderson and Brian Oliver. Read more
05 Sep 1968: Robin van der Laan, Dutch footballer and coach Robertus Petrus van der Laan is a Dutch former football player and manager. Read more
05 Sep 1968: Brad Wilk, American singer-songwriter and drummer Brad Wilk is an American drummer. He is best known as a member of the rock bands Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, and Prophets of Rage (2016–2019). Read more
05 Sep 1967: Matthias Sammer, German footballer and manager Matthias Sammer is a German football official and former player and coach. He played as a defensive midfielder and later in his career as a sweeper. Read more
05 Sep 1967: Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player Janet Theresa "Jane" Sixsmith is a field hockey player, who was a member of the British squad that won the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She retired from the international scene after scoring over hundred goals and winning 165 caps for England and 158 for Great Britain. Sixsmith was the first British female hockey player to have appeared at four Olympic Games, followed by Kate Richardson-Walsh including the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Jane continues to play National League for Sutton Coldfield Hockey Club. Read more
05 Sep 1966: Achero Mañas, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter Achero Mañas is a Spanish film director and former actor. He made three successful short films before winning recognition and several awards for his feature film debut El Bola. Read more
05 Sep 1966: Milinko Pantić, Serbian footballer and manager Milinko Pantić is a Serbian retired footballer and current manager. Read more
05 Sep 1965: David Brabham, Australian race car driver David Philip Brabham is an Australian racing driver and one of the most successful and experienced specialists in sports car racing. He has won three international Sports Car series and is one of four Australians to have won the Le Mans 24 Hour sports car race, winning the event in 2009. Brabham won the American Le Mans Series in 2009 and 2010. He also competed in Formula One, racing for the Brabham and Simtek teams in 1990 and 1994, respectively. Brabham is the youngest son of three-time Formula One world champion Sir Jack Brabham, brother to Geoff Brabham and Gary Brabham. He is also brother-in-law to Mike Thackwell, father to Sam Brabham and uncle to Matthew Brabham. Read more
05 Sep 1965: Hoshitango Imachi, Japanese wrestler Hoshitango Imachi is an Argentine-born Japanese former professional sumo wrestler and professional wrestler. His highest rank was jūryō 3. Read more
05 Sep 1965: Nick Talbot, English geneticist and academic Nicholas José Talbot FRS FRSB is a British biologist who currently serves as Group Leader and Executive Director at The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich. Read more
05 Sep 1964: Frank Farina, Australian footballer and manager Frank Farina OAM is an Australian soccer coach and former player who played as a forward. Read more
05 Sep 1964: Sergei Loznitsa, Belarusian-Ukrainian director and screenwriter Sergei Vladimirovich Loznitsa or Serhii Volodymyrovych Loznytsia, is a Ukrainian filmmaker of Belarusian origin. He is most known for his archival footage documentaries about Soviet Union history, and for his slow cinema dramatic films. Read more
05 Sep 1964: Ken Norman, American basketball player Kenneth Darnel Norman is an American former professional basketball player. After graduating from Crane High School in Chicago, Kenny was an outstanding forward for the Illinois Fighting Illini who was selected 19th overall by the Los Angeles Clippers of the 1987 NBA draft. Norman was elected to the "Illinois Men's Basketball All-Century Team" in 2004. He earned the nickname, "Snake", that he kept throughout his college and professional careers, as a youth playing basketball at Touhy-Herbert Park, on Chicago's West Side. Read more
05 Sep 1964: Thomas Mikal Ford, American actor (died 2016) Thomas Mikal Ford was an American actor and comedian. He was best known for his role as Thomas "Tommy" Strawn in the sitcom Martin, which originally aired from 1992 until 1997. He also had a recurring role as Mel Parker in the sitcom The Parkers from 1999 until 2001. He also was known for his role as Lt. Malcolm Barker on New York Undercover. Read more
05 Sep 1963: Juan Alderete, American bass player and songwriter Juan Alderete de la Peña is an American bass guitarist. He is best known as the longtime bassist of both Racer X and the Mars Volta, and for his tenures touring and collaborating with Deltron 3030, Dr. Octagon and Marilyn Manson amongst others. Read more
05 Sep 1963: Kristian Alfonso, American actress and model Kristian-Joy Alfonso is an American actress and fashion model. She is best known for playing the role of Hope Williams Brady on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives. She was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in 1985 for her role on Days. Alfonso also played Pilar Ortega on Falcon Crest and Lauren Ethridge on Melrose Place. Read more
05 Sep 1963: Jeff Brantley, American baseball player and sportscaster Jeffrey Hoke Brantley is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 14 seasons, from 1988 to 2001. Brantley, whose nickname is Cowboy, was hired in 2006 as a broadcaster for one of his former teams, the Cincinnati Reds. Read more
05 Sep 1963: Terry Ellis, American R&B singer–songwriter and actress Terry Lynn Ellis is an American singer. She is best known as a founding member of the R&B/pop vocal group En Vogue, formed in 1989. Read more
05 Sep 1963: Taki Inoue, Japanese race car driver and manager Takachiho "Taki" Inoue is a Japanese former racing driver. He competed in Formula One from 1994 to 1995, driving for Simtek and Footwork Arrows. Read more
05 Sep 1962: Tracy Edwards, English sailor and coach Tracy Edwards, MBE is a British sailor. In 1989 she skippered the first all-female crew in the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race in Maiden, becoming the first woman to receive the Yachtsman of the Year Trophy and was appointed MBE. She has written two books about her experiences. Read more
05 Sep 1962: John McGrath, Welsh businessman John Edward McGrath is the British artistic director and chief executive of Aviva Studios, home of Factory International. Read more
05 Sep 1961: Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian pianist and composer Marc-André Hamelin, OC, OQ is a Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer who has received 11 Grammy Award nominations. He is on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music. Read more
05 Sep 1960: Willie Gault, American football player, athlete, and actor Willie James Gault is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons with the Chicago Bears and Los Angeles Raiders. Considered one of the fastest NFL players of all time, Gault was a member of the Bears team that won Super Bowl XX. He was also a member of the U.S. Olympic team that boycotted the 1980 Olympics. Read more
05 Sep 1960: Don Kulick, Swedish anthropologist and academic Don Kulick is an American anthropologist and linguist. He is a professor in anthropology at the University of Hong Kong. Kulick works within the frameworks of both cultural and linguistic anthropology, and has carried out field work in Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Italy and Sweden. Kulick is also known for his extensive fieldwork on the Tayap people and their language in Gapun village of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Read more
05 Sep 1960: Candy Maldonado, Puerto Rican baseball player Cándido Maldonado Guadarrama is a Puerto Rican former Major League Baseball outfielder who played from 1981 to 1995 for the Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants, Cleveland Indians, Milwaukee Brewers, Toronto Blue Jays, Chicago Cubs, and Texas Rangers. Chris Berman, a fellow ESPN analyst, nicknamed him, "the Candyman". Maldonado holds the distinction of having struck the first game-winning hit outside the United States in World Series play, and was the only Giant to hit a triple in the 1989 World Series. Read more
05 Sep 1959: Frank Schirrmacher, German journalist and publisher (died 2014) Frank Schirrmacher was a German journalist, literature expert and essayist, writer, and from 1994 co-publisher of the national German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Read more
05 Sep 1958: Lars Danielsson, Swedish bassist, composer, and producer Lars Danielsson is a Swedish jazz bassist, composer, and record producer. Read more
05 Sep 1958: Don Maloney, Canadian ice hockey player and executive Donald Michael Maloney is a Canadian ice hockey executive and former player, currently serving as President of Hockey Operations of the Calgary Flames. He was formerly the general manager of the New York Islanders and Phoenix/Arizona Coyotes. He played for the New York Rangers for parts of eleven seasons. In addition, he played with his brother Dave Maloney while with the Rangers. Read more
05 Sep 1957: Rudi Gores, German footballer and manager Rudi Gores is a German former professional football player and coach. Read more
05 Sep 1957: Peter Winnen, Dutch cyclist Peter Johannes Gertrudis Winnen is a Dutch former road racing cyclist. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in road racing and finished in 26th place. After the Games he turned professional in 1981. Among his 14 victories were two stages at Alpe d'Huez in the Tour de France and a national championship. He came third in the Tour de France in 1983. Read more
05 Sep 1956: Low Thia Khiang, Singaporean businessman and politician Low Thia Khiang is a Singaporean former politician who has served as the secretary-general of the Workers' Party (WP) between 2001 and 2018 and the de facto leader of the opposition between 2006 and 2018. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hougang Single Member Constituency (SMC) from 1991 to 2011, he was succeeded by Yaw Shin Leong and the Bedok Reservoir–Punggol division of Aljunied Group Representation Constituency (GRC) from 2011 to 2020, he was succeeded by Gerald Giam. Read more
05 Sep 1956: Roine Stolt, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Roine Stolt is a Swedish guitarist, vocalist and composer. A major figure in Sweden's rock history, Stolt led two of his country's most successful progressive rock bands: Kaipa in the 1970s and The Flower Kings in the 1990s onward. In the same vein as frequent collaborator Steven Wilson, Stolt has regularly collaborated with other progressive rock musicians; he has made a guest appearance on several modern progressive rock albums, and multiple progressive rock supergroups include him as a member. Read more
05 Sep 1956: Debbie Turner, American actress Debra Turner is an American actress who played the role of Marta von Trapp in the film The Sound of Music. Read more
05 Sep 1955: Stan Jonathan, Canadian ice hockey player Stanley Carl "Bulldog" Jonathan is a Haudenosaunee former professional ice hockey left winger. He is best known for playing for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL), for whom he played for parts of eight seasons, and featured in two Stanley Cup Finals. He finished his career with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1982-83. Read more
05 Sep 1954: Richard Austin, Jamaican footballer and cricketer (died 2015) Richard Arkwright Austin was an international cricketer from Jamaica, who played two Tests and one One Day International for the West Indies. Read more
05 Sep 1954: Frederick Kempe, American journalist and author Frederick Kempe is president and chief executive officer of the Atlantic Council, a foreign policy think tank and public policy group based in Washington, D.C. He is a journalist, author, columnist and a regular commentator on television and radio both in Europe and the United States. His book BERLIN 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth (Putnam) was released May 10, 2011, and was a New York Times bestseller. Read more
05 Sep 1953: Victor Davis Hanson, American historian and journalist Victor Davis Hanson is an American classicist, military historian, and conservative political commentator. He has been a commentator on modern and ancient warfare and contemporary politics for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the National Review and the Washington Times. Read more
05 Sep 1953: Murray Mexted, New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster Murray Graham Mexted is a former New Zealand rugby union player who played 34 consecutive tests for the All Blacks from 1979 to 1985. He also played 38 non-test games including 7 as captain. During his time with the All Blacks, he wore the number eight jersey and was considered an excellent ball winner and an effective defender. Read more
05 Sep 1953: Eiki Nestor, Estonian engineer and politician, Estonian Minister of Social Affairs Eiki Nestor is an Estonian politician, member of the Social Democratic Party. He was the leader of the party from 1994 to 1996. Nestor has been a member of the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th Parliament of Estonia, being a Minister without Portfolio in charge of regional affairs from 1994 to 1995 and a Minister of Social Affairs from 1999 to 2002. He was elected Speaker of the Riigikogu in March 2014 and served until April 2019. Read more
05 Sep 1953: Paul Piché, Canadian singer-songwriter Paul Piché is a Canadian singer-songwriter, environmentalist and political activist Read more
05 Sep 1952: David Glen Eisley, American rock singer-songwriter and actor David Glen Eisley is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actor. Read more
05 Sep 1951: Paul Breitner, German footballer Paul Breitner is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder and left-back. Considered one of the best full-backs and midfielders of all time, and one of the best players of his era, Breitner was named in the FIFA World Cup All-Time Team. In 2004 he was named one of the Top 125 greatest living footballers as part of FIFA's 100th anniversary celebration. Read more
05 Sep 1951: Michael Keaton, American actor and producer Michael John Douglas, known professionally as Michael Keaton, is an American actor. His accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. In 2016, Keaton received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was named Officer of Order of Arts and Letters in France. Read more
05 Sep 1951: Jamie Oldaker, American drummer and percussionist (died 2020) James Oldaker was an American rock music, blues rock and country music drummer and percussionist. Read more
05 Sep 1950: Rosie Cooper, English businesswoman and politician Rosemary Elizabeth Cooper is a British health official and former politician. Cooper was a Liberal and later Liberal Democrat member of the Liverpool City Council from 1973 until 1999, when she joined the Labour Party. After leaving the council the following year, she was the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for West Lancashire from 2005 until her resignation in 2022, when she was named chair of the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. In 2018, she was the target of a plot to murder her involving Jack Renshaw. Read more
05 Sep 1950: Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist, created Cathy Cathy Lee Guisewite is an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Cathy, which had a 34-year run. The strip focused on a career woman facing the issues and challenges of eating, work, relationships, and having a mother—or as the character put it in one strip, "the four basic guilt groups." Read more
05 Sep 1949: Clem Clempson, English guitarist and songwriter David "Clem" Clempson is an English rock guitarist who has played in a number of bands, including Colosseum and Humble Pie. Read more
05 Sep 1948: Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian lawyer, politician, and diplomat, Foreign Minister of Austria Benita Ferrero-Waldner is an Austrian diplomat and politician, and a member of the conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). Ferrero-Waldner served as Foreign Minister of Austria 2000–2004 and was the candidate of the Austrian People's Party in the 2004 Austrian presidential election, which she narrowly lost with 47.6% of the votes. She served as the European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy from 2004 to 2009, and as the European Commissioner for Trade and European Neighbourhood Policy from 2009 to 2010. Read more
05 Sep 1947: Mel Collins, Manx saxophonist and flute player Melvyn Desmond Collins is a British saxophonist, flautist and session musician. Read more
05 Sep 1947: Chip Davis, American pianist, songwriter, and producer Louis F. "Chip" Davis Jr. is the founder and leader of the music group Mannheim Steamroller. Davis composed the music for several C. W. McCall albums, including the hit 1975 song "Convoy". He has also written and made other albums, such as Day Parts, and has written several books. Read more
05 Sep 1947: Buddy Miles, American singer-songwriter and drummer (died 2008) George Allen "Buddy" Miles Jr. was an American composer, drummer, guitarist, vocalist and producer. He was a founding member of the Electric Flag (1967), a member of Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys (1969–1970), founder and leader of the Buddy Miles Express and later, the Buddy Miles Band. Miles also played and recorded with Carlos Santana, John McLaughlin, and others. He also sang lead vocals on the California Raisins claymation TV commercials and recorded two California Raisins R&B albums. Read more
05 Sep 1947: Bruce Yardley, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (died 2019) Bruce Yardley was an Australian cricketer who played in 33 Test matches and seven One Day Internationals between 1978 and 1983, taking 126 Test wickets. Read more
05 Sep 1946: Kyongae Chang, South Korean astrophysicist and academic Kyongae Chang is a South Korean astrophysicist. She is best known for her work on gravitational lensing, including the Chang-Refsdal lens. Read more
05 Sep 1946: Dennis Dugan, American actor and director Dennis Dugan is an American film director, actor, and comedian. He is known for directing the films Problem Child, Brain Donors, Beverly Hills Ninja and National Security, and his partnership with comedic actor Adam Sandler, for whom he directed the films Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, The Benchwarmers, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Grown Ups, Just Go with It, Jack and Jill and Grown Ups 2. Dugan is a four-time Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director nominee, winning once. Read more
05 Sep 1946: Dean Ford, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2018) Dean Ford was a Scottish singer and songwriter best known for his tenure as lead vocalist and frontman of the beat pop group Marmalade from 1966 to 1974. Ford co-wrote the group's worldwide hit "Reflections of My Life" with fellow band member Junior Campbell. "Reflections of My Life" has sold more than two million units globally, and in 1998 the writers were awarded a Special Citation of Achievement by BMI for attaining radio broadcast performances in excess of one million in the U.S. alone. Read more
05 Sep 1946: Freddie Mercury, British singer and songwriter (died 1991) Freddie Mercury was a British singer, songwriter and pianist who achieved global fame as the lead vocalist and pianist of the rock band Queen, which he co-founded with guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor. Regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of popular music, he is known for his flamboyant stage persona and four-octave vocal range. Mercury defied the conventions of a rock frontman with his theatrical style, influencing the artistic direction of Queen. Read more
05 Sep 1946: Loudon Wainwright III, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor Loudon Snowden Wainwright III is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actor. He has released twenty-six studio albums, four live albums, and six compilations. Some of his best-known songs include "The Swimming Song", "Motel Blues", "The Man Who Couldn't Cry", "Dead Skunk", and "Lullaby". In 2007, he collaborated with musician Joe Henry to create the soundtrack for Judd Apatow's film Knocked Up. In addition to music, he has acted in small roles in at least eighteen television programs and feature films, including three episodes in the third season of the series M*A*S*H. Read more
05 Sep 1945: Eva Bergman, Swedish director and screenwriter Eva Bergman is a Swedish film, theatre and television director who worked at Dramaten. She is the daughter of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, and was married to crime writer Henning Mankell from 1998 until his death in 2015. Read more
05 Sep 1945: Al Stewart, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist Alastair Ian Stewart is a British singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician who rose to prominence as part of the British folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s. He developed a style of combining folk-rock songs with tales of characters and events from history. Read more
05 Sep 1944: Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, author, and playwright (died 1996) Dario Bellezza was an Italian poet, author and playwright. He won the Viareggio, Gatto, and Montale prizes. Read more
05 Sep 1944: Gareth Evans, Australian lawyer and politician, 33rd Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Gareth John Evans is an Australian politician, international policymaker, academic, and barrister. He represented the Labor Party in the Senate and House of Representatives from 1978 to 1999, serving as a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating governments from 1983 to 1996 as Attorney-General, Minister for Resources and Energy, Minister for Transport and Communications and most prominently, from 1988 to 1996, as Minister for Foreign Affairs. He was Leader of the Government in the Senate from 1993 to 1996, Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 1996 to 1998, and remains one of the two longest-serving federal Cabinet Ministers in Labor Party history. Read more
05 Sep 1943: Dulce Saguisag, Filipino social worker and politician, 10th Filipino Secretary of Social Welfare and Development (died 2007) Dulce Maramba Quintans-Saguisag was a Filipino politician and former Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development under the administration of former President Joseph Estrada. Saguisag was one of Estrada's eleven cabinet members who withdrew support for Estrada on January 19, 2001, following accusations of massive corruption by the president. Estrada was ousted from office the next day, which is now known in the Philippines as EDSA II. Read more
05 Sep 1942: Werner Herzog, German actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Werner Herzog is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, author and documentarian. Regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema, his films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unusual talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. His film-making process involves avoiding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing his cast and crew into real situations mirroring those in the film on which they are working. He has received numerous accolades including a Silver Bear Award, four Awards at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award. Read more
05 Sep 1942: Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (died 1995) Eduardo Mata was a Mexican conductor and composer. Read more
05 Sep 1941: Dave Dryden, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2022) David Murray Dryden was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender, who created and first used the modern goaltending mask, consisting of fibreglass and a cage. From 1962 to 1980, he played nine seasons in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers, Chicago Black Hawks, Buffalo Sabres, and Edmonton Oilers, and in the World Hockey Association between 1974 and 1979 with the Chicago Cougars and Edmonton Oilers. In the 1978–79 season, at the age of 37, Dryden led the Oilers to the best record in WHA with 41 wins and became the first player in franchise history to win a league Most Valuable Player award. He was the only goaltender to win the WHA's MVP award. When the team made the NHL the following year, he played 14 games to close out his career. Read more
05 Sep 1940: Valerie Howarth, Baroness Howarth of Breckland, English politician Valerie Georgina Howarth, Baroness Howarth of Breckland, was a British social worker, first chief executive of Childline, child and adult welfare advocate and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. Read more
05 Sep 1940: Raquel Welch, American actress and singer (died 2023) Jo Raquel Welch was an American actress. Welch first gained attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966), after which she signed a long-term contract with 20th Century Fox. They lent her contract to the British studio Hammer Film Productions, for whom she made One Million Years B.C. (1966). Although Welch had only three lines of dialogue in the film, images of her in a doe-skin bikini became bestselling posters that turned her into an international sex symbol. She later starred in Bedazzled (1967), Bandolero! (1968), 100 Rifles (1969), Myra Breckinridge (1970), Hannie Caulder (1971), Kansas City Bomber (1972), The Last of Sheila (1973), The Three Musketeers (1973), The Wild Party (1975), and Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976). She made several television variety specials. Read more
05 Sep 1939: Claudette Colvin, American nurse and activist (died 2026) Claudette Colvin was an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. It occurred nine months before the similar, more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, secretary of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott. Read more
05 Sep 1939: William Devane, American actor, director, and screenwriter William Joseph Devane is an American actor. He is known for his role as Greg Sumner on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing (1983–1993) and as James Heller on the Fox serial dramas 24 (2005–2007) and 24: Live Another Day (2014). He is also known for his work in films such as Family Plot (1976), Marathon Man (1976), Rolling Thunder (1977), Payback (1999), and Space Cowboys (2000). Read more
05 Sep 1939: George Lazenby, Australian actor, the second to play James Bond George Robert Lazenby is a retired Australian actor. He began his professional career as a model and an actor in commercials. He had no film acting experience when he was cast as the fictional British spy James Bond for the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). Lazenby replaced the original Bond actor, Sean Connery, but declined to return for subsequent films in the series, instead pursuing roles in Universal Soldier (1971), Who Saw Her Die? (1972), The Shrine of Ultimate Bliss (1974), and The Man from Hong Kong (1975). Read more
05 Sep 1939: John Stewart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2008) John Coburn Stewart was an American songwriter and singer. He is known for his contributions to the American folk music movement of the 1960s while with the Kingston Trio (1961–1967) and as a popular music songwriter of songs performed by the Monkees, as well as his own No. 5 hit "Gold" during a solo career spanning 40 years that included almost four dozen albums and more than 600 recorded songs. Read more
05 Sep 1939: George Tremlett, English journalist, author, and politician (died 2021) George William Tremlett was an English author, bookshop owner, and politician. Read more
05 Sep 1938: John Ferguson, Sr., Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 2007) John Bowie "Fergy" Ferguson Sr. was a professional ice hockey player and executive. Ferguson played left wing for the Montreal Canadiens from 1963 to 1971. After retiring from active play, he became a coach, and later a general manager. He is the father of John Ferguson Jr. Read more
05 Sep 1938: Doreen Massey, Baroness Massey of Darwen, English politician (died 2024) Doreen Elizabeth Massey, Baroness Massey of Darwen, was a British life peer and a Labour member of the House of Lords. Read more
05 Sep 1937: Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Argentine footballer and manager (died 2018) Antonio Valentín Angelillo was an Italian Argentine football forward who played the majority of his professional career in the Italian Serie A; he was a member of both the Argentine and the Italy national teams. Read more
05 Sep 1937: Dick Clement, English director, producer, and screenwriter Dick Clement is an English writer, director and producer. He became known for his writing partnership with Ian La Frenais for television series including The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Porridge, Lovejoy and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. Read more
05 Sep 1936: Robert Burns, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 2014) Robert Burns was a Canadian politician, attorney and union activist from Quebec, Canada. Read more
05 Sep 1936: John Danforth, American politician and diplomat, 24th United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Claggett Danforth is an American politician, attorney, diplomat, and Episcopal priest who served as the attorney general of Missouri from 1969 to 1976 and as a United States senator from 1976 to 1995. A member of the Republican Party, he later served as special counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice from 1999 to 2000 and as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2004 to 2005. Read more
05 Sep 1936: Jonathan Kozol, American sociologist, author, and educator Jonathan Kozol is an American writer, progressive activist, and educator, best known for his books on public education in the United States. Read more
05 Sep 1936: Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player and coach (died 2026) William Stanley Mazeroski, nicknamed "Maz" and "the Glove", was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played his entire career for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1956 to 1972. A ten-time All-Star known during his career primarily for his spectacular defensive play, he came to be known best for one of the most memorable home runs in baseball history, a dramatic ninth-inning drive in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series that beat the favored New York Yankees. It was the first time that the major league season ended with a home run, and remains the only walk-off home run to clinch a World Series championship in Game 7. ESPN ranked the World Series winner at the top of its list of the 100 Greatest Home Runs of All Time, while Sports Illustrated had it eighth in its compilation of the 100 Greatest Moments in Sports History. Mazeroski received the Babe Ruth Award for his play in the Series, during which he batted .320. Read more
05 Sep 1936: Knuts Skujenieks, Latvian poet, journalist, and translator (died 2022) Knuts Skujenieks was a Latvian poet, journalist, and translator from fifteen European languages. Read more
05 Sep 1935: Werner Erhard, American author and philanthropist, founded Werner Erhard and Associates and The Hunger Project Werner Hans Erhard is an American author and lecturer who founded Erhard Seminars Training (est), a course of personal and social transformation, which was offered from 1971 to 1984. In 1985, Erhard replaced est with a newly designed and updated program called the Forum. Since 1991, the Forum has been kept up to date and offered by Landmark Education. Read more
05 Sep 1935: Helen Gifford, Australian composer and educator Helen Margaret Gifford OAM is an Australian composer. On Australia Day 1996 she was appointed to the Medal of the Order of Australia, "in recognition of service to music as a composer". At the APRA Music Awards of 2016 she won the category "Distinguished Services to Australian Music". Read more
05 Sep 1935: Lucille Soong, Chinese-American actress Lucille Soong is a Chinese-American actress. In the 1960s she occasionally worked under the stage name Soong Ling. She is best known for her role as Jenny Huang in the television series Fresh Off the Boat (2015–2020). She has appeared in films and television shows since 1959, and is the author of the autobiography Wild Orchid: From Beijing to La-La Land. Read more
05 Sep 1934: Paul Josef Cordes, German cardinal (died 2024) Paul Josef Cordes was a German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum (1995–2010) and was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 2007. Read more
05 Sep 1934: Dennis Letts, American actor and educator (died 2008) Dennis Letts was an American college professor, and later, in a second career, an actor. As the latter, he originated the critically successful role of Beverly Weston in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of the Tony-winning play August: Osage County in the summer of 2007, the writing of which had earned his son, Tracy Letts, a Pulitzer Prize. Read more
05 Sep 1934: Kevin McNamara, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (died 2017) Joseph Kevin McNamara was a British Labour politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for almost 40 years. Read more
05 Sep 1933: Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Chilean cardinal Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa is a Chilean prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Santiago from 1998 to 2010. He has been a cardinal since 2001 and was a member of Pope Francis' Council of Cardinal Advisers from its creation in 2013 until his departure in 2018. Read more
05 Sep 1932: Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer Carol Lawrence is an American actress, appearing in musical theatre and on television. She is known for creating the role of Maria on Broadway in the musical West Side Story (1957), receiving a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She appeared at The Muny, St. Louis, in several musicals, including Funny Girl. She also appeared in many television dramas, including Rawhide, The Six Million Dollar Man and Murder, She Wrote. She was married to fellow performer Robert Goulet. Read more
05 Sep 1932: Robert H. Dennard, American electrical engineer and inventor (died 2024) Robert Heath Dennard was an American electrical engineer and inventor. Read more
05 Sep 1929: Bob Newhart, American comedian and actor (died 2024) George Robert Newhart was an American comedian and actor. Newhart was known for his deadpan and stammering delivery style. Beginning his career as a stand-up comedian, he transitioned his career to acting in television. He received three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Peabody Award, a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Read more
05 Sep 1929: Andriyan Nikolayev, Russian general, pilot, and cosmonaut (died 2004) Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev was a Soviet cosmonaut. In 1962, aboard Vostok 3, he became the third Soviet cosmonaut to fly into space. Nikolayev was an ethnic Chuvash and because of it is considered the first Turkic cosmonaut. Read more
05 Sep 1928: Joyce Hatto, English pianist and educator (died 2006) Joyce Hilda Hatto was an English concert pianist and piano teacher. In 1956 she married William Barrington-Coupe, a record producer who was convicted of Purchase Tax evasion in 1966. Hatto became famous very late in life when unauthorised copies of commercial recordings made by other pianists were released under her name, resulting in high praise from critics. The fraud did not come to light until 2007, more than six months after her death. Read more
05 Sep 1928: Albert Mangelsdorff, German trombonist and educator (died 2005) Albert Mangelsdorff was a German jazz trombonist. Working mainly in free jazz, he was an innovator in multiphonics. Read more
05 Sep 1927: Paul Volcker, American economist and academic (died 2019) Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. was an American economist who served as the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. During his tenure as chairman, Volcker was widely credited with having ended the high levels of inflation seen in the United States throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, with measures known as the "Volcker shock". He previously served as the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1975 to 1979. Read more
05 Sep 1926: Carmen Petra Basacopol, Romanian composer, pianist and musicologist (died 2023) Carmen Petra Basacopol was a Romanian composer, pianist, musicologist and academic teacher. She taught at the National University of Music Bucharest, between 1962 and 2003, and at the Rabat Conservatoire in Morocco in the 1970s. As a musicologist, she achieved a PhD from the Sorbonne University in Paris in 1976, with a dissertation about three Romanian composers who had influenced her, George Enescu, Mihail Jora and Paul Constantinescu, composers representing essential features of Romanian music. Read more
05 Sep 1925: Justin Kaplan, American author (died 2014) Justin Daniel Kaplan was an American writer and editor. The general editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, he was best known as a biographer, particularly of Samuel Clemens, Lincoln Steffens, and Walt Whitman. He won the National Book Award in Arts and Letters and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain. Read more
05 Sep 1924: Paul Dietzel, American football player and coach (died 2013) Paul Franklin Dietzel was an American college football player, coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head coach at Louisiana State University (1955–1961), the United States Military Academy (1962–1965), and the University of South Carolina (1966–1974), compiling a career head coaching record of 109–95–5. Dietzel's 1958 LSU team concluded an 11–0 season with a win over Clemson in the Sugar Bowl and was a consensus national champion. For his efforts that year, Dietzel was named the National Coach of the Year by both the American Football Coaches Association and the Football Writers Association of America. Dietzel also served as the athletic director at South Carolina (1966–1974), Indiana University Bloomington (1977–1978), LSU (1978–1982), and Samford University (1985–1987). Read more
05 Sep 1924: Frank Armitage, Australian-American artist (died 2016) Frank Armitage was an Australian-born American painter and muralist, known for painting the backgrounds of several classic animated Disney films, designing areas of and painting murals for Walt Disney World and Tokyo DisneySea, and his biomedical visualization artwork. Read more
05 Sep 1923: David Hamer, Australian captain and politician (died 2002) David John Hamer was an Australian politician and Royal Australian Navy officer. Read more
05 Sep 1923: Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer (died 2004) Kenneth Douglas Meuleman was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test match in 1946. His cricket career started in Victoria, but after moving to Perth, Western Australia, he established himself as an important member of the State Sheffield Shield team between 1945/46 and 1960/61. He captained the side for a number of seasons. Read more
05 Sep 1922: Denys Wilkinson, English physicist and academic (died 2016) Sir Denys Haigh Wilkinson FRS was a British nuclear physicist. Read more
05 Sep 1921: Murray Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2013) John Murray "Moe" Henderson was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 405 games in the National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins between 1945 and 1952. Read more
05 Sep 1921: Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (died 2007) Jack Joseph Valenti was an American political advisor and lobbyist who served as a Special Assistant to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was also the longtime president of the Motion Picture Association of America. During his 38-year tenure in the MPAA, he created the MPAA film rating system, and was generally regarded as one of the most influential pro-copyright lobbyists in the world. Read more
05 Sep 1920: Peter Racine Fricker, English-American composer and educator (died 1990) Peter Racine Fricker was an English composer, among the first to establish his career entirely after the Second World War. He lived in the US for the last thirty years of his life. Fricker wrote over 160 works in all the main genres excepting opera. He was a descendant of the French playwright Racine. Read more
05 Sep 1920: Fons Rademakers, Dutch-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2007) Alphonse Marie "Fons" Rademakers was a Dutch actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. Read more
05 Sep 1919: Elisabeth Volkenrath, German SS officer and executed war criminal (died 1945) Elisabeth Volkenrath was a German supervisor at several Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Read more
05 Sep 1918: Luis Alcoriza, Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1992) Luis Alcoriza de la Vega was a Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor. Read more
05 Sep 1918: Bob Katter, Sr., Australian captain and politician (died 1990) Robert Cummin Katter was an Australian politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1966 to 1990, representing the National Party. He served as Minister for the Army in the McMahon government in 1972. His sons Bob Katter Jr. and Carl Katter as well as grandson Robbie have also been involved in politics. Read more
05 Sep 1918: Fred McCarthy, American cartoonist and monk (died 2009) Frederick Francis "Fred" McCarthy, O.F.S., was an American Franciscan cartoonist, creator of the popular Brother Juniper single-panel comic strip. Read more
05 Sep 1917: Pedro E. Guerrero, American photographer (died 2012) Pedro E. Guerrero was an American photographer known for his extraordinary access to Frank Lloyd Wright. He was a sought-after architectural photographer in the 1950s. In a career shift that was part serendipity and part the result of being blacklisted by the major shelter magazines for his stance against the Vietnam War, he later concentrated on documenting the work and lives of the American artists Alexander Calder and Louise Nevelson. Read more
05 Sep 1917: Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racer and trainer (died 2008) Ernst Sören Nordin was a Swedish harness racing driver and trainer who later started a stable in America. Nordin won 3,221 races in 10 different countries as a driver, he won the Swedish Trotting Derby 11 times – still a record. In 1950, Nordin won the Prix d'Amérique, and in 1953 the Elitloppet. 21 times, Nordin was the champion driver at Solvalla racetrack in Stockholm, Sweden's premier track. Read more
05 Sep 1916: Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian, actor, and screenwriter (died 2002) Frank Shuster, was a Canadian comedian best known as a member of the comedy duo Wayne and Shuster, alongside Johnny Wayne. Wayne played to Shuster's straight man. Read more
05 Sep 1916: Frank Yerby, American novelist (died 1991) Frank Garvin Yerby was an American writer, best known for his 1946 historical novel The Foxes of Harrow. Read more
05 Sep 1914: Stuart Freeborn, English make up artist (died 2013) Stuart Freeborn was a British motion picture make-up artist. He has been referred to as the "grandfather of modern make-up design" and is perhaps best known for his work on the original Star Wars trilogy, most notably the design and fabrication of Yoda. Read more
05 Sep 1914: Gail Kubik, American violinist, composer, and educator (died 1984) Gail Thompson Kubik was an American composer, music director, violinist, and teacher. Read more
05 Sep 1914: Nicanor Parra, Chilean physicist, mathematician, and poet (died 2018) Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval was a Chilean physicist and poet. He has been considered one of the most influential Spanish-language Chilean poets of the 20th century. Read more
05 Sep 1912: John Cage, American composer and theorist (died 1992) John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, artist, and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was also instrumental in the development of modern dance, mostly through his association with choreographer Merce Cunningham, who was also Cage's romantic partner for most of their lives. Read more
05 Sep 1912: Kristina Söderbaum, Swedish-German actress and photographer (died 2001) Beata Margareta Kristina Söderbaum was a Swedish-German film actress, film producer, and photographer. She performed in Nazi-era films made by a German state-controlled production company, several of them directed by her husband Veit Harlan. Read more
05 Sep 1912: Frank Thomas, American voice actor, animator, and screenwriter (died 2004) Franklin Rosborough Thomas was an American animator and pianist. He was one of Walt Disney's leading team of animators known as the Nine Old Men. Read more
05 Sep 1910: Leila Mackinlay, English author (died 1996) Leila Antoinette Sterling Mackinlay was a British writer of romance novels from 1930 to 1979 as Leila S. Mackinlay or Leila Mackinlay and also under the pseudonym Brenda Grey. Some of her novels are based on real people like Madame Vestris, Lola Montez or Jane Elizabeth Digby; she also wrote Musical Productions, a musical book. She was the daughter of the musician and writer Malcolm Sterling Mackinlay and granddaughter of the vocalist Antoinette Sterling. Read more
05 Sep 1910: Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer (died 1981) Phiroze Edulji Palia was an early Indian cricketer. His first name is sometimes written as other orthographic variations including Phiroz. Palia represented India in his first ever Test match at Lord's in 1932. He suffered an injury while fielding. In the second innings he was hardly in a position to walk, but batted as the last man. He again toured England in 1936 and played at Lord's. Read more
05 Sep 1909: Hans Carste, German pianist and conductor (died 1971) Hans Friedrich August Carste was a German composer and conductor. He arrived in Berlin in 1931 after working in Vienna and Breslau. He composed film music and as well as songs for the stage. Electrola offered him and his orchestra an exclusive recording contract and he recorded many high quality sides for them. Hans Carste joined the NSDAP in 1933. Read more
05 Sep 1909: Bernard Delfont, Russian-English talent manager (died 1994) Bernard Delfont, Baron Delfont was a Russian-born British theatrical impresario and media proprietor. He was the brother of fellow impresarios Lew and Leslie Grade, and was a prominent figure in British entertainment during the 20th-century. Read more
05 Sep 1909: Archie Jackson, Scottish-Australian cricketer (died 1933) Archibald Jackson, occasionally known as Archibald Alexander Jackson, was an Australian international cricketer who played eight Test matches as a specialist batsman between 1929 and 1931. A teenage prodigy, he played first grade cricket at only 15 years of age and was selected for New South Wales at 17. In 1929, aged 19, Jackson made his Test debut against England, scoring 164 runs in the first innings to become the youngest player to score a Test century. Read more
05 Sep 1908: Josué de Castro, Brazilian physician, geographer, and activist (died 1973) Josué de Castro, born Josué Apolônio de Castro, was a Brazilian physician, nutritionist, geographer, writer, public administrator, and activist against world hunger. Read more
05 Sep 1908: Joaquín Nin-Culmell, German-American pianist and composer (died 2004) Joaquín María Nin-Culmell was a Cuban-Spanish composer, internationally known concert pianist, and emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. Read more
05 Sep 1908: Cecilia Seghizzi, Italian composer and painter (died 2019) Cecilia Seghizzi was an Italian composer, painter, teacher and supercentenarian. Read more
05 Sep 1908: Renzo Rivolta, Italian engineer (died 1966) Renzo Rivolta was an Italian engineer and entrepreneur who founded the Iso vehicle company that produced appliances, scooters and later sports cars. Read more
05 Sep 1906: Ralston Crawford, American painter, lithographer, and photographer (died 1978) Ralston Crawford (1906–1978) was a Canadian-born American painter, lithographer, photographer, and teacher. He is best known for his abstract representations of urban life and industry. He taught at the Cincinnati Art Academy for many years. Read more
05 Sep 1906: Sunnyland Slim, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1995) Albert Luandrew, known as Sunnyland Slim, was an American blues pianist born in the Mississippi Delta and moved to Chicago, helping to make that city a center of postwar blues. Read more
05 Sep 1905: Maurice Challe, French general (died 1979) Maurice Challe was a French general during the Algerian War, one of four generals who took part in the Algiers putsch. Read more
05 Sep 1905: Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-English journalist and author (died 1983) Arthur Koestler was an Austro-Hungarian-born author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest, and was educated in Austria, apart from his early school years. In 1931, Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany but resigned in 1938 after becoming disillusioned with Stalinism. Read more
05 Sep 1905: Justiniano Montano, Filipino lawyer and politician (died 2005) Justiniano Solis Montano Sr. was a Filipino lawyer and politician who was elected for one term to the Philippine Senate and for multiple terms as a member of the House of Representatives. Read more
05 Sep 1904: Vera Bradford, Australian pianist and educator (died 2004) Vera Florence Bradford was an Australian classical pianist and teacher, with a very long career. Her playing was admired for its depth and beauty of tone, classical unity and tremendous power. Read more
05 Sep 1902: Jean Dalrymple, American playwright, producer, manager, and publicist (died 1998) Jean Van Kirk Dalrymple was an American theater producer, manager, publicist, and playwright. She was instrumental in the founding of New York City Center, and is best known for her productions there. Read more
05 Sep 1902: Darryl F. Zanuck, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1979) Darryl Francis Zanuck was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era. Best known as a co-founder of 20th Century Fox, he played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors. Zanuck produced three films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture and won the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award three times, the only person to receive more than one. Read more
05 Sep 1901: Florence Eldridge, American actress (died 1988) Florence Eldridge was an American actress. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play in 1957 for her performance in Long Day's Journey into Night. Read more
05 Sep 1901: Mario Scelba, Italian politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Italy (died 1991) Mario Scelba was an Italian politician and statesman who was the 33rd prime minister of Italy from February 1954 to July 1955. A founder of Christian Democracy (DC), Scelba was one of the longest-serving Minister of the Interior in the history of the republic, having served at the Viminale Palace in three distinct terms from 1947 to 1962. Read more
05 Sep 1899: Humphrey Cobb, American author and screenwriter (died 1944) Humphrey Cobb was an Italian-born, Canadian-American screenwriter and novelist. He is known for writing the novel Paths of Glory (1935), which was made into an acclaimed 1957 anti-war film Paths of Glory by Stanley Kubrick. Cobb was also the lead screenwriter on the 1937 film San Quentin, starring Humphrey Bogart. Read more
05 Sep 1899: Helen Creighton, Canadian author and educator (died 1989) Mary Helen Creighton, CM was a prominent Canadian folklorist. She collected over 4,000 traditional songs, stories, and beliefs in a career that spanned several decades, and she published many books and articles on Nova Scotia folk songs and folklore. She received numerous honorary degrees for her work and was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1976. Read more
05 Sep 1899: Max Bishop, American baseball player (died 1962) Max Frederick Bishop was an American professional baseball player, scout and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a second baseman from 1924 through 1935, most notably as a member of the Philadelphia Athletics dynasty that won three consecutive American League pennants from 1929 to 1931 and won the World Series in 1929 and 1930. He played his final two seasons for the Boston Red Sox. Read more
05 Sep 1897: Morris Carnovsky, American actor (died 1992) Morris Carnovsky was an American stage and film actor. He was one of the founders of the Group Theatre (1931-1940) in New York City and had a thriving acting career both on Broadway and in films until, in the early 1950s, professional colleagues told the House Un-American Activities Committee that Carnovsky had been a Communist Party member. He was blacklisted and worked less frequently for a few years, but then re-established his acting career, taking on many Shakespearean roles at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and performing the title roles in college campus productions of King Lear and The Merchant of Venice. Carnovsky's nephew is veteran character actor and longtime "Pathmark Guy" James Karen. Read more
05 Sep 1897: Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst, founded ACNielsen (died 1980) Arthur Charles Nielsen Sr. was an American businessman, electrical engineer and market research analyst who created and tracked the Nielsen ratings for television as founder of the A.C. Nielsen Company. Read more
05 Sep 1892: Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist and educator (died 1973) Joseph Szigeti was a Hungarian violinist. Read more
05 Sep 1888: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India (died 1975) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was an Indian academic, philosopher and statesman who served as the Vice President of India from 1952 to 1962 and President of India from 1962 to 1967. He was the ambassador of India to the Soviet Union from 1949 to 1952. He was also the vice-chancellor of Banaras Hindu University from 1939 to 1948 and the vice-chancellor of Andhra University from 1931 to 1936. Radhakrishnan is considered one of the most influential and distinguished 20th century scholars of comparative religion and philosophy, he held the King George V Chair of Mental and Moral Science at the University of Calcutta from 1921 to 1932 and Spalding Chair of Eastern Religion and Ethics at University of Oxford from 1936 to 1952. Read more
05 Sep 1883: Otto Erich Deutsch, Austrian musicologist and scholar (died 1967) Otto Erich Deutsch was an Austrian musicologist. He is known for compiling the first comprehensive catalogue of Franz Schubert's compositions, first published in 1951 in English, with a revised edition published in 1978 in German. It is from this catalogue that the D numbers used to identify Schubert's works derive. Read more
05 Sep 1881: Otto Bauer, Austrian philosopher and politician, Foreign Minister of Austria (died 1938) Otto Bauer was an Austrian politician who was one of the founders and leading thinkers of the Austromarxists who sought a middle ground between social democracy and revolutionary socialism. He was a member of the Austrian Parliament from 1907 to 1934, deputy party leader of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) from 1918 to 1934, and Foreign Minister of the Republic of German-Austria in 1918 and 1919. In the latter position, he worked unsuccessfully to bring about the unification of Austria and the Weimar Republic. His opposition to the SDAP joining coalition governments after it lost its leading position in Parliament in 1920 and his practice of advising the party to wait for the proper historical circumstances before taking action were criticized by some for facilitating Austria's move from democracy to fascism in the 1930s. When the SDAP was outlawed by Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg in 1934, Bauer went into exile, where he continued to work for Austrian socialism until his death. Read more
05 Sep 1881: Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, English field marshal (died 1964) Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, also known as Jumbo Wilson, was a senior British Army officer of the 20th century. He saw active service in the Second Boer War and then during the First World War on the Somme and at Passchendaele. During the Second World War he served as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) British Troops in Egypt, in which role he launched Operation Compass, attacking Italian forces with considerable success, in December 1940. He went on to be Military Governor of Cyrenaica in February 1941, commanding a Commonwealth expeditionary force to Greece in April 1941 and General Officer Commanding (GOC) British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan in May 1941. Read more
05 Sep 1880: José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr (died 1936) José María of Manila was a Criollo Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. He was martyred in Spain during the early phase of the Spanish Civil War, and is the third Filipino to have been declared blessed by the Roman Catholic Church. Read more
05 Sep 1876: Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (died 1956) Wilhelm Josef Franz Ritter von Leeb was a German Generalfeldmarschall of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War, who was subsequently convicted of war crimes. Leeb was a highly decorated officer in World War I and was awarded the Military Order of Max Joseph which granted him the title of nobility. During the Battle of France, he commanded Army Group C, responsible for the breakthrough of the Maginot Line. Read more
05 Sep 1874: Nap Lajoie, American baseball player and manager (died 1959) Napoléon Lajoie, also known as Larry Lajoie, was an American professional baseball second baseman who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Nicknamed "the Frenchman", he represented both Philadelphia franchises and the Cleveland Bronchos, which was renamed "the Naps" by fans after him, and which he led as its player-manager from 1905 through 1909. Read more
05 Sep 1873: Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American general and engineer (died 1942) Brigadier General Cornelius "Neily" Vanderbilt III was an American military officer, inventor, engineer, and yachtsman. He was a member of the Vanderbilt family. Read more
05 Sep 1872: V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, Indian lawyer and politician (died 1936) Valliappan Olaganathan Chidambaram Pillai was an Indian freedom fighter, lawyer, businessman, Tamil scholar, and politician. He founded the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company in 1906 to compete against the monopoly of the British India Steam Navigation Company (BISNC). He launched the first indigenous Indian shipping service between Tuticorin in British India and Colombo in Ceylon. Once a member of the Indian National Congress, he was later charged with sedition by the British government and sentenced to life imprisonment, and his barrister license was revoked. He is known by the epithet Kappalottiya Tamizhan. Tuticorin Port Trust, one of India's thirteen major ports, is named after him. Read more
05 Sep 1872: Horace Rice, Australian tennis player (died 1950) Horace Rice was an Australian tennis player. Read more
05 Sep 1871: Friedrich Akel, Estonian physician and politician, Head of State of Estonia (d 1941) Friedrich Karl Akel was an Estonian diplomat and politician who served as State Elder of Estonia in 1924. Read more
05 Sep 1867: Amy Beach, American pianist and composer (died 1944) Amy Marcy Cheney Beach was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Read more
05 Sep 1856: Thomas E. Watson, American lawyer, publisher, and politician (died 1922) Thomas Edward Watson was an American politician, attorney, newspaper editor, and writer from Georgia. In the 1890s Watson championed poor farmers as a leader of the Populist Party, articulating an agrarian political viewpoint while attacking business, bankers, railroads, Democratic President Grover Cleveland, and the Democratic Party. He was the nominee for vice president with Democrat William Jennings Bryan in 1896 on the Populist ticket. Read more
05 Sep 1850: Eugen Goldstein, German physicist (died 1930) Eugen Goldstein was a German physicist. He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, and the discoverer of anode rays or canal rays, later identified as positive ions in the gas phase including the hydrogen ion. Read more
05 Sep 1847: Jesse James, American outlaw (died 1882) Jesse Woodson James was an American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla and leader of the James–Younger Gang. Raised a Southern sympathizer in the "Little Dixie" area of Missouri, James and his brother Frank joined pro-Confederate guerrillas known as "bushwhackers" operating in Missouri and Kansas during the American Civil War. As followers of William Quantrill and "Bloody Bill" Anderson, they were accused of committing atrocities against Union soldiers and civilian abolitionists, including the Centralia Massacre in 1864. Read more
05 Sep 1836: Justiniano Borgoño, Peruvian soldier and politician, 57th President of Peru (died 1921) Justiniano Borgoño Castañeda was a Peruvian brigadier general and politician who served as the President of Peru, an office he held for four months in 1894. The son of a brigadier general in the Peruvian Army, Borgoño left behind agricultural administration to join the Army following the outbreak of the Peruvian Civil War of 1856–1858. He returned to military service nearly twenty years later to serve in the War of the Pacific, during which he survived a leg wound and being taken as a prisoner of war for three months. Read more
05 Sep 1833: George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (died 1917) George Huntington Hartford headed the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) from 1878 to 1917. During this period, A&P created the concept of the chain grocery store and expanded into the country's largest retailer. He joined the firm as a clerk in 1861 and quickly assumed managerial responsibilities. When A&P's founder, George Gilman, retired in 1878, Hartford entered into a partnership agreement and ran the company until the founder's death in 1901. In the settlement of Gilman's estate, Hartford acquired control of the company and ultimately purchased the interests of Gilman's heirs. Read more
05 Sep 1831: Victorien Sardou, French author and playwright (died 1908) Victorien Sardou was a French dramatist. He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugène Scribe, of the well-made play. He also wrote several plays that were made into popular 19th-century operas such as La Tosca (1887) on which Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (1900) is based, and Fédora (1882) and Madame Sans-Gêne (1893) that provided the subjects for the lyrical dramas Fedora (1898) and Madame Sans-Gêne (1915) by Umberto Giordano. His play Gismonda, from 1894, was also adapted into an opera of the same name by Henry Février, as was Patrie! by Émile Paladilhe. Read more
05 Sep 1829: Lester Allan Pelton, American inventor (died 1908) Lester Allan Pelton was an American inventor who contributed significantly to the development of hydroelectricity and hydropower in the American Old West as well as world-wide. In the late 1870s, he invented the Pelton water wheel, at that time the most efficient design of the impulse water turbine. Recognized as one of the fathers of hydroelectric power, he was awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal during his lifetime and is an inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Read more
05 Sep 1827: Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and songwriter (died 1849) Goffredo Mameli was an Italian patriot, poet and writer who was a notable figure in the Risorgimento. He is famously the lyricist of "Il Canto degli Italiani"—the national anthem of Italy. Read more
05 Sep 1826: John Wisden, English cricketer and businessman (died 1884) John Wisden was an English cricketer who played 187 first-class cricket matches for three English county cricket teams, Kent, Middlesex and Sussex. He is now best known for launching the eponymous Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 1864, the year after he retired from first-class cricket. Read more
05 Sep 1818: Edmund Kennedy, Australian explorer and surveyor (died 1848) Edmund Besley Court Kennedy was an explorer in Australia in the mid-19th century. He was the Assistant-Surveyor of New South Wales, working with Sir Thomas Mitchell. Kennedy explored the interior of Queensland and northern New South Wales, including the Thomson River, the Barcoo River, Cooper Creek, and Cape York Peninsula. He died in December 1848 after being speared by Aboriginal Australians in far north Queensland near Cape York. Read more
05 Sep 1817: Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian poet, author, and playwright (died 1875) Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy, was a Russian poet, novelist, and playwright. He is considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist, primarily on account of the strength of his dramatic trilogy The Death of Ivan the Terrible (1866), Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich (1868), and Tsar Boris (1870). He also gained fame for his satirical works, published under his own name and under the collaborational pen name of Kozma Prutkov. His fictional works include the novella The Family of the Vourdalak, The Vampire (1841), and the historical novel Prince Serebrenni (1862). Read more
05 Sep 1806: Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general and politician, French Minister of War (died 1865) Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière was a 19th-century French general. Read more

Notable Deaths on 05 September

05 Sep 2024: Rebecca Cheptegei, Ugandan athlete (born 1991) Rebecca Cheptegei was a Ugandan cross country, long-distance and marathon runner, who was the national record holder in the latter discipline and a former world champion in mountain running. Read more
05 Sep 2024: Herbie Flowers, English musician (born 1938) Brian Keith "Herbie" Flowers was an English musician specialising in bass guitar, double bass and tuba. He was a member of groups including Blue Mink, T. Rex and Sky and was also a prolific session musician. Read more
05 Sep 2024: Radha Charan Gupta, Indian historian of mathematics (born 1935) Radha Charan Gupta was an Indian historian of mathematics, specialising in the history of Indian mathematics. Read more
05 Sep 2024: Sérgio Mendes, Brazilian pianist and composer (born 1941) Sérgio Santos Mendes was a Brazilian musician. Read more
05 Sep 2024: Rich Homie Quan, American rapper (born 1990) Dequantes Devontay Lamar, known professionally as Rich Homie Quan, was an American rapper. Beginning his career in 2011, Lamar first saw mainstream success with his 2013 single "Type of Way", which peaked at number 50 on the Billboard Hot 100. His 2015 single, "Flex ", saw further success at number 26 on the chart. Alongside fellow Atlanta rapper Young Thug, Lamar was a member of Cash Money Records' spin-off project Rich Gang, who found success with their 2014 single "Lifestyle". Read more
05 Sep 2024: Laurent Tirard, French film director and screenwriter (born 1967) Laurent Tirard was a French film director and screenwriter. Read more
05 Sep 2021: Sarah Harding, English singer, member of Girls Aloud (born 1981) Sarah Harding was an English singer, model, and actress. Her professional career began in 2002 when she successfully auditioned for the ITV reality series Popstars: The Rivals, during which Harding won a place in the girl group Girls Aloud. The group achieved twenty consecutive top ten singles in the UK, six albums that were certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), two of which went to number one in the UK, and accumulated a total of five BRIT Award nominations. In 2009, Girls Aloud won "Best Single" with their song "The Promise". As an actress, she has appeared on many television series and films, including St Trinian's, St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold, Run for Your Wife and Coronation Street. Read more
05 Sep 2019: Francisco Toledo, Mexican painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (born 1940) Francisco Benjamín López Toledo was a Mexican painter, sculptor, and graphic artist. In a career that spanned seven decades, Toledo produced thousands of works of art and became widely regarded as one of Mexico's most important contemporary artists. An activist as well as an artist, he promoted the artistic culture and heritage of Oaxaca state. Toledo was considered part of the Breakaway Generation of Mexican art. Read more
05 Sep 2018: Bhagwatikumar Sharma, Indian Gujarati writer and journalist (born 1934) Bhagwatikumar Sharma was an Indian author and journalist who wrote in Gujarati. Born in Surat and educated in languages, he edited a daily for several years. He wrote novels, short stories, poetry, essays and criticism. He received Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 1984 and Sahitya Akademi Award in 1988. Read more
05 Sep 2018: Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress (born 1926) Beatriz Segall was a Brazilian actress. One of her most notable works is the role of Odete Roitman on the telenovela Vale Tudo (1988), considered the greatest villain in the history of Brazilian television. Read more
05 Sep 2017: Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate (born 1920) Nicolaas Bloembergen was a Dutch–American physicist recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy. During his career, he was a professor at Harvard University and later at the University of Arizona and at Leiden University in 1973. Read more
05 Sep 2016: Hugh O'Brian, American actor (born 1925) Hugh O'Brian was an American actor and humanitarian who starred in the ABC Western television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955–1961) and the NBC action television series Search (1972–1973). His films included an adaptation of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians (1965); he also had a supporting role in John Wayne's last film, The Shootist (1976). Read more
05 Sep 2016: Phyllis Schlafly, American lawyer, writer, and political activist (born 1924) Phyllis Stewart Schlafly was an American attorney and activist who was nationally prominent in conservatism. She opposed feminism, gay rights, and abortion, and campaigned against the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Read more
05 Sep 2015: Goh Eng Wah, Malaysian-Singaporean businessman, founded Eng Wah Global (born 1923) Goh Eng Wah was a film distributor, and one of the pioneers in Singapore's cinema industry. He founded Eng Wah Global Pte Ltd, a cinema operator specialising in Chinese movies imported from Hong Kong and Taiwan. Read more
05 Sep 2015: Aadesh Shrivastava, Indian singer-songwriter (born 1964) Aadesh Shrivastava was a music composer and playback singer who worked in Indian films. Initially, he had worked as a drummer to music composers including R. D. Burman, Rajesh Roshan before working independently as a music director. Over the course of his career, he had composed music for over 100 Hindi films. Just a day after he turned 51, he died of cancer in Kokilaben Hospital. Read more
05 Sep 2015: Chester Stranczek, American baseball player and businessman (born 1929) Chester K. Stranczek was an American businessman, politician, and former Minor League Baseball player who was the mayor of Crestwood, Illinois, for 39 years, from 1969 to 2007. He drew national attention during his tenure for cutting expenses in part by privatizing city services, and for refunding residents' property taxes for more than a decade. He was also known as a colorful character with outspoken views on political and social issues, sometimes using a personal billboard posted near the town entrance to express his political and religious beliefs. Read more
05 Sep 2014: Bruce Morton, American journalist (born 1930) Bruce Alexander Morton was an American television news correspondent for both CBS News and CNN in a career which spanned over 40 years. Read more
05 Sep 2014: Mara Neusel, German mathematician, author, and academic (born 1964) Mara Dicle Neusel was a mathematician, author, teacher and an advocate for women in mathematics. The focus of her mathematical work was on invariant theory, which can be briefly described as the study of group actions and their fixed points. Read more
05 Sep 2013: Edwin Bideau, American lawyer and politician (born 1950) Edwin H. Bideau III was a lawyer, farmer, rancher, and Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 9th district. Read more
05 Sep 2013: Geoffrey Goodman, English pilot, journalist, and author (born 1922) Geoffrey George Goodman was a British journalist, broadcaster and writer. Following periods on the News Chronicle and the Daily Herald, he was a senior journalist on the Daily Mirror from 1969 to 1986. Goodman was known as "the doyen of industrial correspondents" for his extensive contacts and prominent role covering British industrial disputes. Read more
05 Sep 2013: Isamu Jordan, American journalist and academic (born 1975) Isamu Jordan was an American journalist, musician, and professor. When he was 15 years old, he joined the staff of The Spokesman-Review, where he wrote articles for Our Generation, the teen section of the newspaper. After earning a Bachelor's degree in English and Journalism, he returned to the paper, where he wrote articles about music and pop culture. He also wrote and edited articles for the weekly news magazine Spokane7, which provided coverage on local entertainment, art and culture, dining, and sporting events. As a musician, he was a member of the band The Dead Casuals and was known for establishing the hip hop orchestra, Flying Spiders, in which he was the lead vocalist. As the creator, producer, and director of The Som Show, Jordan provided booking support and concert promotions for local bands and music artists, while his multimedia music website featured artist profiles, events, and venues, along with videos and concert reviews. Spokane's Online Music Awards, known as The Sommy Awards, honored local bands and musicians through nominations made through his website. In addition to his background in journalism and music, Jordan was an adjunct professor and Program Director of Intercultural Student Services at Whitworth University. Read more
05 Sep 2012: Ian Dick, Australian cricketer and field hockey player (born 1926) Ian Robinson Dick was an Australian cricketer and field hockey player who played one first-class cricket match for Western Australia in 1950 and also captained Australia in the field hockey tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Born in Boulder, Western Australia, Dick was the brother of Alexander Dick and David Dick. The brothers' uncle, Billy Dick, captained Carlton to the 1914 VFL premiership. Having worked as a pharmacist outside of sport, Dick died in September 2012. Read more
05 Sep 2012: Victoria Fyodorova, Russian-American actress and author (born 1946) Victoria Fyodorova was a Russian-American actress and author. She was born shortly after World War II to Jackson Tate (1898–1978), then a captain in the United States Navy, and Russian actress Zoya Fyodorova (1909–1981), who had a brief affair before Tate was expelled from Moscow by Joseph Stalin. Victoria Fyodorova wrote the 1979 book, The Admiral's Daughter, which was about her experience attempting to reunite with her father. Read more
05 Sep 2012: John Oaksey, English jockey and journalist (born 1929) John Geoffrey Tristram Lawrence, 4th Baron Trevethin and 2nd Baron Oaksey, was a British aristocrat, amateur jockey and horse racing journalist and TV presenter. He was twice British Champion Amateur Jump Jockey, before becoming a journalist and racing personality both on television and through his charitable work for the Injured Jockeys Fund, which he helped establish. Oaksey was described as "quite possibly the outstanding racing figure of modern times, touching so many via his compelling writing, broadcasting, race-riding and tireless fund-raising". Read more
05 Sep 2010: Hedley Beare, Australian author and academic (born 1932) Hedley Beare was an Australian educator, administrator and author. He led the creation of the Northern Territory and ACT education systems. Beare wrote, co-wrote or edited 18 books and contributed 40 book chapters and hundreds of journal articles. He delivered the 1986 Buntine Oration titled "Shared Meanings About Education: The Economic Paradigm Considered." Read more
05 Sep 2010: Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian-Dutch poet and painter (born 1922) Corneille – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, better known under his pseudonym Corneille, was a Dutch artist. Read more
05 Sep 2009: Gani Fawehinmi, Nigerian lawyer and activist (born 1938) Chief Abdul-Ganiyu "Gani" Oyesola Fawehinmi,, SAN, was a Nigerian author, publisher, philanthropist, social critic, human and civil rights lawyer, and politician. Read more
05 Sep 2007: Jennifer Dunn, American engineer and politician (born 1941) Jennifer Jill Dunn was an American politician and engineer who served six terms as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2005, representing Washington's 8th congressional district. Read more
05 Sep 2007: Paul Gillmor, American lawyer and politician (born 1939) Paul Eugene Gillmor was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the U.S. representative from the 5th congressional district of Ohio from 1989 until his death in 2007. Read more
05 Sep 2007: Thomas Hansen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1976) Thomas Hansen was a Norwegian alternative country musician performing under the name Saint Thomas. Read more
05 Sep 2007: D. James Kennedy, American pastor and author (born 1930) Dennis James Kennedy was an American Presbyterian pastor, evangelist, Christian broadcaster, and author. He was the senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from 1960 until his death in 2007. Kennedy also founded Evangelism Explosion International, Coral Ridge Ministries, the Westminster Academy in Fort Lauderdale, the Knox Theological Seminary, radio station WAFG-FM, and the Center for Reclaiming America for Christ, a socially conservative political group. Read more
05 Sep 2007: Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek director and screenwriter (born 1939) Nikos Georgiou Nikolaidis was a Greek film director, screenwriter, film producer, writer, theatre director, assistant director, record producer, television director, and commercial director. He is usually considered a representative of European avant-garde and experimental art film. Read more
05 Sep 2005: Roberto Viaux, Chilean general (born 1917) Roberto Urbano Viaux Marambio was a Chilean Army General and the primary planner of two attempted coups d'état in Chile in 1969 and 1970. The first was against President Eduardo Frei Montalva, and the second sought to prevent Socialist Salvador Allende's election. Read more
05 Sep 2003: Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-American singer and actress (born 1927) Gisèle MacKenzie was a Canadian-American singer, actress, and commercial spokesperson, best known for her performances on the US television program Your Hit Parade. Read more
05 Sep 2002: David Todd Wilkinson, American cosmologist and astronomer (born 1935) David Todd Wilkinson was an American cosmologist, specializing in the study of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB). Read more
05 Sep 2001: Justin Wilson, American chef and author (born 1914) Justin Elmer Wilson was a Southern American chef and humorist known for his brand of Cajun-inspired cuisine, humor and storytelling. Read more
05 Sep 2001: Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian economist and academic (born 1912) Vladimir Žerjavić was a Croatian economist and demographer who published a series of historical articles and books during the 1980s and 1990s on demographic losses in Yugoslavia during World War II and of Axis forces and civilians in the Bleiburg repatriations shortly after the capitulation of Germany. From 1964 to 1982, he worked as an adviser for industrial development in the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Read more
05 Sep 2000: Roy Fredericks, Guyanese cricketer and politician (born 1942) Roy Clifton Fredericks was a West Indian cricketer who played Test cricket from 1968 to 1977. He was a member of the squad which won the 1975 Cricket World Cup. Read more
05 Sep 1999: Alan Clark, English historian and politician, Minister for Defence Procurement (born 1928) Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark was a British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), author and diarist. He served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade and Defence. He became a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1991. Read more
05 Sep 1999: Allen Funt, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1914) Allen Albert Funt was an American television producer, director, writer and television personality, best known as the creator and host of Candid Camera from the 1940s to 1980s, as either a regular television show or a television series of specials. Its most notable run was from 1960 to 1967 on CBS. Read more
05 Sep 1999: Bryce Mackasey, Canadian businessman and politician, Postmaster General of Canada (born 1921) Bryce Stuart Mackasey was a Canadian politician and diplomat. He served as twice a Member of Parliament, as a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec, and as ambassador to Portugal. Read more
05 Sep 1998: Ferdinand Biondi, Canadian radio host (born 1909) Ferdinand Biondi, was a French Canadian radio broadcaster. Read more
05 Sep 1998: Willem Drees, Jr., Dutch economist and politician, Dutch Minister of Transport (born 1922) Willem "Wim" Drees Jr. was a Dutch politician of the Democratic Socialists '70 (DS'70) party and economist. Read more
05 Sep 1998: Verner Panton, Danish interior designer (born 1926) Verner Panton is considered one of Denmark's most influential 20th-century furniture and interior designers. During his career, he created innovative and futuristic designs in a variety of materials, especially plastics, and in vibrant and exotic colors. His style was very "1960s" but regained popularity at the end of the 20th century. As of 2004, Panton's best-known furniture models are still in production. Read more
05 Sep 1998: Leo Penn, American actor and director (born 1921) Leo Zalman Penn was an American television director and actor. He was the father of musician Michael Penn and actors Sean and Chris Penn. Read more
05 Sep 1997: Leon Edel, American author and critic (born 1907) Joseph Leon Edel was an American/Canadian literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel. Read more
05 Sep 1997: Eddie Little Sky, American actor (born 1926) Eddie Little Sky, also known as Edward Little, was an American actor. A citizen of the Oglala Lakota tribe Eddie had parts in 36 feature films and over 60 television shows, mainly westerns in the role of a Native American. He was one of the first Native American actors to play Native American roles such as his performance in the 1970 film A Man Called Horse. Read more
05 Sep 1997: Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor and director (born 1912) Sir Georg Solti was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor, known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt, and London, and as a long-serving music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Born in Budapest, he studied there with Béla Bartók, Leó Weiner, and Ernő Dohnányi. In the 1930s, he was a répétiteur at the Hungarian State Opera and worked at the Salzburg Festival for Arturo Toscanini. His career was interrupted by the rise of the Nazis' influence on Hungarian politics, and being Jewish, he fled the increasingly harsh Hungarian anti-Jewish laws in 1938. After conducting a season of Russian ballet in London at the Royal Opera House, he found refuge in Switzerland, where he remained during the Second World War. Prohibited from conducting there, he earned a living as a pianist. Read more
05 Sep 1997: Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian nun, missionary, and saint, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910) Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and a Catholic saint. Read more
05 Sep 1996: Basil Salvadore D'Souza, Indian bishop (born 1926) Basil Salvadore D'Souza was the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mangalore from 22 March 1965 until his death on 5 September 1996. He was the longest-serving bishop in the diocese's history. Read more
05 Sep 1995: Benyamin Sueb, Indonesian comedian, actor, and singer (born 1939) Benyamin Sueb was an Indonesian comedian, actor and singer. He released 46 studio albums and starred in more than 50 films. He received two Citra Awards for Intan Berduri in 1973 and Si Doel Anak Modern in 1977. Read more
05 Sep 1995: Salil Chowdhury, Indian music composer (born 1922) Salil Chowdhury was an Indian music director, songwriter, lyricist, writer and poet who predominantly composed for Bengali, Hindi and Malayalam films. He composed music for films in 13 languages. This includes over 75 Hindi films, 41 Bengali films, 27 Malayalam films, and a few Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, Odia and Assamese films. His musical ability was widely recognised in the Indian film industry. He was an accomplished composer and arranger who was proficient in several musical instruments, including the flute, the piano, and the esraj. He was also widely acclaimed and admired for his inspirational and original poetry in Bengali. Read more
05 Sep 1994: Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and scholar (born 1921) Shimshon Avraham Amitsur was an Israeli mathematician. A leading figure in twentieth-century noncommutative algebra, he is best known for his wide-ranging contributions to ring theory, including the theory of rings with polynomial identities (PI-rings), division algebras, the general theory of radicals, and the Amitsur complex in descent theory. His collected works, published in two volumes by the American Mathematical Society in 2001, are organized into four broad areas: general ring theory, structure theory of PI-rings, combinatorial PI-theory, and division algebras. Read more
05 Sep 1994: John Newman, Australian politician (born 1946) John Paul Newman was an Australian politician who served as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1986 until his assassination in 1994. Read more
05 Sep 1993: Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (born 1914) Claude Renoir was a French cinematographer. He was the son of actor Pierre Renoir, the grandson of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and the nephew of director Jean Renoir. Read more
05 Sep 1992: Fritz Leiber, American author and poet (born 1910) Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. Read more
05 Sep 1991: Sharad Joshi, Indian author and poet (born 1931) Sharad Joshi was an Indian poet, writer, satirist and a dialogue and scriptwriter in Hindi films and television. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1990. Read more
05 Sep 1990: Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, English academic and diplomat (born 1907) Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon was an English colonial administrator and diplomat who was Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and the last governor of British Cyprus. Read more
05 Sep 1990: Jerry Iger, American cartoonist and publisher, co-founded Eisner & Iger (born 1903) Samuel Maxwell "Jerry" Iger was an American cartoonist and art-studio entrepreneur. With business partner Will Eisner, he co-founded Eisner & Iger, a comic book packager that produced comics on demand for new publishers during the late-1930s and 1940s period known to fans and historians as the Golden Age of Comic Books. Read more
05 Sep 1990: Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian politician (born 1896) Ivan Mihaylov Gavrilov, also known as Vancho Mihaylov, was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary in interwar Macedonia and the last leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). Read more
05 Sep 1989: Philip Baxter, Welsh-Australian chemical engineer (born 1905) Sir John Philip Baxter was a British-Australian chemical engineer. He was the second director of the University of New South Wales from 1953, continuing as vice-chancellor when the position's title was changed in 1955. Under his administration, the university grew from its technical college roots into the "fastest growing and most rapidly diversifying tertiary institution in Australia". Philip Baxter College is named in his honour. Read more
05 Sep 1988: Gert Fröbe, German actor and singer (born 1913) Karl Gerhart "Gert" Fröbe was a German actor who appeared in over 100, mostly German-produced films. He was best known in English-speaking countries for his work as the title character in the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964). Other international films include his role as Baron Bomburst in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), as General Dietrich von Choltitz in Is Paris Burning? (1966), as Colonel Manfred von Holstein in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965), and as Inspector Bauer in Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg (1977). Read more
05 Sep 1986: Neerja Bhanot, Indian flight purser, known for her heroic actions on Pan Am Flight 73, during which she was killed (born 1963) Neerja Bhanot was an Indian flight attendant. On 5 September 1986, she saved a large number of passengers on board Pan Am Flight 73, which had been hijacked by four Palestinian terrorists from the Abu Nidal Organization after it made a stopover at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan. Around 17 hours into the standoff, after she opened an emergency exit door and began helping passengers escape from the plane, Neerja was shot and killed by the hijackers. Shortly afterward, Pakistan's Special Service Group stormed the aircraft and captured all of the hijackers. Read more
05 Sep 1985: Johannes Hint, Estonian engineer (born 1914) Johannes Rudolph Hint was an Estonian scientist and the only person to create and successfully run a limited company under the communist planned economy of the Soviet Union. With his company, Dessim Ltd, he earned millions for the Soviet Union. His most important scientific invention was the building material silikaltsiit (Laprex), which was developed through the execution of the disintegrator system. His inventions are still widely used in Germany, Austria, the United States, Japan and Russia. Read more
05 Sep 1984: Adam Malik, Indonesian politician and diplomat, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia (born 1917) Adam Malik Batubara was an Indonesian politician, diplomat, and journalist, who served as the third vice president of Indonesia from 1978 until 1983, under President Suharto. Previously, he served in a number of diplomatic and governmental positions, including Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly from 1977 to 1978, Speaker of the People's Representative Council from 1977 to 1978, Foreign Minister of Indonesia from 1966 until 1977, and president of the United Nations General Assembly from 1971 until 1972. Read more
05 Sep 1984: Jane Roberts, American psychic and author (born 1929) Dorothy Jane Roberts was an American author and poet, who claimed to be psychic and a spirit medium channeling a personality who called himself "Seth." Her publication of the Seth texts, known as the Seth Material, established her as one of the preeminent figures in the world of paranormal phenomena. Read more
05 Sep 1983: Meng Qingshu, Chinese politician (born 1911) Meng Qingshu, also known as Roza Vladimirovna Osetrova was a Chinese politician, member of the 28 Bolsheviks and wife of the Chinese Communist Party active leader, Wang Ming. Read more
05 Sep 1982: Douglas Bader, English captain and pilot (born 1910) Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War, who achieved great success despite loss of the lower part of both his legs after a 1931 air crash, one amputation above the knee and the other below the knee. Resuming flying in 1939 after being re-checked for his flying abilities, he became a front-line fighter leader. He was credited with 22 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damaged. Read more
05 Sep 1980: Don Banks, Australian composer and educator (born 1923) Donald Oscar Banks was an Australian composer of concert, jazz, and commercial music. Read more
05 Sep 1979: Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal (born 1884) Alberto di Jorio was a cardinal of the Catholic Church and for many years along with the layman Bernardino Nogara the powerhouse behind the growing wealth of the Vatican and the Istituto per le Opere di Religione. Read more
05 Sep 1977: Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet and activist (born 1897) Marcel Thiry was a French-speaking Belgian poet. During World War I, he and his brother Oscar served in the Belgian Expeditionary Corps in Russia. Read more
05 Sep 1975: Alice Catherine Evans, American microbiologist (born 1881) Alice Catherine Evans was an American microbiologist. She became a researcher at the U.S. Department of Agriculture where she investigated bacteriology in milk and cheese. She proved that Bacillus abortus caused the disease brucellosis in both cattle and humans, which led to the pasteurization of milk in the US in 1930. Evans was the first woman president elected by the Society of American Bacteriologists. Read more
05 Sep 1973: Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach (born 1889) John Frank Fournier was an American professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, Brooklyn Robins, and Boston Braves from 1912 to 1927. Fournier was known for having outstanding batting abilities but subpar fielding abilities. Read more
05 Sep 1972: Alan Kippax, Australian cricketer and businessman (born 1897) Alan Falconer Kippax was a cricketer for New South Wales (NSW) and Australia. Regarded as one of the great stylists of Australian cricket during the era between the two World Wars, Kippax overcame a late start to Test cricket to become a regular in the Australian team between the 1928–29 and 1932–33 seasons. A middle-order batsman, he toured England twice, and at domestic level was a prolific scorer and a highly considered leader of NSW for eight years. To an extent, his Test figures did not correspond with his great success for NSW and he is best remembered for a performance in domestic cricket—a world record last wicket partnership, set during a Sheffield Shield match in 1928–29. His career was curtailed by the controversial Bodyline tactics employed by England on their 1932–33 tour of Australia; Kippax wrote a book denouncing the tactics after the series concluded. Read more
05 Sep 1970: Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (born 1942) Karl Jochen Rindt was a racing driver who competed under the Austrian flag in Formula One from 1964 to 1970. Rindt won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1970 with Lotus, and remains the only driver to have won the World Drivers' Championship posthumously, following his death at the Italian Grand Prix; he won six Grands Prix across seven seasons. In endurance racing, Rindt won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1965 with NART. Read more
05 Sep 1966: Dezső Lauber, Hungarian golfer, tennis player, and architect (born 1879) Dezső Lauber was a Hungarian all-round sportsman and architect. He was born in Pécs and died in Budapest. Read more
05 Sep 1965: Thomas Johnston, Scottish journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland (born 1882) Thomas Johnston was a prominent Scottish socialist journalist who became a politician of the early 20th century, a member of the Labour Party, a member of parliament (MP) and government minister – usually with Cabinet responsibility for Scottish affairs. He was also a notable figure in the Friendly society movement in Scotland. Read more
05 Sep 1961: Lewis Akeley, American academic (born 1861) Lewis Ellsworth Akeley was an American academic. He served in various roles at the University of South Dakota (USD) between 1887 and his retirement in 1933, including as lecturer of various topics, including physics and chemistry; and Dean of Engineering for 25 years. He also served as a mentor to Ernest Lawrence, who would go on to earn the Nobel Prize in Physics. Read more
05 Sep 1955: Haydn Bunton Sr., Australian footballer and coach (born 1911) Haydn William Bunton was an Australian rules footballer who represented Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL), Subiaco in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), and Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) during the 1930s and 1940s. Read more
05 Sep 1954: Eugen Schiffer, German lawyer and politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (born 1860) Eugen Schiffer was a German lawyer and liberal politician. He served as Minister of Finance and deputy head of government in the Weimar Republic from February to April 1919. From October 1919 to March 1920, he was again deputy head of government and Minister of Justice. In 1921, he once more became Minister of Justice. Schiffer was a founder-member of the liberal German Democratic Party (DDP) in 1918 and 1919 and co-founder in 1946 of its East German successor party, the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD). Read more
05 Sep 1953: Richard Walther Darré, Argentine-German agronomist and politician, convicted war criminal (born 1895) Richard Walther Darré was one of the leading Nazi "blood and soil" ideologists and served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture. As the National leader for agricultural policy, he was a high-ranking functionary in the Nazi Party and as a Senior group leader in the SS, he was the seventh most senior commander in that organisation. Read more
05 Sep 1948: Richard C. Tolman, American physicist and chemist (born 1881) Richard Chace Tolman was an American mathematical physicist and physical chemist who made many contributions to statistical mechanics and theoretical cosmology. He was a professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Read more
05 Sep 1945: Clem Hill, Australian cricketer and footballer (born 1877) Clement Hill was an Australian cricketer who played 49 Test matches as a specialist batsman between 1896 and 1912. He captained the Australian team in ten Tests, winning five and losing five. A prolific run scorer, Hill scored 3,412 runs in Test cricket—a world record at the time of his retirement—at an average of 39.21 per innings, including seven centuries. In 1902, Hill was the first batsman to make 1,000 Test runs in a calendar year, a feat that would not be repeated for 45 years. His innings of 365*, scored against New South Wales for South Australia in 1900–01, was a Sheffield Shield record for 27 years. The South Australian Cricket Association named a grandstand at the Adelaide Oval in his honour in 2003 and he was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2005. Hill is regarded as one of the best batsman of his era. Read more
05 Sep 1942: François de Labouchère, French soldier and pilot (born 1917) François de Labouchere, born at Saint-Jean-le-Vieux (Ain) on 18 September 1917 and killed in air-to-air combat on 5 September 1942, was a French pilot of the Second World War. Read more
05 Sep 1939: Kathleen O'Melia, Canadian religious sister (born 1869) Kathleen Fanny O'Melia, also known as Sister Mary of the Angels, Sister Mary Stella, and O'Melia-san, was an English-born teacher, social worker, and lay missionary for the Church of England and the Catholic Church in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Read more
05 Sep 1936: Gustave Kahn, French poet and critic (born 1859) Gustave Kahn was a French Symbolist poet and art critic. He was also active, via publishing and essay-writing, in defining Symbolism and distinguishing it from the Decadent Movement. Read more
05 Sep 1934: Sidney Myer, Russian-Australian businessman, founded Myer Stores (born 1878) Sidney Myer was a Belarusian-born Australian businessman and philanthropist, best known for founding Myer, Australia's largest chain of department stores. Read more
05 Sep 1932: Francisco Acebal, Spanish journalist, author, and playwright (born 1866) Francisco López Acebal was a Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist. Read more
05 Sep 1932: Paul Bern, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1889) Paul Bern was a German-born American film director, screenwriter and producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), where he became the assistant to producer Irving Thalberg. He helped launch the career of Jean Harlow, whom he married in July 1932; two months later, he was found dead of a gunshot wound, leaving what appeared to be a suicide note. Various alternative theories of his death have been proposed. MGM writer and film producer Samuel Marx believed that he was killed by his ex-common-law wife Dorothy Millette, who jumped to her death from a ferry two days afterward. Read more
05 Sep 1931: John Thomson, Scottish footballer (born 1909) John Thomson was a Scottish footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Celtic and the Scotland national football team. He died as a result of an accidental collision with Rangers player Sam English during an Old Firm match at Ibrox. Read more
05 Sep 1930: Robert Means Thompson, American soldier, businessman, and philanthropist (born 1849) Robert Means Thompson was a United States Navy officer, business magnate, philanthropist and a president of the American Olympic Association. He is the namesake of the destroyer USS Thompson (DD-627). Read more
05 Sep 1926: Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician (born 1890) Karl Harrer was a German journalist and politician, one of the founding members of the German Workers' Party (DAP) in January 1919, the predecessor to the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, more commonly known as the Nazi Party. Read more
05 Sep 1922: Georgette Agutte, French painter (born 1867) Georgette Agutte was a French painter. Read more
05 Sep 1920: Robert Harron, American actor (born 1893) Robert Emmett Harron was an American motion picture actor of the early silent film era. Although he appeared in over 200 films, he is perhaps best remembered for his roles in the D.W. Griffith directed films The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916). Read more
05 Sep 1917: Marian Smoluchowski, Austrian-Polish physicist and mountaineer (born 1872) Marian Smoluchowski was a Polish physicist who worked in the territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a pioneer of statistical physics and made significant contributions to the theory of Brownian motion and stochastic processes. Read more
05 Sep 1912: Arthur MacArthur, Jr., American LTG (Army), Medal of Honor recipient (born 1845) Arthur MacArthur Jr. was a lieutenant general of the United States Army. He became the military Governor-General of the American-occupied Philippines in 1900; his term ended a year later due to clashes with the civilian governor, future-U.S. President William Howard Taft. Read more
05 Sep 1909: Louis Bouveault, French chemist (born 1864) Louis Bouveault was a French scientist who became professor of organic chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris.
He is known for the Bouveault aldehyde synthesis and the Bouveault–Blanc reduction. Read more
05 Sep 1906: Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (born 1844) Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian mathematician and theoretical physicist. His greatest achievements were the development of statistical mechanics and the statistical explanation of the second law of thermodynamics. In 1877, he provided the current definition of entropy, , where Ω is the number of microstates whose energy equals the system's energy, interpreted as a measure of the statistical disorder of a system. Max Planck named the constant kB the Boltzmann constant. Read more
05 Sep 1902: Rudolf Virchow, German anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist (born 1821) Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician. He is known as "the father of modern pathology" and as the founder of social medicine, and to his colleagues, the "Pope of medicine". Read more
05 Sep 1901: Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist and academic (born 1853) Ignacij Klemenčič was a Carniolan (Slovenian) physicist. Read more
05 Sep 1898: Sarah Emma Edmonds, Canadian-American nurse, soldier, and spy (born 1841) Sarah Emma Edmonds was a British North America-born woman who claimed to have served as a man with the Union Army as a nurse and spy during the American Civil War. Although recognized for her service by the United States government, some historians dispute the validity of her claims as some of the details are demonstrably false, contradictory, or uncorroborated. Read more
05 Sep 1894: George Stoneman, Jr., United States Army cavalry officer (born 1822) George Stoneman Jr. was an American military officer and politician who served as the 15th governor of California from 1883 to 1887. Read more
05 Sep 1877: Crazy Horse, American tribal leader (born 1849) Crazy Horse was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band and one of the most renowned Native American figures of the nineteenth century. Known for his commitment to defending Lakota lands and lifeways, he emerged as a central figure in the northern Great Plains during a period of intense conflict with the United States. Crazy Horse resisted U.S. expansion into the Powder River Country, rejecting treaty settlements and reservation life, and became widely respected for both his tactical skill and his personal humility, which included a lifelong avoidance of being photographed. Read more
05 Sep 1876: Manuel Blanco Encalada, Chilean admiral and politician, 1st President of Chile (born 1790) Manuel José Blanco y Calvo de Encalada was a vice-admiral in the Chilean Navy, a political figure, and Chile's first President (Provisional) (1826). Read more
05 Sep 1857: Auguste Comte, French sociologist and philosopher (born 1798) Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte was a French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. Comte's ideas were fundamental to the development of sociology, as he coined the term and treated the discipline as the crowning achievement of the sciences. Read more
05 Sep 1838: Charles Percier, French architect and interior decorator (born 1764) Charles Percier was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in a close partnership with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days. For work undertaken from 1794 onward, trying to ascribe conceptions or details to one or other of them is fruitless; it is impossible to disentangle their cooperative efforts in this fashion. Together, Percier and Fontaine were inventors and major proponents of the rich, grand, consciously-archaeological versions of neoclassicism we recognise as Directoire style and Empire style. Read more
05 Sep 1836: Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian actor and playwright (born 1790) Ferdinand Raimund was an Austrian actor and playwright. Read more
05 Sep 1803: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (born 1741) Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos was a French novelist, official, Freemason and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782). Read more
05 Sep 1803: François Devienne, French flute player and composer (born 1759) François Devienne was a French composer of the Classical period and professor for flute at the Paris Conservatory. Read more

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