History of Today 06 September: Important Events, Births and Deaths

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Important Events on 06 September in History

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

Famous Births on 06 September

06 Sep 2006: Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japanese prince Prince Hisahito of Akishino is a member of the Imperial House of Japan. He is the youngest child and only son of Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko, and the nephew of Emperor Naruhito. He is second in the line of succession to the Japanese throne behind his father. Read more
06 Sep 2005: Elzhana Taniyeva, Kazakh rhythmic gymnast Elzhana Taniyeva is a Kazakh retired rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2024 Asian all-around champion and the 2022 Asian Games all-around and team silver medalist. She won three medals at the 2021 Summer World University Games and four medals at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games. Taniyeva competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the rhythmic individual all-around. Read more
06 Sep 2002: Asher Angel, American actor Asher Dov Angel is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor in the film Jolene (2008), starring Jessica Chastain. He is known for his roles as Jonah Beck in the Disney Channel series Andi Mack (2017–2019) and Billy Batson in the DC Extended Universe films Shazam! (2019) and Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023). Read more
06 Sep 2002: Leylah Fernandez, Canadian tennis player Leylah Annie Fernandez is a Canadian professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as No. 13 in women's singles by the WTA, achieved in August 2022, and No. 17 in doubles, achieved in October 2023. Fernandez has won five WTA Tour singles titles, and as a teenager, she finished runner-up at the 2021 US Open, defeating three top-5 players en route. Read more
06 Sep 2001: Freya Allan, English actress Freya Allan is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Princess Cirilla of Cintra in the Netflix series The Witcher, for which she was nominated for two Saturn Awards, and as Mae in the 2024 action film Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. She has also appeared in the 2021 film Gunpowder Milkshake and the AMC series Into the Badlands. Read more
06 Sep 2001: Terrence Clarke, American basketball player (died 2021) Terrence Adrian Clarke was an American college basketball player for the Kentucky Wildcats of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Clarke was a standout Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball player for Todd Quarles at Expressions Elite in Braintree, Massachusetts. He began his high school career at Rivers School before transferring to Brewster Academy, where his team won the 2019 National Prep Championships. Named a McDonald's All-American, Clarke was a consensus five-star recruit and one of the best shooting guards in the 2020 class. He played one season in college for Kentucky before declaring for the 2021 NBA draft. Read more
06 Sep 2000: David Kushner, American singer-songwriter David Alan Kushner II is an American singer-songwriter. Raised in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, he moved to Los Angeles, California, and began releasing music. Kushner's song "Miserable Man" (2022) went viral on TikTok and peaked at number 11 on the charts in Norway and number 19 in Ireland, additionally reaching the top 40 in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Along with the single "Mr. Forgettable", it appeared on his debut extended play Footprints I Found (2022). Kushner received 556 million streams within a year of releasing music. Read more
06 Sep 1998: Michele Perniola, Italian singer Michele Perniola, known also as 3x3n, is an Italian singer, best known for representing San Marino at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013 with his song "O-o-O Sole Intorno a Me". He also represented San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with Anita Simoncini. They performed the song "Chain of Lights". Read more
06 Sep 1997: Mallory Comerford, American swimmer Mallory Burckle is an American competitive swimmer specializing in freestyle events. Comerford was the winner of five gold medals at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships. She won USA Swimming's Golden Goggle Award for Breakout Performer of the Year for 2017. The following year, Comerford won eight medals in individual and relay events at the 2018 World Swimming Championships. Read more
06 Sep 1997: Tsukushi, Japanese wrestler Tsukushi Haruka is a retired Japanese professional wrestler. Trained by Emi Sakura, Tsukushi made her debut for her Ice Ribbon promotion in January 2010 as part of a trial series with Kurumi. After winning the fan voting, Tsukushi was made an official part of Ice Ribbon's roster the following March and she has since wrestled regularly for the promotion. She is a former one-time ICE×60 Champion, record ten-time International Ribbon Tag Team Champion and record three-time IW19 Champion. Tsukushi's accomplishments outside of Ice Ribbon include winning DDT Pro-Wrestling's Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship, JWP Joshi Puroresu's 2014 Tag League the Best and Reina Joshi Puroresu's Reina World Tag Team Championship. Read more
06 Sep 1996: Andrés Tello, Colombian footballer Andrés Felipe Tello Muñoz is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Categoría Primera B club Deportes Quindío. Read more
06 Sep 1996: Lil Xan, American rapper Nicholas Diego Leanos, better known as Lil Xan or simply Diego, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He is best known for his song "Betrayed", which peaked at number 64 on the Billboard Hot 100. On April 6, 2018, Leanos released his debut studio album, Total Xanarchy. His second album, Diego, was released on September 6, 2024. Read more
06 Sep 1995: Mark Andrews, American football player Mark Andrews is an American professional football tight end for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners and was selected by the Ravens in the third round of the 2018 NFL draft. Andrews has been elected to the Pro Bowl three times and was named to the 2021 All-Pro Team after setting the Ravens' single-season record for receptions and receiving yards. As of the conclusion of the 2025 season, Andrews is the Ravens' franchise leader for most career receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns. Read more
06 Sep 1995: Mustafizur Rahman, Bangladeshi cricketer Mustafizur Rahman is a Bangladeshi international cricketer. A left-arm fast-medium bowler, he is recognized for his most prolific 'slower cutters' all over the world. He has taken more wickets in the death overs of Twenty20 Internationals than any other bowler. His career took off during the 2015 Bangladesh Premier League when he caught the attention of cricket pundits with his ability to bowl accurate cutters and slower deliveries, earning him the nickname "The Fizz." This talent quickly propelled him to international prominence. He is widely regarded as one of the best Fast-bowlers in Bangladesh, especially in limited-overs cricket. He plays for Lahore Qalandars in the Pakistan Super League. Read more
06 Sep 1994: Maddie Phillips, Canadian actress Madelaine Rachel Phillips is a Canadian actress. She portrayed Randeen in Ghost Wars, Devon D'Marco in Project Mc2, Sterling Wesley in the 2020 Netflix teen comedy-drama television series Teenage Bounty Hunters, and Cate Dunlap in the Amazon Prime Video superhero series Gen V (2023-2025) and The Boys (2024). Read more
06 Sep 1994: Emilly Micaela Marcondes, Brazilian professional futsal player Emilly Micaela Marcondes, commonly known as Emilly, is a Brazilian professional futsal player who plays as a winger for Torreblanca Melilla and the Brazil women's national team. She was awarded the best female futsal player in 2024 and 2025. Read more
06 Sep 1994: Elif Doğan, Turkish actress Elif Doğan is a Turkish actress. Read more
06 Sep 1993: Famous Dex, American rapper Dexter Tiewon Gore Jr., better known by his stage name Famous Dex, is an American rapper. His debut studio album, Dex Meets Dexter (2018) peaked at number 12 on the Billboard 200 while its singles, "Pick It Up" and "Japan" peaked at numbers 54 and 28 respectively on the Billboard Hot 100. Read more
06 Sep 1993: Alex Poythress, American basketball player Alex Poythress is an American-born naturalized Ivorian professional basketball player for Zenit Saint Petersburg of the VTB United League. He won the Gatorade Player of the Year in Tennessee in 2011–12 in his senior year of high school, and was the TSSAA Class AAA Mr. Basketball his senior year. He was a 5-star recruit out of Northeast High School in Clarksville, Tennessee, during 2011–12. He played college basketball for the University of Kentucky. Finished his career with 966 points, 597 rebounds and 77 blocks, becoming just the 12th player in program history with at least 900 points, at least 500 rebounds and at least 70 blocks. Read more
06 Sep 1993: Mattia Valoti, Italian footballer Mattia Valoti is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie B club Vicenza. Read more
06 Sep 1992: Ryan Shazier, American football player Ryan Dean Shazier is an American former professional football linebacker who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes and was selected by the Steelers in the first round of the 2014 NFL draft. Read more
06 Sep 1992: Young Tonumaipea, Samoan rugby league player Yee-Huang "Young" Tonumaipea is a retired Samoan professional rugby league footballer who played as a centre or winger for the Melbourne Storm. Read more
06 Sep 1991: Brian Dumoulin, American ice hockey player Brian Joseph Dumoulin is an American professional ice hockey player who is a defenseman for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). Dumoulin was selected by the Carolina Hurricanes in the second round of the 2009 NHL entry draft, and previously played for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Seattle Kraken, Anaheim Ducks and New Jersey Devils. Read more
06 Sep 1991: Joe Harris, American basketball player Joseph Malcolm Harris Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Virginia Cavaliers, before being selected with the 33rd overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers. Read more
06 Sep 1990: John Wall, American basketball player Johnathan Hildred Wall Jr. is an American former professional basketball player who played 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), most notably with the Washington Wizards. Read more
06 Sep 1989: Kim So-eun, South Korean actress Kim So-eun is a South Korean actress. She rose to fame in 2009 in the popular television drama Boys Over Flowers. She has since starred in Happiness in the Wind (2010), A Thousand Kisses (2011–12), Liar Game (2014), Scholar Who Walks the Night (2015), Our Gap-soon (2016–17), Evergreen (2018), and Three Bold Siblings (2022–23). She has won various accolades such as Best New Actress, Special Acting Award and was nominated in different years for Excellence Award and Best Actress in A Special. Read more
06 Sep 1988: Max George, English singer-songwriter and actor Maximillian Albert George is an English singer and actor, known as the lead singer of the boy band The Wanted. Read more
06 Sep 1988: Denis Tonucci, Italian footballer Denis Tonucci is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Serie C Group B club Vis Pesaro. Read more
06 Sep 1987: Emir Preldžić, Turkish basketball player Emir Preldžić is a Bosnian-Turkish professional basketball player for KK Orlovik Žepče of the Basketball Championship of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He also represented the Turkish national basketball team. He is 6 ft 9 in tall and he mainly plays the small forward position, but he also has the ability to play as a power forward, shooting guard and point guard. Read more
06 Sep 1985: Lauren Lapkus, American actress and comedian Dorthea Lauren Allegra Lapkus is an American actress and comedian, known for portraying Susan Fischer in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black, Denise in The Big Bang Theory (2018–2019), and Jess in the HBO comedy-drama series Crashing (2017–2019). She has also appeared in the television series Are You There, Chelsea? (2012), Hot in Cleveland (2012), Clipped (2015), and Good Girls (2020–2021) and in the films Jurassic World (2015), The Unicorn (2018), and The Wrong Missy (2020). She played the voice role of Lotta in the animated comedy series Harvey Girls Forever! (2018–2020). Read more
06 Sep 1985: Mitch Moreland, American baseball player Mitchell Austin Moreland, nicknamed "2-Bags", is an American former professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox, San Diego Padres, and Oakland Athletics. Moreland attended Mississippi State University and was drafted by the Rangers as a first baseman and outfielder in the 17th round of the 2007 MLB draft. Listed at 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) and 230 pounds (100 kg), Moreland both batted and threw left-handed. Read more
06 Sep 1985: Małgorzata Rejmer, Polish novelist Małgorzata Zofia (Margo) Rejmer, born in 1985 in Warsaw, is a Polish novelist, reporter, and writer of short stories. Read more
06 Sep 1984: Helena Ekholm, Swedish skier Helena Ekholm is a Swedish former biathlete. She was born in Helgum, Sollefteå. She is the 2009 world champion in pursuit and the 2011 world champion in individual. She also won the Women's Overall World Cup in the 2008–09 season. In 2009, Ekholm won the Jerring Award. Read more
06 Sep 1984: William Porterfield, Northern Irish cricketer William Thomas Stuart Porterfield is an Irish former cricketer from Northern Ireland and a former captain of the Ireland cricket team. He played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire and Warwickshire. A left-handed batsman, he played for Ireland from 2006 to 2022, and has captained Ireland at all levels from Under-13 and is considered one of the greatest Irish cricketers of all time. During Afghanistan T20I series in March 2017, he passed 1,000 runs in T20Is and became the first player from Ireland to do so. In May 2018, he was named as the captain of Ireland's squad for their first ever Test match, against Pakistan. He announced his retirement from international cricket on 16 June 2022. Read more
06 Sep 1983: Jerry Blevins, American baseball player Jerry Richard Blevins, nicknamed Gordo, is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Blevins was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 17th round of the 2004 Major League Baseball draft, and made his major league debut in 2007. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics, Washington Nationals, New York Mets, and Atlanta Braves. He currently serves as a studio analyst for the Mets' pregame and postgame shows on SNY, where he sometimes does color commentary for the network. Read more
06 Sep 1983: Pippa Middleton, English socialite and author Philippa Charlotte Matthews is a British socialite, author and columnist. She is the younger sister of Catherine, Princess of Wales. Read more
06 Sep 1983: Braun Strowman, American wrestler and strongman Adam Joseph Scherr is an American professional wrestler, strongman and actor. As a wrestler, he is best known for his tenures in WWE, where he performs under the ring name Braun Strowman. Read more
06 Sep 1982: Temeka Johnson, American basketball player Temeka Rochelle Johnson is an American former professional basketball player, currently serving as the associate head coach for Louisiana. Her primary position was a point guard. Read more
06 Sep 1981: Yuki Abe, Japanese footballer Yuki Abe is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He played 53 times for Japan between 2005 and 2011 and was a member of the 2010 FIFA World Cup squad. Read more
06 Sep 1981: Yumiko Cheng, Hong Kong singer and actress Yumiko Cheng is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress. Cheng was given the Japanese nickname "Yumiko" by her friends in secondary school, and upon signing with EEG, adopted it as her official stagename. Read more
06 Sep 1981: Andrew Richardson, Jamaican cricketer Andrew Peter Richardson is a former West Indian cricketer who played in the role of a right arm fast medium bowler. Richardson picked up 192 wickets at an average of 23.96 in his first class career. He also featured for West Indies in the 2000 Under-19 Cricket World Cup, Jamaica, Sawbridgeworth Cricket Club and the Jamaica Tallawahs. Read more
06 Sep 1981: Mark Teahen, American baseball player Mark Thomas Teahen is an American-Canadian former professional baseball infielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals, Chicago White Sox, and Toronto Blue Jays. Read more
06 Sep 1980: Jillian Hall, American wrestler and singer Jillian Faye Hall is an American retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her tenure in WWE. Read more
06 Sep 1980: Kerry Katona, English singer and actress Kerry Jayne Elizabeth Katona is an English media personality and former singer. She was an original member of the pop girl group Atomic Kitten between 1998 and 2001, leaving as the group's success peaked. Katona won the third series of I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here in 2004, and subsequently went on to appear on various other reality television shows. Katona's personal life and subsequent drug addiction became the subject of the British tabloid press and she began starring in several MTV UK reality series documenting her life, including Kerry Katona: Crazy in Love (2008), Kerry Katona: Whole Again (2008), Kerry Katona: What's The Problem? (2009) and Kerry Katona: Coming Clean (2010). Read more
06 Sep 1980: Samuel Peter, Nigerian boxer Samuel Okon Peter is a Nigerian former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2019. He held the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title in 2008. At regional level, he held multiple heavyweight championships, including the NABF title twice between 2004 and 2007; and the USBA title in 2005. Read more
06 Sep 1980: Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer Joseph Michael Yobo is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a centre back. Read more
06 Sep 1979: Mike Arnaoutis, Greek boxer Michalis John Arnaoutis is a Greek professional boxer who challenged for the WBO light welterweight title in 2006. At regional level he held the WBO-NABO light welterweight title from 2004 to 2006 and the IBF-USBA light welterweight title from 2008 to 2009. Read more
06 Sep 1979: Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer Massimo Maccarone is an Italian football coach and former player, who played as a striker. He was nicknamed Big Mac during his playing days. Read more
06 Sep 1979: Carlos Adrián Morales, Mexican footballer Carlos Adrián Morales Higuera is a Mexican former professional footballer. He last played for Lobos BUAP on loan from Morelia in Liga MX. He recently was the manager of Atlético Morelia Read more
06 Sep 1979: Low Ki, American wrestler Brandon Silvestry is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Low Ki. He is best known for his time in TNA Wrestling, Ring of Honor (ROH) and Major League Wrestling (MLW) as Low Ki and Senshi and with WWE as Kaval. Read more
06 Sep 1978: Cisco Adler, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Cisco Sam Adler is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. Read more
06 Sep 1978: Foxy Brown, American rapper Inga DeCarlo Fung Marchand, known professionally as Foxy Brown, is an American rapper. She signed to Def Jam Recordings and released her debut studio album Ill Na Na (1996) to critical and commercial success. The album peaked at number seven on the US Billboard 200, received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), sold over seven million units worldwide, and was supported by the Billboard Hot 100 top ten single "I'll Be". Read more
06 Sep 1978: Alex Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player Alexander José Escobar [ess-COE-bar] is a Venezuelan former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Cleveland Indians, and Washington Nationals. Read more
06 Sep 1978: Mathew Horne, English actor and screenwriter Mathew Frazer Horne is an English actor, comedian, singer, television presenter, and narrator. He is best known for appearing on several BBC sketch shows and sitcoms, most notably Gavin & Stacey, The Catherine Tate Show, Horne & Corden, and Bad Education. Read more
06 Sep 1978: Homare Sawa, Japanese footballer Homare Sawa is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a forward and midfielder. Her club career spanned 24 seasons, mostly with Nippon TV Beleza and INAC Kobe Leonessa. With Sawa as captain, the Japan national team won the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, with Sawa receiving both the Golden Ball and Golden Boot. Regarded as one of Japan's greatest ever female footballers, Sawa was named the 2011 FIFA Women's World Player of the Year, becoming the first Asian person of any gender to receive a major year-end individual football award. She also led Japan to the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Read more
06 Sep 1976: Rodrigo Amarante, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist Rodrigo Amarante de Castro Neves is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger. He is part of the bands Los Hermanos, Orquestra Imperial, and Little Joy, and released his first solo record, Cavalo, in Brazil in late 2013 and worldwide in May 2014. He also wrote and performed the narcocorrido "Tuyo", the theme song for the Netflix Original Series Narcos (2015) and Narcos: Mexico (2018), and wrote the score for the film Entebbe (2018). Read more
06 Sep 1976: Naomie Harris, English actress Naomie Melanie Harris is a British actress. She started her career when she was a child, appearing in the television series Simon and the Witch in 1987. In 2016, she starred in the film Moonlight, a performance that earned her a number of accolades, including nominations for the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Harris was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to drama. Read more
06 Sep 1976: Jon Ander López, Spanish footballer (died 2013) Jon Ander López Maquiera, known as Jon Ander in his playing days, was a Spanish footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Read more
06 Sep 1976: Tom Pappas, American decathlete and coach Tom Pappas is a retired American decathlete. Read more
06 Sep 1975: Derrek Lee, American baseball player and coach Derrek Leon Lee, nicknamed "D-Lee", is an American former professional baseball first baseman. Lee played with the San Diego Padres, Florida Marlins, Chicago Cubs, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB). Read more
06 Sep 1975: Ryoko Tani, Japanese judoka and politician Ryoko Tani is a Japanese politician and retired female judoka. Read more
06 Sep 1974: Tim Henman, English tennis player and sportscaster Timothy Henry Henman is a British former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 4 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) during the early 2000s. Henman won 15 career ATP Tour titles, including a Masters event at the 2003 Paris Masters. A serve-and-volley player, he was the first British man to reach the singles semifinals of Wimbledon since Roger Taylor in the 1970s. Henman reached six major semifinals, and earned a 40–14 win-loss record with the Great Britain Davis Cup team. Read more
06 Sep 1974: Nina Persson, Swedish singer-songwriter and musician Nina Elisabet Persson is a Swedish musician who is the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band The Cardigans. She has also released two albums as A Camp and one under her own name, and has appeared as a guest artist with other acts. Read more
06 Sep 1974: Justin Whalin, American actor Justin Garrett Whalin is an American drama teacher, administrator, and former actor. He portrayed the teenage Andy Barclay in Child's Play 3, Ridley Freeborn in Dungeons & Dragons, and Jimmy Olsen in the American television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. Read more
06 Sep 1973: Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer Carlo Cudicini is an Italian professional football coach and former player who played as a goalkeeper. He is currently loan player technical coach at Premier League club Chelsea, where he also serves as a club ambassador. Read more
06 Sep 1973: Greg Rusedski, Canadian-English tennis player and sportscaster Gregory Rusedski is a Canadian-British former professional tennis player. He was the British No. 1 in 1997, 1999 and 2006, and reached the ATP ranking of world No. 4 for periods from 6 October 1997 to 12 October 1997 and from 25 May 1998 to 21 June 1998. Read more
06 Sep 1973: Alessandro Troncon, Italian rugby player and coach Alessandro Troncon is a former Italian rugby union player. Read more
06 Sep 1972: Dylan Bruno, American actor and model Dylan Bruno is an American actor and former model. His first major film role was a supporting part in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998), followed by a lead role in the horror film The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999). On television, Bruno portrayed FBI agent Colby Granger in Numb3rs and disgraced former Army Ranger Jason Paul Dean in NCIS. Read more
06 Sep 1972: Idris Elba, English actor Sir Idrissa Akuna Elba is an English actor, DJ, rapper, and producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for three BAFTA Awards and eight Primetime Emmy Awards. He was named in the Time 100 list of the Most Influential People in the World in 2016. His films have grossed over US$9.8 billion at the global box office, making him one of the top 20 highest-grossing actors. In 2025, Elba was named as the UK's ninth-most influential Black person in the 2026 Powerlist. Read more
06 Sep 1972: Justina Machado, American actress Justina Milagros Machado is an American actress. She began her career playing secondary roles on television and film before starring as Vanessa Diaz in the HBO comedy-drama series, Six Feet Under (2001–05), for which she received Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. Machado later starred in the short-lived series Missing, Three Rivers and Welcome to the Family and was a regular cast member in the first season of the USA Network crime drama Queen of the South. Read more
06 Sep 1972: Saulius Mikalajūnas, Lithuanian footballer Saulius Mikalajūnas is a retired Lithuanian international football midfielder. He obtained a total number of 42 caps for the Lithuania national football team, scoring one goal. He also played in Russia during his professional career. Read more
06 Sep 1972: Anika Noni Rose, American actress and singer Anika Noni Rose is an American actress. She is best known for voicing Tiana in The Princess and the Frog (2009). She was named a Disney Legend in 2011. Read more
06 Sep 1971: Devang Gandhi, Indian cricketer Devang Jayant Gandhi is a former Indian cricketer. He was a right-handed opening batsman and a very occasional right-arm medium-pace bowler. He played for Bengal, Hadleigh and Thundersley Cricket Club, Essex. Read more
06 Sep 1971: Asko Künnap, Estonian poet and illustrator Asko Künnap is an Estonian designer, writer, and artist. Read more
06 Sep 1971: Dolores O'Riordan, Irish singer-songwriter (died 2018) Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan was an Irish singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who achieved international fame as the lead vocalist of the rock band the Cranberries. O'Riordan was the principal songwriter of the band and also played acoustic and electric guitars. She became one of the most recognisable voices in alternative rock and was known for her lilting mezzo-soprano voice, signature yodel, use of keening, and strong Limerick accent. Read more
06 Sep 1970: Cheyne Coates, Australian singer-songwriter and producer April M. Coates is an Australian singer, songwriter and producer who performs as Cheyne Coates or Cheyne. Coates and Andrew Van Dorsselaer comprised the duo Madison Avenue (1998–2003). Their song "Don't Call Me Baby" peaked at number two on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Singles Chart in 1999 and topped the charts in New Zealand and the United Kingdom in 2000, as well as the Billboard dance charts the United States. Since the break-up of Madison Avenue in 2003, Cheyne recorded an album, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and its first single "I've Got Your Number" which reached No. 26 in 2004. Read more
06 Sep 1970: Igor Korolev, Russian-Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2011) Igor Borisovich Korolev was a Russian-Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Korolev played over 700 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1992 until 2004. Korolev returned to Russia, and played a further seven seasons in the Russian Super League (RSL) and the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) before retiring from active play in 2010. In 2011, Korolev accepted an assistant coach position with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the KHL. Korolev was killed in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash along with nearly the entire roster of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. A native of the Russian Republic of the Soviet Union, Korolev became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 2000. Read more
06 Sep 1970: Emily Maitlis, Canadian-English journalist Emily Maitlis is a British journalist and former newsreader for the BBC who was the lead anchor of the BBC Two news and current affairs programme Newsnight from 2018 until the end of 2021. Maitlis has since been a presenter of the daily podcast The News Agents on LBC Radio. Read more
06 Sep 1970: Rhett Miller, American alternative country singer-songwriter and guitarist Stewart Ransom "Rhett" Miller II is the lead singer of the alternative country rock band Old 97's. He also records and performs as a solo musician, and has been published as a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Read more
06 Sep 1970: DJ Spooky, American electronic and experimental hip hop musician Paul Dennis Miller, known professionally as DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is an American electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called by critics "illbient" or "trip hop". He is a turntablist, record producer, philosopher, and author. He borrowed his stage name from the character The Subliminal Kid in the novel Nova Express by William S. Burroughs. Having studied philosophy and French literature at Bowdoin College, he has become a professor of Music Mediated Art at the European Graduate School and is the executive editor of Origin magazine. Read more
06 Sep 1969: Tony DiTerlizzi, American author and illustrator Tony M. DiTerlizzi is an American fantasy artist, children's book creator, and motion picture producer. Read more
06 Sep 1969: Ben Finegold, American chess player and educator Benjamin Philip Finegold is an American chess grandmaster and YouTuber/Twitch streamer. He had previously been nicknamed the "strongest International Master in the United States" until receiving his Grandmaster (GM) title in 2009. Read more
06 Sep 1969: Michellie Jones, Australian-American triathlete Michellie Yvonne Jones is an Australian triathlete. She has won two ITU Triathlon World Championships, an Olympic silver medal, and the 2006 Ironman World Championship. She won a gold medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics as a guide for Katie Kelly, when paratriathlon made its debut at the Paralympics. Read more
06 Sep 1969: CeCe Peniston, American singer-songwriter, actress, and former beauty pageant winner Cecilia Veronica "CeCe" Peniston is an American singer and former beauty queen. In the early 1990s, she scored five number one hits on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play. Her signature song "Finally" reached the No. 5 US Hot 100 and No. 2 in the UK. Read more
06 Sep 1968: Saeed Anwar, Pakistani cricketer Saeed Anwar is a Pakistani former cricketer and captain of the national Test and ODI teams. An opening batsman and occasional slow left arm orthodox bowler, Anwar played international cricket between 1989 and 2003. He is considered one of greatest opening batsmen Pakistan has ever produced and also regarded as one of the finest batsmen of his era. Anwar has scored twenty centuries in ODIs, more than any other Pakistani batsmen in this format. He played 55 Test matches, scoring 4052 runs with eleven centuries, average 45.52. In 247 One Day Internationals (ODIs) he made 8824 runs at an average of 39.21. Anwar is credited for being one of the most stylish batsmen of the 1990s alongside Mark Waugh, Damien Martyn and Sourav Ganguly. Cricket fans widely admire his timing, elegance, and placement of cricket shots. He was a part of the squad which finished as runners-up at the 1999 Cricket World Cup. Read more
06 Sep 1968: Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish author Christopher Brookmyre is a Scottish novelist whose novels, generally in a crime or police procedural frame, mix comedy, politics, social comment and action with a strong narrative. He has been referred to as a Tartan Noir author. His debut novel was Quite Ugly One Morning; subsequent works have included All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye (2005), Black Widow (2016) and Bedlam (2013), which was written in parallel with the development of a first-person shooter videogame, also called Bedlam. He also writes historical fiction with his wife, Dr Marisa Haetzman, under the pseudonym Ambrose Parry. Read more
06 Sep 1968: Paul Rea, American journalist Paul V. Rea is an American radio, TV and web journalist, and media personality based in Clarkesville, Georgia. Read more
06 Sep 1967: William DuVall, American singer-songwriter and guitarist William Bradley DuVall is an American musician. He has been the co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Alice in Chains since 2006, sharing vocal duties with Jerry Cantrell. DuVall joined Alice in Chains after original lead singer Layne Staley's death and has recorded three albums with the band: 2009's Black Gives Way to Blue, 2013's The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, and 2018's Rainier Fog. He won an ASCAP Pop Music Award for co-writing the song "I Know" for Dionne Farris in 1996, and has earned three Grammy Award nominations as a member of Alice in Chains. Read more
06 Sep 1967: Macy Gray, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress Natalie Renée McIntyre, known professionally as Macy Gray, is an American R&B and soul singer. She is known for her distinctive raspy voice and a singing style heavily influenced by Billie Holiday. Her 1999 single, "I Try", was her commercial breakthrough; the song peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100, won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards, and preceded her debut studio album, On How Life Is (1999). Since then, she has released ten studio albums. Read more
06 Sep 1967: Kalli Kalde, Estonian painter and illustrator Kalli Kalde is an Estonian painter, graphic artist and illustrator. Read more
06 Sep 1967: Milan Lukić, Bosnian Serb convicted of war crimes by the ICTY Milan Lukić is the former leader of the Bosnian Serb paramilitary force the White Eagles that operated during the Bosnian War. He was found guilty by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in July 2009 of crimes against humanity and violations of war customs committed in the Višegrad municipality of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian war and sentenced to life in prison. Read more
06 Sep 1967: Igor Štimac, Croatian footballer and manager Igor Štimac is a Croatian professional football manager and former player. Read more
06 Sep 1965: Terry Bickers, English singer-songwriter and guitarist Terence "Terry" Robert Arthur Bickers is an English musician and songwriter. A guitarist and singer, he is best known for his work as the original lead guitarist with the House of Love and as the former frontman/guitarist for Levitation and Cradle. During the late 1980s and 1990s Bickers was hailed as one of Britain's leading young guitarists, as well as attracting plenty of press coverage due to his unconventional pronouncements. Read more
06 Sep 1965: Darren Clark, Australian sprinter Darren Edward Clark is an Australian retired sprinter who specialised in the 400 metres. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics. Read more
06 Sep 1965: Tony Fleet, Australian darts player Anthony "Tony" Fleet is an Australian former professional darts player who competed in British Darts Organisation (BDO), World Darts Federation (WDF) and Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Read more
06 Sep 1965: Christopher Nolan, Irish author and poet (died 2009) Christopher Nolan was an Irish poet and author. He was born in Mullingar, Ireland, but later moved to Dublin. He was educated at the Central Remedial Clinic School, Mount Temple Comprehensive School and at Trinity College, Dublin. His first book was published when he was fifteen. He won the Whitbread Book Award for his autobiography in 1987. He was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in the UK, the medal of excellence from the United Nations Society of Writers, and a Person of the Year award in Ireland. Read more
06 Sep 1965: Van Tiffin, American football player Van Leigh Tiffin is an American former professional football player who was a placekicker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide. Read more
06 Sep 1964: Rosie Perez, American actress, dancer, and director Rosa Maria Perez is an American actress. Her breakthrough came at age 24 with her portrayal of Tina in the film Do the Right Thing (1989). Her starring film roles since include It Could Happen to You (1994), The Road to El Dorado (2000), The Take (2007), Pineapple Express (2008), and Birds of Prey (2020). Read more
06 Sep 1963: Mark Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Nelson Chesnutt is an American country music singer and songwriter. Between 1990 and 1999, he had his greatest chart success recording for Universal Music Group Nashville's MCA and Decca branches, with a total of eight albums between those two labels. During this timespan, Chesnutt also charted twenty top-ten hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, of which eight reached number one: "Brother Jukebox", "I'll Think of Something", "It Sure Is Monday", "Almost Goodbye", "I Just Wanted You to Know", "Gonna Get a Life", "It's a Little Too Late", and a cover of Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing". His first three albums for MCA along with a 1996 Greatest Hits package issued on Decca are all certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA); 1994's What a Way to Live, also issued on Decca, is certified gold. After a self-titled album in 2002 on Columbia Records, Chesnutt has continued to record predominantly on independent labels. Read more
06 Sep 1963: Pat Nevin, Scottish footballer and sportscaster Patrick Kevin Francis Michael Nevin is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a winger. In a twenty-year career, he appeared for Clyde, Chelsea, Everton, Tranmere Rovers, Kilmarnock and Motherwell. He won 28 caps for Scotland, scattered across a ten-year international career, and was selected for the UEFA Euro 1992 finals squad. Since retiring as a player, Nevin has worked as a chief executive of Motherwell and as a football writer and broadcaster. Read more
06 Sep 1963: Betsy Russell, American actress Betsy Russell is an American actress who is best known for her roles in Private School (1983), Tomboy (1985), and as Jill Tuck, one of the primary characters of the Saw film series from 2006 to 2010. Read more
06 Sep 1963: Alice Sebold, American author Alice Sebold is an American author. She is known for her novels The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon, and a memoir, Lucky. The Lovely Bones was on The New York Times Best Seller list and was adapted into a film by the same name in 2009. Read more
06 Sep 1963: Bryan Simonaire, American engineer and politician Bryan Warner Simonaire is an American politician who serves as a Maryland state senator representing District 31, which encompasses much of northern Anne Arundel County's Baltimore suburbs. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the minority leader of the Maryland Senate from 2020 to 2023. Read more
06 Sep 1963: Geert Wilders, Dutch lawyer and politician Geert Wilders is a Dutch politician who has led the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) since he founded it in 2006. He is also the party's leader in the House of Representatives. Wilders is best known for his right-wing populism, anti-immigration, opposition to Islam, and Euroscepticism. His views have made him a controversial figure in the Netherlands and abroad. Since 2004, he has been protected at all times by armed police. Read more
06 Sep 1962: Chris Christie, American lawyer and politician, 55th Governor of New Jersey Christopher James Christie is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 55th governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018. A member of the Republican Party, he was the United States attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008 and a Morris County commissioner from 1995 to 1997. He was a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 and 2024. Read more
06 Sep 1962: Marina Kaljurand, Estonian badminton player and diplomat, Estonia Ambassador to Russia Marina Kaljurand is an Estonian politician and Member of the European Parliament. Kaljurand served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in Taavi Rõivas' second cabinet as an independent. Earlier, she served as the Ambassador of Estonia to the United States, Russia, Mexico, Canada, Kazakhstan, and Israel. Read more
06 Sep 1962: Elizabeth Vargas, American journalist Elizabeth Anne Vargas is an American television journalist who is the lead investigative reporter/documentary anchor for A&E Networks, and was the host for Fox's revival of America's Most Wanted (2021). She began her new position on May 28, 2018, after being an anchor of ABC's television newsmagazine 20/20 and ABC News specials for the previous 14 years. She is also a news anchor for NewsNation, where she hosts Elizabeth Vargas Reports, currently based in New York City. Read more
06 Sep 1962: Kevin Willis, American basketball player and fashion designer Kevin Alvin Willis is an American former professional basketball player mostly known for playing with the Atlanta Hawks in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was a 7-foot power forward/center. Excluding players not yet eligible, he holds the record for most games played among those not in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Read more
06 Sep 1961: Simon Reeve, Australian journalist and game show host Simon Reeve is an Australian television presenter and journalist, best known for his association with the Seven Network. Read more
06 Sep 1961: Wendi Richter, American wrestler Victoria "Wendi" Richter is an American occupational therapist and former professional wrestler. She began her professional wrestling career in companies such as the National Wrestling Alliance, where she teamed with Joyce Grable, with whom she held the NWA Women's World Tag Team Championship twice. In the 1980s, she joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). She held the WWF Women's Championship twice and feuded with The Fabulous Moolah over the title. She was also involved in a storyline with singer Cyndi Lauper called the "Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection". Richter, however, left the WWF after losing the championship in controversial fashion. She then worked in the World Wrestling Council and American Wrestling Association, where she held both companies' women's titles. Read more
06 Sep 1961: Scott Travis, American rock drummer Mark Scott Travis is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the English heavy metal band Judas Priest, the Irish rock band Thin Lizzy, and the supergroup Elegant Weapons. He was also a longtime member of the American heavy metal band Racer X during their initial run and their subsequent reformation until their 2009 breakup. Read more
06 Sep 1961: Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian musician and songwriter Paul Waaktaar-Savoy is a Norwegian musician and songwriter. He is best known for his work as the main songwriter and guitarist in the Norwegian synth-pop band a-ha, which has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. He has written or co-written most of the band's biggest hits, including "The Sun Always Shines on T.V.", "Hunting High and Low", "Take On Me", the 1987 James Bond theme "The Living Daylights" and the ballad "Summer Moved On". In addition, he is also a painter. Read more
06 Sep 1959: Bill Root, Canadian ice hockey player William John Root is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey defenceman who played six seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, St. Louis Blues and Philadelphia Flyers between 1982 and 1988. As a youth, he played in the 1972 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Toronto. Read more
06 Sep 1958: Buster Bloodvessel, English singer-songwriter Douglas Steven Trendle, better known as Buster Bloodvessel, is an English singer who has been the frontman of the two-tone band Bad Manners since forming the band in 1976. He took his stage name from the bus conductor played by Ivor Cutler in the Beatles' 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour. Read more
06 Sep 1958: Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter Jeffrey Marshall Foxworthy is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and radio and television host. He is a member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, with Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall, and formerly Ron White. Known for his "You might be a redneck" one-liners, Foxworthy has released six major-label comedy albums. His first two albums were each certified triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. He has written several books based on his redneck jokes, as well as an autobiography titled No Shirt, No Shoes… No Problem! Read more
06 Sep 1958: Nigel Westlake, Australian composer and conductor Nigel Westlake is an Australian composer, musician and conductor. As a composer for the screen, his film credits include the feature films Ali's Wedding, Paper Planes, Miss Potter, Babe and its sequel Babe: Pig in the City, Children of the Revolution, Blueback and The Nugget. He also composed the theme for SBS World News. Read more
06 Sep 1958: Michael Winslow, American actor Michael Leslie Winslow is an American actor, comedian, and beatboxer billed as The Man of 10,000 Sound Effects for his ability to make realistic sounds using only his voice. He is best known for his roles in all seven Police Academy films as Larvell Jones. He has also appeared in: Spaceballs, Cheech and Chong's Next Movie, Nice Dreams, The Love Boat, and commercials for Cadbury and GEICO. Read more
06 Sep 1958: The Barbarian, Tongan wrestler Sione Havea Vailahi is a Tongan professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, The Barbarian. He is best known for his various stints with Jim Crockett Promotions, World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and for being a part of tag teams the Powers of Pain with The Warlord and the Faces of Fear with Meng. Read more
06 Sep 1957: Ali Divandari, Iranian painter, sculptor, and journalist Ali Divandari is an Iranian cartoonist, painter, graphic designer, sculptor and journalist. Read more
06 Sep 1957: Michaëlle Jean, Haitian-Canadian journalist and politician, 27th Governor General of Canada Michaëlle Jean is a Canadian former journalist who served as the 27th governor general of Canada from 2005 to 2010. She is the first Haitian Canadian and Black person to hold this office. Read more
06 Sep 1957: José Sócrates, Portuguese engineer and politician, 119th Prime Minister of Portugal José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa, commonly known as José Sócrates, is a Portuguese politician who was the prime minister of Portugal from 12 March 2005 to 21 June 2011. For the second half of 2007, he acted as president-in-office of the Council of the European Union. Read more
06 Sep 1956: Bill Ritter, American lawyer and politician, 41st Governor of Colorado August William Ritter Jr. is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 41st governor of Colorado from 2007 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the district attorney for Denver before his election to the governorship in 2006. Read more
06 Sep 1956: Steven Yearley, English sociologist and academic Steve Yearley is a British sociologist. He is Professor of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge at the University of Edinburgh, a post he has held since 2005. He has been designated a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is currently Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. Read more
06 Sep 1955: Raymond Benson, American author and playwright Raymond Benson is an American writer known for his James Bond novels published between 1997 and 2003. Read more
06 Sep 1954: Carly Fiorina, American businesswoman and activist Cara Carleton "Carly" Fiorina is an American businesswoman and politician, known primarily for her tenure as chief executive officer (CEO) of Hewlett-Packard (HP) from 1999 to 2005. Fiorina is the first woman to lead a Fortune Top-20 company. She is also known for her candidacies for U.S. Senate in California in 2010 and for president of the United States in 2016. Read more
06 Sep 1954: Demetris Kizas, Cypriot footballer Demetris Kizas is a Cypriot former international footballer. Read more
06 Sep 1954: Patrick O'Hearn, American bassist and composer Patrick John O'Hearn is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and recording artist. Read more
06 Sep 1954: John Sauven, English economist and environmentalist John Sauven is a British environmentalist who was executive director of Greenpeace's UK division from 2008 to 2022, and previously responsible for Greenpeace's communications. Sauven started working in a temporary position for Greenpeace in 1991 while waiting for a place at teacher's training college. As director, Sauven has helped to shape Greenpeace UK's commitment to defend the natural world and promote peace by investigating, exposing and confronting environmental abuse, and championing environmentally responsible solutions. Read more
06 Sep 1952: Simon Burns, English politician, Minister of State for Transport Sir Simon Hugh McGuigan Burns is a British politician, who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Chelmsford since being elected at the 1987 general election until the 2017 general election. Read more
06 Sep 1952: Vladimir Kazachyonok, Russian footballer, coach, and manager (died 2017) Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kazachyonok was a Soviet football player and Russian coach. He was the academy director with Zenit St. Petersburg until his death in 2017. Read more
06 Sep 1952: Buddy Miller, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Steven Paul "Buddy" Miller is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist and producer. Miller is married to and has recorded with singer-songwriter Julie Miller. Read more
06 Sep 1951: Melih Kibar, Turkish composer (died 2005) Melih Kibar was a Turkish composer. Read more
06 Sep 1949: Iris Robinson, Northern Irish politician Iris Robinson is a former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician in Northern Ireland.
She is married to Peter Robinson, who was First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2008 to 2016. Read more
06 Sep 1948: Claydes Charles Smith, American guitarist (died 2006) Claydes "Charles" Smith was an American musician best known as co-founder and lead guitarist of the group Kool & the Gang. Read more
06 Sep 1947: Jane Curtin, American actress and comedian Jane Therese Curtin is an American actress and comedian. Read more
06 Sep 1947: Bruce Rioch, English footballer and manager Bruce David Rioch is a British football manager and former player for the Scotland national team. His last managerial post was at AaB in the Danish Superliga in 2008. Read more
06 Sep 1947: Jacob Rubinovitz, Polish-Israeli engineer and academic (died 2018) Jacob Rubinovitz is an Israeli scientist. He was the head of the Laboratory for robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) at the Technion. Read more
06 Sep 1947: Sylvester, American singer-songwriter (died 1988) Sylvester James Jr., known simply as Sylvester, was an American singer-songwriter. Primarily active in the genres of disco, rhythm and blues, and soul, he was known for his flamboyant and androgynous appearance, falsetto singing voice, and hit disco singles in the late 1970s and 1980s. Read more
06 Sep 1946: Ron Boone, American basketball player and commentator Ronald Bruce Boone is an American former professional basketball player. He had a 13-year career in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association (NBA). Boone set a record for most consecutive games played in professional basketball history with 1,041 and claims to have never missed a game from when he started playing basketball in the fourth grade until his retirement. Boone is the current color commentator on Utah Jazz broadcasts. Read more
06 Sep 1946: Roger Knight, English cricketer and educator Roger David Verdon Knight is an English administrator, cricketer and schoolmaster. He was awarded the OBE in 2007. He is an Honorary Life Member of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and was President of the club from 2015 to 2016. Read more
06 Sep 1946: Shirley M. Malcom, American scientist, academic and educator Shirley M. Malcom currently serves as a Senior Advisor and Director of SEA Change at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Malcom is a trustee of Caltech, and a regent of Morgan State University. Malcom serves on the boards of the Heinz Endowments, Public Agenda, the National Math and Science Initiative and Digital Promise. Read more
06 Sep 1944: Donna Haraway, American author, academic, and activist Donna Jeanne Haraway is an American philosopher, who contributed to the intersection of information technology and feminist theory, and is a scholar in contemporary ecofeminism. Her work criticizes anthropocentrism, emphasizes the self-organizing powers of nonhuman processes, and explores dissonant relations between those processes and cultural practices, rethinking sources of ethics. Read more
06 Sep 1944: Swoosie Kurtz, American actress Swoosie Kurtz is an American actress. She is the recipient of an Emmy Award and two Tony Awards. Read more
06 Sep 1943: Gordon Birtwistle, English engineer and politician Gordon Birtwistle is a British Liberal Democrat politician and former MP. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Burnley, England, from May 2010 to May 2015. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2010 to 2012. From 2013, he was Government Apprenticeship Ambassador to Business. Read more
06 Sep 1943: Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate Sir Richard John Roberts is a British biochemist and molecular biologist. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing. He currently works at New England Biolabs. Read more
06 Sep 1943: Roger Waters, English singer-songwriter and bass player George Roger Waters is an English singer-songwriter, musician and political activist. In 1965, he co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd as the bassist. Following the departure of the band's main songwriter Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became Pink Floyd's principal lyricist, co-lead vocalist and conceptual leader until his departure in 1985. Read more
06 Sep 1942: Dave Bargeron, American trombonist and tuba player (died 2025) David Wayne Bargeron was an American trombonist and tuba player who was a member of the jazz-rock group Blood, Sweat & Tears. Read more
06 Sep 1942: Richard Hutton, English cricketer Richard Anthony Hutton is a former English cricketer, who played in five Test matches for the England cricket team in 1971. A right-handed batsman and right-arm seam bowler, Hutton's bowling was probably his stronger discipline, but he was considered an all-rounder. He played first-class cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. He is the son of cricketer Len Hutton, described by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack as "one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket." Read more
06 Sep 1942: Mel McDaniel, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2011) Melvin Huston McDaniel was an American country music artist. Many of his top hits were released in the 1980s, including "Louisiana Saturday Night", "Big Ole Brew", "Stand Up", "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On", "I Call It Love", "Stand on It", and a remake of Chuck Berry's "Let It Roll ". Read more
06 Sep 1941: Roger Law, English illustrator Roger Law is a British caricaturist, ceramicist and one half of Luck and Flaw, creators of the popular satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image. Read more
06 Sep 1941: Monica Mason, South African ballerina and director Dame Monica Margaret Mason is a former ballet dancer, teacher, and director of The Royal Ballet. In more than a half-century with the company, she established a reputation as a versatile performer, a skilled rehearsal director, and a capable administrator. Read more
06 Sep 1940: John M. Hayes, American scientist (died 2017) John Michael Hayes was an American oceanographer. He worked at Indiana University Bloomington, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Read more
06 Sep 1940: Elizabeth Murray, American painter and illustrator (died 2007) Elizabeth Murray was an American painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Her works are in many major public collections, including those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Wadsworth Atheneum. Murray was known for her use of shaped canvases. Read more
06 Sep 1940: Jackie Trent, English-Spanish singer-songwriter and actress (died 2015) Yvonne Ann Gregory, known professionally as Jackie Trent, was an English singer-songwriter and actress. Her 1965 song "Where Are You Now" reached number one in the UK singles chart. She co-wrote several hits for Petula Clark in the 1960s and the theme tune to the Australian soap opera Neighbours in 1985. Read more
06 Sep 1939: Brigid Berlin, American actress, painter, and photographer (died 2020) Brigid Emmett Berlin, also known as Brigid Polk, was an American artist and Warhol superstar. Read more
06 Sep 1939: David Allan Coe, American outlaw country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2026) David Allan Coe, also known by his initials DAC, was an American outlaw country singer and songwriter. Coe took up music after spending much of his early life in reform schools and prisons. He first came to prominence for busking in Nashville and initially played mostly in the blues style, before transitioning to country music, becoming a major part of the 1970s outlaw country scene. His biggest hits include "You Never Even Call Me by My Name", "Longhaired Redneck", "The Ride", "Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile", and "She Used to Love Me a Lot". Read more
06 Sep 1939: Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2026) Susumu Tonegawa was a Japanese scientist who was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of V(D)J recombination, the genetic mechanism which produces antibody diversity. Although he won the Nobel Prize for his work in immunology, Tonegawa was a molecular biologist by training and, following his Nobel Prize win, changed fields to neuroscience, examining the molecular, cellular and neuronal basis of memory formation and retrieval. Read more
06 Sep 1938: Joan Tower, American pianist, composer, and conductor Joan Tower is a Grammy-winning contemporary American composer, concert pianist, and conductor. Her work has been performed worldwide. Since gaining recognition for her first orchestral composition, Sequoia (1981), a tone poem that structurally depicts a giant tree from trunk to needles, she has written a variety of instrumental works, including Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman—something of a response to Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man—the Island Prelude, five string quartets, and an assortment of other tone poems. Tower was the pianist and a founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning Da Capo Chamber Players, which commissioned and premiered many of her early works, including her widely performed Petroushskates. The New Yorker has called her "one of the most successful woman composers of all time". Read more
06 Sep 1937: Sergio Aragonés, Spanish-Mexican author and illustrator Sergio Aragonés Domenech is a Spanish-Mexican-American cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to Mad magazine and creating the comic book Groo the Wanderer. Read more
06 Sep 1937: Janusz Kurczab, Polish fencer and mountaineer (died 2015) Janusz Kurczab was a Polish fencer, mountaineer and expedition leader. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Expert in the history of Himalayism, editor of the online climbing website wspinanie.pl. Responsible for the creation of a Central Mountain Archives in the multimedia mountain center "Crown of the Earth" in Zawoja. Read more
06 Sep 1937: Jo Anne Worley, American actress, comedian, and singer Jo Anne Worley is an American actress, comedian, and singer. Her work covers television, films, theater, game shows, talk shows, commercials, and cartoons. Worley is widely known for her work on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Read more
06 Sep 1935: Isabelle Collin Dufresne, French actress and author (died 2014) Isabelle Collin Dufresne, known professionally as Ultra Violet, was a French-American artist, actress, and writer. She initially studied and worked with Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí before relocating to New York, where she became closely associated with Pop artist Andy Warhol and his Factory scene. As a Warhol superstar she appeared in several of his underground films. Beyond her work in film, she was an active participant in the 1960s and 1970s avant-garde art scene, collaborating with other notable artists and later documenting her experiences in memoirs that chronicled life at Warhol's Factory and her interactions with the era’s leading cultural figures. Read more
06 Sep 1935: Jock Wallace Jr., Scottish footballer and coach (died 1996) John Martin Bokas Wallace was a Scottish professional football player and manager. Wallace played as a goalkeeper, and has the unique distinction of being the only player ever to play in the English, Welsh and Scottish Cups in the same season; this was set during the 1966–67 season where he played in the FA Cup and Welsh Cup for Hereford United, and in the Scottish Cup when he moved to Berwick Rangers. Read more
06 Sep 1932: Colin McColl, English intelligence officer Sir Colin Hugh Verel McColl, was Head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1989 to 1994. Read more
06 Sep 1932: Gilles Tremblay, Canadian composer and educator (died 2017) Gilles Tremblay, was a Canadian composer and teacher. Read more
06 Sep 1931: Bud Shrake, American journalist, author, and screenwriter (died 2009) Edwin A. "Bud" Shrake Jr. was an American journalist, sportswriter, novelist, biographer and screenwriter. He co-wrote a series of golfing advice books with golf coach Harvey Penick, including Harvey Penick's Little Red Book, a golf guide that became the best-selling sports book in publishing history. Called a “lion of Texas letters” by the Austin American-Statesman, Shrake was a member of the Texas Film Hall of Fame, and received the Lon Tinkle lifetime achievement award from the Texas Institute of Letters and the Texas Book Festival Bookend Award. Read more
06 Sep 1930: Charles Foley, American game designer, co-created Twister (died 2013) Charles Foley was the co-inventor of the game Twister, with Neil W. Rabens. Read more
06 Sep 1930: Helmut Piirimäe, Estonian historian and academic (died 2017) Helmut Piirimäe was a prominent Estonian historian. He was professor emeritus of University of Tartu and an honorary doctor of University of Uppsala. Read more
06 Sep 1929: Yash Johar, Indian film producer, founded Dharma Productions (died 2005) Yash Johar was an Indian film producer and the founder of Dharma Productions. His films were known for their lavish sets, exotic locations, and emphasis on Indian traditions and family values. He was the father of Karan Johar, a prominent filmmaker who founded Dharma Productions. Read more
06 Sep 1929: Ljubov Rebane, Estonian physicist and mathematician (died 1991) Ljubov A. Rebane was an Estonian physicist. She graduated from Leningrad University in 1952 and received a PhD in Physics and Mathematics in 1961 from the same university. Read more
06 Sep 1928: Fumihiko Maki, Japanese architect and academic, designed the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium and Makuhari Messe (died 2024) Fumihiko Maki was a Japanese architect. In 1993, he received the Pritzker Prize for his work, which often explores pioneering uses of new materials and fuses the cultures of east and west. Maki died on 6 June 2024, at the age of 95. Read more
06 Sep 1928: Robert M. Pirsig, American novelist and philosopher (died 2017) Robert Maynard Pirsig was an American writer and philosopher. He is the author of the philosophical books Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991), and he co-authored On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Selected and Unpublished Writings (2022) along with his wife and editor, Wendy Pirsig. Read more
06 Sep 1928: Yevgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer (died 2002) Yevgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov was a Soviet and Russian conductor, composer, and pianist. Read more
06 Sep 1928: Sid Watkins, English neurosurgeon and academic (died 2012) Eric Sidney Watkins, also known as Professor Sid or simply Prof, was an English neurosurgeon. From 1978 to 2004, Watkins served as Safety and Medical Delegate in Formula One. Read more
06 Sep 1926: Prince Claus of the Netherlands (died 2002) Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Jonkheer van Amsberg was Prince of the Netherlands from 30 April 1980 until his death on 6 October 2002, as the husband of Queen Beatrix. Read more
06 Sep 1926: Jack English Hightower, American lawyer and politician (died 2013) Jack English Hightower was a former Democratic U.S. representative from Texas's 13th congressional district, serving five terms from 1975 to 1985. Read more
06 Sep 1926: Arthur Oldham, English composer and conductor (died 2003) Arthur William Oldham OBE was an English composer and choirmaster. He founded the Edinburgh Festival Chorus in 1965, the Chorus of the Orchestre de Paris in 1975, and the Concertgebouw Orchestra Chorus in Amsterdam in 1979. He also worked with the Scottish Opera Chorus 1966–74 and directed the London Symphony Chorus 1969–76. For his work with the LSO Chorus, he won three Grammy Awards. He was also a composer, mainly of religious works, but also a ballet and an opera. Read more
06 Sep 1926: Maurice Prather, American photographer and director (died 2001) Maurice William Prather was an American motion picture and still photographer and film director. He was born in Miami, Florida, the son of Maurice J. Prather, a mechanic, cabinet maker, and woodworker, and Zora M. Prather, both of them born in Missouri. Young Maurice Jr. also had a younger sister, Laura Jo, some two years his junior. Read more
06 Sep 1925: Andrea Camilleri, Italian author, screenwriter, and director (died 2019) Andrea Calogero Camilleri was an Italian writer best known for his Salvo Montalbano crime novels. Read more
06 Sep 1925: Jimmy Reed, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1976) Mathis James Reed was an American blues musician and songwriter. His particular style of electric blues was popular with a wide variety of audiences. Reed's songs such as "Honest I Do" (1957), "Baby What You Want Me to Do" (1960), "Big Boss Man" (1961), and "Bright Lights, Big City" (1961) appeared on both Billboard magazine's R&B and Hot 100 singles charts. Read more
06 Sep 1924: John Melcher, American veterinarian and politician (died 2018) John David Melcher was an American politician of the Democratic Party who represented Montana for four terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1977 and as a United States senator for two terms from 1977 until 1989. Read more
06 Sep 1923: Peter II of Yugoslavia (died 1970) Peter II Karađorđević was the last King of Yugoslavia, reigning from October 1934 until he was deposed in November 1945. He was the last reigning member of the Karađorđević dynasty. Read more
06 Sep 1922: Adriano Moreira, Portuguese politician, Minister of the Overseas Provinces, President of the CDS – People's Party (died 2022) Adriano José Alves Moreira, ComC GCC GOIH GCSE was a Portuguese lawyer, professor and a leading political figure in Portugal throughout the second half of the 20th century. Read more
06 Sep 1921: Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (died 2004) Carmen Laforet was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature and her first novel Nada continued the Spanish tremendismo literary style begun by Camilo José Cela with his novel, La familia de Pascual Duarte. She received the Premio Nadal in 1944. Read more
06 Sep 1921: Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor, co-created the bar code (died 2012) Norman Joseph Woodland was an American inventor and engineer, best known as one of the inventors of the barcode, for which he received a patent in October 1952. Later, employed by IBM, he developed the format which became the ubiquitous Universal Product Code (UPC) of product labeling and check-out stands. Read more
06 Sep 1920: Elvira Pagã, Brazilian actress, singer, and author (died 2003) Elvira Olivieri Cozzolino, better known by her stage name Elvira Pagã, was a Brazilian vedette, actress, singer, writer, and painter. She was the first Rio Carnival Queen, the first woman to wear a bikini in public, and one of the first women to undergo cosmetic surgery in Brazil. Talented and controversial, she defied the status quo and challenged prevailing machismo with fearless audacity during the Brazilian military dictatorship and the revolutionary 1960s. In her later years, Pagã withdrew from public life, devoting herself to writing and painting, and eventually died in seclusion. Read more
06 Sep 1919: Wilson Greatbatch, American engineer and philanthropist (died 2011) Wilson Greatbatch was an American engineer and pioneering inventor. He held more than 325 patents and was a member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame and a recipient of the Lemelson–MIT Prize and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1990). Read more
06 Sep 1917: John Berry, American-French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1999) John Berry was an American film and theatre director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He went into exile in France when his career was interrupted by the Hollywood blacklist. Read more
06 Sep 1917: George Mann, English cricketer (died 2001) Francis George Mann, was an English Test cricket captain, who played for Cambridge University, MCC, Middlesex and England. A member of the Mann baronets brewing family, he was also a decorated Army officer. Read more
06 Sep 1917: Philipp von Boeselager, German soldier and economist (died 2008) Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager was the second-last surviving member of the 20 July Plot, a conspiracy of Wehrmacht officers to assassinate the German dictator Adolf Hitler in 1944. Read more
06 Sep 1915: Ed Oliver, American golfer (died 1961) Edward Stewart "Porky" Oliver, Jr. was an American professional golfer. He played on what is now known as the PGA Tour in the 1940s and 1950s. Read more
06 Sep 1915: Franz Josef Strauss, German lieutenant and politician, Minister President of Bavaria (died 1988) Franz Josef Strauss was a German politician. He was the long-time chairman of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) from 1961 until 1988, member of the federal cabinet in different positions between 1953 and 1969 and minister-president of Bavaria from 1978 until 1988. Strauss is also credited as a co-founder of European aerospace conglomerate Airbus. Read more
06 Sep 1913: Julie Gibson, American actress and singer (died 2019) Julie Gibson was an American singer and radio, television and film actress who had a career in movies during the 1940s. Gibson, who retired from the industry in 1984, was known for her work opposite The Three Stooges. She also collaborated with Orson Welles, John Huston, Ida Lupino and The Bowery Boys. Read more
06 Sep 1913: Leônidas, Brazilian footballer (died 2004) Leônidas da Silva was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward. He is regarded as one of the most important players of the first half of the 20th century. At the height of his career, Leônidas was very popular amongst the people of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro. Leônidas played for the Brazil national team in the 1934 and 1938 World Cups, and was the top scorer of the latter tournament. He was known as the "Black Diamond" and the "Rubber Man" due to his agility. Read more
06 Sep 1912: Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet, Scottish nobleman (died 1991) Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet,, was a Scottish nobleman, general practitioner and farmer. Forbes was a trans man; he was officially registered as the youngest daughter of John, Lord Sempill. After an uncomfortable upbringing, he began presenting as a man in the 1930s, following a course of medical treatments in Germany. He formally re-registered his birth as male in 1952, changing his name to Ewan, and was married a month later. Read more
06 Sep 1912: Wayne Barlow, American organist, composer, and director (died 1996) Wayne Brewster Barlow was an American composer of classical music. He was also a professor of music, organist, and choir director. Read more
06 Sep 1911: Harry Danning, American baseball player and coach (died 2004) Harry Danning, nicknamed "Harry the Horse", was an American professional baseball player. He played his entire Major League Baseball career as a catcher for the New York Giants, and was considered to be both an excellent hitter and one of the top defensive catchers of his era. He batted and threw right-handed, and was a member of the National League All-Star team for four consecutive years, 1938–41. Read more
06 Sep 1911: Charles Deutsch, French aerodynamics engineer and automobile maker, co-founder of the brand "DB (died 1980) Charles Deutsch (1911–1980) was a French aerodynamics engineer and automobile maker, founder of the brand "DB" with René Bonnet, and later of the "CD". Read more
06 Sep 1910: Walter Giesler, American soccer player, referee, and coach (died 1976) Walter John Giesler was an American soccer administrator, and coach best known for coaching the United States men's national soccer team in the 1950 FIFA World Cup. Read more
06 Sep 1909: Michael Gordon, American actor and director (died 1993) Michael Gordon was an American stage actor and stage and film director. Read more
06 Sep 1908: Anthony Wagner, English genealogist and academic (died 1995) Sir Anthony Richard Wagner was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. He served as Garter Principal King of Arms before retiring to the post of Clarenceux King of Arms. He was one of the most prolific authors on the subjects of heraldry and genealogy of the 20th century. Read more
06 Sep 1908: Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor, designed the Crazy Horse Memorial (died 1982) Korczak Ziolkowski was an American artist and sculptor known for designing the Crazy Horse Memorial. Read more
06 Sep 1906: Luis Federico Leloir, French-Argentine physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987) Luis Federico Leloir was an Argentine physician and biochemist who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the metabolic pathways by which carbohydrates are synthesized and converted into energy in the body. Although born in France, Leloir received the majority of his education at the University of Buenos Aires and was director of the private research group Fundación Instituto Campomar until his death in 1987. His research into sugar nucleotides, carbohydrate metabolism, and renal hypertension garnered international attention and led to significant progress in understanding, diagnosing and treating the congenital disease galactosemia. Leloir is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires. Read more
06 Sep 1900: W. A. C. Bennett, Canadian businessman and politician, 25th Premier of British Columbia (died 1979) William Andrew Cecil Bennett was a Canadian politician who served as the 25th premier of British Columbia from 1952 to 1972. With just over 20 years in office, Bennett remains the longest-serving premier in British Columbia history. He was a member of the Social Credit Party (Socreds). Read more
06 Sep 1900: Julien Green, French-American author (died 1998) Julien Green, often Julian Green, was an American writer who lived most of his life in France and wrote primarily in French, although he also wrote some works in English. Over a long and prolific career, he authored novels and essays, several plays, and a biography of Francis of Assisi, produced a four-volume autobiography, and for decades maintained a daily journal that he edited and published in nineteen volumes. The posthumous publication of the unexpurgated journals revealed aspects of his personality and sexuality that had been omitted from the published editions, revealed details about many of his prominent contemporaries, and documented the gay subculture of 20th-century France. Read more
06 Sep 1900: Nguyễn An Ninh, Vietnamese political journalist (died 1943) Nguyễn An Ninh was a Vietnamese revolutionary, political journalist and publicist in French colonial Cochinchina. An independent and charismatic figure, Ninh was able to conciliate between different anti-colonial factions including, for a period in the 1930s, between the Communist Party of Nguyễn Ái Quốc and its left opposition— the Trotskyists who looked to Tạ Thu Thâu. Ninh died in the French penal colony of Pulo Condore at age 42. He is recognised by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam as a Revolutionary Martyr. Read more
06 Sep 1899: Billy Rose, American composer and manager (died 1966) Billy Rose was an American impresario, theatrical showman, lyricist and columnist. For years both before and after World War II, Billy Rose was a major force in entertainment, with shows such as Billy Rose's Crazy Quilt (1931), Jumbo (1935), Billy Rose's Aquacade (1937), and Carmen Jones (1943). As a lyricist, he is credited with many songs, notably "Don't Bring Lulu" (1925), "Tonight You Belong to Me" (1926), "Me and My Shadow" (1927), "More Than You Know" (1929), "Without a Song" (1929), "It Happened in Monterrey" (1930), and "It's Only a Paper Moon" (1933). Read more
06 Sep 1893: Claire Lee Chennault, American general and pilot (died 1958) Claire Lee Chennault was an American military aviator best known for his leadership of the "Flying Tigers" and the Chinese Nationalist Air Force in World War II. Read more
06 Sep 1892: Edward Victor Appleton, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965) Sir Edward Victor Appleton was a British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his contributions to the knowledge of the ionosphere, which led to the development of radar and shortwave radio. Read more
06 Sep 1890: Clara Kimball Young, American actress and producer (died 1960) Clara Kimball Young was an American film actress who was popular in the early silent film era. Read more
06 Sep 1889: Louis Silvers, American composer (died 1954) Louis "Lou" Silvers was an American film score composer whose work has been used in more than 250 movies. In 1935, he won the first Academy Award for Best Original Score for One Night of Love. Read more
06 Sep 1888: Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., American businessman and diplomat, 44th United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (died 1969) Joseph Patrick Kennedy was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and politician. Known for his own political prominence as well as that of his children, he was the patriarch of the Kennedy family. Read more
06 Sep 1885: Otto Kruger, American actor (died 1974) Otto Kruger was an American actor. Originally a Broadway matinée idol, he established a niche as a charming villain in films, such as in Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942) and Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession (1954). He appeared in more than 120 film, television and stage roles between 1915 and 1965. Read more
06 Sep 1879: Max Schreck, German actor (died 1936) Friedrich Gustav Maximilian Schreck was a German actor, best known for his lead role as the vampire Count Orlok in the film Nosferatu (1922). Read more
06 Sep 1879: Joseph Wirth, German educator and politician, Chancellor of Germany (died 1956) Karl Joseph Wirth was a German politician of the Catholic Centre Party who was chancellor of Germany from May 1921 to November 1922, during the early years of the Weimar Republic. He was also minister of four government departments between 1920 and 1931. Wirth was strongly influenced by Christian social teaching throughout his political career. Read more
06 Sep 1876: John Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935) John James Rickard Macleod, was a Scottish biochemist and physiologist. He devoted his career to diverse topics in physiology and biochemistry, but was chiefly interested in carbohydrate metabolism. He is noted for his role in the discovery and isolation of insulin during his tenure as a lecturer at the University of Toronto, for which he and Frederick Banting received the 1923 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine. Awarding the prize to Macleod was controversial at the time, because according to Banting's version of events, Macleod's role in the discovery was negligible. It was not until decades after the events that an independent review acknowledged a far greater role than was attributed to him at first. Read more
06 Sep 1869: Walford Davies, English organist and composer (died 1941) Major Sir Henry Walford Davies was a renowned English composer, organist, and educator who was Master of the King's Music from 1934 until 1941. He was also a music adviser to the British Broadcasting Corporation, for which he gave commended talks on music between 1924 and 1941. Read more
06 Sep 1869: Felix Salten, Austrian-Swiss author and critic (died 1945) Felix Salten was an Austrian author and literary critic. His most famous work is Bambi, a Life in the Woods, which was adapted into an animated feature film, Bambi, by Walt Disney Productions in 1942. Read more
06 Sep 1868: Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (died 1947) Heinrich Häberlin was a Swiss politician, judge and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1920–1934). Read more
06 Sep 1863: Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (died 1935) Jessie Willcox Smith was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was considered "one of the greatest pure illustrators". A contributor to books and magazines during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Smith illustrated stories and articles for clients such as Century, Collier's, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's, McClure's, Scribners, and the Ladies' Home Journal. She had an ongoing relationship with Good Housekeeping, which included a long-running Mother Goose series of illustrations and also the creation of all the Good Housekeeping covers from December 1917 to 1933. Smith illustrated over sixty books, including notable works like Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline, and Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. Read more
06 Sep 1861: William Lane, English-Australian journalist, founded New Australia (died 1917) William Lane was an English-born journalist, author, advocate of Australian labour politics and a utopian socialist ideologue. Read more
06 Sep 1860: Jane Addams, American sociologist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935) Laura Jane Addams was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author. She was a leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage. In 1889, Addams co-founded Hull House, one of America's most famous settlement houses, in Chicago, Illinois, providing extensive social services to poor, largely immigrant families. Philosophically a "radical pragmatist", she was arguably the first woman public philosopher in the United States. In the Progressive Era, when even presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson identified themselves as reformers and might be seen as social activists, Addams was one of the most prominent reformers. Read more
06 Sep 1860: May Jordan McConnel, Australian trade unionist and suffragist (died 1929) Mary Emma Jordan McConnel was an Australian trade unionist and suffragist. She was the first paid female trade union organiser in Queensland. Read more
06 Sep 1859: Macpherson Robertson, Australian businessman and philanthropist, founded MacRobertson's (died 1945) Sir Macpherson Robertson was an Australian philanthropist, entrepreneur and founder of chocolate and confectionery company MacRobertson's.
He was also known for bringing the United States inventions of chewing gum and cotton candy to Australia. Read more
06 Sep 1857: Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (died 1933) Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall was an American archaeologist and anthropologist who specialised in pre-Aztec Mexican cultures and pre-Columbian manuscripts. She discovered two forgotten manuscripts of this type in private collections, one of them being the Codex Zouche-Nuttall. She decoded the Aztec calendar stone and was one of the first to identify and recognise artefacts dating back to the pre-Aztec period. Nuttall can also be credited for being first to ever challenge the prevailing theory of a California landing for Francis Drake's circumnavigation in spite of much adversity. She boldly proposed that Drake had sailed further North into the Pacific Northwest. Numerous northern coast researchers reexamined the few available records as a result. Read more
06 Sep 1855: Ferdinand Hummel, German pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1928) Ferdinand Hummel was a German composer, harp player, pianist and conductor. Read more
06 Sep 1852: Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (died 1918) Schalk Willem Burger was a South African military leader, lawyer, politician, and statesman who was acting president of the South African Republic from 1900 to 1902, whilst Paul Kruger was in exile. At the age of 21, Burger worked as a clerk in the office of the field coronet. He married his wife, Alida Claudina de Villiers, during this time. Read more
06 Sep 1838: Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (died 1906) Samuel Bland Arnold was an American Confederate sympathizer involved in a plot to kidnap U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. He had joined the Confederate Army shortly after the start of the Civil War but was discharged for health reasons in 1864. Read more
06 Sep 1819: William Rosecrans, American general, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Mexico (died 1898) William Starke Rosecrans was an American inventor, coal-oil company executive, diplomat, politician, and U.S. Army officer. He gained fame for his role as a Union general during the American Civil War. He was the victor at prominent battles in the Western theater of the American Civil War. However, his military career declined after his defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863. Read more
06 Sep 1817: Alexander Tilloch Galt, English-Canadian businessman and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Finance (died 1893) Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt, was a politician and Father of Confederation, the union of British North American colonies into Canada. Read more
06 Sep 1814: George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Premier of East Canada (died 1873) Sir George-Étienne Cartier, 1st Baronet was a Canadian statesman and Father of Confederation. The English spelling of the name—George, instead of Georges, the usual French spelling—is explained by his having been named in honour of King George III. Read more
06 Sep 1808: Emir Abdelkader, Algerian religious and military leader (died 1883) Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhyi al-Din, known as Emir Abdelkader or ʿAbd al-Qadir al-Hasani al-Jazaʾiri, was an Arab Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggle against the French colonial invasion of Algiers from 1831 to 1847. Read more
06 Sep 1802: Alcide d'Orbigny, French zoologist, palaeontologist, and geologist (died 1857) Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology, palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropology. Read more
06 Sep 1800: Catharine Beecher, American educator and activist (died 1878) Catharine Esther Beecher was an American educator and writer known for her forthright opinions on female education as well as her vehement support of the many benefits of the incorporation of kindergarten into children's education. She published the advice manual The American Woman's Home with her sister Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1869 and was an anti-suffragist. Some sources spell her first name as "Catherine". Read more

Notable Deaths on 06 September

06 Sep 2025: Rick Davies, English musician (born 1944) Richard Davies was an English musician best known as founder, vocalist and keyboardist of the rock band Supertramp. Davies was the band's only constant member and wrote or co-wrote songs including "Bloody Well Right", "Goodbye Stranger", "My Kind of Lady", "Cannonball", and "I'm Beggin' You". He was known for his rhythmic blues piano solos, jazz-tinged progressive rock compositions and cynical lyrics. Read more
06 Sep 2024: Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, Turkish-American activist (born 1998) On 6 September 2024, 26-year-old Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a U.S. and Turkish dual citizen, was shot and killed by Israeli military forces during a protest against illegal Israeli settlements near Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Read more
06 Sep 2024: Rebecca Horn, German visual artist (born 1944) Rebecca Horn was a German visual artist best known for her installation art, film directing and body modifications such as Einhorn (Unicorn), a body-suit with a very large horn projecting vertically from the headpiece. While living in Paris and Berlin, she worked in film, sculpture and performance, directing the films Der Eintänzer (1978), La ferdinanda: Sonate für eine Medici-Villa (1982) and Buster's Bedroom (1990). Read more
06 Sep 2024: Will Jennings, American songwriter (born 1944) Wilbur Herschel Jennings was an American lyricist. He wrote the lyrics for the songs "Up Where We Belong", "Higher Love", "Tears in Heaven", "My Heart Will Go On" and "Valerie". He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and won three Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Academy Awards. Read more
06 Sep 2024: Cathy Merrick, Canadian First Nations leader (born 1961/1962) Catherine Ann Merrick was a Cree woman from Pimicikamak Cree Nation and the Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs. Merrick began her political career in 2001 as a Councillor for her home nation of Pimicikamak Cree Nation; she served in that position for 12 years. She then became the second female Chief of Pimicikamak and served in this role until 2018. As Chief, Merrick supported the development of a $55-million healthcare centre within the community. In October 2022, Merrick became the first woman to be elected Grand Chief to the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, succeeding Arlen Dumas. She was re-elected to this position in July 2024. Read more
06 Sep 2024: Ron Yeats, Scottish footballer (born 1937) Ronald Yeats was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre half. Read more
06 Sep 2021: Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (born 1933) Jean-Paul Charles Belmondo was a French actor, producer and distributor. Initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s thanks to the success of the film Breathless (1960), he also acted in other films that modernized cinema such as Two Women (1960), Le Doulos (1962), That Man from Rio (1964), Greed in the Sun (1964), and Weekend at Dunkirk (1964). With the film That Man from Rio, he also became a stuntman. Read more
06 Sep 2021: Michael K. Williams, American actor (born 1966) Michael Kenneth Williams was an American actor. He rose to fame for his acclaimed portrayals of Omar Little on the HBO drama series The Wire (2002–2008), Albert "Chalky" White on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014), and Freddy Knight on the HBO series The Night Of. Read more
06 Sep 2020: Lou Brock, American baseball player (born 1939) Louis Clark Brock was an American professional baseball left fielder. He began his 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the 1961 Chicago Cubs but spent most of it as a left fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals. An All-Star for six seasons, Brock was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985 in his first year of eligibility and was inducted into the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame in 2014. Read more
06 Sep 2019: Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe (born 1924) Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary, politician, and dictator who led Zimbabwe from 1980 until 2017. He served as the country's first Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987 and as its second President from 1987 to 2017. He also led the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) from 1975 to 1980 and then its successor political party, the ZANU – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF), from 1980 to 2017. Ideologically an African nationalist, during the 1970s and 1980s he identified as a Marxist–Leninist, and from the 1990s as a socialist. Read more
06 Sep 2018: Richard DeVos, American billionaire businessman (born 1926) Richard Marvin DeVos Sr. was an American billionaire businessman, co-founder of Amway with Jay Van Andel, and owner of the Orlando Magic basketball team. In 2012, Forbes magazine listed him as the 60th wealthiest person in the United States, and the 205th richest in the world, with an estimated net worth of $5.1 billion. Read more
06 Sep 2018: Liz Fraser, English actress (born 1930) Elizabeth Joan Winch, known professionally as Liz Fraser, was a British film actress, best known for being cast in provocative comedy roles. Read more
06 Sep 2018: Burt Reynolds, American actor, director and producer (born 1936) Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. was an American actor. His early work included the television series Gunsmoke (1962–1965), Hawk (1966) and Dan August (1970–1971). He had leading roles in the films Navajo Joe (1966), and 100 Rifles (1969), and his breakthrough role was as Lewis Medlock in Deliverance (1972). Read more
06 Sep 2017: Peter Luck, Australian journalist and television host (born 1944) Peter Anthony Luck was an Australian author, TV journalist, producer and presenter. Read more
06 Sep 2017: Kate Millett, American feminist author and activist (born 1934) Katherine Murray Millett was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended the University of Oxford, and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honors, after studying at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She has been described as "a seminal influence on second-wave feminism", and is best known for her book, Sexual Politics (1970), which was based on her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University. Journalist Liza Featherstone attributes the attainment of previously unimaginable "legal abortion, greater professional equality between the sexes, and a sexual freedom" in part to Millett's efforts. Read more
06 Sep 2015: Ralph Milne, Scottish footballer (born 1961) Ralph Milne was a Scottish professional footballer whose clubs included Dundee United, Charlton Athletic, Bristol City and Manchester United. He played as both an attacking midfielder or a winger. Read more
06 Sep 2015: Martin Milner, American actor (born 1931) Martin Sam Milner was an American actor. He was best known for his starring roles on two popular television series: as Tod Stiles on Route 66 (1960–64), and as Officer Pete Malloy on Adam-12 (1968–75). Read more
06 Sep 2014: Odd Bondevik, Norwegian bishop and theologian (born 1941) Odd Bondevik was a Norwegian theologian who was the Bishop of the Diocese of Møre in the Church of Norway from 17 November 1991 until retirement in 2008. He also served as Preses of the Bishop's Conference of the Church of Norway from 1998 until 2002. Read more
06 Sep 2014: Seth Martin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1933) Seth Martin was a Canadian ice hockey goalie. He played 30 games in the National Hockey League with the St. Louis Blues during the 1967–68 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1953 to 1973, was spent in senior and minor leagues. Internationally Martin played for the Canadian national team at four World Championships, winning a gold medal in 1961, and the 1964 Winter Olympics. He was inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 1997. Read more
06 Sep 2014: Kira Zvorykina, Belarusian chess player and educator (born 1919) Kira Alekseyevna Zvorykina was a Soviet chess player who spent many years living in Belarus. She was a three-time winner of the Women's Soviet Championship. In 2018, she was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame. Read more
06 Sep 2013: Ann C. Crispin, American author (born 1950) Ann Carol Crispin was an American science fiction writer and the author of 23 published novels. She wrote several Star Trek and Star Wars novelizations; she also created an original science fiction series called StarBridge. Read more
06 Sep 2013: Khin Maung Kyi, Burmese economist and scholar (born 1926) Khin Maung Kyi was a Burmese economist and scholar. He also served as a government consultant to several of Burma's ministries. Read more
06 Sep 2013: Santiago Rosario, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach (born 1939) Santiago Rosario was a Puerto Rican first baseman and corner outfielder who played briefly for the Kansas City Athletics during the 1965 season. Listed at 5' 11", 165 lb., Rosario batted and threw left handed. He was born in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico. Read more
06 Sep 2012: Elisabeth Böhm, German architect (born 1921) Elisabeth Böhm née Haggenmüller was a German architect who frequently worked together with her husband, Gottfried Böhm. Read more
06 Sep 2012: Lawrie Dring, Scottish scout leader, founded World Federation of Independent Scouts (born 1931) Lawrence 'Lawrie' Dring was a British Scouter who was one of the founding members of the Baden-Powell Scouts' Association (BPSA) and of the World Federation of Independent Scouts (WFIS). He was President of the BPSA at the time of his death. Read more
06 Sep 2012: Oscar Rossi, Argentine footballer and manager (born 1930) Oscar Pablo Rossi, nicknamed Coco, was an Argentine association football player. During his career in the 1950s and 1960s Rossi played for several clubs from Buenos Aires and was member of the Argentine squad in the 1962 FIFA World Cup. Read more
06 Sep 2011: Michael S. Hart, American author, founded Project Gutenberg (born 1947) Michael Stern Hart was an American author credited with the invention of the e-book, and who founded Project Gutenberg (PG), the first project to make e-books freely available via the Internet. He published e-books via ARPANET years before the Internet existed, and later on BBS networks and Gopher servers. Read more
06 Sep 2010: Boris Chetkov, Russian painter (born 1926) Boris Alexandrovitch Chetkov was a Russian painter and glass artist whose works ranged across genres but can be loosely aligned with Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism and Figurative Expressionism. His theories on art and use of colour also align him broadly with Modernism and Kandinsky though in his painting he worked largely in isolation from his peers and remained disconnected from the international art community until the end of Communism. He was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists. Read more
06 Sep 2010: Clive Donner, English director and editor (born 1926) Clive Stanley Donner was a British film director who was part of the British New Wave, directing films such as The Caretaker, Nothing but the Best, What's New Pussycat?, and Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush. He also directed television movies and commercials through the mid-1990s. Read more
06 Sep 2009: Catherine Gaskin, Irish-Australian author (born 1929) Catherine Gaskin was an Irish–Australian romance novelist. Read more
06 Sep 2008: Anita Page, American actress (born 1910) Anita Page was an American film actress who reached stardom in the final years of the silent film era. Read more
06 Sep 2007: Madeleine L'Engle, American author and poet (born 1918) Madeleine L'Engle was an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. L'Engle received the Newbery Medal for her 1962 children's book, A Wrinkle in Time. She also received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1998. Read more
06 Sep 2007: Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (born 1935) Luciano Pavarotti was an Italian operatic tenor who during the late part of his career crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most acclaimed tenors of all time. He made numerous recordings of complete operas and individual arias, gaining worldwide fame for his tone and the nickname "King of the High Cs". Read more
06 Sep 2005: Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (born 1929) Hasan Abidi was a Pakistani journalist, writer, political activist and an Urdu language poet. Read more
06 Sep 2005: Eugenia Charles, Dominican lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Dominica (born 1919) Dame Mary Eugenia Charles was a Dominican politician who served as the prime minister of Dominica from 21 July 1980 until 14 June 1995. She was the first woman lawyer in Dominica. After being nominated to a seat in the House of Assembly of Dominica and subsequently serving as leader of the opposition, she became Dominica's first, and to date only, woman prime minister. Read more
06 Sep 2000: Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (born 1918) Abdul Haris Nasution was a high-ranking Indonesian general and politician. He served in the military during the Indonesian National Revolution and remained in the military during the subsequent turmoil of the Parliamentary democracy and Guided Democracy. Following the fall of President Sukarno from power, he became the Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly under President Suharto. Born into a Batak Muslim family, in the village of Hutapungkut, Dutch East Indies, he studied teaching and enrolled at a military academy in Bandung. Read more
06 Sep 1998: Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1910) Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 30 feature films in a career spanning six decades. With a bold and dynamic style strongly influenced by Western cinema yet distinct from it, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Known as a hands-on filmmaker, he was heavily involved with all aspects of production as a director, writer, producer, and editor. Read more
06 Sep 1998: Ric Segreto, American-Filipino singer-songwriter, actor, and journalist (born 1952) Richard Vincent Macaraeg, better known as Ric Segreto, was an American-born Filipino singer, songwriter, actor, teacher, journalist and historian, who became popular in the Philippines. Read more
06 Sep 1998: Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Swedish actor (born 1928) Ernst-Hugo Alfred Järegård was a Swedish actor. Read more
06 Sep 1997: P. H. Newby, English author and broadcaster (born 1918) Percy Howard Newby CBE was an English novelist and broadcasting administrator. He was the first winner of the Booker Prize, his novel Something to Answer For having received the inaugural award in 1969. Read more
06 Sep 1994: Nicky Hopkins, English pianist (born 1944) Nicholas Christian Hopkins was an English pianist and organist. He performed on many British and American rock music recordings from the 1960s to the 1990s, including on songs recorded by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Kinks, the Steve Miller Band, Jefferson Airplane, Rod Stewart, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, the Hollies, Cat Stevens, Carly Simon, Harry Nilsson, Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, Jerry Garcia, Jeff Beck, Joe Cocker, Art Garfunkel, Badfinger, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Donovan. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest studio pianists in the history of popular rock music. Read more
06 Sep 1994: Max Kaminsky, American trumpet player and bandleader (born 1908) Max Kaminsky was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader. Read more
06 Sep 1992: Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer (born 1912) Henry Ephron was an American playwright, screenwriter and film producer. He often worked with his wife, Phoebe and was active as a writer from the early 1940s through the early 1960s. Read more
06 Sep 1990: Tom Fogerty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941) Thomas Richard Fogerty was an American musician, best known as the rhythm guitarist for Creedence Clearwater Revival. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. Read more
06 Sep 1990: Len Hutton, English cricketer and soldier (born 1916) Sir Leonard Hutton was an English cricketer. He played as an opening batsman for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1934 to 1955 and for England in 79 Test matches between 1937 and 1955. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack described him as "one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket". He set a record in 1938 for the highest individual innings in a Test match in only his sixth Test appearance, scoring 364 runs against Australia, a milestone that stood for nearly 20 years. Following the Second World War, he was the mainstay of England's batting. In 1952, he became the first professional cricketer of the 20th century to captain England in Tests; under his captaincy England won the Ashes the following year for the first time in 19 years. Read more
06 Sep 1988: Leroy Brown, American wrestler (born 1950) Roland C. Daniels, better known by his ring name "Bad Bad" Leroy Brown, was an American professional wrestler. He took his ring name from the Jim Croce song "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", which also became his theme song for many of his in-ring appearances. He later used the ring name Elijah Akeem upon adopting a more militaristic black Muslim character, teaming with Kareem Muhammad as the "Muslim Connection" or the "Zambuie Express". Read more
06 Sep 1986: Blanche Sweet, American actress (born 1896) Sarah Blanche Sweet was an American silent film actress who began her career in the early days of the motion picture film industry. Throughout her career, Sweet appeared in 121 silent films and three sound films. Read more
06 Sep 1985: Franco Ferrara, Italian conductor and composer (born 1911) Franco Ferrara was an Italian conductor and teacher. Among his many students are various prominent conductors, including Roberto Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Andrew Davis and Riccardo Muti. Read more
06 Sep 1984: Ernest Tubb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1914) Ernest Dale Tubb, was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Tubb is a pioneer of country music, and his 1941 song, "Walking the Floor Over You", marked the rise of the honky-tonk style of music. Read more
06 Sep 1982: Azra Erhat, Turkish archaeologist, author, and academic (born 1915) Azra Erhat was a Turkish author, archaeologist, academic, classical philologist, and translator. A pioneer of Turkish Humanism, Azra Erhat is especially well known for her published works, including many translations into Turkish from the classical literature of Ancient Greece. Read more
06 Sep 1979: Ronald Binge, English organist and composer (born 1910) Ronald Binge was a British composer and arranger of light music. He arranged many of Mantovani's most famous pieces before composing his own music, which included Elizabethan Serenade and Sailing By. Read more
06 Sep 1978: Max Decugis, French tennis player (born 1882) Maxime Omer Mathieu Décugis, sometimes spellt Decugis was a French tennis player. He won the French Championships eight times. He also won three Olympic medals at the 1900 Paris Olympics and the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, with a gold medal in the mixed doubles partnering Suzanne Lenglen. Read more
06 Sep 1978: Tom Wilson, American record producer (born 1931) Thomas Blanchard Wilson Jr. was an American record producer. He is best known for his work in the 1960s with artists such as Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Simon & Garfunkel, the Velvet Underground, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Eddie Harris, Nico, Eric Burdon and the Animals, the Blues Project, the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, and others. Read more
06 Sep 1978: Adolf Dassler, German cobbler and entrepreneur, founded Adidas (born 1900) Adolf "Adi" Dassler was a German cobbler, inventor, and businessman who founded the sportswear company Adidas. Read more
06 Sep 1974: Olga Baclanova, Russian-Swiss actress and ballerina (born 1896) Olga Vladimirovna Baklanova, known professionally as Olga Baclanova, was a Russian actress who found success in Hollywood films, as well as stage roles in the US and the United Kingdom, she was mainly billed as an exotic blonde temptress, who was given the title of the "Russian Tigress". Read more
06 Sep 1974: Otto Kruger, American actor (born 1885) Otto Kruger was an American actor. Originally a Broadway matinée idol, he established a niche as a charming villain in films, such as in Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942) and Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession (1954). He appeared in more than 120 film, television and stage roles between 1915 and 1965. Read more
06 Sep 1972: Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre Luttif Afif was a Palestinian militant who commanded the Munich massacre, a terrorist attack in the Munich Olympic Village on 5 September 1972. Read more
06 Sep 1972: Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre David Mark Berger was an American and Israeli Olympic weightlifter, and one of the 11 Israeli Olympians taken hostage and killed by the Palestinian group Black September during the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Born and raised in the United States, Berger was a lawyer by education and had emigrated to Israel after taking part in the 1969 Maccabiah Games, where he won a gold medal. Read more
06 Sep 1972: Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre Ze'ev Friedman was an Israeli flyweight weightlifter. A member of the Israeli Olympic team, he was killed in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. Read more
06 Sep 1972: Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre Yossef Gutfreund was an Israeli wrestling judge for his country's 1972 Olympic team. He was murdered in the Munich massacre by Black September terrorists along with 10 other members of the Israeli team. Read more
06 Sep 1972: Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre Eliezer Halfin was a Soviet-born wrestler with the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. Along with 10 other athletes and coaches he was taken hostage and later murdered by Palestinian Black September terrorists on 5 September 1972. Read more
06 Sep 1972: Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre Amitzur Shapira was an Israeli sprinter and long jumper. He was head coach for the Israeli track and field team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. He was killed in the Munich massacre. Read more
06 Sep 1972: Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre Kehat Shorr was the shooting coach for the 1972 Israeli Olympic team. He was one of the 11 members of Israel's Olympic team killed in the Munich massacre. Read more
06 Sep 1972: Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre Mark Slavin was an Israeli Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler and victim of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Read more
06 Sep 1972: Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre Andre Spitzer was an Israeli fencing master and coach of Israel's 1972 Summer Olympics team. He was one of 11 athletes and coaches taken hostage and subsequently killed by terrorists in the Munich massacre. Read more
06 Sep 1972: Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre Yakov Springer was a wrestler and a weightlifting coach and judge but is best known as one of the victims of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Read more
06 Sep 1969: Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (born 1892) Arthur Friedenreich was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward. He was nicknamed The Tiger or Golden Foot. He played for the Brazil national team and was a record nine times top scorer of the state championship of São Paulo. He is occasionally cited as one of the all-time top scorers in football history, although this is highly disputed. Read more
06 Sep 1966: Margaret Sanger, American nurse, educator, and activist (born 1879) Margaret Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, founded Planned Parenthood, and was instrumental in the development of the first birth control pill. Sanger is regarded as a founder and leader of the U.S. birth control movement. Read more
06 Sep 1966: Hendrik Verwoerd, Dutch-South African journalist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of South Africa (born 1901) Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, also known as H. F. Verwoerd, was a Dutch-born South African politician, academic, and newspaper editor who served as Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966. Read more
06 Sep 1962: Hanns Eisler, German-Austrian composer (born 1898) Hanns Eisler was an Austrian and German composer. He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht, and for the scores he wrote for films. The Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin is named after him. Read more
06 Sep 1962: Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (born 1892) Seiichiro Kashio was a tennis player from Japan, and with Ichiya Kumagae was one of the first Japanese Olympic medalists. He won the 1919 Canadian Open by defeating United States player Walter Wesbrook 3–6, 6–3, 6–1, 11–9. Read more
06 Sep 1959: Edmund Gwenn, English actor (born 1877) Edmund Gwenn was an English actor. On film, he is best remembered for his role as Kris Kringle in the Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street (1947), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the corresponding Golden Globe Award, and a Photoplay Award. He received a second Golden Globe, Photoplay Award, and another Academy Award nomination for the comedy film Mister 880 (1950). He is also remembered for his appearances in four films directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Read more
06 Sep 1959: Kay Kendall, English actress and comedian (born 1927) Justine Kay Kendall McCarthy was an English actress and singer. She began her film career in the musical film London Town (1946), a financial failure. Kendall worked regularly until her appearance in the comedy film Genevieve (1953) brought her widespread recognition. Prolific in British films, Kendall also achieved some popularity with American audiences, and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her role in the musical-comedy film Les Girls (1957). Read more
06 Sep 1956: Witold Hurewicz, Polish mathematician (born 1904) Witold Hurewicz was a Polish mathematician who worked in general topology, algebraic topology and dimension theory. A graduate of the University of Vienna, Hurewicz moved to the United States where he held positions at various American institutions of higher learning including the Institute for Advanced Study and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is best known for introducing higher homotopy groups, proving the Hurewicz theorem. Read more
06 Sep 1956: Lee Jung-seob, North Korean painter (born 1916) Lee Jung-seob was a Korean artist most known for his oil paintings, such as White Ox. Read more
06 Sep 1952: Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, singer, and dancer (born 1898) Gertrude Lawrence was an English actress, singer, dancer and musical comedy performer known for her stage appearances in the West End of London and on Broadway in New York. Read more
06 Sep 1951: James W. Gerard, American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Germany (born 1867) James Watson Gerard III was an American lawyer, diplomat, and justice of the New York Supreme Court. Read more
06 Sep 1950: Olaf Stapledon, English philosopher and author (born 1886) William Olaf Stapledon was an English philosopher and author of science fiction. In 2014, he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. Read more
06 Sep 1949: Song Qiyun, Chinese communist activist (born 1904) Song Qiyun was a Chinese journalist and member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Born in Pi County, Jiangsu, to a poor family, he attended the Sixth Normal School but left teaching in 1926 to join the military. As a member of the CCP, he infiltrated the police to gather information on the Kuomintang (KMT) before ultimately joining the 17th Route Army under Yang Hucheng. In this capacity, he served as the editor-in-chief of the Northwest Cultural Daily from 1930 to 1937. Detained by the KMT in 1941, he was imprisoned with his wife Xu Linxia and youngest son Song Zhenzhong, with whom he was executed in 1949. Read more
06 Sep 1949: Song Zhenzhong, Chinese child internee (born 1941) Song Zhenzhong, popularly known as Little Radish Head, was the son of Chinese Communist Party members Song Qiyun and Xu Linxia. Held by the Kuomintang for the majority of his life, he was killed together with his parents as part of a mass killing of detainees. He has been identified as "China's youngest martyr", and featured extensively in film and literature, including in Chinese state propaganda. He has also been commemorated with multiple monuments. Read more
06 Sep 1949: Xu Linxia, Chinese communist activist (born 1904/1905) Xu Linxia was a Chinese communist. Born in Pi County, she attended the No. 3 Normal School before joining the Kuomintang (KMT). After the dissolution of the First United Front, she joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), becoming a leader of its women's branch in Pi. She married Song Qiyun in 1928, and the couple had seven children. Xu was detained by the KMT in 1941, together with her youngest son Song Zhenzhong; her husband was also arrested that year. The three were executed in 1949. Xu has been recognized by the CCP with the title of revolutionary martyr. Read more
06 Sep 1949: Yang Hucheng, Chinese general (born 1893) Yang Hucheng was a Chinese general during the Warlord Era of Republican China and Kuomintang (KMT) general during the Chinese Civil War. He was a main supporter of Zhang Xueliang during the Xi'an Incident in late 1936, when the two generals plotted to force Chiang Kai-shek to cease hostilities against the Chinese Red Army and agree to a Second United Front against Japanese incursions into China with the Chinese Communist Party. In retaliation of his involvement in the incident, Yang was forced into exile by Chiang and then imprisoned by the Nationalist spy agency Juntong for 12 years, before being killed along with two of his children, his secretary Song Qiyun and Song's wife and youngest son in September 1949. Read more
06 Sep 1945: John S. McCain Sr., American admiral (born 1884) John Sidney "Slew" McCain Sr. was a United States Navy admiral and the patriarch of the McCain military family. McCain held several commands during the Pacific War of World War II and was a pioneer of aircraft carrier operations. He and his son, John S. McCain Jr., were the first father-and-son pair to achieve four-star admiral rank in the U.S. Navy. Read more
06 Sep 1944: James Cannon Jr., American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (born 1864) James Cannon Jr. was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1918. He was a prominent leader in the temperance movement in the United States in the 1920s, until derailed by scandal. H. L. Mencken said in 1934: "Six years ago he was the undisputed boss of the United States. Congress was his troop of Boy Scouts, and Presidents trembled whenever his name was mentioned…. But since that time there has been a violent revolution, and his whole world is in collapse." Read more
06 Sep 1940: Thomas Harte (Irish republican) (born 1915) Thomas Harte was the first of seven Irish Republican Army (IRA) members executed by Irish forces in Mountjoy Prison and Portlaoise Prison prisons between 1940 and 1944. Read more
06 Sep 1940: Patrick McGrath (Irish republican) (born 1894) Patrick MacGrath was born into an old Dublin republican family and took part in the 1916 Rising, as did two of his brothers. He was held in Frongoch internment camp after the 1916 Rising and served his time there. He was a senior member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), hunger striker, IRA Director of Operations and Training during its major bombing/sabotage in England. McGrath was the first of six IRA men executed by the Irish Government between 1940–1944. After participating in the Easter Rebellion, MacGrath remained in the IRA, rising in rank and becoming a major leader within the organisation. Read more
06 Sep 1939: Arthur Rackham, English illustrator (born 1867) Arthur Rackham was an English book illustrator. He is recognised as one of the leading figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. His work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were combined with the use of watercolour, a technique he developed due to his background as a journalistic illustrator. Read more
06 Sep 1938: John Stuart Hindmarsh, English race car driver and pilot (born 1907) John Stuart Hindmarsh was an English racing driver and aviator. Read more
06 Sep 1927: William Libbey, American target shooter and geographer (born 1855) William A. Libbey III was an American professor of physical geography at Princeton University. He was twice a member of the U.S. Olympic Rifle Team, and rose to the rank of colonel in the New Jersey National Guard. He is also known for his first ascent of Mount Princeton in 1877. He also competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics. Read more
06 Sep 1919: Lord Charles Beresford, English admiral and politician (born 1846) Admiral Charles William de la Poer Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford,, styled Lord Charles Beresford between 1859 and 1916, was a British admiral and Member of Parliament. Read more
06 Sep 1907: Sully Prudhomme, French poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1839) René François Armand "Sully" Prudhomme was a French poet and essayist. He was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1901. Read more
06 Sep 1902: Frederick Abel, English chemist and engineer (born 1827) Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, 1st Baronet was an English chemist who was recognised as the leading British authority on explosives. He is best known for the invention of cordite as a replacement for gunpowder in firearms. Read more
06 Sep 1891: Charles Jamrach, German-English businessman (born 1815) Charles Jamrach was a leading dealer in wildlife, birds and shells in 19th-century London. He owned an exotic pet store on the Ratcliffe Highway in east London – at the time the largest such shop in the world. Jamrach's nearest rival was Edward Cross, who ran a menagerie at Exeter Exchange on the Strand. Read more
06 Sep 1885: Narcís Monturiol, Spanish engineer, designed the Ictineo I and Ictineo II (born 1819) Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol was a Spanish lawyer, artist, journalist, newspaper publisher and engineer born in Figueres, Catalonia. He was the inventor of the first air-independent and combustion-engine-driven submarine. Read more
06 Sep 1868: Pierre Adolphe Rost, American lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1797) Pierre Adolphe Rost was a Louisiana politician, diplomat, lawyer, judge, and plantation owner. Read more
06 Sep 1836: Gaspar Flores de Abrego, three-term mayor of San Antonio, in Spanish Texas (born 1781) José Gaspar Flores de Abrego (1781–1836) was a Tejano who served three terms as the mayor of San Antonio, Texas. He was also a land commissioner and associate of Austin's early colonists. Gaspar Flores was a member of a group opposing the dictatorial actions of the President of Mexico, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, and is known to have attended their first meeting in Bexar as well as the first revolutionary convention ever held in the city on November 15, 1834. He was one of the 35 men who signed the anti-Centralist document which was presented at the convention. Read more
06 Sep 1808: Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian and author (born 1723) Louis-Pierre Anquetil was a French historian. Read more

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