September 5
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September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 117 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 590 – Authari, King of Lombardy (b. 540)
- 1165 – Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143)
- 1201 – Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
- 1235 – Henry I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1165)
- 1548 – Catherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. c. 1512)
- 1629 – Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. 1585)
- 1803 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and writer (b. 1741)
- 1836 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
- 1838 – Charles Percier, French architect (b. 1764)
- 1855 – Thomas Mitchell, Scottish explorer of Australia (b. 1792)
- 1857 – Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
- 1876 – Manuel Blanco Encalada, first President of Chile (b. 1790)
- 1877 – Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux chief (b. 1849)
- 1898 – Sarah Edmonds, Canadian nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
1901 – 2000
- 1901 – Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovene physicist (b. 1853)
- 1902 – Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, pathologist, biologist, and politician (b. 1821)
- 1906 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian phsyicist (b. 1844)
- 1912 – Arthur MacArthur, Jr., American soldier (b. 1845)
- 1917 – Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872)
- 1926 – Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician (b. 1890)
- 1930 – Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
- 1931 – John Thomson, Scottish footballer (b. 1909)
- 1932 – Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
- 1936 – Fernando Borrell García, Spanish Republican soldier, photographed in moment of his death (b. 1912)
- 1946 – John I. Cox, American politician, 33rd Governor of Tennessee (b. 1855)
- 1954 – Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860)
- 1960 – Earl Long, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1895)
- 1965 – Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
- 1966 – Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman (b. 1879)
- 1970 – Jochen Rindt, Austrian racing driver, posthumous Formula 1 champion (b. 1942)
- 1972 – Yossef Romano, Israeli weightlifter (b. 1940)
- 1972 – Moshe Weinberg, Israeli wrestling coach (b. 1939)
- 1973 – Jack Fourier, American baseball player (b. 1899)
- 1979 – Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal (b. 1884)
- 1982 – Douglas Bader, British fighter pilot (b. 1910)
- 1984 – Adam Malik, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1917)
- 1988 – Gert Fröbe, actor (b. 1913)
- 1990 – Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary and leader of the IMRO (b. 1896)
- 1993 – Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (b. 1914)
- 1997 – Georg Solti, conductor (b. 1912)
- 1997 – Mother Teresa, Albanian nun and development worker (b. 1910)
- 1998 – Leo Penn, American director (b. 1921)
- 1999 – Alan Clark, English politician and historian (b. 1928)
From 2001
- 2001 – Vladimir Zerjavic, Croat UN statistician (b. 1912)
- 2003 – Gisele MacKenzie, singer (b. 1927)
- 2010 – Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1990)
- 2010 – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian-born artist (b. 1922)
- 2011 – Salvatore Licitra, Italian tenor (b. 1968)
- 2011 – Vann Nath, Cambodian painter (b. 1946)
- 2013 – Rochus Misch, German SS officer (b. 1917)
- 2014 – Ron Mulock, Australian politician (b. 1930)
- 2014 – Eoin Young, New Zealand journalist (b. 1939)
- 2014 – Simone Battle, American actress, singer and dancer (b. 1989)
- 2014 – Bruce Morton, American news correspondent (b. 1930)
- 2014 – Karel Cerny, Czech art director and producer (b. 1922)
- 2015 – Aadesh Shrivastava, Indian composer and singer (b. 1966)
- 2015 – Alan Steel, Italian bodybuilder and actor (b. 1935)
- 2015 – Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress (b. 1920)
- 2016 – Hugh O'Brian, American actor (b. 1925)
- 2016 – Phyllis Schlafly, American political commentator (b. 1924)
- 2017 – Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American physicist (b. 1920)
- 2017 – Gauri Lankesh, Indian journalist and political activist (b. 1962)
- 2017 – Tom Wright, American baseball player (b. 1923)
- 2017 – Holger Czukay, German musician (b. 1938)
- 2017 – Christie Davies, British sociologist (b. 1941)
- 2017 – Hansford Rowe, American actor (b. 1924)
- 2018 – Rachael Bland, British journalist (b. 1978)
- 2018 – François Flohic, French admiral (b. 1920)
- 2018 – Mike Hogewood, American sportscaster (b. 1954)
- 2018 – Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress (b. 1926)
- 2018 – Bhagwatikumar Sharma, Indian writer and journalist (b. 1934)
- 2019 – Ji Guobiao, Chinese engineer (b. 1932)
- 2019 – Kiran Nagarkar, Indian novelist (b. 1942)
- 2019 – Francisco Toledo, Mexican artist (b. 1940)
Births
Up to 1800
- 699 – Abu Hanifa, Iraqi scholar (d. 767)
- 1187 – King Louis VIII of France (d. 1226)
- 1201 – Alix, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1221)
- 1319 – Peter IV of Aragon (d. 1387)
- 1533 – Jacopo Zaparella, Italian philosopher (d. 1589)
- 1540 – Magnus, Duke of Holstein (d. 1583)
- 1567 – Date Masamuno, Japanese daimyo (d. 1636)
- 1568 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet (d. 1639)
- 1638 – King Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
- 1651 – William Dampier, English explorer (d. 1715)
- 1666 – Gottfried Arnold, German historian and theologian (d. 1714)
- 1667 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian Jesuit and mathematician (d. 1733)
- 1695 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (d. 1770)
- 1722 – Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (d. 1763)
- 1733 – Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet, translator and publisher (d. 1813)
- 1735 – Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d. 1782)
- 1750 – Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (d. 1774)
- 1751 – John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth, British politician (d. 1834)
- 1764 – Henriette Herz, German writer (d. 1847)
- 1771 – Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Austrian general (d. 1847)
- 1772 – Fat 'h-Ali Shah Qajar, Persian King (d. 1834)
- 1774 – Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (d. 1840)
- 1775 – Juan Martínez Díez, Spanish captain (d. 1825)
- 1781 – Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher, editor and composer (d. 1858)
- 1786 – Sergey Uvarov, Russian politician and literary scholar (d. 1855)
- 1791 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (d. 1864)
1801 – 1900
- 1806 – Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general and statesman (d. 1865)
- 1807 – Richard Chenevix Trench, clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
- 1809 – Manuel Montt, 6th President of Chile (d. 1880)
- 1817 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1875)
- 1818 – Edmund Kennedy, Australian explorer (d. 1848)
- 1826 – John Wisden, English cricketer (d. 1884)
- 1827 – Goffredo Mameli, Italian patriot, poet and writer (d. 1849)
- 1829 – Lester Allan Pelton, American inventor (d. 1908)
- 1836 – Justiniano Borgono, President of Peru (d. 1921)
- 1846 – Jack Daniel, American businessman (d. 1911)
- 1847 – Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
- 1867 – Amy Beach, American composer and pianist (d. 1944)
- 1869 – Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria (d. 1945)
- 1871 – Friedrich Akel, Estonian politician (d. 1941)
- 1873 – Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American military officer and engineer (d. 1942)
- 1874 – Nap Lajoie, baseball player (d. 1959)
- 1881 – Otto Bauer, Austrian politician (d. 1938)
- 1883 – Mel Sheppard, AMerican athlete (d. 1942)
- 1888 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, second President of India (d. 1975)
- 1892 – Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (d. 1973)
- 1897 – Ella Schuler, American supercentenarian (d. 2011)
1901 – 1950
- 1901 – Florence Eldridge, American actress (d. 1988)
- 1901 – Mario Scelba, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1991)
- 1902 – Darryl F. Zanuck, movie producer and executive (d. 1979)
- 1905 – Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (d. 1983)
- 1906 – Sunnyland Slim, American blues singer and pianist (d. 1995)
- 1910 – Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer (d. 1981)
- 1912 – John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
- 1912 – Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
- 1913 – Frank Thomas, American animator (d. 2004)
- 1914 – Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (d. 2018)
- 1914 – Stuart Freeborn, British make-up artist (d. 2013)
- 1915 – Horst Sindermann, German politician (d. 1990)
- 1916 – Frank Yerby, novelist (d. 1991)
- 1918 – Luis Alcoriza, Mexican actor, screenwriter and director (d. 1992)
- 1918 – Buddy Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1986)
- 1920 – Fons Rademakers, Dutch-Swiss actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2007)
- 1921 – Farida of Egypt, Queen Consort of Egypt (d. 1988)
- 1921 – Jack Valenti, American political advisor and movie executive (d. 2007)
- 1927 – Paul Volcker, American economist
- 1928 – Albert Mangelsdorff, German trombonist (d. 2005)
- 1929 – Bob Newhart, American actor and comedian
- 1929 – Andriyan Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2004)
- 1930 – Ken Naganuma, Japanese footballer (d. 2008)
- 1932 – Simon Achidi Achu, former Prime Minister of Cameroon
- 1934 – Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer
- 1934 – Kevin McNamara, English politician
- 1934 – Paul Josef Cordes, German cardinal
- 1935 – Dieter Hallervorden, German comedian, actor and singer
- 1935 – Doreen Massey, Baroness Massey of Darwen, English politician
- 1936 – Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player
- 1936 – John Danforth, American politician and diplomat
- 1937 – Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Argentine footballer
- 1939 – George Lazenby, Australian actor
- 1939 – William Devane, actor
- 1939 – Clay Regazzoni, Swiss racing driver (d. 2006)
- 1939 – Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist
- 1940 – Raquel Welch, American actress
- 1942 – Werner Herzog, German movie director
- 1944 – Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, author and playwright
- 1944 – Gareth Evans, Australian lawyer and politician
- 1945 – Gérard d'Aboville, French politician and navigator
- 1945 – Eva Bergman, Swedish movie, theatre and television director
- 1945 – Al Stewart, British musician
- 1945 – Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician
- 1946 – Freddie Mercury, British singer (Queen) (d. 1991)
- 1946 – Loudon Wainwright III, American singer and composer
- 1946 – Buddy Miles, American musician
- 1948 – Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician
- 1949 – Pat McQuaid, Irish cyclist and official
- 1950 – Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist
- 1950 – Rosie Cooper, English politician
1951 – 1975
- 1951 – Paul Breitner, German footballer
- 1951 – Michael Keaton, American actor
- 1956 – Roine Stolt, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
- 1958 – Lars Danielsson, Swedish jazz bassist and cellist
- 1959 – Frank Schirrmacher, German journalist (d. 2014)
- 1960 – Abdullah Abdullah, Afghan politician
- 1960 – Candy Maldonado, Puerto Rican baseball player, manager and sportscaster
- 1962 – Brian A. Joyce, American politician (d. 2018)
- 1962 – Peter Wingfield, British actor
- 1963 – Juan Alderete, American bass player and songwriter
- 1963 – Kristian Alfonso, American actress, figure skater and model
- 1964 – Frank Farina, Australian footballer
- 1964 – Ken Norman, American basketball player
- 1964 – Sergei Loznitsa, Belarussian-Ukrainian director and screenwriter
- 1965 – David Brabham, Australian racing driver
- 1965 – Murdo Fraser, Scottish politician
- 1965 – Osamu Maeda, Japanese footballer
- 1965 – Chris Morris, British writer
- 1965 – César Rincon, Colombian bullfighter
- 1967 – Matthias Sammer, German footballer
- 1967 – Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player
- 1969 – Dweezil Zappa, American musician and son of Frank Zappa
- 1969 – Leonardo Araújo, Brazilian footballer
- 1969 – Sebastian Edathy, German politician
- 1969 – Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer
- 1970 – Liam Lynch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and director
- 1971 – Adam Hollioake, English cricketer
- 1973 – Paddy Considine, English actor, director and producer
- 1973 – Rose McGowan, American actress
- 1974 – Ivo Ulich, Czech footballer
- 1975 – George Boateng, Dutch footballer
From 1976
- 1976 – Tatyana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast
- 1976 – Carice van Houten, Dutch actress
- 1976 – Richard Marsland, Australian writer, actor and comedian (d. 2008)
- 1977 – Teresa Marinova, Bulgarian athlete
- 1978 – Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby player
- 1978 – Laura Bertram, Canadian actress
- 1978 – Zhang Zhong, Chinese chess player
- 1979 – John Carew, Norwegian footballer
- 1979 – Juan Fuenmayor, Venezuelan footballer
- 1980 – Marianna Madia, Italian politician
- 1980 – Stefán Logi Magnússon, Icelandic footballer
- 1981 – Nina Eichinger, German actress
- 1981 – Bruno Neves, Portuguese cyclist (d. 2008)
- 1983 – Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer
- 1983 – Priscilla Meirelles, Brazilian model
- 1987 – Pierre Casiraghi, Monegasque royalty
- 1988 – Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorean footballer
- 1988 – Nuri Sahin, Turkish footballer
- 1989 – Ben Youngs, English rugby player
- 1989 – José Angel Valdés, Spanish footballer
- 1989 – Katerina Graham, American actress
- 1990 – Kim Yu-Na, South Korean figure skater
- 1990 – Giovanni Pernice, Italian professional dancer
- 1990 – Franco Zuculini, Italian footballer
- 1991 – Skandar Keynes, English actor
- 1991 – Stuart Donaldson, Scottish politician
- 1993 – Gage Golightly, American actress
- 1995 – Tehilla Blad, Swedish actress
- 1995 – Caroline Sunshine, American actress
- 1996 – Sigrid, Norwegian singer