September 6

2024 Calendar

September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 116 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

394 – Eugenius, Roman Emperor
926 – Emperor Taizu of Liao of China (b. 872)
957 – Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (b. 930)
972 – Pope John XIII
1276 – Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Italian cardinal (b. 1210)
1511 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1481)
1566 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1494)
1635 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571)
1649 – Robert Dudley, English explorer and geographer (b. 1574)
1683 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (b. 1619)
1708 – Sir John Morden, philanthropist (b. 1623)
1724 – Jonathan Singletary Dunham, American settler, ancestor of Barack Obama (b. 1640)
1782 – Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
1783 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710)
1808 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)
1868 – Pierre Adolphe Rost, American lawyer, judge and politician (b. 1797)
1871 – Josef Naus, Austrian surveyor and climber (b. 1791)
1885 – Narcis Monturiol i Estariol, Catalan intellectual, artist and engineer (b. 1819)

1901 – 2000

1902 – Frederick Augustus Abel, British chemist (b. 1827)
1907 – Sully Prudhomme, French writer (b. 1839)
1938 – John Stuart Hindmarsh, English racing driver and aviator (b. 1907)
1939 – Arthur Rackham, English illustrator (b. 1867)
1945 – John McCain, Sr., American admiral (b. 1884)
1950 – Olaf Stapledon, English philosopher and author (b. 1886)
1951 – Joan Vollmer, wife of William S. Burroughs (b. 1867)
1952 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)
1956 – Alex Raymond, American comic artist (b. 1909)
1956 – Michael Ventris, English architect (b. 1922)
1962 – Seiichi Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
1962 – Hanns Eisler, German composer (b. 1898)
1966 – Hendrik Verwoerd, South African prime minister (b. 1901)
1966 – Margaret Sanger, birth control activist (b. 1879)
1969 – Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (b. 1892)
1972 – People killed in the Munich Massacre:
- Ze'ev Friedman, Polish-born Israeli weightlifter (b. 1944)
- David Mark Berger, American-born Israeli weightlifter (b. 1944)
- Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestling judge (b. 1931)
- Eliezer Halfin, Israeli wrestler (b. 1948)
- Amitzur Shapira, Israeli short-distance runner and coach (b. 1932)
- Kehat Shorr, Israeli shooting coach (b. 1919)
- Mark Slavin, Israeli wrestler (b. 1954)
- Andre Spitzer, Romanian-born Israeli wrestler (b. 1954)
- Yakov Springer, Polish-born Israeli wrestler and weightlifting coach (b. 1921)
- Lutif Afif, Palestinian terrorist
1974 – Olga Baclanova, Russian actress (b. 1896)
1974 – Otto Kruger, American actor (b. 1885)
1981 – Christy Brown, Irish writer (b. 1932)
1984 – Ernest Tubb, country music singer (b. 1914)
1985 – Franco Ferrera, Italian conductor (b. 1911)
1985 – Johnny Desmond, American singer (b. 1919)
1986 – Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1895)
1990 – Tom Fogerty, American singer (b. 1941)
1991 – Pee Wee Gaskins, American serial killer (executed by electrocution; b. 1933)
1990 – Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)
1992 – Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter and producer (b. 1912)
1994 – Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. February 24, 1944)
1998 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese movie director (b. 1910)
1999 – Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician (b. 1938)

From 2001

2005 – Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1919)
2007 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
2007 – Madeleine L'Engle, American writer (b. 1918)
2008 – Anita Page, American actress (b. 1910)
2012 – Art Modell, American businessman and NFL team owner (b. 1925)
2012 – Terry Nutkins, English television host and author (b. 1946)
2014 – Cirilo Flores, American bishop (b. 1948)
2014 – Kira Zvorykina, Belarussian chess player (b. 1919)
2014 – Odd Bondevik, Norwegian theologian (b. 1941)
2014 – Stefan Gierasch, American actor (b. 1926)
2015 – Ralph Milne, Scottish footballer (b. 1961)
2015 – Martin Milner, American actor (b. 1931)
2015 – Calvin J. Spann, American pilot (b. 1924)
2016 – Lilian Uchtenhagen, Swiss economist and politician (b. 1928)
2017 – Carlo Caffarra, Italian cardinal (b. 1938)
2017 – Nicolae Lupescu, Romanian footballer (b. 1940)
2017 – Jim McDaniels, American basketball player (b. 1948)
2017 – Kate Millett, American feminist writer and human rights activist (b. 1934)
2017 – Mike Neville, British television broadcaster (b. 1936)
2017 – Noel Picard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2017 – Solomon Efimovich Shulman, Belarussian writer (b. 1936)
2017 – Lotfi A. Zadeh, Azerbaijani-American mathematician (b. 1921)
2018 – Richard DeVos, American businessman (b. 1926)
2018 – Liz Fraser, English actress (b. 1930)
2018 – Wilson Moreira, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
2018 – Burt Reynolds, American actor (b. 1936)
2018 – Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor (b. 1934)
2018 – Salawat Gallyamov, Russian linguist (b. 1959)
2018 – Gilbert Lazard, French linguist (b. 1920)
2019 – Chris Duncan, American baseball player (b. 1981)
2019 – Robert Mugabe, 1st Prime Minister and 2nd President of Zimbabwe (b. 1924)
2019 – Abdul Qadir, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1955)
2019 – Wally Westlake, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2019 – Chester Williams, South African rugby union player (b. 1970)

Births

Up to 1850

1475 – Sebastiano Serlio, Italian architect (d. 1554)
1620 – Isabella Leonarda, composer (d. 1704)
1656 – Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1723)
1666 – Tsar Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696)
1711 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the US Lutheran Church (d. 1787)
1729 – Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher (d. 1786)
1732 – Johan Wicke, Swedish physicist (d. 1796)
1757 – Gilbert de Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier and politician (d. 1834)
1761 – Marie-Gabrielle Capet, French painter (d. 1818)
1766 – John Dalton, British chemist and physicist (d. 1844)
1781 – Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher and composer (d. 1858)
1795 – Frances Wright, writer, activist, and lecturer (d. 1852)
1800 – Catharine Beecher, American educator (d. 1878)
1802 – Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (d. 1857)
1808 – Abdelkader El Djezairi, Algerian political figure (d. 1883)
1809 – Bruno Bauer, German philosopher (d. 1882)
1815 – St. John Richardson Liddell, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
1817 – Mihai Kogalniceanu, Romanian politician (d. 1891)
1819 – William Rosecrans, American general and diplomat (d. 1898)
1825 – Giovanni Fattori, Italian painter (d. 1908)
1829 – Marie Zakrzewska, physician (d. 1902)
1838 – Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (d. 1906)

1851 – 1900

1852 – Schalk Willem Burger, South African politician, military leader and State President (d. 1918)
1855 – Ferdinand Hummel, German harpist, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1928)
1857 – Zelia Nuttall, archeologist and historian (d. 1933)
1859 – Boris Yakovlovic Bukreev, Russian mathematician (d. 1962)
1860 – Jane Addams, American social activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner (d. 1935)
1861 – William Lane, English-Australian journalist (d. 1917)
1868 – Margaret Dreier Robins, American labor leader and reformer (d. 1947)
1869 – Felix Salten, Austrian writer (d. 1945)
1869 – Walford Davies, English organist and composer (d. 1941)
1876 – John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish physiologist, won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1935)
1877 – Buddy Bolden, American jazz musician (d. 1930)
1879 – Joseph Wirth, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1956)
1879 – Johan Nygaardsvold, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1952)
1879 – Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
1883 – Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett, British jurist and politician (d. 1962)
1885 – Otto Kruger, American actor (d. 1974)
1888 – Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician, businessman, diplomat and family patriarch (d. 1969)
1890 – Claire Chennault, soldier (d. 1958)
1892 – Sir Edward Appleton, English physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1965)
1893 – John W. Bricker, 54th Governor of Ohio (d. 1986)
1899 – Billy Rose, composer (d. 1966)
1900 – W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979)
1900 – Julien Green, French-American writer (d. 1998)

1901 – 1950

1902 – Sylvanus Olympio, 1st President of Togo (d. 1963)
1904 – Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom, boxer (d. 1976)
1905 – Otto Liiv, Estonian historian and archivist (d. 1942)
1905 – Walther Müller, German physicist (d. 1979)
1906 – Luis Federico Leloir, Argentine biochemist (d. 1987)
1908 – Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor (d. 1982)
1911 – Harry Danning, American Major League Baseball player (d. 2004)
1912 – Michele Andreolo, Uruguayan-Italian footballer (d. 1981)
1913 – Leonidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer (d. 2004)
1915 – Franz Josef Strauss, German politician and Minister-President of Bavaria (d. 1988)
1917 – Philipp von Boeselager, German military officer and Resistance activist (d. 2008)
1919 – Wilson Greatbatch, American inventor (d. 2011)
1921 – Carmen Laforet, Spanish writer (d. 2004)
1921 – David Petel, Iraqi-Israeli politician (d. 2019)
1921 – Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor (d. 2012)
1923 – King Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
1924 – John Melcher, American politician (d. 2018)
1925 – Andrea Camilleri, Italian author, screenwriter and director (d. 2019)
1925 – Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (d. 1976)
1926 – Claus van Amsberg, Prince Consort of the Netherlands (d. 2002)
1927 – Fouad el-Mohandes, Egyptian actor and comedian (d. 2006)
1928 – Robert M. Pirsig, American writer (d. 2017)
1928 – Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer (d. 2002)
1928 – Fumihiko Maki, Japanese architect
1928 – Sid Watkins, British neurosurgeon (d. 2012)
1929 – Yash Johar, Indian movie producer (d. 2005)
1929 – Lyubov Rebane, Estonian physicist and mathematician (d. 1991)
1930 – Charles Foley, American co-inventor of the game Twister (d. 2013)
1930 – Salvatore de Giorgi, Italian archbishop
1934 – Paul Naschy, Spanish actor, screenwriter and movie director (d. 2009)
1935 – Isabelle Collin Dufresne, French-American artist and author (d. 2014)
1936 – Anne Cuneo, Swiss writer and director (d. 2015)
1937 – Janusz Kurczab, Polish mountaineer and fencer (d. 2015)
1937 – Jo Anne Worley, actress
1937 – Sergio Aragonés, Spanish illustrator
1937 – Brigid Berlin, American actor and artist
1938 – Dennis Oppenheim, American artist (d. 2011)
1939 – Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist
1939 – David Allan Coe, American songwriter, singer and guitarist
1942 – Dave Bargeron, American trombonist and tuba player
1943 – Harris Hines, American judge (d. 2018)
1943 – Richard J. Roberts, British biochemist and molecular biologist
1943 – Roger Waters, British musician (Pink Floyd)
1944 – Swoosie Kurtz, American actress
1944 – Donna Haraway, American writer and activist
1947 – Jane Curtin, American actress
1947 – Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer and coach
1948 – Karlos Arguiñano, Spanish chef

1951 – 1975

1952 – Buddy Miller, American singer-songwriter
1952 – Simon Burns, English politician
1954 – Carly Fiorina, American business executive and Presidential candidate
1955 – Carl E. Walz, American astronaut
1956 – Bill Ritter, former Governor of Colorado
1957 – Michaëlle Jean, former Governor General of Canada
1957 – José Sócrates, former Prime Minister of Portugal
1958 – Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor, and writer
1958 – Arsinée Khanjian, Armenian-Canadian actress
1959 – Ronnie Cowan, Scottish politician
1961 – Scott Travis, American musician (Judas Priest)
1961 – Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian musician (a-ha)
1962 – Chris Christie, Governor of New Jersey
1962 – Marina Kaljurand, Estonian badminton player and diplomat
1963 – Pat Nevin, Scottish footballer
1963 – Geert Wilders, Dutch politician
1964 – Rosie Perez, American actress
1965 – Takumi Horiike, Japanese footballer
1966 – Emil Boc, Romanian politician
1966 – Jill Ellis, English-American soccer coach
1967 – William DuVall, American singer (Alice in Chains)
1967 – Macy Gray, American singer
1968 – Paddy Boom, American drummer and songwriter (Scissor Sisters)
1968 – Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish writer
1969 – Norio Omura, Japanese footballer
1970 – Paul Miller, (DJ Spooky) American composer, artist, writer
1970 – Igor Korolev, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1970 – Emily Maitlis, English journalist
1971 – Dolores O'Riordan, Irish musician (The Cranberries) (d. 2018)
1971 – Leila K, Swedish rapper
1972 – China Miéville, writer
1972 – Dylan Bruno, American actor
1972 – Idris Elba, British actor
1973 – Alessandro Troncon, Italian rugby player
1973 – Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer
1973 – Greg Rusedski, Canadian-British tennis player
1974 – Tim Henman, British tennis player
1974 – Justin Whalin, actor
1974 – Nina Persson, Swedish singer (The Cardigans)
1975 – Gala, Italian singer

From 1976

1976 – Robin Atkin Downes, English actor and voice actor
1976 – Tom Pappas, American athlete
1976 – Naomie Harris, British actress
1978 – Homare Sawa, Japanese footballer
1978 – Foxy Brown, American rapper
1978 – Mathew Horne, English actor and screenwriter
1979 – Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer
1980 – Kerry Katona, British singer and television personality
1980 – Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
1981 – Yuki Abe, Japanese footballer
1981 – Santiago Salcedo, Paraguayan footballer
1983 – Pippa Middleton, sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
1984 – Luc Abalo, French handball player
1984 – Andarz Kirm, Slovenian footballer
1984 – Thomas Dekker, Dutch cyclist
1985 – Tadas Kijanskas, Lithuanian footballer
1985 – Koki Mizuno, Japanese footballer
1985 – Webbie, American rapper
1988 – Max George, British singer (The Wanted)
1989 – Kim So-eun, South Korean singer
1989 – Audrey Deroin, French handball player
1990 – John Wall, American basketball player
1994 – Theo Trebs, German actor
2006 – Prince Hisahito of Akishino of Japan

Deaths

Observances

Independence Day (Swaziland)
Unification Day (Bulgaria)
Defence Day (Pakistan)