September 1

2024 Calendar

September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 121 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

1067 – Baldwin of Flanders
1159 – Pope Adrian IV (b. 1100)
1256 – Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)
1557 – Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491)
1574 – Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
1581 – Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)
1648 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (b. 1588)
1678 – Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (b. 1601)
1715 – King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
1715 – François Gilardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
1777 – Johann Ernst Bach II, German poet (b. 1722)
1838 – William Clark, American explorer (b. 1770)
1868 – Ferenc Gyulay, Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (b. 1798)

1901 – 2000

1906 – Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian poet and playwright (b. 1847)
1914 – Martha, last Passenger Pigeon
1943 – Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. 1880)
1945 – Terry, American cairn terrier who starred in The Wizard of Oz (b. 1933)
1953 – Jacques Thibaud, French violinist (b. 1880)
1957 – Dennis Brain, English French horn player (b. 1921)
1961 – Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect and designer (b. 1910)
1967 – Ilse Koch, wife of Karl Koch, commandant of the concentration camp Buchenwald (b. 1906)
1967 – Siegfried Sassoon, English poet and writer (b. 1886)
1969 – Drew Pearson, American newspaper columnist (b. 1897)
1970 – François Mauriac, French writer (b. 1885)
1977 – Ethel Waters, American singer, actress (b. 1896)
1981 – Ann Harding, American actress and singer (b. 1901)
1981 – Albert Speer, Nazi official (b. 1905)
1982 – Wladyslaw Gomulka, Polish Communist leader (b. 1905)
1983 – Larry McDonald, United States Congressman (b. 1935)
1983 – Henry M. Jackson, Senator from Washington (b. 1912)
1986 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923)
1988 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist (b. 1911)
1989 – Kazimierz Deyna, Polish footballer (b. 1947)
1989 – A. Bartlett Giamatti, American baseball commissioner (b. 1938)
1990 – Geir Hallgrímsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1925)
1997 – Zoltan Czibor, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)

From 2001

2003 – Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915)
2004 – Ahmed Kuftaro, Syrian religious leader (b. 1915)
2006 – Bob O'Connor, 57th Mayor of Pittsburgh (b. 1944)
2008 – Jerry Reed, American actor and musician (b. 1937)
2008 – Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940)
2009 – Erich Kunzel, American conductor (b. 1935)
2012 – Hal David, American songwriter (b. 1921)
2012 – Smarck Michel, 6th Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1937)
2013 – Tommy Morrison, American boxer (b. 1969)
2013 – Ole Ernst, Danish actor (b. 1940)
2014 – Mark Gil, Filipino actor (b. 1961)
2014 – Maya Rao, Indian dancer (b. 1928)
2014 – Gottfried John, German actor (b. 1942)
2014 – Elena Varzi, Italian actress (b. 1926)
2014 – A. J. Langguth, American historian and journalist (b. 1933)
2014 – Mary T. Clark, American academic and civil rights advocate (b. 1913)
2014 – Joseph Shivers, American textile chemist (b. 1920)
2015 – Gurgen Dalibaltayan, Armenian colonel-general (b. 1926)
2015 – Antonio Nirta, Italian criminal (b. 1919)
2015 – Dean Jones, American actor (b. 1931)
2015 – Boomer Castleman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
2015 – Will Provine, American biologist and historian (b. 1942)
2015 – Ben Kuroki, American air force gunner (b. 1917)
2016 – Jon Polito, American actor (b. 1950)
2016 – Kacey Jones, American singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
2017 – Shelley Berman, American comedian and actor (b. 1925)
2017 – Charles Gordon-Lennox, 10th Duke of Richmond, British peer (b. 1929)
2017 – Peadar Lamb, Irish actor (b. 1930)
2017 – Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, English cardinal (b. 1932)
2017 – Gin D. Wong, Chinese-born American architect (b. 1922)
2018 – Irving Petlin, American artist (b. 1934)
2018 – Margit Sandemo, Norwegian-Swedish author (b. 1924)
2018 – Tarun Sagar, Indian Jain monk (b. 1967)
2018 – Randy Weston, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1926)
2018 – Ehsan Yarshater, Iranian historian (b. 1920)
2019 – Kenneth Baugh, Jamaican politician (b. 1941)
2019 – Alison Cheek, Australian-American religious leader (b. 1927)
2019 – Alberto Goldman, Brazilian politician (b. 1937)
2019 – William J. Larkin Jr., American politician (b. 1928)
2019 – Katherine MacLean, American science fiction writer (b. 1925)
2019 – Jukka Virtanen, Finnish television presenter, film director, screenwriter and songwriter (b. 1933)

Births

1901 – 1950

1906 – Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2002)
1907 – Walter Reuther, American labor union leader (d. 1970)
1907 – Miriam Seegar, American actress (d. 2011)
1912 – Gwynfor Evans, Welsh politician (d. 2005)
1915 – Ken Aston, English football referee (d. 2001)
1916 – Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player (d. 2014)
1920 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor (d. 2000)
1922 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress (d. 2007)
1922 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor and director (d. 2000)
1923 – Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)
1924 – Hal Douglas, American voice actor (d. 2014)
1924 – Gustavo Bueno, Spanish philosopher (d. 2016)
1925 – Roy J. Glauber, American physicist (d. 2018)
1925 – Art Pepper, American saxophonist (d. 1982)
1926 – Abdur Rahman Biswas, former President of Bangladesh (d. 2017)
1926 – Gene Colan, American comic book artist (d. 2011)
1926 – Frank Morris, American criminal (missing since 1962)
1926 – Stanley Cavell, American philosopher (d. 2018)
1926 – Sam Pivnik, Polish Holocaust survivor and author (d. 2017)
1928 – George Maharis, American actor
1929 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
1930 – Michel Serres, French philosopher (d. 2019)
1930 – Khem Singh Gill, Indian geneticist and plant breeder (d. 2019)
1930 – Charles Correa, Indian architect (d. 2015)
1931 – Boxcar Willie, American musician (d. 1999)
1931 – Javier Solís, Mexican singer (d. 1966)
1931 – Cecil Parkinson, British politician (d. 2016)
1932 – Derog Gioura, President of Nauru (d. 2008)
1932 – Sunny von Bülow, American socialite (d. 2008)
1933 – Ann Richards, American politician and Governor of Texas (d. 2006)
1933 – Conway Twitty, American singer and musician (d. 1993)
1934 – Léon Mébiame, former Prime Minister of Gabon
1934 – Terepai Maoate, Cook Islands politician (d. 2012)
1935 – Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor
1936 – Robert List, 24th Governor of Nevada
1937 – Afzal Ahsan Randhawa, Pakistani writer (d. 2017)
1937 – Allen Jones, British musician
1937 – Allen Weinstein, American historian and educator (d. 2015)
1938 – Alan Dershowitz, American lawyer and writer
1938 – Per Kirkeby, Danish painter, sculptor and poet (d. 2018)
1939 – Lily Tomlin, American actress and comedienne
1939 – Eoin Young, New Zealand journalist (d. 2014)
1941 – Julia Varady, German opera singer
1942 – António Lobo Antunes, Portuguese writer
1942 – C. J. Cherryh, American writer
1943 – Don Stroud, American actor
1945 – Mustafa Balel, Turkish writer
1945 – Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Yemeni general, politician and President
1946 – Barry Gibb, British singer and musician (the Bee Gees)
1946 – David Greaves, British snooker player (d. 2019)
1946 – Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea (d. 2009)
1947 – P. A. Sangma, Indian politician (d. 2016)
1948 – James Rebhorn, American actor (d. 2014)
1949 – Garry Maddox, American baseball player and sportscaster
1949 – Alasdair McDonnell, Irish politician
1950 – Phil McGraw (known as "Dr. Phil"), American talk show host
1950 – Nicu Ceausescu, Romanian politician (d. 1996)
1950 – Mikhail Fradkov, Russian politician

1951 – 1975

1952 – Manuel Piñero, Spanish golfer
1952 – Brad Linaweaver, American writer (d. 2019)
1954 – Filip Vujanovic, Montenegrin President
1955 – Bruce Foxton, English bass player
1955 – Gerhard Strack, German footballer
1956 – Kim Jong-Hun, North Korean football coach
1956 – Vinnie Johnson, American basketball player
1957 – Gloria Estefan, Cuban-American singer
1958 – Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (d. 2002)
1960 – Joseph Williams, American singer-songwriter (Toto)
1961 – Scott Bigelow, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1961 – Christopher Ferguson, American captain, pilot and astronaut
1962 – Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer
1962 – Scott Ciencin, American novelist (d. 2014)
1965 – Craig McLachlan, Australian actor & singer
1965 – Tibor Simon, Hungarian footballer
1966 – Tim Hardaway, American basketball player
1968 – Mohamed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001)
1969 – Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer
1970 – Padma Lakshmi, Indian-American actress and author
1971 – Hakan Sukur, Turkish footballer
1971 – Ricardo Antonio Chavira, American actor
1971 – Helena af Sandeberg, Swedish actress
1971 – Dave Wittenberg, South African-American voice actor and screenwriter
1973 – Ram Kapoor, Indian actor
1973 – Savo Milosevic, Serbian footballer
1974 – Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist
1974 – Yutaka Yamamoto, Japanese cartoonist and director
1975 – Scott Speedman, English-born actor

From 1976

1976 – Babydaddy, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer (Scissor Sisters)
1976 – Takashi Fukunishi, Japanese footballer
1977 – David Albelda, Spanish footballer
1980 – Sammy Adjei, Ghanaian footballer
1981 – Clinton Portis, American baseball player
1982 – Ryan Gomes, American basketball player
1983 – José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer (d. 2019)
1984 – Joe Trohman, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1986 – Gaël Monfils, French tennis player
1986 – Stella Mwangi, Norwegian singer
1987 – Christian Traesch, German footballer
1988 – Chanel West Coast, American model, actress, rapper and singer-songwriter
1989 – Max Franz, Austrian skier
1989 – Bill & Tom Kaulitz, German singers
1989 – Jefferson Montero, Ecuadorean footballer
1989 – Daniel Sturridge, English footballer
1990 – Aisling Loftus, English actress
1990 – Mélanie René, Swiss singer
1991 – Irina Antonenko, Russian model
1992 – Kirani James, Grenadian sprinter
1993 – Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
1994 – Bianca Ryan, American singer
1996 – Zendaya, American actress, singer and dancer

Deaths

Observances

Constitution Day in Slovakia
Independence Day in Uzbekistan
Armed Struggle for Independence (Eritrea)
Knowledge Day (Russia)
Disaster Prevention Day (Japan)
Revolution Day in Libya (1969 – 2010)