September 5

2024 Calendar

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

Deaths

Observances

Teachers' Day (India)
Architects' Day (Guatemala)
International Day of Charity