September 5

Events

• 917 - Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu.
• 1590 - Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris.
• 1661 - Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers.
• 1666 - Great Fire of London ends: Ten thousand buildings, including Old St Paul's Cathedral, are destroyed, but only six people are known to have died.
• 1697 - War of the Grand Alliance : A French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville defeated an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson's Bay.
• 1698 - In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
• 1725 - Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
• 1774 - First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.
• 1781 - Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.
• 1791 - Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
• 1793 - French Revolution: The French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
• 1798 - Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
• 1812 - War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.
• 1816 - Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable.
• 1836 - Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
• 1839 - The United Kingdom declares war on the Qing dynasty of China.
• 1862 - American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac River at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
• 1877 - American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
• 1882 - The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
• 1882 - Tottenham Hotspur, a Premier League football club from North London, is founded.
• 1887 - A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
• 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
• 1906 - The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College.
• 1914 - World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
• 1915 - The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
• 1921 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.
• 1927 - The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
• 1932 - The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
• 1937 - Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.
• 1938 - Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.
• 1941 - Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
• 1942 - World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.
• 1943 - World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport, near Lae in the Salamaua–Lae campaign.
• 1944 - Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
• 1945 - Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
• 1945 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
• 1948 - In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister; as such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
• 1957 - Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
• 1960 - Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of Senegal.
• 1960 - Muhammad Ali wins the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
• 1969 - My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
• 1970 - Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province.
• 1970 - Jochen Rindt becomes the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship, after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix.
• 1972 - Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine are murdered the following day.
• 1975 - Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
• 1977 - Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
• 1978 - Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.
• 1980 - The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.
• 1984 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
• 1984 - Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
• 1986 - Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
• 1990 - Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.
• 1991 - The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.
• 1996 - Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people.
• 2012 - An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds four others.

  Births

• 699 - Abu Hanifa, Iraqi scholar
• 989 - Fan Zhongyan, Chinese chancellor
• 1187 - Louis VIII, king of France
• 1201 - Alix of Thouars, duchess of Brittany
• 1319 - Peter IV, king of Aragon
• 1451 - Isabel Neville, daughter of Richard Neville
• 1500 - Maria of Jever, ruler of the Lordship of Jever
• 1533 - Jacopo Zabarella, Italian philosopher and logician
• 1540 - Magnus of Holstein, prince of Denmark
• 1567 - Date Masamune, Japanese daimyō
• 1568 - Tommaso Campanella, Italian poet, philosopher, and theologian
• 1638 - Louis XIV, king of France
• 1641 - Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, English diplomat
• 1642 - Maria of Orange-Nassau, Dutch princess
• 1651 - William Dampier, English explorer
• 1666 - Gottfried Arnold, German historian and theologian
• 1667 - Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher
• 1694 - František Václav Míča, Czech conductor and composer
• 1695 - Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician and diplomat
• 1722 - Frederick Christian, Prince-Elector of Saxony
• 1725 - Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician and theorist
• 1735 - Johann Christian Bach, German-English viol player and composer
• 1750 - Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet and author
• 1769 - John Shortland, English commander
• 1771 - Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen
• 1772 - Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Iranian king
• 1774 - Caspar David Friedrich, German painter and etcher
• 1775 - Juan Martín Díez, Spanish general
• 1781 - Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer and publisher
• 1787 - François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist
• 1791 - Giacomo Meyerbeer, German pianist and composer
• 1792 - Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist
• 1806 - Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general and politician, French Minister of War
• 1817 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian poet, author, and playwright
• 1818 - Edmund Kennedy, Australian explorer and surveyor
• 1826 - John Wisden, English cricketer and businessman
• 1827 - Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and songwriter
• 1829 - Lester Allan Pelton, American inventor
• 1831 - Victorien Sardou, French author and playwright
• 1833 - George Huntington Hartford, American businessman
• 1836 - Justiniano Borgoño, Peruvian soldier and politician, 57th President of Peru
• 1847 - Jesse James, American outlaw
• 1856 - Thomas E. Watson, American lawyer, publisher, and politician
• 1867 - Amy Beach, American pianist and composer
• 1871 - Friedrich Akel, Estonian physician and politician, Head of State of Estonia
• 1872 - V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, Indian lawyer and politician
• 1872 - Horace Rice, Australian tennis player
• 1873 - Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American general and engineer
• 1874 - Nap Lajoie, American baseball player and manager
• 1876 - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal
• 1880 - José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr
• 1881 - Otto Bauer, Austrian philosopher and politician, Foreign Minister of Austria
• 1881 - Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, English field marshal
• 1883 - Otto Erich Deutsch, Austrian musicologist and scholar
• 1888 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India
• 1892 - Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist and educator
• 1897 - Morris Carnovsky, American actor
• 1897 - Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst, founded ACNielsen
• 1899 - Humphrey Cobb, American author and screenwriter
• 1899 - Helen Creighton, Canadian author and educator
• 1901 - Florence Eldridge, American actress
• 1901 - Mario Scelba, Italian politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Italy
• 1902 - Jean Dalrymple, American playwright, producer, manager, and publicist
• 1902 - Darryl F. Zanuck, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1904 - Vera Bradford, Australian pianist and educator
• 1905 - Maurice Challe, French general
• 1905 - Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-English journalist and author
• 1905 - Justiniano Montano, Filipino lawyer and politician
• 1906 - Ralston Crawford, American painter, lithographer, and photographer
• 1906 - Sunnyland Slim, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1908 - Josué de Castro, Brazilian physician, geographer, and activist
• 1908 - Joaquín Nin-Culmell, German-American pianist and composer
• 1908 - Cecilia Seghizzi, Italian composer and painter
• 1909 - Hans Carste, German pianist and conductor
• 1909 - Bernard Delfont, Russian-English talent manager
• 1909 - Archie Jackson, Scottish-Australian cricketer
• 1910 - Leila Mackinlay, English author
• 1910 - Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer
• 1912 - John Cage, American composer and theorist
• 1912 - Kristina Söderbaum, Swedish-German actress and photographer
• 1912 - Frank Thomas, American voice actor, animator, and screenwriter
• 1914 - Stuart Freeborn, English make up artist
• 1914 - Gail Kubik, American violinist, composer, and educator
• 1914 - Nicanor Parra, Chilean physicist, mathematician, and poet
• 1916 - Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1916 - Frank Yerby, American novelist
• 1917 - Pedro E. Guerrero, American photographer
• 1917 - Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racer and trainer
• 1918 - Luis Alcoriza, Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1918 - Bob Katter, Sr., Australian captain and politician
• 1918 - Fred McCarthy, American cartoonist and monk
• 1919 - Elisabeth Volkenrath, German SS officer
• 1920 - Peter Racine Fricker, English-American composer and educator
• 1920 - Fons Rademakers, Dutch-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1921 - Murray Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1921 - Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system
• 1922 - Denys Wilkinson, English physicist and academic
• 1923 - David Hamer, Australian captain and politician
• 1923 - Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer
• 1924 - Paul Dietzel, American football player and coach
• 1924 - Frank Armitage, Australian-American artist
• 1925 - Justin Kaplan, American author
• 1927 - Paul Volcker, American economist and academic
• 1928 - Joyce Hatto, English pianist and educator
• 1928 - Albert Mangelsdorff, German trombonist and educator
• 1929 - Bob Newhart, American comedian and actor
• 1929 - Andriyan Nikolayev, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut
• 1932 - Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer
• 1932 - Robert H. Dennard, American electrical engineer and inventor
• 1933 - Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Chilean cardinal
• 1934 - Paul Josef Cordes, German cardinal
• 1934 - Dennis Letts, American actor and educator
• 1934 - Kevin McNamara, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
• 1935 - Werner Erhard, American author and philanthropist, founded Werner Erhard and Associates and The Hunger Project
• 1935 - Helen Gifford, Australian composer and educator
• 1936 - Robert Burns, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1936 - John Danforth, American politician and diplomat, 24th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
• 1936 - Jonathan Kozol, American sociologist, author, and educator
• 1936 - Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player and coach
• 1936 - Knuts Skujenieks, Latvian poet, journalist, and translator
• 1937 - Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1937 - Dick Clement, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1938 - John Ferguson, Sr., Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
• 1938 - Doreen Massey, Baroness Massey of Darwen, English politician
• 1939 - Claudette Colvin, American nurse and activist
• 1939 - William Devane, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1939 - George Lazenby, Australian actor
• 1939 - John Stewart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1939 - George Tremlett, English journalist, author, and politician
• 1940 - Valerie Howarth, Baroness Howarth of Breckland, English politician
• 1940 - Raquel Welch, American actress and singer
• 1941 - Dave Dryden, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1942 - Werner Herzog, German actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1942 - Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer
• 1943 - Dulce Saguisag, Filipino social worker and politician, 10th Filipino Secretary of Social Welfare and Development
• 1944 - Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, author, and playwright
• 1944 - Gareth Evans, Australian lawyer and politician, 33rd Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1945 - Eva Bergman, Swedish director and screenwriter
• 1945 - Al Stewart, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1946 - Kyongae Chang, South Korean astrophysicist and academic
• 1946 - Dennis Dugan, American actor and director
• 1946 - Dean Ford, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1946 - Freddie Mercury, Tanzanian-English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1946 - Loudon Wainwright III, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1947 - Mel Collins, Manx saxophonist and flute player
• 1947 - Chip Davis, American pianist, songwriter, and producer
• 1947 - Buddy Miles, American singer-songwriter and drummer
• 1947 - Bruce Yardley, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1948 - Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian lawyer, politician, and diplomat, Foreign Minister of Austria
• 1949 - Clem Clempson, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1950 - Rosie Cooper, English businesswoman and politician
• 1950 - Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist, created Cathy
• 1951 - Paul Breitner, German footballer
• 1951 - Michael Keaton, American actor and producer
• 1951 - Jamie Oldaker, American drummer and percussionist
• 1952 - David Glen Eisley, American rock singer-songwriter and actor
• 1953 - Victor Davis Hanson, American historian and journalist
• 1953 - Murray Mexted, New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
• 1953 - Eiki Nestor, Estonian engineer and politician, Estonian Minister of Social Affairs
• 1953 - Paul Piché, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1954 - Richard Austin, Jamaican footballer and cricketer
• 1954 - Frederick Kempe, American journalist and author
• 1956 - Roine Stolt, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1957 - Rudi Gores, German footballer and manager
• 1957 - Peter Winnen, Dutch cyclist
• 1958 - Lars Danielsson, Swedish bassist, composer, and producer
• 1959 - Frank Schirrmacher, German journalist and publisher
• 1960 - Don Kulick, Swedish anthropologist and academic
• 1961 - Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian pianist and composer
• 1962 - Tracy Edwards, English sailor and coach
• 1962 - John McGrath, Welsh businessman
• 1963 - Juan Alderete, American bass player and songwriter
• 1963 - Jeff Brantley, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1963 - Terry Ellis, American R&B singer–songwriter and actress
• 1963 - Taki Inoue, Japanese race car driver and manager
• 1964 - Frank Farina, Australian footballer and manager
• 1964 - Sergei Loznitsa, Belarusian-Ukrainian director and screenwriter
• 1964 - Ken Norman, American basketball player
• 1964 - Thomas Mikal Ford, American actor
• 1965 - David Brabham, Australian race car driver
• 1965 - Hoshitango Imachi, Japanese wrestler
• 1965 - Nick Talbot, English geneticist and academic
• 1966 - Achero Mañas, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1966 - Milinko Pantić, Serbian footballer and manager
• 1967 - Matthias Sammer, German footballer and manager
• 1967 - Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player
• 1968 - Serhiy Kovalets, Ukrainian footballer and manager
• 1968 - Dennis Scott, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1968 - Robin van der Laan, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1968 - Brad Wilk, American singer-songwriter and drummer
• 1969 - Leonardo Araújo, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1969 - Mariko Kouda, Japanese voice actress, singer, and radio host
• 1969 - Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer and coach
• 1969 - Dweezil Zappa, American actor and musician
• 1970 - Liam Lynch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, puppeteer, and director
• 1970 - Mohammad Rafique, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1970 - Gilbert Remulla, Filipino journalist and politician
• 1970 - Johnny Vegas, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 - Adam Hollioake, Australian cricketer and mixed martial artist
• 1972 - Shane Sewell, Canadian-American wrestler and referee
• 1972 - Guy Whittall, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1973 - Paddy Considine, English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1973 - Rose McGowan, American actress
• 1974 - Lauren Jeska, British transgender fell runner convicted of the attempted murder of Ralph Knibbs
• 1974 - Rawl Lewis, Grenadian cricketer
• 1974 - Ken-Marti Vaher, Estonian politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior
• 1975 - Rod Barajas, American baseball player and manager
• 1975 - George Boateng, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1975 - Randy Choate, American baseball player
• 1975 - Matt Geyer, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1976 - Tatiana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast
• 1977 - Rosevelt Colvin, American football player and sportscaster
• 1977 - Joseba Etxeberria, Spanish footballer
• 1977 - Minoru Fujita, Japanese wrestler
• 1977 - Nazr Mohammed, American basketball player
• 1978 - Laura Bertram, Canadian actress
• 1978 - Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby player
• 1978 - Sylvester Joseph, Antiguan cricketer
• 1978 - Zhang Zhong, Chinese chess player
• 1979 - John Carew, Norwegian footballer
• 1979 - Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
• 1979 - Julien Lizeroux, French skier
• 1979 - Salvatore Mastronunzio, Italian footballer
• 1979 - George O'Callaghan, Irish footballer
• 1980 - Franco Costanzo, Argentinian footballer
• 1980 - Kevin Simm, British singer
• 1981 - Daniel Moreno, Spanish cyclist
• 1981 - Kai Rüütel, Estonian opera singer
• 1981 - Filippo Volandri, Italian tennis player
• 1982 - Alexandre Geijo, Spanish-Swiss footballer
• 1983 - Eugen Bopp, Ukrainian-German footballer
• 1983 - Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer
• 1983 - Lincoln Riley, American football coach
• 1983 - Antony Sweeney, English footballer
• 1984 - Alison Bell, Scottish field hockey player
• 1984 - Chris Anker Sørensen, Danish cyclist
• 1985 - Ryan Guy, American soccer player
• 1986 - Colt McCoy, American football player
• 1986 - Pragyan Ojha, Indian cricketer
• 1988 - Denni Avdić, Swedish footballer
• 1988 - Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1989 - Elena Delle Donne, American basketball player
• 1989 - José Ángel Valdés, Spanish footballer
• 1989 - Ben Youngs, English rugby player
• 1990 - Antonio Esposito, Italian footballer
• 1990 - Francesca Segarelli, Dominican tennis player
• 1990 - Lance Stephenson, American basketball player
• 1990 - Yuna Kim, South Korean figure skater
• 1990 - Franco Zuculini, Argentinian footballer
• 1991 - Zeki Yavru, Turkish footballer
• 1994 - Gregorio Paltrinieri, Italian swimmer
• 1995 - Szabina Szlavikovics, Hungarian tennis player
• 1996 - Richairo Zivkovic, Dutch footballer
• 1996 - Sigrid, Norwegian singer

  Deaths

• 590 - Authari, Lombard king
• 714 - Shang, emperor of the Tang Dynasty
• 1165 - Nijō, emperor of Japan
• 1235 - Henry I, duke of Brabant
• 1311 - Amadeus Aba, Hungarian oligarch
• 1336 - Charles d'Évreux, count of Étampes
• 1526 - Alonso de Salazar, Spanish explorer
• 1548 - Catherine Parr, Sixth and last Queen of Henry VIII of England
• 1562 - Katharina Zell, German Protestant reformer
• 1569 - Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London
• 1607 - Pomponne de Bellièvre, French politician, Chancellor of France
• 1629 - Domenico Allegri, Italian singer-songwriter
• 1734 - Nicolas Bernier, French composer
• 1786 - Jonas Hanway, English merchant and philanthropist
• 1803 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author
• 1803 - François Devienne, French flute player and composer
• 1836 - Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian actor and playwright
• 1838 - Charles Percier, French architect and interior decorator
• 1857 - Auguste Comte, French sociologist and philosopher
• 1876 - Manuel Blanco Encalada, Chilean admiral and politician, 1st President of Chile
• 1877 - Crazy Horse, American tribal leader
• 1894 - George Stoneman, Jr., United States Army cavalry officer
• 1898 - Sarah Emma Edmonds, Canadian-American nurse, soldier, and spy
• 1901 - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist and academic
• 1902 - Rudolf Virchow, German anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist
• 1906 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher
• 1909 - Louis Bouveault, French chemist
• 1912 - Arthur MacArthur, Jr., American general
• 1917 - Marian Smoluchowski, Austrian-Polish physicist and mountaineer
• 1920 - Robert Harron, American actor
• 1922 - Georgette Agutte, French painter
• 1926 - Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician
• 1930 - Robert Means Thompson, American soldier, businessman, and philanthropist
• 1931 - John Thomson, Scottish footballer
• 1932 - Francisco Acebal, Spanish journalist, author, and playwright
• 1932 - Paul Bern, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1934 - Sidney Myer, Russian-Australian businessman, founded Myer Stores
• 1936 - Gustave Kahn, French poet and critic
• 1942 - François de Labouchère, French soldier and pilot
• 1945 - Clem Hill, Australian cricketer and footballer
• 1948 - Richard C. Tolman, American physicist and chemist
• 1953 - Richard Walther Darré, Argentinian-German agronomist and politician
• 1954 - Eugen Schiffer, German lawyer and politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany
• 1955 - Haydn Bunton, Sr., Australian footballer and coach
• 1965 - Thomas Johnston, Scottish journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
• 1966 - Dezső Lauber, Hungarian golfer, tennis player, and architect
• 1970 - Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver
• 1972 - Alan Kippax, Australian cricketer and businessman
• 1973 - Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach
• 1977 - Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet and activist
• 1979 - Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal
• 1980 - Don Banks, Australian composer and educator
• 1982 - Douglas Bader, English captain and pilot
• 1984 - Adam Malik, Indonesian politician and diplomat, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia
• 1984 - Jane Roberts, American psychic and author
• 1985 - Johannes Hint, Estonian engineer
• 1986 - Neerja Bhanot, Indian model and youngest recipient of country's highest peacetime military award Ashok Chakra
• 1988 - Gert Fröbe, German actor and singer
• 1989 - Philip Baxter, Welsh-English engineer and academic
• 1990 - Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, English academic and diplomat
• 1990 - Jerry Iger, American cartoonist and publisher, co-founded Eisner & Iger
• 1990 - Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian politician
• 1991 - Sharad Joshi, Indian author and poet
• 1992 - Fritz Leiber, American author and poet
• 1993 - Claude Renoir, French cinematographer
• 1994 - Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and scholar
• 1994 - John Newman, Australian politician
• 1995 - Benyamin Sueb, Indonesian comedian, actor, and singer
• 1995 - Salil Chowdhury, Indian music composer, who mainly composed for Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam film and other films.
• 1996 - Basil Salvadore D'Souza, Indian bishop
• 1997 - Leon Edel, American author and critic
• 1997 - Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor and director
• 1997 - Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian nun, missionary, and saint, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1998 - Ferdinand Biondi, Canadian radio host
• 1998 - Willem Drees, Jr., Dutch economist and politician, Dutch Minister of Transport
• 1998 - Verner Panton, Danish interior designer
• 1998 - Leo Penn, American actor and director
• 1999 - Alan Clark, English historian and politician, Minister for Defence Procurement
• 1999 - Allen Funt, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1999 - Bryce Mackasey, Canadian businessman and politician, Postmaster General of Canada
• 2000 - Roy Fredericks, Guyanese cricketer and politician
• 2000 - Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general and politician, 12th Indonesian Minister of Defense
• 2001 - Justin Wilson, American chef and author
• 2001 - Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian economist and academic
• 2002 - David Todd Wilkinson, American cosmologist and astronomer
• 2003 - Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-American singer and actress
• 2005 - Roberto Viaux, Chilean general
• 2007 - Jennifer Dunn, American engineer and politician
• 2007 - Paul Gillmor, American lawyer and politician
• 2007 - Thomas Hansen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 2007 - D. James Kennedy, American pastor and author
• 2007 - Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek director and screenwriter
• 2009 - Gani Fawehinmi, Nigerian lawyer and activist
• 2010 - Hedley Beare, Australian author and academic
• 2010 - Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian-Dutch poet and painter
• 2012 - Ediz Bahtiyaroğlu, Turkish-Bosnian footballer
• 2012 - Ian Dick, Australian cricketer and field hockey player
• 2012 - Victoria Fyodorova, Russian-American actress and author
• 2012 - John Oaksey, English jockey and journalist
• 2013 - Edwin Bideau, American lawyer and politician
• 2013 - Geoffrey Goodman, English pilot, journalist, and author
• 2013 - Isamu Jordan, American journalist and academic
• 2014 - Bruce Morton, American journalist
• 2014 - Mara Neusel, German mathematician, author, and academic
• 2015 - Goh Eng Wah, Malaysian-Singaporean businessman, founded Eng Wah Global
• 2015 - Aadesh Shrivastava, Indian singer-songwriter
• 2015 - Chester Stranczek, American baseball player and businessman
• 2016 - Hugh O'Brian, American actor
• 2016 - Phyllis Schlafly, American lawyer, writer, and political activist
• 2018 - Bhagwatikumar Sharma, Indian Gujarati writer and journalist
• 2018 - Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress
• 2019 - Francisco Toledo, Mexican painter, sculptor, and graphic artist

  Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
• *Bertin
• *Charbel
• *Genebald
• *Gregorio Aglipay
• *Mother Teresa
• *Ursicinus of Ravenna
• *Zechariah and Elisabeth
• *September 5
• Earliest date on which Jeûne genevois can fall, while September 11 is the latest; celebrated on Thursday after the first Sunday of September.
• International Day of Charity
• Teacher's Day
• The flag-flying day for Denmark's deployed personnel
• First day of school in Vietnam