Events in History
- Sep 2 Pan-Germanic and nationalist Fatherland Party (Deutsche Vaterlands Partei) formed by former Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz
- Sep 3 1st night bombing of London by German aircraft
- Sep 3 German troops overrun Riga, Latvia
- Sep 3 Grover Cleveland Alexander pitches complete wins in a doubleheader
- Sep 6 French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft
- Sep 15 Forbes Magazine founded by B. C. Forbes and Walter Drey in the US
- Sep 15 Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky's Provisional government
- Sep 20 British assault on Polygon Forest, France
- Sep 20 Paraguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- Sep 26 British assault on Menin-street, France
- Sep 27 Broadhurst Theater opens at 235 W 44th St NYC
Birthdays in History
- Sep 2 Cleveland Amory, American animal rights activist and TV reviewer (TV Guide), born in Nahant, Massachusetts (d. 1998)
- Sep 4 Henry Ford II, American automotive industry businessman, grandson of Henry Ford, and son of Edsel Ford (Ford Motor Company President, 1945-60 & CEO, 1947-79), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1987)
- Sep 6 Philipp von Boeselager, German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler, born in Bonn, Germany (d. 2008)
- Sep 7 Jacob Lawrence, African-American artist (Sanitarium), born in Atlantic City, New Jersey (d. 2000)
- Sep 7 John Cornforth, Australian-British chemist (Nobel Prize 1975), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 2013)
- Sep 10 Franfo Fortini [Franco Lattes], Italian poet, born in Florence (d. 1994)
- Sep 10 Miguel Serrano, Chilean author, diplomat and fascist (Esoteric Hitlerism), born in Santiago, Chile (d. 2009)
Ferdinand Marcos (1917-1989)
Sep 11 10th President of the Philippines (1965-86), dictator and kleptocrat, born in Sarrat, Ilocos Norte, Philippines
- Sep 11 Jessica "Decca" Mitford, English author (American Way of Death), activist and one of the Mitford sisters, born in Gloucestershire (d. 1996)
- Sep 12 Pierre Sévigny, Canadian military officer and politician, born in Quebec, Canada (d. 2004)
- Sep 12 Seamas NacNeill, Classical physicist and piper, born in Glasgow (d. 1996)
- Sep 12 Seumas MacNeill, Scottish bagpiper, and educator (College of Bagpipes), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1996)
- Sep 18 Gerrit Borgers, Dutch literary, born in Brummen, Netherlands (d. 1987)
- Sep 21 Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (Crank-Nicolson method), born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England (d. 1968)
- Sep 22 Henry Ries, German-American photographer (New York Times - "The Berlin Airlift"), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2004)
- Sep 24 William Putnam Bundy, American attorney and intelligence expert (9th Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 2000)
- Sep 26 Réal Caouette, French Canadian politician (Social Credit Party of Canada), born in Amos, Canada (d. 1976)
- Sep 27 Louis Auchincloss, American lawyer and novelist (Watchfires), born in Lawrence, New York (d. 2010)
- Sep 30 Chung Hee Park, Korean general and President of South Korea (1961-79), assassinated in office, born in Gumi, Japanese Korea (d. 1979)
- Sep 30 Irving B. Kahn, American inventor of the teleprompter, born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1994)
- Sep 30 Yuri "Petrovich" Lyubimov, Soviet director (Taganka Theatre), born in Yaroslavl, Russia (d. 2014)
Deaths in History
- Sep 5 Arthur Verhaegen, Belgian architect and worker's union leader, dies at 70
- Sep 5 Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (pioneer of statistical physics), dies at 45
- Sep 11 Georges Guynemer, French WW I pilot, dies at 22
- Sep 20 Herbert Morris, Jamaican deserter in France, executed at 17
- Sep 23 Werner Voss, German World War I flying ace, dies at 20
- Sep 25 Thomas Ashe, Irish revolutionary who fought in the Easter Rising, dies after being badly treated during a hunger strike in prison at 32
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Sep 27 French impressionist painter, sculptor and artist (The Bellelli Family), dies at 83
- Sep 28 T. E. Hulme, English writer and poet, dies at 34
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