- 546 St. Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Irish bishop
- 1000 Olaf Tryggvason, King Olaf I of Norway (995-1000)
- 1087 William I, The Conqueror, King of England/Duke of Normandy, dies
- 1398 King James I of Cyprus (1382-98), dies at about 64
- 1438 Eduard [Dom Duarte], King of Portugal (1433-38)/writer, dies
- 1487 Chenghua, Emperor of China, dies at 39
- 1488 Francis II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1433)
- 1513 James IV, King of Scots (1488-1513), dies in battle at 40
- 1573 Andre de Resende, Portuguese dominican/humanist, dies
- 1596 Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen
- 1612 Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)
- 1676 Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer (b. 1612)
- 1680 Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
- 1683 Algernon Sidney, English Whig politician/plotter, beheaded
- 1713 Giovanni A di Bartlommeo Viscardi, Swiss architect, dies
- 1755 Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694)
- 1770 Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist, dies at 73
- 1770 Georg Dionysius Ehret, German-English botanist and cartoonist, dies at 62
- 1806 William Paterson, American jurist and statesman (b. 1745)
- 1810 Johann Baptiste Hagenauer, Austrian sculptor, dies at 78
- 1815 John Singleton Copley, American painter of portraits and historical objects, dies at 77
- 1817 Paul Cuffe, African American civil rights activist (helped settle Sierre Leone), dies at 58
- 1841 Augustin P de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 63
- 1866 Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian-Czech poet and translator (Great Hung dictionary), dies at 65
- 1876 American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle
- 1888 John van Swieten, Dutch governor of West-Sumatra, dies at 71
- 1891 Jules Grévy, 2nd President of the French Third Republic, dies at 84
- 1898 Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
- 1901 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, dies at 36
- 1901 Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, minister of Cologne dies
- 1902 Titus AJ van Asch van Wijck, Governor of Suriname (1891-97), dies at 53
- 1907 Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
- 1909 Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)
- 1913 Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician, dies
- 1931 Lujo [Ludwig J von] Brentano, German economist dies at 86
- 1934 Roger Fry, English artist and art critic, dies at 67
- 1941 Gustav Ehrismann, German author and expert on the German language, dies at 85
- 1941 Hans Spemann, German embryologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1935), dies at 72
- 1946 Mynona, Polish writer (The Creator), dies at 74
- 1962 Pat Rooney, American vaudevillian (Night club), dies at 82
- 1962 Geoffrey Mander, English industrialist (Mander Brothers Ltd.), dies at 80
- 1963 Ernst Kantorowicz, German-American historian (Laudes regiae), dies at 68
- 1963 Jan Schouten, Dutch founder (illegal Trouw)/chairman (ARP), dies
- 1966 Leon de Smet, Flemish painter, dies at 85
Mao Zedong
1976 Mao Zedong, Chinese revolutionary and Chairman of the Communist Party of China (1949-76), dies of a heart attack at 82
Mao Zedong
- 1978 Jack L Warner [Jacob Warner], Canadian-American film executive and president of the Warner Bros. Studios, dies at 86
- 1978 Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
- 1980 John Howard Griffin, American photographer, journalist and author (Black Like Me), dies from complications of diabetes at 60
- 1982 Frederic Dannay, [Ellery Queen], American detective writer, dies at 76
- 1984 Yilmaz Gueney, director (Yol, Arkadas, Baba, Agit), dies at 47
- 1985 Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
- 1987 Gerrit John Heijn, senior executive (Ahold), kidnapped/murdered
- 1990 Rimantas Stankevičius, Lithuanian cosmonaut, dies at 46
- 1990 Samuel Doe, Liberian politician (b. 1951)
- 1991 Edwin M. McMillan, American physicist and discoverer of plutonium (Nobel 1951), dies at 83
- 1991 John Lawrence, doctor, dies
- 1991 Joop H Zwart, Spanish fighter/publicist (Black Widow), dies
- 1994 Keith Davis, voice Tutor/Author, dies at 85
- 1996 Jack Pepys, immunologist, dies at 82
- 1997 Myra McCulloch, teacher academic/administrator, dies at 48
- 1999 Chan Parker, American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods (b. 1925)
- 1999 David Stafford-Clark, English psychiatrist, dies at 83
- 2000 Julian Critchley, British politician (b. 1930)
- 2001 Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military leader (b. 1953)
- 2002 Geoffrey Dummer, British electronics engineer, built first integrated circuit and work in radar, dies at 93
Edward Teller
2003 Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist, father of the Hydrogen bomb (Manhattan Project), dies at 95
Edward Teller
- 2003 Thomas Edward Allibone, English Physicist (Manhattan Project, high-voltage particle acceleration), dies at 99
- 2005 John Wayne Glover, English-born Australian serial killer, commits suicide in prison at 72
- 2005 Stanley Dancer, American harness racer (4 Hambletonians, 3 Trot Triple Crown), dies at 78
- 2006 William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)
- 2008 Warith Deen Muhammad, American religious leader (b. 1933)
- 2012 Verghese Kurien, Indian engineer (billion-litre idea), dies from kidney failure at 90
- 2014 Denny Miller, American actor, dies from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 80
September in History
Woman Jockey Rides Into Record Books
Jockey Gay Kelleway is the only woman to ride a winner at England’s famous Royal Ascot. She was also the first jockey to wear a TV camera on her helmet.
September 6, 1992
Hey, Hey – We're The Monkees
We have the formula, the music and the female fans standing by ready to scream. All we need now is four likely lads to form the band. Enter "The Monkees".
September 8, 1965
Dog Unearths Cave of Antiquity
A cave complex that contained wall paintings later described by experts as 'the cradle of art' was unearthed on this day by a curious dog, named Robot.
September 12, 1940
Fiery Birth for Star Spangled Banner
The national anthem of the United States, the Star Spangled Banner, is set to music written by a British composer and was originally an old drinking song.
September 13, 1814