1799 – Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, dies at 82
1819 – Jean-Louis Duport, French cellist and composer, dies at 69
1929 – Frederic Weatherly, British barrister, author, translator, and lyricist (“Danny Boy”, “The Holy City”, “Roses of Picardy”), dies at 80
1939 – Kyoka Izumi, Japanese novelist and kabuki playwright, dies at 65
1961 – Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy [Gerbrandij], Dutch lawyer, resistance fighter, and Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1940-45), dies at 76
2001 – Igor Buketoff, American conductor (Iceland Symphony Orchestra, 1964-65), dies at 86
2002 – Erma Franklin, American gospel and RandB singer (“Piece Of My Heart”), dies at 64
2016 – Norbert Schemansky, American weightlifter (Olympic gold heavyweight 1952, silver 1948, bronze 1960, 64), dies at 92
2017 – John Maxwell Geddes, Scottish composer and pedagogue, dies at 76
2025 – John Penton, American motorcycle racer and designer considered “the godfather of off-road motorcycling”, dies at 100
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Historical Events for 7th September 2026
1812 – Battle of Borodino: Napoleon Bonaparte wins a Pyrrhic victory against Russian General Mikhail Kutuzov in the most ferocious battle of the Napoleonic era; 70,000 are killed
1942 – First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator
1952 – Outfielder Don Grate of Tennessee throws a baseball a record 434 ft 1 in (132.3 m)
1954 – Integration begins in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland, public schools
1966 – KTNE TV Channel 13 in Alliance, NE (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 – East German sprinter Renate Stecher runs a world record-equaling 22.40 in the 200 m final to repeat her 100 m win over Australia’s Raelene Boyle at the Munich Olympics
1986 – Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa
1991 – Die Laughing wins Messenger Stakes
Today in History for 7th September 2026
Historical Events
1954 – Integration begins in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland, public schools
1986 – Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa
2008 – 25th MTV Video Music Awards: Britney Spears and Chris Brown win
2013 – Tony Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Australia after the Liberal-National Coalition wins the election
2013 – Fourteen Syrian rebels and two civilians are killed by heavy government shelling in Damascus
Famous Birthdays
1951 – Morris Albert [Maurício Alberto Kaisermann], Brazilian singer (“Feelings”), born in São Paulo, Brazil
1951 – Chrissie Hynde, American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Pretenders – “Brass In Pocket”), born in Akron, Ohio
1967 – Leslie Jones, American comedian and actress (Saturday Night Live, Ghostbusters), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1976 – Oliver Hudson, American actor (Rules of Engagement), born in Los Angeles, California
1983 – Mehmet Topuz, Turkisher footballer (Kayserispor), born in Caferli Köyü, Yozgat, Turkey
Famous Deaths
1775 – Johann Georg Holzbogen, German violinist and composer, dies at 48
1920 – Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian politician and 12th Premier of Quebec (1900-05), dies at 64
1944 – Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes, Cuban composer, dies at 70
1994 – Terence Young, British film director (Dr No, Thunderball), dies of at 79
2008 – Miljenko “Dino” Dvornik, Croatian singer known as “the Croatian King of Funk”, dies of an overdose at 44
Famous Deaths for 6th September 2026
1819 – Georg Druschetzky [Jiří Družecký], Czech composer, oboist, and timpanist, dies at 74
1941 – Hugo Loudon, Dutch businessman and co-founder of Royal Dutch Shell, dies at 81
1948 – Gerrit Hendrik Kersten, Dutch vicar and founder (Calvinist Party), dies at 66
1963 – Margarita Sierra, Spanish-American actress (Surfside 6 – “Cha Cha”), dies after heart surgery at 27
1981 – Joseph Yasser, Russian-American composer, dies at 88
1999 – René Lecavalier, French Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)
2018 – Evelyn Anthony, British historical writer (Poellenberg Inheritance), dies at 92
2018 – Alan Oakman, English cricket all-rounder (2 Tests; Sussex CCC), dies at 88
2024 – Mark Moffatt, Australian guitarist, songwriter, and record producers (The Monitors; Tim Finn), dies of pancreatic cancer at 74
2024 – Horst Weigang, German soccer goalkeeper (12 caps East Germany; Lokomotive Leipzig, Rot-Weiß Erfurt), dies at 83
Historical Events for 6th September 2026
1669 – Siege of Candia on Crete ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans, the second-longest siege in history (began 1648)
1819 – American inventor Thomas Blanchard patents lathe
1944 – Gen. von Zangen’s 15th Army escapes from Zeeland
1961 – USSR performs a nuclear test at Kapustin Yar, USSR
1963 – Historian Lee Allen says the Cleveland Indians-Washington Senators game is the 100,000th in Major League Baseball history
1982 – Dutch Internal Minister Mr. M. Red assigns BVD to spy on communists
1982 – Jerry Lewis’s 17th annual Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $28,415,339
1986 – Jozef Pribilinec sets a speed walking world record time (15,447 km)
Today in History for 6th September 2026
Historical Events
1839 – Cherokee Nation unites and ratifies constitution at Tahlequah, Oklahoma
1920 – Jack Dempsey knocks out Billy Miske in the third round for the heavyweight boxing title in the first radio broadcast of a prizefight
1982 – Dutch Internal Minister Mr. M. Red assigns BVD to spy on communists
1985 – Mark Messier loses control of his Porsche and totals three cars; he is charged with hit-and-run and careless driving and is ordered to pay a fine
2018 – New York and New Jersey state attorneys launch investigations into sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy, bringing to six the number of states investigating
Famous Birthdays
1919 – Wilson Greatbatch, American engineer and pioneering inventor (cardiac pacemaker), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 2011)
1946 – Bryan D. O’Connor, U.S. Marine Corps colonel and astronaut (STS 61B, STS 40), born in Orange, California
1947 – Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer and coach, born in Aldershot, England
1956 – Bill Ritter, American politician (41st Governor of Colorado), born in Denver, Colorado
1995 – Mark Andrews, American NFL player (Baltimore Ravens), born in Scottsdale, Arizona
Famous Deaths
1748 – Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669)
1984 – Ernest Tubb, American country musician (“Walking the Floor Over You”), dies of emphysema at 70
1992 – Pat Harder, American NFL fullback (Cardinals, Lions), dies at 70
1995 – Italo Valenti, Italian sculptor, dies at 83
2003 – Harry Goz, American musical theatre actor and voice actor, dies at 71
Famous Deaths for 5th September 2026
1201 – Constance, Duchess of Brittany and Countess of Richmond, dies at about 40 (b. circa 1161)
1859 – Friedrich von Olivier, German landscape painter, dies at 68
1922 – Sarah Winchester, American businesswoman, heiress, and philanthropist, dies at 83
1924 – Karel Komzák III, Austrian conductor and composer, dies at 46
1976 – Arthur Gilligan, British cricket all-rounder (11 Tests, 34 wickets; England captain 1924-25; Sussex CCC), dies at 81
1982 – Douglas Bader, English RAF fighter pilot in World War II, dies at 72
1996 – Clem Thomas, Welsh rugby union flanker (26 Tests, 9 as captain; Cambridge Uni RFC, Brynamman, Swansea, London Welsh, Harlequins) and journalist (The Observer), dies at 67 dies at 67
2015 – Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress (Late Spring, Tokyo Story), dies of pneumonia at 95
2016 – Duane Graveline, American doctor and astronaut, dies at 85
2021 – Sarah Harding, British pop singer (Girls Aloud – “Sound of the Underground,” “Love Machine”), dies of breast cancer at 39
Historical Events for 5th September 2026
1907 – King Edward VII of Great Britain meets Russia’s Foreign Minister Alexander Izvolsky in an attempt to strengthen Russia’s relationship with Britain
1914 – Proclamation prohibits Canadian mint from issuing gold coins
1922 – 17th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in New York (4-1)
1938 – International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Philadelphia, PA: US retains title as Don Budge beats Australian Adrian Quist 8-6, 6-1, 6-2 for an unbeatable 3-1 lead; ends 3-2
1955 – WKRG TV channel 5 in Mobile, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 – Dodger Don Newcombe hits a National League pitcher record seventh home run of the season
1972 – Eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and later killed by the Palestinian group Black September at the Munich Olympics
2024 – China confirms it is ending its foreign adoption program following a suspension that began with the COVID-19 pandemic in January 2020
Today in History for 5th September 2026
Historical Events
1646 – The first public library in the Americas is established when Bishop Palafox y Mendoza donates his personal library of 5,000 volumes to Tridentine colleges in Puebla, Mexico
1882 – 10,000 workers march in the first Labor Day parade in New York City
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls
1991 – 8th MTV Video Music Awards: REM wins
2025 – US President Donald Trump deploys ten F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico to take part in military action against drug cartels in the Caribbean region
Famous Birthdays
1908 – Cecilia Seghizzi, Italian composer, born in Gotizia, Austria-Hungary (d. 2019)
1967 – India Hicks, British model, interior designer and author (Island Life, A Slice of England), born in London
1970 – Willie Clay, American NFL safety (Detroit Lions), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1971 – Carlester Crumpler, American NFL tight end (Seattle Seahawks), born in Greenville, North Carolina
1991 – Skandar Keynes, English actor (The Chronicles of Narnia film series), born in London, England
Famous Deaths
1566 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan and the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1530-1566), dies at 71 [or Sep 6]
1910 – Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest and musicologist (Magister choralis), dies at 70
1998 – Leo Penn, American actor and film director, dies at 77
2021 – Ivan Patzaichin, Romanian canoeist (Olympic gold C-2 1000m 1968, 80, 84; C-1 1000m 1972; World C’ship gold x 8), dies from lung cancer at 71
2025 – José María Tojeira, Spanish-Salvadoran priest and provincial of the Jesuits in Central America (1988-95), dies of a heart attack at 78
Famous Deaths for 4th September 2026
1784 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (geodesic labor), dies at 70
1864 – John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader of ‘Morgan’s Raiders’, killed by Union troops at Greeneville at 39
1977 – Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek folk singer, songwriter and guitarist, dies at 78
1988 – Oda Schaefer, German writer and journalist (Die Windharfe, Ladies Only), dies at 87
1994 – Laurens van Deenen, Dutch biochemist, dies at 66
1997 – Jeffrey Bernard, British writer (Spectator Magazine – Low Life), dies at 65
2007 – Ryūzō Sejima, Japanese army officer and educator, dies at 95
2023 – Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist (Nobel Prize for Medicine – 1998), dies at 86
2023 – Steve Harwell, American rock singer-songwriter (Smash Mouth, 1994-2021 – “All Star”, “I’m A Believer”), dies of liver failure at 56
2025 – Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer (American Gigolo) and founder of the Armani luxury fashion house, dies at 91