1810 – Johann Baptiste Hagenauer, Austrian sculptor, dies at 78
1832 – Bernhard Klein, German composer, mainly of vocal works, dies at 39
1964 – Charles O’Neill, Irish-Canadian composer, organist, cornetist, and bandmaster, dies at 82
1975 – Minta Durfee, actress (Keystone Comedies, Mickey), dies at 85
2002 – Geoffrey Dummer, British electronics engineer who built the first integrated circuit (microchip) and worked on radar systems, dies at 93
2006 – Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (The Name of the Rose), dies at 79
2007 – Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian soccer forward (18 caps; Sturm Graz, First Vienna, Real Betis, Wacker Innsbruck) and manager (Austria, Athletic Bilbao, AEK), dies at 73
2012 – Ron Taylor, Australian shark expert and cinematographer, dies from myeloid leukemia at 78
2014 – Denny Miller, American actor, dies from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 80
2016 – James Stacy [Maurice William Elias], American actor (Lancer), dies at 79
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Historical Events for 9th September 2025
1493 – Battle of Krbava Field: Ottoman Empire decisively defeats an army of the Kingdom of Croatia
1914 – First fully mechanized unit in the British Army is created: the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade (WWI)
1932 – Mine strike at Belgian Borinage ends
1944 – The Red Army supports a coup in Bulgaria, instituting a new Communist government (1946-1990) during the “National Uprising”
1964 – German Democratic Republic government allows short visits to West Germany
2006 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Maria Sharapova of Russia wins her first US title; overpowers Belgian Justine Henin-Hardenne 6-4, 6-4
2012 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Serena Williams wins her fourth US title, beating Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 6-2, 2-6, 7-5
2015 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain’s longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria
Today in History for 9th September 2025
Historical Events
1683 – Expelled Polish and Lotharingians reach Wienerwald
1939 – Nazi Army reaches Warsaw
1944 – US 113th cavalry passes Belgian-Dutch borders
1981 – Vernon E. Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League in the US
1987 – Gary Hart admits on “Nightline” to cheating on his wife
Famous Birthdays
1908 – John Heaton, American sledder (Olympic silver skeleton 1928, 48, bronze bobsled 1932; American team’s flag bearer 1948), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1976)
1931 – Bill Persky, American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter (The Dick Van Dyke Show), producer (That Girl), and television director, born in New York City
1943 – Larry Hosford, American folk singer-songwriter (The King Takes The Queen), born in Salinas, California (d. 2016)
1956 – Avi Wigderson, Israeli mathematician and computer scientist (2023 Turing Prize for randomness), born in Haifa, Israel
1962 – Aleta Rzepecki Sill, American bowler (1983 WIBC single), born in Detroit, Michigan
Famous Deaths
1974 – Soltan Hajibeyov, Azerbaijani composer and People’s Artist of the USSR, dies at 55
1975 – Ethel Griffies, English actress (Billy Liar, Birds), dies at 97
1997 – Burgess Meredith, American stage and screen actor (Mr Novak; Of Mice and Men; Batman (TV) – “The Penguin”; Rocky), dies at 88
2011 – Jean-Paul Jeannotte, Canadian operatic tenor, educator (Lavall, 1964-79), and artistic director (Opéra de Montréal, 1980-89), dies at 95
2024 – Cecília Gáspár, Hungarian soccer midfielder and captain (28 caps; TSV Crailsheim, SGS Essen), dies at 39
Famous Deaths for 8th September 2025
1858 – Jacopo Foroni, Italian opera composer (I gladiatori; Advokathen Panthelin), and conductor, dies during cholera epidemic at 34
1871 – Etienne-Joseph Soubre, Belgian composer, dies at 57
1895 – Adam Opel, German entrepreneur, sewing machine and bicycle pioneer who founded Adam Opel AG, dies at 58
1917 – Charles-Édouard Lefebvre, French composer, dies at 74
1944 – Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer (Frau Helga von Staveren; Thijl), conductor, and anti-Nazi resistance fighter, dies of pneumonia at 63
1976 – Asen Karastoyanov, Bulgarian composer, dies at 83
1980 – Hermann Claudius, German folk poet (Meister Bertram), dies at 101
2006 – Hilda Bernstein, British-South African author, artist, and activist, dies at 91
2014 – Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter, arranger (Jimmie Lunceford; Duke Ellington), orchestra leader, and teacher dies at 96
2020 – Simeon Coxe, American songwriter, singer and psychedelic synthesizer player (Silver Apples), dies of pulmonary fibrosis at 82
Historical Events for 8th September 2025
1831 – William IV is crowned King of Great Britain at the age of 64, becoming the oldest person to assume the British throne
1960 – German 4 x 100 m relay team equals world record 39.5 to win the gold medal at Rome Olympics; Bernd Cullmann, Armin Hary, Walter Mahlendorf, and Martin Lauer
1963 – Algerian population accepts the constitution
1973 – US Open Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Margaret Court wins her 24th and final Grand Slam singles title, beating fellow Australian Evonne Goolagong Cawley 7-6, 5-7, 6-2
1980 – Bowie Kuhn suspends Ferguson Jenkins indefinitely after being arrested in Toronto for possession of drugs
1991 – NFL Buffalo Bills QB Jim Kelly passes for 6 touchdowns against the Pittsburgh Steelers (52-34)
1994 – USAir Boeing 737 crashes at Pittsburgh Airport, killing all 132 on board
1997 – TV series “Ally McBeal,” starring Calista Flockhart and created by David E. Kelley, premieres on Fox in the US
Today in History for 8th September 2025
Historical Events
1796 – Battle of Bassano: Napoleon Bonaparte’s French army defeats the Austrian forces during the French Revolutionary Wars
1923 – Honda Point Disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast, and seven are lost
1966 – The Severn Bridge between England and Wales is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II
1985 – Alayson Gibbons sets a 24-hour women’s swim record of 42.05 miles in a 25-meter pool
2022 – Australian Stephanie Gilmore wins her eighth world surfing title at Lower Trestles, California, making her the most successful women’s champion in history
Famous Birthdays
1857 – Ida Henrietta Hyde, American physiologist who invented the micro-electrode and the first woman allowed to do research at Harvard Medical School and to be elected to the American Physiology Society, born in Davenport, Iowa (d. 1945)
1894 – Willem Pijper, Dutch composer and music critic, born in Zeist, Netherlands (d. 1947)
1927 – Charles “Specs” Wright, American jazz drummer (Dizzy Gillespie; Cannonball Adderly; Red Garland), born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia (d. 1963)
1930 – Jeannette Altwegg, English figure skater (Olympic gold 1952), born in Bombay, India (d. 2021)
1991 – Joe Sugg, English Youtuber and actor (Strictly Come Dancing), born in Lacock, England
Famous Deaths
1656 – Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (Virgidemiarum: Six Books), dies at 82
1935 – Carl Weiss, American physician who murdered US Senator Huey Long, shot and killed by the senator’s bodyguards at 28
1995 – Halldis Moren Vesaas, Norwegian author and poet (Harp and Dagger), dies at 87
2005 – Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer and footballer (b. 1932)
2018 – Tito Capobianco, Argentinian stage impresario, dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 7th September 2025
1362 – Joan of The Tower, English princess and Queen consort of Scotland, dies at 41
1559 – Robert Estienne, French printer (b. 1503)
1833 – Hannah More, English religious writer, poet, and philanthropist (Cheap Repository Tracts), dies at 88
1871 – Mehmed Ali Pasha, Turkish marshal and statesman, dies fighting in Albania at 50
1968 – Thom Kelling, Dutch singer, guitarist, and bandleader (Programa de Manha), dies at 46
1972 – Jacques Pirenne, Belgian historian and honorary secretary of King Leopold III of Belgium, dies at 81
1983 – Hans Münch, Swiss conductor and composer, dies at 90
1996 – Joseph F. Biroc, American cinematographer, filmed the liberation of Paris in 1944 and won an Oscar for “The Towering Inferno”, dies at 93
1997 – Alex Macintosh, British BBC presenter and actor (Hell Fight), dies at 72
2008 – Nagi Noda, Japanese pop artist and director, dies after surgery at 34
Historical Events for 7th September 2025
70 – Roman army under General Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem
1159 – Ottaviano de Montecello is elected Antipope Victor IV
1909 – Eugene Lefebvre becomes the first pilot to die in an aircraft while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane at Juvisy
1927 – University of Minas Gerais is founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, by Governor Antônio Carlos
1936 – The last surviving member of the marsupial thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in his cage at Hobart Zoo, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
1940 – Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria
1972 – American athletes Vincent Matthews and Wayne Collett finish 1-2 in the 400 m at the Munich Olympics, act casually on the medal stand, and do not face the flag during the anthem, resulting in a lifetime ban from the Olympics
1981 – Cleveland Browns’ Brian Sipe sets a club record with 57 pass attempts
Today in History for 7th September 2025
Historical Events
1941 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: 1939 champion Bobby Riggs beats Frank Kovacs 5-7, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3
1942 – First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator
1945 – Joe Kuhel hits an inside-the-park home run, the only homer hit by a member of the Washington Senators team all season at their home field, Griffith Stadium
1985 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Hana Mandlíková beats Martina Navratilova 7-6, 1-6, 7-6 for her first US title
1988 – Guy Lafleur, Tony Esposito, and Brad Park are inducted into the NHL Hall of Fame
Famous Birthdays
1923 – Louise Suggs, American golfer and co-founder of LPGA (11 major titles, US Open 1949, 52), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 2015)
1941 – Mogoboya Noko Nelson Ramodike, South African politician in Lebowa, born in South Africa (d. 2012)
1959 – Jermaine Stewart, American RandB singer (“We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off”), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 1997)
1967 – Leslie Jones, American comedian and actress (Saturday Night Live, Ghostbusters), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1980 – Sara Carrigan, Australian cyclist (Olympic gold, road race 2004), born in Gunnedah, New South Wales
Famous Deaths
1819 – Jean-Louis Duport, French cellist and composer, dies at 69
1892 – Joseph Reid Anderson, American Confederate general and owner of munitions company Tredegar Iron Company, dies at 79
2006 – Robert Earl Jones, American actor (The Sting, Witness, Sleepaway Camp), dies of natural causes at 96
2008 – Don Haskins, American College Basketball Hall of Fame coach (Texas El Paso 1961-99; NCAA Tournament 1966), dies at 78
2017 – Gene Michael, American baseball shortstop, and general manger (NY Yankees), dies of a heart attack at 79
Famous Deaths for 6th September 2025
972 – John XIII Crescentii, pope (965-72), dies
1511 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, 11th Japanese shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate (1493-1508), dies at 30
1708 – Sir John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623)
1903 – Charles Ammi Cutter, American librarian (Expansive classification), dies at 66
1965 – (Ernest) “Red” Ingle, American jazz and novelty saxophonist, songwriter, arranger and vocalist (Ted Weems; Spike Jones and His City Slickers; The Natural Seven), dies of an internal hemorrhage at 58
1965 – Konstantin G. Mostras, Russian composer, dies at 79
1977 – Guido Pannain, Italian composer and musicologist, dies at 85
1999 – René Lecavalier, French Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)
2001 – Carl Crack, German musician (Atari Teenage Riot) (b. 1971)
2011 – Wardell Quezergue, American jazz, blues, and funk composer, arranger, record producer, and bandleader, known as the “Creole Beethoven”, dies at 81