September 11th
Holidays and Festivals
9/11 a.k.a. Nine Eleven * CLICK HERE
National Day (Catalonia) * (see below)
9-1-1 Emergency Day (USA) * (see below)
Teacher's Day (Latin America) * (see below)
Liberation Day (Dijon, France) * (see below)
Whiskey Rebellion Day * (see below)
Death of Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Pakistan) * (see below)
New Year's Day in the Ethiopian calendar (Enkutatash).
No News is Good News Day
Make Your Bed Day
Feast of Virgin of the Holy Cave (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Saint Deiniol (Roman Catholic) Feast of Our Lady of Coromoto (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Protus and Hyacinth (Roman Catholic)
Feast day of Saint Deiniol
Beheading of John the Baptist (or The Forerunner) in the Eastern Orthodox tradition (Julian Calendar).
Feast of Neyrouz, the New Year's Day in the Coptic calendar.
* Ibiza Closing Parties Ibiza, Spain - Last 3 weeks of Sept (3-21)
* Bestival - Isle of Wight, England, UK September 9 - 12 (3of4) (2010)
* Musicfest NW - Portland, Oregon, USA September 9 - 12 (3of4) (2010)
* End of the Road Festival - Dorset, England, U K September 10 - 12 (2of3) (2010)
* 9-11, 9/11, Nine Eleven a.k.a. 9/11 Rememberance Day * CLICK HERE
Full List of Nine-Eleven casualties HERE.
* National Day (Catalonia), remembering those Catalan patriots who died in the Siege of Barcelona, in defense of the city, against the Franco-Spanish army.
* Proclaimed 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day by President Reagan on August 26 in 1987 and celebrated since then by some United States communities, particularly the local emergency services.
* Teacher's Day (Latin America) , after the death of Argentine Domingo F. Sarmiento.
* Liberation Day (Dijon, France) commemorating the Allied liberation of the city from Nazi occupation in 1944
* Death of Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Pakistan), anniversary of the death of the founder of Pakistan.
* Whiskey Rebellion Day - a recently appointed tax collector named Robert Johnson was tarred and feathered by a disguised gang in Washington County essentially starting the whiskey rebellion.
Fête de la Bigarade Translation: Bitter orange Day (French Republican) The 26th day of the Month of Fructidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"When life''s on the line! - We''re the first to respond.
"Play it safe! - You may be my job one day.
God Bless, to my Brothers that were lost''d in 9/11"
- FDNY toast
Drink of The Day
9/11
1 Part Jagermeister
1 Part Southern Comfort
1 Part Jack Daniels
Pour Jagermeister first, then Southern Comfort, then Jack Daniels. Down as shot
Wine of The Day
Coyote Canyon Winery (2009) "Downtown White"
Columbia Valley
$15
Beer of The Day
Firehouse American Pale Ale
Brewer - The Fiehouse Brewing Co., California, United States
Style - American Pale Ale
Joke of The Day
Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What's the nature of your emergency?
Caller: My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two
minutes apart
Dispatcher: Is this her first child?
Caller: No, you idiot! This is her husband!
Quote of The Day
“You never know how strong you really are until being strong is the only choice you have.”
- Unknown
A Special Toast
to the lives lost on 9/11 CLICK HERE
September Observances
AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Month
All American Breakfast Month
Apple Month
Atrial Fibrillation Month
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Month
Baby Safety Month
Backpack Safety America Month
Be Kind to Editors and Writers Month
Better Breakfast Month
Bourbon Heritage Month
Bumbershoot Festival (Seattle, Washington, USA)
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Childrens' Good Manners Month
Chili Peppers and Figs Month
Classical Music Month
College Savings Month
Craniofacial Acceptance Month
Eat Chicken Month
Fall Hat Month
Go Wild During California Wild Rice Month
Great American Low-Cholesterol, Low-fat Pizza Bake Month
Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month
Happy Cat Month
Healthy Aging Month
Healthy Aging Month
Hunger Action Month
International Guide Dogs Month
International People Skills Month
International Self-Awareness Month
International Square Dancing Month
International Strategic Thinking Month
Library Card Sign-Up Month
Little League Month
Menopause Awareness Month
Million Minute Family Challenge (September-December)
Mold Awareness Month
National 5-A-Day Month
National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month
National Biscuit Month
National Blueberry Popsicle Month
National Campus Safety Month
National Chicken Month
National Child Awareness Month
National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
National Cholesterol Education Month
National Civics Awareness Month
National Coupon Month
National Courtesy Month
National DNA, Geonomics & Stem Cell Education Month
National Food Safety Education Month
National Fruit and Veggies Month (Also June)
National Head Lice Prevention Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15)
National Home Furnishings Month
National Honey Month
National Infant Mortality Awareness Month
National Mushroom Month
National Organic Harvest Month
National Osteopathic Medicine Month
National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month (ovarian.org)
National Pediculosis (Head Lice) Prevention Month
National Piano Month
National Potato Month
National Preparedness Month
National Prime Beef Month
National Prosper Where You Are Planted Month
National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
National Recovery Month
National Rice Month
National Sickle Cell Month
National Skin Care Awareness Month
National Wilderness Month
One-on-One Month
Passion Fruit and Peach Month
Peas and Radish Month
Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month
Pleasure Your Mate Month
Reunion Planning Month
Save The Koala Month
Sea Cadet Month
Self Improvement Month
Shameless Promotion Month
Southern Gospel Music Month
Sports and Home Eye Health and Safety Month
Subliminal Communications Month
United Planet Month
Update Your Resume Month
Virtual AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Days
Whole Grains Month
Women's Friendship Month
World Animal Remembrance Month
World Leukemia, Lymphoma And Myeloma Awareness Month
Observances this Week
Healthcare Environmental Services Week, Second Week of SeptemberInternational Housekeepers Week, Second Week of September
National Historically Black Colleges & Universities Week, Second Week of September
National Assisted Living Week, Second Week of September
Suicide Prevention Week, Second Week of September
Line Dance Week. Second Monday to Saturday in September
National Emergency Preparedness Week. September 11th to September 17th
Historical Events on September 11th
9 The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends.
506 The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
813 Charles the Great crowns Louis I emperor
1185 Isaac II Angelus kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt that deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire.
1226 The Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass spreads from monasteries to parishes.
1297 Battle of Stirling Bridge, Scottish jointly-led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeat the English.
1304 Willem III becomes earl of Holland
1390 Lithuanian Civil War (1389–1392), the Teutonic Knights begin a five-week siege of Vilnius.
1541 Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, lead by Michimalonko.
1557 Catholic & Lutheran theology debated in Worm
1609 Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia, beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos.
1609 Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.
1645 Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Bristol
1648 Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir
1649 Siege of Drogheda ends, Oliver Cromwell's English Parliamentarian troops take the town and executes its garrison, kills 3,000 royalists.
1683 John III Sobieski of Poland arrives on Kahlen Hill, leading to the Battle of Vienna the following day.
1697 Battle at Zenta, Prince Eugen van Savoye beats Turkish superior power
1708 Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the Great Northern War. The army is defeated nine months later in the Battle of Poltava, and the Swedish empire is no longer a major power.
1709 Battle of Malplaquet, Great Britain, Netherlands and Austria fight against and defeat France.
1714 Barcelona surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
1741 Queen Maria Theresa addresses Hungarian Parliament
1758 Battle of Saint Cast, France repels British invasion during the Seven Year's War.
1773 The Public Advertiser publishes a satirical essay titled Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One written by Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"
1775 Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec leaves Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1776 British-American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolution.
1777 Battle of Brandywine of the American Revolution, The British celebrate a major victory in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
1786 The Beginning of the Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce.
1789 Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
1791 A recently appointed tax collector named Robert Johnson was tarred and feathered by a disguised gang in Washington County essentially starting the whiskey rebellion.
1792 The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other crown jewels when six men break into the house that used to store the jewels.
1802 France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont.
1813 British troops arrive in Mount Vernon and prepare to march to and invade Washington D.C. in War of 1812.
1814 Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; American Navy defeats British
1814 The climax of the Battle of Plattsburgh, a major United States victory in the War of 1812.
1831 Charles Darwin meets with capt Fitzroy at Plymouth
1839 1st Canadian track & field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds)
1847 Stephen Foster's well-known song, Oh! Susanna, is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1850 "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st US concert
1852 Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R
1853 First electric telegraph used (Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos)
1857 The Mountain Meadows Massacre, Mormon settlers and Paiutes dressed as Indians massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
1858 First ascent of Dom, the third highest summit in the Alps.
1875 1st newspaper cartoon strip
1877 Rijkslandbouwhoge school opens in Wageningen
1881 Triple landslides bury Elm Switz
1883 James Cutler patents postal mail chute
1885 Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia
1886 Mayflower (US) beats Galatea (England) in 7th America's Cup
1888 Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after whom the Latin American Teacher's Day is chosen.
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Crooked Man" (BG)
1891 The Jewish Colonization Association is established by Baron Maurice de Hirsch.
1893 Bronx Gas & Electric Company opens on Frisby & Tremont Ave
1893 First conference of the World Parliament of Religions is held.
1893 Shaku Soen is 1st Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago)
1895 FA Cup stolen in Birmingham
1897 After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
1900 President Kruger crosses border with Mozambique
1903 The first race at The Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
1906 Mahatma Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
1909 Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet
1910 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
1912 Netherland Olympic Committee forms
1912 Philadelphia A's Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in 1 game
1914 Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka.
1914 William Christopher Handy publishes "St Louis Blues"
1915 The Pennsylvania Railroad begins electrified commuter rail service between Paoli and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, using overhead AC trolley wires for power.
1916 German troops conquer Kavalla Greece
1916 The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge initially collapsed in toto on August 29, 1907.
1918 Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series
1919 U.S. Marines invade Honduras.
1921 Nahalal, the first moshav in Israel, is settled.
1922 British mandate of Palestine begins
1922 One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
1922 The British Mandate of Palestine begins.
1922 The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia.
1922 Yankees play their farewell home game in Polo Grounds win doubleheader
1923 After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires next 27 Yanks
1923 Bernie Neis, hits the 1,000th Dodger home run
1923 ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower
1926 21st Davis Cup, USA beats France in Philadelphia (4-1)
1926 Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu
1926 An assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails.
1926 Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining
1926 US defeats France for their 7th straight Davis Cup championship
1926 Yanks' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies
1927 After losing 21 in a row to NY, the Browns win their last meeting, 6-2
1927 Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers
1928 1st TV drama-WGY's Queens Messenger
1928 Ty Cobb last hitting appearance, pops out against Yankees
1929 SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
1930 Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
1931 Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen.
1932 Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura, Polish Challenge 1932 winners, are killed in a plane crash when their RWD 6 crashes into the ground during a storm.
1933 Britain's Fred Perry thwarts Australian Jack Crawford's bid for a Grand Slam by defeating him at US Tennis championship
1935 49th US Womens Tennis, H H Jacobs beats Sarah H Palfrey Fabyan (62 64)
1935 US captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year
1936 A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game
1936 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
1937 51st US Womens Tennis, Anita Lizana beats Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (64 62)
1937 57th US Mens Tennis, J D Budge beats G v Cramm (61 79 61 36 61)
1939 Battle of Kutno-pocket, Germans advance to Warsaw
1939 British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley
1939 Iraq & Saudi Arabia declare war on nazi-Germany
1940 54th Postmaster General, Frank C Walker of Pa takes office
1940 Anton Mussert establishes Dutch SS
1940 Buckingham Palace in London destroyed by German bombs
1940 George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
1940 Hitler begins operation-Seelöwe (aborted invasion England)
1941 Belgium King Leopold secretly marries Lilian Baels
1941 Charles Lindbergh's Des Moines Speech accusing the "British, Jewish & Roosevelt administration" of pressing for war with Germany in WW II.
1941 FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight
1941 Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon (completed 15 Jan 1943).
1941 The U.S. Navy is ordered to attack German U-boats in World War II.
1942 Transport nr 31 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 Allied arm forces conquerors Salerno
1943 Jewish ghettos of Minsk & Lida Belorussia liquidated
1943 Last German Q, pirate ship sinks near Easter Island
1943 US & Australian troops join in Salamaua, New Guinea
1944 FDR & Churchill meet in Canada at 2nd Quebec Conference
1944 US 5th pantzer division is 1st to enter nazi-Germany
1946 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
1950 "Beetle Bailey" comic strip debuts
1950 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
1950 33 die in a train crash in Coshocton Ohio
1950 Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence
1951 Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes
1951 Stravinsky's opera "Rake's Progress," premieres in Venice
1952 West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews
1953 KSBW TV channel 8 in Salinas-Monterey, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 WEHT TV channel 25 in Evansville, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 1st Miss America TV broadcast
1954 20.4 cm rainfall at Brunswick, Maine (state record)
1954 KXJB TV channel 4 in Valley City (Fargo) (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 Lee Meriwether (California), 19, crowned 27th Miss America 1955 (1st on TV)
1955 69th US Womens Tennis, Doris Hart beats Patricia Ward (64 62)
1955 75th US Mens Tennis, Tony Trabert beats Ken Rosewall beats (97 63 63)
1955 Dedication of the first Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, the Bern Switzerland Temple.
1955 KTVT TV channel 11 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
1956 Cin Red Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th HR
1956 People to People International is founded by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1956 Vladimir Kuts runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
1956 Yanks Yogi Berra ties career record for HRs (236) by a catcher
1958 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1959 "Duke" Ellington wins Springarn Medal for his musical achievements
1959 Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans
1959 Elroy Face's 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4
1959 Oriole Jerry Walker pitches 16 inn beating White Sox 1-0
1960 17th Olympic games close in Rome Italy
1960 74th US Womens Tennis, Darlene R Hard beats Maria Fraser (64 1012 64)
1960 80th US Mens Tennis, Neale A Fraser beats Rodney G Laver (64 64 97)
1960 The Young Americans for Freedom, meeting at home of William F. Buckley, Jr., promulgate the Sharon Statement.
1961 Bob Dylan's 1st NY performance
1961 Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund.
1961 Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
1962 Beatles cut "Love Me Do" & "PS I Love You" with Andy White on drums
1962 Drummer Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best of the Beatles
1962 KVCR TV channel 24 in San Bernardino, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963 Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage
1964 George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company
1964 Gillette's 20 year contract with Madison Square Garden & ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at Cleve Auditorium
1965 Beatles' "Help!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
1965 Braves 2nd straight one-hitter against the Mets
1965 The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam.
1966 80th US Womens Tennis, M Esther Bueno-Fraiser beats N Richey (63 61)
1966 86th US Mens Tennis, Fred Stolle beats John Newcombe (46 12-10 63 64)
1966 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1966 Johnny Miller becomes 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat
1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Pacific Ladies' Golf Classic
1966 Rolling Stones perform on Ed Sullivan Show
1967 A's drop grievance filed with Natl Labor Relations against C Finley
1967 Beatles' Magical Mystery Bus driven around England
1967 French president De Gaulle visits Poland
1967 Indian-Chinese border fights
1967 US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material
1967 WSRE TV channel 23 in Pensacola, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 WUNE TV channel 17 in Linville, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 WUNF TV channel 33 in Asheville, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 WUNG TV channel 58 in Concord, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew.
1969 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 88 of the hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings are released. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
1970 The Ford Pinto is introduced.
1971 "2 by 2" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 343 performances
1971 Laurel Lea Schaefer (Ohio), 22, crowned 44th Miss America 1972
1971 The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
1972 Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in San Francisco, California begins regular service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont.
1973 A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet remains in power for almost 17 years.
1974 Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Félix Millán & John Milner come to bat 12 times each
1974 Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.
1976 90th US Womens Tennis, C E L Mills beats E Goolagong Cawley (63 60) Evonne Goolagong loses her 4th straight US Open Final (Evert wins)
1976 Dorothy Kathleen Benham (Minn), 20, crowned 49th Miss America 1977
1976 Minnie Minoso bats for White Sox after a 12-year hiatus (hitless)
1977 29th Emmy Awards, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Carroll O'Conner & Bea Arthur
1977 97th US Mens Tennis, Guillermo Vilas beats Jimmy Connors (26 63 75 60)
1977 Joanne Carner wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1977 TV's Rhoda gets divorced
1978 U.S. President Jimmy Carter, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel meet at Camp David and agree on the Camp David Accords a framework for peace between Israel and Egypt and a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.
1980 Chile adopts its constitution
1980 Ron LeFlore (91st) & Rodney Scott (58th), set teammate steal record
1980 Voters approve the present Constitution of Chile.
1981 2nd government of Agt forms
1982 96th US Womens Tennis, C E L Mills beats Hana Mandlikova (63 61)
1982 Chris Evert wins her 6th & final US Open Tennis match at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills NY
1982 Debbie Maffett (California), 25, crowned 55th Miss America 1983
1982 The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
1983 103rd US Mens Tennis, Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 67 75 60)
1983 Fashion designer Donna Karen marries Stephan Weiss
1983 Franco Harris becomes 3rd NFL to rush 11,000 yards
1983 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship
1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 Flyby of Comet Giacobini-Zinner
1985 Intl Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km
1985 Pete Rose of Cin Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record
1985 Sri Lanka score their 1st Test Cricket victory, by 149 runs v India
1986 Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded
1986 Pres Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres
1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 4th MTV Awards, Peter Gabriel wins
1987 Shoot out at Jean-Bertrand Aristides' church in Haiti, 12 die
1988 1/3 of population argues for Estonia autonomy
1988 108th US Mens Tennis, Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64) in 4hrs 55 min longest men's final in US Open history
1988 Betsy King wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
1988 Sports Aid-jogging to feed the world
1989 Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud
1989 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO
1989 The iron curtain opens between the communist Hungary and Austria. From Hungary thousands of East Germans throng to Austria and West Germany.
1991 "La Toya: Growing Up in The Jackson Family" goes on sale
1991 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston
1991 Air crash at Djeddah, Saudi-Arabia, 263 die
1991 Atlanta Braves Kent Mercker, Mark Wohlers & Alejandro Pena pitched 1st combined no-hitter in NL, beating San Diego Padres, 1-0
1991 Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1991 NY Yankees final game at Baltimore Oriole's Memorial Stadium
1992 Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates Hawaii, especially the islands of Kauai and Oahu, 3 die & 8,000 injured.
1993 107th US Womens Tennis, Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (63 63)
1993 Junxia Qu runs 1500m ladies world record (3:50.46)
1994 46th Emmy Awards, Fraiser, Picket Fences & Kelsey Grammer wins
1994 114th US Mens Tennis, Andre Agassi beats Michael Stich (61 76 75)
1994 Jingyi Le swims female world record 50m freestyle
1994 Missie McGeorge wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
1995 Eastern Tennessee begins using new area code 423
1995 Ohio's Governor Voinovich proclaims "Cleveland Indians Day"
1995 Soyuz TM-22, lands
1996 The Southern Pacific Railroad is absorbed into the Union Pacific Railroad system.
1996 Union Pacific Railroad purchases Southern Pacific Railroad.
1997 After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament, within the United Kingdom.
1997 NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
1998 Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
1998 Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia is the first Asian country to host the games.
2000 Activists protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne, Australia.
2001 Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people onboard
2001 The September 11th attacks take place in the United States. Terrorists hijack two passenger planes crashing them into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both & death of 2,752 people. Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon in Arlington, causing the death of 125 people and the destruction of the western portion of The Pentagon. Terrorists hijack a passenger plane that crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
2002 Through extreme and coordinated effort, The Pentagon is rededicated after repairs are completed, exactly one year after the attack on the building.
2003 Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh dies after being assaulted and fatally wounded on September 10.
2003 The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety enters into effect.
2004 All passengers are killed when a helicopter crashes in the Aegean Sea. Passengers include Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria and 16 others (including journalists and bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria).
2005 The State of Israel completes its unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip.
2007 Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.
2012 29 people are killed and 11 injured after a bus runs off a mountain highway in Nepal
2012 50 Al-Shabaab fighters are killed in conflict with the Somali National Army
2012 Japan nationalizes three of the disputed Senkaku Islands
2012 The US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is stormed, looted and burned down, killing five people, including the US ambassador
2012 Moody warns The United States, that it will lose its AAA credit rating if President Barack Obama fails to strike a deal with Congress before the end of the year
2013 12 Alawite sect members are killed by rebel fighters in central Syria
2014 South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is found not guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (and is later found guilty of culpable homicide)
2015 A large crane collapses killing more than 100 people in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
2015 Sofia Vergara (Modern Family) and Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting (The Big Bang Theory) are named highest earning TV actresses (28.5million) by Forbes
2015 Ex-Governor of Texas, Rick Perry becomes the first candidate to drop out of race for the Republican nomination
Born on September 11th
1182 Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (d. 1204)
1458 Bernardo Accolti, [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia)
1476 Louise of Savoye, French mother/regentes of king Francois I
1522 Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist, biologist (d. 1605)
1524 Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (d. 1585)
1525 Johan Georg, elector of Brandenburg (1571-91)
1584 Thomas Erpenius, [van Erpe], Dutch orientalist/arabist (grammar)
1611 Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (d. 1675)
1614 Philipp Buchner, composer
1681 Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (d. 1741)
1700 James Thomson, Scottish poet, songwriter (Rule Britannia) (d. 1748)
1711 William Boyce, English composer (d. 1779)
1723 Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer (d. 1790)
1741 Johann J Angel, German author (Herr Lorenz Stark)
1753 Friedrich August Baumbach, composer
1764 Valentino Fioravanti, composer
1786 Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (d. 1832)
1798 Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, mathematician and physicist (d. 1895)
1800 Daniel S. Dickinson, New York senator (d. 1866)
1804 Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka)
1806 Joshua Blackwood Howell, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1864)
1807 Ignaz Lachner, composer
1813 Conrad Feger Jackson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1862)
1816 Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (d. 1888)
1825 Eduard Hanslick, German music critic (d. 1904)
1835 William Wirt Allen, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1894)
1836 Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (d. 1870)
1838 John Ireland, Irish-American Catholic archbishop (d. 1918)
1844 George Clement Martin, composer
1859 Vjenceslav Novak, Croatian writer (d. 1905)
1860 James Allan, former All Black (d. 1934)
1860 Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (d. 1938)
1861 Juhani Aho, Fins journalist/writer (Panu, Tuomio)
1862 Julian Byng, British army officer (d. 1935)
1862 O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), American short story writer (d. 1910)
1865 Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (d. 1929)
1874 Heinrich Kaspar Schmid, composer
1876 Alfonso Broqua, composer
1877 Feliks E Dzjerzjinski, Lithuania, founder (KGB)
1877 James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, mathematician, astronomer (d. 1946)
1881 Asta Nielsen, Copenhagen Denmark, actress (Joyless Street)
1883 Grogorij J Zinovjev, [Gerson Radomyslski], Russian
1885 D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence, English writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover) (d. 1930)
1885 Eratstus Flaval Beadle, publisher (Beadle's Dime Novels)
1885 Herbert Stothart, composer
1890 Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer
1891 Noel Gallon, composer
1891 William Thomas Walsh, American author (d. 1949)
1892 Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (d. 1980)
1892 Pinto Colvig, American voice actor (Goofy, Pluto, and Bozo the Clown) (d. 1967)
1893 W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (d. 1974)
1895 Harry Tobias, songwriter
1899 Jimmie Davis, composer (d. 2000)
1899 Nelly A "Nell" Knoop, Dutch actress (Driestuivers Opera)
1899 Philipp Bouhler, German nazi leader (d. 1945)
1900 D. W. Brooks, American farmer and businessman (d. 1999)
1902 Alice Tully, Corning, NY, singer/patroness (Carnegie Hall)
1902 Jimmie Davis, singer/songwriter/(gov-LA, 1944-48, 60-64)
1903 Theodor Adorno, German philosopher and sociologist (d. 1969)
1906 Roye England, modeller/museum curator
1908 Everhardus J van Romondt, physician/Dutch Antillean minister of Eco
1909 Anne Seymour, Engld, actress (Gemini Affair, Empire, Tim Conway Show)
1909 William H Natcher, (Rep-D-Kentucky, 1953)
1911 Bola de Nieve, Cuban pianist (d. 1971)
1913 Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (Alabama Crimson Tide) (d. 1983)
1914 Patriarch Pavle of Serbia, Patriarch of Serbian Orthodox Church
1915 Athena Lorde, NY, actress (Fuzz, Skin Game, Firecreek)
1915 Jack Fascinato, Bevier Mo, pianist/orchestra leader (Kukla Fran & Ollie)
1917 Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and racehorse owner (d. 2001)
1917 Donald Blakeslee, American aviator (d. 2008)
1917 Ferdinand Marcos, 10th President of the Philippines (1965-86) (d. 1989)
1917 Henderson Forsythe, Macon MO, actor (Crisis at Central High)
1917 Herbert Lom, Czech-born British film actor
1917 Jessica Lucy Mitford, British writer (American Way of Death) (d. 1996)
1918 Donald Blakeslee, American aviator (d. 2008)
1921 Edwin Richfield, British Actor (d. 1990)
1922 Charles Evers, civil rights leader (Amazing Grace)
1923 Alan Badel, Manchester England, actor (Shogun)
1923 Betsy Drake, fitness expert/actress (Every Girl Should be Married)
1924 Daniel Kahikina Akaka, Chinese-American politician (Rep-D-HI, 1977/Sen-D Hawaii)
1924 Rudolf Vrba, Jewish Canadian professor, Holocaust survivor (d. 2006)
1924 Tom Landry, American football player (NY Giants), coach (Dallas Cowboys) (d. 2000)
1925 Ashley Heenan, composer
1925 Harry (Stuart) Somers, Canadian composer (d. 1999)
1926 Alfred Slote, author (Love & Tennis, Omega Station)
1926 Eddie Miksis, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1926 Gerrit van Niekerk Viljoen, South African minister of Legislation
1926 Lee Richardson, Chicago, actor (Sweet Lorraine, Fly 2, Tiger Warsaw)
1927 G. David Schine, American businessman (d. 1996)
1927 Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster (d. 2002)
1927 Willie Christine King, Sister of Martin Luther King Jr.
1928 Earl Holliman, American actor (Police Woman, Tribes, Cry Panic)
1928 Reubin O'Donovan Askew, American politician (Gov-Fla)
1929 David S Broder, Chicago Hgts Ill, journalist (Pulitzer 1973)
1929 Primož Kozak, Slovenian playwright (d. 1981)
1930 Cathryn Damon, Seattle Wash, actress (Mary-Soap, She's Having a Baby)
1930 Renzo Montagnani, Italian actor (d. 1997)
1930 Saleh Selim, Egyptian football player (d. 2002)
1931 Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German historian
1932 Herbert "Sonny" Leon Callahan, (Rep-R-Alabama, 1985)
1932 Peter Anderson, English footballer
1932 Robert W "Bob" Packwood, (Sen-R-OR, 1969)
1932 Valentino, Italian fashion designer (Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis)
1933 William Luther Pierce, American author and activist (d. 2002)
1934 Norma Croker, Australian sprinter
1934 Oliver Jones, Canadian jazz pianist
1935 Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer
1935 Gherman Stepanovich Titov, Russian cosmonaut (Vostok II) (d. 2000)
1936 Charles Dierkop, LaCrosse Wisc, actor (Det Pete Royster-Police Woman)
1936 Ian Abercrombie, English actor
1937 Iosif Kobzon, Soviet singer and Russian businessman
1937 Paola Ruffo di Calabria, Italian Princess, Queen of Belgium (1993)
1937 Robert L Crippen, American astronaut (STS 1, 7, 41C, 41G)
1938 Charles Patrick, rocker (Monotones)
1938 David Higgins, British Composer and Conductor
1939 Charles Geschke, American inventor and businessman
1939 Lola Falana, Camden NJ, singer (Liberation of LB Jones)
1940 Bernie Dwyer, drummer (Freddie & The Dreamers)
1940 Brian De Palma, American film director (Body Double, Dressed to Kill)
1940 Nong Duc Manh, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
1940 Robert Palmer, American computer executive, CEO (Digital Equipment Corporation)
1940 Theodore Olson, U.S. Solicitor General
1942 Gerome Ragni American Playwright
1942 Lola Falana, American singer, actress (Golden Boy)
1942 Tom Dreesen, Harvey, Illinois, comedian (Tim Ried's partner)
1943 Mickey Hart, American drummer (Grateful Dead)
1943 Raymond Villeneuve, Canadian terrorist
1944 Everaldo, Brazilian footballer
1944 Freddy Thielemans, Beligian politician, mayor of Brussels
1945 Felton Perry, American actor
1945 Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer
1945 Leo Kottke, American acoustic guitarist (Ice Water, Greenhouse)
1946 Dennis Tufano, Chicago, rock guitarist/vocalist (Buckinghams)
1948 John Martyn, English musician (d. 2009)
1949 Bill Whittington, race car driver
1949 Marty Liquori, US, runner (AAU 3 mile-1979 (13:14.7))
1949 Roger Uttley, English rugby player
1950 Amy Madigan, American actress (Uncle Buck, Twice in a Lifetime)
1950 Barry Sheene, British auto maker, motorcyclist (d. 2003)
1950 Bruce Doull, Australian rules footballer
1951 Hugo Porta, Argentine rugby player
1951 Miroslav Dvorák, Czechoslovak ice hockey player (d. 2008)
1951 Richard D. Gill, British-Dutch mathematician
1953 Jani Allan, South African journalist and media personality
1953 Tommy Shaw, American musician and singer (Styx)
1954 Reed Birney, Alexandria Va, actor (Greatest Man in the World)
1956 Tony Gilroy, American screenwriter and director
1957 Brad Bird, American director and animator
1957 Jeffrey George Sluman, American professional golfer, PGA tour (1988 PGA Champ)
1957 Jon Moss, rock drummerer (Culture Club-Do You Really Want to Hurt Me)
1958 Brad Lesley, American baseball player, actor and television personality
1958 Don Slaught, Long Beach CA, catcher (California Angels, NY Yankees)
1958 Mick Talbot, rock keyboardist (Style Council-You're the Best Thing)
1958 Phoef Sutton, American television writer and producer
1958 Roxann Dawson, American actress
1958 Scott Patterson, American actor
1959 David Laurence Frost, Cape Town South Africa, PGA golfer (1988 Southern Open)
1959 Robert Wrenn, Richmond VA, Nike golfer (1987 Buick Open)
1960 Anne Ramsay, American actress
1960 Neal X, Musician (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111)
1961 Philip Ardagh, British writer
1961 Virginia Madsen, American actress (Dune, Hot Spot, Class)
1962 Elizabeth Daily, American actress (Street Music)
1962 Filip Dewinter, Belgian politician
1962 Jenny Sanford, First Lady of South Carolina
1962 Julio Salinas, Spanish footballer
1962 Kristy McNichol, American actress (Buddy-Family, Barbara-Empty Nest)
1962 Victoria Poleva, Ukrainian composer
1963 Bonnie Gadusek, Pittsburgh, tennis player (French Juniors 1981)
1963 Colin Wells, English actor
1963 Dr Patrick McWilliams, Irish author
1963 Gerald Wilkins, NBA guard (Orlando Magic)
1964 Ellis Burks, American baseball player, outfielder (Colorado Rockies)
1964 Eric Thomas, NFL cornerback (Denver Broncos)
1964 Jean-Phil LeMoine, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1964 Roxanne Biggs-Dawson, actress (B'Elanna Torres-Star Trek Voyager)
1964 Victor Wooten, American musician
1965 Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria
1965 David Roe, English snooker player
1965 John Schofield, journalist
1965 Moby, American musician
1965 Paul Heyman, American wrestling manager
1965 Tony Woods, NFL defensive end (Washington Redskins)
1966 Princess Akishino, Japanese Imperial Family
1966 Richard Harvey, NFL linebacker (NO Saints)
1966 Stewart Carr, Indianapolis Ind, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1967 Harry Connick, Jr., American singer (We Are in Love)
1967 Kendra Lee Ruwe, Madison Idaho, Miss Idaho-America (1991)
1967 Maria Bartiromo, financial broadcast journalist
1967 Simon Burgess, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1967 Tony David, Australian darts player
1968 Kay Hanley, American musician
1968 Konstantin Shafranov, hockey forward (Team Kazkhstan 1998)
1968 Paul Mayeda Berges, American film writer and director
1969 Eduardo Perez, American baseball player
1969 Gidget Gein, American musician (d. 2008)
1969 Laura Sisk, Maryland, actress (Allison Rescott-Loving)
1969 Stefano Cagol, Italian contemporary artist
1969 Tracy Scroggins, NFLer (Detroit Lions)
1970 Berry Richter, Madison Wis, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
1970 Chris Garver, tattoo artist
1970 Dan Hackett, Syracuse NY, water polo goalkeeper (Olympics-96)
1970 Laura Wright, American actress
1970 Taja Kramberger, Slovenian poet and sociologist
1970 Taraji P. Henson, American actress and singer
1970 Ted Leo, American musician
1970 William Joppy, American boxer
1971 Johnny Vegas, English comedian
1971 Mack Strong, NFL fullback (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 Markos Moulitsas, American blogger and author
1971 Richard Ashcroft, British singer
1971 Shelton Quarles, American football player
1971 Todd Norman, NFL guard (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 Kip Simons, Media Pa, gymnast (Olympics-5th-96)
1972 Mark Pope, NBA forward (Indiana Pacers)
1972 Matthew Gilmore, Belgian cyclist
1973 Fred Thomas, NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
1974 DeLisha Milton-Jones, American women's basketball player
1974 Lucian Sahetapy, soccer player (FC Groningen)
1975 Juan Cobián, Argentine footballer
1975 Juliette Spier, Miss North Dakota USA (1996)
1975 Mark Klepaski, American musician
1975 Pierre Issa, South African footballer
1975 Tiffany Parks, Miss Arkansas USA (1996)
1976 Elephant Man, Jamaican musician
1976 Flora Redoumi, Greek hurdler
1976 Tomáš Enge, Czech racing driver
1977 Jon Buckland, British guitarist (Coldplay)
1977 Ludacris, American rapper
1977 Matthew Stevens, Welsh snooker player
1978 Ben Lee, Australian musician and singer
1978 Dejan Stankovic, Serbian footballer
1978 Ed Reed, American football player
1979 Ariana Richards, American actress (Spaced Invaders, Prancer)
1979 David Pizarro, Chilean footballer
1979 Frank Francisco, Major League Baseball pitcher
1979 Nathan Gale, American murderer (d. 2004)
1979 Steve Hofstetter, comedian and radio personality
1980 Antônio Pizzonia, Brazilian race car driver
1980 Mike Comrie, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 Andrea Dossena, Italian footballer
1981 Dylan Klebold, American murderer, Columbine High School Massacre co-perpetrator (d. 1999)
1982 Shriya Saran, South Indian actress
1983 Ike Diogu, American basketball player
1983 Jacoby Ellsbury, American baseball player
1985 Shaun Livingston, American basketball player
1985 Zack Stortini, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 Chiliboy Ralepelle, South African rugby union player
1986 Dwayne Jarrett, American football player
1987 Aroldis Chapman, Cuban baseball player
1987 Tyler Hoechlin, American actor
1988 Lee Yong Dae, South Korean badminton player
Died on September 11th
1063 Béla I of Hungary, King of Hungary (b. 1016)
1161 Queen Melisende of Jerusalem (b. 1105)
1185 Stephanus Hagiochristophorites, Byzantine courtier
1279 Robert Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. c. 1215)
1297 Hugh de Cressingham, English treasurer, dies in battle
1298 Philip of Artois, French soldier (b. 1269)
1349 Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (b. 1315)
1599 Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman executed for planned fratricide (b. 1577)
1599 Cornelis de Houtman, navigator (1st Dutch trip to Java), murdered
1630 John de White, calvinist/banker to Prague, commits suicide
1646 Johann Stobaeus, composer
1677 James Harrington, English political philosopher (b. 1611)
1680 Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (b. 1596)
1680 Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (b. 1621)
1709 Hamilton, Scottish(?) general (Malplaquet), dies in battle
1709 Spaar, German(?) general (Malplaquet), dies in battle
1712 Giovanni D Cassini, French astronomer
1713 John Foot, lawyer
1721 Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (sexuality plans) (b. 1665)
1733 Francois Couperin, French composer (Le Grand) (b. 1668)
1760 Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704)
1789 Luca Sorkocevic, composer
1822 Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Zólkowski, Polish actor (b. 1777)
1823 David Ricardo, economist (b. 1772)
1843 Joseph Nicollet, mathematician and explorer (b. 1786)
1848 Henri-Philippe Gerard, composer
1851 Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist (b. 1794)
1858 Alexander L'vovich Gurilyov, composer
1865 Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (b. 1806)
1870 Eugenio Lucas y Padilla, Spanish poet
1888 Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, President of Argentina (1868-74) (b. 1811)
1892 Charles-Louis-Adolphe Vogel, composer
1896 Anton Joseph Bruckner, Austrian composer
1896 Francis James Child, American ballad collector (b. 1825)
1898 Adolphe-Abraham Samuel, composer
1911 Louis Henri Boussenard, French novelist (b. 1847)
1915 William Cornelius Van Horne, American railway executive (b. 1843)
1915 William Sprague IV, American politician (b. 1830)
1917 Georges Guynemer, French aviator, WW I pilot (b. 1894)
1921 Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b. 1882)
1922 Louis Coerne, composer
1924 Mieczyslaw Surzynski, composer
1926 Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (b. 1875)
1931 Salvatore Maranzano, American crime boss (b. 1868)
1932 Franciszek Zwirko, Polish pilot (b. 1895)
1932 Stanislaw Wigura, Polish pilot (b. 1901)
1939 Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (b. 1861)
1941 Christian Rakovsky, Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary (b. 1873)
1946 Arthur van Schendel, writer (Holland Drama)
1948 Albert Powell, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1898-99)
1948 Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, 1st governor of Pakistan (1947-48) (b. 1876)
1949 Henri Rabaud, French composer/conductor (L'ete)
1950 John C Smuts, South African soldier and Prime Minister (1919-1948) co-found British RAF (b. 1870)
1950 S M H Colah, cricketer (69 runs in India's 1st 2 tests 1932-33), dies
1954 Licinio Refice, composer, dies at 69
1956 Billy Bishop, Canadian pilot in World War I (b. 1894)
1957 Petar Stojanovic, composer
1958 Camillien Houde, French Canadian politician (b. 1889)
1958 Robert Lach, composer
1958 Robert W. Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. 1874)
1959 Paul Douglas, actor (Adventure Theater)
1965 Ralph C. Smedley, Founder of Toastmasters International (b. 1878)
1966 C. E. Woolman, American airline magnate (b. 1889)
1966 Charlie Cantor, actor (Artie-Ray Bolger Show)
1967 Tadeusz Zylinski, Polish technician and textilist (b. 1904)
1968 René Cogny, French General (b. 1904)
1970 Chester Morris, actor (Diagnosis: Unknown)
1971 Bella Darvi, Polish-born French actress (b. 1928)
1971 Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader (b. 1894)
1971 Percy Helton, actor (Homer-Beverly Hillbillies)
1972 Max Fleischer, American animator (b. 1883)
1973 Neem Karoli Baba, Indian guru
1973 Salvador Allende, President of Chile (1970-73) (b. 1908)
1974 Víctor Olea Alegría, Chilean Socialist Party member
1976 Jan Kunc, composer
1977 Don Blackman, actor (Old Man & Sea, Desert Legion)
1977 Leonard Carey, actor (Laughter)
1978 Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (b. 1929)
1978 Janet Parker, medical photographer (b. c. 1938)
1978 Mike Gazella, American baseball player (b. 1895)
1978 Ronnie Peterson, Swedish F1 driver (b. 1944)
1980 Jose Antonio Calcano, composer
1981 Frank McHugh, actor (Dawn Patrol, Going My Way)
1982 Albert Soboult, French historian
1984 Hilding Hallnas, composer
1984 Jerry Voorhis, American politician (b. 1901)
1985 Andrew C. Thornton II, American drug smuggler (b. 1945)
1985 William Alwyn, English composer (b. 1905)
1987 Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica) (b. 1915)
1987 Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician and singer, shot dead (b. 1944)
1988 George Alpert, railroad executive
1988 John Sylvester White, American actor (b. 1919)
1988 Luis W Alvarez, physicist (Nobel-1968)
1990 Ben Frank, actor (Don't Answer the Phone)
1990 Myrna Mack, Guatemalan anthropologist (b. 1949)
1991 Ernst Herbeck, German Poet (b. 1920)
1992 Erik Terpstra, director (Versier de leegte, De ander, Daniel)
1992 Frank Singuineau, actor (Firepower, Pressure, Mummy)
1992 Paul Storken, Dutch priest (Away Backing)
1993 Antoine Izmery, Haitian businessman, pro-democracy activist, advisor to President Aristide, murdered
1993 Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor and author (Cadenza) (b. 1912)
1994 Frederick Rand Weissman, philanthropist
1994 Jessica Tandy, American actress (Driving Miss Daisy) (b. 1909)
1994 Sara Taylor, mother of Elizabeth
1994 William Obanheim, actor (Officer Obie-Alice's Restaurant) (b. 1924)
1995 Anita Harding, neurologist (b. 1952)
1995 Charles William Hutton, architect
1995 Jerome Theisen, benedioctine
1995 Keith Odor, racing Driver
1996 Guido Aristarco, film critic
1996 JoAnne Dru, actress (Sylvia, Drango)
1996 Peter Phillips, printer
1997 Camille Henry, National Hockey League player (b. 1933)
1997 Hannah Weiner American experimental poet (b. 1928)
1998 Dane Clark, American actor (b. 1913)
1999 Belkis Ayón, Cuban artist (b. 1967)
1999 Gonzalo Rodriguez, Uruguayan auto racing driver (b. 1972)
2001 9/11 terrorists: Marwan Al-Shehhi (b. 1978), Mohamed Atta (b. 1968), Hani Hanjour (b. 1972), Ziad Jarrah (b. 1975)
2001 Alice Stewart Trillin, American author (b. 1938)
2001 Angel L. Juarbe, Jr., American firefighter, Victim of the September 11 attacks (Full List Link Below) (b. 1966)
2001 Barbara Olson, American political commentator, Victim of the September 11 attacks (Full List Link Below) (b. 1955)
2001 Berry Berenson, widow of Anthony Perkins, Victim of the September 11 attacks (Full List Link Below) (b. 1948)
2001 Daniel M. Lewin, founder of Akamai Technologies, Victim of the September 11 attacks (Full List Link Below) (b. 1970)
2001 David Angell, American sitcom creator, Victim of the September 11 attacks (Full List Link Below) (b. 1946)
2001 Father Mychal F. Judge, Chaplain, FDNY, Victim of the September 11 attacks (Full List Link Below) (b. 1933)
2001 Garnet Bailey, Canadian hockey player and scout, Victim of the September 11 attacks (Full List Link Below) (b. 1948)
2001 Hani Hanjour, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1972)
2001 John Ogonowski, pilot for American Airlines Flight 11, Victim of the September 11 attacks (Full List Link Below) (b. 1951)
2001 John P. O'Neill, American anti-terrorism FBI agent, Victim of the September 11 attacks (Full List Link Below) (b. 1952)
2001 Mark Bingham, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93, Victim of the September 11 attacks (Full List Link Below) (b. 1970)
2001 Marwan Al-Shehhi, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1978)
2001 Mohamed Atta, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1968)
2001 Peter J. Ganci, Jr., Chief of Department, FDNY, Victim of the September 11 attacks (Full List Link Below) (b. 1946)
2001 Todd Beamer, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93, Victim of the September 11 attacks (Full List Link Below) (b. 1968)
2001 Tom Burnett, American businessman, Victim of the September 11 attacks (Full List Link Below) (b. 1963)
2001 Ziad Jarrah, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1975)
2001 Full List of Victims of the September 11th Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center
2002 Johnny Unitas, American football player (b. 1933)
2002 Kim Hunter, American actress (b. 1922)
2003 Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1957)
2003 John Ritter, American actor (b. 1948)
2004 David Mann, U.S. artist (b. 1939)
2004 Fred Ebb, American lyricist (b. 1933)
2004 Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (b. 1949)
2005 Chris Schenkel, American sportscaster (b. 1923)
2006 Joachim Fest, German journalist and author (b. 1926)
2006 Johannes Bob van Benthem, Dutch lawyer (b. 1921)
2006 Pat Corley, American actor (b. 1930)
2006 William Auld, Scottish poet, writer and supporter of Esperanto (b. 1924)
2007 Gene Savoy, American author and cleric (b. 1927)
2007 Ian Porterfield, Manager of Armenia National Football Club (b. 1946)
2007 Jean Séguy, French sociologist of religions (b. 1925)
2007 Joe Zawinul, Austrian musician (b. 1932)
2009 Gertrude Baines, world's oldest living person (b. 1894)
2011 Andy Whitfield, Welsh actor (b. 1972)
2011 Anjali Gupta, Indian Air Force officer (b. 1975)
2011 Christian Bakkerud, Danish racing driver (b. 1984)
2011 Ralph Gubbins, English footballer (b. 1932)
2012 Sergio Livingstone, Chilean football player and journalist
2014 Bob Crewe, American songwriter and producer (Big Girls Don't Cry)
