On this day: 4 September
Events, births and deaths on 4 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Giorgio Armani
- Deaths · Katharine, Duchess of Kent
- Deaths · Darleane C. Hoffman
10 years ago2016
- Events · 2016 Hong Kong legislative election
100 years ago1926
- Births · Ivan Illich
- Births · Bert Olmstead
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 973 · Births · Al-Biruni
- 1063 · Deaths · Tughril I
- 1037 · Deaths · Bermudo III of León
Events · 28
- 929(Julian date)Battle of Lenzen — 929 battle
- 1260Battle of Montaperti — 1260 battle between the Italian republics of Florence and Siena
- 1479Treaty of Alcáçovas — peace treaty
- 1746Treaty of Kerden — treaty between the Ottoman Empire and Afsharid Iran
- 1781Los Angeles — seat of Los Angeles County, and largest city in California, United States
- 1781Pueblo de Los Angeles — predecessor to modern Los Angeles
- 1797Coup of 18 Fructidor — coup d'état
- 1812Siege of Fort Harrison — war of 1812 era stockade located in the modern city of Terre Haute, Indiana
- 1827Great Fire of Turku — 1827 conflagration in Turku, Finland
- 1839Battle of Kowloon — 1839 first battle of the First Opium War
- 1862Maryland Campaign — also known as the Antietam Campaign, an American Civil War invasion
- 1870French Third Republic — nation of France from 1870 to 1940
- 19201920 Croatian Peasant Rebellion — Croatian peasant uprising against branding of draft animals
- 1963Swissair Flight 306 — 1963 aviation accident in Switzerland
- 1964Forth Road Bridge — bridge in east central Scotland
- 1971Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 — fatal jet airliner crash
- 1972The Price Is Right — American television game show
- 1975Sinai Interim Agreement — Israeli-Egyptian diplomatic agreement
- 1977Golden Dragon massacre — Gang-related shooting that took place in a San Francisco Chinatown restaurant
- 1989Monday demonstrations in East Germany — form of action of the subversive civil rights groups in the German Democratic Republic during the revolution 1989
- 1995Fourth World Conference on Women — UN Conference (1995)
- 19951995 Okinawa rape incident — rape of 12-year-old Japanese girl by U.S. servicemen
- 1998Google — American multinational technology company, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
- 2001Tokyo DisneySea — theme park in Japan, owned by The Oriental Land Company
- 20162016 Hong Kong legislative election — election in Hong Kong
- 2020Kosovo and Serbia economic normalization agreements — Kosovo and Serbia economic normalization
- 20222022 Saskatchewan stabbings — mass stabbing in Canada
- 20242024 Apalachee High School shooting — mass shooting in Barrow County, Georgia
Births · 60
- 973(Julian date)Al-Biruni — 11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
- 1241Alexander III of Scotland — King of Scots 1249–1286
- 1383(Julian date)Amadeus VIII of Savoy — antipope 1439 to 1449, count of Savoy
- 1557(Julian date)Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow — Queen consort of Denmark and Norway (1557-1631)
- 1563(Julian date)Wanli Emperor — emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1563-1620)
- 1596Constantijn Huygens — Dutch writer, poet and composer (1596-1687)
- 1755Axel von Fersen the Younger — Swedish politician (1755-1810)
- 1768François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand — French writer, politician and historian (1768–1848)
- 1803Sarah Childress Polk — First Lady of the United States from 1845 to 1849
- 1809Juliusz Słowacki — Polish Romantic poet (1809–1849)
- 1809Manuel Montt — Chilean politician (1809–1880)
- 1824Anton Bruckner — Austrian composer (1824-1896)
- 1825Dadabhai Naoroji — Indian politician leader, scholar and writer (1825–1917)
- 1846Daniel Burnham — American architect and urban designer (1846– 1912)
- 1850Luigi Cadorna — Italian general (1850-1928)
- 1877Kārlis Ulmanis — Prime Minister of Latvia and agronomist (1877-1942)
- 1888Oskar Schlemmer — German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer (1888–1943)
- 1891Fritz Todt — German engineer, Holocaust perpetrator, and senior Nazi figure (1891–1942)
- 1892Darius Milhaud — French composer (1892–1974)
- 1896Antonin Artaud — French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director (1896-1948)
- 1905Mary Renault — English novelist (1905–1983)
- 1906Max Delbrück — biophysicist (1906–1981)
- 1908Richard Wright — American novelist and poet (1908–1960)
- 1908Edward Dmytryk — American film director (1908–1999)
- 1913Kenzō Tange — Japanese architect (1913–2005)
Deaths · 60
- 1037(Julian date)Bermudo III of León — King of León (c.1017–1037) (r.1028-1037)
- 1063(Julian date)Tughril I — Founder of the Seljuk Empire (1037–1063)
- 1308(Julian date)Margaret of Burgundy — Queen of Sicily (1250-1308)
- 1323(Julian date)Gegeen Khan — emperor of the Yuan Dynasty
- 1458(Julian date)Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon — Queen consort of Aragon and Naples
- 1571(Julian date)Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox — Grandfather of James VI and I, Regent of Scotland
- 1588Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester — English nobleman and the favourite and close friend of Queen Elizabeth I (1532-1588)
- 1767Charles Townshend — British politician; (1725-1767)
- 1784César-François Cassini de Thury — French cartographer and astronomer (1714-1784)
- 1821Jose Miguel Carrera — Chilean general (1785-1821)
- 1827Heinrich Boie — German zoologist (1794–1827)
- 1852William MacGillivray — British naturalist and ornithologist (1796–1852)
- 1864John Hunt Morgan — Confederate Army general (1825–1864)
- 1907Edvard Grieg — Norwegian composer and pianist (1843–1907)
- 1944Erich Fellgiebel — German general (1886–1944)
- 1963Robert Schuman — Luxembourgish-born German-French statesman and Venerable (1886-1963)
- 1965Albert Schweitzer — French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher (1875-1965)
- 1974Marcel Achard — French writer (1899-1974)
- 1974Creighton Abrams — United States Army General (1914-1974)
- 1974Lewi Pethrus — Swedish hymnwriter (1884–1974)
- 1977E. F. Schumacher — British economist (1911–1977)
- 1977Jean Rostand — French writer (1894–1977)
- 1983Jon Brower Minnoch — heaviest ever recorded human (1941-1983)
- 1985Vasyl Stus — Ukrainian poet, publicist and dissident (1938–1985)
- 1985George O'Brien — American actor (1899–1985)
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