On this day: 5 September
Events, births and deaths on 5 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Mayumi Narita
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Phyllis Schlafly
- Deaths · Hugh O'Brian
- Deaths · Michael Spindler
100 years ago1926
- Deaths · Karl Harrer
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 22
- 394(Julian date)Battle of the Frigidus — battle of the Frigidus, also called the Battle of the Frigid River, was fought on 5 and 6 September 394
- 1697Battle of Hudson's Bay — naval battle in 1697
- 1774Continental Congress — convention of delegates that became the governing body of the United States
- 1774First Continental Congress — 1774 meeting of delegates from twelve British colonies of what would become the United States
- 1781Battle of the Chesapeake — 1781 naval battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1812Siege of Fort Wayne — battle of the War of 1812
- 1882Tottenham Hotspur F.C. — association football club in London, England
- 1905Treaty of Portsmouth — 1905 peace treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War
- 1905Hibiya incendiary incident — 1905 riots in Tokyo
- 1915Zimmerwald Conference — 1915 international socialist conference in Switzerland
- 1915Casablanca Fair of 1915 — 1915 Fair about crafts in Morocco
- 1938
- 1943Landing at Nadzab — WWII airborne landing of 1943
- 1944Benelux — politico-economic union between Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg
- 1954KLM Flight 633 — 1954 aviation accident
- 1972Munich massacre — Palestinian terror attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany
- 1975Gerald Ford assassination attempt in Sacramento — 1975 assassination attempt by Lynette Fromme
- 1986Pan Am Flight 73 — airliner hijacking
- 2005Mandala Airlines Flight 091 — aviation accident in Indonesia
- 2020El Dorado Fire — 2020 wildfire in San Bernardino County, California
- 20212021 Guinean coup d'état — Guinean military coup in September 2021
- 20222022 Luding earthquake — 2022 earthquake in Sichuan Province, China
Births · 60
- 1187(Julian date)Louis VIII of France — King of France 1223-1226 (1187–1226)
- 1319(Julian date)Peter IV of Aragon — king of Aragon
- 1567(Julian date)Date Masamune — daimyo of the Sengoku period to early-Edo period; 1st lord of Sendai
- 1638Louis XIV of France — King of France and Navarre from 1643 to 1715 (1638-1715)
- 1667Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri — Italian Jesuit and mathematician
- 1722Friedrich Christian I, Elector of Saxony — Elector of Saxony (1722-1763)
- 1735Johann Christian Bach — German composer (1735–1782)
- 1771Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen — Archduke of Austria (1771-1847)
- 1774Caspar David Friedrich — German Romantic landscape painter (1774–1840)
- 1791Giacomo Meyerbeer — German-French composer
- 1831Victorien Sardou — French dramatist (1831-1908)
- 1847Jesse James — American outlaw, confederate guerrilla, and train robber
- 1867Amy Beach — American composer and pianist
- 1871Friedrich Akel — Estonian diplomat and politician (1871–1941)
- 1876Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb — German field marshal and war criminal (1876–1956)
- 1881Otto Bauer — Austrian Social Democrat (1881-1938)
- 1881Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson — British field marshal (1881–1964)
- 1888Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan — 2nd President and 1st Vice President of India, Indian philosopher and politician (1888–1975)
- 1901Mario Scelba — Italian politician (1901–1991)
- 1902Darryl F. Zanuck — American film producer (1902–1979)
- 1905Arthur Koestler — Hungarian-British author and journalist (1905–1983)
- 1912John Cage — American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)
- 1914Nicanor Parra — Chilean writer, poet, mathematician, and physicist (1914-2018)
- 1920Fons Rademakers — Dutch filmmaker, actor and producer (1920-2007)
- 1927Paul Volcker — American economist (1927-2019)
Deaths · 60
- 75(Julian date)Emperor Ming of Han — Emperor of the Han dynasty (AD 28-75) (ruled 58-75)
- 590Authari — 6th-century Lombard king (540-590)
- 1165(Julian date)Nijō — Emperor of Japan
- 1235(Julian date)Henry the Courageous — Duke of Brabant (from 1183) and Duke of Lower Lotharingia (from 1190)
- 1526(Julian date)Alonso de Salazar — Spanish explorer
- 1548Catherine Parr — sixth wife of Henry VIII of England; final queen consort of the House of Tudor
- 1677Henry Oldenburg — German theologian
- 1803Pierre Choderlos de Laclos — French novelist, official and army general (1741–1803)
- 1803François Devienne — French composer, flautist, bassoonist
- 1836Ferdinand Raimund — Austrian dramatist, actor and writer (1790-1836)
- 1838Charles Percier Bassant — French architect (1764–1838)
- 1857Auguste Comte — French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist (1798–1857)
- 1876Manuel Blanco Encalada — Chilean politician and President (1790-1876)
- 1877Crazy Horse — Oglala Sioux chief (1840–1877)
- 1885Zuo Zongtang — Qing dynasty general (1812-1885)
- 1894George Stoneman — Union Army General and governor of California (1822–1894)
- 1902Rudolf Virchow — German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician (1821-1902)
- 1906Ludwig Boltzmann — Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
- 1912Arthur MacArthur Jr. — United States Army officer; Medal of Honor recipient; Governor-General of the Philippines (1845–1912)
- 1917Marian Smoluchowski — Polish physicist (1872–1917)
- 1919Vasily Chapayev — Red Army commander (1887–1919)
- 1920Robert Harron — American actor (1893-1920)
- 1922Georgette Agutte — French painter and sculptor (1867–1922)
- 1926Karl Harrer — German journalist and politician (1890-1926)
- 1932Paul Bern — German-born American film director (1889-1932)
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