On this day: 6 September
Events, births and deaths on 6 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Rick Davies
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Prince Claus of the Netherlands
- Births · Shinichi Hoshi
- Births · Jack English Hightower
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 972 · Deaths · John XIII
- 952 · Deaths · Suzaku
- 926 · Deaths · Emperor Taizu of Liao
Events · 26
- 1781Battle of Groton Heights — battle of the American Revolutionary War 1781
- 1863Marmaduke–Walker duel — duel between two Confederate generals
- 1885Bulgarian unification — 1885 unification of the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia
- 1901assassination of William McKinley — 1901 assassination in Buffalo, New York, US
- 19301930 Argentine coup — 1930 coup d'état in Argentina
- 1939Battle of Barking Creek — aviation accident
- 1943Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education — private multi-campus university in Mexico
- 1943Frankford Junction train wreck — train wreck
- 19521952 Farnborough Airshow DH.110 crash — jet fighter crash in England
- 1955Istanbul pogrom — series of state-sponsored anti-Greek mob attacks
- 1968Eswatini — sovereign state in southern Africa
- 1970Black September — civil war (1970–1971) in Jordan between King Hussein’s forces and the Palestine Liberation Organisation
- 1970Dawson's Field hijackings — aircraft hijackings
- 1971Paninternational Flight 112 — aviation accident
- 1976defection of Viktor Belenko — defection of a Soviet fighter pilot to Japan
- 1985Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 — aviation accident
- 1986Neve Shalom Synagogue massacre — terrorist attack in Turkey
- 1991Lithuania — country in northeastern Europe
- 1997funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales — funeral of the British princess Diana
- 1997Royal Brunei Airlines Flight 238 — Royal Brunei Airlines Flight 238 was a Bruneian airline disaster which resulted in ten(10) deaths
- 2002Belarusian Republican Youth Union — Belarusian youth organization
- 2007Operation Orchard — 2007 military operation
- 20082008 Summer Paralympics — multi-parasport event in Beijing, China
- 2018attempted assassination of Jair Bolsonaro — 2018 stabbing attack on Brazilian politician
- 20222022 Kharkiv counteroffensive — 2022 military operation during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 202621 Air Flight 7598 — 2026 aviation accident in Miami, Florida
Births · 60
- 1475(Julian date)Sebastiano Serlio — Italian architect and painter (1475-1554)
- 1729Moses Mendelssohn — German-Jewish philosopher and theologian (1729–1786)
- 1757Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette — French general and politician (1757–1834)
- 1766John Dalton — British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
- 1802Alcide d'Orbigny — French scientist (1802–1857)
- 1808Abdelkader El Djezairi — Algerian religious and military leader (1808–1883)
- 1860Jane Addams — American feminist social activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, philosopher, and writer (1860–1935)
- 1869Felix Salten — Austro-Hungarian author and critic in Vienna (1869–1945)
- 1876John James Rickard Macleod — Nobel prize-winning Scottish physician and physiologist; co-discoverer of insulin
- 1879Joseph Wirth — German chancellor (1879-1956)
- 1879Max Schreck — German actor (1879-1936)
- 1888Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. — American businessman, politician and diplomat (1888–1969)
- 1892Edward Victor Appleton — English physicist (1892–1965)
- 1900Julien Green — American author (1900–1998)
- 1906Luis Federico Leloir — Argentine biochemist
- 1913Leônidas — Brazilian footballer and commentator
- 1915Franz Josef Strauß — German politician (1915–1988)
- 1921Carmen Laforet — Spanish author (1921-2004)
- 1923Peter II of Yugoslavia — last King of Yugoslavia from 1934 to 1945 (1923-1970)
- 1925Andrea Camilleri — Italian writer (1925–2019)
- 1926Prince Claus of the Netherlands — Consort of the Netherlands (1980 - 2002)
- 1928Robert M. Pirsig — American writer and philosopher (1928–2017)
- 1928Fumihiko Maki — Japanese architect (1928–2024)
- 1939Susumu Tonegawa — Japanese biologist, neuroscientist (1939–2026)
- 1943Roger Waters — English musician, co-founder of Pink Floyd (born 1943)
Deaths · 60
- 265(Julian date)Sima Zhao — Cao Wei regent
- 394Eugenius — Western Roman emperor or usurper (345-394)
- 926(Julian date)Emperor Taizu of Liao — Emperor of the Khitans and founder of the Liao dynasty (872-926)
- 952(Julian date)Suzaku — Emperor of Japan
- 957(Julian date)Liudolf, Duke of Swabia — German noble
- 972(Julian date)John XIII — Head of the Catholic Church from 965 to 972
- 1511(Julian date)Ashikaga Yoshizumi — 11th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1494–1508)
- 1553Juan de Homedes y Coscon — grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
- 1566Suleiman the Magnificent — the tenth and greatest Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1520–1566)
- 1683Jean-Baptiste Colbert — French statesman (1619–1683)
- 1885Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol — Spanish submarine pioneer (1819-1885)
- 1902Frederick Abel — British chemist 1827-1902
- 1907Sully Prudhomme — French poet, Nobel prize for literature winner 1901 (1839–1907)
- 1939Arthur Rackham — English book illustrator (1867-1939)
- 1950Olaf Stapledon — British novelist and philosopher (1886–1950)
- 1952Gertrude Lawrence — English actress, singer, dancer and musical comedy performer (1898–1952)
- 1959Edmund Gwenn — British actor (1877–1959)
- 1959Kay Kendall — English actress (1927-1959)
- 1962Hanns Eisler — Austrian and German composer (1898–1962)
- 1962Seiichiro Kashio — Japanese tennis player (1892–1962)
- 1966Margaret Sanger — American birth control activist and nurse (1879–1966)
- 1966Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd — Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966
- 1969Arthur Friedenreich — Brazilian footballer (1892–1969)
- 1974Otto Kruger — American actor (1885-1974)
- 1974Olga Baclanova — actress (1896-1974)
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