4 September

Events

Pre-1600

* 476 – Romulus Augustulus is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself "King of Italy", thus ending the Western Roman Empire.
* 626 – Li Shimin, posthumously known as Emperor Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne over the Tang dynasty of China.
* 929 – Battle of Lenzen: Slavic forces (the Redarii and the Obotrites) are defeated by a Saxon army near the fortified stronghold of Lenzen in Brandenburg.
* 1260 – The Sienese Ghibellines, supported by the forces of Manfred, King of Sicily, defeat the Florentine Guelphs at Montaperti.
* 1282 – Peter III of Aragon becomes the King of Sicily.
*1479 – The Treaty of Alcáçovas is signed by the Catholic Monarchs of Castile and Aragon on one side and Afonso V and his son, Prince John of Portugal.

1601–1900

* 1607 – The Flight of the Earls takes place in Ireland.
*1666 – In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire occurs.
* 1774 – New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
* 1781 – Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels) by 44 Spanish settlers.
* 1797 – Coup of 18 Fructidor in France.
* 1800 – The French garrison in Valletta surrenders to British troops who had been called at the invitation of the Maltese. The islands of Malta and Gozo become the Malta Protectorate.
*1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Harrison begins when the fort is set on fire.
*1827 – The Great Fire of Turku almost completely destroys Finland's former capital city.
*1839 – Battle of Kowloon: British vessels open fire on Chinese war junks enforcing a food sales embargo on the British community in China in the first armed conflict of the First Opium War.
*1862 – American Civil War Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.
* 1867 – Sheffield Wednesday Football Club are founded at the Adelphi Hotel in Sheffield becoming one of the first football clubs in the world.
* 1870 – Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
*1882 – The Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first power plant to supply electricity to paying customers.
* 1886 – American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
* 1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark ''Kodak'' and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.

1901–present

*1912 – Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
*1919 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.
* 1923 – Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the .
*1934 – Evelyn Waugh's novel ''A Handful of Dust'' was first published in full.
*1936 – Spanish Civil War: Largo Caballero forms a war cabinet to direct the republican war effort.
*1939 – World War II: William J. Murphy commands the first Royal Air Force attack on Germany.
*1941 – World War II: A German submarine makes the first attack of the war against a United States warship, the .
*1944 – World War II: The British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp.
* 1944 – World War II: Finland exits from the war with Soviet Union.
* 1948 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
*1949 – The Peekskill riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
* 1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
*1951 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
*1957 – American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: The governor of Arkansas calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Little Rock Central High School, resulting in the lawsuit ''Cooper v. Aaron'' the following year.
*1963 – Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board.
*1964 – Scotland's Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens.
* 1967 – Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
*1970 – Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
*1971 – Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
*1972 – Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
* 1972 – ''The Price Is Right'' premieres on CBS. It currently is the longest running game show on American television.
*1975 – The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict is signed.
*1977 – The Golden Dragon massacre takes place in San Francisco.
*1985 – The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
* 1989 – In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of weekly demonstration for the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms takes place.
*1998 – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.

*2001 – Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
*2002 – The Oakland Athletics win their 20th consecutive game, an American League record.
*2007 – Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.
*2010 – A 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes the South Island of New Zealand causing widespread damage and several power outages.
*2020 – Pope Benedict XVI becomes the longest-lived pope, 93 years, four months, 16 days, surpassing Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903.
*2022 – Ten people are killed and 15 are injured in a stabbing spree in 13 locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon, Saskatchewan.

Births

Pre-1600

* 973 – Al-Biruni, Persian physician and polymath (d. 1048)
* 1241 – Alexander III, king of Scotland (d. 1286)
* 1383 – Felix V, antipope of Rome (d. 1451)
*1454 – Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (d. 1483)
* 1557 – Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen consort of Denmark and Norway (d. 1631)
* 1563 – Wanli, Chinese emperor (d. 1620)
*1580 – George Percy, English explorer (d. 1632)
* 1596 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (d. 1687)

1601–1900

* 1681 – Carl Heinrich Biber, Austrian violinist and composer (d. 1749)
*1717 – Job Orton, English minister and author (d. 1783)
*1745 – Shneur Zalman, Russian rabbi, author and founder of Chabad (d. 1812)
* 1755 – Axel von Fersen the Younger, Swedish general and politician (d. 1810)
*1768 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for France (d. 1848)
*1776 – Stephen Whitney, American businessman (d. 1860)
*1798 – Raynold Kaufgetz, Swiss soldier, economist, and politician (d. 1869)
* 1803 – Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (d. 1891)
*1809 – Manuel Montt, Chilean scholar and politician, 6th President of Chile (d. 1880)
* 1809 – Juliusz Słowacki, Polish poet and playwright (d. 1849)
* 1824 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1896)
* 1825 – Dadabhai Naoroji, Indian academic and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (d. 1917)
*1826 – Martin Wiberg, Swedish philosopher and engineer (d. 1905)
*1832 – Antonio Agliardi, Italian cardinal (d. 1915)
*1846 – Daniel Burnham, American architect, designed the World's Columbian Exposition (d. 1912)
* 1848 – Lewis Howard Latimer, American inventor (d. 1928)
* 1848 – Jennie Lee, American actress (d. 1925)
* 1850 – Luigi Cadorna, Italian field marshal (d. 1928)
* 1851 – John Dillon, Irish poet and politician (d. 1927)
*1862 – Franjo Krežma, Croatian violinist and composer (d. 1881)
* 1885 – Antonio Bacci, Italian cardinal (d. 1971)
* 1886 – Albert Orsborn, English 6th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1967)
*1887 – Roy William Neill, Irish-English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1946)
* 1888 – Oskar Schlemmer, German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer (d. 1943)
*1890 – Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1947)
* 1891 – Fritz Todt, German engineer and politician (d. 1942)
*1892 – Darius Milhaud, French composer and educator (d. 1974)
* 1896 – Antonin Artaud, French actor, director, and playwright (d. 1948)

1901–present

* 1901 – William Lyons, English businessman, co-founded Jaguar Cars (d. 1985)
* 1902 – Tommy Mitchell, English cricketer (d. 1996)
*1905 – Mary Renault, English-South African author (d. 1983)
* 1905 – Walter Zapp, Latvian-Estonian inventor, invented the Minox (d. 2003)
* 1906 – Ruben Oskar Auervaara, Finnish fraudster (d. 1964)Soukola, Timo: "Auervaara, Ruben Oskar (1906–1964)", Suomen kansallisbiografia, volume 1, pp 443–444. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2003.
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* 1906 – Max Delbrück, German-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
* 1907 – Reggie Nalder, Austrian-American actor (d. 1991)
* 1908 – Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-American director and producer (d. 1999)
* 1908 – Richard Wright, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet (d. 1960)
*1909 – Eduard Wirths, German physician (d. 1945)
* 1910 – Denis Tomlinson, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (d. 1993)
*1912 – Syd Hoff, American author and illustrator (d. 2004)
* 1912 – Alexander Liberman, Russian-American publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1999)
*1913 – Mickey Cohen, American mob boss (d. 1976)
* 1913 – Victor Kiernan, English historian and academic (d. 2009)
* 1913 – Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982)
* 1913 – Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect, designed the Yoyogi National Gymnasium (d. 2005)
* 1913 – Shmuel Wosner, Austrian-Israeli rabbi and author (d. 2015)
*1914 – Rudolf Leiding, German businessman (d. 2003)
* 1917 – Henry Ford II, American businessman (d. 1987)
*1918 – Paul Harvey, American radio host (d. 2009)
* 1918 – Gerald Wilson, American trumpet player and composer (d. 2014)
*1919 – Howard Morris, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2005)
*1920 – Clemar Bucci, Argentinian race car driver (d. 2011)
* 1920 – Craig Claiborne, American journalist, author, and critic (d. 2000)
* 1920 – Konstantin Kalser, German-American film producer and advertising executive (d. 1994)
*1922 – Per Olof Sundman, Swedish author and politician (d. 1992)
* 1923 – Ram Kishore Shukla, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
* 1924 – Joan Aiken, English author (d. 2004)
* 1924 – Justinas Lagunavičius, Lithuanian basketball player (d. 1997)
*1925 – Asa Earl Carter, American Ku Klux Klan leader and author (d. 1979)
* 1926 – George William Gray, British chemist who developed liquid crystals that made displays possible (d. 2013)
* 1926 – Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher (d. 2002)
* 1926 – Bert Olmstead, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2015)
* 1927 – John McCarthy, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2011)
* 1927 – Ferenc Sánta – Dick York, American actor (d. 1992)
*1929 – Thomas Eagleton, American lawyer and politician, 38th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (d. 2007)
* 1929 – Robert V. Keeley, Lebanese-American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Greece (d. 2015)
*1930 – Robert Arneson, American sculptor and academic (d. 1992)
* 1930 – William Maxson, American general (d. 2013)
*1931 – Mitzi Gaynor, American actress, singer, and dancer
* 1931 – Antonios Trakatellis, Greek biochemist and politician
*1932 – Carlos Romero Barceló, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician, 5th Governor of Puerto Rico (d. 2021)
*1932 – Vince Dooley, American football player and coach
*1934 – Clive Granger, Welsh-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
* 1934 – Antoine Redin, French footballer and manager (d. 2012)
* 1934 – Eduard Khil, Russian baritone singer (d. 2012)
* 1934 – Jan Švankmajer, Czech filmmaker and artist
*1935 – Charles A. Hines, American general and academic (d. 2013)
* 1935 – Dallas Willard, American philosopher and academic (d. 2013)
* 1937 – Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer and politician
* 1937 – Gene Ludwig, American organist and composer (d. 2010)
* 1937 – Virgil A. Richard, American general (d. 2013)
* 1937 – Les Allen, English footballer and manager
*1939 – Denis Lindsay, South African cricketer and referee (d. 2005)
*1941 – Marilena de Souza Chaui, Brazilian philosopher and academic
* 1941 – Ken Harrelson, American baseball player and sportscaster
* 1941 – Ramesh Sethi, Kenyan cricketer and coach
* 1941 – Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of Andhra Pradesh
*1942 – Raymond Floyd, American golfer
* 1942 – Jerry Jarrett, American wrestler and promoter, co-founded Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
* 1942 – Merald "Bubba" Knight, American singer
*1944 – Tony Atkinson, English economist and academic (d. 2017)
* 1944 – Dave Bassett, English footballer and manager
* 1944 – Gene Parsons, American singer-songwriter, drummer, guitarist, and banjo player
* 1944 – Jerry Relph, American politician and member of the Minnesota Senate (d. 2020)
*1945 – Danny Gatton, American guitarist (d. 1994)
* 1945 – Bill Kenwright, English actor, singer, and producer
*1946 – Gary Duncan, American guitarist (d. 2019)
* 1946 – Dave Liebman, American saxophonist, flute player, and composer
* 1946 – Bryan Mauricette, Saint Lucian-Canadian cricketer
*1947 – Bob Jenkins, American sportscaster (d. 2021)
* 1947 – Paul Sait, Australian rugby league player
*1949 – Darryl Cotton, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
* 1949 – Dean Pees, American football player and coach
* 1949 – Tom Watson, American golfer and sportscaster
* 1950 – Doyle Alexander, American baseball player
*1951 – Martin Chambers, English drummer and singer
* 1951 – Judith Ivey, American actress
* 1951 – Marita Ulvskog, Swedish politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden
* 1952 – Stephen Easley, American businessman and politician (d. 2013)
*1953 – Janet Biehl, American philosopher and author
* 1953 – Michael Stean, English chess player and author
* 1953 – Fatih Terim, Turkish footballer and manager
*1955 – David Broza, Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1955 – Garth Le Roux, South African cricketer
* 1955 – Brian Schweitzer, American politician, 23rd Governor of Montana
* 1956 – Blackie Lawless, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
*1957 – Khandi Alexander, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
* 1958 – Jacqueline Hewitt, American astrophysicist and astronomer
* 1958 – Marzio Innocenti, Italian rugby player and coach
* 1958 – Drew Pinsky, American radio and television host
*1959 – Kevin Harrington, Australian actor
* 1959 – Armin Kogler, Austrian ski jumper
*1960 – Kim Thayil, American guitarist and songwriter
* 1960 – Shailesh Vara, Ugandan-English lawyer and politician
* 1960 – Damon Wayans, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
*1961 – Nick Blinko, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1961 – Lars Jönsson, Swedish film producer
* 1962 – Kiran More, Indian cricketer
* 1962 – Ulla Tørnæs, Danish politician, Danish Minister of Education
* 1962 – Shinya Yamanaka, Japanese physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
*1963 – Bobby Jarzombek, American drummer
* 1963 – John Vanbiesbrouck, American ice hockey player, coach, and manager
* 1963 – Sami Yaffa, Finnish singer-songwriter and bass player
*1964 – Guy Boros, American golfer
* 1964 – Aadesh Shrivastava, Indian singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
*1965 – Sergio Momesso, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
* 1966 – Yanka Dyagileva, Russian singer-songwriter (d. 1991)
* 1966 – Jeff Tremaine, American director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1967 – Darrin Murray

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