September 8

September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 114 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

• 70 – Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem.
• 1380 – Battle of Kulikovo: Russian forces defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance.
• 1504 – Michelangelo's David statue is unveiled in Florence.
• 1514 – Battle of Orsha: In one of the biggest battles of the century, Lithuanians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
• 1565 – The Knights of Malta end the Turkish Siege of Malta that began on May 18.
• 1665 – Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under Charles X Gustav of Sweden.
• 1727 – A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England, kills 78 people, most of them children.
• 1761 – King George III of the United Kingdom marries Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
• 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: The French defeat Austrian forces in Bassano, Venetia, present–day Italy.
• 1831 – William IV of the United Kingdom is crowned king.
• 1860 – The steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, killing around 300 people.
• 1863 – American Civil War: At the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, the Confederates prevent an attempt from the Union army to enter Texas.
• 1883 – The Northern Pacific Railway is completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana, United States.
• 1888 – Jack the Ripper killings: The body of Annie Chapman is found.
• 1888 – in England, the first six Football League matches are played.
• 1892 – The American Pledge of Allegiance is recited for the first time.
• 1900 – In Galveston, Texas, a hurricane kills around 8,000 people.

1901 – 2000

• 1914 – World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
• 1923 – Honda Point disaster: Nine United States Navy destroyers run aground on the California coast. Seven are lost and 23 sailors are killed.
• 1926 – Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
• 1928 – Uruguay is given the right to host the 1930 FIFA World Cup.
• 1934 – Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people.
• 1935 – United States Senator Huey Long from Louisiana is fatally shot the state's capitol building.
• 1941 – World War II: The Siege of Leningrad begins.
• 1943 – World War II: US General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the allied armistice with Italy.
• 1944 – London is hot by a V–2 rocket for the first time.
• 1945 – United States troops arrive to partition South Korea after the Soviet occupation of the northern part.
• 1962 – Algeria adopts its constitution.
• 1966 – The First episode of Star Trek airs.
• 1966 – The Severn Bridge in southwestern England is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
• 1974 – Gerald Ford pardons former US President Richard Nixon.
• 1986 – The Oprah Winfrey Show is broadcast for the first time on US television.
• 1988 – Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in its history due to ongoing fires.
• 1989 – Partnair Flight 394 crashes in the North Sea, killing 55 people.
• 1991 – The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
• 1994 – USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes, killing all 132 on board.

From 2001

• 2004 – NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash–lands in Utah when its parachute fails to open.
• 2005 – Two EMERCOM II–76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas – the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
• 2013 – Eleven people die in a train crash in Iasi County, Romania.
• 2018 – US Open: Naomi Osaka becomes the first Japanese tennis player to win a Grand Slam title, in a match dominated by her opponent Serena Williams' disputes with the umpire.
• 2019 – US Open: Rafael Nadal defeats Daniil Medvedev in five sets to win his 19th Grand Slam singles title, putting him just one behind Roger Federer's total of 20.
• 2022 – Queen Elizabeth II dies at the age of 96 and her son, Charles III becomes the King of the United Kingdom and Head of the Commonwealth.
• 2023 – 2023 Marrakesh-Safi earthquake occurs in Morocco.

Births

Up to 1900

• 801 – Ansgar, German Christian archbishop (d. 865)
• 1157 – King Richard I of England (d. 1199)
• 1207 – King Sancho II of Portugal (d. 1248)
• 1380 – Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (d. 1444)
• 1413 – Catherine of Bologna, Italian nun, writer, mystic, teacher, artist and saint (d. 1463)
• 1474 – Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (d. 1533)
• 1588 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (d. 1648)
• 1611 – Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German philologist (d. 1671)
• 1621 – Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Conde, French general (d. 1686)
• 1624 – Murad Baksh, son of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal (d. 1661)
• 1633 – Ferdinand IV of Germany (d. 1654)
• 1749 – Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (d. 1793)
• 1749 – Marie-Louise, princesse de Lamballe, French aristocrat (d. 1792)
• 1750 – Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1795)
• 1752 – Carl Stenborg, Swedish opera singer (d. 1813)
• 1767 – August von Schlegel, German poet (d. 1845)
• 1778 – Clemens Brentano, German poet (d. 1842)
• 1779 – Mustafa IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1808)
• 1783 – Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (d. 1872)
• 1814 – Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French archaeologist, ethnographer and historian (d. 1874)
• 1815 – Giuseppina Strepponi, Italian operatic soprano (d. 1897)
• 1819 – Fontes Pereira de Melo, Portuguese statesman (d. 1887)
• 1822 – Karl von Ditmar, German geologist and explorer (d. 1892)
• 1828 – Joshua Chamberlain, American general, politician and 32nd Governor of Maine (d. 1914)
• 1830 – Frédéric Mistral, French poet (d. 1914)
• 1831 – Wilhelm Raabe, German writer (d. 1910)
• 1841 – Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (d. 1904)
• 1841 – Charles J. Guiteau, assassin of US President James A. Garfield (d. 1882)
• 1851 – John Jenkins, American–born Premier of South Australia (d. 1923)
• 1852 – Emperor Gwangmu of Korea (d. 1919)
• 1857 – Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936)
• 1872 – George Dern, Governor of Utah (d. 1936)
• 1873 – David O. McKay, American Mormon leader (d. 1970)
• 1881 – Harry Hillman, American athlete (d. 1945)
• 1881 – Refik Saydam, 5th Prime Minister and Turkey (d. 1942)
• 1886 – Siegfried Sassoon, British poet (d. 1967)
• 1886 – Ninon Vallin, French soprano (d. 1961)
• 1887 – Jacob L. Devers, American general (d. 1979)
• 1887 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia (d. 1972)
• 1889 – Robert Alphonso Taft, American politician (d. 1953)
• 1897 – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1933)
• 1900 – Claude Pepper, American politician (d. 1989)

1901 – 1950

• 1901 – Hendrik Verwoerd, South African politician (d. 1966)
• 1906 – Andrei Kirilenko, Soviet politician (d. 1990)
• 1910 – Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (d. 1994)
• 1914 – Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople (d. 1991)
• 1918 – Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist (d. 1998)
• 1919 – Gianni Brera, Italian journalist and author (d. 1992)
• 1919 – Maria Lassnig, Austrian painter (d. 2014)
• 1921 – Harry Secombe, Welsh tenor and actor (d. 2001)
• 1922 – Sid Caesar, American comedian and actor (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Lyndon LaRouche, American politician (d. 2019)
• 1923 – Joy Laville, British–Mexican artist (d. 2018)
• 1924 – Fred Jarvis, British trade unionist
• 1924 – Wendell H. Ford, American politician, 53rd Governor of Kentucky (d. 2015)
• 1925 – Peter Sellers, British actor (d. 1980)
• 1929 – Christoph von Dohnanyi, German conductor
• 1930 – Mario Adorf, Swiss–German actor
• 1930 – Nguyen Cao Ky, South Vietnamese air force chief and Prime Minister (d. 2011)
• 1930 – Robert W. Firestone, American psychologist and author
• 1932 – Patsy Cline, American singer (d. 1963)
• 1933 – Paul M. Fleiss, American pediatrician (d. 2014)
• 1934 – Alan Dundes, American folklorist (d. 2005)
• 1937 – Joe Carolan, Irish footballer (d. 2018)
• 1938 – Wibke Bruhns, German journalist and writer (d. 2019)
• 1939 – Carsten Keller, German field hockey player
• 1941 – Ito Giani, Italian sprinter (d. 2018)
• 1941 – Bernie Sanders, American politician
• 1944 – Margaret Hodge, English politician
• 1944 – Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1945 – Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American musician (Grateful Dead) (d. 1973)
• 1945 – Rogie Vachon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1946 – Aziz Sancar, Turkish–American biochemist and molecular biologist, Nobel laureate
• 1947 – Halldor Asgrimsson, Icelandic politician, former Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 2015)
• 1947 – Valery Afanassiev, Russian politician
• 1948 – Great Kabuki, Japanese wrestler
• 1950 – Ian Davidson, Scottish politician

1951 – 1975

• 1951 – John McDonnell, English politician
• 1952 – David R. Ellis, American director, actor and stuntman (d. 2013)
• 1954 – Anne Diamond, English journalist
• 1955 – Julian Richings, English–Canadian actor
• 1956 – David Carr, American journalist and writer (d. 2015)
• 1957 – Walt Easley, American football player (d. 2013)
• 1957 – Ricardo Montaner, Argentine–Venezuelan singer
• 1958 – Mitsuru Miyamoto, Japanese voice actor
• 1959 – Judy Murray, Scottish tennis coach
• 1960 – Aimee Mann, American musician
• 1960 – Stefano Casiraghi, Italian businessman, married into Monegasque royalty (d. 1990)
• 1963 – Danny Frawley, Australian footballer (d. 2019)
• 1963 – Brad Silberling, American television and movie director
• 1966 – Carola, Swedish singer
• 1967 – Eerik-Niiles Kross, Estonian politician and diplomat
• 1968 – Louise Minchin, English journalist
• 1969 – Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and coach (d. 2011)
• 1970 – Latren Sprewell, American basketball player
• 1970 – Nidal Malik Hassan, American soldier and murderer
• 1971 – David Arquette, American actor
• 1971 – Martin Freeman, English actor
• 1972 – Markus Babbel, German footballer
• 1973 – Khamis Al-Owairan, Saudi footballer
• 1975 – Richard Hughes, English musician (Keane)
• 1975 – Chris Latham, Australian rugby player
• 1975 – Lee Eul-Yong, South Korean footballer and manager
• 1975 – Elena Likhovtseva, Russian tennis player

From 1976

• 1976 – Sjeng Schalken, Dutch tennis player
• 1976 – Gerald Drummond, Costa Rican footballer
• 1976 – Jervis Drummond, Costa Rican footballer
• 1979 – Pink, American singer
• 1980 – Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, South African runner (d. 2014)
• 1980 – Kristian Kjelling, Norwegian handball player
• 1981 – Morten Gamst Pedersen, Norwegian footballer
• 1983 – Diego Benaglio, Swiss footballer
• 1984 – Peter Whittingham, English footballer
• 1984 – Vitaly Petrov, Russian racing driver
• 1986 – Joao Moutinho, Portuguese footballer
• 1987 – Wiz Khalifa, American rapper
• 1987 – Alexandre Bilodeau, Canadian freestyle skier
• 1987 – Marcel Nguyen, German gymnast
• 1987 – Dom Parsons, English skeleton racer
• 1988 – Chantal Jones, American model and actress
• 1989 – Avicii, Swedish DJ and producer (d. 2018)
• 1989 – Gylfi Sigurdsson, Icelandic footballer
• 1990 – Matt Barkley, American football player
• 1991 – Ignacio González Espinoza, Mexican footballer
• 1991 – Joe Sugg, English YouTuber, author and vlogger
• 1994 – Bruno Fernandes, Portuguese footballer

Deaths

Up to 1900

• 394 – Arbogast, Frankish general
• 701 – Pope Sergius I
• 780 – Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine Emperor (b. 750)
• 1100 – Antipope Clement III (b. 1029)
• 1134 – Alfonso I of Aragon and Navarre (b. 1073)
• 1397 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, English politician (b. 1355)
• 1425 – King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
• 1613 – Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (b. 1566)
• 1637 – Robert Fludd, English physician, mathematician and cosmologist (b. 1574)
• 1644 – John Coke, English politician (b. 1563)
• 1645 – Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish poet and politician (b. 1580)
• 1682 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (b. 1606)
• 1780 – Enoch Poor, American general (b. 1736)
• 1784 – Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
• 1811 – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist (b. 1741)
• 1882 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b. 1809)
• 1888 – Annie Chapman, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1841)
• 1894 – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (b. 1821)

1901 – 2000

• 1916 – Friedrich Baumfelder, German pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1836)
• 1933 – King Faisal I of Iraq (b. 1883)
• 1944 – Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)
• 1963 – Maurice Wilks, English automotive engineer (b. 1904)
• 1965 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
• 1965 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist (b. 1881)
• 1969 – Bud Collyer, American actor and game show host (b. 1908)
• 1970 – Percy Spencer, inventor (b. 1894)
• 1978 – Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (b. 1901)
• 1979 – Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
• 1980 – Willard Libby, American chemist (b. 1908)
• 1981 – Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist (b. 1901)
• 1981 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist (b. 1907)
• 1981 – Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian guru, philosopher and educator (b. 1897)
• 1983 – Antoine Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904)
• 1985 – John Franklin Enders, American scientist
• 1989 – Sgt. Barry Sadler, American soldier, writer and songwriter (b. 1940)
• 1999 – Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (b. 1916)

From 2001

• 2003 – Leni Riefenstahl, German movie maker (b. 1902)
• 2003 – Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actress (b. 1986)
• 2004 – Delfín Benítez Cáceres, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1910)
• 2006 – Thomas Lee Judge, 18th Governor of Montana (b. 1934)
• 2009 – Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Israel Tal, Israeli military (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Vo Chi Cong, former President of Vietnam (b. 1912)
• 2012 – Bill Moggridge, English–American designer, author and educator (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Thomas Szasz, Hungarian–American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Louise Currie, American actress (b. 1913)
• 2014 – George Zuverink, American baseball player (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1918)
• 2014 – Magda Olivero, Italian operatic soprano (b. 1910)
• 2014 – Bobby Fong, American academic (b. 1950)
• 2014 – Sean O'Haire, American professional wrestler, mixed martial artist and kickboxer (b. 1971)
• 2015 – Andrew Kohut, American political scientist (b. 1942)
• 2015 – Joost Zwagerman, Dutch author (b. 1963)
• 2015 – Ebby Halliday, American businesswoman (b. 1911)
• 2016 – Prince Buster, Jamaican musician (b. 1938)
• 2017 – Pierre Bergé, French businessman and activist (b. 1930)
• 2017 – Isabelle Daniels, American sprinter (b. 1937)
• 2017 – Catherine Hardy Lavender, American sprinter (b. 1930)
• 2017 – Blake Heron, American actor (b. 1982)
• 2017 – Jerry Pournelle, American science fiction author (b. 1933)
• 2017 – Karl Ravens, German politician (b. 1927)
• 2017 – Don Williams, American country music singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
• 2018 – Jonas Algirdas Antanaitis, Lithuanian politician (b. 1921)
• 2018 – Gennadi Gagulia, Abkhazian politician, Prime Minister of Abkhazia (b. 1948)
• 2018 – Chelsi Smith, American singer and beauty pageant winner (b. 1973)
• 2019 – Chris Dobson, British chemist (b. 1949)
• 2019 – Ram Jethmalani, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1923)
• 2019 – Yisrael Kessar, Yemeni–born Israeli politician (b. 1931)
• 2019 – Lito Legaspi, Filipino actor (b. 1941)
• 2019 – Christopher James, 5th Baron Northbourne, British aristocrat (b. 1926)
• 2019 – Joseph P. Kolter, American politician (b. 1926)
• 2019 – Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer–songwriter (b. 1946)
• 2019 – Olav Skjevesland, Norwegian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1942)
• 2019 – Carlos Squeo, Argentine footballer (b. 1948)
• 2022 – Queen Elizabeth II, British monarch and head of the Commonwealth (b. 1926)^[1]
• 2023 – Whitey Von Nieda, American basketball player (b. 1922)

Observances

• National Holiday (Andorra and Republic of Macedonia)
• International Literacy Day (UNESCO)
• Victory Day (Pakistan)
• Nativity of the Virgin (Christianity)