September 11
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- 2001 - The September 11 attacks destroy the World Trade Center in New York City and the western wall of The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and crash a passenger airliner in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. In total, 2,974 people are killed.
Births
- 1524 - Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (d. 1585)
- 1836 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (d. 1870)
- 1862 - O. Henry, American writer (d. 1910)
- 1885 - D.H. Lawrence, English novelist (d. 1930)
- 1903 - Theodor Adorno, German philosopher, composer, and sociologist (d. 1969)
Deaths
- 1972 - Max Fleischer, American animator (b. 1883)
- 1973 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (b. 1908)
- 1974 - Víctor Olea Alegría, member of the Chilean Socialist Party, "disappeared."
- 1978 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (assassinated) (b. 1929)
- 1978 - Janet Parker, medical photographer, the final victim of smallpox, (b. c. 1938)
- 1978 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish F1 driver. Crashed on Monza circuit. (b. 1944)
- 1984 - Jerry Voorhis, American politician (b. 1901)
- 1985 - William Alwyn, English composer (b. 1905)
- 1985 - Andrew C. Thornton II, Former Lexington, KY narcotics agent turned smuggler (b. 1945)
- 1987 - Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (b. 1915)
- 1987 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician and singer (murdered) (b. 1944)
- 1988 - John Sylvester White, American actor (b. 1919)
- 1990 - Myrna Mack, Guatemalan anthropologist (assassinated) (b. 1949)
- 1993 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (b. 1912)
- 1993 - Antoine Izméry, Haitian pro-democracy activist (assassinated) (b. unknown)
- 1994 - Jessica Tandy, American actress (b. 1909)
- 1994 - William Obanhein, police officer, mentioned in "Alice's Restaurant" (b. 1924)
- 1995 - Anita Harding, neurologist (b. 1952)
- 1997 - Camille Henry, National Hockey League player (b. 1933)
- 1998 - Dane Clark, American actor (b. 1913)
- 1999 - Gonzalo Rodriguez, Uruguayan auto racing driver (b. 1972)
- 2001 - Alice Stewart Trillin, American author (b. 1938)
- 2001 – see also Category:Victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks:
- 2001 - Marwan Al-Shehhi, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1978)
- 2001 - David Angell, American sitcom creator, passenger on American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1946)
- 2001 - Mohamed Atta, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1968)
- 2001 - Garnet Bailey, NHL player and Los Angeles Kings scout, passenger on United Airlines Flight 175 (b. 1948)
- 2001 - Todd Beamer, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1968)
- 2001 - Berry Berenson, widow of actor Anthony Perkins and a passenger on American Airlines flight 11 (b. 1948)
- 2001 - Mark Bingham, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1970)
- 2001 - Tom Burnett, businessman and passenger on United Airlines Flight 93, (b. 1963)
- 2001 - Kevin Cosgrove, worker in the south tower of the world trade center (b. 1955)
- 2001 - Peter J. Ganci, Jr., Chief of Department, FDNY (b. 1946)
- 2001 - Hani Hanjour, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1972)
- 2001 - Ziad Jarrah, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1975)
- 2001 - Father Mychal F. Judge, Chaplain, FDNY (b. 1933)
- 2001 - Angel L. Juarbe, Jr., American firefighter, winner of Murder in Small Town X (b. 1966)
- 2001 - John P. O'Neill, former FBI agent, and Director of Security at the World Trade Center (b. 1952)
- 2001 - John Ogonowski, pilot for American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1951)
- 2001 - Barbara Olson, American political commentator, passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 (b. 1955)
- 2002 - Kim Hunter, American actress (b. 1922)
- 2002 - Johnny Unitas, American football player (b. 1933)
- 2003 - Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (assassinated) (b. 1957)
- 2003 - John Ritter, American actor (b. 1948)
- 2004 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (helicopter crash) (b. 1949)
- 2004 - Fred Ebb, American lyricist (b. 1933)
- 2004 - David Mann, U.S. artist (emphysema) (b. 1939)
- 2005 - Chris Schenkel, American sportscaster (b. 1923)
- 2006 - William Auld, Scottish poet, writer and supporter of Esperanto (b. 1924)
- 2006 - Pat Corley, American actor (b. 1930)
- 2006 - Joachim Fest, German journalist and author (b. 1926)
- 2006 - Johannes Bob van Benthem, Dutch lawyer, first president of the European Patent Office (b. 1921)
Notes
- Daniel Wildenstein
- September 11, 2001 attacks
- Theodor Adorno
- O. Henry
- David Hykes
- Italy: the new domestic landscape
- Pierre de Ronsard
- Max Fleischer
- Ludlow
- Wifredo Lam
* Marc-André Raffalovich * D. H. Lawrence * Jean-Claude Forest
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