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
- 1182 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (d. 1204)
- 1522 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (d. 1605)
- 1524 - Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (d. 1585)
- 1611 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (d. 1675)
- 1681 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (d. 1741)
- 1700 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (d. 1748)
- 1711 - William Boyce, English composer (d. 1779)
- 1723 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer (d. 1790)
- 1786 - Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (d. 1832)
- 1798 - Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (d. 1895)
- 1800 - Daniel S. Dickinson, New York senator (d. 1866)
- 1816 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (d. 1888)
- 1825 - Eduard Hanslick, German music critic (d. 1904)
- 1836 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (d. 1870)
- 1838 - John Ireland, American Catholic archbishop (d. 1918)
- 1859 - Vjenceslav Novak, Croatian writer (d. 1905)
- 1860 - Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (d. 1938)
- 1860 - James Allan, former All Black (d. 1934)
- 1862 - O. Henry, American writer (d. 1910)
- 1862 - Julian Byng, British army officer (d. 1935)
- 1865 - Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (d. 1929)
- 1877 - James Hopwood Jeans, Scientist (d. 1946)
- 1885 - D.H. Lawrence, English novelist (d. 1930)
- 1892 - Pinto Colvig, Goofy's and Pluto's voice (d. 1967)
- 1892 - Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (d. 1980)
- 1893 - W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (d. 1974)
- 1899 - Jimmie Davis, composer (d. 2000)
- 1899 - Philipp Bouhler, German nazi leader (d. 1945)
- 1903 - Theodor Adorno, German philosopher, composer, and sociologist (d. 1969)
- 1911 - Bola de Nieve, Cuban pianist (d. 1971)
- 1913 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (d. 1983)
- 1914 - Patriarch Pavle, Patriarch of Serbian Orthodox Church
- 1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (d. 1989)
- 1917 - Jessica Mitford, British writer (d. 1996)
- 1917 - Herbert Lom, film actor
- 1923 - Dharmsamrat Paramhans Swami Madhavananda, Hindu guru (d. 2003)
- 1924 - Daniel Akaka Chinese-American politician
- 1924 - Tom Landry, American football coach (d. 2000)
- 1924 - Rudolf Vrba, Jewish Canadian professor, Holocaust survivor (d. 2006)
- 1925 - Harry Somers, Canadian composer (d. 1999)
- 1926 - Eddie Miksis, baseball player (d. 2005)
- 1927 - G. David Schine, American businessman (d. 1996)
- 1927 - Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster (d. 2002)
- 1927 - Willie Christine King, Elder sister of Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1928 - Reubin O'Donovan Askew, American politician
- 1928 - Earl Holliman, American actor
- 1930 - Saleh Selim, Egyptian football player (d. 2002)
- 1932 - Peter Anderson, English footballer
- 1933 - William Luther Pierce, American author and activist (d. 2002)
- 1934 - Oliver Jones, Canadian jazz pianist
- 1934 - Norma Croker, Australian sprinter
- 1935 - Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer
- 1935 - Gherman Titov, second man in space (d. 2000)
- 1936 - Ian Abercrombie, English actor
- 1937 - Iosif Kobzon, Soviet singer and Russian businessman
- 1937 - Queen Paola Ruffo di Calabria of Belgium
- 1937 - Robert Crippen, American astronaut
- 1938 - David Higgins, British Composer and Conductor
- 1939 - Charles Geschke, American inventor and businessman
- 1940 - Brian de Palma, American film director
- 1940 - Theodore Olson, U.S. Solicitor General
- 1942 - Lola Falana, American singer
- 1942 - Gerome Ragni American Playwright
- 1943 - Mickey Hart, American drummer (Grateful Dead)
- 1943 - Raymond Villeneuve, Canadian terrorist
- 1944 - Everaldo, Brazilian footballer
- 1945 - Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer
- 1945 - Leo Kottke, American acoustic guitarist
- 1945 - Felton Perry, American actor
- 1948 - John Martyn, English musician
- 1950 - Bruce Doull, Australian rules footballer
- 1950 - Amy Madigan, American actress
- 1950 - Barry Sheene, British motorcyclist
- 1951 - Richard D. Gill, British-Dutch mathematician
- 1951 - Hugo Porta, Argentine rugby player
- 1953 - Tommy Shaw, American musician and singer Styx
- 1953 - Jani Allan, South African journalist and media personality.
- 1957 - Brad Bird, American director and animator
- 1957 - Jeff Sluman, American professional golfer
- 1958 - Scott Patterson, American actor
- 1958 - Roxann Dawson, American actress
- 1961 - Virginia Madsen, American actress
- 1961 - Philip Ardagh, British writer
- 1962 - Elizabeth Daily, American actress
- 1962 - Filip Dewinter Belgian politician
- 1962 - Kristy McNichol, American actress
- 1962 - Julio Salinas, Spanish footballer
- 1963 - Dr Patrick McWilliams, Irish author
- 1964 - Ellis Burks, American baseball player
- 1964 - Victor Wooten, American musician
- 1965 - Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria
- 1965 - Paul Heyman, American wrestling manager
- 1965 - Moby, American musician
- 1965 - David Roe, English snooker player
- 1966 - Princess Akishino, Japanese Imperial Family
- 1967 - Maria Bartiromo, financial broadcast journalist
- 1967 - Harry Connick, Jr., American singer
- 1967 - Tony David, Australian darts player
- 1968 - Kay Hanley, American musician
- 1968 - Paul Mayeda Berges, American film writer and director
- 1969 - Eduardo Perez, American baseball player
- 1969 - Gidget Gein, American musician
- 1970 - Chris Garver, tattoo artist
- 1970 - Taraji P. Henson, American actress and singer
- 1970 - William Joppy, American boxer
- 1970 - Ted Leo, American musician
- 1971 - Richard Ashcroft, British singer
- 1971 - Markos Moulitsas, American blogger and author
- 1971 - Johnny Vegas, English comedian
- 1975 - Mark Klepaski, American musician
- 1976 - Elephant Man, Jamaican musician
- 1976 - Tomáš Enge, Czech racing driver
- 1976 - Flora Redoumi, Greek hurdler
- 1977 - Ludacris, American rapper
- 1977 - Matthew Stevens, Welsh snooker player
- 1977 - Jon Buckland, British guitarist (Coldplay)
- 1977 - Becky Lee, American Survivor contestant
- 1978 - Ed Reed, American football player
- 1978 - Ben Lee, Australian musician and singer
- 1978 - Dejan Stanković, Serbian footballer
- 1979 - Andols Herrick, American drummer (Chimaira)
- 1979 - Nathan Gale, American murderer (d. 2004)
- 1979 - Ariana Richards, American actress
- 1979 - Frank Francisco, Major League Baseball pitcher
- 1979 - Steve Hofstetter, comedian & radio personality
- 1979 - David Pizarro, Chilean footballer
- 1980 - Mike Comrie, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 - Antônio Pizzonia, Brazilian Formula One driver
- 1981 - Andrea Dossena, Italian footballer
- 1981 - Dylan Klebold, Columbine High School Massacre co-perpetrator (d. 1999)
- 1982 - Shriya Saran, South Indian actress
- 1983 - Ike Diogu, American basketball player
- 1983 - Jacoby Ellsbury, American baseball player
- 1985 - Shaun Livingston, American basketball player
- 1985 - Zack Stortini, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1986 - Chiliboy Ralepelle, South African rugby player
- 1986 - Dwayne Jarrett, Wide Receiver for the Carolina Panthers.
- 1987 - Tyler Hoechlin, American actor
Deaths
- 1161 - Queen Melisende of Jerusalem (b. 1105)
- 1185 - Stephanus Hagiochristophorites, Byzantine courtier
- 1279 - Robert Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. c. 1215)
- 1298 - Philip of Artois, French soldier (b. 1269)
- 1349 - Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (b. 1315)
- 1599 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman executed for planned fratricide (b. 1577)
- 1677 - James Harrington, English political philosopher (b. 1611)
- 1680 - Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (b. 1621)
- 1680 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (b. 1596)
- 1721 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (b. 1665)
- 1733 - François Couperin, French composer (b. 1668)
- 1760 - Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704)
- 1822 - Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (b. 1777)
- 1823 - David Ricardo, economist (b. 1772)
- 1843 - Joseph Nicollet, mathematician and explorer (b. 1786)
- 1851 - Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist (b. 1794)
- 1865 - Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (b. 1806)
- 1888 - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, President of Argentina (b. 1811)
- 1896 - Francis James Child, American ballad collector (b. 1825)
- 1911 - Louis Henri Boussenard, French novelist (b. 1847)
- 1915 - William Cornelius Van Horne, North American railway executive (b. 1843)
- 1917 - Georges Guynemer, French World War I aviator (b. 1894)
- 1921 - Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b. 1882)
- 1926 - Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (b. 1875)
- 1931 - Salvatore Maranzano, crime boss (b. 1868)
- 1932 - Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura, Polish pilots who died in a plane crash (Żwirko b. 1895 Wigura b. 1901)
- 1939 - Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (b. 1861)
- 1941 - Christian Rakovsky, Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary (b. 1873)
- 1948 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (b. 1876)
- 1950 - Jan Smuts, South African soldier and statesman (b. 1870)
- 1956 - Billy Bishop, Canadian pilot in World War I (b. 1894)
- 1958 - Robert W. Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. 1874)
- 1958 - Camillien Houde, French Canadian politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1889)
- 1966 - C. E. Woolman, American airline magnate (b. 1889)
- 1967 - Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (b. 1904)
- 1968 - René Cogny, French General (b. 1904)
- 1971 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader (b. 1894)
- 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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