September 5
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Art and culture
- 1793 - In France, the French National Convention votes to implement terror measures to enforce the fantastic principles of the French Revolution, initiating the Reign of Terror.
Births
- 1774 - Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (d. 1840)
- 1905 - Arthur Koestler, Hungarian writer (d. 1983)
- 1912 - John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
- 1942 - Werner Herzog, German film director
Deaths
- 1803 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (b. 1741)
- 1857 - Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
- 1867 - Santiago Derqui, Argentinian politician (b. 1809)
- 1876 - Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790)
- 1877 - Crazy Horse, Lakota (Sioux) chief (b. 1849)
- 1898 - Sarah Edmonds, Canadian nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
- 1901 - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
- 1902 - Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician (b. 1821)
- 1906 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
- 1912 - Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845)
- 1914 - Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
- 1917 - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872)
- 1920 - Robert Harron, American actor (b. 1893)
- 1922 - Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
- 1926 - Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician, one of the founding members of the "Deutsche Arbeiterpartei", which would become the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) (b. 1890)
- 1930 - Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
- 1931 - John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909)
- 1932 - Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
- 1936 - Federico Borrell García, Spanish anarchist soldier during the Spanish Civil War (b. 1912)
- 1936 - Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. [[1859 ])
- 1942 - François de Labouchère, French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Libération. (b. 1917)
- 1943 - Aleš Hrdlička, Czech anthropologist (b. 1869)
- 1945 - Clem Hill, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
- 1948 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
- 1954 - Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1954)
- 1965 - Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
- 1966 - Dezső Lauber, Hungarian athlete (b. 1879)
- 1970 - Jochen Rindt, Austrian Formula One driver, the first ever posthumous world champion (b. 1942)
- 1973 - Jack Fournier, American baseball player (b. 1889)
- 1975 - Georg Ots, Estonian singer (b. 1920)
- 1977 - Marcel Thiry, Belgian writer and wallon militant (b. 1897)
- 1979 - Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (b. 1884)
- 1982 - Douglas Bader, RAF fighter pilot in World War II (b. 1910)
- 1983 - Antonio Mairena, flamenco singer (b. 1909)
- 1988 - Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
- 1990 - Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896)
- 1992 - Fritz Leiber, American author (b. 1910)
- 1995 - William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (b. 1919)
- 1997 - Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (b. 1912)
- 1997 - Mother Teresa, Albanian-born missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)
- 1998 - Leo Penn, American film director (b. 1921)
- 1998 - Verner Panton, Danish designer (b. 1926)
- 1999 - Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (b. 1914)
- 1999 - Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
- 2001 - Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian UN statistician (b. 1912)
- 2002 - David Todd Wilkinson, American astronom, author of the first study of the Cosmic microwave background radiation (b. 1935)
- 2003 - Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-born singer (b. 1927)
- 2005 - Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General and the primary planner in two failed coup d'état attempt in Chile (b. 1917)
Births
Deaths
Notes
* Philippe Tubières * Pierre Choderlos de Laclos * John Cage * Antonin Artaud * Reign of Terror * Werner Herzog * Martin van Maële * Arthur Koestler
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