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September 6

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Black September

56 years ago

Born this day

1766

John Dalton

Died aged 77

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460th

Suleiman the Magnificent

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Famous births30

1729 · 297 yrs

Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729 – 4 January 1786) was a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion and identity were a central element in the development of the Haskalah, or 'Jewish Enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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PhilosophyDied aged 56

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1757 · 269 yrs

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (French:; September 6, 1757 – May 20, 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette, was a French military officer and politician who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington, in the American Revolutionary War.

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MilitaryDied aged 76

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1766 · 260 yrs

John Dalton

John Dalton (5 or 6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844) was an English chemist, physicist, and meteorologist whose work laid the foundations of modern atomic theory and stoichiometric chemistry.

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ScienceDied aged 77

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1808 · 218 yrs

Abdelkader El Djezairi

Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhyi al-Din (between 1806 and 1808 – 26 May 1883; Arabic: عبد القادر ابن محي الدين, romanized: ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥy al-Dīn), known as Emir Abdelkader or ʿAbd al-Qadir al-Hasani al-Jazaʾiri, was an Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggle against the French colonial invasion of…

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ReligionDied aged 74

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1809 · 217 yrs

Bruno Bauer

Bruno Bauer (German:; 6 September 1809 – 13 April 1882) was a German philosopher, theologian, and historian. Initially a student of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, he became a radical rationalist critic of the Bible and Christianity, and a prominent member of the Young Hegelians.

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PhilosophyDied aged 72

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1860 · 166 yrs

Jane Addams

Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author. She was a leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage.

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ActivismDied aged 74

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1867 · 159 yrs

Felix Salten

Felix Salten (German:; born Siegmund Salzmann; 6 September 1869 – 8 October 1945) was an Austrian author and literary critic. His most famous work is Bambi, a Life in the Woods, which was adapted into an animated feature film, Bambi, by Walt Disney Productions in 1942.

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LiteratureDied aged 78

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1876 · 150 yrs

John James Rickard Macleod

John James Rickard Macleod (6 September 1876 – 16 March 1935), was a Scottish biochemist and physiologist. He devoted his career to diverse topics in physiology and biochemistry, but was chiefly interested in carbohydrate metabolism.

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1879 · 147 yrs

Joseph Wirth

Karl Joseph Wirth (German pronunciation:; 6 September 1879 – 3 January 1956) was a German politician of the Catholic Centre Party who was chancellor of Germany from May 1921 to November 1922, during the early years of the Weimar Republic.

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1892 · 134 yrs

Edward Victor Appleton

Sir Edward Victor Appleton (6 September 1892 – 21 April 1965) was an English physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his contributions to the knowledge of the ionosphere, which led to the development of radar and shortwave radio.

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ScienceWould be 134

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1906 · 120 yrs

Luis Federico Leloir

Luis Federico Leloir (6 September 1906 – 2 December 1987) was an Argentine physician and biochemist who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the metabolic pathways by which carbohydrates are synthesized and converted into energy in the body.

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1913 · 113 yrs

Leônidas

Leônidas da Silva (Portuguese pronunciation:; 6 September 1913 – 24 January 2004) was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward. He is regarded as one of the most important players of the first half of the 20th century.

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Famous deaths11

1566 · 460 yrs

Suleiman the Magnificent

Suleiman I (6 November 1494 – 6 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent, was the Ottoman sultan from 1520 to 1566.

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PoliticsDied aged 71

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1683 · 343 yrs

Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Jean-Baptiste Colbert (French:; 29 August 1619 – 6 September 1683) was a French statesman who served as First Minister of State from 1661 until his death in 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV.

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PoliticsDied aged 64

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1907 · 119 yrs

Sully Prudhomme

René François Armand "Sully" Prudhomme (French:; 16 March 1839 – 6 September 1907) was a French poet and essayist. He was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1901.

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LiteratureDied aged 68

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1966 · 60 yrs

Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger (née Higgins; September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, founded Planned Parenthood, and was instrumental in the development of the first birth control pill.

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ActivismWould be 147

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1985 · 41 yrs

Rodney Robert Porter

Rodney Robert Porter (8 October 1917 – 6 September 1985) was a British biochemist and Nobel laureate.

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ScienceWould be 109

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1998 · 28 yrs

Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa (黒澤明 or 黒沢明, Kurosawa Akira; March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 30 feature films in a career spanning six decades.

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FilmWould be 116

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2007 · 19 yrs

Luciano Pavarotti

Luciano Pavarotti (12 October 1935 – 6 September 2007) was an Italian operatic tenor who during the late part of his career crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most acclaimed tenors of all time.

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MusicWould be 91

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2018 · 8 yrs

Burt Reynolds

Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (February 11, 1936 – September 6, 2018) was an American actor.

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FilmWould be 90

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2019 · 7 yrs

Robert Mugabe

Robert Gabriel Mugabe (21 February 1924 – 6 September 2019) was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who led Zimbabwe from 1980 until 2017. He served as the country's first Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987 and as its second President from 1987 to 2017.

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PoliticsWould be 102

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2021 · 5 yrs

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Jean-Paul Charles Belmondo (French:; 9 April 1933 – 6 September 2021) was a French actor, producer and distributor.

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FilmWould be 93

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2025 · 1 yrs

David Baltimore

David Baltimore (March 7, 1938 – September 6, 2025) was an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He was a professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he served as president from 1997 to 2006.

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Events5

1689 · 337 yrs

Treaty of Nerchinsk

The Treaty of Nerchinsk was a peace treaty signed between the Tsardom of Russia and the Qing dynasty following Russia's defeat at the Siege of Albazin.

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Politics

1955 · 71 yrs

Istanbul pogrom

The Istanbul pogrom, also known as the Istanbul riots, were a series of state-sponsored anti-Greek mob attacks directed primarily at Istanbul's Greek minority on 6–7 September 1955.

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History

1970 · 56 yrs

Black September

Black September (Arabic: أيلول الأسود, romanized: Aylūl al-ʾAswad), also known as the Jordanian Civil War, was an armed conflict between Jordan, led by King Hussein, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), led by chairman Yasser Arafat.

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War

2008 · 18 yrs

2008 Summer Paralympics

The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (Chinese: 2008年夏季残疾人奥林匹克运动会; pinyin: 2008 Nián Xiàjì Cánjí Rén Àolínpǐkè Yùndònghuì), the 13th Summer Paralympic Games, took place in Beijing, China, from September 6 to 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao.

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Sports

2020 · 6 yrs

2020 Italian Grand Prix

The 2020 Italian Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2020) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 6 September 2020 at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza in Monza, Italy. The race was the eighth round in the 2020 Formula One World Championship.

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