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September 8

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Siege of Leningrad

85 years ago

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1841

Antonín Dvořák

Died aged 62

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1791st

Agatha of Sicily

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AD 235 · 1791 yrs

Agatha of Sicily

Agatha of Sicily (c. 231 – c. 251 AD) is an early Christian virgin and martyr. Her feast is on 5 February; traditionally, it is considered the last date by which one can send New Year's greetings.

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ReligionDied aged 25

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1157 · 869 yrs

Richard I of England

Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199), known as Richard the Lionheart or Richard Cœur de Lion (Old Norman French: Quor de Lion) because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior, was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199.

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RoyaltyDied aged 41

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1474 · 552 yrs

Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto (UK:, US:; Italian:; 8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516-1532).

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LiteratureDied aged 58

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1588 · 438 yrs

Marin Mersenne

Marin Mersenne, OM (also known as Marinus Mersennus or le Père Mersenne; French:; 8 September 1588 – 1 September 1648) was a French polymath whose works touched a wide variety of fields.

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ReligionDied aged 59

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1760 · 266 yrs

Luigi Cherubini

Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini ( KERR-uu-BEE-nee; Italian:; 8 or 14 September 1760 – 15 March 1842) was an Italian Classical and Romantic composer. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music.

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MusicDied aged 81

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1767 · 259 yrs

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

August Wilhelm von Schlegel ( SHLAY-gəl; German:; 8 September 1767 – 12 May 1845) was a German scholar, critic, Orientalist, Indologist, translator and poet. With his brother Friedrich Schlegel, he was a leading influence within Jena Romanticism.

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LiteratureDied aged 77

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1778 · 248 yrs

Clemens Brentano

Clemens Wenzeslaus Brentano (also Klemens; pseudonym: Clemens Maria Brentano; German:; 9 September 1778 – 28 July 1842) was a German poet and novelist, and a major figure of German Romanticism. He was the uncle, via his brother Christian, of Franz and Lujo Brentano.

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LiteratureDied aged 63

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1779 · 247 yrs

Mustafa IV

Mustafa IV (Ottoman Turkish: مصطفى رابع, romanized: Muṣṭafâ-yi râbiʿ; 8 September 1779 – 16 November 1808) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1807 to 1808.

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Notable PeopleDied aged 29

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1830 · 196 yrs

Frédéric Mistral

Joseph Étienne Frédéric Mistral (French:; Occitan: Josèp Estève Frederic Mistral, 8 September 1830 – 25 March 1914) was an Occitan writer and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language.

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LiteratureDied aged 83

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1841 · 185 yrs

Antonín Dvořák

Antonín Leopold Dvořák (8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana.

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MusicDied aged 62

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1873 · 153 yrs

Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry (French:; 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896), often cited as a forerunner of the Dada, Surrealist, and Futurist movements of the 1920s and 1930s and later the theatre of the absurd in the 1950s and 1960s.

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LiteratureDied aged 34

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1918 · 108 yrs

Derek Barton

Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton (8 September 1918 – 16 March 1998) was an English organic chemist and Nobel Prize laureate for 1969.

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Famous deaths19

1645 · 381 yrs

Francisco Quevedo

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, Knight of the Order of Santiago (Spanish pronunciation:; 14 September 1580 – 8 September 1645), was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era.

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LiteratureDied aged 64

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1811 · 215 yrs

Peter Simon Pallas

Peter Simon Pallas FRS FRSE (22 September 1741 – 8 September 1811) was a Prussian zoologist, botanist, ethnographer, explorer, geographer, geologist, natural historian, and taxonomist.

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ScienceDied aged 69

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1814 · 212 yrs

Maria Carolina of Austria

Maria Carolina of Austria (Maria Karolina Luise Josepha Johanna Antonia; 13 August 1752 – 8 September 1814) was Queen of Naples and Sicily as the wife of King Ferdinand IV and III, who later became King of the Two Sicilies.

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RoyaltyDied aged 62

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1894 · 132 yrs

Hermann von Helmholtz

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (31 August 1821 – 8 September 1894; "von" since 1883) was a German physicist and physician who made significant contributions in several scientific fields, particularly hydrodynamic stability.

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ScienceDied aged 73

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1943 · 83 yrs

Julius Fučík

Julius Fučík (Czech:) (23 February 1903 – 8 September 1943) was a Czech journalist, critic, writer, and active member of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

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1947 · 79 yrs

Victor Horta

Victor Pierre Horta (French:; Victor, Baron Horta after 1932; 6 January 1861 – 8 September 1947) was a Belgian architect and designer, and one of the founders of the Art Nouveau movement.

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ArtDied aged 86

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1949 · 77 yrs

Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss (German:; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer and conductor known for his tone poems and operas. He was a leading figure of the late Romantic and early Modern era.

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MusicDied aged 85

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1954 · 72 yrs

André Derain

André Derain (French:; 17 June 1880 – 8 September 1954) was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder, with Henri Matisse, of Fauvism. His paintings of 1905–1906 are characterized by riotous colourism in the Fauve style.

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1965 · 61 yrs

Dorothy Dandridge

Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an American actress and singer. She was the first African American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Carmen Jones (1954), a performance which also earned her a nomination for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress.

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1965 · 61 yrs

Hermann Staudinger

Hermann Staudinger (German:; 23 March 1881 – 8 September 1965) was a German organic chemist who demonstrated the existence of macromolecules, which he characterized as polymers. For this work he received the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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1969 · 57 yrs100 Club

Alexandra David-Néel

Alexandra David-Néel (born Louise Eugénie Alexandrine Marie David; 24 October 1868 – 8 September 1969) was a French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist, opera singer, and writer. She is most known for her 1924 visit to Lhasa, Tibet, when it was forbidden to foreigners.

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ExplorationDied aged 100

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1980 · 46 yrs

Willard Libby

Willard Frank Libby (December 17, 1908 – September 8, 1980) was an American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology and palaeontology.

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Events5

1380 · 646 yrs

Battle of Kulikovo

The Battle of Kulikovo (Russian: Куликовская битва, romanized: Kulikovskaya bitva) was fought between the forces of Mamai, a powerful Mongol military commander of the Golden Horde, and Russian forces led by Grand Prince Dmitry of Moscow.

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War

1914 · 112 yrs

First Battle of the Marne

The First Battle of the Marne or known in France as the Miracle on the Marne (French: miracle de la Marne) was a battle of the First World War fought from 5 to 12 September 1914. The German army invaded France with a plan for winning the war in 40 days by occupying Paris and destroying the French and British armies.

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War

1941 · 85 yrs

Siege of Leningrad

The Siege of Leningrad was a military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) in the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front of World War II from 1941 to 1944.

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War

1951 · 75 yrs

Treaty of San Francisco

The Treaty of San Francisco, also called the Treaty of Peace with Japan, re-established peaceful relations between Japan and the Allies on behalf of the United Nations by ending the legal state of war, military occupation and providing for redress for hostile actions up to and including World War II.

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Politics

2023 · 3 yrs

2023 Marrakesh-Safi earthquake

On 8 September 2023 at 23:11 DST (22:11 UTC), an earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.9 and maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent) struck Morocco's Al Haouz Province.

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