12th September
The September 12 is the 255th day of the Gregorian calendar (256th in leap years ), thus remain 110 days by year end.
If the following year is a leap year, the year begins on September 12th in the Coptic and Ethiopian calendars . In all other years the beginning of the year is on September 11th.
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events
Politics and world events
- 490 BC Chr .: Athens and the allied Greek cities defeat the Persians under Darius I decisively in the battle of Marathon and thus end the first Persian campaign . However, the exact date of the battle is in dispute.
- 1213: In the battle of Muret during the Albigensian Crusade , the armies of Count Raimund VI. of Toulouse and his brother-in-law, King Peter II of Aragón , defeated by the troops of Simon IV de Montfort, who was loyal to the Pope. The king is killed in battle.
- 1297: The Portuguese King Dionysius and King Ferdinand IV of Castile sign the Treaty of Alcañices , which defines the border between these two countries. It still largely corresponds to the border between Portugal and Spain.
- 1319: At the Battle of Myton , a Scottish army defeats an English army that was deployed to defend York.
- 1348: Blanca Margaret of Valois is crowned Queen of Bohemia .
- 1556: Charles V renounces in favor of his brother Ferdinand I to the imperial dignity of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation .
- 1683: In the battle of the Kahlenberg a relief army surprises under the Polish King Johann III. Sobieski the Ottomans under Kara Mustafa and defeated them decisively. This ends the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna .
- 1689: Tsar Peter I the Great takes sole rule in Russia .
- 1847: The Offenburg Assembly proclaims the demands of the people in Baden .
- 1848: Switzerland constitutes itself as a federal state when the Diet establishes the majority acceptance of the Federal Constitution .
- 1861: During the Civil War , the Confederates attacked Union troops at the turnpike on the west side of the Cheat Mountains in western Virginia and temporarily occupied the turnpike. The Battle of Cheat Mountain lasts until September 15th.
- 1931: The Pfrimer Putsch begins in Styria . Walter Pfrimer wants to bring a home guard government to power in Austria. The armed forces stop the march on Vienna the following day .
- 1932: Reich Chancellor Franz von Papen is overthrown by a motion of no confidence and the Reichstag is dissolved by Reich President Hindenburg .
- 1942: The German submarine U 156 sinks the British troop transport Laconia with 1,800 Italian prisoners of war on board in the Atlantic . The associated events are the reason for the so-called Laconia order by Admiral Karl Dönitz , which forbids the rescue of shipwrecked people for the future.
- 1943: German paratroopers under General Kurt Student manage in the Eiche company to free the deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from his imprisonment on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzo.
- 1944: In the 1st zone agreement (also known as the London Protocol ), the European Advisory Commission defines the border between the Soviet zone of occupation and the zones of occupation of the Western powers and decides on a "special system of occupation" for Berlin .
- 1949: Theodor Heuss becomes the first Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany .
- 1953: Nikita Khrushchev is elected 1st Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU .
- 1959: Theodor Heuss leaves the office of Federal President . Heinrich Lübke is his successor .
- 1960: In the GDR, after Wilhelm Pieck's death, the State Council of the GDR is created in place of the office of State President .
- 1968: Prague Spring : Soviet troops withdraw from Prague , Pressburg and Brno .
- 1974: Haile Selassie , the last emperor of Ethiopia , is overthrown in a military coup.
- 1977: South African civil rights activist Steve Biko dies after being tortured by police the day after he was admitted to Pretoria prison hospital . His death becomes a symbol of the resistance movement against the apartheid regime and later triggers an arms embargo against the country by the UN Security Council .
- 1980: In Turkey, the military under Kenan Evren overturns Suleyman Demirel's government and imposes martial law.
- 1987: The Barschel affair begins. One day before the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein, Der Spiegel reports that Prime Minister Uwe Barschel has given the order to have the SPD top candidate Björn Engholm spied on.
- 1989: The Citizens' Movement Democracy Now is founded in the GDR.
- 1990: On the way to German reunification , the two-plus-four treaty is signed in Moscow .
- 1998: PKK boss Abdullah Ocalan was arrested in Rome.
business
- 1830: The American full- rigged ship Draper from Baltimore under the command of Captain Hillert is the first ship to enter the recently completed port of the city of Bremerhaven, which was founded in 1827 .
- 1839: The first mass-produced photographic cameras are offered for sale in Paris for 400 francs by the Parisian camera manufacturer and owner of the world's first photo shop, Alphonse Giroux .
- 1909: The chemist Fritz Hofmann , employee of the paint factory Bayer / Elberfeld ad Wupper, receives the world's first patent for a process for the production of artificial rubber , which he calls Buna .
- 1919: Gold traders meet for the first time at the London Bullion Market to formally fix the world market price for gold .
- 1963: The Porsche 901 is presented as the successor to the Porsche 356 at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt am Main . A year later, it had to be renamed from Peugeot to Porsche 911 due to trademark rights .
- 1997: Air France takes over the French domestic airline Air Inter .
science and technology
- 1906: The Dane Jacob Christian Hansen Ellehammer succeeds with his Ellehammer No. 1 a flight of 42 meters.
- 1940: The Lascaux cave with its cave paintings is discovered.
- 1958: The American Jack Kilby presents the first integrated circuit , a flip-flop . It consists of two bipolar transistors , which are attached to a germanium substrate and connected by gold wires.
- 1959: Lunik 2 is launched by the Soviet Union , the first lunar probe to hit Earth's satellite .
- 1962: On Bali is in the capital Denpasar , the Udayana University founded.
- 1966: Gemini 11 with Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon on board takes off from Cape Kennedy into space.
- 1981: The Chaos Computer Club is founded in Berlin.
- 1985: The German surgeon Erich Mühe performs the world's first laparoscopic cholecystectomy (removal of the gallbladder) in the Böblingen district hospital .
- 2005: The Hayabusa space probe of the Japanese space agency JAXA , launched on May 9, 2003, reaches its destination, the asteroid (25143) Itokawa, and takes soil samples from it.
Culture
- 1572: The Spanish Riding School in Vienna is founded.
- 1878: An Egyptian obelisk , one of Cleopatra's needles , is erected on the banks of the Thames in London . Muhammad Ali Pascha donated the obelisk to Great Britain in 1819, but for decades nobody wanted to pay for the transport costs.
- 1883: The keystone for the new town hall on the Ring is set in Vienna .
- 1905: In Copenhagen , the new town hall, designed according to Italian models, is inaugurated, which is said to adorn Denmark's tallest tower.
- 1910: Gustav Mahler conducts the acclaimed world premiere of his 8th Symphony (Symphony of a Thousand).
- 1920: The Heimkehle is opened as a show cave .
- 1959: In the United States of which is NBC , the first episode of the television series Bonanza aired.
society
- 1840: The composer Robert Schumann marries Clara Wieck in Schönefeld near Leipzig with the consent of the court , whose father forbade any contact between the two and refused to enter into this marriage .
- 1953: John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier get married in Newport / Rhode Island .
religion
- 1833: The Rauhe Haus in Hamburg , a rescue house for neglected and orphaned children, is founded.
- 1891: In the encyclical Pastoralis officii Pope Leo XIII rejects . the dueling as Christian commandments not appropriate. He advocates that the legislature should criminalize duels.
- 1943: The German Bishops' Conference has its Decalogue pastoral letter read out in the Catholic churches: strongest position against state murder.
- 2006: In a speech at the University of Regensburg , Pope Benedict XVI quotes . the late medieval Byzantine emperor Manuel II on the role of violence in Islam , which sometimes provokes violent criticism from representatives of Islam.
Disasters
- 1857: A hurricane causes the sinking of the US passenger ship Central America on its way from Havana to New York. 149 people can be rescued by two ships, 429 people are killed. More than 13 tons of gold cargo from California go down with the cargo , which will lead to a salvage operation in 1987.
- 1905: The Japanese battleship Mikasa sinks after an ammunition explosion. Of the 935-strong crew, 256 died and 343 were injured.
- 1918: Southwest of Land's End , the British passenger ship Galway Castle is torpedoed by the German submarine U 82 . 143 of the 950 passengers and crew members die.
- 1928: The Okeechobee hurricane cost around 1200 lives in Guadeloupe .
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
nature and environment
- 1964: In Utah , Canyonlands National Park is placed under the legal protection of a national park .
Sports
- 1920: The VII Summer Olympic Games come to an end in Antwerp .
- 1945: The football club VfL Wolfsburg is founded.
- 1990: In Brussels , the GDR national soccer team wins their 293rd and last international match against Belgium 2-0 .
- 1990: The Faroese national soccer team defeated Austria in an international soccer match . The 1-0 win in Landskrona in the qualifying match for the European Football Championship in 1992 will go down in the sports history of the island as a football fairy tale .
- 2010: In the final of the 2010 FIBA World Championship in Turkey, the defeated United States men's national basketball team , the Turkish national basketball team with 81:64, becoming the fourth time world champion in basketball .
- 2016: As the second German tennis player after Steffi Graf , Angelique Kerber takes the lead in the world rankings of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1310: Niccolò Acciaiuoli , Italian statesman, Count von Melfi, Grand Marshal of Naples and banker in Florence
- 1415: John Mowbray , English nobleman, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
- 1454: Johann Wassenberch , German Catholic clergyman and chronicler
- 1492: Lorenzo di Piero de 'Medici , Duke of Urbino and ruler of Florence
- 1494: Francis I , King of France
- 1514: Philipp , Duke of Mecklenburg
- 1615: Sophie von Hessen-Kassel , Princess of Hessen-Kassel, by marriage to Countess von Schaumburg-Lippe
- 1649: Giuseppe Maria Tomasi , Italian cardinal
- 1652: Friedrich Karl , Duke of Württemberg
- 1659: Ferdinand Wilhelm , Duke of Württemberg, German military leader and field marshal
- 1688: Ferdinand Maximilian Brokoff , German baroque sculptor
- 1695: Joachim Oporin , German Protestant theologian
- 1697: Hieronymus Annoni , Swiss Reformed theologian and hymn poet
- 1699: Franz Xaver Kleinhans , Austrian architect, court and monastery builder of the Rococo
18th century
- 1707: Friedrich Esaias Pufendorf , German lawyer
- 1725: Guillaume Le Gentil , French astronomer
- 1727: Johan Gerhards von Angelbek , German lawyer and colonial official
- 1735: Anton Oehmbs , German Catholic theologian and university professor
- 1736: Hsinbyushin , ruler of the Kingdom of Ava in what is now Myanmar from the Konbaung dynasty
- 1736: Georg Theodor Strobel , German Lutheran theologian and church historian
- 1737: Richard Bache , American politician
- 1738: Jonathan Hunt , American pioneer, landowner, and politician from Massachusetts, Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
- 1740: Johann Heinrich Jung , German ophthalmologist, economist and writer
- 1745: Jean-François Lefèbvre, chevalier de la Barre , French victim of a religiously motivated judicial murder
- 1746: Michele Arditi , Italian lawyer and classical archaeologist
- 1752: Edward Smith Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby , British politician and equestrian enthusiast
- 1753: Bernhard Vinzenz Adler , Bohemian medic
- 1756: Jonathan Mason , American politician
- 1757: John Brown , American politician
- 1759: Maximilian Josef Montgelas , Bavarian politician and state reformer, minister
- 1763: Phaungkaza Maung Maung , King of the Burmese Kingdom of Ava
- 1763: Johann Hermann Stindt , German mill builder and paper mold manufacturer
- 1765: Johannes Ernst , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1768: Benjamin Carr , English-American composer, organist, singer and music publisher
- 1773: Gustav Maximilian von Croÿ , cardinal and archbishop of Rouen
- 1775: Karl August Tittmann , German lawyer and Saxon civil servant
- 1777: Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville , French zoologist and anatomist
- 1780: Johann Carl Ludwig Schmid , German architect
- 1786: August Heinrich Gustav von Bongard , German botanist
- 1800: Pierre Charles Fournier Saint Amant , French chess master
- 1800: Joseph Augenstein , German politician
- 1800: Friedrich von Uechtritz , German poet, historian and genealogist
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801: Giuseppe Concone , Italian singing master
- 1803: Auguste Brizeux , French writer
- 1804: Karl zu Leiningen , 3rd Prince of Leiningen, first Prime Minister of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- 1806: Andrew Hull Foote , American Union admiral in the American Civil War
- 1808: August von Werder , Prussian general
- 1809: Julius von Bose , Prussian infantry general
- 1811: Max Haushofer , German landscape painter
- 1812: Richard March Hoe , American inventor of the rotary printing press
- 1813: Johann Heinrich Fierz , Swiss entrepreneur and member of the National Council
- 1815: Edmond Tulasne , French botanist and mycologist
- 1817: Constantin Frantz , German historian and publicist
- 1818: Richard Gatling , American inventor in mechanical engineering and weapons technology
- 1818: Theodor Kullak , German pianist and composer
- 1821: Johann Traugott Mutschink , Sorbian folk writer and local historian
- 1822: Josef Franz von Weckert , 76th Bishop of Passau
- 1823: Kornel Ujejski , Polish poet
- 1824: Hugo Ernst Heinrich Rühle , German medic
- 1825: Karl Doppler , German-Hungarian composer
- 1825: Ainsworth Rand Spofford , American director of the Library of Congress
- 1826: Otto Michaelis , German economic liberal, journalist and politician
- 1826: Richard Pohl , German composer and music writer
- 1827: Albert Erdmann Karl Gerhard von Levetzow , German politician, President of the Reichstag
- 1829: Anselm Feuerbach , German painter
- 1831: Álvares de Azevedo , Brazilian writer
- 1832: CW Damodaram Pillai , Tamil philologist
- 1833: Peter Paul Faust , German author, editor and dialect poet
- 1837: Ludwig IV , Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt
- 1838: Arthur Auwers , German astronomer
- 1839: Hagbard Berner , Norwegian publicist and politician
- 1841: Anton Menger , Austrian lawyer and social theorist
- 1842: Friedrich von Oer , Upper Chamberlain of Prince Ysenburg
- 1849: Alexander von Krobatin , kuk Feldzeugmeister and Minister of War
1851-1900
- 1851: Carl Johann Theodor Abs , German wrestler
- 1852: Herbert Henry Asquith , British politician, Prime Minister
- 1855: William Sharp , British writer from Scotland
- 1856: Eugen Scheuermann , German-Baltic pastor and Protestant martyr
- 1857: George Hendrik Breitner , Dutch painter and photographer, representative of Amsterdam Impressionism
- 1858: Fernand Khnopff , Belgian painter, graphic artist, sculptor and art writer
- 1859: Curt von Hagen , German colonial official
- 1863: Hermann Kutter , Swiss Protestant theologian
- 1863: Theodor Seitz , German colonial politician
- 1865: Sophus Claussen , Danish writer
- 1867: Herbert L. Clarke , American cornetist and composer
- 1869: Adolf Ott , German priest and official
- 1870: Carl Arend , German architect
- 1872: Heinrich Schulz , German reform pedagogue and politician, MdR, pioneer of shorthand
- 1873: Gertrud Bäumer , German reform pedagogue, women's rights activist, politician and MdR
- 1874: Frans Drion , Dutch teacher, politician and anarchist
- 1876: Frieda Gallati , Swiss historian
- 1877: Alexander Jerminingeldowitsch Arbusow , Russian chemist
- 1877: Georg Hamel , German mathematician
- 1878: James Ashcroft , English football goalkeeper
- 1880: Henry Louis Mencken , American publicist and writer
- 1881: Hendrik Enno Boeke , Dutch mineralogist
- 1881: Adolf Hühnlein , German general, leader of the National Socialist Motorist Corps
- 1881: Daniel Jones , British English and phonetician
- 1882: Georg Gelbke , German painter and graphic artist from Saxony
- 1883: Gus Cannon , American blues musician
- 1885: Heinrich Hoffmann , German photographer, personal photographer of Adolf Hitler
- 1885: William Slavens McNutt , American screenwriter and writer
- 1887: Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Aevermann , German educator and politician
- 1887: Yusif Vəzir Çəmənzəminli , Azerbaijani writer and statesman
- 1887: Auguste Lazar , Austrian writer
- 1888: Maurice Chevalier , French chansonnier and actor
- 1889: Heinrich Lersch , German worker poet
- 1889: Joe Gould , American writer
- 1890: Erich Lehmann , German athlete
- 1890: Karl Peter Röhl , German painter, graphic artist and designer
- 1891: Fred Kelly , American hurdler and Olympic champion
- 1892: Wilhelm Tophinke , German sculptor
- 1893: Wolfgang Zeller , German composer a.o. of film music
- 1894: Alfred Hartmann , German manager and politician
- 1894: Friedrich Ebert junior , German politician, MdR, SED functionary of the GDR and Lord Mayor of East Berlin
- 1894: Jimmy Murphy , American racing car driver
- 1895: Axel von Harnack , German librarian, historian and philologist
- 1896: Ernst von Dombrowski , Austrian author, xylograph and illustrator
- 1897: Irène Joliot-Curie , French chemist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1898: August Arnold , German film director, film producer and film technology developer
- 1898: Alma Moodie , Australian violinist
- 1898: Ben Shahn , American painter and printmaker
- 1899: Fritz Löffler , German art historian and literary scholar
- 1900: Haskell Brooks Curry , American logician
- 1900: Texas Alexander , American blues singer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Ernst Pepping , German composer
- 1901: Ramón Serrano Súñer , Spanish politician
- 1902: Beltrán Arbeleche , Uruguayan architect
- 1902: Juscelino Kubitschek , President of Brazil
- 1902: Marya Zaturenska , American writer
- 1903: Hans Fronius , Austrian painter and graphic artist
- 1904: Gawriil Nikolajewitsch Popow , Russian composer
- 1905: Ali Amini , Persian politician
- 1905: Boris Alexandrovich Arapov , Russian composer
- 1905: Helmut Körnig , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1906: Ivo Braak , German author, reciter and educator
- 1906: Jacques Lacarrière , French ice hockey player and sports official
- 1906: Georges Posener , French Egyptologist
- 1906: Gerhard Winkler , German composer of popular music
- 1907: Roger Bonvin , Swiss politician and Federal Councilor
- 1907: Louis MacNeice , Northern Irish poet
- 1907: Josef Müller-Marein , German journalist and writer
- 1907: Paul Scherman , Canadian violinist and conductor
- 1907: Joseph Wewel , German Roman Catholic clergyman
- 1908: Werner Flume , German lawyer
- 1909: Kurt Becher , SS standard leader in World War II
- 1909: Edgar Behr , German regatta sailor
- 1910: Erich Brehm , German cabaret writer and director
- 1912: Jürgen Bennecke , German general
- 1912: Benno Niggemeyer , resistance fighter
- 1913: Ettore Cella , Swiss actor and director
- 1913: Jesse Owens , American athlete of African American descent, four-time Olympic champion
- 1914: Desmond Llewelyn , British actor
- 1915: Elvira Bauer , German writer
- 1916: William Alonzo Anderson , American jazz trumpeter
- 1916: Tony Bettenhausen , American racing driver
- 1916: Mary Stewart , English writer
- 1917: Jürgen Seydel , German karateka
- 1917: Han Suyin , Chinese doctor and English-speaking author
- 1918: Jacques Moreau , Belgian ancient historian
- 1919: Jean Prouff , French football player
- 1920: Lore Lorentz , German cabaret artist
- 1921: Stanisław Lem , Polish philosopher, essayist and science fiction writer
- 1921: Wilhelm Totok , German librarian
- 1922: Ursula Benedix , German politician
- 1923: John Chambers , American makeup artist
- 1924: Amílcar Cabral , Cape Verdean politician and independence fighter
- 1924: Jester Naefe , German film actress
- 1924: Johnny T. Talley , American country and rockabilly musician
- 1925: Dickie Moore , American child star
1926-1950
- 1926: Ellen Callmann , American art historian
- 1926: Gaby von Schönthan , Austrian actress and writer
- 1926: Frans Ludo Verbeeck , Belgian composer and conductor
- 1927: Giselbert Hoke , Austrian artist
- 1929: Roberto Angleró , Puerto Rican salsa composer, singer and band leader
- 1929: Alfons Meindl , German entrepreneur
- 1930: Larry Austin , American composer, conductor and musicologist
- 1930: Gunder Gundersen , Norwegian Nordic combined
- 1930: Klaus Siebold , German politician, Minister for Coal and Energy of the GDR
- 1930: Piotr Skrzynecki , Polish cabaret artist
- 1930: Akira Suzuki , Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1931: Ian Holm , British actor
- 1931: Herbert Knauer , German chemist and entrepreneur
- 1931: George Jones , American singer
- 1931: Adrian Rogers , American cult leader
- 1932: Atli Pætursson Dam , Faroese politician
- 1932: Werner Dürrson , German writer
- 1933: Jewel Akens , American singer
- 1934: Tesfamariam Bedho , Eritrean bishop
- 1934: Glenn Davis , American athlete
- 1935: Geraldo Vandré , Brazilian singer, guitarist and composer
- 1936: Dieter Dost , German actor
- 1936: Wiesław Glos , Polish fencer
- 1937: Gus Backus , American musician and pop singer
- 1937: George Chuvalo , Canadian heavyweight boxer
- 1937: Wayne Cogswell , American rock 'n' roll musician and songwriter
- 1937: Henri Lopès , Congolese writer, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo
- 1938: KP Brehmer , German painter, graphic artist and filmmaker
- 1938: Anne Helm , actress
- 1938: Ludwig Mödl , German theologian
- 1939: Joachim Kemmer , German actor, cabaret artist and voice actor
- 1939: Horst Mehrländer , German politician, State Secretary in the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economics
- 1939: Henry Waxman , American politician
- 1940: Joachim Frank , German-American biophysicist
- 1940: Linda Gray , American actress
- 1940: Anton Regh , German football player
- 1940: Wayne McLaren , American model
- 1941: Klaus van Ackern , German anesthetist
- 1941: Gunnar Hoydal , Faroese writer and architect
- 1941: Çetin İnanç , Turkish film director and film producer
- 1941: Hans-Karsten Raecke , German composer
- 1941: Günter Rexrodt , German politician, Federal Minister of Economics
- 1941: Ernst-Detlef Schulze , German plant ecology and head of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
- 1942: Carola von Braun , German politician
- 1942: Mario Frustalupi , Italian football player
- 1942: Jytte Hilden , Danish politician
- 1942: Delme Thomas , Welsh rugby player
- 1943: Kurt Demmler , German songwriter
- 1943: Otfried Höffe , German philosopher
- 1943: Hiroaki Kuwahara , Japanese composer
- 1943: François Marthouret , French actor
- 1943: Maria Muldaur , American folk, country, jazz and blues singer
- 1943: Ralph Neely , American football player
- 1943: Michael Ondaatje , Canadian writer
- 1944: Eddie Keizan , South African racing car driver
- 1944: Winfried Nöth , German semiotic
- 1944: Leonard Peltier , Indian freedom fighter
- 1944: Rolf Schnellecke , Lord Mayor of Wolfsburg
- 1944: Vladimir Fyodorowitsch Spiwakow , Russian violinist and conductor
- 1944: Barry White , American soul singer and producer
- 1945: Maria Penelope Katharine Aitken , Irish film actress and screenwriter
- 1945: Norbert Berger , German singer ( Cindy and Bert )
- 1945: David Garrick , British opera and pop singer
- 1945: Milo Manara , Italian comic artist
- 1945: Richard Thaler , American economist
- 1946: Siegfried Augustin , Austrian engineer
- 1946: Reinhard Lauck , German soccer player
- 1947: Jacques-Édouard Alexis , Prime Minister of Haiti
- 1947: Peter Kutemann , Dutch entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1947: Jean-Claude Lagniez , French racing car driver and racing team owner
- 1948: Enikő Buzási , Hungarian art historian
- 1948: Ulrich Leykam , German musician
- 1948: Willi Maier , German obstacle and long distance runner
- 1948: Jean-Louis Schlesser , French rally driver
- 1948: Steve Turré , American jazz musician
- 1949: Charles Burlingame , American pilot
- 1949: Irina Konstantinovna Rodnina , Russian figure skater
- 1950: Robert J. Hodrick , American economist
1951-1975
- 1951: Bertie Ahern , Irish scientist and politician, Prime Minister
- 1951: Barbara Angelsberger , Swiss politician
- 1951: Joe Pantoliano , American actor
- 1951: Gerald Stano , American serial killer
- 1951: Joëlle Léandre , French jazz double bass player
- 1952: Andre Gingrich , Austrian ethnologist
- 1952: Neil Peart , Canadian musician ( Rush )
- 1952: Selimkhan Jandarbijew , Acting President of Chechnya
- 1953: Bernt Ivar Eidsvig , Norwegian theologian, Catholic bishop of Oslo
- 1953: Nan Goldin , American photographer
- 1953: Ramesh Patel , New Zealand hockey player
- 1953: Terry Porter , American cross-country skier
- 1954: Robert Gober , American artist
- 1954: Scott Hamilton , American jazz tenor saxophonist
- 1955: Peter Scolari , American actor
- 1956: Jeffrey Kahane , American pianist, harpsichordist, conductor and music teacher
- 1956: Dieter Schwabe , German soccer player
- 1956: Leslie Cheung , Chinese actor
- 1956: Sam Brownback , American politician
- 1957: Dorothee Dzwonnek , German administrative lawyer, general secretary of the German Research Foundation
- 1957: Michael McMahon , American politician
- 1957: Rachel Ward , British-Australian film actress
- 1957: Hans Zimmer , German composer
- 1957: Ferdinand Gamper , Italian serial killer
- 1958: Kim Fupz Aakeson , Danish writer, illustrator, comic book writer and screenwriter
- 1958: Alexander Schirow , Russian ski racer
- 1958: Franco Amurri , Italian film director
- 1958: Peter Becker , German biochemist and molecular biologist
- 1958: Wilfred Benitez , Puerto Rican boxer
- 1959: Scott Brown , American politician
- 1959: Ben Chandler , American politician
- 1959: Deron Cherry , American football player
- 1959: Sigmar Gabriel , German politician, Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, SPD party chairman, Vice Chancellor, multiple Federal Minister
- 1960: Uwe Ackermann , German athlete
- 1960: Marie-Agnès Annequin-Plantagenet , French soccer player
- 1960: Robert John Burke , American actor
- 1960: Frank Wormuth , German soccer player and trainer
- 1961: Mylène Farmer , French-Canadian pop singer
- 1962: Mary Kay Adams , American film and stage actress
- 1962: Juan Atkins , American techno musician and producer
- 1962: Dino Merlin , Bosnian singer and producer
- 1962: Michel Qissi , American actor
- 1962: Amy Yasbeck , American film actress
- 1963: Michael Anderheiden , German constitutional law teacher
- 1963: Markus Paßlick , German musician and author
- 1964: Greg Gutfeld , American journalist, television presenter and satirist
- 1964: Dieter Hecking , German soccer player and coach
- 1965: Silke Hörner , German swimmer
- 1965: Oliver Kalkofe , German comedian, columnist and actor
- 1965: Gerald Näscher , Liechtenstein ski racer and freestyle skier
- 1965: Susanne-Marie Wrage , German actress and director
- 1966: Anousheh Ansari , US-Iranian multimillionaire, first female space tourist
- 1966: Ben Folds , American singer and pianist
- 1966: Ralf Bauer , German actor and presenter
- 1966: Antoni Bernadó , Andorran long-distance runner
- 1966: Luigi Giorgio , Italian racing car driver
- 1967: Bart Schouten , Dutch speed skating trainer
- 1967: Mirko Slomka , German soccer player and coach
- 1968: Al Barr , American rock musician ( Dropkick Murphys )
- 1968: Ler LaLonde , American musician
- 1968: Nicholas Russell, 6th Earl Russell , British peer and politician
- 1969: James Frey , American writer
- 1969: Mika Myllylä , Finnish cross-country skier
- 1969: Shigeki Maruyama , Japanese golfer
- 1971: Chandra Sturrup , Bahamian athlete, Olympic champion
- 1971: Oskar Camenzind , Swiss cyclist
- 1971: Younes El Aynaoui , Moroccan tennis player
- 1971: Aya Yoshida , Japanese organist and church musician
- 1972: Anders Aukland , Norwegian cross-country skier
- 1973: Dirk Ahner , German screenwriter
- 1973: Darren Campbell , British athlete
- 1973: Martina Ertl-Renz , German ski racer
- 1973: Paul Walker , American actor
- 1973: Zhao Hongbo , Chinese figure skater
- 1974: Emebet Abossa , Ethiopian marathon runner
- 1974: Nuno Valente , Portuguese football player
- 1975: Evanilson , Brazilian soccer player
- 1975: Luis Castillo , Dominican baseball player
1976-2000
- 1976: Graziella De Santis , German actress
- 1976: Gérard Calvet , Andorran football player
- 1976: Jolanda Čeplak , Slovenian athlete
- 1976: Bizzy Bone , American rapper
- 1976: Maciej Żurawski , Polish football player
- 1976: Coa Schwab , American composer and oboist
- 1977: 2 Chainz , American rapper
- 1978: Elisabetta Canalis , Italian model and actress
- 1978: Lukáš Došek , Czech football player
- 1978: Felix Hellmann , German actor
- 1978: Benjamin McKenzie , American actor
- 1978: Sebastián Porto , Argentine motorcycle racer
- 1978: Ruben Studdard , American R&B singer
- 1979: Matthias Dollinger , Austrian soccer player
- 1979: Florian Schroeder , German cabaret artist
- 1980: Josef Vašíček , Czech ice hockey player
- 1980: Roda Antar , Lebanese soccer player
- 1980: Yao Ming , Chinese basketball player
- 1980: Christina Zerbe , German soccer player
- 1981: Dirk Reichl , German cyclist
- 1981: Marijan Buljat , Croatian football player
- 1981: Ada Dorian , German writer
- 1981: Jennifer Hudson , American singer and actress
- 1982: Matthias Müller , Swiss orienteer
- 1983: Tom Geissler , German soccer player
- 1984: Nasch'at Akram , Iraqi soccer player
- 1984: Martin Anthamatten , Swiss ski mountaineer
- 1984: Petra Marklund , Swedish singer
- 1984: Adam Sharpe , British racing car driver
- 1985: Jamie Cope , English professional snooker player
- 1985: Champian Fulton , American jazz singer and pianist
- 1985: Sascha Klein , German water diver
- 1985: Domenico Tedesco , German-Italian soccer coach
- 1986: Emmy Rossum , American singer and actress
- 1986: Shannon Chandler , American actress
- 1987: Kelvin Snoeks , Dutch racing driver
- 1988: Henning Quade , German handball player
- 1990: Yūji Kunimoto , Japanese racing driver
- 1990: Holly Lam-Moores , British handball player
- 1991: Thomas Meunier , Belgian football player
- 1991: Kevin Rodrigues Pires , German-Portuguese soccer player
- 1992: Ole Schemion , German poker player
- 1992: Johannes Strolz , Austrian ski racer
- 1993: Kelsea Ballerini , American country singer
- 1993: Jakob Busk , Danish football player
- 1994: Mhairi Black , Scottish politician
- 1994: Simone Consonni , Italian racing cyclist
- 1994: Gideon Jung , German soccer player
- 1994: RM , South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, composer and producer
- 1994: Elina Switolina , Ukrainian tennis player
- 1995: Leonie Tepe , German actress
- 1996: Colin Ford , American actor
- 1998: Johannes Hallervorden , German actor
- 1999: Nele Trebs , German actress
Died
Before the 17th century
- Maximin von Trier , Bishop of Trier 346:
- Gerfried , Bishop of Münster 839:
- Wiching , first bishop of Mitra, later bishop of Passau 912:
- 1012: Guido von Anderlecht , Flemish sexton and pilgrim; catholic saint
- 1015: Lambert I , Count of Löwen
- 1185: Andronikos I , Byzantine emperor
- 1213: Peter II , King of Aragon
- 1229: William II , Vice Count of Béarn
- 1234: Heinrich II of Saarbrücken , Bishop of Worms
- 1258: Tesauro dei Beccheria , Italian nobleman, Abbot General of the Vallombrosans
- 1263: Mindaugas , Grand Duke and King of Lithuania
- 1306: Heinrich II. Von Klingenberg , Bishop of Constance
- 1362: Innocent VI. , Pope
- 1368: Blanche of Lancaster , Duchess of Lancaster
- 1414: Friedrich von Perneck , Bishop of Seckau
- 1416: Wenzel Gerard von Burenitz , Patriarch of Antioch
- 1427: Bertold von Bückelsburg , Bishop of Brixen
- 1500: Albrecht III, the brave , Duke of Saxony
- 1541: Peter Breuer , Saxon sculptor and picture carver
17th and 18th centuries
- 1601: Meletios I Pegas , Patriarch of Alexandria
- 1602: Andreas von Rauchbar , German legal scholar
- 1612: Vasily IV , Russian tsar from 1606 to 1610
- 1634: Johann Philipp Abelin , German chronicler and translator
- 1642: Henri Coiffier de Ruzé , Marquis de Cinq-Mars, French courtier
- 1651: William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton , Scottish nobleman
- 1652: Franz Ico von Frydag , German officer and diplomat
- 1652: Johann von Werth , equestrian general in the Thirty Years' War
- 1657: Anton Köhler , mayor of Lübeck
- 1660: Jacob Cats , Dutch poet and politician
- 1674: Nicolaes Tulp , Dutch surgeon
- 1680: Per Brahe the Younger , Swedish statesman
- 1680: Martin Geier , German Lutheran theologian
- 1683: Alfonso VI. , King of Portugal
- 1684: Johann Rosenmüller , German composer
- 1690: Philipp Wilhelm , Duke of Pfalz-Neuburg and Jülich-Berg, Elector of the Palatinate
- 1706: Eugenio Casparini , German organ builder
- 1725: Martin Chladni , Hungarian Lutheran theologian
- 1732: Jean Philippe Eugène de Merode-Westerloo , German imperial count and officer
- 1736: David Oppenheimer , chief rabbi of Prague, regional rabbi of Moravia and Bohemia and Jewish scribe
- 1739: Cesare Antonio Canavese , Italian sculptor and plasterer
- 1739: Ernst Ludwig , Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
- 1739: Reinhard Keizer , German composer and opera producer
- 1744: Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Schwedt , Prussian officer
- 1758: Melchior Buchner , German painter and plasterer
- 1759: Karl Anton August , Prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- 1761: Andreas Florens Rivinus , German legal scholar
- 1763: Johann Joseph Couven , German architect and builder of the Baroque
- 1764: Jean-Philippe Rameau , French composer and theorist
- 1765: Johannes Ernst , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1787: Johann Daniel Busch , German organ builder
19th century
- 1819: Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher , Prussian field marshal
- 1829: Juan Ignacio Molina , Chilean priest and naturalist
- 1831: Jippensha Ikku , Japanese writer
- 1836: Christian Dietrich Grabbe , German playwright
- 1839: Paul Julius Arter , Swiss draftsman and etcher
- 1853: Carl Barth , German draftsman and engraver
- 1855: Johann von Charpentier , German-Swiss geologist and glacier researcher
- 1856: August Emil Braun , German archaeologist
- 1860: William Walker , American mercenary and adventurer
- 1869: Peter Mark Roget , English doctor and lexicographer
- 1870: Carl August von Steinheil , German physicist, astronomer, optician and entrepreneur
- 1876: Count Alexander von Auersperg , better known as Anastasius Grün , Austrian poet and politician
- 1877: Julius Rietz , German conductor, composition teacher and composer
- 1880: Bushrod Rust Johnson , US Army officer, Major General in the Confederate Army
- 1889: Fustel de Coulanges , French historian
- 1897: Alix Fournier , French composer
- 1897: Paul Yorck von Wartenburg , German lawyer and philosopher
20th century
1901-1950
- 1902: Charles B. Andrews , American politician
- 1912: Cardinal Pierre-Hector Coullié , French clergyman, Archbishop of Lyon
- 1914: Salomon Haberland , German entrepreneur
- 1917: Désiré André , French mathematician
- 1918: George Reid , Australian politician
- 1919: Leonid Nikolajewitsch Andrejew , Russian writer
- 1920: Albert Trautmann , German pharmacist, local researcher and writer
- 1921: Caesar Antoine , American politician
- 1921: Carlo Maffeis , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1927: Walter Amelung , German classical archaeologist
- 1929: Rainis , Latvian poet, playwright, editor and politician
- 1931: Lili Elbe , Danish painter
- 1936: Hermann Hirt , German Indo-Europeanist
- 1944: Georg Agde , German chemist
- 1945: Maximilian von der Asseburg-Neindorf , German manor owner, administrative officer and parliamentarian
- 1949: Walter Buch , German officer, politician and party official
1951-1975
- 1953: James Hamilton , British nobleman and politician
- 1953: Hugo Schmeisser , German weapons designer
- 1955: Frank Stokes , American blues guitarist
- 1956: Hermann Ammann , German linguist
- 1956: Hans Carossa , German poet and author
- 1957: Marie Arning , German politician
- 1958: Marcus Behmer , German type and book artist, illustrator, graphic artist and painter
- 1959: Hans Bernoulli , Swiss architect
- 1959: William C. Stadie , American medic
- 1960: Curt Goetz , German writer and actor
- 1961: Carl Hermann , German professor for crystallography
- 1961: Arthur Welti , Swiss radio pioneer
- 1965: Matthias Pier , German chemist
- 1966: Heinrich Stuhlfauth , German soccer player
- 1969: Robert Geritzmann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Lord Mayor
- 1969: Hilger van Scherpenberg , State Secretary in the Foreign Office
- 1971: Klaus Reisch , Austrian racing car driver
- 1973: Gaston Mottet , French racing car driver
- 1973: Otto Nebel , German painter, poet and actor
- 1973: Johan Dankmeijer , Dutch anatomist
- 1975: Joe Alexander , American doctor, American football player and coach
- 1975: Gösta Andersson , Swedish wrestler
1976-2000
- 1977: Steve Biko , South African founder of the Black Consciousness movement
- 1977: Robert Lowell , American writer
- 1978: OE Hasse , German actor, director and voice actor
- 1979: Agop Dilâçar , Turkish professor and Turkologist
- 1979: Jocelyne LaGarde , French Polynesian actress
- 1979: Josef Müller , German lawyer and politician, resistance fighter against National Socialism, MdL, state minister
- 1980: Magdalena Aebi , Swiss philosopher
- 1981: Eugenio Montale , Italian writer, Nobel Prize winner
- 1982: Arthur Jores , German medic
- 1982: Franz Grothe , German composer
- 1983: Willy Fleckhaus , German designer and journalist
- 1984: Lola Anglada , Spanish writer, illustrator and cartoonist
- 1985: Lajzer Ajchenrand , Polish poet
- 1985: Fred Strittmatter , German-Swiss film music composer
- 1986: Ernst Haas , Austrian-American photographer
- 1986: Charlotte Wolff , German-British writer
- 1987: Joseph Lawton Collins , American general
- 1989: Hugo Brandt , German politician, MdB, MdL
- 1990: Johannes Ernst Köhler , German organist, cantor and university professor
- 1992: Anthony Perkins , American actor ( Psycho )
- 1993: Raymond Burr , American actor
- 1993: Willie Mosconi , American pool player
- 1993: Werner Niefer , German industrial manager, Mercedes boss in the Daimler-Benz group
- 1994: Walter Aichinger , Austrian politician
- 1995: Jeremy Brett , British actor ( Sherlock Holmes )
- 1995: Malvin Russell Goode , first African American television journalist and news correspondent for the American Broadcasting Company
- 1995: Yasutomo Nagai , Japanese motorcycle racer
- 1996: Eleazar de Carvalho , Brazilian composer and conductor
- 1996: Ernesto Geisel , Brazilian military, President
- 1996: Richard Barrer , New Zealand chemist
- 1997: Stikkan Anderson , Swedish songwriter
- 1998: Kurt Wölfflin , Austrian writer
- 1998: Motoharu Yoshizawa , Japanese jazz bassist
- 1999: Alfred Leo Abramowicz , American bishop
- 2000: Konrad Kujau , German forger ( Hitler diaries )
21st century
- 2001: Horst Sannemüller , German violinist and concert master
- 2001: Rudolf Pörtner , German writer and historian
- 2002: Ludwig Koch , German trade unionist
- 2003: Johnny Cash , American country singer
- 2003: Ray Merrick , British racing car driver
- 2004: Max Abramovitz , American architect
- 2004: Ahmed Dini Ahmed , Djiboutian politician
- 2004: Erich Mirek , German actor
- 2004: Jack Turner , American racing car driver
- 2005: Helmut Baierl , German writer
- 2005: Ronald Leigh-Hunt , British actor
- 2005: Fritz Schilgen , German athlete
- 2006: Thilo Koch , German television journalist
- 2007: Gerlind Ahnert , German presenter, actress and voice actress
- 2008: David Foster Wallace , American writer
- 2009: Willy Ronis , French photographer
- 2009: Norman Ernest Borlaug , American agronomist, Nobel Prize winner
- 2009: Martin E. Süskind , German journalist and author
- 2010: Charles Ansbacher , American conductor
- 2010: Claude Chabrol , French film director
- 2010: Siegfried Dohr , Austrian trade unionist
- 2011: Alexander Saidgerejewitsch Galimow , Russian ice hockey player
- 2012: Jimmy Andrews , Scottish soccer player
- 2012: Sid Watkins , British neurosurgeon, longtime Formula 1 racing doctor for the FIA
- 2013: Ray Dolby , American inventor
- 2013: Erich Loest , German writer
- 2013: Otto Sander , German actor
- 2014: Ian Paisley , Northern Irish politician
- 2014: Joe Sample , American jazz musician
- 2014: Herbert Vorgrimler , German Catholic theologian
- 2018: Rachid Taha , Algerian singer and musician
- 2019: Helmut Castritius , German ancient historian
- 2020: Sepp Neumayr , Austrian composer
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Matthäus Ulicky , Bohemian deacon and martyr (Protestant)
- St. Guido von Anderlecht , Belgian merchant, sexton and pilgrim (Catholic)
- Name of mary (catholic)
- Name days
- Action days
- Day of the ecological-social market economy
- Memorial days
- Programmer's day in leap years
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
Commons : September 12th - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tennis: Kerber is the new world number one - and US Open finalist. In: Spiegel Online . September 9, 2016, accessed January 2, 2017 .