Today in History
4 September
240 births · 108 deaths · 52 events recorded
Notable Births
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Talitha Bateman
b. 2001
American actress
Sergio Gómez (footballer, born 2000)
b. 2000
Spanish footballer
Neru Nagahama
b. 1998
Japanese television personality, telesvion presenter, and actress
Ashton Golding
b. 1996
Jamaica international rugby league footballer
Jordan Lilley
b. 1996
English rugby league footballer
Jazz Tevaga
b. 1995
Samoa international rugby league footballer
Kenny McEvoy
b. 1994
Irish footballer
Edward Dmytryk
b. 1908
American film director (1908–1999)
Notable Deaths
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Giorgio Armani
d. 2025
Italian fashion designer (1934–2025)
Katharine, Duchess of Kent
d. 2025
Member of the British royal family (1933–2025)
Bora Đorđević
d. 2024
Serbian singer-songwriter and frontman of Riblja Čorba (1952–2024)
Steve Harwell
d. 2023
American musician (1967–2023)
Cyrus Mistry
d. 2022
Irish businessman (1968–2022)
Peter Straub
d. 2022
American novelist and poet (1943–2022)
John Hunt Morgan
d. 1864
Confederate Army general of the American Civil War (1825–1864)
Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox
d. 1571
Scottish nobleman and politician (1516–1571)
On This Day in History
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2024
A 14-year-old gunman kills four people and injures seven in a mass shooting at Apalachee High School near Winder, Georgia.
2024 Apalachee High School shooting
2022
Ten people are killed and 15 are injured in a stabbing spree in 13 locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon, Saskatchewan.
2022 Saskatchewan stabbings
2020
Pope Benedict XVI becomes the longest-lived pope, 93 years, four months, 16 days, surpassing Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903.
Pope Benedict XVI
2007
Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.
Al-Qaeda
2002
The Oakland Athletics win their 20th consecutive game, an American League record, until the Cleveland Indians surpassed it in 2017.
Oakland Athletics
2001
Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
Tokyo DisneySea
1998
Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two PhD students at Stanford University.
1995
The 1995 Okinawa rape occurred, when 3 US servicemen abducted and raped a schoolchild. This would cause widespread protest against the US military presence on the prefecture.
1995 Okinawa rape incident