4 September
Notable Births
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
Thomas Minns
b. 1994
English rugby league footballer
Sabina Sharipova
b. 1994
Uzbekistani tennis player
Emma Brownlie
b. 1993
Scottish footballer (born 1993)
Yannick Carrasco
b. 1993
Belgian footballer (born 1993)
Jody Fannin
b. 1993
British auto racing driver
Chantal Škamlová
b. 1993
Slovak tennis player
Mark Tuan
b. 1993
American rapper (born 1993)
Kevin Lee
b. 1992
American mixed martial artist (born 1992)
Hanna Schwamborn
b. 1992
German actress (born 1992)
Zerkaa
b. 1992
British YouTuber (born 1992)
Adrien Bart
b. 1991
French canoeist (born 1991)
Anders Zachariassen
b. 1991
Danish handball player (born 1991)
Edward Dmytryk
b. 1908
American film director (1908–1999)
Notable Deaths
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)
Tunch Ilkin
d. 2021
Turkish-American gridiron football player and sports broadcaster (1957–2021)
Willard Scott
d. 2021
American weather presenter and television personality (1934–2021)
Lloyd Cadena
d. 2020
Filipino YouTuber (1993–2020)
Bill Daily
d. 2018
American actor and comedian (1927–2018)
Jean Darling
d. 2015
American child actress and writer (1922–2015)
Wilfred de Souza
d. 2015
Indian politician (1927–2015)
Gustavo Cerati
d. 2014
Argentine musician (1959–2014)
Wolfhart Pannenberg
d. 2014
German Lutheran theologian (1928–2014)
Joan Rivers
d. 2014
American entertainer (1933–2014)
Dick Raaijmakers
d. 2013
Dutch composer
Avraham Avigdorov
d. 2012
Israeli soldier
Syed Mustafa Siraj
d. 2012
Indian writer (1930–2012)
Lee Roy Selmon
d. 2011
American football player (1954–2011)
John Hunt Morgan
d. 1864
Confederate Army general of the American Civil War (1825–1864)
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
1989
In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of weekly demonstration for the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms takes place.
Leipzig
1985
The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
Buckminsterfullerene
1977
The Golden Dragon massacre takes place in San Francisco.
Golden Dragon massacre
1975
The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict is signed.
Sinai Interim Agreement
1972
Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
Mark Spitz
1972
The Price Is Right premieres on CBS. It currently is the longest running game show on American television.
The Price Is Right
1971
Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
Alaska Airlines Flight 1866
1970
Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
Salvador Allende
1967
Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
Vietnam War
1964
Scotland's Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens.
Forth Road Bridge
1963
Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board.
Swissair Flight 306
1957
American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: The governor of Arkansas calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Little Rock Central High School, resulting in the lawsuit Cooper v. Aaron the following year.
Civil rights movement