What happened on September 1 ?

921 - Richard, Duke of Burgundy

1067 - Baldwin V of Flanders

1159 - Pope Adrian IV

1256 - Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)

1414 - William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369)

1557 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491)

1574 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)

1581 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)

1600 - Tadeá? Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (b. 1525)

1615 - ÿtienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters (b. 1529)

1648 - Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (b. 1588)

1685 - Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer and diplomat (b. 1625)

1687 - Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)

1715 - François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)

1715 - King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)

1943 - Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief

1957 - Dennis Brain, English French horn player (b. 1921)

1967 - Siegfried Sassoon, English poet and author (b. 1886)

1969 - Drew Pearson, American newspaper columnist (b. 1897)

1970 - Francois Mauriac, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)

1977 - Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (b. 1896)

1981 - Albert Speer, Nazi official (b. 1905)

1982 - Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b. 1900)

1983 - Henry M. Jackson, U.S. Senator from Washington (b. 1912)

1985 - Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)

1988 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)

1989 - A. Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commissioner (b. 1938)

1989 - Tadeusz Sendzimir, a Polish-American inventor and engineer (b. 1894)

1999 - W. Richard Stevens, Author of Unix Network Programming and several books and IETF RFC documents (b. 1951)

2003 - Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915)

2004 - Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)

2005 - R.L. Burnside, American musician (b. 1926)