What happened on September 4 ?

799 - Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (b. 745)

1037 - King Bermudo III of Leon (b. 1010)

1063 - Toghrül, Turkish conqueror of Persia and Baghdad

1199 - Joan of England, Queen consort of Sicily, wife of William II of Sicily (b. 1165)

1537 - Johann Dietenberger, German theologian

1588 - Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1532)

1767 - Charles Townshend, English politician (b. 1725)

1780 - John Fielding, English magistrate and social reformer (b. 1721)

1784 - César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (b. 1714)

1794 - John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (b. 1724)

1804 - Richard Somers, American naval officer

1852 - William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796)

1864 - John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader (b. 1825)

1907 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)

1909 - Clyde Fitch, American dramatist and playwright (b. 1865)

1916 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)

1965 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician and missionary, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1875)

1974 - Marcel Achard, French playwright (b. 1899)

1977 - E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (b. 1911)

1986 - Hank Greenberg, baseball player (b. 1911)

1987 - Bill Bowes, English cricketer (b. 1908)

1989 - Georges Simenon, French author (b. 1903)

1989 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian (b. 1903)

1991 - Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist (b. 1926)

1991 - Dottie West, American singer (b. 1932)

1993 - Hervé Villechaize, French actor (b. 1943)

1995 - William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (b. 1919)

1997 - Aldo Rossi, Italian architect (b. 1931)

2001 - Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, American radio personality (b. 1962)

2003 - Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (b. 1921)

2003 - Lola Bobesco, Romanian-Belgian violinist (b. 1921)

2004 - Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (b. 1971)

2004 - Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (b. 1929)

2004 - James O. Page, American paramedic (b. 1936)

Roman festivals - start of the Ludi Romani a.k.a. Ludi Magni, until 19 September.

RC Saints - Saint Rosalia, Saint Rose of Viterbo

Also see September 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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