On this day: September 8

Events on September 8

• 14 The funeral of Augustus takes place. His body is cremated and placed in his mausoleum. Wikipedia
• 70 After the capture of Herod's Palace the previous day, a Roman army under Titus secures and plunders the city of Jerusalem. Wikipedia
• 1566 Ottoman–Habsburg wars: Ottoman forces led by Suleiman the Magnificent captured the fortress of Szigetvár in Hungary, but were forced to end their campaign to take Vienna. Wikipedia
• 1655 Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge, making it the first time the city is captured by a foreign army. Wikipedia
• 1726 J. S. Bach led the first performance of Geist und Seele wird verwirret, a solo cantata for alto voice. Wikipedia
• 1726 J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35, a solo cantata for alto voice. Wikipedia
• 1796 French Revolutionary Wars: Led by Napoleon, French forces defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Bassano in Veneto, Italy. Wikipedia
• 1796 French Revolutionary Wars: The French defeated Austrian forces in Bassano, Venetia, Italy. Wikipedia
• 1831 The Russian Empire suppressed the November Uprising in Poland with the capture of Warsaw after a two-day assault. Wikipedia
• 1863 American Civil War: In the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas. Wikipedia
• 1888 The Great Herding (Spanish: El Gran Arreo) begins with thousands of sheep being herded from the Argentine outpost of Fortín Conesa to Santa Cruz near the Strait of Magellan. Wikipedia
• 1914 World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war. Wikipedia
• 1941 World War II: German forces begin the Siege of Leningrad. Wikipedia
• 1954 Eight nations signed a collective-defense treaty in Manila to create the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (flag pictured), modelled on NATO. Wikipedia
• 1960 In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1). Wikipedia
• 1966 Queen Elizabeth II opened the Severn Bridge, suggesting that it marked the dawn of a new economic era for South Wales. Wikipedia
• 1966 Queen Elizabeth II opened the Severn Bridge, linking South Gloucestershire in England and Monmouthshire in Wales. Wikipedia
• 1970 Trans International Airlines Flight 863 crashes during takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, killing all 11 aboard. Wikipedia
• 1974 Watergate scandal: U.S. president Gerald Ford gave his recently resigned predecessor Richard Nixon a controversial full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he committed while in office. Wikipedia
• 1986 Nicholas Daniloff, a correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, is indicted on charges of espionage by the Soviet Union. Wikipedia
• 1991 At the Tailhook Association symposium in Las Vegas, U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aviators were alleged to have sexually assaulted 90 persons. Wikipedia
• 2017 Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announce the beginning of the Deir ez-Zor campaign, with the stated aim of eliminating the Islamic State (IS) from all areas north and east of the Euphrates. Wikipedia
• 2022 Queen Elizabeth II died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland; her eldest son Charles III acceded to the throne as King of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms. Wikipedia
• 2022 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom dies at Balmoral Castle in Scotland after reigning for 70 years. Her son Charles, Prince of Wales, ascends the throne upon her death as Charles III. Wikipedia
• 2023 The 2023 Rugby World Cup, the tenth men's Rugby World Cup is held in France. The opening ceremony, directed and written by Jean Dujardin, Olivier Ferracci and Nora Matthey, took place at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, before the opening match between France and New Zealand, which saw the host nation winning 27 to 13. Wikipedia
• 2025 Balçova police station shooting: Four people, including the perpetrator are killed an attack on a police station in Turkey. Wikipedia

Born on September 8

• 828 Ali al-Hadi, Hijazi (Western Arabian), 10th of the Twelve Imams (died 868) Wikipedia
• 1157 Richard I of England (died 1199) Wikipedia
• 1474 Ludovico Ariosto, Italian playwright and poet (died 1533) Wikipedia
• 1767 August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet and critic (died 1845) Wikipedia
• 1779 Mustafa IV, Ottoman sultan (died 1808) Wikipedia
• 1830 Frédéric Mistral, French poet and lexicographer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1914) Wikipedia
• 1841 Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer and academic (died 1904) Wikipedia
• 1841 Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of president James A. Garfield (died 1882) Wikipedia
• 1857 Georg Michaelis, German academic and politician, 6th Chancellor of Germany (died 1936) Wikipedia
• 1887 Sivananda Saraswati, Hindu monk, spiritual leader, physician, proponent of Vedanta, etc. (died 1963) Wikipedia
• 1918 Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1998) Wikipedia
• 1925 Peter Sellers, English actor and comedian (died 1980) Wikipedia
• 1933 Asha Bhosle, Indian playback singer, businesswoman, actress and television personality (died 2026) Wikipedia
• 1937 Edna Adan Ismail, Somaliland politician and activist Wikipedia
• 1941 Bernie Sanders, American politician Wikipedia
• 1946 Aziz Sancar, Turkish-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Wikipedia
• 1971 Martin Freeman, English actor Wikipedia
• 1979 Pink, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress Wikipedia
• 1986 João Moutinho, Portuguese footballer Wikipedia
• 1987 Wiz Khalifa, American rapper and actor Wikipedia
• 1989 Avicii, Swedish electronic musician (died 2018) Wikipedia
• 1994 Bruno Fernandes, Portuguese footballer Wikipedia

Died on September 8

• 701 Pope Sergius I (born 650) Wikipedia
• 1613 Carlo Gesualdo, Italian lute player and composer (born 1566) Wikipedia
• 1645 Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish poet and politician (born 1580) Wikipedia
• 1894 Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (born 1821) Wikipedia
• 1895 Adam Opel, German entrepreneur, founded Opel (born 1837) Wikipedia
• 1949 Richard Strauss, German composer and manager (born 1864) Wikipedia
• 1965 Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881) Wikipedia
• 1970 Percy Spencer, American engineer, invented the microwave oven (born 1894) Wikipedia
• 1980 Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908) Wikipedia
• 1981 Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1907) Wikipedia
• 1985 John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887) Wikipedia
• 2003 Leni Riefenstahl, German actress, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1902) Wikipedia
• 2009 Aage Bohr, Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922) Wikipedia
• 2022 Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms (born 1926) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day: Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia (Roman Catholic Church) Wikipedia
• Christian Feast Day: Corbinian Wikipedia
• Christian Feast Day: Disibod Wikipedia
• Christian Feast Day: Blessed Frédéric Ozanam Wikipedia
• Christian Feast Day: Isaac of Armenia Wikipedia
• Christian Feast Day: Nativity of Mary (Roman Catholic Church), (Anglo-Catholicism) Monti Fest (Mangalorean Catholic) Wikipedia
• Christian Feast Day: Our Lady of Charity Wikipedia
• Christian Feast Day: Our Lady of Covadonga (national holiday in Asturias) Wikipedia
• Christian Feast Day: Our Lady of Good Health of Vailankanni Wikipedia
• Christian Feast Day: Pope Sergius I Wikipedia
• Christian Feast Day: September 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
• Christian Feast Day: Feast Day of Our Lady of Meritxell (national holiday in Andorra) Wikipedia
• Accession Day (United Kingdom and the Commonwealth realms) (during the reign of Charles III) Wikipedia
• Independence Day (North Macedonia) Wikipedia
• International Literacy Day (International) Wikipedia
• Martyrs' Day (Afghanistan) (date may fall on September 9, follows a non-Gregorian calendar) Wikipedia
• National Day (Andorra), also the feast of Our Lady of Meritxell Wikipedia
• National Day (Asturias), also the feast of Our Lady of Covadonga Wikipedia
• National Day (Extremadura), also the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe Wikipedia
• Star Trek Day (International observance) Wikipedia
• Victory Day (Pakistan) Wikipedia
• Victory Day, also the feast of Our Lady of Victories or il-Vittorja (Malta) Wikipedia
• World Physical Therapy Day Wikipedia

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “September 8” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-09 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. We picked the 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths with the widest coverage across Wikipedia's language editions (counted from Wikidata) and sorted them by year; the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures.