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Quantum Oddity: Physicists Crack 15-Year-Old, 5-Atom Puzzle

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Physics Atomic Electrons Art ConceptA new calculation shows how five atoms interact in the Efimov effect. It marks a major leap in quantum physics. Matter behaves weirdly at the quantum scale, one of the strangest examples being the Efimov effect. In this state, three or more atoms can bind together through attractive forces even when excited to higher energy […]



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Webb Telescope Spots a “Blob” Near a Star, but Is It a Planet?

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Artist’s Depiction of the Epsilon Eridani System
Artist’s depiction of the Epsilon Eridani system, including the elusive planet Epsilon Eridani b. Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook

JWST placed new limits on planets around Epsilon Eridani and demonstrated an improved technique for spotting faint signals.

In science, a negative finding can be just as valuable as a positive one. Even the most advanced observatories are sometimes challenged by data artifacts, and this was the case with the James Webb Space Telescope’s recent study of Epsilon Eridani.

This nearby star has long been at the center of debate over whether it hosts planets. While JWST’s NIRCam detected intriguing signals, they were positioned too close to instrumental noise to be confirmed as a true “planet.” The team’s results, published on arXiv, may seem inconclusive, but they demonstrate how scientific progress is often made through careful testing and refinement.

These observations were part of a JWST program dedicated to targeted astronomical investigations and focused on the search for two possible planets around Epsilon Eridani, located just 10.5 light years away and only about 400 million years old. The first candidate, proposed in 2000 using radial velocity measurements, was estimated to be about the size of Jupiter and orbiting 3.5 AU from the star. The second, still unconfirmed, has been suggested as the body responsible for shaping the star’s striking ring system and would be situated roughly 45 AU from its host star.

A promising signal hindered by noise

When searching for the first candidate planet, Epsilon Eridani b, NIRCam detected a “blob” of light in exactly the position where a planet was predicted. However, the signal appeared close to a “hexpeckle,” an artifact created by the coronagraph that introduced significant noise in that region. Because of this interference, the researchers could not confirm the detection with statistical confidence, even though the feature resembled a planetary signal.

The second potential candidate was much more convincingly ruled out. While the statistics weren’t enough to definitively rule out all planets, they were conclusive enough to say there are no Saturn-sized planets any further out the 16 AU from the star. In other words, there doesn’t appear to be a ring shepherd around Epsilon Eridani.

Peering at the dust disk itself, NIRCam found a faint signal on the “eastern” side of the star. That appears to be the side facing us directly, and therefore, the signal is most likely just the dust from the disc scattering the light from the star rather than a planet, similar to how gas and dust can shroud stars themselves in some parts of space.

Testing a new observational technique

All of this work was done using a new technique for JWST called a “three-roll” observing strategy. So far during its observations, the telescope had “rolled” to two different angles to make sure it captured light coming from its observational target in slightly different ways. For these observations, it tried doing so a third time, and had a pretty significant gain in observational capacity as well. The authors suggest that the technique could improve JWST’s ability to see faint objects by between 20-30% than the traditional two-roll method.

While some might consider the lack of a definitive planet detection a bust, science still moves forward on constraints, and this observational effort by JWST did put some constraints both on the potential of a planet in the outreaches of Epsilon Eridani’s system as well as the size and location of the inner Jupiter-like planet candidate. But perhaps most importantly, it also opened up a new methodology to allow for increased observational capacity of faint objects in the future. Given JWST’s long operational life ahead, that is definitely worth celebrating.

Reference: “Searching for Planets Orbiting ε~Eridani with JWST/NIRCam” by Jorge Llop-Sayson, Charles Beichman, Geoffrey Bryden, Marie Ygouf, Andras Gaspar, William Thompson, Aniket Sanghi, Dimitri Mawet, Alexandra Z. Greenbaum, Jarron Leisenring, Schuyler Wolff, Marcia Rieke and George Rieke, 11 August 2025, arXiv.
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2508.08463

Adapted from an article originally published on Universe Today.

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Roman tomb with bilingual inscription found in Albania – The History Blog

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A Roman-era tomb with a rare bilingual funerary inscription has been discovered in Strikçan, northern Albania. It dates to the 3rd or 4th century A.D. Measuring 9 by 6 meters (30 by 20 feet) with a burial chamber 2.4 meters (8 feet) high, it is the first monumental tomb from the Roman period discovered in Albania.

The tomb consists of three parts: a monumental staircase leading down to an entrance hallway with the burial chamber at the end. The staircase walls are decorated with geometric decorations on stucco. It is constructed of large stone blocks quarried from a distance and transported to the location. Evidence of wall structures on top of the tomb suggest it may have been a mausoleum design, not just a underground chamber tomb.

The size and architecture of the tomb are not the only archaeologically significant elements. The tomb was looted in antiquity, but the remains of funerary furnishings were found on the bed in the burial chamber, including glass vessels, bone combs, knives and a large section of textile woven with gold thread.

It also contains an inscription in Greek and Latin dedicated to ΓΕΛΛΙΑΝΟΣ (Gellianos), the tomb’s occupant. The deceased was connected to the Gellius family, perhaps as a relation or as a freedman who chose to take their name. The gens Gellia was a well-known plebian family of Samnite origin whose most well-known member today is Aulus Gellius, grammarian, magistrate and author of the Attic Nights, a popular compendium of stories and essays from other ancient sources that has come down to us nearly intact, missing only one chapter.

Because of its great significance, the tomb will be granted protected status while archaeologists document and analyze its contents, including the human osteological remains.



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Famous Deaths on September 5

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  • 75 Emperor Ming of Han [Liu Yang], Chinese Emperor of the Han dynasty (58-69 AD), dies at 47
  • 1165 Nijō, 78th Emperor of Japan (1158-65), dies at 22
  • 1201 Constance, Duchess of Brittany and Countess of Richmond, dies at about 40 (b. circa 1161)
  • 1235 Henry I, “the Courageous”, Duke of Brabant (1183-1235), dies at about 70 [date of birth uncertain, c. 1185]
  • 1548 Catharine Parr, Queen of England (1543-47), 6th wife of Henry VIII, dies at about 36

Ottoman Sultan and the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1530-1566), dies at 71 [or Sep 6]

Suleiman the Magnificent

  • 1569 Bernardo Tasso, Italian courtier and poet, dies at 75
  • 1569 Pieter Bruegel, South Netherlands painter, dies at about 44
  • 1572 Pieter Tichelmann, Flemish Franciscan, dies at about 71
  • 1588 Richard Tarlton, English comedic actor, famous for his jests and doggerel verse, favourite clown of Elizabeth I, dies
  • 1607 Pomponne de Bellièvre, French statesman (Chancellor of France0, dies (b. 1529)
  • 1611 Simon Foreman, English Elizabethan astrologer and occultist, dies at 58 (or 9 Sept) [1]
  • 1629 Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. c. 1585)
  • 1659 Pieter de Carpentier, Dutch administrator (Governor-General of Dutch East-Indies 1623-27, Gulf of Carpentaria named after him), dies at 71
  • 1683 Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French statesman (First Minister of State, 1661-83; Minister of the Navy, 1689-83), dies at 64
  • 1759 Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect and architectural writer, dies at 53
  • 1786 Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, philanthropist and noted opponent of drinking tea, dies at 74
  • 1790 Thomas Norris, English singer and composer, dies at 49
  • 1803 Francois Devienne, composer, dies at 44
  • 1808 John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
  • 1836 Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian actor and playwright (The Spendthrift, The Maid from Fairyland), commits suicide at 46
  • 1838 Charles Percier, French architect, dies at 74

Auguste Comte

  • 1858 Moritz Gottlieb Saphir, Austrian satirical writer and journalist, dies at 63
  • 1859 Friedrich von Olivier, German landscape painter, dies at 68
  • 1867 Santiago Derqui, Argentinian politician (b. 1809)
  • 1876 Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790)
  • 1876 [Merriwether] Jeff Thompson, American Confederate partisan from Missouri, dies of tuberculosis at 50

Oglala Sioux chief (Battle of the Little Bighorn), dies at 37

Crazy Horse

  • 1890 Ludwig Deppe, German composer, dies at 61
  • 1898 Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds, disguised as man fought for union, dies
  • 1901 Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)

Rudolf Virchow

  • 1906 Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (thermodynamics), dies at 62
  • 1910 Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest and musicologist (Magister choralis), dies at 70
  • 1910 Julian Edwards, American composer, dies at 54
  • 1912 Arthur MacArthur, Jr, American career military officer (US Army – Civil War, American Indian Wars, Spanish-American War, Philippine–American War), dies at 67
  • 1914 Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
  • 1917 Arthur Verhaegen, Belgian architect and worker’s union leader, dies at 70
  • 1917 Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (pioneer of statistical physics), dies at 45
  • 1920 Robert Harron, American actor (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), accidentally shot to death at 27
  • 1922 Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
  • 1924 Karel Komzák III, Austrian conductor and composer, dies at 46 [1]
  • 1926 Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician, founding member of the “DAP”, which would become the Nazi Party (b. 1890)
  • 1927 Marcus Loew, American business magnate and motion picture pioneer (Loew’s Theatres, MGM), dies of heart attack at 57
  • 1930 Carl Panzram, American serial killer and rapist, dies at 38
  • 1930 Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
  • 1931 John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909)
  • 1932 Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
  • 1932 Paul Bern, German-American director, producer and husband of Jean Harlow, found dead with a gunshot wound at 42
  • 1936 Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
  • 1939 Cornelis J “Cor” van Ast, Dutch actor and director (Ghost Hotel, Two Boys), dies at 67
  • 1942 François de Labouchère, French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Libération. (b. 1917)
  • 1945 Clem Hill, Australian cricket batsman and captain (49 Tests, 7 x 100, HS 191; South Australia CA), dies in a traffic accident at 68
  • 1947 Emma Mary Woolley, American educator and women’s rights activist (President of Mount Holyoke College), dies at 84
  • 1948 Richard C. Tolman, American physical chemist and mathematical physicist (Principles of Statistical Mechanics), dies at 67 [1]
  • 1950 Al Killian, American big band and swing jazz trumpeter, and occasional bandleader, murdered by his landlord at 33

Francis Ford

  • 1953 Richard Walther Darré, Nazi politician, one of the leading ‘blood and soil’ ideologists (b. 1895)
  • 1954 Eugen Schiffer, German lawyer and liberal politician, dies at 94
  • 1962 Gertrude E. Durden Rush, American composer and playwright (Black Girls Burden). dies at 82
  • 1965 Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
  • 1966 Dezső Lauber, Hungarian competitive athlete (Ice skating, golf, tennis, cycling), and architect, dies at 87
  • 1968 Juan Jose Castro, Argentine composer and conductor, dies at 73
  • 1969 Henk Bijvanck, Dutch composer, dies at 59
  • 1969 Josh White, American blues, folk and gospel musician, actor, and civil rights activist, dies of heart disease at 55
  • 1969 Mitchell Ayres, American orchestra leader (Hollywood Palace), dies at 58
  • 1970 Jochen Rindt, Austrian auto racer (posthumous World F1 title 1970), dies of throat injuries in practice accident at 28
  • 1971 Ed Gordon Jr, American athlete (Olympic gold long jump 1932), dies at 63
  • 1971 George Trafton, American NFL center (Chicago Bears), dies at 74
  • 1972 Alan Kippax, Australian cricket batsman (22 Tests, 2 x 100, 8 x 50, HS 145; NSW CA), dies at 75
  • 1972 Moshe Weinberg, Israeli Olympic wrestling coach, murdered in the Munich Olympic massacre by terrorists at 32
  • 1973 Jack Fournier, American baseball player, 1912-27 (White Sox; Cardinals; Brooklyn Robins), dies at 83
  • 1975 Georg Ots, Estonian baritone (lead role in “Eugene Onegin”), dies of a brain tumor at 55 [1] [2]
  • 1976 Arthur Gilligan, English cricket all-rounder (11 Tests, 34 wickets; England captain 1924-25; Sussex CCC), dies at 81
  • 1977 George Barnes, American swing-jazz and session guitarist, and electric guitar pioneer, dies of a heart attack at 56
  • 1977 Marcel Thiry, Belgian writer and wallon militant, dies at 80
  • 1978 Joe Negroni, American rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 37
  • 1979 Alberto di Jorio, Italian Cardinal and former head of the Vatican Bank, dies at 95
  • 1980 Barbara Loden, American actress (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies of cancer at 48
  • 1980 Don Banks, Australian orchestral, jazz, and film score composer, dies of leukemia at 56
  • 1981 Ali Qoddusi, Iranian cleric (Prosecutor-General of Iran), assassinated in a bomb explosion (b. 1927)
  • 1982 Douglas Bader, English RAF fighter pilot in World War II, dies at 72
  • 1983 Antonio Mairena, Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1909)
  • 1987 Bill Bowes, English cricket fast bowler (15 Tests, 68 wickets, BB 6/33; Bodyline series; Yorkshire CCC), dies at 79
  • 1987 Quinn Martin [Irwin Martin Cohn], American television producer (The Fugitive; Cannon; The Streets of San Francisco; Barnaby Jones), dies of a heart attack at 65
  • 1987 Scott Irwin, American professional wrestler and member of the Super Destroyers tag team, dies of a brain tumor at 35
  • 1988 Gert Fröbe [Karl Gerhart Fröbe], German actor (Goldfinger, Lover’s Wood, Upper Hand), dies from a heart attack at 75
  • 1988 Lawrence Brown, American trombonist (Duke Ellington Orchestra), dies at 81
  • 1990 Beppo Brem, German actor (Frontgockel), dies of heart failure at 84
  • 1990 Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896)
  • 1992 Armen Carapetyan, Americn musicologist and composer, dies at 83
  • 1992 Billy Herman, American Baseball HOF second baseman (10 x MLB All Star; Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Cubs), dies from cancer at 83
  • 1992 Dorothy MacKaye, marital advisor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at 88
  • 1992 Irving Allen Lee, American actor (Newspaper Boys), dies of AIDS at 43
  • 1993 Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (Spy Who Loved Me), dies at 78
  • 1993 John Truscott, Australian set designer (Camelot), dies at 57
  • 1993 Mohamed Tabet, Moroccan police commissar of Casablanca, convicted of sexually abusing over 1,500 women, executed at 54
  • 1993 René Klijn, Dutch singer (Mr Blue), dies of AIDS at 30)
  • 1993 Virgilio Mortari, Italian composer, dies at 90
  • 1993 Willem Wagter, actor (Ghetto, Medic Center West), dies at 60
  • 1994 Billy Usselton, American big band jazz saxophonist (Les Brown and His Band of Renown), dies at 68
  • 1994 John Newman, Australian state politician (Labor), murdered at 47 by local club owner and political opponent Phuong Ngo who had run against Newman as an independent
  • 1994 Teddy Millington-Drake, English painter, dies at 62
  • 1995 Francis Showering, English brewer, dies at 83
  • 1995 James “Pigmeat” Jarrett, American blues pianist, and singer, dies at 95 [1]
  • 1995 John Britten, New Zealand motorcycle designer, dies at 45
  • 1995 John Megna, American actor (To Kill a Mocking Bird), dies of AIDS-related complications at 42
  • 1996 Clem Thomas, Welsh rugby union flanker (26 Tests, 9 as captain; Cambridge Uni RFC, Brynamman, Swansea, London Welsh, Harlequins) and journalist (The Observer), dies at 67 dies at 67
  • 1996 Leonard Katzman, American TV screenwriter and producer (Dallas; Petrocelli; Route 66), dies of a heart attack at 69
  • 1996 Rose Isabel Williams, American muse and sister of Tennessee Williams, dies at 86
  • 1997 Georg Solti [György Stern], Hungarian-British conductor, winner of 31 Grammy awards (Chicago Symphony, 1969-91), dies at 84
  • 1997 Leon Edel, American-Canadian biographer (Henry James), dies at 89

Albanian-born Indian nun and founder of Missionaries of Charity (Nobel Peace Prize, 1979), dies of cardiac arrest at 87

Mother Teresa

  • 1998 Leo Penn, American actor and film director, dies at 77
  • 1998 Verner Panton, Danish furniture and interior designer, dies at 72
  • 1998 Willem Drees, Jr, Dutch economist and politician (House of Representatives, 1972-77), dies at 75
  • 1999 Alan Clark, English politician (Minister for Defence Procurement), dies at 71
  • 1999 Albert Oram, Baron Oram, British Labour politician, dies at 86
  • 1999 Allen Funt, American TV host and creator (Candid Camera), dies at 84
  • 1999 Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician, dies at 78
  • 1999 Katie Webster [Kathyrne Jewel Thorne], American boogie pianist (The Swamp Boogie Queen), dies of a heart attack at 63
  • 2000 Roy Fredericks, West Indian cricket batsman (59 Tests @ 42.49, 8 x 100s; British Guyana, Glamorgan CCC), dies at 57
  • 2001 Heywood Hale Broun, American TV commentator and sports correspondent, dies at 83
  • 2001 Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef (Wise Potato Chips) and humorist, dies at 87
  • 2001 Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian economist and UN statistician, dies at 89
  • 2002 David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer, author of the first study of the Cosmic microwave background radiation (b. 1935)
  • 2002 John “Jackie” Kelk, American actor and stand-up comedian (The Aldrich Family, The Adventures of Superman), dies of a lung infection at 79
  • 2003 C. H. Sisson, British author (Christopher Homm), dies at 89
  • 2003 Gisele MacKenzie [LaFlèche], Canadian singer and actress (Your Hit Parade), dies at 76
  • 2003 Ian Hunter, British impresario of classical music, dies at 84
  • 2003 Moe Biller, American labor union officer (AFL-CIO, Postal Workers), dies at 87
  • 2004 Gerald Stairs Merrithew, Canadian high school principal and Progressive Conservative politician (MP 1984-93), dies at 72 [1] [2]
  • 2005 Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General and the primary planner in two failed coup d’état attempt in Chile (b. 1917)
  • 2007 D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (Coral Ridge Ministries), dies at 76
  • 2007 Edward Gramlich, American economics professor (University of Michigan), dies at 68
  • 2007 Jennifer Dunn, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Washington), dies at 66
  • 2007 Julieta Campos, Cuban-Mexican postmodernist writer (The Fear of Losing Eurydice, Celina or the Cats), dies of cancer at 75
  • 2007 Paul Gillmor, American politician (Rep-R-Ohio 1989-2007), dies at 68
  • 2007 Thomas Hansen Norwegian alternative country musician, found dead at 31
  • 2010 Shoya Tomizawa Japanese MotoGP Racer, dies as the result of a crash at the San Marino Grand Prix at 19
  • 2012 Joe South [Souter], American Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and guitarist (“Games People Play”; “Walk A Mile In My Shoes”; “Rose Garden”), dies of heart failure at 72
  • 2013 Willie Frazier, American football tight end (AFL All-Star 1965, 67, 69; All-Pro 1965; Houston Oilers, San Diego Chargers), dies at 71
  • 2015 (Frederick) “Denny” Greene, American singer (Sha Na Na, 1968-84), dies from cancer at 66
  • 2015 Jacques Israelievitch, French Canadian classical violinist, concertmaster (St. Louis Symphony, 1978-88; Toronto Symphony, 1988-2008), and music director (Koffler Chamber Orchestra, 2005-14), dies of lung cancer at 67
  • 2015 Patricia Canning Todd, American tennis player (French National C’ship singles 1947; French doubles & mixed doubles 1948; Wimbledon doubles 1947), dies at 93
  • 2015 Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress (Late Spring, Tokyo Story), dies of pneumonia at 95
  • 2016 Duane Graveline, American doctor and astronaut, dies at 85
  • 2016 Hugh O’Brian, American actor (Wyatt Earp, Search), dies at 91
  • 2016 Lindsay Tuckett, South African cricket fast-medium bowler (9 Tests, 19 wickets, BB 5/68; Orange Free State), dies at 97

American right-wing crusader, Eagle Forum President, dies at 92

Phyllis Schlafly

  • 2017 Holger Czukay [Holger Schüring], German musician (Can), dies at 79
  • 2018 Lise Payette, Quebec politician, writer and columnist, dies at 87
  • 2019 Jimmy Johnson, American session guitarist and co-founder of the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, dies at 76
  • 2020 Jiří Menzel, Czech film director (Closely Watched Trains), dies at 82
  • 2021 Ivan Patzaichin, Romanian canoeist (Olympic gold C-2 1000m 1968, 80, 84; C-1 1000m 1972; World C’ship gold x 8), dies from lung cancer at 71
  • 2021 Rickie Lee Reynolds, American southern rock guitarist (Black Oak Arkansas – “Jim Dandy (To the Rescue)”), dies of COVID-19 complications, including kidney failure and heart attack at 72
  • 2021 Sarah Harding, British pop singer (Girls Aloud – “Sound of the Underground,” “Love Machine”), dies of breast cancer at 39
  • 2022 Eva Zeller, German poet and novelist, dies at 99
  • 2022 Hans Eder, German soccer defender (Hertha BSC) and manager (Hertha BSC 1974, 79, 85), dies at 87
  • 2022 Lars Vogt, German concert pianist, conductor, and educator, dies of cancer at 51
  • 2022 Mark Littell, American MLB pitcher, 1973-82 (Kansas City Royals, St. Louis Cardinals), writer, and inventor, dies following heart surgery at 69
  • 2023 Albert Azaryan, Armenian gymnast (Olympic gold USSR rings, team 1956, 60; World C’ship gold rings, team 1954, 58), dies at 94
  • 2023 Charles Gayle, American free-jazz saxophonist, composer, and pianist (“Streets”), dies of complications from Alzheimer’s disease at 84
  • 2024 Rebecca Cheptegei, Ugandan Olympic marathon runner, dies of her injuries after being set alight by her boyfriend at 33 [1]
  • 2024 Screamin’ Scott Simon, American rock pianist and singer (Sha Na Na, 1970-2022), dies of sinus cancer at 75
  • 2024 Sérgio Mendes, Brazilian Grammy Award-winning jazz, bossa nova, and pop pianist, composer, and bandleader (Brazil ’66 – “The Look of Love”, “Never Gonna Let You Go”), dies from complications of long Covid at 83 [1]
  • 2024 [Brian Keith] Herbie Flowers, English bassist, tuba player, and session musician (Lou Reed; Harry Nilsson; T-Rex), dies at 86 [1]

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Famous Birthdays on September 5

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  • 1187 Louis VIII [Coeur-de-Lion], King of France (1223-26), born in Paris (d. 1226)
  • 1319 Peter IV, King of Aragon (1336-87), born in Perpignan, France (d. 1387)
  • 1567 Date Masamune, Renowned Samurai and Daimyo in Japan, born in Yonezawa, Yamagata, Japan (d. 1636)
  • 1568 Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet, born in Stignano, Kingdom of Sicily (d. 1639)
  • 1600 Loreto Vittori, Italian composer and mezzo-soprano singer, baptized in Spoleto, Umbria, Papal States (d. 1670)
  • 1621 Juan Andrés Coloma, Spanish noble, born in Elda, Spain (d. 1694)

King of France (1643-1715), known as “The Sun King”, had longest reign of any European monarch, born in Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France

Louis XIV

  • 1644 Gillis Schey, Dutch admiral during the Nine Years War, born in Arnhem (d. 1703)
  • 1649 Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, French mistress to British King Charles II, born near Best, Brittany (d. 1734)
  • 1666 Gottfried Arnold, German theologist, historian and songwriter, born in Annaberg-Buchholz, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1714)
  • 1667 Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician, born in Sanremo, Italy (d. 1733)
  • 1694 František Václav Míča, Moravian-Czech conductor and composer, born in Třebíč, Margraviate of Moravia, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1744)
  • 1695 Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1770)
  • 1722 Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, born in Dresden Castle, Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1763)
  • 1725 Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician, born in Lyon, France (d. 1799)
  • 1734 Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, French composer, born in Paris, France (d. 1794)
  • 1735 Johann Christian Bach (English Bach), German composer, 11th son of Johann Sebastian Bach, born in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (1782)
  • 1737 Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann, German composer, born in Celle, Electorate of Hanover, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1792)
  • 1750 Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (Scottish poems), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1774)

Duke of Teschen, Austrian field marshal during the Napoleonic wars, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (now Italy)

Archduke Charles

  • 1772 Henry of Stolberg-Wernigerode, German ruler of the County of Wernigerode (1824-54), born in Wernigerode Castle, Electorate of Saxony (d. 1854)
  • 1774 Caspar David Friedrich, German painter, chiefly of landscapes with
    contemplative figures in the Romantic style, born in Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania (now Germany) (d. 1840)
  • 1775 Juan Martín Díez, El Empecinado (The Undaunted), Spanish guerrillero, born in Valladolid, Spain (d. 1825)
  • 1787 François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist, born in Paris (d. 1850)
  • 1788 George Macfarren, British playwright, born in London, England (d. 1843)
  • 1791 Giacomo Meyerbeer, German opera composer (Gott und die Natur – God and Nature), born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1864)
  • 1792 Alexis-Charles-Maximilien Thibault, French composer, born in Nantes, France (d. 1853)
  • 1792 Pierre-Armand Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist, born in Sevran, France (d. 1857)
  • 1806 Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general, born in Nantes, France (d. 1865)
  • 1809 Manuel Montt Torres, President of Chile (851-61), born in Petorca, Chile (d. 1880)
  • 1815 Karl Wilhelm, German composer, born in Schmalkalden, Electorate of Hesse, German Confederation (d. 1873)
  • 1815 Tyree Harris Bell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Covington, Kentucky (d. 1902)
  • 1817 Aleksei K. Tolstoi, Russian poet and writer, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1875) [NS]
  • 1826 John Wisden, English cricket all-rounder (launched Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1864; Sussex CCC, Kent CCC, Middlesex CCC), born in Brighton, England (d. 1884)
  • 1827 Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer, born in Genoa, Italy (d. 1849)
  • 1836 Justiniano Borgoño, President of Peru (1894), born in Trujillo, Peru (d. 1921)
  • 1842 Louis Bouwmeester, Dutch actor (Shakespeare), born in Middelharnis, Netherlands (d. 1925)
  • 1846 John W Cromwell, American lawyer and civil right activist (American Negro Academy), born in Portsmouth, Virginia (d. 1927)

American outlaw and son of a clergyman, born in Kearney, Missouri

Jesse James

  • 1848 Manuel Giro, Spanish composer, born in Lérida, Catalonia, Spain (d. 1916)
  • 1859 Lester A. Pelton, American inventor (water wheel for hydroelectricity), born in Vermilion, Ohio (d. 1908) [1]

American pianist and composer (Gaelic Symphony), born in Henniker, New Hampshire

Amy Beach

  • 1872 Horace Rice, Australian tennis player (Australasian C’ship 1907), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1950)
  • 1874 Napoleon “Nap” Lajoie, American Baseball HOF second baseman (Triple Crown 1901; AL batting champion 1901–04, 10; Philadelphia A’s, Cleveland Naps), born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island (d. 1959)
  • 1876 Abdelaziz Thâalbi, Tunisian politician, born in Tunis, Tunisia (d. 1944)
  • 1876 Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal, born in Landsberg am Lech, Germany (d. 1956)
  • 1877 Albert Roelofs, Dutch painter and etcher, born in Schaarbeek, Brussels, Belgium (d. 1920)
  • 1878 Ben Simpson, Canadian Football HOF running back, placekicker (Queen’s University, Hamilton Tigers), born in Peterborough, Ontario (d. 1964)
  • 1881 Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democrat, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1938)
  • 1883 Mel Sheppard, American athlete (Olympic gold 800m, 1,500m, medley relay 1908; 4×400 metre relay 1912), born in Deptford Township, New Jersey (d. 1942)
  • 1883 Otto Erich Deutsch, Austrian musicologist (Schubert-Brevier), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1967)
  • 1885 John Raedecker, Dutch sculptor (National monument on the Dam), born in Amsterdam (d. 1956)
  • 1888 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and leader, Second President of India (1962-67), born in Thiruttani, British India (d. 1975)
  • 1892 Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (Violinist Notebook 1933), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1973)
  • 1897 Arthur C. Nielsen, American businessman and market researcher (TV’s Nielsen’s Ratings), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1980)
  • 1897 Doris Kenyon, American silent screen actress (Alexander Hamilton), born in Syracuse, New York (d. 1979)
  • 1897 Luella Gear, American actress (Joe & Mabel), born in New York City (d. 1980)
  • 1897 Morris Carnovsky, American actor (Dead Reckoning), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1992)
  • 1898 Ebbe Hamerik, Danish opera composer (Stepan; Marie Grubbe), born in Frederiksberg, Denmark (d. 1951)
  • 1901 Florence Eldridge [McKechnie], American Broadway stage and screen actress (Long Day’s Journey Into Night; The Swan; Inherit The Wind), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1988)
  • 1901 Mieczyslaw Kolinski, Polish-Canadian composer (Encounterpoint), educator, and ethnomusicologist, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1981)
  • 1902 Darryl F. Zanuck, American film producer and President (20th Century Fox), born in Wahoo, Nebraska (d. 1979)
  • 1903 Gloria Holden, British actress (The Life of Émile Zola, Dracula’s Daughter), born in London, England (d. 1991)
  • 1905 Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-British writer (Arrow in Blue), born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (d. 1983)
  • 1905 Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician, born in Tanza, Cavite, Philippines (d. 2005)
  • 1906 Peter Mieg, Swiss composer, born in Lenzburg, Switzerland (d. 1990)
  • 1907 Sunnyland Slim [Albert Luandrew], American blues pianist, born in Vance, Mississippi (d. 1995)
  • 1908 Cecilia Seghizzi, Italian composer, born in Gotizia, Austria-Hungary (d. 2019)
  • 1908 Joaquin Maria Nin-Culmell, Cuban-Spanish composer, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2004)
  • 1909 Archie Jackson, Australian cricket batsman (8 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 164; NSWCA), born in Rutherglen, Scotland (d. 1933)
  • 1910 Phiroz Palia, Indian cricket batsman (2 Tests; United Provinces), born in Mumbai, India (d. 1981)
  • 1912 Frank Thomas, American animator, born in Fresno, California (d. 2004)

American composer (Water Walk; Imaginary Landscape No 1/O’O; 4’33”), born in Los Angeles, California

John Cage

  • 1912 Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 2001)
  • 1913 Conny Stuart [Cornelia van Meygard], Dutch cabaret performer, and actress, born in Wijhe, Netherlands (d. 2010)
  • 1913 Kathleen Burke, American actress (Island of Lost Souls), born in Hammond, Indiana (d. 1980)
  • 1914 Gail Kubik, American composer (Gerald McBoing Boing), born in South Coffeyville, Oklahoma (d. 1984)
  • 1914 Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet, mathematician, and physicist (Defense of Violeta Parra), born in San Fabián de Alico, Chile (d. 2018)
  • 1914 Stuart Freeborn, English motion picture make-up artist (Star Wars: Yoda, Jabba the Hut), born in London, England (d. 2013)
  • 1916 Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 2002)
  • 1916 Frank Yerby, American novelist (The Foxes of Harrow), born in Augusta, Georgia (d. 1991)
  • 1917 Art Rupe [Goldberg], American gospel, R&B, and early rock record producer and label executive (Specialty Records – Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Lloyd Price), born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania (d. 2022)
  • 1917 Jack Buetel, American actress (Outlaw, Half Breed), born in Dallas, Texas (d. 1989)
  • 1918 Luis Alcoriza, Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor, born in Badajoz, Mexico (d. 1992)
  • 1920 Fons Rademakers, Dutch director (Assault) and actor (Daughter of Darkness), born in Roosendaal, Netherlands (d. 2007)
  • 1920 Margaretha D. Ferguson-Wigerink, Dutch author (Anna & her Father), born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1992)
  • 1920 Peter Racine Fricker, British composer, born in London (d. 1990)
  • 1921 Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive, born in Houston, Texas (d. 2007)
  • 1923 Bob Cato, American photographer, graphic artist and Grammy Award-winning album cover designer (Columbia Records; United Artists), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1999)
  • 1924 Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar, Polish composer (Polish Madonnas; Fantasy for Marimba), and educator, born in Lwów, Poland (d. 2009)
  • 1925 Jos Vandeloo, Flemish journalist and playwright (Cola Drinkers), born in Zonhoven, Belgium (d. 2015)
  • 1925 Justin Kaplan, American editor and biographer (Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain – Pulitzer Prize, 1967), born in New York City (d. 2014)
  • 1926 Carmen Petra-Basacopol, Romanian composer and educator Bucharest Conservatory (1962-2003), born in Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania (d. 2023)

American economist and Chairman of the US Federal Reserve (1979-87), born in Cape May, New Jersey

Paul Volcker

  • 1928 Lena McLin (née Johnson), American music teacher, composer (Oh Freedom), and Baptist pastor, born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 2023)
  • 1929 Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok III, Soyuz 9), born in Shorshely, Russia (d. 2004)

American Grammy Award-winning comedian and Emmy Award-winning actor (The Bob Newhart Show; Newhart; The Big Bang Theory), born in Oak Park, Illinois [1] [2]

Bob Newhart

  • 1929 Ildefonso P. Santos Jr., Filipino landscape architect (National Artist of the Philippines in Architecture, 2006), born in Malabon, Philippines (d. 2014)
  • 1931 Moshe Mizrahi, Israeli film director (Madame Rosa), born in Alexandria, Egypt (d. 2018)
  • 1932 Carol Lawrence, American stage and screen actress (West Side Story), and singer, born in Melrose Park, Illinois
  • 1933 Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Chilean catholic archbishop, born in Santiago, Chile
  • 1933 Vincent McDermott, American composer, born in Atlantic City, New Jersey (d. 2016)
  • 1935 Helen Gifford, Australian composer (Of Old Angkor; Music for the Adonia; Choral Scenes: The Western Front, World War I), born in Hawthorn, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1935 Johnny Briggs, English actor (Mike Baldwin on Coronation Street), born in London, England (d. 2021)
  • 1935 Mikhail Ivanovich Lisun, Russian cosmonaut, born in Gruzkoye, Ukraine (d. 2012)
  • 1935 Werner Erhard, American author and lecturer (founded EST), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • 1936 Alcee Hastings, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida), born in Altamonte Springs, Florida (d. 2021)
  • 1936 Bill Mazeroski, American Baseball HOF 2nd baseman (World Series 1960, 71 Pittsburgh Pirates; 10 × MLB All-Star; 8 × Gold Glove Award), born in Wheeling, West Virginia
  • 1936 Cornelius Boyson, American blues bassist, born in Tunica, Mississippi (d. 1994)
  • 1936 John Danforth, American politician and diplomat (Senator-R-Missouri, 1976-95), born in St. Louis, Missouri
  • 1936 Jonathan Kozol, American writer and sociologist, born in Boston, Massachusetts
  • 1937 Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Italian-Argentinian footballer who played for both Argentina and Italy, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 2018)
  • 1939 Claudette Colvin, American civil rights activist arrested at 15 for refusing to give her seat on a bus to a white woman (nine months before Rosa Parks), born in Montgomery, Alabama [1]
  • 1939 Clay Regazzoni, Swiss Formula One driver, born in Mendrisio, Switzerland (d. 2006)
  • 1939 Donna Anderson [Knaflich], American actress (On the Beach), born in Gunnison, Gunnison County Colorado
  • 1939 George Lazenby, Australian actor (OHMSS-James Bond), born in Goulburn, Australia
  • 1939 John Stewart, American singer (Kingston Trio, 1961-67), and songwriter (“Daydream Believer”), born in San Diego, California (d. 2008)
  • 1939 William Devane, American actor (Family Plot, Missles of October), born in Albany, New York
  • 1940 Lewis Spratlan, American classical composer and Pulitzer Prize winner (Life Is A Dream), born in Miami, Florida (d. 2023)

American stage and screen (Myra Breckenridge; One Million Years B.C.; 100 Rifles), and nightclub singer, born in Chicago, Illinois [1]

Raquel Welch

  • 1941 Dave Dryden, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (designer first mask-cage combination goalie mask; Chicago Black Hawks, Buffalo Sabres, Edmonton Oilers), born in Hamilton, Ontario (d. 2022)
  • 1941 Elliot Mazer, American audio engineer and record producer (Chubby Checker; Neil Young), born in New York City (d. 2021)
  • 1942 Denise Fabre, French television presenter (Télé dimanche), born in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
  • 1942 Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor (Improvisaciones), born in Mexico City (d. 1995)
  • 1942 Werner Herzog, German director (Burden of Dreams, Stroszek, Woyzeck), born in Munich, Germany
  • 1943 Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary, born in the Philippines (d. 2007)
  • 1943 Joe “Speedo” Frazier, American doo-wop vocalist (Impalas – “Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home)”), born in New York City (d. 2014)
  • 1944 Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, born in Rome (d. 1996)
  • 1944 Rod Arrants, American actor (Vamping, Ape, Young & Restless), born in Los Angeles, California
  • 1945 Al Stewart, Scottish folk-rock singer-songwriter (“Year of the Cat”; “Nostradamus”; “Time Passages”), born in Glasgow, Scotland
  • 1946 Dean Ford (Thomas McAleese), Scottish singer-songwriter (Marmalade), born in Coatbridge, Scotland (d. 2018) [1]
  • 1946 Dennis Dugan, American actor and director (Can’t Buy Me Love, Howling), born in Wheaton, Illinois
  • 1946 Earl Rose, American pianist (A Colbert Christmas), arranger, conductor, and composer for TV and film (Ryan’s Hope), born in New York City

British singer–songwriter (Queen – “Bohemian Rhapsody”), born in Stone Town, Sultanate of Zanzibar

Freddie Mercury

  • 1946 Loudon Wainwright III, American folk singer-songwriter (Dead Skunk (in the Middle of the Road)), actor and humorist, born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  • 1947 (George) “Buddy” Miles, American rock drummer (The Electric Flag; Band of Gypsies), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 2008)
  • 1947 Bruce Yardley, Australian cricket spin bowler (33 Tests, 126 wickets; coach Sri Lanka), born in Midland, Western Australia (d. 2019)
  • 1947 Mel Collins, British session and touring rock saxophonist (King Crimson, 1970-72 & 2013-21; Alvin Lee, 1973-2000; Joan Armatrading), born in Isle of Man
  • 1947 Pavel Pervushin, Russian weightlifter (World C’ship gold 110kg 1973; 15 x WRs), born in Ramenye, Russia (d. 2022)
  • 1948 Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician, born in Salzburg, Austria
  • 1949 David “Clem” Clempson, British rock guitarist (Colosseum; Humble Pie), born in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England
  • 1950 Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist (Cathy), born in Dayton, Ohio
  • 1950 Kathy Cronkite, American actress (Annie-Hizzonner), born in Washington, D. C.
  • 1950 Paul William Roberts, Canadian writer, born in Wales
  • 1951 Jamie Oldaker, American session and touring drummer (Bob Seger; Leon Russell; Eric Clapton; Peter Frampton), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (d. 2020)

1951 American actor (Gung Ho, Batman, Beetlejuice), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Michael Keaton

  • 1951 Paul Breitner, German footballer, born in Kolbermoor, Germany
  • 1952 Graham Salmon, British blind runner (fastest 100m by a blind man), born in London (d. 1999)
  • 1953 Jennifer Geerlings-Simons, Surinamese physician and 11th and first female president of Suriname (2025-present), born in Paramaribo, Colony of Suriname
  • 1953 Paulie Carmen, American rock vocalist (Champaign), born in Champaign, Illinois
  • 1954 Frederick Kempe, American author, journalist, and executive, born in Utah
  • 1954 Hans-Jorgen Gerhardt, German bobsleder (Olympic gold 1980), born in Altenburg, Thuringia
  • 1956 Roine Stolt, Swedish guitarist (The Flower Kings), born in Uppsala, Sweden
  • 1956 Sandra Guibord, German actress (Donna-One Life to Live), born in West Germany
  • 1956 Steve Denton, American tennis player (world’s fastest tennis serve-138 mph), born in Kingsville, Texas
  • 1957 Peter Winnen, Dutch bicycle road athlete, born in Ysselsteyn, Netherlands
  • 1958 Lars Danielsson, Swedish musician (Summerwind), born in Gothenburg
  • 1959 Tom Pernice Jr., American golfer (2 PGA Tour, 6 Champions Tour titles), born in Kansas City, Missouri
  • 1960 Rob Stull, American pentathlete (Olympic-92), born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
  • 1961 Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian concert pianist, born in Montreal, Quebec
  • 1962 Beth Underhill, Canadian equestrian jumper (Olympics 26-92, 96), born in Georgetown, Ontario
  • 1962 Peter Wingfield, Welsh rocker and actor (Methos-Highlander), born in Cardiff
  • 1963 Jeff Brantley, American MLB pitcher and broadcaster (Cincinnati Reds), born in Florence, Alabama
  • 1963 Kristian Alfonso, American actress (Days of Lives, Falcon Crest), born in Brockton, Massachusetts
  • 1963 Tim McKyer, American NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32), born in Orlando, Florida
  • 1964 Frank Farina, Australian footballer, born in Darwin, Australia
  • 1964 Kevin Saunderson, American music producer and disc jockey, born in Brooklyn, New York City
  • 1965 César Rincón, Colombian matador, born in Bogotá, Colombia
  • 1965 Chris Gore, American film critic and director (My Big Fat Independent Movie), born in Big Rapids, Michigan
  • 1965 David Brabham, Australian auto racer (3 x 24 Hours of Le Mans; American Le Mans Series 2009, 10; 4 x 12 Hours of Sebring; Bathurst 1000 1997), born in London, England
  • 1965 Tony Martin, American NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers), born in Miami, Florida
  • 1966 Achero Mañas, Spanish actor and film director (El Bola, Noviembre), born in Madrid, Spain
  • 1966 Milinko Pantić, Serbian footballer, born in Loznica, Serbia
  • 1966 Simone Jacobs, British 4X100m relayer (Olympic bronze 1984), born in Reading, Berkshire, England
  • 1967 India Hicks, British model, interior designer and author (Island Life, A Slice of England), born in London
  • 1967 Rein van Duynhoven, Dutch soccer player (Helmond Sport, MVV), born in Veghel, Netherlands
  • 1968 Brad Wilk, American drummer (Audioslave; Rage Against the Machine), born in Portland, Oregon
  • 1969 Dweezil Zappa, American rock guitarist and son of Frank Zappa, born in Hollywood, California
  • 1969 Leonardo Araujo, Brazilian footballer, born in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 1969 Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer, born in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England
  • 1970 Brad Hopkins, American NFL tackle (Houston Oilers), born in Columbia, South Carolina
  • 1970 Johnny Vegas [Michael Pennington], English comedian (Ideal, The Libetine), born in St. Helens, Merseyside, England (Note some sources cite 1971-09-11)
  • 1970 Liam Lynch, American musician (Sifl and Olly), born in Petersburg, Virginia
  • 1970 Lori Harrigan, American softball pitcher (Olympic gold 1996), born in Anaheim, California
  • 1970 Michael Potts, American pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers), born in Langdale, Alabama
  • 1970 Mohammad Rafique, Bangladeshi cricketer, born in Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • 1970 Willie Clay, American NFL safety (Detroit Lions), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • 1971 Adam Hollioake, England cricketer, born in Melbourne, Australia
  • 1971 Carlester Crumpler, American NFL tight end (Seattle Seahawks), born in Greenville, North Carolina
  • 1971 Kim Maher, American softball infielder (Olympic gold 1996), born in Saigon, Vietnam
  • 1972 Dirk Copeland, American pursuit cyclist (Olympics 1992, 96), born in Los Angeles, California
  • 1973 Jenny Whittle, Australian basketball center (Olympic bronze 1996), born in Gold Coast, Australia
  • 1973 Paddy Considine, English actor and musician (House of the Dragon, MobLand, Hot Fuzz), born in Burton upon Trent, England

1973 American actress (Charmed) and sexual harassment activist, born in Florence, Italy

Rose McGowan

  • 1974 Rawl Lewis, West Indian cricketer, born in Grenada
  • 1975 Charles Greywolf [David Vogt], German heavy metal guitarist and record producer (Powerwolf), born in Berus, West Germany
  • 1975 George Boateng, Dutch footballer, born in Nkawkaw, Ghana
  • 1975 Rod Barajas, Mexican-American baseball player, born in Ontario, California
  • 1976 Carice van Houten, Dutch actress (Black Book, Game of Thrones), born in Leiderdor
  • 1976 Tatiana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast (1992 Olympic Champion), born in Odessa, Soviet Union

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  • 1198 Philips of Zwabia, Prince of Hohenstaufen, crowned King of Germany and King of the Romans

Battle of Tehuacingo

1519 Second Battle of Tehuacingo, Mexico: Hernán Cortés‘ Spanish conquistadors fight the Tlaxcalans

  • 1550 William Cecil appoints himself English Secretary of State

Siege of Paris

1590 Duke of Parma Alexander Farnese’s army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris

Cornelis de Houtman Taken Hostage

1596 Dutch fleet commander Cornelis de Houtman is taken hostage in Java and is later ransomed

Cardinal Richelieu

1622 Bishop Richelieu appointed Cardinal under French King Louis XIII

Conquest of Sas of Gen

1644 Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange conquers Sas van Gent and absorbs it into the Dutch Republic

  • 1646 The first public library in the Americas is established when Bishop Palafox y Mendoza donates his personal library of 5,000 volumes to Tridentine colleges in Puebla, Mexico [1]

Arrest of Nicolas Fouquet

1661 Nicolas Fouquet, French Superintendent of Finances under Louis XIV, is arrested for maladministration of state funds; he dies in 1680, never seeing freedom again

1666 Firebreaks finally bring the Great Fire of London under control, leaving 13,200 houses destroyed and eight dead

Suppressing Pirates

1717 Britain’s King George I issues the Proclamation “For Suppressing Pirates in the West Indies,” granting pirates who surrender a pardon (reissued 1718)

  • 1750 Decree issued in Paderborn, Prussia, allows for the annual search of all Jewish homes for stolen or “doubtful” goods
  • 1774 The first Continental Congress, a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that later become the United States, convenes at Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia
  • 1774 Twelve of the thirteen American colonies adopt a trade embargo against Great Britain at the First Continental Congress in Carpenters’ Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • 1774 With the meeting of the Continental Congress, Philadelphia becomes the first capital of the United States

1781 American Revolutionary War: A French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeats British forces under Admiral Thomas Graves and Samuel Hood at the Battle of the Chesapeake (Battle of the Virginia Capes) and traps General Lord Charles Cornwallis

  • 1795 USA and Algiers sign peace treaty
  • 1796 General Salicetti orders equal rights for the Jews of Bologna, Italy
  • 1798 New annual military conscription law goes into effect in France
  • 1800 Malta surrenders to the British after they blockade French troops
  • 1814 Battle of Masurian Lakes: Germans chase Russians out of East Prussia (ends September 15, 1814)

Chambre Introuvable Dissolved

1816 French King Louis XVIII dissolves the unpopular parliament, Chambre introuvable (Unobtainable Chamber)

Houston Elected President

1836 Sam Houston elected President of the Republic of Texas

  • 1838 Central Museum opens in Utrecht, Netherlands
  • 1839 First Opium War begins between the British Empire and the Qing dynasty of China
  • 1844 Iron ore is discovered in Minnesota’s Mesabi Mountains

Lee Crosses the Potomac

1862 Confederate General Robert E. Lee crosses the Potomac and enters Maryland

  • 1863 Bread revolt in Mobile, Alabama
  • 1864 Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshal of France
  • 1864 British, French, and Dutch fleets attack Japan in the Shimonoseki Straits
  • 1871 German archaeologist Carl Mauch is the first European to explore the ruins of the medieval Shona city of Great Zimbabwe, the largest archaeological site in Sub-Saharan Africa [1]
  • 1877 Southern Blacks, led by Pap Singleton, settle in Kansas
  • 1879 American Arctic explorer George Washington De Long on board the Jeannette becomes trapped with his crew in pack ice during an attempt to reach the North Pole
  • 1882 10,000 workers march in the first Labor Day parade in New York City
  • 1885 First gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer in Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • 1887 Gas lamp at Theatre Royal in Exeter catches fire, killing about 200 people
  • 1889 German Christine Hardt patents the first modern brassiere
  • 1895 George Washington Murray from South Carolina is elected to Congress
  • 1900 France proclaims a protectorate over Chad
  • 1901 National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, better known as Minor League Baseball, is formed at the Leland Hotel in Chicago
  • 1905 Fifty prominent men meet in Sydney’s Australia Hotel to found the National Defence League, fueled by fear of Japan after its victory over Russia
  • 1905 Lillian Mortimer’s play “No Mother to Guide Her” premieres in Detroit

Treaty of Portsmouth

1905 Treaty of Portsmouth is signed concluding the Russo-Japanese War; US President Theodore Roosevelt receives the Nobel Peace Prize for his role as mediator

  • 1906 Saint Louis University quarterback Bradbury Robinson throws the first legal forward pass in the history of American football for a touchdown to Jack Schneider at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin; Saint Louis wins 22-0

Edward VII Meets Izvolski

1907 King Edward VII of Great Britain meets Russia’s Foreign Minister Alexander Izvolsky in an attempt to strengthen Russia’s relationship with Britain

  • 1908 Brooklyn Superbas pitcher Nap Rucker no-hits the Boston Braves 6-0 at Washington Park, Brooklyn
  • 1910 Philadelphia Athletics player Jack Coombs begins a record streak of 53 consecutive shutout innings
  • 1913 Phillies and Braves tie the record of only one run in a doubleheader; Phillies win the first game 1-0, then a scoreless tie into the 10th
  • 1914 French headquarters move to Châtillon-sur-Seine
  • 1914 Great Britain, France, Belgium, and Russia sign the Pact of London
  • 1914 Proclamation prohibits Canadian mint from issuing gold coins

Transatlantic Communications

1914 US President Woodrow Wilson orders the US Navy to make its wireless stations accessible for any transatlantic communications, even to German diplomats sending coded messages, leading to the interception of the Zimmermann telegram and helping bring the US into the war

  • 1915 Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland

Nicholas II Takes Command

1915 Tsar Nicholas II, distressed by increasing Russian losses, assumes personal command of his nation’s military forces, a symbolic act devastating for his leadership

Intolerance

1916 “Intolerance,” a silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Vera Lewis and Ralph Lewis, is released

  • 1918 Decree of the Council of People’s Commissars “On Red Terror” is published in Russia
  • 1923 Flyweights Gene LaRue and Kid Pancho knock each other out simultaneously [1]
  • 1925 112°F (44°C) in Centerville, Alabama (state record)
  • 1932 French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger

Jet Stream Discovered

1934 American pilot Wiley Post discovers the jet stream while flying at high altitude near Chicago, Illinois

  • 1937 Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls

J. B. M. Hertzog Resigns

1939 J. B. M. Hertzog resigns as South African Prime Minister after losing a vote in Parliament on neutrality in World War II

Where She Goes, We Go

1939 New Zealand Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage declares New Zealand’s support for Britain in the war with Germany; Savage famously told the nation ‘where she goes, we go. Where she stands, we stand’

  • 1942 American sailor Charles J. French (22) swims for over six hours in waters near Guadalcanal while towing a life raft with fifteen survivors from his US Navy ship, which is sunk by Japanese gunfire [1]
  • 1942 Battle of Alam Halfa ends
  • 1942 British and US bomb Le Havre and Bremen
  • 1943 The US airlands at Nadzab, New Guinea
  • 1944 “Mad Tuesday” sees 65,000 Dutch Nazi collaborators flee to Germany
  • 1944 Allies liberate Brussels, Belgium
  • 1944 Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands sign a customs union treaty
  • 1944 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill travels to Scotland
  • 1944 Dutch Armed Forces forms under Prince Bernhard
  • 1944 Five resistance fighters executed in Terneuzen, Netherlands

Amon Göth Convicted

1946 Amon Göth, former head of Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, is found guilty of imprisonment, torture, and extermination of individuals and groups of people in the first conviction of homicide at a war crimes court

  • 1948 In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign Minister; as such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties at the end of World War II
  • 1950 38.7 inches (98.3 cm) of rainfall over several days at Yankeetown, Florida (state record)

Intimations of Immortality

1950 First performance of Gerald Finzi’s setting of William Wordsworth‘s “Intimations of Immortality” at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral, England; Eric Greene as solo tenor with Herbert Sumsion conducting the orchestra and choir

  • 1952 General Carlos Ibáñez is elected president of Chile
  • 1953 First privately operated atomic reactor becomes operational in Raleigh, North Carolina
  • 1953 US gives Persian Premier Fazlollah Zahedi $45 million in aid
  • 1954 Dutch Super Constellation crashes at Shannon, killing 28
  • 1955 Dodger Don Newcombe hits a National League pitcher record seventh home run of the season
  • 1955 Dutch magician Fred Kaps wins his second FISM World Championship
  • 1955 WKRG TV channel 5 in Mobile, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
  • 1955 WTTW TV channel 11 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
  • 1956 20 die in a train crash in Springer, New Mexico

On the Road

1957 “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac is published by Viking Press in New York

Djilas’ Book Banned

1957 Yugoslavia bans dissident Milovan Djilas‘ book “The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System”

The Huckleberry Hound Show

1958 “The Huckleberry Hound Show” by Hanna-Barbera featuring Yogi Bear premieres on US TV

  • 1958 First color video recording on magnetic tape is presented in Charlotte, North Carolina
  • 1958 WKPC TV channel 15 in Louisville, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting
  • 1959 Washington Senators player Jim Lemon becomes the seventh player to achieve six RBIs in an inning (third)

A. J. Foyt’s 1st Win

1960 A. J. Foyt wins the first of 67 Indy car victories at Du Quoin State Fairgrounds in Illinois

Cassius Clay Wins Gold

1960 Cassius Clay [Muhammad Ali] defeats three-time European champion Zbigniew Pietrzykowski of Poland by unanimous points decision to win the Olympic light heavyweight boxing gold medal at the Rome Games

Benvenuti Wins Boxing Gold

1960 Future world middleweight boxing champion Nino Benvenuti of Italy defeats Yuri Radonyak of the Soviet Union to win the welterweight gold medal at the Rome Olympics

Underground Nuclear Testing

1961 America begins underground nuclear testing

  • 1961 US President John F. Kennedy signs a law against hijacking, instituting the death penalty
  • 1961 USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeastern Kazakhstan
  • 1962 Cubs’ Ken Hubbs sets second base record for consecutive errorless games at 78 and consecutive errorless chances at 418; he errors in the fourth

1st Muscular Dystrophy Telethon

1966 Jerry Lewis‘s first Muscular Dystrophy Labor Day telethon raises $1 million

  • 1966 WRLK TV channel 35 in Columbia, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
  • 1967 Hurricane Beulah kills 54 in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Texas
  • 1967 KMEG TV channel 14 in Sioux City, IA (CBS) begins broadcasting
  • 1967 WEBA TV channel 14 in Allendale, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
  • 1968 The USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeastern Kazakhstan
  • 1969 Frente Obrero wins Dutch Antilles’ national elections
  • 1970 Estimated 15 cm (6 inches) of rainfall in Bug Point, Utah (state record)
  • 1971 Astros pitcher J.R. Richard debuts, striking out 15 Giants in a 5-3 win
  • 1971 New York Mets’ Don Hahn hits his first inside-the-park home run at Phillies Vet
  • 1972 Chemical spill with fog sickens hundreds in Meuse Valley, Belgium
  • 1972 Eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and later killed by the Palestinian group Black September group at the Munich Olympics
  • 1973 Conference of less developed countries approves forming “producers’ associations” and calls for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from occupied Arab lands
  • 1973 West Indies lose by one wicket to England in the first one-day cricket international

Ford Survives Assassination Attempt

1975 First assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme in Sacramento, California

  • 1975 Portugal Prime Minister Vasco Gonçalves is dismissed
  • 1975 Wings release their single “Letting Go”

The Muppet Show

1976 Jim Henson‘s “The Muppet Show” premieres on television with Mia Farrow as the guest star

  • 1977 Cleveland Indians stage first “I Hate the Yankee Hanky Night,” inspired by local radio personality Pete Franklin; home team sweeps a doubleheader over New York at Cleveland Municipal Stadium
  • 1977 Jerry Lewis‘s 12th Muscular Dystrophy telethon is held
  • 1977 NASA launches Voyager 1 on a mission to initially fly by Jupiter and Saturn, later including Uranus and Neptune, and in 2012, it becomes the first human-made object to leave the solar system
  • 1977 Red Army Faction kidnaps and subsequently murders West German business executive Hanns Martin Schleyer
  • 1979 Canada puts its first gold bullion coin on sale

Funeral for Mountbatten

1979 Earl of Mountbatten‘s ceremonial funeral is held in Westminster Abbey, London

  • 1979 Iranian army occupies Piranshahr
  • 1979 Oakland A’s pitcher Matt Keough beats the Milwaukee Brewers 6-1 for his first win after 14 straight losses, ending 1978 with 18 defeats, one shy of the MLB record of 19
  • 1980 Edward Gierek resigns under pressure from his position as Poland’s Communist Party leader

Satyagraha

1980 Philip Glass and Constance DeJong’s opera “Satyagraha,” loosely based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi, premieres at the Schouwburg in Rotterdam, Netherlands

  • 1980 World’s longest road tunnel, St. Gotthard in the Swiss Alps, opens
  • 1982 Eddie Hill sets a propeller-driven boat water speed record of 229 mph (368.54 km/h)
  • 1982 US Men’s Amateur Golf Championship, The Country Club: Jay Sigel wins 8 and 7 over David Tolley
  • 1983 Eighth NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Challenger 3 lands at Edwards AFB
  • 1983 Elmer Trettr sets the record for the highest terminal velocity at 201.34 mph (324.03 km/h)
  • 1983 Jerry Lewis‘s 18th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,691,627
  • 1984 NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery completes its first spaceflight, STS-41-D, with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California
  • 1986 Hijacking of aircraft Pan Am 73 at Karachi airport, Pakistan; 20 passengers are killed
  • 1986 NASA awards study contracts to five aerospace firms
  • 1986 NASA launches DoD-1, a classified Department of Defense satellite
  • 1987 Carlton Fisk hits his 300th career home run off Danny Jackson
  • 1988 Jerry Lewis‘s 23rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $41,132,113

The Joan Rivers Show

1989 Daytime talk show “The Joan Rivers Show,” hosted by Joan Rivers, premieres on US TV

  • 1989 Deborah Norville becomes the news anchor of the Today Show

Hussein Calls for Uprising

1990 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West

Mandela Heads ANC

1991 Nelson Mandela is chosen as president of the African National Congress

  • 1992 Dan O’Brien sets a world record in the decathlon with 8891 points
  • 1993 F. Murray Abraham is released from hospital after a car accident
  • 1993 Noureddine Morceli runs a world record mile in 3:44.39
  • 1994 Jerry Lewis‘s 29th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,100,000
  • 1994 Jingyi Le swims a world record in the 100 m women’s freestyle in 54.01 seconds

NFL Record

1994 SF wide receiver Jerry Rice catches 2 touchdown passes and runs for another score in the 49ers’ 44-14 rout of the Raiders, surpassing Jim Brown as the NFL’s career TD leader with 127

Baseball Record

1995 Cal Ripken Jr. ties Gehrig’s record of playing in 2,130 consecutive games

  • 1996 Following US cruise missile strikes on Iraq, crude oil prices rise as the market speculates about when Iraq will begin exporting oil under UN Resolution 986
  • 1997 Athens in Greece is selected to host the 2004 Olympics
  • 1997 Orioles beat Yankees 13-9 in the longest nine-inning game
  • 2000 The Haverstraw-Ossining Ferry makes its maiden voyage

As Slow as Possible Begins

2001 John Cage‘s musical composition “As Slow as Possible”, intended to be played for 639 years, begins at St. Burchardi Church, Halberstadt, Germany

  • 2005 Mandala Airlines Flight 91 crashes into a heavily populated residential area seconds after taking off from Medan in Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 100 people on board and 49 people on the ground
  • 2007 Three terrorists suspected to be part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both Frankfurt International Airport and US military installations
  • 2008 Haiti’s government reports a death toll of at least 529 people as a result of flooding caused by Tropical Storm Hanna around the northern port city of Gonaïves
  • 2009 Denmark celebrates the first national Flag Day in memory of the fallen Danes in international operations since 1948
  • 2009 The Staffordshire Hoard, the largest Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork hoard ever found with over 4,600 items, is discovered on farmland near Hammerwich, England [1]
  • 2012 25 people are killed and 4 wounded after an ammunition store explodes in Afyon, Turkey
  • 2012 54 people are killed and 50 injured after a firecracker factory explodes in Tamil Nadu
  • 2012 Austerity measures require Greece to increase its maximum working days to six per week
  • 2014 World Health Organization estimates 1,900 people have died from the Ebola virus out of 3,500 infected in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone
  • 2015 US health officials confirm a salmonella outbreak linked to cucumbers from Mexico is responsible for one death and for making hundreds sick
  • 2017 Barry Callebaut announces a fourth type of chocolate, “Ruby,” made from the Ruby cocoa bean
  • 2017 Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, becomes the first woman President of the UK Supreme Court

2017 Hurricane Irma becomes one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin region with winds of 185 mph (280 km/h)

  • 2017 Togo’s government shuts down the internet for a week to suppress government opposition
  • 2018 Anonymous senior White House official opinion piece “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration” published by The New York Times

Russian Nerve Agent Attack

2018 UK Prime Minister Theresa May confirms in Parliament that two Russian military intelligence officers undertake a Novichok nerve agent attack, prompting international condemnation

  • 2019 Erramatti Mangamma becomes the world’s oldest living mother after giving birth to twins at age 74 in Hyderabad, India
  • 2019 New theory suggests the Loch Ness Monster may be a giant eel after DNA study reveals no plesiosaur or sturgeon DNA found
  • 2019 South African women march on Parliament to protest violence against women after a month when 30 were killed by their spouses
  • 2020 More than 50 are arrested as Portland, Oregon, observes 100 days of protests against racism and police brutality
  • 2021 Coup by soldiers in Guinea led by Colonel Doumbouya deposes President Alpha Condé and his government, citing rampant corruption

Electric Saint

2021 Stewart Copeland’s opera “Electric Saint” about the life of Nikola Tesla, with libretto by Jonathan Moore, premieres at the Deutsches Nationaltheater in Weimar, Germany

  • 2021 Tour Championship, Men’s Golf, East Lake GC, GA: Patrick Cantlay claims the highest prize in golf ($15 million) with a one-stroke win over Jon Rahm; runner-up Rahm earns $5 million
  • 2022 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Chinese city of Chengdu while it is under lockdown, killing 65 people [1]

All-Starr Band Tour

2022 Ringo Starr resumes his All-Starr Band tour after two musicians recover from COVID-19

Truss Replaces Johnson

2022 UK’s ruling Conservative party appoints Liz Truss as their next leader and Prime Minister, replacing scandal-ridden Boris Johnson [1]

  • 2023 American singer Joe Jonas (34) files for divorce from English actress Sophie Turner (27) in Miami, Florida, after 4 years of marriage [1]
  • 2023 An extratropical cyclone in Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul claims at least 31 lives as extensive flooding affects 60 cities [1]
  • 2023 Birmingham City Council, the largest local authority in Europe, effectively declares itself bankrupt after stopping all nonessential spending [1]
  • 2023 Former Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio is sentenced to 22 years in prison, the longest so far, for seditious conspiracy in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol [1]
  • 2024 China confirms it is ending its foreign adoption program following a suspension that began with the COVID-19 pandemic in January 2020 [1]
  • 2024 Kuini Ngawai Hono i te Po (27) is named the new Māori Monarch as her father, King Tuheitia, is buried at Tūrangawaewae Marae, New Zealand [1]

China-Africa Summit

2024 President Xi Jinping hosts a China-Africa summit with 50 African delegates focusing on developing green energy [1]

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Faculty Positions in Academy of Film and Creative Technology – Times Higher Education

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What Happened on September 5

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Major Events

  • 1839 First Opium War begins between the British Empire and the Qing dynasty of China
  • 1958 First color video recording on magnetic tape is presented in Charlotte, North Carolina
  • 2017 Hurricane Irma becomes one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin region with winds of 185 mph (280 km/h)

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Sep 5 in Sport

  • 1972 Eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and later killed by the Palestinian group Black September group at the Munich Olympics

Did You Know?

German Christine Hardt patents the first modern brassiere

September 5, 1889

Famous Weddings

  • 1725 French King Louis XV (15) marries Polish princess Marie Leszczyńska (22)
  • 1945 American singer-songwriter Boudleaux Bryant (25) weds aspiring songwriter Matilda Scaduto (19), whom he called ‘Felice’, five days after meeting, in Newport, Kentucky, until his death in 1987
  • 1959 American motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel (20) weds Linda Joan Bork; divorce in 1997

Famous Divorces

  • 1980 American lawyer Kathleen St. Johns divorces American best-selling author Michael Crichton (37) after nearly 2 years of marriage

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Ultra-Processed Foods Add Fat Without Extra Calories and Disrupt Hormones

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Even without overeating, ultra-processed foods cause men to gain more fat and absorb pollutants that damage fertility. Scientists say the processing itself, not just the calories, is what makes these diets so harmful. Credit: Shutterstock

Ultra-processed foods don’t just pack on pounds — they change the body in hidden ways.

In a tightly controlled study, young men gained more fat mass on a processed diet even when calorie counts were the same as unprocessed meals. Researchers also found worrying spikes in plastic-derived chemicals, along with drops in testosterone and other key fertility hormones.

Obesity, Diabetes, and Sperm Decline

Over the last 50 years, obesity and type 2 diabetes have climbed dramatically, while sperm quality has steadily declined. One factor that may be fueling these troubling shifts is the growing reliance on ultra-processed foods, which have been tied to numerous health problems. What scientists still debate is whether the harm comes from the industrial ingredients, the processing methods, or simply because these foods make people eat more than they need.

A new study provides fresh insight. Researchers found that people put on more weight when eating an ultra-processed diet compared to a diet of minimally processed foods, even though both contained the exact same number of calories. The human trial also revealed that ultra-processed meals exposed participants to higher levels of pollutants already linked to lower sperm quality. The work was published in the journal Cell Metabolism.

Proving the Hidden Harm

“Our results prove that ultra-processed foods harm our reproductive and metabolic health, even if they’re not eaten in excess. This indicates that it is the processed nature of these foods that makes them harmful,” says Jessica Preston, lead author of the study, who carried out the research during her PhD at the University of Copenhagen’s NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR).

Same Calories, Different Outcomes

To get the best possible data, the scientists compared the health impact of unprocessed and ultra-processed diets on the same person. They recruited 43 men aged 20 to 35, who spent three weeks on each of the two diets, with three months ‘washout’ in between. Half started on the ultra-processed and half started on the unprocessed diet. Half of the men also received a high-calorie diet with an extra 500 daily calories, while half received the normal amount of calories for their size, age and physical activity levels. They were not told which diet they were on. Both the unprocessed and ultra-processed diets had the same amount of calories, protein, carbs and fats.

Men gained around 1 kg more of fat mass while on the ultra-processed diet compared to the unprocessed diet, regardless of whether they were on the normal or excess calorie diet. Several other markers of cardiovascular health were also affected.

Ultra-Processed Foods Polluted With Toxins

The scientists also discovered a worrying increase in the level of the hormone-disrupting phthalate cxMINP, a substance used in plastics, in men on the ultra-processed diet. Men on this diet also saw decreases in their levels of testosterone and follicle-stimulating hormone, which are crucial for sperm production.

“We were shocked by how many body functions were disrupted by ultra-processed foods, even in healthy young men. The long-term implications are alarming and highlight the need to revise nutritional guidelines to better protect against chronic disease,” says the study’s senior author Professor Romain Barrès from the University of Copenhagen’s NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research, and the Université Côte d’Azur.

Reference: “Effect of ultra-processed food consumption on male reproductive and metabolic health” by Jessica M. Preston, Jo Iversen, Antonia Hufnagel, Line Hjort, Jodie Taylor, Clara Sanchez, Victoria George, Ann N. Hansen, Lars Ängquist, Susan Hermann, Jeffrey M. Craig, Signe Torekov, Christian Lindh, Karin S. Hougaard, Marcelo A. Nóbrega, Stephen J. Simpson and Romain Barrès, 28 August 2025, Cell Metabolism.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2025.08.004

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UCLA Engineers Build Room-Temperature Quantum-Inspired Computer

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Scientists have built a physics-inspired computing system that uses oscillators, rather than digital processing, to solve complex optimization problems. Their prototype runs at room temperature and promises faster, low-power performance. Credit: Shutterstock

Experimental device harnesses quantum properties for efficient processing at room temperature.

Engineers are working to design computers capable of handling a difficult class of tasks known as combinatorial optimization problems. These challenges are central to many everyday applications, including telecommunications planning, scheduling, and route optimization for travel.

Current computing technologies face physical limits on how much processing power can be built into a chip, and the energy required to train artificial intelligence models is enormous.

A collaborative team from UCLA and UC Riverside has introduced a new strategy to address these limitations and tackle some of the hardest optimization problems. Instead of representing all information digitally, their system processes data through a network of oscillators — components that shift back and forth at defined frequencies. This architecture, called an Ising machine, excels at parallel computing, enabling many calculations to run at the same time. The solution to the problem is reached when the oscillators fall into synchrony.

Quantum properties at room temperature

In their report published in Physical Review Applied, the researchers described a device that relies on quantum properties connecting electrical activity with vibrations inside a material. Unlike most existing quantum computing approaches, which must be cooled to extremely low temperatures to preserve their quantum state, this device can function at room temperature.

Scanning Electron Image and Circuit Diagrams of Coupled Oscillators
Figure: (upper panels) Scanning-electron-microscope image showing a charge-density-wave device channel in the coupled oscillator circuit. Pseudo-coloring is used for clarity. Circuit schematic of the coupled oscillator circuit. (lower panels) Illustration of solving the max-cut optimization problem, showing the 6 × 6 connected graph, circuit representation of the six coupled oscillators using the weights described in the connectivity matrix, and values of the phase-sensitivity function. Credit: Alexander Balandin

“Our approach is physics-inspired computing, which has recently emerged as a promising method to solve complex optimization problems,” said corresponding author Alexander Balandin, the Fang Lu Professor of Engineering and distinguished professor of materials science and engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. “It leverages physical phenomena involving strongly correlated electron–phonon condensate to perform computation through physical processes directly, thus achieving greater energy efficiency and speed.”

Materials linking quantum and classical physics

The research showed that oscillators naturally evolve to a ground state, in which they’re synced up, allowing the machine to solve combinatorial optimization problems.

Alexander Balandin
Alexander Balandin. Credit: Alexander Balandin

Balandin and his colleagues used a special material to bridge the gap between quantum mechanics — counterintuitive rules governing interactions between subatomic particles — and the more familiar physics of everyday life. Their prototype hardware is based on a form of tantalum sulfide, a “quantum material” that makes it possible to reveal the switching between electrical and vibrational phases.

The new technology has the potential for low-power operation; at the same time, it can be compatible with conventional silicon technology.

“Any new physics-based hardware has to be integrated with the standard digital silicon CMOS technology to impact data information processing systems,” said Balandin, a member of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, or CNSI. “The two-dimensional charge-density-wave material that we selected for this demonstration has the potential for such integration.”

Reference: “Charge-density-wave quantum oscillator networks for solving combinatorial optimization problems” by Jonas Olivier Brown, Taosha Guo, Fabio Pasqualetti and Alexander A. Balandin, 18 August 2025, Physical Review Applied.
DOI: 10.1103/zmlj-6nn7

The coupled oscillators in this research were built at the UCLA Nanofabrication Laboratory, jointly run by CNSI and UCLA Samueli, and tested in UCLA’s Phonon Optimized Engineered Materials laboratory.

The study was funded by the Office of Naval Research and the Army Research Office.

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