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September 8 | |
| 1897 | Birth date of Jimmy Rodgers, country music performer. (died 5/26/33) |
| 1900 | Birth date of Claude Denson Pepper, congressman and senator. (died 5/30/89) |
| 1907 | Birth date of Buck Leonard, Negro League baseball player. (died 11/27/97) |
| 1935 | Huey Long is shot. He dies two days later. |
| 1943 | Italy unconditionally surrenders. |