Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit ( 24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736 ) was a Dutch-German-Polish physicist, engineer, and glass blower who is best known for inventing the alcohol thermometer ( 1709 ) and the mercury thermometer ( 1714 ), and for developing a temperature scale now named after him.

Twenty-nine September is the feast day of the three archangels, Michael, Gabriel and Raphael.

* September 24 – Battle of Guayaquil: Ecuadorian forces led by Juan José Flores and Gabriel García Moreno take the port of Guayaquil from Supreme Chief Guillermo Franco, who is backed by Peruvian forces.

* September 1 – Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli, Italian naturalist ( d. 1874 )

* September 8 – In California, Fathers Pedro Cambon and Angel Somera found the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in what is now San Gabriel, California.

* September 16 – Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist and inventor ( b. 1686 )

* September 16 – Gabriel Christie, British general ( d. 1799 )

In September 2008 Gabriel was named as the recipient of Amnesty International ’ s 2008 Ambassador of Conscience Award.

Gabriel also has two sons with Meabh Flynn: Isaac Ralph ( born 27 September 2001 ) and Luc ( born 5 July 2008 ).

On September 4, 2012, Gabriel Landeskog was named the fourth captain of the Avalanche.

* Ben Jonson – playwright and poet, imprisoned for the 22 September 1598 killing of his fellow actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel.

* Most fumbles recovered, game: 4 ; Otto Graham, Cleveland Browns vs. New York Giants, October 25, 1953 ; Sam Etcheverry, St. Louis Cardinals vs. New York Giants, September 17, 1961 ; Roman Gabriel, Los Angeles Rams vs. San Francisco 49ers, October 12, 1969 ; Joe Ferguson, Buffalo Bills vs. Miami Dolphins, September 18, 1977 ; Randall Cunningham, Philadelphia Eagles vs. Oakland Raiders, November 30, 1986 ( OT ).

Michaelmas, the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel ( also the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, Uriel and Raphael, the Feast of the Archangels, or the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels ) is a day in the Western Christian calendar which occurs on 29 September.

In Anglican and Episcopal tradition, there are three or four archangels in its calendar for 29 September feast for St. Michael and All Angels: namely Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, and often, Uriel.

While there, he met William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti with whom he formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ( known as the " PRB ") in September 1848 in his family home on Gower Street, off Bedford Square.

On September 8, 1771, the Franciscans established the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in the San Gabriel Valley.

The archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael are venerated in the Roman Catholic Church with a feast on September 29 ( between 1921 and 1969 March 24 for Gabriel and 24 October for Raphael ).

Other feast days of the Archangels include the Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel on March 26 ( April 8 ), and the Miracle of the Archangel Michael at Colossae on September 6 ( September 19 ).

* September 5-Gottfried Gabriel Bredow, historian ( born 1773 )

* September 4-Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D ' Orsay, wit ( died 1852 )

Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr ( September 27, 1677 – December 1, 1750 ) was a German mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, and wrote about sundials.

Albert Schweitzer, OM ( 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965 ) was a German and then French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary.

Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe ( September 27, 1818 – November 25, 1884 ) was a German chemist.

Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located ; the name " Auschwitz " was made the official name again by the Germans after they invaded Poland in September 1939.

The most recent election, the German federal election, 2009, was held on September 27, 2009.

Steven Zaloga states: “ Whilst Western accounts of the September campaign have stressed the shock value of the panzers and Stuka attacks, they have tended to underestimate the punishing effect of German artillery on Polish units.

The Baralong Incidents were naval engagements of the First World War in August and September 1915, involving the Royal Navy Q-Ship, later renamed HMS Wyandra, and two German U-boats.

The Battle of Świecino ( named for the village of Świecino, near Żarnowiec Lake, northern Poland ) also called the Battle of Żarnowiec or in German Battle of Schwetz, took place on September 17, 1462 during the Thirteen Years ' War.

The planet Neptune was discovered in Capricornus by German astronomer Johann Galle, near Deneb Algedi ( δ Capricorni ) on September 23, 1846, which is appropriate as Capricornus can be seen best from Europe at 4: 00am in September.

German Cavalryman in September 1914, German South-West Africa.

A popular myth is that Polish cavalry armed with lances charged German tanks during the September 1939 campaign.

This arose from misreporting of a single clash on 1 September near Krojanty, when two squadrons of the Polish 18th Lancers armed with sabres scattered German infantry before being caught in the open by German armoured cars.

In September 1944, after German forces left, legal power was briefly restored as Otto Tief formed a new government in accordance with the 1938 constitution.

Edmund Rüdiger Stoiber ( born 28 September 1941 ) is a German politician, former minister-president of the state of Bavaria and former chairman of the Christian Social Union ( CSU ).

Friedrich Wöhler ( 31 July 1800 – 23 September 1882 ) was a German chemist, best known for his synthesis of urea, but also the first to isolate several chemical elements.

Fox News was dropped by TV8 and replaced by German news channel Deutsche Welle in September 2006.

Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz ( also August Kekulé ; ) ( 7 September 1829 – 13 July 1896 ) was a German organic chemist.

Frederick the Peaceful KG ( September 21, 1415 – August 19, 1493 ) was Duke of Austria as Frederick V from 1424, the successor of Albert II as German King as Frederick IV from 1440, and Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III from 1452.

Franz Bopp ( September 14, 1791, Mainz – October 23, 1867, Berlin ) was a German linguist known for extensive comparative work on Indo-European languages.

The Rhineland-Westphalian state began a " typical German " festival, and started the tradition on the eve of September 2 with the ringing of bells, fireworks and patriotic songs for a peace festival.

The city and seaport were occupied in September 1939 by German troops and renamed Gotenhafen after the Goths, an ancient Germanic tribe, who had lived in the area.

He died 12 September 1500, and was succeeded in his German territories by George as the head of the Albertine line, while George's brother Heinrich became hereditary governor of Friesland.

After allying with Mussolini's Italy in the " Pact of Steel " and signing a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, the German dictator Adolf Hitler started the Second World War on 1 September 1939 attacking Poland and following a military build-up throughout the late 1930s.