Events

Pre-1600

• 455 Emperor Avitus enters Italy with a Gallic army and consolidates his power.

• 1170 Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland: The Kingdom of Dublin falls to Anglo-Norman invaders.

• 1217 Livonian Crusade: The Estonian leader Lembitu and Livonian leader Caupo of Turaida are killed in the Battle of St. Matthew's Day.

• 1435 The Treaty of Arras is promulgated, causing Burgundy to switch sides in the Hundred Years' War.

1601–1900

• 1745 A British government army led by Sir John Cope is defeated in less than 15 minutes by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart.

• 1776 Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.

• 1780 American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.

• 1792 French Revolution: The National Convention abolishes the monarchy.

• 1809 British Secretary of War Lord Castlereagh and Foreign Secretary George Canning meet in a duel on Putney Heath, with Castlereagh wounding Canning in the thigh.

• 1814 War of 1812: British forces abandon their unsuccessful siege of Fort Erie.

• 1843 The crew of schooner Ancud, led by John Williams Wilson, takes possession of the Strait of Magellan on behalf of the Chilean government.

• 1860 Second Opium War: An Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.

• 1862 Taiping Rebellion: The Ever Victorious Army defeats Taiping forces at the Battle of Cixi.

• 1896 Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.

• 1898 Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.

1901–present

• 1921 A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.

• 1933 Salvador Lutteroth establishes Mexican professional wrestling.

• 1934 A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than 3,000 people.

• 1937 J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published for the first time. (September 22 is celebrated by some fans as Hobbit Day, however.)

• 1938 The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.

• 1939 Romanian prime minister Armand Călinescu is assassinated by the Iron Guard.

• 1942 The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi to Bełżec extermination camp.

• 1942 The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.

• 1942 The Holocaust in Poland: At the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently move from Konstantynów to Biała Podlaska.

• 1942 The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.

• 1953 Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter.

• 1957 Pamir, a four-masted barque, was shipwrecked and sank off the Azores during Hurricane Carrie.

• 1964 Malta gains independence from the United Kingdom, but remains in the Commonwealth.

• 1964 The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's fastest bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.

• 1965 The Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.

• 1969 Mexicana de Aviación Flight 801, a Boeing 727-100 passenger plane, crashes during a landing attempt in Mexico City, killing 27 of the 118 occupants.

• 1971 Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.

• 1972 Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos begins authoritarian rule by declaring martial law.

• 1976 Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C., at the order of Augusto Pinochet.

• 1976 Seychelles joins the United Nations.

• 1977 Malév Flight 203 crashes near Urziceni, killing 29 people.

• 1981 Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.

• 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.

• 1984 Brunei joins the United Nations.

• 1991 Armenia gains independence from the Soviet Union.

• 1993 Russian president Boris Yeltsin triggers a constitutional crisis when he suspends parliament and scraps the constitution.

• 1993 A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-134 is shot down by a missile in the Black Sea near Sokhumi, Georgia.

• 1996 The Defense of Marriage Act is passed by the United States Congress.

• 1997 St. Olaf's Church, a stone church from the 16th century in Tyrvää, Finland, is burnt down by a burglar.

• 1999 The 7.7-magnitude Chi-Chi earthquake strikes central Taiwan, killing 2,400 people.

• 2001 America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.

• 2001 Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.

• 2003 The Galileo spacecraft is terminated by sending it into Jupiter's atmosphere.

• 2012 Three Egyptian militants open fire on a group of Israeli soldiers in a southern Israel cross-border attack.

• 2013 Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya, killing at least 67 people.

• 2015 Adventist Health System agreed to pay $118.7 million to settle allegations of fraud. It was the largest a hospital network has ever paid.

• 2018 LGBT rights activist Zak Kostopoulos is beaten to death on a busy street in Athens.

• 2019 A 5.6 Mw earthquake shakes the Albanian port of Durrës. Forty-nine people are injured in the capital, Tirana.

Births

Pre-1600

• 580 Pope Vitalian (died 672)

• 953 Abu Ishaq Ibrahim, Buyid prince

• 1051 Bertha of Savoy (died 1087)

• 1371 Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1440)

• 1407 Leonello d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara, Italian noble (died 1450)

• 1411 Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, English politician, Lord Protector of England (died 1460)

• 1415 Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1493)

• 1428 Jingtai Emperor of China (died 1457)

• 1433 Guillaume Fichet, French scholar and academic (died 1480)

• 1452 Girolamo Savonarola, Italian priest and philosopher (died 1498)

• 1457 Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria, Polish princess (died 1502)

• 1552 Barbara Longhi, Italian painter (died 1638)

• 1559 Cigoli, Italian painter and architect (died 1613)

1601–1900

• 1629 Philip Howard, English cardinal (died 1694)

• 1640 Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, younger son of Louis XIII of France and his wife (died 1701)

• 1645 Louis Jolliet, Canadian explorer (died 1700)

• 1706 Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg (died 1735)

• 1758 Christopher Gore, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 8th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1827)

• 1760 Ivan Dmitriev, Russian poet and politician, Minister of Justice for Imperial Russia (died 1837)

• 1761 Antoine Barnave, French politician and orator (died 1793)

• 1776 John Fitchett, English poet (died 1838)

• 1819 Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois (died 1864)

• 1840 Murad V, Ottoman sultan (died 1904)

• 1842 Abdul Hamid II, 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (died 1918)

• 1846 Mihály Kolossa, Hungarian-Slovene author and poet (died 1906)

• 1849 Maurice Barrymore, American actor (died 1905)

• 1851 Fanny Searls, American biologist (died 1939)

• 1853 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1926)

• 1859 Francesc Macià, Catalan colonel and politician, 122nd President of Catalonia (died 1933)

• 1862 James E. Talmage, English-American religious leader and author (died 1933)

• 1863 John Bunny, American actor (died 1915)

• 1866 Charles Nicolle, French-Tunisian microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)

• 1866 H. G. Wells, English novelist, historian, and critic (died 1946)

• 1867 Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, English politician, 4th Governor-General of New Zealand (died 1958)

• 1867 Henry L. Stimson, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 46th United States Secretary of State (died 1950)

• 1872 Henry Tingle Wilde, English chief officer on the RMS Titanic (died 1912)

• 1873 Papa Jack Laine, American drummer and bandleader (died 1966)

• 1874 Gustav Holst, English composer and educator (died 1934)

• 1878 Peter McWilliam, Scottish-English footballer and manager (died 1951)

• 1882 Geevarghese Ivanios, Indian metropolitan (died 1953)

• 1884 Dénes Kőnig, Hungarian mathematician and theorist (died 1944)

• 1890 Max Immelmann, German lieutenant and pilot (died 1916)

• 1890 Charles William Train, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1965)

• 1893 Erna Scheffler, German lawyer and justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (died 1983)

• 1894 Anton Piëch, Austrian lawyer and businessman (died 1952)

• 1898 Frances Mary Albrier, American civil rights activist (died 1987)

• 1899 Frederick Coutts, Scottish 8th General of The Salvation Army (died 1986)

1901–present

• 1902 Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet and critic (died 1963)

• 1902 Allen Lane, English publisher, founded Penguin Books (died 1970)

• 1902 Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1937)

• 1903 Preston Tucker, American engineer and businessman, designed the Tucker Sedan (died 1956)

• 1904 Hans Hartung, German-French painter (died 1989)

• 1905 Robert Lebel, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1999)

• 1906 Henry Beachell, American biologist and botanist (died 2006)

• 1909 Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian educator and politician, 1st President of Ghana (died 1972)

• 1910 Meinrad Schütter, Swiss composer (died 2006)

• 1912 Chuck Jones, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (died 2002)

• 1912 György Sándor, Hungarian pianist and composer (died 2005)

• 1916 Françoise Giroud, Swiss-French journalist and politician, French Minister of Culture (died 2003)

• 1917 Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and academic (died 1968)

• 1918 John Gofman, American physicist, chemist, and biologist (died 2007)

• 1918 Karl Slover, American actor (died 2011)

• 1918 Juan José Arreola, Mexican writer and academic (died 2001)

• 1919 Mario Bunge, Argentinian-Canadian physicist and philosopher (died 2020)

• 1919 Herman Fowlkes, Jr., American trumpet player and educator (died 1993)

• 1919 Fazlur Rahman Malik, Pakistani philosopher and scholar (died 1988)

• 1920 Kenneth McAlpine, British race car driver (died 2023)

• 1921 John McHale, American baseball player and manager (died 2008)

• 1923 Fred Hunt, British jazz pianist (died 1986)

• 1924 Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (died 1957)

• 1926 Don Dunstan, Fijian-Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Premier of South Australia (died 1999)

• 1926 Donald A. Glaser, American physicist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)

• 1926 Fereydoon Moshiri, Iranian poet and critic (died 2000)

• 1929 Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer and manager (died 1979)

• 1929 Edgar Valter, Estonian author and illustrator (died 2006)

• 1929 Bernard Williams, English-Italian philosopher and academic (died 2003)

• 1930 John Morgan, Welsh-Canadian actor and screenwriter (died 2004)

• 1930 Bob Stokoe, English footballer and manager (died 2004)

• 1931 Larry Hagman, American actor, director, and producer (died 2012)

• 1932 Shirley Conran, English journalist and author (died 2024)

• 1932 Marjorie Fletcher, English Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service (died 2008)

• 1932 Don Preston, American keyboard player and composer

• 1933 Allan Jeans, Australian footballer and coach (died 2011)

• 1933 Dick Simon, American race car driver

• 1934 Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet (died 2016)

• 1934 María Rubio, Mexican actress (died 2018)

• 1935 Jimmy Armfield, English footballer and manager (died 2018)

• 1935 Henry Gibson, American actor (died 2009)

• 1936 Ian Albery, English manager and producer

• 1936 Dickey Lee, American pop-country singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1936 Yury Luzhkov, Russian soldier and politician, 2nd Mayor of Moscow (died 2019)

• 1936 Diane Rehm, American journalist and radio host

• 1937 John D'Amico, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (died 2005)

• 1938 Doug Moe, American basketball player and coach (died 2026)

• 1938 Olu Falae, Nigerian politician and government official

• 1939 Agnivesh, Indian philosopher, academic, and politician (died 2020)

• 1940 Ron Fenton, English footballer, coach, and manager (died 2013)

• 1940 Hermann Knoflacher, Austrian engineer and academic

• 1940 Bill Kurtis, American journalist and producer

• 1941 Jack Brisco, American wrestler and manager (died 2010)

• 1941 R. James Woolsey, Jr., American scholar and diplomat, 16th Director of Central Intelligence

• 1942 Sam McDowell, American baseball player

• 1943 David Hood, American session bassist and trombone player

• 1943 Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer

• 1944 Steve Beshear, American lawyer and politician, 61st Governor of Kentucky

• 1944 Marcus Binney, English historian and author

• 1944 Fannie Flagg, American actress, comedian, and author

• 1944 Hamilton Jordan, American politician, 8th White House Chief of Staff (died 2008)

• 1944 Bobby Tench, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)

• 1945 Richard Childress, American race car driver and businessman

• 1945 Shaw Clifton, Northern Irish 18th General of The Salvation Army (died 2023)

• 1945 Kay Ryan, American poet and educator

• 1946 Rose Garrard, English sculptor and author

• 1946 Moritz Leuenberger, Swiss lawyer and politician, 87th President of the Swiss Confederation

• 1946 Mart Siimann, Estonian psychologist and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Estonia

• 1947 Don Felder, American musician and songwriter

• 1947 Keith Harris, English ventriloquist and singer (died 2015)

• 1947 Rupert Hine, English musician, songwriter, and record producer (died 2020)

• 1947 Stephen King, American author and screenwriter

• 1947 Ed Nimmervoll, Austrian-Australian journalist, historian, and author (died 2014)

• 1947 Marsha Norman, American playwright and author

• 1948 Jack Dromey, English union leader and politician (died 2022)

• 1948 Mitsuo Momota, Japanese wrestler

• 1948 John B. O'Reilly Jr., American politician (died 2025)

• 1949 Henry Butler, American pianist and photographer (died 2018)

• 1949 Artis Gilmore, American basketball player and radio host

• 1949 Odilo Scherer, Brazilian cardinal

• 1950 Charles Clarke, English economist and politician, Secretary of State for Education

• 1950 Bill Murray, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter

• 1951 Bruce Arena, American soccer player and manager

• 1951 Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen general and politician, 3rd President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (died 2005)

• 1952 Dave Gregory, English guitarist and keyboard player

• 1952 John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick, English lawyer and politician

• 1953 Arie Luyendyk, Dutch race car driver and sportscaster

• 1953 Reinhard Marx, German cardinal

• 1954 Shinzo Abe, Japanese lawyer and politician, 90th Prime Minister of Japan (died 2022)

• 1954 – Julia Grant, British transgender activist (died 2019)

• 1954 Thomas S. Ray, American ecologist and academic

• 1954 Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor, English rock drummer (died 2015)

• 1955 Richard Hieb, American engineer and astronaut

• 1955 Israel Katz, Israeli politician

• 1955 Mika Kaurismäki, Finnish director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1956 Jack Givens, American basketball player and sportscaster

• 1956 Marta Kauffman, American screenwriter and producer

• 1956 Ricky Morton, American wrestler

• 1957 Ethan Coen, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1957 Mark Levin, American lawyer, radio host, and author

• 1957 Sidney Moncrief, American basketball player and coach

• 1957 Kevin Rudd, Australian politician and diplomat, 26th Prime Minister of Australia

• 1958 Rick Mahorn, American basketball player and coach

• 1958 Simon Mayo, English radio host

• 1959 Crin Antonescu, Romanian educator and politician, former interim president of Romania

• 1959 Andrzej Buncol, Polish footballer

• 1959 Dave Coulier, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter

• 1959 Danny Cox, English-American baseball player and coach

• 1959 Corinne Drewery, English singer-songwriter and fashion designer

• 1960 David James Elliott, Canadian-American actor and director

• 1960 Masoumeh Ebtekar, Iranian journalist, politician and scientist, first woman Vice President of Iran

• 1960 Kelley Eskridge, American author and screenwriter

• 1960 Musalia Mudavadi, Kenyan politician and Former Deputy Prime Minister

• 1960 Graham Southern, English art dealer and gallery owner

• 1960 Maurizio Cattelan, Italian sculptor

• 1961 Billy Collins, Jr., American boxer (died 1984)

• 1961 Dan Borislow, American businessman and inventor (died 2014)

• 1961 Serena Scott Thomas, English actress and producer

• 1961 Nancy Travis, American actress and producer

• 1962 Rob Morrow, American actor

• 1963 Curtly Ambrose, Antiguan cricketer and bass player

• 1963 Cecil Fielder, American baseball player and manager

• 1963 Angus Macfadyen, Scottish actor and screenwriter

• 1963 Mamoru Samuragochi, Japanese composer

• 1963 Trevor Steven, English footballer

• 1963 David J. Wales, British academic and educator

• 1964 Jorge Drexler, Uruguayan singer-songwriter

• 1964 Lester Quitzau, Canadian guitarist

• 1965 Frédéric Beigbeder, French author and critic

• 1965 Cheryl Hines, American actress

• 1965 Johanna Vuoksenmaa, Finnish director and screenwriter

• 1966 Kerrin Lee-Gartner, Canadian skier and journalist

• 1967 Faith Hill, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

• 1967 Suman Pokhrel, Nepali poet, lyricist and playwright

• 1967 Tyler Stewart, Canadian drummer

• 1968 Kevin Buzzard, British mathematician

• 1968 David Jude Jolicoeur, American rapper, songwriter, and producer (died 2023)

• 1968 Ricki Lake, American actress, producer, and talk show host

• 1969 Anne Burrell, American chef and television host (died 2025)

• 1969 Jason Christiansen, American baseball player

• 1969 Curtis Leschyshyn, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

• 1969 Billy Porter, American actor and singer

• 1970 Rob Benedict, American actor, screenwriter, and musician

• 1970 Melissa Ferrick, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1970 Samantha Power, Irish-American journalist, academic, and diplomat, 28th United States Ambassador to the United Nations

• 1971 John Crawley, English cricketer and academic

• 1971 James Lesure, Americana actor

• 1971 Alfonso Ribeiro, American actor, director, and comedian

• 1971 Luke Wilson, American actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1972 Olivia Bonamy, French actress

• 1972 Liam Gallagher, English singer-songwriter

• 1972 Jon Kitna, American football player and coach

• 1973 Vanessa Grigoriadis, American journalist and author

• 1973 Virginia Ruano Pascual, Spanish tennis player

• 1973 Oswaldo Sánchez, Mexican footballer

• 1974 Özgür Özel, Turkish pharmacist and politician

• 1974 Katharine Merry, English former sprinter

• 1974 Bryce Drew, American basketball player and coach

• 1974 Andy Todd, English footballer and manager

• 1975 Doug Davis, American baseball player

• 1975 Craig Thompson, American graphic novelist

• 1976 Jonas Bjerre, Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1976 Poul Hübertz, Danish footballer and manager

• 1977 Kārlis Lācis, Latvian pianist and composer

• 1977 Andre Pärn, Estonian basketball player

• 1977 Kohei Sato, Japanese wrestler

• 1977 Brian Tallet, American baseball player

• 1978 Paulo Costanzo, Canadian actor, director, and producer

• 1978 Luke Godden, Australian footballer

• 1978 Doug Howlett, New Zealand rugby player

• 1979 James Allan, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1979 Richard Dunne, Irish footballer

• 1979 Chris Gayle, Jamaican cricketer

• 1979 Julian Gray, English footballer

• 1979 Monika Merl, German runner

• 1980 Nyree Kindred, Welsh swimmer

• 1980 Tomas Scheckter, South African race car driver

• 1980 Autumn Reeser, American actress

• 1980 Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress

• 1981 Nicole Richie, American actress, fashion designer, and author

• 1981 Sarah Whatmore, English singer-songwriter

• 1982 Eduardo Azevedo, Brazilian race car driver

• 1982 Dominic Perrottet, Australian politician, 46th Premier of New South Wales

• 1982 Christos Tapoutos, Greek basketball player

• 1982 Rowan Vine, English footballer

• 1983 Ndiss Kaba Badji, Senegalese athlete

• 1983 Fernando Cavenaghi, Argentine footballer

• 1983 Francesco Dracone, Italian race car driver

• 1983 Scott Evans, American actor

• 1983 Anna Favella, Italian actress

• 1983 Maggie Grace, American actress

• 1983 Cristian Hidalgo, Spanish footballer

• 1983 Greg Jennings, American football player

• 1983 Joseph Mazzello, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1983 Anna Meares, Australian track cyclist

• 1983 Reggie Nelson, American football player

• 1983 Rafael Marques Pinto, Brazilian footballer

• 1984 Dwayne Bowe, American football player

• 1984 Jason Citron, American businessman, co-founded Discord

• 1984 Ahna O'Reilly, American actress

• 1984 Ben Wildman-Tobriner, American swimmer

• 1984 Wale, American rapper

• 1985 Justin Durant, American football player

• 1986 Faris Badwan, English singer-songwriter

• 1986 Lindsey Stirling, American violinist and composer

• 1987 Jimmy Clausen, American football player

• 1987 Anthony Don, Australian rugby league player

• 1987 Marcelo Estigarribia, Paraguayan footballer

• 1987 Ryan Guzman, American actor and model

• 1987 Murilo Maccari, Brazilian footballer

• 1987 Ashley Paris, American basketball player

• 1987 Courtney Paris, American basketball player

• 1987 Michał Pazdan, Polish footballer

• 1987 Ivelisse Vélez, Puerto Rican wrestler

• 1988 Doug Baldwin, American football player

• 1988 Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Pakistani politician

• 1989 Jason Derulo, American singer-songwriter

• 1989 Sandor Earl, Australian rugby league player

• 1989 Manny Harris, American basketball player

• 1989 Emma Watkins, Australian singer and actress

• 1990 Al-Farouq Aminu, American basketball player

• 1990 Danny Batth, English footballer

• 1990 Rob Cross, English darts player

• 1990 Ivan Dorschner, American-Filipino model and actor

• 1990 Sam Kasiano, New Zealand rugby league player

• 1990 Allison Scagliotti, American actress and musician

• 1990 Christian Serratos, American actress

• 1991 Anastassia Kovalenko, Estonian motorcycle racer

• 1991 Carlos Martínez, Dominican baseball player

• 1992 Kim Jong-dae, South Korean singer-songwriter

• 1992 Rodrigo Godínez, Mexican footballer

• 1992 Devyn Marble, American basketball player

• 1993 Kirsty Gilmour, Scottish badminton player

• 1993 Kwon Mina, South Korean singer and actress

• 1993 Ante Rebić, Croatian footballer

• 1994 Devin Williams, American baseball player

• 1995 Bruno Caboclo, Brazilian basketball player

• 1998 Máscara de Bronce, Mexican wrestler

• 1998 Yainer Díaz, Dominican baseball player

• 1999 Wang Junkai, Chinese singer

• 1999 Alexander Isak, Eritrean-Swedish professional footballer

• 2006 Alisha Palmowski, British female racing driver

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 19 BC Virgil, Roman poet (born 70 BC)

• 454 Flavius Aetius, Roman general and politician (born 396)

• 687 Pope Conon (born 630)

• 1026 Otto-William, Count of Burgundy

• 1217 Lembitu, Estonian king and military leader

• 1217 Caupo of Turaida

• 1235 Andrew II of Hungary (born 1175)

• 1256 William of Kilkenny, Lord Chancellor of England

• 1327 Edward II of England (born 1284)

• 1397 Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, English admiral (born 1346)

• 1558 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1500)

• 1576 Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, and astrologer (born 1501)

• 1586 Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French cardinal and diplomat (born 1517)

1601–1900

• 1629 Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (born 1587)

• 1637 William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (born 1602)

• 1643 Emperor Hong Taiji of China (born 1592)

• 1709 Ivan Mazepa, Ukrainian statesman, Hetman of Zaporizhian Host (born 1639)

• 1719 Johann Heinrich Acker, German historian and academic (born 1647)

• 1743 Jai Singh II, Indian king (born 1688)

• 1748 John Balguy, English philosopher and author (born 1686)

• 1796 François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (born 1769)

• 1798 George Read, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Delaware (born 1733)

• 1812 Emanuel Schikaneder, German actor and playwright (born 1751)

• 1832 Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, playwright, and poet (born 1771)

• 1860 Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher and author (born 1788)

• 1874 Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist and engineer (born 1798)

• 1880 Manuel Montt, Chilean scholar and politician, 6th President of Chile (born 1809)

1901–present

• 1904 Chief Joseph, American tribal leader (born 1840)

• 1905 Nikolay Benardos, Ukrainian inventor (born 1842)

• 1906 Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (born 1838)

• 1926 Léon Charles Thévenin, French engineer (born 1857)

• 1933 Kenji Miyazawa, Japanese author and poet (born 1896)

• 1937 Osgood Perkins (actor, born 1892), American actor (born 1892)

• 1938 Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian author and poet (born 1874)

• 1939 Armand Călinescu, Romanian economist and politician, 39th Prime Minister of Romania (born 1893)

• 1942 John Symes, English cricketer (born 1879)

• 1944 Alexander Koshetz, Ukrainian choral conductor, arranger, composer (born 1875)

• 1944 Artur Phleps, Romanian general (born 1881)

• 1947 Harry Carey, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1878)

• 1953 Necmettin Sadak, Turkish publisher and politician, 10th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1890)

• 1954 Mikimoto Kōkichi, Japanese businessman (born 1858)

• 1956 Bill Struth, Scottish footballer and manager (born 1875)

• 1957 Haakon VII of Norway (born 1872)

• 1958 Peter Whitehead, English racing driver (born 1914)

• 1962 Bo Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1892)

• 1963 Paulino Masip, Spanish author, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1899)

• 1964 Josef Müller, Croatian entomologist (born 1880)

• 1966 Paul Reynaud, French lawyer and politician, 118th Prime Minister of France (born 1878)

• 1971 Bernardo Houssay, Argentinian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)

• 1972 Henry de Montherlant, French essayist, novelist, and dramatist (born 1896)

• 1974 Walter Brennan, American actor (born 1894)

• 1974 Jacqueline Susann, American author and actress (born 1918)

• 1975 Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, Turkish painter and poet (born 1911)

• 1976 Benjamin Graham, British-American economist, professor, and investor (born 1894)

• 1976 Orlando Letelier, Chilean economist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Chile (born 1932)

• 1982 Ivan Bagramyan, Russian general (born 1897)

• 1983 Birgit Tengroth, Swedish actor (born 1915)

• 1983 Xavier Zubiri, Basque philosopher (born 1898)

• 1985 Gu Long, Chinese author and screenwriter (born 1937)

• 1987 Jaco Pastorius, American bass player, composer, and producer (born 1951)

• 1989 Rajini Thiranagama, Sri Lankan physician and academic (born 1954)

• 1990 Takis Kanellopoulos, Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1933)

• 1991 Gordon Bashford, English engineer (born 1916)

• 1992 Tarachand Barjatya, Indian film producer, founded Rajshri Productions (born 1914)

• 1995 Rudy Perpich, American dentist and politician, 34th Governor of Minnesota (born 1928)

• 1998 Florence Griffith Joyner, American sprinter (born 1959)

• 2000 Jacques Flynn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 35th Canadian Minister of Justice (born 1915)

• 2000 Leonid Rogozov, Russian physician and surgeon (born 1934)

• 2002 Robert L. Forward, American physicist and science fiction author (born 1932)

• 2006 Tasos Athanasiadis, Greek author (born 1913)

• 2007 Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian skier (born 1929)

• 2007 Alice Ghostley, American actress (born 1923)

• 2009 Robert Ginty, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1948)

• 2011 Jun Henmi, Japanese author and poet (born 1939)

• 2012 José Curbelo, Cuban-American pianist and manager (born 1917)

• 2012 Yehuda Elkana, Israeli historian and philosopher (born 1934)

• 2012 Sven Hassel, Danish-German soldier and author (born 1917)

• 2012 Bill King, English commander, sailor, and author (born 1910)

• 2012 Tom Umphlett, American baseball player and manager (born 1930)

• 2013 Kofi Awoonor, Ghanaian author, poet, and diplomat (born 1935)

• 2013 Michel Brault, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)

• 2013 Harl H. Haas, Jr., American lawyer, jurist, and politician (born 1932)

• 2013 Walter Wallmann, German lawyer and politician, Minister-President of Hesse (born 1932)

• 2013 Ko Wierenga, Dutch lawyer and politician (born 1933)

• 2014 Michael Harari, Israeli intelligence officer (born 1927)

• 2014 Caldwell Jones, American basketball player and coach (born 1950)

• 2014 Sheldon Patinkin, American director and playwright (born 1935)

• 2015 Yoram Gross, Polish-Australian director and producer (born 1926)

• 2015 Ray Warleigh, Australian-English saxophonist and flute player (born 1938)

• 2015 Richard Williamson, American footballer and coach (born 1941)

• 2018 Trần Đại Quang, President of Vietnam (born 1956)

• 2018 Vitaliy Masol, Ukrainian Former Prime Minister (born 1928)

• 2020 Arthur Ashkin, American scientist and Nobel laureate (born 1922)

• 2021 Willie Garson, American actor (born 1964)

• 2022 Raju Srivastav, Indian comedian, actor and politician (born 1963)

• 2023 Walewska Oliveira, Brazilian volleyball player and Olympic champion (born 1979)

• 2024 Raquel Blandón, Guatemalan lawyer and activist, First Lady of Guatemala (born 1943)

• 2024 Benny Golson, American saxophonist and composer (born 1929)

• 2024 Eddie Low, New Zealand country singer and musician (born 1943)

• 2024 Mercury Morris, American football player (born 1947)

Holidays and observances

Autumnal equinox observances in the Northern Hemisphere, vernal equinox observances in the Southern Hemisphere (see September 22):

• Spring Day (Argentina)

Christian feast day:

• Cadoc

• Ephigenia of Ethiopia

• Laurent-Joseph-Marius Imbert (one of the Korean Martyrs)

• Matthew the Evangelist (Western Church)

• Maura of Troyes

• Nativity of the Theotokos (Eastern Orthodox Church, Julian calendar)

• September 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Arbor Day (Brazil)

• Commemoration of the Declaration of Martial Law (Philippines)

• Customs Service Day (Poland)

• Founder's Day and National Volunteer Day (Ghana)

• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Armenia from the Soviet Union in 1991.

• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Belize from the United Kingdom in 1981.

• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Malta from the United Kingdom in 1964.

• International Day of Peace (International)

• Student's Day (Bolivia)

• Victory over the Golden Horde in the Battle of Kulikovo (Russia)

Other

• In the popular 1978 song "September" by Earth, Wind & Fire, the date is mentioned in the lyric "Do you remember the 21st night of September?" Reference to this date has gained popularity due to the song's spread as an internet meme.

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