Events

Pre-1600

• 994 Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes.

• 1440 Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by Jean de Malestroit, Bishop of Nantes.

• 1530 Appearance of the miraculous portrait of Saint Dominic in Soriano in Soriano Calabro, Calabria, Italy; commemorated as a feast day by the Roman Catholic Church 1644–1912.

• 1556 Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.

1601–1900

• 1762 Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.

• 1776 American Revolutionary War: British forces successfully land at Kip's Bay, forcing the Continental Army, which was already withdrawing from New York City, to cede control of the lower half of Manhattan Island.

• 1789 The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties.

• 1794 French Revolutionary Wars: Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) sees his first combat at the Battle of Boxtel during the Flanders Campaign.

• 1795 Britain seizes the Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa to prevent its use by the Batavian Republic.

• 1812 The Grande Armée under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow during the failed French invasion of Russia.

• 1812 War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.

• 1813 Followers of the Eight Trigram Sect loyal to Lin Qing attack the Forbidden City in a failed attempt to oust the Jiaqing Emperor of the Qing dynasty.

• 1816 runs aground on the Doom Bar.

• 1820 Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.

• 1821 The Captaincy General of Guatemala declares independence from Spain.

• 1830 The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens; British MP William Huskisson becomes the first widely reported railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive Rocket.

• 1835 , with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago.

• 1862 American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

• 1873 Franco-Prussian War: The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.

• 1894 First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats the Qing dynasty in the Battle of Pyongyang, causing the Qing army to withdraw to the Chinese border with Korea.

1901–present

• 1915 New Culture Movement: Chen Duxiu establishes the New Youth magazine in Shanghai.

• 1916 World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.

• 1918 World War I: Allied troops break through the Bulgarian defenses on the Macedonian front.

• 1935 Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.

• 1935 - Nazi Germany announces two new laws related to race and the rights of Jews. These became known as the Nuremberg Race Laws.

• 1940 World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Luftwaffe launches its largest and most concentrated attack of the entire campaign.

• 1942 World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier is sunk by Japanese torpedoes at Guadalcanal.

• 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.

• 1944 World War II: The Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.

• 1945 A hurricane strikes southern Florida and the Bahamas, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps at Naval Air Station Richmond.

• 1947 Typhoon Kathleen hits the Kantō region, in Japan killing around 1,000-2,000 people.

• 1948 The Indian Army captures the towns of Jalna, Latur, Mominabad, Surriapet and Narkatpalli as part of Operation Polo.

• 1948 The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at .

• 1950 Korean War: The U.S. X Corps lands at Inchon.

• 1952 The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.

• 1954 Marilyn Monroe's iconic skirt scene is shot during filming for The Seven Year Itch.

• 1958 A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48.

• 1959 Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.

• 1962 The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.

• 1963 Baptist Church bombing: Four children are killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.

• 1966 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.

• 1968 The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.

• 1971 The first Greenpeace ship departs from Vancouver to protest against the upcoming Cannikin nuclear weapon test in Alaska.

• 1972 A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö Bulltofta Airport.

• 1974 Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.

• 1975 The French department of "Corse" (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse (Upper Corsica) and Corse-du-Sud (Southern Corsica).

• 1978 At the Superdome in New Orleans, Muhammad Ali outpoints Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times.

• 1981 The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

• 1981 The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.

• 1983 Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.

• 1995 Malaysia Airlines Flight 2133 crashes at Tawau Airport in Malaysia, killing 34.

• 2001 During a CART race at the Lausitzring in Germany, former Formula One driver Alex Zanardi suffers a heavy accident resulting in him losing both his legs.

• 2004 National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players' union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.

• 2008 Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.

• 2011 Four miners are killed in the Gleision Colliery mining accident in the Swansea Valley, Wales.

• 2017 The Parsons Green bombing takes place in London.

• 2020 Signing of the Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement occurs in Washington, D.C., normalizing relations between Israel and two Arab nations, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

Births

Pre-1600

• 767 Saichō, Japanese monk (died 822)

• 1254 Marco Polo, Italian merchant and explorer (died 1324)

• 1461 Jacopo Salviati, Italian politician (died 1533)

• 1505 Mary of Hungary, Dutch ruler (died 1558)

• 1533 Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland (died 1572)

• 1580 Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer and author (died 1659)

• 1592 Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, archbishop of Fermo (died 1653)

1601–1900

• 1613 François de La Rochefoucauld, French soldier and author (died 1680)

• 1649 Titus Oates, English minister, fabricated the Popish Plot (died 1705)

• 1666 Sophia Dorothea of Celle (died 1726)

• 1690 Ignazio Prota, Italian composer and educator (died 1748)

• 1715 Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French general and engineer (died 1789)

• 1736 Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (died 1793)

• 1759 Cornelio Saavedra, Argentinean general and politician (died 1829)

• 1760 Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general (died 1824)

• 1765 Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Portuguese poet and author (died 1805)

• 1789 James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist, short story writer, and historian (died 1851)

• 1795 James Gates Percival, American poet, surgeon and geologist (died 1856)

• 1815 Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian journalist and composer (died 1868)

• 1819 Cyprien Tanguay, Canadian priest and historian (died 1902)

• 1828 Alexander Butlerov, Russian chemist and academic (died 1886)

• 1830 Porfirio Díaz, Mexican general and politician, 29th President of Mexico (died 1915)

• 1846 George Franklin Grant, African-American educator, dentist, and inventor (died 1910)

• 1852 Edward Bouchet, American physicist and educator (died 1918)

• 1852 Jan Ernst Matzeliger, Surinamese-American inventor (died 1889)

• 1857 William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (died 1930)

• 1857 Anna Winlock, American astronomer and academic (died 1904)

• 1858 Charles de Foucauld, French priest and martyr (died 1916)

• 1858 Jenő Hubay, Hungarian violinist, composer, and educator (died 1937)

• 1861 M. Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer, scholar, and Bharat Ratna Laureate, Diwan of the Mysore Kingdom (died 1962)

• 1863 Horatio Parker, American organist, composer, and educator (died 1919)

• 1864 Prince Sigismund of Prussia (died 1866)

• 1867 Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian general (died 1920)

• 1876 Bruno Walter, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1962)

• 1876 Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bengali novelist (died 1938)

• 1877 Jakob Ehrlich, Czech-Austrian politician (died 1938)

• 1877 Yente Serdatzky, Lithuanian-American author and playwright (died 1962)

• 1879 Joseph Lyons, Australian educator and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1939)

• 1881 Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French businessman, founded Bugatti (died 1947)

• 1883 Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (died 1950)

• 1886 Paul Lévy, French mathematician and theorist (died 1971)

• 1887 Carlos Dávila, Chilean journalist and politician, President of Chile (died 1955)

• 1888 Antonio Ascari, Italian race car driver (died 1925)

• 1889 Robert Benchley, American humorist, newspaper columnist, and actor (died 1945)

• 1889 Claude McKay, Jamaican-American poet and author (died 1948)

• 1890 Ernest Bullock, English organist and composer (died 1979)

• 1890 Sonja Branting-Westerståhl, Swedish lawyer (died 1981)

• 1890 Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 1976)

• 1890 Frank Martin, Swiss-Dutch pianist and composer (died 1974)

• 1892 Silpa Bhirasri, Italian sculptor and educator (died 1962)

• 1894 Chic Harley, American football player (died 1974)

• 1894 Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist and academic (died 1977)

• 1894 Jean Renoir, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1979)

• 1895 Magda Lupescu, mistress and later wife of King Carol II of Romania (died 1977)

• 1897 Merle Curti, American historian and author (died 1997)

• 1898 J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and author (died 1936)

1901–present

• 1901 Donald Bailey, English engineer, designed Bailey bridge (died 1985)

• 1903 Roy Acuff, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (died 1992)

• 1904 Umberto II of Italy (died 1983)

• 1904 Sheilah Graham Westbrook, English-American actress, journalist, and author (died 1988)

• 1906 Jacques Becker, French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1960)

• 1906 Walter E. Rollins, American songwriter (died 1973)

• 1907 Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and author (died 1968)

• 1907 Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (died 2004)

• 1908 Kid Sheik, American trumpet player (died 1996)

• 1908 Penny Singleton, American actress and singer (died 2003)

• 1909 C. N. Annadurai, Indian educator and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (died 1969)

• 1909 Phil Arnold, American actor (died 1968)

• 1910 Betty Neels, English nurse and author (died 2001)

• 1911 Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-American businessman, founded PING (died 2000)

• 1911 Luther Terry, American physician and academic, 9th Surgeon General of the United States (died 1985)

• 1913 Henry Brant, Canadian-American composer and conductor (died 2008)

• 1913 Bruno Hoffmann, German glass harp player (died 1991)

• 1913 John N. Mitchell, American lawyer, and politician, 67th United States Attorney General (died 1988)

• 1913 Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (died 1994)

• 1914 Creighton Abrams, American general (died 1974)

• 1914 Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinian journalist and author (died 1999)

• 1914 Orhan Kemal, Turkish author (died 1970)

• 1915 Fawn M. Brodie, American historian and author (died 1981)

• 1916 Margaret Lockwood, Pakistani-English actress (died 1990)

• 1916 Frederick C. Weyand, American general (died 2010)

• 1917 Hilde Gueden, Austrian soprano (died 1988)

• 1917 Buddy Jeannette, American basketball player and coach (died 1998)

• 1918 Alfred D. Chandler Jr., American historian and academic (died 2007)

• 1918 Margot Loyola, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2015)

• 1918 Nipsey Russell, American comedian and actor (died 2005)

• 1919 Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist and soldier (died 1960)

• 1919 Heda Margolius Kovály, Czech author and translator (died 2010)

• 1920 Kym Bonython, Australian racing driver, drummer, and radio host (died 2011)

• 1921 Richard Gordon, English surgeon and author (died 2017)

• 1921 Gene Roland, American pianist and composer (died 1982)

• 1922 Bob Anderson, English fencer and choreographer (died 2012)

• 1922 Jackie Cooper, American actor (died 2011)

• 1922 Gaetano Cozzi, Italian historian and academic (died 2001)

• 1922 Mary Soames, English author (died 2014)

• 1923 Anton Heiller, Austrian organist, composer, and conductor (died 1979)

• 1924 Lucebert, Dutch poet and painter (died 1994)

• 1924 György Lázár, Hungarian politician, 50th Prime Minister of Hungary (died 2014)

• 1924 Bobby Short, American singer and pianist (died 2005)

• 1925 Stanley Chapman, English architect and author (died 2009)

• 1925 Erika Köth, German soprano (died 1981)

• 1925 Carlo Rambaldi, Italian special effects artist (died 2012)

• 1925 Helle Virkner, Danish actress and singer (died 2009)

• 1926 Shohei Imamura, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2006)

• 1926 Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician and academic

• 1926 Henry Silva, American actor (died 2022)

• 1927 Rudolf Anderson, pilot and commissioned officer in the United States Air Force (died 1962)

• 1927 Norm Crosby, American comedian and actor (died 2020)

• 1928 Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist and bandleader (died 1975)

• 1929 Eva Burrows, Australian 13th General of The Salvation Army (died 2015)

• 1929 Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019)

• 1929 John Julius Norwich, English historian and author (died 2018)

• 1929 Wilbur Snyder, American football player and wrestler (died 1991)

• 1929 Mümtaz Soysal, Turkish academic and politician, 30th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2019)

• 1930 Endel Lippmaa, Estonian physicist and academic (died 2015)

• 1931 Brian Henderson, New Zealand-Australian journalist, actor, and producer (died 2021)

• 1932 Neil Bartlett, English-American chemist and academic (died 2008)

• 1933 Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor and composer (died 2014)

• 1933 Jim Rodger, Scottish footballer (died 2024)

• 1935 Dinkha IV, Iraqi patriarch (died 2015)

• 1936 Ashley Cooper, Australian tennis player (died 2020)

• 1936 Sara Henderson, Australian farmer and author (died 2005)

• 1937 Joey Carew, Trinidadian cricketer (died 2011)

• 1937 Fernando de la Rúa, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Argentina (died 2019)

• 1937 King Curtis Iaukea, American wrestler (died 2010)

• 1937 Robert Lucas Jr., American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)

• 1937 Pino Puglisi, Italian priest and martyr (died 1993)

• 1938 Gaylord Perry, American baseball player and coach (died 2022)

• 1939 Subramanian Swamy, Indian economist, academic, and politician, Indian Minister of Law and Justice

• 1939 George Walden, English journalist and politician

• 1940 Merlin Olsen, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (died 2010)

• 1941 Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer and manager (died 2011)

• 1941 Signe Toly Anderson, American rock singer (died 2016)

• 1941 Mirosław Hermaszewski, Polish general, pilot and cosmonaut (died 2022)

• 1941 Yuriy Norshteyn, Russian animator, director, and screenwriter

• 1941 Viktor Zubkov, Russian businessman and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Russia

• 1942 Lee Dorman, American bass player (died 2012)

• 1942 Philip Harris, Baron Harris of Peckham, English businessman and politician

• 1942 Ksenia Milicevic, French painter and architect

• 1944 Mauro Piacenza, Italian cardinal

• 1944 Graham Taylor, English footballer and manager (died 2017)

• 1945 Carmen Maura, Spanish actress

• 1945 Jessye Norman, American soprano (died 2019)

• 1945 Hans-Gert Pöttering, German lawyer and politician, 23rd President of the European Parliament

• 1945 Ron Shelton, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1946 Tommy Lee Jones, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1946 Mike Procter, South African cricketer, coach, and referee (died 2024)

• 1946 Oliver Stone, American director, screenwriter, and producer

• 1947 Russel L. Honoré, American general

• 1947 Viggo Jensen, Danish footballer and manager

• 1947 Diane E. Levin, American educator and author

• 1947 Theodore Long, American wrestling referee and manager

• 1949 Joe Barton, American lawyer and politician

• 1950 Rajiv Malhotra, Indian author

• 1950 Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Pakistani-English caliph and scholar

• 1951 Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer and manager (died 2024)

• 1951 Fred Seibert, American television producer, co-founder of MTV

• 1952 Richard Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

• 1952 Paula Duncan, Australian actress

• 1952 Ratnajeevan Hoole, Sri Lankan engineer and academic

• 1952 Kelly Keagy, American singer and drummer

• 1953 Margie Moran, Filipino peace advocate and beauty queen, Miss Universe 1973

• 1953 Keiko Takeshita, Japanese actress

• 1954 Adrian Adonis, American wrestler (died 1988)

• 1954 Hrant Dink, Turkish journalist (died 2007)

• 1954 Barry Shabaka Henley, American actor

• 1955 Željka Antunović, Croatian politician, 9th Croatian Minister of Defence

• 1955 Abdul Qadir, Pakistani cricketer (died 2019)

• 1955 Bruce Reitherman, American voice actor, singer, cinematographer, and producer

• 1955 Renzo Rosso, Italian fashion designer and businessman, co-founded Diesel Clothing

• 1956 Ross J. Anderson, British academic and educator (died 2024)

• 1956 Rick Garcia (activist), American LGBTQ rights activist

• 1956 Maggie Reilly, Scottish singer-songwriter

• 1956 Ned Rothenberg, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer

• 1958 Joel Quenneville, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1958 Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress (died 2005)

• 1959 Mark Kirk, American commander, lawyer, and politician

• 1960 Ed Solomon, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1960 Lisa Vanderpump, British restaurateur, television personality, and author

• 1961 Terry Lamb, Australian rugby league player and coach

• 1961 Helen Margetts, British political scientist

• 1961 Dan Marino, American football player and sportscaster

• 1961 Patrick Patterson, Jamaican cricketer

• 1962 Amanda Wakeley, English fashion designer

• 1963 Pete Myers, American basketball player and coach

• 1963 Stephen C. Spiteri, Maltese military historian

• 1964 Robert Fico, Slovak academic and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Slovakia

• 1964 Steve Watkin, Welsh cricketer

• 1964 Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, American guitarist and songwriter

• 1966 Wenn V. Deramas, Filipino director and screenwriter (died 2016)

• 1966 Sherman Douglas, American basketball player

• 1967 Paul Abbott, American baseball player and coach

• 1967 Rodney Eyles, Australian squash player

• 1968 Danny Nucci, American actor

• 1969 Revaz Arveladze, Georgian footballer

• 1969 Corby Davidson, American radio personality

• 1969 Géraldine Carré, French journalist and television presenter (died 2024)

• 1969 Allen Shellenberger, American drummer (died 2009)

• 1971 Nathan Astle, New Zealand cricketer and coach

• 1971 Josh Charles, American actor and director

• 1971 Wayne Ferreira, South African tennis player

• 1972 Jimmy Carr, English comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1972 Kit Chan, Singaporean singer-songwriter

• 1972 Queen Letizia of Spain, Queen Consort of King Felipe VI of Spain

• 1973 Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland, Swedish prince

• 1974 Arata Iura, Japanese actor, model, and fashion designer

• 1975 Tom Dolan, American swimmer

• 1975 Martina Krupičková, Czech painter

• 1976 Brett Kimmorley, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster

• 1977 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian author

• 1977 Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter

• 1977 Sophie Dahl, English model and author

• 1977 Tom Hardy, English actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1977 Marisa Ramirez, American actress

• 1977 Jason Terry, American basketball player

• 1978 Zach Filkins, American guitarist

• 1978 Eiður Guðjohnsen, Icelandic footballer

• 1979 Dave Annable, American actor

• 1979 Amy Davidson, American actress

• 1979 Patrick Marleau, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1979 Carlos Ruiz, Guatemalan footballer

• 1979 Reece Young, New Zealand cricketer

• 1980 David Diehl, American football player and sportscaster

• 1980 Mike Dunleavy Jr., American basketball player

• 1981 Ben Schwartz, American actor, comedian and writer

• 1983 Yuka Hirata, Japanese actress and model

• 1984 Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

• 1984 Marshal Yanda, American football player

• 1986 Jenna Marbles, American YouTuber and comedian

• 1986 Heidi Montag, American reality television personality and singer

• 1987 Vaila Barsley, Scottish footballer

• 1988 Chelsea Kane, American actress and singer

• 1988 Tim Moltzen, Australian rugby league player

• 1990 Aaron Mooy, Australian footballer

• 1990 Matt Shively, American actor

• 1990 Megan Stalter, American actress and comedian

• 1991 Lee Jung-shin, South Korean musician and actor

• 1991 Phil Ofosu-Ayeh, German-Ghanaian footballer

• 1993 Josh Richardson, American basketball player

• 1993 Dennis Schröder, German basketball player

• 1995 Rafael Santos Borré, Colombian footballer

• 1995 Terry McLaurin, American football player

• 1995 Joe Ofahengaue, New Zealand-Tongan rugby league player

• 1995 David Raya, Spanish footballer

• 1997 Quin Houff, American racing driver

• 1999 Jaren Jackson Jr., American basketball player

• 2000 Felix, Australian singer based in South Korea, member of Stray Kids

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 921 Ludmila of Bohemia, Czech martyr and saint (born 860)

• 1140 Adelaide of Hungary, Duchess of Bohemia

• 1146 Alan, 1st Earl of Richmond, English soldier (born 1100)

• 1231 Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (born 1173)

• 1326 Dmitry of Tver (born 1299)

• 1352 Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and saint (born 1273)

• 1397 Adam Easton, English cardinal

• 1408 Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent, English politician (born 1384)

• 1496 Hugh Clopton, Lord Mayor of London (born c. 1440)

• 1500 John Morton, English cardinal and academic (born 1420)

• 1504 Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of the Palatinate (born 1478)

• 1510 Saint Catherine of Genoa (born 1447)

• 1559 Isabella Jagiellon, Queen of Hungary (born 1519)

• 1595 John MacMorran, Baillie of Edinburgh, shot by rioting high school schoolchildren.

• 1596 Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (born 1535)

1601–1900

• 1613 Thomas Overbury, English poet and author (born 1581)

• 1643 Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, English-Irish politician, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland (born 1566)

• 1649 John Floyd, English priest and educator (born 1572)

• 1700 André Le Nôtre, French gardener (born 1613)

• 1701 Edmé Boursault, French author and playwright (born 1638)

• 1707 George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (born 1663)

• 1712 Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (born 1645)

• 1750 Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German organist and composer (born 1690)

• 1794 Abraham Clark, American police officer and politician (born 1725)

• 1803 Gian Francesco Albani, Italian cardinal (born 1719)

• 1813 Antoine Étienne de Tousard, French general and engineer (born 1752)

• 1830 François Baillairgé, Canadian painter and sculptor (born 1759)

• 1830 William Huskisson, English financier and politician, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (born 1770)

• 1841 Alessandro Rolla, Italian violinist and composer (born 1757)

• 1842 Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (born 1771)

• 1842 Francisco Morazán, Guatemalan general, lawyer, and politician, President of Central American Federation (born 1792)

• 1852 Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern, German-Estonian philologist and academic (born 1770)

• 1859 Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English architect and engineer, designed the Great Western Railway (born 1806)

• 1864 John Hanning Speke, English soldier and explorer (born 1827)

• 1874 Charles-Amédée Kohler, Swiss chocolatier (born 1790)

• 1883 Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic (born 1801)

• 1893 Thomas Hawksley, English engineer (born 1807)

1901–present

• 1907 William Wales, English-American inventor (born 1838)

• 1915 Ernest Gagnon, Canadian organist and composer (born 1834)

• 1921 Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general (born 1886)

• 1926 Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1846)

• 1930 Milton Sills, American actor and screenwriter (born 1882)

• 1938 Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (born 1900)

• 1940 William B. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician, 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (born 1874)

• 1945 André Tardieu, French journalist and politician, 97th Prime Minister of France (born 1876)

• 1945 Anton Webern, Austrian composer and conductor (born 1883)

• 1945 Linnie Marsh Wolfe, American librarian and author (born 1881)

• 1952 Hugo Raudsepp, Estonian author and playwright (born 1883)

• 1965 Steve Brown, American bassist (born 1890)

• 1972 Ulvi Cemal Erkin, Turkish composer and educator (born 1906)

• 1972 Baki Süha Ediboğlu, Turkish poet and author (born 1915)

• 1972 Geoffrey Fisher, English archbishop and academic (born 1887)

• 1973 Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (born 1882)

• 1975 Franco Bordoni, Italian race car driver and pilot (born 1913)

• 1978 Robert Cliche, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1921)

• 1978 Edmund Crispin, English writer and composer (born 1921)

• 1978 Willy Messerschmitt, German engineer and academic, designed the Messerschmitt Bf 109 (born 1898)

• 1980 Bill Evans, American pianist and composer (born 1929)

• 1981 Rafael Méndez, Mexican trumpet player and composer (born 1906)

• 1983 Prince Far I, Jamaican DJ and producer (born 1944)

• 1985 Cootie Williams, American trumpet player (born 1910)

• 1989 Jan DeGaetani, American soprano (born 1933)

• 1989 Olga Erteszek, Polish-American fashion designer (born 1916)

• 1989 Robert Penn Warren, American novelist, poet, and literary critic (born 1905)

• 1991 John Hoyt, American actor (born 1904)

• 1991 Warner Troyer, Canadian journalist and author (born 1932)

• 1993 Pino Puglisi, Italian priest and martyr (born 1937)

• 1995 Harry Calder, South African cricketer (born 1901)

• 1995 Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer and manager (born 1921)

• 1997 Bulldog Brower, American wrestler (born 1933)

• 1998 Louis Rasminsky, Canadian economist, 3rd Governor of the Bank of Canada (born 1908)

• 2001 June Salter, Australian actress and author (born 1932)

• 2003 Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist and author (born 1930)

• 2004 Johnny Ramone, American guitarist and songwriter (born 1948)

• 2004 Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist and author (born 1931)

• 2005 Guy Green, English director and cinematographer (born 1913)

• 2005 Sidney Luft, American manager and producer (born 1915)

• 2006 Raymond Baxter, English television host and author (born 1922)

• 2006 Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (born 1929)

• 2006 Pablo Santos, Mexican-American actor (born 1987)

• 2007 Colin McRae, Scottish race car driver (born 1968)

• 2007 Jeremy Moore, English general (born 1928)

• 2007 Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1928)

• 2007 Brett Somers, Canadian-American actress and singer (born 1924)

• 2008 Richard Wright, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (born 1943)

• 2009 Troy Kennedy Martin, Scottish-English screenwriter (born 1932)

• 2010 Arrow, Caribbean singer-songwriter (born 1949)

• 2011 Frances Bay, Canadian-American actress (born 1919)

• 2012 Tibor Antalpéter, Hungarian volleyball player and diplomat, Ambassador of Hungary to the United Kingdom (born 1930)

• 2012 Nevin Spence, Northern Irish rugby player (born 1990)

• 2012 Hajra Masroor, Pakistani writer (born 1930)

• 2013 Habib Munzir Al-Musawa, Indonesian cleric and scholar (born 1973)

• 2013 Jerry G. Bishop, American radio and television host (born 1936)

• 2013 Gerard Cafesjian, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1925)

• 2013 Jackie Lomax, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1944)

• 2014 John Anderson Jr., American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Kansas (born 1917)

• 2014 Eugene I. Gordon, American physicist and engineer (born 1930)

• 2014 Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia (born 1922)

• 2014 Jürg Schubiger, Swiss psychotherapist and author (born 1936)

• 2014 Wayne Tefs, Canadian anthologist, author, and critic (born 1947)

• 2015 Harry J. Lipkin, Israeli physicist and academic (born 1921)

• 2015 Meir Pa'il, Israeli commander, historian, and politician (born 1926)

• 2015 Bernard Van de Kerckhove, Belgian cyclist (born 1941)

• 2017 Harry Dean Stanton, American actor (born 1926)

• 2018 Helen Clare, British singer (born 1916)

• 2019 Ric Ocasek, American musician (born 1944)

• 2021 Lou Angotti, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1938)

• 2023 Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor (born 1932)

• 2024 Tito Jackson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1953)

• 2024 Elias Khoury, Lebanese intellectual, playwright and novelist (born 1948)

Holidays and observances

• Battle of Britain Day (United Kingdom)

Christian feast day:

• Joseph Abibos

• Alpinus (Albinus) of Lyon

• Aprus (Èvre) of Toul

• Catherine of Genoa

• James Chisholm (Episcopal Church)

• Saint Dominic in Soriano (formerly)

• Mamilian of Palermo

• Mirin

• Nicetas the Goth

• Nicomedes

• Our Lady of Sorrows

• September 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Cry of Dolores, celebrated on the eve of Independence Day (Mexico).

• International Day of Democracy

• The beginning of German American Heritage Month, celebrated until October 15

• The beginning of National Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated until October 15 (United States)

• World Lymphoma Awareness Day (International)

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