Events

Pre-1600

• 904 The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.

• 1236 The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.

• 1359 An Aragonese cavalry force defeats a superior Castilian cavalry force in the Battle of Araviana during the War of the Two Peters.

• 1499 The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War.

• 1586 Eighty Years' War: A Spanish force led by the Marquis del Vasto successfully fights its way past a joint English/Dutch ambush in the Battle of Zutphen.

1601–1900

• 1692 Martha Corey, Mary Eastey, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, Ann Pudeator, Wilmot Redd, Margaret Scott, and Samuel Wardwell are hanged, the last of those to be executed in the Salem witch trials.

• 1711 The first attacks of the Tuscarora War begin in present-day North Carolina.

• 1761 George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

• 1776 Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.

• 1789 The office of United States Postmaster General is established.

• 1789 Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.

• 1792 Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.

• 1823 Joseph Smith claims to have found the golden plates after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.

• 1857 The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.

• 1862 A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln.

• 1866 The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War.

• 1885 Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.

• 1891 The first hydropower plant of Finland is commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa.

• 1892 A locomotive shunting falls into a hole in the ground, leading to the burial of the locomotive.

• 1896 Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history (later surpassed by her great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth II on 9 September 2015).

1901–present

• 1910 The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.

• 1914 A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1,500 sailors.

• 1919 The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.

• 1934 The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.

• 1939 World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.

• 1941 The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.

• 1948 Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.

• 1948 Israeli-Palestine conflict: The All-Palestine Government is established by the Arab League.

• 1953 The Four Level Interchange, first stack interchange in the world opened in Los Angeles.

• 1957 In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.

• 1960 The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.

• 1965 The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire.

• 1966 Twenty-four people are killed when Ansett-ANA Flight 149 crashes in Winton, Queensland, Australia.

• 1975 Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.

• 1976 Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs.

• 1979 A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.

• 1980 Iraq invades Iran, sparking the nearly eight year Iran–Iraq War.

• 1981 During a military exercise, a Turkish Air Force Northrop F-5 crashes in Babaeski as a result of pilot error, killing one crew member and also 65 soldiers on the ground.

• 1991 The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.

• 1993 A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.

• 1993 A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.

• 1995 An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.

• 1995 The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.

• 2006 Twenty-three people were killed in a maglev train collision in Lathen, Germany.

• 2013 At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.

• 2024 Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of Sri Lanka.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1013 Richeza of Poland, Queen of Hungary (died 1075)

• 1211 Ibn Khallikan, Iraqi scholar and judge (died 1282)

• 1373 Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (died 1400)

• 1480 Tenali Rama, poet in the court of Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagara Empire (died 1528)

• 1515 Anne of Cleves, Queen consort of England (died 1557)

• 1547 Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet (died 1590)

• 1593 Matthäus Merian, Swiss-German engraver and cartographer (died 1650)

1601–1900

• 1601 Anne of Austria, Queen and regent of France (died 1666)

• 1606 Li Zicheng, Chinese emperor (died 1645)

• 1680 Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (died 1747)

• 1694 Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1773)

• 1715 Jean-Étienne Guettard, French mineralogist and botanist (died 1786)

• 1741 Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist (died 1811)

• 1743 Quintin Craufurd, Scottish author (died 1819)

• 1762 Elizabeth Simcoe, English-Canadian painter and author (died 1850)

• 1765 Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician and philosopher (died 1822)

• 1788 Theodore Hook, English composer and educator (died 1841)

• 1791 Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (died 1867)

• 1806 Bernardino António Gomes, Portuguese physician and naturalist (died 1877)

• 1819 Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian and academic (died 1897)

• 1829 Tự Đức, Vietnamese emperor (died 1883)

• 1833 John Quincy Adams II, American politician and grandson of President John Quincy Adams (died 1894)

• 1833 Stephen D. Lee, American general and academic (died 1908)

• 1835 Alexander Potebnja, Ukrainian linguist and philosopher (died 1891)

• 1841 Andrejs Pumpurs, Latvian soldier and poet (died 1902)

• 1862 Anastasios Charalambis, Greek lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1949)

• 1868 Louise McKinney, Canadian educator and politician (died 1931)

• 1870 Charlotte Cooper, English-Scottish tennis player (died 1966)

• 1870 Arthur Pryor, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (died 1942)

• 1875 Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Lithuanian painter and composer (died 1911)

• 1876 André Tardieu, French journalist and politician, 67th Prime Minister of France (died 1945)

• 1878 Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese politician and diplomat, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (died 1967)

• 1880 Christabel Pankhurst, English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (died 1958)

• 1882 Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal, head of the German armed forces (OKW), and convicted Nuremberg war criminal (died 1946)

• 1883 Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (died 1932)

• 1883 Frank George Woollard, English engineer (died 1957)

• 1885 Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect and academic, designed the Stockholm Public Library (died 1940)

• 1885 Ben Chifley, Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1951)

• 1885 Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1957)

• 1887 Bhaurao Patil, Indian educator and activist (died 1959)

• 1889 Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (died 1963)

• 1891 Alma Thomas, American painter and educator (died 1978)

• 1892 Billy West, American actor, director, and producer (died 1975)

• 1894 Elisabeth Rethberg, German soprano (died 1976)

• 1895 Paul Muni, Ukrainian-born American actor (died 1967)

• 1896 Uri Zvi Greenberg, Ukrainian-Israeli poet and journalist (died 1981)

• 1896 Henry Segrave, American-English race car driver (died 1930)

• 1897 – Frank O'Connor, American actor, rancher, and painter (died 1979)

• 1899 Elsie Allen, Native American Pomo basket weaver (died 1990)

• 1900 Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and engineer (died 1985)

• 1900 William Spratling, American-Mexican silversmith and educator (died 1967)

1901–present

• 1901 Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (died 1932)

• 1901 Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)

• 1902 John Houseman, Romanian-American actor and producer (died 1988)

• 1905 Haakon Lie, Norwegian lawyer and politician (died 2009)

• 1905 Eugen Sänger, Czech-Austrian engineer (died 1964)

• 1906 Ilse Koch, German war criminal (died 1967)

• 1907 Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and author (died 2003)

• 1907 Philip Fotheringham-Parker, English race car driver (died 1981)

• 1907 Hermann Schlichting, German engineer and academic (died 1982)

• 1908 Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American author and illustrator (died 2002)

• 1909 John Engstead, American photographer and journalist (died 1983)

• 1909 Allan Lane, American actor (died 1973)

• 1910 György Faludy, Hungarian poet and author (died 2006)

• 1912 Herbert Mataré, German physicist and academic (died 2011)

• 1912 Martha Scott, American actress (died 2003)

• 1913 Lillian Chestney, American painter and illustrator (died 2000)

• 1915 Grigory Frid, Russian pianist and composer (died 2012)

• 1918 Hans Scholl, German activist and co-founder of the anti-Nazi resistance group White Rose (died 1943)

• 1918 Henryk Szeryng, Mexican violinist and educator (died 1988)

• 1920 Eric Baker, English activist, co-founded Amnesty International (died 1976)

• 1920 Anders Lassen, Danish-English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1945)

• 1920 Bob Lemon, American baseball player and manager (died 2000)

• 1920 William H. Riker, American political scientist and academic (died 1993)

• 1921 Will Elder, American illustrator (died 2008)

• 1922 David Sive, American environmentalist and lawyer (died 2014)

• 1923 Dannie Abse, Welsh physician, poet, and author (died 2014)

• 1924 Bernard Gauthier, French cyclist (died 2018)

• 1924 Charles Keeping, English author and illustrator (died 1988)

• 1924 Rosamunde Pilcher, English author (died 2019)

• 1924 Charles Waterhouse, American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (died 2013)

• 1924 J. William Middendorf, American soldier and politician, 14th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 2025)

• 1924 Ray Wetzel, American trumpet player and composer (died 1951)

• 1925 Virginia Capers, American actress and singer (died 2004)

• 1925 Leila Hadley, American author (died 2009)

• 1926 Bill Smith, American clarinet player and composer (died 2020)

• 1927 Gordon Astall, English footballer and coach (died 2020)

• 1927 Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2021)

• 1928 Eric Broadley, English engineer and businessman, founded Lola Cars (died 2017)

• 1928 James Lawson, American activist, author, and academic (died 2024)

• 1928 Eugene Roche, American actor (died 2004)

• 1928 Johnny Valentine, American wrestler (died 2001)

• 1928 Vitthalrao Gadgil, Indian politician (died 2001)

• 1929 Serge Garant, Canadian composer and conductor (died 1986)

• 1929 Carlo Ubbiali, Italian motorcycle racer (died 2020)

• 1930 Joni James, American singer (died 2022)

• 1930 T. S. Sinnathuray, Judge of the High Court of Singapore (died 2016)

• 1931 Fay Weldon, English author and playwright (died 2023)

• 1931 George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Scottish banker and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (died 2003)

• 1932 Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuanian politician, 2nd President of Lithuania (died 2010)

• 1932 Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (died 2009)

• 1933 Leonardo Balada, Spanish-American composer and educator

• 1933 T. Cullen Davis, American businessman

• 1933 Carmelo Simeone, Italian-Argentinian footballer (died 2014)

• 1933 Jesco von Puttkamer, German-American engineer (died 2012)

• 1934 Jack McGregor, American captain, lawyer, and politician

• 1934 Lute Olson, American basketball player and coach (died 2020)

• 1934 T. Somasekaram, Sri Lankan geographer and politician, 37th Surveyor General of Sri Lanka (died 2010)

• 1936 Maurice Evans, English footballer and manager (died 2000)

• 1936 Robin Gammell, Canadian actor

• 1937 Don Rutherford, English rugby player (died 2016)

• 1938 Gene Mingo, American football player

• 1939 Bogdan Baltazar, Romanian economist and engineer (died 2012)

• 1939 Deborah Lavin, South African-English historian and academic

• 1939 Gilbert E. Patterson, American bishop (died 2007)

• 1939 Marlena Shaw, American jazz singer (died 2024)

• 1939 Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer (died 2016)

• 1940 Anna Karina, Danish-French actress, director, and screenwriter (died 2019)

• 1941 Jeremiah Wright, American pastor and theologian

• 1942 Ole Anderson, American wrestler (died 2024)

• 1942 Candida Lycett Green, Anglo-Irish journalist and author (died 2014)

• 1942 Rubén Salazar Gómez, Colombian cardinal

• 1942 David Stern, American lawyer and businessman, 4th Commissioner of the NBA (died 2020)

• 1943 Toni Basil, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress

• 1943 Barry Cable, Australian footballer and coach

• 1943 Paul Hoffert, American keyboard player, composer, and academic

• 1944 Brian Gibson, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2004)

• 1945 Paul Le Mat, American actor

• 1946 King Sunny Adé, Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1946 Larry Dierker, American baseball player and manager

• 1947 Jo Beverley, English-Canadian author (died 2016)

• 1947 David Drewry, English glaciologist and geophysicist

• 1947 Norma McCorvey, American activist (died 2017)

• 1947 Robert Morace, American author and academic

• 1948 Denis Burke, Australian soldier and politician, 6th Chief Minister of the Northern Territory

• 1948 Mark Phillips, English equestrian, trainer, and journalist

• 1949 Harold Carmichael, American football player

• 1949 James Cartwright, American general

• 1949 Jim McGinty, Australian lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of Western Australia

• 1950 Kirka, Finnish musician (died 2007)

• 1951 David Coverdale, English singer-songwriter

• 1951 Mike Graham, American wrestler and promoter (died 2012)

• 1951 Doug Somers, American wrestler (died 2017)

• 1952 Bob Goodlatte, American lawyer and politician

• 1952 Sukhumbhand Paribatra, Thai political scientist and politician, 15th Governor of Bangkok

• 1952 Américo Rocca, Mexican wrestler

• 1953 Richard Fairbrass, English singer-songwriter, musician and producer

• 1953 Ségolène Royal, French politician

• 1955 Jeffrey Leonard, American baseball player and coach

• 1956 Debby Boone, American singer, actress, and author

• 1956 Doug Wimbish, American singer-songwriter and bass player

• 1956 Ibrahim Shema, Nigerian lawyer, politician

• 1957 Steve Carney, English footballer (died 2013)

• 1957 Nick Cave, Australian singer-songwriter, author, and actor

• 1957 Mark Johnson, American ice hockey player and coach

• 1957 Johnette Napolitano, American singer-songwriter and bass player

• 1957 Giuseppe Saronni, Italian cyclist and manager

• 1958 Andrea Bocelli, Italian singer-songwriter and producer

• 1958 Beth Catlin, American autistic savant

• 1958 Neil Cavuto, American journalist and author

• 1958 Joan Jett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress

• 1959 Tai Babilonia, American figure skater and talk show host

• 1959 Wally Backman, American baseball player

• 1959 Saul Perlmutter, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate

• 1960 Scott Baio, American actor

• 1961 Vince Coleman, American baseball player

• 1961 Liam Fox, Scottish physician and politician, Secretary of State for Defence

• 1961 Bonnie Hunt, American actress, producer, and talk show host

• 1961 Diane Lemieux, Canadian lawyer and politician

• 1961 Catherine Oxenberg, American actress

• 1961 Michael Torke, American composer

• 1962 Martin Crowe, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster (died 2016)

• 1964 Juha Turunen, Finnish lawyer and politician

• 1964 Ken Vandermark, American saxophonist and composer

• 1965 Dan Bucatinsky, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1965 Andrii Deshchytsia, Ukrainian politician and diplomat, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs

• 1965 Mark Guthrie, American baseball player

• 1965 Robert Satcher, American physician, engineer, and astronaut

• 1966 Ruth Jones, Welsh actress, producer, and screenwriter

• 1966 Mike Richter, American ice hockey player

• 1966 Michael Shank, American racing team owner

• 1967 Matt Besser, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1967 Super Delfin, Japanese wrestler

• 1967 Brian Keene, American novelist

• 1967 Ian Mortimer, English historian and novelist

• 1967 Rickard Rydell, Swedish race car driver

• 1967 Félix Savón, Cuban boxer

• 1969 Nicole Bradtke, Australian tennis player and sportscaster

• 1969 Tuomas Kantelinen, Finnish composer and conductor

• 1969 Sue Perkins, English comedian, actress, and radio host

• 1969 Matt Sharp, American singer-songwriter and bass player

• 1970 Gladys Berejiklian, Australian politician, 45th Premier of New South Wales

• 1970 Mike Matheny, American baseball player and manager

• 1970 Mystikal, American rapper and actor

• 1970 Hitro Okesene, New Zealand rugby player and coach

• 1970 Rupert Penry-Jones, English actor

• 1970 Emmanuel Petit, French footballer

• 1971 Elizabeth Bear, American author and poet

• 1971 Toomas Krõm, Estonian footballer

• 1971 Luther Reigns, American actor and wrestler

• 1973 Yoo Chae-yeong, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress (died 2014)

• 1973 Stéfan Louw, South African tenor and producer

• 1973 Bob Sapp, American wrestler, kickboxer, mixed martial artist, and actor

• 1974 Jenn Colella, American actress and singer

• 1974 Kostas Kaiafas, Cypriot footballer and manager

• 1975 Mireille Enos, American actress

• 1975 Ethan Moreau, Canadian ice hockey player and scout

• 1976 David Berkeley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1976 Mo Collins, American football player and coach (died 2014)

• 1977 Antti-Jussi Niemi, Finnish ice hockey player

• 1978 Daniella Alonso, American actress and model

• 1978 Harry Kewell, Australian footballer and coach

• 1979 Emilie Autumn, American singer-songwriter, violinist, and poet

• 1979 Swin Cash, American basketball player and executive

• 1979 Michael Graziadei, American actor

• 1979 Phil Waugh, Australian rugby player

• 1981 Ashley Eckstein, American actress

• 1981 Janne Niskala, Finnish ice hockey player

• 1981 Alexei Ramírez, Cuban baseball player

• 1981 Subaru Shibutani, Japanese singer-songwriter

• 1981 Ingrid Vetlesen, Norwegian soprano

• 1982 Katie Lowes, American actress

• 1982 Billie Piper, English actress and singer

• 1982 Maarten Stekelenburg, Dutch footballer

• 1983 Glenn Loovens, Dutch professional footballer

• 1984 Thiago Silva, Brazilian footballer

• 1985 Jerma985, American internet personality

• 1985 Faris Haroun, Belgian footballer

• 1985 Jamie Mackie, Scottish footballer

• 1985 Tatiana Maslany, Canadian actress

• 1985 Ibragim Todashev, Russian-American mixed martial artist (died 2013)

• 1987 Derick Brassard, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1987 Stefan Denifl, Austrian cyclist

• 1987 Tom Felton, English actor

• 1987 Zdravko Kuzmanović, Serbian footballer

• 1987 Teyonah Parris, American actress

• 1988 Sana Saeed, Indian actress and model

• 1989 Jon Bass, American actor

• 1989 Kim Hyo-yeon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress

• 1989 Sabine Lisicki, German tennis player

• 1990 Denard Robinson, American football player

• 1991 Kenny Bromwich, New Zealand rugby league player

• 1992 Philip Hindes, English track cyclist

• 1994 Carlos Correa, Puerto Rican-American baseball player

• 1994 Jinyoung, South Korean singer, actor, songwriter

• 1994 Haason Reddick, American football player

• 1994 Alexander Wennberg, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1995 Nayeon, South Korean singer

• 1999 Kim Yo-han, South Korean singer and actor

• 1999 Kim You-jung, South Korean actress

• 2000 Louise Christie, British rhythm gymnast

• 2000 Stephen Crichton, Samoan rugby league footballer

• 2000 Seungmin, South Korean singer

• 2004 Jessie Murph, American singer and songwriter

• 2009 Coco Yoshizawa, Japanese skateboarder

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 189 He Jin, Chinese general and regent (born 135)

• 530 Pope Felix IV

• 904 Zhao Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (born 867)

• 967 Wichmann II, Frankish nobleman

• 1072 Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian, poet, and politician (born 1007)

• 1158 Otto of Freising, German bishop and chronicler (born c. 1114)

• 1174 Uchtred, Lord of Galloway (born c. 1120)

• 1253 Dōgen, Japanese monk and philosopher (born 1200)

• 1345 Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician, Lord High Steward (born 1281)

• 1399 Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician, Earl Marshal of The United Kingdom (born 1366)

• 1408 John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (born 1370)

• 1457 Peter II, Duke of Brittany (born 1418)

• 1482 Philibert I, Duke of Savoy (born 1465)

• 1520 Selim I, Ottoman sultan (born 1465)

• 1531 Louise of Savoy, French regent (born 1476)

• 1539 Guru Nanak, Sikh religious leader, founded Sikhism (born 1469)

• 1554 Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (born 1510)

• 1566 Johannes Agricola, German theologian and academic (born 1494)

• 1576 Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex (born 1541)

• 1598 Gabriel Spenser, English actor (born c. 1578)

1601–1900

• 1607 Alessandro Allori, Italian painter and educator (born 1535)

• 1662 John Biddle, English minister and theologian (born 1615)

• 1692 Martha Corey, American woman accused of witchcraft (born 1620)

• 1703 Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and physicist (born 1622)

• 1711 William Bartram, English-born politician and settler (born 1674)

• 1756 Abu l-Hasan Ali I, ruler of Tunisia (born 1688)

• 1774 Pope Clement XIV (born 1705)

• 1776 Nathan Hale, American soldier (born 1755)

• 1777 John Bartram, American botanist and explorer (born 1699)

• 1852 William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed Hammersmith Bridge (born 1783)

• 1862 Frederick Townsend Ward, American sailor and mercenary (born 1831)

• 1872 Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer and linguist (born 1801)

• 1873 Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss lawyer and politician (born 1801)

• 1881 Solomon L. Spink, American lawyer and politician (born 1831)

1901–present

• 1914 Alain-Fournier, French soldier and author (born 1886)

• 1917 John Henry Knight, English engineer (born 1847)

• 1919 Alajos Gáspár, Hungarian-Slovene author and poet (born 1848)

• 1933 Sime Silverman, American journalist and newspaper publisher (born 1873)

• 1934 Cecil Chubb, English barrister and last private owner of Stonehenge (born 1876)

• 1935 Elliott Lewis, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Tasmania (born 1858)

• 1952 Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st President of Finland (born 1865)

• 1956 Frederick Soddy, English chemist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)

• 1957 Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral (born 1885)

• 1961 Marion Davies, American actress and comedian (born 1897)

• 1969 Adolfo López Mateos, Mexican politician, 48th President of Mexico (born 1909)

• 1973 Paul van Zeeland, Belgian lawyer, economist, and politician, 38th Prime Minister of Belgium (born 1893)

• 1979 Abul A'la Maududi, Pakistani theologian, Islamic scholar and jurist (born 1903)

• 1981 Harry Warren, American composer and songwriter (born 1893)

• 1987 Hákun Djurhuus, Faroese educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (born 1908)

• 1987 Dan Rowan, American actor, comedian, and producer (born 1922)

• 1988 Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani psychoanalyst, scholar, and poet (born 1914)

• 1989 Ambrose Folorunsho Alli, Nigerian academic and politician (born 1929)

• 1989 Irving Berlin, Russian-born American composer and songwriter (born 1888)

• 1992 Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (born 1948)

• 1993 Maurice Abravanel, Greek-American pianist and conductor (born 1903)

• 1994 Leonard Feather, English-American pianist, composer, producer, and journalist (born 1914)

• 1996 Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Latvian-Canadian ballerina, choreographer, and director (born 1924)

• 1996 Dorothy Lamour, American actress and singer (born 1914)

• 1999 George C. Scott, American actor, director, and producer (born 1927)

• 2000 Saburō Sakai, Japanese lieutenant and pilot (born 1916)

• 2001 Isaac Stern, Polish-Ukrainian violinist and conductor (born 1920)

• 2002 Jan de Hartog, Dutch-American author and playwright (born 1914)

• 2003 Gordon Jump, American actor (born 1932)

• 2003 Hugo Young, English journalist and author (born 1938)

• 2004 Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (born 1927)

• 2004 Ray Traylor Jr., American professional wrestler better-known as the Big Boss Man (born 1963)

• 2006 Edward Albert, American actor (born 1951)

• 2006 Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player and educator (born 1950)

• 2007 ʻAlí-Muhammad Varqá, last Hand of the Cause of God in the Baháʼí Faith (born 1911)

• 2007 Marcel Marceau, French mime and actor (born 1923)

• 2008 Thomas Dörflein, German zookeeper (born 1963)

• 2008 Petrus Schaesberg, German painter, historian, and educator (born 1967)

• 2009 Edward Delaney, Irish sculptor (born 1930)

• 2010 Jackie Burroughs, British-born Canadian actress (born 1939)

• 2010 Eddie Fisher, American singer (born 1928)

• 2010 Vyacheslav Tsaryov, Russian footballer (born 1971)

• 2011 Knut Steen, Norwegian sculptor (born 1924)

• 2012 Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan theorist and academic (born 1919)

• 2012 Irving Adler, American mathematician, author, and academic (born 1913)

• 2012 Juan H. Cintrón García, Puerto Rican businessman and politician, 126th Mayor of Ponce (born 1919)

• 2012 Grigory Frid, Russian pianist and composer (born 1915)

• 2012 Jan Hendrik van den Berg, Dutch psychiatrist and academic (born 1914)

• 2013 Gary Brandner, American author and screenwriter (born 1930)

• 2013 Jane Connell, American actress and singer (born 1925)

• 2013 David H. Hubel, Canadian-American neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)

• 2013 Álvaro Mutis, Colombian-Mexican author and poet (born 1923)

• 2013 Hans Erich Slany, German industrial designer, founded TEAMS Design (born 1926)

• 2013 Luciano Vincenzoni, Italian screenwriter (born 1926)

• 2014 Fernando Cabrita, Portuguese footballer and manager (born 1923)

• 2014 Sahana Pradhan, Nepalese politician, Nepalese Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1927)

• 2014 Erik van der Wurff, Dutch pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1945)

• 2014 Hans E. Wallman, Swedish director, producer, and composer (born 1936)

• 2015 Yogi Berra, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1925)

• 2016 Delphine Medjo, Cameroonian politician (born 1941)

• 2018 Chas Hodges, English musician and singer (born 1943)

• 2018 Edna Molewa, South African politician (born 1957)

• 2020 Neil Brannon, American politician (born 1940)

• 2022 Hilary Mantel, British author (born 1952)

• 2022 Pal Singh Purewal, Punjabi engineer, author, scholar, and teacher (born 1931/1932)

• 2023 Altemio Sanchez, Puerto Rican serial killer and rapist (born 1958)

• 2024 Roy Clay, American computer scientist (born 1929)

• 2024 Fredric Jameson, American academic and literary critic (born 1934)

Holidays and observances

• American Business Women's Day (United States)

• Baltic Unity Day (Lithuania, Latvia)

Christian feast days:

• Candidus

• Digna and Emerita

• Emmeram of Regensburg

• Felix and Constantia

• Ignatius of Santhià (Lorenzo Maurizio Belvisotti)

• Laud of Coutances

• Maurice (Western Christianity)

• Paul Chong Hasang (one of The Korean Martyrs)

• Phocas (the Gardener, or of Sinope)

• Phocas, Bishop of Sinope

• Sadalberga

• Saintin (Sanctinus) de Meaux

• Septimius of Iesi (this date since 1623)

• Theban Legion

• Thomas of Villanova

• Philander Chase (Episcopal Church)

• September 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Earliest date for the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere:

• Autumnal Equinox Day (Japan)

• Mabon in the Northern Hemisphere, Ostara in the Southern Hemisphere. (Neopagan Wheel of the Year)

• The first day of Miķeļi (Latvia)

• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire in 1908.

• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Mali from France in 1960.

• Resistance Fighting Day (Estonia)

References

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