Events

Pre-1600

• 275 For the last time, the Roman Senate chooses an emperor; they elect 75-year-old Marcus Claudius Tacitus.

• 762 Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, the Hasanid branch of the Alids begins the Alid Revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate.

• 1066 In the Battle of Stamford Bridge, Harald Hardrada, the invading King of Norway, is defeated by King Harold II of England.

• 1237 England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border.

• 1396 Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.

• 1513 Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.

• 1555 The Peace of Augsburg is signed by Emperor Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.

1601–1900

• 1690 Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.

• 1768 Unification of Nepal

• 1775 American Revolutionary War: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal in the Battle of Longue-Pointe during the invasion of Quebec.

• 1775 American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec sets off to join the American invasion.

• 1786 The mine of Huancavelica in the Peruvian Andes collapses, killing more than hundred people. The event was a major setback for quicksilver production in the Spanish Empire.

• 1789 The United States Congress passes twelve constitutional amendments: the ten known as the Bill of Rights, the (unratified) Congressional Apportionment Amendment, and the Congressional Compensation Amendment.

• 1790 Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.

• 1804 The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for allowing the expedition to move further upriver.

• 1868 The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.

• 1890 The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.

1901–present

• 1906 Leonardo Torres Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino in the Bilbao Abra (Spain), guiding an electric boat from the shore with people on board, which was controlled at a distance over , in what is considered to be the origin of modern wireless remote-control operation principles.

• 1911 An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.

• 1912 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.

• 1915 World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.

• 1918 World War I: The end of the Battle of Megiddo, the climax of the British Army's Sinai and Palestine campaign under General Edmund Allenby.

• 1926 The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.

• 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.

• 1944 World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek.

• 1955 The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.

• 1956 TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.

• 1957 Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.

• 1959 S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon, is mortally shot by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.

• 1962 The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.

• 1962 The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.

• 1963 Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo affair.

• 1964 The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.

• 1969 The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.

• 1974 Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.

• 1977 About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.

• 1978 PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing all 135 aboard Flight 182, both occupants of the Cessna, as well as seven people on the ground.

• 1981 Belize joins the United Nations.

• 1983 Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison.

• 1985 3 civilians killed by alleged supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Larnaca yacht killings.

• 1987 Fijian Governor-General Penaia Ganilau is overthrown in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.

• 1992 NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.

• 1997 NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-86 to the Mir space station.

• 1998 PauknAir Flight 4101, a British Aerospace 146, crashes near Melilla Airport in Melilla, Spain, killing 38 people.

• 2003 The 8.3 Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.

• 2018 Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1358 Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shōgun (died 1408)

• 1403 Louis III of Anjou (died 1434)

• 1525 Steven Borough, English explorer and navigator (died 1584)

• 1528 Otto II, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg (died 1603)

• 1529 Günther XLI, Count of Schwarzburg-Arnstadt (died 1583)

• 1599 Francesco Borromini, Swiss-Italian architect, designed the San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant'Agnese in Agone (died 1667)

1601–1900

• 1636 Ferdinand Joseph, Prince of Dietrichstein, German prince (died 1698)

• 1644 Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer and instrument maker (died 1710)

• 1663 Johann Nikolaus Hanff, German organist and composer (died 1711)

• 1683 Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer and theorist (died 1764)

• 1694 Henry Pelham, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1754)

• 1711 Qianlong Emperor of China (died 1799)

• 1738 Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and politician, 7th Governor of Delaware (died 1789)

• 1741 Wenzel Pichl, Czech violinist, composer, and director (died 1805)

• 1744 Frederick William II of Prussia (died 1797)

• 1758 Josepha Barbara Auernhammer, Austrian pianist and composer (died 1820)

• 1761 William Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry, Anglo-Irish politician and peer (died 1827)

• 1764 Fletcher Christian, English sailor (died 1793)

• 1766 Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of France (died 1822)

• 1771 Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and politician (died 1829)

• 1773 Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist and author (died 1856)

• 1782 Charles Maturin, Irish author and playwright (died 1824)

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

• 1816 Georg August Rudolph, German lawyer and politician, 3rd Mayor of Marburg (died 1893)

• 1825 William Pitt Ballinger, American lawyer and politician (died 1888)

• 1825 Joachim Heer, Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the National Council (died 1879)

• 1839 Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist and geologist (died 1904)

• 1862 Léon Boëllmann, French organist and composer (died 1897)

• 1862 Billy Hughes, English-Australian carpenter and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1952)

• 1865 Henri Lebasque, French artist (died 1937)

• 1866 Thomas Hunt Morgan, American biologist, geneticist, and embryologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1945)

• 1867 Yevgeny Miller, Russian general (died 1938)

• 1877 Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican general and President (died 1945)

• 1879 Lope K. Santos, Filipino lawyer and politician, 4th Governor of Rizal (died 1963)

• 1881 Lu Xun, Chinese author and critic (died 1936)

• 1884 Adolf Bolm, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (died 1951)

• 1888 Hanna Ralph, German actress (died 1978)

• 1889 Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, Scottish author and translator (died 1930)

• 1893 Harald Cramér, Swedish mathematician and statistician (died 1985)

• 1896 Sandro Pertini, Italian journalist and politician, 7th President of Italy (died 1990)

• 1897 William Faulkner, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1962)

• 1898 Robert Brackman, Ukrainian-American painter and educator (died 1980)

• 1899 Udumalai Narayana Kavi, Indian poet and songwriter (died 1981)

• 1900 Artur Sirk, Estonian soldier, lawyer, and politician (died 1937)

1901–present

• 1901 Robert Bresson, French director and screenwriter (died 1999)

• 1901 Gordon Coventry, Australian footballer (died 1968)

• 1903 Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter and educator (died 1970)

• 1906 Volfgangs Dārziņš, Latvian composer, pianist, and music critic (died 1962)

• 1906 Phyllis Pearsall, English painter, cartographer, and author (died 1996)

• 1906 Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (died 1975)

• 1908 Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (died 1977)

• 1910 Ralph Jordan, American football player and coach (died 1980)

• 1911 Eric Williams, Trinidadian historian and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (died 1981)

• 1914 John Manners, English naval officer and cricketer (died 2020)

• 1916 Jessica Anderson, Australian author and playwright (died 2010)

• 1916 Deendayal Upadhyaya, Indian economist, sociologist, and journalist (died 1968)

• 1917 Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2007)

• 1920 Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1994)

• 1920 Satish Dhawan, Indian engineer (died 2002)

• 1921 Rob Muldoon, New Zealand sergeant, accountant, and politician, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1992)

• 1922 Hammer DeRoburt, Nauruian educator and politician, 1st President of Nauru (died 1992)

• 1923 Robert Laxalt, American author and academic (died 2001)

• 1923 Sam Rivers, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (died 2011)

• 1924 Norman Ayrton, English actor and director (died 2017)

• 1924 Red Webb, American baseball player (died 1996)

• 1925 Silvana Pampanini, Italian model, actress, and director, Miss Italy 1946 (died 2016)

• 1926 Jack Hyles, American pastor and author (died 2001)

• 1926 Aldo Ray, American actor (died 1991)

• 1927 Carl Braun, American basketball player and coach (died 2010)

• 1927 Colin Davis, English conductor and educator (died 2013)

• 1929 Ronnie Barker, English actor and screenwriter (died 2005)

• 1929 Delia Scala, Italian ballerina and actress (died 2004)

• 1929 Barbara Walters, American journalist, producer, and author (died 2022)

• 1930 Nino Cerruti, Italian fashion designer, founded Cerruti (died 2022)

• 1930 Shel Silverstein, American author, poet, illustrator, and songwriter (died 1999)

• 1931 Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian journalist and poet (died 2005)

• 1931 Bryan John Birch, English mathematician and scholar

• 1932 Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (died 1982)

• 1932 Terry Medwin, Welsh footballer and manager (died 2024)

• 1932 Adolfo Suárez, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Spain (died 2014)

• 1933 Hubie Brown, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster

• 1933 Ian Tyson, Canadian folk singer-songwriter and musician (died 2022)

• 1936 Ken Forsse, American toy creator and author, created Teddy Ruxpin (died 2014)

• 1936 Juliet Prowse, South African-American actress, singer, and dancer (died 1996)

• 1936 Moussa Traoré, Malian general and politician 2nd President of Mali (died 2020)

• 1937 Mary Allen Wilkes, American computer scientist and lawyer

• 1938 Ron Hill, English runner and businessman (died 2021)

• 1938 Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlandic priest and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (died 2010)

• 1938 Enn Tarto, Estonian politician (died 2021)

• 1939 Leon Brittan, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (died 2015)

• 1939 Feroz Khan, Indian actor, director, and producer (died 2009)

• 1939 David S. Mann, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Cincinnati

• 1940 Tim Severin, Indian-English explorer, historian, and author (died 2020)

• 1941 Vivien Stern, Baroness Stern, English academic and politician

• 1942 Oscar Bonavena, Argentinian boxer (died 1976)

• 1942 Robert Miano, American actor and producer

• 1942 Henri Pescarolo, French race car driver

• 1942 John Taylor, English pianist and educator (died 2015)

• 1942 Dee Dee Warwick, American singer (died 2008)

• 1943 Robert Gates, American lieutenant, academic, and politician, 22nd United States Secretary of Defense

• 1943 John Locke, American keyboard player (died 2006)

• 1943 Aram Saroyan, American poet and novelist

• 1943 Robert Walden, American actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1944 Michael Douglas, American actor and producer

• 1944 Doris Matsui, American politician

• 1944 Grayson Shillingford, Dominican cricketer (died 2009)

• 1945 Kathleen Brown, American lawyer and politician, 29th California State Treasurer

• 1945 Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2014)

• 1946 Bishan Singh Bedi, Indian cricketer and coach (died 2023)

• 1946 Felicity Kendal, English actress

• 1946 Bryan MacLean, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 1998)

• 1946 Janusz Majer, Polish mountaineer

• 1946 Gil Morgan, American golfer

• 1946 Ali Parvin, Iranian footballer

• 1946 Jerry Penrod, American bass player

• 1947 Giannos Kranidiotis, Greek politician and diplomat (died 1999)

• 1947 Cheryl Tiegs, American model and actress

• 1947 Cecil Womack, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2013)

• 1948 Mimi Kennedy, American actress and screenwriter

• 1948 Vasile Șirli, Romanian musical composer and producer

• 1948 Vladimir Yevtushenkov, Russian businessman

• 1949 Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1949 Jeff Borowiak, American tennis player

• 1949 Steve Mackay, American saxophonist and composer (died 2015)

• 1949 Anson Williams, American actor, singer, and director

• 1950 E. C. Coleman, American basketball player

• 1950 Stanisław Szozda, Polish cyclist and trainer (died 2013)

• 1951 Yardena Arazi, Israeli singer

• 1951 Burleigh Drummond, American drummer and songwriter

• 1951 Graeme Knowles, English bishop

• 1951 Mark Hamill, American actor, singer, and producer

• 1951 Bob McAdoo, American basketball player and coach

• 1952 Colin Friels, Scottish-Australian actor

• 1952 Jimmy Garvin, American wrestler and manager

• 1952 bell hooks, American author and activist (died 2021)

• 1952 Cherríe Moraga, American poet, playwright, and activist

• 1952 Tommy Norden, American actor

• 1952 Chris Pond, English politician

• 1952 Christopher Reeve, American actor, producer, and activist (died 2004)

• 1953 Richard Harvey, English mandolin player, keyboard player, and composer

• 1953 Ron Rash, American novelist, short story writer, poet

• 1954 Sylvester Croom, American football player and coach

• 1954 Joep Lange, Dutch physician and academic (died 2014)

• 1954 Juande Ramos, Spanish footballer and manager

• 1955 Ludo Coeck, Belgian footballer (died 1985)

• 1955 Zucchero Fornaciari, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1955 Amyr Klink, Brazilian sailor and explorer

• 1955 Luanne Rice, American author and activist

• 1955 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer and manager

• 1955 Steven Severin, English bass player, songwriter, and producer

• 1956 W. Daniel Hillis, American computer scientist, engineer, and author, founded the Thinking Machines Corporation

• 1956 Jamie Hyneman, American special effects designer and television host, founded M5 Industries

• 1956 Miroslav Volf, Croatian Protestant theologian and public intellectual

• 1957 Michael Madsen, American actor and producer (died 2025)

• 1957 Vladimir Popovkin, Russian general (died 2014)

• 1957 Glenn Hubbard, American baseball player and coach

• 1958 Randy Kerber, American keyboard player, composer, and conductor

• 1959 Jeon Soo-il, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1960 Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer and manager

• 1961 Mehmet Aslantuğ, Turkish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1961 Heather Locklear, American actress

• 1961 Steve Scott, British journalist and presenter

• 1961 Tim Zoehrer, Australian cricketer

• 1962 Kalthoum Sarrai, Tunisian-French psychologist and journalist (died 2010)

• 1962 Aida Turturro, American actress

• 1962 Dariusz Wdowczyk, Polish footballer and coach

• 1963 Tate Donovan, American actor

• 1963 Keely Shaye Smith, American journalist and author

• 1964 Gary Ayles, English race car driver

• 1964 Barbara Dennerlein, German organist

• 1964 Maria Doyle Kennedy, Irish actress and singer

• 1964 Rebecca Gablé, German novelist

• 1964 Kikuko Inoue, Japanese singer-songwriter and voice actress

• 1964 Joey Saputo, Canadian businessman

• 1965 Matt Battaglia, American football player, actor, and producer

• 1965 Saffron Henderson, Canadian voice actress and singer

• 1965 Scottie Pippen, American basketball player and sportscaster

• 1965 Anne Roumanoff, French actress and screenwriter

• 1965 Dave Rundle, South African cricketer

• 1965 Rob Schmidt, American director and screenwriter

• 1965 Rafael Martín Vázquez, Spanish footballer and coach

• 1965 Nicky Winmar, Australian footballer

• 1966 Stanislav Bunin, Russian pianist and educator

• 1966 Jason Flemyng, English actor

• 1966 Todd Philcox, American football player

• 1967 Kim Issel, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1967 Ashwin Sood, English-Canadian drummer and producer

• 1968 John A. List, American economist and academic

• 1968 Will Smith, American actor, producer, and rapper

• 1968 John Worsfold, Australian footballer and coach

• 1969 Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (died 2002)

• 1969 Bill Simmons, American journalist and author

• 1969 Hal Sparks, American actor, comedian, musician and political commentator

• 1969 Tony Womack, American baseball player

• 1969 – David Weathers, American baseball player

• 1969 Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress

• 1970 Curtis Buckley, American football player and psychiatrist

• 1970 Aja Kong, Japanese professional wrestler

• 1970 Paul Pope, American cartoonist, writer and artist

• 1970 Dean Ween, American musician

• 1971 Nikos Boudouris, Greek basketball player and manager

• 1971 John Lynch, American football player and sportscaster

• 1971 Seb Sanders, English jockey

• 1972 Douglas September, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1973 Tijani Babangida, Nigerian footballer

• 1973 Jenny Chapman, English politician

• 1973 Bridgette Wilson, American actress, singer, model, and beauty queen

• 1974 Bill Bowler, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1974 Olivier Dacourt, French footballer

• 1974 John Granville, American scholar and diplomat (died 2008)

• 1974 Paul Hurst, English footballer and manager

• 1974 Daniel Kessler, English-American singer and guitarist

• 1974 Frank Leder, German fashion designer

• 1974 Robbie Mears, Australian rugby league player and coach

• 1974 Eric Moss, American football player (died 2019)

• 1974 Joel Prpic, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1974 Javier Rosas, Mexican triathlete

• 1974 Kemel Thompson, Jamaican hurdler

• 1975 Daniela Ceccarelli, Italian skier

• 1975 Declan Donnelly, English entertainer

• 1975 Matt Hasselbeck, American football player

• 1975 Dat Nguyen, American football player and coach

• 1976 Santigold, American singer-songwriter and producer

• 1976 Chauncey Billups, American basketball player

• 1976 Charlotte Ayanna, Puerto Rican-American actress

• 1977 Clea DuVall, American actress

• 1977 Robbie Jones, American actor

• 1977 Mike Krahulik, American illustrator

• 1977 Toni Lydman, Finnish ice hockey player

• 1977 Joel David Moore, American actor

• 1977 Wil Nieves, Puerto Rican-American baseball player

• 1978 Joe Cotton, Canadian-New Zealand singer

• 1978 Roudolphe Douala, Cameroonian footballer

• 1978 Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer

• 1978 Jodie Kidd, English model and actress

• 1978 Ryan Leslie, American singer-songwriter and producer

• 1978 Joel Piñeiro, Puerto Rican baseball player

• 1979 Kyle Bennett, American BMX rider (died 2012)

• 1979 Rashad Evans, American mixed martial artist and wrestler

• 1979 Jason Koumas, Welsh footballer

• 1980 Chris Owen, American actor

• 1980 T.I., American rapper, songwriter, producer, and actor

• 1981 Rocco Baldelli, American baseball player and manager

• 1981 Jason Bergmann, American baseball player

• 1981 Lee Norris, American actor

• 1982 Hyun Bin, South Korean actor

• 1983 Donald Glover (also known as Childish Gambino), American actor, rapper, producer, and screenwriter

• 1984 Cherine Anderson, Jamaican singer-songwriter and actress

• 1984 Matt Carle, American ice hockey player

• 1984 Ivory Latta, American basketball player

• 1984 Matías Silvestre, Argentinian footballer

• 1984 Zach Woods, American actor and comedian

• 1986 Heidi El Tabakh, Egyptian-Canadian tennis player

• 1986 Jamie O'Hara, English footballer

• 1986 Choi Yoon-young, South Korean actress

• 1987 Monica Niculescu, Romanian tennis player

• 1989 Jordan Gavaris, Canadian actor

• 1989 Cuco Martina, Curaçaoan footballer

• 1989 Aldon Smith, American football player

• 1990 Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater

• 1991 Calle Järnkrok, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1992 Zoël Amberg, Swiss race car driver

• 1992 Massimo Luongo, Australian footballer

• 1992 Keauna McLaughlin, American figure skater

• 1992 Rosalía, Spanish singer-songwriter

• 1992 Ruslan Zhiganshin, Russian ice dancer

• 1992 – Teddy Swims, American singer and songwriter

• 1993 Brandin Cooks, American football player

• 1993 Toby Greene, Australian footballer

• 1995 Todd Hazelwood, Australian race car driver

• 1997 Antonia Gentry, American actress

• 2000 Lilas Ikuta, Japanese singer and songwriter

• 2001 Cade Cunningham, American basketball player

• 2003 Bella Ramsey, English actor

• 2009 Leah Jeffries, American actress

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 1066 Harald Hardrada, Norwegian king (born 1015)

• 1066 Maria Haraldsdotter, Norwegian princess

• 1066 Tostig Godwinson, English son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex (born c. 1029)

• 1086 William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (born 1025)

• 1087 Simon I de Montfort, French nobleman (born c. 1025)

• 1333 Prince Morikuni, Japanese shōgun (born 1301)

• 1367 Jakushitsu Genkō, Japanese poet (born 1290)

• 1396 Jean de Carrouges, French knight (born 1330)

• 1396 Jean de Vienne, French general and admiral (born 1341)

• 1496 Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and politician (born 1447)

• 1506 Philip I of Castile (born 1478)

• 1534 Pope Clement VII (born 1478)

• 1536 Johannes Secundus, Dutch author and poet (born 1511)

• 1550 Georg von Blumenthal, German bishop (born 1490)

• 1588 Tilemann Heshusius, German Gnesio-Lutheran theologian (born 1527)

1601–1900

• 1602 Caspar Peucer, German physician, scholar, and reformer (born 1525)

• 1615 Arbella Stuart, English noblewoman and woman of letters (born 1575)

• 1617 Emperor Go-Yōzei of Japan (born 1572)

• 1617 Francisco Suárez, Spanish priest, philosopher, and theologian (born 1548)

• 1621 Mary Sidney, English writer (born 1561)

• 1626 Lancelot Andrewes, English bishop and scholar (born 1555)

• 1630 Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbases, Italian general and politician, Governor of the Duchy of Milan (born 1569)

• 1665 Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (born 1610)

• 1703 Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish general (born 1658)

• 1774 John Bradstreet, Canadian-English general (born 1714)

• 1777 Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (born 1728)

• 1791 William Bradford, American soldier and publisher (born 1719)

• 1792 Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish politician and diplomat (born 1710)

• 1794 Paul Rabaut, French pastor (born 1718)

• 1828 Charlotta Seuerling, Swedish singer, harpsichord player, and composer (born 1783)

• 1849 Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer (born 1804)

• 1867 Oliver Loving, American rancher, co-developed the Goodnight–Loving Trail (born 1812)

• 1893 Louise von François, German author (born 1817)

• 1900 Félix-Gabriel Marchand, Canadian journalist and politician, 11th Premier of Québec (born 1832)

• 1900 John M. Palmer, American general and politician, 15th Governor of Illinois (born 1817)

1901–present

• 1901 Arthur Fremantle, English general and politician, Governor of Malta (born 1835)

• 1905 Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French educator and politician (born 1853)

• 1917 Thomas Ashe, Irish revolutionary, rebel commander, died on hunger strike (born 1885)

• 1918 Mikhail Alekseyev, Russian general (born 1857)

• 1926 Herbert Booth, English songwriter and bandleader (born 1862)

• 1928 Richard F. Outcault, American cartoonist, created The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown (born 1863)

• 1929 Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (born 1879)

• 1933 Ring Lardner, American journalist and author (born 1885)

• 1938 Lev Zadov, Ukrainian intelligence agent (born 1893)

• 1939 Ali Saip Ursavaş, Turkish soldier and politician (born 1885)

• 1941 Foxhall P. Keene, American polo player, golfer, and race car driver (born 1867)

• 1943 Alexander Hall, Scottish-Canadian soccer player (born 1880)

• 1946 Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (born 1879)

• 1955 Martha Norelius Swedish-born American swimmer (born 1909)

• 1958 John B. Watson, American psychologist and academic (born 1878)

• 1960 Emily Post, American author and educator (born 1873)

• 1961 Frank Fay, American actor and singer (born 1897)

• 1968 Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist and academic (born 1891)

• 1968 Cornell Woolrich, American author and screenwriter (born 1903)

• 1970 Erich Maria Remarque, German-Swiss author and translator (born 1898)

• 1971 Hugo Black, American captain, jurist, and politician, Associate Supreme Court Justice (born 1886)

• 1972 Alejandra Pizarnik, Argentine poet (born 1936)

• 1980 John Bonham, English drummer and songwriter (born 1948)

• 1980 Lewis Milestone, Russian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1895)

• 1980 Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (born 1883)

• 1983 Leopold III of Belgium (born 1901)

• 1984 Walter Pidgeon, Canadian-American actor (born 1897)

• 1986 Darshan Singh Canadian, Indian-Canadian trade union leader and activist (born 1917)

• 1986 Donald MacDonald, Canadian union leader and politician (born 1909)

• 1986 Nikolay Semyonov, Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896)

• 1986 Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist and academic (born 1909)

• 1987 Mary Astor, American actress (born 1906)

• 1987 Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor and playwright (born 1905)

• 1988 Billy Carter, American farmer and businessman (born 1937)

• 1988 Arthur Võõbus, Estonian-American orientalist and scholar (born 1909)

• 1990 Prafulla Chandra Sen, Indian accountant and politician, 3rd Chief Minister of West Bengal (born 1897)

• 1991 Klaus Barbie, German SS captain, known as the "Butcher of Lyon" (born 1913)

• 1991 Viviane Romance, French actress and producer (born 1912)

• 1992 Ivan Vdović, Serbian musician (born 1961)

• 1995 Dave Bowen, Welsh footballer and manager (born 1928)

• 1995 Annie Elizabeth Delany, American dentist and author (born 1891)

• 1997 Hélène Baillargeon, Canadian singer and actress (born 1916)

• 1997 Jean Françaix, French pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1912)

• 1999 Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (born 1930)

• 2003 Aqila al-Hashimi, Iraqi translator and politician (born 1953)

• 2003 Herb Gardner, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1934)

• 2003 Franco Modigliani, Italian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)

• 2003 George Plimpton, American writer and literary editor (born 1927)

• 2005 Don Adams, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1923)

• 2005 Madeline-Ann Aksich, Canadian businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1956)

• 2005 George Archer, American golfer (born 1939)

• 2005 Urie Bronfenbrenner, Russian-American psychologist and ecologist (born 1917)

• 2005 Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani linguist and critic (born 1912)

• 2005 M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and author (born 1936)

• 2005 Friedrich Peter, Austrian lawyer and politician (born 1921)

• 2006 Jeff Cooper, American target shooter and author (born 1920)

• 2006 John M. Ford, American author and poet (born 1957)

• 2007 Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian physician and politician (born 1919)

• 2007 André Emmerich, German-American art dealer (born 1924)

• 2008 Derog Gioura, Nauruan politician, 23rd President of Nauru (born 1932)

• 2009 Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (born 1923)

• 2009 Pierre Falardeau, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1946)

• 2011 Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1940)

• 2012 Billy Barnes, American composer and songwriter (born 1927)

• 2012 John Bond, English footballer and manager (born 1932)

• 2012 Eric Ives, English historian and academic (born 1931)

• 2012 Alonso Lujambio, Mexican academic and politician (born 1962)

• 2012 Andy Williams, American singer (born 1927)

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

• 2013 Choi In-ho, South Korean author and screenwriter (born 1945)

• 2013 José Montoya, American poet and academic (born 1932)

• 2013 Billy Mure, American guitarist and composer (born 1915)

• 2013 Pablo Verani, Italian-Argentinian lawyer and politician (born 1938)

• 2013 Bennet Wong, Canadian psychiatrist and academic, co-founded Haven Institute (Gabriola Island, Canada) (born 1930)

• 2014 Ulrick Chérubin, Haitian-Canadian educator and politician (born 1943)

• 2014 Sulejman Tihić, Bosnian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1951)

• 2014 Dorothy Tyler-Odam, English high jumper (born 1920)

• 2015 Claudio Baggini, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (born 1936)

• 2015 John Galvin, American general (born 1929)

• 2015 Tom Kelley, American baseball player and manager (born 1944)

• 2015 Moti Kirschenbaum, Israeli journalist (born 1939)

• 2016 José Fernández, Cuban-American baseball player (born 1992)

• 2016 Arnold Palmer, American golfer (born 1929)

• 2016 Nahid Hattar, Jordanian writer and political activist (born 1960)

• 2017 Jan Tříska, Czech actor (born 1936)

• 2023 David McCallum, Scottish actor (born 1933)

Holidays and observances

• Armed Forces Day or Revolution Day (Mozambique)

• Bangladeshi Immigration Day (United States)

Christian feast day:

• Abadir and Iraja and Companions (Coptic Church)

• Aunarius (Aunacharius)

• Anathalon (Archdiocese of Milan)

• Cadoc

• Ceolfrith

• Cleopas

• Euphrosyne of Alexandria

• Finbarr

• Fermin of Amiens

• Lancelot Andrewes (Church of England)

• Sergius of Radonezh (repose)

• Vincent Strambi

• September 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Day of National Recognition for the Harkis (France)

• National Research Administrators Day (United States)

• National Youth Day (Nauru)

References

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