Events

Pre-1600

• 1066 William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme river, beginning the Norman conquest of England.

• 1331 The Battle of Płowce is fought, between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order. The Poles are defeated but their leaders escape capture.

• 1422 After the brief Gollub War, the Teutonic Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with Poland and Lithuania.

• 1529 The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.

• 1540 The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.

1601–1900

• 1605 The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.

• 1669 The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans, thus ending the 21-year-long Siege of Candia.

• 1777 American Revolution: Lancaster, Pennsylvania becomes the capital of the United States for one day after Congress evacuates Philadelphia.

• 1791 The National Assembly of France votes to award full citizenship to Jews.

• 1821 The Army of the Three Guarantees triumphantly enters Mexico City, led by Agustín de Iturbide. The following day Mexico is declared independent.

• 1822 Jean-François Champollion officially informs the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres in France that he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone.

• 1825 The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is ceremonially opened with the engine Locomotion pulling wagons with coal and passengers from Shildon to Darlington to Stockton.

• 1854 The paddle steamer , owned by the Collins Line of New York, sinks off the coast of Newfoundland, following a collision with a smaller vessel, the SS Vesta. Only 88 of over 300 people on board survive. About a dozen of the occupants of the Vesta are killed when their lifeboat is hit by the Arctic.

• 1875 The merchant sailing ship Ellen Southard is wrecked in a storm at Liverpool.

1901–present

• 1903 "Wreck of the Old 97": an American rail disaster, in which 11 people are killed; it later becomes the subject of a popular ballad.

• 1908 Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.

• 1916 Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu.

• 1922 King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, George II.

• 1928 The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.

• 1930 Bobby Jones wins the (pre-Masters) Grand Slam of golf.

• 1938 The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.

• 1940 World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.

• 1941 World War II: The Greek National Liberation Front is established with Georgios Siantos as acting leader.

• 1941 The is launched, becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.

• 1942 World War II: Last day of the Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marines barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces.

• 1944 World War II: The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission during the war.

• 1949 Zeng Liansong's design is chosen as the flag of the People's Republic of China.

• 1956 USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first person to exceed Mach 3. Shortly thereafter, the Bell X-2 goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.

• 1959 Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.

• 1962 The Yemen Arab Republic is established.

• 1962 Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

• 1964 The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight.

• 1973 Texas International Airlines Flight 655 crashes into the Black Fork Mountain Wilderness near Mena, Arkansas, killing all 11 people on board.

• 1975 The last use of capital punishment in Spain sparks worldwide protests.

• 1977 Japan Airlines Flight 715 crashes on approach to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang, Malaysia, killing 34 of the 79 people on board.

• 1988 The National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight dictatorship in Myanmar.

• 1992 Palestinian prisoners went on a 15-day hunger strike.

• 1993 The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.

• 1996 The Battle of Kabul ends in a Taliban victory; an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is established.

• 1996 Confusion on a tanker ship results in the Julie N oil spill in Portland, Maine.

• 1998 The Google internet search engine retroactively claims this date as its birthday.

• 2001 In Switzerland, a gunman shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.

• 2003 The SMART-1 satellite is launched.

• 2007 NASA launches the Dawn probe to the asteroid belt.

• 2008 CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.

• 2012 In Minneapolis, a gunman shoots eight people, killing six and injuring 2 and then kills himself.

• 2014 63 people are killed in an eruption of Mount Ontake in Japan.

• 2019 Over two million people participated in worldwide strikes to protest climate change across 2,400 locations worldwide.

• 2020 Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: Azerbaijan launches an offensive against the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, inhabited predominantly by ethnic Armenians.

• 2024 Hurricane Helene devastates the Carolinas as a tropical storm, killing hundreds and injuring more.

Births

Pre-1600

• 808 Ninmyō, Japanese emperor (died 850)

• 830 Ermentrude of Orléans, Queen of the Franks (probable year; d. 869)

• 1271 Wenceslaus II of Bohemia, King of Bohemia and Poland (died 1305)

• 1275 John II, Duke of Brabant (died 1312)

• 1300 Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine (died 1327)

• 1389 Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (died 1464)

• 1433 Stanisław Kazimierczyk, Polish canon regular and saint (died 1489)

• 1442 John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (died 1491)

• 1496 Hieronymus Łaski, Polish diplomat (died 1542)

• 1507 Guillaume Rondelet, French physician (died 1566)

• 1533 Stefan Batory, King of Poland (died 1586)

• 1544 Takenaka Shigeharu, Japanese samurai (died 1579)

• 1552 Flaminio Scala, Italian playwright and stage actor (died 1624)

• 1598 Robert Blake, English admiral (died 1657)

1601–1900

• 1601 Louis XIII of France (died 1643)

• 1627 Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop and theologian (died 1704)

• 1643 Solomon Stoddard, American pastor and librarian (died 1729)

• 1657 Sofia Alekseyevna of Russia (died 1704)

• 1677 Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, Italian violinist and composer (died 1754)

• 1696 Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori, Italian bishop and saint (died 1787)

• 1719 Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician and epigrammatist (died 1800)

• 1722 Samuel Adams, American philosopher and politician, fourth Governor of Massachusetts (died 1803)

• 1729 Michael Denis, Austrian lepidopterist, author, and poet (died 1800)

• 1739 Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock, Irish politician (died 1767)

• 1765 Antoine Philippe de La Trémoille, French general (died 1794)

• 1772 Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson who had twelve children (died 1836)

• 1783 Agustín de Iturbide, Mexican royalist turned insurgent; first emperor of Mexico (died 1824)

• 1803 Samuel Francis Du Pont, American admiral (died 1865)

• 1805 George Müller, German-English evangelist and missionary, founded the Ashley Down Orphanage (died 1898)

• 1818 Hermann Kolbe, German chemist and academic (died 1884)

• 1821 Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Swiss philosopher, poet, and critic (died 1881)

• 1824 William "Bull" Nelson, American general (died 1862)

• 1830 William Babcock Hazen, American general (died 1887)

• 1838 Lawrence Sullivan Ross, American general and politician, 19th Governor of Texas (died 1898)

• 1840 Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (died 1914)

• 1840 Thomas Nast, German-American cartoonist (died 1902)

• 1842 Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist and petrographer (died 1903)

• 1843 Gaston Tarry, French mathematician and academic (died 1913)

• 1861 Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, American poet and author (died 1933)

• 1864 Andrej Hlinka, Slovak priest and politician (died 1938)

• 1866 Eurosia Fabris, Italian saint (died 1932)

• 1871 Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)

• 1873 Vithalbhai Patel, Indian legislator and political leader (died 1933)

• 1879 Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (died 1934)

• 1879 Frederick Schule, American hurdler and coach (died 1962)

• 1879 Cyril Scott, English poet and composer (died 1970)

• 1882 Dorothy Greenhough-Smith, English figure skater and tennis player (died 1965)

• 1885 Harry Blackstone, Sr., American magician (died 1965)

• 1885 Charles Benjamin Howard, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1964)

• 1892 George Bambridge, English diplomat (died 1943)

• 1894 Lothar von Richthofen, German lieutenant and pilot (died 1922)

• 1896 Gilbert Ashton, English cricketer (died 1981)

• 1896 Sam Ervin, American soldier and politician (died 1985)

• 1898 Vincent Youmans, American composer and producer (died 1946)

1901–present

• 1904 Edvard Kocbek, Slovenian poet and politician (died 1981)

• 1905 Conrad Heidkamp, German footballer and manager (died 1994)

• 1906 William Empson, English poet and critic (died 1984)

• 1906 Jim Thompson, American author and screenwriter (died 1977)

• 1906 Sergei Varshavsky, Russian art collector and author (died 1980)

• 1907 Bernard Miles, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1991)

• 1907 Bhagat Singh, Indian socialist revolutionary (disputed with 28 September) (died 1931)

• 1911 Marcey Jacobson, American-Mexican photographer (died 2009)

• 1913 Albert Ellis, American psychologist and author (died 2007)

• 1916 S. Yizhar, Israeli academic and politician (died 2006)

• 1917 Louis Auchincloss, American novelist and essayist (died 2010)

• 1917 Carl Ballantine, American magician and actor (died 2009)

• 1917 William T. Orr, American actor and producer (died 2002)

• 1917 Benjamin Rubin, American microbiologist (died 2010)

• 1918 Martin Ryle, English astronomer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)

• 1918 Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd (died 2001)

• 1918 Konstantin Gerchik, Soviet military leader (died 2001)

• 1919 Jayne Meadows, American actress and author (died 2015)

• 1919 Charles H. Percy, American lieutenant and politician (died 2011)

• 1919 James H. Wilkinson, American mathematician and computer scientist (died 1986)

• 1920 William Conrad, American actor, director, and producer (died 1994)

• 1920 – Alan A. Freeman, English record producer (died 1985)

• 1921 Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian director and screenwriter (died 2014)

• 1921 Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter and producer, co-founded Amicus Productions (died 1991)

• 1921 Bernard Waber, American author and illustrator (died 2013)

• 1922 Sammy Benskin, American pianist and bandleader (died 1992)

• 1922 Arthur Penn, American director and producer (died 2010)

• 1924 Ernest Becker, American-Canadian anthropologist, author, and academic (died 1974)

• 1924 Bud Powell, American pianist and composer (died 1966)

• 1924 Fred Singer, Austrian-American physicist and academic (died 2020)

• 1924 Josef Škvorecký, Czech-Canadian author and publisher (died 2012)

• 1925 Robert Edwards, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)

• 1925 George Gladir, American author (died 2013)

• 1926 Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (died 2006)

• 1927 Chrysostomos I of Cyprus (died 2007)

• 1927 Red Rodney, American trumpet player (died 1994)

• 1927 Romano Scarpa, Italian author and illustrator (died 2005)

• 1927 Sada Thompson, American actress (died 2011)

• 1928 Margaret Rule, English archaeologist and historian (died 2015)

• 1929 Calvin Jones, American pianist, composer, and educator (died 2004)

• 1929 Bruno Junk, Estonian race walker (died 1995)

• 1929 Barbara Murray, English actress (died 2014)

• 1930 Paul Reichmann, Austrian-Canadian businessman, founded Olympia and York (died 2013)

• 1931 Freddy Quinn, Austrian singer, guitarist, and actor

• 1932 Geoff Bent, English footballer (died 1958)

• 1932 Michael Colvin, English captain and politician (died 2000)

• 1932 Gabriel Loubier, Canadian politician

• 1932 Oliver E. Williamson, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020)

• 1932 Marcia Neugebauer, American geophysicist

• 1933 Rodney Cotterill, Danish-English physicist and neuroscientist (died 2007)

• 1933 Greg Morris, American actor (died 1996)

• 1934 Wilford Brimley, American actor (died 2020)

• 1934 Claude Jarman, Jr., American actor and producer (died 2025)

• 1934 Dick Schaap, American sportscaster and author (died 2001)

• 1935 Al MacNeil, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2025)

• 1936 Don Cornelius, American television host and producer (died 2012)

• 1936 Gordon Honeycombe, English actor, playwright, and author (died 2015)

• 1937 Vasyl Durdynets, Ukrainian politician and diplomat, eighth Prime Minister of Ukraine

• 1938 Jean-Loup Dabadie, French journalist, songwriter, and screenwriter (died 2020)

• 1939 Nicholas Haslam, English interior designer and author

• 1939 Carol Lynn Pearson, American author, poet, and playwright

• 1939 Kathy Whitworth, American golfer (died 2022)

• 1940 Josephine Barstow, English soprano and actress

• 1940 Benoni Beheyt, Belgian cyclist

• 1941 Peter Bonetti, English footballer and coach (died 2020)

• 1941 Serge Ménard, Canadian lawyer and politician

• 1941 Don Nix, American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer

• 1942 Dith Pran, Cambodian photographer and journalist (died 2008)

• 1942 Alvin Stardust, English singer and actor (died 2014)

• 1943 Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (died 2021)

• 1943 Randy Bachman, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1944 Angélica María, American-born Mexican singer-songwriter and actress

• 1944 Gary Sutherland, American baseball player and scout

• 1945 Jack Goldstein, Canadian-American painter (died 2003)

• 1946 Nicos Anastasiades, Cypriot lawyer and politician, seventh President of Cyprus

• 1946 T. C. Cannon, American painter and sculptor (died 1978)

• 1947 Dick Advocaat, Dutch football manager and former player

• 1947 Richard Court, Australian politician, 26th Premier of Western Australia

• 1947 Barbara Dickson, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress

• 1947 Denis Lawson, Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1947 Meat Loaf, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2022)

• 1947 Liz Torres, Puerto Rican-American actress and comedian

• 1948 Tom Braidwood, Canadian actor, director, and producer

• 1948 Les Chapman, English footballer and manager

• 1948 Duncan Fletcher, Rhodesian-Zimbabwean cricketer and coach

• 1948 A Martinez, American actor

• 1949 Graham Richardson, Australian politician (died 2025)

• 1949 Mike Schmidt, American baseball player

• 1949 Jahn Teigen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020)

• 1950 John Marsden, Australian writer (died 2024)

• 1950 Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Japanese-American actor and martial artist (died 2025)

• 1951 Geoff Gallop, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Western Australia

• 1951 Michel Rivard, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1951 Jim Shooter, American author and illustrator (died 2025)

• 1952 Katie Fforde, English author

• 1952 Dumitru Prunariu, Romanian pilot, engineer and cosmonaut

• 1953 Diane Abbott, English journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development

• 1953 Mata Amritanandamayi, Indian guru and saint

• 1953 Claudio Gentile, Italian footballer and manager

• 1953 Greg Ham, Australian keyboard player, saxophonist and songwriter (died 2012)

• 1954 Ray Hadley, Australian radio host and sportscaster

• 1954 Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Russian violinist and conductor

• 1954 Larry Wall, American computer programmer and author

• 1956 Steve Archibald, Scottish footballer and manager

• 1956 Martin Handford, English children's author and illustrator

• 1957 Bill Athey, English cricketer, footballer, and coach

• 1958 Shaun Cassidy, American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter

• 1958 Irvine Welsh, Scottish author and playwright

• 1959 Beth Heiden, American speed skater and cyclist

• 1960 Jean-Marc Barr, German-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1962 Gavin Larsen, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster

• 1963 Marc Maron, American comedian, actor, and radio host

• 1964 Predrag Brzaković, Serbian footballer (died 2012)

• 1964 Tracy Camp, American computer scientist and academic

• 1964 Johnny du Plooy, South African boxer (died 2013)

• 1964 Stephan Jenkins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1965 Steve Kerr, American basketball player, coach and sportscaster

• 1965 Bernard Lord, Canadian lawyer and politician, 30th Premier of New Brunswick

• 1965 Peter MacKay, Canadian lawyer and politician, 50th Canadian Minister of Justice

• 1965 Alexis Stewart, American radio and television host

• 1966 Debbie Wasserman Schultz, American politician

• 1966 Stephanie Wilson, American engineer and astronaut

• 1966 Lorenzo Cherubini, Italian singer-songwriter and rapper

• 1967 Uche Okechukwu, Nigerian footballer

• 1968 Mari Kiviniemi, Finnish politician, 41st Prime Minister of Finland

• 1968 Patrick Muldoon, American actor (died 2026)

• 1970 Yoshiharu Habu, Japanese chess player and author

• 1970 Tamara Taylor, Canadian actress

• 1971 Horacio Sandoval, Mexican illustrator

• 1972 Sylvia Crawley, American basketball player and coach

• 1972 Clara Hughes, Canadian cyclist and speed skater

• 1972 Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress, blogger, and businesswoman

• 1972 Craig L. Rice, American politician

• 1973 Vratislav Lokvenc, Czech footballer

• 1973 Stanislav Pozdnyakov, Russian fencer

• 1973 Indira Varma, British actress

• 1974 Carrie Brownstein, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress

• 1976 Matt Harding, American video game designer and dancer

• 1976 Jason Phillips, American baseball player and coach

• 1976 Francesco Totti, Italian footballer

• 1977 Andrus Värnik, Estonian javelin thrower

• 1978 Brad Arnold, American singer-songwriter (died 2026)

• 1978 Jon Rauch, American baseball player

• 1978 Mihaela Ursuleasa, Romanian pianist (died 2012)

• 1979 Jon Garland, American baseball player

• 1979 Zita Görög, Hungarian actress and model

• 1979 Christian Jones, Australian race car driver

• 1979 Michael Kosta, American comedian

• 1979 Steve Simpson, Australian rugby league player

• 1980 Asashōryū Akinori, Mongolian sumo wrestler, the 68th Yokozuna

• 1980 Ehron VonAllen, American singer-songwriter and producer

• 1981 Sophie Crumb, American author and illustrator

• 1981 Brendon McCullum, New Zealand cricketer

• 1981 Lakshmipathy Balaji, Indian cricketer

• 1982 Anna Camp, American actress

• 1982 Jon McLaughlin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1982 Markus Rosenberg, Swedish footballer

• 1982 Lil Wayne, American rapper, producer, and actor

• 1982 Tan White, American basketball player

• 1982 Darrent Williams, American football player (died 2007)

• 1983 Jay Bouwmeester, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1983 Jeon Hye-bin, South Korean actress and singer

• 1983 Chris Quinn, American basketball player and coach

• 1984 Paul Bevan, Australian footballer

• 1984 Davide Capello, Italian footballer

• 1984 John Lannan, American baseball player

• 1984 Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer

• 1984 Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (died 2011)

• 1985 Massimo Bertocchi, Canadian decathlete

• 1985 Anthony Morrow, American basketball player

• 1985 Daniel Pudil, Czech footballer

• 1985 Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (died 2014)

• 1986 Vin Mazzaro, American baseball player

• 1986 Ricardo Risatti, Argentinian race car driver

• 1986 Matt Shoemaker American baseball player

• 1987 Ádám Bogdán, Hungarian footballer

• 1987 Austin Carlile, American singer-songwriter

• 1987 Vanessa James, French figure skater

• 1987 Olga Puchkova, Russian tennis player

• 1988 Lisa Ryzih, German pole vaulter

• 1989 Park Tae-hwan, South Korean swimmer

• 1990 Dion Lewis, American football player

• 1991 Ousmane Barry, Guinean footballer

• 1991 Simona Halep, Romanian tennis player

• 1991 Thomas Mann, American actor

• 1991 Anete Paulus, Estonian footballer

• 1991 Rio Uchida, Japanese model and actress

• 1992 Lachlan Burr, Australian rugby league player

• 1992 Sam Lerner, American actor

• 1992 Ryan O'Shaughnessy, Irish singer-songwriter and actor

• 1992 Granit Xhaka, Swiss footballer

• 1993 Lisandro Magallán, Argentinian footballer

• 1993 Ryan Murray, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1993 Monica Puig, Puerto Rican-American tennis player

• 1993 Vinnie Sunseri, American football player

• 1994 Dylan Walker, Australian rugby league player

• 1994 Sayak Chakraborty, Indian television actor

• 1995 Kwon Eun-bi, South Korean singer and musical actress

• 1995 Christian Wood, American basketball player

• 1997 Jaiden Animations, American YouTuber and animator

• 1998 Ioana Mincă, Romanian tennis player

• 2001 Caleb Love, American basketball player

• 2001 David Malukas, American race car driver

• 2002 Jenna Ortega, American actress

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 765 Pugu Huai'en, Chinese general during the Tang dynasty

• 936 Kyŏn Hwŏn, king of Later Baekje (born 867)

• 1111 Vekenega, Croatian Benedictine abbess

• 1115 Bonfilius, Italian saint and bishop of Foligno (bornc. 1040)

• 1125 Richeza of Berg, Duchess of Bohemia (born c.1095)

• 1194 Renaud de Courtenay, Anglo-Norman nobleman (born 1125)

• 1249 Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse (born 1197)

• 1404 William of Wykeham, English bishop (born 1320)

• 1536 Felice della Rovere, illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II (born 1483)

• 1612 Piotr Skarga, Polish Jesuit and polemicist (born 1536)

• 1637 Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint (born c.1600)

• 1657 Olimpia Maidalchini, Roman noble (born 1591)

• 1557 Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (born 1497)

• 1590 Pope Urban VII (born 1521)

1601–1900

• 1623 John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen (born 1561)

• 1651 Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (born 1573)

• 1660 Vincent de Paul, French priest and saint (born 1581)

• 1674 Robert Arnauld d'Andilly, French writer (born 1589)

• 1700 Pope Innocent XII (born 1615)

• 1719 George Smalridge, English bishop (born 1662)

• 1730 Laurence Eusden, English poet and author (born 1688)

• 1735 Peter Artedi, Swedish ichthyologist and zoologist (born 1705)

• 1742 Hugh Boulter, Irish archbishop (born 1672)

• 1783 Étienne Bézout, French mathematician and theorist (born 1730)

• 1832 Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher and author (born 1781)

• 1833 Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Indian humanitarian and reformer (born 1772)

• 1838 Bernard Courtois, French chemist and pharmacist (born 1777)

• 1876 Braxton Bragg, American general (born 1817)

• 1886 Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist and politician (born 1804)

• 1891 Ivan Goncharov, Russian author and critic (born 1812)

• 1898 Thomas Joseph Byrnes, Australian politician, 12th Premier of Queensland (born 1860)

1901–present

• 1911 Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and academic (born 1844)

• 1915 Remy de Gourmont, French novelist, poet, and critic (born 1858)

• 1917 Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor (born 1834)

• 1919 Adelina Patti, Italian-French opera singer (born 1843)

• 1921 Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer and educator (born 1854)

• 1934 Ellen Willmott, English horticulturalist (born 1858)

• 1935 Alan Gray, English composer and organist (born 1855)

• 1940 Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (born 1892)

• 1940 Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1857)

• 1942 Douglas Albert Munro, United States Coast Guard signalman, posthumously awarded Medal of Honor, (born 1919)

• 1944 Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (born 1890)

• 1956 Gerald Finzi, English composer and educator (born 1901)

• 1956 Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American basketball player and golfer (born 1911)

• 1960 Sylvia Pankhurst, English activist (born 1882)

• 1961 H.D., American poet, novelist, and memoirist (born 1886)

• 1965 Clara Bow, American actress (born 1905)

• 1965 William Stanier, English engineer, co-designed the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (born 1876)

• 1967 Felix Yusupov, Russian husband of Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (born 1887)

• 1972 S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician, librarian, and academic (born 1892)

• 1974 Silvio Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and academic (born 1907)

• 1975 Jack Lang, Australian lawyer and politician, 23rd Premier of New South Wales (born 1876)

• 1979 Gracie Fields, English actress and singer (born 1898)

• 1979 Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1953)

• 1981 Robert Montgomery, American actor, singer, director, and producer (born 1904)

• 1983 Wilfred Burchett, Australian journalist and author (born 1911)

• 1984 Chronis Exarhakos, Greek actor (born 1932)

• 1985 Lloyd Nolan, American actor (born 1902)

• 1986 Cliff Burton, American bass player and songwriter (born 1962)

• 1991 Joe Hulme, English footballer and cricketer (born 1904)

• 1992 Zhang Leping, Chinese comic artist (born 1910)

• 1993 Jimmy Doolittle, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1896)

• 1993 Fraser MacPherson, Canadian saxophonist and educator (born 1928)

• 1996 Mohammad Najibullah, Afghan physician and politician, seventh President of Afghanistan (born 1947)

• 1997 Walter Trampler, American viola player and educator (born 1915)

• 1998 Doak Walker, American football player (born 1927)

• 2003 Jean Lucas, French racing driver (born 1927)

• 2003 Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer, and dancer (born 1925)

• 2004 John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (born 1929)

• 2005 Ronald Golias, Brazilian comedian and actor (born 1929)

• 2005 Mary Lee Settle, American novelist, essayist, and memoirist (born 1918)

• 2006 Helmut Kallmeyer, German chemist and soldier (born 1910)

• 2007 Dale Houston, American singer-songwriter (born 1940)

• 2007 Kenji Nagai, Japanese photographer and journalist (born 1957)

• 2008 Henri Pachard, American director and producer (born 1939)

• 2009 Ivan Dykhovichny, Russian director and screenwriter (born 1947)

• 2010 Balaji Sadasivan, Singaporean neurosurgeon and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Singapore (born 1955)

• 2011 David Croft, English director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)

• 2011 Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (born 1935)

• 2011 Johnny "Country" Mathis, American singer-songwriter (born 1933)

• 2012 Eddie Bert, American trombonist (born 1922)

• 2012 Herbert Lom, Czech-English actor (born 1917)

• 2013 Oscar Castro-Neves, Brazilian-American guitarist, composer, and conductor (born 1940)

• 2013 Mauricio González-Gordon y Díez, Spanish sherry maker and conservationist (born 1923)

• 2014 Gaby Aghion, French fashion designer, founded Chloé (born 1921)

• 2014 Wally Hergesheimer, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1927)

• 2014 Abdelmajid Lakhal, Tunisian actor and director (born 1939)

• 2014 James Traficant, American lawyer and politician (born 1941)

• 2015 Syed Ahmed, Indian author and politician, 16th Governor of Manipur (born 1945)

• 2015 Pietro Ingrao, Italian journalist and politician (born 1915)

• 2015 Kallen Pokkudan, Indian activist and author (born 1937)

• 2015 Frank Tyson, English-Australian cricketer, coach, and journalist (born 1930)

• 2017 Hugh Hefner, American publisher, founder of Playboy Enterprises (born 1926)

• 2018 Kavita Mahajan, Indian author and translator (born 1967)

• 2018 Michael Payton, American football quarterback (born 1970)

• 2018 Manoharsinhji Pradyumansinhji, Indian nobleman and politician (born 1935)

• 2018 Marty Balin, American singer, co-founder of the band Jefferson Airplane (born 1942)

• 2021 Madeleine Tchicaya, Ivorian politician (born 1930)

• 2023 Michael Gambon, Irish-English actor (born 1940)

• 2024 Hassan Nasrallah, Lebanese politician, 3rd Secretary-General of Hezbollah (born 1960)

• 2024 Maggie Smith, English actress (born 1934)

• 2025 Russell M. Nelson, 17th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1924)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast days:

• Adheritus

• Bonfilius

• Caius of Milan

• Vincent de Paul

• Cosmas and Damian

• September 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Consumación de la Independencia (Mexico)

• French Community Holiday (French community of Belgium)

• Independence Day (Turkmenistan), celebrates the independence of Turkmenistan from USSR in 1991.

• Meskel (Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Church, following Julian calendar, September 28 on leap years)

• National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States)

• Polish Underground State's Day (Poland)

• World Tourism Day (International)

References

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