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September 16 in history

226 sourced entries recorded on September 16, from 16 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 675A typhoon strikes Japan.source
  • 681The Sixth Ecumenical Council (see 680) ends at Constantinople. The council reaffirms the Orthodox doctrines of the Council of Chalcedon in 451, and condemns monothelitism.source
  • 1100Battle of Malagon: The Almoravid army defeats Castellan troops.source
  • 1301In Spain, the Emirate of Granada, ruled by Muhammad al-Faqih, and the Crown of Aragon, ruled by Jaime II the Just sign a military agreement to fight against the Kingdom of Castile and to capture the port of Tarifa. "Finalment, el tractat fou signat per Jaume II ale 16 de setembre de 1301, amb contingut practicament igual que la proposta que ja hem comentat del rei de Granada." ("Finally, the treaty was signed by James II on September 16, 1301, with practically the same content as the proposal we have already commented on from the King of Granada.")source
  • 1303The Kagen era begins in Japan during the reign of the Emperor Gonijo.source
  • 1311After a four-month siege, Guelph rebels in the Italian city of Brescia surrender to Cangrande I della Scala, Lord of Verona and officer of King Henry VII.source
  • 1380Charles V of France is succeeded by his twelve-year-old son, Charles VI.source
  • 1398King Richard II of England exiles his cousin Henry Bolingbroke (the future Henry IV of England) for 10 years, in order to end Henry's feud with Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, who is also exiled.source
  • 1400Owain Glyndŵr is proclaimed Prince of Wales by his followers, and begins attacking English strongholds in northeast Wales.source
  • 1408Thorstein Olafssøn marries Sigrid Bjørnsdatter in Hvalsey Church, in the last recorded event of the Norse history of Greenland.source
  • 1410After a siege of almost four months, the Muslim city of Antequera, located in what is now Andalusia in Spain, surrenders to the Crown of Castile and its army, commanded by Prince Ferdinand of Aragon.source
  • 1433A legate of Cardinal Niccolò Albergati, who had been determined to break up the Council of Basel, arrives at the Council and informs the group that Albergati is ready to negotiate.source
  • 1448General Thomas Kantakouzenos of the Serbian Despotate recaptures Srebrenica and Višegrad from the Kingdom of Bosnia. led by King Stephen Thomas of Bosnia.source
  • 1516German theologian Andreas Karlstadt completes his series of 151 theses, an attack against corruption in the Roman Catholic Church.source
  • 1531(5th waxing of Thadingyut 893 ME) In Burma (now Myanmar), the formal coronation of General Min Pa as King Min Bin of Arakan takes place in the Arakan capital, Mrauk U.source
  • 1545In a one-day campaign in the Rough Wooing border war between England and Scotland, the English generals Lord Hertford and Robert Bowes carry out a mission of burning Scottish towns along the River Teviot. He writes later that with 1,500 light horsemen from 5:00 in the morning to 3:00 in the afternoon, his army "burnt 14 or 15 towns" including "Rowle, Spittel, Bedrowle, Rowlewood, The Wolles, Crossebewghe, Donnerles, Fotton, West Leas, Troonyhill, and Dupligi.source
  • 1545The Duchy of Parma and Piacenza is created in Italy by order of Pope Paul III, formerly Alessandro Farnese, to be ruled by his son, Pier Luigi Farnese.source
  • 1573In Japan, elimination of the Asakura clan is completed by Oda Nobunaga after the siege of Hikida Castle and the siege of Ichijōdani Castle are completed in eight days.source
  • 1576The States of Flanders convene a meeting near Ghent, where the Roman Catholic clergy, led by Martinus Rythovius, insist on measures to protect the practice of the Catholic faith in the predominantly Protestant Low Countries.source
  • 1620September 16 (September 6 OS) – Mayflower departs from Plymouth in England on her third attempt to cross the Atlantic. The Pilgrims on board comprise 41 "saints" (English separatists largely from Holland), 40 "strangers" (largely secular planters from London), 23 servants and hired workers, together with c. 30 crew.source
  • 1634September 16–17 – Edict and declaration of the king at Monceaux ordering establishment of a sovereign council at Nancy (continues to 13 July 1637).source
  • 1638Jesuit College in Brussels stages Conversio S. Augustinisource
  • 1646The new Orange College of Breda opens at Breda in the Dutch Republic.source
  • 1652Army of Flanders recaptures Dunkirk, occupied by the French in 1646source
  • 1660Juan Francisco Leiva y de la Cerda arrives in Mexico City as the new Viceroy of New Spain.source
  • 1666The Apostasy of Sabbatai Zevi begins in Istanbul.source
  • 1668Jan II Kazimierz Waza abdicates his titles of King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania after a 20-year reign.source
  • 1672The Board of Trade is created in England by a merger of the Council of Trade and the Council of Foreign Plantations, both of which had been created by King Charles II in 1660, under the name The Board of Trade and Plantations. The Earl of Shaftesbury is appointed as the first Lord of Trade, administering the Board until its dissolution in 1676.source
  • 1672the Board of Trade is created by a merger of the Council of Trade and the Council of Foreign Plantations and the Earl of Shaftesbury is appointed as the first Lord of Trade.source
  • 167916 September (O.S.) / 26 September – The Peace of Lund ends the Scanian War between Denmark-Norway and the Swedish Empire.source
  • 170116 September (N.S.) – on the death of the deposed King James VII of Scotland in exile at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye in France, his son James Francis Edward Stuart declares himself James VIII (and III of England and Ireland).source
  • 1701On the death of the deposed King James II of England/VII of Scotland, his son James Francis Edward Stuart, the former Prince of Wales, is recognised by King Louis XIV of France as the rightful ruler of England, Scotland and Irelandsource
  • 170116 September (N.S.) — following the death of the deposed King James II of England in exile in France, his son Prince James Francis Edward Stuart becomes the new claimant to the thrones of England as King James III and Scotland as King James VIII; Louis XIV of France, the Papal States, and Philip V of Spain recognise him as the rightful heir.source
  • 1711September 16 (approximate date) – Tuscarora natives kill Lawson. Von Graffenried and one African American slave are known to have been set free.source
  • 1725The Treaty of Hanover is signed between Great Britain, France and Prussia.source
  • 1725The Treaty of Hanover is signed between Great Britain, France and Prussia.source
  • 1726An earthquake strikes Sicily and kills 226 people in Palermo.source
  • 1732A military warehouse explosion kills up to two-thirds of the population of Campo Maior, Portugal.source
  • 1732The magnitude 5.8 Montreal earthquake occurs in Quebec (New France).source
  • 1742Construction starts on the Foundling Hospital in London.source
  • 1742construction starts on the Foundling Hospital in London.source
  • 1744Prussian forces capture Prague: Prussia became anxious at Austrian advances on the Rhine frontier, and Frederick again invaded Bohemia, beginning a Second Silesian Warsource
  • 1745Jacobite rising of 1745: "Canter of Coltbrigg" – The British 13th and 14th Dragoons flee the Jacobites near Edinburgh.source
  • 1755Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams, the new British Minister to Russia, secures an alliance signed by Empress Catherine the Great. The Russian Empire agrees to provide up to 55,000 troops to defend the Electorate of Hanover against invasion by Prussia. At the time, King George II of Great Britain is also the ruler of the German duchy; the Russian troops are provided in return for an annual payment of £600,000.source
  • 1768Louis XV appoints René de Maupeou as Grand Chancellor of France (an office he will hold until 1790), and orders him to crush the judicial opposition.source
  • 1771September 15–17 – The Moscow plague riot results from an outbreak of bubonic plague, which kills 57,000.source
  • 1776American Revolutionary War: Battle of Harlem Heights – The Continental Army under Washington is victorious against the British on Manhattan.source
  • 1804A government-owned brewery is opened at Parramatta as a means of controlling the consumption of spirits.source
  • 1810The Mexican War of Independence begins with the "Grito de Dolores", as Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and fellow rebels take up arms against the Spanish colonial authorities.source
  • 1810Grito de Dolores: Miguel Hidalgo, a Catholic priest from Guanajuato, incites the revolt that becomes the Mexican War of Independence.source
  • 1810Grito de Dolores: Miguel Hidalgo, a Catholic priest from Dolores, Guanajuato, incites the revolt that becomes Mexico's Independence War.source
  • 1822George Canning is appointed British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.source
  • 1822The Constituent Congress of Peru begins its first session.source
  • 1824Charles X succeeds his brother Louis XVIII as King of France.source
  • 1824Charles X succeeds Louis XVIII as King of France.source
  • 1840Joseph Strutt hands over the deeds and papers concerning the Derby Arboretum, which is to become England's first public park.source
  • 1842September 16–17 – The Treaty of Chushul ends the Dogra–Tibetan war (Sino-Sikh War).source
  • 1845Parliament meets in extraordinary session to debate responses to the failure of the potato cropsource
  • 1847The Band of Hope is established to promote teetotalism among young people by Rev. Jabez Tunnicliff in Leeds.source
  • 1848William Cranch Bond and William Lassell discover Hyperion, Saturn's moon.source
  • 1848William Lassell independently co-discovers Hyperion, one of the moons of Saturn.source
  • 1859Charles Vaughan announces his resignation as headmaster of Harrow School, apparently under threat of exposure for an affair with a pupil.source
  • 1861Roman Rock Lighthouse at the entrance to Simon's Town begins operating after taking 4 years to build.source
  • 1862Victor Hugo's Brussels publisher, Albert Lacroix, holds a banquet to celebrate the success of Les Misérablessource
  • 1863Robert College of Istanbul–Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.source
  • 1864Pope Pius IX establishes the Diocese of Gozo.source
  • 1873German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity for the Franco-Prussian War.source
  • 1873German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity for Franco-Prussian War.source
  • 1873German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity for the Franco-Prussian War.source
  • 187516 September Chilean International Exhibition openssource
  • 1893Calgary is incorporated as a city.source
  • 1893Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.source
  • 1901The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) arrive in Quebec City. They visit all provinces (except Prince Edward Island) and the districts of Assiniboia and Alberta in the North-West Territories. They also visit Newfoundland before leaving North America.source
  • 1904Start of the 1904 Italian general strike, making it the first general strike in Italian history. The strike was called by the Chambers of Labour in several cities in response to killings of striking workers in the preceding weeks. Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti refuses to intervene and this attitude prevents the movement to take revolutionary dimensions while the strike petered out. In response, Pope Pius X gives tacit permission to Catholic candidates to stand in parliamentary to counter the red menace.source
  • 1905September 11 – 19 die and 48 are seriously injured when the Ninth Avenue Elevated train derails in Manhattan.source
  • 1910The Australian Treasury is given authority to issue currency, replacing the use of the British Pound.source
  • 1911The 1911 NSWRFL season culminates in a final re-play win to Eastern Suburbs, who defeated minor premiers Glebe 11 to 8.source
  • 1916September 15–22 – WWI: Battle of Flers–Courcelette, France – The battle is significant for the first use of the tank in warfare; also for the debut of the Canadian and New Zealand Divisions in the Battle of the Somme.source
  • 1916William Jolliffe is appointed New Zealand's first censor (on his birthday)source
  • 1920Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon (perhaps planted by Galleanisti) explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan Building in New York City, killing 38 and injuring 400.source
  • 1921Prónay briefly arrests Antal Lehársource
  • 1923Amakasu Incident: The feminist Noe Itō and her partner, the anarchist Sakae Ōsugi are beaten and killed by a police squadron led by Lieutenant Amakasu Masahiko, along with Ōsugi's six-year-old nephew, and their bodies disposed in a well. Following countrywide outcry, Amakasu was court-martialed and sentenced to 10 years in prison.source
  • 1926Mikasaya Department Store, as predecessor of Kintetsu Department Store Osaka Uehonmachi was officially open in Tennoji-ku, Osaka.source
  • 1927President Paul von Hindenburg repudiates German responsibility for the Great Warsource
  • 1928The Okeechobee hurricane kills at least 2,500 people in Florida.source
  • 1928The 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane kills at least 2,500 people in Florida.source
  • 1931Frente Negra Brasileira, Brazil's first Black political party, is founded.source
  • 1935Senate president Manuel L. Quezon is elected president in the country's first national election.source
  • 1938Lord Runciman is recalled to London from Prague, in order to brief the British government on the situation in the Sudetenland.source
  • 1939A ceasefire ends the Battles of Khalkhin Gol, the undeclared border war between the Soviet Union (and Mongolian allies) and Japan.source
  • 1941An express train collision with standing local passenger train in Aboshi Station, Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture. Total 85 persons were fatalities, 71 persons were wounded, according to Railway Ministry of Japan official confirmed report.source
  • 1945The Soviet Civil Administration is officially proclaimed.source
  • 1945September 15–16 – 1945 Homestead hurricane: The ninth tropical storm of the season makes landfall in Florida, the first intense storm to do so in the state since 1935. It affects Key Largo and Dade County, killing 4 people in Florida and 22 others in the Bahamas and in the Turks and Caicos Islands.source
  • 1945September 15-16 - Hurricane Nine, or known as the 1945 Homestead Hurricane, made landfall and affected Florida, the first intense storm to do so in the state since 1935. The hurricane made landfall in Key Largo and Dade County, killing 4 people in Florida and 22 others in The Bahamas and in the islands of the Turks And Caicos.source
  • 1947September 14–16 – According to Japanese government official confirmed report, Typhoon Kathleen, an embankment collapse and flash flood occur around Saitama Prefecture, a debris flow and landslide occurred in Ashikaga, Ichinoseki and Mount Akagi area, resulting to toll death number was 1,930 persons, 1,547 persons were wounded.source
  • 1947September 15–16 – Typhoon Kathleen strikes the Bōsō Peninsula and the entire Kantō region in Japan. Heavy rains cause the Arakawa and Tone Rivers to overflow and embankment collapse. The resulting floods and debris flow kill between 1,077 and 1,920 people, injuring 1,547 and leaving 853 missing.source
  • 1948September 13–18 – Indian annexation of Hyderabad ("Operation Polo"): The princely state of Hyderabad is invaded by the Indian Armed Forces in a "police action", in the aftermath of Pakistani leader Jinnah's death. The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his state, which is amalgamated into the newly independent Dominion of India; thousands are killed as a result of this event.source
  • 1955The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.source
  • 1955A Soviet Navy Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.source
  • 1955September 10–20: Hurricane Hilda (1955).source
  • 1956Television broadcasting in Australia commences.source
  • 1959September 15–28 – USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev and his wife tour the United States, at the invitation of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.source
  • 1959The Xerox 914, the first plain paper copier, is introduced to the public.source
  • 1963Malaysia is formed through the merging of the Federation of Malaya and the British crown colony of Singapore, North Borneo (renamed Sabah) and Sarawak.source
  • 1963The Federation of Malaysia was formed through the merging of the Federation of Malaya and the British crown colonies of North Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore.source
  • 1963Malaysia is formed from Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore.source
  • 1966Ole Petter Pollen, yacht racer.source
  • 1966In South Vietnam, Thích Trí Quang ends a 100-day hunger strike.source
  • 1966The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.source
  • 1967South Sydney defeats Canterbury Bankstown 12–10 in front of 56,358 people to win the 1967 New South Wales Rugby League Grand Final.source
  • 1970Inauguration of the Lo Prado tunnel on Route 68, which connects Santiago de Chile with Valparaíso.source
  • 1971September 5–18: Hurricane Edith.source
  • 1975Cape Verde, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.source
  • 1975Heavy rain in Ticino. Landslides lead to the closure of the Val Blenio road and the Lukmanier Pass becomes impassablesource
  • 1976Beginning with the Night of the Pencils, a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances followed by torture, rape, and murder of students under the Argentine dictatorship takes place.source
  • 1976Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.source
  • 1978General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq officially assumes the post of President of Pakistan.source
  • 1978The 7.4 Mw Tabas earthquake killed at least 15,000 people in the city of Tabas in Iran. The quake was measured with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent).source
  • 1978The 7.4 Mw Tabas earthquake affected central Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 15,000 people were killed.source
  • 1979East German balloon escape: Two families flee from East Germany by balloon.source
  • 1979The Sugarhill Gang release Rapper's Delight in the United States, the first rap single to become a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.source
  • 1979September 14–21: Hurricane Henri (1979)source
  • 1982Future Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh becomes Governor of the Reserve Bank of Indiasource
  • 1983The Gala department store chain ends its operations in Chile, selling its location in the Parque Arauco shopping center to Falabella.source
  • 1984Edgar Reitz's film series Heimat begins release in Germany.source
  • 1986The Cairo Amman Bank announces its intention to open a branch in Nablus, the first Arab bank to resume operations in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.source
  • 1987September 7–21 – The world's first conference on artificial life is held at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States.source
  • 1988September 8–19: Hurricane Gilbertsource
  • 1991September 16–19: Tropical Storm Ignacio (1991).source
  • 1992Black Wednesday: The pound sterling and the Italian lira are forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.source
  • 1993September 15–21 – Hurricane Gert crosses from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through Central America and Mexico.source
  • 1994Britain lifts the broadcasting ban imposed on Sinn Féin and paramilitary groups from Northern Ireland.source
  • 1994Danish tour guide Louise Jensen is abducted, raped and murdered by three British soldiers in Cyprus.source
  • 1994The 6.8 Mw Taiwan Strait earthquake occurred.source
  • 1995Nationwide strikes take place across Bangladesh in protest against the government of Khaleda Ziasource
  • 199616 September over 25,000 residents of Facatativá, Cundinamarca protest over after many received increased energy bills, with rate increases as high as 300%.source
  • 2000Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze is last seen alive; this day is taken as the commemoration date of his death.source
  • 2002September 14–27 – Hurricane Isidore crosses Cuba, the Yucatán Peninsula, and Louisiana.source
  • 2004Hurricane Jeanne hits the island of Hispaniola, killing thousands in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.source
  • 2008The first two ten-million-digit primes, M 43,112,609 and M 37,156,667 , discovered on August 23 and September 6, respectively, are officially revealed.source
  • 2011Snapchat was launched.source
  • 2011The Galloping Ghost , a North American P-51D Mustang racing aircraft, crashed into spectators while competing at the Reno Air Races in Reno, Nevada.source
  • 2017September 16-17 - Nursultan Nazarbayev becomes the first foreign leader to visit President Mirziyoyev Tashkent.source
  • 2018Hydrail train enters service on the Buxtehude-Bremervörde-Bremerhaven-Cuxhaven line in Lower Saxony, Germany.source
  • 2018September 14–16 – Typhoon Mangkhut impacts the Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, resulting in more than 60 fatalities.source
  • 2019A gas explosion in Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia sets off a fire in a bioweapons plant that houses viruses including smallpox, ebola and anthrax.source
  • 2020Yoshihide Suga becomes the new Prime Minister of Japan, replacing Shinzo Abe.source
  • 2020A United Nations Human Rights Council fact-finding mission formally accuses the Venezuelan government of crimes against humanity, including cases of killings, torture, violence against political opposition and disappearances since 2014. President Nicolás Maduro and other senior Venezuelan officials are among those implicated in the charges.source
  • 2020Hurricane Sally makes landfall on the Alabama coast as a high-end Category 2 hurricane, causing over $8 billion in damages and killing 8 people.source
  • 2021Inspiration4, launched by SpaceX, becomes the first all-civilian private spaceflight, carrying a four-person crew on a three-day orbit of the Earth. Sian Proctor becomes first female commercial astronaut spaceship pilot and Hayley Arceneaux becomes first astronaut with a prosthesis.source
  • 2022Protests erupt in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the country's "morality police".source
  • 2022September 14–September 25 – The Atlantic hurricane Fiona hits Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the Lucayan Archipelago, Bermuda, and Eastern Canada.source
  • 2024Two police officers are shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Alibori Department.source
  • 2025A UN Human Rights Council commission of inquiry finds that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.source
  • 2025A boat from The Gambia carrying more than 100 migrants runs aground in Dakar on its way to the Canary Islands.source
  • 2025September 13–21 – The 2025 World Athletics Championships are held in Tokyo, Japan.source

Births

  • 16Julia Drusilla, daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (died AD 38)source
  • 508Yuan Di, emperor of the Liang Dynasty (died 555)source
  • 1074Al-Musta'li, Fatimid caliph (died 1101)source
  • 1295Elizabeth de Clare, English noblewoman (died 1360)source
  • 1386September 16 (probable date) – King Henry V of England (died 1422)source
  • 1415Elizabeth de Beauchamp, Baroness Bergavenny, English baroness (died 1448)source
  • 1462Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher (died 1525)source
  • 1507Jiajing Emperor of China (died 1567)source
  • 1625Gregorio Barbarigo, Italian Catholic saint (died 1697)source
  • 1651Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (died 1716)source
  • 1658John Dennis, English dramatist and critic (died 1734)source
  • 1678Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (died 1751)source
  • 1678Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, statesman and philosopher (died 1751)source
  • 1713Charles Lucas, Irish apothecary, physician and politician (died 1771)source
  • 1736Carter Braxton, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (died 1797)source
  • 1745Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (died 1813)source
  • 1745Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Field marshal(died 1813)source
  • 1837Pedro V of Portugal, king (died 1861)source
  • 1846Anna Kingsford, British spiritual writer, doctor, feminist and pioneering vegetarian (died 1888)source
  • 1851Evgeny Aleksandrovich Radkevich, Russian general (died 1930)source
  • 1858Bonar Law, Canadian-born Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1923)source
  • 1859Yuan Shikai, Chinese dictator (died 1916)source
  • 1859Yuan Shikai, president of the Republic of Chinasource
  • 1891Karl Dönitz, German admiral, briefly President of Germany (died 1980)source
  • 1923Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore (died 2015)source
  • 1925Charles Haughey, sixth Taoiseach (head of government of the Republic of Ireland) (died 2006)source

Deaths

  • 307Severus II, Roman emperor (murdered)source
  • 990Folcuin, Frankish abbot of Saint Bertinsource
  • 1087Pope Victor III dies after a 1-year pontificate at Monte Cassino. He is buried in the abbey's chapter house.source
  • 1087Victor III, pope of the Catholic Churchsource
  • 1100Bernold of Constance, German chroniclersource
  • 1122Vitalis of Savigny, Catholic French Saint and itinerant preacher (born 1060)source
  • 1150Sibylla of Burgundy, queen of Sicily (born 1126)source
  • 1214Diego López II de Haro, Spanish nobleman (born 1152)source
  • 1225Rainier of Antioch, Latin cleric and patriarchsource
  • 1226Pandulf Verraccio, Italian bishop and politiciansource
  • 1343Philip III of Navarre (born 1306)source
  • 1360William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton (born 1319)source
  • 1380King Charles V of France (born 1338)source
  • 1394Antipope Clement VII (born 1342)source
  • 1406Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscowsource
  • 1450Louis Aleman, French cardinalsource
  • 1450Louis Aleman, cardinal (b.1390)source
  • 1498Tomás de Torquemada, Spanish Dominican friar and first Grand Inquisitor (born 1420)source
  • 1565September 11–20 – Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (born 1515)source
  • 1581Peter Niers, notorious German bandit (date of birth unknown)source
  • 1583Catherine Jagiellon, queen of John III of Sweden (born 1526)source
  • 1583Catherine Jagiellon, queen (born 1526)source
  • 1607Mary Stuart, English-Scottish princess (born 1605)source
  • 1668Jan Miense Molenaer, Dutch painter (born 1610)source
  • 1670William Penn, English admiral and politician (born 1621)source
  • 1672Anne Bradstreet, American colonial writer (born c. 1612)source
  • 1681Jahanara Begum, Mughal princess (born 1614)source
  • 1682Yamazaki Ansai, Japanese philosopher (born 1619)source
  • 1701James II of England, King of England and Ireland, and of Scotland (as James VII) (born 1633)source
  • 1701Deposed King James II of England (James VII of Scotland) dies in exile, at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye in France. His supporters, the Jacobites, turn to his son James Francis Edward Stuart (later called "The Old Pretender"), whom they recognise as James VIII and III. Louis XIV of France, the Papal States, and Spain also recognise him as the rightful heir.source
  • 1701King James VII of Scotland (born 1633)source
  • 1736Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist and inventor (born 1686)source
  • 1792Nguyễn Huệ, Vietnamese emperor (born 1753)source
  • 1803Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (born 1754)source
  • 1803Nicholas Baudin, French explorer (born 1754)source
  • 1820Nguyễn Du, Vietnamese poet (born 1766)source
  • 1824King Louis XVIII of France (born 1755)source
  • 1843Ezekiel Hart, Canadian entrepreneur, politician (born 1767 or 1770)source
  • 1898Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (born 1827)source
  • 1941September 16–30 – The Nikolaev massacre takes place in Mykolaiv (Soviet Union); 35,782 men, women and children, mostly Jews, are killed by Einsatzgruppe D and local collaborators.source
  • 1970Death of Jimi Hendrix: American rock musician Jimi Hendrix gives his last public performance, two days before his drug-related death in London.source
  • 1977Maria Callas, soprano (born 1923 in the United States)source
  • 2013Twelve people are killed during the Washington Navy Yard shooting.source
  • 2015An 8.4 earthquake strikes 46 km from Coquimbo (in Chile). 22 people are killed and 34 more injured.source