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September 20 in history

221 sourced entries recorded on September 20, from 144 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 622September 20 or June 28 – Muhammad does not enter Yathrib directly, but stops at its outlying environs of Quba. He establishes the Quba Mosque here, the first mosque of Islam. On July 2 (or September 24) he makes his first visit to Yathrib for Friday prayers.source
  • 963Nikephoros II marries the former Byzantine consort Theophano, the widow of Emperor Romanos II, bolstering his legitimacy.source
  • 1058Empress Agnes de Poitou and King Andrew I ("the White") of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border zone in Burgenland (modern Austria).source
  • 1066Battle of Fulford: Norwegian forces under Harald Hardrada defeat the English earls Edwin and Morcar.source
  • 1187September 20–October 2 – Siege of Jerusalem: Egyptian army under Saladin captures Jerusalem, after the Crusaders led by Balian of Ibelin surrender the 'Holy City'. The take-over of the city is relatively peaceful; Saladin agrees to let the Muslims and Christians leave the city, taking with them their goods. Balian joins his wife Maria Komnene and family, in the County of Tripoli.source
  • 1217A Treaty of Lambeth signed on 20 September ratifying the Kingston treaty. Louis undertook not to attack England again and agreed to renounce his claim to the English throne, in exchange for 10,000 marks.source
  • 1260Second of the two major Prussian uprisings by the Old Prussian tribe of Balts against the Teutonic Order begins.source
  • 1300Italian diplomat Isol the Pisan (Ciolo Bofeti di Anastasio) is appointed by Pope Boniface VIII to be the Church's liaison between the European settlements in the Middle East (the Crusader states) and the Mongol Empire, and given the title "Vicar of Syria and the Holy Land for Ghazan the Emperor of the Tartars".source
  • 1306The Knights Hospitaller, besieging on the island of Rhodes, capture the Feraklos Castle.source
  • 1310King Edward II of England reaches Roxburgh after starting his invasion of the Kingdom of Scotland "in the third week of September". The campaign is fruitless, even though English forces under Piers Gaveston manage to reach as far north as Perth.source
  • 1319Battle of Myton: Scottish forces (some 15,000 men) led by James the Black, Lord Douglas, defeat an English army in an encounter known as the "Chapter of Myton" because of the large number of clergymen involved. David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, writes 460 years later, "The English were instantly routed. Three thousand were left dead on the field, and great part of fugitives drowned in the Swale. In this action there fell three thousand ecclesiastics, [20th September.] According to the savage peasantry of those times, this rout was termed by the Scots, the Chapter of Mitton." After the battle, King Edward II is forced to raise the siege at Berwick Castle and retreats south of the River Trent, allowing the Scots to ravage Cumberland and Westmorland unmolested. Queen Isabella, who is in York at this time, manages to escape to safety at Nottingham.source
  • 1319Battle of Myton: major engagement in the First Scottish War of Independence, fought in Yorkshire results in victory for Scots.source
  • 1322Scotland's King Robert the Bruce begins the "Great Raid" on sites in northern England, leading troops across the River Tweed and starting with an attack on Norham Castle. England's King Edward II responds with an order directing the English Army to assemble at Newcastle upon Tyne to make a counterattack.source
  • 133220 September Prisage of wine at ports of Dublin, Drogheda, Limerick and Waterford granted to the Earl of Ormondsource
  • 1336The reign of Emperor Kōmyō, second of the Ashikaga Pretenders to the Northern Court of Japan, begins.source
  • 1378Unhappy with Pope Urban's critical attitude towards them, the majority of the cardinals meet at Fondi, elect Clement VII as antipope, and establish a rival papal court at Avignon. This split within the Catholic Church becomes known as the Western Schism, also known as the Great Schism. France, Aragon, Castile and León, Cyprus, Burgundy, Savoy, Naples and Scotland choose to recognise Antipope Clement VII. Denmark, England, Flanders, the Holy Roman Empire, Hungary, northern Italy, Ireland, Norway, Poland and Sweden continue to recognise Pope Urban VI.source
  • 1388Ghiyas-ud-Din Tughluq II succeeds Firuz Shah Tughlaq as Sultan of Delhi.source
  • 1405An-Nasir Faraj, the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria, flees Cairo and names his brother Izz al-Din Abd al-Aziz as the regent during his absence. Faraj returns two months later and reclaims the throne.source
  • 1410Following the death of Rupert, King of the Romans, on May 18, a council of three electors— Louis III, Elector Palatine; Werner von Falkenstein, Elector of Trier and Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg, Burgrave of Nuremberg votes to elect King Sigismund of Hungary as the new King of the Romans and the informal "King of Germany". The rest of the electors of the Holy Roman Empire refuse to accept Sigismund.source
  • 1414A giraffe is presented to China's Emperor Cheng Zu as a gift from the Sultan of Bengal, Saifuddin Hamza Shah.source
  • 1415Sigismund, King of the Germans, who convened the Council of Constance, meets in Spain with the antipope Benedict XIII, and makes an unsuccessful attempt to persuade Benedict to resign.source
  • 1417Siege of Caen (1417): Guillaume de Montenay surrenders Caen to English invaders led by King Henry V. The city remains under English control until 1450.csource
  • 1417Hundred Years War: Henry V of England captures Caen in Normandy which remains in English hands until 1450.source
  • 1437The siege of Sion Castle in Bohemia by the armies of the Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg is successful.source
  • 1437Led by Prince Henry the Navigator, a poorly-prepared Portuguese attempt to conquer the city of Tangier in the Marinid Sultanate in Morocco begins. Although the Portuguese have more than 6,000 troops, they reach the walled city and find that their scaling ladders are too short to reach the top, and their artillery is too weak to damage the walls.source
  • 1439In the modern-day Indian state of Rajasthan, Raja Udharan becomes the new King of Amber upon the death of the Raja Banbir.source
  • 1486An heir is born to Elizabeth of York and King Henry VII of England, being invested as Arthur, Prince of Wales in 1490. Unfortunately, Arthur will die from an illness at age 15, seven years before the death of King Henry.source
  • 1498(Meiō 7, 2nd day of the 7th month) A massive earthquake, estimated centuries later as having been 8.6 magnitude occurs off of the coast of the Japanese region of Nankaidō at about 8:00 in the morning. The resulting tsunami kills at least 5,000 people (and perhaps as many as 41,000) when it strikes Kamakura and the surrounding area in what is now Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture. The tsunami washes away a building that houses the Kotoku-in Buddhist temple, but spares the large bronze statue of the Buddha Amitābha.source
  • 1519Ferdinand Magellan departs from Spain with a fleet of five ships and a crew of 270 men, to sail westbound to the Spice Islands.source
  • 1562The Treaty of Hampton Court, between Queen Elizabeth I of England and Huguenot leader Louis I, Prince of Condé, is signed.source
  • 1586The executions of the Babington Plot perpetrators begins. Over the two day period, the 14 men convicted of the a plot are hanged, drawn and quartered (the first seven being disembowelled before death) in St Giles Field, London.source
  • 1596Diego de Montemayor founds the city of Monterrey, Mexico.source
  • 1601The siege of Székesfehérvár, an Ottoman occupied Hungarian fortress, is completed by troops of the Holy Roman Empire after 16 days. The Ottomans will recapture Székesfehérvár a year later.source
  • 1602The siege of the Spanish Netherlands town of De Graaf ends after two months as a Dutch and English army forces the surrender of the Spanish defenders.source
  • 1603Samuel Champlain arrives back in France.source
  • 1603Ottoman–Safavid War (1603–1618): Led by Iranian Emperor Abbas the Great, the Safavid Army of Iran stages a surprise attack on Tabriz, which had been taken from the Safavids by the Ottoman Empire in 1588. Tabriz is recaptured after 29 days.source
  • 1604After a bloody three-year siege. Ostend is finally captured by Spanish forces under Ambrogio Spinolasource
  • 1606The trial of alleged poisoners in the Frankenstein gravediggers scandal begins in the Bohemian town of Frankenstein.source
  • 1615Japanese diplomat Hasekura Tsunenaga and his entourage become the first officials from Japan to visit Italy, and are received in Rome by Cardinal Burgeciosource
  • 16291629–1631 Italian plague: the plague arrives in the nation-state of Milan as German soldiers are granted a stay at the Forte di Fuentes.source
  • 1639Early harvest in Dijon.source
  • 1640The Siege of Turin (began May 22) ends in Italy with the French and Piedmontese recapturing the city from Spain.source
  • 1643First English Civil War: First Battle of Newbury – A strategic Parliamentarian victory is made over Royalist forces who are led personally by King Charles.source
  • 1655September 20 – September 30 - Battle of Nowy Dwór Mazowieckisource
  • 1659War between Dutch settlers and the native Lenape Indians, of the Esopus tribe, in modern-day Ulster County, New York, in the U.S., as a group of Dutch settlers from the village of Wiltwijck, New Netherland fires their guns at a group of Esopus men who have been sitting around a campfire. For the next ten months, the Esopus warriors, commanded by Chief Papequanaehen, fight a war with the Dutch that is finally settled with a peace treaty on July 15, 1660.source
  • 1670production of Mrs Aphra Behn's first play, The Forced Marriage, at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre by the Duke's Company, with Thomas Betterton in the lead.source
  • 1671Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine is married to Charles, the heir of the Electorate of the Palatinate at Sophie Amalienborg in Copenhagen.source
  • 1675In England, a fire destroys most of the town of Northampton. According to a contemporary account, "the market place (which was a very goodly one), the stately church of Allhallows, 2 other parish churches and above three-fourth parts of the whole town was consumed and laid in ashes.".source
  • 1675the Great Fire of Northampton occurs in the county town.source
  • 1682The Duke of Monmouth is arrested in Stafford for riotous behaviour.source
  • 1697The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France and the Grand Alliance, to end both the Nine Years' War and King William's War. Louis XIV of France recognises William III as King of England & Scotland, and both sides return territories they have taken in battle. In North America, the treaty returns Port-Royal (Acadia) to France.source
  • 1697the Treaty of Ryswick ends the War of the Grand Alliance; France recognises William III as King of England.source
  • 1697The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France and the Grand Alliance to end both the Nine Years' War and King William's War. The conflict having been inconclusive, the treaty is proposed because the combatants have exhausted their national treasuries. Louis XIV recognises William III as King of England and Scotland, and both sides return territories they have taken in battle. In North America, the treaty returns Port Royal (Nova Scotia) to France. In practice, the treaty is little more than a truce; it does not resolve any of the fundamental colonial problems, and the peace lasts only five yearssource
  • 1704Dunkeld is erected a royal burgh.source
  • 1705Francis II Rákóczi is proclaimed as the ruler of Hungary by independence activists in Szécsény who are opposed to the rule of the Habsburg successor to Leopold I, the Holy Roman emperor Joseph I.source
  • 1737Runner Edward Marshall completes his journey in the Walking Purchase, forcing the cession of 1,200,000 acres of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Province of Pennsylvania.source
  • 1746Charles Edward Stuart escapes to France with the aid of Flora MacDonald.source
  • 1746Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to the Isle of Skye from Arisaig, after the unsuccessful Jacobite rising of 1745, marked by the Prince's Cairn on the banks of Loch nan Uamh.source
  • 1753Inauguration of the new observatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.source
  • 1776The Great Fire of New York (1776) starts during the night, ending the following morning.source
  • 1776The Great Fire of New York (1776) begins, continuing overnight.source
  • 1787Fighting between Austrian troops and citizen militiamen in Brussels.source
  • 1792French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Valmy – The French revolutionary army defeats the Prussians under the Duke of Brunswick after a 7-hour artillery duel.source
  • 1792French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Valmy – The French revolutionary army defeats the Prussians under the Duke of Brunswick after a 7-hour artillery duel.source
  • 1793British troops from Jamaica land on the island of Saint-Domingue to join the Haitian Revolution in opposition to the French Republic and its newly-freed slaves; on 22 September the main French naval base on the island surrenders peacefully to the Royal Navy.source
  • 1803Emmet is hanged in Thomas Street, Dublin.source
  • 1808The original Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London is destroyed by fire along with most of the scenery, costumes and scripts. Rebuilding begins in December.source
  • 1808The White Book of Hergest is destroyed in a fire at Covent Garden.source
  • 1819Carlsbad Decrees are issued throughout the German Confederationsource
  • 1819The Carlsbad Decrees are issued throughout the German Confederation in response to the March assassination of August von Kotzebue, suppressing liberal and nationalist views.source
  • 1827A petition for a land grant for 215 acres on the north bank of Rio Grande, just across from Paso del Norte (modern-day Ciudad Juárez), is approved; the first residence is built on what is modern-day El Paso, Texas.source
  • 1830The Port Arthur penal settlement was established.source
  • 1835The Ragamuffin War begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.source
  • 1835outbreak of the Ragamuffin Warsource
  • 1836Battle of Villarrobledosource
  • 1848Opening of the Jesuits' College, Montreal.source
  • 1853Otis Elevator, as predecessor of Otis Worldwide, is founded in the United States.source
  • 1854Crimean War: Battle of Alma – The French–British alliance wins the first major land engagement of the war.source
  • 1854Battle of the Alma: Menshikov's forces unsuccessfully defend a height above the Alma River from an allied infantry advance commanded by de Saint-Arnaud, Suleiman Pasha, and Lord Raglan.source
  • 1857Indian Rebellion of 1857: British forces recapture Delhi, compelling the surrender of Bahadur Shah II, the last Mughal emperor.source
  • 1863September 19–20 – Battle of Chickamauga – Confederate forces turn back a Union invasion of Georgia.source
  • 1866The Kingdom of Prussia formally annexes the Kingdom of Hanover and King George V of Hanover goes into exile.source
  • 1868September 19–27 - Glorious Revolution (Spain)source
  • 1869Ezo was given its present name, Hokkaido (北海道 Hokkaidō, literally "Northern Sea Region").source
  • 1870Capture of Rome; With Bersaglieri soldiers entering Rome at Porta Pia, the unification of Italy is completed, ending the last remnant of the Papal States and Papal temporal power.source
  • 1878The Hindu, an Indian newspaper, is founded.source
  • 1878The Hindu, an Indian newspaper, was founded.source
  • 1897Greece and Turkey sign a peace treaty to end the Greco-Turkish War.source
  • 1906The RMS Mauretania is launched on the River Tyne, becoming the world's largest ship.source
  • 1911the new liner RMS Olympic, sister ship to the Titanic, collides with Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke off Southampton; there is no loss of life or serious injury.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
  • 1916The Canterbury (NZ) Aviation Company is established in Christchurch. Henry Wigram is the main instigator. The Company's aims are to train pilots for the war, promote local aviation defence and pioneer commercial aviation.source
  • 1918September 20–21 – István Tisza visits Sarajevosource
  • 1920The first soldier joins El Tercio de Extranjeros (the "Regiment of Foreigners", later the Spanish Legion). Under the command of José Millán Astray and Francisco Franco, its first duties are against Rif rebels in the Spanish protectorate in Morocco.source
  • 1920"Sack of Balbriggan" in County Dublin: Black and Tans destroyed more than fifty properties in the town.source
  • 1926The North Side Gang attempts to assassinate Al Capone, at the apex of his power at this time, spraying his headquarters in Cicero, Illinois with over a thousand rounds of machine gun fire in broad daylight, as Capone is eating there. Capone escapes harm.source
  • 1927Kibbutz Beit Zera is established in the Jordan Valley, 15 km south of Tiberias.source
  • 1930The Eastern Catholic Rite Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed.source
  • 1931Held at gunpoint, the Chinese commander of Kirin province announces the annexation of that territory to Japan.source
  • 1932Mahatma Gandhi begins a hunger strike in Poona prison, India.source
  • 1932Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in Poona prison.source
  • 1940September 20–22 – WWII: Convoy HX 72, a North Atlantic convoy of 43 ships, is attacked by a German U-boat group (wolfpack), eleven ships of 73 tons are sunk, seven during the second night of the attack by the U-100 under the command of Joachim Schepke.source
  • 1943Sonia Belkind (born 1870), Russian (Belarus)-born doctor, first gynecologist in Ottoman Palestinesource
  • 1947September 17–21 – The 1947 Fort Lauderdale hurricane in southeastern Florida, and also in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana causes widespread damage, and kills 50 people.source
  • 1948The city of Rabwah is established in Pakistan.source
  • 1951NATO accepts Greece and Turkey as members.source
  • 1954The first Moomins comic strip is published in the London newspaper The Evening News.source
  • 1955September 19–21 – President of Argentina Juan Perón is ousted in a military coup.source
  • 1955September 10–20: Hurricane Hilda (1955).source
  • 1958The Legge Merlin comes into force.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
  • 1964One of three single-engine planes en route from Halifax to Europe ditches in the sea off Iceland. The pilot is rescued by helicopter. Another is lost entirely and the third lands safely in Reykjavik.source
  • 1965Vietnam War: An USAF F-104 Starfighter piloted by Captain Philip Eldon Smith is shot down by a Chinese MiG-19 Farmer. The pilot is held until March 15, 1973.source
  • 1970Luna 16 lands on the Moon and lifts off the next day with samples, landing back on Earth September 24.source
  • 1973Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in a singles tennis match billed as the "Battle of the Sexes".source
  • 1974The Kootenai War is declared, and 10-cent tolls are charged on U.S. Highway 95.source
  • 1975The term of Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah, as the 5th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, ends.source
  • 1977The Petrozavodsk phenomenon is observed in the Soviet Union and some northern European countries.source
  • 1978General Rahimuddin Khan assumes the post of martial law Governor of Balochistan.source
  • 1979September 14–21: Hurricane Henri (1979)source
  • 1981The overcrowded ferry boat Sobral Santos II capsizes in the Amazon River, Óbidos, Brazil, killing at least 300 people.source
  • 1984Hezbollah car-bombs the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, killing 24 people.source
  • 1985The capital gains tax is introduced to Australia.source
  • 1986Two Internal Troops servicemen make an unsuccessful attempt to hijack Tu-134A aircraft in Ufa and flee to Pakistan.source
  • 19871987 Portuguese Grand Prix (Formula One race)source
  • 1987September 7–21 – The world's first conference on artificial life is held at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States.source
  • 1989F. W. de Klerk is sworn in as the seventh and last State President of South Africa. Soon afterwards he determines to suspend the South African nuclear weapons program.source
  • 1989September 17–22 – Hurricane Hugo devastates the Caribbean and the southeastern United States, causing at least 71 deaths and $8,000,000,000 in damages.source
  • 1990September 19 – 20: According to Fire and Disaster Management Agency official confirmed report, Typhoon Flo, hit powerful strong wind, flash flood, tornado hit in around Honshu, total 44 person were death, 197 person were hurt.source
  • 199120 September – 1 October – The All-Africa Games are held in Cairo.source
  • 1993September 15–21 – Hurricane Gert crosses from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through Central America and Mexico.source
  • 1997Over 70 aid workers and dependants evacuate Mazari Sharif after their premises are ransacked and looted.source
  • 1999Start of the 1999 Greek stock market crash.source
  • 2000E.G.F. civil engineering company is founded.source
  • 2000The 2000 Xenia Tornado leaves 100 people injured, one person dead and 321+ houses destroyed.source
  • 2001In an address to a joint session of Congress, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a war on terror, officially the global war on terrorism.source
  • 2002September 14–27 – Hurricane Isidore crosses Cuba, the Yucatán Peninsula, and Louisiana.source
  • 2003Latvia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.source
  • 2003October 12 – The 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup is held in the United States after the tournament is moved from China due to the SARS outbreak. Germany win their first title after they defeated Sweden in the final with a golden goal.source
  • 2005September 17-25 - Croatia hosted the 2005 Women's European Volleyball Championship in Pula and Zagreb.source
  • 2007The Universal Forum of Cultures opens in Monterrey, Mexico.source
  • 2007Government of Togo increases campaign for vaccination against Yellow feversource
  • 2008A suicide truck bomb explosion destroys the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing at least 54 and injuring 266.source
  • 2010France sends dozens of soldiers equipped with Breguet Atlantique and Mirage aircraft to Niamey in its search for 7 kidnapped hostages.source
  • 2015Snap legislative elections are held in Greece, following the resignation of prime minister Alexis Tsipras, to elect all 300 members of the Hellenic Parliament and the SYRIZA party, led by Alexis Tsipras comes out as the largest party winning 145 out of 300 seats.source
  • 2017Saudi Arabia lifts a ban in 2013 on internet calls.source
  • 2017September 19–20 – Just two weeks after Hurricane Irma struck the Caribbean, Hurricane Maria strikes similar areas, making landfall on Dominica as a Category 5 hurricane, and Puerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane. Maria caused over 3,000 deaths and damages estimated in excess of $91.6 billion (2017 USD).source
  • 2017Hurricane Maria makes landfall over Puerto Rico, causing extensive damage to the power grid. Hurricane Maria death toll controversy resulted from the number of dead being underreported by officials. Total losses are estimated at $94.4 billion.source
  • 2018The MV Nyerere capsizes on Lake Victoria, killing at least 228 passengers.source
  • 2018Sinking of MV Nyerere, 228 deathssource
  • 2019November 2 – The 2019 Rugby World Cup is held in Japan and is won by South Africa who defeated England in the final.source
  • 2019An international strike and protest led by young people and adults is held three days before the latest UN Climate Summit, to demand action be taken to address the climate crisis. Gathering 6 million people in 4,500 locations across 150 countries, the event is one of the largest climate mobilizations in history.source
  • 2021The 2021 Canadian federal election is held, with Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party retaining a minority government.source
  • 2022September 14–September 25 – The Atlantic hurricane Fiona hits Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the Lucayan Archipelago, Bermuda, and Eastern Canada.source
  • 2023Archaeologists in Zambia find the world's oldest wooden structure, dating back 476,000 years, consisting of two interlocking wooden logs connected by a notch securing one perpendicular to the other.source
  • 2023The oldest known wooden structure, a 476,000 year old log structure, is discovered at the Kalambo Falls in Zambia according to a study from the Nature journal.source
  • 2025September 13–21 – The 2025 World Athletics Championships are held in Tokyo, Japan.source
  • 2025Intervision 2025 is held in Moscow, Russia. Vietnamese contestant Đức Phúc wins with the song "Phù Đổng Thiên Vương".source

Births

  • 917Kyunyeo, Korean poet (died 973)source
  • 1161Takakura, emperor of Japan (died 1181)source
  • 1449Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg, German noble (died 1500)source
  • 1486Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of Henry VII of England (died 1502)source
  • 1495Gian Matteo Giberti, Catholic bishop (died 1543)source
  • 1504Philip III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (died 1559)source
  • 1514Philipp IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (died 1590)source
  • 1547Faizi, Indo-Persian poet and scholar (died 1595)source
  • 1608Jean-Jacques Olier, French Catholic priest (died 1657)source
  • 1614Martino Martini, Italian missionary, cartographer and historian (died 1661)source
  • 1650Adrian Beverland, Dutch philosopher and jurist who settled in England (died 1716)source
  • 1731Vilhelm Bornemann, Hudge Advocate General, chief of police and Supreme Court justice (born 1801 in Denmark)source
  • 1754Emperor Paul I of Russia (died 1801)source
  • 1758Jean-Jacques Dessalines, leader of the Haitian Revolution (died 1806)source
  • 1767José Maurício Nunes Garcia, Brazilian composer (died 1830)source
  • 1778Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Cartographer and Explorersource
  • 1853Chulalongkorn, Rama V, King of Siam (died 1910)source
  • 1872Maurice Gamelin, French general (died 1958)source
  • 1878Upton Sinclair, American writer (died 1968)source
  • 1898Josefa Llanes Escoda, Founder of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines (died 1945)source
  • 1948George R. R. Martin, American speculative fiction authorsource
  • 1961Na Young-hee, actresssource
  • 1975Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian racing driversource

Deaths

  • 144Han Shundi, Chinese emperor (born 115)source
  • 855Gozbald, abbot and bishop of Würzburgsource
  • 1085Hermann II, German nobleman (born 1049)source
  • 1168Antipope Paschal III dies at Rome after a 4-year reign. Giovanni di Struma is elected as his successor and will reign as Antipope Callixtus III with support from Emperor Frederick I.source
  • 1168Paschal III, antipope of Rome (born 1110)source
  • 1246Michael of Chernigov, Kievan Grand Princesource
  • 1281Reinhard I, Lord of Hanau, German nobleman and knight (born 1225)source
  • 1384Louis I, Duke of Anjou (born 1339)source
  • 1440Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (born 1371)source
  • 1460Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer (born c. 1400)source
  • 1492Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (born 1426)source
  • 1501Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, stepson of Edward IV of England (born 1457)source
  • 1533Veit Stoss, German sculptor (born c. 1447)source
  • 1540Infante Duarte, Duke of Guimarães, son of King Manuel I of Portugal (born 1515)source
  • 1543Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (born 1492)source
  • 1565September 11–20 – Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (born 1515)source
  • 1580Honorat II of Savoy, French Navy admiral (born 1511)source
  • 1586Sir Anthony Babington, English Catholic conspirator (executed) (born 1561)source
  • 1586Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (executed) (born 1558)source
  • 1659Thomas Morton, deposed bishop (born 1564)source
  • 1667Niels Trolle, Governor-general of Norway (born 1599)source
  • 1702Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye, businessman (born 1632)source
  • 1722John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, Scottish jurist (born 1646)source
  • 1763Gabriela Silang, Filipina rebel leader, heroine (born 1731)source
  • 1793Fletcher Christian, English sailor (born 1764)source
  • 1803Irish rebel Robert Emmet is executed.source
  • 1804Pierre Méchain, French astronomer (born 1744)source
  • 1823Geir Vídalín, first Bishop of Iceland.source
  • 1840José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, first leader of independent Paraguay (born 1766)source
  • 1852Philander Chase, American founder of Kenyon College (born 1775)source
  • 1863Jacob Grimm, German folklorist (born 1785)source
  • 1863Jacob Grimm, folklorist (born 1785)source
  • 1933Annie Besant, British Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator (born 1847)source
  • 1935Julio Nalundasan, Member of the Philippine House of Representatives from Ilocos Norte's Second District (born 1894)source
  • 1939Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, astronomer (born 1865)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
  • 1957Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (born 1865)source
  • 1996Leader of Pakistani opposition party Pakistan Peoples Party Murtaza Bhutto is killed during a gunfight with police.source
  • 2004Brian Clough, 69, English footballer, coach and manager, stomach cancer.source
  • 2019September 19 – 30 Afghan nut farmers are killed and 40 injured in a U.S. drone attack in Nangarhar Province.source