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September 24 in history

196 sourced entries recorded on September 24, from 15 CE to 2024 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 656A total solar eclipse is observable from Easter Island. The next at this location would not occur until July 11, 2010.source
  • 899Battle of the Brenta: The Magyar forces, consisting of 5,000 men, take a circuitous route through the mountains, crossing the Brenta River and proceed south to fall upon the encamped Lombard army (15,000 men) at Cartigliano. The Magyars massacre much of Berengar's unprepared army. He himself manages to escape to Pavia, changing his dress with the clothing of one of his soldiers. Árpád renews the offensive and heads across Lombardy, pillaging the countryside around Treviso, Vicenza, Bergamo and other towns all the way to Vercelli. He turns south and heads down the Aemilian Road, sacking Reggio Emilia, Modena and Bologna.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
  • 1190A Crusader fleet attempts to destroy the Tower of Flies at Acre, which guards the city's harbour, by ramming vessels loaded with combustibles into it. At a critical moment, the ships collide with one another and are badly damaged. A specially built Pisan vessel resembling a floating castle and outfitted with mangonels, is set afire during a sortie from the harbour by a Muslim flotilla.source
  • 1210Venus occults Jupiter (the last such occurrence until 1570).source
  • 1325Edward, Prince of Wales pays homage to King Charles IV of France on behalf of his father, King Edward II of England.source
  • 1326Invasion of England: Isabella of France and her supporters (including Roger Mortimer) land at the River Orwell in Suffolk. Their aim is to remove King Edward II from his throne and place Prince Edward there as the new ruler. Meanwhile, residing at the Tower of London, Edward tries to raise support in the capital, but instead, there is anarchy in London and mobs killing Edward's officials (including his treasurer, Walter de Stapledon).source
  • 1339September 24 (or 28) – Simone Boccanegra is elected, as the first Doge of Genoa.source
  • 1377The Spanish Aragonese knight Juan Fernández de Heredia becomes the new Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, who control the island of Rhodes, one of the Dodecanese islands of Greece and the island of Cyprus. Fernandez is elected by his fellow Knights to replace the late Grand Master Robert de Juilly, who had died on July 29.source
  • 1392Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor of Ming dynasty China, declares that all males must wear the queue hairstyle.source
  • 1401The late English cleric John Twenge (1320-1379) is canonized as Saint John of Bridlington by Pope Boniface IXsource
  • 1420The Ottoman Army defeats a rebellion, led by Miklós Csáki, Voivode of Transylvania (modern Romania). Two days later, the Ottoman troops loot and burn the city of Orăștie and take thousands of Transylvanian civilians as slaves.source
  • 1439King Erik XIII of Sweden is declared deposed in Sweden while Karl Knutsson Bonde continues to serve as Regent of Sweden. Erik remains King of Norway.source
  • 1454At the Battle of Leskovac, Nikola Skobaljić, voivode of Dubočica, defeats Ottoman Turks invading Serbia.source
  • 1493Christopher Columbus leaves Cádiz on his second voyage of exploration.source
  • 1494The earliest hurricane to be specifically recorded by historians, strikes the island of Hispaniola near the Spanish colonial capital, La Isabela, the day after Christopher Columbus arrives at Saona, following five months of explorations.source
  • 1495The League of Venice, with troops commanded by Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan and Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, succeeeds after more than three months in liberating the Milanese city of Novara from French control, and forces Louis of Orleans to flee.source
  • 1525Jeremias I is restored to the position of Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, leader of the Eastern Orthodox Christian church, by order of the Ottoman Empire Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.source
  • 1531At the age of 35, King Gustav I Vasa of Sweden is married for the first time, taking Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg as his bride on her 18th birthday.source
  • 1534The first of Brazil's capitancias, the Capitancy of Pernambuco, is established for Pernambuco.source
  • 1552The Debatable Lands on the border of England and Scotland are divided between the two kingdoms by a commission creating the Scots' Dike in an unsuccessful attempt to halt lawlessness here, but giving both countries their modern borders.source
  • 1568Battle of San Juan de Ulúa (Anglo-Spanish War): In the Gulf of Mexico, a Spanish fleet forces English privateers under John Hawkins to end their campaign.source
  • 1572The Ottoman Empire begins the deportation of 10 percent of families of the provinces of Anatolia, Rum (Sivas), Karaman and Zülkadriye, mostly craftsmen or peasants, to the newly-conquered island of Cyprus. In exchange for relocating, the transferees are made exempt from taxes for two years.source
  • 1600All 130 crew of the Dutch Republic ship Hoop die when the merchantman sinks in a storm while traveling in the Pacific Ocean between the Hawaiian Islands and Japan. The Liefde, a ship accompanying Hoop, is badly damaged but survives; all but 24 of its crew of more than 100 die from starvation and thirst after drifting more than six months before arriving in Japan on April 19, 1601.source
  • 1624King James approves a revised programme of reform for the Plantation of County Londonderry.source
  • 1625A Dutch fleet attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico.source
  • 1627William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, landgrave of the German state Hesse-Kassel, signs the Hauptakkord with George II of Hesse-Darmstadt, ceding much of its territory.source
  • 1630The first ship of de Sauce's emigrants arrive at Southampton Hundred, on the James River in Virginia.source
  • 1645English Civil War: Battle of Rowton Heath – Parliamentarians defeat the Royalist cavalry.source
  • 1655September 20 – September 30 - Battle of Nowy Dwór Mazowieckisource
  • 1657The first autopsy and coroner's jury verdict in the Colony of Maryland are recorded.source
  • 1672elected representatives on corporations are to take an Oath of Supremacy to the Crown unless exempted.source
  • 1688Louis XIV publishes his manifesto Memoire de raisons, which lists his grievances and demands. He cites three major things as grievances: Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg, who had been earlier elected to be the coadjutor-archbishop of Cologne with support of Louis being vetoed by the pope, the continued aggressions and forming of alliances against France and providing an alternative to Fürstenberg in the Cologne election by the Holy Roman Empire, and Philip William becoming Elector Palatine and seizing the territory, which he believed belonged to Elizabeth Charlotte.source
  • 1689The Holy Roman Empire wins the Battle of Niš, fought against the Ottoman Empire during the Great Turkish War in modern-day Serbia.source
  • 1705September 24 (O.S.) – Stanisław Leszczyński is crowned as King of Poland.source
  • 1724The Paris Bourse, the stock exchange for France, is created by order of King Louis XV on the advice of Nicolas Ravot d'Ombreval, four years after a financial panic had shut down trading. Stock markets had already been set up in Lyon, Bourdeaux and Toulouse.source
  • 1726Permission to celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, celebrated on July 17, is extended by Pope Benedict XIII to the entire Roman Catholic Church.source
  • 1748Shah Rukh becomes ruler of Greater Khorasan.source
  • 1762September 24–October 6 – Battle of Manila: Troops of the British East India Company take Manila from the Spanish, leading to the British occupation of Manila and its being made an open port.source
  • 176224 September–6 October – Seven Years' War: Battle of Manila fought between Great Britain and Spain resulting in the British occupation of the Philippines until 1764. The British take Manila and make it an Open Port.source
  • 1768September 22–29 – The Massachusetts Convention of Towns, assembling in Boston, resolves on a written objection to the impending arrival of British troops rather than more militant action but causes panic in London.source
  • 1770In Hillsborough, North Carolina, the Regulator Movement riots against local authorities.source
  • 1776The Bolshoi Theatre company hosts its first annual opera season, with the opening of the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.source
  • 1776The first running of the St Leger Stakes horse race (not yet named) in England, first of the British Classic Races, devised by Anthony St Leger (British Army officer), takes place on Cantley Common at Doncaster. The winner is a filly (later named Allabaculia) owned by the organiser, the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham.source
  • 1787Washington Academy (later Washington & Jefferson College) is chartered by the Pennsylvania General Assembly.source
  • 1788The Theater War begins, when the army of Denmark–Norway invades Sweden.source
  • 1788The Theater War begins, when Denmark-Norway launches an attack on Sweden at Bohuslän as a diversion to support Russia, an ally of Denmark-Norway, who had in turn been attacked by Sweden in Gustav III's Russian War.source
  • 17888,000-10,000 men under the command of Prince Charles of Hesse attacked Bohuslen from Norway.source
  • 1789The Judiciary Act of 1789 establishes the federal judiciary, and the United States Marshals Service.source
  • 1801Joseph Marie Jacquard exhibits his new invention, a loom where the pattern being woven is controlled by punched cards, at the National Exposition in Paris.source
  • 1804Trondhjems amt was split into two, with the northern part becoming Nordre Trondhjems amt and the southern part becoming Søndre Trondhjems amt.source
  • 1834Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela becomes the first official prime minister of Portugalsource
  • 1838Monument to the fallen of the Belgian Revolution inaugurated on Place des Martyrs, Brussels.source
  • 1838"Monster meeting" on Kersal Moor, Salford, in support of Chartism.source
  • 1841Sarawak is broken away from Brunei, and James Brooke is appointed Rajah.source
  • 1852French engineer Henri Giffard makes the first airship trip, from Paris to Trappes.source
  • 1860Battle of Guayaquil: Ecuadorian forces, led by Juan José Flores and Gabriel García Moreno, take the port of Guayaquil from Supreme Chief Guillermo Franco, who is backed by Peruvian forces.source
  • 1866Western Union Telegraph Expedition to Alaska begins its second season, the first after the death of Robert Kennicottsource
  • 1868Croatian–Hungarian Settlement (Hrvatsko-ugarska nagodba, Horvát–magyar kiegyezés, Kroatisch-Ungarischer Ausgleich) is concluded, governing Croatia's political status in the Hungarian-ruled part of Austria-Hungary until 1918.source
  • 1868September 19–27 - Glorious Revolution (Spain)source
  • 1869Black Friday: The James Fisk–Jay Gould Scandal causes a financial panic in the United States.source
  • 1869Black Friday: The Fisk-Gould Scandal causes a financial panic in the United States.source
  • 1871Mother Mary MacKillop is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church after refusing to disband the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart order.source
  • 1875The 1864 play Heath Cobblers by Aleksis Kivi is premiered for the first time in Oulu, Finland.source
  • 1884September 23–24 (night) – Steamship Arctique runs aground near Cape Virgenes, leading to the discovery of nearby placer gold and beginning the Tierra del Fuego gold rush.source
  • 1888Stock exchange opened at Greenock.source
  • 1890The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Wilford Woodruff issues the "1890 Manifesto" officially advising against any future polygamy in the Church.source
  • 1895September 24–October 3 – the Automobile Club de France sponsors the longest race to date, a 1,710 km event, from Bordeaux to Agen and back. Because it is held in ten stages, it can be considered the first rally. The first three places are taken by two Panhards and a three-wheeler De Dion-Bouton.source
  • 1896William Frost flies his Frost Airship Glider for the only time.source
  • 1922The Latvia national football team and Estonia national football team played their first official international match.source
  • 1922September 24 (O. S. September 11) – 11 September 1922 Revolution in Greece.source
  • 1924First case report in the Los Angeles pneumonic plague outbreaksource
  • 1932After his party's victory in the election to the Swedish Riksdag's second chamber, Social Democrat Per Albin Hansson becomes the new prime minister of Sweden, after Felix Hamrin.source
  • 1935Earl W. Bascom and his brother Weldon produce the first night rodeo held outdoors under electric lights, at Columbia, Mississippi.source
  • 1938At 1:30 AM, Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain conclude their talks on the Sudetenland. Chamberlain agrees to take Hitler's demands, codified in the Godesberg Memorandum, personally to the Czech Government. The Czech Government rejects the demands, as does Chamberlain's own cabinet. The French Government also initially rejects the terms and orders a partial mobilization of the French army.source
  • 1940September 22–26 – Japanese invasion of French Indochinasource
  • 1942Andrée Borrel and Lise de Baissac became the first female SOE agents to be parachuted into occupied France.source
  • 1943September 22–October 2 – WWII: Landing at Scarlet Beach on the Huon Peninsula of New Guinea by Allied forces, the first time Australian troops have made an opposed amphibious landing since the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915.source
  • 1943Dina Porat, Israeli historiansource
  • 1946Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong, by American Roy Farrell and Australian Sydney de Kantzow.source
  • 1949László Rajk, ex-foreign minister of Hungary, is sentenced to death.source
  • 1950The airlift of some 50,000 Jews from Yemen and Aden to Israel, called Operation Magic Carpet, is completed.source
  • 1951At the behest of the Ministry of Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage, Fatima Jinnah's original speech gets re-broadcast in light of public outcry against censorship.source
  • 1954The Cochabamba–Santa Cruz highway connecting western and eastern Bolivia is inaugurated.source
  • 1955Dwight D. Eisenhower, president of the United States, suffers a coronary thrombosis while on vacation in Denver, Colorado. Vice President Nixon assumed administrative duties and presided over Cabinet and National Security Council meetings while Eisenhower recovers.source
  • 1955September 21–30 – Hurricane Janet, one of the strongest North Atlantic tropical cyclones on record, sweeps the Lesser Antilles and Mexico, causing more than 1,020 deaths.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
  • 1961In the U.S., the Walt Disney anthology television series, renamed Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, moves from ABC to NBC after seven years on the air, and begins telecasting its programs in color for the first time. Years later, after Disney's death, the still-on-the-air program will be renamed The Wonderful World of Disney.source
  • 1961The old Deutsche Opernhaus in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is returned to its newly rebuilt house, as the Deutsche Oper Berlin.source
  • 1963The United States Senate ratifies the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.source
  • 1964The Warren Commission, the first official investigation of the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, submits its written report.source
  • 1969September 22–25 – An Islamic conference in Rabat, Morocco, following the al-Aqsa Mosque fire (August 21), condemns the Israeli claim of ownership of Jerusalem.source
  • 1971Britain expels 90 KGB and GRU officials; 15 are not allowed to return.source
  • 1972An F-86 fighter aircraft leaving an air show at Sacramento Executive Airport fails to become airborne and crashes into a Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour, killing 12 children and 11 adults.source
  • 1974African Youth Amílcar Cabral founded, since 1991, it is now the Youth of PAICVsource
  • 1976Patty Hearst is sentenced to seven years in prison for her role in the armed robbery of a San Francisco bank in 1974 (an executive clemency order from U.S. President Jimmy Carter will set her free after only 22 months).source
  • 1978Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello makes its first appearance on Live from the Met, in a complete production of the opera starring Jon Vickers. This is the first complete television broadcast of the opera in the U.S. since the historic 1948 one.source
  • 1982The Wimpy Operation, the first act of armed resistance against Israeli troops in Beirut.source
  • 1991September 21 – 30 – Iraq disarmament crisis: IAEA inspectors discover files on Iraq's hidden nuclear weapons program. Iraqi officials refuse to let them leave with the documents, prompting a standoff that continues until the UN Security Council threatens enforcement actions on Iraq.source
  • 1991Lebanon hostage crisis: Lebanese kidnappers release Jackie Mann after more than two years of captivity.source
  • 1991Oriol Romeu, footballersource
  • 1996U.S. president Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.source
  • 1996Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorize the opening of an exit in the Arab Quarter of Jerusalem for the Western Wall Tunnel, which prior Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres had instructed to be put on hold for the sake of peace. This sparked violent riots throughout the West Bank and northern Gaza Strip. Over the subsequent three days, 16 Israeli soldiers and about 60 Palestinians were killed in the riots.source
  • 1998Iranian President Mohammad Khatami retracts a fatwa against Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie that was in force since 1989 stating that the Iranian government will "neither support nor hinder assassination operations on Rushdie".source
  • 2001A tornado outbreak tears through the eastern United States, causing two deaths and 57 injuries, and causing damages of $105 million.source
  • 2002September 14–27 – Hurricane Isidore crosses Cuba, the Yucatán Peninsula, and Louisiana.source
  • 2002September 21–October 4 – Hurricane Lili crosses Cuba and several other Caribbean islands before making landfall in Louisiana.source
  • 2003The Hubble Space Telescope starts the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field, making 800 exposures, until January 16, 2004.source
  • 2005September 17-25 - Croatia hosted the 2005 Women's European Volleyball Championship in Pula and Zagreb.source
  • 2014The Mars Orbiter Mission, popularly known as Mangalyaan, which was launched on 5 November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation, reached Martian orbit, making India the first Asian country to successfully reach Mars.source
  • 2015A stampede during the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca kills at least 2,200 people and injures more than 900 others, with more than 650 missing.source
  • 2017the majority of voters back the proposed law governing the Divača-Koper railway upgrade in a national referendum.source
  • 2017The White House announces that citizens of Chad will be restricted from travelling to the United States.source
  • 2019U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announces the start of a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.source
  • 2019The Supreme Court of Spain unanimously rules in favour of the exhumation of the remains of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco from the Valle de los Caídos. He is finally exhumed on October 24, being re-inhumed in a private crypt with his wife.source
  • 2022September 14–September 25 – The Atlantic hurricane Fiona hits Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the Lucayan Archipelago, Bermuda, and Eastern Canada.source
  • 2022September 22 – October 1 – The 2022 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup is held in Sydney, Australia. In the final, the United States wins 83–61 against China.source
  • 20232023 Nigerien crisis: French President Emmanuel Macron announces that France will end its military presence in Niger and will recall its ambassador from the country.source
  • 2024The United States Navy vessel USNS Big Horn runs aground and is damaged off the coast of Oman after replenishing the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group.source

Births

  • 15Vitellius, Roman emperor (died AD 69)source
  • 936'Adud al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Dynasty (died 983)source
  • 1301Ralph de Stafford, English nobleman and knight (died 1372)source
  • 1418Anne of Cyprus, Italian noble (died 1462)source
  • 1433Shekha of Amarsar, Rajput chieftain (died 1488)source
  • 1454Gerold Edlibach, Swiss historian (died 1530)source
  • 1473Georg von Frundsberg, German knight and landowner (died 1528)source
  • 1501Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler (died 1576)source
  • 1513Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (died 1535)source
  • 1534Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (died 1581)source
  • 1547Faizi, Malik-ush-Shu'ara (poet laureate) of Akbar's Court. (died 1595)source
  • 1558Ralph Eure, 3rd Baron Eure, English politician (died 1617)source
  • 1564William Adams, English navigator and samurai (died 1620)source
  • 1567Martin Fréminet, painter and engraver (died 1619)source
  • 1583Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (died 1634)source
  • 1599Adam Olearius, German scholar (died 1671)source
  • 1610Huang Zongxi, Chinese political theorist, philosopher, naturalist, writer and soldier (died 1695)source
  • 1625Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (died 1672)source
  • 1648Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston, English politician (died 1695)source
  • 1714Alaungpaya, King of Burma (died 1760)source
  • 1717Horace Walpole, English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician (died 1797)source
  • 1717Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, writer (died 1797)source
  • 1725Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (died 1803)source
  • 1794Jeanne Villepreux-Power, French marine biologist (died 1871)source
  • 1813Gerardo Barrios, President of El Salvador (died 1865)source
  • 1837Mark Hanna, United States Senator from Ohio (died 1904)source
  • 1884İsmet İnönü, Turkish soldier, statesman, 3-time prime minister of Turkey and 2nd president of Turkey (died 1973)source
  • 1896F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (died 1940)source
  • 1898Howard Florey, Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1968)source
  • 1902Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shia cleric, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran (died 1989)source
  • 1936Jim Henson, American puppeteer, filmmaker and television producer (The Muppets) (died 1990)source

Deaths

  • 366Liberius, pope of the Catholic Church (born 310)source
  • 768King Pepin III (the Short) dies at Saint-Denis, Neustria. The Frankish Kingdom is divided between his two sons: Charlemagne and Carloman I. According to Salic law Charlemagne receives the outer parts of the kingdom bordering on the sea, namely Neustria, western Aquitaine, and the northern parts of Austrasia; while Carloman is awarded his uncle's former share, the inner parts: southern Austrasia, Septimania, eastern Aquitaine, Burgundy, Provence, Swabia, and the lands bordering Italy.source
  • 768Pepin the Short, king of the Franks (born 714)source
  • 867Emperor Michael III is murdered, by order of his co-emperor Basil I. Basil becomes sole ruler (basileus) of the Byzantine Empire, and founds the Macedonian Dynasty (until 1056). Basil rebuilds the Byzantine army and navy, in an effort to restore the empire.source
  • 887Gao Pian, general of the Tang Dynastysource
  • 911King Louis IV (the Child), the last Carolingian ruler of the East Frankish Kingdom, dies at Frankfurt am Main after an 11-year reign. The East Frankish dukes elect Conrad I at Forchheim as the king of the East Frankish Kingdom. Charles III is elected as king of Lotharingia. Conrad is chosen through the influence of Louis' guardian and regent, Hatto I, archbishop of Mainz.source
  • 1046Gerard of Csanád, Hungarian missionary bishop, killedsource
  • 1054Hermann of Reichenau, German music theorist (born 1013)source
  • 1120Welf II ("the Fat"), duke of Bavaria (born 1072)source
  • 1143Agnes of Waiblingen, daughter of Henry IV (born 1072)source
  • 1180Emperor Manuel I Komnenos dies in Constantinople after a 37-year reign. He is succeeded by his 11-year-old son, Alexios II Komnenos, who will reign briefly as emperor of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of his mother, Maria of Antioch. Maria assumes power as regent (until 1183) and takes as her advisor and lover, Alexios Komnenos (protosebastos), a nephew of Manuel I, which causes scandal and unrest among the Byzantine populace.source
  • 1180Manuel I (Komnenos), Byzantine emperor (born 1118)source
  • 1200Heinrich Walpot, German Grand Mastersource
  • 1218Robert of Knaresborough, English hermitsource
  • 1228Stefan the First-Crowned, king of Serbiasource
  • 1230Alfonso IX, king of León and Galicia (born 1171)source
  • 1230Alfonso IX dies after a 42-year reign and is succeeded by his son Ferdinand III, who receives the Kingdom of León in return for compensation in cash and lands for his half-sisters Sancha and Dulce.source
  • 1270Philip of Montfort, Lord of Castressource
  • 1275Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, English noblemansource
  • 1300Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall, English nobleman (born 1249)source
  • 1435Isabeau of Bavaria, queen of Charles VI of Francesource
  • 1435Isabeau of Bavaria, former Queen of France (born 1370)source
  • 1459Erik of Pomerania, King of Norway, Denmark and Sweden (born 1382)source
  • 1494Poliziano, Italian humanist (born 1454)source
  • 1517Frederick IV of Baden, Dutch bishop (born 1455)source
  • 1533Jean d'Orléans-Longueville, Roman Catholic Cardinal (b.1484).source
  • 1534Michael Glinski, Lithuanian prince (born c. 1470)source
  • 1541Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist and physician (born 1493)source
  • 1545Albert of Mainz, elector and archbishop of Mainz (born 1490)source
  • 1572Tupac Amaru and other Inca Empire nobles are executed in Peru at Cuzco on orders of the Spanish colonial Viceroy, Francisco de Toledo, who then carries out the destruction of the relics of the Incan civilization.source
  • 1575Anna of Oldenburg, Regent of East Frisia (born 1501)source
  • 1621Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (born 1560)source
  • 1638Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1604–1622) (born 1573)source
  • 1695All but eight of the remaining 305 crew of the Royal Navy ship HMS Winchester are killed when the ship founders in the Florida Keys. According to the ship's logbook, an epidemic of yellow fever began on August 1 and had killed 45 people before the hurricane struck, and left all but seven crew members too ill to walk.source
  • 1710Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley, English diplomat (born 1649)source
  • 1732Emperor Reigen of Japan (born 1654)source
  • 1812Pyotr Bagration, Russian general and prince of Georgian origin (born 1765)source
  • 1834Emperor Pedro I of Brazil (born 1798)source
  • 1834Emperor Pedro I of Brazil, Pedro IV of Portugal (born 1798)source
  • 1834King Dom Pedro IV, King of Portugal, Emperor of Brazil (born 1798).source
  • 1848Branwell Brontë, English painter, poet, brother of novelists Charlotte, Emily and Anne (born 1817)source
  • 1877Battle of Shiroyama in Kagoshima, Japan: The Imperial Japanese Army annihilates heavily outnumbered rebel samurai under Saigō Takamori (who is killed), ending the Satsuma Rebellion.source
  • 1877Saigō Takamori, Japanese samurai (born 1828)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
  • 1991Dr. Seuss, 87, American children's author (The Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Green Eggs and Ham), cancer.source
  • 2019September 19 – 30 Afghan nut farmers are killed and 40 injured in a U.S. drone attack in Nangarhar Province.source