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September 26 in history

209 sourced entries recorded on September 26, from 539 BCE to 2024 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 539 BCESeptember 25–28? – Battle of Opis: Troops of the Persian Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great decisively defeat those of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.source
  • 180 BCELü Clan Disturbance. Following the death of Empress Lü, who had been the de facto ruler of the Han dynasty, the Lü Clan is overthrown and massacred by the imperial princes Liu Zhang and Liu Xiang, General-in-Chief Zhou Bo and Prime Minister Chen Ping.source
  • 46 BCEJulius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in fulfillment of a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.source
  • 715Battle of Compiègne: Ragenfrid, mayor of the palace of Neustria and Burgundy (appointed by King Dagobert III), defeats Theudoald in the first battle of the Frankish civil war, following the death of Pepin II (of Herstal).source
  • 1047September 25–28 – Rebel general Leo Tornikios (a nephew of Emperor Constantine IX) proclaims himself emperor at Adrianople, and besieges Constantinople. Byzantine troops personally led by Constantine repel him, and re-occupy the walls. Tornikios is forced to withdraw, while his followers start to abandon him. Finally, he is captured at a church in Boulgarophygon (modern Turkey), and is publicly blinded.source
  • 1118Pisa Cathedral in the March of Tuscany is consecrated by Pope Gelasius II.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
  • 1300King Edward I summons the English Parliament to Lincoln. The parliamentary session will last until January 30, 1301.source
  • 1302September 26 (28 Muharram 702 AH) – Fall of Ruad: The Knights Templar, European Crusaders to the Holy Land, surrender their control of the island of Ruad (modern-day Arwad, off of the coast of Syria) to the Mamluk Sultanate. Hugh Dampierre negotiates a promise that the Europeans will be allowed safe conduct to a Christian-ruled land of their choice, but Knights are attacked as soon as they emerge from the garrison. Templar Grand Master Barthélemy de Quincy is killed in battle, all of the Syrian Christian bowmen and footsoldiers are executed, and the surviving Knights Templar are taken as prisoners of war and incarcerated in Cairo.source
  • 1339English King Edward III laid siege to Cambrai as part of his effort to take the throne of France.source
  • 1345Battle of Warns: The Frisians defeat the forces of Holland under William II, Count of Hainaut, in the midst of the Friso-Hollandic Wars.source
  • 1371In the Battle of Maritsa, troops led by Lala Shahin Pasha and Hacı İlbey from the Ottoman Empire overwhelm and kill most of the Serbian defenders, including King Vukašin, his brother Prince Jovan Uglješa, and most of the lords of the Mrnjavčević family. The victory paves the way for the Ottoman Empire to expand into the Balkan Peninsula.source
  • 1423Hundred Years' War: The Battle of La Brossinière is fought in France near Bourgon in what is now the Mayenne département. The English force of 2,800 men, under the command of Sir John De la Pole, is crushed by the armies of France, Anjou and Maine, and the English suffer more than 1,400 deaths.source
  • 1445Negotiations between the Saxon brothers Frederick and William on the division of Thuringia break down after Frederick asserts that he will claim western Thuringia and will only allow William to inherit the Margraviate of Meissen.source
  • 1459Pope Pius II calls upon the participants of at the Council of Mantua to fund and participate in a Christian crusade to recapture Constantinople from the Muslim Ottomans, who had seized it in 1453.source
  • 1464A group of merchants from the Republic of Venice arrive in London, apparently infected with the bubonic plague and the disease begins to spread rapidly.source
  • 1493Pope Alexander VI issues the bull Dudum siquidem to the Catholic Monarchs, extending the grant of newly discovered lands he made them in Inter caetera.source
  • 1507A fleet commanded by Portugal's Afonso de Albuquerque arrives at the port of Hormuz on the Persian Gulf and sets about to conquer it.source
  • 1531Mary of Hungary appointed regent over the Habsburg Netherlands.source
  • 1569Kasim Pasha ends his attempt to conquer Astrakhan after realizing that his troops have only one month's supply of food left.source
  • 1573The Azai clan is eliminated by Oda Nobunaga after the four day siege of Odani Castle in Japan.source
  • 1575Future Spanish author and playwright Miguel de Cervantes, then 28, is taken hostage by the Ottoman Albanian pirate Arnaut Mami after an attack on the Spanish galley Sol off of the Catalan coast. Cervantes spends the next five years as a slave in Algeria before his family pays a ransom to free him.source
  • 1580Francis Drake returns to Plymouth, England from his voyage of circumnavigation (westbound) on the Golden Hind, the second completed in a continuous voyage, and the first under its original commander.source
  • 1633a group from the Plymouth Colony settles in Windsor, Connecticut, making it the first settlement in the state.source
  • 1653an act provides for transplanting all native Irish people into Connacht.source
  • 1655Peter Stuyvesant recaptures the Dutch Fory Casimir, and defeats the New Sweden (Delaware) colony.source
  • 1655September 20 – September 30 - Battle of Nowy Dwór Mazowieckisource
  • 1672General Raimondo Montecuccoli, commander of the army of the Holy Roman Empire, joins forces with the Brandenburg troops commanded by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg and the two groups assemble at Halberstadt, to attack the French and the bishops of Münster and Cologne.source
  • 1679The Peace of Lund end the Scanian War.source
  • 1679The Peace of Lund ends the Gyldenløve War.source
  • 1687Half of the Parthenon is destroyed in Athens after mortar shells are fired by Republic of Venice forces under the command of Francesco Morosini in a battle against the Ottoman Empire for control of the city. The strike ignites a stock of gunpowder that the Ottomans had stored inside the 2,200-year-old temple, which had been completed in 438 BC as a shrine to the goddess Athena. During the fighting September 23 and September 29 for control of the Acropolis in the Morean War, the Temple of Athena Nike is demolished and the Propylaea suffers damage.source
  • 1710Great Northern War – Capitulation of Livonia: the Swedish garrison in Riga surrenders, ending Swedish rule in modern Latvia.source
  • 1716Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, eldest son of the Tsar Peter the Great and heir to the throne, flees from Saint Petersburg with his mistress, Efrosinya Fedorova, along with her brother and three servants. After spending more than a year in Austria, he returns to Russia where he is arrested and dies in prison in 1718.source
  • 1732Peace treaty between Sweden and Poland.source
  • 1733The Treaty of Turin is signed in Turin as a secret agreement between King Louis XV of France and King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia.source
  • 1739"Address of the Roman Catholics of Ireland" to George II of Great Britain requesting longer leases.source
  • 1757St Patrick's Hospital for Imbeciles, Dublin, established under the will of Jonathan Swift, accepts its first patientssource
  • 1758Battle of Tornow, a Swedish-Prussian engagement during the ongoing Pomeranian War.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
  • 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
  • 1777American Revolutionary War – British troops occupy Philadelphia; members of the Continental Congress flee to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where they meet and hold a one day session as the Fifth Congress before fleeing again.source
  • 1783Industrialist and slave-owner Richard Pennant is created 1st Baron Penrhyn in the county of Lough.source
  • 1786Eden Agreement: A commercial treaty is signed between the Kingdoms of Great Britain and France.source
  • 1786The Eden Agreement, a trade treaty with Great Britain, is signed.source
  • 1808Te Pahi returns to the Bay of Islands on the Commerce.source
  • 1810A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates, and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.source
  • 1815Austria, Prussia and Russia sign a Holy Alliance, to uphold the European status quo.source
  • 1820Battle of Tarpellancasource
  • 1824The earliest reference by the British government to an official renaming of its South Pacific Ocean territory as "Australia" comes in a dispatch titled "Taking Possession of Melville and Bathurst Islands", as the Admiral Sir Gordon Bremer refers to "the North Coast of New Holland or Australia".source
  • 1825The U.S. Senate ratifies treaties with the Missouri and Ottoe tribes.source
  • 1830Belgian Revolution: The army of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands fails to retake Brussels; a National Congress is summoned to draw up a Constitution and a Provisional Government of Belgium is established under Charles Latour Rogier.source
  • 1832Inauguration of the Göta Canal.source
  • 1837The destructive "Racer's hurricane" sweeps across the Caribbean, northeastern Mexico, the Republic of Texas and the Gulf Coast of the United States and lasts until October 9, after killing at least 105 people.source
  • 1844September 25–27 – The first ever international cricket match is played in New York City, United States v Canadian Provinces.source
  • 1848The University of Ottawa is founded in Canada as the College of Bytown, a Roman Catholic institution.source
  • 1855Sydney to Parramatta railway openedsource
  • 1862Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein signs into law the 1862 Constitution of Liechtenstein.source
  • 1865Champ Ferguson becomes the first person (and one of only two) to be convicted of war crimes for actions taken during the American Civil War, found guilty by a U.S. Army tribunal on 23 charges, arising from the murder of 53 people. He is hanged on October 20, two days after the conviction of Henry Wirz for war crimes.source
  • 1865Champ Ferguson becomes the first of two combatants to be convicted of war crimes for actions taken during the American Civil War, found guilty by a U.S. Army tribunal on 23 charges arising from the murder of 53 people as a Confederate guerilla. He is hanged on October 20, two days after the conviction of Henry Wirz.source
  • 1868September 19–27 - Glorious Revolution (Spain)source
  • 1870George Watson's Hospital in Edinburgh reopens as reconstituted as a fee-paying day school, George Watson's College Schools for Boys.source
  • 1872The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) is established in New York City.source
  • 1876Global consumer goods and personal care company Henkel is founded by Friedrich Karl Henkel in Aachen, Germany.source
  • 1879Wilhelm Marr founds the Antisemitenliga (League of Antisemites), the first German organization committed specifically to combating the alleged threat to German culture posed by Jews.source
  • 1879Wilhelm Marr founds the Antisemitenliga (League of Antisemites), the first German organization committed specifically to combating the alleged threat to German culture posed by Jews.source
  • 1880Aarhus Gymnastikforening is founded.source
  • 1881Godalming becomes the first town in England to have its streets illuminated by electric light (hydroelectrically generated).source
  • 1894The SS Ohio and the schooner barge Ironton collide and sink in Lake Huron. While the crew of the Ohio is rescued, five of the other craft's seven-member crew, including the captain, are lost.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
  • 1899General Manuel Guzman Alvarez of the Venezuelan state of Sucre joins with General Cipriano Castro in a revolt against the Venezuelan government.source
  • 1902A violent cyclone hits the east coast of Sicily. The town of Catania is flooded; 300 lives are lost in Modica. The Cathedral of Belpasso was partly destroyed burying worshippers in the ruins. 600 people were reported dead.source
  • 1904New Zealand dolphin Pelorus Jack is individually protected by Order in Council under the Sea Fisheries Act.source
  • 1907New Zealand and Newfoundland become dominions of the British Empire.source
  • 1914The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established, by the Federal Trade Commission Act.source
  • 1914The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.source
  • 1917September 26–October 3 – WWI: Battle of Polygon Wood (part of the Battle of Passchendaele) near Ypres in Belgium – British and Australian troops capture positions from the Germans.source
  • 1918The Capture of Damascus begins, with the Charge at Irbid by the 4th Cavalry Division (India).source
  • 1918United States Coast Guard cutter Tampa is torpedoed and sunk in the Bristol Channel by German submarine SMU UB-91 with the loss of all 131 on board, the greatest loss of life for any US combat vessel in the war.source
  • 1920Numerus Clausus quota passed, limiting nationalities in university admissions to their share in the population. In practice, this limits the admission of Jewish studentssource
  • 1923In Bavaria, Gustav Ritter von Kahr takes dictatorial powers.source
  • 1923The British Mandate for Palestine, a legal instrument for the administration of Palestine, confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations on 24 July 1922, comes into effect.source
  • 1927David MacBrayne's paddle steamer Grenadier (1885) catches fire and sinks at her overnight mooring in Oban with the loss of three crew.source
  • 1932first contingent of the National Hunger March leaves Glasgow.source
  • 19331933 Tampico hurricane: A hurricane destroys the town of Tampico, Mexico.source
  • 1934Ford Romania buy the land on which they will build their factory in Bucharest.source
  • 1940September 22–26 – Japanese invasion of French Indochinasource
  • 1940The U.S. government places an embargo on the exportation of scrap iron and steel to any country outside the Western Hemisphere excluding Britain, effective October 16.source
  • 1942The Holocaust: Nazi official August Frank issues the August Frank memorandum, setting out how the belongings of "evacuated" (i.e. murdered) Jews are to be disposed of.source
  • 1942Sabotage against Adler Auto Service at Lyngbyvej 26 in Copenhagen.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
  • 1950Sasol (Suid-Afrikaanse Steenkool, Olie en Gaskorporasie Bpk.) is registered as a company.source
  • 1951September 26–28 – A blue sun is seen over Europe: the effect is due to ash coming from the Canadian forest fires 4 months previously.source
  • 1953Rationing of sugar ends in the UK.source
  • 1954Japanese ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait. More than 1,100 people are killed, 7 other ships are wrecked, and at least nine others seriously damaged.source
  • 1954A massive fire in Iwanai, Hokkaido, a result of Typhoon Marie, leaves 38 people dead, 551 people injured according to Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency official confirmed report.:ja:岩内大火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
  • 1957Soviet submarine M-256 sinks after one of its diesel engines explodes.source
  • 1957West Side Story, a new musical by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, opens on Broadway in New York City.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
  • 1959First large unit action of the Vietnam War takes place, when two companies of the ARVN's 23rd Division are ambushed by a well-organized Viet Cong force of several hundred, identified as the "2nd Liberation Battalion".source
  • 1959Typhoon Vera hits central Honshū, Japan, as a 160 mph Category 5 storm, killing an estimated 5,098, injuring another 38,921, and leaving 1,533,000 homeless. Most of the victims and damage are centered in the Nagoya area.source
  • 1959According to Japanese government official confirmed report, Typhoon Vera with tidal wave hit around Ise Bay, total 5,098 person were lives, 38,921 person were hurt.source
  • 19601960 United States presidential debates: The two leading candidates in the 1960 United States presidential election, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, participate in the first live televised presidential debate.source
  • 1962The North Yemen Civil War erupts.source
  • 1969The Poseidon bubble begins when the small mining company Poseidon NL discovers a large nickel deposit in Laverton, Western Australia.source
  • 1969The Beatles release their eleventh studio album, Abbey Road in the United Kingdomsource
  • 1980The Mariel boatlift in Cuba officially ends.source
  • 1981The Boeing 767 airliner makes its first flight.source
  • 1981The Sydney Tower opens to the public in Australia.source
  • 1982Thermals take Australian parachutist Rich Collins up to 2,800 m during a jump; he almost blacks out due to lack of oxygen. He releases his main parachute to fall to a lower altitude and lands by his reserve parachute.source
  • 19831983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident: Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a warning of attack by U.S. missiles as a false alarm.source
  • 1983The Australian yacht Australia II wins the America's Cup, the first successful challenge to the New York Yacht Club's 132-year defence of the sailing trophy.source
  • 1983The Soyuz T-10-1 mission ends in a pad abort at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, when a pad fire occurs at the base of the Soyuz U rocket during the launch countdown. The escape tower system, attached to the top of the capsule containing the crew and Soyuz spacecraft, fires immediately, pulling the crew safe from the vehicle a few seconds before the rocket explodes, destroying the launch complex.source
  • 1983The mass burial of around 700,000 unsold Atari video game cartridges, consoles, and computers occurs in Alamogordo, New Mexico.source
  • 1984The United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China sign the initial agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.source
  • 1986Prince Jean renounces the right of succession for himself and his descendants.source
  • 1986The closing of Sankuaicuo Station in Sanmin District, Kaohsiung City.source
  • 1989Vietnam announces that it has withdrawn the last of its troops from the State of Cambodia, ending an eleven-year occupation.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
  • 1991September 1991 Mineriad: The Jiu Valley miners return to Victory Square. Here take place negotiations with doors closed, between representatives of the miners and the country's leadership. The ensuing resignation of the second Petre Roman cabinet is announced at 12:30pm from the balcony of Victoria Palace. In the evening, the miners try to break into the headquarters of the Romanian Television. Here take place scenes of violence and vandalism.source
  • 19921992 Nigerian Air Force C-130 crash occurs crashes just after take-off from Lagos killing all 158 on boardsource
  • 1993The first mission in Biosphere 2 ends after two years.source
  • 1993PoSAT-1 (the first Portuguese satellite) is launched on board French rocket Ariane 4.source
  • 1995The trial against former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, who is accused of Mafia connections, begins.source
  • 1997Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 crashes while on approach to Medan, North Sumatra, during the 1997 Southeast Asian haze, killing all 234 people on board. This becomes the deadliest aviation accident in Indonesian history.source
  • 1997An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.source
  • 1998September 25–28 – Major creditors of Long-Term Capital Management, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based hedge fund, after days of tough bargaining and some informal mediation by Federal Reserve officials, agree on terms of a re-capitalization to avoid a wider collapse in financial markets.source
  • 2000The Greek ferry Express Samina sinks off the coast of the island of Paros; 80 out of a total of over 500 passengers perish in one of Greece's worst sea disasters.source
  • 2000The MS Express Samina collided with the Portes Islets rocks in the Bay of Parikia off the coast of the Greek island of Paros, resulting in the death of 81 people.source
  • 2002The Senegalese ferry MV Le Joola sinks off the West African coast with 1,863 people killed according to official reports, making it one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history. Only 64 passengers survive.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
  • 2003A Palestinian Arab gunman enters a home in Negohot, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank near Hebron, and murders seven-month-old Shaked Avraham and 27-year-old Eyal Yeberbaum, and wounds both of the baby girl's parents as they are celebrating the Jewish New Year. The gunman is later killed by Israeli security forces. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for the attack.source
  • 2003The 8.3 Mw Tokachi earthquake occurs off the coast of Hokkaido.source
  • 2008The government of Algeria donated $2 million in aid to Cuba to assist the Cuban people recover from the devastation left following the passage of Hurricane Gustav and Hurricane Ike.source
  • 2009Typhoon Ketsana, PAGASA Name: Ondoy, makes landfall in The Philippines, killing hundreds in Metro Manila and flooding in Huế, Vietnam.source
  • 2014The 2014 World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, to be held in Cape Town from 13 to 15 October, is suspended after a boycott of Nobel Laureates to protest the third time refusal of a visa to the 14th Dalai Lama by a South African Government "kowtowing to China".source
  • 2014Forty-three male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College are forcibly abducted in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. They were allegedly taken into custody by local police officers in collusion with organized crime. The mass kidnapping caused international protests and social unrest, leading to the resignation of Guerrero Governor Ángel Aguirre Rivero.source
  • 2017Fortnite Battle Royale releases, becoming one of the biggest video games in the world and a cultural phenomenon.source
  • 2021The 2021 German federal election is held, with Olaf Scholz and the Social Democratic Party beating out Armin Laschet's CDU/CSU coalition and Annalena Baerbock's Green Party.source
  • 2021Lewis Hamilton wins his 100th Grand Prix in Formula 1, becoming the first to reach the milestone, at an eventful Russian Grand Prix.source
  • 2022The Nord Stream pipeline sabotage occurs by an unknown perpetrator off the coast of Bornholm, Denmark with explosions on two pipelines leaving them inoperable.source
  • 2022NASA's DART crashes into the asteroid Dimorphos in a first test of potential planetary defense.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
  • 2024Hurricane Helene, the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Maria in 2017, makes landfall in Florida as a category four hurricane. It has a death toll of 236 and leaves more than 685 missing.source

Births

  • 932Al-Mu'izz, Fatimid caliph (died 975)source
  • 1005Fujiwara no Nagaie, Japanese nobleman (died 1064)source
  • 1329Anne of Bavaria, queen consort of Bohemia (died 1353)source
  • 1406Thomas de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (died 1430)source
  • 1462Engelbert, Count of Nevers, younger son of John I (died 1506)source
  • 1526Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (died 1569)source
  • 1607Francesco Cairo, Italian painter (died 1665)source
  • 1651Francis Daniel Pastorius, German founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania (died 1720)source
  • 1678Peter Lacy, soldier, imperial commander in Russia (d.1751)source
  • 1698William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, British nobleman, Whig politician and MP (died 1755)source
  • 1709Jean-Louis Le Loutre, priest, Spiritan, and missionary (died 1772)source
  • 1715Lord George Graham, Royal Navy officer and MP (died 1747)source
  • 1750Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (died 1810)source
  • 1750Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, admiral (died 1810)source
  • 1774Johnny Appleseed, (John Chapman), American nurseryman and Swedenborgian missionary (died 1845)source
  • 1784Christopher Hansteen, astronomer and physicist (d.1873)source
  • 1791Théodore Géricault, French painter (died 1824)source
  • 1792William Hobson, first Governor of New Zealand (died 1842)source
  • 1869Winsor McCay, American cartoonist, animator (died 1934)source
  • 1871Winsor McCay, American cartoonist, animator (died 1934)source
  • 1888T. S. Eliot, American-born British poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)source
  • 1889Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (died 1976)source
  • 1906Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (died 1975)source
  • 1923Dev Anand, Indian actor, film producer, writer and director (died 2011)source
  • 1932Manmohan Singh, Indian economist and 13th prime minister of India (died 2024)source
  • 1948Olivia Newton-John, English-born Australian singer, actress (died 2022)source
  • 1965Petro Poroshenko, former President of Ukrainesource
  • 2005Jack Hoffman, American high school football player and pediatric brain cancer patient who met President Barack Obama in 2013 (died 2025)source
  • 2014Melody Belle, Thoroughbred racehorsesource
  • 2014Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky, daughter of Chelsea Clinton and granddaughter of Bill and Hillary Clintonsource

Deaths

  • 257Zhu Yi (or Jiwen), Chinese generalsource
  • 800Berowulf, bishop of Würzburgsource
  • 862Musa ibn Musa al-Qasawi, Muslim military leader (born c. 790)source
  • 1107Maurice, bishop of London and Lord Chancellor of Englandsource
  • 1241Fujiwara no Teika, Japanese poetsource
  • 1274September 26–29 – Henry I Kőszegi ("the Great"), Hungarian nobleman (born 1210)source
  • 1283Princess Kuniko (or Hoshi), Japanese empress (born 1209)source
  • 1290Margaret, Maid of Norway, queen of Scotland (born 1283)source
  • 1328Ibn Taymiyyah, Islamic scholar and philosopher of Harran (born 1263)source
  • 1345William II, Count of Hainaut (killed in the Battle of Warns)source
  • 1371Jovan Uglješa, Serbian despotsource
  • 1371Vukašin Mrnjavčević, Serbian kingsource
  • 1413Stephen III, Duke of Bavaria (born 1337)source
  • 1417Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (born 1360)source
  • 1468Juan de Torquemada, Spanish Catholic cardinal (born 1388)source
  • 1573Azai Nagamasa, Japanese warlord (born 1545)source
  • 1588Amias Paulet, Governor of Jersey (born 1532)source
  • 1620Taichang Emperor, fourteenth emperor of the Ming dynasty of China (born 1582)source
  • 1670Abraham Teniers, Flemish painter (born 1629)source
  • 1736Louise Diane d'Orléans, youngest child of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (born 1716)source
  • 1756Joachim Andreas Stukenbrock, Berghauptmann at the Kongsberg Silver Mines (born 1699).source
  • 1763John Byrom, English poet (born 1692)source
  • 1802Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and soldier (born 1754)source
  • 1820Daniel Boone, American pioneer (born 1734)source
  • 1846Thomas Clarkson, English abolitionist (born 1760)source
  • 1887José María Montealegresource
  • 1904Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Irish Japanese author (born 1850)source
  • 1904Koizumi Yakumo, writer (born 1850)source
  • 1940Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and cultural critic, suicide (born 1892)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
  • 1988Branko Zebec, footballersource
  • 2008Paul Newman, 83, American actor (The Sting, Cool Hand Luke, The Color of Money) and entrepreneur, Oscar winner (1987), lung cancer.source
  • 2019September 19 – 30 Afghan nut farmers are killed and 40 injured in a U.S. drone attack in Nangarhar Province.source
  • 2019Jacques Chirac, 86, French politician, President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra (1995–2007), Prime Minister (1974–1976, 1986–1988) and Mayor of Paris (1977–1995).source