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September 27 in history

218 sourced entries recorded on September 27, from 539 BCE to 2025 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
  • 969Emperor Reizei abdicates the throne of Japan (due to a mental illness) after a 2-year reign. He is succeeded by his 10-year-old brother En'yū, who becomes the 64th emperor.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
  • 1066William, Duke of Normandy and his army set sail from the mouth of the River Somme, beginning the Norman conquest of England. The following day he lands on the English coast at Pevensey, splits his forces, and sails with the main army to Hastings.source
  • 1123Prince Wuqimai of the House of Wanyan becomes the new Emperor of China after the death, on September 19, of his elder brother, the Emperor Taizu, founder of the Jin dynasty. Wuqimai is proclaimed the Emperor Taizong of Jin.source
  • 1172September 27–28 – Compromise of Avranches: Alberto di Morra is sent by Pope Alexander III to the Council of Avranches to investigate the Becket controversy. Henry II is absolved of censures for Becket's murder in view of his penance and swears to go on a crusade. He revokes two controversial clauses of the Constitutions of Clarendon and is reconciled with the papacy.source
  • 1177Pope Alexander III sends a letter to Prester John, believing he is real.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
  • 1198Battle of Gisors: Richard I defeats the French forces led by Philip II (Augustus) at Courcelles-lès-Gisors, in Picardy. Richard captures three castles on the border of the Vexin. The French troops, many of them mounted, crowd the bridge leading into Gisors Castle but it collapses beneath them. The French king is among those who plunge into the water in his armor. Many French knights drown, but Philip is pulled to safety.source
  • 1280King Magnus Ladulås of Sweden founds a Swedish nobility by enacting a law accepting a contribution of a cavalry member in lieu of ordinary tax payments.source
  • 1290The 6.8 Ms Zhili earthquake affects the province of Zhili in China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 7,270–100,000 people.source
  • 1312The Charter of Kortenberg is signed, and is possibly the first constitution which allows democratic decisions in feudal mainland Europe.source
  • 1331Battle of Płowce: The German Teutonic Knights and the Poles battle to a draw.source
  • 1381John IV, Duke of Brittany, executes the Second Treaty of Guérande with Charles VI of France, pledging the Duchy's neutrality in any war between France and England.source
  • 1387Petru of Moldavia pays homage to Władysław II Jagiełło, making Moldavia a Polish fief (which it will remain until 1497).source
  • 1422The Teutonic Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania, after the brief Gollub War. The Prussian–Lithuanian border established by the treaty remains unchanged, until World War I.source
  • 1446Battle of Otonetë: Skanderbeg defeats the Ottomans.source
  • 1469Hong Yunsŏng becomes the new head of government of the Kingdom of Korea as the new Chief State Councillor for King Yejong, replacing Han Myŏnghoe.source
  • 1480The co-rulers of most of Spain, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile initiate the Spanish Inquisition to look for heretics and unconverted Jews, appointing the Dominican Order clerics Miguel de Morillo and Juan de San Martín to serve as the first two inquisitors.source
  • 1501Queen Isabella orders New World Governor Bobadilla to return the assets confiscated from Christopher Columbus and the two other Columbus brothers.source
  • 1509A violent storm ravages the Dutch coast, killing potentially thousands of people.source
  • 1527Battle of Tarcal: Ferdinand, future Holy Roman Emperor, defeats John Zápolya and takes over most of Hungary. John appeals to the Ottomans for help.source
  • 1529Vienna is besieged by the Ottoman Turks commanded by Suleiman the Magnificent.source
  • 1540The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) is approved by Pope Paul III, in his bull Regimini militantis Ecclesiae.source
  • 1546San Salvador, now the capital of the Central American nation of El Salvador, is re-established in a new location at the Valle de Las Hamacas. Until 1545, the colonial capital had been at the Ciudad Vieja, 10 mi further northewest, near Suchitoto.source
  • 1564Lyckås and Avaskär are burned by the Swedes who then evacuate Blekinge.source
  • 1567After the 2-week Siege of Inabayama Castle, the Oda clan capture Gifu Castle from the Saitō clan in Japan.source
  • 1605Swedish armies are decisively defeated by Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth cavalry in the Battle of Kircholm.source
  • 1639Cardinal Richelieu has an equestrian statue of Louis XIII (sculpted by Pierre Biard le jeune with the horse by Daniele da Volterra) erected in the Place royale in Paris.source
  • 1647The Dutch merchant ship Princess Amelia runs aground off of the coast of Mumbles Point, Wales and sinks, killing 86 of the 107 people aboard, including former New Netherlands Governor Willem Kieft.source
  • 1650The Kolumbo volcano on Santorini experiences a massive eruption (VEI 6).source
  • 1655September 20 – September 30 - Battle of Nowy Dwór Mazowieckisource
  • 1657Norwegian troops fought in the Battle of Hjärtum.source
  • 1657Brussels government institutes import restrictions on French wines.source
  • 1664Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam to an English naval squadron commanded by Colonel Richard Nicolls.source
  • 1674French Navy Commander Jean-Baptiste de Valbelle arrives at Sicily during the Messina revolt to help the Messinese expel the last Spanish defenders, taking the fort at Faro in the harbor entrance.source
  • 1682the King baronetcy of Boyle Abbey in the County of Roscommon is created in the Baronetage of Ireland for Robert King.source
  • 1688The Nine Years' War begins in Europe and America after Louis XIV attacks Philippsburg in the Holy Roman Empire.source
  • 1692The trial for sorcery of Anne Palles of Denmark begins, and she gives a long confession of giving her body and soul to Satan. The court finds her guilty on November 2 and sentences her to death.source
  • 1694A hurricane hits Carlisle Bay, Barbados, sinking 27 British ships and resulting in 3,000 casualties.source
  • 1714Prince George, son of King George I, is invested as Prince of Wales. His wife, Caroline of Ansbach, becomes the first Princess of Wales to receive the title at the same time as her husband and the first Princess of Wales for over two hundred years.source
  • 1718The Battle of Cape Fear River begins as pirate Stede Bonnet and his crew on the Royal James are confronted in North Carolina by Colonel William Rhett and the ships Henry and Sea Nymph.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
  • 1782Francis Homfray leases a mill from Anthony Bacon of Cyfarthfa ironworks. (Under the terms of the new House of Commons (Disqualification) Act 1782 (22 Geo. 3. c. 45), Bacon, as an MP, is disqualified from holding government munitions contracts.)source
  • 1783Gustav III begun his trip to Italy and France.source
  • 1807Napoleon purchases the Borghese art collection, including the Antinous Mondragone, and brings it to Paris.source
  • 1807Napoleon purchases the Borghese art collection, including the Antinous Mondragone, and brings it to Paris.source
  • 1808The Congress of Erfurt, between the emperors Napoleon I of France and Alexander I of Russia, begins.source
  • 1808Congress of Erfurt, between Emperor Napoleon and Tsar Alexander I of Russia begins.source
  • 1808The Congress of Erfurt, between the emperors Napoleon I of France and Alexander I of Russia, begins.source
  • 1808October 14: Congress of Erfurtsource
  • 1810Peninsular War: Battle of Bussaco: Anglo-Portuguese forces under General Arthur Wellington repel several attacks of the French invasion force (65,000 men) under André Masséna at Bussaco. Wellington is forced to withdraw to the Lines of Torres Vedras after Masséna's troops outflank his positions. The French lose 522 dead and 3,612 wounded. The allied losses are 200 dead and 1,001 wounded.source
  • 1810Thomas Picton serves with distinction under Wellington at the Battle of Bussaco.source
  • 1821The Army of the Three Guarantees enters Mexico City, and the following day the Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire from Spain is proclaimed, following the Mexican War of Independence.source
  • 1822Jean-François Champollion announces his success in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs, using the Rosetta Stone, in a letter to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris (based on the work of Thomas Young).source
  • 1825The world's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opens in England.source
  • 1825The world's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opens with engineer George Stephenson driving the first public train pulled by the steam engine Locomotion No 1.source
  • 1841José Ballivián is sworn-in to the presidency after five days of uncertainty.source
  • 1841Foundation of a school for Catholic boys, the first school in Auckland.source
  • 1844September 25–27 – The first ever international cricket match is played in New York City, United States v Canadian Provinces.source
  • 1847Premonstratensians return to Postel Abbey.source
  • 1854SS Arctic disaster: The American paddle steamer SS Arctic sinks after a collision with the much smaller French ship SS Vesta, 50 miles (80 km) off the coast of Newfoundland, with approximately 320 deaths.source
  • 1855Alfred Tennyson reads from his new book Maud and other poems, at a social gathering in the home of Robert and Elizabeth Browning in London; Dante Gabriel Rossetti makes a sketch of him doing so.source
  • 1868September 19–27 - Glorious Revolution (Spain)source
  • 1873Third Anglo-Ashanti War: Royal Engineers land on the Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana) to prepare for an attack on the Kingdom of Ashanti's ruler Kofi Karikari, who has been involved in the trading of slaves.source
  • 1875American merchant sailing ship Ellen Southard is wrecked off Liverpool in England; 12 crew and life-boatmen are lost.source
  • 1875American merchant sailing ship Ellen Southard is wrecked off Liverpool; 12 crew and life-boatmen are lost.source
  • 1876Opening of the International Congress of Hygiene and Life-Saving Equipment in Brussels, as part of the International Exhibition of Hygiene.source
  • 1888Stanley Park is officially opened by Vancouver (B.C.) mayor David Oppenheimer.source
  • 1888Whitechapel murders: The 'Dear Boss letter' signed "Jack the Ripper", the first time the name is used, is received by London's Central News Agency.source
  • 1893The World Parliament of Religions holds its closing meeting in Chicago.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
  • 1903The Wreck of the Old 97 Fast Mail train at Stillhouse Trestle, near Danville, Virginia, kills 11 people and inspires a ballad.source
  • 1903The Wreck of the Old 97 engine at Stillhouse Trestle near Danville, Virginia, which kills nine people, inspiring a ballad and song.source
  • 1904Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti visits the German Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow to allay concerns in Berlin by the French-Italian rapprochement in relation with the Triple Alliance.source
  • 1905Albert Einstein submits for publication his paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", in which he puts forward the idea of mass–energy equivalence by publishing the equation E = mc 2 (published November 21).source
  • 1905Da-Qing Bank, predecessor of Bank of China, is founded in Peiping.source
  • 1909The 5.1 Mfa Wabash River earthquake shook western Indiana with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), causing light damage.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
  • 1925Feast of the Cross according to the Old Calendar: a celestial cross appears over Athens, Greece, while the Greek police pursues a group of Greek Old Calendarists. The phenomenon lasts for half an hour.source
  • 1930İsmet İnönü forms a new government in Turkey (6th government).source
  • 1932Ryutin Affair at its height in the Soviet Union. The Politburo meets and condemns the so-called "Ryutin Platform" and agrees to expel those associated with it from the Communist Party, but refuses Stalin's request to execute those associated with the Platform.source
  • 1935opening of Tōbu-Izumi Station.source
  • 1938RMS Queen Elizabeth is launched at Clydebank; she is the largest ship in the world at this time.source
  • 1940WWII: Germany, Italy and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.source
  • 1940World War II: Germany, Italy and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.source
  • 1941The first liberty ship, the SS Patrick Henry, is launched at Baltimore.source
  • 1942WWII: Both the commerce raiding German auxiliary cruiser Stier and American Liberty ship SS Stephen Hopkins sink, following a gun battle in the South Atlantic. Hilfskreuzer Stier is the only commerce raider to be sunk by a defensively equipped merchant ship.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
  • 1945The Defence Emergency Regulations are enacted by the Mandatory authorities.source
  • 1947Carlton 13.8 (86) defeats Essendon 11.19 85 to win the 51st VFL Premiership in the 1947 VFL Grand Final.source
  • 1948Alger Hiss files a slander suit against Whittaker Chambers, for his August 27 radio statement in the United States.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
  • 1954The Tonight Show first airs on live television on NBC in the United States being the first late night talk show.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
  • 1956The Bell X-2 becomes the first crewed aircraft to reach Mach 3.source
  • 1958Hurricane Helene, the worst storm of the North Atlantic hurricane season, reaches category 4 status.source
  • 1958Typhoon Ida kills at least 1,269 people in Honshū, Japan.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
  • 1962A flash flood in Barcelona, Spain, kills more than 440 people.source
  • 1965The largest tanker ship at this time, Tokyo Maru, is launched in Yokohama, Japan.source
  • 1967The RMS Queen Mary arrives in Southampton at the end of her last transatlantic crossing.source
  • 1968Marcelo Caetano becomes prime minister of Portugal.source
  • 1970Richard Nixon begins a tour of Europe, visiting Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain, the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.source
  • 1970Richard Nixon begins a tour of Europe, visiting Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain, the United Kingdom and Ireland.source
  • 1970Pope Paul VI names Saint Teresa of Ávila (died 1582) as the first female Doctor of the Church.source
  • 1971September 27–October 11 – Japanese Emperor Hirohito travels abroad.source
  • 1971Prime ministers Edward Heath, Jack Lynch and Brian Faulkner meet at Chequers to discuss the Northern Ireland situation.source
  • 1972President Emílio Garrastazu Médici introduces the first stretch of the Trans-Amazonian Highway.source
  • 1973Luís Cabral declares the independence of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau from the Estado Novo regime in Portugal. It is later granted in September 1974.source
  • 1973Soviet space program: Soyuz 12 (Vasily Lazarev, Oleg Makarov), the first Soviet crewed flight since the Soyuz 11 tragedy in 1971, is launched.source
  • 1975Francoist Spain executes five ETA and FRAP members, the last executions in Spain to date.source
  • 1978The last Forest Brother guerrilla movement fighter is discovered and killed in Estonia.source
  • 1981September 27–29 – Iran–Iraq War: Iranian forces break the Siege of Abadan in Operation Samen-ol-A'emeh.source
  • 1981TGV high-speed rail service between Paris and Lyon, France, begins.source
  • 1983The GNU Project is announced publicly on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups.source
  • 1989The constitutional amendments were approved by Assembly of Socialist Republic of Slovenia which changed the anthem from Naprej zastava slave to Zdravljica and League of Communists of Slovenia ended the monopoly power and reintroduced Parliamentary democracy to the republic.source
  • 1990David Souter is confirmed to serve on the Supreme Court, replacing retiring Justice William J. Brennan Jr..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
  • 1993War in Abkhazia: Fall of Sukhumi – Eduard Shevardnadze accuses Russia of passive complicity.source
  • 1995September 27–28 – Bob Denard's mercenaries capture President Said Mohamed Djohar of the Comoros; the local army does not resist.source
  • 1996In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city of Kabul, after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.source
  • 1997Twenty-nine crewmen were missing, some people trapped in an Indian Vikraman cargo ship when it ship collided with a Caribbean Mount 1 supertanker in the Strait of Malacca near Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan.source
  • 1997The sports-fused entertainment TV program SASUKE started on TBS in Japan.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
  • 2001Zug massacre: In Zug, Switzerland, a gunman shoots 32 people, killing 14 members of parliament and then himself.source
  • 2002East Timor is admitted to the United Nations as the 191st member state; it also changes its official longform name from "Democratic Republic of East Timor" to "Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste".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
  • 2003SMART-1, an ESA spaceprobe and ESA's first mission to the moon, is launched from Kourou, French Guiana.source
  • 2014Mount Ontake, in Japan, erupts, killing several climbers on the slopes of the volcano.source
  • 2019The United Nations University Centre for Policy Research's Financial Sector Commission on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking releases its final report, Unlocking Potential: A Blueprint for Mobilizing Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking, during the United Nations General Assembly in New York.source
  • 2019500,000 people march in a climate change protest led by activist Greta Thunberg and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Montreal, Canada. 4,000,000 go on strike around the world.source
  • 201927 September to 6 October – The 2019 World Athletics Championships were held in Doha.source
  • 2020Beginning of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: deadly clashes erupt in Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces. Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Republic of Artsakh introduce martial law and mobilize forces.source
  • 2022Russian occupation authorities in Ukraine claim that their annexation referendums show an overwhelming support for the annexation by Russia of the Donetsk People's Republic, the Luhansk People's Republic, and parts of Kherson Oblast and Zaporizhzhia Oblast. However, the voting is widely dismissed as a sham referendum.source
  • 2022September 27–September 30 – Hurricane Ian impacts Cuba and the United States, causing catastrophic damage to both nations, killing at least 157 people, 16 missing, and leaving millions without power, including the entire nation of Cuba.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
  • 2025The Seven Brothers Islands are designated as biosphere reserves by UNESCO.source
  • 2025The Mantadia and Tsimembo nature reserves are designated as biosphere reserves by UNESCO.source

Births

  • 808Ninmyō, emperor of Japan (died 850)source
  • 1271Wenceslaus II, king of Poland (died 1305)source
  • 1275John II, Duke of Brabant ("the Peaceful"), Dutch nobleman (died 1312)source
  • 1300Adolf of the Rhine, German nobleman (died 1327)source
  • 1433Stanisław Kazimierczyk, Polish canon regular and saint (died 1489)source
  • 1442John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (died 1492)source
  • 1496Hieronymus Łaski, Polish diplomat (died 1542)source
  • 1507Guillaume Rondelet, French physician (died 1566)source
  • 1533Stefan Batory, King of Poland (died 1586)source
  • 1552Flaminio Scala, Italian playwright and stage actor (died 1624)source
  • 1581Juan Damián López de Haro, Spanish Catholic bishop of Puerto Rico (died 1648)source
  • 1598Robert Blake, English admiral (died 1657)source
  • 1601King Louis XIII of France (died 1643)source
  • 1627Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop and theologian (died 1704)source
  • 1627Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, bishop (died 1704)source
  • 1630Michael Willmann, German painter (died 1706)source
  • 1643Solomon Stoddard, pastor of the Congregationalist Church in Northampton, Massachusetts (died 1729)source
  • 1649Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, priest and historian (died 1718).source
  • 1657Sofia Alekseyevna of Russia, Russian regent (died 1704)source
  • 1675Dorothea Krag, Danish General Postmaster and noble (died 1754)source
  • 1696Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptorist Order (died 1787)source
  • 1722Samuel Adams, Boston politician, leader in the American Revolution (died 1803)source
  • 1772Martha Jefferson Randolph, Acting First Lady of the United States (1801–1809) (died 1836)source
  • 1785David Walker, African-American abolitionist (died 1830)source
  • 1805George Müller, Prussian evangelist, founder of the New Orphan Houses, Ashley Down, Bristol in England (died 1898)source
  • 1805George Müller, Prussian evangelist, founder of the New Orphan Houses, Ashley Down, Bristol in England (died 1898)source
  • 1838Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Confederate brigadier general, Texas governor and president of Texas A&M University (died 1898)source
  • 1840Alfred Thayer Mahan, United States Navy admiral, American geostrategist and historian (died 1914)source
  • 1840Thomas Nast, American caricaturist, cartoonist (died 1902)source
  • 1907Bhagat Singh, Indian revolutionary (died 1931)source
  • 1966Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Member of the US House from Floridasource
  • 1976Francesco Totti, Italian footballersource
  • 1983Evangelia Christodoulou, rhythmic gymnastsource

Deaths

  • 765Pugu Huai'en, Chinese general during the Tang dynastysource
  • 936Kyŏn Hwŏn, king of Later Baekje (born 867)source
  • 1046Bystrík (or Bestricus), Hungarian bishop, killedsource
  • 1111Vekenega, Croatian abbesssource
  • 1115Bonfilius, Italian Saint, bishop of Folignosource
  • 1123Fujiwara no Akisue, Japanese nobleman (born 1055)source
  • 1125Richeza of Berg, duchess of Bohemiasource
  • 1162Odo II, duke of Burgundy (born 1118)source
  • 1249Raymond VII, French nobleman (born 1197)source
  • 1274September 26–29 – Henry I Kőszegi ("the Great"), Hungarian nobleman (born 1210)source
  • 1304John de Warenne, English nobleman (born 1231)source
  • 1404William of Wykeham, English bishop and statesman (born 1320)source
  • 1435Savvatiy, Russian monastery foundersource
  • 1529George of the Palatinate, German nobleman; Bishop of Speyer (1513–1529) (born 1486)source
  • 1536Felice della Rovere, also known as Madonna Felice, was the illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II (born 1483)source
  • 1557Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (born 1495)source
  • 1566Marco Girolamo Vida, Italian poet (born 1490)source
  • 1577Diego de Covarrubias y Leyva, Spanish jurist and archbishop of Cuenca (born 1512)source
  • 1590Pope Urban VII (born 1521)source
  • 1612Piotr Skarga, Polish Jesuit and polemicist (born 1536)source
  • 1617John Ernest of Nassau-Siegen, German general (born 1582)source
  • 1623John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen (born 1561)source
  • 1637Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint (born c.1600)source
  • 1651Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (born 1573)source
  • 1657Olimpia Maidalchini, politically active Roman noble (born 1591)source
  • 1660Vincent de Paul, French saint (born 1580)source
  • 1663Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (born 1584)source
  • 1663Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (born 1584)source
  • 1674Robert Arnauld d'Andilly, French writer (born 1589)source
  • 1700Pope Innocent XII dies at the age of 85 after a tenure of more than nine years. Fabrizio Spada, the Cardinal Secretary of State, assumes administration of the Roman Catholic Church in order to oversee the election of a new Pope.source
  • 1700Pope Innocent XII, born Antonio Pignatelli (born 1615)source
  • 1735Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (drowned) (born 1705)source
  • 1832Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (born 1781)source
  • 1833Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer (born 1772)source
  • 1876Braxton Bragg, American Confederate Civil War general (born 1817)source
  • 1897George M. Robeson, American politician (born 1829)source
  • 1917Edgar Degas, French painter (born 1834)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
  • 1944Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American Pentecostal evangelist (born 1890)source
  • 1960Sylvia Pankhurst, English suffragette (born 1882)source
  • 1965Clara Bow, American silent film actress (born 1905)source
  • 20052005 Chad attacks: 46 people are killed in clashes between Sudanese fighters and the Chadian government.source
  • 2019September 19 – 30 Afghan nut farmers are killed and 40 injured in a U.S. drone attack in Nangarhar Province.source
  • 20252025 Karur crowd crush: At least 40 people are killed and 51 injured in a crowd crush at a rally held by actor-turned-politician Vijay's party Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) in Karur, Tamil Nadu, India.source