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September 28 in history

229 sourced entries recorded on September 28, from 551 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
  • 235Pope Pontian resigns, the first to abdicate, because he and Hippolytus, church leader of Rome, are exiled to the mines of Sardinia. Emperor Maximinus persecutes the Christians.source
  • 351Battle of Mursa Major: Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius along the valley of the Drava. The battle is one of the bloodiest in Roman military history. During the fighting Marcellinus, a general of Magnentius is killed; Magnentius himself survives.source
  • 365Procopius revolts and bribes two legions passing by Constantinople. He proclaims himself Emperor, and takes control of Thrace and Bithynia.source
  • 995Boleslaus II (the Pious), duke of Bohemia, storms Libice Castle and massacres the members of the Slavník Dynasty.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
  • 1104Alfonso I becomes king of Aragon and Navarre (after the death of his half-brother Peter I).source
  • 1106Battle of Tinchebray: King Henry I defeats and imprisons his older brother Robert II, duke of Normandy, in Devizes Castle. Edgar Atheling (uncle of Henry's wife) and the 3-year-old William Clito, son of Robert, are also taken prisoner. Henry places his nephew William in the custody of Helias of Saint-Saens, count of Arques.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
  • 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
  • 1217Prince Louis VIII of France returns to France from Dover, Englandsource
  • 1238King James I of Aragon captures the city of Valencia from the Moors, who retreat to Granada. During the campaign, James' cousin, Bernat Guillem de Montpeller, dies from wounds received in action.source
  • 1273William Fitz Richard de Barry, granted the church of Cahirduggan to the Priory of Ballybeg by charter.source
  • 1320Pope John IX of Alexandria is elected as the new spiritual leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church, succeeding Pope John VIII.source
  • 1322Battle of Mühldorf: Bavarian forces (some 2,000 men) led by King Louis the Bavarian defeat the Austrians commanded by his cousin, Frederick the Fair, Duke of Austria and self-proclaimed pretender to the Bavarian throne (or anti-king) at Mühldorf in southern Bavaria. During the battle, Frederick is captured together with his 22-year-old brother, Henry the Friendly (along with 1,000 nobles). Frederick is imprisoned at Trausnitz Castle for two and a half years before his release by the signing of the Treaty of Trausnitz on March 13, 1325.source
  • 1323In southern Burma (now Myanmar), Saw Zein becomes the new monarch of the Hanthawaddy kingdom (or Martaban) upon the death of his older brother, Saw O.source
  • 1362Pope Urban V succeeds Pope Innocent VI, as the 200th pope.source
  • 1384King Richard II summons the English Parliament to meet on November 12.source
  • 1392Prince Zhu Yunwen is designated as the heir to the throne of China by his father, the Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.source
  • 1394Cardinal Pedro Martínez de Luna of the Kingdom of Aragon, opposed to the rule of the Roman Pope Urban VI, is elected at Avignon as the antipope Benedict XIII to succeed the antipope Clement VII.source
  • 1421A treaty is signed at Vienna between Sigismund, King of Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia and Germany and Albert V, Duke of Austria for Sigismund's daughter Elizabeth of Luxembourg, to marry Albert (on April 19, 1422) and confirming Elizabeth's rights as heiress presumptive to the thrones of Hungary and Bohemia.source
  • 1423The English nobility swear their loyalty to King Henry VI.source
  • 1443Pope Eugene IV returns to Rome for the first time in more than nine years, after having been forced to flee on June 4, 1434.source
  • 1484St. Nicholas' Church, Galway, is raised to the status of a collegiate church by Donatus Ó Muireadhaigh, Archbishop of Tuam.source
  • 1497At the Battle of Rotebro, Hans, King of Denmark, defeats Sten Sture the Elder.source
  • 1538Battle of Preveza: The Ottoman fleet of Suleiman the Magnificent, under the command of Hayreddin Barbarossa, defeats the Holy League of Emperor Charles V, under the command of Andrea Doria.source
  • 1541King Charles of Spain begins the disastrous campaign against the Regency of Algiers as he assembles a fleet of 500 ships, with 24,000 soldiers, at the Spanish island of Majorca and prepares to cross the Mediterranean with the fleets of allied nations led by the Admiral Andrea Doria of the Republic of Genoa.source
  • 1542Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo lands in what is now San Diego Bay, and names it "San Miguel", claiming it for the Spanish Empire. San Miguel will later become the city of San Diego. This marks the first time a European sees what is now the U.S. state of California.source
  • 1561An inconclusive three day debate begins in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland between Protestant reformer John Knox and Quintin Kennedy, commendator of Crossraguel Abbey, on transubstantiation. The Reformation, confirmed by the Scottish government in 1560, continues.source
  • 156228 September to 26 October – Siege of Rouensource
  • 1564English merchant Anthony Jenkinson returns to London from his second expedition to the Grand Duchy of Moscow, having gained a considerable extension of trading rights for the English Muscovy Company.source
  • 1569The first complete printed Bible in a Spanish translation (La Biblia), made by Casiodoro de Reina, is published in Basel.source
  • 1571The House of Commons of England introduces the first pro forma bill, symbolizing its authority over its own affairs.source
  • 1579In Switzerland, a mutual assistance pact was signed at Lucerne between representatives of Roman Catholic cantons by the efforts of the Catholic Bishop of Basel, Jakob Christoph Blarer von Wartensee.source
  • 1582Ruthven and his co-conspirators arrange for John Maxwell, 8th Lord Maxwell, heir to former regent James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, to be installed as Scotland's regent. Douglas had been executed in 1581 for the 1567 murder of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and father of King James VI, who is imprisoned at Ruthven's castle.source
  • 1587At Gremi in the modern-day Republic of Georgia, King Alexander II of Kakheti signs an oath of allegiance to Feodor I, the Tsar of all Russia.source
  • 1599The Earl of Essex arrives back in England, disobeying the Queen's strict orders.source
  • 1601The Escanjaque Indians attack Juan de Oñate's Spanish expedition as the Spaniards are returning from their furthest venture east, the Little Arkansas River.source
  • 1618The Battle of Orynin takes place. Polish and Lithuanian Army forces fail to stop an invasion by the forces of the Crimean Khanate, who then proceed in burning villages in Lithuania and enslaving residents.source
  • 1654Artist Jérôme Duquesnoy the Younger executed in Ghent under the sodomy laws for having sexually abused two childrensource
  • 1655September 20 – September 30 - Battle of Nowy Dwór Mazowieckisource
  • 1668Diego de Salcedo is overthrown from his position as the Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines in a coup d'etat led by Juan Manuel de la Peña Bonifaz. Salcedo and other members of his administration are jailed and then sent into exile from Luzon to the island of Panay, and his fortune is confiscated.source
  • 1685Jeffreys is appointed Lord Chancellor by the king.source
  • 1689September 28–29 – A total lunar eclipse is visible in eastern America, western Europe and west Africa.source
  • 1704Damat Hasan Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, is removed from office by Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III, and replaced by Kalaylikoz Ahmed Pasha.source
  • 1708September 28 (O.S.); September 29 (Swedish calendar); October 9 (N.S.) – Great Northern War: Battle of Lesnaya – Peter the Great of Russia defeats the forces of the Swedish Empire.source
  • 1710September 28 − Archduke Charles enters Madridsource
  • 1734Abdu'llah bin Ismail as-Samin is deposed after a 15-year reign as Sultan of Morocco.source
  • 1745the song later to become the British national anthem "God Save the King" is first performed at the Drury Lane Theatre in London in a setting by Thomas Arne.source
  • 1749Three Russian survivors of the shipwreck on Edgeøya return to their homeland after more than six years, as the ship Nikolai i Andrei brings them to the port of Arkhangelsk. A fourth survivor, Fedor Veriginare, died of scurvy during the six-week voyage home.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
  • 1779Samuel Huntington is elected as the seventh President of the Continental Congress.source
  • 1781American Revolution: American and French troops begin a siege of the British at Yorktown, Virginia.source
  • 1791French Revolution: The law on Jewish emancipation is promulgated in France, the first such legislation in modern Europe.source
  • 1794Austria, Britain and Russia ally against France.source
  • 1795The Alliance of St Petersburg is formed between Britain, Russia and Austria against France.source
  • 1796Empress Catherine the Great signs an agreement with Great Britain, formally joining Russia to the coalition.source
  • 1820Establishment of a unified provisional juntasource
  • 1821The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is ratified.source
  • 1823Roman Catholic Cardinal Annibale della Genga is elected Pope Leo XII.source
  • 1824John Oxley recommends a new settlement be founded at Brisbane after finding Moreton Bay unsuitable.source
  • 1827Ferdinand VII arrives in Tarragona and publishes a manifesto from the Archbishop's Palace, calling on the rebels to lay down their arms.source
  • 1829African-American abolitionist David Walker publishes his Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, in Boston, Massachusetts.source
  • 1831The first national presidential nominating convention in the United States concludes after three days as the Anti-Masonic Party selects its nominee for president in Baltimore, Maryland.source
  • 1837Samuel Morse files a caveat for a patent for the telegraph.source
  • 1844A blackdamp explosion at Haswell Colliery in the Durham Coalfield kills 95, with just four survivors.source
  • 1845Cæsar Peter Møller Boeck, dermatologist (died 1917)source
  • 1853emigrant ship Annie Jane sinks in heavy seas off Vatersay, with the loss of 350 lives.source
  • 1853Emigrant ship Annie Jane sinks in heavy seas off the Scottish island of Vatersay with the loss of 350 lives.source
  • 1854September 28 or 29 – Sloop USS Albany is lost off the coast of Venezuela with all hands.source
  • 1864The International Workingmen's Association is founded in London.source
  • 1868The Opelousas massacre, one of the bloodiest massacres of the Reconstruction era in the United States.source
  • 1871Law of Free Birth, or Rio Branco Law, passed by Brazilian Parliament, intending to provide freedom to all newborn children of slaves, and slaves of the state or crown.source
  • 1874Texas–Indian wars: U.S. Army Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie leads his force of 600 men on the successful raid of the last sanctuary of the Kiowa, Comanche and Cheyenne Indian tribes, a village inside the Palo Duro Canyon in Texas, and carries out their removal to the designated Indian reservations in Oklahoma.source
  • 1885The Saraiva-Cotegipe Law, also known as the Sexagenarian Law, is enacted, which frees slaves 60 years of age and older in the country.source
  • 1887The 1887 Yellow River flood begins in China, killing 900,000 to 2,000,000 people.source
  • 1891Club Atlético Peñarol is founded in Montevideo, under the name of the CURCC (Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club).source
  • 1893The Portuguese sports club Futebol Clube do Porto is founded.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
  • 1896Pathé Frères, a French film company and one of the oldest film companies, is founded by the brothers Charles Pathé, Théophile Pathé, Émile Pathé and Jacques Pathé.source
  • 1896Pathé Frères, one of the oldest film companies, is founded by the brothers Charles, Théophile, Émile and Jacques Pathé.source
  • 1899Prime Minister Richard Seddon asks Parliament to approve the offer to the imperial government of a contingent of mounted rifles and the raising of such a force if the offer were accepted and thus becoming the first British Colony to send troops to the Boer war. The first New Zealand Army contingent leaves for South Africa before the end of the year.source
  • 1899Austrian auto designer Ferdinand Porsche attracts worldwide attention when his first car, the Porsche P1, wins the Berlin Road Race 18 minutes ahead of the second-place finisher.source
  • 1901Philippine–American War: Balangiga massacre: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty United States soldiers in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga.source
  • 1901Essendon beats Collingwood 6.7 (43) to 2.4 (16) in the 1901 VFL grand finalsource
  • 1908the Great Musi flood kills 15,000 peoplesource
  • 1908Classes begin at Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts, established under the terms of Franklin's will.source
  • 1912W. C. Handy publishes "The Memphis Blues" in the United States.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
  • 1921Sauerländer Heimatbund is founded in Meschede, Germany.source
  • 1924U.S. Army pilots John Harding and Erik Nelson complete the first aerial circumnavigation of the globe. It has taken them 175 days and 74 stops before their return to Seattle.source
  • 1927Fatal communal riots in Dehra Dun, U.P.source
  • 1928Scottish-born microbiologist Alexander Fleming, at St Mary's Hospital, London, accidentally rediscovers the antibiotic which he will call Penicillin.source
  • 1928Scottish-born microbiologist Alexander Fleming, at St Mary's Hospital, London, accidentally rediscovers the antibiotic which he will call Penicillin.source
  • 1932The court of Helsinki sentences Vilho Kallio, Ville Saari and Ida Maria Viden to prison for the Tattarisuo mutilation case.source
  • 1933Isetan Department Store of Shinjuku, officially openssource
  • 1934Afghanistan joins the League of Nations.source
  • 1936After the election to the Swedish Riksdag's second chamber, Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp and his "Holiday Cabinet" ("Semesterregeringen") resign (though he remains as Minister of Agriculture) and Per Albin Hansson returns as Prime Minister, staying in office until his death from a heart attack in 1946.source
  • 1938As his self-imposed October 1 deadline for occupation of the Sudetenland approaches, Adolf Hitler invites Italian Duce Benito Mussolini, French Premier Édouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to one last conference in Munich. The Czechs themselves are not invited.source
  • 1940Vidkun Quisling becomes head of the German-appointed provisional councillors of state in Norway.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
  • 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 Israeli government's attempt for the Israeli ship "Bat Galim" to traverse the Suez Canal fails after the ship is arrested by the Egyptian authorities. This attempt is made after Egypt prevented other Israeli ships and foreign cargo ships headed towards Israeli ports, of passing through the Suez Canal, in violation with the terms of the Convention of Constantinople.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
  • 1958In the 1958 French constitutional referendum, a majority of 79% says yes to the constitution of the Fifth Republic.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
  • 1960Foreign Minister Manzur Qadir alleges that Afghan irregulars crossed the border into the Bajaur District, initiating the Bajaur Campaign.source
  • 19611961 Syrian coup d'état: A military coup in Damascus, Syria effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.source
  • 1965Taal Volcano in Luzon, Philippines, erupts, killing hundreds.source
  • 1965Taal Volcano erupts killing hundreds.source
  • 19691969 West German federal election: The Social Democrats, led by Vice Chancellor Willy Brandt, and the Free Democrats led by Walter Scheel, formed a coalition government with Brandt as Chancellor, after the Social Democrats severed their relationship with Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger's Christian Democratic Union.source
  • 1970Vice President Anwar Sadat is named temporary president of Egypt following the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser.source
  • 1971September 27–October 11 – Japanese Emperor Hirohito travels abroad.source
  • 1972The Canada men's national ice hockey team defeats the Soviet national ice hockey team in the eighth and final game of the 1972 Summit Series 6–5 to win the series 4–3–1.source
  • 1977A Japan Airlines Flight 472 en route from Mumbai to Tokyo was hijacked by 5 Japanese Red Army terrorists shortly after takeoff, and forced the plane to land at then Zia International Airport. The terrorists' demand of $6 million and release of 6 JRA terrorists from Japanese prison was met by the Japanese Prime Minister. Bangladesh Air Force was deployed to control the situation in the ground and to facilitate negotiationssource
  • 1977The Porsche 928 debuts at the Geneva Motor Show.source
  • 1978one of the last Forest Brother guerilla movement fighter August Sabbe was 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
  • 1986The Democratic Progressive Party is founded. It was part of the Tangwai movement in the new generation to challenge Kuomintang in Taiwan's one-party politics, and is currently one of only two parties to win presidential elections in Taiwan.source
  • 1989The Parliament of Greece indicted former Prime Minister of Greece Andreas Papandreou and four of his ministers in connection to the Koskotas scandal.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
  • 1992Law enforcement officials in the United States, Colombia and Italy announce that they have arrested more than 165 people on money laundering charges related to cocaine trafficking.source
  • 1992Pakistan International Airlines Flight 268 crashes into a mountain while on approach to Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. All 167 occupants on board were killed. The crash of PIA Flight 268 occurred just 2 months after Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashed into a mountain near Kathmandu under similar circumstances, killing all 113 occupants on board.source
  • 1992Pakistan International Airlines Flight 268, an Airbus A300B4-203, crashes into the southern slope of the Chure Hills on approach to Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, killing all 167 passengers and crew.source
  • 1994The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.source
  • 1994Sinking of the MS Estonia: the car ferry MS Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea, killing 852.source
  • 1995The Oslo II Accord is officially signed at a public ceremony in Washington, DC by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and witnessed by US President Bill Clinton, which includes provision for the transfer of control of Bethlehem, Jenin, Nablus, Qalqilya, Ramallah, Tulkarm and some 450 villages to the Palestinian Authority.source
  • 1995September 27–28 – Bob Denard's mercenaries capture President Said Mohamed Djohar of the Comoros; the local army does not resist.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
  • 1998a TACV de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter (registered D4-CAX) crash-landed at Francisco Mendes International Airport in Praia, killing onesource
  • 2000Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visits the Temple Mount in East Jerusalem, sparking an uprising that becomes the Second Intifada.source
  • 2002September 21–October 4 – Hurricane Lili crosses Cuba and several other Caribbean islands before making landfall in Louisiana.source
  • 2006Typhoon Xangsane passed Manila on its way to causing more than 300 deaths, mostly in the Philippines and Vietnam.source
  • 2008SpaceX Falcon 1 becomes the world's first privately developed space launch vehicle to successfully make orbit.source
  • 2009At least 157 demonstrators are massacred by the Guinean military at the Stade du 28 Septembre during a protest against the government that came to power in a coup d'état the previous year.source
  • 2013Voters in Guinea go to the polls for a legislative election.source
  • 2014Hong Kong protests: Benny Tai Yiu-ting announces that Occupy Central is launched as Hong Kong's government headquarters is being occupied by thousands of protesters. Hong Kong police resort to tear gas to disperse protesters but thousands remain.source
  • 2014A Buddhist monk accused of inciting violence against Muslims in Burma says he is joining forces with the Bodu Bala Sena group in Sri Lanka in order to combat a "serious threat from jihadist groups".source
  • 2015NASA announces that liquid water has been found on Mars.source
  • 2016International investigators conclude that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by a Buk missile that came from an area controlled by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine.source
  • 2016Global CO2 levels exceed 400 ppm at the time of year normally associated with minimum levels. A 400 ppm level is believed to be higher than anything experienced in human history.source
  • 2018A magnitude 7.5 earthquake hits Sulawesi, Indonesia, causing a tsunami that kills at least 4,340 people and injures more than 10,679 others.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
  • 2023The landmark Sycamore Gap Tree, beside Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, is illegally felled. A 16-year-old boy is subsequently arrested on suspicion of criminal damage.source
  • 20252025 Moldovan parliamentary election: Incumbent pro-European party PAS wins reelection, forming another majority government.source

Births

  • 551 BCEConfucius, Chinese philosopher (died 479 BC)source
  • 616Javanshir, king of Caucasian Albania (died 680)source
  • 1055Uicheon, Korean Buddhist monk (died 1101)source
  • 1286Shōshi, Japanese empress consort (died 1348)source
  • 1511Matsudaira Kiyoyasu, Japanese daimyo (died 1535)source
  • 1544September 28 or September 29 – Giovanni de' Medici, Italian Catholic cardinal (died 1562)source
  • 1555Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, duc de Bouillon, Marshal of France (died 1623)source
  • 1555Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, duc de Bouillon, Marshal of France (died 1623)source
  • 1564Sibylla of Anhalt, Duchess consort of Württemberg (1593-1608) (died 1614)source
  • 1565Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet and writer (died 1635)source
  • 1573Théodore de Mayerne, Swiss physician (died 1654)source
  • 1597Justus Sustermans, Flemish painter (died 1681)source
  • 1605Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer (died 1694)source
  • 1605Ismaël Bullialdus, astronomer and mathematician (died 1694)source
  • 1626Elizabeth Maitland, Duchess of Lauderdale, influential British noblewoman (died 1698)source
  • 1667Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (died 1701)source
  • 1673Abraham Kløcker, merchant (died 1730)source
  • 1681Johann Mattheson, German composer (died 1764)source
  • 1681Sir Richard Vyvyan, 3rd Baronet, Cornish Jacobite (died 1736)source
  • 1705Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English statesman (died 1774)source
  • 1717William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British diplomat and statesman (died 1781)source
  • 1735Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1811)source
  • 1746Sir William Jones, English philologist (died 1794)source
  • 1746William Jones, philologist (died 1794)source
  • 1803Prosper Mérimée, French writer (died 1870)source
  • 1821Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, African-American minister, politician (died 1874)source
  • 1841Georges Clemenceau, French statesman (died 1929)source
  • 1852John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, British field marshal, commander of the British Expeditionary Force in World War I (died 1925)source
  • 1863Carlos I of Portugal, king (died 1908).source
  • 1887Avery Brundage, American sports official, 5th President of the International Olympic Committee (died 1975)source
  • 1909Al Capp, American cartoonist (died 1979)source
  • 1910Diosdado Macapagal, 9th President of the Philippines (died 1997)source
  • 1918Willi Ritschard, politician (died 1983)source
  • 1929Lata Mangeshkar, Indian singer (died 2022)source
  • 1929Nikolai Ryzhkov, politician (died 2024)source
  • 1934Brigitte Bardot, French actress, animal rights activist (died 2025)source
  • 1947Sheikh Hasina, 10th Prime Minister of Bangladeshsource
  • 1968Mika Häkkinen, Finnish double Formula 1 world championsource
  • 1976Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial arts fightersource
  • 1987Hilary Duff, American actress, businesswoman, singer, songwriter, producer, and writersource
  • 2005Sienna Spiro, English singer-songwriter and record producersource

Deaths

  • 48 BCEPompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of King Ptolemy XIII, after landing in Egypt (may have occurred September 29, records unclear).source
  • 48 BCEPompey (the Great), Roman politician (born 106 BC)source
  • 351Flavius Romulus, Roman consulsource
  • 782Leoba, Anglo-Saxon nunsource
  • 935September 28 (probable year) – Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (the subject of the 1853 Christmas carol "Good King Wenceslas") is murdered by a group of nobles led by his brother Boleslaus I ("the Cruel"), who succeeds him.source
  • 935Wenceslaus I, duke of Bohemia (born c. 907), assassinatedsource
  • 980Minamoto no Hiromasa, Japanese nobleman (born 918)source
  • 1057Otto III, duke of Swabiasource
  • 1088Hermann of Salm, German noblemansource
  • 1197Henry VI dies of malaria at Messina (also possibly poisoned), while preparing an expedition against the Byzantine usurper Alexios III Angelos.source
  • 1197Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1165)source
  • 1213Gertrude of Merania, queen consort regent of Hungary (murdered) (born 1185)source
  • 1238Jeanne des Roches, French baronesssource
  • 1274September 26–29 – Henry I Kőszegi ("the Great"), Hungarian nobleman (born 1210)source
  • 1330Elizabeth of Bohemia, queen consort of Bohemia (born 1292)source
  • 1429Cymburgis of Masovia, Duchess of Austria by marriage to Duke Ernest the Iron of Inner Austria (born 1394)source
  • 1433Přemek I, Duke of Opava (born c.1365)source
  • 1496Boček IV of Poděbrady, Bohemian nobleman, eldest son of King George of Podebrady (born 1442)source
  • 1538Mary of Bourbon, daughter of Charles, Duke of Vendôme (born 1515)source
  • 1582George Buchanan, Scottish humanist scholar (born 1506)source
  • 1582George Buchanan, Scottish historian (born 1506)source
  • 1654Jérôme Duquesnoy the Younger (born 1602), sculptorsource
  • 1702Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, English statesman (born 1641)source
  • 1776Cadwallader Colden, physician (born 1688)source
  • 1781William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British diplomat, statesman (born 1717)source
  • 1783Marguerite Gourdan, French procurer (born c. 1730)source
  • 1790Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy, Hungarian prince (born 1714)source
  • 1820Pedro Andrés del Alcázar (born 1752)source
  • 1829David Gillespie, American surveyor and politician (born 1774)source
  • 1891Herman Melville, American novelist (born 1819)source
  • 1895Louis Pasteur, French microbiologist, chemist (born 1822)source
  • 1915Saitō Hajime, samurai of the late Edo period, captain of the third unit of the Shinsengumi (born 1844)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
  • 1958Fernando Rios, a Mexican tour guide in New Orleans, dies from injuries suffered in an incident of gay bashing.source
  • 1970Gamal Abdel Nasser, 31st Prime Minister of Egypt and 2nd President of Egypt (born 1918)source
  • 1978Pope John Paul I dies after only 33 days as the Roman Catholic Pontiff.source
  • 1989Ferdinand Marcos, 72, Filipino dictator, politician and statesman, President of the Philippines, cardiac arrest.source
  • 1991Miles Davis, 65, American jazz musician, intracerebral hemorrhage.source
  • 1993Galina Makarova, actress (born 1919)source
  • 2000Pierre Trudeau, 80, Prime Minister of Canada, prostate cancer and Parkinson's disease.source
  • 2019September 19 – 30 Afghan nut farmers are killed and 40 injured in a U.S. drone attack in Nangarhar Province.source