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September 30 in history

213 sourced entries recorded on September 30, from 420 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 489Battle of Verona: Odoacer is defeated again by Theodoric for a second time. He retreats to the impregnable capital of Ravenna.source
  • 737Battle of the Baggage: The Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, pursue them south of the River Oxus (northern Afghanistan), and capture their baggage train. In the winter, the Turgesh and their Transoxianan allies launch a major counter-invasion but are halted and their army is destroyed. Khuttal is then conquered by the Arabs.source
  • 1139A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes the Caucasus mountains in the Seljuk Empire, causing great devastation and killing 300,000 people.source
  • 1174The Revolt of 1173–1174: After a year and a half of rebellion, Henry II achieves peace agreements with his sons Henry the Young King, Richard, Geoffrey, and John at Montlouis, on the basis of the pre-war status quo. Before he returns to Normandy, Henry orders the rebel castles in England and Aquitaine to be destroyed.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
  • 1246Yaroslav II, father of Alexander Nevsky, is poisoned by Töregene Khatun, after he is summoned by Güyük Khan in Karakorum.source
  • 133230 September John Darcy reappointed justicier (see 13 February 1333)source
  • 1345Justicier captures Askeaton.source
  • 1382The inhabitants of Trieste (now in northern Italy) donate their city to Duke Leopold III of Austria.source
  • 1389King Charles VI of France and the Bishop Liébauld de Cousans of Verdun sign a treaty granting the Roman Catholic Church dominion over the city of Verdun. The treaty is approved five months later by Pope Clement VI on February 13, 1390.source
  • 1399King Richard II of England surrenders his crown to Henry Bolingbroke at an assembly of the House of Lords at Westminster Hall in London, where articles of desposition are read to him by the Archbishop of Canterbury. King Richard abdicates, and the Lords proclaim Bolingbroke as King Henry IV.source
  • 1402The new session of the English Parliament is opened by King Henry IV and lasts for almost two months.source
  • 1432A delegation from Poland, led by the Bishop of Kraków, Cardinal Zbigniew Oleśnicki, arrives in Vilnius and brings a message Grand Duke Sigismund that King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland recognizes Sigismund as Lithuania's ruler, for life.source
  • 1437A Moroccan relief force of at least 10,000 cavalry and 90,000 foot soldiers arrives at Tangier to halt Portugal's assault on Tangier.source
  • 1448Leonardo III Tocco becomes the new ruler of Epirus upon the death of his father Carlo II Tocco.source
  • 1453Pope Nicholas V issues a crusading bull against the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1461Pembroke Castle in Wales is surrendered to William Herbert, who has been sent by England's King Edward IV to remove Jasper Tudor, uncle of the recently deposed King Henry VII. At the same time, Lord Herbert becomes the guardian of the four-year old Prince Henry Tudor, who will later become King Henry VII of England.source
  • 1465In what is now the state of Rajasthan in northwest India, Prince Rao Bika departs from Jodhpur with 600 soldiers to conquer the territory of Jangladesh.source
  • 1473The Trier Conference begins in the German city of Trier as Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor and Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy make a grand entry into the city of Trier for a meeting of central European leaders to respond to the threat of an invasion by the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1473The Earl of Oxford, John de Vere, seizes St Michael's Mount in Cornwall and defends it for the next five months against 6,000 troops of King Edward IV.source
  • 1497The Treaty of Ayton establishes a seven-year peace between England and Scotland.source
  • 1513A major rock avalanche occurs in the Southern side of the Swiss Alps at Monte Crenone, which destroys the village of Biasca, floods Bellinzona, and forms a lake of 390 m.a.s.l.source
  • 1568John III is declared King.source
  • 1571September 30 (12th day of 9th month of Genki) – In Japan, the Siege of Mount Hiei is carried out by Oda Nobunaga at Ōmi Province (now the Shiga Prefecture). After Nobunaga's 30,000 troops overwhelm the monks of the 4,000 warriors of the Sōhei, Nobunaga orders the massacre of more than 1,500 survivors.source
  • 1581In Japan, warlord Oda Nobunaga invades the Iga Province. With 42,000 troops under his command against 10,000 defenders led by Takino Jurobei, Nobunaga controls most of central Japan within eight days.source
  • 1602The siege of Weissenstein, a Swedish town that is now Paide in Estonia, ends after four months with a victory of 2,000 Polish and Lithuanian troops commanded by Jan Zamoyski, the Great Crown Hetman of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.source
  • 1627The reign of China's 21-year old ruler, the Ming dynasty Tianqi Emperor, Zhu Youjiao, ends after seven years.source
  • 1649The last of Sweden's troops vacate Prague.source
  • 1655September 20 – September 30 - Battle of Nowy Dwór Mazowieckisource
  • 1659Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherland forbids tennis playing during religious services, marking the first mention of tennis in what will become the United States.source
  • 1680Robert Boyle, having rediscovered the process of manufacturing phosphorus from bone ash, deposits his summary of the directions with The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge. Boyle's assistant, Ambrose Godfrey, later develops Boyle's discovery to produce phosphorus commercially.source
  • 1681France annexes the city of Strasbourg (German: Strassburg), previously a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire.source
  • 1681France annexes the city of Strasbourg, previously a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire.source
  • 1686The Ottoman fortress of Sinj in Dalmatia falls to the army of the Republic of Venice.source
  • 169530 September–25 October – an attempt is made in the Irish House of Commons (largely at the instigation of Rochfort) to impeach Charles Porter (Lord Chancellor of Ireland) for his conduct in office. He is acquitted following a speech made in his own defence.source
  • 1699Frederik Gabel is appointed Vice Steward of Norway.source
  • 1702War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Cádiz – A month-long Anglo-Dutch amphibious operation under English Admiral Sir George Rooke fails to take the Spanish port.source
  • 1707War of the Spanish Succession: the conquest by Austrian troops, of the Italian peninsula city state of Gaeta, is accomplished after a three-month siege led by General Wirich Philipp von Daun.source
  • 1710John Ellis becomes Rector of Llandwrog and is made a canon of Bangor Cathedral.source
  • 1720"South Sea Bubble": The English stock market crashes, with dropping prices for stock in the South Sea Company.source
  • 1731The village of Barnwell, Cambridgeshire, England, is "burned down entirely" by a fire.source
  • 1731the village of Barnwell, Cambridgeshire, is "burned down entirely" by a fire.source
  • 1736The Lebanese Council of 1736 begins, a major turning point in the reform of the Maronite Church. In the following three days, the assembled Maronite and Latin clergy presided by Yusuf ibn Siman as-Simani discuss various reforms and elaborate rules and canons.source
  • 1744Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo: France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia.source
  • 1744Battle of Madonna dell'Olmosource
  • 1745Battle of Soor (Second Silesian War): Frederick the Great's Prussian army is victorious over the forces of Austria and Saxony.source
  • 1750Crispus Attucks, an enslaved African-American who will later become the first person killed in the Boston Massacre of 1770, escapes from the Framingham, Massachusetts estate of slaveowner William Brown. In an unsuccessful attempt to recapture the fugitive, Brown runs an advertisement on October 2 in the Boston Gazette, but Attucks eludes recapture.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
  • 1771Bath Assembly Rooms completed.source
  • 1777American Revolutionary War – The Sixth Continental Congress opens its session at York, Pennsylvania, and continues for 272 days until June 27, 1778.source
  • 1782The Royal Swedish Opera relocates from Bollhuset to a new modern opera house, which is inaugurated with Cora och Alonzo by Johann Gottlieb Naumann.source
  • 1790Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor starts to rule.source
  • 1791Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's singspiel opera The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) premières at the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna with Mozart conducting.source
  • 1792Chickamauga Cherokee launch an attack on Middle Tennessee to exterminate the White settlers; they are stopped at the opening battle at Buchanan's Station outside Nashboro.source
  • 1797Dominique-Vincent Ramel-Nogaret, French finance minister, repudiates two thirds of France's debt.source
  • 1799Suvorov's Swiss campaign: Battle of Muottental – the rout of Masséna's French troops by Suvorov's army.source
  • 1800The Convention of 1800, or Treaty of Mortefontaine, is signed between France and the United States of America, ending the Quasi-War.source
  • 1801The Treaty of London is signed for preliminary peace between the French First Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.source
  • 1813Sir Jeremiah Homfray is forced to sell his house at Cwm Rhondda to settle his debts.source
  • 1817national fever committee appointed to distribute government relief to victims of the typhus epidemic (October 1816–December 1819).source
  • 1823Cádiz surrenders to the French and Ferdinand VII of Spain is restored to his throne, immediately repealing the liberal Spanish Constitution of 1812. Despite French advice, he begins an era of repression against his opponents known as the Ominous Decade.source
  • 1825The U.S. Senate ratifies treaties with the Pawnee tribe.source
  • 1827Greek War of Independence: Battle of Itea, a naval battle fought in the Gulf of Corinth.source
  • 1840The French frigate Belle Poule arrives in Cherbourg, bringing back the remains of Napoleon from Saint Helena to France.source
  • 1840The frigate Belle Poule arrives in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, returning the remains of Napoleon from Saint Helena. He is buried in Les Invalides.source
  • 1851HSwMS Eugenie leaves from Karlskrona, Sweden to begin its voyage as the first Swedish Royal Navy vessel to circumnavigate the world.source
  • 1851HSwMS Eugenie leaves from Karlskrona, Sweden to begin its voyage as the first Swedish Royal Navy vessel to circumnavigate the world.source
  • 1862Otto von Bismarck gives the speech named Blood and Iron in Berlin.source
  • 1863Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles debuts, at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.source
  • 1867The United States takes control of Midway Island.source
  • 1878The ship Priscilla arrives in Hawaii from Funchal, Madeira, marking the beginning of the Portuguese immigration to the Hawaiian Islands (1878–1913).source
  • 1878Great Flood of 1878, caused by the rapid melting of heavy winter snows in Central Otago, kills at least three people and destroys several bridges in Clutha and Southland.source
  • 1880HDMS Tordenskjold is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen.source
  • 1880Amateur astronomer Henry Draper takes the first ever photograph of the Orion Nebula.source
  • 1883Mossoró, in the province of Rio Grande do Norte, is the first city in Brazil to abolish slavery.source
  • 1885A British force abolishes the Boer republic of Stellaland, and adds it to British Bechuanaland.source
  • 1888Whitechapel murders: The bodies of London prostitutes Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes, the latter mutilated, are found. They are generally considered Jack the Ripper's third and fourth victims, respectively.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
  • 1896Italy and France sign a treaty whereby Italy virtually recognizes Tunisia as a French dependency.source
  • 1896August 1897: Lock-out of Welsh slate workers at Penrhyn Quarry.source
  • 1899The 1899 Ceram earthquake kills 3,864 people on Seram Island, through a tsunami after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake. The villages of Paulohy-Samasuru and Mani, with a combined population of 2,400 people, are swept away by a 29 foot wave.source
  • 1906The first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team, piloting the balloon United States, lands in Fylingdales, Yorkshire, England.source
  • 1910The King Edward VII National Memorial Association begins its campaign to eradicate tuberculosis in Wales.source
  • 1915WWI: Serbian Army private Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft, with ground-to-air fire.source
  • 1916Construction is completed on the Hell Gate Bridge in New York City.source
  • 1916September 29-October 5 – Flămânda Offensivesource
  • 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
  • 1918All workers in major banks in Zürich walk out in protest over salaries and the rising cost of living.source
  • 1923Küstrin Putsch: Outside Berlin, Major Ernst Buchrucker, a leader of the Black Reichswehr, attempts a putsch by seizing several forts.source
  • 1929Fritz von Opel pilots the first rocket-powered aircraft, the Opel RAK.1, in front of a large crowd in Frankfurt am Main.source
  • 1935The London and North Eastern Railway commences the Silver Jubilee, Britain's first streamline train service.source
  • 1935U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Hoover Dam.source
  • 1937Hedy Lamarr, an Austrian-born actress of Jewish descent, arrives in New York City to flee from her possessive husband, Friedrich Mandl, who made arms agreements with the Nazis, and to begin her Hollywood career.source
  • 1938Munich Agreement is signed by France, Germany, Britain and Italy permitting German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.source
  • 1939General Władysław Sikorski becomes Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile.source
  • 1939Identity cards introduced.source
  • 1940September 30 (night to October 1) – Arsonists from the Hitler Youth destroy the Great Synagogue of Strasbourg.source
  • 1941September 29–30 – The Holocaust: Babi Yar massacre – German troops, assisted by Ukrainian police and local collaborators, kill 33,771 Jews in Kyiv.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
  • 1943Pope Pius XII issues the encyclical Divino afflante Spiritu calling for Catholic scholars to produce new Bible translations based on the source languages.source
  • 1943Thore Langfeldt, psychologist and sexologistsource
  • 1947Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.source
  • 1951Charlotte Whitton becomes mayor of Ottawa and Canada's first woman mayor of a major city.source
  • 1952The Revised Standard Version of the Bible is published in the United States.source
  • 1954The USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine in the world, is commissioned into the United States Navy.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
  • 1957Last day of operation of 97 miles (155 km) of railway in Northern Ireland (Great Northern Railway (Ireland) branches and the entire Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway) following government instructions. Fermanagh loses all its lines.source
  • 1958The U.S.S.R. performs a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya.source
  • 1959Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev meets Mao Zedong in Beijing.source
  • 1960The Flintstones premieres on ABC.source
  • 1961The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is formed to replace the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC).source
  • 1965The Indonesian army, led by General Suharto, crushes an alleged communist coup attempt (see Transition to the New Order and 30 September Movement).source
  • 1965The classic family sci-fi show Thunderbirds debuts on ITV in the United Kingdom.source
  • 1966The Bechuanaland Protectorate in Africa achieves independence from the United Kingdom as Botswana, with Seretse Khama as its first President.source
  • 1966Baldur von Schirach and Albert Speer are released from Spandau Prison in West Berlin.source
  • 1967In the United Kingdom, BBC Radio completely restructures its national programming: the Light Programme is split between new national pop station Radio 1 (modelled on the successful pirate station Radio London) and Radio 2; the cultural Third Programme is rebranded as Radio 3; and the primarily-talk Home Service becomes Radio 4.source
  • 1969The government sets up a temporary Environmental Committee.source
  • 1971September 27–October 11 – Japanese Emperor Hirohito travels abroad.source
  • 1971U.S Steel Tower opens in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.source
  • 1972September 30-October 7: Hurricane Joannesource
  • 1975The Hughes Helicopters (later McDonnell-Douglas and Boeing IDS) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.source
  • 1975(US time) Home Box Office becomes the first pay television network to deliver a continuous signal via satellite by broadcasting the "Thrilla in Manila" boxing match live.source
  • 1978Finnair Flight 405 aircraft is hijacked by Aarno Lamminparras in Oulu, Finland.source
  • 1978Finnair Flight 405 aircraft is hijacked by Aarno Lamminparras in Oulu, Finland.source
  • 1979The MTR in Hong Kong begins service with the opening of its Modified Initial System, the Kwun Tong Line.source
  • 1980Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel and Xerox introduce the DIX standard for Ethernet, which is the first implementation outside of Xerox and the first to support 10 Mbit/s speeds.source
  • 1981The International Olympic Committee awards the 1988 Summer Olympics to the city of Seoul, South Korea.source
  • 1989Nearly 7,000 East Germans who had come to Prague are allowed to leave for the West on special refugee trains.source
  • 1990September 29–30 – The United Nations World Summit for Children draws more than 70 world leaders to United Nations Headquarters.source
  • 1990The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible is officially introduced.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
  • 1991A tornado destroys parts of Itu, a city in southeastern Brazil, killing 16 and leaving 176 injured.source
  • 1993Latur earthquake: A 6.2 Mw earthquake occurs in the vicinity of Maharashtra, India having a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.source
  • 1996September 30 – October 4: Hurricane Hernansource
  • 1999The 50 Fillér coin is removed from circulationsource
  • 2002ElderShield is launched as an insurance plan for those with severe disabilities. It will pay S$300 over 5 years.source
  • 2002September 21–October 4 – Hurricane Lili crosses Cuba and several other Caribbean islands before making landfall in Louisiana.source
  • 2004Israel launches a military offensive in the northern Gaza Strip.source
  • 2004Painkiller Vioxx is pulled from the market due to a potential doubling of heart attack risk.source
  • 2005Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, sparking outrage and violent riots by Muslims around the world.source
  • 2006The collapse of the Gusau Dam kills six people in Zamfara.source
  • 2007A dormant volcano erupts on Jabal al-Tair Island, a Yemeni island in the Red Sea.source
  • 2009A 7.6 Mw earthquake strikes Sumatra, Indonesia, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving at least 1,115 people dead.source
  • 2015Russia begins air strikes against ISIL and anti-government forces in Syria, in support of the Syrian government.source
  • 2016Two paintings by Vincent van Gogh with a combined value of $100 million, Seascape at Scheveningen and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen, are recovered after having been stolen on December 7, 2002, from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.source
  • 2019The Republic of Ireland promises to plant 440 million trees in twenty years to combat climate change.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
  • 20232023 Slovak parliamentary election: Smer, under the leadership of former prime minister Robert Fico, wins a plurality of seats in the National Council.source
  • 2024The UK becomes the first G7 country to phase out coal power for electric generation, after 142 years of using the energy source.source
  • 2024A minibus plunges into a river near Kissidougou, killing 13 people.source
  • 2025A Mw 6.9 earthquake shakes the island of Cebu in the Philippines, leaving 71 people dead and 559 injured.source

Births

  • 1147Guang Zong, Chinese emperor (died 1200)source
  • 1207Rumi, Persian scholar and mystic (died 1273)source
  • 1227Nicholas IV, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1292)source
  • 1404Anne of Burgundy (died 1432)source
  • 1530Geronimo Mercuriale, Italian philologist and physician (died 1606)source
  • 1550Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (died 1631)source
  • 1563Enno III, Count of East Frisia, Count of Ostfriesland from 1599 to 1625 from the Cirksena family (died 1625)source
  • 1572Denis-Simon de Marquemont, Cardinal and archbishop (died 1626)source
  • 1710John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (died 1771)source
  • 1714Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French academic (died 1780)source
  • 1732Jacques Necker, French politician (died 1804)source
  • 1765José María Morelos, leader of Mexican War of Independence (died 1815)source
  • 180430 September (in England): Willoughby Shortland, colonial administratorsource
  • 1811Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German empress (died 1890)source
  • 1832Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, British Victorian era general (died 1914)source
  • 1832Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, commander of British troops in the Second Boer War, is born in Cawnpore, Indiasource
  • 1852Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, resident in England (died 1924)source
  • 1918Gevorg Emin, poet, essayist and translatorsource
  • 1924Truman Capote, American author (died 1984)source
  • 1975Marion Cotillard, French actress, singer, songwriter, and musiciansource
  • 1987Elanne Kong, actress and singersource
  • 2008Luka Jordy Hodak – footballer.source

Deaths

  • 420Saint Jerome, priest and translator of the Biblesource
  • 653Honorius, archbishop of Canterburysource
  • 940Fan Yanguang, Chinese generalsource
  • 1148Magnús Einarsson, Icelandic bishopsource
  • 1149Arnaud de Lévezou, French archbishopsource
  • 1184Arnold of Torroja, Catalan Grand Mastersource
  • 1204September 30 or November 30 – Emeric, King of Hungary (born 1174)source
  • 1246Yaroslav II, Kievan Grand Prince (born 1191)source
  • 1267John, Count of Chalon, French noble (born 1190)source
  • 1273Arsenios Autoreianos, Byzantine patriarchsource
  • 1288Leszek II (the Black), Polish nobleman (born 1241)source
  • 1349Richard Rolle, English religious writer (born c.1300)source
  • 1376Adelaide of Vianden, German countesssource
  • 1440Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, English soldier and politiciansource
  • 1487John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1400)source
  • 1506Beatrice, Duchess of Viseu, Portuguese infante (born 1430)source
  • 1527Donnchadh mac Eoghan Ó Duinnshléibhe, Irish physician.source
  • 1551Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (born 1507)source
  • 1551(1st day of 9th month of Tenbun 21) Tainei-ji incident: A coup in Yamaguchi, by the military establishment of the Ōuchi clan, forces their lord Ōuchi Yoshitaka to commit suicide, and the city is burned.source
  • 1626Nurhaci, chief of the Jurchens and founder of the Qing dynasty, dies and is succeeded by his son Hong Taiji.source
  • 1626Nurhaci, Chinese chieftain (born 1559)source
  • 1628Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English writer (born 1554)source
  • 1640Charles, Duke of Guise (born 1571)source
  • 1693Bankei Yōtaku, Japanese Zen buddhist monk (born 1622)source
  • 1770George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (born 1714)source
  • 1772James Brindley, English canal builder (born 1716)source
  • 1772Jean-Louis Le Loutre, priest, Spiritan, and missionary (born 1709)source
  • 1860Juan Rafael Mora Porrassource
  • 1869Francisco Luís Gomes, physician, writer, historian, economist, political scientist and MP (born 1829)source
  • 1888Catherine Eddowes, victim of Jack the Ripper (born 1842)source
  • 1897Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, French Roman Catholic and Discalced Carmelite nun, saint (born 1873)source
  • 1919Elaine massacre: An estimated 100 to 800 African Americans are killed in Elaine, Arkansas, by white mobs and vigilante militias assisted by federal troops in "the deadliest racial confrontation in Arkansas history and possibly the bloodiest racial conflict in the history of the United States".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
  • 1942Hans-Joachim Marseille, German World War II fighter ace (born 1919)source
  • 1948Edith Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (born 1861)source
  • 1955James Dean, American actor (born 1931)source
  • 1955Actor James Dean is killed when his automobile collides with another car at a highway junction, near Cholame, California.source
  • 1960St John Philby, Ceylonese-born British Arabist (born 1885)source
  • 2019September 19 – 30 Afghan nut farmers are killed and 40 injured in a U.S. drone attack in Nangarhar Province.source