September 22

September 22 is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 100 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

Pre-1600

904 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.^[1]
1236 – The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.^[2]
1499 – The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War.^[3]
1586 – Eighty Years' War: A Spanish force led by the Marquis del Vasto successfully fights its way past a joint English/Dutch ambush in the Battle of Zutphen.^[4]

1601–1900

1692 – Martha Corey, Mary Eastey, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, Ann Pudeator, Wilmot Redd, Margaret Scott, and Samuel Wardwell are hanged, the last of those to be executed in the Salem witch trials.^[5]
1711 – The first attacks of the Tuscarora War begin in present-day North Carolina.^[6]
1761 – George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.^[7]
1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.^[8]
1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
1789 – Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.
1792 – Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
1823 – Joseph Smith claims to have found the golden plates after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
1857 – The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
1862 – A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln.^[9]
1866 – The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War.
1885 – Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
1891 – The first hydropower plant of Finland is commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa.^[10]^[11]
1892 – A locomotive shunting falls into a hole in the ground, leading to the burial of the locomotive.
1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history (later surpassed by her great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth II on 9 September 2015).Cite error: The <ref> tag name cannot be a simple integer (see the help page).

1901–present

1910 – The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.^[12]
1914 – A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1,500 sailors.
1919 – The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
1934 – The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.
1939 – World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.
1941 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
1948 – Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.^[13]
1948 – Israeli-Palestine conflict: The All-Palestine Government is established by the Arab League.^[14]
1953 – The Four Level Interchange, first stack interchange in the world opened in Los Angeles.^[15]
1957 – In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
1960 – The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire.
1966 – Twenty-four people are killed when Ansett-ANA Flight 149 crashes in Winton, Queensland, Australia.^[16]
1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.
1979 – A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.
1980 – Iraq invades Iran, sparking the nearly eight year Iran–Iraq War.
1981 – During a military exercise, a Turkish Air Force Northrop F-5 crashes in Babaeski as a result of pilot error, killing one crew member and also 65 soldiers on the ground.^[17]^[18]
1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.
1993 – A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.
1993 – A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
1995 – An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
1995 – The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.^[19]
2006 – Twenty-three people were killed in a maglev train collision in Lathen, Germany.^[20]
2013 – At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.^[21]

Births

Pre-1600

1013 – Richeza of Poland, Queen of Hungary (d. 1075)
1211 – Ibn Khallikan, Iraqi scholar and judge (d. 1282)
1373 – Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (d. 1400)
1515 – Anne of Cleves, Queen consort of England (d. 1557)^[22]
1547 – Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet (d. 1590)
1593 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss-German engraver and cartographer (d. 1650)

1601–1900

1601 – Anne of Austria, Queen and regent of France (d. 1666)^[23]
1606 – Li Zicheng, Chinese emperor (d. 1645)
1680 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)
1694 – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1773)
1715 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French mineralogist and botanist (d. 1786)
1741 – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist (d. 1811)
1743 – Quintin Craufurd, Scottish author (d. 1819)
1762 – Elizabeth Simcoe, English-Canadian painter and author (d. 1850)
1765 – Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1822)
1788 – Theodore Hook, English composer and educator (d. 1841)
1791 – Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (d. 1867)
1806 – Bernardino António Gomes, Portuguese physician and naturalist (d. 1877)^[24]
1819 – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian and academic (d. 1897)
1829 – Tự Đức, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1883)
1833 – Stephen D. Lee, American general and academic (d. 1908)
1835 – Alexander Potebnja, Ukrainian linguist and philosopher (d. 1891)
1841 – Andrejs Pumpurs, Latvian soldier and poet (d. 1902)
1862 – Anastasios Charalambis, Greek lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1949)
1868 – Louise McKinney, Canadian educator and politician (d. 1931)
1870 – Charlotte Cooper, English-Scottish tennis player (d. 1966)
1870 – Arthur Pryor, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1942)
1875 – Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Lithuanian painter and composer (d. 1911)
1876 – André Tardieu, French journalist and politician, 67th Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
1878 – Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese politician and diplomat, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967)^[25]^[26]
1880 – Christabel Pankhurst, English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (d. 1958)
1882 – Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (d. 1946)
1883 – Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (d. 1932)
1883 – Frank George Woollard, English engineer (d. 1957)
1885 – Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect and academic, designed the Stockholm Public Library (d. 1940)
1885 – Ben Chifley, Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1951)
1885 – Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1957)
1887 – Bhaurao Patil, Indian educator and activist (d. 1959)
1889 – Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (d. 1963)
1891 – Alma Thomas, American painter and educator (d. 1978)
1892 – Billy West, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1975)
1894 – Elisabeth Rethberg, German soprano (d. 1976)
1895 – Paul Muni, Ukrainian-born American actor (d. 1967)
1896 – Uri Zvi Greenberg, Ukrainian-Israeli poet and journalist (d. 1981)
1896 – Henry Segrave, American-English race car driver (d. 1930)
1899 – Elsie Allen, Native American Pomo basket weaver (d. 1990)^[27]
1900 – Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and engineer (d. 1985)
1900 – William Spratling, American-Mexican silversmith and educator (d. 1967)

1901–present

1901 – Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (d. 1932)
1901 – Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
1902 – John Houseman, Romanian-American actor and producer (d. 1988)
1905 – Haakon Lie, Norwegian lawyer and politician (d. 2009)
1905 – Eugen Sänger, Czech-Austrian engineer (d. 1964)
1906 – Ilse Koch, German war criminal (d. 1967)^[28]
1907 – Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and author (d. 2003)
1907 – Philip Fotheringham-Parker, English race car driver (d. 1981)
1907 – Hermann Schlichting, German engineer and academic (d. 1982)
1908 – Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American author and illustrator (d. 2002)
1909 – John Engstead, American photographer and journalist (d. 1983)
1909 – Allan Lane, American actor (d. 1973)^[29]
1910 – György Faludy, Hungarian poet and author (d. 2006)
1912 – Herbert Mataré, German physicist and academic (d. 2011)
1912 – Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003)
1913 – Lillian Chestney, American painter and illustrator (d. 2000)
1915 – Grigory Frid, Russian pianist and composer (d. 2012)
1918 – Hans Scholl, German activist (d. 1943)
1918 – Henryk Szeryng, Mexican violinist and educator (d. 1988)
1920 – Eric Baker, English activist, co-founded Amnesty International (d. 1976)^[29]
1920 – Anders Lassen, Danish-English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1945)
1920 – Bob Lemon, American baseball player and manager (d. 2000)^[29]
1920 – William H. Riker, American political scientist and academic (d. 1993)
1921 – Will Elder, American illustrator (d. 2008)
1922 – David Sive, American environmentalist and lawyer (d. 2014)
1923 – Dannie Abse, Welsh physician, poet, and author (d. 2014)
1924 – Bernard Gauthier, French cyclist (d. 2018)
1924 – Charles Keeping, English author and illustrator (d. 1988)
1924 – Rosamunde Pilcher, English author (d. 2019)^[30]
1924 – Charles Waterhouse, American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 2013)
1924 – J. William Middendorf, American soldier and politician, 14th United States Secretary of the Navy
1924 – Ray Wetzel, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1951)
1925 – Virginia Capers, American actress and singer (d. 2004)
1925 – Leila Hadley, American author (d. 2009)
1926 – Bill Smith, American clarinet player and composer (d. 2020)
1927 – Gordon Astall, English footballer and coach (d. 2020)
1927 – Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2021)^[31]
1928 – Eric Broadley, English engineer and businessman, founded Lola Cars (d. 2017)
1928 – James Lawson, American activist, author, and academic (d. 2024)^[32]
1928 – Eugene Roche, American actor (d. 2004)^[33]^[34]
1928 – Johnny Valentine, American wrestler (d. 2001)
1928 – Vitthalrao Gadgil, Indian politician (d. 2001)^[35]
1929 – Serge Garant, Canadian composer and conductor (d. 1986)
1929 – Carlo Ubbiali, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 2020)
1930 – Joni James, American singer (d. 2022)^[36]
1930 – T. S. Sinnathuray, Judge of the High Court of Singapore (d. 2016)
1931 – Fay Weldon, English author and playwright (d. 2023)^[37]
1931 – George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Scottish banker and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (d. 2003)
1932 – Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuanian politician, 2nd President of Lithuania (d. 2010)
1932 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (d. 2009)^[29]
1933 – Leonardo Balada, Spanish-American composer and educator
1933 – T. Cullen Davis, American businessman
1933 – Carmelo Simeone, Italian-Argentinian footballer (d. 2014)
1933 – Jesco von Puttkamer, German-American engineer (d. 2012)
1934 – Jack McGregor, American captain, lawyer, and politician
1934 – Lute Olson, American basketball player and coach (d. 2020)^[38]
1934 – T. Somasekaram, Sri Lankan geographer and politician, 37th Surveyor General of Sri Lanka (d. 2010)
1936 – Maurice Evans, English footballer and manager (d. 2000)
1936 – Robin Gammell, Canadian actor^[39]
1937 – Don Rutherford, English rugby player (d. 2016)
1938 – Gene Mingo, American football player
1939 – Bogdan Baltazar, Romanian economist and engineer (d. 2012)
1939 – Deborah Lavin, South African-English historian and academic
1939 – Gilbert E. Patterson, American bishop (d. 2007)
1939 – Marlena Shaw, American jazz singer (d. 2024)^[40]
1939 – Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer (d. 2016)^[41]
1940 – Anna Karina, Danish-French actress, director, and screenwriter (d. 2019)
1941 – Jeremiah Wright, American pastor and theologian
1942 – Ole Anderson, American wrestler (d. 2024)
1942 – Candida Lycett Green, Anglo-Irish journalist and author (d. 2014)
1942 – Rubén Salazar Gómez, Colombian cardinal
1942 – David Stern, American lawyer and businessman, 4th Commissioner of the NBA (d. 2020)^[29]
1943 – Toni Basil, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress^[42]
1943 – Barry Cable, Australian footballer and coach
1943 – Paul Hoffert, American keyboard player, composer, and academic
1944 – Brian Gibson, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1945 – Paul Le Mat, American actor^[42]
1946 – King Sunny Adé, Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1946 – Larry Dierker, American baseball player and manager
1947 – Jo Beverley, English-Canadian author (d. 2016)
1947 – David Drewry, English glaciologist and geophysicist
1947 – Norma McCorvey, American activist (d. 2017)
1947 – Robert Morace, American author and academic
1948 – Denis Burke, Australian soldier and politician, 6th Chief Minister of the Northern Territory
1948 – Mark Phillips, English equestrian, trainer, and journalist
1949 – Harold Carmichael, American football player^[43]
1949 – James Cartwright, American general
1949 – Jim McGinty, Australian lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of Western Australia
1951 – David Coverdale, English singer-songwriter^[42]
1951 – Mike Graham, American wrestler and promoter (d. 2012)
1951 – Doug Somers, American wrestler (d. 2017)
1952 – Bob Goodlatte, American lawyer and politician
1952 – Sukhumbhand Paribatra, Thai political scientist and politician, 15th Governor of Bangkok
1952 – Américo Rocca, Mexican wrestler
1953 – Richard Fairbrass, English singer-songwriter, musician and producer
1953 – Ségolène Royal, French politician
1955 – Jeffrey Leonard, American baseball player and coach
1956 – Debby Boone, American singer, actress, and author^[44]
1956 – Doug Wimbish, American singer-songwriter and bass player
1956 – Ibrahim Shema, Nigerian lawyer, politician
1957 – Steve Carney, English footballer (d. 2013)
1957 – Nick Cave, Australian singer-songwriter, author, and actor^[42]
1957 – Mark Johnson, American ice hockey player and coach^[45]
1957 – Johnette Napolitano, American singer-songwriter and bass player^[42]
1957 – Giuseppe Saronni, Italian cyclist and manager
1958 – Andrea Bocelli, Italian singer-songwriter and producer^[42]
1958 – Beth Catlin, American autistic savant^[46]
1958 – Neil Cavuto, American journalist and author^[29]
1958 – Joan Jett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress^[42]
1959 – Tai Babilonia, American figure skater and talk show host
1959 – Saul Perlmutter, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate
1960 – Scott Baio, American actor^[42]
1961 – Vince Coleman, American baseball player
1961 – Liam Fox, Scottish physician and politician, Secretary of State for Defence
1961 – Bonnie Hunt, American actress, producer, and talk show host^[42]
1961 – Diane Lemieux, Canadian lawyer and politician
1961 – Catherine Oxenberg, American actress^[42]
1961 – Michael Torke, American composer
1962 – Martin Crowe, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2016)
1964 – Juha Turunen, Finnish lawyer and politician
1964 – Ken Vandermark, American saxophonist and composer
1965 – Dan Bucatinsky, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter^[42]
1965 – Andrii Deshchytsia, Ukrainian politician and diplomat, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1965 – Mark Guthrie, American baseball player
1965 – Robert Satcher, American physician, engineer, and astronaut
1966 – Ruth Jones, Welsh actress, producer, and screenwriter^[47]
1966 – Mike Richter, American ice hockey player
1966 – Michael Shank, American racing team owner^[48]
1967 – Matt Besser, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1967 – Super Delfin, Japanese wrestler
1967 – Brian Keene, American novelist
1967 – Ian Mortimer, English historian and novelist
1967 – Rickard Rydell, Swedish race car driver
1967 – Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
1969 – Nicole Bradtke, Australian tennis player and sportscaster
1969 – Tuomas Kantelinen, Finnish composer and conductor
1969 – Sue Perkins, English comedian, actress, and radio host
1969 – Matt Sharp, American singer-songwriter and bass player
1970 – Gladys Berejiklian, Australian politician, 45th Premier of New South Wales
1970 – Mike Matheny, American baseball player and manager
1970 – Mystikal, American rapper and actor^[42]
1970 – Hitro Okesene, New Zealand rugby player and coach
1970 – Rupert Penry-Jones, English actor
1970 – Emmanuel Petit, French footballer^[49]
1971 – Elizabeth Bear, American author and poet^[50]
1971 – Toomas Krõm, Estonian footballer
1971 – (Chesney Hawkes), English born Pop Singer
1971 – Luther Reigns, American actor and wrestler

1971 – Princess Märtha Louise, Norwegian Princess, the eldest child and only daughter of King Harald V of Norway.

1973 – Yoo Chae-yeong, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2014)
1973 – Stéfan Louw, South African tenor and producer
1973 – Bob Sapp, American wrestler, kickboxer, mixed martial artist, and actor^[51]
1974 – Jenn Colella, American actress and singer^[52]
1974 – Kostas Kaiafas, Cypriot footballer and manager
1975 – Mireille Enos, American actress^[42]
1975 – Ethan Moreau, Canadian ice hockey player and scout
1976 – David Berkeley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976 – Mo Collins, American football player and coach (d. 2014)
1977 – Antti-Jussi Niemi, Finnish ice hockey player
1978 – Daniella Alonso, American actress and model^[42]
1978 – Harry Kewell, Australian footballer and coach
1979 – Emilie Autumn, American singer-songwriter, violinist, and poet^[53]
1979 – Swin Cash, American basketball player and executive^[54]
1979 – Michael Graziadei, American actor^[42]
1979 – Phil Waugh, Australian rugby player
1980 – Svenja Weidemann, German tennis player
1981 – Ashley Eckstein, American actress^[42]
1981 – Janne Niskala, Finnish ice hockey player^[55]
1981 – Alexei Ramírez, Cuban baseball player
1981 – Subaru Shibutani, Japanese singer-songwriter
1981 – Ingrid Vetlesen, Norwegian soprano
1982 – Domenic Cassisi, Australian footballer
1982 – Katie Lowes, American actress^[42]
1982 – Billie Piper, English actress and singer^[56]
1982 – Maarten Stekelenburg, Dutch footballer
1983 – Kyla, British singer
1983 – Glenn Loovens, Dutch professional footballer
1983 – Petr Tatíček, Czech professional ice hockey
1983 – Tommy Thelin, Swedish footballer
1984 – Ross Jarman, English drummer and songwriter
1984 – Thiago Silva, Brazilian footballer
1985 – Matteo Cavagna, Italian footballer
1985 – Faris Haroun, Belgian footballer
1985 – Jamie Mackie, Scottish footballer
1985 – Tatiana Maslany, Canadian actress^[57]
1985 – Ibragim Todashev, Russian-American mixed martial artist (d. 2013)
1987 – Derick Brassard, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 – Stefan Denifl, Austrian cyclist
1987 – Tom Felton, English actor^[42]
1987 – Zdravko Kuzmanović, Serbian footballer
1987 – Teyonah Parris, American actress^[42]
1988 – Nikita Andreyev, Russian footballer
1988 – Sana Saeed, Indian actress and model^[58]
1989 – Jon Bass, American actor
1989 – Kim Hyo-yeon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress^[59]
1989 – Sabine Lisicki, German tennis player
1990 – Denard Robinson, American football player
1991 – Kenny Bromwich, New Zealand rugby league player
1992 – Philip Hindes, English track cyclist^[60]
1994 – Carlos Correa, Puerto Rican-American baseball player^[61]
1994 – Jinyoung, South Korean singer, actor, songwriter^[62]
1994 – Haason Reddick, American football player^[63]
1994 – Alexander Wennberg, Swedish ice hockey player^[64]
1995 – Nayeon, South Korean singer^[65]
1996 – Dylan Windler, American basketball player^[66]
1999 – Kim Yo-han, South Korean singer and actor^[67]
1999 – Kim Yoo-jung, South Korean actress^[68]
2000 – Louise Christie, British rhythm gymnast^[69]
2000 – Stephen Crichton, Samoan rugby league footballer^[70]
2000 – Seungmin, South Korean singer^[71]
2009 – Coco Yoshizawa, Japanese skateboarder^[72]

Deaths

Pre-1600

189 – He Jin, Chinese general and regent (b. 135)
530 – Pope Felix IV
904 – Zhao Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 867)
967 – Wichmann II, Frankish nobleman
1072 – Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian, poet, and politician (b. 1007)
1158 – Otto of Freising, German bishop and chronicler (b. c. 1114)
1174 – Uchtred, Lord of Galloway (b. c. 1120)
1253 – Dōgen, Japanese monk and philosopher (b. 1200)
1345 – Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician, Lord High Steward (b. 1281)
1399 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician, Earl Marshal of The United Kingdom (b. 1366)
1408 – John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1370)
1457 – Peter II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1418)
1482 – Philibert I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1465)
1520 – Selim I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1465)
1531 – Louise of Savoy, French regent (b. 1476)^[73]
1539 – Guru Nanak, Sikh religious leader, founded Sikhism (b. 1469)
1554 – Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (b. 1510)
1566 – Johannes Agricola, German theologian and academic (b. 1494)
1576 – Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex (b. 1541)
1598 – Gabriel Spenser, English actor (b. c. 1578)^[74]

1601–1900

1607 – Alessandro Allori, Italian painter and educator (b. 1535)
1662 – John Biddle, English minister and theologian (b. 1615)
1692 – Martha Corey, American woman accused of witchcraft (b. 1620)^[75]
1703 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1622)
1756 – Abu l-Hasan Ali I, ruler of Tunisia (b. 1688)
1774 – Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)^[76]
1776 – Nathan Hale, American soldier (b. 1755)^[8]
1777 – John Bartram, American botanist and explorer (b. 1699)
1828 – Shaka Zulu, Zulu chieftain and monarch of the Zulu Kingdom (b. 1787)
1852 – William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed Hammersmith Bridge (b. 1783)
1862 – Frederick Townsend Ward, American sailor and mercenary (b. 1831)^[77]
1872 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer and linguist (b. 1801)
1873 – Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1801)
1881 – Solomon L. Spink, American lawyer and politician (b. 1831)

1901–present

1914 – Alain-Fournier, French soldier and author (b. 1886)
1917 – John Henry Knight, English engineer (b. 1847)^[78]
1919 – Alajos Gáspár, Hungarian-Slovene author and poet (b. 1848)
1933 – Sime Silverman, American journalist and newspaper publisher (b. 1873)^[79]^[80]^[81]
1934 – Cecil Chubb, English barrister and one time owner of Stonehenge (b. 1876)
1935 – Elliott Lewis, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1858)
1952 – Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st President of Finland (b. 1865)
1956 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
1957 – Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
1961 – Marion Davies, American actress and comedian (b. 1897)^[82]
1969 – Adolfo López Mateos, Mexican politician, 48th President of Mexico (b. 1909)^[83]
1973 – Paul van Zeeland, Belgian lawyer, economist, and politician, 38th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1893)
1979 – Abul A'la Maududi, Pakistani theologian, Islamic scholar and jurist (b. 1903)
1981 – Harry Warren, American composer and songwriter (b. 1893)
1987 – Hákun Djurhuus, Faroese educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1908)
1987 – Dan Rowan, American actor, comedian, and producer (b. 1922)
1988 – Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani psychoanalyst, scholar, and poet (b. 1914)
1989 – Ambrose Folorunsho Alli, Nigerian academic and politician (b. 1929)
1989 – Irving Berlin, Russian-born American composer and songwriter (b. 1888)
1992 – Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)
1993 – Maurice Abravanel, Greek-American pianist and conductor (b. 1903)
1994 – Leonard Feather, English-American pianist, composer, producer, and journalist (b. 1914)
1996 – Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Latvian-Canadian ballerina, choreographer, and director (b. 1924)
1996 – Dorothy Lamour, American actress and singer (b. 1914)^[84]
1999 – George C. Scott, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1927)^[85]
2000 – Saburō Sakai, Japanese lieutenant and pilot (b. 1916)
2001 – Isaac Stern, Polish-Ukrainian violinist and conductor (b. 1920)^[86]
2002 – Jan de Hartog, Dutch-American author and playwright (b. 1914)
2003 – Gordon Jump, American actor (b. 1932)
2003 – Hugo Young, English journalist and author (b. 1938)
2004 – Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (b. 1927)
2004 – Ray Traylor Jr., American professional wrestler better-known as the Big Boss Man (b. 1963)
2006 – Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)
2006 – Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player and educator (b. 1950)
2007 – ʻAlí-Muhammad Varqá, last Hand of the Cause of God in the Baháʼí Faith (b. 1911)
2007 – Marcel Marceau, French mime and actor (b. 1923)
2008 – Thomas Dörflein, German zookeeper (b. 1963)
2008 – Petrus Schaesberg, German painter, historian, and educator (b. 1967)
2009 – Edward Delaney, Irish sculptor (b. 1930)
2010 – Jackie Burroughs, British-born Canadian actress (b. 1939)^[87]
2010 – Eddie Fisher, American singer (b. 1928)^[88]
2010 – Vyacheslav Tsaryov, Russian footballer (b. 1971)
2011 – Knut Steen, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1924)
2012 – Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan theorist and academic (b. 1919)
2012 – Irving Adler, American mathematician, author, and academic (b. 1913)
2012 – Juan H. Cintrón García, Puerto Rican businessman and politician, 126th Mayor of Ponce (b. 1919)
2012 – Grigory Frid, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1915)
2012 – Jan Hendrik van den Berg, Dutch psychiatrist and academic (b. 1914)
2013 – Gary Brandner, American author and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2013 – Jane Connell, American actress and singer (b. 1925)
2013 – David H. Hubel, Canadian-American neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
2013 – Álvaro Mutis, Colombian-Mexican author and poet (b. 1923)
2013 – Hans Erich Slany, German industrial designer, founded TEAMS Design (b. 1926)
2013 – Luciano Vincenzoni, Italian screenwriter (b. 1926)^[89]
2014 – Fernando Cabrita, Portuguese footballer and manager (b. 1923)
2014 – Sahana Pradhan, Nepalese politician, Nepalese Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1927)
2014 – Erik van der Wurff, Dutch pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1945)
2014 – Hans E. Wallman, Swedish director, producer, and composer (b. 1936)
2015 – Yogi Berra, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1925)^[90]
2018 – Chas Hodges, English musician and singer (b. 1943)^[91]
2018 – Edna Molewa, South African politician (b. 1957)^[92]
2018 – Mike Labinjo, Canadian football player (b. 1980)^[93]
2020 – Neil Brannon, American politician (b. 1940)^[94]
2022 – Hilary Mantel, British author (b. 1952)^[95]

Holidays and observances

American Business Women's Day (United States)
Baltic Unity Day (Lithuania, Latvia)
Christian feast days:
Earliest date for the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere:
- Autumnal Equinox Day (Japan)
- Mabon in the Northern Hemisphere, Ostara in the Southern Hemisphere. (Neopagan Wheel of the Year)
- The first day of Miķeļi (Latvia)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire in 1908.
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Mali from France in 1960.
Resistance Fighting Day (Estonia)

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