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2018  Tran Dai Quang, President of Vietnam (b. 1956)
 2019  Aron Eisenberg, American actor (b. 1969)
 2019  Sid Haig, American actor (b. 1939)
 2019  Sigmund Jaehn, German cosmonaut (b. 1937)
 2019  Günter Kunert, German writer (b. 1929)
 2019  Carl Ruiz, American chef and television personality (b. 1975)
 2019  Jevan Snead, American football player (b. 1987)
 2019  Woo Hye-mi, South Korean pop singer (b. 1988)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Belize and Malta)
 International Day of Peace
 Spring Day in some South American countries

References

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 66  Emperor Nero creates the legion I Italica.
 904  The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong of Tong, the second-last Emperor of China's Tang Dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.
 1236  Lithuanians and Semigallians beat Livonian Brothers of the Sword in Battle of Siauliai
 1499  Treaty of Basel: Switzerland becomes an independent state.
 1503  Pope Pius III becomes Pope, though his reign only lasts for 27 days.
 1598  English playwright Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter.
 1692  Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States.
 1761  George III of Great Britain and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned.
 1776  Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
 1784  Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.
 1789  Position of United States Postmaster General established.
1823  Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr. stated that he found the Golden Plates on this date, being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
 1857  Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 806 people on board.
 1862  A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
 1864  American Civil War: End of the Battle of Fishers Hill.
 1869  Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold debuts in Munich.
 1877  French astronomer Edouard Jean-Marie Stephan discovers five galaxies, that together are now known as the "Stephan Quintet".
 1888  The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
 1893  The first American-built automobile, built by the Duryea Brothers, is displayed.
 1896  Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather, King George III, as the longest-reigning monarch in British history. Elizabeth II beats her record on September 9, 2015.
1901  2000 
 1908  Independence of Bulgaria recognised.
 1910  The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in the United Kingdom.
 1914  German submarine 5M U-9 torpedoes and sinks British cruisers HMS Aboukir, HMS Hague and HMS Cressy on the Broad Fourteens off the Dutch coast with the loss of 1,400 men and boys.
 1919  The Steel Strike of 1919 begins in Pennsylvania, later spreading across the United States.
 1927  Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
 1934  An explosion occurs at Gresford Colliery in Wales, killing 266 miners and rescuers.
 1937  Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
 1941  Holocaust: On Yom Kippur, Jewish New Year, SS officers murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine.
 1949  Soviet Union detonates its first nuclear weapon.
 1951  The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
1955  UK television channel ITV begins broadcasting.
 1957  Francois Duvalier (Papa Doc) is elected President of Haiti. Establishing a one-party state, he remains in power until his death in 1971, when his son takes over.
 1960  Mali gains independence from France.
 1961  The Peace Corps is formed.
 1964  The musical Fiddler on the Roof has its first performance on Broadway in New York City.
 1965  The war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.
 1968  The move of the Abu Simbel temple ruins in Egypt is completed, in order to make way for Lake Nasser.
 1970  Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia.
 1975  Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Gerald Ford.
 1979  The South Atlantic Flash is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
 1980  Iraq invades Iran.
 1985  The Farm Aid concert takes place in Champaign, Illinois.
 1985  The Plaza Accord was signed in New York City.
1990  Start of the 1990 Asian Games, held in Beijing.
 1991  The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time, by the Huntington Library.
 1993  A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
 1993  A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, killing 47 people.
 1994  The first episode of Friends aired on NBC.
 1995  The Nagercovil School Bombing is carried out by Sri Lankan Air Force, killing at least 24 people, most of them ethnic Tamil children.
 1997  Bentalha massacre in Algeria; over 200 villagers are killed.
From 2001 
 2002  German Bundestag election: incumbent Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schröder narrowly defeats Edmund Stoiber.
 2003  David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.
 2013  A bomb attack on a church in Peshawar, Pakistan, kills at least 70 people.
 2013  Angela Merkel is elected to a third term as Chancellor of Germany, after the CDU/CSU scored around 42%. Her coalition partners, the Free Democrats (FDP), are voted out of the Bundestag.
 2014  Ewa Kopacz becomes Prime Minister of Poland, replacing Donald Tusk, who resigned to take up his post as President of the European Council.
 2016  Yahoo! confirms that hackers entered its network in late 2014 and stole information connected to at least 500 million user accounts, in the largest data breach reported to date.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1515  Anne of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII of England (d. 1557).
 1547  Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590).
 1552  Vasili IV of Russia (d. 1612).
 1601  Anne of Austria, Queen Consort of Louis XIII of France (d. 1666).
 1606  Li Zecheng, Chinese Emperor (d. 1645).
 1694  Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield, English statesman (d. 1773).
 1715  Jean-Etienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d. 1786).
 1717  Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (d. 1783).
 1741  Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (d. 1811).
 1762  Elizabeth Simcoe, English-Canadian painter and author (d. 1850).
 1765  Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician (d. 1822).
 1791  Michael Faraday, English scientist (d. 1867).
 1829  Tu Duc, Vietnamese Emperor (d. 1883).
 1835  Alexander Potebnja, Ukrainian philosopher and linguist (d. 1891).
 1841  Andrejs Pumpurs, Latvian poet (d. 1902).
 1842  Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918).
1863  Alexandre Yersin, Swiss-French physician (d. 1943).
 1868  Louise McKinney, Canadian politician and activist (d. 1931).
 1870  Charlotte Cooper, British tennis player (d. 1966).
 1870  Arthur Pryor, American trombone player, composer and bandleader (d. 1942).
 1875  Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, Lithuanian painter and composer (d. 1911).
 1876  André Tardieu, 97th Prime Minister of France (d. 1945).
 1878  Shigeru Yoshida, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967).
 1880  Christabel Pankhurst, British suffragette (d. 1958).
 1882  Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (d. 1946).
 1885  Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1951).
 1885  Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (d. 1940).
 1885  Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-American actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1957).
 1887  Bhaurao Patil, Indian educator and activist (d. 1959).
 1891  Hans Albers, German actor and singer (d. 1960).
 1892  Billy West, American actor (d. 1975).
 1896  Uri Zvi Grinberg, Israeli poet and journalist (d. 1981).
1896  Henry Segrave, British racing driver (d. 1930).
 1898  Katharine Alexander, American actress and singer (d. 1981).
1901  1950 
 1901  Charles B. Huggins, Canadian scientist (d. 1997).
 1901  Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (d. 1932).
 1902  John Houseman, Romanian-American actor and producer (d. 1988).
 1902  José Quintero Parra, Venezuelan cardinal (d. 1984).
 1904  Ellen Church, American flight attendant (d. 1965).
 1905  Haakon Lie, Norwegian politician (d. 2009).
 1905  Eugen Saenger, Austrian aerospace engineer (d. 1964).
 1906  Ilse Koch, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1967).
 1912  Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003).
 1918  Hans Scholl, German activist (d. 1943).
 1918  Henryk Szeryng, Polish-Mexican violinist and composer (d. 1988).
 1920  Eric Baker, English activist (d. 1976).
 1922  David Sive, American attorney and environmentalist (d. 2014).
 1922  Chen Ning Yang, Chinese physicist.
 1923  Dannie Abse, Welsh poet (d. 2014).
 1924  Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist (d. 2019).
 1924  Charles Waterhouse, American painter, sculptor and illustrator (d. 2013).
1925  Virginia Capers, American actress and singer (d. 2001).
 1927  Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player and manager.
 1930  Joni James, American singer.
 1930  Antonio Saura, Spanish artist (d. 1998).
 1931  Ashokamitran, Indian writer (d. 2017).
 1931  Fay Weldon, English feminist and writer.
 1931  George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger, Scottish politician (d. 2003).
 1932  Algirdas Brazauskas, President of Lithuania (d. 2010).
 1932  Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (d. 2009).
 1933  Jesco von Puttkamer, German-American engineer (d. 2012).
 1933  Leonardo Balada, Spanish-American composer.
 1934  Ornella Vanoni, Italian actress and singer.
 1939  Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer (d. 2016).
 1940  Anna Karina, Danish actress and singer.
 1941  Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Bulgarian soprano.
 1941  Jeremiah Wright, American pastor.
 1942  Candida Lycett Green, English writer (d. 2014).
 1942  Wu Ma, Hong Kong actor, director, producer and writer (d. 2014)
1942  David Stern, American lawyer and NBA commissioner.
 1943  Toni Basil, American singer.
 1946  King Sunny Ade, Nigerian singer.
 1948  Denis Burke, Australian politician, 6th Chief Minister of the Northern Territory.
1951  1975 
 1951  David Coverdale, English singer-songwriter.
 1952  Sukhumbhand Paribatra, 15th Governor of Bangkok.
 1952  Richard Fairbrass, English presenter, bassist and singer (Right Said Fred).
 1953  Ségolène Royal, French politician.
 1954  Shari Belafonte, American singer, actress and model.
 1954  Randy Lanier, American racing driver.
 1956  Debby Boone, American actress.
 1957  Nick Cave, Australian musician.
 1958  Eddy Planckaert, Belgian cyclist.
 1958  Andrea Bocelli, Italian operatic tenor.
 1958  Joan Jett, American rock singer.
 1959  Saul Perlmutter, American astrophysicist and Nobel Prize winner.
 1959  Tai Babilonia, American figure skater and talk show host.
 1960  Scott Baio, American actor.
 1961  Bonnie Hunt, American actress.
 1961  Liam Fox, British politician.
 1961  Catherine Oxenberg, American actress.
 1962  Martin Crowe, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2016).
 1965  Tony Drago, Maltese snooker player.
 1965  Robert Satcher, American astronaut.
1965  Andrii Deschchytsia, Ukrainian politician and diplomat.
 1965  Dan Rucatinsky, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter.
 1966  Ruth Jones, Welsh actress, producer and screenwriter.
 1967  Rickard Rydell, Swedish racing driver.
 1969  Sue Perkins, English comedienne.
 1970  Rupert Penry-Jones, English actor.
 1970  Emmanuel Petit, French footballer.
 1971  Princess Martha-Louise of Norway, Princess of Norway.
 1971  Chesney Hawkes, English singer.
 1972  Marcus Campbell, Scottish snooker player.
 1973  Yoo Chae-yeong, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2014).
 1975  Mireille Enos, American actress.
From 1976 
 1976  Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer.
 1976  Xiao Huang-Chi, Taiwanese singer-songwriter and Paralympic judoka.
 1976  Martin Solveig, French DJ and music producer.
 1976  Mo Collins, American football player (d. 2014).
 1978  Harry Kewell, Australian footballer.
 1979  Roberto Saviano, Italian journalist and writer.
 1979  Emilie Autumn, American singer and musician.
 1982  Kosuke Kitajima, Japanese swimmer.
 1982  Billie Piper, English singer and actress.
 1982  Maarten Stekelenburg, Dutch footballer.
 1983  William Farquarson, English bass guitarist.
 1984  Godfrey Gao, Taiwanese-Canadian model and actor (d. 2019).
 1984  Ross Jarman, British musician.
 1984  Thiago Silva, Brazilian footballer.
 1984  Laura Vandervoort, Canadian actress.
 1985  Jamie Mackie, Scottish footballer.
 1987  Tom Felton, English actor.
 1987  Derick Brassard, Canadian ice hockey player.
 1988  Bethany Dillon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
 1989  Kim Hyo-yeon, South Korean singer (Girls' Generation)
1989  Sabine Lisicki, German tennis player.
 1989  Coeur de pirate, Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist.
 1993  Chase Ellison, American actor.
 1994  Jr., South Korean singer, dancer and actor
 1996  Anthoine Hubert, French racing driver (d. 2019)
 1999  Kim Yoo-jung, South Korean actress
Up to 1900 
 530  Pope Felix IV
 904  Emperor Zhaozong of Tong of China.
 1072  Ouyang Xiu, Chinese statesman (b. 1007).
 1253  Dogen Zenji, Japanese Zen Buddhist (b. 1200)
 1253  (or September 23) Wenceslas I, King of Bohemia
 1345  Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (b. 1281)
 1520  Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1465)
 1539  Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism (b. 1469)
 1554  Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (b. c. 1510)
 1566  Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (b. 1494)
 1607  Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (b. 1535)
 1703  Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1622)
 1774  Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)
 1776  Nathan Hale, American soldier (b. 1755)
 1777  John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699)
 1826  Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (b. 1760)
 1828  Shaka Zulu, Zulu leader (b. c. 1787)
 1848  James Dunlop, Scottish astronomer (b. 1793)
 1852  William Tierney Clark, civil engineer (b. 1783)
 1872  Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (b. 1801)
1873  Friedrich Frey-Herosé, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1801)
 1881  Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. 1831)
1901  2000 
 1913  Ton That Thuyet, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1839)
 1914  Alain-Fournier, French writer (b. 1886).
 1952  Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg, first President of Finland (b. 1865)
 1956  Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
 1957  Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
 1961  Marion Davies, actress (b. 1897)
 1967  Harald Quandt, German industrialist (b. 1921)
 1969  Adolfo López Mateos, President of Mexico (b. 1909)
 1973  Paul van Zeeland, Belgian economist and politician (b. 1893)
 1981  Harry Warren, American composer and songwriter (b. 1893)
 1985  Ernest Nagel, Czech-American philosopher (b. 1901)
 1987  Dan Rowan, actor, comedian (b. 1922)
 1987  Hakun Djurhuus, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1908)
 1989  Irving Berlin, American songwriter (b. 1888)
 1993  Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (b. 1903)
 1994  Leonard Feather, British-born jazz pianist, composer and producer (b. 1914).
 1996  Dorothy Lamour, American actress (b. 1914)
1996  Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani, Prime Minister of Algeria (b. 1927)
 1999  George C. Scott, actor (b. 1927)
 2000  Vincenzo Fagiolo, Italian cardinal (b. 1918)
From 2001 
 2001  Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1920)
 2003  Wolfgang Peters, German footballer (b. 1929)
 2003  Gordon Jump, American television actor (b. 1932)
 2003  Hugo Young, British journalist (b. 1938)
 2007  Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (b. 1923)
 2008  Thomas Dörflein, German zookeeper (b. 1963)
 2010  Eddie Fisher, American singer (b. 1928)
 2011  Aristides Pereira, 1st President of Cape Verde (b. 1923)
 2011  Knut Steen, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1924)
 2013  Alvaro Mutis, Colombian writer (b. 1923)
 2014  Sahana Pradhan, Nepalese politician (b. 1927).
 2014  Flor Van Noppen, Belgian politician (b. 1956).
 2014  Samira Salih al-Nuaimi, Iraqi lawyer and human rights activist (b. 1963).
 2014  Hasse Wallman, Swedish entertainment executive, composer and film director (b. 1936).
 2014  Skip E. Lowe, American talk show host (b. 1929).
 2014  Erik van der Wurff, Dutch pianist and composer (b. 1945).
 2014  Ben Webb, New Zealand artist (b. 1976).
2015  Yogi Berra, American baseball player, coach and manager (b. 1925).
 2015  James David Santini, American politician (b. 1937).
 2015  Richard G. Scott, American apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1928)
 2015  Phyllis Tickle, American religious author (b. 1934)
 2016  Kjell Albin Abrahamson, Swedish journalist and author (b. 1945)
 2017  Paavo Lonkila, Finnish cross-country skier (b. 1923)
 2017  Mohammed Mahdi Akef, Egyptian religious and political leader, former Head of the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1928)
 2017  Börje Vestlund, Swedish politician (b. 1960)
 2017  Dunc Fisher, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
 2017  Shmuel Moreh, Iraqi-born Israel writer (b. 1932)
 2018  Avi Duan, Israeli politician (b. 1955)
 2018  Chas Hodges, English musician (b. 1943)
 2018  Bob Lienhard, American basketball player (b. 1948)
 2018  Al Matthews, American actor and singer (b. 1942)
 2018  Edna Molewa, South African politician (b. 1957)
 2018  Eric Yarrow, American businessman (b. 1920)
2019  Harry Joseph Flynn, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1933)
 2019  Ivan Kizimov, Russian equestrian (b. 1928)
 2019  J. Michael Mendel, American television producer (b. 1964)
 2019  Tom Polanic, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1943)
 2019  Sándor Sára, Hungarian cinematographer and film director (b. 1933)
Observances 
 Independence Day in Mali and Bulgaria
 September Equinox in some years (Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and Spring in the Southern Hemisphere)
 Car-free Day

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1338  Hundred Years' War: The Battle of Arnemuiden is fought, as the first naval battle.
 1409  Battle of Kherlen: Second significant victory by the Mongols over Ming Dynasty China since 1368.
 1459  Battle of Blore Heath: First major battle of the English Wars of the Roses.
 1568  Spanish naval forces rout and English fleet under command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulua near Veracruz.
 1641  The Merchant Royal, carrying treasure worth over a billion US Dollars, is lost at sea off Land's End, Cornwall.
 1805  Napoleonic Wars: After the Austrians march into Bavaria, France declares war on Prussia.
 1806  The Lewis and Clark expedition ends with the return to St. Louis, Missouri.
 1821  Tripolitsa, Greece, falls and 30,000 Turks are massacred during the Greek War of Independence.
 1845  Knickerbockers Baseball Club is founded in New York City. It is the first baseball team to play under modern rules.
 1846  The planet Neptune is officially discovered.
1868  Grito de Lares, "Lares Revolt", occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
 1875  Billy the Kid is arrested for the first time, for stealing clothes from a laundryman.
 1889  Nintendo Koppai, later the Nintendo Company, is founded in Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi.
1901  2000 
 1905  Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad Treaty", peacefully ending their union.
 1908  The University of Alberta is founded.
 1909  The Phantom of the Opera, a novel by Gaston Leroux, is published as a series in the Le Gaulois newspaper.
 1910  French-Peruvian pilot Geo Chavez becomes the first person to fly a plane across the Alps.
 1913  Roland Garros becomes the first person to fly a plane across the Mediterranean Sea, doing so from San Raphael, France to Bizerte, Tunisia.
 1932  The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed Saudi Arabia.
 1938  Mobilisation of the Czech army in response to the Munich Crisis.
 1939  Psychologist and key figure in Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud dies at the age of 83.
 1941  Holocaust: The first gas chamber experiments take place at Auschwitz.
 1943  The Nazi puppet state of the Italian Social Republic is founded.
 1959  Iowa farmer and corn breeder Roswell Garst hosts Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
 1965  Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 ends.
1972  Ferdinand Marcos announces the implementation of martial law over TV and radio in the Philippines.
 1973  Chilean poet Pablo Neruda dies, 12 days after the coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile.
 1973  Juan Perón retakes power in Argentina, but dies just over 9 months later.
 1980  Bob Marley plays in his last live performance, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
 1983  Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the UN.
 1983  Gerrie Coetzee becomes the first African heavyweight boxing World champion.
 1983  Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board.
 1989  Azerbaijan declares its sovereignty from the Soviet Union.
 1993  The 2000 Summer Olympics are awarded to Sydney, Australia.
 1999  NASA announces it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
From 2001 
 2002  The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (Phoenix 0.1) is released.
 2004  Hurricane Jeanne reportedly kills 1,070 people in Haiti.
 2008  The Kauhajoki Shooting occurs in Finland, as 10 people are shot dead. The gunman, Matti Saari, later turns the gun on himself.
 2009  Major dust storms affect Eastern Australia, as people in Sydney wake up to find their city shrouded in red dust.
 2017  New Zealand general election: The centre-right New Zealand National Party under Prime Minister Bill English becomes the largest party for the 4th term in-a-row. The New Zealand Labour Party under Jacinda Ardern performs a lot better than in the previous election.
 2017  Iran announces a weapon-test, only a few days after a speech by US President Donald Trump in which he strongly criticised the country.
 2019  British travel company Thomas Cook collapses.
 2019  Russia joins the Paris Climate Agreement.
Births

Up to 1800 
 480 BC  Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC)
 63 BC  Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor (d. 14)
 1158  Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1186)
 1161  Emperor Takamura of Japan (d. 1181)
 1215  Kublai Khan, Mongol ruler (d. 1294)
 1392  Filippo Maria Visconti, Italian regent (d. 1447)
 1434  Yolande of Valois (d. 1478)
 1495  Bagrat III of Imereti, King of Imereti in Georgia (d. 1565)
 1598  Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655)
 1642  Giovanni Maria Bononcini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1678)
 1647  Joseph Dudley, American statesman (d. 1720)
 1713  King Ferdinand VI of Spain (d. 1759)
 1740  Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)
 1759  Clothilde of France (d. 1802)
 1771  Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)
 1778  Mariano Moreno, Argentine lawyer, journalist and politician (d. 1811)
 1781  Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1860)
 1783  Peter von Cornelius, German painter (d. 1867)
 1791  Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865)
1801  1900 
 1819  Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d. 1896)
 1823  John Colton, English-Australian politician, Premier of South Australia (d. 1902)
 1834  Aleksey Suvorin, Russian publisher, dramatist and theatre critic (d. 1912)
 1838  Victoria Woodhull, American Women's rights activist (d. 1927)
 1850  Alfred Boucher, French sculptor (d. 1934)
 1852  William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon (d. 1922)
 1853  Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen (d. 1923)
 1853  Konstantin Stoilov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1901)
 1861  Robert Bosch, German industrialist, engineer and inventor (d. 1942)
 1863  Mary Church Terrell, American author and activist (d. 1954)
 1864  Draga Masin, Queen Consort of Serbia (d. 1903)
 1865  Emma Orczy, British novelist (d. 1947)
 1865  Suzanne Valadon, French painter (d. 1938).
 1876  Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli scholar (d. 1968)
 1880  John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician (d. 1971)
 1883  Grigory Zinoviev, Soviet politician (d. 1936)
1884  Eugene Talmadge, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 1946)
 1889  Walter Lippmann, American journalist (d. 1974)
 1890  Friedrich Paulus, German general (d. 1957)
 1892  Georgi Damyanov, Bulgarian politician (d. 1958)
 1893  Aleksei Losev, Russian philosopher and philologist (d. 1988)
 1895  Miron Merzhanov, Soviet architect (d. 1975)
 1897  Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (d. 1984)
 1899  Tom C. Clark, 59th Attorney General of the United States (d. 1977)
 1900  Bill Stone, British World War I veteran (d. 2009)
1901  1950 
 1901  Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer (d. 1986)
 1902  Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Romanian jurist and Communist politician (d. 2000)
 1902  Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and academic (d. 2003)
 1905  Tiny Bradshaw, American bandleader and musician (d. 1958)
 1906  Charles Ritchie, Canadian diplomat (d. 1995)
 1907  Albert Ammons, American pianist (d. 1949)
 1907  Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, Portuguese royal (d. 1976)
 1907  Jarmila Novotna, Czech soprano and actress (d. 1994)
 1908  Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Indian Hindi poet (d. 1974)
 1911  Frank Moss, American politician (d. 2003)
 1912  Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani critic and linguist (d. 2005)
 1913  Tokutaro Ukon, Japanese footballer (d. 1944)
 1913  Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish painter (d. 2007)
 1914  Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (d. 1986)
 1915  Sergio Bertoni, Italian footballer (d. 1995)
 1915  Clifford Shull, American physicist (d. 2001)
 1916  Aldo Moro, Italian politician (d. 1978)
1917  Asima Chatterjee, Indian organic chemist (d. 2006)
 1917  Santo, Mexican masked professional wrestler and actor (d. 1984)
 1917  Imre Németh, Hungarian hammer thrower (d. 1989)
 1918  Salvatore Pappalardo, Italian cardinal (d. 2006)
 1920  Alexander Arutunian, Armenian composer (d. 2012)
 1920  Mickey Rooney, American actor (d. 2014)
 1920  Ovadia Yosef, Israeli rabbi (d. 2013)
 1922  Louise Latham, American actress (d. 2018)
 1923  Basil Feldman, Baron Feldman, British politician and businessman (d. 2019)
 1923  Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Egyptian journalist (d. 2016)
 1923  Margaret Pellegrini, American actress (d. 2013)
 1924  Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan editor and journalist (d. 1978)
 1924  Jean Piat, French actor (d. 2018)
 1925  Angelo Acerbi, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop
 1925  George J. Laurer, American inventor
 1926  John Coltrane, American jazz musician (d. 1967)
 1926  André Cassagnes, French toymaker (d. 2013)
1927  Mighty Joe Young, American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (d. 1999)
 1928  Hollie Pihl, American judge (d. 2018)
 1930  Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004)
 1930  Colin Blakely, British actor (d. 1987)
 1930  Albert Manent, Spanish writer (d. 2014)
 1934  Franc Rodé, Slovenian cardinal
 1934  Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan
 1934  Per-Olov Enquist, Swedish author
 1936  Valentín Paniagua, former President of Peru (d. 2006)
 1937  Martin Litchfield West, British philologist (d. 2015)
 1938  Romy Schneider, German-born actress (d. 1982)
 1939  Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (d. 1988)
 1939  Henry Blofeld, English cricket journalist
 1940  Tim Rose, American-born English musician (d. 2002)
 1940  Michel Temer, President and 25th Vice president of Brazil
 1940  Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Iranian musician and songwriter
 1941  Norma Winstone, English singer and lyricist
 1941  Luis Durnwalder, Italian politician
 1942  Sila María Calderón, 7th Governor of Puerto Rico
1943  Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer
 1943  Tanuja, Indian actress
 1943  Lino Oviedo, Paraguayan general and politician (d. 2013)
 1945  Igor Ivanov, Russian politician
 1945  Ron Bushy, American drummer (Iron Butterfly)
 1946  Bernard Maris, French economist, writer and journalist (d. 2015)
 1947  Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish priest (d. 1984)
 1947  Mary Kay Place, American actress and singer
 1949  Bruce Springsteen, American singer-songwriter and musician
 1949  Floella Benjamin, British actress, author, television presenter and politician
 1950  Dietmar Lorenz, German judoka
1951  1975 
 1952  Mark Bego, American author
 1953  Nicholas Witchell, English journalist
 1954  Cherie Blair, English lawyer, wife of Tony Blair
 1956  Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer
 1956  Andoni Goikoetxea, Basque-Spanish footballer
 1957  Emilia Contessa, Indonesian actress and singer
 1957  Rosalind Chow, American actress
 1957  Fergus Ewing, Scottish footballer
 1958  Larry Mize, golfer
 1959  Fernando Romay, Spanish basketball player
 1959  Jason Alexander, American actor, director and producer
 1959  Elizabeth Peña, American actress (d. 2014)
 1961  William McCool, American astronaut (d. 2003)
 1962  Deborah Orr, Scottish journalist
 1963  Alex Proyas, Australian director and producer
 1964  Clayton Blackmore, Welsh footballer
 1964  Larry Krystkowiak, American basketball player
 1965  Aleqa Hammond, former Prime Minister of Greenland
 1967  Masashi Nakayama, Japanese footballer
 1968  Yvette Fielding, British actress and producer
 1968  Adam Price, Welsh politician
1968  Erik Weihenmayer, American athlete, adventurer and author
 1970  Lucia Ciffarelli, American singer-songwriter and pianist
 1970  Ani DiFranco, American singer
 1971  Sean Spicer, former White House Press Secretary
 1972  Karl Pilkington, English radio personality
 1973  Jermaine Dupri, American hip hop musician
 1973  Toshihiro Hattori, Japanese footballer
 1973  Artim Sakiri, Macedonian footballer
 1974  Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler
 1975  Chris Hawkins, English journalist
From 1976 
 1976  Homaro Cantu, American chef and inventor (d. 2015)
 1977  Rachael Yamagata, American singer
 1977  Suzanne Tamim, Lebanese singer (d. 2008)
 1979  Ricky Davis, American basketball player
 1979  Fábio Simplício, Brazilian footballer
 1981  Natalie Horler, German singer (Cascada)
 1981  Helen Richardson-Walsh, English field hockey player
 1983  Leinier Dominguez, Cuban chess player
 1984  Anneliese van der Pol, Dutch-American actress
 1984  Kate French, American actress
 1985  Hossein Kaebi, Iranian footballer
 1986  Maki Goto, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
 1986  Martin Cranie, English footballer
 1986  Gina-Lisa Lohfink, German model and television personality
 1987  Skylar Astin, American actor and singer
 1987  Yu Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
 1988  Juan Martín del Potro, Argentine tennis player
 1988  Shannon Chan-Kent, Canadian actress and singer
 1989  Brandon Jennings, American basketball player
 1991  Lee Alexander, Scottish footballer
1991  Key, South Korean singer and actor
 1991  Melanie Oudin, American tennis player
 1992  Finn Russell, Scottish rugby union player
 1994  Yerry Mina, Colombian footballer
 1996  Lee Hi, South Korean singer
Up to 1900 
 76  Pope Linus
 1241  Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian and poet (b. 1179)
 1386  Dan I of Wallachia (b. 1354)
 1390  John I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1346)
 1535  Catherine of Saxe-Lauenberg (b. 1513)
 1657  Joachim Jung, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1587)
 1738  Herman Boerhaeve, Dutch humanist and physician (b. 1668)
 1773  Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and naturalist (b. 1718)
 1789  John Rogers, American Congressman (b. 1723)
 1816  Alessandro Verri, Italian writer (b. 1741)
 1830  Elizabeth Monroe, First Lady of the United States (b. 1768)
 1835  Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801)
 1836  Maria Malibran, French mezzo soprano (b. 1808)
 1844  Alexander von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (b. 1783)
 1850  José Artigas, Uruguayan national hero (b. 1764)
 1870  Prosper Mérimée, French writer (b. 1803)
 1877  Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician (b. 1811)
 1882  Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (b. 1800)
1889  Wilkie Collins, English author and playwright (b. 1824)
 1896  Ivar Aasen, Norwegian poet and linguist (b. 1813)
1901  2000 
 1917  Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (b. 1897)
 1929  Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian chemist (b. 1865)
 1939  Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychologist (b. 1856)
 1943  Salvo D'Acquisto, Italian military officer (b. 1920)
 1943  Ernst Trygger, Swedish politician (b. 1857)
 1944  Jakob Schaffner, Swiss author (b. 1875)
 1950  Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (b. 1892)
 1968  Padre Pio, Italian priest (b. 1887)
 1970  Bourvil, French actor (b. 1917)
 1971  Billy Gilbert, American actor (b. 1894)
 1971  James Waddell Alexander II, American mathematician (b. 1888)
 1973  Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (b. 1904)
 1973  A. S. Neill, Scottish educator (b. 1883)
 1974  Cliff Arquette, American actor (b. 1905)
 1987  Bob Fosse, American choreographer (b. 1927)
 1988  Tibor Sekelj, Yugoslavian explorer (b. 1912)
 1992  James Van Fleet, American general (b. 1892)
 1994  Jerry Barber, American golfer (b. 1916)
 1994  Robert Bloch, American writer (b. 1917)
1994  Madeleine Renaud, French actress (b. 1900)
 1998  Ray Bowden, English footballer (b. 1909)
 1999  Ivan Goff, Australian-American screenwriter and producer (b. 1910)
From 2001 
 2003  Shawn Lane, American musician (b. 1963)
 2006  Malcolm Arnold, British composer (b. 1921)
 2006  Etta Baker, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1913)
 2006  Tim Rooney, American actor (b. 1947)
 2009  Ertugrul Osman, head of the Ottoman dynasty (b. 1912)
 2012  Corrie Sanders, South African boxer (b. 1966)
 2012  Pavel Grachev, Russian general (b. 1948)
 2013  Vlatko Markovic, Croatian footballer (b. 1937)
 2014  Al Suomi, American ice hockey player (b. 1913)
 2014  Gilles Latulippe, Canadian comedian, actor and theatre manager (b. 1937)
 2014  Henryk Glücklich, Polish speedway rider (b. 1945)
 2015  Mike Gibson, Australian sports journalist and broadcaster (b. 1940)
 2015  Dragan Holcer, Croatian footballer (b. 1945)
 2015  Denis Sonet, French priest (b. 1926)
 2017  Charles Bradley, American singer (b. 1948)
 2017  Elizabeth D. Phillips, American educator and academic administrator (b. 1945)
 2017  Samuel H. Young, American politician (b. 1922)
2018  Charles K. Kao, Chinese-born electrical engineer (b. 1933)
 2018  Gary Kurtz, American film producer (b. 1940)
 2019  Al Alvarez, English poet and writer (b. 1929)
 2019  Madhav Apte, Indian cricketer (b. 1932)
 2019  Elaine Feinstein, English poet and novelist (b. 1930)
 2019  Robert Hunter, American songwriter, poet and guitarist (b. 1941)
 2019  Curt Wittlin, Swiss philologist (b. 1941)
Observances 
 Feast of Saint Pio
 Celebrate Bisexuality Day
 National holiday of Saudi Arabia
 September Equinox in some years (Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, and Spring in the Southern Hemisphere)

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 622 – The Prophet Muhammad completes his Hijra (pilgrimage) from Mecca to Medina.
 1180 - Manuel I Komnenos, the last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration, dies. This leads to an irreversible decline of the Byzantine Empire.
 1645 - English Civil War: Battle of Rowton Heath - Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles I of England.
 1664 – The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam (New York) to England.
 1780 - Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British major John Andre exposes Arnold's plan to surrender West Point.
 1789 - United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act which creates the office of United States Attorney General and the Federal Judiciary System, also ordering the composition of the United States Supreme Court.
 1830 - Belgian Revolution: A revolutionary committee of notables from the Provisional Government of Belgium.
 1841 - The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the United Kingdom.
1846 - Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey, Mexico.
 1852 - The first airship powered by a steam engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 kilometres) from Paris to Trappes.
 1853 - France takes control of New Caledonia.
 1856 - The paddle steamer Niagara sinks on Lake Michigan, near Port Washington, Wisconsin, killing over 60 people.
 1869 – The Black Friday crisis occurs in the United States, in relation to gold prices.
 1877 - Battle of Shiroyama: Decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese over the Satsuma Rebellion.
1901  2000 
 1906 – Devils Tower in Wyoming becomes the first National Monument in the United States.
 1932 - Mahatma Gandhi and B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables).
 1946 - Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
 1948 – The Honda Motor Company is founded.
 1950 - Forest fires black out the Sun over parts of Canada and New England.
 1957 – The Camp Nou football (soccer) stadium opens in Barcelona, Spain.
 1957 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division  troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce desegregation.
 1962 - The United States Court of Appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
 1968 – Swaziland joins the UN.
 1968 - The TV program 60 Minutes is first broadcast on CBS.
 1973 – Guinea-Bissau declares independence from Portugal.
1979 - Compu-Serve launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first electronic mail service.
 1988 – The National League for Democracy is founded by Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma.
 1988 - 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul: Canada's Ben Johnson wins the Men's 100 metres race over Carl Lewis, smashing the world record. However, Johnson fails a drug test shortly after, leading to a major scandal.
 1990 - The Periodic Great White Spot is observed on Saturn.
 1991 - Nirvana's Nevermind album is released in the US.
 1993 – The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as King.
 1996 – Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty at the UN.
From 2001 
 2005 – Hurricane Rita strikes land near the Texas–Louisiana border.
 2007 - 30,000 to 100,000 people protest in Rangoon against Burma's ruling military junta.
 2007 - The sitcom The Big Bang Theory is first broadcast.
 2009 - The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, with over 30 global leaders attending.
 2013 - A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing over 300 people. It also creates a small island off the south coast.
 2014 - The Mars Orbiter Mission, a Mars orbiter launched into Earth orbit by the Indian Space Research Organisation, successfully enters into orbit around the planet Mars.
 2015 - At least 717 people are crushed to death and 863 wounded in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage near Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
 2015 - Pope Francis becomes the first Pope to speak in front of the United States Congress.
 2016 - Jeremy Corbyn defeats a challenge from Owen Smith to his leadership of the British Labour Party.
2016 - The National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC is officially opened by Barack Obama.
 2017 - German federal election, 2017: Angela Merkel's alliance of the CDU and CSU remains the strongest faction in the Bundestag but with a much-reduced vote share at 33%. The Social Democrats return their worst result ever at 21%; the Free Democrats return to the Bundestag, while the far-right Alternative for Germany party, at 13%, is represented there for the first time.
 2019 - The United Kingdom's supreme court rules that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's suspension of parliament was unlawful, thereby declaring the suspension to be null and void.
 2019 - Spain's supreme court rules that the remains of General Francisco Franco should be removed from the Valley of the Fallen in the central area of the country.
Up to 1800 
 15 – Vitellius, Roman Emperor (died 69)
 1301 – Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (died 1372)
 1473 - Georg von Frundsberg, German soldier (died 1528)
 1501 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (died 1576)
 1534 – Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (died 1581)
 1564 – William Adams, English navigator and samurai (died 1620)
 1583 – Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (died 1634)
 1599 - Adam Olearius, German writer and diplomat (died 1671)
 1625 – Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (died 1672)
 1667 - Jean-Louis Lully, French musician and composer (died 1688)
 1705 – Count Leopold Josef von Daun, Austrian field marshal (died 1766)
 1714 - Alaungpaya, King of Burma (died 1760)
 1717 – Horace Walpole, British novelist and politician (died 1797)
 1724 – Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (died 1803)
 1739 – Grigory Potyomkin, Russian field marshal (died 1791)
 1755 – John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States (died 1835)
1763 - Ezra Butler, 11th Governor of Vermont (died 1838)
 1796 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (died 1875)
1801  1900 
 1801 – Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist (died 1862)
 1802 – Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (died 1868)
 1817 – Ramon de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet and philosopher (died 1901)
 1836 - Pablo Arosemena Alba, 5th President of Panama (died 1920)
 1851 - Federico Boyd, 4th President of Panama (died 1924)
 1852 - Elizabeth Maria Molteno, South African women's rights activist (died 1927)
 1857 – Richard Mansfield, German-born actor (died 1907)
 1858 - Eugene Foss, 45th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1939)
 1859 - S. R. Crockett, Scottish novelist (died 1914)
 1861 - Walter Simons, German politician and jurist (died 1937)
 1870 - Georges Claude, French chemist and engineer (died 1960)
 1871 – Lottie Dod, English tennis player (died 1960)
 1872 - Jaan Teemant, Estonian lawyer and politician (died 1941)
 1878 – C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (died 1947)
 1880 – Sarah Knauss, American supercentenarian (died 1999)
1882 - Max Decugis, French tennis player (died 1978)
 1883 - Franklin Clarence Mars, American businessman (died 1934)
 1883 - Lawson Robertson, Scottish-American high jumper (died 1951)
 1884 – Ismet Inönü, second President of Turkey (died 1973)
 1884 – Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (died 1953)
 1885 - Artur Lemba, Estonian pianist, composer and educator (died 1963)
 1886 - Roberto Maria Ortiz, President of Argentine (died 1942)
 1887 - Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, Scottish politician and colonial administrator (died 1952)
 1890 – A. P. Herbert, British humorist, barrister, novelist (died 1971)
 1890 - Mike Gonzalez, Cuban baseball player, coach and manager (died 1977)
 1892 - Adélard Godbout, 15th Premier of Quebec (died 1956)
 1894 – Tommy Armour, Scottish-American golfer (died 1968)
 1894 - Billy Bletcher, American actor, singer and screenwriter (died 1979)
 1895 – André Frédéric Cournand, French born physician, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1988)
1896 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist (d. 1940)
 1898 – Howard Walter Florey, Australian-born pharmacologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1945 (died 1968)
 1898 - Charlotte Moore Sitterly, American astronomer (died 1990)
 1899 – Sir William Dobell, Australian portrait artist (died 1970)
1901  1950 
 1902 - Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran (died 1989)
 1905 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish–born biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1993)
 1908 - Saizo Saito, Japanese footballer (died 2004)
 1909 – Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect and historian of gardens (died 1966)
 1910 - Jean Servais, Belgian actor (died 1976)
 1911 – Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet premier (died 1985)
 1911 - Jimmy Smith, Scottish footballer (died 2005)
 1912 – Don Porter, American actor (died 1997)
 1913 - Herb Jeffries, American singer and actor (died 2014)
 1914 – John Kerr, Governor-General of Australia (died 1991)
 1914 - Andrzej Panufnik, Polish composer, pianist and conductor (died 1991)
 1917 - Otto Günsche, German SS officer (died 2003)
 1918 – Audra Lindley, American actress (died 1997)
 1919 – Dayton Allen, American actor and comedian (died 2004)
 1921 - Sheila MacRae, English-American actress, singer and dancer (died 2004)
1922 - Bert I. Gordon, American director, producer and screenwriter
 1923 – Louis Edmonds, American actor (died 2001)
 1924 - Hidemaro Watanabe, Japanese footballer (died 2011)
 1924 - Nina Bocharova, Ukrainian gymnast
 1924 – Theresa Merritt, American actress (died 1998)
 1925 - Geoffrey Burbidge, English astronomer (died 2010)
 1925 – Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (died 2004)
 1928 - René Lavand, Argentine illusionist (died 2015)
 1930 – John Young, American astronaut (died 2018)
 1931 - Gilberto Aceves Navarro, Mexican artist (died 2019)
 1931 – Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (died 1999)
 1931 - Tom Adams, Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 1985)
 1931 - Elizabeth Blackadder, Scottish painter
 1931 - Brian Glanville, English author
 1931 - Leopoldo Verona, Argentine actor (died 2014)
 1932 - Miguel Montuori, Italian-Argentine footballer (died 1998)
 1933 - Raffaele Farina, Italian cardinal
 1934 – Manfred Wörner, German politician and diplomat (died 1994)
1934 - John-Roger Hinkins, American author, public speaker and religious leader (died 2014)
 1934 - Donald Wrye, American director, actor and screenwriter (died 2015)
 1936 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer (died 1990)
 1939 - Wayne Henderson, American musician (died 2014)
 1939 - Moti Kirschenbaum, Israeli television personality (died 2015)
 1941 – Linda McCartney, American singer and activist (died 1998)
 1942 – Ilkka "Danny" Lipsanen, Finnish singer
 1942 – Gerry Marsden, English singer (Gerry and the Pacemakers)
 1943 - Antonio Tabucchi, Italian writer (died 2012)
 1945 - John Rutter, English composer
 1945 – Lou Dobbs, American journalist
 1946 – "Mean" Joe Greene, American football player
 1946 – Lars Emil Johansen, former Prime Minister of Greenland
 1948 – Gordon Clapp, American actor
 1948 – Phil Hartman, Canadian actor (died 1998)
 1949 – Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish movie director
 1950 - Alan Colmes, American talk show host
 1950 - Mohinder Amarnath, Indian cricketer, coach and sportscaster
1951  1975 
 1952 – Mark Sandman, American musician (died 1999)
 1954 – Patrick Kelly, American fashion designer (died 1990)
 1954 - Helen Lederer, English comedienne, writer and actress
 1954 – Marco Tardelli, Italian footballer
 1955 – Riccardo Illy, Italian politician
 1955 - Sophie Dessus, French politician (died 2016)
 1956 – Hubie Brooks, American baseball player
 1956 - Ilona Slupianek, German athlete
 1957 - Wolfgang Wolf, German footballer and manager
 1957 - Brad Bird, American director, screenwriter, animator, producer and writer
 1958 - Murdo MacLeod, Scottish footballer
 1958 – Kevin Sorbo, American actor
 1959 - Theo Paphitis, Cypriot-British businessman
 1959 – Steve Whitmire, American voice actor
 1961 - Fiona Corke, Australian actress
 1961 - Jack Dee, English comedian
 1961 - Luc Picard, Canadian actor, director and screenwriter
 1962 – Nia Vardalos, Canadian actress, writer, and comedienne
 1962 – Mike Phelan, English footballer
 1962 – Ally McCoist, Scottish footballer
1964 - J. Michael Mendel, American television producer (died 2019)
 1964 - Osamu Taninaka, Japanese footballer
 1964 – Rafael Palmeiro, Cuban-born baseball player
 1966 – Michael J. Varhola, American writer, editor, publisher, and game designer.
 1966 - Stefan Molyneux, Irish-Canadian blogger and author
 1968 - Michael Obiku, Nigerian footballer
 1969 – Shawn Crahan, American musician (Slipknot)
 1969 – Donald DeGrate, Jr., American music producer
 1969 - Goya Toledo, Spanish actress
 1970 – Karen Forkel, German athlete
 1970 - Gary McSwegan, Scottish footballer
 1971 - Craig Burley, Scottish footballer
 1972 - Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese politician
 1972 - Kate Fleetwood, English actress
 1974 - Kati Wolf, Hungarian singer
From 1976 
 1976 – Stephanie McMahon, American business person and writer (World Wrestling Entertainment)
 1978 – Wietse van Alten, Dutch archer
 1979 – Casey Johnson, American socialite and heiress (died 2010)
 1980 – Petri Pasanen, Finnish footballer
 1980 – John Arne Riise, Norwegian footballer
 1980 - Victoria Pendleton, British cyclist
 1981 - Drew Gooden, American basketball player
 1982 – Morgan Hamm, American gymnast
 1982 – Paul Hamm, American gymnast
 1982 - Cristian Daniel Ledesma, Argentine-Italian footballer
 1985 - Eleanor Catton, Canadian-New Zealand writer
 1985 – Jessica Lucas, Canadian actress
 1986 - Leah Dizon, American-Japanese singer and model
 1987 - Spencer Treat Clark, American actor
 1987 - Gürhan Gürsoy, Turkish footballer  
 1988 - Birgit Oigemeel, Estonian singer
 1988 – Kyle Sullivan, American actor
 1989 - Pia Wurtzbach, German-Filipina actress and model
 1991 - Oriol Romeu, Spanish footballer
 1992 - Jack Sock, American tennis player