September 12 - wikipedia September 12 This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 October 2017. For the Turkish film, see September 12 ( film ). < < September > > Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 2017 September 12 in recent years 2017 ( Tuesday ) 2016 ( Monday ) 2015 ( Saturday ) 2014 ( Friday ) 2013 ( Thursday ) 2012 ( Wednesday ) 2011 ( Monday ) 2010 ( Sunday ) 2009 ( Saturday ) 2008 ( Friday ) September 12 is the 255th day of the year ( 256th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 110 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday ( 58 in 400 years each ) than on Thursday or Friday ( 57 ), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday ( 56 ). Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links Events 490 BC -- Battle of Marathon : The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies, defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece. 372 -- Sixteen Kingdoms : Jin Xiaowudi, age 10, succeeds his father Jin Jianwendi as Emperor of the Eastern Jin dynasty. 1185 -- Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos brutally put to death in Constantinople. 1213 -- Albigensian Crusade : Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret. 1229 -- Battle of Portopí : The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island. 1309 -- The First Siege of Gibraltar takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada resulting in a Castilian victory. 1609 -- Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen. 1634 -- A gunpowder factory explodes in Valletta, Malta, killing 22 people and damaging several buildings. 1683 -- Austro - Ottoman War : Battle of Vienna : Several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire. 1814 -- Battle of North Point : an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812. 1846 -- Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning. 1847 -- Mexican -- American War : the Battle of Chapultepec begins. 1848 -- Switzerland approves its 1st Constitution and becomes a Federal state. 1857 -- The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13 -- 15 tons of gold from the California Gold Rush. 1885 -- Arbroath 36 -- 0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional Association football. 1890 -- Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded. 1897 -- Tirah Campaign : Battle of Saragarhi. 1906 -- The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar. 1910 -- Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler 's Symphony No. 8 in Munich ( with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler 's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter ) 1915 -- French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh. 1919 -- Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers ' Party ( later the Nazi Party ). 1923 -- Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom. 1933 -- Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. 1938 -- Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self - determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. 1940 -- Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France. 1940 -- An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200. 1942 -- World War II : RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life. 1942 -- World War II : First day of the Battle of Edson 's Ridge during the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field on Guadalcanal are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army forces. 1943 -- World War II : Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny. 1944 -- World War II : The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among the liberated cities. 1952 -- Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia. 1953 -- U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary 's Church in Newport, Rhode Island. 1958 -- Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments. 1959 -- The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon. 1959 -- Bonanza premieres, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color. 1961 -- The African and Malagasy Union is founded. 1962 -- President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. 1966 -- Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA 's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder ( except for the Apollo lunar missions ) 1970 -- Dawson 's Field hijackings : Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman. 1974 -- Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, ' Messiah ' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years. 1974 -- Juventude Africana Amílcar Cabral is founded in Guinea - Bissau. 1977 -- South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody. 1980 -- Military coup in Turkey. 1983 -- A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US $7 million by Los Macheteros. 1983 -- The USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. 1984 -- Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 246, previously set by Herb Score in 1954. Gooden 's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record. 1988 -- Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica ; it turns towards Mexico 's Yucatán Peninsula two days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage. 1990 -- The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification. 1992 -- NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS - 47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African - American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space. 1992 -- Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces ; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path 's leadership fell as well. 1994 -- Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single - engine Cessna 150 into the White House 's south lawn, striking the West wing. There were no other casualties. 2001 -- Ansett Australia, Australia 's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed. 2003 -- The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. 2003 -- Iraq War : In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers. 2007 -- Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of plunder. 2008 -- The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people. 2011 -- The 9 / 11 Memorial Museum in New York City opens to the public. 2014 -- Three - year - old William Tyrrell disappears in Kendall, New South Wales, Australia 2015 -- A series of explosions involving propane triggering nearby illegally stored mining detonators in the Indian town of Petlawad in the state of Madhya Pradesh ( मध्य प्रदेश ) kills at least 105 people with over 150 injured. Births 1415 -- John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk ( d. 1461 ) 1492 -- Lorenzo de ' Medici, Duke of Urbino ( d. 1519 ) 1494 -- Francis I of France ( d. 1547 ) 1552 -- André Schott, Jesuit priest, academic, linguist, translator, editor ( d. 1629 ) 1590 -- María de Zayas, Spanish writer ( d. 1661 ) 1605 -- William Dugdale, English genealogist and historian ( d. 1686 ) 1690 -- Peter Dens, Flemish theologian and academic ( d. 1775 ) 1725 -- Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer ( d. 1792 ) 1736 -- Hsinbyushin, Burmese king ( d. 1776 ) 1740 -- Johann Heinrich Jung, German author and academic ( d. 1817 ) 1768 -- Benjamin Carr, English - American singer - songwriter, educator, and publisher ( d. 1831 ) 1797 -- Samuel Joseph May, American activist ( d. 1871 ) 1812 -- Edward Shepherd Creasy, English historian and jurist ( d. 1878 ) 1812 -- Richard March Hoe, American engineer and businessman, invented the Rotary printing press ( d. 1886 ) 1818 -- Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor, invented the Gatling gun ( d. 1903 ) 1818 -- Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator ( d. 1882 ) 1828 -- William Morgan, English - Australian politician, 14th Premier of South Australia ( d. 1883 ) 1829 -- Anselm Feuerbach, German painter ( d. 1880 ) 1830 -- William Sprague, American businessman and politician, 27th Governor of Rhode Island ( d. 1915 ) 1837 -- Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse ( d. 1892 ) 1852 -- H.H. Asquith, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1928 ) 1855 -- Simon - Napoléon Parent, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Quebec ( d. 1920 ) 1856 -- Johann Heinrich Beck, American composer and conductor ( d. 1924 ) 1857 -- Manuel Espinosa Batista, Colombian pharmacist and politician ( d. 1919 ) 1862 -- Carl Eytel, German - American painter and illustrator ( d. 1925 ) 1866 -- Freeman Freeman - Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, English cricketer and politician, 13th Governor General of Canada ( d. 1941 ) 1869 -- Paweł Owerłło, Polish actor ( d, 1957 ) 1875 -- Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor and director ( d. 1926 ) 1880 -- H.L. Mencken, American journalist and critic ( d. 1956 ) 1882 -- Ion Agârbiceanu, Romanian journalist, politician, and archbishop ( d. 1963 ) 1884 -- Martin Klein, Estonian wrestler and coach ( d. 1947 ) 1885 -- Heinrich Hoffmann, German photographer and art dealer ( d. 1957 ) 1888 -- Maurice Chevalier, French actor, singer, and dancer ( d. 1972 ) 1889 -- Ugo Pasquale Mifsud, Maltese politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Malta ( d. 1942 ) 1891 -- Pedro Albizu Campos, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician ( d. 1965 ) 1891 -- Jean - François Martial, Belgian actor ( d. 1977 ) 1891 -- Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher ( d. 1968 ) 1892 -- Alfred A. Knopf, Sr., American publisher, founded Alfred A. Knopf Inc. ( d. 1984 ) 1894 -- Kyuichi Tokuda, Japanese lawyer and politician ( d. 1953 ) 1894 -- Dorothy Maud Wrinch, Argentinian - English mathematician, biochemist and philosopher ( d. 1976 ) 1895 -- Freymóður Jóhannsson, Icelandic painter and composer ( d. 1973 ) 1897 -- Irène Joliot - Curie, French chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1956 ) 1897 -- Walter B. Gibson, American magician and author ( d. 1985 ) 1898 -- Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer ( d. 1963 ) 1898 -- Alma Moodie, Australian violinist and educator ( d. 1943 ) 1898 -- Ben Shahn, Lithuanian - American painter and photographer ( d. 1969 ) 1900 -- Haskell Curry, American mathematician, logician, and academic ( d. 1982 ) 1901 -- Shmuel Horowitz, Israeli agronomist and academic ( d. 1999 ) 1902 -- Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian physician and politician, 21st President of Brazil ( d. 1976 ) 1902 -- Marya Zaturenska, Ukrainian - American poet and author ( d. 1982 ) 1904 -- István Horthy, Hungarian fighter pilot and deputy regent ( d. 1942 ) 1904 -- John Courtney Murray, American priest and theologian ( d. 1967 ) 1904 -- Lou Moore, American race car driver ( d. 1956 ) 1907 -- Louis MacNeice, Irish poet and playwright ( d. 1963 ) 1909 -- Donald MacDonald, Canadian trade union leader and politician ( d. 1986 ) 1913 -- Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper ( d. 1980 ) 1914 -- Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani psychoanalyst, poet, and scholar ( d. 1988 ) 1914 -- Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh - English soldier and actor ( d. 1999 ) 1916 -- Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver ( d. 1961 ) 1917 -- Pierre Sévigny, Canadian colonel, academic, and politician ( d. 2004 ) 1917 -- Han Suyin, Chinese - Swiss physician and author ( d. 2012 ) 1920 -- Irene Dailey, American actress ( d. 2008 ) 1921 -- Frank McGee, American journalist ( d. 1974 ) 1921 -- Stanisław Lem, Ukrainian - Polish philosopher and author ( d. 2006 ) 1921 -- Turgut Cansever, Turkish Architect, city planner, thinker ( d. 2009 ) 1922 -- Antonio Cafiero, Argentinian accountant and politician, Governor of Buenos Aires Province ( d. 2014 ) 1922 -- Jackson Mac Low, American poet, playwright, and composer ( d. 2004 ) 1922 -- Mark Rosenzweig, American psychologist and academic ( d. 2009 ) 1924 -- Amílcar Cabral, Guinea - Bissauan political leader ( d. 1973 ) 1925 -- Stan Lopata, American baseball player ( d. 2013 ) 1925 -- Dickie Moore, American actor ( d. 2015 ) 1927 -- Mathé Altéry, French soprano and actress 1928 -- Robert Irwin, American painter and gardener 1928 -- Muriel Siebert, American businesswoman and philanthropist ( d. 2013 ) 1928 -- Ernie Vandeweghe, Canadian - American basketball player and physician ( d. 2014 ) 1929 -- Harvey Schmidt, American composer and illustrator 1930 -- Larry Austin, American composer and educator 1931 -- Ian Holm, English actor 1931 -- George Jones, American singer - songwriter and guitarist ( d. 2013 ) 1932 -- Atli Dam, Faroese engineer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands ( d. 2005 ) 1934 -- Glenn Davis, American hurdler, sprinter, and football player ( d. 2009 ) 1934 -- Jaegwon Kim, South Korean - American philosopher and academic 1935 -- Richard Hunt, American sculptor 1937 -- George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer 1937 -- Wes Hall, Barbadian cricketer and politician 1938 -- Judy Clay, American soul and gospel singer ( d. 2001 ) 1938 -- Claude Ruel, Canadian ice hockey player and coach ( d. 2015 ) 1938 -- Tatiana Troyanos, American operatic soprano ( d. 1993 ) 1939 -- Phillip Ramey, American pianist and composer 1939 -- Henry Waxman, American lawyer and politician 1940 -- Linda Gray, American model and actress 1940 -- Mickey Lolich, American baseball player 1940 -- Stephen J. Solarz, American academic and politician ( d. 2010 ) 1942 -- Michel Drucker, French journalist 1942 -- Tomás Marco, Spanish composer 1942 -- François Tavenas, Canadian engineer and academic ( d. 2004 ) 1943 -- Maria Muldaur, American folk and blues singer 1943 -- Leonard Peltier, American political activist and convicted criminal 1944 -- Lonnie Mayne, American wrestler ( d. 1978 ) 1944 -- Vladimir Spivakov, Russian violinist and conductor 1944 -- Barry White, American singer - songwriter ( d. 2003 ) 1945 -- Milo Manara, Italian author and illustrator 1945 -- John Mauceri, American conductor and producer 1946 -- Tony Bellamy, American singer - songwriter and guitarist ( d. 2009 ) 1946 -- Neil Lyndon, British journalist and writer 1947 -- David Grant, English engineer and academic 1947 -- Gerald Howarth, English soldier, pilot, and politician, Minister for International Security Strategy 1948 -- Steve Turre, American trombonist and educator 1948 -- Max Walker, Australian cricketer, sportscaster, and architect ( d. 2016 ) 1949 -- Charles Burlingame, American captain and pilot ( d. 2001 ) 1949 -- Irina Rodnina, Russian figure skater and politician 1949 -- Tony Stevens, English rock bassist and songwriter ( Savoy Brown ; Foghat ) 1950 -- Marguerite Blais, Canadian journalist and politician 1950 -- Gustav Brunner, Austrian engineer 1950 -- Bruce Mahler, American actor and screenwriter 1950 -- Mike Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1951 -- Bertie Ahern, Irish accountant and politician, 11th Taoiseach of Ireland 1951 -- Norm Dubé, Canadian ice hockey player 1951 -- Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby player and actor ( d. 2007 ) 1951 -- Joe Pantoliano, American actor and producer 1951 -- Ali - Ollie Woodson, American singer - songwriter and keyboard player ( d. 2010 ) 1952 -- Gerry Beckley, American singer - songwriter and guitarist 1952 -- Neil Peart, Canadian drummer, songwriter, and producer 1953 -- Nan Goldin, American photographer 1953 -- Fiona Mactaggart, Scottish educator and politician 1954 -- Robert Gober, American sculptor 1954 -- Scott Hamilton, American saxophonist 1954 -- Peeter Volkonski, Estonian singer - songwriter and actor 1955 -- Brian Smith, English footballer ( d. 2013 ) 1956 -- Barry Andrews, English singer and keyboard player 1956 -- Chip Beck, American golfer 1956 -- Sam Brownback, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of Kansas 1956 -- Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer - songwriter and actor ( d. 2003 ) 1956 -- David Goodhart, English journalist and author 1956 -- Brian Robertson, Scottish singer - songwriter and guitarist 1956 -- Ricky Rudd, American race car driver and sportscaster 1956 -- Walter Woon, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 7th Attorney - General of Singapore 1957 -- Paul M. Sharp, British academic and educator 1957 -- Jan Egeland, Norwegian politician, diplomat and humanitarian 1957 -- Rachel Ward, English - Australian actress 1957 -- Hans Zimmer, German composer and producer 1958 -- Wilfred Benítez, American boxer 1958 -- Gregg Edelman, American actor and singer 1959 -- Scott Brown, American colonel and politician 1959 -- Deron Cherry, American football player and sportscaster 1959 -- Sigmar Gabriel, German educator and politician, 17th Vice-Chancellor of Germany 1960 -- Evan Jenkins, American academic and politician 1960 -- Stefanos Korkolis, Greek pianist and composer 1961 -- Mylène Farmer, Canadian - French singer - songwriter, producer, and actress 1962 -- Sunay Akın, Turkish poet, journalist, and philanthropist 1962 -- Amy Yasbeck, American actress 1964 -- Greg Gutfeld, American television journalist and author 1964 -- Dieter Hecking, German footballer and manager 1965 -- Einstein Kristiansen, Norwegian animator and producer 1965 -- Vernon Maxwell, American basketball player 1965 -- Midnight, Jamaican wrestler 1966 -- Ben Folds, American singer - songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1966 -- Vezio Sacratini, Canadian ice hockey player 1967 -- Louis C.K., American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter 1967 -- Pat Listach, American baseball player, coach, and manager 1968 -- Larry LaLonde, American guitarist and songwriter 1968 -- Nicholas Russell, 6th Earl Russell, English politician ( d. 2014 ) 1968 -- Richard Snell, South African cricketer and physiotherapist 1968 -- Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian, actor, and writer 1969 -- Max Boot, Russian - American historian and author 1969 -- Ángel Cabrera, Argentinian golfer 1969 -- James Frey, American author and screenwriter 1969 -- Shigeki Maruyama, Japanese golfer 1970 -- Nathan Larson, American singer - songwriter and guitarist 1971 -- Younes El Aynaoui, Moroccan tennis player 1971 -- Shocker, Mexican wrestler 1972 -- Gideon Emery, English - American actor, producer, and screenwriter 1972 -- Paul Green, Australian rugby league player and coach 1972 -- Sidney Souza, Brazilian footballer 1973 -- Kara David, Filipino journalist and documentarian 1973 -- Martin Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1973 -- Paul Walker, American actor and producer ( d. 2013 ) 1974 -- Caroline Aigle, French soldier and pilot ( d. 2007 ) 1974 -- Jennifer Nettles, American singer - songwriter 1974 -- Guy Smith, English race car driver 1974 -- Kenichi Suzumura, Japanese voice actor and singer - songwriter 1974 -- Nuno Valente, Portuguese footballer and coach 1975 -- Luis Castillo, Dominican baseball player 1975 -- Bill Kirby, Australian swimmer and coach 1976 -- Bizzy Bone, American rapper 1976 -- Maciej Żurawski, Polish footballer 1977 -- Nathan Bracken, Australian cricketer 1977 -- Grant Denyer, Australian race car driver and journalist 1977 -- Jeff Irwin, American singer - songwriter and producer 1977 -- James McCartney, English singer - songwriter 1977 -- David Thompson, English footballer 1978 -- Elisabetta Canalis, Italian model and actress 1978 -- Benjamin McKenzie, American actor 1978 -- Ruben Studdard, American R&B, pop, and gospel singer 1980 -- Sean Burroughs, American baseball player 1980 -- Fernando César de Souza, Brazilian footballer 1980 -- Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player 1980 -- Kevin Sinfield, English rugby player 1980 -- Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey player ( d. 2011 ) 1981 -- Marty Adams, Canadian actor and screenwriter 1981 -- Alan Arruda, Brazilian footballer 1981 -- Jennifer Hudson, American singer and actress 1981 -- Staciana Stitts, American swimmer 1982 -- Zoran Planinić, Croatian basketball player 1982 -- Sal Rinauro, American wrestler 1983 -- Tom Geißler, German footballer 1983 -- Rami Haikal, Jordanian guitarist 1983 -- Sebastian Hofmann, German footballer 1983 -- Daniel Muir, American football player 1983 -- Sergio Parisse, Argentinian - Italian rugby player 1983 -- Clayton Richard, American baseball player 1983 -- Carly Smithson, Irish singer - songwriter 1984 -- Nashat Akram, Iraqi footballer 1984 -- Chelsea Carey, Canadian curler 1986 -- Kamila Chudzik, Polish heptathlete 1986 -- Akwasi Fobi - Edusei, English footballer 1986 -- Joanne Jackson, English swimmer 1986 -- Yuto Nagatomo, Japanese footballer 1986 -- Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter 1986 -- Emmy Rossum, American singer and actress 1988 -- Amanda Jenssen, Swedish singer - songwriter and guitarist 1989 -- Freddie Freeman, American - Canadian baseball player 1989 -- Andrew Luck, American football player 1991 -- Mike Towell, Scottish professional boxer ( d. 2016 ) 1991 -- Scott Wootton, English footballer 1992 -- Sviatlana Pirazhenka, Belarusian tennis player 1993 -- Kelsea Ballerini, American Singer 1994 -- Rap Monster, South Korean Rapper, songwriter and record producer 1995 -- Ryan Potter, American actor Deaths 640 -- Sak K'uk ', Mayan queen 1185 -- Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor ( b. 1118 ) 1213 -- Peter II of Aragon ( b. 1174 ) 1362 -- Pope Innocent VI ( b. 1295 ) 1368 -- Blanche of Lancaster ( b. 1345 / 1347 ) 1439 -- Sidi El Houari, Algerian imam ( b. 1350 ) 1500 -- Albert III, Duke of Saxony ( b. 1443 ) 1544 -- Clément Marot, French poet ( b. 1496 ) 1612 -- Vasili IV of Russia ( b. 1552 ) 1642 -- Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq - Mars, French conspirator ( b. 1620 ) 1660 -- Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist, and politician ( b. 1577 ) 1665 -- Jean Bolland, Belgian priest and hagiographer ( b. 1596 ) 1672 -- Tanneguy Le Fèvre, French scholar and author ( b. 1615 ) 1674 -- Nicolaes Tulp, Dutch anatomist and politician ( b. 1593 ) 1683 -- Afonso VI of Portugal ( b. 1643 ) 1712 -- Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter and illustrator ( b. 1637 ) 1764 -- Jean - Philippe Rameau, French composer and theorist ( b. 1683 ) 1779 -- Richard Grenville - Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire ( b. 1711 ) 1810 -- Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician ( b. 1740 ) 1814 -- Robert Ross, Irish general ( b. 1766 ) 1819 -- Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general ( b. 1742 ) 1836 -- Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German playwright ( b. 1801 ) 1869 -- Peter Mark Roget, English physician, theologian, and lexicographer ( b. 1779 ) 1870 -- Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American journalist, explorer, and author ( b. 1836 ) 1874 -- François Guizot, French historian and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France ( b. 1787 ) 1903 -- Duncan Gillies, Scottish - Australian businessman and politician, 14th Premier of Victoria ( b. 1834 ) 1907 -- Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian poet, journalist, and lawyer ( b. 1837 ) 1912 -- Pierre - Hector Coullié, French cardinal ( b. 1829 ) 1918 -- George Reid, Australian accountant and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Australia ( b. 1845 ) 1919 -- Leonid Andreyev, Russian author and playwright ( b. 1871 ) 1923 -- Jules Violle, French physicist and academic ( b. 1841 ) 1927 -- Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer ( b. 1847 ) 1942 -- Valentine Baker, Welsh co-founder of the Martin - Baker Aircraft Company ( b. 1888 ) 1945 -- Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese field marshal and politician, 44th Japanese Minister of War ( b. 1880 ) 1953 -- James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, English politician, Governor of Northern Ireland ( b. 1869 ) 1953 -- Hugo Schmeisser, German engineer ( b. 1884 ) 1953 -- Lewis Stone, American actor ( b. 1879 ) 1956 -- Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of War ( b. 1882 ) 1961 -- Carl Hermann, German physicist and academic ( b. 1898 ) 1962 -- Spot Poles, American baseball player and soldier ( b. 1887 ) 1962 -- Rangeya Raghav, Indian author and playwright ( b. 1923 ) 1967 -- Vladimir Bartol, Italian - Slovene author and playwright ( b. 1903 ) 1968 -- Tommy Armour, Scottish - American golfer and journalist ( b. 1894 ) 1971 -- Walter Egan, American golfer ( b. 1881 ) 1972 -- William Boyd, American actor and producer ( b. 1895 ) 1977 -- Steve Biko, South African activist ( b. 1946 ) 1977 -- Les Haylen, Australian journalist and politician ( b. 1898 ) 1977 -- Robert Lowell, American poet ( b. 1917 ) 1978 -- William Hudson, New Zealand - Australian engineer ( b. 1896 ) 1981 -- Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, essayist and translator, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1896 ) 1982 -- Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer and conductor ( b. 1891 ) 1986 -- Jacques Henri Lartigue, French painter and photographer ( b. 1894 ) 1986 -- Charlotte Wolff, German - English psychotherapist and physician ( b. 1897 ) 1987 -- John Qualen, Canadian - American actor ( b. 1899 ) 1990 -- Athene Seyler, English actress ( b. 1889 ) 1991 -- Bruce Matthews, Canadian general and businessman ( b. 1909 ) 1992 -- Anthony Perkins, American actor, singer, and director ( b. 1932 ) 1993 -- Raymond Burr, Canadian - American actor and director ( b. 1917 ) 1994 -- Tom Ewell, American actor ( b. 1909 ) 1994 -- Boris Yegorov, Russian physician and astronaut ( b. 1937 ) 1995 -- Jeremy Brett, English actor ( b. 1933 ) 1995 -- Yasutomo Nagai, Japanese motorcycle racer ( b. 1965 ) 1996 -- Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian general and politician, 29th President of Brazil ( b. 1907 ) 1999 -- Bill Quackenbush, Canadian - American ice hockey player and coach ( b. 1922 ) 2000 -- Stanley Turrentine, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader ( b. 1934 ) 2003 -- Johnny Cash, American singer - songwriter, guitarist, and actor ( b. 1932 ) 2005 -- Serge Lang, French - American mathematician, author and academic ( b. 1927 ) 2007 -- Bobby Byrd, American singer - songwriter and producer ( b. 1934 ) 2008 -- Bob Quinn, Australian footballer and coach ( b. 1915 ) 2008 -- David Foster Wallace, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist ( b. 1962 ) 2009 -- Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1914 ) 2009 -- Jack Kramer, American tennis player and sportscaster ( b. 1921 ) 2009 -- Willy Ronis, French photographer and author ( b. 1910 ) 2010 -- Claude Chabrol, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter ( b. 1930 ) 2010 -- Giulio Zignoli, Italian footballer ( b. 1946 ) 2011 -- Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player ( b. 1985 ) 2012 -- Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Russian poet and author ( b. 1946 ) 2012 -- Jon Finlayson, Australian actor and screenwriter ( b. 1938 ) 2012 -- Derek Jameson, English journalist and broadcaster ( b. 1929 ) 2012 -- Tom Sims, American skateboarder and snowboarder, founded Sims Snowboards ( b. 1950 ) 2013 -- Ray Dolby, American engineer and businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories ( b. 1933 ) 2013 -- Warren Giese, American football player, coach, and politician ( b. 1924 ) 2013 -- Erich Loest, German author and screenwriter ( b. 1926 ) 2013 -- Candace Pert, American neuroscientist and pharmacologist ( b. 1946 ) 2014 -- Atef Ebeid, Egyptian academic and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Egypt ( b. 1932 ) 2014 -- John Gustafson, English singer - songwriter and bass player ( b. 1942 ) 2014 -- Ian Paisley, Northern Irish evangelical pastor ( Free Presbyterian Church ) and politician, 2nd First Minister of Northern Ireland ( b. 1926 ) 2014 -- Joe Sample, American pianist and composer ( b. 1939 ) 2014 -- Hugh Royer, Jr., American golfer ( b. 1936 ) 2015 -- Claudia Card, American philosopher and academic ( b. 1940 ) 2015 -- Frank D. Gilroy, American playwright and screenwriter ( b. 1925 ) 2015 -- Al Monchak, American baseball player and coach ( b. 1917 ) 2015 -- Aronda Nyakairima, Ugandan general and politician ( b. 1959 ) 2017 -- Allan MacEachen, Canadian economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada ( b. 1921 ) 2017 -- Edith Windsor, American LGBT rights activist and technology manager at IBM ( b. 1929 ) Holidays and observances Christian feast day : Ailbe of Emly Guy of Anderlecht The Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary John Henry Hobart ( Episcopal Church ( USA ) ) Laisrén mac Nad Froích Sacerdos of Lyon September 12 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics ) Commemoration of the mass hanging of the Saint Patrick 's Battalion ( Mexico ) Day of Conception ( Russia ) Defenders Day ( Maryland, United States ) Earliest date on which Programmers ' Day can fall, while September 13 is the latest ; celebrated on the 256th day of the year ( Russia and programmers around the world. It falls on this date during leap years ) Enkutatash falls on this day if it is a leap year. Celebrated on the first day of Mäskäräm. ( Ethiopia ) Mindfulness Day ( International observance ) Nayrouz ( Coptic Orthodox Church ) ( leap years only, September 11 on normal years ) National Day ( Cape Verde ) National Day of Encouragement ( United States ) National Chocolate Milkshake Day ( United States ) Saragarhi Day ( Sikhism ) United Nations Day for South - South Cooperation ( International ) External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to September 12. 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Question: what day of the week was september 12 2012
Answer: Wednesday