September 22

### 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 Sokhumi, 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.

### 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