September 30

Events 
 Up to 1950 
 489 – Battle of Verona: The Ostrogoths under King Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time in Verona, present–day Northern Italy.
 1061 – Pope Alexander II is elected.
 1399 – Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
 1512 – A rock avalanche buries most of the town of Biasca in Ticino, in the Italian–speaking part of Switzerland. Hundreds of people are killed.
 1744 – France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
 1791 – First performance of The Magic Flute: This is the last opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to have its premiere.
 1791 – The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jerome Petion as 'incorruptible patriots'.
 1813 – Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
 1860 – The UK's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
 1867 – The US takes control of the Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
 1882 – The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
 1885 – Bechuanaland, in present–day Botswana, becomes a British Protectorate.
 1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
 1895 – Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
 1906 – Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana.
 1907 – Opening of the McKinley National Memorial in Canton, Ohio. It is the final resting place of US President William McKinley and his family.
 1911 – The dam of the Austin Reservoir in Pennsylvania bursts, killing 78 people.
 1915 – A Serbian army private becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground–to–air fire.
 1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a single season.
 1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
 1935 – "The Adventures of Dick Tracy" is first heard on the Mutual Radio Network.
 1938 – The Munich Pact is signed.
 1938 – The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
 1939 – General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
 1941 – Holocaust: The Nazis complete the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine, in which thousands of people are killed.
 1945 – The Bourne End rail crash in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43 people.
 1947 – The Islamic Republic of Pakistan joined the United Nations.
 1947 – Baseball: The World Series, featuring New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
 1949 – The Berlin Airlift ends.
 1950 – Korean War: South Korean troops cross the 38th Parallel for the first time.

 1951 – 2000 
 1953 – On board the bathyscaphe Trieste, Auguste Piccard and Jacques Piccard travel to a depth 3,150 meters below the surface of the sea, which at that time had been the deepest point anyone had travelled.
 1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine [[USS Nautilus (SSN-571)|USS Nautilus]] is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
 1955 – James Dean dies in a car crash.
 1960 – The last episode of The Howdy Doody Show airs on NBC.
 1960 – The first episode of The Flintstones is shown on television.
 1962 – Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.
 1962 – James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
 1962 – Last episodes of Suspense and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar broadcast on CBS Radio, marking the end of The Golden Age of Radio.
 1965 – Civil unrest follows a failed coup attempt by Indonesia Communist Party (PKI). More than a million people died.
 1966 – The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
 1967 – BBC Radio 1 is launched; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names. Tony Blackburn presents the first show.
 1967 – Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation is launched in Colombo; the station was formerly known as Radio Ceylon.
 1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
 1970 – Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine for the release of the remaining  hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
 1972 – Baseball: Roberto Clemente has the 3,000th hit of his career.
 1975 – The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
 1976 – Muhammad Ali defends his Heavyweight Boxing Title, against Ken Norton.
 1979 – Niki Lauda retires from Formula One racing.
 1980 – Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
 1982 – Cyanide–laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is known as the Tylenol scare.
 1982 – The TV sitcom Cheers premieres.
 1986 – Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed Israel's covert nuclear programme to British media, is kidnapped in Rome by the Israeli Mossad.
 1989 – Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague.
 1991 – President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti is forced from office.
 1993 – An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
 1997 – Origin Systems Inc. releases Ultima Online, a massively multiplayer game, opening the door for a new video gaming genre.
 1999 – Japan's then–worst nuclear accident occurs at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo. Workers overload a container with uranium, exposing workers and local residents to very high radiation levels.

 From 2001 
 2004 – AIM-54 Phoenix which became the primary missile for the Northrop Grumman F-14 Tomcat retired from U.S. Navy.
 2004 – The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat is taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
 2005 – The Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".
 2005 – The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
 2009 – A magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes western Sumatra, killing over 1,000 people.
 2010 – In Ecuador, police officers, supported by parts of the army, attempt a failed coup against President Rafael Correa.
 2012 – British entertainer Jimmy Savile, who had died in October 2011, is revealed to have carried out sexual abuses over a period of decades.
 2012 – Europe wins the Ryder Cup golf tournament, with a comeback against the United States from 10–6 behind to win 14.5 to 13.5.
 2013 – Pope Francis announces that Pope John Paul II is to become a saint in April 2014, nine years after his death.
 2022 – Vladimir Putin pronounces the Annexation of Southern and Eastern Ukraine.

 Births 
 Up to 1900 
 1207 – Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273).
 1227 – Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292).
 1530 – Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist (d. 1606).
 1550 – Michael Maestlin, German mathematician (d. 1631).
 1689 – Jacques Aubert, French composer and violinist (d. 1753).
 1710 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d. 1771).
 1710 – Stanislaw Konarski, Polish monk, poet and playwright (d. 1773).
 1715 – Etienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d. 1780).
 1732 – Jacques Necker, Swiss–French politician (d. 1804).
 1743 – Christian Ehregott Weinlig, German composer (d. 1813).
 1765 – José Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1815).
 1800 – Decimus Burton, English architect (d. 1881).
 1811 – Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Queen of Prussia and Empress of Germany (d. 1890).
 1813 – John Rae, Orcadian physician and explorer of the Canadian Arctic (d. 1893)
 1827 – Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (d. 1918).
 1832 – Ann Jarvis, American labor activist (d. 1905).
 1833 – Ferdinand von Saar, Austrian writer (d. 1906).
 1836 – Remigio Morales Bermúdez, President of Peru (d. 1894).
 1848 – Robert Walker Macbeth, Scottish painter (d. 1910).
 1852 – Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, conductor and educator (d. 1924)
 1859 – George Henry Slight, Scottish engineer, creator of the Chilean lighthouse service (d. 1934)
 1861 – William Wrigley, Jr., American industrialist (d. 1932).
 1868 – José Serrato, 24th President of Uruguay (d. 1960).
 1870 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist (d. 1942).
 1882 – Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945).
 1883 – Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, British–born American engineer, architect and Women's Rights activist (d. 1945).
 1883 – Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (d. 1945).
 1887 – Lil Dagover, Dutch–born actress (d. 1980).
 1891 – Otto Schmidt, Russian politician, mathematician, geophysicist and Arctic explorer (d. 1956).
 1895 – Lewis Milestone, Russian–born movie director (d. 1980).
 1897 – Gaspar Cassado, Spanish cellist and composer (d. 1966).
 1898 – Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977).

 1901 – 1950 
 1902 – Ryuzo Shimizu, Japanese footballer (date of death unknown).
 1904 – Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (d. 1971).
 1905 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist (d. 1996).
 1905 – Michael Powell, British screenwriter, movie director and producer (d. 1990).
 1906 – Mireille Hartuch, French singer, composer and actress (d. 1996).
 1908 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1974).
 1910 – Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish military officer (d. 1962).
 1912 – Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (d. 1985).
 1913 – Bill Walsh, American movie producer and writer (d. 1975).
 1914 – Baby Ray, American football player (d. 1986).
 1915 – Lester Maddox, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 2003).
 1916 – Richard K. Guy, British mathematician
 1917 – Yuri Lyubimov, Russian stage actor and director (d. 2014).
 1917 – Pak Chong Hui, President of South Korea (d. 1979).
 1917 – Buddy Rich, American big band jazz drummer (d. 1987).
 1918 – René Rémond, French historian and economist (d. 2007).
 1918 – Giovanni Canestri, Italian cardinal (d. 2015).
 1919 – William L. Guy, 26th Governor of North Dakota (d. 2013).
 1920 – Eileen Chang, Chinese writer (d. 1995).
 1921 – Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007).
 1921 – Stanislaw Nagy, Polish cardinal (d. 2013).
 1922 – Oscar Pettiford, American jazz musician and composer (d. 1960).
 1924 – Truman Capote, American writer (d. 1984).
 1926 – Heino Kruus, Estonian basketball player and coach (d. 2012).
 1927 – Hossein Dehlavi, Iranian composer (d. 2019).
 1927 – W. S. Merwin, American poet (d. 2019).
 1928 – Elie Wiesel, Romanian–born Holocaust survivor, activist and writer, Nobel Peace Prize winner (d. 2016).
 1928 – Takeshi Inoue, Japanese footballer (d. 1992).
 1929 – Helen M. Marshall, American politician (d. 2017).
 1931 – Angie Dickinson, American actress.
 1931 – Teresa Gorman, English politician (d. 2015).
 1932 – Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese writer and politician.
 1932 – Anthony Hawkins, Australian actor.
 1933 – Michel Aoun, President of Lebanon.
 1933 – Cissy Houston, American singer.
 1934 – Marco Dezzi Bardeschi, Italian architect (d. 2018).
 1934 – Udo Jürgens, Austrian singer (d. 2014).
 1934 – Anna Kashfi, Indian–born actress (d. 2015).
 1935 – Johnny Mathis, American singer.
 1936 – Jim Sasser, 6th United States Ambassador to the People's Republic of China.
 1939 – Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist.
 1940 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, English politician.
 1941 – Kamalesh Sharma, 5th Secretary–General of the Commonwealth of Nations.
 1942 – Frankie Lymon, American rock and roll musician (d. 1968).
 1943 – Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist.
 1943 – Ian Ogilvy, English actor.
 1944 – Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (d. 2006).
 1945 – Ehud Olmert, Israeli politician, former Prime Minister of Israel.
 1945 – José Manuel Fuente, Spanish cyclist (d. 1996).
 1946 – Fran Brill, American actress, singer and puppeteer.
 1946 – Claude Vorilhon, French journalist.
 1946 – Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican salsa singer (d. 1993).
 1947 – Marc Bolan, English rock musician (d. 1977).
 1947 – Rula Lenska, English actress.
 1950 – Laura Esquivel, Mexican author.

 1951 – 1975 
 1951 – Barry Marshall, Australian physician.
 1951 – Simon White, English astrophysicist and academic.
 1952 – John Lombardo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
 1954 – Mitch Lewis, Canadian multi–instrumentalist
 1954 – Basia, Polish singer-songwriter.
 1955 – Andy Bechtolsheim, German engineer, co–founder of Sun Microsystems.
 1956 – Frank Arnesen, Danish footballer.
 1957 – Fran Drescher, American actress, producer, comedienne and activist.
 1958 – Marty Stuart, American country musician.
 1959 – Debrah Farentino, American actress.
 1959 – Ettore Messina, Italian basketball player and coach.
 1960 – Blanche Lincoln, American politician.
 1961 – Eric Stoltz, American actor.
 1961 – Crystal Bernard, American singer-songwriter and actress.
 1961 – Mel Stride, English politician.
 1962 – Frank Rijkaard, Dutch footballer.
 1964 – Monica Bellucci, Italian actress.
 1964 – Trey Anastasio, American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
 1964 – Robby Takac, American singer-songwriter and bass player.
 1965 – Omid Djalili, English comedian and actor.
 1965 – Matt Fallon, American singer-songwriter
 1965 – Kathleen Madigan, American comedienne and actress.
 1966 – Gary Armstrong, Scottish rugby player.
 1967 – Steve Kean, Scottish football manager.
 1969 – Alex Rae, Scottish footballer.
 1970 – Damian Mori, American actor.
 1970 – Prosenjit Chatterjee, Indian actor and producer.
 1971 – Giancarlo Judica Cordiglia, Italian actor.
 1971 – Jenna Elfman, American actress.
 1972 – Ari Behn, Norwegian writer.
 1974 – Tom Greatrex, English politician.
 1974 – Daniel Wu, American–Hong Kong actor, director and producer.
 1975 – Marion Cotillard, French actress.
 1975 – Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player.
 1975 – Wopke Hoekstra, Dutch politician.

 From 1976 
 1977 – Sun Juhai, Chinese footballer.
 1977 – Roy Carroll, Northern Irish footballer.
 1978 – Candice Michelle, American female wrestler.
 1979 – Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer.
 1979 – Primoz Kozmus, Slovenian hammer thrower.
 1979 – Cameron Bruce, Australian footballer.
 1980 – Christian Cantwell, American shot putter.
 1980 – Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player.
 1981 – Cecelia Ahern, Irish writer.
 1982 – Lacey Chabert, American actress.
 1982 – Kieran Culkin, American actor.
 1982 – Ola Jordan, Polish–British ballroom dancer.
 1982 – Teal Redmann, American actress.
 1982 – Yan Stastny, Canadian ice hockey player.
 1984 – Keisha Buchanan, English singer (Sugababes).
 1984 – Georgios Eleftheriou, Greek footballer.
 1985 – Dmytro Grabovskyy, Ukrainian cyclist (d. 2017).
 1985 – T-Pain, American rapper.
 1985 – Cristian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer.
 1986 – Olivier Giroud, French footballer.
 1986 – Cristian Zapata, Colombian footballer.
 1987 – Lauren Holiday, American soccer player.
 1987 – Rumi Harai, Japanese actress, model and gymnast.
 1992 – Ezra Miller, American actor.
 1994 – Aliya Mustafina, Russian gymnast.
 1996 – Lewis Morgan, Scottish footballer.
 1997 – Yana Kudryavtseva, Russian rhythmic gymnast.
 1997 – Max Verstappen, Belgian–Dutch racing driver.
 2002 – Maddie Ziegler, American dancer and actress.

 Deaths 
 Up to 1900 
 420 – Jerome, Roman priest, theologian and historian (b. 347)
 653 – Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury 
 954 – King Louis IV of France (b. 920)
 1101 – Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan
 1246 – Yaroslav II of Russia (b. 1191)
 1440 – Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Ruthin, Welsh soldier and politician (b. 1362)
 1487 – John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)
 1560 – Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)
 1572 – Saint Francis of Borgia, Jesuit priest (b. 1510)
 1626 – Taizu Emperor, Chinese Emperor (b. 1559)
 1628 – Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet and politician (b. 1554)
 1770 – Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat (b. 1695)
 1865 – Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar (b. 1800)
 1888 – Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)
 1888 – Catherine Eddowes, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)
 1891 – Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)
 1897 – Therese of Liseaux, French nun and saint (b. 1873)

 1901 – 2000 
 1910 – Maurice Levy, French engineer (b. 1838)
 1914 – Yu Kil-chun, Korean politician (b. 1856)
 1932 – Constantin Coanda, Romanian politician (b. 1857)
 1934 – Giuseppe Mori, Italian cardinal (b. 1850)
 1942 – Hans-Joachim Marseille, German pilot (b. 1919)
 1943 – Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864)
 1948 – Edith Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1861)
 1953 – Lewis Fry Richardson, British meteorologist (b. 1881)
 1955 – James Dean, American actor (b. 1931)
 1973 – Peter Pitseolak, Canadian photographer and actor (b. 1902)
 1974 – Carlos Prats, Chilean Constitutionalist General (b. 1915)
 1977 – Mary Ford, American singer (b. 1924)
 1985 – Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)
 1985 – Charles Richter, American seismologist (b. 1900)
 1990 – Patrick White, Australian writer (b. 1912)
 1994 – André Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist (b. 1902)
 1994 – Roberto Eduardo Viola, Argentine politician (b. 1924)

 From 2001 
 2002 – Göran Kropp, Swedish mountaineer (b. 1966)
 2002 – Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1913)
 2003 – Robert Kardashian, American lawyer (b. 1944)
 2004 – Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor, director and politician (b. 1936)
 2004 – Jacques Levy, American director and songwriter (b. 1935)
 2004 – Michael Relph, English director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1915)
 2007 – Joe Mitty, English humanitarian, founder of Oxfam (b. 1919)
 2010 – Stephen J. Cannell, American television producer (b. 1941)
 2011 – Anwar al-Awlaki, American–born terrorist and Islamist militant (b. 1971)
 2011 – Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian immunologist (b. 1943)
 2012 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (b. 1928)
 2012 – Barry Commoner, American biologist (b. 1917)
 2013 – Kazys Bobelis, Lithuanian politician (b. 1923)
 2013 – Rangel Valchanov, Bulgarian actor and director (b. 1928)
 2014 – Molvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, Kashmiri Shia cleric, politician and businessman (b. 1942)
 2014 – Jerrie Mock, American pilot (b. 1925)
 2014 – Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist (b. 1927)
 2015 – Kelly Gissendaner, American criminal (b. 1968)
 2015 – Claude Dauphin, French businessman (b. 1951)
 2015 – Guido Altarelli, Italian theoretical physicist (b. 1941)
 2015 – Ricky Talan, Dutch footballer (b. 1960)
 2016 – Oscar Brand, Canadian–American folk singer-songwriter and author (b. 1920)
 2016 – Mike Towell, Scottish boxer (b. 1991) 
 2017 – Monty Hall, Canadian–American game show host (b. 1921)
 2017 – Frank Hamblen, American basketball coach (b. 1947)
 2017 – Donald Malarkey, American army officer (b. 1921)
 2017 – Joe Tiller, American football player (b. 1942)
 2017 – Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian–American mathematician (b. 1966) 
 2018 – Edredon Bleu, British–bred racehorse (b. 1992)
 2018 – Geoffrey Hayes, English television presenter and actor (b. 1942)
 2018 – Kim Larsen, Danish rock musician (b. 1945)
 2018 – René Pétillon, French cartoonist (b. 1945)
 2019 – David Akers-Jones, British politician (b. 1927)
 2019 – Wayne Fitzgerald, American film and television title designer (b. 1930)
 2019 – Viju Khote, Indian actor (b. 1941)
 2019 – Kornel Morawiecki, Polish politician and theoretical physicist (b. 1941)
 2019 – Jessye Norman, American opera singer (b. 1945)
 2019 – Ben Pon, Dutch racing driver (b. 1936)

 Observances 
 Independence Day (Botswana)
 International Translation Day (after Jerome, Bible translator)

Category:Days of the year