September 26

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 1087 &ndash; William II of England is crowned king in Westminster Abbey.
* 1345 &ndash; Friso-Hollandic Wars: Frisians defeat Holland in the Battle of Warns.
* 1371 &ndash; Battle of Maritsa in the Serbian-Turkish War.
* 1580 &ndash; Francis Drake completes his circumnavigation (voyage around the world).
* 1687 &ndash; The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Francesco Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
* 1687 &ndash; The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, later known as the Glorious Revolution.
* 1777 &ndash; British forces occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolutionary War.
* 1786 &ndash; Protestors shut down the court in Springfield, Massachusetts in a military stand–off that begins the Shays' Rebellion.
* 1789 &ndash; Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State.
* 1792 &ndash; Marc–David Lasource accuses Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship in France.
* 1810 &ndash; The Riksdag (Swedish parliament) passes the Act of Succession, allowing Jean Baptiste Bernadotte to become heir to the throne of Sweden.
* 1832 &ndash; The Göta Canal in central Sweden opens.
* 1860 &ndash; The current Flag of Ecuador is introduced.
* 1872 &ndash; The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) is established in New York City.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1907 &ndash; New Zealand and Newfoundland are given Dominion status.
* 1908 &ndash; The Norwegian football club SK Brann is founded.
* 1914 &ndash; The US Federal Trade Commission is established.
* 1917 &ndash; World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
* 1918 &ndash; World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive begins.
* 1923 &ndash; Gustav Stresemann resumes (restarts) the Weimar Republic's payment of reparation money.
* 1933 &ndash; A hurricane in Tampico, Mexico kills 1,000 people.
* 1934 &ndash; The steamship RMS *Queen Mary* is launched.
* 1941 &ndash; Off the Azores, British passenger steamer *Avoceta* is torpedoed by a German U–boat. It sinks within two minutes, killing 123 people.
* 1944 &ndash; World War II: The Allies abandon Operation Market Garden.
* 1950 &ndash; Indonesia is admitted to the UN.
* 1950 &ndash; Korean War: UN forces re–capture Seoul from North Korean forces.
* 1954 &ndash; Japanese railway ferry *Toya Maru* sinks during a typhoon, killing 1,172 people.
* 1955 &ndash; The Flag and Coat of Arms of East Germany are introduced.
* 1959 &ndash; Typhoon Vera hits Japan, killing 4,580 people.
* 1960 &ndash; The first televised United States Presidential debate takes place, between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
* 1960 &ndash; Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the Soviet Union.
* 1962 &ndash; The Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed.
* 1969 &ndash; Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released.
* 1970 &ndash; The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (709.92 square kilometers) of land.
* 1973 &ndash; Concorde makes its first non–stop crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in record–breaking time.
* 1980 &ndash; The Oktoberfest terror attack in Munich kills 13 people and injures 211.
* 1981 &ndash; The first flight of a Boeing 767 takes place.
* 1983 &ndash; Sailing: The Yacht Australia II wins the America's Cup, ending a 132–year US winning streak.
* 1984 &ndash; The United Kingdom agrees to the 1997 handover of Hong Kong.
* 1992 &ndash; A Nigerian troop transporter plane crashes shortly after take–off in Lagos, killing all 163 soldiers on board.
* 1997 &ndash; A plane crash in Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia, kills 234 people.
* 1997 &ndash; A major earthquake strikes central Italy.
* 2000 &ndash; The ship MS *Samina* sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea, killing 80 people.

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; The Polish Wikipedia is launched.
* 2002 &ndash; A Senegalese ferry capsizes near the Gambia, killing more than 1,000 people.
* 2006 &ndash; Shinzo Abe becomes Prime Minister of Japan for the first time.
* 2007 &ndash; Yasuo Fukuda becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
* 2008 &ndash; Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes the first person to fly a jet engine–powered wing across the English Channel.
* 2009 &ndash; Typhoon Ketsana strikes the Philippines, and several neighboring countries, killing over 700 people.
* 2014 &ndash; Several students are kidnapped from Iguala, Mexico.
* 2016 &ndash; The first 2016 US presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump takes place.
* 2017 &ndash; It is announced that the Republic of Ireland is to hold a referendum on the issue of abortion in 2018.
* 2017 &ndash; An end to the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia is announced.
* 2019 &ndash; New South Wales becomes the last Australian state to allow abortion.

## Births 
### Up to 1900 
* 1329 &ndash; Anna of Bavaria, Queen of the Romans (d. 1353)
* 1406 &ndash; Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d. 1430)
* 1698 &ndash; William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire (d. 1755)
* 1711 &ndash; Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl of Temple, English politician (d. 1779)
* 1774 &ndash; Johnny Appleseed, American folk hero (d. 1847)
* 1791 &ndash; Théodore Géricault, French painter and lithographer (d. 1824)
* 1793 &ndash; William Hobson, 1st Governor of New Zealand (d. 1842)
* 1820 &ndash; Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Bengali scholar (d. 1891)
* 1840 &ndash; Louis-Olivier Taillon, French–Canadian politician (d. 1923)
* 1843 &ndash; Joseph Furphy, Australian writer (d. 1912)
* 1849 &ndash; Ivan Pavlov, Russian scientist (d. 1936)
* 1856 &ndash; Leo Graetz, German physicist (d. 1941)
* 1865 &ndash; Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, English pilot and ornithologist (d. 1937)
* 1867 &ndash; Winsor McCay, American animator (d. 1934)
* 1869 &ndash; Komitas Vardapet, Armenian composer (d. 1935)
* 1870 &ndash; King Christian X of Denmark (d. 1947)
* 1872 &ndash; Max Ehrmann, American poet (d. 1945)
* 1873 &ndash; Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect (d. 1949)
* 1874 &ndash; Lewis Hine, American photographer and scientist (d. 1940)
* 1876 &ndash; Ghulam Bhik Nairang, Indian poet and Muslim nationalist (d. 1952)
* 1877 &ndash; Alfred Cortot, French pianist (d. 1962)
* 1877 &ndash; Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (d. 1963)
* 1881 &ndash; Hiram Wesley Evans, American Ku Klux Klan leader (d. 1966)
* 1886 &ndash; Archibald Hill, English mathematician, won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1977)
* 1887 &ndash; Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor (d. 1967)
* 1887 &ndash; Barnes Wallis, English scientist and inventor (d. 1979)
* 1888 &ndash; T. S. Eliot, American poet (d. 1965)
* 1889 &ndash; Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (d. 1976)
* 1891 &ndash; Hans Reichenbach, German philosopher (d. 1953)
* 1893 &ndash; Gladys Brockwell, American actress (d. 1929)
* 1895 &ndash; Jürgen Stroop, German SS officer (d. 1952)
* 1897 &ndash; Pope Paul VI (d. 1978)
* 1898 &ndash; George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)

### 1901 &ndash; 1925 
* 1901 &ndash; George Raft, American actor (d. 1980)
* 1905 &ndash; Millito Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 2011)
* 1907 &ndash; Anthony Blunt, British double–agent (d. 1983)
* 1909 &ndash; Bill France, Sr., American racing driver (d. 1992)
* 1910 &ndash; Delfin Benitez Caceres, Paraguayan footballer (d. 2004)
* 1913 &ndash; Berthold Beitz, German businessman (d. 2013)
* 1914 &ndash; Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountaineer (d. 2009)
* 1914 &ndash; Jack LaLanne, American fitness expert (d. 2011)
* 1917 &ndash; Tran Duc Thao, Vietnamese philosopher (d. 1993)
* 1918 &ndash; Olafur Johann Stefansson, Icelandic writer (d. 1988)
* 1918 &ndash; John Zacherle, American television host, voice actor and singer
* 1919 &ndash; Matilde Camus, Spanish poet (d. 2012)
* 1919 &ndash; Ezio Loik, Italian footballer (d. 1949)
* 1921 &ndash; Cyprian Ekwensi, Nigerian writer (d. 2007)
* 1922 &ndash; Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia, claimant to Russian throne (d. 2014)
* 1923 &ndash; Dev Anand, Indian actor and movie producer (d. 2011)
* 1923 &ndash; James Hennessy, British diplomat and public servant
* 1925 &ndash; Marty Robbins, American singer (d. 1982)

### 1926 &ndash; 1950 
* 1926 &ndash; Julie London, American singer and actress (d. 2000)
* 1927 &ndash; Patrick O'Neal, American actor
* 1927 &ndash; Robert Cade, American physician (d. 2007)
* 1927 &ndash; Romano Mussolini, Italian jazz musician (d. 2006)
* 1927 &ndash; Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer (d. 2010)
* 1930 &ndash; Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (d. 1966)
* 1932 &ndash; Donna Douglas, American actress (d. 2015)
* 1932 &ndash; Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India
* 1932 &ndash; Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer and dissident (d. 2018)
* 1932 &ndash; Richard Herd, American actor
* 1934 &ndash; Dick Heckstall-Smith, English musician (d. 2004)
* 1935 &ndash; Lou Myers, American actor (d. 2013)
* 1936 &ndash; Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African activist (d. 2018)
* 1937 &ndash; Valentin Pavlov, Russian politician (d. 2003)
* 1937 &ndash; Jerry Weintraub, American movie producer (d. 2015)
* 1938 &ndash; Raoul Cauvin, Belgian comic writer
* 1939 &ndash; Ricky Tomlinson, English actor
* 1939 &ndash; George McWhirter, Northern Irish–Canadian writer
* 1941 &ndash; Salvatore Accardo, Italian violinist and composer
* 1941 &ndash; Martine Beswick, English model and actress
* 1941 &ndash; Vadim Glowna, German actor (d. 2012)
* 1942 &ndash; Kent McCord, American actor
* 1942 &ndash; Ingrid Becker, German athlete
* 1943 &ndash; Ian Chappell, Australian cricketer
* 1944 &ndash; Jan Brewer, American politician, 22nd Governor of Arizona
* 1944 &ndash; Anne Robinson, English television presenter
* 1944 &ndash; Jean-Pierre Ricard, French cardinal, Archbishop of Bordeaux
* 1945 &ndash; Bobby Clark, Scottish footballer
* 1945 &ndash; Gal Costa, Brazilian singer
* 1945 &ndash; Bryan Ferry, English singer
* 1946 &ndash; Radhna Krishna Mainali, Nepalese politician
* 1946 &ndash; Andrea Dworkin, American activist and writer (d. 2005)
* 1946 &ndash; Christine Todd Whitman, 50th Governor of New Jersey
* 1946 &ndash; Homa Rousta, Iranian actress (d. 2015)
* 1947 &ndash; Lynn Anderson, American singer (d. 2015)
* 1948 &ndash; Olivia Newton-John, Australian–British singer and actress (d. 2022)
* 1948 &ndash; Stuart Tosh, Scottish singer-songwriter and producer
* 1949 &ndash; Clodoaldo, Brazilian footballer
* 1949 &ndash; Minette Walters, English novelist

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1952 &ndash; George Wood, Scottish footballer
* 1954 &ndash; Alice, Italian singer-songwriter
* 1954 &ndash; Kevin Kennedy, American baseball player and manager
* 1956 &ndash; Linda Hamilton, American actress
* 1957 &ndash; Roger MacBride Allen, American science fiction writer
* 1957 &ndash; Luigi De Canio, Italian footballer
* 1957 &ndash; Klaus Augenthaler, German footballer
* 1958 &ndash; Rudi Cerne, German ice skater and TV presenter
* 1958 &ndash; Robert Kagan, American historian and writer
* 1959 &ndash; Andrew Bolt, Australian journalist and political commentator
* 1960 &ndash; Uwe Bein, German footballer
* 1960 &ndash; Jouke de Vries, Frisian politician and professor
* 1961 &ndash; Will Self, British writer
* 1962 &ndash; Mark Haddon, British writer
* 1962 &ndash; Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress
* 1962 &ndash; Al Pitrelli, American guitarist (Megadeth)
* 1962 &ndash; Jacky Wu, Taiwanese singer, actor and television host
* 1963 &ndash; Lysette Anthony, English actress and model
* 1964 &ndash; Nicki French, English singer and actress
* 1965 &ndash; Petro Poroshenko, Ukrainian businessman and politician, former President of Ukraine
* 1968 &ndash; James Caviezel, American actor
* 1969 &ndash; Holger Stanislawski, German football manager
* 1969 &ndash; Anthony Cavanagh, French–Canadian comedian, actor and singer
* 1969 &ndash; David Slade, English director
* 1972 &ndash; Beto O'Rourke, American politician
* 1973 &ndash; Chris Small, Scottish snooker player
* 1973 &ndash; Julienne Davis, American actress, producer and screenwriter
* 1975 &ndash; Jake Paltrow, American director

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Michael Ballack, German footballer
* 1976 &ndash; Dean Butterworth, English–American drummer (Good Charlotte)
* 1976 &ndash; Tyler Denk, American model
* 1978 &ndash; Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, Kenyan runner
* 1979 &ndash; Naomichi Marufuji, Japanese professional wrestler
* 1979 &ndash; Jaycie Phelps, American gymnast
* 1979 &ndash; Taavi Roivas, former Prime Minister of Estonia
* 1980 &ndash; Daniel Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player
* 1980 &ndash; Henrik Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player
* 1980 &ndash; Kazuki Ganaha, Japanese footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Christina Milian, American singer
* 1981 &ndash; Serena Williams, American tennis player
* 1981 &ndash; Yao Beina, Chinese singer (d. 2015)
* 1983 &ndash; Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer
* 1985 &ndash; Lenna Kuurmaa, Estonian singer
* 1985 &ndash; M. Pokora, French singer and songwriter
* 1986 &ndash; Ashley Leggat, Canadian actress, singer and dancer
* 1987 &ndash; Rosanna Munter, Swedish singer
* 1988 &ndash; James Blake, English singer-songwriter
* 1988 &ndash; Marina Kuroki, Japanese actress and singer
* 1988 &ndash; Kiira Korpi, Finnish figure skater
* 1989 &ndash; Ciaran Clark, Irish footballer
* 1989 &ndash; Emma Rigby, English actress
* 1990 &ndash; Pavel Avdeyev, Russian footballer
* 1991 &ndash; Alma Jodorowsky, French actress, fashion model and singer
* 1993 &ndash; Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, American basketball player
* 2000 &ndash; Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah II of Jordan

## Deaths 
### Up to 1960 
* 1290 &ndash; Margaret, Maid of Norway, Queen of Scotland (b. 1283)
* 1417 &ndash; Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (b. 1360)
* 1425 &ndash; Sophia of Bavaria, Queen of Bohemia (b. 1376)
* 1468 &ndash; Juan de Torquemada, Spanish cardinal (b. 1388)
* 1620 &ndash; Taicheng, Chinese Emperor (b. 1582)
* 1626 &ndash; Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese daimyo (b. 1554)
* 1716 &ndash; Antoine Parent, French mathematician (b. 1666)
* 1763 &ndash; John Byron, English poet (b. 1692)
* 1802 &ndash; Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician and military officer (b. 1754)
* 1820 &ndash; Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (b. 1734)
* 1867 &ndash; James Ferguson, Scottish–American astronomer (b. 1797)
* 1877 &ndash; Hermann Grossmann, German polymath (b. 1809)
* 1902 &ndash; Levi Strauss, German–born clothing manufacturer (b. 1829)
* 1904 &ndash; Lafcadio Hearn, Irish–Greek writer (b. 1850)
* 1904 &ndash; John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848)
* 1937 &ndash; Bessie Smith, American blues singer (b. 1894)
* 1945 &ndash; Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (b. 1881)
* 1945 &ndash; Kiyoshi Miki, Japanese philosopher (b. 1897)
* 1947 &ndash; Hugh Lofting, English writer (b. 1886)
* 1952 &ndash; George Santayana, Spanish philosopher (b. 1863)
* 1953 &ndash; Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895)
* 1954 &ndash; Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (b. 1868)
* 1959 &ndash; Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of present–day Sri Lanka (b. 1899)

### 1961 &ndash; 2015 
* 1968 &ndash; Daniel Johnson, Sr., 20th Premier of Quebec (b. 1915)
* 1973 &ndash; Anna Magnani, Italian actress (b. 1908)
* 1976 &ndash; Lavoslav Ruzicka, Croatian chemist (b. 1887)
* 1978 &ndash; Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist (b. 1886)
* 1983 &ndash; Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (b. 1907)
* 1984 &ndash; Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1948)
* 1987 &ndash; Ramang, Indonesian footballer and manager (b. 1928)
* 1987 &ndash; Herbert Tichy, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1912)
* 1990 &ndash; Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (b. 1907)
* 1996 &ndash; Geoffrey Wilkinson, British chemist (b. 1921)
* 1998 &ndash; Betty Carter, American singer (b. 1929)
* 2000 &ndash; Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist (b. 1937)
* 2000 &ndash; Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)
* 2003 &ndash; Shawn Lane, American guitarist (b. 1963)
* 2003 &ndash; Robert Palmer, British singer (b. 1949)
* 2006 &ndash; Iva Toguri D'Aquino, alleged Tokyo Rose (b. 1916)
* 2006 &ndash; Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912)
* 2008 &ndash; Paul Newman, American actor and director (b. 1925)
* 2010 &ndash; Gloria Stuart, American actress (b. 1910)
* 2012 &ndash; Johnny Lewis, American actor (b. 1983)
* 2013 &ndash; Sos Sargsyan, Armenian actor (b. 1929)
* 2014 &ndash; Michael McCarty, American stage actor (b. 1946)
* 2014 &ndash; Sam Hall, American television writer (b. 1921)
* 2015 &ndash; Homa Rousta, Iranian actress (b. 1946)

### From 2016 
* 2016 &ndash; Herschell Gordon Lewis, American movie director (b. 1929)
* 2016 &ndash; Ioan Gyuri Pascu, Romanian singer, actor and comedian (b. 1961)
* 2017 &ndash; Robert Delpire, French photographer and filmmaker (b. 1926)
* 2017 &ndash; Barry Dennen, American actor (b. 1938)
* 2017 &ndash; Günter Halm, German World War II lieutenant (b. 1922)
* 2017 &ndash; Rinse Zijlstra, Dutch politician (b. 1927)
* 2018 &ndash; Joe Carolan, Irish footballer (b. 1937)
* 2018 &ndash; Ignaz Kirchner, Austrian actor (b. 1946)
* 2019 &ndash; Giovanni Bramucci, Italian cyclist (b. 1946)
* 2019 &ndash; Jacques Chirac, President of France (b. 1932)
* 2019 &ndash; William Levada, American cardinal (b. 1936)
* 2019 &ndash; Gennadi Manakov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1950)
* 2019 &ndash; Ronald L. Schlicher, American politician (b. 1956)

## Observances 
* European Day of Languages (Council of Europe and EU)
* Day of the National Flag (Ecuador)
* Dominion Day (New Zealand)
* Republic Day (Yemen)