September 15

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 668 &ndash; Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is murdered in his bath.
* 1440 &ndash; Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest–known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
* 1616 &ndash; The first non–aristocratic free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
* 1762 &ndash; Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.
* 1776 &ndash; American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay, during the New York Campaign.
* 1789 &ndash; The United States Department of State is founded, as the Department of Foreign Affairs.
* 1812 &ndash; The French army under Napoleon Bonaparte enters Moscow.
* 1812 &ndash; War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack of the Narrows.
* 1820 &ndash; Constitutionalist Revolution in Lisbon
* 1821 &ndash; Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica jointly declare independence from Spain.
* 1830 &ndash; The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens. On the same day, William Huskisson becomes the first railway fatality after being hit by a locomotive.
* 1835 &ndash; The HMS Beagle arrives in the Galapagos Islands with a young Charles Darwin on board.
* 1851 &ndash; Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
* 1862 &ndash; American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harper's Ferry, then in Virginia, now in West Virginia.
* 1873 &ndash; Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France.
* 1875 &ndash; Indianola, Texas, is destroyed by a Hurricane, killing between 150 and 300 people.
* 1894 &ndash; First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1916 &ndash; World War I: Tanks are used in battle for the first time, in the Somme, northern France.
* 1935 &ndash; With the Nuremberg Laws, the Nazis strip Jews of German citizenship.
* 1935 &ndash; The Nazis adopt the Swastika flag as the flag of Germany.
* 1940 &ndash; World War II: Climax of the Battle of Britain.
* 1942 &ndash; World War II: United States Navy aircraft carrier USS *Wasp* is torpedoed at Guadalcanal, present–day Solomon Islands.
* 1944 &ndash; World War II: The Battle of Peleliu (in Palau), between US and Japanese forces, begins.
* 1944 &ndash; World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon conference to discuss strategy.
* 1945 &ndash; A hurricane in South Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at *NAS Richmond*
* 1947 &ndash; Typhoon Kathleen kills 1,077 people in the Kanto region of Japan.
* 1948 &ndash; The F–86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record, at 671 miles per hour (1,080 kilometres per hour).
* 1949 &ndash; Konrad Adenauer becomes the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
* 1950 &ndash; Korean War: US forces land at Inchon.
* 1952 &ndash; The UN gives Eritrea to Ethiopia.
* 1958 &ndash; A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 58 people.
* 1959 &ndash; Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
* 1961 &ndash; Hurricane Carla hits Texas.
* 1962 &ndash; Soviet ship *Poltava* heads towards Cuba, one of the events that led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
* 1963 &ndash; "Birmingham Sunday" when a bomb killed 4 black girls in a church in Birmingham, Alabama.
* 1966 &ndash; US President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to United States Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
* 1968 &ndash; The Soviet *Zond 5* spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re–enter Earth's atmosphere.
* 1969 &ndash; US ice breaker tanker SS *Manhattan* passes through the Northwest Passage, after four weeks.
* 1972 &ndash; Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm, Sweden, is hijacked and flown to Malmo Bulltofta Airport.
* 1973 &ndash; Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden becomes King.
* 1975 &ndash; The French department of Corse, on the island of Corsica, is divided in two, into Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
* 1981 &ndash; Vanuatu joins the UN.
* 1981 &ndash; The Senate Judiciary Committee approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become a Justice on the United States Supreme Court, being the first female in such a role.
* 1983 &ndash; Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin resigns.
* 1990 &ndash; France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf.
* 1991 &ndash; Bangladesh becomes a parliamentary democracy.
* 1993 &ndash; Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein disbands his country's parliament.
* 1994 &ndash; For the first time, a planet outside the Solar System is discovered.
* 1997 &ndash; New York City's Museum of Jewish Heritage opens.
* 2000 &ndash; The 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney begin.

### From 2001 
* 2007 &ndash; Former world Rally champion Colin McRae dies in a helicopter crash in Lanarkshire, Scotland, along with his son and two family friends.
* 2008 &ndash; Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
* 2011 &ndash; A parliamentary election is held in Denmark, resulting in Helle Thorning-Schmidt becoming Prime Minister on October 3.
* 2015 &ndash; Malcolm Turnbull replaces Tony Abbott as Prime Minister of Australia.
* 2015 &ndash; Aksel V. Johannesen becomes Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.
* 2017 &ndash; 2017 Parsons Green bombing: An explosive device is detonated on a tube train near London's Parsons Green station, injuring 30 people.
* 2017 &ndash; The Cassini space probe's mission is ended, as it is plunged into Saturn's atmosphere.

## Births 
### Up to 1800 
* 1254 &ndash; Marco Polo, Italian explorer (d. 1324)
* 1533 &ndash; Catherine of Austria, Queen Consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1572)
* 1580 &ndash; Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (d. 1659)
* 1603 &ndash; Tokugawa Yorifusa, Japanese daimyo (d. 1661)
* 1613 &ndash; François de la Rochefoucauld, French author (d. 1680)
* 1649 &ndash; Titus Oates, English priest (d. 1705)
* 1666 &ndash; Sophia Dorothea of Celle, German princess (d. 1726)
* 1675 &ndash; Vakhtang VI of Kartli, Georgian King (d. 1737)
* 1676 &ndash; Stanislaw Poniatowski, Polish politician (d. 1762)
* 1690 &ndash; Ignazio Prota, Italian composer and music educator (d. 1748)
* 1715 &ndash; Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French general and engineer (d. 1789)
* 1736 &ndash; Jean-Silvain Bailly, French politician and astronomer (d. 1793)
* 1756 &ndash; Carl Philipp Moritz, German writer (d. 1793)
* 1760 &ndash; Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general (d. 1824)
* 1761 &ndash; Cornelio Saavedra, Argentine politician (d. 1829)
* 1765 &ndash; Bocage, Portuguese poet (d. 1805)
* 1787 &ndash; Guillaume-Henri Dufour, Swiss humanist, general, politician, mapmaker and engineer (d. 1875)
* 1789 &ndash; James Fenimore Cooper, American writer (d. 1851)
* 1800 &ndash; Paul-Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1842)

### 1801 &ndash; 1900 
* 1808 &ndash; John Hutton Balfour, Scottish botanist (d. 1884)
* 1811 &ndash; Charles de Mornay, French politician (d. 1865)
* 1814 &ndash; Ferdinand von Arnim, German architect (d. 1866)
* 1815 &ndash; Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian composer (d. 1868)
* 1825 &ndash; Iwakura Tomomi, Japanese statesman (d. 1883)
* 1828 &ndash; Alexander Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886)
* 1830 &ndash; Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (d. 1915)
* 1834 &ndash; Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian and publicist (d. 1896)
* 1852 &ndash; Edward Bouchet, American physicist (d. 1918)
* 1857 &ndash; William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (d. 1930)
* 1858 &ndash; Charles de Foucauld, French monk (d. 1916)
* 1860 &ndash; Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer, scholar and politician (d. 1962)
* 1863 &ndash; Horatio Parker, American composer (d. 1919)
* 1875 &ndash; Henry D. Hatfield, American politician, 14th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1962)
* 1876 &ndash; Bruno Walter, German conductor (d. 1962)
* 1876 &ndash; Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bengali writer (d. 1938)
* 1877 &ndash; Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and Zionist (d. 1938)
* 1877 &ndash; Yente Serdatzky, Lithuanian–American author and playwright (d. 1962)
* 1879 &ndash; Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)
* 1881 &ndash; Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile engineer and designer (d. 1947)
* 1883 &ndash; Esteban Teradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (d. 1950)
* 1886 &ndash; Paul Lévy, French mathematician (d. 1971)
* 1887 &ndash; Carlos Dávila, President of Chile (d. 1955)
* 1888 &ndash; Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (d. 1925)
* 1889 &ndash; Robert Benchley, American writer (d. 1945)
* 1890 &ndash; Agatha Christie, English writer (d. 1976)
* 1894 &ndash; Jean Renoir, French movie director (d. 1979)
* 1895 &ndash; Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (d. 1977)

### 1901 &ndash; 1925 
* 1903 &ndash; Roy Acuff, American Country musician (d. 1992)
* 1903 &ndash; Yisrael Kristal, Polish–born Israeli supercentenarian and Holocaust survivor (d. 2017)
* 1904 &ndash; King Umberto II of Italy (d. 1983)
* 1905 &ndash; Pat O'Callaghan, Irish hammer thrower (d. 1991)
* 1907 &ndash; Alfred Delp, German Jesuit and Resistance activist (d. 1945)
* 1907 &ndash; Fay Wray, Canadian–American actress (d. 2004)
* 1908 &ndash; Misko Kranjec, Slovenian writer (d. 1983)
* 1909 &ndash; C. N. Annadurai, Indian politician, 7th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 1969)
* 1911 &ndash; Karsten Solheim, Norwegian–American golf entrepreneur (d. 2000)
* 1911 &ndash; Luther Terry, 9th Surgeon General of the United States (d. 1985)
* 1913 &ndash; John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General (d. 1988)
* 1913 &ndash; Johannes Steinhoff, German military officer (d. 1994)
* 1914 &ndash; Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
* 1914 &ndash; Jens Otto Krag, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1978)
* 1915 &ndash; Helmut Schön, German footballer and manager (d. 1996)
* 1916 &ndash; Margaret Lockwood, English actress (d. 1990)
* 1918 &ndash; Margot Loyola, Chilean musician and singer (d. 2015)
* 1919 &ndash; Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
* 1919 &ndash; Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (d. 1960)
* 1922 &ndash; Jackie Cooper, American actor (d. 2011)
* 1922 &ndash; Bob Anderson, British fencer and sword fight choreographer (d. 2012)
* 1922 &ndash; Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, daughter of Winston Churchill (d. 2014)
* 1924 &ndash; György Lázár, 50th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2014)
* 1925 &ndash; Carlo Rambaldi, Italian special effects artist (d. 2012)
* 1925 &ndash; Helle Virkner, Danish actress (d. 2009)

### 1926 &ndash; 1950 
* 1926 &ndash; Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
* 1926 &ndash; Shohei Imamura, Japanese movie director (d. 2006)
* 1926 &ndash; Ed Derwinski, American politician (d. 2012)
* 1927 &ndash; Val Holten, Australian cricketer (d. 2015)
* 1927 &ndash; Norm Crosby, American comedian and actor
* 1928 &ndash; Cannonball Adderley, American jazz musician (d. 1975)
* 1929 &ndash; Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist (d. 2019)
* 1929 &ndash; Mümtaz Soysal, Turkish politician and lawyer (d. 2019)
* 1929 &ndash; Eva Burrows, 13th General of the Salvation Army (d. 2015)
* 1930 &ndash; Merab Mamardashvili, Georgian philosopher (d. 1990)
* 1933 &ndash; Henry Darrow, American actor
* 1933 &ndash; Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish composer and conductor (d. 2014)
* 1935 &ndash; Patriarch Dinkha IV of the Assyrian Church of the East (d. 2015)
* 1936 &ndash; Ashley Cooper, Australian tennis player
* 1937 &ndash; Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist
* 1937 &ndash; Fernando de la Rúa, former President of Argentina (d. 2019)
* 1938 &ndash; Gaylord Perry, American baseball player
* 1940 &ndash; Merlin Olsen, American football player and actor (d. 2010)
* 1941 &ndash; Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer (d. 2011)
* 1941 &ndash; Signe Toly Anderson, American singer (d. 2016)
* 1941 &ndash; Yuriy Norshteyn, Russian animator, director and screenwriter
* 1941 &ndash; Viktor Zubkov, former Prime Minister of Russia
* 1941 &ndash; Miroslaw Hermaszewski, Polish cosmonaut
* 1942 &ndash; Wen Jiabao, former Premier of the People's Republic of China
* 1942 &ndash; Emmerson Mnangagwa, 3rd President of Zimbabwe
* 1942 &ndash; Lee Dorman, American bass player (d. 2012)
* 1944 &ndash; Graham Taylor, English footballer and manager (d. 2017)
* 1944 &ndash; Mauro Piacenza, Italian cardinal
* 1945 &ndash; Hans-Gert Pöttering, German politician
* 1945 &ndash; Carmen Maura, Spanish actress
* 1945 &ndash; Jessye Norman, American singer (d. 2019)
* 1945 &ndash; Ron Shelton, American screenwriter, director and movie producer
* 1945 &ndash; Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince
* 1946 &ndash; Ola Brunkert, Swedish musician (d. 2008)
* 1946 &ndash; Tommy Lee Jones, American actor
* 1946 &ndash; Oliver Stone, American movie director
* 1946 &ndash; Mike Procter, South African cricketer, coach and referee
* 1947 &ndash; Viggo Jensen, Danish footballer and manager
* 1949 &ndash; Joe Barton, American politician
* 1950 &ndash; Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Islamic spiritual leader

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer
* 1952 &ndash; Richard Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1954 &ndash; Hrant Dink, Turkish–Armenian newspaper editor (d. 2007)
* 1954 &ndash; Nava Semel, Israeli author and playwright (d. 2017)
* 1955 &ndash; Bruce Reitherman, American movie maker
* 1955 &ndash; Abdul Qadir, Pakistani cricketer (d. 2019)
* 1955 &ndash; Renzo Rosso, Italian fashion designer
* 1955 &ndash; Brendan O'Carroll, Irish actor
* 1956 &ndash; Maggie Reilly, Scottish singer
* 1958 &ndash; Dr. Know, American guitarist
* 1959 &ndash; Mark Kirk, American politician
* 1960 &ndash; Katsuyoshi Shinto, Japanese footballer
* 1961 &ndash; Dan Marino, American football player
* 1961 &ndash; Colin McFarlane, English voice actor
* 1962 &ndash; Rebecca Miller, American actress, director and writer
* 1964 &ndash; Robert Fico, former Prime Minister of Slovakia
* 1966 &ndash; Sherman Douglas, American basketball player
* 1967 &ndash; Huw Bunford, Welsh guitarist and songwriter (Super Furry Animals)
* 1969 &ndash; Revaz Arveladze, Georgian footballer
* 1970 &ndash; Svetlana Zakharova, Russian long–distance runner
* 1971 &ndash; Josh Charles, American actor
* 1972 &ndash; Jimmy Carr, British comedian
* 1972 &ndash; Queen Letizia of Spain
* 1973 &ndash; Daniel Westling, Swedish royal
* 1973 &ndash; Julie Cox, British actress
* 1973 &ndash; Alyn Smith, Scottish politician
* 1974 &ndash; Murat Yakin, Swiss footballer

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Paul Thomson, Scottish musician
* 1977 &ndash; Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter
* 1977 &ndash; Sophie Dahl, British model
* 1977 &ndash; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian writer
* 1977 &ndash; Tom Hardy, English actor, screenwriter and producer
* 1977 &ndash; René Haselbacher, Austrian cyclist
* 1977 &ndash; Jason Terry, American basketball player
* 1978 &ndash; Eidur Gudjohnsen, Icelandic footballer
* 1978 &ndash; Kew Jaliens, Dutch footballer
* 1979 &ndash; Patrick Marleau, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1979 &ndash; Carlos Ruiz, Guatemalan footballer
* 1979 &ndash; Amy Davidson, American actress
* 1980 &ndash; Mike Dunleavy, Jr., American basketball player
* 1980 &ndash; Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese singer
* 1981 &ndash; Miyavi, Japanese composer, singer and guitarist
* 1983 &ndash; Ashleigh McIvor, Canadian freestyle skier
* 1983 &ndash; Tomas Sivok, Czech footballer
* 1983 &ndash; Santeri Palin, Finnish writer
* 1984 &ndash; Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, British royal
* 1986 &ndash; Heidi Montag, American television personality and singer
* 1986 &ndash; Anan Anwar, Thai singer and actor
* 1986 &ndash; Peter Wilson, English sport shooter and Olympic gold medalist
* 1986 &ndash; Poppy Delevingne, English model
* 1987 &ndash; Clare Maguire, English singer-songwriter
* 1988 &ndash; Chelsea Kane, American actress and singer
* 1988 &ndash; Kate Mansi, American actress
* 1990 &ndash; Gwyneth Keyworth, Welsh actress
* 1996 &ndash; Jake Cherry, American actor
* 1996 &ndash; Nao Furuhata, Japanese idol and singer
* 1999 &ndash; Nana Owada, Japanese idol singer and actress

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 668 &ndash; Constans II, Emperor (b. 630)
* 921 &ndash; Saint Ludmila of Bohemia, Bohemian martyr (b. 860)
* 1134 &ndash; Alfonso the Battler, King of Aragon and Navarra (b. 1073)
* 1231 &ndash; Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1173)
* 1326 &ndash; Dmitry of Tver (b. 1299)
* 1352 &ndash; Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)
* 1750 &ndash; Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1690)
* 1794 &ndash; Abraham Clark, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725)
* 1803 &ndash; Gian Francesco Albani, Italian cardinal (b. 1719)
* 1805 &ndash; Christopher Gadsden, American soldier and statesman (b. 1724)
* 1830 &ndash; William Huskisson, English politician, first rail fatality (b. 1770)
* 1835 &ndash; Sarah Knox Taylor, wife of Jefferson Davis (b. 1814)
* 1841 &ndash; Alessandro Rolla, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1757)
* 1842 &ndash; Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (b. 1771)
* 1842 &ndash; Francisco Morazan, President of Central America (b. 1792)
* 1859 &ndash; Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806)
* 1864 &ndash; John Hanning Speke, British explorer (b. 1827)
* 1875 &ndash; Duchenne de Boulogne, French psychologist (b. 1806)
* 1883 &ndash; Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (b. 1801)
* 1885 &ndash; Jumbo, African elephant (b. 1861)
* 1891 &ndash; John Steell, Scottish sculptor (b. 1804)
* 1893 &ndash; Thomas Hawksley, English engineer (b. 1807)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1926 &ndash; Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer (b. 1846)
* 1930 &ndash; Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)
* 1938 &ndash; Thomas Wolfe, American writer (b. 1900)
* 1940 &ndash; William B. Bankhead, American politician (b. 1874)
* 1945 &ndash; André Tardieu, French statesman (b. 1876)
* 1945 &ndash; Anton Webern, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1883)
* 1972 &ndash; Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887)
* 1972 &ndash; Asgeir Asgeirsson, second President of Iceland (b. 1894)
* 1973 &ndash; King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden, King of Sweden (b. 1882)
* 1973 &ndash; Victor Jara, Chilean musician (b. 1932)
* 1975 &ndash; Pavel Sukhoi, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1895)
* 1978 &ndash; Willy Messerschmidt, German aircraft designer (b. 1898)
* 1979 &ndash; Tommy Leonetti, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1929)
* 1981 &ndash; Harold Bennett, English actor (b. 1899)
* 1985 &ndash; Cootie Williams, American trumpeter (b. 1910)
* 1989 &ndash; Robert Penn Warren, American writer (b. 1905)
* 1995 &ndash; Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (b. 1921)
* 1998 &ndash; Luke Rasminsky, Canadian economist (b. 1908)

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; June Salter, Australian actress (b. 1932)
* 2004 &ndash; Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (b. 1948)
* 2005 &ndash; Sidney Luft, American director (b. 1915)
* 2006 &ndash; Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1929)
* 2007 &ndash; Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (b. 1968)
* 2008 &ndash; Richard Wright, English musician (Pink Floyd) (b. 1943)
* 2009 &ndash; Timothy Bateson, English actor (b. 1926)
* 2014 &ndash; Post Bahadur Bogati, Nepalese politician (b. 1953)
* 2014 &ndash; Yitzhak Hofi, Israeli general (b. 1927)
* 2014 &ndash; Eugene I. Gordon, American physicist (b. 1930)
* 2014 &ndash; John Anderson, Jr., American politician, Governor of Kansas (b. 1917)
* 2014 &ndash; Jackie Cain, American jazz singer (b. 1928)
* 2014 &ndash; Jeremy Ball, Australian actor and politician (b. 1969)
* 2015 &ndash; Meir Pa'il, Israeli politician and military historian (b. 1926)
* 2015 &ndash; Bernard Van De Kerckhove, Belgian racing driver (b. 1941)
* 2015 &ndash; Mihai Volontir, Moldovan actor (b. 1934)
* 2015 &ndash; Harry J. Lipkin, Israeli nuclear physicist (b. 1921)
* 2017 &ndash; María Cristina Arango Vega, First Lady of Colombia (b. 1928)
* 2017 &ndash; Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenarian (b. 1900)
* 2017 &ndash; Dwijen Sharma, Bangladeshi naturalist and science writer (b. 1929)
* 2017 &ndash; Harry Dean Stanton, American actor (b. 1926)
* 2017 &ndash; Albert Speer Jr., German architect (b. 1934)
* 2018 &ndash; Kirin Kiki, Japanese actress (b. 1943)
* 2018 &ndash; Dudley Sutton, English actor (b. 1933)
* 2018 &ndash; José Manuel de la Sota, Argentine politician (b. 1949)
* 2018 &ndash; Victor Veselago, Soviet–Russian physicist (b. 1929)
* 2018 &ndash; Fritz Wintersteller, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1927)
* 2018 &ndash; Zhu Xu, Chinese actor (b. 1930)
* 2019 &ndash; Chadlia Caid Essebsi, First Lady of Tunisia (b. 1936)
* 2019 &ndash; Lol Mahamat Choua, 4th President of Chad (b. 1939)
* 2019 &ndash; Roberto Leal, Portuguese–Brazilian singer–songwriter (b. 1951)
* 2019 &ndash; Phyllis Newman, American actress and singer (b. 1933)
* 2019 &ndash; Ric Ocasek, American singer, songwriter and record producer (b. 1944)
* 2019 &ndash; Mike Stefanik, American racing driver (b. 1958)
* 2024 &ndash; Tito Jackson, American singer and member of the Jackson 5 (b. 1953)

## Observances 
* Battle of Britain Day (United Kingdom)
* Grito de Dolores (Mexico)
* Independence Day (Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua)
* International Day of Democracy
* Engineers' Day (India)