the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1776  Parts of New York City are burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
1780  Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
1792  The National Convention in France abolishes the monarchy.
1843  John Williams Wilson takes control of the Strait of Magellan, representing the newly independent Chilean government.
1846  Mexican-American War: The Battle of Monterrey begins.
1860  In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
1896  A British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola, Sudan.
1898  Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
1921  A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 561 people.
1934  A large typhoon hits western Honshu, Japan, killing 3,036 people.
1937  J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
1938  The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island, killing between 500 and 700 people.
1939  Romanian Prime Minister Armand Calinescu is killed by ultranationalist members of the Iron Guard.
1942  In Dunaivtski, Ukraine, the Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
1949  The People's Republic of China established in Beijing.
1960  The Flag of Panama is flown next to the Flag of the United States at the Panama Canal for the first time.
1961  First flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
1964  Malta becomes independent.
1965  Gambia, the Maldives and Singapore join the UN.
1971  Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the UN.
1972  Ferdinand Marcos declares Martial Law in the Philippines.
1976  The Seychelles join the UN.
1981  Belize is granted independence from the United Kingdom.
1984  Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the United States Senate to become the first female Justice on the United States Supreme Court.
1984  Brunei joins the UN.
1989  Hurricane Hugo hits the US state of South Carolina.
1991  Armenia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1993  The Russian Constitutional Crisis of 1993 begins, as President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution.
1993  A Tupolev Tu-134 aircraft is shot down by Abkhazian separatists near Sokhumi, Georgia.
1999  An earthquake in Taiwan leaves 2,400 people dead.
2001  31 people are killed in a chemical explosion in Toulouse, France.
2003  The Galileo mission is ended by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.
2004  In Dubai, building work begins on what would become the Burj Khalifa.
It was opened on January 4, 2010 as the world's tallest building, at a height of 828 metres.
2013  Westgate shopping mall shooting: A shooting attack on a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, kills at least 68 people, and many people are taken hostage.
Somali militant group Al-Shabaab claims responsibility.
2013  An attack at a funeral in Sadr City, Iraq, kills at least 60 people.
2016  A boat estimated to be carrying hundreds of people sinks off Alexandria, Egypt, and is believed to have killed most of those on board.
1051  Bertha of Savoy, German queen and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1087)
1154  Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon (d. 1208)
1328  Hongwu, Emperor of China (d. 1398)
1371  Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1440)
1411  Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, pretender to the English throne (d. 1460)
1415  Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1493)
1428  Jingtai, Emperor of China (d. 1457)
1452  Girolamo Savonarola, Italian philosopher and priest (d. 1498)
1457  Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria (d. 1502)
1559  Cigoli, Florentine painter, architect and sculptor (d. 1613)
1629  Philip Howard, English cardinal (d. 1594)
1640  Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (d. 1701)
1645  Louis Jolliet, French-Canadian explorer (d. 1700)
1705  Dick Turpin, English outlaw (d. 1739)
1706  Polyxena of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg, Queen of Sardinia (d. 1735)
1752  Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern, wife of Charles Eduard Stuart (d. 1824)
1756  John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer and road builder (d. 1836)
1757  James Jackson, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 1806)
1758  Christopher Gore, 8th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1827)
1760  Ivan Dimitriev, Russian statesman (d. 1837)
1788  Margaret Taylor, First Lady of the United States (d. 1852)
1791  Istvan Szechenyi, Hungarian entrepreneur and state reformer (d. 1860)
1792  Johann Peter Eckermann, German poet (d. 1854)
1801  Moritz Hermann von Jacobi, German-Russian physicist and engineer (d. 1874)
1817  John Allan Broun, Scottish scientist (d. 1879)
1819  Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France (d. 1864)
1840  Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1904)
1842  Abd-ul-Hamid, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
1845  Prince Ernest Augustus, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (d. 1923)
1846  Mihaly Kolossa, Hungarian-Slovenian writer (d. 1906)
1849  Maurice Barrymore, Indian-American actor (d. 1905)
1853  Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1913 (d. 1926)
1859  Francesc Macia i Llussa, Catalan army officer and politician (d. 1933)
1863  John Bunny, American movie comedian (d. 1915)
1864  Elena Vacarescu, Romanian writer (d. 1947)
1866  H. G. Wells, English writer (d. 1946)
1866  Charles Nicolle, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1928 (d. 1936)
1867  Henry L. Stimson, American politician (d. 1950)
1869  Carlo Airoldi, Italian marathon runner (d. 1929)
1872  Henry Tingle Wilde, British chief officer of the RMS Titanic (d. 1912)
1873  Papa Jack Laine, American musician (d. 1966)
1874  Gustav Holst, English composer (d. 1934)
1890  Max Immelmann, German fighter pilot (d. 1918)
1896  Walter Breuning, American supercentenarian (d. 2011)
1899  Frederick Coutts, 8th General of the Salvation Army (d. 1986)
1902  Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (d. 1963)
1902  E. E. Evans-Pritchard, British ethnologist (d. 1973)
1902  Toyen, Czech painter (d. 1980)
1909  Kwame Nkrumah, 1st President of Ghana (d. 1972)
1912  Chuck Jones, American animator (d. 2002)
1912  Gyorgy Sandor, Hungarian pianist (d. 2005)
1916  Françoise Giroud, French feminist journalist and writer (d. 2003)
1918  John Gofman, American scientist (d. 2007)
1919  Mario Bunge, Argentine philosopher and physicist
1924  Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1957)
1926  Donald A. Glaser, American physicist (d. 2013)
1926  Don Dunstan, 35th Premier of South Australia (d. 1999)
1926  Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress (d. 2000)
1928  Edouard Glissant, French writer (d. 2011)
1929  Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (d. 1979)
1929  Bernard Williams, English philosopher (d. 2003)
1931  Larry Hagman, American actor (d. 2012)
1932  Don Preston, American musician and movie score composer
1932  Shirley Conran, English journalist and writer
1934  Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer, musician, poet and writer (d. 2016)
1934  David J. Thouless, Scottish-American physicist (d. 2019)
1935  Jimmy Armfield, English footballer (d. 2018)
1936  Sunny Murray, American jazz drummer (d. 2017)
1936  Yury Luzhkov, Russian politician, former Mayor of Moscow
1939  Agnivesh, Indian activist and politician
1940  Rick May, Canadian-American actor and voice actor (d. 2020)
1941  R. James Woolsey, Jr., American 16th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
1944  Fannie Flagg, American actress, comedienne and author
1944  Steve Beshear, American politician, Governor of Kentucky
1945  Bjarni Tryggvason, Iceland-born Canadian engineer and astronaut
1945  Jerry Bruckheimer, American movie and television producer
1945  Shaw Clifton, 18th General of the Salvation Army
1946  Moritz Leuenberger, Swiss Federal Councillor
1946  Mart Siimann, former Prime Minister of Estonia
1947  Stephen King, American writer
1947  Don Felder, American rock music guitarist
1947  Nick Castle, American actor
1947  Ed Nimmervoll, Austrian-Australian rock musician, journalist, author and historian (d. 2014)
1947  Keith Harris, English ventriloquist (d. 2015)
1947  Rói Patursson, Faroese writer and philosopher
1949  Odilo Scherer, Brazilian cardinal
1950  Charles Clarke, British politician
1950  Bill Murray, American actor
1951  Bruce Arena, American soccer coach
1951  Aslan Maskhadov, President of Chechnya (d. 2005)
1952  Anneliese Michel, German exorcism victim (d. 1976)
1953  Reinhard Marx, German archbishop and cardinal
1954  Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan
1954  Phil Taylor, British musician (Motorhead) (d. 2015)
1955  Richard Hieb, American astronaut
1955  Mika Kaurismaki, Finnish director
1957  Ethan Coen, American movie director
1957  Sidney Moncrief, American basketball player
1957  Kevin Rudd, 26th Prime Minister of Australia
1958  Rick Mahorn, American basketball player
1959  Crin Antonescu, Romanian politician
1959  Dave Coullier, American actor
1961  Nancy Travis, American actress
1961  Dan Borislow, American entrepreneur, sports team owner and inventor (d. 2014)
1962  Rob Morrow, American actor
1963  Curtly Ambrose, Antiguan-Barbudan cricketer
1964  Carlos Aguilera, Uruguayan footballer
1965  Cheryl Hines, American actress
1965  David Wenham, Australian actor
1967  Faith Hill, American singer
1967  Suman Pokhrel, Nepalese poet
1967  Tyler Stewart, Canadian drummer (Barenaked Ladies)
1968  Ricki Lake, American actress and talk show hostess
1970  Rob Benedict, American actor
1970  Samantha Power, Irish-born 28th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
1971  Alfonso Ribeiro, American actor
1971  Luke Wilson, American actor
1972  David Silveria, American musician
1972  Liam Gallagher, English singer (Oasis)
1973  Oswaldo Sánchez, Mexican footballer
1974  Henning Fritz, German handball player
1975  Ronny Deila, Norwegian football manager
1978  Doug Howlett, New Zealand rugby player
1978  Mario Miranda, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1979  Chris Gayle, Jamaican cricketer
1979  Richard Dunne, Irish footballer
1979  James Allan, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1980  Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress
1980  Autumn Reeser, American actress
1980  Tomas Scheckter, South African racing driver
1980  Nyree Kindred, Welsh swimmer
1981  Rimi Sen, Indian actress
1981  Nicole Richie, American socialite
1982  Marat Izmailov, Russian footballer
1983  Anna Meares, Australian cyclist
1983  Fernando Cavenaghi, Argentine footballer
1983  Maggie Grace, American actress
1983  Greg Jennings, American football player
1987  Ryan Guzman, American actor
1987  Ashley Paris, American basketball player
1987  Courtney Paris, American basketball player
1988  Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Pakistani politician
1989  Jason Derulo, American singer
1989  Emma Watkins, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
1990  Al-Farouq Aminu, Nigerian-American basketball player
1990  Christian Serratos, American actress
1990  Allison Scagliotti, American actress
1992  Chen, South Korean singer
1994  Ben Proud, English swimmer
19 BC  Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 BC)
454  Flavius Aetius, Roman general (b. 396)
687  Pope Conon (b. 630)
1217  Lembitu, Estonian tribal leader
1217  Kaupo, Livonian tribal leader
1327  King Edward II of England (b. 1284)
1558  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1500)
1576  Gerolamo Cardano, Italian doctor, philosopher and mathematician (b. 1501)
1643  Huang Taiji, Chinese Emperor (b. 1592)
1743  Jai Singh II, Indian King (b. 1688)
1798  George Read, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1733)
1810  Mir Taqi Mir, Urdu poet (b. 1723)
1832  Walter Scott, Scottish writer (b. 1771)
1852  William Badger, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1779)
1860  Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788)
1880  Manuel Montt, 6th President of Chile (b. 1809)
1895  Viktor Rydberg, Swedish writer (b. 1828)
1904  Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader (b. 1840)
1906  Samuel Arnold, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
1926  Léon Charles Thévenin, French engineer (b. 1857)
1929  Nathaniel Edwin Harris, American politician (b. 1846)
1933  Kenji Miyazawa, Japanese author and poet (b. 1896)
1939  Armand Calinescu, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1893)
1943  Kingsley Wood, British politician (b. 1881)
1947  Harry Carey, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1846)
1953  Necmettin Sadak, Turkish politician (b. 1890)
1954  Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese inventor (b. 1858)
1957  Haakon VII, King of Norway (b. 1872)
1963  Paulino Masip, Spanish author, playwright and screenwriter (b. 1899)
1966  Paul Reynaud, Prime Minister of France (b. 1878)
1971  Bernardo Houssay, Argentinian doctor, won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1887)
1974  Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)
1976  Orlando Letelier, Chilean economist, politician and diplomat (b. 1932)
1982  Hovhannes Bagramyan, Soviet general (b. 1897)
1985  Gu Long, Chinese author and screenwriter (b. 1937)
1987  Jaco Pastorius, American musician (b. 1951)
1990  Takis Kanellopoulos, Greek movie director and screenwriter (b. 1933)
1995  Rudy Perpich, American politician (b. 1928)
1997  Jennifer Holt, American actress (b. 1920)
1998  Florence Griffith-Joyner, American athlete (b. 1959)
2007  Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian skier (b. 1929)
2011  Paulette Dubost, French actress (b. 1910)
2011  Troy Davis, American high-profile death row inmate (b. 1968)
2012  Henry Bauchau, Belgian psychoanalyst and author (b. 1913)
2012  Sven Hassel, Danish-German soldier and author (b. 1917)
2012  Michael Rye, American actor (b. 1918)
2014  Linda Griffiths, Canadian actress and playwright (b. 1953)
2014  Caldwell Jones, American basketball player (b. 1950)
2014  Cecilia Cenci, Argentine actress (b. 1942)
2014  Frieda Szwillus, German supercentenarian (b. 1902)
2014  Mike Harari, Israeli intelligence officer (b. 1927)
2015  Armen Movsisyan, Armenian politician (b. 1962)
2015  Yoram Gross, Polish-born Australian animation producer and director (b. 1926)
2017  Liliane Bettencourt, French businesswoman, socialite and heiress (b. 1922)
2017  William G. Stewart, British game show host (b. 1933)
2018  Vitaliy Masol, former Prime minister of Ukraine (b. 1928)
2018  Tran Dai Quang, President of Vietnam (b. 1956)
2019  Aron Eisenberg, American actor (b. 1969)
2019  Sid Haig, American actor (b. 1939)
2019  Sigmund Jaehn, German cosmonaut (b. 1937)
2019  Günter Kunert, German writer (b. 1929)
2019  Carl Ruiz, American chef and television personality (b. 1975)
2019  Jevan Snead, American football player (b. 1987)
2019  Woo Hye-mi, South Korean pop singer (b. 1988)
Independence Day (Belize and Malta)
International Day of Peace
Spring Day in some South American countries
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.
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 Sukhumi, 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.
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.
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  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  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.
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
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)
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)
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)
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
1338  Hundred Years' War: The Battle of Arnemuiden is fought, as the first naval battle.
1409  Battle of Kherlen: Second significant victory by the Mongols over Ming Dynasty China since 1368.
1459  Battle of Blore Heath: First major battle of the English Wars of the Roses.
1568  Spanish naval forces rout and English fleet under command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulua near Veracruz.
1641  The Merchant Royal, carrying treasure worth over a billion US Dollars, is lost at sea off Land's End, Cornwall.
1805  Napoleonic Wars: After the Austrians march into Bavaria, France declares war on Prussia.
1806  The Lewis and Clark expedition ends with the return to St. Louis, Missouri.
1821  Tripolitsa, Greece, falls and 30,000 Turks are massacred during the Greek War of Independence.
1845  Knickerbockers Baseball Club is founded in New York City.
It is the first baseball team to play under modern rules.
1846  The planet Neptune is officially discovered.
1868  Grito de Lares, "Lares Revolt", occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
1875  Billy the Kid is arrested for the first time, for stealing clothes from a laundryman.
1889  Nintendo Koppai, later the Nintendo Company, is founded in Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi.
1905  Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad Treaty", peacefully ending their union.
1908  The University of Alberta is founded.
1909  The Phantom of the Opera, a novel by Gaston Leroux, is published as a series in the Le Gaulois newspaper.
1910  French-Peruvian pilot Geo Chavez becomes the first person to fly a plane across the Alps.
1913  Roland Garros becomes the first person to fly a plane across the Mediterranean Sea, doing so from San Raphael, France to Bizerte, Tunisia.
1932  The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed Saudi Arabia.
1938  Mobilisation of the Czech army in response to the Munich Crisis.
1939  Psychologist and key figure in Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud dies at the age of 83.
1941  Holocaust: The first gas chamber experiments take place at Auschwitz.
1943  The Nazi puppet state of the Italian Social Republic is founded.
1959  Iowa farmer and corn breeder Roswell Garst hosts Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
1965  Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 ends.
1972  Ferdinand Marcos announces the implementation of martial law over TV and radio in the Philippines.
1973  Chilean poet Pablo Neruda dies, 12 days after the coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile.
1973  Juan Perón retakes power in Argentina, but dies just over 9 months later.
1980  Bob Marley plays in his last live performance, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1983  Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the UN.
1983  Gerrie Coetzee becomes the first African heavyweight boxing World champion.
1983  Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board.
1989  Azerbaijan declares its sovereignty from the Soviet Union.
1993  The 2000 Summer Olympics are awarded to Sydney, Australia.
1999  NASA announces it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
2002  The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (Phoenix 0.1) is released.
2004  Hurricane Jeanne reportedly kills 1,070 people in Haiti.
2008  The Kauhajoki Shooting occurs in Finland, as 10 people are shot dead.
The gunman, Matti Saari, later turns the gun on himself.
2009  Major dust storms affect Eastern Australia, as people in Sydney wake up to find their city shrouded in red dust.
2017  New Zealand general election: The centre-right New Zealand National Party under Prime Minister Bill English becomes the largest party for the 4th term in-a-row.
The New Zealand Labour Party under Jacinda Ardern performs a lot better than in the previous election.
2017  Iran announces a weapon-test, only a few days after a speech by US President Donald Trump in which he strongly criticised the country.
2019  British travel company Thomas Cook collapses.
2019  Russia joins the Paris Climate Agreement.
2019  Climate change activist Greta Thunberg speaks at a United Nations Climate summit.
480 BC  Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC)
63 BC  Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor (d. 14)
1158  Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1186)
1161  Emperor Takamura of Japan (d. 1181)
1215  Kublai Khan, Mongol ruler (d. 1294)
1392  Filippo Maria Visconti, Italian regent (d. 1447)
1434  Yolande of Valois (d. 1478)
1495  Bagrat III of Imereti, King of Imereti in Georgia (d. 1565)
1598  Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655)
1642  Giovanni Maria Bononcini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1678)
1647  Joseph Dudley, American statesman (d. 1720)
1713  King Ferdinand VI of Spain (d. 1759)
1740  Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)
1759  Clothilde of France (d. 1802)
1771  Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)
1778  Mariano Moreno, Argentine lawyer, journalist and politician (d. 1811)
1781  Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1860)
1783  Peter von Cornelius, German painter (d. 1867)
1791  Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865)
1819  Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d. 1896)
1823  John Colton, English-Australian politician, Premier of South Australia (d. 1902)
1834  Aleksey Suvorin, Russian publisher, dramatist and theatre critic (d. 1912)
1838  Victoria Woodhull, American Women's rights activist (d. 1927)
1850  Alfred Boucher, French sculptor (d. 1934)
1852  William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon (d. 1922)
1853  Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen (d. 1923)
1853  Konstantin Stoilov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1901)
1861  Robert Bosch, German industrialist, engineer and inventor (d. 1942)
1863  Mary Church Terrell, American author and activist (d. 1954)
1864  Draga Masin, Queen Consort of Serbia (d. 1903)
1865  Emma Orczy, British novelist (d. 1947)
1865  Suzanne Valadon, French painter (d. 1938).
1876  Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli scholar (d. 1968)
1880  John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician (d. 1971)
1883  Grigory Zinoviev, Soviet politician (d. 1936)
1884  Eugene Talmadge, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 1946)
1889  Walter Lippmann, American journalist (d. 1974)
1890  Friedrich Paulus, German general (d. 1957)
1892  Georgi Damyanov, Bulgarian politician (d. 1958)
1893  Aleksei Losev, Russian philosopher and philologist (d. 1988)
1895  Miron Merzhanov, Soviet architect (d. 1975)
1897  Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (d. 1984)
1899  Tom C. Clark, 59th Attorney General of the United States (d. 1977)
1900  Bill Stone, British World War I veteran (d. 2009)
1901  Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer (d. 1986)
1902  Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Romanian jurist and Communist politician (d. 2000)
1902  Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and academic (d. 2003)
1905  Tiny Bradshaw, American bandleader and musician (d. 1958)
1906  Charles Ritchie, Canadian diplomat (d. 1995)
1907  Albert Ammons, American pianist (d. 1949)
1907  Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, Portuguese royal (d. 1976)
1907  Jarmila Novotna, Czech soprano and actress (d. 1994)
1908  Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Indian Hindi poet (d. 1974)
1911  Frank Moss, American politician (d. 2003)
1912  Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani critic and linguist (d. 2005)
1913  Tokutaro Ukon, Japanese footballer (d. 1944)
1913  Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish painter (d. 2007)
1914  Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (d. 1986)
1915  Sergio Bertoni, Italian footballer (d. 1995)
1915  Clifford Shull, American physicist (d. 2001)
1916  Aldo Moro, Italian politician (d. 1978)
1917  Asima Chatterjee, Indian organic chemist (d. 2006)
1917  Santo, Mexican masked professional wrestler and actor (d. 1984)
1917  Imre Németh, Hungarian hammer thrower (d. 1989)
1918  Salvatore Pappalardo, Italian cardinal (d. 2006)
1920  Alexander Arutunian, Armenian composer (d. 2012)
1920  Mickey Rooney, American actor (d. 2014)
1920  Ovadia Yosef, Israeli rabbi (d. 2013)
1922  Louise Latham, American actress (d. 2018)
1923  Basil Feldman, Baron Feldman, British politician and businessman (d. 2019)
1923  Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Egyptian journalist (d. 2016)
1923  Margaret Pellegrini, American actress (d. 2013)
1924  Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan editor and journalist (d. 1978)
1924  Jean Piat, French actor (d. 2018)
1925  Angelo Acerbi, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop
1925  George J. Laurer, American inventor
1926  John Coltrane, American jazz musician (d. 1967)
1926  André Cassagnes, French toymaker (d. 2013)
1927  Mighty Joe Young, American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (d. 1999)
1928  Hollie Pihl, American judge (d. 2018)
1930  Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004)
1930  Colin Blakely, British actor (d. 1987)
1930  Albert Manent, Spanish writer (d. 2014)
1934  Franc Rodé, Slovenian cardinal
1934  Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan
1934  Per-Olov Enquist, Swedish author
1936  Valentín Paniagua, former President of Peru (d. 2006)
1937  Martin Litchfield West, British philologist (d. 2015)
1938  Romy Schneider, German-born actress (d. 1982)
1939  Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (d. 1988)
1939  Henry Blofeld, English cricket journalist
1940  Tim Rose, American-born English musician (d. 2002)
1940  Michel Temer, President and 25th Vice president of Brazil
1940  Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Iranian musician and songwriter
1941  Norma Winstone, English singer and lyricist
1941  Luis Durnwalder, Italian politician
1942  Sila María Calderón, 7th Governor of Puerto Rico
1943  Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer
1943  Tanuja, Indian actress
1943  Lino Oviedo, Paraguayan general and politician (d. 2013)
1945  Igor Ivanov, Russian politician
1945  Ron Bushy, American drummer (Iron Butterfly)
1946  Bernard Maris, French economist, writer and journalist (d. 2015)
1947  Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish priest (d. 1984)
1947  Mary Kay Place, American actress and singer
1949  Bruce Springsteen, American singer-songwriter and musician
1949  Floella Benjamin, British actress, author, television presenter and politician
1950  Dietmar Lorenz, German judoka
1952  Mark Bego, American author
1953  Nicholas Witchell, English journalist
1954  Cherie Blair, English lawyer, wife of Tony Blair
1956  Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer
1956  Andoni Goikoetxea, Basque-Spanish footballer
1957  Emilia Contessa, Indonesian actress and singer
1957  Rosalind Chow, American actress
1957  Fergus Ewing, Scottish footballer
1958  Larry Mize, golfer
1959  Fernando Romay, Spanish basketball player
1959  Jason Alexander, American actor, director and producer
1959  Elizabeth Peña, American actress (d. 2014)
1961  William McCool, American astronaut (d. 2003)
1962  Deborah Orr, Scottish journalist
1963  Alex Proyas, Australian director and producer
1964  Clayton Blackmore, Welsh footballer
1964  Larry Krystkowiak, American basketball player
1965  Aleqa Hammond, former Prime Minister of Greenland
1967  Masashi Nakayama, Japanese footballer
1968  Yvette Fielding, British actress and producer
1968  Adam Price, Welsh politician
1968  Erik Weihenmayer, American athlete, adventurer and author
1970  Lucia Ciffarelli, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1970  Ani DiFranco, American singer
1971  Sean Spicer, former White House Press Secretary
1972  Karl Pilkington, English radio personality
1973  Jermaine Dupri, American hip hop musician
1973  Toshihiro Hattori, Japanese footballer
1973  Artim Sakiri, Macedonian footballer
1974  Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler
1975  Chris Hawkins, English journalist
1976  Homaro Cantu, American chef and inventor (d. 2015)
1977  Rachael Yamagata, American singer
1977  Suzanne Tamim, Lebanese singer (d. 2008)
1979  Ricky Davis, American basketball player
1979  Fábio Simplício, Brazilian footballer
1981  Natalie Horler, German singer (Cascada)
1981  Helen Richardson-Walsh, English field hockey player
1983  Leinier Dominguez, Cuban chess player
1984  Anneliese van der Pol, Dutch-American actress
1984  Kate French, American actress
1985  Hossein Kaebi, Iranian footballer
1986  Maki Goto, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
1986  Martin Cranie, English footballer
1986  Gina-Lisa Lohfink, German model and television personality
1987  Skylar Astin, American actor and singer
1987  Yu Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
1988  Juan Martín del Potro, Argentine tennis player
1988  Shannon Chan-Kent, Canadian actress and singer
1989  Brandon Jennings, American basketball player
1991  Lee Alexander, Scottish footballer
1991  Key, South Korean singer and actor
1991  Melanie Oudin, American tennis player
1992  Finn Russell, Scottish rugby union player
1994  Yerry Mina, Colombian footballer
1996  Lee Hi, South Korean singer
76  Pope Linus
1241  Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian and poet (b. 1179)
1386  Dan I of Wallachia (b. 1354)
1390  John I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1346)
1535  Catherine of Saxe-Lauenberg (b. 1513)
1657  Joachim Jung, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1587)
1738  Herman Boerhaeve, Dutch humanist and physician (b. 1668)
1773  Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and naturalist (b. 1718)
1789  John Rogers, American Congressman (b. 1723)
1816  Alessandro Verri, Italian writer (b. 1741)
1830  Elizabeth Monroe, First Lady of the United States (b. 1768)
1835  Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801)
1836  Maria Malibran, French mezzo soprano (b. 1808)
1844  Alexander von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (b. 1783)
1850  José Artigas, Uruguayan national hero (b. 1764)
1870  Prosper Mérimée, French writer (b. 1803)
1877  Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician (b. 1811)
1882  Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (b. 1800)
1889  Wilkie Collins, English author and playwright (b. 1824)
1896  Ivar Aasen, Norwegian poet and linguist (b. 1813)
1917  Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (b. 1897)
1929  Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian chemist (b. 1865)
1939  Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychologist (b. 1856)
1943  Salvo D'Acquisto, Italian military officer (b. 1920)
1943  Ernst Trygger, Swedish politician (b. 1857)
1944  Jakob Schaffner, Swiss author (b. 1875)
1950  Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (b. 1892)
1968  Padre Pio, Italian priest (b. 1887)
1970  Bourvil, French actor (b. 1917)
1971  Billy Gilbert, American actor (b. 1894)
1971  James Waddell Alexander II, American mathematician (b. 1888)
1973  Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (b. 1904)
1973  A. S. Neill, Scottish educator (b. 1883)
1974  Cliff Arquette, American actor (b. 1905)
1987  Bob Fosse, American choreographer (b. 1927)
1988  Tibor Sekelj, Yugoslavian explorer (b. 1912)
1992  James Van Fleet, American general (b. 1892)
1994  Jerry Barber, American golfer (b. 1916)
1994  Robert Bloch, American writer (b. 1917)
1994  Madeleine Renaud, French actress (b. 1900)
1998  Ray Bowden, English footballer (b. 1909)
1999  Ivan Goff, Australian-American screenwriter and producer (b. 1910)
2003  Shawn Lane, American musician (b. 1963)
2006  Malcolm Arnold, British composer (b. 1921)
2006  Etta Baker, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1913)
2006  Tim Rooney, American actor (b. 1947)
2009  Ertugrul Osman, head of the Ottoman dynasty (b. 1912)
2012  Corrie Sanders, South African boxer (b. 1966)
2012  Pavel Grachev, Russian general (b. 1948)
2013  Vlatko Markovic, Croatian footballer (b. 1937)
2014  Al Suomi, American ice hockey player (b. 1913)
2014  Gilles Latulippe, Canadian comedian, actor and theatre manager (b. 1937)
2014  Henryk Glücklich, Polish speedway rider (b. 1945)
2015  Mike Gibson, Australian sports journalist and broadcaster (b. 1940)
2015  Dragan Holcer, Croatian footballer (b. 1945)
2015  Denis Sonet, French priest (b. 1926)
2017  Charles Bradley, American singer (b. 1948)
2017  Elizabeth D. Phillips, American educator and academic administrator (b. 1945)
2017  Samuel H. Young, American politician (b. 1922)
2018  Charles K. Kao, Chinese-born electrical engineer (b. 1933)
2018  Gary Kurtz, American film producer (b. 1940)
2019  Al Alvarez, English poet and writer (b. 1929)
2019  Madhav Apte, Indian cricketer (b. 1932)
2019  Elaine Feinstein, English poet and novelist (b. 1930)
2019  Robert Hunter, American songwriter, poet and guitarist (b. 1941)
2019  Curt Wittlin, Swiss philologist (b. 1941)
Feast of Saint Pio
Celebrate Bisexuality Day
National holiday of Saudi Arabia
September Equinox in some years (Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, and Spring in the Southern Hemisphere)
622 – The Prophet Muhammad completes his Hijra (pilgrimage) from Mecca to Medina.
1180 - Manuel I Komnenos, the last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration, dies.
This leads to an irreversible decline of the Byzantine Empire.
1645 - English Civil War: Battle of Rowton Heath - Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles I of England.
1664 – The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam (New York) to England.
1780 - Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British major John Andre exposes Arnold's plan to surrender West Point.
1789 - United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act which creates the office of United States Attorney General and the Federal Judiciary System, also ordering the composition of the United States Supreme Court.
1830 - Belgian Revolution: A revolutionary committee of notables from the Provisional Government of Belgium.
1841 - The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the United Kingdom.
1846 - Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey, Mexico.
1852 - The first airship powered by a steam engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 kilometres) from Paris to Trappes.
1853 - France takes control of New Caledonia.