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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020 September
September 17 is the 260th day of the
year (261st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 105 days remain until the end
of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
1111 –
Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego
Gelmírez crown Alfonso VII as "King of Galicia".[1] ·
1176 –
The Battle of Myriokephalon is the last attempt by
the Byzantine Empire to recover central Anatolia from the Seljuk Turks. ·
1382 – Louis the Great's
daughter, Mary, is crowned "king" of Hungary. ·
1462 – Thirteen Years' War: A Polish army under Piotr Dunin
decisively defeats the Teutonic Order at the Battle of Świecino. ·
1577 –
The Treaty of Bergerac is signed between
King Henry III of France and the Huguenots.[2] ·
1620 – Polish–Ottoman War: The Ottoman Empire defeats the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Battle of Cecora. ·
1630 –
The city of Boston,
Massachusetts is founded. ·
1631 –
Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman
Empire during the Thirty Years' War. ·
1658 –
The Battle of Vilanova is fought between Portugal
and Spain during the Portuguese Restoration War. ·
1683 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the
Royal Society describing "animalcules". ·
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Invasion of Canada
begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean. ·
1776 –
The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New
Spain. ·
1778 –
The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first
formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe. ·
1787 –
The United States Constitution is signed in
Philadelphia. ·
1793 – War of the Pyrenees: France defeats a Spanish force
at the Battle of Peyrestortes. ·
1794 – Flanders Campaign: France completes its conquest of
the Austrian Netherlands at the Battle of Sprimont. ·
1809 –
Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War; the
territory that will become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn. ·
1849 –
American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes
from slavery. ·
1859 – Joshua A. Norton declares
himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States." ·
1861 – Argentine Civil Wars: The State of Buenos Aires
defeats the Argentine Confederation at the Battle of
Pavón. ·
1862 – American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the
northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American
military history. ·
1862 – American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the
single largest civilian disaster during the war. ·
1894 – Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval
engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War. ·
1900 – Philippine–American War: Filipinos under Juan
Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham Jr. at Mabitac. ·
1901 – Second Boer War: A
Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort. ·
1901 – Second Boer War: Boers capture a
squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River. ·
1908 –
The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as
passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane
fatality. ·
1914 – Andrew Fisher becomes
Prime Minister of Australia for the third time. ·
1914 – World War I:
The Race to the
Sea begins. ·
1916 –
World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red
Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first
aerial combat near Cambrai, France. ·
1920 –
The National Football League is organized as the
American Professional Football Association in Canton, Ohio.[3][4] ·
1924 –
The Border Protection Corps is established in the
Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed
Soviet raids and local bandits. ·
1928 –
The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern
Florida, killing more than 2,500 people. ·
1930 –
The Kurdish Ararat rebellion is suppressed by the Turks. ·
1932 –
A speech by Laureano
Gómez leads to the escalation of the Leticia Incident. ·
1935 –
The Niagara Gorge Railroad ceases operations after
a rockslide.[5] ·
1939 – World War II:
The Soviet invasion of Poland begins. ·
1939 – World War II: German submarine U-29 sinks the
British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous. ·
1940 –
World War II: Due to setbacks in the Battle of Britain and approaching autumn
weather, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion. ·
1941 –
World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense
restores compulsory
military training. ·
1941 – World War II: Soviet forces enter
Tehran during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. ·
1944 –
World War II: Allied airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the
"Market" half of Operation Market Garden. ·
1944 – World War II: Soviet troops launch
the Tallinn Offensive against Germany and pro-independence Estonian units. ·
1944 – World War II: German forces are
attacked by the Allies in the Battle of San Marino. ·
1948 –
The Lehi (also
known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte,
who was appointed by the United Nations to mediate between the Arab nations
and Israel. ·
1948 – The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty
over the Hyderabad
State and joins the Indian Union. ·
1949 –
The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns
in Toronto
Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives. ·
1961 –
The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ·
1965 –
The Battle of Chawinda is fought between Pakistan
and India.[6] ·
1974 – Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join
the United Nations. ·
1976 –
The Space Shuttle Enterprise is
unveiled by NASA. ·
1978 –
The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and
Egypt. ·
1980 –
After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in
Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established. ·
1980 – Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in
Asunción, Paraguay. ·
1983 – Vanessa Williams becomes
the first black Miss America. ·
1991 – Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations. ·
1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel
(0.01) is released to the Internet. ·
1992 –
An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin. ·
2001 –
The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading
after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since
the Great Depression. ·
2006 – Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking
the first eruption for the volcano in at least 10,000 years. ·
2006 – An audio tape of a private speech by Hungarian Prime Minister
Ferenc Gyurcsány is leaked to the public, in which he confessed that his
Hungarian Socialist Party had lied to win the 2006 election, sparking widespread protests across the country. ·
2011 – Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti
Park, New York City. ·
2013 – Grand Theft Auto V earns more than half a
billion dollars on its first day of release.[7] ·
2016 – Two bombs explode in Seaside Park, New Jersey,
and Manhattan. Thirty-one people are injured in the Manhattan bombing. ·
2018 –
A Russian reconnaissance aircraft carrying 15 people on board is brought down by a Syrian surface-to-air missile
over the Mediterranean Sea.[8] Births[edit]
·
879 – Charles the Simple, Frankish king (d. 929)[9] ·
1433 – James of Portugal, Portuguese prince and cardinal
(d. 1459)[10] ·
1479 – Celio Calcagnini,
Italian astronomer (d. 1541)[11] ·
1550 – Paul V, pope of the
Catholic Church (d. 1621)[12] ·
1565 – Edward Fortunatus, German nobleman (d. 1600)[13] ·
1578 – John Prideaux,
English administrator and bishop (d. 1650) ·
1605 – Francesco Sacrati, Italian composer (d. 1650) ·
1630 – Ranuccio II Farnese, duke of Parma (d. 1694) ·
1639 – Hans Herr, Swiss
bishop (d. 1725)[14] ·
1688 – Maria Luisa of Savoy, queen consort of Spain (d.
1714) ·
1730 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian-American
general (d. 1794) ·
1739 – John Rutledge,
American judge and politician, 2nd Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1800) ·
1743 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and
political scientist (d. 1794) ·
1771 – Johann August Apel, German jurist and author (d.
1816)[15] ·
1773 – Jonathan Alder,
American captain and farmer (d. 1849) ·
1783 – Nadezhda Durova,
Russian soldier (d. 1866) ·
1797 – Heinrich Kuhl,
German naturalist and zoologist (d. 1821) ·
1817 – Herman Adolfovich Trautscohold, German geologist
and paleontologist (d. 1902) ·
1819 – Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, South African general
and politician, 1st President of the South African Republic (d.
1901)[16] ·
1820 – Émile Augier, French
playwright (d. 1889) ·
1820 – Earl Van Dorn,
Confederate general (d. 1863) ·
1821 – Arthur Saint-Léon, French choreographer (d. 1870) ·
1825 – Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, American
jurist and politician, 16th United States Secretary of the Interior (d.
1893) ·
1826 – Bernhard Riemann,
German-Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1866) ·
1850 – Guerra Junqueiro,
Portuguese journalist, lawyer, and politician (d. 1923) ·
1853 – Frederick Corbett, British officer and Victoria Cross recipient
(d. 1912) ·
1854 – David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American businessman,
founded Buick Motor Company (d.
1929) ·
1857 – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian scientist and
engineer (d. 1935) ·
1859 – Frank Dawson Adams, Canadian geologist and academic
(d. 1942) ·
1859 – Billy the Kid,
American gunman (d. 1881) ·
1859 – I. L. Patterson,
American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (d. 1929) ·
1860 – Mihkel Martna,
Estonian journalist and politician (d. 1934) ·
1864 – Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Ukrainian writer (d. 1913) ·
1864 – James Tancred,
English admiral (d. 1943) ·
1865 – William Murray McPherson, Australian politician,
31st Premier of Victoria (d. 1932) ·
1867 – Vera Yevstafievna Popova, Russian chemist (d. 1896) ·
1868 – James Alexander Calder, Canadian educator and
politician, Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence (d.
1956) ·
1869 – Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian political
scientist, historian, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1938) ·
1874 – Walter Murdoch,
Australian author and academic (d. 1970) ·
1878 – Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer (d. 1950) ·
1879 – Rube Foster,
American baseball player and manager (d. 1930) ·
1879 – Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Indian businessman, social
activist, and politician (d. 1973) ·
1881 – Alfred Carpenter,
English admiral, Victoria
Cross recipient (d. 1955)[17] ·
1883 – William Carlos Williams, American poet, short story
writer, and essayist (d. 1963)[18] ·
1884 – Charles Griffes,
American pianist and composer (d. 1920) ·
1886 – Anton Irv, Estonian
captain (d. 1919) ·
1897 – Earl Webb, American
baseball player and coach (d. 1965) ·
1900 – Hughie Critz,
American baseball player (d. 1980) ·
1900 – Lena Frances Edwards, African-American physician,
awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (d. 1986) ·
1900 – J. Willard Marriott, American businessman, founded
the Marriott Corporation (d. 1985) ·
1900 – Martha Ostenso,
Canadian screenwriter and novelist (d. 1963) ·
1900 – Hedwig Ross, New
Zealand-born educator and political activist, founding member of the Communist Party of New Zealand (d. 1971) ·
1901 – Francis Chichester, English pilot and sailor (d.
1972)[19] ·
1902 – Bea Miles,
Australian author (d. 1973) ·
1903 – Karel Miljon, Dutch
boxer (d. 1984) ·
1903 – Frank O'Connor,
Irish short story writer, novelist, and poet (d. 1966) ·
1903 – Minanogawa Tōzō, Japanese sumo wrestler,
the 34th Yokozuna (d.
1971) ·
1905 – Tshekedi Khama,
regent of the Bamangwato tribe
(d. 1959) ·
1906 – J. R. Jayewardene, Sri Lankan lawyer and
politician, 2nd President of Sri Lanka (d. 1996) ·
1906 – Edgar Wayburn,
American physician and environmentalist (d. 2010) ·
1907 – Warren E. Burger,
American lawyer and judge, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995) ·
1908 – John Creasey,
English author and politician (d. 1973)[20] ·
1908 – Rafael Israelyan,
Armenian architect and educator, designed the Sardarapat Memorial and St. Vartan Cathedral (d. 1973) ·
1909 – Elizabeth Enright, American author and illustrator
(d. 1968) ·
1912 – Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress (d. 2011) ·
1912 – Maksim Tank,
Belarusian poet, journalist, and translator (d. 1995) ·
1914 – Thomas J. Bata,
Czech-Canadian businessman (d. 2008) ·
1914 – William Grut,
Swedish pentathlete (d. 2012) ·
1914 – Shin Kanemaru,
Japanese politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1996) ·
1915 – M. F. Husain, Indian
painter and director (d. 2011) ·
1916 – Mary Stewart, English-Scottish author and poet (d.
2014) ·
1917 – Ib Melchior,
Danish-American author and screenwriter (d. 2015) ·
1917 – Isang Yun, South
Korean-German composer and educator (d. 1995) ·
1918 – Lea Gottlieb,
Hungarian-Israeli fashion designer, founded the Gottex Company (d.
2012) ·
1918 – Chaim Herzog,
Irish-born Israeli general and politician, 6th President of Israel (d. 1997) ·
1920 – Dinah Sheridan,
English actress (d. 2012) ·
1922 – Agostinho Neto,
Angolan poet and politician, 1st President of Angola (d. 1979) ·
1923 – Ralph Sharon,
English-American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2015) ·
1923 – Hank Williams,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1953) ·
1925 – Dorothy Loudon,
American actress and singer (d. 2003) ·
1926 – Bill Black, American
bass player and bandleader (d. 1965) ·
1926 – Curtis Harrington, American actor, director, and
screenwriter (d. 2007) ·
1926 – Hovie Lister,
American minister and pianist (d. 2001) ·
1926 – Jean-Marie Lustiger, French cardinal (d. 2007) ·
1926 – Jack McDuff,
American singer and organist (d. 2001) ·
1927 – George Blanda,
American football player (d. 2010) ·
1928 – Park Honan, American
author and academic (d. 2014) ·
1928 – Roddy McDowall,
English-American actor (d. 1998) ·
1929 – Sil Austin, American
saxophonist (d. 2001) ·
1929 – David Craig, Baron Craig of Radley, Northern Irish
air marshal and politician ·
1929 – Sir Stirling Moss,
English racing driver and sportscaster (d. 2020) ·
1930 – David Huddleston,
American actor (d. 2016) ·
1930 – Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist and composer
(d. 2013) ·
1930 – Theo Loevendie,
Dutch clarinet player and composer ·
1930 – Edgar Mitchell,
American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2016) ·
1930 – Jim Rohn, American
philosopher and author (d. 2009) ·
1930 – Thomas P. Stafford, American general, pilot, and
astronaut ·
1931 – Anne Bancroft,
American actress (d. 2005) ·
1931 – Jean-Claude Carrière, French actor and screenwriter ·
1932 – Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, emir of Qatar (d. 2016) ·
1932 – Robert B. Parker,
American author and academic (d. 2010) ·
1932 – Indarjit Singh,
Indian-English journalist ·
1932 – Samuel Ogbemudia,
Nigerian army officer and politician (d. 2017) ·
1933 – Bulldog Brower,
American wrestler (d. 1997) ·
1933 – Chuck Grassley,
American lawyer and politician ·
1933 – Claude Provost,
Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 1984) ·
1934 – Maureen Connolly,
American tennis player (d. 1969) ·
1935 – Ken Kesey, American
novelist, essayist, and poet (d. 2001) ·
1936 – Gerald Guralnik,
American physicist and academic (d. 2014) ·
1936 – Michael Hennagin,
American composer and educator (d. 1993) ·
1937 – Nigel Boocock,
English-Australian motorcycle racer (d. 2015) ·
1937 – Orlando Cepeda,
Puerto Rican-American baseball player ·
1937 – Sitakant Mahapatra, Indian poet and literary critic ·
1938 – Paul Benedict,
American actor (d. 2008) ·
1938 – Perry Robinson,
American clarinet player and composer (d. 2018) ·
1938 – Bobby Wine, American
baseball player and coach ·
1939 – Carl Dennis, American
poet and educator ·
1939 – Shelby Flint,
American singer-songwriter and voice actress ·
1939 – David Souter,
American lawyer and jurist ·
1940 – Jan Eliasson,
Swedish politician and diplomat, 4th Deputy Secretary-General of the
United Nations ·
1940 – Peter Lever, English
cricketer ·
1940 – Gilberto Parlotti, Italian motorcycle racer (d.
1972) ·
1941 – Bob Matsui, American
lawyer and politician (d. 2005) ·
1942 – Robert Graysmith,
American author and illustrator ·
1942 – Des Lynam,
Irish-English journalist and author ·
1942 – Lupe Ontiveros,
American actress (d. 2012) ·
1944 – Les Emmerson,
Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1944 – Reinhold Messner,
Italian mountaineer and explorer ·
1944 – Jean Taylor,
American mathematician and academic ·
1945 – David Emerson,
Canadian economist and politician, 8th Minister of Foreign Affairs for Canada ·
1945 – Phil Jackson,
American basketball player and coach ·
1945 – Bhakti Charu Swami, Indian religious leader (d.
2020) ·
1946 – Billy Bonds, English
footballer and manager ·
1946 – Heimar Lenk,
Estonian journalist and politician ·
1947 – Tessa Jowell,
English social worker and politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office (d. 2018) ·
1947 – Enrique Krauze,
Mexican historian, critic, and publisher ·
1947 – Gail Carson Levine, American author ·
1947 – Jeff MacNelly,
American cartoonist (d. 2000) ·
1948 – Kemal Monteno,
Bosnian singer-songwriter (d. 2015) ·
1948 – John Ritter,
American actor and producer (d. 2003) ·
1949 – Ron Stevens,
Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2014) ·
1950 – Narendra Modi, Chief
Minister of Gujarat, India (2001-14) and politician, 14th Prime Minister of India ·
1950 – Fee Waybill,
American singer-songwriter and producer[21] ·
1951 – Russell Brown, Scottish politician ·
1951 – Cassandra Peterson, American actress, television
host, and producer ·
1952 – Harold Solomon,
American tennis player and coach ·
1953 – Luís Amado,
Portuguese politician, former minister of Minister of Foreign Affairs ·
1953 – Tamasin Day-Lewis, English chef and author ·
1953 – Altaf Hussain, Pakistani-English soldier and
politician ·
1953 – Rita Rudner,
American actress, comedian, and screenwriter ·
1954 – Joël-François Durand, French pianist and composer ·
1954 – Bill Irwin, American wrestler ·
1955 – Scott Simpson, American golfer ·
1955 – Charles Martinet,
American actor ·
1955 – Mike Parson,
American politician, 57th Governor of Missouri ·
1956 – Almazbek Atambayev, Kyrgyz politician, 4th President of Kyrgyzstan ·
1956 – Thad Bosley,
American baseball player and coach ·
1956 – Mandawuy Yunupingu, Australian singer-songwriter
and guitarist (d. 2013) ·
1957 – David Bintley,
English ballet dancer and director ·
1957 – Steve Bryles,
American businessman and politician (d. 2012) ·
1958 – Janez Janša,
Slovenian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Slovenia ·
1958 – Tom Waddell, Scottish-American baseball player (d.
2019) ·
1960 – John Bottomley,
Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2011) ·
1960 – John Franco,
American baseball player ·
1960 – Damon Hill, English
racing driver and guitarist ·
1960 – Alan Krueger,
American economist and academic (d. 2019) ·
1961 – Jim Cornette,
American wrestling manager and sportscaster ·
1961 – Giorgos Koumoutsakos, Greek politician ·
1961 – Ty Tabor, American
rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (King's X) ·
1962 – Baz Luhrmann,
Australian director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1962 – Dustin Nguyen,
Vietnamese-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1962 – Hesham Qandil,
Egyptian engineer and politician, 51st Prime Minister of Egypt ·
1962 – Wayne Riley,
Australian golfer ·
1962 – BeBe Winans,
American singer-songwriter and producer ·
1963 – Masahiro Chono,
American-Japanese wrestler and manager ·
1963 – James Urbaniak,
American actor, producer, and screenwriter ·
1965 – Kyle Chandler,
American actor ·
1965 – Yuji Naka, Japanese
video game designer, created Sonic the Hedgehog ·
1965 – Guy Picciotto,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1965 – Bryan Singer,
American director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1966 – Doug E. Fresh,
American rapper and producer ·
1967 – Michael Carbajal,
American boxer ·
1968 – Cheryl Strayed,
American author ·
1968 – Tito Vilanova,
Spanish footballer and manager (d. 2014) ·
1969 – Adam Devlin, English
guitarist and songwriter ·
1969 – Ken Doherty, Irish
snooker player[22] ·
1969 – Keith Flint, English
singer-songwriter (d. 2019) ·
1969 – Paul Varelans,
American MMA fighter and wrestler ·
1971 – Nate Berkus,
American interior designer and television host ·
1971 – Mike Catt, South
African-English rugby player and coach ·
1971 – Andy Edwards, English footballer ·
1971 – Mauro Milanese,
Italian footballer and manager ·
1973 – Diego Albanese,
Argentine rugby player ·
1973 – Demis Nikolaidis,
Greek footballer ·
1974 – Tormod Granheim,
Norwegian skier and explorer ·
1974 – Craig Spence, Australian golfer ·
1974 – Rasheed Wallace,
American basketball player and coach ·
1975 – Wilko de Vogt, Dutch
footballer ·
1975 – Jimmie Johnson,
American race car driver ·
1975 – Pumpkinhead, American rapper (d. 2015) ·
1977 – Sam Esmail, American
screenwriter ·
1977 – Simone Perrotta,
Italian footballer ·
1979 – Steffen Algreen,
Danish footballer ·
1979 – Akin Ayodele,
American football player ·
1979 – Flo Rida, American
rapper ·
1980 – Dan Haren, American
baseball player ·
1980 – Shabana Mahmood,
English lawyer and politician, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury ·
1980 – Oliver Risser,
Namibian footballer ·
1981 – Casey Janssen,
American baseball player ·
1981 – Bakari Koné, Ivorian
footballer ·
1981 – Francis Manioru,
Solomon sprinter ·
1982 – Garth Murray,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1984 – Domenico Citro,
Italian footballer ·
1984 – Mary DeScenza,
American swimmer ·
1984 – John Kucera,
Canadian skier ·
1984 – Patrick van Luijk, Dutch sprinter ·
1985 – Tomáš Berdych,
Czech tennis player ·
1985 – Brendan Clarke,
Irish footballer ·
1985 – José Gonçalves, Portuguese footballer ·
1985 – Brendan Oake,
Australian rugby league player ·
1985 – Alexander Ovechkin, Russian ice hockey player ·
1985 – Mason Raymond,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1986 – Ravichandran Ashwin, Indian cricketer ·
1986 – Paolo De Ceglie,
Italian footballer ·
1986 – Yussef Suleiman, Syrian
footballer (d. 2013) ·
1987 – Paul Huntington,
English footballer ·
1989 – Kate Deines,
American soccer player ·
1990 – Sean Scannell,
English footballer ·
1990 – Pixie Geldof,
English model and singer ·
1991 – Ryo Ishikawa,
Japanese golfer ·
1991 – Justyna Jegiołka, Polish tennis player ·
1991 – Cameron King,
Australian rugby league player ·
1993 – Sofiane Boufal,
Moroccan footballer[23] ·
1993 – Sophie Howard, Scottish footballer[24] ·
1995 – Patrick Mahomes, American football player[25] ·
1997 – Auston Matthews,
American ice hockey player[26] Deaths[edit]
·
456 – Remistus, Roman
general ·
936 – Unni, archbishop of
Hamburg-Bremen ·
958 – Li Jingsui, Chinese
prince (b. 920) ·
1025 – Hugh Magnus, king of
France (b. 1007) ·
1148 – Conan III, duke of Brittany (b. 1070) ·
1179 – Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess (b. 1098) ·
1322 – Robert III, count of Flanders (b. 1249) ·
1415 – Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (b.
1367) ·
1422 – Constantine II, tsar of Bulgaria ·
1482 – William III, duke of Luxembourg (b. 1425) ·
1563 – Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier
(b. 1526) ·
1574 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Spanish admiral and
explorer, founded St. Augustine, Florida (b. 1519) ·
1575 – Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss theologian and reformer (b.
1504) ·
1609 – Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Bohemian rabbi, mystic and
philosopher (b. 1520) ·
1621 – Robert Bellarmine, Italian cardinal and saint (b.
1542) ·
1626 – Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg, German cleric and
politician, Archbishop-Elector of Mainz (b. 1553) ·
1630 – Thomas Lake, English
politician, English Secretary of State (b. 1567) ·
1637 – Katherine Clifton, 2nd Baroness Clifton,
English-Scottish peer ·
1665 – Philip IV, king of Spain (b. 1605) ·
1676 – Sabbatai Zevi,
Turkish rabbi and scholar (b. 1626) ·
1679 – John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general and
politician, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (b.
1629) ·
1721 – Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, French princess (b.
1645)[27] ·
1762 – Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer
(b. 1687) ·
1771 – Tobias Smollett,
Scottish-Italian author and poet (b. 1721) ·
1803 – Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer and
director (b. 1766) ·
1808 – Benjamin Bourne,
American judge and politician (b. 1755) ·
1817 – Jacques Bernard d'Anselme, French general (b. 1740) ·
1836 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist and
author (b. 1748) ·
1852 – Francisco Javier Echeverría, Mexican businessman
and politician. President (1841) (b. 1797)[28] ·
1858 – Dred Scott, American
slave (b. 1795) ·
1862 – Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, American politician
and Confederate general (b. 1820) ·
1862 – William E. Starke, Confederate general (b. 1814) ·
1863 – Charles Robert Cockerell, English archaeologist and
architect (b. 1788) ·
1863 – Alfred de Vigny,
French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1797) ·
1864 – Walter Savage Landor, English author and poet (b.
1775) ·
1868 – Roman Nose, Native
American warrior (b. circa 1823) ·
1877 – Henry Fox Talbot,
English photographer, developed the Calotype Process (b.
1800) ·
1878 – Orélie-Antoine de Tounens, French lawyer and
adventurer (b. 1825) ·
1879 – Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect and
theorist (b. 1814) ·
1894 – Deng Shichang, Chinese
captain (b. 1849) ·
1899 – Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American businessman,
co-founded the Pillsbury Company (b. 1842) ·
1907 – Ignaz Brüll,
Czech-Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1846) ·
1907 – Edmonia Lewis,
American sculptor (b. 1844)[29] ·
1908 – Henri Julien, Canadian
cartoonist (b. 1852) ·
1908 – Thomas Selfridge,
American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1882) ·
1909 – Thomas Bent,
Australian businessman and politician, 22nd Premier of Victoria (b. 1838) ·
1911 – Edmonia Lewis,
American sculptor (b. 1844) ·
1923 – Stefanos Dragoumis, Greek judge and politician,
92nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1842) ·
1925 – Carl Eytel,
German-American painter and illustrator (b. 1862) ·
1933 – Joseph De Piro,
Maltese priest and missionary (b. 1877) ·
1936 – Ettie Annie Rout,
New Zealand author and activist (b. 1877) ·
1937 – Walter Dubislav,
German logician and philosopher of science, Vienna circle member (b. 1895) ·
1938 – Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet and author (b.
1901) ·
1943 – Friedrich Zickwolff, German general (b. 1893) ·
1948 – Ruth Benedict,
American anthropologist and academic (b. 1887) ·
1948 – Folke Bernadotte,
Swedish soldier and diplomat (b. 1895) ·
1951 – Jimmy Yancey,
American pianist and composer (b. 1898) ·
1953 – David Munson, American runner (b. 1884) ·
1953 – Hans Feige, German
general (Wehrmacht) (b. 1880) ·
1961 – Adnan Menderes,
Turkish lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1899) ·
1965 – Alejandro Casona,
Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1903) ·
1966 – Fritz Wunderlich,
German tenor and actor (b. 1930) ·
1971 – Carlos Lamarca,
Brazilian captain (b. 1937) ·
1972 – Akim Tamiroff,
American actor (b. 1899) ·
1973 – Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader and composer
(b. 1909) ·
1975 – Nicola Moscona,
Greek-American singer-songwriter (b. 1907) ·
1980 – Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan commander and
politician, 73rd President of Nicaragua (b. 1925) ·
1982 – Manos Loïzos,
Egyptian-Greek composer (b. 1937) ·
1983 – Humberto Sousa Medeiros, Portuguese-American
cardinal (b. 1915) ·
1984 – Richard Basehart,
American actor and director (b. 1914) ·
1985 – Laura Ashley, Welsh
fashion designer, founded Laura Ashley plc (b.
1925) ·
1987 – Harry Locke, English
actor (b. 1913) ·
1991 – Zino Francescatti, French violinist and composer
(b. 1902) ·
1992 – Roger Wagner,
American conductor and educator (b. 1914) ·
1993 – Willie Mosconi,
American pool player and actor (b. 1913) ·
1993 – Christian Nyby,
American director and producer (b. 1913) ·
1994 – John Delafose,
American accordion player (b. 1939) ·
1994 – Vitas Gerulaitis,
American tennis player and coach (b. 1954) ·
1994 – Karl Popper,
Austrian-English philosopher and academic (b. 1902) ·
1995 – Isadore Epstein,
Estonian-American astronomer and academic (b. 1919) ·
1995 – Lucien Victor,
Belgian cyclist (b. 1931) ·
1996 – Spiro Agnew,
American soldier and politician, 39th Vice President of the United States (b. 1918) ·
1997 – Red Skelton,
American actor and comedian (b. 1913) ·
1998 – Ted Binion, American
poker player and businessman (b. 1943) ·
1998 – Geoffrey Dutton,
Australian historian and author (b. 1922) ·
1999 – Frankie Vaughan,
English singer and actor (b. 1928) ·
2000 – Georgiy Gongadze,
Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and director (b. 1969) ·
2003 – Erich Hallhuber,
German actor (b. 1951) ·
2005 – Jacques Lacarrière, French journalist and critic
(b. 1925) ·
2005 – Alfred Reed,
American composer and educator (b. 1921) ·
2009 – Dick Durock,
American stuntman and actor (b. 1937) ·
2009 – Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian terrorist (b. 1968) ·
2011 – Colin Madigan,
Australian architect and author, designed the National Gallery of Australia (b. 1921) ·
2012 – Melvin Charney,
Canadian sculptor and architect (b. 1935) ·
2012 – Lou Kenton, English
soldier and potter (b. 1908) ·
2012 – Russell E. Train,
American soldier and civil servant (b. 1920) ·
2013 – Kristian Gidlund,
Swedish drummer and journalist (b. 1983) ·
2013 – Larry Lake, American-Canadian trumpet player and
composer (b. 1943) ·
2013 – Bernie McGann,
Australian saxophonist and composer (b. 1937) ·
2013 – Alex Naumik,
Lithuanian-Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1949) ·
2013 – Michael J. Noonan, Irish farmer and
politician, 25th Irish Minister of Defence (b. 1935) ·
2013 – Marvin Rainwater,
American singer-songwriter (b. 1925) ·
2013 – Eiji Toyoda,
Japanese businessman (b. 1913) ·
2014 – George Hamilton IV, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1937) ·
2014 – Andriy Husin,
Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1972) ·
2014 – Wakachichibu Komei, Japanese sumo wrestler (b.
1939) ·
2014 – Charles Read, Australian air marshal (b. 1918) ·
2014 – Peter von Bagh,
Finnish historian, director, and screenwriter (b. 1943) ·
2014 – China Zorrilla,
Uruguayan actress (b. 1922) ·
2015 – Ingrīda Andriņa, Latvian actress (b.
1944) ·
2015 – Dettmar Cramer,
German footballer and manager (b. 1925) ·
2015 – Milo Hamilton,
American sportscaster (b. 1927) ·
2015 – Vadim Kuzmin, Russian physicist and academic (b.
1937) ·
2015 – David Willcocks,
English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1919) ·
2016 – Bahman Golbarnezhad, Iranian racing cyclist (b.
1968) ·
2016 – Sigge Parling,
Swedish footballer (b. 1936) ·
2017 – Bobby Heenan,
American professional wrestling manager (b. 1944)[30] ·
2019 – Cokie Roberts,
American journalist and bestselling author (b. 1943)[31] ·
2020 – Robert W. Gore,
American engineer and businessman, co-inventor of Gore-Tex (b.
1937)[32][33] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Lambert o September 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Constitution Day, observed on the previous Friday
if it falls on a Saturday, the following Monday if on a Sunday; and the
beginning of the Constitution Week (United States) ·
Marathwada Liberation Day (Maharashtra) ·
Operation Market Garden Anniversary is still
remembered with parachuting and dedications on this day. (Netherlands) |
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