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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020 September
September 18 is the 261st day of the
year (262nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 104 days remain until the end
of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
AD 96 – Nerva is
proclaimed Roman emperor after Domitian is
assassinated.[1] ·
324 – Constantine the Great decisively defeats
Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's
sole control over the Roman Empire.[2] ·
1048 – Battle of Kapetron between a combined
Byzantine-Georgian army and a Seljuq army.[3] ·
1066 –
Norwegian king Harald Hardrada lands
with Tostig Godwinson at the mouth of the Humber
River and begins his invasion of England.[4] ·
1180 – Philip Augustus becomes
king of France at the age of fifteen.[5] ·
1454 – Thirteen Years' War: In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by
the Teutonic knights. ·
1618 –
The twelfth baktun in the
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar begins. ·
1714 – George I arrives in Great Britain after
becoming king on August 1. ·
1739 –
The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, whereby Austria
cedes lands south of the Sava and Danube rivers to the Ottoman Empire. ·
1759 – French and Indian War: The Articles of Capitulation of Quebec are signed. ·
1793 –
The first cornerstone of the United States Capitol is laid by George
Washington. ·
1809 –
The Royal Opera House in London opens. ·
1810 – First Government Junta in Chile. Though
supposed to rule only during the Peninsular War in Spain, it is in fact the
first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such. ·
1812 – The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after
destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from
the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared
from the fire. ·
1837 – Tiffany & Co. (first
named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New
York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium". ·
1838 –
The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden. ·
1850 –
The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. ·
1851 –
First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later
becomes The New York Times. ·
1862 –
The Confederate States celebrate for the first and
only time a Thanksgiving Day.[6] ·
1864 – American Civil War: John Bell Hood begins
the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in an unsuccessful
attempt to draw William Tecumseh Sherman back out of Georgia.[7] ·
1870 – Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named
by Henry D. Washburn. ·
1872 –
King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway. ·
1873 –
The bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy,
contributing to the Panic of 1873. ·
1879 –
The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for
the first time.[8] ·
1882 –
The Pacific Stock Exchange opens. ·
1895 –
The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is
delivered by Booker T. Washington. ·
1898 –
The Fashoda Incident triggers the last war scare
between Britain and France. ·
1906 –
The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated
10,000 people. ·
1911 –
Russian Premier Pyotr
Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House. ·
1914 –
The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is
delayed until after World War I. ·
1919 –
The Vereeniging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht achieves
its objective of women's suffrage in the Netherlands. ·
1919 – Fritz Pollard becomes
the first African American to play professional football for a major team,
the Akron Pros. ·
1922 –
The Kingdom of Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations. ·
1927 –
The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air. ·
1928 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro
crossing of the English Channel. ·
1931 –
The Mukden
Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy
Manchuria. ·
1934 –
The Soviet Union is
admitted to the League of Nations. ·
1939 – World War II: The
Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania. ·
1939 – World War II: The radio show Germany Calling begins
transmitting Nazi propaganda. ·
1940 –
World War II: The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk
by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77
child refugees. ·
1943 –
World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews. ·
1944 –
World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru,
killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs. ·
1944 –
World War II: The Battle of Arracourt begins.[9] ·
1945 –
General Douglas MacArthur moves his general
headquarters from Manila to Tokyo. ·
1947 –
The National Security Act reorganizes the United
States government's military and intelligence services. ·
1948 – Operation Polo is
terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of
Hyderabad. ·
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the
first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another
senator's term. ·
1960 – Fidel Castro arrives
in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations. ·
1961 –
U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace
in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ·
1962 – Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United
Nations. ·
1973 – The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are
admitted to the United Nations. ·
1974 – Hurricane Fifi strikes
Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people. ·
1977 – Voyager I takes
the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together. ·
1980 – Soyuz 38 carries
two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to the Salyut 6 space station. ·
1981 –
The Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France. ·
1982 –
The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon comes to
an end. ·
1984 – Joe Kittinger completes
the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic. ·
1988 –
The 8888 Uprising in
Myanmar comes to an end. ·
1990 – Liechtenstein becomes
a member of the United Nations. ·
1992 –
An explosion rocks Giant Mine at
the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers in
Yellowknife, Canada. ·
1997 –
United States media magnate Ted Turner donates
US$1 billion to the United Nations. ·
1997 – The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban
Convention is adopted. ·
2001 –
First mailing of anthrax letters
from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks. ·
2007 –
Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some
call the Saffron Revolution. ·
2011 –
The 2011 Sikkim earthquake is felt across
northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet. ·
2012 – Greater Manchester Police officers PC Nicola
Hughes and PC Fiona Bone are murdered in a gun and grenade ambush attack in Greater Manchester, England. ·
2014 –
Scotland votes against independence from the United
Kingdom, by 55% to 45%. ·
2015 –
Two security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 militants are
killed during a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attack on a Pakistan Air Force base on the
outskirts of Peshawar. ·
2016 –
The 2016 Uri
attack in Jammu and Kashmir, India by terrorist
group Jaish-e-Mohammed results
in the deaths of nineteen Indian Army soldiers and all four attackers. Births[edit]
·
AD 53 – Trajan, Roman
emperor (d. 117)[10] ·
524 – Kan B'alam I, ruler
of Palenque (d.
583) ·
1091 – Andronikos Komnenos, Byzantine prince and general
(d. 1130/31) ·
1344 – Marie of France, Duchess of Bar (d. 1404) ·
1434 – Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (d.
1467) ·
1501 – Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford (d. 1563) ·
1554 – Haydar Mirza Safavi, Safavid prince (d. 1576) ·
1587 – Francesca Caccini, Italian singer-songwriter
and lute player (d.
1640)[11] ·
1606 – Zhang Xianzhong,
Chinese rebel leader (d. 1647) ·
1643 – Gilbert Burnet,
Scottish bishop, historian, and theologian (d. 1715)[12] ·
1676 – Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1733) ·
1684 – Johann Gottfried Walther, German organist and
composer (d. 1748) ·
1709 – Samuel Johnson,
English lexicographer and poet (d. 1784)[13] ·
1711 – Ignaz Holzbauer,
Austrian composer and educator (d. 1783) ·
1733 – George Read, American lawyer and politician,
3rd Governor of Delaware (d. 1798) ·
1750 – Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, Spanish poet and
playwright (d. 1791)[14] ·
1752 – Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician and
theorist (d. 1833)[15] ·
1765 – Pope Gregory XVI (d.
1846) ·
1779 – Joseph Story,
American lawyer, jurist, and politician (d. 1845) ·
1786 – Christian VIII of Denmark (d. 1848)[16] ·
1786 – Justinus Kerner,
German poet and author (d. 1862) ·
1812 – Herschel Vespasian Johnson, American lawyer and
politician, 41st Governor of Georgia (d. 1880) ·
1819 – Léon Foucault,
French physicist and academic (d. 1868)[17] ·
1837 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, Portuguese
archbishop (d. 1880) ·
1838 – Anton Mauve, Dutch
painter and educator (d. 1888)[18] ·
1846 – Richard With,
Norwegian captain, businessman, and politician, founded Vesteraalens Dampskibsselskab (d. 1930) ·
1848 – Francis Grierson,
English-American pianist and composer (d. 1927) ·
1857 – John Hessin Clarke, American lawyer and judge (d.
1945) ·
1858 – Kate Booth,
English Salvation
Army officer (d. 1955) ·
1859 – John L. Bates,
American lawyer and politician, 41st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946) ·
1859 – Lincoln Loy McCandless, American businessman and
politician (d. 1940) ·
1860 – Alberto Franchetti, Italian-American composer and
educator (d. 1942) ·
1870 – Clark Wissler,
American anthropologist, author, and educator (d. 1947) ·
1872 – Carl Friedberg,
German-Italian pianist and educator (d. 1955) ·
1872 – Adolf Schmal,
Austrian fencer and cyclist (d. 1919) ·
1875 – Tomás Burgos, Chilean
philanthropist (d. 1945) ·
1876 – James Scullin,
Australian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1953) ·
1878 – James O. Richardson, American admiral (d. 1974) ·
1883 – Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners,
English composer, painter, and author (d. 1950) ·
1885 – Uzeyir Hajibeyov,
Azerbaijani composer, conductor, and playwright (d. 1948) ·
1888 – Grey Owl,
English-Canadian environmentalist and author (d. 1938) ·
1888 – Toni Wolff, Swiss
psychologist and author (d. 1953) ·
1889 – Doris Blackburn,
Australian activist and politician (d. 1970) ·
1889 – Leslie Morshead,
Australian general, businessman, and educator (d. 1959) ·
1891 – Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Spanish author (d. 1984) ·
1893 – Arthur Benjamin,
Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1960) ·
1893 – William March,
American soldier and author (d. 1954) ·
1894 – Fay Compton, English
actress (d. 1978)[19] ·
1895 – Jean Batmale, French
footballer and manager (d. 1973) ·
1895 – John Diefenbaker,
Canadian lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1979) ·
1895 – Walter Koch, German astrologer and author (d. 1970) ·
1895 – Tomoji Tanabe,
Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2009) ·
1897 – Pablo
Sorozábal, Spanish composer and conductor (d. 1988) ·
1900 – Willis Laurence James, American violinist and
educator (d. 1966) ·
1900 – Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Mauritian philanthropist and
politician, 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius (d. 1985) ·
1901 – Harold Clurman,
American director and producer (d. 1980) ·
1904 – Bun Cook, Canadian
ice hockey player and coach (d. 1988) ·
1904 – Jose de Rivera,
American soldier and sculptor (d. 1985) ·
1904 – David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, English
businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Education (d. 1999)[20] ·
1905 – Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, American
actor (d. 1977) ·
1905 – Agnes de Mille,
American dancer and choreographer (d. 1993) ·
1905 – Greta Garbo,
Swedish-American actress (d. 1990)[21] ·
1906 – Kaka Hathrasi,
Indian poet and author (d. 1995)[22] ·
1906 – Maurice Maillot,
French actor (d. 1968) ·
1906 – Julio Rosales, Filipino
cardinal (d. 1983)[23] ·
1907 – Leon Askin, Austrian
actor (d. 2005) ·
1907 – Edwin McMillan,
American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991) ·
1908 – Victor Ambartsumian, Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist,
astronomer, and academic (d. 1996) ·
1910 – Josef Tal, Israeli
pianist and composer (d. 2008)[24] ·
1911 – Syd Howe, Canadian
ice hockey player (d. 1976) ·
1912 – María de la Cruz, Chilean journalist and activist
(d. 1995) ·
1914 – Jack Cardiff,
English director, cinematographer, and photographer (d. 2009)[25] ·
1916 – Rossano Brazzi,
Italian actor (d. 1994)[26] ·
1916 – John Jacob Rhodes, American lawyer and politician
(d. 2003) ·
1917 – June Foray, American
actress and voice artist (d. 2017) ·
1917 – Phil Taylor, English footballer and manager (d.
2012) ·
1917 – Francis Parker Yockey, American lawyer and
philosopher (d. 1960)[27] ·
1918 – Johnny Mantz,
American race car driver (d. 1972) ·
1919 – Tommy Hunter, American fiddler (d. 1993) ·
1920 – Jack Warden,
American actor (d. 2006) ·
1922 – Grayson Hall,
American actress (d. 1985) ·
1922 – Ray Steadman-Allen, English composer (d. 2014) ·
1923 – Queen Anne of Romania (d. 2016)[28] ·
1923 – Peter Smithson,
English architect, co-designed Robin Hood Gardens (d. 2003) ·
1923 – Bertha Wilson,
Scottish-Canadian lawyer and jurist, 60th Puisne Justice of the Supreme
Court of Canada (d. 2007) ·
1924 – J. D. Tippit,
American police officer (d. 1963) ·
1924 – Eloísa
Mafalda, Brazilian actress (d. 2018) ·
1925 – Harvey Haddix,
American baseball player and coach (d. 1994) ·
1925 – Dorothy Wedderburn, English economist and academic
(d. 2012) ·
1926 – Bud Greenspan,
American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010) ·
1926 – Joe Kubert, American
author and illustrator, founded The Kubert School (d. 2012)[29] ·
1927 – Phyllis Kirk,
American actress (d. 2006) ·
1927 – Muriel Turner, Baroness Turner of Camden,
English politician (d. 2018) ·
1929 – Teddi King, American
singer (d. 1977) ·
1929 – Nancy Littlefield, American director and producer
(d. 2007) ·
1930 – John Tolos,
Greek-Canadian wrestler (d. 2009) ·
1931 – Julio Grondona,
Argentinian businessman (d. 2014) ·
1932 – Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Russian physicist and
astronaut (d. 2002) ·
1933 – Bob Bennett, American soldier and politician (d.
2016) ·
1933 – Robert Blake, American actor, producer, and
screenwriter ·
1933 – Scotty Bowman,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach ·
1933 – Mark di Suvero,
Italian-American sculptor ·
1933 – Leonid Kharitonov, Russian actor and singer (d.
2017) ·
1933 – Christopher Ricks, English scholar and critic ·
1933 – Charles Roach,
Trinidadian-Canadian lawyer and activist (d. 2012) ·
1933 – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1933 – Fred Willard,
American actor and comedian (d. 2020)[30] ·
1935 – Peter Clarke, English cartoonist (d. 2012) ·
1935 – John Spencer, English snooker player and
sportscaster (d. 2006) ·
1936 – Big Tom, Irish
singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2018) ·
1937 – Ralph Backstrom,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach ·
1937 – Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, South African politician (d.
2009)[31] ·
1938 – Billy Robinson,
English-American wrestler and trainer (d. 2014) ·
1939 – Gerry Harvey,
Australian businessman, co-founded Harvey Norman ·
1939 – Jorge Sampaio,
Portuguese lawyer and politician, 18th President of Portugal ·
1939 – Jan Camiel Willems, Belgian mathematician and
theorist (d. 2013) ·
1940 – Frankie Avalon,
American singer and actor ·
1942 – Şenes Erzik,
Turkish businessman ·
1944 – Michael Franks, American singer-songwriter ·
1944 – Rocío Jurado,
Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006) ·
1944 – Charles L. Veach,
American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1995) ·
1945 – P. F. Sloan,
American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2015) ·
1945 – John McAfee, Scottish-American
computer programmer, founded McAfee ·
1946 – Benjamín Brea,
Spanish-Venezuelan saxophonist, clarinet player, and conductor (d. 2014) ·
1946 – Nicholas Clay,
English actor (d. 2000) ·
1946 – Kelvin Coe,
Australian ballet dancer (d. 1992) ·
1946 – Meredith Oakes,
Australian-English playwright, translator, and educator ·
1946 – Gailard Sartain,
American actor[32] ·
1947 – Russ Abbot, English
comedian, actor, and singer ·
1947 – Drew Gilpin Faust, American historian and academic ·
1947 – Giancarlo Minardi, Italian businessman, founded
the Minardi Racing Team ·
1948 – Lynn Abbey, American
computer programmer and author ·
1949 – Kerry Livgren,
American guitarist and songwriter ·
1949 – Jim McCrery,
American lawyer and politician ·
1949 – Mo Mowlam, English
academic and politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office (d. 2005) ·
1949 – Peter Shilton,
English footballer and manager ·
1950 – Siobhan Davies,
English dancer and choreographer ·
1950 – Vishnuvardhan, Indian actor (d. 2009) ·
1950 – Chris Heister,
Swedish politician, Governor of Stockholm County ·
1950 – Darryl Sittler,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1950 – Anna Deavere Smith, American actress and playwright ·
1951 – Ben Carson, American
neurosurgeon, author, and politician ·
1951 – Dee Dee Ramone,
American singer-songwriter and bass player (d. 2002) ·
1951 – Tony Scott, American baseball player and coach ·
1951 – Darryl Stingley,
American football player and scout (d. 2007) ·
1951 – Marc Surer, Swiss
racing driver and sportscaster ·
1952 – Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos, Greek politician ·
1952 – Rick Pitino,
American basketball player and coach ·
1953 – Carl Jackson,
American singer-songwriter and producer ·
1953 – John McGlinn,
American conductor and historian (d. 2009) ·
1954 – Murtaza Bhutto,
Pakistani politician (d. 1996) ·
1954 – Takao Doi, Japanese
engineer and astronaut ·
1954 – Dennis Johnson,
American basketball player and coach (d. 2007) ·
1954 – Steven Pinker,
Canadian-American psychologist, linguist, and author ·
1954 – Tommy Tuberville,
American football player and coach ·
1955 – Paul Butler, English bishop ·
1955 – Keith Morris,
American singer-songwriter ·
1956 – Chris Hedges,
American journalist and author ·
1956 – Peter Šťastný, Slovak ice hockey player and
politician ·
1958 – John Aldridge,
English-Irish footballer and manager ·
1958 – Winston Davis,
Vincentian cricketer ·
1958 – Malcolm Press,
English ecologist and academic ·
1958 – Derek Pringle,
Kenyan-English cricketer and journalist ·
1959 – Ian Arkwright,
English footballer ·
1959 – Mark Romanek,
American director and screenwriter ·
1959 – Ryne Sandberg,
American baseball player, coach, and manager ·
1960 – Stephen Flaherty,
American composer ·
1960 – Carolyn Harris, British politician ·
1960 – Ian Lucas, English
lawyer and politician ·
1960 – Blue Panther,
Mexican wrestler ·
1961 – James Gandolfini,
American actor and producer (d. 2013) ·
1961 – Konstantin Kakanias, Greek-American painter and
illustrator ·
1961 – Mark Olson, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1962 – Joanne Catherall,
English singer ·
1962 – John Fashanu,
English footballer and manager ·
1962 – John Mann, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist,
and actor (d. 2019) ·
1962 – Aden Ridgeway,
Australian public servant and politician ·
1962 – Boris Said, American
race car driver ·
1963 – Jim Pocklington,
English racing driver ·
1963 – John Powell, English-Canadian composer and
conductor ·
1963 – Dan Povenmire, American
animator ·
1964 – Jens Henschel,
German footballer ·
1964 – Marco Masini,
Italian singer-songwriter ·
1964 – Holly Robinson Peete, American actress and singer ·
1966 – Tom Chorske,
American ice hockey player and sportscaster ·
1967 – Tara Fitzgerald,
English actress ·
1968 – Toni Kukoč,
Croatian basketball player ·
1968 – Upendra Rao, Indian
actor, director, and politician ·
1969 – Brad Beven,
Australian triathlete ·
1969 – Cappadonna, American
rapper ·
1970 – Mike Compton, American football player and coach ·
1970 – Dan Eldon, English
photographer and journalist (d. 1993) ·
1970 – Darren Gough,
English cricketer ·
1970 – Aisha Tyler,
American actress, television host, and author ·
1971 – Lance Armstrong,
American cyclist and activist, founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation ·
1971 – Anna Netrebko,
Russian-Austrian soprano and actress ·
1971 – Jada Pinkett Smith, American actress[33] ·
1972 – Brigitte Becue,
Belgian swimmer[34] ·
1972 – Adam Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1972 – David Jefferies,
English motorcycle racer (d. 2003) ·
1972 – Iain Stewart, Scottish accountant and politician ·
1973 – Paul Brousseau, Canadian
ice hockey player ·
1973 – Mário Jardel,
Brazilian footballer ·
1973 – James Marsden,
American actor ·
1973 – Ami Onuki, Japanese
singer and voice actress ·
1973 – Louise Sauvage,
Australian wheelchair racer[35] ·
1973 – Mark Shuttleworth, South African-English businessman[36] ·
1973 – Aitor Karanka,
Spanish footballer and manager ·
1974 – Sol Campbell,
English footballer and politician ·
1974 – Damon Jones, American football player and coach ·
1974 – Ticha Penicheiro,
Portuguese basketball player ·
1974 – Xzibit, American
rapper, actor, and television host ·
1975 – Kanstantsin Lukashyk, Belarusian target shooter ·
1975 – Jason Sudeikis,
American actor and comedian ·
1975 – Guillermo Vargas,
Costa Rican photographer and painter ·
1976 – Gabriel Gervais,
Canadian soccer player ·
1976 – Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer ·
1977 – Kieran West, English
rower ·
1978 – Iain Lees-Galloway, New Zealand politician ·
1978 – Augustine Simo,
Cameroonian footballer ·
1979 – Daniel Aranzubia,
Spanish footballer ·
1979 – Robert Pruett, American criminal (d. 2017) ·
1980 – Mickey Higham,
English rugby league player ·
1980 – Avi Strool, Israeli
footballer ·
1980 – Petri Virtanen,
Finnish basketball player ·
1981 – Lucy Aharish,
Israeli journalist and actress ·
1981 – Sebastián Decoud, Argentinian tennis player ·
1981 – Jennifer Tisdale,
American actress and singer ·
1981 – Kristaps Valters,
Latvian basketball player[37] ·
1981 – Han Ye-seul, South
Korean actress ·
1982 – Alessandro Cibocchi, Italian footballer ·
1982 – Arvydas Eitutavičius, Lithuanian basketball
player ·
1982 – Leono, Mexican
wrestler ·
1982 – Alfredo Talavera,
Mexican footballer ·
1983 – Kevin Doyle, Irish
footballer ·
1983 – Giulio Scandella,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1984 – Anthony Gonzalez,
American football player and politician[38] ·
1984 – Dizzee Rascal,
British hip hop musician[39] ·
1989 – Serge Ibaka,
Congolese-Spanish basketball player ·
1990 – Lewis Holtby, German
footballer ·
1992 – Edrick Lee,
Australian rugby league player ·
1995 – Max Meyer, German footballer ·
1998 – Christian Pulisic, American soccer player[40] ·
2003 – Ana Galindo, Mexican rhythmic gymnast[41] Deaths[edit]
·
96 – Domitian, Roman
emperor (b. AD 51) ·
411 – Constantine III, Roman usurper ·
869 – Wenilo, Frankish archbishop ·
887 – Pietro I Candiano, doge of Venice (b. 842) ·
893 – Zhang Xiong, Chinese
warlord ·
958 – Liu Sheng, Chinese emperor (b. 920) ·
1137 – Eric II, king of Denmark ·
1180 – Louis VII, king of France (b. 1120) ·
1261 – Konrad von Hochstaden, archbishop of Cologne ·
1302 – Eudokia Palaiologina, empress of Trebizond (b. c.
1265) ·
1345 – Andrew, Duke of Calabria (b. 1327) ·
1361 – Louis V, duke of Bavaria (b. 1315) ·
1385 – Balša II, ruler of
Zeta ·
1443 – Lewis of Luxembourg, archbishop of Rouen ·
1598 – Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese daimyō (b. 1536) ·
1630 – Melchior Klesl,
Austrian cardinal (b. 1552) ·
1675 – Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1604) ·
1721 – Matthew Prior,
English poet, politician, and diplomat, British Ambassador to France (b.
1664) ·
1722 – André Dacier, French
scholar and academic (b. 1651) ·
1783 – Leonhard Euler,
Swiss mathematician and physicist (b. 1707) ·
1783 – Benjamin Kennicott, English theologian and scholar
(b. 1718) ·
1792 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German bishop and
theologian (b. 1704) ·
1812 – Safranbolulu Izzet Mehmet Pasha, Ottoman
politician, 186th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1743) ·
1830 – William Hazlitt,
English philosopher, painter, and critic (b. 1778) ·
1857 – Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer and conductor
(b. 1785) ·
1860 – Joseph Locke,
English engineer and politician (b. 1805) ·
1872 – Charles XV of Sweden (b. 1826) ·
1890 – Dion Boucicault,
Irish-American actor and playwright (b. 1820) ·
1896 – Hippolyte Fizeau,
French physicist and academic (b. 1819) ·
1905 – George MacDonald,
Scottish minister, author, and poet (b. 1824) ·
1909 – Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian archaeologist and
historian (b. 1850) ·
1911 – Pyotr Stolypin,
Russian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1862) ·
1915 – Susan La Flesche Picotte, doctor, teacher, and
social reformer, first Native American to earn a medical degree ·
1924 – F. H. Bradley,
English philosopher and author (b. 1846) ·
1939 – Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish author,
painter, and photographer (b. 1885) ·
1941 – Fred Karno, English
actor and screenwriter (b. 1866) ·
1944 – Robert G. Cole,
American colonel, Medal of
Honor recipient (b. 1915) ·
1949 – Frank Morgan,
American actor (b. 1890) ·
1951 – Gelett Burgess,
American author and poet (b. 1866) ·
1952 – Frances Alda, New
Zealand-Australian soprano and actress (b. 1879) ·
1953 – Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (b. 1927) ·
1956 – Adélard
Godbout, Canadian agronomist and politician, 15th Premier of Quebec (b. 1892) ·
1958 – Olaf Gulbransson,
Norwegian painter and illustrator (b. 1873) ·
1959 – Benjamin
Péret, French poet and journalist (b. 1899) ·
1961 – Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish economist and diplomat,
2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) ·
1962 – Therese Neumann, German mystic (b.
1898) ·
1964 – Clive Bell, English
philosopher and critic (b. 1881) ·
1964 – Seán O'Casey, Irish
dramatist and memoirist (b. 1880) ·
1967 – John Cockcroft,
English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) ·
1968 – Franchot Tone,
American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1905) ·
1970 – Jimi Hendrix,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1942) ·
1974 – Amanat Ali Khan,
Pakistani classical singer (b. 1922) ·
1975 – Fairfield Porter,
American painter and critic (b. 1907) ·
1977 – Paul Bernays,
English-Swiss mathematician and philosopher (b. 1888) ·
1980 – Katherine Anne Porter, American short story writer,
novelist, and essayist (b. 1890) ·
1987 – Américo Tomás,
Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (b. 1894) ·
1988 – Alan Watt, Australian public servant and
diplomat, Australian Ambassador to Japan (b.
1901) ·
1992 – Mohammad Hidayatullah, Indian lawyer, judge, and
politician, 6th Vice President of India (b. 1905) ·
1997 – Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (b. 1920) ·
1998 – Charlie Foxx,
American singer and guitarist (Inez and Charlie Foxx) (b. 1939) ·
2001 – Ernie Coombs,
American-Canadian television host (b. 1927) ·
2002 – Bob Hayes, American
sprinter and football player (b. 1942) ·
2002 – Mauro Ramos,
Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1930) ·
2002 – Margita Stefanović, Serbian keyboard player
(b. 1959) ·
2003 – Emil Fackenheim,
German rabbi and philosopher (b. 1916) ·
2003 – Bob Mitchell, English educator and politician (b.
1927) ·
2004 – Norman Cantor,
Canadian-American historian and educator (b. 1929) ·
2004 – Russ Meyer, American
director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922) ·
2005 – Michael Park, English racing driver (b. 1966) ·
2005 – Clint C. Wilson, Sr., American cartoonist (b. 1914) ·
2006 – Edward J. King,
American football player, lawyer, and politician, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1925) ·
2007 – Pepsi Tate, Welsh
bass player and producer (b. 1965) ·
2008 – Leo de Berardinis, Italian actor and director (b.
1940) ·
2008 – Mauricio Kagel,
Argentinian-German composer and educator (b. 1931) ·
2008 – Ron Lancaster,
American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1938) ·
2012 – Santiago Carrillo, Spanish theorist and politician
(b. 1915) ·
2012 – Haim Hefer,
Polish-Israeli songwriter and poet (b. 1925) ·
2012 – Jack Kralick,
American baseball player (b. 1935) ·
2012 – Steve Sabol,
American director and producer, co-founded NFL Films (b.
1942) ·
2013 – Veliyam Bharghavan, Indian politician (b. 1928) ·
2013 – Lindsay Cooper,
English bassoon player
and composer (b. 1951) ·
2013 – Arthur Lamothe,
French-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928) ·
2013 – Ken Norton, American
boxer (b. 1943) ·
2013 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-German author and
critic (b. 1920) ·
2013 – Richard C. Sarafian, American actor, director, and
screenwriter (b. 1930) ·
2014 – Milan Marcetta,
Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1936) ·
2014 – Earl Ross, Canadian
racing driver (b. 1941) ·
2014 – Hirofumi Uzawa,
Japanese economist and academic (b. 1928) ·
2014 – Kenny Wheeler,
Canadian-English trumpet player and composer (b. 1930) ·
2015 – Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean footballer and manager
(b. 1955) ·
2015 – James R. Houck,
American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1940) ·
2015 – Mario Benjamín Menéndez, Argentinian general and
politician (b. 1930) ·
2015 – Marcin Wrona, Polish
director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1973) ·
2017 – Afzal Ahsan Randhawa, Pakistani writer, poet,
translator and playwright (b. 1937) ·
2020 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, United States Supreme Court
justice (b. 1933)[42] ·
2020 – John Turner,
Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1929) Holidays and observances[edit]
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Christian feast day: o Edward Bouverie Pusey (Episcopal Church) o September 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Day of National Music (Azerbaijan) ·
Island Language Day (Okinawa Prefecture, Japan) ·
National Day or Dieciocho (Chile) ·
National HIV/AIDS and Aging
Awareness Day (United States) |
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