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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020 September
September 27 is the 270th day of the
year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 95 days remain until the end of
the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
1066 – William the Conqueror and his army set sail
from the mouth of the Somme river, beginning the Norman conquest of England. ·
1331 –
The Battle of Płowce between the Poland and
the Teutonic Order is fought. ·
1422 –
After the brief Gollub War, the Teutonic Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with
Poland and Lithuania ·
1529 –
The Siege of
Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city. ·
1540 –
The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) receives its
charter from Pope Paul III. ·
1590 – Pope Urban VII dies
13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy
in history. ·
1605 –
The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in
the Battle of Kircholm. ·
1669 –
The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans, thus ending
the 21-year-long Siege of
Candia. ·
1777 –
American Revolution: Lancaster, Pennsylvania becomes the capital of
the United States for one day after Congress evacuates Philadelphia. ·
1791 –
The National Assembly votes to award full citizenship to Jews in France. ·
1822 – Jean-François Champollion announces that he
has deciphered the Rosetta Stone. ·
1825 –
The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is ceremonially
opened. ·
1854 –
The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. ·
1875 –
The merchant sailing ship Ellen Southard is
wrecked in a storm at Liverpool. ·
1903 –
The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that
became the subject of a popular ballad. ·
1908 –
Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit. ·
1916 – Iyasu V is
proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his
aunt Zewditu. ·
1922 –
King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne
in favor of his eldest son, George II. ·
1928 –
The Republic of China is recognized by the United
States. ·
1930 – Bobby Jones wins the (pre-Masters) Grand Slam of golf. ·
1938 –
The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow. ·
1940 –
World War II: The Tripartite
Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy. ·
1941 –
The Greek National Liberation Front is established with Georgios Siantos as
acting leader. ·
1941 –
The SS Patrick Henry is launched,
becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships. ·
1942 –
Last day of the Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United
States Marines barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces. ·
1944 –
The Kassel
Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any
mission in World War II. ·
1949 – Zeng Liansong's
design is chosen as the flag of the People's Republic of China. ·
1956 –
USAF Captain Milburn G.
Apt becomes the first person to exceed Mach 3. Shortly
thereafter, the Bell X-2 goes
out of control and Captain Apt is killed. ·
1959 – Typhoon Vera kills
nearly 5,000 people in Japan. ·
1962 –
The Yemen Arab Republic is established. ·
1962 – Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is
published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency. ·
1964 –
The British TSR-2 aircraft
XR219 makes its maiden flight. ·
1975 –
The last use of capital punishment in Spain sparks
worldwide protests. ·
1977 – Japan Airlines Flight 715 crashes on approach
to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang, Malaysia, killing 34
of the 79 people on board.[1] ·
1983 – Richard Stallman announces
the GNU Project to develop a free Unix-like operating system. ·
1988 –
The National League for Democracy is formed by
Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight dictatorship in Myanmar. ·
1993 –
The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia. ·
1996 –
The Battle of Kabul ends in a Taliban victory, who
establish the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. ·
1996 – Confusion on a tanker ship results
in the Julie N. oil spill in Portland, Maine. ·
1998 –
The Google internet
search engine retroactively claims this date as its birthday. ·
2001 –
In Switzerland, a gunman shoots 18
citizens, killing 14 and then himself. ·
2003 –
The SMART-1 satellite
is launched.[2] ·
2007 –
NASA launches the Dawn probe to the asteroid belt. ·
2008 –
CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes
the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk. ·
2012 –
In Minneapolis, a gunman shoots seven citizens, killing five and then
himself. ·
2014 –
The eruption of Mount Ontake in Japan occurs. ·
2019 –
Over two million people participated in worldwide strikes to protest climate change across
2,400 locations worldwide.[3][4] Births[edit]
·
808 – Ninmyō, Japanese emperor (d. 850) ·
823 – Ermentrude of Orléans, queen of the Franks (d. 869) ·
1271 – Wenceslaus II of Bohemia, king of Bohemia and
Poland (d. 1305) ·
1275 – John II, Duke of Brabant (d. 1312) ·
1300 – Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1327) ·
1389 – Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464) ·
1433 – Stanisław Kazimierczyk, Polish canon regular
and saint (d. 1489) ·
1442 – John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (d. 1491) ·
1496 – Hieronymus Łaski, Polish diplomat (d. 1542) ·
1507 – Guillaume Rondelet, French physician (d. 1566) ·
1533 – Stefan Batory, King
of Poland (d. 1586) ·
1544 – Takenaka Shigeharu, Japanese samurai (d. 1579) ·
1552 – Flaminio Scala,
Italian playwright and stage actor (d. 1624) ·
1598 – Robert Blake, English admiral (d. 1657) ·
1601 – Louis XIII of France (d. 1643) ·
1627 – Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop and
theologian (d. 1704) ·
1643 – Solomon Stoddard,
American pastor and librarian (d. 1729) ·
1657 – Sofia Alekseyevna of Russia (d. 1704) ·
1677 – Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, Italian violinist and
composer (d. 1754) ·
1696 – Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori, Italian bishop and
saint (d. 1787) ·
1719 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician and
epigrammatist (d. 1800) ·
1722 – Samuel Adams,
American philosopher and politician, 4th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1803) ·
1729 – Michael Denis,
Austrian lepidopterist, author, and poet (d. 1800) ·
1739 – Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock, Irish
politician (d. 1767) ·
1765 – Antoine Philippe de La Trémoille, French general
(d. 1794) ·
1772 – Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson who
had twelve children (d. 1836) ·
1783 – Agustín de Iturbide, Mexican royalist turned
insurgent; first emperor of Mexico (d. 1824) ·
1803 – Samuel Francis Du Pont, American admiral (d. 1865) ·
1805 – George Müller,
German-English evangelist and missionary, founded the Ashley Down Orphanage (d. 1898) ·
1818 – Hermann Kolbe,
German chemist and academic (d. 1884) ·
1821 – Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Swiss philosopher, poet, and
critic (d. 1881) ·
1824 – William "Bull" Nelson, American general
(d. 1862) ·
1830 – William Babcock Hazen, American general (d. 1887) ·
1838 – Lawrence Sullivan Ross, American general and
politician, 19th Governor of Texas (d. 1898) ·
1840 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian
(d. 1914) ·
1840 – Thomas Nast, German-American
cartoonist (d. 1902) ·
1842 – Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist and
petrographer (d. 1903) ·
1843 – Gaston Tarry, French
mathematician and academic (d. 1913) ·
1861 – Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, American poet and
author (d. 1933) ·
1864 – Andrej Hlinka,
Slovak priest and politician (d. 1938) ·
1866 – Eurosia Fabris,
Italian saint (d. 1932) ·
1871 – Grazia Deledda,
Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936) ·
1879 – Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician and philosopher
(d. 1934) ·
1879 – Frederick Schule,
American hurdler and coach (d. 1962) ·
1879 – Cyril Scott, English
poet and composer (d. 1970) ·
1882 – Dorothy Greenhough-Smith, English figure skater and
tennis player (d. 1965) ·
1885 – Harry Blackstone, Sr., American magician (d. 1965) ·
1885 – Charles Benjamin Howard, Canadian businessman and
politician (d. 1964) ·
1892 – George Bambridge,
English diplomat (d. 1943) ·
1894 – Lothar von Richthofen, German lieutenant and pilot
(d. 1922) ·
1895 – Woolf Barnato,
English race car driver and financier (d. 1948) ·
1896 – Gilbert Ashton,
English cricketer (d. 1981) ·
1896 – Sam Ervin, American
soldier and politician (d. 1985) ·
1898 – Vincent Youmans,
American composer and producer (d. 1946) ·
1904 – Edvard Kocbek,
Slovenian poet and politician (d. 1981) ·
1905 – Conrad Heidkamp,
German footballer and manager (d. 1994) ·
1906 – William Empson,
English poet and critic (d. 1984) ·
1906 – Jim Thompson, American author and screenwriter (d.
1977) ·
1906 – Sergei Varshavsky, Russian art collector and author
(d. 1980) ·
1907 – Bernard Miles,
English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1991) ·
1911 – Marcey Jacobson,
American-Mexican photographer (d. 2009) ·
1913 – Albert Ellis,
American psychologist and author (d. 2007) ·
1916 – S. Yizhar, Israeli
academic and politician (d. 2006) ·
1917 – Louis Auchincloss, American novelist and essayist
(d. 2010) ·
1917 – Carl Ballantine,
American magician and actor (d. 2009) ·
1917 – William T. Orr,
American actor and producer (d. 2002) ·
1917 – Benjamin Rubin,
American microbiologist (d. 2010) ·
1918 – Martin Ryle, English
astronomer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984) ·
1918 – Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd (d. 2001) ·
1918 – Konstantin Gerchik, Soviet military leader
(1958-1961) ·
1919 – Jayne Meadows,
American actress and author (d. 2015) ·
1919 – Charles H. Percy,
American lieutenant and politician (d. 2011) ·
1919 – James H. Wilkinson, American mathematician and
computer scientist (d. 1986) ·
1921 – Miklós Jancsó,
Hungarian director and screenwriter (d. 2014) ·
1921 – Milton Subotsky,
American screenwriter and producer, co-founded Amicus Productions (d. 1991) ·
1921 – Bernard Waber,
American author and illustrator (d. 2013) ·
1922 – Sammy Benskin,
American pianist and bandleader (d. 1992) ·
1922 – Arthur Penn,
American director and producer (d. 2010) ·
1924 – Ernest Becker,
American-Canadian anthropologist, author, and academic (d. 1974) ·
1924 – Bud Powell, American
pianist and composer (d. 1966) ·
1924 – Fred Singer,
Austrian-American physicist and academic (d. 2020) ·
1924 – Josef
Škvorecký, Czech-Canadian author and publisher (d. 2012) ·
1925 – Robert Edwards, English physiologist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) ·
1925 – George Gladir,
American author (d. 2013) ·
1926 – Steve Stavro,
Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2006) ·
1927 – Chrysostomos I of Cyprus (d. 2007) ·
1927 – Red Rodney, American
trumpet player (d. 1994) ·
1927 – Romano Scarpa,
Italian author and illustrator (d. 2005) ·
1927 – Sada Thompson,
American actress (d. 2011) ·
1928 – Margaret Rule,
English archaeologist and historian (d. 2015) ·
1929 – Calvin Jones, American pianist, composer, and
educator (d. 2004) ·
1929 – Bruno Junk, Estonian
race walker (d. 1995) ·
1929 – Barbara Murray,
English actress (d. 2014)[5] ·
1930 – Paul Reichmann,
Austrian-Canadian businessman, founded Olympia and York (d.
2013) ·
1931 – Freddy Quinn,
Austrian singer, guitarist, and actor ·
1932 – Geoff Bent, English
footballer (d. 1958) ·
1932 – Michael Colvin,
English captain and politician (d. 2000) ·
1932 – Gabriel Loubier,
Canadian politician ·
1932 – Oliver E. Williamson, American economist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020) ·
1932 – Marcia Neugebauer, American geophysicist ·
1933 – Rodney Cotterill,
Danish-English physicist and neuroscientist (d. 2007) ·
1933 – Paul Goble, English-American author and illustrator
(d. 2017) ·
1933 – Greg Morris,
American actor (d. 1996) ·
1934 – Wilford Brimley,
American actor (d. 2020) ·
1934 – Claude Jarman, Jr., American actor and producer ·
1934 – Dick Schaap,
American sportscaster and author (d. 2001) ·
1935 – Al MacNeil, Canadian
ice hockey player and coach ·
1936 – Don Cornelius,
American television host and producer (d. 2012) ·
1936 – Gordon Honeycombe, English actor, playwright, and
author (d. 2015) ·
1937 – Vasyl Durdynets,
Ukrainian politician and diplomat, 8th Prime Minister of Ukraine ·
1938 – Jean-Loup Dabadie, French journalist, songwriter,
and screenwriter (d. 2020) ·
1939 – Nicholas Haslam,
English interior designer and author ·
1939 – Carol Lynn Pearson, American author, poet, and
playwright ·
1939 – Kathy Whitworth,
American golfer ·
1940 – Josephine Barstow, English soprano and actress ·
1940 – Benoni Beheyt,
Belgian cyclist ·
1941 – Peter Bonetti,
English footballer and coach (d. 2020) ·
1941 – Serge Ménard,
Canadian lawyer and politician ·
1941 – Don Nix, American
saxophonist, songwriter, and producer ·
1942 – Dith Pran, Cambodian
photographer and journalist (d. 2008) ·
1942 – Alvin Stardust,
English singer and actor (d. 2014) ·
1943 – Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta ·
1943 – Randy Bachman,
Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1944 – Ian Garnett, English
admiral ·
1944 – Angélica
María, American-born Mexican singer-songwriter and actress[6] ·
1944 – Gary Sutherland,
American baseball player and scout ·
1945 – Jack Goldstein,
Canadian-American painter (d. 2003) ·
1945 – Bob Spiers,
Scottish-English director and producer (d. 2008) ·
1946 – Nicos Anastasiades, Cypriot lawyer and politician,
7th President of Cyprus ·
1946 – T. C. Cannon,
American painter and sculptor (d. 1978) ·
1947 – Dick Advocaat, Dutch
football manager and former player ·
1947 – Richard Court,
Australian politician, 26th Premier of Western Australia ·
1947 – Barbara Dickson,
Scottish singer-songwriter and actress ·
1947 – Denis Lawson,
Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter ·
1947 – Meat Loaf, American
singer-songwriter, producer, and actor ·
1948 – Tom Braidwood,
Canadian actor, director, and producer ·
1948 – Les Chapman, English
footballer and manager ·
1948 – Duncan Fletcher,
Rhodesian-Zimbabwean cricketer and coach ·
1949 – Graham Richardson, Australian journalist and
politician, 39th Australian Minister for Health ·
1949 – Mike Schmidt,
American baseball player and coach ·
1949 – Jahn Teigen,
Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2020) ·
1950 – Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Japanese-American actor and
martial artist ·
1951 – Paul Craig, English author and academic ·
1951 – Geoff Gallop,
Australian politician, 27th Premier of Western Australia ·
1951 – Michel Rivard, Canadian singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1951 – Jim Shooter,
American author and illustrator ·
1951 – David Starobin,
American guitarist, producer, and director ·
1951 – Steve Soper, English
race car driver ·
1952 – Katie Fforde,
English author ·
1952 – Dumitru Prunariu,
Romanian pilot, engineer, and astronaut ·
1953 – Diane Abbott,
English journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for
International Development ·
1953 – Mata Amritanandamayi, Indian guru and saint ·
1953 – Claudio Gentile,
Italian footballer and manager ·
1953 – Greg Ham, Australian
keyboard player, saxophonist and songwriter (d. 2012) ·
1954 – Ray Hadley,
Australian radio host and sportscaster ·
1954 – Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Russian violinist and conductor ·
1954 – Larry Wall, American
computer programmer and author ·
1956 – Steve Archibald,
Scottish footballer and manager ·
1957 – Bill Athey, English
cricketer, footballer, and coach ·
1957 – Peter Sellars,
American actor, director, and screenwriter ·
1958 – Shaun Cassidy,
American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter ·
1958 – Irvine Welsh,
Scottish author and playwright ·
1959 – Beth Heiden,
American speed skater and cyclist ·
1960 – Jean-Marc Barr,
German-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1962 – Gavin Larsen, New
Zealand cricketer and sportscaster ·
1963 – Marc Maron, American
comedian, actor, and radio host ·
1964 – Predrag Brzaković, Serbian footballer (d.
2012) ·
1964 – Tracy Camp, American
computer scientist and academic ·
1964 – Johnny du Plooy,
South African boxer (d. 2013) ·
1964 – Stephan Jenkins,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1965 – Steve Kerr, American
basketball player, coach and sportscaster ·
1965 – Bernard Lord,
Canadian lawyer and politician, 30th Premier of New Brunswick ·
1965 – Peter MacKay,
Canadian lawyer and politician, 50th Canadian Minister of Justice ·
1965 – Alexis Stewart,
American radio and television host ·
1966 – Don Jamieson, American comedian and television host ·
1966 – Debbie Wasserman Schultz, American politician ·
1966 – Stephanie Wilson,
American engineer and astronaut ·
1966 – Lorenzo Cherubini,
Italian singer-songwriter and rapper ·
1967 – Uche Okechukwu,
Nigerian footballer ·
1968 – Mari Kiviniemi,
Finnish politician, 41st Prime Minister of Finland ·
1970 – Yoshiharu Habu,
Japanese chess player and author ·
1970 – Tamara Taylor,
Canadian actress ·
1971 – Horacio Sandoval,
Mexican illustrator ·
1972 – Sylvia Crawley,
American basketball player and coach ·
1972 – Clara Hughes,
Canadian cyclist and speed skater ·
1972 – Gwyneth Paltrow,
American actress, blogger, and businesswoman ·
1972 – Craig L. Rice,
American politician ·
1973 – Vratislav Lokvenc, Czech footballer ·
1973 – Stanislav Pozdnyakov, Russian fencer[7] ·
1974 – Carrie Brownstein, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actress ·
1976 – Matt Harding,
American video game designer and dancer ·
1976 – Jason Phillips, American baseball player and coach ·
1976 – Francesco Totti,
Italian footballer ·
1977 – Andrus Värnik,
Estonian javelin thrower ·
1978 – Brad Arnold, American
rock singer-songwriter ·
1978 – Jon Rauch, American
baseball player ·
1978 – Mihaela Ursuleasa, Romanian pianist (d. 2012) ·
1979 – Jon Garland,
American baseball player ·
1979 – Zita Görög,
Hungarian actress and model ·
1979 – Christian Jones,
Australian race car driver ·
1979 – Steve Simpson, Australian rugby league player ·
1980 – Asashōryū Akinori, Mongolian sumo
wrestler, the 68th Yokozuna ·
1980 – Ehron VonAllen,
American singer-songwriter and producer ·
1981 – Sophie Crumb,
American author and illustrator ·
1981 – Brendon McCullum,
New Zealand cricketer[8] ·
1981 – Lakshmipathy Balaji, Indian cricketer ·
1982 – Jon McLaughlin,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1982 – Markus Rosenberg,
Swedish footballer ·
1982 – Lil Wayne, American
rapper, producer, and actor ·
1982 – Darrent Williams,
American football player (d. 2007) ·
1983 – Jeon Hye-bin, South
Korean actress and singer ·
1984 – Paul Bevan,
Australian footballer ·
1984 – Davide Capello,
Italian footballer ·
1984 – John Lannan,
American baseball player ·
1984 – Avril Lavigne,
Canadian singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer ·
1984 – Wouter Weylandt,
Belgian cyclist (d. 2011) ·
1985 – Massimo Bertocchi, Canadian decathlete ·
1985 – Daniel Pudil, Czech
footballer ·
1985 – Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (d. 2014) ·
1986 – Vin Mazzaro,
American baseball player ·
1986 – Matt Shoemaker American
baseball player ·
1986 – Ricardo Risatti,
Argentinian race car driver ·
1987 – Ádám Bogdán,
Hungarian footballer ·
1987 – Austin Carlile,
American singer-songwriter ·
1987 – Vanessa James,
French figure skater ·
1987 – Olga Puchkova,
Russian tennis player ·
1988 – Lisa Ryzih, German
pole vaulter ·
1989 – Park Tae-hwan, South
Korean swimmer ·
1991 – Ousmane Barry,
Guinean footballer ·
1991 – Simona Halep,
Romanian tennis player ·
1991 – Anete Paulus,
Estonian footballer ·
1991 – Rio Uchida, Japanese
model and actress ·
1992 – Lachlan Burr,
Australian rugby league player ·
1992 – Luc Castaignos,
Dutch footballer ·
1992 – Pak Kwang-ryong,
North Korean footballer ·
1992 – Ryan O'Shaughnessy, Irish singer-songwriter and
actor ·
1992 – Gabriel Vasconcelos Ferreira, Brazilian footballer ·
1992 – Granit Xhaka, Swiss
footballer ·
1993 – Lisandro Magallán, Argentinian footballer ·
1993 – Monica Puig, Puerto
Rican-American tennis player ·
1993 – Vinnie Sunseri,
American football player ·
1994 – Dylan Walker,
Australian rugby league player ·
1998 – Ioana Mincă,
Romanian tennis player ·
2001 – David Malukas,
American racing driver[9] ·
2002 – Jenna Ortega,
American actress[10] Deaths[edit]
·
765 – Pugu Huai'en,
Chinese general during the Tang Dynasty ·
936 – Gyeon Hwon, king
of Hubaekje (b.
867) ·
1111 – Vekenega, Croatian
Benedictine abbess ·
1125 – Richeza of Berg,
Duchess of Bohemia (b.c. 1095) ·
1194 – Renaud de Courtenay, Anglo-Norman nobleman (b.
1125) ·
1249 – Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse (b. 1197) ·
1404 – William of Wykeham, English bishop (b. 1320) ·
1536 – Felice della Rovere, illegitimate daughter of Pope
Julius II (b. 1483) ·
1612 – Piotr Skarga, Polish
Jesuit and polemicist (b. 1536) ·
1637 – Lorenzo Ruiz,
Filipino saint (b. c.1600) ·
1657 – Olimpia Maidalchini, Roman noble (b. 1591) ·
1557 – Emperor Go-Nara of
Japan (b. 1497) ·
1590 – Pope Urban VII (b.
1521) ·
1651 – Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1573) ·
1660 – Vincent de Paul,
French priest and saint (b. 1581)[11] ·
1674 – Robert Arnauld d'Andilly, French writer (b. 1589) ·
1700 – Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615) ·
1719 – George Smalridge,
English bishop (b. 1662) ·
1730 – Laurence Eusden, English
poet and author (b. 1688) ·
1735 – Peter Artedi,
Swedish ichthyologist and zoologist (b. 1705) ·
1742 – Hugh Boulter, Irish
archbishop (b. 1672) ·
1783 – Étienne
Bézout, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1730) ·
1832 – Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher
and author (b. 1781) ·
1833 – Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Indian humanitarian and
reformer (b. 1772) ·
1838 – Bernard Courtois,
French chemist and pharmacist (b. 1777) ·
1876 – Braxton Bragg,
American general (b. 1817) ·
1886 – Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist and
politician (b. 1804) ·
1891 – Ivan Goncharov,
Russian author and critic (b. 1812) ·
1898 – Thomas Joseph Byrnes, Australian politician,
12th Premier of Queensland (b. 1860) ·
1911 – Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and academic
(b. 1844) ·
1915 – Remy de Gourmont,
French novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1858) ·
1917 – Edgar Degas, French
painter and sculptor (b. 1834) ·
1919 – Adelina Patti,
Italian-French opera singer
(b. 1843) ·
1921 – Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer and educator
(b. 1854) ·
1934 – Ellen Willmott,
English horticulturalist (b. 1858)[12] ·
1935 – Alan Gray, English
composer and organist (b. 1855) ·
1940 – Walter Benjamin,
German philosopher and critic (b. 1892) ·
1940 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and
neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857) ·
1942 – Douglas Albert Munro, United States Coast Guard
signalman, posthumously awarded Medal of Honor, (b.
1919) ·
1944 – Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American
evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (b.
1890) ·
1956 – Gerald Finzi,
English composer and educator (b. 1901) ·
1956 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American basketball player
and golfer (b. 1911) ·
1960 – Sylvia Pankhurst,
English activist (b. 1882) ·
1961 – Hilda Doolittle.
American poet, novelist, and memoirist (b. 1886) ·
1965 – Clara Bow, American
actress (b. 1905) ·
1965 – William Stanier,
English engineer, co-designed the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (b. 1876) ·
1967 – Felix Yusupov,
Russian husband of Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (b.
1887) ·
1972 – S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician, librarian,
and academic (b. 1892) ·
1974 – Silvio Frondizi,
Argentinian lawyer and academic (b. 1907) ·
1975 – Jack Lang, Australian lawyer and politician,
23rd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1876) ·
1979 – Gracie Fields,
English actress and singer (b. 1898) ·
1979 – Jimmy McCulloch,
Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1953) ·
1981 – Robert Montgomery, American actor, singer,
director, and producer (b. 1904) ·
1983 – Wilfred Burchett,
Australian journalist and author (b. 1911) ·
1984 – Chronis Exarhakos, Greek actor (b. 1932) ·
1985 – Lloyd Nolan,
American actor (b. 1902) ·
1986 – Cliff Burton,
American bass player and songwriter (b. 1962) ·
1991 – Joe Hulme, English
footballer and cricketer (b. 1904) ·
1992 – Zhang Leping,
Chinese comic artist (b. 1910) ·
1993 – Jimmy Doolittle,
American general, Medal of
Honor recipient (b. 1896) ·
1993 – Fraser MacPherson, Canadian saxophonist and
educator (b. 1928) ·
1996 – Mohammad Najibullah, Afghan physician and
politician, 7th President of Afghanistan (b. 1947) ·
1997 – Walter Trampler,
American viola player and educator (b. 1915) ·
1998 – Doak Walker,
American football player (b. 1927) ·
2003 – Jean Lucas, French
race car driver (b. 1927) ·
2003 – Donald O'Connor,
American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1925) ·
2004 – John E. Mack,
American psychiatrist and author (b. 1929) ·
2005 – Ronald Golias,
Brazilian comedian and actor (b. 1929) ·
2005 – Mary Lee Settle,
American novelist, essayist, and memoirist (b. 1918) ·
2006 – Helmut Kallmeyer,
German chemist and soldier (b. 1910) ·
2007 – Dale Houston,
American singer-songwriter (b. 1940) ·
2007 – Kenji Nagai,
Japanese photographer and journalist (b. 1957) ·
2008 – Henri Pachard,
American director and producer (b. 1939) ·
2009 – Ivan Dykhovichny,
Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1947) ·
2009 – Charles Houston, American physician and mountaineer
(b. 1913) ·
2009 – William Safire,
American author and journalist (b. 1929) ·
2010 – George Blanda,
American football player (b. 1927) ·
2010 – Balaji Sadasivan,
Singaporean neurosurgeon and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Singapore (b.
1955) ·
2010 – Trevor Taylor, English race car driver (b. 1936) ·
2011 – David Croft, English director, producer, and
screenwriter (b. 1922) ·
2011 – Imre Makovecz,
Hungarian architect (b. 1935) ·
2011 – Johnny "Country" Mathis, American
singer-songwriter (b. 1933) ·
2012 – Eddie Bert, American
trombonist (b. 1922) ·
2012 – Herbert Lom,
Czech-English actor (b. 1917) ·
2012 – John Silber,
American academic and politician (b. 1926) ·
2012 – Sanjay Surkar,
Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1959) ·
2012 – Frank Wilson, American songwriter and producer (b.
1940) ·
2013 – Gates Brown,
American baseball player and coach (b. 1939) ·
2013 – Oscar Castro-Neves, Brazilian-American guitarist,
composer, and conductor (b. 1940) ·
2013 – Elvin R. Heiberg III, American general and engineer
(b. 1932) ·
2013 – Tuncel Kurtiz,
Turkish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1936) ·
2013 – A. C. Lyles,
American screenwriter and producer (b. 1918) ·
2013 – Albert Naughton,
English rugby player (b. 1929) ·
2014 – Gaby Aghion, French
fashion designer, founded Chloé (b. 1921) ·
2014 – Eugie Foster, American
journalist and author (b. 1971) ·
2014 – Taylor Hardwick,
American architect and educator, designed Haydon Burns Library and Friendship Fountain Park (b. 1925) ·
2014 – Wally Hergesheimer, Canadian ice hockey player (b.
1927) ·
2014 – Abdelmajid Lakhal, Tunisian actor and director (b.
1939) ·
2014 – James Traficant,
American lawyer and politician (b. 1941) ·
2015 – Syed Ahmed, Indian author and politician,
16th Governor of Manipur (b. 1945) ·
2015 – Wilton Felder,
American saxophonist and bass player (b. 1940) ·
2015 – Pietro Ingrao,
Italian journalist and politician (b. 1915) ·
2015 – Denise Lor, American
singer and actress (b. 1929) ·
2015 – Kallen Pokkudan,
Indian activist and author (b. 1937) ·
2015 – Frank Tyson,
English-Australian cricketer, coach, and journalist (b. 1930) ·
2016 – David Hahn, American
Boy Scout famous for attempting to build a nuclear reactor in a shed in his
backyard (b. 1976) ·
2017 – Hugh Hefner,
American publisher, founder of Playboy Enterprises (b. 1926)[13] ·
2018 – Kavita Mahajan,
Indian author and translator (b.1967)[14] ·
2018 – Michael Payton,
American football quarterback (b.1970) [15] ·
2018 – Manoharsinhji Pradyumansinhji, Indian nobleman and
politician[16] Holidays and observances[edit]
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Christian feast days: o September 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Consumación de la Independencia (Mexico) ·
French Community Holiday (French community
of Belgium) ·
Independence Day (Turkmenistan), celebrates the
independence of Turkmenistan from USSR in 1991. ·
Meskel (Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Church, following Julian calendar,
September 28 on leap years) ·
National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS
Awareness Day (United States)[19] ·
Polish Underground State's Day (Poland) ·
World Tourism Day (International) |
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