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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020 September
September 28 is the 271st day of the
year (272nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 94 days remain until the end of
the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
48 BC – Pompey is
assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII upon arriving in Egypt. ·
235 – Pope Pontian resigns.
He is exiled to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus of Rome. ·
351 –
Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius. ·
365 – Roman
usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by
Constantinople, and proclaims himself emperor. ·
935 –
Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia is
murdered by a group of nobles led by his brother Boleslaus I, who succeeds him. ·
995 – Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia, kills most members
of the rival Slavník dynasty. ·
1066 –
William the Conqueror lands in England, beginning
the Norman conquest. ·
1106 –
King Henry I of England defeats his brother Robert Curthose at the Battle of Tinchebray. ·
1238 –
King James I of Aragon conquers Valencia from the
Moors. Shortly thereafter, he proclaims himself king of Valencia. ·
1322 –
Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf. ·
1538 –
Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy
League fleet in the Battle of Preveza. ·
1542 – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at
what is now San Diego, California. ·
1779 –
American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected
President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay. ·
1781 –
American Revolution: American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown. ·
1787 –
The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly written
United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval. ·
1821 –
The Declaration of Independence of
the Mexican Empire is drafted. It will be made public on 13
October. ·
1844 – Oscar I of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden. ·
1867 –
Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also
been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796. ·
1868 –
The Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of
Spain to flee to France. ·
1871 –
The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that
frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned
slaves. ·
1889 –
The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM)
defines the length of a meter. ·
1892 –
The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between
Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal. ·
1893 –
Foundation of the Portuguese football club FC Porto. ·
1901 –
Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while
losing 28 of their own. ·
1912 –
The Ulster
Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant
Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill. ·
1912 – Corporal Frank S. Scott of
the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane
crash. ·
1918 – World War I:
The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins. ·
1919 – Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska. ·
1924 –
The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by
a team from the US Army. ·
1928 – Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing
mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin. ·
1939 – World War II: Nazi
Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a
division of Poland. ·
1939 – World War II: The siege of Warsaw comes to an end. ·
1941 –
World War II: The Drama
uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece
begins. ·
1941 – Ted Williams achieves
a .406 batting average for the season, and becomes the last major league
baseball player to bat .400 or better. ·
1944 –
World War II: Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Estonia. ·
1951 –
CBS makes the first color televisions available
for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a
month later. ·
1961 –
A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the
United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria. ·
1970 –
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in
Cairo. ·
1971 –
The Parliament of the UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, banning the medicinal use
of cannabis. ·
1973 –
The ITT Building
in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in
the coup d'état in Chile. ·
1975 –
The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are
taken hostage, takes place in London. ·
1986 –
The Democratic Progressive Party becomes the first
opposition party in Taiwan. ·
1992 –
A Pakistan International Airlines flight crashes into a
hill in Nepal, killing all 167 passengers and crew. ·
1994 –
The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks
in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people. ·
1995 – Bob Denard and
a group of mercenaries take the islands of the Comoros in a coup. ·
1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West
Bank and the Gaza Strip. ·
2000 – Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known
to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. ·
2008 – Falcon 1 becomes
the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a
payload into orbit. ·
2009 –
The military junta leading Guinea attacks a protest rally, killing or wounding 1400
people. ·
2012 –
Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port of Kismayo to take
back the city from al-Shabaab militants. ·
2014 –
The 2014 Hong Kong protests begin in response to
restrictive political reforms imposed by the NPC in Beijing. ·
2016 –
The 2016 South Australian blackout occurs, lasting
up to three days in some areas. ·
2018 –
The 7.5 Mw 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, which triggered a large
tsunami, leaves 4,340 dead and 10,679 injured. Births[edit]
·
551 BC – Confucius, Chinese
teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period
of Chinese history. (d. 479 BC) ·
616 – Javanshir, King
of Caucasian Albania (d. 680) ·
1494 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet and playwright (d.
1545) ·
1555 – Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne,
Marshal of France (d. 1623) ·
1573 – Théodore de Mayerne, Swiss physician (d. 1654)[1] ·
1605 – Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer and
mathematician (d. 1694) ·
1681 – Johann Mattheson,
German composer, lexicographer, and diplomat (d. 1764) ·
1705 – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English
politician, Secretary of State for the
Southern Department (d. 1774) ·
1705 – Johann Peter Kellner, German organist and composer
(d. 1772) ·
1735 – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, English
academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1811) ·
1746 – William Jones, English-Welsh philologist and scholar
(d. 1794) ·
1765 – Frederick Christian II, Duke of
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (d. 1814) ·
1803 – Prosper
Mérimée, French archaeologist, historian, and author (d. 1870) ·
1809 – Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and
botanist (d. 1899) ·
1819 – Narcís Monturiol, Spanish engineer and publisher
(d. 1885) ·
1821 – Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American minister and
politician (d. 1874) ·
1823 – Alexandre Cabanel, French painter and educator (d.
1889) ·
1824 – Francis Turner Palgrave, English poet and critic
(d. 1897) ·
1836 – Thomas Crapper,
English plumber, invented the ballcock (d.
1910) ·
1841 – Georges Clemenceau, French journalist, physician,
and politician, 85th Prime Minister of France (d. 1929) ·
1844 – Robert Stout,
Scottish-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930) ·
1852 – Henri Moissan,
French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907) ·
1852 – Isis Pogson, British
astronomer and meteorologist (d. 1945) ·
1856 – Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator
(d. 1923) ·
1860 – Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist
(d. 1934) ·
1861 – Amélie of Orléans, queen consort of Portugal (d.
1951)[2] ·
1867 – Hiranuma Kiichirō, Japanese lawyer and
politician, 35th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1952) ·
1867 – James Edwin Campbell, American poet, editor, short
story writer and educator (d. 1896) ·
1877 – Albert Young, American boxer and promoter (d. 1940) ·
1878 – Joseph Ruddy,
American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1962) ·
1870 – Florent Schmitt,
French composer and critic (d. 1958) ·
1881 – Pedro de Cordoba,
American actor (d. 1950) ·
1882 – Mart Saar, Estonian
organist and composer (d. 1963) ·
1885 – Emil Väre, Finnish
wrestler, coach, and referee (d. 1974) ·
1887 – Avery Brundage,
American businessman, 5th President of the International
Olympic Committee (d. 1975) ·
1889 – Jack Fournier,
American baseball player and coach (d. 1973) ·
1890 – Florence Violet McKenzie, Australian electrical
engineer (d. 1982)[3] ·
1892 – Elmer Rice, American
playwright (d. 1967) ·
1893 – Hilda Geiringer,
Austrian mathematician (d. 1973)[4] ·
1893 – Giannis Skarimpas, Greek author, poet, and
playwright (d. 1984) ·
1898 – Carl Clauberg,
German Nazi physician
(d. 1957) ·
1900 – Isabel Pell,
American socialite, fought as part of the French Resistance during WWII (d. 1951) ·
1901 – William S. Paley,
American broadcaster, founded CBS (d.
1990) ·
1901 – Ed Sullivan,
American television host (d. 1974) ·
1903 – Haywood S. Hansell, American general (d. 1988) ·
1905 – Max Schmeling,
German boxer (d. 2005) ·
1907 – Heikki Savolainen, Finnish gymnast and physician
(d. 1997) ·
1907 – Bhagat Singh, Indian
activist (d. 1931) ·
1909 – Al Capp, American
author and illustrator (d. 1979) ·
1910 – Diosdado Macapagal, Filipino lawyer and politician,
9th President of the Philippines (d. 1997) ·
1910 – Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino lawyer and politician
(d. 1942) ·
1913 – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (d. 2007) ·
1913 – Alice Marble,
American tennis player (d. 1990) ·
1914 – Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-American
refugee and singer (d. 2014)[5] ·
1915 – Ethel Rosenberg,
American spy (d. 1953) ·
1916 – Peter Finch,
English-Australian actor (d. 1977) ·
1916 – Olga Lepeshinskaya, Ukrainian-Russian ballerina and
educator (d. 2008) ·
1917 – Wee Chong Jin,
Singaporean judge (d. 2005)[6] ·
1918 – Ángel Labruna,
Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 1983) ·
1918 – Arnold Stang,
American actor (d. 2009) ·
1919 – Doris Singleton,
American actress (d. 2012) ·
1922 – Larry Munson,
American sportscaster (d. 2011) ·
1923 – Tuli Kupferberg,
American singer, poet, and writer (d. 2010) ·
1923 – John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish captain
and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Selkirkshire (d. 2007) ·
1923 – William Windom, American actor (d. 2012) ·
1924 – Rudolf Barshai,
Russian-Swiss viola player and conductor (d. 2010) ·
1924 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian-French actor and
singer (d. 1996) ·
1925 – Seymour Cray,
American computer scientist, founded the CRAY Computer Company (d. 1996) ·
1925 – Cromwell Everson,
South African composer (d. 1991) ·
1925 – Martin David Kruskal, American physicist and
mathematician (d. 2006) ·
1926 – Jerry Clower,
American soldier, comedian, and author (d. 1998) ·
1928 – Koko Taylor,
American singer (d. 2009) ·
1929 – Lata Mangeshkar,
Indian playback singer and composer ·
1930 – Tommy Collins, American country music
singer-songwriter (d. 2000) ·
1930 – Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist, author,
and academic (d. 2019) ·
1932 – Jeremy Isaacs,
Scottish screenwriter and producer ·
1932 – Víctor Jara, Chilean
singer-songwriter, poet, and director (d. 1973) ·
1933 – Joe Benton, English
soldier and politician ·
1933 – Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, Spanish sculptor and educator
(d. 2006) ·
1933 – Johnny "Country" Mathis, American
singer-songwriter (d. 2011) ·
1934 – Brigitte Bardot,
French actress ·
1935 – Bruce Crampton,
Australian golfer ·
1935 – David Hannay, Baron Hannay of Chiswick, English
diplomat, British Permanent
Representative to the United Nations ·
1935 – Ronald Lacey,
English actor (d. 1991) ·
1936 – Emmett Chapman,
American guitarist, invented the Chapman Stick ·
1936 – Eddie Lumsden,
Australian rugby league player (d. 2019) ·
1936 – Robert Wolders,
Dutch television actor (d. 2018) ·
1937 – Alice Mahon, English
trade union leader and politician ·
1937 – Glenn Sutton,
American country music songwriter and record producer (d. 2007) ·
1938 – Ben E. King,
American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2015) ·
1939 – Stuart Kauffman,
American biologist and academic ·
1941 – David Lewis, American philosopher and academic (d.
2001) ·
1941 – Edmund Stoiber,
German lawyer and politician, Minister President of Bavaria ·
1942 – Pierre
Clémenti, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d.
1999) ·
1942 – Edward "Little Buster" Forehand,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2006) ·
1943 – Warren Lieberfarb, American businessman ·
1943 – George W. S. Trow, American novelist, playwright,
and critic (d. 2006) ·
1943 – Nick St. Nicholas, German-Canadian bass player ·
1944 – Richie Karl,
American golfer ·
1944 – Marcia Muller,
American journalist and author ·
1945 – Marielle Goitschel, French skier ·
1945 – Manolis Rasoulis,
Greek singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 2011) ·
1945 – Fusako Shigenobu,
Japanese activist, founded the Japanese Red Army ·
1946 – Tom Bower, English
journalist and author ·
1946 – Majid Khan, Indian-Pakistani cricketer ·
1947 – Bob Carr, Australian
journalist and politician, 37th Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs ·
1947 – Sheikh Hasina,
Bangladeshi politician, 10th Prime Minister of Bangladesh ·
1947 – Jon Snow, English journalist and academic ·
1947 – Rhonda Hughes,
American mathematician and academic ·
1949 – Jim Henshaw,
Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter ·
1950 – Paul Burgess, English drummer ·
1950 – Christina Hoff Sommers, American author and
philosopher ·
1950 – John Sayles,
American novelist, director, and screenwriter ·
1951 – Jim Diamond, Scottish singer-songwriter and
musician (d. 2015) ·
1952 – Christopher Buckley, American satirical novelist ·
1952 – Efthimis Kioumourtzoglou, Greek basketball player
and coach ·
1952 – Sylvia Kristel,
Dutch model and actress (d. 2012) ·
1952 – Andy Ward, English drummer ·
1953 – Otmar Hasler,
Liechtensteiner educator and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein ·
1954 – Steve Largent,
American football player and politician ·
1954 – George Lynch, American guitarist and songwriter ·
1954 – John Scott, English rugby player ·
1954 – Margot Wallström, Swedish politician and diplomat,
42nd Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs ·
1955 – Stéphane Dion,
Canadian sociologist and politician, 15th Canadian Minister of the Environment ·
1955 – Mercy Manci, Xhosa sangoma and HIV activist from South Africa ·
1955 – Kenny Kirkland,
American pianist (d. 1998) ·
1956 – Martha Isabel Fandińo Pinilla, Colombian-Italian
mathematician and author ·
1957 – Bill Cassidy,
American politician and physician ·
1959 – Ron Fellows, Canadian
race car driver ·
1959 – Laura Bruce,
American artist ·
1960 – Gary Ayres,
Australian footballer and coach ·
1960 – Tom Byrum, American
golfer ·
1960 – Frank Hammerschlag, German footballer and manager ·
1960 – Gus Logie,
Trinidadian cricketer ·
1960 – Kamlesh Patel, Baron Patel of Bradford, English
politician ·
1960 – Jennifer Rush,
American singer-songwriter ·
1960 – Socrates Villegas, Filipino archbishop ·
1961 – Helen Grant, English lawyer and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics ·
1961 – Gregory Jbara,
American actor and singer ·
1961 – Quentin Kawānanakoa, American lawyer and
politician ·
1961 – Anne White, American
tennis player ·
1962 – Grant Fuhr, Canadian
ice hockey player and coach ·
1962 – Laurie Rinker,
American golfer ·
1962 – Dietmar Schacht,
German footballer and manager ·
1962 – Chuck Taylor, American journalist ·
1963 – Steve Blackman,
American wrestler and martial artist ·
1963 – Érik Comas, French
race car driver ·
1963 – Greg Weisman,
American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter ·
1964 – Claudio Borghi, Argentinian footballer and manager ·
1964 – Gregor Fisken,
Scottish race car driver ·
1964 – Janeane Garofalo,
American comedian, actress, and screenwriter ·
1964 – Paul Jewell, English
footballer and manager ·
1964 – Mārtiņš Roze, Latvian lawyer and
politician (d. 2012) ·
1966 – Scott Adams, American football player (d. 2013) ·
1966 – Maria Canals-Barrera, Cuban-American actress ·
1966 – Puri Jagannadh,
Indian director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1967 – Mira Sorvino,
American actress ·
1967 – Moon Zappa, American
actress and author ·
1968 – Francois Botha,
South African boxer and mixed martial artist ·
1968 – Mika Häkkinen,
Finnish race car driver ·
1968 – Trish Keenan,
English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011) ·
1968 – Sean Levert,
American R&B singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2008) ·
1968 – Rob Moroso, American
race car driver (d. 1990) ·
1968 – Naomi Watts,
English-Australian actress and producer ·
1969 – Kerri Chandler,
electronic music producer and DJ ·
1969 – Marcel Dost, Dutch
decathlete ·
1969 – Ben Greenman,
American journalist and author ·
1969 – Piper Kerman,
American author and memoirist ·
1969 – Éric Lapointe, Canadian singer-songwriter and
keyboard player ·
1969 – Sascha Maassen,
German race car driver ·
1969 – Angus Robertson,
Scottish politician ·
1969 – Nico Vaesen, Belgian
footballer ·
1970 – Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japanese tennis player ·
1970 – Mike DeJean,
American baseball player ·
1970 – Gualter Salles,
Brazilian race car driver ·
1971 – Joseph Arthur,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1971 – George Eustice,
English lawyer and politician ·
1971 – Braam van Straaten, South African rugby player ·
1971 – Alan Wright, English
footballer and manager ·
1972 – Dita Von Teese,
American model and dancer ·
1973 – Brian Rafalski,
American ice hockey player ·
1974 – Marco Di Loreto,
Italian footballer and manager ·
1974 – Mariya Kiselyova,
Russian swimmer ·
1974 – Joonas Kolkka,
Finnish footballer and coach ·
1974 – Shane Webcke,
Australian rugby league player and coach ·
1975 – Stuart Clark,
Australian cricketer and manager ·
1975 – Isamu Jordan,
American journalist and academic (d. 2013) ·
1975 – Lenny Krayzelburg, Russian-American swimmer ·
1976 – Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist and
politician ·
1977 – Ireneusz Marcinkowski, Polish footballer ·
1977 – Pak Se-ri, South
Korean golfer ·
1977 – Young Jeezy,
American rapper ·
1978 – Ben Edmondson,
Australian cricketer ·
1979 – Bam Margera,
American skateboarder, actor, and stuntman ·
1979 – Taki Tsan,
American-Greek rapper and producer ·
1980 – Marlon Parmer,
American basketball player ·
1981 – Greg Anderson, American pianist and composer ·
1981 – Willy Caballero,
Argentine footballer ·
1981 – José Calderón, Spanish basketball player ·
1981 – Jorge Guagua,
Ecuadorian footballer ·
1981 – Iracema Trevisan,
Brazilian bass player ·
1982 – Aleksandr Anyukov, Russian footballer ·
1982 – Abhinav Bindra,
Indian target shooter ·
1982 – Ray Emery, Canadian
ice hockey player (d. 2018) ·
1982 – Ranbir Kapoor, Indian
actor and director ·
1982 – Nolwenn Leroy,
French singer-songwriter and actress ·
1982 – Emeka Okafor,
American basketball player ·
1982 – Dustin Penner,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1982 – Aivar Rehemaa,
Estonian skier ·
1982 – Anderson Varejăo, Brazilian basketball player ·
1982 – St. Vincent, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1983 – Stefan Moore,
English footballer ·
1983 – John Schwalger, New
Zealand rugby player ·
1984 – Jenny Omnichord,
Canadian singer-songwriter ·
1984 – Luke Pomersbach,
Australian cricketer ·
1984 – Naim Terbunja,
Kosovan-Swedish boxer ·
1984 – Melody Thornton,
American singer-songwriter and dancer ·
1984 – Mathieu Valbuena,
French footballer ·
1984 – Ryan Zimmerman,
American baseball player ·
1985 – Shindong, South
Korean singer-songwriter and dancer ·
1985 – Alina Ibragimova,
Russian-English violinist ·
1986 – Andrés
Guardado, Mexican footballer ·
1986 – Meskerem Legesse,
Ethiopian runner (d. 2013) ·
1986 – Dominic Waters,
American basketball player ·
1987 – Pierre Becken,
German footballer ·
1987 – Gary Deegan, Irish
footballer ·
1987 – Hilary Duff,
American singer-songwriter and actress ·
1987 – Chloë Hanslip,
English violinist ·
1987 – Viktoria Leks,
Estonian high jumper ·
1988 – Marin Čilić,
Croatian tennis player ·
1988 – Esmée Denters, Dutch
singer-songwriter ·
1988 – Aleks Vrteski,
Australian footballer ·
1988 – Worakls, French DJ
and electronic musician ·
1989 – Çağla Büyükakçay, Turkish tennis player ·
1989 – Darius Johnson-Odom, American basketball player ·
1989 – Mark Randall, English footballer ·
1990 – Phoenix Battye,
Australian rugby player ·
1992 – Khem Birch, Canadian
professional basketball player ·
1992 – Adam Thompson,
English-Northern Irish footballer ·
1992 – Kōko Tsurumi,
Japanese gymnast ·
1993 – Jodie Williams,
English sprinter ·
1995 – Jason Williams, English footballer ·
1996 – Aiden Moffat,
British racing driver[7] Deaths[edit]
·
48 BC – Pompey, Roman
general and politician (b. 106 BC) ·
782 – Leoba, Anglo-Saxon
nun ·
935 – Wenceslaus I, duke of Bohemia ·
980 – Minamoto no Hiromasa, Japanese nobleman (b. 918) ·
1197 – Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1165) ·
1213 – Gertrude of Merania, queen consort of Hungaria (b.
1185)[8] ·
1330 – Elizabeth of Bohemia, queen consort of Bohemia (b.
1292) ·
1429 – Cymburgis of Masovia, duchess consort of Austria
(b. 1394) ·
1582 – George Buchanan,
Scottish historian and scholar (b. 1506) ·
1596 – Margaret Clifford, countess of Derby (b. 1540) ·
1618 – Josuah Sylvester,
English poet and translator (b. 1563) ·
1687 – Francis Turretin,
Swiss-Italian theologian and academic (b. 1623) ·
1694 – Gabriel Mouton,
French mathematician and theologian (b. 1618) ·
1702 – Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland,
French-English lawyer and politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1640) ·
1742 – Jean Baptiste Massillon, French bishop (b. 1663) ·
1829 – Nikolay Raevsky,
Russian general and politician (b. 1771) ·
1844 – Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and
politician (b. 1769) ·
1859 – Carl Ritter, German
geographer and academic (b. 1779) ·
1873 – Émile
Gaboriau, French journalist and author (b. 1832) ·
1891 – Herman Melville,
American author and poet (b. 1819) ·
1895 – Louis Pasteur,
French chemist and microbiologist (b. 1822) ·
1899 – Giovanni Segantini, Austrian painter (b. 1858) ·
1914 – Richard Warren Sears, American businessman,
co-founded Sears (b. 1863) ·
1915 – Saitō Hajime,
Japanese samurai (b. 1844) ·
1918 – Georg Simmel, German
sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858) ·
1918 – Freddie Stowers,
American soldier, Medal of
Honor recipient (b. 1896) ·
1925 – Paul Vermoyal,
French actor (b. 1888) ·
1935 – William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor,
director, and producer, invented the Kinetoscope (b.
1860) ·
1938 – Charles Duryea,
American engineer and businessman, founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company (b. 1861) ·
1943 – Sam Ruben, American
chemist and academic (b. 1913) ·
1943 – Filippo Illuminato, Italian partisan, Gold Medal of
Military Valour (b. 1930)[9] ·
1949 – Archbishop Chrysanthus of Athens (b. 1881) ·
1953 – Edwin Hubble,
American astronomer and scholar (b. 1889) ·
1956 – William Boeing,
American businessman, founded the Boeing Company (b.
1881) ·
1957 – Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan violinist and
composer (b. 1888) ·
1959 – Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (b. 1901) ·
1962 – Roger Nimier, French
soldier and author (b. 1925) ·
1964 – Harpo Marx, American
comedian, actor, and singer (b. 1888) ·
1966 – André Breton, French
author and poet (b. 1896) ·
1970 – John Dos Passos,
American novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright (b. 1896) ·
1970 – Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and
politician, 2nd President of Egypt (b. 1918) ·
1978 – Pope John Paul I (b.
1912) ·
1979 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and
engineer (b. 1921) ·
1981 – Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan journalist and
politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1908) ·
1982 – Mabel Albertson,
American actress (b. 1901) ·
1984 – Cihad Baban, Turkish
journalist, author, and politician (b. 1911) ·
1989 – Ferdinand Marcos,
Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Philippines (b. 1917) ·
1990 – Larry O'Brien,
American businessman and politician, 57th United States Postmaster General (b. 1917) ·
1991 – Miles Davis,
American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1926) ·
1993 – Peter De Vries,
American editor and novelist (b. 1910) ·
1993 – Alexander A. Drabik, American sergeant (b. 1910) ·
1994 – Urmas Alender,
Estonian singer (b. 1953) ·
1994 – José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican lawyer and
politician, 6th Governor of Guerrero (b. 1946) ·
1994 – Harry Saltzman,
Canadian production manager and producer (b. 1915) ·
1994 – K. A. Thangavelu,
Indian film actor and comedian (b. 1917) ·
1999 – Escott Reid,
Canadian academic and diplomat (b. 1905) ·
2000 – Pierre Trudeau,
Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919) ·
2002 – Patsy Mink, American
lawyer and politician (b. 1927) ·
2002 – Hartland Molson,
Canadian captain and politician (b. 1907) ·
2003 – Althea Gibson,
American tennis player and golfer (b. 1927) ·
2003 – Elia Kazan, American
director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1909) ·
2003 – George Odlum, Saint
Lucian politician and diplomat (b. 1934) ·
2004 – Geoffrey Beene,
American fashion designer (b. 1924) ·
2005 – Constance Baker Motley, American lawyer, judge, and
politician (b. 1921) ·
2007 – René
Desmaison, French mountaineer (b. 1930) ·
2007 – Wally Parks,
American businessman, founded the National Hot Rod Association (b. 1913) ·
2009 – Guillermo Endara,
Panamanian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Panama (b. 1936) ·
2009 – Ulf Larsson, Swedish
actor and director (b. 1956) ·
2010 – Kurt Albert, German
mountaineer and photographer (b. 1954) ·
2010 – Arthur Penn,
American director and producer (b. 1922) ·
2010 – Dolores Wilson,
American soprano and actress (b. 1928)[10] ·
2012 – Avraham Adan,
Israeli general (b. 1926) ·
2012 – Chris Economaki,
American journalist and sportscaster (b. 1920) ·
2012 – Brajesh Mishra,
Indian politician and diplomat, 1st Indian National Security Advisor (b. 1928) ·
2013 – James Emanuel,
American-French poet and scholar (b. 1921) ·
2013 – Jonathan Fellows-Smith, South African cricketer and
rugby player (b. 1932) ·
2013 – George Amon Webster, American singer and pianist
(b. 1945) ·
2014 – Dannie Abse, Welsh
physician, poet, and author (b. 1923) ·
2014 – Joseph H. Alexander, American colonel and historian
(b. 1938) ·
2014 – Sheila Faith,
English dentist and politician (b. 1928) ·
2014 – Tim Rawlings,
English footballer and manager (b. 1932) ·
2014 – Petr Skoumal, Czech
pianist and composer (b. 1938) ·
2015 – Alexander Faris,
Irish composer and conductor (b. 1921) ·
2015 – Walter Dale Miller, American rancher and
politician, 29th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1925) ·
2015 – Ignacio Zoco,
Spanish footballer (b. 1939) ·
2016 – Agnes Nixon,
American television writer and director (b. 1922) ·
2016 – Gary Glasberg,
American television writer and producer (b. 1966) ·
2016 – Shimon Peres,
Polish-Israeli statesman and politician, 9th President of Israel (b. 1923) ·
2016 – Gloria Naylor,
American novelist (b. 1950) ·
2017 – Daniel Pe'er,
Israeli television host and newsreader (b. 1943) ·
2018 – Predrag Ejdus,
Serbian actor (b. 1947) ·
2019 – José José, Mexican
singer (El Principe de la Canción or The Prince of Song),
pancreatic cancer (b. 1948)[11] Holidays and observances[edit]
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Christian feast day: o Annemund o Conval o Leoba o Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton and Margery Kempe (Episcopal Church (USA)) o September 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics). ·
Czech Statehood Day (Czech Republic) ·
International Day for Universal
Access to Information ·
National Day of Awareness and
Unity against Child Pornography (Philippines) ·
Teachers' Day (Taiwan and
Chinese-Filipino schools in the Philippines),
ceremonies dedicated to Confucius are
also observed. ·
World Rabies Day (International) |
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