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September 14 is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 108 days remain until the end of the year.

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September 14 in recent years
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2023 (Thursday)
2022 (Wednesday)
2021 (Tuesday)
2020 (Monday)
2019 (Saturday)
2018 (Friday)
2017 (Thursday)
2016 (Wednesday)
2015 (Monday)

Events

Pre-1600

AD 81 – Domitian became Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.^[1]
786 – "Night of the three Caliphs": Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. Birth of Harun's son al-Ma'mun.^[2]
919 – Battle of Islandbridge: High King Niall Glúndub is killed while leading an Irish coalition against the Vikings of Uí Ímair, led by King Sitric Cáech.^[3]
1180 – Genpei War: In the Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan, the new military commander of the Minamoto clan, Minamoto no Yoritomo, is routed by Ōba Kagechika of the Taira clan.^[4]
1226 – The first recorded instance of the Catholic practice of perpetual Eucharistic adoration formally begins in Avignon, France.^[5]
1402 – Battle of Homildon Hill: An invading Scottish army under Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany and Archibald, Earl Douglas is decimated by a contingent of 500 English archers under the command of George, Earl of March and Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland.^[6]

1601–1900

1607 – Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.^[7]
1682 – Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.^[8]
1685 – Morean War: the Battle of Kalamata ends in a Venetian victory over the forces of the Ottoman Empire under the Kapudan Pasha.^[9]
1723 – Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta.
1741 – George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.^[10]
1752 – The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
1763 – Seneca warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Devil's Hole during Pontiac's War.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Review of the French troops under General Rochambeau by General George Washington at Verplanck's Point, New York.
1791 – The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France.
1808 – Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes at the Battle of Oravais.
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée enters Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.
1814 – Battle of Baltimore: The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.
1829 – The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.
1846 – Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.

1901–present

1901 – U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
1911 – Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot by Dmitry Bogrov while attending a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Tsar Saltan at the Kiev Opera House, in the presence of Tsar Nicholas II.^[11]
1914 – HMAS AE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, is lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
1917 – The Russian Empire is formally replaced by the Russian Republic.
1936 – Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaurès, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza.
1939 – World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orzeł in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.
1940 – Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing.
1943 – World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons.
1944 – World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
1948 – The Indian Army captures the city of Aurangabad as part of Operation Polo.
1954 – In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
1958 – The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
1960 – The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
1960 – Congo Crisis: Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
1975 – The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
1979 – Afghan leader Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party.
1982 – President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel is assassinated.
1984 – Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
1985 – Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
1989 – The Standard Gravure shooting where Joseph T. Wesbecker, a 47-year-old pressman, killed eight people and injured 12 people at his former workplace, Standard Gravure, before committing suicide.
1992 – The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
1993 – Lufthansa Flight 2904, an Airbus A320, crashes into an embankment after overshooting the runway at Okęcie International Airport (now Warsaw Chopin Airport), killing two people.^[12]
1994 – The rest of the Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
1997 – Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India.
1998 – Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
1999 – Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
2000 – Microsoft releases Windows Me.
2001 – Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.
2002 – Total Linhas Aéreas Flight 5561 crashes near Paranapanema, Brazil, killing both pilots on board.^[13]
2003 – In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.
2003 – Bissau-Guinean President Kumba Ialá is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General Veríssimo Correia Seabra.^[14]
2007 – Financial crisis of 2007–2008: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
2008 – Aeroflot Flight 821, a Boeing 737-500, crashes into a section of the Trans-Siberian Railway while on approach to Perm International Airport, in Perm, Russia, killing all 88 people on board.^[15]
2015 – The first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.
2019 – Yemen's Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.^[16]^[17]
2022 – Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The Queen's coffin is taken from Buckingham Palace, placed on a gun carriage of The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery and moved in a procession to Westminster Hall for her lying in state over the next four days with the queue of mourners stretching for miles along the River Thames.^[18]^[19]

Births

Pre-1600

208 – Diadumenian, Roman emperor (d. 218)
768 – Al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph, 7th (d. 833)
938 – Sahib ibn Abbad, Persian scholar and statesman (d. 995)
953 – Guo Zongxun, Chinese emperor (d. 973)
1032 – Dao Zong, Chinese emperor (d. 1101)
1246 – John Fitzalan III, English nobleman (d. 1272)
1384 – Ephraim of Nea Makri, Greek martyr and saint (d. 1426)
1388 – Claudius Clavus, Danish geographer and cartographer (d. 1438)
1401 – Maria of Castile, Queen consort of Aragon and Naples (d. 1458)
1485 – Anna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Landgravine of Hesse (d. 1525)
1486 – Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German theologian, astrologer, and alchemist (d. 1535)
1543 – Claudio Acquaviva, Italian priest, 5th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1615)
1547 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch politician (d. 1619)
1580 – Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish poet and politician (d. 1645)

1601–1900

1618 – Peter Lely, Dutch-English painter (d. 1680)
1643 – Jeremiah Dummer, American silversmith (d. 1718)
1656 – Thomas Baker, English historian and author (d. 1746)
1713 – Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1781)
1721 – Eliphalet Dyer, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (d. 1807)
1736 – Robert Raikes, English philanthropist, founded Sunday school (d. 1811)
1737 – Michael Haydn, Austrian singer and composer (d. 1806)
1769 – Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer and explorer (d. 1859)
1774 – Lord William Bentinck, English general and politician, 14th Governor-General of India (d. 1839)
1791 – Franz Bopp, German linguist and academic (d. 1867)
1804 – John Gould, English ornithologist and illustrator (d. 1881)
1804 – Louis Désiré Maigret, French bishop (d. 1882)
1816 – Mary Hall Barrett Adams, American book editor and letter writer (d. 1860)^[20]
1837 – Nikolai Bugaev, Georgian-Russian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1903)
1843 – Lola Rodríguez de Tió, Puerto Rican poet, abolitionist, and women's rights activist (d. 1924)
1847 – Fanny Holland, English actress and singer (d. 1931)
1850 – Anton Mahnič, Slovenian bishop, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1920)
1853 – Ponnambalam Arunachalam, Ceylonese civil servant and politician (d. 1924)
1857 – Julia Platt, American embryologist and politician (d. 1935)
1860 – Hamlin Garland, American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer (d. 1940)
1864 – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English lawyer and politician, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1867 – Charles Dana Gibson, American illustrator (d. 1944)
1868 – Théodore Botrel, French singer-songwriter, poet, and playwright (d. 1925)
1869 – Kid Nichols, American baseball player and manager (d. 1953)
1872 – John Olof Dahlgren, Swedish-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1963)
1879 – Margaret Sanger, American nurse and activist (d. 1966)^[21]
1880 – Benjamin, Russian bishop and missionary (d. 1961)
1880 – Archie Hahn, American sprinter, football player, and coach (d. 1955)
1883 – Richard Gerstl, Austrian painter and illustrator (d. 1908)
1885 – Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor, composer, and critic (d. 1975)
1886 – Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier and politician, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1948)
1887 – Karl Taylor Compton, American physicist (d. 1954)
1891 – Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1983)
1892 – Laurence W. Allen, English lieutenant and pilot (d. 1968)
1896 – José Mojica, Mexican tenor and actor (d. 1974)
1898 – Lawrence Gellert, Hungarian-American musicologist and song collector (d. 1979)
1898 – Ernest Nash, German-Italian photographer and scholar (d. 1974)

1901–present

1902 – Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 1977)
1902 – Alice Tully, American soprano and philanthropist (d. 1993)
1903 – Mart Raud, Estonian poet and author (d. 1980)
1904 – Frank Amyot, Canadian sprint canoeist (d. 1962)^[22]
1904 – Richard Mohaupt, German composer and Kapellmeister (d. 1957)
1907 – Yuri Ivask, Russian-American poet and critic (d. 1986)
1909 – Peter Scott, English ornithologist, painter, and sailor (d. 1989)
1910 – Lehman Engel, American composer and conductor (d. 1982)
1910 – Jack Hawkins, English actor and producer (d. 1973)
1910 – Yiannis Latsis, Greek businessman (d. 2003)
1910 – Rolf Liebermann, Swiss-French composer and manager (d. 1999)
1910 – Rasuna Said, Indonesian women's rights campaigner and national hero (d. 1965)^[23]
1911 – William H. Armstrong, American author and educator (d. 1999)
1913 – Jacobo Árbenz, Guatemalan captain and politician, President of Guatemala (d. 1971)
1913 – Rubby Sherr, American physicist and academic (d. 2013)
1914 – Mae Boren Axton, American composer and educator (d. 1997)
1914 – Clayton Moore, American actor (d. 1999)^[24]
1915 – John Dobson, Chinese-American astronomer and author, designed the Dobsonian telescope (d. 2014)
1916 – Eric Bentley, English-American singer, playwright, and critic (d. 2020)
1916 – John Heyer, Australian director and producer (d. 2001)
1917 – Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss violinist and conductor (d. 2002)
1918 – Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver (d. 1967)
1918 – Cachao López, Cuban-American bassist and composer (d. 2008)
1919 – Deryck Cooke, English musicologist and broadcaster (d. 1976)
1919 – Gil Langley, Australian cricketer, footballer, and politician (d. 2001)
1919 – Olga Lowe, South African-English actress (d. 2013)
1919 – Kay Medford, American actress (d. 1980)
1920 – Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan journalist and author (d. 2009)
1920 – Lawrence Klein, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
1920 – Alberto Calderón, Argentinian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1998)
1921 – Constance Baker Motley, American lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 2005)
1921 – A. Jean de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer, businessman, and academic (d. 2022)
1921 – Paul Poberezny, American pilot and businessman, founded the Experimental Aircraft Association (d. 2013)
1921 – Dario Vittori, Italian-Argentinian actor and producer (d. 2001)
1922 – Michel Auclair, German-French actor (d. 1988)
1922 – Frances Bergen, American model and actress (d. 2006)
1922 – Alfred Käärmann, Estonian soldier and author (d. 2010)
1923 – Nicholas Georgiadis, Greek painter and costume designer (d. 2001)
1924 – Patricia Barringer, American baseball player and accountant (d. 2007)
1924 – Jerry Coleman, American baseball player and manager (d. 2014)
1924 – Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean-English physician, academic, and diplomat (d. 1994)
1924 – Wim Polak, Dutch journalist and politician, Mayor of Amsterdam (d. 1999)
1926 – Michel Butor, French author and critic (d. 2016)
1926 – Richard Ellsasser, American organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1972)
1926 – Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Spanish noblewoman (d. 2017)
1927 – Martin Caidin, American author and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1927 – Janet Davies, English actress (d. 1986)
1927 – Gardner Dickinson, American golfer (d. 1998)
1927 – Jim Fanning, American-Canadian baseball player and manager (d. 2015)
1927 – Edmund Szoka, American cardinal (d. 2014)
1928 – Jay Cameron, American reed player and saxophonist (d. 2001)
1928 – Alberto Korda, Cuban photographer (d. 2001)
1928 – Angus Ogilvy, English businessman (d. 2004)
1929 – Larry Collins, American-French journalist, historian, and author (d. 2005)
1930 – Allan Bloom, American philosopher and academic (d. 1992)
1930 – Romola Costantino, Australian pianist and critic (d. 1988)
1930 – Eugene I. Gordon, American physicist and engineer (d. 2014)
1932 – Harry Sinden, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
1932 – John Tembo, Malawian politician (d. 2023)
1933 – Zoe Caldwell, Australian actress (d. 2020)
1933 – Harve Presnell, American actor and singer (d. 2009)
1934 – Sarah Kofman, French philosopher and academic (d. 1994)
1934 – Paul Little, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1993)
1934 – Kate Millett, American author and activist (d. 2017)^[24]
1934 – Don Walser, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2006)
1935 – Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese illustrator (d. 2008)
1936 – Harry Danielsen, Norwegian educator and politician (d. 2011)
1936 – Terence Donovan, English photographer and director (d. 1996)
1936 – Walter Koenig, American actor, producer, and screenwriter^[25]
1936 – Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2023)
1936 – Lucas Samaras, Greek-American painter and photographer (d. 2024)
1937 – Renzo Piano, Italian architect and engineer, designed The Shard and The New York Times Building
1938 – Franco Califano, Libya-born Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1938 – Nicol Williamson, Scottish actor (d. 2011)
1939 – DeWitt Weaver, American golfer (d. 2021)
1940 – Ventseslav Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer and translator (d. 2019)
1940 – Larry Brown, American basketball player and coach^[24]
1940 – Padmakar Shivalkar, Indian cricketer (d. 2025)^[26]
1941 – Bruce Hyde, American actor and academic (d. 2015)
1941 – Ian Kennedy, English lawyer and academic
1941 – Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, American civil rights activist
1941 – Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan drummer, composer, and bandleader (d. 2020)
1941 – Alex St. Clair, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2006)
1942 – Oliver Lake, American saxophonist, flute player, and composer
1942 – Roger Lyons, English trade union leader
1942 – Bernard MacLaverty, Irish author, playwright, and screenwriter
1943 – Irwin Goodman, Finnish singer-composer and guitarist (d. 1991)
1943 – Marcos Valle, Brazilian singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1944 – Joey Heatherton, American actress, singer, and dancer^[25]
1944 – Rowena Morrill, American artist (d. 2021)^[27]
1944 – Günter Netzer, German footballer and manager
1945 – Martin Tyler, English sportscaster
1946 – Pete Agnew, Scottish rock bassist and singer
1946 – Jim Angle, American soldier and journalist (d. 2022)
1946 – Wolfgang Sühnholz, German-American soccer player and coach (d. 2019)
1946 – Kjell Gjerseth, Norwegian novelist and journalist (d. 2025)^[28]
1947 – Jon Bauman, American singer^[25]
1947 – Sam Neill, Northern Irish-New Zealand actor and director^[25]
1948 – Marc Reisner, American environmentalist and author (d. 2000)
1949 – Steve Gaines, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1977)
1949 – Ed King, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2018)
1949 – Tommy Seebach, Danish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 2003)
1949 – Fred "Sonic" Smith, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 1994)
1949 – Eikichi Yazawa, Japanese singer-songwriter
1950 – Paul Kossoff, English guitarist and songwriter (d. 1976)
1950 – Masami Kuwashima, Japanese race car driver
1950 – Mike Nifong, American lawyer and politician
1950 – John Steptoe, American author and illustrator (d. 1989)
1951 – Volodymyr Melnykov, Ukrainian poet, writer, songwriter and composer
1951 – Joe McDonnell, Northern Irish hunger striker (d. 1981)^[29]
1953 – Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (d. 1998)
1953 – Judy Playfair, Australian swimmer
1953 – Robert Wisdom, American actor^[25]
1954 – Barry Cowsill, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (d. 2005)
1954 – David Wojnarowicz, American painter and photographer (d. 1992)
1955 – Steve Berlin, American saxophonist, keyboard player, and producer^[25]
1955 – Geraldine Brooks, Australian-American novelist and journalist
1955 – William Jackson, Scottish harp player and composer
1955 – Edu Manzano, American-Filipino actor and politician
1956 – Paul Allott, English cricketer and sportscaster
1956 – Beth Nielsen Chapman, American singer-songwriter^[25]
1956 – Kostas Karamanlis, Greek lawyer and politician, 181st Prime Minister of Greece
1956 – Nathalie Roussel, French actress
1956 – Ray Wilkins, English footballer and manager (d. 2018)
1956 – Lefteris Zagoritis, Greek lawyer and politician
1957 – Tim Wallach, American baseball player and coach
1957 – Kepler Wessels, South African cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
1958 – Paul Clark, English footballer and manager
1958 – Jeff Crowe, New Zealand cricketer, referee, and manager
1958 – Arlindo Cruz, Brazilian singer-songwriter
1958 – Billy Abercromby, Scottish footballer (d. 2024)^[30]
1959 – John Berry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist^[25]
1959 – Mary Crosby, American actress^[25]
1959 – Morten Harket, Norwegian singer-songwriter^[25]
1960 – Ronald Lengkeek, Dutch footballer
1960 – Melissa Leo, American actress^[25]
1960 – Callum Keith Rennie, English-Canadian actor and producer
1961 – Freeman Mbowe, Tanzanian politician
1961 – Wendy Thomas, American businesswoman
1962 – Robert Herjavec, Croatian-Canadian businessman
1962 – Tom Kurvers, American ice hockey player and sportscaster (d. 2021)
1962 – Nick Botterill, British business man^[31]
1962 – Bonnie Jo Campbell, American novelist and short story writer
1963 – Robin Singh, Trinidadian-Indian cricketer and coach
1964 – Faith Ford, American actress^[25]
1965 – Emily Bell, English journalist and academic
1965 – Dmitry Medvedev, Russian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Russia^[24]
1965 – Kevin O'Hare, English ballet dancer and director
1965 – Michelle Stafford, American actress, producer, and screenwriter^[25]
1966 – Iztok Puc, Croatian-Slovenian handball player (d. 2011)^[32]
1966 – Aamer Sohail, Pakistani cricketer and politician
1967 – Jens Lien, Norwegian director, producer, and screenwriter
1967 – John Power, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1968 – Grant Shapps, English politician
1969 – Denis Betts, English rugby league player and coach
1969 – Bong Joon-ho, South Korean director and screenwriter^[25]
1969 – Konstandinos Koukodimos, Australian-Greek long jumper and politician
1970 – Francesco Casagrande, Italian cyclist
1970 – Ben Garant, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter^[25]
1970 – Ketanji Brown Jackson, American lawyer and jurist, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States^[24]
1970 – Satoshi Kojima, Japanese wrestler
1970 – Jason Martin, Australian rugby league player, singer, and guitarist
1970 – Craig Montoya, American singer-songwriter and bass player
1970 – Mark Webber, English guitarist
1971 – Jeff Loomis, American guitarist and songwriter
1971 – Andre Matos, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2019)
1971 – Christopher McCulloch, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter
1971 – Kimberly Williams-Paisley, American actress, director, and producer^[25]
1972 – Notah Begay III, American golfer
1972 – David Bell, American baseball player and coach
1973 – Tony Bui, Vietnamese director, producer, and screenwriter
1973 – Terrell Fletcher, American football player
1973 – Andrew Lincoln, English actor^[25]
1973 – Nas, American rapper^[25]
1973 – Linvoy Primus, English footballer
1973 – Mike Ward, Canadian comedian and actor
1974 – Chad Bradford, American baseball player
1974 – Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan runner
1974 – Mattias Marklund, Swedish guitarist
1974 – Sunday Oliseh, Nigerian footballer and manager
1974 – Helgi Sigurðsson, Icelandic footballer
1974 – Patrick van Balkom, Dutch sprinter
1976 – Austin Basis, American actor^[25]
1976 – Agustín Calleri, Argentinian tennis player
1976 – Kevin Lyttle, Vincentian soca artist^[33]
1977 – Mattias Agabus, Estonian architect
1977 – Malik Bendjelloul, Swedish director and producer (d. 2014)
1977 – Miyu Matsuki, Japanese voice actress and singer (d. 2015)
1978 – Ben Cohen, English rugby union player
1978 – Ron DeSantis, American politician, 46th Governor of Florida^[34]
1978 – Carmen Kass, Estonian model and actress
1978 – Danielle Peck, American singer-songwriter
1979 – Ivica Olić, Croatian footballer
1979 – Stefan Stam, Dutch footballer
1980 – Ayọ, German singer-songwriter and actress
1980 – Gareth Maybin, Northern Irish professional golfer
1981 – Miyavi, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1981 – Katie Lee, American chef, author, and critic^[25]
1981 – Stefan Reisinger, German footballer
1981 – Yumi Adachi, Japanese actress and singer
1982 – SoShy, French-American singer-songwriter
1982 – Petr Průcha, Czech ice hockey player
1983 – Arash Borhani, Iranian footballer
1983 – Josh Outman, American baseball player
1983 – Frostee Rucker, American football player
1983 – Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (d. 2011)^[24]
1984 – Ayushmann Khurrana, Indian actor, singer and anchor
1984 – Adam Lamberg, American actor^[25]
1985 – Alex Clare, English singer and songwriter^[35]
1985 – Paolo Gregoletto, American bass player and songwriter
1985 – Trevis Smith, American football player
1985 – Aya Ueto, Japanese actress and singer
1985 – Delmon Young, American baseball player
1986 – David Desharnais, Canadian ice hockey player^[36]
1986 – Jonathan Monaghan, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1986 – Steven Naismith, Scottish footballer
1986 – Barış Özbek, German-Turkish footballer
1986 – Alan Sheehan, Irish footballer
1986 – Ai Takahashi, Japanese singer and actress
1986 – Reggie Williams, American basketball player^[37]
1987 – Jessica Brown Findlay, English actress^[25]
1987 – Michael Crabtree, American football player
1987 – Tinchy Stryder, Ghanaian-English rapper and producer
1988 – Martin Fourcade, French biathlete
1988 – Diogo Salomão, Portuguese footballer
1989 – Jimmy Butler, American basketball player^[38]
1989 – Tony Finau, American golfer
1989 – Logan Henderson, American singer-songwriter^[25]
1989 – Jesse James, American actor
1989 – Lee Jong-suk, South Korean actor and model
1989 – Alex Killorn, Canadian ice hockey player^[39]
1989 – Jonathon Simmons, American basketball player^[40]
1989 – Miriam Zetter, Mexican ten-pin bowler^[41]
1990 – Douglas Costa, Brazilian footballer
1990 – Petar Filipović, German-born Croatian footballer
1990 – Belinda Hocking, Australian backstroke swimmer
1990 – Cecilie Pedersen, Norwegian footballer
1991 – Dee Milliner, American football player
1991 – Nana, South Korean singer, actress and model
1991 – Shayne Topp, American actor and Smosh cast member
1992 – Connor Fields, American cyclist
1992 – Cassie Sharpe, Canadian freestyle skier^[42]
1992 – Zico, South Korean rapper
1993 – Brandon Brown, American race car driver
1994 – Brahim Darri, Dutch footballer
1994 – Gary Harris, American basketball player^[43]
1994 – Daniel O'Shaughnessy, Finnish footballer
1994 – Krasimir Stanoev, Bulgarian footballer
1995 – Jevon Carter, American basketball player^[44]
1995 – Deshaun Watson, American football player
1996 – Hugh Bernard, English cricketer
1996 – Myles Wright, English professional footballer
1997 – Benjamin Ingrosso, Swedish singer and songwriter^[45]
1997 – Dominic Solanke, English footballer^[46]
1999 – Emma Kenney, American actress^[25]
2000 – Han, South Korean rapper^[47]

Deaths

Pre-1600

AD 23 – Drusus Julius Caesar, Roman son of Tiberius (b. 13 BC)
258 – Cyprian, African bishop and saint (b. 200)
407 – John Chrysostom, Byzantine archbishop and saint (b. 347)
585 – Bidatsu, emperor of Japan (b. 538)
619 – Yang You, emperor of the Sui Dynasty (b. 605)
775 – Constantine V, Byzantine emperor (b. 718)
786 – Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph (b. 764)
788 – Li Mian, Chinese judge, military general, musician, poet, and politician (b. 717)^[48]
820 – Li Yong, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
891 – Stephen V, pope of the Catholic Church
919 – Niall Glúndub, High King of Ireland
927 – Cele Dabhaill mac Scannal, Irish abbot
949 – Fujiwara no Tadahira, Japanese statesman (b. 880)
1146 – Imad ad-Din Zengi, Syrian ruler (b. 1087)
1164 – Emperor Sutoku of Japan (b. 1119)
1214 – Albert Avogadro, Italian lawyer, patriarch, and saint (b. 1149)
1321 – Dante Alighieri, Italian writer (b. 1265)^[49]
1401 – Dobrogost of Nowy Dwór, Polish bishop (b. 1355)
1404 – Albert IV, duke of Austria (b. 1377)
1412 – Ingegerd Knutsdotter, Swedish abbess (b. 1356)
1435 – John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, English politician, Lord High Admiral (b. 1389)
1487 – Mara Branković, Serbian princess (b. 1416)
1523 – Pope Adrian VI (b. 1459)^[50]
1538 – Henry III of Nassau-Breda (b. 1483)

1601–1900

1605 – Jan Tarnowski, Polish archbishop (b. 1550)
1613 – Thomas Overbury, English poet
1638 – John Harvard, English-American minister and philanthropist (b. 1607)
1646 – Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire (b. 1591)
1712 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, and engineer (b. 1625)
1715 – Dom Pérignon, French monk and priest (b. 1638)
1743 – Nicolas Lancret, French painter (b. 1690)
1749 – Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (b. 1675)
1759 – Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French general (b. 1712)
1807 – George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1724)
1821 – Heinrich Kuhl, German naturalist and zoologist (b. 1797)
1836 – Aaron Burr, American colonel and politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States (b. 1756)
1851 – James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist, short story writer, and historian (b. 1789)
1852 – Augustus Pugin, English architect and critic, designed Scarisbrick Hall (b. 1812)
1852 – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Irish-English field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1769)
1862 – Charles Pearson, English lawyer and politician (b. 1793)
1862 – Charles Lennox Richardson, English-Chinese merchant (b. 1834)
1879 – Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist and author (b. 1808)
1891 – Johannes Bosboom, Dutch painter (b. 1817)
1898 – William Seward Burroughs I, American businessman, founded the Burroughs Corporation (b. 1857)

1901–present

1901 – William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States (b. 1843)
1905 – Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Italian-French explorer (b. 1852)
1910 – Lombe Atthill, Northern Irish obstetrician and gynaecologist (b. 1827)^[51]
1916 – José Echegaray, Spanish engineer, mathematician, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
1927 – Isadora Duncan, American-Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1877)
1931 – Tom Roberts, English-Australian painter and educator (b. 1856)
1936 – Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor (b. 1878)
1936 – Irving Thalberg, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1899)
1937 – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1850)
1942 – E. S. Gosney, American eugenicist and philanthropist, founded Human Betterment Foundation (b. 1855)
1943 – Jacob Gens, head of the Vilnius Ghetto government (b. 1903)^[52]
1951 – Fritz Busch, German conductor and director (b. 1890)
1952 – John McPhee, Australian businessman and politician, 27th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1874)
1959 – Wayne Morris, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1914)
1960 – M. Karagatsis, Greek author, playwright, and critic (b. 1908)
1961 – Ernst Gustav Kühnert, Estonian-German architect and historian (b. 1885)
1962 – Frederick Schule, American hurdler, football player, and coach (b. 1879)
1965 – J. W. Hearne, English cricketer (b. 1891)
1966 – Gertrude Berg, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1899)^[53]
1966 – Hiram Wesley Evans, American Ku Klux Klan leader (b. 1881)
1966 – Cemal Gürsel, Turkish general and politician, 4th President of Turkey (b. 1895)
1975 – Walter Herbert, German-American conductor (b. 1902)
1979 – Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan journalist and politician, 3rd President of Afghanistan (b. 1917)
1981 – Furry Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1899)
1982 – Christian Ferras, French violinist (b. 1933)
1982 – John Gardner, American novelist, essayist, and critic (b. 1933)
1982 – Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese commander and politician (b. 1947)
1982 – Grace Kelly, American-Monegasque actress; Princess of Monaco (b. 1929)^[54]
1984 – Janet Gaynor, American actress (b. 1906)
1986 – Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster, founded the Liberty Broadcasting System (b. 1921)
1989 – Pérez Prado, Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1916)
1991 – Julie Bovasso, American actress and playwright (b. 1930)
1991 – Russell Lynes, American historian, photographer, and author (b. 1910)
1992 – August Komendant, Estonian-American engineer and academic (b. 1906)
1992 – Paul Martin Sr., Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1903)
1994 – Marika Krevata, Greek actress (b. 1910)
1995 – Maurice K. Goddard, American colonel and politician (b. 1912)
1996 – Juliet Prowse, Indian-South African actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1937)
1998 – Yang Shangkun, Chinese politician, and 4th President of China (b. 1907)
1999 – Charles Crichton, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1910)
1999 – Giannos Kranidiotis, Greek politician and diplomat (b. 1947)
2000 – Beah Richards, American actress (b. 1920)
2000 – Jerzy Giedroyc, Belarusian-Polish soldier and activist (b. 1906)
2001 – Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer and guitarist (b. 1931)
2002 – LaWanda Page, American actress (b. 1920)
2003 – Jerry Fleck, American actor and director (b. 1947)
2003 – Garrett Hardin, American ecologist and author (b. 1915)
2003 – John Serry, Sr., American accordion player and composer (b. 1915)
2005 – William Berenberg, American physician and academic (b. 1915)
2005 – Vladimir Volkoff, French soldier and author (b. 1932)
2005 – Robert Wise, American director and producer (b. 1914)
2006 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-American bodybuilder and actor (b. 1926)
2006 – Esme Melville, Australian actress (b. 1918)
2007 – Jacques Martin, French television host and producer (b. 1933)
2007 – Robert Savoie, Canadian opera singer (b. 1927)
2008 – Hyman Golden, American businessman, co-founded Snapple (b. 1923)
2009 – Keith Floyd, English chef and author (b. 1943)
2009 – Henry Gibson, American actor (b. 1935)
2009 – Jody Powell, American diplomat, White House Press Secretary (b. 1943)
2009 – Patrick Swayze, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1952)
2011 – Malcolm Wallop, American politician (b. 1933)
2012 – Jacques Antoine, French game show producer, created The Crystal Maze and Fort Boyard (b. 1924)
2012 – Eduardo Castro Luque, Mexican businessman and politician (b. 1963)
2012 – Winston Rekert, Canadian actor and director (b. 1949)
2012 – Kan Yuet-keung, Hong Kong banker, lawyer, and politician (b. 1913)
2013 – Maksym Bilyi, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1989)
2013 – Osama El-Baz, Egyptian soldier and diplomat (b. 1931)
2013 – Faith Leech, Australian swimmer (b. 1941)^[55]
2014 – Tony Auth, American illustrator (b. 1942)
2014 – Peter Gutteridge, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1961)
2014 – E. Jennifer Monaghan, English-American historian, author, and academic (b. 1933)
2015 – Davey Browne, Australian boxer (b. 1986)
2015 – Fred DeLuca, American businessman, co-founded Subway (b. 1947)
2015 – Martin Kearns, English drummer (b. 1977)
2015 – Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Romanian journalist and politician (b. 1949)
2018 – Ethel Johnson, American professional wrestler (b. 1935)^[56]
2018 – Zienia Merton, British actress (b. 1945)^[57]
2021 – Norm Macdonald, Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1959)^[58]
2024 – Jaber Mubarak Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti royal and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Kuwait (b. 1942)^[59]
2024 – Otis Davis, American sprinter (b. 1932)^[60]

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