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September 14 in recent years

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.

Events

Pre-1600

  • AD 81 – Domitian became Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.
  • 629 – Emperor Heraclius enters Constantinople in triumph after his victory over the Persian Empire.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1180 – Genpei War: Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
  • 1226 – The first recorded instance of the Catholic practice of perpetual Eucharistic adoration formally begins in Avignon, France.
  • 1402Battle of Homildon Hill results in an English victory over Scotland.

1601–1900

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.
  • 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.
  • 1936Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaurès, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza.
  • 1939World 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.
  • 1979Afghan 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.
  • 1984Joe 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1999Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
  • 2000Microsoft 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.
  • 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.
  • 2007Financial 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.
  • 2015 – The first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.
  • 2019Yemen's Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.
  • 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.

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)
  • 1486Heinrich 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)
  • 1580Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish poet and politician (d. 1645)

1601–1900

  • 1618Peter Lely, Dutch-English painter (d. 1680)
  • 1643 – Jeremiah Dummer, American silversmith (d. 1718)
  • 1656Thomas 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)
  • 1737Michael Haydn, Austrian singer and composer (d. 1806)
  • 1769Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer and explorer (d. 1859)
  • 1774 – Lord William Bentinck, English general and politician, 14th Governor-General of India (d. 1839)
  • 1791Franz Bopp, German linguist and academic (d. 1867)
  • 1804John 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)
  • 1837 – Nikolai Bugaev, Georgian-Russian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1903)
  • 1843Lola 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)
  • 1853Ponnambalam 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)
  • 1864Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English lawyer and politician, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
  • 1867Charles 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)
  • 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)
  • 1886Jan 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)
  • 1892Laurence W. Allen, English lieutenant and pilot (d. 1968)
  • 1896José 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)
  • 1904 – Richard Mohaupt, German composer and Kapellmeister (d. 1957)
  • 1907 – Yuri Ivask, Russian-American poet and critic (d. 1986)
  • 1909Peter 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)
  • 1911William 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)
  • 1915 – John Dobson, Chinese-American astronomer and author, designed the Dobsonian telescope (d. 2014)
  • 1916Eric 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)
  • 1920Mario 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)
  • 1921Constance 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)
  • 1926Michel 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)
  • 1929Larry Collins, American-French journalist, historian, and author (d. 2005)
  • 1930Allan 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
  • 1933Zoe 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)
  • 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
  • 1936 – Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2023)
  • 1936 – Lucas Samaras, Greek-American painter and photographer
  • 1937Renzo 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
  • 1940Ventseslav Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer and translator (d. 2019)
  • 1940 – Larry Brown, American basketball player and coach
  • 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
  • 1944 – Günter Netzer, German footballer and manager
  • 1945Martin 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)
  • 1947 – Jon Bauman, American singer
  • 1947 – Sam Neill, Northern Irish-New Zealand actor and director
  • 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)
  • 1953 – Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (d. 1998)
  • 1953 – Judy Playfair, Australian swimmer
  • 1953 – Robert Wisdom, American actor
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1959 – John Berry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1959 – Mary Crosby, American actress
  • 1959 – Morten Harket, Norwegian singer-songwriter
  • 1960 – Ronald Lengkeek, Dutch footballer
  • 1960 – Melissa Leo, American actress
  • 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
  • 1962 – Bonnie Jo Campbell, American novelist and short story writer
  • 1963 – Robin Singh, Trinidadian-Indian cricketer and coach
  • 1964Faith Ford, American actress
  • 1965 – Emily Bell, English journalist and academic
  • 1965 – Dmitry Medvedev, Russian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Russia
  • 1965 – Kevin O'Hare, English ballet dancer and director
  • 1965 – Michelle Stafford, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1966 – Aamer Sohail, Pakistani cricketer and politician
  • 1967 – Jens Lien, Norwegian director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1967 – John Power, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1968Grant Shapps, English politician
  • 1969 – Denis Betts, English rugby league player and coach
  • 1969 – Bong Joon-ho, South Korean director and screenwriter
  • 1969 – Konstandinos Koukodimos, Australian-Greek long jumper and politician
  • 1970 – Francesco Casagrande, Italian cyclist
  • 1970 – Ben Garant, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1970 – Ketanji Brown Jackson, American lawyer and jurist, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
  • 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
  • 1972Notah 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
  • 1973 – Nas, American rapper
  • 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
  • 1976 – Agustín Calleri, Argentinian tennis player
  • 1976 – Kevin Lyttle, Vincentian soca artist
  • 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
  • 1978 – Carmen Kass, Estonian model and actress
  • 1978 – Danielle Peck, American singer-songwriter
  • 1979Ivica Olić, Croatian footballer
  • 1979 – Stefan Stam, Dutch footballer
  • 1980 – Ayọ, German singer-songwriter and actress
  • 1980 – Gareth Maybin, Northern Irish professional golfer
  • 1981Miyavi, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
  • 1981 – Katie Lee, American chef, author, and critic
  • 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)
  • 1984 – Ayushmann Khurrana, Indian actor, singer and anchor
  • 1984 – Adam Lamberg, American actor
  • 1985Alex Clare, English singer and songwriter
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1987 – Jessica Brown Findlay, English actress
  • 1987 – Michael Crabtree, American football player
  • 1987 – Tinchy Stryder, Ghanaian-English rapper and producer
  • 1988Martin Fourcade, French biathlete
  • 1988 – Diogo Salomão, Portuguese footballer
  • 1989Jimmy Butler, American basketball player
  • 1989 – Tony Finau, American golfer
  • 1989 – Logan Henderson, American singer-songwriter
  • 1989 – Jesse James, American actor
  • 1989 – Lee Jong-suk, South Korean actor and model
  • 1989 – Alex Killorn, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1989 – Jonathon Simmons, American basketball player
  • 1989 – Miriam Zetter, Mexican ten-pin bowler
  • 1990Douglas 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
  • 1992Connor Fields, American cyclist
  • 1992 – Zico, South Korean rapper
  • 1993 – Brandon Brown, American race car driver
  • 1994 – Brahim Darri, Dutch footballer
  • 1994 – Gary Harris, American basketball player
  • 1994 – Daniel O'Shaughnessy, Finnish footballer
  • 1994 – Krasimir Stanoev, Bulgarian footballer
  • 1995Jevon Carter, American basketball player
  • 1995 – Deshaun Watson, American football player
  • 1996 – Hugh Bernard, English cricketer
  • 1996 – Myles Wright, English professional footballer
  • 1997Benjamin Ingrosso, Swedish singer and songwriter
  • 1999 – Emma Kenney, American actress

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)
  • 585Bidatsu, emperor of Japan (b. 538)
  • 619 – Yang You, emperor of the Sui Dynasty (b. 605)
  • 775 – Constantine V, Byzantine emperor (b. 718)
  • 786Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph (b. 764)
  • 788 – Li Mian, Chinese judge, military general, musician, poet, and politician (b. 717)
  • 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)
  • 1164Emperor Sutoku of Japan (b. 1119)
  • 1214 – Albert Avogadro, Italian lawyer, patriarch, and saint (b. 1149)
  • 1321Dante Alighieri, Italian writer (b. 1265)
  • 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)
  • 1523Pope Adrian VI (b. 1459)
  • 1538Henry III of Nassau-Breda (b. 1483)

1601–1900

1901–present

  • 1901William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States (b. 1843)
  • 1905Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Italian-French explorer (b. 1852)
  • 1910 – Lombe Atthill, Northern Irish obstetrician and gynaecologist (b. 1827)
  • 1916José Echegaray, Spanish engineer, mathematician, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
  • 1927Isadora Duncan, American-Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1877)
  • 1931Tom Roberts, English-Australian painter and educator (b. 1856)
  • 1936Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor (b. 1878)
  • 1936 – Irving Thalberg, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1899)
  • 1937Tomáš 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)
  • 1951 – Fritz Busch, German conductor and director (b. 1890)
  • 1952 – John McPhee, Australian businessman and politician, 27th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1874)
  • 1959Wayne 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)
  • 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)
  • 1979Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan journalist and politician, 3rd President of Afghanistan (b. 1917)
  • 1981Furry Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1899)
  • 1981 – William Loeb III, American publisher (b. 1905)
  • 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)
  • 1984Janet Gaynor, American actress (b. 1906)
  • 1986 – Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster, founded the Liberty Broadcasting System (b. 1921)
  • 1989Pérez Prado, Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1916)
  • 1991Julie 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)
  • 1998Yang 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)
  • 2000Beah Richards, American actress (b. 1920)
  • 2000 – Jerzy Giedroyc, Belarusian-Polish soldier and activist (b. 1906)
  • 2001 – Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer and guitarist (b. 1931)
  • 2002LaWanda 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)
  • 2006Mickey 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)
  • 2014Tony 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)
  • 2018Ethel Johnson, American professional wrestler (b. 1935)
  • 2018 – Zienia Merton, British actress (b. 1945)
  • 2021Norm Macdonald, Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1959)

Holidays and observances

  • Christian feast day:
    • Aelia Flaccilla (Eastern Orthodox Church)
    • Cormac mac Cuilennáin (or of Cashel)
    • Crescentius of Rome
    • Feast of the Cross (Christianity)
    • Lord of Miracles of Buga
    • Louis Gabriel Taurin Dufresse (one of Martyr Saints of China)
    • Maternus of Cologne
    • Notburga
    • September 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Engineer's Day (Romania)
  • Hindi Day (Hindi-speaking states of India)
  • Mobilized Servicemen Day (Ukraine)
  • San Jacinto Day (Nicaragua)

See also

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