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Contents

 1Events
 o 1.1Pre-1600
o 1.21601-1900
o 1.31901-present
 2Births
o 2.1Pre-1600
o 2.21601-1900
o 2.31901-present
 3Deaths
o 3.1Pre-1600
o 3.21601-1900
o 3.31901-present
 4Holidays and observances
 5References
 6External links

Events[edit]
Pre-1600[edit]

 46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to Venus

Genetrix, fulfilling a vow he made at the Battle of
Pharsalus.
 715 – Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of
Compiègne.
 1087 – William II is crowned King of England, and
reigns until 1100.
 1212 – The Golden Bull of Sicily is issued to confirm
the hereditary royal title in Bohemia for the
Přemyslid dynasty.
 1345 – Friso-Hollandic Wars: Frisians defeat
Holland in the Battle of Warns.
 1371 – Serbian–Turkish wars: Ottoman Turks fought
against a Serbian army at the Battle of Maritsa.
 1493 – Pope Alexander VI issues the papal
bull Dudum siquidem to the Spanish, extending the
grant of new lands he made them in Inter caetera.
 1580 – Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation
of the Earth in Plymouth, England.
1601-1900[edit]

 1687 – Morean War: The Parthenon in Athens, used

as a gunpowder depot by the Ottoman garrison, is
partially destroyed after being bombarded during
the Siege of the Acropolis by Venetian forces.
  1688 – The city council of Amsterdam votes to
support William of Orange's invasion of England,
which became the Glorious Revolution.
 1777 – American Revolution: British
troops occupy Philadelphia.
 1789 – George Washington appoints Thomas
Jefferson the first United States Secretary of State.[1]
 1799 – War of the 2nd Coalition: Franco-Swiss
troops defeat Austro-Russian forces, leading to the
collapse of Suvorov's campaign.[2]
 1810 – A new Act of Succession is adopted by the
Riksdag of the Estates, and Jean Baptiste
Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.[3]
1901-present[edit]

 1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the third of

his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special
theory of relativity.
 1907 – Four months after the 1907 Imperial
Conference, New Zealand and Newfoundland are
promoted from colonies to dominions within the
British Empire.
 1910 – Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani
Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing
criticism of the government of Travancore and is
exiled.
 1914 – The United States Federal Trade
Commission is established by the Federal Trade
Commission Act.[4]
 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Polygon
Wood begins.
 1918 – World War I: The Meuse-Argonne
Offensive began which would last until the total
surrender of German forces.
 1923 – The German government accepts
the occupation of the Ruhr.
 1933 – As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders
to the FBI, he shouts out, "Don't shoot, G-Men!",
which becomes a nickname for FBI agents.
 1934 – The ocean liner RMS  Queen Mary is
launched.
 1936 – Spanish Civil War: Lluis
Companys reshuffles the Generalitat de Catalunya,
 with the marxist POUM and anarcho-
syndicalist CNT joining the government.[5]
 1942 – Holocaust: Senior SS official August Frank
issues a memorandum detailing how Jews should
be "evacuated".
 1950 – Korean War: United Nations troops recapture
Seoul from North Korean forces.
 1953 – Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom
ends
 1954 – The Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks
during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan, killing
1,172.
 1959 – Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit
Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing
4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others
homeless.
 1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes
place between presidential candidates Richard M.
Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
 1969 – Abbey Road, the last recorded album by the
Beatles, is released.
 1973 – Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of
the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
 1980 – At the Oktoberfest terror attack in Munich 13
people die and 211 are injured.
 1981 – Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by
throwing his fifth no-hitter.
 1983 – Soviet Air Force officer Stanislav
Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear
missile as a computer error and not an American
first strike.
 1983 – Australia II wins the America's Cup, ending
the New York Yacht Club's 132-year domination of
the race.
 1984 – The United Kingdom and China agree to
a transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, to take
place in 1997.
 1997 – A Garuda Indonesia Airbus
A300 crashes near Medan airport, killing 234.
 1997 – An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of
Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica
of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
  2000 – Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some
20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and
World Bank summits.
 2000 – The MS  Express Samina sinks off Paros in
the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
 2002 – The overcrowded Senegalese ferry, MV  Le
Joola, capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing
more than 1,000.
 2005 – The PBS Kids Channel is shut down and
replaced by a joint network with Comcast
called Sprout.
 2008 – Swiss pilot and inventor Yves
Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-
powered wing across the English Channel.
 2009 – Typhoon Ketsana hits the Philippines, China,
Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing
700 fatalities.
 2014 – A mass kidnapping occurs in Iguala, Mexico.

Births[edit]
Pre-1600[edit]

 932 – Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah, Arab caliph (d. 975)

 1329 – Anne of Bavaria, German queen consort (d.
1353)[6]
 1406 – Thomas de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros, English
soldier and politician (d. 1430)
 1462 – Engelbert, Count of Nevers, younger son
of John I, Duke of Cleves (d. 1506)[7]
 1526 – Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (d.
1569)
1601-1900[edit]

 1637 – Sébastien Leclerc, French painter (d. 1714)[8]

 1641 – Nehemiah Grew, English plant anatomist
and physiologist (d. 1712)
 1651 – Francis Daniel Pastorius, founder
of Germantown, Philadelphia (d. 1720)[9]
 1660 – George William, Duke of Liegnitz (d. 1675)
 1698 – William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of
Devonshire (d. 1755)[10]
 1711 – Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple,
English politician, First Lord of the Admiralty (d.
1779)
 1750 – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron
Collingwood, English admiral (d. 1810)
 1758 – Cosme Argerich, Argentinian physician (d.
1820)
 1767 – Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and
conductor (d. 1835)
 1774 – Johnny Appleseed, American gardener and
environmentalist (d. 1845)
 1783 – Richard Griffin, 3rd Baron Braybrooke,
English politician and literary figure (d. 1858)
 1791 – Théodore Géricault, French painter and
lithographer (d. 1824)
 1792 – William Hobson, Irish-New Zealand explorer
and politician, 1st Governor of New Zealand (d.
1842)
 1820 – Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Indian
philosopher, painter, and academic (d. 1891)
 1840 – Louis-Olivier Taillon, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 8th Premier of Quebec (d. 1923)
 1843 – Joseph Furphy, Australian author and poet
(d. 1912)
 1848 – Henry Walters, American art collector and
philanthropist (d. 1931)
 1849 – Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and
physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)[11]
 1865 – Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford (d. 1937)
 1869 – Komitas, Armenian-French priest and
composer (d. 1935)
 1870 – Christian X of Denmark (d. 1947)[12]
 1872 – Max Ehrmann, American poet and lawyer (d.
1945)
 1873 – Wacław Berent, Polish author and translator
(d. 1940)
 1874 – Lewis Hine, American photographer and
activist (d. 1940)
 1875 – Edmund Gwenn, English-American actor (d.
1959)[13]
 1876 – Edith Abbott, American economist, social
worker, and author (d. 1957)[14]
 1876 – Ghulam Bhik Nairang, Indian poet, lawyer,
and politician (d. 1952)
 1877 – Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist and
academic (d. 1963)
 1877 – Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist and conductor (d.
1962)
 1877 – Bertha De Vriese, Belgian physician (d.
1958)
 1878 – Walter Steinbeck, German actor (d. 1942)
 1884 – Jack Bickell, Canadian businessman and
philanthropist (d. 1951)
 1886 – Archibald Hill, English physiologist,
academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1977)
 1887 – Edwin Keppel Bennett, English author and
poet (d. 1958)
 1887 – Antonio Moreno, Spanish-American actor
and director (d. 1967)
 1887 – Barnes Wallis, English scientist and
engineer, invented the Bouncing bomb (d. 1979)
 1888 – J. Frank Dobie, American journalist and
author (d. 1964)
 1888 – T. S. Eliot, English poet, playwright,
critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
 1889 – Gordon Brewster, Irish cartoonist (d. 1946)
 1889 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher and
academic (d. 1976)
 1890 – Jack Tresadern, English footballer and
manager (d. 1959)
 1891 – William McKell, Australian politician,
12th Governor General of Australia (d. 1985)
 1891 – Charles Münch, French violinist and
conductor (d. 1968)
 1891 – Hans Reichenbach, German philosopher
from the Vienna Circle (d. 1953)
 1892 – Robert Staughton Lynd, American sociologist
and academic (d. 1970)
 1894 – Gladys Brockwell, American actress (d.
1929)
 1895 – Jürgen Stroop, German general (d. 1952)
 1897 – Pope Paul VI (d. 1978)
 1897 – Arthur Rhys-Davids, English lieutenant and
pilot (d. 1917)
  1898 – George Gershwin, American pianist and
composer (d. 1937)
 1900 – Suzanne Belperron, French jewelry designer
(d. 1983)
1901-present[edit]

 1901 – George Raft, American actor, singer, and

dancer (d. 1980)
 1901 – Ted Weems, American bandleader and
musician (d. 1963)
 1905 – Millito Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player
(d. 2011)
 1905 – Karl Rappan, Austrian footballer and coach
(d. 1996)
 1907 – Anthony Blunt, English historian and spy (d.
1983)
 1907 – Shug Fisher, American singer-songwriter,
musician, actor, and comedian (d. 1984)
 1907 – Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (d. 1992)
 1909 – Bill France, Sr., American race car driver,
founded NASCAR (d. 1992)
 1909 – A. P. Hamann, American lieutenant, lawyer,
and politician (d. 1977)
 1911 – Al Helfer, American sportscaster (d. 1975)
 1913 – Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player
(d. 1998)
 1914 – Achille Compagnoni, Italian skier and
mountaineer (d. 2009)
 1914 – Jack LaLanne, American fitness expert (d.
2011)
 1917 – Réal Caouette, Canadian journalist and
politician (d. 1976)
 1917 – Tran Duc Thao, Vietnamese-French
philosopher and theorist (d. 1993)
 1918 – Eric Morley, English businessman and
television host, founded the Miss World (d. 2000)
 1919 – Barbara Britton, American actress (d. 1980)
 1919 – Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and author (d.
2012)
 1922 – Takis Miliadis, Greek actor (d. 1985)
 1922 – Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia (d.
2014)
 1923 – Dev Anand, Indian actor, director, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 2011)
 1923 – Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths, English
cricketer, lawyer, and judge (d. 2015)
 1923 – James Hennessy, English businessman and
diplomat
 1924 – Jean Hoerni, Swiss physicist, inventor and
businessman (d. 1997)
 1925 – Norm Dussault, American-Canadian ice
hockey player (d. 2012)
 1925 – Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, actor, and race car driver (d. 1982)
 1926 – Julie London, American singer and actress
(d. 2000)
 1926 – Manfred Mayrhofer, Austrian philologist and
academic (d. 2011)
 1927 – Robert Cade, American physician and
educator, co-invented Gatorade (d. 2007)
 1927 – Patrick O'Neal, American actor (d. 1994)
 1927 – Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and manager
(d. 2010)
 1928 – Bob Van der Veken, Belgian actor (d. 2019)
 1928 – Wilford White, American football player (d.
2013)
 1930 – Philip Bosco, American actor (d. 2018)
 1930 – Joe Brown, English mountaineer and author
(d. 2020)
 1931 – Kenneth Parnell, American sex offender (d.
2008)
 1932 – Manmohan Singh, Indian economist and
politician, 13th Prime Minister of India
 1932 – Donna Douglas, American actress (d. 2015)
 1932 – Joyce Jameson, American actress (d. 1987)
 1932 – Vladimir Voinovich, Russian author and poet
(d. 2018)
 1934 – Neil Coles, English golfer and architect
 1935 – Bob Barber, English cricketer
 1935 – Lou Myers, American actor (d. 2013)
 1935 – Joe Sherlock, Irish politician (d. 2007)
 1936 – Leroy Drumm, American sailor and
songwriter (d. 2010)
 1936 – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African
academic and politician, 8th First Lady of South
Africa (d. 2018)
 1937 – Valentin Pavlov, Russian banker and
politician, 11th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 2003)
 1937 – Jerry Weintraub, American film producer and
agent (d. 2015)
 1938 – Lucette Aldous, New Zealand-Australian
ballerina and educator
 1938 – Lars-Jacob Krogh, Norwegian journalist (d.
2010)
 1939 – Ricky Tomlinson, English actor and
screenwriter[15]
 1941 – Salvatore Accardo, Italian violinist and
conductor
 1941 – Martine Beswick, Jamaican-English model
and actress
 1941 – David Frizzell, American country music
singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1942 – Kent McCord, American actor
 1942 – Gloria E. Anzaldúa, American scholar of
Chicana cultural theory (d. 2004)
 1943 – Ian Chappell, Australian cricketer and
sportscaster
 1943 – Tim Schenken, Australian race car driver
 1944 – Jan Brewer, American politician,
22nd Governor of Arizona
 1944 – Keith O'Nions, English geologist and
academic
 1944 – Anne Robinson, English journalist and game
show host
 1945 – Louise Beaudoin, Canadian academic and
politician
 1945 – Gal Costa, Brazilian singer[16]
 1945 – Bryan Ferry, English singer-songwriter
 1946 – Andrea Dworkin, American activist and
author (d. 2005)[17]
 1946 – John MacLachlan Gray, Canadian actor,
playwright, and composer
 1946 – Radha Krishna Mainali, Nepalese politician
 1946 – Louise Simonson, American author
 1946 – Claudette Werleigh, Haitian Prime Minister[18]
 1947 – Lynn Anderson, American singer and actress
(d. 2015)
 1947 – Philippe Lavil, French singer and actor
 1947 – Dick Roth, American swimmer
 1948 – Olivia Newton-John, English-Australian
singer-songwriter and actress
 1949 – Clodoaldo, Brazilian footballer and manager
 1949 – Wendy Saddington, Australian singer and
journalist (d. 2013)
 1949 – Jane Smiley, American novelist
 1949 – Minette Walters, English journalist and
author
 1950 – Andy Haden, New Zealand rugby player (d.
2020)
 1951 – Tommy Taylor, English footballer and
manager
 1951 – Stuart Tosh, Scottish singer-songwriter and
drummer
 1953 – Dolores Keane, Irish singer and actress
 1953 – Douglas A. Melton, American biologist and
academic
 1953 – Paul Stephenson, English police officer
 1954 – Craig Chaquico, American guitarist
 1954 – Kevin Kennedy, American baseball player,
manager, and sportscaster
 1954 – Cesar Rosas, Mexican-American singer-
songwriter and guitarist
 1956 – Steve Butler, American race car driver and
engineer
 1956 – Linda Hamilton, American actress
 1957 – Bob Staake, American author and illustrator
 1957 – Klaus Augenthaler, German footballer and
manager
 1957 – Michael Dweck, American photographer and
director
 1958 – Rudi Cerne, German figure skater and
journalist
 1958 – Darby Crash, American singer-songwriter (d.
1980)
 1958 – Robert Kagan, Greek-American historian and
author
 1958 – Kenny Sansom, English footballer
 1958 – Richard B. Weldon Jr., American sailor and
politician
 1959 – Andrew Bolt, Australian journalist
 1959 – Trevor Dodds, Namibian golfer
 1959 – Rich Gedman, American baseball player and
coach
 1959 – Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian poet and translator
(d. 2007)
 1960 – Uwe Bein, German footballer and manager
 1960 – Jouke de Vries, Dutch academic and
politician
 1960 – Doug Supernaw, American country music
singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1961 – Cindy Herron, American singer-songwriter
and actress
 1961 – Marianne Mikko, Estonian journalist and
politician
 1961 – Will Self, English novelist and journalist
 1962 – Melissa Sue Anderson, American-Canadian
actress
 1962 – Peter Foster, Australian criminal
 1962 – Mark Haddon, English author and poet
 1962 – Steve Moneghetti, Australian runner
 1962 – Al Pitrelli, American guitarist and songwriter
 1962 – Tracey Thorn, English singer-songwriter and
writer
 1962 – Jacky Wu, Taiwanese singer, actor, and
television host
 1963 – Lysette Anthony, English actress and
producer
 1963 – Joe Nemechek, American race car driver
 1964 – Nicki French, English singer and actress
 1964 – Dave Martinez, American baseball player
and coach
 1964 – John Tempesta, American drummer
 1965 – Radisav Ćurčić, Serbian-Israeli basketball
player[19]
 1965 – Petro Poroshenko, Ukrainian businessman
and politician, 5th President of Ukraine
 1966 – Christos Dantis, Greek singer-songwriter and
producer
 1966 – Shane Dye, New Zealand jockey
 1966 – Craig Heyward, American football player (d.
2006)
 1966 – Jillian Barberie, Canadian actress and
sportscaster
 1967 – Bruno Akrapović, Bosnian footballer and
manager
 1967 – Shannon Hoon, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (d. 1995)
 1967 – Craig Janney, American ice hockey player
 1968 – Jim Caviezel, American actor
 1969 – Andy Petterson, Australian footballer and
coach
 1969 – David Slade, English director and producer
 1969 – Holger Stanislawski, German footballer and
manager
 1969 – Paul Warhurst, English footballer and
manager
 1970 – Daryl Beattie, Australian motorcycle rider
 1970 – Sheri Moon Zombie, American actress and
fashion designer
 1970 – David Parland, Swedish guitarist (d. 2013)
 1972 – Ras Kass, American rapper and producer
 1972 – Beto O'Rourke, American politician[20]
 1972 – Shawn Stockman, American singer
 1973 – Marty Casey, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist
 1973 – Julienne Davis, American actress, producer,
and screenwriter
 1973 – Chris Small, Scottish snooker player and
coach
 1973 – Olga Vasdeki, Greek triple jumper
 1974 – Boris Cepeda, German-Ecuadorian pianist
and diplomat
 1974 – Gary Hall Jr., American swimmer
 1974 – Martin Müürsepp, Estonian basketball player
and coach
 1975 – Emma Härdelin, Swedish singer and violinist
 1975 – Jake Paltrow, American director and
screenwriter
 1975 – Chiara Schoras, German actress
 1976 – Michael Ballack, German footballer
 1976 – Sami Vänskä, Finnish bass player
 1977 – Kerem Özyeğen, Turkish singer-songwriter
and guitarist
 1977 – Aka Plu, Japanese comedian and actor
 1978 – Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, Kenyan runner
 1979 – Jon Harley, English footballer
 1979 – Simon Kirch, German sprinter
 1979 – Naomichi Marufuji, Japanese wrestler
 1979 – Fuifui Moimoi, Tongan-New Zealand rugby
league player
 1979 – Cameron Mooney, Australian footballer
 1979 – Jaycie Phelps, American gymnast
 1979 – Taavi Rõivas, Estonian politician, 16th Prime
Minister of Estonia
 1979 – Jacob Tierney, Canadian actor, director, and
screenwriter
 1980 – Patrick Friesacher, Austrian race car driver
 1980 – Brooks Orpik, American ice hockey player
 1980 – Daniel Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player
 1980 – Henrik Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player
 1981 – Yao Beina, Chinese singer (d. 2015)
 1981 – Christina Milian, American singer-songwriter,
dancer, and actress
 1981 – Ayumi Tsunematsu, Japanese voice actress
 1981 – Kanako Urai, Japanese professional wrestler
 1981 – Serena Williams, American tennis player[21]
 1982 – Rob Burrow, English rugby player
 1982 – Simon Picone, Italian rugby player
 1982 – John Scott, Canadian ice hockey player
 1982 – Miguel Alfredo Portillo, Argentinian footballer
 1982 – Jon Richardson, English comedian and radio
host
 1983 – D'Qwell Jackson, American football player
 1983 – Archimede Morleo, Italian footballer
 1983 – Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer
 1984 – Nev Schulman, American photographer,
television host, and producer
 1986 – Sean Doolittle, American baseball player[22]
 1987 – Rosanna Munter, Swedish singer-songwriter
 1987 – Vladimir Niculescu, Romanian professional
football player
 1987 – Cyril Gautier, French road bicycle racer
  1988 – James Blake, English singer-songwriter and
producer
 1988 – Kiira Korpi, Finnish figure skater
 1989 – Chinami Suzuki, Japanese model, television
host, and actress
 1989 – Jonny Bairstow, English and Yorkshire
Wicketkeeper/Batsman
 1991 – Dan Preston, English footballer
 1991 – Alma Jodorowsky, French actress, fashion
model and singer
 1991 – Réka Demeter, Hungarian football defender
 1992 – Yoo Ara, South Korean singer and actress
 1993 – Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, American basketball
player
 1994 – Lucas Gafarot, Spanish footballer
 1994 – Jack Conger, American swimmer
 1995 – Miloš Veljković, Serbian footballer
 2000 – Princess Salma bint Abdullah, Jordanian
princess
 2000 – Frankie Amaya, American soccer player[23]

Deaths[edit]
Pre-1600[edit]

 800 – Berowulf, bishop of Würzburg

 862 – Musa ibn Musa ibn Qasi, Muslim military
leader (b. c. 790)
 1241 – Fujiwara no Teika, Japanese poet
 1290 – Margaret, Maid of Norway Queen of
Scotland (b. 1283)
 1313 – Gottfried von Hagenau, Alsatian theologian,
medical doctor, and poet
 1327 – Cecco d'Ascoli, Italian encyclopaedist,
physician and poet (b. 1257)
 1328 – Ibn Taymiya, Islamic scholar and philosopher
of Harran (b. 1263)
 1345 – William II, Count of Hainaut
 1371 – Jovan Uglješa, Serbian despot
 1413 – Stephen III, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1337)
 1417 – Francesco Zabarella, Italian cardinal (b.
1360)
  1468 – Juan de Torquemada, Spanish cardinal and
theologian (b. 1388)
 1536 – Didier de Saint-Jaille, 46th Grandmaster of
the Knights Hospitaller
 1588 – Amias Paulet, Governor of Jersey (b. 1532)
 1600 – Claude Le Jeune, French composer (b.
1530)
1601-1900[edit]

 1620 – Taichang Emperor of China (b. 1582)

 1623 – Charles Grey, 7th Earl of Kent, English
politician, Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire (b. 1540)
 1626 – Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese daimyō (b.
1554)
 1716 – Antoine Parent, French mathematician and
theorist (b. 1666)
 1764 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro,
Spanish monk and scholar (b. 1676)
 1800 – William Billings, American composer and
educator (b. 1746)
 1802 – Jurij Vega, Slovene mathematician and
physicist (b. 1754)
 1820 – Daniel Boone, American hunter and explorer
(b. 1734)
 1868 – August Ferdinand Möbius, German
mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)
 1877 – Hermann Grassmann, German
mathematician and physicist (b. 1809)
1901-present[edit]

 1902 – Levi Strauss, German-American

businessman, founded Levi Strauss & Co. (b. 1829)
 1904 – Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese author and
academic (b. 1850)
 1904 – John Fitzwilliam Stairs, Canadian
businessman and politician (b. 1848)
 1922 – Charles Wade, Australian politician,
17th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1863)
 1935 – Andy Adams, American author (b. 1859)
 1935 – Iván Persa, Slovene-Hungarian priest and
author (b. 1861)
 1937 – Bessie Smith, American singer and actress
(b. 1894)
 1943 – Henri Fertet, French Resistance fighter (b.
1926) [24]
 1945 – Béla Bartók, Hungarian pianist and
composer (b. 1881)
 1946 – William Strunk Jr., American author and
educator (b. 1869)
 1947 – Hugh Lofting, English-American author and
poet (b. 1886)
 1951 – Hans Cloos, German geologist and
academic (b. 1885)
 1952 – George Santayana, Spanish philosopher,
novelist, and poet (b. 1863)
 1953 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter and educator
(b. 1895)
 1954 – Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (b.
1868)
 1957 – Arthur Powell Davies, American minister and
author (b. 1902)
 1959 – S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan lawyer
and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b.
1899)
 1959 – Leslie Morshead, Australian general (b.
1889)
 1959 – Teodor Ussisoo, Estonian furniture designer
and educator (b. 1878)
 1965 – James Fitzmaurice, Irish soldier and pilot (b.
1898)
 1968 – Ben Shlomo Lipman-Heilprin, Polish-Israeli
neurologist and physician (b. 1902)
 1968 – Daniel Johnson Sr., Canadian lawyer and
politician, 20th Premier of Quebec (b. 1915)
 1968 – Władysław Kędra, Polish pianist (b. 1918)
 1972 – Charles Correll, American actor and
screenwriter (b. 1890)
 1973 – Samuel Flagg Bemis, American historian and
author (b. 1891)
 1973 – Ralph Earnhardt, American race car driver
(b. 1923)
 1973 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress and singer (b.
1908)
 1976 – Leopold Ružička, Croatian-Swiss chemist
and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
 1977 – Uday Shankar, Indian dancer and
choreographer (b. 1900)
 1978 – Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
 1979 – Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (b. 1910)
 1982 – Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (b. 1902)
 1984 – Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1948)
 1984 – John Facenda, American sportscaster (b.
1913)
 1987 – Ramang, Indonesian footballer and manager
(b. 1928)
 1987 – Herbert Tichy, Austrian geologist, journalist,
and mountaineer (b. 1912)
 1988 – Branko Zebec, Yugoslav football player and
coach (b. 1929)
 1989 – Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Indian
singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1920)
 1990 – Hiram Abas, Turkish intelligence officer (b.
1932)
 1990 – Alberto Moravia, Italian author and critic (b.
1907)
 1991 – Billy Vaughn, American singer and
bandleader (b. 1919)
 1995 – Kalju Pitksaar, Estonian chess player (b.
1931)
 1996 – Nicu Ceaușescu, Romanian politician (b.
1951)
 1998 – Betty Carter, American singer (b. 1930)
 1999 – Oseola McCarty, American philanthropist (b.
1908)
 2000 – Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)
 2000 – Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist
and composer (b. 1937)
 2003 – Shawn Lane, American guitarist, songwriter,
and producer (b. 1963)
 2003 – Robert Palmer, English singer-songwriter (b.
1949)
 2004 – Marianna Komlos, Canadian bodybuilder,
model, and wrestler (b. 1969)
 2005 – Helen Cresswell, English author and
screenwriter (b. 1934)
 2006 – Byron Nelson, American golfer and coach (b.
1912)
 2006 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American wartime
propaganda broadcaster (b. 1916)
 2007 – Bill Wirtz, American businessman (b. 1929)
 2008 – Marc Moulin, Belgian keyboard player,
producer, and journalist (b. 1942)
 2008 – Paul Newman, American actor, director,
producer, and businessman (b. 1925)
 2010 – Terry Newton, English rugby player (b. 1978)
 2010 – Gloria Stuart, American actress (b. 1910)
 2011 – Bob Cassilly, American sculptor, founded
the City Museum (b. 1949)
 2012 – M'el Dowd, American actress and singer (b.
1933)
 2012 – Sylvia Fedoruk, Canadian physicist and
politician, 17th Lieutenant Governor of
Saskatchewan (b. 1927)
 2012 – Eugene Genovese, American historian and
author (b. 1930)
 2012 – Sam Steiger, American journalist and
politician (b. 1929)
 2013 – Azizan Abdul Razak, Malaysian politician,
10th Menteri Besar of Kedah (b. 1944)
 2013 – Seánie Duggan, Irish hurler (b. 1922)
 2013 – Mario Montez, Puerto Rican-American actor
(b. 1935)
 2013 – Sos Sargsyan, Armenian actor and director
(b. 1929)
 2014 – Jim Boeke, American football player and
coach (b. 1938)
 2014 – Sam Hall, American screenwriter (b. 1921)
 2014 – Gerald Neugebauer, American astronomer
and physicist (b. 1932)
 2014 – Tamir Sapir, Georgian-American
businessman (b. 1946)
 2015 – Eudóxia Maria Froehlich, Brazilian zoologist
(b. 1928)
 2015 – Sidney Phillips, American soldier, physician,
and author (b. 1924)
 2015 – Ana Seneviratne, Sri Lankan police officer
and diplomat (b. 1927)
 2019 – Jacques Chirac, French politician and
President of France (b. 1932) [25]
Holidays and observances[edit]
 Christian feast days:
o Canadian Martyrs (Catholic Church in
Canada)
o Cosmas and Damian
o John of Meda
o Nilus the Younger
o Wilson Carlile (Anglican)
o September 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 Day of the National Flag (Ecuador)
 Dominion Day (New Zealand)
 European Day of Languages (European Union)
 National Good Neighbor Day (United States)
 Revolution Day (Yemen)

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