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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]

 1066 – William the Conqueror and his army set sail

from the mouth of the Somme river, beginning
the Norman conquest of England.[1]
 1331 – The Battle of Płowce is fought, between the
Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order. The
Poles are defeated but their leaders escape capture.
[2]

 1422 – After the brief Gollub War, the Teutonic

Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with Poland and
Lithuania.[3]
 1529 – The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I
attacks the city.[4]
 1540 – The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) receives its
charter from Pope Paul III.[5]
 1590 – The death of Pope Urban VII, 13 days after
being chosen as the Pope, ends the shortest papal
reign in history.
1601-1900[edit]

 1605 – The armies of Sweden are defeated by the

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of
Kircholm.
 1669 – The Venetians surrender the fortress of
Candia to the Ottomans, thus ending the 21-year-
long Siege of Candia.
 1777 – American Revolution: Lancaster,
Pennsylvania becomes the capital of the United
 States for one day after Congress evacuates
Philadelphia.
 1791 – The National Assembly votes to award full
citizenship to Jews in France.
 1822 – Jean-François Champollion announces that
he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone.
 1825 – The world's first public railway to use steam
locomotives, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is
ceremonially opened.
 1854 – The steamship SS  Arctic sinks with 300
people on board.
 1875 – The merchant sailing ship Ellen Southard is
wrecked in a storm at Liverpool.
1901-present[edit]

 1903 – The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail

disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
 1908 – Production of the Model T automobile begins
at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.
 1916 – Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of
Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his
aunt Zewditu.
 1922 – King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his
throne in favor of his eldest son, George II.
 1928 – The Republic of China is recognized by the
United States.
 1930 – Bobby Jones wins the (pre-Masters) Grand
Slam of golf.
 1938 – The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched
in Glasgow.
 1940 – World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in
Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
 1941 – The Greek National Liberation Front is
established with Georgios Siantos as acting leader.
 1941 – The SS  Patrick Henry is launched, becoming
the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
 1942 – Last day of the Matanikau action on
Guadalcanal as United States Marines barely
escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces.
 1944 – The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss
by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
 1949 – Zeng Liansong's design is chosen as the flag
of the People's Republic of China.
 1956 – USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the
first person to exceed Mach 3. Shortly thereafter,
the Bell X-2 goes out of control and Captain Apt is
killed.
 1959 – Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in
Japan.
 1962 – The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
 1962 – Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is
published, inspiring an environmental movement
and the creation of the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency.
 1964 – The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its
maiden flight.
 1975 – The last use of capital punishment in
Spain sparks worldwide protests.
 1977 – Japan Airlines Flight 715 crashes on
approach to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah
Airport in Subang, Malaysia, killing 34 of the 79
people on board.[6]
 1988 – The National League for Democracy is
formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight
dictatorship in Myanmar.
 1993 – The Sukhumi massacre takes place in
Abkhazia.[7]
 1996 – The Battle of Kabul ends in a Taliban victory;
an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is established.
 1996 – Confusion on a tanker ship results in
the Julie N. oil spill in Portland, Maine.
 1998 – The Google internet search engine
retroactively claims this date as its birthday.
 2001 – In Switzerland, a gunman shoots 18 citizens,
killing 14 and then himself.
 2003 – The SMART-1 satellite is launched.[8]
 2007 – NASA launches the Dawn probe to the
asteroid belt.
 2008 – CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the
first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.
 2012 – In Minneapolis, a gunman shoots seven
citizens, killing five and then himself.
 2014 – The eruption of Mount Ontake in Japan
occurs.
 2019 – Over two million people participated
in worldwide strikes to protest climate change across
2,400 locations worldwide.[9][10]
Births[edit]
Pre-1600[edit]

 808 – Ninmyō, Japanese emperor (d. 850)

 830 – Ermentrude of Orléans, Queen of the Franks
(probable year; d. 869)[11]
 1271 – Wenceslaus II of Bohemia, King of Bohemia
and Poland (d. 1305)[12]
 1275 – John II, Duke of Brabant (d. 1312)
 1300 – Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1327)
 1389 – Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d.
1464)
 1433 – Stanisław Kazimierczyk, Polish canon
regular and saint (d. 1489)
 1442 – John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (d.
1491)
 1496 – Hieronymus Łaski, Polish diplomat (d. 1542)
 1507 – Guillaume Rondelet, French physician (d.
1566)
 1533 – Stefan Batory, King of Poland (d. 1586)
 1544 – Takenaka Shigeharu, Japanese samurai (d.
1579)
 1552 – Flaminio Scala, Italian playwright and stage
actor (d. 1624)
 1598 – Robert Blake, English admiral (d. 1657)[13]
1601-1900[edit]

 1601 – Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)

 1627 – Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop
and theologian (d. 1704)
 1643 – Solomon Stoddard, American pastor and
librarian (d. 1729)
 1657 – Sofia Alekseyevna of Russia (d. 1704)
 1677 – Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, Italian violinist
and composer (d. 1754)
 1696 – Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori, Italian bishop
and saint (d. 1787)
 1719 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German
mathematician and epigrammatist (d. 1800)
 1722 – Samuel Adams, American philosopher and
politician, 4th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1803)
 1729 – Michael Denis, Austrian lepidopterist, author,
and poet (d. 1800)
 1739 – Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock, Irish
politician (d. 1767)
 1765 – Antoine Philippe de La Trémoille, French
general (d. 1794)
 1772 – Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter
of Thomas Jefferson who had twelve children (d.
1836)
 1783 – Agustín de Iturbide, Mexican royalist turned
insurgent; first emperor of Mexico (d. 1824)
 1803 – Samuel Francis Du Pont, American admiral
(d. 1865)
 1805 – George Müller, German-English evangelist
and missionary, founded the Ashley Down
Orphanage (d. 1898)
 1818 – Hermann Kolbe, German chemist and
academic (d. 1884)
 1821 – Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Swiss philosopher,
poet, and critic (d. 1881)
 1824 – William "Bull" Nelson, American general (d.
1862)
 1830 – William Babcock Hazen, American general
(d. 1887)
 1838 – Lawrence Sullivan Ross, American general
and politician, 19th Governor of Texas (d. 1898)
 1840 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and
historian (d. 1914)
 1840 – Thomas Nast, German-American cartoonist
(d. 1902)
 1842 – Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist
and petrographer (d. 1903)
 1843 – Gaston Tarry, French mathematician and
academic (d. 1913)
 1861 – Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, American poet
and author (d. 1933)
 1864 – Andrej Hlinka, Slovak priest and politician (d.
1938)
 1866 – Eurosia Fabris, Italian saint (d. 1932)
 1871 – Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist and
poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
 1879 – Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician and
philosopher (d. 1934)
  1879 – Frederick Schule, American hurdler and
coach (d. 1962)
 1879 – Cyril Scott, English poet and composer (d.
1970)
 1882 – Dorothy Greenhough-Smith, English figure
skater and tennis player (d. 1965)
 1885 – Harry Blackstone, Sr., American magician (d.
1965)
 1885 – Charles Benjamin Howard, Canadian
businessman and politician (d. 1964)
 1892 – George Bambridge, English diplomat (d.
1943)
 1894 – Lothar von Richthofen, German lieutenant
and pilot (d. 1922)
 1896 – Gilbert Ashton, English cricketer (d. 1981)
 1896 – Sam Ervin, American soldier and politician
(d. 1985)
 1898 – Vincent Youmans, American composer and
producer (d. 1946)
1901-present[edit]

 1904 – Edvard Kocbek, Slovenian poet and

politician (d. 1981)
 1905 – Conrad Heidkamp, German footballer and
manager (d. 1994)
 1906 – William Empson, English poet and critic (d.
1984)
 1906 – Jim Thompson, American author and
screenwriter (d. 1977)
 1906 – Sergei Varshavsky, Russian art collector and
author (d. 1980)
 1907 – Bernard Miles, English actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter (d. 1991)
 1911 – Marcey Jacobson, American-Mexican
photographer (d. 2009)
 1913 – Albert Ellis, American psychologist and
author (d. 2007)
 1916 – S. Yizhar, Israeli academic and politician (d.
2006)
 1917 – Louis Auchincloss, American novelist and
essayist (d. 2010)
 1917 – Carl Ballantine, American magician and actor
(d. 2009)
 1917 – William T. Orr, American actor and producer
(d. 2002)
 1917 – Benjamin Rubin, American microbiologist (d.
2010)
 1918 – Martin Ryle, English astronomer and
author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
 1918 – Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd (d.
2001)
 1918 – Konstantin Gerchik, Soviet military leader
(1958-1961)
 1919 – Jayne Meadows, American actress and
author (d. 2015)
 1919 – Charles H. Percy, American lieutenant and
politician (d. 2011)
 1919 – James H. Wilkinson, American
mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1986)
 1921 – Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian director and
screenwriter (d. 2014)
 1921 – Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter and
producer, co-founded Amicus Productions (d. 1991)
 1921 – Bernard Waber, American author and
illustrator (d. 2013)
 1922 – Sammy Benskin, American pianist and
bandleader (d. 1992)
 1922 – Arthur Penn, American director and producer
(d. 2010)
 1924 – Ernest Becker, American-Canadian
anthropologist, author, and academic (d. 1974)
 1924 – Bud Powell, American pianist and composer
(d. 1966)
 1924 – Fred Singer, Austrian-American physicist
and academic (d. 2020)
 1924 – Josef Škvorecký, Czech-Canadian author
and publisher (d. 2012)
 1925 – Robert Edwards, English physiologist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
 1925 – George Gladir, American author (d. 2013)
 1926 – Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and
philanthropist (d. 2006)
 1927 – Chrysostomos I of Cyprus (d. 2007)
 1927 – Red Rodney, American trumpet player (d.
1994)
 1927 – Romano Scarpa, Italian author and illustrator
(d. 2005)
 1927 – Sada Thompson, American actress (d. 2011)
 1928 – Margaret Rule, English archaeologist and
historian (d. 2015)[14]
 1929 – Calvin Jones, American pianist, composer,
and educator (d. 2004)
 1929 – Bruno Junk, Estonian race walker (d. 1995)
 1929 – Barbara Murray, English actress (d. 2014)[15]
 1930 – Paul Reichmann, Austrian-Canadian
businessman, founded Olympia and York (d. 2013)
 1931 – Freddy Quinn, Austrian singer, guitarist, and
actor
 1932 – Geoff Bent, English footballer (d. 1958)
 1932 – Michael Colvin, English captain and politician
(d. 2000)
 1932 – Gabriel Loubier, Canadian politician
 1932 – Oliver E. Williamson, American economist
and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020)
 1932 – Marcia Neugebauer, American geophysicist
 1933 – Rodney Cotterill, Danish-English physicist
and neuroscientist (d. 2007)
 1933 – Greg Morris, American actor (d. 1996)
 1934 – Wilford Brimley, American actor (d. 2020)
 1934 – Claude Jarman, Jr., American actor and
producer
 1934 – Dick Schaap, American sportscaster and
author (d. 2001)
 1936 – Don Cornelius, American television host and
producer (d. 2012)
 1936 – Gordon Honeycombe, English actor,
playwright, and author (d. 2015)
 1937 – Vasyl Durdynets, Ukrainian politician and
diplomat, 8th Prime Minister of Ukraine
 1938 – Jean-Loup Dabadie, French journalist,
songwriter, and screenwriter (d. 2020)
 1939 – Nicholas Haslam, English interior designer
and author
 1939 – Carol Lynn Pearson, American author, poet,
and playwright
 1939 – Kathy Whitworth, American golfer
 1940 – Josephine Barstow, English soprano and
actress
 1940 – Benoni Beheyt, Belgian cyclist
 1941 – Peter Bonetti, English footballer and coach
(d. 2020)
 1941 – Serge Ménard, Canadian lawyer and
politician
 1941 – Don Nix, American saxophonist, songwriter,
and producer
 1942 – Dith Pran, Cambodian photographer and
journalist (d. 2008)
 1942 – Alvin Stardust, English singer and actor (d.
2014)
 1943 – Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (d. 2021)
 1943 – Randy Bachman, Canadian singer-
songwriter and guitarist
 1944 – Ian Garnett, English admiral
 1944 – Angélica María, American-born Mexican
singer-songwriter and actress[16]
 1944 – Gary Sutherland, American baseball player
and scout
 1945 – Jack Goldstein, Canadian-American painter
(d. 2003)
 1946 – Nicos Anastasiades, Cypriot lawyer and
politician, 7th President of Cyprus
 1946 – T. C. Cannon, American painter and sculptor
(d. 1978)
 1947 – Dick Advocaat, Dutch football manager and
former player
 1947 – Richard Court, Australian politician,
26th Premier of Western Australia
 1947 – Barbara Dickson, Scottish singer-songwriter
and actress
 1947 – Denis Lawson, Scottish actor, director, and
screenwriter
 1947 – Meat Loaf, American singer-songwriter,
producer, and actor
 1948 – Tom Braidwood, Canadian actor, director,
and producer
 1948 – Les Chapman, English footballer and
manager
 1948 – Duncan Fletcher, Rhodesian-Zimbabwean
cricketer and coach
 1949 – Graham Richardson, Australian journalist
and politician, 39th Australian Minister for Health
 1949 – Mike Schmidt, American baseball player and
coach
 1949 – Jahn Teigen, Norwegian singer-songwriter
and guitarist (d. 2020)
 1950 – Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Japanese-American
actor and martial artist
 1951 – Paul Craig, English author and academic
 1951 – Geoff Gallop, Australian politician,
27th Premier of Western Australia
 1951 – Michel Rivard, Canadian singer-songwriter
and guitarist
 1951 – Jim Shooter, American author and illustrator
 1951 – David Starobin, American guitarist, producer,
and director
 1952 – Katie Fforde, English author
 1952 – Dumitru Prunariu, Romanian pilot, engineer,
and astronaut
 1953 – Diane Abbott, English journalist and
politician, Shadow Secretary of State for
International Development
 1953 – Mata Amritanandamayi, Indian guru and
saint
 1953 – Claudio Gentile, Italian footballer and
manager
 1953 – Greg Ham, Australian keyboard player,
saxophonist and songwriter (d. 2012)
 1954 – Ray Hadley, Australian radio host and
sportscaster
 1954 – Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Russian violinist and
conductor
 1954 – Larry Wall, American computer programmer
and author
 1956 – Steve Archibald, Scottish footballer and
manager
 1957 – Bill Athey, English cricketer, footballer, and
coach
 1957 – Peter Sellars, American actor, director, and
screenwriter
 1958 – Shaun Cassidy, American actor, singer,
producer, and screenwriter
 1958 – Irvine Welsh, Scottish author and playwright
 1959 – Beth Heiden, American speed skater and
cyclist
 1960 – Jean-Marc Barr, German-American actor,
director, producer, and screenwriter
 1962 – Gavin Larsen, New Zealand cricketer and
sportscaster
 1963 – Marc Maron, American comedian, actor, and
radio host
 1964 – Predrag Brzaković, Serbian footballer (d.
2012)
 1964 – Tracy Camp, American computer scientist
and academic
 1964 – Johnny du Plooy, South African boxer (d.
2013)
 1964 – Stephan Jenkins, American singer-
songwriter, guitarist, and producer
 1965 – Steve Kerr, American basketball player,
coach and sportscaster
 1965 – Bernard Lord, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 30th Premier of New Brunswick
 1965 – Peter MacKay, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 50th Canadian Minister of Justice
 1965 – Alexis Stewart, American radio and television
host
 1966 – Debbie Wasserman Schultz, American
politician[17]
 1966 – Stephanie Wilson, American engineer and
astronaut[18]
 1966 – Lorenzo Cherubini, Italian singer-songwriter
and rapper
 1967 – Uche Okechukwu, Nigerian footballer
 1968 – Mari Kiviniemi, Finnish politician, 41st Prime
Minister of Finland
 1970 – Yoshiharu Habu, Japanese chess player and
author
 1970 – Tamara Taylor, Canadian actress
 1971 – Horacio Sandoval, Mexican illustrator
 1972 – Sylvia Crawley, American basketball player
and coach
 1972 – Clara Hughes, Canadian cyclist and speed
skater
 1972 – Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress, blogger,
and businesswoman
 1972 – Craig L. Rice, American politician
 1973 – Vratislav Lokvenc, Czech footballer
 1973 – Stanislav Pozdnyakov, Russian fencer[19]
 1974 – Carrie Brownstein, American singer-
songwriter, guitarist, and actress
 1976 – Matt Harding, American video game
designer and dancer
 1976 – Jason Phillips, American baseball player and
coach
 1976 – Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
 1977 – Andrus Värnik, Estonian javelin thrower
 1978 – Brad Arnold, American rock singer-
songwriter
 1978 – Jon Rauch, American baseball player
 1978 – Mihaela Ursuleasa, Romanian pianist (d.
2012)
 1979 – Jon Garland, American baseball player
 1979 – Zita Görög, Hungarian actress and model
 1979 – Christian Jones, Australian race car driver
 1979 – Steve Simpson, Australian rugby league
player
 1980 – Asashōryū Akinori, Mongolian sumo wrestler,
the 68th Yokozuna
 1980 – Ehron VonAllen, American singer-songwriter
and producer
 1981 – Sophie Crumb, American author and
illustrator
 1981 – Brendon McCullum, New Zealand cricketer[20]
 1981 – Lakshmipathy Balaji, Indian cricketer
 1982 – Jon McLaughlin, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer
 1982 – Markus Rosenberg, Swedish footballer
 1982 – Lil Wayne, American rapper, producer, and
actor
 1982 – Darrent Williams, American football player
(d. 2007)
 1983 – Jeon Hye-bin, South Korean actress and
singer
 1984 – Paul Bevan, Australian footballer
 1984 – Davide Capello, Italian footballer
 1984 – John Lannan, American baseball player
 1984 – Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter,
actress, and fashion designer
 1984 – Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (d. 2011)
  1985 – Massimo Bertocchi, Canadian decathlete
 1985 – Daniel Pudil, Czech footballer
 1985 – Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (d. 2014)
 1986 – Vin Mazzaro, American baseball player
 1986 – Matt Shoemaker American baseball player
 1986 – Ricardo Risatti, Argentinian race car driver
 1987 – Ádám Bogdán, Hungarian footballer
 1987 – Austin Carlile, American singer-songwriter
 1987 – Vanessa James, French figure skater
 1987 – Olga Puchkova, Russian tennis player
 1988 – Lisa Ryzih, German pole vaulter
 1989 – Park Tae-hwan, South Korean swimmer
 1991 – Ousmane Barry, Guinean footballer
 1991 – Simona Halep, Romanian tennis player
 1991 – Anete Paulus, Estonian footballer
 1991 – Rio Uchida, Japanese model and actress
 1992 – Lachlan Burr, Australian rugby league player
 1992 – Luc Castaignos, Dutch footballer
 1992 – Pak Kwang-ryong, North Korean footballer
 1992 – Ryan O'Shaughnessy, Irish singer-songwriter
and actor
 1992 – Gabriel Vasconcelos Ferreira, Brazilian
footballer
 1992 – Granit Xhaka, Swiss footballer
 1993 – Lisandro Magallán, Argentinian footballer
 1993 – Monica Puig, Puerto Rican-American tennis
player
 1993 – Vinnie Sunseri, American football player
 1994 – Dylan Walker, Australian rugby league player
 1998 – Ioana Mincă, Romanian tennis player
 2001 – David Malukas, American racing driver[21]
 2002 – Jenna Ortega, American actress[22]

Deaths[edit]
Pre-1600[edit]

 765 – Pugu Huai'en, Chinese general during

the Tang Dynasty
 936 – Gyeon Hwon, king of Hubaekje (b. 867)
 1111 – Vekenega, Croatian Benedictine abbess
  1125 – Richeza of Berg, Duchess of Bohemia
(b.c. 1095)
 1194 – Renaud de Courtenay, Anglo-Norman
nobleman (b. 1125)
 1249 – Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse (b. 1197)
 1404 – William of Wykeham, English bishop (b.
1320)
 1536 – Felice della Rovere, illegitimate daughter of
Pope Julius II (b. 1483)
 1612 – Piotr Skarga, Polish Jesuit and polemicist (b.
1536)
 1637 – Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint (b. c.1600)
 1657 – Olimpia Maidalchini, Roman noble (b. 1591)
 1557 – Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1497)
 1590 – Pope Urban VII (b. 1521)
1601-1900[edit]

 1651 – Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1573)

 1660 – Vincent de Paul, French priest and saint (b.
1581)[23]
 1674 – Robert Arnauld d'Andilly, French writer (b.
1589)
 1700 – Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615)
 1719 – George Smalridge, English bishop (b. 1662)
 1730 – Laurence Eusden, English poet and author
(b. 1688)
 1735 – Peter Artedi, Swedish ichthyologist and
zoologist (b. 1705)
 1742 – Hugh Boulter, Irish archbishop (b. 1672)
 1783 – Étienne Bézout, French mathematician and
theorist (b. 1730)
 1832 – Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German
philosopher and author (b. 1781)
 1833 – Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Indian humanitarian
and reformer (b. 1772)
 1838 – Bernard Courtois, French chemist and
pharmacist (b. 1777)
 1876 – Braxton Bragg, American general (b. 1817)
 1886 – Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist
and politician (b. 1804)
 1891 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian author and critic
(b. 1812)
  1898 – Thomas Joseph Byrnes, Australian politician,
12th Premier of Queensland (b. 1860)
1901-present[edit]

 1911 – Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and

academic (b. 1844)
 1915 – Remy de Gourmont, French novelist, poet,
and critic (b. 1858)
 1917 – Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor (b.
1834)
 1919 – Adelina Patti, Italian-French opera singer (b.
1843)
 1921 – Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer
and educator (b. 1854)
 1934 – Ellen Willmott, English horticulturalist (b.
1858)[24]
 1935 – Alan Gray, English composer and organist
(b. 1855)
 1940 – Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and
critic (b. 1892)
 1940 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician
and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
 1942 – Douglas Albert Munro, United States Coast
Guard signalman, posthumously awarded Medal of
Honor, (b. 1919)
 1944 – Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-
American evangelist, founded the International
Church of the Foursquare Gospel (b. 1890)
 1956 – Gerald Finzi, English composer and educator
(b. 1901)
 1956 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American
basketball player and golfer (b. 1911)
 1960 – Sylvia Pankhurst, English activist (b. 1882)
 1961 – Hilda Doolittle. American poet, novelist, and
memoirist (b. 1886)
 1965 – Clara Bow, American actress (b. 1905)
 1965 – William Stanier, English engineer, co-
designed the London, Midland and Scottish
Railway (b. 1876)
 1967 – Felix Yusupov, Russian husband of Princess
Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1887)
 1972 – S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician,
librarian, and academic (b. 1892)
 1974 – Silvio Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and
academic (b. 1907)
 1975 – Jack Lang, Australian lawyer and politician,
23rd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1876)
 1979 – Gracie Fields, English actress and singer (b.
1898)
 1979 – Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish singer-songwriter
and guitarist (b. 1953)
 1981 – Robert Montgomery, American actor, singer,
director, and producer (b. 1904)
 1983 – Wilfred Burchett, Australian journalist and
author (b. 1911)
 1984 – Chronis Exarhakos, Greek actor (b. 1932)
 1985 – Lloyd Nolan, American actor (b. 1902)
 1986 – Cliff Burton, American bass player and
songwriter (b. 1962)
 1991 – Joe Hulme, English footballer and cricketer
(b. 1904)
 1992 – Zhang Leping, Chinese comic artist (b. 1910)
 1993 – Jimmy Doolittle, American general, Medal of
Honor recipient (b. 1896)
 1993 – Fraser MacPherson, Canadian saxophonist
and educator (b. 1928)
 1996 – Mohammad Najibullah, Afghan physician
and politician, 7th President of Afghanistan (b. 1947)
 1997 – Walter Trampler, American viola player and
educator (b. 1915)
 1998 – Doak Walker, American football player (b.
1927)
 2003 – Jean Lucas, French race car driver (b. 1927)
 2003 – Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer,
and dancer (b. 1925)
 2004 – John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and
author (b. 1929)
 2005 – Ronald Golias, Brazilian comedian and actor
(b. 1929)
 2005 – Mary Lee Settle, American novelist, essayist,
and memoirist (b. 1918)
 2006 – Helmut Kallmeyer, German chemist and
soldier (b. 1910)
 2007 – Dale Houston, American singer-songwriter
(b. 1940)
 2007 – Kenji Nagai, Japanese photographer and
journalist (b. 1957)
 2008 – Henri Pachard, American director and
producer (b. 1939)
 2009 – Ivan Dykhovichny, Russian director and
screenwriter (b. 1947)
 2009 – Charles Houston, American physician and
mountaineer (b. 1913)
 2009 – William Safire, American author and
journalist (b. 1929)
 2010 – George Blanda, American football player (b.
1927)
 2010 – Balaji Sadasivan, Singaporean
neurosurgeon and politician, Minister of Foreign
Affairs for Singapore (b. 1955)
 2010 – Trevor Taylor, English race car driver (b.
1936)
 2011 – David Croft, English director, producer, and
screenwriter (b. 1922)
 2011 – Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (b.
1935)
 2011 – Johnny "Country" Mathis, American singer-
songwriter (b. 1933)
 2012 – Eddie Bert, American trombonist (b. 1922)
 2012 – Herbert Lom, Czech-English actor (b. 1917)
 2012 – John Silber, American academic and
politician (b. 1926)
 2012 – Sanjay Surkar, Indian director and
screenwriter (b. 1959)
 2012 – Frank Wilson, American songwriter and
producer (b. 1940)
 2013 – Gates Brown, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1939)
 2013 – Oscar Castro-Neves, Brazilian-American
guitarist, composer, and conductor (b. 1940)
 2013 – Elvin R. Heiberg III, American general and
engineer (b. 1932)
 2013 – Tuncel Kurtiz, Turkish actor, director, and
screenwriter (b. 1936)
 2013 – A. C. Lyles, American screenwriter and
producer (b. 1918)
 2013 – Albert Naughton, English rugby player (b.
1929)
  2014 – Gaby Aghion, French fashion designer,
founded Chloé (b. 1921)
 2014 – Eugie Foster, American journalist and author
(b. 1971)
 2014 – Taylor Hardwick, American architect and
educator, designed Haydon Burns
Library and Friendship Fountain Park (b. 1925)
 2014 – Wally Hergesheimer, Canadian ice hockey
player (b. 1927)
 2014 – Abdelmajid Lakhal, Tunisian actor and
director (b. 1939)
 2014 – James Traficant, American lawyer and
politician (b. 1941)
 2015 – Syed Ahmed, Indian author and politician,
16th Governor of Manipur (b. 1945)
 2015 – Wilton Felder, American saxophonist and
bass player (b. 1940)
 2015 – Pietro Ingrao, Italian journalist and politician
(b. 1915)
 2015 – Denise Lor, American singer and actress (b.
1929)
 2015 – Kallen Pokkudan, Indian activist and author
(b. 1937)
 2015 – Frank Tyson, English-Australian cricketer,
coach, and journalist (b. 1930)
 2016 – David Hahn, American Boy Scout famous for
attempting to build a nuclear reactor in a shed in his
backyard (b. 1976)
 2017 – Hugh Hefner, American publisher, founder
of Playboy Enterprises (b. 1926)[25]
 2018 – Kavita Mahajan, Indian author and translator
(b.1967)[26]
 2018 – Michael Payton, American football
quarterback (b.1970)[27]
 2018 – Manoharsinhji Pradyumansinhji, Indian
nobleman and politician (b.1935)[28]

Holidays and observances[edit]

 Christian feast days:
o Adheritus[29]
o Caius of Milan[30]
o Vincent de Paul[23]
 o September 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 Consumación de la Independencia (Mexico)
 French Community Holiday (French community
of Belgium)
 Independence Day (Turkmenistan), celebrates the
independence of Turkmenistan from USSR in 1991.
 Meskel (Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Church,
following Julian calendar, September 28 on leap
years)
 National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness
Day (United States)[31]
 Polish Underground State's Day (Poland)[32]
 World Tourism Day (International)[33]

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