September 15
September 15 this yearin various calendars Akan Nwonabene Armenian 27 Hoṙi 1476 Aztec Tititl 8, 2 Cōzcacuāuhtli Babylonian 2 Ululu, 2337 SE Balinese pawukon Luang, Pepet, Beteng, Laba, Keliwon, Aryang, Anggara of Parangbakat, Indra, Tulus, Pati Bengali 31 Bhadro , BS 1433 Chinese Yang Water Dragon ・Wings Mansion Fire Horse Year, Month 8 , Day 5Bailu , 8 days until Qiufen )Common Era 15 September 2026 CE Coptic 5 Thout , AM 1743Egyptian 2 Mechir , 2775 NE Ethiopian 5 Maskaram, 2019 Amätä Məhrät French Republican Décade III, Nonidi de Fructidor de l'Année 234 de la République Gregorian 15 September , AD 2026 Hebrew 4 Tishrei , AM 5787 Hindu Svātī ・Indra Bhādrapada , 1948 SE Caturthī , Śukla pakṣa of Bhādrapada , 2083 VE Rāudra ・5127 KY ・1,872,833 Icelandic Þriðjudagur, 22 Tvímánuður 2026 Islamic 2 Rabi' al-thani , AH 1448tabular method ) ISO week date 2026-W38-2 Japanese 5 Hazuki , Reiwa 8Hakuro , 8 days until Shūbun ) Julian 2 September , AD 2026 (AM 7534)Julian day 2461299 Korean 5 Dakdal , 4359 DE Maya 13.0.13.16.16 9 Chen , 2 Cib Roman ante diem IV Nonas Septembres , MMDCCLXXIX AUC Solar Hijri 24 Shahrivar , SH 1405 Tibetan 4 khrums, me pho rta
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Day of the year
September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 107 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
1762 – Seven Years' War : Battle of Signal Hill .1776 – American Revolutionary War : British forces successfully land at Kip's Bay , forcing the Continental Army , which was already withdrawing from New York City , to cede control of the lower half of Manhattan Island .1789 – The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties.1794 – French Revolutionary Wars : Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) sees his first combat at the Battle of Boxtel during the Flanders Campaign .1795 – Britain seizes the Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa to prevent its use by the Batavian Republic .1812 – The Grande Armée under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow during the failed French invasion of Russia .1812 – War of 1812 : A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows .
1813 – Followers of the Eight Trigram Sect loyal to Lin Qing attack the Forbidden City in a failed attempt to oust the Jiaqing Emperor of the Qing dynasty .1816 – HMS Whiting runs aground on the Doom Bar .1820 – Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon , Portugal.1821 – The Captaincy General of Guatemala declares independence from Spain .1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens ; British MP William Huskisson becomes the first widely reported railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive Rocket 1835 – HMS Beagle , with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands . The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal , the easternmost of the archipelago.1862 – American Civil War : Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia .1873 – Franco-Prussian War : The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity .1894 – First Sino-Japanese War : Japan defeats the Qing dynasty in the Battle of Pyongyang , causing the Qing army to withdraw to the Chinese border with Korea.1915 – New Culture Movement : Chen Duxiu establishes the New Youth Shanghai .1916 – World War I : Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme .1918 – World War I: Allied troops break through the Bulgarian defenses on the Macedonian front .1935 – Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika .1935 – Nazi Germany announces two new laws related to race and the rights of Jews. These became known as the Nuremberg Race Laws .
1940 – World War II : The climax of the Battle of Britain , when the Luftwaffe launches its largest and most concentrated attack of the entire campaign.1942 – World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is sunk by Japanese torpedoes at Guadalcanal .1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.1944 – World War II: The Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps ' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army 's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
1945 – A hurricane strikes southern Florida and the Bahamas , destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps at Naval Air Station Richmond .1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hits the Kantō region , in Japan killing around 1,000-2,000 people.1948 – The Indian Army captures the towns of Jalna , Latur , Mominabad , Surriapet and Narkatpalli as part of Operation Polo .1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h) .
1950 – Korean War : The U.S. X Corps lands at Inchon .1952 – The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia .1954 – Marilyn Monroe 's iconic skirt scene is shot during filming for The Seven Year Itch 1958 – A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay , killing 48.1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba , one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis .1963 – Baptist Church bombing : Four children are killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama , United States.1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson , responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin , writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.1971 – The first Greenpeace ship departs from Vancouver to protest against the upcoming Cannikin nuclear weapon test in Alaska.1972 – A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö Bulltofta Airport .1974 – Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked , then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.1975 – The French department of "Corse " (the entire island of Corsica ) is divided into two: Haute-Corse (Upper Corsica) and Corse-du-Sud (Southern Corsica).1978 – At the Superdome in New Orleans , Muhammad Ali outpoints Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times.1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States .1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
1983 – Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.1995 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 2133 crashes at Tawau Airport in Malaysia , killing 34.2001 – During a CART race at the Lausitzring in Germany, former Formula One driver Alex Zanardi suffers a heavy accident resulting in him losing both his legs.2004 – National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players' union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.2011 – Four miners are killed in the Gleision Colliery mining accident in the Swansea Valley , Wales.2017 – The Parsons Green bombing takes place in London .2020 – Signing of the Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement occurs in Washington, D.C. , normalizing relations between Israel and two Arab nations, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain .Births
1613 – François de La Rochefoucauld , French soldier and author (died 1680)1649 – Titus Oates , English minister, fabricated the Popish Plot (died 1705)1666 – Sophia Dorothea of Celle (died 1726)1690 – Ignazio Prota , Italian composer and educator (died 1748)1715 – Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval , French general and engineer (died 1789)1736 – Jean Sylvain Bailly , French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (died 1793)1759 – Cornelio Saavedra , Argentinean general and politician (died 1829)1760 – Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien , Prussian general (died 1824)1765 – Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage , Portuguese poet and author (died 1805)1789 – James Fenimore Cooper , American novelist, short story writer, and historian (died 1851)1795 – James Gates Percival , American poet, surgeon and geologist (died 1856)1815 – Halfdan Kjerulf , Norwegian journalist and composer (died 1868)1819 – Cyprien Tanguay , Canadian priest and historian (died 1902)1828 – Alexander Butlerov , Russian chemist and academic (died 1886)1830 – Porfirio Díaz , Mexican general and politician, 29th President of Mexico (died 1915)1846 – George Franklin Grant , African-American educator, dentist, and inventor (died 1910)1852 – Edward Bouchet , American physicist and educator (died 1918)1852 – Jan Ernst Matzeliger , Surinamese-American inventor (died 1889)
1857 – William Howard Taft , American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (died 1930)1857 – Anna Winlock , American astronomer and academic (died 1904)
1858 – Charles de Foucauld , French priest and martyr (died 1916)1858 – Jenő Hubay , Hungarian violinist, composer, and educator (died 1937)
1861 – M. Visvesvaraya , Indian engineer, scholar, and Bharat Ratna Laureate, Diwan of the Mysore Kingdom (died 1962)1863 – Horatio Parker , American organist, composer, and educator (died 1919)1864 – Prince Sigismund of Prussia (died 1866)1867 – Vladimir May-Mayevsky , Russian general (died 1920)1876 – Bruno Walter , German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1962)1876 – Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay , Bengali novelist (died 1938)
1877 – Jakob Ehrlich , Czech-Austrian politician (died 1938)1877 – Yente Serdatzky , Lithuanian-American author and playwright (died 1962)
1879 – Joseph Lyons , Australian educator and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1939)1881 – Ettore Bugatti , Italian-French businessman, founded Bugatti (died 1947)1883 – Esteban Terradas i Illa , Spanish mathematician and engineer (died 1950)1886 – Paul Lévy , French mathematician and theorist (died 1971)1887 – Carlos Dávila , Chilean journalist and politician, President of Chile (died 1955)1888 – Antonio Ascari , Italian race car driver (died 1925)1889 – Robert Benchley , American humorist, newspaper columnist, and actor (died 1945)1889 – Claude McKay , Jamaican-American poet and author (died 1948)
1890 – Ernest Bullock , English organist and composer (died 1979)1890 – Sonja Branting-Westerståhl , Swedish lawyer (died 1981)
1890 – Agatha Christie , English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 1976)
1890 – Frank Martin , Swiss-Dutch pianist and composer (died 1974)
1892 – Silpa Bhirasri , Italian sculptor and educator (died 1962)1894 – Chic Harley , American football player (died 1974)1894 – Oskar Klein , Swedish physicist and academic (died 1977)
1894 – Jean Renoir , French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1979)
1895 – Magda Lupescu , mistress and later wife of King Carol II of Romania (died 1977)1897 – Merle Curti , American historian and author (died 1997)1898 – J. Slauerhoff , Dutch poet and author (died 1936)1901 – Donald Bailey , English engineer, designed Bailey bridge (died 1985)1903 – Roy Acuff , American singer-songwriter and fiddler (died 1992)1904 – Umberto II of Italy (died 1983)1904 – Sheilah Graham Westbrook , English-American actress, journalist, and author (died 1988)
1906 – Jacques Becker , French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1960)1906 – Walter E. Rollins , American songwriter (died 1973)
1907 – Gunnar Ekelöf , Swedish poet and author (died 1968)1907 – Fay Wray , Canadian-American actress (died 2004)
1908 – Kid Sheik , American trumpet player (died 1996)1908 – Penny Singleton , American actress and singer (died 2003)
1909 – C. N. Annadurai , Indian educator and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (died 1969)1909 – Phil Arnold , American actor (died 1968)
1910 – Betty Neels , English nurse and author (died 2001)1911 – Karsten Solheim , Norwegian-American businessman, founded PING (died 2000)1911 – Luther Terry , American physician and academic, 9th Surgeon General of the United States (died 1985)
1913 – Henry Brant , Canadian-American composer and conductor (died 2008)1913 – Bruno Hoffmann , German glass harp player (died 1991)
1913 – John N. Mitchell , American lawyer, and politician, 67th United States Attorney General (died 1988)
1913 – Johannes Steinhoff , German general and pilot (died 1994)
1914 – Creighton Abrams , American general (died 1974)1914 – Adolfo Bioy Casares , Argentinian journalist and author (died 1999)
1914 – Orhan Kemal , Turkish author (died 1970)
1915 – Fawn M. Brodie , American historian and author (died 1981)1916 – Margaret Lockwood , Pakistani-English actress (died 1990)1916 – Frederick C. Weyand , American general (died 2010)
1917 – Hilde Gueden , Austrian soprano (died 1988)1917 – Buddy Jeannette , American basketball player and coach (died 1998)
1918 – Alfred D. Chandler Jr. , American historian and academic (died 2007)1918 – Margot Loyola , Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2015)
1918 – Nipsey Russell , American comedian and actor (died 2005)
1919 – Fausto Coppi , Italian cyclist and soldier (died 1960)1919 – Heda Margolius Kovály , Czech author and translator (died 2010)
1920 – Kym Bonython , Australian racing driver, drummer, and radio host (died 2011)1921 – Richard Gordon , English surgeon and author (died 2017)1921 – Gene Roland , American pianist and composer (died 1982)
1922 – Bob Anderson , English fencer and choreographer (died 2012)1922 – Jackie Cooper , American actor (died 2011)
1922 – Gaetano Cozzi , Italian historian and academic (died 2001)
1922 – Mary Soames , English author (died 2014)
1923 – Anton Heiller , Austrian organist, composer, and conductor (died 1979)1924 – Lucebert , Dutch poet and painter (died 1994)1924 – György Lázár , Hungarian politician, 50th Prime Minister of Hungary (died 2014)
1924 – Bobby Short , American singer and pianist (died 2005)
1925 – Stanley Chapman , English architect and author (died 2009)1925 – Erika Köth , German soprano (died 1981)
1925 – Carlo Rambaldi , Italian special effects artist (died 2012)
1925 – Helle Virkner , Danish actress and singer (died 2009)
1926 – Shohei Imamura , Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2006)1926 – Jean-Pierre Serre , French mathematician and academic
1926 – Henry Silva , American actor (died 2022)
1927 – Rudolf Anderson , pilot and commissioned officer in the United States Air Force (died 1962)1927 – Norm Crosby , American comedian and actor (died 2020)
1928 – Cannonball Adderley , American saxophonist and bandleader (died 1975)1929 – Eva Burrows , Australian 13th General of The Salvation Army (died 2015)1929 – Murray Gell-Mann , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019)
1929 – John Julius Norwich , English historian and author (died 2018)
1929 – Wilbur Snyder , American football player and wrestler (died 1991)
1929 – Mümtaz Soysal , Turkish academic and politician, 30th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2019)
1930 – Endel Lippmaa , Estonian physicist and academic (died 2015)1931 – Brian Henderson , New Zealand-Australian journalist, actor, and producer (died 2021)1932 – Neil Bartlett , English-American chemist and academic (died 2008)1933 – Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , Spanish conductor and composer (died 2014)1933 – Jim Rodger , Scottish footballer (died 2024)
1935 – Dinkha IV , Iraqi patriarch (died 2015)1936 – Ashley Cooper , Australian tennis player (died 2020)1936 – Sara Henderson , Australian farmer and author (died 2005)
1937 – Joey Carew , Trinidadian cricketer (died 2011)1937 – Fernando de la Rúa , Argentinian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Argentina (died 2019)
1937 – King Curtis Iaukea , American wrestler (died 2010)
1937 – Robert Lucas Jr. , American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)
1937 – Pino Puglisi , Italian priest and martyr (died 1993)
1938 – Gaylord Perry , American baseball player and coach (died 2022)1939 – Subramanian Swamy , Indian economist, academic, and politician, Indian Minister of Law and Justice 1939 – George Walden , English journalist and politician
1940 – Merlin Olsen , American football player, sportscaster, and actor (died 2010)1941 – Flórián Albert , Hungarian footballer and manager (died 2011)1941 – Signe Toly Anderson , American rock singer (died 2016)
1941 – Mirosław Hermaszewski , Polish general, pilot and cosmonaut (died 2022)
1941 – Yuriy Norshteyn , Russian animator, director, and screenwriter
1941 – Viktor Zubkov , Russian businessman and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Russia
1942 – Lee Dorman , American bass player (died 2012)1942 – Philip Harris, Baron Harris of Peckham , English businessman and politician
1942 – Ksenia Milicevic , French painter and architect
1944 – Mauro Piacenza , Italian cardinal1944 – Graham Taylor , English footballer and manager (died 2017)
1945 – Carmen Maura , Spanish actress1945 – Jessye Norman , American soprano (died 2019)
1945 – Hans-Gert Pöttering , German lawyer and politician, 23rd President of the European Parliament
1945 – Ron Shelton , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1946 – Tommy Lee Jones , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter1946 – Mike Procter , South African cricketer, coach, and referee (died 2024)
1946 – Oliver Stone , American director, screenwriter, and producer
1947 – Russel L. Honoré , American general1947 – Viggo Jensen , Danish footballer and manager
1947 – Diane E. Levin , American educator and author
1947 – Theodore Long , American wrestling referee and manager
1949 – Joe Barton , American lawyer and politician1950 – Rajiv Malhotra , Indian author1950 – Mirza Masroor Ahmad , Pakistani-English caliph and scholar
1951 – Johan Neeskens , Dutch footballer and manager (died 2024)1951 – Fred Seibert , American television producer, co-founder of MTV
1952 – Richard Brodeur , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster1952 – Paula Duncan , Australian actress
1952 – Ratnajeevan Hoole , Sri Lankan engineer and academic
1952 – Kelly Keagy , American singer and drummer
1953 – Margie Moran , Filipino peace advocate and beauty queen, Miss Universe 1973 1953 – Keiko Takeshita , Japanese actress
1954 – Adrian Adonis , American wrestler (died 1988)1954 – Hrant Dink , Turkish journalist (died 2007)
1954 – Barry Shabaka Henley , American actor
1955 – Željka Antunović , Croatian politician, 9th Croatian Minister of Defence 1955 – Abdul Qadir , Pakistani cricketer (died 2019)
1955 – Bruce Reitherman , American voice actor, singer, cinematographer, and producer
1955 – Renzo Rosso , Italian fashion designer and businessman, co-founded Diesel Clothing
1956 – Ross J. Anderson , British academic and educator (died 2024)1956 – Rick Garcia (activist) , American LGBTQ rights activist
1956 – Maggie Reilly , Scottish singer-songwriter
1956 – Ned Rothenberg , American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer
1958 – Joel Quenneville , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1958 – Wendie Jo Sperber , American actress (died 2005)
1959 – Mark Kirk , American commander, lawyer, and politician1960 – Ed Solomon , American director, producer, and screenwriter1960 – Lisa Vanderpump , British restaurateur, television personality, and author
1961 – Terry Lamb , Australian rugby league player and coach1961 – Helen Margetts , British political scientist
1961 – Dan Marino , American football player and sportscaster
1961 – Patrick Patterson , Jamaican cricketer
1962 – Amanda Wakeley , English fashion designer1963 – Pete Myers , American basketball player and coach1963 – Stephen C. Spiteri , Maltese military historian
1964 – Robert Fico , Slovak academic and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Slovakia 1964 – Steve Watkin , Welsh cricketer
1964 – Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein , American guitarist and songwriter
1966 – Wenn V. Deramas , Filipino director and screenwriter (died 2016)1966 – Sherman Douglas , American basketball player
1967 – Paul Abbott , American baseball player and coach1967 – Rodney Eyles , Australian squash player
1968 – Danny Nucci , American actor1969 – Revaz Arveladze , Georgian footballer1969 – Corby Davidson , American radio personality
1969 – Géraldine Carré , French journalist and television presenter (died 2024)
1969 – Allen Shellenberger , American drummer (died 2009)
1971 – Nathan Astle , New Zealand cricketer and coach1971 – Josh Charles , American actor and director
1971 – Wayne Ferreira , South African tennis player
1972 – Jimmy Carr , English comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter1972 – Kit Chan , Singaporean singer-songwriter
1972 – Queen Letizia of Spain , Queen Consort of King Felipe VI of Spain
1973 – Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland , Swedish prince1974 – Arata Iura , Japanese actor, model, and fashion designer1975 – Tom Dolan , American swimmer1975 – Martina Krupičková , Czech painter
1976 – Brett Kimmorley , Australian rugby league player and sportscaster1977 – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , Nigerian author1977 – Angela Aki , Japanese singer-songwriter
1977 – Sophie Dahl , English model and author
1977 – Tom Hardy , English actor, producer, and screenwriter
1977 – Marisa Ramirez , American actress
1977 – Jason Terry , American basketball player
1978 – Zach Filkins , American guitarist1978 – Eiður Guðjohnsen , Icelandic footballer
1979 – Dave Annable , American actor1979 – Amy Davidson , American actress
1979 – Patrick Marleau , Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Carlos Ruiz , Guatemalan footballer
1979 – Reece Young , New Zealand cricketer
1980 – David Diehl , American football player and sportscaster1980 – Mike Dunleavy Jr. , American basketball player
1981 – Ben Schwartz , American actor, comedian and writer1983 – Yuka Hirata , Japanese actress and model1984 – Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex 1984 – Marshal Yanda , American football player
1986 – Jenna Marbles , American YouTuber and comedian1986 – Heidi Montag , American reality television personality and singer
1987 – Vaila Barsley , Scottish footballer1988 – Chelsea Kane , American actress and singer1988 – Tim Moltzen , Australian rugby league player
1990 – Aaron Mooy , Australian footballer1990 – Matt Shively , American actor
1990 – Megan Stalter , American actress and comedian
1991 – Lee Jung-shin , South Korean musician and actor1991 – Phil Ofosu-Ayeh , German-Ghanaian footballer
1993 – Josh Richardson , American basketball player1993 – Dennis Schröder , German basketball player
1995 – Rafael Santos Borré , Colombian footballer1995 – Terry McLaurin , American football player
1995 – Joe Ofahengaue , New Zealand-Tongan rugby league player
1995 – David Raya , Spanish footballer
1997 – Quin Houff , American racing driver1999 – Jaren Jackson Jr. , American basketball player2000 – Felix , Australian singer based in South Korea, member of Stray Kids 2005 – Annaliese Dragan , Romanian-American rhythmic gymnastDeaths
Pre-1600
921 – Ludmila of Bohemia , Czech martyr and saint (born 860)1140 – Adelaide of Hungary, Duchess of Bohemia 1146 – Alan, 1st Earl of Richmond , English soldier (born 1100)1231 – Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (born 1173)1326 – Dmitry of Tver (born 1299)1352 – Ewostatewos , Ethiopian monk and saint (born 1273)1397 – Adam Easton , English cardinal1408 – Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent , English politician (born 1384)1496 – Hugh Clopton , Lord Mayor of London (born c. 1440)1500 – John Morton , English cardinal and academic (born 1420)1504 – Elisabeth of Bavaria , Electress of the Palatinate (born 1478)1510 – Saint Catherine of Genoa (born 1447)1559 – Isabella Jagiellon , Queen of Hungary (born 1519)1595 – John MacMorran , Baillie of Edinburgh, shot by rioting high school schoolchildren.1596 – Leonhard Rauwolf , German physician and botanist (born 1535)1613 – Thomas Overbury , English poet and author (born 1581)1643 – Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork , English-Irish politician, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland (born 1566)1649 – John Floyd , English priest and educator (born 1572)1700 – André Le Nôtre , French gardener (born 1613)1701 – Edmé Boursault , French author and playwright (born 1638)1707 – George Stepney , English poet and diplomat (born 1663)1712 – Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin , English politician, Lord High Treasurer (born 1645)1750 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel , German organist and composer (born 1690)1794 – Abraham Clark , American police officer and politician (born 1725)1803 – Gian Francesco Albani , Italian cardinal (born 1719)1813 – Antoine Étienne de Tousard , French general and engineer (born 1752)1830 – François Baillairgé , Canadian painter and sculptor (born 1759)1830 – William Huskisson , English financier and politician, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (born 1770)
1841 – Alessandro Rolla , Italian violinist and composer (born 1757)1842 – Pierre Baillot , French violinist and composer (born 1771)1842 – Francisco Morazán , Guatemalan general, lawyer, and politician, President of Central American Federation (born 1792)
1852 – Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern , German-Estonian philologist and academic (born 1770)1859 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel , English architect and engineer, designed the Great Western Railway (born 1806)1864 – John Hanning Speke , English soldier and explorer (born 1827)1874 – Charles-Amédée Kohler , Swiss chocolatier (born 1790)1883 – Joseph Plateau , Belgian physicist and academic (born 1801)1893 – Thomas Hawksley , English engineer (born 1807)1907 – William Wales , English-American inventor (born c. 1838)1915 – Ernest Gagnon , Canadian organist and composer (born 1834)1921 – Roman von Ungern-Sternberg , Austrian-Russian general (born 1886)1926 – Rudolf Christoph Eucken , German philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1846)1930 – Milton Sills , American actor and screenwriter (born 1882)1938 – Thomas Wolfe , American novelist (born 1900)1940 – William B. Bankhead , American lawyer and politician, 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (born 1874)1945 – André Tardieu , French journalist and politician, 97th Prime Minister of France (born 1876)1945 – Anton Webern , Austrian composer and conductor (born 1883)
1945 – Linnie Marsh Wolfe , American librarian and author (born 1881)
1952 – Hugo Raudsepp , Estonian author and playwright (born 1883)1965 – Steve Brown , American bassist (born 1890)1972 – Ulvi Cemal Erkin , Turkish composer and educator (born 1906)1972 – Baki Süha Ediboğlu , Turkish poet and author (born 1915)
1972 – Geoffrey Fisher , English archbishop and academic (born 1887)
1973 – Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (born 1882)1975 – Franco Bordoni , Italian race car driver and pilot (born 1913)1978 – Robert Cliche , Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1921)1978 – Edmund Crispin , English writer and composer (born 1921)
1978 – Willy Messerschmitt , German engineer and academic, designed the Messerschmitt Bf 109 (born 1898)
1980 – Bill Evans , American pianist and composer (born 1929)1981 – Rafael Méndez , Mexican trumpet player and composer (born 1906)1983 – Prince Far I , Jamaican DJ and producer (born 1944)1985 – Cootie Williams , American trumpet player (born 1910)1989 – Jan DeGaetani , American soprano (born 1933)1989 – Olga Erteszek , Polish-American fashion designer (born 1916)
1989 – Robert Penn Warren , American novelist, poet, and literary critic (born 1905)
1991 – John Hoyt , American actor (born 1904)1991 – Warner Troyer , Canadian journalist and author (born 1932)
1993 – Pino Puglisi , Italian priest and martyr (born 1937)1995 – Harry Calder , South African cricketer (born 1901)1995 – Gunnar Nordahl , Swedish footballer and manager (born 1921)
1997 – Bulldog Brower , American wrestler (born 1933)1998 – Louis Rasminsky , Canadian economist, 3rd Governor of the Bank of Canada (born 1908)2001 – June Salter , Australian actress and author (born 1932)2003 – Garner Ted Armstrong , American evangelist and author (born 1930)2004 – Johnny Ramone , American guitarist and songwriter (born 1948)2004 – Walter Stewart , Canadian journalist and author (born 1931)
2005 – Guy Green , English director and cinematographer (born 1913)2005 – Sidney Luft , American manager and producer (born 1915)
2006 – Raymond Baxter , English television host and author (born 1922)2006 – Oriana Fallaci , Italian journalist and author (born 1929)
2006 – Pablo Santos , Mexican-American actor (born 1987)
2007 – Colin McRae , Scottish race car driver (born 1968)2007 – Jeremy Moore , English general (born 1928)
2007 – Aldemaro Romero , Venezuelan pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1928)
2007 – Brett Somers , Canadian-American actress and singer (born 1924)
2008 – Richard Wright , English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (born 1943)
2009 – Troy Kennedy Martin , Scottish-English screenwriter (born 1932)2010 – Arrow , Caribbean singer-songwriter (born 1949)2011 – Frances Bay , Canadian-American actress (born 1919)2012 – Tibor Antalpéter , Hungarian volleyball player and diplomat, Ambassador of Hungary to the United Kingdom (born 1930)2012 – Nevin Spence , Northern Irish rugby player (born 1990)
2012 – Hajra Masroor , Pakistani writer (born 1930)
2013 – Habib Munzir Al-Musawa , Indonesian cleric and scholar (born 1973)2013 – Jerry G. Bishop , American radio and television host (born 1936)
2013 – Gerard Cafesjian , American businessman and philanthropist (born 1925)
2013 – Jackie Lomax , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1944)
2014 – John Anderson Jr. , American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Kansas (born 1917)2014 – Eugene I. Gordon , American physicist and engineer (born 1930)
2014 – Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia (born 1922)
2014 – Jürg Schubiger , Swiss psychotherapist and author (born 1936)
2014 – Wayne Tefs , Canadian anthologist, author, and critic (born 1947)
2015 – Harry J. Lipkin , Israeli physicist and academic (born 1921)2015 – Meir Pa'il , Israeli commander, historian, and politician (born 1926)
2015 – Bernard Van de Kerckhove , Belgian cyclist (born 1941)
2017 – Harry Dean Stanton , American actor (born 1926)2018 – Helen Clare , British singer (born 1916)2019 – Ric Ocasek , American musician (born 1944)2021 – Lou Angotti , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1938)2023 – Fernando Botero , Colombian painter and sculptor (born 1932)2024 – Tito Jackson , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1953)2024 – Elias Khoury , Lebanese intellectual, playwright and novelist (born 1948)
2026 – Jodie Allen , American journalist, author, and editor (born 1938)2026 – Annie Dillard , American novelist, essayist, and poet (born 1945)
2026 – Gerrit Graham , American stage, television and film actor (born 1948)
2026 – Bonnie Greer , American-English playwright and critic (born 1948)
2026 – Dakila Cua , Filipino politician (born 1977)