September 22
September 22 this yearin various calendars Akan Nkyibene Armenian 4 Sahmi 1476 Aztec Tititl 15, 9 Calli Babylonian 9 Ululu, 2337 SE Balinese pawukon Menga, Kajeng, Sri, Paing, Urukung, Anggara of Bala, Sri, Erangan, Suka Bengali 7 Ashshin , BS 1433 Chinese Yin Earth Pig ・Tail Mansion Fire Horse Year, Month 8 , Day 12Bailu , 1 day until Qiufen )Common Era 22 September 2026 CE Coptic 12 Thout , AM 1743Egyptian 9 Mechir , 2775 NE Ethiopian 12 Maskaram, 2019 Amätä Məhrät French Republican La Fête de la Révolution de l'Année 234 de la République Gregorian 22 September , AD 2026 Hebrew 11 Tishrei , AM 5787 Hindu Uttarāṣāḍha ・Atigaṇḍa Āśvina , 1948 SE Ekādaśī , Śukla pakṣa of Bhādrapada , 2083 VE Rāudra ・5127 KY ・1,872,840 Icelandic Þriðjudagur, 29 Tvímánuður 2026 Islamic 9 Rabi' al-thani , AH 1448tabular method ) ISO week date 2026-W39-2 Japanese 12 Hazuki , Reiwa 8Hakuro , 1 day until Shūbun ) Julian 9 September , AD 2026 (AM 7534)Julian day 2461306 Korean 12 Dakdal , 4359 DE Maya 13.0.13.17.3 16 Chen , 9 Akbal Roman ante diem V Idus Septembres , MMDCCLXXIX AUC Solar Hijri 31 Shahrivar , SH 1405 Tibetan 11 khrums, me pho rta
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Day of the year
September 22 is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 100 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
1692 – Martha Corey , Mary Eastey , Alice Parker , Mary Parker , Ann Pudeator , Wilmot Redd , Margaret Scott , and Samuel Wardwell are hanged, the last of those to be executed in the Salem witch trials .1711 – The first attacks of the Tuscarora War begin in present-day North Carolina .1726 – Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich , BWV 171761 – George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen , respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established.1789 – Battle of Rymnik : Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.
1792 – Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.1823 – Joseph Smith claims to have found the golden plates after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.1857 – The Russian warship Lefort 1862 – A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln.1866 – The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War .1885 – Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement .1891 – The first hydropower plant of Finland is commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere , Pirkanmaa .1892 – A locomotive shunting falls into a hole in the ground , leading to the burial of the locomotive.1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history (later surpassed by her great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth II on 9 September 2015).1910 – The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.1914 – A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1,500 sailors.1919 – The steel strike of 1919 , led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.1934 – The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.1939 – World War II : A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.1941 – The Holocaust in Ukraine : On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia , Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.1948 – Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.1948 – Israeli-Palestine conflict : The All-Palestine Government is established by the Arab League .
1953 – The Four Level Interchange , first stack interchange in the world opened in Los Angeles .1957 – In Haiti , François Duvalier is elected president.1960 – The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation .1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire and after a last engagement near Dograi .1966 – Twenty-four people are killed when Ansett-ANA Flight 149 crashes in Winton, Queensland , Australia.1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford , but is foiled by the Secret Service.1976 – Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs.1979 – A bright flash , resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands . Its cause is never determined.1980 – Iraq invades Iran, sparking the nearly eight year Iran–Iraq War .1981 – During a military exercise , a Turkish Air Force Northrop F-5 crashes in Babaeski as a result of pilot error , killing one crew member and also 65 soldiers on the ground.1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.1993 – A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.1993 – A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
1995 – An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.1995 – The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.
2006 – Twenty-three people were killed in a maglev train collision in Lathen , Germany.2013 – At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar , Pakistan.2024 – Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of Sri Lanka .Births
Pre-1600
1013 – Richeza of Poland, Queen of Hungary (died 1075)1211 – Ibn Khallikan , Iraqi scholar and judge (died 1282)1373 – Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (died 1400)1480 – Tenali Rama , poet in the court of Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagara Empire (died 1528)1515 – Anne of Cleves , Queen consort of England (died 1557)1547 – Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin , German philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet (died 1590)1593 – Matthäus Merian , Swiss-German engraver and cartographer (died 1650)1601 – Anne of Austria , Queen and regent of France (died 1666)1606 – Li Zicheng , Chinese emperor (died 1645)1680 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes , German poet (died 1747)1694 – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield , English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1773)1715 – Jean-Étienne Guettard , French mineralogist and botanist (died 1786)1741 – Peter Simon Pallas , German zoologist and botanist (died 1811)1743 – Quintin Craufurd , Scottish author (died 1819)1762 – Elizabeth Simcoe , English-Canadian painter and author (died 1850)1765 – Paolo Ruffini , Italian mathematician and philosopher (died 1822)1788 – Theodore Hook , English composer and educator (died 1841)1791 – Michael Faraday , English physicist and chemist (died 1867)1806 – Bernardino António Gomes , Portuguese physician and naturalist (died 1877)1819 – Wilhelm Wattenbach , German historian and academic (died 1897)1829 – Tự Đức , Vietnamese emperor (died 1883)1833 – John Quincy Adams II , American politician and grandson of President John Quincy Adams (died 1894)1833 – Stephen D. Lee , American general and academic (died 1908)
1835 – Alexander Potebnja , Ukrainian linguist and philosopher (died 1891)1841 – Andrejs Pumpurs , Latvian soldier and poet (died 1902)1862 – Anastasios Charalambis , Greek lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1949)1868 – Louise McKinney , Canadian educator and politician (died 1931)1870 – Charlotte Cooper , English-Scottish tennis player (died 1966)1870 – Arthur Pryor , American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (died 1942)
1875 – Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis , Lithuanian painter and composer (died 1911)1876 – André Tardieu , French journalist and politician, 67th Prime Minister of France (died 1945)1878 – Shigeru Yoshida , Japanese politician and diplomat, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (died 1967)1880 – Christabel Pankhurst , English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (died 1958)1882 – Wilhelm Keitel , German field marshal, head of the German armed forces (OKW ), and convicted Nuremberg war criminal (died 1946)1883 – Ferenc Oslay , Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (died 1932)1883 – Frank George Woollard , English engineer (died 1957)
1885 – Gunnar Asplund , Swedish architect and academic, designed the Stockholm Public Library (died 1940)1885 – Ben Chifley , Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1951)
1885 – Erich von Stroheim , Austrian-American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1957)
1887 – Bhaurao Patil , Indian educator and activist (died 1959)1889 – Hooks Dauss , American baseball player (died 1963)1891 – Alma Thomas , American painter and educator (died 1978)1892 – Billy West , American actor, director, and producer (died 1975)1894 – Elisabeth Rethberg , German soprano (died 1976)1895 – Paul Muni , Ukrainian-born American actor (died 1967)1896 – Uri Zvi Greenberg , Ukrainian-Israeli poet and journalist (died 1981)1896 – Henry Segrave , American-English race car driver (died 1930)
1897 – Frank O'Connor , American actor, rancher, and painter (died 1979)1899 – Elsie Allen , Native American Pomo basket weaver (died 1990)1900 – Paul Hugh Emmett , American chemist and engineer (died 1985)1900 – William Spratling , American-Mexican silversmith and educator (died 1967) 1901 – Nadezhda Alliluyeva , second wife of Joseph Stalin (died 1932)1901 – Charles Brenton Huggins , Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)
1902 – John Houseman , Romanian-American actor and producer (died 1988)1905 – Haakon Lie , Norwegian lawyer and politician (died 2009)1905 – Eugen Sänger , Czech-Austrian engineer (died 1964)
1906 – Ilse Koch , German war criminal (died 1967)1907 – Maurice Blanchot , French philosopher and author (died 2003)1907 – Philip Fotheringham-Parker , English race car driver (died 1981)
1907 – Hermann Schlichting , German engineer and academic (died 1982)
1908 – Esphyr Slobodkina , Russian-American author and illustrator (died 2002)1909 – John Engstead , American photographer and journalist (died 1983)1909 – Allan Lane , American actor (died 1973)
1910 – György Faludy , Hungarian poet and author (died 2006)1912 – Herbert Mataré , German physicist and academic (died 2011)1912 – Martha Scott , American actress (died 2003)
1913 – Lillian Chestney , American painter and illustrator (died 2000)1915 – Grigory Frid , Russian pianist and composer (died 2012)1918 – Hans Scholl , German activist and co-founder of the anti-Nazi resistance group White Rose (died 1943)1918 – Henryk Szeryng , Mexican violinist and educator (died 1988)
1920 – Eric Baker , English activist, co-founded Amnesty International (died 1976)1920 – Anders Lassen , Danish-English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1945)
1920 – Bob Lemon , American baseball player and manager (died 2000)
1920 – William H. Riker , American political scientist and academic (died 1993)
1921 – Will Elder , American illustrator (died 2008)1922 – David Sive , American environmentalist and lawyer (died 2014)1923 – Dannie Abse , Welsh physician, poet, and author (died 2014)1924 – Bernard Gauthier , French cyclist (died 2018)1924 – Charles Keeping , English author and illustrator (died 1988)
1924 – Rosamunde Pilcher , English author (died 2019)
1924 – Charles Waterhouse , American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (died 2013)
1924 – J. William Middendorf , American soldier and politician, 14th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 2025)
1924 – Ray Wetzel , American trumpet player and composer (died 1951)
1925 – Virginia Capers , American actress and singer (died 2004)1925 – Leila Hadley , American author (died 2009)
1926 – Bill Smith , American clarinet player and composer (died 2020)1927 – Gordon Astall , English footballer and coach (died 2020)1927 – Tommy Lasorda , American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2021)
1928 – Eric Broadley , English engineer and businessman, founded Lola Cars (died 2017)1928 – James Lawson , American activist, author, and academic (died 2024)
1928 – Eugene Roche , American actor (died 2004)
1928 – Johnny Valentine , American wrestler (died 2001)
1928 – Vitthalrao Gadgil , Indian politician (died 2001)
1929 – Serge Garant , Canadian composer and conductor (died 1986)1929 – Carlo Ubbiali , Italian motorcycle racer (died 2020)
1930 – Joni James , American singer (died 2022)1930 – T. S. Sinnathuray , Judge of the High Court of Singapore (died 2016)
1931 – Fay Weldon , English author and playwright (died 2023)1931 – George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie , Scottish banker and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (died 2003)
1932 – Algirdas Brazauskas , Lithuanian politician, 2nd President of Lithuania (died 2010)1932 – Ingemar Johansson , Swedish boxer (died 2009)
1933 – Leonardo Balada , Spanish-American composer and educator1933 – T. Cullen Davis , American businessman
1933 – Carmelo Simeone , Italian-Argentinian footballer (died 2014)
1933 – Jesco von Puttkamer , German-American engineer (died 2012)
1934 – Jack McGregor , American captain, lawyer, and politician1934 – Lute Olson , American basketball player and coach (died 2020)
1934 – T. Somasekaram , Sri Lankan geographer and politician, 37th Surveyor General of Sri Lanka (died 2010)
1936 – Maurice Evans , English footballer and manager (died 2000)1936 – Robin Gammell , Canadian actor
1937 – Don Rutherford , English rugby player (died 2016)1938 – Gene Mingo , American football player1939 – Bogdan Baltazar , Romanian economist and engineer (died 2012)1939 – Deborah Lavin , South African-English historian and academic
1939 – Gilbert E. Patterson , American bishop (died 2007)
1939 – Marlena Shaw , American jazz singer (died 2024)
1939 – Junko Tabei , Japanese mountaineer (died 2016)
1939 – Tim Wirth , American politician (representing Colorado 1975-87), President of United Nations Foundation
1940 – Anna Karina , Danish-French actress, director, and screenwriter (died 2019)1941 – Jeremiah Wright , American pastor and theologian1942 – Ole Anderson , American wrestler (died 2024)1942 – Candida Lycett Green , Anglo-Irish journalist and author (died 2014)
1942 – Rubén Salazar Gómez , Colombian cardinal
1942 – David Stern , American lawyer and businessman, 4th Commissioner of the NBA (died 2020)
1943 – Toni Basil , American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress1943 – Barry Cable , Australian footballer and coach
1943 – Paul Hoffert , American keyboard player, composer, and academic
1944 – Brian Gibson , English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2004)1945 – Paul Le Mat , American actor1946 – King Sunny Adé , Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist1946 – Larry Dierker , American baseball player and manager
1947 – Jo Beverley , English-Canadian author (died 2016)1947 – David Drewry , English glaciologist and geophysicist
1947 – Norma McCorvey , American activist (died 2017)
1947 – Robert Morace , American author and academic
1948 – Denis Burke , Australian soldier and politician, 6th Chief Minister of the Northern Territory 1948 – Mark Phillips , English equestrian, trainer, and journalist
1949 – Harold Carmichael , American football player1949 – James Cartwright , American general
1949 – Jim McGinty , Australian lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of Western Australia
1950 – Kirka , Finnish musician (died 2007)1951 – David Coverdale , English singer-songwriter1951 – Mike Graham , American wrestler and promoter (died 2012)
1951 – Doug Somers , American wrestler (died 2017)
1952 – Bob Goodlatte , American lawyer and politician1952 – Oliver Mtukudzi , Zimbabwean Afro-Jazz and 'tuku' singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2019)
1952 – Sukhumbhand Paribatra , Thai political scientist and politician, 15th Governor of Bangkok
1952 – Américo Rocca , Mexican wrestler
1953 – Richard Fairbrass , English singer-songwriter, musician and producer1953 – Ségolène Royal , French politician
1955 – John O. Brennan , Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2013-2017) under President Barack Obama1955 – Jeffrey Leonard , American baseball player and coach
1956 – Debby Boone , American singer, actress, and author1956 – Doug Wimbish , American singer-songwriter and bass player
1956 – Ibrahim Shema , Nigerian lawyer, politician
1957 – Steve Carney , English footballer (died 2013)1957 – Nick Cave , Australian singer-songwriter, author, and actor
1957 – Mark Johnson , American ice hockey player and coach
1957 – Johnette Napolitano , American singer-songwriter and bass player
1957 – Giuseppe Saronni , Italian cyclist and manager
1958 – Andrea Bocelli , Italian singer-songwriter and producer1958 – Beth Catlin , American autistic savant
1958 – Neil Cavuto , American journalist and author
1958 – Joan Jett , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress
1959 – Tai Babilonia , American figure skater and talk show host1959 – Wally Backman , American baseball player
1959 – Saul Perlmutter , American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate
1960 – Scott Baio , American actor1961 – Vince Coleman , American baseball player1961 – Liam Fox , Scottish physician and politician, Secretary of State for Defence
1961 – Bonnie Hunt , American actress, producer, and talk show host
1961 – Diane Lemieux , Canadian lawyer and politician
1961 – Catherine Oxenberg , American actress
1961 – Michael Torke , American composer
1962 – Martin Crowe , New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster (died 2016)1964 – Juha Turunen , Finnish lawyer and politician1964 – Ken Vandermark , American saxophonist and composer
1965 – Dan Bucatinsky , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter1965 – Andrii Deshchytsia , Ukrainian politician and diplomat, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1965 – Mark Guthrie , American baseball player
1965 – Robert Satcher , American physician, engineer, and astronaut
1966 – Ruth Jones , Welsh actress, producer, and screenwriter1966 – Mike Richter , American ice hockey player
1966 – Michael Shank , American racing team owner
1967 – Matt Besser , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter1967 – Super Delfin , Japanese wrestler
1967 – Brian Keene , American novelist
1967 – Ian Mortimer , English historian and novelist
1967 – Rickard Rydell , Swedish race car driver
1967 – Félix Savón , Cuban boxer
1969 – Nicole Bradtke , Australian tennis player and sportscaster1969 – Tuomas Kantelinen , Finnish composer and conductor
1969 – Sue Perkins , English comedian, actress, and radio host
1969 – Matt Sharp , American singer-songwriter and bass player
1970 – Gladys Berejiklian , Australian politician, 45th Premier of New South Wales 1970 – Mike Matheny , American baseball player and manager
1970 – Mystikal , American rapper and actor
1970 – Hitro Okesene , New Zealand rugby player and coach
1970 – Rupert Penry-Jones , English actor
1970 – Emmanuel Petit , French footballer
1971 – Elizabeth Bear , American author and poet1971 – Toomas Krõm , Estonian footballer
1971 – Luther Reigns , American actor and wrestler
1973 – Yoo Chae-yeong , South Korean singer-songwriter and actress (died 2014)1973 – Stéfan Louw , South African tenor and producer
1973 – Bob Sapp , American wrestler, kickboxer, mixed martial artist, and actor
1974 – Jenn Colella , American actress and singer1974 – Kostas Kaiafas , Cypriot footballer and manager
1975 – Mireille Enos , American actress1975 – Ethan Moreau , Canadian ice hockey player and scout
1976 – David Berkeley , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1976 – Mo Collins , American football player and coach (died 2014)
1977 – Antti-Jussi Niemi , Finnish ice hockey player1978 – Daniella Alonso , American actress and model1978 – Harry Kewell , Australian footballer and coach
1979 – Emilie Autumn , American singer-songwriter, violinist, and poet1979 – Swin Cash , American basketball player and executive
1979 – Michael Graziadei , American actor
1979 – Phil Waugh , Australian rugby player
1981 – Ashley Eckstein , American actress1981 – Janne Niskala , Finnish ice hockey player
1981 – Alexei Ramírez , Cuban baseball player
1981 – Subaru Shibutani , Japanese singer-songwriter
1981 – Ingrid Vetlesen , Norwegian soprano
1982 – Katie Lowes , American actress1982 – Billie Piper , English actress and singer
1982 – Maarten Stekelenburg , Dutch footballer
1983 – Glenn Loovens , Dutch professional footballer1984 – Thiago Silva , Brazilian footballer1985 – Jerma985 , American internet personality1985 – Faris Haroun , Belgian footballer
1985 – Jamie Mackie , Scottish footballer
1985 – Tatiana Maslany , Canadian actress
1985 – Ibragim Todashev , Russian-American mixed martial artist (died 2013)
1987 – Derick Brassard , Canadian ice hockey player1987 – Stefan Denifl , Austrian cyclist
1987 – Tom Felton , English actor
1987 – Zdravko Kuzmanović , Serbian footballer
1987 – Teyonah Parris , American actress
1988 – Sana Saeed , Indian actress and model1989 – Jon Bass , American actor1989 – Kim Hyo-yeon , South Korean singer, dancer, and actress
1989 – Sabine Lisicki , German tennis player
1990 – Denard Robinson , American football player1991 – Kenny Bromwich , New Zealand rugby league player1992 – Philip Hindes , English track cyclist1994 – Carlos Correa , Puerto Rican-American baseball player1994 – Jinyoung , South Korean singer, actor, songwriter
1994 – Haason Reddick , American football player
1994 – Alexander Wennberg , Swedish ice hockey player
1995 – Nayeon , South Korean singer1999 – Curry Barker , American filmmaker and actor1999 – Kim Yo-han , South Korean singer and actor
1999 – Kim You-jung , South Korean actress
2000 – Louise Christie , British rhythm gymnast2000 – Stephen Crichton , Samoan rugby league footballer
2000 – Seungmin , South Korean singer
2004 – Jessie Murph , American singer and songwriter2009 – Coco Yoshizawa , Japanese skateboarderDeaths
Pre-1600
189 – He Jin , Chinese general and regent (born 135)530 – Pope Felix IV 904 – Zhao Zong , emperor of the Tang Dynasty (born 867)967 – Wichmann II , Frankish nobleman1072 – Ouyang Xiu , Chinese historian, poet, and politician (born 1007)1158 – Otto of Freising , German bishop and chronicler (born c. 1114)1174 – Uchtred, Lord of Galloway (born c. 1120)1253 – Dōgen , Japanese monk and philosopher (born 1200)1345 – Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster , English politician, Lord High Steward (born 1281)1399 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk , English politician, Earl Marshal of The United Kingdom (born 1366)1408 – John VII Palaiologos , Byzantine Emperor (born 1370)1457 – Peter II, Duke of Brittany (born 1418)1482 – Philibert I, Duke of Savoy (born 1465)1520 – Selim I , Ottoman sultan (born 1465)1531 – Louise of Savoy , French regent (born 1476)1539 – Guru Nanak , Sikh religious leader, founded Sikhism (born 1469)1554 – Francisco Vázquez de Coronado , Spanish explorer (born 1510)1566 – Johannes Agricola , German theologian and academic (born 1494)1576 – Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex (born 1541)1598 – Gabriel Spenser , English actor (born c. 1578)1607 – Alessandro Allori , Italian painter and educator (born 1535)1662 – John Biddle , English minister and theologian (born 1615)1692 – Martha Corey , American woman accused of witchcraft (born 1620)1703 – Vincenzo Viviani , Italian mathematician and physicist (born 1622)1711 – William Bartram , English-born politician and settler (born 1674)1756 – Abu l-Hasan Ali I , ruler of Tunisia (born 1688)1774 – Pope Clement XIV (born 1705)1776 – Nathan Hale , American soldier (born 1755)1777 – John Bartram , American botanist and explorer (born 1699)1852 – William Tierney Clark , English engineer, designed Hammersmith Bridge (born 1783)1862 – Frederick Townsend Ward , American sailor and mercenary (born 1831)1872 – Vladimir Dal , Russian lexicographer and linguist (born 1801)1873 – Friedrich Frey-Herosé , Swiss lawyer and politician (born 1801)1881 – Solomon L. Spink , American lawyer and politician (born 1831)1914 – Alain-Fournier , French soldier and author (born 1886)1917 – John Henry Knight , English engineer (born 1847)1919 – Alajos Gáspár , Hungarian-Slovene author and poet (born 1848)1933 – Sime Silverman , American journalist and newspaper publisher (born 1873)1934 – Cecil Chubb , English barrister and last private owner of Stonehenge (born 1876)1935 – Elliott Lewis , Australian politician, 19th Premier of Tasmania (born 1858)1952 – Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg , Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st President of Finland (born 1865)1956 – Frederick Soddy , English chemist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)1957 – Soemu Toyoda , Japanese admiral (born 1885)1961 – Marion Davies , American actress and comedian (born 1897)1969 – Adolfo López Mateos , Mexican politician, 48th President of Mexico (born 1909)1973 – Paul van Zeeland , Belgian lawyer, economist, and politician, 38th Prime Minister of Belgium (born 1893)1979 – Abul A'la Maududi , Pakistani theologian, Islamic scholar and jurist (born 1903)1981 – Harry Warren , American composer and songwriter (born 1893)1987 – Hákun Djurhuus , Faroese educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (born 1908)1987 – Dan Rowan , American actor, comedian, and producer (born 1922)
1988 – Rais Amrohvi , Pakistani psychoanalyst, scholar, and poet (born 1914)1989 – Ambrose Folorunsho Alli , Nigerian academic and politician (born 1929)1989 – Irving Berlin , Russian-born American composer and songwriter (born 1888)
1992 – Aurelio López , Mexican baseball player (born 1948)1993 – Maurice Abravanel , Greek-American pianist and conductor (born 1903)1994 – Leonard Feather , English-American pianist, composer, producer, and journalist (born 1914)1996 – Ludmilla Chiriaeff , Latvian-Canadian ballerina, choreographer, and director (born 1924)1996 – Dorothy Lamour , American actress and singer (born 1914)
1999 – George C. Scott , American actor, director, and producer (born 1927)2000 – Saburō Sakai , Japanese lieutenant and pilot (born 1916)2001 – Isaac Stern , Polish-Ukrainian violinist and conductor (born 1920)2002 – Jan de Hartog , Dutch-American author and playwright (born 1914)2003 – Gordon Jump , American actor (born 1932)2003 – Hugo Young , English journalist and author (born 1938)
2004 – Pete Schoening , American mountaineer (born 1927)2004 – Ray Traylor Jr. , American professional wrestler better-known as the Big Boss Man (born 1963)
2006 – Edward Albert , American actor (born 1951)2006 – Carla Benschop , Dutch basketball player and educator (born 1950)
2007 – ʻAlí-Muhammad Varqá , last Hand of the Cause of God in the Baháʼí Faith (born 1911)2007 – Marcel Marceau , French mime and actor (born 1923)
2008 – Thomas Dörflein , German zookeeper (born 1963)2008 – Petrus Schaesberg , German painter, historian, and educator (born 1967)
2009 – Edward Delaney , Irish sculptor (born 1930)2010 – Jackie Burroughs , British-born Canadian actress (born 1939)2010 – Eddie Fisher , American singer (born 1928)
2010 – Vyacheslav Tsaryov , Russian footballer (born 1971)
2011 – Knut Steen , Norwegian sculptor (born 1924)2012 – Hector Abhayavardhana , Sri Lankan theorist and academic (born 1919)2012 – Irving Adler , American mathematician, author, and academic (born 1913)
2012 – Juan H. Cintrón García , Puerto Rican businessman and politician, 126th Mayor of Ponce (born 1919)
2012 – Grigory Frid , Russian pianist and composer (born 1915)
2012 – Jan Hendrik van den Berg , Dutch psychiatrist and academic (born 1914)
2013 – Gary Brandner , American author and screenwriter (born 1930)2013 – Jane Connell , American actress and singer (born 1925)
2013 – David H. Hubel , Canadian-American neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)
2013 – Álvaro Mutis , Colombian-Mexican author and poet (born 1923)
2013 – Hans Erich Slany , German industrial designer, founded TEAMS Design (born 1926)
2013 – Luciano Vincenzoni , Italian screenwriter (born 1926)
2014 – Fernando Cabrita , Portuguese footballer and manager (born 1923)2014 – Sahana Pradhan , Nepalese politician, Nepalese Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1927)
2014 – Erik van der Wurff , Dutch pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1945)
2014 – Hans E. Wallman , Swedish director, producer, and composer (born 1936)
2015 – Yogi Berra , American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1925)2016 – Delphine Medjo , Cameroonian politician (born 1941)2018 – Chas Hodges , English musician and singer (born 1943)2018 – Edna Molewa , South African politician (born 1957)
2020 – Neil Brannon , American politician (born 1940)2022 – Carlos Balá , Argentine actor and comedian (born 1925)2022 – Hilary Mantel , British author (born 1952)
2022 – Pal Singh Purewal , Punjabi engineer, author, scholar, and teacher (born 1931/1932)
2023 – Altemio Sanchez , Puerto Rican serial killer and rapist (born 1958)2024 – Roy Clay , American computer scientist (born 1929)2024 – Fredric Jameson , American academic and literary critic (born 1934)