Events
Pre-1600
*
38 –
Drusilla,
Caligula
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (31 August 12 – 24 January 41), better known by his nickname Caligula (), was the third Roman emperor, ruling from 37 until his assassination in 41. He was the son of the popular Roman general Germani ...
's sister who died in June, with whom the emperor is said to have an incestuous relationship, is deified.
*
1122
Year 1122 ( MCXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* Battle of Beroia: Emperor John II Komnenos transfers the Byzantine field army fr ...
–
Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor
Henry V Henry V may refer to:
People
* Henry V, Duke of Bavaria (died 1026)
* Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (1081/86–1125)
* Henry V, Duke of Carinthia (died 1161)
* Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine (c. 1173–1227)
* Henry V, Count of Luxembourg (121 ...
agree to the
Concordat of Worms to put an end to the
Investiture Controversy
The Investiture Controversy, also called Investiture Contest (German: ''Investiturstreit''; ), was a conflict between the Church and the state in medieval Europe over the ability to choose and install bishops ( investiture) and abbots of mona ...
.
*
1338 – The
Battle of Arnemuiden, in which a French force defeats the English, is the first naval battle of the
Hundred Years' War
The Hundred Years' War (; 1337–1453) was a series of armed conflicts between the kingdoms of England and France during the Late Middle Ages. It originated from disputed claims to the French throne between the English House of Plantagen ...
and the first naval battle in which gunpowder artillery is used.
*
1409 – The
Battle of Kherlen is the second significant victory over Ming dynasty China by the Mongols since 1368.
*
1459 – The
Battle of Blore Heath
The Battle of Blore Heath was a battle in the English Wars of the Roses. It was fought on 23 September 1459, at Blore Heath in Staffordshire. Blore Heath is a sparsely populated area of farmland, two miles east of the town of Market Drayton in ...
, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is won by the Yorkists.
*
1561 – King
Philip II of Spain
Philip II) in Spain, while in Portugal and his Italian kingdoms he ruled as Philip I ( pt, Filipe I). (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent ( es, Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from ...
issues
cedula, ordering a halt to colonizing efforts in Florida.
1601–1900
*
1779 –
American Revolution
The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791. The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revoluti ...
:
John Paul Jones, naval commander of the United States, on board the , wins the
Battle of Flamborough Head.
*
1803 –
Second Anglo-Maratha War: The
Battle of Assaye
The Battle of Assaye was a major battle of the Second Anglo-Maratha War fought between the Maratha Empire and the British East India Company. It occurred on 23 September 1803 near Assaye in western India. An outnumbered Indian and British f ...
is fought between the
British East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and South ...
and the
Maratha Empire
The Maratha Empire, also referred to as the Maratha Confederacy, was an early modern Indian confederation that came to dominate much of the Indian subcontinent in the 18th century. Maratha rule formally began in 1674 with the coronation of Sh ...
in India.
*
1821 –
Tripolitsa, Greece, is captured by Greek rebels during the Greek War of Independence.
*
1846 – Astronomers
Urbain Le Verrier
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier FRS (FOR) HFRSE (; 11 March 1811 – 23 September 1877) was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using ...
,
John Couch Adams
John Couch Adams (; 5 June 1819 – 21 January 1892) was a British mathematician and astronomer. He was born in Laneast, near Launceston, Cornwall, and died in Cambridge.
His most famous achievement was predicting the existence and position o ...
and
Johann Gottfried Galle
Johann Gottfried Galle (9 June 1812 – 10 July 1910) was a German astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the pl ...
collaborate on the
discovery of Neptune
The planet Neptune was mathematically predicted before it was directly observed. With a prediction by Urbain Le Verrier, telescopic observations confirming the existence of a major planet were made on the night of September 23–24, 1846, at the ...
.
*
1868 – The
Grito de Lares occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
*
1884 – On the night of 23-24 September, the steamship ''Arctique'' runs aground near
Cape Virgenes leading to the discovery of nearby
placer gold, beginning the
Tierra del Fuego gold rush.
*
1899 – The American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the
Battle of Olongapo.
1901–present
*
1905 – Norway and Sweden sign the Karlstad Treaty, peacefully
dissolving the Union between the two countries.
*
1942 –
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
: The
Matanikau action on
Guadalcanal begins: U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the
Matanikau River.
*
1950 –
Korean War
{{Infobox military conflict
, conflict = Korean War
, partof = the Cold War and the Korean conflict
, image = Korean War Montage 2.png
, image_size = 300px
, caption = Clockwise from top:{ ...
: The
Battle of Hill 282
The Battle of Hill 282 took place on 23 September 1950 during the Korean War, and involved the 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in an assault on this position as part an operation by 27th British Commonwealth Brigade on the Nakton ...
is the first US friendly-fire incident on British military personnel since World War II.
*
1973 –
Argentine general election:
Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
*
1983 –
Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 117 people on board.
*
2004 – Over 3,000 people die in
Haiti
Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and s ...
after
Hurricane Jeanne
Hurricane Jeanne was a Category 3 hurricane that struck the Caribbean and the Eastern United States in September 2004. It was the deadliest hurricane in the Atlantic basin since Mitch in 1998. It was the tenth named storm, the seventh hurric ...
produces massive flooding and mudslides.
*
2008
File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
– Matti Saari
kills ten people at a school in Finland before committing suicide.
Births
Pre-1600
*
63 BC –
Augustus
Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian, was the first Roman emperor; he reigned from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. He is known for being the founder of the Roman Pr ...
, Roman emperor (d. 14 AD)
*
1158 –
Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1186)
*
1215 –
Kublai Khan
Kublai ; Mongolian script: ; (23 September 1215 – 18 February 1294), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Shizu of Yuan and his regnal name Setsen Khan, was the founder of the Yuan dynasty of China and the fifth khagan-emperor of ...
, Mongolian emperor (d. 1294)
*
1495
Year 1495 ( MCDXCV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* February – King's College, Aberdeen, predecessor of the University of Aberdeen i ...
–
Bagrat III of Imereti, King of Imereti (d. 1565)
*
1597 –
Francesco Barberini, Catholic cardinal (d. 1679)
*
1598 –
Eleonore Gonzaga, Italian wife of
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655)
1601–1900
*
1642 –
Giovanni Maria Bononcini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1678)
*
1647 –
Joseph Dudley, English politician,
Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1720)
*
1650 –
Jeremy Collier, English bishop and theologian (d. 1726)
*
1713 –
Ferdinand VI of Spain
, house = Bourbon-Anjou
, father = Philip V of Spain
, mother = Maria Luisa of Savoy
, birth_date = 23 September 1713
, birth_place = Royal Alcazar of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
, death_date =
, death_place = Villav ...
(d. 1759)
*
1740
Events
January–March
* January 8 – All 237 crewmen on the Dutch East India Company ship ''Rooswijk'' are drowned, when the vessel strikes the shoals of Goodwin Sands, off of the coast of England, as it is beginning its second ...
–
Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)
*
1756
Events
January–March
* January 16 – The Treaty of Westminster is signed between Great Britain and Prussia, guaranteeing the neutrality of the Kingdom of Hanover, controlled by King George II of Great Britain.
* February ...
–
John Loudon McAdam
John Loudon McAdam (23 September 1756 – 26 November 1836) was a Scottish civil engineer and road-builder. He invented a new process, " macadamisation", for building roads with a smooth hard surface, using controlled materials of m ...
, Scottish engineer (d. 1836)
*
1771 –
Emperor Kōkaku of Japan (d. 1840)
*
1778 –
Mariano Moreno
Mariano Moreno (; September 23, 1778March 4, 1811) was an Argentine lawyer, journalist, and politician. He played a decisive role in the Primera Junta, the first national government of Argentina, created after the May Revolution.
Moreno was ...
, Argentinian journalist, lawyer, and politician (d. 1811)
*
1781
Events
January–March
* January – William Pitt the Younger, later Prime Minister of Great Britain, enters Parliament, aged 21.
* January 1 – Industrial Revolution: The Iron Bridge opens across the River Severn ...
–
Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (Coburg, 23 September 1781 – Elfenau, near Bern, Switzerland, 12 August 1860), also known as Grand Duchess Anna Feodorovna of Russia (russian: Анна Фёдоровна), was a German princess of the du ...
(d. 1860)
*
1791 –
Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer and academic (d. 1865)
* 1791 –
Theodor Körner, German soldier and author (d. 1813)
*
1800 –
William Holmes McGuffey, American author and academic (d. 1873)
*
1819 –
Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist and academic (d. 1896)
*
1823 –
John Colton, English-Australian politician, 13th
Premier of South Australia (d. 1902)
*
1838
Events
January–March
* January 10 – A fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London.
* January 11 – At Morristown, New Jersey, Samuel Morse, Alfred Vail and Leonard Gale give the first public demonstration o ...
–
Victoria Woodhull, American journalist and activist (d. 1927)
*
1851
Events
January–March
* January 11 – Hong Xiuquan officially begins the Taiping Rebellion.
* January 15 – Christian Female College, modern-day Columbia College, receives its charter from the Missouri General Assembly.
...
–
Ellen Hayes
Ellen Amanda Hayes (September 23, 1851October 27, 1930) was an American mathematician and astronomer. She was a controversial figure, not only because of being a female college professor, but also for embracing many radical causes.
Early life
H ...
, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1930)
*
1852 –
James Carroll Beckwith, American painter and academic (d. 1917)
* 1852 –
William Stewart Halsted
William Stewart Halsted, M.D. (September 23, 1852 – September 7, 1922) was an American surgeon who emphasized strict aseptic technique during surgical procedures, was an early champion of newly discovered anesthetics, and introduced several ...
, American physician and surgeon (d. 1922)
*
1853
Events
January–March
* January 6 – Florida Governor Thomas Brown signs legislation that provides public support for the new East Florida Seminary, leading to the establishment of the University of Florida.
* January 8 – Taiping Reb ...
–
Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen (d. 1923)
*
1861 –
Robert Bosch
Robert Bosch (23 September 1861 – 12 March 1942) was a German industrialist, engineer and inventor, founder of Robert Bosch GmbH.
Biography
Bosch was born in Albeck, a village to the northeast of Ulm in southern Germany as the eleventh of ...
, German engineer and businessman, founded
Robert Bosch GmbH (d. 1942)
*
1863 –
Mary Church Terrell
Mary Church Terrell (born Mary Eliza Church; September 23, 1863 – July 24, 1954) was one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree, and became known as a national activist for civil rights and suffrage. She taught in the Lati ...
, American author and activist (d. 1954)
*
1865
Events
January–March
* January 4 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street, in New York City.
* January 13 – American Civil War : Second Battle of Fort Fisher ...
–
Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (d. 1933)
* 1865 –
Emma Orczy
Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci) (; 23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947), usually known as Baroness Orczy (the name under which she was published) or to her family and friends as Em ...
, Hungarian-English author and playwright (d. 1947)
* 1865 –
Suzanne Valadon, French model and painter (d. 1938)
*
1867 –
John Lomax, American teacher, musicologist, and folklorist (d. 1948)
*
1876 –
Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli rabbi and scholar (d. 1968)
*
1880 –
John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr
John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, (23 September 1880 – 25 June 1971), styled Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a Scottish teacher, medical doctor, biologist, nutritional physiologist, politician, businessman and farmer who was awarde ...
, Scottish biologist, physician, and politician,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (d. 1971)
*
1889 –
Walter Lippmann, American journalist and publisher, co-founded ''
The New Republic
''The New Republic'' is an American magazine of commentary on politics, contemporary culture, and the arts. Founded in 1914 by several leaders of the progressive movement, it attempted to find a balance between "a liberalism centered in hu ...
'' (d. 1974)
*
1890 –
Friedrich Paulus
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus (23 September 1890 – 1 February 1957) was a German field marshal during World War II who is best known for commanding the 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 to February 1943). The battle ende ...
, German general (d. 1957)
*
1895 –
Miron Merzhanov
Miron Ivanovich Merzhanov, born Meran Merzhanyantz (russian: Мирон Иванович Мержанов, Меран Оганесович Мержанянц, September 23, 1895 – December 1975), was a Soviet architect of Armenian descent, notabl ...
, Russian architect and engineer (d. 1975)
* 1895 –
Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (d. 1985)
*
1897 –
Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (d. 1994)
* 1897 –
Walter Pidgeon, Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1984)
*
1898 –
Les Haylen
Leslie Clement "Les" Haylen (23 September 1898 – 12 September 1977), also known by the pen-name Sutton Woodfield, was an Australian politician, playwright, novelist and journalist.
Early life
Haylen was born on 23 September 1898 at Gundaroo ...
, Australian journalist and politician (d. 1977)
*
1899 –
Tom C. Clark, American lawyer and judge, 59th
Attorney General of the United States (d. 1977)
* 1899 –
Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (d. 1988)
*
1900 –
Bill Stone, English soldier (d. 2009)
1901–present
*
1901 –
Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet and journalist,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (d. 1986)
*
1902 –
Su Buqing
Su Buqing, also spelled Su Buchin (; September 23, 1902 – March 17, 2003), was a Chinese mathematician, educator and poet. He was the founder of differential geometry in China, and served as president of Fudan University and honorary chairman ...
, Chinese mathematician and academic (d. 2003)
*
1903 –
Cec Fifield
Cec "Dicky" Fifield (1903-1957) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s, and coached in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. An Australian international and New South Wales interstate representative centre, he play ...
, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1957)
*
1904 –
Arthur Folwell
Arthur Fitzgerald Folwell (23 September 1904 – 14 October 1966) was a British-born Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, coached in the 1940s, and was an administrator in the mid-20th cent ...
, English-Australian rugby league player, coach, and administrator (d. 1966)
*
1906 –
Charles Ritchie, Canadian diplomat,
High Commission of Canada to the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
*
1907 –
Tiny Bradshaw, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1958)
* 1907 –
Anne Desclos
Anne Cécile Desclos (23 September 1907 – 27 April 1998) was a French journalist and novelist who wrote under the pen names Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage. She is best known for her erotic novel ''Story of O'' (1954).
Early life
Born i ...
, French journalist and author (d. 1998)
* 1907 –
Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza (d. 1976)
*
1908 –
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Indian poet, academic, and politician (d. 1974)
*
1909 –
Lorenc Antoni, Kosovo-Albanian composer and conductor (d. 1991)
*
1910 –
Jakob Streit, Swiss anthroposophist and author (d. 2009)
*
1911
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole.
Events January
* January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia.
* ...
–
Frank Moss
Frank Edward "Ted" Moss (September 23, 1911 – January 29, 2003) was an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat, he served as a United States Senator from Utah from 1959 to 1977.
Early life and education
Frank Moss was born in Holla ...
, American lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
*
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6
** German geophysicist Alfred ...
–
Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani linguist, author, and critic (d. 2005)
* 1912 –
Tony Smith, American sculptor and educator (d. 1980)
*
1913 –
Carl-Henning Pedersen
Carl-Henning Pedersen (23 September 1913 – 20 February 2007) was a Danish painter and a key member of the COBRA movement. He was known as the "Scandinavian Chagall", and was one of the leading Danish artists of the second half of the 20th c ...
, Danish painter and sculptor (d. 2007)
*
1915 –
Julius Baker, American flute player and educator (d. 2003)
* 1915 –
Clifford Shull
Clifford Glenwood Shull (September 23, 1915 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – March 31, 2001) was a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist.
Biography
Shull attended Schenley High School in Pittsburgh, received his BS from Carnegie Institute of Tec ...
, American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (d. 2001)
*
1916 –
Aldo Moro, Italian academic and politician, 39th
Prime Minister of Italy
The Prime Minister of Italy, officially the President of the Council of Ministers ( it, link=no, Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri), is the head of government of the Italian Republic. The office of president of the Council of Ministers is ...
(d. 1978)
*
1917 –
Santo, Mexican Luchador enmascarado, film actor, and folk icon (d. 1984)
* 1917 –
Asima Chatterjee
Asima Chatterjee (23 September 1917 – 22 November 2006) was an Indian organic chemist noted for her work in the fields of organic chemistry and phytomedicine.''The Shaping of Indian Science''. p. 1036. Indian Science Congress Association, Pr ...
, Indian chemist (d. 2006)
*
1920
Events January
* January 1
** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20.
** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own ma ...
–
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; other pseudonym Mickey Maguire; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor. In a career spanning nine decades, he appeared in more than 300 films and was among the last surviving stars of the ...
, American actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 2014)
*
1923 –
Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Egyptian journalist (d. 2016)
* 1923 –
Vello Helk, Estonian-Danish historian and author (d. 2014)
*
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hold ...
–
Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal
Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal (23 September 1924 – 10 January 1978) was a Nicaraguan journalist and publisher. He was the editor of '' La Prensa'', the only significant opposition newspaper to the long rule of the Somoza family. He is a 1 ...
, Nicaraguan journalist and publisher (d. 1978)
*
1925 –
Denis C. Twitchett
Denis Crispin Twitchett (23 September 192524 February 2006) was a British Sinologist and scholar who specialized in Chinese history, and is well known as one of the co-editors of '' The Cambridge History of China''.
Biography
Denis Twitchett was ...
, English historian and scholar (d. 2006)
*
1926 –
André Cassagnes
André Cassagnes (September 23, 1926 – January 16, 2013) was a French inventor, electrical technician, toymaker, and kite designer. Cassagnes is best known as the inventor of the Etch A Sketch, a popular mechanical drawing toy manufactured ...
, French toy maker, created the
Etch A Sketch (d. 2013)
* 1926 –
John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1967)
*
1928
Events January
* January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.
* January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhano ...
–
Frank Foster, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2011)
* 1928 –
Roger Grimsby, American journalist and actor (d. 1995)
*
1930 –
Sehba Akhtar, Pakistani poet and songwriter (d. 1996)
* 1930 –
Colin Blakely, Northern Irish actor (d. 1987)
* 1930 –
Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson Sr. (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. He is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential singers in history, and was often referred to by contemporaries as "The Ge ...
, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 2004)
*
1931 –
Hilly Kristal
Hillel Kristal (September 23, 1931August 28, 2007) was an American club owner, manager and musician who was the owner of the iconic New York City club CBGB, which opened in 1973 and closed in 2006 over a rent dispute.
Early years
Kristal was bo ...
, American businessman, founded
CBGB
CBGB was a New York City music club opened in 1973 by Hilly Kristal in Manhattan's East Village. The club was previously a biker bar and before that was a dive bar. The letters ''CBGB'' were for '' Country'', '' BlueGrass'', and '' Blues'', Kri ...
(d. 2007)
* 1931 –
Stan Lynde
Myron Stanford Lynde (September 23, 1931 – August 6, 2013) was an American comic strip artist, painter and novelist.
Biography
Born 23 September 1931 in Billings, Montana, he was raised on a sheep ranch near Lodge Grass. He attended the ...
, American author and illustrator (d. 2013)
* 1931 –
Gerald Merrithew
Gerald Stairs "Gerry" Merrithew (September 23, 1931 – September 5, 2004), born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, was an educator, provincial and federal politician, and statesman.
Merrithew graduated from the New Brunswick Teachers' Col ...
, Canadian educator and politician (d. 2004)
*
1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort to assassinate Emperor Hir ...
–
Georg Keßler, German footballer and manager
*
1933
Events
January
* January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
* January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ...
–
Lloyd J. Old
Lloyd John Old (September 23, 1933 – November 28, 2011) was one of the founders and standard-bearers of the field of cancer immunology. When Old began his career in 1958, tumor immunology was in its infancy. Today, cancer immunotherapies are e ...
, American immunologist and academic (d. 2011)
*
1934 –
Per Olov Enquist, Swedish journalist, author, and playwright (d. 2020)
*
1935
Events
January
* January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
* January 12 – Amelia Earhart ...
–
Prem Chopra, Pakistani-Indian actor
* 1935 –
Les McCann, American soul-jazz singer and pianist
* 1935 –
Ron Tindall
Ronald Albert Ernest Tindall (23 September 1935 – 9 September 2012) was an English footballer who played as a striker. He was also an accomplished cricketer, playing for Surrey.
Football career
Tindall played youth football for Camberley Wa ...
, English-Australian footballer, cricketer, and manager (d. 2012)
*
1936 –
George Eastham, English footballer
* 1936 –
Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian lawyer and politician, 91st
President of Peru (d. 2006)
* 1936 –
Sylvain Saudan, Swiss skier
* 1936 –
Tareq Suheimat
Tareq Salah Attalla Suheimat (23 September 1936 – 21 July 2014), was a distinguished Jordanian physician, nephrologist, military General, and statesman. Born in the historic city of Al-Karak in southern Jordan, Suheimat studied in Amman's school ...
, Jordanian physician, general, and politician (d. 2014)
*
1937 –
Jacques Poulin, Canadian author and translator
*
1938 –
Romy Schneider, German-French actress (d. 1982)
*
1939 –
Henry Blofeld, English cricketer and journalist
* 1939 –
Roy Buchanan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1988)
* 1939 –
Joan Hanham, Baroness Hanham
Joan Brownlow Hanham, Baroness Hanham, CBE (née Spark; born 23 September 1939) is a former member of the House of Lords. She sat as a Conservative.
She was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Gove ...
, English politician
* 1939 –
Sonny Vaccaro
John Paul Vincent "Sonny" Vaccaro (born September 23, 1939 in Trafford, Pennsylvania) is an American former sports marketing executive, and lives in Santa Monica, California.
Vaccaro is best known for his tenure with Nike, Inc., where he signed ...
, American businessman
*
1940 –
Michel Temer
Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia (; born 23 September 1940) is a Brazilian politician, lawyer and writer who served as the 37th president of Brazil from 31 August 2016 to 31 December 2018. He took office after the impeachment and removal from off ...
, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 25th
Vice President of Brazil
* 1940 –
Dick Thornett
Richard Norman Thornett (23 September 1940 – 12 October 2011) was one of five Australians to have represented their country in three sports. He was an Olympic water polo player before becoming a rugby league and rugby union player – a dua ...
, Australian rugby player and water polo player (d. 2011)
*
1941 –
George Jackson, American activist and author, co-founded the
Black Guerrilla Family (d. 1971)
* 1941 –
Simon Nolet
Simon may refer to:
People
* Simon (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Simon
* Simon (surname), including a list of people with the surname Simon
* Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...
, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
* 1941 –
Norma Winstone, English singer-songwriter
*
1942 –
Sila María Calderón
Sila María Calderón Serra (born September 23, 1942) is a Puerto Rican politician, businesswoman, and philanthropist who was the governor of Puerto Rico from 2001 to 2005. She is the first woman elected to that office. Prior to her term as gove ...
, Puerto Rican-American businesswoman and politician, 12th
Secretary of State of Puerto Rico
The secretary of state of Puerto Rico ( es, Secretario de Estado de Puerto Rico) leads all efforts that promote the cultural, political, and economical relations between Puerto Rico and foreign countries, and other jurisdictions of the United ...
* 1942 –
Colin Low, Baron Low of Dalston, Scottish scholar and politician
* 1942 –
David Renneberg, Australian cricketer
*
1943 –
Julio Iglesias
Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva (; born 23 September 1943) is a Spanish singer, songwriter and former professional footballer. Iglesias is recognized as the most commercially successful Spanish singer in the world and one of the top record ...
, Spanish singer-songwriter
* 1943 –
Marty Schottenheimer, American football player and coach (d. 2021)
*
1944
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in ...
–
Eric Bogle, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1944 –
Richard Lambert, English journalist and academic
*
1945 –
Ron Bushy, American drummer (d. 2021)
* 1945 –
Igor Ivanov
Igor Sergeyevich Ivanov (born 23 September 1945) is a Russian politician who was Foreign Minister of Russia from 1998 to 2004 under both the Yeltsin and the Putin administrations.
Early life
Ivanov was born in 1945 in Moscow to a Russian fathe ...
, Russian politician and diplomat,
Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs
* 1945 –
Alan Old
Alan Gerald Bernard Old (born 23 September 1945) is an English rugby union player who had 16 caps for England.
Old was an undergraduate at Queen Mary College and later studied for a year at Durham University, where he competed for Durham Un ...
, English rugby player
*
1946 –
Franz Fischler
Franz Fischler (born 23 September 1946) is an Austrian politician from the Christian- conservative People's Party ( ÖVP). He was the European Union's Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries (1995–2004). He also was Pres ...
, Austrian politician
* 1946 –
Bernard Maris
Bernard Henri Maris (; 23 September 19467 January 2015), also known as "Oncle Bernard", was a French economist, writer and journalist who was also a shareholder in ''Charlie Hebdo'' magazine. He was murdered on 7 January 2015, during the shooti ...
, French economist and journalist (d. 2015)
* 1946 –
Genista McIntosh, Baroness McIntosh, English politician
* 1946 –
Davorin Popović, Bosnian singer-songwriter (d. 2001)
* 1946 –
Anne Wheeler
Anne Wheeler, OC, (born September 23, 1946) is a Canadian film and television writer, producer, and director.
Biography
Graduating in Mathematics from the University of Alberta she was a computer programmer before traveling abroad. Her years o ...
, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
*
1947 –
Christian Bordeleau, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1947 –
Mary Kay Place, American actress
* 1947 –
Neal Smith, American drummer and songwriter
*
1948 –
Dan Toler, American guitarist (d. 2013)
*
1949 –
Floella Benjamin, Trinidadian-English actress, academic, and politician
* 1949 –
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer and songwriter. He has released 21 studio albums, most of which feature his backing band, the E Street Band. Originally from the Jersey Shore, he is an originato ...
, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1949 –
Kostas Tournas, Greek singer-songwriter
*
1950 –
George Garzone
George Garzone (born September 23, 1950) is a saxophonist and jazz educator from Boston, Massachusetts.
Biography
Garzone is a member of the Fringe, a jazz trio founded in 1972 that includes bassist John Lockwood and drummer Bob Gullotti. The ...
, American saxophonist and educator
*
1951 –
Steven Springer
Steven Springer (born Steven Anthony Springer) (September 23, 1951 – September 10, 2012) was an American guitarist and songwriter known for his innovative smooth soft touch guitar style. He was best known for being a member of the Trinidad T ...
, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2012)
*
1952 –
Mark Bego
Mark Joseph Bego (born 23 September 1952, in Pontiac, Michigan) is an author known for his biographies focusing on the rock & roll and show business genres. Bego has written a total of 59 books, two of which have gone on to become New York Times ...
, American author
* 1952 –
Anshuman Gaekwad
Anshuman Dattajirao Gaekwad (born 23 September 1952) is a former Indian cricketer and two-time Indian national cricket coach. He played in 40 Test matches and 15 One Day Internationals. His father Datta Gaekwad also played Test Cricket for Ind ...
, Indian cricketer
* 1952 –
Dennis Lamp
Dennis Patrick Lamp (born September 23, 1952) is a former professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball. From 1977 through 1992, the breaking ball specialist played for the Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, Oakland Athle ...
, American baseball player
* 1952 –
Jim Morrison, American baseball player and manager
*
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugosl ...
–
Nicholas Witchell, English journalist
*
1954 –
Charlie Barnett, American actor (d. 1996)
* 1954 –
Cherie Blair
Cherie, Lady Blair, (; born 23 September 1954), also known professionally as Cherie Booth, is an English barrister and writer. She is married to the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir Tony Blair.
Early life and education
Boot ...
, English lawyer and academic
*
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are kille ...
–
Peter David
Peter Allen David (born September 23, 1956), often abbreviated PAD, is an American writer of comic books, novels, television, films and video games.Buxton, Marc (March 29, 2014)"From 'Future Imperfect' to '2099': Peter David's Greatest Hits" Co ...
, American author, actor, and screenwriter
* 1956 –
Tom Hogan, Australian cricketer
* 1956 –
Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer (d. 2020)
*
1957 –
Rosalind Chao, American actress
*
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
–
Danielle Dax, English singer-songwriter and producer
* 1958 –
Khaled El Sheikh, Bahraini singer-songwriter
* 1958 –
Tony Fossas, Cuban-American baseball player and coach
* 1958 –
Marvin Lewis
Marvin Ronald Lewis (born September 23, 1958) is an American football coach who is the special advisor to the head coach at Arizona State. Previously, Lewis was the head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals in the National Football League (NFL) for ...
, American football player and coach
* 1958 –
Larry Mize, American golfer
*
1959 –
Jason Alexander, American actor, singer, and voice artist
* 1959 –
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Frank Cottrell-Boyce (born 23 September 1959)"COTTRELL-BOYCE, Frank", ''Who's Who 2010'', A & C Black, 2010; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2009 ; online edn, Nov 200 Retrieved 2010-05-16. is an English people, English screenwriter, ...
, English author and screenwriter
* 1959 –
Hans Nijman, Dutch mixed martial artist and wrestler (d. 2014)
* 1959 –
Chris O'Sullivan, Australian rugby league player
* 1959 –
Martin Page, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
* 1959 –
Elizabeth Peña, American actress (d. 2014)
* 1959 –
Karen Pierce
Dame Karen Elizabeth Pierce, Lady Roxburgh, (born 23 September 1959) is a British diplomat who is currently British Ambassador to the United States at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and was previously the Permanent Represent ...
, English diplomat
*
1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
January
* Ja ...
–
Kurt Beyer, American wrestler
* 1960 –
Luis Moya
Luis Rodríguez Moya, better known as Luis Moya (born 23 September 1960) is a now-retired Spanish rally co-driver, synonymous with driver Carlos Sainz. He is the third most successful co-driver in the history of the World Rally Championship (W ...
, Spanish race car driver
*
1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
–
Chi McBride, American actor
* 1961 –
William C. McCool
William Cameron "Willie" McCool (September 23, 1961 – February 1, 2003) (Cmdr, USN) was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut, who was the pilot of Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' mission STS- ...
, American commander, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2003)
*
1962 –
Deborah Orr
Deborah Jane Orr (23 September 1962 – 19 October 2019) was a British journalist who worked for ''The Guardian'', ''The Independent'' and other publications.
Early life and education
Orr was born on 23 September 1962 to Winifred "Win" and John ...
, Scottish journalist (d. 2019)
*
1963 –
Anne-Marie Cadieux, Canadian actress, director, and screenwriter
* 1963 –
Alex Proyas, Egyptian-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
*
1964 –
Clayton Blackmore, Welsh footballer and manager
* 1964 –
Josefa Idem, German-born Italian kayaker
* 1964 –
Koshi Inaba
(born September 23, 1964 in Tsuyama, Okayama) is a Japanese vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. He is best known as the singer and lyricist of the rock duo B'z, the best-selling music act in their native Japan. He has also had a su ...
, Japanese singer-songwriter
* 1964 –
Larry Krystkowiak
Larry Brett Krystkowiak ( ; born September 23, 1964) is a retired American professional basketball player, and former head coach of the Utah Utes men's basketball team.
Early life
He was born in Missoula, Montana, to Bernard and Helen Krystkowia ...
, American basketball player and coach
* 1964 –
Katie Mitchell
Katrina Jane Mitchell (born 23 September 1964) is an English theatre director.
Life and career
Mitchell was born in Reading, Berkshire, raised in Hermitage, Berkshire, and educated at Oakham School. Upon leaving Oakham, she went up to Ma ...
, English director and producer
* 1964 –
Julian Parkhill, English biologist and academic
* 1964 –
Bill Phillips, American businessman and author
*
1965
Events January–February
* January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.
* January 20
** Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in for a full term ...
–
Mark Woodforde, Australian tennis player and sportscaster
*
1966 –
Pete Harnisch
Peter Thomas Harnisch (born September 23, 1966) is an American former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He played in college at Fordham University from 1984 through 1987, and was an All-American pitcher. He played in Major League Baseba ...
, American baseball player and coach
*
1967 –
Hilary Andersson
Hilary Harper Andersson (born 23 September 1967) is an American journalist presently working for the BBC. She has been a correspondent for ''Panorama'' since 2006.
Born in Austin, Texas, she grew up in Belgium, West Germany, South Africa and ...
, American-English journalist
* 1967 –
Chris Wilder
Christopher John Wilder (born 23 September 1967) is an English professional football manager and former player who played as a right-back. He was most recently the manager of club Middlesbrough.
His extensive professional playing career saw ...
, English footballer and manager
*
1968
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide.
Events January–February
* January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
* J ...
–
Yvette Fielding, English actress and producer
* 1968 –
Adam Price
Adam Robert Price (born 23 September 1968) is a Welsh politician serving as the Leader of Plaid Cymru since 2018. , he has sat in the Senedd for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, having previously been a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Carmart ...
, Welsh politician
*
1969
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon.
Events January
* January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
* January 5
**Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
–
Donald Audette
Donald Daniel Audette (born September 23, 1969) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played fourteen seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Buffalo Sabres, Los Angeles Kings, Atlanta Thrashers, Dallas Stars, Montr ...
, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1969 –
Patrick Fiori, French singer-songwriter
* 1969 –
Tapio Laukkanen
Tapio Laukkanen (born 23 September 1969) is a Finnish rally driver. He was born in Lahti.
In 1996 he won the Finnish Rally Championship in a Volkswagen Golf GTi, in 1999 he won the British Rally Championship with a Renault Mégane Maxi twinned ...
, Finnish race car driver
* 1969 –
Rod Pampling, Australian golfer
* 1969 –
Jan Suchopárek, Czech footballer and manager
*
1970 –
Adrian Brunker
Adrian Brunker (born 23 September 1970) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s. He played at representative level for Queensland, and at club level for Newcastle Knights, Gold Coast Seagulls, St ...
, Australian rugby player
* 1970 –
Lucia Cifarelli, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
* 1970 –
Ani DiFranco, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1970 –
Giorgos Koltsidas, Greek footballer
*
1971 *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses ( February 10, and August 6).
The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.
Events
J ...
–
Moin Khan, Pakistani cricketer and coach
* 1971 –
Eric Montross, American basketball player and sportscaster
* 1971 –
Sean Spicer
Sean Michael Spicer (born September 23, 1971) is a former American political aide who served as the 30th White House Press Secretary and as White House Communications Director under President Donald Trump in 2017. Spicer was communications dire ...
, 30th
White House Press Secretary
*
1972 –
Sam Bettens, Belgian singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1972 –
Alistair Campbell, Zimbabwean cricketer
* 1972 –
Jermaine Dupri, American rapper and producer
* 1972 –
Karl Pilkington
Karl Pilkington (born 23 September 1972) is an English presenter, comedian, actor, voice-artist, producer and author.
After working with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant as producer on their XFM radio show, Pilkington became a co-host of ' ...
, English actor and producer
*
1973 –
Ingrid Fliter
Íngrid Fliter (born September 23, 1973, Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian pianist. She began her formal piano studies with Elizabeth Westerkamp. Her first public appearance in recital was at age 11, and she made her concerto debut at the Teatro ...
, Argentinian pianist
* 1973 –
Vangelis Krios, Greek footballer and coach
*
1974
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; ...
–
Ben Duckworth, Australian rugby league player
* 1974 –
Matt Hardy, American wrestler
*
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
* January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
–
Layzie Bone, American rapper
* 1975 –
Kim Dong-moon
Kim Dong-moon (Hangul: 김동문, Hanja: 金東文; born 22 September 1975) is a retired South Korean badminton player who won major titles between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s (decade), and widely regarded as one of finest men's doubles and m ...
, South Korean badminton player
* 1975 –
Chris Hawkins, English journalist and producer
* 1975 –
Eric Miller Eric, Erik, or Erick Miller may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Eric Miller (record producer) (c. 1941–2017), American record producer and Norman Granz's protégé
*Eric Miller (photographer) (born 1951), South African photographer during and ...
, Irish rugby player, footballer, and coach
*
1976 –
Sarah Blasko, Australian singer-songwriter and producer
* 1976 –
Robert James-Collier, English actor
* 1976 –
Valeriy Sydorenko, Ukrainian boxer
* 1976 –
Volodymyr Sydorenko, Ukrainian boxer
*
1977 –
Matthieu Descoteaux, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1977 –
Dmitri Kulikov, Estonian footballer
* 1977 –
Fabio Ongaro, Italian rugby player
* 1977 –
Brett Prebble, Australian jockey
* 1977 –
Rachael Yamagata, American singer-songwriter and pianist
*
1978 –
Benjamin Curtis, American guitarist, drummer, and songwriter (d. 2013)
* 1978 –
Anthony Mackie, American actor
*
1979 –
Ricky Davis
Tyree Ricardo Davis (born September 23, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player who played twelve seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for University of Iowa.
Biography
Davis atten ...
, American basketball player
* 1979 –
Bryant McKinnie, American football player
* 1979 –
Fábio Simplício
Fábio Henrique Simplício (born 23 September 1979) is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a midfielder.
He appeared in 243 Serie A games for three clubs and scored 43 goals, having played for nearly a decade in the country.
Club care ...
, Brazilian footballer
* 1979 –
Lote Tuqiri, Fijian-Australian rugby player
*
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – In ...
–
Matt White, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1980 –
Liz Murray
Elizabeth "Liz" Murray (born ) is an American memoirist and inspirational speaker who is notable for having been accepted by Harvard University despite being homeless in her high school years. Her life story was chronicled in Lifetime's televisi ...
, American inspirational speaker
*
1981 –
Robert Doornbos
Robert Michael Doornbos (; born 23 September 1981) is a Dutch former racing driver who also competed with a Monégasque licence. He has been test and third driver for the Jordan and Red Bull Racing Formula One teams, as well as driving for M ...
, Dutch race car driver
* 1981 –
Natalie Horler, German singer
* 1981 –
Helen Richardson-Walsh
Helen Richardson-Walsh, (''née'' Richardson, born 23 September 1981) is an English hockey player who plays as a midfielder. She has been a member of both the England and the Great Britain women's field hockey teams since 1999, and was a membe ...
, English field hockey player
*
1982
Events January
* January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00).
* January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C ...
–
Mait Künnap
Mait Künnap (born 23 September 1982) is an Estonian tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis ra ...
, Estonian tennis player
* 1982 –
Shyla Stylez
Shyla Stylez (September 23, 1982 – November 9, 2017) was a Canadian pornographic actress.
Career
Shyla Stylez became interested in entering the pornography industry in her teens, and later moved to Vancouver where she worked as both a stri ...
, Canadian pornographic actress (d. 2017)
*
1983 –
Shane del Rosario, American mixed martial artist and kick-boxer (d. 2013)
* 1983 –
Joffrey Lupul
Joffrey Lupul (born September 23, 1983) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. In his professional career, Lupul played in the NHL for the Anaheim Ducks, Edmonton Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers and Toronto Maple Leafs. He was selec ...
, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1983 –
Regan Smith, American race car driver
*
1984 –
Patrick Ehelechner, German ice hockey player
* 1984 –
Matt Kemp, American baseball player
* 1984 –
Anneliese van der Pol, Dutch-American entertainer
*
1985 –
Lukáš Kašpar
Lukáš Kašpar (born 23 September 1985) is a Czech professional ice hockey player. He is currently playing with HC Kometa Brno of the Czech Extraliga (ELH). He was originally drafted by the San Jose Sharks in the first round (22nd overall) o ...
, Czech ice hockey player
*
1986
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles.
**Spain and Portugal en ...
–
Martin Cranie
Martin James Cranie (born 26 September 1986) is an English professional footballer who is currently a free agent. He most recently played as a centre back and right back for Championship club Luton Town. He is a former England U21 international. ...
, English footballer
*
1988 –
Juan Martín del Potro, Argentinian tennis player
* 1988 –
Yannick Weber
Yannick Cyril Weber (born 23 September 1988) is a Swiss professional ice hockey defenseman who is currently playing with the ZSC Lions of the National League (NL). He was drafted by the Montreal Canadiens in the third round (73rd overall) of the ...
, Swiss ice hockey player
*
1989
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...
–
Brandon Jennings
Brandon Byron Jennings (born September 23, 1989) is an American former professional basketball player who played 9 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is known for being one of the first Americans to go from high school to ...
, American basketball player
* 1989 –
Taniela Lasalo
Taniela Lasalo is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a forward or as a for the Hills District Bulls in the Ron Massey Cup.
Background
He is of Tongan descent.
Playing career 2009–14: Career at Parramatta
L ...
, Australian rugby league player
*
1991 –
Lee Alexander, Scottish footballer
*1991 –
Kim Ki-bum
Kim Ki-bum (born August 21, 1987), known mononymously as Kibum, is a South Korean actor and singer. He was a member of Super Junior. After the release of Super Junior's third studio album '' Sorry, Sorry'' in 2009, Kim announced his leave from ...
, South Korean singer and entertainer
* 1991 –
Melanie Oudin
Melanie Jennings Oudin (born September 23, 1991) is an American former professional tennis player. The former world junior No. 2 was a member of the American Fed Cup team from 2009 to 2011 and the winner of the 2011 US Open mixed-doubles title ...
, American tennis player
*
1994
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nels ...
–
Lee Mi-joo, South Korean singer and entertainer
*
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...
–
Song Yu-qi, Chinese singer
Deaths
Pre-1600
*
788 –
Ælfwald I, king of
Northumbria
la, Regnum Northanhymbrorum
, conventional_long_name = Kingdom of Northumbria
, common_name = Northumbria
, status = State
, status_text = Unified Anglian kingdom (before 876)North: Anglian kingdom (af ...
*
965 –
Al-Mutanabbi, Arab poet (b. 915)
*
1193
Year 1193 ( MCXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Levant
* March 4 – Saladin (the Lion) dies of a fever at Damascus. The lands of the Ayyubi ...
–
Robert de Sablé, French knight
*
1241 –
Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (b. 1178)
*
1253 –
Wenceslaus I of Bohemia
*
1267
Year 1267 ( MCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By topic
War and politics
* February 16 – King Afonso III of Portugal and King Alfonso X of Castile ...
–
Beatrice of Provence
Beatrice of Provence (23 September 1267), was ruling Countess of Provence and Forcalquier from 1245 until her death, as well as Countess of Anjou and Maine, Queen of Sicily and Naples by marriage to Charles I of Naples.
She was the fourth and ...
, countess regnant of Provence (b. 1234)
*
1386 –
Dan I of Wallachia
Dan I (1354 – 23 September 1386) was the ruler of Wallachia from 1383 to 1386. He was the son of Radu I of Wallachia and the step-brother of Mircea I of Wallachia.
The circumstances surrounding his death are unclear. Laonikos Chalkokondyles c ...
*
1390 –
John I, Duke of Lorraine
John I (February 1346 – 23 September 1390) was the Duke of Lorraine from 1346 to his death. As an infant of six months, he succeeded his father, Rudolph, who was killed in the Battle of Crécy. His mother was Marie of Blois.
Life
During J ...
(b. 1346)
*
1448
Year 1448 ( MCDXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* January 6 – Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, dies with ...
–
Adolph I, Duke of Cleves
Adolph I of Cleves (german: Adolf I) (2 August 1373 – 23 September 1448) was the second Count of Cleves and the fourth Count of Mark.
Life
He was the son of Adolph III, Count of Mark, and Margaret of Jülich (and thus the brother of Margaret ...
(b. 1373)
*
1461 –
Charles, Prince of Viana, King of Navarre (b. 1421)
*
1508
__NOTOC__
Year 1508 ( MDVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* February – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, attacks the Republic of Veni ...
–
Beatrice of Naples, queen consort of Hungary (b. 1457)
*
1535 –
Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1513)
*
1571 –
John Jewel, English bishop (b. 1522)
*
1573
Year 1573 ( MDLXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 25 – Battle of Mikatagahara in Japan: Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa I ...
–
Azai Hisamasa
was a son of Azai Sukemasa and the second head of the Azai clan.
Hisamasa became the head of the clan in 1542 after his father died, but unlike his father, he was never a strong leader. Losing domains against Rokkaku clan,_he_instead_became_a_Ro ...
, Japanese warlord (b. 1524)
1601–1900
*
1605 –
Pontus de Tyard
Pontus de Tyard (also Thyard, Thiard) (c. 1521 – 23 September 1605) was a French poet and priest, a member of "La Pléiade".
Life
He was born at Bissy-sur-Fley in Burgundy, of which he was ''seigneur'', but the exact year of his birth is ...
, French priest and poet (b. 1521)
*
1675
Events
January–March
* January 5 – Franco-Dutch War – Battle of Turckheim: The French defeat Austria and Brandenburg.
* January 29 – John Sassamon, an English-educated Native American Christian, dies at A ...
–
Valentin Conrart, French author, founded the
Académie française
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosop ...
(b. 1603)
*
1728 –
Christian Thomasius
Christian Thomasius (1 January 1655 – 23 September 1728) was a German jurist and philosopher.
Biography
He was born in Leipzig and was educated by his father, Jakob Thomasius (1622–1684), at that time a junior lecturer in Leipzig Univers ...
, German jurist and philosopher (b. 1655)
*
1738 –
Herman Boerhaave, Dutch botanist and physician (b. 1668)
*
1764
1764 ( MDCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday and is the fifth year of the 1760s decade, the 64th year of the 18th century, and the 764th year of the 2nd millennium.
Events
January–June
* January 7 – The Siculicidium ...
–
Robert Dodsley, English poet and playwright (b. 1703)
*
1773 –
Johan Ernst Gunnerus
Johan Ernst Gunnerus (26 February 1718 – 25 September 1773) was a Norwegian bishop and botanist. Gunnerus was born at Christiania. He was bishop of the Diocese of Nidaros from 1758 until his death and also a professor of theology at the Unive ...
, Norwegian bishop and botanist (b. 1718)
*
1789
Events
January–March
* January – Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès publishes the pamphlet ''What Is the Third Estate?'' ('), influential on the French Revolution.
* January 7 – The 1788-89 United States presidential electio ...
–
John Rogers, American lawyer and politician (b. 1723)
*
1835 –
Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801)
*
1851
Events
January–March
* January 11 – Hong Xiuquan officially begins the Taiping Rebellion.
* January 15 – Christian Female College, modern-day Columbia College, receives its charter from the Missouri General Assembly.
...
–
Émilie Gamelin, Canadian nun, founded the
Sisters of Providence (b. 1800)
*
1846 –
John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-Australian explorer (b. 1818)
*
1850
Events
January–June
* April
** Pope Pius IX returns from exile to Rome.
** Stephen Foster's parlor ballad " Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway" is published in the United States.
* April 4 – Los Angeles is incorporated as a city ...
–
José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan general and politician (b. 1764)
*
1870
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The first edition of ''The Northern Echo'' newspaper is published in Priestgate, Darlington, England.
** Plans for the Brooklyn Bridge are completed.
* January 3 – Construction of the Br ...
–
Prosper Mérimée, French archaeologist and historian (b. 1803)
*
1871
Events January–March
* January 3 – Franco-Prussian War – Battle of Bapaume: Prussians win a strategic victory.
* January 18 – Proclamation of the German Empire: The member states of the North German Confederation and the sout ...
–
Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1786)
*
1873 –
Jean Chacornac
Jean Chacornac (21 June 1823 – 23 September 1873) was a French astronomer and discoverer of a comet and several asteroids.
He was born in Lyon and died in Saint-Jean-en-Royans, southeastern France. Working in Marseille and Paris, he discove ...
, French astronomer (b. 1823)
*
1877
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Queen Victoria is proclaimed ''Empress of India'' by the ''Royal Titles Act 1876'', introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .
* January 8 – Great ...
–
Urbain Le Verrier
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier FRS (FOR) HFRSE (; 11 March 1811 – 23 September 1877) was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using ...
, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1811)
*
1889 –
Wilkie Collins, English novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1824)
*
1900 –
William Marsh Rice, American businessman, founded
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...
(b. 1816)
1901–present
*
1913 –
Donato Álvarez, Argentinian general (b. 1825)
*
1917 –
Werner Voss, German lieutenant and pilot (b. 1897)
*
1929 –
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-German chemist, physicist, and academic,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (b. 1865)
*
1939 –
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts i ...
, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1856)
* 1939 –
Francisco León de la Barra, Mexican politician and diplomat, interim president, 1911 (b. 1863)
*
1940 –
Hale Holden
Hale Holden (August 11, 1869 – September 23, 1940) was president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) from 1914 to 1918 and 1920 to 1929, and chairman of the board of directors for Southern Pacific Railroad from 1932 to 1939. He ...
, American businessman (b. 1869)
*
1943 –
Elinor Glyn
Elinor Glyn ( Sutherland; 17 October 1864 – 23 September 1943) was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in romantic fiction, which was considered scandalous for its time, although her works are relatively tame by modern stan ...
, English author, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1864)
*
1944
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in ...
–
Jakob Schaffner
Jakob Schaffner (14 November 1875 – 23 September 1944Philip Rees (1990) ''Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890'', Simon & Schuster, p. 347, ) was a leading Swiss novelist who became a supporter of Nazism.
Emergence as a wri ...
, Swiss author and critic (b. 1875)
*
1950 –
Sam Barry
Justin McCarthy "Sam" Barry (December 17, 1892 – September 23, 1950) was an American collegiate coach who achieved significant accomplishments in three major sports - football, baseball, and basketball. He remains one of only three coaches to ...
, American basketball player and coach (b. 1892)
*
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
–
Jacob Nicol
Jacob Nicol, (April 25, 1876 – September 23, 1958) was a Canadian lawyer, newspaper publisher, and politician.
Early life
Born in Roxton Pond, Quebec, the son of Philip Nicol, farmer and tool manufacturer, and Sophie Cloutier, Nicol was ...
, Canadian publisher, lawyer, and politician (b. 1876)
*
1967 –
Stanislaus Zbyszko, Polish wrestler and strongman (b. 1879)
*
1968
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide.
Events January–February
* January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
* J ...
–
Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian priest and saint (b. 1887)
*
1971 *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses ( February 10, and August 6).
The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.
Events
J ...
–
James Waddell Alexander II, American mathematician and topologist (b. 1888)
*
1973 –
Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and diplomat,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (b. 1904)
*
1974
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; ...
–
Cliff Arquette, American actor and comedian (b. 1905)
* 1974 –
Robbie McIntosh, Scottish drummer (b. 1950)
*
1978 –
Lyman Bostock
Lyman Wesley Bostock Jr. (November 22, 1950 – September 23, 1978) was an American professional baseball player. He played Major League Baseball for four seasons, as an outfielder for the Minnesota Twins and California Angels (1978), with a li ...
, American baseball player (b. 1950)
*
1979 –
Catherine Lacey, English actress (b. 1904)
*
1981 –
Chief Dan George
Chief Dan George (born Geswanouth Slahoot; July 24, 1899 – September 23, 1981) was a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, a Coast Salish band whose Indian reserve is located on Burrard Inlet in the southeast area of the District of N ...
, Canadian actor, author, and poet (b. 1899)
*
1987 –
Bob Fosse, American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director (b. 1927)
*
1988 –
Tibor Sekelj, Hungarian-Serbian explorer and author (b. 1912)
*
1992 –
Ivar Ivask
Ivar Vidrik Ivask (December 17, 1927 Riga – September 23, 1992 Fountainstown, Ireland) was an Estonian poet and literary scholar.
He escaped in 1944 from Estonia to Germany and lived from 1949 onwards in the United States and from 1991 in Irel ...
, Estonian poet and scholar (b. 1927)
* 1992 –
Glendon Swarthout
Glendon Fred Swarthout (April 8, 1918 – September 23, 1992) was an American writer and novelist.
Several of his novels were made into films. ''Where the Boys Are'', and ''The Shootist'', which was John Wayne's last work, are probably the bes ...
, American author and academic (b. 1918)
* 1992 –
James Van Fleet, American general (b. 1892)
*
1994
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nels ...
–
Jerry Barber, American golfer (b. 1916)
* 1994 –
Robert Bloch, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
* 1994 –
Madeleine Renaud, French actress (b. 1900)
*
1997
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...
–
Natalie Savage Carlson, American author (b. 1906)
*
1998 –
Ray Bowden
Edwin Raymond Bowden (13 September 1909 – 23 September 1998) was an English footballer who played as an inside forward. He scored 130 goals from 316 appearances in the Football League, playing for Plymouth Argyle, Arsenal and Newcastle Unite ...
, English footballer (b. 1909)
* 1998 –
Mary Frann
Mary may refer to:
People
* Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name)
Religious contexts
* New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below
* Mary, mother of Jesus, also call ...
, American actress (b. 1943)
*
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...
–
Ivan Goff, Australian-American screenwriter and producer (b. 1910)
*
2000 –
Aurelio Rodríguez
Aurelio Rodríguez Ituarte, Jr. (December 28, 1947 – September 23, 2000), sometimes known by the nickname "Chi Chi", was a Mexican professional baseball player, who spent the bulk of his Major League career with the Detroit Tigers. Known ...
, Mexican baseball player and manager (b. 1947)
* 2000 –
Carl Rowan, American journalist and author (b. 1925)
* 2000 –
Raoul Berger, American attorney and law professor (b. 1901)
*
2001 –
Ron Hewitt, Welsh footballer (b. 1928)
*
2003 –
Yuri Senkevich
Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich (russian: Юрий Александрович Сенкевич) (March 4, 1937 in Choibalsan, Mongolia – September 25, 2003 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet doctor, and scientist. He is a Candidate of Sciences ...
, Russian physician and journalist (b. 1937)
*
2004 –
Billy Reay
William Tulip Reay (August 21, 1918 – September 23, 2004) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Reay played ten seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1953 to 1953, winning two Stanley Cups. He then coached from 19 ...
, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918)
*
2005 –
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos (April 26, 1933 September 23, 2005) was a Puerto Rican independence activist and militant who cofounded the Boricua Popular Army, also known as ''Los Macheteros,'' and its predecessor, the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación ...
, Puerto Rican activist (b. 1933)
*
2006 –
Malcolm Arnold, English trumpet player and composer (b. 1921)
* 2006 –
Etta Baker, American singer and guitarist (b. 1913)
*
2008
File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
–
Peter Leonard, Australian journalist (b. 1942)
* 2008 –
Loren Pope, American journalist and author (b. 1910)
*
2009
File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; Protests ...
–
Paul B. Fay, American sailor and politician,
United States Secretary of the Navy
The secretary of the Navy (or SECNAV) is a statutory officer () and the head (chief executive officer) of the Department of the Navy, a military department (component organization) within the United States Department of Defense.
By law, the se ...
(b. 1918)
*
2010 –
Malcolm Douglas, Australian hunter and television host (b. 1941)
*
2012 –
Henry Champ, Canadian journalist and academic (b. 1937)
* 2012 –
Pavel Grachev, Russian general and politician, 1st
Minister of Defence for Russia (b. 1948)
* 2012 –
Roberto Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player and coach (b. 1941)
* 2012 –
Corrie Sanders, South African boxer (b. 1966)
* 2012 –
Sam Sniderman, Canadian businessman, founded
Sam the Record Man (b. 1920)
*
2013
File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fa ...
–
Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj, Syrian colonel and politician (b. 1925)
* 2013 –
Gil Dozier
Gilbert Lynel "Gil" Dozier (March 19, 1934 – September 23, 2013), was an attorney, businessman, farmer, and rancher who served from 1976 to 1980 as the Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry. A Democrat, Dozier's political ...
, American captain, lawyer, and politician (b. 1934)
* 2013 –
Ruth Patrick, American botanist and immunologist (b. 1907)
*
2014
File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wa ...
–
A. W. Davis, American basketball player and coach (b. 1943)
* 2014 –
Irven DeVore
Irven DeVore (October 7, 1934 – September 23, 2014) was an anthropologist and evolutionary biologist, and Curator of Primatology at Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. He headed Harvard's Department of Anthropolog ...
, American anthropologist and biologist (b. 1934)
* 2014 –
Don Manoukian
Donald J. Manoukian (June 9, 1934 – September 23, 2014) was an American football guard and professional wrestler of Armenian descent from Reno, Nevada.
American football career
An alumnus of Reno High School and Stanford University (class of ...
, American football player and wrestler (b. 1934)
* 2014 –
Al Suomi
Albert William Suomi (October 29, 1913 – September 23, 2014) was an American NHL player, who played with the Chicago Black Hawks for the 1936–37 NHL season. Although he did not aspire to play at a professional level, Suomi nevertheless spent ...
, American ice hockey player and referee (b. 1913)
*
2015 –
Dayananda Saraswati
Dayanand Saraswati () (born Mool Shankar Tiwari; 2 February 1824 – 30 October 1883) also known as Maharshi Dayanand is an Indian philosopher, social leader and founder of the Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movement. His Magnum Opus is the book ...
, Indian monk and philosopher (b. 1930)
*
2018
File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...
–
Charles Kuen Kao
Sir Charles Kao Kuen [Charles K. Kao was elected in 1990](_blank)
as a memb ...
, Hong Kong-American-British electrical engineer and physicist (b. 1933)
* 2018 –
Gary Kurtz, American film producer (b. 1940)
* 2018 –
Jane Fortune, American author, journalist, and philanthropist (b.1942)
*
2020 –
Juliette Gréco, French singer and actress (b. 1927)
*
2021 –
John Elliott, Australian businessman (b. 1941)
* 2021 –
Nino Vaccarella, Italian race car driver (b. 1933)
Holidays and observances
*Christian
feast day
The calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint. The word "feast" in this context do ...
:
**
Adomnán
**
Cissa of Crowland (or of Northumbria)
**
Padre Pio
**
Pope Linus
Pope Linus (, , ''Linos''; died c. AD 76) was the bishop of Rome from c. AD 67 to his death. As with all the early popes, he was canonized.
According to Irenaeus, Linus is the same person as the one mentioned in the New Testament. Linus is men ...
**
Sossius
Saint Sossius or Sosius (Italian: ''Sosso'', ''Sossio'' or ''Sosio''; 275 – 305 AD) was Deacon of Misenum, an important naval base of the Roman Empire in the Bay of Naples. He was martyred along with Saint Januarius at Pozzuoli during the Diocl ...
**
Thecla (
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
)
**
Xanthippe and Polyxena
**
September 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
September 22 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - September 24
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 6 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For September 23rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Sai ...
*
Grito de Lares (
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and unincorporated ...
)
*
Holocaust Memorial Day (Lithuania)
The Holocaust in Lithuania resulted in the near total destruction of Lithuanian Jews, Lithuanian (Litvaks) and History of the Jews in Poland, Polish Jews, living in ''Generalbezirk Litauen'' of ''Reichskommissariat Ostland'' within the Occupation ...
*
Kyrgyz Language Day (
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan,, pronounced or the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and the People's Republic of China to the ea ...
)
*
National Day (
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the Ara ...
)
*
Teachers' Day (Brunei)
Teachers' Day is a special day for the appreciation of teachers, and may include celebrations to honor them for their special contributions in a particular field area, or the community tone in education. This is the primary reason why countries ce ...
*
Celebrate Bisexuality Day (
bisexual community)
*
International Day of Sign Languages
References
External links
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Days of the year
September