27 September

Events

Pre-1600

*1066 – William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme river, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
*1331 – The Battle of Płowce is fought, between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order. The Poles are defeated but their leaders escape capture.
*1422 – After the brief Gollub War, the Teutonic Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with Poland and Lithuania.
*1529 – The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.
* 1540 – The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
*1590 – The death of Pope Urban VII, 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, ends the shortest papal reign in history.

1601–1900

*1605 – The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.
*1669 – The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans, thus ending the 21-year-long Siege of Candia.
*1777 – American Revolution: Lancaster, Pennsylvania becomes the capital of the United States for one day after Congress evacuates Philadelphia.
*1791 – The National Assembly of France votes to award full citizenship to Jews.
*1821 – The Army of the Three Guarantees triumphantly enters Mexico City, led by Agustín de Iturbide. The following day Mexico is declared independent.
*1822 – Jean-François Champollion officially informs the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres in France that he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone.
*1825 – The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is ceremonially opened.
*1854 – The paddle steamer , owned by the Collins Line of New York, sinks off the coast of Newfoundland, following a collision with a smaller vessel, the ''SS Vesta''. Only 88 of over 300 people on board survive. About a dozen of the occupants of the ''Vesta'' are killed when their lifeboat is hit by the ''Arctic''.
*1875 – The merchant sailing ship '' Ellen Southard'' is wrecked in a storm at Liverpool.

1901–present

*1903 – " Wreck of the Old 97": an American rail disaster, in which 11 people are killed; it later becomes the subject of a popular ballad.
*1908 – Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.
*1916 – Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu.
*1922 – King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, George II.
*1928 – The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
*1930 – Bobby Jones wins the (pre-Masters) Grand Slam of golf.
* 1938 – The ocean liner ''Queen Elizabeth'' is launched in Glasgow.
*1940 – World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
*1941 – The Greek National Liberation Front is established with Georgios Siantos as acting leader.
*1941 – The is launched, becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
*1942 – Last day of the Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marines barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces.
*1944 – The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
*1949 – Zeng Liansong's design is chosen as the flag of the People's Republic of China.
*1956 – USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first person to exceed Mach 3. Shortly thereafter, the Bell X-2 goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
*1959 – Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.
*1962 – The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
* 1962 – Rachel Carson's book ''Silent Spring'' is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
*1964 – The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight.
*1975 – The last use of capital punishment in Spain sparks worldwide protests.
*1977 – Japan Airlines Flight 715 crashes on approach to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang, Malaysia, killing 34 of the 79 people on board.
* 1988 – The National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight dictatorship in Myanmar.
*1993 – The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.
*1996 – The Battle of Kabul ends in a Taliban victory; an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is established.
* 1996 – Confusion on a tanker ship results in the Julie N. oil spill in Portland, Maine.
*1998 – The Google internet search engine retroactively claims this date as its birthday.
*2001 – In Switzerland, a gunman shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.
*2003 – The SMART-1 satellite is launched.
*2007 – NASA launches the ''Dawn'' probe to the asteroid belt.
*2008 – CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.
*2012 – In Minneapolis, a gunman shoots seven citizens, killing five and then himself.
*2014 – The eruption of Mount Ontake in Japan occurs.
*2019 – Over two million people participated in worldwide strikes to protest climate change across 2,400 locations worldwide.
*2020 – Second Nagorno-Karabakh war: Azerbaijan launched an offensive against the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh, inhabited predominantly by ethnic Armenians.

Births

Pre-1600

* 808 – Ninmyō, Japanese emperor (d. 850)
* 830 – Ermentrude of Orléans, Queen of the Franks (probable year; d. 869)
*1271 – Wenceslaus II of Bohemia, King of Bohemia and Poland (d. 1305)
* 1275 – John II, Duke of Brabant (d. 1312)
*1300 – Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1327)
*1389 – Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464)
*1433 – Stanisław Kazimierczyk, Polish canon regular and saint (d. 1489)
* 1442 – John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (d. 1491)
*1496 – Hieronymus Łaski, Polish diplomat (d. 1542)
*1507 – Guillaume Rondelet, French physician (d. 1566)
*1533 – Stefan Batory, King of Poland (d. 1586)
*1544 – Takenaka Shigeharu, Japanese samurai (d. 1579)
*1552 – Flaminio Scala, Italian playwright and stage actor (d. 1624)
*1598 – Robert Blake, English admiral (d. 1657)

1601–1900

* 1601 – Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)
*1627 – Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop and theologian (d. 1704)
*1643 – Solomon Stoddard, American pastor and librarian (d. 1729)
*1657 – Sofia Alekseyevna of Russia (d. 1704)
*1677 – Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1754)
*1696 – Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori, Italian bishop and saint (d. 1787)
* 1719 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician and epigrammatist (d. 1800)
*1722 – Samuel Adams, American philosopher and politician, fourth Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1803)
*1729 – Michael Denis, Austrian lepidopterist, author, and poet (d. 1800)
*1739 – Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock, Irish politician (d. 1767)
*1765 – Antoine Philippe de La Trémoille, French general (d. 1794)
*1772 – Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson who had twelve children (d. 1836)
*1783 – Agustín de Iturbide, Mexican royalist turned insurgent; first emperor of Mexico (d. 1824)
*1803 – Samuel Francis Du Pont, American admiral (d. 1865)
*1805 – George Müller, German-English evangelist and missionary, founded the Ashley Down Orphanage (d. 1898)
*1818 – Hermann Kolbe, German chemist and academic (d. 1884)
*1821 – Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Swiss philosopher, poet, and critic (d. 1881)
*1824 – William "Bull" Nelson, American general (d. 1862)
*1830 – William Babcock Hazen, American general (d. 1887)
*1838 – Lawrence Sullivan Ross, American general and politician, 19th Governor of Texas (d. 1898)
*1840 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (d. 1914)
* 1840 – Thomas Nast, German-American cartoonist (d. 1902)
*1842 – Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist and petrographer (d. 1903)
*1843 – Gaston Tarry, French mathematician and academic (d. 1913)
*1861 – Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, American poet and author (d. 1933)
*1864 – Andrej Hlinka, Slovak priest and politician (d. 1938)
*1866 – Eurosia Fabris, Italian saint (d. 1932)
*1871 – Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
*1873 – Vithalbhai Patel, Indian legislator and political leader (d. 1933)
*1879 – Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1934)
* 1879 – Frederick Schule, American hurdler and coach (d. 1962)
* 1879 – Cyril Scott, English poet and composer (d. 1970)
* 1882 – Dorothy Greenhough-Smith, English figure skater and tennis player (d. 1965)
*1885 – Harry Blackstone, Sr., American magician (d. 1965)
* 1885 – Charles Benjamin Howard, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1964)
*1892 – George Bambridge, English diplomat (d. 1943)
*1894 – Lothar von Richthofen, German lieutenant and pilot (d. 1922)
*1896 – Gilbert Ashton, English cricketer (d. 1981)
* 1896 – Sam Ervin, American soldier and politician (d. 1985)
*1898 – Vincent Youmans, American composer and producer (d. 1946)

1901–present

*1904 – Edvard Kocbek, Slovenian poet and politician (d. 1981)
*1905 – Conrad Heidkamp, German footballer and manager (d. 1994)
*1906 – William Empson, English poet and critic (d. 1984)
* 1906 – Jim Thompson, American author and screenwriter (d. 1977)
* 1906 – Sergei Varshavsky, Russian art collector and author (d. 1980)
*1907 – Bernard Miles, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1991)
* 1907 – Bhagat Singh, Indian socialist revolutionary (disputed with 28 September) (d. 1931)
*1911 – Marcey Jacobson, American-Mexican photographer (d. 2009)
*1913 – Albert Ellis, American psychologist and author (d. 2007)
*1916 – S. Yizhar, Israeli academic and politician (d. 2006)
*1917 – Louis Auchincloss, American novelist and essayist (d. 2010)
* 1917 – Carl Ballantine, American magician and actor (d. 2009)
* 1917 – William T. Orr, American actor and producer (d. 2002)
* 1917 – Benjamin Rubin, American microbiologist (d. 2010)
*1918 – Martin Ryle, English astronomer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
* 1918 – Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd (d. 2001)
* 1918 – Konstantin Gerchik, Soviet military leader (d. 2001)
*1919 – Jayne Meadows, American actress and author (d. 2015)
* 1919 – Charles H. Percy, American lieutenant and politician (d. 2011)
* 1919 – James H. Wilkinson, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1986)
*1921 – Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian director and screenwriter (d. 2014)
* 1921 – Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter and producer, co-founded Amicus Productions (d. 1991)
* 1921 – Bernard Waber, American author and illustrator (d. 2013)
*1922 – Sammy Benskin, American pianist and bandleader (d. 1992)
* 1922 – Arthur Penn, American director and producer (d. 2010)
*1924 – Ernest Becker, American-Canadian anthropologist, author, and academic (d. 1974)
* 1924 – Bud Powell, American pianist and composer (d. 1966)
* 1924 – Fred Singer, Austrian-American physicist and academic (d. 2020)
* 1924 – Josef Škvorecký, Czech-Canadian author and publisher (d. 2012)
*1925 – Robert Edwards, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
* 1925 – George Gladir, American author (d. 2013)
*1926 – Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2006)
*1927 – Chrysostomos I of Cyprus (d. 2007)
* 1927 – Red Rodney, American trumpet player (d. 1994)
* 1927 – Romano Scarpa, Italian author and illustrator (d. 2005)
* 1927 – Sada Thompson, American actress (d. 2011)
*1928 – Margaret Rule, English archaeologist and historian (d. 2015)
*1929 – Calvin Jones, American pianist, composer, and educator (d. 2004)
* 1929 – Bruno Junk, Estonian race walker (d. 1995)
* 1929 – Barbara Murray, English actress (d. 2014)
*1930 – Paul Reichmann, Austrian-Canadian businessman, founded Olympia and York (d. 2013)
*1931 – Freddy Quinn, Austrian singer, guitarist, and actor
* 1932 – Geoff Bent, English footballer (d. 1958)
* 1932 – Michael Colvin, English captain and politician (d. 2000)
* 1932 – Gabriel Loubier, Canadian politician
* 1932 – Oliver E. Williamson, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020)
* 1932 – Marcia Neugebauer, American geophysicist
*1933 – Rodney Cotterill, Danish-English physicist and neuroscientist (d. 2007)
* 1933 – Greg Morris, American actor (d. 1996)
*1934 – Wilford Brimley, American actor (d. 2020)
* 1934 – Claude Jarman, Jr., American actor and producer
* 1934 – Dick Schaap, American sportscaster and author (d. 2001)
*1935 – Al MacNeil, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
*1936 – Don Cornelius, American television host and producer (d. 2012)
* 1936 – Gordon Honeycombe, English actor, playwright, and author (d. 2015)
*1937 – Vasyl Durdynets, Ukrainian politician and diplomat, eighth Prime Minister of Ukraine
* 1938 – Jean-Loup Dabadie, French journalist, songwriter, and screenwriter (d. 2020)
*1939 – Nicholas Haslam, English interior designer and author
* 1939 – Carol Lynn Pearson, American author, poet, and playwright
* 1939 – Kathy Whitworth, American golfer
*1940 – Josephine Barstow, English soprano and actress
* 1940 – Benoni Beheyt, Belgian cyclist
*1941 – Peter Bonetti, English footballer and coach (d. 2020)
* 1941 – Serge Ménard, Canadian lawyer and politician
* 1941 – Don Nix, American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer
*1942 – Dith Pran, Cambodian photographer and journalist (d. 2008)
* 1942 – Alvin Stardust, English singer and actor (d. 2014)
*1943 – Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (d. 2021)
* 1943 – Randy Bachman, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
*1944 – Angélica María, American-born Mexican singer-songwriter and actress
* 1944 – Gary Sutherland, American baseball player and scout
*1945 – Jack Goldstein, Canadian-American painter (d. 2003)
* 1946 – Nicos Anastasiades, Cypriot lawyer and politician, seventh President of Cyprus
* 1946 – T. C. Cannon, American painter and sculptor (d. 1978)
*1947 – Dick Advocaat, Dutch football manager and former player
* 1947 – Richard Court, Australian politician, 26th Premier of Western Australia
* 1947 – Barbara Dickson, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress
* 1947 – Denis Lawson, Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter
* 1947 – Meat Loaf, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2022)
*1948 – Tom Braidwood, Canadian actor, director, and producer
* 1948 – Les Chapman, English footballer and manager
* 1948 – Duncan Fletcher, Rhodesian-Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
*1949 – Graham Richardson, Australian journalist and politician, 39th Australian Minister for Health
* 1949 – Mike Schmidt, American baseball player
* 1949 – Jahn Teigen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2020)
*1950 – Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Japanese-American actor and martial artist
*1951 – Geoff Gallop, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Western Australia
* 1951 – Michel Rivard, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1951 – Jim Shooter, American author and illustrator
*1952 – Katie Fforde, English author
* 1952 – Dumitru Prunariu, Romanian pilot, engineer, and astronaut
* 1953 – Diane Abbott, English journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development
* 1953 – Mata Amritanandamayi, Indian guru and saint
* 1953 – Claudio Gentile, Italian footballer and manager
* 1953 – Greg Ham, Australian keyboard player, saxophonist and songwriter (d. 2012)
* 1954 – Ray Hadley, Australian radio host and sportscaster
* 1954 – Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Russian violinist and conductor
* 1954 – Larry Wall, American computer programmer and author
*1956 – Steve Archibald, Scottish footballer and manager
*1957 – Bill Athey, English cricketer, footballer, and coach
* 1958 – Shaun Cassidy, American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
* 1958 – Irvine Welsh, Scottish author and playwright
*1959 – Beth Heiden, American speed skater and cyclist
*1960 – Jean-Marc Barr, German-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
*1962 – Gavin Larsen, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster
*1963 – Marc Maron, American comedian, actor, and radio host
*1964 – Predrag Brzaković, Serbian footballer (d. 2012)
* 1964 – Tracy Camp, American computer scientist and academic
* 1964 – Johnny du Plooy, South African boxer (d. 2013)
* 1964 – Stephan Jenkins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
*1965 – Steve Kerr, American basketball player, coach and sportscaster
* 1965 – Bernard Lord, Canadian lawyer and politician, 30th Premier of New Brunswick
* 1965 – Peter MacKay, Canadian lawyer and politician, 50th Canadian Minister of Justice
* 1965 – Alexis Stewart, American radio and television host
*1966 – Debbie Wasserman Schultz, American politician
* 1966 – Stephanie Wilson, American engineer and astronaut
* 1966 – Lorenzo Cherubini, Italian singer-songwriter and rapper
*1967 – Uche Okechukwu, Nigerian footballer
*1968 – Mari Kiviniemi, Finnish politician, 41st Prime Minister of Finland
*1970 – Yoshiharu Habu, Japanese chess player and author
* 1970 – Tamara Taylor, Canadian actress
*1971 – Horacio Sandoval, Mexican illustrator
*1972 – Sylvia Crawley, American basketball player and coach
* 1972 – Clara Hughes, Canadian cyclist and speed skater
* 1972 – Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress, blogger, and businesswoman
* 1972 – Craig L. Rice, American politician
*1973 – Vratislav Lokvenc, Czech footballer
* 1973 – Stanislav Pozdnyakov, Russian fencer
*1974 – Carrie Brownstein, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
*1976 – Matt Harding, American video game designer and dancer
* 1976 – Jason Phillips, American baseball player and coach
* 1976 – Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
*1977 – Andrus Värnik, Estonian javelin thrower
*1978 – Brad Arnold, American rock singer-songwriter
* 1978 – Jon Rauch, American baseball player
* 1978 – Mihaela Ursuleasa, Romanian pianist (d. 2012)
*1979 – Jon Garland, American baseball player
* 1979 – Zita Görög, Hungarian actress and model
* 1979 – Christian Jones, Australian race car driver
* 1979 – Steve Simpson, Australian rugby league player
*1980 – Asashōryū Akinori, Mongolian sumo wrestler, the 68th Yokozuna
* 1980 – Ehron VonAllen, American singer-songwriter and producer
*1981 – Sophie Crumb, American author and illustrator
* 1981 – Brendon McCullum, New Zealand cricketer
* 1981 – Lakshmipathy Balaji, Indian cricketer
*1982 – Jon McLaughlin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
* 1982 – Markus Rosenberg, Swedish footballer
* 1982 – Lil Wayne, American rapper, producer, and actor
* 1982 – Darrent Williams, American football player (d. 2007)
*1983 – Jeon Hye-bin, South Korean actress and singer
*1984 – Paul Bevan, Australian footballer
* 1984 – Davide Capello, Italian footballer
* 1984 – John Lannan, American baseball player
* 1984 – Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
* 1984 – Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (d. 2011)
*1985 – Massimo Bertocchi, Canadian decathlete
* 1985 – Daniel Pudil, Czech footballer
* 1985 – Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (d. 2014)
*1986 – Vin Mazzaro, American baseball player
* 1986 – Matt Shoemaker American baseball player
* 1986 – Ricardo Risatti, Argentinian race car driver
*1987 – Ádám Bogdán, Hungarian footballer
* 1987 – Austin Carlile, American singer-songwriter
* 1987 – Vanessa James, French figure skater
* 1987 – Olga Puchkova, Russian tennis player
* 1988 – Lisa Ryzih, German pole vaulter
*1989 – Park Tae-hwan, South Korean swimmer
*1991 – Ousmane Barry, Guinean footballer
* 1991 – Simona Halep, Romanian tennis player
* 1991 – Anete Paulus, Estonian footballer
* 1991 – Rio Uchida, Japanese model and actress
*1992 – Lachlan Burr, Australian rugby league player
* 1992 – Luc Castaignos, Dutch footballer
* 1992 – Pak Kwang-ryong, North Korean footballer
* 1992 – Ryan O'Shaughnessy, Irish singer-songwriter and actor
* 1992 – Gabriel Vasconcelos Ferreira, Brazilian footballer
* 1992 – Granit Xhaka, Swiss footballer
*1993 – Lisandro Magallán, Argentinian footballer
* 1993 – Monica Puig, Puerto Rican-American tennis player
* 1993 – Vinnie Sunseri, American football player
*1994 – Dylan Walker, Australian rugby league player
*1995 – Kwon Eun-bi, South Korean singer and musical actress
*1998 – Ioana Mincă, Romanian tennis player
*2001 – David Malukas, American race car driver
*2002 – Jenna Ortega, American actress

Deaths

Pre-1600

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

1601–1900

*1623 – John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen (b. 1561)
*1651 – Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1573)
*1660 – Vincent de Paul, French priest and saint (b. 1581)
*1674 – Robert Arnauld d'Andilly, French writer (b. 1589)
*1700 – Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615)
* 1719 – George Smalridge, English bishop (b. 1662)
*1730 – Laurence Eusden, English poet and author (b. 1688)
*1735 – Peter Artedi, Swedish ichthyologist and zoologist (b. 1705)
*1742 – Hugh Boulter, Irish archbishop (b. 1672)
*1783 – Étienne Bézout, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1730)
*1832 – Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher and author (b. 1781)
*1833 – Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Indian humanitarian and reformer (b. 1772)
*1838 – Bernard Courtois, French chemist and pharmacist (b. 1777)
*1876 – Braxton Bragg, American general (b. 1817)
*1886 – Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist and politician (b. 1804)
*1891 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian author and critic (b. 1812)
*1898 – Thomas Joseph Byrnes, Australian politician, 12th Premier of Queensland (b. 1860)

1901–present

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

Holidays and observances

* Christian calendar of saints, feast days:
** Adheritus
** Caius (bishop of Milan), Caius of Milan
** Vincent de Paul
** Cosmas and Damian
** September 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
* Consumación de la Independencia (Mexico)
* French Community Holiday (French community of Belgium)
* Independence Day (Turkmenistan), celebrates the independence of Turkmenistan from USSR in 1991.
* Meskel (Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Church, following Julian calendar, September 28 on leap years)
* AIDS.gov#External links, National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States)
* Polish Underground State's Day (Poland)
* World Tourism Day (International observance, International)

References

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