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September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 102 days remain until the end of the year.

Events[]

  • 1058Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border territory of Burgenland.[1]
  • 1066 – At the Battle of Fulford, Harald Hardrada defeats earls Morcar and Edwin.[2]
  • 1187 – Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
  • 1260 – The Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights.[3]
  • 1378 – Cardinal Robert of Geneva is elected as Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
  • 1498 – The Nankai tsunami washes away the building housing the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in. It has been outside since then.
  • 1519Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
  • 1596Diego de Montemayor founds the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
  • 1697 – The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, ending the Nine Years' War.
  • 1737 – The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
  • 1792 – French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy.
  • 1835 – The decade-long Ragamuffin War starts when rebels capture Porto Alegre in Brazil.
  • 1854Crimean War: British and French troops defeat Russians at the Battle of Alma.
  • 1857 – The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
  • 1860 – The future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom begins the first visit to North America by a Prince of Wales.
  • 1863American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, ends in a Confederate victory.
  • 1870 – The Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia, and complete the unification of Italy.
  • 1871 – Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
  • 1881 – U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.
  • 1893Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
  • 1906 – The Cunard Line's Template:RMS is launched at Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
  • 1909 – The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
  • 1910 – The ocean liner SS France, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
  • 1911 – The White Star Line's Template:RMS collides with the British warship HMS Hawke.
  • 1941The Holocaust in Lithuania: Lithuanian Nazis and local police murder 403 Jews in Nemenčinė.
  • 1942The Holocaust in Ukraine: In the course of two days a German Einsatzgruppe murders at least 3,000 Jews in Letychiv.
  • 1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
  • 1946 – Six days after a referendum, King Christian X of Denmark annuls the declaration of independence of the Faroe Islands.
  • 1955 – The Treaty on Relations between the USSR and the GDR is signed.
  • 1961 – Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
  • 1962James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
  • 1965 – Following the Battle of Burki, the Indian Army captures Dograi in course of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
  • 1967Template:RMS is launched Clydebank, Scotland.
  • 1971 – Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
  • 1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.
  • 1973 – Singer Jim Croce, songwiter and musician Maury Muehleisen and four others die when their light aircraft crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.
  • 1977Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
  • 1979 – A French-supported coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokassa I.
  • 1982 – Football players begin a 57-day strike during the 1982 NFL season.
  • 1984 – A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
  • 1990South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
  • 2000 – The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.
  • 2001 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror".
  • 2003Civil unrest in the Maldives breaks out after a prisoner is killed by guards.
  • 2007 – Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
  • 2008 – A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
  • 2011 – The United States military ends its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
  • 2017Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, resulting in 2,975 deaths, US$90 billion in damage, and a major humanitarian crisis.
  • 2018 – At least 161 people die after a ferry capsized close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria and part of Tanzania.[4]
  • 2019 – Roughly 4 million people, mostly students, demonstrate across the world against climate change.[5][6] 16-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in New York City.[7][8][9]

Births[]

  • 524Kan Bahlam I, Mayan ruler (d. 583)
  • 917Kyunyeo, Korean poet (d. 973)
  • 1161Emperor Takakura of Japan (d. 1181)
  • 1449Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1500)
  • 1486Arthur, Prince of Wales (d. 1502)
  • 1504Philip III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1559)
  • 1514Philipp IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1590)
  • 1593Gottfried Scheidt, German organist and composer (d. 1661)
  • 1599Christian the Younger of Brunswick (d. 1623)
  • 1608Jean-Jacques Olier, French priest and mystic, founded the Society of Saint-Sulpice (d. 1657)
  • 1614Martino Martini, Italian missionary, cartographer and historian (d. 1661)
  • 1685Giuseppe Matteo Alberti, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1751)
  • 1746Maurice, Count de Benyovszky, Slovak-Hungarian explorer (d. 1786)
  • 1758Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian emperor (d. 1806)
  • 1778Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer (d. 1852)
  • 1800Benjamin Franklin White, American singer and composer (d. 1879)
  • 1815Richard Dry, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1869)
  • 1819Frederick Ellsworth Sickels, American inventor (d. 1895)
  • 1820John F. Reynolds, American general (d. 1863)
  • 1831Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (d. 1917)
  • 1833Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918)
  • 1842James Dewar, Scottish-English chemist and physicist (d. 1923)
  • 1844William H. Illingworth, English-American photographer (d. 1893)
  • 1847Susanna Rubinstein, Austrian psychologist (d. 1914)
  • 1851Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright and critic (d. 1929)
  • 1853Chulalongkorn, Siamese king (d. 1910)
  • 1861Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, 8th Librarian of Congress (d. 1955)
  • 1872Maurice Gamelin, French general (d. 1958)
  • 1873Sidney Olcott, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1949)
  • 1873 – Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver (d. 1944)
  • 1875Matthias Erzberger, German publicist and politician (d. 1921)
  • 1876Carleton Ellis, American inventor and chemist (d. 1941)
  • 1878Upton Sinclair, American novelist, critic, and essayist (d. 1968)
  • 1878 – Francisco Lagos Cházaro, acting president of Mexico (1915) (d. 1932)[10]
  • 1880Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, musicologist and critic (d. 1968)
  • 1884Maxwell Perkins, American editor (d. 1947)
  • 1885Enrico Mizzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1950)
  • 1886Charles Williams, English author, poet, and critic (d. 1945)
  • 1889Oskar Kaplur, Estonian wrestler (d. 1962)
  • 1889 – Charles Reidpath, American runner and general (d. 1975)
  • 1890Linda Eenpalu, Estonian activist and politician (d. 1967)
  • 1891Tomás Garrido Canabal, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1943)
  • 1893Colin Fraser Barron, Scottish-Canadian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1958)
  • 1893 – Hermann Lux, German footballer and manager (d. 1962)
  • 1895Walter Dubislav, German logician and philosopher of science (d. 1937)
  • 1899Leo Strauss, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (d. 1973)
  • 1902Stevie Smith, English author and poet (d. 1971)
  • 1906Jean Dréville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1997)
  • 1906 – Vera Faddeeva, Russian mathematician (d. 1983)
  • 1911Shriram Sharma, Indian philosopher and activist (d. 1991)
  • 1913Sidney Dillon Ripley, American ornithologist and academic (d. 2001)
  • 1914Kenneth More, English actor (d. 1982)
  • 1915Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2003)
  • 1917Red Auerbach, American basketball player and coach (d. 2006)
  • 1917 – Olga Dahl, Swedish genealogist (d. 2009)
  • 1917 – Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (d. 1994)
  • 1917 – Clarice Taylor, American actress (d. 2011)
  • 1917 – Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1996)
  • 1918Horace Gould, English race car driver (d. 1968)
  • 1920Jay Ward, American animator, producer, and screenwriter, founded Jay Ward Productions (d. 1989)
  • 1921Chico Hamilton, American drummer, composer, and bandleader (d. 2013)
  • 1923 – Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Indian actor and producer (d. 2014)
  • 1923 – Maurice Sauvé, Canadian economist, academic, and politician (d. 1992)
  • 1924Gogi Grant, American singer (d. 2016)
  • 1924 – Albert Marre, American director, and producer (d. 2012)
  • 1924 – Jackie Paris, American singer and guitarist (d. 2004)
  • 1925James Bernard, English composer and screenwriter (d. 2001)
  • 1925 – Ananda Mahidol, King Rama VIII of Thailand (d. 1946)
  • 1925 – Bobby Nunn, American R&B singer (d. 1986)
  • 1926Libero Liberati, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 1962)
  • 1927Colette Bonheur, Canadian singer (d. 1966)
  • 1927 – John Dankworth, English saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (d. 2010)
  • 1927 – Red Mitchell, American bassist, composer, and poet (d. 1992)
  • 1927 – Rachel Roberts, Welsh actress (d. 1980)
  • 1928Alberto de Lacerda, Mozambican-Portuguese poet and radio host (d. 2007)
  • 1928 – Olga Ferri, Argentinian dancer and choreographer (d. 2012)
  • 1928 – Donald Hall, American poet, editor, and critic (d. 2018)
  • 1929Anne Meara, American actress and playwright (d. 2015)
  • 1929 – Vittorio Taviani, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 2018)
  • 1929 – Joe Temperley, Scottish saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 2016)
  • 1930Richard Montague, American mathematician and philosopher (d. 1971)
  • 1931Cherd Songsri, Thai director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
  • 1933Dennis Viollet, English footballer and manager (d. 1999)
  • 1934Hamit Kaplan, Turkish World and Olympic champion sports wrestler (d. 1976)
  • 1934 – Takayuki Kubota, Japanese-American martial artist and actor
  • 1934 – Sophia Loren, Italian actress
  • 1934 – David Marquand, English academic and politician
  • 1934 – Jeff Morris, American actor (d. 2004)
  • 1934 – Rajinder Puri, Indian cartoonist, journalist, and activist (d. 2015)
  • 1935David Pegg, English footballer (d. 1958)
  • 1935 – Keith Roberts, English author and illustrator (d. 2000)
  • 1935 – Jim Taylor, American football player and sportscaster (d. 2018)
  • 1936Andrew Davies, Welsh author, screenwriter, and producer
  • 1936 – Salvador Reyes Monteón, Mexican footballer and manager (d. 2012)
  • 1937Birgitta Dahl, Swedish politician, Swedish Minister for the Environment
  • 1937 – Geoffrey Dear, Baron Dear, English police officer
  • 1937 – Robert L. Gerry III, American businessman
  • 1937 – Garry Johnson, English general
  • 1937 – Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2005)
  • 1938Eric Gale, American guitarist and producer (d. 1994)
  • 1938 – Jane Manning, English soprano and educator
  • 1940Tarō Asō, Japanese target shooter and politician, 92nd Prime Minister of Japan
  • 1940 – William Finley, American actor (d. 2012)
  • 1940 – Anna Pavord, Welsh-English journalist and author
  • 1941Dale Chihuly, American sculptor and educator
  • 1941 – Sammy McMillan, Irish footballer
  • 1942Rose Francine Rogombé, Gabonese lawyer and politician, President of Gabon (d. 2015)
  • 1942 – Gérald Tremblay, Canadian businessman and politician, 41st Mayor of Montreal
  • 1944Jeremy Child, English actor
  • 1944 – Paul Madeley, English footballer (d. 2018)
  • 1946Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj, Spiritual Master, Head of Science of Spirituality[11]
  • 1946 – Pete Coors, American businessman and politician
  • 1946 – Markandey Katju, Indian lawyer and judge
  • 1947Billy Bang, American violinist and composer (d. 2011)
  • 1947 – Jude Deveraux, American author
  • 1947 – Mia Martini, Italian singer (d. 1995)
  • 1947 – Chris Ortloff, American journalist and politician
  • 1947 – Bruce Pasternack, American businessman
  • 1947 – Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, French journalist and author
  • 1948Rey Langit, Filipino journalist and radio host
  • 1948 – Victoria Mallory, American singer and actress (d. 2014)
  • 1948 – George R. R. Martin, American novelist and short story writer
  • 1948 – Chuck Panozzo, American bass player
  • 1948 – John Panozzo, American drummer (d. 1996)
  • 1949Mahesh Bhatt, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1951Joanna Cameron, American actress and model (The Secrets of Isis)
  • 1951 – Guy Lafleur, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1951 – Javier Marías, Spanish journalist, author, and academic
  • 1951 – Greg Valentine, American wrestler
  • 1953Rocky Mattioli, Italian-Australian boxer
  • 1953 – Steve Tom, American actor
  • 1954Anne McIntosh, Scottish lawyer and politician
  • 1954 – Henry Samueli, American businessman, co-founded Broadcom Corporation
  • 1955Betsy Brantley, American actress
  • 1955 – Johnny Kidd, English wrestler
  • 1955 – José Rivero, Spanish golfer
  • 1956Jennifer Tour Chayes, American mathematician and computer scientist
  • 1956 – Gary Cole, American actor
  • 1956 – Steve Coleman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader
  • 1956 – John Harle, English saxophonist, composer, conductor, and producer
  • 1957Alannah Currie, New Zealand singer-songwriter
  • 1957 – Michael Hurst, New Zealand actor and director
  • 1958Arn Anderson, American wrestler and trainer
  • 1959Joseph Alessi, American trombonist and educator
  • 1959 – Joanna Domańska, Polish pianist and educator
  • 1959 – Meral Okay, Turkish actress, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
  • 1960Lee Hall, English playwright and screenwriter
  • 1960 – Dave Hemingway, English singer-songwriter and drummer
  • 1960 – Deborah Roberts, American journalist
  • 1961Lisa Bloom, American lawyer and journalist
  • 1961 – Caroline Flint, English politician, Minister of State for Europe
  • 1961 – Erwin Koeman, Dutch retired football player and coach
  • 1962Jim Al-Khalili, Iraqi-English physicist, author, and academic
  • 1963Anil Dalpat, Pakistani cricketer
  • 1964Randy Bradbury, American bass player
  • 1965Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen, Danish badminton player
  • 1966Nuno Bettencourt, Portuguese singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1967Roger Anderson, American wrestler
  • 1967 – Martin Harrison, American football player
  • 1967 – Kristen Johnston, American actress
  • 1967 – Gunnar Nelson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1967 – Matthew Nelson, American singer-songwriter and bass player
  • 1968Ijaz Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer and coach
  • 1968 – Leah Pinsent, Canadian actress
  • 1968 – Darrell Russell, American race car driver (d. 2004)
  • 1968 – Philippa Forrester, English television and radio presenter, producer and author
  • 1969Patrick Pentland, Irish-Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
  • 1969 – Tim Rogers, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1969 – Ben Shepherd, American musician and songwriter
  • 1969 – Richard Witschge, Dutch footballer and coach
  • 1970N'Bushe Wright, American actress and dancer
  • 1971Todd Blackadder, New Zealand rugby player and coach
  • 1971 – Masashi Hamauzu, Japanese pianist and composer
  • 1971 – Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer and manager
  • 1971 – Dominika Peczynski, Swedish singer and television host
  • 1972Victor Ponta, Romanian jurist and politician, 63rd Prime Minister of Romania
  • 1973Ronald McKinnon, American football player
  • 1973 – Jo Pavey, English runner
  • 1975Asia Argento, Italian actress
  • 1975 – Joel Gertner, American wrestling announcer
  • 1975 – Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver
  • 1975 – Jason Robinson, American saxophonist and composer
  • 1976Ainsley Earhardt, American political commentator
  • 1977Chris Mooney, American journalist and academic
  • 1978Jason Bay, Canadian-American baseball player
  • 1978 – Patrizio Buanne, Austrian-Italian singer-songwriter and producer
  • 1978 – Héctor Camacho Jr., Puerto Rican-American boxer
  • 1978 – Dante Hall, American football player
  • 1978 – Scott Minto, Australian rugby league player
  • 1980Vladimir Karpets, Russian cyclist
  • 1981Feliciano López, Spanish tennis player
  • 1981 – David McMillan, American football player (d. 2013)
  • 1981 – Ryan Tandy, Australian rugby league player (d. 2014)
  • 1981 – Jordan Tata, American baseball player
  • 1982Jason Bacashihua, American ice hockey player
  • 1982 – Aaron Burkart, German race car driver
  • 1982 – Brian Fortuna, American dancer and choreographer
  • 1982 – Inna Osypenko-Radomska, Ukrainian-born sprint kayaker[12]
  • 1982 – Sexy Star, Mexican wrestler
  • 1982 – Athanasios Tsigas, Greek footballer
  • 1983Freya Ross, Scottish runner
  • 1983 – Ángel Sánchez, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
  • 1984Brian Joubert, French figure skater
  • 1985Ian Desmond, American baseball player
  • 1985 – Mami Yamasaki, Japanese model and actress
  • 1986Hayato Fujita, Japanese wrestler
  • 1986 – Aldis Hodge, American actor
  • 1986 – İbrahim Kaş, Turkish footballer
  • 1986 – Jason Nightingale, New Zealand rugby league player
  • 1987Gain, South Korean singer
  • 1987 – Jack Lawless, American drummer
  • 1987 – Tito Tebaldi, Italian rugby player
  • 1988Sergei Bobrovsky, Russian ice hockey player
  • 1988 – Ayano Ōmoto, Japanese singer and dancer
  • 1988 – Ryan Simpkins, Australian rugby league player
  • 1990Phillip Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1990 – John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1991Isaac Cofie, Ghanaian footballer
  • 1992Michał Żyro, Polish footballer
  • 1993 – Julian Draxler, German footballer
  • 1995Laura Dekker, Dutch sailor
  • 1995 – Rob Holding, English footballer
  • 1996Ioana Loredana Roșca, Romanian tennis player

Deaths[]

  • 855Gozbald, bishop of Würzburg
  • 1085Hermann II, Count Palatine of Lotharingia (b. 1049)
  • 1190Adelog of Hildesheim, German bishop
  • 1241Conrad II of Salzwedel, German nobleman and bishop
  • 1246Michael of Chernigov (b. 1185)
  • 1266Jan Prandota, Bishop of Kraków
  • 1328Ibn Taymiyyah, Syrian theologian and scholar (b. 1263)
  • 1384Louis I, Duke of Anjou (b. 1339)
  • 1440Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1371)
  • 1460Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer (b. 1400)
  • 1492Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (b. 1426)
  • 1501Agostino Barbarigo, Doge of Venice
  • 1501 – Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, stepson of Edward IV of England (b. 1457)
  • 1533Veit Stoss, German sculptor (b. c. 1447)
  • 1537Pavle Bakić, medieval Serb monarch; last Serb Despot
  • 1565Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (b. 1515)
  • 1586 – Sir Anthony Babington, English Catholic conspirator (b. 1561)
  • 1586 – Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (b. 1558)
  • 1590Lodovico Agostini, Italian priest, composer, and scholar (b. 1534)
  • 1625Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (b. 1555)
  • 1627Jan Gruter, Dutch scholar and critic (b. 1560)
  • 1639Johannes Meursius, Dutch historian and scholar (b. 1579)
  • 1643Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for England (b. 1610)
  • 1684Kim Seok-ju, Korean scholar and politician (b. 1634)
  • 1793Fletcher Christian, English lieutenant and mutineer (b. 1764)
  • 1803Robert Emmet, Irish commander (b. 1780)
  • 1815Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist and scholar (b. 1725)
  • 1839Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (b. 1769)
  • 1840José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, Consul of Paraguay (b. 1766)
  • 1845Matvei Gedenschtrom, Russian explorer and public servant (b. 1780)
  • 1852Philander Chase, American bishop and educator, founded Kenyon College (b. 1775)
  • 1855José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran priest and educator (b. 1797)
  • 1863Jacob Grimm, German philologist and mythologist (b. 1785)
  • 1884Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist and author (b. 1802)
  • 1898Theodor Fontane, German author and poet (b. 1819)
  • 1906Robert R. Hitt, American politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1834)
  • 1908Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)
  • 1927George Nichols, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1864)
  • 1930Gombojab Tsybikov, Russian anthropologist and explorer (b. 1873)
  • 1932Francisco S. Carvajal, Mexican lawyer and politician, president 1914 (b. 1870)[13]
  • 1933Annie Besant, English theosophist and activist (b. 1847)
  • 1939Paul Bruchési, Canadian archbishop (b. 1855)
  • 1945Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Brazilian politician, President of Brazil (b. 1869)
  • 1945 – William Seabrook, American occultist, journalist, and explorer (b. 1884)
  • 1945 – Eduard Wirths, German physician (b. 1909)
  • 1947Fiorello H. La Guardia, American lawyer and politician, 99th Mayor of New York City (b. 1882)
  • 1947 – Jantina Tammes, Dutch biologist, geneticist, and academic (b. 1871)
  • 1957Heino Kaski, Finnish pianist and composer (b. 1885)
  • 1957 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish violinist and composer (b. 1865)
  • 1970Alexandros Othonaios, Greek general and politician, 126h Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1879)
  • 1971Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
  • 1971 – James Westerfield, American actor (b. 1913)
  • 1972Pierre-Henri Simon, French historian and author (b. 1903)
  • 1973Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943)
  • 1975Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
  • 1979Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)
  • 1984Steve Goodman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
  • 1985Helen MacInnes, Scottish-American librarian and author (b. 1907)
  • 1987Michael Stewart, American playwright and composer (b. 1924)
  • 1993Erich Hartmann, German soldier and pilot (b. 1922)
  • 1994Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean physician, academic, and diplomat (b. 1924)
  • 1994 – Jule Styne, American composer (b. 1905)
  • 1996Paul Erdős, Hungarian-Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1913)
  • 1996 – Reuben Kamanga, Zambian politician, 1st Vice-President of Zambia (b. 1929)
  • 1996 – Paul Weston, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1912)
  • 1999Robert Lebel, Canadian businessman (b. 1905)
  • 2000Gherman Titov, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1935)
  • 2002Sergei Bodrov Jr., Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1971)
  • 2003Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwean politician, 1st Vice-President of Zimbabwe (b. 1922)
  • 2003 – Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, Welsh lawyer and politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1941)
  • 2004Brian Clough, English footballer and manager (b. 1935)
  • 2004 – Townsend Hoopes, American soldier and historian (b. 1922)
  • 2005Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian human rights activist, Holocaust survivor (b. 1908)
  • 2006Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (b. 1932)
  • 2006 – Sven Nykvist, Swedish director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1922)
  • 2006 – John W. Peterson, American pilot and songwriter (b. 1921)
  • 2007Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (b. 1928)
  • 2010Leonard Skinner, American soldier and educator (b. 1933)
  • 2011Oscar Handlin, American historian and author (b. 1915)
  • 2011 – Burhanuddin Rabbani, Afghan academic and politician, 10th President of Afghanistan (b. 1940)
  • 2012Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal (b. 1935)
  • 2012 – Richard H. Cracroft, American author and academic (b. 1936)
  • 2012 – Tereska Torrès, French soldier and author (b. 1920)
  • 2013James B. Vaught, American general (b. 1926)
  • 2013 – Gilles Verlant, Belgian journalist and critic (b. 1957)
  • 2014Anatoly Berezovoy, Russian colonel, pilot, and cosmonaut (b. 1942)
  • 2014 – Polly Bergen, American actress and singer (b. 1930)
  • 2014 – Takako Doi, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1928)
  • 2014 – George Sluizer, French-Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1932)
  • 2015Mario Caiano, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
  • 2015 – Jagmohan Dalmiya, Indian businessman (b. 1940)
  • 2015 – Jack Larson, American actor (b. 1928)
  • 2016Curtis Hanson, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1945)
  • 2016 – Peter Leo Gerety, American bishop (b. 1912)

Holidays and observances[]

  • Christian feast day:
    • Agapitus (Western Christianity)
    • Eustace (Western Christianity)
    • Evilasius
    • Fausta of Cyzicus
    • Glycerius of Milan
    • Jean-Charles Cornay (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)
    • John Coleridge Patteson (commemoration, Anglicanism)
    • José Maria de Yermo y Parres
    • Korean Martyrs, including Andrew Kim Taegon and Laurent-Marie-Joseph Imbert
    • Theodore, Philippa and companions
    • Vincent Madelgarius (Maelceadar)
    • September 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Constitution Day (Nepal)
  • Independence Day of South Ossetia (not fully recognized)
  • National Youth Day (Thailand)
  • Oil Workers' Day (Azerbaijan)
  • Universal Children's Day (Germany)

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