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September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 102 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).
622 – Muhammad and Abu Bakr arrived in Medina
1058 – Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border-zone in present-day Burgenland.
1066 – Battle of Fulford, Viking Harald Hardrada defeats earls Morcar and Edwin
1187 – Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
1260 – The Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights.
1378 – Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the "Butcher of Cesena", is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
1498 – The 1498 Nankai earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.
1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
1596 – Diego 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 (1688–97).
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 allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at the Battle of Valmy.
1835 – Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre, then capital of the Brazilian imperial province of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start of ten-year-long Ragamuffin War.
1848 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
1854 – Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in Crimea.
1857 – The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
1860 – The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.
1863 – American Civil War: The conclusion of the Battle of Chickamauga in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater.
1870 – Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia and complete the unification of Italy, ending de facto the temporal power of popes.
1871 – Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.
1881 – U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.
1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
1909 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony.
1910 – The ocean liner SS France, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
1911 – White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with British warship HMS Hawke.
1930 – Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
1941 – Holocaust: Four hundred three Jews (128 men, 176 women and 99 children) were murdered by Einsatzkommando 3 in Nemencing, Latvia.
1942 – Holocaust: Letychiv, Ukraine: In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.
1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
1961 – Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
1962 – James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
1967 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland.
1970 – Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen.
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.
1977 – The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
1979 – A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokassa I.
1982 – The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.
1984 – A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
1990 – South 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. The perpetrators remain unidentified.
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".
2003 – Maldives civil unrest: The death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé.
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.
524 – Kan Bahlam I, Mayan ruler (d. 583)
1449 – Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg, German noble (d. 1500)
1486 – Arthur, Prince of Wales (d. 1502)
1504 – Philip III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1559)
1593 – Gottfried Scheidt, German organist and composer (d. 1661)
1599 – Christian the Younger of Brunswick (d. 1623)
1608 – Jean-Jacques Olier, French priest and mystic, founded the Society of Saint-Sulpice (d. 1657)
1685 – Giuseppe Matteo Alberti, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1751)
1746 – Maurice, Count de Benyovszky, Slovak-Hungarian explorer (d. 1786)
1758 – Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian emperor (d. 1806)
1778 – Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer (d. 1852)
1800 – Benjamin Franklin White, American singer and composer (d. 1879)
1819 – Frederick Ellsworth Sickels, American inventor (d. 1895)
1820 – John F. Reynolds, American general (d. 1863)
1831 – Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (d. 1917)
1833 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918)
1842 – James Dewar, Scottish-English chemist and physicist (d. 1923)
1844 – William H. Illingworth, English-American photographer (d. 1893)
1851 – Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright and critic (d. 1929)
1853 – Chulalongkorn, Thai king (d. 1910)
1861 – Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, 8th Librarian of Congress (d. 1955)
1872 – Maurice Gamelin, French general (d. 1958)
1873 – Sidney Olcott, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1949)
1873 – Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver (d. 1944)
1876 – Carleton Ellis, American inventor and chemist (d. 1941)
1878 – Upton Sinclair, American novelist, critic, and essayist (d. 1968)
1880 – Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, musicologist and critic (d. 1968)
1884 – Maxwell Perkins, American editor (d. 1947)
1885 – Enrico Mizzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1950)
1886 – Charles Williams, English author, poet, and critic (d. 1945)
1889 – Oskar Kaplur, Estonian wrestler (d. 1962)
1889 – Charles Reidpath, American runner and general (d. 1975)
1890 – Linda Eenpalu, Estonian activist and politician (d. 1967)
1891 – Tomás Garrido Canabal, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1943)
1893 – Colin Fraser Barron, Scottish-Canadian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1958)
1893 – Hermann Lux, German footballer and manager (d. 1962)
1895 – Walter Dubislav, German logician and philosopher of science (d. 1937)
1899 – Leo Strauss, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (d. 1973)
1902 – Stevie Smith, English author and poet (d. 1971)
1906 – Jean Dréville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1906 – Vera Faddeeva, Russian mathematician (d. 1983)
1911 – Shriram Sharma, Indian philosopher and activist (d. 1991)
1913 – Sidney Dillon Ripley, American ornithologist and academic (d. 2001)
1914 – Johannes Hint, Estonian engineer (d. 1985)
1914 – Kenneth More, English actor (d. 1982)
1915 – Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2003)
1917 – Red Auerbach, American basketball player and coach (d. 2006)
1917 – Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (d. 1994)
1917 – Clarice Taylor, American actress (d. 2011)
1917 – Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1996)
1918 – Horace Gould, English racing driver (d. 1968)
1920 – Alberto de Lacerda, Mozambican-Portuguese poet and radio host (d. 2007)
1920 – Jay Ward, American animator, producer, and screenwriter, founded Jay Ward Productions (d. 1989)
1921 – Chico 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)
1924 – Gogi Grant, American singer (d. 2016)
1924 – Albert Marre, American director, and producer (d. 2012)
1924 – Jackie Paris, American singer and guitarist (d. 2004)
1925 – James Bernard, English composer and screenwriter (d. 2001)
1926 – Libero Liberati, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 1962)
1927 – Colette 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)
1928 – Olga Ferri, Argentinian dancer and choreographer (d. 2012)
1928 – Donald Hall, American poet, editor, and critic
1929 – Anne Meara, American actress and playwright (d. 2015)
1929 – Joe Temperley, Scottish saxophonist and clarinet player
1930 – Richard Montague, American mathematician and philosopher (d. 1971)
1931 – Cherd Songsri, Thai director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1933 – Steve McCall, American drummer (d. 1989)
1933 – Dennis Viollet, English footballer and manager (d. 1999)
1934 – Hamit 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)
1935 – David Pegg, English footballer (d. 1958)
1935 – Keith Roberts, English author and illustrator (d. 2000)
1935 – Jim Taylor, American football player and sportscaster
1936 – Andrew Davies, Welsh author, screenwriter, and producer
1936 – Salvador Reyes Monteón, Mexican footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1937 – Birgitta Dahl, Swedish politician, Swedish Minister for the Environment
1937 – Geoffrey Dear, Baron Dear, English police officer
1937 – Garry Johnson, English general
1937 – Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2005)
1938 – Eric Gale, American guitarist and producer (d. 1994)
1938 – Jane Manning, English soprano and educator
1939 – Robert L. Gerry III, American businessman
1940 – Tarō 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
1941 – Dale Chihuly, American sculptor and educator
1941 – Jim Cullum, Jr., American cornet player
1941 – Sammy McMillan, Irish footballer
1942 – Rose Francine Rogombé, Gabonese lawyer and politician, President of Gabon (d. 2015)
1942 – Gérald Tremblay, Canadian businessman and politician, 41st Mayor of Montreal
1944 – Jeremy Child, English actor
1944 – Paul Madeley, English footballer
1946 – Pete Coors, American businessman and politician
1946 – Markandey Katju, Indian lawyer and judge
1947 – Billy Bang, American violinist and composer (d. 2011)
1947 – Jude Deveraux, American author
1947 – Chris Ortloff, American journalist and politician
1947 – Bruce Pasternack, American businessman
1947 – Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, French journalist and author
1948 – Rey 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
1949 – Mahesh Bhatt, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
1951 – Mike Graham, American wrestler and promoter (d. 2012)
1951 – Guy Lafleur, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 – Javier Marías, Spanish journalist, author, and academic
1953 – Rocky Mattioli, Italian-Australian boxer
1954 – Anne McIntosh, Scottish lawyer and politician
1954 – Henry Samueli, American businessman, co-founded Broadcom
1955 – Betsy Brantley, American actress
1955 – José Rivero, Spanish golfer
1955 – Peter Scolari, American actor and director
1956 – Jennifer 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
1957 – Alannah Currie, New Zealand singer-songwriter
1957 – Michael Hurst, New Zealand actor and director
1958 – Arn Anderson, American wrestler and trainer
1959 – Joseph Alessi, American trombonist and educator
1959 – Joanna Domańska, Polish pianist and educator
1959 – Meral Okay, Turkish actress, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1960 – Lee Hall, English playwright and screenwriter
1960 – Dave Hemingway, English singer-songwriter and drummer
1960 – Deborah Roberts, American journalist
1961 – Lisa Bloom, American lawyer and journalist
1961 – Caroline Flint, English politician, Minister of State for Europe
1961 – Erwin Koeman, Dutch retired football player and coach
1962 – Jim Al-Khalili, Iraqi-English physicist, author, and academic
1963 – Anil Dalpat, Pakistani cricketer
1964 – Randy Bradbury, American bass player
1966 – Nuno Bettencourt, Portuguese singer-songwriter and guitarist
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
1968 – Ijaz Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer and coach
1968 – Leah Pinsent, Canadian actress
1968 – Darrell Russell, American race car driver (d. 2004)
1968 – Ben Shepherd, American singer-songwriter and bass player
1969 – Patrick Pentland, Irish-Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1969 – Tim Rogers, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969 – Richard Witschge, Dutch footballer and coach
1971 – Todd 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
1972 – Victor Ponta, Romanian jurist and politician, 63rd Prime Minister of Romania
1973 – Ronald McKinnon, American football player
1973 – Jo Pavey, English runner
1975 – Asia Argento, Italian actress, director, and screenwriter
1975 – Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver
1975 – Jason Robinson, American saxophonist and composer
1977 – Chris Mooney, American journalist and academic
1978 – Jason 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
1980 – Vladimir Karpets, Russian cyclist
1981 – Feliciano López, Spanish tennis player
1981 – David McMillan, American football player (d. 2013)
1981 – Ryan Tandy, Australian rugby player (d. 2014)
1981 – Jordan Tata, American baseball player
1982 – Jason Bacashihua, American ice hockey player
1982 – Aaron Burkart, German race car driver
1982 – Brian Fortuna, American dancer and choreographer
1982 – Costa Pantazis, Cypriot-English songwriter and producer
1982 – Athanasios Tsigas, Greek footballer
1983 – A-Lin, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
1983 – Jessica Alonso Bernardo, Spanish handball player
1983 – Freya Ross, Scottish runner
1983 – Ángel Sánchez, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1984 – Brian Joubert, French figure skater
1984 – Belén Rodríguez, Argentinian model, actress, and television host
1985 – Ian Desmond, American baseball player
1985 – Mami Yamasaki, Japanese model and actress
1986 – İbrahim Kaş, Turkish footballer
1986 – Jason Nightingale, New Zealand rugby league player
1987 – Gain, South Korean singer
1987 – Jack Lawless, American drummer
1987 – Tito Tebaldi, Italian rugby player
1988 – Sergei Bobrovsky, Russian ice hockey player
1988 – Ayano Ōmoto, Japanese singer and dancer
1988 – Ryan Simpkins, Australian rugby league player
1990 – Phillip Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1990 – John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player
1992 – Michał Żyro, Polish footballer
1993 – Julian Draxler, German footballer
1995 – Laura Dekker, Dutch sailor
1996 – Ioana Loredana Roșca, Romanian tennis player
855 – Gozbald, bishop of Würzburg
1085 – Hermann II, Count Palatine of Lotharingia (b. 1049]])
1190 – Adelog of Hildesheim, German bishop
1241 – Conrad II of Salzwedel, German nobleman and bishop
1246 – Michael of Chernigov (b. 1185)
1266 – Jan Prandota, Bishop of Kraków
1328 – Ibn Taymiyyah, Syrian theologian and scholar (b. 1263)
1384 – Louis I, Duke of Anjou (b. 1339)
1440 – Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1371)
1460 – Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer (b. 1400)
1492 – Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (b. 1426)
1501 – Agostino Barbarigo, Doge of Venice
1501 – Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, stepson of Edward IV of England (b. 1457)
1590 – Lodovico Agostini, Italian priest, composer, and scholar (b. 1534)
1625 – Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (b. 1555)
1627 – Jan Gruter, Dutch scholar and critic (b. 1560)
1639 – Johannes Meursius, Dutch historian and scholar (b. 1579)
1643 – Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for England (b. 1610)
1684 – Kim Seok-ju, Korean scholar and politician (b. 1634)
1793 – Fletcher Christian, English lieutenant (b. 1764)
1803 – Robert Emmet, Irish commander (b. 1780)
1815 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist and scholar (b. 1725)
1839 – Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (b. 1769)
1840 – José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, Consul of Paraguay (b. 1766)
1845 – Matvei Gedenschtrom, Russian explorer and public servant (b. 1780)
1852 – Philander Chase, American bishop and educator, founded Kenyon College (b. 1775)
1855 – José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran priest and educator (b. 1797)
1863 – Jacob Grimm, German philologist and mythologist (b. 1785)
1884 – Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist and author (b. 1802)
1898 – Theodor Fontane, German author and poet (b. 1819)
1906 – Robert R. Hitt, American politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1834)
1908 – Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)
1927 – George Nichols, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1864)
1930 – Gombojab Tsybikov, Russian anthropologist and explorer (b. 1873)
1933 – Annie Besant, English theosophist and activist (b. 1847)
1939 – Paul Bruchési, Canadian archbishop (b. 1855)
1945 – Augusto 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)
1947 – Fiorello 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)
1957 – Heino Kaski, Finnish pianist and composer (b. 1885)
1957 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish violinist and composer (b. 1865)
1970 – Alexandros Othonaios, Greek general and politician, 126h Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1879)
1971 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
1972 – Pierre-Henri Simon, French historian and author (b. 1903)
1973 – Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943)
1973 – Ben Webster, American saxophonist (b. 1909)
1975 – Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
1979 – Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)
1984 – Steve Goodman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
1985 – Helen MacInnes, Scottish-American librarian and author (b. 1907)
1987 – Michael Stewart, American playwright and composer (b. 1924)
1993 – Erich Hartmann, German soldier and pilot (b. 1922)
1994 – Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean physician, academic, and diplomat (b. 1924)
1994 – Jule Styne, American composer (b. 1905)
1996 – Paul Erdős, Hungarian-Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1913)
1996 – Reuben Kamanga, Zambian politician, 1st Vice-President of Zambia (b. 1929)
1996 – Max Manus, Norwegian lieutenant (b. 1914)
1996 – Paul Weston, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1912)
1999 – Robert Lebel, Canadian businessman (b. 1905)
2000 – Gherman Titov, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1935)
2002 – Sergei Bodrov Jr., Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1971)
2003 – Simon 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)
2004 – Brian Clough, English footballer and manager (b. 1935)
2004 – Townsend Hoopes, American soldier and historian (b. 1922)
2005 – Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian human rights activist, Holocaust survivor (b. 1908)
2006 – Armin 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)
2007 – Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (b. 1928)
2010 – Leonard Skinner, American soldier and educator (b. 1933)
2011 – Oscar Handlin, American historian and author (b. 1915)
2011 – Burhanuddin Rabbani, Afghan academic and politician, 10th President of Afghanistan (b. 1940)
2012 – Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal (b. 1935)
2012 – Richard H. Cracroft, American author and academic (b. 1936)
2012 – Dinesh Thakur, Indian actor and director (b. 1947)
2012 – Tereska Torrès, French soldier and author (b. 1920)
2013 – James B. Vaught, American general (b. 1926)
2013 – Gilles Verlant, Belgian journalist and critic (b. 1957)
2014 – Anatoly 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)
2015 – Mario Caiano, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
2015 – Jagmohan Dalmiya, Indian businessman (b. 1940)
2015 – Jack Larson, American actor (b. 1928)
2016 – Curtis 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)
Jean-Charles Cornay (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)
José Maria de Yermo y Parres
Korean Martyrs, including Andrew Kim Taegon and Laurent-Marie-Joseph Imbert
September 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
John Coleridge Patteson (commemoration, Anglicanism)
Independence Day of South Ossetia (not fully recognized)
Constitution Day (Nepal)
National Youth Day (Thailand)
Oil Workers' Day (Azerbaijan)
Universal Children's Day (Germany)
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