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September 22 is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 100 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56). It is frequently the day of the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.
480 BC – Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
904 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.
1236 – The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
1499 – Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War.
1586 – Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
1598 – English playwright Ben Jonson kills actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.
1692 – The last of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials are hanged; the remainder of those convicted are all eventually released.
1711 – The Tuscarora War begins in present-day North Carolina.
1761 – George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
1789 – Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military commander after his allied army defeat superior Ottoman Empire forces.
1792 – Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
1823 – Joseph Smith states he found the Golden plates on this date after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
1857 – The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
1862 – Slavery in the United States: A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
1866 – Battle of Curupayty in the Paraguayan War.
1885 – Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.
1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
1892 – Lindal Railway Incident, providing inspiration for "The Lost Special" by A.C. Doyle and the TV serial Lost.
1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
1908 – The Bulgarian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
1910 – The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
1914 – German submarine SM U-9 torpedoes and sinks the British cruisers HMS Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy on the Broad Fourteens off the Dutch coast with the loss of over 1,400 men.
1919 – The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
1927 – Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
1934 – An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken, ending the Battle of El Mazuco.
1939 – Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
1941 – World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
1955 – In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
1957 – In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
1960 – The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a ceasefire.
1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Secret Service agent Oliver Sipple.
1979 – A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.
1980 – Iraq invades Iran.
1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
1993 – A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.
1993 – A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
1995 – An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
1995 – Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.
2013 – At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.
1211 – Ibn Khallikan, Kurdish Muslim scholar (d. 1282)
1373 – Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (d. 1400)
1515 – Anne of Cleves (d. 1557)
1547 – Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet (d. 1590)
1593 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss-German engraver and cartographer (d. 1650)
1601 – Anne of Austria (d. 1666)
1606 – Li Zicheng, Chinese emperor (d. 1645)
1680 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)
1694 – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1773)
1715 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French mineralogist and botanist (d. 1786)
1741 – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist (d. 1811)
1743 – Quintin Craufurd, Scottish author (d. 1819)
1762 – Elizabeth Simcoe, English-Canadian painter and author (d. 1850)
1765 – Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1822)
1788 – Theodore Hook, English composer and educator (d. 1841)
1791 – Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (d. 1867)
1819 – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian and academic (d. 1897)
1829 – Tự Đức, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1883)
1833 – Stephen D. Lee, American general and academic (d. 1908)
1835 – Alexander Potebnja, Ukrainian linguist and philosopher (d. 1891)
1841 – Andrejs Pumpurs, Latvian soldier and poet (d. 1902)
1842 – Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman sultan (d. 1918)
1862 – Anastasios Charalambis, Greek lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1949)
1868 – Louise McKinney, Canadian educator and politician (d. 1931)
1869 – Adrien de Noailles, French son of Jules Charles Victurnien de Noailles (d. 1953)
1870 – Charlotte Cooper, English-Scottish tennis player (d. 1966)
1870 – Arthur Pryor, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1942)
1875 – Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Lithuanian painter and composer (d. 1911)
1876 – André Tardieu, French journalist and politician, 97th Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
1878 – Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese politician and diplomat, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967)
1880 – Christabel Pankhurst, English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (d. 1958)
1882 – Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (d. 1946)
1883 – Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (d. 1932)
1883 – Frank George Woollard, English engineer (d. 1957)
1885 – Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect and academic, designed the Stockholm Public Library (d. 1940)
1885 – Ben Chifley, Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1951)
1885 – Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1957)
1887 – Bhaurao Patil, Indian educator and activist (d. 1959)
1889 – Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (d. 1963)
1891 – Alma Thomas, American painter and educator (d. 1978)
1892 – Billy West, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1975)
1894 – Elisabeth Rethberg, German soprano (d. 1976)
1895 – Paul Muni, Ukrainian-born American actor (d. 1967)
1896 – Uri Zvi Greenberg, Ukrainian-Israeli poet and journalist (d. 1981)
1896 – Henry Segrave, American-English race car driver (d. 1930)
1898 – Katharine Alexander, American actress and singer (d. 1981)
1900 – Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and engineer (d. 1985)
1900 – Sergey Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer and academic (d. 1964)
1900 – William Spratling, American-Mexican silversmith and educator (d. 1967)
1901 – Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
1902 – John Houseman, Romanian-American actor and producer (d. 1988)
1905 – Haakon Lie, Norwegian lawyer and politician (d. 2009)
1905 – Eugen Sänger, Czech-Austrian engineer (d. 1964)
1907 – Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and author (d. 2003)
1907 – Philip Fotheringham-Parker, English race car driver (d. 1981)
1907 – Hermann Schlichting, German engineer and academic (d. 1982)
1908 – Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American author and illustrator (d. 2002)
1909 – John Engstead, American photographer and journalist (d. 1983)
1910 – György Faludy, Hungarian poet and author (d. 2006)
1912 – Herbert Mataré, German physicist and academic (d. 2011)
1912 – Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003)
1913 – Lillian Chestney, American painter and illustrator (d. 2000)
1915 – Grigory Frid, Russian pianist and composer (d. 2012)
1918 – Hans Scholl, German activist (d. 1943)
1918 – Henryk Szeryng, Mexican violinist and educator (d. 1988)
1920 – Eric Baker, English activist, co-founded Amnesty International (d. 1976)
1920 – Anders Lassen, Danish-English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1945)
1920 – Bob Lemon, American baseball player and manager (d. 2000)
1920 – William H. Riker, American political scientist and academic (d. 1993)
1921 – Will Elder, Jewish-American illustrator (d. 2008)
1922 – David Sive, American environmentalist and lawyer (d. 2014)
1923 – Dannie Abse, Welsh physician, poet, and author (d. 2014)
1924 – Bernard Gauthier, French cyclist
1924 – Charles Keeping, English author and illustrator (d. 1988)
1924 – Rosamunde Pilcher, English author
1924 – Charles Waterhouse, American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 2013)
1924 – J. William Middendorf, American soldier and politician, 14th United States Secretary of the Navy
1924 – Ray Wetzel, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1951)
1925 – Virginia Capers, American actress and singer (d. 2004)
1925 – Leila Hadley, American author (d. 2009)
1926 – Bill Smith, American clarinet player and composer
1927 – Gordon Astall, English footballer and coach
1927 – Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1928 – Eric Broadley, English engineer and businessman, founded Lola Cars
1928 – James Lawson, American activist, author, and academic
1928 – Eugene Roche, American actor (d. 2004)
1929 – Serge Garant, Canadian composer and conductor (d. 1986)
1929 – Carlo Ubbiali, Italian motorcycle road racer
1930 – Joni James, American singer
1930 – T. S. Sinnathuray, Judge of the High Court of Singapore (d. 2016)
1931 – Fay Weldon, English author and playwright
1931 – George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Scottish banker and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (d. 2003)
1932 – Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuanian politician, 2nd President of Lithuania (d. 2010)
1932 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (d. 2009)
1933 – Leonardo Balada, Spanish-American composer and educator
1933 – T. Cullen Davis, American businessman
1933 – Carmelo Simeone, Italian-Argentinian footballer (d. 2014)
1933 – Jesco von Puttkamer, German-American engineer (d. 2012)
1934 – Jack McGregor, American captain, lawyer, and politician
1934 – Lute Olson, American basketball player and coach
1934 – T. Somasekaram, Sri Lankan geographer and politician, 37th Surveyor General of Sri Lanka (d. 2010)
1936 – Maurice Evans, English footballer and manager (d. 2000)
1937 – Don Rutherford, English rugby player (d. 2016)
1938 – Gene Mingo, American football player
1939 – Bogdan Baltazar, Romanian economist and engineer (d. 2012)
1939 – Deborah Lavin, South African-English historian and academic
1939 – Gilbert E. Patterson, American bishop (d. 2007)
1940 – Anna Karina, Danish-French actress, director, and screenwriter
1941 – Jeremiah Wright, American pastor and theologian
1942 – Candida Lycett Green, Irish-British journalist and author (d. 2014)
1942 – Wu Ma, Chinese actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1942 – George Erik Rupp, American theologian and academic
1942 – Rubén Salazar Gómez, Colombian cardinal
1942 – David Stern, American lawyer and businessman
1943 – Toni Basil, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
1943 – Barry Cable, Australian footballer and coach
1943 – Paul Hoffert, American keyboard player, composer, and academic
1944 – Brian Gibson, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1946 – King Sunny Adé, Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1946 – Larry Dierker, American baseball player and manager
1947 – Jo Beverley, English-Canadian author
1947 – David Drewry, English glaciologist and geophysicist
1947 – Robert Morace, American author and academic
1948 – Denis Burke, Australian soldier and politician, 6th Chief Minister of the Northern Territory
1948 – Jim Byrnes, American guitarist and actor
1948 – Mark Phillips, English equestrian, trainer, and journalist
1949 – James Cartwright, American general
1949 – Jim McGinty, Australian lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of Western Australia
1951 – David Coverdale, English singer-songwriter
1952 – Bob Goodlatte, American lawyer and politician
1952 – Gary Holton, English singer-songwriter (d. 1985)
1952 – Paul Le Mat, American actor
1952 – Sukhumbhand Paribatra, Thai political scientist and politician, 15th Governor of Bangkok
1953 – Richard Fairbrass, English singer-songwriter
1953 – Ségolène Royal, French politician
1954 – Shari Belafonte, American actress
1954 – Randy Lanier, American race car driver and drug trafficker
1955 – Jeffrey Leonard, American baseball player and coach
1956 – Debby Boone, American singer, actress, and author
1956 – Robert Bowlin, American guitarist and fiddler
1956 – Doug Wimbish, American singer-songwriter and bass player
1957 – Steve Carney, English footballer (d. 2013)
1957 – Nick Cave, Australian singer-songwriter, author, and actor
1957 – Johnette Napolitano, American singer-songwriter and bass player
1957 – Giuseppe Saronni, Italian cyclist and manager
1958 – Andrea Bocelli, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
1958 – Neil Cavuto, American journalist and author
1958 – Joan Jett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress
1959 – Tai Babilonia, American figure skater and talk show host
1959 – Saul Perlmutter, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate
1960 – Scott Baio, American actor
1961 – Vince Coleman, American baseball player
1961 – Liam Fox, Scottish physician and politician, Secretary of State for Defence
1961 – Bonnie Hunt, American actress, producer, and talk show host
1961 – Diane Lemieux, Canadian lawyer and politician
1961 – Michael Torke, American composer
1962 – Martin Crowe, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2016)
1962 – Diogo Mainardi, Brazilian journalist
1964 – Paul Bonhomme, British competitive pilot
1964 – Juha Turunen, Finnish lawyer and politician
1964 – Ken Vandermark, American saxophonist and composer
1965 – Dan Bucatinsky, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1965 – Andrii Deshchytsia, Ukrainian politician and diplomat, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1965 – Mark Guthrie, American baseball player
1965 – Robert Satcher, American physician, engineer, and astronaut
1966 – Ruth Jones, Welsh actress, producer, and screenwriter
1966 – Wes Platt, American game designer
1966 – Stefan Rehn, Swedish footballer and manager
1966 – Mike Richter, American ice hockey player
1967 – Matt Besser, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1967 – Brian Keene, American novelist
1967 – Ian Mortimer (historian), English historian and novelist
1967 – Rickard Rydell, Swedish race car driver
1967 – Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
1969 – Nicole Bradtke, Australian tennis player and sportscaster
1969 – Tuomas Kantelinen, Finnish composer and conductor
1969 – Sue Perkins, English comedian, actress, and radio host
1969 – Matt Sharp, American singer-songwriter and bass player
1970 – Mike Matheny, American baseball player and manager
1970 – Hitro Okesene, New Zealand rugby player and coach
1970 – Rupert Penry-Jones, English actor
1970 – Emmanuel Petit, French footballer
1971 – Elizabeth Bear, American author and poet
1971 – Chesney Hawkes, English singer-songwriter and actor
1971 – Toomas Krõm, Estonian footballer
1971 – Gloria Borger, American journalist
1971 – Ted Leonard, American singer-songwriter
1971 – Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
1973 – Yoo Chae-yeong, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2014)
1973 – Stéfan Louw, South African tenor and producer
1974 – Kostas Kaiafas, Cypriot footballer and manager
1975 – Ethan Moreau, Canadian ice hockey player and scout
1975 – Svilen Noev, Bulgarian singer-songwriter (Ostava)
1975 – Bob Sapp, American football player, wrestler and mixed martial artist
1976 – David Berkeley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976 – Mo Collins, American football player and coach (d. 2014)
1977 – Paul Sculthorpe, English rugby league player
1979 – Emilie Autumn, American singer-songwriter, violinist, and poet
1979 – Swin Cash, American basketball player
1979 – Phil Waugh, Australian rugby player
1980 – Francesco D'Isa, Italian painter and journalist
1980 – Svenja Weidemann, German tennis player
1981 – Subaru Shibutani, Japanese singer-songwriter
1981 – Ingrid Vetlesen, Norwegian soprano
1982 – Domenic Cassisi, Australian footballer
1982 – Kosuke Kitajima, Japanese swimmer
1982 – Billie Piper, English actress and singer
1982 – Maarten Stekelenburg, Dutch footballer
1983 – Will Farquarson, English bass player
1983 – Tommy Thelin, Swedish footballer
1983 – Glenn Loovens, Dutch professional footballer
1983 – Petr Tatíček, Czech professional ice hockey
1983 – Mamrie Hart, American actress
1984 – Ross Jarman, English drummer and songwriter
1984 – Thiago Silva, Brazilian footballer
1985 – Matteo Cavagna, Italian footballer
1985 – Faris Haroun, Belgian footballer
1985 – Jamie Mackie, Scottish footballer
1985 – Tatiana Maslany, Canadian actress
1985 – Ibragim Todashev, Russian-American mixed martial artist (d. 2013)
1987 – Derick Brassard, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 – Stefan Denifl, Austrian cyclist
1987 – Tom Felton, English actor
1987 – Zdravko Kuzmanović, Serbian footballer
1988 – Nikita Andreyev, Russian footballer
1988 – Bethany Dillon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1988 – Mohamed Faisal, Maldivian footballer
1988 – Ali Fasir, Maldivian footballer
1989 – Cœur de pirate, Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist
1989 – Kim Hyo-yeon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress
1989 – Sabine Lisicki, German tennis player
1990 – Denard Robinson, American football player
1991 – Kenny Bromwich, New Zealand rugby league player
1992 – Philip Hindes, English track cyclist
1994 – Carlos Correa, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
189 – He Jin, Chinese general and regent (b. 135)
530 – Pope Felix IV
1072 – Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian, poet, and politician (b. 1007)
1158 – Otto of Freising, German bishop and chronicler (b. c. 1114)
1174 – Uchtred, Lord of Galloway (b. c. 1120)
1253 – Dōgen, Japanese monk and philosopher (b. 1200)
1345 – Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician, Lord High Steward (b. 1281)
1399 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician, Earl Marshal of The United Kingdom (b. 1366)
1408 – John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1370)
1450 – William Tresham, English politician
1457 – Peter II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1418)
1482 – Philibert I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1465)
1520 – Selim I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1465)
1539 – Guru Nanak, Sikh religious leader, founded Sikhism (b. 1469)
1554 – Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (b. 1510)
1566 – Johannes Agricola, German theologian and academic (b. 1494)
1607 – Alessandro Allori, Italian painter and educator (b. 1535)
1662 – John Biddle, English minister and theologian (b. 1615)
1692 – Martha Corey, American woman accused of witchcraft (b. 1620)
1703 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1622)
1756 – Abu l-Hasan Ali I, ruler of Tunisia (b. 1688)
1774 – Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)
1776 – Nathan Hale, American soldier (b. 1755)
1777 – John Bartram, American botanist and explorer (b. 1699)
1828 – Shaka Zulu, Zulu chieftain and monarch of the Zulu Kingdom (b. 1787)
1852 – William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed Hammersmith Bridge (b. 1783)
1872 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer and linguist (b. 1801)
1873 – Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1801)
1881 – Solomon L. Spink, American lawyer and politician (b. 1831)
1914 – Alain-Fournier, French soldier and author (b. 1886)
1919 – Alajos Gáspár, Hungarian-Slovene author and poet (b. 1848)
1952 – Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st President of Finland (b. 1865)
1956 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
1957 – Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
1961 – Marion Davies, American actress (b. 1897)
1969 – Adolfo López Mateos, Mexican politician, 48th President of Mexico (b. 1909)
1973 – Paul van Zeeland, Belgian lawyer, economist, and politician, 38th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1893)
1981 – Harry Warren, American composer and songwriter (b. 1893)
1987 – Hákun Djurhuus, Faroese educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1908)
1987 – Dan Rowan, American actor and producer (b. 1922)
1988 – Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani psychoanalyst, scholar, and poet (b. 1914)
1989 – Ambrose Folorunsho Alli, Nigerian academic and politician (b. 1929)
1989 – Irving Berlin, Russian-born American composer and songwriter (b. 1888)
1992 – Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)
1993 – Maurice Abravanel, Greek-American pianist and conductor (b. 1903)
1994 – Leonard Feather, English-American pianist, composer, producer, and journalist (b. 1914)
1996 – Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Latvian-Canadian ballerina, choreographer, and director (b. 1924)
1996 – Dorothy Lamour, American actress and singer (b. 1914)
1999 – George C. Scott, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1927)
2000 – Saburō Sakai, Japanese lieutenant and pilot (b. 1916)
2001 – Fikret Kızılok, Turkish singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
2001 – Isaac Stern, Polish-Ukrainian violinist and conductor (b. 1920)
2002 – Jan de Hartog, Dutch-American author and playwright (b. 1914)
2003 – Gordon Jump, American actor (b. 1932)
2003 – Hugo Young, English journalist and author (b. 1938)
2004 – Big Boss Man, American wrestler (b. 1962)
2004 – Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (b. 1927)
2006 – Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)
2006 – Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player and educator (b. 1950)
2007 – Marcel Marceau, French mime and actor (b. 1923)
2008 – Thomas Dörflein, German zookeeper (b. 1963)
2008 – Petrus Schaesberg, German painter, historian, and educator (b. 1967)
2009 – Edward Delaney, Irish sculptor (b. 1930)
2010 – Eddie Fisher, American singer (b. 1928)
2010 – Vyacheslav Tsaryov, Russian footballer (b. 1971)
2011 – Cengiz Dağcı, Ukrainian-English author and poet (b. 1919)
2011 – Knut Steen, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1924)
2011 – Vesta Williams, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1957)
2012 – Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan theorist and academic (b. 1919)
2012 – Irving Adler, American mathematician, author, and academic (b. 1913)
2012 – Juan H. Cintrón García, Puerto Rican businessman and politician, 126th Mayor of Ponce (b. 1919)
2012 – Grigory Frid, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1915)
2012 – Jan Hendrik van den Berg, Dutch psychiatrist and academic (b. 1914)
2013 – Gary Brandner, American author and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2013 – Jane Connell, American actress and singer (b. 1925)
2013 – David H. Hubel, Canadian-American neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
2013 – Álvaro Mutis, Colombian-Mexican author and poet (b. 1923)
2013 – Hans Erich Slany, German industrial designer, founded TEAMS Design (b. 1926)
2014 – Fernando Cabrita, Portuguese footballer and manager (b. 1923)
2014 – Sahana Pradhan, Nepalese politician, Nepalese Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1927)
2014 – Erik van der Wurff, Dutch pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1945)
2014 – Hans E. Wallman, Swedish director, producer, and composer (b. 1936)
2015 – Yogi Berra, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1925)
2015 – Joe LeSage, American lawyer and politician (b. 1928)
2015 – James David Santini, American lawyer and politician (b. 1937)
2015 – Richard G. Scott, American engineer and religious leader (b. 1928)
2015 – Phyllis Tickle, American author and academic (b. 1934)
Holidays and observances
American Business Women's Day (United States)
Christian feast days:
Candidus
Digna and Emerita
Emmeram of Regensburg
Maurice (Western Christianity)
Paul Chong Hasang (one of The Korean Martyrs)
Phocas
Sadalberga
Theban Legion
Thomas of Villanova
Philander Chase (Episcopal Church)
September 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Autumnal Equinox Day (Japan)
French Republican New Year, the first day ("Grape") in the Month of Vendémiaire. (French Revolution)
Harvest festival, celebrated on Harvest moon, the full moon nearest to the autumnal equinox. (Britain)
Mabon in the Northern Hemisphere, Ostara in the Southern Hemisphere. (Neopagan Wheel of the Year)
The first day of Miķeļi (ancient Latvia)
Dear Diary Day (Chase's Calendar of Events)
Hobbit Day, the containing week is celebrated as Tolkien Week. (American Tolkien Society)
Independence Day (Bulgaria), celebrates the independence of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire in 1908.
Independence Day (Mali), celebrates the independence of Mali from France in 1960.
OneWebDay, an annual day of Internet celebration and awareness, started in 2006.
Resistance Fighting Day (Estonia)
World Car-Free Day
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