September 14
Events
Pre-1600
- AD 81 - Domitian became Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.
- 786 - "Night of the three Caliphs": Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. Birth of Harun's son al-Ma'mun.
- 919 - Battle of Islandbridge: High King Niall Glúndub is killed while leading an Irish coalition against the Vikings of Uí Ímair, led by King Sitric Cáech.
- 1115 - Roger of Salerno's Crusader army defeats a numerically superior Seljuk army in the battle of Sarmin
- 1180 - Genpei War: In the Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan, the new military commander of the Minamoto clan, Minamoto no Yoritomo, is routed by Ōba Kagechika of the Taira clan.
- 1226 - The first recorded instance of the Catholic practice of perpetual Eucharistic adoration formally begins in Avignon, France.
- 1402 - Battle of Homildon Hill: An invading Scottish army under Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany and Archibald, Earl Douglas is decimated by a contingent of 500 English archers under the command of George, Earl of March and Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland.
1601–1900
- 1682 - Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
- 1685 - Morean War: the Battle of Kalamata ends in a Venetian victory over the forces of the Ottoman Empire under the Kapudan Pasha.
- 1723 - Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta.
- 1741 - George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.
- 1752 - The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days.
- 1763 - Seneca warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Devil's Hole during Pontiac's War.
- 1782 - American Revolutionary War: Review of the French troops under General Rochambeau by General George Washington at Verplanck's Point, New York.
- 1791 - The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France.
- 1808 - Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes at the Battle of Oravais.
- 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée enters Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.
- 1814 - Battle of Baltimore: The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.
- 1829 - The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.
- 1846 - Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court.
- 1862 - American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
1901–present
- 1901 - U.S. president William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
- 1911 - Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot by Dmitry Bogrov while attending a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The [Tale of Tsar Saltan |The Tale of Tsar Saltan] at the Kiev Opera House, in the presence of Tsar Nicholas II.
- 1914 -, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, is lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
- 1917 - The Russian Empire is formally replaced by the Russian Republic.
- 1936 - Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaurès, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza.
- 1939 - World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.
- 1940 - Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing.
- 1943 - World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons.
- 1944 - World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
- 1948 - The Indian Army captures the city of Aurangabad as part of Operation Polo.
- 1954 - In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
- 1958 - The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
- 1960 - The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is founded.
- 1960 - Congo Crisis: Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
- 1975 - The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
- 1979 - Afghan leader Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party.
- 1982 - President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel is assassinated.
- 1984 - Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1985 - Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
- 1989 - The Standard Gravure shooting where Joseph T. Wesbecker, a 47-year-old pressman, killed eight people and injured 12 people at his former workplace, Standard Gravure, before committing suicide.
- 1992 - The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
- 1993 - Lufthansa Flight 2904, an Airbus A320, crashes into an embankment after overshooting the runway at Okęcie International Airport, killing two people.
- 1994 - The rest of the Major League Baseball 1994 [Major League Baseball season|season] is canceled because of a strike.
- 1997 - Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India.
- 1998 - Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
- 1999 - Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
- 2000 - Microsoft releases Windows Me.
- 2001 - Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11, [2001 attacks|September 11 attacks]. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.
- 2002 - Total Linhas Aéreas Flight 5561 crashes near Paranapanema, Brazil, killing both pilots on board.
- 2003 - In a 2003 Estonian [European Union membership referendum|referendum], Estonia approves joining the European Union.
- 2003 - Bissau-Guinean President Kumba Ialá is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General Veríssimo Correia Seabra.
- 2007 - Prelude to the 2008 financial crisis: Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
- 2008 - Aeroflot Flight 821, a Boeing 737-500, crashes into a section of the Trans-Siberian Railway while on approach to Perm International Airport, in Perm, Russia, killing all 88 people on board.
- 2015 - The first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.
- 2019 - Yemen's Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.
- 2022 - Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The Queen's coffin is taken from Buckingham Palace, placed on a gun carriage of The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery and moved in a procession to Westminster Hall for her lying in state over the next four days with the queue of mourners stretching for miles along the River Thames.
Births
Pre-1600
- 208 - Diadumenian, Roman emperor
- 768 - Al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph, 7th
- 938 - Sahib ibn Abbad, Persian scholar and statesman
- 953 - Guo Zongxun, Chinese emperor
- 1032 - Dao Zong, Chinese emperor
- 1246 - John Fitzalan III, English nobleman
- 1384 - Ephraim of Nea Makri, Greek martyr and saint
- 1388 - Claudius Clavus, Danish geographer and cartographer
- 1401 - Maria of Castile, Queen consort of Aragon and Naples
- 1485 - Anna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Landgravine of Hesse
- 1486 - Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German theologian, astrologer, and alchemist
- 1543 - Claudio Acquaviva, Italian priest, 5th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
- 1547 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch politician
- 1580 - Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish poet and politician
1601–1900
- 1618 - Peter Lely, Dutch-English painter
- 1643 - Jeremiah Dummer, American silversmith
- 1656 - Thomas Baker, English historian and author
- 1713 - Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician
- 1721 - Eliphalet Dyer, American colonel, lawyer, and politician
- 1736 - Robert Raikes, English philanthropist, founded Sunday school
- 1737 - Michael Haydn, Austrian singer and composer
- 1769 - Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer and explorer
- 1774 - Lord William Bentinck, English general and politician, 14th Governor-General of India
- 1791 - Franz Bopp, German linguist and academic
- 1804 - John Gould, English ornithologist and illustrator
- 1804 - Louis Désiré Maigret, French bishop
- 1816 - Mary Hall Barrett Adams, American book editor and letter writer
- 1837 - Nikolai Bugaev, Georgian-Russian mathematician and philosopher
- 1843 - Lola Rodríguez de Tió, Puerto Rican poet, abolitionist, and women's rights activist
- 1847 - Fanny Holland, English actress and singer
- 1850 - Anton Mahnič, Slovenian bishop, philosopher, and theologian
- 1853 - Ponnambalam Arunachalam, Ceylonese civil servant and politician
- 1857 - Julia Platt, American embryologist and politician
- 1860 - Hamlin Garland, American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer
- 1864 - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English lawyer and politician, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1867 - Charles Dana Gibson, American illustrator
- 1868 - Théodore Botrel, French singer-songwriter, poet, and playwright
- 1869 - Kid Nichols, American baseball player and manager
- 1872 - John Olof Dahlgren, Swedish-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient
- 1879 - Margaret Sanger, American nurse and activist
- 1880 - Benjamin, Russian bishop and missionary
- 1880 - Archie Hahn, American sprinter, football player, and coach
- 1883 - Richard Gerstl, Austrian painter and illustrator
- 1885 - Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor, composer, and critic
- 1886 - Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier and politician, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs
- 1887 - Karl Taylor Compton, American physicist
- 1891 - Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic
- 1892 - Laurence W. Allen, English lieutenant and pilot
- 1896 - José Mojica, Mexican tenor and actor
- 1898 - Lawrence Gellert, Hungarian-American musicologist and song collector
- 1898 - Ernest Nash, German-Italian photographer and scholar
1901–present
- 1902 - Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer-songwriter
- 1902 - Alice Tully, American soprano and philanthropist
- 1903 - Mart Raud, Estonian poet and author
- 1904 - Frank Amyot, Canadian sprint canoeist
- 1904 - Richard Mohaupt, German composer and Kapellmeister
- 1907 - Yuri Ivask, Russian-American poet and critic
- 1909 - Peter Scott, English ornithologist, painter, and sailor
- 1910 - Lehman Engel, American composer and conductor
- 1910 - Jack Hawkins, English actor and producer
- 1910 - Yiannis Latsis, Greek businessman
- 1910 - Rolf Liebermann, Swiss-French composer and manager
- 1910 - Rasuna Said, Indonesian women's rights campaigner and national hero
- 1911 - William H. Armstrong, American author and educator
- 1913 - Jacobo Árbenz, Guatemalan captain and politician, President of Guatemala
- 1913 - Rubby Sherr, American physicist and academic
- 1914 - Mae Boren Axton, American composer and educator
- 1914 - Clayton Moore, American actor
- 1915 - John Dobson, Chinese-American astronomer and author, designed the Dobsonian telescope
- 1916 - Eric Bentley, English-American singer, playwright, and critic
- 1916 - John Heyer, Australian director and producer
- 1917 - Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss violinist and conductor
- 1918 - Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver
- 1918 - Cachao López, Cuban-American bassist and composer
- 1919 - Deryck Cooke, English musicologist and broadcaster
- 1919 - Gil Langley, Australian cricketer, footballer, and politician
- 1919 - Olga Lowe, South African-English actress
- 1919 - Kay Medford, American actress
- 1920 - Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan journalist and author
- 1920 - Lawrence Klein, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1920 - Alberto Calderón, Argentinian-American mathematician and academic
- 1921 - Constance Baker Motley, American lawyer, judge, and politician
- 1921 - A. Jean de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer, businessman, and academic
- 1921 - Paul Poberezny, American pilot and businessman, founded the Experimental Aircraft Association
- 1921 - Dario Vittori, Italian-Argentinian actor and producer
- 1922 - Michel Auclair, German-French actor
- 1922 - Frances Bergen, American model and actress
- 1922 - Alfred Käärmann, Estonian soldier and author
- 1923 - Nicholas Georgiadis, Greek painter and costume designer
- 1924 - Patricia Barringer, American baseball player and accountant
- 1924 - Jerry Coleman, American baseball player and manager
- 1924 - Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean-English physician, academic, and diplomat
- 1924 - Wim Polak, Dutch journalist and politician, Mayor of Amsterdam
- 1926 - Michel Butor, French author and critic
- 1926 - Richard Ellsasser, American organist, composer, and conductor
- 1926 - Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Spanish noblewoman
- 1927 - Martin Caidin, American author and screenwriter
- 1927 - Janet Davies, English actress
- 1927 - Gardner Dickinson, American golfer
- 1927 - Jim Fanning, American-Canadian baseball player and manager
- 1927 - Edmund Szoka, American cardinal
- 1928 - Jay Cameron, American reed player and saxophonist
- 1928 - Alberto Korda, Cuban photographer
- 1928 - Angus Ogilvy, English businessman
- 1929 - Larry Collins, American-French journalist, historian, and author
- 1930 - Allan Bloom, American philosopher and academic
- 1930 - Romola Costantino, Australian pianist and critic
- 1930 - Eugene I. Gordon, American physicist and engineer
- 1932 - Harry Sinden, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
- 1932 - John Tembo, Malawian politician
- 1933 - Zoe Caldwell, Australian actress
- 1933 - Harve Presnell, American actor and singer
- 1934 - Sarah Kofman, French philosopher and academic
- 1934 - Paul Little, New Zealand rugby player
- 1934 - Kate Millett, American author and activist
- 1934 - Don Walser, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1935 - Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese illustrator
- 1936 - Harry Danielsen, Norwegian educator and politician
- 1936 - Terence Donovan, English photographer and director
- 1936 - Walter Koenig, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1936 - Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1936 - Lucas Samaras, Greek-American painter and photographer
- 1937 - Renzo Piano, Italian architect and engineer, designed The Shard and The New York Times Building
- 1938 - Franco Califano, Libya-born Italian singer-songwriter
- 1938 - Nicol Williamson, Scottish actor
- 1939 - DeWitt Weaver, American golfer
- 1940 - Ventseslav Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer and translator
- 1940 - Larry Brown, American basketball player and coach
- 1940 - Padmakar Shivalkar, Indian cricketer
- 1941 - Bruce Hyde, American actor and academic
- 1941 - Ian Kennedy, English lawyer and academic
- 1941 - Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, American civil rights activist
- 1941 - Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan drummer, composer, and bandleader
- 1941 - Alex St. Clair, American guitarist and songwriter
- 1942 - Oliver Lake, American saxophonist, flute player, and composer
- 1942 - Roger Lyons, English trade union leader
- 1942 - Bernard MacLaverty, Irish author, playwright, and screenwriter
- 1943 - Irwin Goodman, Finnish singer-composer and guitarist
- 1943 - Marcos Valle, Brazilian singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
- 1944 - Joey Heatherton, American actress, singer, and dancer
- 1944 - Rowena Morrill, American artist
- 1944 - Günter Netzer, German footballer and manager
- 1945 - Martin Tyler, English sportscaster
- 1946 - Pete Agnew, Scottish rock bassist and singer
- 1946 - Jim Angle, American soldier and journalist
- 1946 - Wolfgang Sühnholz, German-American soccer player and coach
- 1946 - Kjell Gjerseth, Norwegian novelist and journalist
- 1947 - Jon Bauman, American singer
- 1947 - Sam Neill, Northern Irish-New Zealand actor and director
- 1948 - Marc Reisner, American environmentalist and author
- 1949 - Steve Gaines, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1949 - Ed King, American guitarist and songwriter
- 1949 - Tommy Seebach, Danish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
- 1949 - Fred "Sonic" Smith, American guitarist and songwriter
- 1949 - Eikichi Yazawa, Japanese singer-songwriter
- 1950 - Paul Kossoff, English guitarist and songwriter
- 1950 - Masami Kuwashima, Japanese race car driver
- 1950 - Mike Nifong, American lawyer and politician
- 1950 - John Steptoe, American author and illustrator
- 1951 - Volodymyr Melnykov, Ukrainian poet, writer, songwriter and composer
- 1951 - Joe McDonnell, Northern Irish hunger striker
- 1953 - Tom Cora, American cellist and composer
- 1953 - Judy Playfair, Australian swimmer
- 1953 - Robert Wisdom, American actor
- 1954 - Barry Cowsill, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
- 1954 - David Wojnarowicz, American painter and photographer
- 1955 - Steve Berlin, American saxophonist, keyboard player, and producer
- 1955 - Geraldine Brooks, Australian-American novelist and journalist
- 1955 - William Jackson, Scottish harp player and composer
- 1955 - Edu Manzano, American-Filipino actor and politician
- 1955 - Pope Leo XIV
- 1956 - Paul Allott, English cricketer and sportscaster
- 1956 - Beth Nielsen Chapman, American singer-songwriter
- 1956 - Kostas Karamanlis, Greek lawyer and politician, 181st Prime Minister of Greece
- 1956 - Nathalie Roussel, French actress
- 1956 - Ray Wilkins, English footballer and manager
- 1956 - Lefteris Zagoritis, Greek lawyer and politician
- 1957 - Tim Wallach, American baseball player and coach
- 1957 - Kepler Wessels, South African cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
- 1958 - Paul Clark, English footballer and manager
- 1958 - Jeff Crowe, New Zealand cricketer, referee, and manager
- 1958 - Arlindo Cruz, Brazilian singer-songwriter
- 1958 - Billy Abercromby, Scottish footballer
- 1959 - John Berry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1959 - Mary Crosby, American actress
- 1959 - Morten Harket, Norwegian singer-songwriter
- 1960 - Ronald Lengkeek, Dutch footballer
- 1960 - Melissa Leo, American actress
- 1960 - Callum Keith Rennie, English-Canadian actor and producer
- 1961 - Freeman Mbowe, Tanzanian politician
- 1961 - Wendy Thomas, American businesswoman
- 1962 - Robert Herjavec, Croatian-Canadian businessman
- 1962 - Tom Kurvers, American ice hockey player and sportscaster
- 1962 - Nick Botterill, British business man
- 1962 - Bonnie Jo Campbell, American novelist and short story writer
- 1963 - Robin Singh, Trinidadian-Indian cricketer and coach
- 1964 - Faith Ford, American actress
- 1965 - Emily Bell, English journalist and academic
- 1965 - Dmitry Medvedev, Russian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Russia
- 1965 - Kevin O'Hare, English ballet dancer and director
- 1965 - Michelle Stafford, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
- 1966 - Iztok Puc, Croatian-Slovenian handball player
- 1966 - Aamer Sohail, Pakistani cricketer and politician
- 1967 - Jens Lien, Norwegian director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1967 - John Power, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1968 - Grant Shapps, English politician
- 1969 - Denis Betts, English rugby league player and coach
- 1969 - Bong Joon-ho, South Korean director and screenwriter
- 1969 - Konstandinos Koukodimos, Australian-Greek long jumper and politician
- 1970 - Francesco Casagrande, Italian cyclist
- 1970 - Ben Garant, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1970 - Ketanji Brown Jackson, American lawyer and jurist, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- 1970 - Satoshi Kojima, Japanese wrestler
- 1970 - Jason Martin, Australian rugby league player, singer, and guitarist
- 1970 - Craig Montoya, American singer-songwriter and bass player
- 1970 - Mark Webber, English guitarist
- 1971 - Jeff Loomis, American guitarist and songwriter
- 1971 - Andre Matos, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1971 - Christopher McCulloch, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1971 - Kimberly Williams-Paisley, American actress, director, and producer
- 1972 - Notah Begay III, American golfer
- 1972 - David Bell, American baseball player and coach
- 1973 - Tony Bui, Vietnamese director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1973 - Terrell Fletcher, American football player
- 1973 - Andrew Lincoln, English actor
- 1973 - Nas, American rapper
- 1973 - Linvoy Primus, English footballer
- 1973 - Mike Ward, Canadian comedian and actor
- 1974 - Chad Bradford, American baseball player
- 1974 - Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan runner
- 1974 - Mattias Marklund, Swedish guitarist
- 1974 - Sunday Oliseh, Nigerian footballer and manager
- 1974 - Helgi Sigurðsson, Icelandic footballer
- 1974 - Patrick van Balkom, Dutch sprinter
- 1976 - Austin Basis, American actor
- 1976 - Agustín Calleri, Argentinian tennis player
- 1976 - Kevin Lyttle, Vincentian soca artist
- 1977 - Mattias Agabus, Estonian architect
- 1977 - Malik Bendjelloul, Swedish director and producer
- 1977 - Miyu Matsuki, Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1978 - Ben Cohen, English rugby union player
- 1978 - Ron DeSantis, American politician, 46th Governor of Florida
- 1978 - Carmen Kass, Estonian model and actress
- 1978 - Danielle Peck, American singer-songwriter
- 1979 - Ivica Olić, Croatian footballer
- 1979 - Stefan Stam, Dutch footballer
- 1980 - Ayọ, German singer-songwriter and actress
- 1980 - Gareth Maybin, Northern Irish professional golfer
- 1981 - Miyavi, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1981 - Katie Lee, American chef, author, and critic
- 1981 - Stefan Reisinger, German footballer
- 1981 - Yumi Adachi, Japanese actress and singer
- 1982 - SoShy, French-American singer-songwriter
- 1982 - Petr Průcha, Czech ice hockey player
- 1983 - Arash Borhani, Iranian footballer
- 1983 - Josh Outman, American baseball player
- 1983 - Frostee Rucker, American football player
- 1983 - Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter
- 1984 - Ayushmann Khurrana, Indian actor, singer and anchor
- 1984 - Adam Lamberg, American actor
- 1985 - Alex Clare, English singer and songwriter
- 1985 - Paolo Gregoletto, American bass player and songwriter
- 1985 - Trevis Smith, American football player
- 1985 - Aya Ueto, Japanese actress and singer
- 1985 - Delmon Young, American baseball player
- 1986 - David Desharnais, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1986 - Jonathan Monaghan, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1986 - Steven Naismith, Scottish footballer
- 1986 - Barış Özbek, German-Turkish footballer
- 1986 - Alan Sheehan, Irish footballer
- 1986 - Ai Takahashi, Japanese singer and actress
- 1986 - Reggie Williams, American basketball player
- 1987 - Jessica Brown Findlay, English actress
- 1987 - Michael Crabtree, American football player
- 1987 - Tinchy Stryder, Ghanaian-English rapper and producer
- 1988 - Martin Fourcade, French biathlete
- 1988 - Diogo Salomão, Portuguese footballer
- 1989 - Jimmy Butler, American basketball player
- 1989 - Tony Finau, American golfer
- 1989 - Logan Henderson, American singer-songwriter
- 1989 - Jesse James, American actor
- 1989 - Lee Jong-suk, South Korean actor and model
- 1989 - Alex Killorn, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1989 - Jonathon Simmons, American basketball player
- 1989 - Miriam Zetter, Mexican ten-pin bowler
- 1990 - Douglas Costa, Brazilian footballer
- 1990 - Petar Filipović, German-born Croatian footballer
- 1990 - Belinda Hocking, Australian backstroke swimmer
- 1990 - Cecilie Pedersen, Norwegian footballer
- 1991 - Dee Milliner, American football player
- 1991 - Nana, South Korean singer, actress and model
- 1991 - Shayne Topp, American actor and Smosh cast member
- 1992 - Connor Fields, American cyclist
- 1992 - Cassie Sharpe, Canadian freestyle skier
- 1992 - Zico, South Korean rapper
- 1993 - Brandon Brown, American race car driver
- 1994 - Brahim Darri, Dutch footballer
- 1994 - Gary Harris, American basketball player
- 1994 - Daniel O'Shaughnessy, Finnish footballer
- 1994 - Krasimir Stanoev, Bulgarian footballer
- 1995 - Jevon Carter, American basketball player
- 1995 - Deshaun Watson, American football player
- 1996 - Hugh Bernard, English cricketer
- 1996 - Myles Wright, English professional footballer
- 1997 - Benjamin Ingrosso, Swedish singer and songwriter
- 1997 - Dominic Solanke, English footballer
- 1999 - Emma Kenney, American actress
- 2000 - Han, South Korean rapper
Deaths
Pre-1600
- AD 23 - Drusus Julius Caesar, Roman son of Tiberius
- 258 - Cyprian, African bishop and saint
- 407 - John Chrysostom, Byzantine archbishop and saint
- 585 - Bidatsu, emperor of Japan
- 619 - Yang You, emperor of the Sui Dynasty
- 775 - Constantine V, Byzantine emperor
- 786 - Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph
- 788 - Li Mian, Chinese judge, military general, musician, poet, and politician
- 820 - Li Yong, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
- 891 - Stephen V, pope of the Catholic Church
- 919 - Niall Glúndub, High King of Ireland
- 927 - Cele Dabhaill mac Scannal, Irish abbot
- 949 - Fujiwara no Tadahira, Japanese statesman
- 1146 - Imad ad-Din Zengi, Syrian ruler
- 1164 - Emperor Sutoku of Japan
- 1214 - Albert Avogadro, Italian lawyer, patriarch, and saint
- 1321 - Dante Alighieri, Italian writer
- 1401 - Dobrogost of Nowy Dwór, Polish bishop
- 1404 - Albert IV, duke of Austria
- 1412 - Ingegerd Knutsdotter, Swedish abbess
- 1435 - John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, English politician, Lord High Admiral
- 1487 - Mara Branković, Serbian princess
- 1523 - Pope Adrian VI
- 1538 - Henry III of Nassau-Breda
1601–1900
- 1605 - Jan Tarnowski, Polish archbishop
- 1613 - Thomas Overbury, English poet
- 1638 - John Harvard, English-American minister and philanthropist
- 1646 - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire
- 1712 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, and engineer
- 1715 - Dom Pérignon, French monk and priest
- 1743 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter
- 1749 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire
- 1759 - Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French general
- 1807 - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
- 1821 - Heinrich Kuhl, German naturalist and zoologist
- 1836 - Aaron Burr, American colonel and politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States
- 1851 - James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist, short story writer, and historian
- 1852 - Augustus Pugin, English architect and critic, designed Scarisbrick Hall
- 1852 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Irish-English field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1862 - Charles Pearson, English lawyer and politician
- 1862 - Charles Lennox Richardson, English-Chinese merchant
- 1868 - Swami Virajanand Dandeesha, also known as the Blind Sage of Mathura, celebrated teacher of Arya Samaj founder, Dayanand Saraswati, a scholar and teacher of Sanskrit grammar and Vedic literature
- 1879 - Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist and author
- 1891 - Johannes Bosboom, Dutch painter
- 1898 - William Seward Burroughs I, American businessman, founded the Burroughs Corporation
1901–present
- 1901 - William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States
- 1905 - Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Italian-French explorer
- 1910 - Lombe Atthill, Northern Irish obstetrician and gynaecologist
- 1916 - José Echegaray, Spanish engineer, mathematician, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1927 - Isadora Duncan, American-Russian dancer and choreographer
- 1931 - Tom Roberts, English-Australian painter and educator
- 1936 - Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor
- 1936 - Irving Thalberg, American screenwriter and producer
- 1937 - Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia
- 1942 - E. S. Gosney, American eugenicist and philanthropist, founded Human Betterment Foundation
- 1943 - Jacob Gens, head of the Vilnius Ghetto government
- 1951 - Fritz Busch, German conductor and director
- 1952 - John McPhee, Australian businessman and politician, 27th Premier of Tasmania
- 1959 - Wayne Morris, American actor, singer, and producer
- 1960 - M. Karagatsis, Greek author, playwright, and critic
- 1961 - Ernst Gustav Kühnert, Estonian-German architect and historian
- 1962 - Frederick Schule, American hurdler, football player, and coach
- 1965 - J. W. Hearne, English cricketer
- 1966 - Gertrude Berg, American actress and screenwriter
- 1966 - Hiram Wesley Evans, American Ku Klux Klan leader
- 1966 - Cemal Gürsel, Turkish general and politician, 4th President of Turkey
- 1975 - Walter Herbert, German-American conductor
- 1979 - Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan journalist and politician, 3rd President of Afghanistan
- 1981 - Furry Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1982 - Christian Ferras, French violinist
- 1982 - John Gardner, American novelist, essayist, and critic
- 1982 - Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese commander and politician
- 1982 - Grace Kelly, American-Monegasque actress; Princess of Monaco
- 1984 - Janet Gaynor, American actress
- 1986 - Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster, founded the Liberty Broadcasting System
- 1989 - Pérez Prado, Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1991 - Julie Bovasso, American actress and playwright
- 1991 - Russell Lynes, American historian, photographer, and author
- 1992 - August Komendant, Estonian-American engineer and academic
- 1992 - Paul Martin Sr., Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs
- 1994 - Marika Krevata, Greek actress
- 1995 - Maurice K. Goddard, American colonel and politician
- 1996 - Juliet Prowse, Indian-South African actress, singer, and dancer
- 1998 - Yang Shangkun, Chinese politician, and 4th president of China
- 1999 - Charles Crichton, English director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1999 - Giannos Kranidiotis, Greek politician and diplomat
- 2000 - Beah Richards, American actress
- 2000 - Jerzy Giedroyc, Belarusian-Polish soldier and activist
- 2001 - Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer and guitarist
- 2002 - LaWanda Page, American actress
- 2003 - Jerry Fleck, American actor and director
- 2003 - Garrett Hardin, American ecologist and author
- 2003 - John Serry Sr., American accordion player and composer
- 2005 - William Berenberg, American physician and academic
- 2005 - Vladimir Volkoff, French soldier and author
- 2005 - Robert Wise, American director and producer
- 2006 - Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-American bodybuilder and actor
- 2006 - Esme Melville, Australian actress
- 2007 - Jacques Martin, French television host and producer
- 2007 - Robert Savoie, Canadian opera singer
- 2008 - Hyman Golden, American businessman, co-founded Snapple
- 2009 - Keith Floyd, English chef and author
- 2009 - Henry Gibson, American actor
- 2009 - Jody Powell, American diplomat, White House Press Secretary
- 2009 - Patrick Swayze, American actor, singer, and dancer
- 2011 - Malcolm Wallop, American politician
- 2012 - Jacques Antoine, French game show producer, created The Crystal Maze and Fort Boyard
- 2012 - Eduardo Castro Luque, Mexican businessman and politician
- 2012 - Winston Rekert, Canadian actor and director
- 2012 - Kan Yuet-keung, Hong Kong banker, lawyer, and politician
- 2013 - Maksym Bilyi, Ukrainian footballer
- 2013 - Osama El-Baz, Egyptian soldier and diplomat
- 2013 - Faith Leech, Australian swimmer
- 2014 - Tony Auth, American illustrator
- 2014 - Peter Gutteridge, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 2014 - E. Jennifer Monaghan, English-American historian, author, and academic
- 2015 - Davey Browne, Australian boxer
- 2015 - Fred DeLuca, American businessman, co-founded Subway
- 2015 - Martin Kearns, English drummer
- 2015 - Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Romanian journalist and politician
- 2018 - Ethel Johnson, American professional wrestler
- 2018 - Zienia Merton, British actress
- 2021 - Norm Macdonald, Canadian comedian and actor
- 2024 - Jaber Mubarak Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti royal and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Kuwait
- 2024 - Otis Davis, American sprinter
- 2025 - Jim Edgar, American politician, 38th Governor of Illinois
- 2025 - Ricky Hatton, British professional boxer
Holidays and observances
- Christian feast day:
- *Aelia Flaccilla
- *Cormac mac Cuilennáin
- *Crescentius of Rome
- *Feast of the Cross
- **Elevation of the Holy Cross
- *Lord of Miracles of Buga
- *Louis Gabriel Taurin Dufresse
- *Maternus of Cologne
- *Notburga
- *September 14
- Engineer's Day
- Hindi Day
- Mobilized Servicemen Day
- San Jacinto Day