September 23
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September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 99 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 480 BC – Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC)
- 63 BC – Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor (d. 14)
- 1158 – Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1186)
- 1161 – Emperor Takamura of Japan (d. 1181)
- 1215 – Kublai Khan, Mongol ruler (d. 1294)
- 1392 – Filippo Maria Visconti, Italian regent (d. 1447)
- 1598 – Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655)
- 1642 – Giovanni Maria Bononcini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1678)
- 1647 – Joseph Dudley, American statesman (d. 1720)
- 1713 – King Ferdinand VI of Spain (d. 1759)
- 1740 – Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)
- 1759 – Clothilde of France (d. 1802)
- 1771 – Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)
- 1781 – Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1860)
- 1791 – Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865)
- 1838 – Victoria Woodhull, American Women's rights activist (d. 1927)
- 1850 – Alfred Boucher, French sculptor (d. 1934)
- 1853 – Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen (d. 1923)
- 1853 – Konstantin Stoilov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1901)
- 1861 – Robert Bosch, German industrialist, engineer and inventor (d. 1942)
- 1865 – Emma Orczy, British novelist (d. 1947)
- 1865 – Suzanne Valadon, French painter (d. 1938).
- 1876 – Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli scholar (d. 1968)
- 1880 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician (d. 1971)
- 1883 – Grigory Zinoviev, Soviet politician (d. 1936)
- 1884 – Eugene Talmadge, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 1946)
- 1889 – Walter Lippmann, American journalist (d. 1974)
- 1890 – Friedrich Paulus, German general (d. 1957)
- 1897 – Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (d. 1984)
- 1900 – Bill Stone, British World War I veteran (d. 2009)
- 1901 – Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer (d. 1986)
- 1902 – Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Romanian jurist and Communist politician (d. 2000)
- 1905 – Tiny Bradshaw, American bandleader and musician (d. 1958)
- 1907 – Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, Portuguese royal (d. 1976)
- 1911 – Frank Moss, American politician (d. 2003)
- 1912 – Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani critic and linguist (d. 2005)
- 1913 – Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish painter (d. 2007)
- 1914 – Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (d. 1986)
- 1915 – Sergio Bertoni, Italian footballer (d. 1995)
- 1915 – Clifford Shull, American physicist (d. 2001)
- 1916 – Aldo Moro, Italian politician (d. 1978)
- 1920 – Alexander Arutunian, Armenian composer (d. 2012)
- 1920 – Mickey Rooney, American actor
- 1920 – Ovadia Yosef, Israeli rabbi
- 1924 – Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan editor and journalist (d. 1978)
- 1926 – John Coltrane, American jazz musician (d. 1967)
- 1927 – Mighty Joe Young, American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
- 1930 – Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004)
- 1930 – Colin Blakely, British actor (d. 1987)
- 1934 – Franc Rode, Slovenian cardinal
- 1937 – Martin Litchfield West, British philologist
- 1938 – Romy Schneider, German-born actress (d. 1982)
- 1940 – Tim Rose, American-born English musician (d. 2002)
- 1940 – Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Iranian musician and songwriter
- 1941 – Norma Winstone, English singer and lyricist
- 1943 – Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer
- 1945 – Ron Bushy, American drummer (Iron Butterfly)
- 1947 – Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish priest (d. 1984)
- 1949 – Bruce Springsteen, American musician
- 1954 – Cherie Blair, British lawyer, wife of Tony Blair
- 1956 – Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer
- 1956 – Andoni Goikoetxea, Basque-Spanish footballer
- 1959 – Fernando Romay, Spanish basketball player
- 1961 – Willie McCool, American astronaut (d. 2003)
- 1972 – Karl Pilkington, British radio personality
- 1973 – Jermaine Dupri, American hip hop musician
- 1973 – Artim Sakiri, Macedonian footballer
- 1974 – Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler
- 1977 – Rachael Yamagata, American singer
- 1977 – Suzanne Tamim, Lebanese singer (d. 2008)
- 1981 – Natalie Horler, German singer (Cascada)
- 1984 – Anneliese van der Pol, Dutch-American actress
- 1984 – Kate French, American actress
- 1985 – Hossein Kaebi, Iranian footballer
- 1986 – Martin Cranie, English footballer
- 1988 – Juan Martín del Potro, Argentine tennis player
- 1989 – Brandon Jennings, American basketball player
- 1991 – Melanie Oudin, American tennis player
Deaths [change]
- 76 – Pope Linus
- 1241 – Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian and poet (b. 1179)
- 1390 – John I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1346)
- 1773 – Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and naturalist (b. 1718)
- 1789 – John Rogers, American Congressman (b. 1723)
- 1830 – Elizabeth Monroe, First Lady of the United States (b. 1768)
- 1835 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801)
- 1836 – Maria Malibran, French mezzo soprano (b. 1808)
- 1850 – Jose Artigas, Uruguayan national hero (b. 1764)
- 1870 – Prosper Merimee, French author (b. 1803)
- 1877 – Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician (b. 1811)
- 1882 – Friedrich Woehler, German chemist (b. 1800)
- 1896 – Ivar Aasen, Norwegian poet and linguist (b. 1813)
- 1917 – Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (b. 1897)
- 1929 – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian chemist (b. 1865)
- 1939 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychologist (b. 1856)
- 1950 – Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (b. 1892)
- 1973 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (b. 1904)
- 1974 – Cliff Arquette, American actor (b. 1905)
- 1987 – Bob Fosse, American choreographer (b. 1927)
- 1988 – Tibor Sekelj, Yugoslavian explorer (b. 1912)
- 1998 – Ray Bowden, English footballer (b. 1909)
- 2003 – Shawn Lane, American musician (b. 1963)
- 2006 – Malcolm Arnold, British composer (b. 1921)
- 2006 – Etta Baker, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1913)
- 2006 – Tim Rooney, American actor (b. 1947)
- 2009 – Ertugrul Osman, head of the Ottoman dynasty (b. 1912)
- 2012 – Corrie Sanders, South African boxer (b. 1966)
Events [change]
- 1409 – Battle of Kherlen: Second significant victory by the Mongols over Ming Dynasty China since 1368.
- 1459 – Battle of Blore Heath: First major battle of the English Wars of the Roses.
- 1568 – Spanish naval forces rout and English fleet under command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulua near Veracruz.
- 1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying treasure worth over a billion US Dollars, is lost at sea off Land's End, Cornwall.
- 1806 – The Lewis and Clark expedition ends with the return to St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1821 – Tripolitsa, Greece, falls and 30,000 Turks are masscared during the Greek War of Independence.
- 1845 – Knickerbockers Baseball Club is founded in New York City. It is the first baseball team to play under modern rules.
- 1846 – The planet Neptune is officially discovered.
- 1868 – Grito de Lares, "Lares Revolt", occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
- 1889 – Nintendo Koppai, later the Nintendo Company, is founded in Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi.
- 1905 – Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad Treaty", peacefully ending their union.
- 1908 – The University of Alberta is founded.
- 1909 – The Phantom of the Opera, a novel by Gaston Leroux, is published as a series in the Le Gaulois newspaper.
- 1932 – The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed Saudi Arabia.
- 1938 – Mobilisation of the Czech army in response to the Munich Crisis.
- 1939 – Psychologist and key figure in Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud dies at the age of 83.
- 1941 – Holocaust: The first gas chamber experiments take place at Auschwitz.
- 1943 – The Nazi puppet state of the Italian Social Republic is founded.
- 1959 – Iowa farmer and corn breeder Roswell Garst hosts Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
- 1972 – Ferdinand Marcos announces the implementation of martial law over TV and radio in the Philippines.
- 1973 – Chilean poet Pablo Neruda dies, 12 days after the coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile.
- 1973 – Juan Perón retakes power in Argentina, but dies just over 9 months later.
- 1980 – Bob Marley plays in his last live performance, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the UN.
- 1983 – Gerrie Coetzee becomes the first African heavyweight boxing World champion.
- 1983 – Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board.
- 1989 – Azerbaijan declares its sovereignty from the Soviet Union.
- 1993 – The 2000 Summer Olympics are awarded to Sydney, Australia.
- 1999 – NASA announces it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
- 2004 – Hurricane Jeanne reportedly kills 1,070 people in Haiti.
- 2008 – The Kauhajoki Shooting occurs in Finland, as 10 people are shot dead. The gunman, Matti Saari later turns the gun on himself.
- 2009 – Major dust storms affect Eastern Australia, as people in Sydney wake up to find their city shrouded in red dust.
Observances [change]
- Feast of Saint Pio
- National holiday of Saudi Arabia
- September Equinox in some years (Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, and Spring in the Southern Hemisphere)
