On This Day: September 23 - Historical Events, Births & Deaths

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43 Events 238 Births 97 Deaths

2024 Israel launches airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, killing more than 490 people. ↗
2022 Voting begins in the five-day sham annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine, leading to Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. ↗
2020 A grand jury in Kentucky declines to indict three police officers for the shooting death of Breonna Taylor in a drug raid gone wrong, leading to nationwide protests in the U.S. ↗
2019 Twenty people die on the first of two days of rioting in Papua and West Papua over an alleged racist incident. ↗
2013 Twenty-five people are killed after Typhoon Usagi passes Hong Kong and China. ↗
2010 Teresa Lewis becomes the first woman to be executed by the U.S. state of Virginia since 1912, and the first woman in the state to be executed by lethal injection. ↗
2008 Matti Saari kills ten people at a school in Finland before committing suicide. ↗
2004 Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides. ↗
1999 Qantas Flight 1 overruns a runway in Bangkok during a storm, causing minor injuries to some passengers. ↗
1983 Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 112 people on board. ↗
1973 Argentine general election: Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina. ↗
1967 Seven people die, 46 people are injured, and more than 150 boats capsize when a squall hits Lake Michigan during Michigan's first coho salmon sport fishing season. ↗
1964 Typhoon Wilda, one of the strongest typhoons to ever strike Japan, makes landfall, causing at least 30 fatalities and sinking at least 64 ships. ↗
1962 Flying Tiger Line Flight 923, a Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation registered as N6923C, ditches into the Atlantic Ocean killing 28 out the 76 occupants onboard. The remaining 48 were rescued six hours later. ↗
1961 U.S. President John F. Kennedy nominates African American civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, although pro-segregation Southern senators manage to delay his confirmation until September 11, 1962. ↗
1957 Little Rock schools integration crisis: President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, and federalizes the Arkansas National Guard, ordering both to support the integration of Little Rock Central High School. ↗
1956 A tropical storm originating in the eastern Pacific Ocean passes into the Gulf of Mexico and is upgraded and named Hurricane Flossy just hours before striking the Gulf Coast and causing 15 deaths and an estimated USD$24.8 million in damages. ↗
1955 An all-white jury in Mississippi finds Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam not guilty in the torture-murder of 14-year-old African American boy Emmett Till. ↗
1952 After being accused of financial improprieties, Senator Richard Nixon delivers his "Checkers speech" nationwide on television and radio, defending his actions and successfully salvaging his nomination as the Republican candidate for Vice President. ↗
1951 George VI, king of the United Kingdom, has his left lung removed in an operation after a malignant tumour was found. ↗
1950 Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282 is the first US friendly-fire incident on British military personnel since World War II. ↗
1947 A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes South Khorasan in Iran, killing over 500 people. ↗
1942 World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins: U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River. ↗
1932 Saudi National Day: Crown Prince (later king) Faisal of Saudi Arabia, on behalf of Ibn Saud, proclaims the unification of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the current iteration of the Third Saudi State. ↗
1920 The Louisiana hurricane dissipates over Kansas after forcing around 4,500 people to evacuate and causing $1.45 million in damages. ↗
1918 World War I: The Battle of Haifa takes place in present-day Israel, part of the Ottoman Empire at that time. ↗
1913 The United Mine Workers of America launch a strike which eventually escalated into the Colorado Coalfield War. ↗
1905 Norway and Sweden sign the Karlstad Treaty, peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries. ↗
1899 Philippine-American War: the American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo. ↗
1884 On the night of 23–24 September, the steamship Arctique runs aground near Cape Virgenes leading to the discovery of nearby placer gold, beginning the Tierra del Fuego gold rush. ↗
1879 The Macedo-Romanian Cultural Society is founded. ↗
1868 The Grito de Lares occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule. ↗
1846 Astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune. ↗
1821 Tripolitsa, Greece, is captured by Greek rebels during the Greek War of Independence. ↗
1803 Second Anglo-Maratha War: The Battle of Assaye is fought between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India. ↗
1779 American Revolutionary War: John Paul Jones, naval commander of the United States, on board the USS Bonhomme Richard, wins the Battle of Flamborough Head. ↗
1642 First English Civil War: The Battle of Powick Bridge, the first engagement between the primary field armies of the Royalists and the Parliamentarians, ends in a Royalist victory. ↗
1561 King Philip II of Spain issues cedula, ordering a halt to colonizing efforts in Florida. ↗
1459 The Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is won by the Yorkists. ↗
1409 The Battle of Kherlen is the second significant victory over Ming dynasty China by the Mongols since 1368. ↗
1338 The Battle of Arnemuiden, in which a French force defeats the English, is the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle in which gunpowder artillery is used. ↗
1122 Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy. ↗
38 Drusilla, Caligula's sister who died in June, with whom the emperor is said to have an incestuous relationship, is deified. ↗

2001 Lai Kuan-lin, Taiwanese film director ↗
1999 Song Yu-qi, Chinese singer ↗
1997 John Collins, American basketball player ↗
1996 Napheesa Collier, American basketball player ↗
1994 Lee Mi-joo, South Korean singer and entertainer ↗
1994 Bai Lu, Chinese Actress ↗
1993 Petteri Lindbohm, Finnish ice hockey player ↗
1992 Angel Garza, Mexican wrestler ↗
1991 Lee Alexander, Scottish footballer ↗
1991 Key, South Korean singer and entertainer ↗
1991 Melanie Oudin, American tennis player ↗
1989 Brandon Jennings, American basketball player ↗
1989 Taniela Lasalo, Australian rugby league player ↗
1988 Juan Martín del Potro, Argentinian tennis player ↗
1988 Kairi Sane, Japanese wrestler ↗
1988 Yannick Weber, Swiss ice hockey player ↗
1987 Skylar Astin, American actor and singer ↗
1986 Martin Cranie, English footballer ↗
1986 Chris Volstad, American baseball player ↗
1985 Joba Chamberlain, American baseball player ↗
1985 Chris Johnson, American football player ↗
1985 Cush Jumbo, British actress ↗
1985 Lukáš Kašpar, Czech ice hockey player ↗
1985 Hasan Minhaj, American comedian, actor, and television host ↗
1984 Patrick Ehelechner, German ice hockey player ↗
1984 Matt Kemp, American baseball player ↗
1984 Anneliese van der Pol, Dutch-American entertainer ↗
1983 Shane del Rosario, American mixed martial artist and kick-boxer (died 2013) ↗
1983 Joffrey Lupul, Canadian ice hockey player ↗
1982 Mait Künnap, Estonian tennis player ↗
1982 Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornographic actress (died 2017) ↗
1981 Robert Doornbos, Dutch racing driver ↗
1981 Helen Richardson-Walsh, English field hockey player ↗
1979 Ricky Davis, American basketball player ↗
1979 Bryant McKinnie, American football player ↗
1979 Fábio Simplício, Brazilian footballer ↗
1979 Lote Tuqiri, Fijian-Australian rugby player ↗
1978 Benjamin Curtis, American guitarist, drummer, and songwriter (died 2013) ↗
1978 Anthony Mackie, American actor ↗
1977 Matthieu Descoteaux, Canadian ice hockey player ↗
1977 Dmitri Kulikov, Estonian footballer ↗
1977 Fabio Ongaro, Italian rugby player ↗
1977 Rachael Yamagata, American singer-songwriter and pianist ↗
1976 Sarah Blasko, Australian singer-songwriter and producer ↗
1976 Robert James-Collier, English actor ↗
1976 Kip Pardue, American actor and model ↗
1976 Valeriy Sydorenko, Ukrainian boxer ↗
1976 Volodymyr Sydorenko, Ukrainian boxer ↗
1975 Kim Dong-moon, South Korean badminton player ↗
1975 Chris Hawkins, English journalist and producer ↗
1975 Eric Miller, Irish rugby player, footballer, and coach ↗
1975 Vitali Yeremeyev, Kazakhstani ice hockey player ↗
1974 Ben Duckworth, Australian rugby league player ↗
1974 Matt Hardy, American wrestler ↗
1974 Layzie Bone, American rapper ↗
1973 Ingrid Fliter, Argentinian pianist ↗
1973 Vangelis Krios, Greek footballer and coach ↗
1972 Sam Bettens, Belgian singer-songwriter and guitarist ↗
1972 Alistair Campbell, Zimbabwean cricketer ↗
1972 Jermaine Dupri, American rapper and producer ↗
1972 Karl Pilkington, English actor and producer ↗
1971 Moin Khan, Pakistani cricketer and coach ↗
1971 Eric Montross, American basketball player and sportscaster (died 2023) ↗
1971 Sean Spicer, American political aide, 30th White House Press Secretary ↗
1970 Adrian Brunker, Australian rugby league player ↗
1970 Lucia Cifarelli, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player ↗
1970 Ani DiFranco, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ↗
1970 Giorgos Koltsidas, Greek footballer ↗
1969 Donald Audette, Canadian ice hockey player ↗
1969 Patrick Fiori, French singer-songwriter ↗
1969 Jan Suchopárek, Czech footballer and manager ↗
1968 Yvette Fielding, English actress and producer ↗
1968 Adam Price, Welsh politician ↗
1967 LisaRaye McCoy, American actress, model, fashion designer, and First Lady of the Turks and Caicos Islands ↗
1967 Chris Wilder, English footballer and manager ↗
1966 Pete Harnisch, American baseball player and coach ↗
1965 Mark Woodforde, Australian tennis player and sportscaster ↗
1964 Clayton Blackmore, Welsh footballer and manager ↗
1964 Josefa Idem, German-born Italian kayaker ↗
1964 Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer-songwriter ↗
1964 Larry Krystkowiak, American basketball player and coach ↗
1964 Katie Mitchell, English director and producer ↗
1964 Julian Parkhill, English biologist and academic ↗
1964 Bill Phillips, American businessman and author ↗
1963 Anne-Marie Cadieux, Canadian actress, director, and screenwriter ↗
1963 Alex Proyas, Egyptian-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter ↗
1962 Deborah Orr, Scottish journalist (died 2019) ↗
1961 Chi McBride, American actor ↗
1961 William C. McCool, American commander, pilot, and astronaut (died 2003) ↗
1960 Kurt Beyer, American wrestler ↗
1960 Luis Moya, Spanish race car driver ↗
1959 Jason Alexander, American actor, singer, and voice artist ↗
1959 Frank Cottrell-Boyce, English author and screenwriter ↗
1959 Hans Nijman, Dutch mixed martial artist and wrestler (died 2014) ↗
1959 Chris O'Sullivan, Australian rugby league player ↗
1959 Elizabeth Peña, American actress (died 2014) ↗
1959 Karen Pierce, English diplomat ↗
1958 Danielle Dax, English singer-songwriter and producer ↗
1958 Khaled El Sheikh, Bahraini singer-songwriter ↗
1958 Tony Fossas, Cuban-American baseball player and coach ↗
1958 Marvin Lewis, American football player and coach ↗
1958 Larry Mize, American golfer ↗
1957 Rosalind Chao, American actress ↗
1956 Peter David, American author, actor, and screenwriter (died 2025) ↗
1956 Tom Hogan, Australian cricketer ↗
1956 Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer (died 2020) ↗
1954 Charlie Barnett, American actor (died 1996) ↗
1954 Cherie Blair, English lawyer and academic ↗
1953 Nicholas Witchell, English journalist ↗
1952 Mark Bego, American author ↗
1952 Anshuman Gaekwad, Indian cricketer ↗
1952 Dennis Lamp, American baseball player ↗
1952 Kim Duk-soo, Korean musician ↗
1952 Jim Morrison, American baseball player and manager ↗
1951 Steven Springer, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2012) ↗
1950 George Garzone, American saxophonist and educator ↗
1949 Floella Benjamin, Trinidadian-English actress, academic, and politician ↗
1949 Bruce Springsteen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ↗
1949 Kostas Tournas, Greek singer-songwriter ↗
1948 Dan Toler, American guitarist (died 2013) ↗
1947 Christian Bordeleau, Canadian ice hockey player ↗
1947 Mary Kay Place, American actress ↗
1947 Neal Smith, American drummer and songwriter ↗
1946 Franz Fischler, Austrian politician ↗
1946 Bernard Maris, French economist and journalist (died 2015) ↗
1946 Genista McIntosh, Baroness McIntosh, English politician ↗
1946 Davorin Popović, Bosnian singer-songwriter (died 2001) ↗
1946 Anne Wheeler, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter ↗
1945 Igor Ivanov, Russian politician and diplomat, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs ↗
1945 Alan Old, English rugby player ↗
1945 Paul Petersen, American actor, singer, author, and activist ↗
1944 Eric Bogle, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist ↗
1943 Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer-songwriter ↗
1943 Marty Schottenheimer, American football player and coach (died 2021) ↗
1942 Sila María Calderón, Puerto Rican-American businesswoman and politician, 12th Secretary of State of Puerto Rico ↗
1942 Colin Low, Baron Low of Dalston, Scottish scholar and politician ↗
1942 David Renneberg, Australian cricketer ↗
1941 George Jackson, American activist and author, co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family (died 1971) ↗
1941 Simon Nolet, Canadian ice hockey player and coach ↗
1941 Norma Winstone, English singer-songwriter ↗
1940 Michel Temer, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 25th Vice President of Brazil ↗
1940 Dick Thornett, Australian rugby player and water polo player (died 2011) ↗
1939 Henry Blofeld, English cricketer and journalist ↗
1939 Roy Buchanan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1988) ↗
1939 Joan Hanham, Baroness Hanham, English politician ↗
1939 Sonny Vaccaro, American businessman ↗
1938 Arie L. Kopelman, American businessman (died 2024) ↗
1938 Romy Schneider, German-French actress (died 1982) ↗
1937 Jacques Poulin, Canadian author and translator (died 2025) ↗
1936 George Eastham, English footballer (died 2024) ↗
1936 Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian lawyer and politician, 91st President of Peru (died 2006) ↗
1936 Sylvain Saudan, Swiss skier ↗
1936 Tareq Suheimat, Jordanian physician, general, and politician (died 2014) ↗
1935 Prem Chopra, Indian actor ↗
1935 Les McCann, American soul-jazz singer and pianist (died 2023) ↗
1935 Ron Tindall, English-Australian footballer, cricketer, and manager (died 2012) ↗
1934 Per Olov Enquist, Swedish journalist, author, and playwright (died 2020) ↗
1933 Lloyd J. Old, American immunologist and academic (died 2011) ↗
1932 Georg Keßler, German footballer and manager ↗
1931 Hilly Kristal, American businessman, founded CBGB (died 2007) ↗
1931 Stan Lynde, American author and illustrator (died 2013) ↗
1931 Gerald Merrithew, Canadian educator and politician (died 2004) ↗
1930 Sehba Akhtar, Pakistani poet and songwriter (died 1996) ↗
1930 Colin Blakely, Northern Irish actor (died 1987) ↗
1930 Ray Charles – American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (died 2004) ↗
1928 Frank Foster, American saxophonist and composer (died 2011) ↗
1928 Roger Grimsby, American journalist and actor (died 1995) ↗
1926 André Cassagnes, French toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch (died 2013) ↗
1926 John William Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist and composer (died 1967) ↗
1925 Denis C. Twitchett, English historian and scholar (died 2006) ↗
1924 Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist and publisher (died 1978) ↗
1923 Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Egyptian journalist (died 2016) ↗
1923 Vello Helk, Estonian-Danish historian and author (died 2014) ↗
1920 Mickey Rooney, American actor, singer, director, and producer (died 2014) ↗
1917 El Santo, Mexican Luchador enmascarado, film actor, and folk icon (died 1984) ↗
1917 Asima Chatterjee, Indian chemist (died 2006) ↗
1916 Aldo Moro, Italian academic and politician, 39th Prime Minister of Italy (died 1978) ↗
1915 Julius Baker, American flute player and educator (died 2003) ↗
1915 Clifford Shull, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2001) ↗
1913 Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish painter and sculptor (died 2007) ↗
1912 Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani linguist, author, and critic (died 2005) ↗
1912 Tony Smith, American sculptor and educator (died 1980) ↗
1911 Frank Moss, American lawyer and politician (died 2003) ↗
1910 Jakob Streit, Swiss anthroposophist and author (died 2009) ↗
1909 Lorenc Antoni, Kosovo-Albanian composer and conductor (died 1991) ↗
1908 Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Indian poet, academic, and politician (died 1974) ↗
1907 Tiny Bradshaw, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1958) ↗
1907 Anne Desclos, French journalist and author (died 1998) ↗
1907 Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza (died 1976) ↗
1906 Charles Ritchie, Canadian diplomat, High Commission of Canada in the United Kingdom (died 1995) ↗
1904 Arthur Folwell, English-Australian rugby league player, coach, and administrator (died 1966) ↗
1903 Cec Fifield, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 1957) ↗
1902 Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and academic (died 2003) ↗
1901 Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986) ↗
1900 Bill Stone, English soldier (died 2009) ↗
1899 Tom C. Clark, American lawyer and judge, 59th Attorney General of the United States (died 1977) ↗
1899 Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (died 1988) ↗
1898 Les Haylen, Australian journalist and politician (died 1977) ↗
1897 Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (died 1994) ↗
1897 Walter Pidgeon, Canadian-American actor and singer (died 1984) ↗
1895 Miron Merzhanov, Russian architect and engineer (died 1975) ↗
1895 Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (died 1985) ↗
1890 Friedrich Paulus, German field marshal (died 1957) ↗
1889 Walter Lippmann, American journalist and publisher, co-founded The New Republic (died 1974) ↗
1880 John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish biologist, physician, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971) ↗
1876 Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli rabbi and scholar (died 1968) ↗
1869 Mary Mallon, American cook and typhoid carrier (died 1938) ↗
1867 John Lomax, American teacher, musicologist, and folklorist (died 1948) ↗
1865 Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (died 1933) ↗
1865 Emma Orczy, Hungarian-English author and playwright (died 1947) ↗
1865 Suzanne Valadon, French model and painter (died 1938) ↗
1863 Mary Church Terrell, American author and activist (died 1954) ↗
1861 Robert Bosch, German engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH (died 1942) ↗
1853 Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen (died 1923) ↗
1852 James Carroll Beckwith, American painter and academic (died 1917) ↗
1852 William Stewart Halsted, American physician and surgeon (died 1922) ↗
1851 Ellen Hayes, American mathematician and astronomer (died 1930) ↗
1838 Victoria Woodhull, American journalist and activist (died 1927) ↗
1823 John Colton, English-Australian politician, 13th Premier of South Australia (died 1902) ↗
1819 Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist and academic (died 1896) ↗
1800 William Holmes McGuffey, American author and academic (died 1873) ↗
1791 Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer and academic (died 1865) ↗
1791 Theodor Körner, German soldier and author (died 1813) ↗
1781 Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (died 1860) ↗
1778 Mariano Moreno, Argentinian journalist, lawyer, and politician (died 1811) ↗
1771 Emperor Kōkaku of Japan (died 1840) ↗
1756 John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer (died 1836) ↗
1740 Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (died 1813) ↗
1713 Ferdinand VI of Spain (died 1759) ↗
1650 Jeremy Collier, English bishop and theologian (died 1726) ↗
1647 Joseph Dudley, English politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (died 1720) ↗
1642 Giovanni Maria Bononcini, Italian violinist and composer (died 1678) ↗
1598 Eleonore Gonzaga, Italian wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1655) ↗
1597 Francesco Barberini, Catholic cardinal (died 1679) ↗
1495 Bagrat III of Imereti, King of Imereti (died 1565) ↗
1215 Kublai Khan, Mongolian emperor (died 1294) ↗
1158 Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (died 1186) ↗
63 BCE Augustus, Roman emperor (died 14 AD) ↗

2021 John Elliott, Australian businessman (born 1941) ↗
2021 Nino Vaccarella, Italian race car driver (born 1933) ↗
2020 Juliette Gréco, French singer and actress (born 1927) ↗
2018 Charles Kuen Kao, Hong Kong-American-British electrical engineer and physicist (born 1933) ↗
2018 Gary Kurtz, American film producer (born 1940) ↗
2018 Jane Fortune, American author, journalist, and philanthropist (born 1942) ↗
2015 Dayananda Saraswati, Indian monk and philosopher (born 1930) ↗
2014 A. W. Davis, American basketball player and coach (born 1943) ↗
2014 Irven DeVore, American anthropologist and biologist (born 1934) ↗
2014 Don Manoukian, American football player and wrestler (born 1934) ↗
2014 Al Suomi, American ice hockey player and referee (born 1913) ↗
2013 Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj, Syrian colonel and politician (born 1925) ↗
2013 Gil Dozier, American captain, lawyer, and politician (born 1934) ↗
2013 Ruth Patrick, American botanist and immunologist (born 1907) ↗
2012 Henry Champ, Canadian journalist and academic (born 1937) ↗
2012 Pavel Grachev, Russian general and politician, 1st Minister of Defence for Russia (born 1948) ↗
2012 Roberto Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player and coach (born 1941) ↗
2012 Corrie Sanders, South African boxer (born 1966) ↗
2012 Sam Sniderman, Canadian businessman, founded Sam the Record Man (born 1920) ↗
2010 Malcolm Douglas, Australian hunter and television host (born 1941) ↗
2009 Paul B. Fay, American sailor and politician, United States Secretary of the Navy (born 1918) ↗
2008 Peter Leonard, Australian journalist (born 1942) ↗
2008 Loren Pope, American journalist and author (born 1910) ↗
2006 Malcolm Arnold, English trumpet player and composer (born 1921) ↗
2006 Etta Baker, American singer and guitarist (born 1913) ↗
2005 Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (born 1933) ↗
2004 Billy Reay, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1918) ↗
2003 Yuri Senkevich, Russian physician and journalist (born 1937) ↗
2001 Ron Hewitt, Welsh footballer (born 1928) ↗
2000 Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican baseball player and manager (born 1947) ↗
2000 Carl Rowan, American journalist and author (born 1925) ↗
2000 Raoul Berger, American attorney and law professor (born 1901) ↗
1999 Ivan Goff, Australian-American screenwriter and producer (born 1910) ↗
1998 Ray Bowden, English footballer (born 1909) ↗
1998 Mary Frann, American actress (born 1943) ↗
1997 Natalie Savage Carlson, American author (born 1906) ↗
1994 Jerry Barber, American golfer (born 1916) ↗
1994 Robert Bloch, American author and screenwriter (born 1917) ↗
1994 Madeleine Renaud, French actress (born 1900) ↗
1992 Ivar Ivask, Estonian poet and scholar (born 1927) ↗
1992 Glendon Swarthout, American author and academic (born 1918) ↗
1992 James Van Fleet, American general (born 1892) ↗
1988 Tibor Sekelj, Hungarian-Serbian explorer and author (born 1912) ↗
1987 Bob Fosse, American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director (born 1927) ↗
1981 Chief Dan George, Canadian actor, author, and poet (born 1899) ↗
1980 Jim Fouché, State President of South Africa (born 1898) ↗
1979 Catherine Lacey, English actress (born 1904) ↗
1978 Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (born 1950) ↗
1974 Cliff Arquette, American actor and comedian (born 1905) ↗
1974 Robbie McIntosh, Scottish drummer (born 1950) ↗
1973 Pablo Neruda – Chilean poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904) ↗
1971 James Waddell Alexander II, American mathematician and topologist (born 1888) ↗
1968 Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian priest and saint (born 1887) ↗
1967 Stanislaus Zbyszko, Polish wrestler and strongman (born 1879) ↗
1958 Jacob Nicol, Canadian publisher, lawyer, and politician (born 1876) ↗
1951 Siegfried Bettmann, German engineer (born 1863) ↗
1950 Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (born 1892) ↗
1944 Jakob Schaffner, Swiss author and critic (born 1875) ↗
1943 Elinor Glyn, English author, screenwriter, and producer (born 1864) ↗
1940 Hale Holden, American businessman (born 1869) ↗
1939 Sigmund Freud – Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (born 1856) ↗
1939 Francisco León de la Barra, Mexican politician and diplomat, interim president, 1911 (born 1863) ↗
1929 Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-German chemist, physicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1865) ↗
1917 Werner Voss, German lieutenant and pilot (born 1897) ↗
1913 Donato Álvarez, Argentinian general (born 1825) ↗
1900 William Marsh Rice, American businessman, founded Rice University (born 1816) ↗
1896 Emmanuel Benner, French artist (born 1836) ↗
1889 Wilkie Collins, English novelist, short story writer, and playwright (born 1824) ↗
1877 Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician and astronomer (born 1811) ↗
1873 Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (born 1823) ↗
1871 Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1786) ↗
1870 Prosper Mérimée, French archaeologist and historian (born 1803) ↗
1851 Émilie Gamelin, Canadian nun, founded the Sisters of Providence (born 1800) ↗
1850 José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan general and politician (born 1764) ↗
1846 John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-Australian explorer (born 1818) ↗
1835 Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (born 1801) ↗
1789 John Rogers, American lawyer and politician (born 1723) ↗
1773 Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist (born 1718) ↗
1764 Robert Dodsley, English poet and playwright (born 1703) ↗
1738 Herman Boerhaave, Dutch botanist and physician (born 1668) ↗
1728 Christian Thomasius, German jurist and philosopher (born 1655) ↗
1675 Valentin Conrart, French author, founded the Académie française (born 1603) ↗
1605 Pontus de Tyard, French priest and poet (born 1521) ↗
1573 Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (born 1524) ↗
1571 John Jewel, English bishop (born 1522) ↗
1535 Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg (born 1513) ↗
1508 Beatrice of Naples, queen consort of Hungary (born 1457) ↗
1461 Charles, Prince of Viana, King of Navarre (born 1421) ↗
1448 Adolph I, Duke of Cleves (born 1373) ↗
1390 John I, Duke of Lorraine (born 1346) ↗
1386 Dan I of Wallachia ↗
1267 Beatrice of Provence, countess regnant of Provence (born 1234) ↗
1253 Wenceslaus I of Bohemia ↗
1241 Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (born 1178) ↗
1193 Robert de Sablé, French knight ↗
965 Al-Mutanabbi, Arab poet (born 915) ↗
788 Ælfwald I, king of Northumbria ↗