On this day | September 13th

On this day: September 13th

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585 BC Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Ancient Rome, celebrates a Roman triumph for his Roman–Sabine wars # War with Tarquinius Priscus over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.

509 BC The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the Roman calendar of September.

379 Yax Nuun Ahiin I is crowned as 15th Ajaw of Tikal

533 Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum, near Carthage, North Africa.

1229 Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.

1437 Battle of Tangier (1437): a Kingdom of Portugal expeditionary force initiates a failed attempt to seize the Moroccan citadel of Tangier.

1609 Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him the Hudson River.

1645 Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Scottish Royalists are defeated by Covenanters at the Battle of Philiphaugh.

1743 Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms (1743).

1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.

1782 American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.

1788 The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.

1791 King Louis XVI of France accepts the French Constitution of 1791.

1807 Beethoven's Mass in C major (Beethoven), Opus number. 86, is premiered, commissioned by Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy, and displeasing him.

1808 Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russian Empire, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.

1812 War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Siege of Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Siege of Fort Harrison # Attacks at the Narrows.

1814 In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", which is later set to music and becomes The Star-Spangled Banner.

1843 The Greek Army 3 September 1843 Revolution (Old Style and New Style dates: September 3) against the autocratic rule of king Otto of Greece, demanding the granting of a constitution.

1847 Mexican–American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican–American War.

1848 Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives an iron rod in diameter being driven through his brain; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate discussion of the nature of the brain and its functions.

1862 American Civil War: Union (American Civil War) soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's Special Order 191 in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.

1880 The Basuto Gun War breaks out after the Basuto launch a rebellion against the Cape Colony.

1882 Anglo-Egyptian War: The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought.

1898 Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.

1899 Halford Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.

1900 Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.

1906 The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.

1922 The final act of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–22), the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.

1923 Following a Miguel Primo de Rivera # Establishment of dictatorship in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.

1933 Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman Lyttelton by-election, 1933 to the New Zealand Parliament.

1942 World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeat attacks by the Japanese with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.

1944 World War II: Start of the Battle of Meligalas between the Greek Resistance forces of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) and the collaborationist security battalions.

1948 Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad State to Indian annexation of Hyderabad with the Dominion of India.

1948 Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.

1953 Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1956 The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.

1956 The Dike (construction) around the Dutch polder Zuiderzee Works # The Flevolands is closed.

1962 An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.

1964 Army of the Republic of Vietnam Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a September 1964 South Vietnamese coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh.

1964 Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West Berliners on Sunday, in Waldbühne.

1968 Cold War: People's Socialist Republic of Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.

1971 State police and National Guard of the United States storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a Attica Prison riot, which claimed 43 lives.

1971 Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.

1979 South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).

1982 Spantax Flight 995 crashes at Málaga Airport during a rejected takeoff, killing 50 of the 394 people on board.

1985 ''Super Mario Bros.'' is released in Japan for the Nintendo Entertainment System, which starts the ''Super Mario'' series of platforming games.

1986 A 1986 Kalamata earthquake strikes Kalamata, Greece with a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity scale of X (''Extreme''), killing at least 20 and causing heavy damage in the city.

1987 Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.

1988 Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).

1989 Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.

1993 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.

1997 A German Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 and a United States Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter 1997 Namibia mid-air collision in mid-air near Namibia, killing 33.

2001 Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.

2007 The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.

2007 The McLaren are found guilty of 2007 Formula One espionage controversy Scuderia Ferrari team, fined $100 million, and excluded from the constructors' championship standings.

2008 Delhi, India, is hit by a 13 September 2008 Delhi bombings, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.

2013 Taliban insurgents 2013 attack on U.S. consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured.

AD 64 Julia Flavia, Roman daughter of Titus (d. AD 91)

678 K'inich Ahkal Mo' Nahb III, Mayan ruler (d. 730)

1087 John II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1143)

1373 Minkhaung I, King of Ava (d. 1431)

1475 Cesare Borgia, Italian cardinal (d. 1507)

1502 John Leland (antiquary), English poet and historian (d. 1552)

1521 William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English academic and politician, Lord High Treasurer (d. 1598)

1594 Francesco Manelli, Italian theorbo player and composer (d. 1667)

1604 Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English commander and politician (d. 1698)

1755 Oliver Evans, American inventor, engineer and businessman (d. 1819)

1802 Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and author (d. 1880)

1813 John Sedgwick, American general and educator (d. 1864)

1818 Lucy Goode Brooks, Former American slave and a founder of Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans (d. 1900)

1819 Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (d. 1896)

1830 Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (d. 1916)

1842 John H. Bankhead, American soldier and politician (d. 1920)

1851 Walter Reed, American physician and biologist (d. 1902)

1857 Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel and activist (d. 1937)

1857 Milton S. Hershey, American businessman, founded The Hershey Company (d. 1945)

1860 John J. Pershing, American general and lawyer (d. 1948)

1865 William Birdwood, Indian-English field marshal (d. 1951)

1872 Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese politician and diplomat, 44th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1951)

1873 Constantin Carathéodory, German mathematician and author (d. 1950)

1874 Henry F. Ashurst, American lawyer and politician (d. 1962)

1874 Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer and painter (d. 1951)

1876 Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1941)

1877 Wilhelm Filchner, German-Swiss explorer (d. 1957)

1877 Stanley Lord, English captain (d. 1962)

1880 Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer, co-founded Famous Players–Lasky (d. 1958)

1882 Ramón Grau, Cuban physician and politician, 6th President of Cuba (d. 1969)

1883 LeRoy Samse, American pole vaulter (d. 1956)

1883 Petros Voulgaris, Greek admiral and politician, 136th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1957)

1885 Wilhelm Blaschke, Austrian-German mathematician and academic (d. 1962)

1886 Amelie Beese, German pilot and sculptor (d. 1925)

1886 Robert Robinson (organic chemist), English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1975)

1887 Leopold Ružička, Croatian-Swiss biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1976)

1890 Antony Noghès, French-Monegasque businessman, founded the Monaco Grand Prix (d. 1978)

1891 Max Pruss, German captain and pilot (d. 1960)

1893 Larry Shields, American clarinet player (d. 1953)

1894 J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (d. 1984)

1894 Julian Tuwim, Polish poet, playwright, and director (d. 1953)

1895 Morris Kirksey, American rugby player and sprinter (d. 1981)

1898 Roger Désormière, French conductor and composer (d. 1963)

1898 C. Sittampalam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1964)

1899 Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Romanian politician (d. 1938)

1903 Claudette Colbert, American actress (d. 1996)

1904 Alberta Williams King, American civil rights organizer, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 1974)

1904 Gladys George, American actress (d. 1954)

1908 Chu Berry, American saxophonist (d. 1941)

1908 Karolos Koun, Greek director and playwright (d. 1987)

1908 Sicco Mansholt, Dutch farmer and politician, 4th President of the European Commission (d. 1995)

1908 Mae Questel, American actress and vocal artist (d. 1998)

1909 Ray Bowden, English footballer (d. 1998)

1909 Frits Thors, Dutch journalist and radio host (d. 2014)

1911 Bill Monroe, American singer-songwriter and mandolin player (d. 1996)

1912 Maurice K. Goddard, American colonel and politician (d. 1995)

1912 Reta Shaw, American actress (d. 1982)

1913 Kai Setälä, Finnish physician and professor (d. 2005)

1914 Leonard Feather, English-American pianist, composer, producer, and journalist (d. 1994)

1916 Roald Dahl, British novelist, poet, and screenwriter (d. 1990)

1917 Carol Kendall (writer), American historian and author (d. 2012)

1917 Robert Ward (composer), American soldier, composer, and educator (d. 2013)

1918 Ray Charles (musician, born 1918), American singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 2015)

1918 Dick Haymes, Argentinian actor and singer (d. 1980)

1919 Mary Midgley, English philosopher and author (d. 2018)

1919 George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld, Austrian-English journalist, publisher, and philanthropist (d. 2016)

1920 Else Holmelund Minarik, Danish-American journalist and author (d. 2012)

1922 Charles Brown (musician), American singer and pianist (d. 1999)

1922 Caroline Duby Glassman, American lawyer and jurist (d. 2013)

1923 Édouard Boubat, French photographer and journalist (d. 1999)

1924 Harold Blair, Australian tenor and educator (d. 1976)

1924 Scott Brady, American actor (d. 1985)

1924 Maurice Jarre, French composer and conductor (d. 2009)

1925 Mel Tormé, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999)

1926 Andrew Brimmer, American economist and academic (d. 2012)

1926 Emile Francis, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2022)

1926 J. Frank Raley Jr., American soldier and politician (d. 2012)

1927 Laura Cardoso, Brazilian actress

1928 Robert Indiana, American painter and sculptor (d. 2018)

1928 Tzannis Tzannetakis, Greek soldier and politician, 175th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2010)

1930 Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron, English publisher and philanthropist (d. 2015)

1931 Barbara Bain, American actress

1931 Robert Bédard (tennis), Canadian tennis player and sportscaster

1931 Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, Australian sprinter and politician, 33rd Governor of South Australia

1931 Rein Maran, Estonian cinematographer

1932 Fernando González Pacheco, Spanish-Colombian journalist and actor (d. 2014)

1932 Radoslav Brzobohatý, Czech actor (d. 2012)

1932 Bengt Hallberg, Swedish pianist and composer (d. 2013)

1933 Eileen Fulton, American actress

1933 Donald Mackay (anti-drugs campaigner), Australian businessman and activist (d. 1977)

1933 Lewie Steinberg, American bass player (d. 2016)

1934 Tony Pickard, English tennis player and coach

1936 Stefano Delle Chiaie, Italian activist, founded National Vanguard (Italy) (d. 2019)

1937 Don Bluth, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Sullivan Bluth Studios and Fox Animation Studios

1938 John Smith (Labour Party leader), Scottish lawyer and politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1994)

1939 Arleen Auger, American soprano and educator (d. 1993)

1939 Richard Kiel, American actor and voice artist (d. 2014)

1939 Guntis Ulmanis, Latvian economist and politician, 5th President of Latvia

1939 Joel-Peter Witkin, American photographer

1940 Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, President of Costa Rica, Nobel Peace Prize laureate

1940 Kerry Stokes, Australian businessman

1941 Tadao Ando, Japanese architect and academic, designed Piccadilly Gardens

1941 David Clayton-Thomas, English-Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

1941 Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Turkish judge and politician, 10th President of the Republic of Turkey

1942 Michel Côté (Canadian politician), Canadian businessman and politician

1943 Mildred D. Taylor, American author

1944 Carol Barnes, English journalist (d. 2008)

1944 Jacqueline Bisset, English actress and producer

1944 Peter Cetera, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer

1944 Midget Farrelly, Australian surfer (d. 2016)

1945 Noël Godin, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter

1945 Andres Küng, Swedish journalist and politician (d. 2002)

1946 Frank Marshall (producer), American director and producer

1946 Henri Kuprashvili, Georgian swimmer

1948 Nell Carter, American actress and singer (d. 2003)

1948 Dimitri Nanopoulos, Greek physicist and academic

1948 Sitiveni Rabuka, Fijian general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Fiji

1949 Jim Cleamons, American basketball player and coach

1949 John W. Henry, American businessman

1950 Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Polish lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Poland

1950 Christine Estabrook, American actress

1950 Pat Holland, English footballer and manager

1950 Jeff Lowe, American mountaineer (d. 2018)

1951 Anne Devlin (writer), Irish author, playwright, and screenwriter

1951 Salva Kiir Mayardit, South Sudanese politician, 1st List of Presidents of South Sudan

1951 Jean Smart, American actress

1952 Réjean Giroux, Canadian ice hockey player

1952 Randy Jones (singer), American pop and disco singer

1952 Don Was, American bass player and producer

1954 Steve Kilbey, English-Australian singer-songwriter and bass player

1954 Isiah Whitlock Jr., American actor

1955 Colin Moynihan, 4th Baron Moynihan, English rower and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics

1955 Joe Morris (guitarist), American guitarist and composer

1956 Alain Ducasse, French-Monégasque chef

1956 Anne Geddes, Australian-New Zealand photographer and fashion designer

1956 Martin Hurson, Irish Republican, hunger striker (d. 1981)

1956 Joni Sledge, American singer and songwriter (d. 2017)

1957 Vinny Appice, American rock drummer

1957 Judy Blumberg, American ice dancer and sportscaster

1957 Mal Donaghy, Irish footballer and manager

1957 Brad Hooker, English-American philosopher and academic

1957 Eleanor King (judge), English lawyer and judge

1957 John G. Trueschler, American lawyer and politician

1957 Mark Wiebe, American golfer

1957 Keith Black (surgeon), American neurosurgeon and academic

1957 Bongbong Marcos, 17th President of the Philippines

1958 Bobby Davro, English comedian and actor

1958 Paweł Przytocki, Polish conductor and academic

1958 Kōji Tamaki, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor

1959 Tatyana Mitkova, Russian journalist

1960 Kevin Carter, South African photojournalist (d. 1994)

1960 Bob Eggleton, American artist

1961 Dave Mustaine, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1961 KK Null, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist

1961 Peter Roskam, American lawyer and politician

1962 Neal Lancaster, American golfer

1962 Tõnu Õnnepalu, Estonian author

1963 Yuri Alexandrov (boxer), Russian boxer (d. 2013)

1963 Antony Galione, English pharmacologist

1963 Theodoros Roussopoulos, Greek journalist and politician

1963 Robin Smith (cricketer), South African-English cricketer

1964 Tavis Smiley, American talk show host, journalist, and author

1965 Annie Duke, American poker player and author

1965 Jeff Ross, American comedian, director, and author

1965 Zak Starkey, English drummer

1966 Maria Furtwängler, German physician and actress

1966 Brendan Hall, Australian rugby league player

1966 Igor Kravchuk, Russian ice hockey player

1966 Louis Mandylor, Australian actor

1967 Michael Johnson (sprinter), American former sprinter and journalist

1967 Tim "Ripper" Owens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1967 Stephen Perkins, American drummer and songwriter

1968 Brad Johnson (American football), American football player

1968 Bernie Williams, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and guitarist

1969 Daniel Fonseca, Uruguayan footballer

1969 Dominic Fumusa, American actor

1969 Tyler Perry, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

1969 Shane Warne, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2022)

1970 Lee Abramson, American bass player and composer (d. 2016)

1970 Martín Herrera, Argentinian footballer

1970 Louise Lombard, English actress

1971 Ben Alexander (rugby league), Australian rugby league player (d. 1992)

1971 Goran Ivanišević, Croatian tennis player and coach

1971 Stella McCartney, English fashion designer

1971 Manabu Namiki, Japanese pianist and composer

1973 Christine Arron, French runner

1973 Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer and manager

1973 Carlo Nash, English footballer and photographer

1974 Travis Knight (basketball), American basketball player

1974 Éric Lapointe (Canadian football), Canadian football player

1974 Craig Rivet, Canadian ice hockey player

1975 Akihiro Asai, Japanese race car driver

1975 Joe Don Rooney, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1975 Idan Tal, Israeli footballer

1976 Ro Khanna, American politician

1976 Craig McMillan, New Zealand cricketer, coach, and sportscaster

1976 Elvis Mihailenko, Latvian boxer, trainer, and sportscaster

1976 José Théodore, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

1976 Puma Swede, Swedish pornographic actress

1977 Fiona Apple, American singer-songwriter, producer, and pianist

1977 Ivan De Battista, Maltese actor, singer, director, and producer

1977 Daisuke Tsuda (musician), Japanese singer-songwriter and drummer

1978 Swizz Beatz, American rapper and producer

1978 Peter Sunde, Swedish businessman

1978 Masato Shibata, Japanese wrestler

1979 Geike Arnaert, Belgian singer

1979 Tony Henry (footballer, born 1979), English footballer

1980 Andreas Biermann, German footballer (d. 2014)

1980 Han Chae-young, South Korean actress

1980 Daisuke Matsuzaka, Japanese baseball player

1980 Evangelos Nastos, Greek footballer

1980 Viren Rasquinha, Indian field hockey player

1980 Ben Savage, American actor

1981 Koldo Fernández, Spanish cyclist

1981 Angelina Love, Canadian-American wrestler

1982 Lloyd Dyer, English footballer

1982 Nenê, Brazilian basketball player

1982 Rickie Weeks, American baseball player

1982 Colin Marston, American guitarist, bassist, and producer/engineer

1982 Miha Zupan, Slovenian basketball player

1983 James Bourne, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1983 Molly Crabapple, American illustrator and journalist

1983 Ryan Del Monte, Canadian ice hockey player

1983 Eduard Ratnikov, Estonian footballer

1984 Nabil Abou-Harb, American director, producer, and screenwriter

1984 Baron Corbin, American wrestler

1985 David Jordan (singer), English singer-songwriter

1985 Tom Learoyd-Lahrs, Australian rugby league player

1986 Steve Colpaert, Belgian footballer

1986 Derek Hardman, American football player

1986 Kamui Kobayashi, Japanese race car driver

1986 Sean Williams (basketball), American basketball player

1987 Edenilson Bergonsi, Brazilian footballer

1987 Jonathan de Guzmán, Canadian-Dutch footballer

1987 Luke Fitzgerald, Irish rugby player

1987 Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgarian tennis player

1988 Luis Rentería, Panamanian footballer (d. 2014)

1988 Keith Treacy, Irish footballer

1989 Elysée Irié Bi Séhi, Ivorian footballer

1989 Kenny Edwards (rugby league), New Zealand rugby league player

1989 Jon Mannah, Australian rugby league player (d. 2013)

1989 Thomas Müller, German footballer

1989 William Owusu (footballer, born 1989), Ghanaian footballer

1990 Craig Cunningham, Canadian ice hockey player

1990 Aoi Nakabeppu, Japanese model and actress

1990 Luciano Narsingh, Dutch footballer

1991 Ksenia Afanasyeva, Russian gymnast

1992 Darren Waller, American football player

1993 Niall Horan, Irish singer

1993 Alice Merton, Irish-Canadian singer and songwriter

1994 Leonor Andrade, Portuguese singer

1994 Anna Karolína Schmiedlová, Slovak tennis player

1994 Cameron Munster, Australian rugby league player

1994 Sepp Kuss, American professional cyclist

1995 Joca (footballer, born 1995), Portuguese footballer

1995 Jerry Tollbring, Swedish handball player

1996 Adrian Kempe, Swedish ice hockey player

1996 Lili Reinhart, American actress

AD 81 Titus, Roman emperor (b. AD 39)

AD 413 Marcellinus of Carthage, martyr and saint

AD 531 Kavad I, Sasanian Empire King of Kings of Iran (b. 473)

AD 864 Pietro Tradonico, doge of Republic of Venice

AD 908 Cormac mac Cuilennáin, king of Munster (Ireland)

1171 Al-Adid, last Fatimid caliph (b. 1151)

1313 Notburga, Austrian saint (b. 1265)

1409 Isabella of Valois, French princess and queen of England (b. 1389)

1488 Charles II, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1434)

1506 Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter and engraver (b. 1431)

1557 John Cheke, English scholar and politician, Secretary of State (England) (b. 1514)

1592 Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher and author (b. 1533)

1598 Philip II of Spain (b. 1526)

1612 Karin Månsdotter, Queen of Sweden (b. 1550)

1632 Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (b. 1586)

1759 James Wolfe, English general (b. 1727)

1766 Benjamin Heath, English scholar and author (b. 1704)

1800 Claude Martin, French-English general and explorer (b. 1735)

1806 Charles James Fox, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (b. 1749)

1808 Saverio Bettinelli, Italian poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1718)

1813 Hezqeyas, Ethiopian emperor

1847 Nicolas Oudinot, French general (b. 1767)

1871 İbrahim Şinasi, Turkish journalist, author, and translator (b. 1826)

1872 Ludwig Feuerbach, German anthropologist and philosopher (b. 1804)

1881 Ambrose Burnside, American general and politician, 30th Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1824)

1885 Friedrich Kiel, German composer and educator (b. 1821)

1894 Emmanuel Chabrier, French pianist and composer (b. 1841)

1905 René Goblet, French lawyer and politician, 52nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)

1910 Rajanikanta Sen, Bangladeshi poet and composer (b. 1865)

1912 Joseph Furphy, Australian author and poet (b. 1843)

1912 Nogi Maresuke, Japanese general (b. 1849)

1913 Aurel Vlaicu, Romanian pilot and engineer (b. 1882)

1915 Andrew L. Harris, American general and politician, 44th Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)

1918 Frederic Crowninshield, American artist and author (b. 1845)

1928 Italo Svevo, Italian author and playwright (b. 1861)

1929 Jatindra Nath Das, Indian activist (b. 1904)

1931 Lili Elbe, Danish model and painter (b. 1882)

1937 David Robertson (golfer), Scottish rugby player and golfer (b. 1869)

1941 Elias Disney, Canadian-American farmer and businessman (b. 1859)

1944 W. Heath Robinson, English cartoonist (b. 1872)

1946 Amon Göth, Austrian captain and Nazi war criminal (b. 1908)

1946 Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (b. 1875)

1946 William Watt (Australian politician), Australian lawyer and politician, 24th Premier of Victoria (b. 1871)

1949 August Krogh, Danish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1874)

1953 Mary Brewster Hazelton, American painter (b. 1868)

1960 Leó Weiner, Hungarian composer and educator (b. 1885)

1967 Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Yemeni-Saudi Arabian businessman, founded Saudi Binladin Group (b. 1903)

1967 Robert George (RAF officer), English air marshal and politician, 24th Governor of South Australia (b. 1896)

1967 Leonard Lord, English businessman (b. 1896)

1971 Lin Biao, Chinese general and politician, 2nd List of vice premiers of the People's Republic of China (b. 1907)

1973 Betty Field, American actress (b. 1913)

1973 Sajjad Zaheer, Indian poet and philosopher (b. 1905)

1975 Mudicondan Venkatarama Iyer, Indian singer and musicologist (b. 1897)

1976 Armand Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905)

1976 Albert Tessier, Canadian priest, historian, and director (b. 1895)

1977 Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (b. 1882)

1982 Reed Crandall, American illustrator (b. 1917)

1985 Dane Rudhyar, French-American astrologer, composer, and author (b. 1895)

1987 Mervyn LeRoy, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1900)

1991 Robert Irving (conductor), English soldier and conductor (b. 1913)

1991 Metin Oktay, Turkish footballer and manager (b. 1936)

1991 Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-American production manager and producer (b. 1901)

1993 Carl Voss, American ice hockey player and referee (b. 1907)

1996 Tupac Shakur, American rapper, producer, and actor (b. 1971)

1997 Georges Guétary, Egyptian-French actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1915)

1997 Georgios Mitsibonas, Greek footballer (b. 1962)

1998 Necdet Calp, Turkish civil servant and politician (b. 1922)

1998 Harry Lumley (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)

1998 Frank Renouf, New Zealand businessman (b. 1918)

1998 George Wallace, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 45th Governor of Alabama (b. 1919)

1999 Benjamin Bloom, American psychologist and academic (b. 1913)

2000 Betty Jeffrey, Australian nurse and author (b. 1908)

2001 Johnny Craig, American sailor and illustrator (b. 1926)

2001 Jaroslav Drobný, Czech-English ice hockey player and tennis player (b. 1921)

2001 Dorothy McGuire, American actress (b. 1916)

2002 George Stanley, Canadian soldier, historian, and author, designed the Flag of Canada (b. 1907)

2003 Frank O'Bannon, American publisher, lawyer, and politician, 47th Governor of Indiana (b. 1930)

2004 Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-invented the combined oral contraceptive pill (b. 1925)

2004 Charlie Brandt, American serial killer (b. 1957)

2005 Toni Fritsch, Austrian footballer (b. 1945)

2005 Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian lawyer and politician, 25th President of Colombia (b. 1916)

2006 Ann Richards, American educator and politician, 45th Governor of Texas (b. 1933)

2007 Whakahuihui Vercoe, New Zealand archbishop (b. 1928)

2009 Paul Burke (actor), American actor (b. 1926)

2011 Walter Bonatti, Italian mountaineer and journalist (b. 1930)

2012 William Duckworth (composer), American composer and author (b. 1943)

2012 Peter Lougheed, Canadian football player, lawyer, and politician, 10th Premier of Alberta (b. 1928)

2012 Edgar Metcalfe, English-Australian actor and director (b. 1933)

2012 Ranganath Misra, Indian lawyer and jurist, 21st Chief Justice of India (b. 1926)

2013 Olusegun Agagu, Nigerian politician, 15th Governor of Ondo State (b. 1948)

2013 Robert J. Behnke, American biologist and academic (b. 1929)

2013 Rick Casares, American football player (b. 1931)

2013 Luiz Gushiken, Brazilian trade union leader and politician (b. 1950)

2014 Benjamin Adekunle, Nigerian general (b. 1936)

2014 Helen Filarski, American baseball player (b. 1924)

2014 Milan Galić, Serbian footballer (b. 1938)

2014 Frank Torre, American baseball player and manager (b. 1931)

2015 Vivinho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1961)

2015 Erma Bergmann, American baseball player (b. 1924)

2015 Brian Close, English cricketer and coach (b. 1931)

2015 Moses Malone, American basketball player and sportscaster (b. 1955)

2016 Jonathan Riley-Smith, British historian (b. 1938)

2017 Pete Domenici, American politician, senator of New Mexico (b. 1932)

2019 Eddie Money, American musician (b. 1949)

2022 Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic (b. 1930)

Christian calendar of saints:

- Feast of the Cross # September 13 (Assyrian Church of the East)

- Saint Aimé

- Saint Ame

- Eulogius of Alexandria

- John Chrysostom

- Marcellinus of Carthage

- Maurilius of Angers

- Nectarius of Autun

- Venerius the Hermit

- Wulfthryth of Wilton

- September 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Day of the Programmer, during a non-leap year. (Russia)

Día de los Niños Héroes (Mexico)

Engineer's Day (Mauritius)

Roald Dahl # Death and legacy (Africa, United Kingdom, Latin America)