On this day: September 18th
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AD 96 Emperor Domitian is assassinated as a result of a plot by his wife Domitia and two Praetorian prefects. Nerva is then proclaimed as his successor.
324 Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
1048 Battle of Kapetron between a combined Byzantine-Georgian army and a Seljuq Empire army.
1066 Norwegian king Harald Hardrada lands with Tostig Godwinson at the mouth of the Humber River and begins his invasion of England.
1180 Philip Augustus becomes king of France at the age of fifteen.
1454 Thirteen Years' War (1454–66): In the Battle of Chojnice (1454), the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic Order.
1544 The expedition of Juan Bautista Pastene makes landfall in San Pedro Bay (Chile), Zona Sur, claiming the territory for Spain.
1618 The twelfth baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar begins.
1714 George I of Great Britain arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on August 1.
1739 The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, whereby Austria cedes lands south of the Sava and Danube rivers to the Ottoman Empire.
1759 French and Indian War: The Articles of Capitulation of Quebec are signed.
1793 The first cornerstone of the United States Capitol is laid by George Washington.
1809 The Royal Opera House in London opens.
1810 Government Junta of Chile (1810) in Chile. Though supposed to rule only during the Peninsular War in Spain, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.
1812 Fire of Moscow (1812) dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
1837 Tiffany & Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
1838 The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
1850 The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
1851 First publication of ''The New-York Daily Times'', which later becomes ''The New York Times''.
1860 Second Opium War: Battle of Zhangjiawan: Now heading towards Beijing after having recently occupied Tianjin, the allied United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland-Second French Empire force engages and defeats a larger Qing dynasty army at Battle of Zhangjiawan.
1862 The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a Thanksgiving Day.
1863 American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga begins between Confederate and Union forces. It involves the second highest amount of casualties for any American Civil War battle apart from Battle of Gettysburg.
1864 American Civil War: John Bell Hood begins the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to draw William Tecumseh Sherman back out of Georgia (U.S. state).
1870 Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn.
1872 King Oscar II of Sweden accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway.
1873 The bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, contributing to the Panic of 1873.
1879 The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
1882 The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
1895 The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
1898 The Fashoda Incident triggers the last war scare between Britain and France.
1906 The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
1914 The Government of Ireland Act 1914 becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
1919 Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
1922 The Kingdom of Hungary (1920–46) is admitted to the League of Nations.
1927 The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
1928 Juan de la Cierva makes the first Autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
1931 Imperial Japan instigates the Mukden Incident as a pretext to Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
1934 The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations.
1939 World War II: The Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
1939 World War II: The radio show ''Germany Calling'' begins transmitting Nazi propaganda.
1943 World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of History of the Jews in Denmark # The Nazi era.
1944 World War II: The British submarine torpedoes ''Jun'yō Maru'', killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.
1944 World War II: Operation Market Garden results in the liberation of Eindhoven.
1944 World War II: The Battle of Arracourt begins.
1945 General Douglas MacArthur moves his general headquarters from Manila to Tokyo.
1947 The National Security Act of 1947 reorganizes the United States government's military and intelligence services.
1948 Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Hyderabad.
1948 Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term.
1954 Finnish president J. K. Paasikivi becomes the first Western head of state to be awarded the highest honor of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin.
1960 Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
1961 U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an 1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1962 Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
1962 Aeroflot Flight 213 (1962) crashes into a mountain near Chersky Airport, killing 32 people.
1964 The Wedding of Constantine II and Princess Anne-Marie takes place in Athens.
1973 The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
1974 Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
1977 Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
1980 Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to the Salyut 6 space station.
1981 The ''Assemblée Nationale'' votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
1982 The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon comes to an end.
1984 Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
1988 The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end.
1988 General Henri Namphy, president of Haiti, is ousted from power in a September 1988 Haitian coup d'état led by General Prosper Avril.
1990 Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
1992 An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers in Yellowknife, Canada.
1997 United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.
1997 The Ottawa Treaty is adopted.
2001 First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2007 Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
2011 The 2011 Sikkim earthquake is felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.
2012 Greater Manchester Police officers PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone Murders of Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone in Greater Manchester, England.
2014 Scotland 2014 Scottish independence referendum independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%.
2015 Two security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 militants are killed during a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan 2015 Camp Badaber attack on a Pakistan Air Force base on the outskirts of Peshawar.
2016 The 2016 Uri attack in Jammu and Kashmir (state) by terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed results in the deaths of nineteen Indian Army soldiers and all four attackers.
2021 A ferry capsizes in Guizhou province, China due to bad weather, leaving ten people dead and five missing.
AD 53 Trajan, Roman emperor (d. 117)
524 Kan B'alam I, ruler of Palenque (d. 583)
1091 Andronikos Komnenos (son of Alexios I), Byzantine prince and general (d. 1130/31)
1344 Marie of France, Duchess of Bar (d. 1404)
1434 Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1467)
1501 Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford (d. 1563)
1554 Haydar Mirza Safavi, Safavid prince (d. 1576)
1587 Francesca Caccini, Italian singer-songwriter and lute player (d. 1640)
1606 Zhang Xianzhong, Chinese rebel leader (d. 1647)
1643 Gilbert Burnet, Scottish bishop, historian, and theologian (d. 1715)
1676 Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1733)
1684 Johann Gottfried Walther, German organist and composer (d. 1748)
1709 Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer and poet (d. 1784)
1711 Ignaz Holzbauer, Austrian composer and educator (d. 1783)
1733 George Read (U.S. statesman), American lawyer and politician, 3rd List of Governors of Delaware (d. 1798)
1750 Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, Spanish poet and playwright (d. 1791)
1752 Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1833)
1765 Pope Gregory XVI (d. 1846)
1779 Joseph Story, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (d. 1845)
1786 Christian VIII of Denmark (d. 1848)
1786 Justinus Kerner, German poet and author (d. 1862)
1812 Herschel Vespasian Johnson, American lawyer and politician, 41st Governor of Georgia (d. 1880)
1819 Léon Foucault, French physicist and academic (d. 1868)
1837 Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, Portuguese archbishop (d. 1880)
1838 Anton Mauve, Dutch painter and educator (d. 1888)
1844 Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, American artist (d. 1934)
1846 Richard With, Norwegian captain, businessman, and politician, founded Vesteraalens Dampskibsselskab (d. 1930)
1848 Francis Grierson, English-American pianist and composer (d. 1927)
1857 John Hessin Clarke, American lawyer and judge (d. 1945)
1858 Kate Booth, English Salvation Army officer (d. 1955)
1859 John L. Bates, American lawyer and politician, 41st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946)
1859 Lincoln Loy McCandless, American businessman and politician (d. 1940)
1860 Alberto Franchetti, Italian-American composer and educator (d. 1942)
1870 Clark Wissler, American anthropologist, author, and educator (d. 1947)
1872 Carl Friedberg, German-Italian pianist and educator (d. 1955)
1872 Adolf Schmal, Austrian fencer and cyclist (d. 1919)
1875 Tomás Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (d. 1945)
1876 James Scullin, Australian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1953)
1878 James O. Richardson, American admiral (d. 1974)
1883 Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, English composer, painter, and author (d. 1950)
1885 Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Azerbaijani composer, conductor, and playwright (d. 1948)
1886 Powel Crosley Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1961)
1888 Grey Owl, English-Canadian environmentalist and author (d. 1938)
1888 Toni Wolff, Swiss psychologist and author (d. 1953)
1889 Doris Blackburn, Australian activist and politician (d. 1970)
1889 Leslie Morshead, Australian general, businessman, and educator (d. 1959)
1891 Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Spanish author (d. 1984)
1893 Arthur Benjamin, Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1960)
1893 William March, American soldier and author (d. 1954)
1894 Fay Compton, English actress (d. 1978)
1895 Jean Batmale, French footballer and manager (d. 1973)
1895 John Diefenbaker, Canadian lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1979)
1895 Walter Koch (astrologer), German astrologer and author (d. 1970)
1895 Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2009)
1897 Pablo Sorozábal, Spanish composer and conductor (d. 1988)
1900 Willis Laurence James, American violinist and educator (d. 1966)
1900 Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Mauritian philanthropist and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius (d. 1985)
1901 Harold Clurman, American director and producer (d. 1980)
1904 Bun Cook, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1988)
1904 Jose de Rivera, American soldier and sculptor (d. 1985)
1904 David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Education (d. 1999)
1905 Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, American actor (d. 1977)
1905 Agnes de Mille, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1993)
1905 Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress (d. 1990)
1906 Kaka Hathrasi, Indian poet and author (d. 1995)
1906 Maurice Maillot, French actor (d. 1968)
1906 Julio Rosales, Filipino cardinal (d. 1983)
1907 Leon Askin, Austrian actor (d. 2005)
1907 Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1991)
1908 Victor Ambartsumian, Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (d. 1996)
1910 Josef Tal, Israeli pianist and composer (d. 2008)
1911 Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
1912 María de la Cruz, Chilean journalist and activist (d. 1995)
1914 Jack Cardiff, English director, cinematographer, and photographer (d. 2009)
1916 Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor (d. 1994)
1916 John Jacob Rhodes, American lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
1917 June Foray, American actress and voice artist (d. 2017)
1917 Phil Taylor (footballer, born 1917), English footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1917 Francis Parker Yockey, American lawyer and philosopher (d. 1960)
1918 Johnny Mantz, American race car driver (d. 1972)
1918 Henry Wittenberg, American wrestler (d. 2010)
1919 Tommy Hunter (fiddler), American fiddler (d. 1993)
1920 Jack Warden, American actor (d. 2006)
1922 Hank Bagby, American saxophonist (d. 1993)
1922 Grayson Hall, American actress (d. 1985)
1922 Ray Steadman-Allen, English composer (d. 2014)
1923 Queen Anne of Romania (d. 2016)
1923 Al Quie, American politician, 35th Governor of Minnesota (d. 2023)
1923 Peter Smithson, English architect, co-designed Robin Hood Gardens (d. 2003)
1923 Bertha Wilson, Scottish-Canadian lawyer and jurist, 60th List of Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada (d. 2007)
1924 J. D. Tippit, American police officer (d. 1963)
1924 Eloísa Mafalda, Brazilian actress (d. 2018)
1925 Harvey Haddix, American baseball player and coach (d. 1994)
1925 Dorothy Wedderburn, English economist and academic (d. 2012)
1926 Bud Greenspan, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1926 Joe Kubert, American author and illustrator, founded The Kubert School (d. 2012)
1927 Phyllis Kirk, American actress (d. 2006)
1927 Muriel Turner, Baroness Turner of Camden, English politician (d. 2018)
1929 Teddi King, American singer (d. 1977)
1929 Nancy Littlefield, American director and producer (d. 2007)
1930 John Tolos, Greek-Canadian wrestler (d. 2009)
1931 Julio Grondona, Argentinian businessman (d. 2014)
1932 Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Russian physicist and astronaut (d. 2002)
1933 Bob Bennett (politician), American soldier and politician (d. 2016)
1933 Robert Blake (actor), American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2023)
1933 Scotty Bowman, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1933 Mark di Suvero, Italian-American sculptor
1933 Leonid Kharitonov (singer), Russian actor and singer (d. 2017)
1933 Christopher Ricks, English scholar and critic
1933 Charles Roach, Trinidadian-Canadian lawyer and activist (d. 2012)
1933 Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2021)
1933 Fred Willard, American actor and comedian (d. 2020)
1935 Peter Clarke (cartoonist), English cartoonist (d. 2012)
1935 John Spencer (snooker player), English snooker player and sportscaster (d. 2006)
1936 Big Tom, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2018)
1937 Ralph Backstrom, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2021)
1937 Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, South African politician (d. 2009)
1938 Billy Robinson, English-American wrestler and trainer (d. 2014)
1939 Gerry Harvey, Australian businessman, co-founded Harvey Norman
1939 Jorge Sampaio, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 18th President of Portugal (d. 2021)
1939 Jan Camiel Willems, Belgian mathematician and theorist (d. 2013)
1940 Frankie Avalon, American singer and actor
1942 Şenes Erzik, Turkish businessman
1944 Michael Franks (musician), American singer-songwriter
1944 Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
1944 Charles L. Veach, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1995)
1945 P. F. Sloan, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2015)
1945 John McAfee, British-American computer programmer and businessman, founded McAfee (d. 2021)
1946 Benjamín Brea, Spanish-Venezuelan saxophonist, clarinet player, and conductor (d. 2014)
1946 Nicholas Clay, English actor (d. 2000)
1946 Kelvin Coe, Australian ballet dancer (d. 1992)
1946 Meredith Oakes, Australian-English playwright, translator, and educator
1946 Gailard Sartain, American actor
1947 Russ Abbot, English comedian, actor, and singer
1947 Drew Gilpin Faust, American historian and academic
1947 Giancarlo Minardi, Italian businessman, founded the Minardi
1948 Lynn Abbey, American computer programmer and author
1949 Beth Grant, American actress
1949 Kerry Livgren, American guitarist and songwriter
1949 Jim McCrery, American lawyer and politician
1949 Mo Mowlam, English academic and politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office (d. 2005)
1949 Peter Shilton, English footballer and manager
1950 Siobhan Davies, English dancer and choreographer
1950 Vishnuvardhan (actor), Indian actor (d. 2009)
1950 Chris Heister, Swedish politician, Governor of Stockholm County
1950 Darryl Sittler, Canadian ice hockey player
1950 Anna Deavere Smith, American actress and playwright
1951 Ben Carson, American neurosurgeon, author, and politician
1951 Dee Dee Ramone, American singer-songwriter and bass player (d. 2002)
1951 Tony Scott (baseball), American baseball player and coach
1951 Darryl Stingley, American football player and scout (d. 2007)
1951 Marc Surer, Swiss racing driver and sportscaster
1952 Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos, Greek politician
1952 Rick Pitino, American basketball player and coach
1953 Carl Jackson, American singer-songwriter and producer
1953 John McGlinn, American conductor and historian (d. 2009)
1954 Murtaza Bhutto, Pakistani politician (d. 1996)
1954 Takao Doi, Japanese engineer and astronaut
1954 Dennis Johnson, American basketball player and coach (d. 2007)
1954 Steven Pinker, Canadian-American psychologist, linguist, and author
1954 Tommy Tuberville, American football player and coach
1955 Paul Butler (bishop), English bishop
1955 Keith Morris, American singer-songwriter
1956 Chris Hedges, American journalist and author
1956 Peter Šťastný, Slovak ice hockey player and politician
1956 Anant Gadgil, Indian politician
1958 John Aldridge, English-Irish footballer and manager
1958 Jeff Bostic, American football player and commentator
1958 Winston Davis, Vincentian cricketer
1958 Malcolm Press, English ecologist and academic
1958 Derek Pringle, Kenyan-English cricketer and journalist
1959 Ian Arkwright, English footballer
1959 Mark Romanek, American director and screenwriter
1959 Ryne Sandberg, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1960 Stephen Flaherty, American composer
1960 Carolyn Harris (politician), British politician
1960 Ian Lucas, English lawyer and politician
1960 Blue Panther, Mexican wrestler
1961 James Gandolfini, American actor and producer (d. 2013)
1961 Konstantin Kakanias, Greek-American painter and illustrator
1961 Mark Olson (musician), American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1962 Joanne Catherall, English singer
1962 John Fashanu, English footballer and manager
1962 John Mann (musician), Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 2019)
1962 Aden Ridgeway, Australian public servant and politician
1962 Boris Said, American race car driver
1963 Jim Pocklington, English racing driver
1963 John Powell (composer), English-Canadian composer and conductor
1963 Dan Povenmire, American animator
1964 Jens Henschel, German footballer
1964 Marco Masini, Italian singer-songwriter
1964 Holly Robinson Peete, American actress and singer
1964 Steffen Peters, German-American equestrian
1966 Tom Chorske, American ice hockey player and sportscaster
1967 Tara Fitzgerald, English actress
1968 Toni Kukoč, Croatian basketball player
1968 Upendra Rao, Indian actor, director, and politician
1969 Brad Beven, Australian triathlete
1969 Cappadonna, American rapper
1970 Mike Compton (American football), American football player and coach
1970 Dan Eldon, English photographer and journalist (d. 1993)
1970 Darren Gough, English cricketer
1970 Aisha Tyler, American actress, television host, and author
1971 Lance Armstrong, American cyclist
1971 Anna Netrebko, Russian-Austrian soprano and actress
1971 Jada Pinkett Smith, American actress
1972 Brigitte Becue, Belgian swimmer
1972 Adam Cohen (musician), Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1972 David Jefferies, English motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
1972 Iain Stewart (politician), Scottish accountant and politician
1973 Paul Brousseau, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 Mário Jardel, Brazilian footballer
1973 Aitor Karanka, Spanish footballer and manager
1973 James Marsden, American actor
1973 Louise Sauvage, Australian wheelchair racer
1973 Mark Shuttleworth, South African-English businessman
1974 Sol Campbell, English footballer and politician
1974 Damon Jones (American football), American football player and coach
1974 Ticha Penicheiro, Portuguese-American basketball player and agent
1974 Emily Rutherfurd, American actress
1974 Travis Schuldt, American actor
1974 Xzibit, American rapper, actor, and television host
1975 Kanstantsin Lukashyk, Belarusian target shooter
1975 Jason Sudeikis, American actor and comedian
1975 Guillermo Vargas, Costa Rican photographer and painter
1976 Sophina Brown, American actress
1976 Gabriel Gervais, Canadian soccer player
1976 Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer), Brazilian footballer
1977 Barrett Foa, American actor, singer, and dancer
1977 Kieran West, English rower
1978 Billy Eichner, American actor and comedian
1978 Iain Lees-Galloway, New Zealand politician
1978 Augustine Simo, Cameroonian footballer
1979 Daniel Aranzubia, Spanish footballer
1979 Robert Lynn Pruett, American criminal (d. 2017)
1980 Mickey Higham, English rugby league player
1980 Avi Strool, Israeli footballer
1980 Petri Virtanen, Finnish basketball player
1981 Lasse Kukkonen, Finnish ice hockey player
1981 Jennifer Tisdale, American actress and singer
1981 Kristaps Valters, Latvian basketball player
1981 Han Ye-seul, South Korean actress
1982 Peter Budaj, Slovak ice hockey player
1982 Alessandro Cibocchi, Italian footballer
1982 Arvydas Eitutavičius, Lithuanian basketball player
1982 Leono, Mexican wrestler
1982 Alfredo Talavera, Mexican footballer
1984 Anthony Gonzalez (politician), American football player and politician
1984 Travis Outlaw, American basketball player
1984 Dizzee Rascal, British hip hop musician
1985 Mirza Teletović, Bosnian basketball player
1987 Seiko Oomori, Japanese singer-songwriter
1989 Serge Ibaka, Congolese-Spanish basketball player
1990 Lewis Holtby, German footballer
1993 Patrick Schwarzenegger, American-Austrian actor and model
1998 Christian Pulisic, American soccer player
1998 Conor Timmins, Canadian ice hockey player
2003 Aidan Gallagher, American actor and musician
2008 Jackson Robert Scott, American actor
AD 96 Domitian, Roman emperor (b. AD 51)
AD 411 Constantine III (Western Roman Emperor), Roman usurper
869 Wenilo (archbishop of Rouen), Frankish archbishop
887 Pietro I Candiano, doge of Venice (b. 842)
893 Zhang Xiong, Chinese warlord
958 Liu Sheng (Southern Han), Chinese emperor (b. 920)
1137 Eric II of Denmark, king of Denmark
1180 Louis VII of France, king of France (b. 1120)
1261 Konrad von Hochstaden, archbishop of Cologne
1302 Eudokia Palaiologina, empress of Trebizond (b. c. 1265)
1345 Andrew, Duke of Calabria (b. 1327)
1361 Louis V, Duke of Bavaria, duke of Bavaria (b. 1315)
1385 Balša II, ruler of Zeta
1443 Lewis of Luxembourg, archbishop of Rouen
1598 Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese daimyō (b. 1536)
1630 Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal (b. 1552)
1675 Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1604)
1721 Matthew Prior, English poet, politician, and diplomat, List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to France (b. 1664)
1722 André Dacier, French scholar and academic (b. 1651)
1783 Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (b. 1707)
1783 Benjamin Kennicott, English theologian and scholar (b. 1718)
1792 August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German bishop and theologian (b. 1704)
1812 Safranbolulu Izzet Mehmet Pasha, Ottoman politician, 186th List of Ottoman Grand Viziers (b. 1743)
1830 William Hazlitt, English philosopher, painter, and critic (b. 1778)
1857 Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer and conductor (b. 1785)
1860 Joseph Locke, English engineer and politician (b. 1805)
1862 Joseph K. Mansfield, American general (b. 1803)
1872 Charles XV of Sweden (b. 1826)
1890 Dion Boucicault, Irish-American actor and playwright (b. 1820)
1896 Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist and academic (b. 1819)
1905 George MacDonald, Scottish minister, author, and poet (b. 1824)
1909 Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian archaeologist and historian (b. 1850)
1911 Pyotr Stolypin, Russian lawyer and politician, 3rd List of heads of government of Russia (b. 1862)
1915 Susan La Flesche Picotte, doctor, teacher, and social reformer, first Native Americans in the United States to earn a medical degree
1924 F. H. Bradley, English philosopher and author (b. 1846)
1939 Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish author, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)
1941 Fred Karno, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1866)
1944 Robert G. Cole, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1915)
1945 Volin, Russian anarchist intellectual (b. 1882)
1949 Frank Morgan, American actor (b. 1890)
1951 Gelett Burgess, American author and poet (b. 1866)
1952 Frances Alda, New Zealand-Australian soprano and actress (b. 1879)
1953 Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (b. 1927)
1956 Adélard Godbout, Canadian agronomist and politician, 15th List of Quebec premiers (b. 1892)
1958 Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian painter and illustrator (b. 1873)
1959 Benjamin Péret, French poet and journalist (b. 1899)
1961 Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish economist and diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1962 Therese Neumann, German mystic (b. 1898)
1964 Seán O'Casey, Irish dramatist and memoirist (b. 1880)
1967 John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1897)
1968 Franchot Tone, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1905)
1970 Jimi Hendrix, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1942)
1974 Amanat Ali Khan, Pakistani classical singer (b. 1922)
1975 Fairfield Porter, American painter and critic (b. 1907)
1977 Paul Bernays, English-Swiss mathematician and philosopher (b. 1888)
1980 Katherine Anne Porter, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist (b. 1890)
1987 Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (b. 1894)
1988 Alan Watt (diplomat), Australian public servant and diplomat, List of Australian Ambassadors to Japan (b. 1901)
1992 Mohammad Hidayatullah, Indian lawyer, judge, and politician, 6th Vice President of India (b. 1905)
1997 Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (b. 1920)
1998 Charlie Foxx, American singer and guitarist (Inez and Charlie Foxx) (b. 1939)
2001 Ernie Coombs, American-Canadian television host (b. 1927)
2002 Bob Hayes, American sprinter and football player (b. 1942)
2002 Mauro Ramos, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1930)
2002 Margita Stefanović, Serbian keyboard player (b. 1959)
2003 Emil Fackenheim, German rabbi and philosopher (b. 1916)
2003 Bob Mitchell (British politician), English educator and politician (b. 1927)
2004 Norman Cantor, Canadian-American historian and educator (b. 1929)
2004 Russ Meyer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2005 Michael Park (co-driver), English racing driver (b. 1966)
2005 Clint C. Wilson, Sr., American cartoonist (b. 1914)
2006 Edward J. King, American football player, lawyer, and politician, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1925)
2007 Pepsi Tate, Welsh bass player and producer (b. 1965)
2008 Leo de Berardinis, Italian actor and director (b. 1940)
2008 Mauricio Kagel, Argentinian-German composer and educator (b. 1931)
2008 Ron Lancaster, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1938)
2011 Suicide of Jamey Rodemeyer, American teenage activist (b. 1997)
2012 Santiago Carrillo, Spanish theorist and politician (b. 1915)
2012 Haim Hefer, Polish-Israeli songwriter and poet (b. 1925)
2012 Jack Kralick, American baseball player (b. 1935)
2012 Steve Sabol, American director and producer, co-founded NFL Films (b. 1942)
2013 Veliyam Bharghavan, Indian politician (b. 1928)
2013 Lindsay Cooper, English composer, bassoon and oboe player (b. 1951)
2013 Arthur Lamothe, French-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2013 Ken Norton, American boxer (b. 1943)
2013 Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-German author and critic (b. 1920)
2013 Richard C. Sarafian, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2014 Milan Marcetta, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1936)
2014 Earl Ross, Canadian racing driver (b. 1941)
2014 Hirofumi Uzawa, Japanese economist and academic (b. 1928)
2014 Kenny Wheeler, Canadian-English trumpet player and composer (b. 1930)
2015 Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean footballer and manager (b. 1955)
2015 James R. Houck, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1940)
2015 Mario Benjamín Menéndez, Argentinian general and politician (b. 1930)
2017 Afzal Ahsan Randhawa, Pakistani writer, poet, translator and playwright (b. 1937)
2020 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, United States Supreme Court justice (b. 1933)
2021 Jolidee Matongo, South African politician, 97th Mayor of Johannesburg (b. 1975)
2021 Chris Anker Sørensen, Danish road bicycle racer (b. 1984)
2023 Brereton C. Jones, American politician, 58th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1939)
Christian feast day:
- Constantius (Theban Legion)
- Edward Bouverie Pusey (Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church))
- Eustorgius I
- Joseph of Cupertino
- John Macias
- Methodius of Olympus
- Richardis
- September 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
National Music Day in Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan)
Ryukyuan languages # Status (Okinawa Prefecture, Japan)
Fiestas Patrias (Chile) or ''Dieciocho'' (Chile)
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Navy Day (Croatia)
World Water Monitoring Day