The NASA spacecraft MAVEN entered into orbit around Mars to study the planet's atmosphere.
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, was attacked by two suicide bombers who killed 127 people.
Dolphin, the first emulator for the GameCube that could run commercial video games, was released.
The Nordhordland Bridge, crossing Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flatøy in Vestland, and Norway's second-longest bridge, officially opened.
A tugboat towing a barge collided with a rail bridge in Mobile, Alabama, U.S., deforming the tracks and causing the derailment of a passenger train eight minutes later, which killed 47 people and injured an additional 103.
An American Vela satellite detected an unidentified flash of light near the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford, but failed due to unfamiliarity with her weapon.
François Duvalier (pictured), nicknamed Papa Doc, was elected President of Haiti as a populist before consolidating power and ruling as a dictator for the rest of his life.
Led by Gail Halvorsen, the United States Air Force began Operation "Little Vittles", delivering candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.
A joint military parade by the troops of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union took place in Brest-Litovsk to celebrate their partition of Poland.
One of Britain's worst mining accidents took place when an explosion at Gresford Colliery in Wales killed 266 men.
After nine days, the great fire of Smyrna was extinguished , having caused at least ten thousand deaths.
First World War: The German submarine U-9 sank three Royal Navy cruisers, resulting in approximately 1,450 deaths.
World War I: German naval forces bombarded Papeete in French Polynesia.
Das Rheingold, the first of four operas in Der Ring des Nibelungen by the German composer Richard Wagner (pictured), was first performed in Munich.
The office of United States Postmaster General was formally established.
Eighty Years' War: Spanish forces defeated an Anglo-Dutch army at the Battle of Zutphen.
Livonian Crusade: The Livonian Brothers of the Sword were soundly defeated by pagan Samogitian and Semigallian troops at the Battle of Saule.
Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of Sri Lanka.
At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Twenty-three people were killed in a maglev train collision in Lathen, Germany.
An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.
A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.
A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.
During a military exercise, a Turkish Air Force Northrop F-5 crashes in Babaeski as a result of pilot error, killing one crew member and also 65 soldiers on the ground.
Iraq invades Iran, sparking the nearly eight year Iran–Iraq War.
A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.
Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs.
Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.
Twenty-four people are killed when Ansett-ANA Flight 149 crashes in Winton, Queensland, Australia.
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire.
The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
The Four Level Interchange, first stack interchange in the world opened in Los Angeles.
Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.
Israeli-Palestine conflict: The All-Palestine Government is established by the Arab League.
The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.
The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.
The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1,500 sailors.
The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history (later surpassed by her great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth II on 9 September 2015).
A locomotive shunting falls into a hole in the ground, leading to the burial of the locomotive.
The first hydropower plant of Finland is commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa.
Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War.
A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln.
The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
Joseph Smith claims to have found the golden plates after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.
Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.
George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
The first attacks of the Tuscarora War begin in present-day North Carolina.
Martha Corey, Mary Eastey, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, Ann Pudeator, Wilmot Redd, Margaret Scott, and Samuel Wardwell are hanged, the last of those to be executed in the Salem witch trials.
Eighty Years' War: A Spanish force led by the Marquis del Vasto successfully fights its way past a joint English/Dutch ambush in the Battle of Zutphen.
The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War.
An Aragonese cavalry force defeats a superior Castilian cavalry force in the Battle of Araviana during the War of the Two Peters.
The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.
Coco Yoshizawa, Japanese skateboarder
Louise Christie, British rhythm gymnast
Stephen Crichton, Samoan rugby league footballer
Seungmin, South Korean singer
Kim Yo-han, South Korean singer and actor
Kim Yoo-jung, South Korean actress
Dylan Windler, American basketball player
Nayeon, South Korean singer
Carlos Correa, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
Jinyoung, South Korean singer, actor, songwriter
Haason Reddick, American football player
Alexander Wennberg, Swedish ice hockey player
Philip Hindes, English track cyclist
Kenny Bromwich, New Zealand rugby league player
Denard Robinson, American football player
Jon Bass, American actor
Kim Hyo-yeon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress
Sabine Lisicki, German tennis player
Nikita Andreyev, Russian footballer
Sana Saeed, Indian actress and model
Derick Brassard, Canadian ice hockey player
Stefan Denifl, Austrian cyclist
Tom Felton, English actor
Zdravko Kuzmanović, Serbian footballer
Teyonah Parris, American actress
Matteo Cavagna, Italian footballer
Faris Haroun, Belgian footballer
Jamie Mackie, Scottish footballer
Tatiana Maslany, Canadian actress
Ibragim Todashev, Russian-American mixed martial artist (died 2013)
Ross Jarman, English drummer and songwriter
Thiago Silva, Brazilian footballer
Kyla, British singer
Glenn Loovens, Dutch professional footballer
Petr Tatíček, Czech professional ice hockey
Tommy Thelin, Swedish footballer
Domenic Cassisi, Australian footballer
Katie Lowes, American actress
Billie Piper, English actress and singer
Maarten Stekelenburg, Dutch footballer
Ashley Eckstein, American actress
Janne Niskala, Finnish ice hockey player
Alexei Ramírez, Cuban baseball player
Subaru Shibutani, Japanese singer-songwriter
Ingrid Vetlesen, Norwegian soprano
Svenja Weidemann, German tennis player
Emilie Autumn, American singer-songwriter, violinist, and poet
Swin Cash, American basketball player and executive
Michael Graziadei, American actor
Phil Waugh, Australian rugby player
Daniella Alonso, American actress and model
Harry Kewell, Australian footballer and coach
Antti-Jussi Niemi, Finnish ice hockey player
David Berkeley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Mo Collins, American football player and coach (died 2014)
Mireille Enos, American actress
Ethan Moreau, Canadian ice hockey player and scout
Jenn Colella, American actress and singer
Kostas Kaiafas, Cypriot footballer and manager
Yoo Chae-yeong, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress (died 2014)
Stéfan Louw, South African tenor and producer
Bob Sapp, American wrestler, kickboxer, mixed martial artist, and actor
Elizabeth Bear, American author and poet
Toomas Krõm, Estonian footballer
Luther Reigns, American actor and wrestler
Gladys Berejiklian, Australian politician, 45th Premier of New South Wales
Mike Matheny, American baseball player and manager
Mystikal, American rapper and actor
Hitro Okesene, New Zealand rugby player and coach
Rupert Penry-Jones, English actor
Emmanuel Petit, French footballer
Nicole Bradtke, Australian tennis player and sportscaster
Tuomas Kantelinen, Finnish composer and conductor
Sue Perkins, English comedian, actress, and radio host
Matt Sharp, American singer-songwriter and bass player
Matt Besser, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Super Delfin, Japanese wrestler
Brian Keene, American novelist
Ian Mortimer, English historian and novelist
Rickard Rydell, Swedish race car driver
Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
Ruth Jones, Welsh actress, producer, and screenwriter
Mike Richter, American ice hockey player
Michael Shank, American racing team owner
Dan Bucatinsky, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Andrii Deshchytsia, Ukrainian politician and diplomat, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mark Guthrie, American baseball player
Robert Satcher, American physician, engineer, and astronaut
Juha Turunen, Finnish lawyer and politician
Ken Vandermark, American saxophonist and composer
Martin Crowe, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster (died 2016)
Vince Coleman, American baseball player
Liam Fox, Scottish physician and politician, Secretary of State for Defence
Bonnie Hunt, American actress, producer, and talk show host
Diane Lemieux, Canadian lawyer and politician
Catherine Oxenberg, American actress
Michael Torke, American composer
Scott Baio, American actor
Tai Babilonia, American figure skater and talk show host
Saul Perlmutter, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate
Andrea Bocelli, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
Beth Catlin, American autistic savant
Neil Cavuto, American journalist and author
Joan Jett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress
Steve Carney, English footballer (died 2013)
Nick Cave, Australian singer-songwriter, author, and actor
Mark Johnson, American ice hockey player and coach
Johnette Napolitano, American singer-songwriter and bass player
Giuseppe Saronni, Italian cyclist and manager
Debby Boone, American singer, actress, and author
Doug Wimbish, American singer-songwriter and bass player
Ibrahim Shema, Nigerian lawyer, politician
Jeffrey Leonard, American baseball player and coach
Richard Fairbrass, English singer-songwriter, musician and producer
Ségolène Royal, French politician
Bob Goodlatte, American lawyer and politician
Sukhumbhand Paribatra, Thai political scientist and politician, 15th Governor of Bangkok
Américo Rocca, Mexican wrestler
David Coverdale, English singer-songwriter
Mike Graham, American wrestler and promoter (died 2012)
Doug Somers, American wrestler (died 2017)
Harold Carmichael, American football player
James Cartwright, American general
Jim McGinty, Australian lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of Western Australia
Denis Burke, Australian soldier and politician, 6th Chief Minister of the Northern Territory
Mark Phillips, English equestrian, trainer, and journalist
Jo Beverley, English-Canadian author (died 2016)
David Drewry, English glaciologist and geophysicist
Norma McCorvey, American activist (died 2017)
Robert Morace, American author and academic
King Sunny Adé, Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Larry Dierker, American baseball player and manager
Paul Le Mat, American actor
Brian Gibson, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2004)
Toni Basil, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
Barry Cable, Australian footballer and coach
Paul Hoffert, American keyboard player, composer, and academic
Ole Anderson, American wrestler (died 2024)
Candida Lycett Green, Anglo-Irish journalist and author (died 2014)
Rubén Salazar Gómez, Colombian cardinal
David Stern, American lawyer and businessman, 4th Commissioner of the NBA (died 2020)
Jeremiah Wright, American pastor and theologian
Anna Karina, Danish-French actress, director, and screenwriter (died 2019)
Bogdan Baltazar, Romanian economist and engineer (died 2012)
Deborah Lavin, South African-English historian and academic
Gilbert E. Patterson, American bishop (died 2007)
Marlena Shaw, American jazz singer (died 2024)
Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer (died 2016)
Gene Mingo, American football player
Don Rutherford, English rugby player (died 2016)
Maurice Evans, English footballer and manager (died 2000)
Robin Gammell, Canadian actor
Jack McGregor, American captain, lawyer, and politician
Lute Olson, American basketball player and coach (died 2020)
T. Somasekaram, Sri Lankan geographer and politician, 37th Surveyor General of Sri Lanka (died 2010)
Leonardo Balada, Spanish-American composer and educator
T. Cullen Davis, American businessman
Carmelo Simeone, Italian-Argentinian footballer (died 2014)
Jesco von Puttkamer, German-American engineer (died 2012)
Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuanian politician, 2nd President of Lithuania (died 2010)
Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (died 2009)
Fay Weldon, English author and playwright (died 2023)
George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Scottish banker and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (died 2003)
Joni James, American singer (died 2022)
T. S. Sinnathuray, Judge of the High Court of Singapore (died 2016)
Serge Garant, Canadian composer and conductor (died 1986)
Carlo Ubbiali, Italian motorcycle racer (died 2020)
Eric Broadley, English engineer and businessman, founded Lola Cars (died 2017)
James Lawson, American activist, author, and academic (died 2024)
Eugene Roche, American actor (died 2004)
Johnny Valentine, American wrestler (died 2001)
Vitthalrao Gadgil, Indian politician (died 2001)
Gordon Astall, English footballer and coach (died 2020)
Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2021)
Bill Smith, American clarinet player and composer (died 2020)
Virginia Capers, American actress and singer (died 2004)
Leila Hadley, American author (died 2009)
Bernard Gauthier, French cyclist (died 2018)
Charles Keeping, English author and illustrator (died 1988)
Rosamunde Pilcher, English author (died 2019)
Charles Waterhouse, American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (died 2013)
J. William Middendorf, American soldier and politician, 14th United States Secretary of the Navy
Ray Wetzel, American trumpet player and composer (died 1951)
Dannie Abse, Welsh physician, poet, and author (died 2014)
David Sive, American environmentalist and lawyer (died 2014)
Will Elder, American illustrator (died 2008)
Eric Baker, English activist, co-founded Amnesty International (died 1976)
Anders Lassen, Danish-English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1945)
Bob Lemon, American baseball player and manager (died 2000)
William H. Riker, American political scientist and academic (died 1993)
Hans Scholl, German activist (died 1943)
Henryk Szeryng, Mexican violinist and educator (died 1988)
Grigory Frid, Russian pianist and composer (died 2012)
Lillian Chestney, American painter and illustrator (died 2000)
Herbert Mataré, German physicist and academic (died 2011)
Martha Scott, American actress (died 2003)
György Faludy, Hungarian poet and author (died 2006)
John Engstead, American photographer and journalist (died 1983)
Allan Lane, American actor (died 1973)
Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American author and illustrator (died 2002)
Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and author (died 2003)
Philip Fotheringham-Parker, English race car driver (died 1981)
Hermann Schlichting, German engineer and academic (died 1982)
Ilse Koch, German war criminal (died 1967)
Haakon Lie, Norwegian lawyer and politician (died 2009)
Eugen Sänger, Czech-Austrian engineer (died 1964)
John Houseman, Romanian-American actor and producer (died 1988)
Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (died 1932)
Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)
Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and engineer (died 1985)
William Spratling, American-Mexican silversmith and educator (died 1967)
Elsie Allen, Native American Pomo basket weaver (died 1990)
Frank O'Connor, American actor, rancher, and painter (died 1979)
Uri Zvi Greenberg, Ukrainian-Israeli poet and journalist (died 1981)
Henry Segrave, American-English race car driver (died 1930)
Paul Muni, Ukrainian-born American actor (died 1967)
Elisabeth Rethberg, German soprano (died 1976)
Billy West, American actor, director, and producer (died 1975)
Alma Thomas, American painter and educator (died 1978)
Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (died 1963)
Bhaurao Patil, Indian educator and activist (died 1959)
Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect and academic, designed the Stockholm Public Library (died 1940)
Ben Chifley, Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1951)
Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1957)
Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (died 1932)
Frank George Woollard, English engineer (died 1957)
Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (died 1946)
Christabel Pankhurst, English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (died 1958)
Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese politician and diplomat, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (died 1967)
André Tardieu, French journalist and politician, 67th Prime Minister of France (died 1945)
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Lithuanian painter and composer (died 1911)
Charlotte Cooper, English-Scottish tennis player (died 1966)
Arthur Pryor, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (died 1942)
Louise McKinney, Canadian educator and politician (died 1931)
Anastasios Charalambis, Greek lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1949)
Andrejs Pumpurs, Latvian soldier and poet (died 1902)
Alexander Potebnja, Ukrainian linguist and philosopher (died 1891)
Stephen D. Lee, American general and academic (died 1908)
Tự Đức, Vietnamese emperor (died 1883)
Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian and academic (died 1897)
Bernardino António Gomes, Portuguese physician and naturalist (died 1877)
Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (died 1867)
Theodore Hook, English composer and educator (died 1841)
Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician and philosopher (died 1822)
Elizabeth Simcoe, English-Canadian painter and author (died 1850)
Quintin Craufurd, Scottish author (died 1819)
Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist (died 1811)
Jean-Étienne Guettard, French mineralogist and botanist (died 1786)
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1773)
Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (died 1747)
Li Zicheng, Chinese emperor (died 1645)
Anne of Austria, Queen and regent of France (died 1666)
Matthäus Merian, Swiss-German engraver and cartographer (died 1650)
Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet (died 1590)
Anne of Cleves, Queen consort of England (died 1557)
Tenali Rama, poet in the court of Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagara Empire (died 1528)
Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (died 1400)
Ibn Khallikan, Iraqi scholar and judge (died 1282)
Richeza of Poland, Queen of Hungary (died 1075)
Roy Clay, American computer scientist (born 1929)
Fredric Jameson, American academic and literary critic (born 1934)
Altemio Sanchez, Puerto Rican serial killer and rapist (born 1958)
Hilary Mantel, British author (born 1952)
Pal Singh Purewal, Punjabi engineer, author, scholar, and teacher (born 1931/1932)
Neil Brannon, American politician (born 1940)
Chas Hodges, English musician and singer (born 1943)
Edna Molewa, South African politician (born 1957)
Mike Labinjo, Canadian football player (born 1980)
Yogi Berra, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1925)
Fernando Cabrita, Portuguese footballer and manager (born 1923)
Sahana Pradhan, Nepalese politician, Nepalese Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1927)
Erik van der Wurff, Dutch pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1945)
Hans E. Wallman, Swedish director, producer, and composer (born 1936)
Gary Brandner, American author and screenwriter (born 1930)
Jane Connell, American actress and singer (born 1925)
David H. Hubel, Canadian-American neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)
Álvaro Mutis, Colombian-Mexican author and poet (born 1923)
Hans Erich Slany, German industrial designer, founded TEAMS Design (born 1926)
Luciano Vincenzoni, Italian screenwriter (born 1926)
Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan theorist and academic (born 1919)
Irving Adler, American mathematician, author, and academic (born 1913)
Juan H. Cintrón García, Puerto Rican businessman and politician, 126th Mayor of Ponce (born 1919)
Grigory Frid, Russian pianist and composer (born 1915)
Jan Hendrik van den Berg, Dutch psychiatrist and academic (born 1914)
Knut Steen, Norwegian sculptor (born 1924)
Jackie Burroughs, British-born Canadian actress (born 1939)
Eddie Fisher, American singer (born 1928)
Vyacheslav Tsaryov, Russian footballer (born 1971)
Edward Delaney, Irish sculptor (born 1930)
Thomas Dörflein, German zookeeper (born 1963)
Petrus Schaesberg, German painter, historian, and educator (born 1967)
ʻAlí-Muhammad Varqá, last Hand of the Cause of God in the Baháʼí Faith (born 1911)
Marcel Marceau, French mime and actor (born 1923)
Edward Albert, American actor (born 1951)
Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player and educator (born 1950)
Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (born 1927)
Ray Traylor Jr., American professional wrestler better-known as the Big Boss Man (born 1963)
Gordon Jump, American actor (born 1932)
Hugo Young, English journalist and author (born 1938)
Jan de Hartog, Dutch-American author and playwright (born 1914)
Isaac Stern, Polish-Ukrainian violinist and conductor (born 1920)
Saburō Sakai, Japanese lieutenant and pilot (born 1916)
George C. Scott, American actor, director, and producer (born 1927)
Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Latvian-Canadian ballerina, choreographer, and director (born 1924)
Dorothy Lamour, American actress and singer (born 1914)
Leonard Feather, English-American pianist, composer, producer, and journalist (born 1914)
Maurice Abravanel, Greek-American pianist and conductor (born 1903)
Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (born 1948)
Ambrose Folorunsho Alli, Nigerian academic and politician (born 1929)
Irving Berlin, Russian-born American composer and songwriter (born 1888)
Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani psychoanalyst, scholar, and poet (born 1914)
Hákun Djurhuus, Faroese educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (born 1908)
Dan Rowan, American actor, comedian, and producer (born 1922)
Harry Warren, American composer and songwriter (born 1893)
Abul A'la Maududi, Pakistani theologian, Islamic scholar and jurist (born 1903)
Paul van Zeeland, Belgian lawyer, economist, and politician, 38th Prime Minister of Belgium (born 1893)
Adolfo López Mateos, Mexican politician, 48th President of Mexico (born 1909)
Marion Davies, American actress and comedian (born 1897)
Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral (born 1885)
Frederick Soddy, English chemist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st President of Finland (born 1865)
Elliott Lewis, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Tasmania (born 1858)
Cecil Chubb, English barrister and one time owner of Stonehenge (born 1876)
Sime Silverman, American journalist and newspaper publisher (born 1873)
Alajos Gáspár, Hungarian-Slovene author and poet (born 1848)
John Henry Knight, English engineer (born 1847)
Alain-Fournier, French soldier and author (born 1886)
Solomon L. Spink, American lawyer and politician (born 1831)
Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss lawyer and politician (born 1801)
Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer and linguist (born 1801)
Frederick Townsend Ward, American sailor and mercenary (born 1831)
William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed Hammersmith Bridge (born 1783)
Shaka Zulu, Zulu chieftain and monarch of the Zulu Kingdom (born 1787)
John Bartram, American botanist and explorer (born 1699)
Nathan Hale, American soldier (born 1755)
Pope Clement XIV (born 1705)
Abu l-Hasan Ali I, ruler of Tunisia (born 1688)
William Bartram, English-born politician and settler (born 1674)
Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and physicist (born 1622)
Martha Corey, American woman accused of witchcraft (born 1620)
John Biddle, English minister and theologian (born 1615)
Alessandro Allori, Italian painter and educator (born 1535)
Gabriel Spenser, English actor (born c. 1578)
Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex (born 1541)
Johannes Agricola, German theologian and academic (born 1494)
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (born 1510)
Guru Nanak, Sikh religious leader, founded Sikhism (born 1469)
Louise of Savoy, French regent (born 1476)
Selim I, Ottoman sultan (born 1465)
Philibert I, Duke of Savoy (born 1465)
Peter II, Duke of Brittany (born 1418)
John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (born 1370)
Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician, Earl Marshal of The United Kingdom (born 1366)
Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician, Lord High Steward (born 1281)
Dōgen, Japanese monk and philosopher (born 1200)
Uchtred, Lord of Galloway (born c. 1120)
Otto of Freising, German bishop and chronicler (born c. 1114)
Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian, poet, and politician (born 1007)
Wichmann II, Frankish nobleman
Zhao Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (born 867)
Pope Felix IV
He Jin, Chinese general and regent (born 135)
American Business Women's Day (United States)
Baltic Unity Day (Lithuania, Latvia)
Christian feast days: Candidus
Christian feast days: Digna and Emerita
Christian feast days: Emmeram of Regensburg
Christian feast days: Felix and Constantia
Christian feast days: Ignatius of Santhià (Lorenzo Maurizio Belvisotti)
Christian feast days: Laud of Coutances
Christian feast days: Maurice (Western Christianity)
Christian feast days: Paul Chong Hasang (one of The Korean Martyrs)
Christian feast days: Phocas (the Gardener, or of Sinope)
Christian feast days: Phocas, Bishop of Sinope
Christian feast days: Sadalberga
Christian feast days: Saintin (Sanctinus) de Meaux
Christian feast days: Septimius of Iesi (this date since 1623)
Christian feast days: Theban Legion
Christian feast days: Thomas of Villanova
Christian feast days: Philander Chase (Episcopal Church)
Christian feast days: September 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Earliest date for the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere: Autumnal Equinox Day (Japan)
Earliest date for the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere: Mabon in the Northern Hemisphere, Ostara in the Southern Hemisphere. (Neopagan Wheel of the Year)
Earliest date for the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere: The first day of Miķeļi (Latvia)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire in 1908.
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Mali from France in 1960.
Resistance Fighting Day (Estonia)