September 12

For the Turkish film, see September 12 (film).

September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 110 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 490 BC – Battle of Marathon: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies, defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece.
• 372 – Sixteen Kingdoms: Jin Xiaowudi, age 10, succeeds his father Jin Jianwendi as Emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
• 1213 – Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.
• 1229 – The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island.
• 1309 – The First Siege of Gibraltar takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada resulting in a Castilian victory.
• 1609 – Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
• 1683 – Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna – several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
• 1814 – Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
• 1846 – Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.
• 1847 – Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
• 1848 – Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
• 1857 – The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the San Francisco Gold Rush.
• 1874 – The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.
• 1885 – Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional football.
• 1890 – Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
• 1897 – Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi.
• 1906 – The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
• 1910 – Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter)
• 1919 – Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers Party.
• 1930 – In cricket Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians.
• 1933 – Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
• 1938 – Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• 1940 – Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
• 1940 – An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200.
• 1942 – World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.
• 1942 – World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field on Guadalcanal are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army forces.
• 1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
• 1944 – World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.
• 1948 – Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah's death.
• 1952 – Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
• 1953 – U.S. Representative John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
• 1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.
• 1959 – Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
• 1959 – The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
• 1961 – The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
• 1964 – Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
• 1966 – Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions)
• 1970 – Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
• 1974 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.
• 1974 – Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
• 1977 – South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody.
• 1979 – Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.
• 1980 – Military coup in Turkey.
• 1983 – A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
• 1983 – The USSR vetoes a UN Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet shooting down of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1.
• 1984 – Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 246, previously set by Herb Score in 1954. Gooden's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.
• 1988 – Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
• 1990 – The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German re-unification.
• 1992 – NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
• 1992 – Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well.
• 1994 – Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.
• 1999 – Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor.
• 2001 – Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
• 2003 – The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
• 2003 – In Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
• 2005 – Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
• 2007 – Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder.
• 2008 – The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
• 2011 – The 9/11 Memorial Museum opens to the public.

Births

• 1492 – Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (d. 1519)
• 1494 – Francis I of France (d. 1547)
• 1605 – William Dugdale, English antiquarian (d. 1686)
• 1688 – Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1731)
• 1690 – Peter Dens, Flemish theologian (d. 1775)
• 1725 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792)
• 1736 – Hsinbyushin, Burmese king (d. 1776)
• 1740 – Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (d. 1817)
• 1768 – Benjamin Carr, American composer, singer, teacher, and publisher (d. 1831)
• 1797 – Samuel Joseph May, American activist (d. 1871)
• 1812 – Edward Shepherd Creasy, English historian (d. 1878)
• 1812 – Richard March Hoe, American inventor and industrialist, invented the Rotary printing press (d. 1886)
• 1818 – Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor, invented the Gatling gun (d. 1903)
• 1818 – Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1882)
• 1830 – William Sprague, American politician, 27th Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1915)
• 1837 – Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (d. 1892)
• 1852 – H. H. Asquith, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1928)
• 1855 – Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of Quebec (d. 1920)
• 1856 – Johann Heinrich Beck, American composer and conductor (d. 1924)
• 1857 – Manuel Espinosa Batista, Colombian politician (d. 1919)
• 1862 – Carl Eytel, German-American painter (d. 1925)
• 1866 – Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, English politician, 13th Governor General of Canada (d. 1941)
• 1875 – Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (d. 1926)
• 1880 – H. L. Mencken, American journalist and author (d. 1956)
• 1885 – Heinrich Hoffmann, German photographer (d. 1957)
• 1888 – Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer (d. 1972)
• 1889 – Ugo Pasquale Mifsud, 3rd Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1942)
• 1891 – Pedro Albizu Campos, Puerto Rican independence leader (d. 1965)
• 1891 – Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher (d. 1968)
• 1892 – Alfred A. Knopf, Sr., American publisher, founded Alfred A. Knopf Inc. (d. 1984)
• 1894 – Billy Gilbert, American actor and comedian (d. 1971)
• 1895 – Freymóður Jóhannsson, Icelandic painter and composer (d. 1973)
• 1897 – Grietje Jansen-Anker, Dutch super-centenarian (d. 2009)
• 1897 – Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956)
• 1898 – Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (d. 1963)
• 1898 – Alma Moodie, Australian violinist (d. 1943)
• 1898 – Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter and writer (d. 1969)
• 1901 – Ben Blue, Canadian actor and comedian (d. 1975)
• 1901 – Shmuel Horowitz, Russian-Israeli agronomist (d. 1999)
• 1902 – Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian politician, 21st President of Brazil (d. 1976)
• 1904 – István Horthy, Hungarian admiral (d. 1942)
• 1904 – Lou Moore, American race car driver (d. 1956)
• 1905 – Linda Agostini, Australian murder victim (d. 1934)
• 1907 – Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (d. 1963)
• 1909 – Donald MacDonald, Canadian politician (d. 1986)
• 1913 – Jesse Owens, American sprinter (d. 1980)
• 1913 – Eiji Toyoda, Japanese businessman
• 1914 – Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (d. 1988)
• 1914 – Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d. 1999)
• 1915 – Billy Daniels, American singer and actor (d. 1988)
• 1915 – Frank McGee, American journalist (d. 1974)
• 1916 – Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver (d. 1961)
• 1916 – Edward Binns, American actor (d. 1990)
• 1917 – Pierre Sévigny, Canadian soldier, author, and politician (d. 2004)
• 1917 – Han Suyin, Chinese-English author (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Irene Dailey, American actress (d. 2008)
• 1921 – Stanisław Lem, Polish author (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Ellen Demming, American actress (d. 2002)
• 1922 – Jackson Mac Low, American poet, composer and playwright (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Mark Rosenzweig, American psychologist (d. 2009)
• 1925 – Stan Lopata, American baseball player
• 1927 – Mathé Altéry, French soprano
• 1927 – Freddie Jones, English actor
• 1928 – Ernie Vandeweghe, Canadian-American basketball player and physician
• 1929 – Harvey Schmidt, American composer
• 1930 – Larry Austin, American composer
• 1931 – Ian Holm, English actor
• 1931 – George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 1931 – Bill McKinney, American actor (d. 2011)
• 1932 – Atli Dam, Faroese politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 2005)
• 1932 – Bernard Delcampe, French footballer (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Tatiana Doronina, Russian actress
• 1934 – Glenn Davis, American football player (d. 2009)
• 1934 – Jaegwon Kim, South Korean-American philosopher
• 1937 – George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer
• 1938 – Claude Ruel, Canadian ice hockey coach
• 1938 – Tatiana Troyanos, American soprano (d. 1993)
• 1939 – Phillip Ramey, American composer and pianist
• 1939 – Henry Waxman, American politician
• 1940 – Linda Gray, American actress
• 1940 – Skip Hinnant, American actor
• 1940 – Mickey Lolich, American baseball player
• 1940 – Patrick Mower, English actor
• 1940 – Stephen J. Solarz, American politician (d. 2010)
• 1942 – Michel Drucker, French journalist
• 1942 – Tomás Marco, Spanish composer
• 1942 – François Tavenas, Canadian engineer and academic (d. 2004)
• 1943 – Maria Muldaur, American singer
• 1943 – Michael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan-Canadian author
• 1944 – Fred Fay, American activist
• 1944 – Leonard Peltier, American activist
• 1944 – Vladimir Spivakov, Russian violinist and conductor
• 1944 – Barry White, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2003)
• 1944 – Colin Young, American singer (The Foundations)
• 1945 – Milo Manara, Italian comic book writer and artist
• 1945 – John Mauceri, American conductor
• 1946 – Tony Bellamy, American Mexican-American singer-songwriter and musician (Redbone) (d. 2009)
• 1947 – Bjørn Floberg, Norwegian actor
• 1948 – Luis Lima, Argentinian tenor
• 1948 – Bruce Mahler, American actor
• 1948 – Max Walker, Australian cricketer
• 1949 – Charles Burlingame, American pilot on American Airlines Flight 77 (d. 2001)
• 1949 – Irina Rodnina, Russian figure skater
• 1950 – Marguerite Blais, Canadian journalist and politician
• 1950 – Gustav Brunner, Austrian engineer
• 1950 – Mike Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1950 – Cynthia Myers, American model and actress (d. 2011)
• 1951 – Bertie Ahern, Irish politician
• 1951 – Norm Dubé, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1951 – Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby player (d. 2007)
• 1951 – Joe Pantoliano, American actor
• 1951 – Gerald Stano, American serial killer (d. 1998)
• 1951 – Ali-Ollie Woodson, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and actor (The Temptations) (d. 2010)
• 1952 – Gerry Beckley, American singer-songwriter and musician (America)
• 1952 – Neil Peart, Canadian drummer, songwriter, producer, and author (Rush)
• 1954 – Adrian Adonis, American wrestler (d. 1988)
• 1955 – Peter Scolari, American actor
• 1956 – Barry Andrews, English singer and pianist (XTC, Shriekback, and The League of Gentlemen)
• 1956 – Sam Brownback, American politician, 46th Governor of Kansas
• 1956 – Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, actor, and director (d. 2003)
• 1956 – Brian Robertson, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Motörhead, and Wild Horses)
• 1956 – Ricky Rudd, American race car driver
• 1956 – Walter Woon, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 7th Attorney-General of Singapore
• 1957 – Rachel Ward, English actress
• 1957 – Hans Zimmer, German composer and producer
• 1958 – Wilfredo Benitez, American boxer
• 1958 – Gregg Edelman, American actor
• 1959 – Scott Brown, American politician
• 1959 – Sigmar Gabriel, German politician
• 1960 – Stefanos Korkolis, Greek composer and pianist
• 1961 – Kadim Al Sahir, Iraqi singer-songwriter and poet
• 1961 – Mylène Farmer, French singer-songwriter and actress
• 1962 – Dino Merlin, Bosnian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1962 – Amy Yasbeck, American actress
• 1963 – Paul Bellini, Canadian actor and screenwriter
• 1964 – Simon Bowthorpe, English businessman
• 1964 – Dieter Hecking, German footballer
• 1965 – Einstein Kristiansen, Norwegian cartoonist
• 1965 – Vernon Maxwell, American basketball player
• 1966 – Darren E. Burrows, American actor
• 1966 – Ben Folds, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Ben Folds Five, The Bens, and Fear of Pop)
• 1966 – Vezio Sacratini, Italian ice hockey player
• 1967 – Louis C.K., American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1967 – Pat Listach, American baseball player
• 1967 – Jason Statham, English actor
• 1968 – Larry LaLonde, American guitarist and songwriter (Primus)
• 1968 – Richard Snell, South African cricketer
• 1968 – Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Ángel Cabrera, Argentine golfer
• 1969 – James Frey, American author
• 1969 – Shigeki Maruyama, Japanese golfer
• 1970 – Josh Hopkins, American actor
• 1970 – Nathan Larson, American musician, composer, and author (Shudder To Think, Hot One, and A Camp)
• 1971 – Ahn Jae-wook, South Korean actor, singer, and composer
• 1972 – Gideon Emery, English actor
• 1972 – Sidney Souza, Brazilian footballer
• 1973 – Said Ali al-Shihri, Saudi Arabian terrorist (d. 2013)
• 1973 – Darren Campbell, English sprinter
• 1973 – Ki-Jana Carter, American football player
• 1973 – Martin Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1973 – Paul Walker, American actor
• 1974 – Caroline Aigle, French pilot (d. 2007)
• 1974 – Jennifer Nettles, American singer-songwriter (Sugarland)
• 1974 – Nuno Valente, Portuguese footballer
• 1975 – Luis Castillo, Dominican baseball player
• 1976 – Bizzy Bone, American rapper, (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Bone Brothers)
• 1976 – 2 Chainz, American rapper (Playaz Circle)
• 1976 – Lauren Stamile, American actress
• 1976 – Maciej Żurawski, Polish footballer
• 1977 – Nathan Bracken, Australian cricketer
• 1977 – Grant Denyer, Australian race car driver and journalist
• 1977 – Jeff Irwin, American musician, songwriter, and producer
• 1977 – James McCartney, English singer-songwriter
• 1977 – Idan Raichel, Israeli singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1977 – David Thompson, English footballer
• 1978 – Elisabetta Canalis, Italian model and actress
• 1978 – Benjamin McKenzie, American actor
• 1978 – Ruben Studdard, American singer and actor
• 1980 – Roda Antar, Lebanese footballer
• 1980 – Sean Burroughs, American baseball player
• 1980 – Fernando César de Souza, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Gus G, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (Firewind, Dream Evil, and Mystic Prophecy)
• 1980 – Joe Loeffler, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Chevelle)
• 1980 – Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
• 1980 – Kevin Sinfield, English rugby player
• 1980 – Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey player (d. 2011)
• 1981 – Marty Adams, Canadian actor and comedian
• 1981 – Alan Arruda, Brazilian footballer
• 1981 – Jennifer Hudson, American singer and actress
• 1981 – Staciana Stitts, American swimmer
• 1981 – Hosea Chanchez, American actor
• 1982 – Nana Ozaki, Japanese model
• 1982 – Zoran Planinić, Croatian basketball player
• 1983 – Tom Geißler, German footballer
• 1983 – Rami Haikal, Jordanian guitarist (Bilocate)
• 1983 – Sebastian Hofmann, German footballer
• 1983 – Daniel Muir, American football player
• 1983 – Sergio Parisse, Argentina-Italian rugby player
• 1983 – Clayton Richard, American baseball player
• 1983 – Carly Smithson, Irish singer-songwriter and actress (We Are the Fallen)
• 1984 – September, Swedish singer-songwriter
• 1984 – Nashat Akram, Iraqi footballer
• 1985 – Jonatan Cerrada, Belgian singer and actor
• 1986 – Joanne Jackson, English swimmer
• 1986 – Yuto Nagatomo, Japanese footballer
• 1986 – Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter
• 1986 – Emmy Rossum, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1988 – Amanda Jenssen, Swedish singer-songwriter
• 1989 – Freddie Freeman, American baseball player
• 1989 – Andrew Luck, American football player
• 1991 – Scott Wootton, English footballer
• 1996 – Colin Ford, American actor

Deaths

• 1185 – Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1118)
• 1213 – Peter II of Aragon (b. 1174)
• 1362 – Pope Innocent VI (b. 1295)
• 1369 – Blanche of Lancaster (b. 1345)
• 1500 – Albert III, Duke of Saxony (b. 1443)
• 1612 – Vasili IV of Russia (b. 1552)
• 1642 – Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (b. 1620)
• 1660 – Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist, and politician (b. 1577)
• 1665 – Jean Bolland, Belgian priest and writer (b. 1596)
• 1672 – Tanneguy Lefebvre, French scholar (b. 1615)
• 1683 – Afonso VI of Portugal (b. 1643)
• 1691 – John George III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1647)
• 1695 – Jacob Abendana, Spanish scholar (b. 1630)
• 1712 – Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter (b. 1637)
• 1764 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (b. 1683)
• 1779 – Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (b. 1711)
• 1810 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English merchant banker (b. 1740)
• 1814 – Robert Ross, English army officer (b. 1766)
• 1819 – Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (b. 1742)
• 1833 – Charles Larkin, English reformer (b. 1775)
• 1836 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German playwright (b. 1801)
• 1869 – Peter Mark Roget, English physician, theologian, and lexicographer (b. 1779)
• 1870 – Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (b. 1836)
• 1874 – François Guizot, French historian and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1787)
• 1903 – Duncan Gillies, Australia politician, 14th Premier of Victoria (b. 1834)
• 1907 – Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian poet, journalist, and lawyer (b. 1837)
• 1912 – Pierre-Hector Coullie, French archbishop (b. 1829)
• 1918 – George Reid, Australian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
• 1919 – Leonid Andreyev, Russian playwright and author (b. 1871)
• 1923 – Jules Violle, French physicist (b. 1841)
• 1927 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)
• 1929 – Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (b. 1865)
• 1938 – Prince Arthur of Connaught (b. 1883)
• 1944 – William Stickney, American golfer (b. 1879)
• 1945 – Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese general (b. 1880)
• 1953 – Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884)
• 1953 – Lewis Stone, American actor (b. 1879)
• 1956 – Hans Carossa, German author and poet (b. 1878)
• 1956 – Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician (b. 1882)
• 1956 – Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes (b. 1878)
• 1960 – Dino Borgioli, Italian tenor (b. 1891)
• 1961 – Carl Hermann, German physicist (b. 1898)
• 1962 – Spot Poles, American baseball player b. 1887
• 1962 – Rangeya Raghav, Indian author and playwright (b. 1923)
• 1967 – Vladimir Bartol, Slovene-Italian author (b. 1903)
• 1968 – Tommy Armour, Scottish golfer (b. 1894)
• 1971 – Walter Egan, American golfer (b. 1881)
• 1972 – William Boyd, American actor (b. 1895)
• 1977 – Steve Biko, South African activist (b. 1946)
• 1977 – Les Haylen, Australian politician and author (b. 1898)
• 1977 – Robert Lowell, American poet (b. 1917)
• 1978 – William Hudson, Australian engineer (b. 1896)
• 1981 – Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
• 1982 – Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer (b. 1891)
• 1986 – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer (b. 1894)
• 1990 – Athene Seyler, English actress (b. 1889)
• 1991 – Bruce Matthews, Canadian army officer and businessman (b. 1909)
• 1992 – Anthony Perkins, American actor (b. 1932)
• 1993 – Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (b. 1917)
• 1993 – Willie Mosconi, American pool player (b. 1913)
• 1994 – Tom Ewell, American actor (b. 1909)
• 1994 – Boris Yegorov, Russian physician and astronaut (b. 1937)
• 1995 – Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933)
• 1995 – Yasutomo Nagai, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1965)
• 1996 – Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian military leader and politician, 29th President of Brazil (b. 1907)
• 1999 – Bill Quackenbush, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
• 2000 – Konrad Kujau, German illustrator and forger (b. 1938)
• 2000 – Stanley Turrentine, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934)
• 2001 – Victor Wong, Chinese-American actor (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Highwaymen) (b. 1932)
• 2004 – Kenny Buttrey, American drummer (Barefoot Jerry and Area Code 615) (b. 1945)
• 2008 – Bob Quinn, Australian footballer (b. 1915)
• 2008 – David Foster Wallace, American author (b. 1962)
• 2009 – Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
• 2009 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Willy Ronis, French photographer (b. 1910)
• 2010 – Claude Chabrol, French director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 2010 – Giulio Zignoli, Italian footballer (b. 1946)
• 2011 – Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1985)
• 2012 – Whobegotyou, Australian racehorse (b. 2005)
• 2012 – Jimmy Andrews, Scottish footballer (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Radoslav Brzobohatý, Czech actor (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Russian poet (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Jon Finlayson, Australian actor and scriptwriter (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Derek Jameson, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Kame Nakamura, Japanese super-centenarian (b. 1898)
• 2012 – Rafał Piszcz, Polish canoe racer (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Tom Sims, American skateboarder and snowboarder, founded Sims Snowboards (b. 1950)
• 2012 – Sid Watkins, English surgeon (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Ailbe of Emly
  • Guy of Anderlecht
  • Holy Name of Mary
  • Laisrén mac Nad Froích
  • Sacerdos of Lyon
  • September 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Commemoration of the mass hanging of the Saint Patrick's Battalion. (Mexico)
• Defenders Day (Maryland)
• Earliest date on which Programmers' Day can fall, while September 13 is the latest, celebrated on the 256th day of the year. (Russia and programmers around the world)
• National Day (Cape Verde)
• Day of Conception (Russia)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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