September 23

September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 99 days remaining until the end of the year.

It is frequently the day of the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the Vernal Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.

Events

• 1122 – Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy.
• 1338 – The Battle of Arnemuiden was the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle using artillery, as the English ship Christofer had three cannon and one hand gun.
• 1409 – Battle of Kherlen, the second significant victory over Ming China by the Mongols since 1368.
• 1459 – Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire.
• 1568 – Spanish naval forces rout an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near Veracruz.
• 1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure worth over a billion US dollars, is lost at sea off Land's End.
• 1642 – First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.
• 1779 – American Revolution: John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.
• 1780 – American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.
• 1803 – Second Anglo-Maratha War: Battle of Assaye between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.
• 1806 – Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
• 1821 – Tripolitsa, Greece, is captured by Greek rebels during the Greek War of Independence.
• 1845 – The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.
• 1846 – Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.
• 1868 – Grito de Lares ("Lares Revolt") occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
• 1889 – Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
• 1899 – American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.
• 1905 – Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
• 1908 – University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded.
• 1909 – The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
• 1913 – Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean(from St. Raphael France to Bizerte, Tunisia).
• 1932 – The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• 1936 – First ascent of Siniolchu by a German team.
• 1938 – Mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in response to the Munich Crisis.
• 1941 – World War II: The first gas chamber experiments are conducted at Auschwitz.
• 1942 – World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.
• 1943 – World War II: The Nazi puppet state the Italian Social Republic is founded.
• 1952 – Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers speech".
• 1959 – Iowa farmer and corn breeder Roswell Garst hosts Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.
• 1959 – The MS Princess of Tasmania, Australia's first passenger roll-on/roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait.
• 1962 – The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.
• 1969 – The Chicago Eight trial opens in Chicago.
• 1973 – Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
• 1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
• 1983 – Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa becomes the first African boxing world heavyweight champion.
• 1983 – Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board.
• 1986 – Jim Deshaies of the Houston Astros sets the major-league record by striking out the first eight batters of the game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
• 1988 – José Canseco of the Oakland Athletics becomes the first member of the 40–40 club.
• 1992 – A large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys forensic laboratories in Belfast.
• 1999 – Celebrate Bisexuality Day was first observed in the United States.
• 1999 – NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
• 2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.
• 2004 – Hurricane Jeanne: At least 1,070 in Haiti are reported to have been killed by floods.
• 2008 – Kauhajoki school shooting: Matti Saari kills 10 people before committing suicide.

Births

• 63 BC – Augustus, Roman emperor (d. 14)
• 1158 – Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1186)
• 1215 – Kublai Khan, Mongolian emperor (d. 1294)
• 1434 – Yolande of Valois (d. 1478)
• 1598 – Eleonore Gonzaga, Italian wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655)
• 1642 – Giovanni Maria Bononcini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1678)
• 1647 – Joseph Dudley, American statesman (d. 1720)
• 1650 – Jeremy Collier, English bishop (d. 1726)
• 1713 – Ferdinand VI of Spain (d. 1759)
• 1740 – Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)
• 1759 – Marie Clotilde of France (d. 1802)
• 1771 – Emperor Kōkaku of Japan (d. 1840)
• 1778 – Mariano Moreno, Argentinian lawyer, journalist, and politician (d. 1811)
• 1781 – Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1860)
• 1791 – Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865)
• 1800 – William Holmes McGuffey, American educator and author (d. 1873)
• 1819 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d. 1896)
• 1838 – Victoria Woodhull, American journalist and activist (d. 1927)
• 1852 – William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon (d. 1922)
• 1853 – Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen (d. 1923)
• 1861 – Robert Bosch, German engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH (d. 1942)
• 1863 – Mary Church Terrell, American author and activist (d. 1954)
• 1864 – Draga Mašin, Serbian wife of Alexander I of Serbia (d. 1903)
• 1865 – Emma Orczy, Hungarian-English author and playwright (d. 1947)
• 1869 – Typhoid Mary, Irish-American carrier of Typhoid fever (d. 1938)
• 1876 – Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli rabbi and scholar (d. 1968)
• 1877 – Léon Sée, French fencer (d. 1960)
• 1880 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish biologist and politician, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1971)
• 1889 – Walter Lippmann, American journalist (d. 1974)
• 1890 – Friedrich Paulus, German general (d. 1957)
• 1893 – Cläre Lotto, German actress (d. 1952)
• 1895 – Miron Merzhanov, Soviet architect (d. 1975)
• 1895 – Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (d. 1985)
• 1897 – Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (d. 1984)
• 1898 – Les Haylen, Australian politician and author (d. 1977)
• 1899 – Tom C. Clark, American lawyer and judge, 59th Attorney General of the United States (d. 1977)
• 1899 – Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (d. 1988)
• 1900 – Bill Stone, English soldier (d. 2009)
• 1901 – Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet and journalist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1986)
• 1902 – Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (d. 2003)
• 1905 – Tiny Bradshaw, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1958)
• 1906 – Bardu Ali, American singer and guitarist (d. 1995)
• 1906 – Charles Ritchie, Canadian diplomat (d. 1995)
• 1907 – Albert Ammons, American pianist (d. 1949)
• 1907 – Dominique Aury, French novelist (d. 1998)
• 1907 – Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza (d. 1976)
• 1909 – Lorenc Antoni, Kosovo-Albanian composer and conductor (d. 1991)
• 1911 – Frank Moss, American lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
• 1912 – Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani critic and linguist (d. 2005)
• 1912 – Tony Smith, American sculptor (d. 1980)
• 1913 – Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish painter (d. 2007)
• 1914 – Omar Ali Saifuddien III, Bruneian sultan (d. 1986)
• 1915 – Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 2001)
• 1915 – Julius Baker, American flautist (d. 2003)
• 1916 – Aldo Moro, Italian politician, 39th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1978)
• 1920 – Mickey Rooney, American actor
• 1924 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist and publisher (d. 1978)
• 1924 – Heinrich Schultz, Estonian festival organizer (d. 2012)
• 1925 – Eleonora Rossi Drago, Italian actress (d. 2007)
• 1925 – Denis Twitchett, English scholar and historian (d. 2006)
• 1926 – André Cassagnes, French toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch (d. 2013)
• 1926 – John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer (Miles Davis Quintet) (d. 1967)
• 1926 – Jimmy Woode, American bassist (Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band) (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Mighty Joe Young, American singer and guitarist (d. 1999)
• 1928 – Frank Foster, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2011)
• 1929 – Wally Whyton, English singer-songwriter (The Vipers Skiffle Group) (d. 1997)
• 1930 – Sehba Akhtar, Pakistani poet (d. 1996)
• 1930 – Colin Blakely, Irish-English actor (d. 1987)
• 1930 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 2004)
• 1931 – Hilly Kristal, American businessman, founded CBGB (d. 2007)
• 1931 – Gerald Merrithew, Canadian educator and politician (d. 2004)
• 1932 – Georg Keßler, German football manager
• 1934 – Ahmad Shah Khan, Afghan prince
• 1935 – Prem Chopra, Indian actor
• 1935 – Les McCann, American singer and pianist
• 1935 – Ron Tindall, English footballer (d. 2012)
• 1935 – Arland D. Williams, Jr., American passenger on Air Florida Flight 90 (d. 1982)
• 1936 – Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian politician, 91st President of Peru
• 1936 – Sylvain Saudan, Swiss skier
• 1936 – Tareq Suheimat, Jordanian physician and politician
• 1937 – Jacques Poulin, Canadian author
• 1938 – Tom Lester, American actor
• 1938 – Romy Schneider, French actress (d. 1982)
• 1939 – Henry Blofeld, English sportscaster
• 1939 – Roy Buchanan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Snakestretchers) (d. 1988)
• 1939 – Janusz Gajos, Polish actor
• 1939 – Sonny Vaccaro, American businessman
• 1940 – Tim Rose, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (The Big 3) (d. 2002)
• 1940 – Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Iranian singer-songwriter
• 1940 – Michel Temer, Brazilian politician and lawyer, 25th Vice President of Brazil
• 1941 – George Jackson, American activist and author, co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family (d. 1971)
• 1941 – Simon Nolet, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1941 – Norma Winstone, English singer-songwriter
• 1942 – Sila María Calderón, Puerto Rican politician, 7th Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
• 1943 – Tanuja, Indian actress
• 1943 – Steve Boone, American bass player and producer (The Lovin' Spoonful)
• 1943 – Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer-songwriter
• 1943 – Marty Schottenheimer, American football player and coach
• 1944 – Eric Bogle, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter
• 1944 – Norbert Walter, German economist (d. 2012)
• 1945 – Ron Bushy, American drummer (Iron Butterfly)
• 1945 – Igor Ivanov, Russian politician
• 1945 – Paul Petersen, American actor
• 1946 – Franz Fischler, Austrian politician
• 1947 – Christian Bordeleau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1947 – Mary Kay Place, American actress
• 1947 – Neal Smith, American drummer and songwriter
• 1948 – Don Grolnick, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)
• 1948 – Dan Toler, American guitarist (The Allman Brothers Band and Gregg Allman Band) (d. 2013)
• 1949 – Floella Benjamin, Trinidadian-Tobagonian actress, author, and politician
• 1949 – Jerry Jenkins, American author
• 1949 – Bruce Springsteen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Steel Mill)
• 1950 – George Garzone, American saxophonist and educator
• 1951 – Steven Springer, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2012)
• 1952 – Mark Bego, American author
• 1952 – Dennis Lamp, American baseball player
• 1952 – Jim Morrison, American baseball player
• 1952 – Peter Schrank, Swiss cartoonist
• 1954 – Charlie Barnett, American actor (d. 1996)
• 1954 – Cherie Blair, English lawyer
• 1955 – Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer
• 1956 – Peter David, American author
• 1957 – Rosalind Chao, American actress
• 1957 – Tony Fossas, Cuban baseball player
• 1957 – Kumar Sanu, Indian singer
• 1958 – Danielle Dax, English singer-songwriter (Lemon Kittens)
• 1958 – Marvin Lewis, American football coach
• 1958 – Larry Mize, American golfer
• 1958 – Khaled El Sheikh, Bahraini singer-songwriter and composer
• 1959 – Jason Alexander, American actor
• 1959 – Martin Page, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Q-Feel)
• 1961 – Lesley Fitz-Simons, Scottish actress (d. 2013)
• 1961 – Chi McBride, American actor
• 1961 – Willie McCool, American astronaut (d. 2003)
• 1961 – Elizabeth Peña, American actress
• 1963 – Anne-Marie Cadieux, Canadian actress
• 1964 – Clayton Blackmore, Welsh footballer
• 1964 – Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer-songwriter (B'z)
• 1964 – Larry Krystkowiak, American basketball player
• 1964 – Bill Phillips, American author
• 1966 – Pete Harnisch, American baseball player
• 1966 – LisaRaye McCoy-Misick, American actress
• 1968 – Adam Price, Welsh politician
• 1968 – Yvette Fielding, English actress and producer
• 1969 – Donald Audette, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1969 – Patrick Fiori, French singer-songwriter
• 1969 – Tapio Laukkanen, Finnish race car driver
• 1969 – Jan Suchopárek, Czech footballer
• 1970 – Lucia Cifarelli, American singer-songwriter and pianist (KMFDM, MDFMK, KGC, Schwein, and Drill
• 1970 – Ani DiFranco, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1970 – Georgios Koltsidas, Greek footballer
• 1971 – Moin Khan, Pakistani cricketer
• 1971 – Lee Mi-yeon, South Korean actress
• 1971 – Eric Montross, American basketball player
• 1972 – Sarah Bettens, Belgian singer-songwriter and guitarist (K's Choice)
• 1972 – Ana Marie Cox, American author and blogger
• 1972 – Jermaine Dupri, American rapper and producer
• 1972 – Shim Eun-ha, South Korean actress
• 1972 – Karl Pilkington, English actor, author, and producer
• 1973 – Ingrid Fliter, Argentinian pianist
• 1973 – Vangelis Krios, Greek footballer
• 1973 – Artim Šakiri, Macedonian footballer
• 1974 – Matt Hardy, American wrestler
• 1974 – Harumi Inoue, Japanese actress and model
• 1975 – Jaime Bergman, American model and actress
• 1975 – Layzie Bone, American rapper and actor (Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Bone Brothers, and Mo Thugs)
• 1975 – Kim Dong-moon, South Korean badminton player
• 1975 – Chris Hawkins, English journalist
• 1975 – Eric Miller, Irish rugby player
• 1976 – Sarah Blasko, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1976 – Faune A. Chambers, American actress
• 1976 – Kip Pardue, American actor and model
• 1976 – Rob James-Collier, English actor and model
• 1976 – Wladimir Sidorenko, Ukrainian boxer
• 1977 – Matthieu Descoteaux, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 – Fabio Ongaro, Italian rugby player
• 1977 – Brett Prebble, Australian jockey
• 1977 – Suzanne Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress (d. 2008)
• 1977 – Rachael Yamagata, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1978 – Worm Miller, American director and producer
• 1978 – Keri Lynn Pratt, American actress
• 1979 – Ricky Davis, American basketball player
• 1979 – Anthony Mackie, American actor
• 1979 – Fábio Simplício, Brazilian footballer
• 1979 – Lote Tuqiri, Fijian-Australian rugby player
• 1980 – Cameron Litvack, American screenwriter and producer
• 1980 – Matt White, American singer-songwriter
• 1981 – Robert Doornbos, Dutch race car driver
• 1981 – Natalie Horler, German singer (Cascada and Siria)
• 1981 – Misti Traya, American actress
• 1982 – Mait Künnap, Estonian tennis player
• 1982 – Shyla Stylez, Canadian porn actress
• 1983 – Märt Israel, Estonian discus thrower
• 1983 – Joffrey Lupul, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Regan Smith, American race car driver
• 1984 – Patrick Ehelechner, German ice hockey player
• 1984 – Kate French, American actress
• 1984 – Matt Kemp, American baseball player
• 1984 – Anneliese van der Pol, Dutch-American actress and singer
• 1985 – Brian Brohm, American football player
• 1985 – Joba Chamberlain, American baseball player
• 1985 – Maki Goto, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress (Morning Musume)
• 1985 – Hossein Ka'abi, Iranian footballer
• 1985 – Lukáš Kašpar, Czech ice hockey player
• 1986 – Martin Cranie, English footballer
• 1987 – Skylar Astin, American actor and all-round hottie.
• 1988 – Juan Martín del Potro, Argentinian tennis player
• 1988 – Yannick Weber, Swiss ice hockey player
• 1989 – Brandon Jennings, American basketball player
• 1989 – Mara Scherzinger, German actress
• 1990 – Agustín Sierra, Argentine actor and singer
• 1991 – Key, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (Shinee)
• 1991 – Melanie Oudin, American tennis player
• 1993 – Sophie Borja, Welsh actress
• 1996 – Lee Hi, South Korean singer

Deaths

• 1193 – Robert de Sablé, French knight
• 1241 – Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (b. 1178)
• 1386 – Dan I of Wallachia (b. 1354)
• 1390 – John I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1346)
• 1535 – Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1513)
• 1571 – John Jewel, English bishop (b. 1522)
• 1573 – Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1524)
• 1605 – Pontus de Tyard, French priest and poet (b. 1521)
• 1675 – Valentin Conrart, French author (b. 1603)
• 1728 – Christian Thomasius, German jurist (b. 1655)
• 1738 – Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician (b. 1668)
• 1764 – Robert Dodsley, English author (b. 1703)
• 1773 – Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist (b. 1718)
• 1789 – John Rogers, American politician (b. 1723)
• 1830 – Elizabeth Monroe, American wife of James Monroe, 5th First Lady of the United States (b. 1768)
• 1835 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801)
• 1851 – Émilie Gamelin, Canadian nun, founder of the Sisters of Providence (b. 1800)
• 1844 – Alexander von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (b. 1783)
• 1846 – John Ainsworth Horrocks, English explorer (b. 1818)
• 1850 – José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan soldier and statesman (b. 1764)
• 1867 – Michael O'Laughlen, American conspirator (b. 1840)
• 1870 – Prosper Mérimée, French author (b. 1803)
• 1871 – Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1786)
• 1873 – Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (b. 1823)
• 1877 – Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician (b. 1811)
• 1889 – Wilkie Collins, English author and playwright (b. 1824)
• 1900 – William Marsh Rice, American businessman, founded Rice University (b. 1816)
• 1913 – Donato Álvarez, Argentine general (b. 1825)
• 1917 – Werner Voss, German pilot (b. 1897)
• 1929 – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1939 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (b. 1856)
• 1940 – Marcel Van Crombrugge, Belgian rower (b. 1880)
• 1943 – Salvo D'Acquisto, Italian military officer (b. 1920)
• 1943 – Elinor Glyn, English author (b. 1864)
• 1944 – Jakob Schaffner, Swiss novelist (b. 1875)
• 1950 – Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (b. 1892)
• 1958 – Jacob Nicol, Canadian publisher and politician (b. 1876)
• 1968 – Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian priest and saint (b. 1887)
• 1970 – Bourvil, French actor and singer (b. 1917)
• 1971 – James Waddell Alexander II, American mathematician (b. 1888)
• 1971 – Billy Gilbert, American actor (b. 1894)
• 1973 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean diplomat and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1974 – Cliff Arquette, American comedian and actor (b. 1905)
• 1974 – Robbie McIntosh, Scottish drummer (Average White Band and The Senate) (b. 1950)
• 1978 – Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (b. 1950)
• 1981 – Chief Dan George, Canadian actor, author, and poet (b. 1899)
• 1987 – Bob Fosse, American dancer, choreographer, and actor (b. 1927)
• 1988 – Tibor Sekelj, Yugoslavian explorer and author (b. 1912)
• 1992 – James Van Fleet, American general (b. 1892)
• 1994 – Jerry Barber, American golfer (b. 1916)
• 1994 – Robert Bloch, American author (b. 1917)
• 1994 – Madeleine Renaud, French actress (b. 1900)
• 1996 – Fujiko Fujio, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1933)
• 1998 – Ray Bowden, English footballer (b. 1909)
• 1998 – Mary Frann, American actress (b. 1943)
• 1999 – Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (b. 1910)
• 2000 – Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican baseball player (b. 1947)
• 2000 – Carl Rowan, American journalist (b. 1925)
• 2001 – Ron Hewitt, Welsh footballer (b. 1928)
• 2002 – Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Zubayr Al-Rimi, Saudi Arabian terrorist (b. 1974)
• 2003 – Yuri Senkevich, Russian journalist (b. 1937)
• 2004 – André Hazes, Dutch singer (b. 1951)
• 2004 – Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (b. 1933)
• 2005 – Roger Brierley, English actor (b. 1935)
• 2006 – Malcolm Arnold, English composer and trumpeter (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Etta Baker, American singer and guitarist (b. 1913)
• 2008 – Peter Leonard, Australian journalist (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Loren Pope, American counselor and writer (b. 1910)
• 2009 – Paul B. Fay, American businessman and politician (b. 1918)
• 2010 – Malcolm Douglas, Australian television host (b. 1941)
• 2010 – Teresa Lewis, American murderer (b. 1969)
• 2012 – Henry Champ, Canadian journalist (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Pavel Grachev, Russian general (b. 1948)
• 2012 – K Lal, Indian magician (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Godfrey Milton-Thompson, English surgeon (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Albert Henry Ottenweller, American bishop (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Roberto Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Michael Vincent Paschal Rowland, English-South African bishop (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Corrie Sanders, South African boxer (b. 1966)
• 2012 – Sam Sniderman, Canadian businessman, founded Sam the Record Man (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Maths O. Sundqvist, Swedish businessman (b. 1950)

Holidays and observances

• Autumnal equinox related observances (see September 22):
  • Autumnal Equinox Day (Japan)
• Celebrate Bisexuality Day (Bisexual community)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Adomnán
  • Padre Pio
  • Pope Linus
  • Sossius
  • Thecla (Roman Catholic Church)
  • September 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
• Teacher's Day (Brunei Darussalam)
• Holocaust Memorial Day (Lithuania)
• National Day (Saudi Arabia)

External links

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

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