September 26

September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 96 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
• 715 – Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.
• 1087 – William II is crowned King of England, and reigns until 1100.
• 1212 – Golden Bull of Sicily is issued to confirm the hereditary royal title in Bohemia for the Přemyslid dynasty.
• 1345 – Friso-Hollandic Wars: Frisians defeat Holland in the Battle of Warns.
• 1371 – Serbian–Turkish wars: The forces of the Ottoman sultan Murad I's lieutenant Lala Şâhin Paşa and the Serbian army under the command of Vukašin Mrnjavčević and Jovan Uglješa clash at the Battle of Maritsa.
• 1493 – Pope Alexander VI issues the papal bull Dudum siquidem to the Catholic Monarchs, extending the grant of new lands he made them in Inter caetera
• 1580 – Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.
• 1687 – The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
• 1687 – The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
• 1777 – British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
• 1786 – Protestors shut down the court in Springfield, Massachusetts in a military standoff that begins Shays' Rebellion.
• 1789 – Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General.
• 1792 – Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
• 1810 – A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
• 1872 – The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) is established in New York City.
• 1907 – New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
• 1908 – Ed Reulbach becomes the first and only pitcher to throw two shutouts in one day against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
• 1910 – Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and exiled.
• 1914 – The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
• 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
• 1918 – World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins.
• 1923 – Gustav Stresemann resumes the Weimar Republic's payment of reparations.
• 1933 – As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders to the FBI, he shouts out, "Don’t shoot, G-Men!", which becomes a nickname for FBI agents.
• 1933 – Ten convicts escape from the Indiana State Prison with guns smuggled into the prison by bank robber John Dillinger
• 1934 – Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
• 1942 – The Holocaust: August Frank, a higher official of the SS concentration camp administration department, issues a memorandum containing a great deal of operational detail in how Jews should be "evacuated".
• 1944 – World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
• 1944 – World War II: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting.
• 1950 – United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces.
• 1950 – Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
• 1954 – Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.
• 1959 – Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.
• 1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
• 1960 – Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R.
• 1970 – The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (709.92 km²).
• 1971 – The Freetown Christiania was founded.
• 1973 – Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
• 1981 – Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
• 1983 – Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a likely worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
• 1984 – The United Kingdom agrees to the handover of Hong Kong
• 1997 – A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234.
• 1997 – An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
• 2000 – Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
• 2000 – The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Agean sea killing 80 passengers.
• 2002 – The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Le Joola capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing more than 1,000.
• 2008 – Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
• 2009 – Typhoon Ketsana hit the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.

Births

• 1329 – Anne of Bavaria (d. 1353)
• 1406 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d. 1430)
• 1711 – Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (d. 1779)
• 1750 – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral (d. 1810)
• 1758 – Cosme Argerich, Argentine physician (d. 1820)
• 1767 – Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1835)
• 1774 – Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (d. 1845)
• 1791 – Théodore Géricault, French painter (d. 1824)
• 1792 – William Hobson, Irish-New Zealand soldier and politician, 1st Governor of New Zealand (d. 1842)
• 1820 – Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Bengali scholar (d. 1891)
• 1840 – Louis-Olivier Taillon, Canadian politician, 8th Premier of Quebec (d. 1923)
• 1843 – Joseph Furphy, Australian novelist (d. 1912)
• 1849 – Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
• 1865 – Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford (d. 1937)
• 1867 – Winsor McCay, American animator (d. 1934)
• 1869 – Komitas Vardapet, Armenian composer (d. 1935)
• 1870 – Christian X of Denmark (d. 1947)
• 1872 – Max Ehrmann, American poet (d. 1945)
• 1873 – Wacław Berent, Polish novelist and translator (d. 1940)
• 1873 – Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum (d. 1949)
• 1874 – Lewis Hine, American photographer and activist (d. 1940)
• 1875 – Edmund Gwenn, Welsh actor (d. 1959)
• 1876 – Edith Abbott, American social worker and author (d. 1957)
• 1876 – Philip Kassel, American gymnast (d. 1959)
• 1876 – Ghulam Bhik Nairang, Indian lawyer, poet, and politician (d. 1952)
• 1877 – Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (d. 1963)
• 1877 – Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1962)
• 1881 – Hiram Wesley Evans, American member of the Ku Klux Klan (d. 1966)
• 1884 – Jack Bickell, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1951)
• 1886 – Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1977)
• 1887 – Edwin Keppel Bennett, English author and poet (d. 1958)
• 1887 – Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor (d. 1967)
• 1887 – Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, invented the Bouncing bomb (d. 1979)
• 1888 – J. Frank Dobie, American author and columnist (d. 1964)
• 1888 – T. S. Eliot, American-English publisher, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
• 1889 – Gordon Brewster, Irish cartoonist (d. 1946)
• 1889 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (d. 1976)
• 1891 – Charles Münch, French violinist and conductor (d. 1968)
• 1892 – Robert Staughton Lynd, American historian (d. 1970)
• 1893 – Gladys Brockwell, American actress (d. 1929)
• 1895 – George Raft, American actor (d. 1980)
• 1895 – Jürgen Stroop, German SS officer (d. 1952)
• 1897 – Pope Paul VI (d. 1978)
• 1897 – Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (d. 1917)
• 1898 – George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
• 1900 – Suzanne Belperron, French jewelry designer (d. 1983)
• 1905 – Emilio Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 2011)
• 1907 – Anthony Blunt, English historian and spy (d. 1983)
• 1907 – Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (d. 1992)
• 1909 – Bill France, Sr., American race car driver, founded NASCAR (d. 1992)
• 1909 – A. P. Hamann, American politician (d. 1977)
• 1911 – Al Helfer, American sportscaster (d. 1975)
• 1913 – Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player (d. 1998)
• 1914 – Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountaineer (d. 2009)
• 1914 – Jack LaLanne, American fitness expert (d. 2011)
• 1917 – Réal Caouette, Canadian politician (d. 1976)
• 1917 – Tran Duc Thao, Vietnamese philosopher (d. 1993)
• 1918 – John Zacherle, American television host and voice actor
• 1919 – Barbara Britton, American actress (d. 1980)
• 1919 – Matilde Camus, Spanish poet (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Takis Miliadis, Greek actor (d. 1985)
• 1922 – Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia
• 1923 – Dev Anand, Indian actor and producer (d. 2011)
• 1925 – Norm Dussault, American ice hockey player (d. 2012)
• 1925 – Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 1982)
• 1926 – Julie London, American singer and actress (d. 2000)
• 1926 – Manfred Mayrhofer, Austrian philologist (d. 2011)
• 1927 – Robert Blackburn, Irish educator (d. 1990)
• 1927 – Robert Cade, American physician, co-invented Gatorade (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Patrick O'Neal, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1927 – Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and manager (d. 2010)
• 1928 – Bob Van der Veken, Belgian actor
• 1930 – Joe Brown, English mountaineer
• 1930 – Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (d. 1966)
• 1931 – Kenneth Parnell, American sex offender (d. 2008)
• 1932 – Richard Herd, American actor
• 1932 – Manmohan Singh, Indian economist and politician, 13th Prime Minister of India
• 1932 – Vladimir Voinovich, Russian author and dissident
• 1933 – Donna Douglas, American actress
• 1935 – Lou Myers, American actor (d. 2013)
• 1935 – Joe Sherlock, Irish politician (d. 2007)
• 1936 – Winnie Mandela, South African activist
• 1937 – Valentin Pavlov, Soviet politician, 11th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 2003)
• 1937 – Jerry Weintraub, American film producer
• 1938 – Lars Jacob Krogh, Norwegian journalist (d. 2010)
• 1939 – Ricky Tomlinson, English actor
• 1941 – Salvatore Accardo, Italian violinist and conductor
• 1941 – Martine Beswick, English actress and model
• 1942 – Kent McCord, American actor
• 1943 – Ian Chappell, Australian cricketer
• 1943 – Tim Schenken, Australian race car driver
• 1944 – Anne Robinson, English journalist
• 1945 – Louise Beaudoin, Canadian politician
• 1945 – Gal Costa, Brazilian singer
• 1945 – Bryan Ferry, English singer-songwriter (Roxy Music)
• 1946 – Andrea Dworkin, American activist and author (d. 2005)
• 1946 – Togo Igawa, Japanese actor
• 1946 – Radha Krishna Mainali, Nepalese politician
• 1946 – Louise Simonson, American comic book writer and editor
• 1946 – Christine Todd Whitman, American politician and author, 50th Governor of New Jersey
• 1947 – Lynn Anderson, American singer
• 1947 – Philippe Lavil, French singer
• 1948 – Olivia Newton-John, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1949 – Clodoaldo, Brazilian footballer
• 1949 – Jane Smiley, American novelist
• 1949 – Marie Tifo, Canadian actress
• 1949 – Minette Walters, English novelist
• 1951 – Ronald DeFeo, Jr., American murderer
• 1951 – Stuart Tosh, Scottish singer-songwriter and drummer (10cc and Pilot)
• 1952 – Predrag Miletić, Serbian actor
• 1953 – Joe Benigno, American radio host
• 1953 – Dolores Keane, Irish singer and actress (De Dannan)
• 1954 – Craig Chaquico, American guitarist (Jefferson Starship)
• 1954 – Kevin Kennedy, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster
• 1955 – Carlene Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1956 – Steve Butler, American race car driver
• 1956 – Linda Hamilton, American actress
• 1958 – Darby Crash, American singer-songwriter (The Germs and Darby Crash Band) (d. 1980)
• 1958 – Robert Kagan, Greek-American historian
• 1958 – Richard B. Weldon, Jr., American politician
• 1959 – Rich Gedman, American baseball player
• 1961 – Charlotte Fich, Danish actress
• 1961 – Will Self, English author
• 1962 – Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress
• 1962 – Peter Foster, Australian con artist
• 1962 – Mark Haddon, English author
• 1962 – Lawrence Leritz, American actor, singer, and dancer
• 1962 – Al Pitrelli, American guitarist and songwriter (Megadeth, Savatage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and Asia)
• 1963 – Lysette Anthony, English actress
• 1963 – Joe Nemechek, American race car driver
• 1964 – Nicki French, English singer and dancer
• 1964 – Dave Martinez, American baseball player
• 1964 – John Tempesta, American drummer (White Zombie, Helmet, Testament, The Cult, and Scum of the Earth)
• 1965 – Cindy Herron, American singer and actress (En Vogue)
• 1965 – Alexandra Lencastre, Portuguese actress
• 1966 – Jillian Barberie, Canadian actress
• 1966 – Christos Dantis, Greek singer-songwriter and producer
• 1966 – Craig Heyward, American football player (d. 2006)
• 1967 – Bruno Akrapović, Bosnian footballer
• 1967 – Shannon Hoon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Blind Melon) (d. 1995)
• 1968 – James Caviezel, American actor
• 1968 – Tricia O'Kelley, American actress
• 1968 – Ben Shenkman, American actor
• 1969 – Anthony Kavanagh, Canadian comedian, actor and singer
• 1969 – Andy Petterson, Australian footballer
• 1969 – David Slade, English director
• 1969 – Holger Stanislawski, German footballer
• 1969 – Paul Warhurst, English footballer
• 1970 – Sheri Moon Zombie, American actress
• 1970 – David Parland, Swedish guitarist (Dark Funeral, War, Necrophobic, and Infernal) (d. 2013)
• 1972 – Ras Kass, American rapper and producer (The HRSMN)
• 1972 – Melanie Paxson, American actress
• 1972 – Shawn Stockman, American singer (Boyz II Men)
• 1973 – Marty Casey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lovehammers)
• 1973 – Julienne Davis, American actress and singer
• 1973 – Chris Small, Scottish snooker player
• 1973 – Olga Vasdeki, Greek triple jumper
• 1974 – Boris Cepeda, German-Ecuadorian pianist and diplomat
• 1974 – Gary Hall, Jr., American swimmer
• 1974 – Martin Müürsepp, Estonian basketball player
• 1975 – Emma Härdelin, Swedish singer and violinist (Garmarna and Triakel)
• 1975 – Jake Paltrow, American director
• 1976 – Michael Ballack, German footballer
• 1976 – Dean Butterworth, English-American drummer (Good Charlotte)
• 1976 – Tyler Denk, American model
• 1976 – Sami Vänskä, Finnish bass player (Nightwish and Nattvindens Gråt)
• 1977 – Kaylynn, American porn actress
• 1977 – André Hunger, German sculptor
• 1978 – Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, Kenyan runner
• 1979 – Jon Harley, English footballer
• 1979 – Simon Kirch, German sprinter
• 1979 – Naomichi Marufuji, Japanese wrestler
• 1979 – Fuifui Moimoi, New Zealand rugby player
• 1979 – Jaycie Phelps, American gymnast
• 1979 – Jacob Tierney, Canadian actor
• 1980 – Jane Darling, Czech porn actress
• 1980 – Patrick Friesacher, Austrian race car driver
• 1980 – Brooks Orpik, American ice hockey player
• 1980 – Daniel Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1980 – Henrik Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1981 – Aras Baskauskas, American reality show contestant, winner of Survivor: Panama
• 1981 – Christina Milian, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1981 – Collien Ulmen-Fernandes, German actress
• 1981 – Serena Williams, American tennis player
• 1982 – Rob Burrow, English rugby player
• 1982 – Jessie Pavelka, American actor
• 1982 – Simon Picone, Italian rugby player
• 1982 – Miguel Alfredo Portillo, Argentine footballer
• 1982 – Jon Richardson, English comedian
• 1983 – Samantha Hammel, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1983 – D'Qwell Jackson, American football player
• 1983 – Archimede Morleo, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer
• 1984 – Thore Schölermann, German actor
• 1985 – Lenna Kuurmaa, Estonian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (Vanilla Ninja)
• 1985 – Talulah Riley, English actress
• 1986 – Ashley Leggat, Canadian actress, singer, and dancer
• 1986 – Rebecca Lim, Singaporean actress
• 1987 – Rosanna Munter, Swedish singer-songwriter and actress (Play)
• 1988 – Kiira Korpi, Finnish figure skater
• 1988 – Marina Kuroki, Japanese actress and singer
• 1988 – Mark Simpson, English clarinet player
• 1989 – Nesma Mahgoub, Egyptian singer
• 1989 – Emma Rigby, English actress
• 1991 – Dan Preston, English footballer
• 2000 – Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah of Jordan

Deaths

• 1417 – Francesco Zabarella, Italian cardinal (b. 1360)
• 1468 – Juan de Torquemada, Spanish cardinal (b. 1388)
• 1501 – Džore Držić, Croatian poet and playwright (b. 1461)
• 1620 – Taichang Emperor of China (b. 1582)
• 1626 – Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese warrior (b. 1554)
• 1716 – Antoine Parent, French mathematician (b. 1666)
• 1763 – John Byron, English poet (b. 1692)
• 1764 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish monk and scholar (b. 1676)
• 1800 – William Billings, American composer (b. 1746)
• 1802 – Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician and military officer (b. 1754)
• 1820 – Daniel Boone, American explorer (b. 1734)
• 1868 – August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)
• 1877 – Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1809)
• 1902 – Levi Strauss, German-American businessman, founded Levi Strauss & Co. (b. 1829)
• 1904 – Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese author(b. 1850)
• 1904 – John Fitzwilliam Stairs, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1848)
• 1908 – Samuel Duvall, American archer (b. 1836)
• 1935 – Iván Persa, Hungarian-Slovene priest (b. 1861)
• 1937 – Bessie Smith, American singer and actress (b. 1894)
• 1945 – Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (b. 1881)
• 1946 – William Strunk, Jr., American author and educator (b. 1869)
• 1947 – Hugh Lofting, English author and poet (b. 1886)
• 1951 – Hans Cloos, German geologist (b. 1885)
• 1952 – George Ducker, Canadian soccer player (b. 1871)
• 1952 – George Santayana, Spanish philosopher (b. 1863)
• 1953 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895)
• 1954 – Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (b. 1868)
• 1957 – Arthur Powell Davies, American minister (b. 1902)
• 1959 – Leslie Morshead, Australian soldier (b. 1889)
• 1963 – Otto Christman, Canadian soccer player (b. 1880)
• 1965 – James Fitzmaurice, Irish pilot (b. 1898)
• 1968 – Lipman Heilprin, Israeli physician (b. 1902)
• 1968 – Daniel Johnson, Sr., Canadian politician, 20th Premier of Quebec (b. 1915)
• 1968 – Władysław Kędra, Polish pianist (b. 1918)
• 1972 – Charles Correll, American actor (b. 1890)
• 1973 – Ralph Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1923)
• 1973 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress (b. 1908)
• 1976 – Lavoslav Ružička, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1978 – Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1979 – Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (b. 1910)
• 1982 – Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (b. 1902)
• 1983 – Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (b. 1907)
• 1984 – Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1948)
• 1984 – John Facenda, American sportscaster (b. 1913)
• 1987 – Ramang, Indonesian footballer (b. 1928)
• 1987 – Herbert Tichy, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1912)
• 1989 – Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Indian singer, composer, and producer (b. 1920)
• 1990 – Alberto Moravia, Italian author (b. 1907)
• 1991 – Billy Vaughn, American singer and bandleader (The Hilltoppers) (b. 1919)
• 1996 – Nicu Ceaușescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)
• 1998 – Betty Carter, American singer (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Oseola McCarty, American philanthropist (b. 1908)
• 1999 – Bernadette O'Farrell, Irish actress (b. 1924)
• 2000 – Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)
• 2000 – Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist (b. 1937)
• 2003 – Shawn Lane, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Black Oak Arkansas) (b. 1963)
• 2003 – Robert Palmer, English singer-songwriter (The Power Station and Vinegar Joe) (b. 1949)
• 2004 – Marianna Komlos, Canadian bodybuilder, model, and wrestler (b. 1969)
• 2005 – Helen Cresswell, English author and scriptwriter (b. 1934)
• 2006 – Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American broadcaster (b. 1916)
• 2007 – Bill Wirtz, American businessman (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Marc Moulin, Belgian keyboard player, producer, and journalist (Aksak Maboul and Telex) (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Paul Newman, American actor, director, and businessman, co-founded Newman's Own (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Terry Newton, English rugby player (b. 1978)
• 2010 – Gloria Stuart, American actress and painter (b. 1910)
• 2011 – Bob Cassilly, American sculptor, founded City Museum (b. 1949)
• 2012 – Sylvia Fedoruk, Canadian scientist and politician, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Eugene D. Genovese, American historian and author (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Vance Heafner, American golfer (b. 1954)
• 2012 – Johnny Lewis, American actor (b. 1983)
• 2012 – Shah Saeed Ahmed Raipuri, Pakistani scholar and author
• 2012 – Maya Nasser, Syrian journalist (b. 1979)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Days:
  • Cosmas and Damian
  • John of Meda
  • Nilus the Younger
  • September 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Day of the National Flag (Ecuador)
• Dominion Day (New Zealand)
• European Day of Languages (European Union)
• Revolution Day (Yemen)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada
• IMDb: Most Popular People Born On September 26

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