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September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 104 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 14 – Tiberius is confirmed as Roman Emperor by the Roman Senate following the natural death of Augustus
• 96 – Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
• 324 – Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
• 1180 – Philip Augustus becomes king of France.
• 1454 – In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War.
• 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Honduras on his fourth, and final, voyage.
• 1635 – Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II of Austria declares war on France.
• 1679 – New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• 1714 – George I arrives in Great Britain for the first time since becoming king on August 1st.
• 1739 – The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.
• 1759 – Seven Years' War: the British capture Quebec City.
• 1793 – The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
• 1809 – The Royal Opera House in London opens.
• 1810 – First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only in the absence of the king, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.
• 1812 – The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
• 1837 – Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
• 1838 – The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
• 1850 – The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
• 1851 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
• 1870 – Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.
• 1872 – King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
• 1873 – Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures.
• 1882 – The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
• 1889 – Hull House, the United States' most influential settlement house, opens in Chicago.
• 1895 – Booker T. Washington delivers the "Atlanta Compromise" address.
• 1895 – Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment.
• 1898 – Fashoda Incident – Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan.
• 1906 – A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
• 1910 – In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage.
• 1911 – Russian Premier Peter Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
• 1914 – The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
• 1914 – World War I: South African troops land in German South West Africa.
• 1919 – The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
• 1919 – Fritz Pollard becomes the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
• 1922 – Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations.
• 1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
• 1928 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
• 1931 – The Mukden Incident gives Japan the pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
• 1934 – The USSR is admitted to the League of Nations.
• 1939 – World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
• 1939 – The Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting.
• 1940 – The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.
• 1943 – World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.
• 1943 – World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
• 1944 – World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Junyō Maru, 5,600 killed.
• 1945 – General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
• 1947 – The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States armed forces.
• 1947 – The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act.
• 1948 – Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of Nizam's Army.
• 1948 – Communist Madiun uprising in Dutch Indies.
• 1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
• 1959 – Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
• 1960 – Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
• 1961 – U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 1962 – Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
• 1964 – Constantine II of Greece marries Danish princess Anne-Marie.
• 1964 – North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
• 1973 – The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
• 1974 – Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
• 1975 – Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
• 1977 – Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
• 1980 – Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (including 1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
• 1981 – Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
• 1982 – Christian militia begin killing six-hundred Palestinians in Lebanon.
• 1984 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
• 1987 – Jerzy Kukuczka becomes the second mountaineer to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
• 1988 – End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students), are killed by the Tatmadaw.
• 1990 – Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
• 1991 – Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities.
• 1992 – An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers.
• 1997 – United States media magnate Ted Turner donates USD 1 billion to the United Nations.
• 1998 – ICANN is formed.
• 2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
• 2007 – Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
• 2007 – Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
• 2009 – The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.

Births

• 53 – Trajan, Roman emperor (d. 117)
• 1344 – Marie of Valois, Duchess of Bar (d. 1404)
• 1434 – Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1467)
• 1587 – Francesca Caccini, Italian singer-songwriter and lute player (d. 1640)
• 1643 – Gilbert Burnet, Scottish bishop, historian, and theologian (d. 1715)
• 1676 – Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1733)
• 1684 – Johann Gottfried Walther, German organist and composer (d. 1748)
• 1709 – Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer and author (d. 1784)
• 1711 – Ignaz Holzbauer, Austrian composer (d. 1783)
• 1733 – George Read, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Delaware (d. 1798)
• 1750 – Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, Spanish poet (d. 1791)
• 1752 – Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (d. 1833)
• 1765 – Pope Gregory XVI (d. 1846)
• 1779 – Joseph Story, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1845)
• 1786 – Christian VIII of Denmark (d. 1848)
• 1786 – Justinus Kerner, German poet and author (d. 1862)
• 1812 – Herschel Vespasian Johnson, American politician, 41st Governor of Georgia (d. 1880)
• 1819 – Léon Foucault, French physicist (d. 1868)
• 1837 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, Portuguese archbishop (d. 1880)
• 1838 – Anton Mauve, Dutch painter (d. 1888)
• 1846 – Richard With, Norwegian captain, businessman, and politician, founded Vesteraalens Dampskibsselskab (d. 1930)
• 1848 – Francis Grierson, English-American pianist and composer (d. 1927)
• 1852 – Clement Lindley Wragge, English meteorologist (d. 1922)
• 1857 – John Hessin Clarke, American lawyer and judge (d. 1945)
• 1858 – Kate Booth, English Salvation Army officer (d. 1955)
• 1859 – John L. Bates, American lawyer and politician, 41st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946)
• 1859 – Lincoln Loy McCandless, American businessman and politician (d. 1940)
• 1860 – Alberto Franchetti, Italian-American composer (d. 1942)
• 1870 – Clark Wissler, American anthropologist (d. 1947)
• 1872 – Carl Friedberg, German-Italian pianist and educator (d. 1955)
• 1874 – Georges Lumpp, French rower (d. 1934)
• 1875 – Tomás Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (d. 1945)
• 1876 – James Scullin, Australian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1953)
• 1878 – James O. Richardson, American admiral (d. 1974)
• 1883 – Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, English composer, author, and painter (d. 1950)
• 1885 – Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Azerbaijani composer, conductor, and playwright (d. 1948)
• 1888 – Grey Owl, English-Canadian environmentalist and author (d. 1938)
• 1888 – Toni Wolff, Swiss psychologist (d. 1953)
• 1889 – Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (d. 1970)
• 1889 – Leslie Morshead, Australian general, businessman, and educator (d. 1959)
• 1893 – Arthur Benjamin, Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1960)
• 1893 – William March, American author (d. 1954)
• 1894 – Fay Compton, English actress (d. 1978)
• 1895 – John Diefenbaker, Canadian lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1979)
• 1895 – Walter Koch, German astrologer (d. 1970)
• 1895 – Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2009)
• 1897 – Pablo Sorozábal, Spanish composer (d. 1988)
• 1900 – Willis Laurence James, American violinist and educator (d. 1966)
• 1900 – Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Mauritian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius (d. 1985)
• 1901 – Harold Clurman, American director and producer (d. 1980)
• 1904 – Bun Cook, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1988)
• 1904 – David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, English politician (d. 1999)
• 1905 – Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, American actor and singer (d. 1977)
• 1905 – Agnes de Mille, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1993)
• 1905 – Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress and singer (d. 1990)
• 1906 – Julio Rosales, Filipino cardinal (d. 1983)
• 1906 – Kaka Hathrasi, Indian poet (d. 1995)
• 1907 – Leon Askin, Austrian actor (d. 2005)
• 1907 – Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
• 1908 – Viktor Hambardzumyan, Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist (d. 1996)
• 1910 – Bernard Kangro, Estonian journalist, author, and poet (d. 1994)
• 1910 – Josef Tal, Israeli composer (d. 2008)
• 1911 – Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
• 1911 – Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, Irish ufologist (d. 1995)
• 1912 – María de la Cruz, Chilean journalist and activist (d. 1995)
• 1912 – Kurt Lotz, German businessman (d. 2005)
• 1914 – Jack Cardiff, English director, cinematographer, and photographer (d. 2009)
• 1916 – Frank Bell, English educator (d. 1989)
• 1916 – Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (d. 1994)
• 1916 – John Jacob Rhodes, American lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
• 1917 – June Foray, American voice actress
• 1917 – Phil Taylor, English footballer and manager (d. 2012)
• 1917 – Francis Parker Yockey, American lawyer and philosopher (d. 1960)
• 1919 – Tommy Hunter, American fiddler (d. 1993)
• 1920 – Jack Warden, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Grayson Hall, American actress (d. 1985)
• 1922 – Ray Steadman-Allen, English composer
• 1923 – Queen Anne of Romania
• 1923 – Peter Smithson, English architect, co-designed Robin Hood Gardens (d. 2003)
• 1923 – Bertha Wilson, Scottish-Canadian jurist, 60th Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (d. 2007)
• 1924 – J. D. Tippit, American police officer (d. 1963)
• 1925 – Harvey Haddix, American baseball player and coach (d. 1994)
• 1925 – Dorothy Wedderburn, English academic (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Bud Greenspan, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Joe Kubert, American author and illustrator, founded The Kubert School (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Bob Toski, American golfer and coach
• 1927 – Phyllis Kirk, American actress (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Teddi King, American singer (d. 1977)
• 1929 – Nancy Littlefield, American director and producer (d. 2007)
• 1929 – Bert Worner, Australian footballer (d. 2012)
• 1932 – Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Russian physicist and astronaut (d. 2002)
• 1933 – Bob Bennett, American soldier and politician
• 1933 – Robert Blake, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1933 – Scotty Bowman, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1933 – Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov, Russian opera singer
• 1933 – Charles Roach, Trinidadian-Canadian lawyer and activist (d. 2012)
• 1933 – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1935 – Peter Clarke, English cartoonist (d. 2012)
• 1935 – John Spencer, English snooker player (d. 2006)
• 1936 – Big Tom, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Big Tom and The Mainliners)
• 1937 – Ralph Backstrom, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1938 – Billy Robinson, English-American wrestler and trainer (d. 2014)
• 1939 – Frankie Avalon, American actor and singer
• 1939 – Gerry Harvey, Australian businessman, co-founded Harvey Norman
• 1939 – Jorge Sampaio, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 18th President of Portugal
• 1939 – Fred Willard, American actor
• 1939 – Jan Camiel Willems, Belgian theorist (d. 2013)
• 1942 – Gabriella Ferri, Italian singer (d. 2004)
• 1942 – Alex Stepney, English footballer
• 1944 – Satan's Angel, American dancer
• 1944 – Michael Franks, American singer-songwriter
• 1944 – Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
• 1944 – Charles L. Veach, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1995)
• 1945 – P. F. Sloan, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1945 – John McAfee, Scottish-American computer programmer, founded McAfee
• 1946 – Benjamín Brea, Spanish-Venezuelan saxophonist, clarinet player, and conductor (Los Cañoneros) (d. 2014)
• 1946 – Nicholas Clay, English actor (d. 2000)
• 1946 – Kelvin Coe, Australian ballet dancer (d. 1992)
• 1946 – Billy Drago, American actor and producer
• 1946 – Otis Sistrunk, American football player
• 1947 – Russ Abbot, English comedian, actor, and singer
• 1947 – Drew Gilpin Faust, American historian and academic
• 1947 – Giancarlo Minardi, Italian businessman, founded the Minardi Racing Team
• 1948 – Lynn Abbey, American computer programmer and author
• 1948 – Rodger Beckman, American baseball player and radio host
• 1948 – Ken Brett, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2003)
• 1948 – Christopher Skase, Australian businessman (d. 2001)
• 1949 – Kerry Livgren, American guitarist and songwriter (Kansas, AD, and Proto-Kaw)
• 1949 – Jim McCrery, American lawyer and politician
• 1949 – Mo Mowlam, English politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office (d. 2005)
• 1949 – Peter Shilton, English footballer and manager
• 1950 – Shabana Azmi, Indian actress and singer
• 1950 – Chris Heister, Swedish politician
• 1950 – Darryl Sittler, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1950 – Anna Deavere Smith, American actress and playwright
• 1951 – Ben Carson, American neurosurgeon
• 1951 – Dee Dee Ramone, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Ramones) (d. 2002)
• 1951 – Tony Scott, American baseball player
• 1951 – Darryl Stingley, American football player (d. 2007)
• 1951 – Marc Surer, Swiss race car driver
• 1952 – Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos, Greek politician
• 1952 – Rick Pitino, American basketball player and coach
• 1953 – Carl Jackson, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1953 – John McGlinn, American conductor (d. 2009)
• 1954 – Murtaza Bhutto, Pakistani politician (d. 1996)
• 1954 – Takao Doi, Japanese engineer and astronaut
• 1954 – Dennis Johnson, American basketball player and coach (d. 2007)
• 1954 – Steven Pinker, Canadian-American psychologist, linguist, and author
• 1954 – Tommy Tuberville, American football player and coach
• 1955 – Keith Morris, American singer-songwriter (Black Flag, Circle Jerks, and Off!)
• 1955 – Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor (d. 2006)
• 1956 – Chris Hedges, American journalist and author
• 1956 – Tim McInnerny, English actor
• 1956 – Peter Šťastný, Slovak ice hockey player and politician
• 1957 – Emily Remler, American guitarist (d. 1990)
• 1958 – John Aldridge, English-Irish footballer and manager
• 1958 – Don Geronimo, American radio host
• 1958 – Linda Lusardi, English model and actress
• 1958 – Joan Walsh, American journalist
• 1959 – Ian Arkwright, English footballer
• 1959 – Mark Romanek, American director and screenwriter
• 1959 – Ryne Sandberg, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1960 – Stephen Flaherty, American composer
• 1961 – James Gandolfini, American actor (d. 2013)
• 1961 – Konstantin Kakanias, Greek painter and multimedia artist
• 1961 – Mark Olson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Jayhawks and Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers)
• 1961 – Lori and George Schappell, American conjoined twins
• 1962 – Joanne Catherall, English singer (The Human League)
• 1962 – John Fashanu, English footballer and manager
• 1962 – John Mann, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Spirit of the West)
• 1962 – Aden Ridgeway, Australian politician
• 1962 – Boris Said, American race car driver
• 1963 – Jim Pocklington, English race car driver
• 1963 – John Powell, English-Canadian composer and conductor
• 1964 – Jens Henschel, German footballer
• 1964 – Marco Masini, Italian singer-songwriter
• 1964 – Holly Robinson Peete, American actress and singer
• 1966 – Tom Chorske, American ice hockey player
• 1967 – Ricky Bell, American singer (New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe)
• 1967 – Tara Fitzgerald, English actress
• 1968 – Upendra, Indian actor, singer, director, and screenwriter
• 1968 – Toni Kukoč, Croatian basketball player
• 1969 – Cappadonna, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan and Theodore Unit)
• 1970 – Mike Compton, American football player and coach
• 1970 – Dan Eldon, English photographer and journalist (d. 1993)
• 1970 – Darren Gough, English cricketer
• 1970 – Aisha Tyler, American actress, television host, and author
• 1971 – Lance Armstrong, American cyclist and activist, founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation
• 1971 – Anna Netrebko, Russian soprano
• 1971 – Jada Pinkett Smith, American actress and singer (Wicked Wisdom)
• 1971 – Michael Patrick Walker, American composer and conductor
• 1972 – Brigitte Becue, Belgian swimmer
• 1972 – Adam Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Low Millions)
• 1972 – David Jefferies, English motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
• 1973 – Paul Brousseau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1973 – James Marsden, American actor and singer
• 1973 – Ami Onuki, Japanese singer and voice actress (Puffy AmiYumi)
• 1973 – Mark Shuttleworth, South African-English businessman, founded Canonical Ltd.
• 1973 – Aitor Karanka, Spanish footballer
• 1974 – Xzibit, American rapper and actor (Likwit Crew)
• 1974 – Sol Campbell, English footballer
• 1974 – Andrew Hansen, Australian comedian, singer, and screenwriter
• 1974 – Damon Jones, American football player and coach
• 1974 – Ticha Penicheiro, Portuguese basketball player
• 1974 – Travis Schuldt, American actor
• 1975 – Kanstantsin Lukashyk, Belarusian target shooter
• 1975 – Jason Sudeikis, American actor and screenwriter
• 1975 – Guillermo Vargas, Costa Rican photographer and painter
• 1976 – Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer
• 1976 – Gabriel Gervais, Canadian soccer player
• 1977 – Li Tie, Chinese footballer and manager
• 1977 – Kieran West, English rower
• 1978 – Iain Lees-Galloway, New Zealand politician
• 1978 – Pilar López de Ayala, Spanish actress
• 1978 – Ryan Lowe, English footballer
• 1978 – Augustine Simo, Cameroonian footballer
• 1978 – Matthaios Tsahouridis, Greek musician
• 1979 – Daniel Aranzubia, Spanish footballer
• 1979 – Alison Lohman, American actress
• 1979 – Vinay Rai, Indian model and actor
• 1979 – Simon Trpčeski, Macedonian pianist
• 1980 – Jonathan Biss, American pianist and educator
• 1980 – Mickey Higham, English rugby player
• 1980 – Avi Strool, Israeli footballer
• 1980 – Chris Tarrant, Australian footballer
• 1980 – Petri Virtanen, Finnish basketball player
• 1981 – JeA, South Korean singer-songwriter and producer (Brown Eyed Girls)
• 1981 – Jennifer Tisdale, American actress and singer
• 1981 – Sebastián Decoud, Argentinian tennis player
• 1981 – Kristaps Valters, Latvian basketball player
• 1981 – Nicole da Silva, Australian actress
• 1982 – Alessandro Cibocchi, Italian footballer
• 1982 – Arvydas Eitutavičius, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1982 – Alfredo Talavera, Mexican footballer
• 1983 – Kevin Doyle, Irish footballer
• 1984 – Jack Carpenter, American actor
• 1984 – Anthony Gonzalez, American football player
• 1985 – Tarah Gieger, Puerto Rican motocross racer
• 1986 – Keeley Hazell, English model and actress
• 1987 – Jinkx Monsoon, American drag queen performer
• 1988 – Asher Monroe, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (V Factory)
• 1988 – Annette Obrestad, Norwegian poker player
• 1989 – Serge Ibaka, Congolese-Spanish basketball player
• 1990 – Lewis Holtby, German footballer
• 1992 – Amber Liu, American-South Korean singer and dancer (f(x))
• 1993 – Patrick Schwarzenegger, American model and actor

Deaths

• 96 – Domitian, Roman emperor (b. 51)
• 411 – Constantine III, Roman general and emperor
• 887 – Pietro I Candiano, Italian 16th Doge of Venice (b. 842)
• 1180 – Louis VII of France (b. 1120)
• 1598 – Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese daimyo (b. 1536)
• 1630 – Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal (b. 1552)
• 1675 – Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1604)
• 1721 – Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (b. 1664)
• 1722 – André Dacier, French scholar (b. 1651)
• 1783 – Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (b. 1707)
• 1783 – Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and scholar (b. 1718)
• 1792 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German bishop and theologian (b. 1704)
• 1827 – Robert Pollok, Scottish-English poet (b. 1789)
• 1830 – William Hazlitt, English philosopher, painter, and critic (b. 1778)
• 1857 – Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer and conductor (b. 1785)
• 1860 – Joseph Locke, English engineer (b. 1805)
• 1872 – Charles XV of Sweden (b. 1826)
• 1890 – Dion Boucicault, Irish-American actor and playwright (b. 1820)
• 1896 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (b. 1819)
• 1905 – George MacDonald, Scottish minister, author, and poet (b. 1824)
• 1909 – Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian archaeologist and historian (b. 1850)
• 1911 – Pyotr Stolypin, Russian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1862)
• 1924 – F. H. Bradley, English philosopher and author (b. 1846)
• 1931 – Geli Raubal, Austrian niece of Adolf Hitler (b. 1908)
• 1939 – Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish author, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)
• 1941 – Fred Karno, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1866)
• 1944 – Robert G. Cole, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1915)
• 1949 – Frank Morgan, American actor and singer (b. 1890)
• 1951 – Gelett Burgess, American author and poet (b. 1866)
• 1952 – Frances Alda, New Zealand-Australian soprano (b. 1879)
• 1953 – Charles de Tornaco, Belgian race car driver (b. 1927)
• 1954 – Johannes Drost, Dutch swimmer (b. 1880)
• 1956 – Adélard Godbout, Canadian agronomist and politician, 15th Premier of Quebec (b. 1892)
• 1958 – Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian painter and illustrator (b. 1873)
• 1959 – Benjamin Péret, French poet (b. 1899)
• 1961 – Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish economist and diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1962 – Therese Neumann, German mystic and stigmatic (b. 1898)
• 1964 – Clive Bell, English critic (b. 1881)
• 1964 – Seán O'Casey, Irish-English author and playwright (b. 1880)
• 1967 – John Cockcroft, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1968 – Franchot Tone, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1905)
• 1970 – Jimi Hendrix, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1942)
• 1977 – Paul Bernays, English-Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)
• 1980 – Katherine Anne Porter, American journalist and author (b. 1890)
• 1987 – Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (b. 1894)
• 1992 – Mohammad Hidayatullah, Indian lawyer, judge, and politician, 6th Vice President of India (b. 1905)
• 1995 – Oleh Tverdokhlib, Ukrainian hurdler (b. 1969)
• 1997 – Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Charlie Foxx, American singer and guitarist (Inez and Charlie Foxx) (b. 1939)
• 2001 – Ernie Coombs, American-Canadian television host (b. 1927)
• 2002 – Bob Hayes, American sprinter and football player (b. 1942)
• 2002 – Mauro Ramos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1930)
• 2002 – Margita Stefanović, Serbian keyboard player (Ekatarina Velika) (b. 1959)
• 2003 – Emil Fackenheim, German rabbi and philosopher (b. 1916)
• 2003 – Bob Mitchell, English politician (b. 1927)
• 2004 – Norman Cantor, Canadian-American historian and educator (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Russ Meyer, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Michael Park, English race car driver (b. 1966)
• 2005 – Clint C. Wilson, Sr., American cartoonist (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Edward J. King, American politician, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Pepsi Tate, Welsh bass player (Tigertailz) (b. 1965)
• 2008 – Mauricio Kagel, German-Argentinian composer (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Ron Lancaster, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Santiago Carrillo, Spanish politician (b. 1915)
• 2012 – Leo Goeke, American tenor (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Haim Hefer, Polish-Israeli songwriter and poet (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Michael Hurll, English director and producer (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Jim Jordan, Canadian educator and politician (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Jack Kralick, American baseball player (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Steve Sabol, American director and producer, co-founded NFL Films (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Louis Simpson, Jamaican poet (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Deputed Testamony, American race horse (b. 1980)
• 2012 – Brian Woolnough, English journalist (b. 1948)
• 2013 – Veliyam Bharghavan, Indian politician (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Lindsay Cooper, English bassoon player and composer (Henry Cow, News from Babel, and Feminist Improvising Group) (b. 1951)
• 2013 – Joy Covey, American businesswoman (b. 1963)
• 2013 – Marta Heflin, American actress (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Johnny Laboriel, Mexican singer (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Arthur Lamothe, French-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Dominique Loiseau, French-Swiss watchmaker (b. 1949)
• 2013 – Ken Norton, American boxer and actor (b. 1943)
• 2013 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-German critic (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Richard C. Sarafian, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1930)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Constantius (Theban Legion)
  • Eustorgius I
  • Joseph of Cupertino
  • Methodius of Olympus
  • Richardis
  • September 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Day of National Music (Azerbaijan)
• Island Language Day (Okinawa Prefecture, Japan)
• National Day or Dieciocho, the date of the first Government Junta after the Chilean independence on February 12, 1818 (Chile)
• World Water Monitoring Day (International)

External links

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