September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 107 days remain until the end of the year.
Events Pre-1600 1601–1900 1901–present 1915 – The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema ), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia , opens in Bowral , New South Wales .1915 – New Culture Movement : Chen Duxiu establishes the New Youth Shanghai .[6] 1916 – World War I : Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme .1918 – World War I: Allied troops break through the Bulgarian defenses on the Macedonian front .1935 – The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship .1935 – Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika . 1940 – World War II : The climax of the Battle of Britain , when the Luftwaffe launches its largest and most concentrated attack of the entire campaign.1942 – World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is sunk by Japanese torpedoes at Guadalcanal .1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.1944 – Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps ' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army 's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery. 1945 – A hurricane strikes southern Florida and the Bahamas , destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps at Naval Air Station Richmond .1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.1948 – The Indian Army captures the towns of Jalna , Latur , Mominabad , Surriapet and Narkatpalli as part of Operation Polo .1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h). 1950 – Korean War : The U.S. X Corps lands at Inchon .1952 – The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia .1954 – Marilyn Monroe 's iconic skirt scene is shot during filming for The Seven Year Itch [7] 1958 – A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay , killing 48.1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba , one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis .1963 – Baptist Church bombing : Four children killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama , United States.1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson , responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin , writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.1971 – The first Greenpeace ship departs from Vancouver to protest against the upcoming Cannikin nuclear weapon test in Alaska.1972 – A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö Bulltofta Airport .1974 – Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked , then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.1975 – The French department of "Corse " (the entire island of Corsica ) is divided into two: Haute-Corse (Upper Corsica) and Corse-du-Sud (Southern Corsica).1978 – Muhammad Ali outpoints Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New Orleans .1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States .1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C. 1983 – Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.1995 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 2133 crashes at Tawau Airport in Malaysia , killing 34.[8] 2000 – The Summer Olympics , officially known as the games of the XXVII Olympiad, are opened in Sydney , Australia .2001 – During a CART race at the Lausitzring in Germany, former Formula One driver Alex Zanardi suffers a heavy accident resulting in him losing both his legs.[9] 2004 – National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players' union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.2011 – Four miners are killed in the Gleision Colliery mining accident in the Swansea Valley, Wales, UK.[10] 2017 – The Parsons Green bombing takes place in London .2020 – Signing of the Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement occurs in Washington, D.C. , normalizing relations between Israel and two Arab nations, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain .[11] Births Pre-1600 1601–1900 1613 – François de La Rochefoucauld , French soldier and author (d. 1680)1649 – Titus Oates , English minister, fabricated the Popish Plot (d. 1705)[18] 1666 – Sophia Dorothea of Celle (d. 1726)[19] 1690 – Ignazio Prota , Italian composer and educator (d. 1748)1715 – Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval , French general and engineer (d. 1789)1736 – Jean Sylvain Bailly , French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (d. 1793)[20] 1759 – Cornelio Saavedra , Argentinean general and politician (d. 1829)1760 – Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien , Prussian general (d. 1824)1765 – Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage , Portuguese poet and author (d. 1805)1789 – James Fenimore Cooper , American novelist, short story writer, and historian (d. 1851)[21] 1815 – Halfdan Kjerulf , Norwegian journalist and composer (d. 1868)[22] 1819 – Cyprien Tanguay , Canadian priest and historian (d. 1902)[23] 1828 – Alexander Butlerov , Russian chemist and academic (d. 1886)1830 – Porfirio Díaz , Mexican general and politician, 29th President of Mexico (d. 1915)1846 – George Franklin Grant , African-American educator, dentist, and inventor (d. 1910)1852 – Edward Bouchet , American physicist and educator (d. 1918)1852 – Jan Ernst Matzeliger , Surinamese-American inventor (d. 1889) 1857 – William Howard Taft , American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (d. 1930)1857 – Anna Winlock , American astronomer and academic (d. 1904)[24] 1858 – Charles de Foucauld , French priest and martyr (d. 1916)1858 – Jenő Hubay , Hungarian violinist, composer, and educator (d. 1937) 1861 – M. Visvesvaraya , Indian engineer, scholar, and Bharat Ratna Laureate, Diwan of the Mysore Kingdom (d. 1962)1863 – Horatio Parker , American organist, composer, and educator (d. 1919)1864 – Prince Sigismund of Prussia (d. 1866)1867 – Vladimir May-Mayevsky , Russian general (d. 1920)1876 – Bruno Walter , German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1962)1876 – Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay , Bengali novelist (d. 1938) 1877 – Jakob Ehrlich , Czech-Austrian politician (d. 1938)1877 – Yente Serdatzky , Lithuanian-American author and playwright (d. 1962) 1879 – Joseph Lyons , Australian educator and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)1881 – Ettore Bugatti , Italian-French businessman, founded Bugatti (d. 1947)1883 – Esteban Terradas i Illa , Spanish mathematician and engineer (d. 1950)1886 – Paul Lévy , French mathematician and theorist (d. 1971)1887 – Carlos Dávila , Chilean journalist and politician, President of Chile (d. 1955)1888 – Antonio Ascari , Italian race car driver (d. 1925)1889 – Robert Benchley , American humorist, newspaper columnist, and actor (d. 1945)1889 – Claude McKay , Jamaican-American poet and author (d. 1948) 1890 – Ernest Bullock , English organist and composer (d. 1979)1890 – Sonja Branting-Westerståhl , Swedish lawyer (d. 1981)[25] 1890 – Agatha Christie , English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 1976)[26] 1890 – Frank Martin , Swiss-Dutch pianist and composer (d. 1974) 1892 – Silpa Bhirasri , Italian sculptor and educator (d. 1962)1894 – Chic Harley , American football player (d. 1974)1894 – Oskar Klein , Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1977) 1894 – Jean Renoir , French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1979) 1895 – Magda Lupescu , mistress and later wife of King Carol II of Romania (d.1977)1897 – Merle Curti , American historian and author (d. 1997)1898 – J. Slauerhoff , Dutch poet and author (d. 1936)1901–present 1901 – Donald Bailey , English engineer, designed Bailey bridge (d. 1985)1903 – Roy Acuff , American singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 1992)1904 – Umberto II of Italy (d. 1983)1904 – Sheilah Graham Westbrook , English-American actress, journalist, and author (d. 1988) 1906 – Jacques Becker , French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1960)1906 – Walter E. Rollins , American songwriter (d. 1973) 1907 – Gunnar Ekelöf , Swedish poet and author (d. 1968)1907 – Fay Wray , Canadian-American actress (d. 2004) 1908 – Kid Sheik , American trumpet player (d. 1996)1908 – Penny Singleton , American actress and singer (d. 2003) 1909 – C. N. Annadurai , Indian educator and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 1969)1909 – Phil Arnold , American actor (d. 1968) 1910 – Betty Neels , English nurse and author (d. 2001)1911 – Karsten Solheim , Norwegian-American businessman, founded PING (d. 2000)1911 – Luther Terry , American physician and academic, 9th Surgeon General of the United States (d. 1985) 1913 – Henry Brant , Canadian-American composer and conductor (d. 2008)1913 – Bruno Hoffmann , German glass harp player (d. 1991) 1913 – John N. Mitchell , American lawyer, and politician, 67th United States Attorney General (d. 1988) 1913 – Johannes Steinhoff , German general and pilot (d. 1994) 1914 – Creighton Abrams , American general (d. 1974)1914 – Adolfo Bioy Casares , Argentinian journalist and author (d. 1999) 1914 – Orhan Kemal , Turkish author (d. 1970) 1914 – Robert McCloskey , American author and illustrator (d. 2003) 1915 – Fawn M. Brodie , American historian and author (d. 1981)1915 – Al Casey , American guitarist and composer (d. 2005) 1915 – Albert Whitlock , English-American special effects designer (d. 1999) 1916 – Margaret Lockwood , Pakistani-English actress (d. 1990)1916 – Frederick C. Weyand , American general (d. 2010) 1917 – Hilde Gueden , Austrian soprano (d. 1988)[27] 1917 – Buddy Jeannette , American basketball player and coach (d. 1998)[28] 1918 – Alfred D. Chandler Jr. , American historian and academic (d. 2007)1918 – Phil Lamason , New Zealand soldier and pilot (d. 2012) 1918 – Margot Loyola , Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015) 1918 – Nipsey Russell , American comedian and actor (d. 2005) 1919 – Fausto Coppi , Italian cyclist and soldier (d. 1960)1919 – Nelson Gidding , American author and screenwriter (d. 2004) 1919 – Heda Margolius Kovály , Czech author and translator (d. 2010) 1920 – Kym Bonython , Australian race car driver, drummer, and radio host (d. 2011)1921 – Richard Gordon , English surgeon and author (d. 2017)1921 – Gene Roland , American pianist and composer (d. 1982) 1922 – Bob Anderson , English fencer and choreographer (d. 2012)1922 – Jackie Cooper , American actor (d. 2011) 1922 – Gaetano Cozzi , Italian historian and academic (d. 2001) 1922 – Mary Soames , English author (d. 2014) 1923 – Anton Heiller , Austrian organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1979)1924 – Lucebert , Dutch poet and painter (d. 1994)1924 – György Lázár , Hungarian politician, 50th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2014) 1924 – Bobby Short , American singer and pianist (d. 2005) 1924 – Mordechai Tzipori , Israeli politician and soldier (d. 2017) 1925 – Stanley Chapman , English architect and author (d. 2009)1925 – Erika Köth , German soprano (d. 1981) 1925 – Carlo Rambaldi , Italian special effects artist (d. 2012) 1925 – Helle Virkner , Danish actress and singer (d. 2009) 1926 – Shohei Imamura , Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2006)1926 – Jean-Pierre Serre , French mathematician and academic 1927 – Rudolf Anderson , pilot and commissioned officer in the United States Air Force (d. 1962)1927 – Norm Crosby , American comedian and actor (d. 2020) 1927 – David Stove , Australian philosopher and academic (d. 1994) 1928 – Cannonball Adderley , American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1975)1929 – Eva Burrows , Australian 13th General of The Salvation Army (d. 2015)1929 – Murray Gell-Mann , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019) 1929 – Stan Kelly-Bootle , English singer-songwriter, computer scientist, and author (d. 2014) 1929 – Dick Latessa , American actor (d. 2016) 1929 – John Julius Norwich , English historian and author (d. 2018) 1929 – Wilbur Snyder , American football player and wrestler (d. 1991) 1929 – Mümtaz Soysal , Turkish academic and politician, 30th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2019) 1930 – Endel Lippmaa , Estonian physicist and academic (d. 2015)1931 – Brian Henderson , New Zealand-Australian journalist, actor, and producer (d. 2021)1932 – Neil Bartlett , English-American chemist and academic (d. 2008)1933 – Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , Spanish conductor and composer (d. 2014)1934 – Tomie dePaola , American author and illustrator (d. 2020)1934 – Fred Nile , Australian soldier, minister, and politician 1935 – Dinkha IV , Iraqi patriarch (d. 2015)1936 – Ashley Cooper , Australian tennis player (d. 2020)1936 – Sara Henderson , Australian farmer and author (d. 2005) 1937 – Joey Carew , Trinidadian cricketer (d. 2011)1937 – Fernando de la Rúa , Argentinian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Argentina (d. 2019) 1937 – King Curtis Iaukea , American wrestler (d. 2010) 1937 – Robert Lucas Jr. , American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1937 – Pino Puglisi , Italian priest and martyr (d. 1993) 1938 – Gaylord Perry , American baseball player and coach1939 – Subramanian Swamy , Indian economist, academic, and politician, Indian Minister of Law and Justice 1939 – George Walden , English journalist and politician 1940 – Merlin Olsen , American football player, sportscaster, and actor (d. 2010)1941 – Flórián Albert , Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 2011)1941 – Signe Toly Anderson , American rock singer (d. 2016) 1941 – Mirosław Hermaszewski , Polish general, pilot, and astronaut 1941 – Yuriy Norshteyn , Russian animator, director, and screenwriter 1941 – Viktor Zubkov , Russian businessman and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Russia 1942 – Lee Dorman , American bass player (d. 2012)[29] 1942 – Philip Harris, Baron Harris of Peckham , English businessman and politician 1942 – Ksenia Milicevic , French painter and architect 1944 – Mauro Piacenza , Italian cardinal1944 – Graham Taylor , English footballer and manager (d. 2017) 1945 – Carmen Maura , Spanish actress1945 – Jessye Norman , American soprano (d. 2019) 1945 – Hans-Gert Pöttering , German lawyer and politician, 23rd President of the European Parliament 1945 – Ron Shelton , American director, producer, and screenwriter 1946 – Tommy Lee Jones , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter1946 – Mike Procter , South African cricketer, coach, and referee 1946 – Oliver Stone , American director, screenwriter, and producer 1946 – Howard Waldrop , American author and critic 1947 – Russel L. Honoré , retired lieutenant general best known for serving as commander of Joint Task Force Katrina responsible for coordinating military relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina –affected areas across the Gulf Coast [30] [31] 1947 – Viggo Jensen , Danish footballer and manager 1947 – Diane E. Levin , American educator and author 1947 – Theodore Long , American wrestling referee and manager 1949 – Joe Barton , American lawyer and politician1950 – Rajiv Malhotra , Indian author1950 – Mirza Masroor Ahmad , Pakistani-English caliph and scholar 1951 – Pete Carroll , American football player and coach1951 – Johan Neeskens , Dutch footballer and manager 1951 – Fred Seibert , owner of Nickelodeon and Frederator Studios 1952 – Richard Brodeur , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster1952 – Paula Duncan , Australian actress 1952 – Ratnajeevan Hoole , Sri Lankan engineer and academic 1952 – Kelly Keagy , American singer and drummer 1953 – Keiko Takeshita , Japanese actress1953 – Margie Moran , Filipino peace advocate and beauty queen, Miss Universe 1973 [32] 1954 – Adrian Adonis , American wrestler (d. 1988)1954 – Hrant Dink , Turkish journalist (d. 2007) 1955 – Željka Antunović , Croatian politician, 9th Croatian Minister of Defence 1955 – Abdul Qadir , Pakistani cricketer (d. 2019) 1955 – Bruce Reitherman , American voice actor, singer, cinematographer, and producer 1955 – Renzo Rosso , Italian fashion designer and businessman, co-founded Diesel Clothing 1956 – Ross J. Anderson , British academic and educator1956 – Maggie Reilly , Scottish singer-songwriter 1956 – Ned Rothenberg , American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer 1958 – Joel Quenneville , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1958 – Wendie Jo Sperber , American actress (d. 2005) 1959 – Mark Kirk , American commander, lawyer, and politician1960 – Ed Solomon , American director, producer, and screenwriter1960 – Lisa Vanderpump , British restaurateur, television personality, and author[33] 1961 – Terry Lamb , Australian rugby league player and coach1961 – Helen Margetts , British political scientist 1961 – Dan Marino , American football player and sportscaster 1961 – Patrick Patterson , Jamaican cricketer 1962 – Amanda Wakeley , English fashion designer1963 – Pete Myers , American basketball player and coach1963 – Stephen C. Spiteri , Maltese military historian 1964 – Robert Fico , Slovak academic and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Slovakia 1964 – Steve Watkin , Welsh cricketer 1964 – Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein , American guitarist and songwriter 1966 – Wenn V. Deramas , Filipino director and screenwriter (d. 2016)1966 – Sherman Douglas , American basketball player[34] 1967 – Paul Abbott , American baseball player and coach1967 – Rodney Eyles , Australian squash player 1969 – Revaz Arveladze , Georgian footballer1969 – Corby Davidson , American radio personality 1969 – Allen Shellenberger , American drummer (d. 2009) 1971 – Nathan Astle , New Zealand cricketer and coach1971 – Josh Charles , American actor and director 1971 – Wayne Ferreira , South African tennis player 1971 – Michael Malone , American basketball coach 1971 – Ben Wallers , English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1972 – Jimmy Carr , English comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter1972 – Queen Letizia of Spain 1972 – Lady Victoria , American wrestler 1973 – Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland , Swedish prince1974 – Arata Iura , Japanese actor, model, and fashion designer1975 – Tom Dolan , American swimmer1975 – Martina Krupičková , Czech painter 1976 – Brett Kimmorley , Australian rugby league player and sportscaster1976 – Paul Thomson , Scottish drummer 1976 – Matt Thornton , American baseball player 1977 – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , Nigerian author[35] 1977 – Angela Aki , Japanese singer-songwriter 1977 – Sophie Dahl , English model and author 1977 – Leander Jordan , American football player 1977 – Jason Terry , American basketball player 1978 – Zach Filkins , American guitarist1978 – Eiður Guðjohnsen , Icelandic footballer 1978 – Genki Horiguchi , Japanese wrestler 1979 – Dave Annable , American actor1979 – Patrick Marleau , Canadian ice hockey player 1979 – Carlos Ruiz , Guatemalan footballer 1979 – Reece Young , New Zealand cricketer 1980 – David Diehl , American football player and sportscaster1980 – Mike Dunleavy Jr. , American basketball player 1981 – Ben Schwartz , American actor, comedian and writer[36] 1983 – Yuka Hirata , Japanese actress and model1983 – Luke Hochevar , American baseball player 1984 – Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex 1984 – Loek van Mil , Dutch baseball player (d. 2019) 1984 – Cyhi the Prynce , American rapper and producer 1985 – François-Olivier Roberge , Canadian speed skater1986 – Jenna Marbles , American YouTuber and comedian1986 – George Watsky , American hip-hop artist, poet and author 1987 – Vaila Barsley , Scottish footballer[37] 1987 – Aly Cissokho , French footballer 1987 – Rhett Titus , American wrestler 1988 – Tim Moltzen , Australian rugby league player[38] 1990 – Oliver Gill , English footballer[39] 1990 – Aaron Mooy , Australian footballer[40] 1991 – Phil Ofosu-Ayeh , German-Ghanaian footballer1992 – Jae Park , South Korean-American singer1995 – Joe Ofahengaue , New Zealand-Tongan rugby league player1993 – JP Tokoto , American basketball player[41] 1997 – Quin Houff , American racing driver[42] Deaths Pre-1600 921 – Ludmila of Bohemia , Czech martyr and saint (b. 860)1140 – Adelaide of Hungary, Duchess of Bohemia 1146 – Alan, 1st Earl of Richmond , English soldier (b. 1100)1231 – Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1173)1326 – Dmitry of Tver (b. 1299)1352 – Ewostatewos , Ethiopian monk and saint (b. 1273)1397 – Adam Easton , English cardinal1408 – Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent , English politician (b. 1384)1496 – Hugh Clopton , Lord Mayor of London (b. c. 1440)1500 – John Morton , English cardinal and academic (b. 1420)1504 – Elisabeth of Bavaria , Electress of the Palatinate (b. 1478)1510 – Saint Catherine of Genoa (b. 1447)1559 – Isabella Jagiellon , Queen of Hungary (d. 1519 )1595 – John MacMorran , Baillie of Edinburgh, shot by rioting high school schoolchildren.[43] 1596 – Leonhard Rauwolf , German physician and botanist (b. 1535)1601–1900 1613 – Thomas Overbury , English poet and author (b. 1581)1643 – Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork , English-Irish politician, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland (b. 1566)1649 – John Floyd , English priest and educator (b. 1572)1700 – André Le Nôtre , French gardener (b. 1613)1701 – Edmé Boursault , French author and playwright (b. 1638)1707 – George Stepney , English poet and diplomat (b. 1663)1712 – Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin , English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1645)1750 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel , German organist and composer (b. 1690)1794 – Abraham Clark , American police officer and politician (b. 1725)1803 – Gian Francesco Albani , Italian cardinal (b. 1719)1813 – Antoine Étienne de Tousard , French general and engineer (b. 1752)1830 – François Baillairgé , Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1759)1830 – William Huskisson , English financier and politician, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (b. 1770) 1841 – Alessandro Rolla , Italian violinist and composer (b. 1757)1842 – Pierre Baillot , French violinist and composer (b. 1771)1842 – Francisco Morazán , Guatemalan general, lawyer, and politician, President of Central American Federation (b. 1792) 1852 – Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern , German-Estonian philologist and academic (b. 1770)1859 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel , English architect and engineer, designed the Great Western Railway (b. 1806)1864 – John Hanning Speke , English soldier and explorer (b. 1827)1874 – Charles-Amédée Kohler , Swiss chocolatier (b. 1790)[44] 1883 – Joseph Plateau , Belgian physicist and academic (b. 1801)1893 – Thomas Hawksley , English engineer (b. 1807)1901–present 1915 – Ernest Gagnon , Canadian organist and composer (b. 1834)1921 – Roman von Ungern-Sternberg , Austrian-Russian general (b. 1886)1926 – Rudolf Christoph Eucken , German philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)1930 – Milton Sills , American actor and screenwriter (b. 1882)1938 – Thomas Wolfe , American novelist (b. 1900)1940 – William B. Bankhead , American lawyer and politician, 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1874)1945 – André Tardieu , French journalist and politician, 97th Prime Minister of France (b. 1876)1945 – Anton Webern , Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1883) 1945 – Linnie Marsh Wolfe , American librarian and author (b. 1881) 1952 – Hugo Raudsepp , Estonian author and playwright (b. 1883)1965 – Steve Brown , American bassist (b. 1890)1972 – Ulvi Cemal Erkin , Turkish composer and educator (b. 1906)1972 – Baki Süha Ediboğlu , Turkish poet and author (b. 1915) 1972 – Geoffrey Fisher , English archbishop and academic (b. 1887) 1973 – Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1882)1975 – Franco Bordoni , Italian race car driver and pilot (b. 1913)1978 – Robert Cliche , Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1921)1978 – Edmund Crispin , English writer and composer (b. 1921) 1978 – Willy Messerschmitt , German engineer and academic, designed the Messerschmitt Bf 109 (b. 1898) 1980 – Bill Evans , American pianist and composer (b. 1929)1981 – Rafael Méndez , Mexican trumpet player and composer (b. 1906)1983 – Prince Far I , Jamaican DJ and producer (b. 1944)1985 – Cootie Williams , American trumpet player (b. 1910)1989 – Jan DeGaetani , American soprano (b. 1933)1989 – Olga Erteszek , Polish-American fashion designer (b. 1916) 1989 – Robert Penn Warren , American novelist, poet, and literary critic (b. 1905) 1991 – John Hoyt , American actor (b. 1904)1991 – Warner Troyer , Canadian journalist and author (b. 1932) 1993 – Pino Puglisi , Italian priest and martyr (b. 1937)1995 – Harry Calder , South African cricketer (b. 1901)1995 – Gunnar Nordahl , Swedish footballer and manager (b. 1921) 1997 – Bulldog Brower , American wrestler (b. 1933)1998 – Louis Rasminsky , Canadian economist, 3rd Governor of the Bank of Canada (b. 1908)2001 – June Salter , Australian actress and author (b. 1932)2003 – Garner Ted Armstrong , American evangelist and author (b. 1930)2004 – Johnny Ramone , American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1948)2004 – Walter Stewart , Canadian journalist and author (b. 1931) 2005 – Guy Green , English director and cinematographer (b. 1913)2005 – Sidney Luft , American manager and producer (b. 1915) 2006 – Raymond Baxter , English television host and author (b. 1922)2006 – Oriana Fallaci , Italian journalist and author (b. 1929) 2006 – Pablo Santos , Mexican-American actor (b. 1987) 2007 – Colin McRae , Scottish race car driver (b. 1968)[45] 2007 – Jeremy Moore , English general (b. 1928) 2007 – Aldemaro Romero , Venezuelan pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1928) 2007 – Brett Somers , Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1924) 2008 – Richard Wright , English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (b. 1943) 2009 – Troy Kennedy Martin , Scottish-English screenwriter (b. 1932)2010 – Arrow , Caribbean singer-songwriter (b. 1949)2011 – Frances Bay , Canadian-American actress (b. 1919)2012 – Tibor Antalpéter , Hungarian volleyball player and diplomat, Hungarian Ambassador of Hungary to the United Kingdom (b. 1930)2012 – Nevin Spence , Northern Irish rugby player (b. 1990) 2013 – Habib Munzir Al-Musawa , Indonesian cleric and scholar (b. 1973)2013 – Jerry G. Bishop , American radio and television host (b. 1936) 2013 – Gerard Cafesjian , American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1925) 2013 – Jackie Lomax , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944) 2014 – John Anderson Jr. , American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Kansas (b. 1917)2014 – Eugene I. Gordon , American physicist and engineer (b. 1930) 2014 – Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia (b. 1922) 2014 – Jürg Schubiger , Swiss psychotherapist and author (b. 1936) 2014 – Wayne Tefs , Canadian anthologist, author, and critic (b. 1947) 2015 – Harry J. Lipkin , Israeli physicist and academic (b. 1921)2015 – Meir Pa'il , Israeli commander, historian, and politician (b. 1926) 2015 – Bernard Van de Kerckhove , Belgian cyclist (b. 1941) 2017 – Harry Dean Stanton , American actor (b. 1926)2019 – Ric Ocasek , American musician (b. 1944)[46] 2021 – Lou Angotti , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1938)[47] Holidays and observances Battle of Britain Day (United Kingdom)Christian feast day : Cry of Dolores Independence Day (Mexico) .Earliest day on which Father's Day can fall, while September 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Sunday in September. (Ukraine ) Earliest day on which German-American Steuben Parade can fall, while September 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Saturday in September. (United States, especially New York City) Earliest day on which POW/MIA Recognition Day can fall, while September 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Friday in September. 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