22 September

Events

Pre-1600

* 904 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.
* 1236 – The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
* 1499 – The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War.
* 1586 – The Battle of Zutphen is a Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.

1601–1900

* 1692 – The last hanging of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials; others are all eventually released.
*1711 – The Tuscarora War begins in present-day North Carolina.
* 1761 – George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
*1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.
*1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
* 1789 – Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.
* 1792 – ''Primidi Vendémiaire'' of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
*1823 – Joseph Smith claims to have found the golden plates after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
*1857 – The Russian warship '' Lefort'' capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
*1862 – A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln.
*1866 – The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War.
* 1885 – Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
* 1891 – The first hydropower plant of Finland was commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa.
*1892 – Lindal Railway Incident, providing inspiration for "The Lost Special" by A.C. Doyle and the TV serial ''Lost''.
*1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.

1901–present

* 1910 – The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
*1914 – A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
*1919 – The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
*1934 – The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.
*1939 – World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.
*1941 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
* 1948 – Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.
* 1948 – Israeli-Palestine conflict: The All-Palestine Government is established by the Arab League.
*1957 – In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
*1960 – The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
*1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire.
*1966 – Twenty-four people are killed when Ansett-ANA Flight 149 crashes in Winton, Queensland, Australia.
*1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.
*1979 – A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.
*1980 – Iraq invades Iran, sparking the nearly eight year Iran–Iraq War.
*1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.
*1993 – A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.
* 1993 – A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
*1995 – An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
* 1995 – The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.
*2006 – Twenty-three people were killed in a maglev train collision in Lathen, Germany.
*2013 – At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Births

Pre-1600

*1013 – Richeza of Poland, Queen of Hungary (d. 1075)
* 1211 – Ibn Khallikan, Iraqi scholar and judge (d. 1282)
* 1373 – Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (d. 1400)
* 1515 – Anne of Cleves, Queen consort of England (d. 1557)
*1547 – Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet (d. 1590)
*1593 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss-German engraver and cartographer (d. 1650)

1601–1900

*1601 – Anne of Austria, Queen and regent of France (d. 1666)
*1606 – Li Zicheng, Chinese emperor (d. 1645)
*1680 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)
* 1694 – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1773)
*1715 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French mineralogist and botanist (d. 1786)
*1741 – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist (d. 1811)
* 1743 – Quintin Craufurd, Scottish author (d. 1819)
* 1762 – Elizabeth Simcoe, English-Canadian painter and author (d. 1850)
* 1765 – Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1822)
*1788 – Theodore Hook, English composer and educator (d. 1841)
* 1791 – Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (d. 1867)
*1806 – Bernardino António Gomes, Portuguese physician and naturalist (d. 1877)
*1819 – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian and academic (d. 1897)
* 1829 – Tự Đức, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1883)
*1833 – Stephen D. Lee, American general and academic (d. 1908)
*1835 – Alexander Potebnja, Ukrainian linguist and philosopher (d. 1891)
* 1841 – Andrejs Pumpurs, Latvian soldier and poet (d. 1902)
*1862 – Anastasios Charalambis, Greek lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1949)
*1868 – Louise McKinney, Canadian educator and politician (d. 1931)
* 1870 – Charlotte Cooper, English-Scottish tennis player (d. 1966)
* 1870 – Arthur Pryor, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1942)
*1875 – Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Lithuanian painter and composer (d. 1911)
*1876 – André Tardieu, French journalist and politician, 67th Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
*1878 – Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese politician and diplomat, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967)
*1880 – Christabel Pankhurst, English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (d. 1958)
*1882 – Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (d. 1946)
*1883 – Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (d. 1932)
* 1883 – Frank George Woollard, English engineer (d. 1957)
* 1885 – Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect and academic, designed the Stockholm Public Library (d. 1940)
* 1885 – Ben Chifley, Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1951)
* 1885 – Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1957)
*1887 – Bhaurao Patil, Indian educator and activist (d. 1959)
*1889 – Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (d. 1963)
* 1891 – Alma Thomas, American painter and educator (d. 1978)
*1892 – Billy West, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1975)
* 1894 – Elisabeth Rethberg, German soprano (d. 1976)
* 1895 – Paul Muni, Ukrainian-born American actor (d. 1967)
*1896 – Uri Zvi Greenberg, Ukrainian-Israeli poet and journalist (d. 1981)
* 1896 – Henry Segrave, American-English race car driver (d. 1930)
* 1899 – Elsie Allen, Native American Pomo basket weaver (d. 1990)
*1900 – Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and engineer (d. 1985)
* 1900 – William Spratling, American-Mexican silversmith and educator (d. 1967)

1901–present

*1901 – Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (d. 1932)
* 1901 – Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
* 1902 – John Houseman, Romanian-American actor and producer (d. 1988)
*1905 – Haakon Lie, Norwegian lawyer and politician (d. 2009)
* 1905 – Eugen Sänger, Czech-Austrian engineer (d. 1964)
* 1906 – Ilse Koch, German war criminal (d. 1967)
* 1907 – Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and author (d. 2003)
* 1907 – Philip Fotheringham-Parker, English race car driver (d. 1981)
* 1907 – Hermann Schlichting, German engineer and academic (d. 1982)
* 1908 – Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American author and illustrator (d. 2002)
*1909 – John Engstead, American photographer and journalist (d. 1983)
* 1910 – György Faludy, Hungarian poet and author (d. 2006)
*1912 – Herbert Mataré, German physicist and academic (d. 2011)
* 1912 – Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003)
*1913 – Lillian Chestney, American painter and illustrator (d. 2000)
*1915 – Grigory Frid, Russian pianist and composer (d. 2012)
*1918 – Hans Scholl, German activist (d. 1943)
* 1918 – Henryk Szeryng, Mexican violinist and educator (d. 1988)
*1920 – Eric Baker, English activist, co-founded Amnesty International (d. 1976)
* 1920 – Anders Lassen, Danish-English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1945)
* 1920 – Bob Lemon, American baseball player and manager (d. 2000)
* 1920 – William H. Riker, American political scientist and academic (d. 1993)
*1921 – Will Elder, American illustrator (d. 2008)
*1922 – David Sive, American environmentalist and lawyer (d. 2014)
* 1923 – Dannie Abse, Welsh physician, poet, and author (d. 2014)
* 1924 – Bernard Gauthier, French cyclist (d. 2018)
* 1924 – Charles Keeping, English author and illustrator (d. 1988)
* 1924 – Rosamunde Pilcher, English author (d. 2019)
* 1924 – Charles Waterhouse, American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 2013)
* 1924 – J. William Middendorf, American soldier and politician, 14th United States Secretary of the Navy
* 1924 – Ray Wetzel, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1951)
*1925 – Virginia Capers, American actress and singer (d. 2004)
* 1925 – Leila Hadley, American author (d. 2009)
* 1926 – Bill Smith, American clarinet player and composer (d. 2020)
* 1927 – Gordon Astall, English footballer and coach (d. 2020)
* 1927 – Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2021)
*1928 – Eric Broadley, English engineer and businessman, founded Lola Cars (d. 2017)
* 1928 – James Lawson, American activist, author, and academic
* 1928 – Eugene Roche, American actor (d. 2004)
* 1928 – Johnny Valentine, American wrestler (d. 2001)
* 1928 – Vitthalrao Gadgil, Indian politician (d. 2001)
*1929 – Serge Garant, Canadian composer and conductor (d. 1986)
* 1929 – Carlo Ubbiali, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 2020)
*1930 – Joni James, American singer (d. 2022)
* 1930 – T. S. Sinnathuray, Judge of the High Court of Singapore (d. 2016)
*1931 – Fay Weldon, English author and playwright
* 1931 – George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Scottish banker and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (d. 2003)
*1932 – Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuanian politician, 2nd President of Lithuania (d. 2010)
* 1932 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (d. 2009)
* 1933 – Leonardo Balada, Spanish-American composer and educator
* 1933 – T. Cullen Davis, American businessman
* 1933 – Carmelo Simeone, Italian-Argentinian footballer (d. 2014)
* 1933 – Jesco von Puttkamer, German-American engineer (d. 2012)
*1934 – Jack McGregor, American captain, lawyer, and politician
* 1934 – Lute Olson, American basketball player and coach (d. 2020)
* 1934 – T. Somasekaram, Sri Lankan geographer and politician, 37th Surveyor General of Sri Lanka (d. 2010)
*1936 – Maurice Evans, English footballer and manager (d. 2000)
*1936 – Robin Gammell, Candian actor
* 1937 – Don Rutherford, English rugby player (d. 2016)
*1938 – Gene Mingo, American football player
*1939 – Bogdan Baltazar, Romanian economist and engineer (d. 2012)
* 1939 – Deborah Lavin, South African-English historian and academic
* 1939 – Gilbert E. Patterson, American bishop (d. 2007)
* 1939 – Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer (d. 2016)
* 1940 – Anna Karina, Danish-French actress, director, and screenwriter (d. 2019)
*1941 – Jeremiah Wright, American pastor and theologian
*1942 – Ole Anderson, American wrestler
* 1942 – Candida Lycett Green, Anglo-Irish journalist and author (d. 2014)
* 1942 – Rubén Salazar Gómez, Colombian cardinal
* 1942 – David Stern, American lawyer and businessman (d. 2020)
*1943 – Toni Basil, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
* 1943 – Barry Cable, Australian footballer and coach
* 1943 – Paul Hoffert, American keyboard player, composer, and academic
*1944 – Brian Gibson, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
*1946 – King Sunny Adé, Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1946 – Larry Dierker, American baseball player and manager
*1947 – Jo Beverley, English-Canadian author (d. 2016)
* 1947 – David Drewry, English glaciologist and geophysicist
* 1947 – Norma McCorvey, American activist (d. 2017)
* 1947 – Robert Morace, American author and academic
* 1948 – Denis Burke, Australian soldier and politician, 6th Chief Minister of the Northern Territory
* 1948 – Mark Phillips, English equestrian, trainer, and journalist
*1949 – James Cartwright, American general
* 1949 – Jim McGinty, Australian lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of Western Australia
*1951 – David Coverdale, English singer-songwriter
* 1951 – Mike Graham, American wrestler and promoter (d. 2012)
* 1951 – Doug Somers, American wrestler (d. 2017)
* 1952 – Bob Goodlatte, American lawyer and politician
* 1952 – Sukhumbhand Paribatra, Thai political scientist and politician, 15th Governor of Bangkok
* 1952 – Américo Rocca, Mexican wrestler
*1953 – Richard Fairbrass, English singer-songwriter, musician and producer
* 1953 – Ségolène Royal, French politician
*1955 – Jeffrey Leonard, American baseball player and coach
*1956 – Debby Boone, American singer, actress, and author
* 1956 – Doug Wimbish, American singer-songwriter and bass player
* 1956 – Ibrahim Shema, Nigerian lawyer, politician
*1957 – Steve Carney, English footballer (d. 2013)
* 1957 – Nick Cave, Australian singer-songwriter, author, and actor
* 1957 – Johnette Napolitano, American singer-songwriter and bass player
* 1957 – Giuseppe Saronni, Italian cyclist and manager
* 1958 – Andrea Bocelli, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
* 1958 – Beth Catlin, American autistic savant
* 1958 – Neil Cavuto, American journalist and author
* 1958 – Joan Jett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress
*1959 – Tai Babilonia, American figure skater and talk show host
* 1959 – Saul Perlmutter, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate
*1960 – Scott Baio, American actor
*1961 – Vince Coleman, American baseball player
* 1961 – Liam Fox, Scottish physician and politician, Secretary of State for Defence
* 1961 – Bonnie Hunt, American actress, producer, and talk show host
* 1961 – Diane Lemieux, Canadian lawyer and politician
* 1961 – Catherine Oxenberg, American actress
* 1961 – Michael Torke, American composer
* 1962 – Martin Crowe, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2016)
*1964 – Juha Turunen, Finnish lawyer and politician
* 1964 – Ken Vandermark, American saxophonist and composer
*1965 – Dan Bucatinsky, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1965 – Andrii Deshchytsia, Ukrainian politician and diplomat, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs
* 1965 – Mark Guthrie, American baseball player
* 1965 – Robert Satcher, American physician, engineer, and astronaut
*1966 – Ruth Jones, Welsh actress, producer, and screenwriter
* 1966 – Mike Richter, American ice hockey player
* 1966 – Michael Shank, American racing team owner
*1967 – Matt Besser, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1967 – Super Delfin, Japanese wrestler
* 1967 – Brian Keene, American novelist
* 1967 – Ian Mortimer, English historian and novelist
* 1967 – Rickard Rydell, Swedish race car driver
* 1967 – Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
* 1969 – Nicole Bradtke, Australian tennis player and sportscaster
* 1969 – Tuomas Kantelinen, Finnish composer and conductor
* 1969 – Sue Perkins, English comedian, actress, and radio host
* 1969 – Matt Sharp, American singer-songwriter and bass player
*1970 – Gladys Berejiklian, Australian politician, 45th Premier of New South Wales
* 1970 – Mike Matheny, American baseball player and manager
* 1970 – Mystikal, American rapper and actor
* 1970 – Hitro Okesene, New Zealand rugby player and coach
* 1970 – Rupert Penry-Jones, English actor
* 1970 – Emmanuel Petit, French footballer
*1971 – Elizabeth Bear, American author and poet
* 1971 – Toomas Krõm, Estonian footballer
* 1971 – Luther Reigns, American actor and wrestler
*1973 – Yoo Chae-yeong, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2014)
* 1973 – Stéfan Louw, South African tenor and producer
* 1973 – Bob Sapp, American wrestler
*1974 – Jenn Colella, American actress and singer
* 1974 – Kostas Kaiafas, Cypriot footballer and manager
*1975 – Ethan Moreau, Canadian ice hockey player and scout
*1976 – David Berkeley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1976 – Mo Collins, American football player and coach (d. 2014)
*1978 – Harry Kewell, Australian footballer and coach
*1979 – Emilie Autumn, American singer-songwriter, violinist, and poet
* 1979 – Phil Waugh, Australian rugby player
*1980 – Francesco D'Isa, Italian painter and journalist
* 1980 – Svenja Weidemann, German tennis player
*1981 – Alexei Ramírez, Cuban baseball player
* 1981 – Subaru Shibutani, Japanese singer-songwriter
* 1981 – Ingrid Vetlesen, Norwegian soprano
*1982 – Domenic Cassisi, Australian footballer
* 1982 – Billie Piper, English actress and singer
* 1982 – Maarten Stekelenburg, Dutch footballer
*1983 – Kyla, British singer
* 1983 – Glenn Loovens, Dutch professional footballer
* 1983 – Petr Tatíček, Czech professional ice hockey
* 1983 – Tommy Thelin, Swedish footballer
*1984 – Ross Jarman, English drummer and songwriter
* 1984 – Thiago Silva, Brazilian footballer
*1985 – Matteo Cavagna, Italian footballer
* 1985 – Faris Haroun, Belgian footballer
* 1985 – Jamie Mackie, Scottish footballer
* 1985 – Tatiana Maslany, Canadian actress
* 1985 – Ibragim Todashev, Russian-American mixed martial artist (d. 2013)
*1987 – Derick Brassard, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1987 – Stefan Denifl, Austrian cyclist
* 1987 – Tom Felton, English actor
* 1987 – Zdravko Kuzmanović, Serbian footballer
*1988 – Nikita Andreyev, Russian footballer
*1988 – Sana Saeed, Indian actress and model
* 1989 – Jon Bass, American actor
* 1989 – Kim Hyo-yeon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress
* 1989 – Sabine Lisicki, German tennis player
*1990 – Denard Robinson, American football player
*1991 – Kenny Bromwich, New Zealand rugby league player
*1992 – Philip Hindes, English track cyclist
*1994 – Carlos Correa, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
*1994 – Park Jin-young, South Korean singer, actor, songwriter
*1995 – Im Nayeon, South Korean singer
*1999 – Kim Yo-han, South Korean singer and actor
*1999 – Kim Yoo-jung, South Korean actress
*2000 – Louise Christie, British rhythm gymnast
*2000 – Stephen Crichton, Samoan rugby league footballer

Deaths

Pre-1600

* 189 – He Jin, Chinese general and regent (b. 135)
* 530 – Pope Felix IV
* 904 – Zhao Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 867)
* 967 – Wichmann II, Frankish nobleman
* 1072 – Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian, poet, and politician (b. 1007)
* 1158 – Otto of Freising, German bishop and chronicler (b. c. 1114)
* 1174 – Uchtred, Lord of Galloway (b. c. 1120)
* 1253 – Dōgen, Japanese monk and philosopher (b. 1200)
* 1345 – Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician, Lord High Steward (b. 1281)
* 1399 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician, Earl Marshal of The United Kingdom (b. 1366)
* 1408 – John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1370)
* 1457 – Peter II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1418)
* 1482 – Philibert I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1465)
*1520 – Selim I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1465)
* 1531 – Louise of Savoy, French regent (b. 1476)
* 1539 – Guru Nanak, Sikh religious leader, founded Sikhism (b. 1469)
* 1554 – Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (b. 1510)
* 1566 – Johannes Agricola, German theologian and academic (b. 1494)
* 1576 – Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex (b. 1541)
* 1598 – Gabriel Spenser, English actor (b. c.1578)

1601–1900

*1607 – Alessandro Allori, Italian painter and educator (b. 1535)
* 1662 – John Biddle, English minister and theologian (b. 1615)
* 1692 – Martha Corey, American woman accused of witchcraft (b. 1620)
* 1703 – Vincenzo Viviani

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