September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 97 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).
275 – In Rome, (after the assassination of Aurelian ), the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Emperor .
762 – Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya , the Hasanid branch of the Alids begins the Alid Revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate .
1066 – The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England.
1237 – England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York , establishing the location of their common border .
1396 – Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis .
1513 – Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
1555 – The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League .
1690 – Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick , the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
1775 – American Revolutionary War : Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe . Benedict Arnold and his expeditionary company set off from Fort Western , bound for Quebec City .
1789 – The United States Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution : The Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment , and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights .
1790 – Peking opera is born when the Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor 's eightieth birthday.
1804 – The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for allowing the expedition to move further upriver.
1846 – U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey .
1868 – The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia .
1890 – The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park .
1906 – In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao , guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control .
1911 – Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston
1911 – An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
1912 – Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City .
1915 – World War I : The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
1926 – The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
1929 – Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War : The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan .
1942 – World War II : Swiss Police Instruction: This instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees.
1944 – World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden .
1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
1956 – TAT-1 , the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas , is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
1959 – Solomon Bandaranaike , Prime Minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk , Talduwe Somarama , and dies the next day.
1962 – The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government .
1962 – The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.
1963 – Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo Affair .
1964 – The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.
1969 – The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.
1970 – Ceasefire between Jordan and the Fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9 .
1974 – The first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (Tommy John surgery ) performed, on baseball player Tommy John .
1977 – About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon .
1978 – PSA Flight 182 , a Boeing 727 , collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego , killing 144 people.
1981 – Belize joins the United Nations .
1983 – Maze Prison escape : Thirty-eight republican prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze prison . It is the largest prison escape since World War II and in British history.
1992 – NASA launches the Mars Observer , a $511 million probe to Mars , in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. Eleven months later, the probe would fail.
1996 – The last of the Magdalene asylums closes in Ireland.
2003 – The 8.3 Mw Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō , Japan.
1358 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu , Japanese shogun (d. 1408)
1403 – Louis III of Naples (d. 1434)
1525 – Steven Borough , English explorer and navigator (d. 1584)
1599 – Francesco Borromini , Swiss-Italian architect, designed the San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant'Agnese in Agone (d. 1667)
1644 – Ole Rømer , Danish astronomer and instrument maker (d. 1710)
1663 – Johann Nikolaus Hanff , German organist and composer (d. 1711)
1683 – Jean-Philippe Rameau , French composer and theorist (d. 1764)
1694 – Henry Pelham , English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754)
1711 – Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
1738 – Nicholas Van Dyke , American lawyer and politician, 7th Governor of Delaware (d. 1789)
1741 – Wenzel Pichl , Czech violinist, composer, and director (d. 1805)
1744 – Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1797)
1758 – Josepha Barbara Auernhammer , Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1820)
1764 – Fletcher Christian , English sailor (d. 1793)
1766 – Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu , French general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1822)
1771 – Nikolay Raevsky , Russian general and politician (d. 1829)
1773 – Agostino Bassi , Italian entomologist and author (d. 1856)
1780 – Jason Fairbanks , American murderer (d. 1801)
1782 – Charles Maturin , Irish author and playwright (d. 1824)
1798 – Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont , French geologist and engineer (d. 1874)
1816 – Georg August Rudolph , German lawyer and politician, 3rd Mayor of Marburg (d. 1893)
1825 – William Pitt Ballinger , American lawyer and politician (d. 1888)
1825 – Joachim Heer , Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the National Council (d. 1879)
1839 – Karl Alfred von Zittel , German palaeontologist and geologist (d. 1904)
1862 – Léon Boëllmann , French organist and composer (d. 1897)
1862 – Billy Hughes , English-Australian carpenter and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
1866 – Thomas Hunt Morgan , American biologist, geneticist, and embryologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945)
1867 – Yevgeny Miller , Russian general (d. 1938)
1879 – Lope K. Santos , Filipino lawyer and politician, 4th Governor of Rizal (d. 1963)
1881 – Lu Xun , Chinese author and critic (d. 1936)
1888 – Hanna Ralph , German actress (d. 1978)
1889 – Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff , Scottish author and translator (d. 1930)
1893 – Harald Cramér , Swedish mathematician and statistician (d. 1985)
1896 – Sandro Pertini , Italian journalist and politician, 7th President of Italy (d. 1990)
1897 – William Faulkner , American author, poet, and screenwriter, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
1898 – Robert Brackman , Ukrainian-American painter and educator (d. 1980)
1899 – Udumalai Narayana Kavi , Indian poet and songwriter (d. 1981)
1900 – Artur Sirk , Estonian soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 1937)
1901 – Robert Bresson , French director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1901 – Gordon Coventry , Australian footballer (d. 1968)
1903 – Mark Rothko , Latvian-American painter and educator (d. 1970)
1906 – Volfgangs Dārziņš , Latvian composer, pianist, and music critic (d. 1962)
1906 – Phyllis Pearsall , English painter, cartographer, and author (d. 1996)
1906 – Dmitri Shostakovich , Russian pianist and composer (d. 1975)
1908 – Jacqueline Audry , French director and screenwriter (d. 1977)
1910 – Ralph Jordan , American football player and coach (d. 1980)
1911 – Eric Williams , Trinidadian historian and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981)
1915 – Ethel Rosenberg , American spy (d. 1953)
1916 – Jessica Anderson , Australian author and playwright (d. 2010)
1916 – Deendayal Upadhyaya , Indian economist, sociologist, and journalist (d. 1968)
1917 – Phil Rizzuto , American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
1917 – Johnny Sain , American baseball player and coach (d. 2006)
1920 – Sergei Bondarchuk , Ukrainian-Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1994)
1920 – Satish Dhawan , Indian engineer (d. 2002)
1921 – Rob Muldoon , New Zealand sergeant, accountant, and politician, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)
1922 – Hammer DeRoburt , Nauruian educator and politician, 1st President of Nauru (d. 1992)
1923 – Robert Laxalt , American author and academic (d. 2001)
1923 – Sam Rivers , American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (d. 2011)
1924 – Norman Ayrton , English actor and director
1924 – Red Webb , American baseball player (d. 1996)
1925 – Silvana Pampanini , Italian model, actress, and director, Miss Italy 1946 (d. 2016)
1926 – Jack Hyles , American pastor and author (d. 2001)
1926 – Aldo Ray , American actor (d. 1991)
1927 – Colin Davis , English conductor and educator (d. 2013)
1929 – Ronnie Barker , English actor and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1929 – Delia Scala , Italian ballerina and actress (d. 2004)
1929 – Barbara Walters , American journalist, producer, and author
1930 – Elsa Aguirre , Mexican actress
1930 – Nino Cerruti , Italian fashion designer, founded Cerruti
1930 – Shel Silverstein , American author, poet, illustrator, and songwriter (d. 1999)
1931 – Manouchehr Atashi , Iranian journalist and poet (d. 2005)
1931 – Bryan John Birch , English mathematician and scholar
1932 – Glenn Gould , Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982)
1932 – Terry Medwin , Welsh footballer and manager
1932 – Adolfo Suárez , Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Spain (d. 2014)
1933 – Hubie Brown , American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
1933 – Erik Darling , American singer-songwriter (d. 2008)
1933 – Brian Murphy , English actor and singer
1933 – Josef Němec , Czech boxer (d. 2013)
1933 – Ian Tyson , Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1934 – Jean Sorel , French actor
1936 – Ken Forsse , American toy creator and author, created Teddy Ruxpin (d. 2014)
1936 – Juliet Prowse , South African-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1996)
1936 – Ileana Sararoiu , Romanian singer (d. 1979)
1936 – Moussa Traoré , Malian general and politician 2nd President of Mali
1937 – Mary Allen Wilkes , American computer scientist and lawyer
1938 – Ron Hill , English runner and businessman
1938 – Jonathan Motzfeldt , Greenlandic priest and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (d. 2010)
1938 – Enn Tarto , Estonian politician
1939 – Leon Brittan , English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (d. 2015)
1939 – Feroz Khan , Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 2009)
1939 – David S. Mann , American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Cincinnati
1940 – Tim Severin , Indian-English explorer, historian, and author
1941 – Vivien Stern, Baroness Stern , English academic and politician
1942 – Oscar Bonavena , Argentinian boxer (d. 1976)
1942 – Robert Miano , American actor and producer
1942 – Henri Pescarolo , French race car driver
1942 – John Taylor , English pianist and educator (d. 2015)
1942 – Dee Dee Warwick , American singer (d. 2008)
1943 – Robert Gates , American lieutenant, academic, and politician, 22nd United States Secretary of Defense
1943 – John Locke , American keyboard player (d. 2006)
1943 – Aram Saroyan , American author, poet, and playwright
1943 – Robert Walden , American actor, director, and screenwriter
1944 – Michael Douglas , American actor and producer
1944 – Doris Matsui , American politician
1944 – Grayson Shillingford , Dominican cricketer (d. 2009)
1945 – Kathleen Brown , American lawyer and politician, 29th California State Treasurer
1945 – Carol Vadnais , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2014)
1946 – Felicity Kendal , English actress
1946 – Bryan MacLean , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1998)
1946 – Janusz Majer , Polish mountaineer
1946 – Jerry Penrod , American bass player
1947 – Giannos Kranidiotis , Greek politician and diplomat (d. 1999)
1947 – Cheryl Tiegs , American model and actress
1947 – Cecil Womack , American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2013)
1948 – Mimi Kennedy , American actress and screenwriter
1948 – Vladimir Yevtushenkov , Russian businessman
1949 – Pedro Almodóvar , Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter
1949 – Jeff Borowiak , American tennis player
1949 – Steve Mackay , American saxophonist and composer (d. 2015)
1949 – Anson Williams , American actor and director
1950 – Stanisław Szozda , Polish cyclist and trainer (d. 2013)
1951 – Yardena Arazi , Israeli singer
1951 – Burleigh Drummond , American drummer and songwriter
1951 – Graeme Knowles , English bishop
1951 – Mark Hamill , American actor, singer, and producer
1951 – Bob McAdoo , American basketball player and coach
1952 – Colin Friels , Scottish-Australian actor
1952 – Jimmy Garvin , American wrestler and manager
1952 – bell hooks , American author and activist
1952 – Cherríe Moraga , American poet, playwright, and activist
1952 – Tommy Norden , American actor
1952 – Chris Pond , English politician
1952 – Christopher Reeve , American actor, producer, and activist (d. 2004)
1953 – Richard Harvey , English mandolin player, keyboard player, and composer
1953 – Ron Rash , American novelist, short story writer, poet
1954 – Sylvester Croom , American football player and coach
1954 – Joep Lange , Dutch physician and academic (d. 2014)
1954 – Juande Ramos , Spanish footballer and manager
1954 – Tim Smit , Dutch-English gardener and businessman
1955 – Ludo Coeck , Belgian footballer (d. 1985)
1955 – Zucchero Fornaciari , Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1955 – Amyr Klink , Brazilian sailor and explorer
1955 – Luanne Rice , American author and activist
1955 – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge , German footballer and manager
1955 – Steven Severin , English bass player, songwriter, and producer
1956 – W. Daniel Hillis , American computer scientist, engineer, and author, founded the Thinking Machines Corporation
1956 – Jamie Hyneman , American special effects designer and television host, founded M5 Industries
1956 – Kim Thompson , American publisher (d. 2013)
1957 – Michael Madsen , American actor and producer
1957 – Vladimir Popovkin , Russian general (d. 2014)
1958 – Randy Kerber , American keyboard player, composer, and conductor
1959 – Jeon Soo-il , South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter
1960 – Igor Belanov , Ukrainian footballer and manager
1961 – Mehmet Aslantuğ , Turkish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1961 – Heather Locklear , American actress
1961 – Steve Scott , British journalist and presenter
1962 – Kalthoum Sarrai , Tunisian-French psychologist and journalist (d. 2010)
1962 – Aida Turturro , American actress
1962 – Dariusz Wdowczyk , Polish footballer and coach
1963 – Tate Donovan , American actor
1963 – Keely Shaye Smith , American journalist and author
1964 – Gary Ayles , English race car driver
1964 – Barbara Dennerlein , German organist
1964 – Rebecca Gablé , German novelist
1964 – Chris Impellitteri , American guitarist and songwriter
1964 – Kikuko Inoue , Japanese singer-songwriter and voice actress
1964 – Joey Saputo , Canadian businessman
1965 – Matt Battaglia , American football player, actor, and producer
1965 – Gordon Currie , Canadian actor
1965 – Saffron Henderson , Canadian voice actress and singer
1965 – Scottie Pippen , American basketball player and sportscaster
1965 – Anne Roumanoff , French actress and screenwriter
1965 – Dave Rundle , South African cricketer
1965 – Rob Schmidt , American director and screenwriter
1965 – Rafael Martín Vázquez , Spanish footballer and coach
1966 – Stanislav Bunin , Russian pianist and educator
1966 – Todd Philcox , American football player
1967 – Kim Issel , Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Ashwin Sood , English-Canadian drummer and producer
1968 – John A. List , American economist and academic
1968 – Will Smith , American actor, producer, and rapper
1968 – John Worsfold , Australian footballer and coach
1969 – Hansie Cronje , South African cricketer (d. 2002)
1969 – Bill Simmons , American journalist and author
1969 – Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1969 – Tony Womack , American baseball player
1969 – Catherine Zeta-Jones , Welsh actress
1970 – Curtis Buckley , American football player and psychiatrist
1970 – Kerri Kendall , American model and actress
1970 – Dean Ween , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971 – Nikos Boudouris , Greek basketball player and manager
1971 – John Lynch , American football player and sportscaster
1971 – Seb Sanders , English jockey
1972 – Douglas September , Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1973 – Tijani Babangida , Nigerian footballer
1973 – Jenny Chapman , English politician
1974 – Bill Bowler , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1974 – Olivier Dacourt , French footballer
1974 – Richie Edwards , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974 – John Granville , American scholar and diplomat (d. 2008)
1974 – Paul Hurst , English footballer and manager
1974 – Daniel Alexander Kessler , English-American singer and guitarist
1974 – Frank Leder , German fashion designer
1974 – Robbie Mears , Australian rugby player and coach
1974 – Eric Moss , American football player
1974 – Joel Prpic , Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Javier Rosas , Mexican triathlete
1974 – Kemel Thompson , Jamaican hurdler
1975 – Declan Donnelly , English entertainer
1975 – Matt Hasselbeck , American football player
1975 – Dat Nguyen , American football player and coach
1976 – Santigold , American singer-songwriter and producer
1976 – Chauncey Billups , American basketball player
1976 – Eric Roberson , American singer-songwriter and producer
1977 – Clea DuVall , American actress
1977 – Kiyoshi Ijichi , Japanese drummer
1977 – Mike Krahulik , American illustrator
1977 – Wil Nieves , Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1978 – Joe Cotton , Canadian-New Zealand singer
1978 – Roudolphe Douala , Cameroonian footballer
1978 – Ricardo Gardner , Jamaican footballer
1978 – Jodie Kidd , English model and actress
1978 – Ryan Leslie , American singer-songwriter and producer
1978 – Joel Piñeiro , Puerto Rican baseball player
1979 – Kyle Bennett , American BMX rider (d. 2012)
1979 – An Choyoung , South Korean Go player
1979 – Rashad Evans , American mixed martial artist and wrestler
1979 – Jason Koumas , Welsh footballer
1979 – Jean-René Lisnard , French tennis player
1981 – Rocco Baldelli , American baseball player
1981 – Jason Bergmann , American baseball player
1981 – Perfume Genius , American singer-songwriter
1981 – Gemma Garrett , Northern Irish actress, model and political candidate; Miss Great Britain 2007
1981 – Angelo Palombo , Italian footballer
1981 – Shane Tutmarc , American singer-songwriter and producer
1983 – Donald Glover , American actor, rapper, producer, and screenwriter
1983 – Terrance Pennington , American football player
1984 – Cherine Anderson , Jamaican singer-songwriter and actress
1984 – Jessica Gomes , Australian model
1984 – Matías Silvestre , Argentinian footballer
1985 – Gökhan Güleç , Turkish footballer
1985 – Marvin Matip , German footballer
1986 – Heidi El Tabakh , Egyptian-Canadian tennis player
1986 – Nicole Fugere , American model and actress
1986 – Jamie O'Hara , English footballer
1986 – Marten Strauch , German rugby player
1986 – Steve Forrest , American drummer
1987 – Monica Niculescu , Romanian tennis player
1988 – Mustafa Yumlu , Turkish footballer
1988 – Mariya Ise , Japanese voice actress
1988 – Tamaryn Payne , English actress
1989 – Jordan Gavaris , Canadian actor
1989 – Samantha Murray , English pentathlete
1989 – Aldon Smith , American football player
1990 – Mao Asada , Japanese figure skater
1990 – Daria Strokous , Russian model, actress, and photographer
1991 – Emmy Clarke , American actress
1991 – Alessandro Crescenzi , Italian footballer
1992 – Zoël Amberg , Swiss race car driver
1992 – Massimo Luongo , Australian footballer
1992 – Keauna McLaughlin , American figure skater
1992 – Ruslan Zhiganshin , Russian ice dancer
1993 – Toby Greene , Australian footballer
1995 – Ryan Beatty , American singer
1995 – Caitlin Fields , American figure skater
1996 – Anett Vilipuu , Estonian footballer
744 – Yazid III , Umayyad caliph (b. 701)
1066 – Tostig Godwinson , English son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex
1066 – Harald Hardrada , Norwegian king (b. 1015)
1086 – William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)
1333 – Prince Morikuni , Japanese shogun (b. 1301)
1396 – Jean de Carrouges , French knight (b. 1330)
1396 – Jean de Vienne , French general and admiral (b. 1341)
1496 – Piero Capponi , Italian soldier and politician (b. 1447)
1506 – Philip I of Castile (b. 1478)
1534 – Pope Clement VII (b. 1478)
1536 – Johannes Secundus , Dutch author and poet (b. 1511)
1550 – Georg von Blumenthal , German bishop (b. 1490)
1602 – Caspar Peucer , German physician, scholar, and reformer (b. 1525)
1617 – Emperor Go-Yōzei of Japan (b. 1572)
1617 – Francisco Suárez , Spanish priest, philosopher, and theologian (b. 1548)
1626 – Lancelot Andrewes , English bishop and scholar (b. 1555)
1630 – Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbases , Italian general and politician, Governor of the Duchy of Milan (b. 1569)
1665 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (b. 1610)
1703 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll , Scottish general (b. 1658)
1774 – John Bradstreet , Canadian-English general (b. 1714)
1777 – Johann Heinrich Lambert , Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1728)
1791 – William Bradford , American soldier and publisher (b. 1719)
1792 – Adam Gottlob Moltke , Danish politician and diplomat (b. 1710)
1794 – Paul Rabaut , French pastor (b. 1718)
1828 – Charlotta Seuerling , Swedish singer, harpsichord player, and composer (b. 1783)
1849 – Johann Strauss I , Austrian composer (b. 1804)
1867 – Oliver Loving , American rancher, co-developed the Goodnight–Loving Trail (b. 1812)
1893 – Louise von François , German author (b. 1817)
1900 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand , Canadian journalist and politician, 11th Premier of Québec (b. 1832)
1900 – John M. Palmer , American general and politician, 15th Governor of Illinois (b. 1817)
1901 – Arthur Fremantle , English general and politician, Governor of Malta (b. 1835)
1905 – Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac , French educator and politician (b. 1853)
1917 – Thomas Ashe , Irish commander (b. 1885)
1918 – Mikhail Alekseyev , Russian general (b. 1857)
1926 – Herbert Booth , English songwriter and bandleader (b. 1862)
1928 – Richard F. Outcault , American cartoonist, created The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown (b. 1863)
1929 – Miller Huggins , American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
1933 – Ring Lardner , American journalist and author (b. 1885)
1939 – Ali Saip Ursavaş , Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1885)
1941 – Foxhall P. Keene , American polo player, golfer, and race car driver (b. 1867)
1943 – Alexander Hall , Scottish-Canadian soccer player (b. 1880)
1946 – Hans Eppinger , Austrian physician (b. 1879)
1958 – John B. Watson , American psychologist and academic (b. 1878)
1960 – Emily Post , American author and educator (b. 1873)
1961 – Frank Fay American actor and singer (b. 1897)
1968 – Hans F. K. Günther , German eugenicist and academic (b. 1891)
1968 – Cornell Woolrich , American author and screenwriter (b. 1903)
1970 – Erich Maria Remarque , German-Swiss author and translator (b. 1898)
1971 – Hugo Black , American captain, jurist, and politician (b. 1886)
1980 – John Bonham , English drummer and songwriter (b. 1948)
1980 – Lewis Milestone , Russian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1895)
1980 – Marie Under , Estonian author and poet (b. 1883)
1983 – Leopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)
1984 – Walter Pidgeon , Canadian-American actor (b. 1897)
1986 – Darshan Singh Canadian , Indian-Canadian trade union leader and activist (b. 1917)
1986 – Donald MacDonald , Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1909)
1986 – Nikolay Semyonov , Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
1986 – Hans Vogt , Norwegian linguist and academic (b. 1909)
1987 – Mary Astor , American actress (b. 1906)
1987 – Emlyn Williams , Welsh actor and playwright (b. 1905)
1988 – Billy Carter , American farmer and businessman (b. 1937)
1988 – Arthur Võõbus , Estonian-American orientalist and scholar (b. 1909)
1990 – Prafulla Chandra Sen , Indian accountant and politician, 3rd Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1897)
1991 – Klaus Barbie , German SS captain, known as the "Butcher of Lyon" (b. 1913)
1991 – Viviane Romance , French actress and producer (b. 1912)
1992 – Ivan Vdović , Serbian musician (b. 1961)
1995 – Dave Bowen , Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1928)
1995 – Annie Elizabeth Delany , American dentist and author (b. 1891)
1997 – Hélène Baillargeon , Canadian singer and actress (b. 1916)
1997 – Jean Françaix , French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1912)
1999 – Marion Zimmer Bradley , American author (b. 1930)
2003 – Aqila al-Hashimi , Iraqi translator and politician (b. 1953)
2003 – Herb Gardner , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934)
2003 – Franco Modigliani , Italian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2003 – George Plimpton , American writer and literary editor (b. 1927)
2003 – Edward Said , Palestinian-American philosopher and critic (b. 1935)
2005 – Don Adams , American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
2005 – Madeline-Ann Aksich , Canadian businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1956)
2005 – George Archer , American golfer (b. 1939)
2005 – Urie Bronfenbrenner , Russian-American psychologist and ecologist (b. 1917)
2005 – Ghulam Mustafa Khan , Pakistani linguist and critic (b. 1912)
2005 – M. Scott Peck , American psychiatrist and author (b. 1936)
2005 – Friedrich Peter , Austrian lawyer and politician (b. 1921)
2006 – Jeff Cooper , American target shooter and author (b. 1920)
2006 – John M. Ford , American author and poet (b. 1957)
2007 – Haidar Abdel-Shafi , Palestinian physician and politician (b. 1919)
2007 – André Emmerich , German-American art dealer (b. 1924)
2008 – Derog Gioura , Nauruan politician, 23rd President of Nauru (b. 1932)
2009 – Alicia de Larrocha , Spanish pianist (b. 1923)
2009 – Pierre Falardeau , Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1946)
2011 – Wangari Maathai , Kenyan environmentalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1940)
2012 – Billy Barnes , American composer and songwriter (b. 1927)
2012 – John Bond , English footballer and manager (b. 1923)
2012 – Neşet Ertaş , Turkish singer-songwriter and bağlama player (b. 1938)
2012 – Eric Ives , English historian and academic (b. 1931)
2012 – Alonso Lujambio , Mexican academic and politician (b. 1962)
2012 – Andy Williams , American singer (b. 1927)
2013 – Ron Fenton , English footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1940)
2013 – Choi In-ho , South Korean author and screenwriter (b. 1945)
2013 – José Montoya , American poet and academic (b. 1932)
2013 – Billy Mure , American guitarist and composer (b. 1915)
2013 – Pablo Verani , Italian-Argentinian lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
2013 – Bennet Wong , Canadian psychiatrist and academic, co-founded Haven Institute (b. 1930)
2014 – Ulrick Chérubin , Haitian-Canadian educator and politician (b. 1943)
2014 – Sulejman Tihić , Bosnian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1951)
2014 – Dorothy Tyler-Odam , English high jumper (b. 1920)
2015 – Claudio Baggini , Italian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1936)
2015 – Pat Dunne , Irish footballer and manager (b. 1943)
2015 – John Galvin , American general (b. 1929)
2015 – Tom Kelley , American baseball player and manager (b. 1944)
2015 – Moti Kirschenbaum , Israeli journalist (b. 1939)
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