Events
Pre-1600
- 681 – Pope Honorius I is posthumously excommunicated by the Sixth Ecumenical Council.
- 1400 – Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
1601–1900
- 1620 – Pilgrims set sail for Virginia from Plymouth, England in the Mayflower.
- 1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland on the death of his father, James II.
- 1732 – In Campo Maior, Portugal, a storm hits the Armory and a violent explosion ensues, killing two-thirds of its inhabitants.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
- 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
- 1810 – With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.
- 1822 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a "note" read to the Academy of Sciences,<!-- signed 8 September, read 16 September --> reports a direct refraction experiment verifying David Brewster's hypothesis that photoelasticity (as it is now known) is stress-induced birefringence.
- 1863 – Robert College, in Istanbul, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
- 1880 – The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York.
- 1893 – Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
1901–present
- 1908 – The General Motors Corporation is founded.
- 1914 – World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
- 1920 – The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.
- 1940 – World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
- 1943 – World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around Salerno.
- 1945 – World War II: The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.
- 1953 – American Airlines Flight 723 crashes in Colonie, New York, killing 28 people.
- 1955 – The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
- 1955 – A Soviet Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
- 1956 – TCN-9 Sydney is the first Australian television station to commence regular broadcasts.
- 1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
- 1961 – The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
- 1961 – Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
- 1961 – Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.
- 1963 – Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore is soon expelled from this new country.
- 1966 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.
- 1970 – King Hussein of Jordan declares war against the Palestine Liberation Organization, the conflict came to be known as Black September.
- 1975 – Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.
- 1975 – Cape Verde, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.
- 1975 – The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
- 1976 – Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.
- 1976 – Night of the Pencils: In the city of La Plata, Argentina, a group of high-school students were kidnapped and later tortured, raped and murdered during the Argentinian military dictatorship
- 1978 – The 7.4 Tabas earthquake affects the city of Tabas, Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 15,000 people are killed.
- 1979 – Eight people escape from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon.
- 1982 – Lebanon War: The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon takes place.
- 1987 – The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
- 1990 – The railroad between the People's Republic of China and Kazakhstan is completed at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge.
- 1992 – The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega ends in the United States with a 40-year sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering.
- 1992 – Black Wednesday: The British pound is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the German mark.
- 1994 – The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin and Irish paramilitary groups in 1988.
- 1996 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-79 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
- 2004 – Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane.
- 2005 – The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples, Italy.
- 2007 – One-Two-Go Airlines Flight 269 carrying 130 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand, killing 90 people.
- 2007 – Security guards working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad.
- 2013 – A gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.
- 2014 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobani offensive against Syrian–Kurdish forces.
- 2015 – A 8.3 earthquake strikes the Chilean city of Illapel, killing 15 people, injuring at least 34, leaving at least six missing, and causing extensive damage. One person also dies in Argentina.
- 2021 – A 6.0 earthquake strikes Lu County, Sichuan, China, killing three and injuring more than 88.
- 2021 – Inspiration4, the first private orbital crewed spaceflight, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center.
- 2022 – During the Let Yet Kone massacre, the Burmese military kills 13 villagers, including eight children, after attacking a school in Sagaing Region, Myanmar.
- 2022 – The death of Mahsa Amini occurred in Tehran, Iran, sparking worldwide protests.
Births
Pre-1600
- AD 16 – Julia Drusilla, Roman daughter of Germanicus (died 38)
- 508 – Yuan Di, emperor of the Liang dynasty (died 555)
- 1295 – Elizabeth de Clare, English noblewoman (died 1360)
- 1386 – Henry V of England (died 1422)
- 1462 – Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher (died 1525)
- 1507 – Jiajing Emperor of China (died 1567)
- 1541 – Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, English nobleman (died 1576)
- 1557 – Jacques Mauduit, French composer (died 1627)
1601–1900
- 1615 – Heinrich Bach, German organist and composer (died 1692)
- 1625 – Gregorio Barbarigo, Roman Catholic saint (died 1697)
- 1651 – Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and botanist (died 1716)
- 1666 – Antoine Parent, French mathematician and theorist (died 1716)
- 1678 – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English philosopher and politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (died 1751)
- 1716 – Angelo Maria Amorevoli, Italian tenor and actor (died 1798)
- 1722 – Gabriel Christie, Scottish-Canadian general (died 1799)
- 1725 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist, zoologist, and author (died 1815)
- 1745 – Mikhail Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (died 1813)
- 1777 – Nathan Mayer Rothschild, German-English banker and financier (died 1836)
- 1782 – Daoguang Emperor of China (died 1850)
- 1812 – Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint, Dutch novelist (died 1886)
- 1822 – Charles Crocker, American businessman (died 1888)
- 1823 – Francis Parkman, American historian and author (died 1893)
- 1823 – Ludwik Teichmann, Polish anatomist (died 1895)
- 1827 – Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist and paleontologist (died 1908)
- 1828 – Per Pålsson, Swedish murderer (died 1914)
- 1830 – Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (died 1911)
- 1837 – Pedro V of Portugal (died 1861)
- 1838 – James J. Hill, Canadian-American railroad executive (died 1916)
- 1844 – Paul Taffanel, French flute player and conductor (died 1908)
- 1846 – Anna Kingsford, English author, poet, and activist (died 1888)
- 1853 – Albrecht Kossel, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1927)
- 1858 – Edward Marshall Hall, English lawyer and politician (died 1927)
- 1858 – Bonar Law, Canadian-Scottish banker and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1923)
- 1859 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese general and politician, President of the Republic of China (died 1916)
- 1861 – Miriam Benjamin, African-American educator and inventor (died 1947)
- 1866 – Georg Voigt, German lawyer and politician, Mayor of Marburg (died 1927)
- 1870 – John Pius Boland, Irish tennis player and politician (died 1958)
- 1875 – James Cash Penney, American businessman and philanthropist, founded J. C. Penney (died 1971)
- 1876 – Marvin Hart, American boxer (died 1931)
- 1877 – Jacob Schick, American-Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Schick Razors (died 1937)
- 1878 – Karl Albiker, German sculptor, lithographer, and educator (died 1961)
- 1880 – Clara Ayres, American nurse (died 1917)
- 1880 – Alfred Noyes, English author, poet, and playwright (died 1958)
- 1881 – Clive Bell, English philosopher and critic (died 1964)
- 1883 – T. E. Hulme, English poet and critic (died 1917)
- 1886 – Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor and painter (died 1966)
- 1887 – Nadia Boulanger, French composer and educator (died 1979)
- 1888 – W. O. Bentley, English race car driver and engineer, founded Bentley Motors Limited (died 1971)
- 1888 – Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1964)
- 1890 – Avigdor Hameiri, Israeli author (died 1970)
- 1891 – Karl Dönitz, German admiral and politician, President of Germany (died 1980)
- 1891 – Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (died 1972)
- 1893 – Alexander Korda, Hungarian-English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1956)
- 1893 – Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian-American physiologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986)
- 1895 – Zainal Abidin Ahmad, Malaysian author and scholar (died 1973)
- 1897 – Milt Franklyn, American composer (died 1962)
- 1898 – H. A. Rey, American author and illustrator, co-created Curious George (died 1977)
- 1899 – Hans Swarowsky, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and educator (died 1975)
1901–present
- 1901 – Josef Schächter, Austrian rabbi and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (died 1994)
- 1905 – Vladimír Holan, Czech poet and author (died 1980)
- 1906 – Jack Churchill, Sri Lankan-British colonel (died 1996)
- 1910 – Erich Kempka, German colonel and chauffeur (died 1975)
- 1910 – Karl Kling, German race car driver and manager (died 2003)
- 1911 – Wilfred Burchett, Australian journalist and author (died 1983)
- 1911 – Paul Henning, American screenwriter and producer (died 2005)
- 1914 – Allen Funt, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1999)
- 1915 – Cy Walter, American pianist (died 1968)
- 1916 – Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, Caribbean politician, 1st Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis (died 1978)
- 1916 – Frank Farrell, Australian rugby league player and policeman (died 1985)
- 1916 – M. S. Subbulakshmi, Indian Carnatic vocalist (died 2004)
- 1916 – Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian cricketer, umpire, and politician (died 1999)
- 1916 – Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Haitian writer (died 1973)
- 1916 – Raosaheb Gogte, Indian industrialist (died 2000)
- 1918 – Władysław Kędra, Polish pianist (died 1968)
- 1919 – Bill Daley, American football player and sportscaster (died 2015)
- 1919 – Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-American hierarchiologist and educator (died 1990)
- 1919 – Andy Russell, American singer and actor (died 1992)
- 1920 – Staryl C. Austin, American air force general (died 2015)
- 1920 – Sheila Quinn, English nurse and educator (died 2016)
- 1920 – Art Sansom, American cartoonist (died 1991)
- 1921 – Ursula Franklin, German-Canadian metallurgist (died 2016)
- 1921 – Jon Hendricks, American singer-songwriter (died 2017)
- 1921 – Korla Pandit, American pianist and composer (died 1998)
- 1922 – Guy Hamilton, French-English director and screenwriter (died 2016)
- 1922 – Janis Paige, American actress and singer (died 2024)
- 1923 – Lee Kuan Yew, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Singapore (died 2015)
- 1924 – Lauren Bacall, American actress (died 2014)
- 1924 – Raoul Coutard, French cinematographer and director (died 2016)
- 1925 – Charlie Byrd, American singer and guitarist (died 1999)
- 1925 – Charles Haughey, Irish accountant, lawyer, and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (died 2006)
- 1925 – B.B. King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2015)
- 1935 – Lilia Cuntapay, Filipino actress (died 2016)
- 1935 – Bob Kiley, American-English businessman (died 2016)
- 1935 – Esther Vilar, Argentinian-German author and playwright
- 1935 – Helen Williams, American fashion model (died 2023)
- 1937 – Aleksandr Medved, Russian wrestler (died 2024)
- 1937 – Vince Naimoli, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2019)
- 1939 – Breyten Breytenbach, South African-French poet and painter (died 2024)
- 1939 – Bill McGill, American basketball player (died 2014)
- 1940 – Hamiet Bluiett, American jazz saxophonist and composer (died 2018)
- 1940 – Butch Buchholz, American tennis player
- 1940 – Paul White, Baron Hanningfield, British life peer (died 2024)
- 1941 – Joe Butler, American singer, autoharp player, and drummer
- 1941 – Richard Perle, American political scientist and politician
- 1942 – Bernie Calvert, English bass player and keyboard player
- 1942 – Susan L. Graham, American computer scientist and academic
- 1943 – Wang Houjun, Chinese footballer and manager (died 2012)
- 1943 – James Alan McPherson, American short story writer and essayist (died 2016)
- 1944 – Linda Kaye Henning, American actress
- 1944 – Betty Kelly, American soul/R&B singer
- 1950 – David Bellamy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2021)
- 1952 – Tony Cunningham, English educator and politician
- 1952 – Česlovas Laurinavičius, Lithuanian historian
- 1952 – Karen Muir, South African swimmer and physician (died 2013)
- 1952 – Mickey Rourke, American boxer and actor
- 1968 – Marc Anthony, American singer-songwriter, actor, and producer
- 1985 – Max Minghella, English actor
- 1985 – Madeline Zima, American actress
- 1987 – Burry Stander, South African cyclist (died 2013)
- 1987 – Travis Wall, American dancer and choreographer
- 1988 – Teddy Geiger, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
- 1989 – Braden Holtby, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1989 – Salomón Rondón, Venezuelan footballer
- 1989 – Dustin Tokarski, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1991 – Alexandra Paul, Canadian figure skater (died 2023)
- 1992 – Vytenis Čižauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
- 1992 – Nick Jonas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1993 – Sam Byram, English footballer
- 1993 – Bryson DeChambeau, American golfer
- 1993 – Joji, Japanese-Australian singer-songwriter
- 1994 – Anthony Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1994 – Aleksandar Mitrović, Serbian footballer
- 1994 – Mitchell Moses, Australian rugby league player
- 1995 – Aaron Gordon, American basketball player
- 1997 – Jackie Young, American basketball player
- 1999 – Brady Tkachuk, American ice hockey player
- 2000 – Sam Howell, American football player
- 2000 – Oliver Skipp, English footballer
- 2001 – Avishag Semberg, Israeli Olympic taekwondo bronze medalist
- 2003 – Toby Couchman, Australian rugby league player
Deaths
Pre-1600
- 307 – Flavius Valerius Severus, Roman emperor
- 655 – Pope Martin I
- 1087 – Pope Victor III (born 1026)
- 1100 – Bernold of Constance, German priest and historian (born 1054)
- 1122 – Vitalis of Savigny, Catholic French saint and itinerant preacher (born 1060)
- 1226 – Pandulf Verraccio, Roman ecclesiastical politician
- 1343 – Philip III of Navarre (born 1306)
- 1345 – John IV, Duke of Brittany (born 1295)
- 1360 – William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton (born 1319)
- 1380 – Charles V of France (born 1338)
- 1394 – Antipope Clement VII (born 1342)
- 1406 – Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow (born 1336)
- 1498 – Tomás de Torquemada, Spanish friar (born 1420)
- 1581 – Peter Niers, notorious German bandit (date of birth unknown)
- 1583 – Catherine Jagiellon, queen of John III of Sweden (born 1526)
- 1589 – Michael Baius, Belgian theologian and academic (born 1513)
1601–1900
- 1607 – Mary Stuart, English-Scottish princess (born 1605)
- 1672 – Anne Bradstreet, English poet (born 1612)
- 1701 – James II of England (born 1633)
- 1736 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Polish-Dutch physicist and engineer, invented the thermometer (born 1686)
- 1792 – Nguyễn Huệ, Vietnamese emperor (born 1753)
- 1803 – Nicolas Baudin, French explorer, hydrographer, and cartographer (born 1754)
- 1819 – John Jeffries, American physician and surgeon (born 1744)
- 1824 – Louis XVIII of France (born 1755)
- 1843 – Ezekiel Hart, Canadian businessman and politician (born 1770)
- 1845 – Thomas Davis, Irish poet and publisher (born 1814)
- 1865 – Christian de Meza, Danish general (born 1792)
- 1887 – Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna (born 1841)
- 1896 – Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer (born 1836)
- 1896 – Pavlos Kalligas, Greek jurist and politician, Foreign Minister of Greece (born 1814)
- 1898 – Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican surgeon and politician (born 1827)
1901–present
- 1911 – Edward Whymper, English-French mountaineer, explorer, and author (born 1840)
- 1914 – C. X. Larrabee, American businessman (born 1843)
- 1919 – Maria Nikiforova, Ukrainian anarchist partisan leader (born 1885)
- 1925 – Leo Fall, Czech-Austrian composer (born 1873)
- 1925 – Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (born 1888)
- 1931 – Omar Mukhtar, Libyan theorist and educator (born 1862)
- 1932 – Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle, British stage and screen actress (born 1908)
- 1932 – Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1857)
- 1933 – George Gore, American baseball player and manager (born 1857)
- 1936 – Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French physician and explorer (born 1867)
- 1940 – Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, English-Scottish politician, 8th Governor of Queensland (born 1860)
- 1944 – Gustav Bauer, German journalist and politician, 11th Chancellor of Germany (born 1870)
- 1945 – John McCormack, Irish tenor and actor (born 1884)
- 1946 – James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (born 1877)
- 1950 – Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (born 1881)
- 1955 – Leo Amery, Indian-English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (born 1873)
- 1961 – Hasan Polatkan, Turkish politician, 15th Turkish Minister of Finance (born 1915)
- 1961 – Fatin Rüştü Zorlu, Turkish diplomat and politician, 21st Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1910)
- 1965 – Ahn Eak-tai, North Korean composer and conductor (born 1906)
- 1965 – Fred Quimby, American animator and producer (born 1886)
- 1973 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter, teacher and theatre director (born 1932)
- 1976 – Bertha Lutz, Brazilian feminist and scientist (born 1894)
- 1977 – Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1947)
- 1977 – Maria Callas, Greek operatic soprano (born 1923)
- 1980 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist and philosopher (born 1896)
- 1984 – Louis Réard, French engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini (born 1897)
- 1984 – Richard Brautigan, American novelist, poet, and short story writer (born 1935)
- 1987 – Christopher Soames, English soldier and politician, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (born 1920)
- 1991 – Olga Spessivtseva, Russian-American ballerina (born 1895)
- 1992 – Millicent Fenwick, American journalist and politician (born 1910)
- 1993 – František Jílek, Czech conductor (born 1913)
- 1993 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian poet and activist (born 1920)
- 1996 – McGeorge Bundy, American intelligence officer and diplomat, 6th United States National Security Advisor (born 1919)
- 1996 – Gene Nelson, American actor, dancer, and director (born 1920)
- 2001 – Samuel Z. Arkoff, American producer (born 1918)
- 2002 – James Gregory, American actor (born 1911)
- 2003 – Sheb Wooley, American singer-songwriter (born 1921)
- 2004 – Michael Donaghy, American-English poet and author (born 1954)
- 2005 – Harry Freedman, Canadian horn player, composer, and educator (born 1922)
- 2005 – Gordon Gould, American physicist and academic, invented the laser (born 1920)
- 2006 – Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1925)
- 2006 – Zsuzsa Körmöczy, Hungarian tennis player and coach (born 1924)
- 2007 – Robert Jordan, American engineer and author (born 1948)
- 2008 – Norman Whitfield, American songwriter and producer (born 1940)
- 2009 – Myles Brand, American philosopher and academic (born 1942)
- 2009 – Ernst Märzendorfer, Austrian conductor (born 1921)
- 2009 – Mary Travers, American singer-songwriter (born 1936)
- 2010 – George N. Parks, American educator and bandleader (born 1953)
- 2010 – Jim Towers, English footballer (born 1933)
- 2011 – Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, American singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and drummer (born 1936)
- 2011 – Enamul Haque Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician (born 1948)
- 2012 – Roman Kroitor, Canadian director and producer, co-founded IMAX (born 1926)
- 2012 – Julien J. LeBourgeois, American admiral (born 1923)
- 2012 – Friedrich Zimmermann, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior (born 1925)
- 2013 – Scott Adams, American football player (born 1966)
- 2013 – Ratiba El-Hefny, Egyptian soprano and director (born 1931)
- 2013 – Patsy Swayze, American dancer and choreographer (born 1927)
- 2015 – Guy Béart, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter (born 1930)
- 2015 – Julio Brady, Virgin Islander lawyer, judge, and politician, 5th Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (born 1942)
- 2015 – Kurt Oppelt, Austrian figure skater and coach (born 1932)
- 2015 – Allan Wright, English captain and pilot (born 1920)
- 2016 – Tarık Akan, Turkish actor, director and activist (born 1949)
- 2016 – Edward Albee, American director and playwright (born 1928)
- 2016 – Gabriele Amorth, Italian priest and exorcist (born 1925)
- 2016 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italian economist and politician, 10th President of Italy and 49th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1920)
- 2016 – W. P. Kinsella, Canadian novelist (born 1935)
- 2016 – Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, French-born American businessman (born 1932)
- 2016 – António Mascarenhas Monteiro, Cabo Verdean politician, 2nd President of Cape Verde (born 1944)
- 2017 – Marcelo Rezende, Brazilian journalist (born 1951)
- 2017 – Arjan Singh, Marshal of the Indian Air Force (born 1919)
- 2018 – James Burdette Thayer, American brigadier general (born 1920)
- 2019 – H. S. Dillon, Indonesian politician and human rights defender (born 1945)
- 2020 – Maxim Martsinkevich, Russian social activist and media personality (born 1984)
- 2021 – Jane Powell, American actress (born 1929)
- 2021 – Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor (born 1940)
- 2024 – Song Binbin, Chinese revolutionary (born 1947)
- 2025 – Robert Redford, American actor, producer and director (born 1936)
Holidays and observances
- Christian feast day:
- Curcodomus
- Cyprian (Catholic Church)
- Edith of Wilton
- Euphemia
- Ludmila
- Ninian
- Pope Cornelius
- Vitalis of Savigny
- September 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
- Cry of Dolores, celebrates the declaration of independence of Mexico from Spain in 1810. See Fiestas Patrias
- Independence Day (Papua New Guinea), celebrates the independence of Papua New Guinea from Australia in 1975.
- International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
- Malaysian Armed Forces Day (Malaysia)
- Malaysia Day (Malaysia)
- Martyrs' Day (Libya)
- National Heroes Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)