September 19: Day of the year

September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 103 days remaining until the end of the year.

Up to 1900

• 1356 – In the Battle of Poitiers, the English defeat the French, and capture King John II of France.
• 1676 – Jamestown, Virginia is burned to the ground by forces of Nathaniel Bacon.
• 1692 – Giles Corey is executed in Salem, Massachusetts after not pleading at the Salem Witch Trials.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
• 1778 – The Continental Congress passes the first United States budget.
• 1796 – George Washington's Farewell address is printed across the United States in an open letter to the public.
• 1799 – French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Iuka - Union troops under William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force under General Sterling Price.
• 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga is fought.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Third Battle of Winchester, Virginia - Union troops under General Philip Sheridan defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Jubal Early.
• 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris begins, resulting in January 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.
• 1870 – Having invaded the Papal States a week earlier, the Italian Army lays siege to Rome.
• 1879 – The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
• 1881 – President of the United States James Garfield dies aged 49, after being shot by Charles J. Guiteau on July 2. Chester A. Arthur succeeds him to become the 21st President of the United States.
• 1893 – Women in New Zealand are given the right to vote.

1901 – 2000

• 1934 – Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., the infant son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, which occurred in 1932.
• 1944 – World War II: Armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union is signed.
• 1945 – William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is sentenced to death in London for spreading pro-German propaganda.
• 1946 – The Council of Europe is founded.
• 1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held in Cannes, France.
• 1957 – The US carries out its first underground nuclear bomb test.
• 1959 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, on a visit to the United States, is barred from visiting Disneyland, due to security concerns.
• 1970 – The first Glastonbury Festival is held in Glastonbury, Somerset, England.
• 1972 – A parcel bomb sent to the Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
• 1973 – Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture as king.
• 1975 – The TV show Fawlty Towers premieres in the United Kingdom
• 1976 – A plane crash in Turkey kills 155 people.
• 1976 – The governing Social Democratic Party loses Sweden's parliamentary election.
• 1978 – The Solomon Islands join the UN.
• 1981 – Simon & Garfunkel re-unite for a free concert in New York City's Central Park.
• 1982 – Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :) and :( on the Carnegie Mellon University Board Systems.
• 1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1985 – 1985 Mexico City earthquake: A magnitude 8 earthquake centred near Acapulco kills thousands, and destroys many buildings, around 400 in Mexico City alone.
• 1988 – Hurricane Gilbert dissolves over Texas.
• 1989 – UTA Flight 772: A terrorist bomb explodes on a plane over Niger, killing 171 people.
• 1991 – German tourists discover Otzi the Iceman near the Austrian-Italian border.
• 1995 – The New York Times and Washington Post publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
• 1997 – The Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria kills 53 people.

From 2001

• 2006 – The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok, overthrowing Thaksin Shinawatra. The Constitution is revoked, and martial law is instated.
• 2010 – Deepwater Horizon oil spill: The leaking oil well is sealed, having leaked oil into the Gulf of Mexico since April 20, when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded.
• 2014 – Alex Salmond announces his intention to resign as First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party after a 55%-45% defeat in the Scottish independence referendum, 2014.
• 2015 – Rugby union World Cup: Japan, as rank outsiders, pull off one of the biggest surprises in the sport's history, by beating two-time champions South Africa 34-32.
• 2017 – Hurricane Maria sweeps across the Eastern Caribbean, including the islands of Dominica, Martinique and Guadeloupe.
• 2017 – 2017 Puebla earthquake: A major earthquake strikes central Mexico, including Mexico City, on the 32nd anniversary of the 1985 earthquake, killing at least 220 people. It is Mexico's second earthquake in less than two weeks.
• 2022 - Statef funeral of Elizabeth II is hold at Westminster Abbey.

Up to 1900

• 86 – Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (d. 161)
• 866 – Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (d. 912)
• 1377 – Albert IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1404)
• 1551 – King Henry III of France (d. 1589)
• 1683 – Lorenz Heister, German anatomist, surgeon and botanist (d. 1758)
• 1721 – William Robertson, Scottish historian (d. 1793)
• 1737 – Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1832)
• 1749 – Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French astronomer (d. 1822)
• 1754 – Louis Claude Richard, French botanist (d. 1821)
• 1774 – Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian hyperpolyglot (d. 1849)
• 1778 – Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, English politician (d. 1868)
• 1790 – René Caillé, French explorer (d. 1838)
• 1796 – Hartley Coleridge, English poet (d. 1849)
• 1799 – René Caillié, French explorer (d. 1838)
• 1802 – Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer and regent-President, national hero of Hungary (d. 1894)
• 1803 – Maria Anna of Savoy, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1884)
• 1803 – Maria Teresa of Savoy (d. 1879)
• 1806 – William Dyce, Scottish artist (d. 1864)
• 1813 – Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, German-American astronomer (d. 1890)
• 1822 – Joseph R. West, American general and politician (d. 1898)
• 1826 – Antonio Raimondi, Italian-Peruvian geographer and scientist (d. 1890)
• 1828 – Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss politician (d. 1880)
• 1840 – Galen Spencer, American archer (d. 1904)
• 1853 – Miguel, Duke of Braganza, Portuguese royal (d. 1927)
• 1862 – Arvid Lindman, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1936)
• 1864 – Ragna Wettergreen, Norwegian actress (d. 1958)
• 1869 – Ben Turpin, American silent movie comedian (d. 1940)
• 1883 – Hjalmar Bergman, Swedish writer and playwright (d. 1931)
• 1883 – Mabel Vernon, American activist (d. 1975)
• 1887 – Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (d. 1972)
• 1888 – J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (d. 1971)
• 1889 – Sarah Louise Delany, American physician and writer (d. 1999)
• 1898 – Giuseppe Saragat, President of Italy (d. 1988)
• 1900 – Ricardo Cortez, American actor, singer and director (d. 1977)

1901 – 1950

• 1901 – Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-born movie producer (d. 1991)
• 1901 – Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Austrian biologist (d. 1972)
• 1905 – Theodor Blank, German politician (d. 1972)
• 1908 – Mika Waltari, Finnish writer (d. 1979)
• 1909 – Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Austrian automobile designer and entrepreneur (d. 1998)
• 1910 – Margaret Lindsay, English actress (d. 1981)
• 1911 – William Golding, English writer (d. 1993)
• 1912 – Kurt Sanderling, German conductor (d. 2011)
• 1913 – Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970)
• 1914 – Rogers Morton, American politician (d. 1979)
• 1915 – Johann Hafstein, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1980)
• 1921 – Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator and writer (d. 1997)
• 1922 – Dana Zátopková, Czech athlete
• 1922 – Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (d. 2000)
• 1922 – Damon Knight, American science fiction writer (d. 2002)
• 1924 – Vern Benson, American baseball player and manager (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Don Harron, Canadian comedian, actor, writer and composer (d. 2015)
• 1926 – Carlo Fruttero, Italian writer, journalist and translator (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist
• 1926 – James Lipton, American actor
• 1926 – Nini Rosso, Italian jazz trumpeter and composer (d. 1994)
• 1927 – Harold Brown, American physicist and politician, former United States Secretary of Defense
• 1927 – William Hickey, American actor (d. 1997)
• 1928 – Adam West, American actor (d. 2017)
• 1928 – Wolfram Siebeck, German food critic and journalist (d. 2016)
• 1929 – Charles Gordon-Lennox, 10th Duke of Richmond, British peer (d. 2017)
• 1929 – Marge Roukema, American politician (d. 2014)
• 1929 – Luigi Taveri, Swiss motorcycle racer (d. 2018)
• 1929 – Gertrude Baniszewski, American murderer (d. 1990)
• 1930 – Antonio Margheriti, Italian movie maker (d. 2002)
• 1930 – Muhal Richard Abrams, American educator, composer and musician
• 1931 – Hiroto Muraoka, Japanese footballer (d. 2017)
• 1931 – Jean-Claude Carrière, French writer and screenwriter
• 1932 – Mike Royko, American journalist (d. 1997)
• 1932 – Stefanie Zweig, German writer (d. 2014)
• 1933 – David McCallum, Scottish actor
• 1934 – Brian Epstein, English musical group manager (the Beatles) (d. 1967)
• 1935 – Nick Massi, American musician
• 1935 – Milan Antal, Slovakian astronomer (d. 1999)
• 1936 – Al Oerter, American athlete (d. 2007)
• 1939 – Moshe Weinberg, Israeli weightlifting coach (d. 1972)
• 1940 – Bill Medley, American singer and songwriter (The Righteous Brothers)
• 1941 – Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Umberto Bossi, Italian politician
• 1941 – Cass Elliot, American singer (d. 1974)
• 1944 – Edmund Joensen, 9th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
• 1944 – Anders Björck, Swedish politician
• 1945 – Kate Adie, English journalist
• 1947 – Tanith Lee, English writer (d. 2015)
• 1947 – Lol Creme, English musician
• 1948 – Mykhaylo Fomenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager
• 1948 – Mihai Timofti, Moldovan actor, director and composer
• 1948 – Jeremy Irons, English actor
• 1949 – Twiggy, English model
• 1949 – Sally Potter, English movie director and screenwriter
• 1949 – Ernie Sabella, American actor
• 1950 – Michael Proctor, English physicist, mathematician and academic
• 1950 – Erkki Liikanen, Finnish politician

1951 – 1975

• 1951 – Ian Hudghton, Scottish politician
• 1952 – Gunnar Hökmark, Swedish politician
• 1952 – Nile Rodgers, American musician and composer
• 1952 – Jackie McNamara Sr., Scottish footballer
• 1954 – Mark Drakeford, Welsh politician, First Minister of Wales
• 1954 – Michael Wolff, American jazz pianist, composer, producer and actor
• 1955 – Rex Smith, American singer and actor
• 1956 – Juan Manuel Fangio II, Argentine racing driver
• 1958 – Lita Ford, British rock music singer and guitarist
• 1958 – Kevin Hooks, American actor and director
• 1960 – Mario Batali, American chef and writer
• 1960 – Yolanda Saldivar, American murderer
• 1962 – Cheri Oteri, American actress
• 1963 – Jarvis Cocker, English musician
• 1963 – David Seaman, English footballer
• 1964 – Simon Singh, English journalist, writer and producer
• 1965 – Sabine Paturel, French singer and actress
• 1965 – Sunita Williams, American captain, pilot and astronaut
• 1966 – Heiko Maas, German politician
• 1966 – Eric Rudolph, American criminal
• 1967 – Aleksandr Karelin, Russian Greco-Roman wrestler
• 1970 – Victor Williams, American actor
• 1972 – Ashot Nadanian, Armenian chess player
• 1973 – Cristiano da Matta, Brazilian racing driver
• 1974 – Jimmy Fallon, American actor and comedian
• 1974 – Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model, actress and singer

From 1976

• 1977 – Tasha Danvers, British athlete
• 1978 – Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player
• 1980 – Dimitri Yachvili, French rugby player
• 1980 – Amber Lancaster, American model and actress
• 1980 – Linda Ikeji, Nigerian blogger, writer, actress and model
• 1982 – Eleni Daniilidou, Greek tennis player
• 1982 – Jordan Parise, American ice hockey player
• 1982 – Columbus Short, American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer
• 1982 – Jesse Blaze Snider, American singer-songwriter, writer and illustrator
• 1983 – Eamon, American singer
• 1984 – Kavya Madhavan, Indian actress
• 1984 – Lydia Hearst, American model, actress, blogger and heiress
• 1984 – Amber Rayne, American pornographic actress (d. 2016)
• 1985 – Alun Wyn Jones, Welsh rugby player
• 1985 – Song Soong-ki, South Korean actor, model and television host
• 1985 – Woodrow West, Belizean footballer
• 1986 – Leon Best, English-Irish footballer
• 1986 – Lauren Goodger, English model, singer and television personality
• 1986 – Gerald Ciolek, German cyclist
• 1987 – Danielle Panabaker, American actress
• 1987 – Carlos Quintero, Colombian footballer
• 1988 – Katrina Bowden, American actress
• 1988 – Faye Reagan, American pornographic actress
• 1989 – Tyreke Evans, American basketball player
• 1990 – Sako Fukuda, Japanese singer
• 1990 – Evgeny Novikov, Russian racing driver
• 1990 – Kieran Trippier, English footballer
• 1991 – C. J. McCollum, American basketball player
• 1992 – Deyver Vega, Costa Rican footballer
• 1992 – Diego Antonio Reyes, Mexican footballer
• 1996 – Haruka Kodama, Japanese singer
• 1996 – Pia Mia, American singer, actress and model

Up to 1950

• 643 – Goeric of Metz, Frankish bishop
• 690 – Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 602)
• 1123 – Emperor Taizu of Jin of China (b. 1068)
• 1339 – Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (b. 1288)
• 1356 – Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1311)
• 1356 – Walter I, Count of Brienne (b. 1304)
• 1692 – Giles Corey, American farmer killed in the Salem Witch Trials (b. 1612)
• 1693 – Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (b. 1641)
• 1710 – Ole Romer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644)
• 1781 – Tobias Furneaux, English explorer (b. 1735)
• 1812 – Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker (b. 1744)
• 1833 – Mary Jemison, American frontierswoman (b. 1743)
• 1843 – Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French mathematician, engineer and scientist (b. 1792)
• 1868 – William Sprague, American minister and politician (b. 1809)
• 1881 – James Garfield, 20th President of the United States (b. 1831)
• 1893 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician (b. 1817)
• 1902 – Masaoka Shiki, Japanese poet, writer and critic (b. 1867)
• 1905 – Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist (b. 1845)
• 1907 – Jacob Morenga, Namibian uprising leader (b. 1875)
• 1914 – Charles de Vendeville, French swimmer (b. 1882)
• 1927 – Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
• 1935 – Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovskii, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1857)
• 1936 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkande, Indian singer (b. 1860)
• 1938 – Pauline Frederick, American actress (b. 1883)
• 1949 – Will Cuppy, American humorist (b. 1884)

1951 – 2010

• 1954 – Miles Franklin, Australian writer (b. 1879)
• 1967 – Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian painter (b. 1884)
• 1968 – Chester Carlson, American physicist (b. 1906)
• 1968 – Red Foley, American singer (b. 1910)
• 1969 – Rex Ingram, American actor (b. 1895)
• 1985 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b. 1923)
• 1987 – Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian politician and Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)
• 1989 – Willie Steele, American long jumper (b. 1923)
• 1992 – Jacques Pic, French chef (b. 1932)
• 1995 – Orville Redenbacher, American botanist and businessman (b. 1907)
• 2002 – Robert Guéï, leader of Ivory Coast (b. 1941)
• 2003 – Slim Dusty, Australian singer (b. 1927)
• 2004 – Skeeter Davis, American singer (b. 1931)
• 2009 – Eduard Zimmermann, German broadcaster (b. 1929)

From 2011

• 2011 – Dolores Hope, American singer and philanthropist (b. 1909)
• 2011 – George Cadle Price, 1st Prime Minister of Belize (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman (Nintendo) (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Saye Zerbo, Burkina Faso politician (b. 1932)
• 2013 – John D. Vanderhoof, American politician, 37th Governor of Colorado (b. 1922)
• 2014 – Avraham Heffner, Israeli filmmaker (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Elaine Lee, South African-Australian actress (b. 1939)
• 2014 – U. Srinivas, Indian mandolin player (b. 1969)
• 2014 – Francisco Feliciano, Filipino composer and conductor (b. 1941)
• 2014 – Iain MacCormick, Scottish politician (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Audrey Long, American actress (b. 1922)
• 2015 – Mishael Cheshin, Israeli judge (b. 1936)
• 2015 – Masajuro Shiokawa, Japanese politician (b. 1921)
• 2015 – Jackie Collins, English novelist (b. 1937)
• 2017 – Bernie Casey, American actor and football player (b. 1939)
• 2017 – Jake LaMotta, American boxer (b. 1922)
• 2017 – David Shepherd, British artist (b. 1931)
• 2017 – Brian Barder, British diplomat (b. 1934)
• 2017 – Leonid Kharitonov, Russian opera singer (b. 1933)
• 2017 – José Salcedo, Spanish film editor (b. 1949)
• 2018 – Jon Burge, American police officer (b. 1947)
• 2018 – Bunny Carr, Irish television presenter (b. 1927)
• 2018 – Kondapalli Koteswaramma, Indian Communist revolutionary and writer (b. 1918)
• 2018 – Marilyn Lloyd, American politician (b. 1929)
• 2018 – Arthur Mitchell, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1934)
• 2018 – Denis Norden, English comedy writer and television presenter (b. 1922)
• 2018 – Gamil Ratib, Egyptian-French actor (b. 1926)
• 2019 – Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, President of Tunisia (b. 1936)
• 2019 – Irina Bogacheva, Russian mezzo-soprano (b. 1939)
• 2019 – Wim Crouwel, Dutch graphic designer (b. 1928)
• 2019 – Marco Feingold, Austrian Holocaust survivor (b. 1913)
• 2019 – Maurice Ferré, American politician (b. 1935)
• 2019 – Charles Gérard, French actor (b. 1922)
• 2019 – Bert Hellinger, German psychotherapist (b. 1925)
• 2019 – Barron Hilton, American businessman (b. 1927)
• 2019 – Sandie Jones, Irish singer (b. 1951)
• 2019 – Harold Mabern, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1936)
• 2019 – María Rivas, Venezuelan Latin jazz singer (b. 1960)
• 2019 – Levente Riz, Hungarian politician (b. 1974)
• 2019 – Larry Wallis, English songwriter and guitarist (b. 1949)

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• Armed Forces Day (Chile)