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September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 106 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 307 – Severus II is captured and imprisoned at Tres Tabernae. He is later executed (or forced to commit suicide) after Emperor Galerius unsuccessfully invades Italy.
- 1400 – Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
- 1620 – The Mayflower starts her voyage to North America
- 1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
- 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
- 1795 – The first occupation by United Kingdom of Cape Colony, South Africa with the Battle of Hout Bay, after successive victories at the Battle of Muizenberg and Wynberg, after William V requested protection against revolutionary France's occupation of the Netherlands.
- 1810 – With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.
- 1812 – The Fire of Moscow (1812) begins shortly after midnight and destroys three quarters of the city days later.
- 1863 – Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, 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. The Sun is the nation's oldest, continuously-independent college daily in the United States.
- 1893 – Settlers race in Oklahoma for prime land in the Cherokee Strip.
- 1908 – The General Motors Corporation is founded.
- 1919 – The American Legion is incorporated.
- 1920 – The Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City – 38 are killed and 400 injured.
- 1941 – World War II: concerned that Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia is about to ally his petroleum-rich empire with Nazi Germany during World War II, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union invade Iran in late August and force the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
- 1945 – World War II: The surrender of the Japanese troops in Hong Kong. The surrender is accepted by the Royal Navy Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.
- 1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River area, at least 1,930 killed.
- 1955 – Juan Perón is deposed as the ruler of Argentina.
- 1963 – Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore soon leaves 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 military rule following the hijacking of four civilian airliners by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). This results in the formation of the Black September Palestinian paramilitary unit.
- 1975 – Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia.
- 1975 – The Cape Verde Islands, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Principe join the United Nations.
- 1975 – The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
- 1976 – Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir.
- 1978 – An earthquake measuring 7.5 to 7.9 on the Richter scale hits the city of Tabas, Iran killing about 25,000 people.
- 1980 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines join the United Nations.
- 1982 – Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon.
- 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 becomes complete at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge.
- 1991 – The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega begins in the United States.
- 1992 – Black Wednesday: the Pound Sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the German mark.
- 2005 – The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro gets arrested in Naples, Italy.
- 2007 – One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.
Births
- 16 – Drusilla, daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (d. 38)
- 1386 – King Henry V of England, (d. 1422)
- 1507 – Jiajing, Emperor of China (d. 1567)
- 1557 – Jacques Mauduit, French composer (d. 1627)
- 1651 – Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (d. 1716)
- 1666 – Antoine Parent, French mathematician (d. 1716)
- 1678 – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (d. 1751)
- 1722 – Gabriel Christie, British general (d. 1799)
- 1725 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815)
- 1745 – Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (d. 1813)
- 1777 – Nathan Mayer Rothschild, British financier (d. 1836)
- 1782 – Daoguang, Emperor of China (d. 1850)
- 1823 – Francis Parkman, American historian (d. 1893)
- 1827 – Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (d. 1908)
- 1830 – Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (d. 1911)
- 1837 – King Pedro V of Portugal (d. 1861)
- 1844 – Paul Taffanel, French flautist (d. 1908)
- 1846 – Anna Kingsford, English doctor (d. 1888)
- 1853 – Albrecht Kossel, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1927)
- 1858 – Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)
- 1858 – Edward Marshall Hall, English barrister (d. 1927)
- 1859 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese politician (d. 1916)
- 1866 – Georg Voigt, German politician (d. 1927)
- 1875 – James C. Penney, American department store founder (d. 1971)
- 1877 – Jacob Schick, American-Canadian electric razor inventor (d. 1937)
- 1880 – Alfred Noyes, English poet (d. 1958)
- 1881 – Clive Bell, English art critic (d. 1964)
- 1883 – T. E. Hulme, English writer (d. 1917)
- 1886 – Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor and painter (d. 1966)
- 1887 – Nadia Boulanger, French composer and teacher (d. 1979)
- 1888 – Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
- 1891 – Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German spy (d. 1972)
- 1891 – Karl Dönitz, German naval leader (d. 1980)
- 1893 – Alexander Korda, Hungarian film director (d. 1956)
- 1893 – Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
- 1896 – Margaret Fitzgerald, Canadian supercentenarian (d. 2009)
- 1897 – Milt Franklyn, American musician (d. 1962)
- 1898 – H.A. Rey, American children's author (d. 1977)
- 1899 – Hans Swarowsky, Austrian conductor (d. 1975)
- 1905 – Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (d. 1980)
- 1906 – Jack Churchill, English soldier (d. 1996)
- 1910 – Karl Kling, German race car driver (d. 2003)
- 1910 – Erich Kempka, Adolf Hitler's chauffeur (d. 1975)
- 1911 – Wilfred Burchett, Australian journalist (d. 1983)
- 1914 – Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (d. 1999)
- 1915 – Cy Walter, American pianist (d. 1968)
- 1916 – Robert Bradshaw, Saint Kitts and Nevis politician (d. 1978)
- 1916 – M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (d. 2004)
- 1916 – Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (d. 1999)
- 1918 – Władysław Kędra, Polish pianist (d. 1968)
- 1919 – Laurence J. Peter, Canadian born educator and writer (d. 1990)
- 1919 – Andy Russell, American popular vocalist (d. 1992)
- 1920 – Art Sansom, American cartoonist (The Born Loser) (d. 1991)
- 1921 – Jon Hendricks, American jazz singer
- 1922 – Guy Hamilton, English film director
- 1922 – Marcel Mouloudji, French actor and singer (d. 1994)
- 1922 – Janis Paige, American actress
- 1923 – Lee Kuan Yew, Minister Mentor of Singapore
- 1924 – Lauren Bacall, American actress
- 1925 – Charlie Byrd, American musician (d. 1999)
- 1925 – Charles Haughey, Prime Minister of Ireland (d. 2006)
- 1925 – B. B. King, American musician
- 1926 – Tommy Bond, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1926 – Eric Gross, Austrian-Australian composer (d. 2011)
- 1926 – Takao Tanabe, Canadian painter
- 1927 – Peter Falk, American actor (d. 2011)
- 1927 – Jack Kelly, American actor (d. 1992)
- 1928 – Lady Gwen Thompson, British occultist (d. 1986)
- 1930 – Anne Francis, American actress (d. 2011)
- 1934 – Elgin Baylor, American basketball player
- 1934 – George Chakiris, American actor
- 1934 – Ronnie Drew, Irish singer (d. 2008)
- 1935 – Carl Andre, American artist
- 1935 – Jules Bass, American author, producer, director and composer
- 1935 – Bob Kiley, American public transit specialist
- 1935 – Esther Vilar, German-Argentinian writer
- 1937 – Alexander Medved, Russian wrestler
- 1937 – Vince Naimoli, American former MLB team owner
- 1939 – Breyten Breytenbach, South African writer and painter
- 1941 – Richard Perle, American political advisor
- 1942 – Bernie Calvert, British musician (The Hollies)
- 1942 – Dennis Conner, American yachtsman
- 1942 – Tadamasa Goto, Japanese yakuza boss
- 1943 – James Alan McPherson, American writer
- 1944 – Winston Grennan, Jamaican American drummer
- 1945 – Pat Stevens, American actress and voice actress (d. 2010)
- 1946 – Cathee Dahmen, American fashion model
- 1946 – Mike Reynolds, Australian politician
- 1946 – Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer
- 1947 – Russ Abbot, British comedian
- 1947 – Enrique Krauze, Mexican historian and writer
- 1948 – Ron Blair, American bassist
- 1948 – Rosemary Casals, American tennis player
- 1948 – Kenney Jones, English musician (The Small Faces; Faces; The Who)
- 1948 – Susan Ruttan, American actress
- 1949 – Ed Begley, Jr., American actor
- 1950 – David Bellamy, American guitarist and singer
- 1950 – Henry Louis Gates, American scholar
- 1950 – Loyd Grossman, American television presenter
- 1952 – Mickey Rourke, American actor
- 1953 – Alan Barton, English musician (Black Lace, Smokie) (d. 1995)
- 1953 – Kurt Fuller, American actor
- 1953 – Nancy Huston, Canadian-born novelist and essayist
- 1953 – Jerry Pate, American golfer
- 1953 – Eric Vail, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1954 – Earl Klugh, American jazz guitarist
- 1954 – William McKeen, American author
- 1954 – Colin Newman, English musician (Wire)
- 1954 – Frank Reed, American singer (The Chi-Lites)
- 1955 – Ron Brewer, American basketball player
- 1955 – Janet Ellis, British television presenter
- 1955 – Yolandita Monge, Puerto Rican singer
- 1955 – Robin Yount, American baseball player
- 1956 – David Copperfield, American magician
- 1957 – David McCreery, Irish footballer
- 1957 – Anca Parghel, Romanian jazz singer
- 1958 – Orel Hershiser, American baseball player
- 1958 – Neville Southall, Welsh footballer
- 1958 – Jennifer Tilly, American actress
- 1959 – Peter Keleghan, Canadian actor
- 1959 – Tim Raines, American baseball player
- 1959 – Dave Richardson, former South African cricketer
- 1960 – Kurt Busiek, American comic book writer
- 1960 – Danny John-Jules, British actor
- 1960 – Yianna Katsoulos, French singer
- 1961 – Bilinda Butcher, British singer (My Bloody Valentine)
- 1963 – Richard Marx, American singer
- 1964 – Mary Coustas, Australian entertainer
- 1964 – Molly Shannon, American actress
- 1964 – Rossy de Palma, Spanish actress
- 1964 – Dave Sabo, American musician (Skid Row)
- 1965 – Katy Kurtzman, American actress
- 1965 – Karl-Heinz Riedle, German footballer
- 1966 – Kevin Young, American athlete
- 1967 – Hiroya Oku, Japanese manga artist
- 1968 – Marc Anthony, American singer
- 1968 – Walt Becker, American director and writer
- 1969 – Justine Frischmann, English musician (Elastica)
- 1969 – Janno Gibbs, Filipino singer
- 1970 – Mark Schultz, American musician
- 1971 – Amy Poehler, American comedian (Saturday Night Live)
- 1972 – Mark Bruener, American football player
- 1972 – Sprent Dabwido, Nauruan politician
- 1972 – Shalane McCall, American actress
- 1972 – James Westman, Canadian Operatic Baritone
- 1972 – Erik Mana, Filipino-Canadian Magician and Mentalist
- 1973 – George Corrie, English footballer
- 1973 – Justin Haythe, American writer
- 1973 – Alexander Vinokourov, Kazakh cyclist
- 1975 – Shannon Noll, Australian singer and songwriter
- 1976 – Tina Barrett, British singer (S Club)
- 1976 – Greg Buckner, American basketball player
- 1977 – Greg Ball, American politician
- 1978 – Dan Dickau, American basketball player
- 1978 – Matthew Rogers, American singer
- 1979 – Aileen Celeste, Venezuelan actress
- 1979 – Bobby Korecky, American baseball player
- 1979 – Fanny, French singer
- 1980 – Patrik Stefan, Czech hockey player
- 1981 – Fan Bingbing, Chinese actress
- 1981 – Alexis Bledel, American actress (Gilmore Girls)
- 1982 – Leon Knight, English footballer
- 1982 – Michele Rizzo, Italian rugby player
- 1982 – Ryan Thomson, Scottish footballer
- 1983 – John Afoa, New Zealand All Black rugby player
- 1983 – Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer
- 1983 – Brandon Moss, American baseball player
- 1983 – Legedu Naanee, American football player
- 1984 – Sabrina Bryan, American actress and singer (The Cheetah Girls)
- 1984 – Katie Melua, Georgian/British singer
- 1984 – Serginho, Brazilian footballer
- 1985 – Madeline Zima, American actress
- 1986 – Gordon Beckham, American baseball player
- 1986 – Ian Harding, American Actor
- 1986 – Kyla Pratt, American actress
- 1987 – Daren Kagasoff, American actor
- 1987 – Kyle Lafferty, Northern Irish Footballer
- 1987 – Louis Clément Ngwat-Mahop, Cameroonian football player
- 1987 – Travis Wall, American dancer and dance instructor
- 1988 – Teddy Geiger, American singer
- 1988 – Sarah Steele, American actress
- 1989 – Dustin Tokarski, Canadian ice hockey goalie
- 1991 – Alexandra Paul (figure skater), Canadian figure skater
- 1992 – Nick Jonas, American singer and musician (Jonas Brothers)
- 2005 – Princess Jalilah bint Ali of Jordan
Deaths
- 307 – Severus II, Roman Emperor
- 827 – Pope Valentine
- 1087 – Pope Victor III (b. 1026)
- 1100 – Bernold of Constance, German chronicler (b. 1054)
- 1345 – John IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1295)
- 1380 – King Charles V of France (b. 1338)
- 1394 – Avignon Pope Clement VII (b. 1342)
- 1406 – Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. 1336)
- 1498 – Tomás de Torquemada, first grand inquisitor of Spain (b. 1420)
- 1589 – Michael Baius, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
- 1672 – Anne Bradstreet, American colonial poet (b. 1612)
- 1701 – James II of England and VII of Scotland (b. 1633)
- 1736 – Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist (b. 1686)
- 1775 – Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English privy councillor (b. 1684)
- 1782 – Farinelli, Italian castrato singer (b. 1705)
- 1792 – Quang Trung, Tay Son dynasty's emperor of Viet Nam (b. 1788)
- 1803 – Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (b. 1754)
- 1819 – John Jeffries, American physician, balloonist, pioneer meteorologist (b. 1744)
- 1824 – King Louis XVIII of France (b. 1755)
- 1843 – Ezekiel Hart, Canadian entrepreneur and politician, and the first Jew to be elected to public office in the British Empire (b. 1770)
- 1865 – Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (b. 1792)
- 1887 – Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna (b. 1841)
- 1896 – Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer (b. 1836)
- 1898 – Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (b. 1827)
- 1911 – Edward Whymper, English mountain climber (b. 1840)
- 1925 – Leo Fall, Austrian operetta composer (b. 1873)
- 1925 – Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (b. 1888)
- 1932 – Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
- 1933 – George Gore, American baseball player (b. 1857)
- 1944 – Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
- 1940 – Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, Governor of Queensland, Governor of Bombay (b. 1860)
- 1945 – John McCormack, Irish tenor (b. 1884)
- 1946 – Sir James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist and astronomer (b. 1877)
- 1950 – Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (b. 1881)
- 1955 – L.S. Amery, British politician (b. 1873)
- 1957 – Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (b. 1864)
- 1965 – Ahn Eak-tai, Korean musician, composer, and conductor (b. 1906)
- 1965 – Fred Quimby, American cartoon producer (b. 1886)
- 1973 – Víctor Jara, Chilean musician (b. 1932)
- 1975 – Irene Hayes, Ziegfeld girl and businesswoman (b. 1896)
- 1977 – Marc Bolan, English musician (b. 1947)
- 1977 – Maria Callas, Greek-American soprano (b. 1923)
- 1978 – Lavrentis Dianellos, Greek actor (b. 1911)
- 1980 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)
- 1984 – Louis Réard, French designer of the bikini (b. 1897)
- 1987 – Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (b. 1922)
- 1987 – Christopher Soames, Baron Soames, British politician (b. 1920)
- 1991 – Olga Spessivtseva, Russian ballerina (b. 1895)
- 1991 – Carol White, British actress (b. 1943)
- 1992 – Millicent Fenwick, American politician and writer (b. 1910)
- 1993 – František Jílek, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
- 1993 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian poet, aboriginal activist (b. 1920)
- 1993 – Rok Petrovič, Slovenian skier (b. 1966)
- 1996 – McGeorge Bundy, U.S. National Security Advisor (b. 1919)
- 1996 – Gene Nelson, American actor (b. 1920)
- 2000 – Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)
- 2001 – Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (b. 1918)
- 2002 – James Gregory, American actor (b. 1911)
- 2003 – Sheb Wooley, singer and actor (b. 1921)
- 2004 – Michael Donaghy Poet, (b. 1954)
- 2005 – Harry Freedman, Canadian composer and music educator (b. 1922)
- 2005 – Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (b. 1920)
- 2006 – Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
- 2006 – Rob Levin, creator of Freenode (b. 1955)
- 2007 – Robert Jordan, author of the Wheel of Time series (b. 1948)
- 2008 – Norman Whitfield, associated with the Temptations (b. 1940)
- 2009 – Myles Brand, NCAA President (b. 1942)
- 2009 – Ernst Märzendorfer, Austrian conductor (b. 1921)
- 2009 – Mary Travers, American singer (Peter, Paul, and Mary) (b. 1936)
- 2010 – George N. Parks, director of the University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band
- 2010 – Jim Towers, English footballer (b. 1933)
Holidays and observances
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