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Acontecimientos
- 490 a. C.Battle of Marathon: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece.
- 372Sixteen Kingdoms: Sima Yao, age 10, succeeds his father Emperor Jianwen as Emperor Xiaowu of the Eastern Jin dynasty.
- 1185Isaac Angelos is crowned Byzantine emperor following the deposition of Andronikos I Komnenos and after the crowd rejects the coronation of Isaac's uncle John Doukas.
- 1213Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.
- 1229Battle of Portopí: The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Mallorca, with the purpose of conquering the island.
- 1297The Treaty of Alcañices, mediated by the pope, between the king Denis of Portugal and king Ferdinand IV of Castile defines the border between the two countries and establishes an alliance of friendship.
- 1309The first siege of Gibraltar takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista, pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada and resulting in a Castilian victory.
- 1609Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
- 1634A gunpowder factory explodes in Valletta, Malta, killing 22 people and damaging several buildings.
- 1683Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna: Several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
- 1723Iran and Russia sign the treaty of Saint Petersburg. Iran is forced to cede all lands on the western and southern coast of the Caspian Sea and Russia pledges to provide military support against the Ottoman Empire.
- 1814Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
- 1847Mexican–American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
- 1848A new constitution marks the establishment of Switzerland as a federal state.
- 1857The sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the California gold rush.
- 1885Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional association football.
- 1890Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
- 1897Tirah campaign: In the Battle of Saragarhi, ten thousand Pashtun tribesmen suffer several hundred casualties while attacking 21 Sikh soldiers in British service.
- 1906The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
- 1910Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter).
- 1915French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
- 1923Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
- 1933Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
- 1938Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
- 1940Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
- 1940The Hercules Powder plant disaster in the United States kills 51 people and injures over 200.
- 1942World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.
- 1942World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army troops.
- 1943World War II: Benito Mussolini is rescued from house arrest by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
- 1944World War II: The liberation of Yugoslavia from Axis occupation continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among the liberated cities.
- 1953U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
- 1958Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
- 1959The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the Moon.
- 1959Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color, is launched in the United States.
- 1961The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
- 1961Air France Flight 2005 crashes near Rabat–Salé Airport, in Rabat, Morocco, killing 77 people.
- 1962US President John F. Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.
- 1966Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions and Artemis II).
- 1969Philippine Air Lines Flight 158 crashes in Antipolo, near Manila International Airport in the Philippines, killing 45 people.
- 1970Dawson's Field hijackings: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Zarqa, Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
- 1974Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.
- 1977South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody.
- 1980The 43rd government of Turkey is overthrown in a coup d'état led by General Kenan Evren.
- 1980Florida Commuter Airlines Flight 65 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off West End, Bahamas, killing 34 people.
- 1983A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
- 1983The USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007.
- 1984Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 276, previously set by Herb Score with 246 in 1954. Gooden's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.
- 1988Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula two days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
- 1990The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.
- 1990The Red Cross organizations of mainland China and Taiwan sign the Kinmen Agreement on repatriation of illegal immigrants and criminal suspects after two days of talks in Kinmen, Fujian Province in response to the two tragedies in repatriation in the previous two months. It is the first agreement reached by private organizations across the Taiwan Strait.
- 1991NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-48 to deploy the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite.
- 1992NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47, which marks the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spacecraft, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
- 1992Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well.
- 1993NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51.
- 1994Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West Wing. There were no other casualties.
- 2001Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
- 2003The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
- 2003Iraq War: In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
- 2003Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan.
- 2005Israeli–Palestinian conflict: the Israeli disengagement from Gaza is completed, leaving some 2,530 homes demolished.
- 2007Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of plunder.
- 2007Two earthquakes measuring 8.4 and 7.9 on the Richter Scale hits the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing 25 people and injuring 161.
- 2008The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
- 2012Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 crashes on approach to Palana Airport, killing 10 and injuring four.
- 2013NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space.
- 2014The Synagogue Church building collapse results in the deaths of 115 people and several injured, in the Church run by Nigeria's T. B. Joshua.
- 2021Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51 crashes short of the runway at Kazachinskoye Airport, killing four.
Nacimientos
- 1415John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (died 1461)
- 1494Francis I of France (died 1547)
- 1590María de Zayas, Spanish writer (died 1661)
- 1605William Dugdale, English genealogist and historian (died 1686)
- 1690Peter Dens, Flemish theologian and academic (died 1775)
- 1736Hsinbyushin, Burmese king (died 1776)
- 1739Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, Methodist preacher and philanthropist (died 1815)
- 1740Johann Heinrich Jung, German author and academic (died 1817)
- 1768Benjamin Carr, English-American singer-songwriter, educator, and publisher (died 1831)
- 1797Samuel Joseph May, American activist (died 1871)
- 1812Edward Shepherd Creasy, English historian and jurist (died 1878)
- 1812Richard March Hoe, American engineer and businessman, invented the Rotary printing press (died 1886)
- 1816Aurora von Qvanten, Swedish writer and artist (died 1907)
- 1818Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor, invented the Gatling gun (died 1903)
- 1818Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator (died 1882)
- 1828William Morgan, English-Australian politician, 14th Premier of South Australia (died 1883)
- 1829Anselm Feuerbach, German painter (died 1880)
- 1829Charles Dudley Warner, American essayist and novelist (died 1900)
- 1830William Sprague, American businessman and politician, 27th Governor of Rhode Island (died 1915)
- 1837Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (died 1892)
- 1852H. H. Asquith, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1928)
- 1855Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Quebec (died 1920)
- 1856Johann Heinrich Beck, American composer and conductor (died 1924)
- 1857Manuel Espinosa Batista, Colombian pharmacist and politician (died 1919)
- 1862Carl Eytel, German-American painter and illustrator (died 1925)
- 1866Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, English cricketer and politician, 13th Governor General of Canada (died 1941)
- 1869Paweł Owerłło, Polish actor (died 1957) las demás fuentes: 15 sep 1869
- 1875Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor and director (died 1926)
- 1880H. L. Mencken, American journalist and critic (died 1956)
- 1882Ion Agârbiceanu, Romanian journalist, politician, and archbishop (died 1963)
- 1884Martin Klein, Estonian wrestler and coach (died 1947)
- 1885Heinrich Hoffmann, German photographer and art dealer (died 1957)
- 1888Maurice Chevalier, French actor, singer, and dancer (died 1972)
- 1889Ugo Pasquale Mifsud, Maltese politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Malta (died 1942)
- 1891Pedro Albizu Campos, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician (died 1965) las demás fuentes: 29 jun 1893
- 1891Jean-François Martial, Belgian actor (died 1977)
- 1891Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher (died 1968)
- 1892Alfred A. Knopf Sr., American publisher, founded Alfred A. Knopf Inc. (died 1984)
- 1894Kyuichi Tokuda, Japanese lawyer and politician (died 1953)
- 1894Dorothy Maud Wrinch, Argentinian-English mathematician, biochemist and philosopher (died 1976)
- 1894Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Indian novelist and short story writer (died 1950)
- 1895Freymóður Jóhannsson, Icelandic painter and composer (died 1973)
- 1897Irène Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1956)
- 1897Walter B. Gibson, American magician and author (died 1985)
- 1898Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (died 1963)
- 1898Alma Moodie, Australian violinist and educator (died 1943)
- 1898Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter and photographer (died 1969)
- 1900Martha Atwell, American radio director (died 1949)
- 1900Haskell Curry, American mathematician, logician, and academic (died 1982)
- 1901Shmuel Horowitz, Israeli agronomist and academic (died 1999)
- 1902Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian physician and politician, 21st President of Brazil (died 1976)
- 1902Marya Zaturenska, Ukrainian-American poet and author (died 1982)
- 1905Linda Agostini, English-Australian murder victim (died 1934)
- 1908Werner Flume, German jurist (died 2009)
- 1909Donald MacDonald, Canadian trade union leader and politician (died 1986)
- 1913Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper (died 1980)
- 1914Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh-English soldier and actor (died 1999)
- 1921Stanisław Lem, Polish philosopher and author (died 2006)
- 1921Turgut Cansever, Turkish architect, city planner, and thinker (died 2009)
- 1922Antonio Cafiero, Argentinian accountant and politician, Governor of Buenos Aires Province (died 2014)
- 1922Mark Rosenzweig, American psychologist and academic (died 2009)
- 1924Amílcar Cabral, Guinea-Bissauan political leader (died 1973)
- 1925Dickie Moore, American actor (died 2015)
- 1927Mathé Altéry, French soprano and actress
- 1928Muriel Siebert, American businesswoman and philanthropist (died 2013)
- 1928Joseph John Gerry, American Roman Catholic prelate (died 2023)
- 1930Larry Austin, American composer and educator (died 2018)
- 1931Ian Holm, English actor (died 2020)
- 1931George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013)
- 1932Atli Dam, Faroese engineer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 2005)
- 1934Glenn Davis, American hurdler, sprinter, and football player (died 2009)
- 1934Jaegwon Kim, South Korean-American philosopher and academic (died 2019)
- 1934Nellie Wong, Chinese American poet and activist
- 1935Richard Hunt, American sculptor (died 2023)
- 1937George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer (died 2026)
- 1937Wes Hall, Barbadian cricketer and politician
- 1938Judy Clay, American soul and gospel singer (died 2001)
- 1938Claude Ruel, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2015)
- 1938Tatiana Troyanos, American operatic soprano (died 1993)
- 1939Henry Waxman, American lawyer and politician
- 1940Linda Gray, American model and actress
- 1942Michel Drucker, French journalist
- 1942Tomás Marco, Spanish composer
- 1942Maria Muldaur, American folk and blues singer las demás fuentes: 12 sep 1943
- 1942François Tavenas, Canadian engineer and academic (died 2004)
- 1943Ralph Neely, American football player (died 2022)
- 1943Michael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan-Canadian author and poet
- 1944Lonnie Mayne, American wrestler (died 1978)
- 1944Vladimir Spivakov, Russian violinist and conductor
- 1944Barry White, American singer-songwriter (died 2003)
- 1945Russell "Jungle Jim" Liberman, American drag racer (died 1977)
- 1945Milo Manara, Italian author and illustrator
- 1945John Mauceri, American conductor and producer
- 1946Tony Bellamy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2009)
- 1946Neil Lyndon, British journalist and writer
- 1947David Grant, English engineer and academic
- 1947Gerald Howarth, English soldier, pilot, and politician, Minister for International Security Strategy
- 1947Christopher Neame, English actor
- 1948Steve Turre, American trombonist and educator
- 1948Max Walker, Australian footballer, cricketer, sportscaster, and architect (died 2016)
- 1949Charles Burlingame, American captain and pilot (died 2001)
- 1949Irina Rodnina, Russian figure skater and politician
- 1950Marguerite Blais, Canadian journalist and politician
- 1950Gustav Brunner, Austrian engineer
- 1950Bruce Mahler, American actor and screenwriter
- 1950Mike Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1951Bertie Ahern, Irish accountant and politician, 11th Taoiseach of Ireland
- 1951Norm Dubé, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1951Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby player and actor (died 2007)
- 1951Joe Pantoliano, American actor and producer
- 1951Ali-Ollie Woodson, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 2010)
- 1952Gerry Beckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1952Neil Peart, Canadian drummer, songwriter, and producer (died 2020)
- 1953Nan Goldin, American photographer
- 1954Robert Gober, American sculptor
- 1954Scott Hamilton, American saxophonist
- 1954Peeter Volkonski, Estonian singer-songwriter and actor
- 1955Peter Scolari, American actor (died 2021)
- 1955Brian Smith, English footballer (died 2013)
- 1956Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor (died 2003)
- 1956BA Robertson, Scottish songwriter
- 1956Walter Woon, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 7th Attorney-General of Singapore
- 1957Jan Egeland, Norwegian politician, diplomat and humanitarian
- 1957Rachel Ward, English-Australian actress
- 1957Hans Zimmer, German composer and producer
- 1958Wilfred Benítez, American boxer
- 1958Gregg Edelman, American actor and singer
- 1959Scott Brown, American colonel and politician
- 1959Deron Cherry, American football player and sportscaster
- 1959Sigmar Gabriel, German educator and politician, 17th Vice-Chancellor of Germany
- 1960Road Warrior Animal, American wrestler (died 2020)
- 1960Evan Jenkins, American academic and politician
- 1960Stefanos Korkolis, Greek pianist and composer
- 1961Mylène Farmer, Canadian-French singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1962Sunay Akın, Turkish poet, journalist, and philanthropist
- 1962Amy Yasbeck, American actress
- 1964Greg Gutfeld, American television journalist and author
- 1964Dieter Hecking, German footballer and manager
- 1965Einstein Kristiansen, Norwegian animator and producer
- 1965Vernon Maxwell, American basketball player
- 1965Midnight, Jamaican wrestler
- 1966Darren E. Burrows, American actor
- 1966Ben Folds, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1966Vezio Sacratini, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967Louis C.K., American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1967Pat Listach, American baseball player, coach, and manager
- 1968Larry LaLonde, American guitarist and songwriter
- 1968Nicholas Russell, 6th Earl Russell, English politician (died 2014)
- 1968Richard Snell, South African cricketer and physiotherapist
- 1968Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian, actor, and writer
- 1969Max Boot, Russian-American historian and author
- 1969Ángel Cabrera, Argentinian golfer
- 1969James Frey, American author and screenwriter
- 1969Shigeki Maruyama, Japanese golfer
- 1970Will Chase, American actor, director, and singer
- 1970Nathan Larson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1971Younes El Aynaoui, Moroccan tennis player
- 1971Shocker, Mexican wrestler
- 1972Gideon Emery, English-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1972Paul Green, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 2022)
- 1972Sidney Souza, Brazilian footballer
- 1973Kara David, Filipino journalist and documentarian
- 1973Martina Ertl-Renz, German skier
- 1973Martin Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1973Paul Walker, American actor (died 2013)
- 1974Caroline Aigle, French soldier and pilot (died 2007)
- 1974Jennifer Nettles, American singer-songwriter
- 1974Guy Smith, English race car driver
- 1974Kenichi Suzumura, Japanese voice actor and singer-songwriter
- 1974Nuno Valente, Portuguese footballer and coach
- 1975Luis Castillo, Dominican baseball player
- 1975Bill Kirby, Australian swimmer and coach
- 1976Lauren Stamile, American actress
- 1976Maciej Żurawski, Polish footballer
- 1977Nathan Bracken, Australian cricketer
- 1977Grant Denyer, Australian racing driver and journalist
- 1977Jeff Irwin, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1977David Thompson, English footballer
- 1978Elisabetta Canalis, Italian model and actress
- 1978Benjamin McKenzie, American actor
- 1978Ruben Studdard, American R&B, pop, and gospel singer
- 1980Sean Burroughs, American baseball player (died 2024)
- 1980Fernando César de Souza, Brazilian footballer
- 1980Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
- 1980Kevin Sinfield, English rugby player
- 1980Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey player (died 2011)
- 1981Jennifer Hudson, American singer and actress
- 1981Staciana Stitts, American swimmer
- 1982Zoran Planinić, Croatian basketball player
- 1982Sal Rinauro, American wrestler
- 1983Tom Geißler, German footballer
- 1983Daniel Muir, American football player
- 1983Sergio Parisse, Argentinian-Italian rugby player
- 1983Clayton Richard, American baseball player
- 1983Carly Smithson, Irish singer-songwriter
- 1983Niels Tas, Belgian politician
- 1984Nashat Akram, Iraqi footballer
- 1984Chelsea Carey, Canadian curler
- 1984Petra Marklund, Swedish singer
- 1986Alfie Allen, English actor
- 1986Joanne Jackson, English swimmer
- 1986Yuto Nagatomo, Japanese footballer
- 1986Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter
- 1986Emmy Rossum, American singer and actress
- 1988Amanda Jenssen, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1988Guðmundur Ari Sigurjónsson, Icelandic politician
- 1989Freddie Freeman, American-Canadian baseball player
- 1989Andrew Luck, American football player
- 1991Mike Towell, Scottish professional boxer (died 2016)
- 1991Scott Wootton, English footballer
- 1992Alexia Fast, Canadian actress
- 1992Sviatlana Pirazhenka, Belarusian tennis player
- 1993Kelsea Ballerini, American country pop singer
- 1994Druski, American comedian and actor
- 1994RM, South Korean rapper, songwriter and record producer
- 1994Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis player
- 1994Mohammed Asif, Indian sailor and researcher
- 1995Steven Gardiner, Bahamian sprinter
- 1996Colin Ford, American actor
- 1997Sydney Sweeney, American actress
- 1997Almida de Val, Swedish curler
- 1999Jerome Ford, American football player
- 2001Ziaire Williams, American basketball player
Fallecimientos
- 640Sak Kʼukʼ, Mayan queen
- 973Nefingus, bishop of Angers
- 1185Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (born 1118)
- 1213Peter II of Aragon (born 1174)
- 1362Pope Innocent VI (born 1295)
- 1368Blanche of Lancaster (born 1345/1347)
- 1439Sidi El Houari, Algerian imam (born 1350)
- 1500Albert III, Duke of Saxony (born 1443)
- 1544Clément Marot, French poet (born 1496)
- 1612Vasili IV of Russia (born 1552)
- 1642Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (born 1620)
- 1660Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist, and politician (born 1577)
- 1665Jean Bolland, Belgian priest and hagiographer (born 1596)
- 1672Tanneguy Le Fèvre, French scholar and author (born 1615)
- 1674Nicolaes Tulp, Dutch anatomist and politician (born 1593)
- 1683Afonso VI of Portugal (born 1643)
- 1712Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter and illustrator (born 1637) las demás fuentes: 28 mar 1712
- 1764Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer and theorist (born 1683)
- 1779Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (born 1711)
- 1810Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician (born 1740) las demás fuentes: 11 sep 1810
- 1814Robert Ross, Irish general (born 1766)
- 1819Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (born 1742)
- 1836Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German playwright (born 1801)
- 1869Peter Mark Roget, English physician, theologian, and lexicographer (born 1779)
- 1870Eleanora Atherton, English philanthropist (born 1782)
- 1870Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American journalist, explorer, and author (born 1836)
- 1874François Guizot, French historian and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France (born 1787)
- 1903Duncan Gillies, Scottish-Australian businessman and politician, 14th Premier of Victoria (born 1834)
- 1907Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian poet, journalist, and lawyer (born 1837) juliano y gregoriano
- 1912Pierre-Hector Coullié, French cardinal (born 1829)
- 1918George Reid, Australian accountant and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1845)
- 1919Leonid Andreyev, Russian author and playwright (born 1871)
- 1923Jules Violle, French physicist and academic (born 1841)
- 1927Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (born 1847)
- 1942Valentine Baker, Welsh co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company (born 1888)
- 1945Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese field marshal and politician, 44th Japanese Minister of War (born 1880)
- 1949Erik Adolf von Willebrand, Finnish physician (born 1870) las demás fuentes: 12 dic 1949
- 1953James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, English politician, Governor of Northern Ireland (born 1869)
- 1953Hugo Schmeisser, German engineer (born 1884)
- 1953Lewis Stone, American actor (born 1879)
- 1956Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of War (born 1882)
- 1961Carl Hermann, German physicist and academic (born 1898)
- 1962Spot Poles, American baseball player and soldier (born 1887)
- 1962Rangeya Raghav, Indian author and playwright (born 1923)
- 1965Raja Aziz Bhatti, Pakistani Major who received the Nishan-e-Haider in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
- 1967Vladimir Bartol, Italian-Slovene author and playwright (born 1903)
- 1968Tommy Armour, Scottish-American golfer and journalist (born 1894) las demás fuentes: 11 sep 1968
- 1971Walter Egan, American golfer (born 1881)
- 1972William Boyd, American actor and producer (born 1895)
- 1977Steve Biko, South African activist (born 1946)
- 1977Robert Lowell, American poet (born 1917)
- 1978William Hudson, New Zealand-Australian engineer (born 1896)
- 1981Eugenio Montale, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896)
- 1982Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer and conductor (born 1891)
- 1986Jacques Henri Lartigue, French painter and photographer (born 1894)
- 1986Charlotte Wolff, German-English psychotherapist and physician (born 1897)
- 1987John Qualen, Canadian-American actor (born 1899)
- 1990Athene Seyler, English actress (born 1889)
- 1991Bruce Matthews, Canadian general and businessman (born 1909)
- 1992Ruth Nelson, American actress (born 1905)
- 1992Anthony Perkins, American actor, singer, and director (born 1932)
- 1993Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor and director (born 1917)
- 1994Tom Ewell, American actor (born 1909)
- 1994Boris Yegorov, Russian physician and astronaut (born 1937)
- 1995Jeremy Brett, English actor (born 1933)
- 1995Yasutomo Nagai, Japanese motorcycle racer (born 1965)
- 1996Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian general and politician, 29th President of Brazil (born 1907)
- 1997Judith Merril, American-Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist (born 1923)
- 2000Stanley Turrentine, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1934)
- 2003Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1932)
- 2003Arthur Johnson, canoeist (born 1921)
- 2005Serge Lang, French-American mathematician, author and academic (born 1927)
- 2007Bobby Byrd, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1934)
- 2008Bob Quinn, Australian footballer and coach (born 1915)
- 2008David Foster Wallace, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (born 1962)
- 2009Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914)
- 2009Jack Kramer, American tennis player and sportscaster (born 1921)
- 2009Willy Ronis, French photographer and author (born 1910)
- 2010Claude Chabrol, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1930)
- 2010Giulio Zignoli, Italian footballer (born 1946)
- 2011Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (born 1985)
- 2012Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Russian poet and author (born 1946)
- 2012Jon Finlayson, Australian actor and screenwriter (born 1938)
- 2012Tom Sims, American skateboarder and snowboarder, founded Sims Snowboards (born 1950)
- 2013Ray Dolby, American engineer and businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories (born 1933)
- 2013Warren Giese, American football player, coach, and politician (born 1924)
- 2013Erich Loest, German author and screenwriter (born 1926)
- 2013Candace Pert, American neuroscientist and pharmacologist (born 1946)
- 2014Atef Ebeid, Egyptian academic and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Egypt (born 1932)
- 2014John Gustafson, English singer-songwriter and bass player (born 1942)
- 2014Ian Paisley, Northern Irish evangelical pastor (Free Presbyterian Church) and politician, 2nd First Minister of Northern Ireland (born 1926)
- 2014Joe Sample, American pianist and composer (born 1939)
- 2015Claudia Card, American philosopher and academic (born 1940)
- 2017Allan MacEachen, Canadian economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (born 1921)
- 2017Edith Windsor, American LGBT rights activist and technology manager at IBM (born 1929)
- 2018Shen Chun-shan, Taiwanese academic (born 1932)
- 2019ʻAkilisi Pōhiva, Tongan politician and activist, Prime Minister of Tonga (born 1941)
- 2019Elsie Vartanian, American politician and director of the United States Women's Bureau (born 1930)
- 2024Sitaram Yechury, Indian politician and leader of CPI(M) (born 1952)
- 2026George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer (born 1937)
Celebraciones
- Commemoration of the mass hanging of the Saint Patrick's Battalion (Mexico)
- Day of Conception (Russia)
- Defenders Day (Maryland, United States)
- Enkutatash falls on this day if it is a leap year. Celebrated on the first day of Mäskäräm. (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rastafari)
- Nayrouz (Coptic Orthodox Church) (leap years only, September 11 on normal years)
- National Day (Cape Verde)
- National Day of Encouragement (United States)
- Saragarhi Day (Sikhism)
- United Nations Day for South–South Cooperation (International)
Santoral
- Ailbe (Elvis, Eilfyw) of Emly
- Guy of Anderlecht
- The Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- John Henry Hobart (Episcopal Church (USA))
- Laisrén mac Nad Froích
- Sacerdos of Lyon
- Blessed Thomas of Zumárraga
- September 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)