September 15

2023 Calendar

September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 107 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

668 – Constans II, Emperor (b. 630)
921 – Saint Ludmila of Bohemia, Bohemian martyr (b. 860)
1134 – Alfonso the Battler, King of Aragon and Navarra (b. 1073)
1231 – Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1173)
1326 – Dmitry of Tver (b. 1299)
1352 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)
1750 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1690)
1794 – Abraham Clark, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725)
1803 – Gian Francesco Albani, Italian cardinal (b. 1719)
1805 – Christopher Gadsden, American soldier and statesman (b. 1724)
1830 – William Huskisson, English politician, first rail fatality (b. 1770)
1835 – Sarah Knox Taylor, wife of Jefferson Davis (b. 1814)
1841 – Alessandro Rolla, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1757)
1842 – Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (b. 1771)
1842 – Francisco Morazan, President of Central America (b. 1792)
1859 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806)
1864 – John Hanning Speke, British explorer (b. 1827)
1875 – Duchenne de Boulogne, French psychologist (b. 1806)
1883 – Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (b. 1801)
1885 – Jumbo, African elephant (b. 1861)
1891 – John Steell, Scottish sculptor (b. 1804)
1893 – Thomas Hawksley, English engineer (b. 1807)

1901 – 2000

1926 – Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer (b. 1846)
1930 – Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)
1938 – Thomas Wolfe, American writer (b. 1900)
1940 – William B. Bankhead, American politician (b. 1874)
1945 – André Tardieu, French statesman (b. 1876)
1945 – Anton Webern, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1883)
1972 – Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887)
1972 – Asgeir Asgeirsson, second President of Iceland (b. 1894)
1973 – King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden, King of Sweden (b. 1882)
1973 – Victor Jara, Chilean musician (b. 1932)
1975 – Pavel Sukhoi, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1895)
1978 – Willy Messerschmidt, German aircraft designer (b. 1898)
1979 – Tommy Leonetti, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1929)
1981 – Harold Bennett, English actor (b. 1899)
1985 – Cootie Williams, American trumpeter (b. 1910)
1989 – Robert Penn Warren, American writer (b. 1905)
1995 – Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (b. 1921)
1998 – Luke Rasminsky, Canadian economist (b. 1908)

From 2001

2001 – June Salter, Australian actress (b. 1932)
2004 – Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (b. 1948)
2005 – Sidney Luft, American director (b. 1915)
2006 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1929)
2007 – Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (b. 1968)
2008 – Richard Wright, English musician (Pink Floyd) (b. 1943)
2009 – Timothy Bateson, English actor (b. 1926)
2014 – Post Bahadur Bogati, Nepalese politician (b. 1953)
2014 – Yitzhak Hofi, Israeli general (b. 1927)
2014 – Eugene I. Gordon, American physicist (b. 1930)
2014 – John Anderson, Jr., American politician, Governor of Kansas (b. 1917)
2014 – Jackie Cain, American jazz singer (b. 1928)
2014 – Jeremy Ball, Australian actor and politician (b. 1969)
2015 – Meir Pa'il, Israeli politician and military historian (b. 1926)
2015 – Bernard Van De Kerckhove, Belgian racing driver (b. 1941)
2015 – Mihai Volontir, Moldovan actor (b. 1934)
2015 – Harry J. Lipkin, Israeli nuclear physicist (b. 1921)
2017 – María Cristina Arango Vega, First Lady of Colombia (b. 1928)
2017 – Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenarian (b. 1900)
2017 – Dwijen Sharma, Bangladeshi naturalist and science writer (b. 1929)
2017 – Harry Dean Stanton, American actor (b. 1926)
2017 – Albert Speer Jr., German architect (b. 1934)
2018 – Kirin Kiki, Japanese actress (b. 1943)
2018 – Dudley Sutton, English actor (b. 1933)
2018 – José Manuel de la Sota, Argentine politician (b. 1949)
2018 – Victor Veselago, Soviet-Russian physicist (b. 1929)
2018 – Fritz Wintersteller, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1927)
2018 – Zhu Xu, Chinese actor (b. 1930)
2019 – Chadlia Caid Essebsi, First Lady of Tunisia (b. 1936)
2019 – Lol Mahamat Choua, 4th President of Chad (b. 1939)
2019 – Roberto Leal, Portuguese-Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
2019 – Phyllis Newman, American actress and singer (b. 1933)
2019 – Ric Ocasek, American singer, songwriter and record producer (b. 1944)
2019 – Mike Stefanik, American racing driver (b. 1958)

Births

Up to 1800

1254 – Marco Polo, Italian explorer (d. 1324)
1533 – Catherine of Austria, Queen Consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1572)
1580 – Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (d. 1659)
1603 – Tokugawa Yorifusa, Japanese daimyo (d. 1661)
1613 – François de la Rochefoucauld, French author (d. 1680)
1649 – Titus Oates, English priest (d. 1705)
1666 – Sophia Dorothea of Celle, German princess (d. 1726)
1675 – Vakhtang VI of Kartli, Georgian King (d. 1737)
1676 – Stanislaw Poniatowski, Polish politician (d. 1762)
1690 – Ignazio Prota, Italian composer and music educator (d. 1748)
1715 – Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French general and engineer (d. 1789)
1736 – Jean-Silvain Bailly, French politician and astronomer (d. 1793)
1756 – Carl Philipp Moritz, German writer (d. 1793)
1760 – Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general (d. 1824)
1761 – Cornelio Saavedra, Argentine politician (d. 1829)
1765 – Bocage, Portuguese poet (d. 1805)
1787 – Guillaume-Henri Dufour, Swiss humanist, general, politician, mapmaker and engineer (d. 1875)
1789 – James Fenimore Cooper, American writer (d. 1851)
1800 – Paul-Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1842)

1801 – 1900

1808 – John Hutton Balfour, Scottish botanist (d. 1884)
1811 – Charles de Mornay, French politician (d. 1865)
1814 – Ferdinand von Arnim, German architect (d. 1866)
1815 – Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian composer (d. 1868)
1825 – Iwakura Tomomi, Japanese statesman (d. 1883)
1828 – Alexander Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886)
1830 – Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (d. 1915)
1834 – Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian and publicist (d. 1896)
1852 – Edward Bouchet, American physicist (d. 1918)
1857 – William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (d. 1930)
1858 – Charles de Foucauld, French monk (d. 1916)
1860 – Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer, scholar and politician (d. 1962)
1863 – Horatio Parker, American composer (d. 1919)
1875 – Henry D. Hatfield, American politician, 14th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1962)
1876 – Bruno Walter, German conductor (d. 1962)
1876 – Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bengali writer (d. 1938)
1877 – Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and Zionist (d. 1938)
1877 – Yente Serdatzky, Lithuanian-American author and playwright (d. 1962)
1879 – Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)
1881 – Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile engineer and designer (d. 1947)
1883 – Esteban Teradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (d. 1950)
1886 – Paul Lévy, French mathematician (d. 1971)
1887 – Carlos Dávila, President of Chile (d. 1955)
1888 – Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (d. 1925)
1889 – Robert Benchley, American writer (d. 1945)
1890 – Agatha Christie, English writer (d. 1976)
1894 – Jean Renoir, French movie director (d. 1979)
1895 – Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (d. 1977)

1901 – 1925

1903 – Roy Acuff, American Country musician (d. 1992)
1903 – Yisrael Kristal, Polish-born Israeli supercentenarian and Holocaust survivor (d. 2017)
1904 – King Umberto II of Italy (d. 1983)
1905 – Pat O'Callaghan, Irish hammer thrower (d. 1991)
1907 – Alfred Delp, German Jesuit and Resistance activist (d. 1945)
1907 – Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (d. 2004)
1908 – Misko Kranjec, Slovenian writer (d. 1983)
1909 – C. N. Annadurai, Indian politician, 7th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 1969)
1911 – Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-American golf entrepreneur (d. 2000)
1911 – Luther Terry, 9th Surgeon General of the United States (d. 1985)
1913 – John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General (d. 1988)
1913 – Johannes Steinhoff, German military officer (d. 1994)
1914 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
1914 – Jens Otto Krag, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1978)
1915 – Helmut Schön, German footballer and manager (d. 1996)
1916 – Margaret Lockwood, English actress (d. 1990)
1918 – Margot Loyola, Chilean musician and singer (d. 2015)
1919 – Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
1919 – Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (d. 1960)
1922 – Jackie Cooper, American actor (d. 2011)
1922 – Bob Anderson, British fencer and sword fight choreographer (d. 2012)
1922 – Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, daughter of Winston Churchill (d. 2014)
1924 – György Lázár, 50th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2014)
1925 – Carlo Rambaldi, Italian special effects artist (d. 2012)
1925 – Helle Virkner, Danish actress (d. 2009)

1926 – 1950

1926 – Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
1926 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese movie director (d. 2006)
1926 – Ed Derwinski, American politician (d. 2012)
1927 – Val Holten, Australian cricketer (d. 2015)
1927 – Norm Crosby, American comedian and actor
1928 – Cannonball Adderley, American jazz musician (d. 1975)
1929 – Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist (d. 2019)
1929 – Mümtaz Soysal, Turkish politician and lawyer (d. 2019)
1929 – Eva Burrows, 13th General of the Salvation Army (d. 2015)
1930 – Merab Mamardashvili, Georgian philosopher (d. 1990)
1933 – Henry Darrow, American actor
1933 – Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish composer and conductor (d. 2014)
1935 – Patriarch Dinkha IV of the Assyrian Church of the East (d. 2015)
1936 – Ashley Cooper, Australian tennis player
1937 – Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist
1937 – Fernando de la Rúa, former President of Argentina (d. 2019)
1938 – Gaylord Perry, American baseball player
1940 – Merlin Olsen, American football player and actor (d. 2010)
1941 – Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer (d. 2011)
1941 – Signe Toly Anderson, American singer (d. 2016)
1941 – Yuriy Norshteyn, Russian animator, director and screenwriter
1941 – Viktor Zubkov, former Prime Minister of Russia
1941 – Miroslaw Hermaszewski, Polish cosmonaut
1942 – Wen Jiabao, former Premier of the People's Republic of China
1942 – Emmerson Mnangagwa, 3rd President of Zimbabwe
1942 – Lee Dorman, American bass player (d. 2012)
1944 – Graham Taylor, English footballer and manager (d. 2017)
1944 – Mauro Piacenza, Italian cardinal
1945 – Hans-Gert Pöttering, German politician
1945 – Carmen Maura, Spanish actress
1945 – Jessye Norman, American singer (d. 2019)
1945 – Ron Shelton, American screenwriter, director and movie producer
1945 – Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince
1946 – Ola Brunkert, Swedish musician (d. 2008)
1946 – Tommy Lee Jones, American actor
1946 – Oliver Stone, American movie director
1946 – Mike Procter, South African cricketer, coach and referee
1947 – Viggo Jensen, Danish footballer and manager
1949 – Joe Barton, American politician
1950 – Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Islamic spiritual leader

1951 – 1975

1951 – Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer
1952 – Richard Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player
1954 – Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (d. 2007)
1954 – Nava Semel, Israeli author and playwright (d. 2017)
1955 – Bruce Reitherman, American movie maker
1955 – Abdul Qadir, Pakistani cricketer (d. 2019)
1955 – Renzo Rosso, Italian fashion designer
1955 – Brendan O'Carroll, Irish actor
1956 – Maggie Reilly, Scottish singer
1958 – Dr. Know, American guitarist
1959 – Mark Kirk, American politician
1960 – Katsuyoshi Shinto, Japanese footballer
1961 – Dan Marino, American football player
1961 – Colin McFarlane, English voice actor
1962 – Rebecca Miller, American actress, director and writer
1964 – Robert Fico, former Prime Minister of Slovakia
1966 – Sherman Douglas, American basketball player
1967 – Huw Bunford, Welsh guitarist and songwriter (Super Furry Animals)
1969 – Revaz Arveladze, Georgian footballer
1970 – Svetlana Zakharova, Russian long-distance runner
1971 – Josh Charles, American actor
1972 – Jimmy Carr, British comedian
1972 – Queen Letizia of Spain
1973 – Daniel Westling, Swedish royal
1973 – Julie Cox, British actress
1973 – Alyn Smith, Scottish politician
1974 – Murat Yakin, Swiss footballer

From 1976

1976 – Paul Thomson, Scottish musician
1977 – Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter
1977 – Sophie Dahl, British model
1977 – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian writer
1977 – Tom Hardy, English actor, screenwriter and producer
1977 – René Haselbacher, Austrian cyclist
1977 – Jason Terry, American basketball player
1978 – Eidur Gudjohnsen, Icelandic footballer
1978 – Kew Jaliens, Dutch footballer
1979 – Patrick Marleau, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Carlos Ruiz, Guatemalan footballer
1979 – Amy Davidson, American actress
1980 – Mike Dunleavy, Jr., American basketball player
1980 – Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese singer
1981 – Miyavi, Japanese composer, singer and guitarist
1983 – Ashleigh McIvor, Canadian freestyle skier
1983 – Tomas Sivok, Czech footballer
1983 – Santeri Palin, Finnish writer
1984 – Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, British royal
1986 – Heidi Montag, American television personality and singer
1986 – Anan Anwar, Thai singer and actor
1986 – Peter Wilson, English sport shooter and Olympic gold medalist
1986 – Poppy Delevingne, English model
1987 – Clare Maguire, English singer-songwriter
1988 – Chelsea Kane, American actress and singer
1988 – Kate Mansi, American actress
1990 – Gwyneth Keyworth, Welsh actress
1996 – Jake Cherry, American actor
1996 – Nao Furuhata, Japanese idol and singer
1999 – Nana Owada, Japanese idol singer and actress

Deaths

Observances

Battle of Britain Day (United Kingdom)
Grito de Dolores (Mexico)
Independence Day (Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua)
International Day of Democracy
Engineers' Day (India)