- 31 Sejanus, Roman head of praetorian guard, executed
Domitian
96 Domitian, Roman emperor, assassinated
Domitian
- 887 Pietro I Candiano, Doge of Venice (killed in battle)
- 993 Arnulf vanf Gent, Westfries earl (988-93), dies in battle
- 1137 Erik II Eimune, [Onvergetelijke], king of Denmark (1134-37), murdered
- 1180 Louis VII, King of France, dies
- 1261 Koenraad van Hochstaden, archbishop of Cologne, dies
- 1426 Hubert [Huybrecht] van Eyck, painter, dies
- 1598 Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1536)
- 1630 Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (b. 1552)
- 1663 St Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (b. 1603)
- 1675 Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (1624-75), dies at 71
- 1684 Joannes Antonides van der Goes, Dutch poet (Ystroom), dies at 37
- 1721 Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat, dies at 57
- 1722 André Dacier, French classical scholar (b. 1651)
- 1735 Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator), dies at 51
- 1775 Andrew Foulis, bookseller/printer, dies
Leonhard Euler
1783 Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (Euler's Constant), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 76
Leonhard Euler
- 1783 Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar, dies at 65
- 1792 Gottlieb August Spangenberg, founder (Moravian Church in Amer), dies
- 1797 Louis-Lazare Hoche, French revolutionary general, dies
- 1806 Patrick Cotter O'Brien, first known eight-foot-tall person (b. 1760)
- 1818 Olaf Swaertz, botanist, dies
- 1827 Robert Pollok, poet, dies
- 1830 William Hazlitt, English critic and essayist, dies at 52
- 1860 Casimiro de Abreu, Brazilians poet (Primaveras), dies
- 1860 Joseph Locke, railway engineer, dies
- 1872 Charles XV, King of Sweden and Norway (1859-72), dies at 46
- 1891 William Ferrel, American mathematician (b. 1817)
- 1896 Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau, physicist, dies
- 1904 Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto, dies
- 1905 George MacDonald, Scottish poet and sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie), dies at 80
- 1911 Russian Premier Peter Stolypin (1906-11), shot and murdered at the Kiev Opera House aged 49
- 1924 Francis H. Bradley, British idealist philosopher (Appearance and Reality), dies at 78
- 1931 Hazrat Babajan, a Baloch Muslim saint (b. c. 1806)
- 1939 Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)
- 1939 Gwen John, Welsh painter, dies at 63
- 1944 Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch premier (1933-39), dies at 75
- 1944 Peter Waddy, British major 1st Para Brigade, dies in battle in Arnhem
- 1944 Robert Cole, US lt-colonel, dies in battle at Best
- 1951 John Douglas Cockcroft, physicist, dies
- 1952 Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Dreamy), dies
- 1956 Adélard Godbout, Canadian politician (15th Premier of Quebec), dies at 63
- 1960 John Evans, England Test batsman (author 'The Escaping Club'), dies at 71
- 1961 Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish public servant, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953-61) and posthumous Nobel Peace Prize winner (1961), dies in an air crash over Congo at 56
- 1962 Therese Neumann, German stigma, dies at 64
- 1964 Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright (The Plough and the Stars), dies at 84
- 1964 Clive Bell, English art critic, dies at 83
- 1964 J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and newspaper columnist, dies at 75
- 1967 John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- 1968 Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist and church historian, dies at 65
- 1977 Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)
- 1980 K A Porter, writer, dies at 90
- 1987 Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal
- 1994 Franco Moschino, Italian fashion designer, dies at 44
- 1995 Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic, dies at 73
- 1995 Doreen Cannon, teacher of acting (London), dies at 64
- 1995 Lesley Sunderland, decorative artist, dies at 47
- 1997 Harry Brian Boyne, journalist, dies at 87
- 2001 Ernie Coombs, Canadian entertainer (b. 1927)
- 2003 Emil Fackenheim, German Holocaust survivor and philosopher (b. 1916)
- 2003 Bob Mitchell, British politician (b. 1927)
- 2004 Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (b. 1929)
- 2004 Marvin Mitchelson, American celebrity attorney, dies at 76
- 2006 Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1925)
September in History
Agatha Christie, The World's Best-Selling Novelist
Agatha Christie was born on this day. She went on to become the best-selling writer of all time, her novels having sold about 2 billion copies worldwide.
September 15, 1890
Mad Monk Burns 2,000 At The Stake
With convictions similar to the Nazis 500 years later, Spain's 15th Century Grand Inquisitor wanted to drive the Jews from his country.
September 16, 1498
Arc Lamps Light the Way to World-Beating Display
"Artificial sunshine" came to a Northern England holiday resort in 1879, dazzling the visitors and showing the world the possibilities of outside electricity.
September 18, 1879
The Story of the First Country to Grant Women the Vote
In the late 19th century the women's suffrage movement was widespread in Europe, America, Britain and its colonies. But who was first to grant women the vote?
September 19, 1893