September 30

September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 92 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 489 – Battle of Verona: The Ostrogoths under king Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time at Verona (Northern Italy).
• 737 – Battle of the Baggage: Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus and capture their baggage train.
• 1399 – Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
• 1541 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
• 1744 – France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
• 1791 – The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
• 1791 – The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as "incorruptible patriots".
• 1813 – Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
• 1860 – Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
• 1882 – Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
• 1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
• 1895 – Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
• 1903 – The new Gresham's School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
• 1906 – The Royal Galician Academy, Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.
• 1907 – McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
• 1915 – A Serbian Army private becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
• 1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
• 1931 – Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
• 1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
• 1938 – At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• 1938 – The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
• 1939 – General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
• 1939 – NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game between the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets and the Fordham Rams. Fordham won the game 34-7.
• 1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
• 1945 – The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43
• 1947 – Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.
• 1947 – The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
• 1949 – The Berlin Airlift ends.
• 1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
• 1955 – Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.
• 1962 – Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later becomes United Farm Workers.
• 1962 – James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
• 1965 – The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.
• 1965 – The 30 September Movement attempts a coup against the Indonesian government, which is crushed by the military under Suharto and leads to a mass anti-communist purge, with over 500,000 people killed.
• 1965 – Trapped in the Sky, the pilot episode of Gerry Anderson's beloved Thunderbirds, airs on ITV for the first time.
• 1966 – The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
• 1967 – BBC Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service are replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 is also launched with Tony Blackburn presenting its first show.
• 1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
• 1970 – Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
• 1972 – Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
• 1975 – The Hughes (later McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
• 1977 – Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
• 1979 – The Hong Kong MTR commences service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
• 1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
• 1982 – Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all.
• 1986 – Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel's covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy by the Israeli Mossad.
• 1988 – Al Holbert was fatally injured when his privately owned propeller driven Piper PA-60 aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff near Columbus, Ohio when a clamshell door was not closed.
• 1990 – The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
• 1993 – An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
• 1994 – Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years in service.
• 1994 – Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from Central London, closes.
• 1996 – The United States Congress passes an Amendment that bans the possession of firearms for people who were convicted of domestic violence, even misdemeanor level.
• 1999 – Japan's second-worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
• 2004 – The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
• 2004 – The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.
• 2005 – The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
• 2009 – The 2009 Sumatra earthquakes occur, killing over 1,115 people.

Births

• 1207 – Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273)
• 1227 – Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292)
• 1530 – Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian philologist and physician (d. 1606)
• 1550 – Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1631)
• 1689 – Jacques Aubert, French violinist and composer (d. 1753)
• 1700 – Stanisław Konarski, Polish monk, poet, and playwright (d. 1773)
• 1710 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, English politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 1771)
• 1715 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French epistemologist and philosopher (d. 1780)
• 1732 – Jacques Necker, Swiss-French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1804)
• 1743 – Christian Ehregott Weinlig, German cantor and composer (d. 1813)
• 1765 – José María Morelos, Mexican general (d. 1815)
• 1800 – Decimus Burton, English architect, designed the Pharos Lighthouse (d. 1881)
• 1801 – Jerónimo Espejo, Argentinian general (d. 1889)
• 1811 – Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (d. 1890)
• 1813 – John Rae, Scottish physician and explorer (d. 1893)
• 1827 – Ellis H. Roberts, American politician, 20th Treasurer of the United States (d. 1918)
• 1832 – Ann Jarvis, American activist, co-founded Mother's Day (d. 1905)
• 1852 – Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1924)
• 1861 – William Wrigley, Jr., American businessman, founded Wrigley Company (d. 1932)
• 1863 – Reinhard Scheer, German Admiral in World War I (d. 1928)
• 1870 – Thomas W. Lamont, American banker and philanthropist (d. 1948)
• 1870 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
• 1882 – Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic (d. 1945)
• 1883 – Bernhard Rust, German politician (d. 1945)
• 1887 – Lil Dagover, Indonesian-German actress (d. 1980)
• 1893 – Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (d. 1964)
• 1895 – Lewis Milestone, Moldovan-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1980)
• 1897 – Gaspar Cassadó, Spanish cellist and composer (d. 1966)
• 1897 – Alfred Wintle, Russian-English soldier and politician (d. 1966)
• 1897 – Charlotte Wolff, German-British physician (d. 1986)
• 1898 – Renée Adorée, French-American actress (d. 1933)
• 1898 – Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois (d. 1977)
• 1898 – Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, German-American author and illustrator (d. 1986)
• 1898 – Orestis Makris, Greek actor and tenor (d. 1975)
• 1901 – Thelma Terry, American bassist and bandleader (d. 1966)
• 1904 – Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (d. 1971)
• 1905 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
• 1905 – Michael Powell, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1990)
• 1906 – Mireille Hartuch, French singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1996)
• 1908 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian-Russian violinist (d. 1974)
• 1910 – Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish soldier (d. 1962)
• 1911 – Bill Boswell, Australian public servant (d. 1976)
• 1912 – Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (d. 1985)
• 1913 – Bill Walsh, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1975)
• 1915 – Lester Maddox, American politician, 75th Governor of Georgia (d. 2003)
• 1917 – Yuri Lyubimov, Russian actor and director (d. 2014)
• 1917 – Buddy Rich, American drummer, bandleader, and actor (d. 1987)
• 1918 – Lewis Nixon, American captain (d. 1995)
• 1918 – René Rémond, French historian and economist (d. 2007)
• 1919 – Roberto Bonomi, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1992)
• 1919 – Elizabeth Gilels, Russian violinist (d. 2008)
• 1919 – William L. Guy, American lieutenant and politician, 26th Governor of North Dakota (d. 2013)
• 1919 – Patricia Neway, American soprano and actress (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-American cellist and educator
• 1921 – Deborah Kerr, Scottish-English actress and singer (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Lamont Johnson, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2010)
• 1922 – Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Alan Stretton, Australian general (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Donald Swann, Welsh-English pianist and composer (Flanders and Swann) (d. 1994)
• 1924 – Truman Capote, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1984)
• 1924 – Nikos Rizos, Greek actor (d. 1999)
• 1925 – Arkady Ostashev, Russian engineer and educator (d. 1998)
• 1926 – Heino Kruus, Estonian basketball player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Robin Roberts, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2010)
• 1927 – W. S. Merwin, American poet and author
• 1928 – Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1928 – Ray Willsey, Canadian-American football player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Carol Fenner, American author and illustrator (d. 2002)
• 1929 – Vassilis Papazachos, Greek seismologist and academic
• 1931 – Angie Dickinson, American actress
• 1931 – Teresa Gorman, English politician
• 1932 – Anthony Hawkins, Australian actor (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author, playwright, and politician, Governor of Tokyo
• 1932 – Johnny Podres, American baseball player and coach (d. 2008)
• 1933 – Michel Aoun, Lebanese general and politician, President of Lebanon
• 1933 – Ben Cooper, American actor
• 1933 – Cissy Houston, American singer (Sweet Inspirations and The Drinkard Singers)
• 1933 – Barbara Knox, English actress
• 1934 – Alan A'Court, English footballer and manager (d. 2009)
• 1934 – Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2014)
• 1934 – Anna Kashfi, Indian-Welsh actress
• 1935 – Z. Z. Hill, American singer and guitarist (d. 1984)
• 1935 – Johnny Mathis, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1936 – Jim Sasser, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to China
• 1937 – Jurek Becker, Polish-German author (d. 1997)
• 1937 – Valentyn Sylvestrov, Ukrainian pianist and composer
• 1937 – Gary Hocking, Rhodesian motorcycle racer (d. 1962)
• 1938 – Alan Hacker, English clarinet player and educator (d. 2012)
• 1939 – Len Cariou, Canadian actor and singer
• 1939 – Anthony Green, English painter
• 1939 – Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1940 – Claudia Card, American philosopher
• 1940 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, English academic and politician, Leader of the House of Lords
• 1940 – Harry Jerome, Canadian sprinter (d. 1982)
• 1940 – Dewey Martin, Canadian-American drummer (Buffalo Springfield and The Standells) (d. 2009)
• 1941 – Samuel F. Pickering, Jr., American author and educator
• 1941 – Kamalesh Sharma, Indian academic and diplomat, 5th Commonwealth Secretary General
• 1941 – Reine Wisell, Swedish race car driver
• 1942 – Gus Dudgeon, English record producer (d. 2002)
• 1942 – Frankie Lymon, American singer-songwriter (The Teenagers) (d. 1968)
• 1943 – Johann Deisenhofer, German-American biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 – Marilyn McCoo, American singer and actress (The 5th Dimension)
• 1943 – Philip Moore, English organist and composer
• 1943 – Ian Ogilvy, English actor, playwright, and author
• 1944 – Diane Dufresne, Canadian singer and painter
• 1944 – Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (d. 2006)
• 1944 – Red Robbins, American basketball player (d. 2009)
• 1945 – Richard Edwin Hills, British astronomer
• 1945 – Bob Lassiter, American radio host (d. 2006)
• 1945 – Ehud Olmert, Israeli lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Israel
• 1946 – Fran Brill, American actress, singer, and puppeteer
• 1946 – Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (d. 1993)
• 1946 – Jochen Mass, German race car driver
• 1946 – Paul Sheahan, Australian cricketer and educator
• 1946 – Claude Vorilhon, French journalist, founded Raëlism
• 1947 – Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (T. Rex and John's Children) (d. 1977)
• 1947 – Rula Lenska, English actress
• 1948 – Craig Kusick, American baseball player and coach (d. 2006)
• 1950 – Laura Esquivel, Mexican author and screenwriter
• 1950 – Victoria Tennant, English actress and dancer
• 1950 – Renato Zero, Italian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1951 – John Lloyd, English screenwriter and producer
• 1951 – Barry Marshall, Australian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1951 – Simon White, English astrophysicist and academic
• 1952 – John Lombardo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (10,000 Maniacs and John & Mary)
• 1952 – Jack Wild, English actor and singer (d. 2006)
• 1952 – Al Leong, American stuntman and actor
• 1952 – Andrew Shore, English actor and singer
• 1953 – Matt Abts, American drummer (Gov't Mule)
• 1953 – Deborah Allen, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1953 – Keith Burnett, Welsh physicist and academic
• 1953 – Hilton Dawson, English politician
• 1953 – S. M. Stirling, French-American author
• 1954 – Basia, Polish singer-songwriter and producer (Perfect)
• 1954 – Scott Fields, American guitarist and composer
• 1954 – Patrice Rushen, American singer-songwriter and producer (CAB)
• 1954 – Barry Williams, American actor and singer
• 1955 – Andy Bechtolsheim, German engineer, co-founded Sun Microsystems
• 1955 – Frankie Kennedy, Irish flute player (Altan) (d. 1994)
• 1955 – Desmond Shawe-Taylor, English historian and academic
• 1956 – Trevor Morgan, English footballer and manager
• 1957 – Fran Drescher, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1958 – Marty Stuart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959 – Debrah Farentino, American actress
• 1959 – Ettore Messina, Italian basketball player and coach
• 1960 – Julia Adamson, Canadian-English keyboard player, composer, and producer (The Fall)
• 1960 – Nicola Griffith, English author
• 1960 – Miki Howard, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (Side Effect)
• 1960 – Blanche Lincoln, American politician
• 1961 – Crystal Bernard, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1961 – Eric Stoltz, American actor, director, and producer
• 1961 – Mel Stride, English politician
• 1961 – Eric van de Poele, Belgian race car driver
• 1961 – Sally Yeh, Chinese singer and actress
• 1962 – Prosenjit Chatterjee, Indian actor, director, and producer
• 1962 – Marley Marl, American rapper and producer (Juice Crew)
• 1962 – Frank Rijkaard, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1963 – David Barbe, American bass player and producer (Sugar)
• 1964 – Trey Anastasio, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Phish, Oysterhead, Dave Matthews & Friends, Phil Lesh and Friends, Surrender to the Air, and SerialPod)
• 1964 – Monica Bellucci, Italian model and actress
• 1964 – Robby Takac, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Goo Goo Dolls and Amungus)
• 1965 – Omid Djalili, English comedian, actor, and producer
• 1965 – Matt Fallon, American singer-songwriter (Skid Row and Anthrax)
• 1965 – Kathleen Madigan, American comedian, actress, and producer
• 1966 – Gary Armstrong, Scottish rugby player
• 1966 – Shankar Balasubramanian, chemist
• 1966 – Markus Burger, German pianist, composer, and educator
• 1966 – Kerry G. Johnson, American graphic designer and illustrator
• 1967 – Emmanuelle Houdart, Swiss artist
• 1967 – Andrea Roth, Canadian actress
• 1967 – Magnus Falkehed, Swedish journalist.
• 1969 – Gintaras Einikis, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1969 – Mark Smith, English bodybuilder and actor
• 1969 – Chris Von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1991)
• 1970 – Tony Hale, American actor and producer
• 1970 – Eric Piatkowski, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1971 – Jenna Elfman, American actress and producer
• 1972 – Shaan, Indian singer and actor
• 1972 – Jamal Anderson, American football player and sportscaster
• 1972 – Ari Behn, Norwegian author
• 1972 – John Campbell, American bass player and songwriter (Lamb of God)
• 1972 – José Lima, Dominican-American baseball player (d. 2010)
• 1972 – Martine Wright, English volleyball player
• 1974 – Jeremy Giambi, American baseball player
• 1974 – Tom Greatrex, English politician
• 1974 – Daniel Wu, American–Hong Kong actor, director, and producer
• 1975 – Jay Asher, American author
• 1975 – Marion Cotillard, French-American actress and singer
• 1975 – Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1975 – Sammy Igoe, English footballer
• 1975 – Georges-Alain Jones, French singer and actor
• 1977 – Maia Brewton, American actress
• 1977 – Roy Carroll, Irish footballer and manager
• 1977 – Nick Curran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Fabulous Thunderbirds) (d. 2012)
• 1977 – Sun Jihai, Chinese footballer
• 1978 – Candice Michelle, American wrestler and actress
• 1978 – Stark Sands, American actor and singer
• 1978 – Róbinson Zapata, Colombian footballer
• 1979 – Cameron Bruce, Australian footballer and coach
• 1979 – Vince Chong, Malaysian singer-songwriter
• 1979 – Clio-Danae Othoneou, Greek actress, singer, and pianist
• 1979 – Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer
• 1980 – Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
• 1980 – Simon Little, English bass player (The Divine Comedy)
• 1980 – Shelley Olds, American cyclist
• 1980 – Milagros Sequera, Venezuelan tennis player
• 1981 – Cecelia Ahern, Irish author
• 1981 – Kristina Barrois, German tennis player
• 1981 – Dmytro Boyko, Ukrainian footballer
• 1981 – Dominique Moceanu, American gymnast
• 1981 – Brandon Watson, American baseball player
• 1982 – Lacey Chabert, American actress and singer
• 1982 – Ryane Clowe, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Kieran Culkin, American actor
• 1982 – Ola Jordan, Polish dancer
• 1982 – Michelle Marsh, English model and singer
• 1982 – Teal Redmann, American actress
• 1982 – Seth Smith, American baseball player
• 1982 – Yan Stastny, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Ryan Stout, American comedian and television host
• 1982 – Li Xiaolu, Chinese actress
• 1983 – Boniek Forbes, Guinea-Bissau footballer
• 1983 – Adam Jones, American football player
• 1983 – Andreea Răducan, Romanian gymnast
• 1983 – Reiko Shiota, Japanese badminton player
• 1984 – Keisha Buchanan, English singer-songwriter (Sugababes and Mutya Keisha Siobhan)
• 1984 – Georgios Eleftheriou, Greek footballer
• 1984 – Renee Richards, English porn actress
• 1985 – T-Pain, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1985 – Adam Cooney, Australian footballer
• 1985 – Téa Obreht, Serbian-American author
• 1985 – Cristian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer
• 1986 – Olivier Giroud, French footballer
• 1986 – Martin Guptill, New Zealand cricketer
• 1986 – Quinn Johnson, American football player
• 1986 – Cemil Mengi, Turkish footballer
• 1986 – Takahiro Nishijima, Japanese singer and actor (AAA)
• 1986 – Rene Ranger, New Zealand rugby player
• 1986 – Cristián Zapata, Colombian footballer
• 1987 – Rumi Hanai, Japanese actress, model, and gymnast
• 1987 – Lauren Holiday, American soccer player
• 1987 – Elanne Kong, Hong Kong actress and singer
• 1987 – Denise Laurel, Filipino actress and singer
• 1988 – Eglė Staišiūnaitė, Lithuanian hurdler
• 1989 – André Weis, German footballer
• 1992 – Bria Hartley, American basketball player
• 1992 – Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul, Thai actress
• 1993 – Jovana Jakšić, Serbian tennis player
• 1994 – Aliya Mustafina, Russian gymnast
• 1997 – Max Verstappen, Dutch race car driver
• 2002 – Maddie Ziegler, American dancer and actress

Deaths

• 420 – Jerome, Roman priest, theologian, and saint (b. 347)
• 653 – Honorius of Canterbury, Italian archbishop
• 954 – Louis IV of France (b. 920)
• 1101 – Anselm IV, Italian archbishop
• 1246 – Yaroslav II of Vladimir (b. 1191)
• 1440 – Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, Welsh soldier and politician (b. 1362)
• 1487 – John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)
• 1551 – Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese daimyo (b. 1507)
• 1560 – Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)
• 1572 – Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía, Spanish priest and saint, 3rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1510)
• 1581 – Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)
• 1626 – Nurhaci, Chinese emperor (b. 1559)
• 1628 – Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1554)
• 1770 – Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1695)
• 1770 – George Whitefield, English-American priest and theologian (b. 1714)
• 1865 – Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar (b. 1800)
• 1888 – Catherine Eddowes, English victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1842)
• 1888 – Elizabeth Stride, Swedish victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)
• 1891 – Georges Ernest Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)
• 1897 – Thérèse of Lisieux, French nun and saint (b. 1873)
• 1910 – Maurice Lévy, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1838)
• 1937 – Anthony Sweijs, Dutch target shooter (b. 1852)
• 1941 – Alice de Janzé, American-Kenyan heiress (b. 1899)
• 1942 – Hans-Joachim Marseille, German captain and pilot (b. 1919)
• 1943 – Franz Oppenheimer, German-American sociologist and economist (b. 1864)
• 1946 – Takashi Sakai, Japanese lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army, Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1887)
• 1955 – James Dean, American actor (b. 1931)
• 1961 – Onésime Gagnon, Canadian scholar and politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1888)
• 1973 – Peter Pitseolak, Canadian photographer and author (b. 1902)
• 1974 – Carlos Prats, Chilean general and politician, Minister of Defense for Chile (b. 1915)
• 1977 – Mary Ford, American singer and guitarist (b. 1924)
• 1978 – Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903)
• 1985 – Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (b. 1900)
• 1985 – Simone Signoret, German-French actress (b. 1921)
• 1987 – Alfred Bester, American author and screenwriter (b. 1913)
• 1988 – Al Holbert, American race car driver (b. 1946)
• 1989 – Virgil Thomson, American composer and critic (b. 1896)
• 1990 – Rob Moroso, American race car driver (b. 1968)
• 1990 – Alice Parizeau, Polish-Canadian journalist and author (b. 1930)
• 1990 – Patrick White, English-Australian author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 1991 – Toma Zdravković, Serbian singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
• 1994 – André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1998 – Marius Goring, English actor and producer (b. 1912)
• 1998 – Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player and poet (b. 1953)
• 1998 – Robert Lewis Taylor, American author (b. 1912)
• 2002 – Göran Kropp, Swedish race car driver and mountaineer (b. 1966)
• 2002 – Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss politician, 63rd President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1913)
• 2003 – Yusuf Bey, American activist, founded Your Black Muslim Bakery (b. 1935)
• 2003 – Ronnie Dawson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
• 2003 – Robert Kardashian, American lawyer and businessman (b. 1944)
• 2004 – Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor, director, and politician (b. 1936)
• 2004 – Jacques Levy, American director and songwriter (b. 1935)
• 2004 – Michael Relph, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 2008 – J. B. Jeyaretnam, Singaporean lawyer and politician (b. 1926)
• 2010 – Stephen J. Cannell, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1941)
• 2010 – Aaron-Carl Ragland, American DJ and producer (b. 1973)
• 2011 – Anwar al-Awlaki, American-Yemeni terrorist (b. 1971)
• 2011 – Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian-American immunologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Turhan Bey, Austrian actor and producer (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Barry Commoner, American biologist, academic, and politician (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Bobby Jaggers, American wrestler (b. 1948)
• 2012 – Clara Stanton Jones, American librarian (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian-American figure skater (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Boris Šprem, Croatian lawyer and politician, 8th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament (b. 1956)
• 2012 – Jonathan Wentz, American horse rider (b. 1990)
• 2013 – Zulema, American singer-songwriter (Faith Hope and Charity) (b. 1947)
• 2013 – Kazys Bobelis, Lithuanian surgeon and politician (b. 1923)
• 2013 – David Gitari, Kenyan archbishop (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Ruth Maleczech, American actress (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Janet Powell, Australian educator and politician (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Ramblin' Tommy Scott, American singer and guitarist (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Rangel Valchanov, Bulgarian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Molvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, Indian cleric and politician (b. 1940)
• 2014 – Ralph Cosham, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2014 – Iemasa Kayumi, Japanese voice actor (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Jerrie Mock, American pilot (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances

• Agricultural Reform (Nationalization) Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
• Birth of Morelos (Mexico)
• Blasphemy Day (United States, Canada, other countries)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Gregory the Illuminator
  • Honorius of Canterbury
  • Jerome
  • September 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Independence Day or Botswana Day, celebrate the independence of Botswana from United Kingdom in 1966.
• International Translation Day (International Federation of Translators)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada