September 16

Pre-1600

 * 681 – Pope Honorius I is posthumously excommunicated by the Sixth Ecumenical Council.
 * 1400 – Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.

1601–1900

 * 1620 – Pilgrims set sail for Virginia from Plymouth, England in the Mayflower.
 * 1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
 * 1732 – In Campo Maior, Portugal, a storm hits the Armory and a violent explosion ensues, killing two-thirds of its inhabitants.
 * 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
 * 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
 * 1810 – With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.
 * 1822 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a "note" read to the Academy of Sciences, reports a direct refraction experiment verifying David Brewster's hypothesis that photoelasticity (as it is now known) is stress-induced birefringence.
 * 1863 – Robert College, in Istanbul, 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.
 * 1893 – Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.

1901–present

 * 1908 – The General Motors Corporation is founded.
 * 1914 – World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
 * 1920 – The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.
 * 1940 – World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
 * 1943 – World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around Salerno.
 * 1945 – World War II: The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.
 * 1953 – American Airlines Flight 723 crashes in Colonie, New York, killing 28 people.
 * 1955 – The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
 * 1955  – A Soviet Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
 * 1956 – TCN-9 Sydney is the first Australian television station to commence regular broadcasts.
 * 1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
 * 1961 – The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
 * 1961  – Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
 * 1961  – Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.
 * 1963 – Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore is soon expelled from 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 war against the Palestine Liberation Organization, the conflict came to be known as Black September.
 * 1975 – Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.
 * 1975  – Cape Verde, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.
 * 1975  – The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
 * 1976 – Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.
 * 1978 – The 7.4 Tabas earthquake affects the city of Tabas, Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 15,000 people are killed.
 * 1979 – Eight people escape from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon.
 * 1982 – Lebanon War: The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon takes place.
 * 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 is completed at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge.
 * 1992 – The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega ends in the United States with a 40-year sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering.
 * 1992  – Black Wednesday: The British pound is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the German mark.
 * 1994 – The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin and Irish paramilitary groups in 1988.
 * 2004 – Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane.
 * 2005 – The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples, Italy.
 * 2007 – One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 130 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand, killing 90 people.
 * 2007  – Security guards working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad.
 * 2013 – A gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.
 * 2014 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobani offensive against Syrian–Kurdish forces.
 * 2015 – A 8.3 earthquake strikes the Chilean city of Illapel, killing 15 people, injuring at least 34, leaving at least six missing, and causing extensive damage. One person also dies in Argentina.
 * 2019 – Five months before the COVID-19 stock market crash, an overnight spike in lending rates in the United States prompts the Federal Reserve to conduct operations in the repo market.
 * 2021 – A 6.0 earthquake strikes Lu County, Sichuan, China, killing three and injuring more than 88.
 * 2022 – During the Let Yet Kone massacre, the Burmese military kills 13 villagers, including eight children, after attacking a school in Sagaing Region, Myanmar.
 * 2022  – The death of Mahsa Amini occurred, which sparked worldwide protests.

Pre-1600

 * AD 16 – Julia Drusilla, Roman daughter of Germanicus (d. 38)
 * 508 – Yuan Di, emperor of the Liang dynasty (d. 555)
 * 1295 – Elizabeth de Clare, English noblewoman (d. 1360)
 * 1386 – Henry V of England (d. 1422)
 * 1462 – Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher (d. 1525)
 * 1507 – Jiajing Emperor of China (d. 1567)
 * 1541 – Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, English nobleman (d. 1576)
 * 1557 – Jacques Mauduit, French composer (d. 1627)

1601–1900

 * 1615 – Heinrich Bach, German organist and composer (d. 1692)
 * 1625 – Gregorio Barbarigo, Roman Catholic saint (d. 1697)
 * 1651 – Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and botanist (d. 1716)
 * 1666 – Antoine Parent, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1716)
 * 1678 – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English philosopher and politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (d. 1751)
 * 1716 – Angelo Maria Amorevoli, Italian tenor and actor (d. 1798)
 * 1722 – Gabriel Christie, Scottish-Canadian general (d. 1799)
 * 1725 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist, zoologist, and author (d. 1815)
 * 1745 – Mikhail Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (d. 1813)
 * 1777 – Nathan Mayer Rothschild, German-English banker and financier (d. 1836)
 * 1782 – Daoguang Emperor of China (d. 1850)
 * 1812 – Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint, Dutch novelist (d. 1886)
 * 1822 – Charles Crocker, American businessman (d. 1888)
 * 1823 – Francis Parkman, American historian and author (d. 1893)
 * 1823  – Ludwik Teichmann, Polish anatomist (d. 1895)
 * 1827 – Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist and paleontologist (d. 1908)
 * 1828 – Per Pålsson, Swedish murderer (d. 1914)
 * 1830 – Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (d. 1911)
 * 1837 – Pedro V of Portugal (d. 1861)
 * 1838 – James J. Hill, Canadian-American railroad executive (d. 1916)
 * 1844 – Paul Taffanel, French flute player and conductor (d. 1908)
 * 1846 – Anna Kingsford, English author, poet, and activist (d. 1888)
 * 1853 – Albrecht Kossel, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927)
 * 1858 – Edward Marshall Hall, English lawyer and politician (d. 1927)
 * 1858  – Bonar Law, Canadian-Scottish banker and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)
 * 1859 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese general and politician, President of the Republic of China (d. 1916)
 * 1861 – Miriam Benjamin, African-American educator and inventor (d. 1947)
 * 1866 – Georg Voigt, German lawyer and politician, Mayor of Marburg (d. 1927)
 * 1870 – John Pius Boland, Irish tennis player and politician (d. 1958)
 * 1875 – James Cash Penney, American businessman and philanthropist, founded J. C. Penney (d. 1971)
 * 1876 – Marvin Hart, American boxer (d. 1931)
 * 1877 – Jacob Schick, American-Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Schick Razors (d. 1937)
 * 1878 – Karl Albiker, German sculptor, lithographer, and educator (d. 1961)
 * 1880 – Clara Ayres, American nurse (d. 1917)
 * 1880  – Alfred Noyes, English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1958)
 * 1881 – Clive Bell, English philosopher and critic (d. 1964)
 * 1883 – T. E. Hulme, English poet and critic (d. 1917)
 * 1886 – Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor and painter (d. 1966)
 * 1887 – Nadia Boulanger, French composer and educator (d. 1979)
 * 1888 – W. O. Bentley, English race car driver and engineer, founded Bentley Motors Limited (d. 1971)
 * 1888  – Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
 * 1890 – Avigdor Hameiri, Israeli author (d. 1970)
 * 1891 – Karl Dönitz, German admiral and politician, President of Germany (d. 1980)
 * 1891  – Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (d. 1972)
 * 1893 – Alexander Korda, Hungarian-English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1956)
 * 1893  – Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian-American physiologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
 * 1895 – Zainal Abidin Ahmad, Malaysian author and scholar (d. 1973)
 * 1897 – Milt Franklyn, American composer (d. 1962)
 * 1898 – H. A. Rey, American author and illustrator, co-created Curious George (d. 1977)
 * 1899 – Hans Swarowsky, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and educator (d. 1975)

1901–present

 * 1901 – Josef Schächter, Austrian rabbi and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1994)
 * 1905 – Vladimír Holan, Czech poet and author (d. 1980)
 * 1906 – Jack Churchill, Sri Lankan-British colonel (d. 1996)
 * 1910 – Erich Kempka, German colonel and chauffeur (d. 1975)
 * 1910  – Karl Kling, German race car driver and manager (d. 2003)
 * 1911 – Wilfred Burchett, Australian journalist and author (d. 1983)
 * 1911  – Paul Henning, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2005)
 * 1914 – Allen Funt, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
 * 1915 – Cy Walter, American pianist (d. 1968)
 * 1916 – Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, Caribbean politician, 1st Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis (d. 1978)
 * 1916  – Frank Farrell, Australian rugby league player and policeman (d. 1985)
 * 1916  – M. S. Subbulakshmi, Indian Carnatic vocalist (d. 2004)
 * 1916  – Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian cricketer, umpire, and politician (d. 1999)
 * 1916  – Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Haitian writer (d. 1973)
 * 1916  – Raosaheb Gogte, Indian industrialist (d. 2000)
 * 1918 – Władysław Kędra, Polish pianist (d. 1968)
 * 1919 – Bill Daley, American football player and sportscaster (d. 2015)
 * 1919  – Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-American hierarchiologist and educator (d. 1990)
 * 1919  – Andy Russell, American singer and actor (d. 1992)
 * 1920 – Staryl C. Austin, American air force general (d. 2015)
 * 1920  – Sheila Quinn, English nurse and educator (d. 2016)
 * 1920  – Art Sansom, American cartoonist (d. 1991)
 * 1921 – Ursula Franklin, German-Canadian metallurgist (d. 2016)
 * 1921  – Jon Hendricks, American singer-songwriter (d. 2017)
 * 1921  – Korla Pandit, American pianist and composer (d. 1998)
 * 1922 – Guy Hamilton, French-English director and screenwriter (d. 2016)
 * 1922  – Janis Paige, American actress and singer (d. 2024)
 * 1923 – Lee Kuan Yew, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Singapore (d. 2015)
 * 1924 – Lauren Bacall, American actress (d. 2014)
 * 1924 – Raoul Coutard, French cinematographer and director (d. 2016)
 * 1925 – Charlie Byrd, American singer and guitarist (d. 1999)
 * 1925  – Charles Haughey, Irish accountant, lawyer, and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2006)
 * 1925  – B.B. King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2015)
 * 1926 – Eric Gross, Austrian-Australian pianist and composer (d. 2011)
 * 1926  – John Knowles, American novelist (d. 2001)
 * 1926  – Roger McKee, American baseball player (d. 2014)
 * 1926  – Robert H. Schuller, American pastor and author (d. 2015)
 * 1927 – Peter Falk, American actor (d. 2011)
 * 1927  – Jack Kelly, American actor and politician (d. 1992)
 * 1927  – Sadako Ogata, Japanese academic and diplomat, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (d. 2019)
 * 1928 – Rex Trailer, American television host, actor, and singer (d. 2013)
 * 1928  – Lady Gwen Thompson, English author and educator (d. 1986)
 * 1928  – Patricia Wald, American judge (d. 2019)
 * 1929 – Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar, last sultan of Zanzibar
 * 1929  – Stan Stephens, Canadian-American politician, 20th Governor of Montana (d. 2021)
 * 1930 – Anne Francis, American actress (d. 2011)
 * 1931 – K. D. Arulpragasam, Sri Lankan zoologist and academic (d. 2003)
 * 1931  – Little Willie Littlefield, American-Dutch singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2013)
 * 1932 – George Chakiris, American actor
 * 1932  – Micky Stewart, English cricketer and coach
 * 1933 – Steve Shirley, German-English businesswoman and philanthropist, founded Xansa
 * 1934 – Elgin Baylor, American basketball player and coach (d. 2021)
 * 1934  – Ronnie Drew, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist  (d. 2008)
 * 1935 – Carl Andre, American sculptor (d. 2024)
 * 1935  – Billy Boy Arnold, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1935  – Jules Bass, American director, producer, composer, and author (d. 2022)
 * 1935  – Lilia Cuntapay, Filipino actress (d. 2016)
 * 1935  – Bob Kiley, American-English businessman (d. 2016)
 * 1935  – Esther Vilar, Argentinian-German author and playwright
 * 1935  – Helen Williams, American fashion model (d. 2023)
 * 1937 – Aleksandr Medved, Russian wrestler
 * 1937  – Vince Naimoli, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2019)
 * 1939 – Breyten Breytenbach, South African-French poet and painter
 * 1939  – Bill McGill, American basketball player (d. 2014)
 * 1940 – Hamiet Bluiett, American jazz saxophonist and composer (d. 2018)
 * 1940  – Butch Buchholz, American tennis player
 * 1941 – Joe Butler, American singer, autoharp player, and drummer
 * 1941  – Richard Perle, American political scientist and politician
 * 1942 – Bernie Calvert, English bass player and keyboard player
 * 1942  – Susan L. Graham, American computer scientist and academic
 * 1943 – Wang Houjun, Chinese footballer and manager (d. 2012)
 * 1943  – James Alan McPherson,  American short story writer and essayist (d. 2016)
 * 1944 – Linda Kaye Henning, American actress
 * 1944  – Betty Kelly, American soul/R&B singer
 * 1946 – Sonny LeMaire, American country music singer-songwriter and bass player
 * 1946  – Mike Reynolds, Australian lawyer and politician
 * 1946  – Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2019)
 * 1947 – Dusty Hughes, English director and playwright
 * 1948 – Ron Blair, American bass player
 * 1948  – Rosemary Casals, American tennis player and sportscaster
 * 1948  – Julia Donaldson, English author and playwright
 * 1948  – Kenney Jones, English drummer
 * 1948  – Susan Ruttan, American actress
 * 1949 – Ed Begley Jr., American actor and environmental activist
 * 1950 – David Bellamy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1950  – Henry Louis Gates Jr., American historian, scholar, and journalist
 * 1950  – Loyd Grossman, American-English singer, guitarist, and television host
 * 1951 – Vince Bell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1951  – Andy Irvine, Scottish rugby player and coach
 * 1951  – Cornelius Sim, Bruneian cardinal (d. 2021)
 * 1952 – Tony Cunningham, English educator and politician
 * 1952  – Česlovas Laurinavičius, Lithuanian historian
 * 1952  – Karen Muir, South African swimmer and physician (d. 2013)
 * 1952  – Mickey Rourke, American boxer and actor
 * 1953  – Kurt Fuller, American character actor
 * 1953 – Alan Barton, English singer and guitarist (d. 1995)
 * 1953  – Nancy Huston, Canadian-American author and translator
 * 1953  – Earl Klugh, American musician
 * 1953  – Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown, English journalist and politician, 2nd Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
 * 1953  – Jerry Pate, American golfer and sportscaster
 * 1953  – Manuel Pellegrini, Chilean footballer and manager
 * 1953  – Christopher Rich, American actor
 * 1953  – Eric Vail, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
 * 1954 – Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Indian sitar player and composer
 * 1954  – William McKeen, American author and academic
 * 1954  – Colin Newman, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
 * 1954  – Frank Reed, American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
 * 1954  – Roger Woolley, Australian cricketer
 * 1955 – Ron Brewer, American basketball player
 * 1955  – Robin Yount, American baseball player and coach
 * 1956 – Maggie Atkinson, English educator and civil servant
 * 1956  – David Copperfield, American magician and actor
 * 1956  – Ross Greenberg, American journalist and antivirus pioneer (d. 2017)
 * 1956  – Dave Schulthise, American bass player (d. 2004)
 * 1956  – Kazuharu Sonoda, Japanese wrestler (d. 1987)
 * 1957 – D. C. Drake, American wrestler
 * 1957  – Clara Furse, English businesswoman
 * 1957  – Norman Lamb, English lawyer and politician
 * 1957  – David McCreery, Northern Irish footballer and manager
 * 1957  – Anca Parghel, Romanian singer and pianist (d. 2008)
 * 1958 – Orel Hershiser, American baseball player and coach
 * 1958  – Neville Southall, Welsh footballer and manager
 * 1958  – Jennifer Tilly, American actress and poker player
 * 1959 – Peter Keleghan, Canadian actor and screenwriter
 * 1959  – Tim Raines, American baseball player, coach, and manager
 * 1959  – Dave Richardson, South African cricketer, manager, and lawyer
 * 1959  – Victory Tischler-Blue, American bass player, director, and producer
 * 1960 – Jayne Brook, American actress
 * 1960  – Graham Haynes, American trumpet player and composer
 * 1960  – Mike Mignola, American author and illustrator
 * 1961 – Bilinda Butcher, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1961  – Philip Lafon, Canadian wrestler
 * 1961  – Annamária Szalai, Hungarian journalist, economist, and politician (d. 2013)
 * 1962 – Seth, Canadian author and illustrator
 * 1963 – Richard Marx, American singer-songwriter and producer
 * 1964 – Mary Coustas, Australian actress and screenwriter
 * 1964  – Rossy de Palma, Spanish-French model and actress
 * 1964  – Dave Sabo, American guitarist and songwriter
 * 1964  – Molly Shannon, American actress, comedian and producer
 * 1965 – Katy Kurtzman, American actress and producer
 * 1965  – Karl-Heinz Riedle, German footballer and manager
 * 1965  – Stephen Shareaux, American singer-songwriter
 * 1966 – John Bel Edwards, American attorney and politician
 * 1966  – Wil McCarthy, American author and playwright
 * 1966  – Kevin Young, American hurdler
 * 1967 – Hiroya Oku, Japanese author and illustrator
 * 1967 – Damon Thayer, Kentucky State Senate Majority Leader
 * 1968 – Marc Anthony, American singer-songwriter, actor, and producer
 * 1968  – Walt Becker, American director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1968  – Tommy Keane, Irish footballer (d. 2012)
 * 1969 – Justine Frischmann, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1969  – Janno Gibbs, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor
 * 1970 – Mark Schultz, American singer-songwriter
 * 1971 – Joel Heyman, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1971  – Charlie Jacobs, American businessman
 * 1971  – Amy Poehler, American actress, comedian, and producer
 * 1971  – Richard Slinger, American wrestler
 * 1971  – Shawntel Smith, American beauty pageant contestant
 * 1972 – Mark Bruener, American football player
 * 1972  – Mike Doyle, American actor and producer
 * 1972  – Alessandro Nunziati, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
 * 1973 – George Corrie, English footballer
 * 1973  – Camiel Eurlings, Dutch businessman and member of the International Olympic Committee
 * 1973  – Justin Haythe, American author and screenwriter
 * 1973  – Alexander Vinokourov, Kazakh cyclist and manager
 * 1974 – Loona, Dutch singer-songwriter and dancer
 * 1974  – Monique Brumby, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
 * 1974  – Joaquin Castro, American lawyer and politician
 * 1974  – Julian Castro, American lawyer and politician, 16th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
 * 1975 – Jason Leffler, American race car driver (d. 2013)
 * 1975  – Shannon Noll, Australian singer-songwriter
 * 1975  – Toks Olagundoye, Nigerian actress
 * 1976 – Elīna Garanča, Latvian soprano
 * 1976  – Tina Barrett, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
 * 1976  – Greg Buckner, American basketball player and coach
 * 1977 – Gregory Ball, American captain and politician
 * 1977  – Musiq Soulchild, American singer-songwriter
 * 1978 – Dan Dickau, American basketball player and coach
 * 1978  – Claudia Marx, German runner
 * 1978  – Sensei, Mexican wrestler
 * 1978  – Brian Sims, American lawyer, politician, and LGBT activist
 * 1979 – Fanny, French singer
 * 1979  – Bobby Korecky, American baseball player
 * 1979  – Flo Rida, American rapper, singer, and songwriter
 * 1980 – Patrik Štefan, Czech ice hockey player
 * 1980  – Kenny van Weeghel, Dutch wheelchair racer
 * 1981 – Fan Bingbing, Chinese actress, singer, and producer
 * 1981  – Alexis Bledel, American actress
 * 1981  – LaVerne Jones-Ferrette, Virgin Islander sprinter
 * 1982 – Leon Knight, English footballer
 * 1982  – Michele Rizzo, Italian rugby player
 * 1982  – Fiete Sykora, German footballer
 * 1982  – Ryan Thomson, Scottish footballer
 * 1983 – John Afoa, New Zealand rugby player
 * 1983  – Katerine Avgoustakis, Belgian singer and pianist
 * 1983  – Jennifer Blake, Canadian wrestler
 * 1983  – Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwean swimmer
 * 1983  – Brandon Moss, American baseball player
 * 1983  – Legedu Naanee, American football player
 * 1984 – Sabrina Bryan, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
 * 1984  – Serginho Catarinense, Brazilian footballer
 * 1984  – Katie Melua, Georgian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1985 – Matt Harrison, American baseball player
 * 1985  – Max Minghella, English actor
 * 1985  – Madeline Zima, American actress
 * 1986 – Gordon Beckham, American baseball player
 * 1986  – Ian Harding, American actor
 * 1986  – Kyla Pratt, American actress and singer
 * 1987 – Merve Boluğur, Turkish actress
 * 1987  – Kyle Lafferty, Irish footballer
 * 1987  – Louis Ngwat-Mahop, Cameroonian footballer
 * 1987  – Burry Stander, South African cyclist (d. 2013)
 * 1987  – Travis Wall, American dancer and choreographer
 * 1988 – Teddy Geiger, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
 * 1989 – Lancelot Bravado, American wrestler
 * 1989  – Bailey De Young, American actress
 * 1989  – Robbie Grossman, American baseball player
 * 1989  – Braden Holtby, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1989  – Salomón Rondón, Venezuelan footballer
 * 1989  – Dustin Tokarski, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1991 – Diāna Bukājeva, Latvian tennis player
 * 1991  – Alexandra Paul, Canadian figure skater (d. 2023)
 * 1991  – Kyle Smith, English motorcycle racer
 * 1992 – Vytenis Čižauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
 * 1992  – Nick Jonas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1992  – Jake Roche, English singer-songwriter and actor
 * 1992  – Chase Stokes, American actor
 * 1993 – Sam Byram, English footballer
 * 1994 – Anthony Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1994  – Mitchell Moses, Australian rugby league player
 * 1995 – Aaron Gordon, American basketball player
 * 1997 – Jackie Young, American basketball player
 * 1999 – Brady Tkachuk, American ice hockey player
 * 2000 – Sam Howell, American football player
 * 2001 – Avishag Semberg, Israeli Olympic taekwondo bronze medalist
 * 2003 – Ryan Couchman, Australian rugby league player
 * 2003  – Toby Couchman, Australian rugby league player

Pre-1600

 * 307 – Flavius Valerius Severus, Roman emperor
 * 655 – Pope Martin I
 * 1087 – Pope Victor III (b. 1026)
 * 1100 – Bernold of Constance, German priest and historian (b. 1054)
 * 1122 – Vitalis of Savigny, Catholic French saint and itinerant preacher (b. 1060)
 * 1226 – Pandulf Verraccio, Roman ecclesiastical politician
 * 1343 – Philip III of Navarre (b. 1306)
 * 1345 – John IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1295)
 * 1360 – William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton (b. 1319)
 * 1380 – Charles V of France (b. 1338)
 * 1394 – Antipope Clement VII (b. 1342)
 * 1406 – Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. 1336)
 * 1498 – Tomás de Torquemada, Spanish friar (b. 1420)
 * 1581 – Peter Niers, notorious German bandit (date of birth unknown)
 * 1583 – Catherine Jagiellon, queen of John III of Sweden (b. 1526)
 * 1589 – Michael Baius, Belgian theologian and academic (b. 1513)

1601–1900

 * 1607 – Mary Stuart, English-Scottish princess (b. 1605)
 * 1672 – Anne Bradstreet, English poet (b. 1612)
 * 1701 – James II of England (b. 1633)
 * 1736 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Polish-Dutch physicist and engineer, invented the thermometer (b. 1686)
 * 1792 – Nguyễn Huệ, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1753)
 * 1803 – Nicolas Baudin, French explorer, hydrographer, and cartographer (b. 1754)
 * 1819 – John Jeffries, American physician and surgeon (b. 1744)
 * 1824 – Louis XVIII of France (b. 1755)
 * 1843 – Ezekiel Hart, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1770)
 * 1845 – Thomas Davis, Irish poet and publisher (b. 1814)
 * 1865 – Christian 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)
 * 1896  – Pavlos Kalligas, Greek jurist and politician, Foreign Minister of Greece (b. 1814)
 * 1898 – Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican surgeon and politician (b. 1827)

1901–present

 * 1911 – Edward Whymper, English-French mountaineer, explorer, and author (b. 1840)
 * 1914 – C. X. Larrabee, American businessman (b. 1843)
 * 1919 – Maria Nikiforova, Ukrainian anarchist partisan leader (b. 1885)
 * 1925 – Leo Fall, Czech-Austrian composer (b. 1873)
 * 1925  – Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1888)
 * 1931 – Omar Mukhtar, Libyan theorist and educator (b. 1862)
 * 1932 – Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle, British stage and screen actress (b. 1908)
 * 1932  – Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
 * 1933 – George Gore, American baseball player and manager (b. 1857)
 * 1936 – Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French physician and explorer (b. 1867)
 * 1940 – Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, English-Scottish politician, 8th Governor of Queensland (b. 1860)
 * 1944 – Gustav Bauer, German journalist and politician, 11th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
 * 1945 – John McCormack, Irish tenor and actor (b. 1884)
 * 1946 – James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1877)
 * 1950 – Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (b. 1881)
 * 1955 – Leo Amery, Indian-English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1873)
 * 1961 – Hasan Polatkan, Turkish politician, 15th Turkish Minister of Finance (b. 1915)
 * 1961  – Fatin Rüştü Zorlu, Turkish diplomat and politician, 21st Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1910)
 * 1965 – Ahn Eak-tai, North Korean composer and conductor (b. 1906)
 * 1965  – Fred Quimby, American animator and producer (b. 1886)
 * 1973 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter, teacher and theatre director (b. 1932)
 * 1976 – Bertha Lutz, Brazilian feminist and scientist (b. 1894)
 * 1977 – Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
 * 1977  – Maria Callas, Greek operatic soprano (b. 1923)
 * 1980 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist and philosopher (b. 1896)
 * 1984 – Louis Réard, French engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini (b. 1897)
 * 1984  – Richard Brautigan, American novelist, poet, and short story writer (b. 1935)
 * 1987  – Christopher Soames, English soldier and politician, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (b. 1920)
 * 1991 – Olga Spessivtseva, Russian-American ballerina (b. 1895)
 * 1992 – Millicent Fenwick, American journalist and politician (b. 1910)
 * 1993 – František Jílek, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
 * 1993  – Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian poet and activist (b. 1920)
 * 1996 – McGeorge Bundy, American intelligence officer and diplomat, 6th United States National Security Advisor (b. 1919)
 * 1996  – Gene Nelson, American actor, dancer, and director (b. 1920)
 * 2001 – Samuel Z. Arkoff, American producer (b. 1918)
 * 2002 – James Gregory, American actor (b. 1911)
 * 2003 – Sheb Wooley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1921)
 * 2004 – Michael Donaghy, American-English poet and author (b. 1954)
 * 2005 – Harry Freedman, Canadian horn player, composer, and educator (b. 1922)
 * 2005  – Gordon Gould, American physicist and academic, invented the laser (b. 1920)
 * 2006 – Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1925)
 * 2006  – Zsuzsa Körmöczy, Hungarian tennis player and coach (b. 1924)
 * 2007 – Robert Jordan, American engineer and author (b. 1948)
 * 2008 – Norman Whitfield, American songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
 * 2009 – Myles Brand, American philosopher and academic (b. 1942)
 * 2009  – Ernst Märzendorfer, Austrian conductor (b. 1921)
 * 2009  – Mary Travers, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
 * 2010 – George N. Parks, American educator and bandleader (b. 1953)
 * 2010  – Jim Towers, English footballer (b. 1933)
 * 2011 – Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, American singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and drummer (b. 1936)
 * 2011 – Enamul Haque Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1948)
 * 2012 – Roman Kroitor, Canadian director and producer, co-founded IMAX (b. 1926)
 * 2012  – Julien J. LeBourgeois, American admiral (b. 1923)
 * 2012  – Friedrich Zimmermann, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior (b. 1925)
 * 2013 – Scott Adams, American football player (b. 1966)
 * 2013  – Ratiba El-Hefny, Egyptian soprano and director (b. 1931)
 * 2013  – Patsy Swayze, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1927)
 * 2015 – Guy Béart, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter (b. 1930)
 * 2015  – Julio Brady, Virgin Islander lawyer, judge, and politician, 5th Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (b. 1942)
 * 2015  – Kurt Oppelt, Austrian figure skater and coach (b. 1932)
 * 2015  – Allan Wright, English captain and pilot (b. 1920)
 * 2016 – Edward Albee, American director and playwright (b. 1928)
 * 2016  – Gabriele Amorth, Italian priest and exorcist (b. 1925)
 * 2016  – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italian economist and politician, 10th President of Italy and 49th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1920)
 * 2016  – W. P. Kinsella, American novelist (b. 1935)
 * 2016  – António Mascarenhas Monteiro, Cabo Verdean politician, 2nd President of Cape Verde (b. 1944)
 * 2016  – Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, French-born American businessman (b. 1932)
 * 2017 – Marcelo Rezende, Brazilian journalist (b. 1951)
 * 2017  – Arjan Singh, Marshal of the Indian Air Force (b. 1919)
 * 2018 – James Burdette Thayer, American brigadier general (b. 1920)
 * 2019 – H. S. Dillon, Indonesian politician and human rights defender (b. 1945)
 * 2020 – Maxim Martsinkevich, Russian social activist and media personality (b. 1984)
 * 2021 – Jane Powell, American actress (b. 1929)
 * 2021  – Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor (b. 1940)

Holidays and observances

 * Christian feast day:
 * Andrew Kim Taegon (one of The Korean Martyrs)
 * Curcodomus
 * Cyprian (Catholic Church)
 * Edith of Wilton
 * Euphemia
 * Ludmila
 * Ninian
 * Pope Cornelius
 * Vitalis of Savigny
 * September 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
 * Cry of Dolores, celebrates the declaration of independence of Mexico from Spain in 1810. See Fiestas Patrias
 * Independence Day (Papua New Guinea), celebrates the independence of Papua New Guinea from Australia in 1975.
 * International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
 * Malaysian Armed Forces Day (Malaysia)
 * Malaysia Day (Malaysia)
 * Martyrs' Day (Libya)
 * National Heroes Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)