September 19

Pre-1600

 * 96 – Nerva, suspected of complicity of the death of Domitian, is declared emperor by Senate. The Senate then annuls laws passed by Domitian and orders his statues to be destroyed.
 * 634 – Siege of Damascus: The Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus from the Byzantine Empire.
 * 1356 – Battle of Poitiers: An English army under the command of Edward the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures King John II.
 * 1410 – End of the Siege of Marienburg: The State of the Teutonic Order repulses the joint Polish—Lithuanian forces.

1601–1900

 * 1676 – Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
 * 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
 * 1778 – The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget.
 * 1796 – George Washington's Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
 * 1799 – French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
 * 1846 – Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
 * 1852 – Annibale de Gasparis discovers the asteroid Massalia from the north dome of the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte.
 * 1862 – American Civil War: Union troops under William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by Sterling Price.
 * 1863 – American Civil War: The first day of the Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater.
 * 1864 – American Civil War: Union troops under Philip Sheridan defeat a Confederate force commanded by Jubal Early. With over 50,000 troops engaged, it was the largest battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley.
 * 1868 – La Gloriosa begins in Spain.
 * 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The siege of Paris begins. The city held out for over four months before surrendering.
 * 1893 – In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor, giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.

1901–present

 * 1902 – A stampede at Shiloh Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, leads to the death of 115 attendees.
 * 1916 – World War I: During the East African Campaign, colonial forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur capture the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
 * 1939 – World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
 * 1940 – World War II: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp to gather and smuggle out information for the resistance movement.
 * 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Hürtgen Forest begins. It will become the longest individual battle that the U.S. Army has ever fought.
 * 1944  – World War II: The Moscow Armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union is signed, which officially ended the Continuation War.
 * 1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
 * 1950 – Korean War: An attack by North Korean forces was repelled at the Battle of Nam River.
 * 1957 – Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no fallout.
 * 1970 – Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival.
 * 1970  – Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
 * 1976 – Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.
 * 1976  – Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object.
 * 1978 – The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
 * 1982 – Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system.
 * 1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
 * 1985 – A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
 * 1985  – Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa, John Denver, and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
 * 1989 – A bomb destroys UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing all 170 passengers and crew.
 * 1991 – Ötzi the Iceman is discovered in the Alps on the border between Italy and Austria.
 * 1995 – The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber manifesto.
 * 1997 – The Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria kills 53 people.
 * 2006 – The Thai army stages a coup. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
 * 2008 – A Learjet 60 carrying musicians Travis Barker and Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein crashes during a rejected takeoff from Colombia Metropolitan Airport in West Columbia, South Carolina, killing four of the six people on board. Barker and Goldstein both survive.
 * 2010 – The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.
 * 2011 – Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees surpasses Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all-time career saves leader with 602.
 * 2016 – In the wake of a manhunt, the suspect in a series of bombings in New York and New Jersey is apprehended after a shootout with police.
 * 2017 – The 2017 Puebla earthquake strikes Mexico, causing 370 deaths and over 6,000 injuries, as well as extensive damage.
 * 2019 – A drone strike by the United States kills 30 civilian farmers in Afghanistan.
 * 2021 – The Cumbre Vieja volcano, on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, erupts. The eruption lasts for almost three months, ending on December 13.
 * 2022 – The state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is held at Westminster Abbey, London.

Pre-1600

 * AD 86 – Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor (d. 161)
 * 866 – Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine emperor (d. 912)
 * 931 – Mu Zong, emperor of the Liao Dynasty (d. 969)
 * 1377 – Albert IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1404)
 * 1426 – Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans, French noble (d. 1487)
 * 1477 – Ferrante d'Este, Ferrarese nobleman and condottiero (d. 1540)
 * 1551 – Henry III of France (d. 1589)
 * 1560 – Thomas Cavendish, English naval explorer, led the third expedition to circumnavigate the globe (d. 1592)

1601–1900

 * 1608 – Alfonso Litta, Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop (d. 1679)
 * 1638 – Isaac Milles, English minister (d. 1720)
 * 1662 – Jean-Paul Bignon, French priest and man of letters (d. 1743)
 * 1721 – William Robertson, Scottish historian (d. 1793)
 * 1749 – Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1822)
 * 1754 – John Ross Key, American lieutenant, lawyer, and judge (d. 1821)
 * 1759 – William Kirby, English priest and entomologist (d. 1850)
 * 1778 – Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1868)
 * 1796 – Hartley Coleridge, English poet and author (d. 1849)
 * 1802 – Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian journalist, lawyer, and politician, Governor-President of Hungary (d. 1894)
 * 1803 – Maria Anna of Savoy (d. 1884)
 * 1811 – Orson Pratt, American mathematician and religious leader (d. 1881)
 * 1824 – William Sellers, American engineer, inventor, and businessperson (d. 1905)
 * 1828 – Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (d. 1880)
 * 1856 – Arthur Morgan, Australian politician, 16th Premier of Queensland (d. 1916)
 * 1865 – Frank Eugene, American-German photographer (d. 1936)
 * 1867 – Arthur Rackham, English illustrator (d. 1939)
 * 1869 – Ben Turpin, American comedian and actor (d. 1940)
 * 1871 – Frederick Ruple, Swiss-American painter (d. 1938)
 * 1882 – Christopher Stone, English radio host (d. 1965)
 * 1883 – Mabel Vernon, American educator and activist (d. 1975)
 * 1887 – Lovie Austin, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1972)
 * 1887  – Lynne Overman, American actor and singer  (d. 1943)
 * 1888 – James Waddell Alexander II, American mathematician and topologist (d. 1971)
 * 1888  – Porter Hall, American actor (d. 1953)
 * 1889 – Sarah Louise Delany, American physician and author (d. 1999)
 * 1894 – Rachel Field, American author and poet (d. 1942)
 * 1898 – Giuseppe Saragat, Italian lawyer and politician, 5th President of Italy (d. 1988)
 * 1900 – Ricardo Cortez, American actor (d. 1977)

1901–present

 * 1905 – Judith Auer, German World War II resistance fighter (d. 1944)
 * 1905  – Leon Jaworski, American lawyer, co-founded Fulbright & Jaworski (d. 1982)
 * 1907 – Lewis F. Powell, Jr., American lawyer and jurist (d. 1998)
 * 1908 – Paul Bénichou, French historian, author, and critic (d. 2001)
 * 1908  – Robert Lecourt, French lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of France (d. 2004)
 * 1908  – Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist, founded Isshin-ryū (d. 1975)
 * 1909 – Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian engineer and businessman (d. 1998)
 * 1910 – Margaret Lindsay, American actress (d. 1981)
 * 1910  – Arturo M. Tolentino, Filipino diplomat and politician (d. 2004)
 * 1911 – William Golding, British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
 * 1912 – Reuben David, Indian veterinarian and zoo founder (d. 1989)
 * 1912  – Kurt Sanderling, Polish-German conductor (d. 2011)
 * 1913 – Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970)
 * 1913  – Helen Ward, American singer (d. 1998)
 * 1915 – Germán Valdés, Mexican actor, singer, and producer (d. 1973)
 * 1918 – Pablita Velarde, Santa Clara Pueblo (Native American) painter (d. 2006)
 * 1919 – Roger Grenier, French journalist and author (d. 2017)
 * 1919  – Amalia Hernández, Mexican choreographer and dancer (d. 2000)
 * 1920 – Roger Angell, American journalist, author, and editor (d. 2022)
 * 1921 – Paulo Freire, Brazilian philosopher, theorist, and academic (d. 1997)
 * 1921  – Billy Ward, American R&B singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
 * 1922 – Damon Knight, American author and critic (d. 2002)
 * 1922  – Willie Pep, American boxer and referee (d. 2006)
 * 1922  – Emil Zátopek, Czech runner (d. 2000)
 * 1924 – Vern Benson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
 * 1924  – Don Harron, Canadian actor and screenwriter (d. 2015)
 * 1925 – W. Reece Smith, Jr., American lawyer and academic (d. 2013)
 * 1926 – Victoria Barbă, Moldovan animated film director (d. 2020)
 * 1926  – Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate  (d. 2020)
 * 1926  – James Lipton, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2020)
 * 1926  – Duke Snider, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2011)
 * 1927 – Helen Carter, American singer (d. 1998)
 * 1927  – Rosemary Harris, English actress
 * 1927  – William Hickey, American actor (d. 1997)
 * 1927  – Nick Massi, American singer and bass player (d. 2000)
 * 1928 – Adam West, American actor and businessman (d. 2017)
 * 1929 – Marge Roukema, American educator and politician (d. 2014)
 * 1930 – Muhal Richard Abrams, American pianist, composer, and educator (d. 2017)
 * 1930  – Bettye Lane, American photographer and journalist (d. 2012)
 * 1930  – Antonio Margheriti, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
 * 1931 – Brook Benton, American pop/R&B/rock & roll singer-songwriter (d. 1988)
 * 1931  – Derek Gardner, English engineer (d. 2011)
 * 1932 – Mike Royko, American journalist and author (d. 1997)
 * 1932  – Stefanie Zweig, German journalist and author (d. 2014)
 * 1933 – Gilles Archambault, Canadian journalist and author
 * 1933  – David McCallum, Scottish actor (d. 2023)
 * 1934 – Brian Epstein, English businessman, The Beatles manager (d. 1967)
 * 1934  – Austin Mitchell, English journalist, academic and politician (d. 2021)
 * 1935 – Benjamin Thurman Hacker, American admiral (d. 2003)
 * 1936 – Martin Fay, Irish fiddler (d. 2012)
 * 1936  – Milan Marcetta, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
 * 1936  – Al Oerter, American discus thrower (d. 2007)
 * 1937 – Abner Haynes, American football player
 * 1939 – Carl Schultz, Hungarian-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1940 – Bill Medley, American singer-songwriter
 * 1940  – Zandra Rhodes, English fashion designer, founded the Fashion and Textile Museum
 * 1940  – Paul Williams, American singer-songwriter and actor
 * 1941 – Umberto Bossi, Italian politician
 * 1941  – Cass Elliot, American singer (d. 1974)
 * 1941  – Jim Fox, English pentathlete (d. 2023)
 * 1941  – Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (d. 2013)
 * 1942 – Freda Payne, American singer and actress
 * 1943 – André Boudrias, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2019)
 * 1943  – Joe Morgan, American baseball player (d. 2020)
 * 1944 – Anders Björck, Swedish politician, 25th Swedish Minister of Defence
 * 1944  – Edmund Joensen, Faroese politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
 * 1944  – İsmet Özel, Turkish poet and scholar
 * 1945 – Kate Adie, English journalist and author
 * 1945  – David Bromberg, American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter
 * 1945  – Randolph Mantooth, American actor
 * 1946 – Gerald Brisco, American wrestler
 * 1946  – Brian Henton, English race car driver
 * 1947 – Henry Bromell, American novelist and screenwriter (d. 2013)
 * 1947  – Thomas H. Cook, American author and academic
 * 1947  – Lol Creme, English musician, songwriter, and music video director
 * 1947  – Brian Hill, American basketball player and coach
 * 1947  – Tanith Lee, English author (d. 2015)
 * 1948 – Jim Ard, American basketball player
 * 1948  – Mykhaylo Fomenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2024)
 * 1948  – Jeremy Irons, English actor
 * 1949 – Twiggy, English model, actress, and singer
 * 1949  – Ringo Mendoza, Mexican wrestler
 * 1949  – Barry Scheck, American lawyer, co-founded the Innocence Project
 * 1949  – Sidney Wicks, American basketball player
 * 1950 – Joan Lunden, American television journalist, anchor, and author
 * 1950  – Michael Proctor, English physicist, mathematician, and academic
 * 1951 – Daniel Lanois, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
 * 1952 – Rhys Chatham, American trumpet player, guitarist, and composer
 * 1952  – Henry Kaiser, American guitarist and composer
 * 1952  – Nile Rodgers, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
 * 1952  – George Warrington, American businessman (d. 2007)
 * 1953 – Wayne Clark, Australian cricketer
 * 1953  – Sarana VerLin, American singer-songwriter and violinist
 * 1954 – Adam Phillips, Welsh psychotherapist and author
 * 1954  – Eleni Vitali, Greek singer-songwriter
 * 1955 – Richard Burmer, American composer and engineer (d. 2006)
 * 1957 – Dan Hampton, American football player
 * 1957  – Chris Roupas, American basketball player
 * 1958 – Lita Ford, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1958  – Kevin Hooks, American actor, director, and producer
 * 1960 – Mario Batali, American chef and author
 * 1960  – Loïc Bigois, French aerodynamicist and engineer
 * 1960  – Yolanda Saldívar, American convicted murderer
 * 1961 – Artur Ekert, Polish-British physicist and academic
 * 1962 – Randy Myers, American baseball player
 * 1962  – Cheri Oteri, American actress, comedian, and screenwriter
 * 1962  – Ken Rosenthal, American sportscaster
 * 1963 – Jarvis Cocker, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1963  – David Seaman, English footballer
 * 1963  – Urmas Tartes, Estonian biologist and photographer
 * 1964 – Patrick Marber, English actor, director, and screenwriter
 * 1964  – Daniel Wincott, British political scientist
 * 1964  – Trisha Yearwood, American singer-songwriter and actress
 * 1965 – Andrew Leeds, Australian rugby player and coach
 * 1965  – Tim Scott, American politician
 * 1965  – Sunita Williams, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
 * 1966 – Soledad O'Brien, American journalist and producer
 * 1966  – Yoshihiro Takayama, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
 * 1967 – Jim Abbott, American baseball player
 * 1967  – Aleksandr Karelin, Russian wrestler and politician
 * 1968  – Monica Crowley, American talk show host and author
 * 1969 – Candy Dulfer, Dutch saxophonist
 * 1969  – Jacek Frąckiewicz, Polish footballer
 * 1969  – Alkinoos Ioannidis, Cypriot singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1969  – Michael Symon, American chef and author
 * 1969  – Kostya Tszyu, Russian-Australian boxer
 * 1969  – Tapio Wilska, Finnish singer-songwriter
 * 1970 – Dan Bylsma, American ice hockey player and coach
 * 1970  – Gilbert Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1970  – Antoine Hey, German footballer and manager
 * 1970  – Victor Williams, American actor
 * 1971 – Sanaa Lathan, American actress
 * 1971  – Mike Sadlo, German footballer and manager
 * 1972 – Ryan Girdler, Australian rugby league player
 * 1972  – N. K. Jemisin, American writer
 * 1972  – Ashot Nadanian, Armenian chess player and coach
 * 1973 – Jacinta Allan, Australian politician, 49th Premier of Victoria
 * 1973  – Nick Colgan, Irish footballer and coach
 * 1973  – Cristiano da Matta, Brazilian race car driver
 * 1973  – Javier Duarte, Mexican politician
 * 1973  – David Zepeda, Mexican actor, model and singer
 * 1974 – Jimmy Fallon, American comedian and talk show host
 * 1974  – Hidetaka Miyazaki, Japanese video game designer and executive
 * 1975 – Marcus Dunstan, American director and screenwriter
 * 1976 – Raja Bell, American basketball player
 * 1976  – Jan Hlaváč, Czech ice hockey player
 * 1976  – Alison Sweeney, American actress and television host
 * 1976  – Sergey Tsinkevich, Belarusian footballer and referee
 * 1977 – Poon Yiu Cheuk, Hong Kong footballer and coach
 * 1977  – Aakash Chopra, Indian cricketer
 * 1977  – Ryan Dusick, American musician and record producer
 * 1977  – Tommaso Rocchi, Italian footballer
 * 1977  – Mike Smith, American baseball player
 * 1977  – Emil Sutovsky, Israeli chess player
 * 1978 – Nick Johnson, American baseball player
 * 1978  – Brett Keisel, American football player
 * 1978  – Jorge López Montaña, Spanish footballer
 * 1978  – Nigel Mitchell, English radio and television host
 * 1979 – Mikael Tellqvist, Swedish ice hockey player
 * 1980 – J. R. Bremer, American-Bosnian basketball player
 * 1980  – James Ellison, English motorcycle racer
 * 1980  – Sara Quin, Canadian singer and musician
 * 1980  – Tegan Quin, Canadian singer and musician
 * 1980  – Dimitri Yachvili, French rugby player
 * 1981 – Damiano Cunego, Italian cyclist
 * 1981  – Rick DiPietro, American ice hockey player
 * 1982 – Shaun Barker, English footballer
 * 1982  – Eduardo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer
 * 1982  – Eleni Daniilidou, Greek tennis player
 * 1982  – Jordan Parise, American ice hockey player
 * 1982  – Columbus Short, American actor and choreographer
 * 1983 – Eamon, American singer and songwriter
 * 1983  – Carl Landry, American basketball player
 * 1983  – Joni Pitkänen, Finnish ice hockey player
 * 1984 – Eva Marie, American wrestler
 * 1984  – Ángel Reyna, Mexican footballer
 * 1984  – Danny Valencia, American-Israeli baseball player
 * 1984  – Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor
 * 1985 – Gio González, American baseball player
 * 1985  – Alun Wyn Jones, Welsh rugby player
 * 1985  – Song Joong-ki, South Korean actor
 * 1985  – Nathanael Liminski, German politician
 * 1985  – Renee Paquette, Canadian-American television personality
 * 1986 – Leon Best, English footballer
 * 1986  – Sally Pearson, Australian athlete
 * 1987 – Nicolas Pallois, French footballer
 * 1987  – Danielle Panabaker, American actress
 * 1987  – Carlos Quintero, Colombian footballer
 * 1988 – Katrina Bowden, American actress
 * 1988  – Kenny Britt, American football player
 * 1989 – Tyreke Evans, American basketball player
 * 1989  – George Springer, American baseball player
 * 1990 – Saki Fukuda, Japanese actress and singer
 * 1990  – Savvas Gentsoglou, Greek footballer
 * 1990  – Stephon Gilmore, American football player
 * 1990  – Kieran Trippier, English footballer
 * 1991 – CJ McCollum, American basketball player
 * 1992 – Jiro Kuroshio, Japanese wrestler
 * 1992  – Diego Antonio Reyes, Mexican footballer
 * 1996 – Brandon Clarke, Canadian-American basketball player
 * 1996  – Pia Mia, American singer, songwriter, model, and actress
 * 1996  – Dejounte Murray, American basketball player
 * 1996  – Chris Silva, Gabonese basketball player
 * 1998 – Nolan Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1998  – Trae Young, American basketball player
 * 1999 – Precious Achiuwa, Nigerian basketball player
 * 2001 – Ghina Raihanah, Indonesian advocate, model, and influencer

Pre-1600

 * 643 – Goeric of Metz, Frankish bishop and saint
 * 690 – Theodore of Tarsus, English archbishop and saint (b. 602)
 * 961 – Helena Lekapene, Byzantine empress
 * 979 – Gotofredo I, archbishop of Milan
 * 1123 – Emperor Taizu of Jin (b. 1068)
 * 1147 – Igor II of Kiev
 * 1339 – Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (b. 1288)
 * 1356 – Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1311)
 * 1356  – Walter VI, Count of Brienne (b. 1304)
 * 1580 – Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, English noblewoman (b. 1519)
 * 1589 – Jean-Antoine de Baïf, French poet (b. 1532)

1601–1900

 * 1605 – Edward Lewknor, English politician (b. 1542)
 * 1668 – William Waller, English general and politician (b. 1597)
 * 1692 – Giles Corey, American farmer and accused wizard (b. c. 1612)
 * 1710 – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer and instrument maker (b. 1644)
 * 1812 – Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker (b. 1744)
 * 1843 – Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1792)
 * 1863 – Hans Christian Heg, Norwegian-American colonel and politician (b. 1829)
 * 1868 – William Sprague, American minister and politician (b. 1809)
 * 1873 – Robert Mackenzie, English-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of Queensland (b. 1811)
 * 1881 – James A. Garfield, American general, lawyer, and politician, and the 20th President of the United States (b. 1831)
 * 1893 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, English-Canadian politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Finance (b. 1817)

1901–present

 * 1902 – Masaoka Shiki, Japanese poet, author, and critic (b. 1867)
 * 1905 – Thomas John Barnardo, Irish-English philanthropist (b. 1845)
 * 1906 – Maria Georgina Grey, English educator, founded the Girls' Day School Trust (b. 1816)
 * 1924 – Alick Bannerman, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1854)
 * 1927 – Michael Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
 * 1935 – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian scientist and engineer (b. 1857)
 * 1936 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian singer and musicologist (b. 1860)
 * 1942 – Condé Montrose Nast, American publisher, founded Condé Nast Publications (b. 1873)
 * 1944 – Guy Gibson, Indian-English commander, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1918)
 * 1949 – George Shiels, Irish-Canadian playwright (b. 1886)
 * 1949  – Nikos Skalkottas, Greek violinist and composer (b. 1901)
 * 1955 – John D. Dingell, Sr., American journalist and politician (b. 1894)
 * 1965 – Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (b. 1921)
 * 1967 – Zinaida Serebriakova, Ukrainian-French painter (b. 1884)
 * 1968 – Chester Carlson, American physicist and lawyer (b. 1906)
 * 1968  – Red Foley, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1910)
 * 1972 – Robert Casadesus, French pianist and composer (b. 1899)
 * 1973 – Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)
 * 1975 – Pamela Brown, English actress (b. 1917)
 * 1978 – Étienne Gilson, French historian and philosopher (b. 1884)
 * 1985 – Italo Calvino, Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist (b. 1923)
 * 1987 – Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian civil servant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)
 * 1989 – Willie Steele, American long jumper (b. 1923)
 * 1990 – Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1910)
 * 1992 – Jacques Pic, French chef (b. 1932)
 * 1995 – Orville Redenbacher, American businessman, founded his own eponymous brand (b. 1907)
 * 1998 – Patricia Hayes, English actress (b. 1909)
 * 2000 – Ann Doran, American actress (b. 1911)
 * 2001 – Rhys Jones, Welsh-Australian archaeologist and academic (b. 1941)
 * 2002 – Robert Guéï, Ivorian politician, 3rd President of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1941)
 * 2003 – Slim Dusty, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1927)
 * 2004 – Eddie Adams, American photographer and journalist (b. 1933)
 * 2004  – Skeeter Davis, American singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
 * 2004  – Damayanti Joshi, Indian dancer and choreographer (b. 1928)
 * 2004  – Ellis Marsalis, Sr., American businessman and activist (b. 1908)
 * 2006 – Elizabeth Allen, American actress (b. 1929)
 * 2006  – Danny Flores, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1929)
 * 2006  – Martha Holmes, American photographer and journalist (b. 1923)
 * 2006  – Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist and manager (b. 1950)
 * 2008 – Earl Palmer, American rhythm and blues drummer (b. 1924)
 * 2009 – Milton Meltzer, American historian and author (b. 1915)
 * 2009  – Eduard Zimmermann, German journalist (b. 1929)
 * 2011 – Thomas Capano, American lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
 * 2011  – Dolores Hope, American singer (b. 1909)
 * 2011  – George Cadle Price, 1st Prime Minister of Belize (b. 1919)
 * 2012 – Rino Ferrario, Italian footballer (b. 1926)
 * 2012  – Cecil Gordon, American race car driver (b. 1941)
 * 2012  – Bettye Lane, American photographer and journalist (b. 1930)
 * 2012  – Itamar Singer, Romanian-Israeli historian and author (b. 1946)
 * 2013 – Robert Barnard, English author and critic (b. 1936)
 * 2013  – John Reger, American football player (b. 1931)
 * 2013  – William Ungar, Polish-American author and philanthropist, founded the National Envelope Corporation (b. 1913)
 * 2013  – John D. Vanderhoof, American banker and politician, 37th Governor of Colorado (b. 1922)
 * 2013  – Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman (b. 1927)
 * 2014 – Audrey Long, American actress (b. 1922)
 * 2015 – Jackie Collins, English novelist (b. 1937)
 * 2015  – Todd Ewen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1966)
 * 2015  – Masajuro Shiokawa, Japanese economist and politician, 63rd Japanese Minister of Finance (b. 1921)
 * 2017 – Leonid Kharitonov, Russian bass-baritone (b. 1933)
 * 2018 – Arthur Mitchell, American ballet dancer & choreographer (b. 1934)
 * 2018   – Bernard "Bunny" Carr, Irish TV presenter (b. 1927)
 * 2019 – Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisian soldier, politician, 2nd President of Tunisia (b. 1936)
 * 2020 – John Turner, Canadian politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1929)
 * 2021 – John Challis, English actor (b. 1942)
 * 2021  – Jimmy Greaves, English footballer (b. 1940)
 * 2021  – Dinky Soliman, Filipino politician, 23rd Secretary of Social Welfare and Development (b. 1953)

Holidays and observances

 * Christian feast day:
 * Alonso de Orozco Mena
 * Emilie de Rodat
 * Goeric of Metz
 * Januarius (Western Christianity)
 * Feast of San Gennaro
 * Our Lady of La Salette
 * Theodore of Tarsus (Anglican Communion, Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church)
 * Trophimus, Sabbatius, and Dorymedon
 * September 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * Armed Forces Day (Chile)
 * Day of the First Public Appearance of the Slovak National Council
 * Second day of Fiestas Patrias (Chile)
 * Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Kitts and Nevis from the United Kingdom in 1983.
 * International Talk Like a Pirate Day