On this day: 15 September
Events, births and deaths on 15 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Deborah S. Jin
100 years ago1926
- Deaths · Rudolf Christoph Eucken
- Births · Jean-Pierre Serre
- Births · Shohei Imamura
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 994 · Events · Battle of the Orontes
Events · 26
- 994Battle of the Orontes — between the Byzantines and their Hamdanid allies against the forces of the Fatimid vizier of Damascus
- 1762Battle of Signal Hill — 1762 battle
- 1776Landing at Kip's Bay — 1776 action during American Revolutionary War
- 1830Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway — 1830 railway opening in England
- 1894Battle of Pyongyang — 1894 battle
- 1915La Jeunesse — influential Chinese magazine in the 1910s and 1920s
- 1918Battle of Dobro Pole — 1918 battle
- 1924Second Zhili–Fengtian War — conflict between Chinese warlords (1924)
- 1940Battle of Britain Day — 15 September 1940
- 1944Battle of Peleliu — 1944 battle between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II
- 1944Battle of Morotai — 1944 Extended WWII battle of the Pacific War
- 1946People's Republic of Bulgaria — Socialist republic ruled by the Bulgarian Communist Party (1946–1990)
- 1950Battle of Inchon — 1950 amphibious invasion during the Korean War in Incheon resulting in a victory and strategic reversal in favor of the UN Command
- 1958Newark Bay rail accident — train wreck
- 196316th Street Baptist Church bombing — Ku Klux Klan bombing in 1963
- 1972Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 130 — aircraft hijacking
- 1974Air Vietnam Flight 706 hijacking — 1974 hijacking
- 1991
- 1995Malaysia Airlines Flight 2133 — aviation accident
- 20002000 Summer Olympics — Games of the XXVII Olympiad, in Sydney, Australia
- 2008bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers — financial collapse and Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing of American investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and related entities during subprime mortgage crisis and great recession
- 2013
- 20172017 Parsons Green bombing — terrorism-related explosion on a train at Parsons Green tube station, London, England on 15 September 2017
- 2020Abraham Accords — 2020 normalization of Israeli relations with some Arab countries
- 2020Bahrain–Israel peace agreement — peace agreement between the countries of Bahrain and Israel
- 2021AUKUS — military technology partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States
Births · 60
- 1254(Julian date)Marco Polo — Venetian explorer and merchant who travelled through Asia (1254–1324)
- 1505Mary of Hungary — governor of the Netherlands and queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia (1505-1558)
- 1613François de La Rochefoucauld — French author of maxims and memoirs (1613-1680)
- 1666Sophia Dorothea of Celle — wife of George I of Great Britain (1666-1726)
- 1736Jean Sylvain Bailly — French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader (1736-1793)
- 1789James Fenimore Cooper — American writer (1789–1851)
- 1828Alexander Butlerov — Russian chemist (1828-1886)
- 1830Porfirio Díaz — President of Mexico (1830–1915)
- 1857William Howard Taft — 27th President of the United States from 1909 to 1913 (1857–1930)
- 1858Charles de Foucauld — French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858–1916)
- 1860M. Visvesvaraya — Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore (1861-1962)
- 1876Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay — Bengali novelist and short story writer (1876-1938)
- 1876Bruno Walter — German-born conductor, pianist, and composer (1876-1962)
- 1879Joseph Lyons — Australian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (1879-1939)
- 1881Ettore Bugatti — Italian automobile designer and manufacturer (1881–1947)
- 1889Robert Benchley — American writer and actor (1889-1945)
- 1890Agatha Christie — English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
- 1894Jean Renoir — French film director and screenwriter (1894–1979)
- 1904Umberto II of Italy — lieutenant of the Kingdom of Italy and last king of Italy
- 1906Jacques Becker — French screenwriter and film director (1906-1960)
- 1907Fay Wray — actress (1907-2004)
- 1914Adolfo Bioy Casares — Argentine novelist (1914-1999)
- 1919Fausto Coppi — Italian cyclist
- 1922Jackie Cooper — American actor, director (1922-2011)
- 1926Jean-Pierre Serre — French mathematician
Deaths · 60
- 921(Julian date)Saint Ludmila of Bohemia — duchess of Bohemia
- 1140(Julian date)Adelaide of Hungary — Duchess consort of Bohemia, wife of Sobeslaus I
- 1146Alan of Penthièvre, 4rd Lord of the Honour of Richmond, 1st Earl of Richmond — Breton noble (1107-1146)
- 1231(Julian date)Louis I, Duke of Bavaria — Duke of Bavaria
- 1326(Julian date)Dmitry of Tver — Grand Prince of Vladimir
- 1500(Julian date)John Morton — English prelate who served as Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1504(Julian date)Elisabeth of Bavaria — Duchess of Bavaria-Landshut in her own right (1478-1504)
- 1510(Julian date)Catherine of Genoa — Italian author and nurse
- 1559Isabella Jagiellon — Queen Consort of Hungary
- 1596
- 1700André Le Nôtre — French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France (1613–1700)
- 1712Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin — British politician (1645-1712)
- 1794Abraham Clark — American politician (1726-1794)
- 1830William Huskisson — British statesman (1770-1830)
- 1841Alessandro Rolla — Italian viola and violin virtuoso, composer, conductor and teacher
- 1842Francisco Morazán — President of Federal Republic of Central America (1830-1839)
- 1842Pierre Baillot — French musician
- 1859Isambard Kingdom Brunel — British mechanical and civil engineer (1806-1859)
- 1864John Hanning Speke — British military officer and explorer (1827–1864)
- 1883Joseph Plateau — Belgian physicist (1801–1883)
- 1921Roman von Ungern-Sternberg — Austrian anti-communist general (1886-1921)
- 1926Rudolf Christoph Eucken — (1846-1926) German philosopher
- 1930Milton Sills — American stage and film actor (1882-1930)
- 1938Thomas Wolfe — American writer
- 1945Anton Webern — Austrian composer and conductor
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