On this day: 20 September
Events, births and deaths on 20 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Curtis Hanson
- Deaths · Peter Leo Gerety
100 years ago1926
- Births · Libero Liberati
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1066 · Events · Battle of Fulford
- 1085 · Deaths · Hermann II, Count Palatine of Lotharingia
Events · 23
- 1066(Julian date)Battle of Fulford — battle fought on 20 September 1066 near York in England
- 1187(Julian date)Conquest of Jerusalem — 1187 conquest that marks the end of Christian dominion over the Greater Jerusalem
- 1498(Julian date)1498 Meiō earthquake — event near America
- 1643(Julian date)First Battle of Newbury — battle near Newbury, Berkshire in September 1643
- 1703First Battle of Höchstädt — 1703 battle
- 1792Battle of Valmy — 1792 battle during the War of the First Coalition
- 1835Farroupilha Revolution — 1835-1845 republicanism-revolt in southern Brazil
- 1848American Association for the Advancement of Science — international non-profit organization promoting science
- 1854Battle of Alma — 1854 first battle of the Crimean War
- 1863Battle of Chickamauga — 1863 battle of the American Civil War
- 1870Capture of Rome — Final event of Italian unification (1870)
- 1944Battle of San Marino — 1944 World War II battle
- 1950Emblem of China — National emblem of the People's Republic of China
- 1977Petrozavodsk phenomenon — series of celestial events of a disputed nature that occurred on September 20, 1977
- 1984The Cosby Show — American sitcom
- 19841984 US embassy bombing in Beirut — 1984 embassy attacks
- 1988Bruges speech — 1988 speech by Margaret Thatcher
- 1989USAir Flight 5050 — 1989 aviation accident in New York City
- 1994Tian Mingjian incident — 1994 mass murder in Beijing
- 2008Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing — Wikinews article
- 2018Sinking of the MV Nyerere — sinking of the Tanzanian ferry
- 2019September 2019 climate strikes — series of international climate strikes in September 2019
- 20212021 Canadian federal election — Canadian general election
Births · 60
- 1486(Julian date)Arthur, Prince of Wales — Prince of Wales, Earl of Chester and Duke of Cornwall
- 1614Martino Martini — Italian Jesuit missionary, cartographer and historian (1614-1661)
- 1746Maurice Benyovszky — Hungarian traveller and writer
- 1758Jean-Jacques Dessalines — Leader of Haitian Revolution and first ruler of independent Haiti (1758-1806)
- 1830Yoshida Shōin — Japanese politician (1830-1859)
- 1833Ernesto Teodoro Moneta — Italian journalist, revolutionary soldier and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1833–1918)
- 1842James Dewar — Scottish chemist and physicist (1842–1923)
- 1853Chulalongkorn — King of Siam (1853-1910)
- 1872Maurice Gamelin — French military officer (1872–1958)
- 1875Matthias Erzberger — German politician (1875–1921)
- 1878Upton Sinclair — American writer (1878–1968)
- 1899Leo Strauss — History of Political Philosophy scholar (1899-1973)
- 1910Dorothy Vaughan — African-American mathematician
- 1914Kenneth More — British film and stage actor (1914–1982)
- 1917Fernando Rey — Spanish actor (1917–1994)
- 1917Obdulio Varela — Uruguayan footballer (1917–1996)
- 1917Red Auerbach — American basketball coach (1917–2006)
- 1925Ananda Mahidol — eighth monarch of Siam from the Chakri dynasty as Rama VIII
- 1927Rachel Roberts — British actress (1927-1980)
- 1929Anne Meara — American comedian and actress (1929–2015)
- 1933Dennis Viollet — English footballer and manager (1933–1999)
- 1934Sophia Loren — Italian actress (born 1934)
- 1937Monica Zetterlund — Swedish singer and actress (1937-2005)
- 1940Tarō Asō — Prime Minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009
- 1940Burhanuddin Rabbani — Afghanistan politician, former President of Afghanistan (1992-2001)
Deaths · 60
- 1246(Julian date)Mychailo of Chernigiv — Grand Prince of Kyiv
- 1384(Julian date)Louis I of Anjou — Duke of Anjou (lived 1339-1384)
- 1440(Julian date)Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg — 1371 – 1440, Burgrave of Nuremberg as Frederick VI and Elector of Brandenburg as Frederick I
- 1460(Julian date)Gilles Binchois — Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer (c. 1400–1460)
- 1492(Julian date)Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick — English countess
- 1501(Julian date)Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset — 1/2 Brother of Edward V
- 1533(Julian date)Veit Stoss — German sculptor (1447–1533)
- 1586Anthony Babington — English nobleman convicted of plotting the assassination of Elizabeth I of England (1561-1586)
- 1625Heinrich Meibom — German poet
- 1627Jan Gruter — Flemish-born philologist, scholar, and librarian (1560-1627)
- 1639Johannes Meursius — Dutch philologist and historian
- 1793Fletcher Christian — HMS Bounty mutineer (1764-1793)
- 1803Robert Emmet — Irish nationalist and Republican, orator and rebel leader (1780-1803)
- 1839Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet — Royal Navy admiral (1769-1839)
- 1840José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia — Paraguayan lawyer, politician and dictator (1766-1840)
- 1845Matthias Hedenstrom — Russian explorer of Northern Siberia of Swedish origin (1780-1845)
- 1863Jacob Grimm — German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785–1863)
- 1884Leopold Fitzinger — Austrian zoologist (1802-1884)
- 1898Theodor Fontane — German novelist and poet (1819–1898)
- 1908Pablo de Sarasate — Spanish violinist and composer (1844–1908)
- 1927George Nichols — American actor and film director (1864-1927)
- 1930Gombojab Tsybikov — Russian explorer of Tibet (1873-1930)
- 1932Francisco S. Carvajal — President of Mexico (1870-1932)
- 1933Annie Besant — British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator (1847-1933)
- 1942Kārlis Ulmanis — Prime Minister of Latvia and agronomist (1877-1942)
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