On this day: 21 September
Events, births and deaths on 21 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
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10 years ago2016
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100 years ago1926
- Births · Donald Arthur Glaser
- Births · Noor Jehan
- Deaths · Léon Charles Thévenin
1000 years ago1026
- Deaths · Otto-William, Count of Burgundy
Events · 23
- 1217(Julian date)Battle of St. Matthew's Day — 1217 battle
- 1745Battle of Prestonpans — battle in Scotland during the Jacobite rising of 1745
- 1776Great Fire of New York — Major fire in New York
- 1792French First Republic — republic governing France, 1792–1804
- 1792proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy — proclamation announcing abolition of French monarchy on 21 September 1792
- 1860Battle of Palikao — 1860 battle during the Second Opium War
- 1921Oppau explosion — 1921 industrial disaster in the Weimar Republic
- 1934Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd. — Indian sugar company
- 1941solar eclipse of September 21, 1941 — 20th-century total solar eclipse
- 1949Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference — political advisory body in the People's Republic of China
- 1964Malta — country in Southern Europe situated on an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea
- 1969Mexicana de Aviación Flight 801 — 1969 aviation accident
- 1972Martial law under Ferdinand Marcos — Authoritarian decree that imposed repression in the Philippines
- 1972Proclamation No. 1081 — Document that proclaimed martial law in the Philippines that lasted from 1972 to 1981
- 1976Letelier assassination — 21 September 1976 car bombing in Washington, D.C
- 1977Malév Flight 203 — aviation accident
- 1981Belize — sovereign state in Central America
- 1991Armenian independence referendum, 1991 — referendum in Armenia, Soviet Union
- 1995MIAT Mongolian Airlines Flight 557 — 1995 plane crash in Mongolia
- 1999Naruto — Japanese manga series
- 19991999 Jiji earthquake — earthquake in Chi-chi, Nantou, Taiwan
- 2013Westgate shopping mall shooting — Terrorist attack at a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya on 21 September 2013
- 20222022 Russian mobilization — partial mobilization of military reservists declared by Russia on September 21, 2022 for the invasion of Ukraine
Births · 60
- 1411Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York — Duke of York (1411-1461)
- 1415(Julian date)Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor — Holy Roman Emperor and Austrian archduke and duke (1452–1493)
- 1428(Julian date)Jingtai Emperor — emperor of the Ming Dynasty
- 1452(Julian date)Girolamo Savonarola — Italian Dominican friar and preacher (1452-1498)
- 1640Philippe I, Duke of Orléans — French prince (1640-1701)
- 1840Murad V — 33th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876)
- 1842Abdul Hamid II — 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876–1909)
- 1853Heike Kamerlingh Onnes — Dutch physicist, Nobel prize winner (1853-1926)
- 1859Francesc Macià i Llussà — President of Generalitat de Catalunya (1931-33)
- 1866H. G. Wells — English writer (1866–1946)
- 1866Charles Nicolle — French microbiologist (1866–1936)
- 1867Henry L. Stimson — United States Secretary of War (1867-1950)
- 1874Gustav Holst — British composer (1874–1934)
- 1895(Julian date)Sergei Yesenin — Russian poet (1895–1925)
- 1902Luis Cernuda — Spanish poet (1902–1963)
- 1909Kwame Nkrumah — Ghanaian politician (1909–1972)
- 1912Chuck Jones — American animator and filmmaker (1912–2002)
- 1916Françoise Giroud — French writer and politician (1916–2003)
- 1919Mario Bunge — Argentine-Canadian philosopher (1919-2020)
- 1926Donald Arthur Glaser — American physicist and neurobiologist (1926–2013)
- 1929Sándor Kocsis — Hungarian footballer
- 1931Larry Hagman — American actor (1931–2012)
- 1931Syukuro Manabe — Japanese-American meteorologist and climatologist (1931–)
- 1934Leonard Cohen — Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
- 1936Yury Luzhkov — Russian politician (1936–2019)
Deaths · 60
- 19 BCE(Julian date)Virgil — Roman poet (1st century BC)
- 454Aëtius — Roman general and statesman ( c. 390 – 454)
- 1026(Julian date)Otto-William, Count of Burgundy — Count of Burgundy (c. 958 – 1026)
- 1217(Julian date)Lembitu — Estonian noble (died 1217)
- 1327(Julian date)Edward II of England — King of England from 1307 to 1327
- 1558(Julian date)Charles V — Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 to 1556 (1500–1558)
- 1576(Julian date)Gerolamo Cardano — Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer (1501-1576)
- 1586Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle — Burgundian advisor to Margaret of Parma, later cardinal, and minister of the Spanish Habsburgs (1517-1586)
- 1629Jan Pieterszoon Coen — Dutch colonial governor
- 1637William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel — Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
- 1643Hong Taiji — 1st emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1592-1643)
- 1709Ivan Mazepa — Hetman of Ukrainian Cossacks from 1687 to 1708
- 1743Jai Singh II — Maharaja of Jaipur
- 1796François Séverin Marceau — French general (1769-1796)
- 1798George Read — American politician (1733-1798)
- 1812Emanuel Schikaneder — German actor and singer
- 1832Walter Scott — Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
- 1860Arthur Schopenhauer — German philosopher (1788-1860)
- 1874Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Léonée Elie de Beaumont — French geologist
- 1880Manuel Montt — Chilean politician (1809–1880)
- 1904Chief Joseph — 19th-century Native American leader
- 1926Léon Charles Thévenin — French telegraph engineer (1857–1926)
- 1933Kenji Miyazawa — Japanese poet and author of children's literature (1896–1933)
- 1938Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić — Croatian writer (1874–1938)
- 1939Armand Călinescu — Romanian politician (1893-1939)
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