September 19

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September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 103 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.
• 1356 - In the Battle of Poitiers, the English defeat the French.
• 1692 - Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.
• 1777 - First Battle of Saratoga/Battle of Freeman's Farm/Battle of Bemis Heights.
• 1778 - The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
• 1796 - George Washington's farewell address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Iuka - Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga.
• 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris begins, which will result on 28 January 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.
• 1893 - Women's suffrage: In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
• 1900 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid commit their first robbery together.
• 1934 - Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh III.
• 1942 - Holocaust in Brody, western Ukraine: About 2,500 Brody Jews are deported by German Gestapo to the extermination camp in Belzec.
• 1944 - Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union signed. (End of the Continuation War).
• 1945 - Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London.
• 1946 - The Council of Europe is founded following a speech given by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
• 1952 - The U.S. bars Charlie Chaplin from reentering the country after a trip to England.
• 1957 - First U.S. underground nuclear bomb test.
• 1957 - Dalida is the first artist to be awarded a gold record in France for 300 000 sales of "Bambino".
• 1959 - Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland.
• 1970 - The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, UK.
• 1972 - A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
• 1973 - King Carl XVI Gustaf accedes to the throne of Sweden.
• 1976 - A Turkish Boeing 727 hits a mountain in southern Turkey killing 155.
• 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 and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
• 1988 - Greg Louganis suffers a head injury while qualifying for the Seoul Olympics; goes on to win two Gold medals.
• 1989 - A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171.
• 1991 - Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by a couple of German tourists.
• 1995 - The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
• 1997 - Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.
• 2001 - Commencement of U.S. combat activities in Afghanistan.
• 2006 - The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. Constitution revoked; martial law declared.

Births

• 86 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (d. 161)
• 866 - Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (d. 912)
• 1377 - Duke Albert IV of Austria (d. 1404)
• 1551 - King Henry III of France (d. 1589)
• 1676 - Eberhard IV Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1733)
• 1714 - Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1786)
• 1737 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American signer of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Senator (d. 1832)
• 1749 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (d. 1822)
• 1754 - John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key (d. 1821)
• 1759 - William Kirby, English entomologist (d. 1850)
• 1778 - Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1868)
• 1796 - Hartley Coleridge, English poet (d. 1849)
• 1799 - René Caillé, French explorer (d. 1838)
• 1802 - Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer and Regent-President (d. 1894)
• 1803 - Maria Anna of Sardinia, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1884)
• 1811 - Orson Pratt, American religious leader (d. 1881)
• 1828 - Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1880)
• 1882 - Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (d. 1965)
• 1887 - Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (d. 1972)
• 1887 - Lynne Overman, American actor (d. 1943)
• 1888 - J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (d. 1971)
• 1889 - Sadie Delany, American physician and author (d. 1999)
• 1898 - Giuseppe Saragat, president of the Italian Republic (d. 1988)
• 1901 - Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-born film producer (d. 1991)
• 1905 - Leon Jaworski, American Watergate scandal special prosecutor (d. 1982)
• 1907 - Lewis Franklin Powell, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1998)
• 1908 - Mika Waltari, Finnish novelist (d. 1979)
• 1909 - Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile pioneer (d. 1998)
• 1910 - Margaret Lindsay, American actress (d. 1981)
• 1911 - Sir William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
• 1912 - Kurt Sanderling, German conductor
• 1913 - Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970)
• 1915 - Germán Valdés, Mexican actor, singer and comedian (d. 1973)
• 1919 - Mary Midgley, American philosopher
• 1919 - Alberic Schotte, Belgian cyclist (d. 2004)
• 1920 - Roger Angell, American sports writer
• 1921 - Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator & writer (d. 1997)
• 1922 - Damon Knight, American writer (d. 2002)
• 1922 - Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (d. 2000)
• 1926 - James Lipton, American actor, writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio
• 1926 - Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1926 - Duke Snider, baseball player
• 1927 - Rosemary Harris, English actress
• 1927 - William Hickey, American actor (d. 1997)
• 1928 - Adam West, American actor
• 1930 - Antonio Margheriti, Italian filmmaker
• 1931 - Jean-Claude Carrière, French screenwriter and actor
• 1931 - Brook Benton, American singer (d. 1988)
• 1933 - David McCallum, Scottish actor
• 1933 - Gilles Archambault, Québécois novelist
• 1934 - Brian Epstein, English musical group manager (the Beatles) (d. 1967)
• 1935 - Benjamin Hacker, American naval aviator (d. 2003)
• 1935 - Nick Massi, American singer (The Four Seasons) (d. 2000)
• 1936 - Al Oerter, American athlete (d. 2007)
• 1937 - Abner Haynes, American football player
• 1940 - Paul Williams, American composer
• 1940 - Ed Westfall, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1940 - Bill Medley, American singer and songwriter (The Righteous Brothers)
• 1941 - Mama Cass Elliot, American musician (d. 1974)
• 1941 - Umberto Bossi, Italian politician
• 1943 - Joe Morgan, baseball player
• 1944 - Jean Succar Kuri, Lebanese-born Mexican businessman
• 1944 - Anders Björck, Swedish politician
• 1945 - Randolph Mantooth, American actor
• 1945 - Freda Payne, American singer and actress
• 1946 - Brian Henton, English racing driver
• 1947 - Lol Creme, English musician (10cc, Godley & Creme)
• 1948 - Jeremy Irons, English actor
• 1949 - Barry Scheck, American lawyer, co-founder Innocence Project
• 1949 - Sally Potter, English film director and screenwriter
• 1949 - Twiggy, English model
• 1950 - Joan Lunden, American journalist and television host
• 1951 - Daniel Lanois, Canadian record producer
• 1952 - Nile Rodgers, American musician and composer
• 1952 - Gunnar Hökmark, Swedish politician
• 1952 - Bernard de Dryver, Belgian racing driver
• 1955 - Charlie Reliford, baseball umpire
• 1955 - Rex Smith, American singer and actor
• 1955 - Richard Burmer, American composer, sound designer and electronic musician (d. 2006)
• 1956 - Juan Manuel Fangio II, Argentine racing driver
• 1958 - Lita Ford, English-born singer (The Runaways)
• 1958 - Kevin Hooks, American actor and director
• 1958 - Azumah Nelson, Ghanaian boxer
• 1960 - Loïc Bigois, French engineer
• 1962 - Cheri Oteri, American actress and comedian
• 1963 - Jarvis Cocker, English singer, songwriter and musician (Pulp)
• 1963 - David Seaman, English footballer
• 1964 - Bob Papa, American sportscaster
• 1964 - Trisha Yearwood, American singer
• 1964 - Patrick Marber, British playwright
• 1965 - Alexandra Vandernoot, Belgian actress
• 1966 - Soledad O'Brien, American journalist
• 1966 - Eric Robert Rudolph, American criminal
• 1967 - Jim Abbott, baseball player
• 1967 - Alexander Karelin, Russian wrestler
• 1967 - Stéphane Crête, Quebec actor
• 1969 - Tapio Wilska, Finnish singer
• 1969 - Alkinoos Ioannidis, Greek-Cypriot singer and composer
• 1970 - Victor Williams, American actor
• 1970 - Takanori Nishikawa, Japanese pop/rock singer
• 1970 - Gilbert Dionne, National Hockey League player
• 1970 - Dan Bylsma, National Hockey League player
• 1973 - Nick Colgan, Irish footballer
• 1973 - Cristiano Da Matta, Brazilian racing car driver
• 1974 - Jimmy Fallon, American actor and comedian
• 1974 - Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model
• 1976 - Raja Bell, American basketball player
• 1976 - Alison Sweeney, American actress
• 1976 - Jim Ward, American musician (At the Drive-In, Sparta)
• 1976 - Jessica York, television personality
• 1977 - Ryan Dusick, American drummer (Maroon 5)
• 1978 - Michelle Alves, Brazilian supermodel
• 1978 - Nick Johnson, baseball player
• 1978 - Nigel Mitchell, Quizmania and Capital Disney presenter
• 1978 - Jorge López Montaña, Spanish footballer
• 1979 - Dannielle Brent, British actress
• 1979 - Noémie Lenoir, French supermodel and actress
• 1980 - Tegan and Sara, Canadian singer/songwriters
• 1981 - Damiano Cunego, Italian cyclist
• 1981 - Rick Dipietro, American ice hockey goaltender
• 1981 - Scott Baker, American baseball player
• 1982 - Nicole Voss, American model
• 1982 - Eleni Daniilidou, Greek tennis player
• 1982 - Jordan Parise, American ice hockey player
• 1983 - Joey Devine, American baseball player
• 1983 - Charlie Haeger, American baseball player
• 1983 - Matt Wiman, American mixed martial artist
• 1984 - Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor
• 1984 - Eamon Doyle, American pop singer
• 1986 - Peter Vack, American voice actor
• 1986 - Gerald Ciolek, German cyclist
• 1986 - Ken Gushi, Japanese racing driver
• 1987 - Danielle Panabaker, American actress
• 1990 - Patrick Breeding, American singer (B5)

Deaths

• 690 - Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 602)
• 1339 - Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (b. 1288)
• 1356 - Killed at the Battle of Poitiers:
  • Peter I (b. 1311)
  • Walter VI of Brienne, Constable of France (born 1304)
• 1668 - William Waller, English soldier
• 1692 - Giles Corey, American farmer killed in the Salem Witch Trials
• 1693 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (b. 1641)
• 1710 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644)
• 1843 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (b. 1792)
• 1868 - William Sprague, American minister and politician from Michigan (b. 1809)
• 1881 - James Garfield, 20th President of the United States (b. 1831)
• 1893 - Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician, a father of Canadian Confederation (b. 1817)
• 1905 - Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist (b. 1845)
• 1906 - Maria Georgina Grey (b.1816), British writer who promoted women’s education and founder the Girls' Day School Trust.
• 1924 - Alick Bannerman, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
• 1927 - Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
• 1935 - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1857)
• 1936 - Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (b. 1860)
• 1938 - Pauline Frederick, American actress (b. 1883)
• 1942 - Condé Nast, American publisher (b. 1873)
• 1944 - Guy Gibson, British aviator, awarded Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
• 1949 - Will Cuppy, American humorist (b. 1884)
• 1949 - George Shiels, Irish dramatist (b. 1886)
• 1949 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer (b. 1901)
• 1955 - John D. Dingell, U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. 1894)
• 1967 - Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian painter (b. 1884)
• 1967 - Monica Proietti, Canadian criminal (b. 1940)
• 1968 - Chester Carlson, American inventor (b. 1906)
• 1968 - Red Foley, American singer (b. 1910)
• 1969 - Rex Ingram, American actor (b. 1895)
• 1972 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (b. 1899)
• 1973 - Gram Parsons, American musician (b. 1946)
• 1978 - Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and historian (b. 1884)
• 1985 - Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b. 1923)
• 1987 - Einar Gerhardsen, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)

• 1990 - Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1910)
• 1995 - Orville Redenbacher, American botanist and businessman (b. 1907)
• 1997 - Rich Mullins, American singer (b. 1955)
• 2000 - Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (b. 1917)
• 2002 - Robert Guéï, ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1941)
• 2003 - Slim Dusty, Australian singer (b. 1927)
• 2004 - Eddie Adams, American photographer, won Pulitzer Prize (b. 1933)
• 2004 - Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian turned American international civil servant (b. 1919)
• 2004 - Skeeter Davis, American singer (b. 1931)
• 2004 - Ellis Marsalis, American businessman, musician, and activist
• 2006 - Elizabeth Allen, American actress (b. 1929)
• 2006 - Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b. 1950)
• 2006 - Chuck Rio, American singer and saxophonist (The Champs) (b. 1929)

Holidays and observances

• In ancient Greece, the sixth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the procession to Eleusis began at Kerameikos in Athens.
• RC Saints - Saint Januarius.
• Also see September 19.
• Church of England - Theodore of Tarsus.
• Chile - Armed Forces Day.
• Saint Kitts and Nevis - Independence Day (from Great Britain, 1983).
• International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
• Goeric of Metz - French bishop and saint

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada

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106 Familypedia people were born on September 19

	Father	Mother	Age mother at birth
Harris Abbot (1812-1884)	Ezra Abbot (1772-1847)	Rebekah Hale (1781-1860)
William West Anderson (1928-2017)	Otto West Anderson (1903-1984)	Audrey Volenne Speer (1906-1969)
William Backhouse Astor (1792-1875)	John Jacob Astor (1763-1848)	Sarah Cox Todd (1761-1834)
Alexandra Barragan (1931-1999)	Miguel Barragan (1890-1959)	Natalia Chávez (1895-1940)
William Henry Bennett (1873-1940)	William Henry Bennett (1850-1915)	Emily Roberts (1837-1933)
Sarah Bernier (1948)	Jean-Claude Bernier (1917-1998)	Lilly Hendrikx (1919-1999)
Emily Blanch (1858-1938)	James Blanch (1811-1895)	Mary Ann Balcombe (1815-1904)
Aubery Bradshaw Boon (1895-1930)	Joseph William Boon (1854-1909)	Elizabeth Holyland Cramp (1851-1941)
Umberto Bossi (1941)
Francis James Cecil Bowes-Lyon (1917-1977)	Geoffrey Francis Bowes-Lyon (1886-1951)	Edith Katherine Selby-Bigge (1889-1971)
Anne Brown (1673-1730)	John Brown (1650-1709)	Anna Mason (1650-1709)
Alfred Peter Calef (1921-2005)	Alfred Warren Calef (1900-1948)	Emma Ann Kopp (1903-1994)
Henry III of Angoulême (1551-1589)	Henri II of Angoulême (1519-1559)	Caterina de' Medici (1519-1589)
Kathryn Ann Carrad (1947-2013)	Anthony Landon Carrad (1908-1989)	Sara Kathryn (Sally) Harris (1906-1987)
Mary Howell Carty (1869-1948)	William Richard Carty (1843-1912)	Mary Jane Pile (1848-1932)
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129 Familypedia people died on September 19

	Father	Mother	Age at death
Thomas Jefferson Adair (1814-1895)	Thomas Adair (1774-1858)	Rebecca Brown (1776-1846)
Elroy Sigmund (Roy) Anderson (1897-1986)	John Oscar Anderson (1868-1950)	Lena Olson (1868-1973)
Adam Arnold (1863-1941)	Adam Arnold (1831-1895)	Mary Music (c1835-1879)
John Avery (1845-1915)	James Avery (c1814-1875)	Catherine Heaslip (c1825-1904)	70
Mary Barker (1649-1723)	James Barker (1617-1702)	Barbara Dungan (1630-1677)
Katherine Beaugendre (1896-1948)
John Bent (1636-1717)	John Bent (1596-1672)	Martha Blanchard (1598-1676)
Lijsbeth Bleeker (1770-1836)	Jan Bleeker (1740-1798)	Marijtje Schoenmaker (1746-1813)
William Botting (1824-1872)	Thomas Botting (1795)	Susanna (1797)
William Bowden (1853-1895)	Frank Bowden (1828-1869)	Sarah Wattus (1830-1883)	42
John Patrick Bowes-Lyon (1910-1941)	Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 15th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1884-1949)	Dorothy Beatrix Godolphin Osborne (1888-1946)
William Henry Branch (1820-1889)	Elisha Branch (1785-1857)	Mary Herrick (1793-1823)
Elizabeth Broad (1828-1907)	James Broad (bef1828)	Epsie (bef1828)
George Bush (1796-1859)	John Bush (1761-1819)	Abigail Marvin
John Bush (1761-1819)	Timothy Bush (1728-1815)	Deborah House (1743-c1819)
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87 Familypedia people were first married on September 19

	Father	Mother	Joined with
Abigail Adgate (1661-1711)	Thomas Adgate (c1620-1707)	Mary Marvin (c1628-1713)	Daniel Tracy (1652-1728)
Elizabeth Diantha Allred (1852-1942)	James Tillmon Sanford Allred (1825-1905)	Elizabeth Bridget Manwaring (1821-1866)	Samuel Allred (1851-1932)
Samuel Allred (1851-1932)	Isaac Allred (1813-1859)	Mary Henderson (1823-1910)	Elizabeth Diantha Allred (1852-1942)+ Isabella Blain (1860-1934)
Mary Axtell (1639-1704)	Thomas Axtell (1619-1645)	Mary Rice (1619-1680)	John Goodenow (1635-1721)
John Barrett (1635-1711)	Humphrey Barrett (1592-1662)	Mary Hawes (1590-1663)	Mary Pond (1639-1711)
Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst (1714-1794)	Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst (1684-1775)	Catherine Apsley (c1688-1768)	Anne James (-1758)+Tryphena Scawen (1730-1807)
Lyman Beecher (1775-1863)	David Beecher (1738-1805)	Esther Hawley Lyman (1742-1775)	Roxanna Foote (1775-1818)+Harriet Porter (1790-1835)
Emily Blanch (1858-1938)	James Blanch (1811-1895)	Mary Ann Balcombe (1815-1904)	William Ernest Philp (1855-1917)
Caroline Marie Bonaparte (1980-)	Charles Napoléon Bonaparte (1950-)	Beatrice di Borbone delle Due Sicilie (1950-c2015)	Eric Quérénet-Onfroy de Bréville (1971-)
Hannah Bonham (1659-1689)	Nicholas Bonham (1630-1684)	Hannah Fuller (c1636-1683)	Daniel Lippington (1630-1694)
John Bridger (1582-1649)	John Bridger (c1550-)	Clemens Amere (c1550-)	Marie Walsingham (1586-)
Gerrit Brinkman (c1880-1917)	Harmen Brinkman (1836-1883)	Derkje Kluitenberg (1844-1905)	Maria Berendina Bosman (c1884-)
Wilhelmina Brown (1902-1945)	William Blair Brown (1872-1944)	Margaret Logan (1875-1963)	Sydney Buchanan (1900-)
John Butler (1808-1854)	James Butler (1777-1838)	Grace Louisa Staples	Frances Jane Paget
Jean V de Bretagne (1389-1442)	Jean IV de Bretagne (1339-1399)	Joanna of Navarre (1370-1437)	Jeanne de Valois (1391-1433)
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