September 18

September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 104 days remaining until the end of the year.

[edit] Events

• 14 – Tiberius is confirmed as Roman Emperor by the Roman Senate following the natural death of Augustus
• 96 – Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
• 324 – Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
• 1180 – Philip Augustus becomes king of France.
• 1454 – In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War.
• 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth, and final, voyage.
• 1635 – Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II of Austria declares war on France.
• 1679 – New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• 1714 – George I arrives in Great Britain for the first time since becoming king on August 1st.
• 1739 – The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.
• 1759 – The British capture Quebec City.
• 1793 – The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
• 1809 – The Royal Opera House in London opens.
• 1810 – First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only in the absence of the king, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.
• 1812 – The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
• 1837 – Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
• 1838 – The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
• 1850 – The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
• 1851 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
• 1870 – Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.
• 1872 – King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
• 1873 – Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures.
• 1879 – The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
• 1882 – The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
• 1885 – Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination.
• 1895 – Booker T. Washington delivers the "Atlanta Compromise" address.
• 1895 – Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment.
• 1898 – Fashoda Incident – Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan.
• 1906 – A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
• 1910 – In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage.
• 1911 – Russian Premier Peter Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
• 1914 – The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
• 1914 – World War I: South African troops land in German South West Africa.
• 1919 – The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
• 1919 – Fritz Pollard becomes the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
• 1922 – Hungary is admitted to League of Nations.
• 1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
• 1928 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
• 1931 – The Mukden Incident gives Japan the pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
• 1934 – The USSR is admitted to League of Nations.
• 1939 – World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
• 1939 – The Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting.
• 1943 – World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibσr.
• 1943 – World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
• 1944 – World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Junyō Maru, 5,600 killed.
• 1945 – General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
• 1947 – The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States armed forces.
• 1947 – The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency were established in the United States under the National Security Act.
• 1948 – Operation Polo is terminated after Indian Army accepts the surrender of Nizam's Army.
• 1948 – Communist Madiun uprising in Dutch Indies.
• 1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the US Senate without completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
• 1959 – Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
• 1960 – Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
• 1961 – U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjφld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 1962 – Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
• 1964 – Constantine II of Greece marries Danish princess Anne-Marie.
• 1964 – North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
• 1973 – The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
• 1974 – Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
• 1975 – Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
• 1977 – Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
• 1980 – Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (including 1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
• 1981 – Assemblιe Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
• 1982 – Christian militia begin killing six-hundred Palestinians in Lebanon.
• 1984 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
• 1988 – End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students) are killed by the Tatmadaw.
• 1990 – Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
• 1991 – Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities.
• 1992 – An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing 9 replacement workers.
• 1997 – United States media magnate Ted Turner donates USD 1 billion to the United Nations.
• 1998 – ICANN is formed.
• 2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
• 2007 – Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
• 2007 – Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the Saffron Revolution.
• 2009 – The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.

[edit] Births

• 53 – Trajan, Roman Emperor (d. 117)
• 1344 – Marie Valois, Princess of France (d. 1404)
• 1434 – Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1467)
• 1587 – Francesca Caccini, Italian composer (d. c. 1640)
• 1643 – Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (d. 1715)
• 1676 – Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Wόrttemberg (d. 1733)
• 1684 – Johann Gottfried Walther, German composer (d. 1748)
• 1709 – Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (d. 1784)
• 1711 – Ignaz Holzbauer, Austrian composer (d. 1783)
• 1718 – Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (d. 1783)
• 1733 – George Read, American Declaration of Independence signatory (d. 1798)
• 1750 – Tomas de Iriarte, Spanish writer (d. 1791)
• 1752 – Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (d. 1833)
• 1765 – Pope Gregory XVI (d. 1846)
• 1779 – Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1845)
• 1786 – Christian VIII of Denmark, King of Denmark (d. 1848)
• 1786 – Justinus Kerner, German poet (d. 1862)
• 1812 – Herschel Vespasian Johnson, American politician (d. 1880)
• 1819 – Lιon Foucault, French physicist (d. 1868)
• 1837 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, Portuguese Archbishop of Goa (d. 1880)
• 1838 – Anton Mauve, Dutch artist (d. 1888)
• 1846 – Richard With, Norwegian businessman, politician and ship captain (d. 1930)
• 1848 – Francis Grierson, composer and pianist (d. 1927)
• 1852 – Clement Lindley Wragge, British-born meteorologist (d. 1922)
• 1857 – John Hessin Clarke, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1945)
• 1858 – Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1955)
• 1859 – John L. Bates, 41st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946)
• 1859 – Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (d. 1940)
• 1860 – Alberto Franchetti, Italian opera composer (d. 1942)
• 1863 – Hermann Kutter, Swiss theologian (d. 1931)
• 1870 – Clark Wissler, American anthropologist (d. 1947)
• 1872 – Carl Friedberg, German pianist (d. 1955)
• 1874 – Georges Lumpp, French rower (d. 1934)
• 1875 – Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (d. 1945)
• 1876 – James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1953)
• 1878 – James O. Richardson, American admiral (d. 1974)
• 1883 – Lord Berners (Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson), British composer (d. 1950)
• 1885 – Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Azerbaijani composer, conductor, publicist, playwright (d. 1948)
• 1888 – Grey Owl, British-born First Nations conservationist (d. 1938)
• 1888 – Toni Wolff, Swiss student and lover of Carl Jung (d. 1953)
• 1889 – Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (d. 1970)
• 1889 – Sir Leslie Morshead, Australian soldier (d. 1959)
• 1893 – Arthur Benjamin, Australian composer (d. 1960)
• 1893 – William March, American writer (d. 1954)
• 1894 – Fay Compton, English actress (d. 1978)
• 1895 – John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1979)
• 1895 – Walter Koch. German astrologer (d. 1970)
• 1895 – Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2009)
• 1897 – Pablo Sorozαbal, Basque-Spanish composer (d. 1988)
• 1900 – Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius (d. 1985)
• 1900 – Willis Laurence James, violinist, music teacher, and folklorist (d. 1966)
• 1901 – Harold Clurman, American film producer (d. 1980)
• 1904 – Bun Cook, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1988)
• 1904 – David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, British politician and peer (d. 1999)
• 1905 – Eddie Anderson, American actor (d. 1977)
• 1905 – Agnes de Mille, American choreographer (d. 1993)
• 1905 – Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (d. 1990)
• 1906 – Julio Cardinal Rosales, Filipino cardinal (d. 1983)
• 1907 – Leon Askin, Austrian actor (d. 2005)
• 1907 – Edwin McMillan, American physical scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
• 1908 – Viktor Hambardzumyan, Soviet-Armenian scientist (d. 1996)
• 1910 – Joseph Tal, Israeli composer (d. 2008)
• 1911 – Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
• 1911 – Brinsley Le Poer Trench, British ufologist (d. 1995)
• 1912 – Marνa De la Cruz, Chilean activist and journalist (d. 1995)
• 1912 – Kurt Lotz, German CEO of Volkswagen (d. 2005)
• 1914 – Jack Cardiff, British film director (d. 2009)
• 1916 – Frank Bell, British educator (d. 1989)
• 1916 – Rossano Brazzi, Italian singer and actor (d. 1994)
• 1916 – John Jacob Rhodes, Jr., American politician and lawyer (d. 2003)
• 1917 – June Foray, American voice actress
• 1917 – Francis Parker Yockey, American author (d. 1960)
• 1918 – John Berger, English politician
• 1919 – Tommy Hunter, American fiddler (d. 1993)
• 1920 – Jack Warden, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Grayson Hall, American actress (d. 1985)
• 1922 – Ray Steadman-Allen, English composer
• 1923 – Queen Anne of Romania
• 1923 – Peter Smithson, English architect (d. 2003)
• 1923 – Bertha Wilson, Canadian jurist (d. 2007)
• 1924 – J. D. Tippit, American police officer shot by Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1963)
• 1925 – Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (d. 1994)
• 1926 – Bud Greenspan, American film producer (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Bob Toski, American golfer
• 1926 – Joe Kubert, American comic book artist (d. 2012)
• 1927 – Phyllis Kirk, American actress (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Teddi King, American jazz and pop vocalist (d. 1977)
• 1929 – Nancy Littlefield, American film producer (d. 2007)
• 1929 – Bert Worner, Australian footballer (d. 2012)
• 1932 – Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2002)
• 1933 – Robert Foster Bennett, American senator (Utah)
• 1933 – Robert Blake, American actor
• 1933 – Scotty Bowman, Canadian ice hockey coach
• 1933 – Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov, Russian bass-baritone
• 1933 – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer and composer
• 1935 – John Spencer, English snooker player (d. 2006)
• 1936 – Big Tom, Irish country singer
• 1937 – Ralph Backstrom, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1939 – Frankie Avalon, American musician
• 1939 – Gerry Harvey, Australian businessman
• 1939 – Jorge Sampaio, President of Portugal
• 1939 – Fred Willard, American comedian
• 1942 – Gabriella Ferri, Italian singer
• 1942 – Alex Stepney, English football goalkeeper
• 1944 – Michael Franks, American musician
• 1944 – Rocνo Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
• 1944 – Satan's Angel, American exotic dancer
• 1944 – Charles L. Veach, American astronaut (d. 1995)
• 1945 – P.F. Sloan, American pop-rock singer and songwriter
• 1946 – Benjamin Brea, Venezuelan musician and teacher
• 1946 – Nicholas Clay, English actor (d. 2000)
• 1946 – Kelvin Coe, Australian ballet dancer (d. 1992)
• 1946 – Billy Drago, American actor
• 1946 – Otis Sistrunk, American football player
• 1947 – Russ Abbot, English comedian, actor, and singer
• 1947 – Drew Gilpin Faust, American historian
• 1947 – Giancarlo Minardi, Italian motor racing team boss
• 1948 – Lynn Abbey, American computer programmer and author
• 1948 – Rodger Beckman, American baseball player
• 1948 – Ken Brett, American baseball player (d. 2003)
• 1948 – Christopher Skase, Australian fugitive businessman (d. 2001)
• 1949 – Kerry Livgren, American singer (Kansas, AD, Proto-Kaw)
• 1949 – Jim McCrery, American politician
• 1949 – Mo Mowlam, British politician (d. 2005)
• 1949 – Peter Shilton, English footballer
• 1950 – Shabana Azmi, Indian actress
• 1950 – Chris Heister, Swedish politician
• 1950 – Darryl Sittler, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1950 – Anna Deavere Smith, American actress and playwright
• 1951 – Benjamin Carson, American neurosurgeon
• 1951 – Tony Scott, American baseball player
• 1951 – Darryl Stingley, American football player (d. 2007)
• 1951 – Marc Surer, Swiss motor racing driver
• 1952 – Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos, Greek politician
• 1952 – Rick Pitino, American basketball coach
• 1952 – Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (d. 2002)
• 1953 – Betsy Boze nιe: Vogel, American academic
• 1953 – John McGlinn, American conductor (d. 2009)
• 1953 – Carl Jackson, American country and bluegrass musician
• 1954 – Murtaza Bhutto, Pakistani politician (d. 1996)
• 1954 – Takao Doi, Japanese astronaut
• 1954 – Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (d. 2007)
• 1954 – Steven Pinker, Canadian-American scientist
• 1954 – Tommy Tuberville, American football coach
• 1955 – Keith Morris, American singer and songwriter
• 1955 – Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor (d. 2006)
• 1956 – Chris Hedges, American journalist and author
• 1956 – Tim McInnerny, English actor
• 1956 – Peter Šťastnύ, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1957 – Emily Remler, American Jazz Guitarist (d. 1990)
• 1958 – John Aldridge, Irish footballer
• 1958 – Don Geronimo, American radio personality
• 1958 – Linda Lusardi, English actress and model
• 1958 – Joan Walsh, American writer
• 1959 – Ian Arkwright, English footballer
• 1959 – Mark Romanek, American filmmaker
• 1959 – Ryne Sandberg, American baseball player
• 1960 – Stephen Flaherty, American composer
• 1960 – Karim Rashid, Egyptian/English industrial designer
• 1961 – James Gandolfini, American actor
• 1961 – Mark Olson (musician), American musician, singer & songwriter
• 1962 – Joanne Catherall, English singer
• 1962 – John Fashanu, English footballer
• 1962 – John Mann (musician), Canadian musician and actor
• 1962 – Aden Ridgeway, Australian indigenous politician
• 1962 – Boris Said, American race car driver
• 1963 – Jim Pocklington, British racing driver
• 1963 – John Powell, British composer
• 1964 – Jens Henschel, German footballer
• 1964 – Marco Masini, Italian singer-songwriter
• 1964 – Holly Robinson Peete, American actress
• 1966 – Tom Chorske, American ice hockey player
• 1967 – Ricky Bell, American singer (New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe)
• 1967 – Tara FitzGerald, English actress
• 1968 – Toni Kukoč, Croatian basketball player
• 1969 – Cappadonna, American rapper
• 1970 – Mike Compton, American football player
• 1970 – Dan Eldon, British photojournalist (d. 1993)
• 1970 – Darren Gough, English cricketer
• 1970 – Aisha Tyler, American actress and comedian
• 1971 – Lance Armstrong, American cyclist
• 1971 – Anna Netrebko, Russian opera singer
• 1971 – Jada Pinkett Smith, American model and actress
• 1971 – Michael Patrick Walker, American composer and lyricist
• 1972 – Brigitte Becue, Belgian swimmer
• 1972 – Adam Cohen (musician), Canadian musician, singer-songwriter
• 1972 – David Jefferies, British motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
• 1973 – Paul Brousseau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1973 – James Marsden, American actor
• 1973 – Ami Onuki, Japanese singer (Puffy AmiYumi)
• 1973 – Mark Shuttleworth, South African entrepreneur
• 1974 – Sol Campbell, English footballer
• 1974 – Andrew Hansen, Australian comedian and musician
• 1974 – Damon Jones, American football player
• 1974 – Ticha Penicheiro, Portuguese basketball player
• 1974 – Travis Schuldt, American actor
• 1974 – Xzibit, American rapper
• 1975 – Kanstantsin Lukashyk, Belarusian pistol shooter
• 1975 – Jason Sudeikis, American actor and comedian
• 1975 – Guillermo Vargas, Costa Rican artist
• 1976 – Kikki Daire, American pornographic actress
• 1976 – Gabriel Gervais, Canadian football player
• 1976 – Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer
• 1977 – Li Tie, Chinese footballer
• 1977 – Kieran West, British oarsman
• 1978 – Pilar Lσpez de Ayala, Spanish actress
• 1978 – Augustine Simo, Cameroonian footballer
• 1979 – Daniel Aranzubia, Spanish footballer
• 1979 – Alison Lohman, American actress
• 1979 – Vinay Rai, Indian actor
• 1979 – Simon Trpčeski, Macedonian classical pianist
• 1980 – Jonathan Biss, American classical pianist
• 1980 – Mickey Higham, English rugby league player
• 1980 – Avi Strool, Israeli footballer
• 1980 – Chris Tarrant, Australian rules footballer
• 1981 – Jennifer Tisdale, American actress and model
• 1982 – Alessandro Cibocchi, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Kevin Doyle, Irish footballer
• 1984 – Jack Carpenter, American actor
• 1984 – Anthony Gonzalez, American football player
• 1986 – Keeley Hazell, British model
• 1988 – Annette Obrestad, Norwegian poker player
• 1989 – Serge Ibaka, Professional basketball player
• 1990 – Lewis Holtby, German footballer
• 1993 – Patrick Schwarzenegger, American actor

[edit] Deaths

• 96 – Domitian, Roman Emperor (b. 51)
• 411 – Constantine III, Roman usurper
• 887 – Pietro I Candiano, Doge of Venice (killed in battle)
• 1180 – King Louis VII of France (b. 1120)
• 1598 – Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1536)
• 1630 – Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (b. 1552)
• 1663 – St Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (b. 1603)
• 1675 – Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1604)
• 1721 – Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (b. 1664)
• 1722 – Andrι Dacier, French classical scholar (b. 1651)
• 1783 – Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (b. 1707)
• 1783 – Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (b. 1718)
• 1792 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader (b. 1704)
• 1806 – Patrick Cotter O'Brien, Irish giant, circus star (b. 1760)
• 1827 – Robert Pollok, Scottish poet (b. 1789)
• 1830 – William Hazlitt, English essayist (b. 1778)
• 1857 – Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer (b. 1785)
• 1860 – Joseph Locke, English railway builder and civil engineer (b. 1805)
• 1872 – King Charles XV / Carl IV of Sweden and Norway (b. 1826)
• 1890 – Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright (b. c.1820)
• 1891 – William Ferrel, American mathematician (b. 1817)
• 1896 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (b. 1819)
• 1905 – George MacDonald, Scottish writer and minister (b. 1824)
• 1909 – Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian historian, archaeologist, epigrapher and folkorist (b. 1850)
• 1911 – Pyotr Stolypin, Russian politician (b. 1862)
• 1924 – Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (b. 1846)
• 1931 – Geli Raubal, Adolf Hitler's niece (b. 1908)
• 1939 – Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)
• 1941 – Fred Karno, British music hall impresario (b. 1866)
• 1944 – Robert G. Cole American Paratrooper of the 101st, 502nd division (b. 1915)
• 1949 – Frank Morgan, American actor (b. 1890)
• 1951 – Gelett Burgess, American literary humorist (b. 1866)
• 1952 – Frances Alda, New Zealand-Australian operatic soprano (b. 1879)
• 1953 – Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (b. 1927)
• 1954 – Johannes Drost, Dutch backstroke swimmer (b. 1880)
• 1956 – Adιlard Godbout, premier of Quebec (b. 1892)
• 1958 – Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian artist, illustrator (b. 1873)
• 1959 – Benjamin Pιret, French surrealist author (b. 1899)
• 1961 – Dag Hammarskjφld, Swedish United Nations Secretary-General and distinguished economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1905)
• 1962 – Therese Neumann, German mystic, stigmatic (b. 1898)
• 1964 – Clive Bell, English art critic (b. 1881)
• 1964 – Sean O'Casey, Irish writer (b. 1880)
• 1967 – John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1968 – Franchot Tone, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1970 – Jimi Hendrix, American musician (b. 1942)
• 1977 – Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)
• 1980 – Katherine Anne Porter, American novelist (b. 1890)
• 1986 – Pat Phoenix, English actress (b. 1923)
• 1987 – Amιrico Tomαs, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (b. 1894)
• 1995 – Oleg Tverdokhleb, Ukrainian athlete (b. 1969)
• 1997 – Jimmy Witherspoon, blues singer (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Charlie Foxx, American singer (b. 1939)
• 2001 – Ernie Coombs, Canadian entertainer (b. 1927)
• 2002 – Bob Hayes, American athlete (b. 1942)
• 2002 – Mauro Ramos, Brazilian football player (b. 1930)
• 2002 – Margita Stefanović, Serbian musician (b. 1959)
• 2003 – Emil Fackenheim, German Holocaust survivor and philosopher (b. 1916)
• 2003 – Bob Mitchell, British politician (b. 1927)
• 2004 – Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Russ Meyer, American film director (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Michael Park, British Rally co-driver (b. 1966)
• 2006 – Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Pepsi Tate Welsh bassist (b. 1965)
• 2008 – Mauricio Kagel, German-Argentine composer (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Ron Lancaster, American-born football player (b. 1938)
• 2011 – Jamey Rodemeyer, American activist (b.1997)

[edit] Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Constantius (Theban Legion)
  • Eustorgius I
  • Joseph of Cupertino
  • Methodius of Olympus
  • Richardis
  • September 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• National Day or Dieciocho, the date of the first Government Junta after the Chilean independence on February 12, 1818 (Chile)
• World Water Monitoring Day (International)
• Day of National Music (Azerbaijan)
• Brazil — Day of the city founding at Aimorιs (1915, the State of Minas Gerais)