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14th of September 0081 EVENT Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.
14th of September 0786 EVENT Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi.
14th of September 1180 EVENT Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
14th of September 1607 EVENT Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
14th of September 1682 EVENT Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
14th of September 1741 EVENT George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah
14th of September 1752 EVENT The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
14th of September 1812 EVENT Napoleonic Wars: French grenadiers enter Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.
14th of September 1814 EVENT The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.
14th of September 1829 EVENT The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.
14th of September 1847 EVENT Mexican-American War: Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.
14th of September 1862 EVENT American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
14th of September 1901 EVENT President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
14th of September 1917 EVENT Russia is officially proclaimed a republic.
14th of September 1923 EVENT Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain.
14th of September 1944 EVENT World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
14th of September 1948 EVENT Groundbreaking for the United Nations headquarters in New York City.
14th of September 1958 EVENT The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
14th of September 1959 EVENT The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
14th of September 1960 EVENT The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
14th of September 1969 EVENT The US Selective Service selects September 14th as the First Draft Lottery Date.
14th of September 1975 EVENT The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
14th of September 1982 EVENT President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
14th of September 1984 EVENT Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a hot air balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
14th of September 1987 EVENT The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, hitting 10 of them.
14th of September 1994 EVENT The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
14th of September 1995 EVENT Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan
14th of September 1998 EVENT Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
14th of September 1999 EVENT Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
14th of September 2001 EVENT Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.
14th of September 2003 EVENT In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.
14th of September 1169 BIRTHDAY Alexios II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1183)
14th of September 1388 BIRTHDAY Claudius Clavus, Danish geographer
14th of September 1486 BIRTHDAY Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German alchemist (d. 1535)
14th of September 1543 BIRTHDAY Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (d. 1615)
14th of September 1547 BIRTHDAY Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (d. 1619)
14th of September 1580 BIRTHDAY Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645)
14th of September 1656 BIRTHDAY Thomas Baker, British antiquarian (d. 1746)
14th of September 1713 BIRTHDAY Johann Kies, German mathematician (d. 1781)
14th of September 1721 BIRTHDAY Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (d. 1807)
14th of September 1737 BIRTHDAY Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1806)
14th of September 1760 BIRTHDAY Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (d. 1842)
14th of September 1769 BIRTHDAY Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (d. 1859)
14th of September 1804 BIRTHDAY Louis Desire Maigret, French Catholic prelate (d. 1882)
14th of September 1804 BIRTHDAY John Gould, British ornithologist (d. 1881)
14th of September 1837 BIRTHDAY Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (d. 1903)
14th of September 1849 BIRTHDAY Ivan Pavlov, Russian scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)
14th of September 1850 BIRTHDAY Anton Mahnic, Slovenian Roman Catholic bishop, author and theologian (d. 1920)
14th of September 1860 BIRTHDAY Hamlin Garland, American writer (d. 1940)
14th of September 1864 BIRTHDAY Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1958)
14th of September 1867 BIRTHDAY Charles Dana Gibson, American artist (d. 1944)
14th of September 1869 BIRTHDAY Kid Nichols, American baseball player (d. 1953)
14th of September 1872 BIRTHDAY John Olof Dahlgren, American recipient of the Medal of Honor (d. 1963)
14th of September 1879 BIRTHDAY Margaret Sanger, American birth control advocate (d. 1966)
14th of September 1880 BIRTHDAY Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer (d. 1961)
14th of September 1880 BIRTHDAY Archie Hahn, American athlete (d. 1955)
14th of September 1886 BIRTHDAY Jan Masaryk, Czech foreign minister and diplomat (d. 1948)
14th of September 1889 BIRTHDAY Maria Capovilla, previous oldest living person (d. 2006)
14th of September 1891 BIRTHDAY Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (d. 1983)
14th of September 1898 BIRTHDAY Ernest Nash, German-born archaeologist (d. 1974)
14th of September 1898 BIRTHDAY Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (d. 1986)
14th of September 1902 BIRTHDAY Giorgos Papasideris Greek musician (d. 1977)
14th of September 1909 BIRTHDAY Peter Scott, British naturalist and explorer (d. 1989)
14th of September 1910 BIRTHDAY Jack Hawkins, British actor (d. 1973)
14th of September 1910 BIRTHDAY Yiannis Latsis, Greek shipping tycoon (d. 2003)
14th of September 1913 BIRTHDAY Annalisa Ericson, Swedish actress
14th of September 1913 BIRTHDAY Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (d. 1971)
14th of September 1914 BIRTHDAY Lida Baarova, Czech actress (d. 2000)
14th of September 1914 BIRTHDAY Kay Medford, American actress (d. 1980)
14th of September 1914 BIRTHDAY Mae Boren Axton, American songwriter (d. 1997)
14th of September 1914 BIRTHDAY Clayton Moore, American actor (d. 1999)
14th of September 1914 BIRTHDAY Robert McCloskey, American author (d. 2003)
14th of September 1916 BIRTHDAY John Heyer, Australian documentary filmmaker (d. 2001)
14th of September 1916 BIRTHDAY Eric Bentley, British-born American critic and playwright
14th of September 1918 BIRTHDAY Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (d. 1967)
14th of September 1918 BIRTHDAY Cachao Lopez, Cuban musician (d. 2008)
14th of September 1920 BIRTHDAY Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer (d. 2009)
14th of September 1920 BIRTHDAY Lawrence Klein, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
14th of September 1920 BIRTHDAY Alberto Calderon, Argentine mathematician (d. 1998)
14th of September 1921 BIRTHDAY A. Jean de Grandpre, Canadian businessman and chief executive officer (Bell Canada)
14th of September 1921 BIRTHDAY Dario Vittori, Argentinian actor (d. 2001)
14th of September 1922 BIRTHDAY Michel Auclair, French actor (d. 1988)
14th of September 1923 BIRTHDAY Nicholas Georgiadis, Greek painter, stage and costume designer (d. 2001)
14th of September 1924 BIRTHDAY Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and author (d. 1994)
14th of September 1926 BIRTHDAY Michel Butor, French novelist
14th of September 1927 BIRTHDAY Martin Caidin, American aviation writer (d. 1997)
14th of September 1927 BIRTHDAY Jim Fanning, American baseball player and manager
14th of September 1929 BIRTHDAY Maurice Vachon, French Canadian professional wrestler
14th of September 1929 BIRTHDAY Larry Collins, American writer (d. 2005)
14th of September 1930 BIRTHDAY Allan Bloom, American academic (d. 1992)
14th of September 1932 BIRTHDAY Harry Sinden, American National Hockey League executive
14th of September 1932 BIRTHDAY John Tembo, Malawian politician
14th of September 1933 BIRTHDAY Harve Presnell, American actor (d. 2009)
14th of September 1934 BIRTHDAY Kate Millett, American feminist writer
14th of September 1934 BIRTHDAY Sarah Kofman, French philosopher
14th of September 1935 BIRTHDAY Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (d. 2008)
14th of September 1935 BIRTHDAY Amanda Barrie, British actress
14th of September 1936 BIRTHDAY Walter Koenig, American actor
14th of September 1936 BIRTHDAY Harry Danielsen, Norwegian politician
14th of September 1936 BIRTHDAY Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
14th of September 1937 BIRTHDAY Renzo Piano, Italian architect
14th of September 1938 BIRTHDAY Nicol Williamson, Scottish-born actor
14th of September 1939 BIRTHDAY DeWitt Weaver, Professional golfer
14th of September 1940 BIRTHDAY Jacques Godin, Canadian film and television actor
14th of September 1940 BIRTHDAY Larry Brown, American basketball player and coach
14th of September 1941 BIRTHDAY Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan musician
14th of September 1942 BIRTHDAY Bernard MacLaverty, Northern Irish writer
14th of September 1944 BIRTHDAY Joey Heatherton, American actress and singer
14th of September 1944 BIRTHDAY Gunter Netzer, German footballer
14th of September 1945 BIRTHDAY Martin Tyler, British sports broadcaster
14th of September 1946 BIRTHDAY Jim Angle, American television reporter
14th of September 1947 BIRTHDAY Jon "Bowzer" Bauman, American singer (Sha Na Na)
14th of September 1947 BIRTHDAY Sam Neill, New Zealand actor
14th of September 1948 BIRTHDAY Marc Reisner, American writer (d. 2000)
14th of September 1949 BIRTHDAY Tommy Seebach, Danish musician (d. 2003)
14th of September 1949 BIRTHDAY Eikichi Yazawa, Japanese singer
14th of September 1949 BIRTHDAY Steve Gaines, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
14th of September 1949 BIRTHDAY Ed King, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
14th of September 1950 BIRTHDAY Paul Kossoff, British guitarist (Free) (d. 1976)
14th of September 1950 BIRTHDAY Masami Kuwashima, Japanese race car driver
14th of September 1950 BIRTHDAY Michael Nifong, American attorney
14th of September 1953 BIRTHDAY Judy Playfair, Australian swimmer
14th of September 1953 BIRTHDAY Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (d. 1998)
14th of September 1954 BIRTHDAY Barry Cowsill, American musician (The Cowsills) (d. 2005)
14th of September 1956 BIRTHDAY Kostas Karamanlis, Greek prime-minister
14th of September 1956 BIRTHDAY Nathalie Roussel, French actress
14th of September 1956 BIRTHDAY Lefteris Zagoritis, Greek politician
14th of September 1956 BIRTHDAY Ray Wilkins, English former footballer
14th of September 1957 BIRTHDAY Tim Wallach, American baseball player
14th of September 1957 BIRTHDAY Kepler Wessels, former Australian and South African cricketer
14th of September 1958 BIRTHDAY Beth Nielsen Chapman, American singer-songwriter
14th of September 1959 BIRTHDAY Morten Harket, Norwegian singer (a-ha)
14th of September 1959 BIRTHDAY Mary Crosby, American actress
14th of September 1960 BIRTHDAY Melissa Leo, American actress
14th of September 1960 BIRTHDAY Callum Keith Rennie, Canadian actor
14th of September 1961 BIRTHDAY Freeman Mbowe, Tanzanian politician and businessman
14th of September 1961 BIRTHDAY Wendy Thomas, namesake of the eponymous restaurant (Wendy's)
14th of September 1962 BIRTHDAY Tom Kurvers, American ice hockey player
14th of September 1963 BIRTHDAY Robin Singh, Indian cricketer
14th of September 1964 BIRTHDAY Faith Ford, American actress
14th of September 1965 BIRTHDAY Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia
14th of September 1965 BIRTHDAY Michelle Stafford, American actress
14th of September 1966 BIRTHDAY Mike Cooley, American guitarist
14th of September 1967 BIRTHDAY Dan Cortese, American actor
14th of September 1967 BIRTHDAY Jens Lien, Norwegian film director
14th of September 1967 BIRTHDAY Ashlyn Gere, American pornographic actress
14th of September 1969 BIRTHDAY Konstantinos Koukodimos, Greek long jumper and politician
14th of September 1970 BIRTHDAY Francesco Casagrande, Italian cyclist
14th of September 1970 BIRTHDAY Ben Garant, American actor
14th of September 1970 BIRTHDAY Craig Montoya, American musician (Everclear)
14th of September 1971 BIRTHDAY Andre Matos, Brazilian musician
14th of September 1971 BIRTHDAY Jeff Loomis, American guitarist (Nevermore)
14th of September 1971 BIRTHDAY Christopher McCulloch, American television writer and voice actor
14th of September 1971 BIRTHDAY Kimberly Williams, American actress
14th of September 1972 BIRTHDAY David Bell, American baseball player
14th of September 1973 BIRTHDAY Tony Bui, Vietnamese film director
14th of September 1973 BIRTHDAY Linvoy Primus, English footballer
14th of September 1973 BIRTHDAY Terrell Fletcher, American football player
14th of September 1973 BIRTHDAY Andrew Lincoln, British actor
14th of September 1973 BIRTHDAY Mike Ward, Canadian comedian
14th of September 1973 BIRTHDAY Nas, American rapper
14th of September 1974 BIRTHDAY Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete
14th of September 1974 BIRTHDAY Chad Bradford, American baseball player
14th of September 1976 BIRTHDAY Jeremy Dunham, video game journalist
14th of September 1976 BIRTHDAY Agustin Calleri, Argentine tennis player
14th of September 1978 BIRTHDAY Carmen Kass, Estonian model
14th of September 1978 BIRTHDAY Silvia Navarro, Mexican actress
14th of September 1978 BIRTHDAY Danielle Peck, country music singer
14th of September 1978 BIRTHDAY Ben Cohen, English rugby union footballer
14th of September 1979 BIRTHDAY Jesse Marunde, American strongman/athlete (d. 2007)
14th of September 1980 BIRTHDAY Ayo, German singer
14th of September 1981 BIRTHDAY Ashley Roberts, American singer, dancer & actress (Pussycat Dolls)
14th of September 1981 BIRTHDAY Miyavi, Japanese musician
14th of September 1981 BIRTHDAY Katie Lee, American television presenter
14th of September 1982 BIRTHDAY SoShy, French singer/songwriter
14th of September 1982 BIRTHDAY Hiroki Narimiya, Japanese actor
14th of September 1982 BIRTHDAY Petr Prucha, Czechoslovakian hockey player
14th of September 1983 BIRTHDAY Amy Winehouse, English singer
14th of September 1983 BIRTHDAY Frostee Rucker, National Football League defensive end
14th of September 1984 BIRTHDAY Adam Lamberg, American actor
14th of September 1985 BIRTHDAY Aya Ueto, Japanese actress and singer
14th of September 1985 BIRTHDAY Trevis Smith, American football linebacker and convicted sex offender
14th of September 1985 BIRTHDAY Delmon Young, American baseball player
14th of September 1985 BIRTHDAY Paolo Gregoletto, American bassist (Trivium)
14th of September 1986 BIRTHDAY Ai Takahashi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
14th of September 1986 BIRTHDAY Alan Sheehan, Irish footballer
14th of September 1986 BIRTHDAY Andrew James Trauth, American actor
14th of September 1986 BIRTHDAY Tinchy Stryder, British rapper
14th of September 1987 BIRTHDAY Michael Crabtree, American football player
14th of September 1988 BIRTHDAY Martin Fourcade, French biathlete
14th of September 1988 BIRTHDAY Kirsten Haglund, American beauty pageant contestant
14th of September 1989 BIRTHDAY Jesse James, American actor
14th of September 1989 BIRTHDAY Logan Henderson, American actor and musician (Big Time Rush)
14th of September 0023 DEATH Drusus Julius Caesar, son of the Emperor Tiberius, poisoned (Born 13 BC)
14th of September 0258 DEATH Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage
14th of September 0585 DEATH Emperor Bidatsu of Japan (Born 538)
14th of September 0775 DEATH Constantine V, Byzantine Emperor (Born 718)
14th of September 0786 DEATH Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph (Born 764)
14th of September 0891 DEATH Pope Stephen V
14th of September 1146 DEATH Zengi, ruler of Syria (Born 1087)
14th of September 1164 DEATH Emperor Sutoku of Japan (Born 1119)
14th of September 1214 DEATH Albert Avogadro, Italian patriarch of Jerusalem (Born 1149)
14th of September 1321 DEATH Dante Alighieri, Italian author (Born 1265)
14th of September 1404 DEATH Albert IV of Austria (Born 1377)
14th of September 1435 DEATH John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (Born 1389)
14th of September 1523 DEATH Pope Adrian VI (Born 1459)
14th of September 1538 DEATH Henry III of Nassau-Breda, German nobleman (Born 1483)
14th of September 1605 DEATH Jan Tarnowski, Archbishop of Krakow (Born 1550)
14th of September 1638 DEATH John Harvard, American clergyman (Born 1607)
14th of September 1646 DEATH Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (Born 1591)
14th of September 1712 DEATH Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-born astronomer (Born 1625)
14th of September 1743 DEATH Nicolas Lancret, French painter (Born 1690)
14th of September 1749 DEATH Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (Born 1675)
14th of September 1759 DEATH Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (Born 1712)
14th of September 1807 DEATH George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (Born 1724)
14th of September 1836 DEATH Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States (Born 1756)
14th of September 1851 DEATH James Fenimore Cooper, American author (Born 1789)
14th of September 1852 DEATH Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1769)
14th of September 1852 DEATH Augustus Pugin, English architect (Born 1812)
14th of September 1879 DEATH Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist (Born 1808)
14th of September 1898 DEATH William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (Born 1857)
14th of September 1901 DEATH William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (Born 1843)
14th of September 1905 DEATH Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Franco-Italian explorer (Born 1852)
14th of September 1916 DEATH Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1832)
14th of September 1927 DEATH Isadora Duncan, American dancer (Born 1877)
14th of September 1936 DEATH Irving Thalberg, American film producer (Born 1899)
14th of September 1937 DEATH Tomas Masaryk, Czech politician (Born 1850)
14th of September 1942 DEATH E.S. Gosney, American eugenicist (Born 1855)
14th of September 1951 DEATH Fritz Busch, German conductor (Born 1890)
14th of September 1959 DEATH Wayne Morris, American actor (Born 1914)
14th of September 1960 DEATH M. Karagatsis, Greek author (Born 1908)
14th of September 1965 DEATH J.W. Hearne, English cricketer (Born 1891)
14th of September 1966 DEATH Gertrude Berg, American actress (Born 1899)
14th of September 1974 DEATH Warren Hull, American actor (Born 1903)
14th of September 1975 DEATH Walter Herbert, German conductor and impresario (Born 1902)
14th of September 1981 DEATH Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (Born 1899)
14th of September 1981 DEATH William Loeb III, American newspaper publisher (Born 1905)
14th of September 1982 DEATH Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese politician (Born 1947)
14th of September 1982 DEATH John Gardner, American novelist (Born 1933)
14th of September 1982 DEATH Christian Ferras, French violinist (Born 1933)
14th of September 1982 DEATH Grace Kelly, American actress, Princess of Monaco (Born 1929)
14th of September 1984 DEATH Janet Gaynor, American actress (Born 1906)
14th of September 1989 DEATH Damaso Perez Prado, Cuban musician (Born 1916)
14th of September 1991 DEATH Julie Bovasso, American actor and writer (Born 1930)
14th of September 1991 DEATH Russell Lynes, American art historian and magazine editor (Born 1910)
14th of September 1992 DEATH Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (Born 1903)
14th of September 1994 DEATH Marika Krevata, Greek actress (Born 1910)
14th of September 1995 DEATH Maurice K. Goddard, American state government official (Born 1912)
14th of September 1996 DEATH Rose Ouellette, Canadian actress and comedian (Born 1903)
14th of September 1996 DEATH Juliet Prowse, British actress and dancer (Born 1937)
14th of September 1999 DEATH Giannos Kranidiotis, Greek diplomat and politician (d. 1947)
14th of September 1999 DEATH Charles Crichton, English film director (Born 1910)
14th of September 2000 DEATH Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and activist (Born 1906)
14th of September 2000 DEATH Beah Richards, American actress (Born 1920)
14th of September 2001 DEATH Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (Born 1931)
14th of September 2003 DEATH Yetunde Price, American sibling of Venus and Serena Williams (Born 1972)
14th of September 2003 DEATH Garrett Hardin, American ecologist (Born 1915)
14th of September 2003 DEATH John Serry, Sr., American musician, (Born 1915)
14th of September 2005 DEATH William Berenberg, American physician (Born 1915)
14th of September 2005 DEATH Robert Wise, American filmmaker (Born 1914)
14th of September 2005 DEATH Frances Newton, American convicted killer (Born 1965)
14th of September 2005 DEATH Vladimir Volkoff, French writer (Born 1932)
14th of September 2006 DEATH Norman Brooks, Canadian singer (Born 1928)
14th of September 2006 DEATH Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor and bodybuilder (Born 1926)
14th of September 2006 DEATH Esme Melville, Australian actress (Born 1918)
14th of September 2007 DEATH Jacques Martin, French television host and producer (Born 1933)
14th of September 2007 DEATH Robert Savoie, Canadian operatic baritone (Born 1927)
14th of September 2008 DEATH Stefan Iordache, Romanian actor (Born 1941)
14th of September 2009 DEATH Keith Floyd, British TV chef (Born 1943)
14th of September 2009 DEATH Jody Powell, American press secretary to Jimmy Carter (Born 1943)
14th of September 2009 DEATH Darren Sutherland, Irish boxer (Born 1982)
14th of September 2009 DEATH Patrick Swayze, American actor, dancer, and songwriter (Born 1952)