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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 15th of September 0668 | EVENT | Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy. |
| 15th of September 0921 | EVENT | At Tetin Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law. |
| 15th of September 0994 | EVENT | Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes. |
| 15th of September 1556 | EVENT | Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain. |
| 15th of September 1616 | EVENT | The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy. |
| 15th of September 1762 | EVENT | Seven Years War: Battle of Signal Hill. |
| 15th of September 1776 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign. |
| 15th of September 1789 | EVENT | The United States Department of State is established (formerly known as the "Department of Foreign Affairs"). |
| 15th of September 1812 | EVENT | The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow. |
| 15th of September 1812 | EVENT | War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows. |
| 15th of September 1816 | EVENT | HMS Whiting ran aground on the Doom Bar |
| 15th of September 1820 | EVENT | Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 15th of September 1821 | EVENT | Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica jointly declare independence from Spain. |
| 15th of September 1830 | EVENT | The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens. |
| 15th of September 1831 | EVENT | The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad. |
| 15th of September 1835 | EVENT | HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galapagos Islands. |
| 15th of September 1851 | EVENT | Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| 15th of September 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia. |
| 15th of September 1873 | EVENT | Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity. |
| 15th of September 1894 | EVENT | First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang. |
| 15th of September 1916 | EVENT | World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme. |
| 15th of September 1935 | EVENT | The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship. |
| 15th of September 1935 | EVENT | Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika. |
| 15th of September 1940 | EVENT | World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft. |
| 15th of September 1942 | EVENT | World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal. |
| 15th of September 1944 | EVENT | Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery. |
| 15th of September 1944 | EVENT | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy. |
| 15th of September 1945 | EVENT | A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond. |
| 15th of September 1947 | EVENT | RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube. |
| 15th of September 1947 | EVENT | Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1,077. |
| 15th of September 1948 | EVENT | The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h). |
| 15th of September 1950 | EVENT | Korean War: United States forces land at Inchon |
| 15th of September 1952 | EVENT | United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia. |
| 15th of September 1958 | EVENT | A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 58. |
| 15th of September 1959 | EVENT | Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States. |
| 15th of September 1961 | EVENT | Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour. |
| 15th of September 1962 | EVENT | The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
| 15th of September 1963 | EVENT | The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States |
| 15th of September 1966 | EVENT | U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation. |
| 15th of September 1968 | EVENT | The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere. |
| 15th of September 1972 | EVENT | A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmo-Bulltofta Airport. |
| 15th of September 1974 | EVENT | Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board. |
| 15th of September 1975 | EVENT | The French departement of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud. |
| 15th of September 1981 | EVENT | The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C. |
| 15th of September 1981 | EVENT | Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations. |
| 15th of September 1981 | EVENT | The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
| 15th of September 1983 | EVENT | Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns. |
| 15th of September 1987 | EVENT | United States Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sign a treaty to establish centers to reduce the risk of nuclear war. |
| 15th of September 1990 | EVENT | France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf |
| 15th of September 1993 | EVENT | Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II disbands Parliament |
| 15th of September 1998 | EVENT | With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business. |
| 15th of September 2004 | EVENT | National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office. |
| 15th of September 2008 | EVENT | Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history. |
| 15th of September 1254 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Polo, Italian explorer (d. 1324) |
| 15th of September 1533 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1572) |
| 15th of September 1580 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (d. 1659) |
| 15th of September 1613 | BIRTHDAY | Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (d. 1680) |
| 15th of September 1649 | BIRTHDAY | Titus Oates, English minister and plotter (d. 1705) |
| 15th of September 1666 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Sophia Dorothea of Celle (d. 1726) |
| 15th of September 1715 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (d. 1789) |
| 15th of September 1760 | BIRTHDAY | Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general of the Napoleonic Wars (d. 1824) |
| 15th of September 1761 | BIRTHDAY | Cornelio Saavedra, president of the Primera Junta and the Junta Grande, first patriotic governments of Argentina (d. 1829) |
| 15th of September 1789 | BIRTHDAY | James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist (d. 1851) |
| 15th of September 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Cyprien Tanguay, Canadian priest and historian (d. 1902) |
| 15th of September 1828 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886) |
| 15th of September 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico (d. 1915) |
| 15th of September 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Bouchet, American physicist (d. 1918) |
| 15th of September 1857 | BIRTHDAY | William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (d. 1930) |
| 15th of September 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Charles de Foucauld, French catholic priest (d. 1916) |
| 15th of September 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Jeno Hubay, Hungarian violinist (d. 1937) |
| 15th of September 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya, Indian engineer (d. 1962) |
| 15th of September 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Horatio Parker, American composer (d. 1919) |
| 15th of September 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Sigismund of Prussia (d. 1866) |
| 15th of September 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1920) |
| 15th of September 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian novelist (d. 1938) |
| 15th of September 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Walter, German conductor (d. 1962) |
| 15th of September 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and zionist (d. 1938) |
| 15th of September 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939) |
| 15th of September 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Chujiro Hayashi, Japanese Reiki Master (d. 1940) |
| 15th of September 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile engineer and designer (d. 1947) |
| 15th of September 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (d. 1950) |
| 15th of September 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Davila, former President of Chile (d. 1955) |
| 15th of September 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (d. 1925) |
| 15th of September 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Benchley, American author (d. 1945) |
| 15th of September 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Agatha Christie, English writer (d. 1976) |
| 15th of September 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Martin, Swiss composer (d. 1974) |
| 15th of September 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Silpa Bhirasri, Italian sculptor (d. 1962) |
| 15th of September 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Renoir, French film director (d. 1979) |
| 15th of September 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (d. 1977) |
| 15th of September 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (d. 1977) |
| 15th of September 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (d. 1974) |
| 15th of September 1898 | BIRTHDAY | J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (d. 1936) |
| 15th of September 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Donald Bailey, British engineer (d. 1985) |
| 15th of September 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Acuff, American country musician (d. 1992) |
| 15th of September 1904 | BIRTHDAY | King Umberto II of Italy (d. 1983) |
| 15th of September 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Becker, French screenwriter and director (d. 1960) |
| 15th of September 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Fay Wray, Canadian-born American actress (d. 2004) |
| 15th of September 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Gunnar Ekelof, Swedish poet and writer (d. 1968) |
| 15th of September 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Penny Singleton, American actress (d. 2003) |
| 15th of September 1909 | BIRTHDAY | C.N.Annadurai, Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 1969) |
| 15th of September 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Neels, English novelist (d. 2001) |
| 15th of September 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-born American golf entrepreneur (d. 2000) |
| 15th of September 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Steinhoff, German fighter pilot & NATO commander (d. 1994) |
| 15th of September 1913 | BIRTHDAY | John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General and Watergate figure (d. 1988) |
| 15th of September 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (d. 1999) |
| 15th of September 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Creighton Abrams, American Army general (d. 1974) |
| 15th of September 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Orhan Kemal, Turkish writer (d. 1970) |
| 15th of September 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Ismail Yasin, Egyptian comedian and actor (d. 1972) |
| 15th of September 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Whitlock, English motion picture matte artist (d. 1999) |
| 15th of September 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Nicomedes Grossi, Brazilian bishop (d. 2009) |
| 15th of September 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Lockwood, English actress (d. 1990) |
| 15th of September 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick C. Weyand, Former U.S. Army General (d. 2010) |
| 15th of September 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Nipsey Russell, American comedian (d. 2005) |
| 15th of September 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter (d. 2004) |
| 15th of September 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Fausto Coppi, Italian racing cyclist (d. 1960) |
| 15th of September 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Norma MacMillan, Canadian actress (d. 2001) |
| 15th of September 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie Cooper, American actor and director (d. 2011) |
| 15th of September 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Anderson (fencer), English sword-master |
| 15th of September 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Heiller, Austrian organist (d. 1979) |
| 15th of September 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Short, American musician (d. 2005) |
| 15th of September 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley Chapman, British architect, designer, translator and writer (d. 2009) |
| 15th of September 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Helle Virkner, Danish actress (d. 2009) |
| 15th of September 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician |
| 15th of September 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (d. 2006) |
| 15th of September 1927 | BIRTHDAY | David Stove, Australian philosopher, (d. 1994) |
| 15th of September 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1975) |
| 15th of September 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Burrows, the 13th General of The Salvation Army |
| 15th of September 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 15th of September 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Bartlett, English chemist (d. 2008) |
| 15th of September 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Darrow, American actor |
| 15th of September 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Monica Maughan, Australian actress (d. 2010) |
| 15th of September 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor |
| 15th of September 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Nile, Australian politician |
| 15th of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist, Nobel laureate |
| 15th of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando de la Rua, 51st President of Argentina |
| 15th of September 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Gaylord Perry, baseball player |
| 15th of September 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Merlin Olsen, American football player and actor (d. 2010) |
| 15th of September 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Spinrad, American science fiction author |
| 15th of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Florian Albert, Hungarian footballer |
| 15th of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Signe Toly Anderson, American singer |
| 15th of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Miros?aw Hermaszewski, Polish cosmonaut |
| 15th of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Viktor Zubkov, Russian government official |
| 15th of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Yuri Norstein, Russian animator |
| 15th of September 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Dorman, American Bassist |
| 15th of September 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Sotirios Hatzigakis, Greek politician |
| 15th of September 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Hans-Gert Pottering, German politician, President of the European Parliament |
| 15th of September 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Carmen Maura, Spanish actress |
| 15th of September 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Shelton, American film director |
| 15th of September 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jessye Norman, American opera singer |
| 15th of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ola Brunkert, Swedish session drummer (ABBA) (d. 2008) |
| 15th of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Lee Jones, American actor |
| 15th of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver Stone, American film director |
| 15th of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Waldrop, American science fiction author |
| 15th of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Procter, South African cricketer, coach and match referee |
| 15th of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Theodore Long, American professional wrestling manager |
| 15th of September 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Barton, American politician |
| 15th of September 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Carroll, American football coach |
| 15th of September 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer |
| 15th of September 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Keagy, American drummer and vocalist |
| 15th of September 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 15th of September 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Piche, Canadian singer and songwriter |
| 15th of September 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (d. 2007) |
| 15th of September 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Zeljka Antunovic, Croatian politician |
| 15th of September 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Renzo Rosso, Italian clothing designer |
| 15th of September 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Reitherman, American voice actor |
| 15th of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jaki Graham, English singer |
| 15th of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Maggie Reilly, Scottish folk singer |
| 15th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Quenneville, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 15th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Dr. Know, American guitarist (Bad Brains) |
| 15th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress (d. 2005) |
| 15th of September 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Kirk, American politician, junior senator of Illinois |
| 15th of September 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Allen, Welsh actor |
| 15th of September 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Solomon, American screenwriter |
| 15th of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Marino, American football player |
| 15th of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Lamb, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 15th of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Scott McNeil, Australian voice actor |
| 15th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Myers, American basketball player |
| 15th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Fico, Slovak Prime minister, populist |
| 15th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, American musician (The Misfits) |
| 15th of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Sherman Douglas, American basketball player |
| 15th of September 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Abbott, American baseball player |
| 15th of September 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Sari Kaasinen, Finnish singer |
| 15th of September 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Nucci, American actor |
| 15th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey Schwarz, American film director/producer |
| 15th of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Astle, New Zealand cricketer |
| 15th of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Wallers, English musician and songwriter (Country Teasers) |
| 15th of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Charles, American actor |
| 15th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Kit Chan, Singaporean singer |
| 15th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Carr, English comedian |
| 15th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Letizia, Princess of Asturias, Spanish royalty |
| 15th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Cox, English actress |
| 15th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Daniel, Duke of Vastergotland |
| 15th of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Martina Krupickova, Czech artist |
| 15th of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Dolan, American swimmer |
| 15th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Thomson, Scottish drummer (Franz Ferdinand) |
| 15th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Thornton, American baseball player |
| 15th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter |
| 15th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie Dahl, English model |
| 15th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Hardy, English actor |
| 15th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Terry, American basketball player |
| 15th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Leander Jordan, American football player |
| 15th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Marisa Ramirez, American actress |
| 15th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ei?ur Gu?johnsen, Icelandic footballer |
| 15th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Davidson, American actress |
| 15th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Marleau, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 15th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Annable, American actor |
| 15th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Ruiz, Guatemalan footballer |
| 15th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | David Diehl, American football player |
| 15th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Dunleavy, Jr., American basketball player |
| 15th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese pop singer |
| 15th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Hochevar, American baseball player |
| 15th of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Harry of Wales, UK royalty |
| 15th of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Francois-Olivier Roberge, Canadian speed skater |
| 15th of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Heidi Montag, TV personality/singer |
| 15th of September 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Clare Maguire, English singer-songwriter |
| 15th of September 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Aly Cissokho, French footballer |
| 15th of September 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Chelsea Staub, American actress |
| 15th of September 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Kris Chetan Ramlu, New Zealand musician |
| 15th of September 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Jayden Stockley, English footballer |
| 15th of September 0668 | DEATH | Constans II, Byzantine emperor (Born 630) |
| 15th of September 0866 | DEATH | Robert the Strong, Margrave of Neustria (Born 820) |
| 15th of September 1231 | DEATH | Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (Born 1173) |
| 15th of September 1352 | DEATH | Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (Born 1273) |
| 15th of September 1500 | DEATH | John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury (Born 1420) |
| 15th of September 1596 | DEATH | Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist |
| 15th of September 1613 | DEATH | Thomas Overbury, English writer (Born 1581) |
| 15th of September 1643 | DEATH | Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (Born 1566) |
| 15th of September 1649 | DEATH | John Floyd, English Jesuit preacher (Born 1572) |
| 15th of September 1700 | DEATH | Andre Le Notre, French landscape architect (Born 1613) |
| 15th of September 1701 | DEATH | Edme Boursault, French writer (Born 1638) |
| 15th of September 1707 | DEATH | George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (Born 1663) |
| 15th of September 1712 | DEATH | Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, English politician |
| 15th of September 1750 | DEATH | Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (Born 1690) |
| 15th of September 1794 | DEATH | Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (Born 1725) |
| 15th of September 1803 | DEATH | Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (Born 1719) |
| 15th of September 1805 | DEATH | Christopher Gadsden, American soldier and statesman from South Carolina (Born 1724) |
| 15th of September 1830 | DEATH | William Huskisson, English first rail fatality (Born 1770) |
| 15th of September 1830 | DEATH | Francois Baillairge, Canadian painter and sculptor (Born 1759) |
| 15th of September 1835 | DEATH | Sarah Knox Taylor, American wife of Jefferson Davis (Born 1814) |
| 15th of September 1842 | DEATH | Jose Francisco Morazan Quezada, Guatemalan statesman (Born 1792) |
| 15th of September 1842 | DEATH | Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (Born 1771) |
| 15th of September 1859 | DEATH | Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (Born 1806) |
| 15th of September 1864 | DEATH | John Hanning Speke, British explorer (Born 1827) |
| 15th of September 1883 | DEATH | Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (Born 1801) |
| 15th of September 1885 | DEATH | Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant (Born 1861) |
| 15th of September 1893 | DEATH | Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (Born 1807) |
| 15th of September 1915 | DEATH | Ernest Gagnon, Canadian folklorist, composer and organist (Born 1834) |
| 15th of September 1921 | DEATH | Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary (Born 1886) |
| 15th of September 1926 | DEATH | Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1846) |
| 15th of September 1930 | DEATH | Milton Sills, American actor (Born 1882) |
| 15th of September 1945 | DEATH | Andre Tardieu, French statesman (Born 1876) |
| 15th of September 1945 | DEATH | Anton Webern, Austrian composer (Born 1883) |
| 15th of September 1965 | DEATH | Steve Brown, American musician (Born 1890) |
| 15th of September 1972 | DEATH | Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (Born 1887) |
| 15th of September 1973 | DEATH | Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (Born 1882) |
| 15th of September 1973 | DEATH | Victor Jara, Chilean musician (Born 1941) |
| 15th of September 1978 | DEATH | Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (Born 1898) |
| 15th of September 1978 | DEATH | Robert Cliche, French Canadian politician and judge (Born 1921) |
| 15th of September 1980 | DEATH | Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (Born 1929) |
| 15th of September 1981 | DEATH | Rafael Mendez, Mexican trumpet virtuoso (Born 1906) |
| 15th of September 1981 | DEATH | Harold Bennett, English actor (Born 1899) |
| 15th of September 1983 | DEATH | Prince Far I, Jamaican reggae toaster and record producer |
| 15th of September 1985 | DEATH | Cootie Williams, American jazz trumpeter (Born 1910) |
| 15th of September 1987 | DEATH | Steven Tuomi, American murder victim of Jeffrey Dahmer (Born 1963) |
| 15th of September 1989 | DEATH | Robert Penn Warren, American writer (Born 1905) |
| 15th of September 1989 | DEATH | Olga Erteszek, American undergarment designer and lingerie company owner (Born 1916) |
| 15th of September 1991 | DEATH | John Hoyt, American actor (Born 1904) |
| 15th of September 1993 | DEATH | Ethan Allen, American baseball player (Born 1903) |
| 15th of September 1995 | DEATH | Harry Calder, South African cricketer (Born 1901) |
| 15th of September 1998 | DEATH | Louis Rasminsky, Canadian economist, governor of the Bank of Canada (Born 1908) |
| 15th of September 2000 | DEATH | Vincent Canby, American movie critic (Born 1924) |
| 15th of September 2003 | DEATH | Josef Hirsal, Czech novelist (Born 1920) |
| 15th of September 2003 | DEATH | Jack Brymer, English clarinetist (Born 1915) |
| 15th of September 2004 | DEATH | Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (Born 1948) |
| 15th of September 2004 | DEATH | Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (Born 1931) |
| 15th of September 2005 | DEATH | Sidney Luft, American film director (Born 1915) |
| 15th of September 2006 | DEATH | Raymond Baxter, British television presenter (Born 1922) |
| 15th of September 2006 | DEATH | Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (Born 1929) |
| 15th of September 2006 | DEATH | Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (Born 1987) |
| 15th of September 2007 | DEATH | Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (Born 1968) |
| 15th of September 2007 | DEATH | Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (Born 1928) |
| 15th of September 2007 | DEATH | Brett Somers, Canadian-born American actress (Born 1924) |
| 15th of September 2007 | DEATH | Sir Jeremy Moore, British Army commander (Born 1928) |
| 15th of September 2008 | DEATH | Richard Wright, British keyboardist (Pink Floyd) (Born 1943) |
| 15th of September 2010 | DEATH | Arrow, Montserratian soca musician (Born 1949) |