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September 23rd


- Autumnal equinox related observances (see September 22):
- Celebrate Bisexuality Day (Bisexual community)
- Christian Feast Day
- National Day (Saudi Arabia)
- Traditional New Year's Day in Constantinople and Eastern Orthodox Churches; because of the birthday of Augustus, not because of the equinox.

September 23rd


- 2008 - Kauhajoki school shooting: Matti Saari kills 10 people before committing suicide.
- 2004 - Hurricane Jeanne: At least 1,070 in Haiti are reported to have been killed by floods.
- 2002 - The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.
- 1999 - NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
- 1999 - Qantas Flight 1 overruns the runway in Bangkok during a storm. Although some passengers only receive minor injuries, it is still the worst crash in Qantas's history since 1960.
- 1992 - A large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys forensic laboratories in Belfast.
- 1988 - José Canseco of the Oakland Athletics becomes the first member of the 40-40 club.
- 1986 - Jim Deshaies of the Houston Astros sets the major-league record by striking out the first eight batters of the game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
- 1983 - Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
- 1983 - Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa becomes the first African boxing world heavyweight champion.
- 1983 - Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board.
- 1973 - Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
- 1972 - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos announces over television and radio the implementation of martial law.
- 1969 - The Chicago Eight trial opens in Chicago.
- 1962 - The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City opens with the completion of the first building, the Philharmonic Hall (now Avery Fisher Hall) home of the New York Philharmonic.
- 1959 - Iowa farmer and corn breeder Roswell Garst hosts Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.
- 1959 - The MS Princess of Tasmania, Australia’s first passenger roll-on/roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait.
- 1952 - Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers speech".
- 1943 - World War II: The so-called Salò Republic is born.
- 1942 - World War II: First day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
- 1941 - World War II: The first gas chamber experiments are conducted at Auschwitz.
- 1938 - Mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in response to the Munich Crisis.
- 1932 - The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- 1922 - In Washington D. C., Charles Evans Hughes signs the Hughes-Peynado agreement, that ends the occupation of Dominican Republic by the United States.
- 1909 - The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
- 1908 - University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded.
- 1905 - Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
- 1889 - Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
- 1868 - Grito de Lares ("Lares Revolt") occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
- 1857 - The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
- 1846 - Neptune is discovered by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer John Couch Adams; the discovery is verified by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
- 1845 - The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.
- 1821 - Tripolitsa, Greece, falls and 30,000 Turks are massacred.
- 1806 - Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
- 1803 - Second Anglo-Maratha War: Battle of Assaye between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.
- 1780 - American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.
- 1779 - American Revolution: a squadron commanded by John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head, off the coast of England, against two British warships.
- 1642 - First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.
- 1641 - The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure worth over a billion US dollars, is lost at sea off Land's End.
- 1459 - Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire.
- 1409 - Battle of Kherlen, the second significant victory over Ming China by the Mongols since 1368.
- 1122 - Concordat of Worms.

September 23rd


- 1991 - Melanie Oudin, American tennis player
- 1990 - Agustin Sierra, Argentine actor
- 1989 - Brandon Jennings, American basketball player
- 1988 - Juan Martín del Potro, Argentinian tennis player
- 1988 - Yannick Weber, Swiss ice hockey player
- 1986 - Martin Cranie, English footballer
- 1985 - Brian Brohm, American football player
- 1985 - Joba Chamberlain, American baseball player
- 1985 - Maki Goto, Japanese pop singer
- 1985 - Hossein Ka'abi, Iranian footballer
- 1985 - Lukáš Kašpar, Czech ice hockey player
- 1984 - Anneliese van der Pol, American actress
- 1984 - Matt Kemp, American baseball player
- 1983 - Märt Israel, Estonian discus thrower
- 1983 - Joffery Lupul, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 - Mait Künnap, Estonian tennis player
- 1982 - Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornographic actress
- 1981 - Robert Doornbos, Dutch racing driver
- 1981 - Natalie Horler, German singer (Cascada)
- 1981 - Misti Traya, American actress
- 1980 - Cameron Litvack, American television producer
- 1980 - Matt White, American singer
- 1979 - Ricky Davis, American basketball player
- 1979 - Lote Tuqiri, Fijian/Australian Rugby League and Rugby Union Player
- 1978 - Worm Miller, American filmmaker
- 1978 - Keri Lynn Pratt, American actress
- 1977 - Matthieu Descoteaux, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977 - Rachael Yamagata, American singer and songwriter
- 1977 - Fabio Ongaro, Italian rugby player
- 1977 - Susan Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress (d. 2008)
- 1976 - Faune A. Chambers, American actress
- 1976 - Kip Pardue, American actor and model
- 1976 - Wladimir Sidorenko, Ukrainian boxer
- 1975 - Kim Dong-moon, South Korean badminton player
- 1975 - Eric Miller, Irish rugby player
- 1975 - Jaime Bergman, American model and actress
- 1975 - Layzie Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
- 1975 - Chris Hawkins, British radio personality
- 1974 - Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler
- 1974 - Harumi Inoue, Japanese actress and model
- 1973 - Ingrid Fliter, Argentinian pianist
- 1973 - Artim Šakiri, Macedonian football player
- 1972 - Ana Marie Cox, American blogger and author
- 1972 - Jermaine Dupri, American music producer and rapper
- 1972 - Karl Pilkington, British radio personality
- 1972 - Shim Eun-ha, South Korean actress
- 1972 - Sarah Bettens, Belgian singer (K's Choice)
- 1971 - Moin Khan, Pakistani cricketer
- 1971 - Lee Mi-yeon, South Korean actress
- 1971 - Eric Montross, American basketball player
- 1970 - Ani DiFranco, American musician
- 1970 - Georgios Koltsidas, Greek footballer
- 1969 - Patrick Fiori, French singer
- 1969 - Tapio Laukkanen, Finnish rally driver
- 1969 - Donald Audette, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969 - Michelle Thomas, American actress (d. 1998)
- 1968 - Yvette Fielding, English television presenter
- 1966 - Pete Harnisch, American baseball player
- 1966 - LisaRaye, American actress
- 1964 - Clayton Blackmore, Welsh footballer
- 1964 - Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer (B'z)
- 1964 - Larry Krystkowiak, American basketball player and head coach
- 1964 - Bill Phillips, American author
- 1963 - Anne-Marie Cadieux, Canadian actress
- 1961 - Chi McBride, American actor
- 1961 - Willie McCool, American astronaut (d. 2003)
- 1961 - Elizabeth Peña, American actress
- 1959 - Jason Alexander, American actor
- 1959 - Martin Page, English singer and songwriter
- 1958 - Danielle Dax, British musician
- 1958 - Marvin Lewis, American football coach
- 1958 - Larry Mize, American golfer
- 1957 - Rosalind Chao, American actress
- 1957 - Tony Fossas, Cuban baseball player
- 1957 - Kumar Sanu, Indian playback singer
- 1956 - Peter David, American writer
- 1955 - Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer
- 1954 - Charlie Barnett, American actor (d. 1996)
- 1954 - Cherie Blair, British lawyer and spouse of former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair
- 1952 - Jim Morrison, American baseball player
- 1949 - Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter
- 1947 - Christian Bordeleau, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1947 - Mary Kay Place, American actress
- 1947 - Neal Smith, American musician (Alice Cooper's drummer)
- 1946 - Franz Fischler, Austrian politician
- 1945 - Paul Petersen, American actor
- 1945 - Igor Ivanov, Russian politician
- 1944 - Eric Bogle, British/Australian singer and songwriter
- 1943 - Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer
- 1943 - Marty Schottenheimer, American football coach
- 1943 - Tanuja, Indian actress
- 1942 - Sila María Calderón, Puerto Rican politician
- 1941 - Simon Nolet, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1941 - George Jackson, American civil-rights activist (d. 1971)
- 1939 - Henry Blofeld, English cricket commentator
- 1939 - Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (d. 1988)
- 1939 - Janusz Gajos, Polish actor
- 1939 - Sonny Vaccaro, American former sports executive
- 1938 - Romy Schneider, French actress (d. 1982)
- 1938 - Tom Lester, American actor
- 1937 - Jacques Poulin, Canadian novelist
- 1936 - Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian politician
- 1936 - Sylvain Saudan, Swiss extreme skier
- 1936 - Dr. Tareq Suheimat, Jordanian physician, nephrologist
- 1934 - Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan
- 1931 - Gerald Stairs Merrithew, Canadian educator (d. 2004)
- 1930 - Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004)
- 1930 - Sehba Akhtar, Pakistani poet (d. 1996)
- 1930 - Colin Blakely, British actor (d. 1987)
- 1929 - Wally Whyton, English musician (d. 1997)
- 1926 - John Coltrane, American saxophonist (d. 1967)
- 1925 - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (d. 2006)
- 1925 - Eleonora Rossi Drago, Italian actress (d. 2007)
- 1924 - Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan newspaper editor (d. 1978)
- 1924 - Heinrich Schultz, Estonian cultural functionary
- 1920 - Mickey Rooney, American actor
- 1916 - Aldo Moro, Italian politician (d. 1978)
- 1915 - Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel Laureate (d. 2001)
- 1914 - Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (d. 1986)
- 1913 - Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish artist, member of the CoBrA movement (d. 2007)
- 1912 - Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani researcher, critic and linguist (d. 2005)
- 1912 - Tony Smith, American sculptor (d. 1980)
- 1911 - Frank Moss, United States Senator from Utah (d. 2003)
- 1909 - Lorenc Antoni, Kosovo Albanian composer (d. 1991)
- 1907 - Dominique Aury, French novelist (d. 1998)
- 1907 - Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, heir to the throne of Portugal (d. 1976)
- 1906 - Charles Ritchie, Canadian diplomat (d. 1995)
- 1902 - Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (d. 2003)
- 1901 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1986)
- 1900 - Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (d. 1988)
- 1900 - Bill Stone, British serviceman who served during World War I (d. 2009)
- 1899 - Tom C. Clark, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1977)
- 1897 - Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (d. 1984)
- 1895 - Miron Merzhanov, Soviet architect (d. 1975)
- 1895 - Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (d. 1985)
- 1890 - Friedrich Paulus, German general (d. 1957)
- 1889 - Walter Lippmann, American journalist (d. 1974)
- 1880 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel Laureate (d. 1971)
- 1876 - Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and Talmudic scholar, and Israel Prize recipient (d. 1968)
- 1869 - Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary, first carrier of typhoid (d. 1938)
- 1865 - Emmuska Orczy, British novelist (d. 1947)
- 1864 - Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (d. 1903)
- 1863 - Mary Eliza Church Terrell, American writer (d. 1954)
- 1861 - Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942)
- 1852 - William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon (d. 1922)
- 1838 - Victoria Woodhull, American suffragist (d. 1927)
- 1819 - Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d. 1896)
- 1791 - Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865)
- 1781 - Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1860)
- 1771 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)
- 1759 - Clothilde of France, Queen of Piedmont-Sardinia (d. 1802)
- 1740 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)
- 1713 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain (d. 1759)
- 1650 - Jeremy Collier, English bishop (d. 1726)
- 1647 - Joseph Dudley, American statesman (d. 1720)
- 1598 - Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655)
- 1434 - Yolande of Valois, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1478)
- 1215 - Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1294)
- 1161 - Emperor Takakura of Japan (d. 1181)
- 1158 - Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1186)
- -63 - Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor (d. 14)
- -480 - Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC)