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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 19th of September 0335 | EVENT | Flavius Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I. |
| 19th of September 1356 | EVENT | Battle of Poitiers: an English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures the French king, John II. |
| 19th of September 1676 | EVENT | Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion. |
| 19th of September 1692 | EVENT | Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials. |
| 19th of September 1777 | EVENT | First Battle of Saratoga/Battle of Freeman's Farm/Battle of Bemis Heights. |
| 19th of September 1778 | EVENT | The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States. |
| 19th of September 1796 | EVENT | George Washington's farewell address is printed across America as an open letter to the public. |
| 19th of September 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Iuka : Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price. |
| 19th of September 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga. |
| 19th of September 1870 | EVENT | Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris begins, which will result on January 28, 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory. |
| 19th of September 1870 | EVENT | Having invaded the Papal States a week earlier, the Italian Army lays siege to Rome, entering the city the next day, after which the Pope described himself as a Prisoner in the Vatican. |
| 19th of September 1881 | EVENT | U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. |
| 19th of September 1893 | EVENT | 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. |
| 19th of September 1934 | EVENT | Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr.. |
| 19th of September 1940 | EVENT | Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance. |
| 19th of September 1944 | EVENT | Battle of Hurtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins. |
| 19th of September 1944 | EVENT | Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War). |
| 19th of September 1945 | EVENT | Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London. |
| 19th of September 1946 | EVENT | The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich. |
| 19th of September 1952 | EVENT | The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England. |
| 19th of September 1957 | EVENT | First American underground nuclear bomb test. |
| 19th of September 1959 | EVENT | Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland. |
| 19th of September 1961 | EVENT | Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them. |
| 19th of September 1970 | EVENT | Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of Geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos. |
| 19th of September 1970 | EVENT | The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, United Kingdom. |
| 19th of September 1971 | EVENT | Montagnard troops of South Vietnam revolt against the rule of Nguyen Khanh, killing 70 ethnic Vietnamese soldiers. |
| 19th of September 1972 | EVENT | A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat. |
| 19th of September 1973 | EVENT | King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture. |
| 19th of September 1976 | EVENT | Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew. |
| 19th of September 1978 | EVENT | The Solomon Islands join the United Nations. |
| 19th of September 1982 | EVENT | Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System. |
| 19th of September 1983 | EVENT | Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence. |
| 19th of September 1985 | EVENT | A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City. |
| 19th of September 1985 | EVENT | 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. |
| 19th of September 1989 | EVENT | A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tunuru Desert, Niger, killing 171. |
| 19th of September 1991 | EVENT | Otzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists. |
| 19th of September 1995 | EVENT | The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto. |
| 19th of September 1997 | EVENT | Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed. |
| 19th of September 2006 | EVENT | The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared. |
| 19th of September 0086 | BIRTHDAY | Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (d. 161) |
| 19th of September 0866 | BIRTHDAY | Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (d. 912) |
| 19th of September 1377 | BIRTHDAY | Albert IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1404) |
| 19th of September 1551 | BIRTHDAY | King Henry III of France (d. 1589) |
| 19th of September 1749 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (d. 1822) |
| 19th of September 1754 | BIRTHDAY | John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key (d. 1821) |
| 19th of September 1759 | BIRTHDAY | William Kirby, English entomologist (d. 1850) |
| 19th of September 1774 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian hyperpolyglot (d. 1849) |
| 19th of September 1778 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1868) |
| 19th of September 1796 | BIRTHDAY | Hartley Coleridge, English poet (d. 1849) |
| 19th of September 1799 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Caille, French explorer (d. 1838) |
| 19th of September 1802 | BIRTHDAY | Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer and Regent-President (d. 1894) |
| 19th of September 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Anna of Savoy, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1884) |
| 19th of September 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Orson Pratt, American religious leader (d. 1881) |
| 19th of September 1828 | BIRTHDAY | Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1880) |
| 19th of September 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (d. 1965) |
| 19th of September 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (d. 1972) |
| 19th of September 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Lynne Overman, American actor (d. 1943) |
| 19th of September 1888 | BIRTHDAY | J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (d. 1971) |
| 19th of September 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Sadie Delany, American physician and author (d. 1999) |
| 19th of September 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Saragat, President of the Italian Republic (d. 1988) |
| 19th of September 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Cortez, American actor (d. 1977) |
| 19th of September 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-born film producer (d. 1991) |
| 19th of September 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Jaworski, American Watergate scandal special prosecutor (d. 1982) |
| 19th of September 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr., American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1998) |
| 19th of September 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Lecourt, French politician and president of the European Court of Justice (d. 2004) |
| 19th of September 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Mika Waltari, Finnish novelist (d. 1979) |
| 19th of September 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Tatsuo Shimabuku, founder of Isshinryu Karate (d. 1975) |
| 19th of September 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile pioneer (d. 1998) |
| 19th of September 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Dunham, American animator and television producer (d. 2009) |
| 19th of September 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Lindsay, American actress (d. 1981) |
| 19th of September 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Sir William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993) |
| 19th of September 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Sanderling, German conductor |
| 19th of September 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970) |
| 19th of September 1915 | BIRTHDAY | German Valdes, Mexican actor, singer and comedian (d. 1973) |
| 19th of September 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Grenier, French Writer and animator |
| 19th of September 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Angell, American sports writer |
| 19th of September 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator & writer (d. 1997) |
| 19th of September 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Damon Knight, American writer (d. 2002) |
| 19th of September 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Emil Zatopek, Czech athlete (d. 2000) |
| 19th of September 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 19th of September 1926 | BIRTHDAY | James Lipton, American actor, writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio |
| 19th of September 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Duke Snider, American baseball player (d. 2011) |
| 19th of September 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Rosemary Harris, English actress |
| 19th of September 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Massi, American singer and guitarist (The Four Seasons) (d. 2000) |
| 19th of September 1927 | BIRTHDAY | William Hickey, American actor (d. 1997) |
| 19th of September 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Adam West, American actor |
| 19th of September 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Margheriti, Italian filmmaker (d. 2002) |
| 19th of September 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Brook Benton, American singer (d. 1988) |
| 19th of September 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Gardner, British Formula 1 car designer (d. 2011) |
| 19th of September 1933 | BIRTHDAY | David McCallum, Scottish actor |
| 19th of September 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Gilles Archambault, Canadian novelist |
| 19th of September 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Epstein, English musical group manager (The Beatles) (d. 1967) |
| 19th of September 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Hacker, American naval aviator (d. 2003) |
| 19th of September 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Al Oerter, American athlete (d. 2007) |
| 19th of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Abner Haynes, American football player |
| 19th of September 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Medley, American singer and songwriter (The Righteous Brothers) |
| 19th of September 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Karen, South African : born British actress |
| 19th of September 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Westfall, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 19th of September 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Williams, American composer |
| 19th of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Umberto Bossi, Italian politician |
| 19th of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Mama Cass Elliot, American musician (d. 1974) |
| 19th of September 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Freda Payne, American singer and actress |
| 19th of September 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Morgan, American baseball player |
| 19th of September 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Boudrias, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 19th of September 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Anders Bjorck, Swedish politician |
| 19th of September 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Succar Kuri, Lebanese-born Mexican businessman |
| 19th of September 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Randolph Mantooth, American actor |
| 19th of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Henton, English racing driver |
| 19th of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Lol Creme, English musician (10cc, Godley & Creme) |
| 19th of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Hill, American basketball head coach |
| 19th of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Gerd Schwidrowski, German footballer |
| 19th of September 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Irons, English actor |
| 19th of September 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Mihai Timofti, Moldovan director, actor and musician |
| 19th of September 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ernie Sabella, American actor |
| 19th of September 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Scheck, American lawyer, co-founder Innocence Project |
| 19th of September 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Sally Potter, English film director and screenwriter |
| 19th of September 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Twiggy, English model |
| 19th of September 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Lunden, American journalist and television host |
| 19th of September 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Lanois, Canadian record producer |
| 19th of September 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard de Dryver, Belgian racing driver |
| 19th of September 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Nile Rodgers, American musician and composer |
| 19th of September 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Gunnar Hokmark, Swedish politician |
| 19th of September 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (d. 2006) |
| 19th of September 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Rex Smith, American singer and actor |
| 19th of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Reliford, American baseball umpire |
| 19th of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Manuel Fangio II, Argentine racing driver |
| 19th of September 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Roupas, Greek-American professional basketball player |
| 19th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Hooks, American actor and director |
| 19th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Azumah Nelson, Ghanaian boxer |
| 19th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Lucky Ali, Indian singer, Composer and Actor |
| 19th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Lita Ford, American singer |
| 19th of September 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Loic Bigois, French engineer |
| 19th of September 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Batali, American chef and restaurateur |
| 19th of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Cheri Oteri, American actress and comedian |
| 19th of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Rosenthal, American sportswriter |
| 19th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jarvis Cocker, English musician (Pulp) |
| 19th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | David Seaman, English footballer |
| 19th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Marber, British playwright |
| 19th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Trisha Yearwood, American singer |
| 19th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Richards, American child actress |
| 19th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Papa, American sportscaster |
| 19th of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandra Vandernoot, Belgian actress |
| 19th of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Sabine Paturel, French singer |
| 19th of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Duval, Dutch adult movie actress |
| 19th of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Robert Rudolph, American criminal |
| 19th of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Yoshihiro Takayama, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 19th of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Soledad O'Brien, American journalist |
| 19th of September 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Abbott, American baseball player |
| 19th of September 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Stephane Crete, Canadian actor |
| 19th of September 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Karelin, Russian wrestler |
| 19th of September 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Bower, American drummer (Down),(Crowbar) |
| 19th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Alkinoos Ioannidis, Greek-Cypriot singer and composer |
| 19th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Kostya Tszyu, Russian/Australian boxer |
| 19th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Tapio Wilska, Finnish singer |
| 19th of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Bylsma, American ice hockey player |
| 19th of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Gilbert Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 19th of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Takanori Nishikawa, Japanese pop/rock singer |
| 19th of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Williams, American actor |
| 19th of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Sanaa Lathan, American actress |
| 19th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Cockbain, Australian rugby player |
| 19th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ashot Nadanian, Armenian chess player, theoretician and coach |
| 19th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Cristiano da Matta, Brazilian racing car driver |
| 19th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Colgan, Irish footballer |
| 19th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Australian actor |
| 19th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model |
| 19th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Fallon, American actor and comedian |
| 19th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Raja Bell, American basketball player |
| 19th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Hlavac, Czech ice hockey player |
| 19th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Ward, American musician (At the Drive-In, Sparta) |
| 19th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Alison Sweeney, American actress |
| 19th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica York, American television personality |
| 19th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle Cease, American actor and comedian |
| 19th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Tasha Danvers, British Olympic bronze medallist |
| 19th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Josef Fares, Swedish film director |
| 19th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Akash Chopra, Indian cricketer |
| 19th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Forster, American television host and producer and architect |
| 19th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Orlinger, American wrestler |
| 19th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Poon Yiu Cheuk, Hong Kong footballer |
| 19th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Tommaso Rocchi, Italian footballer |
| 19th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Rita, Brazilian singer |
| 19th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Fung Ka Ki, Hong Kong footballer |
| 19th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Smith (2000s pitcher), American baseball pitcher |
| 19th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Emil Sutovsky, Israeli chess Grandmaster |
| 19th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Wu Jiaduo, Chinese table tennis player |
| 19th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Johnson, baseball player |
| 19th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel Mitchell, broadcaster |
| 19th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Lopez Montana, Spanish footballer |
| 19th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Alves, Brazilian supermodel |
| 19th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Dannielle Brent, British actress |
| 19th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Houston, Australian musician and songwriter |
| 19th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Noemie Lenoir, French supermodel and actress |
| 19th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sara Quin, Canadian musician |
| 19th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Amber Lancaster, American model and actress |
| 19th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Tegan Quin, Canadian musician |
| 19th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitri Yachvili, French rugby player |
| 19th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Damiano Cunego, Italian cyclist |
| 19th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Rick DiPietro, American ice hockey player |
| 19th of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Columbus Short, American actor and choreographer |
| 19th of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Eleni Daniilidou, Greek tennis player |
| 19th of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Shaun Barker, English footballer |
| 19th of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jordan Parise, American ice hockey player |
| 19th of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole Voss, American model |
| 19th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Devine, American baseball player |
| 19th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Eamon, American pop singer |
| 19th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Haeger, American baseball player |
| 19th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Wiman, American mixed martial artist |
| 19th of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor |
| 19th of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Amber Rayne, American pornographic actress |
| 19th of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Alun-Wyn Jones, Welsh rugby player |
| 19th of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Ciolek, German cyclist |
| 19th of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Gushi, Japanese racing driver |
| 19th of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Mandy Musgrave, American actress |
| 19th of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Succop, American football player |
| 19th of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Vack, American voice actor |
| 19th of September 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Danielle Panabaker, American actress |
| 19th of September 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Britt, American football player |
| 19th of September 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Faye Reagan, American Pornographic Actress |
| 19th of September 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Tyreke Evans, Basketball player |
| 19th of September 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Evgeny Novikov, Russian rally driver |
| 19th of September 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Saki Fukuda, Japanese actress |
| 19th of September 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Demelza Reveley, Australian model |
| 19th of September 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Etel, English actor |
| 19th of September 2001 | BIRTHDAY | Taylor Geare, American child actress |
| 19th of September 2002 | BIRTHDAY | Jason and Kristopher Simmons, American identical twin actors |
| 19th of September 0690 | DEATH | Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (Born 602) |
| 19th of September 1339 | DEATH | Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (Born 1288) |
| 19th of September 1356 | DEATH | Killed at the Battle of Poitiers: |