- Change theme
Search by Keyword
Search by Date
This Day On History
| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 23rd of September 1122 | EVENT | Concordat of Worms. |
| 23rd of September 1409 | EVENT | Battle of Kherlen, the second significant victory over Ming China by the Mongols since 1368. |
| 23rd of September 1459 | EVENT | Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire. |
| 23rd of September 1641 | EVENT | The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure worth over a billion US dollars, is lost at sea off Land's End. |
| 23rd of September 1642 | EVENT | First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College. |
| 23rd of September 1779 | EVENT | 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. |
| 23rd of September 1780 | EVENT | American Revolution: British Major John Andre is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides. |
| 23rd of September 1803 | EVENT | Second Anglo-Maratha War: Battle of Assaye between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India. |
| 23rd of September 1806 | EVENT | Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States. |
| 23rd of September 1821 | EVENT | Tripolitsa, Greece, falls and 30,000 Turks are massacred. |
| 23rd of September 1845 | EVENT | The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York. |
| 23rd of September 1846 | EVENT | 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. |
| 23rd of September 1857 | EVENT | The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard. |
| 23rd of September 1868 | EVENT | Grito de Lares ("Lares Revolt") occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule. |
| 23rd of September 1889 | EVENT | Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda. |
| 23rd of September 1905 | EVENT | Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries. |
| 23rd of September 1908 | EVENT | University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded. |
| 23rd of September 1909 | EVENT | The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantome de l'Opera), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois. |
| 23rd of September 1922 | EVENT | In Washington D. C., Charles Evans Hughes signs the Hughes-Peynado agreement, that ends the occupation of Dominican Republic by the United States. |
| 23rd of September 1932 | EVENT | The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. |
| 23rd of September 1938 | EVENT | Mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in response to the Munich Crisis. |
| 23rd of September 1941 | EVENT | World War II: The first gas chamber experiments are conducted at Auschwitz. |
| 23rd of September 1942 | EVENT | 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. |
| 23rd of September 1943 | EVENT | World War II: The so-called Salo Republic is born. |
| 23rd of September 1952 | EVENT | Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers speech". |
| 23rd of September 1959 | EVENT | Iowa farmer and corn breeder Roswell Garst hosts Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev. |
| 23rd of September 1959 | EVENT | The MS Princess of Tasmania, Australia's first passenger roll-on/roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait. |
| 23rd of September 1962 | EVENT | 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. |
| 23rd of September 1969 | EVENT | The Chicago Eight trial opens in Chicago. |
| 23rd of September 1972 | EVENT | Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos announces over television and radio the implementation of martial law. |
| 23rd of September 1973 | EVENT | Juan Peron returns to power in Argentina. |
| 23rd of September 1983 | EVENT | Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations. |
| 23rd of September 1983 | EVENT | Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa becomes the first African boxing world heavyweight champion. |
| 23rd of September 1983 | EVENT | Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board. |
| 23rd of September 1986 | EVENT | 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. |
| 23rd of September 1988 | EVENT | Jose Canseco of the Oakland Athletics becomes the first member of the 40-40 club. |
| 23rd of September 1992 | EVENT | A large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys forensic laboratories in Belfast. |
| 23rd of September 1999 | EVENT | Celebrate Bisexuality Day was first observed in the United States. |
| 23rd of September 1999 | EVENT | 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. |
| 23rd of September 1999 | EVENT | NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter. |
| 23rd of September 2002 | EVENT | The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released. |
| 23rd of September 2004 | EVENT | Hurricane Jeanne: At least 1,070 in Haiti are reported to have been killed by floods. |
| 23rd of September 2008 | EVENT | Kauhajoki school shooting: Matti Saari kills 10 people before committing suicide. |
| 23rd of September 1158 | BIRTHDAY | Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1186) |
| 23rd of September 1161 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Takakura of Japan (d. 1181) |
| 23rd of September 1215 | BIRTHDAY | Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1294) |
| 23rd of September 1434 | BIRTHDAY | Yolande of Valois, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1478) |
| 23rd of September 1598 | BIRTHDAY | Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655) |
| 23rd of September 1647 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Dudley, American statesman (d. 1720) |
| 23rd of September 1650 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Collier, English bishop (d. 1726) |
| 23rd of September 1713 | BIRTHDAY | King Ferdinand VI of Spain (d. 1759) |
| 23rd of September 1740 | BIRTHDAY | Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813) |
| 23rd of September 1759 | BIRTHDAY | Clothilde of France, Queen of Piedmont-Sardinia (d. 1802) |
| 23rd of September 1771 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840) |
| 23rd of September 1778 | BIRTHDAY | Mariano Moreno, secretary of war of the Primera Junta (d. 1811) |
| 23rd of September 1781 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1860) |
| 23rd of September 1791 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865) |
| 23rd of September 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d. 1896) |
| 23rd of September 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Victoria Woodhull, American suffragist (d. 1927) |
| 23rd of September 1852 | BIRTHDAY | William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon (d. 1922) |
| 23rd of September 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942) |
| 23rd of September 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Eliza Church Terrell, American writer (d. 1954) |
| 23rd of September 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Draga Masin, Queen of Serbia (d. 1903) |
| 23rd of September 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Emmuska Orczy, British novelist (d. 1947) |
| 23rd of September 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary, first carrier of typhoid (d. 1938) |
| 23rd of September 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and Talmudic scholar, and Israel Prize recipient (d. 1968) |
| 23rd of September 1880 | BIRTHDAY | John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel Laureate (d. 1971) |
| 23rd of September 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Lippmann, American journalist (d. 1974) |
| 23rd of September 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Paulus, German general (d. 1957) |
| 23rd of September 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Miron Merzhanov, Soviet architect (d. 1975) |
| 23rd of September 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (d. 1985) |
| 23rd of September 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (d. 1984) |
| 23rd of September 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Tom C. Clark, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1977) |
| 23rd of September 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (d. 1988) |
| 23rd of September 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Stone, British serviceman who served during World War I (d. 2009) |
| 23rd of September 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1986) |
| 23rd of September 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (d. 2003) |
| 23rd of September 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Ritchie, Canadian diplomat (d. 1995) |
| 23rd of September 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Dominique Aury, French novelist (d. 1998) |
| 23rd of September 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, heir to the throne of Portugal (d. 1976) |
| 23rd of September 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Lorenc Antoni, Kosovo Albanian composer (d. 1991) |
| 23rd of September 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Moss, United States Senator from Utah (d. 2003) |
| 23rd of September 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Smith, American sculptor (d. 1980) |
| 23rd of September 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani researcher, critic and linguist (d. 2005) |
| 23rd of September 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish artist, member of the CoBrA movement (d. 2007) |
| 23rd of September 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (d. 1986) |
| 23rd of September 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel Laureate (d. 2001) |
| 23rd of September 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Aldo Moro, Italian politician (d. 1978) |
| 23rd of September 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Mickey Rooney, American actor |
| 23rd of September 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan newspaper editor (d. 1978) |
| 23rd of September 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Schultz, Estonian cultural functionary |
| 23rd of September 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Eleonora Rossi Drago, Italian actress (d. 2007) |
| 23rd of September 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (d. 2006) |
| 23rd of September 1926 | BIRTHDAY | John Coltrane, American saxophonist (d. 1967) |
| 23rd of September 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Wally Whyton, English musician (d. 1997) |
| 23rd of September 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Sehba Akhtar, Pakistani poet (d. 1996) |
| 23rd of September 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Blakely, British actor (d. 1987) |
| 23rd of September 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004) |
| 23rd of September 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Stairs Merrithew, Canadian educator (d. 2004) |
| 23rd of September 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan |
| 23rd of September 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Valentin Paniagua, Peruvian politician |
| 23rd of September 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvain Saudan, Swiss extreme skier |
| 23rd of September 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Dr. Tareq Suheimat, Jordanian physician, nephrologist |
| 23rd of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Poulin, Canadian novelist |
| 23rd of September 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Lester, American actor |
| 23rd of September 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Romy Schneider, French actress (d. 1982) |
| 23rd of September 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Blofeld, English cricket commentator |
| 23rd of September 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (d. 1988) |
| 23rd of September 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Janusz Gajos, Polish actor |
| 23rd of September 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Sonny Vaccaro, American former sports executive |
| 23rd of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Nolet, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 23rd of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | George Jackson, American civil-rights activist (d. 1971) |
| 23rd of September 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Sila Maria Calderon, Puerto Rican politician |
| 23rd of September 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer |
| 23rd of September 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Marty Schottenheimer, American football coach |
| 23rd of September 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Tanuja, Indian actress |
| 23rd of September 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Bogle, British/Australian singer and songwriter |
| 23rd of September 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Petersen, American actor |
| 23rd of September 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Igor Ivanov, Russian politician |
| 23rd of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Fischler, Austrian politician |
| 23rd of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Bordeleau, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 23rd of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Kay Place, American actress |
| 23rd of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Neal Smith, American musician (Alice Cooper's drummer) |
| 23rd of September 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter |
| 23rd of September 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Bego, American biographer |
| 23rd of September 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Morrison, American baseball player |
| 23rd of September 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Barnett, American actor (d. 1996) |
| 23rd of September 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Cherie Blair, British lawyer and spouse of former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair |
| 23rd of September 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer |
| 23rd of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Peter David, American writer |
| 23rd of September 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Fossas, Cuban baseball player |
| 23rd of September 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Kumar Sanu, Indian playback singer |
| 23rd of September 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Rosalind Chao, American actress |
| 23rd of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Danielle Dax, British musician |
| 23rd of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Marvin Lewis, American football coach |
| 23rd of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Mize, American golfer |
| 23rd of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Khaled El Sheikh, Bahraini singer, songwriter and composer |
| 23rd of September 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Alexander, American actor |
| 23rd of September 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Page, English singer and songwriter |
| 23rd of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Chi McBride, American actor |
| 23rd of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Willie McCool, American astronaut (d. 2003) |
| 23rd of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Pena, American actress |
| 23rd of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Anne-Marie Cadieux, Canadian actress |
| 23rd of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Clayton Blackmore, Welsh footballer |
| 23rd of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Krystkowiak, American basketball player and head coach |
| 23rd of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer (B'z) |
| 23rd of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Phillips, American author |
| 23rd of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | LisaRaye, American actress |
| 23rd of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Harnisch, American baseball player |
| 23rd of September 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Yvette Fielding, English television presenter |
| 23rd of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Audette, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 23rd of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Fiori, French singer |
| 23rd of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Tapio Laukkanen, Finnish rally driver |
| 23rd of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Thomas, American actress (d. 1998) |
| 23rd of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Ani DiFranco, American musician |
| 23rd of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Georgios Koltsidas, Greek footballer |
| 23rd of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Moin Khan, Pakistani cricketer |
| 23rd of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Montross, American basketball player |
| 23rd of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Mi-yeon, South Korean actress |
| 23rd of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Bettens, Belgian singer (K's Choice) |
| 23rd of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jermaine Dupri, American music producer and rapper |
| 23rd of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Pilkington, British radio personality |
| 23rd of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ana Marie Cox, American blogger and author |
| 23rd of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Shim Eun-ha, South Korean actress |
| 23rd of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ingrid Fliter, Argentinian pianist |
| 23rd of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Artim Sakiri, Macedonian football player |
| 23rd of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler |
| 23rd of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Harumi Inoue, Japanese actress and model |
| 23rd of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Dong-moon, South Korean badminton player |
| 23rd of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Layzie Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) |
| 23rd of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jaime Bergman, American model and actress |
| 23rd of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Hawkins, British radio personality |
| 23rd of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Miller, Irish rugby player |
| 23rd of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Faune A. Chambers, American actress |
| 23rd of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Kip Pardue, American actor and model |
| 23rd of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Wladimir Sidorenko, Ukrainian boxer |
| 23rd of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Matthieu Descoteaux, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 23rd of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress (d. 2008) |
| 23rd of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Fabio Ongaro, Italian rugby player |
| 23rd of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Rachael Yamagata, American singer and songwriter |
| 23rd of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Worm Miller, American filmmaker |
| 23rd of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Keri Lynn Pratt, American actress |
| 23rd of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Lote Tuqiri, Fijian/Australian Rugby League and Rugby Union Player |
| 23rd of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ricky Davis, American basketball player |
| 23rd of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Cameron Litvack, American television producer |
| 23rd of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Matt White, American singer |
| 23rd of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Doornbos, Dutch racing driver |
| 23rd of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Misti Traya, American actress |
| 23rd of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Natalie Horler, German singer (Cascada) |
| 23rd of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Mait Kunnap, Estonian tennis player |
| 23rd of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornographic actress |
| 23rd of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mart Israel, Estonian discus thrower |
| 23rd of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Joffery Lupul, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 23rd of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Anneliese van der Pol, American actress |
| 23rd of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Kemp, American baseball player |
| 23rd of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Brohm, American football player |
| 23rd of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Joba Chamberlain, American baseball player |
| 23rd of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Maki Goto, Japanese pop singer |
| 23rd of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Lukas Kaspar, Czech ice hockey player |
| 23rd of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Hossein Ka'abi, Iranian footballer |
| 23rd of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Cranie, English footballer |
| 23rd of September 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Martin del Potro, Argentinian tennis player |
| 23rd of September 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Yannick Weber, Swiss ice hockey player |
| 23rd of September 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Jennings, American basketball player |
| 23rd of September 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Agustin Sierra, Argentine actor |
| 23rd of September 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Melanie Oudin, American tennis player |
| 23rd of September 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Key, Korean pop singer (SHINee) |
| 23rd of September 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie Borja, Welsh actress |
| 23rd of September 0079 | DEATH | Pope Linus |
| 23rd of September 1193 | DEATH | Robert de Sable, Grand Master of the Knights Templar |
| 23rd of September 1241 | DEATH | Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (Born 1178) |
| 23rd of September 1390 | DEATH | John I, Duke of Lorraine (Born 1346) |
| 23rd of September 1535 | DEATH | Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (Born 1513) |
| 23rd of September 1571 | DEATH | John Jewel, English bishop (Born 1522) |
| 23rd of September 1573 | DEATH | Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (Born 1524) |
| 23rd of September 1605 | DEATH | Pontus de Tyard, French poet |
| 23rd of September 1675 | DEATH | Valentin Conrart, founder of the Academie Francaise (Born 1603) |
| 23rd of September 1728 | DEATH | Christian Thomasius, German jurist (Born 1655) |
| 23rd of September 1738 | DEATH | Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician (Born 1668) |
| 23rd of September 1764 | DEATH | Robert Dodsley, English writer (Born 1703) |
| 23rd of September 1773 | DEATH | Johann Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist (Born 1718) |
| 23rd of September 1789 | DEATH | John Rogers, American Continental Congressman (Born 1723) |
| 23rd of September 1830 | DEATH | Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, American First Lady (Born 1768) |
| 23rd of September 1835 | DEATH | Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (Born 1801) |
| 23rd of September 1844 | DEATH | Alexander von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (Born 1783) |
| 23rd of September 1846 | DEATH | John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (Born 1818) |
| 23rd of September 1850 | DEATH | Jose Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan soldier and statesman (Born 1764) |
| 23rd of September 1851 | DEATH | Emilie Gamelin, Canadian Catholic nun, founder of the Sisters of Providence (Born 1800) |
| 23rd of September 1867 | DEATH | Michael O'Laughlen, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (Born 1840) |
| 23rd of September 1870 | DEATH | Prosper Merimee, French author (Born 1803) |
| 23rd of September 1871 | DEATH | Louis-Joseph Papineau, French Canadian politician (Born 1786) |
| 23rd of September 1873 | DEATH | Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (Born 1823) |
| 23rd of September 1877 | DEATH | Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician (Born 1811) |
| 23rd of September 1889 | DEATH | Wilkie Collins, British author (Born 1824) |
| 23rd of September 1900 | DEATH | William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist and university founder (Born 1816) |
| 23rd of September 1917 | DEATH | Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (Born 1897) |
| 23rd of September 1929 | DEATH | Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1865) |
| 23rd of September 1939 | DEATH | Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist, founder of Psychoanalysis (Born 1856) |
| 23rd of September 1943 | DEATH | Elinor Glyn, English author (Born 1864) |
| 23rd of September 1944 | DEATH | Jakob Schaffner, Swiss novelist (Born 1875) |
| 23rd of September 1945 | DEATH | Salvo D'Acquisto, Italian Carabiniere (Born 1920) |
| 23rd of September 1950 | DEATH | Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (Born 1892) |
| 23rd of September 1958 | DEATH | Jacob Nicol, Canadian newspaper publisher and politician (Born 1876) |
| 23rd of September 1968 | DEATH | Francesco Forgione, Italian Catholic saint (Born 1887) |
| 23rd of September 1970 | DEATH | Bourvil, French actor and singer (Born 1917) |
| 23rd of September 1971 | DEATH | Billy Gilbert, American actor (Born 1894) |
| 23rd of September 1971 | DEATH | J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (Born 1888) |
| 23rd of September 1973 | DEATH | Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel laureate (Born 1904) |
| 23rd of September 1974 | DEATH | Robbie McIntosh, Scottish musician (Average White Band) (Born 1950) |
| 23rd of September 1974 | DEATH | Cliff Arquette, American comedian and actor (Born 1905) |
| 23rd of September 1978 | DEATH | Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (murdered) (Born 1950) |
| 23rd of September 1981 | DEATH | Chief Dan George, Canadian actor (Born 1899) |
| 23rd of September 1987 | DEATH | Bob Fosse, American dancer, choreographer, and actor (Born 1927) |
| 23rd of September 1988 | DEATH | Tibor Sekelj, Jewish-Yugoslavian explorer (Born 1912) |
| 23rd of September 1992 | DEATH | James Van Fleet, U.S. Army general (Born 1892) |
| 23rd of September 1994 | DEATH | Jerry Barber, American golfer (Born 1916) |
| 23rd of September 1994 | DEATH | Robert Bloch, American author (Born 1917) |
| 23rd of September 1994 | DEATH | Madeleine Renaud, French theater and film actress (Born 1900) |
| 23rd of September 1996 | DEATH | Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoonist (Born 1933) |
| 23rd of September 1998 | DEATH | Mary Frann, American actress (Born 1943) |
| 23rd of September 1998 | DEATH | Ray Bowden, English footballer (Born 1909) |
| 23rd of September 1999 | DEATH | Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (Born 1910) |
| 23rd of September 2000 | DEATH | Aurelio Rodriguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player (Born 1947) |
| 23rd of September 2000 | DEATH | Carl Rowan, American journalist (Born 1925) |
| 23rd of September 2001 | DEATH | Ron Hewitt, Welsh footballer (Born 1928) |
| 23rd of September 2002 | DEATH | Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster (Born 1927) |
| 23rd of September 2003 | DEATH | Ronnie Dawson, American rockabilly musician (Born 1939) |
| 23rd of September 2003 | DEATH | Yuri Senkevich, Russian TV anchorman (Born 1937) |
| 23rd of September 2004 | DEATH | Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (Born 1918) |
| 23rd of September 2004 | DEATH | Andre Hazes, Dutch singer (Born 1951) |
| 23rd of September 2004 | DEATH | Bob Mason, English actor (Born 1952) |
| 23rd of September 2005 | DEATH | Filiberto Ojeda, Puerto Rican revolutionary (Born 1933) |
| 23rd of September 2005 | DEATH | Roger Brierley, English actor (Born 1935) |
| 23rd of September 2006 | DEATH | Sir Malcolm Arnold, English composer and professional trumpeter (Born 1921) |
| 23rd of September 2006 | DEATH | Etta Baker, American blues guitarist (Born 1913) |
| 23rd of September 2008 | DEATH | Loren Pope, American writer (Born 1910) |
| 23rd of September 2008 | DEATH | Peter Leonard, Australian journalist (Born 1942) |
| 23rd of September 2009 | DEATH | Paul B. Fay, American businessman and cabinet member in the Kennedy administration (Born 1918 |
| 23rd of September 2010 | DEATH | Malcolm Douglas, Australian conservationist (Born 1941) |
| 23rd of September 2010 | DEATH | Teresa Lewis, American murderer (Born 1969) |