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Events

=Pre-1600=

  • 38 – Drusilla, Caligula's sister who died in June, with whom the emperor is said to have an incestuous relationship, is deified.{{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Legrand|title=Chronicle of the World|publisher=Ecam Publication|year=1989|page=210|isbn=0-13-133463-8}}
  • 1122 – Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy.{{cite book|last=Stroll|first=Mary|title=Callixtus II (1119–1124): A Pope Born to Rule|location=Leiden|publisher=Brill|date=2004|isbn=9789004139879|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5IZSEAAAQBAJ|page=389}}
  • 1338 – The Battle of Arnemuiden, in which a French force defeats the English, is the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle in which gunpowder artillery is used.{{cite book |first=Jean-Claude |last=Castex |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U9tChhhw62AC&q=%2223+septembre+1338%22+%22bataille+navale%22&pg=PA18 |title=Dictionnaire des batailles navales franco-anglaises |publisher=Presses de l'Université Laval |year=2004 |page=21|isbn=9782763780610 }}
  • 1409 – The Battle of Kherlen is the second significant victory over Ming dynasty China by the Mongols since 1368.
  • 1459 – The Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is won by the Yorkists.Edward Hall. The Union of The Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke (1548; reprinted as Hall's Chronicle 1809; quoted in English Heritage Battlefield Report: Blore Heath 1459)
  • 1561 – King Philip II of Spain issues cedula, ordering a halt to colonizing efforts in Florida.{{cite book|first=Clifton|last=Daniel|title=Chronicle of America|publisher=Chronicle publication|year=1989|page=31|isbn=0-13-133745-9}}

=1601–1900=

  • 1642 – First English Civil War: The Battle of Powick Bridge, the first engagement between the primary field armies of the Royalists and the Parliamentarians, ended in a Royalist victory.{{cite book|last=Gaunt|first=Peter|title=The English Civil War: A Military History|location=London|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|year=2019|isbn=9781350143517|pages=69–71}}
  • 1779 – American Revolution: John Paul Jones, naval commander of the United States, on board the {{USS|Bonhomme Richard|1765|6}}, wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.{{Citation| last = Thomas| first = Ewan| title = John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy| page = 170| year = 2010| publisher = Simon and Schuster| isbn = 978-1-451-60399-6}}
  • 1803 – Second Anglo-Maratha War: The Battle of Assaye is fought between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.{{Cite book |last=Naravane |first=M.S. |title=Battles of the Honorable East India Company |publisher=A.P.H. Publishing Corporation |year=2014 |isbn=9788131300343 |pages=69–71}}
  • 1821 – Tripolitsa, Greece, is captured by Greek rebels during the Greek War of Independence.
  • 1846 – Astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.
  • 1868 – The Grito de Lares occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
  • 1879 – The Macedo-Romanian Cultural Society is founded.{{cite news|url=https://life.hotnews.ro/stiri-prin_oras-23377159-moment-aniversar-referinta-societatea-cultura-macedo-romana-implineste-140-ani-infiintare-baneadza-armanamea.htm|title=Moment aniversar de referință: Societatea de Cultură Macedo-Română împlinește 140 de ani de la înființare. S-bâneadzâ Armânamea!|first=Ionuț|last=Băiaș|newspaper=HotNews|date=20 September 2019|language=ro}}
  • 1884 – On the night of 23–24 September, the steamship Arctique runs aground near Cape Virgenes leading to the discovery of nearby placer gold, beginning the Tierra del Fuego gold rush.{{Cite journal|title=La minería aurífera en la región austral americana (1869-1950)|journal=Historia|url=https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-71942003003600009|last=Martinic Beros|first=Mateo|volume=36|doi=10.4067/S0717-71942003003600009|year=2003|doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |language=Spanish|author-link=Mateo Martinic}}
  • 1899 – The American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.

=1901–present=

  • 1905 – Norway and Sweden sign the Karlstad Treaty, peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
  • 1913 – The United Mine Workers of America launch a strike which eventually escalated into the Colorado Coalfield War.{{cite journal|title='From the Eye to the Soul': Industrial Labor's Mary Harris "Mother" Jones and the Rhetorics of Display |last1=Boor Tonn |first1=Mari |s2cid=144700584 |jstor=23064465 |journal=Rhetoric Society Quarterly |publisher=Rhetoric Society of America |volume=41 |issue=3 |pages =231–249|year=2011 |doi = 10.1080/02773945.2011.575325}}
  • 1918 – World War I: The Battle of Haifa takes place in present-day Israel, part of the Ottoman Empire at that time.{{cite web |last=Eyadat |first=Fadi |url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/on-haifa-day-india-salutes-wwi-troops-1.315380 |title=On Haifa Day India salutes World War I troops |work=Haaretz |date=24 September 2010 |access-date=24 March 2013 |archive-date=2 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102100519/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/on-haifa-day-india-salutes-wwi-troops-1.315380 |url-status=live}}
  • 1920 – The Louisiana hurricane dissipated over Kansas{{cite web|title=Documentation of Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Changes in HURDAT|url=http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/metadata_dec12.html|publisher=United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|access-date=January 16, 2013|author=Landsea, Chris|display-authors=etal}} after forcing around 4,500 people to evacuate{{cite news|title=4,500 Move Out of Galveston|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/09/22/107002526.pdf|access-date=January 17, 2013|newspaper=New York Times|date=September 21, 1920}} and causing $1.45 million in damages.
  • 1932 – Saudi National Day: Crown Prince (later king) Faisal of Saudi Arabia, on behalf of Ibn Saud, proclaims the unification of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the current iteration of the Third Saudi State.{{Cite web |title=Saudi National Day |url=https://www.mofa.gov.sa/en/ksa/Pages/nationalday.aspx |access-date=2025-02-13 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia |language=en-US}}
  • 1942 – World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins: U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.
  • 1947 – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes South Khorasan in Iran, killing over 500 people.{{cite web |title=Significant Earthquake Information|date=1972 |doi=10.7289/V5TD9V7K |url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-more-info/3863 |publisher=National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS): NCEI/WDS Global Significant Earthquake Database. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information |access-date=7 June 2024 |author=National Geophysical Data Center }}
  • 1950 – Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282 is the first US friendly-fire incident on British military personnel since World War II.
  • 1951 – George VI, king of the United Kingdom, has his left lung removed in an operation after a malignant tumour was found.{{cite news|title=King Has a Lung Operation|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=24 September 1951|pages=1, 8|postscript=none}}; {{cite news|title=King's Condition Critical After Two-Hour-Long Operation|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=24 September 1951|pages=1, 2}}
  • 1952 – After being accused of financial improprieties, Senator Richard Nixon delivers his "Checkers speech" nationwide on television and radio, defending his actions and successfully salvaging his nomination as the Republican candidate for Vice President.{{cite book|last=Bochin|first=Hal|title=Richard Nixon: Rhetorical Strategist|location=New York|publisher=Greenwood Press|date=1990|isbn=9780313261084|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gOjEEAAAQBAJ|pages=33–34, 40–44}}
  • 1955 – An all-white jury in Mississippi finds Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam not guilty in the torture-murder of 14-year-old African American boy Emmett Till.{{cite book|last=Whitfield|first=Stephen|title=A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till|location=Baltimore|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|year=1991|isbn=9780801843266|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vxoAEAAAQBAJ|page=42}}
  • 1956 – A tropical storm originating in the eastern Pacific Ocean passes into the Gulf of Mexico and is upgraded and named Hurricane Flossy just hours before striking the Gulf Coast and causing 15 deaths and an estimated USD$24.8 million in damages.{{cite book|last=Barnes|first=Jay|title=Florida's Hurricane History|location=Chapel Hill, N.C.|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|date=2007|isbn=9780807830680|url=https://archive.org/details/floridashurrican00barn|pages=194–195}}
  • 1957 – Little Rock schools integration crisis: President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, and federalizes the Arkansas National Guard, ordering both to support the integration of Little Rock Central High School.{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Jean Edward|title=Eisenhower in War and Peace|location=New York|publisher=Random House|date=2012|isbn=9780679644293|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_LhouUaI5ecC|pages=723–724}}
  • 1961 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy nominates African American civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit,{{cite book|last=Tushnet|first=Mark V.|title=Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961–1991|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=1997|isbn=9780195093148|url=https://archive.org/details/makingconstituti0000tush/page/n5/mode/2up|page=10}} although pro-segregation Southern senators manage to delay his confirmation until September 11, 1962.{{cite book|last=Ball|first=Howard|title=A Defiant Life: Thurgood Marshall and the Persistence of Racism in America|location=New York|publisher=Crown Publishers|date=1998|isbn=9780517599310|url=https://archive.org/details/defiantlifethurg00ball|pages=181–183}}
  • 1962 – Flying Tiger Line Flight 923, a Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation registered as N6923C, ditched into the Atlantic Ocean killing 28 out the 76 occupants onboard. The remaining 48 were rescued six hours later.{{Cite web |title=Accident Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation N6923C, Sunday 23 September 1962 |url=https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/333234 |access-date=2024-11-17 |website=asn.flightsafety.org}}{{Cite web |title=Crash of a Lockheed L-1049H-82 Super Constellation into the Atlantic Ocean: 28 killed {{!}} Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives |url=https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-lockheed-l-1049h-82-super-constellation-atlantic-ocean-28-killed |access-date=2024-11-17 |website=www.baaa-acro.com}}
  • 1964 – Typhoon Wilda, one of the strongest typhoons to ever strike Japan, makes landfall,{{cite news|title=Typhoon Wilda Hits Japan With 100 MPH Wind|work=The Sacramento Bee|date=September 24, 1964|page=B4}} causing at least 30 fatalities{{cite news|last=Taylor|first=Gregory|title=Typhoon Batters Olympic City|work=The Age|date=September 26, 1964|pages=1, 4}} and sinking at least 64 ships.{{cite news|title=Wilda's Damage: 30 Dead, 8 lost|work=Santa Ana Register|date=September 25, 1964|page=A7}}
  • 1967 – Seven people die, 46 people are injured, and more than 150 boats capsize when a squall hit Lake Michigan during Michigan's first coho salmon sport fishing season.{{cite news|last=Hansen|first=Jerome|title=Lake Squall Traps Boats; Six Anglers Die|work=Detroit Free Press|date=September 24, 1967|pages=A1, A17|postscript=none}}; {{cite news|title=At Least 7 Die As Squall Tips Lake Michigan Boats|work=New York Daily News|date=September 24, 1967|page=C2}}
  • 1973 – Argentine general election: Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
  • 1983 – Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 112 people on board.
  • 1999 – Qantas Flight 1 overrun a runway in Bangkok during a storm, causing minor injuries to some passengers.{{Cite web|url=https://skybrary.aero/accidents-and-incidents/b744-bangkok-thailand-1999|title=B744, Bangkok Thailand, 1999|access-date=2025-02-28|website=sky bary}}
  • 2004 – Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.
  • 2008 – Matti Saari kills ten people at a school in Finland before committing suicide.{{cite web |title=Finnish college gunman kills 10 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7630969.stm |website=BBC News |access-date=23 September 2020 |date=23 September 2008}}
  • 2010 – Teresa Lewis becomes the first woman to be executed by the U.S. state of Virginia since 1912, and the first woman in the state to be executed by lethal injection.{{cite news|title=Teresa Lewis executed in Virginia|work=UPI|date=September 23, 2010|accessdate=September 23, 2024|url=https://www.upi.com/Teresa-Lewis-executed-in-Virginia/70171285262137/}}
  • 2013 – Twenty-five people are killed after Typhoon Usagi passes Hong Kong and China.{{Cite web |date=2013-09-22 |title=Typhoon Usagi kills at least 25 people in China |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-24193201.amp |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=BBC News |language=en-gb}}
  • 2019 – Twenty people die on the first of two days of rioting in Papua and West Papua over an alleged racist incident.{{cite news|title=20 killed in protests in Indonesia's Papua|work=AP|date=September 23, 2019|accessdate=September 23, 2024|url=https://apnews.com/94beb45b65c849d5b6f98682fb0d7d7d|postscript=none}}; {{cite news|title=Papua unrest death toll hits 26: Indonesian police|website=Agence France-Presse|date=September 24, 2019|accessdate=September 23, 2024|url=https://www.afp.com/en/news/3954/papua-unrest-death-toll-hits-26-indonesian-police-doc-1kk5jc1|archive-date=September 24, 2019|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20190924125821/https://www.afp.com/en/news/3954/papua-unrest-death-toll-hits-26-indonesian-police-doc-1kk5jc1|url-status=dead}}
  • 2020 – A grand jury in Kentucky declines to indict three police officers for the shooting death of Breonna Taylor in a drug raid gone wrong, leading to nationwide protests in the U.S.{{cite news|last1=Williams|first1=Kevin|last2=Craig|first2=Tim|last3=Tati|first3=Marisa|title=Kentucky grand jury declines to file homicide charges in death of Breonna Taylor|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=September 23, 2020|accessdate=September 23, 2024|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/kentucky-grand-jury-declines-to-file-homicide-charges-in-death-of-breonna-taylor/2020/09/23/2472392a-fdb7-11ea-b555-4d71a9254f4b_story.html|postscript=none}}; {{cite web|title=Breonna Taylor's family speaks out as protests continue nationwide|website=Good Morning America|date=September 26, 2020|accessdate=September 23, 2024|url=https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/video/breonna-taylors-family-speaks-protests-continue-nationwide-73259094}}
  • 2022 – Voting begins in the five-day sham annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine, leading to Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.{{cite news|last=Arhirova|first=Anna|title=Occupied Ukraine Holds Kremlin-Staged Vote on Joining Russia|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=September 24, 2022|page=A3|accessdate=September 23, 2024|url=https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-09-23/occupied-regions-ukraine-vote-on-joining-russia|postscript=none}}; {{cite news|title=Russia Stages 'Referendums' to Annex Occupied Ukraine Lands|work=Bloomberg|date=September 23, 2022|accessdate=September 23, 2024|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-23/russia-stages-referendums-to-annex-occupied-ukraine-lands |archive-date=October 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001212939/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-23/russia-stages-referendums-to-annex-occupied-ukraine-lands|url-status=live|postscript=none}}; {{cite news|title=Putin Signs Independence Decrees in Precursor to Seizing Ukrainian Regions|website=RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty|date=September 30, 2022|accessdate=September 23, 2024|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-to-accept-ukrainian-regions-into-russia-sham-referendums/32057599.html|archive-date=October 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001213956/https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-to-accept-ukrainian-regions-into-russia-sham-referendums/32057599.html|url-status=live}}
  • 2024 – Israel launches airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, killing more than 490 people.{{Cite web |date=2024-09-23 |title=Is this war? The Israeli-Hezbollah conflict is hard to define — or predict |url=https://apnews.com/article/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-conflict-war-57eb5ef4a77f3bcc0d2b920bc4536706 |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=AP News |language=en}}

Births

=Pre-1600=

=1601–1900=

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|date=November 12, 1938

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|access-date=February 28, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605105457/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10D15FE3859117389DDAB0994D9415B888FF1D3

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=1901–present=

Deaths

=Pre-1600=

=1601–1900=

=1901–present=

  • 1913 – Donato Álvarez, Argentinian general (born 1825)
  • 1917 – Werner Voss, German lieutenant and pilot (born 1897)
  • 1929 – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-German chemist, physicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1865)
  • 1939 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (born 1856)
  • 1939 – Francisco León de la Barra, Mexican politician and diplomat, interim president, 1911 (born 1863){{cite web|url=https://presidentes.mx/francisco-leon-de-la-barra|publisher=Presidentes.mx|access-date=May 28, 2019|title=Francisco León de la Barra|language=es}}
  • 1940 – Hale Holden, American businessman (born 1869)
  • 1943 – Elinor Glyn, English author, screenwriter, and producer (born 1864)
  • 1944 – Jakob Schaffner, Swiss author and critic (born 1875)
  • 1950 – Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (born 1892)
  • 1951 – Siegfried Bettmann, German engineer (born 1863){{cite web|title=On This Day In Automotive History Motoring|website=365 Days Of Motoring|date=23 September 1951 |url=https://365daysofmotoring.com/siegfried-bettmann-87-german-born-bicycle-motorcycle-and-car-manufacturer-and-initiator-of-the-triumph-motorcycle-company-died/}}
  • 1958 – Jacob Nicol, Canadian publisher, lawyer, and politician (born 1876)
  • 1967 – Stanislaus Zbyszko, Polish wrestler and strongman (born 1879)
  • 1968 – Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian priest and saint (born 1887)
  • 1971 – James Waddell Alexander II, American mathematician and topologist (born 1888)
  • 1973 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)
  • 1974 – Cliff Arquette, American actor and comedian (born 1905)
  • 1974 – Robbie McIntosh, Scottish drummer (born 1950)
  • 1978 – Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (born 1950)
  • 1979 – Catherine Lacey, English actress (born 1904)
  • 1980 – [[Jim Fouché, State President of South Africa (born 1898){{Cite encyclopedia |last= |first= |title=Jacobus Johannes Fouché |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jacobus-Johannes-Fouche |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. |access-date=2025-06-05}}
  • 1981 – Chief Dan George, Canadian actor, author, and poet (born 1899){{cite book |last1=Berumen |first1=Frank Javier Garcia |title=American Indian Image Makers of Hollywood |date=2020 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9781476636474 |pages=187–188}}
  • 1987 – Bob Fosse, American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director (born 1927)
  • 1988 – Tibor Sekelj, Hungarian-Serbian explorer and author (born 1912)
  • 1992 – Ivar Ivask, Estonian poet and scholar (born 1927)
  • 1992 – Glendon Swarthout, American author and academic (born 1918)
  • 1992 – James Van Fleet, American general (born 1892)
  • 1994 – Jerry Barber, American golfer (born 1916)
  • 1994 – Robert Bloch, American author and screenwriter (born 1917)
  • 1994 – Madeleine Renaud, French actress (born 1900)
  • 1997 – Natalie Savage Carlson, American author (born 1906)
  • 1998 – Ray Bowden, English footballer (born 1909)
  • 1998 – Mary Frann, American actress (born 1943)
  • 1999 – Ivan Goff, Australian-American screenwriter and producer (born 1910)
  • 2000 – Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican baseball player and manager (born 1947)
  • 2000 – Carl Rowan, American journalist and author (born 1925)
  • 2000 – Raoul Berger, American attorney and law professor (born 1901)
  • 2001 – Ron Hewitt, Welsh footballer (born 1928)
  • 2003 – Yuri Senkevich, Russian physician and journalist (born 1937)
  • 2004 – Billy Reay, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1918)
  • 2005 – Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (born 1933)
  • 2006 – Malcolm Arnold, English trumpet player and composer (born 1921)
  • 2006 – Etta Baker, American singer and guitarist (born 1913)
  • 2008 – Peter Leonard, Australian journalist (born 1942)
  • 2008 – Loren Pope, American journalist and author (born 1910)
  • 2009 – Paul B. Fay, American sailor and politician, United States Secretary of the Navy (born 1918)
  • 2010 – Malcolm Douglas, Australian hunter and television host (born 1941)
  • 2012 – Henry Champ, Canadian journalist and academic (born 1937)
  • 2012 – Pavel Grachev, Russian general and politician, 1st Minister of Defence for Russia (born 1948)
  • 2012 – Roberto Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player and coach (born 1941)
  • 2012 – Corrie Sanders, South African boxer (born 1966)
  • 2012 – Sam Sniderman, Canadian businessman, founded Sam the Record Man (born 1920)
  • 2013 – Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj, Syrian colonel and politician (born 1925)
  • 2013 – Gil Dozier, American captain, lawyer, and politician (born 1934)
  • 2013 – Ruth Patrick, American botanist and immunologist (born 1907)
  • 2014 – A. W. Davis, American basketball player and coach (born 1943)
  • 2014 – Irven DeVore, American anthropologist and biologist (born 1934)
  • 2014 – Don Manoukian, American football player and wrestler (born 1934)
  • 2014 – Al Suomi, American ice hockey player and referee (born 1913)
  • 2015 – Dayananda Saraswati, Indian monk and philosopher (born 1930)
  • 2018 – Charles Kuen Kao, Hong Kong-American-British electrical engineer and physicist (born 1933){{cite web|url=http://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news.php?id=200486 |title=Physics Nobel laureate Charles Kao dies after long battle with Alzheimer's|date=2018-09-24|newspaper=The Standard}}
  • 2018 – Gary Kurtz, American film producer (born 1940){{cite web |title=Gary Kurtz |url=https://www.bafta.org/heritage/in-memory-of/gary-kurtz |website=www.bafta.org |access-date=5 April 2021 |language=en |date=20 November 2018}}
  • 2018 – Jane Fortune, American author, journalist, and philanthropist (born1942){{cite web|url=http://www.artsy.net/news/artsy-editorial-jane-fortune-author-philanthropist-championed-women-artists-died-76|title=Jane Fortune, an author and philanthropist who championed women artists, has died at 76.|website=Artsy News|date=25 September 2018 |access-date=2018-09-26}}
  • 2020 – Juliette Gréco, French singer and actress (born 1927){{cite news|url= https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-44230634|title= Obituary: Juliette Gréco dies aged 93|date=2020-09-23|website=BBC News|access-date=2020-10-23}}
  • 2021 – John Elliott, Australian businessman (born 1941){{cite news |title=Long-time Carlton president John Elliott dead aged 79 |url=https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/teams/carlton-blues/afl-2021-former-carlton-president-john-elliott-dies-aged-79-how-did-he-die-liberal-party-president-history-at-blues/news-story/d54b1f816267ebeed8c67c7c0e762db4 |access-date=23 September 2021 |work=Fox Sports |date=23 September 2021 |language=en}}
  • 2021 – Nino Vaccarella, Italian race car driver (born 1933){{cite web |last=Tobin |first=Dominic |date=September 23, 2021 |title=Targa Florio hero Nino Vaccarella dies aged 88 |url=https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sports-cars/targa-florio-hero-nino-vaccarella-dies-aged-88 |access-date=March 4, 2022 |website=MotorSport}}

Holidays and observances

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  • {{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/23 |title=On This Day |publisher=BBC}}
  • {{NYT On this day|month=09|day=23}}
  • {{cite web |url=https://www.onthisday.com/events/september/23 |title=Historical Events on September 23 |publisher=OnThisDay.com}}

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