Historical Events
- Sep 11 Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh dies after being assaulted and fatally wounded on September 10.
- Sep 11 The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety enters into effect.
- Sep 12 In Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
- Sep 13 28th Toronto International Film Festival: "Zatoichi" directed by Takeshi Kitano wins the People's Choice Award
Sports History
Sep 13 Anna Stöhr wins a gold medal in lead climbing at the European Youth Cup in Niederwangen, Switzerland
- Sep 13 British rock singer Mike Smith (Dave Clark Five) fractures spine falling while trying to enter his home after locking himself out, becomes permanently paralyzed from the waist down
- Sep 14 Baltimore running back Jamal Lewis sets the NFL single-game rushing record when he runs for 295 yards and 2 touchdowns on 30 carries in the Ravens 33-13 victory over Cleveland
- Sep 14 Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
Solheim Cup
Sep 14 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Barsebäck G & CC: Europe regains Cup; after Catriona Matthew beat Rosie Jones 3 & 1 to clinch, amid controversy 4 of 5 remaining matches are conceded for final score of 17½-10½
- Sep 14 Sweden rejects adopting the Euro in a referendum
Reality
Sep 15 ISO/Columbia Records releases David Bowie's 23rd studio album, "Reality"; he supports it with what becomes his final concert tour
Music History
Sep 17 Billy Corgan presents his poetry at the Art Institute of Chicago's Rubloff Auditorium
- Sep 18 The United Kingdom's Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, receives Royal Assent
- Sep 20 A referendum is held in Latvia to decide the country's accession to the European Union
- Sep 20 Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé
- Sep 21 Galileo mission terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes
- Sep 22 David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.
Two and a Half Men
Sep 22 TV sitcom "Two and a Half Men" premieres starring Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer, created by Chuck Lorre and Lee Aronsohn
- Sep 23 Crime drama "NCIS" starring Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherley, Pauley Perrette and David McCallum premieres on CBS in the US
- Sep 25 A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaidō, Japan.
- Sep 27 Smart 1 satellite is launched by the European Space Agency from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, for a moon orbit.
- Sep 28 Final game played at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium, Atlanta Braves defeat Phillies, 5-2
- Sep 29 Hurricane Juan makes landfall in Nova Scotia.
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 3 Eileen Gu, Chinese freestyle skier (Olympic gold halfpipe, big air 2022; World C'ship gold halfpipe, slopestyle 2021), born in San Francisco, California
- Sep 30 Bella Ramsey, English actress (Games of Thrones, The Last of Us), born in Nottingham, England
Famous Weddings
- Sep 20 "Will & Grace" actress Megan Mullally (44) weds actor Nick Offerman (32) in Los Angeles
- Sep 25 Prince of Venice and Piedmont Emanuele Filiberto (31) weds French actress Clotilde Courau (34) at the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome
Famous Divorces
Famous Deaths
- Sep 1 (Arlington) Rand Brooks, American actor (Gone With The Wind; Rin Tin Tin), dies of cancer at 84
- Sep 1 John Gould, American humorist, essayist, and columnist (Christian Science Monitor, 1942-2003), dies at 84
- Sep 1 Terry Frost, British artist, dies at 87
- Sep 2 Bruce Waibel, American touring and session rock bassist (Gregg Allman; Firehouse), takes his own life at 45
- Sep 2 Peter West, British sports broadcaster (BBC; editor Playfair Cricket Annual), dies at 83
- Sep 3 (Rebert) R. H. Harris, American gospel singer (The Soul Stirrers), dies at 84
- Sep 3 Paul Jennings Hill, American anti-abortion murderer (b. 1954)
- Sep 3 Rudolf Leiding, German auto executive and 3rd postwar chairman of Volkswagen, dies at 88
- Sep 4 Lola Bobesco, Romanian-born violinist (b. 1921)
- Sep 4 Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and orchestra leader (Ripley's Game), dies at 82
- Sep 5 C. H. Sisson, British author (Christopher Homm), dies at 89
- Sep 5 Gisele MacKenzie [LaFlèche], Canadian singer and actress (Your Hit Parade), dies at 76
- Sep 5 Ian Hunter, British impresario of classical music, dies at 84
- Sep 5 Moe Biller, American labor union officer (AFL-CIO, Postal Workers), dies at 87
- Sep 6 Harry Goz, American musical theatre actor and voice actor, dies at 71
- Sep 6 Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber, dies after being caught in an avalanche climbing Gasherbrum I (b. 1969)
- Sep 7 Great Antonio [Antonio Barichievich], Croatian-Canadian strongman and eccentric, dies at 77
- Sep 7 Warren Zevon, American rock singer-songwriter and musician ("Werewolves of London"; "Lawyers, Guns and Money"; "Excitable Boy"), dies of pleural mesothelioma at 56
- Sep 8 Gulabrai Ramchand, Indian cricket all-rounder (33 Tests, 2 x 100, 41 wickets, BB 6/49; Sind, Bombay, Rajasthan), dies at 76
- Sep 8 Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (Caillou; 15/Love), dies in a car crash at 17
- Sep 9 Larry Hovis, American actor (Hogan's Heroes), dies at 67
- Sep 9 Thomas Allibone, English physicist (Manhattan Project, high-voltage particle acceleration), dies at 99
- Sep 11 Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, assassinated shopping in Stockholm at 46
- Sep 11 John Ritter, American actor and comedian (Three's Company, It, 8 Simple Rules), dies of an aortic dissection at 54
- Sep 13 Frank O'Bannon, American politician (Governor of Indiana, 1997-2003), dies of a stroke at 73(
- Sep 13 Kenneth Walter, South African cricket fast bowler (2 Tests, 6 wickets), dies at 63
- Sep 14 John Serry, Sr., American classical, jazz, and bolero accordionist, arranger, composer, organist, and educator, dies at 88
- Sep 14 Yetunde Price, half-sister of Venus and Serena Williams (b. 1972)
- Sep 15 Jack Brymer, British classical clarinetist (Royal Philharmonic; BBC Symphony; London Symphony), and teacher, dies at 88
- Sep 15 Josef Hirsal, Czech novelist (b. 1920)
- Sep 16 Sheb Wooley, American vocalist (Purple People Eater, Hee Haw), dies at 82
- Sep 17 Erich Hallhuber, German actor known for "Café Meineid", dies of a seizure at 52
- Sep 17 Ljubica Marić, Serbian composer (Songs Of Space; Octoïcha), pianist, and pedagogue, dies at 94
- Sep 18 Bob Mitchell, British politician (b. 1927)
- Sep 18 Emil Fackenheim, German Holocaust survivor and philosopher (b. 1916)
- Sep 19 Anatoly Bogatyrev, Belarusian composer, dies at 90
- Sep 19 Jim Thompson, English Bishop of Bath & Wells and "Thought for the Day" contributor, dies at 67
- Sep 19 Johnny Best, American big band jazz and session trumpeter (Artie Shaw; Glenn Miller), dies at 89
- Sep 19 Slim Dusty [David Kirkpatrick], Australian country music singer-songwriter, dies of cancer at 76
- Sep 20 Gordon Mitchell [Charles Allen Pendleton], American actor and bodybuilder (Sinbad), dies a 80
- Sep 20 Lord Williams of Mostyn, Welsh barrister, politician, and Lord President of the Council, dies at 62
- Sep 20 Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwean politician (1st Vice-President of Zimbabwe), dies at 80
- Sep 21 Tom Glazer, American folk singer and songwriter (Because All Men Are Brothers; A Dollar Ain't A Dollar Anymore), dies at 88
- Sep 22 Gordon Jump, American actor (WKRP in Cincinnati - "Arthur Carlson"; Growing Pains - "Ed"; Maytag Repairman), dies of pulmonary fibrosis at 71
- Sep 22 Hugo Young, British journalist (The Guardian), dies at 64
- Sep 23 Yuri Senkevich, Russian TV anchorman (b. 1937)
- Sep 24 Lyle Bettger, American actor (The Greatest Show on Earth, Lone Ranger), dies at 88
- Sep 24 Rosalie Allen, American country singer, yodeler, and disc jockey, dies of congestive heart failure at 79
- Sep 25 Anthony Durante, American professional wrestler, dies at 36
- Sep 25 Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician (b. 1953)
- Sep 25 Edward Said, Palestinian-American literary critic, dies at 67
- Sep 25 Franco Modigliani, Italian-American economist (1985 Nobel Prize for Economics), dies at 85
- Sep 25 George Plimpton, American sports writer (Paper Lion), and participatory journalist, dies of a heart attack at 76
- Sep 25 Herb Gardner, American playwright (b. 1934)
- Sep 26 Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter, Austrian organist and composer, dies at 67
- Sep 26 Robert Palmer, English singer-songwriter ("Addicted To Love"; The Power Station), dies of a heart attack at 54
- Sep 26 Shawn Lane, American session rock, jazz, and world fusion guitarist, dies of lung issues at 40
- Sep 27 Donald O'Connor, American dancer and actor (Singin' in the Rain), dies at 78
- Sep 27 Paul Burlison, American rockabilly musician (The Rock N Roll Trio), dies at 74
- Sep 28 George Odlum, Saint Lucian politician (b. 1934)
- Sep 30 Robert Kardashian, Armenian-American lawyer, dies of cancer at 59
- Sep 30 Ronnie Dawson, American rockabilly guitarist (Rockabilly Hall of Fame, 1998), dies of cancer at 64 [1]
- Sep 30 Yusuf Bey, American Black Muslim leader (Nation of Islam), dies of cancer at 67
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