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| September 15th, 2007 (September 15 2007) | Death | Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (born in 1968) | |
| September 15th, 2007 (September 15 2007) | Death | Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (born in 1928) | |
| September 15th, 2007 (September 15 2007) | Death | Brett Somers, Canadian-born American actress and Match Game panelist (born in 1924) | |
| September 15th, 2006 (September 15 2006) | Death | Raymond Baxter, British television presenter (born in 1922) | |
| September 15th, 2006 (September 15 2006) | Death | Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (born in 1929) | |
| September 15th, 2006 (September 15 2006) | Death | Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (born in 1987) | |
| September 15th, 2006 (September 15 2006) | Death | Rob Levin, Freenode IRC Network Founder (born in 1955) | |
| September 15th, 2005 (September 15 2005) | Death | Sidney Luft, American film director (born in 1915) | |
| September 15th, 2004 (September 15 2004) | Event | NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced a lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office. | |
| September 15th, 2004 (September 15 2004) | Death | Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (born in 1948) | |
| September 15th, 2004 (September 15 2004) | Death | Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (born in 1931) | |
| September 15th, 2003 (September 15 2003) | Death | Jack Brymer, English clarinetist (born in 1915) | |
| September 15th, 2003 (September 15 2003) | Death | Josef Hirsal, Czech novelist (born in 1920) | |
| September 15th, 2000 (September 15 2000) | Death | Vincent Canby, American movie critic (born in 1924) | |
| September 15th, 1998 (September 15 1998) | Event | WorldCom and MCI Communications finish their landmark merger, forming MCI WorldCom which would later be renamed WorldCom and become the largest bankruptcy in United States history. | |
| September 15th, 1997 (September 15 1997) | Event | Google was founded. | |
| September 15th, 1995 (September 15 1995) | Death | Harry Calder, South African cricketer (born in 1901) | |
| September 15th, 1993 (September 15 1993) | Event | Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament | |
| September 15th, 1993 (September 15 1993) | Death | Ethan Allen, American baseball player (born in 1903) | |
| September 15th, 1991 (September 15 1991) | Death | John Hoyt, American actor (born in 1904) | |
| September 15th, 1990 (September 15 1990) | Event | France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf | |
| September 15th, 1989 (September 15 1989) | Event | The U.S. Congress recognizes Terry Anderson s continued captivity in Beirut. | |
| September 15th, 1989 (September 15 1989) | Birth | Chetan Ramlu, New Zealand musician | |
| September 15th, 1989 (September 15 1989) | Death | Robert Penn Warren, American writer (born in 1905) | |
| September 15th, 1988 (September 15 1988) | Birth | Chelsea Staub, American actress | |
| September 15th, 1987 (September 15 1987) | Event | U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sign a treaty to establish centers to reduce the risk of nuclear war. | Eduard Shevardnadze Quotes |
| September 15th, 1987 (September 15 1987) | Birth | Aly Cissokho, French football (soccer) player | |
| September 15th, 1987 (September 15 1987) | Death | Steven Tuomi, murder victim of Jeffery Dahmer (born in 1963) | |
| September 15th, 1986 (September 15 1986) | Birth | Heidi Montag, American reality television star | |
| September 15th, 1985 (September 15 1985) | Death | Cootie Williams, American jazz trumpeter (born in 1910) | |
| September 15th, 1984 (September 15 1984) | Birth | Prince Henry of Wales | |
| September 15th, 1983 (September 15 1983) | Event | Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns. | Menachem Begin Quotes |
| September 15th, 1983 (September 15 1983) | Birth | Luke Hochevar, American baseball player | |
| September 15th, 1983 (September 15 1983) | Death | Prince Far I, reggae toaster and producer | |
| September 15th, 1981 (September 15 1981) | Event | The United States Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O Connor to become the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court. | |
| September 15th, 1981 (September 15 1981) | Event | The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, DC. | |
| September 15th, 1981 (September 15 1981) | Event | Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations. | |
| September 15th, 1980 (September 15 1980) | Birth | David Diehl, American football player | |
| September 15th, 1980 (September 15 1980) | Birth | Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese pop singer | |
| September 15th, 1980 (September 15 1980) | Birth | Mike Dunleavy, Jr., American basketball player | |
| September 15th, 1980 (September 15 1980) | Death | Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (born in 1929) | Evans Quotes |
| September 15th, 1979 (September 15 1979) | Birth | Dave Annable, American actor | |
| September 15th, 1979 (September 15 1979) | Birth | Amy Davidson, American actress | |
| September 15th, 1979 (September 15 1979) | Birth | Carlos Ruiz, Guatemalan soccer player | |
| September 15th, 1979 (September 15 1979) | Birth | Patrick Marleau, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| September 15th, 1978 (September 15 1978) | Birth | Ei?ur Gu?johnsen, Icelandic footballer | |
| September 15th, 1978 (September 15 1978) | Death | Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (born in 1898) | |
| September 15th, 1978 (September 15 1978) | Death | Robert Cliche, French Canadian politician and judge (born in 1921) | |
| September 15th, 1977 (September 15 1977) | Birth | Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter | |
| September 15th, 1977 (September 15 1977) | Birth | Sophie Dahl, English model | |
| September 15th, 1977 (September 15 1977) | Birth | Leander Jordan, National Football League offensive lineman | |
| September 15th, 1977 (September 15 1977) | Birth | Marisa Ramirez, American actress | |
| September 15th, 1977 (September 15 1977) | Birth | Jason Terry, American basketball player | |
| September 15th, 1977 (September 15 1977) | Birth | Tom Hardy, British actor | |
| September 15th, 1976 (September 15 1976) | Birth | Paul Thomson, Scottish drummer (Franz Ferdinand) | |
| September 15th, 1976 (September 15 1976) | Birth | Matt Thornton, American baseball player | |
| September 15th, 1975 (September 15 1975) | Event | The French department of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud. | |
| September 15th, 1974 (September 15 1974) | Event | Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board. | |
| September 15th, 1974 (September 15 1974) | Birth | Jamie Stevens, German singer | |
| September 15th, 1973 (September 15 1973) | Birth | Julie Cox, English actress | |
| September 15th, 1973 (September 15 1973) | Death | Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (born in 1882) | |
| September 15th, 1973 (September 15 1973) | Death | Victor Jara, Chilean musician (born in 1941) | |
| September 15th, 1972 (September 15 1972) | Event | A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shakes Northern Illinois. | |
| September 15th, 1972 (September 15 1972) | Event | An SAS domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm was hijacked and flown to Malmo-Bulltofta Airport. | |
| September 15th, 1972 (September 15 1972) | Birth | Jimmy Carr, English comedian | |
| September 15th, 1972 (September 15 1972) | Birth | Kit Chan, Singaporean singer | |
| September 15th, 1972 (September 15 1972) | Birth | Princess Letizia of Spain | |
| September 15th, 1972 (September 15 1972) | Death | Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (born in 1887) | |
| September 15th, 1971 (September 15 1971) | Birth | Nathan Astle, New Zealand cricketer | |
| September 15th, 1971 (September 15 1971) | Birth | Josh Charles, American actor | |
| September 15th, 1971 (September 15 1971) | Birth | Ben Wallers, English musician and songwriter (Country Teasers) | |
| September 15th, 1969 (September 15 1969) | Birth | Jim Curtiss, American writer | |
| September 15th, 1968 (September 15 1968) | Event | The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth s atmosphere. | |
| September 15th, 1968 (September 15 1968) | Birth | Danny Nucci, American actor | |
| September 15th, 1966 (September 15 1966) | Event | U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to the United States Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation. | Lyndon Johnson Quotes |
| September 15th, 1965 (September 15 1965) | Death | Steve Brown, American musician (born in 1890) | |
| September 15th, 1964 (September 15 1964) | Birth | Robert Fico, Slovak Prime minister | |
| September 15th, 1964 (September 15 1964) | Birth | Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, former guitarrist for horror punk band The Misfits | |
| September 15th, 1963 (September 15 1963) | Event | The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing kills four children at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. | |
| September 15th, 1962 (September 15 1962) | Event | The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis. | |
| September 15th, 1962 (September 15 1962) | Birth | Dina Lohan, American actress and reality television star, mother of Lindsay Lohan | |
| September 15th, 1961 (September 15 1961) | Event | Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour. | |
| September 15th, 1961 (September 15 1961) | Birth | Terry Lamb, Australian rugby league footballer | |
| September 15th, 1961 (September 15 1961) | Birth | Dan Marino, American football player | |
| September 15th, 1960 (September 15 1960) | Birth | Kevin Allen, Welsh actor | |
| September 15th, 1959 (September 15 1959) | Event | Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States. | Nikita Khrushchev Quotes |
| September 15th, 1958 (September 15 1958) | Event | A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 58. | |
| September 15th, 1958 (September 15 1958) | Birth | Dr. Know, American guitarist (Bad Brains) | |
| September 15th, 1958 (September 15 1958) | Birth | Joel Quenneville, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| September 15th, 1958 (September 15 1958) | Birth | Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress (died in 2005) | |
| September 15th, 1957 (September 15 1957) | Event | West Germany holds its third parliamentary election. Konrad Adenauer remains chancellor. | |
| September 15th, 1956 (September 15 1956) | Birth | Jaki Graham, English singer | |
| September 15th, 1956 (September 15 1956) | Birth | Maggie Reilly, Scottish folk singer | |
| September 15th, 1955 (September 15 1955) | Birth | Zeljka Antunovic, Croatian politician | |
| September 15th, 1955 (September 15 1955) | Birth | Theodore Long, American professional wrestling executive | |
| September 15th, 1954 (September 15 1954) | Birth | Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (died in 2007) | |
| September 15th, 1952 (September 15 1952) | Event | United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia. | |
| September 15th, 1951 (September 15 1951) | Birth | Pete Carroll, American football coach | |
| September 15th, 1951 (September 15 1951) | Birth | Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer | |
| September 15th, 1950 (September 15 1950) | Event | Korean War: United States forces land at Incheon, Korea. | |
| September 15th, 1949 (September 15 1949) | Birth | Joe Barton, American politician | |
| September 15th, 1948 (September 15 1948) | Event | The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 1080 km/h. | |
| September 15th, 1948 (September 15 1948) | Birth | Suzyn Waldman, American Sportscaster | |
| September 15th, 1947 (September 15 1947) | Event | The U.S. Air Force is separated from the US Army to become a separate branch. | |
| September 15th, 1947 (September 15 1947) | Event | RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube. | |
| September 15th, 1946 (September 15 1946) | Birth | Ola Brunkert, Swedish session drummer for ABBA (died in 2008) | |
| September 15th, 1946 (September 15 1946) | Birth | Tommy Lee Jones, American actor | |
| September 15th, 1946 (September 15 1946) | Birth | Oliver Stone, American film director | |
| September 15th, 1946 (September 15 1946) | Birth | Howard Waldrop, American science fiction author | |
| September 15th, 1945 (September 15 1945) | Event | A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond. | |
| September 15th, 1945 (September 15 1945) | Birth | Hans-Gert Pottering, well-known German politician in the European union, President of the European Parliament since 16 January 2007. | |
| September 15th, 1945 (September 15 1945) | Birth | Carmen Maura, Spanish actress | |
| September 15th, 1945 (September 15 1945) | Birth | Jessye Norman, American opera singer | |
| September 15th, 1945 (September 15 1945) | Birth | Ron Shelton, American film director | |
| September 15th, 1945 (September 15 1945) | Death | Andre Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (born in 1876) | |
| September 15th, 1945 (September 15 1945) | Death | Anton Webern, Austrian composer (born in 1883) | |
| September 15th, 1944 (September 15 1944) | Event | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy. | Winston Churchill Quotes |
| September 15th, 1944 (September 15 1944) | Birth | Sotirios Hatzigakis, Greek politician | |
| September 15th, 1942 (September 15 1942) | Event | World War II: The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal. | |
| September 15th, 1942 (September 15 1942) | Birth | Lee Dorman, American Bassist | |
| September 15th, 1941 (September 15 1941) | Event | The U.S. Attorney General rules that the Neutrality Act is not violated when U.S. ships carry war materiel to British territories, opening the door for the Lend-Lease Act. | |
| September 15th, 1941 (September 15 1941) | Birth | Florian Albert, Hungarian footballer | |
| September 15th, 1941 (September 15 1941) | Birth | Signe Toly Anderson, American singer | |
| September 15th, 1941 (September 15 1941) | Birth | Miroslaw Hermaszewski, Polish cosmonaut | |
| September 15th, 1941 (September 15 1941) | Birth | Yuri Norstein, Russian animator | |
| September 15th, 1941 (September 15 1941) | Birth | Viktor Zubkov, Russian government official | |
| September 15th, 1940 (September 15 1940) | Event | World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoot down large numbers of Luftwaffe. | |
| September 15th, 1940 (September 15 1940) | Birth | Merlin Olsen, American football player and actor | |
| September 15th, 1940 (September 15 1940) | Birth | Norman Spinrad, American science fiction author | |
| September 15th, 1938 (September 15 1938) | Birth | Gaylord Perry, baseball player | |
| September 15th, 1937 (September 15 1937) | Birth | Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist, Nobel laureate | |
| September 15th, 1937 (September 15 1937) | Birth | Fernando de la Rua, 51st President of Argentina | |
| September 15th, 1935 (September 15 1935) | Event | Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship. | |
| September 15th, 1935 (September 15 1935) | Event | Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika. | |
| September 15th, 1934 (September 15 1934) | Birth | Fred Nile, Australian politician | |
| September 15th, 1933 (September 15 1933) | Birth | Henry Darrow, American actor | |
| September 15th, 1933 (September 15 1933) | Birth | Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor | |
| September 15th, 1931 (September 15 1931) | Event | In Scotland, the two-day Invergordon Mutiny against Royal Navy pay cuts begins. | |
| September 15th, 1930 (September 15 1930) | Death | Milton Sills, American actor (born in 1882) | |
| September 15th, 1929 (September 15 1929) | Birth | Eva Burrows, the 13th General of The Salvation Army | |
| September 15th, 1929 (September 15 1929) | Birth | Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate | |
| September 15th, 1928 (September 15 1928) | Event | Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin. | |
| September 15th, 1928 (September 15 1928) | Event | Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler to take 300 wickets in an English cricket season. | |
| September 15th, 1928 (September 15 1928) | Birth | Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist and bandleader (died in 1975) | |
| September 15th, 1927 (September 15 1927) | Birth | David Stove, Australian philosopher, (died in 1994) | Philo Quotes |
| September 15th, 1926 (September 15 1926) | Birth | Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician | |
| September 15th, 1926 (September 15 1926) | Birth | Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (died in 2006) | |
| September 15th, 1926 (September 15 1926) | Death | Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1846) | |
| September 15th, 1924 (September 15 1924) | Birth | Bobby Short, American musician (died in 2005) | |
| September 15th, 1923 (September 15 1923) | Birth | Anton Heiller, Austrian organist (died in 1979) | |
| September 15th, 1922 (September 15 1922) | Birth | Jackie Cooper, American actor and director | |
| September 15th, 1922 (September 15 1922) | Birth | Bob Anderson (fencer), English sword-master | |
| September 15th, 1921 (September 15 1921) | Birth | Norma MacMillan, Canadian actress (died in 2001) | |
| September 15th, 1921 (September 15 1921) | Death | Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary (born in 1886) | |
| September 15th, 1919 (September 15 1919) | Birth | Fausto Coppi, Italian racing cyclist (died in 1960) | |
| September 15th, 1919 (September 15 1919) | Birth | Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter (died in 2004) | |
| September 15th, 1918 (September 15 1918) | Birth | Nipsey Russell, American comedian (died in 2005) | Nipsey Russell Quotes |
| September 15th, 1916 (September 15 1916) | Event | World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme. | |
| September 15th, 1916 (September 15 1916) | Birth | Margaret Lockwood, English actress (died in 1990) | |
| September 15th, 1915 (September 15 1915) | Birth | Albert Whitlock, English motion picture matte artist (died in 1999) | |
| September 15th, 1914 (September 15 1914) | Event | World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France. | |
| September 15th, 1914 (September 15 1914) | Birth | Creighton Abrams, American Army general (died in 1974) | Creighton Abrams Quotes |
| September 15th, 1914 (September 15 1914) | Birth | Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (died in 1999) | |
| September 15th, 1913 (September 15 1913) | Birth | John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General and Watergate figure (died in 1988) | John Mitchell Quotes |
| September 15th, 1913 (September 15 1913) | Birth | Johannes Steinhoff, German fighter pilot & NATO commander (d.1994) | |
| September 15th, 1911 (September 15 1911) | Birth | Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-born American golf entrepreneur (died in 2000) | |
| September 15th, 1909 (September 15 1909) | Birth | C.N.Annadurai, Former Chief Minnister of Tamilnadu | |
| September 15th, 1908 (September 15 1908) | Birth | Penny Singleton, American actress (died in 2003) | |
| September 15th, 1907 (September 15 1907) | Birth | Gunnar Ekelof, Swedish poet and writer (died in 1968) | |
| September 15th, 1907 (September 15 1907) | Birth | Fay Wray, Canadian-born American actress (died in 2004) | |
| September 15th, 1906 (September 15 1906) | Birth | Jacques Becker, French screenwriter and director (died in 1960) | |
| September 15th, 1904 (September 15 1904) | Birth | King Umberto II of Italy (died in 1983) | |
| September 15th, 1903 (September 15 1903) | Birth | Roy Acuff, American country musician (died in 1992) | |
| September 15th, 1901 (September 15 1901) | Birth | Sir Donald Bailey, British engineer (died in 1985) | |
| September 15th, 1898 (September 15 1898) | Birth | J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (died in 1936) | |
| September 15th, 1895 (September 15 1895) | Birth | Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (died in 1977) | |
| September 15th, 1894 (September 15 1894) | Event | First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang. | |
| September 15th, 1894 (September 15 1894) | Birth | Jean Renoir, French film director (died in 1979) | |
| September 15th, 1894 (September 15 1894) | Birth | Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (died in 1977) | |
| September 15th, 1893 (September 15 1893) | Death | Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (born in 1807) | |
| September 15th, 1892 (September 15 1892) | Birth | Silpa Bhirasri, Italian sculptor (died in 1962) | |
| September 15th, 1890 (September 15 1890) | Birth | Agatha Christie, English writer (died in 1976) | Agatha Christie Quotes |
| September 15th, 1890 (September 15 1890) | Birth | Frank Martin, Swiss composer (died in 1974) | |
| September 15th, 1889 (September 15 1889) | Birth | Robert Benchley, American author (died in 1945) | Robert Ley Quotes |
| September 15th, 1888 (September 15 1888) | Birth | Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (died in 1925) | |
| September 15th, 1887 (September 15 1887) | Birth | Carlos Davila, former President of Chile (died in 1955) | |
| September 15th, 1885 (September 15 1885) | Death | Jumbo, P. T. Barnum s circus elephant (hit by a train) | |
| September 15th, 1883 (September 15 1883) | Event | The Bombay Natural History Society is founded in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. | |
| September 15th, 1883 (September 15 1883) | Birth | Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (died in 1950) | |
| September 15th, 1883 (September 15 1883) | Death | Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (born in 1801) | |
| September 15th, 1881 (September 15 1881) | Birth | Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile engineer and designer (died in 1947) | |
| September 15th, 1879 (September 15 1879) | Birth | Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (died in 1939) | |
| September 15th, 1877 (September 15 1877) | Birth | Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and zionist (died in 1938) | |
| September 15th, 1876 (September 15 1876) | Birth | Bruno Walter, German conductor (died in 1962) | |
| September 15th, 1876 (September 15 1876) | Birth | Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian novelist (died in 1938) | |
| September 15th, 1873 (September 15 1873) | Event | Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity. | |
| September 15th, 1867 (September 15 1867) | Birth | Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary (died in 1920) | |
| September 15th, 1864 (September 15 1864) | Death | John Hanning Speke, British explorer (born in 1827) | |
| September 15th, 1863 (September 15 1863) | Birth | Horatio Parker, American composer (died in 1919) | |
| September 15th, 1862 (September 15 1862) | Event | American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia. | |
| September 15th, 1860 (September 15 1860) | Birth | Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya, Indian engineer (died in 1962) | |
| September 15th, 1859 (September 15 1859) | Death | Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (born in 1806) | |
| September 15th, 1858 (September 15 1858) | Birth | Jeno Hubay, Hungarian violinist (died in 1937) | |
| September 15th, 1857 (September 15 1857) | Birth | William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (died in 1930) | |
| September 15th, 1852 (September 15 1852) | Birth | Edward Bouchet, American physicist (died in 1918) | |
| September 15th, 1851 (September 15 1851) | Event | Saint Joseph s University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | |
| September 15th, 1842 (September 15 1842) | Death | Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (born in 1771) | |
| September 15th, 1842 (September 15 1842) | Death | Jose Francisco Morazan Quezada, President of The Federal Republic of Central America (born in 1792) | |
| September 15th, 1835 (September 15 1835) | Event | The HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galapagos Islands. | Charles Darwin Quotes |
| September 15th, 1835 (September 15 1835) | Death | Sarah Knox Taylor, wife of Jefferson Davis (born in 1814) | |
| September 15th, 1831 (September 15 1831) | Event | The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad. | |
| September 15th, 1830 (September 15 1830) | Event | The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens (see also deaths, below). | |
| September 15th, 1830 (September 15 1830) | Birth | Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico (died in 1915) | |
| September 15th, 1830 (September 15 1830) | Death | William Huskisson, first rail fatality (born in 1770) | |
| September 15th, 1828 (September 15 1828) | Birth | Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist (died in 1886) | |
| September 15th, 1821 (September 15 1821) | Event | Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica jointly declare independence from Spain. | |
| September 15th, 1820 (September 15 1820) | Event | Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal s crises of the Nineteenth Century. | |
| September 15th, 1812 (September 15 1812) | Event | The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow. | |
| September 15th, 1803 (September 15 1803) | Death | Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (born in 1719) | |
| September 15th, 1794 (September 15 1794) | Death | Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (born in 1725) | Abraham Quotes |
| September 15th, 1789 (September 15 1789) | Event | The United States Department of State is established (formerly known as Department of Foreign Affairs). | |
| September 15th, 1789 (September 15 1789) | Birth | James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist (died in 1851) | James Fenimore Cooper Quotes |
| September 15th, 1776 (September 15 1776) | Event | American Revolutionary War: British land at Kip s Bay during the New York Campaign. | |
| September 15th, 1762 (September 15 1762) | Event | Battle of Signal Hill | |
| September 15th, 1760 (September 15 1760) | Birth | Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general of the Napoleonic Wars (died in 1824) | |
| September 15th, 1750 (September 15 1750) | Death | Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (born in 1690) | |
| September 15th, 1715 (September 15 1715) | Birth | Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (died in 1789) | |
| September 15th, 1712 (September 15 1712) | Death | Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, English politician | |
| September 15th, 1707 (September 15 1707) | Death | George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (born in 1663) | |
| September 15th, 1701 (September 15 1701) | Death | Edme Boursault, French writer (born in 1638) | |
| September 15th, 1700 (September 15 1700) | Death | Andre Le Notre, French landscape architect (born in 1613) | |
| September 15th, 1683 (September 15 1683) | Event | Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded by 13 immigrant families. | |
| September 15th, 1666 (September 15 1666) | Birth | Princess Sophia Dorothea of Celle (died in 1726) | |
| September 15th, 1649 (September 15 1649) | Birth | Titus Oates, English minister and plotter (died in 1705) | |
| September 15th, 1649 (September 15 1649) | Death | John Floyd, English Jesuit preacher (born in 1572) | |
| September 15th, 1643 (September 15 1643) | Death | Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (born in 1566) | |
| September 15th, 1616 (September 15 1616) | Event | The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy. | |
| September 15th, 1613 (September 15 1613) | Birth | Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (died in 1680) | Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes |
| September 15th, 1613 (September 15 1613) | Death | Thomas Overbury, English writer (born in 1581) | Thomas Overbury Quotes |
| September 15th, 1600 (September 15 1600) | Event | Battle of Sekigahara | |
| September 15th, 1596 (September 15 1596) | Death | Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (born in 1535 or 1540) | |
| September 15th, 1584 (September 15 1584) | Event | San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished. | |
| September 15th, 1580 (September 15 1580) | Birth | Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (died in 1659) | |
| September 15th, 1556 (September 15 1556) | Event | Vlissingen ex-emperor Charles V returns to Spain. | |
| September 15th, 1533 (September 15 1533) | Birth | Catherine of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (died in 1572) | |
| September 15th, 1500 (September 15 1500) | Death | John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury | |
| September 15th, 1352 (September 15 1352) | Death | Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (born in 1273) | |
| September 15th, 1254 (September 15 1254) | Birth | Marco Polo, Italian explorer (died in 1324) | |
| September 15th, 1231 (September 15 1231) | Death | Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (born in 1173) | |
| September 15th, 0973 (September 15 0973) | Birth | Al-Biruni, mathematician (died in 1048) | |
| September 15th, 0921 (September 15 0921) | Event | Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin. | |
| September 15th, 0866 (September 15 0866) | Death | Robert the Strong, Margrave of Neustria | |
| September 15th, 0668 (September 15 0668) | Event | Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy. | |
| September 15th, 0668 (September 15 0668) | Death | Constans II, Byzantine emperor (born in 630) | |
