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September 16

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Yemeni Civil War

12 years ago

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1923

Kuan Yew Lee

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Charles V of France

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Famous births30

1386 · 640 yrs

Henry V of England

Henry V (16 September 1386 – 31 August 1422), also called Henry of Monmouth, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1413 until his death in 1422.

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RoyaltyDied aged 35

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1802 · 224 yrs

Lajos Kossuth

Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (Hungarian:; Hungarian: udvardi és kossuthfalvi Kossuth Lajos; Slovak: Ľudovít Košút; English: Louis Kossuth; 19 September 1802 – 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, politician, statesman, revolutionist and governor-president of the Hungarian State…

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PoliticsDied aged 91

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1853 · 173 yrs

Albrecht Kossel

Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel (German pronunciation:; 16 September 1853 – 5 July 1927) was a German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics.

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ScienceDied aged 73

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1858 · 168 yrs

Bonar Law

Andrew Bonar Law (16 September 1858 – 30 October 1923) was a British Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1922 to 1923. He was the first prime minister born outside of Britain or Ireland, and the shortest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century.

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PoliticsDied aged 65

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1859 · 167 yrs

Yuan Shikai

Yuan Shikai (traditional Chinese: 袁世凱; simplified Chinese: 袁世凯; pinyin: Yuán Shìkǎi; Wade–Giles: Yüan2 Shih4-k'ai3; 16 September 1859 – 6 June 1916) was a Chinese general and statesman. As leader of the Beiyang Army, he played a decisive role in securing the abdication of the Qing court.

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MilitaryDied aged 56

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1885 · 141 yrs

Karen Horney

Karen Horney (German:; née Danielsen; 16 September 1885 – 4 December 1952) was a German psychoanalyst who practiced in the United States during her later career. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views, specifically in theories of sexuality and of the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis.

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1885 · 141 yrs

Jean Arp

Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp (German:; 16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966), better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter and poet. He was known as a Dadaist and an abstract artist.

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ArtWould be 141

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1887 · 139 yrs

Nadia Boulanger

Juliette Nadia Boulanger (French:; 16 September 1887 – 22 October 1979) was a French music teacher, conductor and composer. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the twentieth century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist.

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MusicWould be 139

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1888 · 138 yrs

Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Frans Eemil Sillanpää (Finnish:; 16 September 1888 – 3 June 1964) was a Finnish writer.

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LiteratureWould be 138

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1891 · 135 yrs

Karl Dönitz

Karl Dönitz (German:; 16 September 1891 – 24 December 1980) was a German naval officer and politician who briefly succeeded Adolf Hitler as the head of state of Germany in the Nazi era after the latter's suicide during the Second World War in April 1945.

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PoliticsWould be 135

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1893 · 133 yrs

Albert Szent-Györgyi

Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt (Hungarian: nagyrápolti Szent-Györgyi Albert Imre; September 16, 1893 – October 22, 1986) was a Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937.

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ScienceWould be 133

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1904 · 122 yrs

Nikolai Ostrovsky

Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky (Russian: Николай Алексеевич Островский; Ukrainian: Микола Олексійович Островський, romanized: Mykola Oleksiiovych Ostrovskyi; 29 September 1904 – 22 December 1936) was a Soviet socialist realist writer. He is best known for his novel How the Steel Was Tempered.

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Famous deaths15

1380 · 646 yrs

Charles V of France

Charles V (21 January 1338 – 16 September 1380), called the Wise (French: le Sage; Latin: Sapiens), was King of France from 1364 to his death in 1380.

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RoyaltyDied aged 42

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1498 · 528 yrs

Tomás de Torquemada

Tomás de Torquemada (14 October 1420 – 16 September 1498), anglicized as Thomas of Torquemada, was a Spanish Dominican friar and the first Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition.

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ReligionDied aged 77

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1736 · 290 yrs

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS (24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736) was a physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker. He was born in Poland to a family of German origin, although he spent much of his life in the Dutch Republic.

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ScienceDied aged 50

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1824 · 202 yrs

Louis XVIII of France

Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier; 17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824), known as the Desired (French: le Désiré), was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days in 1815.

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RoyaltyDied aged 68

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1925 · 101 yrs

Alexander Friedmann

Alexander Alexandrovich Friedmann (also spelled Friedman or Fridman;; Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Фри́дман; 16 June 1888 – 16 September 1925) was a Russian and Soviet physicist and mathematician.

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ScienceWould be 138

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1931 · 95 yrs

Omar al-Mukhtar

ʿUmar al-Mukhtār Muḥammad bin Farḥāt al-Manifī (Arabic: عُمَر الْمُخْتَار مُحَمَّد بِن فَرْحَات الْمَنِفِي; 20 August 1858 – 16 September 1931), called The Lion of the Desert, known among the colonial Italians as Matari of the Mnifa, was a Libyan revolutionary and Imam who led the native resistance in Cyrenaica…

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MilitaryDied aged 73

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1932 · 94 yrs

Ronald Ross

Sir Ronald Ross (13 May 1857 – 16 September 1932) was a British medical doctor. He received the 1902 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundation for successful research on this disease and methods of combating it".

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LiteratureDied aged 75

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1946 · 80 yrs

James Hopwood Jeans

Sir James Hopwood Jeans (11 September 1877 – 16 September 1946) was an English physicist, mathematician and an astronomer. He served as a secretary of the Royal Society from 1919 to 1929, and was the president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1925 to 1927, and won its Gold Medal.

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1977 · 49 yrs

Maria Meneghini Callas

Maria Callas (born Maria Anna Cecilia Sophia Kalogeropoulos; December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was an American and Greek soprano, and one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Critics praised her bel canto technique, wide-ranging voice, and dramatic interpretations.

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MusicWould be 102

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1980 · 46 yrs

Jean Piaget

Jean William Fritz Piaget (9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called genetic epistemology.

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ScienceWould be 130

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2000 · 26 yrs

Alexandra Petrova

Alexandra Valeryevna Petrova (Russian: Александра Валерьевна Петрова; 18 September 1980 – 16 September 2000) was a Russian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Russia 1996. She later competed in Miss Universe 1999, where she was unplaced.

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2016 · 10 yrs

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (Italian:; 9 December 1920 – 16 September 2016) was an Italian politician, statesman and banker who was the president of Italy from 1999 to 2006 and prime minister of Italy from 1993 to 1994.

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Events5

1800 · 226 yrs

Mexican War of Independence

The Mexican War of Independence (Spanish: Guerra de Independencia de México, 16 September 1810 – 27 September 1821) was an armed conflict and political process resulting in Mexico's independence from the Spanish Empire.

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War

1987 · 39 yrs

Montreal Protocol

The Montreal Protocol, officially the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion.

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Politics

2014 · 12 yrs

Yemeni Civil War

The Yemeni civil war (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية اليمنية, romanized: al-ḥarb al-ʾahlīyah al-yamanīyah) is an ongoing multilateral civil war that began in late 2014 mainly between the Rashad al-Alimi-led Presidential Leadership Council and the Mahdi al-Mashat-led Supreme Political Council, along with their respective…

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War

2022 · 4 yrs

Mahsa Amini protests

Civil unrest and protests against the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran associated with the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini (Persian: مهسا امینی) began on 16 September 2022 and carried on into 2023, but by spring 2023, the protests had largely subsided, ultimately leaving the political leadership…

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War

2022 · 4 yrs

Death of Jina Mahsa Amini

On 16 September 2022, 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, also known as Jina Amini, died in a hospital in Tehran, Iran, under suspicious circumstances.

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