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September 23

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Concordat of Worms

904 years ago

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1215

Kublai Khan

Died aged 78

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Bai Juyi

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1215 · 811 yrs

Kublai Khan

Kublai Khan (23 September 1215 – 18 February 1294), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Shizu of Yuan and his regnal name Setsen Khan, was the founder and first emperor of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China. He proclaimed the dynastic name "Great Yuan" in 1271, and ruled Yuan China until his death in 1294.

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RoyaltyDied aged 78

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1713 · 313 yrs

Ferdinand VI of Spain

Ferdinand VI (Spanish: Fernando; 23 September 1713 – 10 August 1759), called the Learned (el Prudente) and the Just (el Justo), was King of Spain from 9 July 1746 until his death in 1759. He was the third ruler of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty.

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RoyaltyDied aged 45

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1819 · 207 yrs

Hippolyte Fizeau

Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau (French:; 23 September 1819 – 18 September 1896) was a French physicist who, in 1849, measured the speed of light to within 5% accuracy. In 1851, he measured the speed of light in moving water in an experiment known as the Fizeau experiment.

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ScienceDied aged 76

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1838 · 188 yrs

Victoria Woodhull

Victoria Claflin Woodhull (born Victoria California Claflin; September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927), later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election.

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PoliticsDied aged 88

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1889 · 137 yrs

Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann (September 23, 1889 – December 14, 1974) was an American journalist.

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1901 · 125 yrs

Jaroslav Seifert

Jaroslav Seifert (Czech:; 23 September 1901 – 10 January 1986) was a Czech writer, poet and journalist. Seifert was awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man".

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1915 · 111 yrs

Clifford Shull

Clifford Glenwood Shull (September 23, 1915 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – March 31, 2001) was an American physicist.

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1916 · 110 yrs

Aldo Moro

Aldo Moro (Italian:; 23 September 1916 – 9 May 1978) was an Italian statesman and prominent member of Christian Democracy (DC) and its centre-left wing. He served as prime minister of Italy for five terms from December 1963 to June 1968 and from November 1974 to July 1976.

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PoliticsWould be 110

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1920 · 106 yrs

Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney (born Ninnian Joseph Yule Jr.; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor. In a career spanning nearly nine decades, he appeared in more than 300 films and was among the last surviving stars of the silent-film era.

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1926 · 100 yrs

John Coltrane

John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music.

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1930 · 96 yrs

Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. He is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century and was often referred to by contemporaries as "The Genius".

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MusicWould be 96

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1933 · 93 yrs

Lina Medina

Lina Marcela Medina de Jurado (Latin American Spanish pronunciation:; née Medina Losea; born 23 September 1933) is a Peruvian woman who became the youngest confirmed mother in history when she gave birth to her son Gerardo on 14 May 1939 when she was five years, seven months, and 21 days of age.

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AD 846 · 1180 yrs

Bai Juyi

Bai Juyi (also Bo Juyi or Po Chü-i; Chinese: 白居易, Mandarin pinyin Bái Jūyì; 772–846), courtesy name Letian (樂天), was a Chinese musician, poet, and politician during the Tang dynasty. Many of his poems concern his career or observations made about everyday life, including as governor of three different provinces.

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LiteratureDied aged 74

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1835 · 191 yrs

Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was an Italian opera composer of the early Romantic era famed for his long, graceful melodies and evocative musical settings.

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MusicDied aged 33

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1870 · 156 yrs

Prosper Mérimée

Prosper Mérimée (French:; 28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, an important figure in the history of architectural preservation.

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LiteratureDied aged 66

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1877 · 149 yrs

Urbain Le Verrier

Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (French:; 11 March 1811 – 23 September 1877) was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics.

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ScienceDied aged 66

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1882 · 144 yrs

Friedrich Wöhler

Friedrich Wöhler FRS(For) HonFRSE (German:; 31 July 1800 – 23 September 1882) was a German chemist known for his work in both organic and inorganic chemistry, being the first to isolate the chemical elements beryllium and yttrium in pure metallic form.

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ScienceDied aged 82

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1889 · 137 yrs

Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1860), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the…

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LiteratureDied aged 65

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1896 · 130 yrs

Ivar Andreas Aasen

Ivar Andreas Aasen (Norwegian pronunciation:; 5 August 1813 – 23 September 1896) was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet. He is best known for having assembled one of the two official written versions of the Norwegian language, Nynorsk, from various dialects.

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LiteratureDied aged 83

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1929 · 97 yrs

Richard Adolf Zsigmondy

Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (Hungarian: Zsigmondy Richárd Adolf; 1 April 1865 – 23 September 1929) was an Austrian-born chemist. He was known for his research in colloids, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1925, as well as for co-inventing the slit-ultramicroscope, and different membrane filters.

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ScienceDied aged 64

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1939 · 87 yrs

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies arising from conflicts in the psyche through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of…

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Notable PeopleDied aged 83

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1968 · 58 yrs

Padre Pio

Pio of Pietrelcina (born Francesco Forgione; 25 May 1887 – 23 September 1968), widely known as St. Padre Pio (Italian for "Father Pius", Latin: Pater Pius) was an Italian friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, priest, stigmatist and mystic.

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1970 · 56 yrs

Bourvil

André Robert Raimbourg (French pronunciation:; 27 July 1917 – 23 September 1970), better known as André Bourvil (French pronunciation:), and mononymously as Bourvil, was a French actor and singer best known for his roles in comedy films, most notably in his collaboration with Louis de Funès in the films Le Corniaud…

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FilmWould be 109

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1973 · 53 yrs

Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda ( nə-ROO-də; Spanish:; born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Events5

1122 · 904 yrs

Concordat of Worms

The Concordat of Worms (Latin: Concordatum Wormatiense; German: Wormser Konkordat), also referred to as the Pactum Callixtinum or Pactum Calixtinum, was an agreement between the Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Empire which regulated the procedure for the appointment of bishops and abbots in the Empire.

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History

1920 · 106 yrs

Turkish–Armenian War

The Turkish invasion of Armenia, also known as the Turkish–Armenian War and known in Turkey as the Eastern Front (Turkish: Doğu cephesi) of the Turkish War of Independence, was a conflict fought between the recently established First Republic of Armenia and the Turkish National Movement, following the signing of the…

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War

2008 · 18 yrs

Kauhajoki school shooting

On 23 September 2008, a school shooting occurred at the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences (SeAMK) in Kauhajoki, Finland.

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Tragedy

2018 · 8 yrs

43rd Chess Olympiad

The 43rd Chess Olympiad (Georgian: 43-ე საჭადრაკო ოლიმპიადა, 43-e sach’adrak’o olimp’iada; also known as the Batumi Chess Olympiad), organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE).

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Sports

2022 · 4 yrs

2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine

In late September 2022, in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian-installed officials in Ukraine staged so-called referendums on the annexation of occupied territories of Ukraine by Russia. They were widely described as sham referendums by commentators and denounced by various countries.

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