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September 30

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Munich agreement

88 years ago

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1207

Rumi

Died aged 66

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Rumi

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Famous births32

1207 · 819 yrs

Rumi

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), commonly known as Rumi, was a Sufi mystic, poet, and founder of the Islamic brotherhood known as the Mevlevi Order. His family hailed from Balkh.

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LiteratureDied aged 66

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1227 · 799 yrs

Nicholas IV

Pope Nicholas IV (Latin: Nicolaus IV; born Girolamo Masci; 30 September 1227 – 4 April 1292) was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 22 February 1288 to his death, on 4 April 1292. He was the first Franciscan to be elected pope.

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ReligionDied aged 64

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1714 · 312 yrs

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac ( KON-ih-yak; French:; 30 September 1714 – 2 August or 3 August 1780) was a French philosopher and Catholic priest who focused on psychology and the philosophy of the mind.

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ReligionDied aged 65

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1732 · 294 yrs

Jacques Necker

Jacques Necker (French:; 30 September 1732 – 9 April 1804) was a Genevan banker, financier and statesman who served as finance minister of France for Louis XVI. He was a reformer, but his innovations sometimes caused great discontent.

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PoliticsDied aged 71

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1870 · 156 yrs

Jean-Baptiste Perrin

Jean Baptiste Perrin (French:; 30 September 1870 – 17 April 1942) was a French physicist who, in his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids (sedimentation equilibrium), verified Albert Einstein's explanation of this phenomenon and thereby confirmed the atomic nature of matter.

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ScienceDied aged 71

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1882 · 144 yrs

Hans Geiger

Johannes "Hans" Wilhelm Geiger (30 September 1882 – 24 September 1945) was a German experimental physicist. He is known as the inventor of the Geiger counter, a device used to detect ionizing radiation, and for carrying out the Rutherford scattering experiments, which led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus.

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1895 · 131 yrs

Lewis Milestone

Lewis Milestone (born Leib Mendelevich Milstein; September 30, 1895 – September 25, 1980) was a Russian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer active during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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FilmWould be 131

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1905 · 121 yrs

Nevill Francis Mott

Sir Nevill Francis Mott (30 September 1905 – 8 August 1996) was a British theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, especially amorphous semiconductors. The Prize was shared with Philip W. Anderson and John Van Vleck.

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1921 · 105 yrs

Deborah Kerr

Deborah Jane Trimmer (30 September 1921 – 16 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr, was a British actress. Kerr rose to fame for her portrayals of proper, ladylike women, who often navigated societal expectations and stereotypes.

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1924 · 102 yrs

Truman Capote

Truman Garcia Capote ( kə-POH-tee; born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright.

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LiteratureWould be 102

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1928 · 98 yrs

Elie Wiesel

Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel (September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor.

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LiteratureWould be 98

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1931 · 95 yrs

Angie Dickinson

Angeline Dickinson (née Brown; September 30, 1931) is a retired American actress.

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Famous deaths8

1897 · 129 yrs

Thérèse of Lisieux

Thérèse of Lisieux (born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin; 2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), religious name Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face was a French Discalced Carmelite.

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LiteratureDied aged 24

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1948 · 78 yrs

Edith Roosevelt

Edith Kermit Roosevelt (née Carow; August 6, 1861 – September 30, 1948) was the second wife of President Theodore Roosevelt and the first lady of the United States from 1901 to 1909. She had previously been the second lady of the United States in 1901 and the first lady of New York from 1899 to 1900.

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PoliticsDied aged 87

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1955 · 71 yrs

James Dean

James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American actor. He became one of the most influential figures in Hollywood in the 1950s, and his impact on cinema and popular culture was profound, although his career lasted only five years.

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1985 · 41 yrs

Simone Signoret

Simone Signoret (French:; born Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker; 25 March 1921 – 30 September 1985) was a French actress.

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1985 · 41 yrs

Charles Francis Richter

Charles Francis Richter (April 26, 1900 – September 30, 1985) was an American seismologist and physicist. He is one of the creators of the Richter scale, which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, was widely used to quantify the size of earthquakes.

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1994 · 32 yrs

André Lwoff

André Michel Lwoff (8 May 1902 – 30 September 1994) was a French microbiologist and Nobel laureate.

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ScienceWould be 124

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2011 · 15 yrs

Ralph Steinman

Ralph Marvin Steinman (January 14, 1943 – September 30, 2011) was a Canadian physician and medical researcher at Rockefeller University, who in 1973 discovered and named dendritic cells while working as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Zanvil A. Cohn, also at Rockefeller University.

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ScienceWould be 83

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2014 · 12 yrs

Martin Lewis Perl

Martin Lewis Perl (June 24, 1927 – September 30, 2014) was an American chemical engineer and physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton.

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ScienceWould be 99

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Events5

1938 · 88 yrs

Munich agreement

The Munich Agreement was reached in Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy. The agreement provided for the German annexation of part of the First Czechoslovak Republic called the Sudetenland, where three million people, mainly ethnic Germans, lived.

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Politics

1941 · 85 yrs

Battle of Moscow

The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, between October 1941 and January 1942.

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War

2005 · 21 yrs

Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy (or Muhammad cartoons crisis, Danish: Muhammed-krisen) began after the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published twelve editorial cartoons on 30 September 2005 depicting Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, in what it said was a response to the debate over criticism of…

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History

2015 · 11 yrs

Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war

From September 2015 until December 2024, Russia conducted a military intervention in the Syrian civil war, following a request by Ba'athist Syria under Bashar al-Assad for support against the Syrian opposition and Islamic State (IS).

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War

2026 · 0 yrs

Flydubai Flight 1073

Flydubai Flight 1073 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight operated by Flydubai from Dubai International Airport in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel.

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