| 0 | | Feast of St. Antoninus the Executioner, Martyr |
| 392 | | Arbogast the Frank proclaimed Flavius Eugenius Roman Emperor (Aug 22, 392-Sep 6, 394) -- Learn More |
| 1138 | | "Battle of the Standard"/North Allerton/Cowton Moor: Archbishop Thurston of York defeats King David I of Scotland |
| 1454 | | Moravia: King Ladislas expels the Jews from Bruno |
| 1485 | | Henry VII defeated Richard III in the Battle of Bosworth Field |
| 1499 | | Third Naval Battle of Sapienza: Turks and Venetians clash |
| 1642 | | English Civil War begins: King Charles I takes up arms against Parliament |
| 1707 | | Count Wirich Philipp von Daun's Austrians invest Gaeta (stormed, September 30) |
| 1791 | | Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman |
| 1799 | | French troops debarked at Killala Bay, County Mayo, to support the United Irishmen rebellion -- Learn More |
| 1848 | | U.S. Grant married Julia Dent, with James Longstreet in attendance -- Learn More |
| 1851 | | the American yacht “America” won the "Queen's Cup" off the Isle of Wight, initiating the "America's Cup Races" |
| 1858 | | Queen Victoria and President Buchanan exchange greetings via the Atlantic cable |
| 1862 | | Combat of Catlett's Station, Va |
| 1862 | | Santee Sioux Indians attack Fort Ridgely |
| 1864 | | The First Geneva Convention: 12 nations conclude a pact "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field". |
| 1864 | | Lincoln wrote to the 166th Ohio Infantry, thanking them for their service -- Learn More |
| 1877 | | Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce fled into Yellowstone National Park -- Learn More |
| 1910 | | Japan annexes Korea |
| 1914 | | Cavalry skirmish near Mons: First Anglo-German engagement of World War I |
| 1914 | | German troops massacre 383 Belgian civilians at Tamines. |
| 1914 | | the French Army lost 27,000 men killed-in-action in Lorraine, its heaviest one-day loss ever |
| 1942 | | Army P-400s land at Henderson field from New Caledonia. |
| 1942 | | Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan, & Italy |
| 1942 | | Savo: Japanese DD 'Kawakaze' torpedoes USS 'Blue' (DD-387), which is towed to Tulagi. |
| 1943 | | Marines occupy undefended Nukufetau in the Ellice Islands. |
| 1943 | | U.S. destroyers shell Finschhafen, in eastern New Guinea. |
| 1944 | | Japanese abandon Ulithi in the Carolines. |
| 1944 | | Japanese counterattack on the Salween, Burma, is repelled by Chinese. |
| 1962 | | Charles De Gaulle evades an assassination attempt, an incident treated in the novel "Day of the Jackal" |
| 1760 | | Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Giralamo Nicola della Genga - Pope Leo XII (1823-1829) |
| 1818 | | William Selby Harney, feisty American cavalryman, Mexico, Civil War, d. 1889 |
| 1822 | | George Stoneman, Maj Gen, US, cavalryman, d. 1894 |
| 1827 | | Joseph Anthony Mower, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1870 |
| 1834 | | Nathaniel Harrison Harris, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1900 |
| 1836 | | Archibald M Willard, artist ("The Spirit of '76"), d. 1918 |
| 1854 | | King Milan Obrenovich of Serbia (1882-1889), military reformer, d 1901 |
| 1857 | | Juan Picasso González, Spanish soldier, Cruz Laureada de San Fernando, the only Protestant general in the Spanish Army, great uncle to the artist Picasso, d. 1935 |
| 1902 | | Bertha Helene Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl, Nazi film maker ("Triumph of the Will"), d. 2003 |
| 1904 | | Deng Xiaoping, Chinese communist dictator (1976-1983), d. 1997 |
| 1919 | | Alan Cathcart, 6th Earl Cathcart, British general, d. 1999 |
| 1934 | | Norman Schwarzkopf, Gen., US, Liberator of Kuwait in 1991, d. 2012 |
| 408 | | Flavius Stilicho, c. 50, one of the last great Roman generals, murdered by an inept Emperor |
| 634 | | Abu Bakr, the first Caliph (632-634), at c. 60 |
| 1188 | | King Ferdinand II of Castile & Leon (1157-1188), c. 60 |
| 1241 | | Pope Gregory IX - Count Ugolino of Segni (1227-1241) |
| 1280 | | Pope Nicholas III - Giocanni Gaetani Orsini (1277-1280) at c. 75 |
| 1286 | | King Erik V of Denmark (1259-1286), c. 36, murdered |
| 1350 | | King Philip VI de Valois of France (1328-50), c. 57 |
| 1485 | | King Richard III of England (1483-1485), killed in action at 32, unable to find a horse |
| 1680 | | Elector John George II of Saxony (1656-1680), 67 |
| 1711 | | Louis Francois, duc de Boufflers, Marshal of France, 67 |
| 1793 | | Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France, at 80 |
| 1797 | | Dagobert Sigismund, Count von Wurmser, 73, Austrian soldier, field marshal, still on active duty |
| 1818 | | Warren Hastings, 85, first Governor-General of Bengal (1773-1785) |
| 1922 | | Michael "Big Mike" Collins, 31, Irish revolutionary hero, in an ambush by the IRA |
| 1978 | | Jomo Kenyatta, first Prime Minister (1963-1964) and President (1964-1978) of Kenya, at 83 |
| 2000 | | Abülfaz Elçibay, 62, first President of Azerbaijan (June 1992-June 1993), ousted in a coup |