What happened on September 19 ?

Deaths

690 - Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 602)

1339 - Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (b. 1288)

1356 - Killed at the Battle of Poitiers: Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1311)

Walter VI of Brienne, Constable of France (born 1304)

1668 - William Waller, English soldier

1692 - Giles Corey, American farmer killed in the Salem Witch Trials

1693 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (b. 1641)

1710 - Ole RÃ¸mer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644)

1843 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (b. 1792)

1881 - James Garfield, 20th President of the United States (b. 1831)

1927 - Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)

1935 - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1857)

1936 - Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (b. 1860)

1938 - Pauline Frederick, American actress (b. 1883)

1942 - CondÃ© Nast, American publisher (b. 1873)

1949 - Will Cuppy, American humorist (b. 1884)

1949 - George Shiels, Irish dramatist (b. 1886)

1949 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer (b. 1901)

1955 - John D. Dingell, Sr., U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. 1894)

1967 - Zinaida Serebryakova, Russian painter (b. 1884)

1967 - Monica Proietti, Canadian criminal (b. 1939)

1968 - Chester Carlson, American inventor (b. 1906)

1968 - Red Foley, American singer (b. 1910)

1969 - Rex Ingram, American actor (b. 1895)

1972 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (b. 1899)

1973 - Gram Parsons, American musician (b. 1946)

1985 - Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b. 1923)

1987 - Einar Gerhardsen, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)

1990 - Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1910)

1997 - Rich Mullins, American singer (b. 1955)

2000 - Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (b. 1917)

2003 - Slim Dusty, Australian singer (b. 1927)

2004 - ÃrpÃ¡d Bogsch, Hungarian turned American international civil servant (b. 1919)

2004 - Skeeter Davis, American singer (b. 1931)

2004 - Ellis Marsalis, Sr., American businessman, musician, and activist