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On This Day · The 258th day of the year

September 15

250 years on from American Revolutionary War, September 15 is a date with an anniversary worth pausing on. Most of the weight falls in the 20th century, where conflict is a recurring thread.

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Virgo is the sign for September 15 — read more on the Virgo page, or see September's birthstone & birth flower.

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What happened on September 15?

September 15 is the 258th day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 1776 and 2017. Famous people born on September 15 include Marco Polo, Graham Taylor and Carlos Dávila.

Released on September 15

Movies, games, albums & shows

2026

2025

  • Game Arena Breakout: Infinite
  • Game LEGO Voyagers
  • Game No, I'm Not A Human

2024

  • Game TCG Card Shop Simulator

2023

  • Game Blood Strike

2022

  • Game Metal: Hellsinger
  • Game Blind Fate: Edo no Yami

2021

  • Game Flynn: Son of Crimson
  • Movie Dune

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 1776

    American Revolutionary War

  2. 1794

    French Revolutionary Wars

  3. 1816

    HMS Whiting (1812)

  4. 1862

    American Civil War

  5. 1916

    World War I

  6. 1935

    Nazi Germany

  7. 1940

    World War II

  8. 1952

    United Nations

  9. 1983

    Israel

  10. 2017

    Parsons Green train bombing

Famous birthday twins

Born on September 15

Marco Polo

b. 1254

Graham Taylor

b. 1944

Carlos Dávila

b. 1887

Agatha Christie

b. 1890

William Howard Taft

b. 1857

Jean Renoir

b. 1894

Charles de Foucauld

b. 1858

Deaths

  • 1978Willy Messerschmitt
  • 1973Gustaf VI Adolf
  • 1926Rudolf Christoph Eucken
  • 1921Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
  • 1852Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern
  • 1596Leonhard Rauwolf

Holidays & observances

  • —Battle of Britain Day (United Kingdom)
  • —Christian feast day: Joseph Abibos
  • —Christian feast day: Alpinus (Albinus) of Lyon
  • —Christian feast day: Aprus (Èvre) of Toul
  • —Christian feast day: Catherine of Genoa
  • —Christian feast day: James Chisholm (Episcopal Church)
  • —Christian feast day: Saint Dominic in Soriano (formerly)
  • —Christian feast day: Mamilian of Palermo

The factual record above — event titles, dates, names, and observances — is drawn from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. DateLore adds curation, structure, and original editorial commentary. DateLore is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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