United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1918) 2010 – Malcolm Douglas, Australian hunter and television host (b. 1941) 2012 – Henry Champ, Canadian journalist and academic (b. 1937) 2012 – Pavel Grachev, Russian general and politician, 1st Minister of Defence for Russia (b. 1948) 2012 – Roberto Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player and coach (b. 1941) 2012 – Corrie Sanders, South African boxer (b. 1966) 2012 – Sam Sniderman, Canadian businessman, founded Sam the Record Man (b. 1920) 2013 – Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj, Syrian colonel and politician (b. 1925) 2013 – Gil Dozier, American captain, lawyer, and politician (b. 1934) 2013 – Ruth Patrick, American botanist and immunologist (b. 1907) 2014 – A. W. Davis, American basketball player and coach (b. 1943) 2014 – Irven DeVore, American anthropologist and biologist (b. 1934) 2014 – Don Manoukian, American football player and wrestler (b. 1934) 2014 – Al Suomi, American ice hockey player and referee (b. 1913) 2015 – Dayananda Saraswati, Indian monk and philosopher (b. 1930) 2018 – Charles Kuen Kao, Hong Kong-American-British electrical engineer and physicist (b. 1933) 2018 – Gary Kurtz, American film producer (b. 1940) 2018 – Jane Fortune, American author, journalist, and philanthropist (b.1942) 2020 – Juliette Gréco, French singer and actress (b. 1927) 2021 – John Elliott, Australian businessman (b. 1941) 2021 – Nino Vaccarella, Italian race car driver (b. 1933) Holidays and observances Christian feast day: Adomnán Cissa of Crowland (or of Northumbria) Padre Pio Pope Linus Sossius Thecla (Roman Catholic Church) Xanthippe and Polyxena September 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Grito de Lares (Puerto Rico) Holocaust Memorial Day (Lithuania) Kyrgyz Language Day (Kyrgyzstan) National Day (Saudi Arabia) Teachers' Day (Brunei) Celebrate Bisexuality Day (bisexual community) International Day of Sign Languages References External links Days of the year September