Vice Admiral William Bligh, FRS, RN ( 9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817 ) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator.

* September 17 – Mahmud I ( 1730 – 1754 ) succeeds Ahmed III ( 1703 – 1730 ) as Ottoman Emperor.

* September 26 – Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and soldier ( b. 1754 )

* September 2 – Franz Xaver, Baron von Zach, Austrian scientific editor and astronomer ( b. 1754 )

* September 6 – Somerset Hamilton Butler, 1st Earl of Carrick ( d. 1754 )

* September 25 – Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1754 )

* September 7 – Maria Anna of Austria, Archduchess of Austria and Queen consort of Portugal ( d. 1754 )

Baron Jurij Bartolomej Vega ( also correct Veha ; official ; ) ( born Vehovec, March 23, 1754 – September 26, 1802 ) was a Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer.

The marriage took place on 21 August 1745 with a son, the future Paul I, finally born on 20 September 1754.

Baron Franz Xaver von Zach ( Franz Xaver Freiherr von Zach ) ( June 4, 1754 – September 2, 1832 ) was a German astronomer born at Pest in Hungary.

Charlotte died in December 1754 and Lady Burlington died in September 1758, so the villa and gardens passed to the Cavendish family, as did numerous other Boyle residences including Bolton Abbey, Londesborough Hall in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and Lismore Castle in Ireland.

Town lots were laid out beginning in 1754, and on September 21, 1758, Lewis Stephens petitioned the colonial government of Virginia in Williamsburg for a town charter.

Henry Pelham ( 25 September 1694 – 6 March 1754 ) was a British Whig statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 27 August 1743 until his death in 1754.

( 31 January 1754 – 30 September 1756 ), was a London weekly eighteenth century newspaper founded and chiefly run by George Colman the Elder and the parodist Bonnell Thornton as a ' plebeian ' counterpart to Edward Moore's The World, a periodical of about the same time, which dealt more with the interests of aristocrats.

He married Diana Sambrooke, daughter of John Sambrooke and Elizabeth Forester, on 3 September 1754.

* September 8 – Joseph Karl Ambrosch, operatic tenor and composer ( b. 1754 )

Probably around the late summer of 1754, Stamitz took a year-long journey to Paris, perhaps at the invitation of the musical patron Alexandre Le Riche de La Poupelinière, with whom he stayed ; Stamitz appeared in public in Paris for the first time at a Concert Spirituel of September 8, 1754.

Joseph Louis Proust ( September 26, 1754 – July 5, 1826 ) was a French chemist.

Joseph L. Proust was born on September 26, 1754 in Angers, France.

Nicolas-Thomas Baudin ( 17 February 1754 – 16 September 1803 ) was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer.

** Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton ( 3 September 1685 – 26 August 1754 ).

Franciszek Zabłocki ( January 2, 1754, Volhynia – September 10, 1821, Końskowola ), is considered the most distinguished Polish comic dramatist and satirist of the Enlightenment period.

Juan José Ruiz de Apodaca y Eliza Gastón de Iriarte López de Letona y Lasqueti () ( February 3, 1754, Cadiz, Spain — January 11, 1835, Madrid, Spain ) was a Spanish Basque naval officer and viceroy of New Spain from September 20, 1816 to July 5, 1821, during Mexico's War of Independence.

Ghulam Mohammad, plagued by poor health, was succeeded as governor general in September 1955 by Mirza.

He died 12 September 1500, and was succeeded in his German territories by George as the head of the Albertine line, while George's brother Heinrich became hereditary governor of Friesland.

On 15 September 1635, Pierre Belain d ' Esnambuc, French governor of the island of St. Kitts, landed in the harbor of St. Pierre with 150 French settlers after being driven off St. Kitts by the English.

He began his political career in 1980 / 1981 as one of the leaders of the Students ' Solidarity ; he was governor of the Gdańsk Voivodship from August 1990 to July 1996, and was elected to the Sejm ( the lower house of the Polish parliament ) in September 1997.

In particular, a Serb expedition to expel the Turks from Adrianople led by the Serbian brothers King Vukašin and Despot Uglješa, was defeated on September 26, 1371, by Murad's Murat capable second lieutenant Lala Şâhin Paşa, the first governor ( beylerbey ) of Rumeli.

In June 1940, after the fall of France, the Conseil General of New Caledonia voted unanimously to support the Free French government, and in September the pro-Vichy governor was forced to leave for Indochina.

Before his elevation to the papacy, Sinibaldo was Vice-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church ( 1226 – 27 ), being created Cardinal Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina on 18 September 1227 by Pope Gregory IX, later serving as governor of the March of Ancona from 1235 until 1240.

* September 6 – Todd Palin, American husband of former governor Sarah Palin

* September 4 – Paul Spooner, American lieutenant governor of Vermont ( 1782 – 1787 ) ( b. 1746 )

* September 6 – Chris Christie, 55th governor of New Jersey

* September 10 – William Hobson 1st governor general of nz / treaty of waitangi writer ( b. 26 September 1792 )

* September 10 – Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Spanish colonial governor ( d. 1634 )

* September 14 – Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad upon the death of his brother al-Hadi, and appoints Salim Yunisi as the Abbasid governor of Sindh and the Indus Valley.

* September 27 – Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Confederate brigadier general, Texas governor, and president of Texas A & M University ( d. 1898 )

* September 4 – William Pope Duval, first civilian governor of Florida Territory ( d. 1854 )

On the introduction of the French Empire, Bernadotte became one of the Marshals of the Empire and, from June 1804 to September 1805, served as governor of Hanover.

* September 17 – Ghent falls into the hands of Alexander Farnese, governor of the Spanish Netherlands.

The Fatimids, under the governor of Damascus Manjutakin, scored a series of successes against the Hamdanids and their Byzantine allies, including a major victory against the doux of Antioch, Michael Bourtzes, at the Battle of the Orontes in September 994.

* August 27 – Hubasa takes Alexandria after his victory on the Egyptian troops near al-Hanniyya ; yet Tekin, the Abbassid governor refuses to surrender and asks for reenforcements which reach him in September.

* On August 2, 2012 Aleksandr Tkachev governor of Russia's Krasnodar Krai announced plans to deploy a paramilitary force of Cossacks in September, 2012 whose mission would be to discourage internal migration by Muslim Russians.

Dunmore actively served as royal governor of the Colony of Virginia from 25 September 1771 until his departure to New York in 1776 ; he continued to hold the position and to draw his pay until 1783 when American independence was recognized.

Bennett C. Riley, the last military governor, called a constitutional convention to meet in Monterey in September 1849.

Although his term as governor general ended in September 1893, he was forced to return to England on July 15.

On September 26 Maj. Gen. Kurt Eberhard, the military governor, and SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln, the SS and Police Leader at Rear Headquarters Army Group South, made the decision to exterminate the Jews of Kiev, claiming that it was in retaliation for guerrilla attacks against German troops.