Timeline September 2023

Events in September 2023 14

• 1932 – 2023 Fernando Botero (1932-2023) Died 15 September 2023, aged 91 Colombian painter and sculptor whose inflated, voluminous figures made him the most recognisable Latin American artist of his time.
• 1933 – 2023 Dianne Feinstein (1933-2023) Died 28 September 2023, aged 90 American senator for California from 1992 until her death, the longest-serving woman in the history of the Senate.
• 1940 – 2023 Michael Gambon Irish-English Actor Irish-English actor who enjoyed a six-decade career spanning theatre, film and television. Knighted in 1998 for services to drama, he won three Olivier Awards, four BAFTAs and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He is best known internationally for playing Albus Dumbledore in six of the eight Harry Potter films.
• 1944 – 2023 Ian Wilmut (1944-2023) Died 10 September 2023, aged 79 British embryologist who led the team that cloned Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
• 1946 – 2023 Jimmy Buffett (1946-2023) Died 1 September 2023, aged 76 American singer-songwriter whose Margaritaville became both a song and a business empire.
• 1967 – 2023 Steve Harwell (1967-2023) Died 4 September 2023, aged 56 American singer and front man of Smash Mouth.
• 2023 Earthquake devastates the High Atlas Nearly 3,000 killed near Marrakesh A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck the High Atlas mountains south of Marrakesh on 8 September 2023, killing nearly 3,000 people in Morocco's deadliest quake in over six decades.
• 2023 Dam collapse floods Derna in Libya Storm Daniel kills more than 11,000 Two dams above Derna failed during Storm Daniel on 11 September 2023, sending a wall of water through the Libyan city. More than 11,000 people were killed and a quarter of the city was swept away.
• 2023 The missing F-35B South Carolina After its pilot ejects, a Marine Corps F-35B flies on unmanned and vanishes. The military asks the public for help, and the wreck is found the next day.
• 2023 Azerbaijan retakes Nagorno-Karabakh A one-day offensive ends three decades of Armenian control Azerbaijan launched an offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh on 19 September 2023 and secured the surrender of Armenian forces within a day. Almost the entire ethnic Armenian population, over 100,000 people, left within a fortnight.
• 2023 First CRISPR therapy approved Gene editing treats sickle cell disease The FDA approved the first CRISPR-based gene therapy in December 2023, a treatment for sickle cell disease called Casgevy. It is the first approved medicine to use CRISPR gene editing in humans.
• 2023 Michael Gambon dies in Essex Died peacefully in hospital in Witham, Essex, following a bout of pneumonia, at the age of 82. His wife Anne and son Fergus were at his bedside.
• 2023 The Creator is released An original blockbuster The Creator, starring John David Washington, was released on 29 September 2023 by 20th Century Studios. The film was widely praised for achieving a visual scale comparable to films costing several times its reported budget of roughly 80 million dollars.
• 2023 U2 open the Sphere in Las Vegas Achtung Baby Live The first concerts in the giant spherical venue.