History of Today 04 September: Important Events, Births and Deaths

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Important Events on 04 September in History

• 04 Sep 2024: A 14-year-old gunman kills four people and injures seven in a mass shooting at Apalachee High School near Winder, Georgia. Read more
• 04 Sep 2022: Ten people are killed and 15 are injured in a stabbing spree in 13 locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon, Saskatchewan. Read more
• 04 Sep 2020: Pope Benedict XVI becomes the longest-lived pope, 93 years, four months, 16 days, surpassing Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903. Read more
• 04 Sep 2007: Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations. Read more
• 04 Sep 2002: The Oakland Athletics win their 20th consecutive game, an American League record, until the Cleveland Indians surpassed it in 2017. Read more
• 04 Sep 2001: Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan. Read more
• 04 Sep 1998: Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two PhD students at Stanford University. Read more
• 04 Sep 1995: The 1995 Okinawa rape occurred, when 3 US servicemen abducted and raped a schoolchild. This would cause widespread protest against the US military presence on the prefecture. Read more
• 04 Sep 1989: In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of weekly demonstration for the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms takes place. Read more
• 04 Sep 1985: The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon. Read more
• 04 Sep 1977: The Golden Dragon massacre takes place in San Francisco. Read more
• 04 Sep 1975: The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict is signed. Read more
• 04 Sep 1972: Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games. Read more
• 04 Sep 1972: The Price Is Right premieres on CBS. It currently is the longest running game show on American television. Read more
• 04 Sep 1971: Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board. Read more
• 04 Sep 1970: Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile. Read more
• 04 Sep 1967: Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley. Read more
• 04 Sep 1964: Scotland's Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens. Read more
• 04 Sep 1963: Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board. Read more
• 04 Sep 1957: American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: The governor of Arkansas calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Little Rock Central High School, resulting in the lawsuit Cooper v. Aaron the following year. Read more
• 04 Sep 1951: The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, United States, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference. Read more
• 04 Sep 1950: Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race. Read more
• 04 Sep 1949: Paul Robeson performs a second concert in Peekskill, New York eight days after the Peekskill riots. Read more
• 04 Sep 1948: Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons. Read more
• 04 Sep 1944: World War II: The British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp. Read more
• 04 Sep 1944: World War II: Finland exits from the war with Soviet Union. Read more
• 04 Sep 1941: World War II: A German submarine makes the first attack of the war against a United States warship, the USS Greer. Read more
• 04 Sep 1939: World War II: William J. Murphy commands the first Royal Air Force attack on Germany. Read more
• 04 Sep 1936: Spanish Civil War: Largo Caballero forms a war cabinet to direct the republican war effort. Read more
• 04 Sep 1923: Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah. Read more
• 04 Sep 1919: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace. Read more
• 04 Sep 1912: Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands Read more
• 04 Sep 1888: George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film. Read more
• 04 Sep 1886: American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona. Read more
• 04 Sep 1882: The Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first power plant to supply electricity to paying customers. Read more
• 04 Sep 1870: Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared. Read more
• 04 Sep 1862: American Civil War Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North. Read more
• 04 Sep 1839: Battle of Kowloon: British vessels open fire on Chinese war junks enforcing a food sales embargo on the British community in China in the first armed conflict of the First Opium War. Read more
• 04 Sep 1827: The Great Fire of Turku almost completely destroys Finland's former capital city. Read more
• 04 Sep 1813: Future U.S. president Andrew Jackson is shot in a tavern brawl with future U.S. Senator Thomas Hart Benton and others. Read more
• 04 Sep 1812: War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Harrison begins when the fort is set on fire. Read more
• 04 Sep 1800: The French garrison in Valletta surrenders to British troops who had been called at the invitation of the Maltese. The islands of Malta and Gozo become the Malta Protectorate. Read more

Famous Births on 04 September

• 04 Sep 2001: Talitha Bateman, American actress Talitha Bateman is an American actress. After making her acting debut in a 2013 episode of the sitcom The Middle, she has starred in the independent drama film So B. It (2016), the science fiction film The 5th Wave (2016), the supernatural horror film Annabelle: Creation (2017), the disaster film Geostorm (2017), the thriller film Vengeance: A Love Story (2017), the romantic comedy film Love, Simon (2018), and the horror film Countdown (2019). Read more
• 04 Sep 2000: Sergio Gómez, Spanish footballer Sergio Gómez Martín is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left wing-back or attacking midfielder for La Liga club Real Sociedad and the Spain national team. Read more
• 04 Sep 1998: Neru Nagahama, Japanese television personality Neru Nagahama is a Japanese television personality, television presenter, and actress. She is a former member of the idol girl groups Keyakizaka46 and Hiragana Keyakizaka46. Read more
• 04 Sep 1996: Ashton Golding, English rugby league player Ashton Golding is a Jamaica international rugby league footballer who plays as a utility for the Castleford Tigers in the Super League. Read more
• 04 Sep 1996: Jordan Lilley, English rugby league player Jordan Lilley is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays as a stand-off or scrum-half for the Sheffield Eagles in the Championship. Read more
• 04 Sep 1995: Jazz Tevaga, New Zealand rugby league player Jazz Iosefa Tevaga is a Samoa international rugby league footballer who plays as a loose forward and hooker for Wakefield Trinity in the Super League. Read more
• 04 Sep 1994: Kenny McEvoy, Irish footballer Kenneth McEvoy is an Irish retired professional footballer. Read more
• 04 Sep 1994: Thomas Minns, English rugby player Thomas "Tom" Minns is an English former rugby league and current rugby union player who plays as a centre for Hull RUFC in the National League 1. Read more
• 04 Sep 1994: Sabina Sharipova, Uzbekistan tennis player Sabina Sharipova is an Uzbeki former professional tennis player. Read more
• 04 Sep 1993: Emma Brownlie, Scottish footballer Emma Brownlie is a Scottish footballer who plays as a defender for Glasgow City in the Scottish Women's Premier League. She has represented Scotland on the Scotland under-19 national team. Read more
• 04 Sep 1993: Yannick Carrasco, Belgian footballer Yannick Ferreira Carrasco is a Belgian professional footballer who plays for Saudi Pro League club Al-Shabab. A versatile player, he can be deployed as a left midfielder, left wing-back, left winger or left-back. Read more
• 04 Sep 1993: Jody Fannin, English race car driver Jody Fannin is a British auto racing driver. He competed in the European Le Mans Series in 2017, winning the GTE Championship with Rob Smith driving for JMW Motorsport in a Ferrari 488 GTE. He was the 2012 British GT GT4-class champion, along with Warren Hughes, driving for Team WFR in a Ginetta G50. Read more
• 04 Sep 1993: Chantal Škamlová, Slovak tennis player Chantal Škamlová is a Slovak former tennis player. Read more
• 04 Sep 1993: Mark Tuan, American rapper Mark Tuan, also known mononymously as Mark, is an American rapper and singer. He is a member of the South Korean boy band Got7. Read more
• 04 Sep 1992: Kevin Lee, American mixed martial artist Kevin Jeese Lee Jr. is an American professional mixed martial artist. He is currently signed to the Professional Fighters League (PFL), where he competes in the Lightweight division. He formerly competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) where he fought in the Lightweight and Welterweight divisions. He also once competed in Eagle Fighting Championship (EFC) as a Super Lightweight. In October 2017, he headlined the UFC 216 pay-per-view and competed for the interim UFC Lightweight Championship. Read more
• 04 Sep 1992: Hanna Schwamborn, German actress Hanna Schwamborn is a German actress who is best known for her role as Lavinia in the Dutch film De Brief voor de Koning which is based on the book of the same name from Dutch writer Tonke Dragt. Read more
• 04 Sep 1992: Zerkaa, English YouTuber Joshua Charlie Joseph Bradley, better known by his online alias Zerkaa, is an English YouTuber, Twitch streamer, influencer, and Internet personality. He is a member of the British YouTube group, the Sidemen. In 2019, he was listed as the ninth most influential online creator in the United Kingdom by The Sunday Times. In 2022, he was the most watched Twitch streamer in the United Kingdom, with 17.68 million hours watched. Read more
• 04 Sep 1991: Adrien Bart, French sprint canoeist Adrien Bart is a French sprint canoeist. He competed in the men's C-1 1000 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Read more
• 04 Sep 1991: Anders Zachariassen, Danish handball player Anders Zachariassen is a Danish handball player for Bjerringbro-Silkeborg and the Danish national team. Read more
• 04 Sep 1990: James Bay, English singer-songwriter and guitarist James Michael Bay is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. Read more
• 04 Sep 1990: Jonny Lomax, English rugby player Jonathan Lomax is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays for St Helens in the Super League, and England and Great Britain at international level. A versatile player, Lomax is primarily a stand-off but is equally comfortable at both scrum-half and fullback, and featured more regularly on the wing in the early stages of his professional career. Read more
• 04 Sep 1990: Danny Worsnop, English singer-songwriter Danny Robert Worsnop is an English singer most prominently known as the lead vocalist of rock bands Asking Alexandria and We Are Harlot. He has worked with several artists including I See Stars, Papa Roach, With One Last Breath, Breathe Carolina, Memphis May Fire, The Word Alive, All That Remains, The Funeral Portrait and Testarossa, providing guest vocals on several songs. Read more
• 04 Sep 1989: Andrelton Simmons, Curaçaoan baseball player Andrelton Alexander Simmons is a Curaçaoan professional baseball shortstop for the Dorados de Chihuahua of the Mexican League. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Angels, Minnesota Twins, and Chicago Cubs. Read more
• 04 Sep 1989: Elliott Whitehead, English rugby league player Elliott Whitehead is an English former professional rugby league footballer who last played as a second-row forward for the Catalans Dragons in the Super League, and also appeared for England and Great Britain at international level. Read more
• 04 Sep 1988: Adam Duvall, American baseball player Adam Lynn Duvall is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants, Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves, Miami Marlins, and Boston Red Sox. Duvall played college baseball at the University of Louisville. Duvall was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 11th round of the 2010 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut in 2014. He was an All-Star in 2016. Read more
• 04 Sep 1988: John Tyler Hammons, American politician John Tyler Hammons is an American politician who served as the 47th mayor of Muskogee, Oklahoma, from 2008 to 2012. He gained national attention when he was elected on May 13, 2008, as a 19-year-old freshman at the University of Oklahoma, after winning 70 percent of the vote in a runoff election against 70-year-old, three-time former Muskogee mayor Herschel McBride. Hammons was reelected on April 6, 2010, in a four-way race. Read more
• 04 Sep 1988: JJ Hickson, American basketball player James Edward "JJ" Hickson Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. He played one season of college basketball for North Carolina State University before being drafted 19th overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2008 NBA draft. He played in the NBA for the Cavaliers, Denver Nuggets, Sacramento Kings, and Portland Trail Blazers, as well as in Israel for Bnei HaSharon during the 2011 NBA lockout. Read more
• 04 Sep 1987: Wesley Blake, American wrestler Cory James Weston is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he works as a producer on the NXT brand and coach at the WWE Performance Center, having previously been an active competitor with the company, where he performed under the ring name Wesley Blake. Read more
• 04 Sep 1987: Marisa Kabas, American journalist Marisa Kabas is an American independent journalist, former political strategist, and creator of the newsletter The Handbasket. Read more
• 04 Sep 1986: Ayumi Kaihori, Japanese footballer Ayumi Kaihori is a former Japanese footballer who played as a goalkeeper. She played for the Japan national team. Read more
• 04 Sep 1986: Xavier Woods, American wrestler Austin Watson is an American professional wrestler and YouTuber. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he performs under the ring name Austin Creed and is one-half of The New Level with Kofi. They are two-thirds of the AEW World Trios Champions with Swerve Strickland in their first reign. Watson is best known for his 16-year tenure in WWE, where he performed under the ring name Xavier Woods. Read more
• 04 Sep 1985: Raúl Albiol, Spanish footballer Raúl Albiol Tortajada is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a central defender. Read more
• 04 Sep 1985: Ri Kwang-chon, North Korean footballer Ri Kwang-chon is a North Korean former footballer who played as a centre-back. Read more
• 04 Sep 1985: Walid Mesloub, Algerian footballer Walid Mesloub is a former professional footballer who played as a forward.. Born in France, he played for the Algeria national team. Read more
• 04 Sep 1984: Jonathan Adam, Scottish race car driver Jonathan Robert Adam is a British racing driver and a factory driver for Aston Martin Racing. He was the champion of the SEAT Cupra Championship in two of its six seasons – winning in 2007 and in 2008. He also won the 2005 Elf Renault Clio Cup. He competed in the British Touring Car Championship in 2009 and currently competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship, British GT Championship, winning the 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019 championships. He also won the LMGTE Pro class at the 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans. Read more
• 04 Sep 1984: Hamish McIntosh, Australian footballer Hamish McIntosh is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club and Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Read more
• 04 Sep 1984: Kyle Mooney, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter Kyle James Kozub Mooney is an American comedian. He was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, which he was featured in from 2013 to 2022. In 2017, he co-wrote and starred in the comedy drama Brigsby Bear, which premiered at that year's Sundance Film Festival and went on to receive critical acclaim upon its theatrical release. In 2021, he co-created and starred in the Netflix animated series Saturday Morning All Star Hits! and directed his second feature, the horror-comedy Y2K in 2024. Read more
• 04 Sep 1983: Yuichi Nakamaru, Japanese singer-songwriter, actor, and radio host Yūichi Nakamaru , is a Japanese singer-songwriter, actor, television personality and radio host under Starto Entertainment. He joined the talent agency Johnny & Associates in 1998 and then officially debuted as part of KAT-TUN in 2006, group to which he belonged until its disbandment in April 2025. Read more
• 04 Sep 1983: Guy Pnini, Israeli basketball player Guy Pnini is an Israeli former professional basketball player and basketball coach, currently serving as an assistant coach for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League and the EuroLeague. Standing at a height of 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) tall, he played at the small forward position. Read more
• 04 Sep 1983: Margit Rüütel, Estonian tennis player Margit Rüütel is a former tennis player from Estonia. Read more
• 04 Sep 1983: Armands Šķēle, Latvian basketball player Armands Šķēle is a Latvian former professional basketball player who played as a shooting guard. Šķēle was a member of the Latvian National Team, representing Latvia in five EuroBasket tournaments and earning 99 caps. In 2008, he won the EuroCup with Barons LMT. Read more
• 04 Sep 1982: Whitney Cummings, American comedian, actress, producer, and screenwriter Whitney Cummings is an American actress, comedian, writer, producer, director, and podcaster. Read more
• 04 Sep 1982: Mark Lewis-Francis, English sprinter Mark Anthony Lewis-Francis, MBE is a retired British track and field athlete, specifically a sprinter, who specialised in the 100 metres and was an accomplished regular of GB 4 × 100 m relay. A renowned junior, his greatest sporting achievement at senior level has been to anchor the Great Britain and Northern Ireland 4 × 100 metres relay team to a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Individually, Lewis-Francis has won the silver medal in the 100 m at the 2010 European Athletics Championships and silver medal in the 2010 Commonwealth Games, men's 100 m final. Read more
• 04 Sep 1981: Beyoncé, American singer-songwriter Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. Known for her vocal ability, artistic reinventions, and live performances, she is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures of the 21st century. Credited with shaping popular music, Beyoncé is often deemed one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Read more
• 04 Sep 1981: Richard Garcia, Australian footballer Richard Garcia is an Australian soccer manager and former player. He is currently an assistant coach for Australia's U23 team, having previously managed A-League Men's side Perth Glory. Read more
• 04 Sep 1981: Lacey Sturm, American singer-songwriter Lacey Nicole Sturm is an American singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Flyleaf. In February 2016, Sturm became the first solo female artist to top the Billboard Hard Rock Albums chart with her debut release Life Screams. Read more
• 04 Sep 1980: Pat Neshek, American baseball player Patrick John Neshek is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, San Diego Padres, Oakland Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Astros, Colorado Rockies and Philadelphia Phillies. The Twins selected him in the sixth round of the 2002 MLB draft, out of Butler University. Neshek made his MLB debut for the Twins in 2006, and played for them until 2010. He was selected to his first All-Star Game in 2014, and his second in 2017. Read more
• 04 Sep 1979: Maxim Afinogenov, Russian ice hockey player Maxim Sergeyevich Afinogenov is a Russian former professional ice hockey player. Known for his skating speed, he was drafted by the National Hockey League (NHL)'s Buffalo Sabres in the third round, 69th overall, in 1997 and played nine seasons with the club. He then played one season with the Atlanta Thrashers before signing and finishing his career in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Read more
• 04 Sep 1979: Pedro Macedo Camacho, Portuguese pianist, composer, and producer Pedro Macedo Camacho is a Portuguese composer of classical music as well as film and video game scores. He is best known for his scores to Star Citizen and World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. Read more
• 04 Sep 1979: Max Greenfield, American actor Max Greenfield is an American actor and author. He co-starred as Schmidt in the Fox sitcom New Girl, for which he received nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, and the Critics' Choice Television Awards. From 2018 to 2026, Greenfield portrayed Dave Johnson in the CBS sitcom The Neighborhood. He appeared in recurring roles in Veronica Mars and Ugly Betty. Read more
• 04 Sep 1979: Kosuke Matsuura, Japanese race car driver Kosuke Matsuura is a Japanese race car driver currently competing in the Super GT series. He previously competed in the Formula Nippon and IRL IndyCar Series. Read more
• 04 Sep 1978: Wes Bentley, American actor and producer Wes Bentley is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Ricky Fitts in American Beauty (1999), which earned him a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Supporting Actor, Seneca Crane in The Hunger Games (2012), Doyle in Interstellar (2014), Erik in Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), and Jamie Dutton in Yellowstone (2018–2024). He was one of four subjects in the documentary My Big Break (2009), which covered his fame after American Beauty and his subsequent struggles with substance abuse. Rebuilding his career, he starred in the premiere of Venus in Fur by David Ives in the off-Broadway production in 2010. Other film roles include The Four Feathers (2002), Ghost Rider (2007), P2 (2007), and Pete's Dragon (2016). Read more
• 04 Sep 1978: Terence Newman, American football player Terence Newman is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback for 15 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys, Cincinnati Bengals, and Minnesota Vikings. He played college football for the Kansas State Wildcats, earning unanimous All-American recognition. He was selected by the Cowboys with the fifth overall pick in the 2003 NFL draft. Read more
• 04 Sep 1978: Frederik Veuchelen, Belgian cyclist Frederik Veuchelen is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2004 and 2017 for the Topsport Vlaanderen, Vacansoleil–DCM, and Wanty–Groupe Gobert teams. Read more
• 04 Sep 1978: Christian Walz, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer Christian Walz is a Swedish artist, songwriter, and producer. Walz's music is mainly pop/soul. When young Walz attended Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm. He released his self-titled debut album in 1999, aged 20. Read more
• 04 Sep 1977: Sun-woo Kim, South Korean baseball player Sun-woo "Sunny" Kim is a retired South Korean professional baseball pitcher of the Korea Baseball Organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox, Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals, Colorado Rockies, and Cincinnati Reds. He bats and throws right-handed. Read more
• 04 Sep 1977: Lucie Silvas, English singer-songwriter and pianist Lucie Joanne Silverman, known professionally as Lucie Silvas, is a British singer-songwriter best known for her 2004 debut single "What You're Made Of", drawn from her first album Breathe In—itself a hit in the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. Read more
• 04 Sep 1977: Kia Stevens, American wrestler Kia Michelle Stevens is an American actress and semi-retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her time with TNA Wrestling under the ring name Awesome Kong. She also worked with Ring of Honor (ROH), Shimmer Women Athletes, All Elite Wrestling (AEW), and with WWE under the ring name Kharma. Read more
• 04 Sep 1976: Denilson Martins Nascimento, Brazilian footballer Denílson Martins Nascimento, simply known as Denílson, is a Brazilian former professional footballer. Read more
• 04 Sep 1976: Mario-Ernesto Rodríguez, Uruguayan-Italian footballer Mario-Ernesto Rodríguez Berrutti is a Uruguayan-born former Italian footballer. Read more
• 04 Sep 1975: Sergio Ballesteros, Spanish footballer Sergio Martínez Ballesteros is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a central defender. Read more
• 04 Sep 1975: Mark Ronson, English DJ, producer, and songwriter, co-founded Allido Records Mark Daniel Ronson is a British and American musician, record producer, songwriter and DJ. He has won ten Grammy Awards, including Producer of the Year for Amy Winehouse's album Back to Black (2006), as well as two for Record of the Year with her 2006 single "Rehab" and his own 2014 single "Uptown Funk". Ronson has also won an Academy Award for Best Original Song, a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award for co-writing "Shallow" for the film A Star Is Born (2018). Read more
• 04 Sep 1975: Dave Salmoni, Canadian zoologist, television host, and producer Dave Salmoni is a Canadian animal trainer, entertainer and television producer. He has his own production company, Triosphere, which is based in South Africa and specializes in wildlife films. Dave has dedicated his life to animal conservation. Read more
• 04 Sep 1974: Mati Pari, Estonian footballer and coach Mati Pari is a retired football (soccer) midfielder from Estonia. He played for several clubs, including FC Flora Tallinn, FC Levadia Tallinn and FC Flora Rakvere. Read more
• 04 Sep 1974: Lincoln Roberts, Tobagonian cricketer Lincoln Roberts is a former cricketer who played one Test match for West Indies and 51 first class games for Trinidad and Tobago. Read more
• 04 Sep 1973: Jason David Frank, American actor and mixed martial artist (died 2022) Jason David Frank was an American actor and mixed martial artist, best known for his role as Tommy Oliver in the Power Rangers television franchise. Read more
• 04 Sep 1973: Aaron Fultz, American baseball player and coach Richard Aaron Fultz, is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB), in all or parts of seven seasons, for five big league teams. He also spent the 2008 season with the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions, of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). Fultz was currently the pitching coach for the Minor League Baseball (MiLB) Clearwater Threshers, in the Phillies organization. Read more
• 04 Sep 1973: Lazlow Jones, American radio presenter, producer and screenwriter Jeffrey Crawford "Lazlow" Jones is an American writer, producer, director, voice actor, and radio personality. He is best known for his work with Rockstar Games, with which he has worked on the Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, and Red Dead Redemption series and for his radio shows Technofile and The Lazlow Show. Read more
• 04 Sep 1972: Steve Leonard, Northern Irish veterinarian and television personality Stephen Leonard is a Northern Irish veterinarian and television personality. Read more
• 04 Sep 1972: Carlos Ponce, Puerto-Rican entertainer Carlos Armando Ponce Freyre Jr. is a Puerto Rican actor, musician, model, and television personality. Ponce began his acting career by participating in Spanish language soap operas for Televisa and Telemundo. Ponce continued to expand his acting career by participating in various American television series. He did not limit himself solely to a career in television. Ponce, who is also a singer, is also active in the American movie industry as a character actor. In film, he played Salvadore in Couples Retreat, Matthew Wright in Spy and Rodrigo in Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. In television, he played Felix Gonzalez in Cristela, Max Duran in Hollywood Heights, as well as voicing Santiago Santos in Maya & Miguel. Read more
• 04 Sep 1971: Craig Conroy, American ice hockey player and executive Craig Michael Conroy is an American former professional ice hockey player and current executive. He serves as the general manager of the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL), for whom he also played. A sixth-round selection of the Montreal Canadiens at the 1990 NHL entry draft, Conroy played 1,009 NHL games for the Canadiens, St. Louis Blues, Flames and Los Angeles Kings during a professional career that spanned from 1994 to 2011. Internationally, he twice played with the United States National Team – at the 2004 World Cup of Hockey and the 2006 Winter Olympics. Read more
• 04 Sep 1971: Lance Klusener, South African cricketer and coach Lance Klusener is a South African cricket coach and former international cricketer. He was known for his aggressive batting and fast-medium swing bowling. Klusener was one of the best all-rounders in the world during 1990s and early 2000s and one of the pioneers of power batting as a finisher. He was popular for his ferocious batting and ability to take wickets at crucial times, often breaking important partnerships. Read more
• 04 Sep 1971: Maik Taylor, German-Irish footballer and coach Maik Stefan Taylor is a former Northern Ireland international football goalkeeper and, since July 2022, goalkeeping coach at Birmingham City. Read more
• 04 Sep 1970: Igor Cavalera, Brazilian drummer Igor Graziano Cavalera is a Brazilian musician, best known as the former drummer for the heavy metal band Sepultura, which he co-founded with his brother Max in 1984. Max left the band in 1997, and Igor himself would depart nine years later, making him the last original member of Sepultura to leave the band. The brothers have since reunited in the band Cavalera Conspiracy. Read more
• 04 Sep 1970: Deni Hines, Australian singer-songwriter Dohnyale Sharon "Deni" Hines is an Australian singer who has been releasing music since the early 1980s, with chart success in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Europe. She is the daughter of American-born Australian singer Marcia Hines. Read more
• 04 Sep 1970: Ivan Iusco, Italian composer Ivan Iusco is an Italian American award-winning composer and record producer based in Los Angeles, California, United States. Read more
• 04 Sep 1970: Sven Meyer, German footballer Sven Meyer is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender or midfielder. Read more
• 04 Sep 1970: Ione Skye, English-American actress Ione Skye Lee is a British-American actress. She made her film debut in River's Edge (1986) before finding mainstream exposure by starring in Cameron Crowe's Say Anything… (1989). She continued to appear in films throughout the 1990s, with notable parts in Gas Food Lodging (1992), Wayne's World (1992) and One Night Stand (1997). Her other credits include The Rachel Papers (1989), Guncrazy (1992), Four Rooms (1995), Fever Pitch (2005) and Zodiac (2007). Read more
• 04 Sep 1969: Sasha, Welsh DJ and producer Alexander Paul Coe, known simply as Sasha, is a Welsh DJ and record producer. He is best known for his live events and electronic music as a solo artist, as well as his collaborations with British DJ John Digweed as Sasha & John Digweed. He was voted as World No.⁠ ⁠1 DJ in 2000 in a poll conducted by DJ Magazine. He is a four-time International Dance Music Awards winner, four-time DJ Awards winner and Grammy Award nominee. Read more
• 04 Sep 1969: Ramon Dekkers, Dutch kick-boxer and mixed martial artist (died 2013) Ramon Dekkers was a Dutch professional Muay Thai fighter. He won five world titles across four weight classes in Muay Thai during the 1980s and 1990s. Nicknamed the "Turbine from Hell", he was a fan favorite due to his fast-paced, aggressive fighting style which resulted in many brutal fights and knockouts. He was also praised for his willingness to fight in Thailand, including challenging for the Lumpinee Stadium Lightweight title. Read more
• 04 Sep 1969: Giorgi Margvelashvili, Georgian academic and politician, 4th President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili is a Georgian academic and politician who was the fourth president of Georgia, in office from 17 November 2013 to 16 December 2018. Read more
• 04 Sep 1969: Richard Speight Jr., American actor and director Richard Speight Jr. is an American actor and director who is known for a variety of roles including Jericho, The Agency, both CBS TV series, and the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. In the WB/CW series Supernatural, he played a recurring role, the archangel Gabriel, originally thought to be a "Trickster" or Loki, as well as Loki whose identity Gabriel took on. More recently, he played Dugan in the 2021 film Old Henry. Read more
• 04 Sep 1969: Noah Taylor, Australian actor Noah George Taylor is an English-Australian actor. The accolades he has received include nominations for three Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Critics' Choice Award, and four AACTA Awards. Taylor is best known for his roles as teenage David Helfgott in Shine, Locke in the HBO series Game of Thrones, Darby Sabini in the BBC One series Peaky Blinders, Mr. Bucket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Danny in the Australian cult film He Died with a Felafel in His Hand. Taylor also starred as Adolf Hitler in both the American television series Preacher and the 2002 film Max. In 2023, he starred as Dr. Friedrich "Fritz" Pfeffer in A Small Light. Read more
• 04 Sep 1969: Inga Tuigamala, Samoan-New Zealand rugby player Va'aiga Lealuga Tuigamala Pulelua Fesola'i, often known as Inga Tuigamala, was a professional rugby union and rugby league footballer. Born in Western Samoa, he represented New Zealand in rugby union, winning 19 caps, and later Samoa in both rugby league and rugby union. He played in one rugby league and two rugby union World Cups. Read more
• 04 Sep 1968: Fernando Rojas, Colombian-American producer Fernando Rojas is a Colombian-American producer, composer, writer, pianist and vocalist. Following international recognition of his song Melody in the Key of Love, in 2003 he represented the United States with his song In The Night I'll Be Dreaming of You in the 44th annual Viña del Mar International Song Festival in Chile. Rojas founded record company Flamingo Digital Records, which produces films, music and different projects. Read more
• 04 Sep 1968: John DiMaggio, American voice actor John William DiMaggio is an American actor. He is known for voicing Bender in Futurama and Jake the Dog in Adventure Time. Read more
• 04 Sep 1968: Mike Piazza, American baseball player Michael Joseph Piazza is an American former professional baseball catcher who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1992 to 2007, and is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Piazza played most notably for the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers, while also having brief stints with the Florida Marlins, San Diego Padres, and Oakland Athletics. A 12-time All-Star and 10-time Silver Slugger Award winner at catcher, he produced strong offensive numbers at his position; in his career, he recorded 427 home runs—a record 396 of which were hit as catcher—along with a .308 batting average and 1,335 runs batted in (RBI). Read more
• 04 Sep 1967: Darrin Murray, New Zealand cricketer and accountant Darrin James Murray is a former New Zealand international cricketer. He played eight Test matches and one One Day International for New Zealand, all in the 1994/95 season. Read more
• 04 Sep 1967: Dezső Szabó, Hungarian decathlete Dezső Szabó is a retired Hungarian decathlete. His son, also named Dezső Szabó, competed in pole vault at the 2006 World Junior Championships. Read more
• 04 Sep 1966: Yanka Dyagileva, Russian singer-songwriter (died 1991) Yana Stanislavovna "Yanka" Dyagileva was a Russian poet and singer-songwriter, and one of the most popular figures of her time in the Siberian underground music scene. She both played solo and performed with others, including Yegor Letov and bands Grazhdanskaya Oborona and Velikie Oktyabri. Yanka was greatly influenced by her friends Letov and Alexander Bashlachev. Her songs explored themes of desperation and depression, punk-style nihilism, and folk-like lamentations. Her death in 1991 has been considered as a symbolic end to the Siberian punk scene. Read more
• 04 Sep 1966: Jeff Tremaine, American director, producer, and screenwriter Jeff Tremaine is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for co-creating the MTV reality stunt show Jackass with Spike Jonze and Johnny Knoxville. Read more
• 04 Sep 1965: Sergio Momesso, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster Sergio Francesco Momesso is an Italian-Canadian former professional ice hockey player who spent 13 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1983 and 1997. Read more
• 04 Sep 1964: Guy Boros, American golfer Guy Donald Boros is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour Champions. He previously played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour. He is the son of Hall of Fame golfer Julius Boros. Read more
• 04 Sep 1964: Tomas Sandström, Finnish-Swedish ice hockey player Tomas Sandström is a Finnish-born Swedish former professional ice hockey right winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1984 to 1999. Born in Finland, Sandström grew up in Fagersta, Sweden. A skilled power forward, he was effective when healthy but his career was marred by injuries due to his physical style of play. Read more
• 04 Sep 1964: Aadesh Shrivastava, Indian singer-songwriter (died 2015) Aadesh Shrivastava was a music composer and playback singer who worked in Indian films. Initially, he had worked as a drummer to music composers including R. D. Burman, Rajesh Roshan before working independently as a music director. Over the course of his career, he had composed music for over 100 Hindi films. Just a day after he turned 51, he died of cancer in Kokilaben Hospital. Read more
• 04 Sep 1963: Bobby Jarzombek, American drummer Bobby Jarzombek is an American musician of Polish and German ancestry who is currently the drummer for country music singer George Strait. Bobby also has been a drummer for Sebastian Bach, and progressive metal band Fates Warning. Guitarist Ron Jarzombek is his younger brother. Read more
• 04 Sep 1963: John Vanbiesbrouck, American ice hockey player, coach, and manager John Vanbiesbrouck, nicknamed "the Beezer" and "JVB", is an American professional ice hockey executive and former player. As a goaltender, he was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2007. Vanbiesbrouck played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1981 to 2002 for the New York Rangers, Florida Panthers, Philadelphia Flyers, New York Islanders, and New Jersey Devils. He began his career playing major junior hockey for the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). Following a successful season with the Greyhounds, he was drafted by the New York Rangers in the fourth round, 72nd overall, in the 1981 NHL Draft. After his junior career ended, he played for the Rangers minor league affiliate, the Tulsa Oilers of the Central Hockey League. Despite the team's near collapses due to financial concerns, Vanbiesbrouck led the Oilers to a league championship and shared the league's MVP honors. Read more
• 04 Sep 1963: Sami Yaffa, Finnish singer-songwriter and bass player Sami Yaffa is a Finnish bass guitarist best known for his work in New York Dolls, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Pelle Miljoona Oy, Michael Monroe's bands, and Hanoi Rocks. He is currently the bassist for the Michael Monroe band and is also concentrating on his solo career. Read more
• 04 Sep 1962: Kiran More, Indian cricketer Kiran Shankar More ) is an Indian former cricketer and wicket-keeper for the Indian cricket team from 1984 to 1993. He also took up the position Chairman of the Selection Committee of the BCCI till Dilip Vengsarkar took over the job in 2006. In July 2019, he was appointed in a senior consultancy role for the United States national cricket team. He was a part of the Indian squad which won the 1988 Asia Cup and the 1990–91 Asia Cup. Read more
• 04 Sep 1962: Ulla Tørnæs, Danish politician, Danish Minister of Education Ulla Pedersen Tørnæs is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Liberal Party. She previously sat in parliament from 1994 to 2014, and served as member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2016. She served as minister for development cooperation from 2016 to 2019, minister of higher education and science in 2016, minister of development cooperation from 2005 to 2010 and minister of education from 2001 to 2005. Read more
• 04 Sep 1962: Shinya Yamanaka, Japanese physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate. Read more
• 04 Sep 1961: Nick Blinko, English singer-songwriter and guitarist Nicholas John Blinko is a British musician and artist, best known as the lead singer, lyricist, and guitar player for the anarcho-punk band Rudimentary Peni. He is also known for being an "outsider" artist, whose pen-and-ink drawings and paintings have been shown in galleries worldwide. Blinko also creates all the drawings used by the band for its artwork. Read more
• 04 Sep 1961: Lars Jönsson, Swedish film producer Lars Jönsson is a Swedish film producer connected to Memfis Film and the "Trollywood" facilities. Since the early 1990s he has been the producer of several films in Sweden and Scandinavia, being the usual producer for among others Lukas Moodysson, Josef Fares and Maria Blom, while also having co-produced many films by Lars von Trier. Read more
• 04 Sep 1960: Kim Thayil, American guitarist and songwriter Kim Anand Thayil is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist of the Seattle-based rock band Soundgarden, which he co-founded with singer Chris Cornell and bassist Hiro Yamamoto in 1984. Cornell and Thayil remained as the original members of the band until Cornell's death in 2017, and the band's subsequent split in 2018. Thayil was named the 100th greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone in 2010, and the 67th greatest guitarist of all time by SPIN in 2012. Thayil has won two Grammy Awards as a member of Soundgarden. Read more
• 04 Sep 1960: Shailesh Vara, Ugandan-English lawyer and politician Shailesh Lakhman Vara is a British Conservative former politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Cambridgeshire from 2005 until 2024. He was the UK's first Hindu MP. He also served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from July to September 2022. Read more
• 04 Sep 1960: Damon Wayans, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Damon Kyle Wayans Sr. is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, and writer. A member of the Wayans family of entertainers, Damon performed as a comedian and actor throughout the 1980s, including a brief stint on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. He later joined his family on Fox's sketch comedy show In Living Color (1990–1992), and wrote and performed on his own animated series Waynehead (1996–1997) and live-action series Damon (1998). Since then, he has starred in a number of films and television shows, some of which he has co-produced or co-written, including Mo' Money, The Last Boy Scout, Major Payne, Bulletproof, and the sitcoms My Wife and Kids and Poppa's House, the latter featuring his son Damon Wayans Jr. From 2016 to 2019, he starred as Roger Murtaugh in the Fox television series Lethal Weapon. Read more
• 04 Sep 1959: Kevin Harrington, Australian actor Kevin Harrington is an Australian stage, television and film actor and comedian, who is perhaps best known for his roles as Kevin Findlay on the Australian drama SeaChange in the 1990s and as David Bishop on the soap opera Neighbours. Read more
• 04 Sep 1959: Armin Kogler, Austrian ski jumper Armin Kogler is an Austrian former ski jumper. Read more
• 04 Sep 1958: Jacqueline Hewitt, American astrophysicist and astronomer Jacqueline Nina Hewitt is an American astrophysicist. She was the first person to discover an Einstein ring. She is a Fellow of the American Astronomical Society. Read more
• 04 Sep 1958: Marzio Innocenti, Italian rugby player and coach Marzio Innocenti is a former Italian rugby union player and coach and current sports director.
  He played as a flanker and a number 8.
  Since 21 March 2021 he's the president of the Italian rugby federation.
  He works as physician. Read more
• 04 Sep 1958: Drew Pinsky, American radio and television host David Drew Pinsky, commonly known as Dr. Drew, is an American media personality, internist, and addiction medicine specialist. He hosted the nationally syndicated radio talk show Loveline from the show's inception in 1984 until its end in 2016. On television, he hosted the talk show Dr. Drew On Call on HLN and the daytime series Lifechangers on The CW. In addition, he served as producer and starred in the VH1 show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, and its spinoffs Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew, Celebrity Rehab Presents Sober House. Pinsky currently hosts several podcasts, including Ask Dr. Drew, The Dr. Drew Podcast on the PodcastOne Network, and The Adam and Drew Show with his former Loveline co-host Adam Carolla. From February 2019 – December 2023, he hosted Dr. Drew After Dark on the Your Mom's House network. Read more
• 04 Sep 1957: Khandi Alexander, American actress, dancer, and choreographer Harriet Rene "Khandi" Alexander is an American dancer, choreographer, and actress. She began her career as a dancer in the 1980s, and was a choreographer for Whitney Houston's world tours from 1988 to 1992. Read more
• 04 Sep 1956: Blackie Lawless, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Steven Edward Duren, better known by his stage name Blackie Lawless, is an American singer, songwriter and musician, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for heavy metal band W.A.S.P. Read more
• 04 Sep 1955: David Broza, Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist David Simon Berwick Broza is an Israeli singer-songwriter. His music mixes modern pop with Spanish music. Read more
• 04 Sep 1955: Garth Le Roux, South African cricketer Garth Stirling Le Roux is a former South African first class cricketer. He went to Wynberg Boys' High School, graduating in 1973. Read more
• 04 Sep 1955: Brian Schweitzer, American politician, 23rd Governor of Montana Brian David Schweitzer is an American farmer and politician who served as the 23rd governor of Montana from 2005 to 2013. Schweitzer served for a time as chair of the Western Governors Association as well as the Democratic Governors Association. He also served as president of the Council of State Governments. Read more
• 04 Sep 1953: Janet Biehl, American philosopher and author Janet Biehl is an American author, copyeditor, translator, and artist. She authored several books and articles associated with social ecology, the body of ideas developed and publicized by Murray Bookchin. Formerly an advocate of his antistatist political program, she broke with it publicly in 2011 and now identifies as a progressive Democrat. Read more
• 04 Sep 1953: Michael Stean, English chess player and author Michael Francis Stean is an English chess grandmaster, an author of chess books and a tax accountant. Read more
• 04 Sep 1953: Fatih Terim, Turkish footballer and manager Fatih Terim is a Turkish professional football manager and former player. Read more
• 04 Sep 1952: Stephen Easley, American businessman and politician (died 2013) Stephen Easley was an American businessman and politician. Read more
• 04 Sep 1951: Martin Chambers, English drummer and singer Martin Dale Chambers is an English musician, best known as a founding member and drummer of the rock band the Pretenders. In addition to playing the drums with the group, Chambers sings backing vocals and plays percussion. He was part of the original band line-up, which also included Chrissie Hynde (vocals/guitar), James Honeyman-Scott (guitar/vocals/keyboards) and Pete Farndon. Hynde and Chambers are the only two surviving original members, and he has served two separate tenures with the group. Read more
• 04 Sep 1951: Judith Ivey, American actress Judith Lee Ivey is an American actress and theatre director. She has twice won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Steaming (1981) and Hurlyburly (1984). She also received Best Actress In A Play nomination for Park Your Car in Harvard Yard (1992) and another Best Featured Actress in a Play nomination for The Heiress.
  Ivey made her big screen debut playing the female lead role in the 1984 romantic comedy film, The Lonely Guy. She later appeared in the comedy films The Woman in Red (1984), Compromising Positions (1985), Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986), Sister, Sister (1987), and the drama films The Devil's Advocate (1997) and Women Talking (2022), for which she received critical acclaim. On television, Ivey played the leading role in the NBC sitcom Down Home (1990-91), and played Bonnie Jean "BJ" Poteet during the final season of CBS sitcom Designing Women (1992-93). For her role in the television film What the Deaf Man Heard (1997), she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. Read more
• 04 Sep 1951: Marita Ulvskog, Swedish politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden Marita Elisabet Ulvskog is a Swedish politician who served as Member of the European Parliament from 2009 until 2019. She is a member of the Social Democrats, part of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats. Read more
• 04 Sep 1950: Doyle Alexander, American baseball player Doyle Lafayette Alexander is an American former pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves, San Francisco Giants, Toronto Blue Jays, and Detroit Tigers. Read more
• 04 Sep 1950: Frank White, American baseball player and politician Frank White Jr. is an American politician and former professional baseball player, coach, and television sports commentator who is currently the first base coach for the Kansas City Monarchs of the American Association of Professional Baseball. He played his entire eighteen-year career in Major League Baseball as a second baseman for the Kansas City Royals from 1973 to 1990 and was an integral member of the 1985 World Series winning team. Read more
• 04 Sep 1949: Darryl Cotton, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2012) Darryl Grant Cotton was an Australian pop, rock singer-songwriter, television presenter and actor. He was a founding member of Australian rock group Zoot in 1965, with Beeb Birtles, and were later joined by Rick Brewer and Rick Springfield. As a solo artist Cotton released the albums, Best Seat in the House (1980), It's Rock 'n' Good Fun (1984) and Let the Children Sing (1994). In April 1980 his biggest solo hit, "Same Old Girl", which was co-written by Cotton, peaked at No. 6 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart. He acted in the TV soap opera, The Young Doctors (1979), and on stage as Joseph in the theatre production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (1983). Read more
• 04 Sep 1949: Dean Pees, American football player and coach Russell Dean Pees is an American football coach who is a senior advisor for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He was the defensive coordinator for the Ravens, New England Patriots, Tennessee Titans, and Atlanta Falcons. Pees was also the head coach at Kent State University from 1998 to 2003, compiling a record of 17–51. Read more
• 04 Sep 1949: Tom Watson, American golfer and sportscaster Thomas Sturges Watson is an American professional golfer. In the 1970s and 1980s, Watson was one of the leading golfers in the world, winning eight major championships and heading the PGA Tour money list five times. He was the number one player in the world according to McCormack's World Golf Rankings from 1978 until 1982; in both 1983 and 1984, he was ranked second behind Seve Ballesteros. He also spent 32 weeks in the top 10 of the successor Sony Rankings in their debut in 1986. Read more
• 04 Sep 1947: Bob Jenkins, American sportscaster (died 2021) Robert Francis Jenkins was an American television and radio sports announcer, primarily calling Indy car and NASCAR telecasts for ESPN/ABC and later Versus/NBCSN. Jenkins was the radio "Voice of the Indianapolis 500" on the IMS Radio Network from 1990 to 1998, then held the same role on ABC Sports television from 1999 to 2001. Read more
• 04 Sep 1947: Paul Sait, Australian rugby league player (died 2023) Paul Joseph Sait was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach. A versatile centre or running forward who played in the 1960s and 1970s for South Sydney. He made seven Test appearances for the Australian national representative side and represented in nine World Cup matches in two World Cups and in ten Kangaroo tour matches. Read more
• 04 Sep 1946: Gary Duncan, American guitarist (died 2019) Gary Duncan was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was guitarist with The Brogues, then most notably with Quicksilver Messenger Service, where the complex interplay between himself and fellow-guitarist John Cipollina did much to define the unique sound of that San Francisco based band. Read more
• 04 Sep 1946: Dave Liebman, American saxophonist, flute player, and composer David Liebman is an American saxophonist, flautist, bandleader, composer, and jazz educator. Best known for his work on soprano saxophone, he toured and recorded with Miles Davis during the trumpeter's electric period, appearing on On The Corner. He has appeared on more than 500 recordings, including about 200 as a leader or co-leader, and was named a NEA Jazz Master in 2011. He founded and serves as artistic director of the International Association of Schools of Jazz (IASJ). Read more
• 04 Sep 1946: Bryan Mauricette, Saint Lucian-Canadian cricketer Bryan Michael Mauricette is a Canadian former cricketer: a right-handed wicketkeeper-batsman who played a handful of first-class matches for the Windward Islands between 1966–67 and 1972–73 without ever passing 20. Read more
• 04 Sep 1945: Danny Gatton, American guitarist (died 1994) Daniel Wood Gatton Jr. was an American virtuoso guitarist who combined blues, rockabilly, jazz, and country to create a musical style he called "redneck jazz", a term which he took from fellow DC-born guitarist Evan Johns, who had composed a song by that name. Read more
• 04 Sep 1945: Bill Kenwright, English actor, singer, and producer (died 2023) William Kenwright was an English theatre and film producer. He was also the chairman of Everton Football Club for nearly two decades, from 2004 until his death in 2023. Read more
• 04 Sep 1944: Tony Atkinson, English economist and academic (died 2017) Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson was a British economist, Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, and senior research fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. Read more
• 04 Sep 1944: Dave Bassett, English footballer and manager David Thomas Bassett is an English football manager and a former player. Bassett won a total of seven promotions and is one of a select number of managers who took charge of over 1,000 matches. Read more
• 04 Sep 1944: Gene Parsons, American singer-songwriter, drummer, guitarist, and banjo player Gene Victor Parsons is an American drummer, banjo player, guitarist, singer-songwriter, and engineer, best known for his work with the Byrds from 1968 to 1972. Parsons has also released solo albums and played in bands including Nashville West, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and Parsons Green. Along with guitarist Clarence White, he is credited with inventing the B-Bender —a device which allows a guitarist to emulate the sound of a pedal steel guitar. The device is often referred to as the Parsons/White B-Bender, a trademarked name. Read more
• 04 Sep 1944: Jerry Relph, American politician and member of the Minnesota Senate (died 2020) Jerry O. Relph was an American politician and member of the Minnesota Senate. A Republican, he represented District 14 in central Minnesota from 2017 until his death from COVID-19 complications in 2020. Six weeks before his death, he attended a superspreader event, along with several other Minnesota Republicans, where attendees did not comply with public health recommendations, such as wearing protective face masks. Read more
• 04 Sep 1944: Jennifer Salt, American actress, screenwriter, and producer Jennifer Salt is an American producer, screenwriter, and former actress known for playing Eunice Tate on Soap (1977–1981). Read more
• 04 Sep 1942: Raymond Floyd, American golfer Raymond Loran Floyd is an American retired professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments on both the PGA Tour and Senior PGA Tour, including four majors and four senior majors. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1989. Read more
• 04 Sep 1942: Jerry Jarrett, American wrestler and promoter (died 2023) Jerry Winston Jarrett was an American businessman, professional wrestling promoter, and professional wrestler. Along with his long-term business partner Jerry Lawler, he was a key figure in the history of professional wrestling in the Mid-Southern United States. Described as a "wrestling genius", he was inducted into the National Wrestling Alliance Hall of Fame in 2009. Read more
• 04 Sep 1942: Merald "Bubba" Knight, American singer Merald Woodlow "Bubba" Knight, Jr. is an American R&B/soul singer, best known as a member of Gladys Knight & the Pips. The older brother of lead singer Gladys Knight, Bubba Knight served as the unofficial leader of the family group, and was instrumental in handling the Pips' business matters. "Gladys Knight & The Pips" evolved out of the Pips. Read more
• 04 Sep 1941: Marilena de Souza Chaui, Brazilian philosopher and academic Marilena de Souza Chaui is a Brazilian philosopher and Professor of Modern Philosophy in the University of São Paulo. She is a scholar of Baruch Spinoza and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Chaui is one of the founding members of Workers' Party and an assiduous critic of the capitalist model. Read more
• 04 Sep 1941: Ken Harrelson, American baseball player and sportscaster Kenneth Smith Harrelson, nicknamed "the Hawk" due to his distinctive profile, is an American former professional baseball player and television announcer. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1963 to 1971 as a first baseman and outfielder, and he subsequently spent 33 years as a play-by-play broadcast announcer for the Chicago White Sox. In December 2019, Harrelson was named the 2020 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually to one broadcaster for "major contributions to baseball". Read more
• 04 Sep 1941: Ramesh Sethi, Kenyan cricketer and coach Ramesh Kumar Sethi is a former Kenyan cricketer who represented East Africa in one first-class match and three One-Day Internationals in the 1975 World Cup. Read more
• 04 Sep 1941: Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of Andhra Pradesh Sushilkumar Sambhaji Shinde is an Indian former police officer and politician from the state of Maharashtra. He was the Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of Power in the Manmohan Singh government, and the Leader of the House in Lok Sabha. He previously served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 18 January 2003 to 4 November 2004. He also served as Governor of Andhra Pradesh prior to serving as central minister. Read more
• 04 Sep 1939: Denis Lindsay, South African cricketer and referee (died 2005) Denis Thomson Lindsay was a South African cricketer who played 19 Test matches for South Africa between 1963 and 1970. His outstanding series was against Australia in 1966–67, when he scored 606 runs in seven innings, including three centuries, took 24 catches as wicketkeeper and conceded only six byes. Read more
• 04 Sep 1937: Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer and politician Dawn Fraser is an Australian freestyle champion swimmer, eight-time Olympic medalist, a 15-year world record holder in the 100-metre freestyle, and a former politician. The winner of countless honours, she has enjoyed national prominence and controversy and sparked national pride in Australia. She is one of only four swimmers to have won the same Olympic individual event three times—in her case, the women's 100-metre freestyle. Read more
• 04 Sep 1937: Gene Ludwig, American organist and composer (died 2010) Gene Ludwig was an American jazz and rhythm and blues organist, who recorded as a leader as well as a sideman for Sonny Stitt, Arthur Prysock, Scott Hamilton, Bob DeVos, and Leslie West, and others. Ludwig received international acclaim as a Hammond organ player and was a prominent figure in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania jazz scene. Read more
• 04 Sep 1937: Virgil A. Richard, American general (died 2013) Brigadier General Virgil Almos Richard was a US Army General who served 32 years of active military service of which 30 were devoted to Financial Management. Richard became an outspoken critic of the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy of the U.S. Armed Forces and gained national media attention as a part of a small group of high-ranking military officers who came out as gay after retirement. Read more
• 04 Sep 1937: Les Allen, English footballer and manager Leslie William Allen is an English former football player and manager who played as an inside forward. Read more
• 04 Sep 1936: Kamuta Latasi, Tuvaluan politician, 4th Prime Minister of Tuvalu Sir Kamuta Latasi is a political figure from the Pacific nation of Tuvalu from Funafuti atoll. He was elected to the Parliament of Tuvalu in 1992. Latasi served as the 4th prime minister, and foreign minister, from 1993 until 1996. He has served as the Speaker of parliament from August 2006 to September 2010 and again from December 2010 to March 2014. He was Acting Governor-General of Tuvalu from March 2010 to April 2010. Read more
• 04 Sep 1935: Charles A. Hines, American general and academic (died 2013) Charles Alfonso Hines was an American Army major general, university administrator, and sociology professor. Read more
• 04 Sep 1935: Dallas Willard, American philosopher and academic (died 2013) Dallas Albert Willard was an American philosopher also known for his writings on Christian spiritual formation. Much of his work in philosophy was related to phenomenology, particularly the work of Edmund Husserl, many of whose writings he translated into English for the first time. Read more
• 04 Sep 1934: Clive Granger, Welsh-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009) Sir Clive William John Granger was a British econometrician known for his contributions to nonlinear time series analysis. He taught in Britain, at the University of Nottingham and in the United States, at the University of California, San Diego. Granger was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2003 in recognition of the contributions that he and his co-winner, Robert F. Engle, had made to the analysis of time series data. This work fundamentally changed the way in which economists analyse financial and macroeconomic data. Read more
• 04 Sep 1934: Antoine Redin, French footballer and manager (died 2012) Antoine Redin was a French football player and manager. He played for FC Nancy, Toulouse and AS Nancy. He coached AS Nancy and Bastia. Read more
• 04 Sep 1934: Eduard Khil, Russian baritone singer (died 2012) Eduard Anatolyevich Khil, often anglicized as Edward Hill, was a Russian baritone singer. Read more
• 04 Sep 1934: Jan Švankmajer, Czech filmmaker and artist Jan Švankmajer is a Czech retired filmmaker, animator, writer, playwright and artist. He draws and makes free graphics, collage, ceramics, tactile objects and assemblages. In the early 1960s, he explored informel, which later became an important part of the visual form of his animated films. He is a leading representative of late Czech surrealism. In his film work, he created an unmistakable and quite specific style, determined primarily by a compulsively unorthodox combination of externally disparate elements. The anti-artistic nature of this process, based on collage or assemblage, functions as a meaning-making factor. The author himself claims that the intersubjective communication between him and the viewer works only through evoked associations, and his films fulfil their subversive mission only when, even in the most fantastic moments, they look like a record of reality. Some of the works he created together with his wife Eva Švankmajerová. Read more
• 04 Sep 1932: Carlos Romero Barceló, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician, 5th Governor of Puerto Rico (died 2021) Carlos Antonio Romero Barceló was a Puerto Rican politician who served as the governor of Puerto Rico from 1977 to 1985. He was the second governor to be elected from the New Progressive Party (PNP). He also served on several other political positions including Mayor of San Juan from 1969 to 1977 and Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico in United States Congress from 1993 to 2001. Read more
• 04 Sep 1932: Vince Dooley, American football player and coach (died 2022) Vincent Joseph Dooley was an American college football coach. He was the head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs from 1964 to 1988, as well as the University of Georgia's (UGA) athletic director from 1979 to 2004. During his 25-year head coaching career, Dooley compiled a 201–77–10 record. His teams won six Southeastern Conference (SEC) titles and the 1980 national championship. After the 1980 season, Dooley was recognized as college football's "Coach of the Year" by several organizations. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1994. Read more
• 04 Sep 1931: Mitzi Gaynor, American actress, singer, and dancer (died 2024) Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber, known professionally as Mitzi Gaynor, was an American actress, dancer and singer. Her notable films included We're Not Married! (1952), There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), The Birds and the Bees (1956), and South Pacific (1958) – for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical at the 1959 awards. Read more
• 04 Sep 1931: Antonios Trakatellis, Greek biochemist and politician Antonios Trakatellis is a Greek Member of the European Parliament (MEP), and an academic biochemist. He was elected on the New Democracy ticket and sits with the European People's Party group. He has been leader of the ND parliamentary group since 2000. Read more
• 04 Sep 1930: Robert Arneson, American sculptor and academic (died 1992) Robert Carston Arneson was an American sculptor and professor of ceramics in the Art department at University of California, Davis for nearly three decades. Read more
• 04 Sep 1930: William Maxson, American general (died 2013) William B. Maxson was an American Air Force Major General and vice commander, 15th Air Force, Strategic Air Command, March Air Force Base, Calif. Read more
• 04 Sep 1929: Thomas Eagleton, American lawyer and politician, 38th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (died 2007) Thomas Francis Eagleton was an American lawyer who served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1968 to 1987. He was briefly the Democratic vice presidential nominee under George McGovern in 1972. He suffered from bouts of depression throughout his life, resulting in several hospitalizations, which were kept secret from the public. When they were revealed, the McGovern campaign was humiliated, and Eagleton was forced to quit the race. He later became adjunct professor of public affairs at Washington University in St. Louis. Read more
• 04 Sep 1929: Robert V. Keeley, Lebanese-American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Greece (died 2015) Robert Vossler Keeley had a 34-year career in the Foreign Service of the United States, from 1956 to 1989. He served three times as Ambassador: to Greece (1985–89), Zimbabwe (1980–84), and Mauritius (1976–78). In 1978–80 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, in charge of southern and eastern Africa. Read more
• 04 Sep 1928: Dick York, American actor (died 1992) Richard Allen York was an American actor. He was the first actor to play Darrin Stephens on the ABC fantasy sitcom Bewitched. He played teacher Bertram Cates in the film Inherit the Wind (1960). Read more
• 04 Sep 1927: John McCarthy, American computer scientist and academic (died 2011) John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence, and part of just a small group of artificial intelligence researchers in the 1950s and 1960s. He co-authored the proposal for the Dartmouth workshop which coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), led the development of the symbolic programming language family Lisp and had a large influence in the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing, and created garbage collection. Read more
• 04 Sep 1927: Ferenc Sánta, Hungarian author and screenwriter (died 2008) Ferenc Sánta was a Hungarian novelist and film screenwriter. He was awarded the József Attila Prize in 1956 and 1964, and the prestigious Kossuth Prize in 1973. He was born in Braṣov and died in Budapest. Read more
• 04 Sep 1926: George William Gray, British chemist, developer of stable liquid crystals (died 2013) George William Gray was a Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Hull who was instrumental in developing the long-lasting materials which made liquid crystal displays possible. He created and systematically developed liquid crystal materials science, and established a method of practical molecular design. Gray was recipient of the 1995 Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology. Read more
• 04 Sep 1926: Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher (died 2002) Ivan Dominic Illich was an Austrian Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic. His 1971 book Deschooling Society criticises modern society's institutional approach to education, an approach that he argued demotivates and alienates individuals from the process of learning. His 1975 book Medical Nemesis, importing to the sociology of medicine the concept of medical harm, in which he argues that industrialised society impairs quality of life through processes such as overmedicalisation, the pathologisation of normal conditions, and increased dependency on medical institutions. Illich called himself "an errant pilgrim." Read more
• 04 Sep 1926: Bert Olmstead, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2015) Murray Albert Olmstead was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who was a left winger for the Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks and Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 13 seasons. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1985. Olmstead began his career with the Black Hawks in 1949. In December 1950, he was traded to the Montreal Canadiens via Detroit. Olmstead had his best statistical years playing for Montreal, leading the league in assists in 1954–55 with 48, and setting a league record for assists with 56 the following season. During this time he frequently played on Montreal's top line with Jean Beliveau and Bernie Geoffrion. Olmstead was claimed in the 1958 NHL Intra-League Draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs, and played there until his retirement in 1962. Read more
• 04 Sep 1925: Asa Earl Carter, American Ku Klux Klan leader and author (died 1979) Asa Earl Carter was an American segregationist and Ku Klux Klan organizer who was prominent in the 1950s for his activism and later as a Western fiction novelist. He was particularly known for his work as a co-writer of George Wallace's well-known pro-segregation line of 1963, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." He ran in the Democratic primary for governor of Alabama as a white supremacist. Later, under the pseudonym of supposedly Cherokee writer Forrest Carter, he wrote The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (1972), a Western novel that was adapted into a 1976 film featuring Clint Eastwood that was added to the National Film Registry, and The Education of Little Tree (1976), a best-selling, award-winning book which was marketed as a memoir but which turned out to be fiction. Read more
• 04 Sep 1924: Joan Aiken, English author (died 2004) Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British writer. She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972) for Night Fall. Read more
• 04 Sep 1924: Justinas Lagunavičius, Lithuanian basketball player (died 1997) Justinas Lagunavičius was a Lithuanian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He trained at VSS Žalgiris in Kaunas. Read more
• 04 Sep 1923: Ram Kishore Shukla, Indian lawyer and politician (died 2003) Pandit Ram Kishore Shukla was an Indian politician and an activist for Indian independence. Read more
• 04 Sep 1922: Per Olof Sundman, Swedish author and politician (died 1992) Per Olof Sundman was a Swedish writer and politician. Read more
• 04 Sep 1920: Clemar Bucci, Argentine race car driver (died 2011) Clemar Bucci was an Argentine racing driver. He participated in five World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 17 July 1954 and several non-Championship Formula One races. He scored no championship points. He was born in Zenón Pereyra and died in Buenos Aires. Read more
• 04 Sep 1920: Craig Claiborne, American journalist, author, and critic (died 2000) Craig Claiborne was an American restaurant critic, food journalist, and book author. A long-time food editor and restaurant critic for The New York Times, he was also the author of numerous cookbooks and an autobiography. He made many contributions to gastronomy and food writing in the United States. Read more
• 04 Sep 1920: Konstantin Kalser, German-American film producer and advertising executive (died 1994) Konstantin Kalser was a German-American film producer and advertising executive. He won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1957 with Crashing the Water Barrier. Read more
• 04 Sep 1919: Émile Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2012) Joseph Émile Alcide "Butch" Bouchard was a Canadian ice hockey player who played defence with the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League from 1941 to 1956. He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, won four Stanley Cups, was captain of the Canadiens for eight years, and was voted to the NHL All-Star team four times. Although having a reputation as a clean player, he was also one of the strongest players and best body-checkers of his era. He excelled as a defensive defenceman, had superior passing skills, and was known for his leadership and mentoring of younger players. In his early years in the NHL, Bouchard, among other players, made a major contribution to reinvigorating what was at the time an ailing Canadien franchise. Read more
• 04 Sep 1919: Howard Morris, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2005) Howard Jerome Morris was an American actor, comedian, and director. He was best known for his role in The Andy Griffith Show as Ernest T. Bass, and as "Uncle Goopy" in a celebrated comedy sketch on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows (1954). He did voices for television shows such as The Flintstones (1962–1965), The Jetsons (1962–1987), The Atom Ant Show (1965–1966), Garfield and Friends (1988–1994), and Cow and Chicken (1997–1999). Read more
• 04 Sep 1919: Kurnianingrat, Indonesian educator (died 1993) Raden Ajeng Kurnianingrat Sastrawinata, more commonly known mononymously as Kurnianingrat, was an Indonesian educator and pioneer of the country's curriculum for teaching English as a foreign language. She was deputy director of Indonesia's English Language Inspectorate, a branch of the Ministry of Education, Instruction, and Culture, from 1953 to 1956. Later, she served as the head of the English studies department at the University of Indonesia. Read more
• 04 Sep 1918: Paul Harvey, American radio host (died 2009) Paul Harvey Aurandt was an American radio broadcaster for ABC News Radio. He broadcast News and Comment on mornings and mid-days on weekdays and at noon on Saturdays and also his famous The Rest of the Story segments. From 1951 to 2008, his programs reached as many as 24 million people per week. Paul Harvey News was carried on 1,350 commercial radio stations, on 400 American Forces Network stations, and in 300 newspapers. Read more
• 04 Sep 1918: Gerald Wilson, American trumpet player and composer (died 2014) Gerald Stanley Wilson was an American jazz trumpeter, big band bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator. Born in Mississippi, he was based in Los Angeles from the early 1940s. He arranged music for Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, Julie London, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Carter, Lionel Hampton, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, and Nancy Wilson. Read more
• 04 Sep 1917: Henry Ford II, American businessman (died 1987) Henry Ford II, commonly known as "Hank the Deuce," was an American businessman in the automotive industry. He was the oldest son of Edsel Ford and oldest grandson of Henry Ford I. He served as president of the Ford Motor Company from 1945 to 1960, chief executive officer (CEO) from 1947 to 1979, and chairman of the board of directors from 1960 to 1980. Under his leadership, Ford Motor Company became a publicly traded corporation in 1956. From 1943 to 1950, he also served as president of the Ford Foundation. Read more
• 04 Sep 1914: Rudolf Leiding, German businessman (died 2003) Rudolf Leiding was the third post-war chairman of the Volkswagen automobile company, succeeding Kurt Lotz in 1971. Read more
• 04 Sep 1913: Mickey Cohen, American mob boss (died 1976) Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen was an American mobster based in Los Angeles and boss of the Cohen crew during the mid-20th century. Read more
• 04 Sep 1913: Victor Kiernan, English historian and academic (died 2009) Edward Victor Gordon Kiernan was a British historian and a member of the Communist Party Historians Group. Kiernan's work was prominent in the field of Marxist historiography in Britain, analyzing historical events from a Marxist point of view. Belonging to a group of prominent British Marxist historians active in the 20th century, Kiernan was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain from 1934 until 1959, when he left in protest over the party's response to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He was also involved in promoting Urdu poetry among Western audiences. Read more
• 04 Sep 1913: Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1982) Stanford Moore was an American biochemist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972, with Christian B. Anfinsen and William Howard Stein, for work done at Rockefeller University on the structure of the enzyme ribonuclease and for contributing to the understanding of the connection between the chemical structure and catalytic activity of the ribonuclease molecule. Read more
• 04 Sep 1913: Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect (died 2005) Kenzō Tange was a Japanese architect. Born in Sakai and raised in China and southern Japan, Tange was inspired from an early age by the work of Le Corbusier and designed his first buildings under Imperial Japan. He first achieved recognition for his projects to reconstruct the destroyed cities of postwar Japan, particularly Hiroshima, where he designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. His engagement with the Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne in the 1950s made him one of the first Japanese architects to achieve international recognition. Read more
• 04 Sep 1913: Shmuel Wosner, Austrian-Israeli rabbi and author (died 2015) Shmuel HaLevi Wosner was a prominent Ashkenazi rabbi and posek living in Bnei Brak, Israel. He was known as the Shevet HaLevi after his major work. Read more
• 04 Sep 1912: Syd Hoff, American author and illustrator (died 2004) Syd Hoff was an American cartoonist and children's book author, best known for his classic early reader Danny and the Dinosaur. His cartoons appeared in a multitude of genres, including advertising commissions for such companies as Eveready Batteries, Jell-O, OK Used Cars, S.O.S Pads, Rambler, Ralston Cereal, and more. Read more
• 04 Sep 1912: Alexander Liberman, Russian-American publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor (died 1999) Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman was a Ukrainian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at Condé Nast Publications. Read more
• 04 Sep 1910: Denis Tomlinson, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (died 1993) Denis Stanley Tomlinson was a Rhodesian cricketer who played in one Test match for South Africa in 1935. He was the first Rhodesian-born cricketer to represent South Africa. Read more
• 04 Sep 1909: Eduard Wirths, German physician (died 1945) Eduard Wirths was the chief SS doctor at the Auschwitz concentration camp from September 1942 to January 1945. Thus, Wirths had formal responsibility for everything undertaken by the nearly twenty SS doctors who worked in the medical sections of Auschwitz between 1942 and 1945. Read more
• 04 Sep 1908: Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-American director and producer (died 1999) Edward Dmytryk was a Canadian-born American film director and editor. He was known for his 1940s noir films and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for Crossfire (1947). In 1947, he was named as one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who refused to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in their investigations during the Red Scare of the McCarthy era. They all served time in prison for contempt of Congress. In 1951, Dmytryk testified to the HUAC and named individuals, including Arnold Manoff, whose careers were then destroyed for many years, to rehabilitate his own career. First hired again by independent producer Stanley Kramer in 1952, Dmytryk is likely best known for directing The Caine Mutiny (1954), a critical and commercial success. The second-highest-grossing film of the year, it was nominated for Best Picture and several other awards at the 1955 Oscars. Dmytryk was nominated for a Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. Read more
• 04 Sep 1908: Richard Wright, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet (died 1960) Richard Nathaniel Wright (1908–1960) was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially related to the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid 20th centuries suffering discrimination and violence. His best known works include the novella collection Uncle Tom's Children (1938), the novel Native Son (1940), and the memoir Black Boy (1945). Literary critics believe his work helped change race relations in the United States in the mid-20th century. Read more
• 04 Sep 1907: Reggie Nalder, Austrian-American actor (died 1991) Reggie Nalder was a prolific Austrian film and television character actor from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. His distinctive features—partially the result of disfiguring burns—together with a haunting style and demeanor led to his being called "The Face That Launched a Thousand Trips". Read more
• 04 Sep 1906: Ruben Oskar Auervaara, Finnish fraudster (died 1964) Ruben Oskar Auervaara was a notorious Finnish conman and thief. He became famous by cheating money from women he met through newspaper announcements, by pretending to intend to marry them. His surname has become an archetypal name in the Finnish language, meaning a deceptive charming trickster. Read more
• 04 Sep 1906: Max Delbrück, German-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1981) Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück was a German–American biophysicist who participated in launching the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s. He stimulated physical scientists' interest into biology, especially as to basic research to physically explain genes, mysterious at the time. Formed in 1945 and led by Delbrück along with Salvador Luria and Alfred Hershey, the Phage Group made substantial headway unraveling important aspects of genetics. The three shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses". He was the first physicist to predict what is now called Delbrück scattering. Read more
• 04 Sep 1905: Mary Renault, English-South African author (died 1983) Eileen Mary Challans, known by her pen name Mary Renault, was a British writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece. Read more
• 04 Sep 1905: Walter Zapp, Latvian-Estonian inventor, invented the Minox (died 2003) Walter Zapp was a Baltic German inventor. His best-known creation was the Minox subminiature camera. Over the course of his life, he was granted over 60 patents. Read more
• 04 Sep 1902: Tommy Mitchell, English cricketer (died 1996) Thomas Bignall Mitchell was an English first-class cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1928 and 1939. Read more
• 04 Sep 1901: William Lyons, English businessman, co-founded Jaguar Cars (died 1985) Sir William Lyons, known as "Mr. Jaguar", was with fellow motorcycle enthusiast William Walmsley, the co-founder in 1922 of the Swallow Sidecar Company, which became Jaguar Cars Limited after the Second World War. Read more
• 04 Sep 1896: Antonin Artaud, French actor, director, and playwright (died 1948) Antoine Maria Joseph Paul Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud, was a French artist who worked across a variety of media. He is best known for his writings, as well as his work in the theatre and cinema. Widely recognized as a major figure of the European avant-garde, he had a particularly strong influence on twentieth-century theatre through his conceptualization of the Theatre of Cruelty. Known for his raw, surreal and transgressive work, his texts explored themes from the cosmologies of ancient cultures, philosophy, the occult, mysticism and indigenous Mexican and Balinese practices. Read more
• 04 Sep 1894: Daniel van der Meulen, Dutch diplomat (died 1989) Daniel van der Meulen was a Dutch civil servant who served as the consul to Jeddah from 1926 through 1931. Born in Laren, van der Meulen entered the civil service and was assigned to the Dutch East Indies in 1915. He was chosen by the Islamicist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje to serve as the Netherlands' consul in Jeddah, focusing mainly on facilitating the hajj pilgrimage for residents of the Dutch East Indies. After his time as consul ended, van der Meulen returned to the Indies, though he made several further trips to the Arabian Peninsula. He maintained diplomatic roles in Jeddah during the Second World War and in Jakarta during the Indonesian National Revolution. Read more
• 04 Sep 1892: Darius Milhaud, French composer and educator (died 1974) Darius Milhaud was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and Brazilian music and make extensive use of polytonality. Milhaud is considered one of the key modernist composers. He taught many future jazz and classical composers, including Burt Bacharach, Dave Brubeck, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, György Kurtág, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis among others. Read more
• 04 Sep 1891: Fritz Todt, German engineer, politician, and senior Nazi official (died 1942) Fritz Todt was a German construction engineer and senior political figure of the Nazi Party. In 1938, he founded Organization Todt (OT), a military-engineering organization that supplied German industry with forced labor, and he served as Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition in Nazi Germany early in World War II, directing the entire German wartime military economy from that position. Read more
• 04 Sep 1890: Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1947) Gunnar Sommerfeldt was a Danish actor and film maker. Read more
• 04 Sep 1888: Oskar Schlemmer, German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer (died 1943) Oskar Schlemmer was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school. Read more
• 04 Sep 1887: Roy William Neill, Irish-English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1946) Roy William Neill was an Irish-born American film director best known for producing and directing almost all of the Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, made between 1942 and 1946 and released by Universal Pictures. He also directed Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), an entry in the popular Universal Monsters franchise. Read more
• 04 Sep 1886: Albert Orsborn, English 6th General of The Salvation Army (died 1967) Albert William Thomas Orsborn was the sixth General of The Salvation Army (1946–1954). He became an Officer of The Salvation Army in 1905. Albert served as a Corps Officer and in divisional work in the British Territory of the Army. In 1909, he married his first wife, Captain Evalina Barker. Read more
• 04 Sep 1885: Antonio Bacci, Italian cardinal (died 1971) Antonio Bacci was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Secretary of Briefs to Princes from 1931 to 1960, when he was elevated to the cardinalate by Pope John XXIII. He is perhaps best known for his role in the Ottaviani Intervention. Read more
• 04 Sep 1877: Kārlis Ulmanis, Latvian prime minister and president (died 1942) Kārlis Augusts Vilhelms Ulmanis was a Latvian politician and dictator. He was one of the most prominent Latvian politicians of pre-World War II Latvia during the Interwar period of independence from November 1918 to June 1940 and served as the country's first prime minister. Read more
• 04 Sep 1862: Franjo Krežma, Croatian violinist and composer (died 1881) Franjo Krežma, also known as Franz Krezma in German-speaking countries, was a Croatian violinist and composer. Read more
• 04 Sep 1851: John Dillon, Irish poet and politician (died 1927) John Dillon was an Irish politician from Dublin, who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for over 35 years and was the last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party. By political disposition, Dillon was an advocate of Irish nationalism, originally a follower of Charles Stewart Parnell, supporting land reform and Irish Home Rule. Read more
• 04 Sep 1850: Luigi Cadorna, Italian field marshal (died 1928) Luigi Cadorna, was an Italian general, Marshal of Italy and Count, most famous for being the Chief of Staff of the Italian Army from 1914 until late 1917 during World War I. He commanded the Italian army on the Italian front, a theatre marked by trench warfare and attrition on the Eastern Alps and Isonzo river. Cadorna launched multiple offensives across the Isonzo front during which the Italian army made gains, most notably capturing Gorizia and Bainsizza, but it ultimately suffered a major defeat when German-Austrian forces attacked the Italian troops at Caporetto and forced them to retreat to the Piave river. He was relieved as Chief of Staff and replaced by Armando Diaz. Read more
• 04 Sep 1848: Lewis Howard Latimer, American inventor (died 1928) Lewis Howard Latimer was an American inventor and patent draftsman. His inventions included an evaporative air conditioner, an improved process for manufacturing carbon filaments for electric light bulbs, and an improved toilet system for railroad cars. In 1884, he joined the Edison Electric Light Company where he worked as a draftsman. The Lewis H. Latimer House, his landmarked former residence, is located near the Latimer Projects at 34–41 137th Street in Flushing, Queens, New York City. Read more
• 04 Sep 1848: Jennie Lee, American actress (died 1925) Mary Jane Lee was an American actress of the stage and screen. Read more
• 04 Sep 1846: Daniel Burnham, American architect, designed the World's Columbian Exposition (died 1912) Daniel Hudson Burnham was an American architect and urban designer. A proponent of the Beaux-Arts movement, he may have been "the most successful power broker the American architectural profession has ever produced". Read more
• 04 Sep 1832: Antonio Agliardi, Italian cardinal (died 1915) Antonio Agliardi was an Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal, archbishop, and papal diplomat. Read more
• 04 Sep 1826: Martin Wiberg, Swedish philosopher and engineer (died 1905) Martin Wiberg was a Swedish inventor. He enrolled at Lund University in 1845 and became a Doctor of Philosophy in 1850. Read more
• 04 Sep 1825: Dadabhai Naoroji, Indian academic and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (died 1917) Dadabhai Naoroji was an Indian political leader, merchant, scholar, and writer who played a role in both Indian and British public life. He was among the founding members of the Indian National Congress and served as its President on three occasions, from 1886 to 1887, 1893 to 1894 and 1906 to 1907. Naoroji's early career included serving as the Diwan of Baroda in 1874. Subsequently, he moved to England, where he continued to advocate for Indian interests. In 1892, he was elected to the House of Commons as a Liberal Party Member of Parliament, representing Finsbury Central until 1895. He was the second person of Asian descent to become a British MP following David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre, who was an Anglo Indian MP. Read more
• 04 Sep 1824: Anton Bruckner, Austrian organist and composer (died 1896) Joseph Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer and organist best known for his symphonies and sacred music, which includes Masses, Te Deum and motets. The symphonies are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, strongly polyphonic character, and considerable length. Bruckner's compositions helped to define contemporary musical radicalism, owing to their dissonances, unprepared modulations, and roving harmonies. Read more
• 04 Sep 1809: Manuel Montt, Chilean scholar and politician, 6th President of Chile (died 1880) Manuel Francisco Antonio Julián Montt Torres was a Chilean statesman and scholar who was twice elected President of Chile between 1851 and 1861. He was the first civilian to serve a full term as President of Chile. Read more
• 04 Sep 1809: Juliusz Słowacki, Polish poet and playwright (died 1849) Juliusz Słowacki was a Polish Romantic poet. He is considered one of the "Three Bards" of Polish literature — a major figure in the Polish Romantic period, and the father of modern Polish drama. His works often feature elements of Slavic paganism, Polish history, mysticism and orientalism. His style includes the employment of neologisms and irony. His primary genre was the drama, but he also wrote lyric poetry. His most popular works include the dramas Kordian and Balladyna and the poems Beniowski, Testament mój and Anhelli. Read more
• 04 Sep 1803: Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (died 1891) Sarah Childress Polk was the first lady of the United States from 1845 to 1849. She was the wife of the 11th president of the United States, James K. Polk. Read more

Notable Deaths on 04 September

• 04 Sep 2025: Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer (born 1934) Giorgio Armani was an Italian fashion designer and founder of the Armani luxury fashion house. Widely regarded as among the most influential designers in contemporary fashion, Armani initially gained recognition for his work with fashion house Cerruti 1881, before founding his own label in 1975. He became known for minimalist, deconstructed silhouettes—especially his jackets and suits—which are said to have redefined masculine and feminine elegance in a contemporary form. Armani also played a pivotal role in shaping celebrity style, particularly red-carpet fashion. By the early 2000s, he was recognized as the most successful Italian designer, with his brand expanding into music, sport, and luxury hotels. Read more
• 04 Sep 2025: Katharine, Duchess of Kent, member of the British royal family (born 1933) Katharine, Duchess of Kent, was a member of the British royal family. She was the wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, a grandson of King George V. Read more
• 04 Sep 2024: Bora Đorđević, Serbian singer (born 1952) Borisav "Bora" Đorđević, also known as Bora Čorba, was a Serbian rock musician, singer-songwriter and poet. He was best known as the frontman of the rock band Riblja Čorba. Read more
• 04 Sep 2023: Steve Harwell, American singer (born 1967) Steven Scott Harwell was an American musician and singer. He was the lead vocalist of the rock band Smash Mouth from their formation in 1994 until his retirement in October 2021. Read more
• 04 Sep 2022: Cyrus Mistry, Indian-Irish businessman (born 1968) Cyrus Pallonji Mistry was an Irish businessman. He was the chairman of the Tata Group, an Indian business conglomerate, from 2012 to 2016. He was the sixth chairman of the group, and only the second not to bear the surname Tata. In mid-2012, he was chosen by a selection panel to head the Tata Group and took charge in December that year. In October 2016, the board of Tata Group's holding company, Tata Sons, voted to remove Mistry from the post of chairman. Former chairman Ratan Tata then returned as interim chairman, and Natarajan Chandrasekaran was named as the new chairman a few months later. However, in December 2019, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) declared the appointment of Chandrasekaran as executive chairman illegal, and restored Mistry. However, the Supreme Court stayed NCLAT's order on 10 January 2020. Mistry had filed a cross-appeal in the court, seeking explanations for anomalies in the NCLAT. However, the Supreme Court upheld his dismissal. Read more
• 04 Sep 2022: Peter Straub, American novelist (born 1943) Peter Francis Straub was an American novelist and poet. He had success with several horror and supernatural fiction novels, among them Julia (1975), Ghost Story (1979) and The Talisman (1984), the latter co-written with Stephen King. He explored the mystery genre with the Blue Rose trilogy, consisting of Koko (1988), Mystery (1990), and The Throat (1993). He fused the supernatural with crime fiction in Lost Boy, Lost Girl (2003) and the related In the Night Room (2004). For the Library of America, he edited the volume H. P. Lovecraft: Tales and the anthology American Fantastic Tales. Straub received such literary honors as the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award. Read more
• 04 Sep 2021: Tunch Ilkin, Turkish-American football player (born 1957) Tunch Ilkin was a Turkish-American professional football player and sports broadcaster. A two-time Pro Bowl selection as an offensive tackle with the Pittsburgh Steelers, he was the first Turk to play in the National Football League (NFL). He was voted to the Pittsburgh Steelers All-Time Team. After his playing career, he was a television and radio analyst for the Steelers from 1998 to 2020. Read more
• 04 Sep 2021: Willard Scott, American weather presenter and television personality (born 1934) Willard Herman Scott Jr. was an American weatherman, radio and television personality, actor, narrator, clown, comedian, and author, whose broadcast career spanned 68 years, 65 years with the NBC broadcast network. Scott was notable as a weather reporter on NBC's Today show where he also celebrated US centenarian birthdays and notable anniversaries. Scott was the creator and original performer of McDonald's mascot clown Ronald McDonald. Read more
• 04 Sep 2020: Lloyd Cadena, Filipino YouTuber and vlogger (born 1993) Lloyd Cafe Cadena was a Filipino vlogger, radio personality, and author. He was one of the most popular YouTubers in his native Philippines, with over 5.86 million subscribers on the platform at the time of his death. Read more
• 04 Sep 2018: Bill Daily, American actor, comedian (born 1927) William Edward Daily was an American actor and comedian known for his sitcom work as Major Roger Healey on I Dream of Jeannie and Howard Borden on The Bob Newhart Show. Read more
• 04 Sep 2018: Krzysztof Sitko, Polish association football player (born 1967) Krzysztof Sitko was a Polish footballer who played as a striker. Throughout most of his career, he was associated with GKS Tychy. Read more
• 04 Sep 2016: Clarence D. Rappleyea Jr., lawyer and politician (born 1933) Clarence D. Rappleyea Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Read more
• 04 Sep 2015: Graham Brazier, New Zealand singer-songwriter (born 1952) Graham Philip Brazier was a New Zealand musician and songwriter. He first came to prominence in the band Hello Sailor. After Hello Sailor, he formed a band called the Legionnaires. When he was growing up, he lived above his mother's bookshop in Dominion Road in Auckland and he collected first editions. Read more
• 04 Sep 2015: Jean Darling, American actress (born 1922) Jean Darling was an American child actress who was a regular in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1927 to 1929. Prior to her death, she was one of four surviving cast members from the silent era cast of Our Gang. At the time of her death in 2015, Darling was, along with Baby Peggy, one of the last surviving actors who worked in the silent film era. Read more
• 04 Sep 2015: Wilfred de Souza, Indian surgeon and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Goa (born 1927) Wilfred Anthony de Souza GCIH was an Indian surgeon and politician who served as the fifth Chief Minister of Goa, holding the office thrice between 1993 and 1998. He also served as first Deputy Chief Minister of Goa in different occasions from 1980 to 2007, and held the position a total of four times. He was a member of the Indian National Congress and the Goa Rajiv Congress Party, during his third tenure. Read more
• 04 Sep 2015: Warren Murphy, American author and screenwriter (born 1933) Warren Burton Murphy was an American author, best known as the co-creator of The Destroyer series, the basis for the film Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. Read more
• 04 Sep 2014: Ron Mulock, Australian lawyer and politician, 10th Deputy Premier of New South Wales (born 1930) Ronald Joseph Mulock AO KCSG was an Australian politician. A former City of Penrith mayor, he was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1971 to 1988. He was Deputy Premier of New South Wales under Neville Wran and Barrie Unsworth from 1984 to 1988. Read more
• 04 Sep 2014: Gustavo Cerati, Argentine Musician (born 1959) Gustavo Adrián Cerati Clark was an Argentine musician and singer-songwriter who gained international recognition for being the leader, vocalist, composer, and guitarist of the rock band, Soda Stereo. He is widely considered by critics and musicians as one of the most important and influential artists of Latin rock. Read more
• 04 Sep 2014: Wolfhart Pannenberg, Polish-German theologian and academic (born 1928) Wolfhart Pannenberg was a German Lutheran theologian. He made a number of significant contributions to modern theology, including his concept of history as a form of revelation centered on the resurrection of Christ, which has been widely debated in both Protestant and Catholic theology, as well as by non-Christian thinkers. Read more
• 04 Sep 2014: Joan Rivers, American comedian, television host, and author (born 1933) Joan Alexandra Molinsky, known professionally as Joan Rivers, was an American comedian, actress, producer, writer and television host. She was noted for her blunt, often controversial comedic persona that was heavily self-deprecating and acerbic, especially towards celebrities and politicians, delivered in her signature New York accent. She is considered a pioneer of women in comedy. She received an Emmy Award and a Grammy Award, as well as nomination for a Tony Award. Read more
• 04 Sep 2013: Michel Pagé, Canadian businessman and politician (born 1949) Michel Pagé was a Canadian businessman and politician in the province of Quebec. He served in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1973 to 1992 as a Liberal and was a cabinet minister in the government of Robert Bourassa. Read more
• 04 Sep 2013: Dick Raaymakers, Dutch composer and theorist (born 1930) Dick Raaijmakers, also known as Dick Raaymakers or Kid Baltan, was a Dutch composer, theater maker and theorist. He is considered a pioneer in the field of electronic music and tape music, but has also produced numerous musical theater pieces and theoretical publications. Read more
• 04 Sep 2013: Daniele Seccarecci, Italian bodybuilder (born 1980) Daniele Seccarecci was an Italian bodybuilder. Read more
• 04 Sep 2013: Stanislav Stepashkin, Russian boxer (born 1940) Stanislav Ivanovich Stepashkin was an Olympic boxer from the Soviet Union. Read more
• 04 Sep 2013: Casey Viator, American bodybuilder and journalist (born 1951) Casey Viator/Casius Viatoro was an American professional bodybuilder. He is noted as the youngest ever AAU Mr. America – gaining the title at the age of 19 in 1971. Read more
• 04 Sep 2012: Abraham Avigdorov, Israeli soldier (born 1929) Avraham Avigdorov was an Israeli soldier and recipient of the Hero of Israel award, the highest Israeli military decoration. Avigdorov received the award for destroying two Bren machine gun positions on March 17, 1948, during the civil war phase of the 1947–1949 Palestine war. Read more
• 04 Sep 2012: Albert Marre, American actor, director, and producer (born 1924) Albert Marre was an American stage director and producer. He directed the stage musical Man of La Mancha in 1965, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical. Read more
• 04 Sep 2012: George Savitsky, American football player (born 1924) George Michael Savitsky was an American professional football offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for the Philadelphia Eagles. Read more
• 04 Sep 2012: Syed Mustafa Siraj, Indian author (born 1930) Syed Mustafa Siraj was an Indian author. In 1994, he received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Aleek Manush. In 2005, his short story Ranirghater Brittanto was adapted into the film Faltu by Anjan Das. His oeuvre consists of some 150 novels and 300 short stories. In detective fiction, he is the creator of Colonel Niladri Sarkar, also known as "Goenda Colonel". Read more
• 04 Sep 2012: Hakam Sufi, Indian singer-songwriter (born 1952) Hakam Sufi was an Indian singer as well as songwriter of Punjabi music. He was known for his songs like, paani vich maaran deetan from a Punjabi film and more. Known for his clean and pure style of music, Hakam Sufi stayed away from vulgarity and bawdy lyrics. Untrapped by commercial interests, Sufi, who worked as a school teacher remained dedicated to pristine pure music till his death. Read more
• 04 Sep 2011: Lee Roy Selmon, American football player (born 1954) Lee Roy Selmon was an American professional football player who was a defensive end for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football as a defensive tackle at the University of Oklahoma, the youngest of three brothers to play football there. Read more
• 04 Sep 2010: Bonnie Leman, American art historian, writer, and publisher of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine (born 1926) Bonnie Lee Hale Leman was the founder of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, the first quilting-focused magazine in the United States. She was one of the first women magazine publishers in the country and was inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame in 1982. Read more
• 04 Sep 2007: John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Roxburghshire (born 1923) Walter Francis John Montagu Douglas Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch and 11th Duke of Queensberry,, known as Lord Eskdaill from birth to 1935 and then as the Earl of Dalkeith from 1935 to 1973, was a Scottish peer, politician and landowner. He served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in the Second World War, and represented Edinburgh North in the House of Commons for 13 years. Read more
• 04 Sep 2006: Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer and manager (born 1942) Giacinto Facchetti was an Italian footballer who played as a left-back for Inter Milan from 1960 to 1978. He later served as Inter chairman from January 2004 until his death in 2006. He played 634 official games for the club, scoring 75 goals, and was a member of "Grande Inter" team under manager Helenio Herrera which won four Serie A titles, a Coppa Italia, two European Cups, and two Intercontinental Cups. He placed second for the Ballon d'Or in 1965. Read more
• 04 Sep 2006: Steve Irwin, Australian zoologist and television host (born 1962) Stephen Robert Irwin was an Australian conservationist, environmentalist, zookeeper, television personality, and wildlife educator. Nicknamed the "Crocodile Hunter", he is regarded as an influential figure in Australian popular culture, and as one of the greatest conservationists. Read more
• 04 Sep 2006: Colin Thiele, Australian author, poet, and educator (born 1920) Colin Milton Thiele was an Australian author and educator. He was renowned for his award-winning children's fiction, most notably the novels Storm Boy, Blue Fin, the Sun on the Stubble series, and February Dragon. As Vice Principal and Principal of Wattle Park Teachers College and Principal of Murray Park CAE for much of the 1960s and 1970s he had a significant impact on teacher education in South Australia. Read more
• 04 Sep 2006: Astrid Varnay, Swedish-American soprano (born 1918) Ibolyka Astrid Maria Varnay was a Swedish-born American dramatic soprano of Hungarian descent. She spent most of her career in the United States and Germany. She was one of the leading Wagnerian heroic sopranos of her generation. Read more
• 04 Sep 2004: Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (born 1971) Alphonso Gene Ford was an American professional basketball player. A 1.92 m tall, 98 kg (216 lbs.) shooting guard, he was one of the greatest scorers in college basketball history. After a short stint in the NBA, he played professionally in Europe. Read more
• 04 Sep 2004: Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (born 1929) Murray Irwin "Moe" Norman was a Canadian professional golfer whose accuracy and ability to hit shot after shot perfectly straight gave him the reputation as a golf swing "genius" with the nicknames, "Pipeline Moe" and golf's savant "Rain Man". During his career, Norman won 65 Canadian Golf Tour tournaments and set 33 course records. Read more
• 04 Sep 2003: Lola Bobesco, Romanian-Belgian violinist and educator (born 1921) Lola Violeta Ana-Maria Bobesco was a Belgian violinist of Romanian origin. Read more
• 04 Sep 2003: Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (born 1921) Tibor Varga was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, and music teacher who developed pedagogic methods for teaching string music. He was a founding member of the string department in the Musikhochschule Detmold. Read more
• 04 Sep 2002: Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian-French pianist and educator (born 1904) Vladislas "Vlado" Perlemuter was a Lithuanian-born French pianist and teacher. Read more
• 04 Sep 1999: Georg Gawliczek, German footballer and manager (born 1919) Georg Gawliczek was a German football manager and former player. Read more
• 04 Sep 1998: Ernst Jaakson, Estonian diplomat (born 1905) Ernst Rudolf Jaakson was an Estonian diplomat whose contribution was to maintain Estonia's legal continuity with his uninterrupted diplomatic service for 69 years. Read more
• 04 Sep 1998: Elizabeth Kata, Australian author and screenwriter (born 1912) Elizabeth Colina Katayama was an Australian writer known by the pseudonym Elizabeth Kata, best known for Be Ready with Bells and Drums (1961), made into the award-winning film A Patch of Blue (1965). Read more
• 04 Sep 1997: Dharamvir Bharati, Indian author, poet, and playwright (born 1926) Dharamvir Bharati was a Hindi poet, author, playwright and a social thinker from India. He was the chief editor of the Hindi weekly magazine Dharmayug, from 1960 till 1987. Read more
• 04 Sep 1997: Aldo Rossi, Italian architect, designed the Bonnefanten Museum and Teatro Carlo Felice (born 1931) Aldo Rossi was an Italian architect and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: architectural theory, drawing and design and also product design. He was one of the leading proponents of the postmodern movement. Read more
• 04 Sep 1996: Joan Clarke, English cryptanalyst and numismatist (born 1917) Joan Elisabeth Lowther Murray was an English cryptanalyst and numismatist who worked as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. Although she did not personally seek the spotlight, her role in the Enigma project that decrypted the German secret communications earned her awards and citations, such as appointment as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), in 1946. Read more
• 04 Sep 1996: Rose Ouellette, Canadian actress and manager (born 1903) Rose-Alma Ouellette OQ, also known by her stage name La Poune was a Quebec actress, comedian, theatre manager and artistic director. Ouellette was born to François Ouellette and Josephine Lasanté in the faubourg à M’lasse, a working-class neighbourhood in Montréal, Quebec. In her teens, she dropped out of school and worked at a shoe factory in order to provide income for her large family. In the later part of her career, she appeared in film and on television, but she is most remembered for her work on stage. She is known as the first woman ever to have directed two individual playhouses in North America. Read more
• 04 Sep 1995: Chuck Greenberg, American saxophonist, composer, and producer (born 1950) Chuck Greenberg, born in Chicago, Illinois, was an American musical artist, composer and producer. Read more
• 04 Sep 1995: William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (born 1919) William Moses Kunstler was an American attorney and civil rights activist, known for defending the Chicago Seven. Kunstler was an active member of the National Lawyers Guild, a board member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the co-founder of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the "leading gathering place for radical lawyers in the country." Read more
• 04 Sep 1993: Hervé Villechaize, French-American actor (born 1943) Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize was a French actor. He is best known for his roles as the evil henchman Nick Nack in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun and as Mr. Roarke's assistant, Tattoo, on the American television series Fantasy Island that he played from 1977 to 1983. On Fantasy Island, his shout of "De plane! De plane!" became one of the show's signature phrases. He died by suicide in 1993. Read more
• 04 Sep 1991: Charlie Barnet, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1913) Charles Daly Barnet was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. Read more
• 04 Sep 1991: Tom Tryon, American actor and author (born 1926) Thomas Lester Tryon was an American actor and novelist. As an actor, he was billed as Tom Tryon and is best known for playing the title role in the film The Cardinal (1963), featured roles in the war films The Longest Day (1962) and In Harm's Way (1965), acting with John Wayne in both movies, and especially the Walt Disney television character Texas John Slaughter (1958–1961). Tryon later turned to the writing of prose fiction and screenplays, and wrote several successful science fiction, horror and mystery novels as Thomas Tryon. Read more
• 04 Sep 1991: Dottie West, American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1932) Dottie West was an American country singer and songwriter. She also had several credits as an actress. A distinguished figure in the country genre, West was among several women who helped to elevate the platform of the genre's female artists. She was also known for mentoring up-and-coming artists and being the first woman to win a country music accolade from the Grammy Awards. Read more
• 04 Sep 1990: Lawrence A. Cremin, American historian and author (born 1925) Lawrence Arthur Cremin was an American educational historian and administrator. Read more
• 04 Sep 1990: Irene Dunne, American actress and singer (born 1898) Irene Dunne was an American actress who appeared in films during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She is best known for her comedic roles, though she performed in films of other genres. Read more
• 04 Sep 1990: Turan Dursun, Turkish scholar and author (born 1934) Turan Dursun was a Turkish author and atheist who was a critic of Islam. A former Muslim cleric and scholar of Shia Islam, he became an atheist during his study of the history of monotheistic religions. Influenced by the 9th-century Iranian skeptic philosopher Ibn al-Rawandi, Dursun wrote a number of books about religion which included interpretations of Islamic texts, heavily criticizing Islam and the founders of its major branches. Read more
• 04 Sep 1989: Georges Simenon, Belgian-Swiss author (born 1903) Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgian writer who created the fictional detective Jules Maigret. One of the most prolific and successful authors of the 20th century, he published around 400 novels, 21 volumes of memoirs and many short stories, selling over 500 million copies. Read more
• 04 Sep 1989: Ronald Syme, New Zealand historian and author (born 1903) Sir Ronald Syme was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. He was regarded as the greatest historian of ancient Rome since Theodor Mommsen and the most brilliant exponent of the history of the Roman Empire since Edward Gibbon. His great work was The Roman Revolution (1939), a masterly and controversial analysis of political life in the Roman Republic following the assassination of Julius Caesar, offering critical views about Octavian in particular that challenged widely accepted views in contemporary academia. Read more
• 04 Sep 1987: Bill Bowes, English cricketer and coach (born 1908) William Eric Bowes was an English professional cricketer active from 1929 to 1947 who played in 372 first-class matches as a right arm fast bowler and a right-handed tail end batsman. He took 1,639 wickets with a best performance of nine for 121 and completed ten wickets in a match 27 times. He scored 1,531 runs with a highest score of 43* and is one of very few major players whose career total of wickets taken exceeded his career total of runs scored. He did not rate himself as a fielder but he nevertheless held 138 catches. Read more
• 04 Sep 1986: Otto Glória, Brazilian footballer and manager (born 1917) Otto Martins Glória was a Brazilian football coach. Read more
• 04 Sep 1986: Hank Greenberg, American baseball player and manager (born 1911) Henry Benjamin Greenberg, nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank", "Hankus Pankus", and "the Hebrew Hammer", was an American professional baseball player and team executive. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily for the Detroit Tigers as a first baseman in the 1930s and 1940s. A member of the Baseball Hall of Fame and a two-time Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award winner, he was one of the premier power hitters of his generation and is widely considered one of the greatest sluggers in baseball history. Read more
• 04 Sep 1985: Vasyl Stus, Ukrainian poet, publicist, and dissident (born 1938) Vasyl Semenovych Stus was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active member of the Ukrainian dissident movement. For his political convictions, his works were banned by the Soviet regime and he spent 13 years in detention until his death in Perm-36—then a Soviet forced labor camp for political prisoners, subsequently The Museum of the History of Political Repression—after having declared a hunger strike on 4 September 1985. On 26 November 2005, the Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko posthumously awarded him the highest national title: Hero of Ukraine. Stus is widely regarded as one of Ukraine's foremost poets. Read more
• 04 Sep 1985: George O'Brien, American actor and singer (born 1899) George O'Brien was an American actor, popular during the silent film era and into the sound film era of the 1930s. He is best known today as the lead actor in F. W. Murnau's 1927 Academy Award-winning film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. O'Brien also starred in a number of Westerns in the 1930s and 1940s, including roles in 14 films under director David Howard and 10 with acclaimed filmmaker John Ford. Read more
• 04 Sep 1983: Jon Brower Minnoch, famous for being the world's heaviest person recorded (born 1941) Jon Brower Minnoch was an American man who is reported as the heaviest recorded human in history, weighing approximately 1,400 lb at his peak. Obese since childhood, Minnoch normally weighed 800–900 lb during his adult years. He owned a taxi company and worked as a driver around his home in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Read more
• 04 Sep 1982: Jack Tworkov, Polish-American painter (born 1900) Jack Tworkov was an American abstract expressionist painter. Read more
• 04 Sep 1977: Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1899) Stelios Perpiniadis, better known as Stellakis, was a Greek folk musician who wrote, sang, and played guitar in the rebetiko style. He was the father of Greek folk musician, Vangelis Perpiniadis. Read more
• 04 Sep 1977: Jean Rostand, French biologist and philosopher (born 1894) Jean Edmond Cyrus Rostand was a French biologist, historian of science, and philosopher. Read more
• 04 Sep 1977: E. F. Schumacher, German-English economist and statistician (born 1911) Ernst Friedrich Schumacher was a German-born British statistician and economist who is best known for his proposals for human-scale, decentralised and appropriate technologies. He served as Chief Economic Advisor to the British National Coal Board from 1950 to 1970, and founded the Intermediate Technology Development Group in 1966. Read more
• 04 Sep 1974: Creighton Abrams, American general (born 1914) Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. was a United States Army general who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1972. He was then Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1972 until his death in 1974. Read more
• 04 Sep 1974: Marcel Achard, French playwright and screenwriter (born 1899) Marcel Achard was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies maintained his position as a highly recognizable name in his country's theatrical and literary circles for five decades. He was elected to the Académie française in 1959. Read more
• 04 Sep 1974: Charles Arnison, English airman (born 1893) Lieutenant Charles Henry Arnison was a British World War I flying ace credited with nine aerial victories. He won the Military Cross for valour in World War I, and returned to the RAF to serve in World War II. Read more
• 04 Sep 1974: Lewi Pethrus, Swedish minister and hymn-writer (born 1884) Lewi Pethrus was a Swedish Pentecostal minister who played a decisive role in the formation and development of the Pentecostal movement in his country. In 1964, he founded the political party the Christian Democrats. Read more
• 04 Sep 1965: Albert Schweitzer, French-Gabonese physician, theologian, and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1875) Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer was a German polymath from Alsace. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. As a Lutheran minister, Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of the historical Jesus as depicted by the historical-critical method current at this time, as well as the traditional Christian view. His contributions to the interpretation of Pauline Christianity concern the role of Paul's mysticism of "being in Christ" as primary and the doctrine of justification by faith as secondary. Read more
• 04 Sep 1963: Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French politician, 130th Prime Minister of France (born 1886) Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democratic political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a reformist Minister of Finance and a Foreign Minister, he was instrumental in building postwar European and trans-Atlantic institutions and was one of the founders of the European Communities, the Council of Europe and NATO. He was the one who proposed the Schuman Declaration, which established the European Coal and Steel Community, ultimately a predecessor of the European Union. The 1964–1965 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour. In 2021, Schuman was declared venerable by Pope Francis in recognition of his acting on Christian principles. Read more
• 04 Sep 1944: Erich Fellgiebel, German general (born 1886) Fritz Erich Fellgiebel was a German Army general of signals and a resistance fighter, participating in both the 1938 September Conspiracy to topple dictator Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and the 1944 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. In 1929, Fellgiebel became head of the cipher bureau of the Ministry of the Reichswehr, which would later become the OKW/Chi. He was a signals specialist and was instrumental in introducing a common enciphering machine, the Enigma machine. However, he was unsuccessful in promoting a single cipher agency to coordinate all operations, as was demanded by OKW/Chi and was still blocked by Joachim von Ribbentrop, Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Göring until autumn 1943. It was not achieved until General Albert Praun took over the post following Fellgiebel's arrest and execution for his role in the 20 July attempted coup. Read more
• 04 Sep 1940: George William de Carteret, French-English journalist and author (born 1869) George William de Carteret was a Norman language journalist and writer from Jersey. Read more
• 04 Sep 1923: Howdy Wilcox, American racing driver (born 1889) Howard Samuel "Howdy" Wilcox was an American racing driver active in the formative years of auto racing. He won the 1919 Indianapolis 500. Read more
• 04 Sep 1914: Charles Péguy, French poet and philosopher (born 1873) Charles Pierre Péguy was a French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism; by 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a believing Catholic. From that time, Catholicism strongly influenced his works. Péguy was killed in World War I at age 41 by German invading forces near Villeroy, Seine-et-Marne. Read more
• 04 Sep 1911: John Francon Williams, Welsh-born writer, journalist, geographer, historian, cartographer and inventor (born 1854) John Francon Williams was a British writer, geographer, historian, journalist, cartographer, and inventor, born in Llanllechid, Caernarvonshire. His seminal work was The Geography of the Oceans. Read more
• 04 Sep 1909: Clyde Fitch, American playwright and songwriter (born 1865) William Clyde Fitch was an American dramatist, the most popular writer for the Broadway stage of his time. Read more
• 04 Sep 1907: Edvard Grieg, Norwegian pianist and composer (born 1843) Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions brought the music of Norway to fame, as well as helping to develop a national identity, much as Jean Sibelius did in Finland and Bedřich Smetana in Bohemia. Read more
• 04 Sep 1864: John Hunt Morgan, American general (born 1825) John Hunt Morgan was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. In April 1862, he raised the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, fought at Shiloh, and then launched a costly raid in Kentucky, which encouraged Braxton Bragg's invasion of that state. He also attacked General William Rosecrans's supply lines. In July 1863, he set out on a 1,000-mile raid into Indiana and Ohio, taking hundreds of prisoners. But after most of his men had been intercepted by U.S. Navy gunboats, including the USS Moose, Morgan surrendered at Salineville, Ohio, the northernmost point ever reached by uniformed Confederates. Morgan carried out the diversionary "Morgan's Raid" against orders, which gained no tactical advantage for the Confederacy while losing the regiment. Morgan escaped prison, but his credibility was so low that he was restricted to minor operations. He was killed at Greeneville, Tennessee, in September 1864. Morgan was the brother-in-law of Confederate general A. P. Hill. Various schools and a memorial are dedicated to him. Read more
• 04 Sep 1852: William MacGillivray, Scottish biologist and ornithologist (born 1796) William MacGillivray FRSE was a Scottish naturalist and ornithologist. Read more
• 04 Sep 1849: Friedrich Laun, German author (born 1770) Friedrich August Schulze was a German novelist, who wrote under the pen name Friedrich Laun. Schulze was born in Dresden. His first novel, Der Mann, auf Freiersfüssen (1801), was favorably received. He wrote many volumes, and with August Apel edited a ghost story anthology, Gespensterbuch. Thomas De Quincey, who translated several of Laun's stories into English, noted his "great popularity" and opined, "the unelaborate narratives of Laun are mines of what is called Fun". Read more
• 04 Sep 1821: José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general and politician (born 1785) José Miguel Carrera Verdugo was a Chilean general, formerly Spanish military, member of the prominent Carrera family, and considered one of the founders of independent Chile. Carrera was the most important leader of the Chilean War of Independence during the period of the Patria Vieja. After the Spanish "Reconquista de Chile" ("Reconquest"), he continued campaigning from exile after defeat. His opposition to the leaders of independent Argentina and Chile, San Martín and O'Higgins respectively, made him live in exile in Montevideo. From Montevideo Carrera traveled to Argentina where he joined the struggle against the unitarians. Carreras' small army was eventually left isolated in the Province of Buenos Aires from the other federalist forces. In this difficult situation Carrera decided to cross to native-controlled lands all the way to Chile to once and for all overthrow Chilean Supreme Director O'Higgins. His passage to Chile, which was his ultimate goal, was opposed by Argentine politicians and he engaged together with indigenous tribes, among them the Ranquel, in a campaign against the southern provinces of Argentina. After the downfall of Carrera's ally, the Republic of Entre Ríos, and several victories against the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, Carrera's men were finally defeated by numerically superior forces near Mendoza. Carrera was then betrayed by one of his Argentine helpers, leading to his capture and execution in that city. Read more
• 04 Sep 1820: Timothy Brown, English banker and merchant (born 1743/4) Timothy Brown was an English banker, merchant and radical, known for his association with other radicals of the time, such as John Horne Tooke, Robert Waithman, William Frend, William Cobbett, John Cartwright and George Cannon; his political views gave him the nickname "Equality Brown". He was also one of the early partners of Whitbread, and became the master of the Worshipful Company of Brewers. Read more
• 04 Sep 1804: Richard Somers, American lieutenant (born 1778) Richard Somers was an officer of the United States Navy, killed during an assault on Tripoli during the First Barbary War. Read more

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