History of Today 09 September: Important Events, Births and Deaths

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Important Events on 09 September in History

09 Sep 2025: Six people are killed when Israel carries out an airstrike on Doha in a failed attempt to decapitate the Hamas leadership. Read more
09 Sep 2025: Several Russian drones incur on Polish airspace and are subsequently shot down, marking the first time a NATO member has engaged Russian military assets. Read more
09 Sep 2016: The government of North Korea conducts its fifth and reportedly biggest nuclear test. World leaders condemn the act, with South Korea calling it "maniacal recklessness". Read more
09 Sep 2015: Elizabeth II becomes the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom. Read more
09 Sep 2014: The album Songs of Innocence by U2 is digitally released at no charge to all customers of the iTunes Music Store, appearing automatically in the "purchased" section of over 500 million users worldwide. Read more
09 Sep 2012: The Indian space agency puts into orbit its heaviest foreign satellite yet, in a streak of 21 consecutive successful PSLV launches. Read more
09 Sep 2012: A wave of attacks kills more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq. Read more
09 Sep 2009: The Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated. Read more
09 Sep 2006: Space Shuttle Program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-115 to resume assembling the International Space Station. It is the first ISS assembly mission after the Columbia disaster back in 2003. Read more
09 Sep 2001: Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview. Read more
09 Sep 1994: Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-64. Read more
09 Sep 1993: Israeli–Palestinian peace process: The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state. Read more
09 Sep 1991: Tajikistan declares independence from the Soviet Union. Read more
09 Sep 1990: Batticaloa massacre: Massacre of 184 Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Army in Batticaloa District. Read more
09 Sep 1988: Vietnam Airlines Flight 831 crashes in Khu Khot, Thailand, while on approach to Don Muang International Airport, killing 76. Read more
09 Sep 1976: Two Aeroflot flights collide in mid-air over Anapa, Soviet Union, killing 70. Read more
09 Sep 1972: In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world. Read more
09 Sep 1971: The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, eventually resulting in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison. Read more
09 Sep 1970: A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan. Read more
09 Sep 1969: In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making French equal to English throughout the Federal government. Read more
09 Sep 1969: Allegheny Airlines Flight 863 collides in mid-air with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee over Moral Township, Shelby County, Indiana, killing all 83 people on board both aircraft. Read more
09 Sep 1966: The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Read more
09 Sep 1965: The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established. Read more
09 Sep 1965: Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to cause over $1 billion in unadjusted damage. Read more
09 Sep 1956: Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time. Read more
09 Sep 1954: The 6.7 Mw Chlef earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). At least 1,243 people were killed and 5,000 were injured. Read more
09 Sep 1948: Kim Il Sung is appointed as premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). This is celebrated annually as its national holiday. Read more
09 Sep 1947: First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University. Read more
09 Sep 1945: Second Sino-Japanese War: The Empire of Japan formally surrenders to China. Read more
09 Sep 1944: World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established. Read more
09 Sep 1943: World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy. Read more
09 Sep 1942: World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon. Read more
09 Sep 1940: George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer. Read more
09 Sep 1940: Treznea Massacre in Transylvania. Read more
09 Sep 1939: World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland. Read more
09 Sep 1939: Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain's colonial government. Read more
09 Sep 1936: The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate NRP Afonso de Albuquerque and destroyer Dão mutinied against the Salazar dictatorship's support of General Franco's coup and declared their solidarity with the Spanish Republic. Read more
09 Sep 1926: Yleisradio (YLE), the Finnish national public broadcasting company, begins its broadcasts. Read more
09 Sep 1924: Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii. Read more
09 Sep 1923: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party. Read more
09 Sep 1922: The Greco-Turkish War effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna. Read more
09 Sep 1914: World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army. Read more
09 Sep 1892: Amalthea becomes the last moon to be discovered without the use of photography. Read more
09 Sep 1888: A British force repels an Egyptian force led by Ahmed Urabi in the battle of Qassasin during the Anglo-Egyptian War. Read more
09 Sep 1863: American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee. Read more
09 Sep 1855: Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city. Read more
09 Sep 1850: The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt. Read more
09 Sep 1850: California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state. Read more
09 Sep 1845: Possible start of the Great Famine of Ireland. Read more
09 Sep 1839: John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph. Read more
09 Sep 1801: Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces. Read more

Famous Births on 09 September

09 Sep 2003: Luke Hughes, American ice hockey player Luke Warren Hughes is an American professional ice hockey player who is a defenseman for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League (NHL). He played college ice hockey for two years with the University of Michigan of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), reaching the Frozen Four both seasons. He was selected fourth overall by the Devils in the 2021 NHL entry draft. Read more
09 Sep 2001: Hailey Van Lith, American basketball player Hailey Ann Van Lith is an American professional basketball player for the Connecticut Sun of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), currently signed to a player development contract. She played college basketball for the Louisville Cardinals, LSU Tigers, and TCU Horned Frogs. Read more
09 Sep 2000: Ricky Pearsall, American football player Richard Pearsall Jr. is an American professional football wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Arizona State Sun Devils and Florida Gators. Pearsall was selected by the 49ers in the first round of the 2024 NFL draft. Read more
09 Sep 1998: Jordan Nwora, Nigerian-American basketball player Jordan Ifeanyi Nwora is a Nigerian-American professional basketball player for Crvena zvezda of the Basketball League of Serbia (KLS), the ABA League and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Louisville Cardinals. He plays internationally for the Nigeria men's national basketball team. Nwora won a championship with the Milwaukee Bucks in 2021 before being traded to the Indiana Pacers in 2023 and again to the Toronto Raptors in 2024. Read more
09 Sep 1996: Gabby Williams, American-French basketball player Gabrielle Lisa Williams is an American-French professional basketball player for the Golden State Valkyries of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for Fenerbahçe of the Turkish Super League and EuroLeague Women. She was drafted 4th overall by the Chicago Sky in the 2018 WNBA draft. She was a EuroLeague champion in 2022, when she was named the Final Four MVP, and again in 2026. Williams played forward in college for the UConn Huskies, and won back to back national championships in 2015 and 2016.
She has played for the French national team in the Tokyo 2020 and the Paris 2024 Olympic games. Read more
09 Sep 1994: Yuliana Korolkova, Russian model and beauty pageant titleholder Yuliana Korolkova is a Russian model and beauty pageant titleholder. She was first runner-up at the Miss Russia 2016 pageant and later represented Russia at the Miss Universe 2016. Read more
09 Sep 1994: Clinton Gutherson, Australian rugby league player Clinton Gutherson is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a fullback for and is the co-captain of the St. George Illawarra Dragons the National Rugby League. Read more
09 Sep 1993: Cameron Cullen, Australian rugby league player Cameron Cullen is a former Australian professional rugby league footballer who previously played for the Redcliffe Dolphins in the Intrust Super Cup. He was primarily known as a five-eighth, halfback and hooker. He previously played for the Gold Coast Titans and the Manly Sea Eagles. Read more
09 Sep 1993: Crazy Mary Dobson, American wrestler Sarah Rowe is an American retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her tenure in WWE, where she performed under the ring names Sarah Logan and Valhalla. Read more
09 Sep 1993: Sharon van Rouwendaal, Dutch swimmer Sharon van Rouwendaal is a retired Dutch swimmer and the Olympic gold medalist in the 10 km open water marathon at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Read more
09 Sep 1992: Shannon Boyd, Australian rugby league player Shannon Boyd is a former Australian professional rugby league footballer who last played as a prop for the Gold Coast Titans in the NRL, and has played for Australia at international level. Read more
09 Sep 1992: Damian McGinty, Northern Irish actor and singer Damian Joseph McGinty is an Irish singer and actor. McGinty has been performing for over a decade, and was a member of the group Celtic Thunder for thirteen years, starting when he was fourteen. On 21 August 2011, McGinty won the Oxygen reality show The Glee Project, earning him a seven-episode guest-starring role on the hit Fox television show Glee which was later extended to 18 episodes. Read more
09 Sep 1991: Kelsey Asbille, American actress Kelsey Asbille Chow, known as her stage name Kelsey Asbille, is an American actress. In 2024, Asbille played the lead role of Iris in the Netflix movie Don't Move. She has played Mikayla in the Disney XD sitcom Pair of Kings. From 2005 to 2009, she had a recurring role as Gigi Silveri on the drama One Tree Hill. She portrayed Tracy Stewart in MTV's Teen Wolf from 2015 to 2016. Asbille had a supporting role in the film Wind River and a recurring role in the television series Fargo, and played main character Monica Long Dutton in the Paramount Network western drama series Yellowstone (2018–2024). Read more
09 Sep 1991: Lauren Daigle, American contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter Lauren Ashley Daigle is an American contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter. After being signed to the label Centricity Music, she released her debut album, How Can It Be, in 2015. It reached No. 1 on the Billboard Top Christian Albums chart, has been certified Platinum by the RIAA and produced three No. 1 singles on the Billboard Christian Airplay chart. Read more
09 Sep 1991: Hunter Hayes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Hunter Easton Hayes is an American multi-genre singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He is proficient at more than 30 instruments. Read more
09 Sep 1991: Oscar, Brazilian footballer Oscar dos Santos Emboaba Júnior, known mononymously as Oscar, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Read more
09 Sep 1991: Danilo Pereira, Bissauan-Portuguese footballer Danilo Luís Hélio Pereira, sometimes known as simply Danilo, is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or defensive midfielder for Saudi Pro League club Al-Ittihad. Read more
09 Sep 1990: Billy Hamilton, American baseball player Billy Rayshun Hamilton is an American professional baseball center fielder who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals, Atlanta Braves, New York Mets, Chicago Cubs, Miami Marlins, Minnesota Twins, and Chicago White Sox. The Reds selected Hamilton in the second round of the 2009 Major League Baseball draft, and he made his MLB debut in 2013. He was originally a switch-hitter until the 2021 season, when he decided to become exclusively a right handed batter after a right oblique strain. Read more
09 Sep 1990: Shaun Johnson, New Zealand rugby league player Shaun Ly Johnson is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who last played as a halfback for the New Zealand Warriors in the National Rugby League and New Zealand at international level. Read more
09 Sep 1990: Haley Reinhart, American singer-songwriter and actress Haley Elizabeth Reinhart is an American singer, songwriter, and actress from Wheeling, Illinois. She first rose to prominence after placing third in the tenth season of American Idol. In July 2011, Reinhart signed a recording deal with Interscope Records. Her debut album Listen Up! was released on May 22, 2012, to critical acclaim, and she subsequently became the first American Idol alumna to perform at Lollapalooza. Read more
09 Sep 1990: Andrew Smith, American basketball player (died 2016) Andrew Smith was an American basketball player. He played in two NCAA Final Fours during his career at Butler, as well as professionally for Neptūnas. Read more
09 Sep 1990: Jordan Tabor, English footballer (died 2014) Jordan Benjamin Tabor was an English footballer who primarily played as a left back, but also played as a central midfielder or as a striker in the latter part of his career. Read more
09 Sep 1989: Alfonzo Dennard, American football player Alfonzo Dennard is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, and was selected by the New England Patriots in the 2012 NFL draft. Read more
09 Sep 1989: Casey Hayward, American football player Casey Hayward Jr. is an American former professional football cornerback. He played college football for the Vanderbilt Commodores. Hayward was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the second round of the 2012 NFL draft and has played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Packers, San Diego / Los Angeles Chargers, Las Vegas Raiders, and Atlanta Falcons. Read more
09 Sep 1988: Danilo D'Ambrosio, Italian footballer Danilo D'Ambrosio is an Italian former professional footballer who primarily played as a centre-back or right-back. Read more
09 Sep 1988: Will Middlebrooks, American baseball player William Scott Middlebrooks is an American retired professional baseball third baseman and is currently the main color analyst for the Boston Red Sox Radio Network on WEEI-FM. He also does color analysis for the Red Sox on NESN. He made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut with the Red Sox on May 2, 2012, and played with them through 2014. He also played in MLB for the San Diego Padres, Milwaukee Brewers and Texas Rangers.
He also worked as an analyst for a 2024 AL Wild Card series on ESPN Radio.
A fifth round draft pick in the 2007 MLB draft out of Liberty-Eylau High School in Texarkana, Texas, Middlebrooks signed with the Red Sox for $925,000, bypassing his commitment to Texas A&M University. Middlebrooks was originally a shortstop, but the Red Sox converted him into a third baseman in the minor leagues. He represented the United States in the 2011 All-Star Futures Game. Following Middlebrooks' emergence as the Red Sox's starting third baseman in 2012, the organization traded former All-Star Kevin Youkilis. After struggles in the 2013 and 2014 seasons, the Red Sox traded Middlebrooks to the San Diego Padres before the 2015 season. He signed minor league contracts with the Brewers and Rangers before the 2016 and 2017 seasons, respectively. Read more
09 Sep 1987: Markus Jürgenson, Estonian footballer Markus Jürgenson is an Estonian professional footballer who last played as a right back for Estonian club FCI Levadia. Read more
09 Sep 1987: Andrea Petkovic, German tennis player Andrea Petkovic is a German former professional tennis player. Born in Tuzla, SFR Yugoslavia, to Serbian father Zoran and Bosniak mother Amira, she moved to Germany at six months old and turned professional in 2006 at the age of 18. A former top-10 player, Petkovic reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 9 on 10 October 2011, becoming the first German female player ranked inside the top 10 since Steffi Graf in 1999. That year, she played in the quarterfinals of three Grand Slam tournaments as well as a Premier Mandatory final at the China Open, and qualified as an alternate to the WTA Tour Championships. Read more
09 Sep 1987: Afrojack, Dutch-Surinamese DJ, record producer, and remixer Nick Leonardus van de Wall, known professionally as Afrojack, is a Dutch DJ, record producer and remixer. In 2007, he founded the record label Wall Recordings; his debut album Forget the World was released in 2014. Afrojack regularly features as one of the ten best artists in the Top 100 DJs published by DJ Mag. He is also the CEO of LDH Europe. Read more
09 Sep 1987: Ahmed Elmohamady, Egyptian footballer Ahmed Eissa Elmohamady Abdel Fattah is an Egyptian former professional footballer who played as a right-back. He currently works for Aston Villa in the club's commercial department. Read more
09 Sep 1987: Nicole Aniston, American actress and model Nicole Aniston is an American pornographic film actress. She was the 2013 Penthouse Pet of the Year. Read more
09 Sep 1986: Michael Bowden, American baseball player Michael Matthew Bowden is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs, in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) with the Saitama Seibu Lions, and in the KBO League for the Doosan Bears. He attended high school at Waubonsie Valley High School in Aurora, Illinois. He was selected by the Boston Red Sox in the first round of the 2005 MLB draft. Read more
09 Sep 1986: Chamu Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer Chamunorwa Justice "Chamu" Chibhabha is a Zimbabwean cricketer who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm medium pace. In January 2020, Zimbabwe Cricket named him as the captain of Zimbabwe's One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) squads on an interim basis. Read more
09 Sep 1986: Timothy Granaderos, American actor and model Timothy Granaderos is an American actor and model. He is known for his portrayals of Ash Franklin in the thriller web series Tagged (2016–18), Taylor Price in the TV series In the Vault (2017), and Montgomery de la Cruz in the Netflix teen drama series 13 Reasons Why (2017–20). Read more
09 Sep 1986: Luc Mbah a Moute, Cameroonian basketball player Luc Richard Mbah a Moute is a Cameroonian former professional basketball player who played for 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins. Mbah a Moute also played for the Cameroon national team. Read more
09 Sep 1986: Keith Yandle, American hockey player Keith Michael Yandle is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman and media personality. Yandle was drafted by the Phoenix Coyotes in the fourth round, 105th overall, at the 2005 NHL entry draft. He played 1,109 games for the Arizona Coyotes, New York Rangers, Florida Panthers, and Philadelphia Flyers. Read more
09 Sep 1985: Martin Johnson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Martin Bennett Johnson is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the bands Boys Like Girls and the Night Game. Read more
09 Sep 1985: Luka Modrić, Croatian footballer Luka Modrić is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Serie A club AC Milan and captains the Croatia national team. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of all time and as the greatest Croatian footballer in history. With 34 major trophies, he is the most decorated Croatian player and ranks joint-third on all-time match appearances in international football. In addition, he is also one of a select number of players who have amassed over 1,100 career appearances. Read more
09 Sep 1985: J. R. Smith, American basketball player Earl Joseph "J. R." Smith III is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Smith played high school basketball at New Jersey basketball powerhouse Saint Benedict's Preparatory School in Newark. He entered the NBA out of high school after being selected in the first round of the 2004 NBA draft with the 18th overall pick by the New Orleans Hornets. He has also played for the Denver Nuggets, New York Knicks, and the Cleveland Cavaliers as well as for the Zhejiang Golden Bulls of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). Smith won two NBA championships, with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016 and with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020. Read more
09 Sep 1984: Brad Guzan, American soccer player Bradley Edwin Guzan is an American former professional soccer player who played as a goalkeeper. He is currently a club ambassador and sporting advisor for Major League Soccer club Atlanta United. Read more
09 Sep 1984: James Hildreth, English cricketer James Charles Hildreth is a former English professional cricketer who played for Somerset County Cricket Club. He attended Millfield School, Somerset. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler. Hildreth represented England at all youth levels including the 2003–04 Under-19 World cup held in Bangladesh. He made his first-class debut in 2003 and became a regular member of the side from the start of the 2004 season. The James Hildreth Stand was opened by him at Somerset County Cricket Ground on 21 September 2022. Read more
09 Sep 1984: Michalis Sifakis, Greek footballer Michalis Sifakis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Read more
09 Sep 1983: Vitolo, Spanish footballer Víctor José Añino Bermúdez, known as Vitolo, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Tercera Federación club Real Unión de Tenerife. Read more
09 Sep 1983: Kyle Davies, American baseball player Hiram Kyle Davies is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves and Kansas City Royals. Read more
09 Sep 1983: Edwin Jackson, American baseball player Edwin Jackson Jr. is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2003 to 2019 for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Tampa Bay Devil Rays / Rays, Detroit Tigers, Arizona Diamondbacks, Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, Washington Nationals, Chicago Cubs, Atlanta Braves, Miami Marlins, San Diego Padres, Baltimore Orioles, Oakland Athletics, and Toronto Blue Jays. Read more
09 Sep 1983: Cleveland Taylor, English footballer Cleveland Kenneth Wayne Taylor is a football manager and former professional player Read more
09 Sep 1982: John Kuhn, American football player John Allen Kuhn is an American former professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for Shippensburg University, he was signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers as an undrafted free agent in 2005. Kuhn earned a Super Bowl ring in his first year with the Steelers in Super Bowl XL, and another as a member of the Green Bay Packers, five years later in Super Bowl XLV. He was named to three Pro Bowls, all as a Packer. Read more
09 Sep 1982: Graham Onions, English cricketer Graham Onions is an English former cricketer. He played for Durham, Lancashire and England as a right arm fast-medium bowler and a right-hand tail-end batsman. After a successful start to the 2009 cricket season, Onions was selected to face the West Indies in Test cricket, and following success in the series, was retained for the 2009 Ashes series. In April 2010, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack named him as one of its five cricketers of the year for 2009. A back injury in March 2010 prevented Onions from playing cricket until 2011. He returned to competitive cricket that season, taking 50 wickets in the County Championship, and towards the end of the year was called up to England's Test squad. However, in September 2020, Onions announced his retirement from cricket after his back injury returned. Read more
09 Sep 1982: Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress Ai Otsuka is a Japanese singer-songwriter from Suminoe-ku, Osaka, Japan. She is a popular artist on the Avex Trax label and is best known for her 2003 hit "Sakuranbo", which stayed in the Top 200 Oricon Weekly Singles Chart for 103 weeks. Read more
09 Sep 1981: Julie Gonzalo, Argentine-American actress Julieta Susana Gonzalo Martyniuk, known professionally as Julie Gonzalo, is an Argentine-American actress and model. She is known for her villainous roles in the films Freaky Friday (2003) and A Cinderella Story (2004), and has also appeared in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) and Christmas with the Kranks (2004), as a member of the titular family. Read more
09 Sep 1980: Todd Coffey, American baseball player Justin Todd Coffey is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, Milwaukee Brewers, Washington Nationals, and Los Angeles Dodgers. He was born in Forest City, North Carolina. Read more
09 Sep 1980: David Fa'alogo, New Zealand rugby league player David Fa'alogo is a former professional rugby league footballer played as a prop, second-row and lock in the 2000s and 2010s. He played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs and Newcastle Knights in the NRL, the Huddersfield Giants in the Super League and the Ipswich Jets in the Queensland Cup. He represented both New Zealand and Samoa at international level. Read more
09 Sep 1980: Michelle Williams, American actress Michelle Ingrid Williams is an American actress. Known primarily for starring in small-scale independent films with dark or tragic themes, she has received various accolades, including three Golden Globe Awards, two Actor Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for five Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award. Read more
09 Sep 1979: Wayne Carlisle, Northern Irish footballer and coach Wayne Thomas Carlisle is a Northern Irish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently assistant manager of Bath City. Read more
09 Sep 1979: Nikki DeLoach, American actress and singer Nikki DeLoach is an American actress, best known as Lacey Hamilton in Awkward (2011–2016), MJ in North Shore (2004–2005), and Brenda in Days of Our Lives (2007–2009). Read more
09 Sep 1978: Kurt Ainsworth, American baseball player and businessman, co-founded Marucci Sports Kurt Harold Ainsworth is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played for the San Francisco Giants and Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball (MLB) and went to Louisiana State University. Ainsworth also won an Olympic Games gold medal with the United States national baseball team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Following his professional baseball career, Ainsworth co-founded Marucci Sports and currently serves as the company's CEO. Read more
09 Sep 1978: Shane Battier, American basketball player and sportscaster Shane Courtney Battier is an American former professional basketball player. Read more
09 Sep 1977: Kyle Snyder, American baseball player and coach Kyle Ehren Snyder is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher and current pitching coach for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Kansas City Royals and the Boston Red Sox. During his playing days, Snyder stood 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m) tall, weighing 225 pounds (102 kg). Read more
09 Sep 1977: Fatih Tekke, Turkish footballer and manager Fatih Tekke, known by his given nickname Sultan, is a Turkish football coach and former player. He last served as the head coach of the Süper Lig club Trabzonspor. He started his professional career at Trabzonspor and later played for Altay, Gaziantepspor, Zenit, and Beşiktaş. He achieved recognition as the top scorer in the Süper Lig during the 2004–05 season. Tekke also represented the Turkey national team, and he eventually retired from playing, transitioning into a managerial role. Read more
09 Sep 1976: Emma de Caunes, French actress Emma de Caunes is a French actress. Read more
09 Sep 1976: El Intocable, Mexican wrestler René "Ricky" Gómez Espinoza, better known under the ring name El Intocable, is a Mexican professional wrestler, actor, and model, best known for his work in Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) from 1997 until his departure in 2008. He also played the role of Gaspar on the Mexican telenovela Duelo de Pasiones. Read more
09 Sep 1976: Hanno Möttölä, Finnish basketball player Hanno Aleksanteri Möttölä is a Finnish professional basketball coach and former player who is currently an assistant coach for the Brisbane Bullets of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL). He played college basketball for the Utah Utes before playing two seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Atlanta Hawks between 2000 and 2002, becoming the first player from Finland to play in the NBA. Read more
09 Sep 1976: Joey Newman, American composer and conductor Joey Newman is an American film composer, orchestrator, arranger and conductor working in the fields of film and television. Read more
09 Sep 1976: Mattias Öhlund, Swedish ice hockey player Kenneth Mattias Öhlund is a Swedish former professional ice hockey player who was a defenceman in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Vancouver Canucks and Tampa Bay Lightning. Öhlund played two seasons in the Swedish Allsvenskan, the second highest tier of hockey in Sweden, with Piteå HC before being selected by the Canucks 13th overall in the 1994 NHL entry draft. He then joined Luleå HF of the Elitserien, the highest league in Sweden, winning the Le Mat Trophy as league champions in 1996. He began his NHL career with Vancouver in 1997–98, the start of an eleven-year tenure with the club in which he became the Canucks' all-time leader in points for a defenceman. Öhlund would play the final two seasons of his professional career with the Tampa Bay Lightning before retiring in 2011. A serious eye injury before his third NHL season was the first of many injuries Öhlund has sustained over his career, and he only played a full season twice in his 13-year NHL career. Read more
09 Sep 1976: Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer and coach Aki Pasinpoika Riihilahti is a Finnish sports executive and a former professional footballer. He played as a defensive midfielder. He is the CEO of HJK Helsinki. He was voted by leading European clubs to be the vice-chairman of European Club Association (ECA), and has also important positions both in the UEFA club competition committee and in the FIFA stakeholders committee. Read more
09 Sep 1976: Kristoffer Rygg, Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer Kristoffer Rygg, also known as Garm, Trickster G. Rex and God Head, is a Norwegian vocalist, musician and producer known primarily for his work with Ulver, Arcturus, and Borknagar. Read more
09 Sep 1975: Michael Bublé, Canadian singer-songwriter and actor Michael Steven Bublé is a Canadian singer and songwriter. Regarded as a pop icon, he is often credited for helping to renew public interest and appreciation for traditional pop standards and the Great American Songbook. Bublé has sold over 75 million records worldwide, and won numerous awards, including five Grammy Awards and fifteen Juno Awards. Read more
09 Sep 1975: Anton Oliver, New Zealand rugby player Anton David Oliver is a retired New Zealand rugby union player. Previously, he played as a hooker for Marlborough and Otago in the National Provincial Championship and Air New Zealand Cup, and spent twelve seasons with the Highlanders in Super Rugby. He earned 59 caps for his country and for a period was All Blacks captain. Read more
09 Sep 1974: Vikram Batra, Indian captain (died 1999) Captain Vikram Batra, was an Indian Army officer. He was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest military decoration, for his actions during the Kargil War. On 7 July 1999, Batra was killed while fighting Pakistani troops at Point 4875 in the Kargil district of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir. Read more
09 Sep 1974: Shane Crawford, Australian footballer and television host Shane Barry Crawford is a former Australian rules football player, television media personality and author. He played 305 senior games for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). During his AFL career he became captain of Hawthorn in 1999 and that season also won the AFL's top individual honours, the Brownlow Medal and the Leigh Matthews Trophy. He is a four-time All-Australian player and played in three International Rules series for Australia. He has won four Hawthorn Best & Fairest Awards and was a member of Hawthorn's 2008 premiership side. Read more
09 Sep 1974: Marcos Curiel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Marcos Curiel is an American musician. He is the lead guitarist of the rock bands P.O.D., The Accident Experiment and Daylight Division. Curiel was born in San Diego, California, in 1974 and is of Mexican descent. He started P.O.D. in 1992 along with friend Noah "Wuv" Bernardo. The band started building a strong local fanbase, releasing several albums independently. In 1998, they were signed to a record deal and released their hit albums The Fundamental Elements of Southtown (1999) and Satellite (2001) including the singles "Alive" and "Youth of the Nation". Both albums have had mainstream success, gaining multi Platinum certifications by the RIAA and three Grammy Award nominations. P.O.D. has also contributed to numerous motion picture soundtracks and toured internationally. Curiel is the youngest member of P.O.D. Read more
09 Sep 1974: Jun Kasai, Japanese wrestler Jun Kasai is a Japanese professional wrestler, primarily competing for Pro Wrestling Freedoms. Dubbed the Crazy Monkey for his violent and often self-harmful style of hardcore wrestling, Kasai is considered a breakthrough talent in Japanese wrestling, able to work both hardcore and technical styles. Outside Freedoms, Kasai has worked for the original Pro Wrestling Zero-One, Hustle, Ice Ribbon, Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) and Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW). Read more
09 Sep 1974: Gok Wan, English fashion stylist, author, and television host Gok Wan is a British fashion consultant, author, television presenter, actor, DJ and chef. Read more
09 Sep 1973: Kazuhisa Ishii, Japanese baseball player Kazuhisa Ishii is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher and manager and general manager. He played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yakult Swallows and Saitama Seibu Lions and in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets. Read more
09 Sep 1972: Mike Hampton, American baseball player and coach Michael William Hampton, Jr. is an American former professional baseball player. Hampton played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a pitcher from 1993 through 2010. He pitched for the Seattle Mariners, Houston Astros, New York Mets, Colorado Rockies, Atlanta Braves and Arizona Diamondbacks. He was the bullpen coach for the Mariners before resigning on July 9, 2017. Read more
09 Sep 1972: Natasha Kaplinsky, English journalist Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky is an English newsreader, TV presenter and journalist, best known for her roles as a studio anchor on Sky News, BBC News, Channel 5 and ITV News. In September 2022 she became president of the British Board of Film Classification. Read more
09 Sep 1972: Jakko Jan Leeuwangh, Dutch speed skater Jakko Jan Leeuwangh is a former speed skater from the Netherlands. He finished fourth in the 1998 Olympic 1000 m event. In January 2000 he broke the 1500 m world record in Calgary, Canada, holding the record until it was broken by Lee Kyou-hyuk in March 2001. Read more
09 Sep 1972: Miriam Oremans, Dutch tennis player Miriam Oremans is a former professional female tennis player from the Netherlands. On 26 July 1993 she reached her career-high singles ranking of number 25. Read more
09 Sep 1972: Xavi Pascual, Spanish professional basketball coach Xavier Pascual i Vives, commonly known as Xavi Pascual, is a Spanish professional basketball coach who is currently the head coach of Dubai Basketball of the ABA League and EuroLeague. On 9 May 2010 he became the youngest head coach to win the EuroLeague championship, and soon after, he also won the EuroLeague Coach of the Year Award. Read more
09 Sep 1972: Félix Rodríguez, Dominican baseball player Félix Antonio Rodríguez is a Dominican former Major League Baseball relief pitcher. Read more
09 Sep 1972: Goran Višnjić, Croatian-American actor Goran Višnjić is a Croatian actor. He is best known for his roles as Dr. Luka Kovač in ER and Garcia Flynn in Timeless, both NBC television series. For ER, he and the cast were nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Read more
09 Sep 1971: Eric Stonestreet, American actor Eric Allen Stonestreet is an American actor. He is known for portraying Cameron Tucker in the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009–2020), for which he received two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series out of three nominations. He first rose to prominence in a recurring role on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He has also appeared in films including Bad Teacher (2011), Identity Thief (2013), The Loft (2014), and Confirmation (2016), and provides the voice of Duke in The Secret Life of Pets film franchise (2016–2019). Read more
09 Sep 1971: Henry Thomas, American actor and guitarist Henry Jackson Thomas is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor and had the lead role of Elliott Taylor in the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), for which he won a Young Artist Award and received Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, and Saturn Award nominations. Thomas also had roles in other films, including Cloak & Dagger (1984), Frog Dreaming (1986), Valmont (1989), Fire in the Sky (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Suicide Kings (1997), All the Pretty Horses (2000), Gangs of New York (2002), 11:14 (2003), and Dear John (2010). Thomas was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for his role in the television film Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1997). Read more
09 Sep 1970: Natalia Streignard, Spanish-Venezuelan actress Natalia Martínez-Streignard y Negri is a Venezuelan actress and beauty pageant titleholder who competed at Miss Venezuela 1992. Natalia is best known for her work in successful telenovelas such as El Juramento with Osvaldo Rios, La mujer de mi vida, with ex-spouse Mario Cimarro, Mi destino eres tu with Lucero and Jorge Salinas, and La Tormenta with Christian Meier, in the most famous telenovelas productions of Televisa, Venevision and Telemundo. Read more
09 Sep 1969: Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress Rachel Hunter is a New Zealand model, actress, and the host of Imagination Television's Rachel Hunter's Tour of Beauty. She has appeared on several magazine covers, including Vogue, Elle, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Cosmopolitan, and Harper's Bazaar. She has been on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue twice: in 1994 and in 2006. Read more
09 Sep 1969: Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian politician Natasha Jessica Stott Despoja is an Australian diplomat, gender equality advocate, former Australian of the Year nominee, and former politician. Starting her career in student politics, she became an advisor to the Australian Democrats and was appointed to the Australian Senate in 1995 at the age of 26. At the time, she was the youngest woman to serve in Federal Parliament. She went on to become deputy leader of the Democrats in 1997 and then federal leader from 2001 to 2002. She retired from the Senate in 2008 as the longest-serving senator from her party. Read more
09 Sep 1968: Jon Drummond, American sprinter and coach Jonathan A. Drummond is an American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4 × 100 m relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Read more
09 Sep 1968: Clive Mendonca, English footballer Clive Paul Mendonca is an English former professional footballer, who played as a forward between 1986 and 2002, notably for Grimsby Town and Charlton Athletic. Mendonca also played for Sheffield United, Doncaster Rovers and Rotherham United. Read more
09 Sep 1968: Julia Sawalha, English actress Julia Sawalha is an English actress. She is best known for playing Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012) and its 2016 film. Her other television roles include as Lynda Day in Press Gang (1989–1993), as Hannah Greyshott in Second Thoughts (1991–1994) and its sequel series, Faith in the Future (1995–1998), Lydia Bennet in the television miniseries of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1995), Georgina and Kid's vocal effects in Sheeep (2000–2001), Carla Borrego in Jonathan Creek (2001–2004) and Dorcas Lane in the BBC's costume drama Lark Rise to Candleford (2008–2011). Her film credits include Buddy's Song (1991), The Wind in the Willows (1996) and Chicken Run (2000). Read more
09 Sep 1967: B. J. Armstrong, American basketball player and sportscaster Benjamin Roy Armstrong Jr. is an American professional basketball executive and former professional basketball player who is the assistant general manager of the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Armstrong won three National Basketball Association (NBA) championships during his career as a point guard for the Chicago Bulls. Read more
09 Sep 1967: Chris Caffery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Christopher Caffery is an American heavy metal guitarist, best known for his work as a member of Savatage and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Caffery has been releasing solo records singing and playing guitar for almost 20 years, releasing nine albums and many singles since 2004. Read more
09 Sep 1967: Mark Shrader, American wrestler Mark Shrader is a retired American professional wrestler, trainer and promoter who competed in numerous independent promotions throughout the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s. Among these included Atlantic Terror Championship Wrestling, the Future Wrestling Alliance, East Coast Wrestling Association, Cueball Carmichael's Independent Professional Wrestling Alliance, Doug Flex's International Pro Wrestling, and the Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation. Shrader also briefly appeared as a preliminary wrestler for the World Wrestling Federation. Read more
09 Sep 1967: Akshay Kumar, Indian actor and producer Akshay Hari Om Bhatia, known professionally as Akshay Kumar, is an Indian actor and film producer working in Hindi cinema. Referred to in the media as "Khiladi Kumar", he is the recipient of several accolades, including two National Film Awards and two Filmfare Awards. In 2009, the Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian honour. One of the most prolific actors in Indian cinema, Kumar has appeared in over 150 films in a career spanning over three decades. Forbes included Kumar in their lists of both highest-paid celebrities and highest-paid actors in the world from 2015 to 2020. Between 2019 and 2020, he was the only Indian on both lists. Read more
09 Sep 1966: Georg Hackl, German luger and coach Georg Hackl, often named Hackl Schorsch, is a German former luger who was three time Olympic and World Champion. He is known affectionately as Hackl-Schorsch or as the Speeding Weißwurst, a reference to what he looks like in his white bodysuit coming down the luge at fast speeds. Read more
09 Sep 1966: Kevin Hatcher, American ice hockey player Kevin John Hatcher is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 17 seasons between 1984 and 2001 for the Washington Capitals, Dallas Stars, Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Rangers and Carolina Hurricanes. He is the older brother of former NHL player Derian Hatcher, with whom he was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame on October 21, 2010. Hatcher was born in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up in Sterling Heights, Michigan. Read more
09 Sep 1966: Adam Sandler, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter Adam Richard Sandler is an American actor, comedian, producer and writer. Primarily a comedic leading actor in films, his accolades include an Independent Spirit Award, alongside nominations for an Actor Award, three Golden Globes, three Grammy Awards, and seven Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2023, Sandler was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Read more
09 Sep 1966: Brian Smith, Australian-Irish rugby player and coach (died 2026) Brian Anthony Smith was an Australian rugby union coach, player and rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played for both Australia and Ireland in rugby union. Read more
09 Sep 1965: Charles Esten, American actor, comedian, and musician Charles Esten Puskar III, also known professionally as Charles Esten, and as Chip Esten, is an American actor, musician, singer-songwriter, and comedian. Read more
09 Sep 1965: Dan Majerle, American basketball player and coach Daniel Lewis Majerle, also known by the nickname "Thunder Dan", is an American former professional basketball player and former coach of the Grand Canyon Antelopes. He played 14 years in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Phoenix Suns, Miami Heat, and Cleveland Cavaliers. He won a bronze medal with the U.S. national team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, and a gold medal at the 1994 FIBA World Championship. Read more
09 Sep 1965: Constance Marie, American actress Constance Marie is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Angelina "Angie" Lopez in George Lopez (2002–2007), and Marcela Quintanilla in the film Selena (1997). She portrayed Regina Vasquez in the ABC Family/Freeform drama series Switched at Birth (2011–2017). She also portrayed Camila Diaz in the Amazon Prime Video drama series Undone (2019–2022). Read more
09 Sep 1965: Marcel Peeper, Dutch footballer Marcel Benjamin Peeper is a Dutch former footballer who played as either a left back or left midfielder. Read more
09 Sep 1964: Aleksandar Hemon, Bosnian-American author and critic Aleksandar Hemon is a Bosnian-American author, essayist, critic, television writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for the novels Nowhere Man (2002) and The Lazarus Project (2008), and his scriptwriting as a co-writer of The Matrix Resurrections (2021). Read more
09 Sep 1964: Skip Kendall, American golfer Jules Ira "Skip" Kendall is an American professional golfer. He plays on the PGA Tour Champions and formerly played on the Web.com Tour and the PGA Tour. Read more
09 Sep 1963: Chris Coons, American lawyer and politician Christopher Andrew Coons is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Delaware, a seat he has held since 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, Coons served as the county executive of New Castle County from 2005 to 2010. Read more
09 Sep 1963: Roberto Donadoni, Italian footballer and manager Roberto Donadoni is an Italian professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He was most recently the head coach of Serie C Group B club Spezia. Read more
09 Sep 1963: Neil Fairbrother, English cricketer Neil Fairbrother is an English former cricketer who played 75 One Day International matches and 10 Test matches as a batsman for England. Fairbrother, named by his mother after her favourite player, the Australian cricketer Neil Harvey, was educated at Lymm Grammar School and played his county cricket for Lancashire. Although primarily a one day player at international level, he had strong success in the County Championship and had a first class high score of 366. He was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1992 Cricket World Cup. Read more
09 Sep 1960: Hugh Grant, English actor and producer Hugh John Mungo Grant is an English actor. He established himself early in his career as a charming and vulnerable romantic leading man, and has since transitioned into a character actor. He has received several accolades including a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. He received an Honorary César in 2006. In 2022, Time Out magazine listed Grant as one of Britain's 50 greatest actors of all time. As of 2025, his films have grossed over US$4 billion worldwide. Read more
09 Sep 1960: Bob Hartley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach Robert Hartley is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He most recently served as the head coach of Avangard Omsk of the KHL. He has additionally coached the Latvia men's national ice hockey team. He coached the Colorado Avalanche from 1998–2002 and won the Stanley Cup in 2001. He also coached the Atlanta Thrashers from the 2003–04 season up until the beginning of the 2007–08 season, when he was fired after the Thrashers got off to an 0–6 start. Hartley has been an ice hockey analyst for the French-language RDS television channel, and became the head coach of the ZSC Lions of the Swiss National League A in March 2011. From 2012 to 2016, Hartley was the head coach of the Calgary Flames. Read more
09 Sep 1960: Johnson Righeira, Italian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor Stefano Righi, known professionally as Johnson Righeira, is an Italian singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and actor. He is best known as the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the Italo disco duo Righeira. After the duo disbanded for the second time in 2016, he pursued a solo career and founded the record label Kottolengo Recordings. Read more
09 Sep 1960: Bob Stoops, American football player and coach Robert Anthony Stoops is an American former football coach who was the head football coach at the University of Oklahoma from 1999 through the 2016 season, and on an interim basis during the 2021 Alamo Bowl. He led the Oklahoma Sooners to a record of 191–48 over his career. His 2000 Oklahoma Sooners football team won the 2001 Orange Bowl, which served as the BCS National Championship Game, and earned a consensus national championship. Stoops also was a head coach with the XFL, coaching the Renegades in 2020, and from 2023 to 2025. Stoops' Renegades won the XFL Championship in 2023. Read more
09 Sep 1960: Kimberly Willis Holt, American author Kimberly Willis Holt is an American writer of children's books. She is best known for the novel When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, which won the 1999 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
It was adapted as a 2003 film of the same name. Read more
09 Sep 1959: Tom Foley, American baseball player and coach Thomas Michael Foley is an American former professional baseball infielder and coach who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, Montreal Expos, and Pittsburgh Pirates, from 1983 to 1994. After retiring as a player, Foley served as an on-field coach for the Tampa Bay Rays, from 2002 through 2017, when he moved into the team's front office. Read more
09 Sep 1959: Éric Serra, French composer and producer Éric Serra is a French film composer, known as a frequent collaborator of director Luc Besson. He is a five-time César Award nominee, winning once for The Big Blue (1988). Read more
09 Sep 1957: Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist and educator Pierre-Laurent Aimard is a French pianist. He focuses on contemporary music. Read more
09 Sep 1955: John Kricfalusi, Canadian voice actor, animator, director, and screenwriter Michael John Kricfalusi, known professionally as John K., is a Canadian illustrator, blogger, and retired animator and voice actor. He is the creator of the animated television series The Ren & Stimpy Show, which was highly influential on televised animation during the 1990s. From 1989 to 1992, he was heavily involved with the first two seasons of the show in virtually every aspect of its production, including providing the voice of Ren Höek and other characters. In 2009, he won the Inkpot Award. Read more
09 Sep 1954: Walter Davis, American basketball player (died 2023) Walter Pearl Davis was an American professional basketball player. After his college years with the North Carolina Tar Heels he played as a forward/guard for 15 years in the National Basketball Association (NBA), spending the majority of his career with the Phoenix Suns. Davis was a six-time NBA All-Star, a two-time All-NBA Second Team member, and the NBA Rookie of the Year in 1978. In 1994, the Suns retired his No. 6 jersey and in 2004 he was enshrined in the team's Ring of Honor. Davis' 15,666 points during his time with the Suns is the 2nd most in franchise history. In 2024, it was announced that Davis would be posthumously inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Read more
09 Sep 1953: Janet Fielding, Australian actress Janet Claire Mahoney, known professionally as Janet Fielding, is an Australian actress and talent agent. She played Tegan Jovanka, a companion of the Fifth Doctor, in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who. Read more
09 Sep 1952: Angela Cartwright, English-American actress, author, and singer Angela Margaret Cartwright is an English actress. As a young performer, she played Linda Williams, the stepdaughter of Danny Williams in the long-running TV series The Danny Thomas Show, and Penny Robinson in the 1960s television series Lost in Space. She is also known for her role as Brigitta von Trapp in the 1965 film The Sound of Music. Her older sister is actress Veronica Cartwright. Read more
09 Sep 1952: Per Jørgensen, Norwegian singer and trumpet player Per Jørgensen is a Norwegian multi-instrumentalist with trumpet as his main instrument, also known for his vocal contributions, in collaboration with Dag Arnesen, Knut Kristiansen, Alex Riel, Jon Christensen, Jon Balke, Audun Kleive, Jan Gunnar Hoff, Marilyn Mazur, Nils Petter Molvær, Bugge Wesseltoft, and Terje Isungset. Read more
09 Sep 1952: Dave Stewart, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer David Allan Stewart is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known for Eurythmics, his successful professional partnership with Annie Lennox. He won Best British Producer at the 1986, 1987 and 1990 Brit Awards. Stewart was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2020 and the duo were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022. Outside of Eurythmics, Stewart has written and produced songs for artists such as Ringo Starr, Stevie Nicks, Mick Jagger and Tom Petty. Read more
09 Sep 1951: Alexander Downer, Australian economist and politician, 34th Minister of Foreign Affairs for Australia Alexander John Gosse Downer is an Australian former politician and diplomat who served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 2007, and was a member of parliament (MP) for the South Australian division of Mayo from 1984 to 2008. Read more
09 Sep 1951: Tom Wopat, American actor and singer Thomas Steven Wopat is an American actor and singer. He first achieved fame as Lucas K. "Luke" Duke on the long-running television action/comedy series The Dukes of Hazzard. Since then, Wopat has worked regularly, most often on the stage in musicals and in supporting television and movie roles. He was a semi-regular recurring character on the 1990s comedy series Cybill, and he had a small role as U.S. Marshal Gil Tatum in Django Unchained (2012). Wopat also has a recurring role as Sheriff Jim Wilkins on the television series Longmire. Additionally, Wopat has recorded several albums of country songs and pop standards, scoring a series of moderately successful singles in the 1980s and 1990s. Read more
09 Sep 1950: Gogi Alauddin, Pakistani squash player and coach Gogi Alauddin is a former squash player from Pakistan. He was one of the game's leading players in the 1970s. Read more
09 Sep 1950: John McFee, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer John McFee is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist, and long-time member of The Doobie Brothers. Read more
09 Sep 1949: John Curry, English figure skater (died 1994) John Anthony Curry, was a British figure skater. He was the 1976 European, World and Olympic Champion. He was noted for combining ballet and modern dance influences into his skating. Read more
09 Sep 1949: Daniel Pipes, American historian and author Daniel Pipes is an American former professor, counter-jihad activist, and commentator on foreign policy and the Middle East. He is the president of the Middle East Forum, and publisher of its Middle East Quarterly journal. His writing focuses on American foreign policy and the Middle East as well as criticism of Islamism. Read more
09 Sep 1949: Joe Theismann, American football player and sportscaster Joseph Robert Theismann is an American former professional football player, sports commentator, corporate speaker, and restaurateur. He rose to fame playing quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL). Theismann spent 12 seasons with the Washington Redskins, where he was a two-time Pro Bowler and led the team to consecutive Super Bowl appearances, winning Super Bowl XVII over the Miami Dolphins and losing Super Bowl XVIII to the Los Angeles Raiders. He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2003. Read more
09 Sep 1949: Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian general and politician, 6th President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, commonly referred to as SBY, is an Indonesian politician and retired military officer who served as the sixth president of Indonesia from 2004 to 2014 and the second president from the military after Suharto. He founded the Democratic Party of Indonesia and served as its 4th chairman from 2014 until 2020. He also served as the 8th and 10th Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs from 2000 until 2001 and again from 2001 until 2004. He also served as the president of the Assembly and chair of the Council of the Global Green Growth Institute. Read more
09 Sep 1947: David Rosenboom, American composer and educator David Rosenboom is a composer, performer, interdisciplinary artist, author, and educator known for his work in American experimental music. Read more
09 Sep 1947: Freddy Weller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Wilton Frederick "Freddy" Weller is an American rock and roll and country music artist. He recorded for Columbia Records between 1969 and 1980. He had his highest charted single in 1969 with his debut release, "Games People Play".
He wrote with Mac Davis on Glen Campbell's "Within My Memory" on A New Place In The Sun in 1968. Read more
09 Sep 1947: T. M. Wright, American author, poet, and illustrator (died 2015) Terrance "Terry" Michael Wright was an American author best known as a writer of horror fiction, speculative fiction, and poetry. Read more
09 Sep 1946: Jim Keays, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter (died 2014) James Keays Jr. was a Scottish-born Australian musician who fronted the rock band The Masters Apprentices as singer-songwriter, guitarist and harmonica-player from 1965 to 1972 and subsequently had a solo career. He also wrote for a music newspaper, Go-Set, as its Adelaide correspondent in 1970 and its London correspondent in 1973. Read more
09 Sep 1946: Bruce Palmer, Canadian folk-rock bass player (died 2004) Bruce Palmer was a Canadian musician best known as the bassist in the folk rock band Buffalo Springfield, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. Read more
09 Sep 1945: Ton van Heugten, Dutch motocross racer (died 2008) Antonius Maria van Heugten was a Dutch sidecarcross rider and the 1981 World Champion in the sport, together with his passenger Frits Kiggen. Read more
09 Sep 1945: Dee Dee Sharp, American singer Dione LaRue, known professionally as Dee Dee Sharp, is an American R&B singer. She was one of the first Black female teenage pop stars to achieve mainstream national success in the early 1960s. Read more
09 Sep 1945: Doug Ingle, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 2024) Douglas Lloyd Ingle was an American musician, best known as the founder, organist, primary composer and lead vocalist for the band Iron Butterfly. He wrote the band's hit song "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", which was first released in 1968, and was the last surviving member of the band’s 1967–1969 lineup. Read more
09 Sep 1943: Frank Clark, English footballer, manager and chairman Frank Clark is an English former footballer and manager, and former chairman of Nottingham Forest. Clark played in over 400 games for Newcastle United before moving to Nottingham Forest where he won the European Cup. Read more
09 Sep 1942: The Iron Sheik, Iranian-American wrestler and actor (died 2023) Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, better known by his ring name the Iron Sheik, was an Iranian-American professional wrestler, amateur wrestler and actor. To date he is the only Iranian champion in WWE history, having won the WWF World Heavyweight Championship in 1983. Read more
09 Sep 1942: Inez Foxx, American singer (died 2022) Inez Foxx and her elder brother Charlie Foxx were an American rhythm and blues and soul duo from Greensboro, North Carolina. Inez sang lead vocal, while Charlie sang backing vocals and played guitar. Casey Kasem, and doubtless many others, mistakenly thought that the two were husband and wife. Read more
09 Sep 1942: Danny Kalb, American singer and guitarist (died 2022) Daniel Ira Kalb was an American blues guitarist and vocalist. He was an original member of the 1960s group the Blues Project. Read more
09 Sep 1941: Syed Abid Ali, Indian cricketer Syed Abid Ali was an all-rounder Indian cricketer who was a lower-order batsman and a medium-pace bowler. He played an important role in Indian cricket in the 1960s and '70s. Read more
09 Sep 1941: Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 1967) Otis Ray Redding Jr. was an American singer and songwriter. He is regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and a seminal artist in soul music and rhythm and blues. Nicknamed the "King of Soul", Redding's style of singing drew inspiration from the gospel music that preceded the genre. His vocal style influenced many other soul artists of the 1960s. Read more
09 Sep 1941: Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, created the C programming language (died 2011) Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He created, together with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system, C programming language, and B programming language. Read more
09 Sep 1940: Hugh Morgan, Australian businessman Hugh Matheson Morgan, is an Australian businessman and former CEO of Western Mining Corporation. He was President of the Business Council of Australia from 2003 to 2005. The Howard government appointed him to the board of the Reserve Bank of Australia in 1996, where he remained until 2007. He also was the Founding Chairman of Asia Society Australia. Read more
09 Sep 1940: Joe Negroni, American doo-wop singer (died 1978) Jose Negroni was an American singer of Puerto Rican descent. He was a rock and roll pioneer and founding member of the rock and roll group Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. Read more
09 Sep 1939: Ron McDole, American football player Roland Owen (Ron) McDole is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Read more
09 Sep 1938: John Davis, English anthropologist and academic (died 2017) John Horsley Russell Davis FBA FRAI was a British anthropologist, ex-Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Oxford. Read more
09 Sep 1938: Jay Ward, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2012) John Francis "Jay" Ward was an American professional baseball player and coach. He was also a manager in the minor leagues. Read more
09 Sep 1936: William Bradshaw, Baron Bradshaw, English academic and politician William Peter Bradshaw, Baron Bradshaw, commonly known as Bill Bradshaw, is a British academic and politician. A Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords, he was formerly also a County Councillor in Oxfordshire from 1993 until his resignation in January 2008. Read more
09 Sep 1935: Gopal Baratham, Singaporean neurosurgeon and author (died 2002) Gopal Baratham was a Singaporean author and neurosurgeon. He was known for his frank style and his ability to write about topics that were often considered controversial in the conservative city-state. Read more
09 Sep 1935: Nadim Sawalha, Jordanian-born English actor Nadim Joakim Sawalha is a Jordanian-British actor. He has made over 100 appearances in film and television, in a career spanning more than 40 years, which include two James Bond films, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and The Living Daylights (1987). He is the father of actresses Nadia and Julia Sawalha. Read more
09 Sep 1935: Chaim Topol, Israeli actor, singer, and producer (died 2023) Chaim Topol, mononymously known as Topol, was an Israeli actor and singer. He is best known for his portrayal of Tevye, the lead character in the stage musical Fiddler on the Roof. Topol estimated that he played Tevye more than 3,500 times on stage from 1967 through 2009, and he also portrayed the character in the 1971 film adaptation of the play. Read more
09 Sep 1934: Nicholas Liverpool, Dominican lawyer and politician, 6th President of Dominica (died 2015) Nicholas Joseph Orville Liverpool was a politician and jurist from Dominica who served as the sixth President of Dominica from 2 October 2003 to 17 September 2012. Read more
09 Sep 1934: Sonia Sanchez, American poet, playwright, and activist Sonia Sanchez is an American poet, writer, and professor. She was a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement and has written more than a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children's books. In the 1960s, Sanchez released poems in periodicals targeted towards African-American audiences, and published her debut collection, Homecoming, in 1969. In 1993, she received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and in 2001 was awarded the Robert Frost Medal for her contributions to the canon of American poetry. She has been influential to other African-American poets, including Krista Franklin. Sanchez is a member of The Wintergreen Women Writers Collective. Read more
09 Sep 1932: Carm Lino Spiteri, Maltese architect and politician (died 2008) Carm Lino Spiteri, also known by his nickname Iċ-Ċumpaqq, was a Maltese architect and politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives with the Nationalist Party between 1971 and 1987, and again between 1992 and 1996. Read more
09 Sep 1931: Robin Hyman, English author and publisher (died 2017) Robin Philip Hyman was a British publisher who was the chairman of Laurence King Publishing from 1991 to 2004. Read more
09 Sep 1931: Zoltán Latinovits, Hungarian actor and author (died 1976) Zoltán Latinovits was a Hungarian actor. Read more
09 Sep 1931: Ida Mae Martinez, American wrestler (died 2010) Ida Mae Martinez Selenkow was an American professional wrestler in the 1950s, known as Ida Mae Martinez. After her retirement in 1960, she appeared in the 2004 documentary Lipstick & Dynamite about the early years of Women's professional wrestling in North America. In addition to wrestling, Martinez was a yodeler, releasing the CD The Yodeling Lady Ms. Ida also in 2004. Martinez also obtained a Master's Degree in Nursing and was one of the first nurses in Baltimore to work with AIDS patients. Read more
09 Sep 1931: Shirley Summerskill, English physician and politician Shirley Catherine Wynne Summerskill is a British Labour Party politician and former government minister, who served as the Member of Parliament for Halifax from 1964 to 1983. Read more
09 Sep 1931: Margaret Tyzack, English actress (died 2011) Margaret Maud Tyzack was an English actress. Her television roles included The Forsyte Saga (1967) I, Claudius (1976), George Lucas's Young Indiana Jones (1992–1993) and EastEnders (2011). She won the 1970 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the BBC serial The First Churchills, and the 1990 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage, opposite Maggie Smith. She also won two Olivier Awards—in 1981 as Actress of the Year in a Revival and in 2009 as Best Actress in a Play. Her film appearances included Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and A Clockwork Orange (1971), as well as Prick Up Your Ears (1987) and Match Point (2005). Read more
09 Sep 1930: Francis Carroll, Australian archbishop (died 2024) Francis Patrick Carroll was an Australian archbishop, the fifth Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canberra–Goulburn, serving between 1983 until his retirement in 2006. Prior to his election as archbishop, Carroll served as Bishop of Wagga Wagga between 1968 and 1983. Carroll served as president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference between 2000 and 2006. He died in Wagga Wagga on 14 March 2024, at the age of 93. Read more
09 Sep 1929: Claude Nougaro, French singer-songwriter (died 2004) Claude Nougaro was a French jazz singer and poet. Read more
09 Sep 1928: Moses Anderson, American Roman Catholic bishop (died 2013) Moses Bosco Anderson SSE was an American prelate in the Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit in Michigan from 1982 to 2003. He was a member of the Society of St. Edmund (Edmundites) Read more
09 Sep 1928: Sol LeWitt, American painter and sculptor (died 2007) Solomon "Sol" LeWitt was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism. Read more
09 Sep 1927: Elvin Jones, American drummer and bandleader (died 2004) Elvin Ray Jones was an American jazz drummer of the post-bop era. Most famously a member of John Coltrane's quartet, with whom he recorded from late 1960 to late 1965, Jones appeared on such albums as My Favorite Things, A Love Supreme, Ascension, and Live at Birdland. After 1966, Jones led his own trio, and later larger groups under the name the Elvin Jones Jazz Machine. His brothers, Hank and Thad, were also celebrated jazz musicians with whom he occasionally recorded. Elvin was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1995. In his The History of Jazz, jazz historian and critic Ted Gioia calls Jones "one of the most influential drummers in the history of jazz". He was also ranked at Number 23 on Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Drummers of All Time". Read more
09 Sep 1927: Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Russian sociologist and economist (died 2013) Tatyana Ivanovna Zaslavskaya was a Russian economic sociologist and a theoretician of perestroika. She was the prime author of the Novosibirsk Report and several books on the economy of the Soviet Union and in sociology of the countryside. She was a member of the Consulting Committee to the President of Russia from 1991 to 1992 and also a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Zaslavskaya was the founder of RPORC and also its director in the years from 1987 to 1992. In 2000 she was the Laureate of the Demidov Prize and the honorary president of the Levada Center. Read more
09 Sep 1926: Louise Abeita, Isleta Pueblo (Native American) writer, poet, and educator (died 2014) Louise Abeita Chewiwi was a Pueblo writer, poet and educator who was an enrolled member of Isleta Pueblo. Read more
09 Sep 1926: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Egyptian theologian and author (died 2022) Yusuf al-Qaradawi was an Egyptian Islamic scholar based in Doha, Qatar, and chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars. His influences included Ibn Taymiyya, Ibn Qayyim, Sayyid Rashid Rida, Hassan al-Banna, Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi, Abul A'la Maududi and Naeem Siddiqui. He was best known for his programme الشريعة والحياة, al-Sharīʿa wa al-Ḥayāh, broadcast on Al Jazeera, which had an estimated audience of 40–60 million worldwide. He was also known for IslamOnline, a website he helped for establishment in 1997 and for which he served as chief religious scholar. Read more
09 Sep 1924: Jane Greer, American actress (died 2001) Jane Greer was an American film and television actress best known for her role as femme fatale Kathie Moffat in the 1947 film noir Out of the Past. In 2009, The Guardian named her one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. Read more
09 Sep 1924: Sylvia Miles, American actress (died 2019) Sylvia Miles was an American actress. She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Farewell, My Lovely (1975). Read more
09 Sep 1924: Russell M. Nelson, American captain, surgeon, and religious leader (died 2025) Russell Marion Nelson Sr. was an American religious leader and surgeon who was the seventeenth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2018 until his death in 2025. Before becoming church president, Nelson was a member of its Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for nearly thirty-four years and was the quorum president from 2015 to 2018. As church president, Nelson was recognized by the church as the prophet, seer, and revelator. Read more
09 Sep 1924: Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (died 2003) Hendrik Van Steenbergen was a Belgian racing cyclist, considered to be one of the best among the great number of successful Belgian cyclists. Read more
09 Sep 1923: Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2008) Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was an American physician, medical researcher, and convicted child sex offender, who was the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on the transmissibility of kuru, implying the existence of an infectious agent, which he named an 'unconventional virus'. Read more
09 Sep 1923: Cliff Robertson, American actor (died 2011) Clifford Parker Robertson III was an American actor whose career in film and television spanned over six decades. Robertson portrayed a young John F. Kennedy in the 1963 film PT 109, and won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the film Charly. Read more
09 Sep 1922: Hoyt Curtin, American composer and producer (died 2000) Hoyt Stoddard Curtin was an American composer, music producer and the primary musical director for Hanna-Barbera from its beginnings with The Ruff and Reddy Show from 1957 to 1965, and again from 1972 to 1986 until his retirement in 1989. Read more
09 Sep 1922: Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017) Hans Georg Dehmelt was a German and American physicist, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, for co-developing the ion trap technique with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one-half of the prize. Their technique was used for high precision measurement of the electron magnetic moment. Read more
09 Sep 1922: Manolis Glezos, Greek journalist and politician (died 2020) Manolis Glezos was a Greek left-wing politician, journalist, author, and guerrilla fighter most famous for his role in the Greek Resistance during World War II. After the end of the war, Glezos became a journalist and edited the left-wing newspapers Rizospastis and I Avgi. As a politician, he was elected to the European Parliament twice and served as a Member of the Greek Parliament (MP) at various points from 1951 to 2014, representing three constituencies. He also published six books. Read more
09 Sep 1922: Warwick Estevam Kerr, Brazilian geneticist, entomologist, and engineer (died 2018) Warwick Estevam Kerr was a Brazilian agricultural engineer, biologist and professor notable for his discoveries in the genetics and sex determination of bees. Read more
09 Sep 1920: Neil Chotem, Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 2008) Neil Chotem was a Canadian composer, arranger, conductor, pianist, and music educator. Read more
09 Sep 1920: Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and physicist (died 1993) Feng Kang was a Chinese mathematician. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. After his death, the Chinese Academy of Sciences established the Feng Kang Prize in 1994 to reward young Chinese researchers who made outstanding contributions to computational mathematics. Read more
09 Sep 1920: Robert Wood Johnson III, American businessman and philanthropist (died 1970) Robert Wood Johnson III was an American businessman. He was a grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I. Read more
09 Sep 1919: Gottfried Dienst, Swiss footballer and referee (died 1998) Gottfried Dienst was a Swiss association football referee. He was mostly known as the referee of the 1966 FIFA World Cup final. Read more
09 Sep 1919: Jimmy Snyder, American sportscaster (died 1996) James George Snyder Sr., better known as Jimmy the Greek, was an American sports commentator and Las Vegas bookmaker. A regular contributor to the CBS program The NFL Today, Snyder predicted the scores of NFL games, which sports bettors used to determine the point spread. In January 1988, Snyder was fired by CBS after he made comments suggesting that breeding practices during slavery had led blacks to become superior athletes. Read more
09 Sep 1918: Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Italian lawyer and politician, 9th President of Italy (died 2012) Oscar Luigi Scalfaro was an Italian politician who served as the president of Italy from 1992 to 1999. A member of Christian Democracy (DC), he became an independent politician after the DC's dissolution in 1992, and was close to the centre-left Democratic Party when it was founded in 2007. Before his election to the Presidency, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies for Turin for 44 years from 1948 to 1992. Read more
09 Sep 1914: John Passmore, Australian philosopher and academic (died 2004) John Arthur Passmore was an Australian philosopher. Read more
09 Sep 1911: Paul Goodman, American author, poet, and playwright (died 1972) Paul Goodman was an American writer and public intellectual best known for his 1960s works of social criticism. Goodman was prolific across numerous literary genres and non-fiction topics, including the arts, civil rights, decentralization, democracy, education, media, politics, psychology, technology, urban planning, and war. As a humanist and self-styled man of letters, his works often addressed a common theme of the individual citizen's duties in the larger society, and the responsibility to exercise autonomy, act creatively, and realize one's own human nature. Read more
09 Sep 1911: John Gorton, Australian lieutenant and politician, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (died 2002) Sir John Grey Gorton was the 19th prime minister of Australia, serving from 1968 to 1971. He held office as the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, having previously served as a senator for Victoria. He was the first and only member of the upper house of the Parliament to assume the office of prime minister. Read more
09 Sep 1908: Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and author (died 1950) Cesare Pavese was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist. He is often referred to as one of the most influential Italian writers of his time. Read more
09 Sep 1908: Shigekazu Shimazaki, Japanese admiral (died 1945) Shigekazu Shimazaki was a Japanese career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during World War II. Read more
09 Sep 1907: Leon Edel, American author and critic (died 1997) Joseph Leon Edel was an American/Canadian literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel. Read more
09 Sep 1906: Ali Hadi Bara, Iranian-Turkish sculptor and educator (died 1971) Ali Hadi Bara was a Turkish sculptor and one of the first artists of the Republican generation in Turkey. Read more
09 Sep 1905: Joseph E. Levine, American film producer, founded Embassy Pictures (died 1987) Joseph Edward Levine was an American film distributor, financier and producer. At the time of his death, it was said he was involved in one or another capacity with 497 films. Levine was responsible for the American releases of Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, Attila and Hercules, which helped revolutionize American film marketing, and was founder and president of Embassy Pictures. Read more
09 Sep 1905: Brahmarishi Hussain Sha, Indian philosopher and poet (died 1981) Hussain Sha was the seventh head of Sri Viswa Viznana Vidya Adhyatmika Peetham in Pithapuram. He was born in Rajahmundry, East Godavari District. He succeeded his father, Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha Sathguru. He completed his primary education at Pithapuram and passed the Final Arts course from National College in Machilipatnam. He was a scholar in Telugu, Arabic, Urdu, Persian and Sanskrit. Read more
09 Sep 1904: Feroze Khan, Indian-Pakistani field hockey player and coach (died 2005) Feroze Khan Burki"Abbottabad Public School Famous Alumni". 23 March 2010.(9 September 1904 – 21 April 2005) was a field hockey player who represented India at the Summer Olympic Games. At the time of his death, he was the world's oldest Olympic gold medal winner, following the death of US athlete James Rockefeller in 2004. Khan was part of India's Olympic hockey team at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, who won the gold medal for the event. At the club level, Khan played for Uttar Pradesh, Aligarh University and the Bombay Customs. After his death, Roger Beaufrand of France became the oldest living Olympic gold medal winner. Read more
09 Sep 1904: Arthur Laing, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Canadian Minister of Veterans Affairs (died 1975) Arthur Laing was a Canadian politician from British Columbia. Though actively involved with the BC Liberals, his primary achievements were federally as a Liberal Member of Parliament. He served in the cabinets of prime ministers Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Trudeau. Read more
09 Sep 1903: Lev Shankovsky, Ukrainian military historian (died 1995) Lev Shankovsky, was a Ukrainian military historian and former Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) soldier, a leading member of the Banderite faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. He was a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. Read more
09 Sep 1903: Edward Upward, English author (died 2009) Edward Falaise Upward, FRSL was a British novelist and short story writer who, prior to his death, was believed to be the UK's oldest living author. Initially gaining recognition amongst the Auden Group as a highly imaginative surrealist writer, in the 1930s he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain, after which his writing shifted towards Marxist realism. His literary career spanned over eighty years. Read more
09 Sep 1903: Phyllis A. Whitney, American author (died 2008) Phyllis Ayame Whitney was an American mystery writer who wrote 73 novels, most all of them in the suspense and mystery genre. 39 of her books were for adults, 20 for young adults (juveniles), and 14 written for children. Her books sold millions of copies and were published in more than thirty countries. Read more
09 Sep 1900: James Hilton, English-American author and screenwriter (died 1954) James Hilton was a British-American novelist and screenwriter. He is best remembered for his novels Lost Horizon; Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Random Harvest; and co-writing screenplays for the films Camille (1936) and Mrs. Miniver (1942), the latter earning him an Academy Award. Read more
09 Sep 1899: Neil Hamilton, American stage, film and television actor (died 1984) James Neil Hamilton was an American stage, film and television actor, best remembered for his role as Commissioner Gordon on the Batman TV series of the 1960s. During his motion picture career, which spanned more than a half century, Hamilton performed in over 260 productions. He was a prominent leading man to actresses such as Clara Bow and Joan Crawford in silent and early sound films during the 1920s and early 1930s. Read more
09 Sep 1899: Waite Hoyt, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 1984) Waite Charles Hoyt was an American right-handed professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball for seven different teams during 1918–1938. He was one of the dominant pitchers of the 1920s, and the most successful pitcher for the New York Yankees during that decade. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969. Read more
09 Sep 1899: Bruno E. Jacob, American academic, founded the National Forensic League (died 1979) Bruno Ernst Jacob was a professor at Ripon College in Wisconsin and founder of the National Forensic League. He served as the league's executive secretary from 1925 until his retirement in 1969. Read more
09 Sep 1898: Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (died 1973) Frank Francis Frisch, nicknamed "the Fordham Flash" or "the Old Flash", was an American professional baseball second baseman and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Giants (1919–1926) and St. Louis Cardinals (1927–1937), and managed the Cardinals (1933–1938), Pittsburgh Pirates (1940–1946), and Chicago Cubs (1949–1951). He is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum. He is tied with Yogi Berra for most World Series doubles at 10 and holds the record for the most World Series hits at 58 for a player who never played for the New York Yankees, exceeded only by Berra and Mickey Mantle. Read more
09 Sep 1894: Arthur Freed, American composer and producer (died 1973) Arthur Freed was an American lyricist and a Hollywood film producer. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture twice, in 1951 for An American in Paris and in 1958 for Gigi. Both films were musicals, and both were directed by Vincente Minnelli. In addition, he produced the film Singin' in the Rain, the soundtrack for which primarily consisted of songs he co-wrote earlier in his career. In the decades following his death, Freed has become the subject of several sexual assault allegations, most notably from child actress Shirley Temple and actress and dancer Barrie Chase. Read more
09 Sep 1894: Humphrey Mitchell, Canadian trade union leader and politician, 14th Canadian Minister of Labour (died 1950) Humphrey Mitchell, was a Canadian politician and trade unionist. Read more
09 Sep 1894: Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer and soldier (died 1976) William Albert Stanley Oldfield was an Australian cricketer and businessman. He played for New South Wales and Australia as a wicket-keeper. Oldfield's 52 stumpings during his Test career remains a record several decades after his final Test. Read more
09 Sep 1890: Colonel Sanders, American businessman, founded KFC (died 1980) Harland David Sanders, commonly known as Colonel Sanders, was an American entrepreneur and founder of fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). He later acted as the company's brand ambassador and symbol. His name and image are still symbols of the company today. Read more
09 Sep 1887: Alf Landon, American lieutenant, banker, and politician, 26th Governor of Kansas (died 1987) Alfred Mossman Landon was an American oilman and politician who served as the 26th governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937. A member of the Republican Party, he was the party's nominee in the 1936 presidential election, and was defeated in a landslide by incumbent president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Read more
09 Sep 1885: Miriam Licette, English soprano and educator (died 1969) Miriam Licette was an English operatic soprano whose career spanned 35 years, from the mid-1910s to after World War II. She was also a singing teacher, and created the Miriam Licette Scholarship. Read more
09 Sep 1885: Clare Sheridan, English sculptor and author (died 1970) Clare Consuelo Sheridan was an English sculptor, journalist and writer, known primarily for creating busts for famous sitters and keeping travel diaries. She was a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill, with whom she had enjoyed an amicable relationship, though her support for the October Revolution in 1917 caused them to break ranks politically. She enjoyed travelling around the world; and among her circle of friends were Princess Margaret of Sweden, Lord and Lady Mountbatten, Lady Diana Cooper, Vita Sackville-West and Vivien Leigh. Read more
09 Sep 1882: Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (died 1962) Charles Louis "Clem" McCarthy was an American sportscaster and public address announcer. He also narrated Pathe News's RKO newsreels. He was known for his gravelly voice and dramatic style, a "whiskey tenor" as sports announcer and executive David J. Halberstam has called it. Read more
09 Sep 1878: Adelaide Crapsey, American poet and critic (died 1914) Adelaide Crapsey was an American poet. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Rochester, New York. Her parents were the businesswoman Adelaide T. Crapsey and the Episcopal priest Algernon Sidney Crapsey, who moved from New York City to Rochester. Read more
09 Sep 1878: Arthur Fox, English-American fencer (died 1958) Arthur George Fox was an English-American fencer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. Read more
09 Sep 1878: Sergio Osmeña, Filipino lawyer and politician, 4th President of the Philippines (died 1961) Sergio Osmeña Sr. was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the fourth president of the Philippines from 1944 to 1946 and as the first vice president of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944. He served the shortest term as president of the Philippines, lasting for only 1 year and 300 days. He was vice president under Manuel L. Quezon. Upon Quezon's sudden death in 1944, Osmeña succeeded him at age 65, becoming the first vice president to succeed to the Philippine presidency and the oldest person to assume the office until Rodrigo Duterte took office in 2016 at age 71. He was the founder of the Nacionalista Party. Read more
09 Sep 1877: James Agate, English journalist, author, and critic (died 1947) James Evershed Agate was an English diarist and theatre critic between the two world wars. He took up journalism in his late twenties and was on the staff of The Manchester Guardian in 1907–1914. He later became a drama critic for The Saturday Review (1921–1923), The Sunday Times (1923–1947) and the BBC (1925–1932). The nine volumes of Agate's diaries and letters cover the British theatre of his time and non-theatrical interests such as sports, social gossip and private preoccupations with health and finances. He published three novels, translated a play briefly staged in London, and regularly published collections of theatre essays and reviews. Read more
09 Sep 1876: Frank Chance, American baseball player and manager (died 1924) Frank Leroy Chance was an American professional baseball player. A first baseman, Chance played in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs and New York Yankees from 1898 through 1914. He also served as manager of the Cubs, Yankees, and Boston Red Sox. Read more
09 Sep 1873: Max Reinhardt, Austrian-born American theater and film director (died 1943) Max Reinhardt was an Austrian-born theatre and film director, intendant, and theatrical producer. With his radically innovative and avant-garde stage productions, Reinhardt is regarded as one of the most prominent stage directors of the early 20th century. Read more
09 Sep 1868: Mary Hunter Austin, American author, poet, and critic (died 1934) Mary Hunter Austin was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the fauna, flora, and people of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California. Read more
09 Sep 1863: Herbert Henry Ball, English-Canadian journalist and politician (died 1943) Herbert Henry Ball was a Canadian politician and journalist. Read more
09 Sep 1855: Houston Stewart Chamberlain, English-German philosopher and author (died 1927) Houston Stewart Chamberlain was a British-German-French philosopher. His writings on political philosophy and natural science influenced Adolf Hitler, among many others, attributing all world accomplishments to the Germanic race. Chamberlain promoted German ethnonationalism, antisemitism, scientific racism, and Nordicism; he has been described as a "racialist writer". His best-known book, the two-volume Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, published in 1899, became highly influential in the pan-Germanic Völkisch movements of the early 20th century, and later influenced the antisemitism of Nazi racial policy. In the early 1920s, Chamberlain met and encouraged Hitler. Read more
09 Sep 1853: Fred Spofforth, Australian-English cricketer and merchant (died 1926) Frederick Robert Spofforth, also known as "The Demon Bowler", was an Australian cricket team pace bowler of the nineteenth century. He was the first bowler to take 50 Test wickets, and the first to take a Test hat-trick, in 1879. He played in Test matches for Australia between 1877 and 1887, and then settled in England where he played for Derbyshire. In 2009, he was inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame. Read more
09 Sep 1834: Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English author (died 1903) Joseph Henry Shorthouse was an English novelist. His first novel, John Inglesant, was particularly admired as a "philosophical romance". It discusses a religious intrigue in the English 17th century. Read more
09 Sep 1828: Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright (died 1910) Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time. Read more
09 Sep 1823: Joseph Leidy, American paleontologist and academic (died 1891) Joseph Mellick Leidy was an American paleontologist, parasitologist, and anatomist. Read more
09 Sep 1807: Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish-English archbishop and philologist (died 1886) Richard Chenevix Trench was an Anglican archbishop and poet. Read more

Notable Deaths on 09 September

09 Sep 2025: Mark Norell, American vertebrate paleontologist (born 1957). Mark Allen Norell was an American vertebrate paleontologist. He was the chairman of paleontology and a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History up until his death in 2025. He is best known as the discoverer of the first theropod embryo and for the description of feathered dinosaurs. Norell is credited with the naming of the genera Apsaravis, Byronosaurus, Citipati, Tsaagan, and Achillobator. His work regularly appeared in major scientific journals and was listed by Time magazine as one of the ten most significant science stories of 1993, 1994 and 1996. Norell was both a fellow of the Explorer's Club and the Willi Hennig Society. He has appeared in several science documentaries, including The Dinosaurs, "Dinosaurs of the Gobi" on the PBS series Nova, and Miracle Planet. Read more
09 Sep 2024: John Cassaday, American comic book artist and writer (born 1971) Johnny Mac Cassaday was an American comic book artist, writer, and television director. He was best known for his work on the critically acclaimed Planetary with writer Warren Ellis, where his art style conveyed a sense of realism despite that book's fantastical settings. His later works included Astonishing X-Men with Joss Whedon, Captain America with John Ney Rieber, and Star Wars with Jason Aaron. Read more
09 Sep 2024: James Earl Jones, American actor (born 1931) James Earl Jones was an American actor. A pioneer for Black actors in the entertainment industry, he was acclaimed for his performances on stage and screen. Jones is one of the few performers to achieve the EGOT. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1985 and was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1992, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2002, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2009, and the Academy Honorary Award in 2011. Read more
09 Sep 2024: Caterina Valente, Italian-French singer and dancer (born 1931) Caterina Germaine Maria Valente was an Italian-French multilingual singer, guitarist, and dancer. She spoke six languages and sang in thirteen. While she was best known as a performer in Europe, Valente spent part of her career in the United States, where she performed alongside Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Perry Como, and Ella Fitzgerald, among others. Read more
09 Sep 2015: Annemarie Bostroem, German poet, playwright, and songwriter (born 1922) Annemarie Bostroem was a German poet, playwright, and lyricist. She lived most recently in the Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood of Berlin. Read more
09 Sep 2015: Einar H. Ingman Jr., American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1929) Einar Harold Ingman Jr. was a United States Army soldier who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Third Battle of Wonju in the Korean War. Read more
09 Sep 2015: K. Kunaratnam, Sri Lankan physicist and academic (born 1934) Kanthia Kunaratnam was a Sri Lankan Tamil physicist, academic and former vice-chancellor of the University of Jaffna. Read more
09 Sep 2014: Montserrat Abelló i Soler, Spanish poet and translator (born 1918) Montserrat Abelló i Soler was a Catalan poet and translator. During the Spanish Civil War, she lived in exile in France, England and Chile. Read more
09 Sep 2014: Firoza Begum, Bangladeshi singer (born 1930) Firoza Begum was a Bangladeshi Bengali Nazrul Geeti singer. She was awarded the Independence Day Award in 1979 by the government of Bangladesh. Read more
09 Sep 2014: Graham Joyce, English author and educator (born 1954) Graham William Joyce was a British writer of speculative fiction and the recipient of numerous awards, including the O. Henry Award, the World Fantasy Award, and six times the British Fantasy Award for both his novels and short stories. Read more
09 Sep 2013: Sunila Abeysekera, Sri Lankan scholar and activist (born 1952) Sunila Abeysekera was a Sri Lankan human rights campaigner. She worked on women's rights in Sri Lanka and in the South Asia region for decades as an activist and scholar. Quitting a career as a singer, Abeysekera briefly joined the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and then founded the Women and Media Collective in 1984. As head of the INFORM Human Rights Documentation Centre, she monitored human rights violations by all parties in the civil war. She received the United Nations Human Rights Award in 1999 and the Didi Nirmala Deshpande South Asian Peace and Justice Award in 2013. Read more
09 Sep 2013: Alberto Bevilacqua, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1934) Alberto Bevilacqua was an Italian writer and filmmaker. Leonardo Sciascia, an Italian writer and politician, who read Bevilacqua's first collection of stories, The Dust on the Grass (1955), was impressed and published it. Mario Colombi Guidotti, responsible for the literary supplement of the Journal of Parma, began to publish his stories in the early 1950s. Read more
09 Sep 2013: Saul Landau, American journalist, director, and author (born 1936) Saul Landau was an American journalist, filmmaker and commentator. He was also a professor emeritus at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where he taught history and digital media. Read more
09 Sep 2012: Verghese Kurien, Indian engineer and businessman, founded Amul (born 1921) Verghese Kurien was an Indian dairy engineer and social entrepreneur. He led initiatives that contributed to the extensive increase in milk production in India termed as the White Revolution. Read more
09 Sep 2012: John McCarthy, Australian footballer (born 1989) John Shane McCarthy was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Read more
09 Sep 2012: Mike Scarry, American football player and coach (born 1920) Michael Joseph "Mo" Scarry was an American football player and coach. He grew up in Pennsylvania, and played football in college at Waynesburg College in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania and went on to join the Cleveland Rams in the National Football League (NFL) as a center following a stint in the United States Army during World War II. The Rams moved to Los Angeles after winning the 1945 NFL championship, and Scarry elected to stay in Cleveland and play for the Cleveland Browns under coach Paul Brown in the new All-America Football Conference (AAFC). The Browns won the AAFC championship in 1946 and 1947 while Scarry was on the team. Read more
09 Sep 2012: Ron Tindall, English footballer and manager (born 1935) Ronald Albert Ernest Tindall was an English footballer who played as a striker. He was also an accomplished cricketer, playing for Surrey. Read more
09 Sep 2006: Gérard Brach, French director and screenwriter (born 1927) Gérard Brach was a French screenwriter best known for his collaborations with the film directors Roman Polanski and Jean-Jacques Annaud. He directed two movies: La Maison and Le Bateau sur l'herbe. Read more
09 Sep 2006: Richard Burmer, American composer and engineer (born 1955) Richard Steven Burmer was an American composer, engineer, sound designer, musician and ethnomusicologist. His work with electronic music combined with musical styles and instruments from around the world formed his own unique and distinct sound. Read more
09 Sep 2006: Matt Gadsby, English footballer (born 1979) Matthew John Gadsby was an English professional footballer. Born in Sutton Coldfield, he played for Walsall, Mansfield Town, Kidderminster Harriers, Forest Green and Hinckley United as a defender and midfielder. Read more
09 Sep 2006: William Bernard Ziff Jr., American businessman, founded Ziff Davis (born 1930) William Bernard "Bill" Ziff Jr. was an American publishing executive. His father, William Bernard Ziff Sr., was the co-founder of Ziff Davis Inc. and when the elder Ziff died in 1953, Ziff took over the management of the company. After buying out partner Bernard G. Davis, he led Ziff Davis to become the most successful publisher of technology magazines in the 1970s and 1980s. Read more
09 Sep 2004: Ernie Ball, American guitarist and businessman (born 1930) Ernie Ball was an American entrepreneur and musician who developed guitar-related products. Ball began as a club and local television musician and entrepreneur, building an international business in guitars and accessories. Ernie Ball Inc. is the eponymous corporation Ball started to market guitar accessories. Read more
09 Sep 2004: Caitlin Clarke, American actress (born 1952) Caitlin Clarke was an American actress best known for her roles as Valerian in the 1981 fantasy film Dragonslayer and Charlotte Cardoza in the 1998–1999 Broadway musical Titanic. Read more
09 Sep 2003: Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist and academic (born 1908) Edward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and chemical engineer who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" and one of the creators of the Teller–Ulam design inspired by Stanisław Ulam. Read more
09 Sep 2003: Don Willesee, Australian telegraphist and politician, 29th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (born 1916) Donald Robert Willesee was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served as a Senator for Western Australia from 1950 to 1975. He held ministerial office in the Whitlam government as Special Minister of State (1972–1973) and Minister for Foreign Affairs (1973–1975). He also served as Leader of the Opposition in the Senate from 1966 to 1967. Read more
09 Sep 2001: Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan commander and politician, Afghan Minister of Defense (born 1953) Ahmad Shah Massoud was an Afghan military leader and politician. Known as the "Lion of Panjshir", he was the foremost commander of the Afghan mujahideen against Soviet occupation during the Soviet–Afghan War from 1979 to 1989. Later, in the 1990s, he led the government's military wing against rival militias, and actively fought against the Taliban and their allies, from the time the regime rose to power in 1996, and until his assassination in 2001. Read more
09 Sep 2000: Julian Critchley, English lawyer and politician (born 1930) Sir Julian Michael Gordon Critchley was a British journalist, author and Conservative Party politician. He was the member of parliament for Rochester and Chatham from 1959 to 1964 and Aldershot from 1970 to 1997. Read more
09 Sep 1999: Arie de Vroet, Dutch footballer and manager (born 1918) Arie de Vroet was a Dutch footballer who was active as a left winger. De Vroet made his debut at Feijenoord and also played for Le Havre AC and FC Rouen. He also represented the Netherlands at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Read more
09 Sep 1999: Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (born 1946) James Augustus "Catfish" Hunter was an American professional baseball player in Major League Baseball (MLB). From 1965 to 1979, he was a pitcher for the Kansas City / Oakland Athletics and New York Yankees. Hunter is the only pitcher since 1915 to win 200 games by age 31. He is often referred to as baseball's first big-money free agent, and was a member of five World Series championship teams. Read more
09 Sep 1999: Ruth Roman, American actress (born 1922) Ruth Roman was an American actress of film, stage, and television. Read more
09 Sep 1998: Lucio Battisti, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1943) Lucio Battisti was an Italian singer-songwriter and composer. He is widely recognized for songs that defined the late 1960s and 1970s era of Italian songwriting. Read more
09 Sep 1998: Bill Cratty, American dancer and choreographer (born 1951) Bill Cratty was an American modern dancer and choreographer. Read more
09 Sep 1997: Richie Ashburn, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1927) Don Richard Ashburn, also known by the nicknames "Putt-Putt", "the Tilden Flash", and "Whitey", was an American professional baseball player and television sports commentator. He played in Major League Baseball as a center fielder from 1948 to 1962, most prominently as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies, where he was a four-time All-Star player and member of the 1950 National League pennant winning team known as the Whiz Kids. Read more
09 Sep 1997: John Hackett, Australian-English general and author (born 1910) General Sir John Winthrop Hackett, was an Australian-born British soldier, painter, university administrator, author and in later life, a commentator. Read more
09 Sep 1997: Burgess Meredith, American actor, director, and producer (born 1907) Oliver Burgess Meredith was an American actor and filmmaker whose career encompassed radio, theater, film, and television. Read more
09 Sep 1996: Bill Monroe, American singer-songwriter (born 1911) William Smith Monroe was an American mandolinist, singer, and songwriter who created the bluegrass music genre. For this reason, he is often called the "Father of Bluegrass". Read more
09 Sep 1994: Patrick O'Neal, American actor (born 1927) Patrick Wisdom O'Neal was an American actor and restaurateur. Read more
09 Sep 1993: Larry Noble, English comedian and actor (born 1914) Larry Noble was a Lebanese-born British stage comedian and actor best known for starring in the Whitehall farces with Brian Rix. He starred in the original production of Reluctant Heroes and as the chirpy French jockey in Dry Rot. On television, he made guest appearances in Last of the Summer Wine in 1975 and Blake's 7 in 1981. He died on 9 September 1993, aged 78. Read more
09 Sep 1993: Helen O'Connell, American singer (born 1920) Helen O'Connell was an American singer, actress, and hostess, described as "the quintessential big band singer of the 1940s". Read more
09 Sep 1990: Nicola Abbagnano, Italian philosopher and academic (born 1901) Nicola Abbagnano was an Italian existential philosopher. Read more
09 Sep 1990: Samuel Doe, Liberian field marshal and politician, 21st President of Liberia (born 1951) Samuel Kanyon Doe was a Liberian politician and military officer who served as the 21st President of Liberia from 1986 until his execution in 1990. He ruled Liberia as Chairman of the People's Redemption Council (PRC) from 1980 to 1986 and then as the first native president from 1986 to 1990. Read more
09 Sep 1990: Alexander Men, Russian priest and scholar (born 1930) Alexander Vladimirovich Men was a Soviet Russian Orthodox Church priest, Soviet dissident, scholar of theology and the Bible, and author of works on theology, history of religion, the fundamentals of Christian doctrine, and Orthodox worship. Read more
09 Sep 1986: Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian pianist and educator (born 1893) Magdalena Maria Yvonne Tagliaferro was a Brazilian pianist. Read more
09 Sep 1985: Neil Davis, Australian photographer and journalist (born 1934) Neil Brian Davis was an Australian combat cameraman who was recognised for his work as a photojournalist during the Vietnam War and other conflicts in the region. He was killed in Bangkok on 9 September 1985, while filming a minor Thai coup attempt. Read more
09 Sep 1985: Paul Flory, American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910) Paul John Flory was an American chemist and Nobel laureate who was known for his work in the field of polymers, or macromolecules. He was a pioneer in understanding the behavior of polymers in solution, and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1974 "for his fundamental achievements, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of macromolecules". Read more
09 Sep 1985: Antonino Votto, Italian conductor (born 1896) Antonino Votto, sometimes spelt Antonio Votto, was an Italian operatic conductor and vocal coach. Votto developed an extensive discography with the Teatro alla Scala in Milan during the 1950s, when EMI produced the bulk of its studio recordings featuring Maria Callas. Though Votto was a dependable conductor, critics frequently faulted his recordings for their lack of emotional immediacy. This may have been an occupational hazard of working in the studio, as his live sets with Callas, including a Norma and La sonnambula are considered to be great performances. Among his pupils was the soprano Claudia Pinza Bozzolla. Read more
09 Sep 1984: Yılmaz Güney, Palme d'Or award-winning Kurdish film director, scenarist, actor, novelist and activist (born 1937) Yılmaz Güney was a Kurdish film director, screenwriter, novelist, actor and communist political activist. He quickly rose to prominence in the Turkish film industry. Many of his works were made from a far-left perspective and devoted to the plight of working-class people in Turkey. Güney won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982 for the film Yol which he co-directed with Şerif Gören. He was at constant odds with the Turkish government over the portrayal of Kurdish culture, people and language. Read more
09 Sep 1981: Robert Askin, Australian sergeant and politician, 32nd Premier of New South Wales (born 1907) Sir Robert William Askin, was an Australian politician and the 32nd premier of New South Wales from 1965 to 1975, the first representing the Liberal Party. He was born in 1907 as Robin William Askin, but always disliked his first name and changed it by deed poll in 1971. Before being knighted in 1972, however, he was generally known as Bob Askin. Born in Sydney in 1907, Askin was educated at Sydney Technical High School. After serving as a bank officer and as a sergeant in the Second World War, Askin joined the Liberal Party and was elected to the seat of Collaroy at the 1950 election. Read more
09 Sep 1981: Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist (born 1901) Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud", Lacan gave annual seminars in Paris from 1952 to 1980 and published papers that were later collected in the book Écrits. Transcriptions of the seminars 1953–1980 were published. His work made a significant impact on continental philosophy and cultural theory in areas such as post-structuralism, critical theory, feminist theory and film theory, as well as on the practice of psychoanalysis itself. Read more
09 Sep 1980: John Howard Griffin, American journalist and author (born 1920) John Howard Griffin was an American journalist and author from Texas who wrote about and championed racial equality. He is best known for his 1959 project to temporarily pass as a black man and journey through the Deep South in order to see life and segregation from the other side of the color line first-hand. He first published a series of articles on his experience in Sepia magazine, which had underwritten the project, then later published an expanded account in book form, under the title Black Like Me (1961). This was later adapted into a 1964 film of the same name. A 50th anniversary edition of the book was published in 2011 by Wings Press. Read more
09 Sep 1979: Norrie Paramor, English composer, conductor, and producer (born 1914) Norman William "Norrie" Paramor was a British record producer, composer, arranger, pianist, bandleader, and orchestral conductor. He is best known for his work with Cliff Richard and the Shadows, both together and separately, steering their early careers and producing and arranging most of their material from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Paramor was an orchestra conductor and composer of music for studio albums, theatrical productions, and film scores. Read more
09 Sep 1978: Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish linguist, poet, and author (born 1892) Christopher Murray Grieve, best known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid, was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure. He is considered one of the principal forces behind the Scottish Renaissance and has had a lasting impact on Scottish culture and politics. He was a founding member of the National Party of Scotland in 1928 but left in 1933 due to his Marxist–Leninist views. He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain the following year only to be expelled in 1938 for his nationalist sympathies. He subsequently stood as a parliamentary candidate for both the Scottish National Party (1945) and Communist Party of Great Britain (1964). Read more
09 Sep 1978: Jack L. Warner, Canadian-American production manager and producer, co-founded Warner Bros. (born 1892) Jack Leonard Warner was a Canadian-born American film executive, who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. Warner's career spanned over 55 years, surpassing that of any other of the pioneering Hollywood studio moguls. Read more
09 Sep 1976: Mao Zedong, Chinese philosopher, academic, and politician, 1st Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (born 1893) Mao Zedong was a Chinese communist revolutionary, political theorist and the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC). He led China from the PRC's establishment in October 1949 until his death in September 1976, primarily through his role as the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). His theories, which he advocated as a Chinese adaptation of Marxism–Leninism, are known as Mao Zedong Thought. Read more
09 Sep 1975: Johannes Brenner, Estonian footballer (born 1906) Johannes Brenner was an Estonia football forward, who played for ESS Kalev Tallinn, Tallinna Jalgpalli Klubi and the Estonia national football team. Read more
09 Sep 1975: John McGiver, American actor (born 1913) John Irwin McGiver was an American character actor who made more than a hundred appearances in television and motion pictures over a two-decade span from 1955 to 1975. Read more
09 Sep 1969: Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (born 1928) Willem Edouard Numa Ghislain Mairesse was a Formula One and sports-car driver from Belgium. He participated in 13 World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 19 June 1960. He achieved one podium and scored a total of seven championship points. He committed suicide in a hotel room in Ostend after a crash at the 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans forced an end to his career. Read more
09 Sep 1963: Edwin Linkomies, Finnish academic, professor and the Prime Minister of Finland (born 1894) Edwin Johannes Hildegard Linkomies was Prime Minister of Finland from March 1943 to August 1944, and one of the seven politicians sentenced to five and a half years in prison as responsible for the Continuation War, on the demand of the Soviet Union. He was paroled in 1948. Linkomies was a prominent fennoman academic, pro-rector of the University of Helsinki 1932 to 1943, rector 1956 to 1962, and the government's Chancellor of the University from 1962 until his death. Read more
09 Sep 1960: Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (born 1911) Johan Jonatan "Jussi" Björling was a Swedish tenor. One of the leading operatic singers of the 20th century, Björling appeared for many years at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and less frequently at the major European opera houses, including the Royal Opera House in London and La Scala in Milan. He sang the Italian, French and Russian opera repertory with taste. Read more
09 Sep 1959: Ramón Fonst, Cuban fencer (born 1883) Ramón Fonst Segundo was a Cuban fencer who competed in the early 20th century. He was one of the greatest world fencers, individual and by team; he was born and died in Havana. He became the first non-European and the only Hispanic American to win an Olympic fencing title. Read more
09 Sep 1958: Charlie Macartney, Australian cricketer and soldier (born 1886) Charles George Macartney was an Australian cricketer who played in 35 Test matches between 1907 and 1926. He was known as "The Governor-General" in reference to his authoritative batting style and his flamboyant strokeplay, which drew comparisons with his close friend and role model Victor Trumper, regarded as one of the most elegant batsmen in cricketing history. Sir Donald Bradman—generally regarded as the greatest batsman in history—cited Macartney's dynamic batting as an inspiration in his cricket career. Read more
09 Sep 1955: Carl Friedberg, German pianist and educator (born 1872) Carl Rudolf Hermann Friedberg was a German pianist and teacher of Jewish origin. Read more
09 Sep 1950: Victor Hémery, French racing driver (born 1876) Victor Théodore Eugène Hémery was a French racing driver. He was the winner of the Vanderbilt Cup in 1905. Read more
09 Sep 1945: Max Ehrmann, American poet and lawyer (born 1872) Max Ehrmann was an American writer, poet, and attorney from Terre Haute, Indiana, widely known for his 1927 prose poem "Desiderata". He often wrote on spiritual themes. Read more
09 Sep 1943: Carlo Bergamini, Italian admiral (born 1888) Carlo Bergamini was an Italian admiral. Read more
09 Sep 1943: Charles McLean Andrews, American historian, author, and academic (born 1863) Charles McLean Andrews, Ph.D, L.H.D. was an American historian and professor at Yale University whose Colonial Period of American History, vol. 1 of 4, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1935. Among his other books are British committees, commissions, and councils of trade and plantations, 1622-1675, co-author of the 1910 publication titled A bibliography of history for schools and libraries: with description and critical annotations, and The Colonial Period (1912). Read more
09 Sep 1942: Adele Kurzweil, Austrian Holocaust victim (born 1925) Adele "Dele" Kurzweil was an Austrian girl of Jewish origin who was tracked down by Nazi Germany and murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp at arrival. Her fate became widely known after suitcases had been discovered in 1990 at her family's last refuge in the southern French town of Auvillar. Read more
09 Sep 1941: Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1869) Hans Spemann was a German embryologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935 for his student Hilde Mangold's discovery of the effect now known as embryonic induction, an influence, exercised by various parts of the embryo, that directs the development of groups of cells into particular tissues and organs, one of the first steps towards cloning. Spemann added his name as an author to Hilde Mangold's dissertation and won a Nobel Prize for her work. Read more
09 Sep 1934: Roger Fry, English painter and critic (born 1866) Roger Eliot Fry was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism. He was an early figure to raise public awareness of modern art in Britain, and he emphasised the formal properties of paintings over the "associated ideas" conjured in the viewer by their representational content. He was described by the art historian Kenneth Clark as "incomparably the greatest influence on taste since Ruskin … In so far as taste can be changed by one man, it was changed by Roger Fry". The taste Fry influenced was primarily that of the Anglophone world, and his success lay largely in alerting an educated public to a compelling version of recent artistic developments of the Parisian avant-garde. Read more
09 Sep 1923: Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca, Brazilian president (born 1855) Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca was a Brazilian field marshal and politician who served as the eighth president of Brazil between 1910 and 1914. He was a nephew of marshal Deodoro da Fonseca, the first president of Brazil, and general João Severiano da Fonseca, patron of the Army Health Service. His parents were the marshal Hermes Ernesto da Fonseca and Rita Rodrigues Barbosa. Read more
09 Sep 1915: Albert Spalding, American baseball player, manager, and businessman, co-founded Spalding (born 1850) Albert Goodwill Spalding was an American pitcher, manager, and executive in the early years of professional baseball, and the co-founder of the Spalding sporting goods company. He was born and raised in Byron, Illinois, and graduated from Rockford Central High School in Rockford, Illinois. He played major league baseball from 1871 to 1878. Spalding set a trend when he started wearing a baseball glove. Read more
09 Sep 1910: Lloyd Wheaton Bowers, American lawyer and politician, United States Solicitor General (born 1859) Lloyd Wheaton Bowers was an American lawyer. Read more
09 Sep 1909: E. H. Harriman, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1848) Edward Henry Harriman was an American financier and railroad executive as well as one of the founders of the Harriman business dynasty. Read more
09 Sep 1907: Ernest Wilberforce, English bishop (born 1840) Ernest Roland Wilberforce was an Anglican clergyman and bishop. From 1882 to 1896 he was the first Anglican Bishop of Newcastle upon the diocese's creation, and from 1896 to 1907 he was Bishop of Chichester. Read more
09 Sep 1901: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator (born 1864) Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa, known as Toulouse-Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator. His immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris's Belle Époque in the late 19th century allowed him to produce popular works of art from decadent affairs. Read more
09 Sep 1898: Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet and critic (born 1842) Étienne Mallarmé, known professionally as Stéphane Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French Symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism. Read more
09 Sep 1893: Friedrich Traugott Kützing, German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist (born 1807) Friedrich Traugott Kützing was a German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist. Read more
09 Sep 1891: Jules Grévy, French politician, 4th President of the French Republic (born 1813) François Judith Paul Grévy, known as Jules Grévy, was a French lawyer and politician who served as President of France from 1879 to 1887. He was a leader of the Moderate Republicans, and given that his predecessors were monarchists who tried without success to restore the French monarchy, Grévy is considered the first real republican president of France. During Grévy's presidency from 1879 to 1887, according to David Bell, there was a disunity among his cabinets. Only one survived more than a year. Grévy paid attention chiefly to defense, internal order, and foreign relations. Critics argue that Grévy's confusing approach to appointments set a bad precedent for handling crises. Read more
09 Sep 1841: Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Swiss botanist, mycologist, and academic (born 1778) Augustin Pyramus de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched de Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at a herbarium. Within a couple of years de Candolle had established a new genus, and he went on to document hundreds of plant families and create a new natural plant classification system. Although de Candolle's main focus was botany, he also contributed to related fields such as phytogeography, agronomy, paleontology, medical botany, and economic botany. Read more
09 Sep 1834: James Weddell, Belgian-English sailor and navigator (born 1787) James Weddell was a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in February 1823 sailed to latitude of 74° 15′ S, a record 7.69 degrees or 532 statute miles south of the Antarctic Circle, and into a region of the Southern Ocean that later became known as the Weddell Sea. Read more
09 Sep 1815: John Singleton Copley, American-English colonial and painter (born 1738) John Singleton Copley was an American-born British painter active in both the Thirteen Colonies and England. He is believed to have been born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. After becoming well-established as a portrait painter of the wealthy in colonial New England, he moved to London in 1774, never returning to America. In London, he met considerable success as a portraitist for the next two decades, and also painted a number of large history paintings, which were innovative in their readiness to depict modern subjects and modern dress. His later years were less successful, and he died heavily in debt. He was father of John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst and half-brother of Henry Pelham, the American painter, engraver, and cartographer. Read more
09 Sep 1806: William Paterson, Irish-American judge and politician, 2nd Governor of New Jersey (born 1745) William Paterson was an American statesman, lawyer, jurist, and signer of the United States Constitution. He was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, the second governor of New Jersey, and a Founding Father of the United States. Read more

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