History of Today 14 September: Important Events, Births and Deaths

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Important Events on 14 September in History

• 14 Sep 2022: Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The Queen's coffin is taken from Buckingham Palace, placed on a gun carriage of The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery and moved in a procession to Westminster Hall for her lying in state over the next four days with the queue of mourners stretching for miles along the River Thames. Read more
• 14 Sep 2019: Yemen's Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities. Read more
• 14 Sep 2015: The first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016. Read more
• 14 Sep 2008: Aeroflot Flight 821, a Boeing 737-500, crashes into a section of the Trans-Siberian Railway while on approach to Perm International Airport, in Perm, Russia, killing all 88 people on board. Read more
• 14 Sep 2007: Prelude to the 2008 financial crisis: Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years. Read more
• 14 Sep 2003: In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union. Read more
• 14 Sep 2003: Bissau-Guinean President Kumba Ialá is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General Veríssimo Correia Seabra. Read more
• 14 Sep 2002: Total Linhas Aéreas Flight 5561 crashes near Paranapanema, Brazil, killing both pilots on board. Read more
• 14 Sep 2001: Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital. Read more
• 14 Sep 2000: Microsoft releases Windows Me. Read more
• 14 Sep 1999: Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations. Read more
• 14 Sep 1998: Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom. Read more
• 14 Sep 1997: Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India. Read more
• 14 Sep 1994: The rest of the Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike. Read more
• 14 Sep 1993: Lufthansa Flight 2904, an Airbus A320, crashes into an embankment after overshooting the runway at Okęcie International Airport (now Warsaw Chopin Airport), killing two people. Read more
• 14 Sep 1992: The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal. Read more
• 14 Sep 1989: The Standard Gravure shooting where Joseph T. Wesbecker, a 47-year-old pressman, killed eight people and injured 12 people at his former workplace, Standard Gravure, before committing suicide. Read more
• 14 Sep 1985: Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic. Read more
• 14 Sep 1984: Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean. Read more
• 14 Sep 1982: President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel is assassinated. Read more
• 14 Sep 1979: Afghan leader Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party. Read more
• 14 Sep 1975: The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI. Read more
• 14 Sep 1960: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded. Read more
• 14 Sep 1960: Congo Crisis: Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution. Read more
• 14 Sep 1958: The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere. Read more
• 14 Sep 1954: In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village. Read more
• 14 Sep 1948: The Indian Army captures the city of Aurangabad as part of Operation Polo. Read more
• 14 Sep 1944: World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces. Read more
• 14 Sep 1943: World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons. Read more
• 14 Sep 1940: Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing. Read more
• 14 Sep 1939: World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orzeł in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia. Read more
• 14 Sep 1936: Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaurès, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza. Read more
• 14 Sep 1917: The Russian Empire is formally replaced by the Russian Republic. Read more
• 14 Sep 1914: HMAS AE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, is lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Read more
• 14 Sep 1911: Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot by Dmitry Bogrov while attending a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Tsar Saltan at the Kiev Opera House, in the presence of Tsar Nicholas II. Read more
• 14 Sep 1901: U.S. president William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. Read more
• 14 Sep 1862: American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought. Read more
• 14 Sep 1846: Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court. Read more
• 14 Sep 1829: The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War. Read more
• 14 Sep 1814: Battle of Baltimore: The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner. Read more
• 14 Sep 1812: Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée enters Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city. Read more
• 14 Sep 1808: Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes at the Battle of Oravais. Read more

Famous Births on 14 September

• 14 Sep 2000: Han, South Korean rapper Han Ji-sung, known as Han, is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, and producer. He is a member of the South Korean boy band Stray Kids and its production unit 3Racha under JYP Entertainment. Read more
• 14 Sep 1997: Benjamin Ingrosso, Swedish singer and songwriter Benjamin Daniele Wahlgren Ingrosso is a Swedish singer, songwriter and record producer. As a child, he appeared in the leading role in several musicals, and in 2006 he won Lilla Melodifestivalen with the song "Hej Sofia". He won the celebrity dancing TV show Let's Dance 2014, and has competed twice in Melodifestivalen in 2017 and 2018 respectively. He won in 2018 and represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song "Dance You Off". Ingrosso has released five studio albums and hosted his own TV series, Benjamin's, on TV4. Read more
• 14 Sep 1997: Dominic Solanke, English footballer Dominic Ayodele Solanke-Mitchell is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the England national team. Read more
• 14 Sep 1996: Hugh Bernard, English cricketer Hugh Robert Bernard is an English former professional cricketer who has played for Kent County Cricket Club. He is a right-arm medium-fast pace bowler and a right-handed batsman. Bernard is a graduate of the Kent Cricket Academy and has featured in Kent's Second XI since 2014 as well as playing club cricket for Folkestone. In June 2015, Bernard signed his first professional contract with Kent. He made his first-class debut on 1 May 2016 against Glamorgan. Read more
• 14 Sep 1996: Myles Wright, English professional footballer Myles Harvey Wright is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Alfreton Town Read more
• 14 Sep 1995: Jevon Carter, American basketball player Leroy Jevon Carter is an American professional basketball player for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the West Virginia Mountaineers. A point guard for the Mountaineers, Carter was known as one of the top defensive players in college basketball, winning the NABC Defensive Player of the Year and the Lefty Driesell Award after both his junior and senior seasons, and winning the inaugural Naismith Defensive Player of the Year in his final season. Read more
• 14 Sep 1995: Deshaun Watson, American football player Derrick Deshaun Watson is an American professional football quarterback for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Clemson Tigers, leading the team to a national championship in 2016. Watson was selected in the first round of the 2017 NFL draft by the Houston Texans. Read more
• 14 Sep 1994: Brahim Darri, Dutch footballer Brahim Darri is a Dutch footballer who plays as a winger for UAE First Division League club Palm City. Darri was born in the Netherlands to parents of Moroccan descent. Besides the Netherlands, he has played in Turkey and Qatar. Read more
• 14 Sep 1994: Gary Harris, American basketball player Gary Harris Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Michigan State Spartans. Harris was selected by the Chicago Bulls with the 19th overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, subsequently traded to the Denver Nuggets. He has also played for the Orlando Magic and Milwaukee Bucks. Read more
• 14 Sep 1994: Daniel O'Shaughnessy, Finnish footballer Daniel Michael O'Shaughnessy is a Finnish former professional footballer who played as a defender. Read more
• 14 Sep 1994: Krasimir Stanoev, Bulgarian footballer Krasimir Stanoev is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays as a centre back or defensive midfielder for First League club Lokomotiv Sofia. Read more
• 14 Sep 1993: Brandon Brown, American race car driver Brandon Lee Brown is an American former professional stock car racing driver. He last competed full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving for several teams including the No. 68 Chevrolet Camaro for Brandonbilt Motorsports. Read more
• 14 Sep 1992: Connor Fields, American cyclist Connor Evan Fields is an American professional BMX racer. He represented the United States at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's BMX event and finished 7th overall. He represented the United States again at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's BMX event. He won the gold medal in Rio de Janeiro, and became the first American to win an Olympic BMX gold. Read more
• 14 Sep 1992: Cassie Sharpe, Canadian freestyle skier Cassie Sharpe is a Canadian freestyle skier. Sharpe became the Olympic champion in women's halfpipe after winning gold in Pyeongchang, South Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics. She won a silver medal at the 2015 World Championships in halfpipe in Kreischberg and won gold and bronze in superpipe at the Winter X Games in 2016 and 2018, respectively. Read more
• 14 Sep 1992: Zico, South Korean rapper Woo Ji-ho, known professionally as Zico (지코), is a South Korean rapper, record producer, and singer-songwriter. He debuted as the leader of the boy band Block B in 2011 and made his first solo release in 2014. Read more
• 14 Sep 1991: Dee Milliner, American football player DeMarcus Armon "Dee" Milliner is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the New York Jets in the first round of the 2013 NFL draft. He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, and was recognized as a unanimous All-American in 2012. Read more
• 14 Sep 1991: Nana, South Korean singer, actress and model Im Jin-ah, known professionally as Nana (나나), is a South Korean singer, actress, and model known for her work as a former group member of the South Korean girl group After School and its subgroups, Orange Caramel and After School Red. As an actress, Nana has starred in various television dramas such as Love Weaves Through a Millennium (2015), The Good Wife (2016), Kill It (2019), and Justice (2019). Read more
• 14 Sep 1991: Shayne Topp, American actor and Smosh cast member Shayne Robert Topp is an American YouTuber, comedian, actor, podcaster, and host. He is most known for starring in Dear Lemon Lima and his work on the YouTube sketch-comedy collective Smosh, of which he has been a cast member since 2015 and the co-host of its podcast Smosh Mouth (2023–present). He is also known for his roles as Shayne Zabo on the Disney Channel series So Random! (2011–2012), and as Matt Bradley in seasons 4–10 on the ABC series The Goldbergs (2017–2023). Read more
• 14 Sep 1990: Douglas Costa, Brazilian footballer Douglas Costa de Souza is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a winger for UAE First Division League club Al-Ittifaq. Read more
• 14 Sep 1990: Petar Filipović, German-born Croatian footballer Petar Filipović is a German professional football coach and a former defender who is an assistant coach with Austrian team LASK Amateure OÖ. Read more
• 14 Sep 1990: Belinda Hocking, Australian backstroke swimmer Belinda Hocking is a retired Australian backstroke swimmer. She is an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. Read more
• 14 Sep 1990: Cecilie Pedersen, Norwegian footballer Cecilie Pedersen is a Norwegian former footballer who played as a striker. She scored a notable goal against Iceland. She was also known for her high salary. Read more
• 14 Sep 1989: Jimmy Butler, American basketball player Jimmy Butler III is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "Jimmy Buckets", he is a six-time NBA All-Star, a five-time All-NBA Team member, and a five-time NBA All-Defensive Team member. He won a gold medal as a member of the 2016 U.S. Olympic team. Read more
• 14 Sep 1989: Tony Finau, American golfer Milton Pouha "Tony" Finau is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. Read more
• 14 Sep 1989: Jesse James, American actor Jesse James is an American retired actor. Read more
• 14 Sep 1989: Lee Jong-suk, South Korean actor and model Lee Jong-suk is a South Korean actor and model. He debuted in 2005 as a runway model and gained recognition as an actor with television series School 2013 (2012) and I Can Hear Your Voice (2013). He received further prominence with dramas Doctor Stranger (2014), Pinocchio (2014), W (2016), While You Were Sleeping (2017), and Big Mouth (2022). Read more
• 14 Sep 1989: Alex Killorn, Canadian ice hockey player Alexander Joseph Killorn is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a forward and alternate captain for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the third round, 77th overall, of the 2007 NHL entry draft. Killorn won back-to-back Stanley Cup titles with the Lightning in 2020 and 2021. Read more
• 14 Sep 1989: Jonathon Simmons, American basketball player Jonathon Calvin Simmons is an American professional basketball player who last played for Al Riyadi of the Lebanese Basketball League. He played one season of college basketball for the Houston Cougars before a stint in the semi-professional American Basketball League (ABL) led to him joining the NBA D-League's Austin Toros in 2013. Following two seasons in the D-League, Simmons signed with the San Antonio Spurs after an impressive 2015 NBA Summer League. Read more
• 14 Sep 1989: Miriam Zetter, Mexican ten-pin bowler Miram Aseret Zetter Velazco is a Mexican ten-pin bowler. Read more
• 14 Sep 1988: Martin Fourcade, French biathlete Martin Fourcade is a French retired biathlete and military officer. He is a six-time Olympic champion, a thirteen-time World Champion and a seven-time winner of the Overall World Cup. As of February 2026, he is the second most successful French Winter Olympian of all time after Quentin Fillon Maillet. Fourcade is the all-time biathlon record holder of overall World Cup titles with seven big crystal globes and he's also the all-time record holder of the most consecutive Major Championships titles with at least one non-team gold medal in every major championship from 2011 to 2018. Read more
• 14 Sep 1988: Diogo Salomão, Portuguese footballer Diogo Ferreira Salomão is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a winger. Read more
• 14 Sep 1987: Michael Crabtree, American football player Michael Alex Crabtree Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas Tech Red Raiders, twice earning unanimous All-American honors. He was selected 10th overall by the San Francisco 49ers in the 2009 NFL draft. Crabtree was a member of the 49ers for six seasons and spent the remainder of his career with the Oakland Raiders, Baltimore Ravens, and Arizona Cardinals. Read more
• 14 Sep 1987: Tinchy Stryder, Ghanaian-English rapper and producer Kwasi Esono Danquah III, better known by his stage name Tinchy Stryder, is a Ghanaian rapper, singer, songwriter, entrepreneur and investor. Read more
• 14 Sep 1986: David Desharnais, Canadian ice hockey player David Kevin Denis Desharnais is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens, Edmonton Oilers and New York Rangers. He also played one season with Avangard Omsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) and his last four seasons of professional hockey with HC Fribourg-Gottéron of the National League (NL). Read more
• 14 Sep 1986: Jonathan Monaghan, American director, producer, and screenwriter Jonathan Monaghan is a contemporary visual artist who creates sculptures, prints, and video art with 3D modeling and animation software. Read more
• 14 Sep 1986: Steven Naismith, Scottish footballer Steven John Naismith is a Scottish professional football coach and former player who is currently assistant manager to Tony Docherty at the Scotland national U21 team. Read more
• 14 Sep 1986: Barış Özbek, German-Turkish footballer Barış Özbek is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Read more
• 14 Sep 1986: Alan Sheehan, Irish footballer Alan Michael Anthony Sheehan is an Irish professional football coach and former player who played as a left back. He was recently head coach of EFL Championship club Swansea City. Read more
• 14 Sep 1986: Ai Takahashi, Japanese singer and actress Ai Takahashi is a Japanese singer and actress. She joined the girl group Morning Musume as a 5th generation member and became one of the group's lead vocalists. She became Morning Musume's leader in 2007, as well as the leader of their musical collective, Hello! Project, in 2009. During her time in Morning Musume, Takahashi was also a member of sub-groups within Hello! Project, such as Mini-Moni, High-King, and several Hello! Project Shuffle Units. In 2011, she graduated from Morning Musume and Hello! Project. Read more
• 14 Sep 1986: Reggie Williams, American basketball player Reginald Leon Williams II is an American former professional basketball player who played seven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for five teams. He played college basketball for the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) where he is the school's all-time leading scorer and led the country in scoring twice. Read more
• 14 Sep 1985: Alex Clare, English singer and songwriter Alexander George Clare is an English singer and songwriter. His debut album, The Lateness of the Hour, was released in the UK on 8 July 2011 on Island Records and was produced by Mike Spencer and Major Lazer. Read more
• 14 Sep 1985: Paolo Gregoletto, American bass player and songwriter Paolo Francesco Gregoletto is an American musician best known as the bassist of heavy metal band Trivium. Read more
• 14 Sep 1985: Trevis Smith, American football player Trevis Smith is a former football linebacker who played seven years with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Smith was formerly a linebacker for the University of Alabama. Read more
• 14 Sep 1985: Aya Ueto, Japanese actress and singer Aya Ueto is a Japanese actress, singer and television personality. In 1997, Ueto participated in the seventh Japan Bishōjo Contest, where she won the special jury prize. Soon thereafter, Ueto joined the talent agency Oscar Promotion and began taking singing, dancing and acting lessons. In 1999, she formed the girl group Z-1 with three fellow Japan Bishōjo Contest participants. The group disbanded in 2002 and later that year, Ueto signed with Pony Canyon and released "Pureness", her debut single as a lead artist. She has since released five studio albums which have spawned ten Oricon top-ten singles. Read more
• 14 Sep 1985: Delmon Young, American baseball player Delmon Damarcus Young is an American former professional baseball outfielder and designated hitter. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays/Rays, Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Phillies, and Baltimore Orioles. He is the younger brother of former major league outfielder and first baseman Dmitri Young. He was the first-overall pick in the 2003 MLB draft. Read more
• 14 Sep 1984: Ayushmann Khurrana, Indian actor, singer and anchor Ayushmann Khurrana is an Indian actor and singer who works in Hindi films. Known for his portrayals of ordinary men often battling social norms, he is the recipient of several awards, including a National Film Award and four Filmfare Awards. He has appeared in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list of 2013 and 2019, and Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2020. Read more
• 14 Sep 1983: Arash Borhani, Iranian footballer Arash Borhani is a retired Iranian football player and coach. He is the all-time top goal scorer of Esteghlal and also the second all-time top goal scorer in Iran's Persian Gulf Pro League. He was the top goal scorer of 2008–09 Iran's Premier Football League. He was also a member of the Iran national football team. Borhani won a bronze medal in 2006 Asian Games with Iran national under-23 football team. Read more
• 14 Sep 1983: Josh Outman, American baseball player Joshua Stephen Outman is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics, Colorado Rockies (2012-2013), Cleveland Indians (2014), and New York Yankees (2014). Read more
• 14 Sep 1983: Frostee Rucker, American football player Frostee Lynn Rucker is an American former professional football player who was a defensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the USC Trojans, and was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the third round of the 2006 NFL draft. Rucker has also played for the Cleveland Browns, Arizona Cardinals, and Oakland Raiders. Read more
• 14 Sep 1983: Amy Winehouse, British singer-songwriter, musician, and businesswoman (died 2011) Amy Jade Winehouse was a British singer-songwriter, musician, and businesswoman. She is known for her distinctive contralto vocals, expressive and autobiographical songwriting, and eclectic blend of genres such as soul, rhythm and blues, and jazz. Her music, along with her fashion and highly publicised personal life, made her an influential figure in popular culture. Read more
• 14 Sep 1982: SoShy, French-American singer-songwriter SoShy, is a French singer, songwriter, actress and DJ. Read more
• 14 Sep 1982: Petr Průcha, Czech ice hockey player Petr Průcha is a Czech former professional ice hockey forward who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Rangers and the Phoenix Coyotes. Read more
• 14 Sep 1981: Miyavi, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Takamasa Ishihara , better known by his stage name MIYAVI, is a Japanese guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor known for his finger-slapping style of playing a guitar. Read more
• 14 Sep 1981: Stefan Reisinger, German footballer Stefan Reisinger is a German football manager and former player. Read more
• 14 Sep 1981: Yumi Adachi, Japanese actress and singer Yumi Adachi is a Japanese actress and singer. Read more
• 14 Sep 1980: Ayọ, German singer-songwriter and actress Joy Olasunmibo Ogunmakin, known professionally as Ayọ, is a German singer and actress. Her stage name derives from the Yoruba translation of her given name, Joy. Read more
• 14 Sep 1980: Gareth Maybin, Northern Irish professional golfer Gareth Maybin is a Northern Irish professional golfer. Read more
• 14 Sep 1979: Ivica Olić, Croatian footballer Ivica Olić is a Croatian professional football manager and former player who is an assistant coach of the Croatia national team. Read more
• 14 Sep 1979: Stefan Stam, Dutch footballer Stefan Stam is a former Dutch footballer who played as a centre back. His previous clubs include AZ, PSV, Eindhoven, AFC, Oldham Athletic, Yeovil Town, Hereford United, FC Den Bosch and Katwijk. Read more
• 14 Sep 1978: Ben Cohen, English rugby union player Ben Christopher Cohen, is an English activist and former rugby player. He began his professional career with Northampton Saints in 1996; in 2007 he moved to France to represent Brive before returning to England two years later to join Sale Sharks. Read more
• 14 Sep 1978: Ron DeSantis, American politician, 46th Governor of Florida Ronald Dion DeSantis is an American politician, attorney, and former naval officer serving as the 46th governor of Florida since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 2013 to 2018 as the U.S. representative from Florida's 6th congressional district. DeSantis was a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, withdrawing his candidacy in January 2024. Read more
• 14 Sep 1978: Carmen Kass, Estonian model and actress Carmen Kass is an Estonian model, actress, and fashion journalist. The American edition of Vogue declared her and Gisele Bündchen the two supermodels of the moment on its January 2000 cover. In 2026, she was appointed editor-in-chief of Elle Baltic (Estonia). Read more
• 14 Sep 1978: Danielle Peck, American singer-songwriter Danielle Marie Peck is an American country music artist. Signed to the independent Big Machine Records label in 2005, Peck released her self-titled debut album, which produced the Top 30 country hits "I Don't", "Findin' a Good Man", and "Isn't That Everything". A fourth single, "Bad for Me", charted in mid-2007. Peck is now heard as a host on "Y2Kountry," a country music station on SiriusXM radio. Read more
• 14 Sep 1977: Mattias Agabus, Estonian architect Mattias Agabus is an Estonian architect. He studied in the Estonian Academy of Arts in the department of architecture and city planning, graduating from the academy in 2001. Mattias Agabus is a member of the Union of Estonian Architects. Read more
• 14 Sep 1977: Malik Bendjelloul, Swedish director and producer (died 2014) Malik Bendjelloul was a Swedish documentary filmmaker, journalist and actor. He directed the 2012 documentary Searching for Sugar Man, which won an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. Read more
• 14 Sep 1977: Miyu Matsuki, Japanese voice actress and singer (died 2015) Mieko Matsuki , better known by her stage name Miyu Matsuki , was a Japanese voice actress and singer from Kure, Hiroshima, best known for her work in anime. She was affiliated with 81 Produce at the time of her death. Read more
• 14 Sep 1976: Agustín Calleri, Argentinian tennis player Agustín Calleri is a retired professional male tennis player from Argentina. His nickname is Gordo which means Fat in Spanish. He is known as a hard-hitter and he prefers playing on clay. Read more
• 14 Sep 1976: Kevin Lyttle, Vincentian soca artist Lescott Kevin Lyttle Coombs is a Vincentian soca singer. He is best known for his 2003 hit single "Turn Me On", which peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. Read more
• 14 Sep 1974: Chad Bradford, American baseball player Chadwick Lee Bradford is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) on the Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets, Baltimore Orioles, and Tampa Bay Rays between 1998 and 2009. Read more
• 14 Sep 1974: Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan runner Hicham El Guerrouj is a retired Moroccan middle-distance runner who is the current world record holder in the 1500 metres. He formerly held the world records in the 2000 metres and mile. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, he became the first man since Paavo Nurmi to win gold medals in both the 1500 m and 5000 metres at the same Olympic Games. Read more
• 14 Sep 1974: Mattias Marklund, Swedish guitarist Mattias Marklund is a guitarist who plays in Vintersorg, Casket Casey, The Derelict Dead, and TME. He also did guest guitar work for Vintersorg bandmate, Andreas Hedlund's progressive rock band, Waterclime. Read more
• 14 Sep 1974: Sunday Oliseh, Nigerian footballer and manager Sunday Ogochukwu Oliseh is a Nigerian football manager and former footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. Physical yet technically gifted, he played for top European clubs including Ajax, Borussia Dortmund and Juventus. Read more
• 14 Sep 1974: Helgi Sigurðsson, Icelandic footballer Helgi Sigurðsson is an Icelandic former professional footballer and assistant coach at Fram. A forward, he played for clubs in Iceland, Germany, Norway, Greece, and Denmark and represented Iceland at international level. Read more
• 14 Sep 1974: Patrick van Balkom, Dutch sprinter Patrick Petrus Marinus van Balkom is a former Dutch sprinter. Together with Caimin Douglas, Timothy Beck and Troy Douglas he won a bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics. With this same team he also participated in the 4 x 100 meters relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics, but they were eliminated in the series due to a mistake in the changing area and did not qualify for the final. Read more
• 14 Sep 1973: Tony Bui, Vietnamese director, producer, and screenwriter Tony Bui is a Vietnamese-born American independent film director in the U.S., most famous for his 1999 film Three Seasons, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and became the first film to win both an Audience Award and a Grand Jury Prize. The film was based on Bui's own experiences dealing with the changing landscape and people of his ancestral home of Vietnam. The film starred Harvey Keitel. Read more
• 14 Sep 1973: Terrell Fletcher, American football player Terrell Antoine Fletcher is an American former professional football player who spent his entire eight-year career as a running back for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he played football as running back for the Wisconsin Badgers, the 1994 Rose Bowl champions. In 1995, Fletcher was named MVP in the Hall of Fame Outback Bowl. With the Chargers, he rushed for 1,871 yards and gained 1,943 yards receiving, leading all Charger running backs in receptions for five consecutive seasons, from 1996 to 2000. He is the older brother of former Indianapolis Colts tight end Bryan Fletcher. On November 4, 2001, he caught Drew Brees's first completion. Read more
• 14 Sep 1973: Linvoy Primus, English footballer Linvoy Stephen Primus is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender. Read more
• 14 Sep 1973: Mike Ward, Canadian comedian and actor Michael John Ward is a Canadian comedian. He performs comedy in both French and English. Read more
• 14 Sep 1972: Notah Begay III, American golfer Notah Ryan Begay III is an American professional golfer. He is one of the few Native American golfers to have played in the PGA Tour. Since 2013, Begay has served as an analyst with the Golf Channel and NBC Sports. Read more
• 14 Sep 1972: David Bell, American baseball player and coach David Michael Bell is an American former professional baseball infielder, coach, and manager who most recently managed the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB). Over the course of his 12-year MLB playing career, Bell appeared at all four infield positions while playing for the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Cardinals, Seattle Mariners, San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, and Milwaukee Brewers, but played primarily at third and second. Bell made his MLB debut for the Indians in 1995. Read more
• 14 Sep 1971: Jeff Loomis, American guitarist and songwriter Jeff Loomis is an American musician, best known for his role as lead guitarist in the progressive metal band Nevermore as well as brief tenures in its precursor, Sanctuary. In 2014, he joined Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, and in 2021 he joined Graham Bonnet's Alcatrazz as well. He left Arch Enemy in 2023. As a solo artist he has released two albums and one EP. Read more
• 14 Sep 1971: Andre Matos, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2019) Andre Coelho Matos was a Brazilian singer and musician. He was involved in the heavy metal bands Viper, Angra, Shaman and Symfonia. Since 2006, Matos had been dedicating his time to his solo career. In 2012, he was ranked No. 77 at the list of 100 Greatest Voices of Brazilian Music by Rolling Stone Brasil. Read more
• 14 Sep 1971: Christopher McCulloch, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter Christopher McCulloch, also known by the pseudonym Jackson Publick, is an American storyboard artist, writer, director, producer, and voice actor. He is known for his work on several Tick properties and for the animated television series The Venture Bros. He and Doc Hammer are the Venture Bros. co-creators, writers, editors, and directors, producing the show through their animation company Astro-Base Go. McCulloch voices over 20 characters in the series, including Hank Venture, The Monarch, and Sergeant Hatred. Read more
• 14 Sep 1970: Francesco Casagrande, Italian cyclist Francesco Casagrande is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist. Casagrande was a professional cyclist between 1992 and 2005. Read more
• 14 Sep 1970: Satoshi Kojima, Japanese wrestler Satoshi Kojima is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). Read more
• 14 Sep 1970: Jason Martin, Australian rugby league player, singer, and guitarist Jason Martin is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s. Primarily a halfback, he played for the North Sydney Bears, Newcastle Knights and the North Queensland Cowboys before moving to Paris Saint-Germain in the Super League. Read more
• 14 Sep 1970: Craig Montoya, American singer-songwriter and bass player Craig Aloysius Montoya is an American musician. He is best known as the bassist of alternative rock band Everclear during the band's popularity in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He continued to perform with other small acts and tribute bands following his departure from Everclear in the mid-2000s. Read more
• 14 Sep 1970: Mark Webber, English guitarist Mark Andrew Webber is an English rock guitarist. Read more
• 14 Sep 1969: Denis Betts, English rugby league player and coach Denis Charles Betts is an English rugby league coach and former rugby league footballer. He is the head-coach of Wigan Warriors Women and a former assistant coach of the England national team. Read more
• 14 Sep 1969: Konstandinos Koukodimos, Australian-Greek long jumper and politician Konstandinos "Kostas" Koukodimos is a retired Greek long jumper and New Democracy politician, who served as the mayor of Katerini, Macedonia from 2019 to 2023. He was named the 1991 Greek Male Athlete of the Year. His family has hails from Agios Dimitrios, Pieria. Read more
• 14 Sep 1968: Grant Shapps, English politician Sir Grant Shapps is a British politician who served in various cabinet positions under Prime Ministers David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak between 2012 and 2024, lastly as Secretary of State for Defence from August 2023 to July 2024. Shapps served as Conservative Party Co-chairman from 2010 to 2012 under Cameron, Transport Secretary from 2019 to 2022 under Johnson, and briefly as Home Secretary in 2022 under Truss. Under Sunak, he served as Business Secretary, Energy Secretary and later Defence Secretary. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Welwyn Hatfield from 2005 to 2024. Read more
• 14 Sep 1967: Jens Lien, Norwegian director, producer, and screenwriter Jens Lien is a Norwegian film director. He graduated from the London International Film School in 1993. Read more
• 14 Sep 1967: John Power, English singer-songwriter and guitarist John Timothy Power is an Irish-English singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is the frontman of the Britpop band Cast, and was the bassist and backing vocalist for the La's from 1986 to 1991. Following the dissolution of Cast in 2001, Power embarked on a solo career. Read more
• 14 Sep 1966: Iztok Puc, Croatian-Slovenian handball player (died 2011) Iztok Puc was a Croatian-Slovenian handball player, who was one of the world's top players of the 1980s and 1990s. During his career he played professionally for Borac Banja Luka, Zagreb, Celje and Prule 67. He won a total of 18 domestic trophies. He has won the elite EHF Champions League in 1992 and 1993, both times with Zagreb. He is one of very few handball players who represented three different countries at the Summer Olympics, winning bronze with Yugoslavia in 1988 and gold with Croatia in 1996. In 2009, he was named the best overall player in the history of Slovenian handball. After his death an award named in his honour was introduced and is awarded annually to the most promising young handball players in Slovenia and Croatia, given alternately one year to Slovenian and another year to Croatian player. Read more
• 14 Sep 1966: Aamer Sohail, Pakistani cricketer and politician Mohammad Aamer Sohail Ali is a Pakistani cricket commentator and former cricketer. In a playing career that spanned ten years, Sohail played in 195 first-class and 261 List A Limited Overs matches, including 47 Test matches and 156 One Day Internationals for Pakistan. He was a part of the Pakistani squad which won the 1992 Cricket World Cup. Read more
• 14 Sep 1965: Emily Bell, English journalist and academic Emily Jane Bell is a British academic and journalist. She is Professor of Professional Practice at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, part of the CSJ, in New York City. Before taking up her academic post at the Tow Center in 2010, Bell had worked for The Guardian and Observer newspapers since 1990. Read more
• 14 Sep 1965: Kevin O'Hare, English ballet dancer and director Kevin Patrick O'Hare, CBE, is a British retired ballet dancer and current Director of The Royal Ballet. He succeeded Monica Mason in the role in 2012. Read more
• 14 Sep 1963: Robin Singh, Trinidadian-Indian cricketer and coach Rabindra Ramanarayan "Robin" Singh is an Indian former cricketer and cricket coach. He represented India in one Test and 136 ODIs between 1989 and 2001. An all-rounder, he was a left-handed middle-order batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler. He has coached the Indian Premier League's Mumbai Indians since 2010 and the Caribbean Premier League's Barbados Tridents since 2013. He has also coached the Deccan Chargers in the IPL's inaugural year. Read more
• 14 Sep 1962: Robert Herjavec, Croatian-Canadian businessman Robert Herjavec is a Croatian-Canadian businessman, investor, television personality, and cybersecurity expert. Read more
• 14 Sep 1962: Tom Kurvers, American ice hockey player and sportscaster (died 2021) Thomas James Kurvers was an American professional ice hockey defenseman in the National Hockey League (NHL). He spent eleven seasons in the NHL between 1984 and 1995. He won the 1984 Hobey Baker award as the best collegiate ice hockey player, and he won the Stanley Cup with the Montreal Canadiens in 1986. After his playing career, he was an executive for the Phoenix Coyotes, Tampa Bay Lightning and Minnesota Wild. Read more
• 14 Sep 1962: Nick Botterill, British business man Nicholas Byron Botterill is a British businessman, company director, and Conservative politician. Read more
• 14 Sep 1962: Bonnie Jo Campbell, American novelist and short story writer Bonnie Jo Campbell is an American novelist and short story writer. Her most recent work is The Waters, published with W. W. Norton and Company. Read more
• 14 Sep 1961: Freeman Mbowe, Tanzanian politician Freeman Aikaeli Mbowe is a Tanzanian politician and former chairman of Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo. Read more
• 14 Sep 1961: Wendy Thomas, American businesswoman Melinda Lou "Wendy" Thomas-Morse is the daughter of American businessman Dave Thomas, the founder of the fast food brand Wendy's. She is the namesake and mascot of the brand. She uses the name Wendy Thomas in her role as a spokesperson for Wendy's. Read more
• 14 Sep 1960: Ronald Lengkeek, Dutch footballer Ronald Lengkeek is a Dutch former footballer who played all of his career for Sparta Rotterdam. Read more
• 14 Sep 1960: Callum Keith Rennie, English-Canadian actor and producer Callum Keith Rennie is a British and Canadian actor. His breakthrough role was as punk rocker Billy Tallent in the music mockumentary Hard Core Logo (1996), followed by a starring role as Det. Stanley Raymond Kowalski on the third and fourth seasons of the television series Due South (1997–99). He then won a Genie Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in the Don McKellar film Last Night (1998). Read more
• 14 Sep 1958: Paul Clark, English footballer and manager Paul Peterson Clark is an English former professional footballer. His clubs included Southend United, Brighton & Hove Albion and Gillingham. Read more
• 14 Sep 1958: Jeff Crowe, New Zealand cricketer, referee, and manager Jeffrey John Crowe is a former New Zealand cricketer. He played Test and One Day International cricket for New Zealand from 1983 to 1990, and first-class cricket for South Australia and then Auckland. Read more
• 14 Sep 1958: Arlindo Cruz, Brazilian singer-songwriter Arlindo Domingos da Cruz Filho OMC was a Brazilian musician and songwriter, working in the genre of samba and pagode. Cruz took part in the most important formation of Grupo Fundo de Quintal, and was considered one of the most important figures of the pagode movement. Read more
• 14 Sep 1958: Billy Abercromby, Scottish footballer (died 2024) William Abercromby was a Scottish footballer who played as a midfielder. Read more
• 14 Sep 1957: Tim Wallach, American baseball player and coach Timothy Charles Wallach, nicknamed "Eli", is an American former professional baseball player and coach. He played seventeen seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a third baseman, most notably for the Montreal Expos from 1980 to 1992. A five-time All-Star, Wallach excelled as an offensive and as a defensive player, winning 2 Silver Slugger Awards and 3 Gold Glove Awards. In addition to the Expos, he also played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and California Angels and coached for the Dodgers and Miami Marlins. Read more
• 14 Sep 1957: Kepler Wessels, South African cricketer, coach, and sportscaster Kepler Christoffel Wessels is a South African-Australian cricket commentator and former cricketer who captained South Africa after playing 24 Tests for Australia. Since retiring he has been a lawn bowls competitor. Read more
• 14 Sep 1956: Paul Allott, English cricketer and sportscaster Paul John Walter Allott is a former English cricketer who played county cricket for Lancashire, Minor Counties cricket for Staffordshire and first-class cricket in New Zealand for Wellington, as well as thirteen Test match appearances and thirteen One Day International appearances for England. Read more
• 14 Sep 1956: Kostas Karamanlis, Greek lawyer and politician, 181st Prime Minister of Greece Konstantinos Alexandrou Karamanlis, commonly known as Kostas Karamanlis, is a Greek former politician who served as prime minister of Greece from 2004 to 2009. He was also the president of the centre-right New Democracy party, founded by his uncle Konstantinos Karamanlis, from 1997 to 2009, and member of the Hellenic Parliament from 1989 to 2023. Read more
• 14 Sep 1956: Nathalie Roussel, French actress Nathalie Roussel is a French actress of stage, television and film. She is best known for her role in the 1991 films My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle. Read more
• 14 Sep 1956: Ray Wilkins, English footballer and manager (died 2018) Raymond Colin Wilkins was an English football player and coach. Read more
• 14 Sep 1956: Lefteris Zagoritis, Greek lawyer and politician Lefteris Zagoritis is a Greek lawyer, politician and former Secretary General of New Democracy. As of 19 September 2015 he is serving as Hellenic Consumers' Ombudsman. Read more
• 14 Sep 1955: Geraldine Brooks, Australian-American novelist and journalist Geraldine Brooks is an Australian-American journalist and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 2005 novel March. Read more
• 14 Sep 1955: William Jackson, Scottish harp player and composer William Jackson is a Scottish harpist and composer. Read more
• 14 Sep 1955: Edu Manzano, American-Filipino actor and politician Eduardo Luis "Edu" Barrios Manzano is a Filipino actor, television presenter, and politician. He hosted the game shows The Weakest Link, Pilipinas, Game KNB?, 1 vs. 100, Asar Talo Lahat Panalo!, and Game 'N Go. Read more
• 14 Sep 1955: Pope Leo XIV Pope Leo XIV is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City. Read more
• 14 Sep 1954: Barry Cowsill, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (died 2005) Barry Steven Cowsill was an American musician, songwriter and producer. He was the bassist of the musical group The Cowsills, who had three top-10 singles in the late 1960s. Read more
• 14 Sep 1954: David Wojnarowicz, American painter and photographer (died 1992) David Michael Wojnarowicz was an American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, songwriter/recording artist, and AIDS activist prominent in the East Village art scene. He incorporated personal narratives influenced by his struggle with AIDS as well as his political activism in his art until his death from the disease in 1992. Read more
• 14 Sep 1953: Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (died 1998) Thomas Henry Corra, better known as Tom Cora, was an American cellist and composer, best known for his improvisational performances in the field of experimental jazz and rock. He recorded with John Zorn, Butch Morris, and the Ex, and was a member of Curlew, Third Person and Skeleton Crew. Read more
• 14 Sep 1953: Judy Playfair, Australian swimmer Judith White Playfair is an Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1960s, who won a silver medal in the 4×100-metre medley relay at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Read more
• 14 Sep 1951: Volodymyr Melnykov, Ukrainian poet, writer, songwriter and composer Volodymyr Melnykov is a Ukrainian poet, writer, songwriter, author of lyrics and music for songs, inventor, mathematician, composer and public figure, Merited Figure of Arts of Ukraine. Read more
• 14 Sep 1951: Joe McDonnell, Provisional Irish Republican Army, died on hunger strike (died 1981) Joseph McDonnell was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died during the 1981 Irish hunger strike. Read more
• 14 Sep 1950: Paul Kossoff, English guitarist and songwriter (died 1976) Paul Francis Kossoff was an English guitarist, best known as the co-founder and guitarist of the rock band Free. In 2010, he was ranked number 51 in Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Read more
• 14 Sep 1950: Masami Kuwashima, Japanese race car driver Masami Kuwashima is a former racing driver from Japan. Read more
• 14 Sep 1950: Mike Nifong, American lawyer and politician Michael Byron Nifong is a former American attorney who was disbarred after serving as the Durham County District Attorney in North Carolina. He was removed from this position, disbarred, and briefly jailed following court findings concerning his conduct in the Duke lacrosse rape hoax. Among other wrongdoings, he was found to have conspired with the DNA lab director to withhold exculpatory DNA evidence that would have exonerated the defendants. Read more
• 14 Sep 1950: John Steptoe, American author and illustrator (died 1989) John Steptoe was an author and illustrator children's books dealing with aspects of the African-American experience. He is best known for writing Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters (1987), which is noted for its presentation of African culture. Read more
• 14 Sep 1949: Steve Gaines, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1977) Steven Earl Gaines was an American musician. He is best known as a guitarist and backing vocalist with rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1976 until his death in the October 1977 airplane crash that claimed other band members and crew. His older sister Cassie Gaines, a backup vocalist with the band, also died in the crash. Read more
• 14 Sep 1949: Ed King, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2018) Edward Calhoun King was an American musician. He was a guitarist for the psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock and guitarist and bassist for the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1972 to 1975, and again from 1987 to 1996. Read more
• 14 Sep 1949: Tommy Seebach, Danish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (died 2003) Tommy Seebach, born Tommy Seebach Mortensen in Copenhagen, Denmark, was a popular Danish singer, composer, organist, pianist and producer. He is best known as front man of Sir Henry and his Butlers and for numerous contributions to the Danish qualifier for the Eurovision Song Contest, the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix, which he won three times. He was the father of songwriter/producer Nicolai Seebach and singer/songwriter/producer Rasmus Seebach. Read more
• 14 Sep 1949: Fred "Sonic" Smith, American guitarist and songwriter (died 1994) Frederick Dewey Smith, known professionally as Fred "Sonic" Smith, was an American guitarist and member of the rock band MC5. He married and raised two children with poet and fellow rock musician Patti Smith. The couple also collaborated musically. Read more
• 14 Sep 1949: Eikichi Yazawa, Japanese singer-songwriter Eikichi Yazawa is a Japanese singer and songwriter. He is the father of singer Yoko Yazawa. He has been nicknamed as "Ei-chan" (永ちゃん), "Boss" and "The King of Rock". Read more
• 14 Sep 1948: Marc Reisner, American environmentalist and author (died 2000) Marc Reisner was an American environmentalist and writer best known for his book Cadillac Desert, a history of water management in the American West. Read more
• 14 Sep 1947: Sam Neill, New Zealand actor (died 2026) Sir Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill was a New Zealand actor. Known as a leading man in film and television, he received nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours for services as an actor. Read more
• 14 Sep 1946: Pete Agnew, Scottish rock bassist and singer Nazareth are a Scottish hard rock band formed in Dunfermline in 1968 that had many hit singles and albums in Canada, the United Kingdom, and a number of other European countries beginning in the early 1970s. The breadth of their popularity expanded internationally, including in the United States, with their 1975 album Hair of the Dog, which featured their hits "Hair of the Dog" and a cover of the ballad "Love Hurts". They have continued to record and tour internationally for more than 50 years. Read more
• 14 Sep 1946: Jim Angle, American soldier and journalist (died 2022) James Leslie Angle II, known as Jim Angle, was an American journalist and television reporter for Fox News and ABC News. He was part of Fox News' inaugural reporting lineup when the channel was established in 1996. Read more
• 14 Sep 1946: Wolfgang Sühnholz, German-American soccer player and coach (died 2019) Wolfgang Sühnholz was a German-American soccer coach and former player. He won in the 1971–72 Bundesliga with Bayern Munich and in 1976 the North-American Soccer Bowl with Toronto Metros-Croatia. Later he settled in the United States and worked as a coach. Read more
• 14 Sep 1946: Kjell Gjerseth, Norwegian novelist and journalist (died 2025) Kjell Gjerseth was a Norwegian political activist, novelist and journalist, a recipient of the Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris and the Narvesen Prize. Read more
• 14 Sep 1945: Martin Tyler, English sportscaster Martin Tyler is an English football commentator and coach. He worked as a commentator for Sky Sports from 1990 to 2023, covering the Premier League and UEFA Champions League, as well as other domestic and international competitions. Tyler had previously commentated for ITV in the 1970s and 1980s. He provided his voice to the football video game series FIFA from 2005 until 2019. In 2003, he was voted the FA Premier League Commentator of the Decade. Since 2005, Tyler has worked as a coach for a number of teams managed by Alan Dowson. Read more
• 14 Sep 1944: Rowena Morrill, American artist (died 2021) Rowena A. Morrill, also credited as Rowena and Rowina Morril, was an American artist known for her science-fiction and fantasy illustration, and is credited as one of the first female artists to impact paperback cover illustration. Her notable artist monographs included The Fantastic Art of Rowena, Imagine, Imagination, and The Art of Rowena and her work has also been included in a variety of anthologies including Tomorrow and Beyond and Infinite Worlds. Read more
• 14 Sep 1944: Günter Netzer, German footballer and manager Günter Theodor Netzer is a German former professional football player, executive and pundit. He achieved great success in Germany with Borussia Mönchengladbach in the early 1970s and, after moving to Spain in 1973, with Real Madrid. A technically gifted playmaker, Netzer played as an attacking midfielder or as a deep-lying playmaker and is considered one of the greatest midfielders and passers in the game's history. He was voted German Footballer of the Year twice, in 1972 and 1973. Read more
• 14 Sep 1943: Irwin Goodman, Finnish singer-composer and guitarist (died 1991) Antti Yrjö Hammarberg, professionally known as Irwin Goodman, was a Finnish rock and folk singer. He started as a protest song singer in the folk boom of the mid-1960s; his humorous songs, often mocking the authorities, became favorites of the Finnish people; Goodman singalike contests are still held by some pubs for entertainment. Read more
• 14 Sep 1943: Marcos Valle, Brazilian singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer Marcos Kostenbader Valle is a Brazilian singer-songwriter. He has produced works in many musical styles, including bossa nova, samba, and fusions of rock, soul, jazz, and dance music with Brazilian styles. Valle is credited for popularizing bossa nova in the 1960s. Read more
• 14 Sep 1942: Oliver Lake, American saxophonist, flute player, and composer Oliver Lake is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, poet, and visual artist. He is known mainly for alto saxophone, but he also performs on soprano and flute. During the 1960s, Lake worked with the Black Artists Group in St. Louis. In 1977, he founded the World Saxophone Quartet with David Murray, Julius Hemphill, and Hamiet Bluiett. Lake worked in the group Trio 3 with Reggie Workman and Andrew Cyrille. Lake has appeared on more than 80 albums as a bandleader, co-leader, and side musician. He is the father of drummer Gene Lake. Lake has been a resident of Montclair, New Jersey. Read more
• 14 Sep 1942: Roger Lyons, English trade union leader Roger Lyons was the General Secretary of the MSF trade union from 1992 and re-elected leader of the union in 1997. When the union merged with the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union to form Amicus in 2002 he subsequently became one of the Joint General Secretaries of Amicus. Read more
• 14 Sep 1942: Bernard MacLaverty, Irish author, playwright, and screenwriter Bernard MacLaverty is a Northern Irish fiction writer and novelist. His novels include Cal and Grace Notes. He has written five books of short stories. Read more
• 14 Sep 1941: Bruce Hyde, American actor and academic (died 2015) Bruce Hyde was an American educator and actor. He was professor of communication studies at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. His academic work mainly focused on ontology, specifically ontological approach to education, Martin Heidegger's contribution to communication studies, and the study of ontological rhetoric. Read more
• 14 Sep 1941: Ian Kennedy, English lawyer and academic Sir Ian McColl Kennedy is a British academic lawyer who has specialised in the law and ethics of health. He was appointed to chair the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority in 2009. Read more
• 14 Sep 1941: Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, American civil rights activist Joan Trumpauer Mulholland is an American civil rights activist who was active in the 1960s. She was one of the Freedom Riders who was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1961, and was confined for two months in the Maximum Security Unit of the Mississippi State Penitentiary. The following year she was the first white student to enroll at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi, and served as the local secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Read more
• 14 Sep 1941: Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan drummer, composer, and bandleader (died 2020) Alberto Naranjo [nah-rahn'-ho] was a Venezuelan musician. His mother, the singer Graciela Naranjo, was a radio, film and television pioneer in her homeland. Largely self-taught, Naranjo embarked on a similar musical course, becoming – like his mother – one of Venezuela's icons of contemporary popular music. Read more
• 14 Sep 1941: Alex St. Clair, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2006) Alex St. Clair was an American musician. Read more
• 14 Sep 1940: Ventseslav Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer and translator (died 2019) Ventseslav Konstantinov was a Bulgarian writer, aphorist and translator of German and English literature. Read more
• 14 Sep 1940: Padmakar Shivalkar, Indian cricketer (died 2025) Padmakar Kashinath Shivalkar was an Indian first class cricketer. A slow left-arm orthodox bowler, Shivalkar spent over 20 years playing for Bombay and is the team's highest wicket taker of all time. He was almost 50 when he retired. In 2016, he received the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honour conferred by BCCI on a former player. Read more
• 14 Sep 1939: DeWitt Weaver, American golfer (died 2021) DeWitt Thompson Weaver Jr. was an American golf consultant and professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour. Read more
• 14 Sep 1938: Franco Califano, Libya-born Italian singer-songwriter (died 2013) Francesco "Franco" Califano was an Italian singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. His songs sold about 20 million records during his career. Read more
• 14 Sep 1938: Nicol Williamson, Scottish actor (died 2011) Thomas Nicol Williamson was a British actor. He was described as "the greatest actor since Marlon Brando" and "touched by genius" by John Osborne and Samuel Beckett, respectively. Read more
• 14 Sep 1937: Renzo Piano, Italian architect and engineer, designed The Shard and The New York Times Building Renzo Piano is an Italian architect. His notable works include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Shard in London (2012), Kansai International Airport in Osaka (1994), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City (2015), Istanbul Museum of Modern Art in Istanbul (2022), Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens (2016) and The New York Times Building in New York City (2007). He was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1998. Read more
• 14 Sep 1936: Harry Danielsen, Norwegian educator and politician (died 2011) Harry Danielsen was a Norwegian educator and politician for the Conservative Party, later independent. Read more
• 14 Sep 1936: Terence Donovan, English photographer and director (died 1996) Terence Daniel Donovan was an English photographer and film director, noted for his fashion photography of the 1960s. A book of his fashion work, Terence Donovan Fashion, was published 2012. He also directed many TV commercials and oversaw the music videos for Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" and "Simply Irresistible". The Guardian labelled “Addicted to Love“ as being "fashion's favourite video" since it was released. Read more
• 14 Sep 1936: Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023) Ferid Murad was an American physician and pharmacologist, His research demonstrated that nitroglycerin relaxes smooth muscle by releasing nitric oxide into the body. This work led to him sharing the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Read more
• 14 Sep 1936: Lucas Samaras, Greek-American painter and photographer (died 2024) Lucas Samaras was a Greek-born American photographer, sculptor, and painter. Read more
• 14 Sep 1935: Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese illustrator (died 2008) Fujio Akatsuka was a Japanese manga artist. Known as the "King of Gag Manga" (ギャグ漫画の王様, he created many popular manga such as Osomatsu-kun, Himitsu no Akko-chan, and Tensai Bakabon. Read more
• 14 Sep 1934: Sarah Kofman, French philosopher and academic (died 1994) Sarah Kofman was a French philosopher. Read more
• 14 Sep 1934: Paul Little, New Zealand rugby player (died 1993) Paul Francis Little was a New Zealand rugby union player. A centre, Little represented Auckland at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1961 to 1964. He played 29 matches for the All Blacks including 10 internationals. He was a member of the Auckland Marist Rugby Club. Read more
• 14 Sep 1934: Don Walser, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2006) Donald Ray Walser was an American country music singer. He was known for his Texas country and yodeling. Read more
• 14 Sep 1933: Zoe Caldwell, Australian actress (died 2020) Zoe Ada Caldwell was an Australian actress. She was a four-time Tony Award winner, winning Best Featured Actress in a Play for Slapstick Tragedy (1966), and Best Actress in a Play for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1968), Medea (1982), and Master Class (1996). Her film appearances include The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Birth (2004), and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011). She was also known for providing the voice of the Grand Councilwoman in the Lilo & Stitch franchise and in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. Read more
• 14 Sep 1933: Harve Presnell, American actor and singer (died 2009) George Harvey Presnell was an American actor and singer. He began his career in the mid-1950s as a classical baritone, singing with orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States. Read more
• 14 Sep 1932: Harry Sinden, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager Harry James Sinden is a Canadian former ice hockey player, coach, and executive. He served as a coach, general manager, and team president for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL), and was the coach of Team Canada during the 1972 Summit Series. He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in the builders category. He was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in its inaugural class of 1997. Read more
• 14 Sep 1932: John Tembo, Malawian politician (died 2023) John Zenus Ungapake Tembo was a Malawian politician who served for years as President of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP). Tembo comes from the Dedza District in central Malawi, and he was a teacher by profession. Beginning in the 1960s he was an important politician in Malawi, and he was a key figure in the regime of Hastings Banda (1964–1994). He has been variously described as "physically slight, ascetic, fastidious" and "cunning". He was replaced as President of the MCP in August 2013. Read more
• 14 Sep 1930: Allan Bloom, American philosopher and academic (died 1992) Allan David Bloom was an American philosopher, classicist, and academician. He studied under David Grene, Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon, and Alexandre Kojève. He subsequently taught at Cornell University, the University of Toronto, Tel Aviv University, Yale University, the École Normale Supérieure, and the University of Chicago. Read more
• 14 Sep 1930: Romola Costantino, Australian pianist and critic (died 1988) Romola Helen Louise Costantino, also known as Romola Enyi, was an Australian pianist, accompanist and teacher, who also worked as a music, film and theatre critic. Read more
• 14 Sep 1930: Eugene I. Gordon, American physicist and engineer (died 2014) Eugene Irving Gordon was an American physicist. He was Director of the Lightwave Devices Laboratory of Bell Labs. Read more
• 14 Sep 1929: Larry Collins, American-French journalist, historian, and author (died 2005) John Lawrence Collins Jr. was an American writer and historian. Read more
• 14 Sep 1928: Jay Cameron, American reed player and saxophonist (died 2001) Jay Cameron was an American jazz reed musician who played the baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, and B-flat clarinet. Read more
• 14 Sep 1928: Alberto Korda, Cuban photographer (died 2001) Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, better known as Alberto Korda or simply Korda, was a Cuban photographer, remembered for his famous image Guerrillero Heroico of Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara. Read more
• 14 Sep 1928: Angus Ogilvy, English businessman (died 2004) Sir Angus James Bruce Ogilvy was a British businessman, courtier, and philanthropist. He is best known as the husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent. Ogilvy is also remembered for his role in a business scandal, known as the Lonrho affair, involving the breaking of sanctions against Rhodesia during the 1970s. In later years, he was involved in charity work. Read more
• 14 Sep 1927: Martin Caidin, American author and screenwriter (died 1997) Martin Caidin was an American author, screenwriter, and an authority on aeronautics and aviation. Read more
• 14 Sep 1927: Janet Davies, English actress (died 1986) Janet Kathleen Davies was an English actress best known for her recurring role as Mrs. Pike in the long-running sitcom Dad's Army. Read more
• 14 Sep 1927: Gardner Dickinson, American golfer (died 1998) Gardner Edward Dickinson, Jr. was an American professional golfer. Read more
• 14 Sep 1927: Jim Fanning, American-Canadian baseball player and manager (died 2015) William James Fanning was an American-Canadian catcher, manager and front office executive in Major League Baseball. Often called "Gentleman Jim", Fanning was the first general manager of the Montreal Expos of the National League, and served the Expos in a number of capacities for almost 25 years. As their field manager in 1981, he guided Montreal into the playoffs for the only time in the 36-year history of the franchise. Read more
• 14 Sep 1927: Edmund Szoka, American cardinal (died 2014) Edmund Casimir Szoka was an American Catholic prelate who served as president of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State and as president of the Governorate of Vatican City State from 1997 to 2006. He previously served as bishop of Gaylord in Michigan from 1971 to 1981 and archbishop of Detroit in Michigan from 1981 to 1990. Szoka was elevated to the cardinalate in 1988. Read more
• 14 Sep 1926: Michel Butor, French author and critic (died 2016) Michel Butor was a French poet, novelist, teacher, essayist, art critic and translator. Read more
• 14 Sep 1926: Richard Ellsasser, American organist, composer, and conductor (died 1972) Richard Ellsasser was an American concert organist, composer, and conductor who was primarily active during the 1940s to 1960s. Read more
• 14 Sep 1926: Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Spanish noblewoman (died 2017) María del Carmen Franco y Polo, 1st Duchess of Franco, Grandee of Spain, Marchioness of Villaverde was the only child of Spain's caudillo, General Francisco Franco and Carmen Polo y Martínez-Valdés. In Asturian fashion, she was known by many nicknames, such as Nenuca, Carmelilla, Carmencita, Cotota and Morita. Read more
• 14 Sep 1924: Patricia Barringer, American baseball player and accountant (died 2007) Patricia Barringer was an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ballplayer. Listed at 5' 7", 145 lb., she batted and threw right handed. Read more
• 14 Sep 1924: Jerry Coleman, American baseball player and manager (died 2014) Gerald Francis Coleman was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) second baseman for the New York Yankees and manager of the San Diego Padres for one year. Coleman was named the rookie of the year in 1949 by Associated Press, and was an All-Star in 1950 and later that year was named the World Series Most Valuable Player. Yankees teams on which he was a player appeared in seven World Series during his career, winning five times. Coleman served as a Marine Corps pilot in World War II and the Korean War, flying combat missions with the VMSB-341 Torrid Turtles (WWII) and VMA-323 Death Rattlers (Korea) in both wars. He later became a broadcaster, and he was honored in 2005 by the National Baseball Hall of Fame with the Ford C. Frick Award for his broadcasting contributions. Read more
• 14 Sep 1924: Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean-English physician, academic, and diplomat (died 1994) Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol, also known by his pen name Abioseh Nicol, was a Sierra Leone Creole physician, diplomat, and writer. He was also one of the first directors of the Bank of Sierra Leone. Read more
• 14 Sep 1924: Wim Polak, Dutch journalist and politician, Mayor of Amsterdam (died 1999) Willem "Wim" Polak was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and economist. Read more
• 14 Sep 1923: Nicholas Georgiadis, Greek painter and costume designer (died 2001) Nicholas Georgiadis CBE was a Greek painter, stage and costume designer, best known for his work in ballet, particularly in collaboration with Sir Kenneth MacMillan. Read more
• 14 Sep 1922: Michel Auclair, German-French actor (died 1988) Michel Auclair was an actor of Serbian and French ancestry, known best for his roles in French cinema. Read more
• 14 Sep 1922: Frances Bergen, American model and actress (died 2006) Frances Bergen was an American actress and fashion model. She was the wife of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and the mother of actress Candice Bergen and film and television editor Kris Bergen. Read more
• 14 Sep 1922: Alfred Käärmann, Estonian soldier and author (died 2010) Alfred Käärmann was an Estonian resistance fighter, also known as a forest brother, as the Estonians call their guerrillas, and author. In 2007 he was decorated with a military honour in recognition of his service. According to The New York Times, Alfred Käärmann's life is "a monument to man's astounding ability to endure the unbearable." Read more
• 14 Sep 1921: Constance Baker Motley, American lawyer, judge, and politician (died 2005) Constance Baker Motley was an American jurist and politician who served as a Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. A key strategist of the civil rights movement, she was state senator, and Borough President of Manhattan in New York City before becoming a United States federal judge. Read more
• 14 Sep 1921: A. Jean de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer, businessman, and academic (died 2022) Albert Jean de Grandpré was a Canadian lawyer and businessman who served as the president and chief executive officer of Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. Read more
• 14 Sep 1921: Paul Poberezny, American pilot and businessman, founded the Experimental Aircraft Association (died 2013) Paul Howard Poberezny was an American aviator, entrepreneur, and aircraft designer. He founded the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) in 1953, and spent the greater part of his life promoting homebuilt aircraft. Read more
• 14 Sep 1921: Dario Vittori, Italian-Argentinian actor and producer (died 2001) Darío Víttori was an Italian-born Argentine comic actor. His real name was Melito Dario Spartaco Margozzi. He was born on 14 September 1921 in Montecelio, Lazio, Italy, and died on 19 January 2001 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Read more
• 14 Sep 1920: Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan journalist and author (died 2009) Mario Benedetti Farrugia, was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet and an integral member of the Generación del 45. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages, he was not well known in the English-speaking world. In the Spanish-speaking world, he is considered one of Latin America's most important writers of the latter half of the 20th century. Read more
• 14 Sep 1920: Lawrence Klein, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013) Lawrence Robert Klein was an American economist. For his work in creating computer models to forecast economic trends in the field of econometrics in the Department of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1980 specifically "for the creation of econometric models and their application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies." Due to his efforts, such models have become widespread among economists. Harvard University professor Martin Feldstein told the Wall Street Journal that Klein "was the first to create the statistical models that embodied Keynesian economics," tools still used by the Federal Reserve Bank and other central banks. Read more
• 14 Sep 1920: Alberto Calderón, Argentinian-American mathematician and academic (died 1998) Alberto Pedro Calderón was an Argentine-American mathematician. His name is associated with the University of Buenos Aires, but first and foremost with the University of Chicago, where Calderón and his mentor, the analyst Antoni Zygmund, developed the theory of singular integral operators. This created the "Chicago School of (hard) Analysis". Read more
• 14 Sep 1919: Deryck Cooke, English musicologist and broadcaster (died 1976) Deryck Cooke was a British musician, musicologist, broadcaster and Gustav Mahler expert. Read more
• 14 Sep 1919: Gil Langley, Australian cricketer, footballer, and politician (died 2001) Gilbert Roche Andrews Langley was an Australian Test cricketer, champion Australian rules footballer and member of parliament, serving as Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1977 to 1979 for the Don Dunstan Labor government. Read more
• 14 Sep 1919: Olga Lowe, South African-English actress (died 2013) Olga Lowe was a South African-born British film, stage and television actress. She made her film debut in an uncredited role in the 1949 film Trottie True. Described by The Stage as "an actress of extraordinary versatility," her credits included EastEnders, Where Eagles Dare, Carry On Abroad, Steptoe and Son Ride Again and The Riddle of the Sands. Read more
• 14 Sep 1919: Kay Medford, American actress (died 1980) Margaret Kathleen Regan, better known as Kay Medford, was an American actress and singer. For her performance as Rose Brice in the musical Funny Girl and the film adaptation of the same name, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress respectively. Read more
• 14 Sep 1918: Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver (died 1967) Georges Berger was a racing driver who raced a Gordini in his two World Championship Formula One Grands Prix. Read more
• 14 Sep 1918: Cachao López, Cuban-American bassist and composer (died 2008) Israel López Valdés, better known as Cachao, was a Cuban double bassist and composer. Cachao is widely known as the co-creator of the mambo and a master of the descarga. Throughout his career he also performed and recorded in a variety of music styles ranging from classical music to salsa. An exile in the United States since the 1960s, he only achieved international fame following a career revival in the 1990s. Read more
• 14 Sep 1917: Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss violinist and conductor (died 2002) Rudolf Baumgartner was a Swiss conductor, violinist and music educator. In 1956 he founded the Lucerne Festival Strings chamber orchestra together with Wolfgang Schneiderhan. Read more
• 14 Sep 1916: Eric Bentley, English-American singer, playwright, and critic (died 2020) Eric Russell Bentley was a British-born American theater critic, playwright, singer, editor, and translator. In 1998, he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. He was also a member of the New York Theater Hall of Fame, recognizing his many years of cabaret performances. Read more
• 14 Sep 1916: John Heyer, Australian director and producer (died 2001) John Whitefoord Heyer was an Australian documentary filmmaker, who is often described as the father of Australian documentary film. Read more
• 14 Sep 1915: John Dobson, Chinese-American astronomer and author, designed the Dobsonian telescope (died 2014) John Lowry Dobson was an American amateur astronomer and is best known for the Dobsonian telescope, a portable, low-cost Newtonian reflector telescope. He was also known for his efforts to promote awareness of astronomy through public lectures including his performances of "sidewalk astronomy". Dobson was also the co-founder of the amateur astronomical group, the San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers. Read more
• 14 Sep 1914: Mae Boren Axton, American composer and educator (died 1997) Mae Boren Axton was an American singer-songwriter. She was known in the music industry as the "Queen Mother of Nashville". She co-wrote the Elvis Presley hit single "Heartbreak Hotel" with Tommy Durden. She worked with Mel Tillis, Reba McEntire, Willie Nelson, Eddy Arnold, Tanya Tucker, Johnny Tillotson, and Blake Shelton. Read more
• 14 Sep 1913: Jacobo Árbenz, Guatemalan captain and politician, President of Guatemala (died 1971) Juan Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as the 25th president of Guatemala. He was Minister of National Defense from 1944 to 1950, before he became the second democratically elected President of Guatemala, from 1951 to 1954. He was a major figure in the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution, which represented some of the few years of representative democracy in Guatemalan history. The landmark program of agrarian reform Árbenz enacted as president was very influential across Latin America. Read more
• 14 Sep 1913: Rubby Sherr, American physicist and academic (died 2013) Rubby Sherr was an American nuclear physicist who co-invented a key component of the first nuclear weapon while participating in the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. His academic career spanned nearly eight decades, including almost 40 years working at Princeton University. Read more
• 14 Sep 1911: William H. Armstrong, American author and educator (died 1999) William Howard Armstrong was an American writer of children's literature and educator, best known for his 1969 novel Sounder, which won the Newbery Medal. Read more
• 14 Sep 1910: Lehman Engel, American composer and conductor (died 1982) A. Lehman Engel was an American composer for television, film, and operas and a conductor of Broadway musicals and operas.He was nominated five times and won twice a Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director, a category which no longer exists. Read more
• 14 Sep 1910: Jack Hawkins, English actor and producer (died 1973) John Edward Hawkins was an English actor, who worked on stage and in film from the 1930s until the 1970s. He was known for his portrayal of military men, said to "endow the countless figures of authority he played with a formidable screen presence." One of the most popular British film stars of the 1950s, he was nominated for four BAFTA Awards for Best British Actor. Read more
• 14 Sep 1910: Yiannis Latsis, Greek businessman (died 2003) Ioannis "Yiannis" Latsis, also known as captain Yiannis, was a Greek shipping multi-billionaire business magnate notable for his great wealth, influential friends, and charitable activities. Read more
• 14 Sep 1910: Rolf Liebermann, Swiss-French composer and manager (died 1999) Rolf Liebermann, was a Swiss composer and music administrator. He served as the artistic director of the Hamburg State Opera from 1959 to 1973 and again from 1985 to 1988. He was also the artistic director of the Paris Opera from 1973 to 1980. Read more
• 14 Sep 1910: Rasuna Said, Indonesian women's rights campaigner and national hero (died 1965) Hajjah Rangkayo Rasuna Said was a campaigner for Indonesian independence and women's rights, particularly their rights to education and participation in politics. Being politically active herself prior and after Indonesia's independence, Rasuna Said became a member of various political organizations and later served as a member of the Provisional People's Representative Council and the Supreme Advisory Council under Sukarno's tenure. Due to her involvement in Indonesia's struggle for independence, she was recognized posthumously as an Indonesian national heroine. Read more
• 14 Sep 1909: Peter Scott, English ornithologist, painter, and sailor (died 1989) Sir Peter Markham Scott was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman. The only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, he took an interest in observing and shooting wildfowl at a young age and later took to their breeding. Read more
• 14 Sep 1907: Yuri Ivask, Russian-American poet and critic (died 1986) George Ivask was a Russian poet and literary critic; in his later years he was an American scholar of Russian literature. Ivask was born to a family of an Estonian-German father and Russian mother and he identified culturally as a Russian. Read more
• 14 Sep 1904: Frank Amyot, Canadian sprint canoeist (died 1962) Francis Amyot was a Canadian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1930s. He won Canada's only gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Read more
• 14 Sep 1904: Richard Mohaupt, German composer and Kapellmeister (died 1957) Richard Mohaupt was a German composer and Kapellmeister. Read more
• 14 Sep 1903: Mart Raud, Estonian poet and author (died 1980) Mart Raud was an Estonian poet, playwright and novelist. Read more
• 14 Sep 1902: Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer-songwriter (died 1977) Giorgos Papasideris was a Greek singer, composer, and lyricist. He was born on Salamis Island. After leaving elementary school, he spent his entire career working professionally in the field of traditional Greek folk music, producing many popular recordings. He died of a heart attack in 1977 on Salamis Island. In a district of Salamis City, named Alonia in the birthplace of Papasideris, there is a bust in memory of him. Read more
• 14 Sep 1902: Alice Tully, American soprano and philanthropist (died 1993) Alice Bigelow Tully was an American singer of opera and recital, music promoter, patron of the arts and philanthropist from New York. She was a second cousin of the American actress Katharine Hepburn. Read more
• 14 Sep 1898: Lawrence Gellert, Hungarian-American musicologist and song collector (died 1979) Lawrence Gellert (1898-1979?), was a music collector, who in the 1920s and 1930s amassed a significant collection of field-recorded African-American blues and spirituals and also claimed to have documented black protest traditions in the South of the United States. Read more
• 14 Sep 1898: Ernest Nash, German-Italian photographer and scholar (died 1974) Ernest Nash was a student of Roman architecture and pioneer of archaeological photography. Nash was born as Ernst Nathan in Potsdam, Germany, but later changed his name to Nash when he was living in the United States between 1939 and 1952. Read more
• 14 Sep 1896: José Mojica, Mexican tenor and actor (died 1974) Fray José de Guadalupe Mojica was a Mexican Franciscan friar and former tenor and film actor. He was known in the music and film fields as José Mojica. Read more
• 14 Sep 1892: Laurence W. Allen, English lieutenant and pilot (died 1968) Laurence Wilfred Allen was an English World War I flying ace. He was credited with ten confirmed victories while serving as an observer/gunner in Bristol F.2 Fighters. Read more
• 14 Sep 1891: Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic (died 1983) Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov was a Soviet mathematician, who was one of the creators of modern analytic number theory, and also a dominant figure in mathematics in the USSR. He was born in the Velikiye Luki district, Pskov Oblast. He graduated from the University of St. Petersburg, where in 1920 he became a Professor. From 1934 he was a Director of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, a position he held for the rest of his life, except for the five-year period (1941–1946) when the institute was directed by Academician Sergei Sobolev. In 1941 he was awarded the Stalin Prize. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1942. In 1951 he became a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Letters in Kraków. Read more
• 14 Sep 1887: Karl Taylor Compton, American physicist (died 1954) Karl Taylor Compton was an American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948. A researcher in electron physics and early experimenter on the photoelectric effect, Compton spent two decades at Princeton University before accepting the MIT presidency, where he transformed what had been primarily an engineering school into a research university with strong programs in basic science. Read more
• 14 Sep 1886: Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier and politician, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1948) Jan Garrigue Masaryk was a Czech diplomat and politician who served as the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1940 to 1948. American journalist John Gunther described Masaryk as "a brave, honest, turbulent, and impulsive man". Read more
• 14 Sep 1885: Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor, composer, and critic (died 1975) Vittorio Gui was an Italian conductor, composer, musicologist and critic. Read more
• 14 Sep 1883: Richard Gerstl, Austrian painter and illustrator (died 1908) Richard Gerstl was an Austrian painter and draughtsman known for his expressive psychologically insightful portraits, his lack of critical acclaim during his lifetime, and his affair with Mathilde Schoenberg, wife of composer Arnold Schoenberg, which led to Gerstl's suicide. Read more
• 14 Sep 1880: Benjamin, Russian bishop and missionary (died 1961) Metropolitan Benjamin or Veniamin was a bishop of the Russian Church, Orthodox missionary and writer. Read more
• 14 Sep 1880: Archie Hahn, American sprinter, football player, and coach (died 1955) Charles Archibald Hahn was an American track athlete and is widely regarded as one of the best sprinters of the early 20th century. He is the first athlete to win both the 100 m and 200 m race at the same Olympic Games. Read more
• 14 Sep 1879: Margaret Sanger, American nurse and activist (died 1966) Margaret Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, founded Planned Parenthood, and was instrumental in the development of the first birth control pill. Sanger is regarded as a founder and leader of the U.S. birth control movement. Read more
• 14 Sep 1872: John Olof Dahlgren, Swedish-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1963) John Olof Dahlgren was an American corporal serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Boxer Rebellion who received the Medal of Honor for bravery. Read more
• 14 Sep 1869: Kid Nichols, American baseball player and manager (died 1953) Charles Augustus "Kid" Nichols was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher who played for the Boston Beaneaters, St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies from 1890 to 1906. A switch hitter who threw right-handed, he was listed at 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) and 175 pounds (79 kg). He is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Read more
• 14 Sep 1868: Théodore Botrel, French singer-songwriter, poet, and playwright (died 1925) Jean-Baptiste-Théodore-Marie Botrel was a French singer-songwriter, poet and playwright. He is best known for his popular songs about his native Brittany, of which the most famous is La Paimpolaise. During World War I he became France's official "Bard of the Armies". Read more
• 14 Sep 1867: Charles Dana Gibson, American illustrator (died 1944) Charles Dana Gibson was an American illustrator who created the Gibson Girl, a character that represented American woman at the turn of the 20th century. Read more
• 14 Sep 1864: Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English lawyer and politician, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958) Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood,, known as Lord Robert Cecil from 1868 to 1923, was a British lawyer, politician and diplomat. He was one of the architects of the League of Nations and a defender of it, whose service to the organisation saw him awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1937. Read more
• 14 Sep 1860: Hamlin Garland, American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer (died 1940) Hannibal Hamlin Garland was an American novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer, Georgist, and psychical researcher. He is best known for his fiction involving hard-working Midwestern farmers. Read more
• 14 Sep 1857: Julia Platt, American embryologist and politician (died 1935) Julia Barlow Platt was an American embryologist, politician and mayor. Read more
• 14 Sep 1853: Ponnambalam Arunachalam, Ceylonese civil servant and politician (died 1924) Ponnambalam Arunachalam was a Ceylonese civil servant and a member of the Executive Council of Ceylon and Legislative Council of Ceylon. Read more
• 14 Sep 1850: Anton Mahnič, Slovenian bishop, philosopher, and theologian (died 1920) Anton Mahnič, also spelled Antun Mahnić in Croatian orthography, was a Croatian-Slovenian prelate of the Catholic Church and a philosopher who established and led the Croatian Catholic Movement. Mahnič served as the bishop of Krk from 1897 to his death in 1920. Read more
• 14 Sep 1847: Fanny Holland, English actress and singer (died 1931) Fanny Holland was an English singer and comic actress primarily known as the creator of principal soprano roles in numerous German Reed Entertainments from 1869 to 1895. Read more
• 14 Sep 1843: Lola Rodríguez de Tió, Puerto Rican poet, abolitionist, and women's rights activist (died 1924) Lola Rodríguez de Tió was a Puerto Rican woman who established herself a reputation as a great poet throughout all of Latin America. A believer in women's rights, she was also committed to the abolition of slavery and the independence of Puerto Rico. Read more
• 14 Sep 1837: Nikolai Bugaev, Georgian-Russian mathematician and philosopher (died 1903) Nikolai Vasilievich Bugaev was a Russian mathematician, the father of Andrei Bely. Read more
• 14 Sep 1816: Mary Hall Barrett Adams, American book editor and letter writer (died 1860) Mary Hall Adams was an American book editor and letter writer. Her writing includes, Never give up, or, How children may be happy and The Rainbow and Other Stories: A Juvenile Gift. For three years, Adams edited the Universalist Church-affiliated Sabbath-School Annual. Read more
• 14 Sep 1804: John Gould, English ornithologist and illustrator (died 1881) John Gould was an English ornithologist who published monographs on birds, illustrated by plates produced by his wife, Elizabeth Gould, and several other artists, including Edward Lear, Henry Constantine Richter, Joseph Wolf and William Matthew Hart. Because of his 1840s seven-volume series The Birds of Australia and its updates he has been considered the father of bird study in Australia, and the Gould League in Australia is named after him. His identification of the birds now nicknamed "Darwin's finches" played a role in the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Gould's work is referenced in Charles Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species. Read more
• 14 Sep 1804: Louis Désiré Maigret, French bishop (died 1882) Louis-Désiré Maigret, SS.CC., served as the first vicar apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands, now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu. Born in Saint-Pierre-de-Maillé, France, Maigret was ordained to the priesthood as a member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary on September 23, 1828, at the age of 24. As part of his missionary work, Father Maigret sailed to the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi to help build its Catholic community of native Hawaiians. Read more

Notable Deaths on 14 September

• 14 Sep 2025: Jim Edgar, American politician, 38th Governor of Illinois James Robert Edgar was an American politician who served as the 38th governor of Illinois from 1991 to 1999. A moderate Republican, he previously served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1977 to 1979 and as the 35th secretary of state of Illinois from 1981 to 1991. Read more
• 14 Sep 2025: Ricky Hatton, British professional boxer (born 1978) Richard John Hatton, also known by nicknames such as "the Hitman", "the Pride of Hyde" and the "People's Champion", was a British professional boxer who competed between 1997 and 2012, and later worked as a boxing promoter and trainer. During his boxing career, he held multiple world championships in the light-welterweight division, and one at welterweight. In 2005 he was named Fighter of the Year by The Ring magazine, the Boxing Writers Association of America, ESPN, and BoxingScene. Read more
• 14 Sep 2024: Jaber Mubarak Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti royal and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Kuwait (born 1942) Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah was a Kuwaiti royal and politician who served as the prime minister of Kuwait from 2011 to 2019. He previously served as minister of defense as well as deputy prime minister. In April 2021 a Kuwaiti court ordered his detention on corruption charges. Read more
• 14 Sep 2024: Otis Davis, American sprinter (born 1932) Otis Crandall Davis was an American athlete, winner of two gold medals for record-breaking performances in the 400 m and 4 × 400 m relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He set a new world record of 44.9 seconds in the 400 m and became the first person to break the 45-second barrier. Read more
• 14 Sep 2021: Norm Macdonald, Canadian comedian and actor (born 1959) Norman Gene Macdonald was a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, and writer whose style was characterized by deadpan delivery, eccentric understatement, and the use of folksy, old-fashioned turns of phrase. He appeared in numerous films and was a frequent guest on late-night talk shows, where he developed a reputation for his chaotic yet understated comedic style. His appearances on Conan O'Brien's and David Letterman's programs were especially well-received, with the latter describing him as "the best" stand-up comedian. Read more
• 14 Sep 2018: Ethel Johnson, American professional wrestler (born 1935) Ethel Blanche Hairston was an American professional wrestler whose ring name was Ethel Johnson. She debuted at age 16, becoming the first African-American women's champion. She was a fan favorite, billed as "the biggest attraction to hit girl wrestling since girl wrestling began." Read more
• 14 Sep 2018: Zienia Merton, British actress (born 1945) Zienia Merton was a British actress born in Burma. She was known for playing Sandra Benes in Space: 1999. Read more
• 14 Sep 2015: Davey Browne, Australian boxer (born 1986) Davey Browne Jr was an Australian professional boxer. Read more
• 14 Sep 2015: Fred DeLuca, American businessman, co-founded Subway (born 1947) Frederick Adrian DeLuca was an American businessman, who was the co-founder and president of the Subway franchise of fast food restaurants with Peter Buck. During his tenure, Subway grew into the largest franchise in the world. Read more
• 14 Sep 2015: Martin Kearns, English drummer (born 1977) Martin Kearns was an English drummer, specializing in death metal, known for his association with Bolt Thrower since 1994. He joined the band at age 17 after playing in several local bands in Coventry, playing anything from metal to reggae, having been playing pub gigs since the age of 14. Read more
• 14 Sep 2015: Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Romanian journalist and politician (born 1949) Corneliu Vadim Tudor, also colloquially known as "Tribunul", was a Romanian politician, poet, writer, and journalist who was the leader of the Greater Romania Party and a Member of the European Parliament. He was a Romanian senator from 1992 to 2008. He was born and died in Bucharest, Romania. Read more
• 14 Sep 2014: Tony Auth, American illustrator (born 1942) William Anthony Auth Jr. was an American editorial cartoonist and children's book illustrator. Auth is best known for his syndicated work originally drawn for The Philadelphia Inquirer, for whom he worked from 1971 to 2012. Auth's art won the cartoonist the Pulitzer Prize in 1976 and the Herblock Prize in 2005. Read more
• 14 Sep 2014: Peter Gutteridge, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1961) Peter Gutteridge was a New Zealand musician, credited with pioneering the Dunedin sound with The Clean and The Chills. Read more
• 14 Sep 2014: E. Jennifer Monaghan, English-American historian, author, and academic (born 1933) E. Jennifer Monaghan, also known as Jennifer Monaghan, was an English educator and historian. She was regarded as the leading expert on literacy education in early America. She published three books and dozens of book chapters and journal articles. Read more
• 14 Sep 2013: Maksym Bilyi, Ukrainian footballer (born 1989) Maksym Ivanovych Bilyi was a Ukrainian football midfielder. Read more
• 14 Sep 2013: Osama El-Baz, Egyptian soldier and diplomat (born 1931) Osama El-Baz was an Egyptian diplomat and a senior advisor to former President Hosni Mubarak. Read more
• 14 Sep 2013: Faith Leech, Australian swimmer (born 1941) Faith Yvonne Leech was an Australian freestyle swimmer who won a gold medal in the 4×100–metre freestyle relay and bronze in the 100-metre freestyle at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Read more
• 14 Sep 2012: Jacques Antoine, French game show producer, created The Crystal Maze and Fort Boyard (born 1924) Jacques Antoine was a French creator and producer of game shows. His most famous creations include Treasure Hunt, Interceptor, Fort Boyard, and The Crystal Maze. Read more
• 14 Sep 2012: Eduardo Castro Luque, Mexican businessman and politician (born 1963) Eduardo Enrique Castro Luque was a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). At the time of his killing, he was a deputy-elect from Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, to the Congress of Sonora. Read more
• 14 Sep 2012: Winston Rekert, Canadian actor and director (born 1949) Winston Houghton Rekert was a Canadian actor. He was best known for starring in the television series Adderly and Neon Rider. Read more
• 14 Sep 2012: Kan Yuet-keung, Hong Kong banker, lawyer, and politician (born 1913) Sir Yuet-keung Kan was a Hong Kong banker, politician and lawyer who was successively appointed Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council and Executive Council in the 1960s and 1970s. He also served as chairman of the Bank of East Asia for 20 years. Read more
• 14 Sep 2011: Malcolm Wallop, American politician (born 1933) Malcolm Wallop was an American rancher and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from Wyoming for three terms from 1977 to 1995, after three terms in the Wyoming Legislature. Read more
• 14 Sep 2009: Keith Floyd, English chef and author (born 1943) Keith Floyd was an English celebrity cook, restaurateur, television personality and "gastronaut" who hosted cooking shows for the BBC and published many books combining cookery and travel. On television, his eccentric style of presentation – usually drinking wine as he cooked and talking to his crew – endeared him to millions of viewers worldwide. Read more
• 14 Sep 2009: Henry Gibson, American actor (born 1935) James Bateman, known professionally as Henry Gibson, was an American actor, comedian and poet. He played roles in the television sketch-comedy series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 to 1971, was the voice of the protagonist Wilbur in the animated feature Charlotte's Web (1973), portrayed country star Haven Hamilton in Robert Altman's film Nashville (1975), the Illinois Nazi leader in The Blues Brothers (1980), and appeared in The 'Burbs (1989). His later film roles included starring in The Luck of the Irish (2001) and smaller parts as Thurston Howell in Magnolia (1999) and as Father O'Neil in Wedding Crashers (2005). His final major acting role was as Judge Clark Brown on the television show Boston Legal, from 2004 to 2008. Read more
• 14 Sep 2009: Jody Powell, American diplomat, White House Press Secretary (born 1943) Joseph Lester "Jody" Powell, Jr. was an American political advisor who served as a White House press secretary during the presidency of Jimmy Carter. Powell later co-founded a public relations firm. Read more
• 14 Sep 2009: Patrick Swayze, American actor, singer, and dancer (born 1952) Patrick Wayne Swayze was an American actor, singer-songwriter and dancer. Known for his romantic, tough, and comedic roles in blockbusters and cult films, Swayze was nominated for three Golden Globes and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1997. Read more
• 14 Sep 2008: Hyman Golden, American businessman, co-founded Snapple (born 1923) Hyman Golden was one of the co-founders of the Snapple Beverage Corporation and was the company's chairman when the firm's juice drinks and teas attained national attention in the late 1980s. Read more
• 14 Sep 2007: Jacques Martin, French television host and producer (born 1933) Jacques Martin was a French television host and producer. Read more
• 14 Sep 2007: Robert Savoie, Canadian opera singer (born 1927) Robert Savoie, was a French-Canadian operatic baritone. Read more
• 14 Sep 2006: Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-American bodybuilder and actor (born 1926) Miklós Károly "Mickey" Hargitay was a Hungarian-American actor and bodybuilder. Born in Budapest, Hargitay immigrated to the United States at age 21 in 1947. Known as "Mickey", he eventually became a naturalized American citizen. He became known as a competitive bodybuilder, helping to popularize the sport and winning Mr. Universe in 1955. His bodybuilding gave him an entree to acting. In 1958, Hargitay married actress Jayne Mansfield. Hargitay and Mansfield made four movies together: Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957), The Loves of Hercules (1960), Promises! Promises! (1963), and Primitive Love (1964). Read more
• 14 Sep 2006: Esme Melville, Australian actress (born 1918) Esme Melville was an Australian theatre, television and film actress. At the Tropfest awards for 2003 she won Best Actor – Female for her role of Granma in the short film, Forbidden. At the 2007 Australian Film Institute Awards she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Miss Collard in Romulus, My Father. Read more
• 14 Sep 2005: William Berenberg, American physician and academic (born 1915) William Berenberg, M.D. was an American physician, Harvard professor, and pioneer in the treatment and rehabilitation of cerebral palsy. Read more
• 14 Sep 2005: Vladimir Volkoff, French soldier and author (born 1932) Vladimir Volkoff was a writer of Russian origin who lived in France and whose books were written in French. He produced both literary works for adults and spy novels for young readers under the pseudonym Lieutenant X. His works are characterised by themes of the Cold War, intelligence and manipulation, but also by metaphysical and spiritual elements. Read more
• 14 Sep 2005: Robert Wise, American director and producer (born 1914) Robert Earl Wise was an American filmmaker. He won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his musical films West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965). He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane (1941) and directed and produced The Sand Pebbles (1966), which was nominated for Best Picture. Read more
• 14 Sep 2003: Jerry Fleck, American actor and director (born 1947) Gerald R. Fleck was an American assistant director best known for his work on the Star Trek franchise across eleven years. Read more
• 14 Sep 2003: Garrett Hardin, American ecologist and author (born 1915) Garrett James Hardin was an American ecologist, microbiologist, and white nationalist best known for the concept of the tragedy of the commons. Read more
• 14 Sep 2003: John Serry Sr., American accordion player and composer (born 1915) John Serry was an American concert accordionist, arranger, composer, organist, and educator. He performed on the CBS Radio and Television networks and contributed to Voice of America's cultural diplomacy initiatives during the Golden Age of Radio. He also concertized on the accordion as a member of several orchestras and jazz ensembles for nearly forty years between the 1930s and 1960s. Read more
• 14 Sep 2002: LaWanda Page, American actress (born 1920) LaWanda Page was an American actress, comedian and dancer whose career spanned six decades. Crowned "The Queen of Comedy" or "The Black Queen of Comedy", Page melded blue humor, signifyin' and observational comedy with jokes about sexuality, race relations, African-American culture and religion. She released five solo albums, including the 1977 gold-selling Watch It, Sucker!, and collaborated on two albums with the comedy group Skillet, Leroy & Co. As an actress, Page is best known for portraying the Bible-toting and sharp-tongued Esther Anderson on the popular television sitcom Sanford and Son, which aired from 1972 until 1977. Page reprised the role in the short-lived television shows Sanford Arms (1976–1977) and Sanford (1980–1981). She also costarred in the 1979 short-lived series Detective School. Throughout her career, Page advocated for fair pay and equal opportunities for black performers. Read more
• 14 Sep 2001: Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer and guitarist (born 1931) Stelios Kazantzidis was one of the most prominent Greek singers. His roots were from Pontus and Asia Minor. A top artist of Greek music, or Laïkó, he collaborated with many of Greece's foremost composers. Read more
• 14 Sep 2000: Beah Richards, American actress (born 1920) Beulah Elizabeth Richardson, known professionally as Beah Richards and Bea Richards, was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. She was also a poet, playwright, author and activist. Read more
• 14 Sep 2000: Jerzy Giedroyc, Belarusian-Polish soldier and activist (born 1906) Jerzy Władysław Giedroyć was a Polish writer and political activist. For many years, he worked as editor of the highly influential Paris-based periodical, Kultura. Read more
• 14 Sep 1999: Charles Crichton, English director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1910) Charles Ainslie Crichton was an English film director and editor. Read more
• 14 Sep 1999: Giannos Kranidiotis, Greek politician and diplomat (born 1947) Giannos Kranidiotis was a Greek diplomat and politician. Read more
• 14 Sep 1998: Yang Shangkun, Chinese politician, and 4th president of China (born 1907) Yang Shangkun was a Chinese Communist military and political leader, president of China from 1988 to 1993, and one of the Eight Elders that dominated the party after the death of Mao Zedong. Read more
• 14 Sep 1996: Juliet Prowse, Indian-South African actress, singer, and dancer (born 1937) Juliet Anne Prowse was a British-American dancer and actress whose four-decade career included stage, television, and film. She was born in Bombay then part of British India, and raised in South Africa. Known for her attractive legs, she was described after her death as having "arguably the best legs since Betty Grable". Read more
• 14 Sep 1995: Maurice K. Goddard, American colonel and politician (born 1912) Maurice K. Goddard was the driving force behind the creation of 45 Pennsylvania state parks during his 24 years as a cabinet officer for six governors of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Read more
• 14 Sep 1994: Marika Krevata, Greek actress (born 1910) Marika Krevata was a Greek actress of theatre and film. Read more
• 14 Sep 1993: Clayton Young, American long-distance runner Clayton Young is an American long-distance runner, who competes for Brooks Running. He ran collegiately for Brigham Young University, and won the 10,000 metres at the 2019 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Young finished second at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials and competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics. He ran his personal best at the 2026 Boston Marathon, running 2:05:41. Read more
• 14 Sep 1992: August Komendant, Estonian-American engineer and academic (born 1906) August Eduard Komendant was an Estonian and American structural engineer and a pioneer in the field of prestressed concrete, which can be used to build stronger and more graceful structures than normal concrete. He was born in Estonia and educated in engineering in Germany. After World War II he immigrated to the United States, where he wrote several books on structural engineering and served as a professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Read more
• 14 Sep 1992: Paul Martin Sr., Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1903) Joseph James Guillaume Paul Martin, often referred to as Paul Martin Sr., was a Canadian lawyer, politician and diplomat. He was the father of Paul Martin, who served as 21st prime minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006. Read more
• 14 Sep 1991: Julie Bovasso, American actress and playwright (born 1930) Julia Anne Bovasso was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. Read more
• 14 Sep 1991: Russell Lynes, American historian, photographer, and author (born 1910) Russell Lynes was an American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine. Read more
• 14 Sep 1989: Pérez Prado, Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1916) Dámaso Pérez Prado was a Cuban bandleader, pianist, composer and arranger who popularized the mambo in the 1950s. His big band adaptation of the danzón-mambo proved to be a worldwide success with hits such as "Mambo No. 5", earning him the nickname "The King of the Mambo". In 1955, Pérez Prado and his orchestra topped the charts in the US and UK with a mambo cover of Louiguy's "Cherry Pink ". He frequently made brief appearances in films, primarily of the rumberas genre, and his music was featured in films such as La Dolce Vita. Read more
• 14 Sep 1986: Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster, founded the Liberty Broadcasting System (born 1921) Gordon Barton McLendon was an American radio broadcaster. Nicknamed "the Maverick of Radio", McLendon is widely credited for perfecting, during the 1950s and 1960s, the commercially successful Top 40 radio format created by Todd Storz. He also developed offshore pirate radio broadcasting to both Scandinavia and the British Isles. In addition, he was active in circles of conservative business-political power in the 1960s until the time of his death. Read more
• 14 Sep 1984: Janet Gaynor, American actress (born 1906) Janet Gaynor was an American actress. She began her career as an extra in shorts and silent films. After signing with Fox Film in 1926, she rose to fame and became one of the biggest box office draws of the era. In 1929, she became the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in 7th Heaven, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Street Angel (1928), the only occasion an actress won one Oscar for multiple film roles. Her success continued into the sound film era; for A Star Is Born (1937), she received a second Best Actress Academy Award nomination. Read more
• 14 Sep 1982: Christian Ferras, French violinist (born 1933) Christian Ferras was a French violinist. Read more
• 14 Sep 1982: John Gardner, American novelist, essayist, and critic (born 1933) John Champlin Gardner Jr. was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic, and university professor, who wrote the popular 1971 novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view. Read more
• 14 Sep 1982: Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese commander and politician (born 1947) Bachir Pierre Gemayel was a Lebanese militia commander who led the Lebanese Forces, the military wing of the Kataeb Party, in the Lebanese Civil War and was elected President of Lebanon in 1982. Read more
• 14 Sep 1982: Grace Kelly, American-Monegasque actress; Princess of Monaco (born 1929) Grace Patricia Kelly was an American actress and Princess of Monaco as the wife of Prince Rainier III from their marriage on April 18, 1956 until her death in 1982. Prior to her marriage, she achieved stardom in several significant Hollywood films in the early to mid-1950s. She received an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards, and was ranked 13th on the American Film Institute's 25 Greatest Female Stars list. Read more
• 14 Sep 1981: Furry Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1899) Walter E. "Furry" Lewis was an American country blues guitarist and songwriter from Memphis, Tennessee. He was one of the earliest of the blues musicians active in the 1920s to be brought out of retirement and given new opportunities to record during the folk blues revival of the 1960s. Read more
• 14 Sep 1979: Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan journalist and politician, 3rd President of Afghanistan (born 1917) Nur Muhammad Taraki was an Afghan communist politician, revolutionary, journalist and writer. He was a founding member of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) who served as its General Secretary from 1965 to 1979 and Chairman of the Revolutionary Council from 1978 to 1979. Read more
• 14 Sep 1975: Walter Herbert, German-American conductor (born 1902) Walter Herbert was an American conductor and impresario of German birth, and also a world champion at contract bridge. Read more
• 14 Sep 1966: Gertrude Berg, American actress and screenwriter (born 1899) Gertrude Berg was an American actress, screenwriter, and producer. A pioneer of classic radio, she was one of the first women to create, write, produce, and star in a long-running hit when she premiered her serial comedy-drama The Rise of the Goldbergs (1929), later known as The Goldbergs. Her career achievements included winning a Tony Award and an Emmy Award, both for Best Lead Actress. Read more
• 14 Sep 1966: Hiram Wesley Evans, American Ku Klux Klan leader (born 1881) Hiram Wesley Evans was an American white supremacist who was Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist hate group, from 1923 until his resignation in 1939. Trained as a dentist, Evans left that profession to pursue Klan leadership, ultimately becoming the organization's most influential figure during its peak period of national growth in the 1920s. Read more
• 14 Sep 1966: Cemal Gürsel, Turkish general and politician, 4th President of Turkey (born 1895) Cemal Gürsel was a Turkish military officer and politician who was the president of Turkey from 1960 to 1966 after taking power in a coup d'état. Read more
• 14 Sep 1965: J. W. Hearne, English cricketer (born 1891) John William Hearne was a Middlesex leg-spinning all-rounder cricketer who played from 1909 to 1936, and represented England in 24 Test matches between 1911 and 1926. Read more
• 14 Sep 1962: Frederick Schule, American hurdler, football player, and coach (born 1879) Frederick William Schule was an American track and field athlete, football player, athletic coach, teacher, bacteriologist, and engineer. He competed for the track and field teams at the University of Wisconsin from 1900 to 1901 and at the University of Michigan in 1904. He was also a member of the undefeated 1903 Michigan Wolverines football team that outscored its opponents 565 to 6. Read more
• 14 Sep 1961: Ernst Gustav Kühnert, Estonian-German architect and historian (born 1885) Ernst Gustav Kühnert was a Baltic German architect and art historian in Estonia. Read more
• 14 Sep 1960: M. Karagatsis, Greek author, playwright, and critic (born 1908) M. Karagatsis was the pen name of the important modern Greek novelist, journalist, critic and playwright Dimitrios Rodopoulos. The pen name M. Karagatsis is the name the novelist is known with. The letter "M." comes from Mitya, which is the Russian diminutive of Dimitris. The word "Karagatsis" comes from the tree karagatsi under the shadow of which he used to write as a young writer. Read more
• 14 Sep 1959: Wayne Morris, American actor, singer, and producer (born 1914) Wayne Morris was an American film and television actor, as well as a decorated World War II fighter ace. He appeared in many films, including Paths of Glory (1957), The Bushwackers (1952), and the title role of Kid Galahad (1937). Read more
• 14 Sep 1952: John McPhee, Australian businessman and politician, 27th Premier of Tasmania (born 1874) Sir John Cameron McPhee, KCMG was an Australian politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. He was Premier of Tasmania from 15 June 1928 to 15 March 1934. Read more
• 14 Sep 1951: Fritz Busch, German conductor and director (born 1890) Fritz Busch was a German conductor. Read more
• 14 Sep 1943: Jacob Gens, head of the Vilnius Ghetto government (born 1903) Jacob Gens was the head of the Judenrat and Jewish Ghetto Police of the Vilna Ghetto. Originally from a merchant family, he joined the Lithuanian Army shortly after the independence of Lithuania, rising to the rank of captain while also securing a college degree in law and economics. He married a non-Jew and worked several jobs as a teacher, accountant, and administrator. Read more
• 14 Sep 1942: E. S. Gosney, American eugenicist and philanthropist, founded Human Betterment Foundation (born 1855) Ezra Seymour Gosney was an American businessman and philanthropist who supported the practice of eugenics. In 1928 he founded the Human Betterment Foundation (HBF) in Pasadena, California, with the stated aim "to foster and aid constructive and educational forces for the protection and betterment of the human family in body, mind, character, and citizenship," primarily through the advocacy of compulsory sterilization of people who are mentally ill or intellectually disabled. Rufus B. von KleinSmid, President of University of Southern California, was a co-founder. Read more
• 14 Sep 1937: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (born 1850) Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was a Czechoslovak statesman, political activist and philosopher who served as the first president of Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1935. He is regarded as the founding father of Czechoslovakia. Read more
• 14 Sep 1936: Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor (born 1878) Ossip Salomonovich Gabrilowitsch was a Russian-American pianist, conductor and composer. Read more
• 14 Sep 1936: Lina Ódena, Spanish communist and miliciana (born 1911) Paulina Ódena García, known as Lina Ódena, was a Spanish anti-fascist, communist, and miliciana. She participated in the Revolution of 1934 and was a combatant for the Republican faction during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Read more
• 14 Sep 1936: Irving Thalberg, American screenwriter and producer (born 1899) Irving Grant Thalberg was an American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. He was called "The Boy Wonder" for his youth and ability to select scripts, choose actors, gather production staff, and make profitable films, including Grand Hotel, China Seas, A Night at the Opera, Mutiny on the Bounty, Camille, and The Good Earth. His films carved out an international market, "projecting a seductive image of American life brimming with vitality and rooted in democracy and personal freedom", states biographer Roland Flamini. Read more
• 14 Sep 1931: Tom Roberts, English-Australian painter and educator (born 1856) Thomas William Roberts was an English-born Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism. Read more
• 14 Sep 1927: Isadora Duncan, American-Russian dancer and choreographer (born 1877) Angela Isadora Duncan was an American-born dancer and choreographer, who was a pioneer of modern contemporary dance and performed to great acclaim throughout Europe and the United States. Born and raised in California, she lived and danced in Western Europe, the U.S., and Soviet Russia from the age of 22. She died when her scarf became entangled in the wheel and axle of the car in which she was travelling in Nice, France. Read more
• 14 Sep 1916: José Echegaray, Spanish engineer, mathematician, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1832) José Echegaray y Eizaguirre was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, politician, and one of the leading dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century. He was awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions which, in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions of the Spanish drama." Read more
• 14 Sep 1910: Lombe Atthill, Northern Irish obstetrician and gynaecologist (born 1827) Lombe Athill was a Northern Irish obstetrician and gynaecologist. Hailing from Ardess, Magheraculmoney in County Fermanagh, he studied at the Trinity College, Dublin, and obtained his licence to practice from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1847. That year, he became the surgeon to a charitable dispensary in Fleet Street, Dublin, and then dispensary doctor of the district of Geashill in King's County from 1848 to 1850. He began working as an assistant physician at the Rotunda Hospital in 1851. In November 1875, he was elected master of the hospital, and was one of the leading experts on gynaecology in the country at the time. He was elected president of the Irish College of Physicians in 1888. Read more
• 14 Sep 1905: Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Italian-French explorer (born 1852) Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan de Brazza was an Italian-French explorer. With his family's financial help, he explored the Ogooué region of Central Africa, and later with the backing of the Société de Géographie de Paris, he reached far into the interior along the right bank of the Congo River. He has often been depicted as a man of friendly manner, great charm and peaceful approach towards the Africans he met and worked with on his journeys. Under French colonial rule, the capital of the Republic of the Congo was named Brazzaville after him and the name was retained by the post-colonial rulers. Read more
• 14 Sep 1901: William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States (born 1843) William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. A member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Republicans largely dominant in the industrial states and nationwide for decades. McKinley successfully led the U.S. in the Spanish–American War and oversaw a period of American expansionism, with the annexations of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, and American Samoa. Read more
• 14 Sep 1898: William Seward Burroughs I, American businessman, founded the Burroughs Corporation (born 1857) William Seward Burroughs I was an American inventor born in Rochester, New York, most prominently known as the inventor of a mechanical calculator. Read more
• 14 Sep 1891: Johannes Bosboom, Dutch painter (born 1817) Johannes Bosboom was a Dutch painter and watercolorist of the Hague School, known especially for his paintings of church interiors. Read more
• 14 Sep 1879: Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist and author (born 1808) Carl Bernhard von Cotta, known as Bernhard von Cotta, was a German geologist. Read more
• 14 Sep 1868: Swami Virajanand Dandeesha, also known as the Blind Sage of Mathura, celebrated teacher of Arya Samaj founder, Dayanand Saraswati, a scholar and teacher of Sanskrit grammar and Vedic literature (born 1778) Swami Virajanand Dandeesha, also known as the Blind Sage of Mathura, was the celebrated teacher of Arya Samaj founder, Dayanand Saraswati. He was a scholar and teacher of Sanskrit grammar and Vedic literature. Read more
• 14 Sep 1862: Charles Pearson, English lawyer and politician (born 1793) Charles Pearson was a British lawyer and politician. He was solicitor to the City of London, a reforming campaigner, and – briefly – Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Lambeth. He campaigned against corruption in jury selection, for penal reform, for the abolition of capital punishment, and for universal suffrage. Read more
• 14 Sep 1862: Charles Lennox Richardson, English-Chinese merchant (born 1834) Charles Lennox Richardson was a British merchant based in Shanghai, Qing Empire who was killed in Japan during the Namamugi Incident. His middle name is spelled Lenox in the census and family documents. Read more
• 14 Sep 1852: Augustus Pugin, English architect and critic, designed Scarisbrick Hall (born 1812) Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin was an English architect, designer, artist and critic with French and Swiss origins. He is principally remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival style of architecture. Among his best-known work is the interior and clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, the meeting place of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Pugin designed many churches in England, and some in Ireland and Australia. He was the son of Auguste Pugin, and the father of Edward Welby Pugin, Cuthbert Welby Pugin, and Peter Paul Pugin, who continued his architectural and interior design firm as Pugin & Pugin. Read more
• 14 Sep 1852: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Irish-English field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1769) Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was a British Army officer and statesman. A leading figure in early-19th-century British politics, Wellesley served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces. Read more
• 14 Sep 1851: James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist, short story writer, and historian (born 1789) James Fenimore Cooper was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune. He lived much of his boyhood and his last 15 years in Cooperstown, New York, which was founded by his father William Cooper on property that he owned. Cooper became a member of the Episcopal Church shortly before his death, and contributed generously to it. He attended Yale University for three years, where he was a member of the Linonian Society. Read more
• 14 Sep 1836: Aaron Burr, American colonel and politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States (born 1756) Aaron Burr Jr. was an American politician, businessman, and lawyer who served as the third vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805, during Thomas Jefferson's first presidential term. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, he is primarily remembered for the killing of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton in a duel, as well as his conspiracy to take parts of the United States or the Spanish Empire to form an independent country. Read more
• 14 Sep 1821: Heinrich Kuhl, German naturalist and zoologist (born 1797) Heinrich Kuhl was a German naturalist and zoologist. Read more
• 14 Sep 1807: George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1724) Field Marshal George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, PC, styled as the Viscount Townshend from 1764 to 1787, was a British Army officer and politician. After serving at the Battle of Dettingen during the War of the Austrian Succession and the Battle of Culloden during the Jacobite Rising, Townshend took command of the British forces for the closing stages of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham during the Seven Years' War. He went on to be Lord Lieutenant of Ireland or Viceroy where he introduced measures aimed at increasing the size of Irish regiments, reducing corruption in Ireland and improving the Irish economy. In cooperation with Prime Minister North in London, he solidified governmental control over Ireland. He also served as Master-General of the Ordnance, first in the North Ministry and then in the Fox–North Coalition. Read more

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