History of Today 19 September: Important Events, Births and Deaths

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Important Events on 19 September in History

• 19 Sep 2023: Azerbaijan launches a military offensive against the Republic of Artsakh in the Nagorno-Karabakh region; this leads to the flight of the Armenian population. Read more
• 19 Sep 2022: The state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is held at Westminster Abbey, London. Read more
• 19 Sep 2022: A strong earthquake kills 2 and injures over 30 in Mexico's state of Michoacán. Read more
• 19 Sep 2021: The Cumbre Vieja volcano, on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, erupts. The eruption lasts for almost three months, ending on December 13. Read more
• 19 Sep 2017: The 2017 Puebla earthquake strikes Mexico, causing 370 deaths and over 6,000 injuries, as well as extensive damage. Read more
• 19 Sep 2016: In the wake of a manhunt, the suspect in a series of bombings in New York and New Jersey is apprehended after a shootout with police. Read more
• 19 Sep 2011: Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees surpasses Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all-time career saves leader with 602. Read more
• 19 Sep 2010: The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed. Read more
• 19 Sep 2008: A Learjet 60 carrying musicians Travis Barker and Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein crashes during a rejected takeoff from Colombia Metropolitan Airport in West Columbia, South Carolina, killing four of the six people on board. Barker and Goldstein both survive. Read more
• 19 Sep 2006: The Thai army stages a coup. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared. Read more
• 19 Sep 1997: The Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria kills 53 people. Read more
• 19 Sep 1995: The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber Manifesto. Read more
• 19 Sep 1991: Ötzi the Iceman is discovered in the Alps on the border between Italy and Austria. Read more
• 19 Sep 1989: A bomb destroys UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing all 170 passengers and crew. Read more
• 19 Sep 1985: A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City. Read more
• 19 Sep 1985: Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa, John Denver, and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music. Read more
• 19 Sep 1983: Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence. Read more
• 19 Sep 1982: Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons 🙂 and 🙁 on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system. Read more
• 19 Sep 1978: The Solomon Islands join the United Nations. Read more
• 19 Sep 1976: Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew. Read more
• 19 Sep 1976: Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object. Read more
• 19 Sep 1970: Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival. Read more
• 19 Sep 1970: Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos. Read more
• 19 Sep 1960: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistani President Ayub Khan sign the Indus Waters Treaty for the control and management of the Indus, Chenab, Jhelum, Ravi, Sutlej and Beas rivers. Read more
• 19 Sep 1950: Korean War: An attack by North Korean forces was repelled at the Battle of Nam River. Read more
• 19 Sep 1946: The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich. Read more
• 19 Sep 1944: World War II: The Battle of Hürtgen Forest begins. It will become the second-longest individual battle that the U.S. Army has ever fought. Read more
• 19 Sep 1944: World War II: The Moscow Armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union is signed, which officially ended the Continuation War. Read more
• 19 Sep 1940: World War II: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp to gather and smuggle out information for the resistance movement. Read more
• 19 Sep 1939: World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged. Read more
• 19 Sep 1918: The battle of Megiddo begins in which British forces attack the right flank of the Ottoman army during World War I. Read more
• 19 Sep 1916: World War I: During the East African Campaign, colonial forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur capture the town of Tabora after heavy fighting. Read more
• 19 Sep 1902: A stampede at Shiloh Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, leads to the death of 115 attendees. Read more
• 19 Sep 1893: In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor, giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote. Read more
• 19 Sep 1870: Franco-Prussian War: The siege of Paris begins. The city held out for over four months before surrendering. Read more
• 19 Sep 1868: La Gloriosa begins in Spain. Read more
• 19 Sep 1864: American Civil War: Union troops under Philip Sheridan defeat a Confederate force commanded by Jubal Early. With over 50,000 troops engaged, it was the largest battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley. Read more
• 19 Sep 1863: American Civil War: The first day of the Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater. Read more
• 19 Sep 1862: American Civil War: Union troops under William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by Sterling Price. Read more
• 19 Sep 1852: Annibale de Gasparis discovers the asteroid Massalia from the north dome of the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte. Read more
• 19 Sep 1846: Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette. Read more

Famous Births on 19 September

• 19 Sep 1999: Precious Achiuwa, Nigerian basketball player Precious Ezinna Achiuwa is a Nigerian professional basketball player for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He attended high school in the United States, where he was a consensus five-star recruit and named a McDonald's All-American. Achiuwa played college basketball for the Memphis Tigers, earning conference player of the year honors as a freshman in the American Athletic Conference (AAC) in 2020. He was selected by the Miami Heat in the first round of the 2020 NBA draft with the 20th overall pick. After his rookie year ended in Miami, he was traded to the Toronto Raptors during the 2021 offseason before being traded to the New York Knicks in 2023. He later returned to the Heat in 2025. He was waived by the Heat after the preseason but signed with the Sacramento Kings in November. Read more
• 19 Sep 1998: Nolan Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player Nolan James Patrick is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He was drafted second overall by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 2017 NHL entry draft and played four seasons with the Flyers and Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL). Read more
• 19 Sep 1998: Trae Young, American basketball player Rayford Trae Young is an American professional basketball player for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Oklahoma Sooners, where in his one season in 2017–18, he tied the then NCAA Division I single-game assists record with 22 and became the only player to ever lead the NCAA in both points and assists in a single season. Nicknamed "Ice Trae", he was drafted by the Dallas Mavericks in the 2018 NBA draft with the fifth pick, and traded the same day to the Atlanta Hawks, along with a future first-round pick, for the draft rights to Luka Dončić. He joined Dončić in a unanimous selection to the NBA All-Rookie First Team in 2019. He is a four-time NBA All-Star, and led the Hawks to three playoff runs, including a trip to the conference finals in 2021. Read more
• 19 Sep 1996: Brandon Clarke, Canadian-American basketball player (died 2026) Brandon Clarke was a Canadian–American professional basketball player who served as a power forward for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the San Jose State Spartans and the Gonzaga Bulldogs. Clarke was selected by the Oklahoma City Thunder in the first round of the 2019 NBA draft with the 21st overall pick and then immediately traded to the Grizzlies. He was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team in 2020. In June 2026, Complex Canada placed Clarke 20th in their ranking of The 20 Best Canadian Basketball Players of All Time. Read more
• 19 Sep 1996: Dejounte Murray, American basketball player Dejounte Dashaun Murray is an American professional basketball player for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played one season of college basketball for the Washington Huskies, where he earned second-team all-conference honors in the Pac-12 as a freshman in 2015–16. He was selected by the San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the 2016 NBA draft with the 29th overall pick. In 2022, Murray was named to his first NBA All-Star Game and led the league in steals. He is the Spurs' franchise leader in career triple-doubles. He has also played for the Atlanta Hawks. Read more
• 19 Sep 1996: Chris Silva, Gabonese basketball player Chris Silva Obame Correia Silva is a Gabonese professional basketball player for Fenerbahçe of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the South Carolina Gamecocks. Read more
• 19 Sep 1995: Brent Faiyaz, American singer Christopher Brent Wood, known professionally as Brent Faiyaz, is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, and record producer. Faiyaz rose to prominence with his guest performance alongside Shy Glizzy on GoldLink's 2016 single "Crew". The song peaked at number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100, received octuple platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and was nominated for Best Rap/Sung Performance at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. The following year, Faiyaz released his debut studio album, Sonder Son (2017). He is noted for his "sly vocals" and "atmospheric slow jam productions," along with occasional rapping. Read more
• 19 Sep 1995: Rachel Sennott, American actress Rachel Anne Sennott is an American actress, screenwriter and comedian. After training at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, she began her career on the New York City open mic scene and co-developed two Comedy Central shows with Ayo Edebiri. Read more
• 19 Sep 1993: Pi'erre Bourne, American record producer and rapper Jordan Timothy Jenks, known professionally as Pi'erre Bourne, is an American record producer, rapper, singer, songwriter, and audio engineer. He is known for producing the 2017 singles "Magnolia" for Playboi Carti and "Gummo" for 6ix9ine, both of which entered the top 30 of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. He has worked extensively with artists including Playboi Carti, Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Yachty, Young Thug, Juice Wrld, Young Nudy, Trippie Redd, Kanye West, Drake, Nav, 6ix9ine, Duwap Kaine, and 21 Savage. Read more
• 19 Sep 1992: Jiro Kuroshio, Japanese wrestler Sōjirō Higuchi , best known as Jiro "Ikemen" Kuroshio and currently performing as Kuroshio Tokyo Japan , is a Japanese professional wrestler and Internet personality. Read more
• 19 Sep 1992: Palmer Luckey, American entrepreneur Palmer Freeman Luckey is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of defense technology company Anduril Industries. He was the founder of Oculus VR and designer of the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that is widely credited with reviving the virtual reality industry. Read more
• 19 Sep 1992: Diego Antonio Reyes, Mexican footballer Diego Antonio Reyes Rosales is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Liga MX club Querétaro. He is an Olympic gold medalist. Read more
• 19 Sep 1991: CJ McCollum, American basketball player Christian James McCollum is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Lehigh Mountain Hawks and was named the Patriot League Player of the Year in 2010 and 2012. McCollum was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers tenth overall in the 2013 NBA draft. He was chosen as the NBA Most Improved Player in 2016. McCollum was traded to the New Orleans Pelicans in 2022, the Washington Wizards in 2025, and to the Atlanta Hawks in 2026. McCollum served as president of the National Basketball Players Association from 2021 to 2025. Read more
• 19 Sep 1990: Saki Fukuda, Japanese actress and singer Saki Fukuda is a Japanese actress and singer. Read more
• 19 Sep 1990: Savvas Gentsoglou, Greek footballer Savvas Gentsoglou is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. Read more
• 19 Sep 1990: Stephon Gilmore, American football player Stephon Stiles Gilmore is an American former professional football cornerback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons. He is regarded as one of the greatest cornerbacks of his generation. He played college football for the South Carolina Gamecocks, earning third-team All-American and first-team All-SEC honors in 2010. Gilmore was selected 10th overall in the 2012 NFL draft by the Buffalo Bills, where he spent his first five seasons and earned Pro Bowl honors in 2016. Read more
• 19 Sep 1990: Kieran Trippier, English footballer Kieran John Trippier is an English professional footballer who plays as a right-back for EFL Championship club Wolverhampton Wanderers. Read more
• 19 Sep 1989: George Springer, American baseball player George Chelston Springer III is an American professional baseball outfielder and designated hitter for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Houston Astros from 2014 to 2020. Springer has played primarily in right field and also spent significant time in center field. Read more
• 19 Sep 1987: Carlos Quintero, Colombian footballer Carlos Darwin Quintero Villalba is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Categoría Primera A club Millonarios. Quintero is also known by his nickname of El Científico del Gol. He can play in various roles like striker, winger, second striker and attacking midfielder. His main attributes throughout his career have been his pace, creativity, and dribbling ability. Read more
• 19 Sep 1986: Leon Best, English footballer Leon Julian Brendan Best is a retired professional footballer who played as a striker. He has played for the Republic of Ireland national football team. Best represented Ireland at under-21 level and won his first full international cap against Nigeria on 29 May 2009. Read more
• 19 Sep 1986: Sally Pearson, Australian athlete and hurdler Sally Pearson, OAM is a retired Australian athlete who competed in the 100 metre hurdles. She is the 2011 and 2017 World champion and 2012 Olympic champion in the 100 metres hurdles. She also won a silver medal in the 100 m hurdles at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2013 World Championships. Read more
• 19 Sep 1985: Alun Wyn Jones, Welsh rugby player Alun Wyn Jones is a Welsh former rugby union player who played as a lock. He played most of his career for the Ospreys and for the Wales national team. He is the world's most-capped rugby union player, with 158 caps for Wales and 12 for the British & Irish Lions, and also holds the records for the most Wales caps and the second-most Wales caps as captain. He retired from rugby in 2023. Read more
• 19 Sep 1985: Song Joong-ki, South Korean actor Song Joong-ki is a South Korean actor who primarily works in television. He rose to fame in the historical coming-of-age drama Sungkyunkwan Scandal (2010) and the variety show Running Man (2010–2011). Since then, he has played diverse roles in the television series The Innocent Man (2012), Descendants of the Sun (2016), Vincenzo (2021), and Reborn Rich (2022); as well as the films A Werewolf Boy (2012), The Battleship Island (2017), and Space Sweepers (2021). Read more
• 19 Sep 1985: Nathanael Liminski, German politician Nathanael Liminski is a German politician from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Since 30 June 2017, he has been Head of the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and since June 29, 2022 Minister for Federal, European and International Affairs and the Media. Liminski was considered the irreplaceable "mastermind" and most important confidant of former Prime Minister and failed CDU chancellor candidate Armin Laschet and is now perceived as a close collaborator of new Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst. Read more
• 19 Sep 1985: Renee Paquette, Canadian-American television personality Renee Jane Paquette is a Canadian and American television personality. She is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as a backstage interviewer and pre-show panelist. She was previously known for her time in WWE between 2012 and 2020, where she served as a commentator, presenter, and interviewer under the ring name Renee Young. During her time in WWE, Young also appeared as a main cast member on the reality TV series Total Divas. Before signing with WWE, she was a sports broadcaster for The Score Television Network. Read more
• 19 Sep 1984: Eva Marie, American wrestler Natalie Eva Marie Nelson is an American media personality, professional wrestler, model, actress and businesswoman. She is best known for her tenures in WWE from 2013–2017 and 2020–2021, where she performed under the ring name Eva Marie. Read more
• 19 Sep 1984: Ángel Reyna, Mexican footballer Ángel Eduardo Reyna Martínez is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Read more
• 19 Sep 1983: Katharina Kucharowits, Austrian politician Katharina Kucharowits is an Austrian politician and member of the National Council. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she has represented Lower Austria East since October 2019. She was a Federal List member of the National Council from October 2013 to November 2017 and from November 2018 to October 2019. Read more
• 19 Sep 1983: Carl Landry, American basketball player Carl Christopher Landry is an American former professional basketball player. The 6-foot-9-inch (2.06 m), all-conference power forward played college basketball for the Purdue Boilermakers from 2004 to 2007. He is the older brother of Marcus Landry. Read more
• 19 Sep 1983: Joni Pitkänen, Finnish ice hockey player Joni Pitkänen is a Finnish former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Philadelphia Flyers, Edmonton Oilers, and Carolina Hurricanes. Read more
• 19 Sep 1982: Eduardo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer Eduardo dos Reis Carvalho, known simply as Eduardo, is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Read more
• 19 Sep 1982: Eleni Daniilidou, Greek tennis player Eleni Daniilidou is a Greek former tennis player from the island of Crete. Read more
• 19 Sep 1981: Damiano Cunego, Italian cyclist Damiano Cunego is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2002 and 2018 for the Saeco, Lampre–Merida and Nippo–Vini Fantini–Europa Ovini teams. Read more
• 19 Sep 1980: J. R. Bremer, American-Bosnian basketball player Ernest Lenell "J. R." Bremer is an American former professional basketball player who last played for Limoges CSP of the LNB Pro A. Bremer has also played in the NBA and was an NBA All-Rookie second team member. Standing at 1.88 m, he played the point guard position. He also represented the senior men's Bosnia and Herzegovina national basketball team and was one of the highest-paid point guards in Europe in 2008. He is the grandson of former Negro Leagues pitcher Eugene Bremer. Read more
• 19 Sep 1980: James Ellison, English motorcycle racer James Desmond Ellison is an English motorcycle racer. After two seasons on a Yamaha R1, Ellison expected to retire at the end of 2018, but in 2019 again competed in the British Superbike Championship series aboard a BMW S1000RR, before parting company with his team half-way through the season in August. He then joined another British Superbike team for the remainder of the 2019 season, starting from the September event at Oulton Park, on the ex-Danny Kent machine, previously an ex-Leon Camier 2016 MV Agusta F4. Read more
• 19 Sep 1980: Dimitri Yachvili, French rugby player Dimitri Yachvili Markarian is a French former rugby union footballer who played as a scrum-half for Biarritz and France. He played for France from 2002 to 2012, earning 61 caps and scoring 373 points. With them he played in the final of the 2011 World Cup losing to New Zealand and won two Grand Slams in 2004 and 2010. In club rugby, he won a European Cup in 2012 and played in two European Cup finals in 2006 and 2010 with Biarritz. With this club, he also won two French championship titles in 2005 and 2006. With his previous club, Gloucester, he was champion of England in 2002. After the end of his playing career, he became a rugby consultant, a career he began while still a player. Read more
• 19 Sep 1979: Mikael Tellqvist, Swedish ice hockey player Mikael Karl Tellqvist is a Swedish former professional ice hockey goaltender who last played for Djurgårdens IF of the Swedish Hockey League, his second tenure with the club. Read more
• 19 Sep 1978: Nick Johnson, American baseball player Nicholas Robert Johnson is an American former professional baseball first baseman and designated hitter. During his career Johnson played for the New York Yankees, Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals (2004–2009), Florida Marlins (2009), and Baltimore Orioles (2012). Read more
• 19 Sep 1978: Brett Keisel, American football player Brett Keisel is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end for 13 seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the BYU Cougars. He was selected by the Steelers in the seventh round of the 2002 NFL draft. Read more
• 19 Sep 1978: Jorge López Montaña, Spanish footballer Jorge López Montaña is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a right midfielder. Read more
• 19 Sep 1977: Poon Yiu Cheuk, Hong Kong footballer and coach Poon Yiu Cheuk is a Hong Kong football manager and former professional footballer who played as a left-back. Read more
• 19 Sep 1977: Aakash Chopra, Indian cricketer Aakash Chopra is a cricket commentator, YouTuber and former cricketer who briefly played for the Indian cricket team from late 2003 to late 2004. Read more
• 19 Sep 1977: Ryan Dusick, American musician and record producer Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band formed in Los Angeles, California. It consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Adam Levine, rhythm guitarist and keyboardist Jesse Carmichael, lead guitarist James Valentine, drummer Matt Flynn, keyboardist PJ Morton, and bassist and keyboardist Sam Farrar. Original members Levine, Carmichael, bassist Mickey Madden, and drummer Ryan Dusick first came together as Kara's Flowers in February 1994, while they were in high school. Read more
• 19 Sep 1977: Tommaso Rocchi, Italian footballer Tommaso Rocchi is an Italian former professional footballer who played as striker. He spent a large part of his career with Lazio and is the club's sixth highest goalscorer of all time, three behind Bruno Giordano. At international level, Rocchi earned three caps for the Italy national team. Read more
• 19 Sep 1977: Mike Smith, American baseball player Michael Anthony Smith is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played for the Toronto Blue Jays and Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball (MLB), and the Brother Elephants of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). Read more
• 19 Sep 1977: Emil Sutovsky, Israeli chess player Emil Davidovich Sutovsky is an Israeli chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1996. Sutovsky has been the FIDE CEO since 2022. Previously, he served as FIDE Director-General (2018-22). He was the president of the Association of Chess Professionals from 2012 to 2019. Read more
• 19 Sep 1976: Raja Bell, American basketball player Raja Dia Bell is an American former professional basketball player and podcaster. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Philadelphia 76ers, Dallas Mavericks, Utah Jazz, Phoenix Suns, Charlotte Bobcats, and Golden State Warriors. He was twice named to the NBA All-Defensive Team. Read more
• 19 Sep 1976: Jan Hlaváč, Czech ice hockey player Jan Hlaváč is a Czech former professional ice hockey player who last played for HC Stadion Vrchlabí in CZE.3. Read more
• 19 Sep 1976: Sergey Tsinkevich, Belarusian footballer and referee Sergey Tsinkevich is a Belarusian professional football referee and former player. He has officiated matches of the Belarusian Premier League since 2008. Read more
• 19 Sep 1975: Marcus Dunstan, American director and screenwriter Marcus Dunstan is an American filmmaker who, along with frequent collaborator Patrick Melton, wrote the screenplay for the film Feast, which was the winner of Season Three of the filmmaking competition reality TV series Project Greenlight. Dunstan has since written the screenplays for Feast II: Sloppy Seconds, Feast III: The Happy Finish, and four films in the Saw franchise. Dunstan also directed and co-wrote the films The Collector, its sequel The Collection, and Unhuman. Read more
• 19 Sep 1974: Hidetaka Miyazaki, Japanese video game designer and executive Hidetaka Miyazaki is a Japanese video game director, designer, writer, and president of the game developer FromSoftware. He joined the company in 2004 and was a designer for the Armored Core series before receiving wider recognition for creating the Dark Souls series. Miyazaki was promoted to company president in 2014 and also serves as its representative director. Other similar games he has directed include Demon's Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden Ring. Read more
• 19 Sep 1973: Jacinta Allan, Australian politician, 49th Premier of Victoria Jacinta Marie Allan is an Australian politician who served as the 49th premier of Victoria from 2023 to 2026, holding office as the leader of the Victorian Labor Party. She has been the member of Parliament (MP) for the district of Bendigo East since 1999. Read more
• 19 Sep 1973: Nick Colgan, Irish footballer and coach Nicholas Vincent Colgan is an Irish football coach and former professional footballer whose most recent role (2022-2026) was goalkeeping coach at EFL League One side Stockport County. Read more
• 19 Sep 1973: Cristiano da Matta, Brazilian racing driver Cristiano Monteiro da Matta is a Brazilian former professional racing driver. He won the CART Championship in 2002, and drove in Formula One with the Toyota team from 2003 to 2004. Read more
• 19 Sep 1973: Javier Duarte, Mexican politician Javier Duarte de Ochoa is a Mexican politician and kleptocrat, formerly affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who served as Governor of Veracruz from 2010 to 2016. He also served as congressman during the 61st Congress, representing Veracruz's 16th district before leaving his seat on 16 February 2010. On 4 July 2010 Duarte de Ochoa won the election for governor, becoming the candidate to receive the most votes in the state's history with 1,392,386 votes according to the final electoral tally. In October 2016, Duarte was officially declared a fugitive criminal by Mexican authorities due to corruption during his time as governor of Veracruz and was apprehended in on 15 April 2017, in the tourist town of Panajachel, Guatemala. He was extradited to Mexico on 17 July 2017. His sentence of nine years in prison was ratified on 18 May 2020. Read more
• 19 Sep 1973: David Zepeda, Mexican actor, model and singer David Zepeda is a Mexican actor, model and singer. He is best known for his roles in soap operas such as Acorralada, Abismo de pasión and Por amar sin ley. In 2019, Zepeda made his Telemundo debut in the soap opera La Doña as Jose Luis Navarrete in the second season, which was released in January 2020. Read more
• 19 Sep 1972: Ryan Girdler, Australian rugby league player Ryan Girdler is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australia international representative goal-kicking centre, he played his club football for the Illawarra Steelers and the Penrith Panthers, winning the 2003 NRL Premiership with the Panthers. Read more
• 19 Sep 1972: Ashot Nadanian, Armenian chess player and coach Ashot Nadanian is an Armenian chess International Master (1997), chess theoretician and chess coach. Read more
• 19 Sep 1971: Mike Sadlo, German footballer and manager Mike Sadlo is a German former footballer. Read more
• 19 Sep 1970: Gilbert Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player Gilbert Dionne is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who played six seasons in the National Hockey League from 1990–91 until 1995–96. He is the younger brother of Hockey Hall of Famer Marcel Dionne, who is nineteen years his senior. Read more
• 19 Sep 1970: Antoine Hey, German footballer and manager Antoine Hey is a German football coach and former professional player. Read more
• 19 Sep 1969: Candy Dulfer, Dutch saxophonist Candy Dulfer is a Dutch jazz and pop saxophonist. She is the daughter of jazz saxophonist Hans Dulfer. She began playing at age six and founded her band Funky Stuff when she was fourteen. Her breakthrough came with her appearance as the opening act on Madonna's European tour in 1987. Her debut album Saxuality (1990) received a Grammy nomination. She has performed and recorded with her dad Hans, Prince, Dave Stewart, Van Morrison, Angie Stone, Maceo Parker and Rick Braun and has performed live with Alan Parsons (1995), Pink Floyd (1990), and Tower of Power (2014). She hosted the Dutch television series Candy Meets… (2007), in which she interviewed musicians. In 2013, she became a judge in the fifth season of the Dutch version of X Factor. Read more
• 19 Sep 1969: Jacek Frąckiewicz, Polish footballer Jacek Frąckiewicz is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Read more
• 19 Sep 1969: Alkinoos Ioannidis, Cypriot singer-songwriter and guitarist Alkinoos Ioannidis is a Greek Cypriot composer, lyricist, singer, and orchestrator. Read more
• 19 Sep 1969: Kostya Tszyu, Russian-Australian boxer Konstantin Borisovich "Kostya" Tszyu is a Russian-Australian former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2005. He held multiple world championships in the light-welterweight division, including the undisputed and lineal championships between 2001 and 2005. Tszyu was an exceptional all-around boxer-puncher who relied heavily on accuracy, timing, and carried formidable punching power; he is often regarded as one of the hardest-punching light-welterweights in the division's history, and one of the greatest light-welterweights of all time. Read more
• 19 Sep 1969: Tapio Wilska, Finnish singer-songwriter Tapio Wilska is the main vocalist of the heavy metal band Sethian. He is also the ex-lead vocalist for the band Finntroll and is the current vocalist of Canadian band Obscene Eulogy. He gets his inspiration from bands like Black Sabbath, Motörhead, Dead Kennedys, Venom, Thin Lizzy and The Pixies. Read more
• 19 Sep 1967: Jim Abbott, American baseball player James Anthony Abbott is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the California Angels, New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, and Milwaukee Brewers from 1989 to 1999. He was successful at the major league level despite being born without a right hand. Read more
• 19 Sep 1967: Aleksandr Karelin, Russian wrestler and politician Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Karelin is a Russian politician and retired athlete. Read more
• 19 Sep 1966: Yoshihiro Takayama, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist Yoshihiro Takayama is a Japanese former professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. Debuting for UWF International (UWFI) in the 1990s, Takayama joined All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) in 1997 after UWF-i folded. In 2000, he joined Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah), and later became a mainstay in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) where he arguably achieved his greatest success, holding the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and NWF Heavyweight Championship simultaneously in 2003. He is one of only five men to hold all three puroresu major heavyweight titles, the others being Kensuke Sasaki, Keiji Muto, Satoshi Kojima, and Yuji Nagata. Read more
• 19 Sep 1965: Andrew Leeds, Australian rugby player and coach Andrew Leeds is an Australian former rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played for the Western Suburbs Magpies, Parramatta Eels, Penrith Panthers and Wakefield Trinity in rugby league primarily as a goal-kicking fullback; and for Parramatta Two Blues and Leicester Tigers in rugby union, he represented Australia 14 times in rugby union between 1986 and 1988. Read more
• 19 Sep 1964: Patrick Marber, English actor, director, and screenwriter Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an English comedian, playwright, director, actor, and screenwriter. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002. Read more
• 19 Sep 1963: Jarvis Cocker, English singer-songwriter and guitarist Jarvis Cocker is an English musician. As the founder, frontman, lyricist and only consistent member of the band Pulp, he became a reluctant figurehead of the Britpop genre of the mid-1990s. Read more
• 19 Sep 1963: David Seaman, English footballer David Andrew Seaman is an English former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. In a career lasting from 1981 to 2004, he is best known for his time playing for Arsenal. He won 75 caps for England, and is the country's third-most capped goalkeeper, level with Joe Hart, and after Peter Shilton and Jordan Pickford. In 1997, he was awarded the MBE for services to football and was nominated for the 1998 Ballon d'Or. In addition, he is one of the few players to have made over 1,000 career appearances. Read more
• 19 Sep 1963: Urmas Tartes, Estonian biologist and photographer Urmas Tartes is an Estonian biologist and nature photographer. Read more
• 19 Sep 1962: Randy Myers, American baseball player Randall Kirk Myers is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, San Diego Padres, Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles, and Toronto Blue Jays, between 1985 and 1998. He batted and threw left-handed. Read more
• 19 Sep 1962: Ken Rosenthal, American sportscaster Ken Rosenthal is an American sportswriter and reporter. He has served as a field reporter for Fox Major League Baseball since 2005, and was an in-studio reporter for MLB Network from 2009 to 2022. Since August 2017, he is a senior baseball writer for The Athletic. Read more
• 19 Sep 1961: Artur Ekert, Polish-British physicist and academic Artur Konrad Ekert is a professor of quantum physics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, professorial fellow in quantum physics and cryptography at Merton College, Oxford, Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore and the founding director of the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT). His research interests extend over most aspects of information processing in quantum-mechanical systems, with a focus on quantum communication and quantum computation. He is best known as one of the pioneers of quantum cryptography. Read more
• 19 Sep 1960: Loïc Bigois, French aerodynamicist and engineer Loïc Bigois is a French Formula One aerodynamicist. He is currently the Head of Aerodynamic Operations at Scuderia Ferrari. Read more
• 19 Sep 1960: Yolanda Saldívar, American convicted murderer Yolanda Saldívar is an American former nurse who murdered singer Selena in Corpus Christi, Texas, on March 31, 1995. Saldívar had been the president of Selena's fan club and the manager of her boutiques, but she lost both positions a short time before the murder, when the singer's family discovered that she had been embezzling money from both organizations.
  In October 1995, Saldívar was found guilty of murder and sentenced to a prison term of 30 years to life. In 2025, she became eligible for parole. Saldívar's petition for parole was denied on March 27, 2025; the next parole review is set for March 2030. Read more
• 19 Sep 1957: Dan Hampton, American football player Daniel Oliver Hampton is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle for twelve seasons with the Chicago Bears from 1979 to 1990 in the National Football League (NFL). He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2002. He currently hosts the Bears postgame show on WGN Radio in Chicago. Read more
• 19 Sep 1957: Chris Roupas, American basketball player Chris Roupas is an American former professional basketball player. A 6 ft 5 in, 220 pound shooting guard, he played for Aiolos in Athens, Greece during the 1982–83 season. Read more
• 19 Sep 1955: Richard Burmer, American composer and engineer (died 2006) Richard Steven Burmer was an American composer, engineer, sound designer, musician and ethnomusicologist. His work with electronic music combined with musical styles and instruments from around the world formed his own unique and distinct sound. Read more
• 19 Sep 1954: Adam Phillips, Welsh psychotherapist and author Adam Phillips is a British psychoanalytic psychotherapist and essayist. Read more
• 19 Sep 1954: Eleni Vitali, Greek singer-songwriter Eleni Vitali is a Greek Romani popular singer and composer, active from the early 1970s. Read more
• 19 Sep 1953: Wayne Clark, Australian cricketer Wayne Maxwell Clark is a former Australian cricketer who played in 10 Test matches and two One Day Internationals from 1977 to 1979. Read more
• 19 Sep 1953: Sarana VerLin, American singer-songwriter and violinist Sarana VerLin is an American violinist, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She was the vocalist/violinist of the bands Natasha and Dark Carnival, and violinist for numerous bands. Read more
• 19 Sep 1952: Rhys Chatham, American trumpet player, guitarist, and composer Rhys Chatham is an American composer, guitarist, trumpet player, and multi-instrumentalist, primarily active in avant-garde and minimalist music. He is best known for his "guitar orchestra" compositions. He has lived in France since 1987. Read more
• 19 Sep 1952: Henry Kaiser, American guitarist and composer Henry Kaiser is an American guitarist and composer, known as an idiosyncratic soloist, a sideman, an ethnomusicologist, and a film score composer. Recording and performing prolifically in many styles of music, Kaiser is a fixture in the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. He is considered a member of the "second generation" of American free improvisers. He is married to Canadian artist Brandy Gale. He is the son of Henry J. Kaiser Jr. and the grandson of industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. Read more
• 19 Sep 1952: George Warrington, American businessman (died 2007) George David Warrington was an American transportation official, who served New Jersey Transit for 28 years, latterly in the post of executive director. Read more
• 19 Sep 1951: Daniel Lanois, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Daniel Roland Lanois is a Canadian record producer and musician. Read more
• 19 Sep 1950: Michael Proctor, English physicist, mathematician, and academic Michael Richard Edward Proctor is a British physicist, mathematician, and academic. He is Professor of Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics at the University of Cambridge and, until 2023, served as the Provost of King's College, Cambridge and school governor at Eton College. Read more
• 19 Sep 1949: Ringo Mendoza, Mexican wrestler Genaro Jacobo Contreras, better known by his ring name Ringo Mendoza, is a Mexican professional wrestling trainer and retired professional wrestler for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). Mendoza wrestled his last match in 2011, transitioning to being a full-time trainer instead. Read more
• 19 Sep 1949: Barry Scheck, American lawyer, co-founded the Innocence Project Barry Charles Scheck is an American attorney and legal scholar. He received national media attention while serving on O. J. Simpson's defense team, collectively dubbed the "Dream Team", helping to win an acquittal in the highly publicized murder case. Scheck is the director of the Innocence Project and a professor at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. Read more
• 19 Sep 1949: Sidney Wicks, American basketball player Sidney Wicks is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A native of California, he played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins. Wicks was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 1971 NBA draft with the second overall pick. He was named the NBA Rookie of the Year and was a four-time NBA All-Star with the Trail Blazers. He also played professionally for the Boston Celtics and San Diego Clippers, finishing his career after one season in Italy. Read more
• 19 Sep 1948: Jim Ard, American basketball player Jimmie Lee Ard is an American former professional basketball player. Read more
• 19 Sep 1948: Mykhaylo Fomenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (died 2024) Mykhaylo Ivanovych Fomenko was a Ukrainian football player and coach. Read more
• 19 Sep 1947: Henry Bromell, American novelist and screenwriter (died 2013) Alfred Henry Bromell was an American novelist, screenwriter, and director. Read more
• 19 Sep 1947: Tanith Lee, English author (died 2015) Tanith Lee was a British science fiction and fantasy writer. She wrote more than 90 novels and 300 short stories, and was the winner of multiple World Fantasy Awards, the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. She also wrote a children's picture book, and many poems. She wrote two episodes of the BBC science fiction series Blake's 7. Read more
• 19 Sep 1945: Kate Adie, English journalist and author Kathryn Adie is an English journalist. She was Chief News Correspondent for BBC News between 1989 and 2003, during which time she reported from war zones around the world. Read more
• 19 Sep 1944: Anders Björck, Swedish politician, 25th Swedish Minister of Defence Anders Per-Arne Björck is a Swedish politician who was Minister for Defence from 1991 to 1994 and Governor of Uppsala County from 2003 to 2009. Read more
• 19 Sep 1944: Edmund Joensen, Faroese politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands Edmund Esbern Johannes Joensen is a Faroese politician, who was the Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands from 1994 to 1998. From 2015 to 2022 served as a member of the Danish Folketing, being one of two Faroese seats in parliament. He did not stand in the 2022 Danish general election and his granddaughter Anna Falkenberg replaced him as Member of the Folketing for the Union Party of which Joensen is a member. Read more
• 19 Sep 1944: İsmet Özel, Turkish poet and scholar İsmet Özel is a Turkish poet and writer. Read more
• 19 Sep 1943: André Boudrias, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2019) André Gerard Boudrias was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who spent 12 seasons in the National Hockey League as well as two more years in the World Hockey Association between 1963 and 1978. He is best remembered for his time with the Vancouver Canucks, where he was the first offensive star in the team's history. He was most recently a scout for the New Jersey Devils. Read more
• 19 Sep 1943: Joe Morgan, American baseball player (died 2020) Joe Leonard Morgan was an American professional baseball second baseman who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Colt .45s / Astros, Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, and Oakland Athletics from 1963 to 1984. He won two World Series championships with the Reds in 1975 and 1976 and was also named the National League Most Valuable Player in each of those years. Considered one of the greatest second basemen of all time, Morgan was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1990 in his first year of eligibility. Read more
• 19 Sep 1941: Umberto Bossi, Italian politician (died 2026) Umberto Bossi was an Italian politician and leader of Lega Nord, a party seeking autonomy for Northern Italy or Padania. Read more
• 19 Sep 1941: Jim Fox, English pentathlete (died 2023) Jeremy Robert "Jim" Fox OBE was a British modern pentathlete and Olympic champion. Read more
• 19 Sep 1941: Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (died 2013) Mariangela Caterina Melato, sometimes billed as Maria Angela Melato, was an Italian actress. She is most remembered for her roles in films of director Lina Wertmüller, including The Seduction of Mimi (1972), Love and Anarchy (1973), and Swept Away (1974). In cinema, she also appeared in films of Claude Chabrol, Elio Petri and Vittorio De Sica, and on stage in productions by Dario Fo, Luchino Visconti and Luca Ronconi. Her roles in English-language films include the 1980 science fiction film Flash Gordon, So Fine (1981) and Dancers (1987). Read more
• 19 Sep 1940: Zandra Rhodes, English fashion designer, founded the Fashion and Textile Museum Dame Zandra Lindsey Rhodes, is an English fashion and textile designer. Her early education in fashion set the foundation for a career in the industry creating textile prints. Rhodes has designed garments for Diana, Princess of Wales, and numerous celebrities such as rock stars Freddie Mercury and Marc Bolan. She has also designed textiles for interiors, featuring her prints on furniture and homewares. In 2003 Rhodes founded the Fashion and Textile Museum in London. Read more
• 19 Sep 1939: Carl Schultz, Hungarian-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter Carl Schultz is a Hungarian-Australian film director. Read more
• 19 Sep 1937: Abner Haynes, American football player (died 2024) Abner Haynes was an American professional football player who was a halfback and return specialist in the American Football League (AFL). He played college football for the North Texas State Eagles and was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the 1960 AFL draft. He was also chosen by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fifth round of the 1960 NFL draft. Chosen by the Raiders in the draft but signing with the Dallas Texans, Haynes excelled in the AFL, scoring 46 rushing touchdowns in eight seasons while winning league MVP honors in 1960. His 46 rushing touchdowns was the most by a player in AFL history. Read more
• 19 Sep 1936: Martin Fay, Irish fiddler (died 2012) Martin Joseph Fay was an Irish fiddler and bones player, and a former member of The Chieftains. Read more
• 19 Sep 1936: Milan Marcetta, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2014) Milan Marcetta was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 54 games in the National Hockey League with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Minnesota North Stars between 1967 and 1969. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1956 to 1973, was spent in the minor leagues. He only played three games in the finals in 1967 for Toronto, but earned the right to have his name engraved on the Stanley Cup. He died the day before his 78th birthday, on September 18, 2014. Read more
• 19 Sep 1936: Al Oerter, American discus thrower (died 2007) Alfred Adolph Oerter Jr. was an American athlete and a four-time Olympic champion in the discus throw. He was the first athlete to win a gold medal in the same individual event in four consecutive Olympic Games. Oerter is an inductee of the IAAF Hall of Fame. Read more
• 19 Sep 1935: Benjamin Thurman Hacker, American admiral (died 2003) Rear Admiral Benjamin Thurman Hacker (1935–2003) was a U.S. Naval officer, who became the first Naval Flight Officer (NFO) to achieve Flag rank. Read more
• 19 Sep 1934: Brian Epstein, English businessman, The Beatles manager (died 1967) Brian Samuel Epstein was an English music entrepreneur who managed the Beatles from 1961 until his death in 1967. Read more
• 19 Sep 1934: Austin Mitchell, English journalist, academic and politician (died 2021) Austin Vernon Mitchell was a British academic, journalist and Labour Party politician who was the member of Parliament (MP) for Great Grimsby from a 1977 by-election to 2015. He was also the chair of the Labour Euro-Safeguards Campaign. Before becoming an MP in the United Kingdom, Austin Mitchell was a well known television broadcaster in New Zealand. Read more
• 19 Sep 1933: Gilles Archambault, Canadian journalist and author Gilles Archambault is a francophone novelist from Quebec, Canada. Read more
• 19 Sep 1932: Mike Royko, American journalist and author (died 1997) Michael Royko Jr. was an American newspaper columnist from Chicago, Illinois. Over his 42-year career, he wrote more than 7,500 daily columns for the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune. A humorist whose writing spanned a broad range of topics, he was the winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Read more
• 19 Sep 1932: Stefanie Zweig, German journalist and author (died 2014) Stefanie Zweig was a German Jewish writer and journalist. She is best known for her autobiographical novel, Nirgendwo in Afrika (1995), which was a bestseller in Germany. The novel is based on her early life in Kenya, where her family had fled to escape persecution in Nazi Germany. The film adaptation of the novel (2001) won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Her books have sold more than seven million copies, and have been translated into fifteen languages. Read more
• 19 Sep 1931: Brook Benton, American pop/R&B/rock & roll singer-songwriter (died 1988) Benjamin Franklin Peay, known professionally as Brook Benton, was an American singer and songwriter whose music spanned rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and pop music genres in the 1950s and 1960s, with hits such as "It's Just a Matter of Time" and "Endlessly". Read more
• 19 Sep 1931: Derek Gardner, English engineer (died 2011) Derek Gardner was a car designer known for designing advanced transmission systems. He was born in Warwick, and joined Formula One while employed by Harry Ferguson Research, developing four-wheel drive systems for Matra in 1969. He met Ken Tyrrell in 1970 and Tyrrell chose Gardner to design his chassis. The first chassis, the Tyrrell 001, was built in his garage at home and was raced in the 1970 Canadian Grand Prix. Read more
• 19 Sep 1930: Muhal Richard Abrams, American pianist, composer, and educator (died 2017) Muhal Richard Abrams was an American educator, administrator, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, and jazz pianist in the free jazz medium. He recorded and toured the United States, Canada and Europe with his orchestra, sextet, quartet, duo, and as a solo pianist. Read more
• 19 Sep 1930: Bettye Lane, American photographer and journalist (died 2012) Bettye Lane was an American photojournalist known for documenting major events within the feminist movement, the civil rights movement, and the gay rights movement in the United States. She joined CBS television in 1960, and from 1962 to 1964 she was with the Saturday Evening Post. Her work has been published in the National Observer, Time, Life, and the Associated Press. Read more
• 19 Sep 1930: Antonio Margheriti, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2002) Antonio Margheriti, also known under the pseudonyms Anthony M. Dawson and Antony Daisies, was an Italian filmmaker. Margheriti worked in many different genres in the Italian film industry, and was known for his sometimes derivative but often stylish and entertaining science fiction, sword and sandal, horror/giallo, Eurospy, Spaghetti Western, Vietnam War and action movies that were released to a wide international audience. He died in 2002. He died in 2002. Read more
• 19 Sep 1929: Marge Roukema, American educator and politician (died 2014) Margaret "Marge" Ellen Roukema was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 2003. Read more
• 19 Sep 1927: Helen Carter, American singer (died 1998) Helen Myrl Carter Jones was an American country music singer. The eldest daughter of Maybelle Carter, she performed with her mother and her younger sisters, June Carter and Anita Carter, as a member of The Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle, a pioneering all female country and folk music group. After the death of A.P. Carter in 1960, the group became known as The Carter Family. Read more
• 19 Sep 1927: William Hickey, American actor (died 1997) William Edward Hickey was an American actor and acting teacher. He is best known for his Academy Award-nominated role as Don Corrado Prizzi in the John Huston film Prizzi's Honor (1985), as well as Uncle Lewis in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) and the voice of Dr. Finkelstein in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). Read more
• 19 Sep 1927: Nick Massi, American singer and bass player (died 2000) Nicholas E. Macioci was an American bass singer, songwriter, and bass guitarist. He is best known for his work as the bassist and bass vocalist for The Four Seasons, for whom he performed under the stage name Nick Massi. Read more
• 19 Sep 1926: Victoria Barbă, Moldovan animated film director (died 2020) Victoria Ivanovna Barbă was a Moldovan animated film director, focused on movies for children. Having been born in modern Russia, she studied in Saint Petersburg and then in Chișinău, today in Moldova. She had a productive career, with an extensive filmography and numerous earned distinctions. Read more
• 19 Sep 1926: Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020) Masatoshi Koshiba was a Japanese physicist and one of the founders of neutrino astronomy. His work with the neutrino detectors Kamiokande and Super-Kamiokande was instrumental in detecting solar neutrinos, providing experimental evidence for the solar neutrino problem. Read more
• 19 Sep 1926: James Lipton, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2020) Louis James Lipton was an American writer, actor, talk show host, and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City. He was the executive producer, writer, and host of the Bravo cable television series Inside the Actors Studio, which debuted in 1994. He retired from the show in 2018. Read more
• 19 Sep 1926: Duke Snider, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2011) Edwin Donald "Duke" Snider, nicknamed "the Duke of Flatbush", was an American professional baseball player. Primarily a center fielder, he spent most of his Major League Baseball (MLB) career playing for the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers (1947–1962), later playing one season each for the New York Mets (1963) and San Francisco Giants (1964). Read more
• 19 Sep 1926: Margarita Andrey, Spanish actress (died 2026) Margarita Andrey was a Spanish film actress. She appeared in a number of female lead roles during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Read more
• 19 Sep 1925: W. Reece Smith Jr., American lawyer and academic (died 2013) William Reece Smith Jr. was an American lawyer. Smith served as the interim president of the University of South Florida, and the president of the American Bar Association. He was born in 1925 in Athens, Tennessee. Read more
• 19 Sep 1924: Vern Benson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2014) Vernon Adair Benson was an American infielder, outfielder, coach, scout and interim manager in Major League Baseball. During his playing career, he stood 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) tall, weighed 180 pounds (82 kg), batted left-handed, and threw right-handed. Read more
• 19 Sep 1924: Don Harron, Canadian actor and screenwriter (died 2015) Donald Hugh Harron, was a Canadian comedian, actor, director, journalist, author, playwright, and composer. Harron is best remembered by American audiences as a member of the cast of the long-running country music series Hee Haw, on which he played his signature character of Charlie Farquharson. Read more
• 19 Sep 1922: Damon Knight, American author and critic (died 2002) Damon Francis Knight was an American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He wrote "To Serve Man", a 1950 short story adapted for The Twilight Zone. He was married to fellow writer Kate Wilhelm in 1963. Read more
• 19 Sep 1922: Willie Pep, American boxer and referee (died 2006) Guglielmo Papaleo, better known as Willie Pep, was an American professional boxer who held the World Featherweight Championship twice between the years of 1942 and 1950. Known for his speed, finesse, and elusiveness, Pep is widely considered one of the greatest defensive boxers of all time. He was voted as the No. 1 featherweight of the 20th century by the Associated Press and ranked the No. 1 featherweight of all time by the International Boxing Research Organization in 2005. He is also currently ranked by BoxRec as the greatest featherweight boxer of all time. Read more
• 19 Sep 1922: Emil Zátopek, Czech runner (died 2000) Emil Zátopek was a Czech long-distance runner who won three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He came first in the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres runs before he decided at the last minute to compete in the first marathon of his life, which he also won. Zátopek was nicknamed the "Czech Locomotive". Read more
• 19 Sep 1921: Paulo Freire, Brazilian philosopher, theorist, and academic (died 1997) Paulo Reglus Neves Freire was a Brazilian educator and Marxist philosopher whose work has affected global thought on education. He is best known for Pedagogy of the Oppressed, in which he reimagines teaching as a political act of liberation rather than critical cultural transmission of values. A founder of critical pedagogy, Freire’s influence spans literacy movements, liberation theology, postcolonial education, Marxism, and contemporary theories of social justice and learning. He is widely regarded as one of the most important educational theorists of the twentieth century, alongside figures such as John Dewey and Maria Montessori. Read more
• 19 Sep 1921: Billy Ward, American R&B singer-songwriter (died 2002) Billy Ward and his Dominoes were an American R&B vocal group. One of the most successful R&B groups of the early 1950s, the Dominoes helped launch the singing careers of two notable members, Clyde McPhatter and Jackie Wilson. Read more
• 19 Sep 1920: Roger Angell, American journalist, author, and editor (died 2022) Roger Angell was an American essayist known for his writing on sports, especially baseball. He was a regular contributor to The New Yorker and was its chief fiction editor for many years. He wrote numerous works of fiction, non-fiction, and criticism, and for many years wrote an annual Christmas poem for The New Yorker. Sportswriter Jane Leavy called him "the Babe Ruth of baseball writers." Read more
• 19 Sep 1919: Roger Grenier, French journalist and author (died 2017) Roger Grenier was a French writer, journalist and radio animator. He was Regent of the Collège de ’Pataphysique. Read more
• 19 Sep 1919: Amalia Hernández, Mexican choreographer and dancer (died 2000) Amalia Hernández Navarro was a Mexican ballet choreographer and founder of the Ballet Folklórico de México. Read more
• 19 Sep 1919: Earl R. Fox, U.S. Navy and Coast Guard veteran; last active U.S. servicemember to serve in World War II (died 2012) Earl Russell H. Fox was an American physician and commissioned officer who served in the Navy and later in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps detailed to the Coast Guard. Upon his retirement in November 1999, he was the last active-duty member of a United States uniformed service who had served during the Second World War. Read more
• 19 Sep 1918: Pablita Velarde, Santa Clara Pueblo (Native American) painter (died 2006) Pablita Velarde born Tse Tsan was an American Pueblo artist and painter. Read more
• 19 Sep 1915: Germán Valdés, Mexican actor, singer, and producer (died 1973) Germán Genaro Cipriano Teodoro Gómez Valdés y Castillo, known as Tin-Tan, was a Mexican actor, comedian and singer, specialized in the musical genre of bolero. Read more
• 19 Sep 1913: Frances Farmer, American actress (died 1970) Frances Elena Farmer was an American actress. She appeared in over a dozen feature films and three significant Broadway plays over the course of her career. Farmer gained greater notoriety posthumously for having had a nervous breakdown and undergone a five-year involuntary commitment in a state-run mental institution. She was said to have suffered abusive conditions, which have remained the subject of much controversy and speculation. Read more
• 19 Sep 1913: Helen Ward, American singer (died 1998) Helen Ward was an American jazz singer. She appeared on radio broadcasts with WOR and WNYC and worked as a staff musician at WNYC. She was most known for her hit cover of the Johnny Mercer song "Goody-Goody" Read more
• 19 Sep 1912: Reuben David, Indian veterinarian and zoo founder (died 1989) Reuben David was a zoologist and the founder of the Kankaria Zoo in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Read more
• 19 Sep 1912: Kurt Sanderling, Polish-German conductor (died 2011) Kurt Sanderling, CBE was a German conductor. Read more
• 19 Sep 1910: Margaret Lindsay, American actress (died 1981) Margaret Lindsay was an American film actress. Her time as a Warner Bros. contract player during the 1930s was particularly productive. She was noted for her supporting work in successful films of the 1930s and 1940s such as Baby Face, Jezebel (1938) and Scarlet Street (1945) and her leading roles in lower-budgeted B movie films such as the Ellery Queen series at Columbia in the early 1940s. Critics regard her portrayal of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hepzibah Pyncheon in the 1940 film The House of the Seven Gables as Lindsay's standout career role. Read more
• 19 Sep 1910: Arturo M. Tolentino, Filipino diplomat and politician (died 2004) Arturo "Ka Turing" Modesto Tolentino was a Filipino politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as the Senate president and the Secretary of Foreign Affairs. He was the vice-presidential running mate of Ferdinand Marcos in the 1986 Philippine election, which led to the ouster of Marcos in the People Power Revolution. Read more
• 19 Sep 1908: Paul Bénichou, French historian, author, and critic (died 2001) Paul Bénichou was a French/Algerian writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian. Read more
• 19 Sep 1908: Robert Lecourt, French lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of France (died 2004) Robert Lecourt was a French politician and lawyer, judge and the fourth President of the European Court of Justice. Read more
• 19 Sep 1908: Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist, founded Isshin-ryū (died 1975) Tatsuo Shimabuku was an Okinawan, Japanese martial artist. He is the founder of Isshin-ryū style of karate. Read more
• 19 Sep 1905: Judith Auer, German World War II resistance fighter (died 1944) Judith Auer was a Swiss resistance fighter against the Nazi régime in Germany. Read more
• 19 Sep 1900: Ricardo Cortez, American actor (died 1977) Ricardo Cortez was an American actor and film director. He was a matinée idol during the silent era, and later specialized in playing "heavies". Read more
• 19 Sep 1898: Giuseppe Saragat, Italian lawyer and politician, 5th President of Italy (died 1988) Giuseppe Saragat was an Italian politician and statesman who served as President of Italy from 1964 to 1971. Read more
• 19 Sep 1894: Rachel Field, American author and poet (died 1942) Rachel Lyman Field was an American novelist, poet, and children's fiction writer. She is best known for her work Hitty, Her First Hundred Years. Field also won a National Book Award, a Newbery Honor award and two of her books are on the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list. Read more
• 19 Sep 1889: Sarah Louise Delany, American physician and author (died 1999) Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany was an American educator and civil rights pioneer. She was the subject, along with her younger sister Bessie, of the oral history biography, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1993), by journalist Amy Hill Hearth. Sadie was the first African American to teach domestic science at the high-school level in the New York public schools. With the publication of the book about the sisters, she became famous at the age of 103. Read more
• 19 Sep 1888: James Waddell Alexander II, American mathematician and topologist (died 1971) James Waddell Alexander II was a mathematician of the pre-World War II era. He was part of an influential school of topology at Princeton University, along with Oswald Veblen, Solomon Lefschetz, and others. He was a professor at Princeton (1920–1951) and one of the first members of the Institute for Advanced Study (1933–1951). Read more
• 19 Sep 1888: Porter Hall, American actor (died 1953) Clifford Porter Hall was an American character actor known for appearing in a number of films in the 1930s and 1940s. Hall typically played villains or comedic incompetent characters. Read more
• 19 Sep 1887: Lovie Austin, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (died 1972) Cora "Lovie" Austin was an American Chicago bandleader, session musician, composer, singer, and arranger during the 1920s classic blues era. She and Lil Hardin Armstrong are often ranked as two of the best female jazz blues piano players of the period. Read more
• 19 Sep 1887: Lynne Overman, American actor and singer (died 1943) Lynne Overman was an American actor. In films he often played a sidekick. Read more
• 19 Sep 1883: Mabel Vernon, American educator and activist (died 1975) Mabel Vernon was an American suffragist, pacifist, and a national leader in the United States suffrage movement. She was a Quaker and a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Vernon was inspired by the methods used by the Women's Social and Political Union in Britain. Vernon was one of the principal members of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage (CUWS) alongside Olympia Brown, Inez Milholland, Crystal Eastman, Lucy Burns, and Alice Paul, and helped to organize the Silent Sentinels protests that involved daily picketing of Woodrow Wilson's White House. Read more
• 19 Sep 1882: Christopher Stone, English radio host (died 1965) Christopher Reynolds Stone was a British radio broadcaster who in 1927 became the first disc jockey in the United Kingdom. He was co-founder of the music magazine The Gramophone. In addition to his reviews and articles in the magazine he wrote eight novels between 1907 and 1927, and edited collections of poetry and letters. Read more
• 19 Sep 1871: Frederick Ruple, Swiss-American painter (died 1938) Frederick Ruple was a 20th-century Swiss-American painter, primarily of portraits. He was commissioned to paint Confederate Civil War battle scenes and murals. At times Ruple lived in Arkansas and Oklahoma where he traveled to study American Indians and early settlement in the Midwest. The Oklahoma Land Run of 1889 inspired Ruple to create his most famous painting "The Spirit of '89". Read more
• 19 Sep 1869: Ben Turpin, American comedian and actor (died 1940) Bernard "Ben" Turpin was an American comedian and actor, best remembered for his work in silent films. His trademarks were his cross-eyed appearance and adeptness at vigorous physical comedy. A sometime vaudeville performer, he was "discovered" for film while working as the janitor for Essanay Studios in Chicago. Turpin went on to work with notable performers such as Charlie Chaplin, W.C Fields, Wheeler and Woolsey and Laurel and Hardy. Also, was a part of the Mack Sennett studio team. He is believed to have been the first filmed "victim" of the pie in the face gag, in "Mr Flip"(1909). In 1929, When sound came to films, Turpin chose to retire, having invested profitably in real estate, although he did do occasional cameos. Read more
• 19 Sep 1867: Arthur Rackham, English illustrator (died 1939) Arthur Rackham was an English book illustrator. He is recognised as one of the leading figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. His work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were combined with the use of watercolour, a technique he developed due to his background as a journalistic illustrator. Read more
• 19 Sep 1865: Frank Eugene, American-German photographer (died 1936) Frank Eugene was an American-born photographer who was a founding member of the Photo-Secession and one of the first university-level professors of photography in the world. Read more
• 19 Sep 1856: Arthur Morgan, Australian politician, 16th Premier of Queensland (died 1916) Sir Arthur Morgan was an Australian politician who was Premier of Queensland from 1903 to 1906. Read more
• 19 Sep 1828: Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (died 1880) Fridolin Anderwert was a Swiss politician. After attending school in Tägerwilen, Frauenfeld, and Konstanz, he initially studied history and philosophy at the University of Leipzig. He subsequently studied law at Ruprecht Karl University in Heidelberg and Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. In 1851, he began practicing law in Frauenfeld, and from 1853 to 1856, he served as a district judge. Read more
• 19 Sep 1824: William Sellers, American engineer, inventor, and businessperson (died 1905) William Sellers was a mechanical engineer, manufacturer, businessman, noted abolitionist, and inventor who filed more than 90 patents, most notably the design for the United States standard screw thread, the standard bolt and machine screw thread still used today. As president of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sellers proposed the adoption of a system of screw threads which was easier for ordinary mechanics and machinists to cut than a similar design by Joseph Whitworth. For many years, he led the machine tool firm of William Sellers & Co., which was a very influential machine tool builder during the latter half of the 19th century. Read more
• 19 Sep 1811: Orson Pratt, American mathematician and religious leader (died 1881) Orson Pratt Sr. was an American religious leader and mathematician who was an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Christ. After the succession crisis Pratt continued in the Quorum of the Twelve of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was a leading Mormon theologian and writer until his death. Read more
• 19 Sep 1803: Maria Anna of Savoy (died 1884) Maria Anna of Savoy was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary by marriage to Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria. Born into the House of Savoy, she was the penultimate child and daughter of King Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia and Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este. Read more
• 19 Sep 1802: Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian journalist, lawyer, and politician, Governor-President of Hungary (died 1894) Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, politician, statesman, revolutionist and governor-president of the Hungarian State during the war of independence of 1848–1849. Read more

Notable Deaths on 19 September

• 19 Sep 2021: John Challis, English actor (born 1942) John Spurley Challis was an English actor. He had an extensive theatre and television career but is best known for portraying Terrance Aubrey "Boycie" Boyce in the long-running BBC Television sitcom Only Fools and Horses (1981–2003) and its sequel/spin-off The Green Green Grass (2005–2009), as well as Monty Staines from the seventh series onwards in the ITV sitcom Benidorm (2015–2018). Challis was an established stage actor, making appearances for companies including the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Read more
• 19 Sep 2021: Jimmy Greaves, English footballer (born 1940) James Peter Greaves was an English professional footballer who played as a forward and is regarded as one of the greatest strikers of all time and one of England's best ever players. He is England's fifth-highest international goalscorer with 44 goals, which includes an English record of six hat-tricks, and is Tottenham Hotspur's second-highest all-time top goalscorer. Greaves is the highest goalscorer in the history of English top-flight football with 357 goals. He finished as the First Division's top scorer in six seasons, more times than any other player and came third in the 1963 Ballon d'Or rankings. He is also a member of the English Football Hall of Fame. Read more
• 19 Sep 2021: Dinky Soliman, Filipino politician, 23rd Secretary of Social Welfare and Development (born 1953) Corazon Victoria "Dinky" Nerves Juliano-Soliman was a Filipina politician, activist and social worker who served as Secretary of Social Welfare and Development twice, under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo from 2001 to 2005, and President Benigno Aquino III from 2010 to 2016. Read more
• 19 Sep 2020: John Turner, Canadian politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1929) John Napier Wyndham Turner was the 17th prime minister of Canada, serving from June to September 1984. He served as leader of the Liberal Party and leader of the Opposition from 1984 to 1990. Read more
• 19 Sep 2019: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisian soldier, politician, 2nd President of Tunisia (born 1936) Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, commonly known as Ben Ali or Ezzine, was a Tunisian politician, military officer and dictator who served as the second president of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011. In that year, during the Tunisian revolution, he was overthrown and fled to Saudi Arabia. Read more
• 19 Sep 2018: Arthur Mitchell, American ballet dancer & choreographer (born 1934) Arthur Mitchell was an American ballet dancer, choreographer, and founder and director of ballet companies. In 1955, he was the first African-American dancer with the New York City Ballet, where he was promoted to principal dancer the following year and danced in major roles until 1966. He then founded ballet companies in Spoleto, Washington, D.C., and Brazil. In 1969, he founded a training school and the first African-American classical ballet company, Dance Theatre of Harlem. Among other awards, Mitchell was recognized as a MacArthur Fellow, inducted into the National Museum of Dance's Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame, and received the United States National Medal of Arts and a Fletcher Foundation fellowship. Read more
• 19 Sep 2018: Bernard "Bunny" Carr, Irish TV presenter (born 1927) Bernard "Bunny" Carr was an Irish television presenter. He presented shows such as Quicksilver, Teen Talk and Going Strong on RTÉ. He later set up his own communications and public relations company. Read more
• 19 Sep 2017: Leonid Kharitonov, Russian bass-baritone (born 1933) Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov was a Soviet and Russian bass-baritone singer. He was honored with People's Artist of the RSFSR and Honored Artist of RSFSR. In the West he was noted for his 1965 video of The Song of the Volga Boatmen. Read more
• 19 Sep 2015: Jackie Collins, English novelist (born 1937) Jacqueline Jill Collins was an English romance novelist and actress. She moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and spent most of her career there. She wrote 32 novels, all of which appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list. Her books have sold more than 500 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages. Eight of her novels have been adapted for the screen, either as films or television miniseries. She was the younger sister of Joan Collins. Read more
• 19 Sep 2015: Todd Ewen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1966) Todd Gordon Ewen was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for several teams in the National Hockey League (NHL). A right wing, Ewen was primarily known as an enforcer. He played for the St. Louis Blues, Montreal Canadiens, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and San Jose Sharks. Ewen retired with 1,914 penalty minutes, putting him 61st for all-time career penalty minutes. He was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and raised in St. Albert, Alberta. Ewen won the Stanley Cup in 1993 with the Canadiens. Read more
• 19 Sep 2015: Masajuro Shiokawa, Japanese economist and politician, 63rd Japanese Minister of Finance (born 1921) Masajuro Shiokawa was a Japanese economist and politician. Read more
• 19 Sep 2014: Audrey Long, American actress (born 1922) Audrey Gwendoline Long was an American stage and screen actress of English descent, who performed mainly in low-budget films in the 1940s and early 1950s. Some of her more notable film performances are in Tall in the Saddle (1944) with John Wayne, Wanderer of the Wasteland (1945), Born to Kill (1947), and Desperate (1947). Read more
• 19 Sep 2013: Robert Barnard, English author and critic (born 1936) Robert Barnard was an English crime writer, critic and lecturer. In addition to over 40 books published under his own name, he also published four books under the pseudonym Bernard Bastable. Read more
• 19 Sep 2013: John Reger, American football player (born 1931) John George Reger was a National Football League linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Washington Redskins, and participated in three Pro Bowls during his 12-year career. Reger played college football at the University of Pittsburgh. He died in Tampa, Florida in 2013. Read more
• 19 Sep 2013: William Ungar, Polish-American author and philanthropist, founded the National Envelope Corporation (born 1913) William Ungar was a Polish-born American author, philanthropist, Holocaust survivor, and founder of the National Envelope Corporation. Read more
• 19 Sep 2013: John D. Vanderhoof, American banker and politician, 37th Governor of Colorado (born 1922) John David Vanderhoof was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, Vanderhoof served as the 37th governor of Colorado from 1973 to 1975, assuming the office from John Arthur Love, who was appointed to the National Energy Policy Office by President Richard Nixon. Vanderhoof served out the remainder of Love's term, but failed to win a term in his own right, being defeated by Democrat Richard Lamm in the 1974 election. Read more
• 19 Sep 2013: Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman (born 1927) Hiroshi Yamauchi was a Japanese businessman and the third president of Nintendo, serving in the role from 25 April 1949 to 24 May 2002, and principal owner of the Seattle Mariners from 1992 until his death. Before joining Nintendo, he had strong familial connections; his great-grandfather, Fusajiro Yamauchi, founded the company, and was its first president, and his grandfather, Sekiryo Kaneda, was its second president. During his tenure, Nintendo was transformed from a Japanese manufacturer of hanafuda into a global conglomerate largely focused on manufacturing video game consoles and publishing video games. On the basis of this success, and his ownership of most of Nintendo's shares, he became considerably wealthy. In 2008, he was Japan's wealthiest person, with an estimated net worth of $7.8 billion. Even in 2013, with this figure having declined to $2.1 billion, he was the 13th richest person in Japan and the 491st richest in the world. Read more
• 19 Sep 2012: Rino Ferrario, Italian footballer (born 1926) Rino Ferrario was an Italian footballer who played as a midfielder. Read more
• 19 Sep 2012: Itamar Singer, Romanian-Israeli historian and author (born 1946) Itamar Singer was an Israeli author and historian of Jewish-Romanian origin. He is known for his research of the Ancient Near East and as a leading Hittitologist, pioneering the study of this ancient Anatolians culture in Israel and elucidating the tensions which brought about its demise. Read more
• 19 Sep 2012: Earl R. Fox, U.S. Navy and Coast Guard veteran; last active U.S. servicemember to serve in World War II (born 1919) Earl Russell H. Fox was an American physician and commissioned officer who served in the Navy and later in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps detailed to the Coast Guard. Upon his retirement in November 1999, he was the last active-duty member of a United States uniformed service who had served during the Second World War. Read more
• 19 Sep 2011: Thomas Capano, American lawyer and politician, and convicted murderer (born 1949) Thomas Joseph Capano was a disbarred American lawyer who was convicted of the 1996 murder of Anne Marie Fahey, his former lover. Read more
• 19 Sep 2011: Dolores Hope, American singer (born 1909) Dolores Hope, DC*SG was an American singer, entertainer, philanthropist, and wife of American actor and comedian Bob Hope. Read more
• 19 Sep 2011: George Cadle Price, 1st Prime Minister of Belize (born 1919) George Cadle Price was a Belizean statesman who served as the head of government of Belize from 1961 to 1984 and 1989 to 1993. He was the first minister and premier under British rule until independence in 1981 and was the nation's first prime minister after independence that year. He is considered one of the principal architects of Belizean independence. Today he is referred to by many as the "Father of the Nation". Price effectively dominated Belizean politics from the early 1960s until his 1996 retirement from party leadership, having been the nation's head of government under various titles for most of that period. Read more
• 19 Sep 2009: Milton Meltzer, American historian and author (born 1915) Milton Meltzer was an American historian and author best known for his nonfiction books on Jewish, African-American, and American history. Since the 1950s, he was a prolific author of history books in the children's literature and young adult literature genres, having written nearly 100 books. Meltzer was an advocate for human rights, as well as an adjunct professor for the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He won the biennial Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his career contribution to American children's literature in 2001. Meltzer died of esophageal cancer in 2009. Read more
• 19 Sep 2009: Eduard Zimmermann, German journalist (born 1929) Eduard "Ede" Zimmermann was a German journalist, television presenter and security expert. He was the creator and long-time host of Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst, a German television show that pioneered interactive true crime television and thus became the model for the British Crimewatch and American America's Most Wanted. Read more
• 19 Sep 2008: Earl Palmer, American rhythm and blues drummer (born 1924) Earl Cyril Palmer was an American drummer. Considered one of the inventors of rock and roll, he is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Read more
• 19 Sep 2006: Elizabeth Allen, American actress (born 1929) Elizabeth Allen was an American theatre, television, and film actress and singer whose 40-year career lasted from the mid-1950s through the mid-1990s, and included scores of TV episodes and six theatrical features, two of which were directed by John Ford. Read more
• 19 Sep 2006: Danny Flores, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (born 1929) Daniel Flores, also known by his stage name Chuck Rio, was an American rock and roll saxophonist. He is best remembered for his self-penned song "Tequila", which he recorded with The Champs, the band of which he was a member at the time, and which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Read more
• 19 Sep 2006: Martha Holmes, American photographer and journalist (born 1923) Martha Holmes Waxman was an American photographer and photojournalist. Read more
• 19 Sep 2006: Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist and manager (born 1950) Roy Schuiten was a Dutch track and road racing cyclist. After retirement he became a team manager before starting a restaurant. Read more
• 19 Sep 2004: Eddie Adams, American photographer and journalist (born 1933) Edward Thomas Adams was an American photographer and photojournalist noted for portraits of celebrities and politicians and for coverage of 13 wars. He is best known for his photograph of the execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém, a Viet Cong prisoner of war, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1969. Adams was a longtime resident of Bogota, New Jersey. Read more
• 19 Sep 2004: Skeeter Davis, American singer-songwriter (born 1931) Skeeter Davis was an American country music singer and songwriter who sang crossover pop music songs including 1962's "The End of the World". She started out as part of the Davis Sisters as a teenager in the late 1940s, eventually recording for RCA Victor. In the late 1950s, she became a solo star. Read more
• 19 Sep 2004: Damayanti Joshi, Indian dancer and choreographer (born 1928) Damayanti Joshi was a noted renowned exponent of the Kathak dance form. She believed Kathak is the art of storytelling. She began in the 1930s dancing in Madame Menaka's troupe, which travelled to many parts of the world. She learnt Kathak from Sitaram Prasad of Jaipur Gharana and became an adept dancer at a very young age, and later trained under from Acchan Maharaj, Lacchu Maharaj and Shambhu Maharaj of Lucknow gharana, thus imbibing nuances from both the traditions. She became independent in the 1950s and achieved prominence in the 1960s, before turning into a guru at her dance school in Mumbai. Read more
• 19 Sep 2004: Ellis Marsalis Sr., American businessman and activist (born 1908) Ellis Louis Marsalis Sr. was an American businessman from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was a former poultry farmer turned hotelier, Esso franchise owner and civil rights activist. Read more
• 19 Sep 2003: Slim Dusty, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1927) Slim Dusty, AO MBE was an Australian country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. He was an Australian cultural icon, referred to universally as Australia's King of Country Music and one of the country's most awarded stars, with a career spanning nearly seven decades and producing numerous recordings. He recorded songs in the legacy of Australia genre, particularly of bush life, including works by renowned Australian bush poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, who represented the lifestyle. The music genre was coined the "bush ballad", a style first made popular by Buddy Williams. Read more
• 19 Sep 2002: Robert Guéï, Ivorian politician, 3rd President of Côte d'Ivoire (born 1941) Robert Guéï was an Ivorian politician who served as the third president of the Ivory Coast from 24 December 1999 to 26 October 2000. He succeeded President Henri Konan Bédié after the 1999 Ivorian coup d'état and lost to Laurent Gbagbo in the ensuing 2000 Ivorian presidential election. Guéï, his wife Rose Doudou Guéï, and his children were killed on 19 September 2002 on the first day of the First Ivorian Civil War. Read more
• 19 Sep 2001: Rhys Jones, Welsh-Australian archaeologist and academic (born 1941) Rhys Maengwyn Jones was a Welsh-Australian archeologist. Read more
• 19 Sep 2000: Ann Doran, American actress (born 1911) Ann Doran was an American character actress, who worked in more than 1500 motion pictures and television episodes. Today's audiences know her as Carol Stark, the mother of James "Jim" Stark in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), and as a featured actress in short comedies with The Three Stooges and Charley Chase. She was an early member of the Screen Actors Guild and served on the board of the Motion Picture & Television Fund for 30 years. Read more
• 19 Sep 1998: Patricia Hayes, English actress (born 1909) Patricia Lawlor Hayes was an English character actress. She is best known for playing the titular Edna in the Play for Today, Edna, the Inebriate Woman (1971), for which she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. Read more
• 19 Sep 1995: Orville Redenbacher, American businessman, founded his own eponymous brand (born 1907) Orville Clarence Redenbacher was an American food scientist and businessman most often associated with the brand of popcorn that bears his name which is now owned by Conagra Brands. The New York Times described him as "the agricultural visionary who all but single-handedly revolutionized the American popcorn industry". Read more
• 19 Sep 1992: Jacques Pic, French chef (born 1932) Jacques Pic was a French chef best known for being head chef at his three Michelin-starred restaurant Maison Pic in Valence, Drôme, France. He was the son of chef Andre Pic, and the father of chefs Alain and Anne-Sophie Pic. Read more
• 19 Sep 1990: Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (born 1910) Hermes Pan was an American dancer and choreographer, principally remembered as Fred Astaire's choreographic collaborator on the famous 1930s movie musicals starring Astaire and Ginger Rogers. He worked on nearly two dozen films and TV shows with Astaire. He won both an Oscar and an Emmy for his dance direction. Read more
• 19 Sep 1989: Willie Steele, American long jumper (born 1923) William Samuel Steele was an American athlete who competed mainly in the long jump. Steele won the gold medal in the long jump at the 1948 London Olympics. A two-time USA Outdoor champion, Steele was the 1948 Olympic Trials champion and a two-time NCAA long jump champion. He was considered the world's best long jumper in 1942 and 1946, and was world ranked #1 by Track & Field News their first two years of producing worldwide rankings, 1947 and 1948. Read more
• 19 Sep 1987: Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian civil servant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Norway (born 1897) Einar Henry Gerhardsen was a Norwegian politician who served as the prime minister of Norway from 1945 to 1951, 1955 to 1963 and 1963 to 1965. With a total of 17 years in office, he is the longest-serving prime minister in Norway since the introduction of parliamentarism. He was the leader of the Labour Party from 1945 to 1965. Read more
• 19 Sep 1985: Italo Calvino, Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist (born 1923) Italo Calvino was an Italian novelist and short story writer. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). Read more
• 19 Sep 1978: Étienne Gilson, French historian and philosopher (born 1884) Étienne Henri Gilson was a French Catholic philosopher and historian of philosophy. A scholar of medieval philosophy, he originally specialised in the thought of Descartes; he also philosophized in the "existential" tradition of Thomas Aquinas, although he did not consider himself a neo-Thomist philosopher. In 1946, he attained the distinction of being elected an "Immortal" (member) of the Académie française. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more
• 19 Sep 1975: Pamela Brown, English actress (born 1917) Pamela Mary Brown was a British actress. For her portrayal of Queen Victoria's mother Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent in Victoria Regina (1961) she was awarded the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Read more
• 19 Sep 1973: Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1946) Ingram Cecil Connor III, known professionally as Gram Parsons, was an American musician. He recorded with the International Submarine Band, the Byrds, and the Flying Burrito Brothers, popularizing what he called "Cosmic American Music", a hybrid of country, rhythm and blues, soul, folk, and rock. He has been credited with helping to found the country rock and alt-country genres and received a ranking of No. 87 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Parsons was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2026 in the musical influence category. Read more
• 19 Sep 1972: Robert Casadesus, French pianist and composer (born 1899) Robert Marcel Casadesus was a French pianist and composer. He was the most prominent member of a distinguished musical family, being the nephew of Henri Casadesus and Marius Casadesus, husband of Gaby Casadesus, and father of Jean Casadesus. Read more
• 19 Sep 1968: Chester Carlson, American physicist and lawyer (born 1906) Chester Floyd Carlson was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington. Read more
• 19 Sep 1968: Red Foley, American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1910) Clyde Julian "Red" Foley was an American musician who made a major contribution to the growth of country music after World War II. For more than two decades, Foley was one of the biggest stars of the genre, selling more than 25 million records. His 1951 hit, "Peace in the Valley", was among the first million-selling gospel records. A Grand Ole Opry veteran until his death, Foley also hosted the first popular country music series on network television, Ozark Jubilee, from 1955 to 1960. Read more
• 19 Sep 1967: Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-French painter (born 1884) Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova was a Russian painter during the Modernist period. Read more
• 19 Sep 1965: Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (born 1921) Lionel Terray was a French climber who made many first ascents, including on the 1955 French Makalu expedition in the Himalaya and Cerro Fitz Roy in the Patagonian Andes. Read more
• 19 Sep 1955: John D. Dingell Sr., American journalist and politician (born 1894) John David Dingell Sr. was an American politician who represented Michigan's 15th congressional district from 1933 to 1955. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was the father of the longest-serving member of Congress, U.S. Representative John Dingell Jr. Read more
• 19 Sep 1949: George Shiels, Irish-Canadian playwright (born 1886) George Shiels was an Irish dramatist whose plays were a success both in his native Ulster and at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. His most famous plays are The Rugged Path, The Passing Day, and The New Gossoon. Read more
• 19 Sep 1949: Nikos Skalkottas, Greek violinist and composer (born 1901) Nikos Skalkottas was a Greek composer of 20th-century classical music. A member of the Second Viennese School, he drew his influences from both the classical repertoire and the Greek tradition. He also produced a sizeable amount of tonal music in the last phase of his musical creativity. Read more
• 19 Sep 1944: Guy Gibson, British commander, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1918) Wing Commander Guy Penrose Gibson, was a British bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He was the first Commanding Officer of No. 617 Squadron, which he led in the "Dam Busters" raid in 1943, resulting in the breaching of two large dams in the Ruhr area of Germany. He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, in the aftermath of the raid in May 1943 and became the most highly decorated British serviceman at that time. He completed over 170 war operations before being killed in action at the age of 26. Read more
• 19 Sep 1942: Condé Montrose Nast, American publisher, founded Condé Nast Publications (born 1873) Condé Montrose Nast was an American publisher, entrepreneur and business magnate. He founded Condé Nast, a mass media company, and published titles such as Vanity Fair and Vogue. Read more
• 19 Sep 1936: Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian singer and musicologist (born 1860) Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande was an Indian music theorist who wrote the first modern treatise on Hindustani classical music, an art which had been propagated for centuries mostly through oral traditions. During those earlier times, the art had undergone several changes, rendering the raga grammar documented in scant outdated texts. Read more
• 19 Sep 1935: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian scientist and engineer (born 1857) Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was a Russian rocket scientist who pioneered astronautics. Along with Hermann Oberth and Robert H. Goddard, he is one of the pioneers of space flight and the founding father of modern rocketry and astronautics. Read more
• 19 Sep 1927: Michael Ancher, Danish painter (born 1849) Michael Peter Ancher was a Danish realist artist, widely known for his paintings of fishermen, the Skagerrak and the North Sea, and other scenes from the Danish fishing community in Skagen. Read more
• 19 Sep 1924: Alick Bannerman, Australian cricketer and coach (born 1854) Alexander Chalmers Bannerman was an Australian cricketer who played in 28 Test matches between 1879 and 1893. Read more
• 19 Sep 1906: Maria Georgina Grey, English educator, founded the Girls' Day School Trust (born 1816) Maria Georgina Grey, also known as Mrs William Grey, was a British educationist and writer who promoted women's education and was one of the founders of the organisation that became the Girls' Day School Trust. The college she founded was named in her honour the Maria Grey Training College. Read more
• 19 Sep 1905: Thomas John Barnardo, Irish-English philanthropist (born 1845) Thomas John Barnardo was an Irish, Christian philanthropist and founder and director of homes for poor and deprived children. From the foundation of the first Barnardo's home in 1867 to the date of Barnardo's death, nearly 60,000 children had been taken in. Read more
• 19 Sep 1902: Masaoka Shiki, Japanese poet, author, and critic (born 1867) Masaoka Shiki , pen-name of Masaoka Noboru, was a Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan. Shiki is regarded as a major figure in the development of modern haiku poetry, credited with writing nearly 20,000 stanzas during his short life. He also wrote on reform of tanka poetry. Read more
• 19 Sep 1893: Alexander Tilloch Galt, English-Canadian politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Finance (born 1817) Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt, was a politician and Father of Confederation, the union of British North American colonies into Canada. Read more
• 19 Sep 1881: James A. Garfield, American general, lawyer, and politician, and the 20th President of the United States (born 1831) James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death in September that year after being shot in July. A preacher, lawyer, and Civil War general, Garfield served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives and is the only sitting member of the House to be elected president. Before he ran for president, the Ohio General Assembly had elected him to the U.S. Senate, a position he declined upon becoming president-elect. Read more
• 19 Sep 1873: Robert Mackenzie, Scottish-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of Queensland (born 1811) Sir Robert Ramsay Mackenzie, 10th Baronet was a pastoralist and politician in Queensland, Australia. He was Premier of Queensland, Australia from August 1867 to November 1868. Read more
• 19 Sep 1868: William Sprague, American minister and politician (born 1809) William Sprague was a minister and politician in the U.S. state of Michigan. From 1849 to 1851, he served one term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Read more
• 19 Sep 1863: Hans Christian Heg, Norwegian-American colonel and politician (born 1829) Hans Christian Heg was a Norwegian American journalist, anti-slavery activist, politician, and soldier. He was best known for leading the 15th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment on the Union side in the American Civil War; he died of wounds he received at the Battle of Chickamauga. He previously held elected office as the 6th prison commissioner of Wisconsin (1860–1862). Read more
• 19 Sep 1843: Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (born 1792) Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis was a French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist. He is best known for his work on the supplementary forces that are detected in a rotating frame of reference, leading to the Coriolis effect. He was the first to apply the term travail for the transfer of energy by a force acting through a distance, and he prefixed the factor +1⁄2 to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's concept of vis viva, thus specifying today's kinetic energy. Read more
• 19 Sep 1812: Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker (born 1744) Mayer Amschel Rothschild was a German Jewish banker and the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty, which dominated international finance in Europe between the 1820s and the 1870s. Referred to as a "founding father of international finance", Rothschild was ranked seventh on the Forbes magazine list of "The Twenty Most Influential Businessmen of All Time" in 2005. Read more

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