History of Today 07 September: Important Events, Births and Deaths

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Important Events on 07 September in History

07 Sep 2021: Bitcoin becomes legal tender in El Salvador. Read more
07 Sep 2021: The National Unity Government of Myanmar declares a people's defensive war against the military junta during the Myanmar civil war. Read more
07 Sep 2019: Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and 66 others are released in a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia. Read more
07 Sep 2017: The 8.2 Mw 2017 Chiapas earthquake strikes southern Mexico, killing at least 60 people. Read more
07 Sep 2012: Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over nuclear plans and purported human rights abuses. Read more
07 Sep 2011: The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team. Read more
07 Sep 2010: A Chinese fishing trawler collides with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats in disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands. Read more
07 Sep 2008: The United States government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Read more
07 Sep 2005: Egypt holds its first-ever multi-party presidential election. Read more
07 Sep 1999: The 6.0 Mw Athens earthquake affects the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 143, injuring 800–1,600, and leaving 50,000 homeless. Read more
07 Sep 1997: Maiden flight of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor. Read more
07 Sep 1995: Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-69, the second flight of the Wake Shield Facility. Read more
07 Sep 1986: Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town. Read more
07 Sep 1986: Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet survives an assassination attempt by the FPMR; five of Pinochet's bodyguards are killed. Read more
07 Sep 1984: An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat disposing of illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo kills seven soldiers and policemen. Read more
07 Sep 1979: The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for US$1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy. Read more
07 Sep 1978: While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Gullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially designed umbrella. Read more
07 Sep 1977: The Torrijos–Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The United States agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century. Read more
07 Sep 1977: The 300-metre (980 ft) tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed. Read more
07 Sep 1970: Fighting begins between Arab guerrillas and government forces in Jordan. Read more
07 Sep 1970: Vietnam Television is established. Read more
07 Sep 1965: During an Indo-Pakistani War, China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border. Read more
07 Sep 1965: Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlite, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula. Read more
07 Sep 1963: The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members. Read more
07 Sep 1953: Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Read more
07 Sep 1945: World War II: Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines. Read more
07 Sep 1945: The Berlin Victory Parade of 1945 is held. Read more
07 Sep 1943: A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston kills 55 people. Read more
07 Sep 1943: World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea. Read more
07 Sep 1942: World War II: Japanese marines are forced to withdraw during the Battle of Milne Bay. Read more
07 Sep 1940: Romania returns Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria under the Treaty of Craiova. Read more
07 Sep 1940: World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights. Read more
07 Sep 1936: The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania. Read more
07 Sep 1932: The Battle of Boquerón, the first major battle of the Chaco War, commences. Read more
07 Sep 1929: Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. One hundred thirty-six lives are lost. Read more
07 Sep 1927: The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth. Read more
07 Sep 1923: The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is formed. Read more
07 Sep 1921: In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held. Read more
07 Sep 1921: The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland. Read more
07 Sep 1920: Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en route to Finland where they were to serve with the Finnish Air Force, killing both crews. Read more
07 Sep 1916: US federal employees win the right to workers' compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751). Read more
07 Sep 1911: French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum. Read more
07 Sep 1909: Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Port-Aviation (often called "Juvisy Airfield") at Viry-Châtillon, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life piloting a powered heavier-than-air craft.[better source needed] Read more
07 Sep 1907: Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City. Read more
07 Sep 1906: Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France successfully for the first time. Read more
07 Sep 1903: The Ottoman Empire launches a counter-offensive against the Strandzha Commune, which dissolves. Read more
07 Sep 1901: The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol. Read more
07 Sep 1876: In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are driven off by armed citizens. Read more
07 Sep 1864: American Civil War: Atlanta is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman. Read more
07 Sep 1863: American Civil War: Union troops under Quincy A. Gillmore capture Fort Wagner in Morris Island after a seven-week siege. Read more
07 Sep 1860: Unification of Italy: Giuseppe Garibaldi enters Naples. Read more
07 Sep 1857: Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers slaughter most members of a peaceful emigrant wagon train. Read more
07 Sep 1856: The Saimaa Canal is inaugurated. Read more
07 Sep 1822: Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga Brook in São Paulo. Read more
07 Sep 1818: Carl III of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim. Read more
07 Sep 1812: French invasion of Russia: The Battle of Borodino, the bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, is fought near Moscow and results in a French victory. Read more

Famous Births on 07 September

07 Sep 2006: Ian Chen, American actor Ian Chen is a Taiwanese-American actor. He is known for his roles as Evan Huang in the ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat (2015–2020) and Eugene Choi in the DC Extended Universe films Shazam! (2019) and Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023). Read more
07 Sep 2004: Tsugumi Aritomo, Japanese entertainer Tsugumi Aritomo is a Japanese singer, dancer, model, and actress. She is best known as a member of the girl group @onefive, and is a former member of the idol group Sakura Gakuin. She is represented by the talent agency Amuse Inc. and is signed with the record label Avex Trax. Read more
07 Sep 2000: Ariarne Titmus, Australian swimmer Ariarne Elizabeth Titmus is a retired Australian swimmer. She is the reigning Olympic champion in the women's 400-metre freestyle, having won the event at the 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2024 Summer Olympics and the world record holder in the long course 200-metre freestyle. Titmus is widely considered one of the greatest middle-distance swimmers of all time. In 2019 and 2020, she competed representing the Cali Condors in the International Swimming League. Read more
07 Sep 1999: Gracie Abrams, American singer-songwriter Gracie Madigan Abrams is an American singer and songwriter. She signed with Interscope Records in 2019 and gained recognition after releasing her debut extended play, Minor (2020), and its follow-up, This Is What It Feels Like (2021), alongside various singles including "I Miss You, I'm Sorry". Abrams released her debut album, Good Riddance (2023), and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. She also performed as an opening act on Olivia Rodrigo's Sour Tour (2022) and Taylor Swift's Eras Tour (2023–2024). Read more
07 Sep 1999: Laurie Jussaume, Canadian cyclist Laurie Jussaume is a Canadian cyclist. Read more
07 Sep 1997: Dean-Charles Chapman, English actor Dean-Charles Chapman is an English actor known for portraying Billy Elliot in the West End theatre production of Billy Elliot the Musical. His notable TV roles include Richard Grey in The White Queen (2013) and Tommen Baratheon in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2014–2016). He also portrayed Tom Blake in Sam Mendes's film 1917 (2019) and Thomas of Lancaster in David Michôd's The King (2019). Read more
07 Sep 1996: Donovan Mitchell, American basketball player Donovan Vernell Mitchell Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "Spida", he was drafted in the first round of the 2017 NBA draft and acquired by the Utah Jazz, whom he played for from 2017 to 2022. He is a seven-time NBA All-Star and three-time All-NBA Team member. Read more
07 Sep 1994: Elinor Barker, Welsh track cyclist Elinor Jane Barker is a Welsh road and track cyclist, who has ridden for UCI Women's Team Uno-X Mobility since 2022. As a track cyclist, she is an Olympic champion in the team pursuit and a world champion in the team pursuit, madison, points race, and scratch race disciplines. She has won four Olympic medals during her career. Her overall tally of four Olympic medals is a record for a Welsh woman. Read more
07 Sep 1994: Maren Lundby, Norwegian former ski jumper Maren Lundby is a Norwegian former ski jumper. She is one of the most successful ski jumpers in the history of the sport, having won three consecutive World Cup overall titles, thirty individual World Cup competitions, and gold medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics and the 2019 and 2021 World Championships. Read more
07 Sep 1994: Aya Jones, French model Aya Jones N'Guessan is a French model. Read more
07 Sep 1994: Nerea Gantxegi, Spanish footballer Nerea Gantxegi Moso is a Spanish footballer who plays as a defender for Levante Las Planas. Read more
07 Sep 1994: Claire Lejeune, French politician Claire Morgane Lejeune is a French politician of La France Insoumise who was elected member of the National Assembly for Essonne's 7th constituency in 2024. She served as leader of Les Jeunes Écologistes until 2020, and was a candidate for Essonne's 7th constituency in 2022. Read more
07 Sep 1994: Jenna McCormick, Australian rugby league player Jenna McCormick is a professional Australian sportswoman who last played soccer for Australian A-League Women's club Brisbane Roar and has played Australian rules football for the Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition. Read more
07 Sep 1994: Isel Suñiga, Guatemalan politician Isel Aneli Suñiga Morfín is a Guatemalan politician and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Guatemala 2017. She represented Guatemala at the Miss Universe 2017. Read more
07 Sep 1994: Eva Buurman, Dutch professional racing cyclist Eva Buurman is a Dutch professional racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI Women's WorldTeam Liv Racing TeqFind. Before turning to professional cycling, Buurman was a speed skater. Read more
07 Sep 1994: Irina Fetisova, Russian volleyball player Irina Andreyevna Fetisova is a Russian volleyball player. She plays for the Russia women's national volleyball team and Tianjin Bohai Bank at club level. Read more
07 Sep 1994: Herman Ese'ese, New Zealand rugby league player Herman Ese'ese is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a prop and loose forward for Hull F.C. in the Super League. He has also played for both New Zealand and Samoa at international level. Read more
07 Sep 1994: Tom Opacic, Australian rugby league player Thomas Opacic is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a centre for the Redcliffe Dolphins in the Hostplus Cup. Read more
07 Sep 1994: Kento Yamazaki, Japanese actor Kento Yamazaki is a Japanese actor and model. He is best known for starring in manga adaptations, including the films Another (film) (2012), Jinx!!! (2013), L DK (2014), Orange (2015), Your Lie in April (2016), JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter I (2017), Psychic Kusuo: The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. (2017), Kingdom (2019), and television series Death Note (2015) and Alice in Borderland (2020–2025). His other notable works include Kiss That Kills (2018) and Good Doctor (2018). Yamazaki is under the Japanese talent agency Stardust Promotion. Read more
07 Sep 1992: Miniminter, English YouTuber Simon Edward Minter, better known as Miniminter, is an English influencer and streamer. He is a member and co-founder of the British influencer group the Sidemen, as well as a co-owner of XIX Vodka, Sidemen Clothing, restaurant chain Sides, and cereal brand Best Breakfasts. He is also the co-founder of M7 Education, a non-profit organization. Read more
07 Sep 1991: Dale Finucane, Australian rugby league player Dale Finucane is a former Australian professional rugby league footballer who played as a lock forward for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League (NRL). Finucane is a dual premiership winner 2017 and 2020 with the Melbourne Storm. Read more
07 Sep 1991: Amar Garibović, Serbian skier (died 2010) Amar Garibović was a Serbian cross-country skier who had competed since 2004. He finished 80th in the 15 km event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Read more
07 Sep 1990: Libor Hudáček, Slovak ice hockey player Libor Hudáček is a Slovak professional ice hockey player who is a forward for HC Oceláři Třinec of the Czech Extraliga (ELH). He is the younger brother of Július Hudáček, who is a goaltender. Read more
07 Sep 1990: Fedor Klimov, Russian figure skater Fedor Alexandrovich Klimov is a retired Russian pair skater. With partner Ksenia Stolbova, he is the 2014 Olympic silver medalist, the 2014 Olympic champion in the team event, the 2014 World silver medalist, a three-time European medalist, the 2015–16 Grand Prix Final champion, the 2013 Winter Universiade champion, a two-time World Junior medalist, and a three-time Russian national champion. Read more
07 Sep 1989: Jonathan Majors, American actor Jonathan Michael Majors is an American actor. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Majors rose to prominence for starring in the drama films The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) and Da 5 Bloods (2020), as well as the HBO horror series Lovecraft Country (2020), for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Read more
07 Sep 1988: Alex Harvey, Canadian skier Alex Harvey is a retired Canadian cross-country skier who competed between 2005 and 2019. Harvey is also a member of the Quebec Provincial Cycling Team. Read more
07 Sep 1988: Kevin Love, American basketball player Kevin Wesley Love is an American professional basketball player who most recently played for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is a five-time All-Star and a two-time member of the All-NBA Second Team, winning an NBA championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016. He was also a member of the gold medal-winning United States national team at the 2010 FIBA World Championship and the 2012 Summer Olympics. In 2011, Love won the NBA Most Improved Player Award and led the league in rebounding. Read more
07 Sep 1987: Tommy Elphick, English footballer Tommy Elphick is an English professional football coach and former player who played as a centre-back. He is currently a first-team coach at Premier League club Liverpool. Read more
07 Sep 1987: Sammy Moore, English footballer Samuel Leslie Moore is an English former professional footballer who was most recently the manager of Potters Bar Town. Read more
07 Sep 1987: Danny North, English footballer Daniel Jamie North is an English football coach and former professional footballer who is the assistant manager of Brigg Town Read more
07 Sep 1987: Patrick Robinson, American football player Patrick Robinson is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Florida State Seminoles, and was selected by the Saints in the first round of the 2010 NFL draft. Robinson has also played for the San Diego Chargers, Indianapolis Colts and Philadelphia Eagles. Read more
07 Sep 1987: Evan Rachel Wood, American actress and singer Evan Rachel Wood is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of a Critics' Choice Television Award as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. Read more
07 Sep 1987: Aleksandra Wozniak, Canadian tennis player Aleksandra Wozniak is a Canadian former tennis player. She turned professional in November 2005, and achieved a career-best ranking of No. 21 in June 2009, making her the fifth highest-ranked Canadian singles player of all time. She won one WTA and eleven ITF tournaments. At the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford in 2008, she became the first Canadian in 20 years to capture a WTA singles title and the first Quebecer in history to have accomplished such a feat. She reached a career-high ITF junior ranking of No. 3 on January 31, 2005. Wozniak was named Female Player of the Year by Tennis Canada five times. Read more
07 Sep 1986: Charlie Daniels, English footballer Charles John Daniels is an English professional football coach and former player who is currently a first-team coach for EFL Championship club Watford. Read more
07 Sep 1986: Colin Delaney, American wrestler Colin Matthew Delaney is an American professional wrestler. He is currently performing on the independent circuit. He is best known for his time with WWE on its ECW brand. He is also known for his tenures with Chikara and International Wrestling Cartel (IWC). Read more
07 Sep 1985: Radhika Apte, Indian actress Radhika Charudutt Apte is an Indian actress who works predominantly in Hindi films and television. She began acting in theatre and made her film debut with a brief role in the fantasy drama Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi! (2005). Her first lead role was in the 2009 Bengali drama Antaheen. She gained attention for her supporting roles in three of her 2015 Bollywood productions: the revenge drama Badlapur, the comedy Hunterrr, and the biographical film Manjhi – The Mountain Man. Her leading roles in the 2016 independent films Phobia and Parched earned her acclaim. Read more
07 Sep 1985: Wade Davis, American baseball player Wade Allen Davis is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Rays, Kansas City Royals, Chicago Cubs, and Colorado Rockies. Davis is a three-time MLB All-Star. He was a member of the Royals' 2015 World Series-winning team, and earned the Babe Ruth Award for his performance in the 2015 MLB playoffs. Read more
07 Sep 1985: Alyssa Diaz, American actress Alyssa Elaine Diaz is an American actress. She is known for her roles on television, such as Celia Ortega on the CBS daytime soap opera As the World Turns, Jasmine on the ABC Family series The Nine Lives of Chloe King, Gloria Cruz on Lifetime's Army Wives, Teresa on Showtime's Ray Donovan, Dariela Marzan on the CBS series Zoo, and Detective Angela Lopez on the ABC series The Rookie. Read more
07 Sep 1985: Adam Eckersley, English footballer Adam James Eckersley is an English former professional footballer who played primarily as a full-back. He is the older brother of fellow professional footballer Richard Eckersley. Read more
07 Sep 1985: Eric Fehr, Canadian ice hockey player Eric Fehr is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. He most recently played under contract with Ak Bars Kazan in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He was drafted in the first round, 18th overall, by the Washington Capitals in the 2003 NHL entry draft. In addition to two separate stints with Washington, Fehr has also played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Winnipeg Jets, Pittsburgh Penguins, Toronto Maple Leafs, San Jose Sharks and the Minnesota Wild. Fehr initially ended his professional career after having played two seasons with Genève-Servette HC of the National League (NL) before resuming to play in the KHL. Read more
07 Sep 1985: Rafinha, Brazilian footballer Márcio Rafael Ferreira de Souza, commonly known as Rafinha, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a right-back. He was known as a skilled defender with good passing skills, quick pace, agility and a strong shot. He had earned four caps with the Brazil national team. Since 2015, he has had German citizenship. Read more
07 Sep 1984: Ben Hollingsworth, Canadian actor Benjamin Hollingsworth is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role on the CBS television series Code Black (2015–2018) and for his role as Daniel Brady in Netflix's Virgin River (2019–present). Read more
07 Sep 1984: Farveez Maharoof, Sri Lankan cricketer Mohamed Farveez Maharoof, or Farveez Maharoof, is a Sri Lankan former professional cricketer, who played Tests and ODIs. He first made his impression in the 2004 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in which he captained the Sri Lankan team. He enjoyed a prolific school career for Wesley College, with a highest score of 243 and best bowling figures of 8 for 20. An all-rounder, he made his Test debut in 2004. He was part of the Sri Lankan team which finished as runners-up at the 2007 Cricket World Cup. Read more
07 Sep 1984: Miranda, Brazilian footballer João Miranda de Souza Filho, known as Miranda, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Read more
07 Sep 1984: Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player Vera Igorevna Zvonareva is a Russian professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 2, and No. 7 in doubles by the WTA. Zvonareva has won twelve singles titles, including the 2009 Indian Wells Open, and reached the finals of the 2008 WTA Tour Championships, 2010 Wimbledon Championships, and 2010 US Open. She was also a bronze medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Read more
07 Sep 1984: Pelin Karahan, Turkish actress Vildan Pelin Karahan Güntay is a Turkish actress and TV host, best known for her portrayal of Mihrimah Sultan, Sultan Süleyman's only daughter in Muhteşem Yüzyıl and in Kavak Yelleri. Read more
07 Sep 1983: Philip Deignan, Irish cyclist Philip Deignan is an Irish former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2018 for the Ag2r–La Mondiale, Cervélo TestTeam, Team RadioShack, UnitedHealthcare and Team Sky squads. A former Olympian, Deignan won a stage in the 2009 Vuelta a España, and finished in the top ten in the general classification. Read more
07 Sep 1983: Annette Dytrt, German figure skater Annette Dytrt, also Dytrtová, is a German former competitive figure skater who also competed internationally for the Czech Republic. She is the 1999 Czech national champion and the 2003–06 German national champion. Read more
07 Sep 1983: Pops Mensah-Bonsu, English-American basketball player Nana Papa Yaw "Pops" Mensah-Bonsu is a British basketball executive and former player. He played college basketball for George Washington University and professionally for five National Basketball Association (NBA) teams as well as clubs in Spain, France, Turkey, Russia, Italy, Israel, and Greece. On an international level, he represented Great Britain and was a member of Team GB at the London 2012 Olympic Games. He also served as general manager of the Capital City Go-Go of the NBA G League from 2018 to 2020. Throughout his career, he was known for his saying "No Mercy" after blocking a shot. A documentary entitled "No Mercy", was released at the end of his career, documenting his ups and downs and him being known for being a "less heralded" player by the media. Read more
07 Sep 1983: Piri Weepu, New Zealand rugby player Piri Awahou Tihou Weepu is a New Zealand retired rugby union player. Weepu played most recently for Wairarapa Bush in the Heartland Championship. Generally Weepu played as a half-back but also played at first five-eighth on occasion. He has represented the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, between 2004 and 2013. He first won national honours against Wales in 2004. In 2005 was called back into the All Blacks squad for the first Tri Nations test against South Africa, having missed selection for the 2005 British & Irish Lions tour. He represented the Hurricanes and Blues in Super Rugby, and Wellington and Auckland in the Mitre 10 Cup. He also had brief spells with several clubs in Europe. In October 2017, Weepu announced his retirement as a rugby player. Read more
07 Sep 1982: Andre Dirrell, American boxer Andre Dirrell is an American professional boxer. Read more
07 Sep 1982: George Bailey, Australian cricketer George John Bailey is a former Australian cricketer, who played all formats for the national team and captained the team in limited-over formats. Domestically, Bailey played for the Tasmanian cricket team in all three domestic state competitions as well as the Hobart Hurricanes and Melbourne Stars in the Twenty20 Big Bash's successor, the KFC Big Bash League. He has also played in the Indian Premier League and T20 Blast, and in Scotland with Grange Cricket Club. Bailey was a member of the Australian team that won the 2015 Cricket World Cup. Read more
07 Sep 1982: Emese Szász, Hungarian fencer Emese Szász is a Hungarian left-handed épée fencer, three-time Olympian, and 2016 individual Olympic champion. Read more
07 Sep 1981: Gökhan Zan, Turkish footballer Gökhan Zan is a Turkish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Read more
07 Sep 1981: Vangelis, Mexican wrestler Vangelis is the ring name of a Mexican professional wrestler, known for his work for the Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). He portrays a rudo wrestling character. He has formerly worked for Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA) in Mexico, Dragon Gate in Japan and extensively on the Mexican independent circuit. Vangelis is the winner of the 2013 En Busca de un Ídolo tournament and a former holder of the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship. Read more
07 Sep 1980: Emre Belözoğlu, Turkish footballer Emre Belözoğlu, simply known as Emre, is a Turkish football manager and former professional footballer who is currently head coach of Kasımpaşa. Read more
07 Sep 1980: Sara Carrigan, Australian cyclist Sara Carrigan is a professional cyclist from Australia, who commenced her cycling career in 1996 at the age of fifteen and is currently a member of the Belgian Lotto–Belisol Ladiesteam. Read more
07 Sep 1980: Gabriel Milito, Argentine footballer Gabriel Alejandro Milito is an Argentine professional football coach and former player who played as a centre-back. He is currently head coach of Liga MX club Guadalajara. Read more
07 Sep 1980: Javad Nekounam, Iranian footballer Javad Nekounam is an Iranian football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He holds the record for the most appearances for the Iranian national team with 149 caps. Read more
07 Sep 1980: J. D. Pardo, American actor Jorge Daniel Pardo is an American actor. He is best known for playing the lead role of Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes in the television series Mayans M.C. (2018–2023), as well as a young Jack Toretto in F9 (2021). Read more
07 Sep 1980: Mark Prior, American baseball player Mark William Prior is an American former professional baseball pitcher and current coach. A onetime top prospect of the Chicago Cubs, he pitched for the team from 2002 to 2006 in a career that was marred by injuries. In his prime, his repertoire of pitches included a mid-90s mph fastball, a curveball, and a changeup. He is the pitching coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Read more
07 Sep 1979: Nathan Hindmarsh, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster Nathan William Hindmarsh is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who captained the Parramatta Eels in the NRL. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian international representative second-row forward, he played his entire career at the Eels, in 2010 breaking the record for most games with the club. On 28 August 2018, Hindmarsh was inducted into the Parramatta Eels hall of fame. Read more
07 Sep 1979: Paul Mara, American ice hockey player Paul Richard Mara is an American former professional ice hockey defenceman, who most recently served as the Assistant Coach of the Hartford Wolf Pack in the American Hockey League (AHL). He previously served as the head coach of the Boston Pride in the now defunct Premier Hockey Federation (PHF). Additionally, he served temporarily as an Assistant to Player Development for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL) in the 2023-24 season. Read more
07 Sep 1979: Owen Pallett, Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player Owen Pallett is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist. Under their former pseudonym Final Fantasy, Pallett won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album He Poos Clouds. Pallett is also known for their contributions to Arcade Fire, having served as a string arranger and touring member of the band. In January 2014, Pallett and Arcade Fire member William Butler were nominated for Best Original Score at the 86th Academy Awards for their original score of the film Her (2013). Read more
07 Sep 1979: Brian Stokes, American baseball player Brian Alexander Stokes is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, New York Mets, and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Read more
07 Sep 1978: Matt Cooke, Canadian ice hockey player Matthew David Cooke is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former professional player. He is the current head coach and general manager of the Vernon Vipers of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL). Cooke played sixteen seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). Cooke won the Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2009 and was a member of the Team Canada team that won the gold medal at the 2004 World Championships. He also played for the Vancouver Canucks, Washington Capitals, and Minnesota Wild. Cooke was born in Belleville, Ontario, but grew up in Stirling, Ontario. He served as head coach of the Newfoundland Growlers for the 2023/24 season. Read more
07 Sep 1978: Erwin Koen, Dutch footballer Erwin Koen is a Dutch former footballer who played as a striker. Most of his career he played in the 2. Bundesliga. Read more
07 Sep 1978: Ersin Güreler, Turkish footballer Ersin Güreler is a retired Turkish footballer who primarily played as a left back. Known for his attacking style of play, he represented 12 different teams in Turkish football. However, his involvement in the Gülen movement came under scrutiny following the attempted coup d'etat in July 2016. Subsequently, in January 2020, Güreler was convicted and sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison for being a member of an armed terror organization due to his connections with the Gülen movement. Read more
07 Sep 1978: Devon Sawa, Canadian actor Devon Edward Sawa is a Canadian actor. Born and raised in Vancouver, Sawa began his career promoting children's action toys. He made his film debut with a supporting role in Little Giants (1994) and received wide recognition for playing the title role as a human boy in Casper (1995). Sawa also had starring roles in the films Wild America (1997), SLC Punk! (1998), Idle Hands (1999), and Final Destination (2000). Read more
07 Sep 1977: Mateen Cleaves, American basketball player Mateen Ahmad Cleaves is an American former professional basketball player who currently serves as an assistant coach for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played parts of six seasons in the NBA. He was an All-American college player for Michigan State, where he led the Spartans to a national championship in 2000. He has also worked as a studio analyst for Fox Sports. Read more
07 Sep 1977: Molly Holly, American wrestler and trainer Nora Kristina Greenwald is an American retired professional wrestler. She is signed to WWE, under the ring name Molly Holly, as a producer. She is also known for her tenure in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as Miss Madness and Mona from 1999 to 2000. Read more
07 Sep 1977: Jon Macken, English-Irish footballer Jonathan Paul Macken is a football manager and former professional player who played as a striker. He is manager of Stalybridge Celtic. Read more
07 Sep 1976: Wavell Hinds, Jamaican cricketer Wavell Wayne Hinds is a Jamaican politician and former West Indian international cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium-pace bowler. Read more
07 Sep 1976: Oliver Hudson, American actor Oliver Rutledge Hudson is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Adam Rhodes in the CBS comedy series Rules of Engagement (2007–2013), Jeff Fordham on the ABC musical drama series Nashville (2013–2015) and Wes Gardner in the Fox horror comedy Scream Queens (2015–2016). He appeared as one of the main cast members of the ABC sitcom Splitting Up Together (2018–2019), produced by Ellen DeGeneres. In 2022, he played FBI agent Garrett Miller in Fox's The Cleaning Lady. Read more
07 Sep 1975: Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (died 2007) Norifumi "Norick" Abe , or Norick Abe (ノリック・アベ) was a Japanese professional motorcycle road racer. He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1994 to 2004. Abe died in a road traffic crash in October 2007. Read more
07 Sep 1975: Harold Wallace, Costa Rican footballer and manager Harold Wallace McDonald is a Costa Rican former footballer who played as a right-back and central midfielder. Read more
07 Sep 1974: Mario Frick, Swiss-Liechtensteiner footballer Mario Frick is a Liechtensteiner football manager and former player who was most recently the manager of Swiss Super League club Luzern. He has earned 125 caps and scored a national record 16 goals for his country from his international debut in 1993 until his retirement in 2016. Mainly a striker, Frick was also deployed as a centre-back on occasion. Read more
07 Sep 1974: Antonio McDyess, American basketball player Antonio Keithflen McDyess is an American former professional basketball player. Listed at 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) and 240 pounds (110 kg), McDyess played as a power forward. He played college basketball for the Alabama Crimson Tide. Read more
07 Sep 1973: Shannon Elizabeth, American model and actress Shannon Elizabeth Fadal is an American actress, activist, and poker player. Her roles in the Scary Movie (2000) and the American Pie film series solidified her status as a sex symbol of the 1990s and 2000s. Read more
07 Sep 1973: Alex Kurtzman, American director, producer, and screenwriter Alexander Hilary Kurtzman is an American filmmaker. He is best known for co-writing the scripts to Transformers (2007), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) with his writing and producing partner Roberto Orci, and directing and co-writing The Mummy (2017). He made his directorial debut with People Like Us (2012), co-written alongside Orci and Jody Lambert. Read more
07 Sep 1972: Jason Isringhausen, American baseball player and coach Jason Derik Isringhausen is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Oakland Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays, and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Isringhausen was, with Bill Pulsipher and Paul Wilson, a member of "Generation K", a group of highly regarded Mets prospects. Isringhausen proceeded to have a successful career as a closer, recording exactly 300 career saves. He was a two-time All-Star and led the National League in saves in 2004. Read more
07 Sep 1971: Gene Pritsker, American composer Gene Pritsker is a composer, guitarist, rapper and record producer living in New York City. He moved to the United States with his family in 1978 and lived in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. He attended the Manhattan School of Music from 1990 to 1994 where he studied composition with Giampaolo Bracali. Read more
07 Sep 1971: Shane Mosley, American boxer and trainer Shane Mosley, often known by his nickname "Sugar" Shane Mosley, is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2016. He held multiple world championships in three weight classes, including the IBF lightweight title; the WBA (Super) and WBC welterweight titles; and the WBA (Super), WBC, and The Ring magazine light middleweight titles. He was also a lineal champion at welterweight (twice) and light middleweight. Read more
07 Sep 1970: Monique Gabriela Curnen, American actress Monique Gabriela Curnen is an American actress. Read more
07 Sep 1970: Gino Odjick, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2023) Wayne Gino Odjick was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played 12 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1990 to 2002 for the Vancouver Canucks, New York Islanders, Philadelphia Flyers and Montreal Canadiens. Read more
07 Sep 1970: Tom Everett Scott, American actor Thomas Everett Scott is an American actor. His film work includes a starring role as drummer Guy Patterson in the film That Thing You Do!, the protagonist in An American Werewolf in Paris, and notable roles in Boiler Room, One True Thing, Dead Man on Campus, The Love Letter, Because I Said So, Danger One, La La Land, and Clouds. Read more
07 Sep 1969: Darren Bragg, American baseball player and coach Darren William Bragg is an American former professional baseball outfielder and coach who played 11 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Seattle Mariners, Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, Colorado Rockies, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves, San Diego Padres, and Cincinnati Reds. Read more
07 Sep 1969: Angie Everhart, American actress and model Angela Kay Everhart is an American actress and former model who appeared in several Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues in the 1990s and posed nude for Playboy in 2000. Read more
07 Sep 1969: Diane Farr, American actress Diane Farr is an American actress, producer, and author. Her television roles have included FBI agent Megan Reeves in Numb3rs, the firefighter Laura Miles in Rescue Me, and the division chief Sharon Leone in Fire Country. Read more
07 Sep 1969: Rudy Galindo, American figure skater Val Joe "Rudy" Galindo is an American former competitive figure skater who competed in both single skating and pair skating. As a single skater, he is the 1996 U.S. national champion, 1987 World Junior Champion, and 1996 World Bronze medalist. As a pairs skater, he competed with Kristi Yamaguchi and was the 1988 World Junior Champion and the 1989 and 1990 U.S. National Champion. He is the first openly gay skating champion in the United States, though US, World and Olympic champion Brian Boitano came out long after his career was over. Read more
07 Sep 1968: Marcel Desailly, Ghanaian-French footballer Marcel David Desailly is a former professional footballer, who played as a centre-back or defensive midfielder. During a successful career at club level, lasting from 1986 to 2006, Desailly won several titles, including UEFA Champions League medals with both Marseille and AC Milan, and also played for Nantes and Chelsea, among other teams. At international level, he collected 116 caps between 1993 and 2004, scoring three goals, and was a member of the France international squads that won the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000. Read more
07 Sep 1968: Gennadi Krasnitski, Russian figure skater and coach Gennadi Viacheslavovich Krasnitski (Vanisyan) (Russian: Геннадий Вячеславович Красницкий (Ванисян), 7 September 1968) is a former Soviet pair skater. He is a two-time (1986, 1987) World Junior champion with partner Elena Leonova. Read more
07 Sep 1967: Leslie Jones, American comedian and actress Annette Leslie Jones is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She was a cast member and writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2014 to 2019, and hosted the ABC game show Supermarket Sweep. She has also been a featured performer at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal and the Aspen Comedy Festival. In 2010, her one-hour comedy special, Problem Child, was broadcast on Showtime. Jones starred in Ghostbusters (2016) as Patty Tolan. In 2017 and 2018, Jones was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Saturday Night Live. Read more
07 Sep 1967: Alok Sharma, Indian-English accountant and politician Alok Kumar Sharma, Baron Sharma, is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as President for COP26 from 2021 to 2022, having previously served as Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from 2020 to 2021 and Secretary of State for International Development from 2019 to 2020. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Reading West from 2010 to 2024 and has been a member of the House of Lords since 2024. Read more
07 Sep 1966: Vladimir Andreyev, Russian race walker Vladimir Vasilyevich Andreyev was a Russian race walker. He died on 16 April 2024, at the age of 57. Read more
07 Sep 1966: Lutz Heilmann, German politician Lutz Heilmann is a German politician of the left-wing party Die Linke. He was elected to the Bundestag in the 2005 federal election as a member of the party list in Schleswig-Holstein. Shortly thereafter it was revealed that he had worked for the Stasi from 1985 to 1990. Heilmann drew national and international media attention when he caused the website www.wikipedia.de to be blocked by a preliminary injunction on 13 November 2008. His Bundestag term ended in 2009, and he failed to be nominated for a second term. Read more
07 Sep 1966: Toby Jones, English actor Toby Edward Heslewood Jones is an English actor. He is known for his extensive character actor roles on stage and screen. From 1989 to 1991, Jones trained at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. He earned a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 2001 for his performance in the comedy play The Play What I Wrote, which played in the West End and on Broadway. In 2020, he was nominated for his second Olivier Award, for Best Actor for his performance in a revival of Anton Chekov's Uncle Vanya. Read more
07 Sep 1966: Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, German speed skater Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann is a German former speed skater. She is a three-time Olympic gold medallist, winning the 3000 metres in 1992 and 1998 and the 5000 metres in 1992. She won a total of eight Olympic medals. Read more
07 Sep 1966: Andrew Voss, Australian sportscaster and author Andrew Voss is an Australian rugby league commentator and radio and television personality who works for Fox League. Read more
07 Sep 1965: Angela Gheorghiu, Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu is a Romanian soprano, especially known for her performances in the operas of Puccini and Verdi, widely recognised by critics and opera lovers as one of the greatest sopranos of all time. Read more
07 Sep 1965: Darko Pančev, Macedonian footballer Darko Pančev is a Macedonian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He most notably played for FK Vardar and Red Star Belgrade. Read more
07 Sep 1965: Uta Pippig, German runner Uta Pippig is a retired German long-distance runner, and the first woman to officially win the Boston Marathon three consecutive times (1994–1996). She also won the Berlin Marathon three times ; the 1993 New York City Marathon; represented Germany at the Olympic Games in 1992 and 1996, and won a bronze medal at the 1991 World 15km Road Race Championship. Her marathon best of 2:21:45 set in Boston in 1994, made her the third-fastest female marathon runner in history at that time. Read more
07 Sep 1965: Tomáš Skuhravý, Czech footballer Tomáš Skuhravý is a Czech former footballer who played as a striker. Read more
07 Sep 1965: Andreas Thom, German footballer and manager Andreas Thom is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward for BFC Dynamo, Bayer Leverkusen, Celtic and Hertha BSC. He played 51 times for East Germany throughout the 1980s and played ten times for the unified Germany national team in the early 1990s. He is now retired from playing and works as a youth coach at Hertha BSC. Read more
07 Sep 1964: Eazy-E, American rapper and producer (died 1995) Eric Lynn Wright, known professionally as Eazy-E, was an American rapper who propelled West Coast rap and gangsta rap by leading the group N.W.A and its label, Ruthless Records. Wright is often referred to as the "Godfather of Gangsta Rap". Read more
07 Sep 1963: Neerja Bhanot, Indian flight purser Neerja Bhanot was an Indian flight attendant. On 5 September 1986, she saved a large number of passengers on board Pan Am Flight 73, which had been hijacked by four Palestinian terrorists from the Abu Nidal Organization after it made a stopover at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan. Around 17 hours into the standoff, after she opened an emergency exit door and began helping passengers escape from the plane, Neerja was shot and killed by the hijackers. Shortly afterward, Pakistan's Special Service Group stormed the aircraft and captured all of the hijackers. Read more
07 Sep 1963: W. Earl Brown, American actor William Earl Brown is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, musician, and songwriter. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Kenny, the cameraman in the film Scream (1996), Warren in the film There's Something About Mary (1998), Dan Dority on the HBO series Deadwood (2004–2006), and the voice and motion capture of Bill in the video game The Last of Us (2013). He has appeared in films such as Backdraft, The Master, Being John Malkovich, The Sessions, Vanilla Sky, The Lone Ranger, and Bloodworth, as well as series such as Seinfeld, NYPD Blue, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, The X-Files, Six Feet Under, Preacher, Bates Motel, True Detective, American Horror Story, Chicago Fire, Psych, and The Mandalorian. Read more
07 Sep 1962: Jennifer Egan, American novelist and short story writer Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short-story writer. Her novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. From 2018 to 2020, she served as the president of PEN America. Read more
07 Sep 1962: George South, American wrestler George South is an American professional wrestler. In the course of his career, South has wrestled for professional wrestling promotions such as Jim Crockett Promotions, the National Wrestling Alliance, Smoky Mountain Wrestling, Juggalo Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation. Read more
07 Sep 1962: Hasan Vezir, Turkish footballer and manager Hasan Vezir is a Turkish football manager and former player. Read more
07 Sep 1961: LeRoi Moore, American saxophonist and songwriter (died 2008) LeRoi Holloway Moore was an American saxophonist. He was a founding member of the Dave Matthews Band. Moore often arranged music for songs written by Dave Matthews. Moore also co-wrote many of the band's songs, notably "Too Much" and "Stay ". Read more
07 Sep 1961: Jean-Yves Thibaudet, French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet is a French pianist. Read more
07 Sep 1960: Brad Houser, American bass player (died 2023) John Bradley Houser was an American bass guitar, baritone saxophone and bass clarinet player, originally from Dallas, Texas. He was a co-founding member of the New Bohemians, later to become known as Edie Brickell & New Bohemians. He also co-founded Critters Buggin with fellow New Bohemian Matt Chamberlain, Mike Dillon, and Skerik. Read more
07 Sep 1960: Ersin Tatar, Turkish Cypriot politician Ersin Tatar is a Turkish Cypriot politician who served as the fifth president of Northern Cyprus from 2020 to 2025. He previously served as the fourth Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus following the collapse of Tufan Erhürman's coalition government in 2019, and remained so until his election as president. He was also the leader of the National Unity Party (UBP) and Leader of the Opposition from 2018 until his election. Read more
07 Sep 1958: Walter White, American fictional protagonist of television series Breaking Bad (died 2010) Walter Hartwell White, also known by his alias Heisenberg, is a fictional character and the protagonist of the American crime drama television series Breaking Bad. He is portrayed by Bryan Cranston. Read more
07 Sep 1957: Jermaine Stewart, American singer-songwriter and dancer (died 1997) William Jermaine Stewart was an American R&B singer best known for his 1986 hit single "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off", which peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100. It also peaked within the top ten of the charts in Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. His 1987 song "Say It Again" reached number seven in the United Kingdom. Read more
07 Sep 1956: Michael Feinstein, American singer and pianist Michael Jay Feinstein is an American singer, pianist, and music revivalist. He is an archivist and interpreter for the repertoire known as the Great American Songbook. In 1988, he won a Drama Desk Special Award for celebrating American musical theater songs. Feinstein is a five-time Grammy-nominated recording artist. He is the founder of the Great American Songbook Foundation and the artistic director for Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana. Read more
07 Sep 1956: Byron Stevenson, Welsh footballer (died 2007) William Byron Stevenson was a Welsh international footballer. Read more
07 Sep 1956: Diane Warren, American songwriter Diane Eve Warren is an American songwriter. She has won an Academy Honorary Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three consecutive Billboard Music Awards for Songwriter of the Year from 1997 to 1999. She first gained recognition for her work on DeBarge's 1985 single "Rhythm of the Night". By the late 1980s, she joined the record label EMI, where she became the first songwriter in the history of Billboard magazine to have written seven hit songs, each recorded by different artists, on the charts at the same time, prompting EMI's UK Chairman Peter Reichardt to call her "the most important songwriter in the world". Warren has received 17 nominations for Academy Awards, the most of any individual without a win. She received an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards in November 2022. Read more
07 Sep 1955: Mira Furlan, Croatian-American actress (died 2021) Mira Furlan was a Croatian-American actress and singer. Internationally, she was best known for her roles as the Minbari Ambassador Delenn in the science fiction television series Babylon 5 (1993–1998), and as Danielle Rousseau in Lost (2004–2010), and also appeared in multiple award-winning films such as When Father Was Away on Business (1985) and The Abandoned (2010). Read more
07 Sep 1954: Corbin Bernsen, American actor Corbin Dean Bernsen is an American actor and film director. He appeared as divorce attorney Arnold Becker on the NBC drama series L.A. Law, as Dr. Alan Feinstone in The Dentist, as retired police detective Henry Spencer on the USA Network comedy-drama series Psych, and as Roger Dorn in the films Major League, Major League II, and Major League: Back to the Minors. He also appeared regularly on The Resident, The Curse, General Hospital, and Cuts, and has had intermittent appearances on The Young and the Restless. Read more
07 Sep 1954: Michael Emerson, American actor Michael Emerson is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Benjamin Linus on Lost (2006–2010) and as Harold Finch in the CBS series Person of Interest (2011–2016). Other prominent roles include Zep Hindle in the horror film Saw (2004) and as Dr. Leland Townsend in the Paramount+ thriller series Evil (2019–2024). Read more
07 Sep 1954: Kerrie Holley, American software architect and academic Kerrie Lamont Holley is an American software engineer, author, and technology executive who is known for his pioneering work in service-oriented architecture (SOA) and his contributions to IBM's software development methodologies. Read more
07 Sep 1953: Marc Hunter, New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter (died 1998) Marc Alexander Hunter was a New Zealand rock and pop singer, songwriter and record producer. He was the lead vocalist of Dragon, a band formed by his older brother, Todd Hunter, in Auckland in January 1972. They relocated to Sydney in May 1975. He was also a member of the Party Boys in 1985. For his solo career he issued five studio albums, Fiji Bitter, Big City Talk, Communication, Night and Day and Talk to Strangers. During the 1970s Hunter developed heroin and alcohol addictions and was incarcerated at Mt Eden Prison in Auckland in 1978. He was recklessly outspoken and volatile on-stage. In November 1978, during the band's American tour, supporting Johnny Winter, they performed in Dallas, Texas, where "he made some general stage observations about redneck buddies, illegal oral sex and utility trucks" and called the audience members "faggots". Upon his return to Australia, in February 1979, he was fired from the group by his brother, Todd. Read more
07 Sep 1953: Benmont Tench, American keyboardist and songwriter Benjamin Montmorency "Benmont" Tench III is an American musician and singer, and a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Read more
07 Sep 1952: Ricardo Tormo, Spanish motorcycle racer (died 1998) Ricardo Tormo Blaya was a Spanish professional motorcycle road racer. He competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from 1973 to 1984, most prominently as a two-time 50cc world champion riding Bultaco motorcycles. The Circuit de Valencia race track was renamed Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana Ricardo Tormo in his honor. Read more
07 Sep 1951: Chrissie Hynde, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Christine Ellen Hynde is an American-British singer, songwriter, and musician. She is a founding member of the rock band the Pretenders and is the band's lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter. Hynde is the band's only original member and is the only continuous member of the Pretenders, having appeared on every studio album released by the band. Read more
07 Sep 1951: Morris Albert, Brazilian singer-songwriter Maurício Alberto Kaisermann, better known by his stage name Morris Albert, is a Brazilian singer and songwriter. He became known in more than 50 countries for his 1974 hit "Feelings", followed by "She's My Girl", and sold more than 10 million copies in Brazil. Read more
07 Sep 1951: Mark Isham, American trumpet player and composer Mark Ware Isham is an American musician and composer. A trumpeter and keyboardist, Isham works in a variety of genres, including jazz and electronic. He is also a prolific and acclaimed composer of film scores, and has scored over 200 film and television productions since his debut in 1983. Read more
07 Sep 1951: Mark McCumber, American golfer Mark Randall McCumber is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and Champions Tour. Read more
07 Sep 1951: Mammootty, Indian actor and producer Muhammad Kutty Panaparambil Ismail, known professionally as Mammootty, is an Indian actor and film producer who works predominantly in Malayalam-language films. With a career spanning over five decades, he has appeared in over 400 films, predominantly in lead roles, across Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, and English languages. He is the recipient of several accolades, including four National Film Awards, eleven Kerala State Film Awards, eleven Kerala Film Critics Awards and fifteen Filmfare Awards South. He received the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award, in 2026 for his contributions to cinema, and earlier the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award, from the Government of India in 1998. He was also honoured with the Kerala Prabha Award by the Government of Kerala in 2022. Mammootty was named as one of "the men who changed the face of the Indian Cinema" by CNN-News18. Read more
07 Sep 1950: David Cannadine, English historian and author Sir David Nicholas Cannadine is a British author and historian who specialises in modern history, Britain and the history of business and philanthropy. He is currently the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, a visiting professor of history at Oxford University, and the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He was president of the British Academy between 2017 and 2021, the UK's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. He also serves as the chairman of the trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London and vice-chair of the editorial board of Past & Present. Read more
07 Sep 1950: Johann Friedrich, German-Australian engineer (died 1991) Johann Friedrich Hohenberger OAM, also known as John Friedrich, was executive director of the National Safety Council of Australia during the 1980s. He was the subject of Victoria's biggest fraud case and known as "Australia's greatest conman". Read more
07 Sep 1950: Julie Kavner, American actress Julie Deborah Kavner is an American actress. Before becoming well known for her voice role as Marge Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons, Kavner attracted notice for her role as Brenda Morgenstern, the younger sister of Valerie Harper's title character in the sitcom Rhoda, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She also voices other characters for The Simpsons, including Marge's mother, Jacqueline Bouvier, sisters Patty and Selma Bouvier, and half-step-great-aunt Eunice Bouvier. Read more
07 Sep 1950: Peggy Noonan, American author, journalist, speechwriter, and pundit Margaret Ellen Noonan is an American weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal and contributor to NBC News and ABC News. She was a primary speechwriter and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan from 1984 to 1986. Five of Noonan's books have been New York Times bestsellers. Noonan was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on America: A Tribute to Heroes. Read more
07 Sep 1949: Dianne Hayter, German-English politician Dianne Hayter, Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town is a British politician serving as a Member of the House of Lords since 2010. A member of the Labour and Co-operative Party, she was Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Lords from 2017 to 2021. Read more
07 Sep 1949: Barry Siegel, American journalist and academic Barry Siegel is an American journalist. He is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times who won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2002 for his piece "A Father's Pain, a Judge's Duty, and a Justice Beyond Their Reach." In 2003, University of California, Irvine recruited Siegel to chair the school's new undergraduate degree program in literary journalism. Read more
07 Sep 1948: Susan Blakely, American actress Susan Blakely is an American actress. She is best known for her leading role in the 1976 ABC miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and an Emmy nomination for Best Actress. Blakely also has appeared in films including The Towering Inferno (1974), Report to the Commissioner (1975), Capone (1975), The Concorde… Airport '79 (1979) and Over the Top (1987). Read more
07 Sep 1947: Sergio Della Pergola, Israeli demographer and statistician Sergio Della Pergola is an Italian-born Israeli demographer, statistician, and professor. He is an expert in demography and statistics related to the global Jewish population. Read more
07 Sep 1946: Willie Crawford, American baseball player (died 2004) Willie Murphy Crawford was an American professional baseball outfielder. He played in the major leagues with the Los Angeles Dodgers (1964–1975), St. Louis Cardinals (1976), Houston Astros (1977) and Oakland Athletics (1977). Crawford was born in Los Angeles, California. He batted and threw left-handed, and was the father of UCLA football player Willie Crawford who graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1988. Read more
07 Sep 1946: Joe Klein, American journalist and author Joe Klein is an American political commentator and author. He is best known for his work as a columnist for Time magazine and his novel Primary Colors, an anonymously written roman à clef portraying Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. Klein was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a former Guggenheim Fellow. In April 2006 he published Politics Lost, a book on what he calls the "pollster–consultant industrial complex." He has also written articles and book reviews for The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Life, and Rolling Stone. Read more
07 Sep 1946: Suzyn Waldman, American sportscaster Suzyn Waldman is an American sportscaster and former musical theater actress. Since the 2005 season, she has been the color commentator for New York Yankees baseball, working with John Sterling, Justin Shackil and Dave Sims on radio broadcasts, first for WCBS-AM and currently for WFAN in New York City. Read more
07 Sep 1945: Jacques Lemaire, Canadian ice hockey player and coach Jacques Gérard Lemaire is a Canadian former ice hockey forward and head coach who was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1984. He spent his entire twelve-year National Hockey League (NHL) playing career with the Montreal Canadiens (1967–1979) and was a part of eight Stanley Cup championship teams in 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979. When he retired, he was the first player to have played at least ten seasons and recorded a 20-goal season each time. In 2017, Lemaire was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players. Read more
07 Sep 1945: Vic Pollard, English-New Zealand rugby player and footballer Victor Pollard is an English-born former Test and One-Day International cricketer and footballer who represented New Zealand at the international level in both sports. Read more
07 Sep 1945: Curtis Price, American musicologist and academic Curtis Alexander Price, KBE was Warden of New College, Oxford, from October 2009 to September 2016. He was previously principal of the Royal Academy of Music from 1995 to 2008 and Professor of Music in the University of London. He retired as Warden of New College in August 2016. Read more
07 Sep 1945: Peter Storey, English footballer Peter Edwin Storey is an English former footballer. Able to play at full-back or more commonly as a defensive midfielder, he picked up a reputation in the Football League as an aggressive player in the 1960s and 1970s. Read more
07 Sep 1944: Forrest Blue, American football player (died 2011) Forrest Murrell Blue Jr. was an American professional football center who spent eleven seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the San Francisco 49ers from 1968 to 1974 and the Baltimore Colts from 1975 to 1978. Read more
07 Sep 1944: Bertel Haarder, Danish lawyer and politician, Education Minister of Denmark Bertel Geismar Haarder is a Danish writer, teacher and politician, who was a member of the Folketing for the Venstre political party. He has served as minister several times, including Minister of Education from 1982 to 1993 and again in 2005 to 2010, and most recently as Minister for Culture and Ecclesiastical Affairs from 2015 to 2016 in the L. L. Rasmussen II Cabinet. He is a former member of European Parliament, serving from 1994 to 2001. He has also served as president of the Nordic Council on two occasions, first in 2011 and latest from 2020 to 2021. Read more
07 Sep 1944: Peter Larter, English rugby player Peter John Larter is a former England international rugby union player. Read more
07 Sep 1944: Earl Manigault, American basketball player and coach (died 1998) Earl Manigault was an American street basketball player who was nicknamed "the Goat" or "the Lip". He is widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players never to have played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was named in ESPN's "Elite 24: Rucker Park legends". Read more
07 Sep 1944: Bora Milutinović, Serbian footballer and manager Velibor "Bora" Milutinović is a Serbian former professional footballer and manager. Read more
07 Sep 1944: Houshang Moradi Kermani, Iranian author Houshang Moradi Kermani is an Iranian writer best known for children's and young adult fiction. He was a finalist in 2014 for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Read more
07 Sep 1943: Gloria Gaynor, American singer-songwriter Gloria Fowles, known professionally as Gloria Gaynor, is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits "I Will Survive" (1978) which is one of the best-selling singles in history to date, having sold over 15 million copies worldwide, and "Let Me Know " (1979), "I Am What I Am" (1983), and her version of "Never Can Say Goodbye" (1974). She received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2025. Read more
07 Sep 1943: Beverley McLachlin, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 17th Chief Justice of Canada Beverley Marian McLachlin is a Canadian jurist and author who served as the 17th chief justice of Canada from 2000 to 2017. She is the longest-serving chief justice in Canadian history and the first woman to hold the position. Read more
07 Sep 1943: Joe Simon, American singer-songwriter and producer, and preacher (died 2021) Joseph Simon was an American soul and R&B musician. He began as a gospel artist singing with the Golden West Singers in the Bay Area in California. A consistent presence on the US charts between 1964 and 1981, Simon charted 51 U.S. Pop and R&B chart hits between 1964 and 1981, including eight times in the US top forty, 38 times in the top 40 of the US R&B chart, with 13 chart hits in Canada. His biggest hits included three number one entries on the US Billboard R&B chart: "The Chokin' Kind" (1969), "Power of Love" (1972), and "Get Down, Get Down " (1975). In 2021, he was one of the 60 nominees for the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame. Read more
07 Sep 1942: Billy Best, Scottish footballer William James Blaikley Best is a former professional footballer who played football for Northampton Town and Southend United as a forward/winger. During his second spell with Northampton, he mainly performed in midfield and finally defence, as a centre back playing alongside the centre-half. Read more
07 Sep 1942: Alan Oakes, English footballer and manager Alan Arthur Oakes is an English former footballer who holds Manchester City's all-time record for appearances. Oakes is a midfielder who, in total, played 776 matches in the Football League – the tenth-most in history. He is a cousin of former teammate Glyn Pardoe, an uncle of defender Chris Blackburn, and the father of former goalkeeper Michael Oakes. Read more
07 Sep 1942: Andrew Stone, Baron Stone of Blackheath, English businessman and politician Andrew Zelig Stone, Baron Stone of Blackheath is a non-affiliated, and former Labour, member of the House of Lords. Read more
07 Sep 1942: Jonathan H. Turner, American sociologist Jonathan H. Turner, is a professor of sociology at University of California, Riverside. Read more
07 Sep 1940: Dario Argento, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter Dario Argento is an Italian filmmaker. His influential work in the horror and giallo genres during the 1970s and 1980s has led him to being referred to as the "Master of the Thrill" and the "Master of Horror". Read more
07 Sep 1940: Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian journalist and politician, 4th President of Indonesia (died 2009) Abdurrahman Wahid, more colloquially known as Gus Dur, was an Indonesian politician and Islamic religious leader who served as the fourth president of Indonesia, from his election in 1999 until he was removed from office in 2001. A long time leader within the Nahdlatul Ulama organization, he was the founder of the National Awakening Party (PKB). He also received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for his services to democratization and human rights in Indonesia. He was the son of former Minister of Religious Affairs Wahid Hasyim, and the grandson of Nahdatul Ulama founder Hasyim Asy'ari. Due to a visual impairment caused by glaucoma, he was blind in the left eye and roughly 80% blind in his right eye. He was the first president of Indonesia to have had physical disabilities. Read more
07 Sep 1939: Latimore, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2026) Benjamin William Lattimore, known professionally as Latimore,
was an American blues and R&B singer, songwriter, and pianist. In 2017, Latimore was inducted in to the Blues Hall of Fame. Read more
07 Sep 1939: Peter Gill, Welsh actor, director, and playwright (died 2026) Peter Gill was a Welsh theatre director, playwright and actor. Read more
07 Sep 1937: John Phillip Law, American actor (died 2008) John Phillip Law was an American actor. Read more
07 Sep 1937: Oleg Lobov, Russian politician, Premier of the Russian SFSR (died 2018) Oleg Ivanovich Lobov was a Russian politician who served as acting First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic from 19 April 1991 to 15 November 1991 and also was acting Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR from 26 September 1991 to 15 November 1991, shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Read more
07 Sep 1936: Brian Hart, English race car driver and engineer, founded Brian Hart Ltd. (died 2014) Brian Roger Hart was a British racing driver and engineer with a background in the aviation industry. He founded Brian Hart Limited, a company that developed and built engines for motorsport use. Read more
07 Sep 1936: George Cassidy, Northern Irish jazz musician (died 2023) George Cassidy was a Northern Irish jazz musician and music teacher from Bloomfield, Belfast, Northern Ireland, specializing in the tenor saxophone. He was also noted for teaching fellow Belfast musician Van Morrison music reading and notation and giving him saxophone lessons. Cassidy also played the clarinet, hurdy-gurdy and Hawaiian Guitar. Following a stint with The Skyliners, a local show band, Cassidy toured in Ireland playing saxophone behind Dusty Springfield with The Springfields. Cassidy was lead saxophonist with the Regal Accordion & Saxophone Band. Read more
07 Sep 1936: Buddy Holly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1959) Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally by his stage name Buddy Holly, was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who was a central and pioneering figure of rock and roll. He was born to a musical family in Lubbock, Texas, during the Great Depression, and learned to play guitar and sing alongside his two siblings. Read more
07 Sep 1936: Apostolos Kaklamanis, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Justice Apostolos Kaklamanis is a Greek politician and member of the Greek Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) for the Athens B constituency. Read more
07 Sep 1935: Abdou Diouf, Senegalese lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Senegal Abdou Diouf is a Senegalese politician who was the second president of Senegal from 1981 to 2000. Read more
07 Sep 1935: Dick O'Neal, American basketball player and dentist (died 2013) Richard O'Neal was an American basketball player. He was an All-American college player at Texas Christian University (TCU) and a second round draft pick of the Boston Celtics in the 1957 NBA draft. Read more
07 Sep 1934: Mary Bauermeister, German painter and illustrator (died 2023) Mary Hildegard Ruth Bauermeister was a German artist who worked in sculpture, drawing, installation, performance, and music. Influenced by Fluxus artists and Nouveau Réalisme, her work addresses esoteric issues of how information is transferable through society. "I only followed an inner drive to express what was not yet there, in reality or thought", she said of her practice. "To make art was more a finding, searching process than a knowing." Beginning in the 1970s, her work concentrated on the themes surrounding New Age spirituality, specifically geomancy, the divine interpretation of lines on the ground. Read more
07 Sep 1934: Waldo de los Ríos, Argentine composer and conductor (died 1977) Osvaldo Nicolás Ferraro Gutiérrez, better known as Waldo de los Ríos, was an Argentine composer, conductor and arranger. Read more
07 Sep 1934: Sunil Gangopadhyay, Indian author and poet (died 2012) Sunil Gangopadhyay was an Indian poet, novelist, short story writer, and critic. He played a key role in modernizing Bengali poetry and co-founded the 1953 avant-garde poetry magazine Krittibas. He has been called the most popular and prolific Bengali writer since Rabindranath Tagore, and "the man who carried the modern consciousness of Bengal." Read more
07 Sep 1934: Omar Karami, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 58th Prime Minister of Lebanon (died 2015) Omar Abdul Hamid Karami was the 39th prime minister of Lebanon for two non-consecutive terms. He was Prime Minister for the first time from 24 December 1990, when Selim al-Hoss gave up power, until May 1992, when he resigned due to economic instability. He was again Prime Minister from October 2004 to April 2005 as the 44th Prime Minister. Read more
07 Sep 1934: Little Milton, American singer and guitarist (died 2005) James Milton Campbell Jr., better known as Little Milton, was an American blues singer and guitarist, best known for his number-one R&B single "We're Gonna Make It". His other hits include "Baby, I Love You", "Who's Cheating Who?", and "Grits Ain't Groceries ". Read more
07 Sep 1934: Hilpas Sulin, Finnish ice hockey player and coach (died 2025) Hilpas Sulin was a Finnish ice-hockey player and coach. He played 87 matches and scored 50 points for HPK between the years 1952–1960. He also coached HPK from 1968 to 1975, and again from 1978 to 1981. Sulin died on 13 January 2025, at the age of 90. Read more
07 Sep 1932: Malcolm Bradbury, English author and academic (died 2000) Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury, was an English author and academic. Read more
07 Sep 1932: John Paul Getty Jr., American-English philanthropist and book collector (died 2003) Sir John Paul Getty, known widely as John Paul Getty Jr., was a British-American businessman, philanthropist, and book collector. He was the third son of the American-born British oil tycoon J. Paul Getty (1892–1976), who was once the richest man in the world. His mother was J. Paul Getty's fourth wife, Ann Rork. The Getty family's wealth was the result of the oil business founded by George Franklin Getty. One of his sons, Mark Getty, co-founded the visual media company Getty Images. Read more
07 Sep 1931: Charles Camilleri, Maltese composer and conductor (died 2009) Charles Camilleri was a Maltese composer. Read more
07 Sep 1930: Baudouin of Belgium (died 1993) Baudouin was King of the Belgians from 17 July 1951 until his death in 1993. He was the last Belgian king to be sovereign of the Congo, before it became independent in 1960 and became the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Read more
07 Sep 1930: Sonny Rollins, American saxophonist and composer (died 2026) Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential of jazz musicians. Read more
07 Sep 1930: S. Sivanayagam, Sri Lankan journalist and author (died 2010) Subramaniam Sivanayagam was a Sri Lankan journalist, author and editor of the Saturday Review, Tamil Nation and Hot Spring. Read more
07 Sep 1930: Yuan Longping, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an expert in hybrid rice (died 2021) Yuan Longping was a Chinese agronomist and inventor. He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s, part of the Green Revolution in agriculture. For his contributions, Yuan is known as the "Father of Hybrid Rice". Yuan was bestowed the Medal of the Republic, the highest honorary medal of the People's Republic of China, in September 2019. Read more
07 Sep 1929: Clyde Lovellette, American basketball player (died 2016) Clyde Edward Lovellette was an American professional basketball player. Lovellette was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1988. He was the first basketball player in history to achieve the Triple Crown – playing on an NCAA championship team, Olympics gold medal basketball team, and NBA championship squad. Read more
07 Sep 1928: Kathleen Gorham, Australian ballerina (died 1983) Kathleen Ann "Kathy" Gorham was an Australian ballerina. Read more
07 Sep 1928: Al McGuire, American basketball player, coach, and commentator (died 2001) Alfred James McGuire was an American college basketball coach and broadcaster, the head coach at Marquette University from 1964 to 1977. He won a national championship in his final season at Marquette, and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1992. He was also well known as a longtime national television basketball broadcaster and for his colorful personality. Read more
07 Sep 1927: Eric Hill, English-American author and illustrator (died 2014) Eric Hill was an English author and illustrator of children's picture books. He was best known for his puppy character named Spot. His works have been widely praised for their contributions to child literacy. Read more
07 Sep 1927: Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, Canadian lawyer and jurist Claire L'Heureux-Dubé is a retired Canadian judge who served as a puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada from 1987 to 2002. She was the first woman from Quebec and the second woman appointed to this position, after Bertha Wilson. Previously, she had been one of the first female lawyers to handle divorce cases, and was the first woman appointed as a judge to the Quebec Superior Court and the Quebec Court of Appeal. Read more
07 Sep 1926: Samuel Goldwyn Jr., American director and producer (died 2015) Samuel John Goldwyn Jr. was an American film producer. Read more
07 Sep 1926: Donald J. Irwin, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Mayor of Norwalk (died 2013) Donald Jay Irwin was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut's 4th district, Connecticut State Treasurer and mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut. Read more
07 Sep 1926: Patrick Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for the Environment (died 2016) Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding, was a British Conservative Party politician who served as a cabinet minister in Margaret Thatcher's first government. Read more
07 Sep 1926: Erich Juskowiak, German footballer (died 1983) Erich Juskowiak was a German footballer who played as a left-back. He earned 31 caps and 4 goals for the West Germany national team between 1951 and 1959. He played in the World Cup Finals in 1958 where West Germany reached the semi-final. Read more
07 Sep 1926: Don Messick, American voice actor (died 1997) Donald Earle Messick was an American voice actor, known for his performances in Hanna-Barbera cartoons. His best-remembered voice roles include Scooby-Doo; Bamm-Bamm Rubble and Hoppy in The Flintstones; Astro in The Jetsons; Muttley in Wacky Races and Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines; Boo-Boo Bear and Ranger Smith in The Yogi Bear Show; Sebastian the Cat in Josie and the Pussycats; Gears, Ratchet, and Scavenger in The Transformers; Papa Smurf and Azrael in The Smurfs; Hamton J. Pig in Tiny Toon Adventures; and Dr. Benton Quest in Jonny Quest. Read more
07 Sep 1926: Ed Warren, American paranormal investigator and author (died 2006) Edward Warren Miney and Lorraine Rita Warren were American paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of alleged hauntings. Edward was a self-taught and self-professed demonologist, author, lecturer and artist. Lorraine professed to be clairvoyant and a light trance medium who worked closely with her husband. Read more
07 Sep 1925: Laura Ashley, Welsh-English fashion designer, founded Laura Ashley plc (died 1985) Laura Ashley was a Welsh fashion designer and businesswoman, who founded the eponymous fashion retailer. She originally made furnishing materials in the 1950s, expanding the business into clothing design and manufacture in the 1960s. The Laura Ashley style is characterised by Romantic designs – often with a 19th-century rural feel – and the use of natural fabrics. Read more
07 Sep 1925: Allan Blakeney, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Premier of Saskatchewan (died 2011) Allan Emrys Blakeney was a Canadian politician who served as the tenth premier of Saskatchewan from 1971 to 1982. Originally from Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Blakeney moved to Regina, Saskatchewan, and worked in the province's civil service before running for office with the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) under Tommy Douglas. Blakeney became leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (NDP) in 1970. Altogether, he was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1960 to 1988. Read more
07 Sep 1925: Bhanumathi Ramakrishna, Indian actress, singer, director, and producer (died 2005) P. Bhanumathi Ramakrishna was an Indian actress, singer, film producer, director, music composer, writer, editor, studio owner and novelist. She is regarded as the first female superstar of Telugu cinema, and the first female director of Telugu cinema with her debut directorial Chandirani (1953). Bhanumathi appeared in over 100 films, predominantly in Telugu and Tamil languages. She also acted in a few Hindi and Kannada films. She was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2001 for her contribution to the Indian cinema. She was honored among "Women in Cinema" at the 30th International Film Festival of India. Read more
07 Sep 1924: Daniel Inouye, American captain and politician, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2012) Daniel Ken Inouye was an American attorney, soldier, and statesman who represented Hawaii in the United States Senate from 1963 until his death in 2012. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the most-senior member of the Senate when he died. He is the second-longest serving U.S. senator in history. Prior to his tenure in the Senate, Inouye served in the Hawaii Territorial Legislature and the United States House of Representatives from 1959 to 1963. Read more
07 Sep 1924: Leonard Rosenman, American composer and conductor (died 2008) Leonard Rosenman was an American film, television and concert composer with credits in over 130 works, including East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Barry Lyndon, Race with the Devil, and the animated The Lord of the Rings. Read more
07 Sep 1923: Nancy Keesing, Australian author and poet (died 1993) Nancy Keesing was an Australian poet, writer, editor and promoter of Australian literature. Read more
07 Sep 1923: Peter Lawford, English-American actor (died 1984) Peter Sydney Ernest Lawford was an English-American actor. Read more
07 Sep 1923: Louise Suggs, American golfer, co-founded LPGA (died 2015) Mae Louise Suggs was an American professional golfer, as well as one of the founders of the LPGA Tour and thus modern ladies' golf. Read more
07 Sep 1922: Lucien Jarraud, French-Canadian journalist and radio host (died 2007) Lucien "Frenchie" Jarraud was a Quebec radio host for nearly 50 years. He was best known as being the host that started the open talk radio format in Quebec in the 1950s. Read more
07 Sep 1921: Peter A. Peyser, American soldier and politician (died 2014) Peter A. Peyser was a United States representative from New York, serving from 1971 to 1977 as a Republican and from 1979 to 1983 as a Democrat. Read more
07 Sep 1920: Harri Webb, Welsh journalist and poet (died 1994) Harri Webb was a Welsh poet, journalist and librarian, and a prominent Welsh republican nationalist. Read more
07 Sep 1919: Briek Schotte, Belgian cyclist and coach (died 2004) Alberic "Briek" Schotte was a Belgian professional road racing cyclist, one of the champions of the 1940s and 1950s. His stamina earned him the nickname "Iron Briek". Read more
07 Sep 1918: Harold Amos, American microbiologist and academic (died 2003) Harold Amos was an American microbiologist. He taught at Harvard Medical School for nearly fifty years and was the first African American department chair of the school. Read more
07 Sep 1917: Leonard Cheshire, English captain, pilot, and humanitarian (died 1992) Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire was a British Royal Air Force pilot, officer and philanthropist. Read more
07 Sep 1917: John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013) Sir John Warcup Cornforth Jr., was an Australian–British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions, becoming the only Nobel laureate born in New South Wales. Read more
07 Sep 1917: Jacob Lawrence, American painter and educator (died 2000) Jacob Armstead Lawrence was an American painter known for his portrayal of African-American historical subjects and contemporary life. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", an art form popularized in Europe which drew great inspiration from West African and Meso-American art. For his compositions, Lawrence found inspiration in everyday life in Harlem. He brought the African-American experience to life using blacks and browns juxtaposed with vivid colors. Lawrence also taught and spent 16 years as a professor at the University of Washington. Read more
07 Sep 1915: Pedro Reginaldo Lira, Argentine bishop (died 2012) Pedro Reginaldo Lira, was an Argentine Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Read more
07 Sep 1915: Kiyosi Itô, Japanese mathematician and academic (died 2008) Kiyosi Itô was a Japanese mathematician who made fundamental contributions to probability theory, in particular, the theory of stochastic processes. He invented the concept of stochastic integral and stochastic differential equation, and is known as the founder of so-called Itô calculus. He also pioneered the connections between stochastic calculus and differential geometry, known as stochastic differential geometry. He was invited for the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm in 1962.
So much were Itô's results useful to financial mathematics that he was sometimes called "the most famous Japanese in Wall Street". Read more
07 Sep 1914: Lída Baarová, Czech-Austrian actress (died 2000) Lída Baarová was a Czech actress. Read more
07 Sep 1914: Graeme Bell, Australian pianist and composer (died 2012) Graeme Emerson Bell, AO, MBE was an Australian Dixieland and classical jazz pianist, composer and band leader. According to The Age, his "band's music was hailed for its distinctive Australian edge, which he describes as 'nice larrikinism' and 'a happy Aussie outdoor feel'". Read more
07 Sep 1914: James Van Allen, American physicist and philosopher (died 2006) James Alfred Van Allen was an American space physicist at the University of Iowa who was instrumental in establishing the field of magnetospheric research in space. His discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts in 1958, zones of energetic charged particles trapped by Earth's magnetic field, was the first major scientific finding of the Space Age. As principal investigator for scientific instruments on 24 Earth satellites and planetary missions, Van Allen provided the first in situ measurements of the magnetospheres of Jupiter and Saturn, pioneered the use of energetic particle absorption signatures to detect planetary rings and satellites, and carried out a multi-decade program of cosmic ray observations that established the radial gradient of galactic cosmic ray intensity from 1 AU to beyond 65 AU in the heliosphere. Read more
07 Sep 1913: Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield, English soldier and courtier (died 1999) Lieutenant-Colonel Martin Michael Charles Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield, was a British Army officer and courtier of Queen Elizabeth II. Charteris was the longest-serving Assistant Private Secretary to the Sovereign, having served for over 18 years in that position. Later, he became Private Secretary to the Sovereign. Read more
07 Sep 1913: Anthony Quayle, English actor (died 1989) Sir John Anthony Quayle was a British actor who was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his supporting role as Thomas Wolsey in the film Anne of the Thousand Days (1969). He also played important roles in such major studio productions as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Operation Crossbow (1965), QB VII (1974) and The Eagle Has Landed (1976). Quayle was knighted in the 1985 New Year Honours. Read more
07 Sep 1912: David Packard, American engineer and businessman, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (died 1996) David Packard was an American electrical engineer and co-founder, with Bill Hewlett, of Hewlett-Packard (1939), serving as president (1947–64), CEO (1964–68), and chairman of the board of HP. He served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1971 during the Nixon administration. Packard served as president of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) from 1976 to 1981 and chairman of its board of regents from 1973 to 1982.
He was a member of the Trilateral Commission. Packard was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988 and is noted for many technological innovations and philanthropic endeavors. Read more
07 Sep 1911: Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian police officer and politician, Head of State of Bulgaria (died 1998) Todor Hristov Zhivkov was a Bulgarian communist politician who served as the de facto leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB) from 1956 until 1989 as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party. He was the longest-serving leader in the Eastern Bloc, the longest-serving leader within the Warsaw Pact and the longest-serving non-royal ruler in Bulgarian history. Read more
07 Sep 1909: Elia Kazan, Greek-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2003) Elias Kazantzoglou, known as Elia Kazan, was a Greek-American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history". Read more
07 Sep 1908: Paul Brown, American football player and coach (died 1991) Paul Eugene Brown was an American football coach and executive in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), the National Football League (NFL), and the American Football League (AFL). Brown was both the co-founder and first coach of the Cleveland Browns, a team named after him, and later co-founded the Cincinnati Bengals. His teams won seven league championships in a professional coaching career spanning 25 seasons. Read more
07 Sep 1908: Michael E. DeBakey, American surgeon and educator (died 2008) Michael Ellis DeBakey was an American general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President, and Chancellor of Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. His career spanned nearly eight decades. Read more
07 Sep 1908: Max Kaminsky, American trumpet player and bandleader (died 1994) Max Kaminsky was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader. Read more
07 Sep 1907: Ahmed Adnan Saygun, Turkish composer and musicologist (died 1991) Ahmed Adnan Saygun was a Turkish composer and musicologist. Read more
07 Sep 1904: C. B. Colby, American author (died 1977) Carroll Burleigh Colby was an American writer, primarily of nonfiction children's books. He wrote more than 100 books that were widely circulated in public and school libraries in the United States. He is best known for Strangely Enough! (1959). Read more
07 Sep 1903: Margaret Landon, American missionary and author (died 1993) Margaret Landon was an American writer known for Anna and the King of Siam, her best-selling 1944 novel of the life of Anna Leonowens which eventually sold over a million copies and was translated into more than twenty languages. In 1950, Landon sold the musical play rights to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who created the musical The King and I from her book. A later work, Never Dies the Dream, appeared in 1949. Read more
07 Sep 1903: Dorothy Marie Donnelly, American poet and author (died 1994) Dorothy Marie Donnelly was a poet and essayist, the author of six books of poetry and prose and numerous articles published in Europe and the United States. Read more
07 Sep 1900: Taylor Caldwell, English-American author (died 1985) Janet Miriam Caldwell was a British-born American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction under the pen names Taylor Caldwell, Marcus Holland and Max Reiner. She was also known by a variation of her married name, J. Miriam Reback. Read more
07 Sep 1900: Giuseppe Zangara, Italian-American assassin of Anton Cermak (died 1933) Giuseppe Zangara was an Italian-born American man who attempted to assassinate the President-elect of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, on February 15, 1933, 17 days before Roosevelt's inauguration. During a night speech by Roosevelt in Miami, Florida, Zangara fired five shots with a handgun he had purchased a few days before. He missed his target and instead killed Anton Cermak, the mayor of Chicago, and injured four bystanders. Read more
07 Sep 1897: Al Sherman, Tin Pan Alley era songwriter (died 1973) Avrum Sherman, pen name Al Sherman, was an American songwriter and composer active during the Tin Pan Alley era in American music history. Some of his most recognizable song titles include "You Gotta Be a Football Hero", "Now's the Time to Fall in Love" and "Lindbergh ". Sherman is one link in a long chain of family members who were musical. Most notably, his sons Robert and Richard were to join the ranks of America's most highly regarded songwriters. Pairing up and mentoring the Sherman Brothers team has often been referred to as Al Sherman's greatest songwriting achievement. Read more
07 Sep 1895: Jacques Vaché, French author and poet (died 1919) Jacques Vaché was a friend of André Breton, the founder of surrealism. Vaché was one of the chief inspirations behind the Surrealist movement. As Breton said:"En littérature, je me suis successivement épris de Rimbaud, de Jarry, d'Apollinaire, de Nouveau, de Lautréamont, mais c'est à Jacques Vaché que je dois le plus"("In literature, I was successively taken with Rimbaud, with Jarry, with Apollinaire, with Nouveau, with Lautréamont, but it is Jacques Vaché to whom I owe the most") Read more
07 Sep 1894: Vic Richardson, Australian cricketer, footballer, and sportscaster (died 1969) Victor York "Yorker" Richardson, nicknamed The Guardsman, was a leading Australian sportsman of the 1920s and 1930s, captaining the Australia cricket team and the South Australia Australian rules football team, representing Australia in baseball and South Australia in golf, winning the South Australian state tennis title and also being a leading local player in lacrosse, basketball and swimming. Read more
07 Sep 1894: George Waggner, American actor, director, and producer (died 1984) George Waggner was an American actor, director, producer and writer. He is best known for producing and directing the 1941 film The Wolf Man. For some unknown reason, Waggner sometimes configured his name in mostly lowercase letters but with his surname's two Gs capitalized ("waGGner"), including in the credits of some of the productions he directed. Read more
07 Sep 1893: Leslie Hore-Belisha, English politician, Secretary of State for War (died 1957) Isaac Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha was a British politician, at first a member of the Liberal Party, later of the Liberal Nationals, and eventually of the Conservative Party, who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) and Cabinet Minister. He proved highly successful in modernising the British road system between 1934 and 1937 as Minister of Transport. Read more
07 Sep 1892: Eric Harrison, Australian soldier and politician, 27th Australian Minister for Defence (died 1974) Sir Eric John Harrison, was an Australian politician and diplomat. He was the inaugural deputy leader of the Liberal Party (1945–1956), and a government minister under four prime ministers. He was later High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1956 to 1964. Read more
07 Sep 1892: Oscar O'Brien, Canadian priest, pianist, and composer (died 1958) Oscar O'Brien was a Canadian folklorist, composer, pianist, organist, music educator, and Roman Catholic priest. A large portion of his compositions were based in folklore and he also arranged and harmonized roughly 400 French and Canadian folksongs; many of which were written for his collaborations with Charles Marchand and the Alouette Vocal Quartet. He worked as an arranger or accompanist on numerous 78 rpm recordings for such labels as Bluebird, Brunswick, Columbia, Starr, and Victor. He contributed numerous articles on folklore to publications like Le Canada français and was a frequent lecturer on folklore subjects. In 1978 CBC Radio recognized O'Brien in a series of six broadcasts featuring his harmonizations. Read more
07 Sep 1887: Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (died 1964) Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess. She never married but became passionately attached to Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, and her home was always open to London's poetic circle, to whom she was generous and helpful. Read more
07 Sep 1885: Elinor Wylie, American author and poet (died 1928) Elinor Morton Wylie was an American poet and novelist popular in the 1920s and 1930s. "She was famous during her life almost as much for her ethereal beauty and personality as for her melodious, sensuous poetry." Read more
07 Sep 1883: Theophrastos Sakellaridis, Greek composer and conductor (died 1950) Theophrastos Sakellaridis, was a Greek composer, conductor, and basic creator of Greek operetta. Read more
07 Sep 1879: Francisco José of Bragança, exiled member of the Miguelist branch of the House of Bragança and officer in the Austro-Hungarian army (died 1919) Prince Francis Joseph of Braganza was a member of the exiled branch of House of Braganza and an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army. During his life he was involved in a number of incidents ranging from sex scandals to swindles. Read more
07 Sep 1876: Francesco Buhagiar, Maltese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Malta (died 1934) Francesco Buhagiar was the second Prime Minister of Malta (1923–1924). He was elected from the Maltese Political Union. Read more
07 Sep 1876: C. J. Dennis, Australian poet and author (died 1938) Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis, better known as C. J. Dennis, was an Australian poet and journalist known for his best-selling verse novel The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke (1915). Alongside his contemporaries and occasional collaborators Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, Dennis helped popularise Australian slang in literature, earning him the title "the laureate of the larrikin". He was Australia's most popular and prolific poet, selling more than 700,000 books and publishing more than 4,000 poems. Read more
07 Sep 1875: Edward Francis Hutton, American businessman and financier, co-founded E. F. Hutton & Co. (died 1962) Edward Francis Hutton was an American financier and co-founder of E. F. Hutton & Co., once one of the largest financial firms in the United States. Read more
07 Sep 1874: Samuel Rocke, Australian politician who served as an independent member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia (died 1963) Samuel Matthew Rocke was an Australian politician who served as an independent member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1917 to 1921, representing the seat of South Fremantle. Read more
07 Sep 1871: George Hirst, English cricketer and coach (died 1954) George Herbert Hirst was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1891 and 1921, with a further appearance in 1929. One of the best all-rounders of his time, Hirst was a left arm medium-fast bowler and right-handed batsman. He played in 24 Test matches for England between 1897 and 1909, touring Australia twice. He completed the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in an English cricket season 14 times, the second most of any cricketer after his contemporary and team-mate Wilfred Rhodes. One of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year for 1901, Hirst scored 36,356 runs and took 2,742 wickets in first-class cricket. In Tests, he made 790 runs and captured 59 wickets. Read more
07 Sep 1870: Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian pilot, explorer, and author (died 1938) Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin was a Russian writer best known for his novels The Duel (1905) and Yama: The Pit (1915), as well as Moloch (1896), Olesya (1898), "Captain Ribnikov" (1906), "Emerald" (1907), and The Garnet Bracelet (1911) – the latter made into a 1965 movie. Read more
07 Sep 1869: Ben Viljoen, South African general (died 1917) Benjamin Johannes "Ben" Viljoen was an Afrikaner-American consul, soldier, farmer, Maderista, and Boer general. Read more
07 Sep 1867: Albert Bassermann, German-Swiss actor (died 1952) Albert Bassermann was a German stage and screen actor. He was considered to be one of the greatest German-speaking actors of his generation and received the famous Iffland-Ring. Bassermann was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Foreign Correspondent (1940). He was married to Elsa Schiff with whom he frequently performed. Read more
07 Sep 1867: J. P. Morgan Jr., American banker and philanthropist (died 1943) John Pierpont Morgan Jr. was an American banker and finance executive. He inherited the family fortune and took over the business interests including J.P. Morgan & Co. after his father, J. P. Morgan, died in 1913. Read more
07 Sep 1866: Tristan Bernard, French author and playwright (died 1947) Tristan Bernard was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer. Read more
07 Sep 1862: Edgar Speyer, American-English financier and philanthropist (died 1932) Sir Edgar Speyer, 1st Baronet was an American-born financier and philanthropist. He became a British subject in 1892 and was chairman of Speyer Brothers, the British branch of the Speyer family's international finance house, and a partner in the German and American branches. He was chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London from 1906 to 1915, a period during which the company opened three underground railway lines, electrified a fourth and took over two more. Read more
07 Sep 1860: Grandma Moses, American painter (died 1961) Anna Mary Robertson Moses, popularly known as Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is a prominent example of a newly successful art career at an advanced age. Moses rose to fame in the 1950s. She was the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary in 1950, published her autobiography in 1952, and was on the cover of Time Magazine in 1953. Read more
07 Sep 1855: William Friese-Greene, English photographer, director, and cinematographer (died 1921) William Friese-Greene was a prolific English inventor and professional photographer. He was known as a pioneer in the field of motion pictures, having devised a series of cameras between 1888–1891 and shot moving pictures with them in London. He went on to patent an early two-colour filming process in 1905. Wealth came with inventions in printing, including phototypesetting and a method of printing without ink, and from a chain of photographic studios. However, Friese-Greene spent all his money on inventing, went bankrupt three times, was jailed once, and died in poverty. Read more
07 Sep 1851: Edward Asahel Birge, American zoologist and academic (died 1950) Edward Asahel Birge was an American professor and administrator at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was one of the pioneers of the study of limnology, and served as acting president of the university from 1900 to 1903 and as president from 1918 to 1925. Read more
07 Sep 1842: Johannes Zukertort, Polish-English chess player, linguist, and journalist (died 1888) Johannes Hermann Zukertort was a Polish-born British-German chess master. He was one of the leading world players for most of the 1870s and 1880s, but lost to Wilhelm Steinitz in the World Chess Championship 1886, which is generally regarded as the first World Chess Championship match. He was also defeated by Steinitz in 1872 in an unofficial championship. Read more
07 Sep 1836: Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Scottish merchant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1908) Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and Leader of the Liberal Party from 1899 to 1908. He also was Secretary of State for War twice, in the cabinets of Gladstone and Rosebery. He was the first First Lord of the Treasury to be officially called the "Prime Minister", the term only coming into official usage five days after he took office. He remains the only person to date to hold the positions of Prime Minister and Father of the House at the same time, and the last Liberal leader to gain a UK parliamentary majority. Read more
07 Sep 1836: August Toepler, German physicist and academic (died 1912) August Joseph Ignaz Toepler was a German chemist and physicist known for his experiments in electrostatics. Read more
07 Sep 1831: Alexandre Falguière, French sculptor and painter (died 1900) Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière was a French sculptor and painter. Read more
07 Sep 1829: August Kekulé, German chemist and academic (died 1896) Friedrich August Kekulé, later Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz, was a German organic chemist. From the 1850s until his death, Kekulé was one of the most prominent chemists in Europe, especially in the field of theoretical chemistry. He was the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure and in particular the Kekulé structure of benzene. Read more
07 Sep 1819: Thomas A. Hendricks, American lawyer and politician, 21st Vice President of the United States (died 1885) Thomas Andrews Hendricks was an American politician and lawyer from Indiana who served as the 16th governor of Indiana from 1873 to 1877 and the 21st vice president of the United States from March 1885 until his death in November of that year. Hendricks represented Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives (1851–1855) and the U.S. Senate (1863–1869). He also represented Shelby County, Indiana, in the Indiana General Assembly (1848–1850) and as a delegate to the 1851 Indiana constitutional convention. In addition, Hendricks served as commissioner of the United States General Land Office (1855–1859). Hendricks, a popular member of the Democratic Party, was a fiscal conservative. He defended the Democratic position in the U.S. Senate during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era and voted against the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. He also opposed Radical Reconstruction and President Andrew Johnson's removal from office following Johnson's impeachment in the U.S. House. Read more
07 Sep 1818: Thomas Talbot, American businessman and politician, 31st Governor of Massachusetts (died 1886) Thomas Talbot was an American textile mill owner and politician from Massachusetts, United States. Talbot ran a major textile business, involving chemical dyeworks and the weaving of fabric, in Billerica that was a major local employer. As a Republican, he served in the state legislature, on the Massachusetts Governor's Council, and as the 29th lieutenant governor before serving for one partial term as acting governor of Massachusetts, and later for one full term as the 31st governor. Read more
07 Sep 1815: John McDouall Stuart, Scottish explorer and surveyor (died 1866) John McDouall Stuart, often referred to as simply "McDouall Stuart", was a Scottish explorer and one of the most accomplished of all Australia's inland explorers. Read more
07 Sep 1813: Emil Korytko, Polish activist and translator (died 1839) Emil Antoni Korytko was a Polish political activist in the period of the Great Emigration, who was exiled to Ljubljana, Carniola and became an important ethnographer, philologist and translator there. His legacy are collections of Slovene folk songs and vivid descriptions of Carniolan folk customs. He significantly contributed to the mutual dialogue between Polish and Slovene authors and readers. Read more
07 Sep 1810: Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Prussian economist and academic (died 1858) Hermann Heinrich Gossen was a German economist who is often regarded as the first to elaborate, in detail, a general theory of marginal utility. Read more
07 Sep 1807: Henry Sewell, English lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1879) Henry Sewell was a New Zealand politician. He was a notable campaigner for New Zealand self-government, and is generally regarded as having been the country's first premier, having led the Sewell Ministry in 1856. He later served as Colonial Treasurer (1856–1859), as Attorney-General (1861–1862), and twice as Minister of Justice. Read more
07 Sep 1803: William Knibb, English Baptist minister and Jamaican missionary (died 1845) William Knibb, OM was an English Baptist minister and missionary to Jamaica. He is chiefly known today for his work to free enslaved Africans. Read more
07 Sep 1801: Sarel Cilliers, South African preacher and activist (died 1871) Charl (Sarel) Arnoldus Cilliers was a Voortrekker leader and a preacher. With Andries Pretorius, he led the Boers to a huge victory over the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River in 1838. In particular, Cilliers led the Voortrekkers in a vow which promised that if God would protect them and deliver the enemy into their hands, they would build a church and commemorate the day of their victory as if it were an annual Sabbath day, which their descendants would also be instructed to honour. Read more

Notable Deaths on 07 September

07 Sep 2024: Dan Morgenstern, German-American jazz writer and editor (born 1929) Dan Michael Morgenstern was an American jazz historian and archivist. Born to a Jewish family in Germany, Morgenstern fled Nazi-occupied Austria with his mother and in 1947 emigrated to the United States. He first began visiting jazz clubs as a teenager and worked at The New York Times. After serving in the U.S. Army, he attended Brandeis University where he first began writing about jazz music. He went on to become a professional jazz critic and editor. Morgenstern led several jazz magazines and directed the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University from 1976 to 2012. He earned eight Grammy Awards for his album liner notes and wrote two books on jazz. Read more
07 Sep 2023: Wanda Janicka, Polish architect, participant in the Warsaw Uprising (born 1923) Wanda Janicka was a Polish architect, participant in the Warsaw Uprising. Read more
07 Sep 2018: Pedro Jirón, Nicaraguan footballer (born 1939) Pedro Jose Jirón Rugama "Peche Jirón" was a Nicaraguan professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Read more
07 Sep 2018: Mac Miller, American rapper (born 1992) Malcolm James McCormick, known by the stage name Mac Miller, was an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He began his career in Pittsburgh's local hip-hop scene in 2007, at the age of 15. In 2010, he signed a record deal with independent label Rostrum Records and released his breakthrough mixtapes K.I.D.S. (2010) and Best Day Ever (2011). Miller's debut studio album, Blue Slide Park (2011), became the first independently distributed debut album to top the US Billboard 200 since 1995. Read more
07 Sep 2015: Dickie Moore, American actor (born 1925) John Richard Moore Jr. was an American actor who was one of the last survivors of the silent film era. A busy and popular actor during his childhood and youth, he appeared in over 100 films until the early 1950s. Among his most notable appearances were the Our Gang series and films such as Oliver Twist, Blonde Venus, The Story of Louis Pasteur, The Life of Emile Zola, Sergeant York, Out of the Past, and Eight Iron Men. Read more
07 Sep 2015: Candida Royalle, American porn actress, director, and producer (born 1950) Candida Royalle was an American producer and director of couples-oriented pornography, pornographic actress, sex educator, and sex-positive feminist. She was a member of the XRCO and the AVN Halls of Fame. Read more
07 Sep 2015: Guillermo Rubalcaba, Cuban pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1927) Guillermo Rubalcaba was a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and orchestrator specialising in danzón and cha-cha-cha music genres. Read more
07 Sep 2015: Voula Zouboulaki, Greek actress (born 1924) Paraskevi "Voula" Zouboulaki was an Egyptian-born Greek actress. She was the wife of actor Dimitris Myrat. She attended the Dramatic School of the National Theatre, the School of the National Odeon and the Law School of the University of Athens. Read more
07 Sep 2014: Kwon Ri-se, South Korean singer (born 1991) Kwon Ri-se, known professionally as Rise, was a South Korean singer. She was a member of the South Korean girl group Ladies' Code under Polaris Entertainment. Prior to her joining Ladies' Code, she was crowned "Miss Korea Japan Jin" in the Miss Korea Japan 2009 pageant and represented Japan in Miss Korea 2009. She was one of the Top 12 contestants of MBC's Star Audition The Great Birth.
She died on September 7, 2014 at age 23 after succumbing to injuries she sustained from a car crash that occurred four days earlier. Read more
07 Sep 2014: Jack Cristil, American sportscaster and radio host (born 1925) Jacob Sanford "Jack" Cristil was the long-time radio voice of Mississippi State University Bulldog men's basketball and football. Over his 58-year tenure (1953–2011), Cristil called 636 football games and 1,538 basketball games. Read more
07 Sep 2014: Raul M. Gonzalez, Filipino lawyer and politician, 42nd Filipino Secretary of Justice (born 1930) Raul Maravilla Gonzalez was the Chief Presidential Legal Counsel and was the Secretary of Justice of the Philippines. Read more
07 Sep 2014: Yoshiko Ōtaka, Chinese-Japanese actress, singer, and politician (born 1920) Yoshiko Yamaguchi was a Japanese singer, actress, journalist, and politician. Born in China, she made an international career in film in China, Hong Kong, Japan and the United States. Read more
07 Sep 2014: Harold Shipp, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (born 1926) Harold Gordon Shipp was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist and the chairman of Shipp Corporation Limited. Read more
07 Sep 2013: Albert Allen Bartlett, American physicist and academic (born 1923) Albert Allen Bartlett was an American professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. As of July 2001, Professor Bartlett had lectured over 1,742 times since September 1969 on Arithmetic, Population, and Energy. Bartlett regarded the word combination "sustainable growth" as an oxymoron, and argued that modest annual percentage population increases could lead to exponential growth. He therefore regarded human overpopulation as "The Greatest Challenge" facing humanity. Read more
07 Sep 2013: Romesh Bhandari, Pakistani-Indian politician and diplomat, 13th Foreign Secretary of India (born 1928) Romesh Bhandari was an Indian diplomat and administrator. Bhandari, during his career, served in various positions, including as the Foreign Secretary, Lieutenant Governor of Delhi and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Governor of Tripura, Goa and Uttar Pradesh. Read more
07 Sep 2013: Frank Blevins, English-Australian politician, 7th Deputy Premier of South Australia (born 1939) Frank Trevor Blevins was an Australian politician and 6th Deputy Premier of South Australia from 1992 to 1993 for the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party. Blevins served in both the Legislative Council from 1975 to 1985 and in the House of Assembly from 1985 to 1997 as the member for Giles. He was a minister in a number of portfolios. In 1983 in a dispute about the use of volunteers in the ambulance service, as minister for Health, he publicly sided with the St. John Council who managed the ambulance service against two unions, the Ambulance Employees Association and the Miscellaneous Workers Association. John Cornwall, reflects that this position probably damaged his credibility at the time, with both unions and the Labor Party. Blevins was Treasurer of South Australia from 1992 to 1993. After Labor's heavy defeat at the 1993 state election, Blevins was the only Labor member from outside Adelaide. Read more
07 Sep 2013: Pete Hoffman, American cartoonist (born 1919) Pete Hoffman was an American cartoonist. He is known for his work on the adventure strips Steve Roper and Jeff Cobb. Read more
07 Sep 2013: Ilja Hurník, Czech playwright and composer (born 1922) Ilja Hurník was a Czech composer and essayist. Read more
07 Sep 2013: Fred Katz, American cellist and composer (born 1919) Frederick Katz was an American cellist and composer. He was among the earliest jazz musicians to establish the cello as a viable improvising solo instrument. Katz has been described in CODA magazine as "the first real jazz cellist." Read more
07 Sep 2012: César Fernández Ardavín, Spanish director and screenwriter (born 1923) César Fernández Ardavín was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 40 films between 1952 and 1979. His 1959 film El Lazarillo de Tormes won the Golden Bear at the 10th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1969 film The Wanton of Spain was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival. Read more
07 Sep 2012: Aleksandr Maksimenkov, Russian footballer and manager (born 1952) Aleksandr Ivanovich Maksimenkov was a Soviet and Russian football player and coach. Read more
07 Sep 2012: Daniel Weinreb, American computer scientist and programmer (born 1959) Daniel L. Weinreb was an American computer scientist and programmer, with significant work in the environment of the programming language Lisp. Read more
07 Sep 2011: Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash: Pavol Demitra was a Slovak professional ice hockey player. He played nineteen seasons of professional hockey, for teams in the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League (CSL), National Hockey League (NHL), Slovak Extraliga (SVK), and Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). A skilled offensive player, Demitra was a top-line forward throughout his career. Read more
07 Sep 2011: Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash: Alexander Georgievich Karpovtsev was a Russian ice hockey player and an assistant coach for Ak Bars Kazan and Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). In the National Hockey League (NHL), he played for the New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Islanders, and Florida Panthers. He, Alexei Kovalev, Sergei Zubov and Sergei Nemchinov were the first Russian players to have their names engraved on the Stanley Cup, winning it in 1994 with the Rangers. He was traded by the Maple Leafs to the Blackhawks for Bryan McCabe after a contract dispute where Karpovstev was seeking a salary that would have made him the highest paid defender on the team. Read more
07 Sep 2011: Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash: Igor Borisovich Korolev was a Russian-Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Korolev played over 700 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1992 until 2004. Korolev returned to Russia, and played a further seven seasons in the Russian Super League (RSL) and the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) before retiring from active play in 2010. In 2011, Korolev accepted an assistant coach position with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the KHL. Korolev was killed in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash along with nearly the entire roster of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. A native of the Russian Republic of the Soviet Union, Korolev became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 2000. Read more
07 Sep 2011: Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash: Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv was a Swedish professional ice hockey player who played as a goaltender. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in the top-tier league in Sweden. He was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in the 2000 NHL entry draft and played one season elsewhere in the Red Wings organization, but never played in the National Hockey League (NHL). He then returned to Europe and HV71, where he played three seasons before moving to Russia in 2010. Read more
07 Sep 2011: Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash: Jan Marek was a Czech professional ice hockey centre. He was selected by the New York Rangers in the 8th round of the 2003 NHL entry draft. Read more
07 Sep 2011: Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash: Byron Brad McCrimmon was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. A defenceman, he played over 1,200 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Boston Bruins, Philadelphia Flyers, Calgary Flames, Detroit Red Wings, Hartford Whalers and Phoenix Coyotes between 1979 and 1997. He achieved his greatest success in Calgary, where he was named a second team All-Star in 1987–88, played in the 1988 NHL All-Star Game and won the Plus-Minus Award with a league leading total of +48. In 1989, he helped the Flames win their only Stanley Cup championship. His career plus-minus of +444 is the 10th highest total in NHL history, and the highest among players not inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Read more
07 Sep 2011: Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash: Karel Rachůnek was a Czech professional ice hockey player. Rachůnek was the captain of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) when the team was decimated in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash. He played eight seasons in North America in the National Hockey League (NHL). Rachůnek was drafted in the ninth round, 229th overall, by the Ottawa Senators in the 1997 NHL entry draft. Rachunek was the brother of Ivan Rachůnek and Tomáš Rachůnek who also played professional ice hockey. Read more
07 Sep 2011: Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash: Kārlis Skrastiņš was a Latvian professional ice hockey player. Skrastiņš was drafted by the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League in 1998 as a defenceman and spent twelve years in the league playing for the Predators, the Colorado Avalanche, the Florida Panthers, and the Dallas Stars. Read more
07 Sep 2011: Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash: Ruslan Albertovich Salei was a Belarusian professional ice hockey player. Salei played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Detroit Red Wings, Colorado Avalanche, Florida Panthers and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, the latter of which selected him ninth overall in the 1996 NHL entry draft. Read more
07 Sep 2011: Victims of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash: Josef Vašíček was a Czech professional ice hockey player. Vašíček last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) and died in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash. He had played seven seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Carolina Hurricanes, Nashville Predators and New York Islanders before moving to Russia in 2008 to play for Yaroslavl. Read more
07 Sep 2010: Amar Garibović, Serbian skier (born 1991) Amar Garibović was a Serbian cross-country skier who had competed since 2004. He finished 80th in the 15 km event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Read more
07 Sep 2010: William H. Goetzmann, American historian and author (born 1930) William Harry Goetzmann was an American historian and emeritus professor in the American Studies and American Civilization Programs at the University of Texas at Austin. He attended Yale University as a graduate student and was friends with Tom Wolfe while there. His work on the American West won him the highest prizes for historians, the Parkman Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. He wrote and published extensively on American philosophy, American political history, and the American arts. An advocate for the importance of history as a public discussion, he served in various capacities in television and film production, notably for PBS. At the time of his death he was the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair Emeritus in History and American Studies. His last book was Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought From Paine to Pragmatism (2009). Read more
07 Sep 2010: Barbara Holland, American author (born 1933) Barbara Murray Holland was an American author who wrote in defense of such modern-day vices as cursing, drinking, eating fatty food and smoking cigarettes, as well as a memoir of her time spent growing up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. Read more
07 Sep 2010: John Kluge, German-American businessman (born 1914) John Werner Kluge was a German-American entrepreneur who became a television industry mogul in the United States. He was the founder and chairman of Metromedia. At one time he was the richest person in the U.S. Read more
07 Sep 2010: Glenn Shadix, American actor (born 1952) William Glenn Shadix-Scott was an American actor and comedian. He was best known for his roles as Otho Fenlock in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice and the Mayor of Halloween Town in The Nightmare Before Christmas. Read more
07 Sep 2010: Walter White, American fictional protagonist of television series Breaking Bad (born 1958) Walter Hartwell White, also known by his alias Heisenberg, is a fictional character and the protagonist of the American crime drama television series Breaking Bad. He is portrayed by Bryan Cranston. Read more
07 Sep 2008: Kune Biezeveld, Dutch minister and theologian (born 1948) Kunegonda Elizabeth (Kune) Biezeveld was a Dutch theologian. She was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. Read more
07 Sep 2008: Ilarion Ciobanu, Romanian rugby player and actor (born 1931) Ilarion Ciobanu was a Romanian actor. He has been described as "a legend" in the press and the last true Romanian comic. Read more
07 Sep 2008: Don Haskins, American basketball player and coach (born 1930) Donald Lee Haskins, nicknamed "the Bear", was an American basketball player and coach. He played college basketball for three years under coach Henry Iba at Oklahoma A&M. He was the head coach at the University of Texas at El Paso from 1961 to 1999. In 1966 his team won the NCAA tournament over the Wildcats of the University of Kentucky, coached by Adolph Rupp. The watershed game highlighted the end of racial segregation in college basketball. Read more
07 Sep 2008: Gregory Mcdonald, American author (born 1937) Gregory Burke Christopher Mcdonald was an American novelist best known for his mystery adventures featuring investigative reporter Irwin Maurice "Fletch" Fletcher. Read more
07 Sep 2008: Nagi Noda, Japanese director and producer (born 1973) Nagi Noda was a Japanese pop artist and art director born in Tokyo. Read more
07 Sep 2004: Bob Boyd, American baseball player (born 1925) Robert Richard Boyd was an American first baseman in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball. Read more
07 Sep 2003: Warren Zevon, American singer-songwriter (born 1947) Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer and songwriter. His most famous compositions include "Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money" and "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner". All three songs are featured on his third album, Excitable Boy (1978), the title track of which is also well-known. He also wrote major hits that were recorded by other artists, including "Poor Poor Pitiful Me", "Mohammed's Radio", "Carmelita" and "Hasten Down the Wind". Per The New York Times, "Mr. Zevon had a pulp-fiction imagination" which yielded "terse, action-packed, gallows-humored tales that could sketch an entire screenplay in four minutes and often had death as a punchline. But there was also vulnerability and longing in Mr. Zevon's ballads, like 'Mutineer,' 'Accidentally Like a Martyr' and 'Hasten Down the Wind'." Read more
07 Sep 2002: Uziel Gal, German-Israeli colonel and gun designer, designed the Uzi (born 1923) Uziel "Uzi" Gal was a German-born Israeli firearm designer who invented and became the eponym of the Uzi submachine gun. Read more
07 Sep 2001: Igor Buketoff, American conductor and educator (born 1915) Igor Konstantin Buketoff was an American conductor, arranger and teacher. He had a special affinity with Russian classical music and with Sergei Rachmaninoff in particular. He also strongly promoted British contemporary music, and new music in general. Read more
07 Sep 2001: Spede Pasanen, Finnish film director and producer, comedian, and inventor (born 1930) Pertti Olavi "Spede" Pasanen was a Finnish film director and producer, comedian, and inventor, who has been called an "all-around entertainer". During his career he directed, wrote, produced or acted in about 50 movies and participated in numerous TV productions, including the comedy Spede Show and the game-show Speden Spelit. Much of his more commercial work was in collaboration with Vesa-Matti Loiri and Simo Salminen. Pasanen's films and TV shows, often made quickly and on a low budget, usually received little critical recognition but were popular among Finnish audiences from the 1960s onwards. He was the owner of his own film production company, Filmituotanto Spede Pasanen Ky. Pasanen was ranked 17th at the Suuret suomalaiset competition show broadcast by Yleisradio. Read more
07 Sep 2001: Billie Lou Watt, American actress and voice artist (born 1924) Billie Lou Watt was an American actress. She was best known as the original English dub voice of the title characters of the 1960s anime series Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion, the character Elsie the Cow for Borden Cheese's television commercials, and a live-action turn playing Ellie Harper Bergman on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow. Read more
07 Sep 2000: Bruce Gyngell, Australian-English broadcaster (born 1929) Bruce Gyngell AO was an Australian television executive, active for more than 40 years in both Australian and UK television. Although Gyngell began his career in radio, in the 1950s he stepped into the arena of early television broadcasting, helping to set up Channel 9 Sydney, the first commercial TV station in Australia. He was managing director of the breakfast television franchise holder TV-am in the United Kingdom from 1984 to 1992. Read more
07 Sep 1997: Mobutu Sese Seko, Congolese soldier and politician, President of Zaire (born 1930) Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu wa za Banga, often shortened to Mobutu Sese Seko or Mobutu and also known by his initials MSS, was a Congolese politician and military officer who was the first and only president of Zaire from 1971 to 1997. Previously, Mobutu served as the second president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from 1965 to 1971. Read more
07 Sep 1996: Bibi Besch, Austrian-American actress (born 1942) Bibi Besch was an Austrian-American film, television, and stage actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Dr. Carol Marcus in the science fiction film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). Her other notable film roles were in Who's That Girl (1987), and Tremors (1990). Besch also appeared in a number of television productions, including the television film The Day After (1983) and The Jeff Foxworthy Show, and received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Read more
07 Sep 1995: Russell Johnson, American cartoonist (born 1893) Russell Johnson was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator and artist of Mister Oswald, a monthly comic strip that ran for more than six decades in the national trade journal now called Hardware Retailing. The strip documents a large portion of the history of American business life, as seen through the eyes of the main character, Oscar S. Oswald, a prominent citizen of the fictional Dippy Center, US. Although the strip was known primarily to hardware retailers, a book, Forty Years With Mister Oswald, was published in 1968, collecting the comic strips. Read more
07 Sep 1994: Eric Crozier, English director and playwright (born 1914) Eric Crozier OBE was a British theatrical director, opera librettist and producer, long associated with Benjamin Britten. Read more
07 Sep 1994: Dennis Morgan, American actor (born 1908) Dennis Morgan was an American actor-singer. He used the acting pseudonym Richard Stanley before adopting the name under which he gained his greatest fame. Read more
07 Sep 1994: Terence Young, Chinese-English director and screenwriter (born 1915) Stewart Terence Herbert Young was a British film director and screenwriter who worked in the United Kingdom, Europe and Hollywood. He is best known for directing three James Bond films: the first two films in the series, Dr. No (1962) and From Russia with Love (1963), and Thunderball (1965). His other films include the Audrey Hepburn thrillers Wait Until Dark (1967) and Bloodline (1979), the historical drama Mayerling (1968), the infamous Korean War epic Inchon (1981), and the Charles Bronson films Cold Sweat (1970), Red Sun (1971), and The Valachi Papers (1972). Read more
07 Sep 1991: Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1907) Edwin Mattison McMillan was an American physicist credited with being the first to produce a transuranium element, neptunium. For this, he shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg. Read more
07 Sep 1990: Earle E. Partridge, American general and pilot (born 1900) Earle Everard "Pat" Partridge was a four-star general in the United States Air Force and a Command Pilot. Read more
07 Sep 1990: A. J. P. Taylor, English historian and journalist (born 1906) Alan John Percivale Taylor was an English historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy. Both a journalist and a broadcaster, he became well known to millions through his television lectures. His combination of academic rigour and popular appeal led the historian Richard Overy to describe him as "the Macaulay of our age". In a 2011 poll by History Today magazine, he was named the fourth most important historian of the previous 60 years. Read more
07 Sep 1989: Mikhail Goldstein, Ukrainian violinist and composer (born 1917) Mikhail Emmanuilovich Goldstein was a German composer, violinist and violin teacher of Jewish origin, brother of prominent violinist Boris Goldstein. Read more
07 Sep 1988: Sedad Hakkı Eldem, Turkish architect (born 1908) Sedad Hakkı Eldem was a Turkish architect known as a proponent of nationalized modern architecture in Turkey. Read more
07 Sep 1986: Les Bury, English-Australian public servant and politician, 26th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (born 1913) Leslie Harry Ernest Bury CMG was an Australian politician and economist. He was a member of the Liberal Party and was a senior cabinet minister in the 1960s and early 1970s. Read more
07 Sep 1985: Jacoba van Velde, Dutch author (born 1903) Jacoba van Velde was a Dutch writer, translator, and dramaturge. Her first novel, De grote zaal, appeared in the literary journal Querido in 1953 and was translated into thirteen languages within ten years. During her life around 75,000 copies of De grote zaal were sold. In 2010, the book was chosen for the Nederland Leest campaign and copies were given away for free to members of all the public libraries in The Netherlands. Read more
07 Sep 1985: José Zabala-Santos, Filipino cartoonist (born 1911) José Zabala-Santos, nicknamed as "Mang Pepe" by hometown neighbors and as "Zabala" by colleagues in the cartooning profession, was a successful cartoonist in the Philippines and was one of the pioneers of Philippine comics. He became one of the most popular cartoonists in the Philippines during the 1950s because of his cartoon characters such Popoy, Sianong Sano, and Lukas Malakas. Zabala is one of the "respected names" of artists in the Philippine cartoon and comics industry. Read more
07 Sep 1984: Joe Cronin, American baseball player and manager (born 1906) Joseph Edward Cronin was an American professional baseball player, manager and executive. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a shortstop, most notably as a member of the Boston Red Sox. Cronin spent over 48 years in baseball, culminating with 14 years as president of the American League (AL). Read more
07 Sep 1984: Josyf Slipyj, Ukrainian cardinal (born 1892) Josyf Slipyi was a Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. Read more
07 Sep 1984: Don Tallon, Australian cricketer (born 1916) Donald Tallon was an Australian cricketer who played 21 Test matches as a wicket-keeper between 1946 and 1953. He was widely regarded by his contemporaries as Australia's finest ever wicket-keeper and one of the best in Test history, with an understated style, an ability to anticipate the flight, length and spin of the ball and an efficient stumping technique. Tallon toured England as part of Don Bradman's Invincibles of 1948 and was recognised as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1949 for his performances during that season. During his Test career, Tallon made 58 dismissals comprising 50 catches and 8 stumpings. Read more
07 Sep 1983: Tamurbek Dawletschin, Tatar author and prisoner of war (born 1904) Tamurbek Dawletschin was a Soviet writer and intellectual, best known for publishing one of the few memoirs by a Soviet prisoner of war held by Germany during World War II. Read more
07 Sep 1982: Ken Boyer, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1931) Kenton Lloyd Boyer was an American professional baseball third baseman and manager. He played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, Chicago White Sox, and Los Angeles Dodgers from 1955 to 1969. Read more
07 Sep 1981: Christy Brown, Irish author, poet, and painter (born 1932) Christy Brown was an Irish writer and painter. He had cerebral palsy, and this allowed him to write or type only with the toes of one foot. His most recognized work is his autobiography, titled My Left Foot (1954). It was later made into a 1989 Academy Award-winning film of the same name, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Brown. Read more
07 Sep 1979: I. A. Richards, English literary critic and rhetorician (born 1893) Ivor Armstrong Richards CH, known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, poet, and rhetorician. His work contributed to the foundations of New Criticism, a formalist movement in literary theory which emphasized the close reading of a literary text, especially poetry, in an effort to discover how a work of literature functions as a self-contained and self-referential æsthetic object. Read more
07 Sep 1978: Cecil Aronowitz, South African-English viola player (born 1916) Cecil Aronowitz was a British viola player, a founding member of the Melos Ensemble, a leading chamber musician, and an influential teacher at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music. Read more
07 Sep 1978: Keith Moon, English drummer (The Who) (born 1946) Keith John Moon was an English musician who was the drummer for the rock band the Who. Regarded as one of the greatest drummers in the history of rock music, he was noted for his unique style of playing and his eccentric, self-destructive behaviour. Read more
07 Sep 1978: Charles Williams, English composer and conductor (born 1893) Charles Williams was a British composer and conductor, contributing music to over 50 films. While his career ran from 1934 through 1968, much of his work came to the big screen as stock music and was therefore uncredited. Read more
07 Sep 1974: S. M. Rasamanickam, Ceylon politician (born 1913) Sinnappu Moothathamby Rasamanickam was a Ceylon Tamil politician and Member of Parliament. Read more
07 Sep 1973: Holling C. Holling, American author and illustrator (born 1900) Holling Clancy Holling was an American writer and illustrator, best known for the book Paddle-to-the-Sea, which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1942. Paddle to the Sea won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1962. In 1966, Bill Mason directed the Oscar-nominated short film Paddle to the Sea, based on Holling's book, for the National Film Board of Canada. Read more
07 Sep 1973: Lev Vladimirsky, Kazakhstani-Russian admiral (born 1903) Lev Anatolevich Vladimirsky, was a Soviet naval officer and an Admiral (1954). Read more
07 Sep 1972: Dimitris Poulianos, Greek painter and illustrator (born 1899) Dimitris Poulianos was a Greek artist responsible for creating a large body of oil paintings and charcoal drawings that continue to hold value amongst private collectors and prominent, international galleries. Poulianos trained at the Athens School of Fine Arts with Georgiou Roilo in 1923 and then 1924–28 at the Académie Julian in Paris where he was awarded the Smit prize. In 1931, he was awarded an MA in art from Columbia University, New York. He was known for "living and breathing his art" and never took a wife. His work is characterized by turbulent, expressionistic outdoor scenes with a particular love for the sea and night sky. Exhibitions were offered to him early in his career at galleries in Athens, Paris and New York which has generated a strong interest in his work by collectors around the world. A book covering his work has recently been published by ikarianstudies.org in 2008 as a result of extensive research undertaken by Petros Themeles, with cooperation from the children of his nephews, Constantinos and Aris Poulianos and others amongst the remaining relatives, personal friends and collectors who retain his original work. Read more
07 Sep 1971: Spring Byington, American actress (born 1886) Spring Dell Byington was an American actress. Her career included a seven-year run on radio and television as the star of December Bride. She was an MGM contract player who appeared in films from the 1930s to the 1960s. Read more
07 Sep 1971: Ludwig Suthaus, German tenor (born 1906) Ludwig Suthaus was a German operatic heldentenor. Read more
07 Sep 1970: Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Polish-Israeli journalist and politician, 1st Internal Affairs Minister of Israel (born 1879) Yitzhak Gruenbaum was a Polish and later Israeli politician. He was a leader of the Bloc of National Minorities and one of the top Zionist leaders in interwar Poland. In 1933 he travelled to Mandatory Palestine and became active in Labor Zionist groups. He served as the first Minister of the Interior of Israel. In 1952 he was a candidate for President of Israel. Read more
07 Sep 1969: Everett Dirksen, American lieutenant and politician (born 1896) Everett McKinley Dirksen was an American politician. A Republican, he represented Illinois in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. As Senate Minority Leader from 1959 until his death in 1969, he played a highly visible and key role in the politics of the 1960s. He helped write and pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968, both landmark pieces of legislation during the civil rights movement. He was also one of the Senate's strongest supporters of the Vietnam War. A talented orator with a florid style and a notably rich bass voice, he delivered flamboyant speeches that caused his detractors to refer to him as "The Wizard of Ooze". Read more
07 Sep 1964: Walter A. Brown, American businessman (born 1905) Walter Augustine Brown was an American sports executive. He was the founder and original owner of the Boston Celtics, operated the Boston Garden-Arena Corporation, and served as president of the Boston Athletic Association. In ice hockey, he coached the Boston Olympics to five Eastern Hockey League championships, owned the Boston Bruins, and served as president of the International Ice Hockey Federation. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1962, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1965, and IIHF Hall of Fame in 1997. Read more
07 Sep 1962: Karen Blixen, Danish memoirist and short story writer (born 1885) Baroness Karen Christentze von Blixen-Finecke was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries; Tania Blixen, used in German-speaking countries; Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel. Read more
07 Sep 1962: Graham Walker, English motorcycle racer and journalist (born 1897) Graham William Walker was an English motorcycle racer, broadcaster and journalist. He also contributed greatly to the motorcycle section of the National Motor Museum. Read more
07 Sep 1961: Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, Dutch lawyer, jurist, and politician, 34th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1885) Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy was a Dutch politician and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 3 September 1940 until 25 June 1945. He oversaw the government-in-exile based in London under Queen Wilhelmina during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He was a member of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP). Read more
07 Sep 1960: Wilhelm Pieck, German carpenter and politician, President of East Germany (born 1873) Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck was a German communist politician who served as the co-chairman of the Socialist Unity Party from 1946 to 1950 and as the only president of the German Democratic Republic from 1949 until his death in 1960. Read more
07 Sep 1959: Maurice Duplessis, Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Premier of Quebec (born 1890) Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis, popularly known as "Le Chef", was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 16th premier of Quebec. A conservative, nationalist, populist, anti-communist, anti-unionist, and fervent Catholic, Duplessis and his party, the Union Nationale, dominated provincial politics from the 1920s to the 1950s. With a total of 18 years and 82 days in office, he remains the longest-serving premier in Quebec history. Read more
07 Sep 1956: C. B. Fry, English cricketer, academic, and politician (born 1872) Charles Burgess Fry was an English sportsman, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, who is best remembered for his career as a cricketer. John Arlott described him with the words: "Charles Fry could be autocratic, angry and self-willed: he was also magnanimous, extravagant, generous, elegant, brilliant – and fun … he was probably the most variously gifted Englishman of any age." Read more
07 Sep 1954: Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (born 1885) Harry Conway "Bud" Fisher was an American cartoonist who created Mutt and Jeff, the first successful daily comic strip in the United States. Read more
07 Sep 1951: Maria Montez, Dominican-French actress (born 1912) María África Gracia Vidal, known professionally as Maria Montez, was a Dominican actress who gained fame and popularity in the 1940s starring in a series of filmed-in-Technicolor costume adventure films. Her screen image was that of a seductress, dressed in fanciful costumes and sparkling jewels. She became so identified with these adventure epics that she became known as The Queen of Technicolor. Over her career, Montez appeared in 26 films, 21 of which were made in North America, with the last five being made in Europe. Read more
07 Sep 1951: John French Sloan, American painter and etcher (born 1871) John French Sloan was an American painter and etcher. He is considered to be one of the founders of the Ashcan school of American art. He was also a member of the group known as The Eight. He is best known for his urban genre scenes and ability to capture the essence of neighborhood life in New York City, often observed through his Chelsea studio window. Sloan has been called the premier artist of the Ashcan School, and also a realist painter who embraced the principles of Socialism, though he himself disassociated his art from his politics. Read more
07 Sep 1949: José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter and illustrator (born 1883) José Clemente Orozco was a Mexican painter. He specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance, together with fellow artists Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, among others. Orozco was the most complex of the Mexican muralists, his work does have a leftist ideological conotation, but less than the Marxists Rivera and Siqueiros. Mostly influenced by Symbolism, he was also a genre painter and lithographer. Between 1922 and 1948, Orozco painted murals in Mexico City; Orizaba; Claremont, California; New York City; Hanover, New Hampshire; Guadalajara, Jalisco; and Jiquilpan, Michoacán. Read more
07 Sep 1943: Mary Karadja, Swedish writer, spiritualist and princess (born 1868) Marie Louise "Mary" Karadja was a Swedish writer, spiritual medium and aristocrat, a central figure in Western esotericism during the Belle Époque. Born in Stockholm to the business magnate Lars Olsson Smith, she married prince Jean Karadja Pasha, an Ottoman diplomat, with whom she had a son, the Romanian diplomat and scholar Constantin Karadja. She lived in various European countries, and published works in several languages—beginning with aphorisms in French. Her involvement with Kardecist spiritism dates to 1899, and was prompted by the deaths of an infant son and of her husband the prince. Under the influence of spiritism, Theosophy and neo-gnosticism, the princess produced spirit drawings and writings that she stated were inspired and dictated to her spiritually. She was a literary celebrity in her native country for a while, and corresponded with August Strindberg; she was also heavily criticized for her claims by investigators such as Henry Morselli and Joseph McCabe, and was a regular target of Birger Sjöberg's satirical articles. Read more
07 Sep 1942: Cecilia Beaux, American painter and academic (born 1855) Eliza Cecilia Beaux was an American artist and the first woman to teach art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Known for her elegant and sensitive portraits of friends, relatives, and Gilded Age patrons, Beaux painted many famous subjects including First Lady Edith Roosevelt, Admiral Sir David Beatty and Georges Clemenceau. Read more
07 Sep 1941: Mario García Menocal, Cuban lawyer and politician, President of Cuba (born 1866) Aurelio Mario Gabriel Francisco García Menocal y Deop was the 3rd President of Cuba, serving from 1913 to 1921. His term as president saw Cuba's participation in the Allies in World War I. Read more
07 Sep 1940: José Félix Estigarribia, Paraguayan soldier and politician, President of Paraguay (born 1888) José Félix Estigarribia Insaurralde was a Paraguayan military officer and politician who served as the 34th President of Paraguay from 1939 until his death in a plane crash on 7 September 1940. He is remembered for his role as commander in chief of the Paraguayan Army during the Chaco War, which resulted in an upset victory for Paraguay. Read more
07 Sep 1939: Kyōka Izumi, Japanese author, poet, and playwright (born 1873) Kyōtarō Izumi , known by his pen name Izumi Kyōka , was a Japanese novelist, writer and kabuki playwright who was active during the prewar period. Read more
07 Sep 1933: Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, English ornithologist and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (born 1862) Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, better known as Sir Edward Grey, was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician who was the main force behind British foreign policy in the era of the First World War. Read more
07 Sep 1929: Frederic Weatherly, English lawyer, author, and songwriter (born 1848) Frederic Edward Weatherly, KC was an English lawyer, author, lyricist and broadcaster. He was christened and brought up using the name Frederick Edward Weatherly, and appears to have adopted the spelling 'Frederic' later in life. He is estimated to have written the lyrics to at least 3,000 popular songs, among the best-known of which are the sentimental ballad "Danny Boy" set to the tune "Londonderry Air", the religious "The Holy City", and the wartime song "Roses of Picardy". Read more
07 Sep 1921: Alfred William Rich, English author and painter (born 1856) Alfred William Rich was an English artist, teacher and author. Read more
07 Sep 1920: Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Quebec (born 1855) Simon-Napoléon Parent, KC was the 12th premier of Quebec from October 3, 1900 to March 21, 1905, as well as serving as President of the Quebec Bridge and Railway Company. Read more
07 Sep 1910: William Holman Hunt, English painter and soldier (born 1827) William Holman Hunt was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour, and elaborate symbolism. These features were influenced by the writings of John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle, according to whom the world itself should be read as a system of visual signs. For Hunt, it was the duty of the artist to reveal the correspondence between sign and fact. Of all the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Hunt remained most true to their ideals throughout his career. He was always keen to maximise the popular appeal and public visibility of his works. Read more
07 Sep 1907: Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Romanian philologist, journalist, and playwright (born 1838) Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu was a Romanian writer and philologist who pioneered many branches of Romanian philology and history. Read more
07 Sep 1893: Hamilton Fish, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of State (born 1808) Hamilton Fish was an American statesman who served as the sixteenth governor of New York from 1849 to 1850, a United States senator from New York from 1851 to 1857, and the 26th U.S. secretary of state from 1869 to 1877. Fish was the most trusted advisor to President Ulysses S. Grant and recognized as the pillar of Grant's presidency. He is considered one of the nation's most effective U.S. secretaries of state by scholars, known for his judiciousness and efforts towards reform and diplomatic moderation. He settled the controversial Alabama Claims with the United Kingdom, developing the concept of international arbitration and avoided war with Spain over Cuban independence by coolly handling the volatile Virginius incident. He also organized a peace conference and treaty between South American countries and Spain. In 1875, Fish negotiated a reciprocal trade treaty for sugar production with the Kingdom of Hawai'i, initiating the process which ended in the 1893 overthrow of the House of Kalākaua and statehood. Fish worked with James Milton Turner to settle the Liberia-Grebo War in 1876. Read more
07 Sep 1892: John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and activist (born 1807) John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the fireside poets, he was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Whittier is remembered particularly for his anti-slavery writings, as well as his 1866 book Snow-Bound. Read more
07 Sep 1891: Lorenzo Sawyer, American lawyer and judge (born 1820) Lorenzo Sawyer was an American lawyer and judge who was appointed to the Supreme Court of California in 1860 and served as the ninth Chief Justice of California from 1868 to 1870. He served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Circuit Courts for the Ninth Circuit and of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is best known for handing down the verdict in the case of Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company; his verdict is frequently referred to as the "Sawyer Decision." Read more
07 Sep 1881: Sidney Lanier, American poet and academic (born 1842) Sidney Clopton Lanier was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, worked on a blockade-running ship for which he was imprisoned, taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer. As a poet he sometimes used dialects. Many of his poems are written in heightened, but often archaic, American English. He became a flautist and sold poems to publications. He eventually became a professor of literature at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and is known for his adaptation of musical meter to poetry. Many schools, other structures and two lakes are named for him, and he became hailed in the South as the "poet of the Confederacy". A 1972 US postage stamp honored him as an "American poet". Read more
07 Sep 1871: Kimenzan Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 13th Yokozuna (born 1826) Kimenzan Tanigorō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 13th yokozuna and the first to be promoted during the Meiji era. Read more
07 Sep 1871: Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha, Ottoman politician, 217th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1815) Mehmed Emin Âlî Pasha, also spelled as Mehmed Emin Aali, commonly known as Ali Pasha, was a Turkish–Ottoman statesman during the Tanzimat period, best known as the architect of the Ottoman Reform Edict of 1856, and for his role in the Treaty of Paris (1856) that ended the Crimean War. From obscure origins as the son of a doorkeeper, Âli Pasha rose through the ranks of the Ottoman state and became the Minister of Foreign Affairs for a short time in 1840, and again in 1846. He became Grand Vizier for a few months in 1852. Between 1855 and 1871 he alternated between the two jobs, ultimately holding the position of Foreign Minister seven times and Grand Vizier five times in his lifetime. Âli Pasha was widely regarded as a deft and able statesman, and often credited with preventing an early break-up of the empire. Read more
07 Sep 1840: Jacques MacDonald, French general (born 1765) Étienne Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, 1st duc de Tarente, was a Marshal of the Empire and military leader during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. Read more
07 Sep 1833: Hannah More, English poet, playwright, and philanthropist (born 1745) Hannah More was an English writer, philanthropist, poet and verse dramatist. She was active the circles of Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds and David Garrick and wrote on moral and religious subjects. Born in Bristol, she taught at a school her father founded there and began writing plays. She became involved in the London literary elite, and she was a leading Bluestocking member. Her later plays and poetry became more evangelical. She joined the Clapham Sect, a group opposing the Atlantic slave trade. Read more
07 Sep 1809: Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, Thai king (born 1737) Phutthayotfa Chulalok, posthumously honoured as King Phutthayotfa Chulalok the Great, also known by his regnal name Rama I, was the founder of the Rattanakosin Kingdom and the first King of Siam from the reigning Chakri dynasty. He ascended the throne in 1782, following the deposition of King Taksin of Thonburi. He was also celebrated as the founder of Rattanakosin as the new capital of the reunited kingdom. Read more

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