History of Today 22 September: Important Events, Births and Deaths

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Important Events on 22 September in History

22 Sep 2024: Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of Sri Lanka. Read more
22 Sep 2013: At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan. Read more
22 Sep 2006: Twenty-three people were killed in a maglev train collision in Lathen, Germany. Read more
22 Sep 1995: An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed. Read more
22 Sep 1995: The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren. Read more
22 Sep 1993: A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed. Read more
22 Sep 1993: A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia. Read more
22 Sep 1991: The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time. Read more
22 Sep 1981: During a military exercise, a Turkish Air Force Northrop F-5 crashes in Babaeski as a result of pilot error, killing one crew member and also 65 soldiers on the ground. Read more
22 Sep 1980: Iraq invades Iran, sparking the nearly eight year Iran–Iraq War. Read more
22 Sep 1979: A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined. Read more
22 Sep 1976: Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. Read more
22 Sep 1975: Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service. Read more
22 Sep 1966: Twenty-four people are killed when Ansett-ANA Flight 149 crashes in Winton, Queensland, Australia. Read more
22 Sep 1965: The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire and after a last engagement near Dograi. Read more
22 Sep 1960: The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation. Read more
22 Sep 1957: In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president. Read more
22 Sep 1953: The Four Level Interchange, first stack interchange in the world opened in Los Angeles. Read more
22 Sep 1948: Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift. Read more
22 Sep 1948: Israeli-Palestine conflict: The All-Palestine Government is established by the Arab League. Read more
22 Sep 1941: The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed. Read more
22 Sep 1939: World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland. Read more
22 Sep 1934: The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers. Read more
22 Sep 1919: The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States. Read more
22 Sep 1914: A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1,500 sailors. Read more
22 Sep 1910: The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain. Read more
22 Sep 1896: Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history (later surpassed by her great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth II on 9 September 2015). Read more
22 Sep 1892: A locomotive shunting falls into a hole in the ground, leading to the burial of the locomotive. Read more
22 Sep 1891: The first hydropower plant of Finland is commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa. Read more
22 Sep 1885: Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement. Read more
22 Sep 1866: The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War. Read more
22 Sep 1862: A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln. Read more
22 Sep 1857: The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard. Read more
22 Sep 1823: Joseph Smith claims to have found the golden plates after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried. Read more

Famous Births on 22 September

22 Sep 2009: Coco Yoshizawa, Japanese skateboarder Coco Yoshizawa is a Japanese skateboarder. She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal in the women's street event. Read more
22 Sep 2004: Jessie Murph, American singer and songwriter Jessie Murph is an American singer and songwriter. She was discovered after uploading vlogs and covers to TikTok and YouTube. Her music style spans multiple genres, with critics describing Murph's sound as a mix of elements from country, pop, and trap genres, while rooted in hip-hop. Read more
22 Sep 2000: Louise Christie, British rhythm gymnast Louise Christie is a British retired rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2022 Commonwealth Games silver medalist with ribbon. Read more
22 Sep 2000: Stephen Crichton, Samoan rugby league footballer Stephen Crichton, nicknamed "Critta", is a Samoan professional rugby league footballer who captains and plays as a centre for the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs in the National Rugby League. He has represented New South Wales in the State of Origin series and Samoa at international level. Read more
22 Sep 2000: Seungmin, South Korean singer Kim Seung-min, known mononymously as Seungmin, is a South Korean singer. He is a member of the South Korean boy band Stray Kids, formed by JYP Entertainment in 2017. Read more
22 Sep 1999: Curry Barker, American filmmaker and actor Curry Barker is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, and YouTuber. He is known for the sketch comedy YouTube channel "that's a bad idea", which he co-created with Cooper Tomlinson. He directed and wrote the horror films Milk & Serial (2024) and Obsession (2025), the latter of which grossed over $512 million worldwide, making it one of the highest grossing independent films of all time. Read more
22 Sep 1999: Kim Yo-han, South Korean singer and actor Kim Yo-han, also known by the mononym Yohan (요한), is a South Korean singer and actor. He is a member of the boy group WEi and a former member of boy group X1, finishing first on Produce X 101. He made his solo debut with the digital single "No More" on August 25, 2020. He made his acting debut in the romantic comedy A Love So Beautiful. Read more
22 Sep 1999: Kim You-jung, South Korean actress Kim You-jung is a South Korean actress. She started out as a model for a confectionery brand at the age of four and after her acting debut in 2003, Kim became one of the most in-demand child actresses in South Korea leading her to be called "Nation's Little Sister". Kim had her first starring role in the historical romance Love in the Moonlight in 2016 which catapulted her to fame as a leading actress in television and film. She ranked 8th on the Forbes Korea Power Celebrity list in 2017, the youngest to be included in the Top 10 at the age of 17. Read more
22 Sep 1995: Nayeon, South Korean singer Im Na-yeon, known mononymously as Nayeon, is a South Korean singer. She rose to prominence as a member of the South Korean girl group Twice, created by JYP Entertainment through the reality television show Sixteen (2015). Read more
22 Sep 1994: Carlos Correa, Puerto Rican-American baseball player Carlos Javier Correa Oppenheimer Jr. is a Puerto Rican professional baseball shortstop and third baseman for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Minnesota Twins. The Astros selected him first overall in the 2012 MLB draft. Read more
22 Sep 1994: Jinyoung, South Korean singer, actor, songwriter Park Jin-young, known mononymously as Jinyoung, and formerly as Jr. and Junior, is a South Korean singer, actor, and songwriter. He is a member of the South Korean boy band Got7 and duo JJ Project. Read more
22 Sep 1994: Haason Reddick, American football player Haason Samir Reddick is an American professional football outside linebacker. He played college football for the Temple Owls, and was selected by the Arizona Cardinals in the first round of the 2017 NFL draft. He also played for the Carolina Panthers, Philadelphia Eagles, New York Jets, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Read more
22 Sep 1994: Alexander Wennberg, Swedish ice hockey player Alexander Wennberg is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is a centre and alternate captain for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously played for the Columbus Blue Jackets, Florida Panthers, Seattle Kraken, and New York Rangers. He was drafted by the Blue Jackets in the first round, 14th overall, of the 2013 NHL entry draft. Before joining the NHL, Wennberg played professionally in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). Read more
22 Sep 1992: Philip Hindes, English track cyclist Philip Hindes MBE is a British former track cyclist, specialising in sprints. He holds dual nationality, having been born in Germany to a British father. Having initially competed for Germany at a junior level, in 2010 he switched to the British Cycling programme. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he won the gold medal in the Men's team sprint, and again at the 2016 Summer Olympics he won the gold medal in the Men's team sprint. Read more
22 Sep 1991: Kenny Bromwich, New Zealand rugby league player Kenneath Bromwich is a former New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who last played as a second-row forward for the Dolphins in the National Rugby League (NRL), and represented New Zealand at international level. Read more
22 Sep 1990: Denard Robinson, American football player Denard Xavier Robinson is an American former professional football player. He played four seasons as a running back in the National Football League (NFL), and was a college football All-American for the Michigan Wolverines as a quarterback. Robinson was selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the 2013 NFL draft. After his playing career, he was also a staff member for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Jacksonville University and the University of Michigan. Read more
22 Sep 1989: Jon Bass, American actor Jonathan Bass is an American actor, known for his roles in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Super Pumped, Baywatch, and the comedy series Big Time in Hollywood, FL and Miracle Workers. Read more
22 Sep 1989: Kim Hyo-yeon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress Kim Hyo-yeon, known professionally as Hyoyeon or DJ Hyo, is a South Korean singer, dancer, rapper, and DJ. She debuted as a member of the girl group Girls' Generation in August 2007, which went on to become one of the best-selling artists in South Korea and one of the most widely known K-pop groups worldwide. She has since participated in other SM Entertainment projects, including Girls' Generation-Oh!GG and Got the Beat. Hyoyeon also released the solo singles "Mystery" (2016) and "Wannabe" (2017) prior to making her solo debut as Hyo with the single "Sober" in 2018. Read more
22 Sep 1989: Sabine Lisicki, German tennis player Sabine Katharina Lisicki is a German inactive professional tennis player. Read more
22 Sep 1988: Sana Saeed, Indian actress and model Sana Saeed is an Indian actress and model, who primarily appears in Bollywood films and Indian television. Her first appearance was as a child artist in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) and continued to do so in films like Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega (2000) and Badal (2000). She also appeared in television shows such as Babul Ka Aangann Chootey Na (2008) and Lo Ho Gayi Pooja Iss Ghar Ki (2008). Read more
22 Sep 1987: Derick Brassard, Canadian ice hockey player Derick Brassard is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Columbus Blue Jackets, New York Rangers, Ottawa Senators, Pittsburgh Penguins, Florida Panthers, Colorado Avalanche, New York Islanders, Arizona Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers and Edmonton Oilers, as well as a brief stint in the Swiss National League (NL) with Genève-Servette HC. The Blue Jackets selected him in the first round, sixth overall, of the 2006 NHL entry draft. Read more
22 Sep 1987: Stefan Denifl, Austrian cyclist Stefan Denifl is an Austrian former professional cyclist, who rode professionally between 2006 and 2018 for seven different professional teams. In 2019, Denifl confessed to doping during a five-year period in his career, and was given a four-year ban from the sport; as a consequence of this, Denifl received a two-year sentence in 2021 for serious commercial fraud. Read more
22 Sep 1987: Tom Felton, English actor Thomas Andrew Felton is an English actor. Born and raised in Surrey, he began appearing in commercials and made his screen debut in the role of Peagreen Clock in The Borrowers (1997). Felton portrayed Louis T. Leonowens in Anna and the King (1999) before being cast as Draco Malfoy in the film adaptations of the fantasy novels Harry Potter, starting with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and finishing with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011). He also appeared in the science fiction film Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011). He was subsequently cast in the independent films From the Rough (2011) and The Apparition (2012). Read more
22 Sep 1987: Zdravko Kuzmanović, Serbian footballer Zdravko Kuzmanović is a Serbian former footballer who played as a defensive or central midfielder. He last played for FC Basel. He represented Serbia in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Read more
22 Sep 1987: Teyonah Parris, American actress Teyonah Parris is an American actress. A graduate of Juilliard School, she began acting in 2010. Her first prominent roles were in the drama series Mad Men (2012–2015) and in the independent film Dear White People (2014). She then appeared in the drama series Empire (2014), Spike Lee's crime comedy Chi-Raq (2015), and the drama film If Beale Street Could Talk (2018). Read more
22 Sep 1985: Jerma985, American internet personality Jerma, or Jerma985, is the stage name of an American live streamer, YouTuber, performance artist and voice actor known for his elaborate Twitch live streams incorporating surreal comedy. He has been described as an online personality across multiple social media platforms. Read more
22 Sep 1985: Faris Haroun, Belgian footballer Faris Dominguere Jenny Haroun is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He has also played for the Belgium national team. Read more
22 Sep 1985: Jamie Mackie, Scottish footballer James Charles Mackie is a former Scotland international footballer who played as a striker or winger, most notably for Queens Park Rangers, Plymouth Argyle, and Oxford United. Read more
22 Sep 1985: Tatiana Maslany, Canadian actress Tatiana Gabriele Maslany is a Canadian actress. She rose to prominence for playing multiple characters in the science-fiction thriller television series Orphan Black (2013–2017), which won her a Primetime Emmy Award (2016) and five Canadian Screen Awards (2014–2018). Maslany is the first Canadian to win an Emmy in a major dramatic category for acting in a Canadian series. Read more
22 Sep 1985: Ibragim Todashev, Russian-American mixed martial artist (died 2013) Ibragim Abdulbakievich Todashev was a Chechen-born former mixed martial artist, former amateur boxer and friend of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Read more
22 Sep 1984: Thiago Silva, Brazilian footballer Thiago Emiliano da Silva is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Fluminense. Regarded as one of the best defenders of his generation, Silva is known for his defensive ability, discipline, and leadership. In addition, he is also one of a select number of players who have amassed over 1,000 career appearances. Read more
22 Sep 1983: Glenn Loovens, Dutch professional footballer Glenn Loovens is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He represented his national team twice at senior level, and also played abroad for football clubs in England, Wales, Scotland and Spain. Read more
22 Sep 1982: Katie Lowes, American actress Katie Quinn Lowes is an American actress and theater director. She is best known for her role as Quinn Perkins in the ABC political drama series Scandal (2012–2018) and her portrayal of Rachel DeLoache Williams in the Netflix drama series Inventing Anna (2022). Read more
22 Sep 1982: Billie Piper, English actress and singer Billie Paul Piper is an English actress and former singer. She initially gained recognition as a singer after releasing her debut single "Because We Want To" at the age of 15, which made her the youngest female singer to enter the UK Singles Chart at number one. Her follow-up single "Girlfriend" also entered at number one. In 1998, Piper released her debut studio album, Honey to the B, which was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Her second studio album, Walk of Life, was released in 2000 and spawned her third number-one single, "Day & Night". In 2003, Piper announced that she had ended her music career to focus on acting. Read more
22 Sep 1982: Maarten Stekelenburg, Dutch footballer Maarten Stekelenburg is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Read more
22 Sep 1981: Ashley Eckstein, American actress Ashley Eckstein is an American actress and fashion designer. She is the founder of the fashion label Her Universe. She is best known for voicing the role of Ahsoka Tano throughout the Star Wars franchise, beginning with Star Wars: The Clone Wars in 2008 as well as her recurring role as Muffy on That's So Raven. Read more
22 Sep 1981: Janne Niskala, Finnish ice hockey player Janne Juhani Niskala is a Finnish former professional ice hockey defenceman. He last played for Lukko of the Finnish Liiga. Read more
22 Sep 1981: Alexei Ramírez, Cuban baseball player Alexei Fernando Ramírez Rodriguez is a Cuban professional baseball shortstop for Vegueros de Pinar del Río of the Cuban National Series. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox, San Diego Padres and Tampa Bay Rays. His nickname, given to him by former White Sox manager Ozzie Guillén, is "the Cuban Missile" due to his tall, slim physique and combination of speed, power, and strong throwing arm. Ramírez batted and threw right-handed. Read more
22 Sep 1981: Subaru Shibutani, Japanese singer-songwriter Subaru Shibutani is a Japanese singer, actor, and lyricist. He began his career as a member of Kansai Johnny's Jr. and later served as the main vocalist of the Japanese boy band Kanjani Eight, which originally debuted as an enka group. He left the group in 2018. His first solo album, Nisai, was released in October 2019. Read more
22 Sep 1981: Ingrid Vetlesen, Norwegian soprano Ingrid Vetlesen is a Norwegian soprano. Read more
22 Sep 1979: Emilie Autumn, American singer-songwriter, violinist, and poet Emilie Autumn Liddell is an American singer-songwriter, poet, author, and violinist. Autumn's musical style is described by her as "Fairy Pop", "Fantasy Rock" or "Victoriandustrial". It is influenced by glam rock and from plays, novels, and history, particularly the Victorian era. Performing with her all-female backup dancers The Bloody Crumpets, Autumn incorporates elements of classical music, cabaret, electronica, and glam rock with theatrics, and burlesque. Read more
22 Sep 1979: Swin Cash, American basketball player and executive Swintayla Marie Cash Canal is an American former professional basketball player. She played in college for the University of Connecticut and professionally for 15 years in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and overseas leagues. Read more
22 Sep 1979: Michael Graziadei, American actor Michael Graziadei is an American actor, known for his role as Daniel Romalotti on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, for which he received four Daytime Emmy Award nominations. Read more
22 Sep 1979: Phil Waugh, Australian rugby player Phillip Waugh is the chief executive of Rugby Australia (RA) and a former rugby union footballer who played 136 matches in the Super Rugby for the New South Wales Waratahs, and in 79 Test matches for the Wallabies. His usual position was openside flanker. Read more
22 Sep 1978: Daniella Alonso, American actress and model Daniella Alonso is an American actress and former fashion model. She has appeared in a number of horror films, including The Hills Have Eyes 2 and Wrong Turn 2: Dead End. Alonso was a regular cast member in the NBC post-apocalyptic series Revolution from 2012 to 2013, and the medical drama The Night Shift in 2014. Alonso also appeared in the first season of the TNT crime drama Animal Kingdom in 2016, and in 2019 began starring as Cristal Flores in the third season of the prime time soap opera Dynasty, which aired on The CW. Read more
22 Sep 1978: Harry Kewell, Australian footballer and coach Harry Kewell is an Australian soccer manager and former professional player who is currently the head coach of V.League 1 club Hanoi FC. Read more
22 Sep 1977: Antti-Jussi Niemi, Finnish ice hockey player Antti-Jussi Jormanpoika Niemi is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player. Niemi played for Jokerit of the SM-liiga, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the National Hockey League, HC Lada Togliatti in the Kontinental Hockey League, and Västra Frölunda HC and Leksands IF of the Swedish Elitserien. Read more
22 Sep 1976: David Berkeley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist David Berkeley is an American singer and songwriter. Read more
22 Sep 1976: Mo Collins, American football player and coach (died 2014) Damon Jamal "Mo" Collins, was an American professional football player who was an offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons during the 1990s and early 2000s. Collins played college football for the University of Florida, and was a member of a national championship team. The Oakland Raiders selected him in the first round of the 1998 NFL draft, and he played his entire professional career for the Raiders. Read more
22 Sep 1975: Mireille Enos, American actress Mireille Enos is an American actress known for the lead role as homicide detective Sarah Linden in the drama series The Killing. Read more
22 Sep 1975: Ethan Moreau, Canadian ice hockey player and scout Ethan Byron Moreau is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Moreau was selected in the first round of the 1994 NHL entry draft, 14th overall, by the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He also played with the Edmonton Oilers, Columbus Blue Jackets, and the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL. He recently served as an assistant coach for Niagara University. Currently, Moreau is the owner of Ethan Moreau Hockey in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Read more
22 Sep 1974: Jenn Colella, American actress and singer Jennifer Lin Colella is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her work in musical theatre. Read more
22 Sep 1974: Kostas Kaiafas, Cypriot footballer and manager Kostas Kaiafas is a Cypriot former football player and manager. Read more
22 Sep 1973: Yoo Chae-yeong, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress (died 2014) Yoo Chae-yeong was a South Korean singer, actress, and radio host. Read more
22 Sep 1973: Stéfan Louw, South African tenor and producer Stéfan Louw is a South African operatic tenor, regarded as one of South Africa's leading tenors. He has been performing opera since 1995. Read more
22 Sep 1973: Bob Sapp, American wrestler, kickboxer, mixed martial artist, and actor Robert Malcolm Sapp is an American bodybuilder and entertainer, and former martial artist, professional wrestler, actor, and football player. He is both primarily known for his mixed martial arts career, as well as his work as a gaijin tarento, or foreign-born entertainer, in Japan. Sapp has a combined fight record of 24–39–1, mostly fighting in Japan. He is well known in Japan, where he has appeared in numerous commercials, television programs, and various other media, and has released a music CD, Sapp Time (2003). Read more
22 Sep 1971: Elizabeth Bear, American author and poet Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky is an American author who works primarily in speculative fiction genres, writing under the name Elizabeth Bear. She won the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Tideline", and the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novelette for "Shoggoths in Bloom". She is one of a small number of writers who have gone on to win multiple Hugo Awards for fiction after winning the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Read more
22 Sep 1971: Toomas Krõm, Estonian footballer Toomas Krõm is a former professional footballer from Estonia, playing as a forward. Born in Tallinn, he twice became topscorer of the Premier Estonian League, named Meistriliiga: in 1999 and 2000. Krõm obtained a total number of 11 caps for the Estonia national football team during his career. Read more
22 Sep 1971: Luther Reigns, American actor and wrestler Matthew Robert Wiese is an American retired professional wrestler and actor. He is best known for his tenure in WWE, where he performed on its SmackDown brand under the ring name Luther Reigns. Read more
22 Sep 1970: Gladys Berejiklian, Australian politician, 45th Premier of New South Wales Gladys Berejiklian is an Australian businesswoman and former politician who served as the 45th premier of New South Wales and the leader of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party from 2017 to 2021. Berejiklian currently works as an executive for the telecommunications company Optus. Read more
22 Sep 1970: Mike Matheny, American baseball player and manager Michael Scott Matheny is an American former professional baseball catcher and manager. He played 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers, Toronto Blue Jays, St. Louis Cardinals, and San Francisco Giants. He later spent seven seasons as the manager of the Cardinals, and three for the Kansas City Royals. One of the most accomplished defensive players of his era, he won four Gold Glove Awards. As manager of the Cardinals, his teams won one pennant and three NL Central division titles. Read more
22 Sep 1970: Mystikal, American rapper and actor Michael Lawrence Tyler, better known by his stage name Mystikal, is an American convicted rapist, former rapper and actor from New Orleans, Louisiana. He is noted for his brash and explosive vocal delivery, characterized by a Southern rasp. He signed with the New Orleans-based record label Big Boy Records to release his self-titled debut studio album (1994), which was re-released by Jive Records the following year as his major label debut, Mind of Mystikal (1995). He then parted ways with the former label in favor of its local competitor, Master P's No Limit Records, through which he released his second and third albums, Unpredictable (1997) and Ghetto Fabulous (1998), and Goodfellas (1999) as a member of its flagship group, 504 Boyz. Read more
22 Sep 1970: Hitro Okesene, New Zealand rugby player and coach John Haitrosene "Hitro" Okesene, also known by the nickname "Nitro", is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s and represented three countries; Western Samoa, American Samoa and New Zealand. Read more
22 Sep 1970: Rupert Penry-Jones, English actor Rupert William Penry-Jones is an English actor from London. He is known for his performances as Adam Carter in Spooks, Clive Reader in Silk, DI Joseph Chandler in Whitechapel, and Mr. Quinlan in the American horror series The Strain. Read more
22 Sep 1970: Emmanuel Petit, French footballer Emmanuel Laurent Petit is a French former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder at club level for Arsenal, Barcelona, Monaco, and Chelsea. He represented France at international level in two FIFA World Cups and two UEFA European Championships; he scored the third goal in France's 3–0 victory in the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final and was also a member of the French squad that won UEFA Euro 2000. He was known for his strong defensive abilities, including tackling, interceptions, and marking, as well as his passing range and ability to transition play from defense to attack. In his prime, he was one of the best left-footed players in European and world football. Read more
22 Sep 1969: Nicole Bradtke, Australian tennis player and sportscaster Nicole Bradtke is a retired professional tennis player from Australia. Read more
22 Sep 1969: Tuomas Kantelinen, Finnish composer and conductor Tuomas Kantelinen is a Finnish composer. He was born in Kankaanpää and studied composition at the Sibelius Academy with Eero Hämeenniemi. He is best known for his scores for films such as Rukajärven tie, Äideistä parhain, Mindhunters and Mongol. He has also composed the opera Paavo the Great. Great Race. Great Dream, chamber music and orchestral works as well as music for television shows and commercials. Read more
22 Sep 1969: Sue Perkins, English comedian, actress, and radio host Susan Elizabeth Perkins is an English broadcaster, comedian, actress, singer and writer. Originally coming to prominence through her comedy partnership with Mel Giedroyc in Mel and Sue, she progressed into radio and television presenting, notably of The Great British Bake Off (2010–2016), Insert Name Here (2016–2019) and Just a Minute on BBC Radio 4. Read more
22 Sep 1969: Matt Sharp, American singer-songwriter and bass player Matthew Kelly Sharp is an American musician. Until 1998, he was the bassist for the rock band Weezer, which he co-founded in 1992. He appears on their first two albums, the Blue Album (1994) and Pinkerton (1996). In 1994, Sharp founded the Rentals, who have released five albums. Sharp has also released an EP and an album as a solo artist. Read more
22 Sep 1967: Matt Besser, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Matthew Gregory Besser is an American actor, comedian, director, producer, writer, and one of the four founding members of the Upright Citizens Brigade sketch comedy troupe, who had their own show on Comedy Central from 1998 to 2000. He hosts the improvisation-based podcast Improv4humans, previously on the Earwolf network, but now solely operated by himself and Brett Morris. Read more
22 Sep 1967: Super Delfin, Japanese wrestler Hiroto Wakita is a Japanese professional wrestler and politician who currently runs and wrestles for Kaisen Puroresu. He is better known by his stage name Super Delfin . Read more
22 Sep 1967: Brian Keene, American novelist Brian Keene is an American author, podcaster, and film producer, primarily known for his work in horror, dark fantasy, crime fiction, and comic books. He has won the 2014 World Horror Grandmaster Award and two Bram Stoker Awards. In addition to his own original work, Keene has written for media properties such as Doctor Who, Thor, Hellboy, Alien, Masters of the Universe, and The X-Files. Read more
22 Sep 1967: Ian Mortimer, English historian and novelist Ian James Forrester Mortimer is a British historian and writer of historical fiction. He is best known for his book The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, which became a Sunday Times bestseller in paperback in 2010. Read more
22 Sep 1967: Rickard Rydell, Swedish race car driver John Rickard Rydell is a Swedish retired racing driver. He won the 1998 British Touring Car Championship, the 2011 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship, and has also been a frontrunner in the European/World Touring Car Championship. Read more
22 Sep 1967: Félix Savón, Cuban boxer Félix Savón Fabre is a Cuban former amateur boxer who competed from 1980 to 2000. Considered one of the all-time greatest amateurs, he became three-time Olympic gold medalist, and the World Champion six times in a row, all in the heavyweight division. In 1988, when he was favored by many to win the gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics, the Cuban government boycotted the event. Savón is particularly known for having rejected numerous multimillion-dollar offers to defect and leave Cuba permanently to fight Mike Tyson as a professional. Read more
22 Sep 1966: Ruth Jones, Welsh actress, producer, and screenwriter Ruth Alexandra Elizabeth Jones is a Welsh actress, comedian, writer and producer. She co-wrote and co-starred in the BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey, for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Female Comedy Performance in 2025. She also co-wrote and starred in the Sky One comedy-drama Stella (2012–2017), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Female Comedy Performance and the BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Screenwriter. Read more
22 Sep 1966: Mike Richter, American ice hockey player Michael Thomas Richter is an American former professional ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played all 14 seasons of his career with the New York Rangers. Read more
22 Sep 1966: Michael Shank, American racing team owner Michael Shank is an American race car team owner and former race car driver born in Columbus, Ohio. Before leaving driving to concentrate on car ownership, he ran one race in the 1996–97 Indy Racing League season, the 1997 Las Vegas 500K at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He started racing in 1989, winning SCCA Ohio Valley Region's Novice Driver of the Year. Shank also won the 1996 Player's/Toyota Atlantic C2 championship. Read more
22 Sep 1965: Dan Bucatinsky, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Dan Bucatinsky is an American actor, writer and producer, best known for his role as James Novak in the Shonda Rhimes drama series Scandal, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2013. In 2014, Bucatinsky starred on NBC's Marry Me, as well as the revived HBO series The Comeback, which he also executive produced. Read more
22 Sep 1965: Andrii Deshchytsia, Ukrainian politician and diplomat, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Bohdanovych Deshchytsia is a Ukrainian diplomat and politician. Read more
22 Sep 1965: Mark Guthrie, American baseball player Mark Andrew Guthrie is an American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played for several teams between 1989 and 2003, and was a member of the 1991 World Series Champion Minnesota Twins. Read more
22 Sep 1965: Robert Satcher, American physician, engineer, and astronaut Robert Lee Satcher Jr. is an American orthopedic surgeon, chemical engineer, and former NASA astronaut. He participated in two spacewalks during STS-129, accumulating 12 hours and 19 minutes of extravehicular activity. Satcher holds two doctorates and has received numerous awards and honors as a surgeon and engineer. Read more
22 Sep 1964: Juha Turunen, Finnish lawyer and politician The kidnapping of Minna Nurminen took place in Helsinki, Finland on 27 May 2009. Read more
22 Sep 1964: Ken Vandermark, American saxophonist and composer Ken Vandermark is an American composer and reedist. Read more
22 Sep 1962: Martin Crowe, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster (died 2016) Martin David Crowe was a New Zealand cricketer, Test and ODI captain as well as a commentator. He played for the New Zealand national cricket team between 1982 and 1995, and is regarded as one of the country's greatest batsmen. Read more
22 Sep 1961: Vince Coleman, American baseball player Vincent Maurice Coleman is an American former professional baseball left fielder. He played 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, Kansas City Royals, Seattle Mariners, Cincinnati Reds, and Detroit Tigers. A two-time MLB All-Star, Coleman set a number of stolen base records. Read more
22 Sep 1961: Liam Fox, Scottish physician and politician, Secretary of State for Defence Sir Liam Fox is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for International Trade from 2016 to 2019 and Secretary of State for Defence from 2010 to 2011. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Somerset, formerly Woodspring, from 1992 to 2024. Read more
22 Sep 1961: Bonnie Hunt, American actress, producer, and talk show host Bonnie Hunt is an American actress and comedian. Her film roles include Rain Man, Beethoven, Beethoven's 2nd, Jumanji, Jerry Maguire, The Green Mile, Cheaper by the Dozen, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, and Red One. Read more
22 Sep 1961: Diane Lemieux, Canadian lawyer and politician Diane Lemieux is a Canadian politician and administrator who serves as the president and chief executive officer of the Commission de la construction du Québec. Read more
22 Sep 1961: Catherine Oxenberg, American actress Catherine Oxenberg is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Amanda Carrington on the 1980s prime time soap opera Dynasty. Oxenberg is the daughter of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia and her first husband, Howard Oxenberg (1919–2010). She twice played Diana, Princess of Wales on screen, in The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana (1982) and Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After (1992), and has appeared in many other films. Read more
22 Sep 1961: Michael Torke, American composer Michael Torke is an American composer who writes music influenced by jazz and minimalism. Read more
22 Sep 1960: Scott Baio, American actor Scott Vincent Baio is an American actor. He is known for playing Chachi Arcola on the sitcom Happy Days (1977–1984) and its spin-off Joanie Loves Chachi (1982–1983), the title character on the sitcom Charles in Charge (1984–1990), Dr. Jack Stewart in the medical-mystery-drama series Diagnosis: Murder (1993–1995), and the title role of the musical Bugsy Malone. Baio has guest-starred on various television programs, appeared in several independent films, and starred on the Nickelodeon sitcom See Dad Run (2012–2014). Read more
22 Sep 1959: Tai Babilonia, American figure skater and talk show host Tai Reina Babilonia is an American pair skater. Together with Randy Gardner, she won the 1979 World Figure Skating Championships and five U.S. Figure Skating Championships (1976–1980). The pair qualified for the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics. Read more
22 Sep 1959: Wally Backman, American baseball player Walter Wayne Backman is an American former Major League Baseball second baseman. He is best known for his time with the New York Mets from 1980–1988 and was a member of their 1986 World Series-winning team. He was also the former manager for the Las Vegas 51s, the Mets' Triple-A team, from 2013 to 2016. He served as the bench coach for the Pericos de Puebla of the Mexican Baseball League in 2017. Backman was the manager of the Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, until October 2, 2023, when it was announced that the Ducks and Backman had parted ways. Read more
22 Sep 1959: Saul Perlmutter, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate Saul Perlmutter is an American astrophysicist who is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Chair, and is head of the International Supernova Cosmology Project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a member of both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Perlmutter shared the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Since 2021, he has been a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Read more
22 Sep 1958: Andrea Bocelli, Italian singer-songwriter and producer Andrea Bocelli is an Italian tenor. He rose to fame in 1994 after winning the newcomers' section of the 44th Sanremo Music Festival performing "Il mare calmo della sera". Read more
22 Sep 1958: Beth Catlin, American autistic savant Elizabeth "Beth" Catlin is an American autistic savant who sends birthday cards to people whom she has met. Using only her memory, Catlin can recall the names, birthdates, and addresses of the people she has met. As of July 2009, Catlin sends birthday cards each year to 3,834 people. Read more
22 Sep 1958: Neil Cavuto, American journalist and author Neil Patrick Cavuto is an American television news anchor, executive, commentator, and business journalist. He was the host of Your World with Neil Cavuto and Cavuto Live, both on Fox News, and Cavuto: Coast to Coast on sister channel Fox Business Network until he left the network on December 19, 2024. Read more
22 Sep 1958: Joan Jett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress Joan Jett is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, businesswoman, and actress. Often referred to as the "Godmother of Punk" and "Queen of Rock and Roll", she is regarded as a rock icon and an influential figure in popular rock music. Read more
22 Sep 1957: Steve Carney, English footballer (died 2013) Stephen Carney was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League as a defender for Newcastle United, Carlisle United, Darlington, Rochdale and Hartlepool United. Read more
22 Sep 1957: Nick Cave, Australian singer-songwriter, author, and actor Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian singer, musician and writer. He is the frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Known for his baritone voice, Cave's music is characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love, and violence. Read more
22 Sep 1957: Mark Johnson, American ice hockey player and coach Mark Einar Johnson is an American ice hockey coach for the University of Wisconsin–Madison women's ice hockey team. He is a former National Hockey League (NHL) player who appeared in 669 NHL regular season games between 1980 and 1990. He also played for the gold medal-winning 1980 U.S. Olympic team, leading the team in points with 11. As head coach of Wisconsin, he has led them to nine National Championships, the most for all NCAA Division I hockey teams. He is the son of legendary Wisconsin coach Bob Johnson, under whom he played while winning a national championship at the University of Wisconsin in 1977. Read more
22 Sep 1957: Johnette Napolitano, American singer-songwriter and bass player Johnette Napolitano is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and bassist for the rock band Concrete Blonde. Read more
22 Sep 1957: Giuseppe Saronni, Italian cyclist and manager Giuseppe Saronni, also known as Beppe Saronni, is an Italian former racing cyclist. He had remarkable success riding in the Giro d'Italia. In 1980 he won 7 stages and finished 7th overall; in 1981 he won 3 stages and finished 3rd overall. In 1979 and 1983 he won the Giro d'Italia and all total for his career win 24 stages in this race. Read more
22 Sep 1956: Debby Boone, American singer, actress, and author Deborah Anne Boone is an American singer, author, and actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit, "You Light Up My Life", which spent ten weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist the following year. Boone later focused her music career on country music, resulting in the 1980 No. 1 country hit "Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again". In the 1980s, she recorded Christian music which garnered her four top 10 Contemporary Christian albums as well as two more Grammys. Throughout her career, Boone has appeared in several musical theater productions and has co-authored many children's books with her husband Gabriel Ferrer. Read more
22 Sep 1956: Doug Wimbish, American singer-songwriter and bass player Douglas Arthur Wimbish is an American bassist, primarily known for being a member of rock band Living Colour and funk/dub/hip hop collective Tackhead, and as a session musician with artists such as Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, Depeche Mode, James Brown, Annie Lennox, Tarja Turunen, and Barrington Levy. Read more
22 Sep 1956: Ibrahim Shema, Nigerian lawyer, politician Ibrahim Shehu Shema ); born 22 September 1957) is a Nigerian lawyer and politician who was elected as a Governor of the north western State of Katsina during the 2007 general elections. Read more
22 Sep 1955: Jeffrey Leonard, American baseball player and coach Jeffrey N. Leonard is an American former professional baseball left fielder. He played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1977 to 1990 for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, San Francisco Giants, Milwaukee Brewers, and Seattle Mariners. Read more
22 Sep 1953: Richard Fairbrass, English singer-songwriter, musician and producer Richard Peter John Fairbrass is an English singer and television presenter, best known as lead singer of the pop group Right Said Fred, who achieved hits in the early 1990s including the singles "I'm Too Sexy" and "Deeply Dippy". He and his band have won two Ivor Novello Awards. Read more
22 Sep 1953: Ségolène Royal, French politician Ségolène Royal is a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party, she participated in the 2007 French presidential election but lost to Nicolas Sarkozy in the second round. Read more
22 Sep 1952: Bob Goodlatte, American lawyer and politician Robert William Goodlatte is an American politician, attorney, and lobbyist who served as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 6th congressional district from 1993 to 2019. A Republican, he was also the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, which has jurisdiction over legislation affecting the federal courts, administrative agencies, and federal law enforcement entities. Based in the Shenandoah Valley, Goodlatte's district covered the cities of Harrisonburg, Lexington, Lynchburg, Roanoke, and Staunton. Read more
22 Sep 1952: Sukhumbhand Paribatra, Thai political scientist and politician, 15th Governor of Bangkok Mom Rajawongse Sukhumbhand Paribatra is a Thai politician belonging to the Democrat Party. From 2009 to 2016 he was the Governor of Bangkok. He was removed from the post in October 2016 by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha who used Section 44 of the interim charter to remove the elected official. The reason given for his ouster was "…because he was involved in many legal cases." He was replaced by Police General Aswin Kwanmuang. Read more
22 Sep 1952: Américo Rocca, Mexican wrestler Javier Hernández Padilla is a semi-retired Mexican professional wrestler best known under the ring name Américo Rocca. Hernández also worked as the enmascarado (masked) Ponzoña from 1990 until 1994, and as Ninja Samurai for a brief time in 1994. Hernández is a former holder of the Mexican National Lightweight Championship and a three-time holder of both the Mexican National Welterweight Championship and the NWA World Welterweight Championship all promoted by the professional wrestling promotion Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL). Read more
22 Sep 1951: David Coverdale, English singer-songwriter David Coverdale is a retired English singer and songwriter best known as the founder and lead singer of the hard rock band Whitesnake. Read more
22 Sep 1951: Mike Graham, American wrestler and promoter (died 2012) Edward Michael Gossett, better known as Mike Graham, was an American professional wrestler who was the son of Eddie Graham. Read more
22 Sep 1951: Doug Somers, American wrestler (died 2017) Douglas Duane Somerson was an American professional wrestler known by his ring name "Pretty Boy" Doug Somers. He worked in the American Wrestling Association (AWA) in the mid-1980s as part of a tag team with "Playboy" Buddy Rose, managed by Sherri Martel, and twice held the AWA World Tag Team Championship. Read more
22 Sep 1950: Kirka, Finnish musician (died 2007) Kirill "Kirka" Babitzin was a Finnish vocalist and musician. One of the most commercially successful artists from Finland, his career lasted from the late 1960s until his death in 2007. Sales of Kirka's records have exceeded one million copies. During his career, Kirka was awarded five Emma prizes. Read more
22 Sep 1949: Harold Carmichael, American football player Lee Harold Carmichael is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for thirteen seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles (1971–1983) and one year with the Dallas Cowboys (1984). He played college football for the Southern Jaguars. After his playing career, Carmichael was the director of player development and alumni for the Eagles from 1998 to 2014, and a fan engagement liaison from 2014 to 2015. Read more
22 Sep 1949: James Cartwright, American general James Edward "Hoss" Cartwright is a retired United States Marine Corps general who last served as the eighth vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from August 31, 2007, to August 3, 2011. He previously served as the Commander, U.S. Strategic Command, from September 1, 2004, to August 10, 2007, and as Acting Commander, U.S. Strategic Command from July 9, 2004, to September 1, 2004. He retired from the Marine Corps on August 3, 2011, after nearly 40 years of service. Read more
22 Sep 1949: Jim McGinty, Australian lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of Western Australia James Andrew McGinty is an Australian former politician. He was a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1990 to 2009, representing the district of Fremantle. He was Labor Party leader and Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1996. He served as a minister, most notably as Attorney-General, in the governments of Carmen Lawrence, Geoff Gallop and Alan Carpenter. Read more
22 Sep 1948: Denis Burke, Australian soldier and politician, 6th Chief Minister of the Northern Territory Denis Gabriel Burke is a former Australian politician. A former Australian Army officer, he served as a Country Liberal Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1994 to 2005. He spent two years as Chief Minister after succeeding Shane Stone, but oversaw the CLP's defeat at the 2001 election, ending 27 years of continuous CLP government in the Northern Territory. Burke later served as Opposition Leader from 2001 to 2003 before being toppled, but was re-elected as leader in 2005. He subsequently took the party to defeat at the 2005 election, culminating in the shock loss of his own seat. Read more
22 Sep 1948: Mark Phillips, English equestrian, trainer, and journalist Mark Anthony Peter Phillips is an English Olympic gold medal-winning horseman who competed for Great Britain. He was the first husband of Anne, Princess Royal, with whom he has two children. Phillips is a leading figure in British equestrian circles, a noted eventing course designer and a columnist for Horse & Hound magazine. Read more
22 Sep 1947: Jo Beverley, English-Canadian author (died 2016) Mary Josephine Beverley was a prolific English-Canadian writer of historical and contemporary romance novels from 1988 to 2016. Read more
22 Sep 1947: David Drewry, English glaciologist and geophysicist David John Drewry is a glaciologist and geophysicist who was described in the conferring of an honorary degree by Anglia Ruskin University in 1998 as having an "outstanding reputation as an eminent scientist of international repute". Drewry has also received several awards for his work. Since 1 July 2015 he is the vice-president of the European University Association. Read more
22 Sep 1947: Norma McCorvey, American activist (died 2017) Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey, also known by the pseudonym Jane Roe, was the plaintiff in the landmark 1973 American legal case Roe v. Wade in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that individual state laws banning abortion were unconstitutional. Read more
22 Sep 1947: Robert Morace, American author and academic Robert Morace is an American writer. Read more
22 Sep 1946: King Sunny Adé, Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist Chief Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye, known professionally as King Sunny Adé, is a Nigerian jùjú singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is regarded as one of the first African pop musicians to gain international success and has been called one of the most influential musicians of all time. Read more
22 Sep 1946: Larry Dierker, American baseball player and manager Lawrence Edward Dierker is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher, manager, and broadcaster. During a 14-year baseball career as a pitcher, he pitched from 1964 to 1977 for the Houston Colt .45s/Astros and the St. Louis Cardinals. Read more
22 Sep 1945: Paul Le Mat, American actor Paul Le Mat is an American actor. He first came to prominence with his role in American Graffiti (1973); his performance was met with critical acclaim and earned him the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor. Read more
22 Sep 1944: Brian Gibson, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2004) Brian Gibson was an English film and television director. Read more
22 Sep 1943: Toni Basil, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress Antonia Christina Basilotta, better known by her stage name Toni Basil, is an American singer, choreographer, dancer, actress, and director. Her 1982 single, "Mickey", topped the charts in the US, Canada and Australia and entered the top ten of several other international charts. Read more
22 Sep 1943: Barry Cable, Australian footballer and coach Barry Thomas Cable MBE is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. Considered one of the greatest rovers in the sport's history, he played 379 premiership games in the Western Australian Football League (WAFL) and the Victorian Football League (VFL), and later coached in both competitions. Read more
22 Sep 1943: Paul Hoffert, American keyboard player, composer, and academic Paul Matthew Hoffert, LLD, CM is a recording artist, performer, media music composer, author, academic, and corporate executive. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Toronto. He later studied music composition with Gordon Delamont. In 1969, the 26-year-old Hoffert co-founded Lighthouse, a rock group that sold millions of records and earned three Juno Awards as one of Canada's leading pop bands. His film music earned him a San Francisco Film Festival and three SOCAN Film Composer of the Year awards and included films such as The Proud Rider (1971), The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972), Outrageous! (1977), High-Ballin' (1978), The Shape of Things to Come (1979), Wild Horse Hank (1979), Mr. Patman (1980), Deadly Companion (1981), Paradise (1982), Fanny Hill (1983), Bedroom Eyes (1984), and Mr. Nice Guy (1987). Read more
22 Sep 1942: Ole Anderson, American wrestler (died 2024) Alan Robert Rogowski, better known by the ring name Ole Anderson, was an American professional wrestler, booker, and promoter. Read more
22 Sep 1942: Candida Lycett Green, Anglo-Irish journalist and author (died 2014) Candida Rose Lycett Green was a British author who wrote sixteen books including English Cottages, Goodbye London, The Perfect English House, Over the Hills and Far Away and The Dangerous Edge of Things. Her television documentaries included The Englishwoman and the Horse, and The Front Garden. Unwrecked England, based on a regular column of the same name she wrote for The Oldie from 1992, was published in 2009. Read more
22 Sep 1942: Rubén Salazar Gómez, Colombian cardinal Jesús Rubén Darío Salazar Gómez is a Colombian prelate of the Catholic Church who was Metropolitan Archbishop of Bogotá from 2010 to 2020. He was made a cardinal in 2012. He was Metropolitan Archbishop of Barranquilla from 1999 to 2010. Read more
22 Sep 1942: David Stern, American lawyer and businessman, 4th Commissioner of the NBA (died 2020) David Joel Stern was an American lawyer and business executive who was the commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1984 to 2014. He oversaw NBA basketball's growth into one of the world's most popular sports during the 1990s and 2000s. Stern is credited with developing and broadening the NBA's audience, especially internationally by setting up training camps, playing exhibition games, and recruiting more international players. In addition, with his guidance, the NBA opened 12 offices in cities outside the United States, and broadcast to over 200 territories in over 40 languages. Stern also helped found the Women's National Basketball Association and the NBA G League, the NBA's development league. Under Stern, the NBA launched their digital presence with NBA.com, NBA TV, and NBA League Pass. He also established the NBA's social responsibility program, NBA Cares. Read more
22 Sep 1941: Jeremiah Wright, American pastor and theologian Jeremiah Alvesta Wright Jr. is an American Mainline Protestant minister who is pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, a congregation he led for 36 years, during which its membership grew to over 8,000 parishioners. Following retirement, his beliefs and preaching were scrutinized when segments of his sermons about terrorist attacks on the United States and government dishonesty were publicized in connection with the 2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama. Read more
22 Sep 1940: Anna Karina, Danish-French actress, director, and screenwriter (died 2019) Anna Karina was a Danish and French film actress, director, writer, model, and singer. She was an early collaborator of French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, her first husband, performing in several of his films, including The Little Soldier (1960), A Woman Is a Woman (1961), My Life to Live (1962), Bande à part, Pierrot le Fou (1965), and Alphaville (1965). For her performance in A Woman Is a Woman, Karina won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival. Read more
22 Sep 1939: Bogdan Baltazar, Romanian economist and engineer (died 2012) Bogdan Baltazar was a leading Romanian banker and the first spokesman of the Romanian government following the fall of the communist regime. He was also a significant financial and banking advisor. Read more
22 Sep 1939: Deborah Lavin, South African-English historian and academic Deborah Margaret Lavin, FRSA, is a South African academic and historian, resident in the United Kingdom for most of her career. Read more
22 Sep 1939: Gilbert E. Patterson, American bishop (died 2007) Gilbert Earl Patterson was an American Holiness Pentecostal leader and pastor. He served as the founding pastor of the Temple of Deliverance COGIC Cathedral of Bountiful Blessings, one of the largest COGIC churches in the Eastern United States, from 1975 to 2007. He also served as the Presiding Bishop the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), a 6 million-member Holiness Pentecostal denomination from 2000 to 2007. Read more
22 Sep 1939: Marlena Shaw, American jazz singer (died 2024) Marlina Burgess, professionally known by her stage name Marlena Shaw, was an American singer. Shaw began her singing career in the 1960s and continued to perform until her death. Her music has often been sampled in hip hop music, and used in television commercials. Read more
22 Sep 1939: Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer (died 2016) Junko Tabei was a Japanese mountaineer, author and teacher. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest and ascend the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peak on every continent. Read more
22 Sep 1938: Gene Mingo, American football player Eugene L. Mingo is an American former professional football player who played in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He played several positions including halfback, placekicker, and return specialist. He is widely recognized as the first African American placekicker in football. Read more
22 Sep 1937: Don Rutherford, English rugby player (died 2016) Donald Rutherford was an England international rugby union player and administrator. He was the first ever Technical Director of the Rugby Football Union at Twickenham, becoming Director of Rugby where he served with distinction from 1969 – 1999. Read more
22 Sep 1936: Maurice Evans, English footballer and manager (died 2000) Maurice George Evans was a football player with Reading, and later manager of Shrewsbury Town, Reading and Oxford United. Read more
22 Sep 1936: Robin Gammell, Canadian actor Robin Gammell is a Canadian film, television and stage actor. Read more
22 Sep 1934: Jack McGregor, American captain, lawyer, and politician Jack Edwin McGregor was an American politician and lawyer who was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate and the founder of the National Hockey League's Pittsburgh Penguins. He later resided in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he served as counsel to Cohen and Wolf, P.C., and as an advisor to companies looking to create business opportunities in the Bridgeport region. McGregor also served as a consultant to other companies seeking to expand their market share in the area. Read more
22 Sep 1934: Lute Olson, American basketball player and coach (died 2020) Robert Luther "Lute" Olson was an American basketball coach, who was inducted into both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. He was the head coach of the Arizona Wildcats men's team for 24 years. He was also head coach for the Iowa Hawkeyes for nine years and Long Beach State 49ers for one season. Known for player development and great recruiting, many of his former players have gone on to have impressive careers in the NBA. On October 23, 2008, Olson announced his retirement from coaching. Olson died on August 27, 2020, in Tucson, Arizona. He was 85 years old. Read more
22 Sep 1934: T. Somasekaram, Sri Lankan geographer and politician, 37th Surveyor General of Sri Lanka (died 2010) Sri Lanka Sikhamani Thamotharam Somasekaram was a leading Sri Lankan Tamil geographer and Surveyor General. Read more
22 Sep 1933: Leonardo Balada, Spanish-American composer and educator Leonardo Balada Ibáñez is a Spanish-American classical composer, who is noted for his operas and orchestral works. Read more
22 Sep 1933: T. Cullen Davis, American businessman Thomas Cullen Davis is an American former oil tycoon who is best known for being acquitted of murder and attempted murder in two high-profile trials during the 1970s. At the time of his first trial, Davis was believed to be the wealthiest man to have stood trial for murder in the United States. Read more
22 Sep 1933: Carmelo Simeone, Italian-Argentinian footballer (died 2014) Carmelo "Cholo" Simeone, was an Argentine football defender who won three league championships with Boca Juniors and played for the Argentina national team. Nicknamed "Cholo", he was known for his energetic playing style. Read more
22 Sep 1933: Jesco von Puttkamer, German-American engineer (died 2012) Jesco Hans Heinrich Max Freiherr von Puttkamer was a German-American aerospace engineer, senior manager at NASA, and a pulp science fiction writer. Read more
22 Sep 1932: Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuanian politician, 2nd President of Lithuania (died 2010) Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas was the fourth president of Lithuania, in office from 1993 to 1998. He also served as Prime Minister of Lithuania from 2001 to 2006. Brazauskas was the first democratically elected president of post-Soviet Lithuania. Read more
22 Sep 1932: Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (died 2009) Jens Ingemar "Ingo" Johansson was a Swedish professional boxer who competed from 1952 to 1963. He held the world heavyweight title from 1959 to 1960 and was the fifth heavyweight champion born outside the United States. Johansson won the title by defeating Floyd Patterson via third-round stoppage, after flooring him seven times in that round. For this achievement, Johansson was awarded the Hickok Belt as top professional athlete of the year—the only non-American in its entire 27-year first run—and was named the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year and Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year. Read more
22 Sep 1931: Fay Weldon, English author and playwright (died 2023) Fay Weldon was a British author, essayist and playwright. Read more
22 Sep 1931: George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Scottish banker and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (died 2003) George Kenneth Hotson Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Baron Younger of Prestwick, was a British Conservative Party politician and banker. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayr from 1964 to 1992. During the premiership of Margaret Thatcher, Younger served as Secretary of State for Scotland from 1979 to 1986, and as Secretary of State for Defence from 1986 to 1989. Read more
22 Sep 1930: Joni James, American singer (died 2022) Giovanna Carmella Babbo, known professionally as Joni James, was an American singer of traditional pop. Read more
22 Sep 1930: T. S. Sinnathuray, Judge of the High Court of Singapore (died 2016) Thirugnana Sampanthar Sinnathuray, known professionally as T. S. Sinnathuray and to his friends as Sam Sinnathuray, was a judge of the High Court of Singapore. Educated at University College London and called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, he practised for a few years in a law firm before beginning a career with the Singapore Legal Service, serving with the Attorney-General's Chambers as Crown Counsel and deputy public prosecutor (1960–1963), and senior state counsel (1966–1967); with the Subordinate Courts as a magistrate (1956–1959), first district judge (1967–1970), and senior district judge (1971–1978); and with the Supreme Court as deputy registrar and sheriff (1959–1960), and registrar (1963–1966). In 1978 he was elevated to the office of Judge of the High Court of Singapore, and served until his retirement in 1997. Read more
22 Sep 1929: Serge Garant, Canadian composer and conductor (died 1986) Albert Antonio Serge Garant, was a Canadian composer, conductor, music critic, professor of music at the University of Montreal and radio host of Musique de notre siècle on Radio-Canada. In 1966, with Jean Papineau-Couture, Maryvonne Kendergi, Wilfrid Pelletier and Hugh Davidson, he co-founded the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec. In 1979, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. The Prix Serge-Garant award was created in his honor by the Fondation Émile Nelligan. Among his notable pupils were Walter Boudreau, Marcelle Deschênes, Denis Gougeon, Richard Grégoire, Anne Lauber, Michel Longtin, Nicole Rodrigue, and Myke Roy. Read more
22 Sep 1929: Carlo Ubbiali, Italian motorcycle racer (died 2020) Carlo Ubbiali was an Italian professional motorcycle road racer. He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1949 to 1960, most prominently as a member of the MV Agusta factory racing team. In the 1950s, he was a dominant force in the smaller classes of Grand Prix motorcycle racing, winning six 125cc and three 250cc world titles. In 2001, the F.I.M. inducted Ubbiali into the MotoGP Hall of Fame. Read more
22 Sep 1928: Eric Broadley, English engineer and businessman, founded Lola Cars (died 2017) Eric Harrison Broadley MBE was a British entrepreneur, engineer, and founder and chief designer of Lola Cars, the motor racing manufacturer and engineering company. He was arguably one of the most influential automobile designers of the post-war period, and over the years Lola was involved with many high-profile projects in Formula One, Indy car, and sports car racing. Broadley sold Lola to Martin Birrane in 1997. Read more
22 Sep 1928: James Lawson, American activist, author, and academic (died 2024) James Morris Lawson Jr. was an American activist and university professor. He was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights Movement. During the 1960s, he served as a mentor to the Nashville Student Movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was expelled from Vanderbilt University for his civil rights activism in 1960, and later served as a pastor in Los Angeles for 25 years. Read more
22 Sep 1928: Eugene Roche, American actor (died 2004) Eugene Harrison Roche was an American actor and the original "Ajax Man" in 1970s television commercials. Read more
22 Sep 1928: Johnny Valentine, American wrestler (died 2001) John Theodore Wisniski, better known by his ring name Johnny Valentine, was an American professional wrestler with a career spanning almost three decades. He has been inducted into four halls of fame for his achievements in wrestling. Wisniski is the father of professional wrestler Greg "The Hammer" Valentine. Read more
22 Sep 1928: Vitthalrao Gadgil, Indian politician (died 2001) Vitthalrao Gadgil was a leader of Indian National Congress. He served as union minister of information and broadcasting during Rajeev Gandhi era. Read more
22 Sep 1927: Gordon Astall, English footballer and coach (died 2020) Gordon Astall was an English professional footballer. He played as an outside right, and represented the Football League, the England B team and the full England side. At club level he made 456 appearances in the Football League and scored 112 goals. Read more
22 Sep 1927: Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2021) Thomas Charles Lasorda was an American professional baseball pitcher and manager. He managed the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1976 through 1996. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager in 1997. Read more
22 Sep 1926: Bill Smith, American clarinet player and composer (died 2020) William Overton Smith was an American clarinetist and composer. He worked extensively in modern classical music, third stream and jazz, and was perhaps best known for having played with pianist Dave Brubeck intermittently from the 1940s to the early 2000s. Smith frequently recorded jazz under the name Bill Smith, but his classical compositions are credited under the name William O. Smith. Read more
22 Sep 1925: Virginia Capers, American actress and singer (died 2004) Virginia Capers was an American actress. She won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical in 1974 for her performance as Lena Younger in Raisin, a musical version of Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun. Read more
22 Sep 1925: Leila Hadley, American author (died 2009) Leila Hadley was an American travel writer and socialite. Her books include Give Me the World (1958) and A Journey with Elsa Cloud (1997). Read more
22 Sep 1924: Bernard Gauthier, French cyclist (died 2018) Bernard Gauthier was a French road racing cyclist, who was professional from 1947 to 1961. He won the Bordeaux–Paris road race on four occasions. Read more
22 Sep 1924: Charles Keeping, English author and illustrator (died 1988) Charles William James Keeping was an English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer. He made the illustrations for Rosemary Sutcliff's historical novels for children, and he created more than twenty picture books. He also illustrated the complete works of Charles Dickens for the Folio Society. Read more
22 Sep 1924: Rosamunde Pilcher, English author (died 2019) Rosamunde Evelina Montague Laurence Pilcher was a British novelist, best known for her sweeping novels set in Cornwall. Her books have sold over 60 million copies worldwide. Early in her career her work was published under the pen name of Jane Fraser. Read more
22 Sep 1924: Charles Waterhouse, American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (died 2013) Charles H. Waterhouse was an American painter, illustrator and sculptor renowned for using United States Marine Corps historical themes as the motif for his works. His art spans subjects from Tun Tavern, the birthplace of the U. S. Marines to present day topics. Throughout his career, he created over 500 pieces for the Marine Corps art collection. Read more
22 Sep 1924: J. William Middendorf, American soldier and politician, 14th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 2025) John William Middendorf II was an American diplomat who was the 62nd Secretary of the Navy from 1974 to 1977 and the United States Ambassador to the European Communities from 1985 to 1987. He wrote books and articles on politics, security, and history. Read more
22 Sep 1924: Ray Wetzel, American trumpet player and composer (died 1951) Ray Wetzel was an American jazz trumpeter. Critic Scott Yanow described him as "greatly admired by his fellow trumpeters". Read more
22 Sep 1923: Dannie Abse, Welsh physician, poet, and author (died 2014) Daniel Abse CBE FRSL was a Welsh poet and physician. His poetry won him many awards. As a medic, he worked in a chest clinic for over 30 years. Read more
22 Sep 1922: David Sive, American environmentalist and lawyer (died 2014) David Sive was an American attorney, environmentalist, and professor of environmental law, who has been recognized as a pioneer in the field of United States environmental law. Read more
22 Sep 1921: Will Elder, American illustrator (died 2008) William Elder was an American illustrator and comic book artist who worked in numerous areas of commercial art but is best known for a frantically funny cartoon style that helped launch Harvey Kurtzman's Mad comic book in 1952. Read more
22 Sep 1920: Eric Baker, English activist, co-founded Amnesty International (died 1976) Eric Baker was a British activist and one of the founders of the human rights group Amnesty International, and the second Secretary-General of the organization. He was also a founder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). Read more
22 Sep 1920: Anders Lassen, Danish-English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1945) Major Anders Frederik Emil Victor Schau Lassen,, was a Danish military officer who was the only non-Commonwealth recipient of the Victoria Cross during the Second World War. Serving in the British Army, he was posthumously awarded the award for his actions during Operation Roast on 8 April 1945 at Lake Comacchio in Italy in the final weeks of the Italian campaign. Read more
22 Sep 1920: Bob Lemon, American baseball player and manager (died 2000) Robert Granville Lemon was an American right-handed pitcher and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976. Read more
22 Sep 1920: William H. Riker, American political scientist and academic (died 1993) William Harrison Riker was an American political scientist known for applying game theory and mathematics to political science. He helped establish University of Rochester as a center of the behavioral revolution in political science. Read more
22 Sep 1918: Hans Scholl, German activist and co-founder of the anti-Nazi resistance group White Rose (died 1943) Hans Fritz Scholl was, along with Alexander Schmorell, one of the two founding members of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany. The principal author of the resistance movement's literature, he was found guilty of high treason for distributing anti-Nazi material and was executed by the Nazi regime in 1943 during World War II. Read more
22 Sep 1918: Henryk Szeryng, Mexican violinist and educator (died 1988) Henryk Bolesław Szeryng was a Polish-Mexican violinist. Read more
22 Sep 1915: Grigory Frid, Russian pianist and composer (died 2012) Grigory Samuilovich Frid, also known as Grigori Fried, was a Russian composer of music written in many different genres, including chamber opera. Read more
22 Sep 1913: Lillian Chestney, American painter and illustrator (died 2000) Lillian Chestney was an American illustrator and painter. She studied in New York City and illustrated children's books, comic books, and magazine and book covers at a time when few women held artist positions in the industry. Read more
22 Sep 1912: Herbert Mataré, German physicist and academic (died 2011) Herbert Franz Mataré was a German physicist. The focus of his research was the field of semiconductor research. His best-known work is the first functional European transistor, which he developed and patented together with Heinrich Welker in the vicinity of Paris in 1948, independent from the Bell Labs engineers who had developed the first transistor shortly before. Read more
22 Sep 1912: Martha Scott, American actress (died 2003) Martha Ellen Scott was an American actress. She was featured in major films such as Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments (1956), and William Wyler's Ben-Hur (1959). Martha played the mother of Charlton Heston's character in both films. She originated the role of Emily Webb in Thornton Wilder's Our Town on Broadway in 1938, and later recreated the role in the 1940 film version, for which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Read more
22 Sep 1910: György Faludy, Hungarian poet and author (died 2006) György Faludy, sometimes anglicized as George Faludy, was a Hungarian poet, writer and translator. Read more
22 Sep 1909: John Engstead, American photographer and journalist (died 1983) John Engstead was an American photographer. Engstead was born in California, and began his career in 1926, when he was hired as an office boy by Paramount Pictures' head of studio publicity, Harold Harley. Read more
22 Sep 1909: Allan Lane, American actor (died 1973) Allan "Rocky" Lane was an American actor. He was the star of many cowboy B-movies in the 1940s and 1950s. He appeared in more than 125 films and TV shows in a career lasting from 1929 to 1966. He is best known for his portrayal of Red Ryder and for being the voice of the talking horse on the television series Mister Ed, from 1961 to 1966. Read more
22 Sep 1908: Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American author and illustrator (died 2002) Esphyr Solomonovna Slobodkina was a Russian-born American artist, author, and illustrator, best known for her classic children's picture book Caps for Sale. Slobodkina was a celebrated avant garde artist and feminist in the middle part of the 20th century. Read more
22 Sep 1907: Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and author (died 2003) Maurice Blanchot was a French writer, philosopher and literary theorist. His work, exploring a philosophy of death alongside poetic theories of meaning and sense, bore significant influence on post-structuralist philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy. Read more
22 Sep 1907: Philip Fotheringham-Parker, English race car driver (died 1981) Philip Fotheringham-Parker was a racing driver from England. Read more
22 Sep 1907: Hermann Schlichting, German engineer and academic (died 1982) Hermann Schlichting was a German fluid dynamics engineer. Read more
22 Sep 1906: Ilse Koch, German war criminal (died 1967) Margarete Ilse Koch was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was the commandant at Buchenwald. Though Ilse Koch had no official position in Nazi Germany, she became one of the most infamous Nazi figures at the war's end and was referred to as the "Kommandeuse of Buchenwald". Read more
22 Sep 1905: Haakon Lie, Norwegian lawyer and politician (died 2009) Haakon Steen Lie was a Norwegian politician who served as party secretary for the Norwegian Labour Party from 1945 to 1969. Coming from humble origins, he became involved in the labour movement at an early age, and quickly rose in the party system. After actively working for the resistance movement and the exiled government during World War II, he was elected to the second-highest position in the party after the war, and his years in office were the most successful in the party's history. Read more
22 Sep 1905: Eugen Sänger, Czech-Austrian engineer (died 1964) Eugen Sänger was an Austrian aerospace engineer best known for his contributions to lifting body and ramjet technology. Read more
22 Sep 1902: John Houseman, Romanian-American actor and producer (died 1988) John Houseman was a British-American theatre and film producer, actor, director, and teacher. He became known for his highly publicized collaboration with director Orson Welles from their days in the Federal Theatre Project through to the production of Citizen Kane. He enjoyed a distinguished career as an influential producer of both the stage and screen, and was the founding director of the drama department of the Juilliard School and co-founder of The Acting Company. Read more
22 Sep 1901: Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (died 1932) Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva was the second wife of Joseph Stalin. Read more
22 Sep 1901: Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997) Charles Brenton Huggins was a Canadian-American surgeon and physiologist known for his work on prostate function, prostate cancer, and breast cancer. Born in Halifax in 1901, Huggins moved to the United States for medical school. He was one of the founding staff members of the University of Chicago Medical School, where he remained for the duration of his professional research career. Huggins's work on how sex hormones influence prostate function ultimately led to his discovery of hormone therapies to treat prostate cancer. For this finding, he was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. In addition to his work on prostate cancer, Huggins explored the relationship between hormones and breast cancer, developed an animal model for breast cancer, and developed chromogenic substrates that are widely used for biochemical analyses. Huggins continued to perform research into his 90s; he died in Chicago in 1997. Read more
22 Sep 1900: Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and engineer (died 1985) Paul Hugh Emmett was an American chemist best known for his pioneering work in the field of catalysis and for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II. He spearheaded the research to separate isotopes of uranium and to develop a corrosive uranium gas. Emmett also made significant contributions to BET Theory which explains the relationship between surface area and gas adsorption. He served on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University for 23 years throughout his scientific career. Read more
22 Sep 1900: William Spratling, American-Mexican silversmith and educator (died 1967) William Spratling was an American architect, writer, artist, collector, and silver designer who established the Taller de Las Delicias in Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico, in 1931. Through the workshop, Spratling organized and expanded the production of handwrought silver, trained generations of Mexican silversmiths, and developed international markets for modern Taxco jewelry and decorative arts. Read more
22 Sep 1899: Elsie Allen, Native American Pomo basket weaver (died 1990) Elsie Comanche Allen was a Native American Pomo basket weaver from the Cloverdale Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California in Northern California. She is notable for historically categorizing and teaching Californian Indian basket patterns and techniques, as well as for sustaining traditional Pomo basketry as an art form. Read more
22 Sep 1897: Frank O'Connor, American actor, rancher, and painter (died 1979) Charles Francis O'Connor was an American actor, painter, and rancher and the husband of novelist Ayn Rand. Frank O'Connor performed in several films, typically as an extra, during the silent and early sound eras. While working on the set of the 1927 film The King of Kings, O'Connor met Rand, and they eventually dated each other steadily. They married in 1929. When O'Connor and Rand moved to California so Rand could work on the movie adaptation of her novel The Fountainhead, O'Connor purchased and managed a ranch in the San Fernando Valley for several years. In addition to raising numerous flora and fauna on the ranch, he there developed the Lipstick and Halloween hybrids of Delphinium and Gladiolus. Read more
22 Sep 1896: Uri Zvi Greenberg, Ukrainian-Israeli poet and journalist (died 1981) Uri Zvi Greenberg was an Israeli poet, journalist and politician who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew. Read more
22 Sep 1896: Henry Segrave, American-English race car driver (died 1930) Sir Henry O'Neal de Hane Segrave was an early British pioneer in land speed and water speed records. Segrave, who set three land and one water record, was the first person to hold both titles simultaneously and the first person to travel at over 200 miles per hour (320 km/h) in a land vehicle. He died in an accident in 1930 shortly after setting a new world water speed record on Windermere in the Lake District, England. The Segrave Trophy was established to commemorate his life. Read more
22 Sep 1895: Paul Muni, Ukrainian-born American actor (died 1967) Paul Muni was an American stage and film actor from Chicago. He started his acting career in the Yiddish theater and during the 1930s, he was considered one of the most prestigious actors at the Warner Bros. studio and was given the rare privilege of choosing his own parts. Read more
22 Sep 1894: Elisabeth Rethberg, German soprano (died 1976) Elisabeth Rethberg was a German operatic spinto soprano singer who was active from the period of the First World War through the early 1940s. After Richard Strauss assigned the role of the Empress in his Die Frau ohne Schatten to her at the Dresden Opera in 1919, she went on to perform as Verdi's Aida at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and La Scala in Milan, among others. She returned to Dresden often, including to appear in title role of Die ägyptische Helena in the world premiere. Read more
22 Sep 1892: Billy West, American actor, director, and producer (died 1975) Billy West was a silent film actor, producer, and director. Active during the silent film era, he is best known as the premier Charlie Chaplin impersonator. He was a star in his own right, appearing in more than 100 films for nine different companies. Beyond acting, he also directed short comedies in the 1910s and '20s, and produced films. West retired as an actor in 1935, when he was working in small roles for Columbia Pictures. In 1940 he resumed his career as a director, making three features for Monogram Pictures. He remained in Columbia's employ, behind the scenes, into the 1950s. Read more
22 Sep 1891: Alma Thomas, American painter and educator (died 1978) Alma Woodsey Thomas was an American artist and art teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century. She is the first African-American woman to be included in the White House's permanent art collection. Thomas is best known for the "exuberant", colorful, abstract paintings that she created after she retired from a 35-year career teaching art at Washington's Shaw Junior High School. Read more
22 Sep 1889: Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (died 1963) George August "Hooks" Dauss was an American professional baseball player from 1909 to 1926. He played 15 seasons of Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher for the Detroit Tigers from 1912 to 1926. He was given the nickname "Hooks", because his curveball was hard to hit. He compiled a career record of 223–182 with a 3.30 earned run average (ERA). His best years were 1915 when he had a 24–13 record, 1919 with a 21–9 record, and 1923 with a 21–13 record. Dauss's 223 wins are still the most for a pitcher in Tigers franchise history, and he is one of only 14 pitchers to record at least 200 wins all with one team. Read more
22 Sep 1887: Bhaurao Patil, Indian educator and activist (died 1959) Bhaurao Patil, was a social activist and educator in Maharashtra, India. A strong advocate of mass education, he founded the Rayat Education Society. Bhaurao played an important role in educating backward castes and low income people by coining the philosophy earn and learn. He was a prominent member of Satyashodhak Samaj, founded by Mahatma Jyotirao Phule. The people of Maharashtra honoured him with the sobriquet Karmaveer and the Government of India awarded him with Padma Bhushan in 1959 in India. Read more
22 Sep 1885: Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect and academic, designed the Stockholm Public Library (died 1940) Erik Gunnar Asplund was a Swedish architect, mostly known as a key representative of Nordic Classicism of the 1920s during the last decade of his life. At this time, he was a major proponent of the modernist style which made its breakthrough in Sweden at the Stockholm International Exhibition (1930). Asplund was professor of architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology from 1931. His appointment was marked by a lecture, later published under the title "Our architectonic concept of space." The Woodland Crematorium at Stockholm South Cemetery (1935–1940) is considered his finest work and one of the masterpieces of modern architecture. Read more
22 Sep 1885: Ben Chifley, Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1951) Joseph Benedict Chifley was the 16th prime minister of Australia, serving from 1945 to 1949. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), and was notable for defining Australia's post-war reconstruction efforts, enacting social and immigration reforms and advancing the nationalisation of critical industries. Read more
22 Sep 1885: Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1957) Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim was an Austrian-American director, screenwriter, actor and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era. His 1924 film Greed, originally over nine hours long, was edited against his wishes to about two-and-a-half hours; despite initial negative reception, the theatrical release is considered one of the greatest films ever made. After clashes with Hollywood studio bosses over budget and workers' rights problems, Stroheim found it difficult to find work as a director and subsequently became a well-respected character actor, particularly in French cinema. As an actor, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Max von Mayerling in Sunset Boulevard (1950). Read more
22 Sep 1883: Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (died 1932) Ferenc Oslay was a Hungarian-Slovene historian, writer, Trianon irredentist, and propagandist. Read more
22 Sep 1883: Frank George Woollard, English engineer (died 1957) Frank George Woollard was a British mechanical engineer who worked for nearly three decades in the British motor industry in various roles in design, production, and management. He was a pioneer in flow production, what is better known as the "Toyota Production System", but whose work has been forgotten. Read more
22 Sep 1882: Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal, head of the German armed forces (OKW), and convicted Nuremberg war criminal (died 1946) Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel was a German field marshal who held office as chief of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), the high command of Nazi Germany's armed forces, during World War II. He signed a number of criminal orders and directives that led to numerous war crimes. Read more
22 Sep 1880: Christabel Pankhurst, English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (died 1958) Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst was a British suffragette and Royalist born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and founder of The Suffragette newspaper, she directed militant actions from exile in France from 1912 to 1913. In 1914, she supported the war against Germany. After the war, she moved to the United States, where she worked as an evangelist for the Second Adventist movement. Read more
22 Sep 1878: Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese politician and diplomat, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (died 1967) Shigeru Yoshida was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1946 to 1947 and again from 1948 to 1954, serving through most of the country's occupation after World War II. Yoshida played a major role in determining the course of post-war Japan by forging a strong relationship with the United States and pursuing economic recovery. Read more
22 Sep 1876: André Tardieu, French journalist and politician, 67th Prime Minister of France (died 1945) André Pierre Gabriel Amédée Tardieu was three times Prime Minister of France and a dominant figure of French political life in 1929–1932. He was a moderate conservative with a strong intellectual reputation, but became a weak prime minister at the start of the worldwide Great Depression. Read more
22 Sep 1875: Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Lithuanian painter and composer (died 1911) Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was a Lithuanian composer, painter, choirmaster, cultural figure, and writer in Polish. Read more
22 Sep 1870: Charlotte Cooper, English-Scottish tennis player (died 1966) Charlotte "Chattie" Reinagle Cooper Sterry was an English female tennis player who won five singles titles at the Wimbledon Championships and in 1900 became Olympic champion. In winning in Paris on 11 July 1900, she became the first female Olympic tennis champion as well as the first individual female Olympic champion. Read more
22 Sep 1870: Arthur Pryor, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (died 1942) Arthur Willard Pryor was a trombone virtuoso, bandleader, and soloist with the Sousa Band. He was a prolific composer of band music, his best-known composition being "The Whistler and His Dog". In later life, he became a Democratic Party politician from New Jersey, who served on the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders during the 1930s. Read more
22 Sep 1868: Louise McKinney, Canadian educator and politician (died 1931) Louise McKinney was a Canadian politician, temperance advocate, and women's rights activist. She was the first woman elected into the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the first woman to serve in a legislature in the British Empire. She served in the Alberta legislature from 1917 to 1921 as a member of the Non-Partisan League. Later, she was one of the Famous Five who successfully campaigned for the right of Canadian women to be appointed to the Senate. A former schoolteacher and temperance organizer, she came to Alberta in 1903 as a homesteader. Read more
22 Sep 1862: Anastasios Charalambis, Greek lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1949) Anastasios Charalambis was a Greek Lieutenant General and interim Prime Minister of Greece for one day in 1922. Before retiring from the Army in 1918, Charalambis commanded the II Army Corps. He was previously an officer in the 6th and 1st Infantry Division serving during the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, the Second Balkan War, and the Greco-Turkish War of 1897. Read more
22 Sep 1841: Andrejs Pumpurs, Latvian soldier and poet (died 1902) Andrejs Pumpurs was a poet who penned the Latvian epic Lāčplēsis and a prominent figure in the Young Latvia movement. Working in the land before volunteering to fight in Serbia against the Ottoman Empire in 1876, he became a loyal officer in the Russian army and also a staunch promoter of the Latvian culture. Read more
22 Sep 1835: Alexander Potebnja, Ukrainian linguist and philosopher (died 1891) Alexander Afanasyevich Potebnja was a Russian Imperial and Ukrainian linguist, philosopher and pan-Slavist of Ukrainian Cossack descent, who was a professor of linguistics at the Imperial Kharkov University. He is well known as a specialist in the evolution of Russian phonetics. Read more
22 Sep 1833: John Quincy Adams II, American politician and grandson of President John Quincy Adams (died 1894) John Quincy Adams II was an American politician who represented Quincy in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1866 to 1867, 1868 to 1869, 1871 to 1872, and from 1874 to 1875. Read more
22 Sep 1833: Stephen D. Lee, American general and academic (died 1908) Stephen Dill Lee was an American officer in the Confederate Army, politician, and first president of Mississippi State University from 1880 to 1899. He served as lieutenant general of the Confederate States Army in the Eastern and Western theaters of the American Civil War. Read more
22 Sep 1829: Tự Đức, Vietnamese emperor (died 1883) Tự Đức was the fourth emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam, and the country's last pre-colonial monarch. Ruling for about 36 years from 1847 to 1883, this made him the longest reigning Nguyễn emperor. Read more
22 Sep 1819: Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian and academic (died 1897) Wilhelm Wattenbach, was a German historian. Read more
22 Sep 1806: Bernardino António Gomes, Portuguese physician and naturalist (died 1877) Bernardino António Gomes was a Portuguese medical doctor and scientist. He is perhaps most widely remembered for his pioneering work in Portugal in the field of anaesthesiology, as the first physician in the country to use chloroform in a surgical procedure ; he is also credited with the popularization of the use of creosote and of the first ether inhalers. Read more

Notable Deaths on 22 September

22 Sep 2024: Roy Clay, American computer scientist (born 1929) Roy Lee Clay Sr. was an African American computer scientist and inventor. He was a founding member of the computer division at Hewlett-Packard, where he led the team that created the HP 2116A 16-bit minicomputer. He was Chief Executive Officer of ROD-L Electronics, an electrical-safety test equipment manufacturer. Read more
22 Sep 2024: Fredric Jameson, American academic and literary critic (born 1934) Fredric Ruff Jameson was an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He was best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism. Jameson's best-known books include Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) and The Political Unconscious (1981). Read more
22 Sep 2023: Altemio Sanchez, Puerto Rican serial killer and rapist (born 1958) Altemio C. Sanchez, also known as the Bike Path Rapist, was a serial killer of Puerto Rican descent, who is known to have raped and murdered at least three women, and raped at least 9 to 15 girls and women in and around Buffalo, New York during a 31-year span from 1975, though perhaps earlier, until 2006. He was apprehended in 2007 through forensic DNA evidence and sentenced to 75 years-to-life, serving 16 years before dying from apparent suicide in 2023. Read more
22 Sep 2022: Hilary Mantel, British author (born 1952) Dame Hilary Mary Mantel was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories. Her first published novel, Every Day Is Mother's Day, was released in 1985. She went on to write 12 novels, two collections of short stories, a memoir, and numerous articles and opinion pieces. Read more
22 Sep 2022: Pal Singh Purewal, Punjabi engineer, author, scholar, and teacher (born 1931/1932) Pal Singh Purewal was a Punjabi engineer, author, scholar and a teacher. He was commonly known as the architect of the Mool Nanakshahi Calendar. He was also known as a role model in the Sikh community. He immigrated to the United Kingdom in 1965 and worked as a senior engineer at Texas Instruments. He moved to Canada in 1974. He has authored various research papers establishing the authenticity of the Sikh calendar since 1960s. Read more
22 Sep 2020: Neil Brannon, American politician (born 1940) Neil Brannon was an American politician who served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from the 3rd district from 2002 to 2010. Read more
22 Sep 2018: Chas Hodges, English musician and singer (born 1943) Charles Nicholas Hodges was an English musician and singer. He was the lead vocalist, pianist and guitarist of the musical duo Chas & Dave, whose most successful singles include "Rabbit" (1980) and "Ain't No Pleasing You" (1982). Earlier in his career, he was a member of Joe Meek-produced instrumental group the Outlaws and the country rock band Heads Hands & Feet. As a session musician, he backed Gene Vincent, Jerry Lee Lewis and Labi Siffre. Read more
22 Sep 2018: Edna Molewa, South African politician (born 1957) Bomo Edith Edna Molewa, formerly known as Edna Sethema, was a South African politician and member of the African National Congress. Molewa became the Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs of South Africa on 31 October 2010, as part of a cabinet reshuffle by President Jacob Zuma. On 25 May 2014 her Ministry has been divided and she was appointed Minister of Environmental Affairs. She succeeded Buyelwa Sonjica. Prior to her death, Molewa was studying towards a Bachelor's of Arts Honours in Developmental Studies through the University of South Africa. Read more
22 Sep 2016: Delphine Medjo, Cameroonian politician (born 1941) Delphine Medjo was a Cameroonian politician and educator. A member of the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement, she was elected to the Senate in 2013. Read more
22 Sep 2015: Yogi Berra, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1925) Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra was an American professional baseball catcher who later took on the roles of manager and coach. He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), all but the last for the New York Yankees. He was an 18-time All-Star and won 10 World Series championships as a player—more than any other player in MLB history. Berra had a career batting average of .285, while hitting 358 home runs and 1,430 runs batted in. He is one of only six players to win the American League (AL) Most Valuable Player Award three times. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest catchers in baseball history, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. Read more
22 Sep 2014: Fernando Cabrita, Portuguese footballer and manager (born 1923) Fernando da Silva Cabrita was a Portuguese football forward and manager. Read more
22 Sep 2014: Sahana Pradhan, Nepalese politician, Nepalese Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1927) Sahana Pradhan was a Nepalese politician from a Newar family in Kathmandu. She resigned as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nepal on April 16, 2008. She also served as Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal within the coalition government of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala from 2007 to 2008. Read more
22 Sep 2014: Erik van der Wurff, Dutch pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1945) Erik van der Wurff was a Dutch pianist, composer, arranger, record producer and conductor. He worked mainly on soundtracks and as a composer for many film and television shows. He also made acting appearances in two Dutch-German television shows in 1977 and 1980. He was the regular pianist and composer on the Herman van Veen shows. He composed music for many theater productions, musicals, movies and for the comic series Alfred Jodokus Kwak which was aired in various countries. Read more
22 Sep 2014: Hans E. Wallman, Swedish director, producer, and composer (born 1936) Hans Erik "Hasse" Wallman, was a Swedish entrepreneur, impresario, composer, director, author, producer and entertainment executive. At his own venues in Stockholm he has presented acts like the Beatles (1963), Rolling Stones and Lill-Babs. Read more
22 Sep 2013: Gary Brandner, American author and screenwriter (born 1930) Gary Phil Brandner was an American horror fiction author best known for his werewolf themed trilogy of novels, The Howling. The first book of the series was adapted loosely as a motion picture in 1981. Brandner's second and third Howling novels, published in 1979 and 1985 respectively, have no association with the film series, though he was involved with writing the screenplay for the second Howling film, Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf. The fourth film of the Howling series, Howling IV: The Original Nightmare, is actually the closest adaptation of Brandner's original novel, though this too varies to some degree. Read more
22 Sep 2013: Jane Connell, American actress and singer (born 1925) Jane Sperry Connell was an American actress and singer. Read more
22 Sep 2013: David H. Hubel, Canadian-American neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926) David Hunter Hubel was an American Canadian neurophysiologist noted for his studies of the structure and function of the visual cortex. He was co-recipient with Torsten Wiesel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system. For much of his career, Hubel worked as the Professor of Neurobiology at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Medical School. In 1978, Hubel and Wiesel were awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University. In 1983, Hubel received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. Read more
22 Sep 2013: Álvaro Mutis, Colombian-Mexican author and poet (born 1923) Álvaro Mutis Jaramillo was a Colombian poet, novelist, and essayist. His best-known work is the novel sequence The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll, which revolves around the character of Maqroll el Gaviero. He won the 1991 International Nonino Prize in Italy. He was awarded the 2001 Miguel de Cervantes Prize and the 2002 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Read more
22 Sep 2013: Hans Erich Slany, German industrial designer, founded TEAMS Design (born 1926) Hans Erich Slany was a German designer considered by many to have been the first industrial designer to design plastic housings for power tools. Slany is also thought of as one of the icons of design in Germany. He founded TEAMS Design GmbH, was a professor of Industrial Design (ID) for more than 20 years and helped found the Verband Deutscher Industrie Designer e. V. in 1959. He then helped the VDID with their entry into the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID). Read more
22 Sep 2013: Luciano Vincenzoni, Italian screenwriter (born 1926) Luciano Vincenzoni was an Italian screenwriter, known as the "script doctor". He wrote for some 65 films between 1954 and 2000. Read more
22 Sep 2012: Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan theorist and academic (born 1919) Hector Abhayavardhana was a Sri Lankan Trotskyist theoretician, a long-standing member of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) and a founder-member of the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India, Ceylon and Burma. Read more
22 Sep 2012: Irving Adler, American mathematician, author, and academic (born 1913) Irving Adler was an American author, mathematician, scientist, political activist, and educator. He was the author of 57 books about mathematics, science, and education, and the co-author of 30 more, for both children and adults. His books have been published in 31 countries in 19 different languages. Since his teenaged years, Adler was involved in social and political activities focused on civil rights, civil liberties, and peace, including his role as a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case Adler vs. Board of Education that bears his name. Read more
22 Sep 2012: Juan H. Cintrón García, Puerto Rican businessman and politician, 126th Mayor of Ponce (born 1919) Juan Herminio Cintrón García was a Puerto Rican politician and Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1968 to 1972. Under his administration the city of Ponce saw the construction of the Coliseo Juan "Pachín" Vicéns and the Centro Gubernamental de Ponce on Avenida Las Americas. Read more
22 Sep 2012: Grigory Frid, Russian pianist and composer (born 1915) Grigory Samuilovich Frid, also known as Grigori Fried, was a Russian composer of music written in many different genres, including chamber opera. Read more
22 Sep 2012: Jan Hendrik van den Berg, Dutch psychiatrist and academic (born 1914) Jan Hendrik van den Berg was a Dutch psychiatrist notable for his work in phenomenological psychotherapy and metabletics, or "psychology of historical change." He is the author of numerous articles and books, including A different existence and The changing nature of man. Read more
22 Sep 2011: Knut Steen, Norwegian sculptor (born 1924) Knut Steen was a Norwegian sculptor. Steen lived in Sandefjord for most of his life and dedicated works such as the Whaler's Monument to the city. Many of his sculptures may also be seen at Midtåsen Sculpture Park, a park dedicated to Steen at the former villa of Anders Jahre in Sandefjord. Read more
22 Sep 2010: Jackie Burroughs, British-born Canadian actress (born 1939) Jacqueline Burroughs was a Canadian actress. Burroughs starred in over 100 films and television shows over her career, including Heavy Metal, The Care Bears Movie, The Grey Fox, and Anne of Green Gables, and was best known for her role as Hetty King in the TV series Road to Avonlea. Read more
22 Sep 2010: Eddie Fisher, American singer (born 1928) Edwin Jack "Eddie" Fisher was an American singer and actor. Popular during the 1950s, he sold millions of records and hosted his own TV show, The Eddie Fisher Show. Fisher had multiple high-profile marriages, including with Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, and Connie Stevens. Read more
22 Sep 2010: Vyacheslav Tsaryov, Russian footballer (born 1971) Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovich Tsaryov was a Russian professional footballer. Read more
22 Sep 2009: Edward Delaney, Irish sculptor (born 1930) Edward Delaney was an Irish sculptor born in Claremorris in County Mayo in 1930. His best-known works include the 1967 statue of Wolfe Tone and famine memorial at the northeastern corner of St Stephen's Green in Dublin and the statue of Thomas Davis in College Green, opposite Trinity College Dublin. These are both examples of lost-wax bronze castings, his main technique during the 1960s and early 1970s. Read more
22 Sep 2008: Thomas Dörflein, German zookeeper (born 1963) Thomas Dörflein was a German zookeeper at the Berlin Zoological Garden for 26 years. After the baby polar bear Knut was abandoned by his mother shortly after his birth in 2006, Dörflein—who cared for both the zoo's wolves and the bears—was assigned as the cub's caretaker. As a result of the zoo's decision to raise Knut by hand, and the resultant close relationship between keeper and animal, Dörflein became a reluctant celebrity. Read more
22 Sep 2008: Petrus Schaesberg, German painter, historian, and educator (born 1967) Petrus Graf von Schaesberg was a German art historian, artist, editor, and teacher. Read more
22 Sep 2007: ʻAlí-Muhammad Varqá, last Hand of the Cause of God in the Baháʼí Faith (born 1911) ʻAlí-Muhammad Varqá was a prominent adherent of the Baháʼí Faith. He was the longest surviving Hand of the Cause of God, an appointed position in the Baháʼí Faith whose main function is to propagate and protect the religion on the international level. Read more
22 Sep 2007: Marcel Marceau, French mime and actor (born 1923) Marcel Marceau was a French mime artist and actor most famous for his stage persona, "Bip the Clown". He referred to mime as the "art of silence", performing professionally worldwide for more than 60 years. Read more
22 Sep 2006: Edward Albert, American actor (born 1951) Edward Laurence Albert was an American actor. The son of actor Eddie Albert and Mexican actress Margo, he starred opposite Goldie Hawn in Butterflies Are Free (1972), a role for which he won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. He was nominated for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Albert starred in more than 130 films and television series, including Midway, The Greek Tycoon, Galaxy of Terror, The House Where Evil Dwells, The Yellow Rose, Falcon Crest and Power Rangers Time Force. Read more
22 Sep 2006: Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player and educator (born 1950) Carla Ida Benschop-de Liefde was a Dutch basketball player. Read more
22 Sep 2004: Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (born 1927) Peter Kittilsby Schoening was an American mountaineer. Schoening was one of two Americans to first successfully climb the Pakistani peak Gasherbrum I in 1958, along with Andrew Kauffman, and was one of the first to summit Mount Vinson in Antarctica in 1966. Read more
22 Sep 2004: Ray Traylor Jr., American professional wrestler better-known as the Big Boss Man (born 1963) Ray Washington Traylor Jr. was an American professional wrestler best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) under the ring name (The) Big Boss Man, as well as for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as the Boss, the Man, the Guardian Angel, and Big Bubba Rogers. During his appearances with the WWF, Big Boss Man held the WWF World Tag Team Championship once and the WWF Hardcore Championship four times. Traylor was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2016. Read more
22 Sep 2003: Gordon Jump, American actor (born 1932) Alexander Gordon Jump was an American actor best known for playing Arthur "Big Guy" Carlson in the series WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–1982); he reprised the role in its spinoff The New WKRP in Cincinnati (1991–1993). He also played Chief Tinkler in the sitcom Soap (1977–1978) and Mr. Horton on a two-part episode of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes (1983). He appeared in Maytag commercials as the "Maytag repairman" from 1989 until he retired in 2003. Read more
22 Sep 2003: Hugo Young, English journalist and author (born 1938) Hugo John Smelter Young was a British journalist and columnist and senior political commentator at The Guardian. Read more
22 Sep 2002: Jan de Hartog, Dutch-American author and playwright (born 1914) Jan de Hartog was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker. Read more
22 Sep 2001: Isaac Stern, Polish-Ukrainian violinist and conductor (born 1920) Isaac Stern was an American violinist. Read more
22 Sep 2000: Saburō Sakai, Japanese lieutenant and pilot (born 1916) Saburō Sakai was a Japanese naval aviator and flying ace of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Sakai had 28 aerial victories, including shared ones, according to official Japanese records, though he and his ghostwriter Martin Caidin claimed much higher numbers. Read more
22 Sep 1999: George C. Scott, American actor, director, and producer (born 1927) George Campbell Scott was an American actor, with a celebrated career on both stage and screen. With a gruff demeanor and commanding presence, Scott became known for his portrayal of stern but complex authority figures. Read more
22 Sep 1996: Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Latvian-Canadian ballerina, choreographer, and director (born 1924) Ludmilla Chiriaeff was a Russian-Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher, and company director. Read more
22 Sep 1996: Dorothy Lamour, American actress and singer (born 1914) Dorothy Lamour was an American actress and singer. She is best remembered for having appeared in the Road to… movies, a series of successful comedies starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. Read more
22 Sep 1994: Leonard Feather, English-American pianist, composer, producer, and journalist (born 1914) Leonard Geoffrey Feather was a British-born jazz pianist, composer, and producer, who was best known for his music journalism and other writing. Read more
22 Sep 1993: Maurice Abravanel, Greek-American pianist and conductor (born 1903) Maurice Abravanel was an American classical music conductor. He is remembered as the conductor of the Utah Symphony for over 30 years. Read more
22 Sep 1992: Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (born 1948) Aurelio Alejandro López Rios was a Mexican professional baseball player. After pitching for several years in the Mexican League, he spent eleven seasons with four teams in Major League Baseball — a majority of it spent with the Detroit Tigers. He acquired the nickname "Señor Smoke" in Detroit, while he was known as "El Buitre de Tecamachalco" in Mexico. López was discovered in his hometown by Mexican League scouts and converted from a starting pitcher to a relief pitcher. Read more
22 Sep 1989: Ambrose Folorunsho Alli, Nigerian academic and politician (born 1929) Ambrose Folorunsho Alli was a Nigerian medical professor who served as Executive Governor of the defunct Nigerian state of Bendel State between 1979 and 1983. He was the first civilian governor. Read more
22 Sep 1989: Irving Berlin, Russian-born American composer and songwriter (born 1888) Irving Berlin was a Russian-born American songwriter and composer. His music forms a large part of the Great American Songbook. Berlin received numerous honors including an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and a Tony Award. He also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Gerald R. Ford in 1977. The broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite stated he "helped write the story of this country, capturing the best of who we are and the dreams that shape our lives". Read more
22 Sep 1988: Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani psychoanalyst, scholar, and poet (born 1914) Syed Muhammad Mahdi, commonly known as Rais Amrohvi, was a Pakistani Urdu poet, paranormal investigator and psychoanalyst. He was known for his style of qatanigari. He wrote quatrains for Pakistani newspaper Jang for several decade. He promoted the Urdu language and supported the Urdu-speaking people of Pakistan. His family is regarded as a family of poets. He was the elder brother of poet Jaun Elia. Read more
22 Sep 1987: Hákun Djurhuus, Faroese educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (born 1908) Hákun Djurhuus was the prime minister of the Faroe Islands from 1963 to 1967. He was born in Tórshavn. Read more
22 Sep 1987: Dan Rowan, American actor, comedian, and producer (born 1922) Daniel Hale Rowan was an American actor and comedian. He was featured in the television show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, in which he played straight man to Dick Martin and won the 1969 Emmy for Outstanding Variety or Musical Series. Read more
22 Sep 1981: Harry Warren, American composer and songwriter (born 1893) Harry Warren was an American composer and the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing "Lullaby of Broadway", "You'll Never Know" and "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe". He wrote the music for the first blockbuster film musical, 42nd Street, choreographed by Busby Berkeley, with whom he collaborated on many musical films. Read more
22 Sep 1979: Abul A'la Maududi, Pakistani theologian, Islamic scholar and jurist (born 1903) Abul A'la al-Maududi was an Islamic scholar and the author of Tafhim-ul-Quran, who was active in British India and later, following the partition, in Pakistan. Described by Wilfred Cantwell Smith as "the most systematic thinker of modern Islam", he authored numerous works, which "covered a range of disciplines such as Qur'anic exegesis, hadith, law, philosophy, and history". These were originally penned in Urdu, and later translated into a number of other languages, including English, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Burmese, and Malayalam. He sought to revive Islam, and, more specifically, to propagate what he understood to be "true Islam". He believed that this Islam was essential for the proper functioning of the national political order; this pivotal role provided his followers with their primary goal of bringing about the legal adoption of sharia. This was seen as entailing both the popular revival of an Islamic culture, mirroring traditional beliefs regarding widespread social norms and practices during the reigns of the Rashidun Caliphs, and the abandonment of immorality and what Maududi viewed as the modern evils of secularism, nationalism and socialism. He viewed these last three as foreign influences, the remnants of Western imperialism. Read more
22 Sep 1973: Paul van Zeeland, Belgian lawyer, economist, and politician, 38th Prime Minister of Belgium (born 1893) Paul Guillaume, Viscount van Zeeland was a Belgian lawyer, economist, Catholic politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Belgium from 1935 to 1937. Read more
22 Sep 1969: Adolfo López Mateos, Mexican politician, 48th President of Mexico (born 1909) Adolfo López Mateos was a centre-left Mexican politician and lawyer who served as President of Mexico from 1958 to 1964. Previously, he served as Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare from 1952 to 1957 and a Senator from the State of Mexico from 1946 to 1952. Read more
22 Sep 1961: Marion Davies, American actress and comedian (born 1897) Marion Davies was an American actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. Educated in a religious convent, Davies left the school to pursue a career as a chorus girl. As a teenager, she appeared in several Broadway musicals and one film, Runaway Romany (1917). She soon became a featured performer in the Ziegfeld Follies. While performing in the 1916 Follies, the nineteen-year-old Marion met the fifty-three-year-old newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst and became his mistress. Hearst took over management of Davies's career and promoted her as a film actress. Read more
22 Sep 1957: Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral (born 1885) Soemu Toyoda was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. Read more
22 Sep 1956: Frederick Soddy, English chemist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877) Frederick Soddy FRS was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements. In 1921, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes". Soddy was a polymath who mastered chemistry, nuclear physics, statistical mechanics, finance, and economics. Read more
22 Sep 1952: Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st President of Finland (born 1865) Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg was a Finnish jurist and academic who was one of the most important pioneers of republicanism in the country. He was the first president of Finland (1919–1925) and a liberal nationalist. Read more
22 Sep 1935: Elliott Lewis, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Tasmania (born 1858) Sir Neil Elliott Lewis, Australian politician, was Premier of Tasmania on three occasions. He was also a member of the first Australian federal ministry, led by Edmund Barton. Read more
22 Sep 1934: Cecil Chubb, English barrister and last private owner of Stonehenge (born 1876) Sir Cecil Herbert Edward Chubb, 1st Baronet, was the last private owner of Stonehenge prehistoric monument, Wiltshire, which he donated to the British government in 1918. Read more
22 Sep 1933: Sime Silverman, American journalist and newspaper publisher (born 1873) Simon J. Silverman was an American journalist and newspaper publisher. He was the founder of the weekly newspaper Variety in New York City in 1905, which gave theatre and vaudeville reviews and the Hollywood-based Daily Variety magazine in 1933, focusing on the emerging motion picture film industry. Read more
22 Sep 1919: Alajos Gáspár, Hungarian-Slovene author and poet (born 1848) Alajos Gáspár was a Hungarian Slovene writer. Read more
22 Sep 1917: John Henry Knight, English engineer (born 1847) John Henry Knight, from Farnham, was a wealthy engineer, landowner and inventor. With the help of the engineer George Parfitt he built one of Britain's first petrol-powered motor vehicles, Frederick Bremer of Walthamstow having built the first in 1892. On 17 October 1895, with his assistant James Pullinger, they drove through Farnham, Surrey, whereupon he was prosecuted for using a locomotive with neither a licence nor a man walking in front with a red flag. This is sometimes misreported as the first person to be convicted of speeding in the UK, but that sobriquet subsequently fell to Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, in January 1896. Read more
22 Sep 1914: Alain-Fournier, French soldier and author (born 1886) Henri-Alban Fournier, known by the pseudonym Alain-Fournier, was a French author and soldier. He was the author of a novel, Le Grand Meaulnes (1913), which has been filmed twice and is considered a classic of French literature. The book is based partly on his childhood. Read more
22 Sep 1881: Solomon L. Spink, American lawyer and politician (born 1831) Solomon Lewis Spink was an American politician. A Republican, he was a delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the Dakota Territory. Read more
22 Sep 1873: Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss lawyer and politician (born 1801) Friedrich Frey-Herosé was a Swiss politician. Read more
22 Sep 1872: Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer and linguist (born 1801) Vladimir Ivanovich Dal was a Russian lexicographer, speaker of many languages, Turkologist, and founding member of the Russian Geographical Society. During his lifetime, he compiled and documented Russian oral traditions, many of which became part of modern folklore. Read more
22 Sep 1862: Frederick Townsend Ward, American sailor and mercenary (born 1831) Frederick Townsend Ward was an American sailor and mercenary known for his military service in Imperial China during the Taiping Rebellion. He commanded the Ever Victorious Army, a joint Sino-foreign force, against the Taiping rebels. He remained in command of the Ever Victorious Army until his death in battle in 1862, after which leadership was taken over by Henry Andres Burgevine. Read more
22 Sep 1852: William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed Hammersmith Bridge (born 1783) William Tierney Clark FRS FRAS was an English civil engineer particularly associated with the design and construction of bridges. He was among the earliest designers of suspension bridges. Read more

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