September Birthdays Through History

September Birthdays

9/1/1791 :Lydia Sigourney, US author (“How to Be Happy”).
9/1/1854 :Engelbert Humperdinck, German opera composer.
9/1/1866 :James “Gentleman Jim” Corbett, prize fighter.
9/1/1875 :Edgar Rice Burroughs, author (“Tarzan”).
9/1/1907 :Walter Philip Reuther, labor leader and UAW president.
9/1/1922 :Melvin R. Laird, former US Defense Secretary.
9/1/1923 :Rocky Marciano, boxer.
9/1/1924 :Yvonne DeCarlo (Peggy Yvonne Middleton), actress.
9/1/1933 :Ann Richards, Texas Governor.
9/1/1933 :Conway Twitty (Harold Jenkins), singer.
9/1/1935 :Seiji Ozawa, Japanese orchestra conductor.
9/1/1939 :Lily Tomlin, comedian-actress.
9/1/1946 :Barry Gibb, singer.
9/1/1956 :Vinnie (Vincent) Johnson, basketball player.
9/1/1957 :Gloria Estefan, singer.
9/2/1726 :John Howard, British prison reformer.
9/2/1766 :James Forten, abolishionist.
9/2/1850 :Eugene Field, US poet.
9/2/1869 :Hiram Maxim, inventor of the auto muffler and firearm silencer.
9/2/1877 :Frederick Soddy, chemist.
9/2/1917 :Cleveland Amory, author and conservationist.
9/2/1918 :Allen Drury, author (“Advise and Consent”).
9/2/1931 :Alan K. Simpson, Wyoming Senator.
9/2/1937 :Peter Ueberroth, former Baseball Commissioner.
9/2/1948 :Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe, teacher aboard Challenger.
9/2/1948 :Terry Bradshaw, football player.
9/2/1951 :Mark Harmon, actor.
9/2/1952 :Jimmy Connors, tennis player.
9/2/1955 :Linda Purl, actress.
9/2/1960 :Eric Dickerson, football player.
9/2/1965 :Keanu Reeves, actor.
9/3/1596 :Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker.
9/3/1803 :Prudence Crandall, teacher.
9/3/1849 :Sara Orne Jewett.
9/3/1856 :Louis Sullivan, architect.
9/3/1860 :Edward Albert Filene, credit union founder.
9/3/1907 :Loren Eiseley.
9/3/1913 :Alan Ladd, actor.
9/3/1914 :Kitty Carlisle Hart, actress. (1915?)
9/3/1921 :Henry Bellmon, Oklahoma Governor.
9/3/1923 :Mort Walker (Mortimer Walker Addison), cartoonist (Beetle Bailey).
9/3/1926 :Alison Lurie, American novelist (“The War Between the Tates”).
9/3/1926 :Anne Jackson, actress.
9/3/1926 :Irene Papas, actress.
9/3/1927 :Hugh Sidey, “Time” magazine contributing editor.
9/3/1935 :Eileen Brennan, actress.
9/3/1940 :Pauline Collins, actress.
9/3/1942 :Al Jardine, Beach Boy.
9/3/1943 :Valerie Perrine, actress.
9/3/1965 :Charlie Sheen (Carlos Irwin Estevez), actor.
9/4/1768 :Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist and politician.
9/4/1803 :Sarah Childress Polk, wife of James Knox Polk.
9/4/1824 :Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer.
9/4/1846 :Daniel Hudson Burnham, US architect.
9/4/1892 :Darius Milhaud, composer.
9/4/1905 :Mary Renault.
9/4/1908 :Edward Dmytryk, film director.
9/4/1908 :Richard Wright, novelist and essayest.
9/4/1912 :Alexander Liberman, editor and painter.
9/4/1918 :Paul Harvey, radio news commentator.
9/4/1919 :Howard Morris, actor-comedian.
9/4/1920 :Craig Claiborne, cooking expert.
9/4/1926 :Donald Peterson, business executive.
9/4/1928 :Dick York, actor.
9/4/1931 :Mitzi Gaynor (Franchesca Mitzi Marlene de Charney von Gerber),
:dancer-actress.
9/4/1937 :Dawn Fraser, swimmer.
9/4/1944 :Jennifer Salt, actress.
9/4/1949 :Tom Watson, golfer.
9/4/1951 :Judith Ivey, actress.
9/4/1970 :Ione Skye, actress.
9/4/1972 :Danny Ponce.
9/5/1638 :King Louis XIV of France.
9/5/1735 :Johann Christian Bach, son of J.S. Bach.
9/5/1847 :Jesse Woodson James, outlaw.
9/5/1897 :Arthur Charles Nielsen, marketing research engineer.
9/5/1902 :Darryl Francis Zanuck, movie producer.
9/5/1905 :Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-born author.
9/5/1912 :John Cage, composer.
9/5/1921 :Jack Valenti, Motion Picture Association of America president.
9/5/1927 :Paul Volcker, former Federal Reserve Board Chairman.
9/5/1929 :Bob Newhart, comedian.
9/5/1935 :Carol Lawrence (Carol Maria Laraia), singer and actress.
9/5/1936 :John Claggett Danforth, Missouri Senator.
9/5/1939 :George Lazenby, actor.
9/5/1939 :William Devane, actor.
9/5/1940 :Raquel Welch, actress.
9/5/1950 :Cathy Lee Guisewite, cartoonist (“Cathy”).
9/5/1960 :Willie Gault, football player.
9/5/1969 :Dweezil Zappa.
9/6/1757 :The Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of US Revolution.
9/6/1766 :John Dalton, English chemist and physicist.
9/6/1860 :Jane Addams, pioneer social worker.
9/6/1869 :Felix Salten, novelist and playwright (“Bambi”).
9/6/1888 :Joseph P. Kennedy Sr, financier and diplomat.
9/6/1899 :Billy Rose (William S. Rosenberg), theatrical producer.
9/6/1915 :Franz Josef Strauss, minister president of Bavaria.
9/6/1924 :John Melcher, Montana Senator.
9/6/1937 :JoAnne Worley, comedian.
9/6/1944 :Roger Waters.
9/6/1944 :Swoosie Kurtz, actress.
9/6/1947 :Jane Curtin, actress.
9/7/1533 :Queen Elizabeth I of England.
9/7/1860 :Anna Mary “Grandma” Moses, primitive painter.
9/7/1867 :John Pierpont Morgan Jr, financier.
9/7/1885 :Elinor Wylie.
9/7/1887 :Edith Sitwell.
9/7/1900 :Taylor Caldwell, novelist.
9/7/1908 :Michael DeBakey, heart surgeon.
9/7/1909 :Elia Kazan (Elia Kazanjoglou), film director.
9/7/1913 :Anthony Quayle, actor and director.
9/7/1914 :James Van Allen, physicist and rocket developer.
9/7/1921 :Arthur Ferrante, pianist composer.
9/7/1924 :Daniel Ken Inouye, Hawaii Senator.
9/7/1936 :Charles Hardin (Harden?) “Buddy” Holly, rock ‘n’ roll pioneer.
9/7/1937 :John Philip Law, actor.
9/7/1942 :Richard Roundtree, actor.
9/7/1944 :Andy Bradford, stuntman.
9/7/1948 :Susan Blakely, actress.
9/7/1950 :Peggy Noonan, writer.
9/7/1951 :Chrissie Hynde, singer and songwriter.
9/7/1951 :Julie Kavner, actress.
9/7/1955 :Corbin Bernsen, actor.
9/7/1956 :Michael Feinstein, singer and pianist.
9/8/1157 :King Richard “the Lion Hearted” I of England.
9/8/1474 :Ludovico Ariosto.
9/8/1841 :Anton Dvorak, composer.
9/8/1863 :Jessica Wilcox Smith.
9/8/1873 :Alfred Jarry, French surrealist poet and playwright (“Ubu Roi”).
9/8/1873 :Max Reinhardt, film director. (9/9?)
9/8/1886 :Siegfried Sassoon, English poet and memoirist (“Memoirs of a
:Fox-Hunting Man”).
9/8/1897 :Jimmie Rogers, country music pioneer.
9/8/1900 :Claude Denson Pepper, Florida Congressman.
9/8/1911 :Euell Gibbons, natural-food writer (“Stalking the Wild
:Asparagus”).
9/8/1914 :Hillary Brooke, actress.
9/8/1922 :Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr, political activist.
9/8/1922 :Samuel R. Pierce Jr, former secretary of housing and urban
:development.
9/8/1922 :Sid Caesar, comedian.
9/8/1924 :Wendell Hampton Ford, Kentucky Senator.
9/8/1925 :Peter (Richard Henry) Sellers, actor.
9/8/1932 :Patsy Cline (Virginia Patterson Hensley), country music singer.
9/8/1937 :Barbara Frum, journalist.
9/8/1938 :Sam Nunn, Georgia Senator.
9/8/1945 :Rogie Vachon, hockey player.
9/8/1945 :Ron “Pigpen” McKernan.
9/8/1946 :Freddie Mercury, singer and musician.
9/8/1947 :Ann Beattie, author.
9/8/1954 :Marilyn (Williamson) Mims, opera singer.
9/8/1956 :Maurice Cheeks, basketball player.
9/8/1957 :Heather Thomas, actress.
9/9/1585 :Duc de Richelieu, French statesman and Roman Catholic cardinal.
9/9/1739 :Luigi Galvani, inventor of galvanized steel.
9/9/1754 :William Bligh, Captain of HMS Bounty.
9/9/1794 :William Lonsdale.
9/9/1828 :Leo Tolstoy, Russian author.
9/9/1873 :Max Reinhardt, film director. (9/8?)
9/9/1877 :Frank Chance, baseball player.
9/9/1887 :Alf (Alfred Mossman) Landon, Kansas Republican.
9/9/1890 :Colonel Harland (Harlan?) Sanders, of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame.
9/9/1900 :James Hilton, novelist (“Lost Horizon”).
9/9/1907 :Leon Edel.
9/9/1919 :James “Jimmy the Greek” Snyder (Demetrius George Synodinos),
:oddsmaker. (1923?)
9/9/1924 :Jane Greer, actress.
9/9/1925 :Cliff Robertson, actor.
9/9/1935 :Topol (Chaim Topol), actor.
9/9/1941 :John Thompson, college basketball coach.
9/9/1941 :Otis Redding, singer.
9/9/1943 :Joe Morgan, baseball player.
9/9/1946 :Billy Preston, singer and musician.
9/9/1949 :Joe Theisman, football player.
9/9/1951 :Michael Keaton (Michael Douglas), actor and comedian.
9/9/1951 :Tom Wopat, actor.
9/9/1952 :Angela Cartwright, actress.
9/9/1965 :Daniel Lewis Majerlee, basketball player.
9/9/1967 :BJ (Benjamin Roy) Armstrong, basketball player.
9/10/1713:John Needham, English scientist and clergyman.
9/10/1736:Carter Braxton, US revolutionary statesman.
9/10/1839:Isaac Kauffman Funk, Wagnalls’ publishing partner.
9/10/1855:Robert Koldewey, German archaeologist (excavator of Babylon).
9/10/1886:Hilda Doolittle (“H.D.”), American poet.
9/10/1890:Franz Werfel, Austrian author (“The Song of Bernadette”).
9/10/1892:Arthur Holley Compton, X-ray physicist.
9/10/1903:Cyril Connolly, English critic.
9/10/1914:Robert Wise, film director.
9/10/1928:Yma Sumac, singer.
9/10/1929:Arnold Daniel Palmer, golfer.
9/10/1934:Charles Bishop Kuralt, journalist.
9/10/1939:Greg Mullavey, actor.
9/10/1945:Jose Feliciano, singer.
9/10/1948:Bob Lanier, basketball star.
9/10/1948:Judy Geeson, actress.
9/10/1953:Amy Irving, actress.
9/10/1958:Jennifer Tilly, actress.
9/10/1963:Cap (Casper N.) Boso, football player.
9/11/1862:William Sydney Porter (a.k.a. O. Henry), US short story writer.
9/11/1885:David Herbert Lawrence, author (“Lady Chatterley’s Lover”).
9/11/1913:Paul “Bear” Bryant, University of Alabama football coach.
9/11/1917:Ferdinand Edralin Marcos, exhiled former Philippine president.
9/11/1924:Thomas Wade Landry, football coach.
9/11/1926:Alfred Slote, author.
9/11/1928:Earl Holliman, actor.
9/11/1928:William Xavier Kienzle, author.
9/11/1932:Bob Packwood, Oregon Senator.
9/11/1940:Brian DePalma, film director.
9/11/1943:Lola Falana, entertainer.
9/11/1962:Kristy McNichol, actress.
9/11/1964:Ellis Rena Burks, baseball player.
9/12/1486:Agrippa.
9/12/1818:Richard Gatling, inventor of the Gatling gun.
9/12/1829:Charles Dudley Warner, US newspaperman.
9/12/1880:Henry Louis Mencken, US critic.
9/12/1888:Maurice Chevalier, French entertainer.
9/12/1892:Alfred A. Knopf, publisher.
9/12/1906:Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer. (9/25?)
9/12/1913:James Cleveland “Jesse” Owens, US olympic athlete.
9/12/1920:Irene Dailey, actress.
9/12/1931:George Jones, singer.
9/12/1940:Linda Gray, actress (“Dallas”).
9/12/1940:Michael Stephen Lolich, baseball player.
9/12/1943:Maria Muldaur, singer.
9/12/1944:Barry White, singer.
9/12/1954:Peter Scolari, actor.
9/12/1959:Deron Leigh Cherry, football player.
9/12/1966:Timothy Duane Hardaway, basketball player.
9/13/1766:Samuel Wilson (“Uncle Sam”).
9/13/1851:Walter Reed, US Army physician (known for yellow fever work).
9/13/1857:Milton Hershey, candy maker.
9/13/1860:General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing, hero of World War I.
9/13/1876:Sherwood Anderson, US author (“Winesburg Ohio”).
9/13/1894:J.B. Priestley, English critic, playwright, and novelist (“Lost
:Empires”).
9/13/1905:Claudette Colbert (Claudette Chauchoin), actress.
9/13/1916:Roald Dahl, author (“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”).
9/13/1925:Mel Torme, singer.
9/13/1928:Ernest L. Boyer, educator.
9/13/1928:Robert Indiana, artist.
9/13/1937:Fred Silverman, TV producer.
9/13/1938:John Smith, British Labor Party leader.
9/13/1938:Judith Martin, “Miss Manners.”
9/13/1939:Larry Speakes, former White House spokesman.
9/13/1944:Jacqueline Bisset, actress (“Rich and Famous”).
9/13/1944:Peter Cetera, singer and songwriter.
9/13/1948:Nell Carter, actress.
9/13/1964:Faith Ford, actress.
9/14/1769:Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt, scientist.
9/14/1791:Franz Bopp, comparative linguistics founder.
9/14/1849:Ivan Pavlov.
9/14/1879:Margaret (Higgins) Sanger, founder of US birth control movement.
9/14/1914:Clayton Moore, actor (“The Lone Ranger”).
9/14/1921:Hughes Rudd, TV newscaster.
9/14/1930:Allan Bloom, author.
9/14/1933:Zoe Caldwell, actress.
9/14/1934:Kate (Katherine Murray) Millett, feminist author.
9/14/1938:Nicol Williamson, actor.
9/14/1942:John F. Lehman, former US Navy Secretary.
9/14/1944:Joey Heatherton, actress and singer.
9/14/1959:Mary Crosby, actress.
9/15/1613:Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French aphorist.
9/15/1789:James Fenimore Cooper, novelist.
9/15/1857:William Howard Taft, 27th US president.
9/15/1889:Robert Benchley.
9/15/1890:Agatha Christie, English mystery writer.
9/15/1903:Roy Acuff, country music singer-songwriter.
9/15/1922:Jackie Cooper, actor and director.
9/15/1926:Bobby Short (Robert Waltrip), pianist.
9/15/1926:Edward J. Derwinski, US Secretary of Vetrans Affairs.
9/15/1927:Norm Crosby, comedian.
9/15/1928:Julian (Cannonball) Adderly, jazz saxophonist.
9/15/1938:Gaylord Perry, baseball player.
9/15/1940:Merlin Olsen, actor and sportscaster.
9/15/1945:Jessye Norman, opera singer.
9/15/1946:Oliver Stone, movie director.
9/15/1946:Tommy Lee Jones, actor.
9/15/1960:Joe Morris, football player.
9/15/1961:Dan Marino, football player.
9/15/1962:Ernest Byner, football player.
9/15/1966:Sherman Douglas, basketball player.
9/15/1984:Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales.
9/16/1387:Henry V, of England.
9/16/1797:Anthony Panizzi, only librarian hanged in effigy.
9/16/1823:Francis Parkman, US historian and author (“The Oregon Trail”).
9/16/1838:James Jerome Hill, railroad magnate.
9/16/1875:James Cash Penney, department store founder.
9/16/1888:Walter Bentley, British car designer.
9/16/1914:Allen Funt, “Candid Camera” creator.
9/16/1924:Lauren Bacall (Betty Joan Perske), actress.
9/16/1925:B.B. King, blues singer.
9/16/1925:Charles Haughey, former prime minister of Ireland.
9/16/1925:Charlie Byrd, musician.
9/16/1926:John Knowles, American novelist (“A Separate Peace”).
9/16/1926:Rev. Robert Schuller, clergyman and author.
9/16/1927:Peter Falk, actor (“Columbo”).
9/16/1929:Stan Stephens, Montana Governor.
9/16/1949:Ed Begley Jr, actor.
9/16/1955:Robin Yount, baseball player.
9/16/1958:Orel Leonard Hershiser IV, baseball player.
9/16/1959:Timothy Raines, baseball player.
9/16/1963:Richard Marx, singer.
9/17/1764:John Goodricke, German astronomer.
9/17/1819:Thomas Andrews Hendricks, 21st US vice president.
9/17/1879:Andrew (Rube) Foster, “The Father of Negro Baseball”.
9/17/1883:William Carlos Williams, poet.
9/17/1890:Gabriel Heatter, 1940s radio news commentator.
9/17/1907:Warren Earl Burger, former US Chief Justice.
9/17/1918:Chaim Herzog, president of Israel.
9/17/1923:Hank Williams Sr (Hiram King Williams), country music pioneer.
9/17/1928:Roddy McDowall, actor.
9/17/1931:Anne Bancroft (Anna Maria Italiano), actress.
9/17/1933:Charles Ernest Grassley, Iowa Senator.
9/17/1933:Dorothy Loudon, actress.
9/17/1935:Ken Kesey, author.
9/17/1938:Paul Benedict, actor.
9/17/1939:David Souter, US Supreme Court Justice.
9/17/1945:Phil Jackson, basketball coach.
9/17/1947:Jeff MacNelly, cartoonist (“Shoe”).
9/17/1948:John Ritter, actor.
9/17/1951:Cassandra Peterson, actress (“Elvira”).
9/17/1955:Rita Rudner, comic.
9/17/1960:Anthony Carter, football player.
9/17/1965:Kyle Chandler, actor.
9/18/1709:Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (wrote first English dictionary).
9/18/1733:George Read, signer of US Declaration of Independence.
9/18/1779:Joseph Story, US Supreme Court Justice.
9/18/1819:Jean Foucault, French physicist (inventor of the gyroscope).
9/18/1895:John Diefenbaker, Canadian lawyer and prime minister.
9/18/1905:Greta Garbo (Greta Lovisa Gustaffson), actress.
9/18/1916:Rossano Brazzi, actor.
9/18/1920:Jack Warden, actor.
9/18/1924:Zelda Fichandler, theater producer.
9/18/1933:Robert Blake (Michael Gubitosi), actor.
9/18/1940:Frankie Avalon, singer.
9/18/1959:Ryne Sandberg, baseball player.
9/18/1964:Holly Robinson, actress.
9/19/1478:Mona Lisa.
9/19/1655:Jan Luyts, Dutch scholar and physicist.
9/19/1737:Charles Carroll, signer of US Declaration of Independence.
9/19/1778:Henry Peter Brougham, Scotch jurist.
9/19/1802:Louis Kossuth.
9/19/1867:Arthur Rackham.
9/19/1879:Irvin Westheimer, founder of the “Big Brothers” movement.
9/19/1894:Rachel Field.
9/19/1905:Leon Jaworski, Watergate prosecutor.
9/19/1907:Lewis Franklin Powell Jr, retired US Supreme Court Justice.
9/19/1911:William Golding, author (“Lord of the Flies”).
9/19/1912:Clifton Daniel, former New York Times Managing Editor.
9/19/1920:Roger Angell, author.
9/19/1926:Duke Snider, baseball player.
9/19/1927:Harold Brown, former US Secretary of Defense.
9/19/1929:Adam West, actor (“Batman”). (1928?)
9/19/1930:Rosemary Harris, actress.
9/19/1932:Mike Royko, journalist and author.
9/19/1933:David McCallum, actor.
9/19/1940:Paul Williams, singer-songwriter.
9/19/1945:Jane Blalock, golfer.
9/19/1945:Randolph Mantooth, actor.
9/19/1948:Jeremy Irons, actor.
9/19/1949:Twiggy Lawson (Leslie Hornby), model-actress.
9/19/1950:Joan Lunden (Blunden), “Good Morning America” co-host.
9/19/1958:Kevin Hooks, actor.
9/19/1967:Jim Abbott, baseball player.
9/20/1878:Upton (Beall) Sinclair, novelist (“The Jungle”).
9/20/1884:Maxwell Perkins.
9/20/1885:Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton, jazz musician. (1890?)
9/20/1886:Sister Elizabeth Kenny, Australian nurse (pioneered the treatment
:of polio victims).
9/20/1902:Stevie Smith.
9/20/1917:Arnold “Red” Auerbach, basketball coach.
9/20/1924:Gogi Grant, singer.
9/20/1924:James Galanos, fashion designer.
9/20/1928:Donald A. Hall, author.
9/20/1929:Anne Meara, actress and comedienne. (1924?)
9/20/1934:Sophia Loren, actress.
9/20/1951:Guy LaFleur, hockey player.
9/20/1970:Gunnar Nelson, singer.
9/20/1970:Matthew Nelson, singer.
9/21/1452:Fra Girolamo Savonarola, Florentine demagogue.
9/21/1645:Louis Jolliet, French-Canadian explorer of Mississippi River.
9/21/1788:Margaret Smith Taylor, wife of Zachary Taylor..
9/21/1866:Herbert George Wells, author-historian (“The Time Machine”).
9/21/1874:Gustav Holst, composer.
9/21/1902:Sir Allen Lane, British publisher (pioneered paperback book).
9/21/1912:Chuck Jones, cartoon animator.
9/21/1931:Larry Hagman, actor.
9/21/1934:Leonard Cohen, singer and songwriter.
9/21/1935:Henry Gibson, actor and comedian.
9/21/1940:Bill Kurtis, newscaster.
9/21/1941:James Woolsey, CIA Director.
9/21/1944:Fannie Flagg, author and comedian.
9/21/1944:Hamilton Jordan, former White House chief of staff.
9/21/1947:Stephen King, author.
9/21/1949:Artis Gilmore, basketball player.
9/21/1950:Bill Murray, comedian.
9/21/1957:Sidney Moncrief, basketball player.
9/21/1959:Dave Coulier, actor.
9/21/1963:Cecil Grant Fielder, baseball player.
9/21/1968:Ricki Lake, actress.
9/21/1971:Alfonso Ribeiro, actor.
9/22/1290:Bilbo Baggins (in Shire Reckoning).
9/22/1368:Frodo Baggins (in Shire Reckoning).
9/22/1694:Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield and statesman.
9/22/1711:Thomas Wright, philosopher.
9/22/1791:Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist.
9/22/1885:Eric Von Stroheim, film director and actor.
9/22/1892:Frank Sullivan, humorist.
9/22/1895:Paul Muni, actor.
9/22/1902:John Houseman, producer-actor.
9/22/1914:Martha Scott, actress.
9/22/1927:Tommy Lasorda, baseball player and manager.
9/22/1928:Eugene Roche, actor.
9/22/1939:Mike Sullivan, Wyoming Governor.
9/22/1939:Timothy E. Wirth, Colorado Senator.
9/22/1948:Captain Mark Phillips, ex-husband of Princess Anne of England.
9/22/1954:Shari Belafonte-Harper, actress.
9/22/1956:Debbie Boone, singer.
9/22/1959:Wally (Walter Wayne) Backman, baseball player.
9/22/1960:Joan Jett, singer and musician.
9/22/1961:Catherine Oxenberg, actress.
9/22/1961:Scott Baio, actor.
9/22/1962:Martin Crowe, New Zealand cricketer.
9/23/-480:Euripides, Greek dramatist.
9/23/-63 :Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar, Roman emperor.
9/23/1713:Ferdinand VI of Spain.
9/23/1800:William Holmes McGuffey, author (“McGuffey Readers”).
9/23/1838:Victoria Chaflin Woodhull, first female candidate for president.
9/23/1852:William Halsted, pioneering surgeon (hernia and breast cancer
:operations).
9/23/1889:Walter Lippmann, journalist.
9/23/1898:Walter Pidgeon, actor. (1897?)
9/23/1920:Mickey Rooney (Joe Yule Jr), actor.
9/23/1926:John Coltrane, jazz musician.
9/23/1930:Ray Charles (Robinson), singer-pianist.
9/23/1935:Les McCann, musician and singer.
9/23/1943:Julio Jose Iglesias de la Cueva, singer.
9/23/1947:Mary Kay Place, writer and actress.
9/23/1949:Bruce Springsteen, rock star.
9/23/1952:Dennis Lamp, baseball player.
9/23/1958:Larry Mize, golfer.
9/23/1966:Tony Joseph Mandarich, football player.
9/24/1717:Horace Walpole, novelist.
9/24/1755:John Marshall, fourth chief justice of the US.
9/24/1870:Georges Claude, French chemist and inventor of the neon lamp.
9/24/1896:Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, novelist (“The Great Gatsby”).
9/24/1921:Jim McKay, sports announcer.
9/24/1924:Sheila MacRae, singer and actress. (1923?)
9/24/1931:Anthony Newley, actor and singer.
9/24/1936:Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets.
9/24/1942:Linda McCartney (Linda Eastman), singer-photographer.
9/24/1947:”Mean” Joe Green, football player.
9/24/1952:Joseph Kennedy II, Massachusetts congressman.
9/24/1964:Rafael Corrales Palmeiro, baseball player.
9/25/1683:Jean Phillippe Rameau, French composer and musical theorist.
9/25/1749:Abraham Gottlob Werner, geologist.
9/25/1798:Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Leonce Elie de Beaumont, geologist.
9/25/1897:William Faulkner, novelist.
9/25/1905:Walter Wesley “Red” Smith, sports columnist.
9/25/1906:Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer. (9/12?)
9/25/1918:Phil Rizzuto, New York Yankee broadcaster.
9/25/1931:Barbara Walters, TV reporter.
9/25/1936:Juliet Prowse, dancer and actress.
9/25/1943:Robert Walden, actor.
9/25/1944:Michael Douglas, actor-director.
9/25/1952:Christopher Reeve, actor.
9/25/1952:Mark Hamill, actor.
9/25/1962:Heather Locklear, actress.
9/25/1968:Will Smith.
9/26/1774:John Chapman (a.k.a. Johnny Appleseed), frontier nurseryman.
9/26/1888:Thomas Stearns Eliot, poet.
9/26/1889:Martin Heidegger, German philosopher.
9/26/1897:Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini).
9/26/1898:George Gershwin, composer (“Porgy and Bess”).
9/26/1914:Jack LaLanne, fitness expert.
9/26/1923:J.S. Borthwick.
9/26/1925:Marty Robbins, country singer.
9/26/1926:Julie London, singer-actress.
9/26/1927:Patrick O’Neal, actor.
9/26/1942:Kent McCord, actor.
9/26/1945:Bryan Ferry, singer and songwriter.
9/26/1947:Lynn Anderson, singer.
9/26/1948:Olivia Newton-John, pop singer.
9/26/1956:Linda Hamilton, actress.
9/26/1959:Rich Gedman, baseball player.
9/26/1961:Teddy Kennedy Jr.
9/26/1962:Melissa Sue Anderson, actress.
9/26/1985:Shamu, first killer whale born in captivity.
9/27/1722:Samuel Adams, US patriot and brewer.
9/27/1792:George Cruikshank, English illustrator (Dickens’ books).
9/27/1840:Thomas Nast, political cartoonist.
9/27/1885:Joseph McCarthy, composer (“You Made Me Love You”).
9/27/1895:George Raft, actor.
9/27/1898:Vincent Youmans, composer (“Tea for Two”).
9/27/1917:Louis Auchincloss, novelist.
9/27/1919:Charles Percy, former Illinois Senator.
9/27/1920:William Conrad, actor.
9/27/1922:Arthur Heller Penn, stage and film director.
9/27/1926:Jayne Meadows, actress.
9/27/1929:Sada Thompson, actress.
9/27/1933:Kathleen Nolan, actress.
9/27/1934:Barbara Howar, author.
9/27/1934:Dick Schaap, sportscaster.
9/27/1934:Greg Morris, actor.
9/27/1934:Wilfred Brimley, actor.
9/27/1936:Don Cornelius.
9/27/1947:Cheryl Tiegs, model.
9/27/1948:Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday), singer. (1947?)
9/27/1949:Mike Schmidt, baseball player.
9/27/1958:Shaun Cassidy, actor. (1959?)
9/27/1965:Stephen Douglas Kerr, basketball player.
9/28/-551:Confucius. (8/27?)
9/28/-106:Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) the Great, Roman statesman and
:military commander.
9/28/1475:Michelangelo Buanarroti, Italian painter and sculpter.
9/28/1803:Prosper Merimee, writer (“Carmen”).
9/28/1839:Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard, founder of Women’s Christian
:Temperance Union.
9/28/1841:Georges Clemenceau, French Premier.
9/28/1856:Kate Douglas Wiggin, author (“Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm”).
9/28/1901:William Samuel Paley, CBS founder.
9/28/1902:Ed Sullivan, TV emcee.
9/28/1909:Al Capp (Alfred Gerald Caplin), cartoonist (“Li’l Abner”).
9/28/1923:William Windom, actor.
9/28/1924:Marcello Mastroianni, actor.
9/28/1925:Seymore R. Cray, computer designer.
9/28/1926:Jerry Clower, comedian.
9/28/1933:Madeleine M. Kunin, Vermont Governor.
9/28/1934:Brigitte Bardot (Camille Javal), actress.
9/28/1938:Ben E. King, singer.
9/28/1940:George Greenstein.
9/28/1954:Steve Largent, football player.
9/28/1963:Johnny Earl Dawkins Jr, basketball player.
9/28/1967:Moon Unit Zappa, daughter of Frank Zappa.
9/29/1547:Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (“Don Quixote”).
9/29/1758:Horatio Nelson, British naval commander.
9/29/1810:Elizabeth Gaskell.
9/29/1864:Miguel de Unamuno.
9/29/1901:Enrico Fermi, pioneer nuclear physicist.
9/29/1907:Gene Autry, singing cowboy and baseball magnate.
9/29/1908:Greer Garson, actress.
9/29/1912:Michelangelo Antonioni, movie director.
9/29/1913:Stanley Kramer, film director.
9/29/1923:Bum Phillips, football coach.
9/29/1925:John Tower, former US Senator.
9/29/1931:Anita Ekberg, actress.
9/29/1935:Jerry Lee Lewis, rock ‘n’ roll pioneer.
9/29/1939:Larry Linville, actor.
9/29/1942:Madeline Kahn, actress.
9/29/1943:Lech Walesa, union leader and political activist.
9/29/1948:Bryant Gumbel, TV host.
9/29/1965:Hersey R. Hawkins Jr, basketball player.
9/29/1966:Jill Whelan.
9/30/1732:Jacques Necker, French banker and statesman.
9/30/1882:Hans Geiger, German physicist (co-inventor of Geiger counter).
9/30/1895:Lewis Milestone, film director (“All Quiet on the Western Front”).
9/30/1915:Lester Garfield Maddox, former Georgia Governor.
9/30/1921:Deborah Kerr (Deborah Kerr-Trimmer), actress.
9/30/1924:Truman Capote (Truman Streckfus Persons), novelist (“In Cold
:Blood”).
9/30/1927:William S. Merwin.
9/30/1928:Elie Wiesel, author.
9/30/1932:Angie Dickinson (Angeline Brown), actress.
9/30/1935:Johnny Mathis, singer.
9/30/1936:James Ralph Sasser, Tennessee Senator.
9/30/1943:Jody Powell, former White House Press Secretary.
9/30/1943:Marilyn McCoo, singer and actress.
9/30/1947:Rula Lenska, actress.
9/30/1953:Deborah Allen, singer.
9/30/1953:Victoria Tennant, actress.