Born on Friday, 12th September – Famous Birthdays

12/09/2001

Ziaire Williams, American basketball player

Ziaire Williams Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Stanford Cardinal.

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12/09/1999

Jerome Ford, American football player

Jerome Ford is an American professional football running back for the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide and Cincinnati Bearcats and was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round of the 2022 NFL draft.

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12/09/1997

Sydney Sweeney, American actress

Sydney Bernice Sweeney is an American actress. She gained early recognition for her roles in Everything Sucks!, The Handmaid's Tale, and Sharp Objects in 2018. She received wider acclaim for her performances in the drama series Euphoria (2019–present) and the first season of the anthology series The White Lotus (2021), both of which earned her nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards.

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Almida de Val, Swedish curler

Almida Winquist de Val is a Swedish curler from Sundbyberg. She currently plays third and is vice skip on Team Isabella Wranå, also known as Team Panthera. With this team, she won a gold medal at the 2017 World Junior Curling Championships. Partering with Oskar Eriksson, she is the bronze medalist in 2022 Winter Olympics in mixed doubles curling.

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12/09/1996

Colin Ford, American actor

Colin Lee Ford is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Josh Wheeler in Daybreak; Joe McAlister in Under the Dome; the voice of Jake on Jake and the Never Land Pirates; Mikey on Can You Teach My Alligator Manners?, which earned him a Young Artist Award; young Sam Winchester in Supernatural; and Dylan Mee in the family film We Bought a Zoo.

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12/09/1995

Steven Gardiner, Bahamian sprinter

Steven Gardiner is a Bahamian track and field sprinter competing in the 400 metres and 200 metres. He is the 2020 Olympic and 2019 world champion in the 400 m, and also won the silver medal at the 2017 World Championships in that event. His winning time of 43.48 s from the 2019 World Championships is the Bahamian record and makes him the eighth‑fastest man in the history of the event. Gardiner also owns the Bahamian records in the outdoor 300 m and 200 m, with times of 31.83 s and 19.75 s respectively, and the world best in the indoor 300 m at 31.56 s.

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12/09/1994

Druski, American comedian and actor

Drew Desbordes, known professionally as Druski, is an American comedian, actor, and influencer. He is known for his sketch comedy, Coulda Been Records, and collaborations with various musicians in their music videos, including Jack Harlow, Drake, Lil Yachty, and others.

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RM, South Korean rapper, songwriter and record producer

Kim Nam-joon, known professionally as RM, is a South Korean rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He is the leader of South Korean boy band BTS, under Big Hit Music. Born in Seoul and raised in Ilsan, RM began his music career in the underground Korean hip-hop scene as a teenager, going by the name Runch Randa. He joined Big Hit in 2010, and debuted as part of BTS in June 2013.

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Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis player

Elina Svitolina is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She has career-high rankings of world No. 3 in singles and No. 108 in doubles by the WTA. Svitolina has won 19 WTA Tour singles titles, including the 2018 WTA Finals and four Premier 5-level tournaments, and has reached four major semifinals.

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12/09/1993

Kelsea Ballerini, American country pop singer

Kelsea Nicole Ballerini is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. A five-time Grammy Award nominee, she began having success in the 2010s, being honored with the Gene Weed Milestone Award at the Academy of Country Music Awards and the Rising Star Award at the Billboard Women in Music.

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12/09/1992

Alexia Fast, Canadian actress

Alexia Fast is a Canadian actress who began her career at the age of seven when she wrote, directed and starred in the short film The Red Bridge, which premiered at the 2002 Atlantic and Reel to Reel Film Festivals. She obtained her first agent at the age of 11 and starred in her first feature film, Fido (2006), at 13.

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Sviatlana Pirazhenka, Belarusian tennis player

Sviatlana Aliaksandrauna Pirazhenka is a Belarusian former tennis player.

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12/09/1991

Mike Towell, Scottish professional boxer (died 2016)

Mike Towell was a Scottish professional boxer.

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Scott Wootton, English footballer

Scott James Wootton is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for Perth Glory in the A-League.

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12/09/1989

Freddie Freeman, American-Canadian baseball player

Frederick Charles Freeman is a Canadian and American professional baseball first baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Freeman made his MLB debut with the Atlanta Braves in 2010 and played with them for 12 seasons. After the Braves won the 2021 World Series over the Houston Astros, Freeman entered free agency and signed a six-year, $162 million contract with the Dodgers.

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Andrew Luck, American football player

Andrew Austen Luck is an American football executive and former professional quarterback who is the general manager of the Stanford Cardinal football team. He previously played in the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons with the Indianapolis Colts. Considered one of the best draft prospects in NFL history during his college football career with Stanford, Luck won the Maxwell, Walter Camp, and Johnny Unitas Golden Arm awards in 2011. He was selected by the Colts first overall in the 2012 NFL draft.

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12/09/1988

Amanda Jenssen, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist

Jenny Amanda Katarina Jenssen is a Swedish singer and songwriter who first rose to prominence as the Swedish Idol 2007 runner-up. Her first album, Killing My Darlings (2008), became one of that year's best-selling albums in Sweden, peaking at number 1 on the Swedish album chart. She also had success with her music singles, with seven individual placements on the Swedish singles chart.

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Guðmundur Ari Sigurjónsson, Icelandic politician

Guðmundur Ari Sigurjónsson is an Icelandic politician and member of the Althing. A member of the Social Democratic Alliance, he has represented the Southwest constituency since November 2024.

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12/09/1986

Alfie Allen, English actor

Alfie Evan Allen is an English actor. He portrayed Theon Greyjoy on all eight seasons of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2019. In film, he is best known for his starring roles in John Wick (2014), The Predator (2018), and Jojo Rabbit (2019).

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Joanne Jackson, English swimmer

Joanne Amy Jackson is an English freestyle swimmer. She is the sister of retired Olympic swimmer Nicola Jackson. She was born in Northallerton and went to Richmond School, North Yorkshire.

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Yuto Nagatomo, Japanese footballer

Yūto Nagatomo is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a full back for J1 League club FC Tokyo and the Japan national team.

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Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter

Dimítrios Régas, in Lesbos (Mytilini) island, is a Greek sprint athlete.

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Emmy Rossum, American singer and actress

Emmanuelle Grey Rossum is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Her accolades include a Saturn Award and Critics' Choice Award, with nominations for a Golden Globe Award and an Independent Spirit Award.

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12/09/1984

Nashat Akram, Iraqi footballer

Nashat Akram Abid Ali Al-Eissa is an Iraqi former professional footballer. Popularly dubbed "The Maestro", he usually played as a playmaker or as an attacking midfielder and was known for his exceptional vision and excellent passing ability, as well as his ability to score goals from long range.

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Chelsea Carey, Canadian curler

Chelsea Danielle Carey is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. She currently skips her own team out of Manitoba. She is the 2016 and 2019 Canadian and Alberta women's champion skip and 2014 Manitoba provincial women's champion skip. She currently coaches the Beth Peterson rink.

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Petra Marklund, Swedish singer

Petra Linnea Paula Marklund, known also by her previous stage name September, is a Swedish singer, songwriter, and television presenter. Marklund started recording in professional studios around the age of twelve, and first came to the attention of the music scene with September's debut single "La La La " in 2003, released from her studio album September (2004).

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12/09/1983

Tom Geißler, German footballer

Tom Geißler is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Daniel Muir, American football player

Daniel Travanti Muir is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He was signed by the Green Bay Packers as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played college football for the Kent State Golden Flashes. Muir was also a member of the Indianapolis Colts, St. Louis Rams, New York Jets, Kansas City Chiefs, Houston Texans and Oakland Raiders.

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Sergio Parisse, Argentinian-Italian rugby player

Sergio Francesco Parisse is an Italian-Argentine former rugby union player. He is currently the lineout coach for French club Toulon. He played for the Italy national team from 2002 until the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Parisse is Italy's most-capped player, and currently the fourth most-capped player of all time. He was the first Italian rugby union player to be nominated for the IRB International Player of the Year, in 2008 and again in 2013. Parisse is widely considered one of the greatest number eights of the modern era, and among the greatest Italian rugby player of all time. He also holds the joint record of playing in five Rugby World Cups.

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Clayton Richard, American baseball player

Clayton Colby Richard is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox, San Diego Padres, Chicago Cubs, and Toronto Blue Jays.

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Carly Smithson, Irish singer-songwriter

Carly Sarah Smithson is an Irish soul and pop rock singer who was the sixth place finalist on the seventh season of American Idol in 2008. In 2001, Smithson had released her first studio album for MCA Records called Ultimate High. Smithson was dropped from the record label in 2002. After being introduced to former Evanescence guitarist Ben Moody in early 2009, plans for Smithson's post-Idol solo album were scrapped and instead she became the lead singer of the rock band We Are the Fallen.

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Niels Tas, Belgian politician

Niels E. M. Tas is a Belgian politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of Vooruit, he has represented East Flanders since March 2025.

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12/09/1982

Zoran Planinić, Croatian basketball player

Zoran Planinić is a Croatian former professional basketball player.

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Sal Rinauro, American wrestler

Salvatore Rinauro is an American professional wrestler, performing for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). He is best known for his work in Ring of Honor, Full Impact Pro and National Wrestling Alliance in addition to being a member of The Embassy. He also makes appearances on the independent circuit.

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12/09/1981

Jennifer Hudson, American singer and actress

Jennifer Kate Hudson, also known by her nickname J.Hud, is an American singer, actress, producer, and talk show host. Having received numerous accolades for her work in music, film, television, and theater, Hudson became the youngest woman and third African-American recipient of all four major American entertainment awards: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT) in 2022. She was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013, and Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2020.

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Staciana Stitts, American swimmer

Staciana Stitts Winfield, née Staciana Stitts, is an American former competition swimmer and breaststroke specialist. She was a 2000 Summer Olympics and 1999 Pan American Games gold medalist, and 1998 Goodwill Games silver medalist.

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12/09/1980

Sean Burroughs, American baseball player (died 2024)

Sean Patrick Burroughs was an American professional baseball third baseman, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2002 to 2005 and 2011 to 2012 for the San Diego Padres, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Minnesota Twins. He won a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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Fernando César de Souza, Brazilian footballer

Fernando César de Souza is a footballer from Brazil who plays as a defender. He has spent much of his playing career in the Swiss Super League.

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Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player

Yao Ming is a Chinese basketball executive and former professional player. He played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), and then spent his entire nine-year National Basketball Association (NBA) career with the Houston Rockets. Yao was selected to start for the Western Conference in the NBA All-Star Game eight times, and was named to the All-NBA Team five times. During his final season, he was the tallest active player in the NBA, at 7 feet 6 inches (2.29 m).

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Kevin Sinfield, English rugby player

Kevin Sinfield is an English rugby union coach who is the skills and kicking coach for the England national team. He is a former professional rugby league footballer who played for the Leeds Rhinos, England and Great Britain. He played as a loose forward or stand-off and occasionally as a hooker.

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Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey player (died 2011)

Josef Vašíček was a Czech professional ice hockey player. Vašíček last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) and died in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash. He had played seven seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Carolina Hurricanes, Nashville Predators and New York Islanders before moving to Russia in 2008 to play for Yaroslavl.

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12/09/1978

Elisabetta Canalis, Italian model and actress

Elisabetta Canalis is an Italian actress and television personality.

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Benjamin McKenzie, American actor

Benjamin McKenzie Schenkkan is an American actor, author and commentator. He is best known for his starring television roles as Ryan Atwood on the teen drama The O.C. (2003–2007), Ben Sherman on the crime drama Southland (2009–2013), and James "Jim" Gordon on the crime drama Gotham (2014–2019). McKenzie made his film debut in the Academy Award-nominated film Junebug (2005), before appearing in films including 88 Minutes (2007), Goodbye World (2013), Some Kind of Beautiful (2014), and Line of Duty (2019). In 2020, he made his Broadway debut in the Bess Wohl play Grand Horizons.

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Ruben Studdard, American R&B, pop, and gospel singer

Christopher Theodore Ruben Studdard is an American singer and actor. He rose to fame as the winner of the second season of American Idol and received a Grammy Award nomination in 2003 for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for his recording of "Superstar". In the years following Idol, Studdard has released seven studio albums, including his platinum-selling debut, Soulful, and the top-selling gospel follow-up, I Need an Angel. He is most well known for his recording career, which has produced hits including "Flying Without Wings", "Sorry 2004", and "Change Me", but he has also segued into television and stage work. Most notably, he starred as Fats Waller in a national tour revival of Ain't Misbehavin', which spawned a Grammy-nominated soundtrack.

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12/09/1977

Nathan Bracken, Australian cricketer

Nathan Wade Bracken is a former Australian cricketer. A tall left-arm fast-medium bowler, Bracken is capable of swinging the ball both ways. He has represented Australia in all forms of the game. Bracken represented New South Wales in Australian domestic cricket, Eastern Suburbs in Sydney Grade Cricket and also appeared for English County team Gloucestershire in 2004. On 28 January 2011 he announced his retirement from the game due to a chronic knee injury. On 9 February 2012 it was reported that he sued Cricket Australia over the latter's alleged incompetency in managing his knee injury. With his time representing Australia, Bracken won multiple ICC titles with the team: the 2003 Cricket World Cup, the 2007 Cricket World Cup, and the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy.

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Grant Denyer, Australian racing driver and journalist

Grant Craig Denyer is an Australian television and radio presenter and motor racing driver, who has worked for several television networks, including Seven Network and Network 10, mostly serving as a presenter. He previously hosted Family Feud and Australia's Got Talent. Currently, he hosts channel 10's main game show Deal or No Deal.

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Jeff Irwin, American singer-songwriter and producer

Jeff Irwin is an American musician and multi-instrumentalist. He has performed with Griffin House, Cerys Matthews, Derek Webb and Sandra McCracken, Mat Kearney, Taylor Sorensen & the Trigger Code, and Counting Crows.

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David Thompson, English footballer

David Anthony Thompson is an English football pundit currently working for the BBC. Thompson played as a midfielder, though he had to retire aged 29 through an osteochondral defect of the left knee sustained at age 25. He is currently a UEFA A and B licensed coach working towards his professional licence. In August 2021, he became a director of football at Europa in the Gibraltar National League.

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12/09/1976

Lauren Stamile, American actress

Lauren Stamile is an American actress. She is best known for portraying Nurse Rose on the ABC series Grey's Anatomy, Michelle Slater on the NBC series Community, and CIA Agent Dani Pearce on the USA Network series Burn Notice.

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Maciej Żurawski, Polish footballer

Maciej Stanisław Żurawski is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a forward.

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12/09/1975

Luis Castillo, Dominican baseball player

Luis Antonio Castillo is a Dominican former professional baseball second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball for the Florida Marlins, New York Mets, and Minnesota Twins from 1996 through 2010.

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Bill Kirby, Australian swimmer and coach

William Ashley Kirby is an Australian swimmer who was competitive on an international level in the nineties and early 2000s. He specialized in freestyle and butterfly and won a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney as part of the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay team. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.

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12/09/1974

Caroline Aigle, French soldier and pilot (died 2007)

Commandant Caroline Aigle was a French aviator who achieved a historical first when at the age of 25, she became the first woman fighter pilot in the French Air Force. Her promising military career was cut short by death from cancer seven years later. She was posthumously awarded the Médaille de l'Aéronautique.

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Jennifer Nettles, American singer-songwriter

Jennifer Odessa Nettles is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer.

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Guy Smith, English race car driver

Guy James Mutlow Smith is a British professional racing driver, who has competed in various levels of motorsport, most notably the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which he won in 2003, and the American Le Mans Series, which he won in 2011.

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Kenichi Suzumura, Japanese voice actor and singer-songwriter

Kenichi Suzumura is a Japanese voice actor, narrator, and singer who is affiliated with and a representative of INTENTION, a voice acting company he founded in March 2012. He voiced Morley in Macross 7, Hikaru Hitachiin in Ouran High School Host Club, Zack Fair in the Final Fantasy VII metaseries, Masato Hijirikawa in Uta no Prince-sama, Sandalphon in Granblue Fantasy, Kyoichi Kanzaki in BOYS BE, Shiki Tohno in Tsukihime, Mikiya Kokuto in The Garden of Sinners, Tsubaki Asahina in Brothers Conflict, Yuya Aso in Super Gals!, Atsushi Murasakibara in Kuroko's Basketball, Momotaro Mikoshiba in Free!, Shinn Asuka in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny & Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom, Leo Stenbuck in Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner, Sōgo Okita in Gintama, Rogue Cheney in Fairy Tail, Lavi in D.Gray-man, Obanai Iguro in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Ryutaros in Kamen Rider Den-O and Rakushun in The Twelve Kingdoms. He is part of the group Nazo no Shin Unit STA☆MEN (謎の新ユニットＳＴＡ☆ＭＥＮ) with Junichi Suwabe, Daisuke Kishio, Hiroki Takahashi, Hiroyuki Yoshino, Makoto Yasumura, and Kohsuke Toriumi. His younger brother is stunt coordinator, stuntman and actor Masaki Suzumura.

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Nuno Valente, Portuguese footballer and coach

Nuno Jorge Pereira da Silva Valente is a former Portuguese professional footballer who played as a left-back or a winger. He later became a manager.

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12/09/1973

Kara David, Filipino journalist and documentarian

Kara Patria Constantino David-Cancio is a Filipino journalist, host, professor, and educational administrator. She is known because of investigative and multi-awarded documentaries in i-Witness. These documentaries are "Bitay", "Selda Inosente", "Buto't Balat", and “Ambulansiyang de Paa”.

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Martina Ertl-Renz, German skier

Martina Maria Ertl-Renz is a German former alpine skier. She was two times world champion and also won several medals at Olympic Winter Games and World Championships.

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Martin Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Martin T. Lapointe is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, and Ottawa Senators. He won the Stanley Cup as a member of the Red Wings in both 1997 and 1998. As of 2025, he is the director of player development for the Montreal Canadiens.

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Paul Walker, American actor (died 2013)

Paul William Walker IV was an American actor. He was best known for his role as Brian O'Conner in the Fast & Furious franchise.

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12/09/1972

Gideon Emery, English-American actor, producer, and screenwriter

Gideon Emery is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Deucalion in Teen Wolf and starring as himself in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. His career also includes providing voice-over work in video games, television series and films, notably as Fenris in Dragon Age II.

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Paul Green, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 2022)

Paul Gregory Green was an Australian professional rugby league football coach, best known for taking the North Queensland Cowboys to the NRL premiership in 2015, and a professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s.

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Sidney Souza, Brazilian footballer

Sidney da Silva Souza known as Sidney is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Cerâmica. Sidney spent most of his career in Rio Grande do Sul.

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12/09/1971

Younes El Aynaoui, Moroccan tennis player

Younes El Aynaoui is a Moroccan coach and former professional tennis player.

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Shocker, Mexican wrestler

José Luis Jair Soria is a Mexican retired luchador or professional wrestler, who works under the ring name Shocker. He is best known for his tenure with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre in Mexico. He has previously worked for AAA in Mexico, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in the United States and New Japan Pro-Wrestling in Japan. Soria is a second-generation professional wrestler; his father, Rubén Soria, was an active wrestler from 1963 to the 1970s.

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12/09/1970

Will Chase, American actor, director, and singer

Frank William Chase is an American actor, director, and singer, best known for his work on Broadway and for his role as country superstar Luke Wheeler on ABC's Nashville.

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Nathan Larson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Nathan Peter Larson is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and author. He came to prominence in the 1990s as the guitarist for the rock group Shudder to Think. He has since worked on many film score compositions. He is married to Nina Persson, the lead singer of the Swedish rock band The Cardigans, and the couple has collaborated on several musical projects.

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12/09/1969

Max Boot, Russian-American historian and author

Max A. Boot is a Russian-born naturalized American author, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian. He worked as a writer and editor for The Christian Science Monitor and then for The Wall Street Journal in the 1990s. Since then, he has been the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a contributor to The Washington Post. He has written for such publications as The Weekly Standard, the Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times, and he has authored books of military history. In 2018, Boot published The Road Not Taken, a biography of Edward Lansdale, which was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for biography, and The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right, which details Boot's "ideological journey from a 'movement' conservative to a man without a party", in the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. His biography of Ronald Reagan, Reagan: His Life and Legend, was a New York Times Bestseller and named one of the New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2024, as well as one of the year's best books by The Washington Post and The New Yorker.

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Ángel Cabrera, Argentinian golfer

Ángel Leopoldo Cabrera is an Argentine professional golfer who has played on both the European Tour and PGA Tour. He is known affectionately as "El Pato" in Spanish ("The Duck") for his waddling gait. He is a two-time major champion, with wins at the U.S. Open in 2007 and the Masters in 2009; he was the first Argentine and South American to win either. He also lost in a sudden death playoff at the Masters in 2013.

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James Frey, American author and screenwriter

James Christopher Frey is an American writer and businessman. His first two books, A Million Little Pieces (2003) and My Friend Leonard (2005), were bestsellers marketed as memoirs. Large parts of the books were later found to be exaggerated or fabricated, sparking a media controversy. His 2008 novel Bright Shiny Morning was similarly a bestseller.

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Shigeki Maruyama, Japanese golfer

Shigeki Maruyama is a Japanese professional golfer.

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12/09/1968

Larry LaLonde, American guitarist and songwriter

Reid Laurence LaLonde, also known as Ler LaLonde, is an American musician. He has been the guitarist for the rock band Primus since 1989, where he is known for his experimental accompaniment to the bass playing of bandmate Les Claypool. Previously, he played guitar for several groups including Possessed and Blind Illusion. He also has collaborated more recently with artists such as Serj Tankian and Tom Waits.

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Nicholas Russell, 6th Earl Russell, English politician (died 2014)

Nicholas Lyulph Russell, 6th Earl Russell, styled Viscount Amberley between 1987 and 2004, was the elder son of Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell and Elizabeth Russell. He succeeded to the Earldom of Russell on his father's death on 14 October 2004.

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Richard Snell, South African cricketer and physiotherapist

Richard Peter Snell is a former South African cricketer who played in five Test matches and 42 One Day Internationals for South Africa.

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Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian, actor, and writer

Paul Francis Tompkins is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He has worked in television on such programs as BoJack Horseman, Mr. Show with Bob and David, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Best Week Ever, later renamed Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins.

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12/09/1967

Louis C.K., American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter

Louis Alfred Székely, known professionally as Louis C.K., is an American stand-up comedian, actor and filmmaker. C.K. has won six Emmy Awards, and three Grammy Awards, three Critics' Choice Awards, three Peabody Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for two Golden Globe Awards. He was listed as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2012 and Rolling Stone ranked him fourth on its 2017 list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.

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Pat Listach, American baseball player, coach, and manager

Patrick Alan Listach is an American professional baseball shortstop, coach, and manager. As a player, Listach appeared in Major League Baseball for the Milwaukee Brewers and Houston Astros from 1992 and 1997. He won the American League Rookie of the Year Award in 1992. Listach has also been a major league third base coach and minor league manager.

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12/09/1966

Darren E. Burrows, American actor

Darren E. Burrows is an American actor. He is best known for playing Ed Chigliak in the television series Northern Exposure. He also appeared in the films Cry-Baby, Amistad, Sunset Strip, Forty Shades of Blue, in a season six episode of The X-Files and in Season 9 of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

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Ben Folds, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Benjamin Scott Folds is an American singer-songwriter. After playing in several small independent bands from the late 1980s through the early '90s, Folds came to prominence as the frontman and pianist of the alternative rock trio Ben Folds Five from 1993 to 2000, and again during their reunion from 2011 to 2013. Folds has recorded a number of solo albums, most recently Sleigher (2024). He has also collaborated with musicians such as Regina Spektor, "Weird Al" Yankovic and yMusic, and undertaken experimental songwriting projects with actor William Shatner and authors such as Nick Hornby and Neil Gaiman. Folds was the artistic advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. from 2017 until 2025.

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Vezio Sacratini, Canadian ice hockey player

Vezio Sacratini is a retired Italian-Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for various teams across Europe, most notably the Cardiff Devils, and the Italian national team. Sacratini was a member of the Italian team that finished 9th in the 1994 Winter Olympics.

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12/09/1965

Einstein Kristiansen, Norwegian animator and producer

Øistein Kristiansen, formerly known under his artist name Einstein Kristiansen, is a Norwegian cartoonist, designer, entrepreneur, TV host and co-founder of Earthtree Media AS, who together with his two business partners Henry Steed and Mark Hillman, produces children's television programming, animation and image campaigns for MTV Asia, Nickelodeon and Mediacorp. He usually draws with bright colours and exaggerated details.

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Vernon Maxwell, American basketball player

Vernon Maxwell is an American former professional basketball player. He was a shooting guard in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for thirteen seasons during the late 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s.

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Midnight, Jamaican wrestler

Ann-Marie Crooks is a Jamaican-born American former female bodybuilder and professional wrestler. She was previously working for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1999 under the ring name Midnight.

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12/09/1964

Greg Gutfeld, American television journalist and author

Gregory John Gutfeld is an American television host, political commentator, comedian, and author. He is the host of the late-night comedy talk show Gutfeld!, which was formerly aired on Saturday nights as The Greg Gutfeld Show from May 2015 until March 2021, when it was announced that the show would move to weeknights.

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Dieter Hecking, German footballer and manager

Dieter-Klaus Hecking is a German football manager for VfL Wolfsburg and former professional player. He played for Hannover 96 and Eintracht Braunschweig as a midfielder. He returned to manage Hannover despite the long-standing and bitter rivalry between the two clubs.

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12/09/1962

Sunay Akın, Turkish poet, journalist, and philanthropist

Sunay Akın is a Turkish poet, writer, TV host, journalist, and a philanthropist. He is the founder of Istanbul Toy Museum.

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Amy Yasbeck, American actress

Amy Yasbeck is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Casey Chappel Davenport on the sitcom Wings from 1994 to 1997 and for having played the mermaid Madison in the television film Splash, Too in 1988. Yasbeck has guest-starred in several television shows and appeared in the films House II: The Second Story, Pretty Woman, Problem Child, Problem Child 2, The Mask, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, and Dracula: Dead and Loving It. She is the widow of John Ritter.

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12/09/1961

Mylène Farmer, Canadian-French singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

Mylène Jeanne Gautier, known professionally as Mylène Farmer, is a French singer and songwriter. Having sold more than 35 million records worldwide, she is among the most successful recording artists of all time in France, where she holds the record for the most number one hit singles, with twenty-one – eight of which were consecutive.

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12/09/1960

Road Warrior Animal, American wrestler (died 2020)

Joseph Michael "Joe" Laurinaitis, better known by his ring name Road Warrior Animal, was an American professional wrestler. Along with Road Warrior Hawk, he was one-half of the tag team the Road Warriors.

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Evan Jenkins, American academic and politician

Evan Hollin Jenkins is an American politician and judge. He served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, joining the Court in 2018 and serving as chief justice in 2021. He resigned from the court on February 4, 2022. He served as a U.S. Representative from West Virginia from 2015 to 2018. He is a Republican, having switched his party affiliation from Democratic in 2013.

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Stefanos Korkolis, Greek pianist and composer

Stefanos Korkolis is a Greek composer and pianist. He has performed in theaters and auditoriums all around the world, including the Concertgebouw, the Belém Cultural Center, the Royal Theater Carré, the Athens Concert Hall, the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, and the Odeon of Herodes Atticus.

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12/09/1959

Scott Brown, American colonel and politician

Scott Philip Brown is an American diplomat and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he was the United States ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa from 2017 to 2020 under president Donald Trump.

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Deron Cherry, American football player and sportscaster

Deron Leigh Cherry is an American former professional football player who was a safety for the Kansas City Chiefs in the National Football League (NFL) from 1981 to 1991. Cherry was a free safety and punter at Rutgers University, intercepting a total of 9 passes over his three seasons, which he returned for 126 yards and two touchdowns. In 1979, he was named the team's MVP. In 1979 and 1980, Cherry earned AP All-East honors. In 1981, he was signed by the Kansas City Chiefs as a free agent but was released in the final teams cuts. Cherry rejoined the club as a safety, and made his first career interception against division rivals the Oakland Raiders.

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Sigmar Gabriel, German educator and politician, 17th Vice-Chancellor of Germany

Sigmar Hartmut Gabriel is a German politician who was the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2018 and the vice-chancellor of Germany from 2013 to 2018. He was Leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 2009 to 2017, which made him the party's longest-serving leader since Willy Brandt. He was the Federal Minister of the Environment from 2005 to 2009 and the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy from 2013 to 2017. From 1999 to 2003 Gabriel was Minister-President of Lower Saxony.

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12/09/1958

Wilfred Benítez, American boxer

Wilfred "Wilfredo" Benítez Rosa, better known as Wilfred Benitez, is a Puerto Rican former professional boxer and the youngest world champion in the sport's history. Earning his first of three career world titles in separate weight divisions at the age of seventeen, he is best remembered as a skilled and aggressive fighter. He is widely considered one of the greatest defensive boxers of all time. He is also remembered for his fights with Roberto Durán, Thomas Hearns, and Sugar Ray Leonard.

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Gregg Edelman, American actor and singer

Gregg Edelman is an American actor. He has starred in numerous Broadway productions earning four Tony Award nominations for his roles in City of Angels (1990), Anna Karenina (1993), 1776 (1998), and Into the Woods (2002). His other Broadway credits include Cabaret (1987), Anything Goes (1989), Falsettos (1992), Passion (1994), Les Misérables (1999), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2012), and Water for Elephants (2024).

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12/09/1957

Paul M. Sharp, British academic and educator

Paul Martin Sharp is a British bioinformatician who is a professor of genetics at the University of Edinburgh, where he holds the Alan Robertson chair of genetics in the Institute of Evolutionary Biology.

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Jan Egeland, Norwegian politician, diplomat and humanitarian

Jan Egeland is a Norwegian diplomat, political scientist, humanitarian leader, and former Labour Party politician who has been Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council since 2013. He served as State Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1990 to 1997 and as United Nations Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator from 2003 to 2006.

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Rachel Ward, English-Australian actress

Rachel Claire Ward is a British and Australian actress. She gained recognition as an actress for her performance in the American television miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983), which earned her one of three Golden Globe Award nominations.

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Hans Zimmer, German composer and producer

Hans Florian Zimmer is a German film composer and music producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and five Grammy Awards as well as nominations for seven Emmy Awards. Zimmer was also named one of the Top 100 Living Geniuses by The Daily Telegraph in 2007.

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12/09/1956

Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor (died 2003)

Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing was a Hong Kong singer and actor. One of the most influential cultural icons in the Sinophone world, Cheung was known for his debonair demeanor, flamboyant screen characters, and avant-garde, androgynous stage presence. Throughout his 26-year career, he released over 40 music albums and acted in 56 films.

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David Goodhart, English journalist and author

David Goodhart is a British journalist, commentator and author. He is the founder and a former editor of Prospect magazine.

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BA Robertson, Scottish songwriter

Brian Alexander Robertson is a Scottish musician, composer and songwriter. He had a string of hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s characterised by catchy pop tunes and jaunty humorous lyrics, including "Kool in the Kaftan", "Knocked It Off", "To Be or Not to Be" and "Bang Bang", a tongue-in-cheek commentary on famous historical and fictional couples. With Mike Rutherford of Genesis, he wrote the Grammy-nominated and Ivor Novello Award-winning song "The Living Years", which was a number one hit in the US, Canada, Australia and Ireland, and reached number two in his native UK. He has also written music for films and been a television presenter.

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Walter Woon, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 7th Attorney-General of Singapore

Walter Woon Cheong Ming is a Singaporean lawyer who served as the fifth attorney-general of Singapore between 2008 and 2010. He is currently an Emeritus Professor at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law, Lee Kong Chian Visiting professor at the Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law, and the dean of the RHT Legal Training Institute.

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12/09/1955

Peter Scolari, American actor (died 2021)

Peter Thomas Scolari was an American actor. He was best known for his roles as Henry Desmond in the ABC sitcom Bosom Buddies (1980–1982) and Michael Harris on the CBS sitcom Newhart (1984–1990), the latter of which earned him three consecutive nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series from 1987 to 1989.

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Brian Smith, English footballer (died 2013)

Brian Smith was an English professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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12/09/1954

Robert Gober, American sculptor

Robert Gober is an American sculptor. His work is often related to domestic and familiar objects such as sinks, doors, and legs.

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Scott Hamilton, American saxophonist

Scott Hamilton is an American jazz tenor saxophonist associated with swing and straight-ahead jazz. His eldest son, Shō Īmura, is the vocalist of the Japanese rock band Okamoto's.

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Peeter Volkonski, Estonian singer-songwriter and actor

Prince Peeter Volkonski is an Estonian rock-musician, composer, actor, and theatre director.

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12/09/1953

Nan Goldin, American photographer

Nancy Goldin is an American photographer and activist. Her work explores in snapshot-style the emotions of the individual, in intimate relationships, and the bohemian LGBT subcultural communities, especially dealing with the devastating HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s. Her most notable work is The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. In the slideshow and monograph (1986) Goldin portrayed her chosen family, meanwhile documenting the post-punk and gay subcultures. She is a founding member of the advocacy group P.A.I.N. against the opioid epidemic. She lives and works in New York City.

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12/09/1952

Gerry Beckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Gerald Linford Beckley is an American singer, songwriter, and musician, and a founding member of the band America.

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Neil Peart, Canadian drummer, songwriter, and producer (died 2020)

Neil Ellwood Peart was a Canadian musician and author, who was the drummer, percussionist, and primary lyricist of the rock band Rush. He was nicknamed "the Professor", after the Gilligan's Island character of the same name. His drumming was renowned for its technical proficiency and his live performances for their exacting nature and stamina. Peart earned numerous awards for his musical performances, including an induction into the Modern Drummer Readers Poll Hall of Fame in 1983 at the age of 30, making him the youngest person ever so honoured.

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12/09/1951

Bertie Ahern, Irish accountant and politician, 11th Taoiseach of Ireland

Bartholomew Patrick "Bertie" Ahern is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach from 1997 to 2008, and as Leader of Fianna Fáil from 1994 to 2008. A Teachta Dála (TD) from 1977 to 2011, he served as Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997. He was also Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1986 to 1987, Tánaiste from November to December 1994, and Minister for Finance from 1991 to 1994.

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Norm Dubé, Canadian ice hockey player

Normand G. Dubé is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 57 games in the National Hockey League and 148 games in the World Hockey Association. He played with the Kansas City Scouts and Quebec Nordiques. His son Christian Dubé played with his teammates when he was very young.

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Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby player and actor (died 2007)

Raymond William Robert Gravell was a Welsh rugby union centre who played club rugby for Llanelli RFC. At international level, Gravell earned 23 caps for Wales and was selected for the 1980 British Lions tour to South Africa.

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Joe Pantoliano, American actor and producer

Joseph Peter Pantoliano is an American actor who has played over 150 roles across film, television, and theater. He is best known for portraying Francis Fratelli in The Goonies (1985), Captain Conrad Howard in the Bad Boys film series (1995–2024), Cypher in the Wachowskis' sci-fi action film The Matrix (1999), Teddy in Christopher Nolan's psychological thriller film Memento (2000), and Ralph "Ralphie" Cifaretto on the HBO crime drama The Sopranos (2001–2004), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

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Ali-Ollie Woodson, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 2010)

Ali-Ollie Woodson was an American R&B singer, musician, songwriter, keyboardist, drummer, and occasional actor best known for his twelve years with the Temptations alongside Otis Williams. He also worked with Aretha Franklin, Jean Carn, and Bill Pinkney.

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12/09/1950

Marguerite Blais, Canadian journalist and politician

Marie Josephine Marguerite Blais is a Canadian politician, journalist, radio host and television host from Quebec. She was a Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) and a previous Minister Responsible for Seniors and Informal Caregivers and a member of the Comité ministériel des services aux citoyens. She was a Liberal MNA for the electoral division of Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne in Montreal from 2007 to 2015, and served as the Minister Responsible for Seniors, vice-chair of the Comité ministériel du développement social, éducatif et culturel, and a member of the Conseil du trésor.

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Gustav Brunner, Austrian engineer

Gustav Brunner is an Austrian Formula One designer and engineer.

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Bruce Mahler, American actor and screenwriter

Bruce Mahler is an American actor, producer, and writer. He is known for his role as Sgt. Fackler in the comedy films Police Academy, and as Rabbi Glickman on the sitcom Seinfeld.

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Mike Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Michael John Murphy is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League for 13 years for the St. Louis Blues, New York Rangers and the Los Angeles Kings and has been assistant and head coach in the NHL for the Los Angeles Kings, Ottawa Senators, Vancouver Canucks, Toronto Maple Leafs and the New York Rangers. Murphy also played for Team Canada, winning a bronze medal in 1978, and coached Team Canada, International Hockey League (IHL). Murphy is presently Senior Vice President of the NHL, hockey operations.

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12/09/1949

Charles Burlingame, American captain and pilot (died 2001)

Charles Frank "Chic" Burlingame III was the captain of American Airlines Flight 77, the aircraft that was crashed by terrorists into the Pentagon during the September 11 attacks.

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Irina Rodnina, Russian figure skater and politician

Irina Konstantinovna Rodnina is a Russian politician and retired figure skater, who is the only pair skater to win 10 successive World Championships (1969–78) and three successive Olympic gold medals. She was elected to the State Duma in the 2007 legislative election as a member of President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party. As a figure skater, she initially competed with Alexei Ulanov and later teamed up with Alexander Zaitsev. She is the first pair skater to win the Olympic title with two different partners, followed only by Artur Dmitriev.

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12/09/1948

Steve Turre, American trombonist and educator

Stephen Johnson Turre is an American jazz trombonist and a pioneer of using seashells as instruments, a composer, arranger, and educator at the collegiate-conservatory level. For sixty-two years, Turre has been active in jazz, rock, and Latin jazz – in live venues, recording studios, television, and cinema production.

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Max Walker, Australian footballer, cricketer, sportscaster, and architect (died 2016)

Maxwell Henry Norman Walker was an Australian sportsman who played both cricket and Australian rules football at high levels. After six years of balancing first-class cricket in summer, professional football in winter and study for a degree in architecture, Walker earned a place in the Australian cricket team in 1972 and represented his country in the sport until injury ended his career in 1981. Following his retirement, he worked as an architect and also commenced a career in radio and television media. He wrote 14 books over a period of thirty years and became a successful public speaker. His unorthodox cricket bowling action earned him the nickname "Tangles", and his larrikin character made him a much-loved figure with the Australian public. Walker died of multiple myeloma on 28 September 2016 after being diagnosed with the disease three years earlier. He was a part of the Australian squad which finished as runners-up at the 1975 Cricket World Cup.

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12/09/1947

David Grant, English engineer and academic

Sir David Grant FLSW is a British academic who was the vice-chancellor of Cardiff University in Wales from 2001 to 2012. Following his appointment, Grant oversaw the merger between Cardiff University and the University of Wales College of Medicine, which was completed in 2004, and the award of university status to Cardiff.

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Gerald Howarth, English soldier, pilot, and politician, Minister for International Security Strategy

Sir James Gerald Douglas Howarth is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aldershot from 1997 until 2017, having been the MP for Cannock and Burntwood from 1983 to 1992.

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Christopher Neame, English actor

Christopher Neame is an English actor who resides in the United States.

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12/09/1946

Tony Bellamy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2009)

Redbone is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1969 by brothers Pat and Lolly Vegas. All members during their commercial peak were of Chicano and Native American heritage, something heavily reflected in their songs, stage regalia, and album art.

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Neil Lyndon, British journalist and writer

Neil Alexander Lyndon is a British journalist and writer. He has written for The Sunday Times, The Times, The Independent, the Evening Standard the Daily Mail and the Telegraph.

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12/09/1945

Russell "Jungle Jim" Liberman, American drag racer (died 1977)

Russell James Liberman was an American funny car drag racer, nicknamed "Jungle Jim." In 2001, he was named #17 on the list of the Top 50 NHRA drivers of all time. Liberman was known for driving backwards at 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) after doing his burnout.

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Milo Manara, Italian author and illustrator

Maurilio Manara, known professionally as Milo Manara, is an Italian comic book writer and artist.

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John Mauceri, American conductor and producer

John Francis Mauceri is an American conductor, composer, author, and educator whose work has focused on orchestral music, opera, Broadway, and film-related repertoire. A graduate of Yale University, where he later taught music for more than a decade, he has conducted the major orchestras and opera companies in the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, the Royal Opera House, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Cleveland Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony (Washington), Philadelphia Orchestra, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien (Vienna), San Francisco Symphony, Tokyo Philharmonic, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. He has won a Tony, Grammy, and three Emmy awards, as well as an Olivier Award. Further, he conducted the Oscar–winning music for the soundtrack of the film version of Evita. As a founder and educator, he created and directed the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and was founding chancellor of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. He is the author of several books on conducting and the history of 20th-century music.

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12/09/1944

Lonnie Mayne, American wrestler (died 1978)

Ronald Doyle "Lonnie" Mayne was an American professional wrestler in the 1960s and 1970s who frequently went by the name Moondog Mayne. He wrestled in various National Wrestling Alliance territories, as well as the World Wide Wrestling Federation in 1973.

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Vladimir Spivakov, Russian violinist and conductor

Vladimir Teodorovich Spivakov is a Soviet and Russian conductor and violinist best known for his work with the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra.

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Barry White, American singer-songwriter (died 2003)

Barry Eugene White was an American R&B, soul and disco singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer. A two-time Grammy Award winner known for his bass voice and romantic image, his greatest success came in the 1970s as a solo singer and with the Love Unlimited Orchestra, who made the #1 hit "Love's Theme" written by White. White's music contains elements of multiple different genres such as R&B, soul, and disco, this is shown as such on his two biggest hits: "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" and "You're the First, the Last, My Everything".

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12/09/1943

Ralph Neely, American football player (died 2022)

Ralph Eugene Neely was an American professional football player who was an offensive tackle for the Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League (NFL). He played 13 seasons and 172 games for the Cowboys from 1965 to 1977.

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Michael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan-Canadian author and poet

Philip Michael Ondaatje is a Ceylon-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist.

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12/09/1942

Michel Drucker, French journalist

Michel Drucker, CQ is a popular French journalist and TV host. He has been on screen for so long on various shows and different networks, both public and private, that he once said that some people joked that he was included in the price of their TV sets.

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Tomás Marco, Spanish composer

Tomás Marco Aragón is a Spanish composer and writer on music.

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Maria Muldaur, American folk and blues singer

Maria Muldaur is an American folk and blues singer who was part of the American folk music revival in the early 1960s. She recorded the 1973 hit song "Midnight at the Oasis" and has recorded albums in the folk, blues, early jazz, gospel, country, and R&B traditions.

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François Tavenas, Canadian engineer and academic (died 2004)

François Tavenas, was a Canadian engineer and academic.

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12/09/1940

Linda Gray, American model and actress

Linda Ann Gray is an American actress, best known for her role as Sue Ellen Ewing, the long-suffering wife of Larry Hagman's character J.R. Ewing on the CBS television drama series Dallas. The role also earned her a nomination for the 1981 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series as well as two Golden Globe Awards nominations.

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12/09/1939

Henry Waxman, American lawyer and politician

Henry Arnold Waxman is an American politician and lobbyist who was a U.S. representative from California from 1975 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

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12/09/1938

Judy Clay, American soul and gospel singer (died 2001)

Judy Clay was an American soul and gospel singer, who achieved greatest success as a member of two recording duos in the 1960s.

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Claude Ruel, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2015)

Claude Ruel was a professional ice hockey coach for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL).

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Tatiana Troyanos, American operatic soprano (died 1993)

Tatiana Troyanos was an American mezzo-soprano remembered as "one of the defining singers of her generation". Her voice, "a paradoxical voice — larger than life yet intensely human, brilliant yet warm, lyric yet dramatic" — "was the kind you recognize after one bar, and never forget", wrote Cori Ellison in Opera News.

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12/09/1937

George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer

George Louis Chuvalo is a Canadian former professional boxer who was a five-time Canadian heavyweight champion and two-time world heavyweight title challenger. He is known for having never been knocked down in any of his 93 professional bouts including fights against Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, and George Foreman. Chuvalo unsuccessfully challenged Muhammad Ali for the heavyweight championship in 1966. Chuvalo was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.

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Wes Hall, Barbadian cricketer and politician

Sir Wesley Winfield Hall is a Barbadian former cricketer and politician. A tall, strong and powerfully built man, Hall was a genuine fast bowler and despite his very long run up, he was renowned for his ability to bowl long spells. Hall played 48 Test matches for the West Indies from 1958 to 1969. Hall's opening bowling partnership with fellow Barbadian Charlie Griffith was a feature of the strong West Indies teams throughout the 1960s. Hall was one of the most popular cricketers of his day and was especially popular in Australia, where he played two seasons in the Sheffield Shield with Queensland.

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12/09/1935

Richard Hunt, American sculptor (died 2023)

Richard Howard Hunt was an American artist and sculptor. In the second half of the 20th century, he became "the foremost African-American abstract sculptor and artist of public sculpture." A Chicago native, Hunt studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1950s. While there he received multiple prizes for his work. In 1971, he was the first African-American sculptor to have a retrospective at Museum of Modern Art. Hunt has created over 160 public sculpture commissions, more than any other sculptor in prominent locations in 24 states across the United States.

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12/09/1934

Glenn Davis, American hurdler, sprinter, and football player (died 2009)

Glenn Ashby "Jeep" Davis was an American Olympic hurdler and sprinter who won a total of three gold medals in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic games.

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Jaegwon Kim, South Korean-American philosopher and academic (died 2019)

Jaegwon Kim was a Korean-American philosopher. At the time of his death, Kim was an emeritus professor of philosophy at Brown University. He also taught at several other leading American universities during his lifetime, including the University of Michigan, Cornell University, the University of Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins University, and Swarthmore College. He is best known for his work on mental causation, the mind-body problem and the metaphysics of supervenience and events. Key themes in his work include: a rejection of Cartesian metaphysics, the limitations of strict psychophysical identity, supervenience, and the individuation of events. Kim's work on these and other contemporary metaphysical and epistemological issues is well represented by the papers collected in Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays (1993).

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Nellie Wong, Chinese American poet and activist

Nellie Wong was an American poet and activist for feminist and socialist causes. Wong was also an active member of the Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women.

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12/09/1932

Atli Dam, Faroese engineer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 2005)

Atli Pætursson Dam was a Faroese politician who served as prime minister of the Faroe Islands on three occasions. From 1970 to 1981, 1985 to 1989, and 1991 to 1993. To this date, he is the longest-serving prime minister in Faroese history, having served a total of 16 years.

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12/09/1931

Ian Holm, English actor (died 2020)

Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert was an English actor. After graduating from RADA and beginning his career on the British stage as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he became a successful and prolific performer on television and in film. He received numerous accolades including two BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award, along with a nomination for an Academy Award. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998 for services to drama.

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George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013)

George Glenn Jones was an American country musician, singer, and songwriter. He achieved international fame for a long list of hit records, and is well known for his distinctive voice and phrasing. For the last two decades of his life, he is frequently referred to as "the greatest country singer", "The Rolls-Royce of Country Music", and had more than 160 chart singles to his name from 1955 until his death in 2013.

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12/09/1930

Larry Austin, American composer and educator (died 2018)

Larry Don Austin was an American composer noted for his electronic and computer music works. He was a co-founder and editor of the avant-garde music periodical Source: Music of the Avant Garde. Austin gained additional international recognition when he realized a completion of Charles Ives's Universe Symphony. Austin served as the president of the International Computer Music Association (ICMA) from 1990 to 1994 and served on the board of directors of the ICMA from 1984 to 1988 and from 1990 to 1998.

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12/09/1929

Harvey Schmidt, American composer and illustrator (died 2018)

Harvey Lester Schmidt was an American composer for musical theatre and illustrator. He was best known for composing the music for the longest running musical in history, The Fantasticks, which ran off-Broadway for 42 years, from 1960 to 2002.

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12/09/1928

Robert Irwin, American painter and gardener (died 2023)

Robert Walter Irwin was an American installation artist who explored perception and the conditional in art, often through site-specific, architectural interventions that alter the physical, sensory and temporal experience of space.

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Muriel Siebert, American businesswoman and philanthropist (died 2013)

Muriel Faye Siebert was an American businesswoman who was the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and the first woman to head one of the NYSE's member firms. She joined the 1,365 male members of the exchange on December 28, 1967. Siebert is sometimes known as the "first woman of finance", despite being preceded in owning a brokerage by Victoria Woodhull.

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Ernie Vandeweghe, Canadian-American basketball player and physician (died 2014)

Ernest Maurice Vandeweghe Jr. was a Canadian professional basketball player. Vandeweghe was best known for playing for the New York Knicks of the NBA and for the athletic successes of his family.

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Joseph John Gerry, American Roman Catholic prelate (died 2023)

Joseph John Gerry, O.S.B., was an American Benedictine monk and prelate of the Catholic Church.

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12/09/1927

Mathé Altéry, French soprano and actress

Mathé Altéry is a French soprano prominent in the 1950s and 1960s. Mathé Altéry is the daughter of French tenor Mario Altéry. In 1956, both Altéry and Dany Dauberson individually represented France in the first Eurovision Song Contest.

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12/09/1925

Stan Lopata, American baseball player (died 2013)

Stanley Edward Lopata was an American professional baseball player. A catcher, Lopata played in Major League Baseball for 13 seasons in the National League with the Philadelphia Phillies and Milwaukee Braves. In 853 career games, Lopata recorded a batting average of .254 and accumulated 661 hits, 116 home runs, and 379 runs batted in (RBI).

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Dickie Moore, American actor (died 2015)

John Richard Moore Jr. was an American actor who was one of the last survivors of the silent film era. A busy and popular actor during his childhood and youth, he appeared in over 100 films until the early 1950s. Among his most notable appearances were the Our Gang series and films such as Oliver Twist, Blonde Venus, The Story of Louis Pasteur, The Life of Emile Zola, Sergeant York, Out of the Past, and Eight Iron Men.

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12/09/1924

Amílcar Cabral, Guinea-Bissauan political leader (died 1973)

Amílcar Lopes Cabral was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, political organizer, diplomat, and half-brother of Luís Cabral, the first President of Guinea-Bissau. He was widely remembered as one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders. He was also a pan-Africanist and intellectual nationalist revolutionary poet.

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12/09/1922

Antonio Cafiero, Argentinian accountant and politician, Governor of Buenos Aires Province (died 2014)

Antonio Francisco Cafiero was an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. Cafiero held a number of important posts throughout his career, including, most notably, the governorship of Buenos Aires Province from 1987 to 1991, the Cabinet Chief's Office under interim president Eduardo Camaño from 2001 to 2002, and a seat in the Senate of the Nation from 1993 to 2005.

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Jackson Mac Low, American poet, playwright, and composer (died 2004)

Jackson Mac Low was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practitioner of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compositional methods in his work, which Mac Low first experienced in the musical work of John Cage, Earle Brown, and Christian Wolff. He was married to the artist Iris Lezak from 1962 to 1978, and to the poet Anne Tardos from 1990 until his death.

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Mark Rosenzweig, American psychologist and academic (died 2009)

Mark Richard Rosenzweig was an American research psychologist whose research on neuroplasticity in animals indicated that the adult brain remains capable of anatomical remodelling and reorganization based on life experiences, overturning the conventional wisdom that the brain reached full maturity in childhood.

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12/09/1921

Frank McGee, American journalist (died 1974)

Frank McGee was an American television journalist, best known for his work with NBC from the late 1950s into the early 1970s.

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Stanisław Lem, Polish philosopher and author (died 2006)

Stanisław Herman Lem was a Polish writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fiction stories are of satirical and humorous character. Lem's books have been translated into more than 50 languages and have sold more than 45 million copies. Worldwide, he is best known as the author of the 1961 novel Solaris. In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon wrote that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the world.

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Turgut Cansever, Turkish architect, city planner, and thinker (died 2009)

Turgut Cansever was a Turkish architect and city planner. He is the only architect to win the Aga Khan Award for Architecture three times. He is known as "the wise architect." He played a significant role in urban planning, zoning, and protected area projects across various towns. He is credited with designing Beyazıt Square and authored the first doctoral thesis on art history in Turkey.

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12/09/1914

Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh-English soldier and actor (died 1999)

Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn was a Welsh actor. He was best known for his role as Q in 17 of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1999.

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12/09/1913

Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper (died 1980)

James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was an American track and field athlete who made history at the 1936 Olympic Games by winning four gold medals, setting Olympic records in each event. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest athletes in track and field history.

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12/09/1909

Donald MacDonald, Canadian trade union leader and politician (died 1986)

Donald MacDonald was a Canadian social democratic politician and trade unionist who led the Nova Scotia Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and was elected as a member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1941. In 1968 he was elected President of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC).

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12/09/1908

Werner Flume, German jurist (died 2009)

Werner Flume was a German jurist and professor of Roman law, private law, tax law and a legal historian. He has significantly influenced the modern development of German private law and has been called a "lawyer of the century" for his contributions.

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12/09/1905

Linda Agostini, English-Australian murder victim (died 1934)

On 1 September 1934, the badly burned body of a woman with a bullet through the neck was found in a culvert running under Howlong Road in Albury, New South Wales, Australia. The woman became known as the Pyjama Girl.

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12/09/1902

Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian physician and politician, 21st President of Brazil (died 1976)

Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, also known by his initials JK, was a Brazilian politician who served as the 21st president of Brazil from 1956 to 1961. Kubitschek's government plan, dubbed "50 years in 5", was centered on economic and social development. During his term the country experienced a period of notable economic growth and relative political stability. However, there was also a significant increase in external debt, inflation, income concentration and wage erosion. At the time, there was no re-election and, on 31 January 1961, he was succeeded by Jânio Quadros, supported by the UDN. Kubitschek is best known for the construction of Brazil's new capital, Brasília, which was inaugurated on 21 April 1960, replacing Rio de Janeiro.

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Marya Zaturenska, Ukrainian-American poet and author (died 1982)

Marya Zaturenska was an American lyric poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938.

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12/09/1901

Shmuel Horowitz, Israeli agronomist and academic (died 1999)

Shmuel Hurwitz was an Israeli agronomist.

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12/09/1900

Martha Atwell, American radio director (died 1949)

Martha Atwell was an American radio director, known for her association with Frank and Anne Hummert.

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Haskell Curry, American mathematician, logician, and academic (died 1982)

Haskell Brooks Curry was an American mathematician and computer scientist. Curry is best known for his work in combinatory logic. Although its initial concept was based on a paper by Moses Schönfinkel, Curry did much of the development. Curry is also known for Curry's paradox and the Curry–Howard correspondence. Named for him are the programming languages Haskell, Brook and Curry, and the concept of currying, a method to transform functions, used in mathematics and computer science.

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12/09/1898

Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (died 1963)

Salvador Bacarisse Chinoria was a Spanish composer.

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Alma Moodie, Australian violinist and educator (died 1943)

Alma Mary Templeton Moodie was an Australian violinist who established an excellent reputation in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. She was regarded as being among the foremost female violinists during the inter-war years, along with such players as Erica Morini, Jelly d'Arányi and Kathleen Parlow; and she premiered violin concertos by Kurt Atterberg, Hans Pfitzner and Ernst Krenek. She and Max Rostal were considered the best pre-war proponents of the Carl Flesch tradition. She became a teacher at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. However, Alma Moodie made no recordings, and she appears in very few reference sources. Despite her former renown, her name became virtually unknown for many years. She appeared in earlier editions of Grove's and Baker's Dictionaries, but does not appear in the more recent editions.

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Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter and photographer (died 1969)

Ben Shahn was an American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content.

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12/09/1897

Irène Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1956)

Irène Joliot-Curie was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity. They were the second married couple, after her parents, to win the Nobel Prize, adding to the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. This made the Curies the family with the most Nobel laureates to date.

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Walter B. Gibson, American magician and author (died 1985)

Walter Brown Gibson was an American writer and professional magician, best known for his work on the pulp fiction character The Shadow, and as a ghost-writer for many of his friend Harry Houdini's books. Gibson, under the pen-name Maxwell Grant, wrote 282 of the original 325 'The Shadow' novels/novellas during the 1930s/1940s, writing up to "10,000 words a day" to satisfy public demand during the character's golden age. He authored several novels in the Biff Brewster juvenile series of the 1960s. He was married to Litzka R. Gibson, also a writer, and the couple lived in New York state.

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12/09/1895

Freymóður Jóhannsson, Icelandic painter and composer (died 1973)

Freymóður Jóhannsson was an Icelandic artist, painter and song composer.

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12/09/1894

Kyuichi Tokuda, Japanese lawyer and politician (died 1953)

Kyuichi Tokuda was a Japanese politician and first chairman of the Japanese Communist Party from 1945 until his death in 1953.

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Dorothy Maud Wrinch, Argentinian-English mathematician, biochemist and philosopher (died 1976)

Dorothy Maud Wrinch was a mathematician and biochemical theorist best known for her attempt to deduce protein structure using mathematical principles. She was a champion of the controversial 'cyclol' hypothesis for the structure of proteins.

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12/09/1892

Alfred A. Knopf Sr., American publisher, founded Alfred A. Knopf Inc. (died 1984)

Alfred Abraham Knopf Sr. was an American publisher of the 20th century, and co-founder of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. His contemporaries included the likes of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, and Frank Nelson Doubleday, J. Henry Harper and Henry Holt. Knopf paid special attention to the quality of printing, binding and design in his books, and earned a reputation as a purist in both content and presentation.

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12/09/1891

Pedro Albizu Campos, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician (died 1965)

Pedro Albizu Campos was a Puerto Rican attorney and politician, and a leading figure in the Puerto Rican independence movement. He was the president and spokesperson of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico from 1930 until his death. He led the nationalist revolts of October 1950 against the United States government in Puerto Rico. Albizu Campos spent a total of twenty-six years in prison at various times for his Puerto Rican independence activities.

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Jean-François Martial, Belgian actor (died 1977)

Jean-François Martial was a Belgian actor who appeared in mostly French films beginning in the silent film era of the early 1910s until his retirement in the early 1960s.

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Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher (died 1968)

Arthur Hays Sulzberger was publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961. During that time, daily circulation rose from 465,000 to 713,000 and Sunday circulation from 745,000 to 1.4 million; the staff more than doubled, reaching 5,200; advertising linage grew from 19 million to 62 million column inches per year; and gross income increased almost sevenfold, reaching $117 million.

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12/09/1889

Ugo Pasquale Mifsud, Maltese politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Malta (died 1942)

Sir Ugo Pasquale Mifsud was a Maltese politician, the 3rd Prime Minister of Malta under British home rule, and the first to serve a full term in power. He held office from 1924 to 1927 and from 1932 to 1933. He was a member of the Nationalist Party and the Maltese Italian community.

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12/09/1888

Maurice Chevalier, French actor, singer, and dancer (died 1972)

Maurice Auguste Chevalier was a French singer, actor, and entertainer. He is best known for his signature songs, including "Livin' In The Sunlight", "Valentine", "Louise", "Mimi", and "Thank Heaven for Little Girls", and for his films, including The Love Parade, The Big Pond, The Smiling Lieutenant, One Hour with You, and Love Me Tonight. His trademark attire was a boater hat and tuxedo.

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12/09/1885

Heinrich Hoffmann, German photographer and art dealer (died 1957)

Heinrich Hoffmann was a German Nazi politician and publisher who was Adolf Hitler's official photographer and a member of his inner circle. Hoffmann's photographs were a significant part of Hitler's propaganda campaign to present himself and the Nazi Party as a significant mass phenomenon. He received royalties from all uses of Hitler's image, which made him a millionaire over the course of Hitler's rule. After the Second World War he was tried and sentenced to 10 years in prison for war profiteering. He was classified by the Allies' Art Looting Investigators to be a "major offender" in Nazi art plundering of Jews, as both art dealer and collector. His art collection, which contained many artworks looted from Jews, was subsequently confiscated by the Allies.

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12/09/1884

Martin Klein, Estonian wrestler and coach (died 1947)

Martin Klein was an Estonian wrestler who competed for the Russian Empire at the 1912 Summer Olympics. He won the silver medal in the middleweight class, becoming the first Olympic medalist born in the territory of modern Estonia. In the semi-final against the reigning world champion Alfred Asikainen, the two grappled for 11 hours and 40 minutes on a sunny day outdoors, until Klein managed to pin Asikainen. Klein was so exhausted from the bout – the longest wrestling match ever recorded – that he was unable to wrestle for the gold the next day, leaving Swedish wrestler Claes Johansson with the gold medal.

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12/09/1882

Ion Agârbiceanu, Romanian journalist, politician, and archbishop (died 1963)

Ion Agârbiceanu was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian writer, journalist, politician, theologian and Greek-Catholic priest. Born among the Romanian peasant class of Transylvania, he was originally an Orthodox, but chose to embrace Eastern Catholicism. Assisted by the Catholic congregation of Blaj, he graduated from Budapest University, after which he was ordained. Agârbiceanu was initially assigned to a parish in the Apuseni Mountains, which form the backdrop to much of his fiction. Before 1910, Agârbiceanu had achieved literary fame in both Transylvania and the Kingdom of Romania, affiliating with ASTRA cultural society in 1912; his work was disputed between the rival schools of Sămănătorul and Poporanism. After a debut in poetry, he became a highly prolific author of novels, novellas, and other forms of prose, being rated as "Chekhovian" or "Tolstoyan" for his talents in describing the discreet suffering of common folk.

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12/09/1880

H. L. Mencken, American journalist and critic (died 1956)

Henry Louis Mencken was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians, and contemporary movements. His satirical reporting on the Scopes Trial, which he dubbed the "Monkey Trial", also earned him attention. The term Menckenian has entered multiple dictionaries to describe anything of or pertaining to Mencken, including his combative rhetorical and prose styles.

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12/09/1875

Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor and director (died 1926)

Matsunosuke Onoe , sometimes known as Medama no Matchan , was a Japanese actor. His birth name is Tsuruzo Nakamura. He is sometimes credited as Yukio Koki, Tamijaku Onoe, or Tsunusaburo Onoe, and as a kabuki artist he went by the name Tsurusaburo Onoe. He gained great popularity, appearing in over 1,000 films, and has been called the first superstar of Japanese cinema.

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12/09/1869

Paweł Owerłło, Polish actor (died 1957)

Paweł Owerłło was a Polish stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 45 films between 1912 and 1939.

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12/09/1866

Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, English cricketer and politician, 13th Governor General of Canada (died 1941)

Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, styled as the Earl of Willingdon between 1931 and 1936, was a British Liberal politician and administrator who served as Governor General of Canada and as Viceroy and Governor-General of India.

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12/09/1862

Carl Eytel, German-American painter and illustrator (died 1925)

Carl Eytel was a German American artist who built his reputation for paintings and drawings of desert subjects in the American Southwest. Immigrating to the United States in 1885, he settled in Palm Springs, California in 1903. With an extensive knowledge of the Sonoran Desert, Eytel traveled with the author George Wharton James as he wrote the successful Wonders of the Colorado Desert, and contributed over 300 drawings to the 1908 work. While he enjoyed success as an artist, he lived as an ascetic and would die in poverty. Eytel's most important work, Desert Near Palm Springs, hangs in the History Room of the California State Library.

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12/09/1857

Manuel Espinosa Batista, Colombian pharmacist and politician (died 1919)

Manuel Espinosa Batista was a Colombian pharmacist turned politician who campaigned for a separate Panama state and became one of "Founders of the Republic". He is known for his philanthropy.

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12/09/1856

Johann Heinrich Beck, American composer and conductor (died 1924)

Johann Heinrich Beck was an American composer and conductor. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he wrote a number of pieces for orchestra, as well as a string sextet and a string quartet. He also gave music composition instruction to African-American opera composer Harry Lawrence Freeman.

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12/09/1855

Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Quebec (died 1920)

Simon-Napoléon Parent, KC was the 12th premier of Quebec from October 3, 1900 to March 21, 1905, as well as serving as President of the Quebec Bridge and Railway Company.

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12/09/1852

H. H. Asquith, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1928)

Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith was a British statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. He was the last prime minister from the Liberal Party to command a majority government, and the most recent Liberal to have served as Leader of the Opposition.

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12/09/1837

Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (died 1892)

Louis IV was the Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 13 June 1877 until his death in 1892. Through his marriage to Queen Victoria's second daughter Alice, he was connected to the British royal family. Two of his daughters married into the House of Romanov.

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12/09/1830

William Sprague, American businessman and politician, 27th Governor of Rhode Island (died 1915)

William Sprague IV was the 27th Governor of Rhode Island from 1860 to 1863, and U.S. Senator from 1863 to 1875. He participated in the First Battle of Bull Run during the American Civil War while he was a sitting Governor.

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12/09/1829

Anselm Feuerbach, German painter (died 1880)

Anselm Feuerbach was a German painter. He was the leading neoclassical painter of the German 19th-century school.

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Charles Dudley Warner, American essayist and novelist (died 1900)

Charles Dudley Warner was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.

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12/09/1828

William Morgan, English-Australian politician, 14th Premier of South Australia (died 1883)

Sir William Morgan was the Premier of South Australia between 1878 and 1881.

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12/09/1818

Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor, invented the Gatling gun (died 1903)

Richard Jordan Gatling was an American inventor. He is best known for having invented the Gatling gun, which is considered to be the first successful machine gun.

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Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator (died 1882)

Theodor Kullak was a German pianist, composer and teacher.

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12/09/1816

Aurora von Qvanten, Swedish writer and artist (died 1907)

Aurora Magdalena von Qvanten was a Swedish writer, translator and artist who used the pseudonym Turdus Merula.

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12/09/1812

Edward Shepherd Creasy, English historian and jurist (died 1878)

Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy was an English historian and jurist.

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Richard March Hoe, American engineer and businessman, invented the Rotary printing press (died 1886)

Richard March Hoe was an American inventor from New York City who designed a rotary printing press identical to Josiah Warren's original invention, and related advancements, including the "Hoe web perfecting press" in 1871; it used a continuous roll of paper and revolutionized newspaper publishing.

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12/09/1797

Samuel Joseph May, American activist (died 1871)

Samuel Joseph May was an American reformer during the nineteenth century who championed education, women's rights, and abolition of slavery. May argued on behalf of all working people that the rights of humanity were more important than the rights of property, and advocated for minimum wages and legal limitations on the amassing of wealth.

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12/09/1768

Benjamin Carr, English-American singer-songwriter, educator, and publisher (died 1831)

Benjamin Carr was an American composer, singer, teacher, and music publisher.

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12/09/1740

Johann Heinrich Jung, German author and academic (died 1817)

Johann Heinrich Jung, better known by his assumed name Heinrich Stilling, was a German author. He is often called by both surnames as "Jung-Stilling".

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12/09/1739

Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, Methodist preacher and philanthropist (died 1815)

Mary Bosanquet Fletcher was an English preacher credited with persuading John Wesley, a founder of Methodism, to allow women to preach in public. She was born into an affluent family, but after converting to Methodism, rejected its luxurious life. She was involved in charity work throughout her life, operating a school and orphanage until her marriage to John Fletcher. She and a friend, Sarah Crosby, began preaching and leading meetings at her orphanage and became the most popular female preachers of their time. Fletcher was known as a "Mother in Israel", a Methodist term of honour, for her work in spreading the denomination across England.

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12/09/1736

Hsinbyushin, Burmese king (died 1776)

Hsinbyushin, also known as Maung Rwa or Prince of Myedu (မြေဒူးမင်း), was the third emperor of the Konbaung dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from 1763 to 1776. The second son of the dynasty founder Alaungpaya is best known for his wars with Qing China and Siam, and is considered the most militaristic king of the dynasty. His successful defense against four Qing invasions preserved Burmese sovereignty. His 1765 invasion of Ayutthaya brought an end to the Ayutthaya Kingdom. The near simultaneous victories over Qing and Siam has been referred to as testimony "to a truly astonishing elan unmatched since Bayinnaung." He also raised the Shwedagon Pagoda to its current height in April 1775.

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12/09/1690

Peter Dens, Flemish theologian and academic (died 1775)

Peter Dens was a Flemish Roman Catholic theologian.

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12/09/1605

William Dugdale, English genealogist and historian (died 1686)

Sir William Dugdale was an English antiquary and herald. As a scholar he was influential in the development of medieval history as an academic subject.

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12/09/1590

María de Zayas, Spanish writer (died 1661)

María de Zayas y Sotomayor was a writer during the Spanish Golden Age. She is considered by many modern critics to be one of the pioneers of feminist literature, while others consider her simply a well-accomplished baroque author. The female characters in de Zayas's stories enlightened readers about the plight of women in Spanish society, or to instruct them in proper ways to live their lives.

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12/09/1494

Francis I of France (died 1547)

Francis I was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his first cousin once removed and father-in-law Louis XII, who died without a legitimate son.

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12/09/1415

John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (died 1461)

John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk,, Earl Marshal was a fifteenth-century English magnate who, despite having a relatively short political career, played a significant role in the early years of the Wars of the Roses. Mowbray was born in 1415, the only son and heir of John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, and Katherine Neville. He inherited his titles upon his father's death in 1432. As a minor he became a ward of King Henry VI and was placed under the protection of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, alongside whom Mowbray would later campaign in France. He seems to have had an unruly and rebellious youth. Although the details of his misconduct are unknown, they were severe enough for the King to place strictures upon him and separate him from his followers. Mowbray's early career was spent in the military, where he held the wartime office of Earl Marshal. Later he led the defence of England's possessions in Normandy during the Hundred Years' War. He fought in Calais in 1436, and during 1437–38 served as Warden of the Eastern March on the Anglo-Scottish border, before returning to Calais.

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