Born on Saturday, 13th September – Famous Birthdays

13/09/1999

Yeonjun, South Korean singer, songwriter and dancer

Choi Yeon-jun, known mononymously as Yeonjun, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, and dancer. He is a member of the South Korean boy band Tomorrow X Together, formed by Big Hit Entertainment in 2019. He debuted as a soloist in September 2024 with the song "Ggum" and released his first extended play No Labels: Part 01 on November 7, 2025.

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13/09/1996

Adrian Kempe, Swedish ice hockey player

Michael Adrian Kempe is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is a right winger and alternate captain for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). Kempe was selected by the Kings in the first round of the 2014 NHL entry draft.

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Lili Reinhart, American actress

Lili Pauline Reinhart is an American actress. She gained recognition for playing Betty Cooper on the CW teen drama series Riverdale (2017–2023). She has also starred in the crime drama film Hustlers (2019) and the romantic drama film Chemical Hearts (2020).

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13/09/1995

Joca, Portuguese footballer

João Carlos Almeida Leandro, known as Joca, is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a central defender.

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Jerry Tollbring, Swedish handball player

Jerry Tollbring is a Swedish handball player for Ribe-Esbjerg HH.

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13/09/1994

Leonor Andrade, Portuguese singer

Leonor Margarida Coelho Andrade, also known as Ella Nor is a Portuguese singer and actress. She represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "Há um mar que nos separa".

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Anna Karolína Schmiedlová, Slovak tennis player

Anna Karolína Schmiedlová is a Slovak inactive professional tennis player. On 12 October 2015, she reached her best WTA singles ranking of world No. 26. She has won three singles titles on the WTA Tour, two singles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as 12 singles titles on the ITF Circuit.

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Cameron Munster, Australian rugby league player

Cameron Munster is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a five-eighth for the Melbourne Storm in the National Rugby League (NRL) and captains Queensland in State of Origin.

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Sepp Kuss, American professional cyclist

Sepp Kuss is an American professional cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam Visma–Lease a Bike. He won the 2023 Vuelta a España, becoming the first American to win a Grand Tour since Chris Horner in 2013. Kuss is the second cyclist to win a Grand Tour and finish all three Grand Tours in a single season, after Gastone Nencini in 1957.

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13/09/1993

Niall Horan, Irish singer

Niall James Horan is an Irish singer-songwriter. He rose to prominence as a member of the boy band One Direction, formed in 2010 on the singing competition The X Factor. The group released five albums and went on to become one of the best-selling boy bands of all time.

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Alice Merton, Irish-Canadian singer and songwriter

Alice Florence Clarissa Merton is a British-based German-Canadian singer-songwriter. Merton achieved mainstream success with her debut single, "No Roots". In 2017, she released her first EP of the same name, and released her debut studio album Mint in 2019. S.I.D.E.S. was released as her second studio album in 2022. Her third studio album, Visions, was released on 16 January 2026.

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13/09/1992

Darren Waller, American football player

Darren Charles Waller is an American professional football tight end for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the sixth round of the 2015 NFL draft.

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13/09/1991

Ksenia Afanasyeva, Russian gymnast

Ksenia Dmitrievna Afanasyeva is a retired Russian artistic gymnast who competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. She is the 2011 world champion on floor exercise, the 2013 and 2015 European floor champion, and the 2013 Universiade vault and floor champion. Widely regarded as one of the most original and artistic gymnasts of all time, she retired from elite gymnastics in July 2016 due to kidney disease, a month away from the 2016 Summer Olympics, for which she was the Russian team's first alternate.

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13/09/1990

Craig Cunningham, Canadian ice hockey player

Craig Alvin Cunningham is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played with the Boston Bruins and Arizona Coyotes in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Boston Bruins, 97th overall in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, before being called up to the Bruins in December 2013.

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Aoi Nakabeppu, Japanese model and actress

Aoi Nakabeppu is a Japanese fashion model and actress who is affiliated with Horipro.

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Luciano Narsingh, Dutch footballer

Luciano Rudy Narsingh is a Dutch professional footballer who plays for Super League Greece 2 club Hellas Syros. He is right-footed and usually plays as a right winger but can also play as a left winger, and both side of attacking midfield. Since 2012, he has also played for the Netherlands national team, whom he represented at that year's European Championship.

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13/09/1989

Elysée Irié Bi Séhi, Ivorian footballer

Irié Bi Séhi Elysée, commonly known as Elise or Irié, is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Meistriliiga club JK Narva Trans.

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Kenny Edwards, New Zealand rugby league player

Kenny Edwards is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who played as a second-row.

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Jon Mannah, Australian rugby league player (died 2013)

Jonathan Mannah was an Australian professional rugby league footballer. He played as a prop for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks (2009–2011) and the Parramatta Eels (2012) in the National Rugby League (NRL). Since 2013, the Johnny Mannah Cup, which is named in his honour, is annually competed for by both clubs he played for.

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Thomas Müller, German footballer

Thomas Müller is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward or attacking midfielder for Major League Soccer club Vancouver Whitecaps FC. Widely regarded as one of the best players of his generation, Nicknamed "der Raumdeuter", Müller has been praised for his positioning, finishing, work-rate, and consistency in both scoring and creating goals. He is both the all-time German top goalscorer and assist provider in the UEFA Champions League.

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William Owusu, Ghanaian footballer

William Owusu Acheampong is a Ghanaian footballer who plays for Sint-Eloois-Winkel as a striker.

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13/09/1988

Luis Rentería, Panamanian footballer (died 2014)

Luis Gabriel Rentería was a Panamanian football forward, who played at the end of his professional career for Tauro in the Liga Panameña de Fútbol.

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Keith Treacy, Irish footballer

Keith Patrick Treacy is an Irish former footballer who was a Republic of Ireland international and who last played for St Patrick's Athletic. He spent his youth at Belvedere and began his professional career at Blackburn Rovers. Treacy has also played for Stockport County, Sheffield United, Preston North End, Burnley, Sheffield Wednesday, Barnsley, Drogheda United and St Patrick's Athletic.

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13/09/1987

Edenilson Bergonsi, Brazilian footballer

Edenilson Bergonsi, sometimes known as just Edenilson, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Gibraltar National League side Bruno's Magpies. He also holds Italian nationality.

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Jonathan de Guzmán, Canadian-Dutch footballer

Jonathan Alexander de Guzmán is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Sparta Rotterdam.

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Luke Fitzgerald, Irish rugby player

Luke Matthew Fitzgerald is a former rugby union player. He played at winger or fullback for Leinster. He retired in June 2016. Having previously studied at Blackrock College he won two Leinster Schools Senior Cups, in 2004 and 2006. He won his first cap for Ireland in November 2006. Fitzgerald earned the nickname "Pivot" from Leinster and Irish rugby fans due to his exciting runs and sidesteps from broken play.

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Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgarian tennis player

Tsvetana Kirilova Pironkova is a Bulgarian former tennis player. Considered to be one of the best grass court players of her generation, she has been noted for her "cerebral" skills on the surface, reaching the semifinals at the Wimbledon Championships. Pironkova also found success playing on the quick hardcourts throughout her career, winning a title in Sydney and reaching the quarterfinals of the US Open.

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13/09/1986

Steve Colpaert, Belgian footballer

Steve Colpaert is a Belgian football coach and former player who is manager of Zulte Waregem.

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Derek Hardman, American football player

Derek Hardman is an American former professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Eastern Kentucky Colonels and was signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent in 2010.

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Kamui Kobayashi, Japanese race car driver

Kamui Kobayashi is a Japanese racing driver and motorsport executive, who competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Toyota and in Super Formula for KCMG. Kobayashi competed in Formula One from 2009 to 2014. In endurance racing, Kobayashi has won two FIA World Endurance Championship titles, and won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2021, all with Toyota; he is also a two-time winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2019 and 2020 with WTR. Since 2022, Kobayashi has served as team principal of Toyota in WEC, winning three consecutive World Manufacturers' Championship titles from 2022 to 2024.

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Sean Williams, American basketball player

Sean Christopher Williams is an American former professional basketball player.

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13/09/1985

David Jordan, English singer-songwriter

David Keith Arratoon in Barnet, London), known as David Jordan, is an English singer-songwriter. His debut album, Set the Mood, was released in October 2007, peaking at number 13 on the UK Albums Chart.

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Tom Learoyd-Lahrs, Australian rugby league player

Tom Learoyd-Lahrs is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative, he played in the National Rugby League (NRL) for the Brisbane Broncos, Canberra Raiders and the Melbourne Storm.

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13/09/1984

Nabil Abou-Harb, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Nabil Zouheir Abou-Harb is an American filmmaker, writer, producer, and director. He is also co-founder of "Five on Fifty Films" and has directed and produced a number of commercials.

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Baron Corbin, American wrestler

Thomas Pestock is an American professional wrestler, Brazilian jiu jitsu practitioner, former professional football player and former amateur boxer. He is primarily working for Major League Wrestling (MLW), where he performs under the ring name Bishop Dyer and is one-half of the MLW World Tag Team Champions with Donovan Dijak in their first reign, while also making appearances on the independent circuit. He is best known for his tenure in WWE, where he performed under the ring name Baron Corbin.

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13/09/1983

James Bourne, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

James Elliot Bourne is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He is known as the co-founder of pop-punk bands Busted and Son of Dork, and he also created his own electronic project under the alias Future Boy. From 2013 to 2015 he was a member of McBusted, which consisted of himself, Busted bandmate Matt Willis, and McFly.

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Molly Crabapple, American illustrator and journalist

Molly Crabapple is an American artist and writer. She is a contributing editor for VICE and has written for a variety of other outlets, as well as publishing books, including an illustrated memoir, Drawing Blood (2015), Discordia on the Greek economic crisis, the art books Devil in the Details and Week in Hell (2012), and a history of the Jewish Labor Bund, Here Where We Live Is Our Country (2026), which is a New York Times best seller. Crabapple's works are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Barjeel Art Foundation and the New-York Historical Society.

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Ryan Del Monte, Canadian ice hockey player

Ryan Del Monte is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played in the American Hockey League (AHL).

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Eduard Ratnikov, Estonian footballer

Eduard Ratnikov is a retired Estonian football player. He has played in Romanian Liga I club Oţelul Galaţi where his contract with the Romanian Liga I club Oțelul Galați was terminated after just a few appearances for the club.

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13/09/1982

Lloyd Dyer, English footballer

Lloyd Richard Dyer is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger. During his 18 years as a professional, Dyer spent the majority of his career in the Football League, most notably with West Bromwich Albion and later Leicester City, spending six years with the latter and earning promotion to the Premier League with both clubs in 2004 and 2014 respectively.

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Nenê, Brazilian basketball player

Nenê is a Brazilian former professional basketball player. Known previously as Nenê Hilario, he legally changed his name to simply Nenê in 2003.

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Rickie Weeks, American baseball player

Rickie Darnell Weeks Jr. is an American former professional baseball second baseman and coach in Major League Baseball (MLB). Between 2003 and 2017, he played in MLB for the Milwaukee Brewers, Seattle Mariners, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Tampa Bay Rays. He was an MLB All-Star in 2011. After retiring as a player, Weeks has worked in the Brewers organization, serving as associate manager in 2024 and 2025.

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Colin Marston, American guitarist, bassist, and producer/engineer

Colin James Marston is an American record producer and musician residing in New York City. He graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music technology in 2004, and owns Menegroth The Thousand Caves Recording Studios in Woodhaven, Queens, while not on tour with one of a number of bands. He is also known for his performances in Behold... The Arctopus, Dysrhythmia, Krallice, and the reunion lineup of Gorguts. Marston has produced, mastered, and mixed music for artists such as Imperial Triumphant, Cleric, Genghis Tron, Kayo Dot, Jarboe, Capillary Action, Origin, Panopticon, Altar of Plagues, Liturgy, Pyrrhon, and Orthrelm, as well as for his own bands. Marston is multi-instrumentalist; he plays guitar, bass, and keyboards.

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Miha Zupan, Slovenian basketball player

Miha Zupan is a Deaf Slovenian former professional basketball player. He played among hearing players at the highest level in Europe. He is a 2.05 m power forward who can also play center when needed. He is the only deaf person to play in a professional basketball league and in the EuroCup. Miha Zupan has competed at the Deaflympics on 5 occasions from 1997 to 2017.

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13/09/1981

Koldo Fernández, Spanish cyclist

Koldo Fernández de Larrea is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2014 for the Euskaltel–Euskadi and Garmin–Sharp teams. He now works as a transfer agent within the sport.

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Angelina Love, Canadian-American wrestler

Lauren Woolard is a Canadian professional wrestler. She is best known for her time in TNA Wrestling under the ring name Angelina Love as part of the stable The Beautiful People. She is signed with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA).

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13/09/1980

Andreas Biermann, German footballer (died 2014)

Andreas Biermann was a German professional footballer who played as a defender.

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Han Chae-young, South Korean actress

Kim Ji-young, professionally known by the stage name Han Chae-young, is a South Korean actress. She first gained recognition as the antagonist in the television series Autumn in My Heart (2000) before gaining wider prominence as the titular character in Sassy Girl Chun-hyang (2005). Her other roles include Only You (2005), Fireworks (2006), Boys Over Flowers (2009), A Man Called God (2010), and Bel Ami (2013).

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Daisuke Matsuzaka, Japanese baseball player

Daisuke Matsuzaka is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher, who pitched professionally for 23 seasons, 16 of them in NPB, 7 in MLB. He is currently a baseball color commentator, critic, reporter, and YouTuber. Daisuke is nicknamed "the Monster of the Heisei Era" in Japan and "Dice-K" in the United States by The Boston Globe and USA Today. He played for the Boston Red Sox and New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Saitama Seibu Lions, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

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Evangelos Nastos, Greek footballer

Vangelis Nastos is a Greek former football defender who last played for Veria in the Super League Greece.

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Viren Rasquinha, Indian field hockey player

Viren Wilfred Rasquinha is an Indian former field hockey player and captain of the Indian national team. He was a member of the team that competed at the 2004 Athens Olympics. He quit international hockey in 2008 to pursue management studies at the age of 28.

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Ben Savage, American actor

Bennett Joseph Savage is an American actor. He played the lead role of Cory Matthews on the ABC sitcom Boy Meets World (1993–2000) and its Disney Channel sequel Girl Meets World (2014–2017).

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13/09/1979

Geike Arnaert, Belgian singer

Geike Arnaert is a Belgian singer, best known for being the lead vocalist of the band Hooverphonic from 1997 until 2008 and again since 2020. Geike was born in Poperinge and grew up in Westouter, a town that is close to the French border. From a young age she was captivated by music and therefore she decided to audition for the Belgian band Hooverphonic, the group of guitarist Raymond Geerts and Alex Callier.

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Tony Henry, English footballer

Tony Henry is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender.

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13/09/1978

Swizz Beatz, American rapper and producer

Kasseem Daoud Dean, known professionally as Swizz Beatz, is an American record producer, rapper and DJ. Born and raised in the Bronx borough of New York City, Dean embarked on his musical career as a DJ in 1994. At the age of 18, he gained recognition in the music industry through his family's record label Ruff Ryders Entertainment, as well as his affiliation with its flagship artist, Yonkers-based rapper DMX. Dean emerged as a high-profile figure in East Coast hip-hop through his tenure as DMX's hype man, DJ and producer.

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Peter Sunde, Swedish businessman

Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, alias brokep, is a Swedish-born Finnish-Norwegian entrepreneur and politician. He is best known for being a co-founder and ex-spokesperson of The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent search engine. He is an equality advocate and has expressed concerns over issues of centralization of power to the European Union in his blog. Sunde also participates in the Pirate Party of Finland and describes himself as a socialist. In April 2017, Sunde founded Njalla, a privacy oriented domain name registrar, hosting provider and VPN provider.

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Masato Shibata, Japanese wrestler

Masato Shibata is a Japanese professional wrestler primarily working for DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT), where he competes as part of the Damnation T.A unit under the ring name MJ Paul . He was previously known under the name Mad Paulie .

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13/09/1977

Fiona Apple, American singer-songwriter, producer, and pianist

Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart is an American singer-songwriter. All five of her albums have reached the top 20 on the Billboard 200 since 1996, and as of 2021, she has sold over 15 million records worldwide. Apple has received numerous accolades, including three Grammy Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, and a Billboard Music Video Award. Three of her albums appear on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list.

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Ivan De Battista, Maltese actor, singer, director, and producer

Ivan De Battista is a Maltese actor, director, author, and poet/lyricist.

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Daisuke Tsuda, Japanese singer-songwriter and drummer

Maximum the Hormone is a Japanese heavy metal/hardcore punk band from Hachiōji, Tokyo. Their lineup consists of vocalist Daisuke-han, drummer Nao, guitarist Maximum the Ryokun, and bassist Ue-chang. Each member alternates singing lead vocals, often within the same song, with the exception of Ue-chang, who provides backup vocals almost exclusively.

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13/09/1976

Ro Khanna, American politician

Rohit "Ro" Khanna is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative from California's 17th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he defeated eight-term incumbent Democratic representative Mike Honda in the general election on November 8, 2016, after first running for the same seat in 2014. Khanna also served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of Commerce under President Barack Obama from August 8, 2009, to August 2011. Khanna endorsed Bernie Sanders for president of the United States in 2016 and co-chaired Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign.

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Craig McMillan, New Zealand cricketer, coach, and sportscaster

Craig Douglas McMillan is a New Zealand cricket coach and former international cricketer who played all forms of the game. He was a right-handed batsman and useful right-arm medium pace bowler who played for Canterbury in New Zealand first-class cricket. He also played English county cricket for Hampshire and Gloucestershire County Cricket Clubs. McMillan was a member of the New Zealand team that won the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy.

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Elvis Mihailenko, Latvian boxer, trainer, and sportscaster

Elvis Mihailenko is a Latvian professional boxer, the first Latvian National boxing champion amongst professionals and first ever professional fighter from Latvia who won any of the major titles, as WBA Intercontinental champion and EBU-EU, and later defended it once more. He fought at the light-heavyweight division. Mihaiļenko never hired a big promoter, allowing him to travel around Europe to enjoy the training camps in the best gyms. He sparred with a number of great fighters, including such World champions as Joe Calzaghe, Mikkel Kessler, Zsolt Erdei, and David Haye.

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José Théodore, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

José Nicolas Théodore is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens, Colorado Avalanche, Washington Capitals, Minnesota Wild, and Florida Panthers.

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Puma Swede, Swedish pornographic actress

Johanna Jussinniemi, better known by her stage name Puma Swede, is a Swedish pornographic actress and feature dancer. The first part of her stage name comes from the sports car, the Ford Puma. Since 2005, she has appeared in over 200 movies.

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13/09/1975

Akihiro Asai, Japanese race car driver

Akihiro Asai is a Japanese race car driver. Started open-wheel racing in 1994. Won East & West Japanese Formula 4 titles in 1997. Also competed in Formula Holden Australian Driver's Championship and CART Toyota Atlantic (2000). Started entering GT car racing in 2003 from Team Taisan in the Japanese GT Championship. Competed in the Japanese GT Championship and Super GT in 2004, 2005 and 2010. Also raced in the 2005 Super Taikyu Series championship. From 2010, started to participate racing in south east Asia region and in 2011 won the Supercar Thailand N.A. class Championship. Races widely in GT Asia, Asian Le Mans Series, Thailand Super Series.

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Joe Don Rooney, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Joe Don Rooney is an American musician. He is the lead guitarist and high octave harmony singer in the country music band Rascal Flatts.

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Idan Tal, Israeli footballer

Idan Tal is an Israeli former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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13/09/1974

Travis Knight, American basketball player

Travis Knight is an American former professional basketball player who played seven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A 7'0" center from the University of Connecticut, he played under Hall of Fame head coach Jim Calhoun.

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Éric Lapointe, Canadian football player

Éric Lapointe is a Canadian former professional football player. He was a running back with the Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League (CFL).

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Craig Rivet, Canadian ice hockey player

Anthony Craig Rivet is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played 18 seasons in the NHL, including 12 with the Montreal Canadiens. He later played for the San Jose Sharks, Buffalo Sabres, and Columbus Blue Jackets before finishing his career with the Elmira Jackals of the ECHL.

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13/09/1973

Christine Arron, French runner

Christine Arron is a French former track and field sprinter, who competed internationally for France in the 60 metres, 100 metres, 200 metres and the 4 × 100 metres relay. She is one of the fastest female 100 metres sprinters of all time with a time of 10.73 seconds set in 1998. At the time it made her the world's second-fastest female 100 metres sprinter of all time, and which as of October 2025 is still the European record. She set the record when winning at the 1998 European Championships, where she also won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay. Also in the relay, she is a 2003 World Championship gold medallist and a 2004 Olympic bronze medallist.

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Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer and manager

Fabio Cannavaro is an Italian professional football coach and former player who is the head coach of the Uzbekistan national team. He is regarded as one of the greatest defenders of all time.

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Carlo Nash, English footballer and photographer

Carlo James Nash is an English former professional footballer and goalkeeper coach.

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13/09/1971

Ben Alexander, Australian rugby league player (died 1992)

Ben Alexander, also known by the nickname "Boods", was an Australian rugby league footballer who played as a halfback or hooker for the Penrith Panthers in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership. He was the younger brother of his Penrith teammate Greg Alexander.

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Goran Ivanišević, Croatian tennis player and coach

Goran Ivanišević is a Croatian former professional tennis player and current coach. He was ranked world No. 2 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in July 1994. Ivanišević won 22 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including the 2001 Wimbledon Championships. He is the only singles player to win Wimbledon as a wild card, achieving the feat while ranked world No. 125. He had previously been runner-up at Wimbledon in 1992, 1994, and 1998. Ivanišević was known for his powerful left-handed serve, and for almost two decades held the record for most aces at Wimbledon with 1,377. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2020.

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Stella McCartney, English fashion designer

Stella Nina McCartney is an English fashion designer. She is a daughter of English singer-songwriter Paul McCartney and American photographer and animal rights activist Linda McCartney. Like her parents, McCartney is a supporter of animal rights and environmentalism, and uses vegetarian and animal-free alternatives in her work. Since 2005, she has designed an activewear collection for Adidas.

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Manabu Namiki, Japanese pianist and composer

Manabu Namiki is a Japanese video game composer who is primarily known for his work in shoot 'em up games. He has worked at game companies such as Allumer, NMK, Raizing and M2. In October 2002, Namiki, Hitoshi Sakimoto, and Masaharu Iwata founded the music production company Basiscape, whom he worked with until 2011.

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13/09/1970

Lee Abramson, American bass player and composer (died 2016)

Lee Abramson was an American composer and musician. He was the first person to write music using ModelTalker, a computerized speech production program.

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Martín Herrera, Argentinian footballer

Martín Horacio Herrera is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Louise Lombard, English actress

Louise Lombard is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Evangeline Eliott in the BBC drama series The House of Eliott (1991–94), Sofia Curtis in the CBS drama series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2004–11) and Trish in the After film series.

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13/09/1969

Daniel Fonseca, Uruguayan footballer

Daniel Fonseca Garis is a Uruguayan former footballer and a FIFA-licensed football agent. A former forward, throughout his playing career, he played for Uruguayan side Nacional, as well as Italian clubs Cagliari, Napoli, Roma, Juventus, and Como, and Argentine side River Plate, winning titles with both Nacional and Juventus. At international level, he represented Uruguay on 30 occasions between 1990 and 1997, scoring 11 goals, and also took part at the 1990 FIFA World Cup and the 1995 Copa América, winning the latter tournament.

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Dominic Fumusa, American actor

Dominic Fumusa is an American stage and screen actor known for starring in the Showtime comedy-drama series Nurse Jackie.

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Tyler Perry, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Tyler Perry is an American filmmaker, playwright, actor, comedian, and entrepreneur. His films vary in style from orthodox filmmaking techniques to filmed productions of live stage plays, many of which have been subsequently adapted into feature films. Perry is the creator and performer of Mabel "Madea" Simmons, a tough elderly woman, and also portrays her brother Joe Simmons and her nephew Brian Simmons. Madea's first appearance was in I Can Do Bad All by Myself (1999) staged in Chicago.

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Shane Warne, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (died 2022)

Shane Keith Warne was an Australian international cricketer whose career ran from 1992 to 2007. Warne played as a right-arm leg spin bowler and a lower-order right-handed batter for Victoria, Hampshire, the Melbourne Stars and Australia. Warne is regarded by many of the greatest cricket players, statisticians and unbiased sporting analysts as not just the greatest ever leg spinner, but one of the greatest bowlers in the history of cricket. Warne also played for and coached the Rajasthan Royals, including captaining the team to victory in the inaugural season of the IPL.

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13/09/1968

Brad Johnson, American football player

James Bradley Johnson is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 17 seasons with the Minnesota Vikings, Washington Redskins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Dallas Cowboys. He is best known for his time with the Buccaneers, whom he led to a win in Super Bowl XXXVII.

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Bernie Williams, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and guitarist

Bernabé Williams Figueroa Jr. is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball player and current musician. He played his entire 16-year career in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the New York Yankees from 1991 through 2006.

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13/09/1967

Michael Johnson, American former sprinter and journalist

Michael Duane Johnson is an American sprinter who became Olympic Champion four times, and World Champion eight times in the span of his career. He held the world and Olympic records in the 200 m and 400 m, as well as the world record in the indoor 400 m. He also once held the world's best time in the 300 m. Johnson is generally considered one of the greatest and most consistent sprinters in the history of track and field.

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Tim "Ripper" Owens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Timothy S. "Ripper" Owens is an American heavy metal singer who currently performs with KK's Priest, Spirits of Fire, the Three Tremors and "The Tim Ripper Monster Energy Big Band". He first gained attention as the lead singer of Judas Priest and then Iced Earth. He took the nickname "Ripper" from the Judas Priest song "The Ripper" during his time in the tribute band British Steel. Like his predecessor in Judas Priest, Owens has been noted for his powerful and wide ranging operatic vocal style.

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Stephen Perkins, American drummer and songwriter

Stephen Andrew Perkins is an American musician and songwriter. A drummer and percussionist, he has played with Jane's Addiction, Porno for Pyros, Banyan and Hellride. His style blends rock, jazz, swing, African, Indian and Latin drumming styles together.

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13/09/1966

Maria Furtwängler, German physician and actress

Maria Furtwängler-Burda is a German physician and television actress.

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Brendan Hall, Australian rugby league player

Brendan Hall is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He mostly played five-eighth, but he also spent time playing lock and occasionally centre.

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Igor Kravchuk, Russian ice hockey player

Igor Aleksandrovich Kravchuk is a Russian former ice hockey defenceman, who spent several seasons in the Soviet League and then in the National Hockey League and also competed internationally for the Soviet Union, Unified Team, and Russia.

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Louis Mandylor, Australian actor

Louis Mandylor is an Australian film and television actor. Mandylor is best known for playing Nikos "Nick" Portokalos in the My Big Fat Greek Wedding franchise (2002–2023).

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13/09/1965

Annie Duke, American poker player and author

Anne LaBarr Duke is an American former professional poker player and author in cognitive-behavioral decision science and decision education. She holds a World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet from 2004 and used to be the leading money winner among women in WSOP history; she remains in the top five as of April 2023, despite having retired from poker and last cashing at a tournament in 2010. Duke won the 2004 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions and the National Heads-Up Poker Championship in 2010. She has written a number of instructional books for poker players, including Decide to Play Great Poker and The Middle Zone, as well as an autobiography, How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker, in 2005. Duke authored two books on decision-making, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts, and How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices.

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Jeff Ross, American comedian, director, and author

Jeffrey Ross Lifschultz is an American stand-up comedian, actor, director and producer. He is nicknamed the "Roastmaster General" for his insult comedy, his multiple appearances at celebrity roasts held by the New York Friars Club, the Comedy Central Roast television series, and the Netflix historical comedy series Historical Roasts. In 2009 the Chicago Tribune called Ross "the new millennium Don Rickles." His directorial debut, the 2006 documentary Patriot Act: A Jeffrey Ross Home Movie, won the prize for Best Film at the Comedia film festival held at the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal.

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Zak Starkey, English drummer

Zak Richard Starkey is an English drummer, musician and percussionist who toured and recorded with the Who from 1996 to 2025. Other musicians and bands he has worked with include Oasis, Johnny Marr, the Icicle Works, the Lightning Seeds, and the Semantics. He is the son of the Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr and Maureen Starkey.

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13/09/1964

Tavis Smiley, American talk show host, journalist, and author

Tavis Smiley is an American talk show host and author. Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, and grew up in Bunker Hill, Indiana. After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of Los Angeles.

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13/09/1963

Yuri Alexandrov, Russian boxer (died 2013)

Yuri Alexandrov was a Russian Soviet-era boxer who was World Amateur Flyweight Champion in 1982, and European Amateur Bantamweight Champion in 1983, as well as four-time champion of the USSR. He was unable to replicate this success in the Olympics, being excluded from the 1984 Los Angeles games by the Soviet boycott, and missing the 1988 games due to injury.

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Antony Galione, English pharmacologist

Antony Giuseppe Galione is a British pharmacologist. He is a professor and Wellcome Trust senior investigator in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford.

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Theodoros Roussopoulos, Greek journalist and politician

Theodoros Roussopoulos is a Greek journalist, politician and university professor. He entered politics in 2000 and served as the Minister of State and Government Spokesman from 7 March 2004 to 23 October 2008. He is currently an adjunct professor at the European University Cyprus and a Member of the Hellenic Parliament. He served as the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 2024 to 2026.

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Robin Smith, South African-English cricketer

Robin Arnold Smith was a South African-born English cricketer. He was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1992 Cricket World Cup.

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13/09/1962

Neal Lancaster, American golfer

Grady Neal Lancaster is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour, Nationwide Tour and the PGA Tour Champions.

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Tõnu Õnnepalu, Estonian author

Tõnu Õnnepalu, also known by the pen names Emil Tode and Anton Nigov, is an Estonian poet, author and translator.

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13/09/1961

Dave Mustaine, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

David Scott Mustaine is an American musician. He is the co-founder, frontman, primary songwriter and sole consistent member of the thrash metal band Megadeth and was the lead guitarist of Metallica from 1981 to 1983. Megadeth has released seventeen studio albums, sold over 50 million records worldwide, with five albums platinum-certified, and won a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 2017 at the 59th Grammy Awards, for the title track of their fifteenth studio album, Dystopia.

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KK Null, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist

Kazuyuki Kishino , known by his stage name KK Null, is a Japanese experimental multi-instrumentalist active since the early 1980s. He began as a guitarist but learned how to compose, sing, play drums, and create electronic music. He also studied Butoh dance at Min Tanaka's workshop.

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Peter Roskam, American lawyer and politician

Peter James Roskam is an American politician and lobbyist who is the former U.S. representative for Illinois's 6th congressional district, serving six terms from 2007 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party and served as the chief deputy majority whip from 2011 to 2014, ranking fourth among House Republican leaders. Previously, he served in the Illinois Senate and the Illinois House of Representatives. He served as chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Tax Policy for the 115th Congress. Roskam was defeated by Democrat Sean Casten in the 2018 election. In 2023, he was named federal policy head of the lobbying practice at Washington, DC–based law firm BakerHostetler. In January 2025, he was elected chairman of National Endowment for Democracy's board of directors.

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13/09/1960

Kevin Carter, South African photojournalist (died 1994)

Kevin Carter was a South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club. He was the recipient in 1994 of a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph depicting the 1993 famine in Sudan; he died by suicide less than four months afterwards, at the age of 33. His story is depicted in the book The Bang-Bang Club, written by Greg Marinovich and João Silva and published in 2000.

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Bob Eggleton, American artist

Bob Eggleton is an American science fiction, fantasy and horror artist. Eggleton is a nine-time Hugo Award–winner for Best Pro Artist in science fiction and fantasy, first winning in 1994. He won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book in 2001 for his art book Greetings from Earth. He also won the Chesley Award for Artistic Achievement in 1999 and was the guest of honor at Chicon 2000.

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13/09/1959

Tatyana Mitkova, Russian journalist

Tatyana Rostislavovna Mitkova is a Russian television journalist for NTV. She became famous in 1991 for refusing to read the official Soviet Union version of the military response to the uprising in Lithuania. In 2001, BBC News described her as one of Russia's "best-known news presenters".

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13/09/1958

Bobby Davro, English comedian and actor

Robert Christopher Nankeville, known professionally as Bobby Davro, is an English actor, comedian and impressionist.

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Paweł Przytocki, Polish conductor and academic

Paweł Przytocki, is a Polish conductor of classical music.

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Kōji Tamaki, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor

Kōji Tamaki is a Japanese singer-songwriter and actor. He has been well known as frontman of the rock band Anzen Chitai that debuted in 1982 and enjoyed a successful career, particularly during the 1980s. In the 1990s, he also began his career as a solo artist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Japanese vocalists.

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13/09/1957

Vinny Appice, American rock drummer

Vincent Samson Appice is an American rock and metal drummer best known for his work with the bands Dio, Black Sabbath, and Heaven & Hell. He is the younger brother of drummer Carmine Appice.

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Judy Blumberg, American ice dancer and sportscaster

Judith Ann Blumberg is an American former competitive ice dancer. With Michael Seibert, she is a three-time World bronze medalist (1983–85), the 1980 Skate Canada International champion, the 1981 Skate America champion, and a five-time U.S. national champion (1981–85).

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Mal Donaghy, Northern Irish footballer and manager

Malachy Martin Donaghy is a former Northern Ireland international footballer who played for Luton Town and Manchester United.

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Brad Hooker, English-American philosopher and academic

Brad Hooker is a British-American philosopher who specialises in moral philosophy. He is a professor at the University of Reading and is best known for his work defending rule consequentialism.

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Eleanor King, English lawyer and judge

Dame Eleanor Warwick King is a British judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.

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John G. Trueschler, American lawyer and politician

John G. Trueschler is an American politician who was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from District 42.

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Mark Wiebe, American golfer

Mark Charles Wiebe is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour, Nationwide Tour and PGA Tour Champions.

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Keith Black, American neurosurgeon and academic

Keith L. Black is an American neurosurgeon specializing in the treatment of brain tumors and a prolific campaigner for funding of cancer treatment. He is chairman of the neurosurgery department and director of the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.

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Bongbong Marcos, 17th President of the Philippines

Ferdinand "Bongbong" Romualdez Marcos Jr., commonly referred to by the initials BBM or PBBM, is a Filipino politician who has served as the 17th president of the Philippines since 2022. He is the second child and only son of 10th president Ferdinand Marcos and former first lady Imelda Marcos.

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13/09/1956

Alain Ducasse, French-Monégasque chef

Alain Ducasse is a French-born Monégasque chef. He operates a number of restaurants, including Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester, which holds three stars in the Michelin Guide.

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Anne Geddes, Australian-New Zealand photographer and fashion designer

Anne Elizabeth Geddes is an Australian-born, New York City-based portrait photographer known primarily for her elaborately staged photographs of infants.

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Martin Hurson, Irish Republican, hunger striker (died 1981)

Edward Martin Hurson was an Irish Republican hunger striker and a Volunteer in the East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). He was the sixth to die during the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.

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Joni Sledge, American singer and songwriter (died 2017)

Joni Sledge was an American singer–songwriter and music producer. She rose to fame in the 1970s as a member of the family vocal group Sister Sledge, one of the highest-selling female groups of the 1970s. Sledge sang lead on their US Top 10 songs "Lost in Music" and "Reach Your Peak". In 1984, a remix of "Lost in Music" peaked at number 4 on the UK Singles chart and also earned a silver-certification by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). She co-wrote and co-produced Sister Sledge's ninth album African Eyes (1998). Sledge continued to tour and perform with the group throughout the years. Her final performance with Sister Sledge was in October 2016.

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13/09/1955

Colin Moynihan, 4th Baron Moynihan, English rower and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics

Colin Berkeley Moynihan, 4th Baron Moynihan, 4th Baronet, is a British Olympic silver medalist, politician, businessman and sports administrator. Lord Moynihan served as the Chairman of the British Olympic Association (BOA) from 2005 to 2012. A member of the Conservative Party, he was as a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the constituency of Lewisham East from 1983 to 1992, and was the Minister for Sport from 1987 to 1990. He became a member of the House of Lords in 1997.

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Joe Morris, American guitarist and composer

Joseph Francis Michael Morris is an American jazz guitarist, bassist, composer, and educator.

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13/09/1954

Steve Kilbey, English-Australian singer-songwriter and bass player

Steven John Kilbey is an English-born Australian singer-songwriter best known as the lead singer and bass guitarist for the rock band The Church. He is also a music producer, poet, and painter. As of 2020, Kilbey has released 14 solo albums and has collaborated on recordings with musical artists such as Martin Kennedy, Stephen Cummings and Ricky Maymi as a vocalist, musician, writer and/or producer. Ian McFarlane writes that "Kilbey's solo recordings [are] challenging and evocative. They ran the gamut of sounds and emotions from electronic and avant-garde to acoustic and symphonic, joyous and dreamy to saturnine and sardonic".

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Isiah Whitlock Jr., American actor (died 2025)

Isiah Whitlock Jr. was an American actor. He is best known for his role as corrupt state senator Clay Davis on the HBO television series The Wire as well as being a frequent collaborator of Spike Lee.

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13/09/1952

Réjean Giroux, Canadian ice hockey player

Réjean Giroux is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger who played for the Quebec Nordiques of the World Hockey Association. He is the father of NHL and KHL player Alexandre Giroux. As a youth, Giroux played in the 1964 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Quebec Beavers minor ice hockey team.

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Randy Jones, American pop and disco singer

Randolph Edward Jones is an American disco and pop singer and best known as the cowboy from Village People from 1977 to 1980, and again from 1987 until 1990.

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Don Was, American bass player and producer

Don Edward Fagenson, known professionally as Don Was, is an American musician, bassist, record producer, music director, film composer, documentary filmmaker and radio host. Since 2011, he has also served as president of the American jazz label Blue Note Records.

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13/09/1951

Anne Devlin, Irish author, playwright, and screenwriter

Anne Devlin is a short story writer, playwright and screenwriter born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was a teacher from 1974 to 1978, and started writing fiction in 1976 in Germany. Having lived in London for a decade, she returned to Belfast in 2007.

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Salva Kiir Mayardit, South Sudanese politician, 1st President of South Sudan

Salva Kiir Mayardit, commonly known as Salva Kiir, is a South Sudanese politician who has served as the President of South Sudan since its independence on 9 July 2011. Prior to independence, he was the President of the Government of Southern Sudan, as well as First Vice President of Sudan, from 2005 to 2011. He was named Commander-in-Chief of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in 2005, following the death of John Garang.

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Jean Smart, American actress

Jean Elizabeth Smart is an American actress. Her work includes both comedy and drama, and her accolades include seven Primetime Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and three Golden Globe Awards, with nominations for a Grammy Award and a Tony Award.

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13/09/1950

Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Polish lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Poland

Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz is a Polish politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland for a year from 7 February 1996 to 31 October 1997, after being defeated in the Parliamentary elections by the Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS).

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Christine Estabrook, American actress

Christine Estabrook is an American actress, known for her roles on the television series The Crew, Nikki, Desperate Housewives, and American Horror Story; she had a recurring role on the drama Mad Men during the show's fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons. Estabrook has received an Obie Award and Drama Desk Award.

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Pat Holland, English footballer and manager

Patrick "Patsy" Holland is an English former footballer who played for clubs West Ham United, Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic and Team Hawaii. Holland has also coached and scouted for teams such as Leyton Orient, Tottenham Hotspur, Queens Park Rangers and Arsenal.

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Jeff Lowe, American mountaineer (died 2018)

Jeff Lowe was an American alpinist from Ogden, Utah who was known for his visionary climbs and first ascents established in the US and Canadian Rockies, Alps and Himalayas.

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13/09/1949

Jim Cleamons, American basketball player and coach

James Mitchell Cleamons is an American former professional basketball player and was a coach in the NBA and at the college and high school levels. He was an assistant coach on nine National Basketball Association (NBA) championship teams.

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John W. Henry, American businessman

John William Henry II is an American businessman and the founder of John W. Henry & Company, an investment management firm. He is the principal owner of Liverpool Football Club, the Boston Red Sox, the Pittsburgh Penguins, The Boston Globe, and co-owner of RFK Racing. As of October 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth to be US$5.7 billion.

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13/09/1948

Nell Carter, American actress and singer (died 2003)

Nell Carter was an American actress and singer.

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Dimitri Nanopoulos, Greek physicist and academic

Dimitri V. Nanopoulos is a Greek physicist residing in New York. He is one of the most regularly cited researchers in the world, cited more than 57,000 times across a number of separate branches of science.

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Sitiveni Rabuka, Fijian general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Fiji

Sitiveni Ligamamada Rabuka is a Fijian politician, sportsman, and former soldier who has been serving as Prime Minister of Fiji since 24 December 2022. He was the instigator of two military coups in 1987. He was democratically elected as Prime Minister of Fiji, serving from 1992 to 1999, and again in 2022, leading a three-party coalition. He also served as Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs from 1999 to 2001, and later as Chairman of the Cakaudrove Provincial Council from 2001 to 2008.

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13/09/1946

Frank Marshall, American director and producer

Frank Wilton Marshall is an American film producer and director. He often collaborated with his wife, film producer Kathleen Kennedy, with whom he founded the production company Amblin Entertainment, along with Steven Spielberg. In 1991, he founded, with Kennedy, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, a film production company. Since May 2012, with Kennedy taking on the role of President of Lucasfilm, Marshall has been Kennedy/Marshall's sole principal.

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Henri Kuprashvili, Georgian swimmer

Full Professor of Georgian Technical University Henri Kuprashvili is a Georgian Doctor of Political Sciences, First Class State Councillor who is most notable for breaking a Guinness record for swimming the Dardanelles, with his hands and feet bound in a traditional Georgian style of swimming, also known as Colchian. Kuprashvili has been awarded the Order of Vakhtang Gorgasali and George Byron Golden Medal.

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13/09/1945

Noël Godin, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter

Noël Godin is a Belgian writer, critic, actor and notorious pie thrower or entarteur. Godin gained global attention in 1998 when his group ambushed Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in Brussels, pelting the software magnate with pies. After bombarding Gates, Godin allegedly said, "My work here is done." He has been described as "the French-speaking world's best-known prankster."

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Andres Küng, Swedish journalist and politician (died 2002)

Andres Küng was a Swedish journalist, writer, entrepreneur and politician of Estonian origin. He was born in Ockelbo in Gävleborg County to a family of refugees from Soviet occupied Estonia.

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13/09/1944

Carol Barnes, English journalist (died 2008)

Carol Lesley Barnes was a British television newsreader and broadcaster. She worked for ITN from 1975 to 2004.

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Jacqueline Bisset, English actress and producer

Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset is a British actress. She began her film career in 1965 and came to prominence in 1968 with roles in The Detective, Bullitt, and The Sweet Ride, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination as Most Promising Newcomer. In the 1970s, she starred in Airport (1970), The Mephisto Waltz (1971), Day for Night (1973), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Le Magnifique (1973), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), St. Ives (1976), The Deep (1977), The Greek Tycoon (1978) and Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.

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Peter Cetera, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer

Peter Paul Cetera Jr. is an American retired musician best known for being a frontman, vocalist, and bassist for the American rock band Chicago from 1967 until his departure in 1985. His career as a recording artist encompasses 17 studio albums with Chicago and eight solo studio albums. As a lead singer/vocal artist he has had four number one songs on the Billboard Hot 100, two during his tenure with Chicago and two during his solo career. Of those four songs he wrote or co-wrote three.

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Midget Farrelly, Australian surfer (died 2016)

Bernard "Midget" Farrelly was the first world surfing champion.

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13/09/1943

Mildred D. Taylor, American author

Mildred DeLois Taylor is a Newbery Award-winning American young adult novelist. She is best known for her novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, part of her Logan family series.

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13/09/1942

Michel Côté, Canadian businessman and politician

Michel Côté, is a Canadian businessman and former politician.

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13/09/1941

Tadao Ando, Japanese architect and academic, designed Piccadilly Gardens

Tadao Ando is a Japanese architect. Self-taught, he is known for his unique integration of architecture and landscape. Architectural historian Francesco Dal Co described his work as an example of "critical regionalism". Ando was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1995.

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David Clayton-Thomas, English-Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

David Clayton-Thomas is a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the American band Blood, Sweat & Tears.

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Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Turkish judge and politician, 10th President of the Republic of Turkey

Ahmet Necdet Sezer is a Turkish statesman and judge who served as the president of Turkey from 2000 to 2007. Previously, he was president of the Constitutional Court of Turkey from January 1998 to May 2000. The Grand National Assembly of Turkey elected Sezer as president in 2000 after Süleyman Demirel's seven-year term expired. He was succeeded by Abdullah Gül in 2007.

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13/09/1940

Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, President of Costa Rica, Nobel Prize laureate

Óscar Arias Sánchez is a Costa Rican politician, activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was the president of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010.

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Brian Brain, English cricketer (died 2023)

Brian Maurice Brain was an English first-class cricketer whose career with Worcestershire and Gloucestershire stretched over more than two decades. He was capped by Worcestershire in 1966 and by Gloucestershire in 1977.

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Kerry Stokes, Australian businessman

Kerry Matthew Stokes is an Australian businessman. He holds business interests in industries including electronic and print media, property, gas, oil, mining and construction equipment. He is most widely known as the chairman of the Seven Network, one of the largest broadcasting corporations in Australia.

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13/09/1939

Arleen Auger, American soprano and educator (died 1993)

Joyce Arleen Auger was an American coloratura soprano, known for her interpretations of works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Monteverdi, Mozart, and Schubert. She won a posthumous Grammy Award for "Best Classical Vocal Performance" in 1994.

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Richard Kiel, American actor and voice artist (died 2014)

Richard Dawson Kiel was an American actor. Standing 7 feet 1.5 inches (2.17 m) tall, he was notable for portraying Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979), and Mr. Larson in Happy Gilmore (1996). Other notable films include The Longest Yard (1974), Silver Streak (1976), Force 10 from Navarone (1978), Cannonball Run II (1984), Pale Rider (1985) and Tangled (2010). On television, he portrayed the giant alien in the highly regarded 1962 Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man".

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Guntis Ulmanis, Latvian economist and politician, 5th President of Latvia

Guntis Ulmanis is a Latvian politician and the fifth President of Latvia from 1993 to 1999.

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Joel-Peter Witkin, American photographer

Joel-Peter Witkin is an American photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work often deals with themes such as death, corpses, often featuring ornately decorated photographic models, including people with dwarfism, transgender and intersex persons, as well as people living with a range of physical features. Witkin is often praised for presenting these figures in poses which celebrate and honor their physiques in an elevated, artistic manner. Witkin's complex tableaux vivants often recall religious episodes or classical paintings.

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13/09/1938

John Smith, Scottish lawyer and politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 1994)

John Smith was a British politician who was Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from July 1992 until his death in May 1994. He was also Member of Parliament (MP) for Monklands East.

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13/09/1937

Don Bluth, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Sullivan Bluth Studios and Fox Animation Studios

Donald Virgil Bluth is an American filmmaker, animator, video game designer and author. He came to prominence working for Walt Disney Productions before creating his own film studio in the early 1980s. Bluth is best known for directing the animated films The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Anastasia, and Titan A.E., and for his involvement in the well-known Laserdisc game Dragon's Lair. Don Bluth Productions hired many animators away from Disney, and Bluth's films were a major competitor to Disney in the 1980s, leading up to the Disney Renaissance.

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13/09/1936

Stefano Delle Chiaie, Italian activist, founded National Vanguard (died 2019)

Stefano Delle Chiaie was an Italian neo-fascist terrorist. He was the founder of Avanguardia Nazionale, a member of Ordine Nuovo, and founder of Lega nazionalpopolare. He went on to become a wanted man worldwide, suspected of involvement in Italy's strategy of tension, but was acquitted. He was a friend of Licio Gelli, grandmaster of P2 masonic lodge. He was suspected of involvement in South America's Operation Condor, but was acquitted. He was known by his nickname "il caccola" as he was just over five feet tall - although he stated that originally, the nickname came from his very young involvement, at age 14, in the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a neo-fascist political party established after the war.

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13/09/1934

Tony Pickard, English tennis player and coach

John Anthony Pickard is a British former tennis player turned coach. He is best known as the longtime coach of former world No. 1 Stefan Edberg.

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13/09/1933

Eileen Fulton, American actress (died 2025)

Margaret Elizabeth McLarty, known professionally as Eileen Fulton, was an American actress, singer and author. She portrayed Lisa Grimaldi on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, which she played almost continuously for 50 years, from May 18, 1960, until the show's ending on September 17, 2010. She also starred on Our Private World (1965), a primetime spin-off of As the World Turns. For her work on ATWT, she received an Editor's Award at the Soap Opera Digest Awards in 1991 and a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. Fulton appeared in theatrical productions including the original Broadway run of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? She performed a cabaret act at theaters in New York and Los Angeles. She co-authored two autobiographies, How My World Turns and As My World Still Turns. She also wrote a novel titled Soap Opera, and six murder-mystery novels.

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Donald Mackay, Australian businessman and activist (died 1977)

Donald Bruce Mackay was an Australian businessman and anti-drug campaigner. He disappeared in 1977, but his body has never been found. In 1986, James Bazley was convicted for his murder.

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Lewie Steinberg, American bass player (died 2016)

Lewie Polk Steinberg was an American musician best known as the original bass guitar player for the soul music group Booker T. & the M.G.'s.

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13/09/1932

Fernando González Pacheco, Spanish-Colombian journalist and actor (died 2014)

Fernando González-Pacheco Castro, also known as Pacheco, was a Colombian television host, announcer, journalist and occasional actor with a career spanning over six decades. Pacheco was born in Spain and received the Colombian citizenship as he had been residing in Colombia since he was 4 years old.

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Radoslav Brzobohatý, Czech actor (died 2012)

Radoslav Brzobohatý was a Czech actor. He acted in film, television and theatre, portraying around 200 roles during his career.

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Bengt Hallberg, Swedish pianist and composer (died 2013)

Bengt Hallberg was a Swedish jazz pianist, composer and arranger.

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13/09/1931

Barbara Bain, American actress

Barbara Bain is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Cinnamon Carter Crawford on the action television series Mission: Impossible (1966–1969), which earned her three Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as a Golden Globe Award nomination. She also starred as Dr. Helena Russell on the British-Italian coproduction science-fiction television series Space: 1999 (1975–1977). Bain has also appeared in the films Animals with the Tollkeeper (1998), Panic (2000), Forget Me Not (2009) and On the Rocks (2020).

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Robert Bédard, Canadian tennis player and sportscaster

Robert Bédard is a former Canadian tennis player and educator. He is the most recent Canadian winner of the men's Canadian Open Tennis Championships.

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Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, Australian sprinter and politician, 33rd Governor of South Australia

Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, née Marjorie Jackson, is an Australian former athlete and politician. She was the Governor of South Australia between 2001 and 2007. She finished her sporting career with two Olympic and seven Commonwealth Games Gold Medals, six individual world records and every Australian state and national title she contested from 1950 to 1954.

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Rein Maran, Estonian cinematographer

Rein Maran is an Estonian cinematographer, director, and professor, most notable for teaching at Tallinn University. In 1972, he graduated from a cinematography school. In 1967 he joined Tallinnfilm, and later Eesti Telefilm. On his initiative, he established the Stodom photo group and, in 1989, the Tallinn Photo Club. He is part the Estonian Filmmakers Union, and was its chairman from 1989 to 1993. Since 1996, he teaches at Tallinn University, as part of the culture faculty of film and video training. He has created a series of films about nature, which is also reflected in folk traditions. Maran has also worked with other directors, movies, and documentaries. He is part of the 100 great Estonians of the 20th century.

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13/09/1930

Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron, English publisher and philanthropist (died 2015)

Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron was a British printing millionaire, philanthropist and a Labour life peer.

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13/09/1928

Robert Indiana, American painter and sculptor (died 2018)

Robert Indiana was an American artist associated with the pop art movement.

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Tzannis Tzannetakis, Greek soldier and politician, 175th Prime Minister of Greece (died 2010)

Tzannis Tzannetakis was a Greek politician who was briefly Prime Minister of Greece during the political crisis of 1989. He also served as a submarine commander in the Hellenic Navy.

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13/09/1927

Laura Cardoso, Brazilian actress

Laura Cardoso, artistic name of Laurinda de Jesus Cardoso Balleroni OMC is a Brazilian actress. She is celebrated as one of the best and most well known Brazilian actresses of cinema, theater and television.

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13/09/1926

Andrew Brimmer, American economist and academic (died 2012)

Andrew Felton Brimmer was an American economist and business leader who served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 1966 to 1974. A member of the Democratic Party, Brimmer was the first African American to sit on the Board.

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Emile Francis, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 2022)

Emile Percival Francis, nicknamed "The Cat", was a Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and general manager in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Chicago Black Hawks and New York Rangers from 1946 to 1952. After playing minor league hockey until 1960, he became the Rangers' assistant general manager in 1962 and later general manager of the Rangers, St. Louis Blues and Hartford Whalers from 1964 to 1989. Francis led the Rangers to nine consecutive playoff appearances (1967–75), but could not help deliver a Stanley Cup championship in five decades as a player, coach, and executive.

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J. Frank Raley Jr., American soldier and politician (died 2012)

John Frank Raley Jr. was a Maryland politician and an advocate for education, economic development and protection and restoration of the Chesapeake Bay.

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13/09/1925

Mel Tormé, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 1999)

Melvin Howard Tormé, nicknamed "The Velvet Fog", was an American musician, singer, composer, arranger, drummer, actor, and author. He composed the music for "The Christmas Song" and co-wrote the lyrics with Bob Wells. Tormé won two Grammy Awards and was nominated a total of 14 times.

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13/09/1924

Harold Blair, Australian tenor and educator (died 1976)

Harold Blair was a Wulli Wulli man, an Australian tenor and Aboriginal activist. He has been called the "last great Australian tenor of the concert hall era".

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Scott Brady, American actor (died 1985)

Scott Brady was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in Western films and as a ubiquitous television presence. He played the title role in the television series Shotgun Slade (1959–1961).

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Maurice Jarre, French composer and conductor (died 2009)

Maurice-Alexis Jarre was a French composer and conductor, mainly of film scores. He was particularly known for his collaborations with film director David Lean, composing the scores to all of his films from 1962 to 1984. He received numerous accolades over the course of his career, including three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globes, and a Grammy Award.

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13/09/1923

Édouard Boubat, French photographer and journalist (died 1999)

Édouard Boubat was a French photojournalist and art photographer.

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13/09/1922

Charles Brown, American singer and pianist (died 1999)

Tony Russell "Charles" Brown was an American singer and pianist whose soft-toned, slow-paced nightclub style influenced West Coast blues in the 1940s and 1950s. Between 1949 and 1952, Brown had seven Top 10 hits in the U.S. Billboard R&B chart. His best-selling recordings included "Driftin' Blues" and "Merry Christmas Baby".

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Caroline Duby Glassman, American lawyer and jurist (died 2013)

Caroline Duby Glassman was an American attorney and former jurist in the state of Maine. A native of Oregon, she completed college and law school in that state before moving to Portland, Maine, where she practiced law with her husband Harry P. Glassman. In 1983, she became the first woman to serve on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

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13/09/1920

Else Holmelund Minarik, Danish-American journalist and author (died 2012)

Else Holmelund Minarik was a Danish-born American author of more than 40 children's books. She was most commonly associated with her Little Bear series of children's books, which were adapted for television. Minarik was also the author of another well-known book, No Fighting, No Biting!

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13/09/1919

Mary Midgley, English philosopher and author (died 2018)

Mary Beatrice Midgley was a British philosopher. A senior lecturer in philosophy at Newcastle University, she was known for her work on science, ethics and animal rights. She wrote her first book, Beast and Man (1978), when she was in her late fifties, and went on to write over 15 more, including Animals and Why They Matter (1983), Wickedness (1984), The Ethical Primate (1994), Evolution as a Religion (1985), and Science as Salvation (1992). She was awarded honorary doctorates by Durham and Newcastle universities. Her autobiography, The Owl of Minerva, was published in 2005.

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George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld, Austrian-English journalist, publisher, and philanthropist (died 2016)

George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld was a British publisher, philanthropist, and newspaper columnist. He was also a lifelong Zionist and renowned master networker. He was on good terms with popes, prime ministers and presidents and put his connections to good use for diplomatic and philanthropic ends.

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13/09/1918

Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter and conductor (died 2015)

Ray Charles was an American musician, singer, songwriter, vocal arranger and conductor who was best known as organizer and leader of the Ray Charles Singers, who accompanied Perry Como on his records and television shows for 35 years and were also known for a series of 30 choral record albums produced in the 1950s and 1960s for the MGM, Essex, Decca and Command labels.

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Dick Haymes, Argentinian actor and singer (died 1980)

Richard Benjamin Haymes was an Argentine singer, songwriter and actor. He was one of the most popular male vocalists of the 1940s and early 1950s. He was the older brother of Bob Haymes, an actor, television host, and songwriter.

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13/09/1917

Carol Kendall, American historian and author (died 2012)

Carol Seeger "Siggy" Kendall was an American writer of children's books. She has received the Newbery Honor, Ohioana award, Parents choice award, and the Mythopoeic Society Aslan award.

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Robert Ward, American soldier, composer, and educator (died 2013)

Robert Eugene Ward was an American composer who is best remembered for his opera The Crucible (1961) after the 1953 play of the same name by Arthur Miller. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for that opera in 1962.

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13/09/1916

Roald Dahl, British novelist, poet, and screenwriter (died 1990)

Roald Dahl was a British author of popular children's literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime fighter ace. His books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. He has been called "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century".

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13/09/1914

Leonard Feather, English-American pianist, composer, producer, and journalist (died 1994)

Leonard Geoffrey Feather was a British-born jazz pianist, composer, and producer, who was best known for his music journalism and other writing.

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13/09/1913

Kai Setälä, Finnish physician and professor (died 2005)

Kai Martin Edvard Setälä was a Finnish physician and professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Helsinki. Through his daughter Christel, he was the maternal grandfather of Alexander Stubb, the 13th president of Finland. Setälä himself was the great-nephew of professor E. N. Setälä (1864–1935), the Counsellor of State, the Chairman of the Senate of Finland and co-author of the Finnish Declaration of Independence.

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13/09/1912

Maurice K. Goddard, American colonel and politician (died 1995)

Maurice K. Goddard was the driving force behind the creation of 45 Pennsylvania state parks during his 24 years as a cabinet officer for six governors of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Reta Shaw, American actress (died 1982)

Reta Shaw was an American character actress known for playing strong, hard-edged, working women in film and on many of the most popular television programs of the 1960s and 1970s in the United States. She may be best remembered as the housekeeper, Martha Grant, on the television series The Ghost & Mrs. Muir and as the cook, Mrs. Brill, in the 1964 film Mary Poppins.

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13/09/1911

Bill Monroe, American singer-songwriter and mandolin player (died 1996)

William Smith Monroe was an American mandolinist, singer, and songwriter who created the bluegrass music genre. For this reason, he is often called the "Father of Bluegrass".

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13/09/1909

Ray Bowden, English footballer (died 1998)

Edwin Raymond Bowden was an English footballer who played as an inside forward. He scored 130 goals from 316 appearances in the Football League, playing for Plymouth Argyle, Arsenal and Newcastle United. He was capped six times and scored once for England.

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Frits Thors, Dutch journalist and radio host (died 2014)

Alexander Frederik Paul "Frits" Thors was a Dutch journalist and news anchor. Thors was best known as the newscaster of the NTS-Journaal from 1965 until 1972.

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13/09/1908

Chu Berry, American saxophonist (died 1941)

Leon Brown "Chu" Berry was an American jazz tenor saxophonist during the 1930s. He is perhaps best known for his time as a member of singer Cab Calloway's big band.

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Karolos Koun, Greek director and playwright (died 1987)

Karolos Koun was a prominent Greek theater director, widely known for his lively staging of ancient Greek plays.

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Sicco Mansholt, Dutch farmer and politician, 4th President of the European Commission (died 1995)

Sicco Leendert Mansholt was a Dutch farmer, politician and diplomat of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later the Labour Party (PvdA), who served as the fourth president of the European Commission from 1 March 1972 until 5 January 1973.

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Mae Questel, American actress and vocal artist (died 1998)

Mae Questel was an American actress. She was best known for providing the voices for the animated characters Betty Boop and Olive Oyl.

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13/09/1904

Alberta Williams King, American civil rights organizer, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr. (died 1974)

Alberta Christine Williams King was an American civil rights organizer best known as the wife of Martin Luther King Sr.; and as the mother of Martin Luther King Jr., and also as the grandmother of Martin Luther King III. She was the choir director of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. She was shot and killed in the church by 23-year-old Marcus Wayne Chenault six years after the assassination of her eldest son Martin Luther King Jr.

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Gladys George, American actress (died 1954)

Gladys George was an American actress of stage and screen. Though nominated for an Academy Award for her leading role in Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936), she spent most of her career in supporting roles in films such as Marie Antoinette (1938), The Roaring Twenties (1939), The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Flamingo Road (1949), and Lullaby of Broadway (1951) in which marked her first color film.

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13/09/1903

Claudette Colbert, American actress (died 1996)

Claudette Colbert was an French-born actress naturalized American. Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the late 1920s and progressed to films with the advent of talking pictures. Initially contracted to Paramount Pictures, Colbert became one of the few major actresses of the period who worked freelance without long-term ties for the studio system that dominated American filmmaking.

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13/09/1899

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Romanian politician (died 1938)

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, born Corneliu Zelinski and commonly known as Corneliu Codreanu, was a fascist Romanian politician, the founder and charismatic leader of the Iron Guard or The Legion of the Archangel Michael, an ultranationalist and violently antisemitic organization active throughout most of the interwar period. Generally seen as the main variety of local fascism, and noted for its mystical and Romanian Orthodox-inspired revolutionary message, the Iron Guard gained prominence on the Romanian political stage, coming into conflict with the political establishment and the democratic forces, and often resorting to terrorism. The Legionnaires traditionally referred to Codreanu as Căpitanul, and he held absolute authority over the organization until his death.

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13/09/1898

Roger Désormière, French conductor and composer (died 1963)

Roger Désormière was a French conductor. He was an enthusiastic champion of contemporary composers, but also conducted performances of early eighteenth century French music.

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C. Sittampalam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (died 1964)

Cathiravelu Sittampalam was a Ceylon Tamil civil servant, politician, Member of Parliament and government minister.

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13/09/1895

Morris Kirksey, American rugby player and sprinter (died 1981)

Morris Marshall Kirksey was an American track and field athlete and rugby union footballer who won two gold medals at the 1920 Summer Olympics. He is one of the few athletes to win gold medals in two different Olympic sports.

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13/09/1894

J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (died 1984)

John Boynton Priestley was an English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator.

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Julian Tuwim, Polish poet, playwright, and director (died 1953)

Julian Tuwim, known also under the pseudonym Oldlen as a lyricist, was a Polish poet, born in Łódź, then part of the Russian Partition. He was educated in Łódź and in Warsaw where he studied law and philosophy at Warsaw University. After Poland's return to independence in 1918, Tuwim co-founded the Skamander group of experimental poets with Antoni Słonimski and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. He was a major figure in Polish literature, admired also for his contribution to children's literature. He was a recipient of the prestigious Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature in 1935.

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13/09/1893

Larry Shields, American clarinet player (died 1953)

Lawrence James Shields was an early American dixieland jazz clarinetist. He was a member of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the first jazz band to record commercially.

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13/09/1891

Max Pruss, German captain and pilot (died 1960)

Max Pruss was the captain of the Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg on its last voyage and a surviving crew member of the disaster.

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13/09/1890

Antony Noghès, French-Monegasque businessman, founded the Monaco Grand Prix (died 1978)

Antony Noghès was the founder of the Monaco Grand Prix.

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13/09/1887

Leopold Ružička, Croatian-Swiss biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1976)

Leopold Ružička was a Croatian-Swiss scientist and joint winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes" "including the first chemical synthesis of male sex hormones." He worked most of his life in Switzerland, and received eight doctorates honoris causa in science, medicine, and law; seven prizes and medals; and twenty-four honorary memberships in chemical, biochemical, and other scientific societies.

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13/09/1886

Amelie Beese, German pilot and sculptor (died 1925)

Amelie Hedwig Boutard-Beese, also known as Melli Beese, was the first female German pilot, qualifying in 1911, as well as the first such aircraft engineer. Together with Lilly Steinschneider and Marie Marvingt, she is considered one of the first female pioneers of aviation. To get there, however, she had to overcome many obstacles and fight the male-dominated bastion.

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Robert Robinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)

Sir Robert Robinson was a British organic chemist and Nobel laureate recognised in 1947 for his research on plant dyestuffs (anthocyanins) and alkaloids. In 1947, he also received the Medal of Freedom with Silver Palm.

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13/09/1885

Wilhelm Blaschke, Austrian-German mathematician and academic (died 1962)

Wilhelm Johann Eugen Blaschke was an Austrian mathematician working in the fields of differential and integral geometry. In his time he was best known for his influential three-volume treatise Vorlesungen über Differentialgeometrie and later for his connection to Shiing-Shen Chern. He was a member of the Nazi Party and openly supported it.

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13/09/1883

LeRoy Samse, American pole vaulter (died 1956)

LeRoy Perry Samse was an American athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault. Samse represented the United States in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St Louis, United States in the pole vault where he won the silver medal.

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Petros Voulgaris, Greek admiral and politician, 136th Prime Minister of Greece (died 1957)

Petros Voulgaris was a Greek Admiral who served briefly as Prime Minister of Greece in 1945. He was famous for his role in suppressing the 1944 Greek naval mutiny and restoring the fleet to combat readiness, for which he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Cross of Valour.

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13/09/1882

Ramón Grau, Cuban physician and politician, 6th President of Cuba (died 1969)

Ramón Grau San Martín was a Cuban physician who served as President of Cuba from 1933 to 1934 and from 1944 to 1948. He was the last president born during Spanish rule. He is sometimes called Raymond Grau San Martin in English.

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13/09/1880

Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer, co-founded Famous Players–Lasky (died 1958)

Jesse Louis Lasky was an American pioneer motion picture producer who was a key founder of what was to become Paramount Pictures, and father of screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky Jr.

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13/09/1879

Annie Kenney, leading British suffragette (died 1953)

Ann "Annie" Kenney was an English working-class suffragette and socialist feminist who became a leading figure in the Women's Social and Political Union. She co-founded its first branch in London with Minnie Baldock. Kenney attracted the attention of the press and public in 1905 when she and Christabel Pankhurst were imprisoned for several days for assault and obstruction related to the questioning of Sir Edward Grey at a Liberal rally in Manchester on the issue of votes for women. The incident is credited with inaugurating a new phase in the struggle for women's suffrage in the UK with the adoption of militant tactics. Annie had friendships with Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence, Mary Blathwayt, Clara Codd, Adela Pankhurst, and Christabel Pankhurst.

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13/09/1877

Wilhelm Filchner, German-Swiss explorer (died 1957)

Wilhelm Filchner was a German army officer, scientist and explorer. He conducted several surveys and scientific investigations in China, Tibet and surrounding regions, and led the Second German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–1913.

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Stanley Lord, English captain (died 1962)

Stanley Phillip Lord was a British merchant seaman who was captain of the SS Californian on the night the RMS Titanic sank on 15 April 1912. The ship, which was primarily a freighter that could carry a small number of passengers, has been named in sources as the unidentified ship that failed to come to the aid of the foundering Titanic. On the eve of the sinking, Captain Lord had stopped the Californian for night when it had entered an ice field 5 mi (8.0 km) to 20 mi (32 km) away from the White Star liner's final position. Over the next few hours, crew members on Lord's ship reported seeing white rockets on the horizon, something Lord ascribed to company signals. The sinking of the Titanic resulted in the deaths of more than 1,500 people.

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13/09/1876

Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (died 1941)

Sherwood Anderson was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he rose to become a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio. In 1912, Anderson had a nervous breakdown that led him to abandon his business and family to become a writer.

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13/09/1874

Henry F. Ashurst, American lawyer and politician (died 1962)

Henry Fountain Ashurst was an American Democratic politician and one of the first two senators from Arizona. Largely self-educated, he served as a district attorney and member of the Arizona Territorial legislature before fulfilling his childhood ambition of joining the United States Senate. During his time in the Senate, Ashurst was chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs and the Judiciary Committee.

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Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer and painter (died 1951)

Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg was an Austrian and American avant-garde composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. He was among the first modernists who transformed the practice of harmony in 20th-century classical music, and a central element of his music was its use of broadly motivic processes as a means of structural coherence. He propounded concepts like developing variation, the emancipation of the dissonance, and the "unity of musical space".

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13/09/1873

Constantin Carathéodory, German mathematician and author (died 1950)

Constantin Carathéodory was a Greek mathematician who spent most of his professional career in Germany. He made significant contributions to real and complex analysis, the calculus of variations, and measure theory. He also created an axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics. Carathéodory is considered one of the greatest mathematicians of his era and the most renowned Greek mathematician since antiquity.

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13/09/1872

Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese politician and diplomat, 44th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1951)

Baron Kijūrō Shidehara , was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1945 to 1946. He was a leading proponent of pacifism in Japan before and after World War II.

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13/09/1865

William Birdwood, Indian-English field marshal (died 1951)

Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood was a senior and highly decorated and distinguished British Indian Army officer. He saw active service in the Second Boer War on the staff of Lord Kitchener. Birdwood saw action again in the First World War, initially as commander of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915, leading the landings on the peninsula and then the evacuation later in the year, before becoming commander of the Australian Corps and the Fifth Army on the Western Front during the closing stages of the war. He then went on to be general officer commanding the Northern Army in India in 1920 and Commander-in-Chief, India, in 1925, and retired as a field marshal.

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13/09/1860

John J. Pershing, American general and lawyer (died 1948)

John Joseph Pershing, nicknamed "Black Jack", was an American army general, educator, and founder of the Pershing Rifles. He served as the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) during World War I from 1917 to 1920. In addition to leading the AEF to victory in World War I, Pershing served as a mentor to many in the generation of generals who led the United States Army during World War II, including George C. Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Lesley J. McNair, George S. Patton, and Douglas MacArthur.

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13/09/1857

Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel and activist (died 1937)

Michał Drzymała was a Polish peasant living in the Greater Poland region under Prussian rule.

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Milton S. Hershey, American businessman, founded The Hershey Company (died 1945)

Milton Snavely Hershey was an American chocolatier, businessman, and philanthropist.

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13/09/1851

Walter Reed, American physician and biologist (died 1902)

Walter Reed was a U.S. Army physician who in 1901 led the team that confirmed the theory of Cuban doctor Carlos Finlay that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mosquito species rather than by direct contact. This insight gave impetus to the new fields of epidemiology and biomedicine, and most immediately allowed the resumption and completion of work on the Panama Canal (1904–1914) by the United States. Reed followed work started by Finlay and directed by George Miller Sternberg, who has been called the "first U.S. bacteriologist".

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13/09/1842

John H. Bankhead, American soldier and politician (died 1920)

John Hollis Bankhead was an American politician and Confederate Army soldier. A member of the Democratic Party, Bankhead served as U.S. Senator from the state of Alabama from 1907 until his death in 1920. Bankhead had additionally served in the United States House of Representatives, the Alabama Legislature, and as warden of the state penitentiary in Wetumpka.

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13/09/1830

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (died 1916)

Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach née Countess Dubsky was an Austrian writer and a noblewoman. Noted for her psychological novels, she is regarded as one of the most important German-language writers of the latter portion of the 19th century.

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13/09/1819

Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (died 1896)

Clara Josephine Schumann was a German virtuoso pianist, composer, and piano teacher and prodigy. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course of a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital by lessening the importance of purely virtuosic works. She also composed solo piano pieces, a piano concerto, chamber music, choral pieces, and songs.

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13/09/1818

Lucy Goode Brooks, Former American slave and a founder of Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans (died 1900)

Lucy Goode Brooks was an enslaved American woman who later became instrumental in the founding of the Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans in Richmond, Virginia.

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13/09/1813

John Sedgwick, American general and educator (died 1864)

John Sedgwick was an American military officer who served as a Union Army general during the American Civil War.

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13/09/1802

Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and author (died 1880)

Arnold Ruge was a German philosopher and political writer. He was the older brother of Ludwig Ruge.

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13/09/1755

Oliver Evans, American inventor, engineer and businessman (died 1819)

Oliver Evans was an American inventor, engineer, and businessman born in rural Delaware and later rooted commercially in Philadelphia. He was one of the first Americans to build steam engines and was an advocate of high-pressure steam. A pioneer in the fields of automation, materials handling and steam power, Evans was one of the most prolific and influential inventors in the early years of the United States. He left behind a long series of accomplishments, most notably designing and building the first fully automated industrial process, the first high-pressure steam engine, first vapor compression refrigeration and the first amphibious vehicle and American automobile.

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13/09/1604

Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English commander and politician (died 1698)

Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, was an English religious Independent, author, and landowner from Cheshire. He was Member of Parliament for Cheshire at various times between 1628 and 1653, and during the First English Civil War, commander of Parliamentarian forces in the North Midlands.

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13/09/1594

Francesco Manelli, Italian theorbo player and composer (died 1667)

Francesco Manelli (Mannelli) was a Roman Baroque composer, particularly of opera, and a theorbo player. He is most well known for his collaboration with fellow Roman composer Benedetto Ferrari in bringing commercial opera to Venice. The first two works, in 1637 and 1638, to be put on commercially in the Teatro San Cassiano were both by Manelli – his L'Andromeda and La Maga Fulminata.

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13/09/1521

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English academic and politician, Lord High Treasurer (died 1598)

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, was an English statesman, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State and Lord High Treasurer from 1572. In his description in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, A. F. Pollard wrote, "From 1558 for forty years the biography of Cecil is almost indistinguishable from that of Elizabeth and from the history of England." He was raised to the peerage as Baron Burghley in February 1571.

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13/09/1502

John Leland, English poet and historian (died 1552)

John Leland or Leyland was an English poet and antiquary.

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13/09/1475

Cesare Borgia, Italian cardinal (died 1507)

Cesare Borgia was an Italian cardinal deacon and later a condottiero, as well as a member of the Spanish House of Borgia. He was the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI and sibling to Lucrezia Borgia.

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13/09/1373

Minkhaung I, King of Ava (died 1431)

Minkhaung I of Ava, personal name Min Hsway Nhit, also called Mingkhaung-Norrata in Ming History, was king of Ava from 1400 to 1421. He is best remembered in Burmese history for his epic struggles against King Razadarit of Hanthawaddy Pegu in the Forty Years' War (1385–1424). As king, Minkhaung continued his father Swa Saw Ke's policy to restore the Pagan Empire. Under the military leadership of his eldest son Minye Kyawswa, Ava nearly succeeded. While he ultimately failed to conquer Hanthawaddy and Launggyet Arakan, he was able to bring in most of cis-Salween Shan states to the Ava orbit.

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13/09/1087

John II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (died 1143)

John II Komnenos or Comnenus was Byzantine emperor from 1118 to 1143. Also known as "John the Beautiful" or "John the Good", he was the eldest son of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina and the second emperor to rule during the Komnenian restoration of the Byzantine Empire. As he was born to a reigning emperor, he had the status of a porphyrogennetos. John was a pious and dedicated monarch who was determined to undo the damage his empire had suffered following the Battle of Manzikert, half a century earlier.

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13/09/0678

Kʼinich Ahkal Moʼ Nahb III, Mayan ruler (died 730)

Kʼinich Ahkal Moʼ Nahb III, also known as Chaacal III and Akul Anab III, was an ajaw of the Maya city of Palenque. He took the throne on 30 December 721, reigning until c. 736.

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13/09/0064

Julia Flavia, Roman daughter of Titus (died AD 91)

AD 64 (LXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 64th Year of the Anno Domini designation, the 64th year of the 1st millennium, the 64th year of the 1st century, and the 4th year of the 7th decade. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Bassus and Crassus. The denomination AD 64 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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