Born on Saturday, 20th September – Famous Birthdays

On this day, 238 notable people were born on 20th September — spanning from 917 to 2003. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

Saturday, 20th September 2025 marks the birth of several notable individuals across sport, entertainment and public service. Among those born on this date is Julian Draxler, the German footballer who has represented major European clubs and competed at the highest levels of international football. Another significant figure born on this day is Victor Ponta, the Romanian jurist and politician who served as the 63rd Prime Minister of Romania, bringing extensive legal expertise to his political career.

The historical record extends considerably further back, encompassing figures from diverse fields and nations. The births recorded on this date span centuries of human achievement, from medieval rulers to modern professionals in athletics, music, journalism and the sciences. Each individual born on this day has contributed to their respective fields, whether in sport, the arts, politics or academia.

On Saturday, 20th September 2025, the moon will be in its waning gibbous phase as summer transitions toward autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. The weather conditions on this date will vary depending on geographical location, with typical September patterns emerging across different regions. Those born on this day will be under the zodiac sign of Virgo, characterised by qualities traditionally associated with analytical thinking and practicality.

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20/09/2003

Thomas Matthew Crooks, American attempted assassin of Donald Trump (died 2024)

Thomas Matthew Crooks was an American man who attempted to assassinate then-former U.S. president Donald Trump, who at the time was the presumptive Republican Party nominee for the 2024 presidential election.

20/09/1998

Trevon Diggs, American football player

Trevon De'Sean Diggs is an American professional football cornerback. He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide and was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the second round of the 2020 NFL draft. He is the younger brother of professional wide receiver, Stefon Diggs.

20/09/1997

Itamar Einhorn, Israeli Olympic cyclist

Itamar Einhorn is an Israeli cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam NSN Cycling Team. In 2022 and 2023, he won the Israeli National Road Race Championships. Einhorn represented Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in cycling in the Men's individual road race at Pont d'Iéna.

20/09/1996

Ioana Loredana Roșca, Romanian tennis player

Ioana Loredana Roșca is an inactive Romanian tennis player.

20/09/1995

Laura Dekker, Dutch sailor

Laura Dekker is a Dutch sailor. In 2009, she announced her plan to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe single-handed. A Dutch court stepped in, owing to the objections of the local authorities, and prevented Laura from departing while under shared custody of both her parents. In July 2010, a Dutch family court ended this custody arrangement, and the record-breaking attempt finally began on 21 August 2010. Dekker successfully completed the solo circumnavigation in a 12.4-metre (40 ft) two-masted ketch named Guppy, arriving in Simpson Bay, Sint Maarten, 518 days later at the age of 16.

Sammi Hanratty, American actress

Samantha Lynn Hanratty is an American actress. Her first lead was in 2009, portraying Chrissa Maxwell in An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong. In 2011, she played the role Whitney Brown in the film The Greening of Whitney Brown. Hanratty is considered a Celebrity Friend for the Starlight Children's Foundation. Since 2021, she has played teenage Misty Quigley in the Showtime drama series Yellowjackets.

Rob Holding, English footballer

Robert Samuel Holding is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Major League Soccer club Colorado Rapids.

20/09/1993

Kyle Anderson, American-Chinese basketball player

Kyle Forman Anderson, also known as Li Kai'er, is an American-Chinese professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Born in the United States, he played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins. After earning All-American honors as a sophomore in 2013–14, he declared for the 2014 NBA draft and was selected in the first round with the 30th overall pick by the San Antonio Spurs.

Julian Draxler, German footballer

Julian Draxler is a German professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Qatar Stars League club Al Ahli.

20/09/1992

Michał Żyro, Polish footballer

Michał Żyro is a Polish football pundit, co-commentator and former professional player who played as a forward. Following retirement, he joined Canal+'s Ekstraklasa coverage team.

20/09/1991

Isaac Cofie, Ghanaian footballer

Isaac Cofie is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.

20/09/1990

Ken Giles, American baseball player

Kenneth Robert Giles is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies, Houston Astros, Toronto Blue Jays, and Seattle Mariners.

Carlos Hyde, American football player

Carlos Hyde is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes and was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the second round of the 2014 NFL draft.

Donatas Motiejūnas, Lithuanian basketball player

Donatas Motiejūnas is a Lithuanian professional basketball player for Crvena zvezda of the Basketball League of Serbia (KLS), the ABA League and the EuroLeague. He was drafted 20th overall in the 2011 NBA draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves who traded his rights to the Houston Rockets. After spending four seasons with the Rockets from 2012 to 2016, Motiejūnas joined the New Orleans Pelicans in January 2017. In 2019, he signed with the San Antonio Spurs.

Phillip Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Phillip LaDon Phillips Jr. is an American singer-songwriter who rose to fame after winning the eleventh season of American Idol in 2012. His coronation song, "Home", became the best-selling coronation song in American Idol history.

John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player

John Tavares is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a forward and alternate captain for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). In the 2009 NHL entry draft, he was selected first overall by the New York Islanders, for whom he played nine seasons and served as captain for five seasons. He also served as the captain of the Maple Leafs from 2019 through 2024.

20/09/1988

Sergei Bobrovsky, Russian ice hockey player

Sergei Andreyevich Bobrovsky is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is a goaltender for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also played in the NHL for the Philadelphia Flyers and Columbus Blue Jackets, with whom he became recognized as one of the NHL's top goaltenders. Bobrovsky is a two-time Vezina Trophy winner, winning in the 2012–13 and 2016–17 seasons while a member of the Blue Jackets. In February 2023, Bobrovsky achieved the most wins for a Russian goaltender in NHL history, surpassing Evgeni Nabokov. Bobrovsky backstopped the Panthers to back-to-back Stanley Cup championships in 2024 and 2025.

Coby Fleener, American football player

Jacoby Fleener is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Stanford Cardinal, earning first-team All-American honors in 2011. Fleener was selected by the Indianapolis Colts in the second round of the 2012 NFL draft. He also played for the New Orleans Saints.

Khabib Nurmagomedov, Russian mixed martial artist

Khabib Abdulmanapovich Nurmagomedov is a Russian former professional mixed martial artist who competed in the Lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He was the longest-reigning UFC Lightweight Champion ever, having held the title from April 2018 to March 2021. With 29 wins and no losses, he retired with an undefeated record. Nurmagomedov is widely considered to be among the greatest mixed martial artists of all time, and was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame on June 30, 2022.

Ayano Ōmoto, Japanese singer and dancer

Ayano Ōmoto , nicknamed Nocchi , is a Japanese singer and dancer. She is known as one of the members of the Japanese electropop group Perfume.

Ryan Simpkins, Australian rugby league player

Ryan Simpkins is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for the Penrith Panthers and Gold Coast Titans in the National Rugby League. He played as a lock, second-row and hooker.

20/09/1987

Gain, South Korean singer

Son Ga-in, known mononymously as Gain, is a South Korean singer, actress and entertainer, best known as a member of the South Korean girl group Brown Eyed Girls. Having debuted with her home group earlier in 2006, Gain eventually made her solo debut in October 2010 with Step 2/4 to great commercial success, and has since released a total of six extended plays. In addition to her musical career, the singer also appeared in several native programs and series, most notably We Got Married and All My Love, where she co-starred alongside 2AM's Jo Kwon.

Jack Lawless, American drummer

Jack Lawless is an American musician. He was the drummer for the band DNCE before their second hiatus in 2024 and currently drummer for band Ocean Grove. He is the live drummer for the pop rock group Jonas Brothers. He grew up in Middletown Township, New Jersey, part of Monmouth County.

Tito Tebaldi, Italian rugby player

Tito Tebaldi was an Italian rugby union player. He played as scrum-half. He made his debut for Italy against Australia on 13 June 2009.

20/09/1986

Hayato Fujita, Japanese wrestler

Hayato Fujita is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Fujita "Jr." Hayato (フジタ"Jr"ハヤト). Despite his small stature and physique for a professional wrestler, he is known for his toughness and hard shoot-style strikes.

Aldis Hodge, American actor

Aldis Alexander Basil Hodge is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Alec Hardison in the TNT series Leverage, MC Ren in the 2015 biopic Straight Outta Compton, Levi Jackson in the 2016 film Hidden Figures, Noah in the WGN America series Underground, Matthew in Girlfriends, Jim Brown in the 2020 film One Night in Miami..., and Alex Cross in the Prime Video series Cross. He portrays Hawkman in the DC Studios film Black Adam and John Stewart / Green Lantern in the animated film Green Lantern: Beware My Power.

İbrahim Kaş, Turkish footballer

İbrahim Kaş is a Turkish footballer who plays as a central defender or right back.

Jason Nightingale, New Zealand rugby league player

Jason Nightingale is a former New Zealand international rugby league footballer who played as a winger and fullback for the St. George Illawarra Dragons in the NRL.

A. J. Ramos, American baseball player

Alejandro Ramos Jr. is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Miami Marlins, New York Mets, Colorado Rockies, and Los Angeles Angels.

20/09/1985

Ian Desmond, American baseball player

Ian Morgan Desmond is an American former professional baseball shortstop and outfielder. He played 11 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Nationals, Texas Rangers and Colorado Rockies. Desmond is a three-time Silver Slugger Award winner and a two-time MLB All-Star. While primarily a shortstop early in his career, Desmond began playing primarily left field, center field, and first base starting in 2016.

Mami Yamasaki, Japanese model and actress

Yamasaki Mami is a Japanese actress and former gravure idol. In addition to appearing in numerous photobooks, she has played roles in television, film, and stage productions, including Gogo Sentai Boukenger, Karate-Robo Zaborgar, the horror drama series Hitokowa, and the stage adaptation of Umimachi Diary.

20/09/1984

Brian Joubert, French figure skater

Brian Joubert is a French figure skating coach and former competitor. He is the 2007 World champion, a three-time European champion, and the 2006–07 Grand Prix Final champion. On the domestic level, he is an eight-time French National champion.

20/09/1983

Sancho Lyttle, Vincentian-Spanish basketball player

Sancho Lyttle is a Vincentian-Spanish former professional basketball player for the WNBA. Combining the WNBA and the European season, she has won six domestic leagues and four Euroleague titles with four teams in three countries. She was born in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and was granted Spanish nationality in June 2010. With the Spanish basketball team she has won four medals between 2010 and 2017.

Freya Ross, Scottish runner

Freya Ross is a Scottish long-distance runner who competed in the Marathon at the London 2012 Olympics. She mainly competed in road races, but was also successful on the track competing in 5000 metres and 10,000 metres, as well as cross country running. Ross represented Scotland in the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres in the 2010 Commonwealth Games. in Delhi in October 2010. Some of her best road racing results were from 2009 and 2010 when she won the Great Ireland Run in 2010 and the Great Yorkshire Run in both 2009 and 2010 setting the course record in 2009. In February 2012, Freya won the Scottish Athletics National Cross Country for the sixth time in seven years.

Ángel Sánchez, Puerto Rican baseball player

Ángel Luis Sánchez is a Puerto Rican coach in Minor League Baseball, and a former professional baseball shortstop who played in Major League Baseball for the Kansas City Royals, Boston Red Sox, Houston Astros and Chicago White Sox.

20/09/1982

Jason Bacashihua, American ice hockey player

Jason Bacashihua is an American former ice hockey goaltender. He played 38 games in the National Hockey League with the St. Louis Blues during the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons. The rest of his career, which lasted from 2002 to 2022, was spent in the minor leagues and then in various leagues through Europe and Asia. Internationally Bacashihua played for the American national team at the 2006 and 2007 World Championship.

Aaron Burkart, German race car driver

Aaron Nikolai Burkart is a German rally driver. He is the 2010 Junior World Rally Champion.

Brian Fortuna, American dancer and choreographer

Brian Fortuna is an American professional ballroom dancer, choreographer and instructor.

Inna Osypenko-Radomska, Ukrainian-Azerbaijani sprint kayaker

Inna Volodymyrivna Osypenko-Radomska is a Ukrainian-Azerbaijani sprint kayaker. Competing for Ukraine, she won four Olympic medals, including gold at the 2008 Olympics in K-1 500 m. She switched to Azerbaijan in 2014 and won a bronze medal in K-1 200 m at the 2016 Olympics.

Sexy Star, Mexican wrestler

Dulce Maria García Parmar Rivas is a Mexican luchadora enmascarada, or masked female professional wrestler, mixed martial artist and professional boxer who is better known by the ring name Sexy Star. She is best known for her work in Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), where she is a three-time AAA Reina de Reinas Champion, while also being a former one-time AAA World Mixed Tag Team Champion. She previously wrestled under the name Dulce Poly and held both the FILL Women's Championship and the FILL Mixed Tag Team Championship under that name. She worked for Lucha Underground, where she was a former Lucha Underground Champion and Gift of the Gods Champion. She is the first woman to win the Lucha Underground Championship.

Athanasios Tsigas, Greek footballer

Thanasis Tsigas is a Greek former footballer, who played as a striker.

20/09/1981

Feliciano López, Spanish tennis player

Feliciano López Díaz-Guerra is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 12 in March 2015 and doubles ranking of world No. 9 in November 2016.

David McMillan, American football player (died 2013)

David McMillan was an American professional football defensive end. He was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth round of the 2005 NFL draft. He played college football for the Kansas Jayhawks.

Ryan Tandy, Australian rugby league player (died 2014)

Ryan Tandy was an international rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. He played as a prop in the National Rugby League (NRL) for the St. George Illawarra Dragons, South Sydney Rabbitohs, Wests Tigers, Melbourne Storm, and the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, and in the Super League for Hull Kingston Rovers. He was banned from playing professional rugby league in Australia after being found guilty of spot-fixing during a match in 2010, and in 2014 died of a suspected drug overdose.

Jordan Tata, American baseball player

Jordan Arthur Tata (TAY-ta) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers from 2006 to 2007. He played college baseball at Sam Houston State. He is 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) tall and weighs 220 pounds (100 kg). Tata bats and throws right-handed.

20/09/1980

Yung Joc, American rapper

Jasiel Amon Robinson, better known by his stage name Yung Joc, is an American rapper known for his 2006 single "It's Goin' Down", which peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100. Prior to its release, he signed with Puff Daddy's Bad Boy South, an imprint of Atlantic Records, in a joint venture with Block Entertainment; the song served as lead single for his debut studio album, New Joc City (2006). The album and its sequel, Hustlenomics (2007), both peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 despite mixed critical responses. He is also known for his guest appearance on T-Pain's 2007 single "Buy U a Drank ", which peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100.

Vladimir Karpets, Russian cyclist

Vladimir Alexandrovich Karpets is a Russian road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI ProTeam Movistar Team. Karpets is most notable for winning the white jersey for best young rider in the 2004 Tour de France and his victories in the overall classifications of the Volta a Catalunya and the Tour de Suisse, both in 2007. Karpets is also a two-time Olympian.

20/09/1979

Crystle Stewart, American actress and beauty queen

Crystle Stewart Sebrechts is an American actress and beauty pageant titleholder. Stewart began her acting career in 2011, when she played real estate agent Leslie Morris on the OWN/TBS comedy-drama television series For Better or Worse until 2017. Shortly after, she appeared in the 2018 film Acrimony. She also won Miss Texas USA 2008, and Miss USA 2008, she represented the United States at Miss Universe 2008, where she reached in the placed Top 10.

20/09/1978

Jason Bay, Canadian-American baseball player

Jason Raymond Bay is a Canadian-American former professional baseball left fielder who played 11 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Initially drafted by the Montreal Expos, he played for the San Diego Padres, Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets and Seattle Mariners.

Patrizio Buanne, Austrian-Italian singer-songwriter and producer

Patrizio Franco Buanne is an Italian-Austrian baritone singer, songwriter, and producer. Buanne has recorded songs in Neapolitan, English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Polish, Afrikaans, Japanese and Mandarin.

Héctor Camacho Jr., Puerto Rican-American boxer

Héctor "Machito" Camacho Herrera is an American-born Puerto Rican and Mexican professional boxer and published writer residing in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. He started boxing professionally at the age of 18. He is the son of the late three-time world champion Héctor "Macho" Camacho and the nephew of Felix "Showtime" Camacho. In 2007, 2010, 2014, and 2016, he won the World Boxing Council (WBC) Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) Light Middleweight title. His mother was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.

Dante Hall, American football player

Damieon Dante Hall is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver and return specialist for nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He is nicknamed "the Human Joystick" and "the X-Factor". He played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies and was selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fifth round of the 2000 NFL draft. Hall played for the Chiefs for seven years before being traded to the St. Louis Rams in 2007. Hall was ranked the 10th greatest return specialist in NFL history on NFL Network's NFL Top 10 Return Aces. He was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 2018.

Sarit Hadad, Israeli singer

Sarit Hadad is an Israeli singer. She was named by Channel 24 as the "best female singer of the 2000s" in October 2009. She represented Israel with the song "Light a Candle" at the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 in Tallinn, Estonia.

Scott Minto, Australian rugby league player

Scott Minto is a former professional rugby league footballer who played on the wing in 14 games for the North Queensland Cowboys and 39 games for the Brisbane Broncos in the NRL.

Charlie Weber, American actor

Charles Alan Weber Jr. is an American actor and former model. In 2014, Weber began starring as Frank Delfino in the ABC legal drama series, How to Get Away with Murder.

20/09/1977

The-Dream, American singer, songwriter, and producer

Terius Adamu Ya Gesteelde-Diamant, known professionally as The-Dream, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is known for having written or co-produced songs for artists in R&B and hip hop, often in tandem with production partner Tricky Stewart. Beginning with I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008), he has been credited on each of American singer Beyoncé's subsequent albums.

Chris Mooney, American journalist and academic

Christopher Cole Mooney is an American journalist, professor at the University of Virginia and author of four books including The Republican War on Science (2005). Mooney's writing focuses on subjects such as climate change denialism and creationism in public schools, and he has been described as "one of the few journalists in the country who specialize in the now dangerous intersection of science and politics." In 2020 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles on global warming published in The Washington Post.

20/09/1976

Jon Bernthal, American actor

Jonathan Edward Bernthal is an American actor. After minor roles in film and television, he achieved prominence for his portrayal of Shane Walsh on the first two seasons of the AMC horror drama series The Walking Dead (2010–2012). He went on to achieve international recognition for his portrayal of Frank Castle / The Punisher in Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media beginning with the second season of Daredevil (2016), before starring in his own spin-off series The Punisher (2017–2019).

Ainsley Earhardt, American political commentator

Ainsley Earhardt is an American conservative television host and author. She is a co-host of Fox & Friends.

20/09/1975

Asia Argento, Italian actress

Asia Argento is an Italian actress and filmmaker. The daughter of filmmaker Dario Argento, she has had roles in several of her father's features and achieved mainstream success with appearances in XXX (2002), Land of the Dead (2005), and Marie Antoinette (2006). Her other notable acting credits include Queen Margot (1994), Let's Not Keep in Touch (1994), Traveling Companion (1996), Last Days (2005), and Islands (2011). Argento is the recipient of several accolades, including two David di Donatello awards for Best Actress and three Italian Golden Globes. Her directorial credits include The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004) and Misunderstood (2014).

Moon Bloodgood, American actress

Korinna Moon Bloodgood is an American actress and model, known for her role as Lieutenant Blair Williams in the 2009 film Terminator Salvation and as Anne Glass in the TNT television series Falling Skies (2011–2015).

Joel Gertner, American wrestling announcer

Joel Gertner is an American professional wrestling announcer, color commentator, and manager. He is best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling from 1995 to 2001.

Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver

Juan Pablo Montoya Roldán is a Colombian racing driver who competed in Formula One from 2001 to 2006, IndyCar between 1999 and 2022, and the NASCAR Cup Series between 2006 and 2024. Montoya won seven Formula One Grands Prix across six seasons. In American open-wheel racing, Montoya won the CART Championship Series in 1999 with Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR) and is a two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500. In endurance racing, Montoya won the IMSA SportsCar Championship in 2019 with Team Penske and is a three-time winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona with CGR.

Jason Robinson, American saxophonist and composer

Jason Robinson is an American composer, saxophonist, flutist, scholar, and educator. His music is rooted in the jazz tradition but draws on wide-ranging influences and approaches.

20/09/1973

Ronald McKinnon, American football player

Ronald Keith McKinnon is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He was originally signed as an undrafted free agent by the Arizona Cardinals out of the University of North Alabama where he won three Division II National Championships. He was the winner of 1995 Harlon Hill Trophy. He played for the Cardinals from 1996 to 2004. He also played one season for the New Orleans Saints. In 2008, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Jo Pavey, English runner

Joanne Marie Pavey MBE is a British retired long-distance runner. A World, European and Commonwealth medallist, Pavey won the 10,000 m gold medal at the 2014 European Championships as the oldest female European champion to date. She also won bronze in the 10,000 m at the 2007 World Championships.

20/09/1972

Enuka Okuma, Canadian actress

Enuka Vanessa Okuma is a Canadian actress, writer and director, best known for her role as detective Traci Nash in the Global/ABC police drama series, Rookie Blue (2010–2015).

Victor Ponta, Romanian jurist and politician, 63rd Prime Minister of Romania

Victor Viorel Ponta is a Romanian politician and jurist who served as Prime Minister of Romania from 2012 to 2015. He was president of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) from 2010 to 2015, and joint leader (2012–2014) of the then-governing Social Liberal Union (USL), an alliance with the National Liberal Party (PNL). Ponta was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Gorj County from 2004 to 2020, and was returned to a Dâmbovița County seat in 2024.

20/09/1971

Todd Blackadder, New Zealand rugby player and coach

Todd Blackadder is a retired New Zealand rugby union player and professional rugby coach. He played 12 tests for the All Blacks, and had 14 appearances as captain. Blackadder captained the Crusaders to three Super Rugby titles during his time with the franchise. He also won two National Provincial Championship titles with Canterbury. Blackadder coached the Crusaders for nine seasons from 2009 to 2016.

Masashi Hamauzu, Japanese pianist and composer

Masashi Hamauzu is a Japanese composer, pianist, and lyricist. Hamauzu, who was employed at Square Enix from 1996 to 2010, was best known during that time for his work on the Final Fantasy and SaGa video game series. Born into a musical family in Germany, Hamauzu was raised in Japan. He became interested in music while in kindergarten, and took piano lessons from his parents.

Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer and manager

Edward Henrik Larsson is a Swedish professional football coach and former player who played 106 times for the Swedish national team. A striker, Larsson began his career with Högaborgs BK. In 1992, he moved to Helsingborg IF where in his first campaign he helped the club win promotion to Allsvenskan after 24 seasons. He moved to Feyenoord in November 1993, staying for four years before leaving in 1997 to join Scottish Premiership club Celtic and enjoying great success there. During his time in the Dutch Eredivisie, he won two KNVB Cups with Feyenoord. He later played for Barcelona, earning the Spanish title twice and the Champions League before returning to Helsingborg. He had a loan spell at Manchester United, with whom he won the English Premier League in 2006–07, and retired in 2009.

Dominika Peczynski, Swedish singer and television host

Dominika Peczynski is a Polish-Swedish singer, model and television host.

20/09/1970

N'Bushe Wright, American actress and dancer

N'Bushe Wright is an American actress and dancer. She attended and trained as a dancer at the Alvin Ailey Dance Center and the Martha Graham School of Dance. She is known mainly for her roles as the drug-addicted older sister of twelve-year-old protagonist Michael in 1994's Fresh, and as Dr. Karen Jenson in the 1998 feature film Blade.

20/09/1969

Patrick Pentland, Irish-Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

John Patrick Thomas Pentland is an Irish-born rock guitarist and a member of the Canadian rock band Sloan. All four members of Sloan write, produce, and sing their own songs, but Pentland primarily plays lead guitar for most songs. He occasionally plays rhythm guitar, bass, keyboards in the studio, and occasionally plays drums live. Pentland is one of the band's two main singers, as he sings lead on at least a third of the band's songs, including many of their singles on their third to fifth albums, plus back-up/harmony vocals on most of their other songs.

Tim Rogers, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Timothy Adrian Rogers is an Australian musician and actor, best known as the frontman of the rock band You Am I. He has also recorded solo albums with backing bands. As of July 2013, Rogers has released 12 albums with You Am I and five solo albums.

Ben Shepherd, American musician and songwriter

Hunter Benedict Shepherd is an American musician best known as the bassist of rock band Soundgarden, with whom he has won two Grammy Awards.

Richard Witschge, Dutch footballer and coach

Richard Peter Witschge is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He was known for his technique and passing ability.

20/09/1968

Ijaz Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer and coach

Ijaz Ahmed is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer who played 60 Test matches and 250 One Day Internationals for Pakistan from 1986 to 2001. He was a part of the Pakistani squad which won the 1992 Cricket World Cup.

Philippa Forrester, English television and radio presenter, producer and author

Philippa Clare Ryan Forrester is a British television and radio presenter, producer and author.

Leah Pinsent, Canadian actress

Leah Pinsent is a Canadian television and film actress.

Darrell Russell, American race car driver (died 2004)

Darrell James Russell was an American National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) drag racer. He was the 2001 NHRA Rookie Of The Year. At the time, he was the third driver to win in his Professional class debut.

Norah Vincent, American writer (died 2022)

Norah Mary Vincent was an American writer. She was a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a quarterly columnist on politics and culture for the national gay news magazine The Advocate. She was a columnist for The Village Voice and Salon.com. Her writing appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times, New York Post, The Washington Post and other periodicals. She gained particular attention in 2006 for her book Self-Made Man, detailing her experiences when she lived as a man for eighteen months.

20/09/1967

Roger Anderson, American wrestler

Death & Destruction was a professional wrestling tag team composed of Frank "The Tank" Parker and "Ruthless" Roger Anderson. They competed in numerous regional and independent promotions throughout the Southern United States in the 1990s, and were arguably one of the region's top "heel" teams during this period.

Martin Harrison, American football player

Martin Allen Harrison is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end for 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the San Francisco 49ers, the Minnesota Vikings, and the Seattle Seahawks. He played college football for the Washington Huskies. Harrison attended Newport High School in Bellevue, Washington and was a multiple letter winner in both football and track and field. In 1983, when he was 15 years old, he placed sixth in the national AAU Junior Olympics in the decathlon.

Kristen Johnston, American actress

Kristen Angela Johnston is an American actress. Best known for her work on television sitcoms, she twice won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Sally Solomon in 3rd Rock from the Sun. She starred as divorce attorney Holly Franklin on The Exes, and as recovering addict Tammy Diffendorf on Mom. She has also appeared in the films Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000), Music and Lyrics (2007), and Bride Wars (2009).

Gunnar Nelson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Nelson is an American hard rock duo consisting of brothers Matthew and Gunnar Nelson. They are the twin sons of Rick Nelson and Kristin Nelson. The duo achieved success during the early 1990s with their debut album After the Rain, that included "(Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection".

Matthew Nelson, American singer-songwriter and bass player

Nelson is an American hard rock duo consisting of brothers Matthew and Gunnar Nelson. They are the twin sons of Rick Nelson and Kristin Nelson. The duo achieved success during the early 1990s with their debut album After the Rain, that included "(Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection".

20/09/1966

Nuno Bettencourt, Portuguese singer-songwriter and guitarist

Nuno Duarte Gil Mendes Bettencourt is a Portuguese-American guitarist. He became known as the lead guitarist of the Boston rock band Extreme. Bettencourt has recorded a solo album and has founded rock bands including Mourning Widows, DramaGods, and Satellite Party.

20/09/1965

Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen, Danish badminton player

Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen is a retired Danish badminton player and sports administrator. As a player, he won major international singles titles in the 1990s, culminated in the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and ranks among Denmark's badminton greats. In 2013, he became president of the Badminton World Federation, having served as president of the Badminton Europe for three years, and then served three four-year terms. In 2014, Høyer became a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), he was also a board member of the Danish Olympic Committee from 2005, from which he also retired from in 2025.

20/09/1964

Randy Bradbury, American bass player

Pennywise is an American punk rock band from Hermosa Beach, California, formed in 1988. The band took its name from the antagonist in Stephen King's horror novel It known as Pennywise.

20/09/1963

Anil Dalpat, Pakistani cricketer

Anil Dalpat Sonavaria is a Pakistani former cricketer and coach. He was a lower-order batsman and wicketkeeper, and represented Pakistan for a brief interval in the early 1980s, when Wasim Bari was injured. He was the first Hindu ever to play Test cricket for Pakistan.

20/09/1962

Jim Al-Khalili, Iraqi-English physicist, author, and academic

Jameel Sadik Al-Khalili is an Iraqi-British theoretical physicist and science populariser. He is professor of theoretical physics and chair in the public engagement in science at the University of Surrey. He is a regular broadcaster and presenter of science programmes on BBC radio and television, and a frequent commentator about science in other British media.

20/09/1961

Lisa Bloom, American lawyer and journalist

Lisa Read Bloom is an American civil rights attorney known for representing high-profile clients in cases involving sexual harassment, discrimination, and abuse. Bloom has represented clients like Janice Dickinson against Bill Cosby, Mischa Barton in a revenge porn case, multiple women whose sexual harassment claims resulted in the firing of Bill O'Reilly from Fox News, and Blac Chyna against Rob Kardashian. She gained attention for briefly advising Harvey Weinstein in 2017, a decision she later apologized for, citing it as a mistake. Bloom also represented women accusing Donald Trump of sexual misconduct during the 2016 election.

Caroline Flint, English politician, Minister of State for Europe

Caroline Louise Flint is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Don Valley from 1997 to 2019. A member of the Labour Party, she attended the Cabinet as Minister for Housing and Planning in 2008 and Minister for Europe from 2008 to 2009.

Erwin Koeman, Dutch retired football player and coach

Erwin Koeman is a Dutch former professional football player who currently serves as an assistant coach for the Netherlands national team.

20/09/1960

Lee Hall, English playwright and screenwriter

Lee Hall is an English writer and lyricist. He is best known for writing the screenplay for the film Billy Elliot (2000) and the book and lyrics for its adaptation as a stage musical of the same name. In addition, he wrote the play The Pitmen Painters (2007), and the screenplays for the films War Horse and Rocketman (2019).

Dave Hemingway, English singer-songwriter and drummer

David Robert Hemingway is an English musician and songwriter, best known as a vocalist for the Hull based band The Beautiful South until they disbanded in 2007. Previously he had been a member of The Housemartins.

Deborah Roberts, American journalist

Deborah Ann Roberts is an American television journalist for the ABC News division of the ABC broadcast television network.

20/09/1959

Joseph Alessi, American trombonist and educator

Joseph Norman Alessi is an American classical trombonist with the New York Philharmonic.

Joanna Domańska, Polish pianist and educator

Joanna Domańska is a Polish classical pianist and music teacher from Gliwice.

Meral Okay, Turkish actress, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)

Meral Okay was a Turkish actress, film producer and screenwriter.

20/09/1958

Arn Anderson, American wrestler and trainer

Martin Anthony Lunde, better known by his ring name Arn Anderson, is an American professional wrestling road agent, author, and retired professional wrestler. Although he is widely regarded as one of the greatest tag team wrestlers in history, he also had a successful singles career and became a four-time NWA/WCW World Television Champion, which he often called his "world title".

20/09/1957

Alannah Currie, New Zealand singer-songwriter

Alannah Joy Currie is a New Zealand artist based in London. She is a musician and activist, best known as a former member of the pop band Thompson Twins.

Michael Hurst, New Zealand actor and director

Michael Eric Hurst ONZM is a British-born New Zealand actor, director, and writer. He is known as a theatre actor, especially in Shakespearean roles, and more widely known for his roles in the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess as Iolaus. He directed the Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand and Ash vs Evil Dead. He plays a lead role in the 2025 Australian satirical dark comedy film Birthright.

Vladimir Tkatchenko, Russian basketball player

Vladimir Petrovich Tkachenko is a retired Soviet and Russian professional basketball player. Tkachenko won two Summer Olympic Games medals and three FIBA World Cup medals with the senior men's Soviet Union national team. He was also named both the Euroscar and the Mr. Europa in 1979. His pro club career lasted 17 years.

20/09/1956

Jennifer Tour Chayes, American mathematician and computer scientist

Jennifer Tour Chayes is dean of the college of computing, data science, and society at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Berkeley, she was a technical fellow and managing director of Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which she founded in 2008, and Microsoft Research New York City, which she founded in 2012.

Gary Cole, American actor

Gary Michael Cole is an American actor. Cole began his professional acting career on stage at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1985. His breakout role on screen was playing Jack 'Nighthawk' Killian in the NBC drama series Midnight Caller (1988–1991). Further prominent television roles includes American Gothic (1995–1996), The West Wing (2003–2006), The Good Wife (2010–2016), Veep (2013–2019), and NCIS (2021–present). Cole starred in the films The Brady Bunch Movie (1995) and Office Space (1999); and voiced characters in the animated series Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Family Guy (2000–present), Kim Possible (2002–2007), Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010–2013), and Bob's Burgers (2012–present).

Steve Coleman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader

Steve Coleman is an American saxophonist, composer, bandleader and music theorist. In 2014, he was named a MacArthur Fellow.

John Harle, English saxophonist, composer, conductor, and producer

John Crofton Harle OBE FRSA FGS FCL is an English saxophonist, composer, record producer, conductor and educator. He is an Ivor Novello Award winner, has been the recipient of two Royal Television Society awards and has contributed directly and indirectly to a number of charting songs and albums.

20/09/1955

Betsy Brantley, American actress

Betsy Brantley is an American actress. She has appeared in numerous films, plays, and television shows since the early 1980s. Her breakout role was in the 1982 film Five Days One Summer with Sean Connery.

Johnny Kidd, English wrestler

John Lowing is a British retired professional wrestler best known under the ring name Johnny Kidd. Kidd was best known for his work during what was known as the Golden Era of British Wrestling.

Haim Moshe, Israeli singer

Haim Moshe, born 20 September 1955 is an Israeli singer whose musical style has crossed over from Yemenite and Mediterranean "ethnic" music to include mainstream Israeli and western pop elements. He has helped Mizrahi music achieve wide popularity both in Israel and in Arab countries.

José Rivero, Spanish golfer

José Rivero is a Spanish professional golfer.

20/09/1954

Anne McIntosh, Scottish lawyer and politician

Anne Caroline Ballingall McIntosh, Baroness McIntosh of Pickering is a British politician who has been a life peer since 2015.

Henry Samueli, American businessman, co-founded Broadcom Corporation

Henry Samueli is an American businessman and engineer. He is a co-founder of Broadcom Corporation, owner of the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL), and a prominent philanthropist in the Orange County, California, community. He is chairman of Broadcom Inc. He is also a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UCLA, and a distinguished adjunct professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at UC Irvine.

20/09/1953

Rocky Mattioli, Italian-Australian boxer

Rocky Mattioli is an Italian-born Australian former boxer at junior middleweight, and former world champion.

Steve Tom, American actor

Stephen Wilson Tom is an American actor best known for hosting the HBO comedy series Funny or Die Presents.

20/09/1951

Guy Lafleur, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2022)

Guy Damien Lafleur, nicknamed "the Flower" and "Le Démon Blond", was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He was the first player in National Hockey League (NHL) history to score 50 goals in six consecutive seasons as well as 50 goals and 100 points in six consecutive seasons. Between 1971 and 1991, Lafleur played right wing for the Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, and Quebec Nordiques in an NHL career spanning 17 seasons, and five Stanley Cup championships in 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979. Lafleur was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1988, named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history in 2017, and was named to the Order of Hockey in Canada in 2022.

Javier Marías, Spanish journalist, author, and academic (died 2022)

Javier Marías Franco was a Spanish author, translator, and columnist. Marías published fifteen novels, including A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me and the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy, widely regarded as his greatest achievement. In addition to his novels, he also published three collections of short stories and various essays. As one of Spain's most celebrated novelists, his books have been translated into forty-six languages and sold close to nine million copies internationally. He received several awards for his work, such as the Rómulo Gallegos Prize (1995), the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (1997), the International Nonino Prize (2011), and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2011).

Debbi Morgan, American actress

Deborah Ann "Debbi" Morgan is an American film and television actress. Morgan has appeared in a number of film and TV productions. She is best known for her portrayal of Angie Baxter–Hubbard on the ABC soap opera All My Children, for which she became the first African American to win the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1989.

Greg Valentine, American wrestler

Jonathan Anthony Wisniski is an American retired professional wrestler, better known as Greg "the Hammer" Valentine. He is the son of wrestler Johnny Valentine.

20/09/1950

Loredana Bertè, Italian singer

Loredana Bertè is an Italian singer, songwriter and actress. She has worked with prominent Italian songwriters such as Pino Daniele, Ivano Fossati, Mario Lavezzi, Mango and Enrico Ruggeri, among others; her sister Mia Martini was also an acclaimed singer. She has experimented with different genres, from rock to reggae, from funk to pop. Bertè is known for the eccentric clothing she wears onstage for her performances.

Matt Blair, American football player (died 2020)

Matthew Albert Blair was an American professional football linebacker who played for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL) for all 12 seasons of his career from 1974 to 1985. He played college football for the Northeastern Oklahoma A&M Golden Norsemen and the Iowa State Cyclones.

20/09/1949

Mahesh Bhatt, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter

Mahesh Bhatt is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter known for his works in Hindi cinema. Known for his unconventional narratives and exploration of bold themes, he was one of the most prominent filmmakers in 80s and 90s Hindi cinema. He has received a number of accolades, including five National Film Award and four Filmfare Awards. A notable film from his earlier period is Saaransh (1984), screened at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival. It became India's official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for that year. The 1986 film Naam was his first piece of commercial cinema. In 1987, he turned producer with the film Kabzaa under the banner, Vishesh Films, with his younger brother Mukesh Bhatt. In 2013, he was inducted into the Bollywood Walk of Fame, at Bandra Bandstand, where his hand print was preserved.

Anthony Denison, American actor

Anthony John Sarrero, also known by his stage name Anthony Denison, is an American actor.

20/09/1948

Rey Langit, Filipino journalist and radio host

Reynante Magat Langit is a Filipino journalist. He is a longtime columnist for Philippine newspapers Tempo, Balita, People's Tonight, and Pilipino Mirror. He is also the main anchorman for the nationally-aired program over AM radio station DWAR Abante Radyo 1494 in Mega Manila. He currently hosts two weekly public affairs television programs, Kasangga Mo ang Langit and Biyaheng Langit; the former is now airing on the Bilyonaryo News Channel since 2025.

Victoria Mallory, American singer and actress (died 2014)

Victoria Mallory was an American singer and actress, best known for originating the role of Anne Egerman in the Broadway musical A Little Night Music. She was also an accomplished martial artist and model.

George R. R. Martin, American novelist and short story writer

George Raymond Richard Martin, also known by the initials G.R.R.M., is an American author, screenwriter, and television producer. Martin is best known as the author of the epic fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, which was adapted by HBO into the Primetime Emmy Award–winning television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019) and its prequel series House of the Dragon (2022–present). Martin also wrote a related series of novellas, Tales of Dunk and Egg, which have been adapted by HBO as A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (2026–present). Outside of A Song of Ice and Fire and its related media, Martin helped create the Wild Cards anthology series and contributed worldbuilding for the video game Elden Ring (2022).

Chuck Panozzo, American bass player

Charles Salvatore "Chuck" Panozzo is an American musician best known as a co-founder of the rock band Styx. He is currently a part-time bass player in the band, sharing bass duties with Terry Gowan. Panozzo is living with HIV, which played a role in limiting his full-time participation.

John Panozzo, American drummer (died 1996)

John Anthony Panozzo was an American drummer best known for his work with rock band Styx.

20/09/1947

Mia Martini, Italian singer (died 1995)

Domenica Rita Adriana "Mimì" Bertè, known professionally as Mia Martini, was an Italian singer, songwriter and musician. She is considered, by many experts, one of the most important and expressive female voices of Italian music, characterised by her interpretative intensity and her soulful performance.

Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, French journalist and author

Patrick Poivre d'Arvor is a French TV journalist and writer. He is a household name in France, and nicknamed "PPDA". With over 30 years and in excess of 4,500 editions of television news to his credit, he was one of the longest serving newsreaders in the world until he was fired in 2008. He presented his last newscast on TF1 on 10 July 2008. Since 2021, a total of 27 women have accused Patrick Poivre d'Arvor of sexual assault or rape that would have allegedly happened during decades prior. Seventeen women filed a formal complaint. Among them, eight did so for alleged rape.

20/09/1946

Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj, Spiritual Master, Head of Science of Spirituality

Rajinder Singh is the head of the international, non-profit organization Science of Spirituality (SOS), also known in India as the Sawan Kirpal Ruhani Mission. To his disciples he is known as Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj. Singh is known for his work toward promoting inner and outer peace through spirituality and meditation on the inner Light and Sound.

Pete Coors, American businessman and politician

Peter Hanson Coors is an American businessman and politician. He formerly served as the chairman of the Molson Coors Brewing Company and chairman of MillerCoors.

Markandey Katju, Indian lawyer and judge

Markandey Katju is an Indian jurist and a former judge of Supreme Court of India. He also was chairman of the Press Council of India from 2011 to 2014. He is the son of politician Shiva Nath Katju and grandson of Kailash Nath Katju. He is the founder and patron of the Indian Reunification Association (IRA), an organisation that advocates for the peaceful reunification of what is now Pakistan and Bangladesh with India under a secular government.

20/09/1944

Paul Madeley, English footballer (died 2018)

Paul Edward Madeley was an English footballer, who played for Leeds United and the England national team. During his career with Leeds, Madeley played in a variety of different playing positions which led to him being described as a Utility player. Madeley made more than 500 appearances for Leeds in the Football League and appeared in 24 internationals for England between 1971 and 1977.

20/09/1942

Rose Francine Rogombé, Gabonese lawyer and politician, President of Gabon (died 2015)

Rose Francine Rogombé was a Gabonese politician who was acting president of Gabon from June to October 2009, following the death of long-time President Omar Bongo. She constitutionally succeeded Bongo due to her role as president of the Senate, a post to which she was elected in February 2009. She was a lawyer by profession and a member of the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG). Rogombé was the first female head of state of Gabon. After her interim presidency, she returned to her post as President of the Senate.

20/09/1941

Dale Chihuly, American sculptor and educator

Dale Chihuly is an American glass artist. He is well known in the field of blown glass, "moving it into the realm of large-scale sculpture".

Sammy McMillan, Irish footballer

Samuel Thomas McMillan is a Northern Irish ex-footballer who played as a left winger or centre forward for various Football League clubs in the 1960s and early 1970s, including Manchester United, Wrexham, Southend United and Stockport County.

20/09/1940

Tarō Asō, Japanese target shooter and politician, 92nd Prime Minister of Japan

Tarō Asō is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), he also served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance from 2012 to 2021. He was the longest-serving Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in Japanese history, having previously served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2007 and as Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications from 2003 to 2005. He leads the Shikōkai faction within the LDP.

William Finley, American actor (died 2012)

William Franklin Finley was an American actor who appeared in the films The Funhouse, Simon, Silent Rage, Phantom of the Paradise, Sisters and The Wedding Party.

Anna Pavord, Welsh-English journalist and author

Anna Pavord is a British horticultural writer. She wrote for The Observer for over twenty years and for The Independent for over thirty years. Her book The Tulip (1999) was listed as a New York Times best seller.

20/09/1938

Eric Gale, American guitarist and producer (died 1994)

Eric Gale was an American jazz and jazz fusion guitarist.

Jane Manning, English soprano and educator (died 2021)

Jane Marian Manning OBE was an English concert and opera soprano, writer on music, and visiting professor at Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the Royal College of Music. A specialist in contemporary classical music, she was described by one critic as "the irrepressible, incomparable, unstoppable Ms. Manning – life and soul of British contemporary music".

20/09/1937

Birgitta Dahl, Swedish politician, Swedish Minister for the Environment

Rut Birgitta Dahl was a Swedish politician of the Social Democratic Party. Dahl was a Member of Parliament from 1969 to 2002. She served as Minister for Energy from 1982 to 1990, as Minister for the Environment from 1986 to 1991, and as Speaker of the Parliament from 1994 to 2002. She was the chairman of the Swedish section of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) between 2005 and 2011.

Garry Johnson, English general

General Sir Garry Dene Johnson, is a retired British Army officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Northern Europe from 1992 to 1994.

Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (died 2005)

Monica Zetterlund was a Swedish jazz singer and actress. She represented Sweden in the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest with the jazz ballad "En gång i Stockholm". Through her lifetime, she starred in over 10 Swedish film productions and recorded over 20 studio albums. She gained international fame through her collaborative album with Bill Evans, Waltz for Debby.

20/09/1936

Andrew Davies, Welsh author, screenwriter, and producer

Andrew Wynford Davies is a Welsh screenwriter and novelist, best known for his television adaptations of To Serve Them All My Days, House of Cards, Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Bleak House, War & Peace, and Les Misérables, and his original serial A Very Peculiar Practice. He was made a BAFTA Fellow in 2002.

Salvador Reyes Monteón, Mexican footballer and manager (died 2012)

Salvador Reyes Monteón was a Mexican professional footballer who played as a forward.

20/09/1935

David Pegg, English footballer (died 1958)

David Pegg was an English footballer who played as an outside-left and one of the eight Manchester United players who died in the Munich air disaster on 6 February 1958.

Keith Roberts, English author and illustrator (died 2000)

Keith John Kingston Roberts was an English science fiction author. He began publishing with two stories in the September 1964 issue of Science Fantasy magazine, "Anita" and "Escapism".

Jim Taylor, American football player and sportscaster (died 2018)

James Charles Taylor was an American professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League (NFL) for ten seasons, with the Green Bay Packers from 1958 to 1966 and with the expansion New Orleans Saints in 1967. With the Packers, Taylor was invited to five straight Pro Bowls and won four NFL championships, as well as a victory in the first Super Bowl. He was recognized as the NFL Most Valuable Player (MVP) after winning the rushing title in 1962, beating out Jim Brown. An aggressive player and fluent trash talker, Taylor developed several personal rivalries throughout his career, most notably with New York Giants linebacker Sam Huff. This confrontational attitude, combined with his tenacious running style, a penchant for contact, and ability to both withstand and deliver blows, earned him a reputation as one of the league's toughest players.

20/09/1934

Hamit Kaplan, Turkish World and Olympic champion sports wrestler (died 1976)

Hamit Kaplan was a Turkish World and Olympic champion sports wrestler of Circassian descent in the Heavyweight class. He won the gold, silver and bronze medal in men's freestyle wrestling at three consecutive Olympic Games in 1956, 1960 and 1964.

Sophia Loren, Italian actress

Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone, known professionally as Sophia Loren, is an Italian actress, active in her native country and the United States. With a career spanning over 70 years, she is one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.

David Marquand, Welsh academic and politician (died 2024)

David Ian Marquand FLSW was a British academic and Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP).

Jeff Morris, American actor (died 2004)

Jeff Morris was an American film and television actor. Among his roles was Bob, the owner of Bob's Country Bunker, in The Blues Brothers. He later reprised his role in Blues Brothers 2000.

Rajinder Puri, Indian cartoonist, journalist, and activist (died 2015)

Rajinder Puri (1934–2015), was an Indian cartoonist, veteran columnist and political activist. He was on the staff of The Hindustan Times and The Statesman as a cartoonist and writer. Later, his column appeared in Outlook.

20/09/1933

Dennis Viollet, English footballer and manager (died 1999)

Dennis Sydney Viollet was an English footballer who played for Manchester United and Stoke City as well as the England national team. He was famous as one of the Busby Babes and survived the Munich air disaster. After his retirement as player, he became a coach and spent most of his managerial career in the United States for various professional and school teams.

20/09/1931

Cherd Songsri, Thai director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2006)

Cherd Songsri was a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A maker of period films that sought to introduce international audiences to his vision of Thai culture, his best-known work is the 1977 romance film Plae Kao, which earned more box-office receipts than any Thai film before it. It won a prize at the 1981 Three Continents Festival in Nantes, France.

20/09/1930

Richard Montague, American mathematician and philosopher (died 1971)

Richard Merritt Montague was an American mathematician and philosopher who made contributions to mathematical logic and the philosophy of language. He is known for proposing Montague grammar to formalize the semantics of natural language. As a student of Alfred Tarski, he also contributed early developments to axiomatic set theory (ZFC). For the latter half of his life, he was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles until his early death, believed to be a homicide, at age 40.

20/09/1929

Anne Meara, American actress and playwright (died 2015)

Anne Meara was an American comedian and actress. Along with her husband Jerry Stiller, she was one-half of the prominent 1960s comedy team Stiller and Meara. Their son is actor, director, and producer Ben Stiller. She was also featured on stage, on television, and in numerous films and later became a playwright. During her career, Meara was nominated for four Emmy Awards and a Tony Award, and she won a Writers Guild Award as a co-writer for the television movie The Other Woman.

Vittorio Taviani, Italian film director and screenwriter (died 2018)

Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani, collectively referred to as the Taviani brothers, were Italian film directors and screenwriters who collaborated on numerous film productions.

Joe Temperley, Scottish saxophonist and clarinet player (died 2016)

Joe Temperley was a Scottish jazz saxophonist. He performed with various instruments, but was most associated with the baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, and bass clarinet.

20/09/1928

Alberto de Lacerda, Mozambican-Portuguese poet and radio host (died 2007)

Carlos Alberto Portugal Correia de Lacerda was a Portuguese poet and BBC Radio Presenter.

Olga Ferri, Argentinian dancer and choreographer (died 2012)

Olga Ferri was an Argentine choreographer and ballet dancer. For decades she was the leading figure of the ballet at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, along with Esmeralda Agoglia, María Ruanova, Violeta Janeiro and the ill-fated Norma Fontenla, she was part of the notable group of ballerinas in Buenos Aires during the 50s-70s.

Donald Hall, American poet, editor, and critic (died 2018)

Donald Andrew Hall Jr. was an American poet, writer, editor, and literary critic. He was the author of more than 50 books across multiple genres including children's literature, biography, memoirs, essays, plays, sports journalism, and fifteen volumes of verse. He was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University, and Christ Church, Oxford. Early in his career, he became the first poetry editor of The Paris Review (1953–1961), the quarterly literary journal, and was noted for interviewing poets and other authors on their craft.

Juarez Teixeira, Brazilian footballer (died 2026)

Juarez Teixeira was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward.

20/09/1927

Colette Bonheur, Canadian singer (died 1966)

Colette Bonheur was a singer from Montreal, Quebec.

John Dankworth, English saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (died 2010)

Sir John Phillip William Dankworth was an English jazz composer, saxophonist, clarinettist and writer of film scores. With his wife, jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine, he was a music educator and also her music director.

Red Mitchell, American bassist, composer, and poet (died 1992)

Keith Moore "Red" Mitchell was an American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet.

Rachel Roberts, Welsh actress (died 1980)

Rachel Roberts was a Welsh actress. She is best remembered for her screen performances as the older mistress of the central male characters in both Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) and This Sporting Life (1963). For each, she won the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for This Sporting Life. Her other notable film appearances included Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) and Yanks (1979).

20/09/1926

Libero Liberati, Italian motorcycle racer (died 1962)

Libero Liberati was an Italian former professional motorcycle road racer. He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1952 to 1959, most prominently as a member of the Gilera factory racing team where he won the 1957 500cc world championships.

20/09/1925

James Bernard, English composer and screenwriter (died 2001)

James Michael Bernard was a British film composer, particularly associated with horror films produced by Hammer Film Productions. Beginning with The Quatermass Xperiment, he scored such films as The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula. He also occasionally scored non-Hammer films including Windom's Way (1957) and Torture Garden (1967).

Ananda Mahidol, King Rama VIII of Thailand (died 1946)

Ananda Mahidol was the eighth king of Siam from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama VIII. At the time he was recognised as king by the National Assembly in March 1935, he went to Switzerland when he was nine years-old. He returned to Thailand in December 1945, but six months later, in June 1946, he was found shot dead in his bed. Although at first thought to have been an accident, his death was ruled a murder by medical examiners, and three royal aides were later executed following irregular trials. The mysterious circumstances surrounding his death have been the subject of much controversy.

20/09/1924

Gogi Grant, American singer (died 2016)

Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg, known professionally as Gogi Grant, was an American pop singer. She had a No. 1 hit in 1956 with "The Wayward Wind".

Albert Marre, American director, and producer (died 2012)

Albert Marre was an American stage director and producer. He directed the stage musical Man of La Mancha in 1965, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical.

Jackie Paris, American singer and guitarist (died 2004)

Carlo Jackie Paris was an American jazz singer and guitarist. He is best known for his recordings of "Skylark" and "'Round Midnight" from the late 1940s to the early 1950s.

20/09/1923

Maurice Sauvé, Canadian economist, academic, and politician (died 1992)

Maurice Sauvé was a Canadian economist, politician, cabinet minister and businessman. He was the husband of Jeanne Sauvé, who served as 23rd Governor General of Canada.

20/09/1921

Chico Hamilton, American drummer, composer, and bandleader (died 2013)

Foreststorn "Chico" Hamilton was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He came to prominence as sideman for Lester Young, Gerry Mulligan, Count Basie, and Lena Horne. Hamilton became a bandleader, first with a quintet featuring the cello as a lead instrument, an unusual choice for a jazz band in the 1950s, and subsequently leading bands that performed cool jazz, post bop, and jazz fusion.

20/09/1920

Jay Ward, American animator, producer, and screenwriter, founded Jay Ward Productions (died 1989)

Joseph Ward Cohen Jr., known professionally as Jay Ward, was an American animator and producer. He is best known for creating The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, alongside works featuring a diverse selection of characters such as Crusader Rabbit, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, Mr. Peabody, Hoppity Hooper, George of the Jungle, Tom Slick, and Super Chicken. His own company, Jay Ward Productions, designed the trademark characters for the Cap'n Crunch, Quisp, and Quake breakfast cereals and it made TV commercials for those products. Ward produced the non-animated series Fractured Flickers (1963) that featured comedic redubbing of silent films.

20/09/1917

Red Auerbach, American basketball player and coach (died 2006)

Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach was an American professional basketball coach and executive. As head coach, he led the Boston Celtics to eight consecutive NBA championships between 1959 to 1966. On retiring in 1966, he held an NBA coaching record of 938 wins. He served as general manager of the Celtics from 1966 to 1984, and later as President and Vice-Chairman of the Board. He won a combined 16 NBA titles in his long career with the Celtics, the most of any individual, making him one of the most successful team officials in the history of North American professional sports. He served as president of the Celtics until his death in 2006 at the age of 89.

Olga Dahl, Swedish genealogist (died 2009)

Olga Inga Birgitta Dahl was a Swedish city and family historian. She carried out solid basic research in the National Archives on Gothenburg's root division exploring with great significance the city's personal and building history during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (died 1994)

Fernando Casado Arambillet, best known as Fernando Rey, was a Spanish film, theatre, and television actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States. A suave, international actor best known for his roles in the films of surrealist director Luis Buñuel and as the drug lord Alain Charnier in The French Connection (1971) and French Connection II (1975), he appeared in more than 150 films over half a century.

Clarice Taylor, American actress (died 2011)

Clarice Taylor was an American stage, film and television actress. She is best known for playing Cousin Emma on Sanford and Son; Anna Huxtable, the mother of Cliff Huxtable, on The Cosby Show; and Mrs. Brooks in Five on the Black Hand Side (1973).

Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer (died 1996)

Obdulio Jacinto Muiños Varela was a Uruguayan football player. He was the captain of the Uruguay national team that won the 1950 World Cup after beating Brazil in the decisive final round match popularly known as the Maracanazo. He was nicknamed "El Negro Jefe" because of his dark skin and the influence he had on the pitch, especially during the unlikely victory over Brazil. He was of African, Spanish and Greek ancestry. Commonly regarded as one of the greatest classic holding midfielders, Varela was adept in defence and was renowned for his tenacity and leadership. He is regarded as one of the greatest captains in football history, and "he remains one of the biggest sporting heroes in Uruguay".

20/09/1915

Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (died 2003)

Malik Meraj Khalid was a Pakistani barrister, politician and Marxist philosopher who served as the caretaker prime minister of Pakistan from 1996 to 1997. He also served as the chief minister of Punjab from 1972 to 1973. He was one of the original philosophers and founders of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).

20/09/1914

Kenneth More, English actor (died 1982)

Kenneth Gilbert More was an English actor.

20/09/1913

Sidney Dillon Ripley, American ornithologist and academic (died 2001)

Sidney Dillon Ripley II was an American ornithologist and wildlife conservationist. He served as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution for 20 years, from 1964 to 1984, leading the institution through its period of greatest growth and expansion. For his leadership at the Smithsonian, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985.

20/09/1910

Dorothy Vaughan, American mathematician (died 2008)

Dorothy Jean Johnson Vaughan was an American mathematician, human computer, computer programmer and schoolteacher who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the first African-American woman to receive a promotion and supervise a group of staff at the center.

20/09/1906

Jean Dréville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1997)

Jean Dréville was a French film director. He directed more than 40 films between 1928 and 1969.

Vera Faddeeva, Russian mathematician (died 1983)

Vera Faddeeva was a Soviet mathematician. Faddeeva published some of the earliest work in the field of numerical linear algebra. Her 1950 work, Computational methods of linear algebra was widely acclaimed and she won a USSR State Prize for it. Between 1962 and 1975, she wrote many research papers with her husband, Dmitry Konstantinovich Faddeev. She is remembered as an important Russian mathematician, specializing in linear algebra, who worked in the 20th century.

20/09/1902

Stevie Smith, English author and poet (died 1971)

Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smith, was an English poet and novelist. She won the Cholmondeley Award and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Stevie, a play by Hugh Whitemore based on her life, was adapted into a film starring Glenda Jackson.

20/09/1899

Leo Strauss, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (died 1973)

Leo Strauss was a German-American political philosopher and historian of philosophy whose work greatly influenced twentieth-century political theory in the United States and the study of classical political thought. He is known best for his interpretation of ancient and medieval philosophy, his account of classical natural right, and his claim that philosophers often wrote esoterically, presenting different teachings to general and specialist readers. Strauss argued that the modern turn in philosophy, beginning with Niccolò Machiavelli and culminating in historicism and relativism, marked a decisive break with the classical understanding of politics and the good life. His work sought to recover the questions and methods of ancient political philosophy as a corrective to the perceived crisis of modern thought.

20/09/1895

Walter Dubislav, German logician and philosopher of science (died 1937)

Walter Dubislav was a German logician and philosopher of science (Wissenschaftstheoretiker).

20/09/1893

Colin Fraser Barron, Scottish-Canadian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1958)

Colin Fraser Barron was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was born at Boyndie, Banffshire, Scotland, a son of Margaret Walker Barron, a domestic servant. He was raised in a large household by his grandparents Joseph Barron & Mary Barron along with his brother Alexander Barron and many other half-siblings and aunts and uncles. He emigrated to Canada in 1910, and enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1914.

Hermann Lux, German footballer and manager (died 1962)

Hermann Lux was a German footballer.

20/09/1891

Tomás Garrido Canabal, Mexican revolutionary (died 1943)

Tomás Garrido Canabal was a Mexican revolutionary politician, soldier and atheist. Garrido Canabal served as governor of the state of Tabasco from 1920 to 1924 and from 1931 to 1934. He was noted for his anti-Catholicism; during his term, he led persecutions against the Church in his state, killing many priests and laymen and driving the remainder underground.

20/09/1890

Linda Eenpalu, Estonian activist and politician (died 1967)

Linda Marie Eenpalu was an Estonian politician. She was a member of the National Constituent Assembly (1937) and a Member of the Second Chamber of the National Council (1938) and the first women in both of these positions. She was a well-known women's rights activist. She was married to politician Kaarel Eenpalu, who was prime minister in 1938–1939.

20/09/1889

Oskar Kaplur, Estonian wrestler (died 1962)

Oskar Kaplur was an Estonian wrestler. He competed for the Russian Empire in the lightweight event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Charles Reidpath, American runner and general (died 1975)

Charles Decker Reidpath was an American track and field sprinter and winner of two gold medals at the 1912 Summer Olympics, who later went on to have an outstanding military career.

20/09/1886

Charles Williams, English author, poet, and critic (died 1945)

Charles Walter Stansby Williams was an English poet, novelist, playwright, theologian and literary critic. Most of his life was spent in London, where he was born, but in 1939 he moved to Oxford with the university press for which he worked until his death.

20/09/1885

Enrico Mizzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malta (died 1950)

Enrico Mizzi was a Maltese politician, leader of the Maltese Nationalist Party from 1926 and briefly Prime Minister of Malta in 1950.

20/09/1884

Maxwell Perkins, American editor (died 1947)

William Maxwell Evarts "Max" Perkins was an American book editor, best remembered for discovering authors Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Thomas Wolfe.

20/09/1880

Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, musicologist and critic (died 1968)

Ildebrando Pizzetti was an Italian composer of classical music, as well as a musicologist and a music critic.

20/09/1878

Upton Sinclair, American novelist, critic, and essayist (died 1968)

Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was an American author, muckraker journalist, and political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California. He wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Francisco Lagos Cházaro, acting president of Mexico (died 1932)

Francisco Jerónimo de Jesús Lagos Cházaro Mortero was the acting President of Mexico designated by the Convention of Aguascalientes from 10 June to 10 October 1915.

20/09/1876

Carleton Ellis, American inventor and chemist (died 1941)

Carleton Ellis was an American inventor and a pioneer in the field of organic chemistry. He was involved in the development of margarine, polyester, anti-knock gasoline, paint and varnish remover, and holder of 753 patents. A native of Keene, New Hampshire, he was the valedictorian of his high school class, and later a graduate of MIT. He then set up the Ellis Laboratories in Montclair, New Jersey.

20/09/1875

Matthias Erzberger, German publicist and politician (died 1921)

Matthias Erzberger was a German Centre Party politician who served as the minister of finance of Germany from 1919 to 1920.

20/09/1873

Sidney Olcott, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1949)

Sidney Olcott was a Canadian-born film producer, director, actor and screenwriter.

Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver (died 1944)

Ferenc Szisz, was a Hungarian racing driver and the winner of the first Grand Prix motor racing event on a Renault AK 90CV on 26 June, 1906.

20/09/1872

Maurice Gamelin, French general (died 1958)

Maurice Gustave Gamelin was a French general who served as head of the French Army from 1935 and as Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies in France from the outbreak of the Second World War to his dismissal during the Battle of France in May 1940. The strategic choices Gamelin made ultimately left France vulnerable to a lightning offensive through the Ardennes and have been extensively criticised by historians.

20/09/1861

Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, 8th Librarian of Congress (died 1955)

George Herbert Putnam was an American librarian. He was the eighth Librarian of Congress from 1899 to 1939. He implemented his vision of a universal collection with strengths in many languages, especially from Europe and Latin America.

20/09/1853

Chulalongkorn, Siamese king (died 1910)

Chulalongkorn, posthumously honoured as King Chulalongkorn the Great, was the fifth king of Siam from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama V. Chulalongkorn's reign from 1868 until his death in 1910 was characterised by the modernisation of Siam, governmental and social reforms, and territorial concessions to the British and French empires. As Siam was surrounded by European colonies, Chulalongkorn, through his policies and acts, ensured the independence of Siam.

20/09/1851

Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright and critic (died 1929)

Henry Arthur Jones was an English dramatist, who was first noted for his melodrama The Silver King (1882), and went on to write prolifically, often appearing to mirror Ibsen from the opposite (conservative) viewpoint. As a right-winger, he engaged in extensive debates with left-wing writers such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells.

20/09/1847

Susanna Rubinstein, Austrian psychologist (died 1914)

Susanna Rubinstein was an Austrian psychologist and the first woman to earn a doctorate from the University of Bern in Switzerland.

20/09/1844

William H. Illingworth, English-American photographer (died 1893)

William H. Illingworth was an English born photographer from St. Paul, Minnesota who accompanied both Captain James L. Fisk's 1866 expedition to the Montana Territory and Lt. Colonel George Custer's 1874 U.S. military expedition into the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory.

20/09/1842

James Dewar, Scottish-English chemist and physicist (died 1923)

Sir James Dewar was a Scottish chemist and physicist. He is best known for his invention of the vacuum flask, which he used in conjunction for his research into the liquefaction of gases. He also studied atomic and molecular spectroscopy, working in these fields for more than 25 years. Dewar was nominated for the Nobel Prize 8 times — 5 times in Physics and 3 times in Chemistry — but he was never so honoured.

20/09/1833

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1918)

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta was an Italian journalist, nationalist, revolutionary soldier and later a pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. He adopted the motto In varietate unitas! which later inspired the motto of the European Union.

20/09/1831

Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (died 1917)

Kate Harrington, born Rebecca Harrington Smith and later known as Rebecca Smith Pollard, was an American teacher, writer and poet.

20/09/1820

John F. Reynolds, American general (died 1863)

John Fulton Reynolds was a career United States Army officer and a general in the American Civil War. One of the Union Army's most respected senior commanders, he played a key role in committing the Army of the Potomac to the Battle of Gettysburg and was killed at the start of the battle.

20/09/1819

Frederick Ellsworth Sickels, American inventor (died 1895)

Frederick Ellsworth Sickels was an American inventor, best known for the invention of a cut-off valve for steam engines in 1841.

20/09/1815

Richard Dry, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Tasmania (died 1869)

Sir Richard Dry, KCMG was an Australian politician, the son of United Irish convict, who was Premier of Tasmania from 24 November 1866 until 1 August 1869 when he died in office. Dry was the first Tasmanian-born premier, and the first Tasmanian to be knighted.

20/09/1800

Benjamin Franklin White, American singer and composer (died 1879)

Benjamin Franklin White was a shape note "singing master", and compiler of the shape note tunebook known as The Sacred Harp. He was born near Cross Keys in Union County, South Carolina, the twelfth child of Robert and Mildred White.

20/09/1778

Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer (died 1852)

Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshausen or Fabian Gottlieb Benjamin von Bellingshausen was a Russian cartographer, explorer, and naval officer of Baltic German descent, who attained the rank of admiral. He participated in the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe, and subsequently became a leader of another circumnavigation expedition that discovered the continent of Antarctica. Like Otto von Kotzebue and Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Bellingshausen belonged to a cohort of prominent Baltic German navigators which helped Russia launch its naval expeditions.

20/09/1758

Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian emperor (died 1806)

Jean-Jacques Dessalines was the first Haitian Emperor, leader of the Haitian Revolution, and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1805 constitution. Initially regarded as governor-general, Dessalines was later named Emperor of Haiti as Jacques I (1804–1806) by generals of the Haitian Revolutionary army and ruled in that capacity until being assassinated in 1806. He spearheaded the resistance against French rule of Saint-Domingue, and eventually became the architect of the 1804 massacre of the remaining White French residents of newly independent Haiti. Alongside Toussaint Louverture, he has been referred to as one of the fathers of the nation of Haiti. Under the rule of Dessalines, Haiti became the first country in the Americas to permanently abolish slavery.

20/09/1746

Maurice, Count de Benyovszky, Slovak-Hungarian explorer (died 1786)

Count Maurice Benyovszky de Benyó et Urbanó was a military officer, adventurer, and writer from the Kingdom of Hungary, who described himself as both a Hungarian and a Pole. He is considered a national hero in Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia.

20/09/1685

Giuseppe Matteo Alberti, Italian violinist and composer (died 1751)

Giuseppe Matteo Alberti was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist.

Mateo de Toro Zambrano, 1st Count of La Conquista, President of the First Government Junta of Chile (died 1811)

Mateo de Toro Zambrano y Ureta, 1st Count of La Conquista, was a prominent Spanish military and political figure of Criollo descent. He held the position of a knight in the Order of Santiago and was the lord of the Toro-Zambrano estate.

20/09/1614

Martino Martini, Italian missionary, cartographer and historian (died 1661)

Martino Martini was a Jesuit missionary in China. Born and raised in Trento, he worked as a cartographer and historian of ancient imperial China.

20/09/1608

Jean-Jacques Olier, French priest and mystic, founder of the Society of Saint-Sulpice (died 1657)

Jean-Jacques Olier, S.S. was a French Catholic priest and the founder of the Sulpicians. He also helped to establish the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal, which organised the settlement of a new town called Ville-Marie in the colony of New France.

20/09/1599

Christian the Younger of Brunswick (died 1623)

Christian the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, known as der tolle Halberstädter, was a German Protestant military leader during the early years of the Thirty Years' War. Christian fought in support of Frederick V of the Palatinate during the "Palatinate Phase" (1620-1623) of the war; his opponents were the forces of the Imperial House of Habsburg, Habsburg Spain, and the Catholic League. Christian was a member of the House of Welf, titular Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Halberstadt

20/09/1593

Gottfried Scheidt, German organist and composer (died 1661)

Gottfried Scheidt was a German composer and organist.

20/09/1514

Philipp IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (died 1590)

Philipp IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg was from 1538 to 1590 the reigning Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg. Before his accession he had already conducted government business on behalf of his father, Count Philipp III. He was very interested in alchemy.

20/09/1504

Philip III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (died 1559)

Philip III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg was a Count of the Nassau-Weilburg. Among his major achievements were the introduction of the Reformation, the foundation of the Gymnasium Philippinum in Weilburg and the start of the construction of Schloss Weilburg.

20/09/1486

Arthur, Prince of Wales (died 1502)

Arthur, Prince of Wales was the eldest son of King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, and an older brother to the future King Henry VIII. He was Duke of Cornwall from birth, and he was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in 1489. As the heir apparent of his father, Arthur was viewed by contemporaries as the great hope of the newly established House of Tudor. His mother was the daughter of the Yorkist king, Edward IV, and his birth cemented the union between the House of Lancaster and the House of York.

20/09/1449

Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (died 1500)

Count Philipp I of Hanau-Münzenberg, nicknamed Philipp the Younger, was a son of Count Reinhard III of Hanau and Countess Palatine Margaret of Mosbach. He was the Count of Hanau from 1452 to 1458. The county was then divided between him and his uncle Philipp the Elder. Philipp the Younger received Hanau-Münzenberg and ruled there from 1458 until his death.

20/09/1161

Emperor Takakura of Japan (died 1181)

Emperor Takakura was the 80th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1168 through 1180.

20/09/0917

Kyunyeo, Korean poet (died 973)

Kyunyŏ was a Korean Buddhist monk and poet. He came from the Hwangju Byeon clan and his hometown was Hwangju. Among his works are the first extant collection of poetry in Korean, Songs of the Ten Vows Samantabhara, which can be found in The Life of Kuehne.