Born on Wednesday, 3rd September – Famous Birthdays

03/09/2010

Tanitoluwa Adewumi, Nigerian-American chess player

Tanitoluwa Emmanuel "Tani" Adewumi is a Nigerian-American chess player who currently holds the title of International Master (IM). A chess prodigy, he won the 2019 K-3 New York State chess championship at the age of 8 after having played the game for only a year while living with his refugee family in a homeless shelter in Manhattan.

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03/09/2003

Jack Dylan Grazer, American actor

Jack Dylan Grazer is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the horror film It (2017) and its 2019 sequel, the DC Extended Universe superhero film Shazam! (2019) and its 2023 sequel, and for his voice role in the Pixar animated film Luca (2021).

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03/09/2001

Kaia Gerber, American model and actress

Kaia Jordan Gerber is an American model and actress. After starring in a series of ad campaigns for fashion brands since debuting at Fashion Week in 2017, Gerber won Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards in 2018. As an actress, she has appeared in supporting roles in the films Bottoms (2023) and Saturday Night (2024). She is the second child and only daughter of the supermodel Cindy Crawford and the businessman Rande Gerber.

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03/09/2000

Brandon Williams, English footballer

Brandon Paul Brian Williams is an English professional footballer who last played for EFL Championship club Hull City. Although he mainly plays as a left-back, he has also been used as a right-back.

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03/09/1999

Rich Brian, Indonesian rapper and singer

Brian Imanuel Soewarno, known professionally as Rich Brian (formerly Rich Chigga), is an Indonesian rapper and singer. He is known for his viral debut single "Dat $tick", which was first released in March 2016 on SoundCloud. The single was later certified gold by RIAA. His debut studio album, Amen, was released in 2018 and peaked at number 18 on the US Billboard 200, making Brian the second Southeast Asian artist to be on the top 20 Billboard 200 after Filipino singer Jake Zyrus. Brian's second studio album, The Sailor, was released in 2019. He released an EP titled 1999 in 2020. He released another EP titled Brightside in January 2022. Brian has collaborated with many artists from China and South Korea such as Chungha, Keith Ape, Jackson Wang, and Jae Park.

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03/09/1998

Oskar Seuntjens, Belgian politician

Oskar H. F. Seuntjens is a Belgian politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of Vooruit, he has represented Antwerp since June 2024.

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03/09/1997

Reniece Boyce, West Indian cricketer

Reniece Boyce is a Trinidadian cricketer who currently plays for Leeward Islands as a right-handed wicket-keeper batter. In May 2017, she was named in the West Indies squad for the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup. She made her Women's One Day International (WODI) debut for the West Indies against South Africa in the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup on 2 July 2017.

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Carter Kieboom, American baseball player

Carter Alswinn Kieboom is an American professional baseball third baseman in the Philadelphia Phillies organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Nationals and Los Angeles Angels. He made his MLB debut in 2019.

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Salome Pazhava, Georgian rhythmic gymnast

Salome Pazhava is a Georgian former individual rhythmic gymnast. She finished 4th in All-around at the 2015 World Championships.

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Devin Singletary, American football player

Devin Singletary, nicknamed "Motor", is an American professional football running back and kickoff returner for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Florida Atlantic Owls. As a sophomore in 2017, he led all Division I FBS players with 32 rushing touchdowns, 33 combined rushing and receiving touchdowns, and 198 points scored, and finished with 1,920 rushing yards. He was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the third round of the 2019 NFL draft. He has also played for the Houston Texans.

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Bernard Tekpetey, Ghanaian footballer

Bernard Tekpetey is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bulgarian First League club Ludogorets Razgrad.

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03/09/1996

Joy, South Korean idol and actress

Park Soo-young, better known by her stage name Joy (조이), is a South Korean singer, actress, and host. She debuted as a member of South Korean girl group Red Velvet in August 2014. In 2017, Joy debuted as an actress and has had starring roles in the television dramas The Liar and His Lover (2017), Tempted (2018), The One and Only (2021), and Once Upon a Small Town (2022). In 2021, Joy officially debuted as a soloist with the release of her special album Hello.

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Abrahm DeVine, American swimmer

Abrahm David DeVine is an American former competitive swimmer from Seattle. He currently represents the LA Current, which is part of the International Swimming League. His first international competition was in the men's 200 metre Individual Medley (IM) event at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships held in Budapest. As of June 2019, DeVine has been with International Swimming League's DC Trident. In 2018, he came out as gay, making him one of "very few openly gay swimmers competing on the elite level."

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William Eskelinen, Swedish footballer

William Eskelinen is a Swedish professional footballer who plays for Veikkausliiga club AC Oulu as a goalkeeper.

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Nanda Kyaw, Burmese footballer

Nanda Kyaw is a Burmese professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Shan United and the Myanmar national team. He is the former captain of the Myanmar U-20 national team and played in the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Nanda Kyaw won first runner-up of the 2013 MNL Youth League's Best Player Award.

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Florian Maitre, French cyclist

Florian Maitre is a French professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for French amateur team Mayenne-V and B-Monbana. He rode in the men's team pursuit at the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

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Callum Moore, Australian footballer

Callum Moore is a professional Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL), including eight matches over a four-year tenure with Richmond and two matches over one season with Carlton. While at Richmond in 2019, he won a VFL premiership while playing reserves grade football.

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Neilson Powless, American cyclist

Neilson Hunter Powless is an American and Oneida Nation professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam EF Education–EasyPost. Powless is the first US Native American to compete in the Tour de France.

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Yoane Wissa, French footballer

Yoane Wissa is a professional footballer who plays as a forward or left winger for Premier League club Newcastle United. Born in France, he plays for the DR Congo national team.

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03/09/1995

Myles Jack, American football player

Myles David Jack is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the UCLA Bruins and was named the top freshman player in the Pac-12, receiving honors both on defense as well as on offense for his work as a running back and was named an All-Pac-12 linebacker twice. In 2015, Jack dropped out of UCLA and declared for the draft after suffering a season-ending knee injury. Jack was selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the second round of the 2016 NFL draft. Along with his mother LaSonjia Jack, he is the current owner of the ECHL Allen Americans.

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Niklas Süle, German footballer

Niklas Süle is a German professional footballer who plays either as a centre-back or right-back for Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund and the Germany national team.

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03/09/1994

Francis Molo, New Zealand rugby league player

Francis Molo is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a prop for the Dolphins in the National Rugby League (NRL). He previously played for the St. George Illawarra Dragons, the North Queensland Cowboys and the Brisbane Broncos in the NRL, as well as the Queensland Maroons.

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Glen Rea, English-Irish footballer

Glen Charles Rea is a semi-professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or centre-back for Isthmian League Premier Division club Burgess Hill Town. Born in England, he played for the Republic of Ireland U21 national team.

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03/09/1993

Lee So-jung, South Korean singer

Lee So-jung, known mononymously as Sojung, is a South Korean singer. She is best known as a member of the South Korean girl group Ladies' Code. Sojung made her debut as a soloist in March 2017 with single "Better Than Me".

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Dominic Thiem, Austrian tennis player

Dominic Thiem is an Austrian former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 3 in singles by the ATP, achieved in March 2020. Thiem won 17 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including the 2020 US Open. He was also runner-up at three other majors, and at the 2019 and 2020 ATP Finals.

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Lee Seong-jong, South Korean singer

Lee Seong-jong, commonly known as Seongjong, is a South Korean singer. He is a vocalist of the South Korean boy band Infinite under Woollim Entertainment. He is also the vocalist of Infinite F.

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03/09/1992

August Alsina, American singer-songwriter

August Anthony Alsina Jr. is an American R&B singer-songwriter. He self-released his debut mixtape The Product in 2012, which was followed by The Product 2 the following year; he signed with The-Dream's Radio Killa Records, an imprint of Def Jam Recordings to release his debut commercial extended play (EP), Downtown: Life Under the Gun (2013). The EP marked his first entry on the Billboard 200 and was preceded by his debut single, "I Luv This Shit", which peaked within the top 50 of the Billboard Hot 100 and received double platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). His 2014 follow-up single, "No Love (Remix)", was met with similar commercial success, also receiving double platinum certification.

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Sakshi Malik, Indian wrestler

Sakshi Malik is a former Indian freestyle wrestler. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, she won the bronze medal in the 58 kg category, becoming the first Indian female wrestler to win a medal at the Olympics. She is a recipient of the Khel Ratna Award in 2016, India's highest sporting honour, and the Padma Shri in 2017, the country's fourth-highest civilian award. In 2024, she became the first Indian wrestler to feature in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

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03/09/1990

Mohammad Shami, Indian cricketer

Mohammed Shami Ahmed is an Indian international cricketer who plays as a right-arm fast-bowler, for the India national cricket team and for the Bengal in domestic cricket and for the Lucknow Super Giants in the Indian Premier League. He also plays for Mohun Bagan in domestic competitions of West Bengal. One of the most consistent wicket takers in contemporary world cricket, Shami bowls the ball off the seam and uses swing, including reverse swing, to move the ball both directions. He has been reputed to have an edge in the death overs of a limited-overs innings and, in all formats, has been described as being at times "unplayable". Shami finished as the tournament's leading wicket taker in the ICC World Cup 2023, besides being the fastest bowler to take 50 wickets in the 48 years history of Cricket World Cup spanning 13 editions. He is recipient of 2023 Arjuna Award for Cricket. Having taken 7 wickets for 57 runs against New Zealand in the 2023 Cricket World Cup semi final, he holds the record for the best figures for an Indian Bowler in ODIs, and is currently, the only Indian bowler to have taken 7 wickets in an ODI innings. Shami was a member of the Indian team that won the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy.

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03/09/1988

Jérôme Boateng, Ghanaian-German footballer

Jérôme Agyenim Boateng is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.

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Hana Makhmalbaf, Iranian director and producer

Hana Makhmalbaf is an Iranian filmmaker. She is the younger sister of filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf and daughter of filmmakers Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Fatemeh Meshkini. She is known for her films Joy of Madness (2003), Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (2007) and Green Days (2009). Makhmalbaf won the Lina Mangiacapre Award at the Venice Film Festival in 2003 for Joy of Madness (2003), which also won the Special Jury Prize at Tokyo Filmex. Makhmalbaf's film Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame won various awards as well, such as the Paolo Ungari UNICEF Prize at the Rome Film Festival and the Peace Film Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.

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03/09/1987

Allie, Canadian wrestler

Laura Dennis, better known by the ring names Allie and The Bunny, is a Canadian professional wrestler. She signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling from 2013 to 2019, where she is a former two-time TNA Knockouts Champion and All Elite Wrestling (AEW) from 2019 to 2023. She has also competed for Great Canadian Wrestling, NCW Femmes Fatales, Shimmer Women Athletes, Shine Wrestling, Women Superstars Uncensored (WSU) and Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) under the ring name Cherry Bomb. With tag team partner Kimber Lee, collectively known as The Kimber Bombs, they have held the Shine Tag Team Championship and the Shimmer Tag Team Championship both once. She is also a former 1 time WSU Champion.

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Modibo Maïga, Malian footballer

Modibo Maïga is a Malian professional footballer who plays as a striker.

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Dawid Malan, English cricketer

Dawid Johannes Malan Jnr is an English cricketer who has played for Yorkshire and Middlesex in English domestic cricket and in multiple Twenty20 leagues, including for Punjab Kings in the Indian Premier League. He played for England in all formats from 2017 until his retirement from international cricket in 2024.

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James Neal, Canadian ice hockey player

James Neal is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger. He played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Dallas Stars, Pittsburgh Penguins, Nashville Predators, Vegas Golden Knights, Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers, and St. Louis Blues.

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03/09/1986

Shaun White, American snowboarder, skateboarder, and guitarist

Shaun Roger White is an American former professional snowboarder and skateboarder. He is a five-time Olympian and a three-time Olympic gold medalist in half-pipe snowboarding. He holds the world record for the most X Games gold medals and most Olympic gold medals by a snowboarder. He has also won ten ESPY Awards throughout his career in various categories.

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OMI, Jamaican singer

Omar Samuel Pasley, better known by his stage name Omi, is a Jamaican singer. He is best known for his 2012 single "Cheerleader", the remixed version of which was a worldwide hit. He was signed to Ultra Music, a part of Sony Music, and released his album Me 4 U in 2015.

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Capitão Telhada, Brazilian politician

Rafael Henrique Cano Telhada, better known as Capitão Telhada, is a Brazilian politician serving as a member of the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo since 2023. He is the son of Coronel Telhada.

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03/09/1985

Scott Carson, English footballer

Scott Paul Carson is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Kelvin Wilson, English footballer

Kelvin James Wilson is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Ilkeston Town.

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03/09/1984

Mason Crosby, American football player

Mason Walker Crosby is an American former professional football player who was a placekicker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Colorado Buffaloes, and earned unanimous All-American honors. The Green Bay Packers selected him in the sixth round of the 2007 NFL draft.

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Garrett Hedlund, American actor

Garrett John Hedlund is an American actor and musician. His films include Troy (2004), Friday Night Lights (2004), Four Brothers (2005), Eragon (2006), Georgia Rule (2007), Death Sentence (2007), Tron: Legacy (2010), Country Strong (2010), On the Road (2012), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Unbroken (2014), Pan (2015), Mudbound (2017), Triple Frontier (2019), and The Marsh King's Daughter (2023).

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T. J. Perkins, Filipino-American wrestler

Theodore James Perkins, also known by his ring name T. J. Perkins or simply TJP, is an American professional wrestler. He is a freelancer, primarily working for the WWE performing in its sister promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, in which he is best known during his first run with the company. Perkins is best known for his appearances with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), Evolve Wrestling, and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW).

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03/09/1983

Augusto Farfus, Brazilian race car driver

Augusto Celestino Farfus dos Santos Jr. is a Brazilian professional racing driver, and BMW Motorsport works driver. He lives in Monaco.

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Nicky Hunt, English footballer

Nicholas Brett Hunt is an English former footballer and manager of Daisy Hill. He is best known for his spell at Bolton Wanderers at the beginning of his career. Originally a right-back, he converted to centre-back in 2016 in order to extend his playing career.

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Marcus McCauley, American football player

Marcus Xavier McCauley Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the third round of the 2007 NFL draft. He played college football for the Fresno State Bulldogs.

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Valdas Vasylius, Lithuanian basketball player

Valdas Vasylius is a Lithuanian basketball player. He played collegiately at Old Dominion University. He also represented the Lithuanian national basketball team at the 2007 Summer Universiade.

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03/09/1982

Sarah Burke, Canadian skier (died 2012)

Sarah Jean Burke was a Canadian freestyle skier who was a pioneer of the superpipe event. She was a five-time Winter X Games gold medallist, and won the world championship in the halfpipe in 2005. She successfully lobbied the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to have the event added to the Olympic program for the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was considered a medal favourite in the event. Burke died following a training accident in Utah in 2012.

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Andrew McMahon, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer

Andrew Ross McMahon is an American singer-songwriter. He is the vocalist, pianist and primary lyricist for the bands Something Corporate and main songwriter for Jack's Mannequin and performs solo both under his own name as well as his moniker, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness. On April 30, 2013, he debuted his first solo work, an EP titled The Pop Underground, which was followed by his debut album Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, released on October 14, 2014. His second album, Zombies on Broadway, was released on February 10, 2017. He released his third album, Upside Down Flowers, on November 16, 2018. His fourth album, Tilt at the Wind No More, was released on March 31, 2023. His memoir, Three Pianos, was published by Princeton Architectural Press on October 26, 2021.

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Kaori Natori, Japanese singer

Kaori Natori is a Japanese singer under management of Stardust Music. She is signed to Chimera Energy, a label handled by Universal Music Japan.

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Tiago Rannow, Brazilian footballer

Tiago da Silva Rannow known as Tiago or Tiago Rannow is a Brazilian footballer for Santa Cruz.

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Chris Wilcox, American basketball player

Chris Ray Wilcox is an American former professional basketball player. He has also played in the NBA with the Los Angeles Clippers, Seattle SuperSonics/Oklahoma City Thunder, New York Knicks and Detroit Pistons.

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03/09/1981

Fearne Cotton, English television and radio presenter

Fearne Cotton is an English broadcaster and author. She began her career in the late 1990s as a children’s television presenter for GMTV, CITV and CBBC. She went on to present various television shows, including Top of the Pops (2004–2020), Love Island (2006), The Xtra Factor (2007), and Interior Design Masters (2019). Cotton was a regular co-presenter of the Children in Need annual telethons from 2005 to 2015, with the exception of 2009. From 2008 to 2018, she was a team captain on the ITV2 comedy panel show Celebrity Juice.

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03/09/1980

B.G., American rapper and actor

Christopher Noel Dorsey, better known by his stage name B.G., is an American rapper from New Orleans, Louisiana. He began his musical career in 1993 upon signing with Birdman's Cash Money Records at the age of 12. Dorsey and label-mates Lil Wayne, Juvenile and Turk collectively formed the group Hot Boys in 1997, with whom he released three albums until disbanding in 2002.

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Daniel Bilos, Argentine footballer

Daniel Rubén Biloš is an Argentine former professional footballer who played for clubs in Argentina, France and Mexico. He made three appearances scoring one goal for the Argentina national team.

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Cindy Burger, Dutch footballer

Cindy Burger is a former Dutch international footballer.

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Jason McCaslin, Canadian singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer

Jason "Cone" McCaslin is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the bassist and backing vocalist of the band Sum 41. He and frontman Deryck Whibley are the only two members of the band to appear on every studio album.

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03/09/1979

Júlio César, Brazilian footballer

Júlio César Soares de Espíndola, known as Júlio César, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Tomo Miličević, Bosnian-American guitarist

Tomislav "Tomo" Miličević is a Bosnian Croat-American musician and record producer. He was the lead guitarist of the rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars from 2003 to 2018. Born in Sarajevo but raised in the United States, Miličević moved to Troy, Michigan, in the early 1980s, where he became active in the local heavy metal scene and played in a number of bands, co-founding Morphic. In 2003, he joined Thirty Seconds to Mars, with whom he achieved worldwide recognition in the mid-2000s after recording the band's second album A Beautiful Lie (2005). Its full-length follow-ups, This Is War (2009) and Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams (2013), received further critical and commercial success.

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03/09/1978

Terje Bakken, Norwegian singer-songwriter (died 2004)

Terje "Valfar" Bakken was the lead singer and founder of the Norwegian black metal band Windir. Windir was started as a one-man project, but it was expanded into a full band with the release of their third album, 1184. Valfar originally sang his lyrics in Sognamål, a dialect of Norwegian, but eventually switched to English in an attempt to appeal to a broader audience.

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John Curtis, English footballer

John Charles Keyworth Curtis is an English former professional footballer. He was a versatile defender who could play anywhere along the back four or as a defensive midfielder.

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Nichole Hiltz, American actress

Nichole Hiltz is an American former actress. She appeared in several films, made-for-TV movies, and television series. Her most recent long-running television credit was for USA Network's In Plain Sight from 2008 to 2012 in which she portrayed Brandi Shannon, younger sister of the main character.

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Michal Rozsíval, Czech ice hockey player

Michal Rozsíval is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman. He last played for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He joined the team in 2012, previously playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins from 1999 until 2004, the New York Rangers from 2005 to 2011, and the Phoenix Coyotes in 2011–12. He is a two time Stanley Cup winner with the Blackhawks in 2013 and 2015.

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Nick Wechsler, American actor

Samuel Nicholas Wechsler is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Kyle Valenti on The WB teen drama series Roswell (1999–2002) and Jack Porter on the ABC drama television series Revenge (2011–2015).

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03/09/1977

Casey Hampton, American football player

Casey Hampton Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a five-time Pro Bowl nose tackle and two-time Super Bowl champion over twelve seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). Prior to that he was an All-American college football player for the Texas Longhorns and a first round pick of the Steelers in the 2001 NFL draft.

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Rui Marques, Angolan footballer

Rui Manuel Marques is an Angolan former football defender who was a first choice centre-back for the Angola national team. Born in Angola, Marques moved to Portugal as a child.

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Olof Mellberg, Swedish footballer

Erik Olof Mellberg is a Swedish football manager and former professional player.

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Nate Robertson, American baseball player

Nathan Daniel Robertson, is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball for the Florida Marlins, Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Phillies.

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03/09/1976

Valery V. Afanasyev, Russian ice hockey player and coach

Valery V. Afanasyev is a Russian ice hockey coach. During 1994–1996 he participated in the Russian hockеy championship under H. C. Izhorets, Saint Petersburg. He also participated in other hockеy league championships. He was a part of the 2005 Estonian hockеy championship winner team HC Stars of Tallinn.

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Ashley Jones, American actress

Ashley Aubra Jones is an American actress. She is known for her roles in soap operas as Megan Dennison on The Young and the Restless and as Bridget Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful. She also portrayed the recurring role as Daphne in the second season of the HBO drama series True Blood. From 2016 to 2017, Jones played the recurring role of Parker Forsyth on General Hospital.

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Jevon Kearse, American football player

Jevon Kearse, nicknamed "the Freak", is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end for eleven seasons in the National Football League (NFL) during the late 1990s and 2000s. Kearse played college football for the Florida Gators, earning All-American honors and was named the SEC Defensive Player of the Year in 1998.

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Raheem Morris, American football player and coach

Dejohnold Raheem Morris is an American professional football coach who is the defensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He most recently was the head coach for the Atlanta Falcons from 2024 to 2025. Morris also previously served as the head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 2009 to 2011 and interim head coach of the Falcons in 2020 and was an assistant coach for the Kansas State Wildcats, Washington Redskins, and Los Angeles Rams, winning Super Bowl LVI with the lattermost.

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03/09/1975

Daniel Chan, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor

Daniel Chan Hiu-tung is a Hong Kong singer, songwriter, and actor. He is most notable as one of the young talents in the 1990s music scene.

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Cristobal Huet, French ice hockey player

Cristobal Huet is a French former professional ice hockey goaltender who is a goaltender coach for Lausanne HC of the National League (NL). He previously played for HC Lugano and HC Fribourg-Gottéron and within the Chicago Blackhawks, Los Angeles Kings, Montreal Canadiens, and Washington Capitals organizations in the National Hockey League (NHL). He is the first French netminder and second French-trained player overall to play in the NHL. He currently co-hosts hockey TV show, Le Repas d'équipe, with fellow French-born Swiss former player Laurent Meunier on MySports.

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Redfoo, American singer-songwriter, producer, and dancer

Stefan Kendal Gordy, known professionally as Redfoo, is an American singer, rapper, record producer, disc jockey, and tennis player. He came to prominence as one half of the duo LMFAO, formed with his half-nephew Sky Blu in 2006; the duo are best known for their 2011 singles "Party Rock Anthem" and "Sexy and I Know It," both of which peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100. They released two studio albums: Party Rock (2009) and Sorry for Party Rocking (2011) until their disbandment in 2012. As a solo act, Redfoo released the album Party Rock Mansion (2016) before making his professional tennis debut in 2025.

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03/09/1974

Martin Gerber, Swiss ice hockey player

Martin Gerber is a Swiss former professional ice hockey goaltender. He was drafted in the eighth round of the 2001 NHL entry draft by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Mighty Ducks, Carolina Hurricanes, Ottawa Senators, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Edmonton Oilers, winning the Stanley Cup as a member of the Hurricanes in 2006. Following the 2011–12 season, he played two seasons in the Swedish Elitserien before returning to the Swiss NLA, finishing his playing career with the Kloten Flyers.

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Clare Kramer, American actress, producer, and screenwriter

Clare Kramer is an American actress. Her credits include Bring It On (2000), The Rules of Attraction (2002), D.E.B.S. (2003), Tru Calling (2004), The Thirst (2006), House (2006), Road to Hell (2008), and Goodnight Burbank (2011). Among her most notable roles is Glory in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2000-2002).

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Rahul Sanghvi, Indian cricketer

Rahul Sanghvi is an Indian cricketer, specialising in left arm orthodox spin. He played for the Delhi state team. He played one Test match, which was the first Test between Australia and India in 2001 but was dropped after Australia claimed a 10 wicket victory. He played in 10 One Day Internationals. He has played first-class cricket for three teams: Delhi, North Zone and Railways.Currently Rahul is with IPL Franchise Mumbai Indians where he is managing the team and scouting of players since the inception of IPL in 2008. Rahul is also looking after MI Capetown, MI Emirates, MI Women's team and MI Newyork Teams as well. Much of the success of MI's talent scouting goes to Rahul's sharp and intelligent cricketing mind as he can scout talent with ease.

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03/09/1973

Jennifer Paige, American singer

Jennifer Paige Scoggins is an American singer. She is best known for her international number-one pop hit "Crush" and other singles "Sober", "Always You" and "Ta Voix " in duet with French singer Lââm.

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Damon Stoudamire, American basketball player and coach

Damon Lamon Stoudamire is an American college basketball coach and former player, who currently is an assistant coach for LSU. He also was the head coach for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing last in the ACC in his final season (ACC). The 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m), 171 lb (78 kg) point guard was selected with the 7th overall pick by the Toronto Raptors in the 1995 NBA draft and won the 1995–96 NBA Rookie of the Year Award. He played collegiately at the University of Arizona, and professionally for the Toronto Raptors, Portland Trail Blazers, Memphis Grizzlies and San Antonio Spurs. He has been nicknamed “Mighty Mouse.”

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03/09/1972

Christine Boudrias, Canadian speed skater

Christine Boudrias is a Canadian short track speed skater who competed in the 1994 Winter Olympics and in the 1998 Winter Olympics.

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Bob Evans, American wrestler and trainer

Robert Paul Evans, Jr. is an American professional wrestler and trainer, best known for his work in Ring of Honor (ROH). He also wrestles for various independent circuits.

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Robbie O'Davis, Australian rugby league player

Robbie O'Davis is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative fullback and occasional winger, he played his entire club career with the Newcastle Knights, winning the 1997 and 2001 Premierships with them.

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Martin Straka, Czech ice hockey player

Martin Straka is a Czech former ice hockey center who most recently played for HC Plzeň 1929 of the Czech Extraliga. He is also the club's general manager and co-owner, having bought a 70% share of the team in 2009. Straka played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1992 until 2008 with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Ottawa Senators, New York Islanders, Florida Panthers, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers.

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03/09/1971

Kiran Desai, Indian-American author

Kiran Desai is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. In 2015, The Economic Times named her one of 20 most influential global Indian women.

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Glen Housman, Australian swimmer

Glen Clifford Housman is an Australian former distance freestyle swimmer of the 1980s and 1990s, who won the silver medal in the 1500-metre freestyle, swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics. His career was overshadowed by fellow Australian Kieren Perkins, and was also marred by illness.

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Chabeli Iglesias, Portuguese-Spanish journalist

María Isabel "Chábeli" Iglesias Preysler is a Spanish journalist and socialite. She is the daughter of Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and Filipina socialite Isabel Preysler, and the older sister of singers Julio Iglesias Jr. and Enrique Iglesias.

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Paolo Montero, Uruguayan footballer and manager

Rónald Paolo Montero Iglesias is a Uruguayan football manager and former player, who played as a central defender or left-back.

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03/09/1970

Jeremy Glick, American businessman (died 2001)

Jeremy Logan Glick was an American passenger on board United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked and crashed as part of the September 11 attacks. Aware of the earlier attacks at the World Trade Center, Glick and some of his fellow passengers attempted to foil the hijacking. During a struggle to reclaim the aircraft, it crashed into a field in Stonycreek Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing everyone on board, but thwarting the hijackers' plan to crash the plane into a building in Washington, D.C., most likely either the U.S. Capitol Building or the White House.

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George Lynch, American basketball player and coach

George DeWitt Lynch III is an American former NCAA champion and professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1993 to 2005 after winning the 1993 NCAA National Championship as a member of the North Carolina Tar Heels

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Gareth Southgate, English footballer and manager

Sir Gareth Southgate is an English former professional football manager and player, who played as a defender and midfielder.

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03/09/1969

Noah Baumbach, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Noah Baumbach is an American filmmaker. He is known for making light comedies set in New York City and his works are inspired by filmmakers such as Woody Allen and Whit Stillman. His frequent collaborators include Wes Anderson, Adam Driver, and his wife, Greta Gerwig. He has received award nominations for four Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.

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John Fugelsang, American comedian, actor, and talk show host

John Joseph Fugelsang is an American actor, comedian, writer, television host, political commentator and television personality.

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Robert Karlsson, Swedish golfer

Robert Karlsson is a Swedish professional golfer who has played on the European Tour and the PGA Tour, and now plays on the PGA Tour Champions.

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Marianna Komlos, Canadian bodybuilder, model, and wrestler (died 2004)

Marianna Komlos was a Canadian bodybuilder, fitness model and professional wrestling manager. She is perhaps best known for her stint in World Wrestling Federation in 1999 as Marianna and "Mrs. Cleavage", where she was the Manager for a wrestler known as "Beaver Cleavage", a parody of the TV show Leave It to Beaver. Following the termination of the Beaver Cleavage gimmick in a scripted 'storm out' by Charles Warrington due to the absurdity of the gimmick, Marianna was portrayed as the girlfriend of Warrington, going by the name of 'Chaz'.

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Matthew Offord, English journalist and politician

Matthew James Offord is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hendon in North London from 2010 to 2024. He was previously a member of the Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa Governing Council.

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John Picacio, American artist

John Picacio is an American artist specializing in science fiction, fantasy and horror illustration.

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03/09/1968

Grace Poe, Filipino educator and politician

Mary Grace Natividad Sonora Poe-Llamanzares is a Filipino politician who served as a senator of the Philippines from 2013 to 2025. An independent, she previously served as the chairperson of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) from 2010 to 2012. She was a candidate in the 2016 Philippine presidential election, having run as the standard-bearer of the Partido Galing at Puso (PGP).

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03/09/1967

Chris Gatling, American basketball player

Chris Raymond Gatling is an American former professional basketball player. Gatling played for many National Basketball Association (NBA) teams from 1991 to 2002. He played for the US national team in the 1990 FIBA World Championship, winning the bronze medal.

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Luis Gonzalez, American baseball player

Luis Emilio Gonzalez, nicknamed "Gonzo", is an American former baseball outfielder who played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for seven teams. Gonzalez spent his best years with the Arizona Diamondbacks and was one of the most popular players in the organization's history. His game-winning hit in Game 7 of the 2001 World Series against New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera clinched the Diamondbacks' first and only World Series championship. Gonzalez was a five-time All-Star and won a Silver Slugger Award in 2001. In addition to good power, Gonzalez was known as an exceptional gap hitter. His 596 career doubles currently rank 19th on the all-time MLB list.

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03/09/1966

Steven Johnson Leyba, American painter and author

Steven Johnson Leyba is an American artist, painter, fine art book maker, author, spoken word performance artist, and musician. Leyba is of Mescalero Apache, Navajo, Cherokee, Paiute, Menominee, Jewish ancestry. He has been called the father of “Sexpressionism” by art critic Carlo McCormick.

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Vladimir Ryzhkov, Russian historian and politician

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Ryzhkov is a Russian historian and liberal politician, a former co-chair of People's Freedom Party (2006–2014) and former Russian State Duma member (1993–2007), First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma and the leader of parliamentary group Our Home – Russia. He is a candidate of historical sciences, a professor of the Higher School of Economics, and an anchorman of a number of Echo of Moscow radio programs.

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03/09/1965

Rachel Johnson, British journalist

Rachel Sabiha Johnson is a British journalist, television presenter, and author who has appeared frequently on political discussion panels, including The Pledge on Sky News and BBC One's debate programme, Question Time. In January 2018, she participated in the 21st series of Celebrity Big Brother and was evicted second. She was the lead candidate for Change UK for the South West England constituency in the 2019 European Parliament election.

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Vaden Todd Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Vaden "Danger" Todd Lewis is an American musician best known as the vocalist and guitarist for Toadies, an alternative rock band from Fort Worth, Texas. Lewis was also the lead vocalist and guitarist for the Dallas-based Burden Brothers. In July 2017, Lewis opened The Loop Artist Rehearsal Studios in Fort Worth.

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Costas Mandylor, Australian actor

Costas Mandylor is an Australian actor. He made his film debut with a supporting role in Triumph of the Spirit (1989) before a lead role as Frank Costello in the crime drama film Mobsters (1991).

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Charlie Sheen, American actor and producer

Carlos Irwin Estévez, known professionally as Charlie Sheen, is an American actor. He is known as a leading man in film and television. Sheen has received numerous accolades including a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards and three Actor Awards. In 1994, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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03/09/1964

Adam Curry, American-Dutch businessman and television host, co-founded mevio

Adam Clark Curry is an American podcaster, announcer, internet entrepreneur, and media personality, known for his stint as a VJ on MTV and being one of the first celebrities to personally create and administer websites. Also known for co-hosting the No Agenda show, in the 2000s, he first became involved in podcasting and has been called the "Podfather" because of his efforts.

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Spike Feresten, American screenwriter and producer

Spike Feresten is an American television writer, screenwriter, comedian and television personality, who worked on Seinfeld, wrote for David Letterman, and hosted the late night Talkshow with Spike Feresten from 2006 to 2009 on Fox. He is the former host of Esquire Network's series Car Matchmaker with Spike Feresten. He currently hosts the podcast Spike's Car Radio with Paul Zuckerman. He was also a screenwriter for the 2007 animated film Bee Movie.

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Junaid Jamshed, Pakistani singer-songwriter, guitarist and naat khawan (died 2016)

Junaid Jamshed Khan was a Pakistani Islamic preacher, singer-songwriter and television personality. Jamshed first gained nationwide and international recognition as the vocalist of Vital Signs. Their 1987 album, Vital Signs 1 included the hit singles "Dil Dil Pakistan", and "Tum Mil Gaye". The commercial success of the album helped develop Pakistan's rock music industry.

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Holt McCallany, American actor

Holt McCallany is an American actor. He is known for portraying FBI Special Agent Bill Tench on the series Mindhunter (2017–19) and has had leading and supporting roles in various television series and films, including Lights Out, Fight Club, Three Kings, Shot Caller, Wrath of Man, Nightmare Alley, and The Iron Claw.

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03/09/1963

Sam Adams, American politician, 51st Mayor of Portland

Samuel Francis Adams is an American politician in Portland, Oregon. Adams was mayor of Portland from 2009 to 2012 and previously served on the Portland City Council and as chief of staff to former Mayor Vera Katz. Adams was the first openly gay mayor of a large U.S. city.

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Mubarak Ghanim, Emirati footballer

Mubarak Ghanim Mubarak, , is a footballer from UAE, who played as a centre back for Al Khaleej Club in Sharjah, and the UAE national football team. He formed along with Khalil Ghanim, a hard defence line for the UAE team during their careers. His injury during the preparation for the 1990 FIFA World Cup had denied him from playing in the tournament.

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Malcolm Gladwell, Canadian journalist, essayist, and critic

Malcolm Timothy Gladwell is a British-Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has published eight books. He is also the host of the podcast Revisionist History and co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries.

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03/09/1962

David De Roure, English computer scientist and academic

David Charles De Roure is an English computer scientist who is a professor of e-Research at the University of Oxford, where he is responsible for Digital Humanities in The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), and is a Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. He is a supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and Oxford Martin School Senior Alumni Fellow.

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03/09/1961

Andy Griffiths, Australian author

Andy Griffiths is an Australian children's author.

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03/09/1960

Nick Gibb, English accountant and politician

Sir Nicolas John Gibb is a British politician who served as Minister of State for Schools from 2010 to 2012; 2014 to 2021 and from 2022 to 2023. He has served at the Department for Education under Conservative Prime Ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak. A member of the Conservative Party, Gibb served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton from 1997 to 2024.

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03/09/1957

Garth Ancier, American businessman

Garth Ancier is an American film and television producer and media executive.

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Earl Cureton, American basketball player and coach (died 2024)

Earl Cureton was an American professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "the Twirl", he played college basketball for the Robert Morris Colonials and Detroit Mercy Titans. Cureton was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers in the third round of the 1979 NBA draft. He won an NBA championship with the 76ers and the Houston Rockets, and also played in the NBA for the Detroit Pistons, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Clippers, Charlotte Hornets, and Toronto Raptors. He also played in multiple countries overseas.

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Steve Schirripa, American actor and producer

Steven Ralph Schirripa is an American actor. He is regularly credited as Steven R. Schirripa, including his total of over 300 total appearances in three long running series, playing: Bobby Bacala on The Sopranos; Leo Boykewich on The Secret Life of the American Teenager; and Detective Anthony Abetemarco on Blue Bloods. Schirripa is the host of two Investigation Discovery series: Karma's a B*tch! and Nothing Personal. He is the voice of Roberto in the Open Season film series.

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Sadhguru, Indian yogi, mystic

Jagadish "Jaggi" Vasudev, also known as Sadhguru, is an Indian guru and founder of the Isha Foundation, based in Coimbatore, India. The foundation, established in 1992, operates an ashram and yoga centre that carries out educational and spiritual activities. Sadhguru has been teaching yoga since 1982. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy and Karma: A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny, and a frequent speaker at international forums.

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Ivan Šramko, Governor of the National Bank of Slovakia

Ivan Šramko served as the governor of National Bank of Slovakia since January 2005 to January 2010. Šramko is notable for overseeing Slovakia's adoption of the Euro currency in 2009. As a governor, he was considered an inflation hawk.

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03/09/1956

Jishu Dasgupta, Indian actor and director (died 2012)

Jishu Dasgupta was an Indian Bengali television director and actor. After suffering from cancer for nine months, he died on 21 December 2012 in a hospital in Kolkata.

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Pat McGeown, Irish republican activist (died 1996)

Pat "Beag" McGeown was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who took part in the 1981 Irish hunger strike.

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Stephen Woolley, English director and producer

Stephen Woolley is an English filmmaker and actor. His career has spanned four decades, for which he was awarded the BAFTA award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema in February 2019. As a producer, he has been Oscar-nominated for The Crying Game (1992), and has produced multi-Academy Award nominated films including Mona Lisa (1986), Little Voice (1998), Michael Collins (1996), The End of the Affair (1999), Interview with the Vampire (1994), and Carol (2016). He runs the production company Number 9 Films with his partner Elizabeth Karlsen.

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03/09/1955

Steve Jones, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Stephen Philip Jones is an English guitarist, best known as a member of the punk band Sex Pistols. Following the split of the Sex Pistols, he formed the Professionals with former bandmate Paul Cook. He has released two solo albums, and worked with Johnny Thunders, Iggy Pop, Cheap Trick, Bob Dylan and Thin Lizzy.

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03/09/1954

Jaak Uudmäe, Estonian triple jumper and coach

Jaak Uudmäe is an Estonian former triple jumper and long jumper who competed for the Soviet Union. He was the gold medalist at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He set a personal best of 17.35 m in his Olympic victory – a mark which remains the Estonian record.

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03/09/1953

Jean-Pierre Jeunet, French director, producer, and screenwriter

Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a French director and screenwriter.

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George Peponis, Greek-Australian rugby league player and physician

George Peponis is a Greek Australian company director and former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. An Australia national and New South Wales state representative hooker, he played in the NSWRFL Premiership for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, with whom he won the 1980 Grand Final. He also captained the Bulldogs and New South Wales, and played in eight Test matches for Australia between 1978 and 1980, captaining the side on five consecutive occasions between 1979 and 1980.

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03/09/1952

Shakti Kapoor, Indian actor

Shakti Kapoor is an Indian actor and comedian who appears in Bollywood films. Known for his villainous and comic roles in Hindi films, he has featured in over 700 films. In the 1980s and 1990s, Kapoor teamed up with actor Asrani and Kader Khan as the comical or evil team in over 100 films. He was a contestant in the Indian reality show Bigg Boss in 2011. He contested in Bigg Boss to prove to his children he can stay away from alcohol.

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03/09/1951

Denys Hobson, South African cricketer

Denys Laurence Hobson was a South African first-class cricketer. Hobson played as a right-handed batsman and legbreak bowler for Eastern Province and Western Province. His career lasted from 1970–71 to 1984–85. He was born at Port Elizabeth in 1951.

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D. Rolland Jennings, American politician

D. Rolland "Buck" Jennings is an American politician serving as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates.

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03/09/1950

Doug Pinnick, American rock singer-songwriter and bass player

Douglas Theodore Pinnick, sometimes stylized as dUg Pinnick or simply dUg, is an American musician best known as the bass guitarist, co-lead vocalist, and songwriter for the hard rock and progressive metal band King's X. He has performed on 15 albums with King's X and recorded four solo albums. Pinnick has also participated in numerous side projects and has multiple guest appearances to his credit. He is recognized for his unique vocals, and heavily distorted bass tone. Pinnick often plays bass with a guitar pick, though he has also been seen using his fingers.

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03/09/1949

José Pékerman, Argentine footballer, coach, and manager

José Néstor Pékerman Krimen is an Argentine-Colombian professional football coach. His last team managed was the Venezuela national team. As a youth level coach for Argentina, he won the FIFA World Youth Championship three times, and the U20 South American Youth Championship twice. He coached the Argentina national football team in the 2006 FIFA World Cup and became coach of the Colombia national team in 2012. He subsequently managed the Colombia national team during the 2014 and 2018 FIFA World Cups where he led the team to their best result, the quarterfinals, in 2014, their first World Cup qualification after 16 years of absence.

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Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (died 2004)

Peter VII was the Greek Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa from 1997 to 2004. During his reign, Petros VII was credited with reviving the Greek Orthodox churches in Africa by increasing the churches' attendance of about 250,000 people.

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03/09/1948

Don Brewer, American drummer and singer-songwriter

Donald George Brewer is an American drummer and singer who is a founding member and longtime original drummer of the rock band Grand Funk Railroad.

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Lyudmila Karachkina, Ukrainian astronomer

Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina is an astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Fotis Kouvelis, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Justice

Fotis-Fanourios Kouvelis is a Greek lawyer and leftist politician.

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Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Zambia (died 2008)

Levy Patrick Mwanawasa was a Zambian politician who served as the third president of Zambia. He served as president from January 2002 until his death in August 2008. Mwanawasa is credited with having initiated a campaign to rid the corruption situation in Zambia during his term. Prior to Mwanawasa's election, he served as the fourth vice-president of Zambia from November 1991 to July 1994, whilst an elected Member of Parliament of Chifubu Constituency.

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03/09/1947

Kjell Magne Bondevik, Norwegian minister and politician, 26th Prime Minister of Norway

Kjell Magne Bondevik is a Norwegian Lutheran minister and politician. As leader of the Christian Democratic Party, he served as the prime minister of Norway from 1997 to 2000, and from 2001 to 2005, making him, after Erna Solberg, Norway's second longest serving non-Labour Party prime minister since World War II. Currently, Bondevik is president of the Oslo Centre for Peace and Human Rights.

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Michael Connarty, Scottish educator and politician

Michael Connarty is a British Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament for Linlithgow and East Falkirk from 2005 until 2015, and Falkirk East (1992–2005).

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Mario Draghi, Italian banker and economist

Mario Draghi is an Italian politician, economist, academic, banker, statesman, and civil servant, who served as the prime minister of Italy from 13 February 2021 to 22 October 2022. Prior to his appointment as prime minister, he served as the president of the European Central Bank (ECB) between 2011 and 2019. Draghi was also the chair of the Financial Stability Board between 2009 and 2011, and governor of the Bank of Italy between 2006 and 2011.

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Gérard Houllier, French footballer and coach (died 2020)

Gérard Paul Francis Houllier was a French professional football manager and player. Clubs he managed include Paris Saint-Germain, Lens and Liverpool, where he won the FA Cup, League Cup, FA Charity Shield, UEFA Cup and UEFA Super Cup in 2001. He then guided Lyon to two French titles, before announcing his resignation on 25 May 2007. He became manager of Aston Villa in September 2010. He also coached the France national team between 1992 and 1993. He assisted Aimé Jacquet in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, was part of UEFA's and FIFA's Technical Committee in the 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cup finals, and technical director for the French Football Federation during the 2010 finals. In June 2011, he stepped down from club coaching, leaving his managerial role at Aston Villa, following frequent hospitalisation over heart problems.

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Susan Milan, English flute player and composer

Susan Milan is an English professor of flute of the Royal College of Music, classical performer, recording artiste, composer, author and entrepreneur.

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03/09/1945

George Biondo, American bass player and songwriter

George Michael Biondo is a musician who served as bass guitarist of the Canadian rock band Steppenwolf from April 1970 to October 1976. Born in New York, Biondo has been based in Southern California throughout a career as a session musician and songwriter.

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Peter Goddard, English physicist and mathematician

Peter Goddard is a British mathematical physicist who works in string theory and conformal field theory. Among his many contributions to these fields is the Goddard–Thorn theorem.

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Martha Saxton, American Historian (died 2023)

Martha Porter Saxton was an American professor of history and women's and gender studies at Amherst College who authored several prominent historical biographies.

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03/09/1944

Geoff Arnold, English cricketer and coach

Geoffrey Graham Arnold is an English cricketer who played 34 Test matches and 14 One Day Internationals for the England cricket team. His nickname of "Horse" was based on his initials of GG. He was a seam and swing bowler, who finished his first-class cricket career, which lasted from 1963 to 1982, with 1130 wickets at an average of 21.91. He played for Surrey and Sussex, winning the County Championship with the former county in 1971. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1972.

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Ray Groom, Australian footballer, lawyer, and politician, 39th Premier of Tasmania

Raymond John Groom is an Australian lawyer and former sportsman and politician, representing the Liberal Party in the Federal Parliament 1975–84 and the Tasmanian Parliament 1986–2001. He was a Federal and state minister for a total of 13 years. He was Premier of Tasmania from 1992 to 1996 and also served as Deputy Premier and Attorney-General.

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03/09/1943

Valerie Perrine, American model and actress (died 2026)

Valerie Ritchie Perrine was an American actress. She was best known for her portrayal of Honey Bruce in the film Lenny (1974). For the role, she won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles and the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival, and she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

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03/09/1942

Al Jardine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Alan Charles Jardine is an American musician who co-founded the Beach Boys. He is best known as the band's rhythm guitarist, background vocalist, and for occasionally singing lead vocals on singles such as number-one hit "Help Me, Rhonda" (1965), "Then I Kissed Her" (1965), "Cottonfields" (1970), and a cover of the Del-Vikings' "Come Go with Me" (1981). His song "Lady Lynda" was also a UK top 10 hit for the group in 1979. Other Beach Boys songs that feature Jardine on lead include "I Know There's an Answer" (1966), "Vegetables" (1967), a cover of Buddy Holly's "Peggy Sue" (1978), and "From There to Back Again" (2012).

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03/09/1941

Sergei Dovlatov, Russian-American journalist and author (died 1990)

Sergei Donatovich Dovlatov was a Soviet journalist and writer. Internationally, he is one of the most popular Russian writers of the late 20th century.

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03/09/1940

Frank Duffy, English architect

Francis Cuthbert Duffy was a British architect, a founder of DEGW, the international architectural and design practice best known for office design and workplace strategy and, later for advanced thinking on the programming of educational and arts facilities. Duffy is particularly noted for his work on the future of the office and the flexible use of space.

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Pauline Collins, English actress (died 2025)

Pauline Angela Collins was a British actress who first rose to fame portraying Sarah Moffat in Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1973) and its spin-off Thomas & Sarah (1979). In 1992, she published her autobiography, Letter to Louise.

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Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist and author (died 2015)

Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "a literary giant of the Latin American left" and "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters".

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Brian Lochore, New Zealand rugby player and coach (died 2019)

Sir Brian James Lochore was a New Zealand rugby union player and coach who represented and captained the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks. He played at number 8 and lock, as well as captaining the side 46 times. In 1999, Lochore was inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame.

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03/09/1938

Liliane Ackermann, French microbiologist, community leader, writer, and lecturer (died 2007)

Liliane Aimée Ackermann was a French microbiologist, Jewish Community pioneer, leader, writer, and lecturer.

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Sarah Bradford, English historian and author

Sarah Mary Malet Bradford, Viscountess Bangor is an English author who is best known for her royal biographies.

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Caryl Churchill, English-Canadian playwright

Caryl Lesley Churchill is a British playwright known for dramatising the abuses of power, for her use of non-naturalistic techniques, and for her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes. Celebrated for works such as Cloud 9 (1979), Top Girls (1982), Serious Money (1987), Blue Heart (1997), Far Away (2000), A Number (2002), and Love and Information (2012), she has been described as "one of Britain's greatest poets and innovators for the contemporary stage". In a 2011 dramatists' poll by The Village Voice, six out of the 20 polled writers listed Churchill as the greatest living playwright.

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Richard MacCormac, English architect, founded MJP Architects (died 2014)

Sir Richard Cornelius MacCormac CBE, PPRIBA, FRSA, RA, was a modernist English architect and the founder of MJP Architects.

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Ryōji Noyori, Japanese chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Ryōji Noyori is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001, Noyori shared a half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second half of the prize went to K. Barry Sharpless for his study in chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions.

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03/09/1936

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Tunisia (died 2019)

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, commonly known as Ben Ali or Ezzine, was a Tunisian politician, military officer and dictator who served as the second President of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011. In that year, during the Tunisian revolution, he was overthrown and fled to Saudi Arabia.

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Pilar Pallete, Peruvian-American actress

María del Pilar Pallete Alvarado, known professionally as Pilar Pallete, is a Peruvian-born American painter and occasional actress. She became well-known through her marriage to the actor John Wayne.

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03/09/1935

Helmut Clasen, German-Canadian motorcycle racer

Helmut Clasen is a Canadian motorcycle racer. He is an active motorcycle enduro competitor since 1957, called "Speedy" by family and friends alike.

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03/09/1934

Freddie King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1976)

Freddie King, also billed as Freddy King, was an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is considered one of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar". Known for his soulful and powerful voice and distinctive guitar playing, King had a major influence on electric blues music and on many later blues guitarists.

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03/09/1933

Basil Butcher, Guyanese cricketer (died 2019)

Basil Fitzherbert Butcher was a Guyanese cricketer who played for the West Indies cricket team. He was regarded as a reliable right-handed middle-order batsman in the star-studded West Indian batting line-up of the 1960s. Australian cricketer and media personality Richie Benaud regarded him as the most difficult of the West Indian batsmen to dismiss.

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Tompall Glaser, American singer-songwriter (died 2013)

Thomas Paul "Tompall" Glaser was an American country singer who was a key figure in the 1970s outlaw country movement.

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03/09/1932

Eileen Brennan, American actress and singer (died 2013)

Eileen Brennan was an American actress. She made her film debut in the satire Divorce American Style (1967), followed by a supporting role in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971), which earned her a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

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03/09/1931

Albert DeSalvo, American serial killer known as the Boston Strangler (died 1973)

Albert Henry DeSalvo, also known as the Green Man or the Measuring Man, was an American murderer and rapist who was active in Boston, Massachusetts, in the early 1960s. He is known for having confessed to being the "Boston Strangler," a serial killer who murdered thirteen women in the Boston area between 1962 and 1964. Due to physical evidence, DeSalvo's confession was believed, yet he was only prosecuted in 1967 for a series of unrelated rapes, for which he was convicted and imprisoned until his murder in 1973. DeSalvo's claims to have murdered multiple women were disputed, and debates continued regarding which crimes he truly had committed.

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Dick Motta, American basketball player and coach

John Richard Motta is an American former basketball coach whose career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) spanned 25 years. Motta coached the Washington Bullets to the 1978 NBA Championship, and he won the 1971 NBA Coach of the Year Award with the Chicago Bulls. Motta is eighth all-time with 1,952 games as coach, while ranking 13th in wins and fourth in losses; he has the most wins of eligible coaches not currently inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. In 25 seasons as a coach, he reached the postseason fourteen times.

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Guy Spitaels, Belgian academic and politician, 7th Minister-President of Wallonia (died 2012)

Guy Gustave Arthur Ghislain Spitaels was a Belgian politician of the Socialist Party. He was the 7th Minister-President of Wallonia from 1992 to 1994 and president of his party for thirteen years, until he was succeeded by Philippe Busquin.

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03/09/1930

Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author and poet (died 2002)

Cherry Barbara Grimm, better known by the pseudonym Cherry Wilder, was a New Zealand science fiction and fantasy writer.

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03/09/1929

Whitey Bulger, American organized crime boss (died 2018)

James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr. was an American organized crime boss who led the Winter Hill Gang, an Irish mob group based in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, northwest of Boston. On December 23, 1994, Bulger went into hiding after his former FBI handler, John Connolly, tipped him off about a pending RICO indictment against him. He remained at large for sixteen years. After his 2011 capture, federal prosecutors tried Bulger for nineteen murders based on grand jury testimony from Kevin Weeks and other former criminal associates.

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Carlo Clerici, Swiss cyclist (died 2007)

Carlo Clerici was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer.

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Steve Rickard, New Zealand-Australian wrestler, trainer, and promoter (died 2015)

Sydney Mervin "Merv" Batt, best known by his ring name Steve Rickard, was a New Zealand professional wrestler, trainer and promoter. As a wrestler, he traveled throughout the world during the 1960s and 1970s, often visiting countries where professional wrestling was unknown such as southeast Asia, and was one of the top competitors to come from New Zealand during that era. Rickard was a frequent opponent for many foreign wrestlers travelling overseas including NWA World Heavyweight Champions such as Jack Brisco, Dory Funk Jr., Harley Race and "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair. He also had high-profile matches with Karl Gotch, Killer Kowalski, The Destroyer, André the Giant, Abe Jacobs and King Kong as well.

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Armand Vaillancourt, Canadian sculptor and painter

Joseph Armand Robert Vaillancourt is a Canadian sculptor, painter and performance artist from Quebec. He designed the public art fountain entitled Vaillancourt Fountain in San Francisco. He lives in Montreal.

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03/09/1928

Gaston Thorn, Luxembourg lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (died 2007)

Gaston Egmond Thorn was a Luxembourgish politician who served in a number of high-profile positions, both domestically and internationally. He most prominently served as prime minister of Luxembourg (1974–1979), President of the United Nations General Assembly (1975), and president of the European Commission (1981–1985).

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03/09/1926

Alison Lurie, American author and academic (died 2020)

Alison Stewart Lurie was an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. Although better known as a novelist, she wrote many non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress.

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Irene Papas, Greek actress (died 2022)

Irene Papas or Pappas was a Greek actress and singer who starred in over 70 films in a career spanning more than 50 years. She gained international recognition through such popular award-winning films as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Zorba the Greek (1964) and Z (1969). She was a powerful protagonist in films including The Trojan Women (1971) and Iphigenia (1977). She played the title roles in Antigone (1961) and Electra (1962). She had a fine singing voice, on display in the 1968 recording Songs of Theodorakis.

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Uttam Kumar, Indian Bengali actor, director, producer, singer, composer and playback singer (died 1980)

Arun Kumar Chattopadhyay, known professionally as Uttam Kumar, was an Indian actor, director, producer, screenwriter, composer and playback singer who predominantly worked in Bengali cinema. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most successful actors in the history of Indian cinema, Kumar dominated Bengali cinema from the 1950s throughout the 1970s, being referred to as "Mahanayak". His accolades include five National Awards and four Filmfare Awards.

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03/09/1925

Anne Jackson, American actress (died 2016)

Anne Jackson was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. She was the wife of actor Eli Wallach, with whom she often co-starred. In 1956, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Paddy Chayefsky's Middle of the Night. In 1963, she won an Obie Award for Best Actress for her performance in two Off-Broadway plays, The Typists and The Tiger.

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Bengt Lindström, Swedish painter and sculptor (died 2008)

Bengt Karl Erik Lindström was a Swedish artist. Lindström was one of Sweden's best known contemporary artists with a characteristic style of distinct colors, often including contorted faces. He had two children, Mariana and Alexandre. In 2003, Lindström became disabled due to a stroke and he became unable to paint. The year 2004 saw the release of a film about Bengt's life: "Lindström - Le Diable de la Couleur et de la Forme". On 29 January 2008, Lindström died at his home in Sundsvall, Sweden.

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Hank Thompson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2007)

Henry William Thompson was an American country music singer-songwriter and musician whose career spanned seven decades.

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03/09/1924

Mary Grace Canfield, American actress (died 2014)

Mary Grace Canfield was an American theatre, film and television actress.

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03/09/1923

Glen Bell, American businessman, founded Taco Bell (died 2010)

Glen William Bell Jr. was an American restaurateur who was the founder and namesake of Taco Bell.

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Alice Gibson, Belizean chief librarian and educator (died 2021)

Alice Gibson was a chief librarian from Belize active in development of the country's library system. Beginning her career as a social worker, she became interested in fostering libraries throughout the country. She earned a degree from the British Library Service and founded libraries throughout the country. She worked at Pallotti High School in Belize City.

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Fred Hawkins, American golfer (died 2014)

Fred Hawkins was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s.

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Mort Walker, American cartoonist (died 2018)

Addison Morton Walker was an American comic strip writer, best known for creating the newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey in 1950 and Hi and Lois in 1954. He signed Addison to some of his strips.

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03/09/1921

John Aston Sr., English footballer (died 2003)

John Aston was an English footballer.

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Thurston Dart, English pianist, conductor, and musicologist (died 1971)

Robert Thurston Dart was an English musicologist, conductor and keyboard player. Along with Nigel Fortune, Oliver Neighbour and Stanley Sadie, he was one of Britain's leading musicologists of the post-World War II generation. From 1964 until his death he was King Edward Professor of Music at the University of London, based at King's College London.

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Marguerite Higgins, American journalist and author (died 1966)

Marguerite Higgins Hall was an American reporter and war correspondent. Higgins covered World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, and in the process advanced the cause of equal access for female war correspondents. She had a long career with the New York Herald Tribune (1942–1963) and as a syndicated columnist for Newsday (1963–1965). She was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Foreign Correspondence awarded in 1951 for her coverage of the Korean War. She subsequently won Long Island University's George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting for articles from behind enemy lines in Korea and other nations in 1952.

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03/09/1920

Tereska Torrès, French soldier and author (died 2012)

Tereska Torrès was a French writer known for the 1950 book Women's Barracks, the first "original paperback bestseller." In 2008, historians credited the republished book as the first pulp fiction book published in America to candidly address lesbian relationships, although Torrès did not agree with this analysis.

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03/09/1919

Phil Stern, American soldier and photographer (died 2014)

Philip Stern, also known as Snapdragon, was an American photographer noted for his iconic portraits of Hollywood stars, as well as his war photography while serving as a U.S. Army Ranger with "Darby's Rangers" during the North African and Italian campaigns in World War II.

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03/09/1918

Helen Wagner, American actress (died 2010)

Helen Losee Wagner was an American actress.

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03/09/1916

Eddie Stanky, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1999)

Edward Raymond Stanky was an American professional baseball second baseman, shortstop, and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Braves, New York Giants, and St. Louis Cardinals between 1943 and 1953. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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03/09/1915

Knut Nystedt, Norwegian organist and composer (died 2014)

Knut Nystedt was a Norwegian orchestral and choral composer.

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Memphis Slim, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1988)

John Len Chatman, known professionally as Memphis Slim, was an American blues pianist, singer, and composer. He led a series of bands that, reflecting the popular appeal of jump blues, included saxophones, bass, drums, and piano. A song he first cut in 1947, "Every Day I Have the Blues", has become a blues standard, recorded by many other artists. He made over 500 recordings.

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03/09/1914

Dixy Lee Ray, American biologist and politician, 17th Governor of Washington (died 1994)

Dixy Lee Ray was an American academic, scientist, and politician who served as the 17th governor of Washington from 1977 to 1981. Variously described as idiosyncratic and "ridiculously smart," she was the state's first female governor and was in office during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. She was a supporter of atomic energy.

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03/09/1913

Alan Ladd, American actor and producer (died 1964)

Alan Walbridge Ladd was an American actor and film producer. Ladd found success in film in the 1940s and early 1950s, particularly in films noir and Westerns. He was often paired with Veronica Lake in films noir, such as This Gun for Hire (1942), The Glass Key (1942), and The Blue Dahlia (1946). Whispering Smith (1948) was his first Western and color film, and Shane (1953) was noted for its contributions to the genre. Ladd also appeared in 10 films with William Bendix.

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03/09/1911

Bernard Mammes, American cyclist and sergeant (died 2000)

Bernard Mammes was an American cyclist. Born in Manhattan, Mammes moved with his family to Rockaway Park, Queens around 1920. His father owned an ice cream parlor, where Mammes worked as a youth.

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03/09/1910

Kitty Carlisle, American actress, singer, socialite, and game show panelist (died 2007)

Kitty Carlisle Hart was an American stage and screen actress, opera singer, television personality and spokesperson for the arts. She was the leading lady in the Marx Brothers movie A Night at the Opera (1935) and was a regular panelist on the television game show To Tell The Truth (1956–1978). She served 20 years on the New York State Council on the Arts.

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Franz Jáchym, Austrian Roman Catholic archbishop (died 1984)

Franz Jáchym was an Austrian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Coadjutor Bishop of Vienna from 1950 to 1983, and as Titular Archbishop of Maronea. He graduated from the University of Vienna. After ordination, his served in a parish and the diocesan chancery before being appointed coadjutor bishop in 1950. Consecrated in May 1950 by Cardinal Theodor Innitzer, he served in that office until his retirement in 1983.

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Maurice Papon, French civil servant and convicted war criminal (died 2007)

Maurice Papon was a French civil servant, mass murderer and Nazi collaborator who was convicted of crimes against humanity committed during the occupation of France. Papon led the police in major prefectures from the 1930s to the 1960s, before he became a Gaullist politician. When he was secretary general for the police in Bordeaux during World War II, he participated in the deportation of more than 1,600 Jews. He is also known for his activities in the Algerian War (1954–1962), during which he tortured insurgent prisoners as prefect of the Constantinois department, and ordered, as prefect of the Paris police, the 1961 Paris massacre of pro-National Liberation Front (FLN) demonstrators for violating a curfew that he had "advised".

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03/09/1908

Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician and academic (died 1988)

Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin was a Soviet mathematician. Completely blind from the age of 14, he made major discoveries in a number of fields of mathematics, including algebraic topology, differential topology and optimal control.

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03/09/1907

Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist, philosopher, and author (died 1977)

Loren Eiseley was an American anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and natural science writer, who taught and published books from the 1950s through the 1970s. He received many honorary degrees and was a fellow of multiple professional societies. At his death, he was Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and History of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

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03/09/1905

Carl David Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)

Carl David Anderson was an American experimental physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Victor Hess for his discovery of the positron, which confirmed the existence of antimatter.

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John Mills, New Zealand cricketer (died 1972)

John Ernest Mills, known as Jackie Mills, was a New Zealand cricketer who played in seven Test matches between 1930 and 1933.

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03/09/1901

Eduard van Beinum, Dutch violinist, pianist, and conductor (died 1959)

Eduard Alexander van Beinum was a Dutch conductor.

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03/09/1900

Percy Chapman, English cricketer (died 1961)

Arthur Percy Frank Chapman was an English cricketer who captained the England cricket team between 1926 and 1931. A left-handed batsman, he played 26 Test matches for England, captaining the side in 17 of those games. Chapman was appointed captain for the final, decisive Test of the 1926 series against Australia; under his captaincy, England defeated Australia to win the Ashes for the first time since 1912. An amateur cricketer, Chapman played Minor Counties cricket for Berkshire and first-class cricket for Cambridge University and Kent. Never a reliable batsman, Chapman nevertheless had a respectable batting record. He could score runs very quickly and was popular with spectators. As a fielder, contemporaries rated him extremely highly. Although opinions were divided on his tactical ability as a captain, most critics accepted he was an inspirational leader.

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Urho Kekkonen, Finnish journalist, lawyer, and politician, 8th President of Finland (died 1986)

Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, often referred to by his initials UKK, was a Finnish politician who served as the eighth and longest-serving president of Finland from 1956 to 1982. He also served as prime minister, and held various other cabinet positions. He was the third and most recent president from the Agrarian League/Centre Party. Head of state for nearly 26 years, he dominated Finnish politics for 31 years overall. Holding a large amount of power, he won his later elections with little opposition and has often been classified as an autocrat.

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03/09/1899

Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1985)

Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist known for his contributions to immunology. He won a Nobel Prize in 1960 for predicting acquired immune tolerance. He also developed the theory of clonal selection.

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03/09/1897

Sally Benson, American author and screenwriter (died 1972)

Sally Benson was an American writer of short stories, screenplays, and theatre. She is best known for her humorous tales of modern youth collected in Junior Miss and her semi-autobiographical stories collected in Meet Me in St. Louis.

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03/09/1887

Frank Christian, American trumpet player (died 1973)

Frank Joseph Christian was an American early jazz trumpeter.

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03/09/1882

Johnny Douglas, English cricketer and boxer (died 1930)

John William Henry Tyler Douglas was an English cricketer who was active in the early decades of the twentieth century. Douglas was an all-rounder who played for Essex County Cricket Club from 1901 to 1928 and captained the county from 1911 to 1928. He also played for England and captained England both before and after the First World War with markedly different success. As well as playing cricket, Douglas was a notable amateur boxer who won the middleweight gold medal at the 1908 Olympic Games.

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03/09/1878

Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player (died 1960)

Dorothea Lambert Chambers was a British tennis player. She won seven Wimbledon women's singles titles and a gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

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03/09/1875

Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian-German engineer and businessman, founded Porsche (died 1951)

Ferdinand Porsche was an Austrian-German automotive engineer and founder of the Porsche AG. He is best known for creating the first gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle (Lohner-Porsche), the Volkswagen Beetle, the Auto Union racing cars, the Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK, and several other important developments and Porsche automobiles.

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03/09/1869

Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1930)

Fritz Pregl, was a Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician from a mixed Slovene-German-speaking background. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis, one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis.

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03/09/1856

Louis Sullivan, American architect and educator, designed the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building (died 1924)

Louis Henry Sullivan was an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism". He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School. Along with Wright and Henry Hobson Richardson, Sullivan is one of "the recognized trinity of American architecture." The phrase "form follows function" is attributed to him; it encapsulated earlier theories of architecture and he applied them to the modern age of the skyscraper. In 1944, Sullivan was the second architect to posthumously receive the AIA Gold Medal.

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03/09/1854

Charles Tatham, American fencer (died 1939)

Charles T. Tatham was an American fencer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born and died in New York City and worked for his father's lead manufacturing company in Philadelphia. In 1891, Tatham was one of the founders of the AFLA/USFA.

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03/09/1851

Olga Constantinovna of Russia, Queen consort of the Hellenes (died 1926)

Olga Constantinovna of Russia was Queen of Greece as the wife of King George I. She was briefly the regent of Greece in 1920.

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03/09/1849

Sarah Orne Jewett, American novelist, short story writer and poet (died 1909)

Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern coast of Maine. Jewett is recognized as an important practitioner of American literary regionalism.

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03/09/1841

Tom Emmett, English cricketer (died 1904)

Thomas Emmett was an English cricket bowler in the late 1860s, the 1870s and the early 1880s.

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03/09/1840

Jacob Christian Fabricius, Danish composer (died 1919)

Jacob Christian Fabricius was a Danish councilor, musician, composer and music organizer. Fabricius founded numerous musical societies and institutions during his lifetime. One of the most popular of such societies was Samfund til Udgivelse af dansk musik, founded in 1871. His career as a composer centered to a large extent on songs, choir and piano works. His works found success in Germany and France.

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03/09/1820

George Hearst, American businessman and politician (died 1891)

George Hearst was an American businessman, politician, and patriarch of the Hearst business dynasty. After growing up on a small farm in Missouri, he founded many mining operations and is known for developing and expanding the Homestake Mine in the late 1870s in the Black Hills of South Dakota. In 1879, he listed it on the New York Stock Exchange and went on to other pursuits. The mine's gold production continued uninterrupted until 2001.

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03/09/1814

James Joseph Sylvester, English mathematician and academic (died 1897)

James Joseph Sylvester was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics. He played a leadership role in American mathematics in the later half of the 19th century as a professor at the Johns Hopkins University and as founder of the American Journal of Mathematics. At his death, he was a professor at Oxford University.

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03/09/1811

John Humphrey Noyes, American activist, founded the Oneida Community (died 1886)

John Humphrey Noyes was an American preacher, radical religious philosopher, and utopian socialist. He founded utopian communities at Putney, Vermont, Oneida, New York, and Wallingford, Connecticut, and is credited with coining the term "complex marriage".

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03/09/1810

Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter (died 1871)

Paul Kane was an Irish-born Canadian painter whose paintings and especially field sketches were known as one of the first visual documents of Western indigenous life.

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03/09/1803

Prudence Crandall, American educator (died 1890)

Prudence Crandall was an American schoolteacher and activist. She ran the Canterbury Female Boarding School in Canterbury, Connecticut, which became the first known school for African American girls in the United States led by a white woman. She was the sister of Reuben Crandall, the defendant in the Trial of Reuben Crandall.

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03/09/1781

Eugène de Beauharnais, French general and politician (died 1824)

Eugène Rose de Beauharnais was a French statesman and military officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Through the second marriage of his mother, Joséphine de Beauharnais, he was the stepson of Napoleon Bonaparte. Under the French Empire, he also became Napoleon's adopted son. He was Viceroy of the Kingdom of Italy under his stepfather, from 1805 to 1814, and commanded the Army of Italy during the Napoleonic Wars. Historians consider him one of Napoleon's most able relatives.

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03/09/1724

Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, Irish-English general and politician, 21st Governor General of Canada (died 1808)

General Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester,, known between 1776 and 1786 as Sir Guy Carleton, was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. He twice served as Governor of the Province of Quebec, from 1768 to 1778, concurrently serving as Governor General of British North America in that time, and again from 1785 to 1795. The title Baron Dorchester was created on 21 August 1786.

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03/09/1710

Abraham Trembley, Swiss biologist and zoologist (died 1784)

Abraham Trembley was a Genevan naturalist. He is best known for being the first to study freshwater polyps or hydra and for being among the first to develop experimental zoology. His mastery of experimental method has led some historians of science to credit him as the "father of biology".

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03/09/1704

Joseph de Jussieu, French explorer, geographer, and mathematician, (died 1779)

Joseph de Jussieu, was a French botanist and explorer, member of the Jussieu family. He introduced the common garden heliotrope to European gardeners.

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03/09/1695

Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Italian violin player and composer (died 1764)

Pietro Antonio Locatelli was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist.

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03/09/1693

Charles Radclyffe, English captain and politician (died 1746)

Charles Radclyffe, titular 5th Earl of Derwentwater, was one of the few English participants in the Jacobite risings of both 1715 and 1745.

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03/09/1675

Paul Dudley, American lawyer and jurist (died 1751)

Paul Dudley, FRS was an American lawyer who served as the Massachusetts Attorney General. He was the son of colonial governor Joseph Dudley and grandson of one of the colony's founders, Thomas Dudley.

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03/09/1568

Adriano Banchieri, Italian organist and composer (died 1634)

Adriano Banchieri was an Italian composer, music theorist, organist and poet of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He founded the Accademia dei Floridi in Bologna.

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03/09/1034

Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan (died 1073)

Emperor Go-Sanjō was the 71st emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His given name was Takahito (尊仁).

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