Born on Tuesday, 9th September – Famous Birthdays

09/09/2003

Luke Hughes, American ice hockey player

Luke Warren Hughes is an American professional ice hockey player who is a defenseman for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League (NHL). He played college ice hockey for two years with the University of Michigan of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), reaching the Frozen Four both seasons. He was selected fourth overall by the Devils in the 2021 NHL entry draft.

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09/09/2001

Hailey Van Lith, American basketball player

Hailey Ann Van Lith is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Sky of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball for the Louisville Cardinals, LSU Tigers, and TCU Horned Frogs.

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09/09/2000

Ricky Pearsall, American football player

Richard Pearsall Jr. is an American professional football wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Arizona State Sun Devils and Florida Gators. Pearsall was drafted by the 49ers in the first round of the 2024 NFL draft.

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09/09/1998

Jordan Nwora, Nigerian-American basketball player

Jordan Ifeanyi Nwora is a Nigerian-American professional basketball player for Crvena zvezda of the Basketball League of Serbia (KLS), the ABA League and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Louisville Cardinals. He plays internationally for the Nigeria men's national basketball team. Nwora won a championship with the Milwaukee Bucks in 2021 before being traded to the Indiana Pacers in 2023 and again to the Toronto Raptors in 2024.

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09/09/1996

Gabby Williams, American-French basketball player

Gabrielle Lisa Williams is an American-French professional basketball player for the Golden State Valkyries of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for Fenerbahçe of the Turkish Super League and EuroLeague Women. She was drafted 4th overall by the Chicago Sky in the 2018 WNBA draft. In 2022 she was a EuroLeague champion with Sopron and was named the Final Four MVP. Williams played forward in college for the UConn Huskies, and won back to back national championships in 2015 and 2016. She has played for the French national team in the Tokyo 2020 and the Paris 2024 Olympic games.

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09/09/1994

Clinton Gutherson, Australian rugby league player

Clinton Gutherson is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a fullback for and is the co-captain of the St. George Illawarra Dragons the National Rugby League.

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09/09/1993

Cameron Cullen, Australian rugby league player

Cameron Cullen is a former Australian professional rugby league footballer who previously played for the Redcliffe Dolphins in the Intrust Super Cup. He was primarily known as a five-eighth, halfback and hooker. He previously played for the Gold Coast Titans and the Manly Sea Eagles.

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Crazy Mary Dobson, American wrestler

Sarah Rowe is an American retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her tenure in WWE, where she performed under the ring names Sarah Logan and Valhalla.

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Sharon van Rouwendaal, Dutch swimmer

Sharon van Rouwendaal is a retired Dutch swimmer and the Olympic gold medalist in the 10 km open water marathon at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

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09/09/1992

Shannon Boyd, Australian rugby league player

Shannon Boyd is a former Australian professional rugby league footballer who last played as a prop for the Gold Coast Titans in the NRL, and has played for Australia at international level.

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Damian McGinty, Northern Irish actor and singer

Damian Joseph McGinty is an Irish singer and actor. McGinty has been performing for over a decade, and was a member of the group Celtic Thunder for thirteen years, starting when he was fourteen. On 21 August 2011, McGinty won the Oxygen reality show The Glee Project, earning him a seven-episode guest-starring role on the hit Fox television show Glee which was later extended to 18 episodes.

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09/09/1991

Kelsey Asbille, American actress

Kelsey Asbille Chow, known as her stage name Kelsey Asbille, is an American actress. In 2024, Asbille played the lead role of Iris in the Netflix movie Don't Move. She has played Mikayla in the Disney XD sitcom Pair of Kings. From 2005 to 2009, she had a recurring role as Gigi Silveri on the drama One Tree Hill. She portrayed Tracy Stewart in MTV's Teen Wolf from 2015 to 2016. Asbille had a supporting role in the film Wind River and a recurring role in the television series Fargo, and played main character Monica Long Dutton in the Paramount Network western drama series Yellowstone (2018–2024).

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Lauren Daigle, American contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter

Lauren Ashley Daigle is an American contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter. After being signed to the label Centricity Music, she released her debut album, How Can It Be, in 2015. It reached No. 1 on the Billboard Top Christian Albums chart, has been certified Platinum by the RIAA and produced three No. 1 singles on the Billboard Christian Airplay chart.

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Hunter Hayes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Hunter Easton Hayes is an American multi-genre singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He is proficient at more than 30 instruments.

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Oscar, Brazilian footballer

Oscar dos Santos Emboaba Júnior, known mononymously as Oscar, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.

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Danilo Pereira, Bissauan-Portuguese footballer

Danilo Luís Hélio Pereira, sometimes known as simply Danilo, is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or centre-back for Saudi Pro League club Al-Ittihad.

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09/09/1990

Billy Hamilton, American baseball player

Billy Rayshun Hamilton is an American professional baseball center fielder for the Charros de Jalisco of the Mexican League. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals, Atlanta Braves, New York Mets, Chicago Cubs, Miami Marlins, Minnesota Twins, and Chicago White Sox. The Reds selected Hamilton in the second round of the 2009 Major League Baseball draft, and he made his MLB debut in 2013. He was originally a switch-hitter until the 2021 season, when he decided to become exclusively a right handed batter after a right oblique strain.

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Shaun Johnson, New Zealand rugby league player

Shaun Ly Johnson is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who last played as a halfback for the New Zealand Warriors in the National Rugby League and New Zealand at international level.

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Haley Reinhart, American singer-songwriter and actress

Haley Elizabeth Reinhart is an American singer, songwriter, and actress from Wheeling, Illinois. She first rose to prominence after placing third in the tenth season of American Idol. In July 2011, Reinhart signed a recording deal with Interscope Records. Her debut album Listen Up! was released on May 22, 2012, to critical acclaim, and she subsequently became the first American Idol alumna to perform at Lollapalooza.

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Andrew Smith, American basketball player (died 2016)

Andrew Smith was an American basketball player. He played in two NCAA Final Fours during his career at Butler, as well as professionally for Neptūnas.

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Jordan Tabor, English footballer (died 2014)

Jordan Benjamin Tabor was an English footballer who primarily played as a left back, but also played as a central midfielder or as a striker in the latter part of his career.

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09/09/1989

Alfonzo Dennard, American football player

Alfonzo Dennard is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, and was selected by the New England Patriots in the 2012 NFL draft.

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Casey Hayward, American football player

Casey Hayward Jr. is an American former professional football cornerback. He played college football for the Vanderbilt Commodores. Hayward was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the second round of the 2012 NFL draft and has played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Packers, San Diego / Los Angeles Chargers, Las Vegas Raiders, and Atlanta Falcons.

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09/09/1988

Danilo D'Ambrosio, Italian footballer

Danilo D'Ambrosio is an Italian former professional footballer who primarily played as a centre-back or right-back.

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Will Middlebrooks, American baseball player

William Scott Middlebrooks is an American retired professional baseball third baseman and is currently the main color analyst for the Boston Red Sox Radio Network on WEEI-FM. He also does color analysis for the Red Sox on NESN. He made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut with the Red Sox on May 2, 2012, and played with them through 2014. He also played in MLB for the San Diego Padres, Milwaukee Brewers and Texas Rangers. He also worked as an analyst for a 2024 AL Wild Card series on ESPN Radio. A fifth round draft pick in the 2007 MLB draft out of Liberty-Eylau High School in Texarkana, Texas, Middlebrooks signed with the Red Sox for $925,000, bypassing his commitment to Texas A&M University. Middlebrooks was originally a shortstop, but the Red Sox converted him into a third baseman in the minor leagues. He represented the United States in the 2011 All-Star Futures Game. Following Middlebrooks' emergence as the Red Sox's starting third baseman in 2012, the organization traded former All-Star Kevin Youkilis. After struggles in the 2013 and 2014 seasons, the Red Sox traded Middlebrooks to the San Diego Padres before the 2015 season. He signed minor league contracts with the Brewers and Rangers before the 2016 and 2017 seasons, respectively.

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09/09/1987

Markus Jürgenson, Estonian footballer

Markus Jürgenson is an Estonian professional footballer who last played as a right back for Estonian club FCI Levadia.

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Andrea Petkovic, German tennis player

Andrea Petkovic is a German former professional tennis player. Born in Tuzla, SFR Yugoslavia, to Serbian father Zoran and Bosniak mother Amira, she moved to Germany at six months old and turned professional in 2006 at the age of 18. A former top-10 player, Petkovic reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 9 on 10 October 2011, becoming the first German female player ranked inside the top 10 since Steffi Graf in 1999. That year, she played in the quarterfinals of three Grand Slam tournaments as well as a Premier Mandatory final at the China Open, and qualified as an alternate to the WTA Tour Championships.

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Afrojack, Dutch-Surinamese DJ, record producer, and remixer

Nick Leonardus van de Wall, known professionally as Afrojack, is a Dutch DJ, record producer and remixer. In 2007, he founded the record label Wall Recordings; his debut album Forget the World was released in 2014. Afrojack regularly features as one of the ten best artists in the Top 100 DJs published by DJ Mag. He is also the CEO of LDH Europe.

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Ahmed Elmohamady, Egyptian footballer

Ahmed Eissa Elmohamady Abdel Fattah is an Egyptian former professional footballer who played as a right-back. He currently works for Aston Villa in the club's commercial department.

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Nicole Aniston, American actress and model

Nicole Aniston is an American pornographic film actress. She was the 2013 Penthouse Pet of the Year.

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09/09/1986

Michael Bowden, American baseball player

Michael Matthew Bowden is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs, in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) with the Saitama Seibu Lions, and in the KBO League for the Doosan Bears. He attended high school at Waubonsie Valley High School in Aurora, Illinois. He was selected by the Boston Red Sox in the first round of the 2005 MLB draft.

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Chamu Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer

Chamunorwa Justice "Chamu" Chibhabha is a Zimbabwean cricketer who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm medium pace. In January 2020, Zimbabwe Cricket named him as the captain of Zimbabwe's One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) squads on an interim basis.

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Timothy Granaderos, American actor and model

Timothy Granaderos is an American actor and model. He is known for his portrayals of Ash Franklin in the thriller web series Tagged (2016–18), Taylor Price in the TV series In the Vault (2017), and Montgomery de la Cruz in the Netflix teen drama series 13 Reasons Why (2017–20). He is currently dating Margaux Brooke.

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Luc Mbah a Moute, Cameroonian basketball player

Luc Richard Mbah a Moute is a Cameroonian former professional basketball player who played for 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins. Mbah a Moute also played for the Cameroon national team.

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Keith Yandle, American hockey player

Keith Michael Yandle is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman. He also is co-host of the hit podcast, Spittin Chiclets. Yandle was drafted by the Phoenix Coyotes in the fourth round, 105th overall, at the 2005 NHL entry draft. He played 1,109 games for the Arizona Coyotes, New York Rangers, Florida Panthers, and Philadelphia Flyers.

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09/09/1985

Martin Johnson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Martin Bennett Johnson is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the bands Boys Like Girls and the Night Game.

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Luka Modrić, Croatian footballer

Luka Modrić is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Serie A club AC Milan and captains the Croatia national team. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of all time, and as the greatest Croatian player ever.

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J. R. Smith, American basketball player

Earl Joseph "J. R." Smith III is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Smith played high school basketball at New Jersey basketball powerhouse Saint Benedict's Preparatory School in Newark. He entered the NBA out of high school after being selected in the first round of the 2004 NBA draft with the 18th overall pick by the New Orleans Hornets. He has also played for the Denver Nuggets, New York Knicks, and the Cleveland Cavaliers as well as for the Zhejiang Golden Bulls of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). Smith won two NBA championships, with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016 and with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020.

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09/09/1984

Brad Guzan, American soccer player

Bradley Edwin Guzan is an American former professional soccer player who played as a goalkeeper. He is currently a club ambassador and sporting advisor for Atlanta United.

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James Hildreth, English cricketer

James Charles Hildreth is a former English professional cricketer who played for Somerset County Cricket Club. He attended Millfield School, Somerset. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler. Hildreth represented England at all youth levels including the 2003–04 Under-19 World cup held in Bangladesh. He made his first-class debut in 2003 and became a regular member of the side from the start of the 2004 season. The James Hildreth Stand was opened by him at Somerset County Cricket Ground on 21 September 2022.

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Michalis Sifakis, Greek footballer

Michalis Sifakis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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09/09/1983

Vitolo, Spanish footballer

Víctor José Añino Bermúdez, known as Vitolo, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Tercera Federación club Real Unión de Tenerife.

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Kyle Davies, American baseball player

Hiram Kyle Davies is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves and Kansas City Royals.

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Edwin Jackson, American baseball player

Edwin Jackson Jr. is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2003 to 2019 for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Tampa Bay Devil Rays / Rays, Detroit Tigers, Arizona Diamondbacks, Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, Washington Nationals, Chicago Cubs, Atlanta Braves, Miami Marlins, San Diego Padres, Baltimore Orioles, Oakland Athletics, and Toronto Blue Jays.

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Cleveland Taylor, English footballer

Cleveland Kenneth Wayne Taylor is a football manager and former professional player

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09/09/1982

John Kuhn, American football player

John Allen Kuhn is an American former professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for Shippensburg University, he was signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers as an undrafted free agent in 2005. Kuhn earned a Super Bowl ring in his first year with the Steelers in Super Bowl XL, and another as a member of the Green Bay Packers, five years later in Super Bowl XLV. He was named to three Pro Bowls, all as a Packer.

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Graham Onions, English cricketer

Graham Onions is an English former cricketer. He played for Durham, Lancashire and England as a right arm fast-medium bowler and a right-hand tail-end batsman. After a successful start to the 2009 cricket season, Onions was selected to face the West Indies in Test cricket, and following success in the series, was retained for the 2009 Ashes series. In April 2010, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack named him as one of its five cricketers of the year for 2009. A back injury in March 2010 prevented Onions from playing cricket until 2011. He returned to competitive cricket that season, taking 50 wickets in the County Championship, and towards the end of the year was called up to England's Test squad. However, in September 2020, Onions announced his retirement from cricket after his back injury returned.

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Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress

Ai Otsuka is a Japanese singer-songwriter from Suminoe-ku, Osaka, Japan. She is a popular artist on the Avex Trax label and is best known for her 2003 hit "Sakuranbo", which stayed in the Top 200 Oricon Weekly Singles Chart for 103 weeks.

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09/09/1981

Julie Gonzalo, Argentine-American actress

Julieta Susana Gonzalo Martyniuk known professionally as Julie Gonzalo, is an Argentine-American actress and model. She is known for her villainous roles in the films Freaky Friday (2003) and A Cinderella Story (2004), and has also appeared in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) and Christmas with the Kranks (2004), as a member of the titular family.

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09/09/1980

Todd Coffey, American baseball player

Justin Todd Coffey is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, Milwaukee Brewers, Washington Nationals, and Los Angeles Dodgers. He was born in Forest City, North Carolina.

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David Fa'alogo, New Zealand rugby league player

David Fa'alogo is a former professional rugby league footballer played as a prop, second-row and lock in the 2000s and 2010s. He played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs and Newcastle Knights in the NRL, the Huddersfield Giants in the Super League and the Ipswich Jets in the Queensland Cup. He represented both New Zealand and Samoa at international level.

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Michelle Williams, American actress

Michelle Ingrid Williams is an American actress. Known primarily for starring in small-scale independent films with dark or tragic themes, she has received various accolades, including three Golden Globe Awards, two Actor Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for five Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award.

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09/09/1979

Wayne Carlisle, Northern Irish footballer and coach

Wayne Thomas Carlisle is a Northern Irish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently assistant manager of Bath City.

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Nikki DeLoach, American actress and singer

Nikki DeLoach is an American actress, best known as Lacey Hamilton in Awkward (2011–2016), MJ in North Shore (2004–2005), and Brenda in Days of Our Lives (2007–2009).

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09/09/1978

Kurt Ainsworth, American baseball player and businessman, co-founded Marucci Sports

Kurt Harold Ainsworth is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played for the San Francisco Giants and Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball (MLB) and went to Louisiana State University. Ainsworth also won an Olympic Games gold medal with the United States national baseball team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Following his professional baseball career, Ainsworth co-founded Marucci Sports and currently serves as the company's CEO.

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Shane Battier, American basketball player and sportscaster

Shane Courtney Battier is an American former professional basketball player.

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09/09/1977

Kyle Snyder, American baseball player and coach

Kyle Ehren Snyder is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher and current pitching coach for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Kansas City Royals and the Boston Red Sox. During his playing days, Snyder stood 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m) tall, weighing 225 pounds (102 kg).

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Fatih Tekke, Turkish footballer and manager

Fatih Tekke, known by his given nickname Sultan, is a Turkish football coach and former player who is currently the head coach of Trabzonspor. He started his professional career at Trabzonspor and later played for Altay, Gaziantepspor, Zenit, and Beşiktaş. He achieved recognition as the top scorer in the Süper Lig during the 2004–05 season. Tekke also represented the Turkey national team, and he eventually retired from playing, transitioning into a managerial role.

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09/09/1976

Emma de Caunes, French actress

Emma de Caunes is a French actress.

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El Intocable, Mexican wrestler

René "Ricky" Gómez Espinoza, better known under the ring name El Intocable, is a Mexican professional wrestler, actor, and model, best known for his work in Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) from 1997 until his departure in 2008. He also played the role of Gaspar on the Mexican telenovela Duelo de Pasiones.

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Hanno Möttölä, Finnish basketball player

Hanno Aleksanteri Möttölä is a Finnish basketball coach and a former professional basketball player. He is currently working as an assistant coach of Canada national team. A power forward, Möttölä played for the Atlanta Hawks in the National Basketball Association (NBA), becoming the first player from Finland to play in the NBA.

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Joey Newman, American composer and conductor

Joey Newman is an American film composer, orchestrator, arranger and conductor working in the fields of film and television.

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Mattias Öhlund, Swedish ice hockey player

Kenneth Mattias Öhlund is a Swedish former professional ice hockey player who was a defenceman in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Vancouver Canucks and Tampa Bay Lightning. Öhlund played two seasons in the Swedish Allsvenskan, the second highest tier of hockey in Sweden, with Piteå HC before being selected by the Canucks 13th overall in the 1994 NHL entry draft. He then joined Luleå HF of the Elitserien, the highest league in Sweden, winning the Le Mat Trophy as league champions in 1996. He began his NHL career with Vancouver in 1997–98, the start of an eleven-year tenure with the club in which he became the Canucks' all-time leader in points for a defenceman. Öhlund would play the final two seasons of his professional career with the Tampa Bay Lightning before retiring in 2011. A serious eye injury before his third NHL season was the first of many injuries Öhlund has sustained over his career, and he only played a full season twice in his 13-year NHL career.

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Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer and coach

Aki Pasinpoika Riihilahti is a Finnish sports executive and a former professional footballer. He played as a defensive midfielder. He is the CEO of HJK Helsinki. He was voted by leading European clubs to be the vice-chairman of European Club Association (ECA), and has also important positions both in the UEFA club competition committee and in the FIFA stakeholders committee.

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Kristoffer Rygg, Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer

Kristoffer Rygg, also known as Garm, Trickster G. Rex and God Head, is a Norwegian vocalist, musician and producer known primarily for his work with Ulver, Arcturus, and Borknagar.

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09/09/1975

Michael Bublé, Canadian singer-songwriter and actor

Michael Steven Bublé is a Canadian singer and songwriter. Regarded as a pop icon, he is often credited for helping to renew public interest and appreciation for traditional pop standards and the Great American Songbook. Bublé has sold over 75 million records worldwide, and won numerous awards, including five Grammy Awards and fifteen Juno Awards.

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Anton Oliver, New Zealand rugby player

Anton David Oliver is a retired New Zealand rugby union player. Previously, he played as a hooker for Marlborough and Otago in the National Provincial Championship and Air New Zealand Cup, and spent twelve seasons with the Highlanders in Super Rugby. He earned 59 caps for his country and for a period was All Blacks captain.

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09/09/1974

Vikram Batra, Indian captain (died 1999)

Captain Vikram Batra PVC was an Indian Army officer. He was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest military decoration, for his actions during the Kargil War. On 7 July 1999, Batra was killed while fighting Pakistani troops at Point 4875 in the Kargil district of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir.

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Shane Crawford, Australian footballer and television host

Shane Barry Crawford is a former Australian rules football player, television media personality and author. He played 305 senior games for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). During his AFL career he became captain of Hawthorn in 1999 and that season also won the AFL's top individual honours, the Brownlow Medal and the Leigh Matthews Trophy. He is a four-time All-Australian player and played in three International Rules series for Australia. He has won four Hawthorn Best & Fairest Awards and was a member of Hawthorn's 2008 premiership side.

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Marcos Curiel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Marcos Curiel is an American musician. He is the lead guitarist of the rock bands P.O.D., The Accident Experiment and Daylight Division. Curiel was born in San Diego, California, in 1974 and is of Mexican descent. He started P.O.D. in 1992 along with friend Noah "Wuv" Bernardo. The band started building a strong local fanbase, releasing several albums independently. In 1998, they were signed to a record deal and released their hit albums The Fundamental Elements of Southtown (1999) and Satellite (2001) including the singles "Alive" and "Youth of the Nation". Both albums have had mainstream success, gaining multi Platinum certifications by the RIAA and three Grammy Award nominations. P.O.D. has also contributed to numerous motion picture soundtracks and toured internationally. Curiel is the youngest member of P.O.D.

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Jun Kasai, Japanese wrestler

Jun Kasai is a Japanese professional wrestler, primarily competing for Pro Wrestling Freedoms. Dubbed the Crazy Monkey for his violent and often self-harmful style of hardcore wrestling, Kasai is considered a breakthrough talent in Japanese wrestling, able to work both hardcore and technical styles. Outside Freedoms, Kasai has worked for the original Pro Wrestling Zero-One, Hustle, Ice Ribbon, Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) and Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW).

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Gok Wan, English fashion stylist, author, and television host

Gok Wan is a British fashion consultant, author, television presenter, actor, DJ and chef.

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09/09/1973

Kazuhisa Ishii, Japanese baseball player

Kazuhisa Ishii is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher and manager and general manager. He played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yakult Swallows and Saitama Seibu Lions and in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets.

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09/09/1972

Mike Hampton, American baseball player and coach

Michael William Hampton, Jr. is an American former professional baseball player. Hampton played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a pitcher from 1993 through 2010. He pitched for the Seattle Mariners, Houston Astros, New York Mets, Colorado Rockies, Atlanta Braves and Arizona Diamondbacks. He was the bullpen coach for the Mariners before resigning on July 9, 2017.

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Natasha Kaplinsky, English journalist

Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky is an English newsreader, TV presenter and journalist, best known for her roles as a studio anchor on Sky News, BBC News, Channel 5 and ITV News. As of September 2022, she is the president of the British Board of Film Classification.

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Jakko Jan Leeuwangh, Dutch speed skater

Jakko Jan Leeuwangh is a former speed skater from the Netherlands. He finished fourth in the 1998 Olympic 1000 m event. In January 2000 he broke the 1500 m world record in Calgary, Canada, holding the record until it was broken by Lee Kyou-hyuk in March 2001.

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Miriam Oremans, Dutch tennis player

Miriam Oremans is a former professional female tennis player from the Netherlands. On 26 July 1993 she reached her career-high singles ranking of number 25.

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Xavi Pascual, Spanish professional basketball coach

Xavier Pascual i Vives, commonly known as Xavi Pascual, is a Spanish professional basketball coach who is currently the head coach of FC Barcelona of the Liga ACB and EuroLeague. On 9 May 2010 he became the youngest head coach to win the EuroLeague championship, and soon after, he also won the EuroLeague Coach of the Year Award.

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Félix Rodríguez, Dominican baseball player

Félix Antonio Rodríguez is a Dominican former Major League Baseball relief pitcher.

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Goran Višnjić, Croatian-American actor

Goran Višnjić is a Croatian actor. He is best known for his roles as Dr. Luka Kovač in ER and Garcia Flynn in Timeless, both NBC television series. For ER, he and the cast were nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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09/09/1971

Eric Stonestreet, American actor

Eric Allen Stonestreet is an American actor. He is known for portraying Cameron Tucker in the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009–2020), for which he received two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series out of three nominations. He first rose to prominence in a recurring role on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He has also appeared in films including Bad Teacher (2011), Identity Thief (2013), The Loft (2014), and Confirmation (2016), and provides the voice of Duke in The Secret Life of Pets film franchise (2016–2019).

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Henry Thomas, American actor and guitarist

Henry Jackson Thomas is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor and had the lead role of Elliott Taylor in the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), for which he won a Young Artist Award and received Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, and Saturn Award nominations. Thomas also had roles in other films, including Cloak & Dagger (1984), Frog Dreaming (1986), Valmont (1989), Fire in the Sky (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Suicide Kings (1997), All the Pretty Horses (2000), Gangs of New York (2002), 11:14 (2003), and Dear John (2010). Thomas was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for his role in the television film Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1997).

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09/09/1970

Natalia Streignard, Spanish-Venezuelan actress

Natalia Martínez-Streignard y Negri is a Venezuelan actress and beauty pageant titleholder who competed at Miss Venezuela 1992. Natalia is best known for her work in successful telenovelas such as El Juramento with Osvaldo Rios, La mujer de mi vida, with ex-spouse Mario Cimarro, Mi destino eres tu with Lucero and Jorge Salinas, and La Tormenta with Christian Meier, in the most famous telenovelas productions of Televisa, Venevision and Telemundo.

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09/09/1969

Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress

Rachel Hunter is a New Zealand model, actress, and the host of Imagination Television's Rachel Hunter's Tour of Beauty. She has appeared on several magazine covers, including Vogue, Elle, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Cosmopolitan, and Harper's Bazaar. She has been on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue twice: in 1994 and in 2006.

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Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian politician

Natasha Jessica Stott Despoja AO is an Australian diplomat, gender equality advocate, former Australian of the Year nominee, and former politician. Starting her career in student politics, she became an advisor to the Australian Democrats and was appointed to the Australian Senate in 1995 at the age of 26. At the time, she was the youngest woman to serve in Federal Parliament. She went on to become deputy leader of the Democrats in 1997 and then federal leader from 2001 to 2002. She retired from the Senate in 2008 as the longest-serving senator from her party.

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09/09/1968

Jon Drummond, American sprinter and coach

Jonathan A. Drummond is an American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4 × 100 m relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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Clive Mendonca, English footballer

Clive Paul Mendonca is an English former professional footballer, who played as a forward between 1986 and 2002, notably for Grimsby Town and Charlton Athletic. Mendonca also played for Sheffield United, Doncaster Rovers and Rotherham United.

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Julia Sawalha, English actress

Julia Sawalha is an English actress. She is best known for playing Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012) and its 2016 film. Her other television roles include as Lynda Day in Press Gang (1989–1993), as Hannah Greyshott in Second Thoughts (1991–1994) and its sequel series, Faith in the Future (1995–1998), Lydia Bennet in the television miniseries of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1995), Georgina and Kid's vocal effects in Sheeep (2000–2001), Carla Borrego in Jonathan Creek (2001–2004) and Dorcas Lane in the BBC's costume drama Lark Rise to Candleford (2008–2011). Her film credits include Buddy's Song (1991), The Wind in the Willows (1996) and Chicken Run (2000).

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09/09/1967

B. J. Armstrong, American basketball player and sportscaster

Benjamin Roy Armstrong Jr. is an American professional basketball executive and former professional basketball player who is the assistant general manager of the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Armstrong won three National Basketball Association (NBA) championships during his career as a point guard for the Chicago Bulls.

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Chris Caffery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Christopher Caffery is an American heavy metal guitarist, best known for his work as a member of Savatage and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Caffery has been releasing solo records singing and playing guitar for almost 20 years, releasing nine albums and many singles since 2004.

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Mark Shrader, American wrestler

Mark Shrader is a retired American professional wrestler, trainer and promoter who competed in numerous independent promotions throughout the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s. Among these included Atlantic Terror Championship Wrestling, the Future Wrestling Alliance, East Coast Wrestling Association, Cueball Carmichael's Independent Professional Wrestling Alliance, Doug Flex's International Pro Wrestling, and the Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation. Shrader also briefly appeared as a preliminary wrestler for the World Wrestling Federation.

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Akshay Kumar, Indian actor and producer

Akshay Hari Om Bhatia, known professionally as Akshay Kumar, is an Indian actor and film producer working in Hindi cinema. Referred to in the media as "Khiladi Kumar", through his career spanning over 30 years, Kumar has appeared in over 150 films and has won several awards, including two National Film Awards and two Filmfare Awards. He received the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian honour, from the Government of India in 2009. Kumar is one of the most prolific actors in Indian cinema. Forbes included Kumar in their lists of both highest-paid celebrities and highest-paid actors in the world from 2015 to 2020. Between 2019 and 2020, he was the only Indian on both lists.

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09/09/1966

Georg Hackl, German luger and coach

Georg Hackl, often named Hackl Schorsch, is a German former luger who was three time Olympic and World Champion. He is known affectionately as Hackl-Schorsch or as the Speeding Weißwurst, a reference to what he looks like in his white bodysuit coming down the luge at fast speeds.

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Kevin Hatcher, American ice hockey player

Kevin John Hatcher is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 17 seasons between 1984 and 2001 for the Washington Capitals, Dallas Stars, Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Rangers and Carolina Hurricanes. He is the older brother of former NHL player Derian Hatcher, with whom he was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame on October 21, 2010. Hatcher was born in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up in Sterling Heights, Michigan.

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Adam Sandler, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter

Adam Richard Sandler is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and musician. Primarily a comedic leading actor in films, his accolades include an Independent Spirit Award, alongside nominations for three Grammy Awards, seven Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2023, Sandler was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

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Brian Smith, Australian-Irish rugby player and coach

Brian Anthony Smith is an Australian rugby union coach and former rugby union and rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played for both Australia and Ireland in rugby union.

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09/09/1965

Charles Esten, American actor, comedian, and musician

Charles Esten Puskar III, also known professionally as Charles Esten, and as Chip Esten, is an American actor, musician, singer-songwriter, and comedian.

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Dan Majerle, American basketball player and coach

Daniel Lewis Majerle, also known by the nickname "Thunder Dan", is an American former professional basketball player and former coach of the Grand Canyon Antelopes. He played 14 years in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Phoenix Suns, Miami Heat, and Cleveland Cavaliers. He won a bronze medal with the U.S. national team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, and a gold medal at the 1994 FIBA World Championship.

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Constance Marie, American actress

Constance Marie is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Angelina "Angie" Lopez in George Lopez (2002–2007), and Marcela Quintanilla in the film Selena (1997). She portrayed Regina Vasquez in the ABC Family/Freeform drama series Switched at Birth (2011–2017). She also portrayed Camila Diaz in the Amazon Prime Video drama series Undone (2019–2022).

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Marcel Peeper, Dutch footballer

Marcel Benjamin Peeper is a Dutch former footballer who played as either a left back or left midfielder.

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09/09/1964

Aleksandar Hemon, Bosnian-American author and critic

Aleksandar Hemon is a Bosnian-American author, essayist, critic, television writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for the novels Nowhere Man (2002) and The Lazarus Project (2008), and his scriptwriting as a co-writer of The Matrix Resurrections (2021).

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Skip Kendall, American golfer

Jules Ira "Skip" Kendall is an American professional golfer. He plays on the PGA Tour Champions and formerly played on the Web.com Tour and the PGA Tour.

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09/09/1963

Chris Coons, American lawyer and politician

Christopher Andrew Coons is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Delaware, a seat he has held since 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, Coons served as the county executive of New Castle County from 2005 to 2010.

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Roberto Donadoni, Italian footballer and manager

Roberto Donadoni is an Italian professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder, who was most recently the head coach of Serie B club Spezia.

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Neil Fairbrother, English cricketer

Neil Fairbrother is an English former cricketer who played 75 One Day International matches and 10 Test matches as a batsman for England. Fairbrother, named by his mother after her favourite player, the Australian cricketer Neil Harvey, was educated at Lymm Grammar School and played his county cricket for Lancashire. Although primarily a one day player at international level, he had strong success in the County Championship and had a first class high score of 366. He was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1992 Cricket World Cup.

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09/09/1960

Hugh Grant, English actor and producer

Hugh John Mungo Grant is an English actor. He established himself early in his career as a charming and vulnerable romantic leading man, and has since transitioned into a character actor. He has received several accolades including a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. He received an Honorary César in 2006. In 2022, Time Out magazine listed Grant as one of Britain's 50 greatest actors of all time. As of 2025, his films have grossed over US$4 billion worldwide.

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Bob Hartley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Robert Hartley is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He most recently served as the head coach of Avangard Omsk of the KHL. He has additionally coached the Latvia men's national ice hockey team. He coached the Colorado Avalanche from 1998–2002 and won the Stanley Cup in 2001. He also coached the Atlanta Thrashers from the 2003–04 season up until the beginning of the 2007–08 season, when he was fired after the Thrashers got off to an 0–6 start. Hartley has been an ice hockey analyst for the French-language RDS television channel, and became the head coach of the ZSC Lions of the Swiss National League A in March 2011. From 2012 to 2016, Hartley was the head coach of the Calgary Flames.

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Johnson Righeira, Italian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor

Stefano Righi, known professionally as Johnson Righeira, is an Italian singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and actor. He is best known as the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the Italo disco duo Righeira. After the duo disbanded for the second time in 2016, he pursued a solo career and founded the record label Kottolengo Recordings.

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Bob Stoops, American football player and coach

Robert Anthony Stoops is an American former football coach who was the head football coach at the University of Oklahoma from 1999 through the 2016 season, and on an interim basis during the 2021 Alamo Bowl. He led the Oklahoma Sooners to a record of 191–48 over his career. His 2000 Oklahoma Sooners football team won the 2001 Orange Bowl, which served as the BCS National Championship Game, and earned a consensus national championship. Stoops also was a head coach with the XFL, coaching the Renegades in 2020, and from 2023 to 2025. Stoops' Renegades won the XFL Championship in 2023.

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Kimberly Willis Holt, American author

Kimberly Willis Holt is an American writer of children's books. She is best known for the novel When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, which won the 1999 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature. It was adapted as a 2003 film of the same name.

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09/09/1959

Tom Foley, American baseball player and coach

Thomas Michael Foley is an American former professional baseball infielder and coach who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, Montreal Expos, and Pittsburgh Pirates, from 1983 to 1994. After retiring as a player, Foley served as an on-field coach for the Tampa Bay Rays, from 2002 through 2017, when he moved into the team's front office.

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Éric Serra, French composer and producer

Éric Serra is a French film composer, known as a frequent collaborator of director Luc Besson. He is a five-time César Award nominee, winning once for The Big Blue (1988).

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09/09/1957

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist and educator

Pierre-Laurent Aimard is a French pianist. He focuses on contemporary music.

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09/09/1955

John Kricfalusi, Canadian voice actor, animator, director, and screenwriter

Michael John Kricfalusi, known professionally as John K., is a Canadian illustrator, blogger, and former animator and voice actor. He is the creator of the animated television series The Ren & Stimpy Show, which was highly influential on televised animation during the 1990s. From 1989 to 1992, he was heavily involved with the first two seasons of the show in virtually every aspect of its production, including providing the voice of Ren Höek and other characters. In 2009, he won the Inkpot Award.

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09/09/1954

Walter Davis, American basketball player (died 2023)

Walter Pearl Davis was an American professional basketball player. After his college years with the North Carolina Tar Heels he played as a forward/guard for 15 years in the National Basketball Association (NBA), spending the majority of his career with the Phoenix Suns. Davis was a six-time NBA All-Star, a two-time All-NBA Second Team member, and the NBA Rookie of the Year in 1978. In 1994, the Suns retired his No. 6 jersey and in 2004 he was enshrined in the team's Ring of Honor. Davis' 15,666 points during his time with the Suns is the 2nd most in franchise history. In 2024, it was announced that Davis would be posthumously inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

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09/09/1953

Janet Fielding, Australian actress

Janet Claire Mahoney, known professionally as Janet Fielding, is an Australian actress and talent agent. She starred in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who as companion Tegan Jovanka from 1981 to 1984, and again in 2022.

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09/09/1952

Angela Cartwright, English-American actress, author, and singer

Angela Margaret Cartwright is an English actress. As a young performer, she played Linda Williams, the stepdaughter of Danny Williams in the long-running TV series The Danny Thomas Show, and Penny Robinson in the 1960s television series Lost in Space. She is also known for her role as Brigitta von Trapp in the 1965 film The Sound of Music. Her older sister is actress Veronica Cartwright.

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Per Jørgensen, Norwegian singer and trumpet player

Per Jørgensen is a Norwegian multi-instrumentalist with trumpet as his main instrument, also known for his vocal contributions, in collaboration with Dag Arnesen, Knut Kristiansen, Alex Riel, Jon Christensen, Jon Balke, Audun Kleive, Jan Gunnar Hoff, Marilyn Mazur, Nils Petter Molvær, Bugge Wesseltoft, and Terje Isungset.

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Dave Stewart, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

David Allan Stewart is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known for Eurythmics, his successful professional partnership with Annie Lennox. He won Best British Producer at the 1986, 1987 and 1990 Brit Awards. Stewart was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2020 and the duo were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022. Outside of Eurythmics, Stewart has written and produced songs for artists such as Ringo Starr, Stevie Nicks, Mick Jagger and Tom Petty.

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09/09/1951

Alexander Downer, Australian economist and politician, 34th Minister of Foreign Affairs for Australia

Alexander John Gosse Downer is an Australian former politician and diplomat who served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 2007, and was a member of parliament (MP) for the South Australian division of Mayo from 1984 to 2008.

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Tom Wopat, American actor and singer

Thomas Steven Wopat is an American actor and singer. He first achieved fame as Lucas K. "Luke" Duke on the long-running television action/comedy series The Dukes of Hazzard. Since then, Wopat has worked regularly, most often on the stage in musicals and in supporting television and movie roles. He was a semi-regular recurring character on the 1990s comedy series Cybill, and he had a small role as U.S. Marshal Gil Tatum in Django Unchained (2012). Wopat also has a recurring role as Sheriff Jim Wilkins on the television series Longmire. Additionally, Wopat has recorded several albums of country songs and pop standards, scoring a series of moderately successful singles in the 1980s and 1990s.

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09/09/1950

Gogi Alauddin, Pakistani squash player and coach

Gogi Alauddin is a former squash player from Pakistan. He was one of the game's leading players in the 1970s.

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John McFee, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

John McFee is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist, and long-time member of The Doobie Brothers.

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09/09/1949

John Curry, English figure skater (died 1994)

John Anthony Curry, was a British figure skater. He was the 1976 European, World and Olympic Champion. He was noted for combining ballet and modern dance influences into his skating.

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Daniel Pipes, American historian and author

Daniel Pipes is an American former professor, anti-Muslim activist, and commentator on foreign policy and the Middle East. He is the president of the Middle East Forum, and publisher of its Middle East Quarterly journal. His writing focuses on American foreign policy and the Middle East as well as criticism of Islamism.

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Joe Theismann, American football player and sportscaster

Joseph Robert Theismann is an American former professional football player, sports commentator, corporate speaker, and restaurateur. He rose to fame playing quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL). Theismann spent 12 seasons with the Washington Redskins, where he was a two-time Pro Bowler and led the team to consecutive Super Bowl appearances, winning Super Bowl XVII over the Miami Dolphins and losing Super Bowl XVIII to the Los Angeles Raiders. He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2003.

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Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian general and politician, 6th President of Indonesia

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, commonly referred to as SBY, is an Indonesian politician and retired military officer who served as the sixth president of Indonesia from 2004 to 2014 and the second president from the military after Suharto. He founded the Democratic Party of Indonesia and served as its 4th chairman from 2014 until 2020. He also served as the 8th and 10th Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs from 2000 until 2001 and again from 2001 until 2004. He also served as the president of the Assembly and chair of the Council of the Global Green Growth Institute.

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09/09/1947

David Rosenboom, American composer and educator

David Rosenboom is a composer, performer, interdisciplinary artist, author, and educator known for his work in American experimental music.

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Freddy Weller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Wilton Frederick "Freddy" Weller is an American rock and roll and country music and artist. He recorded for Columbia Records between 1969 and 1980. He had his highest charted single in 1969 with his debut release, "Games People Play".

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T. M. Wright, American author, poet, and illustrator (died 2015)

Terrance "Terry" Michael Wright was an American author best known as a writer of horror fiction, speculative fiction, and poetry.

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09/09/1946

Jim Keays, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter (died 2014)

James Keays was a Scottish-born Australian musician who fronted the rock band The Masters Apprentices as singer-songwriter, guitarist and harmonica-player from 1965 to 1972 and subsequently had a solo career. He also wrote for a music newspaper, Go-Set, as its Adelaide correspondent in 1970 and its London correspondent in 1973.

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Bruce Palmer, Canadian folk-rock bass player (died 2004)

Bruce Palmer was a Canadian musician best known as the bassist in the folk rock band Buffalo Springfield, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.

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09/09/1945

Ton van Heugten, Dutch motocross racer (died 2008)

Antonius Maria van Heugten was a Dutch sidecarcross rider and the 1981 World Champion in the sport, together with his passenger Frits Kiggen.

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Dee Dee Sharp, American singer

Dione LaRue, known professionally as Dee Dee Sharp, is an American R&B singer.

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Doug Ingle, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 2024)

Douglas Lloyd Ingle was an American musician, best known as the founder, organist, primary composer and lead vocalist for the band Iron Butterfly. He wrote the band's hit song "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", which was first released in 1968, and was the last surviving member of the band’s 1967–1969 lineup.

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09/09/1943

Frank Clark, English footballer, manager and chairman

Frank Clark is an English former footballer and manager, and former chairman of Nottingham Forest. Clark played in over 400 games for Newcastle United before moving to Nottingham Forest where he won the European Cup.

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09/09/1942

The Iron Sheik, Iranian-American wrestler and actor (died 2023)

Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, better known by his ring name the Iron Sheik, was an Iranian and American professional wrestler, amateur wrestler, as well as an actor. To date he is the only Iranian-born champion in WWE history, having won the WWF World Heavyweight Championship in 1983.

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Inez Foxx, American singer (died 2022)

Inez Foxx and her elder brother Charlie Foxx were an American rhythm and blues and soul duo from Greensboro, North Carolina. Inez sang lead vocal, while Charlie sang backing vocals and played guitar. Casey Kasem, and doubtless many others, mistakenly thought that the two were husband and wife.

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Danny Kalb, American singer and guitarist (died 2022)

Daniel Ira Kalb was an American blues guitarist and vocalist. He was an original member of the 1960s group the Blues Project.

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09/09/1941

Syed Abid Ali, Indian cricketer

Syed Abid Ali was an all-rounder Indian cricketer who was a lower-order batsman and a medium-pace bowler. He played an important role in Indian cricket in the 1960s and '70s.

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Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 1967)

Otis Ray Redding Jr. was an American singer and songwriter. He is regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and a seminal artist in soul music and rhythm and blues. Nicknamed the "King of Soul", Redding's style of singing drew inspiration from the gospel music that preceded the genre. His vocal style influenced many other soul artists of the 1960s.

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Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, created the C programming language (died 2011)

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He created, together with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system, C programming language, and B programming language.

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09/09/1940

Hugh Morgan, Australian businessman

Hugh Matheson Morgan, is an Australian businessman and former CEO of Western Mining Corporation. He was President of the Business Council of Australia from 2003 to 2005. The Howard government appointed him to the board of the Reserve Bank of Australia in 1996, where he remained until 2007. He also was the Founding Chairman of Asia Society Australia.

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Joe Negroni, American doo-wop singer (died 1978)

Jose Negroni was an American singer of Puerto Rican descent. He was a rock and roll pioneer and founding member of the rock and roll group Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers.

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09/09/1939

Ron McDole, American football player

Roland Owen (Ron) McDole is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

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09/09/1938

John Davis, English anthropologist and academic (died 2017)

John Horsley Russell Davis FBA FRAI was a British anthropologist, ex-Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Oxford.

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Jay Ward, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2012)

John Francis "Jay" Ward was an American professional baseball player and coach. He was also a manager in the minor leagues.

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09/09/1936

William Bradshaw, Baron Bradshaw, English academic and politician

William Peter Bradshaw, Baron Bradshaw, commonly known as Bill Bradshaw, is a British academic and politician. A Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords, he was formerly also a County Councillor in Oxfordshire from 1993 until his resignation in January 2008.

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09/09/1935

Gopal Baratham, Singaporean neurosurgeon and author (died 2002)

Gopal Baratham was a Singaporean author and neurosurgeon. He was known for his frank style and his ability to write about topics that were often considered controversial in the conservative city-state.

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Nadim Sawalha, Jordanian-born English actor

Nadim Joakim Sawalha is a Jordanian-British actor. He has made over 100 appearances in film and television, in a career spanning more than 40 years, which include two James Bond films, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and The Living Daylights (1987). He is the father of actresses Nadia and Julia Sawalha.

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Chaim Topol, Israeli actor, singer, and producer (died 2023)

Chaim Topol, mononymously known as Topol, was an Israeli actor and singer. He is best known for his portrayal of Tevye, the lead character in the stage musical Fiddler on the Roof. Topol estimated that he played Tevye more than 3,500 times on stage from 1967 through 2009, and he also portrayed the character in the 1971 film adaptation of the play.

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09/09/1934

Nicholas Liverpool, Dominican lawyer and politician, 6th President of Dominica (died 2015)

Nicholas Joseph Orville Liverpool was a politician and jurist from Dominica who served as the sixth President of Dominica from 2 October 2003 to 17 September 2012.

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Sonia Sanchez, American poet, playwright, and activist

Sonia Sanchez is an American poet, writer, and professor. She was a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement and has written more than a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children's books. In the 1960s, Sanchez released poems in periodicals targeted towards African-American audiences, and published her debut collection, Homecoming, in 1969. In 1993, she received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and in 2001 was awarded the Robert Frost Medal for her contributions to the canon of American poetry. She has been influential to other African-American poets, including Krista Franklin. Sanchez is a member of The Wintergreen Women Writers Collective.

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09/09/1932

Carm Lino Spiteri, Maltese architect and politician (died 2008)

Carm Lino Spiteri, also known by his nickname Iċ-Ċumpaqq, was a Maltese architect and politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives with the Nationalist Party between 1971 and 1987, and again between 1992 and 1996.

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09/09/1931

Robin Hyman, English author and publisher (died 2017)

Robin Philip Hyman was a British publisher who was the chairman of Laurence King Publishing from 1991 to 2004.

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Zoltán Latinovits, Hungarian actor and author (died 1976)

Zoltán Latinovits was a Hungarian actor.

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Ida Mae Martinez, American wrestler (died 2010)

Ida Mae Martinez Selenkow was an American professional wrestler in the 1950s, known as Ida Mae Martinez. After her retirement in 1960, she appeared in the 2004 documentary Lipstick & Dynamite about the early years of Women's professional wrestling in North America. In addition to wrestling, Martinez was a yodeler, releasing the CD The Yodeling Lady Ms. Ida also in 2004. Martinez also obtained a Master's Degree in Nursing and was one of the first nurses in Baltimore to work with AIDS patients.

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Shirley Summerskill, English physician and politician

Shirley Catherine Wynne Summerskill is a British Labour Party politician and former government minister, who served as the Member of Parliament for Halifax from 1964 to 1983.

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Margaret Tyzack, English actress (died 2011)

Margaret Maud Tyzack was an English actress. Her television roles included The Forsyte Saga (1967) I, Claudius (1976), and George Lucas's Young Indiana Jones (1992–1993). She won the 1970 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the BBC serial The First Churchills, and the 1990 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage, opposite Maggie Smith. She also won two Olivier Awards—in 1981 as Actress of the Year in a Revival and in 2009 as Best Actress in a Play. Her film appearances included Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and A Clockwork Orange (1971), as well as Prick Up Your Ears (1987) and Match Point (2005).

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09/09/1930

Francis Carroll, Australian archbishop (died 2024)

Francis Patrick Carroll was an Australian archbishop, the fifth Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canberra–Goulburn, serving between 1983 until his retirement in 2006. Prior to his election as archbishop, Carroll served as Bishop of Wagga Wagga between 1968 and 1983. Carroll served as president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference between 2000 and 2006. He died in Wagga Wagga on 14 March 2024, at the age of 93.

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09/09/1929

Claude Nougaro, French singer-songwriter (died 2004)

Claude Nougaro was a French jazz singer and poet.

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09/09/1928

Moses Anderson, American Roman Catholic bishop (died 2013)

Moses Bosco Anderson SSE was an American prelate in the Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit in Michigan from 1982 to 2003. He was a member of the Society of St. Edmund (Edmundites)

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Sol LeWitt, American painter and sculptor (died 2007)

Solomon "Sol" LeWitt was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism.

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09/09/1927

Elvin Jones, American drummer and bandleader (died 2004)

Elvin Ray Jones was an American jazz drummer of the post-bop era. Most famously a member of John Coltrane's quartet, with whom he recorded from late 1960 to late 1965, Jones appeared on such albums as My Favorite Things, A Love Supreme, Ascension and Live at Birdland. After 1966, Jones led his own trio, and later larger groups under the name The Elvin Jones Jazz Machine. His brothers Hank and Thad were also celebrated jazz musicians with whom he occasionally recorded. Elvin was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1995. In his The History of Jazz, jazz historian and critic Ted Gioia calls Jones "one of the most influential drummers in the history of jazz". He was also ranked at Number 23 on Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Drummers of All Time".

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Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Russian sociologist and economist (died 2013)

Tatyana Ivanovna Zaslavskaya was a Russian economic sociologist and a theoretician of perestroika. She was the prime author of the Novosibirsk Report and several books on the economy of the Soviet Union and in sociology of the countryside. She was a member of the Consulting Committee to the President of Russia from 1991 to 1992 and also a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Zaslavskaya was the founder of RPORC and also its director in the years from 1987 to 1992. In 2000 she was the Laureate of the Demidov Prize and the honorary president of the Levada Center.

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09/09/1926

Louise Abeita, Isleta Pueblo (Native American) writer, poet, and educator (died 2014)

Louise Abeita Chewiwi was a Pueblo writer, poet and educator who was an enrolled member of Isleta Pueblo.

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Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Egyptian theologian and author (died 2022)

Yusuf al-Qaradawi was an Egyptian Islamic scholar based in Doha, Qatar, and chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars. His influences included Ibn Taymiyya, Ibn Qayyim, Sayyid Rashid Rida, Hassan al-Banna, Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi, Abul A'la Maududi and Naeem Siddiqui. He was best known for his programme الشريعة والحياة, al-Sharīʿa wa al-Ḥayāh, broadcast on Al Jazeera, which had an estimated audience of 40–60 million worldwide. He was also known for IslamOnline, a website he helped for establishment in 1997 and for which he served as chief religious scholar.

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09/09/1924

Jane Greer, American actress (died 2001)

Jane Greer was an American film and television actress best known for her role as femme fatale Kathie Moffat in the 1947 film noir Out of the Past. In 2009, The Guardian named her one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.

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Sylvia Miles, American actress (died 2019)

Sylvia Miles was an American actress. She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Farewell, My Lovely (1975).

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Russell M. Nelson, American captain, surgeon, and religious leader (died 2025)

Russell Marion Nelson Sr. was an American religious leader and surgeon who was the seventeenth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2018 until his death in 2025. Before becoming church president, Nelson was a member of its Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for nearly thirty-four years and was the quorum president from 2015 to 2018. As church president, Nelson was recognized by the church as the prophet, seer, and revelator.

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Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (died 2003)

Hendrik Van Steenbergen was a Belgian racing cyclist, considered to be one of the best among the great number of successful Belgian cyclists.

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09/09/1923

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2008)

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was an American physician and medical researcher who was the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on the transmissibility of kuru, implying the existence of an infectious agent, which he named an 'unconventional virus'. In 1996, Gajdusek was charged with child molestation and, after being convicted, spent 12 months in prison before entering a self-imposed exile in Europe, where he died a decade later. Despite Gajdusek openly admitting to molesting boys and his approval of incest, he still received support from peers advocating for clemency who felt his crimes were lessened by his scientific contributions.

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Cliff Robertson, American actor (died 2011)

Clifford Parker Robertson III was an American actor whose career in film and television spanned over six decades. Robertson portrayed a young John F. Kennedy in the 1963 film PT 109, and won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the film Charly.

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09/09/1922

Hoyt Curtin, American composer and producer (died 2000)

Hoyt Stoddard Curtin was an American composer, music producer and the primary musical director for Hanna-Barbera from its beginnings with The Ruff and Reddy Show from 1957 to 1965, and again from 1972 to 1986 until his retirement in 1989.

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Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)

Hans Georg Dehmelt was a German and American physicist, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, for co-developing the ion trap technique with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one-half of the prize. Their technique was used for high precision measurement of the electron magnetic moment.

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Manolis Glezos, Greek journalist and politician (died 2020)

Manolis Glezos was a Greek left-wing politician, journalist, author, and guerrilla fighter most famous for his role in the Greek Resistance during World War II. After the end of the war, Glezos became a journalist and edited the left-wing newspapers Rizospastis and I Avgi. As a politician, he was elected to the European Parliament twice and served as a Member of the Greek Parliament (MP) at various points from 1951 to 2014, representing three constituencies. He also published six books.

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Warwick Estevam Kerr, Brazilian geneticist, entomologist, and engineer (died 2018)

Warwick Estevam Kerr was a Brazilian agricultural engineer, geneticist, entomologist, professor and scientific leader, notable for his discoveries in the genetics and sex determination of bees. The Africanized bee in the western hemisphere is directly descended from 26 Tanzanian queen bees accidentally released by one of his assistant bee-keepers. When reassembling a hive, the assistant forgot to install the queen excluder. This occurred in 1957 in Rio Claro, São Paulo in the southeast of Brazil from hives operated by Kerr, who had interbred honey bees from Europe and southern Africa.

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09/09/1920

Neil Chotem, Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 2008)

Neil Chotem was a Canadian composer, arranger, conductor, pianist, and music educator.

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Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and physicist (died 1993)

Feng Kang was a Chinese mathematician. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. After his death, the Chinese Academy of Sciences established the Feng Kang Prize in 1994 to reward young Chinese researchers who made outstanding contributions to computational mathematics.

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Robert Wood Johnson III, American businessman and philanthropist (died 1970)

Robert Wood Johnson III was an American businessman. He was a grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I.

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09/09/1919

Gottfried Dienst, Swiss footballer and referee (died 1998)

Gottfried Dienst was a Swiss association football referee. He was mostly known as the referee of the 1966 FIFA World Cup final.

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Jimmy Snyder, American sportscaster (died 1996)

James George Snyder Sr., better known as Jimmy the Greek, was an American sports commentator and Las Vegas bookmaker. A regular contributor to the CBS program The NFL Today, Snyder predicted the scores of NFL games, which sports bettors used to determine the point spread. In January 1988, Snyder was fired by CBS after he made comments suggesting that breeding practices during slavery had led blacks to become superior athletes.

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09/09/1918

Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Italian lawyer and politician, 9th President of Italy (died 2012)

Oscar Luigi Scalfaro was an Italian politician who served as the president of Italy from 1992 to 1999. A member of Christian Democracy (DC), he became an independent politician after the DC's dissolution in 1992, and was close to the centre-left Democratic Party when it was founded in 2007. Before his election to the Presidency, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies for Turin for 44 years from 1948 to 1992.

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09/09/1914

John Passmore, Australian philosopher and academic (died 2004)

John Arthur Passmore was an Australian philosopher.

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09/09/1911

Paul Goodman, American author, poet, and playwright (died 1972)

Paul Goodman was an American writer and public intellectual best known for his 1960s works of social criticism. Goodman was prolific across numerous literary genres and non-fiction topics, including the arts, civil rights, decentralization, democracy, education, media, politics, psychology, technology, urban planning, and war. As a humanist and self-styled man of letters, his works often addressed a common theme of the individual citizen's duties in the larger society, and the responsibility to exercise autonomy, act creatively, and realize one's own human nature.

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John Gorton, Australian lieutenant and politician, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (died 2002)

Sir John Grey Gorton was an Australian politician, farmer and airman who served as the 19th prime minister of Australia from 1968 to 1971. He held office as the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, having previously served as a senator for Victoria. He was the first and only member of the upper house of the Parliament to assume the office of prime minister.

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09/09/1908

Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and author (died 1950)

Cesare Pavese was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist. He is often referred to as one of the most influential Italian writers of his time.

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Shigekazu Shimazaki, Japanese admiral (died 1945)

Shigekazu Shimazaki was a Japanese career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during World War II.

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09/09/1907

Leon Edel, American author and critic (died 1997)

Joseph Leon Edel (1907–1997) was an American/Canadian literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel.

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09/09/1906

Ali Hadi Bara, Iranian-Turkish sculptor and educator (died 1971)

Ali Hadi Bara was a Turkish sculptor and one of the first artists of the Republican generation in Turkey.

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09/09/1905

Joseph E. Levine, American film producer, founded Embassy Pictures (died 1987)

Joseph Edward Levine was an American film distributor, financier and producer. At the time of his death, it was said he was involved in one or another capacity with 497 films. Levine was responsible for the American releases of Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, Attila and Hercules, which helped revolutionize American film marketing, and was founder and president of Embassy Pictures.

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Brahmarishi Hussain Sha, Indian philosopher and poet (died 1981)

Hussain Sha was the seventh head of Sri Viswa Viznana Vidya Adhyatmika Peetham in Pithapuram. He was born in Rajahmundry, East Godavari District. He succeeded his father, Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha Sathguru. He completed his primary education at Pithapuram and passed the Final Arts course from National College in Machilipatnam. He was a scholar in Telugu, Arabic, Urdu, Persian and Sanskrit.

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09/09/1904

Feroze Khan, Indian-Pakistani field hockey player and coach (died 2005)

Feroze Khan was a field hockey player who represented India at the Summer Olympic Games. At the time of his death, he was the world's oldest Olympic gold medal winner, following the death of US athlete James Rockefeller in 2004. Khan was part of India's Olympic hockey team at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, who won the gold medal for the event. At the club level, Khan played for Uttar Pradesh, Aligarh University and the Bombay Customs. After his death, Roger Beaufrand of France became the oldest living Olympic gold medal winner.

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Arthur Laing, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Canadian Minister of Veterans Affairs (died 1975)

Arthur Laing was a Canadian politician from British Columbia. Though actively involved with the BC Liberals, his primary achievements were federally as a Liberal Member of Parliament. He served in the cabinets of prime ministers Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Trudeau.

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09/09/1903

Lev Shankovsky, Ukrainian military historian (died 1995)

Lev Shankovsky, was a Ukrainian military historian and former Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) soldier, a leading member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. He was a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society.

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Edward Upward, English author (died 2009)

Edward Falaise Upward, FRSL was a British novelist and short story writer who, prior to his death, was believed to be the UK's oldest living author. Initially gaining recognition amongst the Auden Group as a highly imaginative surrealist writer, in the 1930s he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain, after which his writing shifted towards Marxist realism. His literary career spanned over eighty years.

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Phyllis A. Whitney, American author (died 2008)

Phyllis Ayame Whitney was an American mystery writer who wrote 73 novels, most all of them in the suspense and mystery genre. 39 of her books were for adults, 20 for young adults (juveniles), and 14 written for children. Her books sold millions of copies and were published in more than thirty countries.

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09/09/1900

James Hilton, English-American author and screenwriter (died 1954)

James Hilton was a British-American novelist and screenwriter. He is best remembered for his novels Lost Horizon; Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Random Harvest; and co-writing screenplays for the films Camille (1936) and Mrs. Miniver (1942), the latter earning him an Academy Award.

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09/09/1899

Neil Hamilton, American stage, film and television actor (died 1984)

James Neil Hamilton was an American stage, film and television actor, best remembered for his role as Commissioner Gordon on the Batman TV series of the 1960s, having first played a character by that name in 1928's Three Week-Ends. During his motion picture career, which spanned more than a half century, Hamilton performed in over 260 productions in the silent and sound eras.

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Waite Hoyt, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 1984)

Waite Charles Hoyt was an American right-handed professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball for seven different teams during 1918–1938. He was one of the dominant pitchers of the 1920s, and the most successful pitcher for the New York Yankees during that decade. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969.

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Bruno E. Jacob, American academic, founded the National Forensic League (died 1979)

Bruno Ernst Jacob was a professor at Ripon College in Wisconsin and founder of the National Forensic League. He served as the league's executive secretary from 1925 until his retirement in 1969.

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09/09/1898

Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (died 1973)

Frank Francis Frisch, nicknamed "the Fordham Flash" or "the Old Flash", was an American professional baseball second baseman and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Giants (1919–1926) and St. Louis Cardinals (1927–1937), and managed the Cardinals (1933–1938), Pittsburgh Pirates (1940–1946), and Chicago Cubs (1949–1951). He is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum. He is tied with Yogi Berra for most World Series doubles at 10 and holds the record for the most World Series hits at 58 for a player who never played for the New York Yankees, exceeded only by Berra and Mickey Mantle.

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09/09/1894

Arthur Freed, American composer and producer (died 1973)

Arthur Freed was an American lyricist and a Hollywood film producer. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture twice, in 1951 for An American in Paris and in 1958 for Gigi. Both films were musicals, and both were directed by Vincente Minnelli. In addition, he produced the film Singin' in the Rain, the soundtrack for which primarily consisted of songs he co-wrote earlier in his career. In the decades following his death, Freed has become the subject of several sexual assault allegations, most notably from child actress Shirley Temple and actress and dancer Barrie Chase.

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Humphrey Mitchell, Canadian trade union leader and politician, 14th Canadian Minister of Labour (died 1950)

Humphrey Mitchell, was a Canadian politician and trade unionist.

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Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer and soldier (died 1976)

William Albert Stanley Oldfield was an Australian cricketer and businessman. He played for New South Wales and Australia as a wicket-keeper. Oldfield's 52 stumpings during his Test career remains a record several decades after his final Test.

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09/09/1890

Colonel Sanders, American businessman, founded KFC (died 1980)

Harland David Sanders was an American entrepreneur and founder of fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). He later acted as the company's brand ambassador and symbol. His name and image are still symbols of the company today.

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09/09/1887

Alf Landon, American lieutenant, banker, and politician, 26th Governor of Kansas (died 1987)

Alfred Mossman Landon was an American oilman and politician who served as the 26th governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937. A member of the Republican Party, he was the party's nominee in the 1936 presidential election, and was defeated in a landslide by incumbent president Franklin D. Roosevelt. The margin of victory in the electoral college was the largest of Roosevelt's four elections to the office of president, as Landon won just 8 electoral votes to Roosevelt's 523. Landon died on October 12, 1987, becoming the only presidential candidate from either of the major parties to live to the age of 100 until Jimmy Carter in 2024, and is to date the only Republican candidate to do so.

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09/09/1885

Miriam Licette, English soprano and educator (died 1969)

Miriam Licette was an English operatic soprano whose career spanned 35 years, from the mid-1910s to after World War II. She was also a singing teacher, and created the Miriam Licette Scholarship.

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Clare Sheridan, English sculptor and author (died 1970)

Clare Consuelo Sheridan was an English sculptor, journalist and writer, known primarily for creating busts for famous sitters and keeping travel diaries. She was a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill, with whom she had enjoyed an amicable relationship, though her support for the October Revolution in 1917 caused them to break ranks politically. She enjoyed travelling around the world; and among her circle of friends were Princess Margaret of Sweden, Lord and Lady Mountbatten, Lady Diana Cooper, Vita Sackville-West and Vivien Leigh.

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09/09/1882

Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (died 1962)

Charles Louis "Clem" McCarthy was an American sportscaster and public address announcer. He also narrated Pathe News's RKO newsreels. He was known for his gravelly voice and dramatic style, a "whiskey tenor" as sports announcer and executive David J. Halberstam has called it.

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09/09/1878

Adelaide Crapsey, American poet and critic (died 1914)

Adelaide Crapsey was an American poet. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Rochester, New York. Her parents were the businesswoman Adelaide T. Crapsey and the Episcopal priest Algernon Sidney Crapsey, who moved from New York City to Rochester.

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Arthur Fox, English-American fencer (died 1958)

Arthur George Fox was an English-American fencer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.

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Sergio Osmeña, Filipino lawyer and politician, 4th President of the Philippines (died 1961)

Sergio Osmeña Sr. was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the fourth president of the Philippines from 1944 to 1946 and as the first vice president of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944. He served the shortest term as president of the Philippines, lasting for only 1 year and 300 days. He was vice president under Manuel L. Quezon. Upon Quezon's sudden death in 1944, Osmeña succeeded him at age 65, becoming the first vice president to succeed to the Philippine presidency and the oldest person to assume it until Rodrigo Duterte took office in 2016 at age 71. He was the founder of the Nacionalista Party.

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09/09/1877

James Agate, English journalist, author, and critic (died 1947)

James Evershed Agate was an English diarist and theatre critic between the two world wars. He took up journalism in his late twenties and was on the staff of The Manchester Guardian in 1907–1914. He later became a drama critic for The Saturday Review (1921–1923), The Sunday Times (1923–1947) and the BBC (1925–1932). The nine volumes of Agate's diaries and letters cover the British theatre of his time and non-theatrical interests such as sports, social gossip and private preoccupations with health and finances. He published three novels, translated a play briefly staged in London, and regularly published collections of theatre essays and reviews.

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09/09/1876

Frank Chance, American baseball player and manager (died 1924)

Frank Leroy Chance was an American professional baseball player. A first baseman, Chance played in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs and New York Yankees from 1898 through 1914. He also served as manager of the Cubs, Yankees, and Boston Red Sox.

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09/09/1873

Max Reinhardt, Austrian-born American theater and film director (died 1943)

Max Reinhardt was an Austrian-born theatre and film director, intendant, and theatrical producer. With his radically innovative and avant-garde stage productions, Reinhardt is regarded as one of the most prominent stage directors of the early 20th century.

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09/09/1868

Mary Hunter Austin, American author, poet, and critic (died 1934)

Mary Hunter Austin was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the fauna, flora, and people of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California.

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09/09/1863

Herbert Henry Ball, English-Canadian journalist and politician (died 1943)

Herbert Henry Ball was a Canadian politician and journalist.

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09/09/1855

Houston Stewart Chamberlain, English-German philosopher and author (died 1927)

Houston Stewart Chamberlain was a British-German-French philosopher who wrote works about political philosophy and natural science. His writing promoted German ethnonationalism, antisemitism, scientific racism, and Nordicism; he has been described as a "racialist writer". His best-known book, the two-volume Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, published in 1899, became highly influential in the pan-Germanic Völkisch movements of the early 20th century, and later influenced the antisemitism of Nazi racial policy. In the early 1920s, Chamberlain met and encouraged Adolf Hitler: he has been referred to as "Hitler's John the Baptist".

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09/09/1853

Fred Spofforth, Australian-English cricketer and merchant (died 1926)

Frederick Robert Spofforth, also known as "The Demon Bowler", was an Australian cricket team pace bowler of the nineteenth century. He was the first bowler to take 50 Test wickets, and the first to take a Test hat-trick, in 1879. He played in Test matches for Australia between 1877 and 1887, and then settled in England where he played for Derbyshire. In 2009, he was inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame.

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09/09/1834

Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English author (died 1903)

Joseph Henry Shorthouse was an English novelist. His first novel, John Inglesant, was particularly admired as a "philosophical romance". It discusses a religious intrigue in the English 17th century.

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09/09/1828

Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright (died 1910)

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time.

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09/09/1823

Joseph Leidy, American paleontologist and academic (died 1891)

Joseph Mellick Leidy was an American paleontologist, parasitologist, and anatomist.

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09/09/1807

Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish-English archbishop and philologist (died 1886)

Richard Chenevix Trench was an Anglican archbishop and poet.

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09/09/1789

Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, Polish rabbi (died 1866)

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, also known as the Tzemach Tzedek, was an Orthodox rabbi, leading 19th-century posek, and the third Rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement.

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09/09/1778

Clemens Brentano, German poet and author (died 1842)

Clemens Wenzeslaus Brentano was a German poet and novelist, and a major figure of German Romanticism. He was the uncle, via his brother Christian, of Franz and Lujo Brentano.

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09/09/1777

James Carr, American soldier and politician (died 1818)

James Carr, son of U.S. Congressman Francis Carr, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Maine, then a District of Massachusetts.

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09/09/1755

Benjamin Bourne, American judge and politician (died 1808)

Benjamin Bourne was a United States representative from Rhode Island, a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island and a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Circuit Court for the First Circuit.

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09/09/1754

William Bligh, English admiral and politician, 4th Governor of New South Wales (died 1817)

Vice-Admiral of the Blue William Bligh was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of New South Wales from 1806 to 1808. He is best known for his role in the mutiny on HMS Bounty, which occurred in 1789 when the ship was under his command. The reasons behind the mutiny continue to be debated. After being set adrift in Bounty's launch by the mutineers, Bligh and those loyal to him stopped for supplies on Tofua, losing one man to native attacks. Bligh and his men reached Timor alive, after a journey of 3,618 nautical miles.

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09/09/1737

Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (died 1798)

Luigi Galvani was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher who studied animal electricity. In 1780, using a frog, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when struck by an electrical spark. This was an early study of bioelectricity, following experiments by John Walsh and Hugh Williamson.

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09/09/1731

Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican priest, historian, and scholar (died 1787)

Francisco Javier Clavijero Echegaray, SJ was a Mexican Jesuit teacher, scholar and historian. After the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spanish provinces in 1767, he went to Italy, where he wrote a valuable work on the pre-Columbian history and civilizations of Mesoamerica and the central Mexican altiplano.

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09/09/1721

Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish admiral and shipbuilder (died 1808)

Vice-Admiral Fredrik Henrik af Chapman was a Swedish Navy officer, shipwright and scientist. Serving as the manager of the Karlskrona shipyard from 1782 to 1793, Chapman has been credited as the first person to apply scientific methods to shipbuilding and is considered to be the first naval architect.

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09/09/1711

Thomas Hutchinson, English historian and politician, Governor of the province of Massachusetts Bay (died 1780)

Thomas Hutchinson was an American merchant, politician, historian, and colonial administrator who repeatedly served as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the years leading up to the American Revolution. He has been described as "the most important figure on the loyalist side in pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts". Hutchinson was a successful merchant and politician who was active at high levels of the Massachusetts colonial government for many years, serving as lieutenant governor and then governor from 1758 to 1774. He was a politically polarizing figure who came to be identified by John Adams and Samuel Adams as a supporter of unpopular British taxes, despite his initial opposition to Parliamentary tax laws directed at the colonies. Hutchinson was blamed by British Prime Minister Lord North for being a significant contributor to the tensions that led to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.

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09/09/1700

Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (died 1780)

Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was a Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.

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09/09/1629

Cornelis Tromp, Dutch general (died 1691)

Cornelis Maartenszoon Tromp, Count of Sølvesborg was a Dutch naval officer who served as lieutenant-admiral general in the Dutch Navy, and briefly as a general admiral in the Royal Danish-Norwegian Navy. Tromp is one of the most celebrated and controversial figures in Dutch naval history due to his actions in the Anglo-Dutch Wars and the Scanian War. His father was the renowned Lieutenant Admiral Maarten Tromp.

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09/09/1585

Cardinal Richelieu, French cardinal and politician (died 1642)

Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu, commonly known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French Catholic prelate and statesman who had an outsized influence in civil and religious affairs. He became known as the Red Eminence, a term derived from the style of Eminence applied to cardinals and their customary red robes.

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09/09/1558

Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur (died 1602)

Philippe-Emmanuel de Lorraine, Duke of Mercœur and of Penthièvre was a French soldier, a prince of the Holy Roman Empire and a prominent member of the Catholic League, who fought for Breton political independence from the House of Bourbon.

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09/09/1466

Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shōgun (died 1523)

Ashikaga Yoshitane , also known as Ashikaga Yoshiki , was the 10th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who headed the shogunate first from 1490 to 1493 and then again from 1508 to 1521 during the Muromachi period of Japan.

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09/09/1427

Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (died 1464)

Thomas Ros or Roos, 9th Baron Ros of Helmsley was a follower of the House of Lancaster during the Wars of the Roses.

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09/09/1349

Albert III, Duke of Austria (died 1395)

Albert III of Austria (9 September 1349 – 29 August 1395), known as Albert with the Braid (Pigtail) (German: Albrecht mit dem Zopf), a member of the House of Habsburg, was Duke of Austria from 1365 until his death.

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09/09/0384

Honorius, Roman emperor (died 423)

Honorius was Roman emperor from 393 to 423. He was the younger son of emperor Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla. After the death of Theodosius in 395, Honorius, under the regency of Stilicho, ruled the western half of the empire while his brother Arcadius ruled the eastern half. His reign over the Western Roman Empire was precarious and chaotic. In 410, Rome was sacked for the first time since the Battle of the Allia almost 800 years prior.

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