September 14th
Holidays and Festivals
Day 1 Eleusinian Mysteries (Greece) * (see below)
Music Day (Korea) * CLICK HERE
National Boss/Employee Exchange Day
National Cream-Filled Donut Day
Feast of Triumph of the Cross (Also see May 3rd, Finding of the Holy Cross) - Roman Catholic Church
Feast of Crescentius of Rome
Feast of Maternus of Cologne
Feast of Notburga
Feast of John Gabriel Taurin Dufresse
Feast of Exaltation of the Cross, which commemorates the discovery of the original Christian cross in 326 by Helena, mother of Constantine, as well as the recovery from the Persians by Heraclius in 628.
Feast of Aelia Flaccilla
One of the Four Sets of Ember Days. Formerly, in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday following were observed as one of the four sets of Ember days. In the Irish calendar they were known as Quarter tense.
* Ibiza Closing Parties Ibiza, Spain - Last 3 weeks of Sept (6-21)
* First day of the Eleusinian Mysteries (Ancient Greece) during which the sacred objects were brought from Eleusis to Athens.
Fête de la Maïs Translation: Corn Day (French Republican) The 28th day of the Month of Fructidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Happiness being a dessert so sweet
May life give you more than you can ever eat"
- Traditional
Drink of The Day
Gibson
3 Part Gin OR Vodka
1 Part Dry Vermouth
Shake and Strain into A
Cocktail Glass
Garnish With an Onion
Mix ingredients in a Cocktail Shaker With ice and Strain into a Cocktail Glass.
- In celebration of the Birth of Charles Dana Gibson (September 14th, 1867 - December 23rd, 1944) Some claim to be the origin of the drink
Wine of The Day
Rodney Strong (2007) Estate Vineyards, Chalk Hill
Style - Chardonnay
Sonoma County
$25
Beer of The Day
HopSlam Ale
Brewer - Bell’s Brewery
Style - Imperial IPA
ABV - 10%
Joke of The Day
Q: What do the men in a singles bar have in common?
A: They're all married.
Quote of The Day
"Life is too short to spend time with people who suck the happiness out of you."
- Unknown
Whiskey Of The Day
High West Silver Western Oat Light Whiskey
Price: $35
September Observances
AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Month
All American Breakfast Month
Apple Month
Atrial Fibrillation Month
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Month
Baby Safety Month
Backpack Safety America Month
Be Kind to Editors and Writers Month
Better Breakfast Month
Bourbon Heritage Month
Bumbershoot Festival (Seattle, Washington, USA)
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Childrens' Good Manners Month
Chili Peppers and Figs Month
Classical Music Month
College Savings Month
Craniofacial Acceptance Month
Eat Chicken Month
Fall Hat Month
Go Wild During California Wild Rice Month
Great American Low-Cholesterol, Low-fat Pizza Bake Month
Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month
Happy Cat Month
Healthy Aging Month
Healthy Aging Month
Hunger Action Month
International Guide Dogs Month
International People Skills Month
International Self-Awareness Month
International Square Dancing Month
International Strategic Thinking Month
Library Card Sign-Up Month
Little League Month
Menopause Awareness Month
Million Minute Family Challenge (September-December)
Mold Awareness Month
National 5-A-Day Month
National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month
National Biscuit Month
National Blueberry Popsicle Month
National Campus Safety Month
National Chicken Month
National Child Awareness Month
National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
National Cholesterol Education Month
National Civics Awareness Month
National Coupon Month
National Courtesy Month
National DNA, Geonomics & Stem Cell Education Month
National Food Safety Education Month
National Fruit and Veggies Month (Also June)
National Head Lice Prevention Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15)
National Home Furnishings Month
National Honey Month
National Infant Mortality Awareness Month
National Mushroom Month
National Organic Harvest Month
National Osteopathic Medicine Month
National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month (ovarian.org)
National Pediculosis (Head Lice) Prevention Month
National Piano Month
National Potato Month
National Preparedness Month
National Prime Beef Month
National Prosper Where You Are Planted Month
National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
National Recovery Month
National Rice Month
National Sickle Cell Month
National Skin Care Awareness Month
National Wilderness Month
One-on-One Month
Passion Fruit and Peach Month
Peas and Radish Month
Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month
Pleasure Your Mate Month
Reunion Planning Month
Save The Koala Month
Sea Cadet Month
Self Improvement Month
Shameless Promotion Month
Southern Gospel Music Month
Sports and Home Eye Health and Safety Month
Subliminal Communications Month
United Planet Month
Update Your Resume Month
Virtual AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Days
Whole Grains Month
Women's Friendship Month
World Animal Remembrance Month
World Leukemia, Lymphoma And Myeloma Awareness Month
Observances this Week
Healthcare Environmental Services Week, Second Week of SeptemberNational Historically Black Colleges & Universities Week, Second Week of September
National Assisted Living Week, Second Week of September
Suicide Prevention Week, Second Week of September
International Housekeepers Week, Second Full Week of September
Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week, Second Full Week of September
National Emergency Preparedness Week, September 11th to September 17th
Historical Events on September 14th
81 Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.
786 Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi.
891 Stephen V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1163 Pastor Frederik forms convent at Mariengaarde Friesland
1180 Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
1515 Battle at Marignano ends in French/Venetian victory
1607 Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
1629 Spanish garrison surrenders to prince Frederik Henry
1662 Netherlands & England sign peace treaty
1682 Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
1716 1st lighthouse in US lit (Boston Harbor)
1741 George Frederick Handel finishes "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days
1752 The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (Sept 3-Sept 13th, the previous day was September 2).
1759 Austrian troops occupy Dresden
1807 Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge
1812 Napoleon and French grenadiers enter Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city in the Napoleonic Wars (fire extinguished on the 19th).
1814 The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.
1829 The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.
1830 Princess WFLC Marianne marries Albrecht of Prussia
1834 Charles Darwins company passes Tagua-tagua-more Chile
1847 US Marines under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City (halls of Montezuma) in the Mexican-American War.
1848 Alexander Stewart opens 1st US dept store
1852 18th Postmaster General: Samuel D Hubbard of Conn takes office
1854 Allied armies, including those of Britain & France, land in Crimea
1856 Battle of San Jacinto, Nicaragua defeats invaders
1862 The Battle of South Mountain of the American Civil War, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought, Union troops chases away Confederates.
1862 Battle at Crampton's Gap, Union troops chases away Confederates
1862 Battle of Munfordsville KY
1862 Federal troops escape from beleaguered Harpers Ferry West Virginia
1862 Skirmish at Mountain MD (Boonesboro, Crampton's Gap, Fox's Gap)
1868 Golf's 1st recorded hole-in-one (Tom Morris at Prestwick's 8th hole)
1872 Britain pays US$15½m for damages during Civil War
1876 Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda
1876 Leopold II closes Congo-conference
1882 British General Wolseley reaches Cairo
1886 George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon
1891 "Empire State Express" train goes from NYC to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7H6M
1892 AP Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo
1894 Hottentotten uprising in Southwest-Africa fails
1899 Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality (NY)
1901 President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
1903 NY Giant Red Ames no-hits St Louis, 5-0 in a 5 inning game
1905 Albert Cuypstrat street market in Amsterdam inaugurated
1905 Dutch AR-politician AWF Idenburg named governor of Suriname
1905 RAC Tourist Trophy, 1st run, on Isle of Man
1913 27th US Womens Tennis, Mary K Browne beats Dorothy Green (62 75)
1913 Cubs Larry Cheney hurls record 14-hit shutout against Giants (7-0)
1914 German staff-chief von Moltke replaces von Falkenhayn
1914 German troops withdraw from Aisne, invent trenches
1916 Christy Mathewson pitches & wins his final game
1917 Provisional government of Russia forms, Kerenski regime declares Russia a republic
1919 British regime forbids Sinn Fein Dáil
1923 Jack Dempsey KOs Luis Firpo in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1923 Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain
1923 Red Sox 1st baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play
1924 Walter Johnson elected AL MVP
1926 Guido Companions birthplace as a museum opens
1929 49th US Mens Tennis, Bill Tilden beats Francis Hunter (36 63 46 62 64)
1929 A's clinch AL pennant with a 5-0 win over White Sox
1930 Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6
1930 Nazis gain 107 seats in German election
1932 Military coup in Chile under Arturo Alessandri
1933 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire
1933 Schaduwproces-Rijksdagbrand opens in London
1936 Paul Waner ties Rogers Hornsby's NL record of 200 hits for 7 times
1938 Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight
1939 British fleet attacks German U-39 boat
1939 Minister Winston Churchill visits Scapa Flow
1940 Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law)
1940 German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; 100s die
1942 Battle of Edson's Ridge (Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal
1942 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1
1942 Yanks clinch pennant #13
1943 Yanks clinch pennant #14
1944 6,500 Dutch-Indonesian captives sent to Junyo Maru
1944 Gulpen, Meerssen & Maastricht freed
1944 Hurricane hits New England, 389 die
1944 US 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall
1944 US 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid
1944 Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces, World War II.
1947 61st US Womens Tennis, A Louise Brough beats M O duPont (86 46 61)
1947 67th US Mens Tennis, Jack Kramer beats Frank A Parker (46 26 61 60 63)
1948 Gerald Ford upsets Rep Bartel J Jonkman in Mich 5th Dist Rep primary
1948 Groundbreaking for the United Nations headquarters in New York City.
1948 Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater
1950 Western allies rearm West Germany
1951 Giant's Bob Niemans homers on his 1st 2 at bats
1953 Nikita Khrushchev appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1953 Yanks clinch 5th straight pennant with 8-5 win over Indians
1954 B Britten's opera "Turn of the Screw," premieres in Venice
1954 Comedians Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara marry
1954 Giants' Willie Mays gets 82nd extra-base hit, breaks Mel Ott's record
1954 Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits NYC, $50 million damage
1954 USSR performs nuclear test
1955 Herb Score sets rookie record of 235 strikeouts (en route 245)
1956 1st prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC
1957 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1957 UN resolution deplores & condemns USSR invasion of Hungary
1957 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jackson Golf Open
1958 The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
1958 WTAE TV channel 4 in Pittsburgh, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 Yankees win 24th pennant, & 9th under Casey Stengel
1959 The Soviet Union's probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
1959 WQEX TV channel 16 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 Chubby Checker's "Twist" hits #1
1960 Coup under Col Joseph-Desire Mobutu in Congo
1960 Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia & Venezuela form OPEC
1960 KERA TV channel 13 in Dallas, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
1961 Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of CP of USSR
1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Mary Ann Fischer, Aberdeen, SD, gave birth to America's 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls & a boy
1964 WCVE TV channel 23 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House
1965 "F-Troop" premieres
1965 4th meeting of 2nd Vatican council opened
1967 Melville Abrams Ball Field in Bronx named
1967 Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge & Sanctuary opens in Bronx
1968 1st broadcast of "60 Minutes" on CBS-TV
1968 Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain's 30th victory of season
1968 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 12th string quartet, premieres in Moscow
1968 Jimmy Ellis beats Floyd Patterson in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 USSR's Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight
1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open
1969 Males of Swiss kanton Schaffhausen rejects female suffrage
1970 Stevie Miracle marries Rita Wright, [Syreeta]
1971 Cleve Indians & Wash Senators, play 20 innings
1972 "Waltons" TV program premieres
1972 Jason Miller's "That Championship Season," premieres in NYC
1972 West Germany & Poland establish diplomatic relations
1973 Indianapolis is awarded a WHA franchise
1973 Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s
1973 President Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout
1974 Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter
1975 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open
1975 Pope Paul VI declares Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton 1st US saint
1975 Rembrandts "Nightwatch" slashed & damaged in Amsterdam
1975 Robin Yount breaks Mel Ott's record, playing in 242 games as a teen
1975 The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
1977 Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robbeneiland South Africa
1978 Braves' Jim Bouton, 38, beats Giants, his 1st win since 1970
1978 Portugal government of Da Costa falls
1979 Theodore Coombs completes 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC & back to Yates Center, Ks
1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 "Charlie & Algernon" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 17 perfs
1980 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1980 Dwight Clark begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
1981 Entertainment Tonight premieres on TV
1982 36" snow (Red Lodge, MT)
1982 Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of English Channel
1982 President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
1982 Trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5' 5.7"
1983 US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner
1984 First MTV awards, Bette Midler & Dan Aykroyd host
1984 Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a hot air balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
1985 Susan Akin (Miss), 21, crowned 59th Miss America 1986
1986 Bo Jackson's first HR-a 475-foot blast (longest at Royal Stadium)
1986 Bomb attack in Paris, 2 killed
1986 Bomb explosion on airport Kimpo at Seoul, 5 killed
1986 Judy Dickinson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1986 Saskatchewan & Hamilton play first CFL regular-season overtime game
1987 "Les Miserables," opens at Rock Theatre, Vigzinhaz Budapest
1987 107th US Mens Tennis, Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (67 60 76 64)
1987 Cal Ripken's streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is broken
1987 The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, belting 10 of them vs Baltimore Orioles.
1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2
1989 Jeff Reardon is 1st to record 30 saves in 5 consecutive seasons
1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 Ken Griffey, Sr & Jr, hit back-to-back HRs in 1st inning
1991 386 yards & scored 7 touchdowns as the Aztecs beat Pacific 55-34
1991 Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii), 24, crowned 65th Miss America 1992
1991 Freshman Marshall Faulk of San Diego State rushed for NCAA record
1991 Magic Johnson weds Erieatha "Cookie" Kelly
1991 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1992 First subway car completed to be exported from US (to Taiwan)
1994 The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike. All 28 baseball owners vote to cancel rest of 1994 season
1995 Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan
1996 A's Mark McGwire is 13th player to hit 50-HRs in a season
1996 Dean Headley takes 3rd cricket hat-trick of season, Kent v Hampshire
1996 NY Met Todd Huntley sets record of 41 HRs by a catcher
1996 Tara Dawn Holland (Kansas), 23, crowned 70th Miss America 1997
1997 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
1997 Bank One Senior Golf Classic
1997 Chicago Whites Sox retire Carlton Fisk's #72
1997 Karrie Webb wins LPGA SAFECO Classic
1997 Loren Roberts wins CVS Charity Golf Classic with a 266
1998 Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
1998 Week of Fed Cup
1999 Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
2001 Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.
2003 In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.
2003 In a referendum Sweden rejects adopting the Euro.
2007 Restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass are officially removed in the Roman Catholic Church as Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum takes effect.
2012 21 people are killed after a ferry sank in Indonesia
2014 39th Toronto International Film Festival: "The Imitation Game" directed by Morten Tyldum wins the People's Choice Award
2014 The United States defeats Serbia 129-92 to win the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup
2015 14 yr old Texan Ahmed Mohamed arrested at school when home-made clock assumed to be a bomb - US President Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg send supportive tweets
2015 Malcolm Turnbull ousts Tony Abbott as Australian Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Party
Born on September 14th
1169 Alexios II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1183)
1388 Claudius Clavus, Danish geographer
1486 Agrippa von Nettesheim, German occultist/alchemist/royal astrologer
1486 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German alchemist (d. 1535)
1531 Philipp Apianus (Bennewitz - Bienewitz), German geography/cartographer
1543 Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (d. 1615)
1547 Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch Grand Pensionary (d. 1619)
1580 Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645)
1644 Gijsbert Cuper, Dutch classicist, regent
1656 Thomas Baker, British antiquarian (d. 1746)
1713 Johann Kies, German mathematician (d. 1781)
1721 Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (d. 1807)
1722 Joseph Paul Ziegler, composer
1737 Johann Michael Haydn, composer
1737 Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1806)
1742 James Wilson, Scotttish-American judge, signer (Declaration of Independence)
1748 Johann Paul Schulthesius, composer
1760 Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (d. 1842)
1760 M Luigi CZS Cherubini, Italian prodigy/composer
1761 Pavel Lambert Masek, composer
1768 Georg Johann Schinn, composer
1769 Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (Kosmos) (d. 1859)
1771 Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and statesman (d. 1829)
1792 Gino Capponi, Italian marquis, literary, premier of Toscane
1804 John Gould, British ornithologist (d. 1881)
1804 Louis Desiré Maigret, French Catholic prelate (d. 1882)
1817 Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Imense China)
1819 Henry Jackson Hunt, Bvt Major General (Union Army) (d. 1889)
1835 J A de Smit-Rog, oldest citizen of Netherlands (d. 1940)
1835 Joseph Hayes, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1912)
1835 YES de Smit-Rog, oldest citizen of Netherlands (D. 5/30/1940)
1836 Abraham PC Van Karnebeek, Dutch Foreign Minister (1918-1927)
1837 Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (d. 1903)
1838 John Pelham, Major (Confederate Army) (d. 1863)
1840 George Elbridge Whiting, composer
1849 Ivan Pavlov, Russian scientist, pioneer in psychology (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1904) (d. 1936)
1850 Anton Mahnic, Slovenian Roman Catholic bishop, author and theologian (d. 1920)
1860 Hamlin Garland, American writer (d. 1940)
1864 Robert Cecil, First Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British diplomat, helped form League of Nations (Nobel Peace Prize 1937) (d. 1958)
1867 Charles Dana Gibson, American artist (Gibson Girl) (d. 1944)
1869 Kid Nichols, American baseball player (d. 1953)
1872 John Olof Dahlgren, American recipient of the Medal of Honor (d. 1963)
1879 Margaret Sanger, American nurse, birth control advocate (d. 1966)
1880 Archie Hahn, American athlete (d. 1955)
1880 Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer (d. 1961)
1880 Paul Fechter, German writer (Der Zauberer Gottes)
1882 Harald Fryklof, composer
1883 Martin Dibelius, German theologist (Die Lade Jahwes)
1885 Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor/composer (Batture d'aspetto)
1886 Jan Garrique Masaryk, Czech foreign minister and diplomat (1918-35) (d. 1948)
1887 Karl Taylor Compton, physicist/atomic bomb scientist
1887 Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, HW boxing champ (1908-10)
1889 María Capovilla, previous oldest living person (d. 2006)
1891 Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (d. 1983)
1898 Ernest Nash, German-born archaeologist (d. 1974)
1899 Hal B. Wallis, American movie producer (Maltese Falcon, Barefoot in the Park) (d. 1986)
1900 Sidney Marion, MA, entertainer
1902 Giorgos Papasideris Greek musician (d. 1977)
1904 Anton Zischka, Austrian writer (Lebendiges Europa)
1904 Gaston Vandermeulen, Flemish actor (Heilig Experiment)
1904 Richard Mohaupt, Breslau Germany, composer (Bucolica)
1907 A Cecil Snyder, Chief Justice of Puerto Rico
1907 Cecil Brown, news correspondent (CBS)
1908 Bernie Green, NYC, orchestra leader (Arthur Godfrey Show, Garry Moore Show)
1909 Peter Scott, British naturalist and explorer (d. 1989)
1910 Gaston Deferre, French politician
1910 Jack Hawkins, British actor (d. 1973)
1910 Lehman Engel, Jackson Miss, conductor/comp (Streetcar Named Desire)
1910 Yiannis Latsis, Greek shipping tycoon (d. 2003)
1913 Annalisa Ericson, Swedish actress
1913 Jacobo Arbenz, president of Guatemala (1951-54), overthrown by CIA (d. 1971)
1914 Clayton Moore, American actor (d. 1999)
1914 Kay Medford, American actress (Dean Martin Show, To Rome With Love) (d. 1980)
1914 Lída Baarová, Czech actress (d. 2000)
1914 Michael Spisak, composer
1914 Pietro Germi, Genoa Italy, actor/director (Divorce Italian Style)
1914 Robert McCloskey, American author (d. 2003)
1915 Douglas Kennedy, NY, actor (Lone Ranger & Lost City of Gold)
1916 Eric Bentley, British-born American critic and playwright (In Search of Theater)
1916 John Heyer, Australian documentary filmmaker (d. 2001)
1918 Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (d. 1967)
1918 Jack Somack, Chic Ill, actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show)
1919 Deryck Victor Cooke, composer
1920 Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (d. 1998)
1920 Bud Palmer, Hollywood California, NBAer (NY Knicks)/sportscaster
1920 Lawrence Klein, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1920 Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer (d. 2009)
1921 Dario Vittori, Argentinian actor (d. 2001)
1921 Hughes Rudd, TV newscaster (CBS/ABC)
1922 Michel Auclair (Vujovic), German actor (Story of a Love Story) (d. 1988)
1923 Nicholas Georgiadis, Greek painter, stage and costume designer (d. 2001)
1924 Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and author (d. 1994)
1924 Jerry Coleman, American baseball player, 2nd baseman/sportscaster (NY Yankees, SD Padres)
1924 John Michael Grimes, set Designer
1925 M L de Braauw, Dutch minister (DS'70)
1925 Ruth Mompati, S Afr sec of Nelson Mandela/W Sisulu
1926 Hovhannes Gorgeni Ter-T'at'evosyan, composer
1926 Michel Butor, French novelist
1926 Richard Elsasser, composer
1927 Martin Caidin, American aviation writer (d. 1997)
1928 Albert Shanker, American labor leader (Amer Fed of Teachers)
1928 John Reginald "Nat" Allen, planning enforcement officer/climber
1928 Sir Angus Ogilvy, London, United Kingdom, husband of English princess Alexandra
1929 John Gutfreund
1929 Larry Collins, American writer (d. 2005)
1929 Maurice Vachon, French Canadian professional wrestler
1929 Mel Hancock, (Rep-R-Missouri)
1930 Allan Bloom, American academic (d. 1992)
1932 Harry Sinden, American National Hockey League player and executive (Team Canada)
1932 John Tembo, Malawian politician
1932 Joshua Culbreath, Penn, 400m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1933 Harve Presnell, American actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown)
1933 Zoe Caldwell, Australia, actress (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
1934 Hans Faverey, Dutch poet
1934 Kate Millett, American feminist writer (Sexual Politics)
1934 Sarah Kofman, French philosopher
1935 Amanda Barrie, British actress
1935 Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (d. 2008)
1936 Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1936 Harry Danielsen, Norwegian politician
1936 Stan Williams, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees, LA Dodgers)
1936 Terence Daniel Donovan, photographer
1936 Walter Koenig, American actor (Checkov-Star Trek)
1937 Renzo Piano, Italian architect
1938 Nicol Williamson, Scottish-born actor (Excalibur, Robin & Marian, Spawn)
1939 DeWitt T Weaver Jr, American Professional golfer, PGA tour (1972 Southern Open)
1939 Piet R Stoffelen, Dutch ambassador/MP (PvdA)
1940 Larry Brown, American basketball player and NBA coach (NY Knicks)
1940 Leo H Ferrier, Suriname writer (Atman)
1941 Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan musician
1942 Bernard MacLaverty, Northern Irish writer
1942 Kuldar Sink, composer
1942 Oliver Eugene Lake, composer
1944 Joey Heatherton, American actress and singer (Bluebeard)
1945 Martin Tyler, British sports broadcaster
1946 Jim Angle, American television reporter
1947 Joan Thirkettle, journalist
1947 Jon "Bowzer" Bauman, American singer (Sha Na Na)
1947 Sam Neill, New Zealand actor (Jurassic Park, Dead Calm, Piano)
1947 Wolfgang Schwartz, Austria, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1968)
1948 Fred "Sonic" Smith, guitarist
1948 Marc Reisner, American writer (d. 2000)
1949 Ed King, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1949 Eikichi Yazawa, Japanese singer
1949 Steve Gaines, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
1949 Tommy Seebach, Danish musician (d. 2003)
1950 Masami Kuwashima, Japanese race car driver
1950 Michael Nifong, American attorney
1950 Paul Kossoff, British guitarist (Free) (d. 1976)
1951 Eugene H Trinh, Saigon Vietnam, PhD, astronaut (STS 50)
1952 Margit Schumann, German DR, luge (Olympic-gold-1976)
1953 Judy Playfair, Australian swimmer
1953 Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (d. 1998)
1954 Barry Cowsill, Newport RI, rock bassist (Cowsills-We Can Fly)
1956 Joe Penny, London, actor (Gangster Wars, Riptide, Jake & the Fatman)
1956 Kostas Karamanlis, Greek prime-minister
1956 Lefteris Zagoritis, Greek politician
1956 Ray Wilkins, English former footballer
1957 Jerry Don Gleaton, baseball player
1957 Kepler Wessels, former Australian and South African cricketer
1957 Tim Wallach, American baseball player, infielder (California Angels)
1958 Beth Nielsen Chapman, American singer-songwriter
1958 John Bennett Herrington, Wetumka OK, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
1959 Ashlyn Gere, American pornographic actress
1959 Mary Crosby, LA California, actress (Kristin-Dallas, Ice Pirates)
1959 Morten Harket, Norwegian singer (A-ha)
1960 Anthony Addabbo, actor (Jason-Generations)
1960 Callum Keith Rennie, Canadian actor
1960 Melissa Leo, American actress
1961 Antonia De Sancha, London England, lover of Brit MP David Mellor
1961 Freeman Mbowe, Tanzanian politician and businessman
1961 Wendy Thomas, namesake of the eponymous restaurant (Wendy's)
1963 Antonia Real, Spain, 400m freestyle (Olympic-1976)
1963 Jaromir Dragan, Liptovsky CZE, hockey goalie (Team Slovakia 1998)
1963 Robin Singh, Indian cricketer
1964 Faith Ford, American actress (Another World, Corky-Murphy Brown)
1964 Kurt Gouveia, NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1965 Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia
1965 Michelle Stafford, American actress
1965 Troy Neel, baseball player
1966 Mike Cooley, American guitarist
1967 Ashlyn Gere, American pornographic actress
1967 Dan Cortese, American TV host and actor (Jess Hanson-Melrose Place)
1967 Jens Lien, Norwegian film director
1967 John Smit, soccer player (NAC)
1968 Ginger Helgeson Nielson, St Cloud Minn, tennis star
1968 Pete Chilcutt, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1969 Konstantinos Koukodimos, Greek long jumper and politician
1969 Tyler Perry, American actor
1970 Ben Garant, American actor
1970 Craig Montoya, American musician (Everclear)
1970 Francesco Casagrande, Italian cyclist
1970 Satoshi Kojima, wrestler (NJPW)
1971 Andre Matos, Brazilian musician
1971 Jeff Loomis, American guitarist (Nevermore)
1971 Jonathan "Adam" Holland, Philadelphia, rower (Olympics-1996)
1971 Kimberly Williams, American actress (Father of the Bride)
1971 Mario Henry, NFL wide receiver (Buffalo Bills, Atlanta Falcons)
1972 David Bell, American baseball player, infielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1972 Donnell Bennett, NFL fullback (KC Chiefs)
1973 Andrew Lincoln, British actor
1973 Linvoy Primus, English footballer
1973 Mike Ward, Canadian comedian
1973 Nas, American rapper
1973 Terrell Fletcher, American football player, NFL running back (San Diego Chargers)
1973 Tony Bui, Vietnamese film director
1974 Chad Bradford, American baseball player
1974 Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete
1975 Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton canonized as 1st US-born saint
1976 Agustín Calleri, Argentine tennis player
1976 Jeremy Dunham, video game journalist
1978 Ben Cohen, English rugby union footballer
1978 Carmen Kass, Estonian model
1978 Danielle Peck, country music singer
1979 Jesse Marunde, American Strongman, Athlete (d. 2007)
1980 Ay?, German singer
1980 Scot K. Wozniak, All Around Great Guy
1981 Ashley Roberts, American singer, dancer & actress (Pussycat Dolls)
1981 Katie Lee, American television presenter
1981 Miyavi, Japanese singer and actor
1982 Hiroki Narimiya, Japanese actor
1982 SoShy, French singer/songwriter
1983 Amy Winehouse, English singer ("Stronger Than Me, Rehab) (d. 2011)
1983 Frostee Rucker, National Football League defensive end
1984 Adam Lamberg, American actor
1984 Melissa McGhee, American singer
1985 Aya Ueto, Japanese actress and singer
1985 Delmon Young, American baseball player
1985 Paolo Gregoletto, American bassist (Trivium)
1986 Ai Takahashi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1986 Alan Sheehan, Irish footballer
1986 A(ndrew) J(ames) Trauth, American actor
1987 Michael Crabtree, American football player
1988 Kirsten Haglund, American beauty pageant contestant
1989 Jesse James, American actor
Died on September 14th
258 Thascius C Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage
407 Johannes Chrysostomus, patriarch
585 Emperor Bidatsu of Japan (b. 538)
775 Constantine V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 718)
786 Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph
891 Stephen V, Italian Pope (885-91)
1146 Imad ad-Din Zengi, gov of Basra, ruler of Syria, murdered (b. 1087)
1164 Emperor Sutoku of Japan (b. 1119)
1214 Albert Avogadro, Italian patriarch of Jerusalem (b. 1149)
1321 Dante Alighieri, Italian author (Divine Commedy) (b. 1265)
1404 Albert IV of Austria (b. 1377)
1435 John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (b. 1389)
1523 Adrian VI (Adriaan F Bieyens), only Dutch Pope (1522-23) (b. 1459)
1538 Henry III of Nassau-Breda-Dillenburg & Dietz, German nobleman, Viceroy of Holland (b. 1483)
1605 Jan Tarnowski, Archbishop of Krakow (b. 1550)
1637 Pierre Vernier (Peter Werner), French mathematician
1638 John Harvard, American clergyman (b. 1607)
1645 Heinrich Steuccius, composer
1646 Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (b. 1591)
1646 Thomas H earl of Arundel, English art collector (Marbles)
1693 Aert Jansz van Nes (Young boer Jaep), lt-admiral
1712 Jean (Giovanni) D(omenico) Cassini, Italian-born astronomer (b. 1625)
1743 Johann Michael Muller, composer
1743 Nicolas Lancret, French painter (b. 1690)
1749 Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (b. 1675)
1750 Carl T Pachelbel, US organist, composer
1759 Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (Plains of Abraham) (b. 1712)
1763 Johann Philipp Sack, composer
1788 John Penn, US attorney, signed (Decl of Independence)
1788 Theodore-Jean Tarade, composer
1807 George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (b. 1724)
1819 Erik Acharius, Swedish botanist
1836 Aaron Burr, 3rd Vice President of the United States (b. 1756)
1836 Vincenzo Lavigna, composer
1844 Oliver Holden, composer
1851 James Fenimore Cooper, American author (b. 1789)
1852 Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1828-30)
1852 Augustus Pugin, English architect (b. 1812)
1852 James F Cooper, writer
1861 Fortunato Santini, composer
1862 Jesse Lee Reno, Union general-major (Reno Nevada)
1862 Samuel Garland Jr, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle
1872 Yury Nikolayevich Golitsin, composer
1879 Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist (b. 1808)
1886 Hubert Reis, composer
1887 Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer)
1895 Alfred J Verwee, Flemish painter
1898 Paul A Daum, writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper)
1898 William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (b. 1857)
1899 Henry Bliss, 1st auto death (NYC)
1901 William McKinley, 25th President of the United States, dies of gunshot wounds (b. 1843)
1902 Reinhold Finsterbusch, composer
1905 (Pietro) Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Franco-Italian explorer, First French Congo Governor (1890-98) (b. 1852)
1910 Huo Yuan Jia, Chinese martial artist
1916 Josiah Royce, US philosopher (Conception of Immortality)
1916 José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
1926 Johan LE Dreyer, Danish astronomer (Catalog of Nebulae)
1927 Isadora Duncan, American dancer, dies as her scarf became entangled in her car's wheel (b. 1877)
1932 Jean Emile Paul Cras, composer
1936 Irving Thalberg, American film producer (b. 1899)
1936 Ossip Gabrilovich, composer, dies at 58
1937 Tomáš G Masaryk, First President of Czechoslovakia (1918-35) (b. 1850)
1942 E.S. Gosney, American eugenicist (b. 1855)
1951 Fritz Busch, German conductor (b. 1890)
1955 F C Weiskopf, writer, dies
1959 Wayne Morris, American actor (Kid Galahad) (b. 1914)
1960 M. Karagatsis, Greek author (b. 1908)
1962 Marcel Delannoy, composer
1964 Mary Howe, composer
1965 J.W. Hearne, English cricketer (b. 1891)
1966 Gertrude Berg, American actress (Molly Goldberg-Goldbergs) (b. 1899)
1966 Nikolai Cherkasov, actor (Ivan the Terrible)
1967 Mohammed Abdul Hakim Amer, Egyptian vice-PM, commits suicide
1969 James Anderson, actor (Connection, Five)
1970 Rudolph Carnap, German philosopher/mathematician
1971 Bill Copson, cricketer (England pace bowler before & after WW2)
1972 Kornelis Posthumus, chemist
1974 Barbara Jo Allen, actress (Girl Rush, Melody Ranch
1974 Pieter Y Adriani, Dutch tax lawyer
1974 Vera Vague (Barbara Jo Allen), actress (Follow the Leader)
1974 Warren Hull, American actor (Strike it Rich, Who in the World) (b. 1903)
1975 Walter Herbert, German conductor and impresario (b. 1902)
1979 Raymond Loucheur, composer
1981 Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (b. 1899)
1981 William Loeb III, American newspaper publisher (b. 1905)
1981 Yasuji Kiyose, composer
1981 (Walter) Furry Lewis, father of blues
1982 Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese politician, president-elect, killed by a bomb (b. 1947)
1982 Christian Ferras, French violinist (b. 1933)
1982 Grace Kelly, American actress, Princess of Monaco (b. 1929)
1982 John C Gardner, American novelist (Life & Times of Chaucer High) (b. 1933)
1984 Janet Gaynor, American actress (Sunrise), dies in a traffic accident (b. 1906)
1988 Louis Quinn, actor (Unholy Rollers)
1989 Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban musician (b. 1916)
1989 Edwin McLeod, cricketer (one Test for NZ)
1990 Wime de Craene, Flemish chansonnier/composer
1991 Julie Bovasso, American actor and writer (Saturday Night Fever) (b. 1930)
1991 Russell Lynes, American art historian and magazine editor (b. 1910)
1992 David Jones, actor, commits suicide (had terminal cancer)
1992 Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (b. 1903)
1992 S A Banerjee, Indian cricketer
1992 Ted Weiss, (Rep-NY, 1977-92)
1994 David van Cup, sculptor/painter
1994 Marika Krevata, Greek actress (b. 1910)
1995 Eiji Okada, actor (Traffic Jam, Yakuza, Ugly American)
1995 Maurice K. Goddard, American state government official (b. 1912)
1996 Clive Beadon, airman,
1996 Joe Elsby Martin, boxing coach
1996 Juliet Prowse, British actress and dancer (Mona McCluskey) (b. 1937)
1999 Charles Crichton, English film director (b. 1910)
1999 Giannos Kranidiotis, Greek diplomat and politician (d. 1947)
2000 Beah Richards, American actress (b. 1920)
2000 Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and activist (b. 1906)
2001 Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (b. 1931)
2003 Garrett Hardin, American ecologist (b. 1915)
2003 John Serry, Sr., American musician, (b. 1915)
2003 Yetunde Price, half-sister of Venus and Serena Williams (b. 1972)
2005 Frances Newton, American convicted killer (b. 1965)
2005 Robert Wise, American filmmaker (b. 1914)
2005 Vladimir Volkoff, French writer (b. 1932)
2005 William Berenberg, American physician (b. 1915)
2006 Esme Melville, Australian actress (b. 1918)
2006 Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926)
2008 Domagoj Kapeć, Croatian hockeyplayer (b. 1989)
2008 Stefan Iordache, Romanian actor (b. 1941)
2009 Darren Sutherland, Irish boxer (b. 1982)
2009 Henry Gibson, American actor and songwriter (b. 1935)
2009 Jody Powell, American press secretary to Jimmy Carter (b. 1943)
2009 Keith Floyd, British TV chef (b. 1943)
2009 Patrick Swayze, American actor, dancer, and songwriter (b. 1952)
2012 Louis Simpson, Jamaican poet
2013 Rock Casares, American football player
2015 Fred DeLuca, American co-founder of the Subway chain