September 19th
Holidays and Festivals
Independence Day (St. Kitts & Nevis) * (see below)
Armed Forces Day (Chile)
Oktoberfest, begins, date varies
National POW/MIA Recognition Day (USA)
Wife Appreciation Day
Boys' and Girls' Club Day for Kids
International Talk Like A Pirate Day
International Eat An Apple Day
Responsible Dog Ownership Day
International Coastal Cleanup Day
National Butterscotch Pudding Day
Big Whopper Liar Day
National Seat Check Saturday
Responsible Dog Ownership Day
Sixth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries - ancient Greece, the , when the procession to Eleusis began at Kerameikos in Athens.
Feast of Saint Januarius (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Trophimus, Sabbatius and Dorymedon (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Goeric of Metz (Roman Catholic)
French bishop and saint (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Theodore of Tarsus (Church of England)
* Ibiza Closing Parties Ibiza, Spain - Last 3 weeks of Sept (11-21)
* Independence Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis) celebrating Independence from Great Britain in 1983.
La Fête du Travail Translation: The Celebration of Labour (French Republican) The Third complementary day in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"I'll drink to the girls that will,
I'll drink to the girls that won't,
But I won't drink to the girls that say they will,
And then I find out they don't."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
3 Headed Parrot
1/5of a shot strawberry liqueur
1/5 of a shot Barenjager Honey Liquer
1/3 of a shot Cream Liquer
1 stick CADBURY FLAKE chocolate
1/5 of a shot Cream
1/10 of a shot Nachtmuxik Chocolate Liquer
2 grams shavings chocolate
Plce Chocolate flake upright in a Cocktail martini Glass. Layer Strawberry,Honey and Cream Liquer around the flake. Drip the fresh Cream over the flake. Drip the Nachtmuxik over the Cream. Sprinkle Chocolate Shavings on the Cream in the Glass.
Wine of The Day
Forchini "BeauSierra" Bordeaux Style Red Wine
Style - Red
Dry Creek Valley
$20
Beer of The Day
Alpha King Pale Ale
Brewer - Three Floyds Brewing
Style - American Pale Ale
ABV -6%
Joke of The Day
A seaman meets a pirate in a bar, and talk turns to their adventures on the sea. The seaman notes that the pirate has a peg-leg, a hook, and an eye patch.
The seaman asks, "So, how did you end up with the peg-leg?" The pirate replies, "We were in a storm at sea, and I was swept overboard into a school of sharks. Just as my men were pulling me out, a shark bit my leg off."
"Wow!" said the seaman. "What about your hook"? "Well", replied the pirate, "We were boarding an enemy ship and were battling the other sailors with swords. One of the enemy cut my hand off."
"Incredible!" remarked the seaman. "How did you get the eye patch"? "A seagull dropping fell into my eye," replied the pirate.
"You lost your eye to a seagull dropping?," the sailor asked incredulously. "Well," said the pirate, "it was my first day with my hook"
Quote of The Day
“Drunk words are sober thoughts.”
- Unknown
Whiskey Of The Day
Pappy Van Winkle's 15yo Family Reserve
Distiller: Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery (Louisville, KY)
Age: 15 years
Alc: 53.5% (107 proof)
Price: $40
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
International Housekeepers Week, Second Full Week of SeptemberSubstitute Teacher Appreciation Week, Second Full Week of September
Surgical Technologists Week, Third Week of September
National Rehabilitation Awareness Week, Third Week of September
Adult Day Services Week, Third Week of September
National Farm Safety and Health Week, Third Week of September
National Reye's Syndrome Awareness Week, Third Week of September
Balance Awareness Week, Third Week of September
Tolkien Week, Third Week in September (Hobbit Day falls on 9/22)
Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week, Third Week of September
National Singles Week, Third Week of September
National Love Your Files Week, Third Monday through Friday
Constitution Week, September 17th through September 23rd
Historical Events on September 19th
335 Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.
1356 In the Battle of Poitiers, the English defeat the French.
1523 Emperor Charles I & England sign anti-French covenant
1559 5 Spanish ships sinks in storm off Tampa, about 600 die
1580 Treaty of Plessis-lez-Tours (Anjou/Dutch States-General)
1602 Grave surrenders to earl Mauritius
1642 Perpignan surrenders to French troops
1656 Treaty of Labiau: Sweden gives Prussia, Brandenburg
1657 Brandenburg & Poland sign Treaty of Wehlau
1668 Polish king John II Kazimierz resigns/goes to France
1676 Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
1692 Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.
1755 England & Russia sign military agreement
1777 First Battle of Saratoga, Battle of Freeman's Farm, Battle of Bemis Heights.
1778 The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
1795 Tula, leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned
1796 George Washington's farewell address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
1799 English & Russian invasion army conquerors Receiver
1833 Charles Darwin visits Guardia del Monte, Argentina
1838 Ephraim Morris patents railroad brake
1848 Hyperion, moon of Saturn, discovered by Bond (US) & Lassell (England)
1849 1st commercial laundry established, in Oaklan, California
1854 Henry Meyer patents sleeping rail car
1862 Battle at Iuka Mississippi (1,700 casualties), Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price in the American Civil War.
1862 Battle at Blackford's Ford, Virginia of the American Civil War.
1863 Battle of Chickamauga GA (near Chattanooga) of the American Civil War begins, Union retreat
1864 3rd Battle of Winchester Virginia (Opequon, 3rd Winchester)
1865 Atlanta University forms
1870 The Siege of Paris of the Franco-Prussian War begins, which will result on January 28, 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.
1870 Having invaded the Papal States a week earlier, the Italian Army lays siege to Rome, entering the city the next day, after which the Pope described himself as a Prisoner in the Vatican.
1873 Black Friday, Jay Cooke & Co fails, causing a securities panic
1876 1st carpet sweeper patented (Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Mich)
1876 Talks begin to set up a football club in Ottawa
1879 Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track & field record pole-vaulting 11' 2½" at age 17 years & 198 days
1881 President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.
1888 World's 1st beauty contest (Spa Belgium)
1890 Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540
1893 in New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote. First country to grant all its women the right to vote
1900 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid commit their first robbery together.
1901 11 baseball games canceled due to funeral of Pres William McKinley
1903 King Leopold II deny Belgian cruelty in Congo
1904 Gen Nogi's assault on Port Arthur: 16,000 Japanese casualties
1908 Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony, premieres in Prague
1910 George Cohan's "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford," premieres in NYC
1911 Red Tuesday-20,000 protest for universal rights
1912 Pius X encyclical Singular quadam, against interconfess unions
1912 Soccer team NAC (Noad Advendo Combination) forms in Breda
1914 Brooklyn's Ed Lafitte no-hits KC (Federal League), 6-2
1916 First landing on Schiphol (Farman F-22 of Soesterberg)
1916 Belgian troops conquer Tabora, German East Africa
1921 41st US Mens Tennis, William T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 63 61)
1922 Queen Wilhelmina's takes Dutch throne with 119 word speech
1923 Ernst Tollers "Hinkemann," premieres in Leipzig
1925 45th US Mens Tennis, Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (46 119 63 46 63)
1926 80,000 demonstrate for democratic peace in Hague
1926 The San Siro is inaugurated with a match between AC Milan and Inter.
1928 Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC)
1929 Latvia dictator A Woldemaras chased out
1931 14th PGA Championship, Tom Creavy at Wannamoisett CC Rumford RI
1931 Japanese troops conquer Mukden, South Manchuria
1931 Lefty Grove wins his 30th game of season over White Sox, 2-1
1933 NY Giants clinch the pennant
1934 Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr..
1939 British Expeditionary Force reaches France
1939 Lord Haw-Haw becomes radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin
1939 Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland
1940 Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes
1940 Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.
1941 First meeting of partizans Tito & Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia
1941 German army conquerors Kiev
1941 Nazi's force German Jews, 6 & over to wear Jewish stars
1942 Holocaust in Brody, western Ukraine, About 2,500 Brody Jews are deported by the German Gestapo to the extermination camp in Belzec.
1943 Fanny Whiteers-Koen breaks jumping world record
1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-341
1944 Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
1944 Luftwaffe bombs Eindhoven, 200 killed
1945 Kim Il Sung arrives in harbor of Wonsan, Korea
1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London.
1946 The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
1947 Jackie Robinson is named 1947 "Rookie of Year"
1948 62nd US Womens Tennis, M Osborne duPont beats A L Brough (46 64 15-13)
1948 68th US Mens Tennis, "Pancho" Gonzales beats E Sturgess (62 63 14-12)
1948 Richard A Gonzales wins US Tennis Open
1950 European Payment Union forms in Paris
1950 Great Three acknowledge Bond government as only German government
1950 UN reject membership of China's People Republic
1951 1st broadcast of "Search for Tomorrow" on CBS-TV
1951 Italian civil servants strike for pay increase
1952 The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
1953 "Hazel Flagg" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 190 perfs
1954 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Wichita Golf Open
1955 Argentine president Juan Peron, resigns & flees
1955 Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits record 5th grand slam of season
1955 Hurricane Hilda, kills 200 in Mexico
1956 1st international conference of black writers & artists meets (Sorbonne)
1957 Dalida is the first artist to be awarded a gold record in France for 300,000 sales of "Bambino".
1957 First American underground nuclear bomb test at Las Vegas Nevada.
1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland.
1960 Chubby Checkers' "Twist" reaches #1
1961 Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. is founded at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.
1965 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open
1965 Erhards CDU wins West German parliament elections
1966 Mike Burke named Yankees pres
1967 Nigeria begins offensive against Biafra
1968 Denny McLain's 31st win & Mickey Mantle's 535th HR
1970 "Mary Tyler Moore" show premieres
1970 The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, United Kingdom.
1971 1st NYC Women's Marathon won by Beth Bonner in 2:55:22
1971 2nd NYC Marathon won by Norman Higgins in 2:22:54
1972 A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
1973 Frank Robinson homers in record 32nd ML park (Arlington Tx)
1973 King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture, becomes King of Sweden.
1973 NL refuses to allow San Diego Padres move to Washington DC
1973 Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May NJ) forms
1973 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1974 Hurricane Fifi hits coast of Honduras; about 5,000 die
1975 Indonesia sends troops to Portuguese East Timor
1976 "Going Up" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 49 performances
1976 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Portland Golf Classic
1976 Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.
1978 The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
1979 No Nukes Concert at Madison Square Garden includes Springsteen & Crosby, Stills & Nash
1980 Titan II missile explosion (Damascus, AR)
1981 Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel perform a reunion concert in Central Park, NYC
1981 Satellites China 10 & 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket
1982 34th Emmy Awards, Hill St Blue, Barney Miller, Alan Alda & Carol Kane
1982 New Orleans Saints 1st road shutout victory beating Chic Bears 10-0
1982 Sandra Haynie, Kathy McMullen wins Portland Ping Team Golf Championship
1982 Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System.
1982 Streetcars stop running on Market St after 122 years of service
1983 David Slowinski on 2 CRAY-1 comp's find 2^132049-1 prime #
1983 St Kitts & Nevis declares independence from UK
1984 Britain & China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997
1985 12,000 die & 40,000 injured in Mexico City, Mexico's earthquake (8.1), destroys about 400 buildings.
1985 Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
1986 "Captain EO" with Michael Jackson premieres
1986 Chicago White Sox Joe Crowley no-hits California Angels, 7-1
1986 Dean Jones scores 210 v India at Madras
1986 Federal health officials announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients
1987 Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (Mich), 24, crowned 61st Miss America
1988 Greg Louganis suffers a head injury while qualifying for the Seoul Olympics. He goes on to win two Gold medals.
1988 Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance
1988 US Olympic diver Greg Louganis hits his head on diving board
1989 Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to NZ (NZ protested US's use of a catamaran)
1989 A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171.
1989 Chase Manhattan Discovery Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden opens
1989 French DC-10 crashes near Niger, 171 die
1991 Precious Bunny wins the 46th Little Brown Jug
1991 Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.
1992 Barry Bonds joins Willie Mays, Howard Johnson & Ron Gant as having (2) 30-HR/30-steal seasons
1992 Sergei Boebka pole vaults world record (6.13m)
1992 UN Security Council votes 12-0 (3 abstentions) to dump Yugoslavia
1993 45th Emmy Awards, Seinfeld, Picket Fences & Ted Danson wins
1993 Actress Michele Phillips (Knots Landing) is robbed at gunpoint
1993 Brandie Burton wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1993 Kimberly Clarice Aiken, 18, Miss SC wins 67th Miss America
1993 Parliamentary election in Poland
1993 Tom Glavine wins 20 games in 3 straight years
1994 3000 US militia lands on Haiti
1994 Swedish government of Bildt resigns
1995 Andres Galarraga is 4th to hit 30 HRs for Rockies in 1995
1995 Padres Ken Caminiti switch hits HRs in 3rd of 4 games
1995 The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
1996 "Skylight" opens at Royale Theater NYC
1997 Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.
2000 Ken Griffey, Jr. pinch-hits his 400th home run. The first major leaguer to reach the mark as a pinch-hitter
2006 The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
2012 9 people are killed and 20 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Afghanistan
2015 Japan beats South Africa 34-32 in Brighton, England in the biggest upset in Rugby World Cup history
Born on September 19th
86 Antoninus Pius, 15th Roman emperor (138-161) (d. 161)
866 Leo VI Sophos, Byzantine Emperor (886-912), writer (Problematica) (d. 912)
1377 Albert IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1404)
1551 Henry III, Duke of Anjou, King of Poland and France (1573, 1574-1589) (d. 1589)
1655 Jan Luyts, Dutch scholar, physicist, mathematician, astronomer
1705 Henri-Jacques de Croes, Flemish composer, band master
1714 Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1786)
1737 Charles Carroll, signed American Declaration of Independence
1749 Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer (The History of Astronomy) (d. 1822)
1754 John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key (d. 1821)
1759 William Kirby, English entomologist (d. 1850)
1769 Joseph Comb, missionary to Molukkas
1770 Johann G Repsold, German instrument maker
1774 Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian hyperpolyglot (d. 1849)
1778 Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1868)
1796 Hartley Coleridge, English poet (d. 1849)
1799 René Caillé, French explorer (d. 1838)
1800 William Wister McKean, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1865
1802 Lajos Kossuth, President of Hungary (1849), lawyer and Regent (d. 1894)
1803 Maria Anna of Savoy, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1884)
1811 Orson Pratt, American religious leader (d. 1881)
1822 Joseph Rodman West, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1824 Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, composer
1828 Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1880)
1837 Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld, composer
1862 Adeline De Walt Reynolds, Benton County IA, actress (Son of Dracula)
1867 Arthur Rackham, England, artist/illustrator (Grimm's Fairy Tales)
1871 Fritz Schaudinn, German animal expert (examined syphilis)
1882 Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (d. 1965)
1882 Paul-Marie Masson, composer
1887 Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (d. 1972)
1887 Lynne Overman, American actor (d. 1943)
1888 J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (d. 1971)
1888 Porter Hall, Cincinnati OH, actor (Half-Breed, Double Indenity)
1889 Ernest Truex, KC Mo, actor (Pop-Pete & Gladys, Mr Peepers)
1889 Ricardo Cortez (Jack Krantz), Vienna Austria, actor/dir (Blackmail)
1889 Sadie Delany, American physician and author (d. 1999)
1894 Cornelis Rijnsdorp, writer (Kings Children)
1898 Giuseppe Saragat, President of the Italian Republic (1964-71) (d. 1988)
1900 Solomon Pimsleur, composer
1901 Joseph Pasternak, Hungarian-born film producer (Anchors Aweigh, Date With Judy) (d. 1991)
1902 James Van Alen, created Simplified Scoring System for tennis
1902 Pieter John Bouman, sociologist/historian
1904 Bergen Evans, Ohio, English professor ($64,000 Question)
1904 Karen Aabye, Danish author (Less bedstemor there jomfru)
1905 Betty Garde, Phila, actress (Aggie-Real McCoys)
1905 James Holland, artist/exhibition organiser
1905 Leon Jaworski, American Watergate scandal special prosecutor (d. 1982)
1906 Dalibor Cyril Vackar, composer
1906 Massimo Freccia, composer
1907 Lewis F(ranklin) Powell, Jr., American Supreme Court Justice (1972-87) (d. 1998)
1908 Mika Waltari, Finnish novelist (Egyptian) (d. 1979)
1908 Robert Lecourt, French politician and president of the European Court of Justice (d. 2004)
1908 Tatsuo Shimabuku, founder of Isshinryu Karate (d. 1975)
1909 Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile pioneer (d. 1998)
1910 Jack Dunham, American animator and television producer (d. 2009)
1910 Margaret Lindsay, American actress (Take a Guess) (d. 1981)
1911 Gustaf Allan Pettersson, composer
1911 Sir William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
1911 Weldon Hart, composer
1911 William Golding, Cornwall England, novelist (Lord of the Flies-Nobel 1983), (d. 1993)
1912 Emma "Nono" Batenburg, actress (Noah)
1912 Kurt Sanderling, German conductor
1913 Frances Farmer, American actress (Son of Fury, Among the Living) (d. 1970)
1914 Rogers Morton, Louisville Ky, US Secretary of Interior (1968-75)
1915 Germán Valdés, Mexican actor, singer and comedian (d. 1973)
1917 Joe Pasternak, Transylvania Hungary, producer (Spinout, Big City)
1919 Blanche Thebom, Monessen Penn, mezzo-soprano (Amneris-Aida)
1919 Harry Shorto, linguist
1920 Karen Khachiturian, composer
1920 Roger Angell, American sports writer
1921 Billy Ward, US songwriter/singer/pianist/arranger (Dominoes)
1921 Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator & writer (d. 1997)
1922 Catherine Mary Hall, nurse
1922 Damon (Francis) Knight, American sci-fi author (CV, Beyond the Barrier) (d. 2002)
1922 Dana Zatopek, Czechoslavakia, 5K, 10K, marathon runner, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1952)
1922 Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (Olympic-gold-1952) (d. 2000)
1924 Ernest Tomlinson, composer
1926 Arthur Wills, composer
1926 Duke Snider, baseball player
1926 Edwin "Duke" Snider, Bkln Dodger centerfielder (406 HRs)
1926 James Lipton, American actor, writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio
1926 Lurieen Wallace (Gov-D-Ala, 1966-68)
1926 Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1926 Pierre Janssen, art museum director
1927 Rosemary Harris, English actress
1927 William Hickey, American actor (d. 1997)
1928 Adam West, American actor (Batman, Last Precinct)
1928 William Hickey, actor (Prizzi's Honor)
1929 10th duke of Richmond, English large landowner/art collector
1929 Margaret S Roukema, (Rep-R-New Jersey, 1981)
1929 Timothy Colman, Engl manufacturer/multi-millionaire (Reckitt & Colman)
1930 Antonio Margheriti, Italian filmmaker (d. 2002)
1930 Muhal Richard Abrams, composer
1930 Rosemary Harris, Ashby Suffolk England, actress (Holocaust)
1931 Brook Benton, American singer (d. 1988)
1931 Jean-Claude Carrière, French screenwriter and actor
1931 Ray Danton, NYC, actor/director (Longest Day, Psychic Killer)
1932 Mike Royko, Chicago, journalist (Chic Daily News)/author (Boss)
1933 David McCallum, Scottish actor (Ilyla Kuryakin-Man From UNCLE)
1934 Brian Epstein, English musical group manager (The Beatles) (d. 1967)
1935 Benjamin Hacker, American naval aviator (d. 2003)
1935 Esmond Bulmer, English cider brewer/Conservative Lower house leader
1935 Nick Massi, American singer (The Four Seasons) (d. 2000)
1935 Robert Kruger (Sen-D Texas)
1935 Thomas W Ewing (Rep-R-Illinois)
1936 Al Oerter, American athlete, discus thrower (Olympics-gold-56, 60, 64, 68) (d. 2007)
1937 Abner Haynes, American football player
1938 Zygmunt Krauze, composer
1940 Anna Karen, South African–born British actress
1940 Bill Medley, American singer and songwriter (The Righteous Brothers)
1940 Ed Westfall, Canadian ice hockey player
1940 Paul Williams, American composer and actor (Planet of the Apes)
1940 Sylvia Tyson, rocker
1941 "Mama" Cass Elliot, American musician, rock vocalist (Mamas & The Papas) (d. 1974)
1941 Jim Fox, England, pentathlete (Olympics-1972)
1941 Umberto Bossi, Italian politician
1942 Freda Payne, American singer and actress
1943 Chris Joyce, photographer
1943 Christi Haas, Austrian downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1964)
1943 Joe Leonard Morgan, American baseball player, 2nd baseman (Reds), commentator (ESPN)
1944 Anders Björck, Swedish politician
1944 Ard Schenk, 500, 1500, 5000k speed skater (Olympics-gold-1972)
1944 Jean Succar Kuri, Lebanese-born Mexican businessman
1945 David Bromberg, Phila, musician (Demon in Disguise)
1945 Freda Payne, Detroit Mich, vocalist (Band of Gold)
1945 Jane Blalock, Portsmouth NH, LPGA golfer (1972 Colgate-Dinah Shore
1945 Lee Dorman, St Louis Mo, rock bassist (Iron Butterfly)
1945 Randolph Mantooth, American actor (Emergency, Loving)
1946 Brian Henton, English racing driver
1946 Hans van de Berg, actor (Ciske the Rat)
1946 John Coghlan, London, rock drummer (Status Quo)
1947 Brian Hill, American basketball head coach
1947 Larry Brown, NFL runningback (3rd to rush over 4,000 yards)
1947 Lol Creme (Lawrence Creme), English musician, guitarist (10cc, Godley & Creme)
1947 Steve Bartlett, (Rep-R-TX, 1983)
1947 Tanith Lee, UK, sci-fi author (Don't Bite the Sun)
1948 Jeremy Irons, English actor (Reversal of Fortune, The Lion King)
1948 Michael Cooper, SF California, sodomizer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1948 Mihai Timofti, Director, actor, and musician from Moldova-Chisinau
1948 Nadezhda Tkachenko, USSR, pentathlete (Olympic-gold-1980)
1949 Barry Scheck, American lawyer, co-founder Innocence Project
1949 Ernie Sabella, American actor
1949 Sally Potter, English film director and screenwriter
1949 Twiggy Lawson (Leslie Hornby), English model and actress (Boyfriend, W)
1950 Joan Lunden, American journalist and television host (Good Morning America)
1950 Rudy Ramos, Lawton Oklahoma, actor (Wind-High Chaparral)
1951 Daniel Lanois, Canadian record producer
1952 Bernard de Dryver, Belgian racing driver
1952 Gunnar Hökmark, Swedish politician
1952 Nile Rodgers, American musician and composer, guitarist (Honeydrippers)
1952 Rhys Chatham, composer
1952 Scott Colomby, Bkln, actor (Stash-Sons & Daughters, Szysznyk)
1955 Rex Smith, American singer and actor
1955 Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (d. 2006)
1956 Charlie Reliford, baseball umpire
1956 Juan Manuel Fangio II, Argentine racing driver
1956 Rex Smith, Jacksonville Fla, actor (Solid Gold, Pirates of Penzance)
1957 Richard M Linnehan, Lowell Mass, astronaut (STS 78, sk: 90)
1958 Azumah Nelson, Ghanaian boxer
1958 Kevin Hooks, American actor and director (Sounder, Aaron Loves Angela)
1958 Lita Ford, American singer (Kiss Me Deadly, Runaways)
1958 Lucky Ali, Indian singer, Composer and Actor
1960 Julianna Young, Ft Campbell KY, playmate (Nov, 1993)
1960 Loïc Bigois, French engineer
1962 Cheri Oteri, American actress and comedian
1962 Ken Rosenthal, American sportswriter
1962 Randy Myers, Vancouver WA, pitcher (Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles)
1962 Tonja Walker, Huntington WV, actress (Alex-One Life to Live)
1963 Alessandra Martines, Italian entertainer
1963 David Seaman, English footballer
1963 Jarvis Cocker, English musician (Pulp)
1964 Bob Papa, American sportscaster
1964 Kim Richards, American actress (Nanny & Prof, James at 15)
1964 Patrick Marber, British playwright
1964 Trisha Yearwood, American country singer (Sweetest Gift)
1965 Alexandra Vandernoot, Belgian actress
1965 Debbye Turner, Miss America (1990)
1965 Helen Duval, Dutch adult movie actress
1965 Katrina McClain, Charleston SC, basketball forward (Olympics-gold-96)
1965 Sabine Paturel, French singer
1966 El Samurai (Osamu Matsuda), wrestler (WAR/NJPW)
1966 Eric Robert Rudolph, American criminal
1966 Michael Campbell, CFL defensive tackle (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1966 Soledad O'Brien, American journalist
1966 Yoshihiro Takayama, Japanese professional wrestler
1967 Alexander Karelin, Russian wrestler
1967 Jim Abbott, American baseball player, pitcher (California Angels, NY Yankees)
1967 Stéphane Crête, Quebec actor
1968 Jimmy Bower, American drummer (Down),(Crowbar)
1969 Alkinoos Ioannidis, Greek-Cypriot singer and composer
1969 Candy Dulfer, Amsterdam Holland, saxophonist (Lily Was Here)
1969 Kostya Tszyu, Russian/Australian boxer
1969 Matthew L Perry, actor (Friends)
1969 Tapio Wilska, Finnish singer
1970 Antii Tormenen, Espoo FIN, NHL forward (Finland Oly-B-98, Ottawa)
1970 Dan Bylsma, National Hockey League player
1970 Gilbert Dionne, National Hockey League player
1970 Takanori Nishikawa, Japanese pop/rock singer
1970 Victor Williams, American actor
1971 Colleen Coyne, ice hockey defenseman (USA, Oly-98)
1971 Jeremy Nunley, NFL defensive tackle/defensive end (Houston Oilers)
1971 Sanaa Lathan, American actress
1972 Amy Frazier, St Louis Mo, tennis star
1972 Ashot Nadanian, Armenian chess player, theoretician and coach
1972 David Tamburrino, Saratoga Springs NY, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1972 Eric van de Merwe, soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
1972 Fred McCrary, NFL fullback (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 Matt Cockbain, Australian rugby player
1973 Cristiano da Matta, Brazilian racing car driver
1973 Jeremy Jordan, singer
1973 Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Australian actor
1973 Nick Colgan, Irish footballer
1974 Jimmy Fallon, American actor and comedian
1974 Victoria Silverstedt, Swedish model, playmate (Dec, 1996)
1976 Alison Sweeney, American actress
1976 Jan Hlavác, Czech ice hockey player
1976 Jessica York, television personality
1976 Jim Ward, American musician (At the Drive-In, Sparta)
1976 La Chanda Jenkins, Miss District of Columbia USA (1996)
1976 Raja Bell, American basketball player
1977 Akash Chopra, Indian cricketer
1977 Ryan Dusick, American drummer (Maroon 5)
1978 Jorge López Montaña, Spanish footballer
1978 Michelle Alves, Brazilian supermodel
1978 Nick Johnson, baseball player
1978 Nigel Mitchell, Quizmania and Capital Disney presenter
1979 Dannielle Brent, British actress
1979 Hermione Granger, British fictional character
1979 Joel Houston, Australian musician and songwriter
1979 Noémie Lenoir, French supermodel and actress
1980 Dimitri Yachvili, French rugby player
1980 Sara Quin, Canadian singer-songwriter (Tegan and Sara)
1980 Tegan Quin, Canadian singer-songwriter (Tegan and Sara)
1981 Damiano Cunego, Italian cyclist
1981 Rick DiPietro, American ice hockey player
1981 Scott Baker, American baseball player
1982 Columbus Short, American actor and choreographer
1982 Eleni Daniilidou, Greek tennis player
1982 Jordan Parise, American ice hockey player
1982 Nicole Voss, American model
1982 Shaun Barker, English footballer
1983 Charlie Haeger, American baseball player
1983 Eamon, American pop singer
1983 Joey Devine, American baseball player
1983 Matt Wiman, American mixed martial artist
1984 Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor
1985 Alun-Wyn Jones, Welsh rugby player
1986 Gerald Ciolek, German cyclist
1986 Ken Gushi, Japanese racing driver
1986 Mandy Musgrave, American actress
1986 Peter Vack, American voice actor
1986 Ryan Succop, American football player
1987 Danielle Panabaker, American actress
1987 Kenny Britt, American football player
1989 Tyreke Evans, Basketball Player
1990 Saki Fukuda, Japanese actress
1991 Demelza Reveley, Australian model
1994 Alex Etel, British actor
2001 Taylor Geare, Child actress
2002 Jason and Kristopher Simmons, American identical twin actors
Died on September 19th
690 Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 602)
1180 Louis VII, the Younger, King of France (1137-80)
1339 Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (b. 1288)
1356 Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1311), Killed at the Battle of Poitiers
1356 Walter VI of Brienne, Constable of France, Killed at the Battle of Poitiers (b. 1304)
1356 Jean de Clermont, French marshal, Killed at the Battle of Poitiers
1356 Geoffroy de Charny, French nobleman, Killed at the Battle of Poitiers
1356 Gautier de Brienne, Duke of Athens, French supreme commander, Killed at the Battle of Poitiers
1668 William Waller, English soldier
1692 Giles Corey, American farmer killed in the Salem Witch Trials
1693 Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (b. 1641)
1710 Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644)
1719 Frans Anneessens, Belgian merchant/lord of the manor, executed
1719 Jan Weenix, Dutch painter
1756 Josef Antonin Sehling, composer
1761 Peter Musschenbroek, physician/physicist (Leidse Bottle)
1812 Mayer Amschel Rothschild (b. 1744)
1830 Stanislas Champein, composer
1836 Carl Friedrich Ebers, composer
1843 Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (b. 1792)
1862 (Lewis) Henry Little, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle
1863 Preston Smith, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle
1864 Archibald Campbell Godwin, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1864 David Allen Russell, US Union general-major, dies in battle
1864 Robert Emmet Rodes, US Confederate gen-major, dies in battle
1868 William Sprague, American minister and politician from (b. 1809)
1881 James Garfield, 20th President of the United States (1881), dies of gunshot wound (b. 1831)
1882 Andreas I Schaepman, archbishop of Utrecht (1868-82)
1893 Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician, a father of Canadian Confederation (b. 1817)
1902 Maria Hendrika, Queen of the Belgians
1905 Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist (b. 1845)
1906 Maria Georgina Grey, British writer and founder of the Girls' Day School Trust (b. 1816)
1918 Liza Nina Mary Frederica Lehmann, composer
1924 Alick Bannerman, Australian cricketer (28 Tests for Australia, 1108 runs) (b. 1854)
1927 Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
1935 Jules M Cambron, French gov-gen to Algeria/ambassador
1935 Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1857)
1936 Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (b. 1860)
1938 Pauline Frederick, American actress (b. 1883)
1942 Condé Nast, American publisher (b. 1873)
1944 David Lord, British lieutenant, Dakota-pilot DFC-VC, dies in battle
1944 Guy Gibson, British aviator, awarded Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
1944 Hilary Barlow, British colonel
1944 John AC Fitch, British lt-colonel, dies in battle in Arnhem
1949 George Shiels, Irish dramatist (b. 1886)
1949 Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer (b. 1901)
1949 Will Cuppy, American humorist (b. 1884)
1952 Giuseppe Zoppi, Swiss writer (Presento il mio Ticino)
1954 Tibor Harsanyi, composer
1955 John D. Dingell, Sr., U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. 1894)
1961 Helen Kimble, fictional wife of Dr Richard Kimble (Fugitive)
1961 Pieter Tesch, mine engineer/geology (Pedestal of Netherlands)
1962 Pogodin, writer
1967 Martin Block, TV announcer (Chesterfield Supper Club)
1967 Monica Proietti, Canadian criminal (b. 1940)
1967 Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian painter (b. 1884)
1968 Chester F Carlson, American inventor (photocopying) (b. 1906)
1968 Red Foley, American country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington) (b. 1910)
1969 Bert (Lambertus) Bakker, director Free Netherland, inventor
1969 Rex Ingram, American actor, director (Elmer Gantry) (b. 1895)
1970 Greville Stevens, cricketer (10 Tests for England 1922-29)
1972 Robert Casadesus, French pianist (b. 1899)
1973 Bob Gilbert, actor (Never the Twain Shall Meet)
1973 Gram Parsons, American musician (Byrds), dies of OD (b. 1946)
1974 Eve March, actress (Adam's Rib, Danny Boy)
1978 Rolf Gunther, East German priest, self imolation
1978 Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and historian (b. 1884)
1981 Joke Kool-Smit, Dutch feminist
1982 Fred Badcock, cricketer (7 Tests for NZ 1930-33, 16 wkts)
1982 Samuel L M Barlow, composer
1984 June Preisser, dancer/actress (Babes in Arms), dies in a car crash
1985 Italo Calvino, Italian sci-fi author (T-Zero, Mr Palomar) (b. 1923)
1986 Vivian Duncan, entertainer (Duncan Sisters)
1987 Einar Gerhardsen, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)
1988 Oren Lee Staley, 1st pres of Natl Farmers Org (1955-79)
1989 Guido de Moor, actor (Flanagan, Because of the Cats)
1989 Willie Steele, American Olympic gold medalist (b. 1923)
1990 Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1910)
1990 Werner Janssen, US composer (New Years Eve in NY)
1992 Frederick Combs, playwright/director
1992 Jacques Pic, french restaurant owner
1993 Bruce Ferden, US conductor (NY, Washington, Amsterdam)
1993 Richard Landau, US screenwriter (Back to Bataan)
1994 Frankie Kennedy, flute player
1994 Sandra Fisher, painter
1995 Louis "Mr Bo" Collins, blues SInger
1995 Orville Redenbacher, American botanist and businessman, popcorn magnate (b. 1907)
1995 Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist
1995 Yevgeni Nikolayevich Khludeyev, Russia, cosmonaut
1996 Douglas Hyde, socialist/Christian
1996 Timothy Nicholson, journalist
1997 Clive Brain, educationalist
1997 Jack May, American voice actor (b. 1922)
1997 Kathy Keeton Guccione, CEO (General Media Intl)
1997 Malcolm Hughes, artist
1997 Rich Mullins, American singer (b. 1955)
2000 Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (b. 1917)
2001 Rhys Jones, Welsh-Australia archeologist (b. 1941)
2002 Duncan Hallas, prominent member of the Trotskyist movement in Great Britain. (b. 1925)
2002 Robert Guéï, ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1941)
2003 Slim Dusty, Australian singer (b. 1927)
2004 Eddie Adams, American photographer (b. 1933)
2004 Ellis Marsalis, Sr., American businessman, musician, and activist (b. 1908)
2004 Skeeter Davis, American singer (b. 1931)
2004 Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian-born American civil servant (b. 1919)
2006 Chuck Rio, American singer and saxophonist (The Champs) (b. 1929)
2006 Elizabeth Allen, American actress (b. 1929)
2006 Hugh Kawharu, New Zealander Ngati Whatua Maori chief (b. 1927)
2006 Martha Holmes, American photographer (b. 1923)
2006 Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b. 1950)
2009 Eduard Zimmermann, German broadcaster (b. 1929)
2011 Johnny Răducanu, Romanian jazz pianist (b. 1931)
2011 Thomas Capano, attorney, criminal (b. 1949)
2013 Gerrie Muhren, Dutch footballer
2015 Jackie Collins, British-American author (The Stud, Lucky)