September 25th
Holidays and Festivals
Armed Forces Day (Mozambique)
Flag Day (Cape Verde) * CLICK HERE
National One-Hit Wonder Day
Love Note Day
World Ataxia Awareness Day
Hug A Vegetarian Day
National Comic Book Day
Christian Feast Day of Finbarr
Christian Feast Day of Sergius of Radonezh (repose)
Christian Feast Day of Abadir and Iraja and companions (Coptic Church)
* Ibiza Closing Parties Ibiza, Spain - Last 3 weeks of Sept (17-21)
Toast of The Day
"Show me a nation whose national beverage is beer, and I'll show you an advanced toilet technology."
- Marchk Hawkins, in the New York Times, September 25, 1977
Drink of The Day
White Russian 2 (Half/Half)
2 shots Vodka
1 shot coffee liqueur
1 shot half and half
Shake well together With ice and Strain into an old fashioned Glass.
Wine of The Day
Knapp (2009) Riesling
Style - Riesling
Finger Lakes
$20
Beer of The Day
Schönramer Gold
Brewer - Private Landbrauerei Schönram Petting/Schönram, Germany
Style - German Style Oktoberfest/Wiesen (Meadow)
Joke of The Day
A Scotsman is walking home from a bar and decides to take a nap in a nearby ditch. Later as a couple of girls stroll by one says to the other," Hey, is it true they don't wear anything beneath those kiltsd?" The other says," let's take a look". So, after looking under the kilt and finding only what god graced him with, the one says," we should leave something to let him know we were here." So, she ties her blue hair ribbon to his manhood. Upon waking the Scot uncovers to relieve himself. When he notices the ribbon he says," I don't know where you've been laddie but I see you took first prize."
Quote of The Day
"Worrying won’t keep the bad stuff from happening. It just keeps you from enjoying the good."
- Unknown
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
Build A Better Image Week, Third Full Week of SeptemberNational Clean Hands Week, Third Full Week of September
National Farm & Ranch Safety and Health Week, Third Full Week of September
National Indoor Plant Week, Third Full Week of September
National Rehabilitation Awareness Week, Third Full Week of September
Pollution Prevention Week, Third Full Week of September
Prostate Cancer Awareness Week, Third Full Week of September
Child Passenger Safety Week, Last Week in September
Deaf Awareness Week, Last Week in September
Adult Immunization Awareness Week, Last Week in September
Prostate Cancer Awareness Week, Last Week in September
Banned Books Week, Last Week in September
National Dog Week, Last Week in September
National Keep Kids Creative Week, Last Week in September
Remember to Register to Vote Week, Last Week in September
International Women's E-Commerce Days, Last Week in September
National Forest Week (Canada), Last Week in September * CLICK HERE
Historical Events on September 25th
275 In Rome, (after the assassination of Aurelian), the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Emperor.
303 On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.
953 Ratherius becomes bishop of Luik
955 Bishop Ratherius of Luik flees
1066 The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Anglo-Saxon era, the Viking invasions of England.
1212 Emperor Frederik II ends Golden Degree (Bohemia)
1340 England & France sign disarmament treaty
1396 Battle of Nicopolis: Sultan Bajezid I defeats Crusades armies
1396 Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
1492 Crewman on Pinta sights "land"-a few weeks early
1493 Columbus sails with 17 ships on 2nd voyage to America
1513 Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean, 1st European to see it.
1555 The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League, includes Freedom of Religion.
1560 Spanish king Philip II names Frederik Schenck of Toutenburg, 1st archbishop of Utrecht
1597 Amiens surrenders to French King Henri IV
1639 1st printing press in America
1639 Suzuki Shosan, Samurai monk of Zen Buddhism, found awakening
1654 England & Denmark sign trade agreement
1663 Austrian Fort Neuhausl surrenders to Turkish invasion army
1690 Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time (Boston).
1775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe. At the same time, Benedict Arnold and his expeditionary company set off from Fort Western, bound for Quebec City (Invasion of Canada - 1775).
1777 English general William Howe conquers Philadelphia
1780 Benedict Arnold joins the British
1781 Joan Derks scatters "On the People of Netherlands" pamphlets
1789 The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution (10 of 12 will ratify), the Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.
1804 12th amendment to US constitution, regulating judicial power
1804 The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for moving further upriver.
1829 Failed assassination attempt on Simon Bolívar
1836 HMS Beagle anchors at St Michael
1844 Canada defeat USA by 23 runs in the 1st cricket international
1846 U.S. forces led by General Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.
1857 Relief of Lucknow by Havelock & Outram begins
1861 Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves
1862 Skirmish at Davis' Bridge, Tennessee
1866 (Leonard W) Jerome Park opens in Bronx for horse racing
1867 Congress creates 1st all-black university, Howard U in Wash DC
1868 The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
1882 1st baseball doubleheader (Providence & Worcester)
1886 Comedy opera "Dorothy," 1st produced in London
1888 Royal Court Theatre, London, opens
1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Hound of Baskervilles" (BG)
1890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (California)
1890 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Silver Blaze" (BG)
1897 1st British bus service opens
1904 Charles Follis is 1st black to play pro football
1906 In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control.
1906 John Galsworthy's "Silver Box," premieres in London
1907 Jean Sibelius' 3rd Symphony, premieres
1908 Cubs' Ed Reulbach becomes only pitcher to throw doubleheader shutout
1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in NY
1911 French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed
1911 Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
1912 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.
1915 Battle at Loos, 8,246 British & 0 German casualties
1915 The Second Battle of Champagne begins in World War I.
1919 President Woodrow Wilson is paralyzed by a stroke
1920 34th US Womens Tennis, M B Mallory beats M Zinderstein (63 61)
1920 Vern Bradburn of Winnipeg Victorias kicks 9 singles in a game
1922 Giants beat St Louis, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant
1924 Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH
1926 9th PGA Championship, Walter Hagen at Salisbury GC Westbury NY
1926 Canadian government of MacKenzie King forms
1926 Henry Ford announces 8 hour, 5-day work week
1926 International slavery convention signed by 20 states
1926 NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks & Detroit Red Wings
1926 Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament
1926 Yankees take a doubleheader from Browns to clinch AL pennant
1929 Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
1929 Queen-mother Emma opens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek House in Amsterdam
1930 Austrian government of Vaugoin forms
1930 Roger Hornsby replaces Joe McCarthy as Cubs manager
1930 Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it," premieres in NYC
1932 Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th HR in last game of season
1933 1st state poorhouse opens in Smyrna, Georgia
1933 5th "extermination campaign" against communists in Nanjing China
1934 John Van Druten's "Distaff Side," premieres in NYC
1934 Lou Gehrig plays in his 1,500th consecutive game
1934 Rainbow (US) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup
1935 Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset," premieres in NYC
1936 Joe Medwick sets a still-standing NL record with his 64th double
1937 "il duce" visits Berlin/named "the Fuhrer" to corporal 1st class
1937 Battle of of P'ing-hsin-kuan Wutai Mountain
1939 German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs
1939 Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra & Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I
1940 German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidkun Quisling government
1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire-factory in Southampton
1941 Brooklyn Dodgers win their 1st pennant in 21 years
1942 Swiss Police Instruction of September 25, 1942 of World War II, this instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees.
1943 Russian troops liberate Smolensk in World War II.
1944 Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden of World War II.
1948 "Heaven on Earth" closes at Century Theater NYC after 12 performances
1949 4th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Louise Suggs
1949 Despite 71 injuries, Yankees have been in 1st place all season until Red Sox move into a tie for 1st place
1952 Hal Newhouser of Tigers wins his 200th game
1954 Francois "Doc" Duvalier wins Haitian presidential election
1954 Indians win AL record 111 games
1954 WCBD TV channel 2 in Charleston, SC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 Detroit outfielder Al Kaline, 20, is youngest batting champ
1955 Patty Berg wins LPGA Clock Golf Open
1955 The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
1956
1956 Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0
1956 TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated, goes into operation (Scot-Canada). Transatlantic telephone cable (Newfoundland-Oban) is used
1957 300 US Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark
1957 Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
1957 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1957 Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) announced
1959 Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley (37) & David Brown (43) wed
1959 Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
1960 1st Atomic powered aircraft carrier (Enterprise) launched (US)
1960 Chubby Checker's "Twist," hits #1
1960 For 1st time since 1927, Pirates clinch NL pennant
1960 NY Yankees clinch AL pennant
1960 Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday loses
1961 KTPS TV channel 62 in Tacoma, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 Black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia
1962 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1st round for heavyweight title
1962 The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 Weatherly (US) beats Gretel (Aust) in 19th running of America's Cup
1962 Yankees clinch AL pennant
1964 Jens Otto Krag forms minority government in Denmark
1965 "Do I Hear a Waltz?" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 220 perfs
1965 60 year old Satchel Paige of KC A's pitches 3 scoreless innings
1965 Beatle cartoon show begins in US
1965 Children find trunk with corpse in Amsterdam canal
1966 12th LPGA Championship won by Gloria Ehret
1966 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Cello Concert premieres in Moscow
1966 Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see White Sox win 4-1
1967 WGBX TV channel 44 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 Cease-fire between Jordan and the Fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.
1970 Ringo releases his "Beaucoups of Blues" album
1972 Dutch air force drives away Russian Tupolev-bomber
1972 In a referendum, the people of Norway reject membership of the European Community. Norway votes to join common market
1972 KAVT (now KSMQ) TV channel 15 in Austin, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
1973 3-man crew of Skylab 3 make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days
1973 Mets beat Expos 2-1 on Willie Mays Night at Shea Stadium
1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 Jackie Wilson, suffers heart attack & lapse into a 9 yr terminal coma
1976 "Porgy & Bess" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 122 performances
1976 Expo's last game at Montreal's Jarry Park
1977 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
1978 PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 private plane and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.
1979 "Evita" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 1568 performances
1979 California Angels win their 1st NL West pennant
1980 Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show (suit follows)
1980 Jerry Mumphrey joins Ozzie Smith, & Gene Richards to steal 50 bases this year for Padres
1980 The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul.
1980 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 Belize joins the United Nations.
1981 Nolan Ryan's 5th career no-hitter as Astros beat Dodgers 5-0
1981 Rolling Stones begin their 6th US tour (JFK Stadium, Phila)
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the 102nd person sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and the first woman to hold the office.
1982 Northwestern ends 34 football game losing streak, beats No Ill 31-6
1982 Pennsylvania prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children)
1982 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1983 35th Emmy Awards, Hill St Blue, Cheers, Ed Flanders & Shelley Long
1983 Bob Forsch pitches 2nd career no-hitter, Cards beat Expos 3-0
1983 Maze Prison escape, 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze prison. It is the largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.
1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1984 "Quilters" opens at Jack Lawrence Theater NYC for 24 performances
1984 1st London performance of musical "Stepping Out" presented
1984 Egypt & Jordan regain diplomatic relations
1984 NY Met Rusty Staub joins Ty Cobb, who hit HRs as a teen & in 40s
1985 Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India
1985 Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus
1985 Rickey Henderson steals Yankee record 75th base of season
1986 Antonin Scalia appointed to Supreme Court
1986 Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits SF Giants, 2-0
1987 2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka
1988 Christopher Jacobs, Troy Dalbey, Tom Hunter & Matt Biondi, swim world record 4x100 m freestyle (3:16.53)
1988 Florence Griffith Joyner runs Olympic record 100m in 10.54s
1988 Kathy Guadagnino wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
1989 Archaeologists open Titus of Rhine grave in Amsterdam
1989 Ronald Harwood's "Another Time," premieres in London
1989 Wade Boggs is 1st to get 200 hits & 100 walks in 4 consecutive seasons
1990 "Les Miserables," opens at Forrest Theatre, Phila
1990 1st 8 NY Yankees hit safely vs Balt Orioles to tie record
1990 Oakland A's clinch 3rd straight AL West title
1990 Saddam Hussein warns that US will repeat Vietnam experience
1990 UN Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq
1991 "Good & Evil" premieres on ABC TV
1991 Paramount at Madison Square Garden in NYC opens
1992 "Barry Manilow's Showstoppers" opens at Paramount NYC
1992 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1992 Gregory Kingsley, 12, wins right to divorce his parents & live with his foster parents, he takes name Shawn Russ
1992 Opening Main-Donau canal (North Sea-Black Sea)
1992 Sparky Anderson ties Hughie Jennings as Detroit's winningest manager
1992 US Mars Observer launched from Space shuttle
1994 Oliver McCall TKOs Lennox Lewis in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1996 The last of the Magdalene Asylums closes in Ireland.
1997 "ER" is performed live on TV
1997 Britain's Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (714 mph)
1997 Marv Albert plea bargains in assault case
1997 STS 86 (Atlantis 20) launches into orbit
1997 WNBA announces it will add Detroit & Wash DC franchises
2002 The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
2003 A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaidō, Japan.
2005 E1 Train Disaster
2008 China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
2012 50 Taiwanese ships clash with the Japan Coast Guard in waters off the Senkaku Islands
2012 Anouchka van Miltenburg is elected President of the Netherlands
2013 Oracle Team USA defeats Team New Zealand 9-8 to win the America's Cup
2015 Singapore closes schools due to hazardous levels of air pollution from fires in Indonesia
Born on September 25th
1358 Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)
1525 Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
1593 Matthew Merian, the Elder, engraver/bookseller
1599 Francesco Borromini, Italian architect (d. 1667)
1612 Mark Zuesius Boxhorn, Dutch historian
1644 Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
1683 Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (Traite) (d. 1764)
1694 Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754)
1711 Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
1714 Jean-Benoit Leclair, composer
1725 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer, designed & built 1st automobile (d. 1804)
1729 Christian G Heyne, German archaeologist
1738 Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
1741 Vaclav Pichl, composer
1744 Frederik Willem II, king of Prussia (1786-97)
1752 Carl Stenborg, composer
1764 Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)
1766 Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French Prime Minister (1815-18, 1820-21) (d. 1822)
1771 Nikolay Nikolayevich Raevsky, Russian general (d. 1829)
1773 Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856)
1780 Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)
1782 Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824)
1785 George Frederic Pinto, composer
1793 Felicia Dorothea Hermans, poet
1796 Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875)
1798 Henri Scheffer, painter
1798 Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist, mine engineer (d. 1874)
1805 Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar/founder (Pella colony in Iowa)
1822 Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr, Brig Gen (Union vol)
1823 Thomas John Wood, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
1825 William Pitt Ballinger, Texas lawyer and statesman (d. 1888)
1829 William Michael Rossetti, civil servant
1830 Karl Klindworth, pianist/conductor
1832 William Le Baron Jenney, US, architect/"father of skyscraper"
1839 Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (Libya), geologist (d. 1904)
1839 (Wilhel)Mina JPR Kruseman, writer/feminist
1852 Cornelis J Snijders, supreme commander of Dutch Navy (1910-18)
1852 Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Nietzsche Philosophy)
1858 Emmeline Pankhurst-Goulden, English feminist
1862 Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
1862 Léon Boëllmann, French composer, organist (Variations Symphoniques) (d. 1897)
1866 Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, biologist (Nobel laureate 1933) (d. 1945)
1867 Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1938)
1872 Charles Blake Cochran, impresario
1877 Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-28)
1879 Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and labor leader, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar (d. 1963)
1879 Luis da Costa, composer
1881 Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)
1884 Cornelis "Kees" Boeke, Dutch educationalist
1886 Jesus Guridi, composer
1886 John Howard Lawson, scriptwriter/playwright
1887 May Sutton Bundy, US, 1st US woman to win Wimbledon (US 1904)
1889 C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (d. 1930)
1889 George Douglas Howard Cole, socialist/novelist
1896 Elsa Triolet, writer
1896 Roberto Gerhard, composer
1896 Sandro Pertini, President of the Italian Republic (d. 1990)
1897 Teddy Hart, NYC, actor (3 Men on a Horse)
1897 William Faulkner, American writer (Sound & Fury) (Nobel laureate 1949) (d. 1962)
1898 Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980)
1901 Gordon Coventry, Australian rules footballer (d. 1968)
1901 Robert Bresson, French film director (d. 1999)
1902 Ernst von Salomon, German writer (Kette Der Tausend Kraniche)
1902 Jeno Takacs, composer
1903 John Everett Allen, US businessman
1903 Mark Rothko (Marcus Rothkovich), Latvian-born American painter (Green on Blue) (d. 1970)
1905 Nahman Avigad, Israeli archaeologist (Discovering Jerusalem)
1905 Red Smith, Green Bay Wisc, sportscaster/columnist (Fight Talk)
1906 Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
1906 Jaroslav Jezek, composer
1906 Madeleine Bourdouxhe, writer
1907 Jan Felderhof, composer
1907 Phyllis Pearsall-Gross, British Geographer, writer, painter (A to Z Map Company)
1907 Robert Bresson, France, director (Pickpocket, Mouchette)
1908 Eugen Suchon, composer
1909 Florizel A Glasspole, governor-gen of Jamaica (1973-91)
1911 Eric Williams, first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981)
1911 Lionel Henry Nowak, composer
1913 David Hunt, British diplomat/quiz winner
1914 Frederick William Sternfield, musicologist
1915 Ethel Rosenberg, American Communist (d. 1953)
1916 Jessica Anderson, Australian author
1916 Tolia Nikiprowetzsy, composer
1917 Johnny Sain, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1917 Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player, shortstop (NY Yankees-MVP 1950) and sportscaster (d. 2007)
1920 Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-born actor, director (War & Peace) (d. 1994)
1921 Remy C, de Kerckhove, Flemish poet
1921 Robert Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1975-84), chairman (IMF) (d. 1992)
1922 Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992)
1922 John Farr, British MP
1924 Norman Ayrton, opera director (Royal Shakespearean Acad UK)
1925 Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer, inventor (1st man-powered aircraft) (d. 2007)
1925 Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress (Day in Court, Island Sinner)
1925 William Edgar Mitchell, physicist
1926 Aldo Ray, American actor (God's Little Acre, Green Beret) (d. 1991)
1926 Jack Hyles, Baptist pastor (d. 2001)
1926 John Ericson, Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Sam Bolt-Honey West)
1926 Sergei Filatov, USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1960)
1927 Carl Braun, basketball player (NY Knicks)
1927 Colin Rex Davis, English, conductor (NY Met 1967-71)
1928 Hendrika G "Tine" de Vries, actress (Seaman's Wife)
1929 Barbara Walters, American broadcaster
1929 John Rutherford, cricketer (one Test for Australia 1956)
1929 Kevin White, Boston, Massachusetts, American politicians (Mayor of Boston, 1968-1984), (d. 2012)
1929 Ronnie Barker, British comedian and actor (2 Ronnies) (d. 2005)
1930 H Heckmann, writer
1930 Shel Silverstein, American humorist and author (d. 1999)
1931 Barbara Walters, Boston Mass, newscaster (Today, 20/20, ABC-TV)
1931 Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet (d. 2005)
1931 Patrick WIlliam Walker, British astrologer
1932 Adolfo Suárez, Prime Minister of Spain (1977-1981)
1932 Andrew Gardner, British broadcaster
1932 Daphne Swallow, commandant/director (WRNS)
1932 Glenn Herbert Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (sued Steinway Piano) (d. 1982)
1932 Terry Medwin, Welsh retired footballer
1933 Adolfo Suarez Gonzalez, premier of Spain (1976-81)
1933 Brian Murphy, British actor
1933 Erik Darling, American folk singer-songwriter (Rooftop Singers) (d. 2008)
1933 Hubie Brown, American basketball coach and broadcaster
1933 Ian Tyson, Canadian singer-songwriter and rancher
1934 Jean Sorel, French actor
1934 John S Bull, Memphis Tennessee, astronaut
1934 Struther Arnott, professor (St Andrew University)
1936 Edward Jones, UK military rep to NATO
1936 Juliet Prowse, South African actress and dancer (Who Killed Teddy Bear) (d. 1996)
1936 Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes, bluesman
1937 Michael Gibbs, jazz composer
1937 Thomas Kessler, composer
1938 Jonathan Motzfeldt, first Prime Minister of Greenland
1939 David S. Mann, American politician (Rep-D-Ohio)
1939 Feroz Khan, Indian actor (d. 2009)
1939 Joseph "Jesse" Russell, US singer (Slip Sliding Away)
1939 Leon Britain, vice president (Commission of European Communities)
1940 Timothy Severin, author/explorer
1941 Vivian Stern, director (Nacros)
1942 John Taylor, jazz pianist
1942 Michael Stephen, MP
1942 Peter Petherick, cricketer (NZ slow lefty 1976-77, hat-trick on debut)
1943 Gary Alexander, TN, rock vocalist/guitarist (Association)
1943 John Locke, American musician, keyboardist (Spirit-I Got A Line on You) (d. 2006)
1943 Robert Gates, American Secretary of Defense
1943 Robert Walden, NYC, actor (Joe Rossi-Lou Grant, New Doctors)
1944 Doris Matsui, American politician
1944 Eugenia Zukerman, Cambridge Ms, flutist/novelist (Deceptive Cadence)
1944 Grayson Shillingford, cricket bowler (WI 1969-71, 7 Tests 15 wickets)
1944 Michael Douglas, American actor and producer (Coma, Wall St, Jewel of the Nile)
1945 Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player
1945 Kathleen Brown, state treasurer (D-California, 1991)
1945 Owen "Onnie" McIntyre, Scotland, guitarist (Average White Band)
1945 Reynold Henry Weidenaar, composer
1946 Bishan Bedi, cricketer (mighty Indian slow left-armer 1966-79)
1946 Bryan MacLean, American musician and songwriter (Love) (d. 1998)
1946 Felicity Kendal, British actress (Shakespeare Wallah)
1946 Gilmer Bryan Morgan, Wewoka OK, PGA golfer (1977 BC Open)
1946 Jerry Penrod, American bass player
1947 Cheryl Tiegs, Minnesota, model (Sports Illustrated)
1947 Giannos Kranidiotis, Greek diplomat and politician (d. 1999)
1947 John Fiddler, England, rock vocalist/guitarist (British Lions)
1949 Anson Williams, LA California, actor (Potsie-Happy Days)
1949 Inshan Ali, cricketer (big-spinning WI chinaman bowler 1971-77)
1949 Jerry F Costello, (Rep-D-Illinois)
1949 Mimi Kennedy, American actress (Spencer, 3 girls 3, Under 1 Roof)
1951 Bob McAdoo, American basketball player, NBA forward, center (Buffalo Braves, LA Lakers)
1951 Burleigh Drummond, rocker (Ambrosia)
1951 Cheryl Tiegs, American model
1951 Mark Hamill, American actor (Luke Skywalker-Star Wars)
1951 Pedro Almodovar, Spain, director/screenwriter (Kika, Matador)
1952 Anson Williams, American actor and director
1952 Cherríe Moraga, American writer
1952 Christopher Reeve, American actor (Superman, Somewhere in Time) (d. 2004)
1952 Gloria Jean Watkins, American scholar
1952 Jimmy Garvin, American professional wrestler
1952 Tommy Norden, American actor (Flipper)
1953 Richard Harvey, British musician and composer (Gryphon)
1954 Juande Ramos, Spanish Football Manager
1954 Sylvester Croom, American college football coach
1955 Adelmo "Zucchero" Fornaciari, Italian R&B-singer (Senza una Donna)
1955 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer
1955 Ludo Coeck, Belgian footballer (d. 1985)
1955 Steven Severin, British musician, bassist (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
1955 Zucchero, Italian musician
1956 Jamie Hyneman, American visual effects technician
1957 Ian Reddington, English actor
1957 Rupert Haselden, journalist/Screenwriter
1958 Eamonn Healy, Irish chemist
1958 Michael Madsen, American actor (Reservoir Dogs, Straight Talk)
1959 Andy Waller, cricketer (big-hitting Zimbabwe batsman-1992 World Cup)
1960 Eduardo Yáñez, Mexican actor
1960 Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer
1960 John Hills, horse trainer
1960 Sonia Benezra, Canadian television host
1961 Heather Locklear, American actress and model (Stacy-T J Hooker, Sammy Jo-Dynasty)
1961 Tim Zoehrer, cricketer (Aussie keeper, & occasional WA leggie)
1962 Aida Turturro, American actress
1962 Rajiv Kulkarni, cricketer (Indian Test pace bowler 1986-87)
1963 Keely Shaye Smith, American journalist (Unsolved Mysteries), wife of Pierce Brosnan
1963 Mikael Persbrandt, Swedish actor
1963 Tate Donovan, American actor
1964 Anita Barone, American actress
1964 Bryan Tooley, Eugene Ore, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1964 Gary Ayles, British racing driver
1964 Joey Saputo, Canadian businessman and sports executive
1964 Kikuko Inoue, Japanese singer and voice actress (seiyu)
1964 Maria Doyle Kennedy, Irish actress and singer
1965 Dave Rundle, former South African cricketer
1965 Gordon Currie, Canadian actor
1965 Saffron Henderson, Canadian voice actress
1965 Scottie Pippen, American basketball player, NBA forward (Chicago Bulls, Oly-2 gold-92, 96)
1966 Elizabeth "Liz" Tchou, Medford NJ, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1966 Jason Flemyng, English actor
1966 Todd Philcox, NFL quarterback (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1967 Kim Issel, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 Lezlie Lund, Tolna ND, Miss ND-America (1991)
1967 Melissa De Sousa, American actress
1968 Johan Friso, prince of Orange-Nassau, Netherlands
1968 John Worsfold, Australian rules football coach
1968 Reggie Jefferson, Tallahassee FL, 1st baseman (Cin, Cleve, Sea, Bos)
1968 Will Smith (The Fresh Prince), American actor and rapper (Men in Black, Independence Day, Fresh Prince)
1969 Bill Simmons, ESPN columnist and author
1969 Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress (Christopher Columbus)
1969 David Weathers, Lawrencburg TN, pitcher (Florida Marlins, NY Yankees)
1969 Hal Sparks, American actor
1969 Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
1969 Heather Stewart-Whyte, British supermodel
1969 Michae Wright, WLAF cornerback (Barcelona Dragons)
1970 Aja Kong, Japanese professional wrestler
1970 Curtis Buckley, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1970 Damon Pieri, NFL safety (Carolina Panthers)
1970 Dean Ween, American musician (Ween)
1970 Doug Pelfrey, NFL kicker (Cin Bengals)
1970 Kerri Kendall, American model, playmate (Sep, 1990)
1970 Misa Shimizu, Japanese actress
1970 Shannon Jones, WLAF linebacker (Scottish Claymores)
1971 Brian Dunkleman, American actor
1971 Jessie Wallace, English actress
1971 John Lynch, American football player, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1971 Tony Harrison, WLAF receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 Kevin Mason, CFL quarterback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 Nikole Viola, Miss USA-Louisiana (1997)
1973 Bridget Marquardt, American model
1973 Bridgette LeAnn Wilson, American actress, Miss Teen USA (1990)
1973 Melonie McGarrah, Rogers Arkansas, Miss America-Arkansas (1997)
1973 Tijani Babangida, Nigerian footballer (Roda JC)
1974 Bente Elin Lilleøkseth, Norwegian politician
1974 Bill Bowler, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 Brigette Wilson, actress (Mortal Kombat, Billy Madison, Save by Bell)
1974 Chris Impellitteri, American guitarist
1974 Daniel Kessler, American musician (Interpol)
1974 Eric Moss, American football player
1974 Frank Leder, German fashion designer
1974 Igor Bogdanovic, Serbian footballer
1974 Javier Rosas Sierra, Mexican athlete
1974 Joel Prpic, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 John M. Granville, American diplomat
1974 Kemel Thompson, Jamaican athlete
1974 Olivier Dacourt, French professional footballer
1974 Paul Hurst, English footballer
1974 Richie Edwards (known locally as Wamma), British bassist
1974 Robert "Robbie" Mears, Australian rugby league player
1974 Tye Harvey, American pole vaulter
1974 Victor Medina-San Andrés, American filmmaker
1974 Víctor Danilo Pacheco, Colombian footballer
1975 Daniel Hyde, British actor
1975 Dat Nguyen, American football player
1975 Declan Donnelly, English television presenter (Ant and Dec), actor, and musician
1975 Matt Hasselbeck, American football player
1976 Charlotte Ayanna, American actress
1976 Chauncey Billups, American basketball player, NBA guard (Boston Celtics)
1976 Chiara Siracusa, Maltese singer
1976 Santigold, American singer
1977 Clea DuVall, American actress
1977 Joel Moore, American actor
1977 Kiyoshi Ijichi, Japanese drummer (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)
1977 Mike Krahulik, Illustrator
1977 Wil Nieves, Puerto Rican baseball player
1978 Jodie Kidd, English model
1978 Joel Pineiro, Puerto Rican baseball player
1978 Laura Nicholls, Kitchener Ontario, 50m swimmer (Olympics-96)
1978 Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer
1978 Roudolphe Douala, Cameroonian footballer
1978 Ryan Leslie, American music producer and singer
1979 Jason Koumas, Welsh footballer
1979 Jean-René Lisnard, French tennis player
1979 Rashad Evans, American mixed martial artist
1980 Chris Owen, American actor
1980 T.I., American rapper
1981 Jason Bergmann, American baseball player
1981 Rocco Baldelli, American baseball player
1981 Sarah Jayne Dunn, English actress
1981 Shane Tutmarc, American songwriter and musician
1981 Van Hansis, American actor
1982 Hyun Bin, South Korean actor
1982 Kany García, Puerto Rican singer-songwritter
1983 Donald Glover, American actor and comedian
1983 Terrance Pennington, American football player, NFL guard
1984 Esther Baxter, American model
1984 Matt Carle, American ice hockey player
1984 Rashad McCants, American basketball player
1985 Calvin Johnson, American football player
1990 Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater
1992 Keauna McLaughlin, American figure skater
1993 Megan Corletto, American actress
1994 Jansen Panettiere, American actor
Died on September 25th
303 Saint Fermin of Pamplona, Roman Catholic Bishop, Martyr, and Saint
813 al-Amin, Arabic kalief of Islam (809-813), murdered
1066 Harald III Hardrada, King of Norway (1047-66), Killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge
1066 Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria,
1066 Harald III of Norway, Killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge (b. 1015)
1066 Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria, killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge
1086 William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)
1333 Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (b. 1301)
1392 Sergius van Radonesj, Russian saint
1396 Jean de Vienne, French admiral, crusader, Killed at the Battle of Nicopolis (b. 1341)
1396 Jean de Carrouges, Killed at the Battle of Nicopolis (b. circa 1330)
1396 Odard de Chasseron, French knight/crusader, dies in battle
1396 Philip of Bar, French knight/crusader, Killed at the Battle of Nicopoli
1496 Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447)
1501 Dzore Drzic, Croatish poet
1506 Felipe I, the handsome, King of Castile (Spain) (1504-06) (b. 1478)
1525 Johannes Pistorius (Bakker), RC pastor, church reformer, burned
1534 Clement VII (Giulio de' Medici), Italian Pope (1523-34) (b. 1478)
1536 Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (b. 1511)
1602 Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
1617 Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (b. 1572)
1617 Francisco Suarez, Spanish Jesuit theologian (b. 1548)
1619 Francesco Soto de Langa, composer
1626 Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and Bishop of the Church of England (b. 1555)
1630 Ambrogio Spinola, Spanish marquis of Balbases, general (b. 1569)
1665 Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (b. 1610)
1680 Samuel Butler, poet, satirist
1703 Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (b. 1658)
1716 Johann Christoph Pez, composer
1727 Jacques Abbadie, French theologist
1733 Georg Motz, composer
1774 John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (b. 1714)
1777 Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist, mathematician (b. 1728)
1791 William Bradford, American printer (b. 1719)
1792 Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (b. 1710)
1794 Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
1808 Richard Porson, scholar
1813 Braz Francisco de Lima, composer
1825 Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1879)
1840 Jacques-Etienne-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, Duc de Tarente, soldier
1849 Johann Baptist Strauss, elder, Austrian composer (Radetzky-Marsch) (b. 1804)
1860 Carl Friedrich Zollner, composer
1867 Oliver Loving, American pioneer rancher (b. 1812)
1871 Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller
1876 A Glabbrenner, writer
1900 Félix-Gabriel Marchand, premier of Québec (b. 1832)
1901 Arthur Fremantle, British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
1905 Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (b. 1853)
1914 A Lichtenstein, writer
1914 Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter
1916 Julius Fucik, composer
1917 Thomas Ashe, Irish revolutionary (b. 1885)
1918 John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St Paul
1918 Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (b. 1857)
1920 William F Sudds, composer
1926 Herbert Booth, son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
1928 Karl Schneider, cricketer (South Aust bat)
1929 Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (NY Yankees) (b. 1879)
1933 Paul Ehrenfest, Austria/Neth physicist
1933 Ring Lardner, American writer (b. 1885)
1944 Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer (Irrfahrten)
1944 Leo Justinus Kauffmann, composer
1945 Bela Bartok, composer
1945 Charles A Ellwood, US sociologist/psychologist
1946 Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician and war criminal (b. 1879)
1953 Dimitur Poljanov (Popov), Bulgarian poet (Iron Verses)
1954 Eugenio d' Ors y Rovira, Spanish essayist, philosopher
1958 John B. Watson, American psychologist, behaviorist (b. 1878)
1959 Ennio Porrino, composer
1959 Helen Broderick, comedienne/actress (Swing Time, Top Hat)
1959 S W R D Bandaranaike, Ceylon's PM, assassinated by a Buddhist monk
1960 Emily Post, American etiquette expert (b. 1873)
1961 Frank Fay American actor (God's Gift to Women) (b. 1897)
1968 Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist (b. 1891)
1970 Efim Golishev, composer
1970 Erich Maria Remarque, German author (Im West Nichts Neues) (b. 1898)
1971 Hugo Lafayette Black, American jurist (b. 1886)
1971 TC Jones, female impersonator
1974 Coco the Clown (Nikolai Poliakov)
1974 William Sloane, publisher/writer ("Edge of Running Water")
1975 Bob Considine, newscaster (Tonight! America After Dark)
1977 Sidney van den Bergh, Dutch businessman/politician
1978 Claire Adams, actress (Legally Dead, End of the Road)
1979 Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete and actor (b. 1915)
1980 Earl Curry, American religious author (b. 1890)
1980 John Bonham, English drummer (Led Zeppelin), overdoses (b. 1948)
1980 Lewis Milestone, Moldovan film director (b. 1895)
1980 Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (b. 1883)
1983 Leopold III, king of Belgium (1934-51) (b. 1901)
1984 Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (Forbidden Planet, Mrs Miniver) (b. 1897)
1985 Albert Moeschinger, composer
1986 Ben Sajet, physician/politician
1986 Darshan Singh Canadian, Indian communist leader (b. 1917)
1986 Donald MacDonald, Canadian politician (b. 1909)
1986 Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (b. 1909)
1986 Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
1987 Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor, director (I Accuse, Ivanhoe, Scarf) (b. 1905)
1987 Mary Astor, American actress (Cynthia, Meet Me in St Louis, Fiesta) (b. 1906)
1988 Billy Carter, brother of Jimmy Carter (b. 1937)
1991 Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief of Lyon, Nazi war criminal (b. 1913)
1991 Max Koot, royal photographer
1991 Viviane Romance, French actress (b. 1912)
1994 John Richard Ravensdale, historian
1994 Kitty Masters, actress
1994 Ludwig Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, Germ prince of Prussia
1994 Mark Alexander Abrams, market Researcher
1995 Bessie (Annie Elizabeth) Delany, American physician and author (b. 1891)
1995 Dave Bowen, Welsh football (soccer) manager (b. 1928)
1995 Dorothy Dickson, actress/dancer (Paying the Piper)
1996 Betty Phyllis Gathergood, curator
1996 Nicu Ceausescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)
1997 Hélène Baillargeon, Quebec singer and folklorist (b. 1916)
1997 Jean Françaix, French composer (b. 1912)
1997 Sayed Mutawli ad Imam scholar, broadcaster-Darsh
1999 Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (b. 1930)
2000 R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)
2003 Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician (b. 1953)
2003 Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (b. 1935)
2003 Franco Modigliani, Italian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2003 George Plimpton, American writer and actor (b. 1927)
2003 Herb Gardner, American playwright (b. 1934)
2005 Don Adams, American actor and comedian (b. 1923)
2005 Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician (b. 1921)
2005 George Archer, American golfer (b. 1939)
2005 Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani critic and linguist (b. 1912)
2005 M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (b. 1936)
2005 Urie Bronfenbrenner, American psychologist (b. 1917)
2006 Jeff Cooper, American firearms expert (b. 1920)
2006 John M. Ford, American author and poet (b. 1957)
2006 Sofia Muratova, Russian Olympic gold winning Gymnast
2007 Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian negotiator (b. 1919)
2009 Alicia de Larrocha, Catalan pianist (b. 1923)
2010 Art Gilmore, American actor (b. 1912)
2011 Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
2012 Andy Williams, American singer