September 26th
Holidays and Festivals
Flag Day (Ecuador) * CLICK HERE
Johnny Appleseed Day
Family Health and Fitness Day (USA)
European Day of Languages
National Public Lands Day (USA)
National Hunting and Fishing Day (USA)
Fish Amnesty Day
R.E.A.D. in America Day
Shamu the Whale Day
Feast of Sts. Cosmas and Damian.
Bureflux (Discordianism)
* Cheval (Horse) Day French Republican Calendar, fifth day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
* Ibiza Closing Parties Ibiza, Spain - Last 3 weeks of Sept (18-21)
* Galway International Oyster Festival Galway, Ireland Last full weekend in Sept (1-3)
Toast of The Day
"The truth comes out when the spirit goes in."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Purple Rain
1/2 shot grenadine
1/2 shot peach schnapps (archers)
1/2 shot white rum
3 count LemonaDe
3 count sweet & sour mix
1/2 shot Blue Curacao
Fill a collins Glass 3/4 full With ice. Add grenadine and peach schapps and white rum into Glass. Then Fill With sweet and sour and LemonaDe. Drizzle around the edge of the Glass With Blue curacao.
- In Celebration of Prince's song Released September 26, 1984
Wine of The Day
R & B Cellars (2007) "Swingsville"
Style - Zinfandel
Lodi
$15
Beer of The Day
Abbey Dubbel
Brewer - Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant Wilmington, DE, USA
Style - Belgian-Style Dubbel
- In celebration of the aniversary of the release of Abbey Road (Beatles) on the 26th of September 1969
Joke of The Day
A man and his wife were celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. The wife says to her husband, "We've been married so long, sweetheart, I hope you feel you can ask me anything you want. After all this time I want us to be completely open in our relationship."
The husband replies, "Okay, there is one thing that has been bothering me for a long time, but I haven't had the courage to ask before...but I have noticed that all six of our children look similar to one another except one. I can't figure out how he got to look so different. Did he have a different father than the rest?"
The wife stops. She is unable to look her husband in the eyes. Slowly she replies, "yes. Yes he did have a different father."
Her husband was taken aback. "Oh! Okay, I must know. Please tell me. Who was that child's father?"
Again she cannot look her husband in the eyes. She is very distressed, and after a long silence she slowly said, "YOU."
Quote of The Day
"An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger, or a beer."
- Confucius
Whisky Of The Day
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
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 26th
(46 BC) Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
715 Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.
1212 Golden Bull of Sicily is certified as an hereditary royal title in Bohemia for the Premyslid dynasty.
1371 Battle of Maritsa: Serbia-Turkey
1396 Sultan Bajezid I beheads 100s of crusaders
1404 Brussels Brabants/Limburgse audit-office established
1580 Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth, with Spanish treasure returns to England.
1629 Sweden & Poland signs Peace of Altmark
1655 Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft Casimir from Swedish in Delaware
1680 Tax revolt in Gorinchem due to tax on cereal
1687 The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in the Acropolis in Athens.
1687 The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
1733 France, Spain & Sardinia sign anti-German covenant
1771 Denis Diderot's "Le Fils Naturel," premieres in Paris
1772 New Jersey passes bill requiring a license to practice medicine
1777 British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
1783 Fayette County, Pennsylvania is created.
1783 The first battle of Shays' Rebellion begins.
1786 England & France sign trade agreement
1789 Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General.
1792 Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
1810 A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
1815 Russia, Prussia & Austria sign Holy Alliance
1820 Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson proved tomatoes weren't poisonous by eating several on the steps of the courthouse in Salem, New Jersey.
1824 Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) & lives
1831 Robert Montgomery Bird's "Gladiator," premieres in NYC
1835 Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Lucia di Lammermoor," premieres in Naples
1861 2nd British Golf Open: Tom Morris Sr shoots a 163 at Prestwick Club
1872 The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) was established in New York City.
1874 1st Grand International Rifle match held
1876 1st Belgian parachute jump (Glorieux)
1884 Suriname army shoots on British-Indian contract workers, 7 killed
1887 Emile Berliner patents the Gramophone
1890 US stops minting $1 & $3 gold coin & 3 cent piece
1892 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band (NJ)
1892 Diamond Match Co patented book matches
1895 Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa, Eritrea
1898 Victor Herbert/Harry Smith' musical premieres in NYC
1901 Boer General Botha fails to capture Fort Itala in Natal
1901 Great Britain annexes Gold Coast (Ghana)
1904 Charles Kleins "Music Master," premieres in NYC
1904 Earl Grey is named British governor-general of Canada
1904 GB Shaw's "How He Lied to Her Husband," premieres in NYC
1906 Pittsburgh Lefty Leifield no-hits Phillies, 8-0 in 6 inning game
1907 New Zealand declares independence from UK. It and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
1908 Ed Reulbach becomes the first and only pitcher to throw two shutouts in one day (doubleheader) against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1914 Germans arrest A Max, mayor of Brussels
1914 The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act to regulate interstate commerce.
1916 Bishop speak against Catholics in trade unions
1917 British assault on Menin-street, France
1918 The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins. of World War I, final major battle of WW I.
1919 US President Wilson hit by a heart attack
1921 Yankee Ruth hits HRs 57 & 58 to beat Indians 8-7
1923 Stresemann government ends resistance against occupiers in Ruhrgebied
1925 8th PGA Championship, Walter Hagen at Olympia Fields CC Matteson Ill
1925 Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead
1926 JB Fagan's "And So to Bed," premieres in London
1926 Shortest double header, Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to Browns. Yanks had already clinched pennant
1927 St James Theater (Erlanger) opens at 246 W 44th St NYC
1929 John Schrober becomes chancellor of Austria
1931 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg marries Freiin Nina von Lerchenfeld
1933 Sidney Kingsley's "Men in White," premieres in NYC
1934 British liner Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched
1938 Hitler issues ultimatum to Czech government, demanding Sudenten Land
1939 German seaplane shoots KLM-aircraft (1 killed)
1940 Airplane manufacturer in Woolston bombed, 30 killed
1940 Japanese troops attack French Indo-China
1941 Nazi's slaughter about 34,000 Jews of Kiev
1944 British & Polish paratroopers evacuate Oosterbeek (Arnhem)
1944 Soviet forces occupy Estonia
1944 On the central front of the Gothic Line, Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting, World War II.
1944 Operation Market Garden fails in World War II.
1945 All old Dutch banknotes declared invalid
1946 1st edition of Tintin (Kuifje), publishes until June 1993
1947 Happy Chandler announces Ford & Gillette to sponsor World Series
1948 Boston Braves win 1st NL championship since 1914
1950 Australia wins Davis Cup tennis tournament
1950 Because of forest fire in Brittish Columbia, blue moon appears in England
1950 Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
1950 Phils pitcher Jim Konstanty makes record 71st appearance of year
1950 United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans in the Korean War.
1951 Prof Youngblood demonstrates artificial heart in Paris
1952 Yanks clinch 4th straight & 19th AL pennant, beating A's 5-2
1953 Billy Hunter is last St Louis Browns player to homer in a game
1953 KERO TV channel 23 in Bakersfield, CA (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 Polish government fires/imprisons Cardinal Wyszynski
1953 US & Spain sign defense treaty (4 US bases in Spain)
1954 A's defeats Yanks 8-6 in last game franchise will play in Phila
1954 Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.
1954 KODE TV channel 12 in Joplin, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 KUTV TV channel 2 in Salt Lake City, UT (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 Patty Berg wins LPGA Ardmore Golf Open
1954 Typhoon hits Japan 5 ferryboats sink killing about 1,600
1954 WANE TV channel 15 in Fort Wayne, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 WCAX TV channel 3 in Burlington, VT (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Yogi Berra plays his only game at 3rd & Mickey Mantle plays shortstop
1955 NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929
1957 "West Side Story" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 734 perfs
1957 Bernstein & Sondheim's musical "West Side Story," premieres on Broadway in NYC
1957 Dag Hammarskjoeld re-elected secretary-general of UN
1957 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1958 Columbia (US) beats Sceptre (England) in 18th America's Cup
1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 Milwaukee Braves Warren Spahn becomes winningest NL lefty
1959 SF Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St Louis Cards, 4-0
1959 Typhoon Vera, hits Japanese island of Honshu, causing the deaths of 4,580 people with 658 missing
1960 1st of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place (Chicago)
1960 Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R.
1960 In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
1960 Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro)
1961 "From the Second City" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 87 performances
1961 Roger Maris hits HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record
1962 LA Dodger Maury Wills becomes 1st to steal 100 bases (en route to 104)
1962 TV comedy series "Beverly Hillbillies" premieres on CBS
1962 The Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed (National Day).
1963 1st edition of NYC Review of Books
1963 Lee Harvey Oswald travels on Continental Trailways bus to Mexico
1964 Braves (25) & Phillies (18) set record by using 43 players in 9 inn
1965 11th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Haynie
1965 Minnesota gains its 1st AL pennant by defeating Washington, 2-1
1965 Queen Elizabeth decorates Beatles with Order of British Empire
1966 "Staten Island," 1st icebreaker to enter SF bay
1967 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Violin concert, premieres in Moscow
1968 1st broadcast of "Hawaii Five-O" on CBS-TV
1968 Marcelo Caetano elected premier of Portugal
1968 St Louis Cards' Bob Gibson's 13th shutout, ends with 1.12 ERA
1968 Theatre censorship ends in Britain
1969 Beatles release "Abbey Road" album
1969 Bolivia military coup under general Ovando Candia
1969 The Beatles release their last studio album, Abbey Road.
1969 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1970 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
1970 The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
1971 Jim Palmer is 4th Oriole to win at least 20 games this season
1971 Pam Higgins wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
1971 WGBY TV channel 57 in Springfield, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 American Museum of Immigration dedicated
1972 Norway rejects membership in European Common Market
1973 Concorde flies from Washington DC to Paris in 3h33m
1973 Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
1973 Turkey's state of siege ends (after 2½ years)
1973 Wilt Chamberlain signs with ABA San Diego Conquistadors
1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 Phillies & NY Mets play a doubleheader that ends at 3:15 AM
1976 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1976 Denver's Rick Upchurch returns 2 punts for TDs against Cleveland
1976 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Carlton Golf
1976 Phillies clinch their 1st NL East Division title
1977 Cleveland Browns play their 1st overtime game, beat Patriots 30-27
1977 Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to NY
1978 NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms
1978 RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service
1979 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million
1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 Bomb attack on Octoberfest in Munich, 12 killed
1980 Cuban government closes Mariel Harbor ending "freedom flotilla"
1980 Soyuz 38 returns to Earth
1981 Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter, beats LA Dodgers, 5-0.
1981 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1982 "Doll's Life" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 5 perfs
1982 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1983 Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks NY Giant record 56 yard field goal
1983 Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race, the first non-American winne (1st non-US winner)
1983 Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10
1983 Lebanon premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns
1983 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1983 Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a likely worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
1983 St Louis Card Bob Forsch 2nd no-hitter beats Montreal Expos, 3-0
1984 5,251 turn out to see Phillies play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
1984 Berlin appeals court clears Paul McCartney in a paternity suit
1984 Britain & China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1984 Dutch Queen Beatrice opens University
1984 Phila's Juan Samuel sets record for steals by a rookie with his 72nd
1984 Pres Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa
1984 The United Kingdom agrees to handover of Hong Kong
1985 Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Libya
1986 Antonin Scalia, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1986 Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season)
1986 RUN-DMC is 1st rap group to hit top 10 (Raisin' Hell)
1986 William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court
1987 Padres Benito Santiago sets rookie hitting streak to 28 games
1988 Canada`s Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test
1988 NYC's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark
1988 Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM
1988 US space shuttle STS-26 launched
1989 Last Vietnamese soldiers leave Cambodia
1989 MPAA creates NC-17 rating for movies with adult themes
1989 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for total destruction of Soviet & US chemical weapons
1990 Motion Picture Association of America creates new NC-17 rating
1991 2 year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle Arizona begins
1992 1st time a positional player pitches for NY Mets, Phil Pecota, in 19-2 lose to Pirates
1992 Jimmy Connors beats Martina Navratilova, 7-5, 6-3
1992 Nigerian Hercules C-130 crashes at Lagos, 163 die
1992 Roseanne Barr Arnold gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1992 Tsuruhiko Kiuchi discovers comet Swift-Tuttle
1993 30th Ryder Cup, US beats Europe, 15-13 at The Belfry, England
1993 Cubs bat out of order against Pirates in 2nd inning
1993 Indians win their last game at Cleveland Stadium, beating Brewers 6-4
1993 Kris Monaghan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1993 Seattle's Randy Johnson joins 300-strikeout club
1994 Estonia government of Laar flees
1994 Switzerland bans racist propaganda
1995 "George" magazine premieres, published by John F Kennedy Jr
1995 Earliest 1st-class cricket in Aust season (Qld v Western Prov)
1995 Sri Lanka complete 2-1 Test Cricket series win in Pakistan from 0-1
1996 SF Giant Bobby Bonds is 2nd player to hit 40 HRs & steal 40 bases
1996 Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17), lands
1997 A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234.
1997 An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
1997 Seattle Mariner Ken Griffey Jr hits his 56th HR of 1997
2000 Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
2000 The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Agean sea killing 80 passengers.
2002 The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than 1,000.
2007 Shinzo Abe formally ends his term as Prime Minister of Japan.
2008 Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
2009 Typhoon Ketsana (2009) hit the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.
2012 Greek trade unions call a general strike to protest austerity measures
2012 Japanese automakers suspend operations in China
2012 Syrian army massacres 40 civilians in Thiabieh, Damascus
2014 World Health Organizations estimates that Ebola death toll has reached 3,091 - with Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone hit hardest
Born on This Date
1181 Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian founder of the Franciscan Order (d. 1226)
1329 Anna of Bavaria, Queen of the Romans (d. 1353)
1406 Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d. 1430)
1688 Willem J 's-Gravesande, Dutch physicist
1711 Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (d. 1779)
1729 Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher/critic/Bible translator
1750 Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (d. 1810)
1758 Cosme Argerich, Argentine physician, founder of the Medicine School of Buenos Aires (d. 1820)
1759 Hans D L earl Yorck von Wartenburg, Prussian fieldmarshal/gov-gen
1767 Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1835)
1774 John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed), American environmentalist, frontier nurseryman
1791 Théodore Géricault, French painter (d. 1824)
1820 Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Bengali scholar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita) (d. 1891)
1821 Alvin Peterson Hovey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1823 Ivan S Aksakov, Russian journalist (Denj, Moskvitsh)
1832 Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, composer
1840 Louis-Olivier Taillon, French Canadian politician (d. 1923)
1841 Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg, composer
1865 Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, English pilot and ornithologist (d. 1937)
1867 Maggie L Walker, black business & civic leader
1867 Winsor McCay, animation pioneer (d. 1934)
1868 Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, composer
1869 Komitas, Armenian composer (d. 1935)
1870 Christian X, King of Denmark (1912-47) (d. 1947)
1871 Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (d. 1934)
1872 Ottokar T Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Austrian Foreign min (1916-18)
1873 Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (d. 1949)
1873 Amilcare Zanella, composer
1873 Waclaw Berent, Polish novelist and translator (d. 1940)
1874 Lewis Hine, American photographer and social activist (d. 1940)
1875 Edmund Gwenn, Welsh actor (Miracle on 34th Street) (d. 1959)
1876 C B "Buck" Llewellyn, cricketer (S Afr lefty all-rounder 1896-1912)
1876 Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, dean (U of Chic Social Sciences), and author (d. 1957)
1876 Syed Ghulam Bhik Nairang, a poet and a prominent Indian/Pakistani Muslim leader (d. 1952)
1877 Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist (d. 1962)
1877 Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (d. 1963)
1879 Petko J Todorov, Bulgaria, writer (Fairy, Samodiva Fee)
1881 Hiram Wesley Evans, American member of the Ku Klux Klan (d. 1966)
1884 J. P. Bickell, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (d. 1951)
1885 Anna M F "Annie" Wageningen-Salomons, author (Girl Student) [or 6/26]
1886 Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1977)
1887 Antonio Moreno, Spanish-born actor, director (It, Careers) (d. 1967)
1887 Edwin Keppel Bennett, English writer (d. 1958)
1887 Sir Barnes Wallis, English scientist, engineer and inventor (d. 1979)
1888 J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and newspaper columnist (d. 1964)
1888 T. S. Eliot, American-born British writer, poet, and critic (Waste Land) (Nobel laureate 1948) (d. 1965)
1889 Martin Heidegger, Germany, Existentialist (Being & Time) (d. 1976)
1891 Alfred Plane, US sharp shooter (Olympic-gold-1912, 20)
1891 Charles Münch, French conductor and violinist (d. 1968)
1893 Gladys Brockwell, American actress (Long Pants, Oliver Twist) (d. 1929)
1893 Milos Crnjanski, Serbian poet (Seobe)
1895 Fay Holden, Birmingham England, actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films)
1895 George Raft, American actor (d. 1980)
1897 Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (d. 1917)
1897 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Montini), 262nd Roman Catholic pope (1963-78) (d. 1978)
1897 Victor O Stomps, writer
1897 Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress/act teacher (Goethe/Brecht)
1898 George Gershwin (Jacob Gershvin), American composer (Rhapsody in Blue) (d. 1937)
1901 Donald Cook, Portland Ore, actor (Too Young To Go Steady)
1901 George Raft, NYC, American actor (Each Dawn I Die, Scarface, Some Like It Hot)
1902 Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, US gangster (Murder Inc)
1903 Gerhard Nebel, writer
1905 Emilio Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player
1907 Anthony F Blunt, English art historian and Soviet spy (d. 1983)
1907 Bep (Lambertus) Van Klaveren, Dutch European Boxing Champ (Oly-silver-1928) (d. 1992)
1907 Ralph Michael, London England, actor (Quest, Doctor in the House)
1908 Maurice Naessens, Belgian banker
1909 Bill France, Sr., American car racing executive (d. 1992)
1909 Helen Giuliani, mother of Rudy (Mayor-R-NYC, 1994-2002)
1911 Al Helfer, American radio sportscaster (d. 1975)
1911 Jan F Hampe, pathologist-anatomy (Fabric & Stoflongen)
1913 Ernst Schnabel, German sailor/dramatist (Anne Frank)
1913 Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player (d. 1998)
1914 Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountaineer, one of the first to reach the summit of K2 (d. 2009)
1914 Jack LaLanne, American fitness, exercise and nutritional expert (Juice Tiger)
1917 Réal Caouette, French Canadian politician (d. 1976)
1918 Humphrey van Loo, Dutch news director (ANP/Reuter)
1919 Barbara Britton, American actress (Young & Willing) (d. 1980)
1919 Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and researcher
1922 Nicholas Romanov, French-born pretender to the Russian throne
1922 Takis Miliadis, Greek actor (d. 1985)
1923 Dev Anand, Indian actor and film producer
1925 Bobby Shantz, baseball player (1952 AL MVP)
1925 Marty Robbins, American singer (Devil Woman, I Walk Alone) (d. 1982)
1925 Norm Dussault, American ice hockey player
1926 Buland Al Haidary, poet
1926 Giuseppi Chiari, composer
1926 Imre Vincze, composer
1926 Julie London, American singer and actress (Nurse McCall-Emergency) (d. 2000)
1926 Manfred Mayrhofer, Austrian Indo-European Philologist
1927 Patrick O'Neal, American actor (Kaz, Alvarez Kelly, King Rat) (d. 1994)
1927 Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (d. 1990)
1927 Robert Cade, American physician and beverage inventor (d. 2007)
1928 Bob Van der Veken, Belgian actor
1929 Meredith C Gourdine, Newark NJ, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1952)
1930 Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58) (d. 1966)
1930 Joe Brown, English mountain climber, made the first ascent of Kangchenjunga in 1955
1930 Philip Bosco, Jersey City, actor (Trading Places)
1931 Donald J Pease, (Rep-D-OH, 1977)
1931 George Chambers, MS, rock bassist/vocalist (Chambers Brothers)
1931 Vijay Manjrekar, cricketer (father of Sanjay, reliable Indian batsman)
1932 Clifton C Williams Jr, Mobile Alabama, Major USMC/astronaut
1932 Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
1932 Giuacomo Manzoni, composer
1932 Joyce Jameson, Chicago Ill, comedienne (Spike Jones Show)
1932 Richard Herd, American actor
1932 Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer and dissident
1933 Clari Baruch (Clara C de Lieme), actress (Man With White Flower)
1933 Donna Douglas (Dot Smith), American actress (Beverly Hillbillies)
1934 Dick Heckstall-Smith, rocker (Alexis Korner Band)
1934 Raphael Samuel, historian
1935 Bob Barber, cricketer (dashing England lefty bat in 28 Tests 1960-68)
1935 Joe Sherlock, Irish Labour Party politician (d. 2007)
1936 Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician
1937 Jerry Weintraub, American film producer
1937 Joop Admiral, Dutch actor/director (You Are My Mother)
1937 Valentin Pavlov, Soviet politician (d. 2003)
1938 Andrei Lukanov, politician
1938 Lars Jacob Krogh, Norwegian journalist (d. 2010)
1938 Michael V Love, US test pilot (X-24)
1939 Judith P Appelbaum, magazine & newspaper editor, educator
1939 Ricky Tomlinson, English actor
1941 Joe Bauer, Memphis Tn, rock drummer (Youngbloods)
1941 Martine Beswicke, Jamacia, actress (Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde)
1941 Salvatore Accardo, Italian violinist and conductor
1942 Ingrid Mickler-Becker, German FR, long jumper/relayer (Oly-gold-72)
1942 Kent McCord, American actor (Officer Jim Reed-Adam 12)
1943 Georgie Fame, [Clive Powell], rocker (Georgie Fame & Blue Flames)
1943 Ian Chappell, Australian cricketer and broadcaster
1943 Tim Schenken, Australian racing driver
1944 Angela Dorian, (Victoria Vetri), SF, playmate (Sep 1967, Year-1968)
1944 Anne Robinson, English television host
1945 Bryan Ferry, English singer (Roxy Music)
1945 Gal Costa, Brazilian singer
1945 Louise Beaudoin, French Canadian politician
1946 Andrea Dworkin, American feminist (d. 2005)
1946 Christine Todd Whitman, American politician
1946 Louise Simonson, American comic book writer and editor
1946 Mary Beth Hurt, [Mary Supinger], Iowa, actress (Garp, Interiors)
1946 Radha Krishna Mainali, Nepalese politician
1946 Togo Igawa, Japanese actor
1947 Dick Roth, US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1964)
1947 Graham Faulkner, London, actor (Brother Sun Sister Moon)
1947 Lynn Anderson, American country music singer (I Never Promised you a Rose Garden)
1947 Richard Roth, US, 400m swim medley (Olympic-gold-1964)
1948 Olivia Newton-John, English-born Australian singer and actress (Lets Get Physical)
1948 Vladimir Remek, Czechoslovakia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 28)
1949 Clodoaldo, Brazilian football player
1949 Jane Smiley, American novelist
1949 Leonide F M "Leonie" Triesschijn, Dutch actress/mime
1949 Martin Delray, Texarkana Ar, country singer (Get Rhythm))
1949 Minette Walters, English novelist
1951 Stuart Tosh, Scottish musician
1951 Tom Quirke, journalist
1952 James Keane, Buffalo NY, actor (Willis Bell-Paper Chase)
1952 Predrag Miletic, Serbian actor
1953 Aivars Lembergs, Latvian politician
1953 Dolores Keane, Irish folk singer
1953 Joe Benigno, American radio personality
1954 Craig Chaquico, rock guitarist (Jefferson Starship)
1954 Kevin Kennedy, American baseball manager and television host
1955 Carlene Carter, American country singer (I Fell in Love)
1956 Linda Hamilton, American actress (Catherine-Beauty & the Beast)
1956 Steve Butler, American racing driver
1958 Richard B. Weldon, Jr., American politician
1958 Robert Kagan, American historian
1959 Darby Crash, American Singer (The Germs) (d. 1980)
1959 Rich Gedman, American baseball player
1960 Bret Erickson, Bennington Nebraska, US trap (Olympics-1996)
1961 Charlotte Fich, Danish actress
1961 Will Self, English author
1962 Al Pitrelli, American guitarist Megadeth)
1962 Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress (Little House on the Prairie)
1962 Peter Foster, Australian con-man
1962 Steve Moneghetti, Australian marathoner (Olympics-5th-88, 92, 96)
1962 Tracey Thorn, rock vocalist (Everything But The Girl)
1963 Douglas Wakiihuri, Kenyan marathon runner (Olympic-silver-1988)
1963 Lysette Anthony, English actress (Angelique-Dark Shadows, Switch)
1964 Bobby Joe Edmonds, NFL running back (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1964 Dave Martinez, Manhattan NY, outfielder (Chic White Sox)
1964 Gerrie Slagboom, Dutch soccer player: Dordrecht '90
1964 John Tempesta, American drummer (White Zombie, Helmet, Testament)
1964 Nicki French, English singer
1964 Robin Hood, Mishawaka IN, LPGA golfer (1989 Planters Pat Bradley)
1964 Ty Miller, Granada Hills California, actor (The Kid-Young Riders)
1965 Alexandra Lencastre, Portuguese actress
1965 Cindy Herron, American singer (En Vogue)
1966 Christos Dantis, Greek composer and singer
1966 Craig Heyward, American football player, NFL running back (Atlanta Falcons) (d. 2006)
1966 Francisco Andreu, Dearborn Mich, road cyclist (Olympics-4th-88, 96)
1966 Jillian Barberie, Canadian actress and television hostess
1967 Craig Janney, Hartford, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1967 Kara Saun, American designer
1967 Martha Nix, Orange County California, actress (Serena-Waltons)
1967 Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (d. 1995)
1968 Anthony Shadid, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, New York Times foreign correspondent and two time Pulitzer winner, (d. 2012)
1968 Ben Shenkman, American actor
1968 James Caviezel, American actor
1968 Scott Schorer, Burke, Va, rower (Olympics-1996)
1969 Andy Petterson, Australian footballer
1969 Anthony Kavanagh, French-Canadian comedian, actor and singer
1969 David Ferguson, British murderer
1969 Paul Warhurst, English footballer
1970 Paul Laus, Beamsville, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1970 Rachel Jacobs, Ririe Idaho, actress (It's Not Easy)
1970 Sheri Moon Zombie, American actress (Halloween), Wife of Rob Zombie
1970 Trevor Ruffin, NBA guard (Phila 76ers)
1971 Elva Dryer, Durango Colorado, 1.5K/5K runner
1971 Patterson Thompson, cricketer (WI Test fast bowler v New Zealand 1996)
1972 Mark Haslam, cricketer (New Zealand slow left-armer 1992)
1972 Melanie Paxson, American actress
1972 Ras Kass, American rapper
1972 Shawn Stockman (Slim), American singer, rapper (Boyz II Men)
1973 Chris Small, Scottish snooker player
1973 David Richie, NFL nost tackle (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1973 Marty Casey, American singer (Lovehammers)
1973 Olga Vasdeki, Greek triple jumper
1974 Alison Davies, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1974 Boris Cepeda,German-Ecuadorian pianist and diplomat
1974 Gary Hall, Jr., American swimmer, 50m/100m/400m free relay (Oly-gold/2 silver-96)
1974 Katie Kauffman, West Lawn Pa, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1974 Martin Müürsepp, Estonian basketball player, NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks)
1975 Emma Härdelin, Swedish singer (Garmarna and Triakel)
1975 Jake Paltrow, American film director, brother of Gwyneth Paltrow
1976 Michael Ballack, German footballer
1976 Tyler Denk, American model and reality show contestant
1977 André Hunger, German artist and designer
1977 Kaylynn, American porn star
1978 Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, Kenyan long-distance runner
1979 Fuifui Moimoi, New Zealand (Tongan) rugby league footballer
1979 Jacob Tierney, Canadian actor
1979 Jaycie Phelps, American gymnast (World-brz-95/Oly-gold-96)
1979 Jon Harley, English footballer
1979 Naomichi Marufuji, Japanese professional wrestler
1980 Brooks Orpik, American ice hockey player
1980 Daniel Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player
1980 Henrik Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player
1980 Jane Darling, Czech porn model/actress
1980 Patrick Friesacher, Austrian race car driver
1981 Aras Baskauskas, Winner of Survivor: Panama
1981 Christina Milian, American actress and singer
1981 Collien Fernandes, German TV host and actress
1981 Serena Williams, American tennis player (13 grand slams)
1982 Jon Richardson (entertainer), British comedian
1982 Miguel Alfredo Portillo, Argentine footballer
1982 Rob Burrow, English rugby league player
1983 Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer
1983 Samantha Hammel, American record producer and actress
1984 Keisha Buchanan, English singer (Sugababes)
1984 Thore Schölermann, German actor
1985 Lenna Kuurmaa, Estonian singer (Vanilla Ninja)
1985 Talulah Riley, English actress
1986 Ashley Leggat, Canadian actress
1987 Rosie Munter, Swedish singer (Play)
1988 Kiira Korpi, Finnish figure skater
1988 Marina Kuroki, Japanese Actress
1988 Mark Simpson, English clarinetist and composer
1989 Emma Rigby, English actress
2000 Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah II of Jordan
Died on September 26th
1023 Godfried I, duke of Neth-Lutherans
1342 John I, ruler of Poland
1345 Willem IV, earl of Henegouwen/Holland/Zealand
1371 Vlkasin, Hungarian general/co-king of Serbia
1417 Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (b. 1360)
1468 Juan de Torquemada, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1388)
1501 Džore Držic, Croatian writer (b. 1461)
1614 Felice Anerio, Italian composer (pontifical royal chapel)
1620 Taichang Emperor of China (b. 1582)
1626 Lancelot Andrewes, English theologist/bishop of Winchester
1626 Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese warrior (b. 1554)
1657 Hadji Chalfa/Katib Tsjelebi, Turkish geographer
1716 Antoine Parent, French mathematician (b. 1666)
1763 John Byron, English poet (b. 1692)
1764 Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (b. 1767)
1788 Francois Bainville, composer
1800 William Billings, American choral composer (b. 1746)
1802 Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician and military officer (b. 1754)
1808 Pavel Vranicky, composer
1820 Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (b. 1734)
1866 Carl Almqvist, Swedish author (Amorina)
1868 August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)
1871 Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter, composer
1877 Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1809)
1902 Levi Strauss, American clothing manufacturer (b. 1829)
1904 John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848)
1904 Lafcadio Hearn, Greek writer (Soul of the Great Ball) (b. 1850)
1917 Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina)
1935 Andy Adams, US writer (Cattle fire)
1936 Harriet Monroe, US poet (Poet's Life)
1937 Bessie Smith, American singer, dies of injuries sustained in car crash (b. 1894)
1940 Walter Benjamin, writer
1944 Ernst Isler, composer
1944 Julien Cahn, cricketer (private cricket promoter during 30's)
1945 Béla V J Bartók, Hungarian composer and pianist (b. 1881)
1945 R Beer-Hofmann, writer
1947 Hugh Lofting, English writer (Gub Gub Book) (b. 1886)
1951 Hans Cloos, German geologist (b. 1885)
1952 George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, poet (Last Puritan) (b. 1863)
1953 Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895)
1954 Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (b. 1868)
1956 Lucien Febvre, French historian (Un Destin, Martin Luther)
1958 Carl Brisson, actor (Ship Cafe, Ring, Song of Soho)
1959 Solomon Bandaranaike, PM of Ceylon (1956-59)
1960 William Ling, cricketer (South African batsman in 6 Tests 1921-23)
1961 Eily Malyon, actress (Jane Eyre, I Married a Witch)
1961 Juanita Hansen, actress (Fast Company)
1964 Calvin Thomas, actor (Judge Hunter-One Man's Family)
1964 Ida Moore, actress (Mr Music, Johnny Belinda)
1965 James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (b. 1898)
1965 Otto Nothling, cricketer (did next to nothling in Aust)
1966 Helen Kane, actress (Heads Up, Pointed Heels)
1968 Daniel Johnson, Sr., French-Canadian politician (b. 1915)
1968 Lipman Heilprin, Israeli physician and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1902)
1971 Muriel Kirkland, actress (Nana, Fast Workers)
1972 Charles J Correll, American radio actor (Calvin & the Colonel) (b. 1890)
1973 Anna Magnani, Italian actress (b. 1908)
1973 Anton Schnack, German writer/poet
1973 Ralph Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1923)
1976 Lavoslav Ružicka, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
1978 Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886)
1979 Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (Big Sky, Apache Uprising) (b. 1910)
1979 John Cromwell, actor/director (Of Human Bondage)
1979 Seymour Shifrin, composer
1982 Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (b. 1902)
1983 Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (b. 1907)
1984 John Facenda, American sports announcer (b. 1913)
1984 Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1948)
1984 Walter Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet)
1986 Hugh Franklin, American soap opera actor (b. 1916)
1987 Herbert Tichy, Austrian mountaineer, made the first ascent of Cho Oyu in 1954 (b. 1912)
1989 Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Indian singer and composer (b. 1920)
1989 Pavlos Bakoyannis, Greek parliament leader, murdered in Rome
1990 Alberto Moravia, Italian author (Woman in Red) (b. 1907)
1991 Billy Vaughn, American bandleader (b. 1919)
1992 Ralph Manheim, translator (Mein Kampf)
1993 James Boyden, British Labour MP (1959-79)
1994 Jessie Kesson, author
1994 Maurice Ashley, historian
1994 Miguel Angel Martinez Soto, mariachi
1996 Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist
1996 George Henderson, priest/politician
1996 Mark Frankel, actor (Leon the Pig Farmer), dies on motorcycle
1996 Oseola McCarty, American philanthropist (b. 1908)
1998 Betty Carter, American singer (b. 1930)
1999 Oseola McCarty, American philanthropist (b. 1908)
2000 Baden Powell, Brazilian guitarist (b. 1937)
2000 Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)
2003 Robert Palmer, English singer (b. 1949)
2003 Shawn Lane, American guitarist (b. 1963)
2004 Marianna Komlos, professional wrestling valet (b. 1969)
2005 Helen Cresswell, British author (b. 1934)
2006 Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912)
2006 Iva Toguri D'Aquino, alleged Tokyo Rose (b. 1916)
2007 Bill Wirtz, American sports team owner (b. 1929)
2007 Dorothy Schwartz, American violinist (b. 1913)
2008 Marc Moulin, Belgian musician and journalist (b. 1942)
2008 Paul Newman, American actor (b. 1925)
2010 Gloria Stuart, American actress
2011 Bob Cassilly, American Artist and Founder of the St. Louis City Museum (b. 1949)
2012 Johnny Lewis, American actor