September 20th
Holidays and Festivals
Independence Day of South Ossetia (not fully recognized)
National Youth Day (Thailand)
Farroupilha's Revolution (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
National Punch Day (USA)
The seventh day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion began. (ancient Greece)
Christian Feast Day of Eustace (Western Christianity)
Feast of John Coleridge Patteson (Anglican Communion)
Feast of Korean Martyrs, including Andrew Kim Taegon and Feast of Laurent-Marie-Joseph Imbert
* Ibiza Closing Parties Ibiza, Spain - Last 3 weeks of September
Teacher's Day, Birthday of Confucius (Taiwan), The 27th day of the 8th lunar month in the Chineese Calender (September 20th, 2014)
La Fête de l'Opinion Translation: The Celebration of Convictions (French Republican) The Fourth complementary day in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Love to one, friendship to many, and good will to all."
- Traditional
Drink of The Day
Jolly Green Giant
1 Part white rum
1 Part Gin
1 Part galliano
1 Part Blue Curacao
1 Part Tequila
Mix With ice and Strain into Shot Glasses
Wine of The Day
Style - Prosecco
$20
Beer of The Day
Allagash White
Brewer - Allagash Brewing Co. Portland, ME
Style - Belgian-Style Witbier
Joke of The Day
Q: What is invisible and smells like Carrots?
A: Rabit farts
Quote of The Day
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
- 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
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
Constitution Week, September 17th through September 23rd
Historical Events on September 20th
68 Emperor Valentinianus visits Nijmegen
451 The Battle of Chalons takes place in North Eastern France. Flavius Aetius's victory over Attila the Hun in a day of combat, is considered to be the largest battle in the ancient world.
622 Prophet Mohammed/Abu Bakr arrives in Jathrib (Medina)
1066 Battle at Fulford: King of Norway, Harald III Hardrada defeats British militia
1187 Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
1258 Cathedral of Salisbury inaugurated
1378 Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some "the Butcher of Cesena", is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
1519 Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
1530 Luther advises protestant monarch compromise
1565 Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Fla & massacre the French
1596 Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
1604 Spanish army under Spinola recaptures Oostende
1620 Battle at Jassy, Turks beat king Sigismund III of Poland
1633 Galileo Galilei is tried before the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun.
1643 1st battle at Newbury: King Charles I vs Robert Devereux' armies
1664 Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women & black men
1674 2nd West Indie Company forms
1688 French troops occupies Palts
1697 The Treaty of Rijswijk is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic ending the Nine Years' War (1688–97), the Peace of Saki.
1737 Runner Edward Marshall completes his journey in the Walking Purchase forcing the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland
1777 Paoli massacre
1787 Prince Willem V returns to Hague
1792 French troops defeat Prussians, stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Valmy.
1793 British troops under maj-gen Williamson lands on (French) Haiti
1797 US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston
1830 1st Negro Convention of Free Men agree to boycott slave-produced goods
1833 Charles Darwin rides horse to Buenos Aires
1835 Farroupilha's Revolution begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
1839 1st railroad in Netherland opens (Amsterdam-Haarlem)
1848 The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
1850 Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue
1854 Battle at Alma Krim, British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea, 1,000 British soldiers died
1857 The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
1859 George Simpson patents electric range
1860 The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States, First British royalty to visit US.
1861 Battle of Lexington, MI-captured by Union
1863 The Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tennessee of the American Civil War ends.
1863 Battle of Shepardstown VA
1870 Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia and completes the unification of Italy; see capture of Rome.
1870 Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French
1870 Mayor William Tweed accused of robbing NY treasury
1870 Pope Pius IX surrenders to King Victor Emmanuel
1871 Bishop John Coleridge Patteson martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu province of the Solomon Islands. He was the first bishop of Melanesia.
1873 Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure) NY shut banks for 10 days due to a bank scandal
1876 Ottawa Football Club forms
1877 Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan)
1879 US Grants come to SF for elaborate extended visit
1881 Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States following the assassination of James Garfield.
1884 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria
1884 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP
1891 The first gasoline-powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
1902 Chicago White Sox Jim Callahan no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0
1904 George Ade's "College Widow," premieres in NYC
1904 Orville & Wilbur Wright brothers fly a circle in their Flyer II
1905 Cleveland makes AL record 7 errors in an inning
1906 Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle, England.
1907 Pittsburgh Nick Maddox no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 2-1
1908 Chic White Sox Frank Smith 2nd no-hitter, beats Phila 1-0
1911 Yanks set team record 12 errors in a double header
1913 19th US Golf Open, Francis Ouimet shoots a 304 at The Country Club MA
1917 British assault on Polygon-forest, France
1917 Paraguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1918 Royal Dutch Blast furnace & Steel factory opens in Hague
1919 2nd PGA Championship, Jim Barnes at Engineers CC Roslyn NY
1919 Babe Ruth ties Ned Williamson's major league mark of 27 HRs
1919 Booth Tarkington's "Clarence," premieres in NYC
1920 Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
1922 Goodman & Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," premieres in NYC
1922 Rogers Hornsby ends hitting streak of 33 games
1924 Carl Mays is 1st pitcher to win 20 games seasons for 3 different teams
1924 Cub's Grover Cleveland Alexander beats NY Giants to win 300th game
1927 NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits record 60th HR of season off Tom Zachry
1930 Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
1931 Lou Gehrig's 4 RBIs break his old RBI mark of 175 en route to 184
1932 Chicago Cubs clinch the NL pennant
1932 Dutch South Seas rebaptized in IJsselmeer
1932 Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables
1933 Pittsburgh Steelers (as Pirates) play 1st NFL game, lose 23-2
1935 Pittsburgh Crawfords beat NY Cubans to win Negro NL Championship, 3-0
1938 Dmitri Shostakovitch's Suite for jazz orchestra, premieres
1938 Emlyn Williams' "Corn is Green," premieres in London
1939 British fleet takes German U-27 boat
1939 Joe Louis KOs Bob Pastor in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1942 Gunther Hagg becomes world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m
1942 Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.
1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-338
1944 Nijmegen is liberated from German occupation
1944 Polish forces free Terneuzen Neth
1945 German rocket engineers begin work in US
1946 Churchill argues for a "US of Europe"
1946 The first Cannes Film Festival is held.
1948 "Magdalena" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 48 performances
1948 Mexican Baseball league disbanded
1949 Dutch Guilder devalued 30.3%
1949 Tennis player Pancho Gonzales turns professional
1951 First North Pole jet crossing
1951 NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball
1951 Swiss males votes against female suffrage
1952 KPTV TV channel 12 in Portland, OR (IND) begins broadcasting
1953 Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league HR
1954 1st FORTRAN computer program run
1954 1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution
1954 KETC TV channel 9 in Saint Louis, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Los Stravinsky's "In Memoriam Dylan Thomas," premieres in Angeles
1954 New Zealand's Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents reports just ten days after concluding hearings.
1954 Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy
1955 Willie Mays is 7th player to reach 50 HRS in a season. Willie Mays (Giants) homers off Vern Law (Pirates) in both ends of DH
1958 Baltimore Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no-hits NY Yankees 1-0
1958 Ferhat Abbas forms Algerian government in exile (Cairo)
1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Links Golf Invitation Open
1960 UN General Assembly admit 13 African countries & Cyprus (96 nations)
1960 WFSU TV channel 11 in Tallahassee, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls
1961 James Meredith refused access as a student in Mississippi
1961 Roger Maris hits home run # 59 & barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season. Yanks clinch pennant #26
1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 Ben Bella wins 1st elections in independent Algeria
1962 Gov R Barnett refuses to admit a black to Miss Univ (James Meredith)
1962 James Meredith, an African-American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
1963 JFK proposes a joint US-Soviet voyage to the moon
1964 Gunter Grass' "Die Plebejern proben den Aufstand," premieres in Berlin
1964 Paramount Theater (NYC) presented the Beatles with Steve & Eydie
1965 WXXW (now WYCC) TV channel 20 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 US Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed Sept 23
1967 Benin separates from Nigeria
1967 British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank Scotland
1967 Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38
1967 The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line.
1967 WCAE TV channel 50 in St John, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 WCIX TV channel 6 in Miami, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536
1969 18th Ryder Cup, Draw, 16-16 at Royal Birkdale, England
1969 Archies' "Sugar Sugar" hits #1
1969 Pittsburgh Pirate Bob Moose no-hits NY Mets, 4-0
1970 Jim Morrison found not guilty of "lewd" behavior
1970 Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample
1970 Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen.
1972 Police find cannabis growing on Paul & Linda McCartney's farm
1973 Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
1973 Willie Mays announces retirement at end of 1973 season
1975 21st Ryder Cup, US, 21-11 at Laurel Valley Golf Club (Ligonier, Pennsylvania, US)
1975 David Bowie's "Fame," single goes #1 for 2 weeks
1975 Gary Sentman draws a record 176 lb longbow to a maximum 28½" draw
1976 Metroliner official opens in Brussels
1976 Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women
1976 Sid Berstein offers $230 million charity concert for Beatle reunion
1977 "Estrada" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 7 performances
1977 Vietnam & Djibouti ask for membership in UN. The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
1978 "Eubie!" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 439 performances
1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1978 Yamada Mumon Roshi visits Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach Germany
1979 A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I.
1979 Assassination of French left-wing militant Pierre Goldman.
1979 Coup in Central African Rep, David Dacko overthrows emperor Bokassa I
1979 Jose E dod Santos becomes president of Angola
1979 Lee Iacocca is elected president of the Chrysler Corporation.
1979 NASA launches HEAO
1979 The Punjab wing of the Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist) formally splits and constitutes a parallel UCCRI(ML).
1980 Bronze plaque dedicated to memory of Thurman Munson at Yankee Stadium
1980 George Brett goes 0-for-4 dropping his avg below .400 for good
1980 Plaque dedicated in Thurman Munson's memory at Yankee Stadium
1980 Spectacular Bid runs in Belmont alone as 3 horses drop out
1981 24th Ryder Cup, US, 18½-9½ at Walton Heath Golf Club (Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey, England)
1981 Belize declares independence
1981 Joe Danelo kicks then NY Giant record 55 yard field goal
1981 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
1982 Jalaluddin takes a one-day hat-trick Pakistan v Australia
1982 The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.
1983 3,112 turn out to see Pirates play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
1983 Cryptographic Communications System & Method (RSA) patented
1984 "Cosby Show" premieres on NBC-TV
1984 A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
1984 Cubs break 2 million in home attendance for 1st time
1985 Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players
1985 Walt Disney World's 200-millionth guest
1986 Wichita State Shockers blow a 35-3 lead, lose 36-35 to Morehead State
1987 "Big River" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 1005 perfs
1987 39th Emmy Awards, LA Law, Bruce Willis & Sharon Gless wins
1987 Alain Prost wins record 28th Formula one auto race
1987 Dwight Clark ends NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
1987 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1987 Walter Payton scores NFL record 107th rushing touchdown
1988 Darrell Evans hits his 400th career home run
1988 Greg Louganis wins Olympic gold medal in springboard diving
1988 Wade Boggs is 1st player to get 200 hits for 6 consecutive seasons
1989 FW De Klerk sworn in as president of South Africa
1989 Musical "Miss Saigon," premieres in London
1989 USAir overshoots runway at LaGuardia Airport in NYC, 2 people die
1990 Both Germanys ratify reunification
1990 Saddam Hussein demands US networks broadcast his message
1990 South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
1990 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 Lion's Terry Taylor reinstated after 1 year drug related suspension
1992 Colleen Walker wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1992 France votes in favor of Maastricht treaty
1992 Leanza Cornett (Florida), 21, crowned 66th Miss America 1993
1992 Phils' Mickey Moradini makes an unassisted triple play
1992 Space shuttle STS-47 (Endeavour 2) lands
1994 Space shuttle STS-64 (Discovery 20), lands
1995 Cincinnati Reds becomes 1st team to clinch NL Central
1997 Yanks clinch 37th appearance in post season, 3rd consecutive
1998 Solheim Cup
2000 Patent on RSA cryptograph algorithm ends
2000 The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by a Russian-built Mark 22 anti-tank missile.
2001 In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror".
2002 The Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide started.
2003 A referendum is held in Latvia to decide the country's accession to the European Union.
2003 Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé.
2011 The United States ends its "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
2012 14 people are killed in a cafe suicide bominbg in Somalia
2012 AU Optronics fined $500 million for a LCD screen price-fixing
2013 46 soldiers are killed in army-base attacks in Shabwah Governorate, Yemen
2013 Alex Rodriquez sets new MLB record with 24 Grand Slam home runs for the New York Yankees
2013 Grand Theft Auto becomes the fastest entertainment product to reach $1 Billion in sales
2013 Greenpeace ship Artic Sunrise is boarded by Russian military
2014 New Zealand's National Government wins a 3rd term in the elections despite allegations of corruption and revelations about state surveillance
2015 Alexis Tsipras and Syriza party declared the winners in Greek snap election
2015 President Ram Baran Yadav signs Nepal's new constitution into law in Kathmandu
2015 Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, confirms raising the price of toxoplasmosis drug Daraprim by 5,000%
2015 Pope Francis meets Fidel Castro in Havana, on the 1st day of his tour of Cuba
Born on September 20th
524 Kan B'alam I, ruler of Maya state of Palenque (d. 583)
1486 Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of King Henry VII of England (d. 1502)
1593 Gottfried Scheidt, composer
1599 Christian the Younger, German Protestant military leader (d. 1623)
1653 Benedict Schultheiss, composer
1663 Pirro Conte d' Albergati Capacelli, composer
1665 Johannes van der Hagen, vicar/genealogist/chronologer
1706 Franz Habermann, composer
1744 Giacomo Quarenghi, Italian-Russian master builder (Hermitage Theater)
1744 Thomas Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War hero (d. 1825)
1746 Móric Benyovszky, Slovak officer and explorer, King of Madagascar (d. 1786)
1767 Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia, composer
1771 Mungo Park, Scotish explorer (Africa)
1777 Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba, composer
1778 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian naval officer and explorer (d. 1852)
1790 Francisco Acuna the Figueroa, Uruguayan poet (Toraidas)
1791 Sergei T Aksakov, Russian writer (Semejnaja chronika)
1795 Charles Heinrich Christoph Zeuner, composer
1795 Peter of Limburg Brouwer, physician/classical/author
1809 Sterline "Old Pap" Price, Major General (Confederate Army)
1810 Alpheus Starkey Williams, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1820 George Washington Morgan, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1820 John Fulton Reynolds, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1863)
1831 Kate Harrington, American teacher, writer and poet (d. 1917)
1832 Johann Joseph Abert, composer
1833 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1907) (d. 1918)
1842 James Dewar, Scottish chemist and physicist (Dewarfles/cordiet) (d. 1923)
1844 William H. Illingworth, American photographer (d. 1893)
1846 Agnes Tyrrell, composer
1847 Sergei G Netsjajev, Russian nihilist (Catechism Revolutionary)
1851 Henry Arthur Jones, English writer (d. 1929)
1852 Edouard baron Empain, Belgian railway builder (Paris Metro)
1853 Rama V, King of Thailand (d. 1910)
1859 Yuan She-k'ai, Chinese general/president/dictator
1861 Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (d. 1955)
1865 Lubor Niederle, Czech archaeologist/slavist
1866 Gustave Doret, composer
1869 George Robey (George Edward Wade), comic
1869 Marcel Cachin, co-founder (French Communistic Party)
1872 Maurice Gamelin, French army general (d. 1958)
1873 Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver (d. 1944)
1873 Robert D Wrenn, tennis champ (US Open 1893)
1873 Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (d. 1949)
1877 Armand Louis Joseph Marsick, composer
1878 Upton (Beall) Sinclair, American writer (Jungle) (d. 1968)
1879 Jacobo Conrad (Coco Lepol-Elias Martinus), Curacaos composer
1879 Victor Seastrom, Silbodal Sweden, director (Wind, Under the Red Robe)
1880 Ildebrando Pizzetti, composer
1880 Louise Peete, American murderess (d. 1947)
1881 Walter Kingsford, Redhill England, actor (My Favorite Blonde)
1883 John G van Dillen, historian (Of Wealth & Oligarchists)
1883 Maria Baers, Flemish social female worker/senator
1884 Maxwell Perkins, American editor and publisher (d. 1947)
1884 Piotr Rytel, composer
1885 Jelly Roll Morton, American jazz pianist, bandleader and composer (d. 1941)
1886 Charles Walter Stansby Williams, British author, songwriter (d. 1945)
1889 Charles Reidpath, American athlete (d. 1975)
1892 Patricia Collinge, Dublin Ireland, actress (Tender Comrade)
1893 Hans H B Scharoun, German architect (Berlin Philharmonic)
1896 Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga) [NS=Oct 2]
1897 Efim Golishev, composer
1899 Elliot Nugent, director (And so They were Married)
1899 Leo Strauss, German-born philosopher (d. 1973)
1900 Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil general/pres (1964-67)
1900 Uuno Kalervo Klami, composer
1900 Wilhelm Weismann, composer
1901 Leo Justinus Kauffmann, composer
1902 Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter (Ladri di Biciclette)
1902 Kermit Maynard, Vevey Ind, cowboy actor (Saturday Roundup)
1902 Stevie Smith, British poet, singer (Lawrence Welk Show) (d. 1971)
1906 David Sheinfeld, composer
1908 Alexander Mitscherlich, German psychotherapist
1908 Levon-Karapet His Holiness Vasken Baidjian, patriach of Etchmiadzin
1910 Jacques-Baptise LeBrun, France, finn yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1932)
1911 Frank Devol, Moundsville WV, orchestra leader (I'm Dickens He's Fenster)
1911 Jan Mul, composer
1911 Shriram Sharma Acharya, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1991)
1912 Marianne Kunvari, writer
1914 Kenneth More, English actor (39 Steps, Doctor in the House) (d. 1982)
1916 Malik Meraj Khalid, Former Caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2003)
1917 Arnold "Red" Auerbach, American basketball coach (NBA), GM (Boston Celtic) (d. 2006)
1917 Don Starr, American-born actor (d. 2005)
1917 Fernando Rey (Arambillet), Spainish actor (Matter of Time) (d. 1994)
1918 Peg Phillips, actress (Ruth Ann-Northern Exposure)
1920 Alberto de Lacerda, Portuguese poet (d. 2007)
1920 Alexander Thereat
1920 Jay Ward, American animated cartoonist (d. 1989)
1921 Melvin "Slappy" White, comedian
1922 David Lancaster Nicolson, businessman, politician
1922 Frank Comstock, SD California, orchestra leader (Jimmie Rodgers Show)
1922 William Kapell, American pianist (d. 1953)
1923 Frances Heflin, Oklahoma City OK, actress (Mona Tyler-All My Children)
1923 Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish-born poet (d. 1997)
1924 Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Telugu Actor
1924 Gogi Grant (Audrey Brown), American singer
1924 James Galanos, American fashion designer (Coty Hall of Fame-1959)
1924 John Vassall, spy/civil servant
1925 Ananda Mahidol, King of Thailand (d. 1946)
1925 Bobby Nunn, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 1986)
1927 Clarice Taylor, Va, actress (Nurse Bailey-Nurse)
1927 Johnny Dankworth, English musician and composer
1927 Rachel Roberts, Welch actress (Foul Play, Doctor's Wife) (d. 1980)
1928 Donald Hall, American poet and US Poet Laureate
1928 Kirsten Rolffes, Danish actress (d. 2000)
1929 Anne Meara, American comic and actress (Stiller & Meara, Archie's Place)
1931 Cherd Songsri, Thai filmmaker (d. 2006)
1933 Bob Banas, NYC, choreographer (Malibu U, Jonathan Winters Show)
1933 Dennis Viollet, English former footballer (d. 1999)
1934 Sophia Loren, Italian actress (Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid)
1934 Takayuki Kubota, martial artist and founder of the Gosoku-ryu style of karate
1935 David Pegg, English footballer (d. 1958)
1935 Jim Taylor, American football player
1935 Keith J Roberts, British science fiction author (Irish Encounter, Ladies from Hell) (d. 2000)
1935 Lubos Fiser, composer
1936 Dany Carrel, Touraine Indo-china, actress (Passionate Summer)
1937 Birgitta Dahl, Swedish politician
1937 Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2005)
1938 Eric Gale, US funk guitarist (Blue Horizon)
1938 George J Hochbrueckner, (Rep-D-NY)
1938 Jane Manning, soprano
1938 Pia Lindstrom, critic (WNBC-TV)/journalist (From Russia With Love)
1938 Tom Tresh, NY Yankee (1962 AL Rookie of Year)
1939 Robert L. Gerry III, American businessman
1940 Joseph J DioGuardi, (Rep-R-NY, 1985)
1940 Taro Aso, Prime Minister of Japan
1941 Dale Chihuly, American glass artist (Louis Tiffany Award 1967)
1941 John A Wismont Jr, California, watercolor painter (over 50,000)
1942 Gérald Tremblay, Québec politician
1942 Robbe De Hert, Flemish director/producer (Fugitive Cinema, Bomb)
1943 Roek Williams (Willemze), Dutch singer
1944 Jeremy Child, actor (Privilege, Taffin)
1945 Laurie Spiegel, composer
1947 Bruce Pasternack, American CEO
1947 Chuck Panozzo (John), American Musician (Styx)
1947 Mia Martini, Italian singer (d. 1995)
1947 Steve Gerber, American comics writer (d. 2008)
1948 Chuck Panozzo, American musician (Styx)
1948 George R(aymond) R(ichard) Martin, American sci-fi author (Wild Cards)
1948 John Panozzo, American musician (Styx) (d. 1996)
1949 Anthony Denison, American actor
1949 Jan Hendriks, guitarist (Doe Maar)
1949 John W. Henry, American MLB team owner
1949 Mahesh Bhatt, Indian film director
1950 Debi Morgan, Dunn NC, actress (Angie-All My Children, Cry Uncle)
1950 James P(aul) Blaylock, US, sci-fi author (Elfin Ship, Homunculus)
1950 Loredana Berte, Milan Italy, singer/2nd ex wife of Bjorn Borg
1951 Guy Lafleur, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL right wing (Montreal, NY Rangers)
1951 Javier Marías, Spanish author, translator and academic
1951 JoAnna Cameron, Colo, actress (I Love My Wife, Isis)
1953 Jeff Jones, Red Rider, rock bassist/vocalist (Red Rider)
1954 Anne Mcintosh, British member European parliament
1954 Brinke Stevens (Charlene Brinkman), American actr (Slumber Party Massacre)
1954 Henry Samueli, American NHL team owner
1954 Silvio Leonard, Cienguegos Cuba, 100m runner (Olympic-silver-1980)
1955 Christine Oddy, British member European parliament
1956 Gary Cole, American actor
1957 Alannah Currie, New Zealander musician (Thompson Twins)
1957 Arn Anderson (Marty Lunde), wrestler (ECW/SMW/WCW/NWA/WWF)
1957 Gary Cole, Park Ridge IL, actor (Fatal Vision, Son of Morning Star)
1957 Michael Hurst, New Zealand actor
1957 Rich DiSilvio, American new media developer & artist
1957 Vladmir Tkachenko, USSR, basketball (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1958 Arn Anderson, American wrestler
1958 Marty Schiene, Chicago Ill, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Illinois Open)
1959 Danny Devos, Belgian artist
1959 Lesley Thompson, Toronto Ontario, rower (Olympics-gold-92, 96)
1960 Alice Regina Brown, Jackson MS, 4X100 runner (Olympic-gold-1984, 88)
1960 Deborah Roberts, American journalist and TV reporter
1960 James A Pawelczyk, American astronaut (sk STS 90)
1961 Becky Larson, LPGA golfer
1961 Erwin Koeman, soccer player (PSV, FC Groningen)
1961 Lisa Bloom, American lawyer and television personality
1963 Velcrow Ripper, Canadian documentary filmmaker
1964 Crispin Glover, actor (Back to the Future)
1964 Maggie Cheung, Hong Kong actress
1964 Randy Bradbury, American musician (Pennywise)
1965 Robert Rusler, American actor (Game of Love, Vamp, Thrashin')
1966 Nuno Bettencourt, Portuguese rock musician, guitarist (Extreme-More Than Words)
1967 Catherine Bond-Mills, Woodstock Ontario, heptathlete (Olympics-96)
1967 Gunnar Nelson, American musician (Nelson)
1967 Kristen Johnston, American actress (Sally Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun)
1967 Martin Harrison, American football player, NFL defensive end (Minnesota Vikings)
1967 Matthew Nelson, American musician (Nelson)
1968 Chris Waller, Evanston Ill, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1968 Darrell Russell, American race car driver (d. 2004)
1968 Eric Turner, NFL safety (Cleveland Browns)
1968 Leah Pinsent, Canadian actress
1968 Tim Rogers, Australian singer / songwriter
1968 Vik Foxx, American rock musician
1969 Megumi Kudo, Japanese pro-wrestler
1969 Richard Witschge, former Dutch footballer
1969 Tommy Jeter, NFL defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1969 Victoria Dillard, American actress
1970 John Copeland, NFL defensive end (Cin Bengals)
1971 Andrew Lane, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1971 Dominika Peczynski, Swedish singer (Army of Lovers)
1971 Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer (Feyenoord)
1971 Jenny Murdock, LPGA golfer
1971 Masashi Hamauzu, Japanese composer
1971 Ryan Terry, NFL running back/kick returner (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 Todd Blackadder, New Zealand rugby player
1972 Jenny Morris, Maryborough Australia, field hockey fullback (Oly-96)
1972 Vance Joseph, NFL cornerback/safety (NY Jets)
1973 Ronald McKinnon, American football player, NFL linebacker
1974 Michael Waddington, American defense lawyer
1975 Asia Argento, Italian actress
1975 Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver (NASCAR)
1975 Moon Bloodgood, American actress
1976 Enuka Okuma, Canadian actress
1976 Markus Wieland, Tegernsee GER, hockey player (Team Germany 1998)
1976 Reuben Singh, British entrepreneur
1976 Yo Hitoto, Japanese pop singer
1977 Namie Amuro, Japanese pop singer
1977 Ruth Moniz, NSW Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1978 Dante Hall, American football player
1978 Jason Bay, Canadian baseball player
1978 Patrizio Buanne, Italian singer
1978 Sarit Hadad, Israeli singer
1978 Sophie Simard, Lars Germany, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1978 T.J. Tucker, American baseball player
1979 Sean Davis, English footballer
1980 Jonathan Le Billon, British actor
1980 Mariacarla Boscono, Italian fashion model
1980 Vladimir Karpets, Russian cyclist
1981 Feliciano López, Spanish tennis player
1981 Joanie Dodds, America's Next Top Model contestant
1981 Jordan Tata, American baseball player
1982 Brian Fortuna, Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer
1983 Yuna Ito, Japanese singer and actress
1983 Ángel Sánchez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1985 David Allen, American composer and writer
1987 Jack Lawless, American drummer for the Jonas Brothers
1990 John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player
1990 Marilou, Quebec pop singer
1991 Spencer Locke, American actress
1992 Demi Lovato, American actress and singer
1993 Taylor Parks, American actress
1995 Sammi Hanratty, American actress
2003 Princess Jennah bint Al Ghazi, member of the Jordanian Royal Family
Died on September 20th
1168 Paschal III (Guido di Crema), Italian anti-Pope
1246 Mikhail of Chernigov, ruler of Kiev (b. 1185)
1384 Louis I, King of Naples, Duke of Anjou, Husband of Marie of Bretagne (b. 1339)
1460 Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer (b. 1400)
1493 Philippe Pot, governor/viceroy of Burgundy
1586 Anthony Babington, page/conspirator to Mary Stuart, executed
1586 Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (executed) (b. 1558)
1586 John Ballard, English Jesuit priest and conspirator (executed)
1590 Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (b. 1534)
1613 Willem H van Est (Estius), theologist
1624 Isaac Le Maire, Amsterdam ship owner
1625 Heinrich Meibom, German historian and critic (b. 1555)
1627 Jan Gruter, Dutch critic (b. 1560)
1630 Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (b. 1586)
1639 Johannes Meursius (van Meurs), Dutch classical scholar, historian (b. 1579)
1643 Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English politician and writer (b. 1610)
1647 Giovanni Del Turco, composer
1648 Marco Ivan Lukacic, composer
1679 Cornelis Evertsen the Young, vice-admiral of Zealand
1703 Archibald Campbell, Scot milt man (blood bath of Glencoe)
1706 Pierre Verdier, composer
1721 Thomas Doggett, Irish actor (b. 1640)
1731 Sicco van Goslinga, Fries diplomat, sect of High Council
1773 Pieter de Swart, architect (Delfts Port Rotterdam)
1803 Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist, executed (b. 1780)
1806 Utamaro Kitagawa, painter
1810 Mir Taqi Mir Urdu poet (b. 1723)
1810 Wouter J van Troostwijk, painter
1815 Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (b. 1725)
1823 Daniel Steibelt, composer
1839 Jose Gaspar de Francia, dictator of Paraguay (1816-39)
1839 Sir Thomas Hardy, Nelson's flag-captain on Victory (b.1769)
1852 Philander Chase, American university founder (b. 1775)
1855 José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran National Hero (b. 1797)
1863 Benjamin Hardin Helm, US attorney/Confederate brig-general
1863 Jacob Grimm, German writer and folklorist (b. 1785)
1865 William H Revere Jr, US Union brig-general
1873 Lulu Strauss und Torney, German poetess/writer
1884 Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (b. 1802)
1886 John Liptrot Hatton, composer
1896 Gottfried Conradi, composer
1897 Karel Bendl, composer
1898 Theodor Fontane, German author (Der Stechlin) (b. 1819)
1906 Robert R. Hitt, American politician (b. 1834)
1908 Pablo Martin Melitou de Sarasate y Navascuez, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)
1917 Herbert Morris, Jamaican deserter in France, executed
1927 George Nichols, actor (His Favorite Pastime, Star Boarder)
1931 Sam Morris, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1884)
1932 Max Slevogt, German painter
1932 Wovoka, Paiute visionary and founder of the Ghost Dance movement (b. 1856)
1933 Annie Besant, English theosophy (Esoteric Christianity), women's rights activist (b. 1847)
1939 Paul Bruchési, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Montreal (b. 1855)
1944 John Grayburn, English (Victoria Cross), dies in battle in Arnhem
1945 Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Brazilian president (b. 1869)
1945 Eduard Wirths, Nazi physician at Auschwitz concentration camp, commits suicide (b. 1909)
1945 William Buehler Seabrook, Writer, journalist, occultist and explorer (b. 1884)
1946 Raimu, French actor (b. 1883)
1947 Fiorello H La Guardia, Mayor of New York City (Mayor-R-NYC, 1933-45) (b. 1882)
1948 Husain Salaahuddin, Maldivian writer (b. 1881)
1949 Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer
1949 Richard Dix, actor (Tombstone, Ghost Ship, 13th Hour)
1957 Heino Kaski, Finnish composer (b. 1885)
1957 Jean Julius Christian Sibelius, Finnish composer (Finlandia) (b. 1865)
1959 Olin Howlin, actor (Swifty-Circus Boy)
1960 Lee Duncan, owner/trainer (Rin Tin Tin)
1960 Michel Brusselmans, composer
1967 Henri Mulet, composer
1968 Frank Pelleg, composer
1971 Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
1971 James Westerfield, actor (Travels of Jaime McPheeters)
1971 William F Albright, US archaeologist
1973 Ben(jamin F) Webster, US tenor saxophonist
1973 Glenn Strange, actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke)
1973 Jim Croce, American singer and songwriter (Time in a Bottle), dies in a plane crash (b. 1943)
1974 Carlyle Blackwell Jr, entertainer
1974 Robert Herberigs, Flemish composer (La Chanson d'Eve)
1975 Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and writer (Nobel Prize laureate 1960) (b. 1887)
1976 Johan Boskamp, opera singer/actor
1979 Ludvík Svoboda, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)
1980 Sanpei Hayashiya, Japanese comedian (b. 1925)
1984 Steve Goodman, American folk music singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
1987 Michael Stewart, American playwright (b. 1924)
1988 Roy Kinnear, actor (Casanova, Pirates, Scrooge, Help!)
1989 Richie Ginther, American racing driver (b. 1930)
1990 Jackie Moran, actor (Janie, Barefoot Boy)
1992 K W Stackpole, cricketer (good Victorian batsman)
1993 Erich Hartmann, German, world's most successful fighter pilot (352 'kills') (b. 1922)
1993 Leonard Parkin, British TV host (ITN)
1993 Loan Volkerijk, Dutch baseball coach (ADO)
1994 Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and noted author (b. 1924)
1994 Jimmy Hamilton, saxophonist
1994 Jule Styne, American songwriter, Broadway composer (Gypsy, Funny Girl) (b. 1905)
1995 Monica Maurice, industrialist
1996 Max Manus, resistance fighter
1996 Murtaza Bhutto, politician
1996 Paul Draper, dancer
1996 Paul Erdos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1913)
1996 Paul Weston, bandleader
1997 Edmund Falkiner, jazz saxophinist/probation officer
1997 Nick Traina, American singer, Link 80 (b. 1978)
1998 Muriel Humphrey Brown, American politician (b. 1912)
1999 Raisa Gorbachyova, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1932)
1999 Robert Lebel, Quebec ice hockey administrator (b. 1905)
2000 Gherman Titov, cosmonaut (b. 1935)
2002 Sergei Bodrov, Jr., Russian actor (b. 1971)
2003 Gordon Mitchell, American actor (b. 1923)
2003 Lord Williams of Mostyn, British politician (b. 1941)
2003 Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician (b. 1922)
2004 Brian Clough, English footballer and football manager (b. 1935)
2004 Townsend Hoopes, American politician (b. 1922)
2005 Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian-Jewish Nazi hunter (b. 1908)
2005 Tobias Schneebaum, American writer, anthropologist and explorer
2006 Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (b. 1932)
2006 John W. Peterson, American songwriter (b. 1921)
2007 Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (b. 1928)
2010 Kenny McKinley, American football player (b. 1987)
2010 Leonard Skinner, American high school gym teacher; namesake of rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd (b. 1933)
2011 Burhanuddin Rabbani, President of Afghanistan (1992-1996) (b. 1940)
2015 C. K. [Charles Kenneth] Williams, American poet and translator (Pulitzer prize 2000)
2015 Jack Larson, playwright and actor (Jimmy Olsen-Superman)
