Anniversaries 1 September

Birth

Pompey3

Roman general -106–-48 BC

Lydia Sigourney4

American poet 1791–1865

William Stanley Jevons69

English economist and logician 1835–1882

Otto Pfleiderer10

German Protestant theologian 1839–1908

Chapman Cohen8

British atheist and secularist writer and lecturer 1868–1954

Kin Hubbard23

cartoonist 1868–1930

Henri Bourassa1

Canadian politician 1868–1952

J. Reuben Clark1

Member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles 1871–1961

Mehmed Talat8

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire and Minister of the Inte… 1874–1921

Edgar Rice Burroughs76

American writer 1875–1950

J. F. C. Fuller4

British Army general 1878–1966

Blaise Cendrars2

French writer of Swiss origin 1887–1961

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada54

Indian guru 1896–1977

Eleanor Hibbert4

English novelist 1906–1993

Walter Reuther25

Labor union leader 1907–1970

Gwynfor Evans3

Welsh politician 1912–2005

Liz Carpenter1

American writer 1920–2010

Yvonne De Carlo9

Canadian-American actress, dancer, and singer 1922–2007

Rocky Marciano5

American boxer 1923–1969

Roy J. Glauber1

American theoretical physicist 1925–2018

Stanley Cavell3

American philosopher 1926–2018

Ann Richards13

American politician 1933–2006

Per Kirkeby14

Danish artist 1938–2018

Alan M. Dershowitz35

American lawyer, author 1938

Richard A. Horsley13

Biblical scholar 1939

Lily Tomlin58

American actress, comedian, writer, and producer 1939

Ruggero Franceschini1

Italian Roman Catholic archbishop 1939

Annie Ernaux6

French writer 1940

Nycole Turmel14

Canadian politician 1942

C. J. Cherryh24

United States science fiction and fantasy author 1942

António Lobo Antunes3

Portuguese writer 1942

Steven Pressfield70

United States Marine 1943

Roh Moo-hyun6

9th President of the Republic of Korea 1946–2009

Susan Backlinie1

former actress and stuntwoman 1946

Leslie Feinberg3

activist and author known for authoring Stone Butch Blues 1949–2014

Phil McGraw12

American television host, psychologist, actor and film prod… 1950

Timothy Zahn5

science fiction novelist 1951

Mohsen Rezaee2

Iranian politician & Senior Military 1954

F. J. Duarte11

Chilean-American physicist 1954

Gloria Estefan195

Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada 1957

Martha Wells1

American writer 1964

Petr Fiala1

Leader of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) 1964

Mohamed Atta1

Egyptian hijacker and one of the ringleaders of the Septemb… 1968–2001

Jeffrey T. Kuhner4

American journalist 1969

Padma Lakshmi7

Indian-born American author, actress, model, television hos… 1970

Daniel Hannan24

British politician 1971

J.D. Fortune1

Canadian singer and songwriter 1973

Adam Yahiye Gadahn1

Al-Qaida member 1978–2015

Shingai Shoniwa8

British musician 1981

Antonio Fresco7

American DJ, music producer, and radio personality 1983

Joe Trohman21

American musician 1984

Zendaya1

American actress, singer, model, and dancer 1996

Death

Henry More2

British philosopher 1614–1687

Louis XIV of France5

King of France and Navarra, from 1643 to 1715 1638–1715

Richard Steele13

British politician 1672–1729

Hannah Glasse1

British writer 1708–1770

William Cranch1

United States federal judge (1769-1855) 1769–1855

Nathaniel Banks1

politician of Massachusetts and general of the Union Army (… 1816–1894

Bal Gangadhar Tilak21

Indian independence activist 1856–1920

Nixon Waterman4

American writer 1859–1944

Frederick Russell Burnham4

father of scouting; military scout; soldier of fortune; oil… 1861–1947

Edward de Veaux Morrell1

American politician 1863–1917

Abraham Isaac Kook13

first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandatory Palest… 1865–1935

Arthur Streeton1

Australian artist 1867–1943

Charles A. Beard13

American historian 1874–1948

Francois Mauriac38

French author 1885–1970

Siegfried Sassoon23

English poet, diarist and memoirist 1886–1967

Muhammad Zafrulla Khan1

Pakistani diplomat 1893–1985

Albert Speer21

German architect, Minister of Armaments and War Production … 1905–1981

Henry M. Jackson5

American politician 1912–1983

James D. Thompson11

American sociologist 1920–1973

Hal David17

American lyricist 1921–2012

Immanuel Wallerstein6

economic historian 1930–2019