Anniversaries 11 September

Birth

Pierre de Ronsard2

French poet 1524–1585

Elizabeth Rowe3

poet and writer 1674–1737

Thomas Parnell7

Anglo-Irish cleric, writer and poet. 1679–1718

James Thomson (poet)50

Scottish writer (1700-1748) 1700–1748

Arthur Young7

English writer 1741–1820

Joanna Baillie10

Scottish poet and dramatist 1762–1851

Eduard Hanslick7

austrian musician and musicologist 1825–1904

John Ireland (bishop)7

Catholic bishop 1838–1918

Marianne von Werefkin28

expressionist painter 1860–1938

Juhani Aho2

Finnish author and journalist 1861–1921

O. Henry49

American short story writer 1862–1910

James Jeans54

British mathematician and astronomer 1877–1946

D.H. Lawrence131

English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary crit… 1885–1930

Theodor W. Adorno90

German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for … 1903–1969

Eric Trist29

British scientist 1909–1993

Bear Bryant4

American college football coach 1913–1983

Herbert Lom2

Czech-born film and television actor 1917–2012

Jessica Mitford2

British writer and activist 1917–1996

Ferdinand Marcos23

former President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986 1917–1989

Brian Campbell Vickery84

British information theorist 1918–2009

Carol Grace1

American actress 1924–2003

Tom Landry2

Coach of the Dallas Cowboys 1924–2000

Ajaib Singh4

Sant Ajaib Singh (11 September 1926 – 6 July 1997) was born… 1926–1997

Vernon Corea2

The legendary broadcaster – a pioneer with Radio Ceylon/Sri… 1927–2002

Earl Holliman4

American actor 1928

David S. Broder1

American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist 1929–2011

Kenneth Minogue20

Australian political theorist 1930–2013

William C. Roberts2

American physician 1932

William Luther Pierce15

American white nationalist 1933–2002

Barbara Seaman2

American journalist 1935–2008

Arvo Pärt4

Estonian composer 1935

Perry Anderson32

British historian 1938

Mohan Bhagwat10

Indian activist 1950

Jani Allan23

South African columnist and broadcaster 1952

Christopher Tilley4

British postprocessual archaeologist. 1955

Silver RavenWolf1

American New Age, Magic and Witchcraft author and lecturer 1956

James McBride (writer)6

American journalist 1957

Peter Woit4

American physicist 1957

Andre Dubus III3

Novelist, short story writer 1959

Nassim Nicholas Taleb196

Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former t… 1960

Filip Dewinter3

Flemish politician 1962

Moby13

Activist, American musician, DJ and photographer 1965

Bashar al-Assad10

President of Syria 1965

Harry Connick, Jr.4

American singer, conductor, pianist, actor, and composer 1967

Sung Jae-gi4

South Korean masculism activist 1967–2013

Slaven Bilić1

Croatian footballer 1968

Taraji P. Henson3

American actress 1970

Markos Moulitsas5

American blogger 1971

Barry Lyga22

American writer 1971

Richard Ashcroft9

English singer-songwriter 1971

Ludacris6

American rapper and actor 1977

Eliezer Yudkowsky56

American blogger, writer, and artificial intelligence resea… 1979

Cameron Richardson4

American actress 1979

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya6

Belarusian politician and educator 1982

Death

David Ricardo37

British political economist, broker and politician 1772–1823

Sylvester Graham1

United States reformer 1794–1851

Pío Pico2

Governor of Alta California 1801–1894

Jacob Mendes Da Costa2

American physician 1833–1900

Jan Smuts30

military leader, politician and statesman from South Africa 1870–1950

Robert W. Service16

Canadian poet 1874–1958

Muhammad Ali Jinnah50

Founder and 1st Governor General of Pakistan 1876–1948

Ralph C. Smedley1

Founder of Toastmasters International 1878–1965

Susan Stebbing9

British philosopher 1885–1943

Nikita Khrushchev22

First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1894–1971

Georges Guynemer1

French flying ace 1894–1917

Wifredo Lam2

Cuban artist 1902–1982

Salvador Allende16

Chilean physician and politician 1908–1973

Dane Clark4

American film actor 1912–1998

Albert Jacquard1

French biologist 1925–2013

J. P. Donleavy7

Novelist, playwright, essayist 1926–2017

Fenella Fielding7

English actress 1927–2018

Abdul Halim of Kedah16

King of Malaysia 1927–2017

Joe Zawinul7

austrian composer and pianist 1932–2007

Thomas Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill2

British judge 1933–2010

Abimael Guzmán16

Peruvian communist 1934–2021

Anne Rivers Siddons2

novelist from the United States 1936–2019

Rick Rescorla4

War hero, victim and hero of 9/11 1939–2001

Anita Harding2

neurologist 1952–1995

Mohamed Atta1

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

Ziad Jarrah8

September 11th hijacker 1975–2001