Anniversaries 12 September

Birth

Francis I of France1

King of France 1494–1547

Charles Dudley Warner16

American writer 1829–1900

Arthur Schuster1

Anglo-German physicist 1851–1934

H. H. Asquith26

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1852–1928

William Sharp (writer)9

Scottish writer 1855–1905

George Hendrik Breitner31

Dutch painter and photographer 1857–1923

H.L. Mencken281

American journalist and writer 1880–1956

Gus Cannon1

American blues musician 1883–1979

Maynard Owen Williams4

American journalist 1888–1963

Maurice Chevalier1

French actor, singer and entertainer 1888–1972

Pedro Albizu Campos1

Puerto Rican politician and independence advocate 1891–1965

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay3

Indian author in Bengali 1894–1950

Kyūichi Tokuda3

Japanese politician 1894–1953

Malcolm de Chazal13

Mauritian artist 1902–1981

Dmitri Shostakovich32

Russian composer and pianist 1906–1975

Louis MacNeice10

poet 1907–1963

Jesse Owens24

American track and field athlete 1913–1980

Han Suyin1

physician and author 1917–2012

Stanisław Lem74

Polish science fiction author 1921–2006

Robert Irwin1

American artist 1928

George Jones8

American musician, singer and songwriter 1931–2013

Adrian Rogers1

American television evangelist 1931–2005

Hira Ratan Manek9

1937

Gerald N. Lund1

American Mormon leader 1939

Nicole Jaffe1

Talent agent, actress 1941

Paul J. Swain1

Catholic bishop 1943–2022

Michael Ondaatje44

Canadian writer 1943

Leonard Peltier2

Native American activist 1944

Sue Limb1

British humorous writer 1946

Carmen Lomas Garza3

Mexican-American artist and illustrator 1948

Hans van Vliet5

Dutch computer scientist 1949

Zygmunt Vetulani6

Polish mathematician 1950

Bertie Ahern13

Irish politician, 10th Taoiseach of Ireland 1951

Neil Peart50

Canadian-American drummer , lyricist, and author 1952–2020

Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut1

Dutch computer scientist 1953–1994

Nan Goldin1

American photographer 1953

Hans Zimmer3

German film composer and music producer 1957

Barham Salih2

President of Iraq 1960

Ben Folds18

American musician 1966

Jay London50

American comedian 1966

Louis C.K.53

American comedian and actor 1967

Paul F. Tompkins4

American actor 1968

Max Boot7

American writer and historian 1969

James Frey68

American screenwriter and media presenter 1969

Paul Walker2

American actor 1973–2013

Hisaya Nakajo1

Manga artist 1973

Tarana Burke2

American civil rights activist 1973

2 Chainz2

American rapper from Georgia 1977

Elisabetta Canalis2

Italian model and actress 1978

Jonathan Kis-Lev4

painter 1985

Connor Franta1

American YouTube personality 1992

Death

William Alexander2

irish bishop, born 1824 1570–1640

Jean-Philippe Rameau2

French composer and music theorist of the Baroque era 1683–1764

Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow5

British lawyer and Tory politician 1731–1806

John Henry Hobart1

Episcopal Bishop of New York 1775–1830

Park Benjamin, Sr.9

American journalist 1809–1864

Richard Anthony Proctor3

English astronomer 1837–1888

Subramanya Bharathi7

Tamil poet 1882–1921

Norman Borlaug5

American biologist 1914–2009

Robert Lowell5

Poet 1917–1977

Ian Paisley8

Politician and former church minister 1926–2014

Serge Lang5

mathematician 1927–2005

Henry Spira7

American activist 1927–1998

Edith Windsor3

American LGBT rights activist and a technology manager at I… 1929–2017

Johnny Cash51

American singer-songwriter 1932–2003

Jeremy Brett2

English actor 1933–1995

Steve Biko12

anti-apartheid activist in South Africa 1946–1977

David Foster Wallace185

American fiction writer and essayist 1962–2008

Azem Hajdari1

Albanian politician 1963–1998