Anniversaries 12 September
Birth
![Charles Dudley Warner photo]()
American writer
1829–1900
![Arthur Schuster photo]()
Anglo-German physicist
1851–1934
![H. H. Asquith photo]()
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1852–1928
![William Sharp (writer) photo]()
Scottish writer
1855–1905
![George Hendrik Breitner photo]()
Dutch painter and photographer
1857–1923
![H.L. Mencken photo]()
American journalist and writer
1880–1956
![Gus Cannon photo]()
American blues musician
1883–1979
![Maynard Owen Williams photo]()
American journalist
1888–1963
![Maurice Chevalier photo]()
French actor, singer and entertainer
1888–1972
![Pedro Albizu Campos photo]()
Puerto Rican politician and independence advocate
1891–1965
![Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay photo]()
Indian author in Bengali
1894–1950
![Kyūichi Tokuda photo]()
Japanese politician
1894–1953
![Malcolm de Chazal photo]()
Mauritian artist
1902–1981
![Dmitri Shostakovich photo]()
Russian composer and pianist
1906–1975
![Jesse Owens photo]()
American track and field athlete
1913–1980
![Han Suyin photo]()
physician and author
1917–2012
![Stanisław Lem photo]()
Polish science fiction author
1921–2006
![George Jones photo]()
American musician, singer and songwriter
1931–2013
![Adrian Rogers photo]()
American television evangelist
1931–2005
![Gerald N. Lund photo]()
American Mormon leader
1939
![Nicole Jaffe photo]()
Talent agent, actress
1941
![Paul J. Swain photo]()
Catholic bishop
1943–2022
![Leonard Peltier photo]()
Native American activist
1944
![Sue Limb photo]()
British humorous writer
1946
![Carmen Lomas Garza photo]()
Mexican-American artist and illustrator
1948
![Hans van Vliet photo]()
Dutch computer scientist
1949
![Zygmunt Vetulani photo]()
Polish mathematician
1950
![Bertie Ahern photo]()
Irish politician, 10th Taoiseach of Ireland
1951
![Neil Peart photo]()
Canadian-American drummer , lyricist, and author
1952–2020
![Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut photo]()
Dutch computer scientist
1953–1994
![Nan Goldin photo]()
American photographer
1953
![Hans Zimmer photo]()
German film composer and music producer
1957
![Louis C.K. photo]()
American comedian and actor
1967
![Max Boot photo]()
American writer and historian
1969
![James Frey photo]()
American screenwriter and media presenter
1969
![Tarana Burke photo]()
American civil rights activist
1973
![2 Chainz photo]()
American rapper from Georgia
1977
![Elisabetta Canalis photo]()
Italian model and actress
1978
![Connor Franta photo]()
American YouTube personality
1992
Death
![William Alexander photo]()
irish bishop, born 1824
1570–1640
![Jean-Philippe Rameau photo]()
French composer and music theorist of the Baroque era
1683–1764
![Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow photo]()
British lawyer and Tory politician
1731–1806
![John Henry Hobart photo]()
Episcopal Bishop of New York
1775–1830
![Park Benjamin, Sr. photo]()
American journalist
1809–1864
![Richard Anthony Proctor photo]()
English astronomer
1837–1888
![Norman Borlaug photo]()
American biologist
1914–2009
![Ian Paisley photo]()
Politician and former church minister
1926–2014
![Henry Spira photo]()
American activist
1927–1998
![Edith Windsor photo]()
American LGBT rights activist and a technology manager at I…
1929–2017
![Johnny Cash photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1932–2003
![Steve Biko photo]()
anti-apartheid activist in South Africa
1946–1977
![David Foster Wallace photo]()
American fiction writer and essayist
1962–2008
![Azem Hajdari photo]()
Albanian politician
1963–1998
