Anniversaries 15 September

Birth

Ali124

cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad 601–661

Marco Polo5

Venetian explorer and merchant noted for travel to central … 1254–1324

François de La Rochefoucauld156

French author of maxims and memoirs 1613–1680

Shneur Zalman of Liadi2

Orthodox Rabbi, and the founder and first Rebbe of Chabad 1745–1812

James Fenimore Cooper26

American author 1789–1851

James Gates Percival4

American geologis, poet, and surgeon 1795–1856

Porfirio Díaz1

President of Mexico 1830–1915

Heinrich von Treitschke9

Historian, political writer 1834–1896

Russell Conwell5

American academic administrator 1843–1925

Edward Bouchet1

African American academic 1852–1918

William Howard Taft32

American politician, 27th President of the United States (i… 1857–1930

Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya12

Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore 1860–1962

Robert Benchley29

American comedian 1889–1945

Claude McKay13

Jamaican American writer, poet 1889–1948

Agatha Christie320

English mystery and detective writer 1890–1976

Hans Kohn2

American historian 1891–1971

Jean Renoir1

French film director and screenwriter 1894–1979

Kurt Daluege1

German SS general 1897–1946

Elie Munk6

French rabbi 1900–1981

Fay Wray1

actress 1907–2004

John N. Mitchell3

former US attorney general, Watergate felon 1913–1988

Robert McCloskey1

children's book author and illustrator from the United Stat… 1914–2003

Adolfo Bioy Casares16

Argentine novelist 1914–1999

Fawn M. Brodie5

American historian and biographer 1915–1981

Nipsey Russell1

American entertainer 1918–2005

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.14

American historian 1918–2007

Jean-Pierre Serre2

French mathematician 1926

David Stove2

Australian philosopher 1927–1994

Margaret Keane15

American artist 1927

Cannonball Adderley3

American jazz alto saxophonist 1928–1975

Murray Gell-Mann10

American physicist 1929–2019

Donald O'Brien (actor)35

Italian film and TV actor 1930–2003

Tomie dePaola3

American children's illustrator and writer 1934

Sara Henderson1

Australian writer 1936–2005

Robert Lucas Jr.9

American economist 1937

Subramanian Swamy19

Indian politician 1939

Norman Spinrad19

American science fiction writer and critic 1940

Emanuel Tov2

Israeli biblical scholar and linguist 1941

Wen Jiabao8

former Premier of the People's Republic of China 1942

Yoweri Museveni15

President of Uganda 1944

Ellen Brown2

American writer 1945

Jessye Norman1

American opera singer 1945–2019

Tommy Lee Jones6

American actor and film director 1946

Oliver Stone13

American film director, screenwriter, and producer 1946

Joe Barton9

United States congressional representative from Texas 1949

Marie Arana1

American journalist 1949

Mirza Masroor Ahmad23

spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community 1950

Rajiv Malhotra33

Indian-American entrepreneur and author 1950

Sabina Franklyn1

British actress 1954

Mark Kirk3

former U.S. junior senator from Illinois 1959

Andreas Eschbach1

German writer 1959

Kerry Cohen1

American writer 1970

Jimmy Carr20

British comedian and humourist 1972

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie97

Nigerian writer 1977

Tom Hardy1

British actor, screenwriter and producer 1977

Jolin Tsai1

Taiwanese singer, songwriter, and actress 1980

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex6

a member of the British royal family 1984

Death

Catherine of Genoa29

Italian author and nurse 1447–1510

Robert Pollok8

Scottish poet 1798–1827

Ivan Goncharov2

Russian writer 1812–1891

Richard Le Gallienne5

British writer 1866–1947

Anton Webern3

Austrian composer and conductor 1883–1945

Beverley Nichols1

Author, playwright, journalist, composer 1898–1983

Thomas Wolfe51

American writer 1900–1938

John Desmond Bernal22

British scientist 1901–1971

Robert Penn Warren49

American poet, novelist, and literary critic 1905–1989

Edmund Crispin1

British composer 1921–1978

Harry Dean Stanton4

American actor, musician, and singer 1926–2017

Oriana Fallaci19

Italian writer 1929–2006

Bill Evans5

American jazz pianist 1929–1980

Troy Kennedy Martin1

British screenwriter 1932–2009

Fernando Botero4

Colombian artist 1932–2023