Anniversaries 20 September

Birth

Titus Salt1

English industrialist and philanthropist 1803–1876

Yoshida Shoin18

Japanese politician 1830–1859

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta1

Italian journalist, nationalist, revolutionary soldier and … 1833–1918

Henry Stephens Salt19

British activist 1851–1939

Chulalongkorn2

King of Siam 1853–1910

Upton Sinclair50

American novelist, writer, journalist, political activist 1878–1968

Ugo Cavallero5

Italian general 1880–1943

Charles Williams6

British poet, novelist, theologian, literary critic, and me… 1886–1945

Roy Turk6

American songwriter 1892–1934

Leo Strauss78

Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservati… 1899–1973

Adrienne von Speyr24

Swiss doctor and mystic 1902–1967

Stevie Smith18

poet, novelist, illustrator, performer 1902–1971

Ernest Manning1

Canadian politician 1908–1996

Red Auerbach1

Hall of Fame basketball coach 1917–2006

Matta El Meskeen2

Egyptian monk 1919–2006

William Kapell3

American classical pianist 1922–1953

Justo Gallego Martínez1

Ex-monk and sole builder of a cathedral in Spain 1925–2021

Ananda Mahidol3

eighth monarch of Siam from the Chakri dynasty as Rama VIII 1925–1946

John Dankworth6

British musician 1927–2010

Gary Jennings2

Novelist 1928–1999

Donald Hall2

American writer 1928–2018

Malachy McCourt4

Irish-American actor, writer and politician 1931

Sophia Loren32

Italian actress 1934

William H. Starbuck8

American academic 1934

Keith Roberts10

British writer and artist 1935–2000

Tarō Asō5

92nd Prime Minister of Japan 1940

Gérald Tremblay1

former mayor of Montreal, Quebec (2001-2012) 1942

Markandey Katju8

Indian judge 1946

Steve Gerber1

Comic writer 1947–2008

Jude Deveraux11

American writer 1947

George Raymond Richard Martin35

American writer, screenwriter and television producer 1948

Sithembiso Nyoni1

Zimbabwean politician 1949

A. A. Attanasio2

writer 1951

Guy Lafleur4

Canadian ice hockey player 1951

Javier Marías25

Spanish writer 1951

Manuel Zelaya2

President of Honduras 1952

James Moloney1

Australian children's author 1954

Jim Al-Khalili3

British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster 1962

Elise Broach5

American writer 1963

Van Jones9

American environmental advocate and civil rights activist 1968

Michelle Visage3

American singer, radio DJ, TV host 1968

Norah Vincent2

American journalist 1968

Hanya Yanagihara4

American novelist and travel writer 1974

Asia Argento1

Italian actress, film director and model 1975

Tatsuhiko Takimoto1

writer 1978

Angie Thomas1

American author 1988

Death

Firuz Shah Tughlaq26

Tughluq sultan 1309–1388

Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon3

Canadian writer 1829–1879

Robinson Duckworth2

British priest 1834–1911

Annie Besant85

British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, wr… 1847–1933

Narayana Guru2

Indian social reformer 1855–1928

Carl Barus15

U.S. physicist 1856–1935

Clarence G. Child1

scholar of medieval literature 1864–1948

Jean Sibelius12

Finnish composer of the late Romantic period 1865–1957

Глэдис Бронвин Стерн1

1890–1973

Gladys Bronwyn Stern5

British writer 1890–1973

Giorgos Seferis2

Greek poet and diplomat 1900–1971

Jule Styne1

British-born American songwriter 1905–1994

Simon Wiesenthal3

Austrian Holocaust survivor noted for his work as a Nazi hu… 1908–2005

Paul Erdős18

Hungarian mathematician and freelancer 1913–1996

Robert Muller1

Civil servant with the United Nations 1923–2010

J. California Cooper1

American playwright, novelist. short story writer 1931–2014

Jimmy Magee14

Gaelic games commentatot 1935–2017

C.K. Williams1

American poet and critic 1936–2015

Стив Гудман1

American folk music singer-songwriter 1948–1984