Anniversaries 21 September

Birth

Girolamo Savonarola11

Italian Dominican friar and preacher 1452–1498

Herrick Johnson14

American clergyman 1832–1913

Edmund Gosse3

Poet, author, and critic 1849–1928

James E. Talmage1

American Mormon leader 1862–1933

H. G. Wells142

English writer 1866–1946

Henry L. Stimson6

United States Secretary of War 1867–1950

Gustav Holst6

English composer 1874–1934

John Wesley Hardrick1

painter 1891–1968

Learie Constantine1

West Indian cricketer, lawyer, politician and diplomat 1901–1971

Chuck Jones11

American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, … 1912–2002

Vitaly Ginzburg2

Russian Physicist 1916–2009

Mario Bunge10

Argentine philosopher and physicist 1919

Donald A. Glaser1

American physicist and neurobiologist 1926–2013

Reies Tijerina2

American activist 1926–2015

Bernard Williams9

English moral philosopher 1929–2003

Leonard Cohen169

Canadian poet and singer-songwriter 1934–2016

Fannie Flagg22

American actress, comedian and author 1944

Kay Ryan8

American poet 1945

Stephen King733

American author 1947

Marsha Norman6

American playwright, screenwriter and novelist 1947

Charles Clarke3

British Labour Party politician 1950

David Frawley8

American Hindu teacher 1950

Дуглас Пейджест1

1950

Bill Murray12

American actor and comedian 1950

Aslan Maskhadov4

Chechen warlord 1951–2005

C.J. Mahaney2

American clergyman 1953

Philip D. Zelikow1

American diplomat 1954

Scott Wagner1

American politician 1955

Marion Koopmans2

Dutch university teacher 1956

Kevin Rudd17

Australian politician, 26th Prime Minister of Australia 1957

David Mazzucchelli1

Artist 1960

Frank Portman3

American musician 1964

Suman Pokhrel41

Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist 1967

Shay Shelnutt1

American politician 1967

Samantha Power3

Irish-American academic, author and diplomat 1970

Jon Kitna1

American football quarterback 1972

Liam Gallagher5

English musician and songwriter 1972

Zac Brewer2

American writer 1973

Mark Burns (televangelist)5

Christian pastor and founder of the NOW Television Network 1979

Hamza Tzortzis3

public speaker 1980

Nicole Richie21

American television personality, musician, actress, and aut… 1981

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari1

politician in Pakistan 1988

Christian Serratos3

American actress 1990

Death

Virgil138

Ancient Roman poet -70–-19 BC

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor21

Holy Roman Emperor 1500–1558

Girolamo Cardano17

Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer 1501–1576

Walter Scott151

Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet 1771–1832

Arthur Schopenhauer261

German philosopher 1788–1860

Joseph Rodman Drake1

Early American poet 1795–1820

Wajid Ali Shah1

Nawab of Awadh 1822–1887

Chief Joseph17

Nez Percé Chieftain 1840–1904

James D. Mooney36

American businessman 1884–1957

Benjamin Graham64

American investor 1894–1976

Henry De Montherlant1

French writer 1895–1972

Kenji Miyazawa3

Japanese poet and author of children's literature 1896–1933

Hovhannes Bagramyan7

Soviet military commander 1897–1982

William Plomer7

South African-British writer 1903–1973

Dingiri Banda Wijetunga2

President of Sri Lanka 1916–2008

Jacqueline Susann8

Novelist, actress 1918–1974

Henri Nouwen23

Dutch priest and writer 1932–1996

Robert L. Forward4

American physicist, science fiction writer 1932–2002

Napoleon Chagnon1

American anthropologist 1938–2019

Edward Allington1

sculptor 1951–2017

Jaco Pastorius4

Musician, producer, educator 1951–1987

Trần Đại Quang2

8th President of Vietnam 1956–2018

Shuping Wang1

Chinese-American medical researcher 1959–2019