Anniversaries 22 September

Birth

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield65

British statesman and man of letters 1694–1773

John Home4

Minister of religion and dramatist 1722–1808

William Playfair4

British mathematician, engineer and political economist 1758–1824

Michael Faraday30

English scientist 1791–1867

John P. Gaines1

American politician 1795–1857

Theodore Winthrop1

Union Army officer 1828–1861

Alice Meynell13

English publisher, editor, writer, poet, activist 1847–1922

Wilhelm Keitel10

German general 1882–1946

Sophrony (Sakharov)5

Russian monk, theologian and writer 1896–1993

Maurice Blanchot1

French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist 1907–2003

David Riesman8

American Sociologist 1909–2002

William H. Riker3

American political scientist 1920–1993

Sidney Morgenbesser16

American philosopher 1921–2004

Dannie Abse4

Welsh poet and physician 1923–2014

Charles Keeping2

British illustrator and children's writer 1924–1988

Rosamunde Pilcher7

British novelist 1924–2019

Tommy Lasorda1

American baseball player and coach 1927

Antonio Saura1

Spanish artist 1930–1998

Fay Weldon12

English author, essayist and playwright 1931

Timoci Bavadra4

Fijian politician 1934–1989

Ted Malloch36

American businessman 1952

John O. Brennan3

7th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency 1955

Nathan Seiberg4

American physicist 1956

Nick Cave96

Australian musician 1957

Neil Cavuto9

American television presenter 1958

Joan Jett2

American rock musician, former member of The Runaways 1958

Isaac Herzog7

Israeli politician 1960

Liam Fox7

British Conservative politician 1961

Brian Keene1

American writer 1967

Elizabeth Bear3

American novelist 1971

Brig. Gen. Eran Ortal8

1971

Ronaldo4

Brazilian association football player 1976

Roberto Saviano9

Italian journalist, writer and essayist 1979

Ashley Eckstein1

American actress 1981

Billie Piper7

English singer, dancer and actress 1982

Thiago Silva32

Brazilian footballer 1984

Jordan Vogt-Roberts2

American film director 1984

Death

Dogen34

Japanese Zen buddhist teacher 1200–1253

Mugaku Sogen1

1226–1286

Nanak24

Founder of Sikhism 1469–1539

François Bernier14

French physician and traveller 1620–1688

Nathan Hale2

soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolu… 1755–1776

Shaka4

leader of the Zulu Kingdom 1787–1828

Charlotte Elliott3

English poet, hymn writer, editor 1789–1871

Frederick Soddy3

chemist and physicist from England 1877–1956

Melanie Klein1

British psychoanalyst 1882–1960

Pierre Lecomte du Noüy2

French philosopher 1883–1947

Alain-Fournier1

French writer 1886–1914

Irving Berlin6

American composer 1888–1989

Abul A'la Maududi11

Indian theologian, politician and philosopher 1903–1979

Dorothy Lamour1

American actress and singer 1914–1996

Shoichi Yokoi1

Japanese World War II Soldier 1915–1997

Marcel Marceau13

French mime and actor 1923–2007

André Gorz4

austrian philosopher 1923–2007

Yehuda Amichai3

Israeli poet 1924–2000

Yogi Berra60

American baseball player, manager, coach 1925–2015

Mahdi Akef3

Egyptian Islamist 1928–2017

Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi1

Indian cricket player. 1941–2011