Anniversaries 22 September
Birth
![Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield photo]()
British statesman and man of letters
1694–1773
![John Home photo]()
Minister of religion and dramatist
1722–1808
![William Playfair photo]()
British mathematician, engineer and political economist
1758–1824
![Michael Faraday photo]()
English scientist
1791–1867
![John P. Gaines photo]()
American politician
1795–1857
![Theodore Winthrop photo]()
Union Army officer
1828–1861
![Alice Meynell photo]()
English publisher, editor, writer, poet, activist
1847–1922
![Sophrony (Sakharov) photo]()
Russian monk, theologian and writer
1896–1993
![Maurice Blanchot photo]()
French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist
1907–2003
![David Riesman photo]()
American Sociologist
1909–2002
![William H. Riker photo]()
American political scientist
1920–1993
![Sidney Morgenbesser photo]()
American philosopher
1921–2004
![Dannie Abse photo]()
Welsh poet and physician
1923–2014
![Charles Keeping photo]()
British illustrator and children's writer
1924–1988
![Rosamunde Pilcher photo]()
British novelist
1924–2019
![Tommy Lasorda photo]()
American baseball player and coach
1927
![Fay Weldon photo]()
English author, essayist and playwright
1931
![Timoci Bavadra photo]()
Fijian politician
1934–1989
![Ted Malloch photo]()
American businessman
1952
![John O. Brennan photo]()
7th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
1955
![Neil Cavuto photo]()
American television presenter
1958
![Joan Jett photo]()
American rock musician, former member of The Runaways
1958
![Liam Fox photo]()
British Conservative politician
1961
![Ronaldo photo]()
Brazilian association football player
1976
![Roberto Saviano photo]()
Italian journalist, writer and essayist
1979
![Billie Piper photo]()
English singer, dancer and actress
1982
![Thiago Silva photo]()
Brazilian footballer
1984
![Jordan Vogt-Roberts photo]()
American film director
1984
Death
![Dogen photo]()
Japanese Zen buddhist teacher
1200–1253
![Nanak photo]()
Founder of Sikhism
1469–1539
![François Bernier photo]()
French physician and traveller
1620–1688
![Nathan Hale photo]()
soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolu…
1755–1776
![Shaka photo]()
leader of the Zulu Kingdom
1787–1828
![Charlotte Elliott photo]()
English poet, hymn writer, editor
1789–1871
![Frederick Soddy photo]()
chemist and physicist from England
1877–1956
![Melanie Klein photo]()
British psychoanalyst
1882–1960
![Pierre Lecomte du Noüy photo]()
French philosopher
1883–1947
![Irving Berlin photo]()
American composer
1888–1989
![Abul A'la Maududi photo]()
Indian theologian, politician and philosopher
1903–1979
![Dorothy Lamour photo]()
American actress and singer
1914–1996
![Shoichi Yokoi photo]()
Japanese World War II Soldier
1915–1997
![Marcel Marceau photo]()
French mime and actor
1923–2007
![André Gorz photo]()
austrian philosopher
1923–2007
![Yogi Berra photo]()
American baseball player, manager, coach
1925–2015
![Mahdi Akef photo]()
Egyptian Islamist
1928–2017
![Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi photo]()
Indian cricket player.
1941–2011
