Anniversaries 23 September

Birth

Jeremy Collier1

English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian 1650–1726

Joshua Evans (Quaker minister)3

American Quaker minister and abolitionist 1731–1798

Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet11

British lawyer and Tory politician 1783–1870

Jane Taylor6

British poet 1783–1824

Victoria Woodhull6

American suffragist 1838–1927

Robert Bosch1

German industrialist, inventor, engineer 1861–1942

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge3

British writer 1861–1907

Mary Church Terrell6

African Americans' rights activist 1863–1954

Emma Orczy2

Hungarian-British author of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" 1865–1947

Herbert N. Casson20

Canadian journalist and writer 1869–1951

Walter Lippmann14

American journalist 1889–1974

Friedrich Paulus8

German general 1890–1957

Louise Nevelson1

American sculptor 1899–1988

Jaroslav Seifert1

Czechoslovak poet, Nobel prize laureate 1901–1986

Pauline Réage1

French journalist and novelist 1907–1998

Ovadia Yosef11

Israeli rabbi 1920–2013

Albert Messiah1

French physicist 1921–2013

John Coltrane4

American jazz saxophonist 1926–1967

Ray Charles24

American musician 1930–2004

Richard Viguerie1

American writer 1933

Brian McNaughton6

US author 1935–2004

George Jackson (activist)19

activist, Marxist, author, member of the Black Panther Part… 1941–1971

Sila María Calderón2

Puerto Rican mayor 1942

Dith Pran3

Cambodian photojournalist 1942–2008

Julio Iglesias4

Spanish recording artist; singer-songwriter 1943

Bruce Springsteen102

American singer and songwriter 1949

Jerry B. Jenkins1

novelist, biographer 1949

George C. Wolfe2

American playwright 1954

Cherie Blair3

British barrister and wife of former British Prime Minister… 1954

Peter David2

American writer of comic books, novels, television, movies … 1956

Chen Liang-gee2

politician 1956

Nathaniel Borenstein3

American computer scientist 1957

Scott Shaw6

American actor 1958

Philip Lymbery4

Animal welfare advocate 1965

Justine Larbalestier3

Australian young-adult fiction author 1967

Adam Price1

Welsh politician and Plaid Cymru leader (born 1968) 1968

Ani DiFranco91

musician and activist 1970

Sean Spicer6

American political strategist and former White House Pres… 1971

Karl Pilkington160

English television personality, social commentator, actor, … 1972

Sarah Blasko1

Australian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer 1976

Han Han2

Chinese writer and racing driver 1982

Death

Bai Juyi12

Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty 772–846

Al-Mutanabbi13

Arabic poet from the Abbasid era 915–965

John Brown (essayist)2

English divine and author 1715–1766

Benjamin Beddome1

British hymnwriter 1717–1795

Prosper Mérimée1

French writer, historian, and translator 1803–1870

Eliza Cook4

British writer 1818–1889

Wilkie Collins36

British writer 1824–1889

John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn37

British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor 1838–1923

Émile Gallé2

French glass artist and cabinetmaker 1846–1904

Sigmund Freud147

Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psycho… 1856–1939

Elinor Glyn9

British novelist and scriptwriter 1864–1943

A.S. Neill8

Scottish educator and theorist 1883–1973

Padre Pio10

Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic 1887–1968

Lawrence K. Frank12

American cyberneticist 1890–1968

Pablo Neruda136

Chilean poet 1904–1973

David Aberle3

anthropologist 1918–2004

Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar29

Indian writer 1919–1974

Carl Rowan17

American journalist 1925–2000

Vernon Corea2

The legendary broadcaster – a pioneer with Radio Ceylon/Sri… 1927–2002

Al Alvarez5

English poet, novelist, essayist and critic 1929–2019

Charles K. Kao1

Hong Hong-British-American physicist 1933–2018

Robert Hunter31

American musician 1941–2019

Pavel Grachev3

Soviet generals 1948–2012