Anniversaries 25 September

Birth

François Bernier14

French physician and traveller 1620–1688

Jean-Philippe Rameau2

French composer and music theorist of the Baroque era 1683–1764

Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand2

French salon-holder 1697–1780

Qianlong Emperor7

emperor of the Qing Dynasty 1711–1799

Charles Maturin4

Irish writer 1782–1824

Felicia Hemans17

English poet 1793–1835

George Salmon2

mathematician and Anglican theologian 1819–1904

Sarah Bernhardt11

French actress 1844–1923

Billy Hughes6

Australian politician, seventh prime minister of Australia 1862–1952

Jaroslav Kvapil2

Czech politician, poet, theatre director, playwright, libre… 1868–1950

Joseph H. Hertz18

British rabbi 1872–1946

Lu Xun16

Chinese novelist and essayist 1881–1936

Leon Rene Yankwich1

United States federal judge 1888–1975

G. D. H. Cole1

British historian, economist, writer 1889–1959

John Howard Lawson2

American politician 1894–1977

William Faulkner214

American writer 1897–1962

Robert Bresson4

French film director 1901–1999

Mark Rothko36

American painter 1903–1970

Abul A'la Maududi11

Indian theologian, politician and philosopher 1903–1979

Norman O. Brown3

classicist 1913–2002

Deendayal Upadhyaya8

RSS thinker and co-founder of the political party Bharatiya… 1916–1968

Vincent Ostrom3

American academic, educator and political scientist 1919–2012

Robert Muldoon3

Prime Minister of New Zealand, politician 1921–1992

Paul MacCready1

American aeronautical engineer 1925–2007

Anthony Stafford Beer23

British theorist, consultant, and professor 1926–2002

Barbara Walters9

American broadcast journalist, author, and television perso… 1929

Shel Silverstein6

American poet, cartoonist, and children's writer 1930–1999

Francine du Plessix Gray1

American writer 1930–2019

Glenn Gould8

Canadian pianist 1932–1982

Robert M. Gates3

CIA director, U.S. Secretary of Defense, and university pre… 1943

Michael Douglas6

American actor and producer 1944

Hideyuki Kikuchi1

Japanese novelist 1949

Mark Hamill2

American actor, voice actor, producer, director, and writer 1951

Cherríe Moraga8

American writer 1952

Christopher Reeve18

actor, director, producer, screenwriter 1952–2004

Bell Hooks112

American author, feminist, and social activist 1952

Joep Lange1

dutch clinical researcher specializing in HIV therapy 1954–2014

Luanne Rice4

American author 1955

Michael Madsen7

American actor 1957

Kristin Hannah60

American writer 1960

Marc Benioff5

American businessman 1964

Carlos Ruiz Zafón149

Spanish writer 1964

James Berardinelli64

American film critic 1967

Will Smith8

American actor, film producer and rapper 1968

David Benioff13

writer 1970

Jonathan G. A. Johnson1

Island Governor of Saba since 2008. 1976

T.I.11

American rapper, record producer, actor, and businessman fr… 1980

Bryant Jennings2

boxer 1984

Death

Ali Hujwiri2

Sufi mystic 1009–1072

Lancelot Andrewes1

English divine 1555–1626

Samuel Butler (poet)81

poet and satirist 1612–1680

Johann Heinrich Lambert8

German mathematician, physicist and astronomer 1728–1777

Richard Porson1

British classical scholar 1759–1808

John Ireland (bishop)7

Catholic bishop 1838–1918

John Churton Collins2

British literary critic 1848–1908

Gancho Tsenov10

Bulgarian historian 1870–1949

Emily Post2

American etiquette expert 1872–1960

Paul Ehrenfest2

Dutch physicist 1880–1933

Mina Loy3

Futurist poet and actress 1882–1966

Viktor Schauberger54

austrian philosopher and inventor 1885–1958

Ring Lardner2

Sportswriter, short story writer 1885–1933

Hugo Black26

U.S. Supreme Court justice 1886–1971

James O. Fraser7

missionary to China, inventor of Tibeto-Burman Nosu alphabet 1886–1938

Stanisław Sosabowski2

Polish general 1892–1967

Erich Maria Remarque63

German novelist 1898–1970

Margaret Fishback2

American writer 1900–1985

Leopold III of Belgium2

King of Belgians 1901–1983

Cornell Woolrich9

American author and screenwriter 1903–1968

Emlyn Williams1

British dramatist and actor 1905–1987

Alastair Borthwick1

British journalist 1913–2003

Klaus Barbie7

SS-Hauptsturmführer, soldier and Gestapo member 1913–1991

R.S. Thomas58

Welsh poet 1913–2000

Franco Modigliani5

Italian-American economist 1918–2003

Jeff Cooper15

American journalist 1920–2006

Baba Hari Dass72

master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritu… 1923–2018

George Plimpton4

journalist, writer, editor, actor 1927–2003

Dawn Hampton1

American musician and songwriter 1928–2016

Franco Bassani1

Italian physicist 1929–2008

Marion Zimmer Bradley12

Novelist, editor 1930–1999

Vijay R. Singh15

Fijian politician 1931–2006

José Montoya1

American artist 1932–2013

Edward Said24

Professor of English and literature 1935–2003

Alejandra Pizarnik3

Argentinian poet 1936–1972

Robert Floyd9

American computer scientist 1936–2001

M. Scott Peck26

American psychiatrist 1936–2005

Wangari Maathai9

Kenyan environmental and political activist 1940–2011

Chuba Okadigbo4

Nigerian politician 1941–2003

John M. Ford1

American author 1957–2006