Anniversaries 30 September

Birth

Rumi148

Iranian poet 1207–1273

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac7

French academic 1714–1780

Lahiri Mahasaya5

Indian yogi and guru 1828–1895

Fred Fisher2

American songwriter 1875–1942

Johan Falkberget2

Norwegian politician 1879–1967

Louis Lecoin1

French militant anarcho-pacifist 1888–1971

Richard Peirse1

Royal Air Force air marshal 1892–1970

M. C. Chagla4

Indian politician and judge 1900–1981

Michael Powell16

English film director 1905–1990

Savitri Devi7

Greek–French writer 1905–1982

Buddy Rich2

Jazz drummer and bandleader 1917–1987

Eileen Chang3

Chinese writer and screenwriter 1920–1995

Truman Capote26

American author 1924–1984

W.S. Merwin17

American poet 1927–2019

Piri Thomas1

Puerto Rican poet 1928–2011

Elie Wiesel155

writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and … 1928–2016

Lawrence Hogan1

Maryland politician 1928–2017

Ilya Kabakov2

Soviet and American conceptual artist 1933

Andre Beteille1

Indian sociologist 1934

William Albert Allard1

Photographer 1937

Os Guinness2

American writer 1941

Ehud Olmert6

Israeli politician, prime minister of Israel 1945

Raël2

Author of Raëlism and founder and current leader of the Raë… 1946

Shakti Gawain3

Author 1948–2018

Laura Esquivel7

Mexican writer 1950

Dale Dauten1

American writer 1950

S.M. Stirling7

Canadian-American author, primarily of speculative fiction 1953

Enrique Peñalosa1

Colombian politician 1954

Xiomara Castro4

First Lady of Honduras 1959

Mahesh Sharma6

Indian politician 1959

Nicola Griffith1

British-American writer 1960

Antony Sumich1

New Zealand rugby union footballer and coach 1964

Monica Bellucci1

Italian actress 1964

Philip Plait8

astronomer, skeptic 1964

Omid Djalili8

Iranian-British stand-up comedian 1965

Julianna Baggott4

Author 1969

Gilad Erdan1

Israeli politician 1970

Ta-Nehisi Coates36

writer, journalist, and educator 1975

Martina Hingis4

Swiss tennis player 1980

Cecelia Ahern156

Irish novelist 1981

T-Pain4

American rapper and record producer from Florida 1984

Olivier Giroud2

French footballer 1986

Ezra Miller2

American actor 1992

Death

Jerome52

Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church 345–420

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke9

English politician 1554–1628

Francis Wayland3

President of Brown University 1796–1865

George Frisbie Hoar3

American politician 1826–1904

Francisco Luís Gomes17

Indo-Portuguese physician, writer, historian, economist, po… 1829–1869

F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead27

British politician 1872–1930

Thérèse of Lisieux10

French Discalced Carmelite nun 1873–1897

Storm Jameson1

British writer 1891–1986

Michael Chekhov1

Russian actor and director 1891–1955

Virgil Thomson1

American composer 1896–1989

Thomas Charles Lethbridge1

British explorer and archaeologist 1901–1971

Edgar Bergen1

American actor, radio performer, comedian and ventriloquist 1903–1978

Trường Chinh8

former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam … 1907–1988

Bruno Munari1

Italian artist and designer 1907–1998

Nicholas Kaldor1

British/Hungarian economist 1908–1986

Patrick White22

English-born Australian writer 1912–1990

Alfred Bester18

American science fiction author 1913–1987

John Lilly7

American physician 1915–2001

Barry Commoner2

American biologist, college professor and eco-socialist 1917–2012

Martin Lewis Perl9

American scientist 1927–2014

Frank Slay1

American record producer 1930–2017

Hanoi Hannah2

Vietnamese radio personality 1931–2016

Stephen J. Cannell1

American television producer, writer, novelist and occasion… 1941–2010

Jessye Norman1

American opera singer 1945–2019

Michael Flynn19

American statistician and writer 1947–2023

Vladimir Voevodsky4

Russian mathematician 1966–2017