Anniversaries 6 September

Birth

Thomas Tryon3

British hat maker 1634–1703

Moses Mendelssohn3

German Jewish philosopher and theologian 1729–1786

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette7

French general and politician 1757–1834

John Dalton6

English chemist, meteorologist and physicist 1766–1844

Frances Wright36

American activist 1795–1852

Bruno Bauer1

German philosopher and historian 1809–1882

Jane Addams28

pioneer settlement social worker 1860–1935

William Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett1

British judge 1883–1962

Walter Dornberger2

German general 1895–1980

Julien Green1

American author 1900–1998

W. Ross Ashby26

British psychiatrist 1903–1972

Banesh Hoffmann2

American mathematician and physicist 1906–1986

Nicolas Schöffer2

French sculptor and plastician 1912–1992

Peter Hellings1

Royal Marines general 1916–1990

Moshe Goshen-Gottstein5

Israeli linguist 1925–1991

Alan Lindsay Mackay1

British crystallographer 1926

Maurice Cowling8

historian 1926–2005

Robert M. Pirsig164

American writer and philosopher 1928–2017

Vera Mae Green3

American anthropologist and academic 1928–1982

George Klir16

American computer scientist 1932–2016

General Baker1

1941–2014

Roger Waters52

English songwriter, bassist, and lyricist of Pink Floyd 1943

Donna Haraway3

scholar in the field of science and technology studies 1944

Marc Bekoff6

American biologist 1945

Tommy Lee Wallace2

American film director 1949

Robyn Davidson6

Australian writer 1950

Carly Fiorina14

American corporate executive and politician 1954

Buddy Carter3

State Senator 1957

Jeff Foxworthy31

American stand-up comedian 1958

Robin L. Webb1

American politician 1960

Chris Christie2

55th Governor of New Jersey, former U.S. Attorney for the D… 1962

Geert Wilders83

Dutch politician 1963

Alice Sebold60

American writer 1963

Macy Gray6

American singer-songwriter and actress 1967

Christopher Brookmyre1

Scottish novelist 1968

Ego Boyo4

Nigerian actress and movie producer 1968

Tony DiTerlizzi2

American artist, writer and producer 1969

Dolores O'Riordan8

Irish singer 1971–2018

Idris Elba2

English actor, DJ and recording artist 1972

China Miéville102

English writer 1972

Abby Martin8

American journalist 1984

Death

William Tyndale38

Bible translator and agitator from England 1494–1536

Jean-Baptiste Colbert3

French politician 1619–1683

Friedrich Albert Fallou1

German jurist and lawyer 1794–1877

Lord Charles Beresford1

Royal Navy admiral 1846–1919

Gilbert Parker3

Canadian novelist and British politician 1862–1932

Paul-Jean Toulet4

French poet 1867–1920

Margaret Sanger61

American birth control activist, educator and nurse 1879–1966

John Edensor Littlewood6

English Mathematician 1885–1977

Olaf Stapledon113

British novelist and philosopher 1886–1950

Edwin Arthur Burtt5

American philosopher 1892–1989

Hendrik Verwoerd22

Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassin… 1901–1966

Akira Kurosawa16

Japanese film maker 1910–1998

Bob Pierce1

American evangelical charity founder 1914–1978

Madeleine L'Engle223

American writer 1918–2007

Lotfi A. Zadeh18

Electrical engineer and computer scientist 1921–2017

Joan Vollmer6

Common-law wife of William S. Burroughs 1923–1951

Robert Mugabe29

former President of Zimbabwe 1924–2019

Richard M. DeVos4

American businessman 1926–2018

Luciano Pavarotti12

Italian operatic tenor 1935–2007

Burt Reynolds6

American actor, director and producer. 1936–2018

Kate Millett1

American writer and activist 1937–2017