Anniversaries 9 September
Birth
![Cardinal Richelieu photo]()
French clergyman, noble and statesman
1585–1642
![Maurice Thompson photo]()
American novelist
1844–1901
![Jane Ellen Harrison photo]()
British classical scholar, linguist and feminist
1850–1928
![Houston Stewart Chamberlain photo]()
English author of books on political philosophy
1855–1927
![Ralph Waldo Trine photo]()
American author
1866–1958
![Alfredo Rocco photo]()
Italian politician and jurist
1875–1935
![James Agate photo]()
British diarist and critic
1877–1947
![Adelaide Crapsey photo]()
American writer
1878–1914
![Marriner Stoddard Eccles photo]()
American economist and banker
1890–1977
![Kurt Lewin photo]()
German-American psychologist
1890–1947
![Harland Sanders photo]()
American entrepreneur and businessman
1890–1980
![Poul Henningsen photo]()
Danish architect
1894–1967
![Beverley Nichols photo]()
Author, playwright, journalist, composer
1898–1983
![Phyllis A. Whitney photo]()
American writer
1903–2008
![Cesare Pavese photo]()
Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
1908–1950
![Paul Goodman photo]()
American novelist, playwright, poet and psychotherapist
1911–1972
![John Passmore photo]()
Australian philosopher
1914–2004
![Richard S. Prather photo]()
American writer
1921–2007
![Pauline Baynes photo]()
English illustrator of children's books
1922–2008
![Manolis Glezos photo]()
Greek politician
1922–2020
![Hans Georg Dehmelt photo]()
German physicist
1922–2017
![Sol LeWitt photo]()
American artist
1928–2007
![Michael Novak photo]()
American theologian, philosopher, journalist, novelist, and…
1933–2017
![Lawrence Shepp photo]()
American mathematician
1936–2013
![Reuven Rivlin photo]()
Israeli politician, 10th President of Israel
1939
![Otis Redding photo]()
American singer, songwriter and record producer
1941–1967
![Dennis M. Ritchie photo]()
American computer scientist
1941–2011
![Christian Boltanski photo]()
French sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker
1944–2021
![Daniel Pipes photo]()
U.S. neoconservative columnist, author, counter-terrorism a…
1949
![Ricardo Sanchez photo]()
United States Army Lieutenant General
1953
![Hugh Grant photo]()
British actor and film producer
1960
![Aleksandar Hemon photo]()
Short story writer, novelist, columnist
1964
![Adam Sandler photo]()
American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer
1966
![Akshay Kumar photo]()
Indian film actor and producer
1967
![Lila Downs photo]()
Mexican American singer-songwriter
1968
![Natasha Kaplinsky photo]()
English newsreader and reporter
1972
![Guðmundur Benediktsson photo]()
Icelandic footballer and sportscaster
1974
Death
![William I of England photo]()
first Norman King of England
1028–1087
![Ippen photo]()
Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of the Jishu school.
1239–1289
![Amir Khusrow photo]()
Indian poet, writer, musician and scholar
1253–1325
![Bem Cavalgar photo]()
King of Portugal
1391–1438
![Humphrey Gilbert photo]()
English explorer, politician and soldier
1539–1583
![Ihara Saikaku photo]()
Japanese writer
1642–1693
![Gilbert Wakefield photo]()
English scholar
1756–1801
![Alexander Bryan Johnson photo]()
United States philosopher and banker
1786–1867
![William Henry Smyth photo]()
English naval officer and hydrographer
1788–1865
![James Aldrich photo]()
American editor and minor poet
1810–1856
![William Allen Butler photo]()
American lawyer
1825–1902
![Richard Holt Hutton photo]()
English journalist
1826–1897
![Henry Liddon photo]()
British theologian
1829–1890
![Stéphane Mallarmé photo]()
French Symbolist poet
1842–1898
![Eugene Lee-Hamilton photo]()
English poet and translator
1845–1907
![Roger Fry photo]()
English artist and art critic
1866–1934
![Max Ehrmann photo]()
American writer, poet, and attorney
1872–1945
![Ananda K. Coomaraswamy photo]()
Ceylon-American art historian
1877–1947
![Thomas Kettle photo]()
Irish politician
1880–1916
![Hugh MacDiarmid photo]()
Scottish poet, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve
1892–1978
![Mao Zedong photo]()
Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of…
1893–1976
![Jacques Lacan photo]()
French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
1901–1981
![Edward Teller photo]()
Hungarian-American nuclear physicist
1908–2003
![Bill Monroe photo]()
American bluegrass musician
1911–1996
![John Howard Griffin photo]()
American race activist
1920–1980
![Verghese Kurien photo]()
Indian founder of dairy-cooperative Amul
1921–2012
![Robert Frank photo]()
American photographer and filmmaker
1924–2019
![Valentino Braitenberg photo]()
Italian-Austrian neuroscientist
1926–2011
![Ahmad Shah Massoud photo]()
Afghan military leader
1953–2001
