Anniversaries 9 September

Birth

Cardinal Richelieu7

French clergyman, noble and statesman 1585–1642

Richard Chenevix Trench9

Irish bishop 1807–1886

Joseph Henry Shorthouse3

British writer 1834–1903

Maurice Thompson3

American novelist 1844–1901

Jane Ellen Harrison4

British classical scholar, linguist and feminist 1850–1928

John Henry Poynting2

physicist 1852–1914

Houston Stewart Chamberlain21

English author of books on political philosophy 1855–1927

Ralph Waldo Trine7

American author 1866–1958

Ralph Hodgson6

British writer 1871–1962

Alfredo Rocco16

Italian politician and jurist 1875–1935

James Agate9

British diarist and critic 1877–1947

Adelaide Crapsey5

American writer 1878–1914

Marriner Stoddard Eccles1

American economist and banker 1890–1977

Kurt Lewin48

German-American psychologist 1890–1947

Harland Sanders2

American entrepreneur and businessman 1890–1980

Poul Henningsen1

Danish architect 1894–1967

Beverley Nichols1

Author, playwright, journalist, composer 1898–1983

Kalki Krishnamurthy7

writer 1899–1954

James Hilton5

British writer 1900–1954

Phyllis A. Whitney3

American writer 1903–2008

Cesare Pavese137

Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator 1908–1950

Paul Goodman47

American novelist, playwright, poet and psychotherapist 1911–1972

John Passmore6

Australian philosopher 1914–2004

Richard S. Prather1

American writer 1921–2007

Pauline Baynes1

English illustrator of children's books 1922–2008

Bernard Bailyn27

American historian 1922

Manolis Glezos1

Greek politician 1922–2020

Hans Georg Dehmelt1

German physicist 1922–2017

Yusuf Qaradawi10

Egyptian imam 1926

Sol LeWitt9

American artist 1928–2007

Michael Novak1

American theologian, philosopher, journalist, novelist, and… 1933–2017

Stanley G. Payne9

American historian 1934

Lawrence Shepp1

American mathematician 1936–2013

Reuven Rivlin17

Israeli politician, 10th President of Israel 1939

Otis Redding9

American singer, songwriter and record producer 1941–1967

Dennis M. Ritchie13

American computer scientist 1941–2011

Christian Boltanski1

French sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker 1944–2021

Daniel Pipes9

U.S. neoconservative columnist, author, counter-terrorism a… 1949

Bruno Magras1

French politician 1951

Ricardo Sanchez11

United States Army Lieutenant General 1953

John Kricfalusi5

Canadian animator 1955

Hugh Grant1

British actor and film producer 1960

Aleksandar Hemon10

Short story writer, novelist, columnist 1964

Constance Marie3

actress 1965

Adam Sandler4

American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer 1966

Akshay Kumar1

Indian film actor and producer 1967

Lila Downs12

Mexican American singer-songwriter 1968

Goran Višnjić20

Croatian actor 1972

Natasha Kaplinsky2

English newsreader and reporter 1972

Guðmundur Benediktsson1

Icelandic footballer and sportscaster 1974

Death

William I of England2

first Norman King of England 1028–1087

Ippen8

Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of the Jishu school. 1239–1289

Amir Khusrow23

Indian poet, writer, musician and scholar 1253–1325

Bem Cavalgar7

King of Portugal 1391–1438

Humphrey Gilbert1

English explorer, politician and soldier 1539–1583

Ihara Saikaku16

Japanese writer 1642–1693

Gilbert Wakefield1

English scholar 1756–1801

Alexander Bryan Johnson35

United States philosopher and banker 1786–1867

William Henry Smyth2

English naval officer and hydrographer 1788–1865

James Aldrich3

American editor and minor poet 1810–1856

William Allen Butler2

American lawyer 1825–1902

Richard Holt Hutton3

English journalist 1826–1897

Henry Liddon19

British theologian 1829–1890

Stéphane Mallarmé36

French Symbolist poet 1842–1898

Eugene Lee-Hamilton3

English poet and translator 1845–1907

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec13

French painter 1864–1901

Roger Fry9

English artist and art critic 1866–1934

Max Ehrmann7

American writer, poet, and attorney 1872–1945

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy4

Ceylon-American art historian 1877–1947

Thomas Kettle1

Irish politician 1880–1916

Hugh MacDiarmid5

Scottish poet, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve 1892–1978

Mao Zedong181

Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of… 1893–1976

Jacques Lacan20

French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist 1901–1981

Edward Teller32

Hungarian-American nuclear physicist 1908–2003

Bill Monroe5

American bluegrass musician 1911–1996

John Howard Griffin1

American race activist 1920–1980

Verghese Kurien24

Indian founder of dairy-cooperative Amul 1921–2012

Robert Frank5

American photographer and filmmaker 1924–2019

Valentino Braitenberg12

Italian-Austrian neuroscientist 1926–2011

Ahmad Shah Massoud8

Afghan military leader 1953–2001

Graham Joyce3

British writer 1954–2014