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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Roy Acuff
Country Musician
15-Sep-1903 23-Nov-1992 Country music pioneer
Cannonball Adderley
Jazz Musician
15-Sep-1928 8-Aug-1975 Alto sax blower
Dave Annable
Actor
15-Sep-1979   Justin Walker on Brothers & Sisters
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
Astronomer
15-Sep-1736 12-Nov-1793 Histoire de l'Astronomie
James Bamford
Author
15-Sep-1946   The Puzzle Palace
Joe Barton
Politician
15-Sep-1949   Congressman, Texas 6th
William J. Bauer
Judge
15-Sep-1926   7th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1975-93
Jacques Becker
Film Director
15-Sep-1906 21-Feb-1960 Le Trou
Robert Benchley
Author
15-Sep-1889 21-Nov-1945 Humorist and screenwriter
Edward Bouchet
Physicist
15-Sep-1852 28-Oct-1918 First African-American PhD
Frank A. Briggs
Politician
15-Sep-1858 9-Aug-1898 Governor of North Dakota, 1897-98
Pete Carroll
Football
15-Sep-1951   Seattle Seahawks coach
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Author
15-Sep-1914 8-Mar-1999 La invención de Morel
Alfred Chandler
Historian
15-Sep-1918 9-May-2007 Business historian
Josh Charles
Actor
15-Sep-1971   Dan Rydell on Sports Night
Agatha Christie
Novelist
15-Sep-1890 12-Jan-1976 Mystery novelist
Forrest Compton
Actor
15-Sep-1925   Col. Edward Gray on Gomer Pyle, USMC
Karl T. Compton
Physicist
15-Sep-1887 22-Jun-1954 Bikini Island atomic tests
Tom Conway
Actor
15-Sep-1904 22-Apr-1967 I Walked with a Zombie
Jackie Cooper
Actor
15-Sep-1922 3-May-2011 Jackie in Our Gang
James Fenimore Cooper
Novelist
15-Sep-1789 14-Sep-1851 The Last of the Mohicans
Rhonda Copelon
Attorney
15-Sep-1944   Law Professor at CUNY
Norm Crosby
Comic
15-Sep-1927   Stand-up and nightclub comic
Sophie Dahl
Model
15-Sep-1977   Notorious Opium advertisement
Henry Darrow
Actor
15-Sep-1933   The High Chaparral
Amy Davidson
Actor
15-Sep-1979   Kerry Hennessy on 8 Simple Rules
Jean-Baptiste de Gribeauval
Military
15-Sep-1715 9-May-1789 French artillery general
Nicholas DeBenedictis
Business
15-Sep-1945   Aqua America
Edward J. Derwinski
Politician
15-Sep-1926 15-Jan-2012 US Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 1989-92
Porfirio Díaz
Head of State
15-Sep-1830 2-Jul-1915 Twice President of Mexico
Everett F. Drumright
Diplomat
15-Sep-1906 24-Apr-1993 US Ambassador to Taiwan, 1958-62
Gordon R. England
Government
15-Sep-1937   US Deputy Secretary of Defense
Hans Filbinger
Politician
15-Sep-1913 1-Apr-2007 Disgraced German politician
Frank Gannett
Business
15-Sep-1876 3-Dec-1957 Founder, Gannett publishing empire
Murray Gell-Mann
Physicist
15-Sep-1929   Quarks and strangeness
Sheilah Graham
Columnist
15-Sep-1904 17-Nov-1988 Beloved Infidel
Tom Hardy
Actor
15-Sep-1977   Layer Cake
Prince Harry
Royalty
15-Sep-1984   2nd son of Princess Diana
Barry Shabaka Henley
Actor
15-Sep-1954   Collateral
Erich Hunziker
Business
15-Sep-1953   CFO of Roche Group
Marc Iavaroni
Basketball
15-Sep-1956   Head Coach, Memphis Grizzlies
Fob James
Politician
15-Sep-1934   Twice Governor of Alabama
Tommy Lee Jones
Actor
15-Sep-1946   Men in Black
Mark Kirk
Politician
15-Sep-1959   US Senator from Illinois
Margaret Lockwood
Actor
15-Sep-1916 15-Jul-1990 Cast a Dark Shadow
Dick Lowry
Film Director
15-Sep-1944   Attila
Robert Lucas
Economist
15-Sep-1937   Theory of rational expectations
Joseph Lyons
Head of State
15-Sep-1879 7-Apr-1939 Prime Minister of Australia, 1932-39
Dan Marino
Football
15-Sep-1961   Miami Dolphins QB
Carmen Maura
Actor
15-Sep-1945   Volver
Claude McKay
Novelist
15-Sep-1890 22-May-1948 Home to Harlem
John Mitchell
Government
15-Sep-1913 9-Nov-1988 Attorney General, Watergate figure
Heidi Montag
TV Personality
15-Sep-1986   The Hills
Mark Moody-Stuart
Business
15-Sep-1940   Chairman of Anglo American
Karl Philipp Moritz
Novelist
15-Sep-1757 26-Jul-1793 Anton Reiser
Jessye Norman
Singer
15-Sep-1945   Operatic soprano
Danny Nucci
Actor
15-Sep-1968   Eraser
Titus Oates
Criminal
15-Sep-1649 12-Jul-1705 Popish Plot
Richard Olney
Government
15-Sep-1835 8-Apr-1917 US Secretary of State, 1895-97
Merlin Olsen
Football
15-Sep-1940 11-Mar-2010 Rams defensive tackle, FTD shill
Rafael Osuna
Tennis
15-Sep-1938 4-Jun-1969 Winner of 4 Grand Slam titles
Roy H. Park
Philanthropist
15-Sep-1910 25-Oct-1993 Media mogul, Park Foundation
James Gates Percival
Poet
15-Sep-1795 2-May-1856 Clio
Gaylord Perry
Baseball
15-Sep-1938   Me and the Spitter
Joseph Pevney
Film Director
15-Sep-1911 18-May-2008 Man of a Thousand Faces
Jean Renoir
Film Director
15-Sep-1894 12-Feb-1979 La Grande Illusion
François de la Rochefoucauld
Author
15-Sep-1613 16-Mar-1680 Maxims
Mary See
Chef
15-Sep-1854 31-Jul-1939 Confectioner
Ron Shelton
Film Director
15-Sep-1945   White Men Can't Jump
Bobby Short
Singer
15-Sep-1924 21-Mar-2005 Cabaret singer at the Carlyle Hotel
Henry Silva
Actor
15-Sep-1928   The Manchurian Candidate
Penny Singleton
Actor
15-Sep-1908 12-Nov-2003 Blondie
Wendie Jo Sperber
Actor
15-Sep-1958 29-Nov-2005 Amy on Bosom Buddies
Norman Spinrad
Author
15-Sep-1940   SF author, Little Heroes
Oliver Stone
Film Director
15-Sep-1946   JFK
William Howard Taft
Head of State
15-Sep-1857 8-Mar-1930 27th US President, 1909-13
Manuel Tamayo y Baus
Playwright
15-Sep-1829 20-Jun-1898 Lances de Honor
Sara Taylor
Government
15-Sep-1974   White House political director, 2003-07
Trajan
Royalty
15-Sep-53 AD 9-Aug-117 AD Roman Emperor, 98-117 AD
Jolin Tsai
Singer
15-Sep-1980   Taiwanese pop singer
Umberto II
Royalty
15-Sep-1904 18-Mar-1983 King of Italy, 1946
Ernest van den Haag
Scholar
15-Sep-1914 21-Mar-2002 Punishing Criminals
Bruno Walter
Conductor
15-Sep-1876 17-Feb-1962 Conductor, Leipzig Gewandhaus, 1929-33
Georg Rudolf Weckherlin
Poet
15-Sep-1584 13-Feb-1653 Geistliche und weltliche Gedichte
Matthew E. Welsh
Politician
15-Sep-1912 28-May-1995 Governor of Indiana, 1961-65
Frederick C. Weyand
Military
15-Sep-1916 10-Feb-2010 US Army Chief of Staff, 1974-76
Fay Wray
Actor
15-Sep-1907 8-Aug-2004 King Kong
Viktor Zubkov
Politician
15-Sep-1941   Chairman of Gazprom




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