Famous Birthdays for 8th September 2022

1633 – Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans, born in Vienna (d. 1654)
1841 – Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of US President James A. Garfield, born in Freeport, Illinois (d. 1882)
1912 – Alexander Mackendrick, American-born Scottish director (Man in the White Suit, Mandy), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1993)
1925 – Heinz Lau, German composer, born in Stettin, German Empire (d. 1975)
1947 – Amos Biwott, Kenyan 3K steeplechaser (Olympic gold 1968), born in Uasin Gishee, Kenya
1959 – Daler Nazarov, Tajik composer and actor, born in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR
1961 – Franny Michel, American actress (Patricia-Apple’s Way), born in Brooklyn, New York
1983 – Chris Judd, Australian rules football player, born in Melbourne, Australia
1988 – Arrelious Benn, American football wide receiver, born in Washington, D. C.
2002 – Gaten Matarazzo, American actor (Stranger Things), born in Little Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey

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Famous Birthdays for 7th September 2022

1864 – Ernest Halliwell, South African cricket wicketkeeper (8 Tests), born in Ealing, England (d. 1919)
1889 – Bruce Frederick Cummings, English author (Journal of a Disappointed Man), born in barnstaple, England (d. 1919)
1908 – Paul Brown, American NFL hall of fame coach (Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals), born in Norwalk, Ohio (d. 1991)
1924 – Bridie Gallagher, Irish singer (A Mother’s Love’s A Blessing, The Boys from County Armagh), born in Donegal, Ireland (d. 2012)
1946 – Willie Crawford, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2004)
1963 – W. Earl Brown, American actor, writer, and musician (Deadwood; Scream; Operation Petticoat – “Stovall”), born in Golden Pond, Kentucky
1970 – Tom Everett Scott, American actor (Dead Man on Campus), born in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
1980 – Mark Prior, American baseball player, coach (Chicago Cubs), born in San Diego, California
1980 – Javad Nekounam, Iranian soccer midfielder (151 caps; Pas, Osasuna), born in Rey, Iran
1982 – Andre Dirrell, American boxer (IBF interim super middleweight 2017-18), born in Flint, Michigan

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Famous Birthdays for 6th September 2022

1802 – Alcide d’Orbigny, French naturalist, born in Couëron, France (d. 1857)
1855 – Ferdinand Hummel, German composer, born in Berlin (d. 1928)
1906 – John Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher, born in Amsterdam (d. 1978)
1917 – Philipp von Boeselager, German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler, born in Bonn, Germany (d. 2008)
1923 – William Kraft, American composer and percussionist, born in Chicago, Illinois
1924 – John Melcher, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Montana), born in Sioux City, Iowa (d. 2018)
1931 – Sander Levin, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan), born in Detroit, Michigan
1947 – Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer and coach, born in Aldershot, England
1963 – József Kiprich, Hungarian soccer player (Feyenoord), born in Tatabánya, Hungary
1967 – Macy Gray [Natalie McIntyre], American RandB and soul singer-songwriter (“I Try”), born in Canton, Ohio

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Famous Birthdays for 5th September 2022

1667 – Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician, born in Sanremo, Italy (d. 1733)
1787 – François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist, born in Paris (d. 1850)
1907 – Sunnyland Slim [Albert Luandrew], American blues pianist, born in Vance, Mississippi (d. 1995)
1912 – Frank Thomas, American animator, born in Fresno, California (d. 2004)
1912 – John Cage, American composer (Imaginary Landscape No 1/O’O), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1992)
1939 – Donna Anderson [Knaflich], American actress (On the Beach), born in Gunnison, Gunnison County Colorado
1945 – Al Stewart, Scottish folk-rock singer-songwriter (“Year of the Cat”; “Nostradamus”; “Time Passages”), born in Glasgow, Scotland
1961 – Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian concert pianist, born in Montreal, Quebec
1970 – Michael Potts, American pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers), born in Langdale, Alabama
1970 – Willie Clay, American NFL safety (Detroit Lions), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Famous Birthdays for 4th September 2022

1596 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch diplomat and poet, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1687)
1815 – Mihály Mosonyi, Hungarian composer, born in Boldogasszony, Austria-Hungary (d. 1870)
1843 – Ján Levoslav Bella, Slovak composer, born in Liptovský Mikuláš, Austrian Empire (d. 1936)
1848 – Jennie Lee, American actress (The Birth of a Nation), born in Sacramento, California (d. 1925)
1914 – Rudolf Leiding, German auto executive and 3rd postwar chairman of Volkswagen, born in Altmark, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (d. 2003)
1918 – Paul Harvey, American news commentator and radio broadcaster (Rest of the story), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (d. 2009)
1920 – Harold “Shot” Jackson, American country dobro player, and pedal steel guitarist (Roy Acuff), and guitar designer and builder (Sho-Bud), born in Wilmington, North Carolina (d. 1991)
1941 – Marilena Chaui, Brazilian philosopher, born in São Paulo, Brazil
1958 – George Hurley, American drummer (Minutemen), born in Brockton, Massachusetts
1977 – Sun-Woo Kim, Korean baseball player, born in Incheon, South Korea

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Famous Birthdays for 3rd September 2022

1778 – Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, French violinist and composer, born in Versailles, France (d. 1832)
1891 – Bessie [Annie Elizabeth] Delany, American dentist and civil rights pioneer, born in Raleigh, North Carolina (d. 1995)
1931 – Albert DeSalvo, American criminal (The Boston Strangler), born in Chelsea, Massachusetts (d. 1973)
1931 – Rudolf Kelterborn, Swiss musician and composer, born in Basel, Switzerland
1933 – Roland Kayn, German electronic music composer, born in Reutlingen (d. 2011)
1935 – Otto Ketting, Dutch trumpeter and composer (Passacaglia), born in Amsterdam (d. 2012)
1948 – Tara Singh Varma, Dutch politcian (1st black woman in Dutch 2nd Chamber), born in Springlands, British Guiana
1962 – Roberto Cassan, Italian-American jazz and folk accordionist, born in Fanna, Italy (d. 2016)
1981 – Fearne Cotton, British television presenter (Top of the Pops, Radio 1), born in London, England
1993 – Dominic Thiem, Austrian tennis player (US Open 2020, ATP Finals 2019), born in Wiener Neustadt, Austria

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Famous Birthdays for 2nd September 2022

1911 – Romare Bearden, African American painter (d. 1988)
1927 – Leonard Katzman, TV producer
1931 – Pierre Huyskens, Dutch radio host
1932 – Emil Richards [Radocchia], American session and touring vibraphonist and percussionist [George Shearing; Frank Sinatra; Lalo Schifrin; Frank Zappa; George Harrison; Harry Partch; Shadowfax), born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 2019)
1943 – Glenn Sather, NHL coach (Edmonton Oiler)
1946 – Marty Grebb, rocker (Buckinghams), born in Chicago, Illinois
1960 – Rex Hudler, Tempe AZ, outfielder (NY Yankees, California Angels)
1981 – Fariborz Kamkari, Iranian film director and producer
1982 – Jason Hammel, American baseball player
1989 – Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer

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Famous Birthdays for 1st September 2022

1868 – Henri Bourassa, French Canadian politician and publisher (d. 1952)
1900 – Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht)
1911 – Marinus Ruppert, Dutch chairman (CNV)/trade union leader
1921 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (Mandarins on Sulfuric Acid)
1930 – Pete Brewster, American football end and coach (NFL Pro Bowl 1955, 56; Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers), born in Portland, Indiana (d. 2020)
1933 – Ann W. Richards, Lakeview Texas, American politician
1934 – Terepai Maoate, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (1999-2002), (d. 2012)
1959 – Kenny Mayne, American sports journalist, broadcaster (ESPN), born in Kent, Washington
1970 – Vanna, Croatian singer
1985 – Eli-Mac [Camile Velasco], Filipino-American pop singer (American Idol), born in Makati, Philippines

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Famous Birthdays for 31st August 2022

1821 – Vaclav Hugo Zavrtal, Bohemian clarinetist, band leader, and composer, born in Polepy, Austrian Empire (now Czech Republic) (d. 1899)
1852 – Joris Helleputte, Belgian Catholic minister, born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1925)
1875 – Eddie Plank, American Baseball HOF pitcher (World Series 1910, 11, 13 Philadelphia A’s), born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (d. 1926)
1877 – Lizzie Arlington, American baseball pitcher (first woman to play professional men’s baseball 1898 Reading Coal Heavers), born in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania (d. 1919)
1884 – George Al Sarton, Belgian-American chemist and historian, born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1956)
1907 – Ramon Magsaysay, 7th President of the Philippines (US Legion of Merit-1952), born in Iba, Zambales, Philippines (d. 1957)
1921 – Raymond Williams, Welsh academic and novelist (Second Generation), born in Llanfihangel Crucorney, Wales (d. 1988)
1954 – Claudell Washington, American baseball outfielder (MLB All Star 1975, 84; World Series 1974; Oakland Athletics, Atlanta Braves), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2020)
1968 – Hideo Nomo, Japanese MLB pitcher (LA Dodgers), born in Osaka, Japan
1987 – Petros Kravaritis, Greek footballer

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Famous Birthdays for 30th August 2022

1809 – Adolf Friedrich Hesse, German composer, born in Wrocław, Poland (d. 1863)
1870 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia, Firstborn daughter of King George I and Queen Olga of Greece, born in Corfu, Greece (d. 1891)
1926 – Ernie Roth, American wrestling manager (ring name “The Grand Wizard of Wrestling”), born in Canton, Ohio (d. 1983)
1936 – Edward Pałłasz, Polish classical, theater, and film composer, born in Starogard Gdański, Poland (d. 2019)
1943 – Jean-Claude Killy, French alpine skier (3 Olympic gold 1968), born in Paris, France
1950 – Antony Gormley, British sculptor (Angel of the North), born in London, England
1960 – Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, American Medal of Honor recipient, born in Lincoln, Maine (d. 1993)
1971 – Joseph Fitzgerald, American team handball center back (Olympics 1996), born in Brooklyn, New York
1974 – Aaron Barrett, American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (Reel Big Fish), born in San Bernadino, California
1976 – Sarah-Jane Potts, English actress, born in Bradford, England

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