1819 – Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer of the Romantic era, born in Leipzig (d. 1896)
1836 – John McCausland, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1927)
1851 – Walter Reed, U.S. Army physician and bacteriologist who proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever, born in Belroi, Virginia (d. 1902)
1894 – J. B. Priestly, English novelist and scriptwriter (The Good Companions, An Inspector Calls), born in Bradford, United Kingdom
1949 – Craig McGregor, American rocker (Foghat), born in Sioux City, Iowa
1966 – Maria Furtwängler, German physician and TV actress, born in Munich, Germany
1968 – Bernie Williams, Puerto Rican baseball outfielder (NY Yankees), born in San Juan, Puerto Rico
1977 – Ivan De Battista, Maltese actor, singer and composer, born in Gzira, Malta
1978 – Darren Kenton, English footballer (Norwich City), born in Wandsworth, England
1988 – Keith Treacy, Irish footballer (Preston North End), born in Dublin, Ireland
Category: Famous Birthdays
Famous Birthdays for 12th September 2019
1829 – Charles Dudley Warner, American novelist (Being a Boy), born in Plainfield, Massachusetts (d. 1900)
1856 – Johann Heinrich Beck, American composer, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1924)
1888 – Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer (Thank heaven for little girls), born in Paris (d. 1972)
1901 – Ernst Pepping, German composer, born in Duisburg, Germany (d. 1981)
1913 – Jesse Owens, American athlete (4 Olympic gold 1936), born in Oakville, Alabama (d. 1980)
1917 – Pierre Sévigny, Canadian military officer and politician, born in Quebec, Canada (d. 2004)
1937 – Wes Hall, Barbadian former cricketer and politician, born in Glebe Land, Station Hill, Barbados
1965 – Einstein Kristiansen, Norwegian cartoonist, designer and TV host, born in Greåker, Sarpsborg, Norway
1973 – Tarana Burke, American activist, founder of #MeToo, born in New York City
1983 – Daniel Muir, American football player, born in Washington, D.C.
Famous Birthdays for 11th September 2019
1458 – Bernardo Accolti [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia), born in Arezzo, Italy (d. 1535)
1786 – Friedrich Kuhlau, German-Danish opera composer, born in Lüneburg, Germany (d. 1832)
1917 – Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (1965-86), born in Sarrat, Ilocos Norte, Philippines (d. 1989)
1923 – Alan Badel, British actor (Shogun, Salome, Bill Brand), born in Manchester, England (d. 1982)
1936 – Charles Dierkop, American actor (Det Pete Royster-Police Woman), born in La Crosse, Wisconsin
1940 – Tom Gallagher, American diplomat, gay activist, and 1st Foreign Service officer to publicly come out in 1976, born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2018)
1953 – Renée Geyer, Australian singer (It’s A Man’s Man’s World, Stares and Whispers), born in Melbourne, Australia
1957 – Jeff Sluman, American golfer (PGA C’ship 1988; 6 PGA Tour titles), born in Rochester, New York
1966 – Princess Akishino, Japanese Imperial Family, born in Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, Japan
1978 – Ed Reed, American football player (Baltimore Ravens), born in St. Rose, Louisiana
Famous Birthdays for 10th September 2019
1788 – Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)
1848 – William M Harnett, American painter (Old Violin)
1896 – Adele Astaire [Lady Charles Cavendish], American dancer and entertainer, sister of Fred Astaire (Last Man on Earth, Millie), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 1981)
1896 – Ye Ting, Chinese military leader (d. 1946)
1928 – Leo P[atrick] Kelley, American sci-fi author (Dead Moon, Vacation in Space)
1933 – Yevgeny Vassilyevich Khrunov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5)
1935 – Paul van Vliet, Dutch cabaret performer
1957 – Siobhan Fahey, rocker (Bananarama-Venus, Shakespear’s Sister), born in Dublin, Ireland
1966 – Joe Nieuwendyk, NHL forward (Dallas Stars, Team Canada 1998)
1973 – Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer
Famous Birthdays for 9th September 2019
1427 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros of Helmsley, English politician, born in Conisbrough Castle, Yorkshire (d. 1464)
1822 – Napoléon Bonaparte, French prince and member National Convention, born in Trieste, Austrian Empire (d. 1891)
1828 – Leo Tolstoy [Lev Nikolayevich], Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace), born in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia (d. 1910)
1877 – Jesus Castillo, Guatemalan composer, born in Guatemala (d. 1946)
1918 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Italian President (1992-99), born in Novara, Italy (d. 2012)
1957 – Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist
1961 – Jim Corsi, Newtonville MA, pitcher (Oakland A’s)
1969 – Constance Marie, American actress, born in East Los Angeles, California
1982 – Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer and songwriter, born in Osaka, Japan
1986 – Michael Bowden, American baseball player, born in Winfield, Illinois
Famous Birthdays for 8th September 2019
1515 – Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar, born in Toledo, Spain (d. 1585)
1749 – Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, French aristocrat, born in Palazzo Carignano, Turin, Savoy (d. 1792)
1783 – N. F. S. Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher, born in Udby, Zealand, Denmark (d. 1872)
1865 – Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer (Amore and Amore, Top), born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1924)
1905 – Henry Wilcoxon, British actor (Cleopatra, Jericho, The Ten Commandments), born in Dominica, British West Indies (d. 1984)
1907 – Sid Tomack, American actor (The Life of Riley, Adventures of Superman), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1962)
1914 – Dimitrios I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (1973-91), born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (d. 1991)
1954 – Clayton Norcross, American actor (Bold and Beautiful, Colbys, Santa Barbara), born in Arcadia, California
1963 – Li Ning, Chinese gymnast (3 Olympic gold 1984), born in Laibin, Guangxi
1988 – Caitlin Hill, Australian YouTube personality (TheHill88), born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Famous Birthdays for 7th September 2019
1683 – Maria Anna of Austria, Archduchess of Austria and Queen consort of Portugal, born in Linz, Austria (d. 1754)
1867 – Albert Bassermann, German actor (Foreign Correspondent, Madame Curie), born in Mannheim, Germany (d. 1952)
1880 – Attilio Brugnoli, Italian pianist and composer, born in Rome (d. 1937)
1913 – Anthony Quayle, British actor (Anne of 1000 Days, Lawrence of Arabia), born in Ainsdale, Southport, Lancashire (d. 1989)
1921 – Arthur Ferrante, American pianist and composer (Ferrante and Teicher – Exodus), born in NYC, New York (d. 2009)
1926 – Don Messick, American cartoon voice (Bam-bam, Astro, Scooby-Doo), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1997)
1934 – Omar Karami, Prime Minister of Lebanon (1990-92, 2004-05), born in An Nouri
1940 – Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia, born in Denanyar, East Java, Dutch East Indies (d. 2009)
1948 – Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, 2nd President of the United Arab Emirates (2004-present), born in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
1960 – Andrew Voss, Australian television personality (Fox League), born in Sydney, Australia
Famous Birthdays for 6th September 2019
1908 – Anthony Wagner, Officer of Arms at the College of Arms in London (d. 1995)
1910 – Frank Fidler, English artist, born in London (d. 1995)
1912 – Wayne Barlow, American composer, born in Elyria, Ohio (d. 1996)
1949 – Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, South African Kwazulu politician (first President of Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (CONTRALESA)) (d. 1991)
1958 – Michael Winslow, American actor and comedian (Police Academy), born in Spokane, Washington
1962 – Chris Christie, American politician (Governor of New Jersey (R) 2010-), born in Newark, New Jersey
1968 – Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish writer (Quite Ugly One Morning), born in Glasgow, Scotland
1972 – Justina Machado, Puerto Rican actress (Six Feet Under), born in Chicago, Illinois
1977 – Kiyoshi Hikawa, Japanese enka singer, born in Fukuoka, Japan
1980 – Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer (Nigerian national team captain), born in Kono, Rivers State, Nigeria
Famous Birthdays for 5th September 2019
1775 – Juan Martín Díez, El Empecinado (The Undaunted), Spanish guerrillero, born in Valladolid, Spain (d. 1825)
1791 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German opera composer (Golt Und Die Natur), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1864)
1905 – Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-British writer (Arrow in Blue), born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (d. 1983)
1921 – Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive, born in Houston, Texas (d. 2007)
1933 – Vincent McDermott, American composer, born in Atlantic City, New Jersey (d. 2016)
1942 – Werner Herzog, German director (Burden of Dreams, Stroszek, Woyzeck), born in Munich, Germany
1954 – Frederick Kempe, American author, journalist, and executive, born in Utah
1968 – Brad Wilk, American musician (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine), born in Portland, Oregon
1972 – Tom Carter, American NFL cornerback (Washington Redskins), born in St. Petersburg, Florida
1978 – Zhang Zhong, Chinese-Singaporean chess player, born in Chongqing, China
Famous Birthdays for 4th September 2019
1802 – Marcus Whitman, American physician and missionary (Oregon Trail), born in Federal Hollow, New York (d. 1847)
1824 – Phoebe Cary, American poet (Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1871)
1900 – Cornelis Verolme, Dutch ship builder, born in Nieuwe-Tonge, Netherlands (d. 1981)
1904 – Christian-Jaque, French film director, born in Paris (d. 1994)
1907 – Maurice Ashley, historian and editor (The Listener) (d. 1994)
1918 – Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter and orchestra leader (Redd Foxx), born in Shelby, Mississippi (d. 2014)
1949 – Dean Pees, National Football League defensive coordinator
1953 – Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, American actor (Freddie-Welcome Back Kotter), born in NYC, New York
1955 – Brian Schweitzer, American politician, governor of Montana
1959 – Kevin Harrington, Australian actor