September 14 Events AD 81 - Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus . 629 - Emperor Heraclius enters Constantinople in triumph after his victory over the Persian Empire . 786 - "Night of the three Caliphs": Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi . Birth of Harun's son al-Ma'mun . 919 - Battle of Islandbridge: High King Niall Glúndub is killed while leading an Irish coalition against the Vikings of Uí Ímair, led by King Sitric Cáech. 1180 - Genpei War: Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan. 1402 - Battle of Homildon Hill results in an English victory over Scotland. 1607 - Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland . 1682 - Bishop Gore School , one of the oldest schools in Wales , is founded. 1723 - Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta . 1741 - George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah . 1752 - The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar , skipping eleven days. 1763 - Seneca warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Devil's Hole during Pontiac's War . 1782 - American Revolutionary War: Review of the French troops under General Rochambeau by General George Washington at Verplanck's Point , New York. 1791 - The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France . 1808 - Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes at the Battle of Oravais . 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée enters Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city. 1814 - Battle of Baltimore: The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key . The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner . 1829 - The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War . 1846 - Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court. 1862 - American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain , part of the Maryland Campaign , is fought. 1901 - U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt . 1914 -, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea . 1917 - The Russian Empire is formally replaced by the Russian Republic . 1936 - Raoul Villain , who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaures , is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza 1939 - World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine in Tallinn , sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia . 1940 - Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians , kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj , a village in Northern Transylvania , an act of ethnic cleansing . 1943 - World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos , whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons. 1944 - World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces . 1948 - The Indian Army captures the city of Aurangabad as part of Operation Polo . 1954 - In a top secret nuclear test , a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village. 1958 - The first two German post-war rockets , designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr , reach the upper atmosphere. 1959 - The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it. 1960 - The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is founded. 1960 - Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution. 1969 - The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery date. 1975 - The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton , is canonized by Pope Paul VI . 1979 - Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin , who becomes the new president. 1982 - President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel is assassinated. 1984 - Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean. 1985 - Penang Bridge , the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic. 1989 - The Standard Gravure shooting where Joseph T. Wesbecker, a 47-year old pressman, killed 8 people and injured 12 people at his former workplace, Standard Gravure , before committing suicide. 1992 The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal. 1993 - Lufthansa Flight 2904 , an Airbus A320 , crashes into an embankment after overshooting the runway at Okęcie International Airport, killing two people. 1994 - The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike . 1997 - Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh , India . 1998 - Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom . 1999 - Kiribati , Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations . 2000 - Microsoft releases Windows ME . 2001 - Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks . A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill , the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital. 2003 - In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union . 2007 - Financial crisis of 2007–2008: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years. 2015 - The first observation of gravitational waves was made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016. 2019 - Yemen's Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.Births 208 - Diadumenian , Roman emperor 768 - Al-Ma'mun , Abbasid caliph, 7th 938 - Sahib ibn Abbad , Persian scholar and statesman 953 - Guo Zongxun , Chinese emperor 1032 - Dao Zong , Chinese emperor 1246 - John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel , English nobleman 1384 - Ephraim of Nea Makri , Greek martyr and saint 1388 - Claudius Clavus , Danish geographer and cartographer 1401 - Maria of Castile , Queen consort of Aragon and Naples 1485 - Anna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , Landgravine of Hesse 1486 - Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa , German theologian, astrologer, and alchemist 1543 - Claudio Acquaviva , Italian priest, 5th Superior General of the Society of Jesus 1547 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt , Dutch politician 1580 - Francisco de Quevedo , Spanish poet and politician 1618 - Peter Lely , Dutch-English painter 1643 - Jeremiah Dummer , American silversmith 1656 - Thomas Baker , English historian and author 1713 - Johann Kies , German astronomer and mathematician 1721 - Eliphalet Dyer , American colonel, lawyer, and politician 1736 - Robert Raikes , English philanthropist, founded Sunday school 1737 - Michael Haydn , Austrian singer and composer 1769 - Alexander von Humboldt , German geographer and explorer 1774 - Lord William Bentinck , English general and politician, 14th Governor-General of India 1791 - Franz Bopp , German linguist and academic 1804 - John Gould , English ornithologist and illustrator 1804 - Louis Désiré Maigret , French bishop 1816 - Mary Hall Barrett Adams , American book editor and letter writer 1837 - Nikolai Bugaev , Georgian-Russian mathematician and philosopher 1843 - Lola Rodríguez de Tió , Puerto Rican poet, abolitionist, and women's rights activist 1847 - Fanny Holland , English actress and singer 1850 - Anton Mahnič , Slovenian bishop, philosopher, and theologian 1853 - Ponnambalam Arunachalam , Sri Lankan civil servant and politician 1857 - Julia Platt , American embryologist and politician 1860 - Hamlin Garland , American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer 1864 - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood , English lawyer and politician, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , Nobel Prize laureate 1867 - Charles Dana Gibson , American illustrator 1868 - Théodore Botrel , French singer-songwriter, poet, and playwright 1869 - Kid Nichols , American baseball player and manager 1872 - John Olof Dahlgren , Swedish-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient 1879 - Margaret Sanger , American nurse and activist 1880 - Benjamin , Russian bishop and missionary 1880 - Archie Hahn , American sprinter, football player, and coach 1883 - Richard Gerstl , Austrian painter and illustrator 1885 - Vittorio Gui , Italian conductor, composer, and critic 1886 - Jan Masaryk , Czech soldier and politician, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs 1887 - Paul Kochanski , Polish violinist and composer 1887 - Karl Taylor Compton , American physicist, 9th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1891 - Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov , Russian mathematician and academic 1892 - Laurence W. Allen, English lieutenant and pilot 1896 - José Mojica , Mexican tenor and actor 1898 - Lawrence Gellert , Hungarian-American musicologist and song collector 1898 - Ernest Nash , German-Italian photographer and scholar 1898 - Hal B. Wallis, American film producer 1902 - Giorgos Papasideris , Greek singer-songwriter 1902 - Alice Tully , American soprano and philanthropist 1903 - Mart Raud , Estonian poet and author 1904 - Frank Amyot , Canadian sprint canoeist 1904 -Richard Mohaupt, German composer and Kapellmeister 1907 - Yuri Ivask , Russian-American poet and critic 1909 - Peter Scott , English ornithologist, painter, and sailor 1910 - Lehman Engel , American composer and conductor 1910 - Jack Hawkins , English actor and producer 1910 - Yiannis Latsis , Greek businessman 1910 - Rolf Liebermann , Swiss-French composer and manager 1911 - William H. Armstrong, American author and educator 1913 - Jacobo Árbenz , Guatemalan captain and politician, President of Guatemala 1913 - Rubby Sherr , American physicist and academic 1914 - Mae Boren Axton , American composer and educator 1914 - Clayton Moore , American actor 1915 - John Dobson , Chinese-American astronomer and author, designed the Dobsonian telescope 1916 - Eric Bentley , English-American singer, playwright, and critic 1916 - John Heyer , Australian director and producer 1917 - Rudolf Baumgartner , Swiss violinist and conductor 1918 - Georges Berger , Belgian race car driver 1918 - Cachao López , Cuban-American bassist and composer 1919 - Deryck Cooke , English musicologist and broadcaster 1919 - Gil Langley , Australian cricketer, footballer, and politician 1919 - Olga Lowe , South African-English actress 1919 - Kay Medford , American actress 1920 - Mario Benedetti , Uruguayan journalist and author 1920 - Lawrence Klein , American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1920 - Alberto Calderón , Argentinian-American mathematician and academic 1921 - Constance Baker Motley , American lawyer, judge, and politician 1921 - A. Jean de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer, businessman, and academic 1921 - Paul Poberezny , American pilot and businessman, founded the Experimental Aircraft Association 1921 - Dario Vittori , Italian-Argentinian actor and producer 1922 - Michel Auclair , German-French actor 1922 - Frances Bergen , American model and actress 1922 - Alfred Käärmann , Estonian soldier and author 1923 - Nicholas Georgiadis , Greek painter and costume designer 1924 - Patricia Barringer , American baseball player and accountant 1924 - Jerry Coleman , American baseball player and manager 1924 - Abioseh Nicol , Sierra Leonean-English physician, academic, and diplomat 1924 - Wim Polak , Dutch journalist and politician, Mayor of Amsterdam 1926 - Michel Butor , French author and critic 1926 - Richard Ellsasser , American organist, composer, and conductor 1926 - Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco , Spanish noblewoman 1927 - Martin Caidin , American author and screenwriter 1927 - Janet Davies , English actress 1927 - Gardner Dickinson , American golfer 1927 - Jim Fanning , American-Canadian baseball player and manager 1927 - Edmund Szoka , American cardinal 1928 - Jay Cameron , American reed player and saxophonist 1928 - Alberto Korda , Cuban photographer 1928 - Angus Ogilvy , English businessman 1929 - Larry Collins , American-French journalist, historian, and author 1930 - Allan Bloom , American philosopher and academic 1930 - Romola Costantino , Australian pianist and critic 1930 - Eugene I. Gordon, American physicist and engineer 1932 - Harry Sinden , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager 1932 - John Tembo , Malawian politician 1933 - Zoe Caldwell , Australian actress 1933 - Harve Presnell , American actor and singer 1934 - Sarah Kofman , French philosopher and academic 1934 - Paul Little , New Zealand rugby player 1934 - Kate Millett , American author and activist 1934 - Don Walser , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1935 - Fujio Akatsuka , Japanese illustrator 1936 - Harry Danielsen , Norwegian educator and politician 1936 - Terence Donovan , English photographer and director 1936 - Walter Koenig , American actor, producer, and screenwriter 1936 - Ferid Murad , American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate 1936 - Lucas Samaras , Greek-American painter and photographer 1937 - Renzo Piano , Italian architect and engineer, designed The Shard and The New York Times Building 1938 - Franco Califano , Libya-born Italian singer-songwriter 1938 - Nicol Williamson , Scottish actor 1939 - DeWitt Weaver , American golfer 1940 - Ventseslav Konstantinov , Bulgarian writer and translator 1940 - Larry Brown , American basketball player and coach 1941 - Bruce Hyde , American actor and academic 1941 - Ian Kennedy , English lawyer and academic 1941 - Joan Trumpauer Mulholland , American civil rights activist 1941 - Alberto Naranjo , Venezuelan drummer, composer, and bandleader 1941 - Alex St. Clair, American guitarist and songwriter 1942 - Oliver Lake , American saxophonist, flute player, and composer 1942 - Roger Lyons , English trade union leader 1942 - Bernard MacLaverty , Irish author, playwright, and screenwriter 1943 - Irwin Goodman , Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist 1943 - Marcos Valle , Brazilian singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer 1944 - Joey Heatherton , American actress, singer, and dancer 1944 - Günter Netzer , German footballer and manager 1945 - Martin Tyler , English sportscaster 1946 - Pete Agnew , Scottish rock bassist and singer 1946 - Jim Angle , American soldier and journalist 1946 - Wolfgang Sühnholz , German-American soccer player and coach 1947 - Jon Bauman , American singer 1947 - Sam Neill , Northern Irish-New Zealand actor and director 1948 - Marc Reisner , American environmentalist and author 1949 - Steve Gaines , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1949 - Ed King , American guitarist and songwriter 1949 - Tommy Seebach , Danish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer 1949 - Fred "Sonic" Smith , American guitarist and songwriter 1949 - Eikichi Yazawa , Japanese singer-songwriter 1950 - Paul Kossoff , English guitarist and songwriter 1950 - Masami Kuwashima , Japanese race car driver 1950 - Mike Nifong , American lawyer and politician 1950 - John Steptoe , American author and illustrator 1951 - Volodymyr Melnykov , Ukrainian poet, writer, songwriter and composer 1953 - Tom Cora , American cellist and composer 1953 - Judy Playfair , Australian swimmer 1954 - Barry Cowsill , American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer 1954 - David Wojnarowicz , American painter and photographer 1955 - Steve Berlin , American saxophonist, keyboard player, and producer 1955 - Geraldine Brooks , Australian-American novelist and journalist 1955 - William Jackson , Scottish harp player and composer 1955 - Edu Manzano , American-Filipino actor and politician 1956 - Paul Allott , English cricketer and sportscaster 1956 - Kostas Karamanlis , Greek lawyer and politician, 181st Prime Minister of Greece 1956 - Nathalie Roussel , French actress 1956 - Ray Wilkins , English footballer and manager 1956 - Lefteris Zagoritis , Greek lawyer and politician 1957 - Tim Wallach , American baseball player and coach 1957 - Kepler Wessels , South African cricketer, coach, and sportscaster 1958 - Paul Clark , English footballer and manager 1958 - Jeff Crowe , New Zealand cricketer, referee, and manager 1958 - Arlindo Cruz , Brazilian singer-songwriter 1958 - Beth Nielsen Chapman , American singer-songwriter 1959 - John Berry , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1959 - Morten Harket , Norwegian singer-songwriter 1960 - Ronald Lengkeek , Dutch footballer 1960 - Melissa Leo , American actress 1960 - Callum Keith Rennie , English-Canadian actor and producer 1961 - Freeman Mbowe , Tanzanian politician 1961 - Wendy Thomas , American businesswoman 1962 - Robert Herjavec , Croatian-Canadian businessman 1962 - Tom Kurvers , American ice hockey player and sportscaster 1962 - Bonnie Jo Campbell , American novelist and short story writer 1963 - Robin Singh , Trinidadian-Indian cricketer and coach 1964 - Faith Ford , American actress 1965 - Emily Bell , English journalist and academic 1965 - Dmitry Medvedev , Russian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Russia 1965 - Kevin O'Hare , English ballet dancer and director 1966 - Aamer Sohail , Pakistani cricketer and politician 1967 - Jens Lien , Norwegian director, producer, and screenwriter 1967 - John Power , English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1968 - Grant Shapps , English politician 1968 - Michelle Stafford , American actress, producer, and screenwriter 1969 - Denis Betts , English rugby league player and coach 1969 - Konstandinos Koukodimos , Australian-Greek long jumper and politician 1970 - Francesco Casagrande , Italian cyclist 1970 - Ben Garant , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1970 - Satoshi Kojima , Japanese wrestler 1970 - Jason Martin , Australian rugby league player, singer, and guitarist 1970 - Craig Montoya , American singer-songwriter and bass player 1970 - Mark Webber , English guitarist 1971 - Jeff Loomis , American guitarist and songwriter 1971 - Andre Matos , Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist 1971 - Christopher McCulloch , American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter 1971 - Kimberly Williams-Paisley , American actress, director, and producer 1972 - Notah Begay III , American golfer 1972 - David Bell , American baseball player and coach 1973 - Tony Bui , Vietnamese director, producer, and screenwriter 1973 - Terrell Fletcher , American football player 1973 - Andrew Lincoln , English actor 1973 - Nas , American rapper 1973 - Linvoy Primus , English footballer 1973 - Mike Ward , Canadian comedian and actor 1974 - Chad Bradford , American baseball player 1974 - Hicham El Guerrouj , Moroccan runner 1974 - Mattias Marklund , Swedish guitarist 1974 - Sunday Oliseh , Nigerian footballer and manager 1974 - Helgi Sigurðsson , Icelandic footballer 1974 - Patrick van Balkom , Dutch sprinter 1976 - Agustín Calleri , Argentinian tennis player 1977 - Mattias Agabus , Estonian architect 1977 - Malik Bendjelloul , Swedish director and producer 1977 - Miyu Matsuki , Japanese voice actress and singer 1978 - Ben Cohen , English rugby union player 1978 - Carmen Kass , Estonian model and actress 1978 - Danielle Peck , American singer-songwriter 1979 - Ivica Olić , Croatian footballer 1979 - Stefan Stam , Dutch footballer 1980 - Ayọ , German singer-songwriter and actress 1980 - Gareth Maybin , Northern Irish professional golfer 1981 - Miyavi , Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1981 - Katie Lee , American chef, author, and critic 1981 - Stefan Reisinger , German footballer 1981 - Yumi Adachi , Japanese actress and singer 1982 - SoShy , French-American singer-songwriter 1982 - Petr Průcha , Czech ice hockey player 1983 - Arash Borhani , Iranian footballer 1983 - Josh Outman , American baseball player 1983 - Frostee Rucker , American football player 1983 - Amy Winehouse , English singer-songwriter 1984 - Ayushmann Khurrana , Indian film actor, singer and anchor 1985 - Paolo Gregoletto , American bass player and songwriter 1985 - Trevis Smith , American football player 1985 - Aya Ueto , Japanese actress and singer 1985 - Delmon Young , American baseball player 1986 - Jonathan Monaghan , American director, producer, and screenwriter 1986 - Steven Naismith , Scottish footballer 1986 - Barış Özbek , German-Turkish footballer 1986 - Alan Sheehan , Irish footballer 1986 - Ai Takahashi , Japanese singer and actress 1987 - Michael Crabtree , American football player 1987 - Tinchy Stryder , Ghanaian-English rapper and producer 1988 - Martin Fourcade , French biathlete 1988 - Diogo Salomão , Portuguese footballer 1989 - Jessica Brown Findlay , English actress 1989 - Jimmy Butler , American basketball player 1989 - Tony Finau , American golfer 1989 - Logan Henderson , American singer-songwriter 1989 - Jesse James , American actor 1989 - Lee Jong-suk , South Korean actor and model 1989 - Miriam Zetter , Mexican ten-pin bowler 1990 - Douglas Costa , Brazilian footballer 1990 - Petar Filipović , German-born Croatian footballer 1990 - Belinda Hocking , Australian backstroke swimmer 1990 - Cecilie Pedersen , Norwegian footballer 1991 - Dee Milliner , American football player 1991 - Nana , South Korean singer, actress and model 1991 - Shayne Topp , American actor and Smosh cast member 1992 - Connor Fields , American cyclist 1992 - Zico , South Korean rapper 1993 - Brandon Brown , American race car driver 1994 - Brahim Darri , Dutch footballer 1994 - Gary Harris , American basketball player 1994 - Daniel O'Shaughnessy , Finnish professional football central defender 1994 - Krasimir Stanoev , Bulgarian footballer 1995 - Deshaun Watson , American football player 1996 - Hugh Bernard , English cricketer 1996 - Myles Wright , English professional footballerDeaths AD 23 - Drusus Julius Caesar , Roman son of Tiberius 258 - Cyprian , African bishop and saint 407 - John Chrysostom , Byzantine archbishop and saint 585 - Bidatsu , emperor of Japan 619 - Yang You , emperor of the Sui Dynasty 775 - Constantine V , Byzantine emperor 786 - Al-Hadi , Abbasid caliph 820 - Li Yong , chancellor of the Tang Dynasty 891 - Stephen V , pope of the Catholic Church 919 - Niall Glúndub, High King of Ireland 927 - Cele Dabhaill mac Scannal , Irish abbot 949 - Fujiwara no Tadahira , Japanese statesman 1146 - Imad ad-Din Zengi , Syrian ruler 1164 - Emperor Sutoku of Japan 1214 - Albert Avogadro , Italian lawyer, patriarch, and saint 1321 - Dante Alighieri , Italian writer 1401 - Dobrogost of Nowy Dwór , Polish bishop 1404 - Albert IV , duke of Austria 1412 - Ingegerd Knutsdotter , Swedish abbess 1435 - John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford , English politician, Lord High Admiral 1487 - Mara Branković , Serbian princess 1523 - Pope Adrian VI 1538 - Henry III of Nassau-Breda 1605 - Jan Tarnowski , Polish archbishop 1613 - Thomas Overbury , English poet 1638 - John Harvard , English-American minister and philanthropist 1646 - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex , English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire 1712 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini , Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, and engineer 1715 - Dom Pérignon , French monk and priest 1743 - Nicolas Lancret , French painter 1749 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham , English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire 1759 - Louis-Joseph de Montcalm , French general 1807 - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend , English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1821 - Heinrich Kuhl , German naturalist and zoologist 1836 - Aaron Burr , American colonel and politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States 1851 - James Fenimore Cooper , American novelist, short story writer, and historian 1852 - Augustus Pugin , English architect and critic, designed Scarisbrick Hall 1852 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington , Irish-English field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1862 - Charles Pearson , English lawyer and politician 1862 - Charles Lennox Richardson , English-Chinese merchant 1879 - Bernhard von Cotta , German geologist and author 1891 - Johannes Bosboom , Dutch painter 1898 - William Seward Burroughs I , American businessman, founded the Burroughs Corporation 1901 - William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States 1905 - Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza , Italian-French explorer 1916 - José Echegaray , Spanish engineer, mathematician, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate 1927 - Isadora Duncan , American-Russian dancer and choreographer 1931 - Tom Roberts , English-Australian painter and educator 1936 - Ossip Gabrilowitsch , Russian-American pianist and conductor 1936 - Irving Thalberg , American screenwriter and producer 1937 - Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk , Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia 1942 - E. S. Gosney, American eugenicist and philanthropist, founded Human Betterment Foundation 1951 - Fritz Busch , German conductor and director 1952 - John McPhee , Australian businessman and politician, 27th Premier of Tasmania 1959 - Wayne Morris , American actor, singer, and producer 1960 - M. Karagatsis, Greek author, playwright, and critic 1961 - Ernst Gustav Kühnert , Estonian-German architect and historian 1962 - Frederick Schule , American hurdler, football player, and coach 1965 - J. W. Hearne, English cricketer 1966 - Gertrude Berg , American actress and screenwriter 1966 - Hiram Wesley Evans , American Ku Klux Klan leader 1966 - Cemal Gürsel , Turkish general and politician, 4th President of Turkey 1975 - Walter Herbert , German-American conductor 1979 - Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan journalist and politician, 3rd President of Afghanistan 1981 - Furry Lewis , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1981 - William Loeb III , American publisher 1982 - Christian Ferras , French violinist 1982 - John Gardner , American novelist, essayist, and critic 1982 - Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese commander and politician 1982 - Grace Kelly , American-Monacan actress; Princess of Monaco 1984 - Janet Gaynor , American actress 1986 - Gordon McLendon , American broadcaster, founded the Liberty Broadcasting System 1989 - Pérez Prado , Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter and pianist 1991 - Julie Bovasso , American actress and playwright 1991 - Russell Lynes , American historian, photographer, and author 1992 - August Komendant , Estonian-American engineer and academic 1992 - Paul Martin Sr., Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs 1994 - Marika Krevata , Greek actress 1995 - Maurice K. Goddard, American colonel and politician 1996 - Rose Ouellette , Canadian actress and manager 1996 - Juliet Prowse , Indian-South African actress, singer, and dancer 1998 - Yang Shangkun , Chinese politician, and 4th President of China 1999 - Charles Crichton , English director, producer, and screenwriter 1999 - Giannos Kranidiotis , Greek politician and diplomat 2000 - Beah Richards , American actress 2000 - Jerzy Giedroyc , Belarusian-Polish soldier and activist 2001 - Stelios Kazantzidis , Greek singer and guitarist 2002 - LaWanda Page , American actress 2003 - Jerry Fleck , American actor and director 2003 - Garrett Hardin , American ecologist and author 2003 - John Serry, Sr., American accordion player and composer 2005 - William Berenberg , American physician and academic 2005 - Vladimir Volkoff , French soldier and author 2005 - Robert Wise , American director and producer 2006 - Mickey Hargitay , Hungarian-American bodybuilder and actor 2006 - Esme Melville , Australian actress 2007 - Jacques Martin , French television host and producer 2007 - Robert Savoie , Canadian opera singer 2008 - Hyman Golden , American businessman, co-founded Snapple 2009 - Keith Floyd , English chef and author 2009 - Henry Gibson , American actor 2009 - Jody Powell , American diplomat, White House Press Secretary 2009 - Patrick Swayze , American actor, singer, and dancer 2011 - Malcolm Wallop , American politician 2012 - Jacques Antoine , French game show producer, created The Crystal Maze and Fort Boyard 2012 - Eduardo Castro Luque , Mexican businessman and politician 2012 - Winston Rekert , Canadian actor and director 2012 - Kan Yuet-keung , Hong Kong banker, lawyer, and politician 2013 - Maksym Bilyi , Ukrainian footballer 2013 - Osama El-Baz , Egyptian soldier and diplomat 2013 - Faith Leech , Australian swimmer 2014 - Tony Auth , American illustrator 2014 - Peter Gutteridge , New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist 2014 - E. Jennifer Monaghan, English-American historian, author, and academic 2015 - Davey Browne , Australian boxer 2015 - Fred DeLuca , American businessman, co-founded Subway 2015 - Martin Kearns , English drummer 2015 - Corneliu Vadim Tudor , Romanian journalist and politician 2018 - Ethel Johnson , American professional wrestlerHolidays and observances Christian feast day: *Aelia Flaccilla *Cormac mac Cuilennáin *Crescentius of Rome *Feast of the Cross **Elevation of the Holy Cross *Formerly, the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday following 14 September were observed as one of the four sets of Ember days . In the Irish calendar they were known as Quarter tense . *Lord of Miracles of Buga *Louis Gabriel Taurin Dufresse *Maternus of Cologne *Notburga *September 14 Engineer's Day Hindi Day Mobilized Servicemen Day San Jacinto Day
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