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September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 103 days remaining until the end of the year.
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[edit] Births
- 86 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (d. 161)
- 866 - Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (d. 912)
- 1377 - Duke Albert IV of Austria (d. 1404)
- 1551 - King Henry III of France (d. 1589)
- 1676 - Eberhard IV Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1733)
- 1714 - Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1786)
- 1737 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American signer of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Senator (d. 1832)
- 1749 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (d. 1822)
- 1754 - John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key (d. 1821)
- 1759 - William Kirby, English entomologist (d. 1850)
- 1778 - Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1868)
- 1796 - Hartley Coleridge, English poet (d. 1849)
- 1799 - René Caillé, French explorer (d. 1838)
- 1802 - Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer and Regent-President (d. 1894)
- 1803 - Maria Anna of Sardinia, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1884)
- 1811 - Orson Pratt, American religious leader (d. 1881)
- 1828 - Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1880)
- 1882 - Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (d. 1965)
- 1887 - Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (d. 1972)
- 1887 - Lynne Overman, American actor (d. 1943)
- 1888 - J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (d. 1971)
- 1889 - Sadie Delany, American physician and author (d. 1999)
- 1898 - Giuseppe Saragat, president of the Italian Republic (d. 1988)
- 1901 - Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-born film producer (d. 1991)
- 1905 - Leon Jaworski, American Watergate scandal special prosecutor (d. 1982)
- 1907 - Lewis Franklin Powell, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1998)
- 1908 - Mika Waltari, Finnish novelist (d. 1979)
- 1909 - Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile pioneer (d. 1998)
- 1910 - Margaret Lindsay, American actress (d. 1981)
- 1911 - Sir William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
- 1912 - Kurt Sanderling, German conductor
- 1913 - Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970)
- 1915 - Germán Valdés, Mexican actor, singer and comedian (d. 1973)
- 1919 - Mary Midgley, American philosopher
- 1919 - Alberic Schotte, Belgian cyclist (d. 2004)
- 1920 - Roger Angell, American sports writer
- 1921 - Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator & writer (d. 1997)
- 1922 - Damon Knight, American writer (d. 2002)
- 1922 - Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (d. 2000)
- 1926 - James Lipton, American actor, writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio
- 1926 - Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1926 - Duke Snider, baseball player
- 1927 - Rosemary Harris, English actress
- 1927 - William Hickey, American actor (d. 1997)
- 1928 - Adam West, American actor
- 1930 - Antonio Margheriti, Italian filmmaker
- 1931 - Jean-Claude Carrière, French screenwriter and actor
- 1931 - Brook Benton, American singer (d. 1988)
- 1933 - David McCallum, Scottish actor
- 1933 - Gilles Archambault, Québécois novelist
- 1934 - Brian Epstein, English musical group manager (the Beatles) (d. 1967)
- 1935 - Benjamin Hacker, American naval aviator (d. 2003)
- 1935 - Nick Massi, American singer (The Four Seasons) (d. 2000)
- 1936 - Al Oerter, American athlete (d. 2007)
- 1937 - Abner Haynes, American football player
- 1940 - Paul Williams, American composer
- 1940 - Ed Westfall, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1940 - Bill Medley, American singer and songwriter (The Righteous Brothers)
- 1941 - Mama Cass Elliot, American musician (d. 1974)
- 1941 - Umberto Bossi, Italian politician
- 1943 - Joe Morgan, baseball player
- 1944 - Jean Succar Kuri, Lebanese-born Mexican businessman
- 1944 - Anders Björck, Swedish politician
- 1945 - Randolph Mantooth, American actor
- 1945 - Freda Payne, American singer and actress
- 1946 - Brian Henton, English racing driver
- 1947 - Lol Creme, English musician (10cc, Godley & Creme)
- 1948 - Jeremy Irons, English actor
- 1949 - Barry Scheck, American lawyer, co-founder Innocence Project
- 1949 - Sally Potter, English film director and screenwriter
- 1949 - Twiggy, English model
- 1950 - Joan Lunden, American journalist and television host
- 1951 - Daniel Lanois, Canadian record producer
- 1952 - Nile Rodgers, American musician and composer
- 1952 - Gunnar Hökmark, Swedish politician
- 1952 - Bernard de Dryver, Belgian racing driver
- 1955 - Charlie Reliford, baseball umpire
- 1955 - Rex Smith, American singer and actor
- 1955 - Richard Burmer, American composer, sound designer and electronic musician (d. 2006)
- 1956 - Juan Manuel Fangio II, Argentine racing driver
- 1958 - Lita Ford, English-born singer (The Runaways)
- 1958 - Kevin Hooks, American actor and director
- 1958 - Azumah Nelson, Ghanaian boxer
- 1960 - Loïc Bigois, French engineer
- 1962 - Cheri Oteri, American actress and comedian
- 1963 - Jarvis Cocker, English singer, songwriter and musician (Pulp)
- 1963 - David Seaman, English footballer
- 1964 - Bob Papa, American sportscaster
- 1964 - Trisha Yearwood, American singer
- 1964 - Patrick Marber, British playwright
- 1965 - Alexandra Vandernoot, Belgian actress
- 1966 - Soledad O'Brien, American journalist
- 1966 - Eric Robert Rudolph, American criminal
- 1967 - Jim Abbott, baseball player
- 1967 - Alexander Karelin, Russian wrestler
- 1967 - Stéphane Crête, Quebec actor
- 1969 - Tapio Wilska, Finnish singer
- 1969 - Alkinoos Ioannidis, Greek-Cypriot singer and composer
- 1970 - Victor Williams, American actor
- 1970 - Takanori Nishikawa, Japanese pop/rock singer
- 1970 - Gilbert Dionne, National Hockey League player
- 1970 - Dan Bylsma, National Hockey League player
- 1973 - Nick Colgan, Irish footballer
- 1973 - Cristiano Da Matta, Brazilian racing car driver
- 1974 - Jimmy Fallon, American actor and comedian
- 1974 - Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model
- 1976 - Raja Bell, American basketball player
- 1976 - Alison Sweeney, American actress
- 1976 - Jim Ward, American musician (At the Drive-In, Sparta)
- 1976 - Jessica York, television personality
- 1977 - Ryan Dusick, American drummer (Maroon 5)
- 1978 - Michelle Alves, Brazilian supermodel
- 1978 - Nick Johnson, baseball player
- 1978 - Nigel Mitchell, Quizmania and Capital Disney presenter
- 1978 - Jorge López Montaña, Spanish footballer
- 1979 - Dannielle Brent, British actress
- 1979 - Noémie Lenoir, French supermodel and actress
- 1980 - Tegan and Sara, Canadian singer/songwriters
- 1981 - Damiano Cunego, Italian cyclist
- 1981 - Rick Dipietro, American ice hockey goaltender
- 1981 - Scott Baker, American baseball player
- 1982 - Nicole Voss, American model
- 1982 - Eleni Daniilidou, Greek tennis player
- 1982 - Jordan Parise, American ice hockey player
- 1983 - Joey Devine, American baseball player
- 1983 - Charlie Haeger, American baseball player
- 1983 - Matt Wiman, American mixed martial artist
- 1984 - Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor
- 1984 - Eamon Doyle, American pop singer
- 1986 - Peter Vack, American voice actor
- 1986 - Gerald Ciolek, German cyclist
- 1986 - Ken Gushi, Japanese racing driver
- 1987 - Danielle Panabaker, American actress
- 1990 - Patrick Breeding, American singer (B5)
[edit] Deaths
- 690 - Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 602)
- 1339 - Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (b. 1288)
- 1356 - Killed at the Battle of Poitiers:
- 1668 - William Waller, English soldier
- 1692 - Giles Corey, American farmer killed in the Salem Witch Trials
- 1693 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (b. 1641)
- 1710 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644)
- 1843 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (b. 1792)
- 1868 - William Sprague, American minister and politician from Michigan (b. 1809)
- 1881 - James Garfield, 20th President of the United States (b. 1831)
- 1893 - Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician, a father of Canadian Confederation (b. 1817)
- 1905 - Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist (b. 1845)
- 1906 - Maria Georgina Grey (b.1816), British writer who promoted women’s education and founder the Girls' Day School Trust.
- 1924 - Alick Bannerman, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
- 1927 - Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
- 1935 - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1857)
- 1936 - Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (b. 1860)
- 1938 - Pauline Frederick, American actress (b. 1883)
- 1942 - Condé Nast, American publisher (b. 1873)
- 1944 - Guy Gibson, British aviator, awarded Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
- 1949 - Will Cuppy, American humorist (b. 1884)
- 1949 - George Shiels, Irish dramatist (b. 1886)
- 1949 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer (b. 1901)
- 1955 - John D. Dingell, U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. 1894)
- 1967 - Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian painter (b. 1884)
- 1967 - Monica Proietti, Canadian criminal (b. 1940)
- 1968 - Chester Carlson, American inventor (b. 1906)
- 1968 - Red Foley, American singer (b. 1910)
- 1969 - Rex Ingram, American actor (b. 1895)
- 1972 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (b. 1899)
- 1973 - Gram Parsons, American musician (b. 1946)
- 1978 - Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and historian (b. 1884)
- 1985 - Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b. 1923)
- 1987 - Einar Gerhardsen, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)
- 1990 - Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1910)
- 1995 - Orville Redenbacher, American botanist and businessman (b. 1907)
- 1997 - Rich Mullins, American singer (b. 1955)
- 2000 - Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (b. 1917)
- 2002 - Robert Guéï, ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1941)
- 2003 - Slim Dusty, Australian singer (b. 1927)
- 2004 - Eddie Adams, American photographer, won Pulitzer Prize (b. 1933)
- 2004 - Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian turned American international civil servant (b. 1919)
- 2004 - Skeeter Davis, American singer (b. 1931)
- 2004 - Ellis Marsalis, American businessman, musician, and activist
- 2006 - Elizabeth Allen, American actress (b. 1929)
- 2006 - Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b. 1950)
- 2006 - Chuck Rio, American singer and saxophonist (The Champs) (b. 1929)
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