| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
| George Akerson |
Government |
5-Sep-1888 |
? |
First White House Press Secretary |
| Kristian Alfonso |
Actor |
5-Sep-1964 |
|
Days of Our Lives |
| Otto Bauer |
Politician |
5-Sep-1881 |
4-Jul-1938 |
Austrian Marxist |
| Jack Buetel |
Actor |
5-Sep-1915 |
27-Jun-1989 |
Deputy Taggert on Judge Roy Bean |
| John Cage |
Composer |
5-Sep-1912 |
12-Aug-1992 |
Experimental composer |
| Tommaso Campanella |
Philosopher |
5-Sep-1568 |
21-May-1639 |
La città del Sole |
| John G. Carlisle |
Politician |
5-Sep-1834 |
31-Jul-1910 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1893-97 |
| Morris Carnovsky |
Actor |
5-Sep-1897 |
1-Sep-1992 |
Dead Reckoning |
| Don Chandler |
Football |
5-Sep-1934 |
11-Aug-2011 |
Former NFL placekicker |
| Francis Cherry |
Politician |
5-Sep-1908 |
15-Jul-1965 |
Governor of Arkansas, 1953-55 |
| Mel Collins |
Musician |
5-Sep-1947 |
|
Active session and ex-Crimson blower |
| Paddy Considine |
Actor |
5-Sep-1974 |
|
Dead Man's Shoes |
| The Legendary Stardust Cowboy |
Country Musician |
5-Sep-1947 |
|
Unique outsider country performer |
| John Danforth |
Politician |
5-Sep-1936 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN, 2004 |
| Jack Daniel |
Business |
5-Sep-1846 |
10-Oct-1911 |
Moonshine magnate |
| Bruce Davidson |
Photographer |
5-Sep-1933 |
|
East 100th Street |
| William Devane |
Actor |
5-Sep-1937 |
|
Greg Sumner on Knots Landing |
| Paul Dietzel |
Football |
5-Sep-1924 |
|
South Carolina Head Coach, 1966-74 |
| Herbert D. Doan |
Business |
5-Sep-1922 |
16-May-2006 |
CEO of Dow Chemical, 1962-71 |
| Dennis Dugan |
Actor |
5-Sep-1946 |
|
Happy Gilmore |
| Allyson K. Duncan |
Judge |
5-Sep-1951 |
|
4th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Werner Erhard |
Religion |
5-Sep-1935 |
|
Erhard Seminar Training ("est") |
| Henry H. Fowler |
Government |
5-Sep-1908 |
3-Jan-2000 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1965-68 |
| Caspar David Friedrich |
Painter |
5-Sep-1774 |
7-May-1840 |
German Romantic painter |
| Eugen Goldstein |
Physicist |
5-Sep-1850 |
25-Dec-1930 |
Cathode rays |
| Kat Graham |
Actor |
5-Sep-1989 |
|
Bonnie Bennett on The Vampire Diaries |
| Cathy Guisewite |
Cartoonist |
5-Sep-1950 |
|
Cathy |
| Victor Davis Hanson |
Historian |
5-Sep-1953 |
|
Carnage and Culture |
| Alcee Hastings |
Politician |
5-Sep-1936 |
|
Congressman, Florida 23rd |
| Werner Herzog |
Film Director |
5-Sep-1942 |
|
Fitzcarraldo |
| Gloria Holden |
Actor |
5-Sep-1908 |
22-Mar-1991 |
Dracula's Daughter |
| Jesse James |
Criminal |
5-Sep-1847 |
3-Apr-1882 |
Bank robber, with James Gang |
| Justin Kaplan |
Author |
5-Sep-1925 |
|
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain |
| Thomas H. Kean, Jr. |
Politician |
5-Sep-1968 |
|
New Jersey State Senator |
| Ric Keller |
Politician |
5-Sep-1964 |
|
Congressman from Florida, 2001-09 |
| Doris Kenyon |
Actor |
5-Sep-1897 |
1-Sep-1979 |
Counsellor at Law |
| Jonathan Kozol |
Educator |
5-Sep-1936 |
|
Death at an Early Age |
| Nap Lajoie |
Baseball |
5-Sep-1874 |
7-Feb-1959 |
MLB Hall of Famer |
| Carol Lawrence |
Actor |
5-Sep-1932 |
|
Theater actress, ex of Robert Goulet |
| George Lazenby |
Actor |
5-Sep-1939 |
|
On Her Majesty's Secret Service |
| Louis VIII |
Royalty |
5-Sep-1187 |
8-Nov-1226 |
King of France, 1223-26 |
| Louis XIV |
Royalty |
5-Sep-1638 |
1-Sep-1715 |
Le Roi Soleil |
| Eduardo Mata |
Conductor |
5-Sep-1942 |
4-Jan-1995 |
Music Director, Dallas Symphony, 1977-93 |
| Bill Mazeroski |
Baseball |
5-Sep-1936 |
|
Maz |
| Rose McGowan |
Actor |
5-Sep-1973 |
|
Paige Matthews on Charmed |
| Freddie Mercury |
Singer/Songwriter |
5-Sep-1946 |
24-Nov-1991 |
Lead singer, Queen |
| Giacomo Meyerbeer |
Composer |
5-Sep-1791 |
2-May-1864 |
Robert le Diable |
| Chris Morris |
Comic |
5-Sep-1965 |
|
Brass Eye |
| Harry Myers |
Actor |
5-Sep-1882 |
25-Dec-1938 |
City Lights |
| Bob Newhart |
Comic |
5-Sep-1929 |
|
The Bob Newhart Show |
| Arthur C. Nielsen |
Business |
5-Sep-1897 |
1-Jun-1980 |
Founder of A.C. Nielsen ratings company |
| Andrian Nikolayev |
Astronaut |
5-Sep-1929 |
3-Jul-2004 |
Third Russian cosmonaut in space |
| Philip J. Purcell |
Business |
5-Sep-1943 |
|
CEO of Morgan Stanley, 1997-2005 |
| Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
Politician |
5-Sep-1888 |
17-Apr-1975 |
Philosopher-President of India, 1962-67 |
| Holly Randall |
Photographer |
5-Sep-1978 |
|
Porn photographer/director |
| Frank Riggs |
Politician |
5-Sep-1950 |
|
Congressman from California, 1991-99 |
| Charles R. Robertson |
Politician |
5-Sep-1889 |
19-Feb-1951 |
Congressman from North Dakota, 1940s |
| Matthias Sammer |
Soccer |
5-Sep-1967 |
|
East German footballer |
| Victorien Sardou |
Playwright |
5-Sep-1831 |
8-Nov-1908 |
Les Pattes de Mouche |
| Christopher A. Sinclair |
Business |
5-Sep-1950 |
|
Former Pepsi executive |
| Dolores K. Sloviter |
Judge |
5-Sep-1932 |
|
3rd Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Al Stewart |
Singer/Songwriter |
5-Sep-1945 |
|
Year of the Cat |
| Carl Gustaf, Count Tessin |
Aristocrat |
5-Sep-1695 |
7-Jan-1770 |
Head of Swedish Chancellory |
| John H. Tyson |
Business |
5-Sep-1953 |
|
Chairman, Tyson Foods |
| Jack Valenti |
Business |
5-Sep-1921 |
26-Apr-2007 |
Presidential advisor, headed the MPAA |
| Paul Volcker |
Economist |
5-Sep-1927 |
|
Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1979-87 |
| Raquel Welch |
Actor |
5-Sep-1940 |
|
Cocktail waitress turned 60s sexpot |
| Peter Wingfield |
Actor |
5-Sep-1962 |
|
Dan Clifford on Holby City |
| Frank Yerby |
Novelist |
5-Sep-1916 |
29-Nov-1991 |
The Dahomean |
| Darryl F. Zanuck |
Film/TV Producer |
5-Sep-1902 |
22-Dec-1979 |
Ran 20th Century Fox, 1935-71 |
| Dweezil Zappa |
Guitarist |
5-Sep-1969 |
|
Son of Frank Zappa |