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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Reuben V. Anderson
Attorney
16-Sep-1942   Partner, Phelps Dunbar
Marc Anthony
Singer
16-Sep-1969   Leading salsa star
Jean Arp
Sculptor
16-Sep-1887 7-Jun-1966 Avant-garde sculptor, Dadaist
Lauren Bacall
Actor
16-Sep-1924   Key Largo
Alex Barris
TV Personality
16-Sep-1922 15-Jan-2004 Canadian TV star from the '50s and '60s
Elgin Baylor
Basketball
16-Sep-1934   Los Angeles Lakers forward
Walt Becker
Film Director
16-Sep-1968   Van Wilder
Ed Begley, Jr.
Actor
16-Sep-1949   Meet the Applegates
David Benedictus
Novelist
16-Sep-1938   The Fourth of June
Charles Bidwill, Sr.
Football
16-Sep-1895 19-Apr-1947 Owner, Chicago Cardinals, 1933-47
Alexis Bledel
Actor
16-Sep-1981   Rory on Gilmore Girls
Dave Blood
Bassist
16-Sep-1956 10-Mar-2004 Bassist for the Dead Milkmen
Tommy Bond
Actor
16-Sep-1926 24-Sep-2005 Butch on The Little Rascals
Jayne Brook
Actor
16-Sep-1960   Chicago Hope
Sabrina Bryan
Singer
16-Sep-1984   The Cheetah Girls
Charlie Byrd
Jazz Musician
16-Sep-1925 30-Nov-1999 Brought the Bossa Nova to America
George Chakiris
Actor
16-Sep-1934   West Side Story
Lenny Clarke
Actor
16-Sep-1953   Uncle Teddy on Rescue Me
Eva M. Clayton
Politician
16-Sep-1934   Congresswoman from North Carolina, 1992-2003
J. Michael Cook
Business
16-Sep-1942   CEO of Deloitte & Touche, 1989-99
David Copperfield
Magician
16-Sep-1956   Disappeared the Statue of Liberty
Nicolas Desmarest
Geologist
16-Sep-1725 28-Sep-1815 Proved rocks can be igneous
Karl Doenitz
Military
16-Sep-1891 2-Dec-1980 U-Boat admiral
Jo Ann Emerson
Politician
16-Sep-1950   Congresswoman, Missouri 8th
Richard Engel
Journalist
16-Sep-1973   NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent
Peter Falk
Actor
16-Sep-1927 23-Jun-2011 Detective Columbo
Anne Francis
Actor
16-Sep-1930 2-Jan-2011 Forbidden Planet
Justine Frischmann
Guitarist
16-Sep-1969   Guitarist, Elastica
Kurt Fuller
Actor
16-Sep-1953   Joel on Better with You
Allen Funt
Film/TV Producer
16-Sep-1914 5-Sep-1999 Producer and host of Candid Camera
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Author
16-Sep-1950   The Signifying Monkey
Mark Gearan
Government
16-Sep-1956   Peace Corps Director, 1995-99
Tamron Hall
Journalist
16-Sep-1970   NewsNation with Tamron Hall
Guy Hamilton
Film Director
16-Sep-1922   Goldfinger
Mildred Fish Harnack
Spy
16-Sep-1902 16-Feb-1943 Guillotined by the Gestapo
Charles Haughey
Head of State
16-Sep-1925 13-Jun-2006 Three-time Prime Minister of Ireland
Linda Kaye Henning
Actor
16-Sep-1944   Betty Jo Elliott on Petticoat Junction
Orel Hershiser
Baseball
16-Sep-1958   Bulldog
Hildegard von Bingen
Religion
16-Sep-1098 17-Sep-1179 Scivias seu Visiones
Karen Horney
Psychologist
16-Sep-1885 4-Dec-1952 Disputed Freud's concept of "penis envy"
T. E. Hulme
Poet
16-Sep-1883 28-Sep-1917 Modernist poet and critic
Samuel D. Ingham
Politician
16-Sep-1779 5-Jun-1860 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1829-31
Isabel Jeans
Actor
16-Sep-1891 4-Sep-1985 Easy Virtue
Nick Jonas
Musician
16-Sep-1992   The Jonas Brothers
Paul G. Kaminski
Military
16-Sep-1942   CEO of Technovation, Inc.
Jack Kelly
Actor
16-Sep-1927 7-Nov-1992 Bart Maverick
Dale Kildee
Politician
16-Sep-1929   Congressman, Michigan 5th
B. B. King
Musician
16-Sep-1925   King of the Blues
John Knowles
Novelist
16-Sep-1926 29-Nov-2001 A Separate Peace
Alexander Korda
Film Director
16-Sep-1893 23-Jan-1956 The Private Life of Henry VIII
Albrecht Kossel
Scientist
16-Sep-1853 5-Jul-1927 Chemistry of tissues and cells
Andrew Bonar Law
Head of State
16-Sep-1858 30-Oct-1923 UK Prime Minister, 1922-23
Ricardo Flores Magón
Anarchist
16-Sep-1873 21-Nov-1922 Agitator behind Mexican revolution
Richard Marx
Singer/Songwriter
16-Sep-1963   Songwriter, former mulleteer
Eric Massa
Politician
16-Sep-1959   Congressman from New York, 2009-10
Jim McBride
Film Director
16-Sep-1941   The Big Easy
Margaret G. McGlynn
Business
16-Sep-1959   President, Vaccine Division, Merck
Michael McNulty
Politician
16-Sep-1947   Congressman from New York, 1989-2009
James Alan McPherson
Author
16-Sep-1943   Elbow Room
Derek Mitchell
Diplomat
16-Sep-1964   US Policy Coordinator for Burma
Klaus-Peter Müller
Business
16-Sep-1944   Chairman of Commerzbank, 2001-08
Musiq
Singer
16-Sep-1977   Philly soul singer
Charles Thomas Newton
Archaeologist
16-Sep-1816 28-Nov-1894 Discovered Halicarnassus mausoleum
Janis Paige
Actor
16-Sep-1922   Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Korla Pandit
Musician
16-Sep-1921 2-Oct-1998 Hynoptic exotic
Sir Anthony Panizzi
Curator
16-Sep-1797 8-Apr-1879 Librarian of the British Museum
Francis Parkman
Historian
16-Sep-1823 8-Nov-1893 France and England in North America
Jerry Pate
Golf
16-Sep-1953   Winner, 1976 US Open
J. C. Penney
Business
16-Sep-1875 12-Feb-1971 Founder of J. C. Penney Company
Richard Perle
Government
16-Sep-1941   Prince of Darkness
Laurence J. Peter
Scientist
16-Sep-1919 12-Jan-1990 The Peter Principle
Amy Poehler
Actor
16-Sep-1971   Leslie Knope on Parks and Recreation
Kyla Pratt
Actor
16-Sep-1986   One on One
Tim Raines
Baseball
16-Sep-1959   Former Montreal Expos outfielder
Christopher Rich
Actor
16-Sep-1953   Miller Redfield on Murphy Brown
David Rivera
Politician
16-Sep-1965   Congressman, Florida 25th
Jim Romenesko
Blogger
16-Sep-1953   The Obscure Store and Reading Room
Mickey Rourke
Actor
16-Sep-1952   The Wrestler
Marvin Runyon
Government
16-Sep-1924 3-May-2004 US Postmaster General, 1992-98
Susan Ruttan
Actor
16-Sep-1950   Roxanne Melman on L.A. Law
Jacob Schick
Inventor
16-Sep-1877 3-Jul-1937 Electric razor
Ronald L. Schlicher
Diplomat
16-Sep-1956   US Ambassador to Cyprus
Ruth A. Schmidt
Educator
16-Sep-1930 24-May-2010 President of Agnes Scott College, 1982-94
Robert Schuller
Religion
16-Sep-1926   World's most upbeat televangelist
Assumpta Serna
Actor
16-Sep-1957   Matador
Seth
Cartoonist
16-Sep-1962   Palooka-Ville
Molly Shannon
Comic
16-Sep-1964   Saturday Night Live
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Author
16-Sep-1888 3-Jun-1964 The Loveliness and Wretchedness of Human Life
Stan Stephens
Politician
16-Sep-1929   Governor of Montana, 1989-93
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Scientist
16-Sep-1893 22-Oct-1986 Vitamins C and B2
Paul Taffanel
Musician
16-Sep-1844 22-Nov-1908 Flautist, French Flute School
Jennifer Tilly
Actor
16-Sep-1958   Bound, Monsters, Inc.
Neil Turner
Politician
16-Sep-1945   British MP, Wigan
Jerry Wald
Film/TV Producer
16-Sep-1911 13-Jul-1962 Peyton Place
Robert E. Witt
Educator
16-Sep-1940   President, University of Alabama
Morgan Woodward
Actor
16-Sep-1925   Punk Anderson on Dallas
Lee Kuan Yew
Head of State
16-Sep-1923   Prime Minister of Singapore, 1959-90
Robin Yount
Baseball
16-Sep-1955   American League MVP, 1982 and 1989
Madeline Zima
Actor
16-Sep-1985   Grace Sheffield on The Nanny




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