Famous Birthdays Sep 3 Adriano Banchieri, Italian organist, composer, poet, and monk, born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1634) Sep 5 Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet, born in Stignano, Kingdom of Sicily (d. 1639) Famous Deaths Sep 24 Antoon van Stralen, Flemish mayor of Antwerp, beheaded at about 47 1567 History by Year 1569