Sep 14 James Wilson, One of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a signatory of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, born in Carskerdo, Scotland (d. 1798)
Famous Deaths
Sep 24 Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (b. 1684)
Sep 27 Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (b. 1672)
Sep 28 Jean Baptiste Massillon, French churchman, dies at 79
