Events in History
Event of Interest
Sep 17 Charles Lindbergh visits San Francisco
Birthdays in History
- Sep 4 Aleksandr Nikolayevich Matinchenko, Russian cosmonaut, born in Verhhyi Mamon, Voronezh Region, Russia (d. 1999)
John McCarthy (1927-2011)
Sep 4 American computer scientist (coined the term "artificial intelligence," created the Lisp programming language), born in Boston, Massachusetts
Paul Volcker (1927-2019)
Sep 5 American economist and Chairman of the US Federal Reserve (1979-87), born in Cape May, New Jersey
- Sep 6 Margaret Keane, American painter whose husband claimed credit for her work (Big Eyes paintings), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 2022) [1]
- Sep 7 Eric Hill, British children's books author and illustrator (Where's Spot), born in Holloway, London (d. 2014)
- Sep 7 François Billetdoux, French author (Word Awake), born in Paris (d. 1991)
- Sep 11 G. David Schine, American businessman, born in Gloversville, New York (d. 1996)
- Sep 12 Ina Muller-van Ast, Dutch politician (PvdA), born in The Hague, Netherlands
- Sep 14 Martin Caidin, American aviation writer, born in NYC, New York (d. 1997)
- Sep 15 David Stove, Australian philosopher, (d. 1994)
- Sep 17 Theodore S. Weiss, American politician (Rep-D-NY, 1977-92), born in Gáva, Hungary (d. 1992)
- Sep 18 Gerlando Alberti, Sicilian Mafioso (Ciaculli massacre, 1963, 'Mafia! What is that? A kind of cheese'), born in Palermo, Sicily (d. 2012)
- Sep 22 Eligio [Kika] De La Garza, American politician (Rep-D-Texas, 1965-97), born in Mercedes, Texas (d. 2017)
- Sep 26 Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (International Baccalaureate Organisation), born in Kilkenny, Ireland (d. 1990)
- Sep 26 Robert Cade, American physician and inventor of Gatorade, born in San Antonio, Texas (d. 2007)
- Sep 27 Eli van der Merwe Louw, South African minister of Transport/Manpower
- Sep 28 Thomas J.J. Altizer, US Radical theologian (God is Dead), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 2018)
- Sep 29 Paul McCloskey, American politician (Senator-R-California 1967-83), born in Loma Linda, California
- Sep 30 W. S. Merwin, American poet (17th United States Poet Laureate), born in New York City (d. 2019)
Deaths in History
- Sep 12 Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer, dies at 80
- Sep 12 Walther Amelung, German archaeologist, dies at 61
- Sep 14 Hugo Ball, German playwright and social critic (co-founder Flametti, Dada), dies of cancer at 41
- Sep 15 Herman Gorter, Dutch socialist and poet (May, Tiny Hero's Poem), dies at 62
- Sep 19 Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
- Sep 29 Arthur Achleitner, German writer, dies at 69
- Sep 29 Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist and inventor of the electrocardiodiogram (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1924), dies at 67
- Sep 30 Samuel Garman, American zoologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and namesake of a Jamaican lizard, dies at 84
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