September 20 Dateline

Birthdays

1842 - Sir James Dewar FRS FRSE, Scottish Chemist and Physicist. He is best known for his invention of the vacuum flask, which he used in conjunction with research into the liquefaction of gases. He also studied atomic and molecular spectroscopy, working in these fields for more than 25 years.

1934 - Sophia Loren, (born Sofia Villani Scicolone), Dame of the Grand Cross OMRI, Italian Film actress and singer. She is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema at this time (2021). During the 1960s she starred in films as a sexually emancipated character and was one of the best known sex symbols. She was named by the American Film Institute as the 21st greatest female star of Classic Hollywood Cinema.  Loren's performance as Cesira in the movie Two Women directed by Vittorio De Sica earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the first actor or actress to win an Oscar for a foreign-language performance. She holds the record for having earned seven David di Donatello Awards for Best Actress: Two Women; Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow; Marriage Italian Style, for which she was nominated for a second Oscar); Sunflower; The Voyage; A Special Day and The Life Ahead. She has won five special Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award), a BAFTA Award, a Laurel Award, a Grammy Award, the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1991, she received the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievements.

1956 - Gary Cole, American actor and voice actor. He began his professional acting career on stage at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company. On television, he has had starring roles in the TV series Midnight Caller, American Gothic, The West Wing, Crusade, The Good Wife, The Good Fight, Veep, Chicago Fire, and Mixed-ish. In film, he has appeared in The Brady Bunch Movie, One Hour Photo, Office Space, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. He is also known for voicing the title character on the Adult Swim series Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law and James Timothy Possible on Kim Possible.

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Historical Events

1327 - Edward II is murdered in Berkeley Castle, after attempts to starve and poison him fail. The final method involves a red-hot poker being inserted where it doesn't show.

1377 - Cardinal Robert of Geneva is elected Avignon Pope Clement VII.

September 19 Dateline

Birthdays

1911 - Sir William Golding, CBE, British novelist, playwright, and poet. Nobel Laureate for Literature, best known for his novels Lord of the Flies and Rites of Passage. He would go on to write over a dozen novels in his lifetime. (William Golding Author Biography. Uploaded by Course Hero. Accessed September 19, 2018.  Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding. The book focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves. Lord of the Flies - An Introduction. Uploaded by ELAwolfe. Accessed September 19, 2017.)

1933 - David Keith McCallum, Jr.  British-American actor and musician. He first gained recognition in the 1960s for playing secret agent Illya Kuryakin in the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. with Robert Vaughn. In recent years, McCallum has gained renewed international recognition and popularity for his role as medical examiner Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard, in the American television series NCIS. 

1934 - Brian Samuel Epstein, English music entrepreneur who managed The Beatles Group from 1962 until his death. He was referred to as the "Fifth Beatle" due to his role in the group's business affairs, image and rise to global fame.

1941 - "Mama" Cass Elliot, (born Ellen Naomi Cohen), American singer and actress who is best known for having been a member of the Mamas and the Papas. After the group broke up, she released five solo albums. In 1998, she was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her work with the Mamas and the Papas.

 
1948 - Jeremy Irons, English actor and activist. Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969 and has appeared in many West End theatre productions. In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing and received a Tony Award for Best Actor. Irons has also made many appearances in television dramas. His break-out role in the ITV series Brideshead Revisited earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination. In 2005, he appeared in the historical miniseries Elizabeth I, for which he received a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He is one of the few actors who have achieved the "Triple Crown of Acting" in the US, winning an Academy Award for film, an Emmy Award for television and a Tony Award for theatre. In October 2011, he was nominated the Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

1949 - Twiggy, Dame Lesley Lawson DBE (née Hornby), English model, actress, and singer, widely known by the nickname Twiggy. She was a British cultural icon and a prominent teenage model during the swinging sixties in London. After modelling, Twiggy enjoyed a successful career as a screen, stage, and television actress. Her role in The Boy Friend brought her two Golden Globe Awards. In 1983 she made her Broadway debut in the musical My One and Only, for which she earned a Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Musical. She later hosted her own series, Twiggy's People, in which she interviewed celebrities; she also appeared as a judge on the reality show America's Next Top Model. Her 1998 autobiography Twiggy in Black and White entered the best-seller lists.

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More birthdays and historical events, September 19 -  On This Day

 

Historical Events

1893 - In New Zealand, the Governor signs the Electoral Act, giving all women the right to vote. New Zealand is the first country to grant that right.

1908 - Gustav Mahler conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 7, in Prague.