Birthdays
1754 - William Bligh, English Naval Officer. He is most famous for the mutiny on the Bounty, of which he was captain. Seventeen years after the Bounty mutiny, on 13 August 1806, he was appointed Governor of New South Wales in Australia, with orders to clean up the corrupt rum trade of the New South Wales Corps.
1828 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist, philosopher and religious mystic, famous for War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received multiple nominations for Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906, and nominations for Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902 and 1910, and his miss of the prize is a major Nobel prize controversy.
1890 - Colonel Harland David Sanders, American businessman, fastfood entrepreneur, best known for founding fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken and later acting as the company's brand ambassador and symbol. His name and image are still symbols of the company.
1908 - Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist, literary critic and translator. He is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country.
1939 - George Lazenby (born George Robert Lazenby), Australian actor, martial artist and former model. He was the second actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series, playing the character in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
1960 - Hugh Grant (born Hugh John Mungo Grant), English actor and film producer. Grant has received a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César for his work. As of 2018, his films have grossed a total of nearly US$3 billion worldwide from 29 theatrical releases.
1969 - Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model, actress and the host of Imagination Television's Rachel Hunter's Tour of Beauty. She has appeared on several magazine covers, including Vogue, Elle, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Cosmopolitan and Harper's Bazaar.
Lefties:
None known
1828 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist, philosopher and religious mystic, famous for War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received multiple nominations for Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906, and nominations for Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902 and 1910, and his miss of the prize is a major Nobel prize controversy.
1890 - Colonel Harland David Sanders, American businessman, fastfood entrepreneur, best known for founding fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken and later acting as the company's brand ambassador and symbol. His name and image are still symbols of the company.
1908 - Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist, literary critic and translator. He is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country.
1939 - George Lazenby (born George Robert Lazenby), Australian actor, martial artist and former model. He was the second actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series, playing the character in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
1960 - Hugh Grant (born Hugh John Mungo Grant), English actor and film producer. Grant has received a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César for his work. As of 2018, his films have grossed a total of nearly US$3 billion worldwide from 29 theatrical releases.
1969 - Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model, actress and the host of Imagination Television's Rachel Hunter's Tour of Beauty. She has appeared on several magazine covers, including Vogue, Elle, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Cosmopolitan and Harper's Bazaar.
Lefties:
None known
More birthdays and historical events, September 9 - On This Day
1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots." James V, her father, died when she was a week old. She became Queen of Scotland and queen consort of France, but beheaded at 44.
1839 - Astronomer John Herschel takes the first glass-plate photography. He is instrumental in the development of the craft. He is the son Sir William Herschel the discoverer of Uranus, and nephew of Caroline Herschel, discoverer of 3 nebulae and 8 comets.
Historical Events
1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots." James V, her father, died when she was a week old. She became Queen of Scotland and queen consort of France, but beheaded at 44.
1839 - Astronomer John Herschel takes the first glass-plate photography. He is instrumental in the development of the craft. He is the son Sir William Herschel the discoverer of Uranus, and nephew of Caroline Herschel, discoverer of 3 nebulae and 8 comets.
